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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

17 July - RSS SnapShot! II

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Consumerist

  • Appeals Court: Feds Rushed To Roll Out Controv ...
    An appeals court panel in Washington, D.C., ruled today that the government jumped the gun by not seeking public feedback before rolling out airport scanners that see through travelers' clothes. Unfortunately for those opposed to these devices, the scanners are not going anywhere. The ruling c ...
  • Understanding The Hidden Costs Of Investing
    Investing newbies may be shocked by the amount of unexpected fees that siphon away their funds. When you're searching for a brokerage, it's wise to investigate hidden costs involved. MoneySmartLife provides a glossary of several clever ways in which money managers skim a little off the top of ...
  • How To Save Money For A House
    If you want to scrape together as much money as possible for a down payment on a home, you'll have to cut your usual expenses. The trick is deciding exactly what you can and can't do without. Blonde & Balanced offers a primer for how to chip away at your budget and cobble together some extra s ...
  • Tips For Spending Less At The Pharmacy
    When you're in the market for crucial, life-improving medication, saving money may not be your top priority. But keep a level head, know what to look out for and you can avoid being gouged when you're at your weakest. Alpha Consumer has some hints on how to save money when you're buying medici ...
  • Benefits Of Applying For Jobs You're Not Quali ...
    One way to achieve more success is to become determined to fail more. Take more chances, especially when you have nothing to lose, and doors tend to open. The author of Punch Debt in the Face is still waiting for the benefits of failing. He explains why he went in over his head to apply for a ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

UK Progressive

  • New Age Food: Self Regulating GMOs
    In the US, Genetically Modified Organisims (GMOs) fall under regulatory jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Environmental Protection Association (EPA). Now, more than ever, environmentalists are complaining that poli ...
  • State Fracking Rules Could Allow Drilling Near ...
    by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica The latest draft of guidelines for hydraulic fracturing in New York could open the door to drilling within 1,000 feet of aging underground tunnels that carry water to New York City—a far cry from the seven-mile buffer once sought by city officials. The draft envir ...
  • Best of The Political Carnival: Rupert Apologi ...
    Rupert Murdoch’s apology + Dow Jones CEO, one of the most senior executives at News Corp., quits Via Taegan, Rupert Murdoch will run this advertisement in British newspapers over the weekend. Some things are hard to forgive, Rupes. Now let’s take a look at his apology: “The News of the World was ...
  • Can Obama Pull a Clinton on the GOP?
    After a bruising midterm election, the president moves to the political center. He distances himself from his Democratic base. He calls for cuts in Social Security and signs historic legislation ending a major entitlement program. He agrees to balance the budget with major cuts in domestic discr ...
  • Choosing Homosexuality
    Is being gay something one chooses? Are we all capable of being gay or lesbian, but the better among us choose to be straight? Tim Pawlenty, former Minnesota governor and current candidate vying for the 2012 GOP nomination, was asked by David Gregory on NBC’s Meet the Press (since Pawlenty has s ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Labor sets new record in Unpopularity – worst ...
    The latest Morgan Poll: In the first Australia-wide voting intention poll conducted since Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the details of the Carbon Tax the latest telephone Morgan Poll conducted over the last two nights, July 13/14, 2011 shows the L-NP 60.5% with a record winning lead ove ...
  • The pendulum is swinging back now: Climate Rap
    This is a great turning point. I know this has been circulating for weeks, but if you haven’t seen this climate rap, do check it out. Good Friday night stuff. The warmers have been pretending for so long that they are the little guys fighting Big Oil, Big Industry, and Bad Government. The ruse w ...
  • Greens reveal their aims: Environment? Who cares?
    Hypocrisy soup for an entree anyone? The Greens say they want to protect the environment, that CO2 is evil, and that we must be considerate of foreigners. But their actions speak louder than their tie-dyed t-shirts. Example 1: They get a pot of $10 billion to hand out to their friends, their fan ...
  • Election Now! National Rally Canberra + Tamwor ...
    My intray is full of motivated people with ideas on how to stop this train-wreck. Some are proposing leaflet drops in city malls, letter drops in suburbs, large banners and or sandwich boards beside city streets, debates, conference seminars, and the list goes on. Everyone wants to do something. ...
  • Lessons in wasting money: Use more wind and so ...
    One windfarm: bad; ten windfarms: useless. If we replace 5% of the power grid with windpower we could reduce our CO2 emissions by 4% or so. (If only there was some point to doing that.) But here’s the non-linearity trap for the fans of green energy. If we replace 20% of the power grid with [...]

ReNew America

  • Has Mitch gone mad?
    (Alan Keyes) - Did Mitch McConnell really propose allowing Obama discretionary authority to raise the debt limit for the remainder of his term? According to an AP story I read Wednesday, that's exactly what he did. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., offered a new plan to allow the president ...
  • Rep. Allen West: Obama using 'scare tactics'
    (NewsMax) - Rep. Allen West says President Barack Obama is ruling by "intimidation and scare tactics" by warning that delivery of Social Security checks could be curtailed if a decision isn't reached on...
  • Debt debacle will lead to restoration of liberty
    (Tony Blankley) - Some people can spot a slight in every compliment, whereas others -- the happy ones -- find a compliment in every slight. So last week, as a free-market, low-taxes, constitutional conservative, I happily found an apparently unintended compliment from the liberal New Republic...
  • The Republican crackup
    (Joseph Farah) - Tell me I'm hallucinating. Did Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell actually propose giving Barack Obama the power to raise the debt limit himself through the remainder of his term -- without any requirement to cut even a dime of spending? He drives a hard bargain, doesn't he?...
  • Obama's default drama
    (Emily Miller) - President Obama and congressional Democrats have resorted to scaring seniors and soldiers in order to extract trillions in new borrowing and spending authority from timid Republicans. Some GOP members and even conservative pundits already are raising the white flag now that the ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • New Info on Comet Elenin
    New Info on Comet Elenin is a post from: 2012 Blog New Info on Comet Elenin is a post from: 2012 Blog 2012 author Carl Johan Calleman has jumped on the bandwagon, making a connection between the comet and his proposed Mayan calendar end-date: The comet Elenin, which ... ...
  • Strange Goings-On > UFOs?
    Strange Goings-On > UFOs? is a post from: 2012 Blog Strange Goings-On > UFOs? is a post from: 2012 Blog Just like nuclear power plants, it seems that nuclear missile bases are a step or two of redundancy short: When Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming lost ... Related ...
  • Howden Hill > Silbury Jr.
    I’ve often thought that Silbury Hill was unappreciated in the greater scheme of ancient mysteries. Primarily because it is just a hill.  Yet when you look at the figures, it was quite an achievement for its era ... Related posts:Asteroid Tsunamis Not So Bad After All? New Hominid = Myst ...
  • Brisbane Not Safe / Allen West Attacked
    According to Vivos, the American company that constructs the bunkers, âabout two dozenâ Brisbane residents are among âhundredsâ of Australians enquiring about spots in massive underground bunkers that can house 1000 people ... Related posts:Old Missile Silo = Safe Home Thanks Cataclysm, ...
  • Lessons Learned from Falling Skies
    I really enjoyed the first two episodes of the TV series Falling Skies. The media keep providing us with a variety of SHTF scenarios, to the point that most people will have seen at least ... Related posts:New Survivalists Prepare! Vivos: Budget Bunker Space in Nebraska

