11 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

IPS - Inter Press Services

• Bosnians Mark Srebrenica Anniversary
  Tens of thousands of Bosnia Muslims gathered on Monday to bury the remains of 613 people at Srebrenica to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the 1995 killings of thousands of Muslims in and around the town.
• UN: Somalia Is 'Worst Humanitarian Disaster'
  The head of the United Nations refugee agency has described the situation in drought-hit Somalia as the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world, after meeting with those affected at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
• RIGHTS-EL SALVADOR: Rumours of Amnesty Repeal ...
  The mere rumour that El Salvador's Supreme Court (CSJ) might be thinking of repealing the amnesty law was enough to trigger an institutional crisis in this country, showing how fragile its recovery is from the wounds left by the 1980-1992 civil war.
• ENERGY-BRAZIL: Small Dams, Big Problems
  Several rivers in the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso are likely to become chains of artificial reservoirs feeding small hydroelectric plants (SHP), sometimes with larger power stations in between.
• Q&A: "UN Women Is Creating a New Energy"
  While in New York to celebrate the launch of UN Women's flagship biennium publication, "Progress of the World's Women: In Pursuit of Justice", Botswana's Unity Dow sat down with IPS to discuss the United Nations' newest entity, its landmark report, and the road ahead for women.

Scoop - NZ

• Rebekah, 'a buffer' to save Murdoch
  Media insiders say Rupert Murdoch's decision to kill News of the World and save former editor Rebekah Brooks is a strategic move to prevent heads rolling at the top of the empire. Mr Murdoch closed his most profitable UK tabloid last night in a shock announcement amid claims its journalists h ...
• Gordon Cambell: On the capital gains tax debate
  At last, one of New Zealand’s major parties has embraced the kind of tax on capital gains common in every other developed country on the planet marks a turning point in the country’s economic history. The lack of a capital gains tax has been a vastly inefficient hole in our policy framework i ...
• Youtube - The Project For The New American Century
  ABC News report about the "Project For The New American Century"
• Escobar: High stakes in Eurasia's new "great game"
  In these past few years, up to the - largely botched - Africom/NATO operation in Libya, the US strategy has been aimed at the militarisation of the entire arc between the Mediterranean and Central Asia. Africom, the US Africa command implemented in 2008 with a headquarters in Stuttgart, Germa ...
• Blair bags lucrative hedge fund deal
  Tony Blair will add to the fortune he has made since leaving office after agreeing to become a paid speaker for Lansdowne Partners, a London-based hedge fund managed by a major Conservative party donor. ...Lansdowne became known for making money by betting on the fall of the Barclays and Norther ...

Independent - London

• In Tahrir Square the anger is growing again. W ...
  Something has gone badly wrong with the Egyptian revolution. The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces – just what the "Supreme" bit means is anyone's guess – is toadying up to middle-aged Muslim Brothers and Salafists, the generals chatting to the pseudo-Islamists while the young, the lib ...
• Clinton calls Assad to account after mob attac ...
  The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has "lost legitimacy" as a leader interested in reform, as the US and French embassies in Damascus came under attack from hundreds of Syrian pro-government protesters.
• CIA ran fake vaccination programme to capture ...
  The CIA set up a fake vaccination initiative in the months leading up to the killing of Osama bin Laden, in an attempt to obtain DNA samples from members of his family.
• Doors may have been locked shut as cruise ship ...
  Rescue divers spent yesterday pulling corpses out of Russia's Volga river, as the devastating size of the death toll from Sunday's cruise boat sinking gradually became apparent.
• Perfect victims: If the catcher’s mitt fits...
  What is there that remains to be said, about the OJ Simpson case? It was long enough ago now that a few of you won't remember it. It was beyond belief. We didn't have as many cable channels then as we do now, but a lot of people had 30, 40, 50 channels on their TV. When the OJ Simpson trial was ...

Rogue Government.com

• UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
  Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
• ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
  The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
• Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
  Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
• EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
  European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
• Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
  For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.

Innovation Canada

• A powerful elixir
  The good news is that there are more than a million cancer survivors in Canada. The bad news is that they live with the long-term effects of treatment, including extreme fatigue, memory and attention problems, bone density loss, leading to fractures, and a sometimes debilitating anxiety over can ...
• No more slipping through the cracks
  At any given time, some 19,000 children are in foster care in Ontario, placed there for their protection by one of the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies (CAS). While CAS caseworkers write meticulous reports on the children who pass through the system, the details contained in the thousands ...
• Back home on the range
  It’s a little-known fact: Half the Earth’s surface is foraged by domesticated animals, which has enormous impacts on our increasingly precious fresh water. In British Columbia alone, about 50 percent of mostly crown land is licensed to ranchers who need forage and water for their 400,000 head of ...
• Living on the edge
  It’s not unusual for scientists to become excited when talking about their research. But Ken Storey is an explosion of exuberance, repeatedly interrupting his own discourse to head in new directions. Such frenetic energy is paradoxical for a man whose research deals with organisms that can delib ...
• Giving thanks
  “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” Michael Douglas’s character famously declared in the movie Wall Street. “Greed is right. Greed works.” It was after filming last year’s sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, that Douglas noticed a strain in his larynx and soreness in his jaw. His d ...

Signs of the times

• Tinkerer Emulates Iron Man With Real-Life, Pal ...
  On a rainy weekend last year, Patrick Priebe, a German lab technician and Iron Man fanatic who rewatches the film and its sequel every week, decided to build a compact yet powerful laser inspired by Tony Stark's repulsor-beam weapon. In the U.S., the maximum strength for consumer laser pointer ...
• The "Rare Earth" Debate: Are We the Sole Intel ...
  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 in the spotlight, it makes us sound very important, and it's wrong. The ...
• Underwater Antarctic Volcanoes Discovered in t ...
  Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have discovered previously unknown volcanoes in the ocean waters around the remote South Sandwich Islands. Using ship-borne sea-floor mapping technology during research cruises onboard the RRS James Clark Ross, the scientists found 12 volcanoes b ...
• Heifer so lonely: How cows have best friends a ...
  Cows have best friends and become stressed if they are separated, according to a scientist. Krista McLennan, who made the discovery while working on her PhD at Northampton University, believes her findings could help improve milk yields. The 27-year-old measured the heart rates and cortisol le ...
• Romance Novels Bad For Women's Health and Psyc ...
  Romance novels can be a bad influence on women and lead them to make poor health and relationship decisions, says a British psychologist. The novels give women unrealistic views about what to expect out of a relationship because they, well, romanticize love, said Susan Quilliam, a relationshi ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Rosie DiManno's Glorious Imperial "Vestigial Tic"
  Sometimes I read thwap, and sometimes thwap draws my attention to things that I'd rather not have read. Today it was the Star's shack-rat Rosie DiManno, in which she bludgeons her rhetorical way through the unapologetically liberal-imperialist, war-mongering, Canadian epitaph for Afghanistan. I ...
• Taking Rosie to the movies
  In the theme of the last post, I have posted clips from film for Ms. DiManno. It's a war film about those "wars in distant lands" she's so fond of. �WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
• A thoughtful Canadian . . .
  KAI NAGATA QUIT HIS JOB. He was CTV’s Quebec City Bureau Chief, based at the National Assembly, mostly covering politics. In many ways, a dream job in Canadian news broadcasting, especially for his age.I quit my job because the idea burrowed into my mind that, on the long list of things I could ...
• "Solastalgia"
  "Solastalgia" is a term coined by Australian environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht�(2010:45, Albrecht et al. 2007)*: Solastalgia has its origins in the concepts of �solace� and �desolation�. Solace is derived from solari and solacium, with meanings connected to the alleviation of distress o ...
• An oldie . . .
  BUT GOODIE. Oh my, yes. From Dan in Algiers, this stunning gem of how to march a conversation, as some telemarketer's mind implodes.

Media Matters for America

• Fox & Friends Cheerleads GOP Effo ...
  Fox & Friends promoted a GOP-backed effort to repeal sections of a 2007 law setting efficiency standards for light bulbs, falsely suggesting that the law bans incandescent bulbs and featuring on-screen screen text that stated: "Don't touch our bulbs!" In fact, the law only restricts the sa ...
• Right-Wing Media Figures Pushed Boehner To Aba ...
  Prominent media conservatives such as Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh have been pressuring House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) not to accept a $4 trillion debt deal that would stave off economic catastrophe by allowing Congress to raise the debt ceiling and prevent the government from defaulting on ...
• Right Wing's ATF Attacks Undermined By Their I ...
  Right-wing media are baselessly attacking the Obama administration by falsely conflating Project Gunrunner, a program of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) that was begun under President Bush, and Operation Fast and Furious, a controversial initiative undertaken by P ...
• Limbaugh Ushers Listeners Into Fantasyland On ...
  Rush Limbaugh has falsely suggested that there would be no adverse consequences for failing to raise the federal government's debt ceiling, claiming that because the government takes in enough revenue to pay interest on the debt, there is no danger of default. But experts say that if the govern ...
• Fox "Straight News" "Save The Economy" With ...
  In a series of segments called 10 Ways to Save the Economy, Fox News'�Special Report with Bret Baier�promoted conservative talking points�on the financial crisis, stimulus package, estate tax, and deregulation. The segments also frequently echoed the viewpoint of Fox News' conservative opinion ...

Global Research.ca

• Big Banks Waging Warfare Against the People of ...
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• Arm Yourselves with Knowledge!
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Memo to Obama: "Create more jobs or resign"
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Syrian protesters attack US, French embassies ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Deficit Reduction Versus Democracy
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• What The UN Vote Means--And Does Not
  My friend Alvaro de Soto, the former Special Ambassador of the United Nations's Secretary-General to the Middle East peace process, is a legend in the UN, from which he is now retired. Peruvian by birth, an aide to Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Alvaro was an indispensable mediator i ...
• So Much for 'Long Form'....
  OK, here's a take-away from my post on Rupert Murdoch two slots below: Alexander Hamilton, worried about the young American republic in 1801, founded the New York Post. Rupert Murdoch, keen to intensify his perverse groping of bodies politic, bought the Post in 1977 and turned it into a dai ...
• What Blinded Murdoch's Enablers and Apologists?
  As Rupert Murdoch was closing in with his bid for Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal five years ago, what Harper's magazine former editor Lewis Lapham calls "the orchestra of high-minded opinion" could be heard tuning up to play "This Is The Best of All Possible Worlds," its familia ...
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• ABOVE ALL, ACT
  In wake of Friday's dismal jobs data, it is past time to stick into any Congressional vehicle moving at any speed at all the following authorization: The Treasury shall auction the right to repatriate one trillion dollars of offshore profits, over the next ten years, with the methodology cho ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Backgrounder on Quartet efforts to restart Isr ...
  As representatives of the Middle East Quartet (comprised of the US, the EU, Russia, and the UN) meet in Washington this week to try to restart talks between Israelis and Palestinians, ...
• Counting the cost of a Palestinian state (You ...
  For 20 years, the Washington-led peace process has succeeded in doing one thing better than anything else; giving Israel every incentive to maintain its occupation. By assigning the p ...
• An-nabi-Salih 9-7-11 (yisraelpnm)
  One day after the "air flotilla" landed in Tel Aviv, Palestinian and Israeli activists held a demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh just west of Ramallah. The village's agricultural spring was taken over by Jewish settlers in the nearby settlement of Halamish over two years ago. E ...
• Israel deports 36 activists, 82 still held (M ...
  Israel on Sunday deported 36 pro-Palestinian activists who were taken into custody after flying into Israel for protests over the weekend, an official said. Two other activists were d ...
• 'Flytilla' Debacle Another PR Nightmare For Is ...
  Confused foreign tourists arriving at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport on Friday would be forgiven for thinking that a terrorist attack was about to take place. Hundreds of a ...

Water - AlterNet

• Millions of African Climate Refugees Desperate ...
  An estimated 10 million people across the Horn of Africa are caught in a deadly combination of failed rains and soaring global food prices.
• The Globe’s Not Only Gettin ...
  The future of a warming planet holds more than just melting ice--it will see a lot more conflict over resources, food, and living space as well.
• Pipeline Rupture Spills Oil into Flooded Yello ...
  For fear of an explosion, officials evacuated about 140 people and environmental damages are being assessed.
• Water Scarcity Compounds Tensions Between Indi ...
  Nothing is quite as threatening for Pakistan as India planning 33 separate dams within the Indus river system.
• Put Down Your Beach Towel: 10 States Where You ...
  If you're planning to hit the beach this summer, here's the scoop on which beaches have the worst water quality issues.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Perry running for President as a climate chang ...
  An unnamed Republican campaign veteran told the Washington Post that Texas Governor Rick Perry has decided to run for President, though the official word from the Perry camp is still a definite maybe, stating that Mr. Perry has surveyed the field and decided to get in the race later this summer. ...
• And the sun slowly sets on the Solar RPS at th ...
  Today was the last day for the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) to pass the 500 Mw non-wind RPS rule.  After 6 years they failed to implement a provision by passed by the legislature setting aside a portion of the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard for renewable technologies other t ...
• Texas Environmental Community Welcomes EPA Cro ...
  New EPA Safeguard will Improve Health & Lives of Millions of Americans Earlier today, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  announced a new Cross State Air Pollution Rule designed to protect Americans from dangerous air pollution from coal-fired power plants. The new protections will red ...
• A dream deferred
  The Southwestern U.S. has dominated the world of utility-scale solar projects over the past few years, with news of deals being signed for solar-power plants as large as 1 gigawatt or more.  But now the Southeastern U.S. looks like it will soon be home to one of the world’s largest solar project ...
• The fairy tale of Texas politics
  In an Austin American-Statesman editorial that ran last Saturday, July 2nd, the paper talked quite candidly about the lack of a level playing field in the Texas capital as pointed out by conservative East Texas republican freshman Representative David Simpson and liberal Austin-based Public Cit ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Cuban witness recalls alien encounter
  An extraordinary story from Cuba that occured back in 1995 has been circulating the internet. On October 15th of that year farmer Adolfo Serrate had b...
• World's steepest roller-coaster opens
  Japan's vomit-inducing Takabisha roller-coaster features a 141ft drop at an angle of 121 degrees. Due to go live on July 16th Takabisha is the steepes...
• Rare minerals locked up under the sea
  Vast quantities of rare minerals have been discovered beneath the sea, but how do we get to them ? Scientists at the University of Tokyo have announce...
• Bristol council release zombie guide
  The guide is designed to explain exactly what to do in the unlikely event of a zombie apocalypse. Provided following a Freedom of Information request ...
• Glasses could interpret emotions
  A pair of glasses have been developed that can read the emotions of the person you are looking at. The prototype device can track 24 points on a face ...

Grassroots

• Learning and Constructing with Haitians
  Subheadline:� Internationalism between Peoples Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Beverly Bell has worked with Haitian social movements for over 30 years. She is also author of the bo ...
• Thousands and thousands of people demanding cl ...
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• G20-Agriculture: Hundreds of organizations say ...
  no_land_no_food.jpg Grassroots International joined nearly 500 other organizations around the world in signing the “Dakar Appeal Against Land Grabbing.” The appeal, originally drafted at the World Social Forum in Dakar in February 2011, ca ...
• Elbit’s Cruel Profit from Palestinian Suffering
  elbit_drone.jpg As they often did on any given day, the al-Jarah family gathered for some tea, a time-honored Gazan tradition and valued opportunity for relaxation and catching up.�They enjoyed the tranquility of being together in the prot ...
• Rooted as Deep as Olive Trees
  olive_tree.jpg �read more

Climate

• UN Calls for Long-Term Solution to Ethiopia's ...
  Source:� AFP The UN's emergency relief coordinator on Saturday called for long-term solutions to curb the effects of a severe drought in Ethiopia, citing better access to water, health care and education as key after spending ...
• UK Group: EU Carbon Permits Should Be Cut
  Source:� UPI Plunging prices for EU carbon allowances will go still lower unless their supply is tightened, a British environmental group said this week.
• Half of Planned UK Wind Farms Blown Away by Fo ...
  Source:� Independent Almost half of the wind farms planned for the UK countryside are rejected before they can get off the drawing board, new figures show.
• Nissan Works on Recharging Leaf with Solar Power
  Source:� AP Japanese automaker Nissan is testing a super-green way to recharge its Leaf electric vehicle using solar power, part of a broader drive to improve electricity storage systems. �
• Lights Out for GOP Energy Agenda?
  Source:� Politico House Republicans will bow to their tea party base on Monday by bringing up legislation to save the incandescent light bulb.

GreenBiz

• GM Brings Landfill-Free Strategies to Distribu ...
  General Motors is bringing its waste reduction, recycling and reuse efforts to its non-manufacturing sites.
• The Future of Vehicles: Next-Gen Engines, EVs ...
  Much-needed upgrades to the century-old internal combustion engine, the predecessors to today's EVs, and the first-ever trans-Atlantic biofuel jet flight, on this week's episode of EnergyNOW.
• First Takes: China Leads Renewables Spending R ...
  China outspent every other country last year on renewable energy; Lufthansa will become the first airline to incorporate biofuels into a regular route; House Republicans will bring to a floor vote next week a bill that would repeal a light bulb efficiency mandate.
• A Closer Look at the Green City Index
  Why did some cities nail top ratings in Siemens' new Green City Index for North America, while others tanked and still others weren't counted at all? NRDC's Kaid Benfield takes a deep dive into the scores.
• Radical Confidence: Leverage Points for Struct ...
  The ability to change and reorganize the system -- one of Donella Meadows' 12 leverage points for change -- is both one of the most difficult and most fundamentally important methods to make sustainability happen.

Reuters Global

• Drone strikes are police work, not an act of war?
  Launching an air strike in another nation would normally be considered an act of aggression. But advocates of America's rapidly expanding unmanned drone programme don't see it that way.
• Pakistan’s Shamsi base : a mystery wrapp ...
  Pakistani defence minister's remarks that U.S. had been shut out of a base used for drone aircraft have touched off a new controversy in their troubled relationship.
• Will the Arab Spring bring U.S.-style “c ...
  One signpost of the shift from the old collective way of approaching politics toward the new and more individualistic one is a change in slogans. “Dignity is the new slogan,”
• Taliban talks: the new mirage in Afghanistan
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said publicly the United States is holding talks with the Taliban. But is it already too late to reach a peaceful settlement to the war?
• “Fearsome risks” driving policy ov ...
  In China, where a rash of protests, sometimes violent, have recently flared up and been slapped down, echoes from this year's 'Arab Spring' of rebellion against iron-fisted rulers in the Middle East and North Africa are resonating loudly.

Booman Tribune

• A Look at the President's Press Conference
  I am going to highlight and discuss a few things from the president's press conference today. To start, let's look at his bottom line. First, the president made this remark: "I will not sign a 30-day or a 60-day or a 90-day extension." He's referring to the debt limit. Then he had this excha ...
• Empathy & The Purple Hand Society
  Barack Obama: I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit -- the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us -- the child who's hungry, the steelworker who's been laid-off, the family who lost the entire li ...
• Wanker of the Day: Natalie Jennings
  It doesn't get any lower than having to issue a retraction/correction on how many calories the First Lady consumed at lunch. Update:We made a mistake in our original calculations. The calorie-count for the first ladys order was actually 1,700, not the 1,556 we originally reported. Our apolog ...
• Powering Down
  I'm probably about to lose power since I lose power almost everytime there is any kind of powerful thunderstorms. So, it was nice knowing ya. Maybe I'll see you around some time. Post some cool videos, just make sure to use the old embed code (check the box). Or just make some inane ...
• Feeling Grumpy
  Here's how I'm feeling this morning: Don't let them fool ya, Or even try to school ya! Oh, no! We've got a mind of our own, So go to hell if what you're thinking is not right! I'm about to tell everyone in Washington to go straight to hell. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

• Incredible Photos of Russian Peasants in the 1800s
  Intriguing photos showing the lives of regular street folk and tradesman in 19th-century Russia. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Inter-species Insect Threesomes!
  Two's company but three's not always a crowd when it comes the mating habits of insects. We've scoured the web to bring you some titillating pics of insect threesomes! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ar ...
• Soldiers Goofing Around While Stationed in War ...
  Hilarious photographs of soldiers getting up to all sorts of playfulness and pranks while in war zones or training... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Myanmar's Kuthodaw Pagoda: The Largest Book on ...
  The biggest book in the world is made out of stone, with each 'page' a slab of marble inscribed in gold and ensconced in its own cave-like building. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• On the Trail of Africa's Rhino Poachers
  The tragic and despicable story of how rhinoceroses are being slaughtered in South Africa. Who kills them for their horns and why? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• WikiLeaks: Haiti Disaster Capitalism's Latest ...
  Haiti is the latest victim of what Naomi Klein labeled the "Shock Doctrine."
• Washington's Physics Problem in Iraq
  There's a growing bipartisan consensus in favor of a prolonged "residual" occupation of Iraq without any open debate about the merits of this dangerous and expensive plan.
• Re-emergence of Shining Path as Drug Syndicate ...
  If new Peruvian President Ollanta Humala institutes aggressive policies that threaten coca production and leave behind piles of bodies, his political future will be in doubt.
• With Surgical Implantation, Jihadists Take Sui ...
  A willingness to entertain the surgical implantation of explosives is a sign of either increased commitment or desperation on the part of jihadists.
• Reorienting U.S. Security Strategy in South Asia
  The Obama administration's approach to the Afghan war is too narrowly focused. Instead, the administration should focus on India-Pakistan rapprochement as the hallmark of a cohesive South Asia strategy.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...

