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- IntelFilter World News: 7/15/2011Energy & Economy Peak Oil: Tighter Supply Ahead Why Europe Needs Its Own Energy Agency T Boone...
- Does USA Seek World War III? Agitating Iran, S ...by John Stanton These are gruesome days: the Single Bullet Doctrine rules. The world is truly...
- Taking “Singularity” Apartby Stuart Staniford, Early Warning The term “singularity” as applied to the medium-term...
- The End of Cheap Coalby Richard Heinberg and David Fridley, PCI World energy policy is gripped by a fallacy — the idea...
- American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Ne ...Book review: Jonathan Bloom’s “American Wasteland” and the ethical side of food...
My AntiWar
- Eight People Injured in Baghdad Blast
- Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Gravely Injured in ...
- Reservists Allege Mistreatment by Army
- Pentagon Declares the Internet a War Domain
- US Reassures Pakistan on Civilian Aid
CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
- Russia offers 'phased' approach on IranSummary: Lavrov-ClintonRussia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has laid out a new “step-by-step” approach that would enable Iran to take steps to address questions raised by the UN nuclear agency on the country's nuclear program. source: Press TVread more
- Iran, IAEA agree to clarify misunderstandingsSummary: Salehi described his talks with Amano as "very positive," adding, "It was agreed that experts on both sides would sit down and work out a mechanism to increase cooperation in regard to Iran's nuclear issue in order to clear up existing misunderstandings in a proper way." source: M ...
- The US must end its illegal war in Libya nowSummary: 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 ...
The Daily Galaxy
- Are We Living in a Holographic Universe? This ...What if our existence is a holographic projection of another, flat version of you living on a two-dimensional "surface" at the edge of this universe? In other words, are we real, or are we quantum interactions on the edges of...
- News Flash: NASA Spacecraft to Enter Asteroid' ...NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta today, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid. The main asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study...
- Googols & Galaxies: The Ever Expanding Scale O ...In the past decade, we’ve studied our Solar System’s orbit through the Milky Way to ask whether there may be clues to periodic mass extinctions on our planet. We've launched missions seeking out habitable Alien Earths and the existence of...
- "Earth Pop.1000 to Outer Space": A Single Geno ...Stored inside your genome are clues to the history of humankind, including global migrations and population crashes. So say researchers who have analyzed DNA pioneer, Craig Venter's publicly published DNA sequence, and those of 6 others, to reveal major milestones...
- Thursday News Flash: Sci, Space, TechMystery From the Sun: Huge Solar Storm Still Puzzles 11 Years Later One million degree hot solar plasma travels along magnetic loops in the sun's atmosphere during the Bastille Day solar storm of 2000. Eleven years ago this week, one...
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
- Deadline Looms for Online Gamblers to Petition ...Tens of thousands of U.S.-based internet gamers lost their bankrolls on Black Friday: April 15, the day the federal government seized the finances and domains of the world's largest offshore, online gambling sites.
- Manning-Lamo Chat Logs RevealedA little more than a year ago, Wired.com published excerpts from instant messenger chats between accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo, the ex-hacker in whom he confided and who reported him to the authorities. It's now time to reveal the previously unpublished portions of the ...
- 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 DeconstructedThe 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 ...
PERRspectives : Blog
- Republican Secrets of the DebtOn the same day that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Wall Street rating agencies joined the ever-louder chorus of voices warning Republicans that failure to raise the U.S. debt ceiling would result in "calamity," Speaker John Boehner announced that at leas ...
- 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 StatesDuring 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 ...
Blackspot News Feed
- Culture jamming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCulture 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 JamCulture Jam is the innovative social media technology company behind PromoJam, the ground breaking social marketing platform, and upcoming technologies ...
- Nome, Dagny: Culture JammingFor 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 ArchivesPosted 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.comCulture 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
- Ray McGovern on the Gaza BlockadeAt Consortiumnews.com, Ray McGovern discusses challenging Israel's Gaza blockade, July 13, 2011
- The Real Scandal of US JusticeAt Consortiumnews.com, Michael Winship questions the impartiality of American judges, July 13, 2011
- October Surprise Evidence SurfacesAt Consortiumnews.com, Robert Parry reveals new evidence on 1980 October Surprise case, July 14, 2011
- South Africa's Corruption CancerAt Consortiumnews.com, Danny Schechter reports on corruption in South Africa, July 11, 2011
- Blockades from Boston to GazaAt Consortiumnews.com, Nima Shirazi compares Boston's blockade of 1774 with Gaza, July 12, 2011
TruthOut
- Congress Must Debate the Libya WarThe 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)read more
- 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
- Greenland Glaciers Shrink Fast and Grow FastAccording to geologists at the University at Buffalo, marine-calving glaciers have the ability to not only shrink rapidly during periods of global warming, but to grow as quickly during periods of global cooling.
- Somali Pirates Are Impeding Scientific Observa ...Somali pirates operating in the western Indian Ocean have pushed Australian scientists from CSIRO and the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) to ask the navies of Australia and the United States to help plug a gap in the oceanic observation network known as Argo.
- Rhino Crisis Round Up: Busts Galore, Museum He ...In this week's Round Up: Significant arrests have been made in South Africa and Nepal, while an unspeakable tragedy strikes Kenya. Meanwhile, the rhino horn robberies continue in Europe - and the notorious (alleged) ringleader of a South African rhino horn syndicate has reared his ugly head.
- Activism News {Weekly Round-Up)Some activism news from around from the past week or so....
- Afghanistan Home to Healthy Population of Snow ...Good news from the Wildlife Conservation Society who has reported that a healthy population of snow leopards have been discovered living in the mountainous regions of Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor.
Water Quality - WordPress
- Hello Blue Flag!By: Diva Jenna Ujiye We are so lucky here in Ontario’s West Coast to live in such a wonderful
- Drinking water problems and innovation in IndiaQ. A Dutch company wants to do research on innovative drinking water projects in India and is lookin
- Help Protect Australias Coral SeaThe Coral Sea is a tropical marine jewel which lies east of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. It’s
- Water Dog Training in JulyI wanted to let everyone know they are planning another basic waterdog training on July 14th from 7-
- Secret Pond Storm Water Project--Week 2 UpdateThe Secret Pond storm water project site in Madison, WI as it appeared on Sunday June 26,2011. The p
Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts
- "Regime Change" Right Here in America By Timot ...By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com June 16, 2011 The simple
- William Hague: Following in Churchill's footst ...by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 16 June, 2011 Image by harry ha
- The Weight Of Chains (2010)Dandelion Salad Image via Wikipedia tarabg on Jun 15, 2011 The Weight of Chains is a Canadian docume
- Michael Parenti: Justice For SaleImage by SEIU International via Flickr by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michae
- Project on Government Oversight Refuses to Tak ...by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post June 15,
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 - LebanonSometimes 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
- The Nightowl NewswrapNow would be a good time to dump your News Corp stock "A law enforcement official says the FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims. ... The official spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity b ...
- We ain't stoopid, we're not the Faux News ChannelAnd we ain't Jane Hamsher, either. From time to time we receive communications addressed to us here and at Show Me Progress from individuals shopping a story, sending us a tip, and, every once in a while, bestowing an attaboy or attagirl upon one of our modest mudpies. Today I received an e-mail ...
- Natural Gas Fracking Will Fuck Up Your WorldYet more evidence that natural gas is not only not the "clean, safe" member of the Lethal Fossil Fuel Club, but may be even more dangerous than ocean-killing oil and planet-boiling coal. Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money: NPR had a fantastic story on Friday about the relationship between fr ...
- Kentucky Town Rejects RacistsBerea, of course, is the home of the first interracial college in the South - established in 1855 - so racists have never been welcome there. From the Herald: When Damon Dunson and Melanie Stamper of Berea woke up one morning last week, they said they couldn't believe that someone had used spray ...
- Remembering who they're really mad atI imagine that the republicans thought after their staggering electoral victories last November that their old standby tactic of yelling about taxes and tyranny would be enough to get the American people behind them and turning on that "uppity nigra" in the White House, and they would blame him ...
Care 2
- Los Alamos Lab In New Mexico Prepares For Floo ...Crews at Los Alamos National Laboratory installed barriers to divert water and removed sediment as they work to prevent any trace of nuclear and other contamination from being washed downstream by flooding triggered by a massive wildfire.Submitted by Carrie Burton to Environment �|� �Note-it! ...
- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Under FBI Investig ...A law enforcement official says the FBI has opened an investigation into allegations media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- The Chessmaster Cometh?Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. - Marcel Duchamp -- Another great think piece by William Rivers Pitt --Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Campaign Launched to Heal Paralyzed Lion in BrazilStretched atop a mattress laid out in the living room of an upper class home, Ariel the lion was fast asleep Wednesday as four people gently cleaned and massaged his body.Submitted by Naoko I. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- ACTION ALERT: USDA Wildlife Services Kills Do ...Beginning February 18, 2011 the Walker family's idyllic country home in Texas no longer felt like the haven they had believed it to be. That day Predator Defense was contacted by Angel Walker and her husband J.D. about the poisoning of their beloved Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� ...
Smirking Chimp
- 5 Disastrous Consequences Of A Debt Ceiling Me ...
- Millionaires gather to steal from the old, the ...
- Tomgram: Bill McKibben, The Great American Car ...
- Somebody Got Murdoched, And His Name is Rupert.
- An Adult Conversation
Paul Krugman
- Interest Rate StoriesCrowding out versus solvency.
- Fannie Freddie PhooeySurprise! Phony numbers.
- Obama, Moderate RepublicanExtraordinary concessions, rejected.
- NBERingBeing academic.
- This Morning In PeevishnessYes, I thought of that.
No Quarter
- Are We Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It An ...I am. I am totally fed up with both the Republicans and the Democrats. Let’s start with the Republicans. When Republicans controlled the Presidency and the Senate, what did they do when George W. Bush was in charge? Started an unnecessary war in Iraq that has left Iran as the dominant power in t ...
- About the AvatarIf you don’t like the generic avatar that appears next to the screen name in the comment section then please choose your own avatar. It is simple and straightforward. I originally posted the elegant pink shade wearing Ms. Piggy. Some of you, completely lacking in a sense of humor, took umbrage. ...
- How Can This Happen in the United States of Am ...I have one question: How can this happen to a person who fulfilled her constitutional duty to serve as a juror in the United States of America? (Well, I have one more: Even if you passionately disagree with her decision, would any of you make her life so unbearable that she’d be compelled to lea ...
- Some Things I Don’t GetOne would have to be living under a rock to not be aware of the struggles going on in Washington, SC, over the debt ceiling and the budget. Jay Leno used the following video to sum up the bickering on Capitol Hill: Uh, yeah. That sounds about right. Here’s something I don’t get. President Obama ...
- What? Obama’s Story About His Mom’s Fight for ...Are you sitting down? This story is not only linked on the front page of the New York Times, it comes from a new book by a New York Times reporter. In writing A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obamaâs Mother, author Janny Scott unearthed evidence that Obama’s campaign stump story, his ...
Futurismic
- Personal Information: episode 24Personal 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 extensionVia 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 futuristThe 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
- New Dimensions of Sexual IdentityEveryone has a sexual identity. This might sound like a really simple and obvious thing to say, but I’ve found in my work as a therapist and an educator that people often only think of “gay” and “lesbian” when they hear the terms “sexual identity” or “sexual orientation.” So, the first thing to ...
- Positive Perception May Lessen Teen AnxietyA GoodTherapy.org News Headline Approximately 10 to 15 percent of teenagers experience anxiety issues. But a new study hopes to be able to offer options for treating this problem. Researchers at Oxford University believe that teaching teens to perceive situations in a positive way could prevent ...
- Drug Addictions Becoming More Prevalent in Sub ...A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In a recent article, Dr. Kevin Hill, psychiatrist-in-charge at the drug and alcohol abuse program at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric branch of Harvard Medical School and a worldwide resource on substance use issues, explains why more young people from suburban fami ...
- 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 RelationshipYou 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 ...
Mountaintop Removal
- Robert Kennedy Jr. says West Virginia coal ind ...Robert Kennedy Jr. says West Virginia coal industry out of control in documentary The Seattle Times Robert Kennedy Jr., activist and environmental lawyer, is passionate about ending "mountaintop removal" coal mining in West Virginia. In a phone interview about the documentary film, "The Last Mo ...
- Nature Studies by Michael McCarthy: Precious e ...Nature Studies by Michael McCarthy: Precious estuaries we must protect The Independent A particularly egregious one is mountaintop-removal. This is the scarcely-believable practice, undertaken by American coal-mining companies in areas such as West Virginia, of slicing the top off forested hill ...
- Birth defects linked to mountaintop removal pr ...Washington City Paper (blog) Birth defects linked to mountaintop removal practices UPI.com An aerial view from a aircraft show an Appalachia mountain being mined by the strip mining practice called "Mountain Top Removal" in southern West Virginia, July 24, 2009. This controversial mining techni ...
- West Virginia Tourism & Mountaintop Removal Mi ...West Virginia Tourism & Mountaintop Removal Mining Peter Greenberg.com Travel News Peter and Clara Bingham, producer of the film The Last Mountain discuss the devastating impact of mountaintop removal coal mining. Peter Greenberg: The Last Mountain is an amazing movie about a very important sit ...
- Group holds press conference about MTR in Faye ...Group holds press conference about MTR in Fayette The Fayette Tribune The overwhelming evidence is clear: mountaintop removal coal mining is an economic, community and environmental disaster.� The India-based company called Essar Group owns Frasure Creek Mining, a subsidiary of Trinity Coal. Wi ...
Memeorandum
- Debt limit: U.S. outreach to banks, investors ...Washington Post: Debt limit: U.S. outreach to banks, investors over possible default comes up empty — Obama administration officials have been privately exploring with major banks and foreign investors whether the government could devise a way to avoid a severe disruption in financial market ...
- Phone hacking: News International chief Brooks ...BBC: Phone hacking: News International chief Brooks quits — Media analyst Steve Hewlett: ‘News International appears to be on the run’ — Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, has resigned, the company has confirmed. — Her departure follows days of increasing pressure to ...
- Source: Bachmann raised $4 million in second q ...CBS News: Source: Bachmann raised $4 million in second quarter — A source close to GOP presidential aspirant Rep. Michele Bachmann has told CBS News that Bachmann will report a little less than $4 million raised for her campaign in the second quarter. Bachmann, who kicked off her campaign in ...
