- In Memory of Takeimi Rao: I Taught My Daughter ...
Yesterday morning, I came across the story of Takeimi Rao, a local 14-year-old girl who died due to mass consumption of alcohol at her own slumber party. As I read the story, all I could think of was the horror her mother must be going through, losing her daughter in the blink of an eye over ...
- Making Sense of Suicide
Today I took a shortcut to work, up a gravel road through the hills.� At the tip-top of the hill, where you can see miles and miles of farms and houses and hills and rivers, cars on the highway and cows grazing in the pasture, at the place where sometimes lovers park at night and where hikers cl ...
- How to Do Email Well (and Nix the Overwhelm)
BlogHer Spotlight: Amy Gahran Email overload. We all experience it and rarely does anyone fully get a grip on the wild beast. Great post here on how to use email well and nix the overload while being more productive at the same time. I hate e-mail for the purpose of sharing links, colla ...
- Getting Attention for Your Writing
[Editor's Note: The Wilder Coast explains how she is finally experiencing her articles going viral without her doing anything. That people are responding to her writing and rebroadcasting it. And this is both strange and exhilarating. It's a really interesting post about a writing career tak ...
- Ice Cream Sundaes: A Treat for Birthdays and B ...
Today's my birthday, and as it approaches every year, I spend a surprising amount of time deciding how best to celebrate it. (OK, to be fair, those who have been my friends for years would not be surprised at the amount of time I spend...not in the least...) My celebrations always involve food, ...
- iPhone and Android Marketshare in March 2011 | ...
Android’s share of the smartphone market dipped in the quarter, NPD said, to 50 percent in the first quarter from 53 percent in last year’s fourth quarter. Apple’s iOS rose nine percentage points, accounting for 28 percent of smartphone units sold, while BlackBerry lost five points of market sha ...
- Rapportive: The Chrome Extension of Doom
via rapportive.com This is THE Chrome extension. It gives a full contextual view of people right from within GMail. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsDon’t Be a Cryptic AssCare WolfEliminating Redundancies | DilbertThe Confident FeelingYouTube Downloader | Chrome ...
- Daring Fireball: Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentall ...
Apple’s radical notion is that touchscreen personal computers should make severely different tradeoffs than traditional computers — and that you can’t design one system that does it all. Windows 8 is trying to have it all, and I don’t think that can be done. You can’t make something conceptually ...
- FaceNiff – Session Hijacker for Android
via faceniff.ponury.net This is wicked. It’s an Android app where you join a wireless network and sniff passwords traversing it–like Firesheep but as an Android application. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsWhy do apps from the same company look worse on Android ...
- Windows 8 Looks Like a Slick Apple Knockoff
via microsoft.com I like a lot of what they’re doing here, but everything about it screams “catch up with Apple”. It takes away from it significantly. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe iPhone is the World’s #1 CameraSaw a Demo of Apple TV TodayThe New MacBook ...
- Free Francis Fernie. Resist political sentencing
Last week, a 20 year old man was given twelve months for violent disorder relating to protests on March 26th outside Fortnum and Masons. He threw two placard sticks, neither of which hurt anyone nor were capable of causing harm. This man, pictured in one of Operation Malone's witch hunts, handed ...
- 30 Years Since the Liverpool 8 Uprising – ...
It was July 1981 when the Liverpool 8 Uprising - or 'Toxteth Riots' as it became known - began. Following the typically aggressive and heavy-handed arrest of Leroy Cooper on Friday 3 July, anger erupted on the streets of one of Liverpool's most deprived areas in one of the most voracious display ...
- This is a FITwatch Call-out.
This is a FITwatch Call-out. This is a call-out to all those who have ever been on the recieving end of "intelligence-led" policing. This is a call-out to all those who have been pushed up against a wall by riot cops and illegally stop-and-searched. This is a call-out to all those who have had t ...
- Turning the tables on FIT – June 30th
Great to see FIT photographer Gavin Paul getting a hard time on June 30th.
- Harassment style policing at J30 protest
One of the most striking feature of today’s J30 protests was the unfettered intimidation and harassment dished out by the Met. They blatantly targeted a large scale stop and search programme at anyone they decided they didn’t like the look of, often young men, who were pulled from the crowd if t ...
- Say Yes to the Breast-Part 2
WWH-After being notified that they found “something” from my recent mammogram, I was instructed to schedule another mammogram. Say Yes, to the Breast, Part 1 During my routine mammogram, I was asked to undress and put on a robe. This time, they instructed me to undress and put on a small cape. I ...
- U.N. says U.S. broke torture rule in denying a ...
By Stephen C. Webster, Rawstory – On the same day that a major human rights organization issued a scathing report on Bush-era prisoner abuses, the United Nations alleged that the United States had violated a “long-standing” rule meant to prevent the torture of prisoners, by denying an official a ...
- “Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Adm ...
hrw.org - (Washington, DC) – Overwhelming evidence of torture by the Bush administration obliges President Barack Obama to order a criminal investigation into allegations of detainee abuse authorized by former President George W. Bush and other senior officials, Human Rights Watch said in a repo ...
- Are We All Just Homogeneous Globules of Desire?
posted by AMAN SINGH – Should there be a limit to the amount of money that an individual can earn in todayâs society? âHard work should define earning potential.â âNo, we do need limits. Just like in big companies, how much the top layer makes is usually capped in relationship to how much the lo ...
- Why is the Gates foundation investing in GM gi ...
guardian.co.uk – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is sponsoring the Guardian’s Global development site is being heavily criticised in Africa and the US for getting into bed not just with notorious GM company Monsanto, but also with agribusiness commodity giant Cargill. Trouble began ...
- EU, tax, official languages, and bureaucracy
Your humble correspondent had another amazing bureaucratic day today. I was so jealous that the Spanish bureaucrats were so fast and efficient and could give the blondie her stamp so relatively quickly and without much hassle. I received a letter from a French publisher than my royalti ...
- Al Gore will choose his reality on September 14th
In 2008, Al Gore misappropriated 300 million dollars in an attempt to brainwash the population and spread his delusions about a "climate crisis". He has paid lots of people - including corrupt politicians such as Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich - to act as pimps and say any nonsense Gore wan ...
- Why is the sum of integers equal to -1/12
The answer is copied from Math Stackexchange Dear perplexed, there are many ways to see that your result is the right one. What does it mean the right one? It means that whenever such a sum appears anywhere in physics - I explicitly emphasize that not just in string theory, also ...
- Testing Mathjax
I want to ask all users who suddenly find this blog annoyingly slow because of Mathjax to complain in the comments here. If the number of complaints will exceed a certain threshold, I will disable Mathjax again. You see, the Mathjax javascript support is loading in the grey rectangles in th ...
- AdS/CFT amplitudes are crisp in Mellin space
I urge all advanced theorists who happen to be reading TRF to study the following two new hep-th papers on AdS/CFT in the Mellin variables: A Natural Language for AdS/CFT Correlators by Fitzpatrick, Kaplan, Penedones, Raju, and Rees Towards Feynman rules for Mellin amplitudes in AdS/CFT ...
- The End of Fear – Follow in the steps of ordin ...
Το τÎλος του φÏβου… The end of fear… by magiconteam Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Stop Living In Fear! Stop living in fear! It lowers your vibrations and helps... Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Radio 13 Aug 2010 Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Ra ...
- Darwin was right: Arrival of the Post-Petroleu ...
Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial civilization. The star ...
- Greek Revoultion is now Live
I am streaming the coverage of protests from Greece. It will run as long as the video feed keeps coming to me. Just so you know…Greece is 7 hours ahead of EST. LIVE STREAMING: Γενική Απεργία ενάντια στο… by News247 Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Postcards from the G ...
- Burzynski Cures Cancer – The Magic of Antineop ...
THIS VIDEO WILL BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE OWNER ON JUNE 20 2011 Curing cancer is frowned upon big government and BIG PHARMA, especially when the patent for the cure is owned by a single doctor, and they can’t have a taste of the pie. So what do they do? They sick their hound dog, [...] Related p ...
- French Whistleblowers reaveal the set up of Do ...
I saw this over at SGTReport.com and it is worth repeating here. French insiders reveal the reason why DSK had to be taken out. It was all about the missing gold baby. Watch this one explode before summer is out. Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Commodities / Gold and ...
- U.S. Forest Service: Fracking Killed Trees
By Justine Chow, Natural Resources Summer Researcher Chemical-laden wastewater generated by a natural gas hydraulic fracturing operation killed more than half a stand of trees in a field study at the Monongahela National Forest, according to a new report... [[ This is a content summary only ...