Al Jazeera

• Anonymous hacks US military contractor site
  Cyberativist sub-group "AntiSec" penetrates database maintained by engineering firm Booz Allen Hamilton.
• News Corp's BSkyB takeover bid at risk
  UK review of $11.9bn bid for broadcaster likely to put deal on hold for months amid phone-hacking scandal.
• Euro nations continue Greek bailout talks
  Pressure mounts on euro zone to agree on terms of a second bailout for Greece that could top the 2010 package.
• Obama pledges debt deal by August
  US president seeks to meet Republicans "daily" to fix $1.3tn deficit through tax increases, spending cuts.
• South Sudan to introduce 'pound' as currency
  Fledgling nation forms cabinet and details plan for release of new money, two days after independence from North Sudan.

Green Inc. - NYT

• House to Vote on Light-Bulb Repeal
  Republicans want to reverse a measure that required incandescent bulbs to be more efficient. Foes of their effort point out that consumers will save money over all if the rule stays in place.
• The Clean Energy Mantra
  In a speech on energy security, Mr. Obama used "clean" or "cleaner" 24 times in the context of energy.
• Drilling Into New York's Fracking Report
  The document explores issues like protecting groundwater and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from the drilling process.
• Fish Ingesting Plastic Waste, Study Finds
  Researchers suggest that 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic a year is swallowed by fish at intermediate depths of the North Pacific alone.
• Ethanol Industry Welcomes Compromise
  Even with ethanol subsidies cut, a consensus has arisen in Washington that as long as there is a renewable fuels standard that mandates the use of increasing amounts of biofuels, ethanol can prosper.

Dot Earth News

• Time for a Checkup
  A pause to step back and sift for ways to foster progress that fits on a finite planet.
• Cuomo Clarifies Fracking and Nuclear Plans
  New York's governor cements opposition to nuclear power and support for responsible gas drilling.
• Climate Roundup
  Polar bear protection stands, British emissions curbs falter.
• Online Climate Explored at Google
  Google engages with climate scientists to develop new communication tools and techniques for fostering comprehension of climate and energy issues.
• A Reality-Based Cooking Show with a Difference
  An innovative effort to bring new energy choices to Africa combines a profit motive, a lofty goal and reality-based film-making.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• By Anon request: A few loose ends on foreign e ...
  Time to check in with the Big Weird! I was requested by some anonymous person to post this. I don't personally conclude that 9-11 was triggered by Mini-Nukes but it's interesting that videos featuring a Russian guy with that view named Dimitri Khalezov are automatically blocked from upload on yo ...
• "Creating an atmosphere of fear for journalist ...
  Glenn Greenwald nails this one. Journalists have nowhere to run under the nightmarish corrupt DOJ regime -- and the lickspittles are not the ones subject to the special operations & continuous COINTELPRO patterns. Big ups to seeing our local repression campaign against antiwar activists duly not ...
• Two murky major elements of covert American po ...
  Truth trickles out a little bit at a time. People have to dig around diligently for stuff like this... then nasty patterns emerge. Here are two really nifty ones I spotted just recently. Nosh on this as you will... Back in the Depression, the US Treasury Department got a mysterious office called ...
• Lollin about at Netroots Nation 2011 #NN11 Can ...
  I am working this week at Netroots Nation - conveniently located at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Howard Dean made fun of me a bit for running flat-out back to fetch a Firewire drive with the key new video cut for DFA as the Keynote had already started. Yes Really :-D Good times! Good times ...
• Can Has Wargame, "Southland" Pre-scripting the ...
  "Is this real world or exercise??" --A memorable quote from air traffic controller on 9-11 Logistically speaking, how the hell did the West start bombing Libya so quickly? A French/NATO military exercise (aka wargame) called Southern Mistral was scheduled for almost the exact same time. Are war ...

Daily Censored

• 3-minute video: state-owned banks end Wall St. ...
  source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com The US suffers from debt-damned economics: a Robber Baron-era paradigm whereby the harder Americans work, the more in debt we collectively descend. The reason is Orwellian confusion between “money” (which the US does not create and use to facilitate trade) and “ ...
• Eddy Cosmas avoids the guillotine
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• World War III: The ‘resources’ war
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• Michael Collins: Choreographed Budget Cave In
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• Implanted bomb scare: real or propaganda?
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Institute for Policy Studies

• The Lineup: Week of July 11-17, 2011
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• A Strategy for Coping with Unemployment
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IntelNews

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War is a Crime.org

• Panetta: If Obama Can Be the One to Kill Socia ...
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• Our Child Soldiers in Libya
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• Going Neutral on Obama? Not on a Moving Train!
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• NATO's War Against Libya's Civilians
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Grist - News

• Do you live near America’s Fukushima?
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• Think you’re so smart, humans? Even fish ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. Tool use: It's not just for humans anymore. Actually, it hasn't been just for humans for a long while -- yet another form of homo sapiens exceptionalism we're having to learn to do without. But now it's not just for humans, apes, monkeys, certain birds, and possibly ...
• Strip-mining the Moon: Bad idea, or the worst ...
  by Sarah Laskow. As a millennial, I don't share boomers' enthusiasm for the power of science to solve all problems. So when someone says that strip-mining the Moon for rocks rich in helium-3, heating the rocks to harvest the helium, and using that helium for nuclear fusion will solve the ...
• DuPont herbicide may have caused mysterious tr ...
  by Sarah Laskow. Millions of dollars worth of spruce and pine trees across the country have mysteriously withered and died in the past few months. The likely culprit is an herbicide marketed as a way to control lawn pests like dandelions. The herbicide is Imprelis, a new product from ...
• Thomas Edison would have loved energy-efficien ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. Thomas Edison's great-grandson, David Edison Sloane, is not mincing words when it comes to the GOP wanting to repeal energy-efficiency standards for light bulbs: As an inventor, Edison would have no interest in turning back the legislative clock. The wizard of Menl ...

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Twilight Earth

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  ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece on Monday will announce the team that will head its privatizations agency set up to undertake billions of euros in asset sales to help pay down public debt, a finance ministry official said.
• A case for Ghana government reform or privatiz ...
  The Government of Ghana has demonstrated, since independence that several functions could be better run by private enterprise, at local level or discontinued.
• Bottled water costly for us and the planet
  I have to thank The Record for highlighting the issue of bottled water (Trustees failed both students and the planet, Our View, Feb. 26).

Guardian

• Universities given go-ahead to charge £9,000 t ...
  Government watchdog approves proposals to widen access meaning 47 out of 123 institutions will charge maximum amountMore than a third of English universities will charge £9,000 as their standard fee next year after their proposals for widening access to poorer students were approved by a governm ...
• Moscow charity gala drew Hollywood stars, but ...
  Doubts over Federation Fund emerge as event focuses more on publicity than charity It was a starry event that lured some of the biggest names in Hollywood along with a sprinkling of the Muscovite elite. There was Woody Allen, playing with his jazz band after a performance by Andrea Bocelli.There ...
• CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Os ...
  Senior Pakistani doctor who organised vaccine programme in Abbottabad arrested by ISI for working with US agentsThe CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family ...
• Hugo Chávez 'recovering rapidly' from cancer s ...
  Venezuelan president reportedly on the mend and optimistic about the future after undergoing operation to remove a tumourThe Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, is recovering rapidly after undergoing surgery last month that removed a cancerous tumour, the government said on Monday. Chávez remarke ...
• Italy looks to budget cuts in bid to avoid bailout
  Italian bailout fears grow but finance minister promises austerity measures in attempt to 'send the markets a strong signal'Italy was firmly in the eye of the eurozone debt storm on Monday as it became the target of potentially self-fulfilling fears that it will be unable to pay off its huge pub ...

McClatchey

• Obama on big debt deal: 'If not now, when?'
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will meet Tuesday with congressional leaders at the White House for the third straight day to try to break a partisan deadlock over efforts to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.
• HHS rules on health marketplaces give states f ...
  WASHINGTON — State flexibility takes center stage in proposed federal rules governing marketplaces where individuals and small businesses can shop for health insurance starting in 2014.
• McClatchy wins National Press Club award for A ...
  WASHINGTON — McClatchys series on the woes of U.S. contracting in Afghanistan has won the National Press Clubs award for diplomatic coverage.
• In Iraq, Panetta fails to break impasse on U.S ...
  BAGHDAD — The new defense secretary, Leon Panetta, expressed frustration on Monday in his first visit to Baghdad that squabbling Iraqi leaders had so far failed to decide whether to ask U.S. forces to stay in the country beyond 2011.
• Pakistan holds doctor who tried to collect bin ...
  ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities have jailed a doctor who helped the CIA by creating an elaborate plot to get DNA samples of Osama bin Ladens family before the al Qaida leader was killed in a special forces raid here.

Afghanistan Sun

• McClatchy wins National Press Club award for A ...
  WASHINGTON - McClatchys series on the woes of U.S. contracting in Afghanistan has won the National Press Clubs award for diplomatic coverage. The Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic ...
• In visit to Afghanistan and Iraq, Panetta fixe ...
  Former CIA chief Leon Panetta, now secretary of Defense, is assessing the US military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan and how to bring them to a successful ...
• Kuwait to serve as Afghan staging base
  Canada and Kuwait have signed an agreement to allow Canada to use the Persian Gulf country as a staging base, Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Monday. (Canadian ...
• Pakistan Army Push on Taliban Bastion May Avoi ...
  July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan’s military encirclement of the country’s biggest concentration of Taliban guerrillas, which intensified this month, may fail to yield a decisive blow ...
• UN mission in Afghanistan deplores killing of ...
  The United Nations has strongly condemned the brutal killing of four de-miners in the western Afghan province of Farah, stating that attacks on those who deliver humanitarian services are totally unac

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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Your Chance to Hear From Whistleblower Experts
  On July 20th, the Chief of the SEC Whistleblower Office, Sean McKessy, will be speaking at the National Whistleblowers Seminar at the prestigious Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, DC and via conference call. Take advantage of this special seminar and hear from leading whistleblower a ...
• CASA de Maryland receives reprisal for helping ...
  You don't have to be an employee to suffer retaliation for speaking truth to power. This summer, I have been helping CASA de Maryland, an immigrant rights organization. We helped tenants in a number of buildings in the Hyattsville, Long Branch and Langley Park areas. They are organizing to addre ...
• 'Project Gunrunner' Scandal Heats Up
  In January 2011, scandal broke out over “Project Gunrunner,” a program of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives agency (ATF). The intended goal of “Project Gunrunner” was to limit the flow of firearms into Mexico through close surveillance of undercover gun purchases. ATF agents encour ...
• Seats Remaining for Los Angeles CLE Seminar
  Tomorrow, June 28th, NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn will present his Corporate Whistleblower CLE seminar in Downtown Los Angeles at Carlsmith Ball LLP. Space is still available for this special seminar. The event will run from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (PDT), and will focus on the new Dodd-F ...
• Is the IRS Systemically Averse to Whistleblowers?
  Since the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) instituted a new whistleblower program in 2006, only one award has been made to a whistleblower, according to Mike Hudson from iWatch News. In yesterday’s article, “Red tape, old guard slow whistleblowing on corporate tax cheats,” Hudson explains why the ...

Science Express

• Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
  If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
• Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
  The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
• New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

• Microsoft Opens Its WiFi Data Collection Sourc ...
  Google's been facing a lot of difficulty lately due to its ridiculously dumb implementation of its WiFi access point data collection software. Lots of companies use such software to try to create a location map that can be used in the absence of GPS. Both Microsoft and Apple have similar proje ...
• DailyDirt: Green(er) Money, Plastic Money, Hig ...
  There's a lot of money in the world, but the vast majority of it is not cash. Digital bits accounting for vast sums are the intangible fabric of our economy now. Still, people like to use cash -- and here are some interesting articles on physical currency. Printing US currency is getting gre ...
• Google Wants Another Court To Determine If Acc ...
  After an apparently, technically clueless judge ruled last week that WiFi is not a radio communication, and thus suggested Google's collection of open WiFi data represents illegal wiretapping, Google has asked for an immediate appeal on that point, noting that "reasonable judges could disagree," ...
• Turns Out Some Police Like Being Filmed While ...
  Just a couple months ago, we wrote about how police were complaining that allowing people to film them in public created chilling effects on how they behaved. Separately, we've noted a variety of recent incidents in which police took action against those who filmed them in public. Thankful ...
• It's The Experience That Makes Music Valuable; ...
  Ethan Kaplan strikes again. The always-thoughtful (and thought-provoking) former recording industry tech exec has put up a blog post that not only explains why Turntable.fm is so popular, but also reframes why the record labels have failed to embrace almost every cool new internet service. You ...

VacTruth

• Research Shows Vaccinations Are Causing Surge ...
  According to the organization ‘Children & Asthma in America’ there are at least 7 million children in the USA who suffer from the debilitating illness asthma. Are vaccines a major trigger?Vactruth.com
• Is There Payola In Pharmacology?
  Do you remember a child’s saying, “Pishper shame, pishper shame, you ruined your name”, when someone was caught telling a fib? Well, what should we be saying now that it’s revealed that several respected medical researchers have been caught with their ‘disclosure pants’ down?Vactruth.com
• Was A Court Ban On Mandatory Vaccination In It ...
  Courts in Italy may have made attempts to stop mandatory vaccination. The first case involved 50 brave families who took their complaints to the appeal court in Ancona. Vactruth.com
• What Happens When…
  With Child Protective Services (CPS) virtually in every city, county, and state in the USA, what happens when a parent harms a child? Child Protective Services removes the child from the parents’ care and custody and then places the child under the agency’s foster care program with parents facin ...
• Top 5 Vaccine Stories for June
  We have scoured the web to bring you the top news headlines from around the world. Stay current in the latest affairs surrounding vaccines, Pharma, and the authorities who support them.Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• Ciao Newsrooms. I Won’t Miss You.
  Chris Hedges recently wrote one of those sad obituaries for newsrooms. He longs for the old timey orgs like in All the President’s Men. But Iâm not buying all the chicken little stuff when it comes to news. I don’t think the death of newsrooms is such a tragedy. And I’m not just saying that [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I try to keep my petty problems out of the blog, but I have this issue with my upstairs neighbor. She is whiny, hyper-sensitive, and dateless on weekends. This has led to her complaining about us to management. We, of course, are trying to figure out how to be as loud and obnoxious as possible [...]
• Unions? NBA? Sigh.
  I’m in the middle of writing a completely different post on media, which is taking me entirely too long and should have been up yesterday. But while on the gerbil machine at the gym, I caught Sports Center’s coverage of the NBA lockout.  Now I can’t get my head back into what I was writing. [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I am having one hell of a time trying to catch up on blog reading and whatnot. I cannot believe how many thousands of posts have accumulated. I may have to consider culling my reader a bit. I used to work for a non-profit that helped caregivers of brain impairments. So stories, like this one, ab ...
• Whose Fault Is It?
  The Dilbert guy is being hateful and thick again. He wrote a post on the recent spate of men caught “tweeting, raping, cheating” and had this to say. The part that interests me is that society is organized in such a way that the natural instincts of men are shameful and criminal while the natura ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Obama Faces Growing Threat of Impeachment over ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Labor Goes for Glass-Steagall
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 17, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 24
• 1776 to Today: Mobilizing for Independence
  by Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 17, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 24
• America’s Historic Mission: 1776 & 1936
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 17, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 24
• Resolution for Immediate Dissolution of the WBGU
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 17, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 24

Armies of Liberation

• آليات ما بعد ثورة اليمن ينبغي أن تبدأ محلياً ...
  Mostakela: :: Ø¢ÙÙات ما بعد Ø«Ùرة اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙبغ٠أ٠تبدأ محÙÙا٠(ترجمÙ) اÙÙاتبة اÙأمرÙÙÙØ© ÙÙÙا٠تبادر باÙتراح Ø¢ÙÙات ما بعد اÙØ«Ùرة - 2011-ÙÙÙÙÙ(حزÙراÙ)-19 Ø¢ÙÙات ما بعد Ø«Ùرة اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙبغ٠أ٠تبدأ محÙÙا٠Ùتبت: جÙÙ ...
• Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
  Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
• Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
  Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
• Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
  In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
• Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
  In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...

Dark Politricks

• Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
• Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
  Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
• Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
  Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
• NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
  John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
• Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
  Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...

food and water watch

• By: April
  Please read Blue Gold and When the Rivers Run Dry....I am officially against the majority of desalination due to the fact that all the water we have now is all the water we will EVER have!
• By: Rich's coworker
  In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
• By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
  [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
• By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
  [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
• By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
  [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]

treehugger

• Toyota to Bring Electric Version of Scion iQ t ...
  Photo: Toyota Think Small Toyota has been a laggard so far in the 100% electric car market despite its decade-long leadership in hybrid vehicles. It looks like its big plan to catch up with its rivals (especially Nissan, GM, and Ford) is ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
• New Weedkiller May be Causing Mass Tree Deaths ...
  White pine trees, a species under assault by Imprelis. Photo: bobistraveling via Flickr/CC BY Unruly herbicides are making headlines again: A couple weeks ago, it was the fact that the world's top-selling weedkiller was causing birth defects. This time, it looks like the brand new herbicide ...
• Cruiser Charisma: A Future Living Seriously Of ...
  All images Credit Jonas Loh with permission For his project at the Royal College of Art, Jonas Loh studied intentional self-sufficient communities from Earthaven Ecovillage to the Amish. But he also had an opposing inspiration: "an extrapolation of current scientific research which embraces ...
• Thousands Climate Refugees Per Day Pushing Int ...
  The epic drought conditions in the Horn of Africa and East Africa that first began coming to light about ten days ago continue to intensify, with what are in effect climate refugees streaming into parts of Somalia and Kenya. In northern Kenya, the refugee camp at Daadab has 1,500 new peo ...
• Could the Resurgence of Soda Fountains Banish ...
  Photo: Library of Congress Starting way back in the early 1800s, folks relied on soda fountains to get their fizzy fix -- they'd head to department stores, diners, candy shops for the carbonated stuff. They peaked in the 40s and 50s, when everything was swell. Then, with the rise of chain d ...

Biosingularity

• Dietary Supplement May Help Prevent Preeclampsia
  An inexpensive dietary supplement appears to help prevent the serious pregnancy complication preeclampsia in high-risk women, according to a new study. But researchers say the effect in lower-risk pregnancies remains to be determined. In the study from Mexico, women who ate daily food bars conta ...
• Tiny variation in one gene may have led to cru ...
  The human brain has yet to explain the origin of one its defining features — the deep fissures and convolutions that increase its surface area and allow for rational and abstract thoughts. An international collaboration of scientists from the Yale School of Medicine and Turkey may have discovere ...
• Reprogrammed cells trigger immune reactions in ...
  Cells that have been reprogrammed to grow into different types of tissue might be rejected by the body — even when they are transplanted into the individual from whom they are made, researchers report in a study published today in Nature1.The study was led by Yang Xu, a molecular biologist at th ...
• A new program for neural stem cells
  Neural stem cells can do a lot, but not everything. For example, brain and spinal cord cells are not usually generated by neural stem cells of the peripheral nervous system, and it is not possible to produce cells of the peripheral nervous system from the stem cells of the brain. However, resear ...
• Sound Test Might Signal Minimal Consciousness
  Talk between the brain’s decision-making center, or frontal cortex, and other brain regions might distinguish aware individuals from those stripped of conscious thought. Identifying such signaling malfunctions could speed the diagnosis of vegetative states and give scientists insight into such d ...

CFACT

• Facts lost in deep dark jungle of rainforest issue
  In an emotionally-charged topic like the rainforest, getting to the truth can prove almost as hard as finding the glittering city of the ancient Golden King
• Are organic foods really better?
  Facts challenge organic's benefits over modern agriculture
• Report on WTO Summit in Cancun - Day 1
• Report on WTO summit in Cancun, Day 2
• Report on WTO summit in Cancun, Day 3

Ria Novosti Online News

• Main news of July 11
  A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
• Cruise ship sinks on Russia's Volga river
• Witnesses, survivors reveal details of Bulgari ...
  Witnesses of the cruise ship that sank on Sunday on Russia's Volga River unveiled some details of the tragedy of the Bulgaria.
• Captains of two vessels passing sinking Russia ...
  The captains of two passing vessels who failed to come to the aid of the Bulgaria, which sank in the Volga River with some 200 passengers on board, will get "maximum punishment," Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin said on Monday.
• Russian skinhead group leader gets life for se ...
  The Moscow District Military Court sentenced the leader of a Russian nationalist group and five other members to life in prison for dozens of ethnically motivated murders.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia postpones launch of Soyuz spacecraft wi ...
  The launch of Russia's Soyuz-2.1a space carrier with six U.S. Globalstar-2 communications satellites, has been postponed due to technical reasons.
• Preparations for launch of Soyuz spacecraft wi ...
  Preparations for the launch of Russia's Soyuz-2.1a space carrier with six U.S. Globalstar-2 communications satellites have entered their final stage.
• Obama says U.S. will continue space research a ...
  U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday that his country will continue space research despite the end of the Space Shuttle program.
• Atlantis blasts off in last shuttle launch
  The last ever shuttle launch was performed on Friday as Atlantis lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
• Russia's Soyuz spacecraft with six U.S. satell ...
  Russia's Soyuz-2.1a space carrier with six U.S. Globalstar-2 communications satellites will be launched on July 11, a statement from the Russian Space Agency said on Friday.

