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- 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 ConsAnyone 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 ...
Democratic Voice of Burma
- Rights groups condemn ‘war crime’ ...Rights groups claim the Burmese military is using convicts as porters in war zones, in what they allege amount to 'war crimes', as election promises on human rights seemingly ignored
- Children become latest victims of conflict in ...Outbreak of diarrhoea in makeshift refugee camps in northeast Burma setup by Kachin Independence Organisation is affecting hundreds of children taking shelter there and resulted in two recent deaths
- Clash in Shan State leaves at least six deadAt least six people have been killed in a deadly clash between government security forces and Shan State Army soldiers in southeast Burma on 9 July
- Politics still ‘off limits’ for Su ...Concerns still rife that Suu Kyi will face repression should she make a political tour of the country following a four day trip to the historical city of Bagan
- Migrants to face challenges in seeking minimum ...Rights group expresses concern that Burmese migrant workers will struggle to claim new Thai minimum wage plans that were voted for in Thailand's recent election
Telegraph - Climate Change
- The Phoenix dust storm shows that, whatever th ...Rain or shine, drought, flood or dust-storm, the warmist faith decrees that all 'freak weather events' are man-made, says Christopher Booker.
- £50 trillion needs to be spent on going green ...Almost £50 trillion must be spent on green technology over the coming decades if the world is to avert a "major planetary catastrophe", the United Nations has claimed.
- Man-made climate change evidence 'hidden' by s ...Cutting down on pollution from Chinese coal plants could actually make the earth become warmer, according to a new study.
- Proof that the Government is tilting at windmillsThe policy on which our national energy strategy is now centred is a ludicrously expensive, self-defeating joke, says Christopher Booker.
- Poland's EU budget commissioner in climate cha ...Poland's EU budget commissioner has been forced to recant after he claimed climate change was exaggerated and argued that overambitious EU CO2 emissions targets would hurt his country's economy.
National Geographic | Environment
- Photos: 4 Natural Wonders Added to World Herit ...NoneIt's not hard to see why these sites were added this year to the UN's list of global natural treasures. Plus: sites on the rebound—and the decline.
- Energy-Short Japan Eyes Renewable Future, Savi ...The tsunami's damage and political fallout leave Japan striving to save power this summer as it charts a new energy course.
- Earth Has "Spare Tire"—And Ice Melt's Keeping ...Our oblong planet's waistline bulge has stopped slimming, thanks to massive ice melt, according to new research.
- Pictures We Love: Best of JuneNoneSo good we had to share—ten new images that gripped Nat Geo photo editors: "supertrees," an upside-down horse, a surfer on ice, and more.
- "Exceptional" Giant Squid Found Dying off FloridaA stirring, intact giant squid gave a fishing party a shock this week—and could give researchers new insights, scientists say.
Jurist - Legal Research
- Utah polygamy law challenged in federal lawsuit[JURIST] A polygamous family filed a lawsuit [complaint text, PDF] on Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Utah [official website] seeking to overturn the state's prohibition on bigamy [Utah Code 76-7-101] as a violation of their civil rights. While the complaint acknowledges t ...
- HRW urges Libya rebel forces to protect civili ...[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Wednesday urged [press release] opposition forces in Libya to protect civilians in controlled areas and hold accountable those rebel forces responsible for abusing civilians as well as looting and arson. Rebel fighters have reportedly commi ...
- China drafts new human rights plan[JURIST] The State Council Information Office (SICO) [official website, in Chinese] of China said Wednesday that they are in the process of drafting a new human rights plan to be fully implemented by 2015. Declaring the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (NHRAP) [text] of 2009 completed ...
- Anti-LGBT violence on the rise in US: report[JURIST] The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) [advocacy website] said Tuesday that violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people persists in the US [press release, PDF] and that violence disproportionately impacted transgender people and minorities. Th ...
- Mexico high court says military abuses should ...[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Mexico [official website, in Spanish] ruled Tuesday that abuses by members of the military should be tried in civilian courts rather than military tribunals. The court issued a unanimous ruling ordering that military officers and personnel be tried in civilian court ...
Atlantic | Mark Ambinder
- Can the Moderate Huntsman Succeed in a Red-Mea ...It's a tough time for centrists in the GOP, and the former Utah governor will have to overcome significant weaknesses if he's to win the party's presidential nomination For a candidate barely registering in the polls, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman has generated an awful lot of a ...
- The Obama-Boehner Embrace: What Does It Mean?The president's public support for the speaker can only help one of them The president's compassion was palpable. He was worried about John Boehner, Republican of Ohio. "His politics within his caucus are very difficult," Barack Obama said of the speaker of the House, ooz ...
- Obama Needs Friends in CongressThe president is learning that personal relationships make legislation possible He's the first sitting senator to be elected president since Kennedy, but Barack Obama has lousy Hill ties. It is ironic that the man who was pushed toward a presidential run after a basketball game in th ...
- Picture of the Day: Putting His Money In Persp ...Enterprising monument and currency admirer Darrell Hudson has completed his project of matching up the backs of U.S. bills with their corresponding landmarks. Clockwise from top left, Hudson photographed the Lincoln Memorial, the U.S. Treasury building, the White House, and the Capitol. I ...
- Challenging the DEA's War on Medical MarijuanaThe federal agency insists it has no legitimate use. So are all the cancer, glaucoma, and multiple sclerosis patients lying? Can I interest you in a cross-country trip? Its theme is Anti-Empiricism in America. The tour bus leaves from The Bay Area, where a lot of people still think rent contr ...
COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade
- [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
- [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
- [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
- [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
- [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...
Bulletin of American Scientists - News
- US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
- SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
- Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
- Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
- More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...
Tikun Olam
- Bibi Buys UN Votes Against Palestinian StatehoodBibi Netnayahu reminds me of the quintessential Eastern European Jewish peddler traipsing the countryside selling just about anything anyone would pay a kopek to buy. Â You want a hair brush? Â I’ve got one. Â A rooster? Â Got one of those too. Â A bridegroom for your daughter? Â Nothing is too ...
- Netanyahu Family’s Racist History: Like Father ...Jewish tradition declares that children shall not be punished for the sins of their fathers. Â But it didn’t anticipate a son like the 19 year-old Yair Netanyahu, who appears to retain some of the harsh Arab-hatred that characterizes both his father, Benyamin, and 98 year-old grandfather, Ben Zi ...
- Abir Aramin Died in VainI know it will pain her father, Bassam if he reads these words, but how else to describe the shameful decision by the Israeli Supreme Court to refuse to hold accountable two Border Police officers who murdered the little then-10 year old girl on her way home from school one day in 2007.  Bassa ...
- Yossi Sarid on BDS: ‘Green Line is Red Line’I like that phrase. Â It has a nice ring to it. Â And Sarid uses it, davke, the day before the Knesset is due to pass its anti-boycott legislation which would criminalize references to BDS in the Israeli media, to affirm his intent to boycott the settlements and to support all those throu ...
- Slavery Had Its Good Points TooI know, it’s way too early to be following the joke of a Presidential primary race in the Republican Party. Â But these bozos are already providing immense entertainment opportunities. Â You’ll recall that Michelle Bachmann a few days ago agreed that if she became president, pornography would ...
If Americans Knew
- Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
- Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
- Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
- Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
- As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
David J. Gregory
- Help to overcomeSIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]
- USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
- FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOSTby David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
- My PredicamentFor those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...
- High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]
Unsuitable Blog
- Why So Few Unsuitablogs?I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
- Money for Nothing and Your Soul for FreeWe, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...
- Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
- Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty SecretsJUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...
- I’m On The RunActually I’m not. It would have been quite exciting to have been writing a blog from an internet cafe somewhere, or hijacking a wireless connection outside an office building, but it seems I am safe and snug in my home completely bereft of law enforcement officers hammering at my door demanding ...
Subalternate Reality
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic ClosureRep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-NilOne of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order. âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
- Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-BaiterEarly this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…” Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
Idea Lab | Technology
- Stop Yammering and Start Hammering: How to Bui ...Over the next four weeks, a very interesting experiment is going to unfold. The most exciting part about it is that it’s entirely open source: You can observe it, interact with it, and improve it. We’re calling this experiment the “learning lab.” It’s the second stage of the Knight-Mozill ...
- How TileMill Improved Ushahidi Maps to Protect ...In May I worked with Plan Benin to improve its Violence Against Children (VAC) reporting system. The system uses FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi to collect and visualize reports of violence against children. Ushahidi develops open-source software for information collection, visualization and interacti ...
- When Moral Systems Miss the Point in NewsgamesIn "Newsgames: Journalism at Play," we argue that the news quiz "is an incredibly simple type of game, but one that nevertheless can transmit factual information in a refreshing way." Perhaps our favorite example is an op-ed suite from The New York Times called "Turning Points, 2008 Edition," wh ...
- MIT Lesson: Change Happens Everywhere; Activis ...I attended last Thursday's afternoon plenary "Civic Media Mobilization," at the 2011 Knight Civic Media conference, expecting to hear discussion about specific activist technologies and techniques. I was also anticipating some juicy political friction between the Tea Party consultant and the imm ...
- TileMill Opens Up a World of Mapping Possibili ...One of our favorite collaborative open data projects is OpenStreetMap. We've talked before about the project's goals, how its free and open nature is advantageous for non-profit and commercial applications alike, and how its open and near-real-time editing process is a major advantage in rapidly ...
Cutting Edge News
- Edge on Health - Wireless Power for Implanted ...Mechanical pumps to give failing hearts a boost were originally developed as temporary measures for patients awaiting a heart transplant. But as the technology has improved, these ventricular assist devices commonly operate in patients for years. Prolonged use, however, has its own problems. The ...
- Book Review - American War Machine: Deep Polit ...American War Machine: Deep Politics, The CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan. Peter Dale Scott. Rowman and Littlefield. 2010. 408 pages.In their 1964 book, The Invisible Government, journalists David Wise and Thomas B. Ross wrote that “there are two governments in the United ...
- Book Review - A Long Goodbye: Soviet Withdrawa ...A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan. Artemy M. Kalinovsky. Harvard. 2011. 320 pages.There appear to be people who would like this book to be, in effect, Why the U.S. Will Fail in Afghanistan. Such people include the publicity department at Harvard University Press, whose press ...
- Book Review - Rabbi Outcast: Rabbi Elmer Berge ...Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism. Jack Ross. Potomac Books. 2011. 296 pages.Rabbi Elmer Berger, the leading ideologist and main strategist of the American Council for Judaism (ACJ), the American Jewish organization created in 1942 specifically to oppose Zionism, is th ...
- Edge on Terrorism - Three Deadly Explosions Ro ...Three explosions were reported in Mumbai on July 13 in the crowded Opera House, Zaveri Bazaar and Dadar areas of the city. The explosions began around 7:10 p.m. and occurred within minutes of each other. There are reports that a fourth bomb, likely at the Roxy Theater, failed to detonate. Curren ...
High Country News
- Montana's top gun-rights advocate has a nation ...Gary Marbut's case for state rights in gun regulations is spreading from Montana to the West and beyond.
- A fire lookout in a wilderness speaks of our pastThe Green Mountain Fire Lookout in Washington's Glacier Peak Wilderness is worth preserving, partly in memory of the workers who built it.
- Tuning out and finding localA short day's drive from where you live can you put in touch with local history and help you meet new people in fascinating small towns.
- Shifting gears, wearing LycraIs it possible to buy a new mountain bike without buying tons of other stuff?
- Rural papers doing better than their city coun ...In an age where the decline newspapers seems imminent, small town papers still fill a niche.
CounterCurrents
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- Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market- The G ...By William HicksContinuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years
- Disastrous US Jobs Report Points To Deepening ...By Barry GreyUS payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department
- A State For JewsBy William James Martin Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state - Israel- which is a state for Jews, and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians
- Israelis Rush For Second PassportsBy Franklin Lamb Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 s ...
Contagious Love Experiment
- Kill Team: The Bigger PictureSorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the AntichristDear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New YearA friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
- Sharing the writing of another StieberMy younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
- Article in FORThe following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out:Â http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rhetoric and Re ...
Yid With Lid
- They Told Instapundit If He Voted For McCain, ...It was a cornerstone of the foreign policy change� that was supposed to come with a Barack Obama Presidency. President Obama was going to make sure that the United States was going to become close buddies with the Arab world.� That was the reason his first post inauguration interview was ...
- Obama's Syria Policy; One Step Forward Two St ...By Barry Rubin It took 2.5 years, months of massive revolutionary upheaval, and a violent attack on the embassy in Damascus, but U.S. policy toward Syria is finally changing. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remarked:�President [Bashar al-] Assad is not indispensable and we have absolu ...
- Sorry For The Lack Of Posting TodayAt about 3AM this morning I took a spill down a flight of stairs (yes I was totally sober).� I spent most of the day in the emergency room. Being poked, prodded, X-ray(ed).� I also had the joy of going into the MRI machine feet first to examine my knee and head first to examine my shoulder.�� Ap ...
- Why Liberals and Democrats Should Oppose Obama ...by Barry Rubin How ironic that liberals and Democrats who have no difficulty believing that Islam has been hijacked by extremists have no notion that they have been hijacked by the far left. A coalition of 1960s� New Leftists and what used to be called the party�s McGovernite wing ha ...
- Washington Post Fact Checker, Gets His Facts A ...The 2012 Election is still sixteen months away, but the discussions about whether President Obama will be able to retain the same large portion of the Jewish vote as he did in 2008 remains a hot topic for the third straight week. Today the article comes from the Washington Post, whose fact chec ...
The Real Agenda
- Ron Paul Embarrasses Ben Bernanke as he says G ...Forbes July 13, 2011 Chairman Ben Bernanke faced-off with Fed-hating Representative Ron Paul during his monetary policy report to Congress on Wednesday. The head of the Fed was forced to respond to accusations of enriching already rich corporations while failing to help Main Street, while he wa ...
- Do you dislike the out of control State? Stop ...by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda July 13, 2011 How many liberals, libertarians, conservatives and anarchists, to cite a few, dislike the outcomes that result from having an out of control State? It would be interesting to carry out a survey and find out exactly. However, a survey is not necess ...
- Vladimir Putin Calls Bernanke A Hooliganby Tyler Durden Zero Hedge July 13, 2011 Who would have thought that Ron Paul’s ideological ally in his quest to take down the Chairsatan would be none other than the Russian dictator-in-waiting (or rather, in actuality), Vladimir Putin. In a speech before the of economic experts at the Russian ...
- Mitch McConnell suggests all power should go t ...Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com July 12, 2011 Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has proposed a drastic solution to the administration’s insistence that the debt ceiling be raised against the wishes of many lawmakers, by handing over the power of the purse, an authority clearly invested in Congr ...
- Mother arrested for Protecting their Children ...by Erin Quinn The Tennessean July 13, 2011 A 41-year-old Clarksville woman was arrested after Nashville airport authorities say she was belligerent and verbally abusive to security officers, refusing for her daughter to be patted down at a security checkpoint. Andrea Fornella Abbott yelled and s ...
Wind Watch
- Study finds wind turbines can sometimes be tou ...Potsdam, NY — Wind farms reduced the value of nearby real estate in two Northern New York counties, but not in a third. Martin D. Heintzelman and Carrie M. Tuttle, of Clarkson University, studied 11,331 real estate transactions over nine years and found that the value of property near wind turbi ...
- The reality of wind powerWind turbines cost more to operate and maintain than planned, often have poor reliability, and place costly strains on other generators warns one early wind adopter, but so far the public is willing to bear the costs. Kevin Gaden, wholesale power director for the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebra ...
- Lincolnshire couple in landmark court case ove ...A couple who claim they were driven out of their Lincolnshire farm by the hum of wind turbines have started a High Court bid for £2.5m compensation. Jane and Julian Davis moved from Grays Farm in Deeping St Nicholas because of what they said was the strain of living with the incessant noise. Th ...
- Group recommends stricter noise levels for Mic ...EAST LANSING, Mich. â As the call for alternative energy grows louder in Michigan and more communities consider wind farms, a group led by a pair of Michigan State University professors has issued a report calling for stricter regulations on noise levels and providing zoning guidelines for local ...
- Turbine meeting turns out hundreds, forces can ...RIGA, Mich. � When Riga Township resident �Lady� MacBeth arrived at the Riga Municipal Building Thursday night to hear the Riga Township Board�s final decision on zoning ordinances that will determine the fate of 200 wind turbines proposed for the area, she was told to turn around. The building ...
Tippers News
- Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher Away C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
- Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
- Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
The Freeman
- Budget Solution: Squeeze the Middle“One idea under discussion in the current talks to cut the deficit enough to pass a debt-ceiling increase is to use a different version of the consumer price index to adjust tax brackets and Social Security benefits for inflation. It would be an index that rises more slowly.” Wall Street Journal ...
- Debt Talk Mired, Leader for G.O.P. Proposes Option“The leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said a bipartisan budget-cutting deal is probably out of reach, making it unlikely that Republicans would approve an increase in the governmentâs debt limit by Aug. 2. To prevent default, he proposed that Congress in effect empower Mr. Obama to r ...
- Obama Makes Move on Medicare, But No Deal Yet“President Obama and congressional Republicans emerged from closed meetings further apart Monday as they struggled to reach a deal on cutting future budget deficits, despite a White House suggestion that it could accept slowly raising the eligibility age for Medicare to 67.” (USA Today) Rearrang ...
- Small Business Still Not in Hiring Mood“A majority of U.S. small businesses fear the economy is on the âwrong trackâ and do not plan to increase hiring in the coming year, according to a new survey from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Monday.” (Washington Times) Would the politicians rather accept stagnation than question their dogmas? ...
- The Market: This Time It’s PersonalFreedom of movement, in physical and social space, is the essence of the free society.
Teaching Online Journalism
- Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...
