- Hen Party: Historic Agreement to Promote Stand ...
- TIME Magazine: Spotlight on IFAP and “Conceale ...
When looked at through the lens of public health, the abuse that we see in the Mercy for Animals video constitutes not only cruelty to animals, but cruelty to humans as well, including the dehumanizing influence on workers forced to labor under conditions that ultimately breed contempt for the a ...
- Focus on Food Day: The Consequences of Meat
Earlier this week, CLF’s Robert S. Lawrence, MD, and Keeve Nachman, PhD, kicked off the Center for a Livable Future’s countdown to Food Day with a webinar, “Industrial food animal production and the high-meat American diet: health and environmental consequences.” (Audio; slides). October 24, 20 ...
- Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grow ...
June 9-12, Amanda Behrens and I journeyed to Missoula, Montana for the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). The conference, entitled Food ...
- Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...
- UK Iraq Inquiry hears that spy agency cut corners
ShareThisUK Iraq Inquiry hears that spy agency cut corners 14 Jul 2011 A former British intelligence official said the country's spy agency cut corners while collecting evidence to back the government's case for the war in Iraq. The Iraq Inquiry headed by Sir John Chilcot on Thursday released an ...
- Health checks planned for Fukushima firefighters
ShareThisHealth checks planned for Fukushima firefighters 15 Jul 2011 Firefighters exposed to radiation while taking part in a water-spraying mission at the troubled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant will become subjects of a long-term health survey, according to government sources. Health che ...
- Radioactive beef worries restaurants, shops
ShareThisRadioactive beef worries restaurants, shops 15 Jul 2011 Retailers and restaurant operators have voiced disappointment and frustration as they are believed to have unknowingly sold meat contaminated with radioactive cesium from Fukushima Prefecture. Supermarket chain Fuji Grand's Anan ou ...
- Two Delta planes collide on Boston airport runway
ShareThisTwo Delta planes collide on Boston airport runway 14 Jul 2011 Two Delta Airlines passenger planes collided on the runway at Boston's Logan International Airport on Thursday, causing minor damage, an airport spokesman said. Delta flight 266, a Boeing 767 bound for Amsterdam, was being ta ...
- New backup plan would let Obama raise debt cei ...
ShareThisNew backup plan would let Obama raise debt ceiling without congressional OK 15 Jul 2011 A plan by the Senate's two top leaders to allow President Obama to raise the debt limit without congressional approval is emerging as the most likely strategy to avoid a looming federal default. The ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
“The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
“The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
- VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
“Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...
- You Know You're Getting Old When...
A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
- Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
- Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
- Strawberry Picking
Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
- Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...
- Left of Bang
14 July 2011 A few years ago, a British officer said to me they want to get as far left of bang as possible.� The farther left of bang, the better.� Right of bang is a crater and a memorial service. A main goal in staying left of bang is to disrupt enemy bomb-making cells.� In the early days ...
- Iraq: Inside the Inferno – Foreword by CSM Jef ...
13 July 2011 Below is the Foreword that Command Sergeant Major Jeff Mellinger wrote for INFERNO. Jeff is a true warrior. We met in 2005 as I wrote about in the dispatch series, WALKING THE LINE. Since then, CSM Jeff Mellinger and I have traveled thousands of miles together across some rough Ir ...
- Rule of Law
Partners in Law 13 July 2011 Kandahar, Afghanistan Most Afghans hate warlords.� Most Afghans hate the Taliban.� When the warlords ruled Afghanistan it was lawless, and so many people welcomed the Taliban who beat back the warlords and installed crude justice.� Soon, the Taliban, staggered by t ...
- Naval STEM
- IJC: Change of Command
And a Few Thoughts IJC INVITES MEDIA TO ISAF Joint Command Official Change of Command Ceremony KABUL, Afghanistan (July 9) � Media are invited to attend the change of command ceremony when Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez will welcome Lt. Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti as the new commander of ISAF Join ...
- Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.
- Watch out for election day fraud
Francis Fox Piven (who has had her own experiences recently with Harper's US mentors) and Richard Cloward wrote a very interesting book called "Why Americans Don't Vote", which showed how a key electoral strategy in the US has always been demobilizing opposing voters, a strategy just as importan ...
- Today's election thoughts
Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
- 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
- Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more
- 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 ...
- Imprisoned Iran journalist urges UN probe of p ...
[JURIST] Jailed Iranian journalist Isa Saharkhiz [Iran Press profile] on Wednesday urged [letter, DOC, in Persian] UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur Dr. Ahmad Shaheed to investigate prison conditions in Iran. Saharkhiz alleged that the treatment of both political and general prisoners in Iran a ...
- Belgium officially bans burqa
[JURIST] Belgium's interim cabinet announced via the Belgian Official Journal [official website, in French and Dutch] Thursday that the nation will be officially banning the burqa [EurActiv report]. The Belgian House of Representatives [official website, in French] voted 136-0 to approve the law ...
- Rights group urges Kuwait to release 2 in dete ...
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] Thursday urged Kuwait to immediately release [press release] two men being detained for posting messages on the Internet criticizing Middle East rulers. HRW reported that in June authorities detained and investigated Nasser Abul [Twitter feed, ...
- Rights groups urge Russia probe of activist Es ...
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW), Civil Rights Defenders (CRD), Front Line Defenders (FLD), Amnesty International (AI) and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) [advocacy websites] on Thursday released a joint statement urging the Russian government to investigate the murder [text] of rights a ...
- UK Supreme Court bars 'secret evidence' in Gua ...
[JURIST] The UK Supreme Court [official website] ruled [judgment, PDF] Wednesday that secret service organizations cannot withhold evidence from opposing parties nor conduct closed trials. The appellants, secret service organizations including MI5 [official website], appealing a May 2010 ruling ...
- Readers on Rep. Cantor: the New Eddie Haskell?
For better or worse, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is making himself the symbol of all-out, "stand up to the man" opposition to President Obama in the budget talks. Some reactions to my claim yesterday that in so doing he was "acting like a weasel." - From a reader in California, with a ref ...
- Countdown to Default: The Latest Debt Ceiling News
What's the debt ceiling? ... What happens if we don't raise it by August 2? ... Is it even constitutional? ... Do we have to have this debate every year? ... Why do we have a debt ceiling to begin with?... What's the "McConnell Proposal"? ... Tracking debt ceiling developments as they break12:20 ...
- The Best Ron Paul TV Ad of All
On the occasion of Ron Paul's first televised campaign ad of the 2012 cycle, which went up today, Chris Good has a great retrospective on Ron Paul ads over the years. He's been at it a long time. But when I was reporting this Ron Paul profile for the magazine last year, his longtime aide, Mark E ...
- Countdown to Default: The Latest Debt Ceiling News
What's the debt ceiling? ... What happens if we don't raise it by August 2? ... Is it even constitutional? ... Do we have to have this debate every year? ... Why do we have a debt ceiling to begin with?... What's the "McConnell Proposal"? ... Tracking debt ceiling developments as they break6:11p ...
- Obama's Mother Didn't Hassle With Health Insur ...
Remember that sad story from Obama about his mother spent the last months of her life fighting with her insurer over reimbursement for her cancer treatment, worrying that she'd leave her family destitute, rather than dying in peace? It seems to not, er, be true: During his presidential campaign ...
- Israeli Education Minister, Gideon Sa’ar, Rumo ...
Word is just beginning to break inside Israel about a possible sex scandal involving a “senior Israeli political figure.” Â Several days ago, Maariv political affairs correspondent Shalom Yerushalmi was interviewed on Channel 10Â (just prior to 6:00 mark) about stories that were too hot to handl ...
- Bibi Buys UN Votes Against Palestinian Statehood
Bibi Netnayahu reminds me of the quintessential Eastern European Jewish peddler traipsing the countryside selling just about anything anyone would pay a kopek to buy. Â You want a hair brush? Â I’ve got one. Â A rooster? Â Got one of those too. Â A bridegroom for your daughter? Â Nothing is too ...
- Netanyahu Family’s Racist History: Like Father ...
Jewish tradition declares that children shall not be punished for the sins of their fathers. Â But it didn’t anticipate a son like the 19 year-old Yair Netanyahu, who appears to retain some of the harsh Arab-hatred that characterizes both his father, Benyamin, and 98 year-old grandfather, Ben Zi ...
- Abir Aramin Died in Vain
I know it will pain her father, Bassam if he reads these words, but how else to describe the shameful decision by the Israeli Supreme Court to refuse to hold accountable two Border Police officers who murdered the little then-10 year old girl on her way home from school one day in 2007.  Bassa ...
- Yossi Sarid on BDS: ‘Green Line is Red Line’
I like that phrase. Â It has a nice ring to it. Â And Sarid uses it, davke, the day before the Knesset is due to pass its anti-boycott legislation which would criminalize references to BDS in the Israeli media, to affirm his intent to boycott the settlements and to support all those throu ...
- Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
- Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
- Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
- Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
- As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
- Help to overcome
SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]
- USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
- FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
- My Predicament
For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...
- High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]
- Why So Few Unsuitablogs?
I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
- Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...
- Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
- Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty Secrets
JUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...
- I’m On The Run
Actually I’m not. It would have been quite exciting to have been writing a blog from an internet cafe somewhere, or hijacking a wireless connection outside an office building, but it seems I am safe and snug in my home completely bereft of law enforcement officers hammering at my door demanding ...
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order. âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
- Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…” Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
- How Social Networking Can Help Neighbors Durin ...
Can social-networking sites be used by neighbors to help each other during disasters, as well as with more pedestrian issues the rest of the time? NPR recently covered political scientist Daniel Aldrich's work looking at how neighbors help each other during disasters. From NPR: Aldrich's ...
- Stop Yammering and Start Hammering: How to Bui ...
Over the next four weeks, a very interesting experiment is going to unfold. The most exciting part about it is that it’s entirely open source: You can observe it, interact with it, and improve it. We’re calling this experiment the “learning lab.” It’s the second stage of the Knight-Mozill ...
- How TileMill Improved Ushahidi Maps to Protect ...
In May I worked with Plan Benin to improve its Violence Against Children (VAC) reporting system. The system uses FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi to collect and visualize reports of violence against children. Ushahidi develops open-source software for information collection, visualization and interacti ...
- When Moral Systems Miss the Point in Newsgames
In "Newsgames: Journalism at Play," we argue that the news quiz "is an incredibly simple type of game, but one that nevertheless can transmit factual information in a refreshing way." Perhaps our favorite example is an op-ed suite from The New York Times called "Turning Points, 2008 Edition," wh ...
- MIT Lesson: Change Happens Everywhere; Activis ...
I attended last Thursday's afternoon plenary "Civic Media Mobilization," at the 2011 Knight Civic Media conference, expecting to hear discussion about specific activist technologies and techniques. I was also anticipating some juicy political friction between the Tea Party consultant and the imm ...
- Edge of the Universe - The Universe May Have B ...
Physicists and astronomers have long believed that the universe has mirror symmetry, like a basketball. But recent findings from the University of Michigan suggest that the shape of the Big Bang might be more complicated than previously thought, and that the early universe spun on an axis.To tes ...
- The Weapons Edge - Czech Republic Opts Out of ...
The Czech Republic has decided not to participate in the U.S. ballistic missile system for Europe. The United States’ plan for a ballistic missile defense system in Europe has gone through several changes over the past few years. The original Bush administration proposal called for deploying 10 ...
- Edge on Terrorism - Hezbollah's Really Really ...
Back in 2006, the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah was riding high. Having fought the Israeli army to a standstill, the organization's leader Hassan Nasrallah declared "divine victory." The war was a public relations coup for the militia, which emerged from the campaign as the most favorable pe ...
- The Digital Edge - Thunderbolt Interconnect: T ...
The newly released Thunderbolt interconnect provides two channels of bi-directional data transfer at 10-Gbps rates, which admittedly is way beyond an order of magnitude more than what the USB 2.0 protocol offers. In the future, that will be bolstered even further, as the interconnect will incorp ...
- Egypt After Mubarek - Pipeline Sabotage in Egy ...
On July 12, for the second time in a week, the crucial gas pipeline leading to Israel and Jordan from Egypt was attacked. Saboteurs blew up the Egyptian gas pipeline distribution station in northern Sinai, sending plumes of smoke and flame hundreds of feet into the air. The explosion was the fou ...
- Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
- Sharing the writing of another Stieber
My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
- Article in FOR
The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out:Â http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rhetoric and Re ...
- Thank You All For Your Well Wishes
Thank you everybody for the well wishes you have sent. As you can probably tell I am not yet 100% but I am doing a bit better everyday. Only two posts by me today because I still have to take long breaks after typing...but the shoulder is much better than it was Tuesday morning.� Hopefully I wil ...
- Join the “We Know” Movement on the Debt Ceiling
Over the past couple of days a small but potentially highly influential campaign within the Tea Party Movement began to take shape centered around the fearmongering and scare tactics being employed by Democrats, a complicit media, and the White House itself. Calling out the lies and d ...
- Newly Released Documents Proves The White Hou ...
Back in October 2009 the White House received a major league bitch slap� as it tried to escalate its censorship of Fox News but received no cooperation from the other networks. On Special Report host Bret Bair told the story of Obama's foolishness: "Today there was an announcement by the a ...