- Syrian protests spread into the work week, but ...Liz Sly / Washington Post: Syrian protests spread into the work week, but regime holds firm — BEIRUT — The number of towns and cities where demonstrations against the Syrian government took place wasn't unusual, nor was the casualty toll of eight reported deaths. — But this wasn't a Friday …
- Planned Monument for Mecca Goers Leaves Eilat ...Elad Benari / Arutz Sheva: Planned Monument for Mecca Goers Leaves Eilat Residents Shocked — Follow Israel news on and . — The residents of the southern Israeli city of Eilat are shocked at a plan by the municipality to establish a monument in the heart of the city's downtown to commemo ...
Energy & Environment News
- Dot Earth: Biggest Coal Company and Coal Count ...China and the world's biggest coal company team up on a new mine, and the age of fossil fuels rolls on.
- New Herbicide Suspected in Tree DeathsThe product, Imprelis, was hailed as environmentally friendly but is now a suspect in thousands of fallen trees.
- Green: Walkout Sours Global Whaling ConferenceJoined by allies, Japan, Norway and Iceland leave a whaling conference when countries try to call a vote on creating a whale sanctuary. Usually such decisions are made by consensus.
- Green: Scattered Attempts at Carbon CaptureSome ventures cook coal into a gas and then sequester it; one may sell its carbon dioxide to oil drillers who use it to force petroleum to the surface.
- Green: 'Green' Economy Is Real but Needs a Pus ...While green initiatives are driving growth and innovation, market and policy challenges are preventing them from reaching their full potential, a new study suggests.
5+ quakes - 7 days
- M 5.0, Kermadec Islands regionFriday, July 15, 2011 08:42:09 UTCFriday, July 15, 2011 08:42:09 PM at epicenterDepth: 34.40 km (21.38 mi)
- M 5.1, Kermadec Islands regionFriday, July 15, 2011 05:50:28 UTCFriday, July 15, 2011 05:50:28 PM at epicenterDepth: 43.80 km (27.22 mi)
- M 5.0, Costa RicaTuesday, July 12, 2011 20:51:29 UTCTuesday, July 12, 2011 02:51:29 PM at epicenterDepth: 59.70 km (37.10 mi)
- M 5.0, near the east coast of Honshu, JapanTuesday, July 12, 2011 20:47:11 UTCWednesday, July 13, 2011 05:47:11 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
- M 5.1, Costa RicaTuesday, July 12, 2011 20:18:01 UTCTuesday, July 12, 2011 02:18:01 PM at epicenterDepth: 59.00 km (36.66 mi)
China Dialogue
- Scientists and scepticsOn climate change, vaccine safety and other issues, science is under attack from increasingly vocal critics. Researchers are fighting back, but will they be able to change minds? Andrew Jack reports.Emily Shuckburgh spends much of her time wrapped up against the cold on the far side of the world ...
- Slideshow: Living on scrapsBeijing’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 dotsOften 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 islandsRising 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 ...
AlterNet Top Stories
- Phony victimization ruining American ChristianityAccording to Religious Right Watch, the Family Research Council is asking for folks to pray for Marcus Bachmann’s clinic because supposedly it’s “under siege” by the gay community because of its use of the faulty practice of reparative (”ex-gay”) therapy” Christian Counseling under Assault – ...
- Rachel Maddow, There Is Much, Much More To The ...On Tuesday, Rachel Maddow did the world a favor by airing a series of short video clips of the endorsers of Rick Perry’s upcoming prayer event. The clips were posted by Right Wing Watch, with some originating from Talk2action.org. These video clips should receive much more national exposure, but ...
- Irresponsible Government: Mitch McConnell̵ ...With Mitch McConnell’s “creative” legislative solution to the debt ceiling crisis, the Tea Party GOP’s kamikaze suicide bomber game with the U.S. economy has taken a turn from the absurdly dangerous to the theatrically tragic. I wonder what Robert’s Rules of Order would say about the following: ...
- Big Bank ExorcismsBig Bank Exorcisms In recent days we have challenged the devils in the Deutschbank in Dusseldorf, and the ING and UBS in Amsterdam, and HSBC in Liverpool – laying our hands on the cash machines and calling our demons. What are these exorcisms? Why these muscular hexing prayers at the ATM? Of cou ...
- State Should Take Obese Kids From Parents Say ...Two US doctors published a controversial editorial this week claiming that obesity causes imminent health risks and obese children should be placed in temporary foster homes.
Threat Level
- Deadline Looms for Online Gamblers to Petition ...Tens of thousands of U.S.-based internet gamers lost their bankrolls on Black Friday: April 15, the day the federal government seized the finances and domains of the world's largest offshore, online gambling sites.
- Manning-Lamo Chat Logs RevealedA little more than a year ago, Wired.com published excerpts from instant messenger chats between accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo, the ex-hacker in whom he confided and who reported him to the authorities. It's now time to reveal the previously unpublished portions of the ...
- 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 DeconstructedThe 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 ...
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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 CallCall – 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 – 1/18/2011Little 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 JusticeWarIsACrime.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 TerroristWilliam 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
- Testing for non-O157 E. coli - "American consu ...In response to Obama Administration inaction, Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro issued a statement today following the announcement by Beef Products, Inc. (BPI) that it will begin testing for an additional six strains of E. coli currently not required by the U.S. Department of Agriculture: … We kno ...
- Chronology of the E. coli O104:H4 Outbreak Inv ...According to the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, as of today, the cumulative number of probable and confirmed STEC cases in the EU/EEA is 3,867 (not including six in the United States, including one death). This includes 762 HUS STEC cases and 3,105 non-HUS STEC cases. In tot ...
- 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 ...
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
- Is Reddit the new Twitter? 'Redditor' reports ...Instead of tweeting her harrowing experience waiting for the police to clear a murderer from a nearby apartment, New Jersey resident takes to Reddit. ...
- Spotify promo downs Klout. Was it avoidable?Klout CEO Joe Fernandez speaks about how the rush to check his company's site for free Spotify accounts was too much to handle.
- Jawbone launching Up, a fitness braceletThe maker of Bluetooth headsets and speakers is extending its line to include health and wellness products.
- Exclusive: Retrevo to launch gadget model decoderGadget review site is collecting and presenting data on what that string of letters and numbers in the model number means.
- Fetchmob resembles a crowdsourced KozmoAnother as-long-as-you're-out service is about to launch, but this one has a more karmic motive than competitors.
Camera Obscura
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- 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!
- Book Excerpt: "Haiti: After the Earthquake," B ...Read the first chapter of Haiti after the Earthquake, the new book by Paul Farmer, renowned physician and social justice advocate. On Thursday’s show we will talk to Farmer about his book, and his experience working with Special Envoy for Haiti Bill Clinton in post-earthquake recovery efforts ...
- 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 WarLast 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 ...
Suzie-Q
- FBI to probe ’9/11 phone hacking’BBC15th July, 2011 The FBI is investigating reports that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation sought to hack the phones of victims of the 9/11 attacks. The criminal probe follows calls from a growing number of senators and a senior Republican for an investigation. In an interview with the Wall Stre ...
- US politicians demand phone-hacking investigat ...Politicians call for felony charges if report that News of the World hacked voicemails of victims is found to be true Chris McGreal in Washington The Guardian, Thursday 14 July 2011 Political pressure on Rupert Murdoch has spilled across the Atlantic with a growing number of senior politicians c ...
- The Spell has been BrokenAt the start of this month, says the Guardian, no senior politician dared to defy Rupert Murdoch. Yesterday, all of them did, “and the spell has been broken”. Rupert Murdoch gives up BSkyB takeover bid After the biggest single reverse of his career, the News Corp chief faces an appearance before ...
- Fox News unintentially proves that media does ...Uploaded by mediamatters4america on Jul 12, 2011 Over the past three weeks the network has run dozens of segments attacking Media Matters — on Fox “news” and opinion shows, on the Fox Business Network, and as the top three simultaneous lead stories on its website, Fox Nation. They have repeatedl ...
- 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 ...
Solari
- Cancer: What Would I Do?By Catherine Austin Fitts Questions about cancer seem to percolating these days. I have gotten several questions about what a person should do if they are informed they have cancer. Here is my list of the initial steps I would take: 1. Prayer Cancer is often a symptom of a deeper problem. Praye ...
- Quote du Jour“The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses.” ~ Utah Phillips Related reading: Utah Phillips Wikipedia Bruce âUtahâ Phillips Biography Americans Who Tell The Truth
- Crowd FundingCrowdfunding from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Crowd funding (sometimes called crowd financing, crowd sourced capital, or street performer protocol) describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money and other resources together, usually vi ...
- Quote du Jour“Chance favors the prepared” ~Â From a Steven Seagal movie
- Bohemian GroveBohemian Grove From Wikipedia Bohemian Grove is a 2,700-acre (1,100Â ha) campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, belonging to a private San Francisco-based men’s art club known as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, Bohemian Grove hosts a two-week encampment ...
Insurgency Watch - Newswire
- Times ScareISLAMABAD–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 SpectrumStepping 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
- The Fight for WI Workers Is Still On: Activism ...Nine recall elections over the next six weeks will help gauge the strength of the resistance effort against Scott Walker, and how long it will take to reverse his course.
- 30 Years in Prison For Saying the Wrong Thing? ...The FBI, under considerable pressure to produce results, has resorted to unjust measures to create villains of domestic terror.
- How the FBI Is Entrapping US Citizens to Show ...The FBI, under considerable pressure to produce results, has resorted to unjust measures to create villains of domestic terror.
- 16% Think It's OK for a Man to Hit His Wife? 5 ...A new report reveals that some Americans still think it’s okay for a man to hit his wife, the insane wage gap between women of color and white men, and other disturbing trends.
- Media Chain Gets Media-Reform Video Pulled Fro ...As internet providers take the government's place as copyright enforcers, a media-reform organization finds itself shouted down by a chain of TV stations.
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-choresFamilies 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 weddingsGetting 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 moneyBy 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 propagandaSummary: 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 EasterPress 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 dollarBreitbart – 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 50yrsPressTV – 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
- US Officials: Amb. Ford’s Contacts with Syrian ...U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford recently made news when he traveled to the Syrian city of Hama and joined anti-government demonstrators in a protest against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Syrian activists welcomed Ford and thanked him for his display of solidarity. One Syria expert here ...
- Mind the Impunity Gaps in International LawThis is the first of a series of posts on "impunity gaps" in justice for atrocities that constitute genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. There has been a resurgence of optimism for international and transitional justice because the ICC's judicial intervention in Libya and recent hig ...
- The Death of Ahmed Wali Karzai: Filling the VoidWhen Sardar Mohammad murdered Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half-brother of President Hamid Karzai, on Tuesday, he created a security and political power void in the volatile southern region of Afghanistan. The reason why Mohammad, a close associate and police commander, killed Karzai remains unclear. ...
- Forward and Backward on Latin AmericaOver the last couple of years, I have been increasingly impressed by the work and thinking of Georgetown scholar and now outgoing Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemispheric Affairs Arturo Valenzuela. I didn't start there.� When Obama Land was picking its team, I had held some private ...
- The Wall Street Journal Calls for War Against IranWall Street Journal Ed Board Member Bret Stephens Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ) contained an otherwise forgettable opinion piece by the Journal’s editorial board, except that buried in the fourth paragraph was a call for war with Iran. The opinion piece, titled “The Battle Over Iraq: ...
TAPPED - The American Prospect
- Thank You, Eric CantorMichael Shear reports for The New York Times that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has become the new Democratic boogeyman on the debt-ceiling negotiations. This makes sense:Cantor has been the loudest voice against revenue increases in a debt deal. His hard opposition to any new revenue ...
- Sir, I Can Hear You Now, Sir!(Flickr/expertinfantry) A few months ago, I noted that the military was considering outfitting servicemembers with smartphones, and were testing a phone built by a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. I argued that this was kind of nuts: Today's phones may not be able to withstand a hit from an RP ...
- Corrections, Good and BadDavid Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who knows as much about taxes as pretty much any journalist in America, made a mistake. He read through the annual reports of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and discovered that despite earning billions, the company appeared to be not only paying ...
- Today at the ProspectDavid Dayen argues that Mitch McConnell's debt-ceiling plan is all smoke and mirrors. Josh Eidelson explains how organizers in Wisconsin are finding it's easier to fight for workers' rights without legal recognition as a union. Robert S. Eshelman writes on Egypt's struggles with new leadership ...
- Profiles In Courage, Or Maybe NotToday'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 ...
Buzzflash
- Murdoch is the Orwellian Vision of Our Time, a ...Sometimes, we are so caught up with battles over survival issues - such as jobs, Medicare, Social Security and health insurance - that we forget that the larger frame of political conversation is being shaped elsewhere. Rupert Murdoch's Fox "News" in America not only serves as the farm team ...
- Like the Corrupt Big Banks, Is the Murdoch Emp ...TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Is News Corps, as they say, too big too fail? That's How some spin recent attacks But that was also said about Drexel Burham Lambert And Enron and Goldman Sachs.read more
- 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 ...
Glenn Greenwald - Salon
- US more unpopular in the Arab world than under ...A new poll confirms prior ones: anti-American sentiment is now at dangerously - even unprecedentedly - high levels
- America's creditor identifies its budget problemChina to the U.S.: shouldn't you be spending less on your military and more on social programs?
- UN torture official accuses US of rule violationsObsolete doctrines from 2006: U.N. rules, treaty obligations, and protection of New Deal entitlement programs
- Iraq War veteran on Manning, the media and the ...A former Army Specialist in Baghdad explains why the Wikileaks source deserves our country's respect
- The great generational threatDefense Secretary Leon Panetta acknowledges how puny is the Al Qaeda menace even as the War on Terror escalates
The BiPartisan Report
- Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
- Nihilism 1 American People Nil
- Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
- Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
- Those holier than thou Conservatives
Sciencebase
- Use a bulldog to put your cat in standby modeCat lovers everywhere might baulk at this veterinarian’s approach to putting cats in “standby” mode, but it’s not painful and simply hooks into the reflex that makes kittens go entirely limp when they are grabbed by the she cat by the scruff of their neck. It’s probably not advisable to do this ...
- More pretty, ugly peopleOn 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 girlsThis 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 ManualRed 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 habitsLive 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 ...
Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire
- Friends of the Earth International Conference ...Friends of the Earth International is hosting a two-day conference on the threats of agribusiness in Africa, starting today in Durban, South-Africa.read more
- New Poll: Americans Support Greater Investment ...An overwhelming number of Americans believe strengthening U.S. ports of entry is a better approach to border security than building additional border walls, a new poll by YouGov for Tucson-based Sky Island Alliance has found. The poll also found that a large majority of Americans also oppose wai ...
- Governor Signs Landmark LGBT Education BillGovernor Jerry Brown has signed a bill that will fairly and accurately portray the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights movement and the historic contributions of the diverse LGBT community in social science instruction. The Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful (FAIR) ...
- Is U.S. “Counter-Terrorism” Pushing Pakistan t ...AP reports “Gen. David Petraeus, the outgoing U.S. commander in Afghanistan [and incoming CIA director], and his soon-to-be successor met with top military leaders in Pakistan on Thursday.” Meanwhile, the head of Pakistani intelligence, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, is in Washington, D.C. meeting ...
- Supreme Court Urged to Review Ruling that Shie ...A group of international human rights organizations filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in the case of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum in which they urge the Court to review an appeals court finding that corporations cannot be held liable for international human rights viola ...
Common Dreams-Views
- Greed, Excess and America's Gaping Class DivideMatt Taibbi Courtesy of good friend and Supreme Court of Assholedom justice David Sirota comes this revolting list of Marie Antoinettoid moments from recent years, in an article called "The New 'Let Them Eat Cake!'"read more
- Greed, Excess and America's Gaping Class DivideMatt Taibbi Courtesy of good friend and Supreme Court of Assholedom justice David Sirota comes this revolting list of Marie Antoinettoid moments from recent years, in an article called "The New 'Let Them Eat Cake!'"read more
- Explaining the 'ALEC Exposed' ProjectLisa Graves The Center for Media and Democracy has obtained copies of more than 800 model bills approved by corporations through ALEC meetings, after one of the thousands of people with access shared them, and a whistleblower provided a co ...
- Explaining the 'ALEC Exposed' ProjectLisa Graves The Center for Media and Democracy has obtained copies of more than 800 model bills approved by corporations through ALEC meetings, after one of the thousands of people with access shared them, and a whistleblower provided a co ...
- 'Fast and Furious' ATF/Mexico Gun Scandal Heat ...Laura Carlsen Operation Fast and Furious, the U.S. government arms sting that allowed guns to walk over the border into the hands of Mexican organized crime, made headlines here in Mexico over the past weeks after a Congressional hearing i ...
Newshoggers - AfPak
- Karzai's Strongman Brother Killed In The Potte ...HASH(0xa03eca0)
- Swimming In A Sea Of Night RaidsHASH(0xa2ef660)
- 2 notes on Afghanistan and the failure of COINHASH(0x9dab938)
- 225,000 Lives, Over 4 Trillion Dollars - For What?HASH(0x9d6b628)
- In Kabul, Shades Of Mumbai AttackHASH(0x9fa6cf0)
Water Wars
- Shekhar Kapur's 'Paani' to focus on water warsThe film is all set to be shot in India and Singapore
- Shekhar Kapur's 'Paani' to focus on water warsFilmmaker Shekhar Kapur will begin shooting his new mega production 'Paani' (Water) in November.
- TRAVPR.COM ASIAROOMS.COM - WATER WARS HELD AT ...TRAVPR.COM UK - July 7th, 2011 - Seoul Land is hosting a series of Water Wars over the next two months for people who want to cool down in the summer heat and have fun at the same time.There are four different types of battles offered until August 28th and the water guns can be rented from the t ...
- Georgia's water wars now turns on Corps of Eng ...Georgia's water wars now turns on Corps of Engineers
- PHOTO: Water warsWho needs water balloons when you have fire hoses? Area firefighters spend Friday evening engaging in a water fight competition in Newark.
WordPress | Economics
- Made in America - Coming soon to your front door“Once they said we could go on the property, it was a stampede, a circus,” said Adelia Frierson, a 2
- S and P official warns of pre-default downgradeS&P official warns of pre-default downgrade By Charles Riley @CNNMoney July 14, 2011: 2:09 PM ET
- Bernanke halts Wall Street rally; Google soars ...Bernanke halts Wall Street rally; Google soars late Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks fell o
- Your Daley Gator Political Cartoon O' The Day
- Daas TorahBen Stein’s excellent film “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” reveals that so-called “Big Science”
Electronic Intifada
- Israeli propaganda festival finds few fans in ...Stephanie WestbrookThe Electronic IntifadaMilan Palestine solidarity activists in Milan held vibrant protests against an Israeli propaganda festival in the city center last month, highlighting Italian complicity with the Israeli�occupation.
- "Dignity" ship remains destined for GazaBegoña AstigarragaThe Electronic IntifadaAthens The French vessel Dignité-al Karama is the only boat from the Freedom Flotilla II now sailing for Gaza in an attempt to break the maritime siege imposed by�Israel.
- 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 PalestineDavid 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 ...
- Gaza blockade keeps Saleh away from seaRami AlmeghariThe Electronic IntifadaGaza Strip Abu Ayman Kabaja and his family have worked in Gaza’s fishing industry for many years but now their fishing boat stays on dry land.
The Wonk Room
- National Security Brief: July 15, 2011– The Obama administration is beginning the process of strengthening ties with Libya’s main opposition as it becomes more clear that Muammar Qaddafi will not hold on to power. Meanwhile, the western-led coalition is starting to examine the possibility of offering Qaddafi “a face-saving deal that ...
- Morning Briefing: July 15, 2011The executive at the center of the News Corp. hacking scandal, News International CEO Rebekah Brooks, resigned today, saying she felt “deep responsibility for the people we have hurt.” Brooks, who was editor of News of the World during much of the alleged hacking, had received resignation calls ...
- This morning’s activitiesHouse Republicans are currently holding a rank-and-file, closed-door meeting which commenced at 8 am to discuss raising the debt ceiling. After that, around 9 am, House GOP leaders are expected to hold a press conference. House Democrats hold their own press conference at 10 am. And President Ob ...
- The Morning Pride: July 15, 2011Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBTâs 8:45 AM round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Hereâs what weâre reading this morning, but let us know what youâre checking out too. - As we reported last night, the Department of Justice has sought an “emergency” ...
- ‘Burn Notice’ Open Thread: Leaders ...A programming note: the Louie thread will be up later this afternoon. I had some scheduling complications last night. I doubt that Michael’s actually over his obsession with the people who burned him, even after Max promises him, “We broke them into people. We ground them into dust. It’s over.” ...
thwap's schoolyard
- Did they find those WMDs yet?Seriously? Oh, ... and when did Rob Ford decide that some of Toronto's library branches were part of the "gravy train" of "waste" he's been screeching about? Everything our opponents believe seems to turn out to be a big pile of garbage. Given their demonstrated contempt for democracy, when c ...
- 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 ForYeah, ... 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 ...
on Government Oversight
- How to Reduce the Risks in Our Nuclear Graveya ...HASH(0xa0d7c38)
- Pentagon Legislative Proposals to Strengthen C ...HASH(0xa30c968)
- Self-Regulatory Group Introduces Revolving Doo ...HASH(0xa1d3208)
- Morning Smoke: Financial Crisis Panel Leaking ...HASH(0xa097398)
- Tell The Army to Demand a Refund from BoeingHASH(0x9e0f670)
Digital Journal
- Boys Night Out gives the guys a night of fun f ...Tonight in Toronto a fundraiser took place but it wasn't your usual dainty affair. Boys Night Out provided the best in food, wine, pretty women and gear in order to make a big donation to combat prostate cancer.
- Toronto Fringe Festival introduces outlet for ...The annual Toronto Fringe Festival has broadened its scope beyond performance art with the debut of Visual Fringe, showcasing the works of various artists, featuring paintings, photography, collages, sculptures and sound installation.
- Beating the heat on the water means being safe ...Sailing in Lake Ontario is a great way to cool down during hot summer days in Toronto. Being safe while you sail makes sure that your time on the water is fun for everyone.
- Do TTC streetcar drivers ring their gong, horn ...Are Toronto people getting to the point where they just ignore the gong or the horn from the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) drivers because in the last five years they just seem to dinging them over and over for no reason whatsoever.
- Air Canada fined $12,000 for not speaking Fren ...A federal court in Ottawa ruled that Air Canada must apologize to two Ottawa passengers and pay $12,000 after failing to provide the couple services in French. The judge ruled that the airline failed to follow the Official Languages Act.
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 dumpOpposition 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
- Dutch Cops Use TomTom Data To Position Speed CamsMay 2, 2011 TechRadar.com By Chris Smith TomTom has issued a statement after it was revealed that police in Holland are using historical speed data, captured by its savnav devices, as a guide for positioning speed traps. Devices like the Go LIVE 1000 collect speed information automatically and b ...
- New EU ‘Safety’ Laws For Herbal Me ...May 2, 2011 The Telegraph Under a European directive, herbal medicines on sale in shops will have to be registered. Products must meet safety, quality and manufacturing standards, and come with information outlining possible side-effects. The Medicines and Health care Products Regulatory Agency ...
- The Story Keeps Changing By The DayMay 3, 2011 Politico By Josh Gerstein The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. force ...
- Was Bin Laden’s Killing Legal?May 3, 2011 Spiegel Online By Thomas Darnstädt US President Barack Obama gets precious few opportunities to announce a victory. So it’s no wonder he chose grand words on Sunday night as the TV crews’ spotlights shone upon him and he informed the nation about the deadly strike against Osama bin ...
- Salmonella Fears Spark Grape Tomato RecallMay 3, 2011 Reuters By Wendell Marsh A supplier of grape tomatoes for Taylor Farms Pacific, Inc. has recalled the product for possible salmonella contamination, the government said late on Monday. Products using the recalled tomatoes were sold in Albertsons, Raley’s, Safeway, Savemart, Sam’s Clu ...
Pambazuka News
- Caribbean: Civil society demands Haiti debt ca ...Organizations representing Caribbean civil society organizations and social movements have written to G8 finance ministers, the World Bank, and the IMF, to demand an immediate and unconditional cancellation of Haiti's external debt....
- US: System owes Troy Davis another day in courtIt is wrong to execute an innocent man. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will now consider whether it is constitutional. Troy Anthony Davis, convicted of murder, is asking the courts to hear evidence that key government witnesses have r...
- Haiti: Open Letter to Barack Obama - pre-electionWe - citizens of Haiti, political militants and unionists of the grassroots movement for democracy in our country - solemnly address ourselves to you on the eve of the election that will most likely make you the next president of the United States....
- Brazil: The high price of clean, cheap ethanolBrazil hopes to supply drivers worldwide with the fuel of the future - cheap ethanol derived from sugarcane. It is considered an effective antidote to climate change, but hundreds of thousands of Brazilian plantation workers harvest the cane at slave...
- Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikesRiot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...
War in Context
- News updatesI’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
- Europeans against multiculturalismJohn R. Bowen writes: One of the many signs of the rightward creep of Western European politics is the recent unison of voices denouncing multiculturalism. German Chancellor Angela Merkel led off last October by claiming that multiculturalism “has failed and failed utterly.” She was echoed in F ...
- Does Islam stand against science?Steve Paulson writes: We may think the charged relationship between science and religion is mainly a problem for Christian fundamentalists, but modern science is also under fire in the Muslim world. Islamic creationist movements are gaining momentum, and growing numbers of Muslims now look to t ...
- Palestinians remember 1948
- Black ops and blood moneyMatthew Teague writes: Hearing the American’s name whispered in his ear, the chief of police in Lahore, Pakistan, turns from his desk and nods toward a nondescript side door in his office. His desk sits surrounded by concentric rings of chairs, occupied by visitors hoping for a moment of Chief ...
Watts Up With That?
- Barrier reef panic? – not so muchIt seems that when you look at the way the data was gathered, and find that while some areas of the GBR declined, others gained. Analysed other ways, it doesn’t seem so alarming. Perhaps the phrase is “coral picking”? Assessing … Continue reading →
- Ionospheric airglow signature of tsunami waves ...From the University of Illinois, something quite interesting, long speculated on, now confirmed. Tsunami airglow signature could lead to early detection system Researchers at the University of Illinois have become the first to record an airglow signature in the upper … Continue reading →
- One more reason to distrust CRU and UEA – ...This is a repost from Climate Audit âCovertâ Operations by East Angliaâs CRU Jul 14, 2011 â 2:53 PM by Steve McIntyre Today brings news of the arrest of the managing director of a firm hired by the University of East … Continue reading →
- Pielke Sr. on Climate Science MyopiaBy Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. There is an article Global warming lull down to Chinaâs coal growth by Richard Black of the BBC which perpetuate an inappropriately narrow view of climate science. The article headlines with the text âThe lull in … Continue reading →
- The China Syndrome: Don’t Blame China For Tem ...Newsbytes from The Global Warming Policy Foundation and Dr. Benny Peiser The idea that China is to blame for the global temperature standstill does not stand up. It is a fact that in a world where CO2 is increasing year … Continue reading →
Dandelion Salad
- Hamid Dabashi: Bahrain and the Democratic UprisingDandelion Salad TheRealNews on Jul 14, 2011 Hamid Dabashi: The Cold War delayed the democratic movement in the Arab world, but it will not be stopped now Bahrain and the Democratic Uprising see Saeed al-Shahabi: Bahrain talks doomed to failure Finian Cunningham Deported From Bahrain by Timothy V ...
- The Great Brainwashing… Continues! by Ph ...by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 14, 2011 We have failed as both a nation and a people. True, there are those of us out there who see through the hype and the rhetoric. Sadly, it is but a small minority, a tiny club of citizens who refuse to accept the disinformation a ...
- What Is Sadr’s Game on Future U.S. Troop ...by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS 14 July, 2011 WASHINGTON, Jul 14, 2011 (IPS) – The big question looming over U.S.-Iraqi negotiations on a U.S. military presence after 2011 is what game Shi’a leader Moqtada al-Sadr is playing on the issue. U.S. officials rega ...
- Chinook Disaster: Did Britain Sacrifice Counte ...by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 14, 2011 Belfast, Ireland After 17 years, two Royal Air Force pilots were finally cleared this week of any wrongdoing in the fatal Chinook helicopter crash that wiped out Britain’s top counterinsurgency personnel in Northern Ireland in th ...
