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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, July 11, 2011

11 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Ga. Power says renewable energy must compete
BusinessWeek
- Jul 11, 2011
- 18 minutes ago
By RAY HENRY Renewable energy must cost about the same as traditional power sources such as natural gas or coal-fired power plants before Georgia Power will buy green energy on a large scale, company executives said Monday. Officials from the Southern ...
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Ga. commission to host renewable energy forum
BusinessWeek
- Jul 11, 2011
- 13 minutes ago
The Georgia Public Service Commission is hosting a forum at the Capitol on renewable energy. The commission on Monday is bringing together experts from utilities, industries and other parts of renewable energy to give information on technology and ...
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Sempra Signing Renewable Contracts
Daily Markets
- Jul 11, 2011
- 8 hours ago
This represents approximately 2% of SDG&E's renewable portfolio over a full year. The power purchase agreement will continue to add more diversity to the mix of green energy in the company's renewable portfolio. This solar project will be transmitted ...
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National Grid, Bangor Hydro Seek FERC Approval on Funding Approach for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jul 11, 2011
- 9 hours ago
Under the proposed participant funding approach, renewable energy generators would pay to use NEL's transmission capacity. The NEL, as currently proposed, is a new underground transmission line that would stretch approximately 220 miles from northern ...
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Human Habitat

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Ecology Coatings Responds to Marketplace With Expanded Sales Team and Upgraded ...
PR Newswire (press release)
- Jul 11, 2011
- 13 hours ago
The expansion is in response to customer interest in Ecology's products and growth in the UV-curable coatings marketplace. Newly purchased test and measurement equipment will accelerate product development and testing of the company's high performance ...
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Birds may show Japan nuclear disaster's global effects
The Augusta Chronicle
- Jul 11, 2011
- 6 hours ago
By Rob Pavey Lessons from Chernobyl could help define the effect of radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant on global bird populations, according to a Savannah River Ecology Lab scientist. "We'll be going over what we did almost exactly 25 years ...
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France Seeks to Expand Wind Power
Wall Street Journal
- Jul 11, 2011
- 17 hours ago
The wind farms, which will comprise some 1200 wind turbines off the north and west coast of France, should generate 3.5% of the country's electricity output, the French ecology and industry ministries said. The initial tender will be followed by a ...
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Vancouver theologian advises Dalai Lama on ecology
Vancouver Sun (blog)
- Jul 09, 2011
- Jul 09, 2011
But the upcoming dialogue - titled Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence - is the second one in which the Dalai Lama has moved on to what McFague calls "systems issues." His 2010 conference was titled Altruism and Compassion in Economic Systems. ...
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Water Power

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Water main break floods University of Louisville
Louisville Courier-Journal
- Jul 11, 2011
- 1 hour ago
CJ Reporter Surveys Damage From Louisville Water ...: Sean Rose, Courier-Journal reporter, takes a look at area effected by the water main break on UofL's campus. A vehicle with a boat traverses the flooded intersection of Floyd and Warnock Streetsl A ...
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Matt Damon's water charity; diabetes prevention videos
Washington Post
- Jul 11, 2011
- 6 hours ago
By Rachel Saslow, (ROBYN BECK/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE VIA GETTY IMAGES) - Matt Damon co-founded a charity that brings attention to the lack of access to clean water for nearly a billion people. Nearly a billion people worldwide lack access to clean water. ...
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Deadliest hurricane risk is not wind, but water
USA Today
- Jul 11, 2011
- 2 hours ago
By Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Storm surge — the massive mound of water that builds up and comes ashore as a hurricane moves over the ocean or Gulf of Mexico— is the most dangerous aspect of hurricanes, but many public misconceptions persist about it, ...
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How to Keep a Garden Healthy in Summer Heat
Patch.com
- Jul 11, 2011
- 9 hours ago
During summer months, the typical American uses twice as much water than any other time of the year. And by some estimates, outdoor watering accounts for 50 to 70 percent of average household use! It might seem like the only way to get a beautiful yard ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

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The Daily Galaxy

  • The METI Controversy Updated: Is Detection by ...
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    The "Rare Earth" hypothesis is the idea that life is a staggeringly unlikely event, and that the reason we haven't seen hide nor hair (nor scale nor weird gel-layer) of aliens is that there aren't any. It's had some time...
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    On Friday, South Sudan became the world's newest nation. As its' population celebrates in the new capital of Juba, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is urging the newborn nation, home to the world's second largest land migration, to protect its...
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    The mystery is: Is this one galaxy or two? This question came to light in 1950 when astronomer Art Hoag discovered this odd extragalactic object. On the outside is a ring dominated by bright blue stars, while near the center...
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    "if big galaxies are supposed to be formed from numerous mergers of smaller systems, how come the properties of the small galaxies we see today don't match the larger galaxies? You may start to wonder if there isn't a fundamental...

Natural News

  • High fructose corn syrup contaminated with mer ...
    (NaturalNews) High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is used as a sweetener in thousands of mainstream packaged foods sold in the United States and around the world, from bread to soda and even breakfast cereal. It has been blamed for increasing the number of empty calories in the U.S. diet, and resear ...
  • World to be force-fed test tube meat after liv ...
    (NaturalNews) In vitro meat is one of the latest attempts from scientists and bio-engineers to create a substitute for traditional meat production. The technology for creating meats through meat cultures in vitro is far from perfected, but enthusiasm for the effort is plentiful. Support for cult ...
  • Report: North Carolina nuclear facility with s ...
    (NaturalNews) A nuclear research reactor at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh, NC, was recently shut down after it was discovered that the plant has been leaking about ten gallons of nuclear cooling water per hour for at least the past week. Officials from the university, however ...
  • TSA screener sticks traveler's iPad down his p ...
    (NaturalNews) For all the advanced security and screening techniques it uses against innocent air travelers, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) sure has a hard time keeping its own corrupt workers from committing crimes against those it is supposedly tasked with protecting.Accor ...
  • 'Magic mushrooms' create positive mental and p ...
    (NaturalNews) Taking just the right amount of a substance found in "magic mushrooms" can help to positively improve attitude, mood, behavior, and happiness levels, according to new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Psychopharmacology. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University School o ...

Threat Level

  • Google Seeks Immediate Appeal of Street View W ...
    Google is demanding a federal judge grant it permission to appeal a decision that approved a federal wiretapping lawsuit over its interception of unencrypted Wi-Fi traffic.
  • How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the ...
    It was January 2010 when investigators with the International Atomic Energy Agency realized something was off at the uranium enrichment plant outside Natanz in central Iran. Months earlier, someone had silently unleashed a sophisticated and destructive digital worm that had been slithering its w ...
  • Stuxnet Timeline Shows Correlation Among Events
  • ISPs to Disrupt Internet Access of Copyright S ...
    The nation’s major internet service providers, at the urging of Hollywood and the major record labels, have agreed to disrupt internet access for online copyright scofflaws. The deal, almost three years in the making, was announced early Thursday, and includes participation by AT&T, Cablevision ...
  • ‘Massive Infringement’ Case Against CNET Dropped
    Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit accusing CNET of facilitating “massive copyright infringement” by distributing peer-to-peer software dropped their case Monday. The May lawsuit was lodged in Los Angeles by a handful of musicians and filmmaker Alkiviades David. They accused CBS Interactive รข CNET’ ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • And the Winner Is...
    Among the truisms of American politics is this: the side decrying "class war" is the one winning it. So it is with the ongoing Republican hostage-taking drama over the debt ceiling and upper-income tax increases. Facing overwhelming pressure from his own party, Speaker John Boehner retreated f ...
  • GOP Tries to Gut Medicaid as Studies Show Its ...
    As the debate over health care reform heated up in the fall of 2009, Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander called Medicaid "a medical ghetto" that "none of us, or any of our families, would ever want to be a part of for our health care." As it turns out, Alexander and his GOP colleagues ...
  • To Rescue the Recovery, Start by Saving the States
    During the debate over the stimulus program in early 2009, Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed, "If the money were lent rather than just granted, states would, I think, spend it wisely and the states that didn't need it at all wouldn't take any." Now would be a good time t ...
  • Died of a Theory
    As the South teetered on the edge of calamity near the end of the Civil War, the Confederate Congress refused pleas to arm the slaves. "If the Confederacy fails," CSA President Jefferson Davis lamented, "there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory." Almost 150 years later and wi ...
  • The Reagan Litmus Test
    On July 4, U.S. officials, foreign dignitaries and conservative luminaries gathered outside the American embassy in London to unveil a $1 million statue of Ronald Reagan. As it turns out, the timing was more than a little ironic. Because even as the Gipper was honored in Britain, it's increasi ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Culture jamming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Culture jamming, coined in 1984,[1][2][3] denotes a tactic used by ... Culture jamming is usually employed in opposition to a perceived appropriation of public ...
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    Culture Jam is the innovative social media technology company behind PromoJam, the ground breaking social marketing platform, and upcoming technologies ...
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    For some, culture jamming is more or less anything that mixes art, ... Finally, I will discuss whether culture jamming as a countercultural movement can aspire ...
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    Posted by marc at 7:00 AM in Culture Jamming | add to del.icio.us. add to digg. add to ... marc at 7:59 AM in Culture Jamming | add to del.icio.us. add to digg ...
  • Culture jamming - Definition | WordIQ.com
    Culture jamming, or sniggling, is the act of using existing mass media to comment on those very media themselves, using the original medium's communication method. ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Green Living: Easier Than You Think (& Chance ...
    Nearly 900 million tourists worldwide hit the roads, skies and seas each year in pursuit of some R&R, and this takes a heavy toll on local ecosystems, water, air and wildlife. Being green this summer doesn’t require a complete lifestyle upheaval, though. There are tons of simple changes you can ...
  • 15 Green Living Stories {News Wrap-Up}
    Some good green living stories from around from the past week....
  • Volcanic Islands Swirling the Clouds {Photo of ...
    The volcanic island of Guadalupe, seen below peeking through the clouds near the top of this image taken by the European Space Agency's satellite Envisat, is the cause for the beautiful swirls in the clouds.
  • Undyed Hemp Fabric from Hemp Emporium
    I'm a big fan of hemp -- it is one of the greenest fabric options out there. It doesn't need pesticides (or not many, at least), is fast-growing, and replenishes the soil it grows in! So, when I saw the following post on our sister site, Crafting a Green World, I thought it would be a great shar ...
  • P2P Exchange for Shared Experiences, Not Things
    Experiences are worth much more to people than things -- I'm pretty positive I've read of scientific studies showing this. So, why not provide services for selling or trading experiences? Some are starting to do so, such as the beta peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace Skyara. Check out this cross-pos ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Hands off Social Security movement ignites - ...
    "During Obama’s Presidency, Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment has been frozen, resulting in a net decrease of over 8 percent, which is exactly the amount spent chasing just 5 dozen ‘Al Qaeda terrorists’ in the mountains bordering Pakistan." - James Petras, Axis of Logic ...
  • Multi-Billion-Dollar Terrorists and the Disapp ...
    The US government (White House and Congress) spends $10 billion dollars a month, or $120 billion a year, to fight an estimated “50 -75 ‘Al Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA and quoted in the Financial Times of London (6/25 -26/11, p. 5). During the past 30 months...
  • US Congress Dennis Kucinich, "The US must end ...
    President Obama has ripped up the US constitution for Nato’s ill-considered Libyan adventure. Congress must restore sense! This week, I am sponsoring legislation in the United States Congress that will end US military involvement in Libya for the following reasons: First ...
  • Dick's Personality Disorder - Libya
    The classic drunk has often been a favorite subject in comedy - the staggering, loudmouthed, speechslurring, disoriented, bragging drunk who wakes after a night of revelry asking himself, "Oh my God, what did I say last night! What did I do!!" An excessively high blood alcohol count produces del ...
  • A Canadian corporate journalist with integrity ...
    Why I quit my job: July 8, 2011 Until Thursday, I was CTV’s Quebec City Bureau Chief, based at the National Assembly, mostly covering politics. It’s a fascinating beat - the most interesting provincial legislature in Canada, and the stories coming out of there lately have been huge. The near ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Hoping Murdoch Shuts Down More Of His Sleazy, ...
    "Weirdo tries to seize girls" "Woman attacked by frozen turkey" While I was in college in the mid-1970s, the San Antonio News, one of the last of the old p.m. newspapers, was among those on the stands. Above are examples of the headlines one would see on Page One. Inside, there were pictures of ...
  • A Fighter for Abortion in Kansas
    This one's not going to be chased off. Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars: Dr. Mila Means is still trying to establish a Kansas abortion clinic to replace the resource lost after the political assassination of Dr. George Tiller. So they may have found the right person but the mountain of obstacles ...
  • Washington blames Democrats for Republican fai ...
    The New Republic's Jonathan Chait has an important column this morning that clarifies much of the irrational and dysfunctional arguments we hear coming out of Washington today from an "anti-deficit lobby" that seems intent on blaming Democrats for the lunatic behavior of Republicans as well as d ...
  • Reports of the Death of Unions Are Premature
    As long as there are owners, they will exploit workers. And as long as workers are exploited, somebody will figure out a way to organize them. Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money: Adam Kader has a nice article on the I.W.W. organizing of Starbucks. That might sound weird. The I.W.W? Didn't i ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Gardening is not a crime. "After her front lawn was torn up in a sewer repair, an Oak Park Michigan woman decided that rather than re-plant grass and shrubs, she'd convert the yard to five raised beds for growing vegetables. Neighbors complained to the city and now Julie Bass is facing possible ...

Care 2

  • Why You're Paying More to Breathe
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  • Species Placed in Simulator of Earth's Future ...
    If the projections of countless scientists are correct, the climate of this planet will be markedly different by the end of this century -- but for a group of plants and animals, that future is now. Submitted by Suzane dsouza to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • PETITION ALERT: Stop the Prosecution of the B ...
    As health and environmental concerns rise, so does the popularity of urban homesteading. While growing your own carrots may seem like a harmless enough practice, Oak Park resident Julie Bass now faces serious charges for setting up a vegetable garden in Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle ...
  • Tom and Marg Don't Hold Back!
    Care2 members join The Fred and Jed Show and voice their opinions on many a topic. Please listen to the show and let them know if you agree with them. Let them know how they did. And give Fred and Jed new topic ideas.Submitted by Jed Lemon to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • USDA approves Roundup Ready Lawn Grass !!! a ...
    So now we face GM lawns all over the place on top of GMO crops! Check out the comments and many links on the webpage of this article. And did any citizen vote for or get asked about this?..of course not.Submitted by John Kirkby to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • News Of The Wired
    Who knew?  Rupert Murdoch has a threshold of indecency he will not cross!  Apparently it’s true.  When word got out that one of his newspapers, News of the World, a sensational tabloid of some 168 years in production, had crossed that line, Murdoch shut the thing down!  That’s kind of like heari ...
  • Debt, Deficits and Jobs–Unrelated
    Watching both parties play chicken with the mish mash of Federal debt, the Federal deficit and unemployment is sickening and frustrating. Both sides, Republicans and Democrats, are to blame. Let’s start by exploding the biggest myth–burgeoning Federal debt and deficit spending is causing further ...
  • By The Numbers (& Open Thread)
    3,003, 37, 28, 5-5, 4,2, 1, and 1. That would be Yankees shortstop and Captain, Derek Jeter’s numbers from Saturday, July 9. Derek Jeter has now joined an elite club of 3,000 hits. There are only 28 people who have done it. In Jeter’s plate appearances against All Star pitcher, Tampa Bay David P ...
  • What’s Wrong With The Republicans?
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  • Bain Cain (& Open Thread)
    Editor’s Note: Larry Johnson joins the weekly Sunday experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show tonight @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes (see instructions), or go to the show’s NYC anchor station, WABC. Scroll down and click “Listen Live.” FYI: Batchelor’s show airs every night from 9 p.m. ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Independence? Not As Long As…
    Independence Day is fast approaching. On that day we celebrate our declaration of independence from Great Britain in 1776 and our independence as a country today. As independent as we are in relation to many countries in the world, are we really independent? We could seek answers to this questio ...
  • Binge-Drinkers May be Putting Their Mental Hea ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Young adults do not consider the long-term effects of binge-drinking. But a new study reveals that this type of alcohol consumption could lead to impaired cognitive functioning. A study involving 29 binge-drinkers, ranging in age 18-25, examined the brain scans of ...
  • Food vs Kids
    My son who is 4 months old is eating pureed foods now. He is eating and liking his fruit and vegetables. I am happy about that. I know that is all he knows at this point but as he grows up, it will be more of a challenge to have him eat his fruits and [...]
  • Understanding Relapse – The “Dange ...
    Many people I work with have often been successful at maintaining some sort of long-term sobriety/abstinence from alcohol or drugs. If you participate in AA/NA, getting your one month chip is often described as exhilarating. There is a boost in self-confidence and hope in one’s ability to regain ...
  • Recommendations for Alcohol Use in Elderly are ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Research has shown that moderate alcohol consumption can provide physical and mental health benefits in adults of all ages. But a new report from the The Royal College of Psychiatrists of London has some experts worried about the new recommendations. The report wa ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Law Firm Says Inbreeding Skews Data Linking Mo ...
    Law Firm Says Inbreeding Skews Data Linking Mountaintop Removal to Birth Defects WFPL Last month, researchers at Washington State University and West Virginia University released a study that found a correlation between mountaintop removal mining birth defects. A law firm with ties to the Natio ...
  • Birth-defects report an unfair attack on coal ...
    Lexington Herald Leader Birth-defects report an unfair attack on coal Lexington Herald Leader In that same article, Hendryx acknowledges that he believes "mountaintop removal is harmful and should be stopped." The report also states that "mothers in the mountaintop-mining area had less educatio ...
  • Clara Bingham | A Call to Arms: Citizens need ...
    Clara Bingham | A Call to Arms: Citizens need to Save Appalachia Louisville Courier-Journal She has reported on the ravages of mountaintop removal for more than a decade. Maria Gunnoe lives in the mouth of a narrow hollow in Boone County, W.Va., about 90 miles from the Kentucky border. Severe f ...
  • Movie Review | 'The Last Mountain' - Louisvill ...
    Movie Review | 'The Last Mountain' Louisville Courier-Journal Whether the view is aerial or up close and personal, the documentary presents wrenching evidence that mountaintop removal mining is more expedient for the coal companies — key among them the headline-familiar Massey Energy — and disa ...
  • EPA finalizes rules to cut smog - Charleston G ...
    Politico EPA finalizes rules to cut smog Charleston Gazette ... from coal industry groups, utilities and some members of Congress for various proposals -- from air pollution rules, greenhouse gas programs and a crackdown on mountaintop removal mining -- aimed at reducing negative impacts of the ...

Memeorandum

  • Someone posted Herman Cain's gospel album, "Su ...
    Matt Lewis / The Daily Caller: Someone posted Herman Cain's gospel album, “Sunday Morning.”  This is actually pretty darn good.  He has a great voice.  You may have heard Rebecca Black's “Friday,” but have you heard Herman Cain's “Sunday Morning?”
  • Free Slurpees come with a twist: They may cost ...
    Bruce Horovitz / USA Today: Free Slurpees come with a twist: They may cost you  —  The slurp's on them.  But the goof may be on you.  —  Today 7-Eleven, the nation's largest convenience store chain, expects to give away 5 million 7.11-ounce Slurpees on the chain's unofficial birthday: 7/11.  T ...
  • Obama ups the ante against GOP on taxes (Greg ...
    Greg Sargent / Washington Post: Obama ups the ante against GOP on taxes  —  If one thing was clear from Obama's presser, which just wrapped up, it's this: Far more than he has in the past, the President seems determined to make Republicans pay the maximum political price for their intransigence ...
  • CIA organised fake vaccinations to obtain Osam ...
    Saeed Shah / Guardian: CIA organised fake vaccinations to obtain Osama bin Laden's family DNA  —  As part of preparations for raid that killed al-Qaida's leader in Pakistan, agents organised a vaccine drive in Abbottabad  —  The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it be ...
  • Bobblehead Alert: It's Clarence Thomas' Turn ( ...
    Tony Mauro / The BLT: Bobblehead Alert: It's Clarence Thomas' Turn  —  The Supreme Court justice bobbleheads that you see on the desks or mantels of lawyers around town will soon have a new colleague to keep them company.  This one depicts Justice Clarence Thomas, just in time for his 20th ann ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Deserted islands
    Rising seas threaten to force whole populations off atoll nations. But where will they go? And will their countries still exist? Gregory Wannier examines the legal implications.In December 2008, a series of swells coinciding with seasonal high (“king”) tide engulfed the island atoll of Majuro, c ...
  • How to quench a thirst?
    Beijing is desperately short of water – and uncertain how to fix the problem, torn between desalination and pumping resources from the south. Feng Jie and Shi Qiujuan report. Beijing’s lack of water is making it jumpy. Early in the morning of 14 June, a team of 12 researchers from the city’s wat ...
  • Resolving the paradoxes of water
    Concluding their series, James Workman and Montgomery Simus say virtual urban-water markets within natural monopolies can be unlocked, rewarding frugality, efficiency and innovation. “Greed makes green” and a sustainable path lies beyond virtue.In April 2001, then-US vice president Dick Cheney t ...
  • The paradoxes of water: efficiency
    As long as people merely “rent” the resource, efficiency devices increase overall consumption, say James Workman and Montgomery Simus. Frugally conserved water is lost through new demand by the system as a whole.The ghost of the famous economist William Stanley Jevons is disrupting China’s effor ...
  • The paradoxes of water: value
    In China, water scarcity limits growth and urbanisation escalates a crisis, say James G Workman and Montgomery F Simus. Opening a four-part series, they address the subject of value, the first conservation challenge to overcome.Peter Brabeck-Letmathe chairs Nestlรฉ, the world’s 44th-largest compa ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Solidarity, Not Solitary: 6,600 Prisoners Acro ...
    by Megan Dowdell Crossposted from Tikkun Daily Across California, 6,600 prisoners have joined in the hunger strike that began July 1 with prisoners held in security housing units, a sanitary term for solitary confinement, inside Pelican Bay State Prison refusing food and issuing demands that inc ...
  • Turkish Democracy Gives Rise to Turkish Power
    International attention to Turkeyรข€™s recent election reflects Ankaraรข€™s rising role not only in the Arab Spring but as a newly powerful democracy with broad regional influence.
  • How Betty Ford’s Death Illustrates What ...
    By Carole Joffe How much I appreciated your gracious letter telling of plans for the Western Regional Conference on Abortion and inviting me to attend. Although my upcoming personal and official commitments will not permit me to be with you,  I am grateful for this opportunity to convey my warme ...
  • Sex With a Stripper Before Your Wedding? How M ...
    At times, the sexual behavior of even the straightest of guys is driven by the need for other menรข€™s approval. Thereรข€™s a name for this behavior: homosociality.
  • Barbara Ehrenreich: 12,000 Drones, Lethal Cybo ...
    How far will the automation of war and the substitution of autonomous robots for human fighters go?

Threat Level

  • Google Seeks Immediate Appeal of Street View W ...
    Google is demanding a federal judge grant it permission to appeal a decision that approved a federal wiretapping lawsuit over its interception of unencrypted Wi-Fi traffic.
  • How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the ...
    It was January 2010 when investigators with the International Atomic Energy Agency realized something was off at the uranium enrichment plant outside Natanz in central Iran. Months earlier, someone had silently unleashed a sophisticated and destructive digital worm that had been slithering its w ...
  • Stuxnet Timeline Shows Correlation Among Events
  • ISPs to Disrupt Internet Access of Copyright S ...
    The nation’s major internet service providers, at the urging of Hollywood and the major record labels, have agreed to disrupt internet access for online copyright scofflaws. The deal, almost three years in the making, was announced early Thursday, and includes participation by AT&T, Cablevision ...
  • ‘Massive Infringement’ Case Against CNET Dropped
    Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit accusing CNET of facilitating “massive copyright infringement” by distributing peer-to-peer software dropped their case Monday. The May lawsuit was lodged in Los Angeles by a handful of musicians and filmmaker Alkiviades David. They accused CBS Interactive รข CNET’ ...