Pruning Shears

• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Preston J. Suter, 22, Sandy, UT.Army Spc. Jordan C. Schumann, 24, Port Saint Lucie, FL.Army ...
• 'No On SB 5': The summer pause
  Last Wednesday We Are Ohio dropped off 1,298,301 signatures at the Secretary of State’s office to put the citizen veto of SB 5 on the ballot. For the time being that puts activists in a bit of a holding pattern. Enough signatures need to be validated to put it on the ballot in November, and si ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Robert G. Tenney Jr., 29, Warner Robins, GA.Army Capt. Matthew G. Nielson, 27, of Jefferson, ...
• 'No On SB 5': How we got 1.3 million signatures
  One at a time, that’s how.I know that’s a flippant way to put it, but all the big picture stuff risks losing sight of the most important thing of all: This happened because passionately committed individuals took it upon themselves to get the training and put themselves in a position to ask thei ...
• Merrill Lynch Pays Back its Bailout with Free ...
  Today on the Capitol square in Madison, a group called US Uncut (@usuncutwi) partnered with “too big to fail” bank Merrill Lynch to help give a little something in return for the taxpayer bailout they received.  A table was set up in front of the Merrill Lynch branch on the square, and well-dres ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Woman Faces Jail Time for Planting Organic Veg ...
  A Michigan woman is being charged with a misdemeanor offense and is facing up to 93 days in jail. Her crime? Planting a vegetable garden-in her own yard. Her front yard, that is.Click here to read this article
• The Worlds Largest Human Experiment: GMOs, Rou ...
  In the case of genetically modified organisms we have not been made aware of the risks. In fact, the GMO industry has deliberately hidden the real dangers behind the seeds and herbicides they peddle.Click here to read this article
• Engineering An Environmental Disaster
  America's supermarkets are awash in genetically modified foods. Over the past decade, biotech companies like Monsanto have dominated dinner tables with crops like corn, soybeans and canola modified to survive lethal doses of herbicides, resulting in increased herbicide use, a surge in herbicid ...
• Australia: Good Start, but Only the Beginning ...
  Turning around emissions growth this decade and then cutting greenhouse pollution by 80 per cent by 2050 - the target announced by the Gillard government yesterday - would put Australia on the trajectory the world needs to take to avoid the catastrophic consequencesClick here to read this article
• Secondhand Smoke Tied To Mental Health Problem ...
  Estimates suggest that anywhere between 4.8 and 5.5 million children in the U.S. live in households where they are exposed to secondhand smoke, putting them at greater risk for multiple health problems. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

• Hen Party: Historic Agreement to Promote Stand ...
  United Egg Producers (UEP) has partnered with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), agreeing to work together toward legislation of national standards to be used in egg production.
• TIME Magazine: Spotlight on IFAP and “Conceale ...
  When looked at through the lens of public health, the abuse that we see in the Mercy for Animals video constitutes not only cruelty to animals, but cruelty to humans as well, including the dehumanizing influence on workers forced to labor under conditions that ultimately breed contempt for the a ...
• Focus on Food Day: The Consequences of Meat
  Earlier this week, CLF’s Robert S. Lawrence, MD, and Keeve Nachman, PhD, kicked off the Center for a Livable Future’s countdown to Food Day with a webinar, “Industrial food animal production and the high-meat American diet: health and environmental consequences.” (Audio; slides). October 24, 20 ...
• Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grow ...
  June 9-12, Amanda Behrens and I journeyed to Missoula, Montana for the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). The conference, entitled Food ...
• Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
  Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
  NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...
• News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...
  NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART The Facebook page on Macsyna King is dishonest. They have known all along that Macsyna has neither sought nor been offered any money or compensation for the book Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart. Still, the...
• Sea-level study released - yawn
  Mann, Ramstorf and other 'usual suspects' have released their 'it's worse than we thought' sea level "study". Newspaper paraphrases: Looking back in history, the researchers found that sea level was relatively stable from 100 BC to AD 950. Then, during...
• Where's my global warming dude?
  Temperature trend from HadCRUT for the past decade says it all, really: Hat tip: Steve Goddard
• Prepare for global cooling - it's official
  To coincide with the release of Air Con Climategate Edition on Kindle, there's been a stunning announcement today that we appear to be seeing major changes in the Sun, of a type that heralded the Little Ice Age. The full...

My Care2 Picks

• Rejection by African Union of ICC's Qaddafi ar ...
  If an entire continent rejects an alleged international institution's actions as illegitimate and self-serving, does said institution still get to call itself "international?" ICC 'arrest warrant' for Qaddafi soundly rejected by the 53-member African UnioSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� � ...
• Afghan War will Shift to India?
  In fact, under the pretext of Talibanisation of Pakistan and unrest in the country, which has collevtively been created by the American CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad,......Submitted by Imran F. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• NATO Is An Outlaw, The ICC Is Its Accomplice - ...
  The International Criminal Court at The Hague is a pariah in the world of Justice and International Law; those who work for it are traitors to their cause, the Institution itself is an insult to every fibre of civilisation and a knife in the back...Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note-i ...
• Guantanamo Bay Prison and Torture News.
  Since the US started shipping prisoners from around the world to Guantánamo, approximately 99% have never been charged with any transgression, much less a crime. The victims of the United States are too innumerable to count.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• A New Documentary: The Terror Within
  Unprecedented abuses of the PATRIOT Act in the case of whistleblower Julia Davis: aerial surveillance with a Blackhawk helicopter and a fixed-wing airplane, warrantless surveillance, wiretaps, sneak and peek burglaries, Internet monitoring and On-Star traSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...

Angry Indian News

• gulfnews : Syrian activist in hiding, still ta ...
  gulfnews : Syrian activist in hiding, still talking: "Johannesburg:�One of the most prominent opponents of the Syrian regime fears for his life and is in hiding, but that has not stopped him from... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• SOUTH LEBANON: Israel gives award to tank shel ...
  SOUTH LEBANON: Israel gives award to tank shell used against civilians in Gaza: "By: Saed Bannoura - IMEMC NewsThe Israeli Defense Ministry awarded the “Israel Defense Prize” to the Calanit... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• China Worker: Malaysia: Detained opposition ac ...
  China Worker: The government crackdown started when the PSM (Socialist Party of Malaysia) launched its campaign last weekend called ‘Enough BN, Retire Now!’. The police arrested around 30 supporters... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• CARICOM Summit Condemns NATO Neo-Colonial Aggr ...
  CARICOM Summit Condemns NATO Neo-Colonial Aggression Against Libya (mathaba) -- The heads of state and governments of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) condemned the NATO white racist aggression... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• KENYAN JUDGE RULES WOMAN TO WOMAN MARRIAGE VALID
  Behind the Mask | The Voice of Africa's LGBTI Community – KENYAN JUDGE RULES WOMAN TO WOMAN MARRIAGE VALID: In his ruling, Justice Ojwang’ made reference to Eugene Cotran’s The law of Marriage and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Codex Commission – Voluntary GMO Labeling Okay ...
  Codex has capitulated on the GM labeling issue after a battle spanning approximately 20 years, stating that it will allow countries to label GMOs and the WTO will not legally challenge them for it.
• GMO Rice is On It’s Way to a Store Near You
  Short, fun video about a very serious subject - GMO rice.
• Truth Squad Radio – Dave Hodges Exposes the Gu ...
  Dave Hodges of the Common Sense Radio Show will join us Wednesday, July 6, 6-8pm Pacific time, to expose the Gulf coast depopulation agenda!
• The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust Pt 2
  For those who are not lucky enough to have won the BP propaganda lottery by having been selected to be the face of BP fairness while receiving financial restitution in exchange for assisting BP in their shameless self-promotion tactics, there are untold numbers of Gulf workers who have been unde ...
• How to Arrest the Economy-Strangling EPA
  The Clean Air Act has been expanded and the EPA is in a power grab for jurisdiction over vehicle emissions and is now planning control over utilities.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• 90,000 Military Email Accounts Leaked in Lates ...
  ShareThis90,000 Military Email Accounts Leaked in Latest #AntiSec Attack 11 Jul 2011 In latest tweet by AnonymousIRC, Hackers leak 90,000 military email accounts from Booz Allen Hamilton, a massive American consulting firm, for #AntiSec. Anonymous calls it "Military Meltdown Monday: Mangling Boo ...
• Rockets hit Baghdad Green Zone as Panetta visits
  ShareThisRockets hit Baghdad Green Zone as Panetta visits 11 Jul 2011 Three rockets slammed into Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone on Monday, wounding a woman and her children, officials said, as US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta began the second day of a visit to press Iraqi leaders on sec ...
• US drone attack kills 10 in Pakistan
  ShareThisUS drone attack kills 10 in Pakistan 11 Jul 2011 A non-UN-sanctioned US airstrike has killed at least ten people and wounded several others in Pakistan's troubled tribal belt, officials say. Local security officials say the missiles fired from a US drone targeted a compound near Miransh ...
• Afghans hold anti-US demonstration
  ShareThisAfghans hold anti-US demonstration 11 Jul 2011 Afghans chant slogans against Pakistani army during a rally in Jalalabad on Monday. Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad to protest the US occupation as well as Pakistan's cross-border atta ...
• 'Flytilla' activists go on hunger strike
  ShareThis'Flytilla' activists go on hunger strike 11 Jul 2011 International activists have gone on hunger strike in two Israeli detention centers after being arrested by the Tel Aviv regime for attempting to enter occupied Palestinian territories. Dozens of "Welcome to Palestine" activist went o ...

Daily Loaf

• 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
  I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
• Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
  Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  ...
• D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
  Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
• Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
  The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
• Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
  April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
  Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
• VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
  Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
• VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
  “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
• VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
  “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
• VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
  “Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• You Know You're Getting Old When...
  A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
• Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
  Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
• Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
  After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
• Strawberry Picking
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

• IJC: Change of Command
  And a Few Thoughts IJC INVITES MEDIA TO ISAF Joint Command Official Change of Command Ceremony KABUL, Afghanistan (July 9) � Media are invited to attend the change of command ceremony when Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez will welcome Lt. Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti as the new commander of ISAF Join ...
• IRAQ: INSIDE THE INFERNO 2005 -2008: Book Upate
  Published: 11 July 2011 Michael Yon All, My new book IRAQ: INSIDER THE INFERNO 2005 -2008 is now complete and signed copies are shipping. It was a huge effort I and hope you all like it. I have included a letter from my editor who can better explain the production delay. Please remember the pu ...
• Low Metal Content
  Bomb Tricks and Techniques in Afghanistan 08 July 2011 The enemy sees our people use metal detectors every day.� Last time I was with the British, hardly a step was taken without waving the divining rod over the ground.� You try to step into the step of the troop in front of you, and there a ...
• The Snapper
  Bomb Tricks and Techniques in Afghanistan 07 July 2011 CIVCAS (civilian casualties) are a huge problem for our side and for the enemy.� The enemy causes far more CIVCAS but as outsiders our mistakes have a more toxic psychological effect.� We won�t have to wait long for the next report of th ...
• 235 Troops Reenlist
  04 July 2011 On the 4th of July, General David Petraeus reenlists 235 troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Toyota to Bring Electric Version of Scion iQ t ...
  Photo: Toyota Think Small Toyota has been a laggard so far in the 100% electric car market despite its decade-long leadership in hybrid vehicles. It looks like its big plan to catch up with its rivals (especially Nissan, GM, and Ford) is ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
• New Weedkiller May be Causing Mass Tree Deaths ...
  White pine trees, a species under assault by Imprelis. Photo: bobistraveling via Flickr/CC BY Unruly herbicides are making headlines again: A couple weeks ago, it was the fact that the world's top-selling weedkiller was causing birth defects. This time, it looks like the brand new herbicide ...
• Cruiser Charisma: A Future Living Seriously Of ...
  All images Credit Jonas Loh with permission For his project at the Royal College of Art, Jonas Loh studied intentional self-sufficient communities from Earthaven Ecovillage to the Amish. But he also had an opposing inspiration: "an extrapolation of current scientific research which embraces ...
• Thousands Climate Refugees Per Day Pushing Int ...
  The epic drought conditions in the Horn of Africa and East Africa that first began coming to light about ten days ago continue to intensify, with what are in effect climate refugees streaming into parts of Somalia and Kenya. In northern Kenya, the refugee camp at Daadab has 1,500 new peo ...
• Could the Resurgence of Soda Fountains Banish ...
  Photo: Library of Congress Starting way back in the early 1800s, folks relied on soda fountains to get their fizzy fix -- they'd head to department stores, diners, candy shops for the carbonated stuff. They peaked in the 40s and 50s, when everything was swell. Then, with the rise of chain d ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Rakhine MPs disqualified by ruling
  Arakanese party representatives disqualified by UEC for attacking previous military junta and USDP in election campaigns last year
• Kachin army ambush leaves 30 dead
  Attack on convoy carrying Burmese troops in Kachin state destroys two trucks and signals no end to fighting in the north
• Traders hopeful over Thai-Burma bridge
  Traders optimistic that new Thai government will develop better relations with Naypyidaw to prompt reopening of Mae Sot crossing
• Aid tentatively returns to Burma prisons
  International Committee of the Red Cross allowed to inspect water facilities in three prisons as six-year ban shows signs of ending
• Boy, 9, hospitalised after ‘severe torture’
  Orphan burned with hot iron and forced to eat animal faeces by employer is ejected from hospital after failing to pay medical fees

Telegraph - Climate Change

• The Phoenix dust storm shows that, whatever th ...
  Rain or shine, drought, flood or dust-storm, the warmist faith decrees that all 'freak weather events' are man-made, says Christopher Booker.
• £50 trillion needs to be spent on going green ...
  Almost £50 trillion must be spent on green technology over the coming decades if the world is to avert a "major planetary catastrophe", the United Nations has claimed.
• Man-made climate change evidence 'hidden' by s ...
  Cutting down on pollution from Chinese coal plants could actually make the earth become warmer, according to a new study.
• Proof that the Government is tilting at windmills
  The policy on which our national energy strategy is now centred is a ludicrously expensive, self-defeating joke, says Christopher Booker.
• Poland's EU budget commissioner in climate cha ...
  Poland's EU budget commissioner has been forced to recant after he claimed climate change was exaggerated and argued that overambitious EU CO2 emissions targets would hurt his country's economy.

National Geographic | Environment

• Photos: 4 Natural Wonders Added to World Herit ...
  NoneIt's not hard to see why these sites were added this year to the UN's list of global natural treasures. Plus: sites on the rebound—and the decline.
• Energy-Short Japan Eyes Renewable Future, Savi ...
  The tsunami's damage and political fallout leave Japan striving to save power this summer as it charts a new energy course.
• Earth Has "Spare Tire"—And Ice Melt's Keeping ...
  Our oblong planet's waistline bulge has stopped slimming, thanks to massive ice melt, according to new research.
• Pictures We Love: Best of June
  NoneSo good we had to share—ten new images that gripped Nat Geo photo editors: "supertrees," an upside-down horse, a surfer on ice, and more.
• "Exceptional" Giant Squid Found Dying off Florida
  A stirring, intact giant squid gave a fishing party a shock this week—and could give researchers new insights, scientists say.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Egypt court grants Libya citizens' demand to r ...
  [JURIST] An Egyptian court on Monday ordered the removal of 14 Libyan news stations from the air. Libyan citizens and Egyptian lawyers filed the lawsuit, arguing that the stations, which are owned by the Muammar Gaddafi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] administration, incite opposition to the ...
• Germany appeals court upholds conviction of UK ...
  [JURIST] The Regensberg Court of Appeals in southern Germany on Monday upheld the conviction of British Bishop Richard Williamson for incitement for denying the Holocaust [JURIST news archive]. The court reduced his punishment [AP report], however, to a fine of 6,500 euro from the initial 10,000 ...
• Senegal reverses decision to deport Chad ex-di ...
  [JURIST] Senegal reversed its decision Sunday to send former Chad dictator Hissene Habre [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] back to Chad after UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] warned he could be tortured. Senegal suspended plans late Sunday [AFP report] just h ...
• Austria extradites Croatia ex-PM to face corru ...
  [JURIST] An Austrian court approved the extradition Monday of former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader back to Croatia to face corruption charges. The court completed the paperwork allowing Sanader to be extradited [Telegraph report] back to Croatia. He will face charges of abuse of power, cor ...
• Uganda charges rebel leader in first war crime ...
  [JURIST] A Ugandan court on Monday began its first war crimes trial of a commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], a Ugandan rebel group. The International Crimes Division (ICD) [official website, JURIST news archive] of the High Court of Uganda [JURIST ne ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Do Americans Support Higher Taxes?
  Seeking to beat back Republican protestations that tax hikes, business or individual, are a no-go in any deal to raise the federal debt limit, Bruce Bartlett calls out poll after poll that show Americans support higher rates. A sampling: A June 9 Washington Post/ABC News poll found that 61 pe ...
• Picture of the Day: D.C. Gym to Politicians: G ...
  The Washington Sports Club knows its clientele. Former congressman Anthony Weiner was in pretty good shape, we learned quite publicly, thanks in part to time spent in the House gym. But for any lawmakers concerned that Weiner sullied the office fitness room (who wants to sit on that equip ...
• Boehner's Saturday Night Massacre
  The collapse over the weekend of the $4 trillion debt deal doesn't spell doom. But it does clarify who's running the show. As you've probably already heard, the chance for a historic, $4 trillion deficit-cutting deal disappeared in a puff of smoke on Saturday night when House Speaker John Boehn ...
• Obama Tells Congressmen to Eat Their Peas On D ...
  The president said that the only deal he would reject was a short-term one, and vowed to meet with negotiators every day until there's an agreement President Obama used his bully pulpit on Monday to continue to call for a larger deficit-reduction deal ...
• What America Looks Like: West Liberty, Iowa
  The United States as seen by its residents In West Liberty, Iowa, workers toil in a turkey processing plant. "Most of the workers in the plant are Latinos," says Reuters, "who have made the town of West Liberty the first Hispanic majority town in Iowa." Previously in this series: Venice Beac ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Abir Aramin Died in Vain
  I know it will pain her father, Bassam if he reads these words, but how else to describe the shameful decision by the Israeli Supreme Court to refuse to hold accountable two Border Police officers who murdered the little then-10 year old girl on her way home from school one day in 2007.  Bassa ...
• Yossi Sarid on BDS: ‘Green Line is Red Line’
  I like that phrase.  It has a nice ring to it.  And Sarid uses it, davke, the day before the Knesset is due to pass its anti-boycott legislation which would criminalize references to BDS in the Israeli media, to affirm his intent to boycott the settlements and to support all those throu ...
• Slavery Had Its Good Points Too
  I know, it’s way too early to be following the joke of a Presidential primary race in the Republican Party.  But these bozos are already providing immense entertainment opportunities.  You’ll recall that Michelle Bachmann a few days ago agreed that if she became president, pornography would ...
• Outgoing Ambassador: U.S. Provided $200-Millio ...
  The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham, offers the Jerusalem Post a litany of ways in which we’ve been at Israel’s beck and call.  Problems with U.S.-Israel relations?  Nah.  Nothing that a few hundred million bucks and 20 F-16s can’t fix (that was the failed bribe p ...
• Imagine, U.S. Congress Voted Against Israeli S ...
  Picture, it’s 1947, you’re a Jewish resident of the Yishuv contemplating an impending vote in the UN General Assembly to recognize the UN Partition and create a new State of Israel.  You’re anticipating the support of both the Soviet Union and the United States.  But nothing is certain.  That ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

• Help to overcome
  SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]
• USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
  The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
• FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
  by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
• My Predicament
  For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...
• High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
  O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]

Unsuitable Blog

• Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
  We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...
• Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
  In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
• Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty Secrets
  JUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...
• I’m On The Run
  Actually I’m not. It would have been quite exciting to have been writing a blog from an internet cafe somewhere, or hijacking a wireless connection outside an office building, but it seems I am safe and snug in my home completely bereft of law enforcement officers hammering at my door demanding ...
• Everyone Must Follow The Rules (Apart From Tho ...
  Enjoy the moment – the personification of Evil is dead. Take to the streets and express your sheer joy at the end of a symbol. Paint your banners and hold them high; unfurl your flags and wave them in the night sky; don your army surplus trousers and bare your chests: we have a winner [...]

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• How TileMill Improved Ushahidi Maps to Protect ...
  In May I worked with Plan Benin to improve its Violence Against Children (VAC) reporting system. The system uses FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi to collect and visualize reports of violence against children. Ushahidi develops open-source software for information collection, visualization and interacti ...
• When Moral Systems Miss the Point in Newsgames
  In "Newsgames: Journalism at Play," we argue that the news quiz "is an incredibly simple type of game, but one that nevertheless can transmit factual information in a refreshing way." Perhaps our favorite example is an op-ed suite from The New York Times called "Turning Points, 2008 Edition," wh ...
• MIT Lesson: Change Happens Everywhere; Activis ...
  I attended last Thursday's afternoon plenary "Civic Media Mobilization," at the 2011 Knight Civic Media conference, expecting to hear discussion about specific activist technologies and techniques. I was also anticipating some juicy political friction between the Tea Party consultant and the imm ...
• TileMill Opens Up a World of Mapping Possibili ...
  One of our favorite collaborative open data projects is OpenStreetMap. We've talked before about the project's goals, how its free and open nature is advantageous for non-profit and commercial applications alike, and how its open and near-real-time editing process is a major advantage in rapidly ...
• Knight Announces 2011 News Challenge Winners
  Not so long ago, journalists were playing catch-up in the digital media space. But at this year's MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, it's become evident that journalism 2.0 is growing up. Alberto Ibargüen, CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, today announced the winners of the K ...