Facing South

  • Texas oil giant behind spill off China's coast
    An oil spill covering over 1,600 square miles has occurred off the northeast coast of China, with the contamination coming from a joint operation of Texas-based oil giant ConocoPhillips and China National Offshore Oil Corp. The disaster began unfolding in early June but was first reve ...
  • VOICES: Farmworkers' latest victory against to ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Last summer Farm Labor Organizing Committee activist Diego Reyes Jr. (left in photo, with his father Diego Reyes Sr.) told me he was hopeful about the future for migrant labor in North Carolina and elsewhere in the South despite all the odds. "I believe there is go ...
  • 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 ...

One News Page

  • US Mother Casey Anthony Released After Acquittal
    Casey Anthony has been released from prison three years and a day after she was first arrested. Anthony walked out of the front door of the Orange County Jail at 12:09 a.m. with her lawyer by her side and two Special Response Team officers with green vests. However, she was sentenced to four ...
  • Uruguay's Oscar Tabarez: Beating Lionel Messi' ...
    Former AC Milan boss delighted with the way his side showed World Cup form to beat the tournament favourites and suppress the Ballon d'Or holder
  • Malaysia XI 3-6 Liverpool: Charlie Adam Scores ...
    The Anfield club won a match which came to life in the second half, with a spirited fight-back from the home side not enough for victory after a mixed performance from the Reds
  • Kristin Cavallari - Kristin Cavallari Fails To ...
    Kristin Cavallari, the American reality star best known for her appearances on 'The Hills', failed to entertain her boyfriend while walking the catwalk this week. Donning a 'glass bikini', Cavallari strutted her stuff on the Skyy Vodka Diesel runway show in Mi...
  • HTC Sensation and Samsung Galaxy S II: A Littl ...
    Telstra's new offerings in Australia this month include devices known as the Android superphones: HTC Corp.'s HTC Sensation, dubbed as the ultimate media smartphone, and Samsung's Galaxy S II, tagged as Australia's fastest smartphone.

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Benghazi: Criminal Rebellion
    Rebellion in Benghazi is being fomented by the mafia, controlling the traffic of “living stock” to Europe. Libyan “revolution” that seemingly started within the framework of Arab Spring happened to be a quite different matter. Given all the outward simplicity, Libyan events are different from wh ...
  • Mumbai’s Woes and their Implications
    Mumbai is India’s most prosperous as well as most cosmopolitan city. The city’s local trains everyday carry about 7 million diverse people, and to this gigantic fare is everyday added 1200 families who reach city from different corners of India in search of better life. Mumbai, also India’s tins ...
  • EU – Summit on the Titanic’s board
    European leaders delayed the Friday’s Summit, two days after the EU Finance ministers reunion did not reach any result on Greece. In addition, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, was crucial in resisting pressure for a meeting on Friday, arguing that it would be too early to deliver the compre ...
  • Will International Terrorists Help the U.S. Bu ...
    The so-called ‘Arab spring’, which started as a wave of anti-government riots in Tunisia and Egypt, is now developing in full accordance with the US scenario, its main aim being to reshape the geopolitics, which the Bush administration once described as ‘Greater Middle East’ plan… Emphasis is ma ...
  • “For the Revolution from Tunisia to Siberia!”
    Though the globalization and the current financial and economic crisis look true-to life it is not ruled out that they were created artificially and that everything which is going on now is not without a purpose (no matter how indecent it is considered to speak about “global conspiracy” in a dec ...

BlogHer

  • Carmageddon LA 2011: Who Will Survive?
    If you follow anyone who lives anywhere near Los Angeles in any fashion on this big bag internet (or, from what I understand about signs up North, anyone on the West Coast in general) then surely the phrase "Carmageddon" has not escaped your virtual ears. Maybe even your real ears, if you watch ...
  • Tennis Player Alisa Kleybanova Battling Hodgki ...
    There are no big tournaments this weekend and the U.S. Open is still a month away. Sadly, the big news in tennis this week is the revelation that Russian star Alisa Kleybanova has Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph tissue. She made the announcement on her 22nd birthday via the WTA tour si ...
  • Honest Thoughts on Gender, Expectation and Par ...
    [Editor's Note: As an everyday mom of two boys who can't and won't be having any more children, I cringe when I'm asked the question, "So, are you going to try for a girl?" I have other issues with that question, but the answer remains the same. No we're not. It's refreshing when people talk can ...
  • Rob Lowe's Autobiography: Like the Biggest, Be ...
    [Editor's Note: I've been impatiently waiting for Rob Lowe's autobiography Stories I Only Tell My Friends to make its way to me from the library. I'm starting to think that I should put in additional request for the audiobook as everyone says it's excellent. Have you picked this one up yet? - Ka ...
  • Google+ Explained
    Last week's post on Google+ had some comments about Google+ being overwhelming and confusing. The Blogarista can clear all that up for you. She writes, Have you been seeing news and tweets about Google+? I think most of my readers are wondering what in the world it is. Read the full post: What ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Who’s Serving Wood In Your Food?
    How much wood could a wood chuck, chuck? How much have we been chucking down all these years? You’ve, no doubt, come across the ingredient cellulose on many packaged foods like ice cream, pizza, meat, macaroni, chips ...
  • AMA: Parents Should Lose Custody of ‘Sup ...
    Did our eyes deceive us? The Journal of American Medical Association answers the question “Should parents lose custody of super-obese kids?” with a resounding affirmative! Apparently, this is already happening! Doctors are accusing and reporting ...
  • Early TSA Practices Exposed!
    Andy, what happened? I only thought that more power and control would protect our towns – I never intended for any of this!       The clip might seem like a disappointing gag but it highlights the absurd ...
  • Why Big Pharma Now Outsources Its Clinical Tri ...
    Why is Big Pharma outsourcing its clinical drug trials to children in poverty stricken nations like India? Maybe it’s because justice isn’t served when they die after being used as human guinea pigs. After all, if ...
  • Charges NOT Dropped For Growing Garden
    While it only appears that the City of Oak Park, MI dropped charges toward Julie Bass for planting a vegetable garden in her front yard, she wants to clarify that charges have not been dropped. She ...