Equality Trust

  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • FSIS denies AMI's 2005 petition for low-dose b ...
    It was a busy few days for FSIS getting out substantive food policy when the media and the public will likely not notice – See Press Release on Salmonella. A few days ago, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) quietly denied the American Meat Institute's (AMI’s) 2005 Petition to Reco ...
  • 7 - 11 Listeria Recall in Hawaii - Just in Tim ...
    Around 1,500 pounds of 7-Eleven convenience-store meals have been recalled for possible Listeria contamination by Hawaiian company Warabeya U.S.A., Inc, the Department of Agriculture said late on Wednesday. The recalled products include 10.3-ounce packages of 7-Eleven Fried Chicken Bento, 11-ou ...
  • Botulism in Georgia and Ohio Linked to Unnamed ...
    In January and April 2011, CDC provided antitoxin for treatment of two persons with toxin type A botulism associated with consumption of potato soup produced by two companies. On January 28, 2011, an Ohio resident, aged 29 years, was hospitalized after 5 days of progressive dizziness, blurred vi ...
  • Death in Arizona by E. coli O104:H4 Confirmed ...
    E. coli O104:H4, a non-O157 E. coli, is here in the United States According to the CDC, in the United States, six confirmed cases of STEC O104:H4 infections have been identified. Of these six cases, five recently traveled to Germany, where they were likely exposed. Bacterial isolates from four ...
  • Off to Hawaii - A little sun, a little surfing ...
    I have been invited to speak at the Hawaiian Expo this coming week. The Food Service Supply Chain: You are Only as Good as Your Weakest Link View more presentations from Bill Marler Food Poisoning: It Can be More Than a Tummy Ache View more presentations from Bill Marler

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • WikiLeaks, Wimbledon and War
    Last Saturday was sunny in London, and the crowds were flocking to Wimbledon and to the annual Henley Regatta. Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blower website Wikileaks.org, was making his way by train from house arrest in Norfolk, three hours away, to join me and Slovenian philosophe ...
  • Montana Farmer Says Exxon Refuses to Admit Ext ...
    Click here to see more photos of oil on Alexis Bonogofsky’s land. Family farmer, Alexis Bonogofsky, didn’t get a phone call from Exxon Pipeline Co. when its pipeline ruptured Friday night beneath the Yellowstone River, leaking as much as 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the water and ...
  • Watch: Full Video of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange ...
    On Saturday Amy Goodman moderated a conversation with WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange and renowned Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj ลฝiลพek in London. The talk provided a rare opportunity to hear two of the world’s most prominent thinkers discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time ...
  • U.S. Officials: Pakistan Spy Agency Deliberate ...
    Obama administration officials have told the New York Times that senior officials of the Pakistani spy agency, the ISI , ordered the killing of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad of the Asia Times in an effort to silence him. One U.S. official said, รขEvery indication is that this was a delibe ...
  • LIVE BLOG: Greek Authorities Intercept U.S. Bo ...
    Democracy Now! producer Aaron Matรƒ© files exclusive audio reports on board the Gaza-bound "Audacity of Hope". The ship set sail from Greece at approximately 9:30 a.m. EDT but was soon stopped by Greek authorities. Listen to Aaron’s reports as the scene develops. Listen Update at 12:30 p ...

Suzie-Q

  • Blair accused of trying to silence Murdoch critic
    independent.co.uk By Martin Hickman and Cahal Milmo Monday, 11 July 2011 Tony Blair urged Gordon Brown to persuade the Labour MP who led the campaign to expose the phone-hacking scandal to fall silent, according to a report yesterday. The Mail on Sunday stated that “well-placed” sources said Mr ...
  • Tea Party Assortment
    H/T- Daily Kos
  • Pawlenty: Science ‘In Dispute’ Over Whether Ga ...
    This morning on Meet The Press, David Gregory pressed GOP presidential candidate Gov. Tim Pawlenty about his recent remarks that he likes Lady Gaga’s song “Born This Way,” asking if he believes being gay is a choice. Pawlenty responded that he thinks the science is still “in dispute”: GREGORY: I ...
  • Hacking scandal: is this Britain’s Water ...
    � The Independent By Oliver Wright, Ian Burrell, Martin Hickman, Cahal Milmo and Andrew Grice Saturday, 9 July 2011 David Cameron was forced to cut Rupert Murdoch and his newspaper empire loose from the heart of government yesterday as he tried to deflect public anger about his failure to tackle ...
  • The real reason Rupert Murdoch has pulled the ...
    The Periscope Post | 8 July 2011 Rupert Murdoch’s sensational decision to shutter The News of the World, the best-selling English-language newspaper in the world, over the escalating phone hacking scandal came as a complete shock to almost all, including the newspaper’s 200 staffers. Explanation ...

Solari

  • Precious Metals Market Report
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Get ready! This week on the Solari Report, it’s the Precious Metals Market Report, and Franklin Sanders and I have lots to talk about. • First and foremost, if the summer correction is here, why I are prices so strong? • What will the upcoming debt [...]
  • Money & Markets – Week of 7.10.11
    YouTube (2 July 11) Where Are We with Market Valuations? Gurufocus.com (11 July 11) Italy and Spain Must Pray For a Miracle The Telegraph (11 July 11) Record One in Six Americans Now on Food Stamps as Depression Escalates Natural [...]
  • Housing & Mortgage Markets – Week of 7.10.11
    Map Of U.S. States By Home Foreclosures The Daily Ball (Sept 2010)
  • Geopolitical – Week of 7.10.11
    EU Calls Emergency Meeting as Debt Crisis Stalks Italy Reuters (10 July 11) Advisory: The Scramble for Europe The European Council on Foreign Relations (July 2011) Prosecutors Demand Laptop Password in Violation of Fifth Amendment Electronic Frontier Foundation (8 July 11) The [...]
  • Food & Health – Week of 7.10.11
    Dietary Supplements: Knocked Down And Counting . . . Only 90 Days Left Knowledge of Health (7 July 11)

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Attritionist Letter #2 — our military se ...
    Summary:ร‚ ร‚ ร‚ With US forces engaged around the world in six conflicts (and many small ones), each the day our media paint a picture of the armed services.ร‚  News, articles, books, movies — seldom have we been so well informed about our mechanized high-tech defense professionals — the very model ...
  • Today’s tea party propaganda
    Summary: The Tea Party movement provides a picture of the increasingly dysfunctional OODA-loop (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) of American society, where outlandish statements are accepted unquestioningly by true believers. In this environment we can work 24-7 correcting these misrepresentaions (and ...
  • Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
    Summary:ร‚ ร‚ ร‚ With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we chooseร‚ may have a large effect on American history.ร‚  This, the first of theร‚ Attritionistร‚ Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
  • Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
    Summary:ร‚ ร‚ ร‚ With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we chooseร‚ may have a large effect on American history.ร‚  This, the first of theร‚ Attritionistร‚ Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
  • The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
    Summary:   Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations.  Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies.  With the permission of the th ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Debate Intensifies Over Iranian Revolutionary ...
    Controversy continues to plague the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as Iran’s elites debate the extent to which the IRGC can involve itself in domestic politics. In early July, head of the IRGC General Mohammad Ali Jafari stated in an interview with a prominent Iranian website that former pre ...
  • South Sudan: Free at Last! Now What?
    The birth this past weekend of the Republic of South Sudan as the world’s newest independent state is, in many respects, a triumph for the Atlantic community’s diplomatic efforts in general and United States leadership in particular.  The acceptance of the possibility of secession was the centra ...
  • The Use and Abuse of “Terrorist”
    This week on Al Jazeera’s website, Manuela Picq, a visiting professor and research fellow at Amherst College, warns against the government of Ecuador charging indigenous rights activists in the country with terrorism: It’s becoming tricky to identify “terrorists”, at least in Ecuador. They are n ...
  • Controlling the Message in Libya
    NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen briefs the media on the NATO no-fly zone operations in Libya during a news conference at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels April 11, 2011. Any ceasefire in Libya would need to be credible and verifiable and would need an effective monitoring mec ...
  • Iraq Could Be Benefiting from Unrest in Syria
    Iraq may be benefiting from the on-going protests and government repression in Syria. Damascus has long been a supporter of the Iraqi Baath party and insurgents since the 2003 invasion. Now that it is caught up in its own internal struggle, its backing for opponents of the Iraqi government may b ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Is Obama Playing Politics or Does He Really Be ...
    For the second time in three weeks, President Obama's has given a press conference on the troubled debt-ceiling negotiations. This time, he stated his opposition to a short-term extension of the debt ceiling and called on Republicans to put aside partisanship, and agree to a long-term compromise ...
  • Political Writing, Sadly Ephemeral
    Jonathan Rauch, guest-blogging at Andrew Sullivan's, waves a red cape in front of the blogger bulls: If some strange magnetic pulse wiped out every blog post written since the format began, hardly anything memorable or important would be lost; and, after 15 years or whatever, it's too late to h ...
  • The Myth of the Independent Voter
    Like clockwork, Washington’s obsession with “independent voters” reaches its peak during presidential election season. From now until the election, a good portion of Beltway journalism will focus on how policies appear to independents, that large class of rational voters who carefully consider t ...
  • Today at The Prospect
    Pema Levy explains that while Jamie Leigh Jones may have lost her rape case against KBR, women have won a larger battle. Yannis Palaiologos writes that the economic troubles in Italy and Spain are signs of true danger yet to come in Europe.
  • The Inmates are in Charge
    Three days ago, Washington was preoccupied with the prospect of a “grand bargain” between President Obama and congressional Republicans over deficit reduction. Obama would offer $3 trillion in spending cuts – including changes in Social Security and Medicare – and in return, Republicans would pr ...

Buzzflash

  • How Climate Change Disasters are the Biggest T ...
    BY JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Life on earth will never be the same again." - Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth Two weeks ago, Former Vice-President Al Gore blasted President Obama for ignoring what can no longer be denied: climate change disasters. As I'm writing this piece, the ...
  • The Richest 1% Has Tripled Its Share of the US ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTThe richest 1% has tripled its share of the income pie over the past 30 years, mainly through tax cuts and financial deregulation. If their income had increased only at the pace of American productivity (80%), they would be taking about a trillion dollar le ...
  • Was Murdoch Hacking Phones in the US Too?
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTIsn't it quite likely that Murdoch and hisConniving surveillance crewHave also been listening in to phone callsHere in the United States, too?This is my wife's idea and, truth be told,For quite a while it's been that:I no longer think of this claim & imagineM ...
  • The Steady Stream of Empty Conservative Pledges
    Body We have become a nation of pledgers, a steady harangue of forced allegiance to one drill or another. Newly elected legislators rush around the halls of Congress signing up supporters of everything from a defense of marriage to deficit reduction to a balanced-budget constituti ...
  • Growing Economic Inequality the Root Cause of ...
    ROBERT CREAMER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Last Friday's jobs numbers showed a net growth of only 18,000 new jobs nationwide - while the economy must produce 150,000 jobs each month just to absorb population growth. Clearly the economic recovery has stalled and Republicans are pointing to the slow ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Ugly, pretty girls
    This is just plain odd. An accidental discovery. But, why does it happen? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what if something more subtle is occurring? The phenomenon is known as “flashed face distortion effect” and is described in a research paper thus: “We describe a novel face distort ...
  • Red Bull Formula 1 Car Manual
    Red Bull Formula 1 Car Manual – This book, an advance copy of which just pulled into the pits at Sciencebase Central, describes itself as “An insight into the technology, engineering, maintenance and operation of Red Bull racing. It’s the Haynes manual for the F1 car, the owner’s workshop manual ...
  • Blame the environment for your bad habits
    Live fast, die young. You’re a long time gone. Sleep when you’re dead. The hedonists mantras. Lifestyle choices whether in terms of food consumption, alcohol and drugs or sexual activity are down to the individual. Nannying by governments, who have their own mantras: Smoking Kills, Know your lim ...
  • Watch the last Shuttle launch live
    UPDATE: The Orbiter made it into orbit, the live stream is now ended. I’ll replace the video embed with a Youtube clip to re-run the launch… A group of us skipped a high school physical education class to watch the very first shuttle launch way back when. At the time, we assumed they’d be launch ...
  • Periodic Table of QR codes
    Periodic Table of QR codes – QR codes are those little black and white boxes that look like a messed up barcode, which is essentially what they are, 2D barcodes. They’re becoming almost ubiquitous. Every event you attend, every restaurant you pass, almost every site you visit seems to have a QR ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • District Court Rejects DHS and ICE FOIA Withho ...
    In a victory today for plaintiffs the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Cardozo Law School Immigration Justice Clinic in their Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homel ...
  • Is Debt Ceiling Being Used as “Opportunity” to ...
    In a letter to the president sent this Saturday, nine Senators wrote: “The inclusion of Social Security in the debt renegotiations is extremely troubling. Social Security has contributed nothing to the debt and yet seniors face potential cuts to their earned benefits. … Our bedrock social safety ...
  • World Population Day Marks Global Population's ...
    Today marks the 23rd annual World Population Day, instituted by the United Nations to highlight the impacts of population growth on people and the environment. Governments, universities and public-interest groups the world over will hold educational forums and other events to stress the need to ...
  • Amnesty International Condemns Police Brutalit ...
    The government of the United Kingdom must press Malaysia’s Prime Minister on freedom of assembly in his visit this week, Amnesty International said today, after peaceful protestors in Kuala Lumpur were met with police violence and 1,667 arrests at the weekend. Police arrested peaceful demons ...
  • CREW Calls for Congressional Investigation int ...
    Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) called on the House and Senate to investigate whether journalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s News International (NI), owned by News Corp., have hacked into the voicemail of Americans.   read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Corporate Tax Escapees and You
    Ralph Nader The all-consuming Washington, D.C. wrangling over debts and deficits, spending and taxing is excluding a large reality of how these financial problems can sensibly and fairly be addressed. These blinders in Congress and the Whi ...
  • Manufacturing Deficit Fear: On Holding Economi ...
    Dean Baker The conventional wisdom among the current generation of school reformers is that bad teachers are to blame for the failure of many of our children to learn.read more
  • The Shelters That Clinton Built
    Isabel Macdonald Isabeau Doucet When Demosthene Lubert heard that Bill Clinton's foundation was going to rebuild his collapsed school at the epicenter of Haiti's January 12, 2010, earthquake, in t ...
  • 'I'm Here to Visit Palestine'
    Vanessa Ortiz I’ve been watching with fascination and delight the “Welcome to Palestine” action and the reaction by the Israeli government, security apparatus, and press. Why delight? Because I am one of those people who has arrived and de ...
  • The FBI's Next Generation Biometrics: Bigger a ...
    Jennifer Lynch Last week, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and several other organizations released documents from a FOIA lawsuit that expose the concerted efforts of the FBI and DHS to build a massive database of personal and bi ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

  • Remi Kanazi's poetry of struggle
    Alexander BilletThe Electronic Intifada Alexander Billet profiles Palestinian-American spoken word poet Remi Kanazi and his new book of poems, Poetic�Injustice.
  • "Hysterical" Israeli reaction to Palestine sol ...
    Mel FrykbergThe Electronic IntifadaTel Aviv Hundreds of armed soldiers and police spread throughout Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on 8 July, arresting six Israeli activists for unfurling flags and chanting slogans in solidarity with the�Palestinians.
  • Gaza youth still determined to welcome flotilla
    Rami AlmeghariThe Electronic IntifadaGaza Strip Gaza’s children are still planning a welcome ceremony for the Freedom Flotilla II, despite how Greece and other countries have connived with Israel to block its voyage of solidarity.
  • Cash shortage hampers rebuilding of mosques de ...
    Eva BartlettThe Electronic IntifadaGaza City According to Hassan Saifi, a representative of the ministry for religious affairs in Gaza, a quarter of the Gaza Strip’s 800 mosques were damaged or destroyed in the Israeli attack on Gaza in winter 2008-09.
  • Siege and sewage make farmed fish a temporary ...
    Eva BartlettThe Electronic Intifada Severe pollution and Israel’s frequent attacks on fishing vessels have made it healthier for Gazans to eat farmed fish rather than fish caught at sea.

The Wonk Room

  • The High Costs Of Ex-Gay Therapy
    Rep.  Michele Bachmann, the Republican presidential hopeful from Minnesota, wants you to know that if you’re gay, she might not love you just the way you are. An undercover investigation conducted by Truth Wins Out found that Bachmann & Associates – the counseling firm owned by Bachmann’s husban ...
  • House Republicans Look To Push In Lower Capita ...
    Congressional Republicans have been doing their best to undermine the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. They’ve tried to gut the budgets of the regulators charged with implementing the law, push back the date for when certain provisions take effect, and obstructed nominees for key regulatory posi ...
  • Where Are The Biopics About Powerful American ...
    It’s a pretty reasonable assumption that every time Meryl Streep steps in front of a camera, she’s gunning hard for an Academy Award, or at least a nomination. And that’s doubly true for her turn as Margaret Thatcher: Looking at this, it struck me that there’s an odd imbalance between Best Actor ...
  • The Supporters Of Gov. Rick Perry’s Augu ...
    Right Wing Watch’s Kyle Mantyla has put together this must-see video of the radical right-wing preachers who are participating in Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) upcoming “The Response” prayer rally in August. Watch it:
  • Snowe: No Medicare Or Social Security Cuts In ...
    Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME) said she will not support any debt deal that includes cuts to the two social safety net programs, citing “strong bipartisan support.” รขThere are solvency problems with both programs. They have to be addressed but not as part of the debt reduction talks,รข Snowe ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • "Fisking" Rosie DiMoron's Steaming Pile of Cra ...
    Keep watching this space if you're interested. If you haven't read her stream of nonsensical gibberish, here it is. Bye for now.
  • What Do We Actually DO, We People of the West?
    I've been reading a lot about World War II lately. I don't romanticize the conflict. Unless epic tragedies caused by deluded fuck-wits can be romanticized. But I do think about the future those people were fighting and dying for. (Or, in the case of the civilians murdered by the leaders, the fut ...
  • I Can't Believe the Bullshit that People Fall For
    Yeah, ... so apparently we're leaving Afghanistan, but for a few hundred sad sacks forced to work as trainers of the soldiers and police who are notorious for raping and pillaging on behalf of warlord governors and the Karzai kleptocracy. Ten years of that shit. Ten years of lies. Ten years of ...
  • A Little Footnote on harper's Stupitity
    Last year I blogged about an incendiary Toronto Sun cover story about a theatre festival featuring a play about a Canadian terrorist. I just found out that the festival in question; Summerworks, lost its $47,000 in federal funding. No doubt part of the reason is that the harpercons don't believ ...
  • The New Homophobia
    It's fooking amazing innit? Have you heard of "The New Anti-Semitism"? Apparently, when people criticize the IDF for shooting Palestinian children in the back, or the government of Israel for launching an illegal invasion of Gaza or Lebanon and carpet-bombing civilians, it's really just an exc ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Anal & oral sex soon to be legal in southern state
    In Louisiana it is illegal to have oral or anal sex . The original law went into the books in 1805 before the southern state made it into the union. Before the law changes it is a felony to have "unnatural carnal copulation."
  • CTV News Quebec City Bureau Chief quits job in ...
    CTV News Quebec City Bureau Chief and former CBC News reporter, Kai Nagata, quit his job in a 3,000-word essay where he explains that he was "disillusioned" and cited a "loss of faith" in television news.
  • Crowd of over 70,000 at the Izod Honda Indy ra ...
    Dan Aykroyd was the Grand Marshall at the 25th annual Izod Honda Indy Race at Exhibition Place this past weekend, on a beautiful sunny weekend.
  • Anti-HST Signs Vandalised In BC
    BC’s HST referendum battle heats up as ballots delivered. Business group fights to keep tax. Government accused of running deceptive ads. No means yes in tax hanky panky. Former BC finance minister speaks out against HST.
  • Fat wallets come to heads of Canadian charities
    Working for charity may be a good way to line your wallet with hard cash. Many of the heads of Canadian charities are raking in six figures.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Barbara Yaffe, Council on Hemispheric Affairs: ...
    Citing a newly published paper by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Vancouver Sun columnist Barbara Yaffe is calling on the Canadian public to “familiarize itself with the ongoing debate over the purchase of the F-35s” (Barbara Yaffe, “The F-35 is the wrong plane for the job in Canada, Washing ...
  • Wounded Soldier, ex-Ombudsman challenging CF ‘ ...
    Cpl. Ryan Elrick, a Canadian soldier who lost his legs in Afghanistan, is taking the federal government to court, saying the policy known as Universality of Service is discriminatory and unconstitutional. Elrick spent three years training as an intelligence officer following his wounding but has ...
  • “Crown jewel” of Canadian peacekeeping closing ...
    The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) has announced that it is shutting down its operations in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia (David Pugliese, “Cash-strapped peacekeeping centre closing Nova Scotia office,” Ottawa Citizen, 10 June 2011). The organization is attempting to cut costs after having been adv ...
  • Layton, Harris criticize timing of document dump
    Opposition leader Jack Layton has accused the Harper government of taking a “very cynical” approach in its release of documents on the Afghan detainee file. The release of 4000 pages worth of documents came just as MPs are gearing down for summer recess. รข[The Government] chose a date that will ...
  • Green Party’s Elizabeth May only dissenter to ...
    Elizabeth May stood alone in Parliament last week in opposing extension of the military mission in Libya, resulting in a vote of 294 in favour and 1 opposed (Jane Taber, Why Elizabeth May refuses to be a rubber stamp in the commons, Globe and Mail, 15 June 2011).  Defence Minister Peter MacKay a ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Jamie Oliver Shows How Much Sugar Is in Flavor ...
    April 20th, 2011 TVSquad.com By: Jason Hughes Last season, ‘Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution’ (Tue., 8PM ET on ABC) went to Huntington, W.V., one of America’s unhealthiest cities. This year, he was off to one of its largest. Once there, he met resistance at just about every corner. The Los Angeles ...
  • 10 Countries With The Most Billionaires
    April 20th, 2011 Huffington Post By: Harry Bradford No longer dominated by Americans and Europeans, the members of the world’s billionaire club increasingly hail from around the globe, first and third world countries alike. And while some of the mega-rich might may spend more time on yachts than ...
  • Apple Founder Steve Jobs Has 6 Weeks to Live?
    April 20th, 2011 The National Enquirer There’s been worldwide interest since we reported that Apple boss Steve Jobs – the mastermind behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad – could have only six weeks to live! Shocking photos obtained exclusively by The ENQUIRER show the 56-year-old cancer-stricken com ...
  • Plants ‘Can Think and Remember’
    April 20th, 2011 BBC News By: Victoria Gill Plants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems. These “electro-chemical signals” are carried by cells that act as “nerves” of the plants. In their experi ...
  • Chicken Samples Contaminated
    April 20th, 2011 AOL News By: Andrew Schneider This is a rough month for carnivores and others who like eating safe meat. Two studies, one released last week and the second made public today, have scientifically tested beef, chicken, pork and turkey purchased from groceries in six cities from Se ...