- Andrew Gavin Marshall: Full-Scale NATO Ground ...with Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 14, 2011 GlobalResearchTV on Jul 14, 2011 Andrew Gavin Marshall from the Centre for Research on Globalization says that a ground invasion is quite likely, and that the process is already underway. “There have been certain Western ...
Your New Reality
- No titleThe new show from the creators and actors of Trailer Park Boys looks utterly demented. As we hoped :
- No titleRupert 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 ...
- No title'Fox News' Announces President Obama Has Been Shot And Killed By Darryl Mason Ten hours, that's 10 fucking hours, after a series of fake tweets announcing President Barack Obama had been shot twice in a restaurant and subsequently died from the wounds, this shocking (but fake) news remains the ...
- No titleWarner 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 ...
- No titleThe 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 ...
Wired - Science
- Endangered Snow Leopards Caught on Camera in A ...A surprisingly healthy population of rare snow leopards has been caught on camera in the wilds of Afghanistan. Researchers spotted 30 snow leopards in 16 different locations by placing camera traps in the mountains of northeastern Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor. Snow leopards are threatened by p ...
- More Than Charismatic: The Ecology of Big AnimalsSee Also: Restoring Missing Lynx â The Rejuvenation of an Ecosystem The Dingo â Australia’s Wildlife Watchdog In the Bowels of Carnivorous Plants, a Tiny Model of the World Living With Wolves Scientists Seek Warning Signs for Catastrophic Tipping Points Early Warning Signs Could Show When Extin ...
- Search Engines Change How Memory WorksThanks to search engines, most simple facts don’t need to be remembered. They can be accessed with a few keystrokes, plucked from ubiquitous server-stored external memory — and that may be changing how our own memories are maintained. A study of 46 college students found lower rates of recall o ...
- Give Buddy a Break: More Isn’t Better for Trai ...Dog owners teaching their pooches to sit, come when called, and stop the shoe-chewing are better off giving their dogs breaks, rather than daily drills. Beagles trained once or twice a week for a short period learn more between sessions than those taught every day in long lessons. The results a ...
- Lost Rainbow Toad Found After 87 YearsBy Mark Brown, Wired UK Herpetologists at Conservation International have rediscovered the exotic Sambas stream toad (aka Borneo rainbow toad, aka Ansonia latidisca) after 87 years of evasion, and released the first ever photographs of the brightly colored amphibian. The spindly-legged specie ...
Israeli Occupation Archive
- Noam Sheizaf: Everything you (never) wanted to ...Basically, the anti-boycott law allows all those who feel they have been harmed by a boycott, whether against Israel or an Israeli institution or territory (i.e. the settlements in the West Bank) to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
- 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 ...
Ria Novosti - Military
- NATO chief calls for more strike aircraft to b ...NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on the alliance’s members to send more aircraft to deliver surgical strikes on Libyan targets, Western media said on Friday.
- Medvedev fires electronic warfare boss as more ...President Dmitry Medvedev has sacked a number of generals, including the head of the services’ electronic warfare branch, Oleg Ivanov, the Kremlin press service said on Friday.
- Too many subcontractors cause overpriced weapo ...The overpricing of military equipment has been caused by the excessive number of subcontractors in the Russian defense industry, Deputy Defense Minister Mikhail Mokretsov said on Thursday.
- Russia charges Chinese man with smuggling mili ...Customs authorities in Russia's Far East have launched a criminal case against a Chinese citizen who attempted to smuggle spare parts for Russian MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters last year.
- Bulava missile: test-launch history
NewsWise
- Research Links Telomere Length to Emphysema RiskTelomeres, the body's own cellular clocks, may be a crucial factor underlying the development of emphysema, according to research from Johns Hopkins University.
- The Unfolding SAGA of Transcriptional Co-Activ ...Successful gene expression requires the concerted action of a host of regulatory factors. Long overshadowed by bonafide transcription factors, coactivators--the hanger-ons that facilitate transcription by docking onto transcription factors or modifying chromatin--have recently come to the fore.
- U.S. Is Next Stop for Murdoch Woes, Says Ithac ...The phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch is starting to make waves in the United States as well, according to a media critic and former commentator for Fox News.
- Students Develop Beneficial Smartphone Applica ...Smartphone applications are continuously and rapidly being developed. While most apps are for entertainment purposes, there is a trend of app development for functional uses. Developers are looking to apps as a way to solve everyday problems. The University of Alabama is no exception to this tre ...
- Ready, Go!Stowers researchers pinpoint the Super Elongation Complex as a major regulator in the coordinated expression of early developmental genes.
Natural Health News
- The Top Five Actions Parents Can Take to Reduc ...The Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and Environment (CPCHE) has suggested a number of ways to reduce common sources of toxic exposure associated with child health risks.� Science Daily reports that the top 5 are: Bust the dust: Frequent vacuuming or wet mopping, and dusting with a da ...
- 9 Tips to Fall Asleep FasterABC News has collected a set of 9 suggestions for those having trouble falling asleep at night.� Here are a few of them: Reduce Caffeine Intake:� You should be caffeine-free by 2 PM; caffeine has a half-life of up to eight hours. Have a Comfortable Bed: �Sometimes just buying a new mat ...
- Exercise May Help Fight Alzheimer'sExercise increases levels of the protein PGC-1alpha, a brain molecule that may protect against Alzheimer's disease.� The protein also has metabolic effects that also appear to guard against type 2 diabetes. When researchers studied brain samples from dead Alzheimer's patients, they found they c ...
- This Fruit Actually Helps Lab Rats Build Stron ...Compounds in blueberries may have a powerful effect on formation of strong, healthy bones.� Recent studies on young, rapidly growing laboratory rats suggest that polyphenols, the compounds that give blueberries their coloration, might aid in building bones. Researchers exposed laboratory cultur ...
- This Important Protein Component May Help Figh ...A study seems to indicate that adding the amino acid leucine to your diets could help with pre-diabetes or metabolic syndrome.� In an animal study, prediabetic mice who received twice the usual intake of leucine, an amino acid found in protein, showed reductions in their prediabetic conditions, ...
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 scandalWhat 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
- Hobbling the Monitors: Should U.N. Human Right ...by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, describes his recently published article, Hobbling the Monitors: Should U.N. Human Rights Monitors be Accountable?. This post is ...
- Seventh Circuit (through Judge Posner) Dismiss ...by Julian Ku by Julian Ku So I leave the country and the blogosphere for a few months, and what happens? Â (Well, beside that “war” in Libya), circuit courts have gone all negative on my argument against corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute. Â In addition to the D.C. Circuit’s rece ...
- A Response to Olivier De Schutter by Katharina ...by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Katharina Pistor, Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, responds to Olivier De Schutter, The Green Rush: The Global Race for Farmland and the Rights of Land Users. This post is part of the Second Ha ...
- The Green Rush: The Global Race for Farmland a ...by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [ Olivier De Schutter, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right to food and Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, Fall 2011-Spring 2012, describes his recently published article, The Green Rush: The ...
- Duncan B. Hollis Responds to Professors Eric J ...by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis [This post is part of the Second Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium.] First, I want thank both Eric Jensen and Jonathan Zittrain for taking the time to respond to my article.  Both have thought long and hard (not to mention well!) about ...
Public News Service
- Summer Vacation Travel Safety Tips with Kids i ...Summer Vacation Travel Safety Tips with Kids in Mind Phoenix, AZ – Summer family vacations are in full swing, and whether you're traveling by car, train or plane, parents need to be mindful of several tips to keep everyone safe. Comments from Dr. Kenneth Wible (WHY-bul), medical director of the ...
- An Urban Radio Renaissance?An Urban Radio Renaissance? Phoenix, AZ — Low-Power FM (LPFM) radio stations have been on the air in rural areas for almost a decade. Today (Tuesday) the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to allow applications for the first LPFM stations in such urban areas as Phoenix. Advocate ...
- Study: Health Insurance Gives Arizonans No Gua ...Study: Health Insurance Gives Arizonans No Guarantee Against Medical Debt Phoenix, AZ – Having health care coverage doesn’t mean paying medical bills will be easy. In fact, 27 percent of Arizonans with insurance are carrying medical debt, or say they’ve had trouble paying health care bills. A n ...
- MN State Government Shuts Down, Battle Lines DrawnMN State Government Shuts Down, Battle Lines Drawn St. Paul, MN - This is Day One of the state government shutdown in Minnesota, the result of a budget impasse between Governor Dayton and the Republican lawmakers who control the Legislature. Comments from Andy Birkey, senior political reporter f ...
- 4th of July Pet Owner Tip: Don't Invite Fido4th of July Pet Owner Tip: Don't Invite Fido Phoenix, AZ - The bang and boom of celebrating America's independence this weekend can come at a cost for our pets. The Humane Society of the United States is reminding people of the stress loud fireworks and celebrations can cause for animals. The or ...
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 HeldToday, 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
- Why the Time to Dismantle Edward Bernay’s Corp ...How Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Opened a Window of Opportunity for the Progressive ‘Left’ TheAngryindian 07.12.2011 ‘All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they ca ...
- Cain Rewrites History: I Said I Would Not Be C ...Cain Rewrites History: I Said I Would Not Be Comfortable With ‘A Terrorist In My Cabinet’ | ThinkProgress: Here's the record of lies and nonsense Mr. Cain thinks the rest of us forgot: – March 26: Herman Cain told ThinkProgress he would not be comfortable appointing Muslims either in his ca ...
- 4TH OF JULY THEFT OF HAWAI`I'S INDEPENDENCEFree Hawai`i By Poka Laenui With Bible on hand, pistols in their pockets and troops at the ready, men gathered on the steps of `Iolani Palace on July 4th, 1894. Invoking the name of American liberty, they dismantled the liberty of the people of the Hawaiian nation. Two separate camps divided H ...
- Britain: Nationalise Murdoch’s press!China Worker Editorial from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) ‘Murdochgate’ is Britain’s Watergate. In politics, as in nature, the ‘butterfly effect’ operates. A seemingly small event – the famous metaphor of the flutter of a butterfly’s wings – can begin a ch ...
- 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 ...
Pensieve
- Impeachment: an Overdue Constitutional AmendmentPhoto 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 AvailablePhoto 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 WikileaksWhat 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 CatarinaI 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 04/07/2011Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
- Priority to natureA 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 breathTaking 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 01/07/2011Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
- Environmental News 30/06/2011Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
The Briefing Room | Investigate
- News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...HASH(0x9baa900)
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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 democracyCoalition 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
- Whiskey flavored condomsNot satire
- Setting the Wayback Machine for DBF landI specialize in bringing ancient DOS and early Windows xBase apps into modern Windows. There are zillions such apps still out there. It just took me several hours to determine what language an app for a new client was written in (Delphi 2.) Further complicating matters, the original programmer a ...
- Silicon Valley tech boom looks like another bubbleHome prices are up 20% this year in parts of Silicon Valley. Not only is there a tech boom going on, it is accelerating. Employees of companies that recently went public (or are about to) can afford to bid up home prices. Bidding wars are happening again. Homes sometimes sell for more than the a ...
- Murdochs refuse to testify before ParliamentRebekah Brooks will testify, as she is a British subject. The Murdochs are American citizens. Nick Cleeg, Deputy Prime Minister, said “If they have any shred of sense of responsibility or accountability for their position of power then they should come and explain themselves to the select commit ...
- US continues sleepwalk towards offshore windOh, I suppose we should he happy that the Department of the Interior is asking for public comment on its Environmental Assessment for offshore wind in the mid-Atlantic. But this is just the start of a process that could easily take years before offshore wind is actually installed there. From Oce ...
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:  ...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
- DEADLINE LIVE EXCLUSIVE: Tales From The Hole P ...By Mario Andrade DeadlineLive.info July 14, 2011 Without a doubt, the Texas-Mexico border region is riddled with stories and anecdotes as residents describe the unprecedented events affecting their lives due to escalation of the drug war. Every local resident, whether on the U.S. or Mexican side ...
- FBI probing News Corp.(FOX) 9/11 phone linkThe FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims, a law enforcement official said Thursday. KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH / AP A protester in a Rupert Murdoch head demonstrates in front of Parliament in Lon ...
- D.C. Firefighters To Help Police Streets?NBC Washington Both D.C. firefighters and police officers are upset over a new program that forces the fire department to help fight crime. For the past three weeks, D.C. Fire and EMS personnel have been parking their trucks at high crime neighborhoods. “It’s to prevent things from bubblin ...
- No Room for 9/11 Survivors at 10th Anniversary ...LOWER MANHATTAN â Survivors who fled the flaming World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 will not be allowed to attend the city’s annual commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero this year, DNAinfo has learned. The mayor’s office, which runs the ceremony, informed the World Trade Center Survivors’ Netw ...
- Suit: Blackwater may have overbilled governmen ...Two former Blackwater employees say they have new evidence that the company may have overbilled the federal government more than $300 million for security services in Iraq and Afghanistan. They cite a report from an outside auditor who says Blackwater executives and State Department officials wi ...
The Air Vent
- Subsampled Confidence Intervals – ZekeSub-sampling is hard to argue with. Zeke has done a post on global temperatures at the Blackboard taking 500 stations at a time and looking at the extremes of averages. It presented a set of very tight error bars based on weather variance, sampling errors, and any other random events which af ...
- Chugging AlongSteve 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 withOne 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 TemperaturesPat 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 – NicLNic 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 ...
Focal Point
- Frank Bruni Comes Out as Poseur, Explains Enti ...When Frank Bruni was hired as an op/ed columnist for the New York Times, I doubted that he was qualified. His latest column puts those doubts to rest. Bruni is totally unqualified. The piece reads like a livejournal rant. In a nutshell: Bruni's glad there won't be any more Harry Potter movies ...
- 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 ...
Inside Facebook
- How to Sync Your Facebook Page Updates With Tw ...The following is an excerpt. The complete article, available in our Facebook Marketing Bible, includes the full six steps why you shouldn’t syndicate your Page updates to Twitter and should write custom updates for each network instead. For the busy marketer, syncing the updates from your bran ...
- Spotify Launches in the US With Facebook Conne ...After years of anticipation, this morning the Spotify music streaming service launched in the United States with support of all the major record labels. The launch is the continuation of a partnership between Spotify and Facebook that could evolve into a special integration including prominent p ...
- Facebook Hires and Departures: Stocky, Feinber ...Facebook made some exciting hires this week, in addition to the usual suspects from the company’s Careers Page and LinkedIn feed, the company hired a former aide to President Barack Obama, Sarah Feinberg, and Googleâs former director of product management for search, client and infrastructure ...
