Whistleblogger - GAP
- Development Agencies Fail to Take On Corruptio ...Canadian Press: Darling of Development World, Stung by Corruption Problems, Says Others in Worse Shape The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – a $21.7 billion health fund backed by prominent celebrities – is responding to allegations that the fund has lost up to $34 millio ...
- Feds Subpoena Lawyer in CIA Leak Case: Whistle ...St. Louis Beacon: Feds Take Unusual Step of Subpoenaing Sterling's Lawyer The lawyer representing Jeffrey Sterling – the former CIA officer charged with leaking national security secrets to the press – was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in order to discuss Sterling’s case. Fed ...
- Teresa Chambers Case Highlights Limitations of ...Last week, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ordered the National Park Service to reinstate whistleblower Teresa Chambers as Chief of the U.S. Park Police, as well as to reimburse her for back pay and legal costs. Her case garnered national attention when she was removed by the Bush ...
- Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator ...By Wikimedia user Markus Schweiss Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator Killed Whistleblower Bill? This article details how the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) – a bill that would have strengthened protections for federal employees – was killed by one senator’s d ...
- Justice Department Leakers of Classified Info. ...Three months ago, journalist Michael Isikoff noted the disturbing "Double Standard" in White House Leak Inquiries. But now it's not just the Executive Branch. Josh Gerstein of Politico just published an article on how a judge ruled that the Justice Department can keep secret names of its own ...
UK Progressive
- Cut the Crap and Create JobsI have recently written a series of columns about jobs with titles such as an angry dissent, and today’s disastrous numbers are a political game changer. All incumbents of both parties are threatened if jobs are not created in large numbers by Election Day 2012. This is one of the great outrages ...
- Why Mitch McConnell Will Win the DaySenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s compromise on the debt ceiling is a win for the President disguised as a win for Republicans. But it really just kicks the can down the road past the 2012 election – which is what almost every sane politician in Washington wants to happen in any event. Mc ...
- Vast Left Wing Anti-Murdoch / FOX Conspiracy?Poor Rupert… did you hear the latest? Murdoch is in trouble because the vast left wing conspiracy is piling on? Tucker Carlson (no surprise) is carrying water for Rupe and his FOX News meal ticket. And he’s not alone. After a couple of days spent wobbling on the back foot, Murdoch’s minions have ...
- The Right Place at the Wrong TimeIn 2011 NATO initiated Inteqal – the process of transition of security responsibilities from ISAF to the Afghan state and its forces. It was launched on the assumption that the Afghan Army, Police and governance system, at national and local level, would have progressed to the point where handov ...
- CIA Most Likely to Continue Criminal Ways Unde ...Nowhere in his discussion of how General David Petraeus will fare when he takes over the CIA in August does Washington Post columnist David Ignatius challenge the basic operation of the Agency itself. His article of July 8th asks what sort of agenda Petraeus will pursue and concludes, “America n ...
NewsAlert
- How Four Influential Socialist Anti-Semites Sh ...Frontpage Magazine
- Best Books Criticizing Keynesian EconomicsMises Institute
- S&P warns that chance of downgrading U.S. cred ...The Washington Post reports:The ratings agency Standard & Poor’s warned Thursday that there is a 50 percent chance that it will downgrade the U.S. government’s credit rating within three months because of the stalemate over raising the debt limit. It placed the U.S. on “CreditWatch with negativ ...
- Does Obama Have a Problem With His Base?The New Republic
- New backup plan would let Obama raise debt cei ...The Chicago Tribune
JoNova
- Greens reveal their aims: Environment? Who cares?Hypocrisy soup for an entree anyone? The Greens say they want to protect the environment, that CO2 is evil, and that we must be considerate of foreigners. But their actions speak louder than their tie-dyed t-shirts. Example 1: They get a pot of $10 billion to hand out to their friends, their fan ...
- Election Now! National Rally Canberra + Tamwor ...My intray is full of motivated people with ideas on how to stop this train-wreck. Some are proposing leaflet drops in city malls, letter drops in suburbs, large banners and or sandwich boards beside city streets, debates, conference seminars, and the list goes on. Everyone wants to do something. ...
- Lessons in wasting money: Use more wind and so ...One windfarm: bad; ten windfarms: useless. If we replace 5% of the power grid with windpower we could reduce our CO2 emissions by 4% or so. (If only there was some point to doing that.) But here’s the non-linearity trap for the fans of green energy. If we replace 20% of the power grid with [...]
- Barking mad — a nation howling at firefliesYou don’t need to study any numbers to know it doesn’t add up. The statistical chicanery in a patchwork tax, with a complex compo plan, and offsets, subsidies, and a$10 billion renewable energy* Christmas wish list is as complex as a climate model. But this time no one is saying “it’s settled” ...
- The slow death of a great democracy: carbon sundayEveryone wants a free lunch, and some people even believe it exists. Julia Gillard is playing to that crowd, offering the impossible. Somehow, we will cool world temperatures while using some of the most expensive forms of energy we can find, and, wait for it, most Australians will become better ...
ReNew America
- Rep. Allen West: Obama using 'scare tactics'(NewsMax) - Rep. Allen West says President Barack Obama is ruling by "intimidation and scare tactics" by warning that delivery of Social Security checks could be curtailed if a decision isn't reached on...
- Debt debacle will lead to restoration of liberty(Tony Blankley) - Some people can spot a slight in every compliment, whereas others -- the happy ones -- find a compliment in every slight. So last week, as a free-market, low-taxes, constitutional conservative, I happily found an apparently unintended compliment from the liberal New Republic...
- The Republican crackup(Joseph Farah) - Tell me I'm hallucinating. Did Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell actually propose giving Barack Obama the power to raise the debt limit himself through the remainder of his term -- without any requirement to cut even a dime of spending? He drives a hard bargain, doesn't he?...
- Obama's default drama(Emily Miller) - President Obama and congressional Democrats have resorted to scaring seniors and soldiers in order to extract trillions in new borrowing and spending authority from timid Republicans. Some GOP members and even conservative pundits already are raising the white flag now that the ...
- Rolling back the Obamacare banana republic(Michelle Malkin) - A rising chorus of repeal-mongers, outraged at the Obama administration's federal health-care power grab, took over Washington this week. Nope, it's not the tea party. It's Democrats against the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). Yes, Democrats...
Truth Offering
- Diet Myths THEY Don’t Want You To KnowMyPyramid.....of DEATH!I've been studying health and nutrition for about six years now. In fact, I credit my nutritional awakening with spurring on my awakening in all other aspects of life, from economics to politics. And I'll tell you the crux of what sparked my craving for the truth: Going ba ...
- US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
- Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...
- Our Diet Is Killing Our DNA!Few people are aware of this simple fact: what you eat directly impacts your DNA. This likely seems like a strange new concept to most, considering we're all brought up with such an incorrect understanding of human health and wellness. Five years back, I was no different -- well, I always cared ...
- Chemtrails: Scars in the SkyGeoengineering is a relatively new idea to the world. According to�Wikipedia,�"The modern concept of�geoengineering�(or�climate engineering) is usually taken to mean proposals to deliberately manipulate the�Earth's�climate�to counteract the effects of�global warming�from�greenhouse gas�emissions ...
2012 Blog
- Strange Goings-On > UFOs?Strange Goings-On > UFOs? is a post from: 2012 Blog Strange Goings-On > UFOs? is a post from: 2012 Blog Just like nuclear power plants, it seems that nuclear missile bases are a step or two of redundancy short: When Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming lost ... Related ...
- Howden Hill > Silbury Jr.I’ve often thought that Silbury Hill was unappreciated in the greater scheme of ancient mysteries. Primarily because it is just a hill.  Yet when you look at the figures, it was quite an achievement for its era ... Related posts:Asteroid Tsunamis Not So Bad After All? New Hominid = Myst ...
- Brisbane Not Safe / Allen West AttackedAccording to Vivos, the American company that constructs the bunkers, âabout two dozenâ Brisbane residents are among âhundredsâ of Australians enquiring about spots in massive underground bunkers that can house 1000 people ... Related posts:Old Missile Silo = Safe Home Thanks Cataclysm, ...
- Lessons Learned from Falling SkiesI really enjoyed the first two episodes of the TV series Falling Skies. The media keep providing us with a variety of SHTF scenarios, to the point that most people will have seen at least ... Related posts:New Survivalists Prepare! Vivos: Budget Bunker Space in Nebraska
- A Bunker for BooksHot on the heels of the seed vault in the Arctic comes the brainchild of Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. While Google is busy digitizing the world’s books (and sawing off the bindings ... Related posts:Bunker Guidelines for Victoria, Australia Seed Vaults Protect Your Bun ...
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 ...
One News Page
- Mumbai terror attacks: Crucial clues from Oper ...Investigators pegging away at the evidence gathered from the three Mumbai blasts sites have got what might be a crucial clue on the serial blasts. Close Circuit Television (CCTV) footage from near the Opera House blast site shows three to four people talking on the phone for over 90 minutes ...
- Kate Hudson, fiance Matt Bellamy name baby boy ...
- FBI probes News Corp activities in US
- India exercising admirable restraint after Mum ...We applaud Manmohan Singh's continued restraint and urge both sides to think hard about the horrifying cost of a war, the New York Times said in its lead editorial.
- People trying to make a living at jewellery hu ...Kishan Mandal (35), along with two of his friends, was sitting on a motorcycle outside a jewellery shop at Zaveri Bazaar where he worked along with his brother.
Global Research TV
- Yugoslavia's Debt Enslavement
- "NATO Kills 10 Civilians for Every Troop Targeted"
- Operation Libya: Insurrection and Military Int ...
- NGOs and Foundation Funding: Who watches the " ...
- Perils of Imperialism: 4th of July Reflections
Daily Tech
- Sony Outlines Pair of Tablets Coming This SummerSony's S1 and S2 tablets will compete with the iPad 2, and other tablets
- Sony Describes Losing Customer Data as "Great" ...Sony also says it discovered hackers attack everybody and that it didn't do anything to deserve hacks
- Scottish Power Company Reveals Wave Energy Gen ...This wave energy generator is capable of producing 250 percent more power than the first full-scale Oyster, and can do so at one-third of the cost
- Global Fight Against Internet Piracy ContinuesThe fight against piracy enters a new phase, but no resolution in sight
- 7/14/2011 Daily Hardware ReviewsDailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Thursday
Oriental Review
- Mumbai’s Woes and their ImplicationsMumbai is India’s most prosperous as well as most cosmopolitan city. The city’s local trains everyday carry about 7 million diverse people, and to this gigantic fare is everyday added 1200 families who reach city from different corners of India in search of better life. Mumbai, also India’s tins ...
- EU – Summit on the Titanic’s boardEuropean leaders delayed the Friday’s Summit, two days after the EU Finance ministers reunion did not reach any result on Greece. In addition, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, was crucial in resisting pressure for a meeting on Friday, arguing that it would be too early to deliver the compre ...
- Will International Terrorists Help the U.S. Bu ...The so-called ‘Arab spring’, which started as a wave of anti-government riots in Tunisia and Egypt, is now developing in full accordance with the US scenario, its main aim being to reshape the geopolitics, which the Bush administration once described as ‘Greater Middle East’ plan… Emphasis is ma ...
- “For the Revolution from Tunisia to Siberia!”Though the globalization and the current financial and economic crisis look true-to life it is not ruled out that they were created artificially and that everything which is going on now is not without a purpose (no matter how indecent it is considered to speak about “global conspiracy” in a dec ...
- The Mousetrap (II)Part 1 As for the post-Soviet Russia on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s dismemberment, it does not appear to be in good shape either. Anders Ãslund, a Swedish economist formerly influential among the Russiaâs âliberal reformersâ, noted in late 2009: âThe country’s economic ...
BlogHer
- High Time For a Bee-A-ThonForget walk-a-thons, dance-a-thons, and even craft-a-thons.Let's talk bees.Twelve whole hours dedicated to the little buzzers. On Saturday, July 16th from 9 a.m.-9 p.m PST, YourGardenShow.com is hosting a live broadcast comprised of bee experts who will share, educate and discuss how these small ...
- Girls of Summer Movies: Where's Wonder Woman?[Did you know that the creator of Wonder Woman was a man? Or that William Moulton Marston saw the comic strip heroine as an antidote to sexism in the 1940s? So why hasn’t there been a movie about the iconic female character? Alexandra Hinton at Fempop argues that maybe Wonder Woman is too perfec ...
- Show & Tell: NieNie Asks -- What Are Your Fami ...What are some summer chores you have your children do? Me? I let Nic water my outdoor plants (with my blender). What about you? Do you have summer chores? Share a picture or a comment now!
- Sports For The Middle-Aged ChildThis is my husband, Gordy.�Gordy is great husband, a marvelous father, .... and a sports-aholic.Gordy loves sports.�Gordy loves playing sports.Gordy loves coaching sports.�And Gordy loves watching sports on tv.Almost ten years ago, Gordy decided that after�many years without playing any competit ...
- Victory Gardens: Now a MisdemeanorWhen it comes to landscaping it may seem what's good enough for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue should be good enough for the working class neighborhoods of America, but Oak Park, a Detroit-area community in Michigan, disagrees.Students from local schools help Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, and ...
Health Freedom Alliance
- Rogue USDA Hands It All to Monsanto – GM ...When we say Kentucky bluegrass is about to spread like wildfire, we’re not talking about a resurging musical trend. USDA quietly hands Monsanto all unregulated rights to grow genetically modified Kentucky bluegrass. A lot of major news ...
- Updates: Quartszite, AZ State of Emergency?Things in Quartszite, Arizona continue to heat up after City Council ordered the removal of Jennifer Jones who was then arrested at a meeting in late June. Mayor Ed Foster was compelled by a cop in ...
- Endurance Cyclists Set World Record Powered by ...The Raw Milk Cats are a female cycling team between the ages of 44 and 58 who not only beat at least one world speed record but far surpassed their own expectations. They cycled from ...
- Emails Scanned For Target Ads – Yahoo…Did you ever email a friend about what to buy for a gift and notice the sudden influx of ads depicting the very items you discussed? Are they reading your mind? No, but Yahoo is reading ...
- Action! Dietary Supplement Labeling Act & New ...Bill S.1310, the “Dietary Supplement Labeling Act of 2011″ by Senator Dick “To Hell With Supplements” Durbin coupled with new FDA guidelines could change the face of your health and the economy forever. In a nutshell, ...