Pambazuka News

  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descen ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
  • Global: It takes a Villager
    Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januรกrio Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Global: New murders and fumigations in ancestr ...
    In only two weeks, four Afro-Colombian leaders have been murdered, and several subjected to death threats. Fumigations have caused the internal displacement of more than 100 Afro-Colombians. The violation of Afro-Colombian fundamental rights continue...

War in Context

  • Israel passes law banning free speech
    Haaretz reports: The Knesset passed Monday a law penalizing persons or organizations that boycott Israel or the settlements, by a vote of 47 to 38. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not present during the vote. MK Zeev Elkin (Likud), who proposed the law, said the law is not meant to silen ...
  • Israel expels 39 pro-Palestinian activists ove ...
    DPA reports: A standoff between Israel and dozens of detained European pro-Palestinian activists continued Monday, with some of them refusing to be put on return flights. More than 81 were still being held in an Israeli jail early Monday, three days after being refused entry on landing at Tel ...
  • While Murdoch’s papers targeted former PM Gord ...
    The Guardian reports: Journalists from across News International repeatedly targeted the former prime minister Gordon Brown, attempting to access his voicemail and obtaining information from his bank account, his legal file as well as his family’s medical records. There is also evidence that a ...
  • UK govt. official: Murdoch made Cameron eat a ...
    The Independent reports: For more than 30 years now there have been two truths about Rupert Murdoch’s increasingly infrequent visitations to the British outpost of his media empire. The first: anyone who is anyone in the world of politics and business angles for (and is delighted by) any kind ...
  • ‘If there wasn’t a Glenn Beck, Israel would ha ...
    Ami Kaufman reports on Glenn Beck’s visit to Israel’s Knesset today: Outside the Negev hall, the atmosphere was like before a rock concert, complete with the pushing and shoving. Most attendees were religious, all the way from knitted kippas to haredim. After we sat down, it was only a few minu ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Researchers set up fake global warming website ...
    Ah yes, the tired old you are irrelevant because are funded by big (coal, gas, oil, wood, propane, butane, electric, peat, Exxon-Mobil take your pick) gets turned into a peer reviewed paper. What will they think of next? Ironically, this … Continue reading →
  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    Fred Singer will be spreading the joyous news that humanity and the environment do not face eminent destruction. The claim of unprecedented and dangerous global warming is scientifically false. Fred’s tentative itinerary includes talks at the following times and locations: … Continue reading →
  • The BBC’s Richard Black Engages in &#822 ...
    Guest post by David Middleton From the BBC… Climate: Cherries are not the only fruit Just about the most predictable event of the week was the tempest of opinion created by the analysis of global temperature changes published in the … Continue reading →
  • Transcript of Andrew Bolt’s “Carbo ...
    Guest post by Alec Rawls Anthony posted the video earlier. Professor Lindzen as casually bemused dragon-slayer. Highly quotable, so I thought I’d create a transcript. Here is Lindzen’s damning conclusion (after demolishing any scientific basis for Australia’s new carbon tax): … Continue reading →
  • Robust uncertainty
    There’s nothing like conflicting your title in your own press release. From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Climate change reducing ocean’s carbon dioxide uptake MADISON รข How deep is the ocean’s capacity to buffer against climate change? As one of the … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Carlos Montes and the Security State: A Cautio ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 11, 2011 On May 17 at 5 in the morning the Chicano activist Carlos Montes got a wake-up call at his home in California from Barack Obama’s security state. The Los Angeles County sheriff’s SWAT team, armed with assault rifles and weari ...
  • With God On Our Side: George W. Bush and the R ...
    Dandelion Salad Deftly maintaining an evenhanded tone in tackling a sensitive topic, this two-part documentary first traces the roots, rise and rocky history of the conservative evangelical movement in America. The film then goes on to explore how President George W. Bush’s religious beliefs inf ...
  • Michael Hudson: Greece a Dress Rehearsal for U ...
    Dandelion Salad TheRealNews on Jul 10, 2011 Michael Hudson: Cuts to Social Security and Medicare and privatization at the state level mirror strategy imposed on Greece see Why QE2 Failed: The Money All Went Offshore by Ellen Brown Michael Hudson: Debt Ceiling Charade a Move to the Right + Sander ...
  • Thomas Ferguson: Corporatism (2010) + Golden R ...
    Dandelion Salad mr1001nightsร‚ onร‚ Jan 23, 2010 Supreme Court OKs unlimited corporate spending on elections http://www.msnbc.msn.com For more info on the investment theory read http://www.amazon.comร‚ or watch “Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics” [see below] Thomas Ferguson: Corporatis ...
  • Pointing A Way: A Review of Morris Berman’s Co ...
    By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 10, 2011 Among the nostrums I was taught as an English Lit under-grad, and then a grad student, was the idea that biography had no place in Criticism.  This notion arrived with the “New Critics” of the 1930s—some pretty bright lights, actually ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    'Fox News' Announces President Obama Has Been Shot And Killed By Darryl Mason Ten hours, that's 10 fucking hours, after a series of fake tweets announcing President Barack Obama had been shot twice in a restaurant and subsequently died from the wounds, this shocking (but fake) news remains the ...
  • No title
    Warner Bros. Loses Millions On Harry Potter 5, Ninth Biggest Grossing Movie Of All Time...Somehow To the outside world, this is known as 'Hollywood Accounting', but when I was in LA in 2001 it was called FuckYou Accounting by independent producers. I'm guessing it still is : According to the (W ...
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    The Tsunami Is Here, But Don't Forget To Close Your Car Door When You Run What can you say while watching this video of the Japanese tsunami, shot from inside a car, except Holy Fucking Shit! Just extraordinary, in a world filled with cameras, we are seeing the reality of natural disasters like ...
  • No title
    JK Rowling Will Be First Author To Earn $1 Billion From E-Books By Darryl Mason UPDATE : Since the story below was posted, JK Rowling has held a press conference and announced the following : * She won't be writing an eighth Harry Potter novel, saying, "I do have closure with Harry. I have no ...
  • No title
    Almost 1 million views on YouTube in a handful of days for a professor explaining in two minutes some of the biggest problems with the American economy? Who said there isn't an audience for the truth?

Wired - Science

  • Genetically Modified Grass Could Make Superwee ...
    A genetically engineered grass expected to hit U.S. markets without government review could speed the evolution of hard-to-control weeds, and perhaps require a return to toxic herbicides scrapped decades ago. On July 1 — a Friday afternoon, a time usually reserved for potentially controversial ...
  • Fish Photographed Using Tools to Eat
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Professional diver Scott Gardner has captured what are believed to be the first images of a wild fish using a tool. The picture above, captured in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, shows a foot-long blackspot tuskfish smashing a clam on a rock until it cracks open, so the ...
  • NASA’s Glorious History of Training Astronauts
    Images: NASA See Also: Oddities From NASA’s Massive Image Archive From the NASA Archive: Astronaut-Butt Molds From the NASA Archive: Early Apollo Lander Model From the NASA Archive: The Lunar Walking Problem
  • Warmer Weather Is Officially the New Normal
    If you’ve been wondering whether your local summers are warmer or wetter than before, now you can look it up. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released its new United States weather “normals,” which are updated every 10 years. The latest show a general warming trend — ha ...
  • The Last Space Shuttle Launches Safely Into Orbit
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — The last mission in NASA’s decades-long space shuttle program is now underway. Atlantis rocketed into orbit today at 11:29 a.m. EDT and is flying at 17,500 mph around the Earth. The mission, STS-135, will catch up with the International Space Station in two days. The s ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israeli Court: probe of slain Palestinian girl ...
    High Court rejects petition to put 2 Border Guard officers on trial for death of Abir Aramin, but slams police, prosecution for 'incomplete' investigation. IOA Editor: This is the latest chapter... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestin ...
  • Amira Hass: Jewish American refused entry to I ...
    Two years after participating in a Taglit-Birthright tour, Harald Fuller-Bennett was denied entry into Israel. The Shin Bet claimed he had links to terrorists and suspected him of no longer being... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: ‘Fly-In’ activists on mass de ...
    Activists from around the world organized a mass fly-in known as the Flytilla. The activists were invited by Palestinian groups in a campaign called "Welcome to Palestine" and intended to protest... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Noam Chomsky: In Israel, a Tsunami warning
    In May, in a closed meeting of many of Israel’s business leaders, Idan Ofer, a holding-company magnate, warned, “We are quickly turning into South Africa. The economic blow of sanctions will be felt... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • 65 pro-Palestinian ‘fly-in’ activists transfer ...
    A total of 310 arriving passengers have been questioned by the Immigration and Population Authority. 69 of the passengers were found to be "fly-in" activists and were denied entry to Israel. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Breeding Procedure Speeds Up Winter Wheat Vari ...
    Agricultural producers and waterfowl will benefit from a project at South Dakota State University that uses an innovative plant-breeding technique to shave perhaps two years off the time needed to produce winter wheat varieties for farmers in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America.
  • Owl Study Expands Understanding of Human Stere ...
    Using owls as a model, a new research study reveals the advantage of stereopsis, commonly referred to as stereovision, is its ability to discriminate between objects and background; not in perceiving absolute depth. The findings were published in a recent Journal of Vision article, Owls see in s ...
  • Experts Available to Provide Comment on HHS an ...
    Health Policy Experts, from the GW School of Public Health and Health Services Department of Health Policy, are available to provide comment on today's announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed framework to assist states in building Affordable Insurance Exch ...
  • Poor Bone Health May Start Early in People wit ...
    Osteoporosis and low bone density are common in people in the early stages of multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a new study published in the July 12, 2011, print issue of Neurology(r), the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
  • Artery-Opening Procedure Still Widely Used In ...
    Despite changes in standard treatment practice guidelines issued by the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association and the European Society of Cardiology several years ago, there has been no meaningful change in the nation's practice of opening completely blocked coronary arterie ...

Natural Health News

  • 14 Habits of Healthy Men
    An informal MSN both yielded a list of 14 routines and pastimes that help make men happy and healthy.� Here are a few of them: Morning exercise: �Morning exercise is closely associated with positive mood and sustained energy throughout the day. Alone time:� A few minutes to hold the world at b ...
  • 12 Unfathomable Obesity Stats -- Makes You Wan ...
    The website Fooducate has taken a look at the annual obesity report issued by Trust for America�s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.� Here are some of the 12 shocking statistics they found: Adult obesity rates rose in 16 U.S. states over the past year, and NOT ONE state decrea ...
  • Are Drugs a Common Cause of Man Boobs?
    A study was undertaken to examine the effects of 29 drugs that have been reported to induce gynecomastia (man boobs). �The research looked at the effects of these drugs on the glucuronidation of estradiol. The drugs examined included manidipine, nicardipine, nisoldipine, nifedipine, domperidone ...
  • Is this the MOST Effective Way to Eliminate GM ...
    The goal of Millions Against Monsanto is to form 435 chapters, one for each Congressional District, with at least 2300 supporters in each chapter -- that's 1,000,000 people against Monsanto, in support of your right to know and choose what's in your food. At their website, you can learn how to ...
  • Foods that Keep You Thin
    To be thin, you need to make smart food choices, watch your portion sizes and stay active. Yahoo Shine has made a list of nutritious, wholesome foods that can help keep you slender. Here are some of them: Apples: Apples are a good source of dietary fiber, which contributes to a healthy dige ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Breaking: Children of Diplomats Getting US Cit ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Yes, it’s true.ร‚  There must be dozens, perhaps even hundreds of newborns who are extended US citizenship every year even though they are “not subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”ร‚  Find the evidence in a report from the restrictionist Center for Immigration Stud ...
  • New Essay on SSRN
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I have just posted a new essay on SSRN, entitled “The Uncertain Legal Status of the Aggression Understandings.”ร‚  The essay will be published by the Journal of International Criminal Justice as part of a symposium on the ICC’s new crime of aggression.ร‚  ...
  • DC Circuit ATS Ruling Sharpens Circuit Split O ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson It’s likely old news to most OJ readers, but we should still note in passing that the DC Circuit, in a divided panel, handed down an important ATS case, John Doe VIII v Exxon Mobil Corp. ร‚ It is noteworthy, among other things, for straight-out rejecting ...
  • Mark Kersten on Peace vs. Justice in Libya
    by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest-post by Mark Kersten.  Mark is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics and author of the (excellent) blog Justice in Conflict. His research examines the nexus of conflict resolution and the pursuit of internati ...
  • Second Harvard International Law Journal/Opini ...
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis A few months back, Opinio Juris wasร‚ pleased to host an inaugural joint symposium with theร‚ Harvard International Law Journal. ร‚ Next week, we’re very pleased to be able to regularize this partnership with a second symposium (I’m particularly pleased with this ...

Public News Service

  • Study: Health Insurance Gives Arizonans No Gua ...
    Study: Health Insurance Gives Arizonans No Guarantee Against Medical Debt Phoenix, AZ – Having health care coverage doesn’t mean paying medical bills will be easy. In fact, 27 percent of Arizonans with insurance are carrying medical debt, or say they’ve had trouble paying health care bills. A n ...
  • MN State Government Shuts Down, Battle Lines Drawn
    MN State Government Shuts Down, Battle Lines Drawn St. Paul, MN - This is Day One of the state government shutdown in Minnesota, the result of a budget impasse between Governor Dayton and the Republican lawmakers who control the Legislature. Comments from Andy Birkey, senior political reporter f ...
  • 4th of July Pet Owner Tip: Don't Invite Fido
    4th of July Pet Owner Tip: Don't Invite Fido Phoenix, AZ - The bang and boom of celebrating America's independence this weekend can come at a cost for our pets. The Humane Society of the United States is reminding people of the stress loud fireworks and celebrations can cause for animals. The or ...
  • What's For Dinner? Restaurants Offer More Meat ...
    What's For Dinner? Restaurants Offer More Meatless Options Phoenix, AZ - There's a growing movement among restaurants in Arizona and across the nation to encourage residents to consider more vegetarian options. Some restaurant chains are adopting the concept of "Meatless Mondays," to encourage c ...
  • AZ Latino Voting Gets Huge Boost from Outreach ...
    AZ Latino Voting Gets Huge Boost from Outreach Campaign Phoenix, AZ – An Arizona voter drive targeting infrequent Latino voters generated 90-thousand additional votes during the 2010 mid-term election. Organizers of the non-partisan effort say Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law was a major cataly ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson's ADL Shuffle Wil ...
    Writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson's ADL Shuffle Will Never Pay off: (FinalCall.com) - With more than ten of every eleven inhabitants of the planet being “non-Caucasian,” it has always been critical to American leaders that they carefully control the ideas and attitudes of Black Americans, especially ...
  • US Conservatives: Homosexuality: A bigger thre ...
    What you're about to hear is a portion of a jaw-dropping speech delivered by an Oklahoma State Representative at a gathering in her district. This is what they say when they think we're not listening. Courtesy: BlipTV
  • Why the US is attacking Libya » PinoyPress
    Why the US is attacking Libya » PinoyPress: By CAROL P. ARAULLO BusinessWorld columnist Why all of a sudden are these great western powers exhibiting such inordinate concern for the seven million or so Libyans? Military action to overthrow the Kadafi government on the pretext of “humanitarian ...
  • Glen Cove struggle: Corrina Gould & Wounded Kn ...
    Glen Cove struggle: Corrina Gould & Wounded Knee speak in Vallejo. Transcripts Audio : Indybay: "Good evening. I want to thank the Creator, for watching out for each and every one of us. We ask you, in a spiritual way, to come and join us to protect this sacred site of our ancestors. It really ...
  • Alison Owings: The Damaging Three Words of the ...
    Alison Owings: The Damaging Three Words of the Declaration of Independence: [huffingtonpost.com] "Say what? From the elegantly-quotable Jefferson? Yes. '... the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.' While Na ...

Pensieve

  • Official Truth Comission Report now Available
    Photo by OEA – OAS The Honduranร‚ Commissionร‚ for Truth and Reconciliation, (CVR in Spanish), created in the wake of the 2009 removal of Manuel Zelaya from the Presidency, has made its report available on its website. Apparently this is the full version, complete and underacted. As soon as I read ...
  • Protection or Truth?
    Photo by OEA – OAS An argument in favor of secrecy is that secrecy protects people. In places like Afghanistan, or Honduras, the government is powerless to protect those implicated in international intrigues or scandals. Informants and victims may be targeted for retaliation if they lead to nega ...
  • For Everyone Else…there’s Wikileaks
    What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo. The ingenious ad above highlights the plight of Wikileaks after the US Government either directly, or indirectly, pressured businesses like PayPal and MasterCard to block all their donations. The US and other secretive nations despi ...
  • Mountains of Santa Catarina
    I am working at a factory well outside of Monterrey, which is backed by some of the most amazing mountains I have ever seen. Devoid of trees because of lack of moisture, they show the tortured formations of the earth that thrust them up. Lit by a setting sun after a summer shower, they were [... ...
  • TS Arlene Threatens Mexico
    A year after Hurricane Alex slammed into Monterrey, bringing torrential rains in its wake, Tropical Storm Arlene, the first Atlantic tropical storm of 2011, threatens to do the same. We are currently in drought conditions, so a bit of rain will do us good. But, too much could be very damaging to ...

Green Times

  • Environmental News 04/07/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Priority to nature
    A road divided for a tree in New Zealand, what a funny and beautiful gesture to support environmental preservation (climate-change/environmental-preservation.html)! In a world where human activity and needs are becoming a priority, natural environment (glossary/categories/lifestyle/natural-envi ...
  • Take a breath
      Taking a breath in a green environment is so pleasant after a busy week! And look how beautiful this green Kiwi landscape is! But, what is the future of this natural beauty if we don't take care of it? So, environmental preservation (climate-change/environmental-preservation.html) and pro ...
  • Environmental News 01/07/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 30/06/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Greece does U.S. and Israel’s bidding, d ...
    By now you have probably heard that the U.S.Boat to Gaza, the “Audacity of Hope” made an attempt to set sail and was turned back by the Greek Coast Guard. Read Jewish Voice for Peace’s alert as it was happening here. Here is a roundup of Democracy Now! breaking coverage of the U.S. boat’s attemp ...
  • Following Barrier’s Rerouting, Residents ...
    From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee VIdeo of the victory celebrations, warning contains LOTS of car honking! This Friday, as part of the weekly demonstration, residents of Bil’in will commence the construction of a new neighborhood of the village, ‘Bil’in West”, on lands returned to ...
  • Susya Creative and Learning Center: 1st Annive ...
    On Saturday, May 28th, 2011, a celebration was held at the Palestinian village of Susya to mark the frist anniversary of the Susya Creative and Learning Center’s activity. Four hundred guests took part in the festivities – half of them Palestinians from Susya and the area, and the others – Israe ...
  • A bad day for Israeli democracy
    Coalition of Women for Peace, whose campaign we have featured before on this site, have a new video, and sadly, a new update on the progress of the “Boycott Bill” working its way through the Israeli Knesset. H/t to ACRI for the blog title, it came from the subject line of their email alerting us ...
  • Schivone: A Moment Before Boarding the Next Fl ...
    Crossposted from Ha’aretz A moment before boarding the next flotilla Iรขd rather use my influence and power, in concert with other members of American civil society, to actively and nonviolently resist policies I consider abominable. By Gabriel Matthew Schivone You might wonder what would ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Rupertgate goes nuclear, threatens News Corp
    Blog For Arizona has a comprehensive roundup of the latest news about the phone hacking scandal in Britain that is and will continue to cause News Corp to implode. The Rupertgate scandal is growing exponentially and has expanded to the U.S. Legal liability could threaten News Corp. It looks as i ...
  • Legal Plunder
    YouTube In this follow up video to The Philosophy of Liberty: Property, we explore Frederic Bastiat’s concept of Legal Plunder. Is it ever OK for government to steal your stuff and give it to someone else? Or is government just a glorified organized crime syndicate ala Tony Soprano? Does it real ...
  • The Google Gods have deemed me worthy
    I’m on Google Plus now.
  • Europe debt crisis spreads to Italy
    Too Big To Bail: European rescue fund can’t handle an Italian crisis Europe scrambles to deal with Italy contagion fallout, calls emergency meeting as former ECB official says “Very worried about Italy” Portugal and Spain are right behind Italy too, poised to take center stage in the Great Euroz ...
  • Nativo Lopez pleads guilty to felony voter reg ...
    Longtime Latino activist Nativo Lopez, of Hermandad Mexicana Nacional and president of the Mexican American Political Association, pled guilty in Orange County to one count of felony voter registration fraud. He ran for a seat on the Green Party of Los Angeles County Council (GPLACC) in 2008 whi ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • “I Believe The TSA Makes Us LESS Safe!&# ...
  • B.C.’s imprisoned ‘Prince of Pot&# ...
    The man known as the “prince of pot” has contracted a serious infection while in prison in the U.S. Vancouver native Marc Emery, the marijuana activist, is serving time in Mississippi for selling mail-order marijuana seeds to American customers. He’s been diagnosed with an antibiotic-resistant “ ...
  • Ex-cop says he helped cover up Katrina shootings
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former police detective testified Monday that he participated in a plot to fabricate witnesses, falsify reports and plant a gun to make it seem police were justified in shooting unarmed residents on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina. Jeffrey Lehrmann, a government ...
  • Willie Nelson faces jail after Texas plea barg ...
    Raw Story   A west Texas judge said this week that she was rejecting a plea deal for legendary country-western musician Willie Nelson, who now faces up to a year in prison for marijuana possession. The original deal, proposed by 78-year-old Hudspeth County prosecutor C.R. “Kit” Bramblett, would ...
  • OH – Police raid wrong house in drug swe ...
    Cops mistakenly converge on wrong home in Struthers By John W. Goodwin Jr. Vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN A case of mistaken identity nearly roped a Struthers family into one of the largest drug sweeps in the area this year. Doreen Fox of Lewis Street, Struthers, was home with her 30-year-old son Wednesda ...

The Air Vent

  • Decisions we don’t need your help with
    One of the several ignorant things that president Bush did was sign a law banning incandescent lights. Yes it came from a liberal House and Senate but he did sign it.ร‚ It looks like the House will send a repeal of it up for vote shortly but it won’t likely get past our anti-economic growth presi ...
  • Uncertainty in Air Temperatures
    Pat Frank has a new article recently published in E&E on the statistical uncertainty of surface temperatures.ร‚  He has requested an open venue for discussion of his work here.ร‚  This is an opportunity for readers to critically asses the methods and understand whether the argument/conclusion is s ...
  • Climate Sensitivity – NicL
    Nic Lewis asked me to post a link to Judith Curry’s blog carrying a letter to Gabi Hegerl regarding the significant problems in AR4 working group 1 forcings.ร‚ ร‚  As I understand it, this was the only non-modeled forcing analysis presented in AR4.ร‚  In other words, the only truly observed data ha ...
  • The IPCC’s alteration of Forster & Gregory’s m ...
    Nic Lewis has made an interesting discovery deep within AR4, he sent some information on it to me last month.ร‚ ร‚  It appears that the likelihood of high climate sensitivity was a little tweaked with respect to the cited literature.ร‚  He’s asked me to carry the link as he posted it on Judith Curr ...
  • Updated Spencer Ocean Model
    Roy Spencer pointed out that his simple ocean model had an error of a factor of ten in the heat capacity of water.  It is a simple spreadsheet linked below that anyone can work with. simple-forcing-feedback-ocean-heat-diffusion-model-v1.0 FOLLOWUP NOTE: The above spreadsheet has an error in the ...

