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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

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Kan Takes on Japan's 'Nuclear Village' in Renewable Energy Drive
Bloomberg
He wants to pass a bill to promote renewable energy and questioned whether private companies should be running atomic plants. “When we consider the risk of nuclear energy, I've come to strongly feel that this is a technology that cannot be controlled ...
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Rentech's Florida biomass power plant has final air permit
Biomass Power and Thermal
A timeline for construction and operation of the $225 million Port St. Joe Renewable Energy Center has not been established, as it's predicated on financing, Dawoodjee said. The next major development step is construction, she added, which is the most ...
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Orissa gets its first solar power plant
Business Standard
Hyderabad-based Raajratna Energy Holdings Private Limited (REHPL), a company engaged in the development of renewable energy projects has announced the commissioning of its 1 MW solar power plant at Sadeipali in western Orissa's Bolangir district on ...
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12:19 PM Wisconsin's widening war on renewable energy
Wisbusiness.com
By Michael Vickerman What started out as an opening salvo from the Walker Administration to shackle large-scale wind projects has in six months turned into a systematic campaign to dismantle the state policies that support renewable energy development. ...
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Human Habitat

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New human ecology building will have new name
University of Wisconsin-Madison
When the School of Human Ecology opens its doors on its new and renovated building on Linden Drive in 2012, it will have a new name. Nancy Nicholas Hall will honor Nancy Johnson Nicholas, who graduated from the school in 1955 and with husband Albert ...
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Ecology And Environment Going Ex-Dividend
Forbes (blog)
COM According to Dividend Channel, on 7/14/11, Ecology And Environment, Inc. (EEI) will trade ex-dividend, for its semi-annual dividend of $0.24, payable on 8/5/11. As a percentage of EEI's recent stock price of $16.97, this dividend works out to ...
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UGA's ecology lab surviving
Online Athens
By Lee Shearer - lee.shearer@onlineathens.com Four years after the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory nearly closed, the 61-year-old research lab is still going -- not exactly going strong, but not on the brink of extinction, ...
Ecology Coatings Upgrades its Laboratory in Ohio
Azom.com
By Cameron Chai A specialist in the development and licensing of cleantech ultraviolet-curable coatings, Ecology Coatings has upgraded its laboratory in Akron, Ohio with the installation of newly purchased testing and application development equipment. ...
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US House votes to end EPA water pollution oversight
Charleston Gazette
Rahall, ranking Democrat on the House Committee Transportation and Infrastructure, joined with committee Chairman John Mica, R-Fla., to push legislation they dubbed the "Clean Water Act Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011." Mica and Rahall found common ...
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West Texas city to give proposed coal plant water
BusinessWeek
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI A West Texas town agreed Tuesday to sell much-needed water to a company that wants to build a coal-fired power plant, even though environmental groups argue the arid area can't spare the resource. The unanimous vote by the ...
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Water concerns rising as cattle die in dry Texas
Sacramento Bee
Producers are losing cattle after moving them from withered pastures where water tanks have dried up. Once in new pastures, cattle that take in too much water too quickly can die within minutes. As with humans, water intoxication can occur when there's ...
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New Jersey American Water Builds Pipeline to Ancora Psychiatric Hospital
MarketWatch (press release)
VOORHEES, NJ, Jul 13, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- As part of an agreement with the New Jersey Department of Human Services and the Township of Winslow in Camden County, New Jersey American Water has begun the installation of a 2-mile water main that will ...
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The US must end its illegal war in Libya now
    Summary: KucinichThis week, I am sponsoring legislation in the United States Congress that will end US military involvement in Libya for the following reason source: The Guardianread more
  • OIL AND THE IRANIAN-SAUDI “COLD WAR”
    Summary: One of last month’s most interesting developments in Persian Gulf power politics played out not in the Middle East, but in Vienna, Paris, and Washington. For these Western cities were the venues for an important series of exchanges that revealed much about the changing balance of p ...
  • Tehran Hosts Hiroshima Peace and Friendship De ...
    Summary: Tehran Peace MuseumOn the occasion of the international day for banning use of chemical and microbial weapons, the Peace Museum which has been opened at Tehran’s City Park to keep memory of Iraqi chemical weapons used against Iran, is hosting a delegation of Hiroshima people who rep ...
  • Iran mourns 1988 airliner downing by US warship
    Summary: IranAir 655"The crime by the United States is never forgivable. The stain will remain on the U.S. forever," said Hesameddin Ansari, 34, who lost his father in the crash. source: APread more
  • Washington's Favorite Terrorists
    Summary: Dr Trita Parsi In the 10 years that I have lived in Washington, I have never seen lobbyists for al-Qaeda parade through the halls of Congress. I have not seen any events on Capitol Hill organized by Hamas. And I have not seen any American politicians take campaign contributions fro ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Wednesday News Flash --Sci, Space, Tech
    Neptune's First 'Anniversary' of Its Orbit Neptune's blue tinge, seen by Voyager 2, comes from a sprinkling of methane in its atmosphere, which is made mostly of hydrogen and helium (Image: Voyager 2 Team/NASA). Dog years are nothing next to...
  • Newly Discovered "Unevolved Galaxies" Reveal C ...
    An international team of astronomers led by Niels Bohr Institute has discovered some of the ‘lowest surface brightness’ unevolved galaxies in the universe that have been found to have lower amounts of heavier elements compared to other known galaxies of...
  • Are Black Holes the Ultimate Particle Acceler ...
    Scientists say that the "universe is the largest laboratory there is", but usually as an explanation for strange signals, not an actual idea for equipment. Now some astronomers are aiming to use a black hole as a particle accelerator. An...
  • Image of the Day: Solar System's Highest Peak ...
    Olympus Mons volcano is the highest point on Mars at an elevation of 21,229 meters (69,649 feet) above the Mars areoid (similar to Earth's sea level). It is also the highest mountain in the solar system and the solar system's...
  • EcoAlert: A dozen massive volcanoes some reach ...
    A chain of a dozen undersea volcanoes some reaching nearly 10,000 feet above the ocean floor , and several of them active, have been near Antarctica, south of the South Sandwich Islands — desolate, ice-covered volcanoes that rise above the...

Natural News

  • How to protect your mobile phone and computer ...
    (NaturalNews) The U.S. Constitution is clear about the issue of privacy. In fact, the Fourth Amendment states, in part, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated..."With that in mind, it' ...
  • China facing severe water crisis due to massiv ...
    (NaturalNews) As the world's population increases, so too does its need for food and water - the two resources which are absolutely necessary to sustain life. And as it happens, one is needed to grow the other, so it should alarm you to know that the country with the largest population - China - ...
  • The secret history of Monsanto, Agent Orange a ...
    (NaturalNews) We still find it difficult to completely forget one of the uglier and far-reaching atrocities of the Vietnam War - the dissemination of a deadly herbicide, Agent Orange. But where we only have movies like Apocalypse Now and a host of war novels to remind us of the majority of the u ...
  • Baby products contain toxic flame retardant ch ...
    (NaturalNews) Potentially toxic flame retardants, many of them containing compounds known as penta brominated diphenyl ethers, are a common component of many household products containing polyurethane foam.Originally intended to increase product safety by decreasing fire risk, these compounds ha ...
  • TSA lied: Agency still molesting young childre ...
    (NaturalNews) After twice announcing that full-body pat downs would no longer apply to children under 12 years of age, John Pistole, Administrator of the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), has officially been exposed as a liar. Just last week, the TSA molested and terrorized a six- ...

Threat Level

  • Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to ...
    A Minnesota hacker prosecutors described as a "depraved criminal" was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror that turned his neighbors' lives into a living nightmare.
  • Feds Defend Internet Domain Seizure in Piracy ...
    Federal prosecutors ask a judge not to return the domain names of one of Spain's most popular websites, seized as part of a major U.S. crackdown on internet piracy.
  • Smart Meters Deconstructed
    The handy guys at iFixit have applied their talents to deconstructing a utility smart meter to examine its guts. Smart meters are being deployed by gas and electric companies around the country in homes and businesses to provide a more efficient way of collecting energy consumption data. Securi ...
  • ‘Military Meltdown Monday’ — 90K Military User ...
    Anonymous hackers have broken into a server belonging to consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton and published a database containing 90,000 military e-mail addresses and hashed passwords in what they named Military Meltdown Monday.
  • Google Seeks Immediate Appeal of Street View W ...
    Google is demanding a federal judge grant it permission to appeal a decision that approved a federal wiretapping lawsuit over its interception of unencrypted Wi-Fi traffic.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP on the Debt: No Democratic President, No P ...
    Summing up the current Republican debt ceiling hostage-taking are two of the most telling statements in the annals of American politics. "Reagan," Vice President Dick Cheney famously declared in 2002, "proved deficits don't matter." And on Monday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor added, "Wha ...
  • And the Winner Is...
    Among the truisms of American politics is this: the side decrying "class war" is the one winning it. So it is with the ongoing Republican hostage-taking drama over the debt ceiling and upper-income tax increases. Facing overwhelming pressure from his own party, Speaker John Boehner retreated f ...
  • GOP Tries to Gut Medicaid as Studies Show Its ...
    As the debate over health care reform heated up in the fall of 2009, Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander called Medicaid "a medical ghetto" that "none of us, or any of our families, would ever want to be a part of for our health care." As it turns out, Alexander and his GOP colleagues ...
  • To Rescue the Recovery, Start by Saving the States
    During the debate over the stimulus program in early 2009, Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed, "If the money were lent rather than just granted, states would, I think, spend it wisely and the states that didn't need it at all wouldn't take any." Now would be a good time t ...
  • Died of a Theory
    As the South teetered on the edge of calamity near the end of the Civil War, the Confederate Congress refused pleas to arm the slaves. "If the Confederacy fails," CSA President Jefferson Davis lamented, "there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory." Almost 150 years later and wi ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Al Gore Launches Climate Reality Project
    Al Gore turned from a waffling politician to a leading climate action activist a few years ago. If someone mentions Al Gore now, probably the #1 association that comes to mind is global warming, due to his wildly popular and influential film "An Inconvenient Truth" and resulting Nobel Peace Priz ...
  • Tim DeChristopher & Reverend Billy Together {V ...
    Here's another great, new-ish speech by leading climate and environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, with an introduction by Reverend Billy. As always, excellent words from Tim:
  • What Will a 4 Degree Increase do to Australia
    The results of research looking into what will happen to the Australian climate if and when a global increase of 4º Celsius across the world takes place was presented by CSIRO's Dr Penny Whetton at the Four Degrees climate change conference in Melbourne.
  • Southern Italian Peninsula by Night from Space ...
    Taken aboard the International Space Station, this beautiful photo shows the boot of Italy lit up at night, outlining what would otherwise have been indistinguishable from the black sea around it.
  • Holy Sh#t! Joe Barton is Crazy! (cartoon)
    The scariest quote was the one I left off where he called the American people smart because, “after all, they keep re-electing me”. I left it out because this cartoon is meant to illustrate how bat-shit crazy Joe Barton is, not how unimaginably daft his constituents are. Although, as a commenter ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • French government manoeuvres for resolution to ...
    Editor's Note: Patrick O'Conner concludes his analysis with, "The US, France and Britain are no doubt also stepping up preparations to further intensify the war, including the potential deployment of combat forces on the ground, in the event that the discussions prove fruitless."It's possible th ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fights extrad ...
    On Tuesday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared at the High Court at London’s Royal Courts of Justice to appeal against his extradition to Sweden on trumped-up allegations of rape. The expected two-day hearing is in response to the February 24 ruling by Judge Howard Riddle at the High Cour ...
  • U.S. Police Breaking Down the Doors of Privacy ...
    Editor's Comment: There is no other media holds more private information of citizens than Facebook. Users reveal the most intimate details and images of their personal lives on this social network. Facebook boasts of having more than 250 million people using their network. Businesses, politician ...
  • Lebanon: Playing with Political Fire - Lebanon
    Sometimes the timing is flagrant, like the recent commotion in Greece. In the very hours of forbidding the passage1 of the aid flotilla to Gaza, the financially strapped Greek government welcomed the approval of an €8.7 billion2 aid payment from the European Union. With 'Israel's' position as an ...
  • Ahmad Karzai: From dishwasher to drug kingpin ...
    Editor's Note: Compare this report by Eric Walberg with the Reuter's report republished earlier today on Axis of Logic: REUTERS - President Karzai's younger brother killed in Kandahar - Axis of Logic Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s younger half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • What Bradley Manning Really Did
    -- by Yellow Dog In all the hysterical spin surrounding Wikileaks and the detention of PFC Bradley Manning, it's easy to forget the ... "incident" is too mild a word ... that inspired his act of whistle-blowing. Now the man who was there, who knows what really happened, tells the truth about wha ...
  • Is Tea Party Corporate Support "Taxation witho ...
    The Republican Tea Party caucus, as we all know, has labored long and hard to monopolize for itself America's iconic "give me liberty or give me death" Revolutionary imagery. Yet, without too much trouble, famous patriot battle cries like "No Taxation Without Representation" could easily be refi ...
  • Co-opting the Teabaggers in Kentucky
    Nobody ever said David Williams was stupid. Evil, yes. Stupid, no. So when his gubernatorial campaign is threatened by the Central Kentucky teabaggers who almost cost him the primary, he doesn't get mad. He buys them off. And does it subtly enough to fool everybody. For a couple of days. Media C ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Only in a democracy does a politician resign for unpopularity. "Essam Sharaf, Egypt's prime minister, has accepted the resignation of his deputy, whose removal had been called for by protesters, the cabinet's Facebook page has said. Yehia el-Gamal had previously offered his resignation but it wa ...
  • The Closest Thing to a Liberal Budget Proposal ...
    You know things are completed fucked when DINO Kent Conrad presents the liberal budget proposal. karoli at Crooks and Liars: After a week of flurries and fears that Democrats are about to give away the store to keep the nation from defaulting on its debt, Kent Conrad presented his budget proposa ...