Live News Wire
- Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
- Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
- Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
- “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
- Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” ProportionsThe worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...
Coal Tattoo
- Trial delayed for Upper Big Branch security chiefIn a March 15, 2011 photo, Massey Energy Security Chief Hughie Elbert Stover, center, and his wife, left, are swamped by members of the media as they leave the Federal courthouse in Beckley after. (AP Photo/The Register-Herald, F. Brian Ferguson) U.S. District Judge Irene C. Berger today issued ...
- AEP puts brakes on touted carbon capture projectGazette photo by Lawrence Pierce The New York Times broke the story late last night: A major American utility is shelving the nation’s most prominent effort to capture carbon dioxide from an existing coal-burning power plant, dealing a severe blow to efforts to rein in emissions responsible for ...
- Climate Progress on where coal is headedRegular readers of Coal Tattoo know that I believe Joe Romm’s blog, Climate Progress, is an essential source of information and commentary about global warming. But earlier this week, they had a great post by Climate Progress reporter Stephen Lacey that focused on the economics of coal. It was t ...
- Alpha’s union mines agree to UMW dealThis just in from the United Mine Workers of America: The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) announced today that subsidiaries of Alpha Natural Resources have signed the 2011 National Bituminous Coal Wage Agreement (NBCWA), covering two large coal mines controlled by Alpha in Pennsylvania. “A ...
- House set to vote on Rep. Nick Rahall’s ...When last we left my good friend Rep. Nick J. Rahall, his staff was dodging questions about the growing body of science that shows serious environmental damage and public health impacts in his district from mountaintop removal coal mining. Since then, Rahall has become the co-sponsor of legislat ...
Daniel Miessler
- iPhone and Android Marketshare in March 2011 | ...Android’s share of the smartphone market dipped in the quarter, NPD said, to 50 percent in the first quarter from 53 percent in last year’s fourth quarter. Apple’s iOS rose nine percentage points, accounting for 28 percent of smartphone units sold, while BlackBerry lost five points of market sha ...
- Rapportive: The Chrome Extension of Doomvia rapportive.com This is THE Chrome extension. It gives a full contextual view of people right from within GMail. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsDon’t Be a Cryptic AssCare WolfEliminating Redundancies | DilbertThe Confident FeelingYouTube Downloader | Chrome ...
- Daring Fireball: Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentall ...Apple’s radical notion is that touchscreen personal computers should make severely different tradeoffs than traditional computers — and that you can’t design one system that does it all. Windows 8 is trying to have it all, and I don’t think that can be done. You can’t make something conceptually ...
- FaceNiff – Session Hijacker for Androidvia faceniff.ponury.net This is wicked. It’s an Android app where you join a wireless network and sniff passwords traversing it–like Firesheep but as an Android application. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsWhy do apps from the same company look worse on Android ...
- Windows 8 Looks Like a Slick Apple Knockoffvia microsoft.com I like a lot of what they’re doing here, but everything about it screams “catch up with Apple”. It takes away from it significantly. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe iPhone is the World’s #1 CameraSaw a Demo of Apple TV TodayThe New MacBook ...
Fitwatch
- Free Francis Fernie. Resist political sentencingLast week, a 20 year old man was given twelve months for violent disorder relating to protests on March 26th outside Fortnum and Masons. He threw two placard sticks, neither of which hurt anyone nor were capable of causing harm. This man, pictured in one of Operation Malone's witch hunts, handed ...
- 30 Years Since the Liverpool 8 Uprising – ...It was July 1981 when the Liverpool 8 Uprising - or 'Toxteth Riots' as it became known - began. Following the typically aggressive and heavy-handed arrest of Leroy Cooper on Friday 3 July, anger erupted on the streets of one of Liverpool's most deprived areas in one of the most voracious display ...
- This is a FITwatch Call-out.This is a FITwatch Call-out. This is a call-out to all those who have ever been on the recieving end of "intelligence-led" policing. This is a call-out to all those who have been pushed up against a wall by riot cops and illegally stop-and-searched. This is a call-out to all those who have had t ...
- Turning the tables on FIT – June 30thGreat to see FIT photographer Gavin Paul getting a hard time on June 30th.
- Harassment style policing at J30 protestOne of the most striking feature of today’s J30 protests was the unfettered intimidation and harassment dished out by the Met. They blatantly targeted a large scale stop and search programme at anyone they decided they didn’t like the look of, often young men, who were pulled from the crowd if t ...
Worldwide 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. [...]
reference frame
- The stationarity fallacyI just met my new personal banker in LBBW, a German-owned Czech bank, and he looked like a rather competent investor and adviser relatively to many others. Just to entertain some of the multi-millionaire TRF readers, the interesting discussion included an offer to have a regular checki ...
- Obama has failed as a managerIn February 2010, the U.S. debt ceiling - the maximum number of dollars that the U.S. government is allowed to borrow (in the form of the treasuries, i.e. the U.S. bonds, held by China, Japan, and many others) was raised from $12.394 trillion to $14.294 trillion. Note that one digit w ...
- Regularization and renormalizationEighty years ago, people encountered the first divergences - infinities - in the calculations based on quantum field theory: I chose Julian Schwinger as the top representative of these developments. It was a somewhat technical development but in some sense, it was as big a revolution and a ...
- EU, tax, official languages, and bureaucracyYour humble correspondent had another amazing bureaucratic day today. I was so jealous that the Spanish bureaucrats were so fast and efficient and could give the blondie her stamp so relatively quickly and without much hassle. I received a letter from a French publisher than my royalti ...
- Al Gore will choose his reality on September 14thIn 2008, Al Gore misappropriated 300 million dollars in an attempt to brainwash the population and spread his delusions about a "climate crisis". He has paid lots of people - including corrupt politicians such as Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich - to act as pimps and say any nonsense Gore wan ...
Tatumba 2.0
- The End of Fear – Follow in the steps of ordin ...Το τÎλος του φÏβου… The end of fear… by magiconteam Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Stop Living In Fear! Stop living in fear! It lowers your vibrations and helps... Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Radio 13 Aug 2010 Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Ra ...
- Darwin was right: Arrival of the Post-Petroleu ...Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial civilization. The star ...
- Greek Revoultion is now LiveI am streaming the coverage of protests from Greece. It will run as long as the video feed keeps coming to me. Just so you know…Greece is 7 hours ahead of EST. LIVE STREAMING: Γενική Απεργία ενάντια στο… by News247 Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Postcards from the G ...
- Burzynski Cures Cancer – The Magic of Antineop ...THIS VIDEO WILL BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE OWNER ON JUNE 20 2011 Curing cancer is frowned upon big government and BIG PHARMA, especially when the patent for the cure is owned by a single doctor, and they can’t have a taste of the pie. So what do they do? They sick their hound dog, [...] Related p ...
- French Whistleblowers reaveal the set up of Do ...I saw this over at SGTReport.com and it is worth repeating here. French insiders reveal the reason why DSK had to be taken out. It was all about the missing gold baby. Watch this one explode before summer is out. Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Commodities / Gold and ...
Truth About Our World
- Obama says he cannot guarantee Social Security ...I’m posing this because I want people to really THINK about this.  It really is time for  people to wake up.  Obama will withhold social security, but NOT funds for “foreign aid”, military, etc… Now THIS is terrorism, as he video below says… President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarant ...
- Alex Jones Comes Out Against 9/11 Truth!
- One Global heart� From: http://www.davidicke.com
- London Bombings Were An Inside Job (And So Was ...‘A Principal Intelligence Analyst for South Yorkshire Police has spoken out about the July 7th 2005 London Bombings. Tony Farrell who has served for the police since 1998 is convinced as he can be that the bombings were a false flag attack carried out by intelligence agencies. In July 2010 he wa ...
- How Cancer Is Willingly Forced Upon the People ...
Bloomberg
- Can't Stop the Big MoHealthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
- Merck: More Agony from Its PainkillerThe costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
- No Lull in the Airlines' HeadwindsThe industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
- Grading Back-to-School StocksSome outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
- IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys AreThe Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?
Enviroblog
- U.S. Forest Service: Fracking Killed Trees By Justine Chow, Natural Resources Summer Researcher Chemical-laden wastewater generated by a natural gas hydraulic fracturing operation killed more than half a stand of trees in a field study at the Monongahela National Forest, according to a new report... [[ This is a content summary only ...
- On Conservation: Even your water can be reusedBy Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, my mother used to admonish me to conserve water during droughts. "Turn off the faucet while you brush your teeth," she'd say, "and take a shorter... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
- Cosmetics Industry To Disavow Hair StraightenersBy David Andrews, Ph.D., EWG senior scientist Most people are - by now - well aware that overexposure to formaldehyde is unsafe. From the FEMA trailer fiasco (remember Katrina?) to the Obama administration's recent decision to classify formaldehyde as... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
- On Propaganda: Fracking Fun for the Very YoungBy Alex Formuzis, Father of Two and EWG V-P for Media Relations The natural gas industry has lost much support among adults who live in communities where fracking has left the water undrinkable and home values plummeting, but all is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
- Fracking Hearing: Standing room only and plent ...By Leeann Brown, Shannon Morgan and Alex Rindler, EWG Staff Following up on last week's contentious hearing in Washington, Pa., the U.S. Energy department has scheduled two all-day sessions for Tuesday, June 28, and Wednesday, July 13, to listen to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
Quick Hits
- More Teachers Being Replaced By TechnologyThe neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
- Food costs at record levels, likely to go higherMANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
- Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi... The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said motorists would ...
- Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia UprisingsWellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
- Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.
Capital - NYC
- New houses on Jerome Street left to rot, and o ...Only minutes after stepping off the L train and walking up Livonia Avenue, I ran into Shah, one of my old housemates. He was standing near the corner of Pennsylvania and Livonia, as he had nearly every day in 2008. Same do-rag, same oversize jersey, same b ...
- Levi Aron is a monster, but what kind?Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
- This is what Rupert Murdoch looks like before ...We don't know yet what the future holds for Rupert Murdoch and his media empire. What we do know, though, is that he's acting a lot less worried than the non-Murdoch media world thinks he ought to be.Yes, he's just absorbed another setback, ducking out of ...
- Dismembered body of Leiby Kletzky found by pol ...Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
- That championship season: George Pataki is sti ...George Pataki badly wants to be treated as a serious White House prospect. He's essentially been running his own "Draft Pataki" effort, encouraging the stories that regularly pop up about his potentially imminent entry into the 2012 presidential race.But t ...
Views & News from Norway
- Summertime, and the fishing is easySome summer-like weather finally returned to Oslo this week, and Wednesday was particularly warm and clear. That drew folks to the waterfront, including dozens of avid fishermen and women who lined the pier under the Akershus Fortress and Castle late in the evening. This is where cruiseships ten ...
- Minibank swindlers back in actionPolice, banks and insurance companies were warning Norwegians once again that they should be very careful when using minibanks (automated teller machines) and hide the keyboard when tapping in pin codes. A new wave of so-called skimming has hit minibanks in Oslo, Sandvika in Bærum and Drammen. T ...
- Debate flies over stricter boating lawsDebate continued Thursday over whether state authorities should impose stricter rules on boating, following the deaths and disappearance of six persons in three separate accidents this week. Efforts to find the missing victim of the latest boat accident, a wealthy grocery store retailer, remaine ...
- Norway’s economy ‘unique and lucky ...While countries on both sides of the Atlantic are suffering from huge national debt and sluggish economies, there’s still reason to wave the flag in Norway. High prices for its natural resources and billions in financial reserves have put the country in a historically unique situation, say local ...
- Norwegians’ most-hated taxesHeavy taxes tied to their homes and their cars have emerged as the most hated by a majority of Norwegians, according to a new study by a national taxpayers’ organization (Norsk Skattebetalerforeningen). So intense is the criticism that even some of the country’s most socialist-oriented politicia ...
Permaculture Research Institute - Australia
- Permaculture Design Course with Darren J. Dohe ...This is your opportunity to attend the first Permaculture Design Certificate Course in Athens, Greece, with world renowned Permaculture Designer and Teacher Darren J. Doherty. There are limited spaces available, so please register now to secure your spot! Darren J. Doherty has extensive experie ...
- Q & A on GM Wheat Trial ActionWhat have Greenpeace done today? Greenpeace activists have taken non-violent direct action to stop Australia’s environment and food supply from being contaminated by genetically modified wheat. The GM wheat that has been released across Australia has not been proven safe. It hasn’t been tested ...
- CSIRO in Bed with Multinational CorporationsEditor’s Note: Some years ago I wrote about Australia’s CSIRO using public money for private profit, whilst ejecting just the kind of people we need in an organisation that’s supposed to be looking out for the interests of Australia and Australians. The article below shares some updated news on ...
- Read the Plants, Read the LandscapeObservation is a key element of permaculture design, and plants can help us to understand the landscape under our feet. Indicator plants are plants that grow in such a density that their success in out-competing other plants can tell us a lot about the soil and microclimate they grow in. Severa ...
- Brave Old WorldClick for larger view Courtesy: Marc Roberts Every silver lining has a cloud.
Pointman's
- Internet Security 3: The Worst Sort Of Predator.This is a nasty, distasteful and distressing area to post a topic on but if it saves the happy childhood of one kid, itâll be worth it. If you’re a parent, which I am, anything like this is tough going but Iâd encourage you to read on. I think it was Will Rogers who said … Read more
- Line of Descent Chapter 27Chapter 27 Drayton waited with Krupmeyer amid the ruins of the summer house. He sat on the floor, resting his injured back against the wall. It throbbed with a steady nagging ache that the drugs could not quite mask. Beside him on the floor, Krupmeyer lay in a stretcher. About them, the team of ...
- Another body floats by.The Japanese have a proverb; if you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by. In the year and a half since climategate, itâs been happening with increasing frequency. The latest one is a main stream media (MSM) journalist called Johann Hari who works at the Inde ...
- The death of journalism and the irresistible r ...The IPCC has screwed up again. They published a claim last month in their renewables report saying that renewable technologies could supply 80% of world-wide energy needs by the mid-century. What they actually published was an executive summary of the report, not the report itself. That was publ ...