- Journalists, take another look at TumblrFor a long time I had trouble appreciating Tumblr, but I think I finally understand its strengths — and I must not be the only one. Tumblr is now one of the top 25 websites in the U.S., according to data from Quancast, as reported in a new article at TechCrunch. It gets close to 5,000 pagevie ...
- Branding: Should journalists build a personal ...If you’re teaching journalism today, you must be aware of the discussion that surrounds branding. If you’re a young journalist, or someone planning to enter the field of journalism, you need to understand what personal branding means. On June 23, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten wrote ...
- Journalists: How to get started with TwitterIf you haven’t yet found any value in using Twitter, here’s what you should consider. On the topic of WHY to get started, John Robinson (the editor of the News & Record, in Greensboro, North Carolina) wrote a very good piece for ASNE this week. If youâre not on Twitter, youâre making your job ...
- Tune up your skills this summerLooking over my Google Analytics data today, I found that these are some of the most-visited pages on this blog: How to shoot video interviews Why does anyone major in journalism? A few words about digital audio recorders Recording phone calls: For reporters Now printable! Reporterâs Guid ...
Facing South
- Workplace deaths raise questions about OSHA ex ...By Ariella Cohen, The Lens In January 2002, a mound of powdery chemical catalyst used to make gasoline collapsed on a worker doing routine cleanup at the Marathon Ashland Petroleum refinery in Garyville, La. Within minutes, the contract employee, from Colfax, was completely engulfed in the t ...
- Extreme Alabama immigration law heads to courtBy Kathy Mulady, Equal Voice Newspaper A coalition of civil-rights, human-rights and faith groups filed a class action lawsuit Friday challenging Alabama's recently enacted immigration law, House Bill 56. Tough anti-immigrant laws have been recently passed in a half-dozen states -- A ...
- Landmark TVA pollution settlement will help th ...A federal judge has approved a final agreement in a lawsuit that several states and environmental advocacy groups brought over air pollution from the Tennessee Valley Authority's coal-fired power plants. A consent decree signed late last month by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Varla ...
- Welder frees workers from Texas labor campsBy Viji Sundaram, New America Media With the proceeds from the sale of his parents' home in India, loans from aunts and uncles, and the money he'd saved while working as a welder in the Middle East, Aby K. Raju (at right in photo) was able to scrape together the $20,000 the job recruiter wan ...
- 'Dirty South' lawmakers working to kill new po ...The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new rule this week requiring power plants in 27 states in the eastern half of the U.S. to cut smokestack emissions in order to protect the public from health-damaging smog and soot pollution. But two lawmakers from Southern states where big ...
Worldpress - Africa
- South Sudan: Safeguarding IndependenceThe world's newest nation has reason to look positively as its future, but South Sudan must work hard to safeguard its hard-won independence.
- AIDS at 30: Lessons LearnedFor the last 30 years, the battle against AIDS is one that we have been both winning and losing on a global scale.
- Nigeria: Ten Unavoidable IssuesOver the next four years, Nigeria's leaders have an opportunity to address a host of issues that have plagued the country both domestically and in terms of foreign policy.
- Political Expediency May Forfeit Reform in SomaliaThe Kampala Accord aims to end Somalia's transitional government, removing its prime minister in the process. Is this the best thing for the people?
- Living in Chains: Sierra Leone's Mentally Ill
Telegraph UK - oil
- Hope for motorists as oil price tumblesDrivers can finally expect some relief at the petrol pump, after the price of oil dropped sharply.
- Oil refinery blast: Chevron site has excellent ...The safety record at the Chevron oil refinery in Pembroke has been praised following the fire and explosion which killed four contractors.
- Petrol retailers told to help motorists as oil ...Petrol retailers are under pressure to cut the cost of motoring after oil prices plummeted on the world market.
- Chris Huhne needs a lesson in economicsPlundering the profits from North Sea oil will only hold back Britain's recovery, argues Jeremy Warner.
- The Gulf of Mexico is not as clean as they sayAssessing the true toll of the Deepwater Horizon blow-out is only starting, says Geoffrey Lean.
Ian Welsh
- So, compared to McCain, was Obama actually the ...I thought so at the time, but I’ve been wondering for a while. As I’ve pointed out, frequently, Bush failed to slash Social Security. Obama is probably going to do so soon. I doubt McCain, any more than Bush, could have done so. Of course, on the negative side McCain might have gone to war ...
- Stirling Newberry and Ian Welsh on Virtually S ...You can listen live here. (Same link will probably work for listening after the fact, will update if not.)
- On Social Security CutsFebruary 9, 2009: Then we’re going to get entitlement “reform.” Since Obama is promising this to Blue Dogs, this isn’t going to be anything you’re going to like. January 4, 2010: So you’re far more likely to see Medicare and Social Security gutted, than you are to see the military budget cut in ...
- Deserve: the deadliest wordI hate the word “deserve” because lord save us all from what we “deserve”, but lately I find it hard to remember that one good person is worth saving, or that most people are just weak, not evil. The world will burn, in war, and famine, and revolution, and climate change and it will burn [...]
- I think the oligarchs are overplaying their handIn particular the Greek “bailout” was a mistake. A horribly punitive measure, with virtually the entire “Socialist” party voting for it, it wasn’t a bailout of Greece, but a bailout of investors. As part of the response, the Greek ministry of finance was set alight. The oligarchs, by making ...
Media Consortium
- Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability | ...Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. The programs are an integral part of staying competitive within your market, so they should be created wisely.
- 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
- The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
- Gallery: 15 iPad news appsThinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
- Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...
Reality Asserts Itself
- Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El PasoMy colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
- PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
- FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
- PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
- China and the end of the end of historyMany economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...
Great Beyond ( Nature )
- Upward trend continues for UK animals in researchPosted on behalf of Chloe McIvor. Animal research is on the up in the UK, reports the Home Office in its annual announcement. Just over 3.7 million procedures were performed on animals last year, an increase of 3% on 2009. The increase is part of a general upward trend in recent years, which ...
- Europe reassesses its dominion over all the fi ...Europe’s fisheries lurched towards reform today as the European Commission unveiled its long-awaited proposals to shake up the industry. But the announcement failed to satisfy already vocal critics. Maria Damanaki, the commissioner for maritime affairs, warned that if fisheries were not refor ...
- First drug company to dive into the HIV patent ...Cross posted from Nature Medicine's Spoonful of Medicine blog on behalf of Hannah Waters. Just shy of its one-year anniversary on 16 July, a major international patent sharing organzition has signed up its first industry partner. The Californian drugmaker Gilead Sciences agreed this week to l ...
- Don’t call me Polly - parrots have individual ...Posted on behalf of Chloe McIvor. Most of us would admit that we’ve been amused by a parrot’s vocal talent at some point in our lives. Though entertaining, it’s perhaps hard to imagine that an ability to repeat “Pretty Polly” on demand is of much use to a parrot in the wild. But parrots don’t ...
- Swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome ...Posted on behalf of Chloe McIvor. The adjuvanted vaccines used during the 2009 swine flu (H1N1) pandemic did not significantly increase the risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome, a large, multinational study, commissioned by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), concludes t ...
new geography
- Let's Face It, High Speed Rail Is DeadAdvocates were ecstatic when President Obama had $8 billion for high speed rail put into the stimulus bill. His administration planned to make HSR one of the cornerstones of its infrastructure investment program. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood visited Europe to check out HSR there in ...
- America’s Burgeoning Class War Could Spell Opp ...Last week�s disappointing job reports, with unemployment rising above 9%, only reinforced an emerging reality that few politicians, in either party, are ready to address. American society is becoming feudalized, with increasingly impregnable walls between the classes. This is ironic for a nation ...
- "Art, Design, Portland" District Offers Opport ...In a dreary economy, with record numbers of Portlanders unemployed and underemployed, the shared work space is hoping to tap into the city�s DIY sensibility to foster innovation, creativity and a new connection to work. But similar projects have tried here before --- and failed. Will ADX�s new a ...
- A Guide to China’s Rising Urban AreasFrom a Rural to Urban Dispersion in the Middle Kingdom China�s rise to economic prominence over the past 30 years has rested in large part to its rapid urbanization. Prior to �reform and opening up� that started in earnest during the 1970s, cities in China were viewed as pariahs by the p ...
- The Costs of Smart Growth Revisited: A 40 Year ..."Soaring" land and house prices "certainly represent the biggest single failure" of smart growth, which has contributed to an increase in prices that is unprecedented in history. This finding could well have been from our new The Housing Crash and Smart Growth, but this observation was made by ...
GM Watch
- Enquêtes de la WDR sur le World Wide Fund for ...Enquêtes de la WDR sur le World Wide Fund for Nature Le WWF et l'industrie / Le pacte avec le panda[1] Par Lars Langenau[2] sueddeutsche.de Média [Original allemand: http://bit.ly/SZPandaPakt] 22 juin 2011, 19h00 Quels sont les véritables liens entre le WWF et l'industrie? À l'heure du cinquant ...
- Shock documentary: WWF and industry - The pact ...
- Shock documentary: WWF and industry - The pact ...
- Shock documentary: WWF and industry - The pact ...
- U.S. Ends Opposition to GM labeling GuidelinesConsumer rights victory as US ends opposition to GM labeling guidelines Consumers International, Press release, 5 July 2011 *Twenty year struggle within global food safety body ends with 'consumer rights milestone' *Move clears way for greater monitoring of the effects of GM organisms Con ...
spiked
- How Human Rights Watch plans to rescue US impe ...HRW is demanding that Bush be tried for war crimes only because it wants to resuscitate US authority over the uncivilised hordes.
- Spraying for peace in the Middle EastNathalie Rothschild reports from Hebron on the Western spraycan activists who are graffiting the West Bank.
- It isn’t philistine to judge art economi ...The author of a report on arts evaluation responds to Tiffany Jenkins’ accusations of philistinism.
- ‘We name and shame the evil tabloid hack ...The cultural elite’s crusade against News International is only a more erudite version of the News of the World’s war on perverts.
- Press culture is none of Cameron’s businessAn American free-speech campaigner dissects the ‘delusional elitism’ of those wanting to muzzle the tabloids.
Cryptogon
- Flood Berm Collapses at Nebraska Nuclear PlantVia: AP: A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early April for refueling, and there is no w ...
- Greece: ‘A Sovereign Debt Crisis of Soph ...Via: Telegraph: The essence of ancient Greek tragedy is that the audience knows it will end in disaster, but feels compelled to watch the horror unfold. And so it is with the modern version, a sovereign debt crisis of Sophoclean dimensions. Themes of the great dramatist’s finer works are all the ...
- Threat of $100 Billion Hit if U.S. Top Rating LostI definitely wouldn’t assume that the impact of a credit rating cut would be limited to $100 billion. I doubt there is any way to know what the impact will be because so many derivatives have been struck off the underlying debt. In other words, this $100 billion number may be just the tip of [...]
- Fukushima Residents’ Urine Now RadioactiveVia: Japan Times: More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday. Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, whi ...
- Friend of British Prime Minister Found Dead in ...Via: Belfast Telegraph: Detectives are hoping toxicology results will shed light on the death riddle of a senior Tory in a Glastonbury Festival VIP toilet. Christopher Shale, 56, a close friend of David Cameron, was discovered slumped in a cubicle in the backstage area on Sunday morning. The Pri ...
The Economic Collapse
- Outcasts: Tonight Tens Of Thousands Of Formerl ...Economic despair is beginning to spread rapidly in America. As you read this, there are millions of American families that are just barely hanging on by their fingernails. For a growing number of Americans, it has become an all-out battle just to be able to afford to sleep und ...
- A Bad Mood Has Descended On World Financial Ma ...Have you noticed that a really bad mood seems to have descended on world financial markets? Fear and pessimism are everywhere. The global economy never truly recovered from the financial crisis of 2008, and right now everyone is keeping their eyes open for the next "Lehman Bro ...
- Uh Oh – Italy Is Coming Apart Like A 20 ...Did anyone really think that Italy would be able to get through this thing without needing a bailout? Just when you thought that things in Europe could get back to normal for a little while, here comes Italy. On Friday, there was a bit of a "mini-panic" as investors started du ...
- The Sovereign Debt Crisis Is Never Going To En ...In the past, there certainly have been governments that have gotten into trouble with debt, but what we are experiencing now is the first truly global sovereign debt crisis. There has never been a time in recorded history when virtually all of the governments of the world were ...
- Without Low Interest Rates, The U.S. Financial ...Right now, interest rates are near historic lows. The U.S. government is able to borrow gigantic mountains of money for next to nothing. U.S. consumers are still able to get home loans, car loans and student loans at ridiculously low interest rates. When this low interest rat ...
Desertification
- The Food Vendor (IRIN News)Read at : IRIN NEWS FILM: Introducing new series – The Food Vendor NAIROBI, 12 July 2011 (IRIN) – IRIN Films is pleased to announce the launch of our latest series of short films. The Food Vendor tells the story … Continue reading →
- The urgency for broad-based action in Egypt (G ...Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/475079 In search of a ‘national project’ Maria Golia Thereâs a Sufi parable about the fictional Mullah Nasruddin who is crossing a river by ferry with a learned man who asks if he … Continue reading →
- 22 major programmes to tackle the issues of de ...Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=73081 Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought in India Backgrounder Poverty and environmental degradation are major problems in dry lands, where forests and trees contribute significantly to rural liveli ...
- National Conference on Combating Desertificati ...Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9004160101 Iran to Hold 2nd National Confab on De-Desertification mid September TEHRAN (FNA)- The Islamic Azad University is slated to hold the second ‘National Conference on Combating Desertification and Sustai ...
- Waste paper: a cost effective conditioning ben ...Read at : Google Alert – soil conditioning http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/arable/arable-news/paper-waste-could-add-nutrients-and-improve-water-retention/40066.article Paper waste could add nutrients and improve water retention By Dominic Kilburn INCORPORATING a waste paper bi-product on lan ...
The Paper Trail
- Center staff honored with awardsSpring is journalism awards season and we’re delighted that the Center for Public Integrity and partner NPR have received a prestigious Dart Award for the story “Seeking Justice in Campus Rapes.” The award is bestowed by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.
- A new site, a new eraMake iWatch News your daily source for investigative and accountability news from around the corner – and across the globe.
- Accountant gets $4.5 million from IRS for whis ...PHILADELPHIA — An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award.
- Hey Congressman! How many federal workers are ...When Republican Mike Pence stood in front of a crowd of conservative activists at the end of March, he left no question as to his views on a possible government shutdown.
- E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley ...An employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives alleged that he was “called to the carpet” by supervisors, accused of lying and ordered to write down everything that was said in meetings that were held with Senate staffers conducting an inquiry, according to newly release ...
backofthebook.ca
- 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 wordBy 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’sBy 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 DayWikipedia 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 ...
libcom
- Nuclear Powerfukushima-explosion.jpg A report released this week by the Associated Press detailed extensive Tritium leaks at Nuclear Power facilities across the U.S., bolstering some critic’s arguments that Nucle ...
- Chris Knight replies to his criticsmister-mayhem-415x248.jpg Chris Knight's approach to revolutionary politics is very controversial. However, it is also thought-provoking, whether you agree with him or not. Here, he replies to his cr ...
- Italy: NO TAV press conference – “This is the ...260495_10150230702296448_40019706447_7538150_400675_n.jpg In the midst of the riot porn that can be found on the internet about the NO TAV protests of Sunday 3 July – and that I’m not going to post h ...
- Solidarity hunger strikes expand in California ...prison hunger strike.jpg Since yesterday, prisoners in at least 11 of California's 33 prisons are refusing meals in solidarity with a hunger strike staged by prisoners in one of the system's special ...
- Striking Indonesian mine workers occupy checkpointindonesian miners.jpg The Indonesian mine workers' strike, which was born on Monday 4th July and is demanding both the reinstatement of sacked co-workers as well as a 100% pay increase, is intensifyi ...
Free Range International
- AWK WhackedSo it seems that Ahmed Wali Karzai (aka AWK or A-wak, as it’s pronounced), was whacked by one of his own guards yesterday, sending everyone in the US and Afghan governments into a tizzy as they try to figure out how to fill the power vacuum created by his demise. I really can’t say for [...]
- FRI Rides AgainAs a devoted follower of FRI for the past few years, I was as disappointed as the rest of you readers to hear that Baba Tim was going dark on the site. So, given the fact that I’m currently in a position to continue providing dispatches from the freeranger perspective in [...]
- FabFi on the front page of New York TimesHere’s an update in an attempt to counteract the thoroughly depressing news of Tim going silent. (Anyone who knows Tim in person knows that you can’t actually silence him; he’s still ranting but we’ve turned off the blog-mike). With Kanani’s help, I’ve put this post in Babatim format. This wee ...
- There’s FireFighting season is now on. This year the villains strategy appears to involve deliberate attacks on aid projects and let me tell you something we (the outside the wire aid community) are getting hammered. Â In the last week a majority of us have had to deal with murders, intimidation, shootings, ...
- Where There Is SmokeIn the Helmand Province, this year’s fighting season has started off with a whimper.  On May Day (as predicted) the only action was in Paktika Province where a child suicide bomber violated the latest Taliban public announcement by blowing himself up in a police station.  The Taliban had just ...
The Story Behind the Story
- More From THE ZOMBIE Files —— A MU ...From the “X-Files” of Dr. Patricia M. Jordan, DVM comes this incredible snippet dateline 2009: ST-246 Used to Treat Complications From Exposure to Recombinant Vaccinia Virus Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:31am EDT http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v8/38a9/0/0/%2a/v;44306;0-0;0;38919074;1627-170/40;0/0/0;;~o ...
- Jews Against Zionism and Zionists. (JAZZ)http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/holocaust/gedalyaliebermann.cfm THE ROLE OF ZIONISM IN THE HOLOCAUST Article by Rabbi Gedalya Liebermann – Australia “Spiritually and Physically Responsible ” From its’ inception, many rabbis warned of the potential dangers of Zionism and open ...