Care 2

  • Florida Residents Plead for Panthers
    Florida residents are dismayed as they face the extinction of the beloved state animal, the Florida Panther, for the sake of building a �Green� power plant when numerous alternatives are available.Submitted by Deb Duxbury to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • McConnell: No real deficit deal until Obama is ...
    The Senate's top Republican said Tuesday that he did not see a way for Republicans and Democrats to come to agreement on meaningful deficit reduction as long as President Obama remains in office.Submitted by Carrie Burton to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Undercover video exposes Bachmann anti-gay therapy
    ABC News presented undercover video Monday that confirms the clinic owned by Michele Bachmann and her husband Dr. Marcus Bachmann does indeed try to �pray away the gay.� The Nation reported last week that Andrew Ramirez�s mother took him to the clinic...Submitted by Carrie Burton to US Politi ...
  • PETITION ALERT: Stop Whaling in the Antartica ...
    Help stop Whaling in the Southern ocean! Over 1,000 whales die each year due to whaling alone. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Climate change reducing ocean's carbon dioxide ...
    As one of the planet�s largest single carbon absorbers, the ocean takes up roughly one-third of all human carbon emissions, reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide and its associated global changes.Submitted by Katie Miller to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • More Pakistani Terrorism in India
    The Pakistani Inter Service Intelligence agency (aka ISI) is at it again–three bombs exploded in Mumbai, India today killing at least 13 and wounding more than 80. In the past we’ve always labeled near simultaneous bombs as an “Al Qaeda” tactic. Wrong. It is not Al Qaeda, it is a fingerprint of ...
  • Canada Generates Surprisingly Strong Job Growth
    While the United States licks its economic wounds and the Obama administration struggles to spin the anemic jobs report, we do not need to look far for positive employment news. Where should we look? Northward, as our friends in Canada are thriving compared to the struggles we are experiencing. ...
  • The anger worth $800 Million
    Only a year ago, the Obama administration decided to ramp up military support to the Pakistani army as part of an effort to persuade Islamabad to do more to combat militants. The new military aid, which was contingent on Congressional approval, was expected to amount to more than $2 billion over ...
  • First Lady Betty Ford, Rest In Peace
    (Photo credit CBSNews.com) First Lady Betty Ford died on Friday, July 8th, at the age of 93. She is remembered for her groundbreaking work in the area of addiction, and the Betty Ford Center has become synonymous with addiction rehab. Her diagnosis of breast cancer in 1974 helped to bring this s ...
  • The Prez Threatens Seniors and Tells Us To Eat ...
    Today, President Obama threatened senior citizens, veterans and people with disabilities by saying that he cannot guarantee their checks with go out on August 3rd if a debt deal is not reached. It takes audacity to dare to say with a straight face that we don’t have money in the coffers to pay o ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Should You Attend a Friend’s Wedding Eve ...
    Yesterday Ellen walked into my office looking annoyed and confused. “I don’t know what to do. Robin invited me to her wedding and I don’t want to go, but I think I should. It’s a destination wedding, a long weekend in Mexico- four days! It might be fun but I can’t afford it, and I [...]
  • Five Domains of a Healthy Relationship
    You might have heard the phrase âlove is the glueâ that holds us, the universe, etc. together. I’d like to make a case for mindfulness as a similar connecting agent. In thinking of the work I am passionate about offering at Counseling on Capitol Hill, I’ve discovered that the various offerings h ...
  • Do Women With Eating Disorders Focus on Negati ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline According to a new study, women with binge eating issues tend to focus their attention on their least favorite body parts, which may help understand why they express such unhappiness with their physical body. Additionally, the study also revealed that binge eaters ...
  • Children’s Response to Stress May Determine Th ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new study identifies “dove” and “hawk” personalities in children based on their hormonal reaction to stress. Doves tend to be more cautious while hawks act in more aggressive ways, and researchers believe that these behavior patterns help children adapt to and o ...
  • When Worse Is Better: The Unfortunate Hierarch ...
    Imagine a life where you are continually tormented by an inner dialogue that screams of your worthlessness, your hideous appearance, and your pitiful, meaningless existence. Imagine a life where you mange your day solely around food, either by avoiding it, getting rid of it, or consuming as much ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Coal industry calls in controversial 'hired gu ...
    Coal industry calls in controversial 'hired gun' to take on mountaintop ... Charleston Gazette (blog) They also say their findings “suggest an effect” of mountaintop removal mining. It's clear that NMA was concerned about how this analysis would be reported in the press and interpreted by the p ...
  • Guest Post: Can Coal Mines Become Solar Farms? ...
    Greentech Media (blog) Guest Post: Can Coal Mines Become Solar Farms? Greentech Media (blog) Mountaintop removal coal mining has resulted in a lot of barren land. Why not top mined mountains with solar panels, asks Dan Hoffman. I was reading an article recently about mountaintop removal (MTR) c ...
  • Groups ask DEP to appeal Fayette Co. MTR permi ...
    Groups ask DEP to appeal Fayette Co. MTR permit West Virginia Public Broadcasting July 13, 2011 · Environmental groups stood outside the West Virginia DEP Tuesday to protest a proposed Fayette County mountain top removal site. Some citizens believe the site will hurt tourism in the area. Activi ...
  • Group appeals Frasure mine permit - Beckley Re ...
    Group appeals Frasure mine permit Beckley Register-Herald The WVDEP differentiates between the type of mining in this permit and mountaintop removal, which removes the entire top of a mountain, hill, or ridge and creates a flat or rolling plateau. If approved, the mine would continue to remove ...
  • Save the Babies: Stop Mountaintop Removal Mini ...
    Save the Babies: Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) This week more than 600 concerned citizens will participate in the largest mass mobilization against mountaintop removal mining that this country has ... by Liz Judge: The buzz is heightening. The Sundance offi ...

Memeorandum

  • S.A. lawmaker blasts peer over immigrant rant ...
    Gary Martin / MySanAntonio.com: S.A. lawmaker blasts peer over immigrant rant  —  WASHINGTON — A San Antonio congressman Tuesday rebuked an Alabama lawmaker who said he would do anything to curb illegal immigration “short of shooting” illegal immigrants.  —  “Rhetoric referencing acts of violen ...
  • Romney says he won't sign controversial marria ...
    Gschwarzcnn / CNN: Romney says he won't sign controversial marriage pledge  —  (CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will not sign a controversial marriage vow from the Iowa social conservative group, The Family Leader.  —  “Mitt Romney strongly supports traditional marriage but ...
  • Official: 13 dead, 81 hurt in Mumbai terror at ...
    msnbc.com: Official: 13 dead, 81 hurt in Mumbai terror attack  —  Police appeal for calm after three explosions hit India's business capital  —  Below:  —  msnbc.com staff and news service reports  —  MUMBAI, India — At least 13 people were killed and 81 injured after three explosions hit Indi ...
  • Marco Shows the Way - Who is the Republicans' ...
    John Hinderaker / Power Line: Marco Shows the Way  —  Who is the Republicans' best guy?  Lately the focus has been mostly on the party's presidential candidates, while John Boehner and Mitch McConnell also have been in the spotlight.  So we haven't seen much of Marco Rubio.  Yesterday, Rubio ma ...
  • Republicans Fail to Pick up Democratic Seat in ...
    Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics: Republicans Fail to Pick up Democratic Seat in 200th Consecutive California U.S. House Race  —  The California GOP has not picked up a Democratic held U.S. House seat in general or special elections since 1998  —  Democrat Janice Hahn's special election victor ...

Energy & Environment News

  • Green: Al Gore’s Reality Show
    The Climate Reality Project, a renamed and redefined group overseen by Mr. Gore, will seek to educate the public about the impacts of global warming and counter what he considers the well-financed disinformation and denial campaign run by the fossil fuel industries.
  • National Briefing | ROCKIES: Montana: New Deal ...
    The Obama administration struck a new deal with wildlife advocates that would require the Interior Department to consider greater protections for hundreds of imperiled animals and plants.
  • Task Force Recommends Improvements for Nuclear ...
    A Nuclear Regulatory Commission panel said the March nuclear crisis in Japan proves that it is time for “redefining the level of protection that is regarded as adequate” at American nuclear plants.
  • G.O.P. Bid to Void Light Bulb Law Fails
    House Republicans failed to advance a measure that would repeal efficiency rules for light bulbs.
  • Green: The Light-Bulb Mandate Endures
    The effort failed to get the two-thirds majority needed for rules governing expedited measures.

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.4, Negros, Philippines
    Tuesday, July 12, 2011 08:56:20 UTCTuesday, July 12, 2011 04:56:20 PM at epicenterDepth: 52.10 km (32.37 mi)
  • M 5.2, Kuril Islands
    Tuesday, July 12, 2011 00:09:51 UTCTuesday, July 12, 2011 12:09:51 PM at epicenterDepth: 53.40 km (33.18 mi)
  • M 5.0, Negros, Philippines
    Monday, July 11, 2011 22:49:59 UTCTuesday, July 12, 2011 06:49:59 AM at epicenterDepth: 33.90 km (21.06 mi)
  • M 5.5, southern East Pacific Rise
    Monday, July 11, 2011 15:51:23 UTCMonday, July 11, 2011 07:51:23 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.0, Tonga region
    Monday, July 11, 2011 13:01:12 UTCTuesday, July 12, 2011 01:01:12 AM at epicenterDepth: 49.90 km (31.01 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Slideshow: Living on scraps
    Beijing’s informal recyclers – often new arrivals from the countryside – make a priceless, though unacknowledged, contribution to the city. Here, Chen Liwen introduces a series of photos depicting their way of life.Recycling has a very long history in China. The beginning of the founding era of ...
  • Connecting the green dots
    Often overlooked, grid operators are at the frontlines of climate change. As Germany embarks on an ambitious plan to scale up renewables, Letha Tawney looks at the challenge of transmission.  In renewable-energy circles, there is a real excitement about Germany’s latest plans to move away fro ...
  • Deserted islands
    Rising seas threaten to force whole populations off atoll nations. But where will they go? And will their countries still exist? Gregory Wannier examines the legal implications.In December 2008, a series of swells coinciding with seasonal high (“king”) tide engulfed the island atoll of Majuro, c ...
  • How to quench a thirst?
    Beijing is desperately short of water – and uncertain how to fix the problem, torn between desalination and pumping resources from the south. Feng Jie and Shi Qiujuan report. Beijing’s lack of water is making it jumpy. Early in the morning of 14 June, a team of 12 researchers from the city’s wat ...
  • Resolving the paradoxes of water
    Concluding their series, James Workman and Montgomery Simus say virtual urban-water markets within natural monopolies can be unlocked, rewarding frugality, efficiency and innovation. “Greed makes green” and a sustainable path lies beyond virtue.In April 2001, then-US vice president Dick Cheney t ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to ...
    A Minnesota hacker prosecutors described as a "depraved criminal" was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror that turned his neighbors' lives into a living nightmare.
  • Feds Defend Internet Domain Seizure in Piracy ...
    Federal prosecutors ask a judge not to return the domain names of one of Spain's most popular websites, seized as part of a major U.S. crackdown on internet piracy.
  • Smart Meters Deconstructed
    The handy guys at iFixit have applied their talents to deconstructing a utility smart meter to examine its guts. Smart meters are being deployed by gas and electric companies around the country in homes and businesses to provide a more efficient way of collecting energy consumption data. Securi ...
  • ‘Military Meltdown Monday’ — 90K Military User ...
    Anonymous hackers have broken into a server belonging to consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton and published a database containing 90,000 military e-mail addresses and hashed passwords in what they named Military Meltdown Monday.
  • Google Seeks Immediate Appeal of Street View W ...
    Google is demanding a federal judge grant it permission to appeal a decision that approved a federal wiretapping lawsuit over its interception of unencrypted Wi-Fi traffic.

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • A Rat Lungworm in your salad?
    A lovely thought as my daughters and I head out to one of the local restaurants here in Hawaii. I wonder if the organic, local salad that we order tonight was grown with any concern for good agricultural practices and inspected by a local government official, or if a local farmer grew it that s ...
  • I thought I was going to be on vacation for a ...
    Although no one believes me, I am actually in Hawaii for a Food Safety Expo where I will be giving two speeches.  OK, I admit that there might be a bit of sun and an attempt at recalling how I once knew how to surf. But when I picked up the paper this morning I learned that the Hawaiian Governo ...
  • E. coli O104:H4 Fenugreek Sprout Outbreak - EU ...
    The European Union (EU) as of today, using the new case definition that excludes 7 deaths, the cumulative number of non-HUS STEC cases in the EU is 3,041 (excludes 5 from France), including 16 deaths, and 757 HUS STEC (excludes 156) cases, including 28 deaths. The EU does not count the 4 HUS ca ...
  • FSIS denies AMI's 2005 petition for low-dose b ...
    It was a busy few days for FSIS getting out substantive food policy when the media and the public will likely not notice – See Press Release on Salmonella. A few days ago, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) quietly denied the American Meat Institute's (AMI’s) 2005 Petition to Reco ...
  • 7 - 11 Listeria Recall in Hawaii - Just in Tim ...
    Around 1,500 pounds of 7-Eleven convenience-store meals have been recalled for possible Listeria contamination by Hawaiian company Warabeya U.S.A., Inc, the Department of Agriculture said late on Wednesday. The recalled products include 10.3-ounce packages of 7-Eleven Fried Chicken Bento, 11-ou ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: NYC fleet adds 70 plug-in vehicles, ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Truck, Work, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Ford, Police/Emergency, Electric NYC Chevy Volt Police Car - Click above for high-res image gallery As much as the average driver doesn't really have to worry about "range anxiety" during a normal driving day, we will gran ...
  • Official: Toyota issues recall for Highlander, ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Crossover, Lexus, Toyota Lexus RX 400h - Click above for high-res image There's a problem with some 2006 and 2007 model year Toyota Highlander Hybrid and Lexus RX 400h vehicles. Today, Toyota announced that it will voluntarily recall 45,500 Highlander Hybrid an ...
  • Video: New Prius rap video takes to cruising W ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Whole Foods Parking Lot - Click above to watch video after the jump Turns out, you can spin the whole "cashed up greenie" bit into a few minutes of enjoyable parody rap. Don't believe us? Check out "Whole Foods Parking Lot," the fi ...
  • Report: Glenn Beck goes off on GM's Akerson ov ...
    Filed under: GM, Electric Glenn Beck on the gas tax - Click above to watch video after the jump If there's one thing that is fast becoming true about the Chevy Volt, it's that right-wing political pundits really, really don't like it. So, we will admit up front that this story comes straigh ...
  • Official: Mitsubishi sets Canadian i-MiEV pric ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Canada, Electric $32,998. That's the price that Mitsubishi Motors has announced for the i-MiEV in Canada when the little space egg goes on sale there later this year. (That's $33,891 U.S. at today's exchange rate). Yes, Canada will ge ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Soldier Suicides and the Politics of President ...
    President Barack Obama just announced a reversal of a long-standing policy that denied presidential condolence letters to the family members of soldiers who commit suicide. Relatives of soldiers killed in action receive letters from the president. Official silence, however, has long stigmatized ...
  • "Malcomology": The Late Dr. Manning Marable's ...
    In the last months of his life Dr. Manning Marable recorded a series of videos to accompany his book "Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention." Marable died on April 1, 2011, just days before the book’s publication. His family has shared with Democracy Now! the last two installments of the six-part "M ...
  • "Malcolmology": Episode Six of the Late Dr. Ma ...
    Watch the sixth installment of the "Malcolmology" video project, a unique collaboration between truth2power films and the late Dr. Manning Marable, author of the new Malcolm X biography, "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention". In this episode, "A Hero For Our Times", Dr. Marable talks about the ...
  • WikiLeaks, Wimbledon and War
    Last Saturday was sunny in London, and the crowds were flocking to Wimbledon and to the annual Henley Regatta. Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blower website Wikileaks.org, was making his way by train from house arrest in Norfolk, three hours away, to join me and Slovenian philosophe ...
  • Montana Farmer Says Exxon Refuses to Admit Ext ...
    Click here to see more photos of oil on Alexis Bonogofsky’s land. Family farmer, Alexis Bonogofsky, didn’t get a phone call from Exxon Pipeline Co. when its pipeline ruptured Friday night beneath the Yellowstone River, leaking as much as 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the water and ...

Suzie-Q

  • Will Fox News, local Fox networks, and the New ...
    If Mr Murdoch’s employees can be so brazen as to target the British prime minister, then it is not unreasonable to believe they also might hack into the voicemails of American politicians and citizens.” Melanie Sloan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Rupert Murdoch: Could his ...
  • DARPA funds genetically engineered electrofuel ...
    G: Good news from DARPA? Well, I’ll be surprised if it is, because of the use of genetically altered bacteria, and gawd knows what else, in developing these fuels. Electrofuels?, whats that? We should keep in mind here, that the Defense Industries are involved and that they qualify as “Small Bus ...
  • Blair accused of trying to silence Murdoch critic
    independent.co.uk By Martin Hickman and Cahal Milmo Monday, 11 July 2011 Tony Blair urged Gordon Brown to persuade the Labour MP who led the campaign to expose the phone-hacking scandal to fall silent, according to a report yesterday. The Mail on Sunday stated that “well-placed” sources said Mr ...
  • Tea Party Assortment
    H/T- Daily Kos
  • Pawlenty: Science ‘In Dispute’ Over Whether Ga ...
    This morning on Meet The Press, David Gregory pressed GOP presidential candidate Gov. Tim Pawlenty about his recent remarks that he likes Lady Gaga’s song “Born This Way,” asking if he believes being gay is a choice. Pawlenty responded that he thinks the science is still “in dispute”: GREGORY: I ...