- Line of Descent Chapter 26Chapter 26 Krupmeyer stared through the smoke at the black indistinct figure rising up through the hole in the floor in front of him. His eyes watered from the acrid smoke and his ears were filled with a high-pitched ringing from the effects of the explosion. The figure seemed to unbend slowly u ...
Journalists' Toolkit
- The best video export optionsHow do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
- Video Resources updatedThe new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching video in ...
- Flash Journalism updatesI have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
- New tutorial: Windows Live Movie MakerAs an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less versatile in several w ...
- Convert WMA files with SwitchSwitch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we can edit them ...
Justice Roars - Louisiana
- Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Louis ...From a press release issued today by the US Department of Justice: The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana and a number of Louisiana state agencies and officials alleging that the state has violated its obligations under the Nationa ...
- Protest Planned for New Orleans Meeting of Pow ...From our friends at the Student Labor Action Project LSU: Stand up, and fight back in New Orleans! The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will be hosting their annual summit at the Marriott in New Orleans from August 1-6th. We will meet them there to let them know they can’t pull the ...
- Settlement Reached in "Road Home" Racial Discr ...From our friends at Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center: Today, African-American homeowners and two civil rights organizations announced a settlement in a post-Hurricane Katrina housing discrimination lawsuit brought against the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ...
- Displaced Women Demand Justice in Port au PrinceBy Bill Quigley and Jocelyn Brooks “We women demand!…” sang out a hundred plus voices “…Justice for Marie!” Marie, a 25 year old pregnant mother, was injured by government agents when they slammed a wooden door into her stomach during an early morning invasion of an earthquake displacement ...
- Project Transparency Posts New Financial Discl ...Project Transparency, a program run by Louisiana Justice Institute, has posted 2009 and 2010 financial disclosure forms for many members of our city government, including the mayor, city council members, city attorney, police superintendent, and several key mayoral staff. The documents are avail ...
Information Underground
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...Looks like silver is on its way up.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:10 am
- Self-Appointed "Masters" • Dr. F.K. ...Germany and the Jewish Problem by Dr. F. K. Wiebe Published on behalf of the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Problem, Berlin "No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key of history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men w ...
- Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...Proof That Zero Hedge Cannot Be Trusted Wednesday, May 25, 2011, by Stathis Font size: | While checking our web hosting admin panel, a staff member spotted some hits to our site from Zero Hedge linking to one of the articles I had written about Harry Dent. Of course, the link was posted by o ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...Don't sign Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:14 pm
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...I tried to comment at a news site -- "now they know how it feels -- Israel = 911" but they didn't allow the post.Statistics: Posted by Roy Hobs — Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:08 am
TVNZ
- Thousands flee as Indonesian volcano eruptsIndonesia's Mount Lokon erupted to spew hot lava and volcanic ash as high as 1,500 metres.
- Bootleg liquor blamed for fatal UK explosionA bootleg alcohol operation is being blamed for a deadly blast in eastern England.
- Murdochs to face UK govt inquiry, FBI to probe ...Rupert Murdoch caved in to pressure from Britain's parliament to answer questions over alleged crimes,
- Bastille Day dedicated to dead soldiersFrance has celebrated Bastille Day with a military parade in Paris.
- India PM vows to bring Mumbai bombers to justi ...The Indian Prime Minister has vowed to bring to justice those behind triple bomb attacks.
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 ...
oldephartte/Diigo
- rx Marijuana : Articles by Grinspoon and BakalarTags: medicine marijuana crimes_against_humanity
- ALEC ExposedTags: GOP_lies corporate_control secrecy fascism legislation_pending
- New Orleans Ladder
- Stephen Lendman - Progressive Radio NetworkTags: progressive radio lendman
- Forecasting, Tracking and Analyzing Global Tre ...Tags: forecasting trends research
backofthebook
- Where is James Moore?By Frank Moher Two weeks ago in this space I wrote about the Conservative government's politically-motivated decision to withdraw funding from the Toronto theatre and arts festival, SummerWorks. To recap: Last year, the company presented a play, Homegrown, that the Prime Minister's Office dec ...
- The A wordBy Alison@Creekside The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism has released its Final Report -- two years in the making -- on what co-chair and former Lib MP Mario Silva refers to as the "wave of anti-Semitism we are witnessing in our nation". A 71% increase. Yet a mere ...
- Have a cupcake, St. Joe’sBy Jodi A. Shaw Mayor Rob Ford may have been conspicuously absent from Toronto's Pride Parade last weekend, but 16-year old Leanne Iskander more than made up for it as parade co-Grand Marshal (along with Michael Bach of Pride at Work Canada). Iskander made headlines in March when she was p ...
- No WikiLove for Canada DayWikipedia is working on a new feature to allow visitors to express appreciation for the poor beleaguered editors. Visitors will have the opportunity to click on a Wikilove icon (a heart), which will allow them to send a message of appreciation. Seems that editors get a lot of ...
- RIM chaos overestimated, but . . .By Mark Evans With all the talk about Research in Motion’s financial and marketshare struggles, many people tend to overlook the fact that it is still a wireless behemoth, albeit one with intense and growing competition. But it's not just another “a Nortel.”. Nevertheless, RIM needs to mak ...
Daily Beast
- Rudy Giuliani’s 2012 TeaseOn a presidential-style swing through New Hampshire, Hizzoner is still being coy, writes McKay Coppins.
- The Truth About CarmageddonGridlock! Evacuations! Tom Hanks! An L.A. resident explains the fuss over the city's apocalyptic roadwork.
- Clemens Prosecutors Strike OutDid stupidity kill the case against Roger Clemens? Buzz Bissinger on why it was a travesty to start with.
- Justin Rolls the DiceJustin Timberlake talks to Ramin Setoodeh about MySpace and his new film Friends with Benefits.
- GOP’s Debt KamikazesIn preferring default to a deal, the GOP’s populist wing has demonstrated its new nihilistic streak.
Loonwatch
- Boy’s Remains Found in Refrigerator; New ...8 year old boy killed by Ultra-Orthodox Levi Aron.
- ‘Ex-terrorist’ Rakes in Homeland Security BucksWalid Shoebat has been exposed by CNN.
- John R. Bowen: Europeans Against MulticulturalismA very extensive piece from John Bowen regarding the rightward shift of European politics and the constructed attack against "multiculturalism."
- Robert Spencer Grasps at Any Crack Pot “mythis ...Robert Spencer's waffles first on his theories about Muhammad and now the Hajj.
- Richard Dawkins: Trying to Use Muslim Women as ...Fatemeh Fakhraie dissects Richard Dawkins latest foray into stupidity and asshatery.
Energy News
- Monsoon rains threaten to flood Los Alamos are ...Interview with Willem Malten of the Los Alamos Study Group, PressTV, ...Read More
- Tennessee nuke plant: After tornadoes, water i ...TVA defends Browns Ferry after reports of equipment, operator failure, Times ...Read More
- “This is our highest priority right now& ...Los Alamos lab prepares for flooding after fire, Associated Press, July ...Read More
- Food-safety concerns increasing after gov̵ ...Beef Contaminated by Radiation Intensifies Food-Safety Concerns in Japan, Bloomberg by ...Read More
- Powerful typhoon to threaten Japan early next ...Typhoon Threat to Japan, AccuWeather by Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist, July ...Read More
Japan Times
- Kissinger blighted millionsas U.S. jockeyed ...Henry Kissinger has distilled many words of wisdom from four millennia of Chinese civilization, and several centuries of Western diplomacy, including almost half a century of personal experience at the sharp end of power politics. He has captured headlines and captivated some of the world's best ...
- Strong yen may force further shift abroadMajor manufacturers have expressed deep concern over the yen's rise to a four-month high against the dollar to the mid-�78 zone, saying they may be forced to shift more operations overseas. "At an exchange rate of �78 or �79 to the dollar, it would be difficult for manufacturers to continue op ...
- On track for great Vietnamese foodAs soon as the rains lift and the temperatures rise, our thoughts turn to Vietnam. It's the food we crave: No other cuisine seems quite as appetizing once the sweltering summer sets in. Not that we want to actually head off to Southeast Asia. In terms of climate, that would be like fleeing fro ...
- Three films make Japanese premiere at Sokurov ...Acclaimed Siberian director Alexander Sokurov, will be the subject of a two-week film festival between July 23 -Aug. 5. The Cannes Film Festival regular is one of Russia's greatest directorial exports, responsible for such celebrated films as "Mother and Son" (1997) and "Moloch" (1999). However, ...
- U.S. edges into finalThe U.S. kept its fans breathless again. And just like last time, Abby Wambach — who else — came up big. Wambach broke a tense tie with a thunderous header in the 79th minute, and the U.S. earned its first trip to the World Cup final since winning it in 1999 with a 3-1 victory over France on W ...
Alexander Higgins
- Ex-CIA Agent Explains How Bloggers Can “ ...EX-CIA agent explains how bloggers can dump congress on their ass by getting out the truth the government doesn't want the people to know.
- 52,547 Bq/Kg Of Cesium Radiation Found In Soil ...52,547 Bq/Kg of Cesium radiation measured in soil samples collected just outside of Tokyo over 135 miles south of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
- Freedom of Speech My ASS! Citizen Who Has Town ...Woman illegally arrested for participating in town hall meeting and stating the reason she was against a proposed local ordinance.
- EX-DEA Agent Says CIA Performed Behavior Modif ...A former DEA agent says the CIA performed aerial spraying over the California as part of "behavioral modification program" which we have no idea if it was extended to other states or still continues today
- Action Alert: Demand MSNBC Apologize For PURPO ...Demand MSNBC apologize and explain why they purposefully left Ron Paul off the list of top GOP fundraisers when he should be number 2 on the list.
Macleans - Central
- Harry Potter’s final feat of magicAfter a glut of clunky Hollywood blockbusters about aliens and superheroes, this is a tonic
- Emmy TwofersRandom trivia note about the Emmys: I was going through the lists of past...
- The prostitution debateWhile Conservative MP Joy Smith pushes forward with a bill that would criminalize prostitution,...
- Why we don’t have a debt ceilingPeter Devries explains why the government no longer has to ask Parliament to borrow...
- ‘Canada’s help is required’John Baird explains why we’re bombing Libya. That’s what took me to Libya late...
Making It Count - CCPA
- When Business And Progressives AgreeIt was news, not so much because of what was said, as who said it: The Conference Board of Canada released a report on rising inequality in Canada today, noting that despite the fact that Canadians are better off than a generation ago, the richest 20% in society are taking an ever-growing share ...
- Deconstructing BC’s carbon neutral gover ...Besides the carbon tax, one of the most important BC government climate action initiatives has been the adoption of Carbon Neutral Government. That is, count emissions from public buildings and travel, reduce them as much as possible and pay for carbon offsets to negate the rest. As of the 2010 ...
- Navigating troubling economic watersDown south, the Obama administration is in a dangerous game of chicken with Republican congressional leaders, who are cynically holding the US economy hostage in order to impose a radical agenda of spending cuts. Obama has seemingly bought into the rhetoric of cutting debt, rather than focusing ...
- Is BC about to drop a new carbon bomb?Any day now the BC government should be releasing the latest greenhouse gas data for the province, and we will see if any progress is being made towards a legislated 33% reduction in emissions by 2020 (relative to 2007 levels; data will be for 2009 and we know that emissions rose in 2008). Below ...
- The Riddle of the MiddleIt’s like a bad riddle: almost everyone thinks they belong to it, but few can define what it is. Politicians claim to champion it, but it’s increasingly difficult to determine what it actually wants. And, often, when we talk about it, we’re really only referring to part of it—the part that doesn ...
ReDress
- 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 ...
Physics Today
- Ethiopia moves forward with Grand Millennium DamNational Geographic: Ethiopia announced that it will build a multibillion-dollar Nile River dam that is expected to be the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa. The dam, which will span a section of the Blue Nile River in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, could supply more than 5000 megawatts ...
- US needs to increase its support of green init ...New York Times: The Brookings Institution has compiled what it describes as one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date analyses of the US’s enigmatic green economy. For its report “Sizing the Clean Economy,” the institution collected data from every county and major metropolitan area in the US ...
- Wave-power ships could provide cheaper clean e ...New Scientist: Ships that harvest energy from the waves and store it in batteries could one day generate electricity from the world's oceans more cheaply than today's wave-power devices, writes Helen Knight for New Scientist. The ships would sail to a suitable location, drop anchor, and start ge ...
- What activates a supermassive black hole?Astronomy: Most, if not all, large galaxies have a supermassive black hole in their center. In many galaxies, including the Milky Way, that black hole is quiet. In some galaxies, though, material falls into the black hole, giving off intense radiation as it does so. Until now, astronomers believ ...
- Three women take top honors at Google's first ...Los Angeles Times: Google has announced the winners of its first science fair—and all three are women. Lauren Hodge (13–14 age group) studied the effect of different marinades on the level of potentially harmful carcinogens in grilled chicken; Naomi Shah (15–16 age group) tried to prove that twe ...
Revolutionary Politics
- FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show,'-20by footprints (Posted Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:53:14 GMT) As stated before it costs R5000.00 for six months and shares can be traded by companies including your own company...We have a list of the companies listed in the TOP20 which is a basket and updates on a weekly basis...If the company shares ha ...
- FF News: The Footprints Filmworks Stock Exchangeby footprints (Posted Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:18:01 GMT) Footprints Filmworks edit Welcome to Footprints Filmworks If you choose to post messages on our websites searched in Google you can make use of our public username to promote 'your business...' This is a gift to businesses who choose to PROM ...
- Gaza Aid Flotillaby Rev333 (Posted Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:57:49 GMT) Israel braces for arrival of hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists. http://tiny.cc/k6ydp Around 600 police officers will deploy at Ben-Gurion International Airport to stop the hundreds if not thousands of pro-Palestinian activists arriving ...
- I AM a Zionist & Pro-Palestinian Stateby BradWatsonMiami (Posted Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:24:41 GMT) Re: the Israel vs. Palestine question, this usually is also a Jewish vs. Muslim question. I have never been to Israel/Palestine (at least not in this life), but I have studied the situation since childhood. I was brought up Protestant, bu ...
- America addicted to Warby Rev333 (Posted Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:49:43 GMT) Cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting. http://tiny.cc/6ovzn The final bill will run at least $3.7 trillion and could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research project "Costs of War" by Brown University's Watson Institu ...