- The Federal Bureaucracy Is A White Elephant, N ...
�by Barry Rubin As a native-born Washingtonian (Columbia Hospital for Women) whose family arrived in the city when President Theodore Roosevelt was in office, I note an omission in all the budget/economic debate that amazes me. It is scarcely a secret in Washington that Federal gover ...
- Uh-Oh Cats Are Making Global Warming Worse !!!
I will admit that I believe in the truism that there are two kinds of people in the world, cat people and dog people.� Based on one of their most recent articles, the folks at Mother Jones are definitely dog people. Why else would they put up an article which says that Cats are bad for the� envi ...
- El Poder Horizontal del Estado
Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 13 de julio 2011 ¿A cuántos liberales, libertarios, conservadores y anarquistas, por citar algunos, no les gustan los resultados que se derivan de tener un Estado fuera de control? Sería interesante realizar una encuesta y saber exactamente. Sin embargo, una e ...
- How Globalism Destroys Jobs, Businesses And Wealth
American Dream July 14, 2011 As most Americans stand around waiting for the U.S. economy to return to “normal”, there is a never ending parade of jobs, businesses and wealth heading out of the United States. The jobs and businesses that are leaving are gone for good and will not be coming back ...
- Italian Senate adopts Auterity Package
by Philip Pullella Reuters July 14, 2011 Italy’s austerity budget passed its first parliamentary hurdle Thursday but the opposition says Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government is in a shambles and should resign after it is finally approved. The four-year package, which has been increased ...
- Tainted Beef Hits Japanese Market
by Phred Dvorak WSJ July 14, 2011 Japan grappled with a fresh radiation scare Tuesday, as authorities found that beef contaminated with radioactive cesium had been shipped to shops and restaurants throughout the country. The beef, from six cattle raised on a farm near the stricken Fukushima Daii ...
- Ron Paul Embarrasses Ben Bernanke as he says G ...
Forbes July 13, 2011 Chairman Ben Bernanke faced-off with Fed-hating Representative Ron Paul during his monetary policy report to Congress on Wednesday. The head of the Fed was forced to respond to accusations of enriching already rich corporations while failing to help Main Street, while he wa ...
- Study finds wind turbines can sometimes be tou ...
Potsdam, NY — Wind farms reduced the value of nearby real estate in two Northern New York counties, but not in a third. Martin D. Heintzelman and Carrie M. Tuttle, of Clarkson University, studied 11,331 real estate transactions over nine years and found that the value of property near wind turbi ...
- The reality of wind power
Wind turbines cost more to operate and maintain than planned, often have poor reliability, and place costly strains on other generators warns one early wind adopter, but so far the public is willing to bear the costs. Kevin Gaden, wholesale power director for the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebra ...
- Lincolnshire couple in landmark court case ove ...
A couple who claim they were driven out of their Lincolnshire farm by the hum of wind turbines have started a High Court bid for £2.5m compensation. Jane and Julian Davis moved from Grays Farm in Deeping St Nicholas because of what they said was the strain of living with the incessant noise. Th ...
- Group recommends stricter noise levels for Mic ...
EAST LANSING, Mich. â As the call for alternative energy grows louder in Michigan and more communities consider wind farms, a group led by a pair of Michigan State University professors has issued a report calling for stricter regulations on noise levels and providing zoning guidelines for local ...
- Turbine meeting turns out hundreds, forces can ...
RIGA, Mich. � When Riga Township resident �Lady� MacBeth arrived at the Riga Municipal Building Thursday night to hear the Riga Township Board�s final decision on zoning ordinances that will determine the fate of 200 wind turbines proposed for the area, she was told to turn around. The building ...
- Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...
- Journalists, take another look at Tumblr
For a long time I had trouble appreciating Tumblr, but I think I finally understand its strengths — and I must not be the only one. Tumblr is now one of the top 25 websites in the U.S., according to data from Quancast, as reported in a new article at TechCrunch. It gets close to 5,000 pagevie ...
- Branding: Should journalists build a personal ...
If you’re teaching journalism today, you must be aware of the discussion that surrounds branding. If you’re a young journalist, or someone planning to enter the field of journalism, you need to understand what personal branding means. On June 23, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten wrote ...
- Journalists: How to get started with Twitter
If you haven’t yet found any value in using Twitter, here’s what you should consider. On the topic of WHY to get started, John Robinson (the editor of the News & Record, in Greensboro, North Carolina) wrote a very good piece for ASNE this week. If youâre not on Twitter, youâre making your job ...
- Tune up your skills this summer
Looking over my Google Analytics data today, I found that these are some of the most-visited pages on this blog: How to shoot video interviews Why does anyone major in journalism? A few words about digital audio recorders Recording phone calls: For reporters Now printable! Reporterâs Guid ...
- Rick Perry's Army of God
By 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 court
By Kathy Mulady, Equal Voice Newspaper A coalition of civil-rights, human-rights and faith groups filed a class action lawsuit Friday challenging Alabama's recently enacted immigration law, House Bill 56. Tough anti-immigrant laws have been recently passed in a half-dozen states -- A ...
- So, compared to McCain, was Obama actually the ...
I thought so at the time, but I’ve been wondering for a while. As I’ve pointed out, frequently, Bush failed to slash Social Security. Obama is probably going to do so soon. I doubt McCain, any more than Bush, could have done so. Of course, on the negative side McCain might have gone to war ...
- Stirling Newberry and Ian Welsh on Virtually S ...
You can listen live here. (Same link will probably work for listening after the fact, will update if not.)
- On Social Security Cuts
February 9, 2009: Then we’re going to get entitlement “reform.” Since Obama is promising this to Blue Dogs, this isn’t going to be anything you’re going to like. January 4, 2010: So you’re far more likely to see Medicare and Social Security gutted, than you are to see the military budget cut in ...
- Deserve: the deadliest word
I hate the word “deserve” because lord save us all from what we “deserve”, but lately I find it hard to remember that one good person is worth saving, or that most people are just weak, not evil. The world will burn, in war, and famine, and revolution, and climate change and it will burn [...]
- I think the oligarchs are overplaying their hand
In particular the Greek “bailout” was a mistake. A horribly punitive measure, with virtually the entire “Socialist” party voting for it, it wasn’t a bailout of Greece, but a bailout of investors. As part of the response, the Greek ministry of finance was set alight. The oligarchs, by making ...
- Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
- PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
- FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
- PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
- China and the end of the end of history
Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...
- NRC task force proposes new safety guidelines ...
Four months after the Fukushima crisis garnered its first headlines in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami, nuclear authorities are still trying to define an appropriate response that will reassure politicians and the public without creating an unnecessary burden on industry. This week a t ...
- Technicolour toad spotted after 87 years
Posted on behalf of Chloe McIvor. The striking Bornean rainbow toad (Ansonia latidisca) has been seen for the first time since the 1920s and finally caught on camera. Previously, the only image of the toad was a black and white drawing, but we can now see that the toad clearly deserves its ti ...
- Cost effectiveness is the new hurdle for pharma
Producing a globally successful drug can now depend as much on proving its value for money as proving its clinical effectiveness, says the head of Britain’s pioneering pharmaceutical assessment agency. Andrew Dillon, chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ...
- Australian Greenpeace activists destroy GM whe ...
Posted on behalf of Marian Turner. Three Greenpeace activists broke into a scientific farm near Canberra overnight on 14 July and destroyed a crop of genetically modified wheat (see photo). The farm belongs to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Austr ...
- Firm launches two stem cell trials against bli ...
Geron made medical history last October, when it treated subject number one in the first-ever trial of a human embryonic stem cell (hESC) therapy, for spinal cord injury. Now, the second and third hESC trials have been launched. On July 12, in an operating room at the University of Califo ...
- Let's Face It, High Speed Rail Is Dead
Advocates were ecstatic when President Obama had $8 billion for high speed rail put into the stimulus bill. His administration planned to make HSR one of the cornerstones of its infrastructure investment program. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood visited Europe to check out HSR there in ...
- America’s Burgeoning Class War Could Spell Opp ...
Last week�s disappointing job reports, with unemployment rising above 9%, only reinforced an emerging reality that few politicians, in either party, are ready to address. American society is becoming feudalized, with increasingly impregnable walls between the classes. This is ironic for a nation ...
- "Art, Design, Portland" District Offers Opport ...
In a dreary economy, with record numbers of Portlanders unemployed and underemployed, the shared work space is hoping to tap into the city�s DIY sensibility to foster innovation, creativity and a new connection to work. But similar projects have tried here before --- and failed. Will ADX�s new a ...
- A Guide to China’s Rising Urban Areas
From a Rural to Urban Dispersion in the Middle Kingdom China�s rise to economic prominence over the past 30 years has rested in large part to its rapid urbanization. Prior to �reform and opening up� that started in earnest during the 1970s, cities in China were viewed as pariahs by the p ...
- The Costs of Smart Growth Revisited: A 40 Year ...
"Soaring" land and house prices "certainly represent the biggest single failure" of smart growth, which has contributed to an increase in prices that is unprecedented in history. This finding could well have been from our new The Housing Crash and Smart Growth, but this observation was made by ...
- Flood Berm Collapses at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
Via: AP: A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early April for refueling, and there is no w ...
- Greece: ‘A Sovereign Debt Crisis of Soph ...
Via: Telegraph: The essence of ancient Greek tragedy is that the audience knows it will end in disaster, but feels compelled to watch the horror unfold. And so it is with the modern version, a sovereign debt crisis of Sophoclean dimensions. Themes of the great dramatist’s finer works are all the ...
- Threat of $100 Billion Hit if U.S. Top Rating Lost
I definitely wouldn’t assume that the impact of a credit rating cut would be limited to $100 billion. I doubt there is any way to know what the impact will be because so many derivatives have been struck off the underlying debt. In other words, this $100 billion number may be just the tip of [...]
- Fukushima Residents’ Urine Now Radioactive
Via: Japan Times: More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday. Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, whi ...
- Friend of British Prime Minister Found Dead in ...
Via: Belfast Telegraph: Detectives are hoping toxicology results will shed light on the death riddle of a senior Tory in a Glastonbury Festival VIP toilet. Christopher Shale, 56, a close friend of David Cameron, was discovered slumped in a cubicle in the backstage area on Sunday morning. The Pri ...
- If The U.S. Government Loses Its AAA Rating It ...
For decades, the U.S. government has had a AAA rating. On the scales used by the big three credit rating agencies, that is the highest credit rating that a government can get. Moody's scale actually uses lettering that is a little different from the other two big agencies ("Aa ...
- 15 Examples That Show Many Americans Have Beco ...
More Americans than ever are desperate for money and many of them will do just about anything to get it. The crumbling U.S. economy has pushed millions of ordinary Americans to the brink of utter desperation. When it comes time to choose between being able to survive or breaki ...
- Outcasts: Tonight Tens Of Thousands Of Formerl ...
Economic despair is beginning to spread rapidly in America. As you read this, there are millions of American families that are just barely hanging on by their fingernails. For a growing number of Americans, it has become an all-out battle just to be able to afford to sleep und ...
- Rampant Unemployment = The Death Of The Middle ...
Without an abundance of good jobs, the middle class in the United States is going to shrivel up and die. Right now, rampant unemployment is absolutely killing communities all over America. Hopelessness and poverty are exploding and many are now wondering if we are actually wit ...
- Will 2012 Be The Year That We See Mass Starvat ...
Tonight millions of American families will shovel huge piles of food into their mouths without even realizing that starvation is rapidly spreading in Africa. Right now Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are experiencing the worst drought conditions that they have seen in 60 years. Te ...
- UNCCD : e-survey assessment on how to organize ...
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has initiated an e-survey assessment on how to organize international, interdisciplinary scientific advice. This assessment is part of our ongoing efforts to make the Convention a global authority on scientific and technical … Conti ...
- BLOOMING AND FLYING – a video (Willem VA ...
Need some relaxing minutes ? Please enjoy my latest video : BLOOMING AND FLYING – JULY 2011 Flowers and insects all around my garden and house on a hot summerday http://youtu.be/N0aP4tGMYpA
- If local authorities and gardeners planted and ...
Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110711195017.htm Plants in Cities Are an Underestimated Carbon Store ScienceDaily (July 12, 2011) â Vegetation in towns and cities can make a significant contribution to carbon storage and, ecologists say, could lock away even more carbon if ...
- Higher overall corn yields, more ethanol outpu ...
Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110712102326.htm Switch from Corn to Grass Would Raise Ethanol Output, Cut Emissions ScienceDaily (July 12, 2011) â Growing perennial grasses on the least productive farmland now used for corn ethanol production in the U.S. would result in … ...
- Rice could become adapted to climate change (S ...
Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110713142042.htm Climate Adaptation of Rice ScienceDaily (July 13, 2011) â Rice — which provides nearly half the daily calories for the world’s population — could become adapted to climate change and some catastrophic events by colonizing it ...
- Where is James Moore?
By Frank Moher Two weeks ago in this space I wrote about the Conservative government's politically-motivated decision to withdraw funding from the Toronto theatre and arts festival, SummerWorks. To recap: Last year, the company presented a play, Homegrown, that the Prime Minister's Office dec ...