- Facebook Careers Postings: Sales, Dublin, Data ...Facebook added a few managerial positions this week to its Careers Based on the job posts added this week to Facebook’s Careers Page and jobs posted by the company on their LinkedIn feed, Facebook is continuing to grow in Dublin, Ireland and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Jobs ranging from recruiting to sal ...
- Facebook’s Study of Journalist Page Engagement ...Facebook today released the results of a study it conducted on what types of posts by the Facebook Pages of journalists performed the best. Among the highlights: Incorporating personal analysis in posts increased referral clicks by 20%, and including a thumbnail image when posting a link boosted ...
Truthout - Tweets
- truthout: Breaking Down the Silos: Iowa Citize ...truthout: Breaking Down the Silos: Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement http://bit.ly/o2rPw0 @AmyBDean
- truthout: Paul Krugman | Mistakes Repeated Thr ...truthout: Paul Krugman | Mistakes Repeated Through Superstition and Prejudice http://bit.ly/rrztvk
- truthout: William Rivers Pitt | The Chessmaste ...truthout: William Rivers Pitt | The Chessmaster Cometh? http://bit.ly/ohMZ7L
- truthout: Juan Cole Sues FBI and CIA for Suspe ...truthout: Juan Cole Sues FBI and CIA for Suspected Files http://bit.ly/q3jv8b
- truthout: Tennessee's "Don't Say Gay" Bill Ign ...truthout: Tennessee's "Don't Say Gay" Bill Ignites National Controversy http://bit.ly/qhyGW4
ReDress News
- Israeli legislators eye crackdown on High Cour ...Neve Gordon argues that the adoption by the Israeli parliament of a law criminalizing calls for the boycott of Israel or the illegal Jewish settlements, and the expected passage of laws targeting human rights organizations, are precursors to the real prize for Israel's MPs: crippling the High Co ...
- Rupert Murdoch: Anthony Blair’s bagmanChristopher 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 AgeStuart 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 ...
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
- BFP Select Nightly News & EditorialsNew US Jails in Afghanistan, the Syrian Paradox, MIC: The Enemy Within, Media’s Endless War Propaganda, CIA in Business with the Parent Group to Al-Qaeda … & More! Newsworthy ‘Deadliest Six Months’ for Civilians in Afghanistan U.S. Building New Jails across Afghanistan Iran Rejects US Claims of ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & EditorialsCIA Secret Sites in Somalia, the Next Massacre: Pakistan, What Panetta Saw-What we got, Questioning the âTruthâ about 9/11 & More! The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia Officials: NATO Kills 16 Civilians in Afghan Air Strike Next Up: Pakistan- Ominous signs of a major new war Why Ahmed Wali Karzai w ...
- The Assassination of Afghan Kingpin Karzai: A ...Time to Look at the New Heirs ala CIA There is no point in wasting too many words and space rehashing what every media outlet has been reporting and recounting on the assassination of Afghan Heroin Kingpin Ahmed Wali Karzai. The US media began reporting on the Kingpin, his heroin network and ope ...
- Jamiol Presents
- BFP Select Nightly News & EditorialsPakistan Punished in Pipelinestan, Moving Toward Guerilla War in Afghanistan, Drone Strikes as Police Work!, Israel Withheld Evidence in Killing, The Assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai & More! I am going to start with a piece of news you all have already seen and read. I am listing this only bec ...
Afro Spear
- “Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for Pre ...Click on image for article
- the Lupe Fiasco fiasco“My fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policie ...
- A Sunday Sermon
- sat’day riddymzWOW!! It’s hard to fathom that it’s been 2 years ago today already that MJ died. I for one have come to appreciate his music more and more.
- Voodoo and Vaccines in Benin, AfricaOne.org: Save 4 million children’s lives in 5 years
Expose the BNP
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meetingOver 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 lifeA 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 defeatThe 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 GriffinOn 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 pennilessOn 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 collaborationBy: 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 conflictBy: 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 conflictBy: 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, BrazilBy: 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
- Will The St. Petersburg Times Close?Will the St. Petersburg Times Close?
- Americans Should Cheer the Fall of Rupert MurdockWhen you think of Rupert Murdock, his vast fortune and enormous unelected political power, his media empire built on a brutal conservative ideology, you might feel a definite sense of pleasure over his troubles. As the revelations continue to mount in the NoW hacking story and the contagion spre ...
- Murdoch Has Blood on His HandsNailing Rupert Murdoch for his employees' phone tapping or bribery would be a little like bringing down Al Capone for tax fraud, or George W. Bush for torture. I'd be glad to see it happen but there'd still be something perverse about it.
- A Decade of US War CostsTrillions wasted and stolen for war
- 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.
Switchboard
- Saving Clean Energy in New Jersey: Thank You, ...Dale Bryk, Director, Air & Energy Program, New York If you had a program that reduced pollution as it lowered energy bills, created jobs and injected hundreds of millions of dollars into the state economy, would you toss it out the window? Probabl ...
- Big Oil Lobbies to Keep Its Tax Breaks Off the ...Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. As debt negotiations continue in Congress, President Obama appears to be sticking to his guns on repealing the enormous tax breaks enjoyed by the oil and gas industry. The indu ...
- Light Truck Loophole Bad for Pickup Drivers, O ...Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco This evening, the WSJ online is reporting that the White House is offering automakers a big loophole in fuel economy and carbon pollution standards for light trucks, a category that incl ...
- Setting the Record Straight: Correcting Misco ...Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC A recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about the controversial hydroelectric proposal in Chilean Patagonia called HidroAysén underscored several of the most common misconceptions ab ...
- Wailing in the International Whaling CommissionTaryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California After a week of consensus and cooperation at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), today everything fell apart. The Commission wa ...
Lawyers,Guns,& Money
- Getcher Thursday Hot LinksThis is a trend now? I can’t speak for my fellow recent grooms among the LGM community (well, actually, I think I can), but I can’t say this is a theme I considered. In fairness, it’s not like Southern states asserting the right to violate federal law has ever led to bad consequences. Frank Brun ...
- This Day in Labor History: July 14, 1877On July 14, 1877, the Great Railroad Strike began in Martinsburg, West Virginia. After the Civil War, industrialists engaged in an enormous rail building program. Much of this was funded through shaky and corrupt means, leading to the Panic of 1873. When the bubble burst in 1873, many railroads ...
- The Democrats are on the Right Side of Public ...as Silver writes about new Gallup data. Â Summarized, public opinion overwhelmingly prefers a mix of tax increases and spending cuts to the Republican’s zero tolerance approach to increasing revenue. Â The preferred mix by the public is 35% revenue, 65% spending cuts. Â Even the average Republic ...
- Deficit-reduction suggestion: Stop wasting mon ...Mistrial.
- Skype InterviewsHistoriann links to a good piece by Lynn Lubamersky at Inside Higher Ed, arguing for using Skype for first-round academic interviews rather than forcing everyone to fly to a cold distant city in order to suffer through horrendous in-person interviews. I wholeheartedly agree with this. Flying peo ...
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. TaranikPresident 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 SpringIf 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
- Solar Pushcart An Outlet For Local ArtistsA North Carolina business promotes local art, recycling and renewables, all in one sustainably built, solar-powered T-shirt stand.
- Virgin Australia to Create Homegrown BiofuelVirgin Australia joins with several partners to use mallee trees and fast pyrolysis technology to create a uniquely Aussie biofuel.
- Solar Powered Tea Street Cart Anyone?The Solar Thattukada concept uses a simple solar hot water system comprised of locally-available materials to cut the carbon footprint of India's food carts.
- Solar Energy Cells Printed On Paper At MITA process developed at MIT makes it possible to print photovoltaic cells on ordinary paper. A possible use: wall and window coverings.
- Smart Grid Disparity Seen Among EU MembersSmart-grid technology is a key component of Europe's energy strategy, but newer member states are having a hard time getting moving, a new report says.
National Law Journal | U.S.
- How are AmLaw 100 firms using Twitter?There was a time when big, respectable law firms would never use silly words like Tweet, Twitter and Twitterverse, but that seems to be changing, at least for some firms.
- 4th Circuit: Volvo many not unilaterally modif ...Volvo Group North America LLC may not unilaterally modify a retiree group's health benefits after the collective bargaining agreement has expired unless it follows the agreement's dictates, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has ruled.
- Law professor cites 'Lawrence' in defending po ...The Brown family of the hit TLC reality show Sister Wives has filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of Utah's anti-bigamy law. Jonathan Turley, the family's attorney, talks about the suit and the Browns' motivation to go to court.
- Yet another hostile reception for Elizabeth Wa ...
- Compliance officer loses wrongful termination ...In a split decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit recently held that a health care company did not wrongfully terminate a compliance officer for complaining about the company's alleged plan to skirt Medicare regulations.
How Shall We Do The Mountain ?
- Drilling Strains 911 Resposes at Tioga Court HouseBeing 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 JulyI 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 SUMMITSaturday, 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
- Cartoon: Israeli Conspiracy to Divide SudanThe following cartoon appeared in the Jordanian daily Al-Dustur and was rebroadcast on official Palestinian Authority television.
- Summer Street Research Adds Top Biotechnology ...Ling Wang, with years of equity research experience, will be focused on covering the biotechnology sector, continuing to build out the biotechnology sector for the firm.
- NASA's Dawn Spacecraft to Begin Prolonged Enc ...As the spacecraft approaches Vesta, surface details are coming into focus, as seen in a recent image taken from a distance of about 26,000 miles (41,000 kilometers).
- Security Council Recommends South Sudan be Adm ...At a Security Council debate on South Sudan and Sudan, Ambassador Rice said she had the honor of heading the U.S. delegation to Juba to celebrate South Sudan's independence last Saturday.
- WCS Discovers Healthy Snow Leopard Population ...With USAID support, WCS is working with Afghanistan communities on conservation to benefit wildlife and human livelihoods
environment 360
- On Biking, Why Can’t the U.S. Learn Lessons fr ...Building bike paths alone will not get people out of their cars in the U.S. and onto bicycles. To create a thriving bike culture in America’s cities, people must begin to view bicycling as Europeans do — not just as a way of exercising, but as a serious form of urban mass transportation. BY EL ...
- 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 ...
- Low Levels of BPA Found In Some Metal Bottles, ...A new study finds that some reusable metal drinking bottles contain low levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen-mimicking chemical, even though such bottles are often marketed as a safer alternative to BPA-containing plastic bottles. In a comprehensive analysis of numerous types of bot ...
- Tapping Social Media’s Potential To Muster a V ...A rapidly expanding universe of citizens’ groups, researchers, and environmental organizations are making use of social media and smart phone applications to document changes in the natural world and to mobilize support for taking action. BY CAROLINE FRASER
- Global Renewables Investments Surged 32 Percen ...More than $211 billion was invested in renewable energy technology worldwide in 2010, a 32-percent increase from 2009, according to a new UN report. And for the first time, developing nations outpaced wealthy economies in renewables investment, with China accounting for about one-fifth of total ...
Red Ice Creations
- Jellyfish force Torness nuclear reactor shutdownBoth reactors at the Torness nuclear power station have been shut down after huge numbers of jellyfish were found in the sea water entering the plant. The jellyfish were found obstructing cooling water filters on Tuesday. The East Lothian plant's operator, EDF Energy, said the shutdown was a pre ...
- Why is the US Congress a millionaires club?The evidence is clear: Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of Congress and don't believe their representatives share their priorities. There's plenty of room for debate over whether Congress shares voters' priorities on political and policy issues. But when it comes to personal priorities, at le ...
- Firefighters make small headway on Los Alamos ...A New Mexico wildfire raged largely unchecked for a fourth day near one of the nation’s top nuclear arms production plants on Wednesday, but firefighters finally gained some ground in corralling the flames. The so-called Las Conchas Fire has scorched at least 90,000 acres of pine-covered mountai ...
- 21 people dead in Kabul hotel attack: Inside Job?The first sign that militants were attacking one of Kabul’s premiere hotels was an explosion that pierced Jawid’s eardrums, prompting him to jump out the window of his room on the first floor into a chaotic scene that quickly turned into a grisly morass of bodies, gunfire and shattered glass. Tw ...
- Lagarde set to win IMF post as U.S. offers supportThe U.S. formally offered its backing for French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde to take over the top job at the IMF, ensuring a win for her over Mexico’s Central Bank Governor Agustin Carstens. The 55-year-old Lagarde was set to continue the tradition of having a European head the global len ...
Russia Today
- Search of Bulgaria wreck endsDivers have finished exploring the wreck of the cruise ship Bulgaria, which sank on Sunday in the Volga River, killing at least 113. The vessel may be lifted from the riverbed as soon as the coming weekend.
- "Only one family survived the wreck without lo ...RT spoke to Roman Lizalin, the captain of the vessel Arabella, which rescued all 77 survivors from the cruiser Bulgaria. The latter boat sank on Sunday, killing at least 113 people, including 27 children, while over a...
- Murdoch outfoxed in UK as trouble brews across ...Rupert Murdoch's disgraced media empire is now under FBI investigation over the possibility that the voicemails of 9/11 victims and their families were intercepted.
- Eurozone dream crumblingDrastic spending cuts are on the way in Italy as parliament desperately tries to fend off a spiraling debt crisis. It seems the fairytale dream of a unified euro has met with harsh reality, and the collision may not be...
- Four killed in blast during Karzai’s memorial ...Four people have been killed and up to 13 wounded as a suicide bomber blew himself up during a memorial service for Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s murdered half brother.
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 youSo 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 PuppetsHere 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 #2038046179007145309Thanks 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 VerinageThis 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
- What a Letdown: Campbell’s Zigzag on Sodium in ...Folks, the chart tells it all. After several years of promoting and pushing low sodium salts, Campbell’s Board of Directors has decided the strategic and widely publicized move was a mistake. Sales of the core soups have been slumping, and the missing salt has been deemed the culprit. So with a ...
- Sign of Hope? Fast Food Chains Launch “Kids Li ...The National Restaurant Association has just launched a program called “Kids Live Well” that includes changes to kiddie meals being served by 19 franchises in over 15,000 locations across the country. The list includes big chains like IHOP, Burger King, and Denny’s. So what are the improvements? ...
- 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 HelpingThe 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, ...