Solari

  • Obama “Cannot Guarantee” Social Se ...
    By Corbett B. Daly President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks. “I cannot guarantee that those checks go out o ...
  • Special Solari Report: Zürcher Kantonalbank Pr ...
    By Carolyn A. Betts and Catherine Austin Fitts In response to our Special Solari Report on the two largest US precious metals exchange-traded funds “GLD & SLV: Disclosure in the Precious Metals Puzzle Palace“, a Solari Report subscriber asked us about two Swiss-based exchange traded funds offere ...
  • A Special Solari Report: The Student Loan Scam
    A Review of The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History – and How We Can Fight Back by Alan Michael Collinge By Carolyn Betts and Catherine Austin Fitts The Preface begins: “The truth is that I never considered student loans to be an especially interesting topic. [...]
  • JPMorgan Chase Gives You Another Reason to Ban ...
    By Linda Brown/King 5 News Auburn, Wash. – Buying his own home was a big accomplishment for construction worker, Ikenna Njoku, of Auburn. Heâs only 28 years old. âI was really excited. For the first time, I actually got to buy a lawn mower, mow my lawn and everything,â said Njoku. Njoku qua ...
  • Precious Metals Market Report
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Get ready! This week on the Solari Report, it’s the Precious Metals Market Report, and Franklin Sanders and I have lots to talk about. • First and foremost, if the summer correction is here, why I are prices so strong? • What will the upcoming debt [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • In Libya, the Bombs that Will Bring Us Together?
    Recent polling data casts doubt on claims by advocates of military intervention in Libya that our participation would improve perceptions of the U.S. in the region.  Proponents of intervention claimed that this would be achieved, in part, by dispelling notions that the U.S. supports anti-democr ...
  • Pakistan and America: Friends, Foes or in Free ...
    When it seems U.S.-Pakistan relations cannot get worse, they do. This past week, The New York Times, perhaps coaxed by the White House or CIA, held Pakistan's army and Inter-Services Intelligence responsible for the killing of a journalist and called for the resignation of the ISI director gener ...
  • HRW Spokesperson: "President Obama Is Treating ...
    Human Rights Watch released a report yesterday calling on foreign governments to prosecute President George W. Bush and other officials in his administration — including Vice President Cheney — for authorizing torture on suspected terrorists if the Obama administration fails to investigate. In a ...
  • Pawlenty's "Double Guantanamo" Moment
    Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, plummeting in the polls, is emerging as the neocon candidate of choice. Marc Thiessen, trying his best to shoehorn his inaccurate characterization of Obama administration detention policy as "catch and release," into the GOP Primary conversation gives Pawl ...
  • Ahmed Wali Karzai: Embodiment of a Flawed System
    There’s a lot of good commentary out today on Ahmed Wali Karzai, most of which seeks to answer the question: Is this good or bad for the U.S. mission to stabilize the country? Brian Katulis takes a crack: Although it is too early to assess what impact his assassination will have on the rou ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Profiles In Courage, Or Maybe Not
    Today's New York Times contains an article about an Alabama state senator named Scott Beason, who is so conservative and such a maker of trouble that even his fellow Republicans find him dangerous. While the damage he's causing seems real, this is what I want to discuss: "I don't mind standing ...
  • Sarah Palin Will Now Begin to Fade Away
    Kevin Drum makes the appropriate observation about Sarah Palin: And speaking of politicians and sound bites, does it strike anyone else that Sarah Palin has basically become a social media version of Ann Coulter? That is, they're both conservatives whose schtick mostly depends on generating li ...
  • Very Serious Primary Debates On the Way
    My column today is about the fact that when you give regular people the opportunity to question politicians in various "town hall" type settings, they often do a better job than journalists. Since the GOP primary debate season will soon begin, I thought it might be good to remind ourselves of wh ...
  • Today at The Prospect
    Paul Waldman writes that the Twitter townhall brought democracy traditions into the modern age.
  • Juan Williams Victimization Whine Now Availabl ...
    You have to hand it to Juan Williams. After getting booted from his ridiculously cushy NPR job for going on Fox News and saying Muslim people made him nervous, he got handed a multi-million dollar contract at Fox to be their central Fox News Liberal, a position that requires you to go on the air ...

Buzzflash

  • FDR: "Government by Organized Money is Just as ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The hacking of phones and invasion of privacy by the Rupert Murdoch tabloid press has been the subject of articles for years, but it took the unconscionable and illegal extracting and deleting of messages from the mobile phone of a dead British gir ...
  • We Could Put a Man on the Moon, But Can't Crea ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The real death of the American Dream is the roaring defense of an imploding joblessness situation by the status quo in DC. It is a de facto claim in DC that we can do little to improve the plight of those seeking work, or as Paul Krugman notes on J ...
  • How Climate Change Disasters are the Biggest T ...
    BY JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Life on earth will never be the same again." - Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth Two weeks ago, Former Vice-President Al Gore blasted President Obama for ignoring what can no longer be denied: climate change disasters. As I'm writing this piece, the ...
  • The Richest 1% Has Tripled Its Share of the US ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTThe richest 1% has tripled its share of the income pie over the past 30 years, mainly through tax cuts and financial deregulation. If their income had increased only at the pace of American productivity (80%), they would be taking about a trillion dollar le ...
  • Was Murdoch Hacking Phones in the US Too?
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUTIsn't it quite likely that Murdoch and hisConniving surveillance crewHave also been listening in to phone callsHere in the United States, too?This is my wife's idea and, truth be told,For quite a while it's been that:I no longer think of this claim & imagineM ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • More pretty, ugly people
    On Monday I posted a Youtube clip revealing a weird perception phenomenon in which even the prettiest girl seems to appear, fleetingly, as if she were an ogre or a troll. Take a look at the ugly pretty girl phenomenon here. I’m never satisfied to simply echo what others have said, so contacted c ...
  • Ugly, pretty girls
    This is just plain odd. An accidental discovery. But, why does it happen? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what if something more subtle is occurring? The phenomenon is known as “flashed face distortion effect” and is described in a research paper thus: “We describe a novel face distort ...
  • Red Bull Formula 1 Car Manual
    Red Bull Formula 1 Car Manual – This book, an advance copy of which just pulled into the pits at Sciencebase Central, describes itself as “An insight into the technology, engineering, maintenance and operation of Red Bull racing. It’s the Haynes manual for the F1 car, the owner’s workshop manual ...
  • Blame the environment for your bad habits
    Live fast, die young. You’re a long time gone. Sleep when you’re dead. The hedonists mantras. Lifestyle choices whether in terms of food consumption, alcohol and drugs or sexual activity are down to the individual. Nannying by governments, who have their own mantras: Smoking Kills, Know your lim ...
  • Watch the last Shuttle launch live
    UPDATE: The Orbiter made it into orbit, the live stream is now ended. I’ll replace the video embed with a Youtube clip to re-run the launch… A group of us skipped a high school physical education class to watch the very first shuttle launch way back when. At the time, we assumed they’d be launch ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Task Force Calls for Sweeping Safety Upgrades ...
    A task force established by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the wake of the post-tsunami nuclear disaster in Japan today released sweeping recommendations for regulatory changes needed for safer operation of existing nuclear reactor facilities and new reactor designs in the United Stat ...
  • News Corp's Hack Shows a Double Standard
    The explosive allegations about widespread illegal voicemail hacking by British tabloids owned by Rupert Murdoch are getting very little coverage on Murdoch's Fox News Channel (TVNewser, 7/12/11). But Fox's top host took a very different view when a Republican politician's email account was hack ...
  • Court Rejects Plan for Early Transfer of Hunte ...
    In a victory for Bayview Hunters Point community and environmental justice groups, a superior court judge ruled yesterday that the City of San Francisco’s redevelopment plan for the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard failed to properly evaluate the environmental and health risks from allowing t ...
  • Americans United Urges IRS to Investigate El P ...
    A ministry based in El Paso, Texas, should be investigated for organizing a recall campaign against the city’s mayor and two council members, Americans United for Separation of Church and State told the Internal Revenue Service today.read more
  • UN Special Rapporteur on Torture: Did PFC Brad ...
    The United Nations' top official on torture, Juan Mendez, expressed concerns today that his requests to meet and talk candidly with PFC Bradley Manning continue to be frustrated by the Obama Administration.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Saudi Women Get Behind the Wheel
    Jessica Mack The Arab Spring may have largely sprung, but for women in Saudi Arabia, it’s still blooming. Since the announcement this April that Saudi women will, once again, not be allowed to vote in September’s countrywide elections, coa ...
  • Atlanta Cheating Scandal Reflects US Trend
    Robert Schaeffer The Atlanta cheating scandal is likely the largest in scope in U.S. history in terms of the number of people implicated. But it is hardly an isolated incident. For more than two decades, the National Center for Fair & Open ...
  • Large Hydropower: Sustainability Without Human ...
    Peter Bosshard Dam projects often lead to resource conflicts between governments, private investors and local communities, and have caused a long series of human rights violations. In the most egregious case, more than 400 indigenous women ...
  • Attacks Show Taliban are Not as Weak as the US ...
    Patrick Cockburn The killing of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the most powerful Afghan in the south of the country, will reinforce the feeling among Afghans that the Taliban can strike anywhere at any time and are not weakening as American military c ...
  • Soldier Suicides and the Politics of President ...
    Amy Goodman President Barack Obama just announced a reversal of a long-standing policy that denied presidential condolence letters to the family members of soldiers who commit suicide. Relatives of soldiers killed in action receive letters ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

  • The most powerful weapon is our humanity
    Dina ElmutiThe Electronic Intifada As she exits Palestine, Dina Elmuti reflects on the oppressive apparatus that surrounds her, and on the growing global struggle to break through it with something stronger, our�humanity.
  • How Greece abandoned Palestine
    David CroninThe Electronic Intifada No doubt, Greece’s refusal to allow the Freedom Flotilla II to set sail for Gaza was partly the result of pressure — and possibly even financial blackmail — from the US and Israel. Nonetheless, it was not an isolated occurrence but the logical consequence of a ...
  • Strikes likely as Israel forces curriculum on ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'AmoursThe Electronic IntifadaJerusalem Widespread strikes could be in store for East Jerusalem at the start of the next school year as an Israeli-controlled municipality moves ahead with its plan to implement an Israeli curriculum in Palestinian�schools.
  • The story of the flotilla is not over
    Ewa JasiewiczThe Electronic Intifada Israel and the international community have deployed multiple deterrent tactics to try to thwart the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. But is it working? Ewa Jasiewicz comments for The Electronic�Intifada.
  • Remi Kanazi's poetry of struggle
    Alexander BilletThe Electronic Intifada Alexander Billet profiles Palestinian-American spoken word poet Remi Kanazi and his new book of poems, Poetic�Injustice.

The Wonk Room

  • Pawlenty Won’t Sign FAMiLY LEADER’ ...
    Tim Pawlenty has announced that he won’t be joining Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum in signing the FAMiLY LEADER’s “marriage vow” pledge. “I prefer to choose my own words, especially seeking to show compassion to those who are in broken families through no fault of their own,” Pawlenty said t ...
  • New Pill Shown To Greatly Reduce AIDS Infection
    A new study found a pill called Truvada greatly reduces infection rates of the AIDS virus by as much as 78%. The study involved more than 1,200 men and women in Botswana where half received a daily dose and the other was given a placebo. At the end of the study, only 4 out of [...]
  • Prisoners Near Death As 1,700 California Inmat ...
    A hunger strike started by prisoners at Pelican Bay to protest appalling conditions has spread across California as inmates at 13 prisons joined in solidarity. The number of inmates refusing food hit a peak of 6,600, and is now estimated at 1,700. They are now in their 13th day of the hunger str ...
  • Tom Donahue And The U.S. Chamber Of Secrets
    Climate activists are comparing the right-wing, corporate agenda of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the villains that bedevil Harry Potter in a new website. Chamber President Tom Donohue looms as a Lord Voldemort figure on the site. This mini-campaign was launched in conjunction with the final i ...
  • The Loan Arranger: Time to Rescue Clean Energ ...
    Congress Should Continue to Fund the Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program Officials with First Solar and Public Service Company of NM gather after the dedication of the utility’s 2-megawatt photovoltaic solar array in Albuquerque in April. First Solar’s new project will increase efficienc ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Would Any Canadian Government Recognize Palest ...
    So, the stupid, lying, pathetic closet-case who pretends to be Canada's Foreign Minister says that Canada won't recognize Palestine's right to exist. Having just torn apart Rosie DiMoron's incoherent, rambling gibberish that was her attempt to defend Canada's involvement in Afghanistan, I reali ...
  • "Fisking" Rosie DiMoron's Steaming Pile of Cra ...
    Keep watching this space if you're interested. If you haven't read her stream of nonsensical gibberish, here it is. Bye for now.
  • What Do We Actually DO, We People of the West?
    I've been reading a lot about World War II lately. I don't romanticize the conflict. Unless epic tragedies caused by deluded fuck-wits can be romanticized. But I do think about the future those people were fighting and dying for. (Or, in the case of the civilians murdered by the leaders, the fut ...
  • I Can't Believe the Bullshit that People Fall For
    Yeah, ... so apparently we're leaving Afghanistan, but for a few hundred sad sacks forced to work as trainers of the soldiers and police who are notorious for raping and pillaging on behalf of warlord governors and the Karzai kleptocracy. Ten years of that shit. Ten years of lies. Ten years of ...
  • A Little Footnote on harper's Stupitity
    Last year I blogged about an incendiary Toronto Sun cover story about a theatre festival featuring a play about a Canadian terrorist. I just found out that the festival in question; Summerworks, lost its $47,000 in federal funding. No doubt part of the reason is that the harpercons don't believ ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Toronto Library Union: Don't close, privatize ...
    As Toronto City Hall reviews its books and looks at various cost-cutting measures, the Public Library Workers Union is concerned over the possibility of privatization and branch shutdowns. The union’s President spoke at city hall Wednesday.
  • Libraries in Toronto could be the next to go o ...
    As Toronto's City Hall looks at ways to cut down the budget, going to the local library may be a thing of the past. Today supporters of the city's public library were at City Hall to launch a campaign against privatization.
  • Can male black-widow spiders reduce the risk o ...
    A study has found that male black-widow spiders are able to reduce the risk of being devoured by their mating partner by detecting and courting well-fed females. By sensing if the female is satiated the male can achieve passing his genes and stay alive.
  • Toronto's Jarvis Street bike lanes axed
    After a long debate at City Hall about the proposed bike lanes at Jarvis Street and off-road bike trails in Toronto, the city council has given cyclists one out of two votes in their favor.
  • Sun Media leaves Ontario Press Council
    The Canadian Press is reporting that Sun Media has removed itself from the Ontario Press Council because of the "politically correct" standards of the council.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-17-11
    Find out why the mainstream media news anchors are nothing more than actors and puppets! PLUS, Dr. Marc Sorenson joins the show and explains where you can get your Vitamin D3 and why it is so essential to your health and your body! Health: Chocolate Better Than Aspirin For Heart Attacks Orange J ...
  • Vaccines Lower Immunity
    May 23rd, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Paul Fassa Vaccinations are even worse than what most have thought. Vaccine injuries that can happen to anyone randomly amongst the vaccinated are not the only issues. Some experts claim vaccines lower immunity for everyone who receives them. The increased dise ...
  • Does Drinking Lots of Coffee Really Help to Pr ...
    May 23rd, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Ethan A. Huff Coffee addiction may not be the detriment to health many people think it is, according to a new study published in the journal Breast Cancer Research. Postmenopausal women over 50 who drink five or more cups of coffee every day may be as much as 5 ...
  • FDA Targets Supplement Manufacturers, Falsely ...
    May 31st, 2011 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff In the eyes of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there is no difference between a legitimate, scientifically-backed health claim, and a phony, made-up claim, as it concerns food and dietary supplements. Only FDA-approved drugs, you see, prov ...
  • CDC Admits Flu Vaccines Don’t Work (Whic ...
    May 31st, 2011 Natural News By: Mike Adams I’m always amused by the purchasing process of electronics or appliances at big box stores. On one hand, as their sales associate calmly explains to you, whatever product you’re buying is such high quality that you’ll be extremely satisfied with your pu ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • The unquiet life of Franz Gayl
    James Verini writes: As he had every morning for years, on October 4, 2010, Franz Gayl woke up at five, fed his two Rhodesian Ridgebacks, and then walked down the street from his modest home at the end of a cul-de-sac in northern Virginia to wait for the bus to the Pentagon. Once there, Gayl sw ...
  • Glenn Beck’s magicland
    Laurie Winer, Los Angeles Review of Books: The undisputed high point of Beck’s tenure in Baltimore was an elaborate prank built around a nonexistent theme park. The idea was to run a promotional campaign for the fictional grand opening of the world’s first air-conditioned underground amusement ...
  • News updates
    I’ll be off-line for the next few days and so there won’t be regular news updates until late Friday. But in the meantime I have scheduled a lot of interesting feature articles which will appear here over this period. — PW
  • Romney doesn’t scare Obama — Huntsman does
    Chris Jones writes: [Former US ambassador to China and newly-declared GOP presidential candidate, Jon] Huntsman and his family returned from Beijing only twenty days ago, at the end of April. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, he had served at the embassy for nearly two years, his third ambassadorship ...
  • Life after capitalism
    Robert Skidelsky writes: In 1995, I published a book called The World After Communism. Today, I wonder whether there will be a world after capitalism. That question is not prompted by the worst economic slump since the 1930s. Capitalism has always had crises, and will go on having them. Rather ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Peer reviewed paper: 2010 Russina heat wave &# ...
    The 2010 Summer Heat Wave of Western Russia Reference Dole, R., Hoerling, M., Perlwitz, J., Eischeid, J., Pegion, P., Zhang, T., Quan, X.-W., Xu, T. and Murray, D. 2011. Was there a basis for anticipating the 2010 Russian heat wave? … Continue reading →
  • Great moments in doomsday countdowns
    With Al Gore’s recent re-emergence from the dead with An Inconvenient Truth, Version 2.0, I find myself noting his website, The Climate Reality Project (formerly The Alliance for Climate Protection) countdown clock has a familiar look to it. It has … Continue reading →
  • Archibald: Solar Based Climate Forecast to 2050
    When I started out in climate science in 2005, the climate people ignored the solar physics community. A casual perusal of the literature though indicated that the difference in climate outcome from Dikpatiâs (NASA) estimate for Solar Cycle 24 amplitude … Continue reading →
  • SDO sees ‘Dark Fireworks’ on the Sun
    From Science@ NASA:  On June 7, 2011, Earth-orbiting satellites detected a flash of X-rays coming from the western edge of the solar disk. Registering only “M” (for medium) on the Richter scale of solar flares, the blast at first appeared … Continue reading →
  • The grass is greener on the ethanol model side
    From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Switch from corn to grass would raise ethanol output, cut emissions CHAMPAIGN, Ill. â Growing perennial grasses on the least productive farmland now used for corn ethanol production in the U.S. would result … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes D ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism, July 6, 2011 July 13, 2011 Last week the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major American newspapers reported that the U.S. launched its first unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) missile a ...
  • Ch. 1: The Real War Heroes By William T. Hathaway
    by William T. Hathaway Guest Writer Dandelion Salad July 13, 2011 The Real War Heroes From the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway Published by Trine Day “That must be them.” Petra took one hand off the steering wheel and pointed to a group of soldiers about two hundr ...
  • Department of Homeland Security Finds FOIA to ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post July 12, 2011 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 publi ...
  • Is the Debt Crisis Just Another Trumped Up Sca ...
    by Jill Dalton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad July 12, 2011 We’re all heard the hysteria, “If America doesn’t raise the debt ceiling she’ll default on her loans for the first time in our nations history.”  Everyone in Washington is in a panic.   All the Chicken Little’s are running around proclaim ...
  • The Fourth Estate is Bankrupt By William Bowles
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 12 July, 2011 From the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth imperialism was the dominant national ideology, transcending class and party divisions. Britain was saturated in the ethos and attitudes of ...