- On Conservation: Even your water can be reused
By Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, my mother used to admonish me to conserve water during droughts. "Turn off the faucet while you brush your teeth," she'd say, "and take a shorter... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
- Cosmetics Industry To Disavow Hair Straighteners
By David Andrews, Ph.D., EWG senior scientist Most people are - by now - well aware that overexposure to formaldehyde is unsafe. From the FEMA trailer fiasco (remember Katrina?) to the Obama administration's recent decision to classify formaldehyde as... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
- On Propaganda: Fracking Fun for the Very Young
By Alex Formuzis, Father of Two and EWG V-P for Media Relations The natural gas industry has lost much support among adults who live in communities where fracking has left the water undrinkable and home values plummeting, but all is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
- Fracking Hearing: Standing room only and plent ...
By Leeann Brown, Shannon Morgan and Alex Rindler, EWG Staff Following up on last week's contentious hearing in Washington, Pa., the U.S. Energy department has scheduled two all-day sessions for Tuesday, June 28, and Wednesday, July 13, to listen to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
- Dismembered body of Leiby Kletzky found by pol ...
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
- That championship season: George Pataki is sti ...
George Pataki badly wants to be treated as a serious White House prospect. He's essentially been running his own "Draft Pataki" effort, encouraging the stories that regularly pop up about his potentially imminent entry into the 2012 presidential race.But t ...
- On the shoulders of Joe Crowley: Presenting th ...
A new crop of Democratic State Assembly candidates was officially presented to the world yesterday at Queens Borough Hall as Representative Joe Crowley, chairman of the Queens County Democratic organization, announced his support for Michael Simanowitz and ...
- A plan to save the working waterfront from the ...
It was warm and muggy in most of Brooklyn on a recent weekday morning, but cold and damp and windy on Pier 12 in Red Hook, where officials from the New York City Economic Development Corporation were conducting what they called a “site tour” of the area wh ...
- Albany Dems trumpet a depressing rent compromi ...
Andrew Cuomo's office called it “The Greatest Strengthening of Rent Regulations in Decades.” Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assembly housing committee chairman Vito Lopez called the state's new rent-regulations enhancement, which will go into effect t ...
- Court calls for Rwandan suspect’s extrad ...
A United Nations court (ICTR) in Tanzania is seeking the extradition of Charles Bandora, who was arrested in Norway on charges of genocide in his homeland of Rwanda. The ruling reverses an earlier decision and was based on changes in the legal system in Rwanda that the court feels will ensure th ...
- Boat fatalities tied to recklessness
Two more persons were killed and one was missing and feared dead after another speedboating accident during the night off Norway’s coast near Tjøme. The fatalities come just a day after two young men were also killed while speedboating off nearby Nøtterøy, and now calls are going out for a cr ...
- Norwegian aims for French presidency
Eva Joly, an Oslo native who rose to become a corruption-busting judge in France, was relishing her latest victory this week at the highest levels of French politics. She’s aiming for the French presidency and chances are good she’ll at least snare a ministerial post next year. Joly was being ce ...
- Drunk parents forget kids on holiday
Some Norwegian embassies in countries popular with vacationing Norwegians have been dealing with a thorny problem of late: Drunken adults who forget their children while on holiday in foreign countries. The children face traveling home alone, when their parents fail to turn up for flight departu ...
- Krekar indicted for making threats
Mullah Krekar, who came to Norway as a refugee and later was deemed a threat to national security, is now under indictment for making threats against the head of Norway’s Conservative Party, Erna Solberg. State prosecutors confirmed the long-expected indictment to TV2 on Tuesday. The indictment ...
- Getting Used to Life Without Food: Wall Street ...
Editor’s Note: When I got to the final sub-heading, ‘New Global Dustbowls’, I thought Engdahl (who I’ve come across before, and also ran a couple of articles in a previous editorial role) has started to understand the soil connection in all this as well, but unfortunately (in my opinion) he bott ...
- Let the Water Do the Work: Induced Meandering, ...
The volume reviewed below comes highly recommended for all Permaculturists working in or around any water channels, and particularly on the broad-acre. While the methods happen to apply most immediately in drylands, they will apply directly anywhere that erosion, down-cutting, rapid gully format ...
- Shining a Light on Energy Efficiency
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Our inefficient, carbon-based energy economy threatens to irreversibly disrupt the Earth’s climate. Averting dangerous climate change and the resultant crop-shrinking heat waves, more-destructive storms, accelerated sea level rise, and waves of climate ...
- Food Forest Workshop at the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm
Would you like to have food for your family now and into the future — food that is truly fresh and packed with flavour, and food that doesn’t cost the Earth? Would you like it to be grown in a way that not only doesn’t destroy soil, but builds it instead, so that people can [...]
- Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution – An Intervie ...
Bill Mollison Photo Copyright � Craig Mackintosh Bill Mollison calls himself a field biologist and itinerant teacher. But it would be more accurate to describe him as an instigator. When he published Permaculture One in 1978, he launched an international land-use movement many r ...
- Line of Descent Chapter 27
Chapter 27 Drayton waited with Krupmeyer amid the ruins of the summer house. He sat on the floor, resting his injured back against the wall. It throbbed with a steady nagging ache that the drugs could not quite mask. Beside him on the floor, Krupmeyer lay in a stretcher. About them, the team of ...
- Another body floats by.
The Japanese have a proverb; if you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by. In the year and a half since climategate, itâs been happening with increasing frequency. The latest one is a main stream media (MSM) journalist called Johann Hari who works at the Inde ...
- The death of journalism and the irresistible r ...
The IPCC has screwed up again. They published a claim last month in their renewables report saying that renewable technologies could supply 80% of world-wide energy needs by the mid-century. What they actually published was an executive summary of the report, not the report itself. That was publ ...
- Line of Descent Chapter 26
Chapter 26 Krupmeyer stared through the smoke at the black indistinct figure rising up through the hole in the floor in front of him. His eyes watered from the acrid smoke and his ears were filled with a high-pitched ringing from the effects of the explosion. The figure seemed to unbend slowly u ...
- Love is simply not an option.
Love is a word in every language. It has a lot of meanings and covers a lot of ground. Itâs a universal. We make love but what weâre actually doing is expressing our love by giving mutual physical pleasure to each other and of course, itâs the best fun. Where thereâs no emotional love there, … R ...
- The best video export options
How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
- Video Resources updated
The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching video in ...
- Flash Journalism updates
I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
- New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less versatile in several w ...
- Convert WMA files with Switch
Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we can edit them ...
- Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Louis ...
From a press release issued today by the US Department of Justice: The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana and a number of Louisiana state agencies and officials alleging that the state has violated its obligations under the Nationa ...
- Protest Planned for New Orleans Meeting of Pow ...
From our friends at the Student Labor Action Project LSU: Stand up, and fight back in New Orleans! The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will be hosting their annual summit at the Marriott in New Orleans from August 1-6th. We will meet them there to let them know they can’t pull the ...
- Settlement Reached in "Road Home" Racial Discr ...
From our friends at Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center: Today, African-American homeowners and two civil rights organizations announced a settlement in a post-Hurricane Katrina housing discrimination lawsuit brought against the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ...
- Displaced Women Demand Justice in Port au Prince
By Bill Quigley and Jocelyn Brooks “We women demand!…” sang out a hundred plus voices “…Justice for Marie!” Marie, a 25 year old pregnant mother, was injured by government agents when they slammed a wooden door into her stomach during an early morning invasion of an earthquake displacement ...
- Project Transparency Posts New Financial Discl ...
Project Transparency, a program run by Louisiana Justice Institute, has posted 2009 and 2010 financial disclosure forms for many members of our city government, including the mayor, city council members, city attorney, police superintendent, and several key mayoral staff. The documents are avail ...
- History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
Why in the world would you want to know anything about the economic statistics of NS Germany, Timothy? According to you, "racism" is the ultimate sin against the Jewish demon Yahweh and his chosen people. National Socialism was a "racist" ideology, therefore it was a sin against Yahweh and th ...
- Philosophy • Re: Is the God of the Old Testame ...
GordZilla wrote: Still no answer, but you are still sure there's no creator, that is why you sir are a hypocrite. Still confusing the Platonic god of the philosophers with the Zeus-like god of the ancient Hebrews(Yahweh)? You do understand that these are two entirely different god concepts, ...
- Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: And you have so much more credibility. Yes, I certainly have more credibility than these financial "guru" scammers who populate the paytriotard/alternative media.Statistics: Posted by Yo Mama — Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:52 am
- Historical Events • Re: Looking for Clifford S ...
No that's not the one CSR, but thanks for trying! I think the article is specifically entitled "Why Did The Holocaust Happen," and it's just a numbered list of the reasons why Hitler turned on the Jews. I have a teacher friend who is in love with the holocaust, and one time we had a holo-discu ...
- History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
Adolf Hitler, Founder of Israel ^ get that book, it's not about the economy specifically, but it does a great job of detailing the history of the period, including economic history.Statistics: Posted by abduLMaria — Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:30 am
- Wind Farm Output Increased Tenfold Through Bet ...
A new analysis by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) finds that the power output of wind farms can be increased tenfold — and with fewer environmental impacts — through better positioning of vertical-axis turbines. Because the large turbines used in most modern wind farms are place ...
- New Potato Genome Map Could Yield Better, Dise ...
A consortium of scientists has completed a new map of the potato genome that could help scientists and breeders develop more nutritious and disease-resistant variations of the crop, helping feed rapidly growing Wikimedia populations. Using the latest in genome sequencing technologies, scientist ...
- Cities Absorb More CO2 Than Previously Estimat ...
A new UK study says that cities and towns provide a large and underestimated amount of carbon storage, and can soak up even greater amounts of CO2 if city groups and gardeners plant more trees. Using satellite data and information collected during visits to locally owned or managed properties — ...
- An Arctic Scientist’s Blog: Unraveling Migrato ...
Steve Zack, a biologist with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, works extensively in Arctic Alaska. In the first of a series of reports for Yale Environment 360, Zack describes how he and his colleagues are using
- New Nissan System Charges Electric Cars with S ...
The Japanese automaker, Nissan, has developed a charging system that generates electricity from solar power and stores it in the lithium-ion batteries used in Getty ImagesThe Nissan Leaf its Leaf electric car. On the roof of its global headquarters in Yokohama, the company has installed 488 ...
- Where is James Moore?
By Frank Moher Two weeks ago in this space I wrote about the Conservative government's politically-motivated decision to withdraw funding from the Toronto theatre and arts festival, SummerWorks. To recap: Last year, the company presented a play, Homegrown, that the Prime Minister's Office dec ...
- 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 ...
- NISA slaps Tepco over worker overexposures
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency on Wednesday issued an improvement order to Tokyo Electric Power Co. over its failure to manage radiation levels for workers at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, citing the exposure of six workers at the site to levels in excess of the 250 millisieverts ...
- Volunteers get wrong message
Regarding Tomoko Otake's July 10 Timeout article, "Company team helps fill Tohoku gap": I am a "long-term" volunteer who has been in Ishinomaki (Miyagi Prefecture) for almost a month, and have no plans to return to my home in Osaka in the near future. Volunteer numbers in the disaster-hit Toho ...
- Commendable expressways
In early July, infrastructure and transport minister Akihiro Ohata announced a plan to complete three expressways that, together, will link Sendai with Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, in about 10 years. Although the Democratic Party of Japan won the August 2009 Lower House election and came to p ...
- GE plan followed with inflexibility
Second of Two Parts Yukiteru Naka, a former employee of General Electric who took part in designing and operating reactor units 1, 2 and 6 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, is just one of a few engineers whose knowledge spans the facility's 40-year history.
- "Kokeshi Doll Exhibition"
CLASKA Gallery & Shop "Do" Closes July 31 For a popular souvenir of Japan, the traditional wooden kokeshi doll has a surprisingly little-documented history. While it's known that they were first made sometime during the mid- to late-Edo Period (1603-1867) in the northeastern region of Tohoku, ...
- Navigating troubling economic waters
Down south, the Obama administration is in a dangerous game of chicken with Republican congressional leaders, who are cynically holding the US economy hostage in order to impose a radical agenda of spending cuts. Obama has seemingly bought into the rhetoric of cutting debt, rather than focusing ...
- Is BC about to drop a new carbon bomb?
Any day now the BC government should be releasing the latest greenhouse gas data for the province, and we will see if any progress is being made towards a legislated 33% reduction in emissions by 2020 (relative to 2007 levels; data will be for 2009 and we know that emissions rose in 2008). Below ...
- The Riddle of the Middle
It’s like a bad riddle: almost everyone thinks they belong to it, but few can define what it is. Politicians claim to champion it, but it’s increasingly difficult to determine what it actually wants. And, often, when we talk about it, we’re really only referring to part of it—the part that doesn ...
- Kids These Days: Canada’s Inter-generati ...
To counteract the record low 58.8% voter turnout in the 2008 federal election, there was an unprecedented push to engage voters this past election. With only 37% of 18-24 year-olds casting a ballot in 2008, many of the ‘get out the vote’ efforts in 2011 were focused on young voters: Rick Mercer ...
- Government Assaults on Unions: The Economic Hi ...
In the early 1980s, the world was gripped by recession. Following the troubled years of the 1970s, there was considerable worry throughout the developed world that we had entered a period of endemic stagnation. The real problem, it was claimed, was that the western economies had lost their abili ...
- Rupert Murdoch: Anthony Blair’s bagman
Christopher King considers whether the unravelling of Rupert Murdoch's power in the UK will serve as a wake up call to British politicians whom for years he has targeted on behalf of the US and Israel.
- Gaddafi delegation visits Israel for support, ...
A senior delegation from Libyan mafia boss Muammar Gaddafi has visited Israel, met opposition leader and war crimes suspect Tzipi Livni and handed her undisclosed "digital media", according to Israeli Channel 2 TV on 11 July. (The "digital media" possibly consists of information about Palestinia ...
- Britain staring into the abyss of a new Dark Age
Stuart Littlewood argues that the cancer in the British body politic exposed by the crisis engulfing Rupert Murdoch's media empire and ignited by the gutter tabloid News of the World's phone hacking and police bribery scandal, is only the tip of the iceberg and that the British people must now w ...
- Gaza flotilla, "flytilla" and the prospect for ...
Gilad Atzmon argues that this year's Gaza flotilla has succeeded even without reaching Gaza, in that it has highlighted the true nature of Israel. But he says that pro-Palestinian activists must now turn their focus closer to home "to locate [Israel's] mercenaries around us, in our media, politi ...
- US Independence Day reflections
Paul J. Balles reflects on the US Independence Day and asks: if, as the American Declaration of Independence says, "all men are created equal", then why do Americans act as if that fundamental principle applies only to citizens of the USA?
- Neptune completes its first orbit since discovery
The Guardian: The planet Neptune was discovered not by astronomers but by mathematicians, who theorized that the orbit of Uranus was shaped by the gravity of another planet even farther from the Sun than Uranus. The mathematicians, John Adams and Urbain Le Verrier, came to their conclusions sepa ...
- Kyushu nuclear firm in widening scandal
BBC: Senior officials at Japan's Kyushu Electric Company asked dozens of employees to send supportive messages to a televised debate about the reopening of one of its nuclear plants—without informing anyone that they were Kyushu employees. Last week, a whistleblower revealed that about 50 worker ...
- UK's Roman baths provide fertile ground for bi ...
BBC: Researchers at the University of Bath and the University of the West of England are growing seven algae species in the UK's Roman Baths in Bath to find the best one for biodiesel production. Although studies to create biodiesel from algae have been carried out for the past 20 years, limitat ...
- New design for heat sink could speed up computers
New Scientist: Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have come up with a new design for the heat exchanger used in home computers, writes Melissae Fellet for New Scientist. Traditional heat exchangers, which haven't changed much in 40 years, consisted of a heat sink and a fan. Unfortunatel ...
- Climate change affecting ocean’s ability ...
Science Daily: Climate change may be having a negative impact on the ocean carbon sink. Until now the ocean has been taking up roughly one-third of all human carbon emissions, decreasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and mitigating its associated global changes. In a new analysis published online 1 ...
- FF News: The Footprints Filmworks Stock Exchange
by footprints (Posted Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:18:01 GMT) Footprints Filmworks edit Welcome to Footprints Filmworks If you choose to post messages on our websites searched in Google you can make use of our public username to promote 'your business...' This is a gift to businesses who choose to PROM ...
- Gaza Aid Flotilla
by Rev333 (Posted Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:57:49 GMT) Israel braces for arrival of hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists. http://tiny.cc/k6ydp Around 600 police officers will deploy at Ben-Gurion International Airport to stop the hundreds if not thousands of pro-Palestinian activists arriving ...