- The A word
By Alison@Creekside The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism has released its Final Report -- two years in the making -- on what co-chair and former Lib MP Mario Silva refers to as the "wave of anti-Semitism we are witnessing in our nation". A 71% increase. Yet a mere ...
- Have a cupcake, St. Joe’s
By Jodi A. Shaw Mayor Rob Ford may have been conspicuously absent from Toronto's Pride Parade last weekend, but 16-year old Leanne Iskander more than made up for it as parade co-Grand Marshal (along with Michael Bach of Pride at Work Canada). Iskander made headlines in March when she was p ...
- No WikiLove for Canada Day
Wikipedia is working on a new feature to allow visitors to express appreciation for the poor beleaguered editors. Visitors will have the opportunity to click on a Wikilove icon (a heart), which will allow them to send a message of appreciation. Seems that editors get a lot of ...
- RIM chaos overestimated, but . . .
By Mark Evans With all the talk about Research in Motion’s financial and marketshare struggles, many people tend to overlook the fact that it is still a wireless behemoth, albeit one with intense and growing competition. But it's not just another “a Nortel.”. Nevertheless, RIM needs to mak ...
- AWK Whacked
So it seems that Ahmed Wali Karzai (aka AWK or A-wak, as it’s pronounced), was whacked by one of his own guards yesterday, sending everyone in the US and Afghan governments into a tizzy as they try to figure out how to fill the power vacuum created by his demise. I really can’t say for [...]
- FRI Rides Again
As a devoted follower of FRI for the past few years, I was as disappointed as the rest of you readers to hear that Baba Tim was going dark on the site. So, given the fact that I’m currently in a position to continue providing dispatches from the freeranger perspective in [...]
- FabFi on the front page of New York Times
Here’s an update in an attempt to counteract the thoroughly depressing news of Tim going silent. (Anyone who knows Tim in person knows that you can’t actually silence him; he’s still ranting but we’ve turned off the blog-mike). With Kanani’s help, I’ve put this post in Babatim format. This wee ...
- There’s Fire
Fighting season is now on. This year the villains strategy appears to involve deliberate attacks on aid projects and let me tell you something we (the outside the wire aid community) are getting hammered. Â In the last week a majority of us have had to deal with murders, intimidation, shootings, ...
- Where There Is Smoke
In the Helmand Province, this year’s fighting season has started off with a whimper.  On May Day (as predicted) the only action was in Paktika Province where a child suicide bomber violated the latest Taliban public announcement by blowing himself up in a police station.  The Taliban had just ...
- FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation, o ...
Horowitz and Kane, by their own admission, have publicly declared that they have been actively soliciting the San Francisco FBI Office to “investigate” A. True Ott as a dangerous subversive, hate-mongering, anti-semitic, anti-government, murdering “domestic terrorist Satanist” with a large organ ...
- MORE TRUTH EXPOSING SATANIC CULT PRACTICES!
Horowitz and Kane have the “chutzpah” to say my posts concerning Jewish lies and extremism are “hateful” when all they do is tell the unvarnished truth???  Try telling that to the PARENTS of little 8-year old Leiby Kleitzy Mr. Horowitz NPD. This innocent little lad had the terrible misfortu ...
- Horowitz and Kane’s TWISTED Civil Case V ...
https://ocapps.occourts.org/civilwebShopping/DisplayCaseInformation.do?caseNbr=30-2011%2000480327&caseYear=2011&source=case_src_dtl# Sheri Kane and Leonard Horowitz’s P.R. gambit has officially backfired. Showing that their allegations against me, A. True Ott to be completely malicious and fra ...
- More From THE ZOMBIE Files —— A MU ...
From the “X-Files” of Dr. Patricia M. Jordan, DVM comes this incredible snippet dateline 2009: ST-246 Used to Treat Complications From Exposure to Recombinant Vaccinia Virus Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:31am EDT http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v8/38a9/0/0/%2a/v;44306;0-0;0;38919074;1627-170/40;0/0/0;;~o ...
- Jews Against Zionism and Zionists. (JAZZ)
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/holocaust/gedalyaliebermann.cfm THE ROLE OF ZIONISM IN THE HOLOCAUST Article by Rabbi Gedalya Liebermann – Australia “Spiritually and Physically Responsible ” From its’ inception, many rabbis warned of the potential dangers of Zionism and open ...
- Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
- Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
- Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen. In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
- Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here̵ ...
Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
- Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...
- US Chamber’s history,and the stuff we fo ...
Dear friends, What is the US Chamber of Commerce hiding? Our team recently decided to dig into the US Chamber’s history–and the stuff we found is not pretty. You’ve got to see it to believe it: Visit www.USChamberOfSecrets.org With the final installment of the Harry Potter movie series premierin ...
- Solar economics- A whole new ball game
One of the things that drives alternative energy advocates up the wall about trying to explain the benefits of these energy sources is that some people simply don’t understand the economics of alternative energy. Nowhere is this more obvious than with solar power. The average solar panel is actu ...
- Insulation ROI- Be Energy Smart and Money Wize
Misunderstood Payback Periods of Proper Insulation: This is a huge mistake people make. I had a consumer recently tell me that 2 years was too long to get all his money back. If he understood Payback periods, he’d understand that he was turning down a 50% return on his money. Now, investments th ...
- Petition to Stop Ameren UE-Coal Ash Utility Wa ...
Petition: We, the undersigned, are opposed to placing a coal ash utility waste landfill in the Labadie Bottoms floodplain of the Missouri river as proposed by AmerenUE. The proposed landfill will store harmful quantities of toxic heavy metals and other contaminants. Despite Ameren’s assurances o ...
- six neighborhood factors that affect the envir ...
The Greenest Building Is The One That’s Already Built ⦠Sometimes Posted June 20, 2011 by Kaid Benfield copied from: http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/kaidbenfield/26182/greenest-historic-building-one-thats-right-context?utm_source=scc_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter Iâ ...
- The Destruction of American Unions
The effect of the 1947 Taft Hartley Act on union membership was almost immediate. In 1946 the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) had 6.3 million members. By 1954, when it merged with the AFL, this number was 4.6 million. This steady drop continued. In 1954 34.7% of American workers bel ...
- Selling Books – Excerpt from Interview
“Selling Books” recently did a fantastic interview about my young adult novel The Battle for Tomorrow: a Fable Tell us something about yourself: I’m a 63 year old, recently retired child and adolescent psychiatrist, single mother and activist, who emigrated to New Zealand 8 ½ years ago after ...
- How Taft Hartley Restricts Labor Rights
Sit down strike The US union movement was built during the last serious recession (the Great Depression, which started in 1929). Then, as now, employers took advantage of the economic downturn to cut wages, pile on work and force employees to work under sweatshop conditions. In the 1930s organiz ...
- The Dread U-Word
Like the F-word, the U-word is largely taboo in polite society, especially among younger Americans. According to a recent survey 41% of Americans “disapprove” of unions % (see http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/09/why-has-union-membership-declined.html). Generation X,Y and Z A ...
- Paid Sick Leave: One for Our Side
WFP rally In June, Connecticut became the first state to require private employers to provide paid sick leave. The US is the only country in the industrialized world with no national requirement for employers to provide paid sick leave. Under the new Connecticut law, workers are entitled to earn ...
- Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film
Revolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition to Swe ...
- On Nataline Sarkisyan's 21st Birthday
Last night in Los Angeles, while the Prince and Princess (William and Kate) – or is it now the Duke and Duchess? – were gathering all the media attention for their glamorous evening among the stars, a very different yet equally glamorous night was unfolding just a few miles away. On the sales f ...
- MichaelMoore.com Exclusive: Wikileaks Cable Al ...
Wikileaks Cable Allegedly Leaked by Bradley Manning Caught Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Discussing Outsourcing to India That May Have Cost Manning's OWN FATHER His Job "The afternoon I reached Brian Manning, he was at home in Oklahoma City, in a room in his ranch house that Bradley had ...
- Glenn Beck on Muslims, Obama and Michael Moore ...
From Glenn Beck's radio show, June 2, 2011: ... PAT GRAY: How does a guy who immigrated here from -- was it India? I think India. He's got Muslim parenthood and he comes here and he enjoys incredible success. The guy's a national television host and a best-selling author. He probably makes ...
- In His Latest Attack, Beck's Sidekick Highligh ...
On today's edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck and�his sidekick�Pat Gray criticized CNN Host and Time editor Fareed Zakaria for comments�suggesting that the U.S. Constitution was not perfect. Zakaria made the comments during an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose earlier this week. (This was part ...
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera
\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
- South Sudan becomes an independent nation
South Sudan has become the world’s newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries attending celebrations in the capital, ...
- Sea of voices at Tahrir Square protest
There were men on stages calling for faster trials for ministers associated with the regime. A separate stage featured a speaker chanting anti-Israel phrases. A musician with an amplifier began to sing revolutionary anthems. And then there were the conversations of tens of thousands of people. “ ...
- Marine Le Pen ahead of Sarkozy in presidential ...
Marine Le Pen the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen recently became leader of the National Front succeeding her father. She is turning out to be a slick operator. With the French presidential elections less than a year away she is polling ahead of President Sarkozy. She doesn’t deny that there used ...
- House Amendments Defunding Libya War Fail
Following yesterday’s votes, the House once again rejected an Amendment offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D – OH) which would have defunded the war in Libya. The vote failed 169-251 and saw solid Republican support, but coupled with overwhelming opposition from Democrats. The new vote would have ...
- China warns U.S. officials not to meet Dalai Lama
China’s Foreign Ministry warned U.S. officials on Thursday not to meet with visiting exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it hoped Washington “appropriately dealt” with Tibet-related issues. China reviles the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Dalai Lama, saying he supports the use of violence ...
- Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
- Natural Acne Remedies
There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
- Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate Blood
Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
- Hey kids - let's play obama chess!!!
Playing the Man: Defeating Obama With the Debt Ceiling By Adam Yoshida If President Obama's decidedly un-presidential explosion at House Majority Leader Eric Cantor during a White House meeting on Wednesday suggests anything, it's that the stress is getting to the man. Everything that we've eve ...
- Apple A6 chip in test production as TSMC eyes ...
Apple has reportedly green-lighted a production trial of Apple A6 next-gen processors by TSMC, amid ongoing rumors that the Cupertino company intends to dump Samsung as a component supplier as son as it can. According to Reuters ‘ source, whether TSMC scoops the valuable contract will be down t ...
- Twitter Delivers You 4x More Traffic Than You ...
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch (this version is slightly different). Most web publishers measure where their traffic is coming from using an analytics package such as Google Analytics, Omniture or Core Metrics. These were good packages in the pre social media world at helping f ...
- Bernanke To Senate: Fed Not Planning Further S ...
The nation’s top central banker on Thursday clarified comments made to lawmakers on Capital Hill yesterday, telling a Senate committee that the Federal Reserve is not yet considering further support for the slumping economy. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke echoed prepared remarks made yesterday on th ...
- South Sudan Joins U.N.; Mass Graves Reported I ...
by Bill Chappell Stan Honda / AFP/Getty Images The South Sudan delegation, including Vice-President Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon (second from right), are congratulated by a delegate as they take their seats after the U.N. General Assembly voted to admit the newly formed nation. Newly independent So ...
- Google Chrome - Behind the Open Source Browser ...
[PJ: This is so cool. My favorite comic book creator, Scott McCloud, explains the concepts behind Google's Chrome browser. "Words by the Google Chrome team, comics adaptation by Scott McCloud." If it hadn't been for Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" making me think in new ways, there never ...
- Oracle Seeks 'Harassing' Deposition of Page, G ...
Google Inc. is fighting what it calls a "harassing demand" by Oracle Corp. to take a deposition of Chief Executive Officer Larry Page as part of Oracle's multibillion lawsuit alleging the Android operating system infringes its Java patents, according to a court filing. Page "participated in neg ...
- Earnings report is good news for Google, CEO
Google Inc. posted a 36% surge in profit, blowing past analysts' expectations and overshadowing concerns about rising expenses and slowing growth. The stronger-than-expected performance countered critics who said Google's hyper-growth days were behind it. Google's chief executive stressed that ...
- ALEC Corporations
This article contains the names of for-profit corporations, corporate trade groups, non-profit corporations and law firms that are known to be, or have been, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) members of or involved in ALEC. This is a partial list. You can add to it, if you cite your ...
- ALEC Exposed: The Koch Connection
No one knows how much the Kochs have given ALEC in total, but the amount likely exceeds $1 million-not including a half-million loaned to ALEC when the group was floundering. ALEC gave the Kochs its Adam Smith Free Enterprise Award, and Koch Industries has been one of the select members of ALEC' ...
- New e-book soon: 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006'
Today is the fifth anniversary of the beginning of that terrible march of folly, the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006. So I'm delighted to announce today that my publishing company, Just World Books, will shortly be publishing as a short e-book War Diary: Lebanon 2006, by the Lebanese social activist ...