Focal Point

  • Attention, Space Cadets: Do Not Proposition Wo ...
    In a recent vlog, Skepchick Rebecca Watson had some friendly advice for male skeptics seeking to make women feel comfortable and welcome at skeptical gatherings. She mentioned, offhandedly, that during a recent conference in Dublin, a guy followed her into the elevator at 4:00am and invited her ...
  • Lindsay Beyerstein Joins Sidney Hillman Founda ...
    This week, I joined the Sidney Hillman Foundation as the lead blogger for the Hillman Blog. The Hillman Foundation was founded to honor Sidney Hillman the late founder and president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. The foundation's mission is to promote excellence in journalism. The ...
  • DSCC Hits Up Koch Industries for Cash, As Usua ...
    An official with the arch conservative Koch Industries delivered a stinging rebuke to Sen. Patty Murray of the DSCC for attempting to solicit a contribution: For many months now, your colleagues in the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee leadership have engaged in a series of disparag ...
  • A Lawyer's Advice for Reporters Covering Rape ...
    Attorney Jill Filipovic has a terrific primer for reporters covering rape cases. Her post was inspired by this story in Mother Jones about the Jamie Leigh Jones/KBR rape case. Jones alleges that she was gang raped while working for KBR in Iraq. Last year, Megan Carpentier wrote a bracing debun ...
  • Fox News Goes After Media Matters' Tax-Exempt ...
    Fox News is going on the offensive against its nemesis, the liberal think tank Media Matters. Over the past ten days, the network has run more than 30 segments calling for Media Matters to be stripped of its non-profit tax status. This level of coordinated activism by the network bolsters Medi ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Launching Corporate-Local Parent-Chil ...
    Documents detailing an upcoming change to Facebook Pages and Places have been found by our German sister site, AllFacebook.de . They indicate that Facebook will be implementing a new parent-child management structure for Places that will allow corporations to administrate all the Places pages of ...
  • Featured Facebook Campaigns: New Jersey Lotter ...
    Brands on our post this week used livestreaming, social commerce and photo contests to attract users and customers during the slow summer months. We’ve excerpted two of the campaigns below. You can see the full week’s coverage in the Facebook Marketing Bible, which also includes detailed breakdo ...
  • 60 Photos, Page Tabs, Videos, Mobile, Zoosk an ...
    Photos, Page tabs and videos made a big splash on our list of the fastest growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. But there were also dating, mobile and horoscope apps. The apps on our list gained the most MAU of any apps, growing from between 462,800 and 3.6 million MAU ...
  • This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
    Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network this past week. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 Emerging Top-Grossing iOS Apps: New Releases, News, & Sports Show Growth Transformers: Dark of the ...
  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Zen Entertainment, SponsorPay, Pontiflex, Dynamic Signal, King.com, ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • US Independence Day reflections
    Paul J. Balles reflects on the US Independence Day and asks: if, as the American Declaration of Independence says, "all men are created equal", then why do Americans act as if that fundamental principle applies only to citizens of the USA?
  • Israelis' afflictions: instilled memory and pa ...
    Uri Avnery considers the psychological disorders underlying Israel's response to criticism and peaceful protest, most recently manifested in its over-reaction to the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza, and the Israeli public's generally docile acceptance of what their government and media tell them.
  • Civil society versus Israel lobbies in US and ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the deadly influence of Israeli special interests groups on Western governments, especially that of the USA, means that advocates of justice for the Palestinians have only one recourse: civil society actions such as the Gaza humanitarian flotillas. "If we persist t ...
  • Starving Gaza is not cricket - nor is stopping ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the lack of civilized conduct, fair play and proper respect for others in international affairs has been highlighted by the conspiracy between Greece and Israel - and behind them, the USA and Britain - to abort the Gaza humanitarian flotilla, and the aiding and abet ...
  • We will return to Gaza until Palestine is free
    As Greece, Turkey, Israel and - behind the scenes - the US conspire to abort this year's humanitarian aid flotilla to Gaza, Richard Levy, a passenger on the Audacity of Hope, US boat to Gaza, pledges to remain steadfast until victory and Palestine is free.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Nightly Selection of Noteworthy News & Edi ...
    Time for Upping the Iran Propaganda … Again, Pakistan: Tide In-Tide Out, South Sudan Independence & What it’s Really About, Israelis Torture of Children in the Occupied Territories, Torture Whitewash & More   Here are two news articles on Pakistan-US relations (While reading the following recall ...
  • Part III. A Watch-Dog for All Seasons
    Carnegie Corporation: We Love POGO, So Does the Entire US Government! In the spring of 2010 the Carnegie Corporation issued a glowing report on their favorite government watchdog Project on Government Oversight (POGO). The report was meant to justify and showcase the large grants given to POGO b ...
  • Sunday Noteworthy Articles & Reports
    US Mega Corporations & Bilderberg, The Strange Silencing of Liberal America, The Eight Outrageous Costs of the War on Terror & More! I have a few note-worthy articles and reports for this Sunday. Since we have been covering Mega Corporate-Foundations I am going to begin with a well-researched an ...
  • Podcast Show #49
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Julia Davis Julia Davis joins us to discuss her experience with the Department of Homeland Security as a federal officer, her discovery and reporting of serious security lapses within the department, and the unprecedented magnitude of retaliation and abuses she suffere ...
  • The EyeOpener: Who Watches the Watchdogs?
    What influence do corporate foundation donors have over the organizations they are propping up? Last month, the EyeOpener investigated the “transparency award” that was bestowed on Obama this past March by a bevy of government watchdog NGOs who are ostensibly advocating for more government openn ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

  • Trekking to bring literacy to women in the Nep ...
    By: BrigitteMuir After you've climbed the world's highest mountains, including the mother of them all - Mount Everest - what on Earth is there left to do? If you’re Brigitte Muir, OAM, the first Australian to climb the highest peak on every continent - an ...
  • Turn conflict into connection and collaboration
    By: JohnKinyon In my last post I described the language and skills that give us power to return to presence and centeredness when we are in conflict; we can turn conflict into understanding and connection within ourselves and with others. From a place connectio ...
  • Finding harmony through conflict
    By: TrishLay When I was three years old, my adoptive mother was holding me as we stood in line at the grocery store. A gentleman in front of us turned and said what a pretty little girl I was. I then replied with, "No I’m not…I’m adopted." Being adopted we ...
  • How language connects and resolves conflict
    By: JohnKinyon Dear Ode readers, I want to share with you a language of connection for resolving conflicts. I have found it leads to clarity, ease and effectiveness, in work and personal life. It is not a foreign language, but a human language. It helps u ...
  • Radiant health and peace in Sรฃo Paulo, Brazil
    By: PeaceCorso Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, wrote in his seminal book, The Science of Mind, "If we wish to come to the Spirit for the healing of our wounds, let us come in peace and with spontaneous joy, for the Spirit is joy." It is wi ...

OpEd News

  • Paid Sick Leave - One for our Side
    In June, Connecticut became the first state to require private employers to provide paid sick leave. The US is the only country in the industrialized world with no national requirement for employers to provide paid sick leave. Connecticut's Working Families Party (WFP), which has been lobbying f ...
  • NATO's War Against Libya's Civilians
    Briefly noted below are five recent instances of undisputed NATO bombings on Libyan civilians selected because they still among the most frequently discussed by residents of Tripoli.
  • End Herbert Hoover-style "trickle-down economi ...
    Trickle-down economics has not worked since Herbert Hoover tried it. It is a myth that adding money to the wealthy through tax cuts stimulates jobs and grows the economy. End Herbert Hoover-style "trickle-down economics' to pay off nation's debt
  • Sanders Warns of Devastating Cuts in Social Se ...
    Cites New Office of Retirement Policy Report Social Security cuts under consideration by the White House in deficit-reduction talks would drive 245,000 people into poverty and lower widows' benefits $1,200 a year by 2050, according to Social Security Administration calculations provided to Sen ...
  • Caylee and O.J. Justice - Do we want Retributi ...
    A 2005 study has found that there have been more than 350 people wrongfully convicted and subsequently exonerated in the US since 1989.

Switchboard

  • Light Bulb Shopping Guide for Representative B ...
    Jim Presswood, Federal Energy Policy Director, Washington, DC The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on Representative Joe Barton’s BULB Act (H.R. 2417), which would repeal the national energy efficiency standards for lig ...
  • Revised draft environmental review from NYS sh ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City Last Friday, Governor Cuomo’s Department of Environmental Conservation released its as-yet-incomplete revised draft environmental review on proposed new fracking (the so-called “Preliminary Revised Draf ...
  • India Environmental News Compilation June 29th ...
    Shravya Reddy, India Analyst, New York Climate   UN official lobbied for private biofuel firms during India visit "Executive secretary Christiana Figueres is mandated by the UN Secretary General to steer tough climate negotiations and help build ...
  • The Facts about Light Bulbs and Mercury
    Noah Long, Energy Program Attorney, San Francisco Compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) use about a quarter of the electricity of traditional incandescent light bulbs, reducing energy costs for consumers.  By conserving electricity, CFLs also avoid so ...
  • As Congress Dithers Over Light Bulbs, AMF Bowl ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC While Congress debates the merits of light bulb standards, I decided to take my two daughters out for a little entertainment this weekend. It was a great time to escape the sweltering summer ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Don’t click on this link.
    It’s the #1 twitter topic in the world, which in itself is a devastating critique of our so-called culture. (Also if you start you won’t be able to stop. Believe me I’ve tried. Seven days).
  • You’ve Already Heard This, But…
    …Rupert Murdoch wasn’t running a chain of newspapers; he was running a criminal conspiracy.
  • Don’t Let Daddy Lick Me Again
    Oh dear. From the golden age of American advertising, for a laxative. Via Sociological Images. Full narration of the text at their site.
  • Extremely rich man accepts six-figure gift fro ...
    All Gotham rises as one to salute feudal cap-doffing. Derek Jeter has, um, “earned” $205,430,000 (and counting). Christian Lopez makes slightly less as a cellphone salesman and apparently owes $200,000 in non-dischargeable student debt. A quick scan of the interwebs indicates almost universal ac ...
  • Bachmann: A Very Serious Contender
    Like Paul, I think Bachmann is not being taken seriously enough, and I particularly reject this kind of analysis, which you’ll presumably hear a lot if you listen to Sunday talk shows: The Republican nominee is somebody who did ok in the primaries last time, and/or a former VP candidate. You can ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Storm Peak Lab Celebrates the 4th of July and ...
    There is nothing like a small-town parade on the 4th of July. The scientists and volunteers at the DRI Storm Peak Lab (SPL) in Steamboat Springs, Colo. participated in this year’s Steamboat Springs Fourth of July Parade. The parade theme was the “Greatest Summer on Earth.”
  • In Memoriam: DRI President Dr. James V. Taranik
    President of DRI in 1987, Dr. James V. Taranik was internationally known for his research in aerospace remote sensing, and his professional career had already included senior positions with NASA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Iowa Geological Survey, and the University of Iowa.
  • DRI Researcher Earns Grant to Study the Season ...
    A DRI researcher will lead a team that is heading to Antarctica to study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms.
  • Abnormal Spring
    If you're new to Northern Nevada, you've probably already asked yourself this question: is this a normal spring? The calendar says we're three weeks from the start of summer, but winter still holds us in its grip. It leads us to wonder if something bigger is a foot, Dr. Kelly Redmond explains.
  • What effect do clouds have on climate?
    What is the climate effect of tiny particles such as aerosols, soot, and dust, in the atmosphere? Dr. Eric Wilcox, a world-class sailor and researcher, is exploring the answers to these questions linking the ever-changing composition of Earth’s atmosphere and climate change.

Earth Techling

  • Better Buildings Challenge Gets Partners
    Secretary Chu announced the 14 initial partners in the DOE's Better Buildings Challenge, which include businesses, municipalities, and financial institutions.
  • Solar Lighting Boosts Safe Childbirth
    The Solar Suitcase from We Care Solar is helping overcome a dangerous lack of reliable lighting during childbirth in underdeveloped countries.
  • Upscale S. Carolina Living Goes LEED Green
    A new residential development on South Carolina's Kiawah River will feature marshland views, preserved open space, and the latest in green building features.
  • Solar Power Gadget Shopping Guide
    Looking for some cool solar powered gear for your life? Our solar gadget shopping guide offers you some interesting buying ideas at several different prices.
  • Army Seeks To Increase Energy Efficiency
    The Army's new Base Camp Systems Intregration Laboratory facility will test energy efficient new technology and systems at two 150-person base camps.

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Water Dog Training in July
    I wanted to let everyone know they are planning another basic waterdog training on July 14th from 7-9 at the Tokishi Building in Wellsboro.  Please pass this on to others that may be interested.  There is also going to be another Advanced Training in August. (I will pass on more information as I ...
  • Forced Pooling: When Landowners Can’t Say No t ...
    byร‚ Marie C. Baca, Special to ProPublica May 19, 2011 As the shale gas boom sweeps across the United States, drillers are turning to a controversial legal tool called forced pooling to gain access to minerals beneath private property–in many cases, without the landowners’ permission.ร‚ Forced poo ...
  • Gas industry no longer must comply with stric ...
    Deadline for policy reversal looms TAKE ACTION TODAY The facts: In December, 2010, a policy document was put in place by DEP, advising air quality professionals responsible for permitting of gas industry compressors and other sites to consider the aggregation (total toxic accumulation) of air em ...
  • SPORTSMEN MARCELLUS SHALE SUMMIT
    Saturday, June 4th University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown Campus In the heart of the Marcellus Shale region, sportsmen and women, and conservation groups are working together to identify and propose solutions to mitigate the impacts from gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing on hunting, fishing an ...
  • Water Well Owner Network Training in Wellsboro, PA
    I’d like to pass this info along from the RDA —- This just in from the Master Well Owners Network. This is a group within Penn State which trains people who have private wells. My husband and several of our friends have received this training, which we all found quite valuable. You learn about t ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • New Nissan System Charges Electric Cars with S ...
    The Japanese automaker, Nissan, has developed a charging system that generates electricity from solar power and stores it in the lithium-ion batteries used in Getty ImagesThe Nissan Leaf its Leaf electric car. On the roof of its global headquarters in Yokohama, the company has installed 488 ...
  • Australia Unveils Plans to Tax Carbon by Next ...
    The Australian government has unveiled a proposal to tax its heaviest carbon dioxide emitters as of July 2012, a plan that would make Australia the first nation to put a price on carbon. The plan, which is expected to pass both houses of parliament before the end of the year, would require the n ...
  • Biggest U.S. Waste Hauler Expands Fleet of ‘Tr ...
    Waste Management Inc., the largest hauler of waste in the U.S., next week a will add its 1,000th truck fueled by natural gas, a landmark that reflects a trend toward new trucking fleets powered by alternative energy sources. About half of those trucks, including the newest, run on so-called tras ...
  • Iowa Plant Receives U.S. Backing To Convert Co ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy plans to make a $105 million loan guarantee to support the expansion of an Iowa ethanol factory into the nation’s first commercial-scale plant to convert corn waste into motor fuel. The Emmetsburg, Iowa plant, which is being built by Poet LLC, will convert corncobs, ...
  • Brazil Offers Protection for Activists Targete ...
    The Brazilian government says it will provide security protection for at least 131 people threatened with murder over land use disputes in the Amazon rainforest after a series of killings in recent months. Those Via Amazoom PressJosรฉ Clรกudio Ribeiro da Silva receiving death threats — including ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • ‘Syrians angry with US and France meddling in ...
    The US government is expected to protest to Damascus after hundreds of supporters of the Assad regime stormed the US embassy and US ambassador’s residence in Damascus on Monday.
  • Doomed Volga cruiser sailed with crippled engi ...
    The ship that sunk in the Volga River, killing more than 100 people, including dozens of children, embarked with a broken engine, a surviving senior staff member said. The ship also did not have enough staff and fuel...
  • Technical failure and recklessness most likely ...
    Experts have pointed to several possible causes behind the “Bulgaria” sinking on the Volga River, including the cruise ship’s poor condition, overcrowding, stormy weather, port officials’ oversight and decisions made by...
  • Palestine is last existing colony – politician
    The so-called Middle East peace quartet is making another effort to restart stalled Israel-Palestine negotiations. Former Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath told RT he hopes Palestine will finally cease being “an...
  • Italy within an inch of economic crisis
    Trouble is brewing for Italy, as it edges closer to becoming the fourth European country to need a bailout. The country’s debt totals 1.88 trillion euros and is continuing to rise.

Not My Tribe

  • Next Gaza Freedom Flotilla will be an anti-glo ...
    Israel successfully defended its inhumane siege of Gaza against the Second Freedom Flotilla, currently regrouping in Greece. Let’s recap: the French Dignite Al Karama awaits permission to leave Crete, the Swedish/Greek MV Juliano overcame sabotage which crippled the Irish MV Saoirse and unconfir ...
  • Eduardo Galeano on enthusiasm: keeping the God ...
    Via Adbusters and AcampadaBCN: Eduardo Galeano interviewed in Plaza Catalunya, Madrid, in the midst of the student protests in Spain: I was in El Sol, and here I am seeing a reecounter.The same energy of dignity and the same enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is a Vitamin E, “E” for enthusiasm, which comes ...
  • Tom Hayden says there’s nothing to a US ...
    What an ugly hit piece against Julian Assange, by Tom Hayden in The Nation. Formerly of the American Left, Hayden used to need no introduction, now he mistakenly cross-posts assignments for the State Department (see A view from Sweden). Hayden dismisses notions of a US-led conspiracy to render t ...
  • No-one gets married in a castle unless they own it
    “No-one gets married in a castle unless they own it. It is brash, celebrity style behavior.” –Carolyn Bourne to future daughter in law Heidi Withers. One bullet-point from a cascade of nuggets which the affluent Britisher meant to be a dressing-down of American would-be princess Withers, who sha ...
  • Philosophe Slavoj Zizek is Not Gaga for Pop
    Slovenian philosopher Slovaj Zizek may have a cult following like Lady Gaga, but denied this weekend a romantic connection. I write this with tongue in cheek, Slavoj’s, because his protestation was interesting. Cajoled by Amy Goodman at Saturday’s London Fronline Club event, asked if he categori ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Politicians Really Are Puppets
    Here British Labour leader Ed Miliband gives pretty much exactly the same scripted response to five successive questions with the same vocal inflections and everything. It's as if he's some kind of robot! Presenting Ed Milibot: The interviewer's thoughts: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/bfensm
  • Unnecessary Freefall Revisit #2038046179007145309
    Thanks to 'Charlie Gate', many truthers, particularly in the UK, have been brushing up on their 9/11 knowledge, and there has been fierce debate on YouTube about things like the freefall of WTC7. The apologists for NIST have been claiming that WTC7's 2.25 seconds of free fall can be explained ...
  • Chris Mohr's "respectful rebuttal" smells like ...
    Chris Mohr is uploading 'respectful rebuttal' videos of Gage's presentations. I've just quickly looked at this one ... I may watch the others later. Some thoughts... One minute in Mohr states that Gage does not acknowledge the differences in construction between the twin towers and the other ...
  • Charlie Veitch Parroting Outdated Official Cla ...
    In recent interviews justifying his sudden U-Turn on 9/11, Charlie Veitch has made some incorrect claims about WTC7. He says he spoke to an expert who told him that 25% of WTC7 was scooped out. This is an old claim that even NIST have abandoned. The claim was made in Appendix L to their 2004 pr ...
  • Another Balzac Vitry Verinage
    This is another Verinage demolition of an apartment building in the same area (Balzac Vitry-Sur-Seine) as the other one. This demolition was in June of last year. And here's a speed time plot... Can't get much clearer than that really!

Fooducate

  • Fighting Obesity: Hollywood isn’t Helping
    The obesity epidemic has been the subject of our last few posts. On Friday we almost wept reading disheartening stats on obesity growth across the 50 states. Over the weekend we looked at the raging epidemic from a food industry perspective and through the eyes of the restaurant industry. Today, ...
  • Fighting Obesity: The Restaurant Angle
    Guess what? Eating out leads to weight gain. In fact, the USDA calculated that for each weekly meal outside the home, we gain 2 pounds of body weight annually. Here are two more interesting facts: About 30% of our total calories are consumed outside the home. This is double what it was just 30 y ...
  • Fighting Obesity: The Corporate Dilemma
    Infographic: the Wall Street Journal Yesterday’s post on the extent of obesity in the US led to an outpouring of comments an tweets by many of you. No doubt we were all bamboozled by the stats. We’re pretty sure that managers and executives at junk food companies are aware of the numbers. And al ...
  • 12 Unfathomable Obesity Stats [Make you want t ...
    Interactive Map for 2010 Trust for Americaรขs Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) have released their annual report on obesity, and there’s no sunshine here. The report is aptly titled F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens Americaรขs Future 2011 [download PDF]. The report is r ...
  • WhoNu Cookies: Oreo Copycat, Nutrition Impostor
    Check out this new product, a “nutrition rich cookie”. At a first glance, WhoNu looks like an Oreo. But the package promises so much more: As much fiber as a bowl of oatmeal As much calcium and vitamin D as an 8 oz glass of milk As much vitamin C as a cup of blueberries. [...]

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Santander Bank admits dam funding to continue
    The Santo Antonio dam threatens to devastate the forest home of numerous tribal peoples © Joรฃo Zinclar Europe’s largest bank, Santander, has admitted that its controversial financing of the notorious Santo Antonio dam in the Brazilian Amazon is set to continue, despite earlier saying that i ...
  • Brazilian Indian killed next to roadside camp
    Guarani woman from Apyka'y community, camped on the roadside © Fiona Watson/Survival A Guarani man in Brazil has been run over and killed by a bus on the highway next to which his community has been camped for almost a decade. The Guarani of Apyka’y community are living in appalling condit ...
  • Innu agreement signed while the Duke and Duche ...
    Innu children ร‚© Serge Jauvin/Survival The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have visited Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories.ร‚ According to reports,ร‚ they were met byร‚ Inuit and Chipewyan drummers and dancers, andร‚ subsequently visited a teepee at Blatchford Lodge. While they have ...
  • Tour operators oppose human safaris
    Tourist films Jarawa on the Andaman Trunk Road © Survival The Association of Tour Operators in India’s Andaman islands has come out in support of Survival’s call for tourists to stop using the illegal road that cuts through the forest of the recently contacted Jarawa tribe. President of th ...
  • UN fails uncontacted Indians
    Members of an Ayoreo family contacted in 2004. © GAT The UN’s flagship business initiative is being used as a tool to mask human rights abuses, according to Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay. Leaders of the tribe, some of whose members are still uncontacted, have written to the UN Global Compact ...