Your New Reality

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    Rupert Murdoch's Massive Spying Operations Finally Exposed Police Paid By Murdoch Execs To Spy On Celebrities, Politicians And Terror Victims Murdoch Faces Spying And Hacking Probe In US Rupert Murdoch cries for himself, not his victims By Darryl Mason It's been a long time coming, but the ...
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    'Fox News' Announces President Obama Has Been Shot And Killed By Darryl Mason Ten hours, that's 10 fucking hours, after a series of fake tweets announcing President Barack Obama had been shot twice in a restaurant and subsequently died from the wounds, this shocking (but fake) news remains the ...
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    Warner Bros. Loses Millions On Harry Potter 5, Ninth Biggest Grossing Movie Of All Time...Somehow To the outside world, this is known as 'Hollywood Accounting', but when I was in LA in 2001 it was called FuckYou Accounting by independent producers. I'm guessing it still is : According to the (W ...
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    The Tsunami Is Here, But Don't Forget To Close Your Car Door When You Run What can you say while watching this video of the Japanese tsunami, shot from inside a car, except Holy Fucking Shit! Just extraordinary, in a world filled with cameras, we are seeing the reality of natural disasters like ...
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    JK Rowling Will Be First Author To Earn $1 Billion From E-Books By Darryl Mason UPDATE : Since the story below was posted, JK Rowling has held a press conference and announced the following : * She won't be writing an eighth Harry Potter novel, saying, "I do have closure with Harry. I have no ...

Wired - Science

  • Rare Hermaphrodite Butterfly Hatches in London ...
    By Katie Scott, Wired UK For a short time only, visitors to the Natural History Museum will be able to see a butterfly that is both male and female. The gynandromorph Papilio Memnon butterfly fortuitously hatched in the puparium at this year’s Sensational Butterflies exhibition. It is one of ju ...
  • Supersize Dust Storms Could Become Southwest Norm
    The massive dust storm that engulfed Phoenix last week was unusual for the 20th century, but could become more common in the 21st. The storm resulted from thunderstorm-cooled air plummeting into the ground like mist pouring from an open freezer, only exponentially more powerful. Combine those ...
  • Beehive Fences Keep African Elephants Away Fro ...
    The comeback of Kenya’s elephant population is a huge conservation success story, as well as a huge problem for the country’s farmers. But scientists have found a new ally in the struggle to keep elephants from trampling crops: honeybees. Like many animals, elephants are afraid of bees. So scie ...
  • Neptune Finishes First Year Since Discovery
    By Olivia Solon, Wired UK On 12 July, Neptune will celebrate its very first birthday because exactly one Neptunian year — or 164.79 Earth years — will have passed since its discovery. Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was first telescopically observed on 24 September 1846. Astronom ...
  • Beautiful Data: The Art of Science Field Notes
    See Also: Gallery: 10 Stunning Science Visualizations Young Darwin’s Marginalia Shows Evolution of His Theory Data as Art: 10 Striking Science Maps Vote for Your Favorite Dinosaur Illustration Earth as Art: Stunning New Images From Space Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Amnesty International: Israel anti-boycott law ...
    Amnesty International's Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Philip Luther: "Despite proponents’ claims to the contrary, this law is a blatant attempt to stifle peaceful dissent and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Rachel Corrie’s family claim Israeli military ...
    Cindy Corrie: "After more than a year of hearings, we are at this moment in much the same place as we were when they began – up against a wall of Israeli officials determined to protect the state at... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Uri Avnery, will the Boycott Law make you stop ...
    Uri Avnery: "The boycott law is a sophisticated law. It doesn't impose criminal sanctions on someone who calls for boycotting the settlements. If it did, we wouldn't have the slightest problem; we... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Haaretz: The boycott law subverts Israeli demo ...
    This is a politically opportunistic and anti-democratic act, the latest in a series of outrageously discriminatory and exclusionary laws enacted over the past year, and it accelerates the process of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Cecilie Surasky: The railroading of Richard Falk
    In the case of Israel- the line between the government and the Jewish people as a whole is deliberately obscured and groups like the ADL never hesitate to use this confusion to their advantage,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Short-Term Hormone Therapy Plus Radiation Ther ...
    Short-term hormone therapy (androgen deprivation therapy: ADT) given in combination with radiation therapy for men with early-stage prostate cancer increases their chance of living longer and not dying from the disease, compared with that of those who receive the same radiation therapy alone, ac ...
  • Study Identifies Patients at Increased Risk of ...
    A new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery has identified patients who are at a higher risk of morbidity and mortality when undergoing knee replacement surgery in both legs at the same time.
  • Neurologist Urges Awareness, Action to Fix Dis ...
    Education and prevention are keys to closing the health care gap, Saint Louis University doctor says.
  • No Magic Bullet to Improve Diet, Stem Obesity ...
    In a report released July 11 in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, nutrition researchers from UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health found that having access to neighborhood grocery stores or larger supermarkets alone did not make a significant change in dietary habits. Living nea ...
  • Heart Failure: Doing What Your Doctor Says Works
    Doctors have been dispensing advice to heart failure patients and for the first time researchers have found that it works. While self-care is believed to improve heart failure outcomes, a highlight of the recent American Heart Association scientific statement on promoting heart failure self-care ...

Natural Health News

  • Top Ten Reasons to Get Rid of Mercury Fillings
    by Charles G. Brown, National Counsel, Consumers for Dental Choice 1.� Amalgam pollutes our environment � Amalgam pollutes 1) water via dental clinic releases and human waste; 2) air via cremation, dental clinic emissions, sludge incineration, and respiration; and 3) land via landfills, buri ...
  • What is Causing an Epidemic of Osteoporotic Fr ...
    A new report reveals that the number of osteoporotic fractures in Europe has been vastly underestimated. In Europe's five largest countries, together with Sweden, an estimated 2.5 million new fragility fractures occurred in 2010 -- the equivalent of 280 fractures per hour. There were also showe ...
  • How Your Diet Can Lower Risk of Vision Loss as ...
    Recent research has found that sufficient levels of certain dietary nutrients could help protect your eyes as you age.� A new study shows that among people at a high risk for macular degeneration (vision loss caused by erosion of the retina), people who ate high levels of zinc, lutein, beta-caro ...
  • Lack of Vitamin D May Have Killed Mozart
    During Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart�s short life, he suffered from many of his era's common illnesses -- such as smallpox, typhoid fever, tonsillitis and upper respiratory tract infections. �But what finally killed him at the age of 25 is still a matter of debate. Two researchers are offering a new ...
  • Does Your Sunscreen Contain This Cancer Causin ...
    Titanium dioxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles are increasingly being used in sunscreens. In larger particle form, these compounds reflect UV radiation. However, in nanoparticle form, they absorb UV radiation, which releases reactive oxygen species -- chemicals known to alter DNA. Some previous ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Jonathan Zittrain responds to Duncan Hollis
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, responds to Duncan Hollis, An e-SOS for Cyber-Space. This post is part of the Second Harvard Intern ...
  • Eric Jensen responds to Duncan Hollis
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Eric Jensen, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Fordham University Law School, responds to Duncan Hollis, An e-SOS for Cyber-Space. This post is part of the Second Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symp ...
  • An e-SOS for Cyberspace by Duncan B. Hollis
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis [This post is part of the Second Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium.] In 2007, I authored two papers — one for a military audience and another for a legal one — arguing that debates over the law’s response to the growing range of cyberth ...
  • Jacob Katz Cogan responds to John H. Knox
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Jacob Katz Cogan, author of The Regulatory Turn in International Law, responds to comments by John H. Knox. This post is part of the Second Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium.] I would like to than ...
  • Jacob Katz Cogan responds to John H. Knox
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Jacob Katz Cogan, author of The Regulatory Turn in International Law, responds to comments by John H. Knox. This post is part of the Second Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium.] I would like to than ...

Public News Service

  • In Search of More "Elbow Room" for Arizona Chi ...
    In Search of More "Elbow Room" for Arizona Chickens Washington, DC – Two national groups have formed an unlikely partnership to push Congress for new standards for egg producers. If they get their way, all hens will get bigger and better living quarters, and consumers will have more information ...
  • Tucson Forum Set on Alleged Abuse of Detained ...
    Tucson Forum Set on Alleged Abuse of Detained Immigrants Tucson, AZ – Allegations of human and civil rights abuses against immigrants detained in Arizona will be the focus of a Tucson community forum tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. A new two-year study from ACLU-Arizona finds that thousands of immig ...
  • National Security Bill Questions for AZ, Organ ...
    National Security Bill Questions for AZ, Organ Pipe Monument Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee is holding a hearing on a bill today (Friday) that expands the powers of the Department of Homeland Security to override 36 environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act. Loc ...
  • 60 MPG by 2025?
    60 MPG by 2025? Phoenix, AZ – 60 miles-per-gallon by 2025? Some experts say it’s a feasible goal for automakers, and they are encouraging the Obama Administration to make that the requirement as they review proposed increases in fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks. Comments from ...
  • Is 'Doing Good' Facing a Boomer Bust?
    Is 'Doing Good' Facing a Boomer Bust? Phoenix, AZ - Baby boomers who dedicated themselves to doing good may be a hard act to follow. A new study says two-thirds of the CEOs of nonprofit organizations are planning to leave their posts in the next five years, and their groups – many hit hard by t ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

  • Impeachment: an Overdue Constitutional Amendment
    Photo by codepinkhq After skimming over the Truth Commission’s report, I found that one of their recommendations is to introduce an impeachment mechanism to the Honduran Constitution. An impeachment mechanism would have been sufficient to achieve the goal the Congress and Supreme Court wanted in ...
  • Official Truth Comission Report now Available
    Photo by OEA – OAS The Honduran Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, (CVR in Spanish), created in the wake of the 2009 removal of Manuel Zelaya from the Presidency, has made its report available on its website. Apparently this is the full version, complete and underacted. As soon as I read ...
  • Protection or Truth?
    Photo by OEA – OAS An argument in favor of secrecy is that secrecy protects people. In places like Afghanistan, or Honduras, the government is powerless to protect those implicated in international intrigues or scandals. Informants and victims may be targeted for retaliation if they lead to nega ...
  • For Everyone Else…there’s Wikileaks
    What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo. The ingenious ad above highlights the plight of Wikileaks after the US Government either directly, or indirectly, pressured businesses like PayPal and MasterCard to block all their donations. The US and other secretive nations despi ...
  • Mountains of Santa Catarina
    I am working at a factory well outside of Monterrey, which is backed by some of the most amazing mountains I have ever seen. Devoid of trees because of lack of moisture, they show the tortured formations of the earth that thrust them up. Lit by a setting sun after a summer shower, they were [... ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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 nationwide
    The 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 story
    A 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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Should severly obese children be taken away fr ...
    A controversial new opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests taking severly obese children out of their homes and placing them in foster care. Dr. David Ludwig, who co-authored the article, claims he’s not blaming parents but protecting children. State interventi ...
  • Mayor Ed Foster Comments On The State Of Emerg ...
    QUARTZSITE, AZ – The far western Arizona town of Quartzsite was in disarray Monday after the town council ousted the mayor from power and declared a state of emergency, all over an online video that shows a woman being arrested. Mayor Ed Foster said the town council held a last-minute meeting th ...
  • DEADLINE LIVE EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Government Build ...
    A new ‘state-of-the-art’ U.S. base, currently under construction in Puebla, would be used to launch covert operations against drug cartels, says the Mexican opposition party. By Mario Andrade DeadlineLive.info July 12, 2011 Earlier this year, in May, the governor of the Mexican State of Puebla, ...
  • Gore Launches ‘Climate Reality Project,‘ Asks ...
    The Blaze Former vice-president Al Gore is back with a new global warming campaign. This morning, he announced the launch of “The Climate Reality Project,“ an initiative he claims is intended to ”…broadcast the reality of the climate crisis.” In a brief article for the Huffington Post, he lament ...
  • Buzzkill: Fan may owe taxes on rewards for Jet ...
    By Ian Casselberry Yahoo Sports Christian Lopez might end up wishing he kept that baseball after all. Lopez became more than a footnote to the spectacle of Derek Jeter(notes) getting his 3,000th hit on Saturday at Yankee Stadium by returning the milestone baseball to the New York Yankees shortst ...