- Zombie Watch UpdateHere we go. The evidence continues to mount. Published on Deccan Chronicle (http://www.deccanchronicle.com) � Mutant rabies, flu viruses could lead to havoc June 25: The rabies season has just receded. And it�s time now for the human influenza or common cold to make our lives miserable. Rabies ...
- Khazarian Satanic Porn — Plumbing New DepthsIn this public You-tube clip, which is a digital recording of a VERY PUBLIC PRESENTATION at the 2011 Conspiracy Conference, “Investigative Reporter” and consort of Leonard Horowitz, Sherri Kane maliciously attacked ex-VietNam war veteran Timothy White by accusing him of being a felon, rapists, a ...
- Is A. True Ott a “Jew-Hating Man”, ...In an e-mail to me in August 2010, Khazarian Blue-Blood Jew Leonard G. Horowitz wrote: “How STUPID of you ——- to EXPOSE YOURSELF AS A JEW-HATING MAN!!!”  What exactly “exposed” me? Merely using the term “Khazar” and “Goy” in an earlier post to his sweetie Sherri Kane in describing her and m ...
du la bab - Now is the Time
- Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
- Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
- Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen. In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
- Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here̵ ...Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
- Doctors Warn about GM Food RisksIt’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...
Mansbridge One on One - CBC
- Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
- Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
- Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.
- Don TapscottBest-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
- Roberta JamiesonRoberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.
Scotts Contracting
- Solar economics- A whole new ball gameOne of the things that drives alternative energy advocates up the wall about trying to explain the benefits of these energy sources is that some people simply don’t understand the economics of alternative energy. Nowhere is this more obvious than with solar power. The average solar panel is actu ...
- Insulation ROI- Be Energy Smart and Money WizeMisunderstood Payback Periods of Proper Insulation: This is a huge mistake people make. I had a consumer recently tell me that 2 years was too long to get all his money back. If he understood Payback periods, he’d understand that he was turning down a 50% return on his money. Now, investments th ...
- Petition to Stop Ameren UE-Coal Ash Utility Wa ...Petition: We, the undersigned, are opposed to placing a coal ash utility waste landfill in the Labadie Bottoms floodplain of the Missouri river as proposed by AmerenUE. The proposed landfill will store harmful quantities of toxic heavy metals and other contaminants. Despite Ameren’s assurances o ...
- six neighborhood factors that affect the envir ...The Greenest Building Is The One That’s Already Built ⦠Sometimes Posted June 20, 2011 by Kaid Benfield copied from: http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/kaidbenfield/26182/greenest-historic-building-one-thats-right-context?utm_source=scc_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter Iâ ...
- Estimating Tips for Spray Foam Window/Door SealantWhile Working on an Material Estimate for Installing 10 Replacement Windows. I wanted to share this Information on from Dow Great Stuff. Sizes and Estimated Yields for GREAT STUFF PRO™ Window & Door Insulating Foam Sealant Can Size, oz (g) Delivery No. of Windows(1) 20 (567) Reusable Straw 6-9 2 ...
The View From Abroad
- Western Imperialism Strikes AgainThe invasion of Libya is about imperialism not protection of civilians.
- What Obama Should Have SaidAs I was reading President Obama's speech last week, I dozed off into a glorious daydream.
- “Where’s the Beef”?After Osama bin Laden was killed, why wasn't his body displayed for verification.
- Bernanke is Still CluelessBen Bernanke has been consistently wrong in the past. Why does anybody listen to him anymore?
- Dangers are Inherent in the War with QaddafiLibya could become the next quagmire for American forces.
Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)
- Foreign Policy Goes GagaCelebrities are going global in their activism. But are they doing the right thing?
- No One Supports the Troops More Than Bradley M ...Our troops are best supported by using them in the most judicious -- and just -- manner possible.
- Breaking the Israel-Palestine ImpasseWhat's needed to break the prolonged impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks is sustained international involvement to broker a real solution -- over the parties' heads if necessary.
- Reorienting U.S. Security Strategy in South AsiaThe Obama administration's approach to the Afghan war is too narrowly focused. Instead, the administration should focus on India-Pakistan rapprochement as the hallmark of a cohesive South Asia strategy.
- Two Poems on GazaGaza is for resilience, writes the poet, Gaza is for people thicker than stone.
Law.com
- Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
- Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
- MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
- Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
- IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...
Iranian.com
- IRAN: Ahmadinejad urges Arabs to democratize e ...Some would consider it rather rich. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who got his post after a widely disputed election and serves under an unelected cleric whose powers are officially second only to God, encouraged Arab governments to heed their people's demands for reform. read more
- Iran 'stoning woman' attends mother's funeralA woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran is in "perfect health" and has been allowed to attend her mother's funeral, a justice official told IRNA state news agency on Wednesday. read more
- در حال حاضر نظام جمهوری اسلامی و خامنه ای جایگ ...read more
- آژانس اتمی پیشنهاد تازه ایران را رد کرددر پی دیدار وزیر امور خارجه ایران و مدیرکل آژانس بین المللی انرژی اتمی در وین، این سازمان با صدور بیانیه ای اعلام کرده است که دولت ایران همچنان به تعهدات هسته ای بین المللی اش عمل نمی کند. read more
- New US Visa Restrictions on Iranian Officials ...On 8 July 2011, the United States and the United Kingdom imposed visa restrictions on not only Iranian officials but also individuals who commit human rights abuses. Following this Canada announced its support for increased measures against these perpetrators. More than 50 officials of the Go ...
Most Revolutionary Act
- How Taft Hartley Restricts Labor RightsSit down strike The US union movement was built during the last serious recession (the Great Depression, which started in 1929). Then, as now, employers took advantage of the economic downturn to cut wages, pile on work and force employees to work under sweatshop conditions. In the 1930s organiz ...
- The Dread U-WordLike the F-word, the U-word is largely taboo in polite society, especially among younger Americans. According to a recent survey 41% of Americans “disapprove” of unions % (see http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/09/why-has-union-membership-declined.html). Generation X,Y and Z A ...
- Paid Sick Leave: One for Our SideWFP rally In June, Connecticut became the first state to require private employers to provide paid sick leave. The US is the only country in the industrialized world with no national requirement for employers to provide paid sick leave. Under the new Connecticut law, workers are entitled to earn ...
- Will Capitalism Leave Lasting Scars?In a prior blog “Can Human Nature Be Repaired?” (http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2011/06/30/can-human-nature-be-repaired/), I posed the question whether the ravages of capitalism leave enduring scars that make it impossible to implement more egalitarian political and economic systems f ...
- Corporatizing Global Food ProductionA UK company started in 1997 called Emergent Asset Management claims to be the largest speculative fund investing in African industrial agriculture. See http://media.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/OI_EAM_Brief_1.pdf. It uses private equity to take control of large tracts ...
Michael Moore - Must Read
- Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks filmRevolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition to Swe ...
- On Nataline Sarkisyan's 21st BirthdayLast night in Los Angeles, while the Prince and Princess (William and Kate) – or is it now the Duke and Duchess? – were gathering all the media attention for their glamorous evening among the stars, a very different yet equally glamorous night was unfolding just a few miles away. On the sales f ...
- MichaelMoore.com Exclusive: Wikileaks Cable Al ...Wikileaks Cable Allegedly Leaked by Bradley Manning Caught Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Discussing Outsourcing to India That May Have Cost Manning's OWN FATHER His Job "The afternoon I reached Brian Manning, he was at home in Oklahoma City, in a room in his ranch house that Bradley had ...
- Glenn Beck on Muslims, Obama and Michael Moore ...From Glenn Beck's radio show, June 2, 2011: ... PAT GRAY: How does a guy who immigrated here from -- was it India? I think India. He's got Muslim parenthood and he comes here and he enjoys incredible success. The guy's a national television host and a best-selling author. He probably makes ...
- In His Latest Attack, Beck's Sidekick Highligh ...On today's edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck and�his sidekick�Pat Gray criticized CNN Host and Time editor Fareed Zakaria for comments�suggesting that the U.S. Constitution was not perfect. Zakaria made the comments during an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose earlier this week. (This was part ...
Salon
- The new "Let them eat cake!"In the midst of this prole-crushing economic emergency engineered by wealthy speculators and their political puppets, we now find ourselves watching those same modern-day Marie Antoinettes at once celebrating their station and begging for sympathy as if they were the real casualties of the de ...
- Can we blame the drought on global warming?Fourteen states in the southern U.S. are suffering through the nation's worst drought in 60 years: a dry spell that, when all is said and done, might measure against the most severe in the country's history. The New York Times made that news one of its top stories in Tuesday morning's print e ...
- The right's weird Michelle Obama problemIt was just stupid when the Washington Post's 44 blog ("Politics and Policy") "reported" that Michelle Obama ate a hamburger. (Or, as Ta-Nehisi Coates said, it was "the dumbest story ever written in all of human history." He's not wrong!) After the right-wing blogs all picked it up, as they w ...
- America's creditor identifies its budget problemAs the GOP and a Democratic President plot to cut the safety net for Americans based on an alleged debt crisis, it's extraordinary how little attention this problem receives:
- Rupert Murdoch, tax cheatRemember when it was reported that GE didn't pay any taxes last year and Fox News went nuts because GE owned NBC and GE head Jeffrey Immelt supports Obama? Here's Bill O'Reilly with some outrage:
SMB News
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAsFor SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakeFor SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
Toronto Star - Editorials
- Karzai’s grip put to the test Whatever Afghans thought of Ahmad Wali Karzai, the corrupt “King of Kandahar,” his murder on Tuesday casts a dark shadow over their future. “This is the life of Afghan people, this ...
- Karzai’s grip put to the test Assassination of president's close relative casts a dark shadow over Afghanistan's future.
- Ottawa must settle claimsThe province has done the right thing for hundreds of homeowners and businesses in Caledonia by settling a class action lawsuit. These residents and owners have been caught up in a ...
- Cutting costs won’t be easy It’s becoming more and more clear that Mayor Rob Ford has backed himself into a very tight corner with his promise of tax cuts with no reductions in services. He vowed it would be ...
- Pan Am Games: The mayor is finally onsideFour years from this past Sunday, Toronto is hosting 10,000 athletes from two continents. And Mayor Rob Ford seems okay with it.
Energy Collective
- Marine Power Cost Competitive in 14 years
- NRC Near Term Report on Fukushima Safety IssuesMeltdowns in Japan drive an ambitious agenda in the U.S.
- We Have Too Few Nuclear AccidentsI live in New York City, or in other words, I live within 40 miles of the Indian Point nuclear plant. Let’s just say that having a 50-year-old reactor that close to 20 million people may not be the most rational siting decision. You don’t need to look to Fukushima, Chernobyl, or Three Mile Islan ...
- How Many Congressmen Does It Take To Screw Up ...Taking Care of the Medium Screw Base
- The Missing Strategy for StorageThe government badly needs to set a strategy for grid-connected energy storage. In a time of constricting budgets, it is critical that the few dollars available to develop this important technology are spent where they are most needed and where they will produce the greatest return for U.S. tax ...
EU Times
- Boat sinks off Sudan, 197 diedA boat carrying illegal immigrants to Saudi Arabia has sunk off the Sudanese coast in the Red Sea, killing at least 197 people, Sudanese media say. “One hundred and ninety seven people from neighboring countries drowned in the Red Sea, inside Sudanese territorial waters, following the burning of ...
- Australia police able to demand removal of burqasMuslim women who refuse to remove their veils for police will face jail under new laws in Australia’s largest state. The New South Wales government has rushed through legislation allowing police to force the removal of head coverings to identify suspected criminals. The laws, among the toughest ...
- Chavez tells Venezuelans he’ll win Long Battle ...Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, making his first public appearance since having a tumor removed in Cuba, promised supporters that he will win his battle against cancer though it will likely take some time. Speaking from a balcony at the presidential palace in Caracas yesterday evening, Chavez ...
- US Senate drops Libya resolution to focus on n ...The US Senate hastily dropped plans to vote Tuesday on a symbolic resolution authorising the US role in Libya amid a Republican insurrection to demand action instead on the national debt. Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate Majority leader, said: “We’ve agreed, notwithstanding the broad support fo ...
- 10,000 civilians sentenced in Egypt military trialAt least 10,000 civilians have been sentenced in military trials since Egypt’s January 25 uprising that ousted president Hosny Mubarak, a human rights group said Monday. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to reconsider, saying the ac ...
Stonecipher News
- Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes InsipidusDiabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
- Natural Acne RemediesThere are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
- Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate BloodHave you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion
- Rights group: Burma uses ‘convict slave labor’BANGKOK (AP) — A leading international human rights group criticized Burma’s army Wednesday for forcing prison inmates onto the front lines of the country’s conflict with ethnic militias, using some as human shields and executing others who tried to escape. Human Rights Watch said the military’ ...
- Democrat Janice Hahn Wins Calif. US House Race ...msnbc.com Democrat Janice Hahn Wins Calif. US House RaceNPRby AP Democrat Janice Hahn has defeated Republican Craig Huey in a bitter contest for a Southern California House seat, preserving her party's hold on the district and surviving an unusually tough race in a longtime stronghold
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-07-13Norquist: Time to Force Obamaâs Hand http://bit.ly/oA4LXY # Mitch McConnell Just Proposed the âPontius Pilate Pass the Buck Act of 2011? http://bit.ly/pS5LCj # President 2012: Mitt Romney Rejects Gay Marriage Pledge http://apne.ws/oiInqP # President 2012 Florida Poll Watch: Romney 46% Vs. Obama ...
- Why It's So Important For Facebook To Work On ...Today's announcement of a version of Facebook for low-end feature phones is part of the company's stated plans to reach literally every person in the world in five years. As Facebook platform manager Carl Sjogreen explained last week, "our focus is making every mobile device, from the lowest-en ...
- Memorial Service for Former First Lady Betty F ...In this August 19, 1974 photo, U.S. President Gerald Ford and Mrs. Betty Ford are riding in the presidential limousine on the Chicago, Illinois, freeway. Photo - Wikimedia Commons. “George W. Bush, Michelle Obama Gather for Betty Ford Funeral” – Report from VOA News, July 12, 2011. U.S. first l ...
Groklaw
- Satchbook is a powerful, but pricey, Ubuntu ...With a 15.6″ screen, a dual-core i5 processor and 8GB of DDR3 RAM German company Rockiger's Satchbook might read like a MacBook Pro, but it comes with Ubuntu preinstalled. - OMG! Ubuntu!
- Federalist Society Symposium on CybersecurityLast week, the Federalist Society hosted a symposium on cybersecurity...I gave a few comments criticizing the Obama Administration's proposals to expand the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which you can watch here. - Orin Kerr, Volokh Conspiracy
- Cops to Get Facial Recognition Devices; Will T ...The devices, made by BI2 Technologies, are attached to an iPhone for immediate searches of criminal databases, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports. The development is "raising significant questions about privacy and civil liberties," the story says. Currently the technology, called "Mor ...
- Google+ will soon allow you to control who see ...Great news! I'm proud to announce Google+ Profiles is launching a new privacy enhancement in response to user feedback. Starting later this week, you will be able to set the privacy setting of your gender on your Google+ Profile just as you control other information about yourself. :-) - Franc ...
- Google+ is Built Using Tools You Can Use TooFor Google+'s most innovative feature, video conferencing with Hangouts, GigaOM has a good article on that stack, which is based on Announcing Google+ Hangouts, written by Tech Lead Justin Uberti. Unlike Skype, which runs on a cost effective P2P model, Hangouts is completely hosted by Google. Th ...
WideShut
- Al Qaeda Using Old Friends At CIA In Facebook ...Al Qaeda are gonna get you on Facebook! But who founded Facebook, and who founded Al Qaeda?
- July 12, 2011, WideShut WebcastRecent 7/7 developments, Mandelson's meeting with Rothschild, and the phone hacking scandal. All on this week's WideShut Webcast.
- Former Police Intelligence Analyst Sacked For ...A Police Intelligence Analyst turns in threat assessment claiming the New World Order is the main terror threat and gets fired.
- Mandelson Meets With Rothschild AgainUnelected life peer Lord Mandelson, meets with Nat Rothschild and mining magnates in Porto Montenegro.
- Remember The 7/7 London Bombings? Remember The ...6 years on from the 7/7 Bombings, who remembers the mysterious Jaguar at Luton station car park?
Politics in the Zeros
- New antenna scavenges electromagnetic energy f ...Georgia Tech has a new antenna that harvests energy from the air and uses it to power devices. “There is a large amount of electromagnetic energy all around us, but nobody has been able to tap into it,â says a researcher. Until now that is. Amazingly, they print the antennas using inkjet printer ...
- Senator Rockefeller: Investigate Fox hacking o ...“The reported hacking by News Corporation newspapers against a range of individuals – including children – is offensive and a serious breach of journalistic ethics. This raises serious questions about whether the company has broken U.S. law, and I encourage the appropriate agencies to investigat ...
- Unemployment benefits running out nationwideThe extended 99 week benefits for unemployed is expiring by the end of the year Close to $2 of every $10 that went into American’s wallets last year were payments like jobless benefits, food stamps, Social Security and disability, according to an analysis by Moodyâs Analytics. That money will no ...
- American success storyA friend of ours is an immigrant from Guatemala. She arrived here poor, not knowing the language (and with a green card!) She worked hard at a full time job and cleaned houses on the side. That’s how we got to know her. She’s a citizen now. She has two children and raised them mostly [...]
- California budget assumes a sustained recovery ...The recently passed California budget assumed $4 billion in increased revenues. Without that additional income, the budget will not be balanced. Draconian cuts will then ensue, and will hit education hard. The estimates in revenue increases were apparently due to the expectation that high income ...
TVNZ - Top Stories
- One dead in truck crash in Hawke's BayOne person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
- Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
- Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
- Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
- Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.