- I AM a Zionist & Pro-Palestinian State
by BradWatsonMiami (Posted Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:24:41 GMT) Re: the Israel vs. Palestine question, this usually is also a Jewish vs. Muslim question. I have never been to Israel/Palestine (at least not in this life), but I have studied the situation since childhood. I was brought up Protestant, bu ...
- America addicted to War
by Rev333 (Posted Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:49:43 GMT) Cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting. http://tiny.cc/6ovzn The final bill will run at least $3.7 trillion and could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research project "Costs of War" by Brown University's Watson Institu ...
- Gaza Aid Flotilla
by Rev333 (Posted Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:40:36 GMT) Greece is doing Israel's "dirty work" by blocking the Gaza aid vessels. …. The Israeli government, using economic exploitation, pressured the government of Athens to widen the illegal blockade of Gaza to Greek ports …. http://www.jpost.com/I ...
- Libya Warns Rebel-Held East Of Water Shortages
“Libyan officials warned Tuesday that the rebel-controlled eastern half of the country could be cut off from water supplies without a truce to allow for maintenance work on a power plant pumping water up from the desert. About 70 percent of the country relies on water brought up from underground ...
- KMSS declares crusade against construction of ...
“The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS) on Sunday declared a statewide crusade against Congress government’s decision to continue construction of the Lower Subansiri National Hydel Power project at any cost. The announcement came after chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday talked about bringi ...
- Gov. Cuomo’s hydrofracking plan should g ...
“It absolutely, positively must keep New York City‘s drinking water safe. The process of extracting gas from shale deposits deep underground, called hydrofracking, holds great promise of boosting the state’s economy while markedly increasing America‘s energy resources. Other states, including ...
- Water Rationing Near If Drought Continues
“The view north from the Alameda Avenue twin bridges is becoming all too familiar to travelers. Small islands jutting from the lake are evidence of the dropping water level in Lake Thunderbird. There is only voluntary water rationing for now, but a consistent lack of rainfall and continued use o ...
- City learns U.S. model to control pollution of ...
“This is the first time the city applies the approach of EPA for controlling pollution of the Saigon River, and this model could be applied for other river basins in Vietnam,” Triet told the Daily on the sidelines of a seminar on measures to fight pollution of the Saigon River that was held here ...
- Kucinich to White House: Stop Playing Politica ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor once again to defend senior citizens and Social Security from unwarranted political attacks. See video here. The full text of Congressman Kucinich�s remarks follow: �Three months ago 276 experts on Social Security, the federal bu ...
- Kucinich: Social Security Didn’t Create the De ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) took to the House floor today to stand in defense of senior citizens and Social Security. See video here. Full text of Congressman Kucinich’s remarks follow: “Social Security didn't create the deficit, but America's seniors are being presented with a fake Soc ...
- Historic Vote to End Libyan War Expected Today
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led the bipartisan opposition to the illegal war in Libya, will today be the principal cosponsor of a bipartisan amendment to finally and fully end the war in Libya. The bipartisan amendment to the Defense Department Appropriations Act, H.R. 2219, is e ...
- Amash-Kucinich Gaining Momentum, 15 Cosponsors ...
A bipartisan agreement to support an amendment with the broadest coalition of support has been reached by 15 Members of Congress. The bipartisan amendment is cosponsored by Justin Amash (R-MI), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Ron Paul (R-TX), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Walter Jones (R-NC), John Conyers (D-MI) ...
- Kucinich Continues Long-Term Fight for Gulf Wa ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today continued his long-term commitment to funding research into the cause and cure of Gulf War Illness by offering an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act, H.R. 2219, which will increase the amount of money available to the Gulf War Illnesses Research ...
- TOTAL DISSARRAY
� �� While delightfully reminiscent of the 3 Stoogesor the Keystone Cops �� the disarray in Quartzsite, Arizona is a very accurate cameo snap-shop of the degree of disarray throughout Arizona �� � Arizona town in disarray; mayor alleges corruption By AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press ��http://w ...
- SIMPLE … POWERFUL … DIRECT
A very interesting column.. COMPLETELY NEUTRAL Be sure to Read the Poem at the end. Charley Reese’s final column for the Orlando Sentinel… He has been a journalist for 49 years. He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN. Be sure to read the Tax List at the end. This is about as clear [...]
- … SIMPLE … POWERFUL … DIRECT ...
⦠SIMPLE ⦠POWERFUL ⦠DIRECT ⦠Charley Reese’s Final column! A very interesting column.. COMPLETELY NEUTRAL Be sure to Read the Poem at the end. Charley Reese’s final column for the Orlando Sentinel… He has been a journalist for 49 years. He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN. Be sure t ...
- EVISCERATE
… Despite what Huffington reports it is NOT just Republicans/GOP or Tea Party who choose to EVISCERATE all meaningful environmental action by EPA (despite the fact EPA is corporate controlled) politicians from all political persuasions, party affiliation, party color, sex, creed all line up at t ...
- a good lap-dog for corporate interest$ …
�� Az. Congre$$man Jeff Flake kneel$ at the feet of the mine$ �� there will be uranium mining in the Grand Canyon �� And Flake want$ to be Az next US Senator �� Flake will unquestioningly make a good lap-dog for corporate interest$ �� Bid to preserve mining ban near Grand Canyon fails � By [...]
- Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
- Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...
- 900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticis ...
WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comRead: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exa ...
- Who is Deep Climate?
A new climate alarmist blog appeared on October 18, 2008 from an "unknown" Canadian setting out to both "follow the money" and "follow the science" of the "climate science 'skeptic' movement in Canada". Who in the great Northwest of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada would undertake such a daunt ...
- Are Skeptical Scientists funded by ExxonMobil?
In an article titled, "Analysing the ‘900 papers supporting climate scepticism’: 9 out of top 10 authors linked to ExxonMobil" from the environmental activist website The Carbon Brief, former Greenpeace "researcher" Christian Hunt failed to do basic research. He made no attempt to contact the sc ...
- FSC mulls controversial motion to certify plan ...
Members of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), meeting in Malaysia this week for its General Assembly, will consider various changes to the organization, including a vote on a controversial motion that would open the door—slightly at first—to sustainable-certification of companies that have be ...
- Unpaved road through Serengeti to progress
After a week of confusion, the Tanzanian government has finally clarified its position on the hugely-controversial Serengeti road. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, confirmed that a paved highway will not be built through the northern Serengeti National Park, however ...
- Richard Leakey: 'selfish' critics choose wrong ...
The controversial Serengeti road is going ahead, but with conditions. According to the Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, the road will not be paved and it will be run by the Tanzanian park authority who will have the power to monitor traffic to 'ensure no harm ...
- Arctic on the line: oil industry versus Greenp ...
At the top of the world sits a lone region of shifting sea ice, bare islands, and strange creatures. For most of human history the Arctic remained inaccessible to all but the hardiest of peoples, keeping it relatively pristine and untouched. But today, the Arctic is arguably changing faster than ...
- Barbie, Legos, other toys linked to destructio ...
Some of the world's largest and most prominent toy-makers are sourcing their packaging materials from companies linked to large-scale destruction of Indonesia's rainforests, alleges a new report from Greenpeace. The report, How APP is Toying with Extinction, is based on forensic analysis of toy ...
- Nutritionists salute Michelle Obama's burger
United States First Lady Michelle Obama, who has been pushing healthy eating with her national Let's Move campaign to fight childhood obesity, has copped a serve for visiting a takeaway where she ordered not only a hamburger, but...
- Japanese prostitute sparks fears of antibiotic ...
A prostitute in Japan who developed a strain of drug-resistant gonorrhoea in her throat has triggered a worldwide alert about the spread of untreatable sexually transmitted diseases.The woman was found to be infected with a new...
- Rakon crystallises high-tech China project
The flag of the People's Republic of China was flying high above Rakon's headquarters in Mt Wellington yesterday, as the tech company celebrated the opening of a new Chinese plant.The oscillating crystal manufacturer's new facility...
- Scientists identify antibiotic-resistant gonor ...
International researchers have identified a strain of gonorrhoea that is resistant to treatment with antibiotics. The common bacterial infection, often called the "clap," has until now been easily treatable with antibiotics but...
- Gene technique to stretch diseased arteries gi ...
Auckland gene scientists have come up with a way to put new stretch into hardened, old arteries, an important advance that points the way to a radical new treatment for heart disease.Cardiovascular disease, mainly heart disease...
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- AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlightenment, Forb ...
- SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AARON MCCOLLUM ON UT ...