The Air Vent

  • Chugging Along
    Steve Mosher has continued his work on GHCN station global temperature reconstruction package in R.  The most recent version is documented in his blog here.  He has developed an elegant set of commands for computing global temperatures in R and is working on release of an R library package for t ...
  • Decisions we don’t need your help with
    One of the several ignorant things that president Bush did was sign a law banning incandescent lights. Yes it came from a liberal House and Senate but he did sign it. It looks like the House will send a repeal of it up for vote shortly but it won’t likely get past our anti-economic growth presi ...
  • Uncertainty in Air Temperatures
    Pat Frank has a new article recently published in E&E on the statistical uncertainty of surface temperatures.  He has requested an open venue for discussion of his work here.  This is an opportunity for readers to critically asses the methods and understand whether the argument/conclusion is s ...
  • Climate Sensitivity – NicL
    Nic Lewis asked me to post a link to Judith Curry’s blog carrying a letter to Gabi Hegerl regarding the significant problems in AR4 working group 1 forcings.   As I understand it, this was the only non-modeled forcing analysis presented in AR4.  In other words, the only truly observed data ha ...
  • The IPCC’s alteration of Forster & Gregory’s m ...
    Nic Lewis has made an interesting discovery deep within AR4, he sent some information on it to me last month.   It appears that the likelihood of high climate sensitivity was a little tweaked with respect to the cited literature.  He’s asked me to carry the link as he posted it on Judith Curr ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Yahoo, Photos, Mobile, Quizzes, Yelp and More ...
    There was a varied mix of applications on our list of apps growing by daily active users this week. Yahoo’s app topped the list, but then there were horoscopes and photos and Windows’ app and the Spanish version of Phrases. Mobile apps were on the list, in addition to a handful of social apps, Y ...
  • Facebook Scraps Little-Used App Directory, Sim ...
    The primary means of app discovery on Facebook is sharing between friends, but the company is today announcing changes to the other options — search, and its Application Directory. “Many developers have been confused about what it means to submit to the App Directory and frustrated by the length ...
  • Facebook Testing Location-Based Check-In Deals ...
    Yesterday we confirmed that Facebook will soon begin limited private testing of a tool for corporations with local branches that allows corporate Page admins to manage the Places of their branches. As part of this parent-child limited private beta, corporations can also access a new Facebook Che ...
  • New “Facebook for Every Phone” App Brings Phot ...
    Today, Facebook officially launched “Facebook for Every Phone”, a downloadable native mobile app compatible with 2500 different feature phones. The app is a rebranding and improvement on the “Facebook for Feature Phones” app Facebook built with Snaptu before it acquired that company in March. T ...
  • Report: Percentage of Companies Recruiting on ...
    The 2011 Jobvite Social Recruiting Survey released today showed that 55.3% of companies now use Facebook for recruiting, up just 0.7% since 2010. This indicates that the recent proliferation of social recruiting tools has not changed perceptions of the purpose of Facebook or led to a significant ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Rupert Murdoch: Anthony Blair’s bagman
    Christopher King considers whether the unravelling of Rupert Murdoch's power in the UK will serve as a wake up call to British politicians whom for years he has targeted on behalf of the US and Israel.
  • Gaddafi delegation visits Israel for support, ...
    A senior delegation from Libyan mafia boss Muammar Gaddafi has visited Israel, met opposition leader and war crimes suspect Tzipi Livni and handed her undisclosed "digital media", according to Israeli Channel 2 TV on 11 July. (The "digital media" possibly consists of information about Palestinia ...
  • Britain staring into the abyss of a new Dark Age
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the cancer in the British body politic exposed by the crisis engulfing Rupert Murdoch's media empire and ignited by the gutter tabloid News of the World's phone hacking and police bribery scandal, is only the tip of the iceberg and that the British people must now w ...
  • Gaza flotilla, "flytilla" and the prospect for ...
    Gilad Atzmon argues that this year's Gaza flotilla has succeeded even without reaching Gaza, in that it has highlighted the true nature of Israel. But he says that pro-Palestinian activists must now turn their focus closer to home "to locate [Israel's] mercenaries around us, in our media, politi ...
  • US Independence Day reflections
    Paul J. Balles reflects on the US Independence Day and asks: if, as the American Declaration of Independence says, "all men are created equal", then why do Americans act as if that fundamental principle applies only to citizens of the USA?

Amazon Rainforest

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

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 & Editorials
    Pakistan 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 ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • A Game of Chicken, Who is Going to Blink First?
    Is it a game of chicken, this debate over the debt limit crisis? It's typical of the dysfunction that reigns in Washington. Maddening yet understandable as the real joke is on the people for acquiescing and tolerating this charade. We need to push for citizens backed publicly financed elections ...
  • CIA Likely To Continue Criminal Ways Under Pet ...
    Washington Post columnist David Ignatius writes that General Petraeus is a regular guy and may be just what the CIA needs to do its job---without questioning what the basic job of the Agency is.
  • Representative Moran (and 25 others): Conned b ...
    A town hall forum convened by my US representative turned out to be an exercise in right-wing indoctrination by an outside group.
  • Is News Corp Finished - Senator Rockefeller Te ...
    Jay Rockefeller raises the key question about Rupert Murdoch - is he as big a monster over here as he is in the United Kingdom? Did Murdoch's US operations behave like his UK operations. Good question. We know the answer.
  • Corporate States of America?
    Americans have long had a sneaking suspicion that there was a "hidden hand" directing our government in Washington and the states, and they were right.

Switchboard

  • Wake-Up Call From Yellowstone: Keystone XL Mus ...
    Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City Like Americans everywhere, I've been sickened and outraged to see 42,000 gallons of toxic crude oil coursing through the Yellowstone River, one of our last wild waterways, vital to fish, farmers a ...
  • Through the Looking Glass: Chemical Industry t ...
    Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney, Washington DC Tomorrow morning, the House Science Committee’s Investigation and Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on EPA’s premier program for assessing the dangers of chemicals.   It is called the IRIS pro ...
  • GAO Report Confirms That Politics, Not Science ...
    Mae Wu, Program Attorney, Washington, DC Five months ago, we heralded the Obama Administration’s decision to regulate perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, in drinking water. Up until then, perchlorate had been contaminating drinking water all ...
  • 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 ...
  • Great Lakes National Parks Hurt By Climate Dis ...
    Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York Our National Parks have been called 'America's Best Idea.' But a new report we've released today with the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization shows how National Parks in the Great Lakes regi ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Murdoch Crime Family…
    …will not be fully taking over BSkyB, at least for the time being.   And, yes, it seems implausible that the criminal activity was limited to one country.
  • South Sudan
    This week’s column at WPR falls safely within the genre Unwarranted Advice that South Sudan Should Probably Ignore: Military Organization Edition: Small and well-trained is better than big and clumsy. Make sure your army is part of regional and global exchange and training networks. Acknowledge ...
  • Diving in the Women’s Game (Soccer)
    While the Americans are preparing for tomorrow morning’s France v USA (and the English are conducting their time-honored post-tournament collapse bickering), the NYT wrote about a paper comparing rates of simulation in both the women’s and men’s games. The upshot is that simulation is rife in th ...
  • Mitch McConnell is trying to play a busted hand
    For sheer cynicism it’s hard to top McConnell’s latest bright idea, which is essentially to pass legislation that will give the Obama administration the power to raise the debt ceiling, subject to a 2/3rds over-ride by Congress. The practical effect would be to raise the debt ceiling while allow ...
  • This Date in Labor History: July 12, 1917
    The summer of 1917 was tense in the United States. The entrance of the nation into World War I that spring seemed to place the entire nation on edge. Progressivism, a diverse movement with widely mixed motivations among its members, showed its dark side like never before, using the increasingly ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Pro bono catastrophe?
    Law firm pro bono is not broken, but it must be rethought and renewed if we are to honor our ethical obligations and fulfill our promise to society in these difficult and changing times.
  • Federal Circuit affirms inventor's loss to Nik ...
    A District of Nebraska award of nearly $412,000 in attorney fees and costs to an inventor who sued Nike Inc for patent infringement has survived an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. But the court also affirmed the trial court's finding of noninfringement.
  • Sedgwick argues malpractice claim is time-barred
    A court-appointed receiver cleaning up after an alleged Ponzi scheme is barred by the statute of limitations from filing a $200 million malpractice suit against Sedgwick, the San Francisco firm argued in court papers filed on July 11.
  • Senate Republican joins the ABA's inquisitors ...
    Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter on July 11 to American Bar Association President Stephen Zack asking for written responses to 31 questions about how the organization is regulating law schools.
  • SPECIAL REPORT: WASHINGTON'S MOST INFLUENTIAL ...
    Some on The National Law Journal's list of 20 in-house counsel oversee huge operations. Others are joined by just a few attorneys and work mostly on regional issues. One thing each has in common: They've dedicated themselves to running efficient offices and to providing top-quality service to th ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Drilling Strains 911 Resposes at Tioga Court House
    Being that I now live in south central PA, I listen to the WITF radio station on my way to work and back. They have been doing bits and pieces here and there about the Marcellus drilling and this month they have introduced a program called “State Impact Pennsylvania”.  So far this program seems ...
  • Water Dog Training in July
    I wanted to let everyone know they are planning another basic waterdog training on July 14th from 7-9 at the Tokishi Building in Wellsboro.  Please pass this on to others that may be interested.  There is also going to be another Advanced Training in August. (I will pass on more information as I ...
  • Forced Pooling: When Landowners Can’t Say No t ...
    by Marie C. Baca, Special to ProPublica May 19, 2011 As the shale gas boom sweeps across the United States, drillers are turning to a controversial legal tool called forced pooling to gain access to minerals beneath private property–in many cases, without the landowners’ permission. Forced poo ...
  • Gas industry no longer must comply with stric ...
    Deadline for policy reversal looms TAKE ACTION TODAY The facts: In December, 2010, a policy document was put in place by DEP, advising air quality professionals responsible for permitting of gas industry compressors and other sites to consider the aggregation (total toxic accumulation) of air em ...
  • SPORTSMEN MARCELLUS SHALE SUMMIT
    Saturday, June 4th University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown Campus In the heart of the Marcellus Shale region, sportsmen and women, and conservation groups are working together to identify and propose solutions to mitigate the impacts from gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing on hunting, fishing an ...

News Blaze

  • New Pact Improves Access of Patented HIV/AIDS ...
    The Medicines Patent Pool negotiates with patent holders to share their intellectual property with the Pool, then licensing it to other producers to facilitate the production of affordable generic medicines well-adapted for use in poorer countries.
  • Psychology of Space Exploration: New Book Rele ...
    NASA's History Program Office is releasing a new book that examines the different psychological factors that affect astronauts during space travel, especially long-duration missions.
  • Unwelcome Dragon's Gift
    China's economic aid comes with a price, says the author citing the experience of Namibia and Angola. Sri Lanka's Hambantota port experience also bears this out as the cost of the China aided port is zooming past US $ 2 billion mark
  • Senegal Decides Not to Repatriate Former Dicta ...
    Navi Pillay had called for a stop to his repatriation to Chad over the weekend because she was not satisfied that the conditions for security and fair trial were guaranteed and because there appeared to be a real risk that he would be tortured if he
  • Security Council Adopts Resolutions on Childre ...
    The Council recognized schools and hospitals as safe havens for children, called for all parties to conflict that attack such facilities to be held accountable and that they be added to the list published annually by the United Nations of those who

environment 360

  • Wind Farm Output Increased Tenfold Through Bet ...
    A new analysis by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) finds that the power output of wind farms can be increased tenfold — and with fewer environmental impacts — through better positioning of vertical-axis turbines. Because the large turbines used in most modern wind farms are place ...
  • New Potato Genome Map Could Yield Better, Dise ...
    A consortium of scientists has completed a new map of the potato genome that could help scientists and breeders develop more nutritious and disease-resistant variations of the crop, helping feed rapidly growing Wikimedia populations. Using the latest in genome sequencing technologies, scientist ...
  • Cities Absorb More CO2 Than Previously Estimat ...
    A new UK study says that cities and towns provide a large and underestimated amount of carbon storage, and can soak up even greater amounts of CO2 if city groups and gardeners plant more trees. Using satellite data and information collected during visits to locally owned or managed properties — ...
  • An Arctic Scientist’s Blog: Unraveling Migrato ...
    Steve Zack, a biologist with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, works extensively in Arctic Alaska. In the first of a series of reports for Yale Environment 360, Zack describes how he and his colleagues are using
  • New Nissan System Charges Electric Cars with S ...
    The Japanese automaker, Nissan, has developed a charging system that generates electricity from solar power and stores it in the lithium-ion batteries used in Getty ImagesThe Nissan Leaf its Leaf electric car. On the roof of its global headquarters in Yokohama, the company has installed 488 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • German managers ’keep phones in biscuit tins’
    A German chemicals company said on Monday its managers have begun keeping their mobile phones in biscuit tins during meetings in order to guard against industrial espionage. "Experts have told us that mobile phones are being eavesdropped on more and more, even when they are switched off," Alexan ...
  • 5 Bushehr Nuke Plant Experts Die in Russian Pl ...
    Russia’s top nuclear agency says that five experts involved in the construction of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant have died in Monday’s plane crash in northeastern Russia. Rosatom said Wednesday hat the five men were among 44 passengers of the Tu-134 plane that slammed into highway near the Petroz ...
  • Ex-spy says US officials went after Iraq criti ...
    Officials in the George W. Bush administration may have tried to use the CIA to dig up information on an Iraq war critic in order to discredit him, the New York Times reported. Glenn Carle, who served as a top counterterrorism official in the Central Intelligence Agency, told the Times that offi ...
  • Japan moves "giant step" toward resolving nucl ...
    The operator of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant moved closer to ending its radiation crisis on Monday with the start of a system to cool damaged reactors that could also help avoid dumping highly contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean. The move was hailed as "a giant step forward" by Goshi Ho ...
  • Judges issue Gadhafi international arrest warr ...
    THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Monday for Moammar Gadhafi, his son Seif, and his intelligence chief for crimes against humanity in the Libyan leader’s four-month battle to cling to power. Judges announced that the three men are wanted for orchest ...

Russia Today

  • Israeli law on West Bank boycotts undemocratic ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended the controversial law on boycotts against Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Activists are opposing the bill, calling it a violation of free speech.
  • Triple blast hits India’s financial center
    At least 17 people have been killed and 81 injured as three explosions struck India’s financial center Mumbai.
  • Russia has more in common with US than with Eu ...
    The AMD shield and the Middle East crisis were among the hot issues that were discussed by the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, and US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Wednesday in the course of Lavrov’s...
  • Murdoch waves white flag
    Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has dropped News Corporation's $12-billion bid to buy out the multi-billion dollar broadcaster BSkyB after unprecedented pressure from the UK parliament and Prime Minister David Cameron.
  • Ireland joins junk sovereign debt club
    In another downgrading move, credit rating agency Moody’s has knocked Irish government bonds ratings by one notch to Ba1 from Baa3. European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso describes the decision as...