- Afghanistan, logistics, geopolitics, war, peace
The WaPo's Craig Whitlock has an informative piece in today's paper about the many continuing challenges the U.S. military has faced as it attempted to provide logistic support to the "surged" U.S. troop presence in very distant Afghanistan. Supplying these troops is particularly hard, due to t ...
- Speaking about out recent Gaza/Cairo trip: Cha ...
Bill the spouse and I will be speaking about our recent trip to Gaza and Cairo at an event sponsored by my Quaker meeting in Charlottesville, on July 11. Details are here.
- My piece on Egypt and Gaza, at ME Channel
... is here. I rather like the title they put on it, "Tahrir's journey to Palestine". In fact, the journey that the "spirit of of the Tahrir uprising" has to make before it gets to Palestine is just about as long and difficult as the journey that anyone needs to make to get from the outside wor ...
- Reactions to Gaza Flotilla 2
Nine boats of siege-busting 'Freedom Rider' activists are now gathering in the Mediterranean, preparing to challenge the longrunning siege that is one of the main tools through which Israel continues to stifle the lives and livelihoods of all of Gaza's 1.6 million people. An act of collective p ...
- Disintegrating Economic Recovery
The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...
- Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
- (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
- The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
- Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
- Carmageddon: LA's Billion-Dollar Car-Pool Lane
Midnight tonight marks the beginning of Carmageddon in Los Angeles: For two days and five hours, Interstate 405 between I-10 and US 101 will be completely shut down. Since the 405—and yes, we always use "the" in front of our freeway numbers in Southern California—is the main artery between L ...
- China Housing Bubble Update
So is China in a housing bubble? In a recent paper, Christian Dreger and Yanqun Zhang say yes: Our results indicate the presence of a house-price bubble. In Figure 1 it can be seen that increasing imbalances have emerged over the past two years. For example, real house prices in Shangha ...
- A Closer Look at the Tea Party's Utopia
From Benjy Sarlin: Republican lawmakers are pushing President Obama to put seniors, troops, and bondholders at the front of the line should Congress fail to raise the debt ceiling. The rest? Well, that's up to him. ....But where will the immediate 44% cut in overall spending needed to avoid d ...
- Behind the Scenes in Republican-land
Mike Konczal has a post today that provides a rare inside look at what non-insane Republicans think about their more exuberently ideological colleagues. It's long, and might take a couple of readings to fully appreciate, so I'll just set the stage for you. It's about a Republican member of the ...
- Quote of the Day: Never Trust Simple and Plausible
From the Time Traveller, in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine: Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough — as most wrong theories are! What was true in the year 802,701 is true in the year 2011 too. Never trust simple and plausible for any problem more interesting than a broken light s ...
- They’re Letting a Pedophile Do What?
From the “We Need More Common Sense In Our Laws” Department: TACOMA, Wash. — A strange quirk in the law is allowing an accused child rapist to watch child pornography inside the Pierce County Jail. Marc Gilbert is accused of sexually assaulting young boys and videotaping the abuse. Under the law ...
- FacePalm of the Week: She Died From What?
So the first FacePalm of the Week in a long time and I had to find something that really made me put my head in my hands in shame. Well, thanks to H2oKev and what he tweeted yesterday, I have just the right story: A MAN HAS appeared before Limerick District Court charged with ordering [...]
- Another Reason to Vote Herman Cain 2012…
…he has a gospel album. No I’m not joking.� Republican 2012 Presidential candidate has a gospel album and it hit the web the other day. Hey look at it this way, President Obama has a Grammy for his audio book, maybe this is the first step for Herman Cain towards the Presidency. First his a ...
- Liberals and Underestimating the Power of the ...
So first things first Fuck Bill Maher. I know I know. Some Liberals love this guy and he can do no wrong like he’s Jesus. I have to give it to him, it is a pretty funny how he’s been able to escape criticism. He says he wishes the first black President was more “gangsta” [...]
- IC 257: Titty Tester
Topics: Jaxx is in studio and gives an update on his European travels Testing titties Kids and the parents who don’t control them Bill Maher makes a stupid comparison between Republicans and Casey Anthony jurors Prisoners complain about conditions in solitary Share with your friends:
- Chinese pollution postpones temperature rises
Sulphur emissions countered greenhouse gases to cause the much-debated “pause” in warming trend from 1998-2008, but only temporarily, Boston University's Robert Kaufmann told Simple Climate.
- Sea-level rise is the fastest in 2,000 years
University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin Hortonand colleagues show that sea level has risen at an average of 2.1 mm per year since around 1900, after having stayed roughly stable for the previous two millennia.
- Shrinking Arctic ice area is just the tip of t ...
Old, thicker, ice cover has suffered extreme losses, says the University of Colorado's James Maslanik, providing more evidence of how humans are changing the planet.
- Climate rhythm shift brings early calving
Chillingham cattle, which are able to breed all year round, are having more calves in winter due to earlier springs, reducing their chances of surviving a year, find Sarah Burthe of the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and colleagues, showing that even mammals with breeding flexibility are ...
- History warns of civilisation-crushing climate ...
After giant sandworms cause an argument between me and my girlfriend about whether climate-related civilisation-wide disasters are possible, reviewing scientific evidence of such events through history force me to concede that they are.
- Climate change update by the numbers
Here are some figures to illustrate the latest global data on global warming. Data are from NCDC and GISS. First, a 12-month running mean of global surface temperature anomalies since 1980 (i.e. for each month, an average is taken of the previous 12-month period – ‘calendar year’ is irrelevant): ...
- Why pro-nuclear environmentalism has failed wh ...
With George Monbiot on the debating warpath against Greenpeace and in support of nuclear power as a serious mechanism for tackling climate change, and Mark Lynas’ new book on planetary boundaries and techno-fixes, “The God Species“, now out (despite some weird problems on the launch day), it r ...
- Carbon tax in Australia in 2011
Australia is set to introduce a carbon tax (details to be released on Sunday 10 July 2011). This post is the place to discuss this policy — the good and the bad. A description, from the Australian Parliamentary Library: A carbon tax is a tax on energy sources which emit carbon dioxide. It is a [...]
- Lacklustre results from the Colorado Integrate ...
A common lament of those analysts wishing to get to grips with the real-world performance of solar thermal power plants has been, well… an absence of data. Trainer noted, in ‘Solar Thermal Questions‘: It would be great to get some actual data on their year round performance. I have found it fien ...
- Open Thread 17
The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...
- Why the Time to Dismantle Edward Bernay’s Corp ...
How Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Opened a Window of Opportunity for the Progressive ‘Left’ TheAngryindian 07.12.2011 ‘All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they ca ...
- Cain Rewrites History: I Said I Would Not Be C ...
Cain Rewrites History: I Said I Would Not Be Comfortable With ‘A Terrorist In My Cabinet’ | ThinkProgress: Here's the record of lies and nonsense Mr. Cain thinks the rest of us forgot: – March 26: Herman Cain told ThinkProgress he would not be comfortable appointing Muslims either in his ca ...
- 4TH OF JULY THEFT OF HAWAI`I'S INDEPENDENCE
Free Hawai`i By Poka Laenui With Bible on hand, pistols in their pockets and troops at the ready, men gathered on the steps of `Iolani Palace on July 4th, 1894. Invoking the name of American liberty, they dismantled the liberty of the people of the Hawaiian nation. Two separate camps divided H ...
- Britain: Nationalise Murdoch’s press!
China Worker Editorial from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) ‘Murdochgate’ is Britain’s Watergate. In politics, as in nature, the ‘butterfly effect’ operates. A seemingly small event – the famous metaphor of the flutter of a butterfly’s wings – can begin a ch ...
- Writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson's ADL Shuffle Wil ...
Writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson's ADL Shuffle Will Never Pay off: (FinalCall.com) - With more than ten of every eleven inhabitants of the planet being “non-Caucasian,” it has always been critical to American leaders that they carefully control the ideas and attitudes of Black Americans, especially ...
- Entitlement Reform? Sure! Corporate Entitlements
What pisses me off most is the nonsensical discussion of how we balance our budget, or reduce our deficit. The MSM narrative is the Democrats won’t stand for “entitlement” cuts and the Republicans won’t stand for any tax increases anywhere, anytime, for any reason. Deadlock. This whole argument ...
- Jim DeMint – Fuck You
Fuck you Jim. You want to slam the poor, the sick, and the elderly to “balance the budget” and won’t even consider cutting corporate welfare, or having the billionaires, or the companies they own stock in pay their fair share. I pray that there is justice in this world and some day you will be [...]
- Van Jones = Reboot the American Dream
“We’re not broke, we’ve been robbed. Someone has our money”
- Exxon Gets 20 Billion a Year in Corporate Welfare
The amount of taxes we don’t collect from Exxon plus their handouts equals around 20 billion dollars a year. And this is just one company. Spending isn’t the problem. Corporate welfare, and billionaire welfare is the problem.
- Politifact – Jon Stewart Was Right
How hard did your dishonest organization have to twist into a pretzel to name Stewart’s factual statement about Fox News viewers as false? Misinformed, uninformed, and lied to. Fox lemmings.
- Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
- Press Conference to be Held on June 15
Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
- Press Inquiries
All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
- New Flier for Appalachia Rising
- Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...
- More Wall Street Bailouts to Come – Why ...
By Washington's Blog The biggest banks are insolvent. By failing to break up them up, the government will keep taking emergency measures to try to cover up their insolvency - further draining the life blood out of the real economy. [Read More]
- Buying Passivity With Food Stamps and Unemploy ...
By Charles Hugh Smith Poverty is on the rise in America, and buying passivity with cheap bribes has limits when applied to a fraying middle class. [Read More]
- The Quagmire of Empire: Has US Foreign Policy ...
By Kevin Zeese I can't remember a time when the US military has been stuck in so many war quagmires at once - Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya. Relations with nuclear-armed Pakistan are at their lowest levels ever. Other challenges in Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Iran and several other countries have the mili ...
- Japan’s Nuclear Disaster Can Happen Here ...
By Fairewinds Associates Nuclear engineers Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum discuss how the US regulators and regulatory process have left Americans unprotected. They consider how the knowledge gained from Fukushima applies to the nuclear industry worldwide. [Read More]
- AmpedStatus Victory: House Passes Audit of Pen ...
By David DeGraw Rep Peter DeFazio, one of the few allies we have in Congress, introduced a crucial amendment to conduct a full audit of Pentagon spending. The amendment passed! [Read More]
- Left-wing U.S. Jew buys Israeli soccer’s ...
A California Jew, who sits on the board of directors of the Israel Policy Forum, buys the most famous team in Israel, Beitar Jerusalem. Hopefully, he’ll do better in soccer than he did in politics… Running for office with the slogan “Send a mentsch to Congress”? I mean, come on… Could this be ...
- Israelis, Palestinians to march in joint call ...
By Eitan Grossman “Only Free Men Can Negotiate” (Nelson Mandela) This Friday (July 15, 2011), thousands of Palestinians and Israelis will march together in Jerusalem to express their support for international recognition of the unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence. Thousands of P ...
- Boycott Law proves Israel’s one-state vision
More than anti-democratic, the boycott law is indicative of Israel’s de facto annexation of the West Bank Everyone who is up in arms about the passing of the boycott law this week has been emphasizing the severity of its violation of freedom of expression and dialogue. While this is of course tr ...
- To the Knesset: How dare you not vote on the b ...
I know that most of our dignified and thoughtful elected representatives are ashamed that the ignominious “boycott bill” would even be debated in our proud democracy. I know this because so many of them â 35 in total â protested by refusing to show their faces at the vote. Only 85 of our 120 mem ...
- Two ‘air flotilla’ allowed to rema ...
According to various news reports, two ‘air flotilla’ activists who arrived in Israel last Friday have been allowed to remain in Israel (and travel to the West Bank freely) on the condition that they ‘refrain from disrupting the peace.’ The activists were part of the ‘Welcome to Palestine’ campa ...
- The Most Important Notices That Have NEVER Bee ...
Men and who put on a uniform and serve our country have a special place in my heart. I have said it before and I continually state it, If you serve in the military and you face foreclosure, I will consult with you for free. Above and beyond me, the honorable and dedicated attorneys that [...]
- Foreclosures Filings- The Press Reports on the ...
Matthew Weidner, a St. Petersburg lawyer who focuses on foreclosures, doesn’t see an end to the doomsday scenario caused by foreclosures. He blames executives at Wall Street lenders for the increased filings. “This is a catastrophe being laid upon a crisis,” he said. “America is foreclosing upon ...
- Lenders Will Have to Buldoze/Raze Millions of ...
There are millions of vacant and abandoned homes all across this country. When they throw people out into the streets, the power is often turned off, the home left vacant and when it does…after a very short period of time…especially in Florida, the mold kicks in and the home becomes a tear d ...
- BOMBSHELL- FLORIDA’S ATTORNEY GENERAL FI ...
You are all acutely aware of just how corrupt this state is, right? You are all acutely aware of the magnitude and breadth of the wrongdoing by the banks and foreclosure mills in the middle of this fraudclosure war, right? Remember it was just a year ago when Florida made national headlines bec ...