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- WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
- DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
Report written by Roma AKA A2B The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →
- Government Shutdown Raises Horrible Spectre of ...
One more reason to keep government out of the booze biz: If government shuts down, so do the taps. And with two of thier own already "exchanging blasts" in the presidential primary, Minnesotans are going to need a drink or two to keep their famous nice going. Via Wonkette, this ...
- New at Reason: Katherine Mangu-Ward on Cheatin ...
A new report finds that Atlanta is chock full of cheating teachers and principals, at least 179 of them in 44 schools. The confessed cheaters blame an over-emphasis on test results and "unreasonable goals" set by the administation. Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward asks whether cheat ...
- Does Public Support for Entitlements Make Tax ...
Citing Congressional Budget Office director Doug Elmendorf's warning that American cannot repeat its budgeting history because “the aging of our population and the rising cost of health care have changed the backdrop for federal budget policy in a fundamental way,” David Leonhardt of ...
- "Professional Pols" or "The Public" — Who's Sm ...
Give a listen as Our Leader explains how the American people don't really understand the concept of borrowing money: It's too late to ask the obvious followup question: "Then why are we allowed to vote?" But there's still time to hear Reason Senior Editor Tim Cavanaugh speak up ...
- Reason.tv: Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)
Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) has represented the Diamondback State's sixth congressional district since 2001, cutting a pro-immigration, pro-trade, limited-government, anti-spending path that contrasts sharply with the mainstream of the Republican Party. Flake's campai ...
- US has secret prisons. It just doesn’t o ...
Jeremy Scahill of The Nation has an excellent article and interview on why we should be skeptical about the Administration’s claims to have ended torture. I should note that Scahill nowhere alleges torture–just ill-treatment and extreme isolation. But where there is no judicial oversight, abuses ...
- GOP Sends O’Reilly to Battle Bachmann
Republican bigwigs fear a Michele Bachmann candidacy almost more than they fear taxing the rich. This was shown yet again by FOX News mainstay Bill O’Reilly’s adversarial treatment of Bachmann when she was on his show Monday night: Bachmann refused to directly address any of OâReillyâs tough que ...
- On Wisconsin!
Tom Tolan, Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel: Six fake Democratic candidates put up by the Republican Party to buy time for Republican state senators subject to recalls accomplished that job Tuesday, but none of them did the unexpected and knocked off a real Democrat. … They’ll all go on to face the Re ...
- Sic
“Were someone to discover ‘a rat’s head in the bottom of a Coke bottle,’ Norquist said, ‘Coke’s brand would be ruined for everyone. Republican officials who vote to increase taxes are rat heads in a Coke bottle.’” –Republican strategist Grover Norquist, June 2011, cited in The Washington Spectat ...
- News of the World disclosures widen to include ...
Via Atrios, The Guardian’s Nick Davies and David Leigh: Journalists from across News International repeatedly targeted the former prime minister Gordon Brown, attempting to access his voicemail and obtaining information from his bank account, his legal file as well as his family’s medical record ...
- ASIA: Activists Press for Gender Equality in F ...
A 1993 forest act gave back Nepal its green hills, many believe. Activists say the law was also a catalyst for positive change in an area not readily linked with it – women's rights in rural Nepal.
- Keeping Healthy Veggies from Turning Deadly
Fatal outbreaks of food poisoning in the United States, Mexico and Europe expose the failure of regional and global initiatives to ensure that fruits and vegetables are safe and healthy.
- UGANDA: In Search of Better Medical Care
Even though government health services are free, Grace Nafungo Kutosi doesn't mind paying the two thousand shillings (about one dollar) when she visits the non-governmental Beatrice Tierney Clinic in Bumwalukani village. In fact, paying the fee at the clinic, which is a 20-minute walk fr ...
- OP-ED: Foreign Policy Goes Gaga
Lady Gaga and Alice Walker don't have much in common. One dresses in red meat; the other doesn't even eat the stuff. One writes lyrics like "I want your ugly, I want your disease, I want your everything as long as it's free." The other writes "The Color Purple".
- ANGOLA: Law on Domestic Violence a Step Forwar ...
Domestically abused women who are financially dependent on their abusers can now report the crime with the assurance that they will be able to get financial and medical support from the state, thanks to the country's new law on domestic violence.
- Virtual practice makes perfect
For Halifax-based neurosurgeon David Clarke, the Monday-afternoon surgery session of Aug. 17, 2009, was anything but routine. For starters, his patient’s brain tumour was located in a tricky spot, close to the delicate part of the brain that controls speech. A small slip of the scalpel either wa ...
- 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 ...
- Heavy rains strike north of Sweden
On Tuesday torrential rain flooded many roads in Sundsvall on the eastern coast of Sweden, a major power outage in the area was caused by the ensuing thunderstorms and a man in his sixties was taken to hospital after being struck by lightning. Emergency services in Sundsvall are now putting ...
- China: New oil spill in Bohai Bay, the third s ...
Beijing - A new oil leak was reported in northern China's Bohai Bay, the third since June. The leak occurred at the Suizhong 36-1 oilfield at 1:30 am on Tuesday due to a malfunction at the central control system, China National Offshore Oil Corp Ltd (CNOOC), the field's operator, said in a st ...
- Canada: Heavy rain causes flooding in Eckville ...
Heavy rains in central Alberta caused flooding in the town of Eckville Monday. "People are just kind of dumbstruck," resident Sharon Walker said. "We have had washouts of roads. Some people have got 10 to 14 inches of water in their basements ... we've never seen anything like it." Signs of ...
- U.S.: Heavy Rain Hits Metro Area, Northeast Co ...
Denver-- Torrential rain hit the Denver metro area Tuesday night, flooding streets and some buildings and prompting calls for water rescues. There were numerous reports of cars stalled in high water, with people on the roofs of their cars, requiring rescue. The monsoon moisture moved from th ...
- U.S. More Dead Fish in Oklahoma
Marshall County, Oklahoma- Large numbers of dead fish continue to show up in waters all over Oklahoma. Today we talked with local fishermen in Marshall County about what they've been experiencing. "I don't know whether they run out of oxygen or what it is they ought to be able to test the wat ...
- Silicon Valley . . .
EVERYBODY KNOWS SILICON VALLEY, it's the heart of our solid-state digital world, where all of our goodies originate. A lot of people have no idea of its origins.Well, there's a video on YouTube that is worthy of your attention.In this lecture, renowned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank presents h ...
- Perspective . . .
You may have seen this, but it's worth another look.
- 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 ...
- Right-Wing Media Downplay Default Risks By Acc ...
Media conservatives are accusing the Obama administration of "threatening" Social Security benefits after the president observed in an interview that he could not guarantee that benefits could be paid if the debt limit were not increased. Economic experts agree that failure to increase the debt ...
- Fox Continues Ignoring Economists To Downplay ...
Fox News figures have continued their assault on plans to raise the debt ceiling ahead of the August 2 deadline, claiming the negative economic consequences of failing to raise the ceiling is "pure fiction" and that Democrats' warnings are "doomsday rhetoric." But economists agree that failing ...
- Fox "News" Judgment: Media Matters Ta ...
Since June 23, Fox News has devoted 35 full segments to discredited attacks on�Media Matters for America that suggest that the Internal Revenue Service should revoke the organization's 501(c)(3) tax status. By contrast, over the same time period, the network devoted only six full segments and 1 ...
- Fox Debuts The Five With Litany Of Se ...
Fox News' The Five, launched as a "new weekday program" to fill the time slot previously held by Glenn Beck, debuted with a barrage of sexist stereotypes, including comparing government spending to spendthrift wives, discussing whether Sarah Palin could be elected "based just on her hotness," a ...
- 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 ...
- The High Price of Nukes
As President Obama and Republicans in Congress go down to the wire in negotiations over a package of budget cuts that would clear the way for raising the debt ceiling, we shouldn't lose sight of one key source of reductions: military spending. Although it was not mentioned in the President's pr ...
- 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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- In the midst of water restrictions, tiny Stamf ...
Last week, Governor Rick Perry issued a proclamation certifying that certain counties in Texas are currently threatened by exceptional drought conditions and an extreme fire hazard due to a continuing disaster in several counties in Texas, including Jones and Haskell Counties, which the small t ...
- Coal Ash Waste – Call the House Committee now
Tell them that the testimony being given is based upon false premises and they should not vote for HR 2273 when the Committee hearing resumes at 3 pm EST. According to the National Academy of Science (NAS) Coal Combustion Residues or waste (CCR’s) contain numerous hazardous metals and substances ...