Peakwater
- Fracking Water Killed Trees, Study Finds“A study that argues for more research into the safe disposal of chemical-laced wastewater resulting from natural gas drilling found that a patch of national forest in West Virginia suffered quick and serious loss of vegetation after it was sprayed with hydraulic fracturing fluids. The study, by ...
- For Texas Policymakers, Drought Exposes Limits ...“Droughts are tricky to manage. Their effects vary significantly from place to place, so local authorities generally assume primary responsibility for drought management. Different counties or cities not only get different amounts of precipitation, but they also may draw from different sources o ...
- Ethiopia Moves Forward with Massive Nile Dam P ...“Ethiopia has announced that it will construct a controversial multibillion-dollar Nile River dam that could supply more than 5,000 megawatts of electricity for itself and its neighbors, including newcomer South Sudan. The projectâthe Grand Millennium Damâhas sparked worries about environmental ...
- College bans sale of water bottles“Bottled water is one of the countryâs top-selling beverages, but you wonât find any for sale at Pacific University, starting in August. “Thanks to the efforts of two Pacific alumni and the universityâs dining service, school administrators banned the sale of bottled water at their Forest Grove ...
- Majority of water bodies facing extinction“All is not well with the health of Hyderabad’s water bodies. With the authorities turning a blind eye to the plight of these lakes, more than 70 per cent of them have either been encroached upon by private parties, turned into dump yards or filled up to make way for a more lucrative realty [...]
D. Kucinich
- Debt Political Theater Diverts Attention While ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor about the massive transfer of wealth from the American people to the hands of the few by virtue of wars, energy policies and monetary policies. He called upon Americans to witness Wall Street�s theft of Main Street, which has left ...
- Kucinich: Credit Rating Agencies Have No Autho ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Moody’s placed the U.S. on review for possible downgrade of the nation’s credit rating: “No nation, agency or organization has the authority to dictate terms to the United States Government,” said Kucinich. “Moody’s ...
- Kucinich to White House: Stop Playing Politica ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor once again to defend senior citizens and Social Security from unwarranted political attacks. See video here. The full text of Congressman Kucinich�s remarks follow: �Three months ago 276 experts on Social Security, the federal bu ...
- Kucinich: Social Security Didn’t Create the De ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) took to the House floor today to stand in defense of senior citizens and Social Security. See video here. Full text of Congressman Kucinich’s remarks follow: “Social Security didn't create the deficit, but America's seniors are being presented with a fake Soc ...
- Historic Vote to End Libyan War Expected TodayCongressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led the bipartisan opposition to the illegal war in Libya, will today be the principal cosponsor of a bipartisan amendment to finally and fully end the war in Libya. The bipartisan amendment to the Defense Department Appropriations Act, H.R. 2219, is e ...
Authentically Wired
- HOT BUTTON … BUFFOON… While it may not be a “hot-button” issue for Arizona citizens … the recent events which unfolded at a recent public meeting in Quartzite, Arizona has captivated the public’s attention putting into focus under brilliant Klieg lights once again the “buffoon” actions of more of Arizona’s elected ...
- lunacy thrives in Arizona …⦠QUARTZSITE ⦠mere obscure dot on Arizona map ⦠goes viral on the internet ⦠lunacy thrives in Arizona ⦠Radio/TV Show ⢠Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock – Ra Host: Ernest Hancock> Mayor of Quartzsite, Ed Foster Live In Studio for 2 hours Mayor of Quartzite, Ed Foster ...
- … WELL DONE MESABrewer calls Nov. 8 recall election for Pearce 07-12-2011 ⢠Arizona Republic Pearce, one of the state’s most powerful and controversial politicians, released a statement late Tuesday afternoon saying that he told Gov. Jan Brewer that he was in support of her calling the election this fall. ⦠...
- In a word . . . G R E E D�� Netflix brain-trust doesn�t get it �� give less but charge more �� what don�t you understand �� ? Netflix Price-Hike Backlash: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 07-13-2011� ⢠ Eric Blattberg via WIRED.com Netflix is enduring a world of hate for its price hike, which ups the cost for a combined DVD ...
- … Timely health and food issues you just ...⦠Timely health and food issues you just might choose to consider ⦠Posted By Dr. Mercola | July 13 2011 ⦠By Ori Hofmekler â¦http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/07/13/is-your-food-making-you-old-by-ori-hofmekler.aspx What you’re about to read here may change the way y ...
Popular Technology
- Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
- Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...
- 900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticis ...WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comRead: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exa ...
- Who is Deep Climate?A new climate alarmist blog appeared on October 18, 2008 from an "unknown" Canadian setting out to both "follow the money" and "follow the science" of the "climate science 'skeptic' movement in Canada". Who in the great Northwest of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada would undertake such a daunt ...
- Are Skeptical Scientists funded by ExxonMobil?In an article titled, "Analysing the ‘900 papers supporting climate scepticism’: 9 out of top 10 authors linked to ExxonMobil" from the environmental activist website The Carbon Brief, former Greenpeace "researcher" Christian Hunt failed to do basic research. He made no attempt to contact the sc ...
Monga Bay ( Articles )
- Is Indonesia losing its most valuable assets?Deep in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo in the late 1980s, researchers made an incredible discovery: the bark of a species of peat swamp tree yielded an extract with potent anti-HIV activity. An anti-HIV drug made from the compound is now nearing clinical trials. It could be worth hundreds o ...
- Indonesia's moratorium disappoints environment ...The moratorium on permits for new concessions in primary rainforests and peatlands will have a limited impact in reducing deforestation in Indonesia, say environmentalists who have reviewed the instruction released today by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The moratorium, which too ...
- FSC mulls controversial motion to certify plan ...Members of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), meeting in Malaysia this week for its General Assembly, will consider various changes to the organization, including a vote on a controversial motion that would open the door—slightly at first—to sustainable-certification of companies that have be ...
- Unpaved road through Serengeti to progressAfter a week of confusion, the Tanzanian government has finally clarified its position on the hugely-controversial Serengeti road. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, confirmed that a paved highway will not be built through the northern Serengeti National Park, however ...
- Richard Leakey: 'selfish' critics choose wrong ...The controversial Serengeti road is going ahead, but with conditions. According to the Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, the road will not be paved and it will be run by the Tanzanian park authority who will have the power to monitor traffic to 'ensure no harm ...
Science - NZ Herald
- Quake shakes Hawke's Bay areaA magnitude 4.4 earthquake rattled the Hawke's Bay shortly before 6.30 tonight.The quake was centred 10km south east of Porangahau at a depth of 20km, GNS Science reported.It was felt in Hawke's Bay and northern Wairarapa.-...
- Chemicals put science teacher in hospitalA schoolteacher has been taken to hospital after inhaling chemicals at Wellington High School.Emergency services were called to the school this morning after the woman dropped chemicals on a classroom floor, a school spokesman...
- Nutritionists salute Michelle Obama's burgerUnited States First Lady Michelle Obama, who has been pushing healthy eating with her national Let's Move campaign to fight childhood obesity, has copped a serve for visiting a takeaway where she ordered not only a hamburger, but...
- Japanese prostitute sparks fears of antibiotic ...A prostitute in Japan who developed a strain of drug-resistant gonorrhoea in her throat has triggered a worldwide alert about the spread of untreatable sexually transmitted diseases.The woman was found to be infected with a new...
- Rakon crystallises high-tech China projectThe flag of the People's Republic of China was flying high above Rakon's headquarters in Mt Wellington yesterday, as the tech company celebrated the opening of a new Chinese plant.The oscillating crystal manufacturer's new facility...
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Hit & Run | Reason
- Carmageddon Hype Causes Pre-Weekend NightmareThere is plenty of journalistic malpractice going on with regard to the 53-hour closure of a stretch of Interstate 405 this weekend. Closing the heavily traveled road connecting the west side of Los Angeles with the San Fernando Valley may well cause traffic problems around town — t ...
- New at Reason: Kurt Loder on Harry Potter ...And so it ends. What began 10 years ago in a blaze of magical wands, mysterious potions, swooping Quidditch brooms, and enchanted banquet halls now concludes in terror and sorrow, death and resurrection. And as Kurt Loder observes, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is more t ...
- Were Pre-Existing Conditions Really a "Persona ...On the campaign trail, President Obama backed banning health insurers from excluding individuals from coverage based on pre-existing conditions. It was a "personal issue" for him, he said. “For my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53," he said, "and have to spend the last month ...
- Michelle Rhee Doesn't Want to Eliminate Public ...A Tea Party leader and voucher advocate was quoted in the Newark Star-Ledger on the future of public schools, saying what school reformers are never supposed to say out loud: "We think public schools should go away,’’ says Teri Adams, the head of the Independence Hall Tea Part ...
- New at Reason: Jesse Walker on The Filter ...The Internet—the medium that has probably done more than any other to open the channels of communication between cultures—is regularly accused of encasing us in cocoons. This summer the accuser is Eli Pariser, board president of the liberal group MoveOn.org, who levies the charge in h ...
Mercury Rising
- Friday Cat Blogging
- Lying About Tweets: Mike Parry Shows It’ ...Two prominent politicians lied about what they tweeted, and tried to cover it up. One was forced out of politics, the other got a free pass. The one forced out of politics? A Democrat. The one who got the free pass? A Republican, Mike Parry — who keeps getting free passes and wet kisses from [...]
- Dayton Offers MN GOP Hobson’s Choice: Pr ...As you may have heard by now, the Minnesota state shutdown is likely to come to an end soon, as Governor Mark Dayton offered the state Republican leadership a Hobson’s Choice: Dayton offered to accept their June 30 budget proposal, which delays school payments and doesnât tax the rich, on these ...
- Just when you think you can’t get any mo ...There is a dime’s worth of difference between the parties. Just not much more than a dime. CTJ: Both Sides of Debt Ceiling Talks Propose Increasing the Budget Deficit Presidentâs and GOPâs Positions Both Include Greater Tax Cuts than Spending Cuts Itâs hard to say what will happen with the neces ...
- Did phone hacking lead to police murder?One of the most perplexing events in Britain over the last decade was the hunting down and murder–seemingly out of the blue– of a Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes by police officers. According to the Justice for Jean campaign: At approximately 9.20am on the 22nd July 2005, Jean Charles de Mene ...
IPS - Inter Press Services
- HEALTH: Israeli Takes a Step Forward"One step at a time," this fairy tale says. "Wonders and miracles, these shoes brought me back my life!" For Miriam Gilebsky, walking is no simple thing, it's an achievement greater than life, like walking on the moon, perhaps. One small step for health is one giant leap when you suffe ...
- HEALTH-UGANDA: Self Medication Blamed for Incr ...In pharmacies in the heart of Kampala men and women line up to buy drugs that you usually need a prescription for, like Coartem, a drug used to treat malaria.
- U.S. Warns of Dark Path Ahead Without Cooperat ...As South Sudan was admitted as the 193rd member of the United Nations on Thursday, officials in Washington said the hard work in the fragile new country has just begun.
- China Eclipsing U.S. in Global Reach, Poll FindsA growing number of people around the world believe that China will eventually surpass the United States as the world's premier superpower, if it hasn't already, according to the latest survey of 22 countries released here Thursday by the Pew Global Attitudes Project.
- CENTRAL AMERICA: Fair Trade Taking Root"We started out with 10 organisations and now we have 22 cooperatives with more than 19,000 members who grow and export crops with an environmental, social and economic focus," says an enthusiastic Marvin L�pez, with the Guatemalan network of small-scale fair trade farmers (CGCJ).
Scoop - NZ
- Murdoch: More than BSkyB is at stakeThe furore has caused severe damage to News Corp and strained Murdoch’s political ties to breaking point. The contagion has now spread to America, where News Corp is listed, sparking chatter that Rupert’s son James, deputy chief operating officer of News Corp, will never be able to succeed his f ...
- US investors sue News Ltd.Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is facing a billion–dollar lawsuit from shareholders alleging that the phone hacking scandal is evidence of a corporate culture that had "run amok".
- AEP: Italy and Spain in Turmoil"We've painted ourselves into a corner. At this point, either someone – Germany, the European Central Bank – has to fundamentally shift position, or everything blows up," an EU official told Reuters. Berlin has resisted any move to buy or guarantee the bonds of distressed debtors, viewing it ...
- Politico: Murdoch's troubles spread to U.S.The phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch, its billionaire chairman and CEO, has definitely crossed the pond. U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have begun calling for inquiries into whether the unsavory reporting practices of the company’s British newsp ...
- A brave new faith-based US banking system ?The banking system in the United States rests on a very thin layer of faith and that faith has been shaken by the current financial crisis. The retail banking system is largely a facade that now latches on to taxpayer bailouts to fund speculative investments through their investment banking div ...
Independent - London
- Pro-whaling nations walk out of meetingJapan and other pro-whaling nations walked out of a meeting of the International Whaling Commission yesterday to protest against a proposal for a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic.
- Longoria's shuts upA nightclub in Las Vegas owned by Desperate Housewives co-star Eva Longoria is temporarily closing its doors amid financial troubles.
- BBC journalist freed from prison in TajikistanA BBC World Service journalist jailed in Tajikistan on charges of belonging to a banned Islamic group has been released on bail.
- Buoyant JP Morgan cheers Wall StreetJP Morgan Chase, the US banking giant, cheered up Wall Street with news from its latest quarterly results: trading has not been as bad as everyone feared.
- US mustn't give up on space or China will move ...The manned exploration of space is one of the defining achievements of humanity and should not be abandoned in favour of less expensive robotic missions after the Nasa Shuttle's last flight, the man who has spent the most time in space said yesterday.
Rogue Government.com
- Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
- Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.
- Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...
- Australian kids are living in climate of fear On the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon tax package announcement, psychologists and scientists said the lessons were alarmist, created unneeded anxiety among school children and endangered their mental health.
- Over 1,400 arrested, tear gas fired in Malays ...Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government.
Innovation Canada
- Virtual practice makes perfectFor Halifax-based neurosurgeon David Clarke, the Monday-afternoon surgery session of Aug. 17, 2009, was anything but routine. For starters, his patient’s brain tumour was located in a tricky spot, close to the delicate part of the brain that controls speech. A small slip of the scalpel either wa ...
- A powerful elixirThe good news is that there are more than a million cancer survivors in Canada. The bad news is that they live with the long-term effects of treatment, including extreme fatigue, memory and attention problems, bone density loss, leading to fractures, and a sometimes debilitating anxiety over can ...