Traffikd
- Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired BloggersRebecca 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 InspirationAs 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
- Brazilian Indians receive death threatsAlmir Surui, Surui indigenous spokesman © Marc Cowan/Survival Indians of the Surui tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, who are campaigning for their land to be protected, have received death threats from loggers. Almir Surui is one of the Surui affected. He has been told, ‘We know who is agains ...
- Victory for Borneo tribe over oil palm GoliathA Penan man in the Borneo rainforest. © Robin Hanbury-Tenison/Survival A small group of Borneo hunter-gatherers have scored a major victory over a giant oil palm firm that was targeting their rainforest. Survival revealed last month that the Malaysian firm Shin Yang was clearing forest and ...
- 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 campGuarani 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 ...
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 SayI 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 Africaby 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 Stax potato chip cans?Tammy Gary has asked: Would love ideas to reuse the Stax potato chip cans. We don’t have Stax over here in the UK but my friend Google tells me they’re like Pringles, but packed in a plastic tube instead of waxed cardboard. Some of the Pringles ideas will still apply: they’re great for storing k ...
- 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 ...
Age of Autism
- New Autism Twin Study Demolishes Decades-Long ...By Mark Blaxill For over two decades now, so-called “autism experts” have been claiming that autism is more than 90% caused by genes. The influence of these claims on autism policy and research funding is hard to overstate. But few...
- Flu Vaccination Propaganda Never StopsBy David Burd The United States “Flu Season” ended back in March, but ever since, and today in mid-July, I have been bombarded by radio station ads to give 6-month babies a toxic, mercury laden flu shot injection (actually two...
- Testimony To Massachusetts Legislators on H105 ...Bill H.1055 An Act relative to childhood immunizations By Mr. Keenan of Salem (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1055) of Andrea Rupert for legislation to allow students not immunized to be admitted to schools upon the...
- Autism One Generation Rescue Conference SurveyIf you attended the AO/GR conference, we invite you to fill out this brief survey. Thank you.
- FREE Autism Therapy Pictures from Picto Select ...Picto Selector is still growing This week a new version of Picto Selector was released and continues to grow in functionality and symbols. With additions to it's symbol database each month it now contains over 19000 symbols from three symbol...
Global BDS Movement
- Map testView Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
- BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to moveThe 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-contractorUri 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 UnionsThe 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
- Alternative Markets, Barter Systems, and Local ...We can sit around on our asses and complain about the terrible state of the world, or we can take it upon ourselves to clean up the mess. That’s all there is. If you are afraid to take action, then I suggest you consider what will happen if you don’t. I see far more danger in complacency and fea ...
- Truth Squad Radio: GMO Deregulation and Agenda 21Scotts' GE Kentucky Bluegrass will not be regulated as either a plant pest or noxious weed, and these are the ONLY two ways that GMOs can be regulated by the USDA. Join us as we discuss this issue of the year!
- Codex Commission – Voluntary GMO Labeling Okay ...Codex has capitulated on the GM labeling issue after a battle spanning approximately 20 years, stating that it will allow countries to label GMOs and the WTO will not legally challenge them for it.
- GMO Rice is On It’s Way to a Store Near YouShort, fun video about a very serious subject - GMO rice.
- Truth Squad Radio – Dave Hodges Exposes the Gu ...Dave Hodges of the Common Sense Radio Show will join us Wednesday, July 6, 6-8pm Pacific time, to expose the Gulf coast depopulation agenda!
Open Your Eyes News
- Obama Sets Fundrasing Record, Stirs 2012 Specu ...Newsy – The 2012 Presidential election is still months away — But analysts are already crunching the numbers. The dollar-sign kind of numbers. And many politicos say President Barack Obama is sitting pretty after this announcement. Read article
- Rebels advance towards TripoliReuters – Rebel fighters say they have retaken a village south of Tripoli that they lost to forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi earlier in the day. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
- China first-half fiscal surplus at $193 billionReuters – China posted a fiscal surplus of 1.25 trillion yuan ($193.3 billion) in the first half of the year as steady economic growth and rising prices lifted government revenues, the Ministry of Finance said on Thursday. The surplus, equal to about 6.1 percent of China’s gross domestic product ...
- Climate Fact Of The Day – Global average ...The global average sea surface temperature (SST) update from AMSR-E on NASA’s Aqua satellite, July 7, 2011
- Gold Soars to Fresh RecordWall St Journal – Gold advanced to a fresh record amid new signs that the Federal Reserve is open to another round of monetary stimulus, as well as worsening debt woes in Europe. Economic and political tensions on both sides of the Atlantic have burnished gold’s allure as a “safe-haven” investme ...
L.A. Times - Greenspace
- Water conservation: Sierra Club rates L.A. and ...Nearly half of of the water conservation programs in 122 Los Angeles and Orange county cities fell into the “poor” or “worst” categories, in a new survey released this week. The Sierra Club Los Angeles Chapter unveiled a scorecard grading...
- California leads 'clean economy,' study findsNationwide, 2.7 million people work in the "clean economy," according to a new study. It employs nearly 320,000 people in California. In the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the sector accounts for about 90,000 workers. Based on the definition offered in...
- 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...
water.org
- Gary White talks water on MSNBCWorld faces a water crisis (MSNBC) – Gary White interviewed by Martin Bashir June 30, 2011 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
- Leadership wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company)Leadership Wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company) 30 second MBA video series: Part 1 – Gary White – Executive Director and Cofounder, Water.org Part 2 – Matt Damon – Cofounder, 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 CallWednesday, 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 ...
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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
- Denial of an Increased Debt CeilingMargaret 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 ...
- Peace solidarity activists detained, humiliate ...The besieged people in the Gaza strip are still calling on the whole international community to do whatever they can to lift the suffocating Israeli siege imposed on the coastal enclave.Submitted by Joseph M. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Palin Plots Her Next MoveSarah Palin hasn�t jumped into the race for the White House (yet), but she believes the prize is there for the taking. In a conversation with Peter J. Boyer, Palin warns Boehner not to raise the debt ceiling, proclaims that Obama is beatable ...Submitted by Cam V. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �No ...
- FOCUS | Why No One on Wall Street Is Going to JailProtecting the rich from the poor seems to be a national pastime.Submitted by Mary Donnelly to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Is ocean garbage killing whales?Millions of tonnes of plastic debris dumped each year in the world's oceans could pose a lethal threat to whales, according to a scientific assessment to be presented at a key international whaling forum this week.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
Solar Energy / Energy Boom
- Solar Gen 2 to Supply California with Green EnergySolar Gen 2 LLC, a Greenwich, Conn.-based privately-held solar development firm focused on North American projects, on Monday announced the signing of a 25-year, 150-megawatt power purchase agreement with San Diego Gas & Electric Co ...
- 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 ProgramThe 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
News Blaze
- Cartoon: Israeli Conspiracy to Divide SudanThe following cartoon appeared in the Jordanian daily Al-Dustur and was rebroadcast on official Palestinian Authority television.
- Summer Street Research Adds Top Biotechnology ...Ling Wang, with years of equity research experience, will be focused on covering the biotechnology sector, continuing to build out the biotechnology sector for the firm.
- NASA's Dawn Spacecraft to Begin Prolonged Enc ...As the spacecraft approaches Vesta, surface details are coming into focus, as seen in a recent image taken from a distance of about 26,000 miles (41,000 kilometers).
- Security Council Recommends South Sudan be Adm ...At a Security Council debate on South Sudan and Sudan, Ambassador Rice said she had the honor of heading the U.S. delegation to Juba to celebrate South Sudan's independence last Saturday.
- WCS Discovers Healthy Snow Leopard Population ...With USAID support, WCS is working with Afghanistan communities on conservation to benefit wildlife and human livelihoods
Worldnews
- Asian stocks mixed as debt warnings, data ...TOKYO (AP) -- Asian stocks markets were mixed Friday as investors weighed positive economic indicators against a new warning on U.S. debt. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average gained 0.4 percent to close at 9,974.47, recovering slight losses with brokers largely on the sidelines. July 18 is a n ...
- Central Indonesian volcano erupts; reside ...Tomohon (Indonesia) Jul 15, (AP): Friday, July 15, 2011 --> A volcano in central Indonesia spit lava and smoke high into the air early today, sending thousands of panicked residents racing down its fiery slopes. One woman died of a heart attack as she fled, but no other casualties were repo ...
- Emma Watson and 'Harry Potter and the Dea ...Ten years after the "Harry Potter" film series began, the story has come to an end on screen with "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2." The movie centers on the final showdown between young wizard Harry Potter (played by Daniel Radcliffe) and the evil Lord Voldemort (played by Ra ...
- India's unsolved bombings New Delhi - A series of bombings. No claim of responsibility. No prime suspects. Wednesday's explosions in India's financial capital Mumbai ticked a wearily familiar list of boxes in a country which is no stranger to bombings that go unclaimed and lack any transparent motive. Briefing repor ...
- Save the world - grow a forest Paris - Forests play a larger role in Earth's climate system than previously suspected for both the risks from deforestation and the potential gains from regrowth, a benchmark study released on Thursday has shown. The study, published in Science, provides the most accurate measure so far of ...
Alex in Wonderland
- Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
- Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
- Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ ...A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
- Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
- Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cop ...Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.
MY Daily Apple
- Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables
- [Policy Forum] Conservation: High Value and Lo ...The first standardized, global assessment of these fishes, using Red List criteria, reveals threatened species needing protection. Authors: B. B. Collette, K. E. Carpenter, B. A. Polidoro, M. J. Juan-Jord�, A. Boustany, D. J. Die, C. Elfes, W. Fox, J. Graves, L. R. Harrison, R. McManus, C. V. ...
- Baboon Study Shows Benefits For Nice Guys, Who ...Alpha males may hold power and attract females, but a study of baboon troops in Kenya shows they also have very high levels of stress.
- Activation of factor XI by products of prothro ...The prothrombinase complex converts prothrombin to α-thrombin through the intermediate meizothrombin (Mz-IIa). Both α-thrombin and Mz-IIa catalyze factor (F) XI activation to FXIa, which sustains α-thrombin production through activation of FIX. The interaction with FXI is thought to involve thro ...
- China Seeks To Carve Out A Space Of Its OwnHaving sent "taikonauts" into orbit, China now has the moon and a space station on its horizon. One educator says he doesn't think China will ever "be No. 1" at the rate it's going, but there's a focus on the future — like a new space education center in Beijing, where kids can simulate a rocket ...
Common Dreams
- Human-Caused Loss of Big Predators Disrupts Ea ...Large predators like sharks, lions and wolves are on the decline worldwide, a trend that is disrupting the Earth's ecosystem in all kinds of unusual ways, researchers said Thursday. "These predators and processes ultimately protect humans. This isn't just about them, it's about us," said William ...
- Pentagon Declares the Internet a Domain of WarThe Pentagon released a long-promised cybersecurity plan Thursday that declares the Internet a domain of war. The plan notably does not spell out how the U.S. military would use the Web for offensive strikes. The Defense Department’s first-ever plan for cyberspace calls on the DoD to expand its ...
- An AWKward Relationship: The U.S. and Its Ties ...As Afghanistan and Washington deal with the fallout from the assassination of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's powerful half-brother Tuesday, it's worth reviewing the West's controversial backing of a man repeatedly accused of corruption and dealing drugs.read more
- Doctors Threaten Medicaid Cutoff in Puerto Rico SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Physicians are threatening to stop serving nearly a million Puerto Ricans as a result of a dispute between the island's government and an insurance company over reimbursements for treating poor people. read more
- UN Report: 'Deadliest Six Months' for Civilian ...The first six months of 2011 were the deadliest for civilians in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001, a UN report has found. The country saw 1,462 civilian deaths in January to June, a 15% increase on the same period last year. Most of the deaths were caused by roadside bombs and anti-govern ...
The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
Examine Religion - Tweets
- ExamineReligion: They walked with Christ! Do ...ExamineReligion: They walked with Christ! Do we? Conclusion http://exm.nr/odJxkw
- ExamineReligion: FAIR Act Signed by Governor T ...ExamineReligion: FAIR Act Signed by Governor Today as Seth's Law Goes to Final Committee http://exm.nr/r6eAHF
- ExamineReligion: Why? The Universe and 'us' ht ...ExamineReligion: Why? The Universe and 'us' http://exm.nr/reqVml
- ExamineReligion: Never has the Right shown the ...ExamineReligion: Never has the Right shown their true colors the way they are doing now http://exm.nr/pyBXun
- ExamineReligion: Care taking http://exm.nr/nA1VfbExamineReligion: Care taking http://exm.nr/nA1Vfb
Energy Collective
- Carbon Politics in Oz: A Peek Behind The CurtainAustralia's action to put a price on carbon cheered me up a bit. �A brief study of the political tea leaves quickly destroyed the feeling.� Consider this aggregation of Oz political poll data plotted over the time period since the government that is proposing this climate action now was elected: �
- Enterprise and FedEx: Bullish on Electric CarsThe company that owns more cars than any other in America is buying more electric vehicles.
- Feebates - The Most Effective Way to Accomplis ...Feebates can be implemented locally in budget-neutral ways, and can be tailored to avoid leakage by combining a number of incentives and disincentives into a comprehensive framework of policies, to most effectively accomplish desired shifts.
- Study: Slow Down Natural Gas Development Two of Canada’s top environmental NGOs — the Pembina Institute and the David Suzuki Foundation — issued a jointly prepared study today slamming our rising dependence on natural gas, warning that the fossil fuel, while generally cleaner than coal, could seriously slow down efforts to combat clima ...
- Infographic: Nuclear Power vs. Energy Efficien ...Our friends at Energy Savvy continue to be great visual communicators of the benefits of energy efficiency. Yesterday we stumbled�across this great infographic that provides a powerful visual demonstration of the economics, as well as the job-creating potential, of residential energy efficiency ...
Green House - USA Today
- Green House takes brief hiatusThis 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
- With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...HASH(0xa1dc540)
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Peoples Voice
- A Decade of US War Costsby Stephen Lendman On June 29, Reuters writer Daniel Trotta headlined, "Cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting," explaining: In June, when Obama claimed America's post-9/11 (Iraq/AfPak) wars cost $1 trillion, he did what he does best - lied about how much, in fact, was spent and ...
- Nato and Rebel Atrocities in Libyaby Stephen Lendman Previous articles discussed: -- NATO's illegal Libya aggression; -- American and Western media in the lead cheerleading it; some reporters, in fact, complicit with NATO forces by supplying target coordinates; -- planning it many months (perhaps years) before figh ...