- Are we getting “fracked”?
What happens when you let Big Business regulate itself? – You get fracked. Hydraulic fracturing â also known as fracking â is a controversial method of natural gas extraction that involves injecting a toxic chemical sludge into the surface of the earth until it rips open. And itâs a case study i ...
- Heat and drought; what’s a state to do?
We’ve blogged numerous times about the persistent heat and drought plaguing the Southern Plains (particularly Texas) this year. Much of Texas is off a June that ranks among the top five hottest in history. According to the National Climatic Data Center, Texas had their hottest June on record and ...
- 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. ...
- The WH Knew They Were Bluffing
A couple of weeks ago I was involved in an off the record conversation with the White House. Obviously, I can't talk about what was said in any detail or I'd betray a trust. I think it's fair to say, though, that I came away with the firm impression that the White House had absolutely no fear ...
- Wanker of the Day: Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell would rather tear out his eyeballs with a claw hammer than operate under the constraints of a balanced budget amendment. But that didn't keep him from saying the following on the floor of the Senate this morning: "The time has come for a balanced budget amendment that forces ...
- Casual Observation
I still blame John McCain. The Stupid was contained before he came along and weaponized it by selecting Palin as his veepee. Good luck getting the genie back in the bottle. We stuck with this crap for while. Discuss
- Understanding ALEC
Here's some reading material for anyone interested in The Nation's exposé on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). They have obtained 800 pages of documents from this right-wing organization that has been writing one-size-fits-all corporate-sponsored legislation for Republican legi ...
- Mitch McConnell Tries to Save the Day
I am kicking myself that I didn't see this coming. Of course, it might not work either, so I can't be blamed for not seeing the outlines of the capitulation. Here's what I knew. I knew that Boehner wants to raise the debt limit but he can't get enough votes from his own party to accomplish th ...
- 18 Hottest Links of the Week
It's that time again when we at Environmental Graffiti bring you links to the best of our friends' content on the web! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Siren Salamander: North America's Death-De ...
The southern swamps of North America are home to a unique aquatic amphibian that can live through droughts and icy cold winters. Read on to find out more... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- Oregon's Incredible Painted Hills
The incredible painted hills of Oregon, whose beautiful colors make it one of America's most spectacular, if relatively little-known, treasures read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- If government created money instead of debt: A ...
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 public confusion between “money” (which the US does not create and use to facilitate trade) and “deb ...
- Michael Collins: BBC – Murdoch’s L ...
The Times of London, Sunday Times, stands accused of tapping into former Labour Party Leader Gordon Brown’s private medical records. According to the story published today by BBC, Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of the Times parent, News International, called Brown in 2006 when he was Chancello ...
- 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
Tanzanian Gay Activist Eddy Cosmas won his right to a full appeal of the UK’s deportation proceedings against him, which means he’s off “fast track” deportation from Britain and will be released from detention today! Had he been deported back to Tanzania, he would have faced imprisonment and lik ...
- World War III: The ‘resources’ war
As the media deals with erruptions in the Middle East and elsewhere as so many bee bees in a bag what is overlooked is that the US has been and is now involved in World War Three. Actions in Libya, Yemen, Tunisia, Iraq, Afghanistan and more can only be seen under the umbrella of a [...]
- The Gaza Flotilla and the Blood-Dimmed Tide
By John Grant What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? ... You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. --Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep Lately, I find myself reading “noir” crime fiction and thi ...
- Calls Growing for bush and co. Criminal Invest ...
HRW Urges Investigation on Bush July 12, 2011 - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the US government to order a criminal investigation into allegations of torture of detainees during the administration of former President George W. Bush. The New York-based rights watchdog said that overwhelming ...
- Ray McGovern at Peacestock Reporting on Gaza F ...
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- PENTAGON PAPERS' "11 WORDS"
ELEVEN POSSIBILITIES FOR PENTAGON PAPERS' "11 WORDS" � National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 350 Posted - July 12, 2011 Edited By John Prados � June 13, 1971: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers. Washington, D.C., July 12, 2011 - What were the 11 words the g ...
- Freedom Flotilla II: Final Thoughts
Freedom Flotilla II: Final Thoughts - by Stephen Lendman Palestinian analyst/advocate/author and former journalist Nadia Hijab is right, saying "(i)t was never about aid." In her article titled, "Freedom Flotilla II: No to a Kinder, Gentler Siege," she said like earlier and new initiatives to c ...
- Cut trash with tiny trash cans
by Jess Zimmerman. We tend to associate the "everything bigger" approach with wastefulness -- oversized cars guzzle gas, McMansions drive up electricity bills, 72-ounce challenge steaks never get fully eaten. So it makes sense to think that downsizing trash cans might help downsize tra ...
- New solar cells can be printed on paper or fabric
by Jess Zimmerman. Finally, your dream of solar pants (that don't look douchey) can come true! MIT researchers have devised solar panels that can be printed directly onto fabric, plastic, or paper, as easily as printing from an inkjet. The result is a flexible, malleable solar panel wi ...
- Fight climate change by following the speed limit
by Sarah Laskow. Bay Area drivers could get a friendly push from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to fight climate change through "smart driving." This means: going easy on fuel consumption by avoiding sudden acceleration, keeping their tires inflated, ditching the golf clubs in ...
- Spanish city lets you trade in your car for a ...
by Sarah Laskow. The Spanish city of Murcia offered its residents a lifetime of free trolley rides if they would only give up their cars. Murcia, which is near Spain's southeastern coast, wanted to promote its trolley system and decrease the number of cars in the crowded city. So ...
- Zero-energy lighting for poor communities requ ...
by Jess Zimmerman. It can get pretty dark under the corrugated metal roofs of Manila's slums. Millions of families in the Philippines go without electric light, and those who have it can be at risk of fires from faulty wiring. But thanks to an innovation developed at MIT and dist ...
- A Trompe L’Oeil on the Face of It
By Les Visible As I was saying… what I notice more than anything these days, is the corruption. Itâs not all I notice. I notice the weariness in people and the fixity of routine. As the world becomes more uncertain, people retreat more completely into the repetition of familiar things. Thereâs a ...
- I’m with Stupid and Proud of It
By Les Visible For ten days I didn’t read the news except for twice as a brief scan. I didn’t miss it and it made no difference that I hadn’t seen it. News is just once more packaged product from the ‘shake and bake’ manufacturers. It’s a traveling t-shirt with DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger and all [...]
- Beware the Gobblegloom, My Son
By Les Visible I carried a pair of expensive sunglass lenses around for about 15 years in a paper container. Finally, last year, I had then put into some frames and I’ve been wearing them now and again. While returning from Italy I was unable to locate them at the hotel, which marks the halfway ...
- TSA screener sticks traveler’s iPad down ...
By Ethan Huff For all the advanced security and screening techniques it uses against innocent air travelers, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) sure has a hard time keeping its own corrupt workers from committing crimes against those it is supposedly tasked with protecting. Acco ...
- Food tyrants threaten Michigan woman with jail ...
Food tyrants threaten Michigan woman with jail …, posted with vodpod
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
- ASK A TECH GEEK: How Can I Charge My Gadgets W ...
This is the final installment of our Ask A Tech Geek Series where renowned gadget expert Peter Rojas from gadget Q&A site GDGT.com answers your questions about green technology. Read on for this week’s eco-tech advice! QUESTION: Is there a device to recharge all my gadgets using renewable energy ...
- Get Even Greener by Putting Bells and Whistles ...
Digital cameras may not save the world, but since most people keep their photo archives stored electronically, we’re at least consuming a lot less paper and film (much of which ends up decaying in attic storage boxes or outdated plastic-sleeved albums anyway). Still, your adventures in Belize ar ...
- PAS Skate House: An Eco Home Where You Can Ska ...
Read the rest of PAS Skate House: An Eco Home Where You Can Skateboard On Any Surface Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", air architecture, eco design, eco-friendly materials, etnies, francois perrin, green architecture, Green Building, green design, gree ...
- Task Force Releases Recommendations for Safe N ...
A special task force of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, brought together after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, has just released their recommendations for the continued production of nuclear power in the United States in a safe manner. The task force was asked to look at h ...
- Montana Governor Questions ExxonMobil’s Oil Sp ...
It’s been nearly two weeks since an Exxon pipeline cracked sending tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, and the recovery efforts have raised many red flags. Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer has repeatedly asked ExxonMobil to clarify the extent of the damage and ...
- Rare Hermaphrodite Butterfly Hatches in London ...