Greg Palast

  • Drowning Fish?
    by Greg Palast June 30th, 2011 July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the path can't imagine. My D ...
  • ZD Roberts Has Something to Say
    I just wanted to send a thanks to all those who have donated to the Gil Palast Memorial fund over the past couple of months. I know Gil would have been happy to see that so many people still believe in the power of journalism. Back in 2008 I got to meet Greg's Dad — he [...]
  • Ce soir ! Achtung! BP en eaux troubles + Die B ...
    Tonight! 28 June. On ARTE, in French and German — in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Holland and (check listing for French Canada) … BP: In Deep Water — The first of Greg Palast’s investigative reports on BP, the Bribery & Pollution company masquerading as an oil company. La M ...
  • Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa
    by Greg Palast for The Guardian Now that I've dispensed with the obvious and obnoxious teaser headline, let's drop the towel and expose Dominique Strauss-Kahn's history of arrogant abuse. The truth is, the grandee of the IMF has molested Africans for years. On Wednesday, the New York Times r ...
  • So, Osama walks into this bar...
    by Greg Palast from Armed Madhouse: just so we don't forget... So, Osama walks into this bar, see? And Bush says, “Whad’l’ya have, pardner?” and Osama says... ...But wait a minute. I’d better shut my mouth. The sign here in the airport says, “Security is no joking matter.” But if security’ ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I make sure a spray bottle is really c ...
    We’ve had lots of suggestions over the years on how to reuse spray bottles from commercial cleaning products and the like but Nancy has just emailed a related question: First I want to comment that this is a fantastic website! Everyone in the world should be accessing it. My question is this: I’ ...
  • How can I reuse/recycle foil bag linings to ma ...
    We’ve had an email from long-time commenter Melinda: I’ve recently been struck with the foil linings of snack bags, and even dog food bags. Has anyone used these to create something solar, such as a cooker? What items have been put to solar use and how? Making a solar cooker is on my to-do list ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle horse hair?
    We’ve had an email from Bea: I’ve always put my horse’s tail and mane clippings on the his manure heap to compost down but I recently wondered if I could use them for something else instead. I’ve heard of horse hair mattresses but don’t think I have enough for that! According to Wikipedia, horse ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle door handles/door k ...
    We’ve had an email from Jill: The last people who lived in our house were obsessed with those naff fake gold handles. We’ve just changed them all out but now have a stash of really ugly handles. Can they be recycled? They probably can be recycled with normal metal scrap – I’m not sure what [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle personalised weddin ...
    We’ve had an email from Rosey: We just got married (yay!) and while we tried to keep the waste to a minimum, we have ended up with about 100 personalised wedding cake boxes leftover. Not sure how that happened! They’re just card but I’d like to reuse them anyway but didn’t know what to do [...]

Age of Autism

  • Amish & Autism
    By Anne Dachel I had a hard time understanding Seth Mnookin's latest piece about the Amish and autism. He trashes the idea that the Amish don't vaccinate. We're told that "at least some of their children had received at least...
  • Autism Science Digest August Issue: ADHD Treat ...
    Get your 160-page August edition of Autism Science Digest -- the magazine that gives you the value of a book! See what subscribers around the world are reading. Subscribe HERE. The August issue's articles include: Cerebral folate deficiency in autism...
  • I Spy
    By Cathy Jameson I've decided I am no longer Just A Mom.* *Just A Mom, n. = human; female; parent; nurturing; emotional. Nope. That's not me anymore. I'd like to be Just A Mom, but I am much more than...
  • Now Live and Streaming - the Autism Media Channel
    Today, we are proud to announce the official launch of the Autism Media Channel (AMC): www.autismmediachannel.com. Our mission is to provide you, the autism community, with engaging, informative and timely content about autism spectrum disorders. This site was built with...
  • Your Healing Treatment: Hope and Healing For F ...
    By Maureen McDonnell RN A new concept for helping to heal children and their families affected by autism was born! The first annual Your Healing Retreat took place June 3rd to the 5th at a beautiful lakeside retreat center in...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Senegal suspends Hissene Habre’s repatri ...
    BBC – Senegal has suspended its planned repatriation of Chad’s former President Hissene Habre, who has been sentenced to death in his home country, Senegal’s foreign minister has said.Read article
  • Nigeria army claims 11 Boko Haram deaths in Ma ...
    BBC - The Nigerian army says it has killed 11 Islamic militants in the troubled north-eastern city of Maiduguri. An army patrol had come under attack from Boko Haram fighters, who want to establish an Islamic state in the north, said an army statement. Witnesses told the BBC the soldiers had set ...
  • Australian children are being terrified by cli ...
    News.com.au – Primary school children are being terrified by lessons claiming climate change will bring “death, injury and destruction” to the world unless they take action. On the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s carbon tax package announcement, psychologists and scientists said the lesson ...
  • Murdoch delays BSkyB bid; Brown a hacking target
    Reuters – Rupert Murdoch and the British government tried to draw the financial and political sting from a newspaper phone-hacking scandal by referring his $14-billion media takeover to regulators, even as police said former prime minister Gordon Brown appeared to have been a hacking target. Rea ...
  • Spanish Home Sales Declined for Third Month as ...
    Bloomberg – Spanish home sales declined for the third month in May as austerity measures and Europeรขs highest unemployment rate crimped demand for homes. The number of transactions fell 18.3 percent from a year earlier, the National Statistics Institute in Madrid said today. In April, transactio ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Trash trucks fueled by 'trash gas': a growing ...
    The company that operates the largest trucking fleet in the waste industry is fueling more and more trucks with so-called trash gas. On Tuesday, Houston-based Waste Management Inc. will add its 1,000th truck fueled with natural gas. Powered with captured...
  • Victim of Yellowstone grizzly bear mauling was ...
    Officials at Yellowstone National Park have identified the victim in Wednesday's fatal grizzly bear mauling as 57-year old Brian Matayoshi of Torrance. The bear's defensive attack was so rare, officials called it a "1 in 3-million" occurrence. In a news...
  • Grizzly bear kills hiker in Yellowstone Nation ...
    when they encountered the sow and her cubs. The bear, apparently reacting to the perceived threat to her cubs, fatally attacked the man, park officials said. The woman was unhurt.
  • Light-brown apple moths: California deploys wa ...
    The insatiable fruit- and leaf-eating light-brown apple moth may meet its match this month as California prepares to release hundreds of tiny, stingerless wasps. The move is part of a continuing effort to move away from aerial pesticide spraying to...
  • ExxonMobil attempts to limit oil spill on Yell ...
    “We can’t really tell what it’s going to do for our fisheries downstream,” Eric Beebee, 37, said of the oil as he worked at Bighorn Fly and Tackle Shop in Billings, Sunday. “If it was going to effect anybody, it’s going to be the farmers and the ranchers because the water is pushed up so high, w ...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Syrian protesters attack US, French embassies
    Hundreds of Syrian government supporters attacked the U.S. Embassy in Damascus Monday, smashing windows and spray-painting walls with obscenities and graffiti that called the American ambassador a �dog.Submitted by Joseph M. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • York University,Canada
    York University is looking so nice.York University was established in 1959 as an affiliate of the University of Toronto and became independent in 1965.Submitted by Tarequl J. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Peace solidarity activists detained, humiliate ...
    The besieged people in the Gaza strip are still calling on the whole international community to do whatever they can to lift the suffocating Israeli siege imposed on the coastal enclave.Submitted by Joseph M. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Test Your Knowledge: Civic Literacy Exam
    See 1st CommentSubmitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • U.S. Envoy Urges Yemen's President To Step Aside
    Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh must "expeditiously" sign a deal that would have him transfer power to his vice president and step down, the White House counterterrorism chief told Saleh in a meeting at a hospital where the Yemeni leader is being treaSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Japan clarifies nuclear 'stress testing'
    The Japanese government has tried to clarify its conditions for restarting dozens of nuclear reactors, idle since the 11 March tsunami and quake. Officials said "stress tests" announced last week would be in two phases, and reactors would...
  • Car makers jump on energy bandwagon as Ja ...
    By Chang-Ran Kim TOKYO, July 11 (Reuters) - With the country steeped in power-saving mode, energy generation has become all the rage among Japanese automakers. Nissan Motor Co on Monday unveiled a new charging system that gets electricity from solar power that can also be stored in the lith ...
  • Human activities blamed for Hulu Langat l ...
    SHAH ALAM: The cause of the May 21 landslide in Hulu Langat which claimed the lives of 16 people, many of them children, has been attributed to human activities, the Selangor State Assembly sitting was told Monday. Tourism, Consumer...
  • New suspicions against former Israeli pre ...
    JERUSALEM - Police say former Israeli President Moshe Katsav, currently appealing a rape conviction, is now suspected of harassing a witness in the case. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says two private investigators hired by Katsav appear to have harassed the witness. Rosenfeld said the i ...
  • Suspected killer crocodile caught in Phil ...
    MANILA, Philippines - Wildlife workers in the Philippines have caught a 13.7-foot (4.18-meter) -long saltwater crocodile that is suspected of killing a fisherman last month. Local environment officer Alex Marcaida says the giant croc was captured in a trap set up along the Rio Tuba river in ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Thousands of CA Inmates Show Solidarity With P ...
    What began as a hunger strike among inmates of the isolation wing of California’s Pelican Bay prison has turned into a statewide display of solidarity. A number of prisoners in Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit, California’s highest-security complex, refused their state-provided morning meal o ...
  • Panetta Makes 9/11 Gaffe in Iraq
    BAGHDAD — Newly appointed US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told American troops in Baghdad on Monday that 9/11 was the reason they were in Iraq, before he was quickly corrected by his spokesman. "The reason you guys are here is because of 9/11. The US got attacked and 3,000 human beings got kil ...
  • BP Calls on US to Halt Payments for Oil Spill ...
    After approximately $4.5 billion paid out to victims of BP's record-breaking Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the company is urging U.S. officials with the Gulf Coast Claims Facility to halt further compensation. Citing an improving Gulf coast economy, the British oil giant said in a 29-page letter (PD ...
  • Rupture in Planned US Pipeline Could Release 7 ...
    A rupture in the planned Keystone XL pipeline could release up to 6.9m US gallons into the famed Yellowstone river, a nightmare scenario far outstripping the present spill, a new report warns.read more
  • Argentine Singer-Songwriter Facundo Cabral Mur ...
    Argentine singer-songwriter, Facundo Cabral, died Saturday after a car he was traveling in was ambushed by gunmen in Guatemala. He was one of Latin America’s most admired folk singers and a man the United Nations once designated as a, “worldwide messenger of peace." Cabral’s death sent shock wav ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Australia Unveils Carbon Price
    Australians remain divided after Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s announcement of a Clean Energy package with a carbon price of $A 23 per tonne and an emissions trading scheme from 2015. Crikey had an early summary. The local blogosphere was quick off the mark.
  • Anyone Up For a(n Arctic) Swim?
    As Neven points out today, things are cookin� on top of the planet. In particular, check this photo from one of the two Arctic cams I like to follow: � � (Click the image for the full-size version.)
  • Good News About Small Modular Reactors
    Interest is growing in the class of units rated at 300 MW or less
  • Community Power Gains Momentum
    You may or may not have noticed, but a grassroots movement in community power is picking up speed around the country. What's community power, you may ask, and why does it matter?
  • Goldman Sachs: Saudi Arabia Will Fail To Meet ...
    Over time, it is increasingly getting obvious that Saudi Arabia is going through the process of peak oil production and eventual decline. And as peak oil author Matt Simmons had said, "as Saudia Arabia goes, so goes the world". The first alarm bells started ringing as early as 2005 when it was f ...

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Choreographed Budget Cave In - The Money Party ...
    By Michael Collins So this is how it is going to be: "After putting controversial cuts to Social Security and Medicare on the table in negotiations with congressional Republicans over a plan to raise the nation's debt ceiling, President Obama still doesn't have a deal in the works." Chris Mo ...
  • Multi-Billion-Dollar Terrorists and the Disapp ...
    James Petras The US government (White House and Congress) spends $10 billion dollars a month, or $120 billion a year, to fight an estimated “50 -75 ‘Al Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA and quoted in the Financial Times of London (6/25 -26/11, p. 5). During the past 30 months ...
  • Dueling UN Flotilla I Commissions
    by Stephen Lendman Two earlier articles discussed them in detail, accessed through the following links: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/08/from-goldstone-to-uribe.html http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/08/from-goldstone-to-uribe.html Last September, the UN Human Rights Counci ...
  • The Great Unravelling
    by Stephen Lendman Friday's jobs report threw more cold water on so-called recovery. Since 2008, Main Street America's been in Depression. Conditions have worsened, not improved, because of force-fed austerity, not badly needed stimulus to create jobs, reemploy people, and revive real ec ...
  • Revolution is A Legitimate Option
    By Timothy V. Gatto The current state of affairs in America is untenable. The government that the American people put into power has turned its back on the majority of Americans. Both major political parties are sustained by corporate dollars for their political campaigns and by out and out bri ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Pittsburgh in the 60′s – Both side ...
    Both sides now No, not clouds, brains. Our aging brains. Yes, have to admit it. They are getting older right along with the rest of our bodies. I was poking about looking for a topic to write on and I read an article on middle aged brains and how they seem to function differently from [...]
  • Hippie TV News and Stuff July 12
    This week: Depleted Uranium Munitions in Libya, Militarization of the Arctic, PE Nolan is back with a call to activism our ass$%$ of the week and more… WWH- Worldwide Hippies brings you news and commentary, to inform you and move you to action. Worldwide Hippies News and Stuff is a weekly video, ...
  • Syrian protesters attack US, French embassies
    By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press – BEIRUT (AP) รข Hundreds of Syrian government supporters attacked the U.S. Embassy in Damascus Monday, smashing windows and spray-painting walls with obscenities and graffiti that called the American ambassador a “dog.” Guards at the French Embassy fired in the ...
  • Back to the Garden
    It was the 1970s. Walking barefoot in the rain. Mud in our toes and sweet rain on our tongues. Me in my green patchwork dress. Him with his long hair, patched, multi-colored jeans. We shared a joint. Took a walk in the woods. We made love up against the bark of a tree and let [...]
  • Peace solidarity activists detained, humiliate ...
    Gaza,(Alresalah.ps)– The besieged people in the Gaza strip are still calling on the whole international community to do whatever they can to lift the suffocating Israeli siege imposed on the coastal enclave. However, little groups of the whole world response their call. Some of whom came to Isra ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • What Happened at Choren?
    Join the forum discussion on this post If you have not heard by now, Choren Industries has begun bankruptcy proceedings. For those who don’t know, since 2009 I have worked as the technology advisor for the major investor and primary funding source for Choren’s day-to-day operations. I have just ...
  • Chinese Energy Policies Harming Neighbors
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. รขรขรขรขรขรขรขรขรขรขรข China’s omnivorous energy requirements have been attracting increasing attention as of late, as Beijing attempts to secure any and all sources of power for its growing industrial base. Nowher ...
  • Book Review: Cracking the Carbon Code
    Join the forum discussion on this post Introduction In Cracking the Carbon Code, Terry Tamminen lays out his strategy for managing and reducing carbon emissions. He describes what California has done. He describes great strides that China has made. He describes his strategic meetings on the ...
  • Worldwide Nuclear Industry Woes Deepen
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. ——————————– The year 2011 will go down for the nuclear industry worldwide as an annus horribilis. First came the March Fukushima nuclear disaster, with operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) belatedly ...
  • Tapping the SPR: The Root of Dysfunctional Ene ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Falling Into the Trap of Influencing the Crude Oil Markets It seems that nothing quite brings out the silliness in politicians like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). As you undoubtedly have now heard, the United States and the International Energy Ag ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • Yoga Lowers Cholesterol and Body Fat
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—A study out of the Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University in Uttar Pradesh, India, has connected the practice of yoga to reduced lipids and fat in the body. read more
  • Email Receipts Cut Clutter, Keep BPA Away
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—From an environmental perspective, paper receipts are wasteful, especially when you spend 99 cents on a single item and walk away with a foot-long receipt peppered with speci read more
  • Party in a Can: Canning Parties Combine Good F ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Maybe you've been growing some pesticide-free organic fruits and veggies in your garden this summer, and loading up on local organic food from the farmer's market. But there's a third way to bring lots of fresh, healthy, whole food into your meal plan. And guess what? Ho ...

big think

  • Gender, Education, and the Gender Gap: Blame I ...
    Talk about gender equality—or a lack thereof—in education, in the workplace, in higher levels of whatever occupation you choose to discuss (fewer female managers, fewer female CEOs, fewer female board members, and the list goes on) is certainly not new. Over and over, studies, analyses, and ...R ...
  • President Obama "Prepared To Take Significant ...
      President Obama’s answers to the questions from today’s press conference on the debt ceiling talks were more informative than his brief and at times sketchy opening preamble. The president had the kind of look on his face that said “answering your questions will definitely be easier than dea ...
  • Monday Eruption Update: Calm at Etna and Katla ...
    Things are going to be getting a little hectic for me for the next few days as I get ready for my field/lab season in California (which starts Wednesday). I have just enough time to catch up on a few things that are happening/happened over the last few days. Italy: Over the weekend, we saw a b ...
  • What The Founders Can Teach Us About Governmen ...
    When the government violates the Constitution, courts should assign blame clearly—not bury it under euphemisms. What’s the Big Idea? Judicial review is the process by which the judiciary weighs the constitutionality of actions by the other two branches of government. It’s one of the primary ...
  • What the Arab Spring Means for Israel
    What's the Latest Development? While Egypt shares a border with the Gaza Strip, America's control of Egyptian foreign policy has meant little help in the way of Palestinian statehood. The Arab Spring changed all that: "The first foreign minister in Egypt's transitional government, Nabil al-Ara ...

Information Liberation

  • Her cop-cussing ruled fighting words, not free ...
    An Ohio woman who repeatedly cursed at the police after they arrested her son committed disorderly conduct and had no First Amendment free-speech defense, an Ohio appeals court ruled recently. Dorthea Frazier's son Cody was arrested by Akron polic...
  • Investigation into Atlanta Public Schools chea ...
    Across Atlanta Public Schools, staff worked feverishly in secret to transform testing failures into successes. Teachers and principals erased and corrected mistakes on students* answer sheets. Area superintendents silenced whistle-blowers and r...
  • TSA Agent Caught With Passenger's iPad in His ...
    While most Transportation Security Administration employees are busy groping people or taking naked pictures of them, the cops say one of those employees was putting fliers' electronics down his pants. The Broward Sheriff's Office says 30-year-old...
  • "Mr. Hanson, why don't you have a seat right o ...
    ..Chris Hansen has found himself on the receiving end of his own hidden camera tactics, after the married NBC anchor was secretly filmed on an illicit date with a blonde television reporter 20 years his junior. Hansen, 51, has allegedly been havin...
  • North Korea's Socialist Famines
    People living in the socialist paradise of North Korea are suffering another big bout of famine and starvation, so severe in fact that the European Union is sending $14.6 million in emergency food aid for more than 650,000 starving North Koreans. ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Style Versus Substance
    In May this year, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Corporation created space travel history by achieving the first “feathered” re-entry of its experimental craft, SpaceShipTwo. Oversize stabilizers mounted on the wingtips rotated upwards by 65ร‚°, giving the craft the geometry … Continue rea ...
  • The Australian Labor Party – A Dying Brand
    The Australian Labor Party does not even call itself a socialist party. Actually it is a liberal-bourgeois party. V.I. Lenin, 1913 Democracy in Australia in 2011 stands at a crossroads. The Australian Labor Party, Australia’s oldest political party and traditional … Continue reading →
  • Beware Of Greeks Demanding Gifts
    I’ve just been reading what I regard as the most comprehensible article (to a non-economist) I’ve read covering the causes of the current PIIGS financial crisis in Europe. Have a look and let me know what you think. One paragraph … Continue reading →
  • Give ‘Em Hell, James
    It would be remiss of me not to wish our God-Emperor all the best on his current American promotional tour of his new book, Watermelons. I just heard him being interviewed hereร‚ (H/T FergalR) on Ron Smith’s WBAL Radio show. I’m … Continue reading →
  • What’s Your Poison?
    In a very thinly-veiled effort to give this chronicler a few days’ breathing space, I thought I’d throw open the bar and pose the question close to everyone’s heart at 6pm. What’s everyone’s most desired drink, loved libation, needed nepenthe? … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Ugly, pretty girls
    This is just plain odd. An accidental discovery. But, why does it happen? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what if something more subtle is occurring? The phenomenon is known as “flashed face distortion effect” and is described in a research paper thus: “We describe a novel face distort ...
  • Red Bull Formula 1 Car Manual
    Red Bull Formula 1 Car Manual – This book, an advance copy of which just pulled into the pits at Sciencebase Central, describes itself as “An insight into the technology, engineering, maintenance and operation of Red Bull racing. It’s the Haynes manual for the F1 car, the owner’s workshop manual ...
  • Can you blame the environment for your bad habits?
    Live fast, die young. You’re a long time gone. Sleep when you’re dead. The hedonists mantras. Lifestyle choices whether in terms of food consumption, alcohol and drugs or sexual activity are down to the individual. Nannying by governments, who have their own mantras: Smoking Kills, Know your lim ...
  • Watch the last Shuttle launch live
    UPDATE: The Orbiter made it into orbit, the live stream is now ended. I’ll replace the video embed with a Youtube clip to re-run the launch… A group of us skipped a high school physical education class to watch the very first shuttle launch way back when. At the time, we assumed they’d be launch ...
  • Periodic Table of QR codes
    Periodic Table of QR codes – QR codes are those little black and white boxes that look like a messed up barcode, which is essentially what they are, 2D barcodes. They’re becoming almost ubiquitous. Every event you attend, every restaurant you pass, almost every site you visit seems to have a QR ...

RFF Library

  • The Future of Natural Gas
    MIT Energy Initiative http://web.mit.edu/mitei/research/studies/natural-gas-2011.shtml [From a Dote Earth posting by Andrew Revkin]  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released “The Future of Natural Gas,” the latest in its valuable series of reports examining global energy choices. T ...
  • Response of Coastal Fishes to the Gulf of Mexi ...
    PLoS / by F. Joel Fodrie and Kenneth L. Heck Jr http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0021609 [Abstract] The ecosystem-level impacts of the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been largely unpredictable due to the unique setting and magnitude of this spill. We used a fiv ...
  • Indian Point Retirement Economic Analysis: Dra ...
    Charles River Associates http://media40.wnyc.net/media/resources/2011/Jul/07/IPEC_Report_circ_draft_7-5-11.pdf [From a NY Time story by Patrick McGeehan] Shutting down the Indian Point nuclear power plant would lead to significantly dirtier air and higher electric bills for New York City residen ...
  • Discriminating Between Cclimate Observations i ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (June 28, 2011 vol. 108 no. 26 10405-10409) / by Yi Huang, Stephen Leroy, and Richard M. Goody http://www.pnas.org/content/108/26/10405 [Abstract] In view of the cost and complexity of climate-observing systems, it is a matter of concern to know wh ...
  • U.S. Department of Energy’s Recovery Act Spend ...
    Pew Center on Global Climate Change / by Sam Wurzelmann http://www.pewclimate.org/publications/us-department-energy%E2%80%99s-recovery-act-spending The Pew Center recently released an update to its 2009 white paper on the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Recovery Act spending. The publication s ...

Scientific American - News

  • Down to the Final 15 at the First-Ever Google ...
    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The finalists are here, the exhibits are on display and now it is up to the judges to pick a winner. Given the quality and breadth of the 15 finalist projects in the inaugural Google Science Fair , choosing the top entrant is an unenviable task. [More]
  • Experts Skeptical about Potential of Rare-Eart ...
    There in the mud, just waiting to be scooped up, is a natural resource deposit potentially worth billions and billions of dollars. It contains chemical elements needed by automakers, by manufacturers of consumer electronics and by green technology developers--elements for which China currently ...
  • Supernovae Seed Galaxies with Massive Amounts ...
    Dust on earthly objects is often an indicator of antiquity. But that is not always the case for cosmic objects, some of which have quite a bit of dust despite their relative youth. [More]
  • Air Pollution Triggers Heart Risk for Cyclists
    NEW YORK – Even by this city's standards, the Garment District is an imposing place to ride a bike.A never-ending parade of delivery trucks rumbles along 8th Avenue between 34th and 42nd streets, leaving a wake of gritty exhaust for cyclists to feel, smell and breathe. [More]
  • Satellite Data Aids in Predicting Cholera Outb ...
    BOSTON – The world has seen seven global cholera outbreaks since 1817, and the current one seems to have come to stay. Rising temperatures and a stubbornly persistent, toxic bacteria strain appear to have given the disease the upper hand.Public health officials are working on vaccines, strugglin ...