- A Murdoch produced scandalKourosh Ziabari The scandalous closure of the "News of the World" tabloid after 168 years of publication once again demonstrated the Western media's lack of adherence to codes of ethics and morality in journalism and showed to the international community that what is advertised as the freedom o ...
- Freedom Flotilla II: Final Thoughtsby Stephen Lendman Palestinian analyst/advocate/author and former journalist Nadia Hijab is right, saying "(i)t was never about aid." In her article titled, "Freedom Flotilla II: No to a Kinder, Gentler Siege," she said like earlier and new initiatives to come, it's "a political act" ag ...
- 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 ...
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 OfficerThe 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 surgeMaclean'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 liveThe 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
- Peace activist rides to protesters’ batt ...By Greta Mart,martinezgazette – To this day, Brian Willson questions why he so obediently â as an officer in the U.S. Air Force from 1966 to 1970 â went â9,000 miles from home to participate in destroying people and villages who I knew nothing about.â Willson, the veteran and peace activist who ...
- A Hippies Guide To The Law of Attraction: So w ...Enough with the Preliminaries – What IS it? So what is The Law of Attraction? The Law of Attraction states, quite simply, that in all of the universe, across all dimensions, vibrations that are alike are drawn together. Huh? Thatâs it? âBirds of a feather flock togetherâ? Whatâs so [bleeping] pr ...
- Pittsburgh in the 60’s. – The old, “6 of ...WWH - In other words- I’m beginning to believe in some sort of grand plan by the far right-white bread-ultra wealthy men behind the curtain. If it’s true, then there really isn’t much sense in fighting for peace and justice because peace will only be rationed out to us at the whim of the men [...]
- Tea Party, “Manatees: Work of the devil& ...By Matthew Hendley,.browardpalmbeach.com - Tea Party Hates Manatees, Says Protecting Them Is “Against the Bible” âJesus apparently hated manatees, according to a new Tea Party platform circulating around Florida. Originating from the Citrus County Tea Party Patriots group, teabaggers are crying ...
- Say Yes to the Breast Part 3WWH- It’s been five days since I’ve been told I need a biopsy of a breast mass. I’m scheduled for tomorrow morning. I can’t sleep. I can’t turn off my mind. I stare at my breast in the mirror. Wondering if it looks different. It doesn’t. It looks the same as it has always looked. [...]
FourWinds10
- SYNTHETIC SEA -- OCEANS OF PLASTIC
- Military Debris Threaten OceansBANGALORE, 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 LandminesNo 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 WasWhen 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 WasWhen 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 2009No 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
- Renewables 2011 Global Status Report ReleasedJoin the forum discussion on this post The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century has just released their annual Renewables 2011 Global Status Report. I was one of the reviewers of the draft report, and therefore got to read and comment on it prior to publication. The report provi ...
- Barack Obama: A Mediocre PresidentJoin 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 NeighborsJoin 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 CodeJoin 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 ...
Discovery Educator Network
- 5915143448_d95df425d2_o.jpg (3808×2333)Tags: qr, qrcode, video, youtubeby: Derrall Garrison
- got books?Comments:"promote reading and Young Adult literature using free or open-source technology tools" - Jackie GersteinTags: literature, technology, books, classroomby: Jackie Gerstein
- http://www.olachannel.it/index.php/su-bosco-delle-rose-non-piovono-petali-ii-parteComments:La seconda ed ultima parte della video-inchiesta sull’eolico selvaggio e speculativo nel Vulture-Alto Bradano. Siamo nei pianori della Murgia potentina, ai confini tra Lavello, Montemilone e Venosa (Potenza), nelle località Finocchiaro e Bosco delle Rose, lungo direttrici storiche di co ...
- http://www.olachannel.it/index.php/sul-bosco-delle-rose-non-piovono-petali-i-parteComments:Sul Bosco delle Rose non piovono petali ma pale eoliche altissime. Così scrive Vitantonio Iacoviello, cittadino lucano, di Lavello e del mondo, oggi alle prese con una battaglia contro il gigante eolo che minaccia il suo quiete vivere. La sua casa immersa in un paesaggio arcaico, di gra ...
- ePub Bud - Publish, Convert, Store, and Downlo ...Tags: ebooks, publishing, epubby: Cheryl Lykowski
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 ...
- Potassium Could Save Your LifeRODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA— We've all heard the news—too much salt is bad for our health, and for many reasons. read more
- Trees Killed by Natural Gas Fracking FluidRODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The fossil fuel industry and many politicians are hailing natural gas as America's answer to its domestic energy needs. read more
- Surprising Source Exposes Office Workers to Qu ...RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Could sitting in your office for 40 hours a week make you infertile? A new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives suggests that it could. Flame-retardant chemicals, which have been linked to female infertility, learning disorders, and thyroid pr ...
big think
- Ethos: 'The Prius of Bottled Water'In launching Ethos Water, social entrepreneur Peter Thum set out to win the emotions of consumers and thereby address the larger issue of the so-called 'World Water Crisis.' Watch the video here: � What's the Big Idea? The world water crisis is part of the larger issue of how ...
- Harry Potter's GenerationThe release of the seventh film in a series of books and movies marks the end of the epic Harry Potter story. The series has received deserved accolades and is considered the story of a generation that grew up with Harry. Generational cohort theory argues that events, social change and even po ...
- Why Gore's Climate First Campaign Is Likely to ...Jim Zarroli and John Ydstie filed stories for NPR this week on the "new normal" for the American economy, with experts anticipating that 2% annual economic growth will be a long term trend, a major shift from the 3% growth of past decades.� Importantly for climate advocates, a 2% growth rate ... ...
- Soldiers’ Hearts Helping Soldier’s HeartPost Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after military service went by many names before it was recognized as a legitimate disorder. “Shell shock,” “combat fatigue” and “soldier’s heart” are among the more recent terms for the haunting anxiety problems that military personnel suffer after combat. ...
- How Samuel Morse Telegraphed a New Direction f ...When you hear the name Samuel F. B. Morse you most likely think about Morse code or the telegraph. In reality, Morse only co-invented the code that bears his name and simply contributed to the already developing technology of the telegraph. But nobody can take any credit away from Morse for his ...
Information Liberation
- Put Down Your Rights and No One Needs to Get Hurt!Few activities are as dangerous as watching a cop too closely, as John Kurtz knows well. Kurtz is the founder of the Orlando, Florida, branch of CopWatch, a network of activists in the United States and Canada who patrol the streets on foot or in a v...
- It's Not Personal; It's Institutional"My husband is a good man!" The indignation came from an email acquaintance to whom I had explained one reason I reject the public-school system * namely, rather than educate children, it indoctrinates them and teaches unthinking obedience. As it ...
- The Right to Lie to the CopsIn Casey Anthony*s case we see an example of a grave injustice in the modern system. I*m not talking about her acquittal. When the prosecutor fails to prove someone*s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the only responsible thing for the jury to do...
- Lobbyists Ramp Up Pressure To Get PROTECT IP P ...The world's largest lobbying organization, the US Chamber of Commerce (which thrives off the fact that many people mistake it for a US government body), along with the biggest lobbyists representing the recording and movie industry, have ramped up th...
- New Hampshire Judge Caught On Video Ordering F ...Adam Mueller, aka Ademo Freeman, stood inside the Keene District Courthouse in New Hampshire, waiting for Judge Edward Burke to step inside so he could ask him a question. Less than two minutes later, he was arrested for threatening the judge, a...
Be Responsible - Be Free!
- MSM – A MonocultureJust a quick post today, as we’re all still recuperating from the ‘flu down here. I guess we can’t ignore the goings on in the British media; James is on the case, so I thought I’d give you all a … Continue reading →
- Style Versus SubstanceIn 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 BrandThe 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 GiftsI’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, JamesIt 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 →
Sciencebase - Breaking Science News
- Use a bulldog to put your cat into standby modeCat lovers everywhere might baulk at this veterinarian’s approach to putting cats in “standby” mode, but it’s not painful and simply hooks into the reflex that makes kittens go entirely limp when they are grabbed by the she cat by the scruff of their neck. It’s probably not advisable to do this ...
- More pretty, ugly peopleOn 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 girlsThis 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 ManualRed 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 ...
RFF Library
- Soil Carbon Sequestration: An Overlooked Oppor ...CINCS / by Steven Shonts http://www.cincs.com/uploads/FTIDInFocus7.pdf [Summary] Soil Carbon Sequestration (SCS) has recently received attention as a method for generating carbon offsets, due in part to new technologies and evolving regulatory frameworks. Soils have a large potential to serve a ...
- Takings Issue Raised by Draft Discussion of Am ...Congressional Research Service CRS-Amtrak (CRS memorandum attached) [From an article in The Hill by Keith Laing] The Congressional Research Service said this week that the House Republican plan to privatizing rail service currently provided by Amtrak would violate the Takings Clause of the U.S. ...
- Climate Risks and Carbon Prices: Revising the ...Economics for Equity and the Environment (E3) http://www.e3network.org/social_cost_carbon.html The U.S. government’s estimate of the social cost of carbon is flawed, according to a new E3 Network report, Climate Risks and Carbon Prices: Revising the Social Cost of Carbon. The peer-reviewed repor ...
- 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]Â 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 ...
Scientific American - News
- Piece of Mind: Is the Internet Replacing Our A ...Has the Internet dumbed down society or simply become an external storage unit that enhances the human brain's memory capacity? With Google , Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia at our beck and call via smart phones, tablets and laptops, the once essential function of committing facts to ...
- Space Toilet Gives Astronauts Smelly Time in OrbitHOUSTON -- Even soaring high above Earth on a high-tech space station doesn't excuse astronauts from the most mundane household chores … especially when you're dealing with a smelly space toilet.The 10 astronauts on the International Space Station today (July 13) tackled the daunting chore of un ...
- NASA Chief to Congress: Save the James Webb Sp ...NASA chief Charlie Bolden went to bat for the agency's imperiled next-generation space telescope Tuesday (July 12), telling members of Congress that the instrument has greater potential for discovery than the iconic Hubble Space Telescope.A proposed congressional budget bill announced last week ...
- 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 ...
First Truths
- L. Susan Brown on PowerI 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 SchoolThe 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 ConnectionInteresting 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 Student Government Moves to Displace Progr ...PIRG faces eviction, lockout targets campus orgs, union workers BURNABY - Over the past week, life has been turned upside down for campus and community groups on SFU's Burnaby Campus. Last Thursday, CUPE Local 3338 members were given not ...
- Off the Hour's Prison Radio: Prison Abolition ...Interview with Assistant Professor of Philosophy Brady Heiner An in-depth interview produced by Lili Eskinazi with Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Concordia University, Brady Heiner. Heiner uses tools from philosophy to understand the ...
- Lines in the SandOne Tile Makes it from Nova Scotia to Gaza. The most straightforward road route to the border town of Rafah, from Cairo, heads almost due east. You will pass through the inhospitable expanse of the Sinai desert before arriving at the Medit ...
- Lockout at SFU: Women's Centre, Out on Campus ...Student Society pushes CUPE 3338 out of their workplaces, picket lines formed The SFU Women's Centre, Out on Campus,�Coffee Centre, the student General Office, Finance Office, Organizing Office, and the Surrey Office are among a host of gr ...
- SFPIRG Under ThreatSFU's Public Interest Research Group faces potential surprise eviction In a recent meeting, the Simon Fraser Student Society's Spacing Committee passed a motion to recommend the termination of SFPIRG's lease, a move that amounts to a surp ...
David Seaton's News Links
- The Murdoch Turkey ShootDavid Seaton's News Links (Britain's politicians) had been pushed into taking a stand by the overwhelming public revulsion that greeted the discovery that the mobile telephone of Milly Dowler, the murdered Surrey schoolgirl, had been hacked. Even so, it was a dramatic show of political will. �T ...
- 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 ParodyThis 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 PalinMarine 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 ...
EWG - Environmental Working Group
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Dr. Mercola Natural Health
- The "Safe" Toxin that's Dangerously Profitable ...Charlie Brown, president and founder of the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry and national counsel of Consumers for Dental Choice, works tirelessly to educate the public about the health and environmental dangers of mercury fillings and to ensure more effective government oversight on am ...
- This Almost Perfect Food Gobbles Up Your Body' ...The website Green Med Info has assembled a list of studies that found evidence of over 40 conditions that chlorella can help to prevent or ease. The conditions include: Hypertension Anemia Diabetes Acute Stress Fibromyalgia Liver Cancer ...
- Perhaps One of the Most Unnecessary Vaccines E ...Barbara Loe Fisher is a pioneer in vaccine education and safety, and the co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC). Over the past 25 years, she�s been appointed to several federal vaccine advisory committees as a consumer representative because of her leadershi ...
- Has this Chemical Destroyed the Meaning of Org ...Perchlorate is a pollutant and powerful endocrine disruptor that is a key ingredient in rocket fuel. It can now be found in virtually all humans tested, and it continually makes its way up the food chain through ground and drinking water, into feed and edible plants, animal products, milk and br ...
- 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 ...
JAMA
- Fibrate Use in the United States and Canada [L ...
- Safety and Immunogenicity of Hepatitis B Vacci ...
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- Racial Disparities in Rates of Pressure Ulcers ...
- Recording, Interpreting, and Updating the Fami ...
Survival - tribal peoples
- Brazilian Indians receive death threatsAlmir Surui, Surui indigenous spokesman © Marc Cowan/Survival Indians of the Surui tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, who are campaigning for their land to be protected, have received death threats from loggers. Almir Surui is one of the Surui affected. He has been told, ‘We know who is agains ...
- Victory for Borneo tribe over oil palm GoliathA Penan man in the Borneo rainforest. © Robin Hanbury-Tenison/Survival A small group of Borneo hunter-gatherers have scored a major victory over a giant oil palm firm that was targeting their rainforest. Survival revealed last month that the Malaysian firm Shin Yang was clearing forest and ...
- 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 campGuarani 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 ...
Montreal Gazette
- Consider the gun-registry decision carefullyWith a Conservative majority government now ensconced in both houses of Parliament, it is no longer a question of whether a vote to abolish the national long-gun registry will pass.
- The Gazette's View: Consider the gun-registry ...With a Conservative majority government now ensconced in both houses of Parliament, it is no longer a question of whether a vote to abolish the national long-gun registry will pass.