Not My Tribe

  • Knesset makes BDS movement illegal, says boyco ...
    Following their no hamfisted holds barred blocking of the Gaza aid flotilla, Israel yesterday declared illegal the rising domestic support for the BDS movement. The free speech ban extends even to non-Israelis in the occupied territories. Suggesting it’s not going to be BDS activistists who ulti ...
  • Find the Michele Bachmann inside you
    So Michele Bachmann was a tax collector. Sarah Palin was an oil industry stooge. The media didn’t conjure these villainesses from whole or rare cloth. Most politicians are corporate functionaries before they bill the public to do it. If they haven’t dedicated their lives expressly to destroying ...
  • Next Gaza Freedom Flotilla will be an anti-glo ...
    Israel successfully defended its inhumane siege of Gaza against the Second Freedom Flotilla, currently regrouping in Greece. Let’s recap: the French Dignite Al Karama awaits permission to leave Crete, the Swedish/Greek MV Juliano overcame sabotage which crippled the Irish MV Saoirse and unconfir ...
  • Eduardo Galeano on enthusiasm: keeping the God ...
    Via Adbusters and AcampadaBCN: Eduardo Galeano interviewed in Plaza Catalunya, Madrid, in the midst of the student protests in Spain: I was in El Sol, and here I am seeing a reecounter.The same energy of dignity and the same enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is a Vitamin E, “E” for enthusiasm, which comes ...
  • Tom Hayden says there’s nothing to a US ...
    What an ugly hit piece against Julian Assange, by Tom Hayden in The Nation. Formerly of the American Left, Hayden used to need no introduction, now he mistakenly cross-posts assignments for the State Department (see A view from Sweden). Hayden dismisses notions of a US-led conspiracy to render t ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Are European Nutriton Labels Better?
    Take a look at this product sent to us by Carol. It’s some sort of a chip snack sold in Stockholm. Aside from the beautiful packaging (Swedish design), there is some nutrition information provided as well. Nutrition labeling requirements in Europe are different than ours.  They also vary greatl ...
  • Junk Food Industry Lobbies Use Scare Tactics t ...
    We’ve talked about marketing to children in the past, especially how their young impressionable minds are manipulated by junk food and fast food commercials. 4 government agencies have created a set of VOLUNTARY guidelines for the industry, which they hope will help convince companies to promote ...
  • Fighting Obesity: Hollywood isn’t Helping
    The obesity epidemic has been the subject of our last few posts. On Friday we almost wept reading disheartening stats on obesity growth across the 50 states. Over the weekend we looked at the raging epidemic from a food industry perspective and through the eyes of the restaurant industry. Today, ...
  • Fighting Obesity: The Restaurant Angle
    Guess what? Eating out leads to weight gain. In fact, the USDA calculated that for each weekly meal outside the home, we gain 2 pounds of body weight annually. Here are two more interesting facts: About 30% of our total calories are consumed outside the home. This is double what it was just 30 y ...
  • Fighting Obesity: The Corporate Dilemma
    Infographic: the Wall Street Journal Yesterday’s post on the extent of obesity in the US led to an outpouring of comments an tweets by many of you. No doubt we were all bamboozled by the stats. We’re pretty sure that managers and executives at junk food companies are aware of the numbers. And al ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a LOT of pinback bu ...
    (Ooops, sorry for the absence – I was busy then ill because I’d been busy and also ill because I ate some tasted-fine-but-actually-bad out of date sausages. Yes.) Right then, Nicole has been in touch asking about “pinback buttons”: I have thousands of pinback buttons from a failed work campaign. ...
  • How can I make sure a spray bottle is really c ...
    We’ve had lots of suggestions over the years on how to reuse spray bottles from commercial cleaning products and the like but Nancy has just emailed a related question: First I want to comment that this is a fantastic website! Everyone in the world should be accessing it. My question is this: I’ ...
  • How can I reuse/recycle foil bag linings to ma ...
    We’ve had an email from long-time commenter Melinda: I’ve recently been struck with the foil linings of snack bags, and even dog food bags. Has anyone used these to create something solar, such as a cooker? What items have been put to solar use and how? Making a solar cooker is on my to-do list ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle horse hair?
    We’ve had an email from Bea: I’ve always put my horse’s tail and mane clippings on the his manure heap to compost down but I recently wondered if I could use them for something else instead. I’ve heard of horse hair mattresses but don’t think I have enough for that! According to Wikipedia, horse ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle door handles/door k ...
    We’ve had an email from Jill: The last people who lived in our house were obsessed with those naff fake gold handles. We’ve just changed them all out but now have a stash of really ugly handles. Can they be recycled? They probably can be recycled with normal metal scrap – I’m not sure what [...]

Age of Autism

  • The Environment of Medical Intervention
    By Julie Obradovic As we learned last week, a new study released by the NIMH has determined that the environment plays a larger role than genetics in Autism than previously thought. Combined with a study released the same day that...
  • SmartVax: A Website to change the Discourse on ...
    By Scott Laster, SafeMinds SafeMinds was founded to raise awareness, support research, change policy and focus national attention on the growing evidence that environmental triggers contribute to neurological disorders such as autism, attention deficit disorder, language delay and learning diffi ...
  • When I Can Do Nothing
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. I've been very busy lately. Unfortunately, I can't talk much about it. What I can say is that on some level, my prayers to God for an understanding of the autism epidemic have been answered. I...
  • Amish & Autism
    By Anne Dachel I had a hard time understanding Seth Mnookin's latest piece about the Amish and autism. He trashes the idea that the Amish don't vaccinate. We're told that "at least some of their children had received at least...
  • Autism Science Digest August Issue: ADHD Treat ...
    Get your 160-page August edition of Autism Science Digest -- the magazine that gives you the value of a book! See what subscribers around the world are reading. Subscribe HERE. The August issue's articles include: Cerebral folate deficiency in autism...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • New Zealand’s new record coldest day
    Stuff – Climate scientists trawling through old records have unearthed the coldest day ever recorded in New Zealand. The previous lowest recorded daily minimum temperature record was minus 21.6degC, recorded at Ophir in Central Otago in 1995, but now the official low has plunged to minus 25.6deg ...
  • Minnesota shutdown longest in recent history, ...
    Reuters – The Minnesota state government shutdown, now the longest in recent memory in the United States, reached its eleventh day on Monday with no new talks planned between the political leaders. Read article
  • Pakistan: U.S. drone kills 12 suspected militants
    The Washington Times –  suspected U.S. drone fired missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan very close to the Afghan border Monday, killing 12 alleged militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The attack came a day after the Obama administration announced it was suspending $800 mill ...
  • Pipeline blast in Egypt
    Reuters – A natural gas pipeline is attacked for the second time in a week in Egypt. Julie Noce, reports.
  • British government tries to halt Murdoch Sky bid
    Reuters – The British government endorsed a move in parliament to block Rupert Murdoch’s bid for broadcaster BSkyB on Tuesday, casting more doubt on his hopes to expand in television despite a widening scandal over phone-hacking by one of his newspapers. By joining a phalanx of resistance to the ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Report raises questions about EPA's 2008 perch ...
    The Bush White House played a role in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's controversial 2008 decision not to regulate the drinking water contaminant perchlorate, according to a congressional watchdog agency. In a report released Tuesday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office...
  • Solar panel rebate program may relaunch in L.A.
    The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the nation's largest municipal utility, will hold public workshops this week in an effort to relaunch its troubled solar panel incentive program. In April, the city shut down the program after it...
  • Trash trucks fueled by 'trash gas': a growing ...
    The company that operates the largest trucking fleet in the waste industry is fueling more and more trucks with so-called trash gas. On Tuesday, Houston-based Waste Management Inc. will add its 1,000th truck fueled with natural gas. Powered with captured...
  • Victim of Yellowstone grizzly bear mauling was ...
    Officials at Yellowstone National Park have identified the victim in Wednesday's fatal grizzly bear mauling as 57-year old Brian Matayoshi of Torrance. The bear's defensive attack was so rare, officials called it a "1 in 3-million" occurrence. In a news...
  • Grizzly bear kills hiker in Yellowstone Nation ...
    when they encountered the sow and her cubs. The bear, apparently reacting to the perceived threat to her cubs, fatally attacked the man, park officials said. The woman was unhurt.

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • John Oliver Explains the Wire Tapping Scandal ...
    Are you taking the wire tapping scandal too seriously? Angry with Murdoch for being a scum? Let John Oliver explain it all, and give you a chuckle. **Humor**Submitted by Kit B. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Greed at a Glance
    Where does the money go? Are we really stuck because of Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security? Are the social programs draining us like vampires? Or is there another reason? Seldom looked at and totalling billions when all is considering - subsidies.Submitted by Kit B. to Business �|� �Note- ...
  • Trickle-Down Cruelty and the Politics of Austerity
    There is a certain irony in the fact that the party of debt has now become a flock of austerity hawks. This is the same Republican Party that gave us two wars, an increase in military spending and whopping loss of tax revenues due to tax breaks -->Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
  • Denial of an Increased Debt Ceiling
    Margaret Mayer blasts the right wing idiots who are playing Russian roulette with our economy. All sane economists say defaulting on our debt will result in some kind of economic disaster. How bad shouldn�t even be debated. This problem needs fixed-NOW!Submitted by Jed Lemon to US Politics & Go ...
  • Syrian protesters attack US, French embassies
    Hundreds of Syrian government supporters attacked the U.S. Embassy in Damascus Monday, smashing windows and spray-painting walls with obscenities and graffiti that called the American ambassador a �dog.Submitted by Joseph M. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • United States: Companies Making Solar Power Ac ...
    For years one of the biggest deterrents for consumers and power companies to implement solar generating systems has been cost. Coupled with lack of information or streamlined infrastructure, for many, the hassle and money have outwe ...
  • San Diego Gas and Electric Adds More Renewable ...
    San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), a Sempra�Energy (NYSE:�SRE) subsidiary, recently announced that it has signed two power read more
  • LADWP Reconsiders Solar Incentive Program
    The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the largest municipal utility in the U.S., is reportedly ready to reintroduce a solar incentive program (SIP) it abruptly dropped in April, ostensibly to address issues like lac ...
  • AEP Takes the Lead on Developing Ohio's Larges ...
    American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) announced that it's subsidiary AEP�Ohio will invest US$20 million in the development of a solar farm in Noble County, Ohio. read more
  • L'Oreal Installing Solar in U.S. Manufacturing ...
    L’Oreal, the world’s largest beauty and cosmetics group, plans to install a solar system in it’s New Jersey plant and have it fully operational by the end of this year. read more

News Blaze

  • New Pact Improves Access of Patented HIV/AIDS ...
    The Medicines Patent Pool negotiates with patent holders to share their intellectual property with the Pool, then licensing it to other producers to facilitate the production of affordable generic medicines well-adapted for use in poorer countries.
  • Psychology of Space Exploration: New Book Rele ...
    NASA's History Program Office is releasing a new book that examines the different psychological factors that affect astronauts during space travel, especially long-duration missions.
  • Unwelcome Dragon's Gift
    China's economic aid comes with a price, says the author citing the experience of Namibia and Angola. Sri Lanka's Hambantota port experience also bears this out as the cost of the China aided port is zooming past US $ 2 billion mark
  • Senegal Decides Not to Repatriate Former Dicta ...
    Navi Pillay had called for a stop to his repatriation to Chad over the weekend because she was not satisfied that the conditions for security and fair trial were guaranteed and because there appeared to be a real risk that he would be tortured if he
  • Security Council Adopts Resolutions on Childre ...
    The Council recognized schools and hospitals as safe havens for children, called for all parties to conflict that attack such facilities to be held accountable and that they be added to the list published annually by the United Nations of those who

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • U.N. Seeks Controls on Private Armies
    UNITED NATIONS - With U.S. and Western military forces planning to gradually withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, there will be an increasing demand for private military contractors to provide security in both politically-troubled countries. As a result, the number of military contra ...
  • Bernie Sanders to Obama: Keep Your Word on Soc ...
    The Senate’s left flank continues to be unhappy with President Obama’s willingness to discuss entitlement reform in the current deficit talks.  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) noted Tuesday in a speech on the Senate floor that Obama had vowed not to cut Social Security when running for president in ...
  • Japan PM Says Country Should Aim to Be Nuclear ...
    TOKYO — Japan's centre-left Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Wednesday that the country must gradually reduce its reliance on atomic power with the eventual goal of becoming nuclear-free. Four months after the March 11 quake and tsunami triggered the Fukushima nuclear accident, the world's worst si ...
  • Radioactive Beef Already Sold, Eaten
    The meat of six cows shipped from a Fukushima Prefecture farm at the heart of growing concerns over radioactive beef has been distributed to at least nine prefectures, including Tokyo and Osaka, and some was believed consumed, local government officials said Tuesday. The cows ate the same straw ...
  • Embattled Colombian Unionists Rally Against ‘F ...
    Gathering with fellow unionists in Washington, D.C., Jose Hugo Yanini speaks firmly about labor rights in Colombia. But a few weeks ago, the industrial janitor and shop steward feared that he soon might never utter another word. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Is News Corp Finished - Senator Rockefeller Te ...
    There are some crimes so universally offensive that even mentioning the suspected crime has devastating effects. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) raised just such a question yesterday. In a brief press statement, the Senator said: "The reported hacking by News Corporation newspapers against a ...
  • Sensationalism In America's Media
    by Stephen Lendman Its history is long and sordid, dating back centuries elsewhere since the 1500s or earlier. In 19th century America, the penny press and yellow journalism featured it with regular coverage of crime, tragedy, gossip, and other ways to stimulate sales. Newspaper editor F ...
  • Israel's Knesset Passes Boycott Prohibition Bill
    by Stephen Lendman Israeli outrages never quit. Besides lawlessly stealing Palestine, slaughtering and dispossessing its people, occupying its remaining 22% for over 44 years, blockading Gaza, committing high-seas piracy and murder to keep out humanitarian aid, and arresting European and oth ...
  • France Says NATO Bombing Has Failed
    By FRANKLIN LAMB Tripoli One of the jokes heard at this week’s massive pro-government Friday post prayer rally at Green Square (in most of the other Arab countries Fridays are days of rage against the government du jour but in Libya Friday prayers are followed by massive pro-Qadaffi rallies, a ...
  • America's Dirty War on Islam
    by Stephen Lendman America's dirty war, in fact, targets Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, political activists, and Muslims for their faith, ethnicity, and at times prominence and charity, exploiting them as "war on terror" scapegoats. On July 9, a Press TV US prison system racket inter ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Say Yes to the Breast-Part 2
    WWH-After being notified that they found “something” from my recent mammogram, I was instructed to schedule another mammogram. Say Yes, to the Breast, Part 1 During my routine mammogram, I was asked to undress and put on a robe. This time, they instructed me to undress and put on a small cape. I ...
  • U.N. says U.S. broke torture rule in denying a ...
    By Stephen C. Webster, Rawstory – On the same day that a major human rights organization issued a scathing report on Bush-era prisoner abuses, the United Nations alleged that the United States had violated a “long-standing” rule meant to prevent the torture of prisoners, by denying an official a ...
  • “Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Adm ...
    hrw.org - (Washington, DC) – Overwhelming evidence of torture by the Bush administration obliges President Barack Obama to order a criminal investigation into allegations of detainee abuse authorized by former President George W. Bush and other senior officials, Human Rights Watch said in a repo ...
  • Are We All Just Homogeneous Globules of Desire?
    posted by AMAN SINGH – Should there be a limit to the amount of money that an individual can earn in todayâs society? âHard work should define earning potential.â âNo, we do need limits. Just like in big companies, how much the top layer makes is usually capped in relationship to how much the lo ...
  • Why is the Gates foundation investing in GM gi ...
    guardian.co.uk – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is sponsoring the Guardian’s Global development site is being heavily criticised in Africa and the US for getting into bed not just with notorious GM company Monsanto, but also with agribusiness commodity giant Cargill. Trouble began ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Barack Obama: A Mediocre President
    Join the forum discussion on this post In 2008, I believed all year long that Barack Obama would win the presidency. Even when Hillary Clinton was still the favorite to win the nomination, I thought Obama’s charisma would ultimately win him the Democratic nomination, and then the presidency. Th ...
  • What Happened at Choren?
    Join the forum discussion on this post If you have not heard by now, Choren Industries has begun bankruptcy proceedings. For those who don’t know, since 2009 I have worked as the technology advisor for the major investor and primary funding source for Choren’s day-to-day operations. I have just ...
  • Chinese Energy Policies Harming Neighbors
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. âââââââââââ China’s omnivorous energy requirements have been attracting increasing attention as of late, as Beijing attempts to secure any and all sources of power for its growing industrial base. Nowher ...
  • Book Review: Cracking the Carbon Code
    Join the forum discussion on this post Introduction In Cracking the Carbon Code, Terry Tamminen lays out his strategy for managing and reducing carbon emissions. He describes what California has done. He describes great strides that China has made. He describes his strategic meetings on the ...
  • Worldwide Nuclear Industry Woes Deepen
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. ——————————– The year 2011 will go down for the nuclear industry worldwide as an annus horribilis. First came the March Fukushima nuclear disaster, with operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) belatedly ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • What You Get from Your Pet
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA— Have you ever felt that your cat or dog is more of a friend than a pet? read more
  • Genetically Engineered, Herbicide-Enabling Gra ...
    RODALE NEWS, NEW YORK, NY—Despite mounting evidence that using the chemical weed killer Roundup creates health threats and food security issues—among them are birth defects, plummeting nutrients in food crops, and hard-to-kill superweeds—the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) this month anno ...
  • Tree Deaths Linked to Popular New Weed Killer
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Like prescription medicine, chemical pesticides often cause unwanted side effects, and that's believed to be the case with read more