First Truths

  • L. Susan Brown on Power
    I found this passage in Reinventing Anarchy, Again�(edited by Howard J. Ehrlich): To speak of power as a thing or phenomenon that can exist independent of human consciousness is to profoundly misunderstand the whole problem of power itself. Power exists as a relationship between individual human ...
  • Weir's "Anarchy & Culture"
    From David Weir's Anarchy & Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism: Of the principal anarchists Proudhon seems most typical of the transfer of the romantic-Enlightenment mixture of ideas from social to aesthetic theory. Proudhon's aesthetic ideas are especially contradictory, although such ...
  • Miscellaneous Thoughts on Law School
    The meaning of the word �logical� that laypeople use when they�re debating politics with family members in the living room�the word�s colloquial use�is nothing at all like the �logical� that law school expects you to be. The logic that law school will test, the sort that�s set out in Gordian for ...
  • New Left Revisionism and the Crisis Tendencies ...
    The following excerpt from International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology�(eds. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski)�will be of interest for left libertarians: Rothbard's view of the relationship between big business and government in the rise of American 'statism' draws additionally from the wo ...
  • Still More About the Marx/Proudhon Connection
    Interesting passage from George Woodcock's Proudhon biography (which I'm still slogging through) touching on the roots of Proudhonian Mutualism and its intersection, if there is one, with the ideas of Marx: Proudhon's association with the Mutualists not only gave him insight into social undercur ...

Media Co-Op

  • From Tahrir to Tahrir
    The Tahrir, the ship, is for the moment buried under a mountain of Greek paperwork. A last gasp effort on July 9th to have her 'independently' reviewed by the INSB (International Naval Security Board) only led to another series of newly-required documents. The Canadian Boat to Gaza steering comm ...
  • Media Co-op seeks Directors!
    Now taking nominations for new reader, contributor and editor reps for the Board The Media Co-op is planning our 2011 AGM for August 3, 2011 in Toronto, with meet-ups across the country. Members can also participate via phone and online. V ...
  • Purple Thistle Institute Thrives in East Van
    Summer experiment in alternative university off to a strong start Over the last week, a new experiment in learning has begun in Vancouver, where participants split their waking hours between lectures about the history of capitalism and wo ...
  • Media Co-op Investor: June
    Digging Around the Mines of Teck Resources Ltd. Welcome to Media Co-op Investor! The Media Co-op Investor Series aims to help the general public understand the stock market, how it works and the major companies which benefit from it. Ever ...
  • A Mohawk perspective on the Eska Water boycott
    interview with journalist Clifton Nicholas via Kanesatake Listen to an interview with journalist and social activist Clifton Nicholas, from the Mohawk community of Kanesatake, on the recently launched AD campaign by Eska water corporation ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Murdoch... Beyond Parody
    This misreading of the political mood has been the thread through News International’s bungled response to the phone-hacking affair. Odd really when one recalls that Rupert Murdoch was once the most politically-attuned and ruthless media proprietor in living memory. Phillip Stephens - Financial ...
  • Marine Le Pen is no Sarah Palin
    Marine Le Pen David Seaton's News LinksMarine Le Pen is the leader of� France's National Front. Right now polls show her probably eliminating Nicholas Sarkozy in the first round of France's next presidential elections and facing a lackluster, Socialist, Martine Aubry, running as a hurried replac ...
  • Sign of the Times: Glenn Beck to address the K ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWe do live in a society in which things have become almost inscrutably complex. (...) I think the rise in autism diagnosis has a lot to do with children coming into a society that no longer makes much sense socially and contains within all the incentives for behavioral m ...
  • DSK: do you have to be nice person to get raped?
    Portrait of a used KleenexAlthough the Manhattan district attorney�s office agreed last week to release Mr. Strauss-Kahn from house arrest, prosecutors said they still believed that there was evidence of a forcible sexual attack. Most of their problems with the case, they said, had to do not wit ...
  • Notes on a conversation
    David Seaton's News LinksA couple of days ago I spent a hot Madrid summer evening sitting in a sidewalk cafรฉ, chatting and reminiscing late into the night over tapas with a group of Americans from San Francisco, who you might say were a good cross section of modern progressive, middle class Amer ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Is World's Top Tennis Ace Doing Better Because ...
    After tennis star Novak Djokovic's nutritionist discovered he was allergic to gluten, he switched to a gluten-free diet. Since then he's now been ranked as the number one tennis player in the world and just won Wimbledon for the first time. Those with an allergy to gluten can have trouble diges ...
  • 5 Ways to Age Gracefully and Healthfully
    Everyone wants to age gracefully.� But whether or not you do is largely based on your own choices.� Planet Green has assembled some tips on how to stay healthy as you age.� Here are a few of them: Cultivate Happiness: Happiness boosts your immune system and reduces stress. Seek Out ...
  • The Worst Thing You Can Eat if You Want to Dro ...
    U.S. News evaluated and ranked 20 diets with input from a panel of health experts. They looked at whether or not a diet was easy to follow, nutritious, safe, effective for weight loss, and effective against diabetes and heart disease. According to U.S. News, the top rated diet was the U.S. gove ...
  • One of the Most Inexcusable Vaccine Revelation ...
    Former drug company scientist Helen Ratajczak recently created a firestorm of debate from all sides of the vaccine-autism issue when she published her comprehensive review of autism research. This is a massively important study, for more than one reason. One element brought to light that has man ...
  • What State Uses More Antibiotics on Livestock ...
    Thirty-one people in Europe recently died from a little-known strain of E. coli. It is far from the first time such a thing has happened. In the United States, each year 325,000 people are hospitalized, and 5,000 die, as a consequence of food-borne illness.� However, this fact has still no ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Santander Bank admits dam funding to continue
    The Santo Antonio dam threatens to devastate the forest home of numerous tribal peoples © Joรฃo Zinclar Europe’s largest bank, Santander, has admitted that its controversial financing of the notorious Santo Antonio dam in the Brazilian Amazon is set to continue, despite earlier saying that i ...
  • Brazilian Indian killed next to roadside camp
    Guarani woman from Apyka'y community, camped on the roadside © Fiona Watson/Survival A Guarani man in Brazil has been run over and killed by a bus on the highway next to which his community has been camped for almost a decade. The Guarani of Apyka’y community are living in appalling condit ...
  • Innu agreement signed while the Duke and Duche ...
    Innu children ร‚© Serge Jauvin/Survival The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have visited Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories.ร‚ According to reports,ร‚ they were met byร‚ Inuit and Chipewyan drummers and dancers, andร‚ subsequently visited a teepee at Blatchford Lodge. While they have ...
  • Tour operators oppose human safaris
    Tourist films Jarawa on the Andaman Trunk Road © Survival The Association of Tour Operators in India’s Andaman islands has come out in support of Survival’s call for tourists to stop using the illegal road that cuts through the forest of the recently contacted Jarawa tribe. President of th ...
  • UN fails uncontacted Indians
    Members of an Ayoreo family contacted in 2004. © GAT The UN’s flagship business initiative is being used as a tool to mask human rights abuses, according to Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay. Leaders of the tribe, some of whose members are still uncontacted, have written to the UN Global Compact ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Funding for trials of MS treatment is good news
    It might prove to be a breakthrough; it might be a dead end
  • Funding for trials of MS treatment is good news
    Either way, it is welcome news for multiple sclerosis sufferers in this country that federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq has finally come around to approving government funding for clinical trials of a controversial - though potentially revolutionary - treatment for the hitherto incurable dis ...
  • Memo to the task force: There's a crisis out there
    On Thursday, the city experienced what might have been its worst-ever traffic chaos, with gridlock spreading like a toxic spill across the region.
  • The Gazette's view, in short
    Alanna Devine, director of animal welfare for the Montreal SPCA, has been an ardent promoter of microchip implants that allow pets to be identified should they stray. This week she found her poster pup. Labrador retriever mix Pollux came home to her Montreal family after what must have been an e ...
  • End the foot-dragging on high-rise inspections
    Come mid-month, it will have been two years since a slab of concrete half a metre thick detached from the 18th floor of the Residence Inn Hotel on Peel St. and crashed through the glass covering of the Mikasa sushi bar directly below, killing 33-year-old L�a Guilbeault, who was lunching there wi ...

Food World Order

  • genetically modified food labels don't sit wel ...
    agreement on labeling probably won't have much effect in US from latimes: Activists rejoiced last week when a hard-fought battle over international standards for labeling genetically modified food came to an end — finally — after decades of debate. But the agreement, which many say opens the ...
  • major grocer albertsons getting rid of self-ch ...
    chain to replace computers, wants more human contact from msnbc: One of the nation's major grocery store chains is eliminating self-checkout lanes in an effort to encourage more human contact with its customers. Albertsons LLC, which operates 217 stores in seven Western and Southern states, w ...
  • 7/7 binge & purge: fatty needs a fix
    wonder why americans are so fat?: 777-pound burger in california takes guinness record on july 4th* as commodity prices soar, so does demand for wood pulp - cellulose use increases as a 'food extender'* don't tell your kid, but there's cauliflower in his mac & cheese* it's not all ...
  • united nations report calls for the doubling f ...
    from voanews: The United Nations warns the world's farmers will have to double the amount of food they produce to keep up with a rapidly growing population. The U.N.'s latest World Economic and Social Survey, released Tuesday, says global food production will need to jump by 70 to 100 percent by ...
  • sonic, burger king now serving hamburgers, fri ...
    from christian post: “I'll take the number one, with fries and a...beer?” That's right, a new item that fast food chains are experimenting with, in a limited number of locations, is the selling of alcohol in some restaurants. Two Sonic restaurants in South Florida, one in Miami and the other in ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of m ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 � In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort � S Shyam Prasad �
  • Pastor arrested for murdering minor girl
    source:  MSN India, 30 June, 2011 � Guntur (AP), Jun 30 (PTI) A local pastor was arrested for allegedly murdering a teenager after she became pregnant with his child, police said today. The victim, identified as Monica (17) from Nadendla village in the district was working ...
  • Conversation with a Convert
    source: The Undercurrent, 26 March, 2011 Somewhere in Tamil Nadu The cab was waiting at the end of the road waiting to take us to our destination. The driver was a 50 something man and there was a picture of the Christian prophet Jesus on his dash board. After a few kilometeres of dr ...
  • Study suggests 'born-again' believers have sma ...
    source:  USA today, May 24, 2011  DURHAM, N.C. � For decades, mainline Protestants have been beset by bad news: declining numbers, aging membership, waning cultural influence.A new study from  Duke University Medical Center, however, gives these Protestants one reason for cheer: they seem ...
  • Study suggests 'born-again' believers have sma ...
    source:  USA today, May 24, 2011  DURHAM, N.C. � For decades, mainline Protestants have been beset by bad news: declining numbers, aging membership, waning cultural influence.A new study from  Duke University Medical Center, however, gives these Protestants one reason for cheer: they seem ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans for mankind? H ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU

The Economic Collapse

  • Uh Oh – Italy Is Coming Apart Like A 20 ...
    Did anyone really think that Italy would be able to get through this thing without needing a bailout?  Just when you thought that things in Europe could get back to normal for a little while, here comes Italy.  On Friday, there was a bit of a "mini-panic" as investors started du ...
  • Rampant Unemployment = The Death Of The Middle ...
    Without an abundance of good jobs, the middle class in the United States is going to shrivel up and die.  Right now, rampant unemployment is absolutely killing communities all over America.  Hopelessness and poverty are exploding and many are now wondering if we are actually wit ...
  • Will 2012 Be The Year That We See Mass Starvat ...
    Tonight millions of American families will shovel huge piles of food into their mouths without even realizing that starvation is rapidly spreading in Africa.  Right now Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are experiencing the worst drought conditions that they have seen in 60 years.  Te ...
  • The Sovereign Debt Crisis Is Never Going To En ...
    In the past, there certainly have been governments that have gotten into trouble with debt, but what we are experiencing now is the first truly global sovereign debt crisis.  There has never been a time in recorded history when virtually all of the governments of the world were ...
  • Without Low Interest Rates, The U.S. Financial ...
    Right now, interest rates are near historic lows.  The U.S. government is able to borrow gigantic mountains of money for next to nothing.  U.S. consumers are still able to get home loans, car loans and student loans at ridiculously low interest rates.  When this low interest rat ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • South Yorkshire Police Principle Intelligence ...
    We're not writing this. We're quoting, then telling you where to look. "[A] Principal Intelligence Analyst for South Yorkshire Police has spoken out about the July 7th '05 London Bombings. Tony Farrell who has served for the police since 1998 is convinced as he can be that the bombings were a ...
  • Dennis Skinner: Not a fan of eco-loon Huhne, then?
    So, we're bowing to visitor demand for a 'Quote of the Day' special. This is what everybody is looking for - from the as-yet-to-be-signed-off version of Hansard, today's House of Commons exchange on the News of the World phone hacking story: Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover) (Lab): Is it not co ...
  • Diana: Not looking so 'paranoid' now, is she?
    On behalf of Diana, Princess of Wales who is no longer around to defend herself, can we say a ruddy great 'told you so' to all the nasty and mean-spirited people who joined in the bandwagon of calling Diana 'paranoid'. As you know, Diana refused the services of Royal Protection Officers (afte ...
  • "Centre ground of what, sir?" / "Centre of the ...
    Ed Milibland has today announced that he is leading a Labour Party on the new centre ground of British politics. How hilarious. This is the same centre ground where you will find the Liberal Democrats, the Conservative Party, the BBC and the Guardianistas. Problem is, all of these people * ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 10th July 2011
    So, today is the last day of the 168 year old News of the World. Expect much more nausea-inducing celebration from lefties and Guardianistas especially. For us, the News of the World died long ago - when they shoved the website behind a paywall. And anyway, what is the point of the NoTW when ...

Facing South

  • Welder frees workers from Texas labor camps
    By Viji Sundaram, New America Media With the proceeds from the sale of his parents' home in India, loans from aunts and uncles, and the money he'd saved while working as a welder in the Middle East, Aby K. Raju (at right in photo) was able to scrape together the $20,000 the job recruiter wan ...
  • 'Dirty South' lawmakers working to kill new po ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new rule this week requiring power plants in 27 states in the eastern half of the U.S. to cut smokestack emissions in order to protect the public from health-damaging smog and soot pollution. But two lawmakers from Southern states where big ...
  • Taxbreaks.com: States get tough on costly loop ...
    Over the last decade, online retailers like Amazon have skirted paying billions in state sales taxes, arguing they were exempt due to their lack of brick-and-mortar stores. But with states facing record budget shortfalls, the "Amazon loophole" -- which by one estimate costs states mor ...
  • BP finds success in reports about its failure
    By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf When my�colleagues released NRDC's�annual Testing the Waters report�documenting pollution problems across the nation's coastlines, the last thing they expected was this jaw-dropping Orwellian tweet to pop up on their computer screens: @BP_America Official BP. ...
  • VOICES: Mine agency finds Massey disaster 'cou ...
    By Bill Musgrave, Labor Notes Profits over people: Call it the silent killer. The investigation into the death of 29 miners at the Massey Upper Big Branch coal mine in April 2010 has revealed that the company maintained two sets of safety records. The practice kept hazardous conditions secre ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Panetta: Defeat of al Qaeda ‘Within Reach’ On his first trip to Afghanistan since taking over as Pentagon chief on July 1, Leon Panetta said Saturday on his way to Kabul that the United … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group New York Man Convicted of Terror Charges A Brooklyn-born man accused of plotting to kill U.S. soldiers overseas was found guilty on four terror charges by a federal jury in New York on Thursday. … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Republicans Criticize Handling of Somali Terror Suspect GOP leaders are criticizing the White Houseรขs decision to hold a captured Somali terror suspect on a U.S. Navy ship for interrogation for two months before bringing … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Somali Held Offshore Is Indicted in NYC on Terrorism Charges A Somali man suspected of ties to al Shabab and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was captured in the Gulf of Aden on … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Matthew Olsen Nominated to Lead Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olsen, the general counsel of the National Security Agency and a longtime Justice Department official, has been nominated to replace Michael Leiter as the head of … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • DAISHO Productivity Software for Linux
    DAISHO is a good productivity software for Windows, Mac and Linux. There is a free version called Daisho Basic for Windows and Mac, but many advanced features requires you to buy DAISHO Professional edition. But Daisho for Linux is completely free of charge. DAISHO Productivity Software for ...
  • List of Companies that Pay Royalties to Micros ...
    According to Microsoft, Google's Android OS is infringing on many of its patents and hence those manufacturers who use Android for their devices owe royalties to Microsoft. But the intriguing fact is that, instead of suing Google itself for infringing on its patents, Microsoft is finding it easy ...
  • 10 Popular Real Time Strategy(RTS) Games for Linux
    Except for some really casual games for Linux and the best of paid games for Linux collection, games for Linux and Ubuntu is a category we haven't yet really covered here at all. That is going to change from now on. Here is a quick list of 10 real time strategy(RTS) games for Linux(mostly open-s ...
  • ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Running Ubuntu 11.04[ ...
    This is one of the advantages of having an open device running an open OS. ASUS Eee Transformer Pad is already among the fastest selling Android tablets�out there and it is powered by latest Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS. YouTube user lilstevie89 have managed to install and run Ubuntu 11.04's classic ...
  • 5 Quick Tips to Improve Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Per ...
    In my opinion, one area where successive Ubuntu releases�continuously�under-performed is on the overall system performance front. Every new Ubuntu release feels more and more bloated, especially so with latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. I was quite taken aback by fact that, even the so called U ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • NEW WORLD ORDER FICTION: READ THIS ST ...
    You have seen documentaries like Alex Jones’ The Obama Deception about the activites of the New World Order; and you have read the reports on independent websites like Infowars. Now you can read about the New World Order in an exciting new format. Fiction. Fictional works by writers like Shakesp ...
  • REVOLUTION – a poem in English and Germa ...
    Poem with introduction byร‚ Bernd Karwath The wheel of history is turning. What happens now will decide the human story for the coming decades or even longer. For the first time, people around the world have begun to feel what connects them – the will to shape a peaceful future dedicated to life ...
  • Top German economic institute says eurozone ba ...
    The German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin (Deutsches Institut fรผr Wirtschaftsforschung –DIW), the largest economic research institute in Germany, said today that lending more money to Greece is pointless given the fact the country is so heavily indebted. The DIW said that the Greek ec ...
  • Portugal Junked: ‘Bailouts – Outra ...
    Check out anร‚ interview with UK MP Douglas Carswell on the outrageousร‚ eurozone bailout scam on Russia Today at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yhvW9H-8xs “RussiaToday–Jul 6, 2011–Europe’s ongoing struggle to save the Euro has been dealt another blow as Portugal has had its debt downgraded to j ...
  • Greeks defy police crackdown, protests against ...
    *Greeks continue to protest banker bailouts as  police order more tear gas following riots leaving 300 injured *Greek MP says he was threatened with death if he did not vote for the EU, IMF and ECB austerity measures *Economist Hans Werner Sinn warns that the eurozone bailouts for banks will cos ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • U.S. Fort Calhoun nuclear plant flooded
    The Fort Calhoun plant north of Omaha in the US state of Nebraska has been surrounded by flood water from the Missouri River for over ten days. As worries mount, US authorities have reassured the public the plant is safe. Could this be another Fukushima? Operators of the Fort Calhoun plant say n ...
  • TSA Can Grope Dying Old Ladies; But Can’ ...
    from the security-theater dept Apparently the TSA’s Security Theater is a comedy. Pjerky was the first of a whole bunch of you to alert us last week about the TSA’s massive failure to catch a Nigerian man who boarded a flight without a valid boarding pass. The man successfully flew from New York ...
  • Bill Gates in global push to vaccinate every c ...
    By Jonathan Benson Microsoft guru Bill Gates is busy rallying the troops to bring about what he calls “vaccine equity,” which is his plan to vaccinate every single child in the world. Manipulating the heart strings of his listening audience, Gates stated at a recent Global Alliance for Vaccines ...
  • Historical fact: Independence Day is a celebra ...
    By Mike Adams Happy July 4th, my fellow Americans. It’s the Independence Day weekend! Independence from what, you might ask? As even the somewhat revisionist history taught in public schools readily admits, July 4th is a celebration of independence from government tyranny under British rule. And ...
  • Video – Looks like GADDAFI has some support!

Veterans Today

  • Calling all Women Veterans
    In the effort to encourage more women Veterans for use the VA healthcare services they have earned, VA recently launched a Women Veterans Call Center (WVCC) expected to generate 40,000 outbound calls every three months. Veterans contacted through the WVCC will be given the option to receive info ...
  • Until we force a change…want coverage for Agen ...
    The battle over Agent Orange and those inflicted with illness seems to be never ending. Dealing with veterans has been the issue but what about the civilian USO tour personnel and civilian non-military contractors. Where do they turn to for help?
  • Eleven 9/11 Questions Which Still Demand Answers
    Here are eleven 9/11 questions which have yet to be adequately answered along with the still unanswered question of Dick Cheney’s role in the most treasonous act in American history.
  • Pakistan is Fast Slipping Out of Hands of USA
    The US having failed to achieve any of the stated political and military objectives in Afghanistan is now desperate to pullout safely but cannot do so due to number of reasons.
  • VA Issue Caregiver Payments
    The Department of Veterans Affairs will send out more than $430,000 in stipend payments to nearly 200 Family Caregivers of Veterans in July.

electric politics

  • The Art of Courage
    A little voice in your conscience tells you something. You listen. You start to think maybe you're right and everybody else is wrong. You do something about it. Next thing you know you're in a life and death struggle against evil forces bent on world domination. Well, maybe that's a slight exag ...
  • The Wild Dollar
    Because the public hasn't had what's happening properly reported, the Republicans think that, in the debt ceiling standoff, they can trample democratic norms and perhaps even go so far as to trigger another collapse of the world economy. What a bizarre strategy to pursue (supposedly) on behalf ...
  • Gรถbekli Tepe
    At what point does an original idea engender action? And to what extent does that action set a lasting course? We can examine the social history of an idea, written, as it were, in stone, at G�bekli Tepe, an archeological site approximately 11,500 years old (or perhaps even older) in southern T ...
  • The Athenian Zephyr
    Neoliberal bankers wants to turn the Greek public into chattel. The Greek public objects. It's a theoretically long-predicted fork in the road for the European Union: either Greece defaults (it could have been any one of certain member states) and the European debt crisis spreads — possibly/pro ...
  • Forgetting Vietnam
    America's final retreat from Vietnam could have been a whole lot worse. Ambassador Graham Martin, mistakenly thought to be on the last chopper out, didn't follow through on the fact that he left a final contingent of Marine Security Guards on the Embassy's rooftop. Higher-ups in the military ch ...

PR News

  • StillforJapan global campaign debuts in Times ...
    NEW YORK: A global initiative to garner support for the people affected by March's earthquake and tsunami in Japan launched in Times Square today, with support from DiGennaro Communications.
  • Facebook expands policy comms team
    PALO ALTO, CA: Facebook continues to expand its policy communications team with the recent addition of Sarah Feinberg and Tucker Bounds, who will work from the company's headquarters in Palo Alto.
  • King to head Burson-Marsteller's new US-China ...
    NEW YORK: Burson-Marsteller has chosen Daisy King, market leader of the agency's Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chengdu offices, to head its new US-based China specialty group.
  • Brunswick leads US M&A advisor list
    NEW YORK: Brunswick Group advised on $138 million worth of M&A deals in H1 2011, landing it the top US and global ranking in the Mergermarket League Tables of PR Advisors, released today.
  • 7-Eleven expands anniversary campaign
    DALLAS: 7-Eleven is celebrating its 84th anniversary today by offering free slurpees to US and Canadian customers, along with a new outreach campaign that amplifies its multimedia efforts.