- No more slipping through the cracksAt any given time, some 19,000 children are in foster care in Ontario, placed there for their protection by one of the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies (CAS). While CAS caseworkers write meticulous reports on the children who pass through the system, the details contained in the thousands ...
- Back home on the rangeIt’s a little-known fact: Half the Earth’s surface is foraged by domesticated animals, which has enormous impacts on our increasingly precious fresh water. In British Columbia alone, about 50 percent of mostly crown land is licensed to ranchers who need forage and water for their 400,000 head of ...
- Living on the edgeIt’s not unusual for scientists to become excited when talking about their research. But Ken Storey is an explosion of exuberance, repeatedly interrupting his own discourse to head in new directions. Such frenetic energy is paradoxical for a man whose research deals with organisms that can delib ...
Signs of the times
- US: James Mitchell Verdict: Heir To Porn Empir ...A Marin County jury convicted James Mitchell, heir to a San Francisco porn empire, of first-degree murder Tuesday for the beating death of his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child in Novato two years ago. According to SFGate, the jury considered the case for less than two days before reaching ...
- UK: Murdochs to be grilled by phone-hack committeeAs Scotland Yard arrests Murdoch man who worked for cops News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch have confirmed they will talk to MPs about the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed the media empire. A spokeswoman at News Corp told The Register that the company was "in the p ...
- CIA's DARPA working on human-brain-mimicking techCompany that built the first internet node hired The company which built the first ever internet nodes back in the 1960s - and which gave the world the "@" symbol in email, among other things - has been hired by the US intelligence community to work on technology which could mimic "the brai ...
- Hotmail adds "my friend's been hacked" reporti ...The crowd-sourcing feature, which can be found in the "Mark as" menu, lets users report compromised accounts directly to Hotmail. Faced with the sobering reality that about 30 percent of all Hotmail spam comes from compromised e-mail accounts, Microsoft has added a nifty "My friend's been hacke ...
- NASA hacker refuses to pay compensation to US ...A former Romanian hacker, after graduating in law in his home country, is reported to have refused to pay $240,000 compensation to the US government for hacking the servers of NASA, the US Navy and the Department of Energy back in 2005/2006. The unusual legal case started when the US government ...
The Galloping Beaver
- Perspectives . . .Monica Joshi, 22, kills some time before her graveyard shift at a Gurgaon call center. MOTHER JONES has a great article by Andrew Marantz, "My Summer at an Indian Call Center". Lessons learned: Americans are hotheads, Australians are drunks—and never say where you're calling from.• • • Ever ...
- PSA Dep't.Dear World,Please stop freaking out about 2012. Our calendar ends there because some Spanish dirtbags invaded our country and we got a little busy, OK? Sincerely,The Mayans
- PSA Dep't.Dear World, Please stop freaking out about 2012. Our calendar ends there because some Spanish dirtbags invaded our country and we got a little busy, OK? Sincerely, The Mayans
- Silicon Valley . . .EVERYBODY KNOWS SILICON VALLEY, it's the heart of our solid-state digital world, where all of our goodies originate. A lot of people have no idea of its origins.Well, there's a video on YouTube that is worthy of your attention.In this lecture, renowned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank presents h ...
- Perspective . . .You may have seen this, but it's worth another look.
Media Matters for America
- Right-Wing Media Praised GOP For Walking Out O ...Following reports that President Obama and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) had a "blow up" while negotiating solutions to the default crisis, in which Cantor accused Obama of "abruptly walking out" of the talks, right-wing media have attacked Obama as a "petulant child" for allegedly d ...
- Fox Cherry-Picks Poll To Bash Obama On Debt Ce ...Fox recently attacked President Obama's response to a CBS poll that found 69 percent of the public thinks the debt ceiling should not be raised. However, Fox did not mention that the poll also found that 72 percent of the public believe it is "at least somewhat likely that the economy will take ...
- REPORT: How CNN, MSNBC, And Fox Are Covering N ...News Corp.'s long-simmering phone-hacking scandal has reignited, throwing its global media empire into turmoil. As allegations of hacking into private citizens' voicemail increase, media and tabloid practices have been called into question. With a large and influential presence in the United St ...
- Hannity Cites Myth That The Stimulus Failed To ...Criticizing President Obama over debt negotiations, Sean Hannity invoked the discredited myth that the stimulus failed and worsened the recession. In fact, independent experts agree that the stimulus bill significantly raised employment and increased GDP by several percentage points.Hannity Myt ...
- Fox Backtracks On Latest Assertion That ACORN ...Fox & Friends promoted the claim that "ACORN" -- which no longer exists -- had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding, despite the fact that a federal report noted last month that the amount in question actually had not been spent. Fox & Friends backed away from the claim ...
Global Research.ca
- Absurdities and Atrocities: The Threat of Worl ...For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
- Chinook Disaster: Did Britain Sacrifice Counte ...For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
- NATO will be Defeated in LibyaFor more details, please click on the link to read the article.
- Confused Strategy: How the PA Sold Out Palesti ...For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
- Greece and the Euro: Towards Financial Implosion For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
TPM Cafe
- The High Price of NukesAs President Obama and Republicans in Congress go down to the wire in negotiations over a package of budget cuts that would clear the way for raising the debt ceiling, we shouldn't lose sight of one key source of reductions: military spending. Although it was not mentioned in the President's pr ...
- What The UN Vote Means--And Does NotMy friend Alvaro de Soto, the former Special Ambassador of the United Nations's Secretary-General to the Middle East peace process, is a legend in the UN, from which he is now retired. Peruvian by birth, an aide to Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Alvaro was an indispensable mediator i ...
- So Much for 'Long Form'....OK, here's a take-away from my post on Rupert Murdoch two slots below: Alexander Hamilton, worried about the young American republic in 1801, founded the New York Post. Rupert Murdoch, keen to intensify his perverse groping of bodies politic, bought the Post in 1977 and turned it into a dai ...
- What Blinded Murdoch's Enablers and Apologists?As Rupert Murdoch was closing in with his bid for Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal five years ago, what Harper's magazine former editor Lewis Lapham calls "the orchestra of high-minded opinion" could be heard tuning up to play "This Is The Best of All Possible Worlds," its familia ...
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Institute for Middle East Understanding
- Challenging Israel's illegal blockade of Gaza ...
- Meretz party marks settlement goods at Israeli ...The New Movement-Meretz's operations headquarters and youth division made their way through supermarkets across Israel Wednesday, marking products manufactured in the settlements. The ...
- Israel's crackdown grows with boycott bill (N ...After hours of debate in the Israeli Knesset, the choice was clear. On one side was Israel's settlement project and rights-abusive policies, and on the other side was freedom of speec ...
- UNRWA facing shortages due to Israel blockade ...Figures released by UNRWA on Thursday reveal that the organization is facing severe shortages in construction materials needed for ongoing projects in the Gaza Strip. "We been allowed ...
- Palestinians call on US to support UN bid (Ma ...The Palestinians have called on the United States to reverse course and support their United Nations membership bid, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Wednesday. Erekat, spea ...
Water - AlterNet
- Banning Corporate Personhood: How Communities ...Ben Price of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund explains how communities can fight corporate power with a new legal weapon.
- A Climate-Killing Oil Pipeline May Make North ...Unless we can convince Obama to say no to the tar sands pipeline, we're going to be igniting a massive carbon bomb.
- State Fracking Rules Could Allow Drilling Near ...If the drilling rules are approved, New York City's aging water tunnels may be at risk.
- Lethal Fallout from Mining Spurs a Mountaintop ...Advocacy groups are calling for an immediate moratorium on all mountaintop removal mining operations until the federal government can mitigate the spiraling humanitarian crisis.
- Rupture in Planned US Pipeline Could Release 7 ...Environmental engineers say pipeline operators TransCanada Corp have significantly underestimated the chances of a Keystone XL spill.
Public Citizen in Texas
- Flex permit companies moving toward compliance ...The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that all `flexible permit’ companies in Texas have agreed to apply for approved air permits, helping to achieve clean air in the state and providing for regulatory certainty. Under the Texas flexible permit rule, certain industries were al ...
- Radioactive Waste Commission meeting on August ...The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission will meet Saturday, August 20, 2011, at 10:30 AM in the James Roberts Center, 855 Hwy 176 East, Andrews, TX 79714. Don’t know yet what they will have on their agenda, but they say it will be posted in the Texas Register and on t ...
- New Modeling Shows Air Pollution Violations Ar ...Data on Dangerous TXU-Luminant Pollution Underscores Need for Strengthened Environmental Safeguards The Sierra Club released new reports indicating that three large, North East Texas coal-fired power plants owned by Luminant, formerly TXU, are single-handedly causing violations of federal air qu ...
- In the midst of water restrictions, tiny Stamf ...Last week, Governor Rick Perry issued a proclamation certifying that certain counties in Texas are currently threatened by exceptional drought conditions and an extreme fire hazard due to a continuing disaster in several counties in Texas, including Jones and Haskell Counties, which the small t ...
- Coal Ash Waste – Call the House Committee nowTell them that the testimony being given is based upon false premises and they should not vote for HR 2273 when the Committee hearing resumes at 3 pm EST. According to the National Academy of Science (NAS) Coal Combustion Residues or waste (CCR’s) contain numerous hazardous metals and substances ...
Unexplained Mysteries
- 200ft crop circle within yards of StonehengeA massive crop circle has turned up in a wheat field right next to the historic Stonehenge. Speculation continues as to who is responsible, some belie...
- Australia to kill farting camels ?Scientists have expressed outrage over plans to kill camels in Australia due to their excess flatulence. The latest suggested action in the war agains...
- Lab develops ice-cream made from flowersFraunhofer Labs has come up with a healthier type of ice-cream made from lupin flowers. The new variety contains no dairy, gluten, animal fats or prot...
- Were Washington UFOs caused by weather ?Back in July 1952 a wave of sightings over Washington D.C. gripped the nation's imaginations. At the time the objects caused great concern as some wer...
- Physicists develop time cloakingCornell University boffins have designed and built a cloaking device that can cloak events in time. The device is made possible thanks to the duality ...
Grassroots
- Learning and Constructing with HaitiansSubheadline:� Internationalism between Peoples Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Beverly Bell has worked with Haitian social movements for over 30 years. She is also author of the bo ...
- Thousands and thousands of people demanding cl ...alberto_gomez-dena_hoff.jpg read more
- G20-Agriculture: Hundreds of organizations say ...no_land_no_food.jpg Grassroots International joined nearly 500 other organizations around the world in signing the “Dakar Appeal Against Land Grabbing.” The appeal, originally drafted at the World Social Forum in Dakar in February 2011, ca ...
- Elbit’s Cruel Profit from Palestinian Sufferingelbit_drone.jpg As they often did on any given day, the al-Jarah family gathered for some tea, a time-honored Gazan tradition and valued opportunity for relaxation and catching up.�They enjoyed the tranquility of being together in the prot ...
- Rooted as Deep as Olive Treesolive_tree.jpg �read more
Climate
- Pickens Losing to Koch in Natural-Gas FeudSource:� Bloomberg T. Boone Pickens, who�s been saying for more than a year that Congress was poised to pass his plan to subsidize natural-gas vehicles, is facing opposition led by fellow billionaire Charles Koch.
- W.Va. Firm Plans to Drill Again in National ForestSource:� AP The president of a Clarksburg gas company that inadvertently killed a tiny patch of the Monongahela National Forest by legally dousing it with drilling wastewater says he will eventually drill again in the nearly m ...
- Water Quality Expert Sees Potential in W.Va. D ...Source:� MSNBC The regulatory program on fracking that comes together in West Virginia could be the standard for shale development regulation across the United States.
- New Air Study Finds Chemicals Near Gas Drillin ...Source:� The Colorado Independent At least 22 toxic chemicals, were found in nine separate air samples taken near gas drilling operations by community advocacy and environmental groups in Garfield and La Plata counties in Colo ...
- Vast Wind Energy Proposal Could Kill Endangere ...Source:� Reuters The Obama administration is evaluating a plan to allow a 200-mile corridor for wind development from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico that would allow for killing endangered whooping cranes.
GreenBiz
- Honda Hits 'Zero-Landfill' Target in North AmericaVirtually all of the waste coming out of Honda's North American manufacturing plants goes somewhere other than landfill.
- J&J's 5-Year Goals Aim for Big Emissions Cuts, ...The company's 15 goals embrace everything from advancing global health through medical innovation to pushing sustainability through its supply chain; among its other goals are a 20 percent emissions reduction by 2015.
- Red Sox, Chiefs Among 20 Pro Teams Joining Gre ...The Green Sports Alliance, formed barely four months ago, has quadrupled in size—a promising sign of growth for those trying to up the green game of major league sports.
- Canon USA Saves $300K with Focus on Energy Eff ...In two years, Canon saved enough energy in five major business offices to power its corporate headquarters in New York for four months.
- BofA's First CSR Report Details Nearly $12B in ...The largest bank in the U.S. issues its first CSR report today providing a comprehensive, deeply detailed view of billions of dollars in environmental lending, investments, company projects, and more.
Reuters Global
- On the Afghanistan-Pakistan border : cutting o ...Pakistan's defence minister has threatened to move forces away from the Afghan border, where they are deployed to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban, if the United States cuts off aid to the cash-strapped country
- Drone strikes are police work, not an act of war?Launching an air strike in another nation would normally be considered an act of aggression. But advocates of America's rapidly expanding unmanned drone programme don't see it that way.
- Pakistan’s Shamsi base : a mystery wrapp ...Pakistani defence minister's remarks that U.S. had been shut out of a base used for drone aircraft have touched off a new controversy in their troubled relationship.
- Will the Arab Spring bring U.S.-style “c ...One signpost of the shift from the old collective way of approaching politics toward the new and more individualistic one is a change in slogans. “Dignity is the new slogan,”
- Taliban talks: the new mirage in AfghanistanAfghan President Hamid Karzai has said publicly the United States is holding talks with the Taliban. But is it already too late to reach a peaceful settlement to the war?
Booman Tribune
- Why Our Politics Are So Stressful You want to know why American politics are so exhausting? Because everything is always a goddamn crisis with the Republicans. They win back the House in 1994, and the government shuts down in 1995. They lose the presidential election in 1996, and they try to overturn the election by impeachin ...