By Katie Scott, Wired UK For a short time only, visitors to the Natural History Museum will be able to see a butterfly that is both male and female. The gynandromorph Papilio Memnon butterfly fortuitously hatched in the puparium at this year’s Sensational Butterflies exhibition. It is one of ju ...
- Supersize Dust Storms Could Become Southwest Norm
The massive dust storm that engulfed Phoenix last week was unusual for the 20th century, but could become more common in the 21st. The storm resulted from thunderstorm-cooled air plummeting into the ground like mist pouring from an open freezer, only exponentially more powerful. Combine those ...
- Beehive Fences Keep African Elephants Away Fro ...
The comeback of Kenya’s elephant population is a huge conservation success story, as well as a huge problem for the country’s farmers. But scientists have found a new ally in the struggle to keep elephants from trampling crops: honeybees. Like many animals, elephants are afraid of bees. So scie ...
- Neptune Finishes First Year Since Discovery
By Olivia Solon, Wired UK On 12 July, Neptune will celebrate its very first birthday because exactly one Neptunian year — or 164.79 Earth years — will have passed since its discovery. Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was first telescopically observed on 24 September 1846. Astronom ...
- Beautiful Data: The Art of Science Field Notes
See Also: Gallery: 10 Stunning Science Visualizations Young Darwin’s Marginalia Shows Evolution of His Theory Data as Art: 10 Striking Science Maps Vote for Your Favorite Dinosaur Illustration Earth as Art: Stunning New Images From Space Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009
- Russian Leader Slams US As Western Civilizatio ...
In a withering speech before members of the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow, Prime Minister Putin branded the United States current monetary policy as “hooliganism” and stated, “We, thankfully or not, cannot print a reserve currency. But what are they (the Americans) doing? They simply spit ...
- In-depth: Foreign Meddling in Malaysia
Scenes of chaos unfolded on the streets of downtown Kuala Lumpur this past weekend, culminating in an event, which many have called the most defining moment in recent Malaysian history. Thousands of people, many well-intentioned, first-time demonstrators gathered to voice their discontent ab ...
- Car Sleepers – The New American Homeless
Of course there’s a hefty price tag: nestled between the gentle Santa Ynez mountains and the inviting Pacific Ocean are multi-million dollar homes. But in this sun-washed haven of wealth, many live far from the American dream. In a car park across the street from luxury mansions, the eveni ...
- The Beginning of the End of Europe
Yesterday, the European contagion spread to Italy and Spain. The sovereign debt of those two countries swooned—for no discernible reason. No discernible reason whatsoever: The Italian and Spanish bond markets just sort of . . . plopped, like when a learning-to-walk toddler suddenly plops on ...
- Syrian protesters attack US embassy
Syrian government supporters smashed windows at the US Embassy in Damascus, raised a Syrian flag and scrawled graffiti calling the American ambassador a "dog" in anger over the envoy's visit last week to an opposition stronghold, witnesses said. French Embassy security guards in the capital f ...
- John Walker Lindh, Torture Victim and 9/11 Sca ...
Back in May, after the assassination of Osama bin Laden should have brought an end to the “War on Terror,” Frank Lindh, the father of John Walker Lindh, the first convicted prisoner in the Bush administration’s phoney war, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times, which I cross-posted here with comm ...
- UK Torture Inquiry Boycotted by Lawyers, As Da ...
Last Wednesday, just before David Cameron was engulfed in the News of the World phone hacking crisis, he had the opportunity to practice demonstrating the disregard for justice that he called on in response to the Murdoch scandal, when he attempted to distance himself from his friendship with tw ...
- Torture Whitewash: Probe of Two CIA Murders En ...
How convenient is it that a door shuts on the Bush administration’s global program of extraordinary rendition and torture, just as America’s military-industrial complex plays musical chairs — with Republican holdover Robert Gates leaving as defense secretary, to be replaced by Leon Panetta, who ...
- Why Would Anyone Trust David Cameron, As Polic ...
Now that the News of the World phone-hacking scandal has finally secured a major scalp — the News of the World itself, closing on Sunday after 168 years in business — it remains to be seen whether the sacrifice of the paper, and of 200 jobs, will be sufficient to prevent the growing scandal from ...
- The Guantánamo Files: An Archive of Articles & ...
Please support my work! For over five years, I have been researching and writing about Guantánamo and the 779 men (and boys) held there over the last nine and a half years, first through my book The Guantánamo Files, and, since May 2007, as a full-time independent investigative journalist ...
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
- Sovereign Citizen Claims “Delusional Dis ...
Sovereign citizen Richard Ulloa was to be sentenced for terrorizing police and bank officials in upstate New York with fake bills he hoped would stop a foreclosure on his home. Then he had an odd sort of epiphany. “I’ve come to the realization I need therapy,” Ulloa, 52, told U.S. District Judge ...
- News Roundup for July 13, 2011
An Illinois man accused of threatening the life of a county official has been declared fit for trial. Jason Chance, 38, is accused of making threats towards Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow. Chance also reportedly wrote about plans to overthrow the government on Facebook. Chance was al ...
- Anti-Gay Group Decides Slave Children Weren’t ...
All right, all right, so maybe the black family wasn’t better off during slavery. That’s the latest from a religious right organization that meant to attack same-sex marriage. The conservative pro-family organization called THE FAMiLY LEADER (TFL) last week boldly issued a sweeping 14-point cand ...
- News Roundup for July 12, 2011
Police in Newburgh, N.Y., are investigating a possible hate crime after a gay couple said they were beaten bloody by a group of women who attacked them at a bar because of their sexual orientation. The men also allege a police officer responding to the scene mocked their assault by the women. Th ...
- White Supremacist Arthur Kemp Reprinting Long ...
Notorious South African white supremacist Arthur Kemp has added a new project to his portfolio of transnational activism. In addition to writing for white supremacist publications and running a prominent website for British racists, he has opened an online bookstore featuring reprints of previou ...
- Victory! New York Passes Marriage Equality Bil ...
Today is a historic day! New York's Senate passed a bill that will grant the freedom to merry for gays and lesbians! The bill will be signed by Governor Cuomo who lobbied extensively for the passage of the legislation. The law will go into effect 30 days after the bill is signed. New York's prog ...
- The Cost of Fear: Michigan's $15 Million Breed ...
This week, Gov. Rick Snyder signed Michigan's 2011-2012 budget into law. The process wasn't pretty — a $1.5 billion shortfall had to be resolved, and in the end, public schools, universities, local governments and key services took a hit. Yet Rep. Tim Bledsoe (D-Grosse Pointe) seems to think it' ...
- Connect the Dots Coalition Will Rally Tuesday ...
Former New York police officers Ken Moreno and Franklin Mata were found not guilty on charges related to rape. The verdict's perceived injustice -- felt even by members of the jury themselves -- has given rise to protests over the way the NYPD deals with sexual assault. But the then-officers wer ...
- Smithfield's Broken Gestation Crate Promise
Back in 2007, Smithfield, the world's largest pork producer, said it would phase out the use of gestation crates by 2017. Now the company has gone back on that promise even though it recently boasted record profits. Looks like the behemoth pork producer has no excuse for breaking its promise. S ...
- Tell Turn Right USA to Pull Ad Attacking L.A. ...
It’s been called the “most offensive political ad of all time.” That’s because it takes aim at Los Angeles Councilwoman Janice Hahn’s support of gang intervention programs by portraying her as a booty-shaking stripper performing for black thugs who demand (or rap, rather) that she “give us your ...
- U.N. Seeks Controls on Private Armies
UNITED NATIONS - With U.S. and Western military forces planning to gradually withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, there will be an increasing demand for private military contractors to provide security in both politically-troubled countries. As a result, the number of military contra ...
- Bernie Sanders to Obama: Keep Your Word on Soc ...
The Senate’s left flank continues to be unhappy with President Obama’s willingness to discuss entitlement reform in the current deficit talks. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) noted Tuesday in a speech on the Senate floor that Obama had vowed not to cut Social Security when running for president in ...
- Japan PM Says Country Should Aim to Be Nuclear ...
TOKYO — Japan's centre-left Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Wednesday that the country must gradually reduce its reliance on atomic power with the eventual goal of becoming nuclear-free. Four months after the March 11 quake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima nuclear accident, the world's worst si ...
- Radioactive Beef Already Sold, Eaten
The meat of six cows shipped from a Fukushima Prefecture farm at the heart of growing concerns over radioactive beef has been distributed to at least nine prefectures, including Tokyo and Osaka, and some was believed consumed, local government officials said Tuesday. The cows ate the same straw ...