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

  • “for your own good” is the most ar ...
    The height of arrogance is when I am told by someone that I should do something or not do something "for your own good".
  • Jatinder Ahluwalia tries to whitewash himself
    Though reviews by Imperial College (where he scammed himself to a PhD) and the University of East London where he is currently employed have yet to be concluded, Jatinder Ahluwalia is trying to whitewash himself.
  • Colder winters to come and solar influence on ...
    Britain is set to face an increase in harsh winters, with up to one-in-seven gripping the UK with prolonged sub-zero temperatures based on research that identified how low solar activity affected winter weather patterns.
  • Renewable Energy follies: Subsidies discourage ...
    A key problem with subsidising "renewable energy" is that the economics become so distorted that developers/owners focus first on maximising the extraction of subsidies and not on the long-term operation of the plant or the production of power.
  • Plagiarist with a recently rescinded PhD appoi ...
    Sylvana Koch-Mehrin had her doctorate rescinded by the University of Heidelberg for containing over 30% plagiarism in May 2011, and now in June she has been named EU commissioner for research.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Chase Hugs It Out With Man It Had Thrown In Ja ...
    Many of you read last week's story about the man in Washington state who spent the weekend in jail because a Chase employee was convinced that the completely legitimate cashier's check he was trying to cash was a forgery. Well, it appears that the two sides have put aside their differences and ...
  • Why Won't McDonald's Give My Kid A Cup Of Wate ...
    Consumerist reader Courtney is scratching her head at the bone-headed service she's received at multiple McDonald's when trying to buy her 3-year-old daughter a Happy Meal. See, Courtney's little girl is lactose intolerant so she doesn't want the milk option. Nor is she thrilled with the idea ...
  • Just Because You're Illiterate Doesn't Mean Yo ...
    If you've ever found yourself trying to get money from an ATM that doesn't want to display its menus in English, you know it can be aggravating. But imagine what it must be like for someone with no understanding of any written language. Now there are new ATMs being created for use in developing ...
  • Couple Sues American Airlines Following Hijack ...
    A married couple from Pakistan have filed a lawsuit against American Airlines, alleging that, after their plane was diverted following a fake hijacking threat, they were singled out and escorted from the plane in handcuffs for no reason other than their names. "The only reason (police) went to ...
  • Macy's To Pay $750K For Selling Hoodies With D ...
    When I was a young thing, the drawstring on your hooded sweatshirt was something to chew on or play with while being bored to death in school. But as of 2006, such drawstrings have been considered strangulation hazards in children's clothing. That, however, didn't stop Macy's from selling hoodi ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • UPDATED: Murdoch’s Watergate Waterloo WTF Week
    UPDATE: Labour Leader Ed Miliband asked pointedly of the Conservatives: “Will there be any decision on BSkyB while the criminal investigation into phone hacking is going on?” The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has just announced on the floor of the House of Commons the establishment ofร‚ two inqui ...
  • The 112th Congress and a Lot of Nothing
    In 1950 a largely unaccomplished lawmaker from Wisconsin, Senator Joe McCarthy, alleged that Commie sympathizers were infiltrating the U.S. Government and Hollywood. “Communist subversion!” was the claim; Red Scare, the aim. Televised hearings were held. Lives were ruined. No evidence of his acc ...
  • £166MM Jackpot, £166MM Jackpot… EuroMillions R ...
    As long as it takes… £3MM pounds/hour wagered last Friday, jackpot now ‘stuck’ on £166MM until won, 2 people won £3.3MM instead of £200K (new advertising meme) and lots of justifying… How long and for how many weeks can Camelot whip everyone into a fury week after week after week collecting 25-3 ...
  • ProPublica.Org Reader’s Guide to the Phone Hac ...
    by Braden Goyette, ProPublica Rupert Murdoch’s News International just announced its decision to close News of the World, the paper that’s been accused of hiring private investigators to hack into cell phones and staging a widespread cover-up to conceal it. We’ve invited two esteemed journalists ...
  • Obama Harkens Backs to Slavery with “States’ R ...
    Rev. Irene Monroe Last month, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Americans and our allies celebrated New York State becoming the sixth and largest state to allow same-sex marriage. And, of course, it sent an urgent message to Obama. But what does it signal to us LGBTQ citizen ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Barking mad — a nation howling at fireflies
    You don’t need to study any numbers to know it doesn’t add up. The statistical chicanery in a patchwork tax, with a complex compo plan, and offsets, subsidies, and a$10 billion renewable energy* Christmas wish list is as complex as a climate model.ร‚  But this time no one is saying “it’s settled” ...
  • The slow death of a great democracy: carbon sunday
    Everyone wants a free lunch, and some people even believe it exists. Julia Gillard is playing to that crowd, offering the impossible. Somehow, we will cool world temperatures while using some of the most expensive forms of energy we can find, and, wait for it, most Australians will become better ...
  • Gillard’s tax on “carbon pollution”: the facts
    It’s 22 times as expensive to to something rather than nothing. Gillard’s tax on “carbon pollution”: the facts The PDF version for printing If the Australian Governmentรขs proposal to oblige 500 big รขpollutersรข to engage in what the City of London calls รขtrading hot airรข were to achieve its state ...
  • Monckton: Is carbon dioxide mitigation cost-ef ...
    Lord Christopher Monckton compares the cost of action with the cost of inaction and finds that even assuming that the IPCC estimates are correct, that would be far more expensive to reduce CO2 than to pay to adapt to the potential damage. He compares 8 case studies of carbon trading schemes, as ...
  • The Everything Tax — a tin pot raffle with no ...
    Another great contribution from Speedy If the ABC was relevant (Part 37) (The Collector) [Scene:  A street corner.  JOHN is carrying a clipboard.  He approaches BRYAN.] John:    Hi – I’m Bob Brown from the Greens.  What’s your name? Bryan: I’m Bryan Dawe from around the corner.  What’s up? John: ...

ReNew America

  • The real story of Glenn Beck's exit from Fox?
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Glenn Beck stepped on a lot of powerful toes while at Fox News, so it was no surprise that his three-year contract ended six months prior to its planned expiration. However..... One very likely reason for that goes to an issue that is largely overlooked...
  • California's book ban
    (Daniel J. Flynn) - The California state legislature has passed a book-banning law. Nobody is calling the book ban a book ban because the books the book ban bans offend homosexuals. If the legislature had extended legislative protection to the hurt feelings of, say, Mormons or evangelical Christ ...
  • McConnell: $4 trillion deficit-reduction deal ...
    (Fox News) - Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News that he thinks a major deficit-reduction deal cutting $4 trillion over the next decade is off the table, claiming Democrats are pushing too hard for tax increases...
  • Top 10 Obama gaffes
    (Human Events) - The Left had a grand old time with President George W. Bush's mangling of the English language, and let Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann make a slip of the tongue and the mainstream media will turn it into a major news story. Not so with President Obama's verbal missteps. Here, t ...
  • Fascism is not conservatism
    (David Limbaugh) - Someone recently emailed and asked me to rebut the claim that fascism is a right-wing system. I have given this question considerable thought over the years; even when I was in college, liberals routinely smeared conservatism as a fascist political ideology. Indeed, how many t ...

Truth Offering

  • Diet Myths THEY Don’t Want You To Know
    MyPyramid.....of DEATH!I've been studying health and nutrition for about six years now. In fact, I credit my nutritional awakening with spurring on my awakening in all other aspects of life, from economics to politics. And I'll tell you the crux of what sparked my craving for the truth: Going ba ...
  • US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
    The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
  • Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
    1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...
  • Our Diet Is Killing Our DNA!
    Few people are aware of this simple fact: what you eat directly impacts your DNA. This likely seems like a strange new concept to most, considering we're all brought up with such an incorrect understanding of human health and wellness. Five years back, I was no different -- well, I always cared ...
  • Chemtrails: Scars in the Sky
    Geoengineering is a relatively new idea to the world. According to�Wikipedia,�"The modern concept of�geoengineering�(or�climate engineering) is usually taken to mean proposals to deliberately manipulate the�Earth's�climate�to counteract the effects of�global warming�from�greenhouse gas�emissions ...

2012 Blog

  • Lessons Learned from Falling Skies
    I really enjoyed the first two episodes of the TV series Falling Skies. The media keep providing us with a variety of SHTF scenarios, to the point that most people will have seen at least ... Related posts:New Survivalists Prepare! Vivos: Budget Bunker Space in Nebraska
  • A Bunker for Books
    Hot on the heels of the seed vault in the Arctic comes the brainchild of Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. While Google is busy digitizing the world’s books (and sawing off the bindings ... Related posts:Bunker Guidelines for Victoria, Australia Seed Vaults Protect Your Bun ...
  • Media Coverups
    I guess mainstream media constantly makes decisions on what they should print/air. At one end of the scale they are a commercial enterprise, so they need to be popular, which means airing stories we want ... Related posts:Meteorite Strikes Colombia – Ignored by Media Russia unveils "father ...
  • Nat Geo: Were Humans Domesticated?
    While it certainly wasn’t the focus or intention of the article, this is how part of it reads: If Andersson’s theory is correct, it may turn out to have intriguing implications for our own species. Harvard ... Related posts:Humans are still evolving! Doomsday Preppers (was) on Nat Geo Ro ...
  • Killer Koala Unearthed
    Like a giant (size of a rhino) cross between a wombat and a koala, the Diprotodon supposedly died out in Australia 25,000 years ago. As with all other extinct megafauna, experts figure that they were ... Related posts:Stegomastadon: Another Unexplained Extinction Giant Wombat News Mammoth ...

Facing South

  • Welder frees workers from Texas labor camps
    By Viji Sundaram, New America Media With the proceeds from the sale of his parents' home in India, loans from aunts and uncles, and the money he'd saved while working as a welder in the Middle East, Aby K. Raju (at right in photo) was able to scrape together the $20,000 the job recruiter wan ...
  • 'Dirty South' lawmakers working to kill new po ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new rule this week requiring power plants in 27 states in the eastern half of the U.S. to cut smokestack emissions in order to protect the public from health-damaging smog and soot pollution. But two lawmakers from Southern states where big ...
  • Taxbreaks.com: States get tough on costly loop ...
    Over the last decade, online retailers like Amazon have skirted paying billions in state sales taxes, arguing they were exempt due to their lack of brick-and-mortar stores. But with states facing record budget shortfalls, the "Amazon loophole" -- which by one estimate costs states mor ...
  • BP finds success in reports about its failure
    By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf When my�colleagues released NRDC's�annual Testing the Waters report�documenting pollution problems across the nation's coastlines, the last thing they expected was this jaw-dropping Orwellian tweet to pop up on their computer screens: @BP_America Official BP. ...
  • VOICES: Mine agency finds Massey disaster 'cou ...
    By Bill Musgrave, Labor Notes Profits over people: Call it the silent killer. The investigation into the death of 29 miners at the Massey Upper Big Branch coal mine in April 2010 has revealed that the company maintained two sets of safety records. The practice kept hazardous conditions secre ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Global and Regional Problems of Southern Caucasus
    The South Caucasus has historically held a special place in the geopolitics of the leading European powers. For Russia, it was a gateway to the south, to the Black Sea and Mediterranean region and beyond—to the Middle East. For the major continental powers and the Ottoman Empire it was a natural ...
  • NATO’S “Drang Nach Osten”
    Since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has made no secret of its goal to expand to the east, as well as into North and sub-Saharan Africa.After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, many observers believed that NATO’s ra ...
  • What Turkey Aggravates Its Relations With Isra ...
    Having chosen the reinforcement of its influence in the Arab world as the strategic goal, Turkish Republic logically started to actively support Palestine, countering Israel. This is a true path for gaining love of Arab streets and respect of Arab leaders. Wealthy Middle-Eastern monarchies are r ...
  • US in Afghanistan: Leaving To Stay
    One of the most high-profile events in the international politics in June was the announcement by the US president Barack Obama on the withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan. Meeting his election pledges, Obama initiated the conclusion of the military operation by the United States and the ...
  • Washington’s Afghan Endgame
    US President Barack Obama’s announced phased withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan prompted an immediate surge of articles and comments in the international media; analyses and even forecasts by experts; and estimates and calculations by the military. The assessments often directly contradict ea ...

BlogHer

  • Remembering Betty Ford
    I followed her around one day� as part of a small group of reporters, as she knocked on doors campaigning for her husband in a suburban� Miami neighborhood.�� She was so friendly, so natural, so� accessible; if you didn�t know who she was, you�d believe she could have been . . . Read more
  • Don't Be Scared of Monsters, Mommy
    I was feeding Moxie the other day, glanced out the window, saw a troop of special-needs kids walk by and lost it. I mean, I lost it. Put down Moxie's food, head in my hands and bawled. The big, gulping kind of bawl. The damn-I'm-losing-it kind of bawl. Concerned, Micah came around, "Why are you ...
  • iPad Destruction and Salvation
    Can you tell what this picture is? It is a *sob* broken iPad screen. Completely shattered. Ruined. With tiny flecks of glass scattered across it, as if to expressly dash any hopes of Leo using the device despite the damage. How it happened is no mystery. Leo took his iPad outside on our back po ...
  • Talking To Your Kids About Race
    For months and months we've been on "racial cruise control" in our house.� We've traveled in the same circles, visited the same people and overall, those we encountered didn't think or look twice when our multi-colored family entered the room.� I had actually forgotten that having a multi-colore ...
  • Together Counts' BlogHer 5K
    The list of fantastic and exciting events at BlogHer ’11 continues to grow: We are bringing back the BlogHer 5K. This year, the 5K is brought to us by Together Counts. Together Counts is a nationwide program inspiring active and healthy living. The principle behind the program is Energy Balance, ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Action! Dietary Supplement Labeling Act & New ...
    Bill S.1310, the “Dietary Supplement Labeling Act of 2011″ by Senator Dick “To Hell With Supplements” Durbin coupled with new FDA guidelines could change the face of your health and the economy forever. In a nutshell, ...
  • Woman Faces 93-Days In Jail For Growing Vegeta ...
    Revenue-ing and government idleness at its worst. Julie Bass of Oak Park, Michigan faces 93 days in jail for doing the unthinkable – growing organic veggies on her own property. Her crime? According ...
  • USDA Owns ‘Organic’ Name! Stifles ...
    An Arizona farmer shares what he has to do to sell his organic goods at a farmers market. The USDA claims in writing that theyร‚ own the “organic” name. Farmers have to useร‚ “homegrown” instead to promote their ...
  • Blood Sugar Off Kilter? Might Be Dehydrated
    Get your good hydrations… If you are are diabetic, prediabetic or hypoglycemic, drinking more water could be one of the most important factors for keeping ร‚ optimum blood sugar levels. “Drinking sufficient amounts of water and remain[ing] ...
  • South African Farmers Duped & Exploited By GM ...
    A government program to assist poor black farmers in Eastern Cape, South Africa intended to bring them out of ruins, instead brought only disillusion and more ruin. Farmers and communities were promised a better economy and ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Mountaintop removal and birth defects: Just wh ...
    It’s no surprise that lawyers from the firm Crowell & Moring are attacking the latest study by Melissa Ahern and West Virginia University’s Michael Hendryx indicating that people who live near mountaintop removal operations face a greater risk of birth defects. But the internet posting from four ...
  • Running Right: Alpha and the King Coal Highway
    There have been a couple of developments in the last few weeks on a long-forgotten story that should be considered when asking what Alpha Natural Resources means by the phrase, “Running Right.” Both focused attention again on the King Coal Highway project. First, the state Supreme Court issued t ...
  • Friday roundup, July 8, 2011
    In this photo released by China’s Xinhua news agency, rescuers enter the shaft of the fire-burned Fangbei coal mine in Zaozhuang, in east China’s Shandong province, on Friday July 8, 2011. (AP Photo) Rescue workers in China are being offered cash rewards if they’re able to save any of the miners ...
  • Settling selenium: Deal with Arch Coal expected
    Citizen groups appear headed for a settlement in another lawsuit over selenium pollution by the coal industry … Trial had been scheduled to start next week before U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers in a suit brought by the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and other groups against Arch Coa ...
  • WVDEP upgrading Brush Fork dam concerns?
    Coalfield activist and former miner Joe Stanley talks to the media during a protest earlier this week, urging the federal Office of Surface Mining to take strong action regarding the Brushy Fork impoundment. Gazette photo by Lawrence Pierce. Sometimes in this business, what government regulators ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

  • 30 Years Since the Liverpool 8 Uprising &#8211 ...
    It was July 1981 when the Liverpool 8 Uprising - or 'Toxteth Riots' as it became known - began. Following the typically aggressive and heavy-handed arrest of Leroy Cooper on Friday 3 July, anger erupted on the streets of one of Liverpool's most deprived areas in one of the most voracious display ...
  • This is a FITwatch Call-out.
    This is a FITwatch Call-out. This is a call-out to all those who have ever been on the recieving end of "intelligence-led" policing. This is a call-out to all those who have been pushed up against a wall by riot cops and illegally stop-and-searched. This is a call-out to all those who have had t ...
  • Turning the tables on FIT – June 30th
    Great to see FIT photographer Gavin Paul getting a hard time on June 30th.
  • Harassment style policing at J30 protest
    One of the most striking feature of today’s J30 protests was the unfettered intimidation and harassment dished out by the Met. They blatantly targeted a large scale stop and search programme at anyone they decided they didn’t like the look of, often young men, who were pulled from the crowd if t ...
  • Filming in a public place, Greek Embassy, 16 June
    This is a great video of a very camera shy cop with an incredibly dodgy understanding of the law.

Worldwide Hippies

  • Sarah Palin Threatens Boehner: And more hard news
    vanityfair - Sarah Palin, a private citizen who heads a moderately successful Facebook-note cottage-industry, preemptively inveighed against House Speaker Boehner on the subject of the debt ceiling. “We have to cut spending,” she said. “It is imperative, and I will be very, very disappointed if ...
  • Pittsburgh in the 60′s – Both side ...
    Both sides now No, not clouds, brains. Our aging brains. Yes, have to admit it. They are getting older right along with the rest of our bodies. I was poking about looking for a topic to write on and I read an article on middle aged brains and how they seem to function differently from [...]
  • Hippie TV News and Stuff July 12
    This week: Depleted Uranium Munitions in Libya, Militarization of the Arctic, PE Nolan is back with a call to activism our ass$%$ of the week and more… WWH- Worldwide Hippies brings you news and commentary, to inform you and move you to action. Worldwide Hippies News and Stuff is a weekly video, ...
  • Syrian protesters attack US, French embassies
    By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press – BEIRUT (AP) รข Hundreds of Syrian government supporters attacked the U.S. Embassy in Damascus Monday, smashing windows and spray-painting walls with obscenities and graffiti that called the American ambassador a “dog.” Guards at the French Embassy fired in the ...
  • Back to the Garden
    It was the 1970s. Walking barefoot in the rain. Mud in our toes and sweet rain on our tongues. Me in my green patchwork dress. Him with his long hair, patched, multi-colored jeans. We shared a joint. Took a walk in the woods. We made love up against the bark of a tree and let [...]

reference frame

  • AdS/CFT amplitudes are crisp in Mellin space
    I urge all advanced theorists who happen to be reading TRF to study the following two new hep-th papers on AdS/CFT in the Mellin variables: A Natural Language for AdS/CFT Correlators by Fitzpatrick, Kaplan, Penedones, Raju, and Rees Towards Feynman rules for Mellin amplitudes in AdS/CFT ...
  • Vรกclav Klaus in Australia: a schedule
    On July 20th, renowned climate skeptic and Czech President Prof Vรกclav Klaus will leave for his two-week Australian tour. Klaus during his recent meeting (video) with a fellow tennis player, Wimbledon Champion Ms Petra Kvitovรก. When Kvitovรก was 6, Klaus met her in her town of Ful ...
  • Climate "scientists": 95 percent of people fry ...
    The Sydney Morning Herald has discussed what happens when the global mean temperature increases by 4 °C: Too hot to handle: can we afford a 4-degree rise?Kevin Anderson, a director of a Tyndall Centre somewhere in the U.K., sees it in this way: If you have got a population of 9 billion ...
  • CMS after 0.9/fb: Higgs preferred at 115, 140, ...
    A yesterday's seminar about the latest CMS Higgs results probably should have stayed obscure. However, it has penetrated through Phil Gibbs' blog all the way to The Reference Frame, so here is the key graph: Shift-click the picture to zoom in in another window. In total, 0.9 ...
  • Large black holes have a nearly continuous spe ...
    Gia Dvali, Cesar Gomez, and Slava Mukhanov are clever chaps but their newest paper, Black hole masses is quantizedis just silly. A similar team was promoting classicalons that cannot exist. When I was reading those articles by these authors, articles that try to say that quantum gravity i ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • The End of Fear – Follow in the steps of ordin ...
    ฮคฮฟ ฯ„รŽ­ฮปฮฟฯ‚ ฯ„ฮฟฯ… ฯ†รฮฒฮฟฯ…… The end of fear… by magiconteam Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Stop Living In Fear! Stop living in fear! It lowers your vibrations and helps... Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Radio 13 Aug 2010 Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Ra ...
  • 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 ...
  • Greek Revoultion is now Live
    I am streaming the coverage of protests from Greece. It will run as long as the video feed keeps coming to me. Just so you know…Greece is 7 hours ahead of EST. LIVE STREAMING: ฮ“ฮตฮฝฮนฮบรŽ® ฮ‘ฯ€ฮตฯฮณรŽ¯ฮฑ ฮตฮฝรŽ¬ฮฝฯ„ฮนฮฑ ฯƒฯ„ฮฟ… by News247 Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Postcards from the G ...
  • 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 ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential

Enviroblog

  • On Conservation: Even your water can be reused
    By Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, my mother used to admonish me to conserve water during droughts. "Turn off the faucet while you brush your teeth," she'd say, "and take a shorter... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
  • 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 ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • A plan to save the working waterfront from the ...
    It was warm and muggy in most of Brooklyn on a recent weekday morning, but cold and damp and windy on Pier 12 in Red Hook, where officials from the New York City Economic Development Corporation were conducting what they called a “site tour” of the area wh ...
  • Albany Dems trumpet a depressing rent compromi ...
    Andrew Cuomo's office called it “The Greatest Strengthening of Rent Regulations in Decades.” Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assembly housing committee chairman Vito Lopez called the state's new rent-regulations enhancement, which will go into effect t ...
  • In McNally's 'Master Class,' Tyne Daly gives u ...
    McNally’s stroke of genius was to give us Callas not as she was in these sessions—lighthearted and generous, if sometimes stern—but as we wanted to imagine her: A dominating diva whose way with withering criticism was outmatched only by her mastery of the ...
  • Jeter worship, drunken rage, and gratuitous al ...
    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
  • Why 'Planet of the Apes' culture outlives the ...
    At the end of the first Planet of the Apes movie, there’s a scene in which the only two evolved apes that believe Taylor, Charlton Heston’s character, try to prove that there used to be a human civilization on their planet that pre-dates their contemporary ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Finance minister fends off threats
    Norway’s popular finance minister, Sigbjรƒ¸rn Johnsen, has been fending off threats from a Norwegian man who’s been charged with various crimes and may be suffering from a psychiatric disorder. Police have taken the man into custody. He’s the same man, age 44, who made headlines last winter after ...
  • Arsonists set cars ablaze
    Police in Oslo were searching this week for two arsonists, believed to be young boys, who allegedly set fire to 14 cars in and around a parking lot in the valley northeast of the city called Groruddalen. Eleven cars, parked at the Skansen housing complex at Ellingsrud, were destroyed and three m ...
  • Reservoirs full, electricity rates fall
    The heavy rains of the past several weeks have spoiled holidays and caused flooding, but they’ve had at least one positive side-effect. Reservoirs in the mountains of southern Norway are now full, and electricity rates have dropped. After reaching record-high levels last winter, Norwegians are n ...
  • Mussel warnings in effect
    Mussels, called blรƒ¥skjell in Norway, are a summer delicacy for many along the coast, butร‚ Norwegian health authorities have been issuing warnings lately that some may be contaminated by poisonous algae and even sewage from pleasure boats. “Folks should follow the warnings closely, they change f ...
  • Norway congratulates a new nation
    Norway has been heavily involved in negotiations that led to the official emergence of the world’s newest country, the Republic of South Sudan, over the weekend. Crown Prince Haakon was thus among the many dignitaries who traveled to the long-troubled area, to celebrate its birth as a sovereign, ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Letter to Mr. Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.
    Originally published on Biourbanism.org Apple’s planned new donut-shaped campus…. Dear Mr Jobs, Due to the wonders of the iPad, I came across your June 7th presentation to the Cupertino council of the plans for the new Apple campus. My excitement at the start of your presentation — expecting ...
  • The Permaculture Song – Animated Version
    We recently posted ‘The Permaculture Song‘, which puts the Permaculture Principles to music. Here’s a new animated version for your viewing/listening (and sharing!) pleasure.
  • Autotrophic Infrastructure & How Real Work Get ...
    All photographs © Craig Mackintosh I’d like to revisit a few points I brought up in a piece that appeared here at the PRI Australia website in April last year; “Things That Can’t Last Forever, and Things That Can: A Few Thoughts”. I’d like to begin with the following premise: Economics is ...
  • Irony
    Click for larger view Courtesy: Marc Roberts This is a retread, prompted by this.
  • June in Dan, Amanda, & Ciela’s Garden, Melbour ...
    by Dan Palmer A few weeks ago, Dan and Ciela took a stroll around the garden and checked out the choko… …the grapefruit guild… …the chilli-bean Apricot trellis… …and the edible weed patch….