Just World News
- New e-book soon: 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006'Today is the fifth anniversary of the beginning of that terrible march of folly, the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006. So I'm delighted to announce today that my publishing company, Just World Books, will shortly be publishing as a short e-book War Diary: Lebanon 2006, by the Lebanese social activist ...
- Afghanistan, logistics, geopolitics, war, peaceThe WaPo's Craig Whitlock has an informative piece in today's paper about the many continuing challenges the U.S. military has faced as it attempted to provide logistic support to the "surged" U.S. troop presence in very distant Afghanistan. Supplying these troops is particularly hard, due to t ...
- Speaking about out recent Gaza/Cairo trip: Cha ...Bill the spouse and I will be speaking about our recent trip to Gaza and Cairo at an event sponsored by my Quaker meeting in Charlottesville, on July 11. Details are here.
- My piece on Egypt and Gaza, at ME Channel... is here. I rather like the title they put on it, "Tahrir's journey to Palestine". In fact, the journey that the "spirit of of the Tahrir uprising" has to make before it gets to Palestine is just about as long and difficult as the journey that anyone needs to make to get from the outside wor ...
- Reactions to Gaza Flotilla 2Nine boats of siege-busting 'Freedom Rider' activists are now gathering in the Mediterranean, preparing to challenge the longrunning siege that is one of the main tools through which Israel continues to stifle the lives and livelihoods of all of Gaza's 1.6 million people. An act of collective p ...
frogblog
- Never mind the facts, give us an opinion!It seems the Far-From-Sensible Sentencing Trust is getting set to launch into another round of tub-thumping about how we are all too soft on crime; let’s lock ‘em up and throw away the key before we’re all murdered in our beds; it’s a jungle out there; etc, etc. Apparently they commissioned som ...
- General debate, July 13, 2011
- Three reasons to be GreenHopping along the corridors of power, playing “the game”, enjoying watching the ACT Party digging an even deeper hole for itself (they always were big advocates of mining); it’s easy to get distracted from the real reasons to be Green. It’s refreshing to see a Young Green, Marie Brown, reminding ...
- Invest in sustainability or uddermine our future?Some straight talking from Michael Coote in an NBR (July 1st) article about the Indian economy. Noting the government’s enthusiasm for a free trade agreement with India, Coote writes that : “The D-word – dairy – cited by Mr Key in in linking together the wonders of free trade with China and In ...
- Australia gets real on carbon emissionsBig congratulations go out to our Aussie Green cousins for their very successful negotiations with the Gillard govt to introduce a price on carbon!
Patronus Analytical
- Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
- Aid worker killed in Iraq
- Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
- NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
- Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras
J Kozy
- Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and JobsWhat's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
- (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
- The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
- Liberty's Easy Slide into TyrannyHuge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
- What should be done with illegal immigrants?That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
MoJo - Kevin Drum
- Has Wall Street Given Up on Boehner?A friend sends me an interesting email: I spoke to some (very) conservative investment bankers yesterday on some deals we are handling and asked about the debt ceiling as an aside. They were very concerned about the ceiling and seemed very favorable to McConnell's offer. Europe is really, ...
- Bernanke: Fed Not Out of Ammo YetBen Bernanke told Congress today that the economy is still pretty shaky, and the Fed will take action if it turns down: Bernanke said that the Fed could start new purchases of securities....his clearest indication to date that a third round of so-called “quantitative easing” is in the rea ...
- Europe Starting to Look Ever More WobblyThe Wall Street Journal reports that European banks are getting very, very nervous: As the crisis deepens, even European central banks are considering the possibility that one or more countries could leave the currency bloc, according to people familiar with the matter, a scenario that un ...
- The Great Netflix ShaftThe latest from Netflix: Netflix Inc. boosted by 60% the price of its cheapest movie-rental plan that includes streaming and DVD rentals, triggering an outcry among customers who still use the disc format despite the growing popularity of online movies. Am I missing something here? Of ...
- Class Warfare Boomerangs on the GOPWhen I came in from lunch and read about Mitch McConnell's debt ceiling proposal, my jaw dropped. The cynicism of the thing was enough to leave my tongue hanging out of my mouth the entire time I was writing the post below. So that's all I wrote about. But I suppose there's a bigger picture ...
Insanity Report
- FacePalm of the Week: She Died From What?So the first FacePalm of the Week in a long time and I had to find something that really made me put my head in my hands in shame. Well, thanks to H2oKev and what he tweeted yesterday, I have just the right story: A MAN HAS appeared before Limerick District Court charged with ordering [...]
- Another Reason to Vote Herman Cain 2012……he has a gospel album. No I’m not joking.� Republican 2012 Presidential candidate has a gospel album and it hit the web the other day. Hey look at it this way, President Obama has a Grammy for his audio book, maybe this is the first step for Herman Cain towards the Presidency. First his a ...
- Liberals and Underestimating the Power of the ...So first things first Fuck Bill Maher. I know I know. Some Liberals love this guy and he can do no wrong like he’s Jesus. I have to give it to him, it is a pretty funny how he’s been able to escape criticism. He says he wishes the first black President was more “gangsta” [...]
- IC 257: Titty TesterTopics: Jaxx is in studio and gives an update on his European travels Testing titties Kids and the parents who don’t control them Bill Maher makes a stupid comparison between Republicans and Casey Anthony jurors Prisoners complain about conditions in solitary Share with your friends:
- Taking “Till Death Do Us Part” to Another LevelWhen Andrew Castle’s wife of 18 years asked him for a divorce, his response was to rig up a homemade electric chair in his garage and try to kill her. After inviting Margaret Castle into the garage “for a chat”, he sat her in the metal chair, intending to knock her unconscious with a rubber [... ...
Simple Climate
- Chinese pollution postpones temperature risesSulphur emissions countered greenhouse gases to cause the much-debated “pause” in warming trend from 1998-2008, but only temporarily, Boston University's Robert Kaufmann told Simple Climate.
- Sea-level rise is the fastest in 2,000 yearsUniversity of Pennsylvania's Benjamin Hortonand colleagues show that sea level has risen at an average of 2.1 mm per year since around 1900, after having stayed roughly stable for the previous two millennia.
- Shrinking Arctic ice area is just the tip of t ...Old, thicker, ice cover has suffered extreme losses, says the University of Colorado's James Maslanik, providing more evidence of how humans are changing the planet.
- Climate rhythm shift brings early calvingChillingham cattle, which are able to breed all year round, are having more calves in winter due to earlier springs, reducing their chances of surviving a year, find Sarah Burthe of the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and colleagues, showing that even mammals with breeding flexibility are ...
- History warns of civilisation-crushing climate ...After giant sandworms cause an argument between me and my girlfriend about whether climate-related civilisation-wide disasters are possible, reviewing scientific evidence of such events through history force me to concede that they are.
e!Science News
- 1 more way plants help human healthA tiny plant called Arabidopsis thaliana just helped scientists unearth new clues about the daily cycles of many organisms, including humans. This is the latest in a long line of research, much of it supported by the National Institutes of Health, that uses plants to solve puzzles in human healt ...
- Neural mechanisms of object recognitionA study examining the brain of a person with object agnosia, a defect in the inability to recognize objects, is providing a unique window into the sophisticated brain mechanisms critical for object recognition. The research, published by Cell Press in the July 14 issue of the journal Neuron, des ...
- Bold new approach to wind 'farm' design may pr ...Conventional wisdom suggests that because we're approaching the theoretical limit on individual wind turbine efficiency, wind energy is now a mature technology. But California Institute of Technology researchers revisited some of the fundamental assumptions that guided the wind industry for the ...
- 25 Tesla, world-record 'split magnet' makes it ...A custom-built, $2.5 million "split magnet" system with the potential to revolutionize scientific research in a variety of fields has made its debut at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University. read more
- New method for making human-based gelatinScientists are reporting development of a new approach for producing large quantities of human-derived gelatin that could become a substitute for some of the 300,000 tons of animal-based gelatin produced annually for gelatin-type desserts, marshmallows, candy and innumerable other products. Thei ...
unEarthed
- Tr-Ash Talk: Safe At Home With Coal AshHouse GOP claims coal ash is OK in your backyard Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) Today we’re gearing up for a vote on H.R. 1391, which is Rep. David McKinley’s ( ...
- Save the Babies: Stop Mountaintop Removal MiningStudy links birth defects to MTR, but coal industry lawyers blame inbreeding A major new scientific study shows significantly higher rates of birth defects in ...
- Greening Your PlaylistGet your eco-groove on with these environmentally focused tunes Bonnie Raitt Every lifestyle has its de facto soundtrack. Depressed suburban teens have emo ...
- Monday Reads: The JFK Turtle Invasion EditionâSlow-motion stampedeâ grounds planes to a halt One member of the turtle invasion poses for a dramatic photo. (Photo: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) ...
- Unplugged: A Push to Waste EnergyHouse to vote on repeal of light bulb standards On Monday, the House of Representatives will consider legislation authored by Rep. Joe Barton to repeal federal ...
Brave New Climate
- Climate change update by the numbersHere are some figures to illustrate the latest global data on global warming. Data are from NCDC and GISS. First, a 12-month running mean of global surface temperature anomalies since 1980 (i.e. for each month, an average is taken of the previous 12-month period – ‘calendar year’ is irrelevant): ...
- Why pro-nuclear environmentalism has failed wh ...With George Monbiot on the debating warpath against Greenpeace and in support of nuclear power as a serious mechanism for tackling climate change, and Mark Lynas’ new book on planetary boundaries and techno-fixes, “The God Species“, now out (despite some weird problems on the launch day), it r ...
- Carbon tax in Australia in 2011Australia is set to introduce a carbon tax (details to be released on Sunday 10 July 2011). This post is the place to discuss this policy — the good and the bad. A description, from the Australian Parliamentary Library: A carbon tax is a tax on energy sources which emit carbon dioxide. It is a [...]
- Lacklustre results from the Colorado Integrate ...A common lament of those analysts wishing to get to grips with the real-world performance of solar thermal power plants has been, well… an absence of data. Trainer noted, in ‘Solar Thermal Questions‘: It would be great to get some actual data on their year round performance. I have found it fien ...
- Open Thread 17The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...
Indigenist Opinion
- Writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson's ADL Shuffle Wil ...Writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson's ADL Shuffle Will Never Pay off: (FinalCall.com) - With more than ten of every eleven inhabitants of the planet being “non-Caucasian,” it has always been critical to American leaders that they carefully control the ideas and attitudes of Black Americans, especially ...
- US Conservatives: Homosexuality: A bigger thre ...What you're about to hear is a portion of a jaw-dropping speech delivered by an Oklahoma State Representative at a gathering in her district. This is what they say when they think we're not listening. Courtesy: BlipTV
- Why the US is attacking Libya » PinoyPressWhy the US is attacking Libya » PinoyPress: By CAROL P. ARAULLO BusinessWorld columnist Why all of a sudden are these great western powers exhibiting such inordinate concern for the seven million or so Libyans? Military action to overthrow the Kadafi government on the pretext of “humanitarian ...
- Glen Cove struggle: Corrina Gould & Wounded Kn ...Glen Cove struggle: Corrina Gould & Wounded Knee speak in Vallejo. Transcripts Audio : Indybay: "Good evening. I want to thank the Creator, for watching out for each and every one of us. We ask you, in a spiritual way, to come and join us to protect this sacred site of our ancestors. It really ...
- Alison Owings: The Damaging Three Words of the ...Alison Owings: The Damaging Three Words of the Declaration of Independence: [huffingtonpost.com] "Say what? From the elegantly-quotable Jefferson? Yes. '... the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.' While Na ...
Republicans are a Disease
- Entitlement Reform? Sure! Corporate EntitlementsWhat pisses me off most is the nonsensical discussion of how we balance our budget, or reduce our deficit. The MSM narrative is the Democrats won’t stand for “entitlement” cuts and the Republicans won’t stand for any tax increases anywhere, anytime, for any reason. Deadlock. This whole argument ...
- Jim DeMint – Fuck YouFuck you Jim. You want to slam the poor, the sick, and the elderly to “balance the budget” and won’t even consider cutting corporate welfare, or having the billionaires, or the companies they own stock in pay their fair share. I pray that there is justice in this world and some day you will be [...]
- Van Jones = Reboot the American Dream“We’re not broke, we’ve been robbed. Someone has our money”
- Exxon Gets 20 Billion a Year in Corporate WelfareThe amount of taxes we don’t collect from Exxon plus their handouts equals around 20 billion dollars a year. And this is just one company. Spending isn’t the problem. Corporate welfare, and billionaire welfare is the problem.
- Politifact – Jon Stewart Was RightHow hard did your dishonest organization have to twist into a pretzel to name Stewart’s factual statement about Fox News viewers as false? Misinformed, uninformed, and lied to. Fox lemmings.
Appalachia Rising
- Day of Action and Conference Vision StatementsAppalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
- Press Conference to be Held on June 15Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
- Press InquiriesAll media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
- New Flier for Appalachia Rising
- Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...
Amped Status
- Buying Passivity With Food Stamps and Unemploy ...By Charles Hugh Smith Poverty is on the rise in America, and buying passivity with cheap bribes has limits when applied to a fraying middle class. [Read More]
- The Quagmire of Empire: Has US Foreign Policy ...By Kevin Zeese I can't remember a time when the US military has been stuck in so many war quagmires at once - Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya. Relations with nuclear-armed Pakistan are at their lowest levels ever. Other challenges in Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Iran and several other countries have the mili ...
- Japan’s Nuclear Disaster Can Happen Here ...By Fairewinds Associates Nuclear engineers Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum discuss how the US regulators and regulatory process have left Americans unprotected. They consider how the knowledge gained from Fukushima applies to the nuclear industry worldwide. [Read More]
- AmpedStatus Victory: House Passes Audit of Pen ...By David DeGraw Rep Peter DeFazio, one of the few allies we have in Congress, introduced a crucial amendment to conduct a full audit of Pentagon spending. The amendment passed! [Read More]
- The “War On Drugs” Is A $2.5 Trill ...By David DeGraw The War on Drugs, just like the War on Terror, is another criminal racket set up to benefit profiteering banks, military companies and the prison industrial complex at our tragic expense. [Read More]
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- Two ‘air flotilla’ allowed to rema ...According to various news reports, two ‘air flotilla’ activists who arrived in Israel last Friday have been allowed to remain in Israel (and travel to the West Bank freely) on the condition that they ‘refrain from disrupting the peace.’ The activists were part of the ‘Welcome to Palestine’ campa ...
- Jewish kindergartens to start each week with n ...The recent spike in ultra-nationalist legislation is by no means confined to MKs and grand issues like separation of powers and freedom of speech: The Education Ministry has released new regulations stipulating that beginning next year, all kindergarten teachers in the Jewish sector will start e ...
- Everything you (never) wanted to know about Is ...A reader’s guide to democracy’s dark hour What does the law say? Basically, the anti-boycott law allows all those who feel they have been harmed by a boycott, whether against Israel or an Israeli institution or territory (i.e. the settlements in the West Bank) to sue the person or organization ...
- Rightist MKs seek Knesset veto over Supreme CourtThis is what an attempt at a fascist coup looks like – Likud MKs enraged by court petitions against the boycott bill are now pushing for legislation granting the Knesset a veto over Supreme Court appointments. Such a law would destroy the separation of powers in Israel – and although it’s likely ...
- Poll: Israeli public supports boycott lawThe anti-boycott law is already considered the most controversial to come out of the current Knesset, but it seems that this controversy exists mostly in the media, and outside Israel. A recent poll, done for the Knesset channel and posted on the rightwing Srugim site, 52 percent of the Israeli ...
Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't
- Landmark Product Stewardship Bill passes the ...Landmark legislation that will reduce waste, increase recycling, and manage the environmental, health and safety impacts of products has been unanimously passed by the Senate today.
- Minister welcomes settlement between SA and V ...Water Minister Tony Burke today welcomed the settlement between South Australia and Victoria on water trading rules.
- Large scale environmental water release for M ...More than 150 gigalitres of water recovered for the environment will be delivered to hundreds of wetlands along the Murrumbidgee River, benefiting the Murray system as far downstream as South Australia's Lower Lakes and Coorong.
- Deadline extended for West Kimberley National ...Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the deadline for a decision about National Heritage listing of the west Kimberley until the end of August to allow further community consultation and further consideration of whether the proposed heritage values are sufficiently comprehensive.
- Call for nominations for Environmentalist of ...Environment Minister Tony Burke has called for nominations for the 2011 Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award and the Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award.
Matt Weidner Blog
- Lenders Will Have to Buldoze/Raze Millions of ...There are millions of vacant and abandoned homes all across this country. When they throw people out into the streets, the power is often turned off, the home left vacant and when it does…after a very short period of time…especially in Florida, the mold kicks in and the home becomes a tear d ...
- BOMBSHELL- FLORIDA’S ATTORNEY GENERAL FI ...You are all acutely aware of just how corrupt this state is, right? You are all acutely aware of the magnitude and breadth of the wrongdoing by the banks and foreclosure mills in the middle of this fraudclosure war, right? Remember it was just a year ago when Florida made national headlines bec ...
- The Darkest Corner of The Fraudclosure ScandalIt has been more than one year and still no one. no one. no one. has dared to turn this rock over and consider what it means. I’ve just sat on my hands with this one. I’ve been waiting, hoping, praying that someone would dig into this. Some bright and ambitious reporter. Some elected lea ...
- NY Times- The Bank of America Settlement/Boond ...Every time we hear news of some grand plan or settlement, I know it’s bad news for my people, my clients, the men and women on the street. And that’s why I have been paying particular attention to the BANK OF AMERICA $8.5 BILLION SETTLEMENT! The bank’s gonna write a big fat check, that’s good… ...
- The Foreclosure Rocket Docket, You Tell Me Wha ...If you’re reading this blog, I’m going to go way out on a limb and give you credit for being one of the smartest persons on your block. I think there’s a pretty good bet you’re far more in tune than a big portion of the population of zombies wandering around out there. And now, [...]
abelard - news
- some cycling slang/dictionary | the Tour de Fr ...The whys and wherefores of many of those seemingly obscure cycling words and phrases.