- Embattled Colombian Unionists Rally Against ‘F ...
Gathering with fellow unionists in Washington, D.C., Jose Hugo Yanini speaks firmly about labor rights in Colombia. But a few weeks ago, the industrial janitor and shop steward feared that he soon might never utter another word. read more
- PLAY Is a Fantastic Free Music Streamer and Pl ...
iPhone: Surprisingly, AOL's just created a great music player for iPhone. Not only does PLAY let you listen to your entire music library but it also lets you stream tons of their tracks for free, helping you discover great new tunes. M ...
- Turn a Cheaper SLR Camera Lens Into a SuperMac ...
A macro lens can cost hundreds of dollars, which you can save if you're handy with a soldering iron and aren't afraid to operate on the lens that came with your SLR camera. Even if you aren't, though, this DIY video is one of the most com ...
- Why Overcoming Challenges with Others Can Tric ...
When you feel something, you may think you know why but you're probably wrong. According to author David McRaney, of the clever blog You Are Not So Smart, we have a tendency to misinterpret intense emotions to fit a narrative we prefer wi ...
- Ask and Answer Questions About the New Design ...
Every day we're on the lookout for ways to make your work easier and your life better, but Lifehacker readers are smart, insightful folks with all kinds of expertise to share, and we want to give everyone regular access to that exceptional ...
- Swap Your Desktop with Each Other with More Re ...
We get a lot of reader-submitted wallpapers, many of which are great but don't necessarily fit into the week's category (or come in too late to make the cut). In an effort to keep these wallpapers from going unnoticed, we've started postin ...
- Rupert Murdoch gives up BSkyB takeover bid
After the biggest single reverse of his career, the News Corp chief faces an appearance before a judicial inquiry and a fight for the right to broadcast in the UKRupert Murdoch capitulated to parliament and abandoned News Corporation's £8bn bid for BSkyB, as he faced the prospect of appearing in ...
- Julian Assange extradition appeal: QCs clash o ...
High court judges adjourn case to consider Swedish prosecution authority's case against WikiLeaks founderJulian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, must be extradited to Sweden to face accusations of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion, the high court in London heard.Clare Montgomery Q ...
- IMF urges Greece to move faster on reform as F ...
Greek prime minister attacks EU over lack of leadershipGreece came under further pressure to tackle its growing debts after a report by the International Monetary Fund urged Athens to move faster on fiscal and structural reforms to avoid defaulting.The IMF highlighted the country's woes in a det ...
- Mark Kennedy's secret tapes: CPS launches wide ...
Judge to look into arrests of Ratcliffe-on-Soar environmental campaigners and undercover policeman's surveillance tapesA retired high court judge has been appointed to lead an expanded inquiry into claims that prosecutors suppressed secret surveillance tapes recorded by the undercover police off ...
- Mumbai bomb blasts kill 21 during city's rush hour
Opera House district, Zaveri bazaar and Dadar area targeted in fourth major terror attack on India's financial capital since 2003Mumbai was struck by three powerful bomb blasts during the evening rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring dozens more, including businessmen f ...
- 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: From the American Revolution t ...
On July 25, 2011, one of the nation’s leading whistleblower attorneys, Stephen M. Kohn, will share compelling insights from his newly-released book, The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself at the Mid-Manhattan New York Public Library. The ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Making Sure Your Ass Is Covered
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- Lobbyists Ramp Up Pressure To Get PROTECT IP P ...
The world's largest lobbying organization, the US Chamber of Commerce (which thrives off the fact that many people mistake it for a US government body), along with the biggest lobbyists representing the recording and movie industry, have ramped up their efforts to get PROTECT IP approved as quic ...
- Can We Subpoena The Monkey? Why The Monkey Se ...
So our post concerning the takedown request from Caters News Agency over the monkey self-portraits has stirred up quite a lot of interest and discussion around the globe. I wanted to revisit the issue a little more focused on the legal side, and why it seems quite likely that these images are v ...
- Killing The Golden Goose: Is Hollywood To Blam ...
If you remember back a decade ago, Netflix was definitely the darling of the modern movie rental business, but there was concern everywhere that the "little startup" was about to get killed when bigger competitors entered the market. After all, Walmart itself created a near-identical copycat of ...
- Feds Response To Rojadirecta Demonstrates How ...
We've had a bunch of posts about the potential unintended consequences of the anti-streaming law S.978 from Senators Amy Klobuchar, John Cornyn and Christopher Coons, and how it could be used to put people in jail for up to five years for merely embedding videos from YouTube, or for lipsynching ...
- Why Isn’t ‘Herd Immunity’ Working?
Californians have a new law regarding vaccination of children: Effective July 1, 2011, all students in grades 7 through 12 will be required to get a booster DTP [Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (Whooping Cough)] due to outbreaks and increases for Pertussis in children. Something doesn’t make s ...
- 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 ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
I spent the weekend at the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy. Had a really great time with more than 200 of the least pretentious people doing some of the most cool things. Red Emma’s did their usual bang up job with Friday night dinner at 2640. Great speakers at the dinner, especially ...
- 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. Â 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 ...
- آليات ما بعد ثورة اليمن ينبغي أن تبدأ محلياً ...
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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- How Would You Grade Obama's Environmental Prog ...
President Obama is getting ready to kick his reelection campaign into high gear. As such, it's an opportune time to take a look back at his achievements in the environmental arena thus far -- and that's precisely what Slate's Green Lantern has done here, serving the president an environmenta ...
- 9MW New Jersey Solar Roof Will Be Biggest in t ...
Excuse the helicopters. It was surprisingly hard to find an image of the Gloucester facility. Image credit: Holt Logistics When I wrote about Renault's 60MW solar project in France, I noted that it is getting hard to decide what is impressive these days in the world of solar power. No soone ...
- Ultracapacitor 101: Pros and Cons
Anyone who's interested in getting the transportation sector off oil by electrifying it has daydreamed about ultracapacitors and hypercapacitors. Lots of people are working on improving them, and if (when?) we can make them store enough power, they would be an almost perfect replacement for ...
- Is It Time To End The War On Salt? In A Word, No.
Image credit Lloyd Alter Life imitates Woody Allen's Sleeper once again.... Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk." Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thoug ...
- After Lifting Fracking Moratorium, Will NY Gov ...
Image: saebaryo via flickr Barely two weeks after New York Governor Cuomo announced an end to the moratorium on fracking in the state, reports are coming out about his live-in girlfriend having potential ties to the petroleum industry—but because they're not married, she's exempt from the ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 21 killed, over 100 injured in triple terror a ...
ShareThis21 killed, over 100 injured in triple terror attacks in Mumbai 14 Jul 2011 Twenty one people were killed and over 100 were injured in three terror blasts which rocked downtown Mumbai within minutes of each other Wednesday evening, the Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted Minister of Home A ...
- Terror strikes Mumbai again as three blasts ki ...
ShareThisTerror strikes Mumbai again as three blasts kill at least 21 people in rush-hour carnage --At last one blast was caused by TalibanCIA-style improvised explosive device --All three were 'coordinated', striking in three different areas simultaneously 13 Jul 2011 Three co-ordinated explosi ...
- Democrats win early victory in Wisconsin recal ...
ShareThisDemocrats win early victory in Wisconsin recall primary 13 Jul 2011 Wisconsin Democrats won a preliminary victory on Tuesday in a bid to unseat Republican lawmakers who voted for a controversial anti-union law in the first of a series of special recall elections. Party-backed candidates ...
- News Corp pulls out of BSkyB bid
ShareThisNews Corp pulls out of BSkyB bid --BSkyB bid dropped by Rupert Murdoch's media group after pressure from the public and parliament 13 Jul 2011 Rupert Murdoch's media group News Corporation bowed to pressure from the public and from parliament on Wednesday and withdrew its bid to take fu ...
- Canada to protect polar bears
ShareThisCanada to protect polar bears 12 Jul 2011 The polar bear is finally set to be listed under Canada's species at risk legislation. The federal government has given notice that it intends to list the iconic white mammal as a "species of concern" under the law. Once it is listed, a plan mus ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Rule of Law
Partners in Law 13 July 2011 Kandahar, Afghanistan Most Afghans hate warlords.� Most Afghans hate the Taliban.� When the warlords ruled Afghanistan it was lawless, and so many people welcomed the Taliban who beat back the warlords and installed crude justice.� Soon, the Taliban, staggered by t ...
- Naval STEM
- 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 ...
- 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
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