- Casual Observation The exact number of lies in Karl Rove's Wall Street Journal piece is probably unknowable, but it easily exceeds ten. The biggest lie is the headline: Obama Owns the Debt-Ceiling Fiasco. For Karl Rove, of all people, to blame the president for our country's debt, is really the height of gall. ...
- What Benen SaidThis is perfect: Putting aside, at least for now, whether Tim Geithner is my favorite Treasury Secretary of all time or not, Ive been thinking a bit lately about what it must be like to be in his shoes right now. When he was sworn in two-and-a-half years ago, I imagine he had a lengthy lis ...
- Coal Utility Weasels Out of Limiting CO2 EmissionsFor two years, a major coal burning utility company, American Electric Power (AEP), has run a pilot program to limit carbon emissions from a coal fired plant using a carbon sequestration technology (i.e., carbon en=missions that are pumped underground). The US government has helped foot the bil ...
- Why It's Going Down Like This There are twelve senators and, more importantly, thirty-six House Republicans who have pledged not to vote to raise the debt ceiling unless a Balanced Budget Amendment has been passed through Congress. There are probably another thirty House Republicans who feel similarly but who haven't signed ...
Environmental Graffiti
- The Longer a Man's Ring Finger the Better Endo ...Penis length may be easy to tell according to a new study. Discover why and how. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Unique Amazon Tribe Fight To Save Way Of LifeThe Kayapo indigenous people of the Amazon have received help in saving their forests read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 18 Hottest Links of the Week It's that time again when we at Environmental Graffiti bring you links to the best of our friends' content on the web! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Self-Portraits Snapped by a Silverback GorillaAmazing closeups of a silverback gorilla... taken by himself! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Supervolcanoes: The Explosive Giants Beneath T ...Supervolcanoes have the power to destroy much of life on earth as we know it. Fortunately these powerful eruptions are few and far between read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
Foreign Policy in Focus
- Reduce Corruption, Defeat the Taliban The United States wants to negotiate with the Taliban from a position of strength. But reining in Afghan government corruption, not applying ever more military pressure, is the key to gaining a strong hand.
- The Audacity of Free Trade AgreementsPresident Obama is reversing his earlier commitment to a new kind of trade relationship with the world by pushing three ill-conceived FTAs.
- Murdoch Blinks: News Corp. Drops Its Satellite BidWill the British government take advantage of the News Corp. scandal to root out the corruption in the relationship between the media, politicians, and the police?
- Italy: Barbarians -- in Suits -- at the GatesThere is a sense that Italians are holding their breath.
- Cutting Aid to Pakistan More Than JustifiedYou think the 1985 Pressler amendment -- which banned most U.S. aid to Pakistan unless U.S. certified it had no nuclear weapons -- made Pakistan mad?
Global Elite
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
Al Jazeera
- Syria Live BlogWe bring you the latest news from various sources as protests continue across Syria.
- Egyptians voice frustrations in Tahrir SquareProtesters gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square, venting anger at the government for its lack of speedy political reform.
- Italy set to adopt austerity budgetItalian politicians in agreement over $99bn cuts ahead of vote, while European banks brace for stress test results.
- Top Murdoch executive quits over hackingRebekah Brooks, CEO of Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper company, bows to pressure for her to go over phone hacking scandal.
- NATO leaders discuss Libya in IstanbulLibya Contact Group meets, with Turkish 'road map' to resolve conflict and further support for rebels on the agenda.
Green Inc. - NYT
- 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.
- 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' Economy Is Real but Needs a Push, Stud ...While green initiatives are driving growth and innovation, market and policy challenges are preventing them from reaching their full potential, a new study suggests.
- Japan Must Renounce Nuclear Power, Leader Says"We should aim to get by with no nuclear energy," the prime minister says at a news conference.
- Al Gore's Reality ShowThe Climate Reality Project, a renamed and redefined group overseen by Mr. Gore, will seek to educate the public about the impacts of global warming and counter what he considers the well-financed disinformation and denial campaign run by the fossil fuel industries.
Dot Earth News
- Biggest Coal Company and Coal Country Collabor ...China and the world's biggest coal company team up on a new mine, and the age of fossil fuels rolls on.
- Tiger Poacher, Via Phone, is Witness for His O ...A tiger poacher is tripped up by his own camera-phone trophy photos.
- On Debt, Death, Taxes and TemperaturesA leading analyst of global risk says economic overshoot has pushed environmental overshoot off his list of concerns.
- River as TeacherA learning journey along the Hudson River forges links among disciplines and schools.
- Time for a CheckupA pause to step back and sift for ways to foster progress that fits on a finite planet.
Doug Feith : Hong Pong
- By Anon request: A few loose ends on foreign e ...Time to check in with the Big Weird! I was requested by some anonymous person to post this. I don't personally conclude that 9-11 was triggered by Mini-Nukes but it's interesting that videos featuring a Russian guy with that view named Dimitri Khalezov are automatically blocked from upload on yo ...
- "Creating an atmosphere of fear for journalist ...Glenn Greenwald nails this one. Journalists have nowhere to run under the nightmarish corrupt DOJ regime -- and the lickspittles are not the ones subject to the special operations & continuous COINTELPRO patterns. Big ups to seeing our local repression campaign against antiwar activists duly not ...
- Two murky major elements of covert American po ...Truth trickles out a little bit at a time. People have to dig around diligently for stuff like this... then nasty patterns emerge. Here are two really nifty ones I spotted just recently. Nosh on this as you will... Back in the Depression, the US Treasury Department got a mysterious office called ...
- Lollin about at Netroots Nation 2011 #NN11 Can ...I am working this week at Netroots Nation - conveniently located at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Howard Dean made fun of me a bit for running flat-out back to fetch a Firewire drive with the key new video cut for DFA as the Keynote had already started. Yes Really :-D Good times! Good times ...
- Can Has Wargame, "Southland" Pre-scripting the ..."Is this real world or exercise??" --A memorable quote from air traffic controller on 9-11 Logistically speaking, how the hell did the West start bombing Libya so quickly? A French/NATO military exercise (aka wargame) called Southern Mistral was scheduled for almost the exact same time. Are war ...
Daily Censored
- Anti-Muslim Bigotry: SPLC Intelligence Report� This summer�s �Intelligence Report� by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) features an article by Robert Steinback titled the, �Jihad Against Islam�. The SPLC is a non-profit organization founded by civil rights lawyers and headed up by a group of lawyers, educators, and journalist that a ...
- If government created money instead of debt: A ...source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com The US suffers from debt-damned economics: a Robber Baron-era paradigm whereby the harder Americans work, the more in debt we collectively descend. The reason is public confusion between “money” (which the US does not create and use to facilitate trade) and “deb ...
- Michael Collins: BBC – Murdoch’s L ...The Times of London, Sunday Times, stands accused of tapping into former Labour Party Leader Gordon Brown’s private medical records. According to the story published today by BBC, Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of the Times parent, News International, called Brown in 2006 when he was Chancello ...
- 3-minute video: state-owned banks end Wall St. ...source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com The US suffers from debt-damned economics: a Robber Baron-era paradigm whereby the harder Americans work, the more in debt we collectively descend. The reason is Orwellian confusion between “money” (which the US does not create and use to facilitate trade) and “ ...
- Eddy Cosmas avoids the guillotineTanzanian Gay Activist Eddy Cosmas won his right to a full appeal of the UK’s deportation proceedings against him, which means he’s off “fast track” deportation from Britain and will be released from detention today! Had he been deported back to Tanzania, he would have faced imprisonment and lik ...
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Institute for Policy Studies
- Like Water for Gold in El Salvador The story of a community's effort to ban gold mining in El Salvador involves environmental martyrs, powerful economic interests, and a DC-based tribunal that can trump democracy.
- Unconventional Wisdom: Fighting with LoveResilience Circles and a new campaign called Caring Across Generations are putting people at the center, to fight the economic downturn with the strongest weapon available.
- New National Movement to Build Justice Across ...As America's "age wave" begins this year - with one American turning 65 every eight seconds - Caring Across Generations seeks to transform long-term care in the United States.
- Summer Doldrums and War Budgets As DC's powerful debate the debt crisis, one aspect of our spending is completely absent from the debate: war spending.
- Foreign Policy Goes GagaCelebrities are going global in their activism. But are they doing the right thing?
IntelNews
- Exclusive: intelNews readers get 20% off espio ...It is not every day that $19.95 can get you direct video access to a five-day intelligence and espionage conference. Plus, intelNews has worked out a deal with conference organizers for a further 20% discount off the final price of the event. The conference, which will take place in New York fro ...
- News you may have missed #537 (bin Laden edition)Ex-CIA chief speaks on al-Qaida after Osama. CIA organized fake vaccination drive to get bin Laden family DNA. CIA moves to protect key analyst in bin Laden raid.
- Embarrassment in Germany as spy agency buildin ...The German government has said it is embarrassed by news that the classified blueprints of its spy agency’s new Berlin headquarters have gone missing.
- News you may have missed #536 (US edition)US federal agencies sitting on decade-old FOIA requests. US journalist seeks to avoid testifying at CIA agent's trial. US intel research agency works on 3-D holographs.
- Georgia charges photojournalists with spying f ...Three well-known Georgian photojournalists have been arrested and charged with conducting espionage on behalf of the Russian Federation. They include Irakli Gedenidze, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's personal photographer, as well as Giorgi Abdaladze, who works for Georgia’s Ministry of ...
War is a Crime.org
- Denunciation of Israel's Anti-Boycott Law��Denunciation of Israel's Anti-Boycott Law - by Stephen Lendman � A previous article discussed it in detail, accessed through the following link: � http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/07/israels-knesset-passes-boycott.html � read more
- Debt Ceiling Debate Charade Masks Planned Enti ...��Debt Ceiling Debate Charade Masks Planned Entitlement Cuts - by Stephen Lendman � Short of finalizing details and assuring enough bipartisan support, it's a done deal to slash Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other social spending while leaving outsized military budgets and generous ha ...
- Gaza rejects Greek government charityThe following letter was delivered to the Greek Government on July 12, 2011 making it clear that the people of Gaza seek freedom and respect for their human rights, including their right to lead a dignified life, not charity. Seemingly deaf to their call, yesterday a spokesman for the Greek Mini ...
- When Even the Iraqi Resistance Has Been Corrup ...What Is Sadr's Game on Future U.S. Troop Presence? By Gareth Porter* 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 regard Sadr as st ...
- “Bring the Noise!” March In Support of Hunger ...What: Loud and Visible March through downtown SF at Rush Hour Where: UN Plaza, San Francisco When: Friday, July 15, 5pm read more
Grist - News
- Jail time for gardening: Now officially a trendby Jess Zimmerman. Hey, remember the woman threatened with 93 days in jail for growing a garden in her front yard? She could have a cellmate! Dirk Becker of Lantzville, British Columbia turned his scraped-dry gravel pit of a property into a thriving organic farm, so of course he's faci ...
- There are now more green jobs than brown ones, ...by Christopher Mims. Green technology and clean power are now employing more people than the fossil fuels industries, says the Brookings Institution. A separate analysis of the same data indicates that the cleantech sector of those green jobs offer median wages that are 20 percent better ...
- Passive house mini-boom in NYC heralds furnace ...by Christopher Mims. New York City and the rest of the tri-state area are getting their first wave of "passive houses," a type of construction in which a building is so well-insulated that it doesn't require heating in the winter. Imagine a New York sans all those giant heating oil-deli ...
- The true cost of gasoline? $13 a gallonby Christopher Mims. What's the true cost of the emissions from every gallon of gasoline, when you add up all the negative environmental impacts they'll lead to, from poor air quality to catastrophic climate change? Nine dollars a gallon. Add that to what you're typically paying at the pu ...
- Google science fair winner stands up for air q ...by Jess Zimmerman. Naomi Shah, winner of the Google science fair in the 15-16 age group, isn't just a budding research scientist. She's also an environmentalist. And her project, which focuses on the effects of air quality triggers on asthma sufferers, highlights why other people shoul ...
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Time - Top Stories
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Digg Green
- Tsunami airglow signature could lead to e ...Researchers at the University of Illinois have become the first to record an airglow signature in the upper atmosphere produced by a tsunami using a camera system based in Maui, Hawaii.
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- Why astronauts can't whistle in space Astronauts on a spacewalk cannot whistle. This was discovered on the fly by intrepid astronaut Dan Barry in 1999. Fortunately, it did not affect the mission, but should any astronaut have to call a dog in space, the results would be disastrous. Space agencies try to work out all eventuali ...
- Study: why bother to remember when you ca ...Instant access to information via the Internet may be negatively impacting our memory by causing us to forget things we can look up, even though we can remember where to find the information.
- Cryptic wood white butterfly (70,000 year ...A new species of butterfly has taken scientists by surprise after it was discovered fluttering in Northern Ireland. Experts had no idea that the Cryptic wood white even existed as they launched a conservation project across the UK.
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 [...]
Global Insights
- Less Than a Week AwayWe encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia GuidestonesOn one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The CreationTHE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George GreenDear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
AlterNet - DrugReporter
- Ten Years Ago Portugal Legalized All Drugs -- ...When the drug-drenched nation legalized all drugs within its borders, most critics predicted disaster. But a decade later, drug use has plunged dramatically.
- White House Drug Strategy Report No Real Inter ...The White House’s official justification for the ongoing multigenerational drug war was light on facts and heavy on rhetoric.
- Popular Painkillers That Can Cause Killer PainOpiate-induced hyperalgesia causes excruciating pain caused by the painkillers themselves.
- Obama Admin Memo on Medical Marijuana Stirs Di ...Relations between the medical marijuana movement and the Obama administration are starting to feel like the Cold War.
- How the US Props Up Criminals and Murderers Al ...The US appears to be repeating its historically catastrophic strategy of propping up human rights abusers and simplistically relying on militarization to root out social problems.
Twilight Earth
- Cartoon caption contestTake a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
Inhabitat
- Car2Go Launches North America’s First All-Elec ...Car2Go, a subsidiary of Daimler, has just announced the launch of North America’s first all-electric car sharing program, which will have 300 Smart ForTwo electric vehicles by the end of this year. In addition to being the greenest car sharing program in the U.S., the San Diego program will allo ...