Cutting Edge News

• Egypt after Mubarak - Egypt’s Enduring Challen ...
  In recent years, Egypt has seen its regional influence erode precipitously. Decades have passed since Cairo was the diplomatic, cultural, and intellectual hub of the Middle East. But the extent of Egypt’s decline has become even more pronounced of late, as the state has focused increasingly on i ...
• Healthxare on Edge - House to Hold Hearings on ...
  House Republicans will make a concerted push this week to shift the healthcare focus back on to President Obama and congressional Democrats—specifically by focusing on a cost-cutting panel in the healthcare law that the GOP charges will “ration” care.The renewed attacks on the Independent Paymen ...
• China on Edge - Chinese Firm Demands CNN Apolo ...
  China’s largest egg processing company says it is demanding an apology from a U.S.-based television network for describing a traditional Chinese dish as the world’s most disgusting food.Chinese broadcast and print media said Wednesday the demand was issued by the chairman of the Hubei Shendan He ...
• The Grid's Edge - BULB Act is Dim-witted
  In 1879, Thomas Edison invented a way to create light by heating up a thin strip of material (called a filament) until it was hot enough to glow. This was the incandescent light bulb.Since then, Americans and people all over the world have been using these same light bulbs that produce 90% heat ...
• After the BP Spill - Most Gulf of Mexico Oil S ...
  BP said on July 8 that victims of last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill do not need compensation for future economic losses because the region has made significant progress in its recovery from the disaster.“The current economic data do not suggest that individual and business claimants face a ma ...

High Country News

• A fire lookout in a wilderness speaks of our past
  The Green Mountain Fire Lookout in Washington's Glacier Peak Wilderness is worth preserving, partly in memory of the workers who built it.
• Tuning out and finding local
  A short day's drive from where you live can you put in touch with local history and help you meet new people in fascinating small towns.
• Shifting gears, wearing Lycra
  Is it possible to buy a new mountain bike without buying tons of other stuff?
• Rural papers doing better than their city coun ...
  In an age where the decline newspapers seems imminent, small town papers still fill a niche.
• The adolescent West
  Logan, Utah, needs to get over its adolescent angst and decide what it wants to be when it grows up.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• Washington Post Fact Checker, Gets His Facts A ...
  The 2012 Election is still sixteen months away, but the discussions about whether President Obama will be able to retain the same large portion of the Jewish vote as he did in 2008 remains a hot topic for the third straight week. Today the article comes from the Washington Post, whose fact chec ...
• The Rachel Corrie Hoax : Israeli Courts to Rul ...
  An Israeli court heard its final witness yesterday in a lawsuit surrounding the death of American-born Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie, who was accidentally killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. The court is expected to rule before April 2012. Corrie belonged to a pr ...
• Iranian Troops Are Killing American's In Iraq- ...
  By Barry Rubin Let’s pretend we are living in a sane and normal era with a sane and normal U.S. government. In that context, read the following paragraph from the Wall Street Journal and then let’s think out loud about it. “The top U.S. military officer accused Iran…of shipping new s ...
• LAWSUIT! Sheila Jackson Lee Tormented Disable ...
  Its been well known the Sheila Jackson Lee's brain lights are set to dim.� Some would say that she rivals Barbara Boxer for the title of dumbest person in Congress. Jackson Lee who once wasted the Congresses time with a piece of legislation to honor the late Michael Jackson (A Tribute to a ...
• Obama Extends Hand; America’s Enemies Slap It Away
  �by Barry Rubin There�s a remarkable exchange from a May 2009 presidential press conference that is extraordinarily revealing. Question: �Aren�t you concerned that your outstretched hand has been interpreted by extremists, especially [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad, ...

The Real Agenda

• Competing Currencies: A Defense against Profli ...
  by Rep. Ron Paul The end of June marked what is hopefully the end of the Federal Reserve’s policy of quantitative easing. For months the Fed has purchased hundreds of billions of dollars of Treasury debt, enabling the government to fund its profligate deficit spending, push the national debt to ...
• Obama, Dems skirt issue on tax hikes
  by Erica Werner AP July 11, 2011 Call it eliminating an unfair break, or removing an unjust loophole, or even “taking a balanced approach.” Just don’t call it raising taxes. As they work toward a must-do deal with Republicans on paring trillions from the deficit in order to raise the nation’s de ...
• Clean Energy Boom Heading to the Abyss
  By. Devon Swezey Breakthrough Institute July 11, 2011 The global clean energy industry is set for a major crash. The reason is simple. Clean energy is still much more expensive and less reliable than coal or gas, and in an era of heightened budget austerity the subsidies required to make clean e ...
• America’s Disappearing Black Middle Class
  AP July 10, 2011 Millions of Americans endured financial calamities in the recession. But for many in the black community, job loss has knocked them out of the middle class and back into poverty. And some experts warn of a historic reversal of hard-won economic gains that took black people decad ...
• Panic Alarms hit Italian Economy
  European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis. Reuters July 10, 2011 European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet will attend the meeting along with Jean-Claude Juncker, chairman of the region’s finance ...

Wind Watch

• Study finds wind turbines can sometimes be tou ...
  Potsdam, NY — Wind farms reduced the value of nearby real estate in two Northern New York counties, but not in a third. Martin D. Heintzelman and Carrie M. Tuttle, of Clarkson University, studied 11,331 real estate transactions over nine years and found that the value of property near wind turbi ...
• The reality of wind power
  Wind turbines cost more to operate and maintain than planned, often have poor reliability, and place costly strains on other generators warns one early wind adopter, but so far the public is willing to bear the costs. Kevin Gaden, wholesale power director for the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebra ...
• Lincolnshire couple in landmark court case ove ...
  A couple who claim they were driven out of their Lincolnshire farm by the hum of wind turbines have started a High Court bid for £2.5m compensation. Jane and Julian Davis moved from Grays Farm in Deeping St Nicholas because of what they said was the strain of living with the incessant noise. Th ...
• Group recommends stricter noise levels for Mic ...
  EAST LANSING, Mich. â As the call for alternative energy grows louder in Michigan and more communities consider wind farms, a group led by a pair of Michigan State University professors has issued a report calling for stricter regulations on noise levels and providing zoning guidelines for local ...
• Turbine meeting turns out hundreds, forces can ...
  RIGA, Mich. � When Riga Township resident �Lady� MacBeth arrived at the Riga Municipal Building Thursday night to hear the Riga Township Board�s final decision on zoning ordinances that will determine the fate of 200 wind turbines proposed for the area, she was told to turn around. The building ...

Tippers News

• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
  Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (:Submitted by Evelyn J. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...

The Freeman

• Last Shuttle Flight Evokes Memories
  “At Mission Control on Sunday, lead flight director Kwatsi Alibaruho declared âthis is itâ as he gave the OK for the final docking in space-shuttle history. Flashbacks to the shuttleâs very first space-station docking — with Russiaâs Mir in 1995 — flooded his mind as viewed the shuttle on the sc ...
• Debt Talks Still Deadlocked
  “Talks among President Obama and congressional leaders Sunday evening failed to break a partisan stalemate over how to raise the federal borrowing limit, leaving the politically charged negotiations in limbo three weeks before the administration says the country will begin to default.” (Washingt ...
• Are You a Millionaire?
  Here’s an excellent video on the nature of progress from The Fund for American Studies.
• 48th State Legalizes Handgun Carry
  “Wisconsin is about to join 48 other states in legalizing the carrying of concealed weapons when Gov. Scott Walker signs a bill removing the stateâs ban. With the legalization in Wisconsin, Illinois will be the only state with a ban.” (Chicago Tribune) Permission to exercise a right ⦠whatâs wr ...
• Social Security Proposal Hits Bipartisan Wall
  “A proposal to cut Social Security costs and raise tax revenue by changing the way the government measures inflation ran into opposition from Democrats and Republicans. President Barack Obama and lawmakers, searching for ways to reduce the deficit, are discussing using an alternative yardstick ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

• South Sudan: Safeguarding Independence
  The world's newest nation has reason to look positively as its future, but South Sudan must work hard to safeguard its hard-won independence.
• AIDS at 30: Lessons Learned
  For the last 30 years, the battle against AIDS is one that we have been both winning and losing on a global scale.
• Nigeria: Ten Unavoidable Issues
  Over the next four years, Nigeria's leaders have an opportunity to address a host of issues that have plagued the country both domestically and in terms of foreign policy.
• Political Expediency May Forfeit Reform in Somalia
  The Kampala Accord aims to end Somalia's transitional government, removing its prime minister in the process. Is this the best thing for the people?
• Living in Chains: Sierra Leone's Mentally Ill

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

• So, compared to McCain, was Obama actually the ...
  I thought so at the time, but I’ve been wondering for a while.  As I’ve pointed out, frequently, Bush failed to slash Social Security.  Obama is probably going to do so soon.  I doubt McCain, any more than Bush, could have done so. Of course, on the negative side McCain might have gone to war ...
• Stirling Newberry and Ian Welsh on Virtually S ...
  You can listen live here. (Same link will probably work for listening after the fact, will update if not.)
• On Social Security Cuts
  February 9, 2009: Then we’re going to get entitlement “reform.” Since Obama is promising this to Blue Dogs, this isn’t going to be anything you’re going to like. January 4, 2010: So you’re far more likely to see Medicare and Social Security gutted, than you are to see the military budget cut in ...
• Deserve: the deadliest word
  I hate the word “deserve” because lord save us all from what we “deserve”, but lately I find it hard to remember that one good person is worth saving, or that most people are just weak, not evil.  The world will burn, in war, and famine, and revolution, and climate change and it will burn [...]
• I think the oligarchs are overplaying their hand
  In particular the Greek “bailout” was a mistake.  A horribly punitive measure, with virtually the entire “Socialist” party voting for it, it wasn’t a bailout of Greece, but a bailout of investors.  As part of the response, the Greek ministry of finance was set alight. The oligarchs, by making ...

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Letter sheds light on alleged censorship by Hubble
  Allegations that astronomical pioneer Edwin Hubble may have actively censored the work of one of his competitors have taken on a new twist with the discovery of a letter casting light on the circumstances surrounding the alleged censorship. Hubble is frequently credited with discovering that ...
• Academics and insurers team up to tackle tsuna ...
  Posted on behalf of Chloe McIvor. As murky torrents swirled around Sendai airport in Japan following the earthquake and tsunami in March, geographer Mark Maslin and his team were horrified to see their predictions coming true. Maslin’s team at University College London Environment Institu ...
• Australia puts a price on carbon
  Posted on behalf of Marian Turner. The Australian federal government has given carbon a dollar value. From 1 July 2012, the country’s top 500 emitters will pay AU$23 (US$24) per tonne of carbon, with the price to rise annually at 2.5% above inflation. Australia emits more carbon per capita ...
• South Korea 'back in the stem cell spotlight'
  Posted on behalf of David Cyranoski On 1 July, the Korean Food and Drug Agency approved a stem cell therapy for heart disease. Reuters reported that it will put “South Korea back in the stem spotlight.” The “back” is a reference to the glory days of Woo Suk Hwang, now a scientific pariah, ...
• Patients’ attorneys seek to show harm from fla ...
  Have the flaws in troubled geneticist Anil Potti’s research resulted in a lawsuit against Duke University brought by cancer patients enrolled in clinical trials? The New York Times suggested yesterday that this was the case, which if true would signal the latest adverse turn of events for the No ...

new geography

• "Art, Design, Portland" District Offers Opport ...
  In a dreary economy, with record numbers of Portlanders unemployed and underemployed, the shared work space is hoping to tap into the city�s DIY sensibility to foster innovation, creativity and a new connection to work. But similar projects have tried here before --- and failed. Will ADX�s new a ...
• A Guide to China’s Rising Urban Areas
  From a Rural to Urban Dispersion in the Middle Kingdom China�s rise to economic prominence over the past 30 years has rested in large part to its rapid    urbanization. Prior to �reform and opening up� that started in earnest during the 1970s, cities in China were viewed as pariahs by the p ...
• The Costs of Smart Growth Revisited: A 40 Year ...
  "Soaring" land and house prices "certainly represent the biggest single failure" of smart growth, which has contributed to an increase in prices that is unprecedented in history. This  finding could well have been from our new The Housing Crash and Smart Growth, but this observation was made by ...
• The Next Boom Towns In The U.S.
  What cities are best positioned to grow and prosper in the coming decade? To determine the next boom towns in the U.S., with the help of Mark Schill at the Praxis Strategy Group, we took the 52 largest metro areas in the country (those with populations exceeding 1 million) and ranked them based ...
• Honolulu: Mega Rail Project in a Micro City
  An exorbitantly costly rapid transit heavy rail project has been proposed for the small Hawaiian island of Oahu, where the leading metropolis, Honolulu, ranks 53rd in population among U.S. cities, with less than 500,000 people. If the project moves forward it will be the world's only elevated he ...

GM Watch

• Shock documentary: WWF and industry - The pact ...
• Shock documentary: WWF and industry - The pact ...
• Shock documentary: WWF and industry - The pact ...
• U.S. Ends Opposition to GM labeling Guidelines
  Consumer rights victory as US ends opposition to GM labeling guidelines Consumers International, Press release, 5 July 2011 *Twenty year struggle within global food safety body ends with 'consumer rights milestone' *Move clears way for greater monitoring of the effects of GM organisms     Con ...
• U.S. Ends Opposition to GM labeling Guidelines
  Consumer rights victory as US ends opposition to GM labeling guidelines Consumers International, Press release, 5 July 2011 *Twenty year struggle within global food safety body ends with 'consumer rights milestone' *Move clears way for greater monitoring of the effects of GM organisms     Con ...

spiked

• What’s really motoring this anti-Murdoch ...
  What the News of the World is alleged to have done is terrible and indefensible. But the fury about it is being driven by something else.
• Why ‘victim’s rights’ are ba ...
  Why is the state keen to stand up for victims in the justice system? Because it wants to boost prosecution rates.
• The BMA: modern-day prohibitionists
  The British Medical Association is dressing up moralistic attacks on smoking and drinking as health policy.
• It’s health-and-safety gone mainstream!
  British officials love to laugh at mad bans on conkers and snowfights, yet they continue to institutionalise a cult of caution.
• The fag end of the argument
  Attempts by anti-smoking zealots to smear a report on civil liberties reveal just how bankrupt their arguments are.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

Desertification

• Want to see some of my videos ? Updated list ( ...
  Willem VAN COTTHEM’s videos See the updated list of my videos on different subjects : SCHOOL GARDEN IN SAMBEL KUNDA (THE GAMBIA) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF09axycfJ4 BEAUTY OF PHALAENOPSIS ORCHID FLOWERS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVvvZu3SyE4 PHALAENOPSIS ORCHID SYMPHONY http://www.you ...
• Once upon a time UNICEF launched a project in ...
  With great attention I have read the former posting on this blog : SURVIVAL OF MILLIONS OF CHILDREN IN HORN OF AFRICA AT RISK, WARNS UNICEF (UN News July 8, 2011). This UN-message informed us that : …………… The refugee … Continue reading →
• Two million children are malnourished as a res ...
  SURVIVAL OF MILLIONS OF CHILDREN IN HORN OF AFRICA AT RISK, WARNS UNICEF New York, Jul  8 2011 12:05PM The United Nations Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) today warned that two million children are malnourished as a result of the drought in … Continue reading →
• Missing Food : grain (or vegetables and fruits ...
  VIDEO seen at : Missing Food: The Case of Postharvest Grain Losses in Sub-Saharan Africa http://youtu.be/4JGC7peGBwo Reducing post-harvest losses is an essential pillar in a successful food strategy. —————- MY COMMENT (Willem Van Cotthem) So is offering seeds of vegetables … Continue reading →
• L’accaparement mondial des terres agrico ...
  Les fonds de pension : des acteurs clés dans l’accaparement mondial des terres agricoles Les acquisitions de terres agricoles à grande échelle provoquent conflits et controverses dans le monde entier. Et pourtant, les fonds continuent à déferler sur les terres … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

• 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 ...

libcom

• Nuclear Power
  fukushima-explosion.jpg A report released this week by the Associated Press detailed extensive Tritium leaks at Nuclear Power facilities across the U.S., bolstering some critic’s arguments that Nucle ...
• Chris Knight replies to his critics
  mister-mayhem-415x248.jpg Chris Knight's approach to revolutionary politics is very controversial. However, it is also thought-provoking, whether you agree with him or not. Here, he replies to his cr ...
• Italy: NO TAV press conference – “This is the ...
  260495_10150230702296448_40019706447_7538150_400675_n.jpg In the midst of the riot porn that can be found on the internet about the NO TAV protests of Sunday 3 July – and that I’m not going to post h ...
• Solidarity hunger strikes expand in California ...
  prison hunger strike.jpg Since yesterday, prisoners in at least 11 of California's 33 prisons are refusing meals in solidarity with a hunger strike staged by prisoners in one of the system's special ...
• Striking Indonesian mine workers occupy checkpoint
  indonesian miners.jpg The Indonesian mine workers' strike, which was born on Monday 4th July and is demanding both the reinstatement of sacked co-workers as well as a 100% pay increase, is intensifyi ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

• Insulation ROI- Be Energy Smart and Money Wize
  Misunderstood Payback Periods of Proper Insulation: This is a huge mistake people make. I had a consumer recently tell me that 2 years was too long to get all his money back. If he understood Payback periods, he’d understand that he was turning down a 50% return on his money. Now, investments th ...
• Petition to Stop Ameren UE-Coal Ash Utility Wa ...
  Petition: We, the undersigned, are opposed to placing a coal ash utility waste landfill in the Labadie Bottoms floodplain of the Missouri river as proposed by AmerenUE. The proposed landfill will store harmful quantities of toxic heavy metals and other contaminants. Despite Ameren’s assurances o ...
• six neighborhood factors that affect the envir ...
  The Greenest Building Is The One That’s Already Built ⦠Sometimes Posted June 20, 2011 by Kaid Benfield copied from: http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/kaidbenfield/26182/greenest-historic-building-one-thats-right-context?utm_source=scc_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter Iâ ...
• Estimating Tips for Spray Foam Window/Door Sealant
  While Working on an Material Estimate for Installing 10 Replacement Windows. I wanted to share this Information on from Dow Great Stuff. Sizes and Estimated Yields for GREAT STUFF PRO™ Window & Door Insulating Foam Sealant Can Size, oz (g) Delivery No. of Windows(1) 20 (567) Reusable Straw 6-9 2 ...
• Energy Efficiency Key to Reducing the Need to ...
  report says EERS policies are driving energy efficiency investments and energy cost savings to unprecedented levels national energy policy remains beyond the reach of Congress ((13 of the 19 states are achieving 100% or more of their goals)) U.S. states lead on energy efficiency, lower utility b ...

The View From Abroad

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Breaking the Israel-Palestine Impasse
  What's needed to break the prolonged impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks is sustained international involvement to broker a real solution -- over the parties' heads if necessary.
• Reorienting U.S. Security Strategy in South Asia
  The Obama administration's approach to the Afghan war is too narrowly focused. Instead, the administration should focus on India-Pakistan rapprochement as the hallmark of a cohesive South Asia strategy.
• Two Poems on Gaza
  Gaza is for resilience, writes the poet, Gaza is for people thicker than stone.
• Syria Just Might Be More Cooperative if Its R ...
  If it's information about a nuclear program you want, blowing it to smithereens first is, uh, ill advised.
• The Politics of Iran's Space Program
  Understanding the politics of Iran's technological development should serve as a check on the unwarranted paranoia that Iran's scientific achievements have generated in the West.

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• Mir-Hossein Mousavi 'involved in massacre', sa ...
  Mr Mousavi, the defeated candidate in last June's presidential election, served as Iran's prime minister when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the regime's spiritual leader, issued a fatwa that sentenced thousands of political prisoners to death without trial, according to the report by read more
• "عراق مسئول مقابله با شبه نظامیان طرفدار ایران ...
  لئون پانه تا، وزیر دفاع آمریکا، روز یکشنبه وارد بغداد شد و از رهبران عراق خواست با گروه‌های شیعه افراطی که به گفته او از سلاح‌های ایران استفاده می‌کنند، مقابله کنند. این اظهارات در حالی مطرح می‌شود که یک سرباز دیگر آمریکایی در جنوب عراق کشته شده است.
• عماد افروغ: در تخلف انتخاباتی هیچ شکی ندارم
  عماد افروغ از نمایندگان اصولگرای مجلس هفتم، می‌گوید که در بروز "تخلف مستقیم یا غیرمستقیم" در انتخابات ریاست جمهوری گذشته "هیچ شکی ندارد" و "از نزدیک شاهد دخالت قوه مجریه در فرآیند انتخابات بوده است".
• آزادی معصومه دهقان با وثیقه ۳۰ میلیون تومانی
  معصومه دهقان، فعال مدنی و همسر عبدالفتاح سلطانی با قرار وثیقه از زندان آزاد شد. وی که پس از دریافت یک احضاریه کتبی به دادسرای اوین مراجعه کرده بود، از روز سه‌شنبه ۱۴ تیرماه در بازداشت به سر می‌برد.  
• امام (ره) هيچگاه نفرمودند سپاه در عرصه سياست د ...
  امام جمعه مشهد تأكيد كرد: امام (ره) هيچ‌گاه نفرموده‌اند كه سپاه در عرصه سياست دخالت نكند بلكه ايشان فرمودند كه در احزاب سياسي و مقوله انتخابات وارد نشود.