- A65 :the autoroute de Gascogne, from Langon t ...Major update, with photos, old postcards, history and commentary on and of this spanking new motorway.
- more on news international | politics uk news ...The "collective desire for absolute transparency" has led toseeing some warts that have turned to cancer.
- market reaction to latest ecb posturing - if t ...Watching straw men trying to shore up a collapsing house of cards.
- comments on the new sprint points | the Tour d ...After a week of hard cycling and too many crashes, it's tiime to look at what difference the points changes make.
The Parallel Parliament
- Citizenship – “Dumb and Dumber”I don’t think I ever learned so much as the almost five years I served in Parliament. It was like having a university come to you and teach some of the most important research, data and social trends in a manner purposefully dedicated to assist in passing better legislation. So much of it has st ...
- Citizenship – “If Only I’d B ...I was joking to a neighbour last week that getting out of politics is a lot harder than getting in … well, sort of. Part of it’s true though. There are a lot of details to transition through as you move back to private life and one of the more difficult aspects is what to [...]
- Citizenship – Making the Greater DecisionsLet me introduce you to Kai Nagata, if you don’t know him already. I was pointed in his direction by my friend Jodi Simpson, who has taken to calling Kai her “new hero.” It’s easy to see why. At 24 years of age, he’s made some pretty major decisions in his young life that actually [...]
- Citizenship – Living in an Age of StuffThere was nothing I could do but wait. I was to meet an old friend at Starbucks for a tea, but in front of me was a group of four placing their orders. There was Misto with non-fat, a caramel Machiatto (seriously, I’m not making this up), a Frappucino with caramel on top, and, thankfully, [...]
- Citizenship – Our One True LoveMaybe citizenship wasn’t meant to be this easy. That cradle of democracy – early Greece – wouldn’t know what to make of citizenship today. To be sure, it was a citizenship of elitism, but the price for belonging to such a unique group was steep. You were automatically expected to fight in wars. ...
Vaccine Awakening
- Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ringby Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims’ pride, From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
- In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccinationby Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
- Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine FailuresUPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
- Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
- Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalismby Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
2020 Science
- International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechn ...Back in the mists of time, I was approached with a crazy proposition – would I help co-edit a book on nanotechnologies regulation! In a moment of weakness I said yes, and a little more than two and a half years later, the book is finally about to hit the shelves. I actually think the [...] ...
- Lost in the MaizeA weekly reflection on life in academia Note to self: Try not to fall asleep before important interviews with smart journalists. It’s been a tough week. My gift from last week’s meeting in San Francisco was a lovely ripe cold – something of an occupational hazard these days being cooped up in ...
- Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health ...
- Basic research and personal responsibilityDan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read the p ...
- Lost in the MaizeNext week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan. Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor. The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mark the occasion, I’m ex ...
Reader Supported News
- Real Democratic Recall Candidates Cruise to Vi ...Jessica Vanegeren reports: "None of the six placeholder or 'fake' Democratic Senate candidates pulled off an upset victory during the first round of a historic recall election season in Wisconsin Tuesday." Residents in Glendale, Wisconsin, line up Tuesday to vote in a Democratic primary Senat ...
- Calls Mount to Investigate Bush-Era Officials ...Naseema Noor reports: "Senior officials under the former George W. Bush administration knowingly authorised the torture of terrorism suspects held under United States custody, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released here Tuesday revealed. Titled 'Getting Away with Torture,' the 107-page repor ...
- Ron Paul to Retire From Congress to Focus on P ...Andy Barr and Dan Hirschhorn report: "Ron Paul is setting up his third White House run to be his last act in politics. 'Big news,' the Texas congressman wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday. 'I have decided not to seek reelection for my House seat in 2012 and will focus all of my energy on winn ...
- Wisconsin Voters Head to Polls in Next Step to ...Mike Hall reports: "Today, Wisconsin working family voters are taking another step to take back their government from Gov. Scott Walker's (R) radical, anti-family, anti-community, pro-Koch Brothers agenda. And they have to defeat a Republican dirty trick to do it." Wisconsin Republican Sen. D ...
- 'Little Gitmo'Christopher S. Stewart writes: "Although inmates and guards refer to CMUs as Little Gitmos, the comparison to Guantanamo is imprecise: The units are not detention centers, and the inmates inside have already been convicted of crimes in the US legal system. But what differentiates CMUs from all o ...
War Resisters League
- No Surprises from the War-Makers!Well, Obama made it clear on Wednesday. His war in Afghanistan will go on through 2014 and probably far beyond. While some may have hoped for a shift in his approach, many of us didn’t expect much, and we certainly didn’t get much. The change in Afghanistan that he spoke about, meant to be heard ...
- In Afghanistan Speech, Obama Offers Token Troo ...President Obama passed up an opportunity to recognize our democracy and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people. June 22, 2011 President Obama’s speech tonight violated one of his most important campaign promises: to “end the mind-set that leads to war.” To the contrary, hi ...
- Money for Our Communities, Not for War!Take Action! It’s very encouraging that the US Conference of Mayors just passed a strong resolution initiated by CODEPINK for bringing our “war dollars home” (read press release or NY Times article on this). Unfortunately, later this week the House of Representatives is poised to pass the Defens ...
- Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...“I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
- The Broken Rifle in KabulThe above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
Center for a Livable Future
- Hen Party: Historic Agreement to Promote Stand ...United Egg Producers (UEP) has partnered with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), agreeing to work together toward legislation of national standards to be used in egg production.
- TIME Magazine: Spotlight on IFAP and “Conceale ...When looked at through the lens of public health, the abuse that we see in the Mercy for Animals video constitutes not only cruelty to animals, but cruelty to humans as well, including the dehumanizing influence on workers forced to labor under conditions that ultimately breed contempt for the a ...
- Focus on Food Day: The Consequences of MeatEarlier 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 ForwardLast week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...
A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation
- Leaving AfghanistanSeven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
- Raging at RawalpindiAmerican leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
- The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest WarAn FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
- Crazy Like a FoxIn a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
- Addicted to ContractorsThe United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
Field Notes - Alberta Environment
- Request for Ambient Air Quality Objectives Sta ...Initiative: Ambient Air Quality Objectives Stakeholder Advisory Committee (AAQO SAC) Position: Four ENGO delegates and four ...
- Ambient Air Quality Objectives - Stakeholder A ...Initiative: Ambient Air Quality Objectives Position: Four ENGO delegates and four Alternates Request for A ...
- Edmonton Bicycle Commuters July 2011 NewsletterEdmonton Bicycle Commuters (EBC) The July 2011 issue of the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters newsletter. You'll find information about EBC's summer urban cycling & mechancs courses, volunteer opportunities, �upcoming events, and a call to acti ...
- Responses to the AUC approval of the Milner Co ...On June 30, 2011— the day before the Canada Day long weekend— the Alberta Utilities Commission approved Maxim Power Corp.'s 500-megawatt coal-fired Milner Power Plant expansion proposal. This move has been viewed by some as a cynical attempt to bypass the new proposed federal coal plant regula ...
- Nuclear Power Regulation in Alberta and Saskat ...Environmental Law Centre The Environmental Law Centre has made available the slides from their recent webinar "Nuclear Power Regulation in Alberta and Saskatchewan". View or download from the En ...
Stop NATO
- Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 17, ...==== 117-Day War: France Extends Libyan Military Mission Poll: 68% Of Israelis Back NATO Membership, 60% NATO Troops In Palestine Georgia: Base To Be Used For Training NATO Militaries Afghanistan: NATO Air Strike Kills Four Civilians In Kunar Province Latvia: French NATO Jet Scrambled On Interce ...
- Richard Aldington: Pools and ponds of blood, s ...Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Richard Aldington From Images of War (1919) In the Trenches I Not that we are weary, Not that we fear, Not that we are lonely Though never alone - Not these, not these destroy us; But that each rush and crash Of mortar and shell, Each c ...
- Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 12, ...==== U.S., French Security Guards Violently Disperse Syrian Protesters Afghan War: French Death Toll Reaches 63 U.S. Marines: AFRICOM “Adding Muscle” To African Counterinsurgency Campaigns Japan: U.S. Army To Open New Battle Systems Center For Afghan-, Iraqi-Style Wars Australia: 22,000 U.S., Ca ...
- Conrad Aiken: Vast symphonic dance of deathAnti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Conrad Aiken 1915: The Trenches I All night long, it has seemed for many years, We have heard the terrible sound of guns, All night long we have lain and watched the calm stars. We cannot sleep, though we are tired, The sound of guns is ...
- Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 11, ...==== Canadian Warship Leaves For Libyan War Mission U.S., Australia Launch Large-Scale War Games U.S. To Upgrade Israeli Patriot Interceptor Missile System Washington Suspends Military Aid To Pakistan Afghan War: NATO 2011 Death Toll Nears 300 U.S. Reiterates Demand For Yemeni President To Step ...
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Intel Hub
- Gold Advances to Record on Debt CrisisBloomberg June 13, 2011 Gold climbed to a record in New York on concern that Europe’s debt crisis will spread. Silver prices surged the most since March 2009. Ireland joined Portugal and Greece yesterday as the third euro-area nation to have its credit rating cut to below investment grade. The d ...
- Alternative Markets, Barter Systems, and Local ...Interview with Brandon Smith, founder of Alt-Market.com By Eric Blair Activist Post July 12, 2011 More and more people are becoming aware of the complete system failure we’re experiencing in the United States and around the globe. As the true nature of the control system is revealed, people tend ...
- Will The Casey Anthony Trial Be The Means To T ...The Intel Hub By Michelle Jones July 12, 2011 I have been following the reaction to the verdict of this decades most sensationalized and public trial. There is clearly sadness in the death of a child that is not the question that is in debate, what is in debate however is why we as Americans [...]
- UK Police Intel Expert: Government, Not Islam, ...TerrorOnTheTube By Nick Kollerstrom July 12, 2011 Tony Farrell had been employed for twelve years as ‘Principle Intelligence Analyst’ for South Yorkshire Police, 13th largest of the 44 police forces in the UK. His job involved producing a yearly ‘Strategic Threat Assessment Matrix’ to determine ...
- Executive Dictatorship: McConnell Proposes Han ...Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has proposed a drastic solution to the administration’s insistence that the debt ceiling be raised against the wishes of many lawmakers, by handing over the power of the purse, an authority clearly invested ...
FRS
- Counting the cost of a Palestinian state[Over the years, the debate among Palestinians has often been described as whether to seek a "two-state vs. one-state" solution, and focusing on the bankruptcy of two-state strategies vs. the impossible or inevitable one-state (democratic secular state). This article raises important considerat ...
- Haiti: fertile land seized for new sweatshop zoneWeekly News Update 07/11/2011 Residents of Caracol, a village in Haiti’s Northeast department, say they were never consulted or even warned about plans to build a huge new “free trade zone” (FTZ, a complex of assembly plants) on land where many of them have been farming for some 20 years. “It’s ...
- Israeli president lauds Greece over thwarting ...[This is for those who do not know: the leaders of Israel and Greece, two of the most actively reactionary and repressive states, are actually thankful for, and inspired by, each other's repressive moves. On the other hand, the people, we are sure, will not forgive and will never forget. -- Fro ...
- Lebanese activists protest Greece’s blocking o ...� � 12/07/2011 7:01:00 AM � � � BEIRUT: A dozen pro-Palestinian activists held a demonstration Monday in front of the European Union building, after a flotilla heading to Gaza was prevented from leaving Greece and other activists were banned from entering Israel over the weekend. � �We�re protes ...
- Over 1,600 arrested during Malaysia protestSunday, 10 July 2011 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police fired tear gas and water cannon and made over 1,600 arrests yesterday during clashes with protesters who defied government warnings to rally in the capital for electoral reform. Leaders of opposition parties were among those detained during a m ...
Ken O'Keefe
- Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchangeam beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
- One for the WomenIt is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
- Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not AidOur Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
- Slander vs. SanityLesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...
- NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINEOn Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
StillSmallVoice
- Dear coal company:Please don't blame West Virginia's birth defects on inbreeding. You just might have to look at your own mountaintop removal mining practices. Here, National Mining Association! You can read the report. Thank you. Love, Susan Getty Images
- Where'd the Bible come from?If you are a graduate of the Sunday school at Fourth and Forest church of Christ in Joplin, Mo., you know your answer is God. But the real answer might be a little more complicated, says David Lose at Huffington Post. Flickr photo
- Michele Bachmann's gay problemMichele Bachmann's husband, Marcus, owns a Medicaid-funded clinic, where at least one client was told to pray away the gay. Bachmann is a Tea Party-favorite, and a serious contender for the Republican nomination for President. And yes: Baby Jesus is crying.
- Got ignorant?The California Milk Processor Board (the folks who brought you the Got Milk? ad campaign) has launched a new campaign that focuses on the difficulty men have with PMS. The� campaign (named Everything I Do Is Wrong) is based, says the board, on studies that say milk decreases the symptoms of PMS. ...
- This explains the headaches and the teeth-grin ...
Associated Content
- 2011 Back to School Sales Tax HolidaysMany states now offer back to school tax break days (or tax holidays) to offset the expense. Is your state among them?Contributor: Kimberly Morgan Published: Jul 12, 2011
- Bastille Day a Celebration of Protests, Prison ...Here is information about the 2011 celebration of Bastille Day and facts and trivia about the French holiday.Contributor: Kristin Watt Published: Jul 12, 2011
- Chicago Suburbs Without Power Second Day After ...Following a brief but powerful storm Monday, thousands of residents in Chicago suburbs are still without power.Contributor: Loki Morgan Published: Jul 12, 2011
- Expect Few Reveals in 'The Dark Knight Rises' ...Though filming is ongoing, the marketing campaign for "The Dark Knight Rises" begins to rev up with the release of the first official poster.Contributor: Nathaniel Wayne Published: Jul 12, 2011
- Politicians, Pundits Exchange Heated Comments ...One of the most contentious topics being debated in Washington, D.C., right now is the issue of the debt ceiling.Tempers on both sides have been flaring, while media pundits have been doing their best to fan the flames of the controversy.Contributor: Whitney Levon Published: Jul 12, 2011
Popsci - Science
- Fraunhofer Lab Debuts Healthful Ice Cream Made ...It’s been brutally hot here in the Midwest, with heat indices hovering in the 110-112 range for the past few days and signs pointing to another heat wave this weekend. So this new flower-based ice cream from Fraunhofer Labs sounds mighty appealing. It has no dairy, gluten, animal fats or prote ...
- Mice Molars Grown From Stem Cells Form Fully F ...What a week for stem cell-related surgeries. Not seven days ago surgeons in Europe announced the successful transplantation of the world’s first lab-grown organ--a trachea--grown from a patient’s own stem cells, and now Japanese researchers are saying they’ve grown and successfully transplanted ...
- Philips' Luminous Wallpaper Will Create the Mo ...We have seen the future, and it is warm and inviting The future of wallpaper is: glowing? That’s Philips’ vision for the future it seems, as the company is teaming with Kvadrat Soft Cells to create a kind of luminous textile for the consumer market that will essentially embed adjustable LEDs in ...
- Researchers Use DNA to Coax Quantum Dots Into ...Or, how to build artificial molecules Taking cues from DNA research, photosynthesis, and nanotechnologies, a team at the University of Toronto has engineered a new kind of “artificial molecule” that can be assembled into wholly new classes of nanomaterials, including one that can direct and con ...
- Spanish Surgeons Conduct the World's First Dou ...This month in amazing medical procedures, it’s all about Europe. Last week we learned that a pan-European team of researchers and doctors have successfully pulled off the first transplant of a synthetic organ grown from the patient’s own stem cells. This week, the world’s first double leg trans ...
Veterans Today
- Rupert Murdoch: The Real “Dr. (Fox News ...Murdoch has been a major channel for American-Israeli subversion of the country? To have the courage to demand that our government should renounce the aggression and murder in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya in which Mr Murdoch and the Americans have involved us? Will our politicians have the courag ...
- Agent Orange is NOT the Cause of Veterans Heal ...In my last article I used a quote which was so similar to many of those who have shared their stories with me…
- Monsanto, Agent Orange and the mutilation of i ...We still find it difficult to completely forget one of the uglier and far-reaching atrocities of the Vietnam War.
- CIA Most Likely to Continue Criminal Ways Unde ...Nowhere in his discussion of how General David Petraeus will fare when he takes over the CIA in August does Washington Post columnist David Ignatius challenge the basic operation of the Agency itself.
- Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – July ...Today, Sergeant First Class Leroy Petry was awarded the Medal of Honor on the 149th anniversary of the establishment of the Army service medal by President Abraham Lincoln.
War is Business
- Inside Look At Yet Another Religious Group Wit ...If the state of Oregon believes the board of Akal Security is led by untrustworthy people, then why do the departments of Defense and Homeland Security continue to award contracts to the company?
- China-Pakistan Port Deal Another Sign Of Wanin ...Buy Baluchistan Buy Baluchistan • Read more at WSJ.com: World News
- Temptations Of The Flesh: GOP Freshmen CanR ...Sell promises Sell promises • Read more at National Security on iWatch News
- CJ Chivers Examines Libyan Rebels’ Seabo ...Buy scarcity Buy scarcity • Read more at NYT > Home Page
- Afghan Soldier Says ‘The Quality Of Ever ...Buy bad apples Buy bad apples • Read more at The Killid Group website - News on Afghanistan reports analysis pictures cartoon
Hudson's Weather & Climate
- Global temperatures: Up sharply in June. The latest global temperature has been released and according to the UAH satellite measure June's anomaly was 0.314C above the running 30 year mean, up from +0.133C in May Adjusted to the more standard time period used by the Met Office and the WMO, the anomaly is now +0.567C above the 1961-199 ...