- Spectacular Green Park Tops a Parking Garage i ...Read the rest of Spectacular Green Park Tops a Parking Garage in Slovenia Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: API Arhitekti, eco parking lot, environmentally sensitive parking lot, green parking lot, green roof parking lot, minimalist parking lot, Slovenia green building, undergroun ...
- Velomobile is a Human-Powered Commuter Vehicle ...There’s no doubt that biking is an ideal form of green transportation – but what about days when it’s rainy, cold or when you feel like dressing up? Check out this video (sent to us by Kirsten Dirksen of Fair Companies) about a New Jersey man and his human-powered commute vehicle a.k.a. the Velo ...
- Orphiro’s Electric Motorcycle Captivates with ...We all love the idea of an electric motorcycle — it’s efficient, quiet and an all around a great option for sustainable mobility. That being said, we have to admit to wondering when they would eventually become cool. Thankfully the Dutch outfit, Orphiro, has come up with an answer to that call ...
- Stunning Swiss House is Buried Under the EarthIn a location as picturesque as Vals, Switzerland, itâs difficult to imagine any new construction that wouldn’t impose on the beautiful landscape. So when the rare opportunity was granted to construct a new dwelling just a stoneâs throw away from the famed Vals thermal baths, it was of paramount ...
Pogue's Posts
- Why Netflix Raised Its PricesEven at $16 a month, Netflix still gives you more than anyone else.
- How to Design a Hot ProductNasahn Sheppard, the designer of the Flip camcorder, describes the thought process of designing the popular, but now extinct, product.
- An App for Hunting MoviesMoviesHunt finds movies across the Web.
- Just How Many Android Tablet Apps Are There?Google just won't say how many apps there are for Android tablets. It is a low number and it shows the glaring downside of Android's openness: a splintered mishmash of different versions.
- We Have to Fix E-MailChris Anderson, who runs the high-profile TED conferences, recently came up with 10 principles for easing the problems of e-mail. Here are five more.
WIRED Magazine | 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 ...
PakAlert
- Cataclysmic Turning Of “The Great Solar Serpen ...A new report prepared by the Russian Federal Space Agency (FKA/RKA) on the “heliospheric dynamics” related to the “Star Gate” opening off the Hawaiian Islands on 22 June is now warning that that expected “flip” of our Sun’s polar axis believed due in 2012 has the “extreme potential” to “cataclys ...
- Yellowstone Supervolcano Getting Ready To Blow ...Satellite images acquired by ESA's ERS-2 revealed the recently discovered changes in Yellowstone's caldera are the result of molten rock movement 15 kilometres below the Earth's surface, according to a recent study published in Nature. Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry, InSAR for ...
- 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 ("Aaa" instead of "A ...
- 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 breaking the law, many ...
- Getting Prepared for an Electromagnetic Pulse ...We now live in a world that is so completely immersed in advanced technology that we depend upon it for our very survival. Most of the actions that we depend upon for our everyday activities -- from flipping a switch to make the lights come on to obtaining all of our food supplies at a nearby ...
Andy Worthington
- Andy Worthington Discusses Al-Qaeda Film ̶ ...Recently, I was happy to follow up on my discussion on Press TV of “You Don’t Like the Truth,” the harrowing documentary about Guantánamo’s former child prisoner Omar Khadr, with another discussion, this time about “The Oath,” an extraordinary documentary by American filmmaker Laura Poitras. Se ...
- WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
- John Walker Lindh, Torture Victim and 9/11 Sca ...Back in May, after the assassination of Osama bin Laden should have brought an end to the “War on Terror,” Frank Lindh, the father of John Walker Lindh, the first convicted prisoner in the Bush administration’s phoney war, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times, which I cross-posted here with comm ...
- UK Torture Inquiry Boycotted by Lawyers, As Da ...Last Wednesday, just before David Cameron was engulfed in the News of the World phone hacking crisis, he had the opportunity to practice demonstrating the disregard for justice that he called on in response to the Murdoch scandal, when he attempted to distance himself from his friendship with tw ...
- Torture Whitewash: Probe of Two CIA Murders En ...How convenient is it that a door shuts on the Bush administration’s global program of extraordinary rendition and torture, just as America’s military-industrial complex plays musical chairs — with Republican holdover Robert Gates leaving as defense secretary, to be replaced by Leon Panetta, who ...
Environment _ National Geographic
- War Game Exposes Grim Reality: Few Oil Crisis ...Former U.S. government officials struggle to game out solutions in a mock oil crisis with its roots in today’s headlines.
- To Curb Driving, Cities Cut Down on Car ParkingCities worldwide find that managing parking is an effective, if indirect, means of addressing energy, traffic, and climate change concerns.
- New Pit Viper Found—One of World's SmallestDubbed a "surprise gift" by scientists, a new snake species found in China is one of the littlest pit vipers in the world.
- Photos: 4 Natural Wonders Added to World Herit ...NoneIt's not hard to see why these sites were added this year to the UN's list of global natural treasures. Plus: sites on the rebound—and the decline.
- Energy-Short Japan Eyes Renewable Future, Savi ...The tsunami's damage and political fallout leave Japan striving to save power this summer as it charts a new energy course.
drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb DumbsSober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
SPL Center
- Tea Party Nation Bolsters Its Extremist Creden ...As if worried that it’s getting too mainstream, the Tea Party Nation – one of the most extreme factions of the Tea Party movement – has lashed out lately with a flurry of attacks on immigrants, Muslims, LGBT people, and, of course, President Obama’s birthright eligibility for office. Tea Party N ...
- News Roundup for July 14, 2011A Tuscaloosa man with a history of racist behavior was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly firing a shotgun at a neighbor. Billy Ray White, 62, posted racist signs at his home, flew a Confederate flag, and often terrorized black residents. White spotted a black man who glanced at his property, a ...
- Sovereign Citizen Claims “Delusional Dis ...Sovereign citizen Richard Ulloa was to be sentenced for terrorizing police and bank officials in upstate New York with fake bills he hoped would stop a foreclosure on his home. Then he had an odd sort of epiphany. “I’ve come to the realization I need therapy,” Ulloa, 52, told U.S. District Judge ...
- News Roundup for July 13, 2011An Illinois man accused of threatening the life of a county official has been declared fit for trial. Jason Chance, 38, is accused of making threats towards Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow. Chance also reportedly wrote about plans to overthrow the government on Facebook. Chance was al ...
- Anti-Gay Group Decides Slave Children Weren’t ...All right, all right, so maybe the black family wasn’t better off during slavery. That’s the latest from a religious right organization that meant to attack same-sex marriage. The conservative pro-family organization called THE FAMiLY LEADER (TFL) last week boldly issued a sweeping 14-point cand ...
change: org.
- Victory! New York Passes Marriage Equality Bil ...Today is a historic day! New York's Senate passed a bill that will grant the freedom to merry for gays and lesbians! The bill will be signed by Governor Cuomo who lobbied extensively for the passage of the legislation. The law will go into effect 30 days after the bill is signed. New York's prog ...
- The Cost of Fear: Michigan's $15 Million Breed ...This week, Gov. Rick Snyder signed Michigan's 2011-2012 budget into law. The process wasn't pretty — a $1.5 billion shortfall had to be resolved, and in the end, public schools, universities, local governments and key services took a hit. Yet Rep. Tim Bledsoe (D-Grosse Pointe) seems to think it' ...
- Connect the Dots Coalition Will Rally Tuesday ...Former New York police officers Ken Moreno and Franklin Mata were found not guilty on charges related to rape. The verdict's perceived injustice -- felt even by members of the jury themselves -- has given rise to protests over the way the NYPD deals with sexual assault. But the then-officers wer ...
- Smithfield's Broken Gestation Crate PromiseBack in 2007, Smithfield, the world's largest pork producer, said it would phase out the use of gestation crates by 2017. Now the company has gone back on that promise even though it recently boasted record profits. Looks like the behemoth pork producer has no excuse for breaking its promise. S ...
- Tell Turn Right USA to Pull Ad Attacking L.A. ...It’s been called the “most offensive political ad of all time.” That’s because it takes aim at Los Angeles Councilwoman Janice Hahn’s support of gang intervention programs by portraying her as a booty-shaking stripper performing for black thugs who demand (or rap, rather) that she “give us your ...
Common Dreams -News
- 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 ...
Lifehacker
- The Essential Spotify Tools [Spotify]If you didn't already get in on the US launch of Spotify, the dominant freemium music streaming service in Europe, head over here and get an account. Once you're done with that, come back, because you're gonna need these tools to get the m ...
- The Suspended Hidden Workspace [Featured Works ...Today's featured workspace turns an Ikea wall-mounted drawer into a sleek hideaway for a Mac Mini and peripherals. More��
- Best Ebook Store? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]If you enjoy reading your favorite novels in digital format, you have more options for readers and ebook stores and services to buy or download books from than ever before. This week we'd like to hear which store or service your prefer wh ...
- Adopt a Stronger Posture to Make Experiences L ...Here's another reason to stand up tall: When going through a painful experience, whether physical or emotional, your posture can make difference in how stressful or painful the event is for you, studies suggest. More�� ...
- Remains of the Day: GTools+ Adds Customization ...Microsoft accidentally confirms Mango will be Windows Phone 7.5; Apple shuts down OS X downloads page; iOS 5 beta 3 adds AirPlay support for FaceTime; Sony to release updated ereader in August; Netflix available to 3DS users; iOS 5 may unl ...
Water Privatization
- Water Challenges Asia’s Rising Powers – Part IIIndia and China account for one third of the world’s population; each consumes more freshwater than other nations. Per inhabitant per year, though, India uses less than half what’s used in the US, China uses less than one third.
- College bans sale of water bottlesBottled water is one of the country’s top-selling beverages, but you won’t find any for sale at Pacific University, starting in August. Thanks to the efforts of two Pacific alumni and the university’s dining service, school administrators banned the sale of bottled water at their ...
- First phase of Lake Decatur dredging on schedu ...DECATUR - The first phase of the Lake Decatur dredging operation should be complete by the end of the year if progress continues, but the next phase may not begin until 2013 or 2014 at the earliest, said Keith Alexander, the city's director of water management.
- Alderman pops airport privatization questionStaff writer Could the Wetaskiwin Regional Airport become a private airfield? That is only one of several questions city council had for Bryon Reynolds during his presentation of a $10 million private development known as Skyport at Wetaskiwin Regional Airport.[...]
- Privatization plan gets turned off in Mount Ol ...MOUNT OLIVE TWP. – Mayor David Scapicchio has decided to hit the shut-off valve for his plan to hire the state’s largest private water company to run one of the township’s water systems.
Guardian
- Indonesian volcano eruptsThousands of residents evacuated from slopes of Mount Lokon in Sulawesi provinceA volcano in central Indonesia has sent thousands of residents fleeing from their homes as it spit lava and ash high into the air. One woman died of a heart attack, but no other casualties were reported.Mount Lokon, ...
- FBI to investigate News Corporation over 9/11 ...Bureau to investigate claims News of the World journalists sought to hack into phone of victims of 9/11, reports sayThe FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that News of the World journalists tried to hack into the phones of victims of the 9/11 attacks in New York.The launch of the F ...
- Google beats expectations as profits jump 36%Shares go up 10% in after-hours trading on news of figures from Larry Page's first full quarter as chief executiveGoogle defied analysts' forecasts with second-quarter earnings up 36% year-on-year to $2.5bn (£1.5bn) and revenues up 32% to a record $9.2bn in co-founder Larry's Page's first full q ...
- Judge declares mistrial in Roger Clemens caseProsecutors in perjury trial of baseball pitcher violate order barring certain information from being given to juryA Washington judge has declared a mistrial in the perjury trial of baseball pitcher Roger Clemens after prosecutors violated an order that barred certain information from being give ...
- Government climbdown on coastguard cutsTransport secretary bows to public and parliamentary pressure by agreeing to keep more coastguard centres openThe government has watered down plans to drastically reduce the number of coastguard centres.The original proposals envisaged cutting the centres from 19 to nine, with only three remaini ...
McClatchey
- Clooney's new project finds signs of mass grav ...NAIROBI, Kenya — Satellite images from above Sudan have found three excavated sites that eyewitnesses suggest could be mass graves, a watchdog project co-founded by actor and activist George Clooney said Thursday.
- CIA's bin Laden scheme imperils health work, c ...ISLAMABAD — The international medical charity Doctors Without Borders on Thursday strongly condemned the CIA's secret use of a vaccination program as cover for spying on Osama bin Laden's house in Pakistan, saying the ploy would damage public health efforts in poor countries.
- Federal money helps cities smooth way for migr ...WASHINGTON — Migratory birds got a helping hand from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this week as the federal agency gave a total of $650,000 to a number of cities across the country to help those urban areas conserve and protect their bird populations.
- When disaster strikes states, governors can ma ...WASHINGTON — Tornadoes, floods and fires recently struck full force around the country, and terrorism continues to be a threat, despite a weakened al Qaida.
- Treasury head warns debt talks are running out ...WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned Congress on Thursday that "we don't have much time" before the government is in financial trouble, while lawmakers continued to scramble for a way around the impasse over how to raise the debt limit.
Afghanistan Sun
- Suicide bomber attacks Karzai funeralKandahar - A suicide attacker who appears to have concealed his explosives inside a turban killed a senior cleric and at least four other people on Thursday at a funeral service for the assassinated ...
- Blast in Afghanistan mosque kills 6Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- In a brazen strike that punctuates the power and reach of Afghan militants, a suicide bomber slipped into a Kandahar mosque Thursday and killed at least six people, ...
- War-related civilian deaths up in AfghanistanU.N. in Afghanistan cites "dramatic growth" in civilian deaths Killings and injuries persist at "an alarming rate," a U.N. official says May was the deadliest month ever for ...
- Afghanistan war vet given highest honorIt was a sobering moment toward the end of a moving ceremony at the White House Tuesday, as President Barack Obama awarded the nation's highest military honor to Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Arthur ...
- Threatened snow leopards found in AfghanistanBANGKOK (AP) - A healthy population of snow leopards, elusive big cats threatened across their homes in the mountain ranges of Central Asia, has been found in one of the few peaceful areas of ...
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 ...