Live News Wire

  • Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
    Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
  • Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
    The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, July 15, 2011
    In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the first survivor is pulled out alive more than 180 hours, or about seven and a half days, after being trapped in a collapsed coal mine in Heshan City, southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Sunday, July 10, 2011. The mine operated by G ...
  • W.Va. leaders keep their heads in the sand on ...
    It’s been a year and a half since the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd cautioned West Virginians and their coal industry to “embrace the future.”  Remember what he said: To be part of any solution, one must first acknowledge a problem. To deny the mounting science of climate change is to stick our head ...
  • Trial delayed for Upper Big Branch security chief
    In a March 15, 2011 photo, Massey Energy Security Chief Hughie Elbert Stover, center, and his wife, left, are swamped by members of the media as they leave the Federal courthouse in Beckley after.  (AP Photo/The Register-Herald, F. Brian Ferguson) U.S. District Judge Irene C. Berger today issued ...
  • AEP puts brakes on touted carbon capture project
    Gazette photo by Lawrence Pierce The New York Times broke the story late last night: A major American utility is shelving the nation’s most prominent effort to capture carbon dioxide from an existing coal-burning power plant, dealing a severe blow to efforts to rein in emissions responsible for ...
  • Climate Progress on where coal is headed
    Regular readers of Coal Tattoo know that I believe Joe Romm’s blog, Climate Progress, is an essential source of information and commentary about global warming. But earlier this week, they had a great post by Climate Progress reporter Stephen Lacey that focused on the economics of coal. It was t ...

Daniel Miessler

  • iPhone and Android Marketshare in March 2011 | ...
    Android’s share of the smartphone market dipped in the quarter, NPD said, to 50 percent in the first quarter from 53 percent in last year’s fourth quarter. Apple’s iOS rose nine percentage points, accounting for 28 percent of smartphone units sold, while BlackBerry lost five points of market sha ...
  • Rapportive: The Chrome Extension of Doom
    via rapportive.com This is THE Chrome extension. It gives a full contextual view of people right from within GMail. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsDon’t Be a Cryptic AssCare WolfEliminating Redundancies | DilbertThe Confident FeelingYouTube Downloader | Chrome ...
  • Daring Fireball: Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentall ...
    Apple’s radical notion is that touchscreen personal computers should make severely different tradeoffs than traditional computers — and that you can’t design one system that does it all. Windows 8 is trying to have it all, and I don’t think that can be done. You can’t make something conceptually ...
  • FaceNiff – Session Hijacker for Android
    via faceniff.ponury.net This is wicked. It’s an Android app where you join a wireless network and sniff passwords traversing it–like Firesheep but as an Android application. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsWhy do apps from the same company look worse on Android ...
  • Windows 8 Looks Like a Slick Apple Knockoff
    via microsoft.com I like a lot of what they’re doing here, but everything about it screams “catch up with Apple”. It takes away from it significantly. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe iPhone is the World’s #1 CameraSaw a Demo of Apple TV TodayThe New MacBook ...

Fitwatch

  • Plastic bullets used in Belfast riots
    It’s hard to comment on a situation when the only information you have is from BBC reports, but the riots that took place in nationalist / republican areas of Belfast after the 12th July Orange Order parades should probably get at least some mention here, and particularly the continued use of pl ...
  • Free Francis Fernie. Resist political sentencing
    Last week, a 20 year old man was given twelve months for violent disorder relating to protests on March 26th outside Fortnum and Masons. He threw two placard sticks, neither of which hurt anyone nor were capable of causing harm. This man, pictured in one of Operation Malone's witch hunts, handed ...
  • 30 Years Since the Liverpool 8 Uprising &#8211 ...
    It was July 1981 when the Liverpool 8 Uprising - or 'Toxteth Riots' as it became known - began. Following the typically aggressive and heavy-handed arrest of Leroy Cooper on Friday 3 July, anger erupted on the streets of one of Liverpool's most deprived areas in one of the most voracious display ...
  • This is a FITwatch Call-out.
    This is a FITwatch Call-out. This is a call-out to all those who have ever been on the recieving end of "intelligence-led" policing. This is a call-out to all those who have been pushed up against a wall by riot cops and illegally stop-and-searched. This is a call-out to all those who have had t ...
  • Turning the tables on FIT – June 30th
    Great to see FIT photographer Gavin Paul getting a hard time on June 30th.

Worldwide Hippies

  • Indonesia volcano spews ash in biggest eruption
    TOMOHON, Indonesia (AP) — A volatile volcano in central Indonesia unleashed its most powerful eruption yet Sunday, spewing hot ash and smoke thousands of feet (meters) into the air and sending panicked villagers racing back to emergency shelters. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Mo ...
  • AM Drive w/Dr. Woody: Tea-Baggage
    WWH – From time to time I worry that my pessimistic, skeptical (albeit, I believe, informed and realistic) views of the conditions of things may be exaggerated; or that I may portray things as worse than they are; may predict a bleaker future than is warranted by the facts. Then I read something ...
  • Non-violence will hurt, then heal Israel
    By Shir Hever, Special to Gulf News – It is a matter of time when apartheid in the country will go the way of apartheid in South Africa Palestinians have been fighting for their freedom for many decades but so far they have failed to defeat the Israeli military on the field of battle, and [...]
  • Bill Moyers:Lesson for Corporate Media (Video)
    truth-out.org – Bill Moyers, broadcast journalist, and author of “Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues” talks with Rachel Maddow about the investigation into questionable conduct by Rupert Murdoch’s news organization, and dangers of media empires and corporate conglomerate controlled ...
  • Hippie TV: Shorts
    WWH -Hippie TV brings you, short video’s from around the web each saturday. If you have a video you would like to see featured or a suggested video. Let us know. Send information to joe@worldwidehippies.com And watch our Hippie TV news each monday. Or visit and subscribe to our Channel on Youtub ...