Most Revolutionary Act

• The Dread U-Word
  Like the F-word, the U-word is largely taboo in polite society, especially among younger Americans. According to a recent survey 41% of Americans “disapprove” of unions % (see http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/09/why-has-union-membership-declined.html). Generation X,Y and Z A ...
• Paid Sick Leave: One for Our Side
  WFP rally 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. Under the new Connecticut law, workers are entitled to earn ...
• Will Capitalism Leave Lasting Scars?
  In a prior blog “Can Human Nature Be Repaired?” (http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2011/06/30/can-human-nature-be-repaired/), I posed the question whether the ravages of capitalism leave enduring scars that make it impossible to implement more egalitarian political and economic systems f ...
• Corporatizing Global Food Production
  A UK company started in 1997 called Emergent Asset Management claims to be the largest speculative fund investing in African industrial agriculture. See  http://media.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/OI_EAM_Brief_1.pdf. It uses private equity to take control of large tracts ...
• Speculating with our Food
  The Chicago Mercantile (commodities) Exchange In 2011, “food derivative” speculation has replaced financial derivatives as the hot new investment promoted by major investment banks like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. According to new research from the World Development Movement, the same banks tha ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• On Nataline Sarkisyan's 21st Birthday
  Last night in Los Angeles, while the Prince and Princess (William and Kate) – or is it now the Duke and Duchess? – were gathering all the media attention for their glamorous evening among the stars, a very different yet equally glamorous night was unfolding just a few miles away.  On the sales f ...
• MichaelMoore.com Exclusive: Wikileaks Cable Al ...
  Wikileaks Cable Allegedly Leaked by Bradley Manning Caught Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Discussing Outsourcing to India That May Have Cost Manning's OWN FATHER His Job "The afternoon I reached Brian Manning, he was at home in Oklahoma City, in a room in his ranch house that Bradley had ...
• Glenn Beck on Muslims, Obama and Michael Moore ...
  From Glenn Beck's radio show, June 2, 2011: ... PAT GRAY: How does a guy who immigrated here from -- was it India? I think India. He's got Muslim parenthood and he comes here and he enjoys incredible success. The guy's a national television host and a best-selling author. He probably makes ...
• In His Latest Attack, Beck's Sidekick Highligh ...
  On today's edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck and�his sidekick�Pat Gray criticized CNN Host and Time editor Fareed Zakaria for comments�suggesting that the U.S. Constitution was not perfect. Zakaria made the comments during an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose earlier this week. (This was part ...
• TOM MORELLO : THE NIGHTWATCHMAN TO RELEASE UNI ...
  FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE TITLE TRACK “UNION TOWN” AVAILABLE NOW   NEW FULL LENGTH ALBUM, WORLD WIDE REBEL SONGS, TO BE RELEASED LATE SUMMER   April 28th, 2011 -- New York, New York -- Tom Morello is set to release Union Town via New West Records digitally on May 17th with a physical CD and Vinyl rel ...

Salon

• The Week in Uppers
  Amid a torrent of downers, from dysfunctional debt-ceiling talks to the News of the World phone hacking scandal, it would easy to overlook some of the better news this week. That's why we're here to remind you.
• Two decades later, Clarence Thomas is still a ...
  Most Americans had never heard of Clarence Thomas when President George H.W. Bush nominated him for the Supreme Court 20 years ago this month. Bush, who announced his pick in Kennebunkport, Maine on July 1, 1991, called the thinly credentialed Thomas the "best qualified" person for the seat v ...
• The great generational threat
  In just the past two months alone�(all subsequent to the killing of Osama bin Laden), the�U.S. Government has taken the following steps in the name of battling the�Terrorist menace: extended the Patriot Act by four years without a single reform; begun a new CIA drone attack campaign in Yemen; ...
• Crackdown on medical marijuana ahead?
  Drug-policy reformers are worried about a new Obama administration memo instructing federal prosecutors on how to deal with the growing number of medical marijuana dispensaries.
• Former first lady Betty Ford dies at 93
  A family friend says former first lady Betty Ford has died at age 93.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Cutting costs won’t be easy
  It’s becoming more and more clear that Mayor Rob Ford has backed himself into a very tight corner with his promise of tax cuts with no reductions in services. He vowed it would be ...
• Pan Am Games: The mayor is finally onside
  Four years from this past Sunday, Toronto is hosting 10,000 athletes from two continents. And Mayor Rob Ford seems okay with it.
• Don’t reject public health nurses
  When even “free” is deemed too expensive, it’s time to fight Mayor Rob Ford’s senseless penny-pinching.
• Will Brits gag all press now?
  The problems at News of the World have led to an anxious reappraisal in Britain and elsewhere of press ethics and media concentration.
• Bickering toward oblivion at Canada Post
  Canada Post and its recalcitrant union are driving away clients and dooming their business.

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 ...

EU Times

• Boat sinks off Sudan, 197 died
  A boat carrying illegal immigrants to Saudi Arabia has sunk off the Sudanese coast in the Red Sea, killing at least 197 people, Sudanese media say. “One hundred and ninety seven people from neighboring countries drowned in the Red Sea, inside Sudanese territorial waters, following the burning of ...
• Australia police able to demand removal of burqas
  Muslim women who refuse to remove their veils for police will face jail under new laws in Australia’s largest state. The New South Wales government has rushed through legislation allowing police to force the removal of head coverings to identify suspected criminals. The laws, among the toughest ...
• Chavez tells Venezuelans he’ll win Long Battle ...
  Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, making his first public appearance since having a tumor removed in Cuba, promised supporters that he will win his battle against cancer though it will likely take some time. Speaking from a balcony at the presidential palace in Caracas yesterday evening, Chavez ...
• US Senate drops Libya resolution to focus on n ...
  The US Senate hastily dropped plans to vote Tuesday on a symbolic resolution authorising the US role in Libya amid a Republican insurrection to demand action instead on the national debt. Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate Majority leader, said: “We’ve agreed, notwithstanding the broad support fo ...
• 10,000 civilians sentenced in Egypt military trial
  At least 10,000 civilians have been sentenced in military trials since Egypt’s January 25 uprising that ousted president Hosny Mubarak, a human rights group said Monday. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to reconsider, saying the ac ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Tiger Woods Agent Says Golfers Special Announc ...
  Tiger Woods’ agent says the golfer is not making any announcements Monday. Mark Steinberg was responding to rumors late Sunday that Woods was making an unspecified announcement Monday morning on Golf Channel. Steinberg told The Associated Press on Monday: “There’s an erroneous report that he’s ...
• REPORT: Debt Ceiling Negotiators Considering L ...
  Reports have swirled about all the possible health care savings on the table in the debt ceiling negotiations: from raising the Medicare eligibility age , to spending less on the Medicaid program , to extending Medicaid drug rebates to dual eligibles
• Pakistan: US aid cut will not harm fight again ...
  BBC NEWS Pakistan’s army spokesman has said a cut in US military aid will not affect its ability to combat terror groups. Gen Athar Abbas told the BBC that Islamabad had not yet been officially told of the reason for the $800m (£500m) cuts or what they would entail. The money equates to about ...
• South Sudan: A new nation rises
  The world has a new nation. The Republic of South Sudan officially seceded from Sudan on July 9, ending a 50-year struggle marked by decades of civil war. After a referendum earlier this year on independence passed with the support of 99% of the population of southern Sudan, events were set in ...
• Syria, Egypt and Middle East unrest – li ...
  This article titled “Syria, Egypt and Middle East unrest – live updates” was written by Matthew Weaver, for guardian.co.uk on Monday 11th July 2011 08.44 UTC 1.26pm: Syrian activists claim that while the “dialogue” meeting has been taking place in Damascus, the security forces killed two people ...

Groklaw

• RPost Sues Swiss Post for Infringing RPost Glo ...
  RPost, the inventor of Registered Email® services and a pioneer of electronic signature services announced today that it has brought suit against DocuSign for infringing four RPost patents. RPost has asked the US Federal Court to issue an injunction against DocuSign to prevent further damages. ...
• Google eBooks to Offer Story HD, Its Own e-Rea ...
  Google eBooks is partnering with Korean electronics manufacturer iriver to release the Story HD, an e-book reading device integrated with the Google eBooks platform. The Story HD is an e-ink device with wi-fi connectivity and beginning July 17 it will be priced at $140 and sold exclusively throu ...
• Novell jobs slashed by stepmother Attachmate
  According to sources, casualties include some 800 back office staff and all local country managers, including Sean McCarry in the UK and Ireland. At a more senior level, Novell SVP of global sales Javier Colado and EMEA channel boss Dan Veitkus have also left.... The firm refused an interview b ...
• Applying the lessons of open source to ballet
  As I explained, the open source software community has learned some lessons about this that the rest of the world is starting to apply. Open source innovators, whose projects are based on freely sharing their code, realized that the traditional approach to intellectual property would not work fo ...
• 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. Despite claims by NI executives that the ph ...

WideShut

• Former Police Intelligence Analyst Sacked For ...
  A Police Intelligence Analyst turns in threat assessment claiming the New World Order is the main terror threat and gets fired.
• Mandelson Meets With Rothschild Again
  Unelected life peer Lord Mandelson, meets with Nat Rothschild and mining magnates in Porto Montenegro.
• Remember The 7/7 London Bombings? Remember The ...
  6 years on from the 7/7 Bombings, who remembers the mysterious Jaguar at Luton station car park?
• July 05, 2011, WideShut Webcast
  Keelan discusses the recent strikes, Prince Charles secret meetings, EDL's Zionist connections, and much more.
• Prince Charles Wouldn’t Meddle In Politi ...
  Prince Charles had 9 closed door meetings with the Government this year, giving him potential influence over the economy, your child's education and the environment.

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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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

Just World News

• Afghanistan, logistics, geopolitics, war, peace
  The WaPo's Craig Whitlock has an informative piece in today's paper about the many continuing challenges the U.S. military has faced as it attempted to provide logistic support to the "surged" U.S. troop presence in very distant Afghanistan. Supplying these troops is particularly hard, due to t ...
• Speaking about out recent Gaza/Cairo trip: Cha ...
  Bill the spouse and I will be speaking about our recent trip to Gaza and Cairo at an event sponsored by my Quaker meeting in Charlottesville, on July 11. Details are here.
• My piece on Egypt and Gaza, at ME Channel
  ... is here. I rather like the title they put on it, "Tahrir's journey to Palestine". In fact, the journey that the "spirit of of the Tahrir uprising" has to make before it gets to Palestine is just about as long and difficult as the journey that anyone needs to make to get from the outside wor ...
• Reactions to Gaza Flotilla 2
  Nine boats of siege-busting 'Freedom Rider' activists are now gathering in the Mediterranean, preparing to challenge the longrunning siege that is one of the main tools through which Israel continues to stifle the lives and livelihoods of all of Gaza's 1.6 million people. An act of collective p ...
• Sally Sockpuppet and her friends
  Well, just as I thought. Commenter "Sally J" who was trying to argue that she'd "visited Gaza with a volunteer church group" just in April and that nearly everything there is fine... turns out to be one of the multiple-personality sock-puppets who visit the blog from time to time. Here is a s ...

frogblog

• Invest in sustainability or uddermine our future?
  Some straight talking from Michael Coote in an NBR (July 1st) article about the Indian economy. Noting the government’s enthusiasm for a free trade agreement with India,  Coote writes that : “The D-word – dairy – cited by Mr Key in in linking together the wonders of free trade with China and In ...
• Australia gets real on carbon emissions
  Big congratulations go out to our Aussie Green cousins for their very successful negotiations with the Gillard govt to introduce a price on carbon!
• Donald Brash, Racism, and political advantage
  I almost feel sorry for ordinary members and supporters of the Act party.  Most of them base their support on a shared belief in laissez faire free market capitalism; a preference for a small, ‘non-interventionist’ state; and a form of social liberalism that gives primacy to the rights of the in ...
• General debate, July 9, 2011
• Tell Bill we want a CGT
  Minister of Finance Bill English has a poll going on his website asking “do you support a capital gains tax?” The results so far are pretty obvious, Bill. Have your say and show Bill English that New Zealand wants a smart green capital gains tax. Also, check out what we’ve been saying about capi ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• The Invisible Jobless
  Why is it that chronic, sky-high unemployment has produced so little political backlash? On Sunday, Catherine Rampell wrote a piece suggesting two big reasons: the unemployed don't vote in big numbers, so politicians can safely ignore them; and there are fewer institutions left these days to ...
• Fighting Voodoo Economics
  Paul Waldman: Watching the Sunday blabbers, I was impressed with the facility with which the Republicans switched back and forth between two entirely different, and contradictory, rationales for their position on the budget and the debt ceiling. On one hand, they'd say, we simply have to ...
• The Murdoch Media Empire Slowly Crumbles
  The Guardian reports on yet more douchebaggery from various pieces of Rupert Murdoch's media empire: 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, h ...
• Our Economic Woes Didn't Start in 2008
  For the past couple of years economists have been arguing about whether our high unemployment level is cyclical or structural. The best evidence, I think, suggests that it's some of both: perhaps two-thirds cyclical and one-third structural. But even if it were more like 50-50, who cares? It ...
• Quote of the Day: Blogging Sucks!
  From Jonathan Rauch, guest blogging for Andrew Sullivan: 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 hope for maturation. The medium is the ...

Insanity Report

• Liberals and Underestimating the Power of the ...
  So first things first Fuck Bill Maher. I know I know.  Some Liberals love this guy and he can do no wrong like he’s Jesus.  I have to give it to him, it is a pretty funny how he’s been able to escape criticism.  He says he wishes the first black President was more “gangsta” [...]
• IC 257: Titty Tester
  Topics: Jaxx is in studio and gives an update on his European travels Testing titties Kids and the parents who don’t control them Bill Maher makes a stupid comparison between Republicans and Casey Anthony jurors Prisoners complain about conditions in solitary Share with your friends:
• Taking “Till Death Do Us Part” to Another Level
  When Andrew Castle’s wife of 18 years asked him for a divorce, his response was to rig up a homemade electric chair in his garage and try to kill her. After inviting Margaret Castle into the garage “for a chat”, he sat her in the metal chair, intending to knock her unconscious with a rubber [... ...
• “The Rise, Fall and Revelation of Kwame Kilpat ...
  With the 2012 Campaign getting started, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to start writing more on this site.  I needed a break from all the craziness.  Let’s see how long I last.  I’ll start with something easy and ridiculous: DETROIT â Disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick claims in an u ...
• IC 256: The Idiocy of Twitter
  Topics: A few technical difficulties With Twitter…everyone’s an expert Debates/discussions on twitter are fruitless Putting your “personal preference” out in the public Roy Williams is a simp Obama’s Twitter Townhall People are so stupid and the Internet gives them a place to meet Share with you ...

Simple Climate

• Chinese pollution postpones temperature rises
  Sulphur emissions countered greenhouse gases to cause the much-debated “pause” in warming trend from 1998-2008, but only temporarily, Boston University's Robert Kaufmann told Simple Climate.
• Sea-level rise is the fastest in 2,000 years
  University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin Hortonand colleagues show that sea level has risen at an average of 2.1 mm per year since around 1900, after having stayed roughly stable for the previous two millennia.
• Shrinking Arctic ice area is just the tip of t ...
  Old, thicker, ice cover has suffered extreme losses, says the University of Colorado's James Maslanik, providing more evidence of how humans are changing the planet.
• Climate rhythm shift brings early calving
  Chillingham cattle, which are able to breed all year round, are having more calves in winter due to earlier springs, reducing their chances of surviving a year, find Sarah Burthe of the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and colleagues, showing that even mammals with breeding flexibility are ...
• History warns of civilisation-crushing climate ...
  After giant sandworms cause an argument between me and my girlfriend about whether climate-related civilisation-wide disasters are possible, reviewing scientific evidence of such events through history force me to concede that they are.

e!Science News

• Research shows 'BPA-free' bottles live up to m ...
  The alarm caused by bisphenol A (BPA) presence in reusable plastic bottles resulted in a recent industry change, producing products made with supposed BPA-free materials. read more
• Large human study links phthalates, BPA and th ...
  A link between chemicals called phthalates and thyroid hormone levels was confirmed by the University of Michigan in the first large-scale and nationally representative study of phthalates and BPA in relation to thyroid function in humans. read more
• Do-it-yourself brain repair following stroke
  Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability and death in the United States. A team of researchers — led by Gregory Bix, at Texas A&M College of Medicine, College Station — has identified a way to exploit one of the brain's self-repair mechanisms to protect nerve cells and enhance brain rep ...
• PXR: A stepping stone from environmental chemi ...
  Several chemicals that can accumulate to high levels in our body (for example BPA and some pesticides) have been recently linked to an increased risk of cancer and/or impaired responsiveness to anticancer drugs. A team of researchers, led by Sridhar Mani, at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, ...
• Epigenetic pathway and new drug show promise i ...
  A difficult-to-treat form of childhood leukemia relies on changes in the structure of DNA – so-called epigenetic changes – to wreak genomic havoc within white blood cells, according to one of two studies conducted by a research team at Children's Hospital Boston and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. ...

unEarthed

• Greening Your Playlist
  Get your eco-groove on with these environmentally focused tunes Bonnie Raitt Every lifestyle has its de facto soundtrack. Depressed suburban teens have emo ...
• Unplugged: A Push to Waste Energy
  House to vote on repeal of light bulb standards On Monday, the House of Representatives will consider legislation authored by Rep. Joe Barton to repeal federal ...
• Friday Finds: Environmental Bach Lash
  Killer candles, revenge of the nerds, France fracking halt Michelle Bachman has some crazy ideas about the environment. Photo courtesy of Markn3tel. Michell ...
• A Desperately Needed Win for the Loggerheads
  Court orders government to reconsider regulation in light of Gulf spill Loggerhead sea turtle escaping net. Photo courtesy of NOAA Loggerhead turtles are be ...
• Want a Side of Plastic With Your Fish?
  Plastic in the Pacific Garbage Patch, toxic substances contaminate fish Photo: Mario Aguilera / Scripps Institution of Oceanography Ever wonder where that ...

Brave New Climate

• Why pro-nuclear environmentalism has failed wh ...
  With George Monbiot on the debating warpath against Greenpeace and in support of nuclear power as a serious mechanism for tackling climate change, and Mark Lynas’ new book on planetary boundaries and techno-fixes, “The God Species“, now out (despite some weird problems on the launch day), it r ...
• Carbon tax in Australia in 2011
  Australia is set to introduce a carbon tax (details to be released on Sunday 10 July 2011). This post is the place to discuss this policy — the good and the bad. A description, from the Australian Parliamentary Library: A carbon tax is a tax on energy sources which emit carbon dioxide. It is a [...]
• Lacklustre results from the Colorado Integrate ...
  A common lament of those analysts wishing to get to grips with the real-world performance of solar thermal power plants has been, well… an absence of data. Trainer noted, in ‘Solar Thermal Questions‘: It would be great to get some actual data on their year round performance. I have found it fien ...
• Open Thread 17
  The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...
• Sustainable energy choices for the 21st Centur ...
  Climate change and sustainability of the global human enterprise are two of the most critical issues of the 21st Century. If we are to tackle these problems effectively, we need to make prudent, evidence-based choices about energy. This is the story told by this short (2 min, 35 sec) animated vi ...

Indigenist Opinion

• 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Entitlement Reform? Sure! Corporate Entitlements
  What pisses me off most is the nonsensical discussion of how we balance our budget, or reduce our deficit. The MSM narrative is the Democrats won’t stand for “entitlement” cuts and the Republicans won’t stand for any tax increases anywhere, anytime, for any reason. Deadlock. This whole argument ...
• Jim DeMint – Fuck You
  Fuck you Jim. You want to slam the poor, the sick, and the elderly to “balance the budget” and won’t even consider cutting corporate welfare, or having the billionaires, or the companies they own stock in pay their fair share. I pray that there is justice in this world and some day you will be [...]
• Van Jones = Reboot the American Dream
  “We’re not broke, we’ve been robbed. Someone has our money”
• Exxon Gets 20 Billion a Year in Corporate Welfare
  The amount of taxes we don’t collect from Exxon plus their handouts equals around 20 billion dollars a year. And this is just one company. Spending isn’t the problem. Corporate welfare, and billionaire welfare is the problem.
• Politifact – Jon Stewart Was Right
  How hard did your dishonest organization have to twist  into a pretzel to name Stewart’s factual statement about Fox News viewers as false? Misinformed, uninformed, and lied to. Fox lemmings.

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• AmpedStatus Victory: House Passes Audit of Pen ...
  By David DeGraw Rep Peter DeFazio, one of the few allies we have in Congress, introduced a crucial amendment to conduct a full audit of Pentagon spending. The amendment passed! [Read More]
• The “War On Drugs” Is A $2.5 Trill ...
  By David DeGraw The War on Drugs, just like the War on Terror, is another criminal racket set up to benefit profiteering banks, military companies and the prison industrial complex at our tragic expense. [Read More]
• The “War On Terror” Is A $6 Trilli ...
  By David DeGraw A closer look at military spending reveals a shocking waste of trillions of dollars. For anyone who researches this, it is easy to see that the War on Terror's primary goal is not our safety, it is huge profits for military companies and global banking interests. [Read More]
• Fraudclosure Watch: Firefighter to Demolish Ho ...
  By Robert Somerton The Somerton family just received notice from Bank of America that the foreclosure process on their home has been accelerated. "Rather than allow Bank of America to auction it off in the fraudulent foreclosure Ponzi scheme, bogus modification scam now sweeping our nation," Ro ...
• Let’s Buy Our Government Back From Speci ...
  By Charles Hugh Smith The goal in buying our Congress back from the banking cartel et al. would not be to compete with the special interests for congressional favors — it would be to elect a Congress which would eradicate their power and influence altogether. [Read More]

+972

• Breaking: Knesset outlaws political boycott
  The Knesset has just passed into law the anti-boycott initiative bill of MK Ze’ev Elkin (Likud), by a majority of 47 to 38. A lot of members, including Shas, top Likud members and all of Atzmaut (Ehud Barak’s faction) were absent. Netanyahu was absent from the vote. We hope to have the names of ...
• Beck meets former chair of terror organization
  One of the visitors on the Knesset’s Committee discussion that hosted Glen Beck today was a settler named Baruch Marzel. Marzel, seen below meeting Beck, was the secretary of Rabbi Meir Kahane’s Kach movement. After the assassination of Kahane, Marzel, a resident of Hebron, chaired the party. Ka ...
• Glenn Beck at Knesset: “The West and Isr ...
  The Glenn Beck circus at the Knesset today had it all: Ecstatic fans who pushed and shoved to meet him; a theatrical as ever Beck, pounding on the table and yelling “Amen”; MK Arieh Eldad saying the occupation must end (the Islamic occupation of Israel) and even some chit-chat and shaking of han ...
• Knesset to vote on Anti-boycott law tonight
  Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, is set to pass (after some convoluted last minute wrangling) today one of the most anti-democratic measures in the country’s history, the so-called “Anti-Boycott Law.” A link to the full text’s translation can be found here. Simply put, the law seeks to penalize ...
• Watch: Roger Waters speaks against boycott bil ...
  At the time of writing, it’s not clear yet whether the the boycott bill will go for a second and third vote in the Knesset today, or whether it will happen next week. In both cases, the proposed law, criminalizing any opposition to the occupation that would take the form of a boycott call, is [...]