- Unsettled June weather to extend into JulyDespite the warm and sunny conditions in the last few days, the unsettled weather which plagued much of June looks set to return. June turned out to be wet across the UK, dominated by low pressure. Averaged across England & Wales, 122% of average rainfall was recorded. In our region, for a ch ...
- Storms follow hottest day since July 2006Thunderstorms have continued to affect parts of East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia and the Southeast of England this afternoon, following yesterday's heat. Temperatures across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Monday reached 32C (90F) for the first time since July 2006. Both Robin Hood ai ...
- A sleeping sun could have a big impact on the ...News from scientists in America claiming that the sun is about to enter a prolonged quiet period in its history has caught the headlines this week. Whether this particular prediction comes true remains to be seen, as some scientists, including those at NASA, have consistently been proved wron ...
- Deluge follows drought orderSunday saw the heaviest rainfall of the year across parts of Lincolnshire, only 48 hours on from the drought order issued by the Environment Agency for parts of Eastern England. 14.4mm of rain was recorded at Coningsby yesterday. This brings the total since Friday to 28mm of rain, more than hal ...
Internat'l Political Economy
- 40 Years Ago: Ping-Pong Diplomacy & China's RiseHere's a timely scenario for you given the fortieth anniversary of ping-pong diplomacy between the US and China: What if the Cold War never ended, the Iron Curtain never fell, and the US failed to exploit the growing ideological divide between China and Russia? In general, international relation ...
- Of Currency Wars and Capital ControlsAs a student of South-South cooperation--no matter how its ambitious goals are often negligible or even contradictory in practice--international bodies promoting such cooperation are of interest to me. One of these happens to be the South Centre, which sends me newsletters every so often either ...
- Become Filthy Steenkin' Rich...in the FalklandsTo say British tabloids have output of variable quality is an understatement--witness Rupert Murdoch's fine mess--but the Daily Mail recently ran an interesting feature on the British Falklands. Ever since the 1982 Falklands War between the UK and Argentina put this remaining piece of Empire in ...
- Harry Potter and Hollywood Gone AWOL in IndonesiaThis being on my purported beat of Southeast Asia, here's some interesting news. One of the more practical applications for those studying political science / international relations is the area of "political risk analysis." In particular, there is concern by foreign investors of how shifting po ...
- The Political Comeuppance of Rupert MurdochI used to rule the world Seas would rise when I gave the word Now in the morning I sleep alone Sweep the streets I used to own [With apologies due to Coldplay.] For a long time now, I've grudgingly admired Rupert Murdoch's business acumen if not necessarily the fruits of his media empire [1, 2, ...
Economic Collapse Blog
- Outcasts: Tonight Tens Of Thousands Of Formerl ...Economic despair is beginning to spread rapidly in America. As you read this, there are millions of American families that are just barely hanging on by their fingernails. For a growing number of Americans, it has become an all-out battle just to be able to afford to sleep und ...
- A Bad Mood Has Descended On World Financial Ma ...Have you noticed that a really bad mood seems to have descended on world financial markets? Fear and pessimism are everywhere. The global economy never truly recovered from the financial crisis of 2008, and right now everyone is keeping their eyes open for the next "Lehman Bro ...
- Uh Oh – Italy Is Coming Apart Like A 20 ...Did anyone really think that Italy would be able to get through this thing without needing a bailout? Just when you thought that things in Europe could get back to normal for a little while, here comes Italy. On Friday, there was a bit of a "mini-panic" as investors started du ...
- The Sovereign Debt Crisis Is Never Going To En ...In the past, there certainly have been governments that have gotten into trouble with debt, but what we are experiencing now is the first truly global sovereign debt crisis. There has never been a time in recorded history when virtually all of the governments of the world were ...
- Without Low Interest Rates, The U.S. Financial ...Right now, interest rates are near historic lows. The U.S. government is able to borrow gigantic mountains of money for next to nothing. U.S. consumers are still able to get home loans, car loans and student loans at ridiculously low interest rates. When this low interest rat ...
Infoshop - Alt Media
- New Fringe Fest Musical Inspired by Union Figh ...When a coworker at Starbucks approached barista Ted Dewberry about forming a union at their workplace, his initial reaction was fear. Working 17 ho...
- BMedia Collective Variety Show #3: Earth Day Inc.This episode explores the connections between environment destruction and the economic and cultural systems that enable it.�Movements a...
- Submit to BUSTING BOREDOM! A zine about house ...House arrest is used in the kanadian (in)justice system often as a punitive bail condition. It's very isolating and used by the state as an atte...
- “If a Tree Falls”: New Documentary on Daniel M ...A new documentary, “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front,” tells the story of environmental activist Daniel McGowa...
- Iron Rail Infoshop Re-Opens It's Doors in New ......
E U Times
- Boat sinks off Sudan, 197 diedA boat carrying illegal immigrants to Saudi Arabia has sunk off the Sudanese coast in the Red Sea, killing at least 197 people, Sudanese media say. “One hundred and ninety seven people from neighboring countries drowned in the Red Sea, inside Sudanese territorial waters, following the burning of ...
- Australia police able to demand removal of burqasMuslim women who refuse to remove their veils for police will face jail under new laws in Australia’s largest state. The New South Wales government has rushed through legislation allowing police to force the removal of head coverings to identify suspected criminals. The laws, among the toughest ...
- Chavez tells Venezuelans he’ll win Long Battle ...Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, making his first public appearance since having a tumor removed in Cuba, promised supporters that he will win his battle against cancer though it will likely take some time. Speaking from a balcony at the presidential palace in Caracas yesterday evening, Chavez ...
- US Senate drops Libya resolution to focus on n ...The US Senate hastily dropped plans to vote Tuesday on a symbolic resolution authorising the US role in Libya amid a Republican insurrection to demand action instead on the national debt. Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate Majority leader, said: “We’ve agreed, notwithstanding the broad support fo ...
- 10,000 civilians sentenced in Egypt military trialAt least 10,000 civilians have been sentenced in military trials since Egypt’s January 25 uprising that ousted president Hosny Mubarak, a human rights group said Monday. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to reconsider, saying the ac ...
Voiceless Victim
- Imagine How It FeelsHow many people talk about the issue of Catholic Church enabled child sexual abuse without a thought for how it feels to be the victim of such abuse? This issue is, after all, about children. Yesterday’s children whose lives were irreparably damaged by their abuse and who are still being re-abus ...
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...I used to think the John Jay College of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
- Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR StuntThis weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
- Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]
- Catholic Sainthood – More Expediency Tha ...The former Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI, may be criminally culpable, disgracefully neglectful, deliberately deceitful, and horribly, horribly wrong in his approach to the child rape epidemic within the ranks of the Catholic Church, but there is some truth to the claims made ...
WL Central
- 2011-07-13 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 10:10 AM Sec ...
- 2011-07-12 Göran Rudling & Peter Kemp in Conve ...TweetOn July 10 and 11, WL Central's Alexa O'Brien moderated a conversation between Göran Rudling, former witness for the defense at the February extradition hearing for Julian Assange, and Peter Kemp, WL Central legal commentator and Australian solicitor. Göran Rudling is a Swedish citizen and ...
- Tweet Stream - LIVE from HearingTweetFor previous coverage of Julian Assange extradition trials by Mirjam Eikelboom see here. Follow @m_cetera on Twitter for coverage on July 12 and 13.
- 2011-07-12 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 09:40 AM Ju ...
- 2011-07-11 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 10:40 PM The ...
U N News
- Independent UN expert on torture calls for unr ...The United Nations independent expert on torture today voiced concern over restrictions imposed by the United States on access to detainees, stating that it is vital for him to have unmonitored access to Bradley Manning, the US soldier detained for allegedly leaking classified information to the ...
- UN through the lens: Looking back on a year in ...UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon re-appointed Edmond Mulet to his former post of Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations in March 2011.
- UN human rights chief voices concern over high ...The United Nations human rights chief has voiced concern over escalating violence in some parts Mexico, saying organized crime and brutality could undermine the State and threaten the people''s basic rights.
- UNESCO chief condemns murder of Colombian jour ...The head of the United Nations agency defending press freedom today condemned the murder of independent Colombian journalist Luis Eduardo Gómez, killed by unidentified gunmen on 30 June.
- Honduras: Ban hopes truth commission report wi ...Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today took note of the publication of the report of the truth and reconciliation commission in Honduras, saying he hopes the document will contribute to strengthening democracy, human rights and the rule of law in the Central American country.
Conspiracy Reality TV
- Geneticists Reveal E. Coli Super Bug O104 Was ...Their scientists broke down the genetics of this E. coli strain it's call O104, and if you look at it you can read the history, and the history doesn't lie. This strain was exposed repeatedly to all the 8 major classes of antibiotics that are sold by the drug companies today. This practically gu ...
- The Big Brother State and Global SurveillanceBut this also allows the secret services to gather explicit information about the nationality of every traveler. Explicit information such as your fingerprints, the color of your eyes, and a high resolution picture of your face. Information you would usually expect to be taken from suspected cri ...
- State Officials Privates Left Sore by TSA for ..."And finally I said you're punishing me for opting out, aren't you?". And to her credit she said 'Yes we are'.
- The Age of Transitions – Eugenics and Transhum ...In 1921, the American Eugenics Society was formed and began propaganda campaigns which included the promotion of eugenics in churches, schools, and state fair exhibitions. Funding for American eugenics came from the Carnegie, Harriman, and Rockefeller families among others. Eugenics was being ac ...
- CNN News Crew Threatened By Police in Joplin M ...We can tell you about some strange things going on here. The morgue, where these bodies are right now, is a secret morgue. And it literally is secret. You call up officials that can tell us where the morgue is an they say it's a secret we can't tell you. Families don't know where the morgue is. ...
Rewilding Institute
- Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it. As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages). The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages). The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
- Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern RockiesWinter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
- Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern RockiesWinter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
Asia Sentinel
- Pyeongchang and the Woman on the CraneThey go together
- Mongolia: Looking East, Looking WestPresident demonstrates considerable flexibility in balancing strategic relationships
- Resisting revenge over the Bali BombingsA terrorism victim seeks to stop the cycle of violence
- India's Respected Environment Minister Moves OnGovernment’s image and top leadership problems remain unsolved
- Wendi Deng's MySpace China VentureMurdoch’s wife paid $300,000 for ill-fated role
We Know the Lies
- CONFIRMED... Facebook IS in Fact Aiding Govern ...
- Avoiding Court Trials and Tickets!... 5 Words ...
- WARNING!!! E.O. 13575...The Next Land Grab... ...
- Exposed... Secret Location of New Federal Reserve
- In 1931 Nikola Tesla Proved Cars Could Run Wit ...
Tarpley
- العربيةInternational Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén Ù ÙابÙØ© ٠ع اÙدÙتÙر Tarpley بÙاسطة اÙدÙتÙر شاÙر عÙ٠شاشة اÙتÙÙزÙÙÙ ÙÙبÙا blip.tv – 2011 ÙÙÙÙÙ 12 اÙÙ ÙابÙØ© اÙت٠أ ...
- DanskInternational Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén Landkrig i Libyen snart, WW3, Webster Tarpley og NATOs skumle projekter i Mellemøsten Avisen.dk – 3. juli 2011 [permalink] [...]
- NATO Policy in Libya Based on Political Assass ...Norway Dropping Out, Netherlands Refuse to Bomb, Underlining Fragility of Aggressor Coalition Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 8, 2011 �
- Aus Libyen: Bericht von Webster TarpleyIngo Hagel Umkreis-Online 30. Juni 2011 Vor einigen Wochen hatte ich hier auf Umkreis-Online über die eigentlichen Hintergründe des Krieges der USA, England und Frankreich gegen Libyen berichtet. Die UN-Resolution hatte„nur“ von der Durchsetzung einer Flugverbotszone gesprochen, nun wird Libyen ...
- Report from Libya 6Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show
Modern Survivalism
- Survival Kit according to the US ArmySURVIVAL KITS The environment is the key to the types of items you will need in your survival kit. How much equipment you put in your kit depends on how you will carry the kit. A kit carried on your body will have to be smaller than one carried in a vehicle. Always layer your [...]
- US Drought 2011 Rivals the Dust Bowlcredit: The New York Times 25 Percent of the U.S. is suffering under a severe drought that some say will rival that of the ‘Dust Bowl’. The drought conditions began during 2010 and continue to worsen into the summer months of 2011. The states that are affected the worst are Texas, Oklahoma, New ...
- Gerald Celente on the recent US budget talksThe recent government shutdown in Minnesota: It’s the beginning of what we’re going to see more of. The merger of state and corporate powers… The big guys are getting all of the breaks, and the burden is falling on all of the people. It’s the beginning of a great war. The global ponzi scheme is ...
- Shelf Reliancemsb-note This website depends nearly entirely upon the results of the support that you provide by clicking-on and purchasing products that that hopefully fit in with your survival preparedness plans. Without your support, this site could not sustain itself because it takes time and money to stay ...
- Secure Private E-mailSending an email to someone is hardly different from sending a post card through the mail with a written message on it for anyone to read. While there is no such thing as secure email, there are some precautions that you can take which will protect you from nearly all prying eyes. In most cases, ...
Fast Company
- The Sun's Heat: Now On DemandNanotechnology makes the seemingly impossible true: Trapping the sun's heat for release later, whenever and wherever you need it.MIT's researchers have discovered a way to blend carbon nanotubes, current media darlings of the chemistry world, with an existing material used for storing heat energ ...
- The Chinese Way of HackingAdam Segal, one of the Council on Foreign Relations' top experts on China and technology, talks to Fast Company about what's special about Chinese cybercriminals, Chinese fears of NSA backdoors and bored East Asian teenagers.Cyberwarfare in 2011 is an odd beast. Many Western governments reported ...
- Engineering Oceans To Suck Up Carbon Has Eco C ...A new study shows how using iron to fertilize marine plants fundamentally alters seafloor ecosystems. But that might be worth it to slow climate change.�Give me half a tanker of iron, and I�ll give you an ice age,��said�biogeochemist John Martin, former director of the Moss Landing Marine Labora ...
- New Tweaks Could Turn Apple TV Into A Game-Pla ...Code snippets found in iOS 5,�Apple's upcoming refresh of the operating system used in its iPhones and iPads, suggest that Apple TV may be getting Bluetooth capabilities. The chip's already built in, but current software hasn't activated it. The change would allow it to pair with Bluetooth keybo ...
- INJAZ Turns Young Jordanians Into EntrepreneursA startling 70% of Jordanian youth who are one year out of school are still unemployed. By giving them access to classes on business, the organization is creating a new culture for startups.Like much of the Middle East, Jordan has an abundance of young people. But while youth make up well over h ...
Jadaliyya
- Politics in a Time of PoliticiansLast week the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) released the names of four men indicted in the assassination of Rafik al-Hariri to the Lebanese Ministry of Justice. For years now, the question of Hariri's assassination, the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, has been one of two topics th ...
- Universal Jurisdiction: A Conversation between ...Richard Falk and Lisa Hajjar engage in a discussion about universal jurisdiction, international law, and criminal accountability for gross crimes (torture, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity). The doctrine of universal jurisdiction was developed in the 19th century to comba ...
- Revolution and Repression on the Banks of the ...Many people in Suez proudly claim that they initiated Egyptâs âJanuary 25 Revolution.â There were several demonstrations in opposition to Gamal Mubarak inheriting the presidency from his father as early as July 2010. Relations between the police and the people were tense after a police g ...
- المثقف والثورة�م ت�تصر آثار ا�ث�رة ا�عرب�ة ع�� م�اع���ا ا�س�اس�ة ا�مباشرة ا�ت� تمث�ت �� تغ��ر أ�ظمة ا�استبداد� ب� أ��ت ا�ض�ء ع�� أش�ا� ث�ا��ة ���ر�ة جد�دة� ا�بث�ت ع�� �امش ا�ث�ا�ة ا�سائدة� ث�ا�ة ا�س�طة �ا�خطابات ا��ائمة ا�ت� تش��ت �� ا�ح�� ا�د�ا�� �ا�إ�د����ج� ��مجتمع ا��خبة� ا�ذ� تش�� م�ذ ا�ست���ات � ...
- عند حافة الجرح�� غا��ر� « آرت �اب�راتر�»� ا�بر����ة إ�ت�� ا�أ�م ا�عرا�� با���سط��� �� معرض جمع أعما� �� م٠ا���ا� ا�عرا�� �اض� ا�ع�ر�٠( م�ا��د 1957� ا�بصرة) �ا���ا� ا���سط��� ع�س� د�ب� (م�ا��د 1967� ح��ا). تجارب مخت��ة ��تعب�ر ع� ا�أ�م� تم�ز�ا محا��ة ا�جمع ب�� ا�شخص� �ا�س�اس� �ا�إجتماع� ع�� �بض ا�أ ...
mediagazer
- In the Murdoch Hacking Scandal, Roger Ailes St ...Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine: In the Murdoch Hacking Scandal, Roger Ailes Stands to Gain — Roger Ailes — As the metastasizing phone-hacking scandal engulfs the senior-most reaches of News Corp., the Murdoch family, and the British government, a winner may yet emerge from the corpora ...
- Vogue Casts 1,000 'Influencers' for Network (L ...Lucia Moses / Adweek: Vogue Casts 1,000 ‘Influencers’ for Network — It's not enough that a brand like Vogue can sway people to buy certain products by virtue of its clout. Brands today want to use the magazine's readers to spread the word about their products. — To that end, the Condé Nast ...
- Confessions of a News of the World Reporter (E ...Hollywood Reporter: Confessions of a News of the World Reporter (Exclusive) … My first assignment was cake. I tagged along with a features reporter to interview Baywatch actress Traci Bingham because she was on the U.K.'s Celebrity Big Brother (or Big Bruv, as they call it) that season. Noth ...