- The Darkest Corner of The Fraudclosure Scandal
It has been more than one year and still no one. no one. no one. has dared to turn this rock over and consider what it means. I’ve just sat on my hands with this one. I’ve been waiting, hoping, praying that someone would dig into this. Some bright and ambitious reporter. Some elected lea ...
- Citizenship – “Wandering Between T ...
I’m a citizen attempting to discover methods and models of empowerment within my community. Unlike many, I have a great respect for the place of politics in the shaping of the national character and its ability for change through effective legislation and economic innovation. I believe the true ...
- Citizenship – “Dumb and Dumber”
I don’t think I ever learned so much as the almost five years I served in Parliament. It was like having a university come to you and teach some of the most important research, data and social trends in a manner purposefully dedicated to assist in passing better legislation. So much of it has st ...
- Citizenship – “If Only I’d B ...
I was joking to a neighbour last week that getting out of politics is a lot harder than getting in … well, sort of. Part of it’s true though. There are a lot of details to transition through as you move back to private life and one of the more difficult aspects is what to [...]
- Citizenship – Making the Greater Decisions
Let me introduce you to Kai Nagata, if you don’t know him already. I was pointed in his direction by my friend Jodi Simpson, who has taken to calling Kai her “new hero.” It’s easy to see why. At 24 years of age, he’s made some pretty major decisions in his young life that actually [...]
- Citizenship – Living in an Age of Stuff
There was nothing I could do but wait. I was to meet an old friend at Starbucks for a tea, but in front of me was a group of four placing their orders. There was Misto with non-fat, a caramel Machiatto (seriously, I’m not making this up), a Frappucino with caramel on top, and, thankfully, [...]
- Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
- In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
- Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
- Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
- Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
- Is nanotechnology suffering from “silent rave” ...
I couldn’t resist finishing the August in the Archives series with this piece on “silent rave” syndrome, which I am sad to say still seems to inflict the emerging technologies community! Originally posted October 5 2008 The silent rave might seem a rather bizarre social phenomenon; a group of st ...
- Rethinking nanotechnology – responding to a re ...
Back in July, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) posted a Request For Information in the Federal Register for input to the next NNI strategic plan – to be published later this year. The closing date for comments was a couple of weeks ago now. I got mine in in the nick of time. ...
- What do people think about synthetic biology?
The fifth Hart survey of what American adults think about emerging technologies like nanotechnology and synthetic biology was released today by my former colleagues at the Woodrow Wilson Center – the first since I left the group earlier this year. Each summer for the past five years, the Wilson ...
- Lost in the Maize
Well I guess it had to happen one day – after hanging out in QUACs (QUasi Academic Concerns) for more years than I care to remember, I am finally a bona fide academic! Last week I shed my visiting professor status at the University of Michigan and took up the mantles of Professor of Environmen ...
- Could precisely engineered nanoparticles provi ...
This is an extremely quick and dirty blog post, as I really need to be somewhere else. But while traveling to the World Economic Forum meeting in China today, I came across a new paper that piques my interest. The paper is by David Keith at the University of Calgary (published in the Proceeding ...
- Justice Department Asked to Investigate Murdoc ...
Herb Jackson reports: "In a separate letter, Sen. Bob Menendez, also D-NJ, asked Holder to have the Justice Department investigate a Daily Mirror story that reporters tried to get information on the phone records of 9/11 victims and their families." Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., smiles a ...
- Justice Department Asked to Investigate Murdoc ...
Herb Jackson reports: "In a separate letter, Sen. Bob Menendez, also D-NJ, asked Holder to have the Justice Department investigate a Daily Mirror story that reporters tried to get information on the phone records of 9/11 victims and their families." Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., smiles a ...
- Real Democratic Recall Candidates Cruise to Vi ...
Jessica Vanegeren reports: "None of the six placeholder or 'fake' Democratic Senate candidates pulled off an upset victory during the first round of a historic recall election season in Wisconsin Tuesday." Residents in Glendale, Wisconsin, line up Tuesday to vote in a Democratic primary Senat ...
- Real Democratic Recall Candidates Cruise to Vi ...
Jessica Vanegeren reports: "None of the six placeholder or 'fake' Democratic Senate candidates pulled off an upset victory during the first round of a historic recall election season in Wisconsin Tuesday." Residents in Glendale, Wisconsin, line up Tuesday to vote in a Democratic primary Senat ...
- Calls Mount to Investigate Bush-Era Officials ...
Naseema Noor reports: "Senior officials under the former George W. Bush administration knowingly authorised the torture of terrorism suspects held under United States custody, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released here Tuesday revealed. Titled 'Getting Away with Torture,' the 107-page repor ...
- No Surprises from the War-Makers!
Well, Obama made it clear on Wednesday. His war in Afghanistan will go on through 2014 and probably far beyond. While some may have hoped for a shift in his approach, many of us didn’t expect much, and we certainly didn’t get much. The change in Afghanistan that he spoke about, meant to be heard ...
- In Afghanistan Speech, Obama Offers Token Troo ...
President Obama passed up an opportunity to recognize our democracy and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people. June 22, 2011 President Obama’s speech tonight violated one of his most important campaign promises: to “end the mind-set that leads to war.” To the contrary, hi ...
- Money for Our Communities, Not for War!
Take Action! It’s very encouraging that the US Conference of Mayors just passed a strong resolution initiated by CODEPINK for bringing our “war dollars home” (read press release or NY Times article on this). Unfortunately, later this week the House of Representatives is poised to pass the Defens ...
- Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...
“I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
- The Broken Rifle in Kabul
The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
- Hen Party: Historic Agreement to Promote Stand ...
United Egg Producers (UEP) has partnered with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), agreeing to work together toward legislation of national standards to be used in egg production.
- TIME Magazine: Spotlight on IFAP and “Conceale ...
When looked at through the lens of public health, the abuse that we see in the Mercy for Animals video constitutes not only cruelty to animals, but cruelty to humans as well, including the dehumanizing influence on workers forced to labor under conditions that ultimately breed contempt for the a ...
- Focus on Food Day: The Consequences of Meat
Earlier this week, CLF’s Robert S. Lawrence, MD, and Keeve Nachman, PhD, kicked off the Center for a Livable Future’s countdown to Food Day with a webinar, “Industrial food animal production and the high-meat American diet: health and environmental consequences.” (Audio; slides). October 24, 20 ...
- Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grow ...
June 9-12, Amanda Behrens and I journeyed to Missoula, Montana for the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). The conference, entitled Food ...
- Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...
- Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 14, ...
==== U.S., NATO Triple Size Of Afghan Air Base Near Iranian Border Afghanistan: Dozens Of Western Troops Injured By Huge Blast Afghanistan: Six NATO Soldiers Killed, French Death Toll At 69 U.S. Building New Detention Centers Across Afghanistan Moldovan Defense Minister To Visit NATO Headquarter ...
- Sophocles: War the destroyer
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Sophocles From Oedipus the King Translated by E. H. Plumptre …Ares the destroyer drive away! Who now, though hushed the din of brazen shield, With battle-cry wars on me fierce and hot. Bid him go back in flight, Retreat from this our la ...
- Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 17, ...
==== 117-Day War: France Extends Libyan Military Mission Poll: 68% Of Israelis Back NATO Membership, 60% NATO Troops In Palestine Georgia: Base To Be Used For Training NATO Militaries Afghanistan: NATO Air Strike Kills Four Civilians In Kunar Province Latvia: French NATO Jet Scrambled On Interce ...
- Richard Aldington: Pools and ponds of blood, s ...
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Richard Aldington From Images of War (1919) In the Trenches I Not that we are weary, Not that we fear, Not that we are lonely Though never alone - Not these, not these destroy us; But that each rush and crash Of mortar and shell, Each c ...
- Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 12, ...
==== U.S., French Security Guards Violently Disperse Syrian Protesters Afghan War: French Death Toll Reaches 63 U.S. Marines: AFRICOM “Adding Muscle” To African Counterinsurgency Campaigns Japan: U.S. Army To Open New Battle Systems Center For Afghan-, Iraqi-Style Wars Australia: 22,000 U.S., Ca ...
- The World’s Largest Human Experiment Part Two: ...
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie and Intel Hub Contributing Writer July 15, 2011 In part one of what will become a long-running series I briefly outlined two recent papers published in the renowned peer-reviewed journal, Chemical Research in Toxicology, which revealed the horrifying effe ...
- Libertarian Party Of Florida Demands Florida S ...
Americansansculottes.com July 15, 2011 I just conducted an interview with the Libertarian Party of Florida. What these guys are preparing to do is absolutely amazing. They are true soldiers in the fight for liberty. The video of the interview is at the bottom of the page. “Dear Florida Liber ...
- How Globalism Has Destroyed Our Jobs, Business ...
The American Dream July 14, 2011 As most Americans stand around waiting for the U.S. economy to return to “normal”, there is a never ending parade of jobs, businesses and wealth heading out of the United States. The jobs and businesses that are leaving are gone for good and will not be coming ...
- Silver Shield: The Dangers of Legal Tender
Dont-tread-on.me By Silver Shield July 14, 2011 The US constitution states quite clearly that only gold and silver can be used as lawful currency. Along with numerous other constitutional violations happening throughout the world,the concept of ‘lawful currency’ has been exploited,hi-jacked,and ...
- Obama’s Tantrum and Other Signs of Sabotage
Before Its News By Zen Gardner July 14, 2011 Anyone seeing this? Have our stooges been told “go ahead and pull the plug–we wanna see what happens?” Our little primadonna Barak Insane Obummer now throws a full blown, public tantrum, and at the worst possible time. I mean, what responsible leader ...
- How Greece abandoned Palestine
[Israel has expended great effort in Europe in recent years (a la AIPAC's relentless manipulation of US politics) -- acquiring compliant politicians, quelling liberal critics, and quashing supporters of Palestinian rights. The following is a case study of the engagement of the Greek government ...
- Indian Maoists: the Political Struggle with Ad ...
� � [There have been interesting developments in India, where the formal police and army forces involved in "Operation Green Hunt" have in recent years been supplanted by rogue forces (para-military and para-police) recruited from among the oppressed tribal people. Now the official disbanding o ...
- Maoists join hands with South Asian sister out ...
[This news report from Indian bourgeois press this week, is referring to a previously-reported meeting or conference held several months ago, in March 2011. Why do they bring up old news? Because, they seem to be telling the government, "don't even consider talks or peace moves with these guys ...
- Palestinians Struggle to Decolonize Education, ...
by Jillian Kestler-D’Amours | Antiwar.com | July 14, 2011 EAST JERUSALEM — Widespread strikes across Palestinian civil society could be in store for East Jerusalem at the start of the next school year, as the municipality moves ahead with its current plan to implement an Israeli curriculum in Pa ...
- Ivory Coast: Nestle’s Genetically Modifi ...
[Nestle's "gift" of revitalization comes with a price--Nestle will have first rights to the product. -- Frontlines ed.]Â Nestle gives farmers disease-resistant cocoa trees Wed, Jul 13 2011 By Ange Aboa BONOUA, Ivory Coast (Reuters) – Nestle on Wednesday ramped up its distribution of disease-res ...
- Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
- One for the Women
It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
- Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
- Slander vs. Sanity
Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...
- NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
- They're not contributing to cancer research in ...
Roman Catholic Bishop Leonard Blair, of Toledo, has banned parishes and parochial schools from raising funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, for fear the organization may one day fund embryonic stem-cell research. This is -- as you may imagine -- an unpopular decision. And thanks, Jennifer ...
- The end of subsidized student loans?
Isn't this like (and thanks, Sharon, for the imagery)�eating our seed corn? And thanks, Annie, for the link. Getty Images
- Balance the budget! Be a budget hero!
Go here, scroll down, click on the Budget Hero icon, and have at it. Flickr photo
- A lucky rabbit goes home
After an EF-3 tornado ripped through Monson, Mass., in early June, the Sauriol family -- who live at the end of a long, bumpy road in the hills around the town -- kicked into high gear. The two older boys began clearing debris. Laura, a graduating senior from Monson High School, sat down to star ...
- Free health screenings at Asylum Hill Congrega ...
If you�are in the Greater Hartford area, come for free health screenings for breast and prostate cancer, high blood pressure, HIV/AIDS, depression, dental health, and other health issues on Saturday, July 30, at the historic Hartford church. The screenings are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and no adv ...
- Quote Roundup: Groundbreaking Tweets from Twit ...
As Twitter celebrates its fifth birthday, here is a look back at some of the most memorable tweets from the last five years.Contributor: Jennifer LeMaire Published: Jul 14, 2011
- Demi Lovato Sets Good Example for Fans with Ho ...
Demi Lovato is a young star who has struggled with an eating disorder and recently sought treatment for it.Contributor: Bex Barker Published: Jul 14, 2011
- Spotify about to Give iTunes a Reason to Worry
Spotify, the European music streaming service, officially opened its cyber doors to the United States Thursday morning, but will the free music streaming service give the popular iTunes a run for its money?Contributor: Ruqaiyya Noor Published: Jul 14, 2011
- Netflix Customers Will Come Crawling Back with ...