big think

  • Lesson 19: RFK; The Language of Atonement, and ...
    Yesterday’s announcement that Robert F. Kennedy’s papers are being reviewed inspired us to revisit one of the former Attorney General’s finest speeches, one we have not written about here before. It was a speech given only three years following the assassination of RFK’s brother, and one given a ...
  • Are Western Companies Polluting China's Rivers?
    What's the Latest Development? Following a Greenpeace investigation into corporate responsibility in China, the environmental group reports that large textile factories, which often supply Western clothing companies, regularly release toxic chemicals into China's rivers. "The Youngor facility ...
  • Competition Comes to Space Industry
    What's the Latest Development? The private pace venture Space-X is investing money into the Vandenberg Air Force Base to make is facilities suitable for launching rockets into space. Space-X's latest project is a heavy-lift vehicle called Falcon Heavy which it expects can carry a payload of 11 ...
  • One in Ten Species at Risk of Extinction
    What's the Latest Development? A recent study out of Exeter�University�in the U.K. examines�nearly 200 predictions of the future effects of climate change from studies conducted around the world, as well as 130 reports of changes which have already occurred. "The research shows that on average ...
  • Atlantis Makes Space Station Delivery
    What's the Latest Development? Astronauts at the International Space Station (I.S.S.) have received a year's worth of supplies from the crew aboard the Atlantis, the last of N.A.S.A.'s space shuttles to ever visit the I.S.S. as the program will be terminated once the current mission in complet ...

Information Liberation

  • Police Issue Tresspass Warnings & Arrest for " ...
    July 6, 2011 - The organization known as Food Not Bombs continued to share food in Orlando's Lake Eola Park in spite of over 30 of their members or supporters having already been arrested for it.......
  • Sinking Entrepreneurship
    It happens every spring. Umpires shout out to grown men, *Play ball,* and bureaucrats shout out to kids, *Shut down that lemonade stand.* While the latter might not happen every year, it happens often enough. Sometimes a mayor will trot out, tell...
  • Woman Faces 93 Days in Jail for Planting Veget ...
    OAK PARK, Mich. (WJBK) * *The price of organic food is kind of through the roof,* said Julie Bass. So, why not grow your own? However, Bass* garden is a little unique because it*s in her front yard. *We thought it*d be really cool to do it so t...
  • Did The Entertainment Industry Backdoor In For ...
    Never underestimate just how sneaky entertainment industry lobbyists can be. They're able to push through all sorts of things that appear innocuous at first, but down the road turn out to be anything but. The ProIP Act (not to be confused with the ...
  • Ten Myths About Patents
    Patents were an instrument during the guild era that regulated how knowledge could pass from master artisans to their apprentices. For some reason, this monopolization on knowledge and brake on innovation has survived into the free enterprise age, af...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • More pretty, ugly people
    On Monday I posted a Youtube clip revealing a weird perception phenomenon in which even the prettiest girl seems to appear, fleetingly, as if she were an ogre or a troll. Take a look at the ugly pretty girl phenomenon here. I’m never satisfied to simply echo what others have said, so contacted c ...
  • Ugly, pretty girls
    This is just plain odd. An accidental discovery. But, why does it happen? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what if something more subtle is occurring? The phenomenon is known as “flashed face distortion effect” and is described in a research paper thus: “We describe a novel face distort ...
  • Red Bull Formula 1 Car Manual
    Red Bull Formula 1 Car Manual – This book, an advance copy of which just pulled into the pits at Sciencebase Central, describes itself as “An insight into the technology, engineering, maintenance and operation of Red Bull racing. It’s the Haynes manual for the F1 car, the owner’s workshop manual ...
  • Can you blame the environment for your bad habits?
    Live fast, die young. You’re a long time gone. Sleep when you’re dead. The hedonists mantras. Lifestyle choices whether in terms of food consumption, alcohol and drugs or sexual activity are down to the individual. Nannying by governments, who have their own mantras: Smoking Kills, Know your lim ...
  • Watch the last Shuttle launch live
    UPDATE: The Orbiter made it into orbit, the live stream is now ended. I’ll replace the video embed with a Youtube clip to re-run the launch… A group of us skipped a high school physical education class to watch the very first shuttle launch way back when. At the time, we assumed they’d be launch ...

RFF Library

  • Statement of Administration Policy: H.R. 2018 ...
    White House http://1.usa.gov/r0QHoP The Administration strongly opposes H.R 2018 because it would significantly undermine the Clean Water Act (CWA) and could adversely affect public health, the economy, and the environment. Under the CWA, one of the Nation’s most successful and effective environ ...
  • H.R. 2018: Clean Water Cooperative Federalism ...
    112th Congress, 2011-2012 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-2018 [CRS Summary]  Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011 – Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection ...
  • Biofuels: Challenges to the Transportation, Sa ...
    Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-513 U.S. transportation relies largely on oil for fuel. Biofuels can be an alternative to oil and are produced from renewable sources, like corn. In 2005, Congress created the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which requires transp ...
  • Safe Drinking Water Act: EPA Should Improve Im ...
    Government Accountability Office www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-254 Under 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act, every 5 years the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to determine for at least five contaminants, such as chemicals, whether regulation is warranted, considering those tha ...
  • Safe Drinking Water Act: Improvements in Imple ...
    Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-803T EPA has not effectively implemented the 1996 amendments’ requirement to consider, for regulatory determinations, contaminants that present the greatest public health concern. The contaminant candidate list that the amendmen ...

Scientific American - News

  • Economists Find Flaws in Federal Estimate of C ...
    Uncle Sam's estimate of the damage caused by each ton of carbon dioxide is fundamentally flawed and "grossly understates" the potential impacts of climate change, according to an analysis released July 12 by a group of economists.�The study found the true cost of those emissions to be far beyond ...
  • Killing Average: Can Researchers Find the Most ...
    Would you buy a product that promised that 60 percent of the time it works every time? Maybe for caricature news anchors like Ron Burgundy , there is no question that a method (exotic cologne) with this type of track record (for attracting women) would be a good investment. But what if that rat ...
  • Teenage Cancer Researcher Wins Top Prize at Go ...
    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--A high-school student from Fort Worth, Texas, won top honors July 11 at the first annual Google Science Fair for her project on drug resistance in ovarian cancer. Shree Bose, 17, investigated the connection between an enzyme called AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and r ...
  • Down to the Final 15 at the First-Ever Google ...
    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The finalists are here, the exhibits are on display and now it is up to the judges to pick a winner. Given the quality and breadth of the 15 finalist projects in the inaugural Google Science Fair , choosing the top entrant is an unenviable task. [More]
  • Experts Skeptical about Potential of Rare-Eart ...
    There in the mud, just waiting to be scooped up, is a natural resource deposit potentially worth billions and billions of dollars. It contains chemical elements needed by automakers, by manufacturers of consumer electronics and by green technology developers--elements for which China currently ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • SFU: A no longer radical, now reactionary campus
    The SFSS CUPE Lockout and SFPIRG eviction This article was posted on Politics Respun on July 8, and is republished here with permission from the author. There’s an almost mythical status to the label that Simon Fraser University used to p ...
  • Baltimore Workplace Democracy Diary
    Last weekend, I attended the Eastern Conference on Workplace Democracy in Baltimore, Maryland. Over 200 people (a record turnout for this conference) ...
  • Des Organisations à Montréal Envoient une Lett ...
    Montreal Groups Issue Letter of Support for the Hunger Strikers in the SHU at Pelican Bay State Prison and other California Prisons Au Directeur de prison Lewis, au Secrétaire Cate et au Gouverneur Brown: Nous, soussignés, vous écrivons ...
  • Ripoff Rezoning in East Vancouver's Norquay
    Tomorrow is the day. The day I hand a two-page list of questions to Vancouver City Councillors about the literally shady proposal to rezone 2699 Kingsway, the famous old location of Wally's Burgers, that icon of the fifties Vancouver. At ...
  • Global Day for Syria
    Audio from June 11 Montreal demonstration This segment features interviews and sound recorded the day of the demonstration that took place in downtown Montreal on the Global Day for Syria. The demonstration began at Norman Bethune Square a ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Is the world run by Psychopaths?
    Charming, materialistic, aggressive, self-centred, Machiavellian, thrill-seeking alpha males with little respect for rules who eat stress for breakfast � sound like a banker you know? If so, think again: it is a summary of the traits of psychopaths. Financial Times There is a class of individua ...
  • Murdoch... Beyond Parody
    This misreading of the political mood has been the thread through News International’s bungled response to the phone-hacking affair. Odd really when one recalls that Rupert Murdoch was once the most politically-attuned and ruthless media proprietor in living memory. Phillip Stephens - Financial ...
  • Marine Le Pen is no Sarah Palin
    Marine Le Pen David Seaton's News LinksMarine Le Pen is the leader of� France's National Front. Right now polls show her probably eliminating Nicholas Sarkozy in the first round of France's next presidential elections and facing a lackluster, Socialist, Martine Aubry, running as a hurried replac ...
  • Sign of the Times: Glenn Beck to address the K ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWe do live in a society in which things have become almost inscrutably complex. (...) I think the rise in autism diagnosis has a lot to do with children coming into a society that no longer makes much sense socially and contains within all the incentives for behavioral m ...
  • DSK: do you have to be nice person to get raped?
    Portrait of a used KleenexAlthough the Manhattan district attorney�s office agreed last week to release Mr. Strauss-Kahn from house arrest, prosecutors said they still believed that there was evidence of a forcible sexual attack. Most of their problems with the case, they said, had to do not wit ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Why Food Addictions Can be as Strong as Drug A ...
    In a study, extracts of wheat grains and potato tubers were found to contain a series of pharmacologically active benzodiazepines -- compounds displaying a high affinity to the central type benzodiazepine receptor (BZR) in the mammalian brain. The chemicals are most likely biosynthesized within ...
  • The Best Foods that Fill You Up and Boost Your ...
    By Ori Hofmekler What you're about to read here may change the way you think about food. Yes, once you see the facts, you'll realize that most of the products on the grocery shelves don't fit your biology. Most of today's dietary products are not designed to keep your body young. The genes t ...
  • The Silent Inflammation That Inflicts 3 Out of ...
    By Dr. Mercola Scientists long ago discovered that a class of naturally occurring pigments called carotenoids held powerful antioxidant properties that are crucial for your health. Carotenoids are the compounds in your foods that give you that vibrant cornucopia of color�from green grasses ...
  • This Breast Cancer Screening May Lead to a SHO ...
    There have been a variety of estimates of the benefits and harms of mammographic screening for breast cancer. �A study aimed to assess the effect of screening for breast cancer on mortality and morbidity. The researchers found that, while screening�was likely to reduce breast cancer mortality, ...
  • Is World's Top Tennis Ace Doing Better Because ...
    After tennis star Novak Djokovic's nutritionist discovered he was allergic to gluten, he switched to a gluten-free diet. Since then he's now been ranked as the number one tennis player in the world and just won Wimbledon for the first time. Those with an allergy to gluten can have trouble diges ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has bee ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of m ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 � In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort � S Shyam Prasad �
  • Pastor arrested for murdering minor girl
    source:  MSN India, 30 June, 2011 � Guntur (AP), Jun 30 (PTI) A local pastor was arrested for allegedly murdering a teenager after she became pregnant with his child, police said today. The victim, identified as Monica (17) from Nadendla village in the district was working ...
  • Conversation with a Convert
    source: The Undercurrent, 26 March, 2011 Somewhere in Tamil Nadu The cab was waiting at the end of the road waiting to take us to our destination. The driver was a 50 something man and there was a picture of the Christian prophet Jesus on his dash board. After a few kilometeres of dr ...
  • Study suggests 'born-again' believers have sma ...
    source:  USA today, May 24, 2011  DURHAM, N.C. � For decades, mainline Protestants have been beset by bad news: declining numbers, aging membership, waning cultural influence.A new study from  Duke University Medical Center, however, gives these Protestants one reason for cheer: they seem ...

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Traitor's Gate: The 274 MPs who voted for YOU ...
    You didn't think we'd let this one pass without mention, did you? On Monday, without so much as a debate, the House of Commons voted to DOUBLE the UK's contributions to the International Mafia Gang known as the IMF. YOU - because it is YOUR money - are now funding these international crook ...
  • South Yorkshire Police Principle Intelligence ...
    We're not writing this. We're quoting, then telling you where to look. "[A] Principal Intelligence Analyst for South Yorkshire Police has spoken out about the July 7th '05 London Bombings. Tony Farrell who has served for the police since 1998 is convinced as he can be that the bombings were a ...
  • Dennis Skinner: Not a fan of eco-loon Huhne, then?
    So, we're bowing to visitor demand for a 'Quote of the Day' special. This is what everybody is looking for - from the as-yet-to-be-signed-off version of Hansard, today's House of Commons exchange on the News of the World phone hacking story: Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover) (Lab): Is it not co ...
  • Diana: Not looking so 'paranoid' now, is she?
    On behalf of Diana, Princess of Wales who is no longer around to defend herself, can we say a ruddy great 'told you so' to all the nasty and mean-spirited people who joined in the bandwagon of calling Diana 'paranoid'. As you know, Diana refused the services of Royal Protection Officers (afte ...
  • "Centre ground of what, sir?" / "Centre of the ...
    Ed Milibland has today announced that he is leading a Labour Party on the new centre ground of British politics. How hilarious. This is the same centre ground where you will find the Liberal Democrats, the Conservative Party, the BBC and the Guardianistas. Problem is, all of these people * ...