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

• Throwing Away Billions of Dollars in Cash…
  While you’re struggling to pay your bills, consider for a moment (although it really will make you sick) just how out of control and reckless the US government is with our cash, your cash, my cash. I know this story is old, but remember the prior acute phase of all this mess was fall 2008.  [...]
• The Foreclosure Rocket Docket Dies- Now It&#82 ...
  When Dale Earnhardt died the entire nation fell into despair, and shock and mourning. (ok, not the entire nation, but at least the NASCAR nation)  His death sparked a years long examination of the entire sport, serious soul searching and ultimately dramatic changes within one of America’s most ...
• Government Conflict-What To Do When An Entire ...
  Two important articles this morning that explain, from a much expanded perspective, one element of the official ratification of our government as a White Collar Criminal Oligarchy. That is what this country is today.  The common man can and will be prosecuted for such minor things as transportin ...
• Woman Faces 93 Days in Jail For Planting A Gar ...
  Even George Orwell could not make this kind of stuff up……. Jail for Garden Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• Supreme Court: Failing to Participate Meaningf ...
  Sorry folks, not in Florida, but at least some courts really are getting it.  As all taxpayers consider just how much time has been wasted on foreclosures and see first hand how this state continues to slide into real chaos, we all need to wonder if things would have been better had lenders been ...

abelard - news

• A65 :the autoroute de Gascogne, from Langon t ...
  Major update, with photos, old postcards, history and commentary on and of this spanking new motorway.
• more on news international | politics uk news ...
  The "collective desire for absolute transparency" has led toseeing some warts that have turned to cancer.
• market reaction to latest ecb posturing - if t ...
  Watching straw men trying to shore up a collapsing house of cards.
• comments on the new sprint points | the Tour d ...
  After a week of hard cycling and too many crashes, it's tiime to look at what difference the points changes make.
• peter oborne, a deconstruction | politics uk n ...
  A 'Senior Political Correspondent' who uses innuendo, hints and insinuations to give wriggle room for contentless analysis

The Parallel Parliament

• Citizenship – Making the Greater Decisions
  Let me introduce you to Kai Nagata, if you don’t know him already. I was pointed in his direction by my friend Jodi Simpson, who has taken to calling Kai her “new hero.” It’s easy to see why. At 24 years of age, he’s made some pretty major decisions in his young life that actually [...]
• Citizenship – Living in an Age of Stuff
  There was nothing I could do but wait. I was to meet an old friend at Starbucks for a tea, but in front of me was a group of four placing their orders. There was Misto with non-fat, a caramel Machiatto (seriously, I’m not making this up), a Frappucino with caramel on top, and, thankfully, [...]
• Citizenship – Our One True Love
  Maybe citizenship wasn’t meant to be this easy. That cradle of democracy – early Greece – wouldn’t know what to make of citizenship today. To be sure, it was a citizenship of elitism, but the price for belonging to such a unique group was steep. You were automatically expected to fight in wars. ...
• … Then Again
  The last couple of days have been filled with answering emails, telephone calls and holding private discussions with folks who politely took me to task over my last post stating that I wouldn’t be blogging for the summer. I have three books, all half done, that I want to finish writing and the n ...
• Invincible Summer
  As a wonderful Bloc MP, she was one of my favourite champions in Parliament. We served on the Status of Women committee together for a couple of years and I was increasingly refined by her advocacy and resolute spirit. When she contacted me on Facebook last week, asking me to be her friend, a wa ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Smart science for the 21st century
  In February 2008, the National Academy of Engineering launched 14 grand challenges for engineering.  These were the inspiration for this post, but rather than focus on the challenges themselves, I thought it would be interesting to consider how science and technology are going to help address th ...
• I’m breathing in nanoparticles, so why aren’t ...
  This was based on a piece I originally wrote for Nano Today – the blog was a slightly extended version of what was published.  Although it was written two years ago, it’s still surprising how few people realize that breathing in nanoparticles is an everyday fact of life, and that to make sense ...
• Enough meetings already!
  I couldn’t resist reposting this piece, as it captured so well my frustration at the time of spending so much time in meetings – usually for someone else’s benefit.  Sadly, I didn’t learn the error of my ways – my travel schedule has, if anything, got worse since then! Originally posted May 8 2 ...
• Decoupling “nanotechnology”
  Even though it was written a couple of years ago, this post remains very relevant as people continue to make sense of nanotechnology.  Maybe it’s time to revisit yellow-technology! Originally posted May 17 2008. Nanotechnology as an overarching concept is great for sweeping statements and sound ...
• Synthetic biology, ethics and the hacker culture
  While the DIY Biotechnology community has grown considerably since this post, the piece still captures something of what is still a young movement, and one that challenges assumptions about top-down technology innovation. Originally posted June 13 2008 Read Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World is Fla ...

Reader Supported News

• 'Little Gitmo'
  Christopher S. Stewart writes: "Although inmates and guards refer to CMUs as Little Gitmos, the comparison to Guantanamo is imprecise: The units are not detention centers, and the inmates inside have already been convicted of crimes in the US legal system. But what differentiates CMUs from all o ...
• 'Little Gitmo'
  Christopher S. Stewart writes: "Although inmates and guards refer to CMUs as Little Gitmos, the comparison to Guantanamo is imprecise: The units are not detention centers, and the inmates inside have already been convicted of crimes in the US legal system. But what differentiates CMUs from all o ...
• FOCUS: The New Antiwar Republicans
  Intro: "Three presidential candidates want a faster exit from Afghanistan, and so does much of the public. Jill Lawrence on why their 2012 rhetoric will boost the pressure on Obama." (photos: From left: Ethan Miller/Getty Images, Rich Schultz/AP, Jim Cole/AP) {rsnslider}{wrap height="4 ...
• FOCUS: The New Antiwar Republicans
  Intro: "Three presidential candidates want a faster exit from Afghanistan, and so does much of the public. Jill Lawrence on why their 2012 rhetoric will boost the pressure on Obama." (photos: From left: Ethan Miller/Getty Images, Rich Schultz/AP, Jim Cole/AP) {rsnslider}{wrap height="4 ...
• Oil and Gas Drilling Surges Despite Increased ...
  Nicholas Kusnetz reports: "Energy companies have spent the last couple of years fighting off added government regulation, saying red tape is slowing development. But recent data show that the pace of drilling is just short of the 20-year high it reached before the recession." The Wilmington r ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• Hen Party: Historic Agreement to Promote Stand ...
  United Egg Producers (UEP) has partnered with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), agreeing to work together toward legislation of national standards to be used in egg production.
• TIME Magazine: Spotlight on IFAP and “Conceale ...
  When looked at through the lens of public health, the abuse that we see in the Mercy for Animals video constitutes not only cruelty to animals, but cruelty to humans as well, including the dehumanizing influence on workers forced to labor under conditions that ultimately breed contempt for the a ...
• Focus on Food Day: The Consequences of Meat
  Earlier this week, CLF’s Robert S. Lawrence, MD, and Keeve Nachman, PhD, kicked off the Center for a Livable Future’s countdown to Food Day with a webinar, “Industrial food animal production and the high-meat American diet: health and environmental consequences.” (Audio; slides). October 24, 20 ...
• Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grow ...
  June 9-12, Amanda Behrens and I journeyed to Missoula, Montana for the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). The conference, entitled Food ...
• Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
  Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Responses to the AUC approval of the Milner Co ...
  On June 30, 2011— the day before the Canada Day long weekend— the Alberta Utilities Commission approved Maxim Power Corp.'s 500-megawatt coal-fired Milner Power Plant expansion proposal. This move has been viewed by some as a cynical attempt to bypass the new proposed federal coal plant regula ...
• Nuclear Power Regulation in Alberta and Saskat ...
  Environmental Law Centre The Environmental Law Centre has made available the slides from their recent webinar "Nuclear Power Regulation in Alberta and Saskatchewan". View or download from the En ...
• Volunteer Opportunities: Conservation Voluntee ...
  Position:� Conservation Volunteers Organization:� Nature Conservancy of Canada ...
• Help ReSkilling Edmonton and Vote!
  Reskilling Edmonton Network Sierra Club Prairie 5 Jul 2011 - 00:00 - 14 Aug 2011 - 00:00 On Tuesday, July 5th, Fido will be launching Sha ...
• Pembina reacts to Alberta environmental monito ...
  Pembina Institute 5 Jul 2011 Jennifer Grant, director of the Pembina Institute's oilsands program, made the following statement in response to the Alberta Environmental Monitoring ...

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 12, ...
  ==== U.S., French Security Guards Violently Disperse Syrian Protesters Afghan War: French Death Toll Reaches 63 U.S. Marines: AFRICOM “Adding Muscle” To African Counterinsurgency Campaigns Japan: U.S. Army To Open New Battle Systems Center For Afghan-, Iraqi-Style Wars Australia: 22,000 U.S., Ca ...
• Conrad Aiken: Vast symphonic dance of death
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Conrad Aiken 1915: The Trenches I All night long, it has seemed for many years, We have heard the terrible sound of guns, All night long we have lain and watched the calm stars. We cannot sleep, though we are tired, The sound of guns is ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 11, ...
  ==== Canadian Warship Leaves For Libyan War Mission U.S., Australia Launch Large-Scale War Games U.S. To Upgrade Israeli Patriot Interceptor Missile System Washington Suspends Military Aid To Pakistan Afghan War: NATO 2011 Death Toll Nears 300 U.S. Reiterates Demand For Yemeni President To Step ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 9, 2011
  ==== Caribbean Community Heads Of State Condemn NATO’s War On Libya Romanian President: Would Have Joined Hitler’s Invasion Of Russia Counterinsurgency: U.S. Marines Conduct Training In Eight Black Sea, Balkans Countries Israel’s Netanyahu, Military Follow U.S. And NATO Into Bulgaria New NATO-EU ...
• Coleridge: All our dainty terms for fratricide
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Samuel Taylor Coleridge From Fears in Solitude (1798) Secure from actual warfare, we have loved To swell the war-whoop, passionate for war! Alas! for ages ignorant of all Its ghastlier workings, (famine or blue plague, Battle, or siege, ...

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• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• Liberty Victorious in Egypt… Is the US Next?
  The Intel Hub Avalon July 11, 2011 A video posted on YouTube July 1, 2011 is proof that the Empire is Collapsing. The Banker controlled Military Force worldwide is now under attack globally by the people to regain their Liberty, self-respect and self-government. The people of Egypt are all too a ...
• Prepare: Threat of Nuclear Meltdown In America ...
  The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas & Alex Thomas June 15, 2011 The threat of a nuclear reactor meltdown in the United States is a real possibility and might be much closer on the horizon then you may think. Currently a Nebraska nuclear reactor is battling extreme flood waters due to the every increa ...
• Agenda 21 in New York State – Home Rule ...
  The Intel Hub BTAR July 11, 2011 Satire Numerous critics condemn the insidious nature of Agenda 21. Usually the arguments are based upon the intrusion of the United Nations to mismanage the planet and reduce people to a sinister petri dish experiment. Their reach and methods used by this octopus ...
• France Says NATO Bombing Has Failed
  The Intel Hub By Franklin Lamb - Contributing Writer July 11, 2011 Dispatch From Tripoli One of the jokes heard at this week’s massive pro-government Friday post prayer rally at Green Square (in most of the other Arab countries Fridays are days of rage against the government du jour but in Libya ...
• TSA Chief Pistole Should Face Felony Charges F ...
  Federal agency is still conducting hand searches of young children despite claiming they were eliminated last year Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, July 11, 2011 TSA head John Pistole has been caught brazenly lying to the American people yet again, after the TSA openly violated its o ...

FRS

• Journey into the CIA’s heart of darkness ...
  Ordered to  ‘psychologically dislocate’ his prisoner Faced agonising decision after concluding detainee was innocent Had to tell CIA bosses he was in love with his girlfriend – before he told her Daily Mail         4th July 2011 A former CIA operative has described how he was torn betwe ...
• Collective Bargaining or Criminal Conspiracy?
  [Jay Gould (one of the richest capitalists of the late 1800s) once said he could hire half of the working class to kill the other half.  It has been argued that the exclusive deals bound up with industrial collective bargaining involve the systematic benefit of one section of workers in exchange ...
• The Israeli tactic of arresting and detaining ...
  Jillian Kestler-DAmours Al Jazeera 8 Jul 2011 Dozens of Palestinian children clamoured excitedly in the East Jerusalem village of Silwan on June 26, each clutching the strings to as many helium-filled balloons as they could. Moments later, the children watched as the sky above this flashpoint Pa ...
• CPG(m-l): “The US imperialists were, are ...
  Hillary Clinton out of Greece! Imperialists out of Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, Cyprus, and the Middle East!  War against the imperialist war!  The visit to Greece of the official representative of US imperialism, Hillary Clinton, is a direct provocation to our people but also to other peoples i ...
• Hungry for California prison reform
  After gang interrogations and harsh prison conditions, inmates have been on hunger strike since July 1.  Isaac Ontiveros  10 Jul 2011 Manuel LaFontaine spent time imprisoned in California, and now works for All of Us or None, an organisation led by former prisoners who advocate for the human and ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

• Betty Ford will be buried this week.
  The former First Lady died Friday, and here are some perspectives on a woman who very much defined her times. RIP, Betty Ford. Getty Images
• Think the Supreme Court trusts our judicial sy ...
  Cynical sends a thought-provoking Los Angeles Times essay from the dean of UC Irvine School of Law. Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes: The conservatives on the high court have uncritically accepted the attacks on the courts with little evidentiary support or foundation. At the same time, they hav ...
• I hope you spent your days in fruitful measures
  So? I've been off (mostly) since last Wednesday, though I interrupted myself a few times. How did you spend your time?
• Some of you citizens aren't pulling your weight...
  PolitiFact agrees with Rep. John Cornyn (R-Texas) who said recently that 51 percent of American households paid no income tax in 2009. Be sure to read the back story.The U.S. tax system is set up to collect money, and distribute it as well. You can read more here. Getty Images
• Gov. Malloy says the state employee layoffs be ...
  But it doesn't have to be this way. (Oddly, Gov. Malloy got big applause when he spoke at a Hartford labor rally in February.) You can sign a petition here. Getty Images

Associated Content

• Obama's Folding a Winning Hand in the Debt Cei ...
  The Obama administration has signaled that they are willing to throw their aces into the pot and allow the Republicans to take everything. Their aces? Social Security, Medicare, Paul Ryan's restructuring plan, and the debt ceiling itself.Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Jul 10, 2011
• Boehner Nixes Tax Increase Deal from Obama
  As of this writing, the prospects of a grand bargain between the White House and congressional Republicans for spending cuts and limited revenue increases has collapsed. The reason is President Obama's insistence of a $1 trillion tax increase.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jul 10, 2011
• 'Harry Potter' Films Provide Plenty of Great M ...
  "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" will be released at midnight on July 15th. I look back at some of my favorite memories from the previous seven "Potter" films.Contributor: Scott Frano Published: Jul 10, 2011
• Independence Arrives for South Sudan
  On July 9, 2011 Africa officially welcomed South Sudan. The people of Sudan successfully followed the formula for achieving independence as drawn up in a 2005 treaty. This historic moment hopefully marked an end to 200 years of conflict.Contributor: Jeff Briscoe Published: Jul 09, 2011
• Growing Vegetables is a Crime in Oak Park, Mich.
  Julie Bass, a resident of Oak Park, Michigan, is considered a dangerous criminal by local authorities and may face over three months in jail for her heinous crime. The awful crime Bass committed was planting a vegetable garden in her front yard.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jul 09, 2011

Popsci - Science

• USDA Won't Regulate Genetically Modified Grass ...
  Gene gun use circumvents USDA oversight A new genetically engineered grass variant won’t be subject to federal regulation, because it was modified with a gene gun rather than bacteria, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The new strain of Kentucky bluegrass will likely be growing o ...
• Newly Found Gonorrhea Superbug Resists All Exi ...
  A new strain of the gonorrhea bacteria can resist all available antibiotics, doctors say. Gonorrhea is one of the world’s most common sexually transmitted diseases, so this could portend a major threat to public health. This should actually not be surprising, because for some time now, just one ...
• This Week in the Future, July 5-8, 2011
  And today we say goodbye to a space program that has captivated us for decades. I can't say it as eloquently as Rebecca, but this Baarbarian illustration should serve as our pictorial adieu to the Shuttle program. (You can check out all of our coverage of today's launch here, by the way.) Want ...
• As Humans Take Leave of Space, Robot Explorers ...
  Reflections on the passing of one era, and the dawning of another Before I sat down to write this morning, I poured coffee into my shuttle-emblazoned Space Camp mug and thought about the end of this era. Like many of you, and like legions of space advocates around the globe, I've rolled through ...
• Using a Lab-Grown Trachea, Surgeons Conduct th ...
  Surgeons working at Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden have taken a huge step forward for regenerative medicine by successfully executing the world’s first synthetic organ transplant. The donor-less transplant saved the life of a 36-year-old cancer patient, who is doing well now after hav ...

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.

War is Business

• Inside Look At Yet Another Religious Group Wit ...
  If the state of Oregon believes the board of Akal Security is led by untrustworthy people, then why do the departments of Defense and Homeland Security continue to award contracts to the company?
• China-Pakistan Port Deal Another Sign Of Wanin ...
  Buy Baluchistan Buy Baluchistan • Read more at WSJ.com: World News
• Temptations Of The Flesh: GOP Freshmen Can&#82 ...
  Sell promises Sell promises • Read more at National Security on iWatch News
• CJ Chivers Examines Libyan Rebels’ Seabo ...
  Buy scarcity Buy scarcity • Read more at NYT > Home Page
• Afghan Soldier Says ‘The Quality Of Ever ...
  Buy bad apples Buy bad apples • Read more at The Killid Group website - News on Afghanistan reports analysis pictures cartoon

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Global temperatures: Up sharply in June.
  The latest global temperature has been released and according to the UAH satellite measure June's anomaly was 0.314C above the running 30 year mean, up from +0.133C in May Adjusted to the more standard time period used by the Met Office and the WMO, the anomaly is now +0.567C above the 1961-199 ...
• Unsettled June weather to extend into July
  Despite the warm and sunny conditions in the last few days, the unsettled weather which plagued much of June looks set to return. June turned out to be wet across the UK, dominated by low pressure. Averaged across England & Wales, 122% of average rainfall was recorded. In our region, for a ch ...
• Storms follow hottest day since July 2006
  Thunderstorms have continued to affect parts of East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia and the Southeast of England this afternoon, following yesterday's heat. Temperatures across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Monday reached 32C (90F) for the first time since July 2006. Both Robin Hood ai ...
• A sleeping sun could have a big impact on the ...
  News from scientists in America claiming that the sun is about to enter a prolonged quiet period in its history has caught the headlines this week. Whether this particular prediction comes true remains to be seen, as some scientists, including those at NASA, have consistently been proved wron ...
• Deluge follows drought order
  Sunday saw the heaviest rainfall of the year across parts of Lincolnshire, only 48 hours on from the drought order issued by the Environment Agency for parts of Eastern England. 14.4mm of rain was recorded at Coningsby yesterday. This brings the total since Friday to 28mm of rain, more than hal ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Become Filthy Steenkin' Rich...in the Falklands
  To say British tabloids have output of variable quality is an understatement--witness Rupert Murdoch's fine mess--but the Daily Mail recently ran an interesting feature on the British Falklands. Ever since the 1982 Falklands War between the UK and Argentina put this remaining piece of Empire in ...
• Harry Potter and Hollywood Gone AWOL in Indonesia
  This being on my purported beat of Southeast Asia, here's some interesting news. One of the more practical applications for those studying political science / international relations is the area of "political risk analysis." In particular, there is concern by foreign investors of how shifting po ...
• The Political Comeuppance of Rupert Murdoch
  I used to rule the world Seas would rise when I gave the word Now in the morning I sleep alone Sweep the streets I used to own [With apologies due to Coldplay.] For a long time now, I've grudgingly admired Rupert Murdoch's business acumen if not necessarily the fruits of his media empire [1, 2, ...
• Novak Djokovic Smoothes Serbia's EU Accession
  Before beginning, I must tell you of perhaps the worst marketing gambit of modern times. In November 2009, Adidas decided to make Andy Murray its top tennis endorsee when it already had Novak Djokovic under contract. While it's understandable that getting the Great Hope of British tennis on boar ...
• PRC Rare Earth Metal Hoarding: Fake Trade Issue?
  Given several new developments, today's a mighty fine time to update our coverage [1, 2] of worldwide rare earth metal availability provided its importance to modern industrial production. Beginning a year and a half ago, the US, EU and Mexico filed related WTO cases [DS 394, 395 and 396 respect ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• New Fringe Fest Musical Inspired by Union Figh ...
  When a coworker at Starbucks approached barista Ted Dewberry about forming a union at their workplace, his initial reaction was fear. Working 17 ho...
• BMedia Collective Variety Show #3: Earth Day Inc.
  This episode explores the connections between environment destruction and the economic and cultural systems that enable it.�Movements a...
• Submit to BUSTING BOREDOM! A zine about house ...
  House arrest is used in the kanadian (in)justice system often as a punitive bail condition. It's very isolating and used by the state as an atte...
• “If a Tree Falls”: New Documentary on Daniel M ...
  A new documentary, “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front,” tells the story of environmental activist Daniel McGowa...
• Iron Rail Infoshop Re-Opens It's Doors in New ...
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E U Times

• Boat sinks off Sudan, 197 died
  A boat carrying illegal immigrants to Saudi Arabia has sunk off the Sudanese coast in the Red Sea, killing at least 197 people, Sudanese media say. “One hundred and ninety seven people from neighboring countries drowned in the Red Sea, inside Sudanese territorial waters, following the burning of ...
• Australia police able to demand removal of burqas
  Muslim women who refuse to remove their veils for police will face jail under new laws in Australia’s largest state. The New South Wales government has rushed through legislation allowing police to force the removal of head coverings to identify suspected criminals. The laws, among the toughest ...
• Chavez tells Venezuelans he’ll win Long Battle ...
  Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, making his first public appearance since having a tumor removed in Cuba, promised supporters that he will win his battle against cancer though it will likely take some time. Speaking from a balcony at the presidential palace in Caracas yesterday evening, Chavez ...
• US Senate drops Libya resolution to focus on n ...
  The US Senate hastily dropped plans to vote Tuesday on a symbolic resolution authorising the US role in Libya amid a Republican insurrection to demand action instead on the national debt. Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate Majority leader, said: “We’ve agreed, notwithstanding the broad support fo ...
• 10,000 civilians sentenced in Egypt military trial
  At least 10,000 civilians have been sentenced in military trials since Egypt’s January 25 uprising that ousted president Hosny Mubarak, a human rights group said Monday. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to reconsider, saying the ac ...