With the price change in Netflix services, many people have complained and canceled their subscriptions. My bet is, with fall and winter coming, those same people who canceled will sign up once again, though my family probably won't be one of them.Contributor: Bex Barker Published: Jul 14, 2011
- Minn. Beer Embargo a Taste of National Debt Cr ...
Government shutdowns affect thousands of jobs, and now one of the biggest beer companies in the United States.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Jul 14, 2011
- New Memory Device Feels Like Jell-O, Could Wor ...
Like a delicious, biocompatible computer NC State researchers have created a new kind of soft, flexible memory device that functions like a memristor and has the consistency of Jell-O. In other words, it’s soft, flexible, works well in wet environments, and is pretty much ideally suited for bio ...
- Harvard-MIT Team's New Synthetic Vocal Cord Ge ...
Call it a silent killer: some 6 percent of the U.S. population has some kind of voice disorder, most of those resulting from scarring of the vocal cords that can lead to diminishing or even total loss of the ability to speak. Giving voice to the voiceless, a team of Harvard and MIT researchers ...
- The First Trial of an Embryonic Stem Cell Trea ...
Keeping in step with this week’s flood of awesome stem cell news, a development on the embryonic front: California surgeons have implanted lab-grown retinal cells into the eyes of two patients losing their vision to macular degeneration, Technology Review reports. The retinal cells were grown f ...
- Disease Researchers Try Luring Malaria-Bearing ...
Researchers are testing a potent new tool in the fight against malaria: dirty socks. Experiments are underway in three villages to see if smelly socks can lure mosquitoes into poisoned traps as effectively as synthetic chemical baits that can be expensive and complicated to mix. If so, good old ...
- Next-Generation Gelatin Could be Derived from ...
Mmmmmmm Something to reflect on over your lunch break today: Scientists are developing a new approach for producing human-derived gelatin in large enough quantities to be a commercially viable replacement for the animal-based gelatins used in all kinds of gelatin-like desserts, candies, and oth ...
- Rest of July heading for a washout
Most parts of the country have enjoyed a fine summers day today, with plenty of sunshine. But although it's the last thing the UK tourist industry wants to hear, the message is enjoy it while it lasts. By the weekend low pressure will again be dominating our weather as the jet stream moves fu ...
- Global temperatures: Up sharply in June.
The latest global temperature has been released and according to the UAH satellite measure June's anomaly was 0.314C above the running 30 year mean, up from +0.133C in May Adjusted to the more standard time period used by the Met Office and the WMO, the anomaly is now +0.567C above the 1961-199 ...
- Unsettled June weather to extend into July
Despite the warm and sunny conditions in the last few days, the unsettled weather which plagued much of June looks set to return. June turned out to be wet across the UK, dominated by low pressure. Averaged across England & Wales, 122% of average rainfall was recorded. In our region, for a ch ...
- Storms follow hottest day since July 2006
Thunderstorms have continued to affect parts of East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia and the Southeast of England this afternoon, following yesterday's heat. Temperatures across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Monday reached 32C (90F) for the first time since July 2006. Both Robin Hood ai ...
- A sleeping sun could have a big impact on the ...
News from scientists in America claiming that the sun is about to enter a prolonged quiet period in its history has caught the headlines this week. Whether this particular prediction comes true remains to be seen, as some scientists, including those at NASA, have consistently been proved wron ...
- Indonesia and the Ultimate Tobacco Ban Protest
Just look at the size of that sucker. Philip Morris, eat your heart out! I am genuinely of two minds over cigarette smoking bans being imposed throughout the world. The Emmanuel that wants to live a reasonably healthy lifestyle abhors the practice and the many diseases it gives rise to. But, the ...
- 40 Years Ago: Ping-Pong Diplomacy & China's Rise
Here's a timely scenario for you given the fortieth anniversary of ping-pong diplomacy between the US and China: What if the Cold War never ended, the Iron Curtain never fell, and the US failed to exploit the growing ideological divide between China and Russia? In general, international relation ...
- Of Currency Wars and Capital Controls
As a student of South-South cooperation--no matter how its ambitious goals are often negligible or even contradictory in practice--international bodies promoting such cooperation are of interest to me. One of these happens to be the South Centre, which sends me newsletters every so often either ...
- Become Filthy Steenkin' Rich...in the Falklands
To say British tabloids have output of variable quality is an understatement--witness Rupert Murdoch's fine mess--but the Daily Mail recently ran an interesting feature on the British Falklands. Ever since the 1982 Falklands War between the UK and Argentina put this remaining piece of Empire in ...
- Harry Potter and Hollywood Gone AWOL in Indonesia
This being on my purported beat of Southeast Asia, here's some interesting news. One of the more practical applications for those studying political science / international relations is the area of "political risk analysis." In particular, there is concern by foreign investors of how shifting po ...
- If The U.S. Government Loses Its AAA Rating It ...
For decades, the U.S. government has had a AAA rating. On the scales used by the big three credit rating agencies, that is the highest credit rating that a government can get. Moody's scale actually uses lettering that is a little different from the other two big agencies ("Aa ...
- 15 Examples That Show Many Americans Have Beco ...
More Americans than ever are desperate for money and many of them will do just about anything to get it. The crumbling U.S. economy has pushed millions of ordinary Americans to the brink of utter desperation. When it comes time to choose between being able to survive or breaki ...
- Outcasts: Tonight Tens Of Thousands Of Formerl ...
Economic despair is beginning to spread rapidly in America. As you read this, there are millions of American families that are just barely hanging on by their fingernails. For a growing number of Americans, it has become an all-out battle just to be able to afford to sleep und ...
- Rampant Unemployment = The Death Of The Middle ...
Without an abundance of good jobs, the middle class in the United States is going to shrivel up and die. Right now, rampant unemployment is absolutely killing communities all over America. Hopelessness and poverty are exploding and many are now wondering if we are actually wit ...
- Will 2012 Be The Year That We See Mass Starvat ...
Tonight millions of American families will shovel huge piles of food into their mouths without even realizing that starvation is rapidly spreading in Africa. Right now Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are experiencing the worst drought conditions that they have seen in 60 years. Te ...
- South Sudan becomes an independent nation
South Sudan has become the world’s newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries attending celebrations in the capital, ...
- Sea of voices at Tahrir Square protest
There were men on stages calling for faster trials for ministers associated with the regime. A separate stage featured a speaker chanting anti-Israel phrases. A musician with an amplifier began to sing revolutionary anthems. And then there were the conversations of tens of thousands of people. “ ...
- Marine Le Pen ahead of Sarkozy in presidential ...
Marine Le Pen the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen recently became leader of the National Front succeeding her father. She is turning out to be a slick operator. With the French presidential elections less than a year away she is polling ahead of President Sarkozy. She doesn’t deny that there used ...
- House Amendments Defunding Libya War Fail
Following yesterday’s votes, the House once again rejected an Amendment offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D – OH) which would have defunded the war in Libya. The vote failed 169-251 and saw solid Republican support, but coupled with overwhelming opposition from Democrats. The new vote would have ...
- China warns U.S. officials not to meet Dalai Lama
China’s Foreign Ministry warned U.S. officials on Thursday not to meet with visiting exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it hoped Washington “appropriately dealt” with Tibet-related issues. China reviles the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Dalai Lama, saying he supports the use of violence ...
- Imagine How It Feels
How many people talk about the issue of Catholic Church enabled child sexual abuse without a thought for how it feels to be the victim of such abuse? This issue is, after all, about children. Yesterday’s children whose lives were irreparably damaged by their abuse and who are still being re-abus ...
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
I used to think the John Jay College of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
- Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
- Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...
Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]
- Catholic Sainthood – More Expediency Tha ...
The former Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI, may be criminally culpable, disgracefully neglectful, deliberately deceitful, and horribly, horribly wrong in his approach to the child rape epidemic within the ranks of the Catholic Church, but there is some truth to the claims made ...
- 2011-07-13 Weird accusation or proof of lies? ...
TweetAuthored by Goran Rudling In the Detention Memorandum (Häktningspromemorian) there is an attachment, “Bilaga – Skäligen misstänkt”, that lists all the sex crimes that Julian Assange is suspected of. It is a long list. It is one rape, one sexual coercion and five sexual molestations. Sofia W ...
- 2011-07-13 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 10:10 AM Sec ...
- 2011-07-12 Göran Rudling & Peter Kemp in Conve ...
TweetOn July 10 and 11, WL Central's Alexa O'Brien moderated a conversation between Göran Rudling, former witness for the defense at the February extradition hearing for Julian Assange, and Peter Kemp, WL Central legal commentator and Australian solicitor. Göran Rudling is a Swedish citizen and ...
- Tweet Stream - LIVE from Hearing
TweetFor previous coverage of Julian Assange extradition trials by Mirjam Eikelboom see here. Follow @m_cetera on Twitter for coverage on July 12 and 13.
- 2011-07-12 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 09:40 AM Ju ...
- A Machine To Die For: The Quest For Free Energy
There's a thing called the classified patent system which hardly anybody knows about. And every time you apply for a patent it goes through a screening by someone from the Department of Defense here in this country as well as other countries. And if this device has any kind of defense associated ...
- Geneticists Reveal E. Coli Super Bug O104 Was ...
Their scientists broke down the genetics of this E. coli strain it's call O104, and if you look at it you can read the history, and the history doesn't lie. This strain was exposed repeatedly to all the 8 major classes of antibiotics that are sold by the drug companies today. This practically gu ...
- The Big Brother State and Global Surveillance
But this also allows the secret services to gather explicit information about the nationality of every traveler. Explicit information such as your fingerprints, the color of your eyes, and a high resolution picture of your face. Information you would usually expect to be taken from suspected cri ...
- State Officials Privates Left Sore by TSA for ...
"And finally I said you're punishing me for opting out, aren't you?". And to her credit she said 'Yes we are'.
- The Age of Transitions – Eugenics and Transhum ...
In 1921, the American Eugenics Society was formed and began propaganda campaigns which included the promotion of eugenics in churches, schools, and state fair exhibitions. Funding for American eugenics came from the Carnegie, Harriman, and Rockefeller families among others. Eugenics was being ac ...
- Congratulations to The Center for Biological D ...
What terrific news from our friends at the Center! We appreciate their efforts and hope you do, too. Please show them your support with your thanks and a donation. Check out the Center’s Historic Victory website for more on this breaking agreement. I’ve been waiting years to write these w ...
- Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it. As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages). The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages). The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
- Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
- July 14, Bastille Day: Quelle Honte!
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 13, 2011 [download audio]
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- NATO Policy in Libya Based on Political Assass ...
Norway Dropping Out, Netherlands Refuse to Bomb, Underlining Fragility of Aggressor Coalition Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 8, 2011 �
- Aus Libyen: Bericht von Webster Tarpley
Ingo Hagel Umkreis-Online 30. Juni 2011 Vor einigen Wochen hatte ich hier auf Umkreis-Online über die eigentlichen Hintergründe des Krieges der USA, England und Frankreich gegen Libyen berichtet. Die UN-Resolution hatte„nur“ von der Durchsetzung einer Flugverbotszone gesprochen, nun wird Libyen ...
- Globalization is Killing Us
As I was driving the hour commute back home this evening from visiting my wife in the hospital, I was in somewhat of a melancholy mood, and got around to thinking of the sad state of the US economy with respect to the average working person. What I mean by that, (average), is the majority [...]
- Government-Gone-Wild Benefits-Perks
In the US, both political parties are often indistinguishable. Democrat or Republican these days, could be renamed to Democans and Republicrats. They’re basically one in the same, with ‘most’ of them primarily concerned about feathering their own nests. The ‘feathers’ come from big business, pri ...
- Events that could trigger a National Emergency
Guest Post: by ‘Be informed’ A few ideas of possible events that could occur in the U.S. that could cause a total national emergency. For an actual long lasting national emergency to occur, probably at least 1/2 to 2/3 of the country would have to be impacted. There are definitely events that co ...
- Water Procurement for Survival
Water is one of your most urgent needs in a survival situation. You can’ t live long without it, especially in hot areas where you lose water rapidly through perspiration. Even in cold areas, you need a minimum of 2 liters of water each day to maintain efficiency. More than three-fourths of your ...
- Survival Kit according to the US Army
SURVIVAL KITS The environment is the key to the types of items you will need in your survival kit. How much equipment you put in your kit depends on how you will carry the kit. A kit carried on your body will have to be smaller than one carried in a vehicle. Always layer your [...]
- How Spotify's Casual Encounters Seduce Young U ...
Music listeners today want to fool around with all sorts of artists without the hassle of commitment. Spotify's cool with that. Here's what the streaming service brings to the U.S. music biz and freewheelin' music consumers like you. Spotify launched in the U.S. today and offered the greatest pr ...
- Bastille Day Bulletin: Nearly One-Third Of Fre ...
The French anti-piracy law is one of the strictest around, and authorities have now tracked down 18 million pirates. That's close to one in three French people. What does this say about the nature of piracy? And the future of music?This week French authorities have revealed how their anti-piracy ...
- Using 3-D Printers To Mock Up New Teeth
Scientists have found a way to quickly and with pinpoint accuracy fabricate new teeth for dental patients. But teeth are just the first step toward rapid prototyping of all sorts of body parts.The days may be numbered for those late-night, finger-stuck-on-a-coffee-cup Poli-Grip commercials. Imag ...