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 court
    By 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 camps
    By Viji Sundaram, New America Media With the proceeds from the sale of his parents' home in India, loans from aunts and uncles, and the money he'd saved while working as a welder in the Middle East, Aby K. Raju (at right in photo) was able to scrape together the $20,000 the job recruiter wan ...
  • 'Dirty South' lawmakers working to kill new po ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new rule this week requiring power plants in 27 states in the eastern half of the U.S. to cut smokestack emissions in order to protect the public from health-damaging smog and soot pollution. But two lawmakers from Southern states where big ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Head of ISI Heads to U.S. for Talks Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the head of the ISI, Pakistanâs spy agency, is headed to the United States Wednesday for talks with his U.S. counterparts on intelligence … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Brother of Hamid Karzai Killed in Kandahar The half brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was killed at his home in Kandahar Tuesday. Initial reports suggested he had been shot dead by a bodyguard, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Panetta: Defeat of al Qaeda ‘Within Reach’ On his first trip to Afghanistan since taking over as Pentagon chief on July 1, Leon Panetta said Saturday on his way to Kabul that the United … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group New York Man Convicted of Terror Charges A Brooklyn-born man accused of plotting to kill U.S. soldiers overseas was found guilty on four terror charges by a federal jury in New York on Thursday. … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Republicans Criticize Handling of Somali Terror Suspect GOP leaders are criticizing the White Houseâs decision to hold a captured Somali terror suspect on a U.S. Navy ship for interrogation for two months before bringing … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Netbook Optimized Ping-Eee OS Review
    Most of you must have heard about PinguyOS already, one of my favourite among Ubuntu derivatives. Now, they have released another version of PinguyOS called Ping-Eee OS which is supposedly optimized for small screen netbooks. Interestingly, the release coincided with my purchase of Linux pre ins ...
  • DAISHO Productivity Software for Linux
    DAISHO is a good productivity software for Windows, Mac and Linux. There is a free version called Daisho Basic for Windows and Mac, but many advanced features requires you to buy DAISHO Professional edition. But Daisho for Linux is completely free of charge. DAISHO Productivity Software for ...
  • List of Companies that Pay Royalties to Micros ...
    According to Microsoft, Google's Android OS is infringing on many of its patents and hence those manufacturers who use Android for their devices owe royalties to Microsoft. But the intriguing fact is that, instead of suing Google itself for infringing on its patents, Microsoft is finding it easy ...
  • 10 Popular Real Time Strategy(RTS) Games for Linux
    Except for some really casual games for Linux and the best of paid games for Linux collection, games for Linux and Ubuntu is a category we haven't yet really covered here at all. That is going to change from now on. Here is a quick list of 10 real time strategy(RTS) games for Linux(mostly open-s ...
  • ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Running Ubuntu 11.04[ ...
    This is one of the advantages of having an open device running an open OS. ASUS Eee Transformer Pad is already among the fastest selling Android tablets�out there and it is powered by latest Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS. YouTube user lilstevie89 have managed to install and run Ubuntu 11.04's classic ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • ITALIAN DEBT CRISIS SPELLS ENDGAME FOR THE EUR ...
    Even Germany’s mass circulation Bild newspaper has finally acknowledged that the euro is on the verge of collapse. It reported that the endgame for the euro has begun now that Italy has fallen into the sights of speculators. http://www.bild.de/geld/wirtschaft/italien-krise/schuldenkrise-in-ital ...
  • New bailout blueprint for Greece doubles cost ...
    *For the first time since the eurozone debt crisis began, EU officials are considering allowing a selective default for Greece *New plan will actually cost eurozone tax payers twice as much because it invovles using the eurozone bailout fund to buy back Greek bonds at 50% of their value. *Banks ...
  • OBAMA THREATENS THE LIVES OF 70 MILLION AMERICANS
    As a result of the last US banking crisis in 1931, an estimated five million Americans died. That was the number of people who had vanished into thin air when the next census was taken after a Great Depression and fiscal austerity. This time round 70 million Americans could face life threatening ...
  • NEW WORLD ORDER FICTION: READ THIS ST ...
    You have seen documentaries like Alex Jones’ The Obama Deception about the activites of the New World Order; and you have read the reports on independent websites like Infowars. Now you can read about the New World Order in an exciting new format. Fiction. Fictional works by writers like Shakesp ...
  • REVOLUTION – a poem in English and Germa ...
    Poem with introduction by Bernd Karwath The wheel of history is turning. What happens now will decide the human story for the coming decades or even longer. For the first time, people around the world have begun to feel what connects them – the will to shape a peaceful future dedicated to life ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • A Trompe L’Oeil on the Face of It
    By Les Visible As I was saying… what I notice more than anything these days, is the corruption. Itâs not all I notice. I notice the weariness in people and the fixity of routine. As the world becomes more uncertain, people retreat more completely into the repetition of familiar things. Thereâs a ...
  • I’m with Stupid and Proud of It
    By Les Visible For ten days I didn’t read the news except for twice as a brief scan. I didn’t miss it and it made no difference that I hadn’t seen it. News is just once more packaged product from the ‘shake and bake’ manufacturers. It’s a traveling t-shirt with DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger and all [...]
  • Beware the Gobblegloom, My Son
    By Les Visible I carried a pair of expensive sunglass lenses around for about 15 years in a paper container. Finally, last year, I had then put into some frames and I’ve been wearing them now and again. While returning from Italy I was unable to locate them at the hotel, which marks the halfway ...
  • TSA screener sticks traveler’s iPad down ...
    By Ethan Huff For all the advanced security and screening techniques it uses against innocent air travelers, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) sure has a hard time keeping its own corrupt workers from committing crimes against those it is supposedly tasked with protecting. Acco ...
  • Food tyrants threaten Michigan woman with jail ...
    Food tyrants threaten Michigan woman with jail …, posted with vodpod

Veterans Today

electric politics

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

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

  • Nova Publishers protests that it is not a repu ...
    Yesterday, Nova Publishers commented on my post of April 2011 - "Beware Nova Publishers and Frank or Nadya Columbus – President and Editor-in-chief" - protesting that Nova is not a republishing scam. But I think they do protest too much! Their activities may well be perfectly legal but that they ...
  • Rebekah in Murdoch’s wonderland: Hackers ...
    For the last 10 days the Rupert Murdoch / Rebekah Brookes/ NoTW scandal (broken by The Guardian and their intrepid reporter Nick Davies) has been raging in the UK. It is now a full grown 3-ring circus.
  • Marc Hauser to resume at Harvard
    Marc Hauser of Hausergate fame was found guilty of 8 instances of scientific misconduct and was sent on a “years leave” as his reward. His failings were connected with his research and but he had  (has) the reputation of being a good teacher. Of course since he has tenure (based it would seem ...
  • “for your own good” is the most ar ...
    The height of arrogance is when I am told by someone that I should do something or not do something "for your own good".
  • Jatinder Ahluwalia tries to whitewash himself
    Though reviews by Imperial College (where he scammed himself to a PhD) and the University of East London where he is currently employed have yet to be concluded, Jatinder Ahluwalia is trying to whitewash himself.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Minnesota Govt. Shutdown Also Resulting In Bee ...
    We're doubling down on news related to the Minnesota government shutdown today. A red tape snafu has could potentially leave all Minnesotans without easy access to Coors Light, Miller, Olde English 800 and dozens of additional beers. Meanwhile, bars across the state are running dry because the ...
  • US Bank Lets Minnesotans Affected By Govt. Shu ...
    With the gears of state government ground to a halt in Minnesota, there are thousands of people left without income but who still have payments to make on their mortgages and car loans. But at least one bank has decided to give these folks the option of taking a small breather by allowing affec ...
  • Congressmen Vow To Fight For Your Right To Was ...
    There are only a few months to go before a long-awaited ban on inefficient light bulbs kicks in. And even though Congressional opponents of the regulation failed yesterday in their bid to stop it, they have vowed to continue to fight for your right to buy cheap light bulbs that run up high elec ...
  • Behind The Scenes With Consumerist On The Clar ...
    The Clark Howard Show recently joined us at Consumer Reports' Yonkers offices for a look behind the scenes at The Consumerist. What's an EECB? What's it like to be constantly on the prowl for evidence of the effects of the mythical Grocery Shrink Ray? Why do we post so many cat pictures? Co ...
  • AA Cancels Flight, Leaves Seniors En Route To ...
    Two days before they were to fly to Arkansas for a family wedding and reunion, American Airlines canceled the flight of five seniors, reports CBS Sacramento. They were handed back the frequent flyer miles they had used to buy the tickets, miles they spent years racking up, and told to find anot ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • 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. His article of July 8th asks what sort of agenda Petraeus will pursue and concludes, “America n ...
  • For God’s Sake – Hanging Esmerelda
    Years ago I served the Jacksonville Ministerial Assoc. in charge of Television Programming. On the morning Ted Bundy was executed, I was driving to appear on the “Thought for the Day.” I became appalled at seeing tailgate parties all over the city, complete with banners: “Fry – Ted Fry,” in cele ...
  • From Casey Anthony to Wall Street: Crime Pays
    Soon Casey Anthony will be a wealthy woman while her child, with her mouth and nose closed shut by duct tape, her body stuffed in a bag with vermin eating at her corpse, rests in peace, in heaven, with God. Once again, crime pays. Nobody will be punished for the death of this child. But [...]
  • Nuclear/Chemical Disaster (Part 5): Is Japan’s ...
    Will Japan’s nuclear crisis prompt other countries to suspend, scale back, or even quit nuclear power? Three Mile Island and Chernobyl stopped North America and Europe in their tracks. Could Fukushima do the same in Asia? Not likely, not in Asia, say energy experts – China, India, Korea and Russ ...
  • UPDATED: Murdoch’s Watergate Waterloo WTF Week
    UPDATE: Labour Leader Ed Miliband asked pointedly of the Conservatives: “Will there be any decision on BSkyB while the criminal investigation into phone hacking is going on?” The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has just announced on the floor of the House of Commons the establishment of two inqui ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Lessons in wasting money: Use more wind and so ...
    One windfarm: bad; ten windfarms: useless. If we replace 5% of the power grid with windpower we could reduce our CO2 emissions by 4% or so. (If only there was some point to doing that.) But here’s the non-linearity trap for the fans of green energy. If we replace 20% of the power grid with [...]
  • Barking mad — a nation howling at fireflies
    You don’t need to study any numbers to know it doesn’t add up. The statistical chicanery in a patchwork tax, with a complex compo plan, and offsets, subsidies, and a$10 billion renewable energy* Christmas wish list is as complex as a climate model.  But this time no one is saying “it’s settled” ...
  • The slow death of a great democracy: carbon sunday
    Everyone wants a free lunch, and some people even believe it exists. Julia Gillard is playing to that crowd, offering the impossible. Somehow, we will cool world temperatures while using some of the most expensive forms of energy we can find, and, wait for it, most Australians will become better ...
  • Gillard’s tax on “carbon pollution”: the facts
    It’s 22 times as expensive to to something rather than nothing. Gillard’s tax on “carbon pollution”: the facts The PDF version for printing If the Australian Governmentâs proposal to oblige 500 big âpollutersâ to engage in what the City of London calls âtrading hot airâ were to achieve its state ...
  • Monckton: Is carbon dioxide mitigation cost-ef ...
    Lord Christopher Monckton compares the cost of action with the cost of inaction and finds that even assuming that the IPCC estimates are correct, that would be far more expensive to reduce CO2 than to pay to adapt to the potential damage. He compares 8 case studies of carbon trading schemes, as ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

  • Today's Quote
    "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell
  • Poll: Are the Current E.coli Outbreaks False F ...
    This week, we wanted to get your thoughts on the current E. coli outbreaks. Are they random, unfortunate events? Or is there a depopulation agenda being carried out by the eugenicist global elite? Here's what you thought (click to enlarge):
  • Today's Quote
    "When one does not see what one does not see, one does not see that one is blind" - Paul Veyne� �
  • CIA Report: United States Account Balance = -$ ...
    Let me ask you something: if you're in a massive amount of debt, should you spend even more money? Sorry, stupid question, right? Of course, the answer is "no," you shouldn't. Believers in Keynesian monetary theory -- like Ben Bernanke and his predecessors, as well as past and present Presidents ...
  • The Food Pyramid Becomes...MyPlate!
    Forget the Food Pyramid. The new government food propaganda comes to us in the form of "MyPlate."If you're anything like me, you grew up knowing -- because government said so -- that the way we should eat is as prescribed by the Food Pyramid. The Food Pyramid was "it," man! Everyone was using it ...

2012 Blog

  • Howden Hill > Silbury Jr.
    I’ve often thought that Silbury Hill was unappreciated in the greater scheme of ancient mysteries. Primarily because it is just a hill.  Yet when you look at the figures, it was quite an achievement for its era ... Related posts:Asteroid Tsunamis Not So Bad After All? New Hominid = Myst ...
  • Brisbane Not Safe / Allen West Attacked
    According to Vivos, the American company that constructs the bunkers, âabout two dozenâ Brisbane residents are among âhundredsâ of Australians enquiring about spots in massive underground bunkers that can house 1000 people ... Related posts:Old Missile Silo = Safe Home Thanks Cataclysm, ...
  • Lessons Learned from Falling Skies
    I really enjoyed the first two episodes of the TV series Falling Skies. The media keep providing us with a variety of SHTF scenarios, to the point that most people will have seen at least ... Related posts:New Survivalists Prepare! Vivos: Budget Bunker Space in Nebraska
  • A Bunker for Books
    Hot on the heels of the seed vault in the Arctic comes the brainchild of Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. While Google is busy digitizing the world’s books (and sawing off the bindings ... Related posts:Bunker Guidelines for Victoria, Australia Seed Vaults Protect Your Bun ...
  • Media Coverups
    I guess mainstream media constantly makes decisions on what they should print/air. At one end of the scale they are a commercial enterprise, so they need to be popular, which means airing stories we want ... Related posts:Meteorite Strikes Colombia – Ignored by Media Russia unveils "father ...

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 court
    By 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 camps
    By Viji Sundaram, New America Media With the proceeds from the sale of his parents' home in India, loans from aunts and uncles, and the money he'd saved while working as a welder in the Middle East, Aby K. Raju (at right in photo) was able to scrape together the $20,000 the job recruiter wan ...
  • 'Dirty South' lawmakers working to kill new po ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new rule this week requiring power plants in 27 states in the eastern half of the U.S. to cut smokestack emissions in order to protect the public from health-damaging smog and soot pollution. But two lawmakers from Southern states where big ...

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Oriental Review

  • “For the Revolution from Tunisia to Siberia!”
    Though the globalization and the current financial and economic crisis look true-to life it is not ruled out that they were created artificially and that everything which is going on now is not without a purpose (no matter how indecent it is considered to speak about “global conspiracy” in a dec ...
  • The Mousetrap (II)
    Part 1 As for the post-Soviet Russia on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s dismemberment, it does not appear to be in good shape either. Anders Ãslund, a Swedish economist formerly influential among the Russiaâs âliberal reformersâ, noted in late 2009: âThe country’s economic ...
  • The Mousetrap (I)
    The coming December will mark the completion of two decades of the post-Soviet era.The anniversary of the destruction of the Soviet Union â the world’s second superpower â is an appropriate moment to venture an integral assessment of the tectonic geopolitical shift which left the international c ...
  • Global and Regional Problems of Southern Caucasus
    The South Caucasus has historically held a special place in the geopolitics of the leading European powers. For Russia, it was a gateway to the south, to the Black Sea and Mediterranean region and beyond—to the Middle East. For the major continental powers and the Ottoman Empire it was a natural ...
  • NATO’S “Drang Nach Osten”
    Since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has made no secret of its goal to expand to the east, as well as into North and sub-Saharan Africa.After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, many observers believed that NATO’s ra ...
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