- Consider the gun-registry decision carefullyWith a Conservative majority government now ensconced in both houses of Parliament, it is no longer a question of whether a vote to abolish the national long-gun registry will pass.
- Industry-university co-operation is key to bet ...Recently, Gilles Patry, president of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, offered his take on the three drivers of innovation: a healthy private sector that has science, technology and innovation strategies at its core; universities that produce strong talent; and researchers and workers who re ...
- A sad indifference to historyA recent article about the fast-approaching 40th anniversary of the Blue Bird Caf� fire of September 1972 ("These people have been forgotten" Gazette, July 4) and the city's failure to remember in some permanent fashion the lives lost in the appalling event raises an interesting question: Why ar ...
Food World Order
- 7/14 binge & purge: gardens, floodgates & play ...record 1 in 6 now on food stamps as depression escalates* 12 signs that the world is running out of food* police state in action: woman faces 93 days in jail for planting vegetables in her front yard* bureaucrats in michigan threaten woman with jail time for vegetable garden* food fi ...
- 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 fixwonder 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 ...
CrusadeWatch
- The changing face of the churchsource: 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 girlsource: 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 Convertsource: 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 ManipulationCOTO 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 2011Click 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 2011SPEAKERS 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
- If The U.S. Government Loses Its AAA Rating It ...For decades, the U.S. government has had a AAA rating. On the scales used by the big three credit rating agencies, that is the highest credit rating that a government can get. Moody's scale actually uses lettering that is a little different from the other two big agencies ("Aa ...
- 15 Examples That Show Many Americans Have Beco ...More Americans than ever are desperate for money and many of them will do just about anything to get it. The crumbling U.S. economy has pushed millions of ordinary Americans to the brink of utter desperation. When it comes time to choose between being able to survive or breaki ...
- 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 ...
- Rampant Unemployment = The Death Of The Middle ...Without an abundance of good jobs, the middle class in the United States is going to shrivel up and die. Right now, rampant unemployment is absolutely killing communities all over America. Hopelessness and poverty are exploding and many are now wondering if we are actually wit ...
- Will 2012 Be The Year That We See Mass Starvat ...Tonight millions of American families will shovel huge piles of food into their mouths without even realizing that starvation is rapidly spreading in Africa. Right now Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are experiencing the worst drought conditions that they have seen in 60 years. Te ...
CASSE
- The Role of Regulation in a Steady State EconomyBrent Blackwelder recognizes and respects the righteous role of regulations.
- Happy (Oil) Independence Day!Rob Dietz celebrates Independence Day in style.
- Geo-engineering or Cosmic Protectionism?Herman Daly exposes the absurdity of geo-engineering as a solution to climate change.
- Ecosystem Services: The Traveling Salesman and ...Valuation of ecosystem services is an important, but insufficient, step toward achieving a sustainable economy.
- Why Stop at Massive Economic Growth when Infin ...Dr. Mountebank urges economists, lesser scientists and all citizens to try on infinite growth for size.
The Talking Clock
- Dear Doris Pack, on behalf of the British peop ...The ever patriotic Daily Express has a report on how a German Chairwoman of a European Empire committee - Doris Pack - responded to criticism by UKIP's Paul Nuttall of grotesque plans to make England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland's sportsmen wear the offensive EU flag on their shirts. ...
- Exclusive: Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems ...The Labour Party, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats were embroiled in fresh controversy today after allegations of them conducting clandestine, privacy invading hacking programs were proven to be true. The three political parties - branches of and operating under the branding o ...
- Spotted! Some news! In a British newspaper! (B ...So, while most of the media continues with wall-to-wall News of the World... ...The Independent has cropped up and thrown a spanner in the works. Some real news, of The Grim Reaper variety. It reports: "A further austerity programme half as large again as the current package of tax hike ...
- Sit down, Gordon BrownGordon Brown turned up to the House of Commons today. And spoke in the chamber. A rare event, by all accounts - despite him still being paid. However, he was not there to represent his constituents. He was there to represent himself, as the losing loser of a Prime Minister who was never, e ...
- 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 ...
Facing South
- Rick Perry's Army of GodBy Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer On September 28, 2009, at 1:40 p.m., God's messengers visited Rick Perry.On this day, the Lord's messengers arrived in the form of two Texas pastors, Tom Schlueter of Arlington and Bob Long of San Marcos, who called on Perry in the governor's office inside t ...
- INSTITUTE INDEX: Appalachia's deepening human ...Of every 100,000 babies born, number who suffer from birth defects in areas of Appalachia where coal is mined by mountaintop removal, in which ammonium nitrate fuel oil explosives are used to expose coal seams: 235 In non-mining areas: 144 Percent higher risk of having a baby with a ...
- In Florida, an organizing drive that doubled t ...By Paul Ortiz, Labor Notes Florida is not Wisconsin. Wisconsin's history is Robert LaFollette, the Progressive Party, and the birth of public employee unionism. Conversely, Florida had the Rosewood Massacre and the Ku Klux Klan. A grand jury recently found that "corruption is pervasiv ...
- Workplace deaths raise questions about OSHA ex ...By Ariella Cohen, The Lens In January 2002, a mound of powdery chemical catalyst used to make gasoline collapsed on a worker doing routine cleanup at the Marathon Ashland Petroleum refinery in Garyville, La. Within minutes, the contract employee, from Colfax, was completely engulfed in the t ...
- Extreme Alabama immigration law heads to courtBy Kathy Mulady, Equal Voice Newspaper A coalition of civil-rights, human-rights and faith groups filed a class action lawsuit Friday challenging Alabama's recently enacted immigration law, House Bill 56. Tough anti-immigrant laws have been recently passed in a half-dozen states -- A ...
CenterLine
- Today’s Terrorism NewsIn Association with The Soufan Group Three Bombs Strike Mumbai; 18 Are Killed Three coordinated bombings struck Mumbai, India, at rush hour on Wednesday evening, killing 18 people and wounding 131 in the worst terror attacks there since the 2008 … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism NewsIn 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 NewsIn 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 NewsIn 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 NewsIn 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 →
Short Sharp Science
- Today on New Scientist: 14 July 2011All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: wave-power ships, award-winning eye photography, and the battle of the Chaco
- Newest country on track to kill ancient diseaseSouth Sudan, which came into existence this week, is the last stronghold of guinea worm - but a health campaign there may wipe out the disease
- Rainbow toad rediscovered after 87 yearsThe Bornean rainbow toad has been found in Malaysia for the first time since 1924
- Rainbow toad rediscovered after 87 yearsThe Bornean rainbow toad has been found in Malaysia for the first time since 1924
- Today on New Scientist: 13 July 2011All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Stem cell therapies move into the real world, crop disease in Africa, and the hologram revolution
Tech Drive In
- We are still in the very early stages of what ...Google CEO Larry Page has just dropped a bombshell. Along with the quarterly earnings report, co-founder and the new CEO of Google, Larry Page, presented a huge cache of statistics and data that are literally mind blowing. And he have even published the whole report as a status update in his�Goo ...
- Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 2 Review, Sc ...Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 2 is released already and the changes we expected to see in Ubuntu 11.10 is slowly starting to show up. Among other things, the most important change is the arrival of GNOME 3.0 stack. Ubuntu is not based on GNOME 2.x anymore. Most of the default Ubuntu themes h ...
- Netbook Optimized Ping-Eee OS ReviewMost 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 LinuxDAISHO 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 ...
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 AMERICANSAs 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
- Gentile Jambalaya is on the MenuBy Les Visible Homeland Security and the TSA (a division of Israeli Global Control) are hot to toss you into a blender and render you into cannibal chowder or Gentile Jambalaya. They were working on the recipe in the aftermath of Katrina. Few people are aware that Michael Brown, head of FEMA (an ...
- AP source: FBI reviews News Corp. 9/11 phone claimBy TOM HAYS, Associated Press â 8 hours ago NEW YORK (AP) â The FBI has begun a preliminary inquiry based on concerns in Congress over a report that media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims, a law enforcement official said Thursday. The decision ...
- A Murdoch NoteBy Gordon Duff Who is Rupert Murdoch? What he is not is an Australian “right wing” billionaire. Murdoch, though born in Australia is an Israeli citizen and Jewish. Why is this important? Murdoch is now admitted to have controlled the political systems in Britain and America for two decades. He h ...
- A Trompe L’Oeil on the Face of ItBy 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 ItBy 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 [...]
Veterans Today
- U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...Tantus-OnPoint ATO Systems Support LLC, Arlington, Va., was awarded a $400,000,000 indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity, multiple-award-task-order contract between 16 contractors.
- Will the U.S. Really Leave Iraq?U.S. officials are now expressing second thoughts. “Although the Iraq invasion was launched under false pretenses, U.S. troops stationed there are “defending our country.” Defending it from who?”
- Diplomatic Skill to Ward Off Looming DangersBoth Gen Musharraf and President Zardari went out of the way to accommodate US legal and illegal wishes.
- Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – July ...With the unemployment rate high among post-9/11 Vets, the Department of Energy instituted a new program: Troops to Energy. Energy’s goal is to provide Vets with career training and to enter the energy industry.
- Veterans Jobs: Nation’s Kitchen Exhaust Cleani ...HOODZ, the nation’s largest and most reputable restaurant kitchen exhaust cleaning franchise, just partnered with HireVeterans.com to offer employment opportunities to our nation’s former service men and women.
electric politics
- The Art of CourageA 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 DollarBecause 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 TepeAt 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 ZephyrNeoliberal 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 VietnamAmerica'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
- Intel and Discovery team up for multi-platform ...SILVER SPRING, MD: Intel has partnered with Discovery Communications for a global multimedia series, launching what Intel predicts will be one of its largest PR campaigns of the next three years.
- StumbleUpon taps Shift as AORSAN FRANCISCO: StumbleUpon, a leading discovery engine that helps consumers share and find web content based on personal preferences, hired Shift Communications as AOR for North America.
- Kmart adds celebs to Latina blogger communityNEW YORK: Hispanic celebrities, including Sofia Vergara and Cristina Saralegui, will soon be lending their voice and presence to Kmart's Latina Smart blogger community, which launched this May.
- News Corporation calls in Edelman as hacking c ...LONDON: After 10 days of sustained public outcry over phone hacking, News Corporation has turned to Edelman for help with its PR and lobbying efforts.
- Designer Amy Matto hires 5WNEW YORK: Women's clothing designer Amy Matto has hired 5W Public Relations as AOR.
The Story Behind the Story
- FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation, o ...Horowitz and Kane, by their own admission, have publicly declared that they have been actively soliciting the San Francisco FBI Office to “investigate” A. True Ott as a dangerous subversive, hate-mongering, anti-semitic, anti-government, murdering “domestic terrorist Satanist” with a large organ ...
- MORE TRUTH EXPOSING SATANIC CULT PRACTICES!Horowitz and Kane have the “chutzpah” to say my posts concerning Jewish lies and extremism are “hateful” when all they do is tell the unvarnished truth???  Try telling that to the PARENTS of little 8-year old Leiby Kleitzy Mr. Horowitz NPD. This innocent little lad had the terrible misfortu ...
- Horowitz and Kane’s TWISTED Civil Case V ...https://ocapps.occourts.org/civilwebShopping/DisplayCaseInformation.do?caseNbr=30-2011%2000480327&caseYear=2011&source=case_src_dtl# Sheri Kane and Leonard Horowitz’s P.R. gambit has officially backfired. Showing that their allegations against me, A. True Ott to be completely malicious and fra ...
- 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 ...
k2p blog
- The difference between a scientist and an engineerThe difference between a scientist and an engineer is that the scientist describes what is whereas an engineer uses what is to create artefacts.
- Mount Lokon erupts on Sulawesi islandMount Lokon has erupted on Sulawesi island but advance warnings and orderly evacuations means that there is little risk to human life.
- Is 3% the going rate for defence contract bribes?Armor Holdings Inc., the military- truck maker now a subsidiary of BAE Systems Plc , agreed to pay $16 million to resolve U.S. claims it bribed a United Nations official to win contracts connected to peacekeeping missions.This particular contract for the UN body armor was for $6 million, with a ...
- 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.
Left Foot Forward
- FBI called in to investigate News Corp as Murd ...It was announced tonight that the FBI will investigate News Corporation over claims the families of 9/11 victims were targeted by phone hackers, reports Shamik Das.
- The bad news in yesterday’s employment stats ( ...The claim that migrants are disproportionately accessing jobs in Britain compared to workers of UK nationality is based on a simple misreading of the statistics.
- New figures show big increase in NHS waiting t ...There has been a 33 per cent increase in the number of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment in the 12 months from May 2010 to May 2011.
- The NHS needs reform and accountability – not ...The health bill will be a disaster for the NHS. What the NHS needs is appropriate reform and proper accountability - but definitely not the opening up of the market.
- Boris can take the lead on entry-level jobs fo ...The Mayor of London should explain what he is doing to provide entry-level jobs for young people locked out of the workforce. The scale of the problem is huge.
Consumerist
- Town Drops Charges Against Woman For Front-Yar ...A woman who faced the prospect of 93 days in jail for refusing to stop growing vegetables in her front yard is sighing with relief after the Detroit suburb dropped all charges against her. All charges regarding her garden, that is. Now they have renewed charges against her for having two unlice ...
- What Are Your Non-Netflix Options For Streamin ...With many Netflix subscribers less than pleased about that company's decision to effectively raise rates by 60% for customers who want streaming videos and DVDs, people are starting to take a look at other options. For those looking for a new DVD dealer, Blockbuster, which has remained relativ ...
- How Price Guarantees, Aren'tReader Ziemowit has a good point. Some big box stores loudly proclaim their "PRICE GUARANTEE" signs but then actually do some stuff that make them irrelevant. The guarantee is supposed to be that they will match any competitor's price. But when you have a number of manufacturers making products ...
- TSA To Test Trusted Traveler Program With Cert ...In May, TSA chief John Pistole said the agency was considering a program that would allow pre-vetted "trusted travelers" to get through airport security faster. Today, the TSA announced actual details of the program it will begin testing on a small group of fliers. The AP reports: Specificall ...
- How To Check Your Stats If Your Comcast Bandwi ...After reading the story about the guy whose internet was shut off for a year by Comcast as punishment for breaching their data cap, reader Brian tried to check out his Comcast bandwidth meter. He did not want to have the same fate befall him. However, when he got to the screen, all the data and ...
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