- A Sneak Peek At Amazon's New Tablet
Amazon's tablet PC has now all but been confirmed for an early fall launch. Here's roughly what the arrival of the device will mean, based on the information we have--and can guess at. Amazon's entry to the tablet market is long rumored. It was presaged by its own Android App Store, which was mo ...
- Social Media To The Rescue In Mumbai
When Mumbai was hit by terrorist attacks, residents used Google Docs to assist victims and render immediate assistance. Meanwhile, upstart news curators Storyful rose to the occasion with coverage that beat the big names.Mumbai is a social media-savvy city. It is also a magnet for terrorists who ...
- Jadaliyya Developments
On behalf of Jadaliyya�s team, I'd like to share some of what we have been doing in recent weeks. The last time we communicated such developments to our readers was a couple of months into launching the site last fall. In the mean time, Jadaliyya grew beyond our best expectations and slo ...
- Eat, Drink, But Don't Talk Politics
[This is the sixth part of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read the previous parts here] I knew I shouldn�t have gone. They called and said dinner was at Nadi Halab, Club d�Alep, the exclusive club where the akaber, high-class, elite �society� of Christian and se ...
- Politics in a Time of Politicians
Last week the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) released the names of four men indicted in the assassination of Rafik al-Hariri to the Lebanese Ministry of Justice. For years now, the question of Hariri's assassination, the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, has been one of two topics th ...
- Universal Jurisdiction: A Conversation between ...
Richard Falk and Lisa Hajjar engage in a discussion about universal jurisdiction, international law, and criminal accountability for gross crimes (torture, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity). The doctrine of universal jurisdiction was developed in the 19th century to comba ...
- Revolution and Repression on the Banks of the ...
Many people in Suez proudly claim that they initiated Egyptâs âJanuary 25 Revolution.â There were several demonstrations in opposition to Gamal Mubarak inheriting the presidency from his father as early as July 2010. Relations between the police and the people were tense after a police g ...
- CNN Keeping Mum About Piers Morgan Hacking All ...
D.M. Levine / Adweek: CNN Keeping Mum About Piers Morgan Hacking Allegations — CNN hasn't been shy about covering the phone hacking related woes of News Corp., parent of rival news network Fox News. It's devoted more than 100 segments to the scandal, according to liberal press watchdog Media ...
- Phone-hacking scandal highlights the differenc ...
Paul Farhi / Washington Post: Phone-hacking scandal highlights the differences in British, U.S. media — Long before British journalists allegedly began prying into the phone accounts of hundreds of people, some of them were employing other eyebrow-raising methods to produce their stories.
- Rebekah Brooks Quits as News International Chi ...
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Rebekah Brooks Quits as News International Chief in Phone-Hacking Scandal — Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive officer of News Corp. (NWS)'s News International U.K. publishing unit, has stepped down amid a phone-hacking scandal that resulted in the closure of the Ne ...
- Rebekah Brooks's resignation letter (Guardian)
Guardian: Rebekah Brooks's resignation letter — How News International's chief executive informed staff she was stepping down — Rebekah Brooks resigns over phone-hacking scandal — At News International we pride ourselves on setting the news agenda for the right reasons. Today we are lead ...
- Town & Country Man Eases Into His New Home (Ru ...
Ruth La Ferla / New York Times: Town & Country Man Eases Into His New Home — JAY FIELDEN cut a lean figure as he paced his glass-walled office on the 33rd floor of the Hearst Building. Occupying that space, the top editor's perch at Town & Country, is a bit, he said, “like being a gerbil in ...
- Asian stocks mixed as debt warnings, data ...
TOKYO (AP) -- Asian stocks markets were mixed Friday as investors weighed positive economic indicators against a new warning on U.S. debt. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average gained 0.4 percent to close at 9,974.47, recovering slight losses with brokers largely on the sidelines. July 18 is a n ...
- Central Indonesian volcano erupts; reside ...
Tomohon (Indonesia) Jul 15, (AP): Friday, July 15, 2011 --> A volcano in central Indonesia spit lava and smoke high into the air early today, sending thousands of panicked residents racing down its fiery slopes. One woman died of a heart attack as she fled, but no other casualties were repo ...
- Emma Watson and 'Harry Potter and the Dea ...
Ten years after the "Harry Potter" film series began, the story has come to an end on screen with "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2." The movie centers on the final showdown between young wizard Harry Potter (played by Daniel Radcliffe) and the evil Lord Voldemort (played by Ra ...
- India's unsolved bombings
New Delhi - A series of bombings. No claim of responsibility. No prime suspects. Wednesday's explosions in India's financial capital Mumbai ticked a wearily familiar list of boxes in a country which is no stranger to bombings that go unclaimed and lack any transparent motive. Briefing repor ...
- Save the world - grow a forest
Paris - Forests play a larger role in Earth's climate system than previously suspected for both the risks from deforestation and the potential gains from regrowth, a benchmark study released on Thursday has shown. The study, published in Science, provides the most accurate measure so far of ...
- Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ......Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
- 10 Best British Open Performances
Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and..Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
- Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- National Parks at Risk: Photos
National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent ....Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
- Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...
- 7/14/11 - On June 21, 2011 the US Drug Enforce ...
medicalmarijuana.procon.org - On June 21, 2011 the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) denied an Oct. 9, 2002 request to reclassify marijuana out of the most restrictive Schedule I category where heroin, LSD, and peyote are also classified, ruling that marijuana "has a high potential for ab ...
- 7/14/11 - Wisconsin became the 49th state to a ...
concealedguns.procon.org - On July 8, 2011, Wisconsin became the 49th state to allow concealed carry. Wisconsin citizens who go through training and obtain a permit will be able to carry a concealed handgun in most public buildings and private businesses (including bars and churches) unless esta ...
- 7/13/11 - What Do Teens Drink? High School Stu ...
milk.procon.org - NEW: What Do Teens Drink? High School Student Beverage Consumption by Race and Sex - As of spring 2010, milk remains the most popular teen beverage after water except among black teens where it ranks behind water, fruit juice, and soda. Our new chart, based on a June 17, 2011 C ...
- 7/1/11 - 24 Constitutional Challenges to Feder ...
healthcarereform.procon.org - UPDATED: 24 Constitutional Challenges to Federal Health Care Laws: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Under Fire - On June 29, 2011 a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled (2-1) to uphold the insurance mandate of the ...
- 7/1/11 - Jail, Prison, Parole, and Probation P ...
felonvoting.procon.org - NEW: Jail, Prison, Parole, and Probation Populations in the US, 1980-2009 - The total correctional population in the US grew from 1,840,400 in 1980 to 7,255,800 in 2009. In 1980 there were 319,598 people in prison, and by 2009 that population had expanded to 1,524,513 i ...
- Writing is bad for you
I’m not sure about the improving influence of reading, but I’m certain that writing brings out the worst in me Rick Gekoski Shadowy occupation … a typewriter. Photograph: Corbis We live in a literary environment that â a little uneasily, I often think â feels the need to justify the reading and ...
- Search Engines Change How Memory Works
Brandon Keim Thanks to search engines, most simple facts donât need to be remembered. They can be accessed with a few keystrokes, plucked from ubiquitous server-stored external memory â and that may be changing how our own memories are maintained. A study of 46 college students found lower rates ...
- A Bad Case of the Brain Fags
And other mental problems you probably won’t get in America. By Jesse Bering In 1951, Hong Kong psychiatrist Pow-Meng Yap authored an influential paper in the Journal of Mental Sciences on the subject of "peculiar psychiatric disorders"âthose that did not fit neatly into the dominant disease-mod ...
- Google Unveils New E-Reader
The Story HD to go head-to-head with Amazonâs Kindle. Peter Fulham Google is jumping into the e-reader game with two feet. The online giant announced on Monday that it has teamed up with consumer electronics company iriver, and the two will soon begin offering an e-reader that is fully integrate ...
- Space Invaders
Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period. Farhad Manjoo Typographers… The people who study and design the typewritten word decided long ago that we should use one space, not two, between sentences. That convention was not arrived at casually. James Felici, author of the The Compl ...
- Engineering public engagement
FROM EMMA WOODS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE What is so unusual about geoengineering? What sets it apart from other controversial technologies? One thing that strikes me as particularly atypical is that the social dimensions of geoengineering are being addressed well ahead of the development of ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
- Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
- Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
- Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
- Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
- How sex hormones influence right heart function
WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
- TNRA reports on the latest carbon rally
Tonight we bring you the full audio (and video) from last week's carbon rally in Hyde Park, with some discussion and commentary. The gathering at Hyde Park was very rowdy - many people have a high level of anger about the current situation and this is evident in the tone of the crowd attending ...
- The Truther Girls review “Among The Trut ...
Jonathan Kay went undercover among the truthers and lived to write a book about it, in which he naturally concludes what he already knew before he started his foray in the world of conspiracy theories: that truthers are crazy! More Links: New York Times book review AmongTheTruthers ...
- Hyde Park Rally: “The Science Doesn’t Ju ...
Come to the rally and help us make history! What: Hyde Park Rally – “The Science Doesn’t Justify a Carbon Tax” When: Saturday, July 9, 2011 12:00 PM Where: Hyde Park North More info: http://www.meetup.com/wearechange-sydney/events/24210181/ Lord Monckton, Jo Nova and Dr. David Evans ar ...
- Introducing Bitcoin: the new digital currency
Tonight I'm joined by Josh Jackson to discuss Bitcoin and what it means for the future of the global financial system. "Bitcoin is a digital currency created in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. The name refers both to the open source software he designed to make use of the currency and to the peer-to ...
- Channel Nine’s assault on vaccine scepti ...
Ellen Fanning (right) takes on Bronwyn Hancock (left) and Dr. Vera Scheibner (centre). On 10th June 2011 Channel 9 aired a "60 Minutes" episode which contained a crude piece of propaganda aimed at undermining the credibilty of vaccine sceptics. The program featured Bronwyn Hancock - a regula ...
- 3 Ways to Get Ready for Shark Week
On July 31, Shark Week is back!� Need some ideas on how to celebrate this, the sharkiest time of year? We're here for you: 1.��� Share the Shark Week Love Have your friends over for a watch party. Check out the programming schedule. I recommend "Jaws Comes Home" on July 31, but there's a fu ...
- Ranger Discovers Deep-sea Coral Reef in Medite ...
News from the deep: Oceana's crew aboard the Ranger has discovered a previously undocumented coral reef in the Alboran Sea in the high seas of the Mediterranean. The reef, which is located more than 1,300 feet below the surface and covers over 1 million square feet, is formed primarily by white ...
- Photo of the Week: Colorful Octopus
© Oceana/Carlos Minguell The Oceana Ranger has now been at sea for several weeks, and as usual, the crew has been sending us some incredible photos. Starting this week, I’ll be posting a photo of the week from the journey. This week’s photo of a beautiful octopus comes from a dive the team ...
- Breaking: Chile Passes Shark Finning Ban
Fantastic news! Earlier this afternoon, the Chilean National Congress passed a nationwide ban on shark finning. This groundbreaking decision comes on the heels of a very similar ban passed by the United States Congress last December, and puts both countries at the forefront of shark conserv ...
- Diving in the San Juan Islands
� Oceana This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Today's highlights: On their first day in Washington, the team saw a minke whale, harbor seals and more in the San Juan Islands. Washington Leg, Day 1 Just before 5 a.m., captain Todd Shuster started the ...
- Fantastic Black And White Photos Of American I ...
Hoop On The Forehead, Crow One Blue Bead, Crow Porcupine, Cheyenne Tsaasi-Mis-Salla Or "Crow With Necklace" Sarsi Alchise, Apache � Source: MHQ Blog [...]
- The 38 Minute War.
� Zanzibar Castle After 38 Minute British Bombardment On August 27th, 1896 a war was fouht between the United Kingdom and the Zanzibar archipelago government in the Indian Ocean east of Tanzania. Sultan Hamad Bin Thuwaini died, and that was bad because he was friendly to the British merchants tr ...
- Funniest Kung Fu Movie Over-Dubbing I Have Eve ...
Click here to view the embedded video. Just to take a little humor break. Just had to show this to you. Of course this was a movie, if I am not mistaken, by Run Run Shaw who made these Kung Fu movies in a few days and they were wildly popular all over Asia. The British of course [...]
- Irene Wieder Russ, Survived Nagyvarad Concentr ...
Irene Wieder Russ 3/04/23 - 7/12/11 Born in Felsozsolca, Hungary, Irene was one of nine children born to Herman and Chaya Adel Wieder. Herman Wieder was a Chassidic rabbi and the central Jewish leader of Komådi, Hungary. In 1943, Nazi’s incarcerated Irene and her family in concentration camps sp ...
- Armstrong Whitworth AW.52
Armstrong Whitworth AW.52 At The Farnborough Airshow In 1948 Armstrong Whitworth AW.52 This radical flying wing was meant to become a flying wing airliner. British Aerospace Engineer David Lloyd began in 1942 a study of the airflow over laminar type surfaces. This plane never entered into produc ...