Voiceless Victim

• Imagine How It Feels
  How many people talk about the issue of Catholic Church enabled child sexual abuse without a thought for how it feels to be the victim of such abuse? This issue is, after all, about children. Yesterday’s children whose lives were irreparably damaged by their abuse and who are still being re-abus ...
• Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
  I used to think the John Jay College  of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
• Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
  This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
• Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...
  Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]
• Catholic Sainthood – More Expediency Tha ...
  The former Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI, may be criminally culpable, disgracefully neglectful, deliberately deceitful, and horribly, horribly wrong in his approach to the child rape epidemic within the ranks of the Catholic Church, but there is some truth to the claims made ...

WL Central

• 2011-07-11 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 10:40 PM The ...
• 2011-07-11 Solidarity, the word of #Syntagma - ...
  Tweet ATHENS, July 11th - According to an official press release published yesterday by the City Hall of Athens and divulged by local TV channels, sanitary corps will perform a cleaning operation in Syntagma Square. This is the major square of the Greek capital and the location of the indignant ...
• 2011-07-11 Look Who's Whacking WikiLeaks
  TweetNext time you see a negative media report on Julian Assange or Wikileaks, have a think about who is writing it, and why. Behind every character-assassinating "newsy" hit-piece you will discover a writer or a publisher (usually both) with an agenda. And you don't have to look too far to find ...
• Tweet Stream - Julian #Assange's hearing on J ...
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U N News

• UN human rights chief voices concern over high ...
  The United Nations human rights chief has voiced concern over escalating violence in some parts Mexico, saying organized crime and brutality could undermine the State and threaten the people''s basic rights.
• UNESCO chief condemns murder of Colombian jour ...
  The head of the United Nations agency defending press freedom today condemned the murder of independent Colombian journalist Luis Eduardo Gómez, killed by unidentified gunmen on 30 June.
• Honduras: Ban hopes truth commission report wi ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today took note of the publication of the report of the truth and reconciliation commission in Honduras, saying he hopes the document will contribute to strengthening democracy, human rights and the rule of law in the Central American country.
• US execution of Mexican national violates inte ...
  The United Nations human rights chief said today she deeply regrets the execution in the United States of Mexican national Humberto Leal García, stating that it is a breach of Washington's obligations under international law.
• Peru: UN expert on indigenous rights calls for ...
  An independent United Nations human rights expert today urged the Peruvian Government and indigenous leaders in the country's southeast to hold peaceful dialogue to resolve the deadly conflict over mining and oil development.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Filipino Bishops and the Pajero Affair
  A weakened Catholic Church apologizes for a massive scandal
• The Bets On Aishwayra Rai
  Bollywood's breathless baby bulletins
• Inner Mongolia's Ghost Town
  District Kangbashi, designed for more than a million inhabitants, is still empty even five years after its construction
• Bersih 2.0, Malaysia 0.0
  Crackdown lowered rally numbers but made Malaysian government look bad
• President Jiang in Better Health
  Photos show he's been aware of his surroundings

We Know the Lies

• CONFIRMED... Facebook IS in Fact Aiding Govern ...
• Avoiding Court Trials and Tickets!... 5 Words ...
• WARNING!!! E.O. 13575...The Next Land Grab... ...
• Exposed... Secret Location of New Federal Reserve
• In 1931 Nikola Tesla Proved Cars Could Run Wit ...

Tarpley

• Dansk
  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén   Landkrig i Libyen snart, WW3, Webster Tarpley og NATOs skumle projekter i Mellemøsten Avisen.dk – 3. juli 2011 [permalink] [...]
• NATO Policy in Libya Based on Political Assass ...
  Norway Dropping Out, Netherlands Refuse to Bomb, Underlining Fragility of Aggressor Coalition Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 8, 2011 �
• Aus Libyen: Bericht von Webster Tarpley
  Ingo Hagel Umkreis-Online 30. Juni 2011 Vor einigen Wochen hatte ich hier auf Umkreis-Online über die eigentlichen Hintergründe des Krieges der USA, England und Frankreich gegen Libyen berichtet. Die UN-Resolution hatte„nur“ von der Durchsetzung einer Flugverbotszone gesprochen, nun wird Libyen ...
• Report from Libya 6
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show
• Report from Libya 5
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Russia Today July 1, 2011 download file �

Modern Survivalism

• Shelf Reliance
  msb-note This website depends nearly entirely upon the results of the support that you provide by clicking-on and purchasing products that that hopefully fit in with your survival preparedness plans. Without your support, this site could not sustain itself because it takes time and money to stay ...
• Secure Private E-mail
  Sending an email to someone is hardly different from sending a post card through the mail with a written message on it for anyone to read. While there is no such thing as secure email, there are some precautions that you can take which will protect you from nearly all prying eyes. In most cases, ...
• Katla Volcano EarthQuakes – Flooding &#8 ...
  The Katla volcano in Iceland is making itself known once again. Been following this one for a while. It has a nasty history of blowing its top between 6 months and 1.5 years after it’s volcanic sister neighbor, Eyjafjallojokull, which erupted back during April 2010. The M.S.B. geologist ‘insider ...
• A view of Martial Law
  Guest Post: by ‘Be informed’ People in the United States and most western countries have no idea what it is like to suddenly lose almost or all of their civil rights. People have no concept of the feeling of everything they say and do being controlled and regulated practically within an instant. ...
• Today in the News:
  News Today (July 6, 2011) The cost of looking after the country’s ageing population will become unsustainable unless younger generations work longer and pay higher taxes. UK Needs Retirement at 70 Europe’s debt troubles extend beyond Greece, Moody’s became the first ratings agency to cut Portuga ...

Fast Company

• Comedian Discovers Facebook Video Call Bug, Re ...
  New York comedian Tom Kelly has discovered an unnerving flaw for Safari users attempting Facebook's new video calling feature: You can’t hang up. “You might think you hung up on the call, but the friend you’re talking to is actually watching you in your bedroom--or wherever you make your cal ...
• Coming Soon: Pharmaceutical Testing On Mice Wi ...
  Researchers at MIT have figured out how to grow "humanized" livers inside of mice--so the little critters could soon accurately predict how our livers will respond to drugs. Mice are a boon to biomedical research; they can often predict how humans will react to certain conditions, and not too m ...
• Twitter Is The Newest Tool For Self-Published ...
  This week kids' favorite SpongeBob SquarePants will be the center of a new story on a wholly new medium: Twitter. The Ice Race Cometh--A Twitter Tale is an original story, from the official SpongeBob writing team, and will consist of multiple tweets and images broadcast throughout each day from ...
• Apple Roundup: The iPad HD, The Rising Price O ...
  iPad HD Rumor Strikes AgainThis is a rumor that just won't die: There's new word that Apple will add another iPad to the lineup at the end of the third quarter or start of the fourth, timing it alongside the rumored launch date for the iPhone 5 and the arrival of iOS5. The latest predictions are ...
• Kenny Powers Returns For Second K-Swiss Campaign
  No longer a spokesman, Powers is now the MFCEO. Multi-league lockout threats. Sex scandals involving Perkins waitresses. Cameron Diaz hand-feeding A Rod popcorn in the stands during the Super Bowl. The sports world has clearly gone pear shaped and Kenny Powers is looking to fix it. ...

Jadaliyya

• عند حافة الجرح
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• The Post-Racial Pitch: FIFA, Nationalism and Islam
  Iran and Palestine, generally outside the soccer mainstream, have both made FIFA headlines in recent weeks. FIFA declared the 3rd of July a "historic day for Palestinian football" after the Palestinian national team defeated Afghanistan in a World Cup qualifier. In a less celebratory vei ...
• This Flag is my Flag
  [This is the fifth installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous installments�here] For two hours on Wednesday, I was in the safest place in Syria: at �The Longest Syrian Flag in the World,� pro-regime rally in Aleppo. The security protected, 1700 ...
• The Arab Spring and Adunis's Autumn
  The Syrian poet Adunis (1930-) (Ali Ahmad Sa`id) is and will always be one of the most important Arab poets of the 20th century. His poetry represents a genuinely radical break with what came before. His metaphors are dazzling and his voice is pristine. Although he was not the first, nor ...
• Maroun Abboud's "Everlasting Everlasting"
  It has often been remarked, with a note of frustration, that most of the literature produced in the Arab world and translated into English is characterized by its heavily sorrowful tone. One has to admit that most of the last two centuries has witnessed the invasion of western imperialis ...

mediagazer

• British Tabloid Targeted Investigators' Phone ...
  New York Times: British Tabloid Targeted Investigators' Phone Data  —  LONDON — Shortly after Scotland Yard began its initial criminal inquiry of phone hacking by The News of the World in 2006, five senior police investigators discovered that their own mobile phone messages had been targeted by ...
• News Corp may be at risk for U.S. probe over b ...
  Reuters: News Corp may be at risk for U.S. probe over bribery  —  (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp could face probes by U.S. authorities for possibly violating bribery laws, compounding the media mogul's problems after a phone-hacking scandal in Britain.  —  The Obama administration …
• Rupert Murdoch, Meet Janet Malcolm - Pro Scand ...
  Tom Junod / Esquire: Rupert Murdoch, Meet Janet Malcolm — Pro Scandalist  —  A few months ago, The Paris Review published an interview with The New Yorker's Janet Malcolm.  It was conducted, at Malcolm's insistence and with interviewer Katie Roiphe's consent, entirely through email, and like s ...
• James Murdoch, Then and Now - James Murdoch, t ...
  Andrew Essex / News Desk: James Murdoch, Then and Now  —  James Murdoch, the younger son of Rupert Murdoch, who had been positioned to succeed him in leading News Corp., may face criminal charges in the phone-hacking scandal convulsing England.  But there was a time not long ago when the embat ...
• The New York Times Releases App for Windows 7 ...
  Andy Plesser / Beet.TV: The New York Times Releases App for Windows 7 with Deep Video Sharing Functionality  —  The New York Time has just released an App for Windows 7 mobile devices.  —  Recently, we interviewed Microsoft's David Sayed about the mobile platform and its deep video sharing util ...

Chemtrail News

• Strange shape of Chemtrail plane… | ...
  Check out the dark shape in front of the chemtrail as well… After some experimenting the white lights look very similar to a lense flare in other videos I ...chemtrails.theshadowland.net/.../strange-shape-of-chemtrail-pl...
• Photos & Videos Chemtrail The Weath ...
  Upload your best active weather photos and videos or watch them in our new searchable gallery.www.theweathernetwork.com/your_weather/details/.../9?ref...
• YouTube UFO NEWS UFO OVER CHEMTRAIL IN ...
  UFO NEWS UFO OVER CHEMTRAIL IN GERMANY JULY 8 2011 SLOMO ZOOM FILTER ... Added to queue News Chemtrails over Freising Bavaria Germaby hibernate1908154 views ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNv9heqRPHY
• The Orwellian World of Chemtrails | Bef ...
  Chemtrails are a lot like 911 Either people get it or they dont Theyre open and willing to see things for how they really are or theyre not It's so obvious ...beforeitsnews.com/.../The_Orwellian_World_of_Chemtrails.ht...
• YouTube - CHEMTRAIL RALLY ENGLAND Updat ...
  MAIN INFO VIDEO FOR RALLY , ENGLAND http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpfYHsB_zsM Update video No.7 http://www.youtube.com ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYqhjKI6Yuk

World News - Top Stories

• 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 ...

no frakking consensus

• IPCC Bigwigs Spout Political, Childish Nonsense
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is supposed to stick to the science. But not only do its leaders make political pronouncements - these pronouncements are startlingly unsophisticated.
• Chris Landsea and the Moral Midgets
  The scientific community expects us to trust its judgment on the question of whether global warming is the fault of human beings. But its response to the Chris Landsea affair demonstrates that that judgment is impaired.
• Landsea, the IPCC & the Union of Concerned Sci ...
  There's a link between hurricane expert Chris Landsea, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. That link is James J. McCarthy.
• Fanaticism 101
  According to someone with a PhD from Harvard, my skeptical climate change views mean one thing: I'm intent on murdering his grandchildren.
• The Thrashing of Al Gore Continues
  When skeptics argue with Al Gore about the science of climate change do they step right into a trap?

Anna's News

• Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
  Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ......Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
• 10 Best British Open Performances
  Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and..Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
  Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• National Parks at Risk: Photos
  National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent ....Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
• Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
  The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...

Medical Marijuana

• 7/1/11 - Jail, Prison, Parole, and Probation P ...
  felonvoting.procon.org - NEW: Jail, Prison, Parole, and Probation Populations in the US, 1980-2009 - The total correctional population in the US grew from 1,840,400 in 1980 to 7,255,800 in 2009. In 1980 there were 319,598 people in prison, and by 2009 that population had expanded to 1,524,513 i ...
• 6/29/11 - New York Becomes the Sixth State to ...
  gaymarriage.procon.org - New York Becomes the Sixth State to Legalize Gay Marriage: Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law on June 24, 2011 that grants same-sex couples the right to marry, more than doubling the number of Americans living in states that allow same-sex marriage. New York jo ...
• 6/29/11 - US Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Ba ...
  videogames.procon.org - US Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Banning Sale of Violent Video Games to Minors: On June 27, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Brown vs. Entertainment Merchants Association that the California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors violated free speec ...
• 6/24/11 - Chart of Energy Use by State and by ...
  alternativeenergy.procon.org - NEW: Chart of Energy Use by State and by Source, 2008 - In 2008, the US used fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum) for 83.5 percent of its energy needs. Renewable energy (wind, solar, and biofuels) accounted for 7.4 percent. Nuclear energy represented 8. ...
• 6/22/11 - Is the use of standardized tests imp ...
  standardizedtests.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Is the use of standardized tests improving education in America? - Standardized tests have been a part of American education since the mid-1800s. Their use skyrocketed after 2002's No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) mandated annual testing in ...

Truth About Our World

• One Global heart
  � From: http://www.davidicke.com
• London Bombings Were An Inside Job (And So Was ...
  ‘A Principal Intelligence Analyst for South Yorkshire Police has spoken out about the July 7th 2005 London Bombings. Tony Farrell who has served for the police since 1998 is convinced as he can be that the bombings were a false flag attack carried out by intelligence agencies. In July 2010 he wa ...
• How Cancer Is Willingly Forced Upon the People ...
• The Ultimate Justice
• US government openly admits arming Mexican dru ...
  July 08, 2011 by Mike Adams It is now a widely-reported fact that under the Obama administration, U.S. federal agents actively placed over 30,000 fully-functional weapons into the hands of Mexican drug gangs, then halted all surveillance and tracking activities of where those weapons were going. ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Scientology Questions for Janet Reitman
  The author of Inside Scientology discusses the impressive Scientology schools, the church’s efforts to recruit African-Americans, and why celebrities don’t help bring new followers. By Jessica Grose Rolling Stone contributing editor Janet Reitman didn’t know much about Scientology when she start ...
• China to Trounce U.S. in Next Decade
  Martin Jacques The Western financial crisis heralded a significant shift in the balance of power between the United States and China. Most starkly, it brought forward the date when the Chinese economy will overtake the US economy in size from 2027 (the Goldman Sachs projection in 2005) to 2020. ...
• Europeans Against Multiculturalism
  Political Attacks Misread History, Target Muslims, and May Win Votes John R. Bowen British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin / The Prime Ministerâs Office / Flickr(cc) One of the many signs of the rightward creep of Western European pol ...
• Blaming Women for the Infantilization of Men
  Myriam Miedzian IN 1987 traditionally all-male Columbia College started to admit women. Some years later, I happened to be on campus and decided to drop in on one of my former professorsâI had gotten my PhD in philosophy at Columbia University years earlierâwho had become a friend. Soon into the ...
• Off-putting behaviour
  After much delay I finally get around to the subject of procrastination AL Kennedy Boiling kettle. Photograph: D Hurst/Alamy I have a small blackboard in my study. On it, I carefully chalk all of the writing-related tasks I have not yet completed: essays, scripts, treatments, rewrites, short sto ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Engineering public engagement
  FROM EMMA WOODS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE What is so unusual about geoengineering? What sets it apart from other controversial technologies? One thing that strikes me as particularly atypical is that the social dimensions of geoengineering are being addressed well ahead of the development of ...
• Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
  FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
• Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
  FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
• Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
  There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA.   The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
• Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
  There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA.   The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...

NAU Resistance

• Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
  "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
• Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
  "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
• VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ...
  "Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM
• VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ...
  "Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM
• U.S.-Canada Perimeter Security and an Integrat ...
  "The end results of a fully integrated continental security perimeter could sacrifice what is left of Canadian sovereignty and independence" -Dana Gabriel

Gaea Times

• Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
  WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
• Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
  LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
• Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
  SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
• Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
  WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
• How sex hormones influence right heart function
  WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

• No Carbon Tax Protest: photos
  Some random thoughts as we steam towards the biggest social and economic blunder of the millennium. Calculations about what people will pay on average per week are speculative and have no guarantees attached. That’s clearly just a marketing gimmick. What we should be more concerned about is wh ...
• TVO Canada interviews Gage, Zwicker, Zarembka ...
  http://ae911truth.org/en/news-section/41-articles/513-tvo-debate.html Written by AE911Truth Staff | 17 may 2011 Canadian Public Broadcasting TV Station TVO Interviewed AE911Truth's Richard Gage, AIA, Barrie Zwicker (Towers of Deception), Author Paul Zarembka on the program "The Agenda" wi ...
• A green tide sweeps Canberra
  On 4th July 2011 the Greens will control nine seats in the Federal Senate, giving them the balance of power and ushering in a new era of enviro-politics. Tonight Josh Jackson and I wade into the battle over carbon taxes and attempt to restore some sanity to the debate. In particular we take ...
• 9/11 Troll Alert
  Coinciding with the approaching 10th anniversary of 9/11, it seems we are experiencing a new campaign to undermine and destroy the 9/11 truth movement. Truther groups have been buzzing over the past two days with news about the "defection" of Love Police founder Charlie Veitch from the 9/11 t ...
• TSA’s assault on human dignity continues ...
  There has been the usual hand wringing and a flood of TV reports over the latest TSA outrage: the "grope down" of a six year old girl, daughter of Todd and Selena Drexel, at an airport in New Orleans. I present below some of the recent coverage: "Right now at Armstrong International ...