reference frame

  • Deadly New York heat wave kills 50 people a day
    Via Týden (The Week), a Czech daily. Translation by LM Brooklyn July 15th, '11: The New World has been hit by a modern counterpart of the plague of Egypt in the form of a deadly heat wave. This phenomenon ultimately poured over to Europe as well and it began to plunder the C ...
  • Next week, a big Higgs secret may be unmasked
    On Thursday, July 21nd, the European Physical Society's (EPS) conference on high-energy physics (HEP), EPS-HEP2011, is getting started in Grenoble, Southeastern France. Chances are higher than one year ago that we will be told something truly new, truly spectacular. Phil Gibbs ha ...
  • The stationarity fallacy
    I just met my new personal banker in LBBW, a German-owned Czech bank, and he looked like a rather competent investor and adviser relatively to many others. Just to entertain some of the multi-millionaire TRF readers, the interesting discussion included an offer to have a regular checki ...
  • Obama has failed as a manager
    In February 2010, the U.S. debt ceiling - the maximum number of dollars that the U.S. government is allowed to borrow (in the form of the treasuries, i.e. the U.S. bonds, held by China, Japan, and many others) was raised from $12.394 trillion to $14.294 trillion. Note that one digit w ...
  • Regularization and renormalization
    Eighty years ago, people encountered the first divergences - infinities - in the calculations based on quantum field theory: I chose Julian Schwinger as the top representative of these developments. It was a somewhat technical development but in some sense, it was as big a revolution and a ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • The End of Fear – Follow in the steps of ordin ...
    Το τέλος του φÏβου… The end of fear… by magiconteam Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Stop Living In Fear! Stop living in fear! It lowers your vibrations and helps... Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Radio 13 Aug 2010 Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Ra ...
  • Darwin was right: Arrival of the Post-Petroleu ...
    Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial civilization. The star ...
  • Greek Revoultion is now Live
    I am streaming the coverage of protests from Greece. It will run as long as the video feed keeps coming to me. Just so you know…Greece is 7 hours ahead of EST. LIVE STREAMING: Γενική Απεργία ενάντια στο… by News247 Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Postcards from the G ...
  • Burzynski Cures Cancer – The Magic of Antineop ...
    THIS VIDEO WILL BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE OWNER ON JUNE 20 2011 Curing cancer is frowned upon big government and BIG PHARMA, especially when the patent for the cure is owned by a single doctor, and they can’t have a taste of the pie. So what do they do? They sick their hound dog, [...] Related p ...
  • French Whistleblowers reaveal the set up of Do ...
    I saw this over at SGTReport.com and it is worth repeating here. French insiders reveal the reason why DSK had to be taken out. It was all about the missing gold baby. Watch this one explode before summer is out. Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Commodities / Gold and ...

Truth About Our World

  • Cymatics – Bringing Matter To Life With ...
    Changing sound frequencies , in what way could that be used to change us? Both in a good and a BAD way by those who have this knowledge?
  • Mass psychosis in the US
    � How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs. James Ridgeway (Aljazeera) � � Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became th ...
  • Obama says he cannot guarantee Social Security ...
    I’m posing this because I want people to really THINK about this.  It really is time for  people to wake up.  Obama will withhold social security, but NOT funds for “foreign aid”, military, etc… Now THIS is terrorism, as he video below says…   President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarant ...
  • Alex Jones Comes Out Against 9/11 Truth!
  • One Global heart
    � From: http://www.davidicke.com

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential

Enviroblog

  • Think your Water Bottle is "BPA Free"? Better ...
    By Margot Pagan, EWG Summer Press Intern Is your reusable water bottle aluminum? In an effort to be more sustainable and protect my health, I made the switch from plastic water bottles to my reliable metal bottle that I carry... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
  • U.S. Forest Service: Fracking Killed Trees
    By Justine Chow, Natural Resources Summer Researcher Chemical-laden wastewater generated by a natural gas hydraulic fracturing operation killed more than half a stand of trees in a field study at the Monongahela National Forest, according to a new report... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • On Conservation: Even your water can be reused
    By Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, my mother used to admonish me to conserve water during droughts. "Turn off the faucet while you brush your teeth," she'd say, "and take a shorter... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
  • Cosmetics Industry To Disavow Hair Straighteners
    By David Andrews, Ph.D., EWG senior scientist Most people are - by now - well aware that overexposure to formaldehyde is unsafe. From the FEMA trailer fiasco (remember Katrina?) to the Obama administration's recent decision to classify formaldehyde as... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • On Propaganda: Fracking Fun for the Very Young
    By Alex Formuzis, Father of Two and EWG V-P for Media Relations The natural gas industry has lost much support among adults who live in communities where fracking has left the water undrinkable and home values plummeting, but all is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...

Quick Hits

  • More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
    The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
  • Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
    MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
  • Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said motorists would ...
  • Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
    Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
    The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