Pointman's

  • Line of Descent Chapter 27
    Chapter 27 Drayton waited with Krupmeyer amid the ruins of the summer house. He sat on the floor, resting his injured back against the wall. It throbbed with a steady nagging ache that the drugs could not quite mask. Beside him on the floor, Krupmeyer lay in a stretcher. About them, the team of ...
  • 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, itรขs 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. Itรขs a universal. We make love but what weรขre actually doing is expressing our love by giving mutual physical pleasure to each other and of course, itรขs the best fun. Where thereรขs no emotional love there, … R ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Protest Planned for New Orleans Meeting of Pow ...
    From our friends at the Student Labor Action Project LSU: Stand up, and fight back in New Orleans! The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will be hosting their annual summit at the Marriott in New Orleans from August 1-6th. We will meet them there to let them know they can’t pull the ...
  • Settlement Reached in "Road Home" Racial Discr ...
    From our friends at Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center: Today, African-American homeowners and two civil rights organizations announced a settlement in a post-Hurricane Katrina housing discrimination lawsuit brought against the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ...
  • 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 ...

Information Underground

  • Health, Poisons, Diseases, Drugs • Re: Possibl ...
    . . Prostate Cancer Cured with Cannabis Oil Spiral Up With Ava Marie - Dennis Hill, Biochemist cures his cancer with cannabinoid oil iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym0BSdEIjJA iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_7gy7Dyta0 Spiral Up With Ava Marie - Dennis Hill, Biochemis ...
  • Historical Events • Re: Holocaust 66 Questions ...
    Although it is wrong to stick innocent people into camps, the Jewish Congress had declared war on Germany and it was common practice for many countries to put suspected enemies into concentration camps. The question here is not the morality of forced labor camps, but whether there was an ext ...
  • False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
    I posted a couple of things on "Ian Crane on Israeli terrorist strikes: Fukushima and ecoli in Germany" probably at the same time this topic was getting rescued out of the nonsense section. Admins....any way to transfer them here ?Statistics: Posted by mchawe — Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:21 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    On Fukishima, scroll downwards Figure it out. The cause of the Tsunami was a 9.1 earthquake 20 miles away it reads as a 5.63 ! See where 5.63 is on the chart ! http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/links.html One of two things. Either the 9.1 was not an earthquake in the conventional sense. Th ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    sirbadman This guy seems to be jew wise to me I went to his web site (http://www.ianrcrane.co.uk) and was disappointed to find another "Zionism, Illuminati,New World Order etc" but never the words, "Jewish Criminal Network" or similar. I think it is the same Crane ! He certainly sounded clue ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • New Nissan System Charges Electric Cars with S ...
    The Japanese automaker, Nissan, has developed a charging system that generates electricity from solar power and stores it in the lithium-ion batteries used in Getty ImagesThe Nissan Leaf its Leaf electric car. On the roof of its global headquarters in Yokohama, the company has installed 488 ...
  • Australia Unveils Plans to Tax Carbon by Next ...
    The Australian government has unveiled a proposal to tax its heaviest carbon dioxide emitters as of July 2012, a plan that would make Australia the first nation to put a price on carbon. The plan, which is expected to pass both houses of parliament before the end of the year, would require the n ...
  • Biggest U.S. Waste Hauler Expands Fleet of ‘Tr ...
    Waste Management Inc., the largest hauler of waste in the U.S., next week a will add its 1,000th truck fueled by natural gas, a landmark that reflects a trend toward new trucking fleets powered by alternative energy sources. About half of those trucks, including the newest, run on so-called tras ...
  • Iowa Plant Receives U.S. Backing To Convert Co ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy plans to make a $105 million loan guarantee to support the expansion of an Iowa ethanol factory into the nation’s first commercial-scale plant to convert corn waste into motor fuel. The Emmetsburg, Iowa plant, which is being built by Poet LLC, will convert corncobs, ...
  • Brazil Offers Protection for Activists Targete ...
    The Brazilian government says it will provide security protection for at least 131 people threatened with murder over land use disputes in the Amazon rainforest after a series of killings in recent months. Those Via Amazoom PressJosรฉ Clรกudio Ribeiro da Silva receiving death threats — including ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • The A word
    By Alison@Creekside The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism has released its Final Report -- two years in the making -- on what co-chair and former Lib MP Mario Silva refers to as the "wave of anti-Semitism we are witnessing in our nation".  A 71% increase. Yet a mere ...
  • Have a cupcake, St. Joe’s
    By Jodi A. Shaw Mayor Rob Ford may have been conspicuously absent from Toronto's Pride Parade last weekend, but 16-year old Leanne Iskander more than made up for it as parade co-Grand Marshal (along with Michael Bach of Pride at Work Canada). Iskander made headlines in March when she was p ...
  • No WikiLove for Canada Day
    Wikipedia is working on a new feature to allow visitors to express appreciation for the poor beleaguered editors. Visitors will have the opportunity to click on a Wikilove icon (a heart), which will allow them to send a message of appreciation. Seems that editors get a lot of ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Alonso wins first race of season at British GP
    Fernando Alonso produced Ferrari's first victory of the Formula One season at the British Grand Prix on Sunday after championship leader Sebastian Vettel's hopes were thwarted by a pit-stop blunder. Vettel was overtaken in the Silverstone pits by Alonso just after the halfway point when the Re ...
  • Monja-yaki restaurant owner Minoru Maruyama
    Minoru Maruyama, 68, is the owner of the Maruyama Monja restaurant. Located in Tsukishima's Monja Street in Tokyo, his tiny joint is one of the 70 or so mom-and-pop shops in the area that all serve monja-yaki, a, pan-fried loose-batter shitamachi (downtown) snack food that is loved by children a ...
  • Amid nuclear crisis, boy band Arashi pitches t ...
    Popular Japanese boy band Arashi made a pitch Monday to attract more visitors to the country amid a decline in tourist numbers stemming from the ongoing nuclear crisis triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami four months ago. A film titled "Message from Japan" featuring the five-mem ...
  • Response to crisis shows deepening ties, Seoul ...
    Cooperation between Japan and South Korea in the aftermath of the Tohoku triple disaster proved that ties between the two nations have never been stronger, Seoul's new envoy to Tokyo said Monday. Speaking at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, South Korean Ambassador to Japan Shin Kak Soo, ...
  • Firms seek new ways to cope with power shortage
    Companies are taking various measures to cope with power shortages this summer, while seeking new business opportunities to meet growing demand for energy-saving goods. The government imposed restrictions July 1 on electricity consumption by large-lot users in the nation's east and northeast a ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Is BC about to drop a new carbon bomb?
    Any day now the BC government should be releasing the latest greenhouse gas data for the province, and we will see if any progress is being made towards a legislated 33% reduction in emissions by 2020 (relative to 2007 levels; data will be for 2009 and we know that emissions rose in 2008). Below ...
  • The Riddle of the Middle
    It’s like a bad riddle: almost everyone thinks they belong to it, but few can define what it is. Politicians claim to champion it, but it’s increasingly difficult to determine what it actually wants. And, often, when we talk about it, we’re really only referring to part of it—the part that doesn ...
  • Kids These Days: Canada’s Inter-generati ...
    To counteract the record low 58.8% voter turnout in the 2008 federal election, there was an unprecedented push to engage voters this past election. With only 37% of 18-24 year-olds casting a ballot in 2008, many of the ‘get out the vote’ efforts in 2011 were focused on young voters: Rick Mercer ...
  • Government Assaults on Unions: The Economic Hi ...
    In the early 1980s, the world was gripped by recession. Following the troubled years of the 1970s, there was considerable worry throughout the developed world that we had entered a period of endemic stagnation. The real problem, it was claimed, was that the western economies had lost their abili ...
  • The NDP and “Big Labour”
    Rob Silver, a sharp guy I first met through university debate, has written a rather disappointing piece entitled, “Would NDP be neutral were it in power during a labour dispute?” This question is interesting and significant. On the one hand, the NDP’s political philosophy is strongly supportive ...

ReDress

  • US Independence Day reflections
    Paul J. Balles reflects on the US Independence Day and asks: if, as the American Declaration of Independence says, "all men are created equal", then why do Americans act as if that fundamental principle applies only to citizens of the USA?
  • Israelis' afflictions: instilled memory and pa ...
    Uri Avnery considers the psychological disorders underlying Israel's response to criticism and peaceful protest, most recently manifested in its over-reaction to the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza, and the Israeli public's generally docile acceptance of what their government and media tell them.
  • Civil society versus Israel lobbies in US and ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the deadly influence of Israeli special interests groups on Western governments, especially that of the USA, means that advocates of justice for the Palestinians have only one recourse: civil society actions such as the Gaza humanitarian flotillas. "If we persist t ...
  • Starving Gaza is not cricket - nor is stopping ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the lack of civilized conduct, fair play and proper respect for others in international affairs has been highlighted by the conspiracy between Greece and Israel - and behind them, the USA and Britain - to abort the Gaza humanitarian flotilla, and the aiding and abet ...
  • We will return to Gaza until Palestine is free
    As Greece, Turkey, Israel and - behind the scenes - the US conspire to abort this year's humanitarian aid flotilla to Gaza, Richard Levy, a passenger on the Audacity of Hope, US boat to Gaza, pledges to remain steadfast until victory and Palestine is free.

Physics Today

  • Climate change affecting ocean’s ability ...
    Science Daily: Climate change may be having a negative impact on the ocean carbon sink. Until now the ocean has been taking up roughly one-third of all human carbon emissions, decreasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and mitigating its associated global changes. In a new analysis published online 1 ...
  • Flying car declared road legal
    Daily Mail: Like something out of a James Bond movie, the Terrafugia Transition flying car may be hitting US roadways as early as 2012. Cleared last year to fly by the Federal Aviation Administration, the “roadable aircraft” has now been declared officially road legal in the US. With the push of ...
  • Tool-using fish caught on camera
    Science: Tool use was once thought to be the exclusive province of human intelligence, but in recent decades it's been identified in a wide variety of animals, from monkeys and crows, to elephants and octopiand now, fish. There have been a few reports of fish using tools to crack open mollusks a ...
  • Brazil reaches out
    Chronicle of Higher Education: The Brazilian government has announced that it will fund 75�000 studentships to study abroad, worth $30�000 each. Brazil's university system is successful, but that success is not unqualified; scientific research is highly variable in quality, and there is a shorta ...
  • Japan looks to renewables and energy conservation
    National Geographic: Japan is in the middle of one of the most severe electricity shortfalls in history, according to a report by the International Energy Agency. Before the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March, nuclear energy provided a third of Japan's electricity. Prime Mini ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Gaza Aid Flotilla
    by Rev333 (Posted Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:57:49 GMT) Israel braces for arrival of hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists. http://tiny.cc/k6ydp Around 600 police officers will deploy at Ben-Gurion International Airport to stop the hundreds if not thousands of pro-Palestinian activists arriving ...
  • I AM a Zionist & Pro-Palestinian State
    by BradWatsonMiami (Posted Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:24:41 GMT) Re: the Israel vs. Palestine question, this usually is also a Jewish vs. Muslim question. I have never been to Israel/Palestine (at least not in this life), but I have studied the situation since childhood. I was brought up Protestant, bu ...
  • America addicted to War
    by Rev333 (Posted Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:49:43 GMT) Cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting. http://tiny.cc/6ovzn The final bill will run at least $3.7 trillion and could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research project "Costs of War" by Brown University's Watson Institu ...
  • Gaza Aid Flotilla
    by Rev333 (Posted Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:40:36 GMT) Greece is doing Israel's "dirty work" by blocking the Gaza aid vessels. …. The Israeli government, using economic exploitation, pressured the government of Athens to widen the illegal blockade of Gaza to Greek ports …. http://www.jpost.com/I ...
  • News media won't report
    by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:49:33 GMT) $12 Billion For Them - 1.5 Million Homeless For Us Lilith - 7 days ago - rense.com Does anyone possess a clue as to why our U.S. government spends $12 billion every 30 days in Afghanistan and Iraq while 1.5 million of our citizens remain hom ...

Peakwater

  • Water Rationing Near If Drought Continues
    “The view north from the Alameda Avenue twin bridges is becoming all too familiar to travelers. Small islands jutting from the lake are evidence of the dropping water level in Lake Thunderbird. There is only voluntary water rationing for now, but a consistent lack of rainfall and continued use o ...
  • City learns U.S. model to control pollution of ...
    “This is the first time the city applies the approach of EPA for controlling pollution of the Saigon River, and this model could be applied for other river basins in Vietnam,” Triet told the Daily on the sidelines of a seminar on measures to fight pollution of the Saigon River that was held here ...
  • INDIA – CHINA – TIBET The difficult relationsh ...
    “China and India are facing growing needs for water,” Rev Nishant said. “Both these nations have limited water resources. However, the increasing use of water in agriculture and industry has lead to a tussle for water. The two neighbouring countries are entering a phase when water is scarce and ...
  • The Word on Fracking in the U.S.
    “New Jersey: First state to ban fracking? New Jersey hasร‚ become the first state in the United States whose legislature passed — rather overwhelmingly — a ban on fracking. If the legislation is signed into law by the governor, New Jersey will become the first state to officially ban fracking. To ...
  • Bonanza year for California hydro-power
    “California’s wet winter and spring, which have topped off reservoirs and left a huge snow blanket on the High Sierra, also promise a payoff in clean, cheaper electricity this year, according to PG&E. “The utility, which serves more than 5 million power customers from Eureka to Bakersfield, expe ...

D. Kucinich

  • Historic Vote to End Libyan War Expected Today
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led the bipartisan opposition to the illegal war in Libya, will today be the principal cosponsor of a bipartisan amendment to finally and fully end the war in Libya. The bipartisan amendment to the Defense Department Appropriations Act, H.R. 2219, is e ...
  • Amash-Kucinich Gaining Momentum, 15 Cosponsors ...
    A bipartisan agreement to support an amendment with the broadest coalition of support has been reached by 15 Members of Congress. The bipartisan amendment is cosponsored by Justin Amash (R-MI), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Ron Paul (R-TX), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Walter Jones (R-NC), John Conyers (D-MI) ...
  • Kucinich Continues Long-Term Fight for Gulf Wa ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today continued his long-term commitment to funding research into the cause and cure of Gulf War Illness by offering an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act, H.R. 2219, which will increase the amount of money available to the Gulf War Illnesses Research ...
  • Kucinich and Amash Work to End Libyan War
    A bipartisan amendment to end the war in Libya, cosponsored by Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Justin Amash (R-MI), Ron Paul (R-TX), Tim Johnson (R-IL), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) and Richard Nugent (R-FL), is expected to be debated tonight or tomorrow. The vote is likely to happen Thursday.� The amendme ...
  • 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 ...

Authentically Wired

  • … Nana, nana, nana and you can’t m ...
    รข¦ Nana, nana, nana and you canรขt make me รข¦ Air Force yet to decide on dioxane cleanup   The Air Force says it isn’t ready to accept responsibility for paying to remove 1,4-dioxane from the south side’s underground aquifer.   The Air Force’s statement came in response to comments from Tucson of ...
  • GREEN … Jeff Flake is NOT …
      รข¦ Were Jeff Flake to become Arizonaรขs newest US Senator รข¦ know he is already owned by the mine$ รข¦ so ki$$ your Grand Canyon ban on mining good-bye รข¦  Jeff Flake wants to be Arizona’s Next U.S. Senator Boosted by conservative activists who admire his ferocity on spending issues, Flake won a ...
  • meet behind closed doors to discuss “pot ...
    … You just gotta love it when government regulators meet behind closed doors to discuss “pot” … Corp Commission to talk about pot found in the bathroom By Dennis Welch …The Arizona Guardian Arizona corporation commissioners will hold a special closed-door meeting Tuesday to talk about the suspec ...
  • ARE WE IMPOTENT…?
    … Make$ for intere$ting headline$ … but … until “we” (that’s you and me) choose to demand action from corporate owned EPA instead of rhetoric nothing will change … a difficult challenge as we have allowed them to believe we are impotent … are we …? Under fire EPA hits back with stringent air pol ...
  • … when given the truth people will make ...
    �� Eliminate any inflaming name-calling and just inform and educate �� when given the truth people will make an informed decision and most often correctly �� District 18 will have the opportunity to recall a dangerous demagogue who has brought disrepute to Arizona � Posted: 09 Jul 2011 08:42 AM ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • FSC mulls controversial motion to certify plan ...
    Members of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), meeting in Malaysia this week for its General Assembly, will consider various changes to the organization, including a vote on a controversial motion that would open the door—slightly at first—to sustainable-certification of companies that have be ...
  • Unpaved road through Serengeti to progress
    After a week of confusion, the Tanzanian government has finally clarified its position on the hugely-controversial Serengeti road. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, confirmed that a paved highway will not be built through the northern Serengeti National Park, however ...
  • Richard Leakey: 'selfish' critics choose wrong ...
    The controversial Serengeti road is going ahead, but with conditions. According to the Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, the road will not be paved and it will be run by the Tanzanian park authority who will have the power to monitor traffic to 'ensure no harm ...
  • 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 ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Scientists identify antibiotic-resistant gonor ...
    International researchers have identified a strain of gonorrhoea that is resistant to treatment with antibiotics. The common bacterial infection, often called the "clap," has until now been easily treatable with antibiotics but...
  • Gene technique to stretch diseased arteries gi ...
    Auckland gene scientists have come up with a way to put new stretch into hardened, old arteries, an important advance that points the way to a radical new treatment for heart disease.Cardiovascular disease, mainly heart disease...
  • Bosses to be able to test for synthetic cannabis
    Employers will be able to test staff for synthetic cannabis use but those behind the testing admit creative chemistry will mean identifying users could be a game of cat and mouse.Environment Science and Research (ESR) announced...
  • NZ helps peel off potato's genome
    New Zealand researchers have helped to map the potato's genetic blueprint for the first time, in a breakthrough that could revolutionise potato breeding and food security.Plant & Food Research scientists played an instrumental...
  • First-aid kit in shipwreck reveals millennia-o ...
    Institute first-aid kit found on a 2000-year-old shipwreck has provided a remarkable insight into the medicines concocted by ancient physicians to cure sailors of dysentery and other ailments.Medicines found inside a wooden chest...

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Hit & Run | Reason

  • Samuel Alito, Burkean Conservative?
    At The Weekly Standard, Adam J. White has a fascinating profile of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. According to White, Alito should be considered the “last heir” to Yale University legal scholar Alexander Bickel, “a Burkean conservative whose work was largely overshadowed by the e ...
  • Gary Johnson Slams "FAMiLY LEADER" Pledge
    Last Friday we told you about a pledge authored by Iowa's THE FAMiLY LEADER [weird caps theirs] encouraging presidential candidates to outlaw prostitution, porn, abortion, promiscuity and maybe no-fault divorce. So far, only Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Sen. Rick Santorum have sig ...
  • Will ObamaCare’s Exchanges Encourage Health In ...
    ObamaCare creates a network of health insurance exchanges—state-run marketplaces through which individuals can purchase subsidized, regulated insurance. Today, the administration released a first draft of its proposed exchange rules. In theory, the exchange requirements make poss ...
  • MRSA: Another Way Pot Prohibition Enhances Pub ...
    Here is another not so healthy consequence of drug prohibition: The Montreal Gazette reports that Marc "Prince of Pot" Emery, the Canadian cannabis activist who is serving a five-year sentence in a U.S. prison for selling marijuana seeds online from a business in Vancouver, has b ...
  • New at Reason: Matt Welch on the Overlooked Le ...
    The business of America isn’t necessarily business, observes Editor in Chief Matt Welch. It’s change. Constant, creative, destructive, entertaining change. As we look back over the last 10 years since that awful, still-indigestible morning of September 11, 2001, it’s tempting to mak ...

Mercury Rising

  • News of the World disclosures widen to include ...
    Via Atrios, The Guardian’s Nick Davies and David Leigh: Journalists from across News International repeatedly targeted the former prime minister Gordon Brown, attempting to access his voicemail and obtaining information from his bank account, his legal file as well as his family’s medical record ...
  • Mao’s glorious march… to Boise
    A century ago, following a long agony beginning in the 19th century China was dismembered by the imperial nations of the West. It has spent the interim first being further humiliated by the West and later invaded by Japan, then another half century reconstructing from war and the tyranny establi ...
  • The organ grinder and his monkey
    Image from Huffpo John Hooper, The Guardian: Silvio Berlusconi learned on Saturday that judges in Milan had ordered his company Fininvest to hand over more than half a billion euros to his deadliest rival. The money is compensation for bribery of a judge to rule in Berlusconi’s favour in his str ...
  • News of the World flu strikes Dow Jones CEO
    FT is reporting that Les Hinton, CEO of Dow Jones, may be being fingered by the Murdochs to save James. Meanwhile Murdoch has been photographed with his arm around Rebecca Brooks. The Guardian is a little more forthcoming, noting that Hinton testified to Parliament that the whole phone hacking s ...
  • Tony Sutton, Still Bad with Other People&#8217 ...
    As those who have followed his career since its inception know, current Republican Party of Minnesota chair Tony Sutton is pretty darned near hopeless with money. From his scandal-marred stint as state party treasurer to his disastrous stint as would-be taco mogul, his problems with cold hard ca ...
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