Beacon

• Breaking: Chile Passes Shark Finning Ban
  Fantastic news! Earlier this afternoon, the Chilean National Congress passed a nationwide ban on shark finning. This groundbreaking decision comes on the heels of a very similar ban passed by the United States Congress last December, and puts both countries at the forefront of shark conserv ...
• Diving in the San Juan Islands
  � Oceana This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Today's highlights: On their first day in Washington, the team saw a minke whale, harbor seals and more in the San Juan Islands. Washington Leg, Day 1 Just before 5 a.m., captain Todd Shuster started the ...
• Oceana Uncovers Dangerous Mercury Levels in Fish
  © Oceana/Juan Cuetos Spain’s biggest newspaper, El País, featured Oceana prominently in this morning’s cover story. The article describes Oceana’s unrelenting effort to make previously confidential research regarding unsafe mercury levels in large fish freely accessible to the public, highl ...
• News from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  Small velella surrounded by plastic. © Scripps Institution of Oceanography Imagine you�re in a dimly lit Italian restaurant. Famished, you take the first bite of a juicy eggplant parmesan dinner, and it turns out to be a big hunk of plastic. (Yuk.) That�s the reality for fish in an area of ...
• Oceana's New Sea Turtle Children's Book
  A sea turtle drawing by a student at Seaside Elementary in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Author Eric Douglas and Oceana collaborated recently to create a children’s book, “The Sea Turtle Rescue.” The book features illustrations by the talented students at Seaside Elementary School in Myrtle Beach, Sou ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Ambrosini SS.3
  The Ambrosini SS.3 The Ambrosini SS.3 � Like the Kyushu J7W1 Shinden, the Amrbosini  SS.3 was a radical airline design that rolled off of a drafting board in Italy in the 1930s. It featured a forward canard and rear pusher type prop configuration. It would be the Axis forces that designed an eff ...
• The Silent War.
  IED Munitions, Baghdad There is a war being fought between bombers and jammers. The bombers plant bombs and set them off. The jammers look for way to defeat the bombers. The war has been fought mostly in the battlefield of electromagnetic frequencies. It morphs quickly and fewer wars have seen q ...
• Handley Page HP.115
  Handley Page HP.115 Experimental Aircraft Other than the A-10, or the F-107 Ultra, I believe this is the only other combat prototype to feature an over the fuselage intake duct. This small delta wing design handled wonderfully and it’s modern delta shaped configuration gave it a 20 plus years li ...
• The Columbiad.
  Columbiad Gun At Fort Donelson The thing about the Columbiad gun was that it looked so menacing. As artillery it was one of the most primitive artillery pieces used on past the American Civil War. It fired a 7 and ¼ inch round, or 184 mm shell. For its day it was an incredibly destructive weapon ...
• The Pig War.
  However, it came to no conflict whatsoever for thirteen years. Until June 15th 1859 when a pig crossed over from the property of Hudson Bay Company employee Charles Griffin and showed up on the property of Lyman Cutler. It rooted around for truffles quite happily until Lyman shot and killed it. ...

Taylor Marsh

• Murdoch Global Sleaze Machine Continues to Unravel
  … Whether or not the Mirror’s claims are verified, the allegations may raise the volume on questions about the editorial judgment and ethics employed by Murdoch titles in the U.S. “The News of the World has lots of reporters at any given time on the ground in the U.S.,” Murdoch biographer Michae ...
• Obama on Social Security: ‘If you’re going to ...
  **UPDATED** “I’m prepared to take on significant heat from my party to get something done.” – Pres. Obama There’s something haunting about this photo. Obama look on as history passes. In August 2009, on a visit to Elkhart, Indiana to tout his stimulus plan, Obama sat down for an interview with N ...
• No She Can’t
  It looks like a scene from HBO’s “True Blood” before all hell breaks loose. Newsweek‘s got Sarah Palin standing in a field of flowers in some sort of odd outfit, with the backdrop of trees looking quite eerie. I’d ask what was she thinking, but while Michele Bachmann is doing the tough slog of c ...
• Obama’s ‘Balanced Approach’ is a Democratic Killer
  **UPDATED** President Barack Obama will push leaders of Congress to stay focused on negotiating a large deficit-reduction package, despite the decision by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to abandon talks on a grand bargain, senior administration officials said Sunday. – Barack Obama will pus ...
• The Sunday News Round-Up
  On this day in history, July 10, 1509, theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, was born France. Some news that caught my eye this fine morning: ~Elizabeth Warren for Senate? ~The GOP has predictably rebuffed the President’s so-called Grand Bargain, which is really a G ...

Hudson New York

• Ships and Planes of Fools Pick Wrong Target
  The recent attempts by anti-Israel extremists to break Israel's naval blockage of Gaza and to flood Israel's airports with troublemakers have failed. The ships of fools, knaves hypocrites, bigots, and supporters of terrorism that tried to sail from
• Pollard Guilty, U.S. "Allies" Innocent?
  As a Palestinian, I never thought I would ever end up writing in Jonathan Pollard's defense, especially as, when he was convicted of espionage in 1987, I was 13 years old. It seems Pollard will remain in jail for his crime against US national security --
• Radical Islam in Germany: The Convert as Missi ...
  Abu Hamza, born a German named Pierre Vogel in 1978, is a very popular Islamist preacher in Germany. The former professional boxer became Muslim in 2001 and is now among the most influential German representatives of Saudi-originated Wahhabi
• Turkey, Israel Still at Table Despite Deadlock
  Turkey and Israel are still in talks, as the two sides remain deadlocked over their positions on last year's deadly Mavi Marmara incident.. But regional unrest in the Middle East and North Africa is pushing both Ankara and Tel Aviv to stay at the
• Where Is Promised Arab Funding for the Palesti ...
  The Palestinian Authority has announced that it is facing a severe financial crisis, largely due to the failure of Arab countries to fulfill their promises to help the Palestinians. Because of the failure of the Arab countries to provide financial aid to

Urban Survival

• “Commodities Win”
  There’s a compelling CNBC piece out this morning with global commodities trader Jim Rogers. His view seems to be that if the global economy successfully muddles through, commodities will go up on increased demand. But, if the muddle-through fails, then … Continue reading →
• Coping: Monday at the WuJo
  Monday is as good a time as any, since a wide swath of Life doesn’t make sense on Mondays, to review the latest happenings on the mat down at the Wujo. That’s our private dojo where reality and pseudo science … Continue reading →
• Ginning Up Jobs: Piece of Cake
  Hand me my statistical sledge hammer, wouldja? While the Obama administration tries to counter reports – like the charge that Stimulus Jobs cost $278,000 per – and there’s a thoughtful comment in the WaPo this morning on this showing how … Continue reading →
• Coping: With the Break-up of America
  I decided, somewhere between the third and sixth sip of wake-up juice this morning, that I needed a new system of dealing with cognitive dissonance. Which is, as we’ve talked about before, the state of mental anguish that accompanies being … Continue reading →
• ECB Raises 25 Bips!
  If you had nothing better to do than stare into trading monitors, this might be an interesting period, this window between now and Friday’s close. The main reason being we have something that to my eye could be labeled a … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Steve Quayle, Angel Wars - Coast To Coast AM - ...
  In The first hour financial analyst Joe Meyer... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• David Wilkerson 1973 Prophecy becoming True ?
  Pastor David Wilkerson (May 19, 1931 – April 27,... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Links for 2011-07-10 [del.icio.us]
  Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince - Lost Occult Documents - Coast To Coast AM - 9.7.2011 |Gerald Celente Trends Blog Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince - Lost Occult Documents - Coast To Coast AM - 9.7.2011 Do Not sell Your Gold & Silver |Gold and Silver Blog Do Not sell Your Gold & Silver Steve ...
• Who are these Global Elites?
  The key to the whole NWO plan is the veri-chip.... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Webster Tarpley : I call upon Obama to resign
  Webster Tarpley World Crisis Radio 07-09-2011... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

• MIND CONTROL 75: Beware Of Men
  Jesus spent quite a considerable amount of time âwarning about men.â It is men that deceive men. Men are the ones that lead other men to believe in a lie. More specificallyâ¦â¦ Jesus constantly warned about Pastors. Matt 7:15-23 15 “WATCH OUT FOR FALSE PROPHETS. THEY COME TO YOU IN SHEEPâS CLOTH ...
• MIND CONTROL 74: Who You Are Is Who You Are
  It cannot be emphasized enough….. the fact that Jesus did not die for our sins. It is so important that we understand this…… otherwise we will miss his entire message. Jesus is not going to take the punishment for your sins. You are going to be punished for your own sins. No other person but [...]
• FASHION IN PAPER – By: Alexandra Zaharov ...
  Filed under: CREATIVITY Tagged: creativity, Fashion, fashion photography, photography
• FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY – By: Andrea Klarin
  Filed under: CREATIVITY Tagged: creativity, Fashion, fashion photography, photography
• MIND CONTROL 73: Prostitutes vs Christians
  Jesus used another parable to demonstrate this issue of repentance: Matt 21:28-32 28 “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ 29 “‘I WILL NOT,’ HE ANSWERED, BUT LATER HE CHANGED HIS MIND AND WENT. 30 [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• Universal design: The science of access at the ...
  Nora Nagle has a long title: The Americans with Disabilities Act and 504 Accessibility Coordinator at the Museum of Science, Boston. She also has a big job, one that goes beyond making the museum wheelchair accessible and compliant under the ADA and Section 504, a federal civil rights law. O ...
• WBUR: Space mice to test bone drugs
  Thursday's Radio Boston had a nice interview with a local osteoporosis researcher. She's sending mice up in the shuttle to test out a new treatment. Mary Bouxsein is a scientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and has the honor of having an experiment on board Atlantis's last flight. ...
• Negelected tropical disease meeting this weeke ...
  Ever heard of Guinea Worm? Onchocerciasis? Schistosomiasis?Lymphatic Filariasis? Probably not, since these tropical disease don't get much attention outside the tropics. So, public health and biomedical researchers from around the globe will be meeting this weekend in Cambridge, Massachusett ...
• Two Harvard cannabinoid papers retracted
  The Retraction Watch blog reports that Harvard researchers have retracted two papers, Last week's paper was pulled from Blood for "multiple instances of duplicate (redundant) publication of data, text, and images that are nonessential to the paper." The retraction notice referred to a paper in ...
• BU research challenges climate change skeptics
  From the BBC: The lull in global warming from 1998 to 2008 was mainly caused by a sharp rise in China's coal use, a study suggests. The absence of a temperature rise over that decade is often used by "climate sceptics" as grounds for denying the existence of man-made global warming. But the n ...

NRDC Switchboard

• 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 ...
• University of Nebraska Professor releases stud ...
  Anthony Swift, Policy Analyst Today Dr. John Stansbury, a Professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering at the University of Nebraska, released a study of the worst case spill scenarios for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands ...
• 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 ...

Injustice Everywhere

• Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 07-09 ...
  Due to travel and work over the weekend I wasn’t able to track reports too well. Hopefully I’ll have some time to catch the reports I missed and pull them into Monday’s report. With that said, here are the 6 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for thi ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, July 8, 2011: 3 Humphries Co TN deputies & 2 Waverly TN cops investigated over dashcam video purportedly showing them strip & beat man for 14mins [2] http://bit.ly/qeFRtA Pennsylvan ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, July 7, 2011: Salt Lake City UT cop may face charges after prosecutor says shooting of juvenile car theft suspect not justified [0] http://bit.ly/mYnmds Paterson NJ set to settle s ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, July 6, 2011: � Ferndale MI police sued by wife of unarmed man fatally shot by cop on dashcam during a car chase. While the officer was cleared by claiming self defense, the video ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, July 5, 2011: 3 New Haven CT cops caught on video repeatedly kicking, punching & beating man in street, wasn’t resisting [3] http://bit.ly/nj00Kd Porterville CA sued by family of m ...

Total Collapse

• Assad loyalists break into US Embassy compound ...
  Loyalists of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad have broken into the US compound in Damascus, a Reuters report said, quoting unnamed diplomats in the Lebanese capita. An Associated Press report earlier quoted a witness in Syria’s capital as saying security guards at the French Embassy have fired i ...
• Jewish Killers Massacred 66 Million In Soviet ...
  I love strong opponents! It’s such fun to break their backs! said the Leningrad interrogator Shitov. And if your opponent (e.g. your prisoner) is so strong that he refuses to give in, all your methods have failed and you are in a rage? Then, don’t control your fury! It’s tremendously satisfying, ...
• Vladimir Putin “sent to Russia by God”, closes ...
  Moscow, July 9: One of the Kremlin’s top political advisers has claimed that Vladimir Putin was sent to Russia by God to help it deal with its troubles in the early post-Soviet era. “To be honest, I think of Putin as a person who was sent to Russia by fate and the Almighty at a [...]
• Major 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes northea ...
  TOKYO — A strong earthquake jolted on Sunday the same area of northeastern Japan that was hit by a massive quake in March, but there was no sign of further damage along the coast or to the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, officials said. The Japan Meteorological Agency lifted a tsunami al ...
• Google Blacklists 11,000,000 Websites
  Over 11 million websites have been blacklisted and banned by Google. A massive block of websites registered for free through the co.cc subdomain have been silenced after the Internet giants have determined many of them to be unfit for the Web. Google’s Matt Cutts writes on his Google Plus accoun ...

Daily Dose

• Windows Intune 2.0 beta now available for download
  Late last week we brought you the rumor that today would mark the official release of the Windows Intune 2.0 beta. That rumor was correct, and the software is now available for download. If you want to grab the beta, head here. Stick around if you want to hear us explain what it is, and why it ...
• AT&T now selling the HTC Status: The 1st phone ...
  AT&T announced today that it is now taking pre-orders for the HTC Status, what it’s calling “the first phone with a dedicated Facebook share button”. The phone is exclusive to AT&T customers for $49.99 with a two-year contract and will be in stores on July 17th for $49.99. AT&T is touting the ...
• New Microsoft patent details dual-screen smart ...
  Digging for patents is a bit like using a metal detector on a large patch of grass: Sometimes you just get lucky. Today is such a day. A new Microsoft patent that has been uncovered details a dual-screen smartphone design. We doubt that the company is rushing to bring the device to market, but ...
• Interview: DataSift’s Nick Halstead talks inve ...
  Following our announcement earlier today that DataSift has secured $6m in VC funding, The Next Web caught up with founder Nick Halstead at the company’s office in Reading, 40 miles outside of London. DataSift is one of only two companies that are globally licensed to re-sell Twitterâs firehose ...
• Twitter announces 1 million registered apps, i ...
  Twitter has today announced on its blog that there are 1 million registered twitter apps, built by more than 750,000 developers. This is a huge increase over the only 150,000 apps that were plugged into Twitter a year ago. This is also a marked increase of 100,000 from numbers that were release ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Carbon Price Response: A Small Step Forward, B ...
  Climate and energy security think tank Beyond Zero Emissions welcome the Labor government�s carbon price package negotiated with The Greens and lower house independents Rob Oakshott and Tony Windsor. The proposed legislation will start the process of transitioning Australia from a 19th Century f ...
• Climate Policy unFiT for getting Rooftop Solar ...
  The Gillard government has ignored the most successful policy in the world for rolling out renewables deployed and reducing carbon emissions: the German renewable energy Feed-in Tariff. Internal analysis by Beyond Zero Emissions shows that the use of a Feed-in Tariff to get solar panels onto ev ...
• Clarification Needed on ‘Clean Energy’ – Scarc ...
  Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes the establishment of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). The Greens have been successful in striking forest burning out of the definition of renewable energy but have failed to negotiate the end to the practi ...
• Govt Must Exclude Polluting Gas from Clean Ene ...
  Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes the new Clean Energy Finance Corporation to support the rollout of renewable energy in Australia. The $1 billion guaranteed funding for renewable energy is welcome. However the $1 billion unspecified portion per year needs to explicitly exclude fossil gas. Conven ...
• Carbon Price Response: Retired Coal Plants Sho ...
  Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes the Government, Greens and Independents carbon price package which starts the process of Australia's transition from a 19th century fossil fuel dominated economy to a 21st Century renewable energy cleantech economy. The announcement that 2000MWe of coal-fired powe ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Australia launches limited carbon tax
  Australia's 500 largest polluters will pay AU$23 ($24.60) per ton of carbon dioxide emitted beginning July 2012 under a plan announced by Australian prime minister Julia Gilliard.
• South Sudan's choice: resource curse or wild w ...
  After the people of South Sudan have voted overwhelmingly for independence, the work of building a nation begins. Set to become the world's newest country on July 9th of this year, one of many tasks facing the nation's nascent leaders is the conservation of its stunning wildlife. In 2007, follow ...
• Climate change to push over 10 percent of the ...
  Scientists have predicted for decades that climate change could have a grave impact on life on Earth, which is already facing numerous threats from habitat loss, over-exploitation, pollution, invasive species, and other impacts. However, empirical proof of extinctions--and even endangerment--due ...
• Picture of the day: waterfall on the endangere ...
  Characterized by crystal-clear waters and surrounding by tropical rainforest, the Xingu is considered one of the most beautiful rivers in the Amazon basin. Yet the Xingu is on the brink of destruction due Belo Monte, an $18.5 billion hydroelectric project backed by Brazilian government energy c ...
• 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 ...

Sierra Express

• This time, the truth matters
  Having listened to the interview of the Welsh International, Craig Douglas Bellamy stressing the importance of his wages to develop the academy of Sierra Leone makes me shed tears. Craig Bellamy is not a native of Sierra Leone nor are his parents. His ambition to develop an academy that would tu ...
• Sierra Leone lecturers participate in NFE dialogue
  Mr. Edward Turay (in photo), Senior Lecturer in the Division of Extra Mural Studies Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone led a two man delegation to the International Workshop on Good Practices in Capacity Development of Non Formal Education (NFE) Teaching Personnel in Asia and Africa ...
• The Commissioner ACC holds press briefing in Bo
  In the afternoon of the 25th June, 2011, the Commissioner held a press briefing with journalists at the Fair View Lodge, Kebbie Town, Bo. The briefing was attended by over (30) thirty journalists of both print and electronic including the Regional Vice President, SLAJ South, Mr. Melvin Rogers wh ...
• ACC Commissioner delivers lecture at Njala Uni ...
  The Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Sierra Leone, Mr. Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara Esq. (in photo) delivered a public lecture at the Njala University Torwama Campus on Saturday 25th June, 2011 on the topic ‘FIGHTING CORRUPTION: A NATIONAL CONCERN’. The lecture which commenced at 12:1 ...
• Economics Focus: Inflation and interest rate m ...
  The farrago over the interest rate changes may risk making the Bank of Sierra Leone look impetuous and incompetent rather than bold.  So, why would small changes in the interest rate could have a greater impact on households and bondholders alike?  (Photo: Idrissa Koroma) The financial crisis wa ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Dairy price boom exceeds Goldman's expectations
  Dairy farmers feeling more confident about opening cheque books is good news for the economy, says Goldman Sachs economist Philip Borkin."We are already detecting improving sentiment emerging from the rural sector as farmers begin...
• Liam Dann: No sign yet of dollar budging
  The New Zealand dollar completely shrugged off a fall in dairy prices yesterday - that's worrying.While the 6.7 per cent drop in New Zealand's most important commodity on Fonterra's auction overnight prompted a mini sell-off,...
• Global recovery fears knock dairy prices
  International dairy prices are dropping but economists say if the slide continues a falling dollar should help buffer the economy from lost earnings.The average price for a basket of products in Fonterra's online auction yesterday...
• Dairy prices fall 6.7pc in overnight auction
  Average prices of dairy products posted their biggest decline since March in Fonterra's latest online auction, adding to signs that commodity prices are easing from record highs as global growth slows.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell...
• India looks to tap NZ dairy know-how in trade deal
  India's Commerce Minister wants to tap into the New Zealand dairy industry's state-of-the art technology as part of a free-trade deal between the two countries.Shri Anand Sharma has urged Kiwi dairy giant Fonterra and India's...

The Bovine

• Fighting for fundamental food rights
  Michael Schmidt reports on his participation earlier this summer in the first international conference on food safety and quality of organic food in Prague: Michael Schmidt, biodynamic farmer in Canada I am here as a farmer, not as a scientist. … Continue reading →
• Cowshare member and raw milk skeptic shares hi ...
  From a recent post on The Cornelioid: “Iâm a member of a cow share and receive a quart of raw milk per week, at a rate of about $3.19 / quart. Moreover, iâm a proud but insufficiently-informed foodie, and given … Continue reading →
• Private groups last chance for raw milk?
  From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “If we lose the right to organize private organizations to share food, then the food rights war war will be over sooner than you can say “raw milk.” Why? Because the food … Continue reading →
• Virtual grocery shopping in South Korea
  Thanks to Cryptogon for the heads up:
• Off-grid U.K. couple faced with prison
  From The Mid-Devon Gazette, via Gordon Watson: A COUPLE living an “off-grid” lifestyle say they face prison unless they move from their own land in Willand England and return to an existence in the benefits trap. Stig and Dinah Mason bought … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Recall Madness in Wisconsin: Republicans Run a ...
  Wisconsin Democrats, upset by fiscal sanity and common sense legislation that will benefit all Wisconsin have launched a recall campaign against six Republican legislators who sided with Governor Scott Walker on much needed collective bargaining legislation. In response, some Republicans are ho ...
• European Government Bond Spreads at Record Hig ...
  10-Year Government Bond Yields and Spreads vs. Germany CountryYieldChangeYield HighSpread Spread High Germany2.67-0.16 0 Portugal 13.31+0.39Y10.64Y Ireland13.34+0.43Y10.67Y Greece17.02+0.16 14.35 Spain5.96+0.28Y3.29Y Italy 5.61+0.34Y2.94Y 2-Year Government Bond Yields and Spreads vs. Germa ...
• Bond Vigilantes Strike; Crisis in Italy Escala ...
  In response to EU Calls Emergency Meeting on Italy; Don't Worry "It's a Coordination, Not a Crisis"; Short Sellers Blamed; Junckeritis Spreads I received an interesting comment from "fedwatcher" The “Bond Vigilantes” are out in force in the European Sovereign Debt markets. What is at risk here i ...
• Invisible Elephant Now Visible; EU Ready to Te ...
  ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet has been battling Germany, the bond markets, and EU officials over his "No Greek default, not even a soft one" stance. That battle is about ready to come to an inglorious end for Trichet. The Financial Times reports EU stance shifts on Greece defaultEuropean le ...
• Republicans Likely Blew It
  On Friday, Boehner announced there was a 50-50 chance of a major budget deal. On Saturday the picture changed dramatically as Boehner abandoned efforts to reach comprehensive debt-reduction deal.House Speaker John A. Boehner abandoned efforts Saturday night to cut a far-reaching debt-reduction d ...

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 ...