  • John Liu, comptroller and prospective mayoral ...
    On Wednesday night, 18 people sat in a multi-purpose room at Prospect Park Residence, a senior living center at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. Down the hall, bright fliers advertised an electric boat tour in Prospect Park and a rooftop ice cream party earli ...
  • "Deathly Hallows Part 2": In which Harry Potte ...
    Anyone looking forward to the latest and, if series creator J.K. Rowling is to be believed, last Harry Potter film will not be disappointed.�Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2�ends the movie franchise on just the right note. Director David Yates c ...
  • Down with Murdoch: Rebekah Brooks is gone, but ...
    In an interview with The Wall Street Journal yesterday, Rupert Murdoch was hanging tough.He said that in the massive phone-hacking scandal that has embroiled British Parliament, shuttered his biggest British newspaper and scuttled his $14 billion bid to ta ...
  • Anatomy of an Albanian-mob coup: The challenge ...
    Following close on the heels of the U.S. attorney’s successful conviction of a handful of New York-based Albanian-American gangsters, the NYPD and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration coordinated a far-reaching new bust of the city’s Albanian mob, ...
  • New houses on Jerome Street left to rot, and o ...
    Only minutes after stepping off the L train and walking up Livonia Avenue, I ran into Shah, one of my old housemates. He was standing near the corner of Pennsylvania and Livonia, as he had nearly every day in 2008. Same do-rag, same oversize jersey, same b ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Rough seas at two famed museums
    Both the Norwegian Maritime Museum and its neighboring Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo have been navigating through stormy seas the past year, rocked by financial and personnel problems respectively. While the Kon-Tiki Museum faces smoother sailing, the Maritime Museum appears stuck in crisis. Newspaper ...
  • Boat tourists win major victory
    The European Boating Association (EBA) and foreign boat tourists keen on making extended trips along the Norwegian coast have won a major victory over the government and local tax authorities. Foreign-owned boats will now be able to stay in Norwegian waters longer than just six weeks, and the bo ...
  • More refugees expected
    Norwegian immigration authorities are bracing for a new wave of asylum seekers from Somalia and Eritrea, because of the drought and famine now gripping the east coast of Africa. Norway already receives a steady stream of refugees from the troubled area, but the drought now hitting the area known ...
  • Teenager admits to church fire
    A 17-year-old Norwegian boy has finally admitted starting the fire that destroyed Østre Porsgrunn Church on April 11. The boy had already been charged in the fire, along with an 18-year-old companion. Both were arrested once again earlier this week, because police suspect them of also being behi ...
  • Summertime, and the fishing is easy
    Some summer-like weather finally returned to Oslo this week, and Wednesday was particularly warm and clear. That drew folks to the waterfront, including dozens of avid fishermen and women who lined the pier under the Akershus Fortress and Castle late in the evening. This is where cruiseships ten ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Jail Time for Planting Front Yard Garden?
    This is by-law madness, and it’ll have to change…. I rather blatantly encourage everyone to disregard dumb rules like this which would stop you from increasing your resiliency and demonstrating better use of your lawn space. The more of us who rebel against absurdity, the easier it becomes to le ...
  • Bees Versus Elephants
    Not too many permaculturists have to deal with problems as potentially destructive, and even deadly, as elephants. But, I have met some of these people in my travels (see here and here). For those around the world grappling with this oversized issue, here is some potential help born of good perm ...
  • Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course w ...
    Join Rhamis Kent on the beautiful Island of Spetses, Greece, for an internationally recognised permaculture design course. Over 15 days you will learn the basic theory of permaculture ethics, principles, design processes and implementation techniques. Rhamis Kent is a consultant with formal tr ...
  • Taken for a Ride – How General Motors Swindled ...
    This 1-hour documentary shares the history of how General Motors deliberately swindled the U.S. public out of a superior, healthier public transport system — so as to replace the then-popular electric street cars with their own products: cars, buses and trucks. This deceit and selfishness has la ...
  • Quail Springs – a Season of Growth
    The most frequently asked question of me lately has been about this past October’s flood and its long-term impact on Quail Springs’ work to demonstrate sustainable living practices. Looking to Nature for insight, my response uses the metaphor of a snake losing its skin. At first, the snake may ...

Pointman's

  • Internet Security 3: The Worst Sort Of Predator.
    This is a nasty, distasteful and distressing area to post a topic on but if it saves the happy childhood of one kid, itâll be worth it. If you’re a parent, which I am, anything like this is tough going but Iâd encourage you to read on. I think it was Will Rogers who said … Read more
  • Line of Descent Chapter 27
    Chapter 27 Drayton waited with Krupmeyer amid the ruins of the summer house. He sat on the floor, resting his injured back against the wall. It throbbed with a steady nagging ache that the drugs could not quite mask. Beside him on the floor, Krupmeyer lay in a stretcher. About them, the team of ...
  • Another body floats by.
    The Japanese have a proverb; if you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by. In the year and a half since climategate, itâs been happening with increasing frequency. The latest one is a main stream media (MSM) journalist called Johann Hari who works at the Inde ...
  • The death of journalism and the irresistible r ...
    The IPCC has screwed up again. They published a claim last month in their renewables report saying that renewable technologies could supply 80% of world-wide energy needs by the mid-century. What they actually published was an executive summary of the report, not the report itself. That was publ ...
  • Line of Descent Chapter 26
    Chapter 26 Krupmeyer stared through the smoke at the black indistinct figure rising up through the hole in the floor in front of him. His eyes watered from the acrid smoke and his ears were filled with a high-pitched ringing from the effects of the explosion. The figure seemed to unbend slowly u ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching video in ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less versatile in several w ...
  • Convert WMA files with Switch
    Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we can edit them ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Benefits to Support BreakOUT, Building the Pow ...
    From our friends at BreakOUT! and Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana: On Sunday, June 12th the performers of Lucky Cheng's reunited for a spectacular show to benefit JJPL's project BreakOUT!, which fights the criminalization of LGBTQ youth in New Orleans. Although the famed New Orleans ...
  • Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Louis ...
    From a press release issued today by the US Department of Justice: The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana and a number of Louisiana state agencies and officials alleging that the state has violated its obligations under the Nationa ...
  • Protest Planned for New Orleans Meeting of Pow ...
    From our friends at the Student Labor Action Project LSU: Stand up, and fight back in New Orleans! The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will be hosting their annual summit at the Marriott in New Orleans from August 1-6th. We will meet them there to let them know they can’t pull the ...
  • Settlement Reached in "Road Home" Racial Discr ...
    From our friends at Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center: Today, African-American homeowners and two civil rights organizations announced a settlement in a post-Hurricane Katrina housing discrimination lawsuit brought against the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ...
  • Displaced Women Demand Justice in Port au Prince
    By Bill Quigley and Jocelyn Brooks “We women demand!…” sang out a hundred plus voices “…Justice for Marie!” Marie, a 25 year old pregnant mother, was injured by government agents when they slammed a wooden door into her stomach during an early morning invasion of an earthquake displacement ...