- The Surprising (Content) Future of Google+ (AdAge)AdAge: The Surprising (Content) Future of Google+ — It seems that there is a path that Google+ is headed down, with, or without our complicity: a media-sharing and discovery powerhouse.
- Legal head of News International leaves compan ...Reuters: Legal head of News International leaves company: source — (Reuters) - Tom Crone, the legal manager at Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper arm, which is fighting widespread hacking allegations, has left the company, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Wednesday.
Chemtrail News
- Chemtrails Seeing is believing1 Social ...for any of you who are unaware, 90% of the time its cloudy and rainy, so creating cloud cover, is a joke The only purpose for the Criss crossing chemical ...www.jehovahs-witness.net/.../1/Chemtrails-Seeing-is-believing
- YouTube - ChemTrail 4 planes!@laminarwing whatever the fuck they are... contrails... chemtrails. .... Added to queue Former FBI Chief Ted Gunderson Says Chemtrail D ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEOT0EesE7Y
- Coast to Coast Chemtrails: Dartmouth, N ...British Columbia Chemtrail Alert Monitoring & tracking the criminal toxic chemical spraying of Beautiful British Columbia's land and people ...https://britishcolumbiachemtrailalert.wordpress.com/.../coast-to...
- Chemtrail 'RAIN', page 1Chemtrail 'RAIN', page 1. Pages: ATS Members have flagged this thread 3 times. Topic started on 11-7-2011 @ 06:01 PM by angelchemuel ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread727365/pg1
- LiveLeak.com - U.F.Orb over Chemtrail i ...I captured this Orb by chemtrail filming in Germany on July 8, 2011. Watch the full video in 720p HD on my You Tube Channel Hibernate1908 ...www.liveleak.com/view?i=b4a_1310362335
World News - Top Stories
- Delhi High Court refuses to entertain ple ...NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today refused to entertain a petition seeking a direction to the CBI to make Reliance ADAG chairman Anil Ambani , Tata Group chief Ratan Tata , corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and DMK chief M Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Ammal, as accused in 2G case. "It is a rub ...
- South Indian tea exports down 14 pc in Ma ...NEW DELHI: Tea exports from South India fell by almost 14 per cent to 6.43 million kg in May, 2011, as it is facing competition from East African tea-producing countries like Kenya, according to industry analysts. Tea exports from South India in May, 2010,...
- Ex-captains warn England of Tendulkar thr ...LONDON: Former England captains Michael Vaughan, Nasser Hussain, Mike Atherton and Graham Gooch have warned that even at the twilight of his international career, Sachin Tendulkar would be the biggest threat to England when they take on India in a Test series starting on July 21. "Sachin's ...
- Dairy campaign suggests milk could help c ...SACRAMENTO, Calif.-The dairy group behind the "Got Milk?" ads has started a new campaign to encourage men to buy more milk for their wives and girlfriends, something the campaign suggests could salve relationships by helping women fend off the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome. The Californ ...
- Newt Gingrich continues campaign visit to ...The Associated Press Share E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name tool goes here 0 comments Similar stories: " tooltipId="mi_tt1"> Gingrich: GOP shouldn't back down from Obama fight Gingrich: GOP shouldn't back down from Obama fight Congressional Republicans should not relent in the battle with ...
no frakking consensus
- Looking for Examples of the Hockey Stick GraphCan you point me to science textbooks, government documents, or websites of reputable organizations where the Michael Mann hockey stick graph appears?
- IPCC Bigwigs Spout Political, Childish NonsenseThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is supposed to stick to the science. But not only do its leaders make political pronouncements - these pronouncements are startlingly unsophisticated.
- Chris Landsea and the Moral MidgetsThe scientific community expects us to trust its judgment on the question of whether global warming is the fault of human beings. But its response to the Chris Landsea affair demonstrates that that judgment is impaired.
- Landsea, the IPCC & the Union of Concerned Sci ...There's a link between hurricane expert Chris Landsea, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. That link is James J. McCarthy.
- Fanaticism 101According to someone with a PhD from Harvard, my skeptical climate change views mean one thing: I'm intent on murdering his grandchildren.
Anna's News
- Polar Shifts on Rising SeasHow high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the....Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
- Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all FaithHaji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a...Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- Green energy investment hits record global highGlobal investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle �|� � ...
- News of the World staff shocked at closureStaff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- 10 Ridiculous But Compelling Twitter FeudsLike all social networking sites, Twitter can be a wonderful outlet to share your feelings and views, but it also leaves plenty of room for offensive comments and bullying. Whether it's the empowerment of being behind a computer or the wide-reaching......Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
Medical Marijuana
- 7/13/11 - What Do Teens Drink? High School Stu ...milk.procon.org - NEW: What Do Teens Drink? High School Student Beverage Consumption by Race and Sex - As of spring 2010, milk remains the most popular teen beverage after water except among black teens where it ranks behind water, fruit juice, and soda. Our new chart, based on a June 17, 2011 C ...
- 7/1/11 - Jail, Prison, Parole, and Probation P ...felonvoting.procon.org - NEW: Jail, Prison, Parole, and Probation Populations in the US, 1980-2009 - The total correctional population in the US grew from 1,840,400 in 1980 to 7,255,800 in 2009. In 1980 there were 319,598 people in prison, and by 2009 that population had expanded to 1,524,513 i ...
- 6/29/11 - New York Becomes the Sixth State to ...gaymarriage.procon.org - New York Becomes the Sixth State to Legalize Gay Marriage: Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law on June 24, 2011 that grants same-sex couples the right to marry, more than doubling the number of Americans living in states that allow same-sex marriage. New York jo ...
- 6/29/11 - US Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Ba ...videogames.procon.org - US Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Banning Sale of Violent Video Games to Minors: On June 27, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Brown vs. Entertainment Merchants Association that the California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors violated free speec ...
- 6/24/11 - Chart of Energy Use by State and by ...alternativeenergy.procon.org - NEW: Chart of Energy Use by State and by Source, 2008 - In 2008, the US used fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum) for 83.5 percent of its energy needs. Renewable energy (wind, solar, and biofuels) accounted for 7.4 percent. Nuclear energy represented 8. ...
Truth About Our World
- One Global heart� From: http://www.davidicke.com
- London Bombings Were An Inside Job (And So Was ...‘A Principal Intelligence Analyst for South Yorkshire Police has spoken out about the July 7th 2005 London Bombings. Tony Farrell who has served for the police since 1998 is convinced as he can be that the bombings were a false flag attack carried out by intelligence agencies. In July 2010 he wa ...
- How Cancer Is Willingly Forced Upon the People ...
- The Ultimate Justice
- US government openly admits arming Mexican dru ...July 08, 2011 by Mike Adams It is now a widely-reported fact that under the Obama administration, U.S. federal agents actively placed over 30,000 fully-functional weapons into the hands of Mexican drug gangs, then halted all surveillance and tracking activities of where those weapons were going. ...
Gyrovague's Raves
- Scientology Questions for Janet ReitmanThe author of Inside Scientology discusses the impressive Scientology schools, the church’s efforts to recruit African-Americans, and why celebrities don’t help bring new followers. By Jessica Grose Rolling Stone contributing editor Janet Reitman didn’t know much about Scientology when she start ...
- China to Trounce U.S. in Next DecadeMartin Jacques The Western financial crisis heralded a significant shift in the balance of power between the United States and China. Most starkly, it brought forward the date when the Chinese economy will overtake the US economy in size from 2027 (the Goldman Sachs projection in 2005) to 2020. ...
- Europeans Against MulticulturalismPolitical Attacks Misread History, Target Muslims, and May Win Votes John R. Bowen British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin / The Prime Ministerâs Office / Flickr(cc) One of the many signs of the rightward creep of Western European pol ...
- Blaming Women for the Infantilization of MenMyriam Miedzian IN 1987 traditionally all-male Columbia College started to admit women. Some years later, I happened to be on campus and decided to drop in on one of my former professorsâI had gotten my PhD in philosophy at Columbia University years earlierâwho had become a friend. Soon into the ...
- Off-putting behaviourAfter much delay I finally get around to the subject of procrastination AL Kennedy Boiling kettle. Photograph: D Hurst/Alamy I have a small blackboard in my study. On it, I carefully chalk all of the writing-related tasks I have not yet completed: essays, scripts, treatments, rewrites, short sto ...
In Verbena | Royal Society
- Engineering public engagementFROM EMMA WOODS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE What is so unusual about geoengineering? What sets it apart from other controversial technologies? One thing that strikes me as particularly atypical is that the social dimensions of geoengineering are being addressed well ahead of the development of ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
NAU Resistance
- Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ..."If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
- Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ..."If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
- VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ..."Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM
- VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ..."Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM
- U.S.-Canada Perimeter Security and an Integrat ..."The end results of a fully integrated continental security perimeter could sacrifice what is left of Canadian sovereignty and independence" -Dana Gabriel
Gaea Times
- Now, hairbrush that reads your mindWASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
- Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
- Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
- Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: StudyWASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
- How sex hormones influence right heart functionWASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
TruthNews Australia
- TNRA reports on the latest carbon rallyTonight we bring you the full audio (and video) from last week's carbon rally in Hyde Park, with some discussion and commentary. The gathering at Hyde Park was very rowdy - many people have a high level of anger about the current situation and this is evident in the tone of the crowd attending ...
- The Truther Girls review “Among The Trut ...Jonathan Kay went undercover among the truthers and lived to write a book about it, in which he naturally concludes what he already knew before he started his foray in the world of conspiracy theories: that truthers are crazy! More Links: New York Times book review AmongTheTruthers ...
- Hyde Park Rally: “The Science Doesn’t Ju ...Come to the rally and help us make history! What: Hyde Park Rally – “The Science Doesn’t Justify a Carbon Tax” When: Saturday, July 9, 2011 12:00 PM Where: Hyde Park North More info: http://www.meetup.com/wearechange-sydney/events/24210181/ Lord Monckton, Jo Nova and Dr. David Evans ar ...
- Introducing Bitcoin: the new digital currencyTonight I'm joined by Josh Jackson to discuss Bitcoin and what it means for the future of the global financial system. "Bitcoin is a digital currency created in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. The name refers both to the open source software he designed to make use of the currency and to the peer-to ...
- Channel Nine’s assault on vaccine scepti ...Ellen Fanning (right) takes on Bronwyn Hancock (left) and Dr. Vera Scheibner (centre). On 10th June 2011 Channel 9 aired a "60 Minutes" episode which contained a crude piece of propaganda aimed at undermining the credibilty of vaccine sceptics. The program featured Bronwyn Hancock - a regula ...
Beacon
- Photo of the Week: Colorful Octopus© Oceana/Carlos Minguell The Oceana Ranger has now been at sea for several weeks, and as usual, the crew has been sending us some incredible photos. Starting this week, I’ll be posting a photo of the week from the journey. This week’s photo of a beautiful octopus comes from a dive the team ...
- Breaking: Chile Passes Shark Finning BanFantastic news! Earlier this afternoon, the Chilean National Congress passed a nationwide ban on shark finning. This groundbreaking decision comes on the heels of a very similar ban passed by the United States Congress last December, and puts both countries at the forefront of shark conserv ...
- Diving in the San Juan Islands� Oceana This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Today's highlights: On their first day in Washington, the team saw a minke whale, harbor seals and more in the San Juan Islands. Washington Leg, Day 1 Just before 5 a.m., captain Todd Shuster started the ...
- Oceana Uncovers Dangerous Mercury Levels in Fish© Oceana/Juan Cuetos Spain’s biggest newspaper, El País, featured Oceana prominently in this morning’s cover story. The article describes Oceana’s unrelenting effort to make previously confidential research regarding unsafe mercury levels in large fish freely accessible to the public, highl ...
- News from the Great Pacific Garbage PatchSmall velella surrounded by plastic. © Scripps Institution of Oceanography Imagine you�re in a dimly lit Italian restaurant. Famished, you take the first bite of a juicy eggplant parmesan dinner, and it turns out to be a big hunk of plastic. (Yuk.) That�s the reality for fish in an area of ...
Civilian Military Intelligence Group
- Funniest Kung Fu Movie Over-Dubbing I Have Eve ...Click here to view the embedded video. Just to take a little humor break. Just had to show this to you. Of course this was a movie, if I am not mistaken, by Run Run Shaw who made these Kung Fu movies in a few days and they were wildly popular all over Asia. The British of course [...]
- Irene Wieder Russ, Survived Nagyvarad Concentr ...Irene Wieder Russ 3/04/23 - 7/12/11 Born in Felsozsolca, Hungary, Irene was one of nine children born to Herman and Chaya Adel Wieder. Herman Wieder was a Chassidic rabbi and the central Jewish leader of Komådi, Hungary. In 1943, Nazi’s incarcerated Irene and her family in concentration camps sp ...
- Armstrong Whitworth AW.52Armstrong Whitworth AW.52 At The Farnborough Airshow In 1948 Armstrong Whitworth AW.52 This radical flying wing was meant to become a flying wing airliner. British Aerospace Engineer David Lloyd began in 1942 a study of the airflow over laminar type surfaces. This plane never entered into produc ...
- Ambrosini SS.3The Ambrosini SS.3 The Ambrosini SS.3 � Like the Kyushu J7W1 Shinden, the Amrbosini SS.3 was a radical airline design that rolled off of a drafting board in Italy in the 1930s. It featured a forward canard and rear pusher type prop configuration. It would be the Axis forces that designed an eff ...
- The Silent War.IED Munitions, Baghdad There is a war being fought between bombers and jammers. The bombers plant bombs and set them off. The jammers look for way to defeat the bombers. The war has been fought mostly in the battlefield of electromagnetic frequencies. It morphs quickly and fewer wars have seen q ...
Taylor Marsh
- Terrorist Attack in Financial Capital of MumbaiWednesday evening in Mumbai, reports are that 8 killed, 70 injured, so far. From the BBC: The three explosions in Mumbai have taken place in some of the most crowded neighbourhoods in the city. Zaveri Bazar is a bustling market area famous for its jewellers. It has been targeted before: during t ...
- Murdoch Forced to Drop BSkyB BidOh, how I love the feeling of schadenfreude on a hot summer morning. Statement by Murdoch: News Corporation (“News Corp”) announces that it no longer intends to make an offer for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC (“BSkyB”) not already owned by ...
- Obama Reelect & DNC Cream Republicans in Fundr ...This is going to hit Republican wannabes like a fat two-by-four in the head. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in a video posted early Wednesday that it raised more than $47 million and the Democratic National Committee brought in more than $38 million through the end of June, building a f ...
- Cantor: ‘Nothing Can Get Through the House Rig ...President Obamaâs proposed debt ceiling deal is a disastrous solution to an imaginary fiscal crisis, but the pain it causes will be all too real. – Hawk Nation: A Guide to the Catastrophic Debt Ceiling Debate Nothing focuses the mind like the threat of your Social Security check not showing up. ...
- Choking on PeasI’m in the minority on the Left, but Sen. Mitch McConnell’s diabolically devious political hail Mary to dump the debt ceiling issue (and spending challenges) into Pres. Obama’s lap sounds to me like a real problem for the White House. Whatever you say about McConnell’s plan, he’s saved the entit ...
Hudson New York
- Turkey: Erdogan's New "Ottoman Region"Erdogan's recent electoral victory speech puts his true intentions regarding Turkey's foreign policy goals in perspective. He said that this victory is as important in Ankara as it is in the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, under Ottoman times,
- Syrian Thuggery vs. US LecturingOn July 3, a young Syrian finished work and was on his way home. Two days later, he was found dead, his throat slit in his bed. Brahim Kashush, who was active in anti-Assad protests, became popular in gatherings by singing loudly in a megaphone that the
- The Precarious Birth of South SudanOn July 9th 2011, South Sudan formally proclaimed its independence. In the capital Juba, in front of a cheering crowd, it officially announced the birth of the new African State, followed by the oath of office uttered by the new president of the
- Turkish Opposition Lawmakers Take Parliamentar ...Lawmakers from Turkey's main opposition party took the parliamentary oath Monday, ending a row with the ruling party over the detention of several deputies elected in June's polls. The Republican People's Party (CHP), which holds 135 seats in the
- Palestinians Cannot Accept Less than 100%The Palestinians are divided today into two camps – one that is radical and another that is less radical -- or "moderate" in the words of the West. The radical camp is headed by Hamas and other extremist groups such as the Islamic Jihad organization.
Urban Survival
- Record Gold, Market Rally DueGlad I didn’t sell: I’ve been on the fence, awaiting chart pattern resolution, but now there’s no two ways about it – gold is breaking higher and Nervous Nellie (moi) is settling down a bit. The price of gold has … Continue reading →
- A Number for Breakfast: TradeAlthough it’s not so much a “biggie” as the FOMC minutes this afternoon, or that eye-popping chart at Calculated Risk which shows how this ain’t your usual kind of “recession”, we serve what’s hot off the grill. This morning that’d … Continue reading →
- Coping: With Brilliance versus IdiocyIf this morning’s column seems a wee might shorter than usual, it may actually be the case. I’ve got an early morning flight physical to keep my third class medical current. But it’s not having to post 20-minutes early to … Continue reading →
- “Commodities Win”There’s a compelling CNBC piece out this morning with global commodities trader Jim Rogers. His view seems to be that if the global economy successfully muddles through, commodities will go up on increased demand. But, if the muddle-through fails, then … Continue reading →
- Coping: Monday at the WuJoMonday is as good a time as any, since a wide swath of Life doesn’t make sense on Mondays, to review the latest happenings on the mat down at the Wujo. That’s our private dojo where reality and pseudo science … Continue reading →
Trends & Forecasts
- Gerald Celente - Barbara Simpson KSFO 7/10/11Gerald Celente : a lot of things we forecasts has... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
- Links for 2011-07-12 [del.icio.us]Peter Schiff : we should not raise the debt ceiling and cut spending instead |Peter Schiff Blog Peter Schiff : we should not raise the debt ceiling and cut spending instead Robert Menard - The Magnificent Deception (Full Documentary) |Gerald Celente Trends Blog Robert Menard - The Magni ...