Whistleblowers Protection Blog
- Fourth Circuit again saves False Claims Act fr ...Yesterday, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, overruled a petition for rehearing filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), OMB Watch, and the Government Accountability Project (GAP). By rejecting the petition for rehearing, the Fourth Circuit again saved Am ...
- Blue Bird Bus Corp. Settles Whistleblower Case ...Blue Bird Bus Corp., a bus manufacturing company based in Fort-Valley, Georgia, has recently settled a case with the U.S. Department of Labor to pay more then $176,000 in back wages and interest to a former maintenance employee who was illegally terminated in 2004. Blue Bird has also agreed to ...
- Whistleblowers: From the American Revolution t ...On July 25, 2011, one of the nation’s leading whistleblower attorneys, Stephen M. Kohn, will share compelling insights from his newly-released book, The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself at the Mid-Manhattan New York Public Library. The ...
- Your Chance to Hear From Whistleblower ExpertsOn July 20th, the Chief of the SEC Whistleblower Office, Sean McKessy, will be speaking at the National Whistleblowers Seminar at the prestigious Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, DC and via conference call. Take advantage of this special seminar and hear from leading whistleblower a ...
- CASA de Maryland receives reprisal for helping ...You don't have to be an employee to suffer retaliation for speaking truth to power. This summer, I have been helping CASA de Maryland, an immigrant rights organization. We helped tenants in a number of buildings in the Hyattsville, Long Branch and Langley Park areas. They are organizing to addre ...
Science Express
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virusA team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
TechDirt
- How The Patent System Is Like A Broken Web CacheRick Falkvinge has posted a thought-provoking piece that analogizes the patent system to various forms of web caching and their impact on discussions. As he notes, in online discussion forums and blogs, if there's a delay from when your comment is made to when it appears, the conversations tend ...
- Managing IP Magazine Recognizes That Those Who ...One of the things that we've noticed in the various debates over intellectual property is this rush by those who believe the answer is to increase protectionism and enforcement to cut those who are critics of the current IP regime out of the debate. It's why you see things like ASCAP claiming t ...
- George Clinton Sues Former Law Firm; More Conf ...We've talked a few times about the rights associated with some George Clinton songs, and allegations of forged signatures to transfer the copyrights. However, we've also noted that Clinton's explanations have often been less than clear as to what he's actually alleging happened. The lack of a ...
- DailyDirt: 20/20 Sight for Sore EyesWearing glasses can be annoying, and some people find it so inconvenient that they'll try almost anything to correct their vision without wearing spectacles. Technology comes to the rescue with a few other options. Caveat emptor! In the 1800s, the latest in contact lens technology was a piec ...
- The Confusing Case Of Lovecraft's CopyrightsIt was Joseph Kranak who first told me of the thing. I didn't comprehend it then—the forbidden aeons, the timeless machinations that grind man's very essence to dust. At first his story seemed fine but mundane: an expedition to collect the famed texts of H. P. Lovecraft, which were rumoured to b ...
VacTruth
- Why Isn’t ‘Herd Immunity’ Working?Californians have a new law regarding vaccination of children: Effective July 1, 2011, all students in grades 7 through 12 will be required to get a booster DTP [Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (Whooping Cough)] due to outbreaks and increases for Pertussis in children. Something doesn’t make s ...
- Research Shows Vaccinations Are Causing Surge ...According to the organization ‘Children & Asthma in America’ there are at least 7 million children in the USA who suffer from the debilitating illness asthma. Are vaccines a major trigger?Vactruth.com
- Is There Payola In Pharmacology?Do you remember a child’s saying, “Pishper shame, pishper shame, you ruined your name”, when someone was caught telling a fib? Well, what should we be saying now that it’s revealed that several respected medical researchers have been caught with their ‘disclosure pants’ down?Vactruth.com
- Was A Court Ban On Mandatory Vaccination In It ...Courts in Italy may have made attempts to stop mandatory vaccination. The first case involved 50 brave families who took their complaints to the appeal court in Ancona. Vactruth.com
- What Happens When…With Child Protective Services (CPS) virtually in every city, county, and state in the USA, what happens when a parent harms a child? Child Protective Services removes the child from the parents’ care and custody and then places the child under the agency’s foster care program with parents facin ...
BroadSnark
- Deal BreakerI recently read The World That Never Was. I really liked it, despite the fact that it includes a gazillion people and can be hard to follow (even for someone who was familiar with many of the players). The book basically covers the period between Haymarket and WWI. There is one part of the book ...
- Things You Might Have MissedI spent the weekend at the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy. Had a really great time with more than 200 of the least pretentious people doing some of the most cool things. Red Emma’s did their usual bang up job with Friday night dinner at 2640. Great speakers at the dinner, especially ...
- Ciao Newsrooms. I Won’t Miss You.Chris Hedges recently wrote one of those sad obituaries for newsrooms. He longs for the old timey orgs like in All the President’s Men. But Iâm not buying all the chicken little stuff when it comes to news. I don’t think the death of newsrooms is such a tragedy. And I’m not just saying that [...]
- Things You Might Have MissedI try to keep my petty problems out of the blog, but I have this issue with my upstairs neighbor. She is whiny, hyper-sensitive, and dateless on weekends. This has led to her complaining about us to management. We, of course, are trying to figure out how to be as loud and obnoxious as possible [...]
- Unions? NBA? Sigh.I’m in the middle of writing a completely different post on media, which is taking me entirely too long and should have been up yesterday. But while on the gerbil machine at the gym, I caught Sports Center’s coverage of the NBA lockout. Â Now I can’t get my head back into what I was writing. [...]
Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche
- Robert Reich Calls for Glass-Steagall and Publ ...EIR News Service press release.
- Obama Faces Growing Threat of Impeachment over ...EIR News Service press release.
- Labor Goes for Glass-SteagallReprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 17, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 24
- 1776 to Today: Mobilizing for Independenceby Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 17, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 24
- America’s Historic Mission: 1776 & 1936Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 17, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 24
Armies of Liberation
- آليات ما بعد ثورة اليمن ينبغي أن تبدأ محلياً ...Mostakela: :: Ø¢ÙÙات ٠ا بعد Ø«Ùرة اÙÙÙ Ù ÙÙبغ٠أ٠تبدأ Ù ØÙÙا٠(ترج٠Ù) اÙÙاتبة اÙأ٠رÙÙÙØ© ÙÙÙا٠تبادر باÙØªØ±Ø§Ø Ø¢ÙÙات ٠ا بعد اÙØ«Ùرة - 2011-ÙÙÙÙÙ(ØزÙراÙ)-19 Ø¢ÙÙات ٠ا بعد Ø«Ùرة اÙÙÙ Ù ÙÙبغ٠أ٠تبدأ Ù ØÙÙا٠Ùتبت: جÙÙ ...
- Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
- Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
- Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
- Game changer in Yemen as protests swellIn Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...
Dark Politricks
- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...
food and water watch
- By: AprilPlease read Blue Gold and When the Rivers Run Dry....I am officially against the majority of desalination due to the fact that all the water we have now is all the water we will EVER have!
- By: Rich's coworkerIn an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
- By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs[...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
- By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs[...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
- By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings[...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
treehugger
- How Can a Conceptual Garden Win a Prize?Photo: dan lobb The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is the little sister to the Chelsea Flower Show. It is smaller, less formal and has a country feel. Think Prince Harry: a little wild and crazy but still royal. The Show has different categories of gardens: show, small and english p ...
- Weekday Vegetarian: Roasted Garlic with Goat C ...Photo Credit: Kelly Rossiter I'm travelling in the French alps and we were in the farmers' market the other day and came across a table covered entirely with garlic. In fact, I've never seen so much garlic in one place before. One of the members of our group thought roasted garlic should be ...
- Britain's Biggest Solar Field (5MW) Built in J ...Image credit: Conergy It's been a crazy few weeks for large-scale solar in the UK. From the old mine turned 1.4MW solar plant via this combined wind and solar power plant (and bee sanctuary) to Toyota's 4.1MW ground mounted array, the initial surge of investment following the feed in tariff ...
- 'Carmageddon' Puts Bikes Front And Center In L.A.It's a rare event, and hard to resist for any cyclist or skater - a 10-mile stretch of I-405 in Southern California from Highway 10 to Highway 101 is going to be closed this weekend for 53 hours in order for construction crews to widen the roadway and demolish part of a bridge. The ensuing t ...
- Help Inhabitat Donate $10,000 to Japan With a ...Inhabitat, with the help of Yahoo!, is working on donating $10,000 to Architecture for Humanity to aid in the work they are doing to rebuild in Japan - but we need your help to do it. Supporting the cause is easy - just click right here to make Yahoo! your home page. That's it! Without your ...
Biosingularity
- FDA Approves Prostate Cancer Drug Zytigahe FDA has approved the Johnson & Johnson pill Zytiga for use in combination with the steroid prednisone to treat a certain type of late-stage prostate cancer in men who have already been treated with chemotherapy. The medication is to be used to treat patients with metastatic, castration-resist ...
- Priming the Body to Tackle CancerMelanoma, one of the most common cancers, is usually treated with surgery and aggressive chemotherapy. In a new, preliminary study, Dr. Marcus O. Butler, of Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, suggests a kinder, gentler way of treating melanoma, and perhaps other cancers, using the body’s own ...
- Electrical Oscillations Found to be Critical f ...Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered that electrical oscillations in the brain, long thought to play a role in organizing cognitive functions such as memory, are critically important for the brain to store the information that allows us to navigate through our physical environment. The sci ...
- Origami: Not just for paper anymoreWhile the primary job of DNA in cells is to carry genetic information from one generation to the next, some scientists also see the highly stable and programmable molecule as an ideal building material for nanoscale structures that could be used to deliver drugs, act as biosensors, perform artif ...
- Fantastic embryonic stem cell animation
CFACT
- Not much pop to corn controversy
- The icky problem of sewage treatment
- CEI's Chris Horner on White House lawsuit
- Eco-Lifestyles becoming a regular part of campus
- Interview: House Resources on Healthy Forests
Ria Novosti Online News
- Medvedev urges harsh punishments for Volga cru ...President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that all those responsible for the deadly sinking of a cruise boat on the Volga River should receive tough punishments.
- Lady Gaga YouTube channel suspended over copyr ...Flamboyant pop star Lady Gaga's official YouTube channel was temporarily suspended on Thursday over copyright violations related to an uploaded video, Penn Olson web site said.
- Pro-Gaddafi forces clash with oppositionClashes between Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s loyalists and his opponents resumed on Thursday near Marsa el-Brega in the east of the country.
- Brotherly LoveThe latest meeting of the top Council of the Moscow-aligned Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) produced little tangible result, but nonetheless stirred deep passions among believers and underscored rising tensions along the spiritual frontier between Orthodox and Western Christianity.
- Russian Press - Behind the Headlines, July 15New location for Gazprom skyscraper / Authorities respond to Putin-007 posters / President and government to leave Moscow city center
Ria Novosti - Science & Technology
- Russia's Soyuz spacecraft with U.S. satellites ...Soyuz-2.1a space carrier with six U.S. Globalstar-2 communications satellites blasted off on Wednesday morning from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, said.
- Roscosmos set for 3rd attempt to launch Soyuz ...The Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, will go for the third attempt on Wednesday to launch Soyuz-2.1a space carrier with six U.S. Globalstar-2 communications satellites, a spokesman for the agency said.
- Russian research vessel begins Arctic shelf re ...Members of the expedition on the delimitation of the Russian Arctic shelf on the research vessel Akademik Fyodorov have begun seismic studies in the area north of Franz Josef Land, a representative of the Rosatom Flot (Russian Atomic Fleet) company Ekaterina Ananyeva said.
- Atlantis mission extended until July 21The 33rd mission of Atlantis and the last shuttle mission in history was extended by one day, until July 21, NASA said on its website.
- Russia postpones launch of Soyuz spacecraft wi ...The launch of Russia's Soyuz-2.1a space carrier with six U.S. Globalstar-2 communications satellites, has been postponed due to technical reasons.
Pruning Shears
- Taking Wisconsin nationwide: The Rebuild The A ...No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postWhen the protests in Wisconsin erupted over the winter I remember having an exchange with Athenae. She had been holding her breath every single day because she was sure at any moment it would fall apart. There was good reason to ...
- Weekend wrapupNo Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Preston J. Suter, 22, Sandy, UT.Army Spc. Jordan C. Schumann, 24, Port Saint Lucie, FL.Army ...
- 'No On SB 5': The summer pauseLast Wednesday We Are Ohio dropped off 1,298,301 signatures at the Secretary of State’s office to put the citizen veto of SB 5 on the ballot. For the time being that puts activists in a bit of a holding pattern. Enough signatures need to be validated to put it on the ballot in November, and si ...
- Weekend wrapupNo Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Robert G. Tenney Jr., 29, Warner Robins, GA.Army Capt. Matthew G. Nielson, 27, of Jefferson, ...
- 'No On SB 5': How we got 1.3 million signaturesOne at a time, that’s how.I know that’s a flippant way to put it, but all the big picture stuff risks losing sight of the most important thing of all: This happened because passionately committed individuals took it upon themselves to get the training and put themselves in a position to ask thei ...
Organic Consumers.org
- OTA Board Elections: Towards a 100% Organic BoardFarmer Direct Co-operative Ltd, is a 100% farmer owned, 100% organic, 100% fair trade coop of family farmers. It is important to the sustainability of our coop and family farms for the OTA to be representing our views. To help make this happen we will be supporting candidates from 100% organic ...
- Who Really Benefits from the Egg Industry Deal?Last week, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) held an unusual press conference. The group announced an agreement with its long-time adversary, the United Egg Producers (UEP), to jointly seek federal legislation that would improve the housing conditions of egg-laying hens.Click here t ...
- Here Come the Superweeds: USDA Approves Invasi ...Uh oh. If you've been following the issue here at RGB, you're aware of the fact that the US Department of Agriculture has been making life very easy for Monsanto, the big agriculture behemoth that controls a huge share of US (and global) seed production. Click here to read this article
- Monsanto and Gates Foundation Push GE Crops on ...Skimming the Agricultural Development section of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation web site is a feel-good experience: African farmers smile in a bright slide show of images amid descriptions of the foundation's fight against poverty and hunger. But biosafety activists in South Africa are ca ...
- Report Criticizes EPA's 2008 Perchlorate in Dr ...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.Click here to read this article
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