Information Underground

  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    Aaa Credit Rating Should the U.S. government lose its top Aaa credit rating following a default, at least 7,000 top-rated municipal credits would have their ratings cut, Moody’s said in a report last week. Top-rated securities with no direct links to the national government would also be revie ...
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    Panic Over Default Would Be Worse Than Lehman By Juliann Francis - Jul 17, 2011 12:00 AM ET Summers to Join Venture Firm Larry Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, speaks during a session on the second day of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011 in Davos, Switzerland. Photograp ...
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    Sovereign Debt Blows Big Holes in Big Banks John Browne Posted Jul 14, 2011 The past few days have been very bad for the world's largest banks. American behemoths Citigroup and Bank of America are down about 7% each. Across the Atlantic, things are far worse. BNP Paribas, Barclays, and Banco ...
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    The Collapse of Paper Money & the Vertical Move of Gold Darryl Robert Schoon Posted Jul 14, 2011 Money in capitalist economies is an IOU, an IOU that can’t be repaid Paper money, invented by the Chinese, first appeared in the West in the 13th century. Brought back from China by Marco Pol ...
  • Historical Events • Re: Jews in Vienna: Was Yo ...
    Parliamentary Debates The few Jewish delegates in Parliament fought for the realization of "the natural, inalienable right of every people to full, truly equal rights, and to absolute equality before the law" for the Jews. Yet considering what German Radical representative Eduard von Stransky ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Forests Absorb One-Third of Fossil Fuel Emissi ...
    Forests play an even greater role in Earth’s climate system than previously known, according to the most comprehensive assessment yet of the carbon storage potential of the world’s wooded areas. Between 1990 Wikimedia Commons and 2007, the planet’s tropical, temperate, and boreal forests absor ...
  • Loss of Large Predators Has Sweeping Impact on ...
    The loss of top predators in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments has had a major impact on ecosystems worldwide, leading to changes in vegetation, more wildfires, a decline in water quality, and an increase in infectious diseases and invasive species, according to a study publish ...
  • Population of Snow Leopards Discovered in Afgh ...
    Researchers say they have discovered a population of endangered snow leopards in the remote mountains of northeastern Afghanistan, a promising development for View photos WCSSnow leopard photographed by a camera trap a species whose numbers have plummeted in recent decades. Using camera traps ...
  • Key CO2 Capture Project Is Suspended by Major ...
    The U.S.’s most ambitious project to capture and sequester carbon from a coal-fired power plant has been shelved by a large utility company, which says that the lack of climate legislation and support from state governments has rendered the $668 million project financially untenable. American El ...
  • Wind Farm Output Increased Tenfold Through Bet ...
    A new analysis by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) finds that the power output of wind farms can be increased tenfold — and with fewer environmental impacts — through better positioning of vertical-axis turbines. Because the large turbines used in most modern wind farms are place ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Where is James Moore?
    By Frank Moher Two weeks ago in this space I wrote about the Conservative government's politically-motivated decision to withdraw funding from the Toronto theatre and arts festival, SummerWorks. To recap: Last year, the company presented a play, Homegrown, that the Prime Minister's Office dec ...
  • The A 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Nets' Vujacic signs with Turkish club
    New Jersey Nets guard Sasha Vujacic has signed with a Turkish team for next season. Anadolu Efes said Friday the 27-year old Slovenian guard agreed to a one-year deal with an optional second year. It did not say whether Vujacic has an option to return to New Jersey if the NBA lockout is lifted ...
  • JOC launches bid for 2020 Olympics on centenni ...
    Tokyo will bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics, Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda said Saturday. Takeda made the announcement during a symposium to mark the JOC's 100th anniversary.
  • Doi, Morita beat Argentine foes
    Misaki Doi and Ayumi Morita both won their opening singles matches as Japan took a 2-0 lead over Argentina in their Fed Cup World Group 2 promotion/relegation playoff on Saturday. Doi, who beat Zheng Jie of China in an impressive debut at Wimbledon last month, thrashed Maria Irigoyen 6-0, 6-0 ...
  • Toyota to build Miyagi engine plant
    Toyota Motor Corp. plans to build an engine manufacturing plant in Miyagi Prefecture, the carmaker's first such factory in the Tohoku region, sources said Saturday. Toyota also plans to start producing compact hybrid cars in Iwa-te Prefecture by the end of this year, boosting its output in Toh ...
  • Hushovd wins stage
    Norwegian sprint specialist Thor Hushovd showed his climbing abilities by winning Friday's 13th stage of the Tour de France, overtaking Frenchman Jeremy Roy near the end after making up time on the downhill finish. Roy thought he had clinched the first Tour stage win of his career by attacking ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • From Brudenell to Brussels: Investor-Province ...
    A month ago, Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial governments volunteered to be directly sued by investors under the Agreement on Internal Trade. This quiet announcement from Brudenell, Prince Edward Island, seems to have gone almost unnoticed. But it is a huge step toward imposing the T ...
  • When Business And Progressives Agree
    It was news, not so much because of what was said, as who said it:  The Conference Board of Canada released a report on rising inequality in Canada today, noting that despite the fact that Canadians are better off than a generation ago, the richest 20% in society are taking an ever-growing share ...
  • Deconstructing BC’s carbon neutral gover ...
    Besides the carbon tax, one of the most important BC government climate action initiatives has been the adoption of Carbon Neutral Government. That is, count emissions from public buildings and travel, reduce them as much as possible and pay for carbon offsets to negate the rest. As of the 2010 ...
  • Navigating troubling economic waters
    Down south, the Obama administration is in a dangerous game of chicken with Republican congressional leaders, who are cynically holding the US economy hostage in order to impose a radical agenda of spending cuts. Obama has seemingly bought into the rhetoric of cutting debt, rather than focusing ...
  • Is BC about to drop a new carbon bomb?
    Any day now the BC government should be releasing the latest greenhouse gas data for the province, and we will see if any progress is being made towards a legislated 33% reduction in emissions by 2020 (relative to 2007 levels; data will be for 2009 and we know that emissions rose in 2008). Below ...

ReDress

  • US Congress loves being lied to about the Isra ...
    Stuart Littlewood reminds Israel's stooges and other ignoramuses in the US Congress of a few basic facts about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict - the sheer injustice suffered by the Palestinians at the hands of Israel and its US supporter - and concludes: "There is only one thing worse than bein ...
  • Israeli thugs - organized criminals
    Paul J. Balles compares Israel to a thug who knows he has protection and asks: "How long can Israel's thugs keep getting away with the travesty of justice that's no better than organized crime in America?"
  • Will the US really leave Iraq?
    Lawrence Davidson views the forces within the USA pushing for a prolonged American military presence in Iraq and a confrontation with Iran, and argues that a continuation of the US military intervention in Iraq could only lead to more bloodshed and further bankrupt the US.
  • Israeli legislators eye crackdown on High Cour ...
    Neve Gordon argues that the adoption by the Israeli parliament of a law criminalizing calls for the boycott of Israel or the illegal Jewish settlements, and the expected passage of laws targeting human rights organizations, are precursors to the real prize for Israel's MPs: crippling the High Co ...
  • Rupert Murdoch: Anthony Blair’s bagman
    Christopher King considers whether the unravelling of Rupert Murdoch's power in the UK will serve as a wake up call to British politicians whom for years he has targeted on behalf of the US and Israel.