- Why The Palestinians Do Not Want Fayyad
In Palestinian society, it is much more important if one graduates from an Israeli prison than from a university in Texas. This is the reason that the two Palestinian governments, both Hamas and Fatah, are dominated by graduates of Israeli prisons who
- Hezbollah in Mexico
In June, a computer hacker group, Luiz Security, commonly abbreviated as LuizSec, targeted the Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS). LuizSec has claimed responsibility for several high profile attacks; this time, however, the 440 megabytes AZDPS
- Erdogan Expresses Hope for Consensus with BDP ...
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed hope that a consensus would be reached with the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) regarding the oath-taking at Parliament. BDP deputies refused to take the oath at the Turkish Parliament after one of
- Swiss Minaret Ban Survives Legal Challenge
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected two cases brought by Muslims against Switzerland's constitutional ban on building minarets, the tower-like structures on mosques from which Muslims are often called to prayer. A seven-judge panel at the
- Turkey Reiterates Conditions to Mend Israel Ties
Turkey still demands a formal apology and redress over the killing of its citizens by Israeli commandos aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship in May of last year, a Turkish official has said. "About the flotilla attack, Turkey has never turned down a request from
- Summer science -- for kids and adults -- under ...
The local museums and science research centers have set their summer children's programs into full gear. Check out or download our Google calendar of events. Tonight you can take your kids to a presentation on Marines science at the MIT Museum. All ages can watch the starts from the the Gillil ...
- Universal design: The science of access at the ...
Nora Nagle has a long title: The Americans with Disabilities Act and 504 Accessibility Coordinator at the Museum of Science, Boston. She also has a big job, one that goes beyond making the museum wheelchair accessible and compliant under the ADA and Section 504, a federal civil rights law. O ...
- Wednesday talk: New chips to explore the immun ...
The first in Broad's MIdsummer Nights' Science events-- An Immune System Primer: Vaccines, Allergies, and Immune-related disease -- drew a a good crowd to the "DNArium" last week. Nir Hacohen, a faculty member at the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, kicked off the series ...
- WBUR: Space mice to test bone drugs
Thursday's Radio Boston had a nice interview with a local osteoporosis researcher. She's sending mice up in the shuttle to test out a new treatment. Mary Bouxsein is a scientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and has the honor of having an experiment on board Atlantis's last flight. ...
- Negelected tropical disease meeting this weeke ...
Ever heard of Guinea Worm? Onchocerciasis? Schistosomiasis?Lymphatic Filariasis? Probably not, since these tropical disease don't get much attention outside the tropics. So, public health and biomedical researchers from around the globe will be meeting this weekend in Cambridge, Massachusett ...
- Saving Clean Energy in New Jersey: Thank You, ...
Dale Bryk, Director, Air & Energy Program, New York If you had a program that reduced pollution as it lowered energy bills, created jobs and injected hundreds of millions of dollars into the state economy, would you toss it out the window? Probabl ...
- Come enjoy NYC's precious water at City of Wat ...
Larry Levine, Senior Attorney, New York New Yorkers depend on water for nearly everything - from drinking and cooking, to fishing and swimming, to washing dishes. In a state with nearly 1,850 miles of coastline, thousands of lakes, rivers and bays ...
- Big Oil Lobbies to Keep Its Tax Breaks Off the ...
Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. As debt negotiations continue in Congress, President Obama appears to be sticking to his guns on repealing the enormous tax breaks enjoyed by the oil and gas industry. The indu ...
- Light Truck Loophole Bad for Pickup Drivers, O ...
Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco This evening, the WSJ online is reporting that the White House is offering automakers a big loophole in fuel economy and carbon pollution standards for light trucks, a category that incl ...
- Setting the Record Straight: Correcting Misco ...
Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC A recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about the controversial hydroelectric proposal in Chilean Patagonia called HidroAysén underscored several of the most common misconceptions ab ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 21 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, July 14, 2011: Houston TX cop suspended after caught on video, shown above, walking up to cuffed suspect & punching him in the face [0] http://bit.ly/qfSlaB Washington DC police o ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, July 13, 2011: 2 New York NY (Bronx) cops charged w/assault for allegedly beating teen who quipped about cop who stepped in crap [0] http://nydn.us/ofPP7M San Bernardino Co CA dep ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our national police misconduct news feed for this Tuesday, July 12, 2011: Stamford CT police sued by woman alleging cop punched her in the head then filed false charges against her [2] http://bit.ly/oVC7Fe New York NY police sued by 2 broth ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, July 11, 2011: Kern Co CA deputy investigated for fatally shooting unarmed ex-NFL player in front of teen son in disputed incident [3] http://bit.ly/o7rQR4 Bayonne NJ settles suit fo ...
- Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 07-09 ...
Due to travel and work over the weekend I wasn’t able to track reports too well. Hopefully I’ll have some time to catch the reports I missed and pull them into Monday’s report. With that said, here are the 6 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for thi ...
- Gandhi says Jews will Destroy the World; destr ...
Jewish identity in the past has been locked into the holocaust experience — a German burden that the Jews have not been able to shed. It is a very good example of a community can overplay a historic experience to the point that it begins to repulse friends. The holocaust was the result of the [...]
- Have Jews Destroyed the World?
The Jews are the only people in the world who have found hostility in every country in which they settled in any numbers. The big question is – WHY? Today it is taught in the schools that “Anti-Semitism” began in Germany in the 1930s after which they were deported. What is not studied is the [...]
- EU Big Bang? ‘Germany could rule United States ...
The Eurozone has been dealt a fresh blow as Ireland’s debt is downgraded to ‘junk’ status by Moody’s credit rating agency, fueling concerns the country could need a second bailout. This comes a week after Portugal’s rating was also reduced and follows speculation that Italy too might soon ask fo ...
- US Default Inevitable: Fund Manager
A U.S. default isn’t a matter of “if” but “when,” David Murrin, chief investment officer at Emergent Asset Management, told CNBC. “It’s inevitable that the U.S. will defaultâit’s essentially an empire which is overextended and in declineâand that its financial system will go with it,” he said. T ...
- US prepared to back Russian mediation deal tha ...
THE US will support Russia’s mediation bid in Libya provided it leads to the departure of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, President Barack Obama told his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev yesterday. President Obama thanked the Russian leader “for Russia’s efforts at mediation in Libya” and said ...
- Foursquare brings new notifications, settings ...
Foursquare has updated its iPhone application to provide its users with a new way to receive notifications, amend their settings and check in using its redesigned checkin page. The notification update brings a feature that Android smartphone owners have had for just over a week, alerting iPhone ...
- 33Mail helps beat spam by giving you unlimited ...
With so many tempting apps and services asking you to sign up to try them, you can end up giving your email address out to hundreds of different companies. What happens when one of them decides to start spamming you, or sells your details on to some dastardly marketing firm? That’s the problem ...
- Oracle wants Google co-founder to testify in J ...
Oracle is hoping it can get Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page to testify in court as it pursues litigation against the search giant for infringing patents related to its Java technology, Reuters reports. Page is named amongst three other current or former Google employees that Oracle wants t ...
- London’s Tech City appoints an ambassador for ...
Tech City is positively buzzing at the moment. The startup hotspot is home to Silicon Roundabout, the UK’s much-mooted answer to Silicon Valley, and it seems there’s no shortage of news emanating from the East London area. UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) has announced the appointment of Bob Schuka ...
- Google faces second fine over Taiwanese Androi ...
Google has yet to issue a formal response to the Taipei City Government after officials requested that the search giant amend its app refund policy, meaning Google could be issued with a fine of NT$1 million (US$34,480), its second within three weeks. Google was warned it could face a fine of a ...
- Airtel’s support to education
The Royal Becklyn Academy, Wilkinson Road was on Monday 12th July 2011, given the opportunity to tour the working environment of Airtel Sierra Leone. This event gave an interesting and informative career exploration experience to the young minds that visited the company. The Company’s Corporate ...
- Vacancy – Database Programmer
The Independent Media Commission was established by an Act of Parliament in 2000 and amended in 2006 and 2007 as an autonomous body for the regulation of mass media institutions and for other matters connected therewith. The Monitoring Research and Projects Unit of the IMC currently seeks to fil ...
- Ambassador Yambasu takes Salone’s agenda to Russia
Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Russian Federation has said that Sierra Leone’s economic programme is based on President Ernest Bai Koroma’s Agenda For Change programme. (Photo: Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Russian Federation, John Yambasu) “Our government’s objective is to prioritize the ...
- Christiana Thorpe speaks on 2012 elections
Elections in Sierra Leone will be held within the last quarter of next year, Chairperson of the National Electoral Commission Dr. Christiana Thorpe confirmed in London this evening. (NEC boss Christiana Thorpe and Deputy High Commissioner Tamba Ngegba) At a presentation at the Conference Hall o ...
- Salone artists jubilate as parliament enacts p ...
Local artists jubilated along the streets of Freetown as their country Tuesday passed into law an Act against their most bitter enemy- piracy. Titled the Copyright Act 2011, the law makes piracy a serious crime in the small West African nation, with culprits liable to a fine of a minimum of sixt ...
- The challenge of properly valuing water, the m ...
From James G Workman and Montgomery F Simus, China Dialog.net “Peter Brabeck-Letmathe chairs Nestlé, the worldâs44th-largest company, which last year earned US$10.5 billion in profits on US$121.1 billion in revenues. He is the consummate international businessman, bargaining hard, overseeing ...
- Alternative Markets, Barter Systems, and Local ...
From Eric Blair at the Activist Post More and more people are becoming aware of the complete system failure we’re experiencing in the United States and around the globe. As the true nature of the control system is revealed, people tend … Continue reading →
- Biodynamics and nuclear radiation
From Robert Karp at the Biodynamics blog: “The recent tragic events in Japan and news of increasing radiation fallout around the globe have led to a growing interest in past reports from Europe (primarily) of a possible role of the … Continue reading →
- Fighting for fundamental food rights
Michael Schmidt reports on his participation earlier this summer in the first international conference on food safety and quality of organic food in Prague: Michael Schmidt, biodynamic farmer in Canada I am here as a farmer, not as a scientist. … Continue reading →
- Cowshare member and raw milk skeptic shares hi ...
From a recent post on The Cornelioid: “Iâm a member of a cow share and receive a quart of raw milk per week, at a rate of about $3.19 / quart. Moreover, iâm a proud but insufficiently-informed foodie, and given … Continue reading →
- Bernanke Interferes in Fiscal Policy Yet Again ...
After bitching and moaning on numerous occasions about Congress interfering in monetary policy, Bernanke repeatedly plunges headlong into fiscal policy, hoping to place the blame for the next collapse on anyone other than the Fed. Please consider Bernanke warns spending cuts could derail recove ...
- Miller, Coors Beer Sales Completely Shut Off i ...
The state of Minnesota failed to process submitted license renewals for Miller and Coors beer products before the government shutdown. As a result, state officials have informed Miller and Coors that beer sales for all their products must stop. Worse yet, the distributors are told to come up wi ...
- Utah School Board Offers Teachers a Take-It-Or ...
Congratulations go to the Ogden, Utah school board for their Take-It-Or-Leave It Contract Deal to the teachers' union.Teachers employed by the Ogden School District will get letters over this holiday weekend, informing them they have 20 days or fewer to sign a new contract or they will lose thei ...
- Business Inventories Rise 17th Consecutive Mon ...
Yahoo Finance reports Business stockpiles rose for 17th month in MayBusinesses added to their stockpiles for a 17th consecutive month in May. But sales fell for the first time in nearly a year, a sign that many companies could be forced to trim supply levels if the economy weakens. The Commerce ...
- Weekly Unemployment Claims Exceed 400,000 14th ...
Weekly unemployment claims fell to 405,000 but approximately 11,500 of their reported initial claims are a result of state employees filing due to the state government shutdown. Please consider the Department of Labor Weekly Claims Report.In the week ending July 9, the advance figure for season ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
New US Jails in Afghanistan, the Syrian Paradox, MIC: The Enemy Within, Media’s Endless War Propaganda, CIA in Business with the Parent Group to Al-Qaeda … & More! Newsworthy ‘Deadliest Six Months’ for Civilians in Afghanistan U.S. Building New Jails across Afghanistan Iran Rejects US Claims of ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
CIA Secret Sites in Somalia, the Next Massacre: Pakistan, What Panetta Saw-What we got, Questioning the âTruthâ about 9/11 & More! The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia Officials: NATO Kills 16 Civilians in Afghan Air Strike Next Up: Pakistan- Ominous signs of a major new war Why Ahmed Wali Karzai w ...
- The Assassination of Afghan Kingpin Karzai: A ...
Time to Look at the New Heirs ala CIA There is no point in wasting too many words and space rehashing what every media outlet has been reporting and recounting on the assassination of Afghan Heroin Kingpin Ahmed Wali Karzai. The US media began reporting on the Kingpin, his heroin network and ope ...
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- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
Pakistan Punished in Pipelinestan, Moving Toward Guerilla War in Afghanistan, Drone Strikes as Police Work!, Israel Withheld Evidence in Killing, The Assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai & More! I am going to start with a piece of news you all have already seen and read. I am listing this only bec ...
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