- Who stole the American Dream?Official unemployment rates have jumped up to... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
- Gerald Celente - Coast To Coast AM July 11, 2011Gerald Celente gave his views on Tim Geithner's... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
- Obama to Stop Social Security Payments August ...Obama says he cannot guarantee Social Security... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
Radical Chic
- MIND CONTROL 76: Bad TeachersLets take a look at a few more things that Jesus had to say about menâ¦. More specificallyâ¦.. pastors. Matt 15:1-20 1 Some Pharisees and other Jewish leaders now arrived from Jerusalem to interview Jesus. 2 “Why do your disciples disobey the ancient Jewish traditions?” they demanded. “For they ...
- FIRE BOMB – By: Hamidat PopoolaGunfire left a hole in the tank losing gasoline… Smile babe. You always said my smile made you smile. I’m smiling boo. Smile with me. No? Okay babe. I remember your smile vividly when you sang me lyrics from LL Cool J’s ‘Love you better’. How ironic. Laugh together, cry together, God willing w ...
- DARING TO UNDERSTAND FAITH: The IntroductionBelieve me when i say i understand your position. Just like me you were born into a  family that believed something. You were taught what to think and shown how you should live your life. You didn’t ask too many questions because at first you had no sense of comparison. As a child your world [...]
- MIND CONTROL 75: Beware Of MenJesus spent quite a considerable amount of time âwarning about men.â It is men that deceive men. Men are the ones that lead other men to believe in a lie. More specificallyâ¦â¦ Jesus constantly warned about Pastors. Matt 7:15-23 15 “WATCH OUT FOR FALSE PROPHETS. THEY COME TO YOU IN SHEEPâS CLOTH ...
- MIND CONTROL 74: Who You Are Is Who You AreIt cannot be emphasized enough….. the fact that Jesus did not die for our sins. It is so important that we understand this…… otherwise we will miss his entire message. Jesus is not going to take the punishment for your sins. You are going to be punished for your own sins. No other person but [...]
Boston Blog ( Nature Network)
- Universal design: The science of access at the ...Nora Nagle has a long title: The Americans with Disabilities Act and 504 Accessibility Coordinator at the Museum of Science, Boston. She also has a big job, one that goes beyond making the museum wheelchair accessible and compliant under the ADA and Section 504, a federal civil rights law. O ...
- Wednesday talk: New chips to explore the immun ...The first in Broad's MIdsummer Nights' Science events-- An Immune System Primer: Vaccines, Allergies, and Immune-related disease -- drew a a good crowd to the "DNArium" last week. Nir Hacohen, a faculty member at the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, kicked off the series ...
- WBUR: Space mice to test bone drugs Thursday's Radio Boston had a nice interview with a local osteoporosis researcher. She's sending mice up in the shuttle to test out a new treatment. Mary Bouxsein is a scientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and has the honor of having an experiment on board Atlantis's last flight. ...
- Negelected tropical disease meeting this weeke ...Ever heard of Guinea Worm? Onchocerciasis? Schistosomiasis?Lymphatic Filariasis? Probably not, since these tropical disease don't get much attention outside the tropics. So, public health and biomedical researchers from around the globe will be meeting this weekend in Cambridge, Massachusett ...
- Two Harvard cannabinoid papers retractedThe Retraction Watch blog reports that Harvard researchers have retracted two papers, Last week's paper was pulled from Blood for "multiple instances of duplicate (redundant) publication of data, text, and images that are nonessential to the paper." The retraction notice referred to a paper in ...
NRDC Switchboard
- Explaining Extinction: Why the Interior Approp ...Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC Have you ever tried to explain extinction to a kid? It’s not easy. You’ll inevitably get questions like: “There isn’t even one?” “Couldn’t they come back some day?” “So I won’t ever get to see on ...
- Alarming new data on the toxic air pollutants ...Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Three communities in the West recently embarked on pilot citizen air monitoring projects in response to government inaction on repeated reports of strong odors and, in some cases, health symptoms. ...
- NFL & LISC assist community sports facilities ...Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC This seems like a great project. Excerpted from the press release, with only minor changes from me: The National Football League is supporting the development an ...
- Australia takes next step in cutting carbon po ...Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC The Australian government has just unveiled details of its new mandatory program to reduce carbon pollution from major polluters. This is another sign that countries are moving f ...
- Used Vehicle Market Shows Drivers Willing to P ...Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco Even before the Obama administration's proposed carbon pollution and fuel economy standards of 56.2 mpg by 2025 was announced, the auto industry has sought to scare policymakers from set ...
Injustice Everywhere
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our national police misconduct news feed for this Tuesday, July 12, 2011: Stamford CT police sued by woman alleging cop punched her in the head then filed false charges against her [2] http://bit.ly/oVC7Fe New York NY police sued by 2 broth ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, July 11, 2011: Kern Co CA deputy investigated for fatally shooting unarmed ex-NFL player in front of teen son in disputed incident [3] http://bit.ly/o7rQR4 Bayonne NJ settles suit fo ...
- Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 07-09 ...Due to travel and work over the weekend I wasn’t able to track reports too well. Hopefully I’ll have some time to catch the reports I missed and pull them into Monday’s report. With that said, here are the 6 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for thi ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, July 8, 2011: 3 Humphries Co TN deputies & 2 Waverly TN cops investigated over dashcam video purportedly showing them strip & beat man for 14mins [2] http://bit.ly/qeFRtA Pennsylvan ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, July 7, 2011: Salt Lake City UT cop may face charges after prosecutor says shooting of juvenile car theft suspect not justified [0] http://bit.ly/mYnmds Paterson NJ set to settle s ...
Total Collapse
- US Default Inevitable: Fund ManagerA U.S. default isn’t a matter of “if” but “when,” David Murrin, chief investment officer at Emergent Asset Management, told CNBC. “It’s inevitable that the U.S. will defaultâit’s essentially an empire which is overextended and in declineâand that its financial system will go with it,” he said. T ...
- US prepared to back Russian mediation deal tha ...THE US will support Russia’s mediation bid in Libya provided it leads to the departure of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, President Barack Obama told his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev yesterday. President Obama thanked the Russian leader “for Russia’s efforts at mediation in Libya” and said ...
- Russian Leader Slams US As Western Civilizatio ...In a withering speech before members of the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow, Prime Minister Putin [photo top left] branded the United Statescurrent monetary policy as “hooliganism” and stated, “We, thankfully or not, cannot print a reserve currency. But what are they (the Americans) doing? ...
- Terror attack in Mumbai; serial blasts kill at ...Mumbai: Explosions took place at Khau Gali in Kabutarkana in Dadar and Zaveri Bazaar and Opera House in Charni road on Wednesday. At least 12 people have been killed. The police, the fire brigade and home guards are at the site of the blasts. The first explosion took place in south Mumbai’s Zave ...
- Iran deploys forces along NW borderIran has deployed 5,000 military forces in the northwest of the country along its common border with the Iraqi Kurdistan region. According to an informed source, these forces are fully equipped and have been stationed along the Sardasht border with Iraqi Kurdistan. The purpose of the deployment ...
Daily Dose
- TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 ...Facebook launches a Java app, the Indian government wants access to Skype, Gmail and social networking data, Klout starts measuring Foursquare influence and Google Voice gets a new anti-spam feature. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right h ...
- Microsoft announces $5.8 billion partner inves ...Microsoft has today announced that it will invest 5.8 billion dollars into the Microsoft Partner Network in fiscal year 2012. The expenditure will be a combination of “tools, training and incentives.” This announcement caps a busy week for Microsoft and its partners, as the company has been pit ...
- EasySign: A free iOS app for signing PDFs as y ...I need to sign a PDF file and it needs to not look like crap. But I’m waiting in line at the airport and can’t access a printer or a WiFi signal for my laptop, but I do have my iPhone. What to do? Download EasySign, a free and brilliantly, easy-to-use iOS app that lets you sign and edit PDFs on ...
- The Four Fundamentals of Social MediaChances are you or your company already has some form of social media presence. With Merchant Circle reporting that nearly two-thirds of all SMB owners using Facebook alone to promote their business, itâs a market simply too large to ignore. But how did you get there? Was your social media p ...
- Is your Facebook stream boring? Check out the ...Because of the way that Facebook is designed, it automatically surfaces the most interesting content coming into your individual stream. What it doesn’t do is go out and look at all of the content on Facebook and show you whats cool or interesting. This is the way that Facebook wants it to work ...
Beyond Zero Emissions
- BZE Executive Director pictured on front of 20 ...Beyond Zero Emissions is pleased to have been awarded the prestigous opportunity to be pictured on the front of the Sydney Whitepages by Telstra owned directory publisher Sensis. BZE Executive Director is pictured on top of the Sydney Theatre Company with their new largescale rooftop solar ...
- Carbon Price Response: A Small Step Forward, B ...Climate and energy security think tank Beyond Zero Emissions welcome the Labor government�s carbon price package negotiated with The Greens and lower house independents Rob Oakshott and Tony Windsor. The proposed legislation will start the process of transitioning Australia from a 19th Century f ...
- Climate Policy unFiT for getting Rooftop Solar ...The Gillard government has ignored the most successful policy in the world for rolling out renewables deployed and reducing carbon emissions: the German renewable energy Feed-in Tariff. Internal analysis by Beyond Zero Emissions shows that the use of a Feed-in Tariff to get solar panels onto ev ...
- Clarification Needed on ‘Clean Energy’ – Scarc ...Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes the establishment of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). The Greens have been successful in striking forest burning out of the definition of renewable energy but have failed to negotiate the end to the practi ...
- Govt Must Exclude Polluting Gas from Clean Ene ...Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes the new Clean Energy Finance Corporation to support the rollout of renewable energy in Australia. The $1 billion guaranteed funding for renewable energy is welcome. However the $1 billion unspecified portion per year needs to explicitly exclude fossil gas. Conven ...
Monga Bay ( News )
- Pictures: Viable population of snow leopards s ...Decades of war and poverty has not exterminated snow leopards (Panthera uncia) in Afghanistan according to a new paper in the International Journal of Environmental Studies, written by researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Instead the researchers report a healthy population o ...
- Indonesia's new forest moratorium map improved ...The latest version of Indonesia's forest moratorium map is much improved over its predecessor, say forestry analysts from Daemeter Consulting.
- Cargill adopts 'greener' palm oil policyAgribusiness giant Cargill will ensure all palm oil supplied to customers in Europe, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand is certified under the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an environmental standard, or originated from smallholder growers by 2015, according to a statem ...
- Proposed changes to Brazil's Forest Code could ...Proposed changes to Brazil's Forest Code will hurt Brazilian agriculture, argues a leading conservationist. Carlos Alberto de Mattos Scaramuzza, WWF-Brazil's director for conservation, says the reform bill currently being evaluated by Brazil's Senate could have unexpected economic implications f ...
- Plantation fires in Indonesia trigger haze-rel ...Smoke from plantation fires in Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra are casting a pall over cities in Malaysia, triggering health warnings from officials, reports The Straits Times.
Sierra Express
- Bridge to Lungi rubbish – Pass the FOI Bill now!Minutes after President Koroma’s ascendancy of state governance, he was observed making promises to over expectant Sierra Leoneans that his government will surely and unfailingly separate the office of the Attorney General from that of the Minister of Justice, cause state officials declare asset ...
- Bharti Airtel announces agreement with IBM for ...New Delhi / NAIROBI / ARMONK, N.Y: 12 July 2011: Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today jointly announced a 10-year agreement to provide comprehensive IT solutions to its employees across 16 African countries. In terms of the agreement, IBM will provide a standard operating environme ...
- President Koroma is the chosen one but….Hundreds of ruling All People’s Congress Party (APC) supporters from respective support groups Monday 11th revealed to this press that President Ernest Bai Koroma is the preferred choice for the 2012 Presidential race. (Photo: HE President Ernest Bai Koroma) It was however told that the APC par ...
- Recycled Judge to receive Le12m as PPRC ChairmanThe secretary to the President E.B. Osho Coker has written a memorandum addressed to the clerk of Parliament urging the letter to pay Justice Ademusu a monthly salary of Le12m (twelve million Leones) per month. Justice Samuel Ademusu (in photo) was on the bench for more than thirty years. He was ...
- Kids President reports State Lodge guardsThe President for Kids Advocacy Network Sierra Leone Tuesday 11th received police medical report form shortly after informing the police at New England Ville that he was brutally assaulted by guards attached to the First Lady. (Photo: Edmund Fornah on a previous visit, shaking hands with HE Pr ...
Dairy Industry - NZ Herald
- Dairy price boom exceeds Goldman's expectationsDairy farmers feeling more confident about opening cheque books is good news for the economy, says Goldman Sachs economist Philip Borkin."We are already detecting improving sentiment emerging from the rural sector as farmers begin...
- Liam Dann: No sign yet of dollar budgingThe New Zealand dollar completely shrugged off a fall in dairy prices yesterday - that's worrying.While the 6.7 per cent drop in New Zealand's most important commodity on Fonterra's auction overnight prompted a mini sell-off,...
- Global recovery fears knock dairy pricesInternational dairy prices are dropping but economists say if the slide continues a falling dollar should help buffer the economy from lost earnings.The average price for a basket of products in Fonterra's online auction yesterday...
- Dairy prices fall 6.7pc in overnight auctionAverage prices of dairy products posted their biggest decline since March in Fonterra's latest online auction, adding to signs that commodity prices are easing from record highs as global growth slows.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell...
- India looks to tap NZ dairy know-how in trade dealIndia's Commerce Minister wants to tap into the New Zealand dairy industry's state-of-the art technology as part of a free-trade deal between the two countries.Shri Anand Sharma has urged Kiwi dairy giant Fonterra and India's...
The Bovine
- Alternative Markets, Barter Systems, and Local ...From Eric Blair at the Activist Post More and more people are becoming aware of the complete system failure we’re experiencing in the United States and around the globe. As the true nature of the control system is revealed, people tend … Continue reading →
- Biodynamics and nuclear radiationFrom Robert Karp at the Biodynamics blog: “The recent tragic events in Japan and news of increasing radiation fallout around the globe have led to a growing interest in past reports from Europe (primarily) of a possible role of the … Continue reading →
- Fighting for fundamental food rightsMichael Schmidt reports on his participation earlier this summer in the first international conference on food safety and quality of organic food in Prague: Michael Schmidt, biodynamic farmer in Canada I am here as a farmer, not as a scientist. … Continue reading →
- Cowshare member and raw milk skeptic shares hi ...From a recent post on The Cornelioid: “Iâm a member of a cow share and receive a quart of raw milk per week, at a rate of about $3.19 / quart. Moreover, iâm a proud but insufficiently-informed foodie, and given … Continue reading →
- Private groups last chance for raw milk?From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “If we lose the right to organize private organizations to share food, then the food rights war war will be over sooner than you can say “raw milk.” Why? Because the food … Continue reading →
Mish's Global Economic Trends
- Bernanke Pledges More Monetary Stimulus, Dolla ...The ping-pong match between the ECB and Fed to see who can make the worst policy decisions the fastest, switched back in favor of the Fed today with Bernanke's pledge to pour on the monetary stimulus if needed. Please consider Fed Ready With Stimulus If Needed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Be ...
- Only 22% of US Wants to Raise Debt Ceiling, 44 ...In disgusting turn of events, Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell appears to have lost his mind regarding raising the debt ceiling. Please consider McConnell Offers ‘Last Choice’ Debt OptionSenate Republican leader Mitch McConnell proposed granting President Barrack Obama unilateral power to ...
- Moody's Cuts Ireland to Junk, Retains Negative ...Moody's just effectively spit in the face of EU commissioner Michel Barnier who wants to prohibit rating debt of countries in rescue programs. Please consider Ireland Cut to Junk Rating by Moody’s Ireland joined Portugal and Greece as the third euro-area nation to have its credit rating reduced ...
- University of California Economist Bradford De ...Bloomberg reports Federal Reserve Needs QE3 to Boost Economic Growth, Berkeley’s DeLong SaysThe Federal Reserve should engage in another round of quantitative easing as growth in the U.S. economy remains slow and inflation concern remains low, according to Bradford DeLong of the University of Ca ...
- EU Pledges to Support Banks Failing Stress Tes ...The ECB bought Greek bonds in belief it would show the market it meant business. The market smashed that pitch to high heavens. Nonetheless, Bloomberg reports Italian Bonds Snap Six-Day Drop on Speculation ECB Bought Country’s DebtItalian and Spanish bonds rose on speculation the European Centr ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
- The Assassination of Afghan Kingpin Karzai: A ...Time to Look at the New Heirs ala CIA There is no point in wasting too many words and space rehashing what every media outlet has been reporting and recounting on the assassination of Afghan Heroin Kingpin Ahmed Wali Karzai. The US media began reporting on the Kingpin, his heroin network and ope ...
- Jamiol Presents
- BFP Select Nightly News & EditorialsPakistan Punished in Pipelinestan, Moving Toward Guerilla War in Afghanistan, Drone Strikes as Police Work!, Israel Withheld Evidence in Killing, The Assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai & More! I am going to start with a piece of news you all have already seen and read. I am listing this only bec ...
- Brushfire with Julia: Freedom to Withhold Info ...Department of Homeland Security Finds FOIA to be “Politically undesirable”! In theory, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) guarantees the legal right of the American public to obtain federal agency records. Judicially enforceable, FOIA was designed to ensure public access to Executive Branch ...
- BFP Nightly Selection of Noteworthy News & Edi ...Time for Upping the Iran Propaganda … Again, Pakistan: Tide In-Tide Out, South Sudan Independence & What it’s Really About, Israelis Torture of Children in the Occupied Territories, Torture Whitewash & More Here are two news articles on Pakistan-US relations (While reading the following recall ...
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