Physics Today

  • Galaxy's spin may help explain matter-antimatt ...
    Space.com: A physicist at the UK’s University of Warwick believes he has found a testable explanation for apparent CP violation. In a paper published in Europhysics Letters, Mark Hadley suggests that researchers have neglected to take into account the significant impact of the rotation of our ga ...
  • Blinking bacteria may provide clue to their re ...
    Science: Like little batteries, bacteria have two charges: positive on the outside of their cell membranes, negative on the inside, writes Sara Reardon for Science. And as with batteries, that division of charge is their power source. By pumping protons across their membrane, bacteria can make e ...
  • How to attract girls into the science-major pi ...
    Chronicle of Higher Education: Nancy Linde manages educational outreach for WGBH, Boston's PBS and NPR stations. In a commentary for the Chronicle, she argues that scientists who want girls to become science majors should adopt the practices of professional marketers. WGBH recently teamed up wit ...
  • Iranian physics student to be tried for spying
    Nature: For the past six months, Omid Kokabee, an Iranian graduate student who is affiliated with the physics department of the University of Texas at Austin, has been held in an Iranian jail on suspicion of conspiring against Iran. Now, as Nature's Michele Catanzaro reports, Kokabee will face t ...
  • Ethiopia moves forward with Grand Millennium Dam
    National Geographic: Ethiopia announced that it will build a multibillion-dollar Nile River dam that is expected to be the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa. The dam, which will span a section of the Blue Nile River in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, could supply more than 5000 megawatts ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show,'-20
    by footprints (Posted Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:53:14 GMT) As stated before it costs R5000.00 for six months and shares can be traded by companies including your own company...We have a list of the companies listed in the TOP20 which is a basket and updates on a weekly basis...If the company shares ha ...
  • FF News: The Footprints Filmworks Stock Exchange
    by footprints (Posted Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:18:01 GMT) Footprints Filmworks edit Welcome to Footprints Filmworks If you choose to post messages on our websites searched in Google you can make use of our public username to promote 'your business...' This is a gift to businesses who choose to PROM ...
  • Gaza Aid Flotilla
    by Rev333 (Posted Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:57:49 GMT) Israel braces for arrival of hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists. http://tiny.cc/k6ydp Around 600 police officers will deploy at Ben-Gurion International Airport to stop the hundreds if not thousands of pro-Palestinian activists arriving ...
  • I AM a Zionist & Pro-Palestinian State
    by BradWatsonMiami (Posted Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:24:41 GMT) Re: the Israel vs. Palestine question, this usually is also a Jewish vs. Muslim question. I have never been to Israel/Palestine (at least not in this life), but I have studied the situation since childhood. I was brought up Protestant, bu ...
  • America addicted to War
    by Rev333 (Posted Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:49:43 GMT) Cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting. http://tiny.cc/6ovzn The final bill will run at least $3.7 trillion and could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research project "Costs of War" by Brown University's Watson Institu ...

Peakwater

  • Why The Colorado River Stopped Flowing
    “This estuary used to be one of the largest desert estuaries in North America,” McBride says. “It ran to the sea for 6 million years, and the river basically stopped in the late ’90s. It used to be 3,000 square miles with lush forests and jaguars and deer. And having walked it … it’s nothing [...]
  • Southwestern U.S. headed for a ‘perpetual drought’
    “A 160-kilometre wide dust storm, corn shrivelling in Georgia fields and Texas blackouts are all harbingers of an unstoppable force geophysicists call âperpetual drought.â At least the terrible Dust Bowl years of the 1930s in North America ended, Dr. Richard Seager told the Toronto Star on Thur ...
  • Dow Chemical Found Responsible For Water Pollu ...
    “Midland-based Dow Chemical Co. has been found responsible for contaminating a water source in Iberville Parish, a Louisiana state judge ruled last week. According to the Associated Press, State District Judge Jerome Winsberg ruled that Dow, the country’s largest chemical company, must clean up ...
  • Resource Conflict on the Rise: Free Trade Agre ...
    “Pacific Rim v. El Salvador, Gold vs. Water Three anti-mining, environmental activists have been killed in El Salvador in recent years, key players in organizing local protests and political resistance that resulted in the El Salvadoran government denying Canadian miner Pacific Rim the permits ...
  • How the Toxic Tar Sands Industry Fuels the Ubi ...
    “There are up to an estimated 2.5 trillion barrels of crude waiting to be extracted in Alberta. This makes the oil sands North America’s largest single source of petroleum, far surpassing Saudi Arabia. But developing those reserves is not an easy — or pretty — task. Each barrel of oil sands crud ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Defends American Waterways; Don’t Mak ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime advocate of environmental protection, spoke out against H.R. 2018, the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011, which would remove vital protections of our nation’s waterways. “I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 2018, which would be more ap ...
  • The Concerns of Seniors are a ‘Big Deal;’ Don’ ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) again took to the House floor today to continue his unflinching defense of senior citizens and Social Security from those who would pay off the debt by creating economic insecurity for our seniors. See video here. The full text of Congressman Kucinich�s remar ...
  • Debt Political Theater Diverts Attention While ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor about the massive transfer of wealth from the American people to the hands of the few by virtue of wars, energy policies and monetary policies. He called upon Americans to witness Wall Street�s theft of Main Street, which has left ...
  • Kucinich: Credit Rating Agencies Have No Autho ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Moody’s placed the U.S. on review for possible downgrade of the nation’s credit rating: “No nation, agency or organization has the authority to dictate terms to the United States Government,” said Kucinich. “Moody’s ...
  • Kucinich to White House: Stop Playing Politica ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor once again to defend senior citizens and Social Security from unwarranted political attacks. See video here. The full text of Congressman Kucinich�s remarks follow: �Three months ago 276 experts on Social Security, the federal bu ...

Authentically Wired

  • GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
    �� Freddy Weller �� "Games People Play" �� � � �http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBtzgxU8LrY&feature=related � Watching and reading the most recent escapades of those �we� elect to represent us on city, county, state, national stages I find myself, of late, laughing at how closed their buffoon ant ...
  • … SCROOL DOWN … Insane … yes ...
    �� SCROOL DOWN �� Insane �� yes �� but �� they�re neat� to look at �� http://www.wired.com/magazine/speed-machines?pid=5960&viewall=true Five Insane Vehicles That Go Like Hell � There are vehicles that help you get around every day�the sensible sedan, the commuter ferry, the sturdy city bike. An ...
  • absolute “cluster-f**k”
    BLOG SITE �� www.authenticallywired.com �� Hey �� get real �� it�s NOT just California which is burdened with an absolute �cluster-f**k� of competing convoluting water laws and agencies �� take a good look at Arizona �� California�groundwater management trickles up from local sources by Staff Wr ...
  • … One for your head … one for your ...
    … One for your head … one for your funny bone … Eric Merola, the filmmaker who created the groundbreaking documentary Burzynski, is are releasing the full documentary on NaturalNews.TV for everyone to view. This documentary tells the astonishing story of the cure for cancer that was censored, at ...
  • …Congre$$ bellie$ up the “hog-trou ...
      â¦Congre$$ bellie$ up the âhog-troughâ ⦠did you really have any doubtâ¦? U.S. House votes to end EPA water pollution oversight By Ken Ward Jr. ⦠ July 13, 2011  ⦠ http://wvgazette.com/News/201107131051 CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Fueled by coal industry complaints about the Obama administration’s ...

Popular Technology

  • Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
    A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
  • Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
    There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...
  • 900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticis ...
    WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comRead: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exa ...
  • Who is Deep Climate?
    A new climate alarmist blog appeared on October 18, 2008 from an "unknown" Canadian setting out to both "follow the money" and "follow the science" of the "climate science 'skeptic' movement in Canada". Who in the great Northwest of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada would undertake such a daunt ...
  • Are Skeptical Scientists funded by ExxonMobil?
    In an article titled, "Analysing the ‘900 papers supporting climate scepticism’: 9 out of top 10 authors linked to ExxonMobil" from the environmental activist website The Carbon Brief, former Greenpeace "researcher" Christian Hunt failed to do basic research. He made no attempt to contact the sc ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Brazilian senator: Forest Code reform necessar ...
    Over the past twenty years Brazil has emerged as an agricultural superpower: today it is the largest exporter beef, sugar, coffee, and orange juice, and the second largest producer of soybeans. While much of this growth has been fueled by a sharp increase in productivity resulting from improved ...
  • Forest Code bill could undermine sustainable g ...
    In May Brazil's House of Representatives passed a bill that will reform the country's Forest Code, which requires farmers and ranchers in the Amazon to maintain a legal forest reserve amounting to 80 percent of total landholdings. Environmentalists say the bill, which is undergoing revision bef ...
  • Dung beetles: a sewage SWAT team
    Biology Professor Doug Emlen speaks with Laurel Neme on her 'The WildLife' radio show and podcast about the biology and armaments of dung beetles. An expert on the evolution and development of bizarre shapes in insects, Emlen notes that dung beetles are one of the 'kings' of odd morphology.
  • How do we save Africa's forests?
    Africa's forests are fast diminishing to the detriment of climate, biodiversity, and millions of people of dependent on forest resources for their well-being. But is the full conservation of Africa's forests necessary to mitigate global climate change and ensure environmental stability in Africa ...
  • Could palm oil help save the Amazon?
    For years now, environmentalists have become accustomed to associating palm oil with large-scale destruction of rainforests across Malaysia and Indonesia. Campaigners have linked palm oil-containing products like Girl Scout cookies and soap products to smoldering peatlands and dead orangutans. ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Brain cells from skin an 'astounding' step
    Skin cells from a 30-year-old woman have been turned directly into mature nerve cells similar to those found in the brain using a procedure that promises to revolutionise the emerging field of regenerative medicine.Scientists...
  • Hope for vaccine in hunt for answers to killer ...
    Scientists are still trying to unlock the mysteries of the Hendra virus that has killed nine horses and required the testing of dozens of people in Queensland and New South Wales in the past three weeks.In rare cases, the virus...
  • The climate dissenter holds his ground
    It never rains, it pours. Or it burns. It began with the China floods in May last year, coinciding, in June, with
  • Quake shakes Hawke's Bay area
    A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rattled the Hawke's Bay shortly before 6.30 tonight.The quake was centred 10km south east of Porangahau at a depth of 20km, GNS Science reported.It was felt in Hawke's Bay and northern Wairarapa.-...
  • Chemicals put science teacher in hospital
    A schoolteacher has been taken to hospital after inhaling chemicals at Wellington High School.Emergency services were called to the school this morning after the woman dropped chemicals on a classroom floor, a school spokesman...

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  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Carmageddon: L.A.'s Biggest Nothing Since Tom ...
    As was predicted twice by me, the traffic meltdown that politicians and the destination media were predicting would be caused by the closing of a stretch of Interstate 405 in Los Angeles has utterly failed to happen.  U.S. Highway 101 is wide open:  So is the normally dens ...
  • Carmageddon Shaping Up as Big Nothing
    Rush hour traffic was light in Los Angeles Friday, in the final hours before closure of Interstate 405 for a few miles brought on a steel-and-rubber stampede of rich drivers that experts claim will destroy all intelligent life in California. The 405 itself was nearly empty around 7 ...
  • Will Jerry Brown Allow Californians to Taste Beer?
    File this under: Good news that it’s happening. Bad news that it’s stuff like this wot counts as a victory for freedom in 2011.  California’s state senate has voted unanimously to reclassify breweries under the same regulatory apparatus that now applies to wineries with tasting room ...
  • "A Tour of the World's Worst Photoshop Propaganda"
    A great gallery at The Atlantic.
  • New at Reason: Anthony Randazzo and James Grot ...
    With the specter of Quantitative Easing 3 raised this week during congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, there has been renewed debate over the impact of QE2 and whether more monetary stimulus is the right prescription for our economic ills. Some warn of a ...

Mercury Rising

  • “My Number One Goal Is To Not Go To Jail ...
    From the November 13, 2006 StarTribune: New members did their work behind closed doors, learning how to get their offices up and running, prepare their budgets, use franking privileges and how to keep abreast of complicated ethics rules. “My No. 1 goal is to not go to jail,” [Michele] Bachmann s ...
  • Grilled Murdoch
    If you get Current TV, Keith is going to be covering Murdoch’s testimony at Parliament on Tuesday, live. Or you can watch the spit takes on Countdown. According to a recent tweet, it will start at 9:15AM Eastern. My guess is that it will not be covered on FOX.
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  • Lying About Tweets: Mike Parry Shows It’ ...
    Two prominent politicians lied about what they tweeted, and tried to cover it up. One was forced out of politics, the other got a free pass. The one forced out of politics? A Democrat. The one who got the free pass? A Republican, Mike Parry — who keeps getting free passes and wet kisses from [...]
  • Dayton Offers MN GOP Hobson’s Choice: Pr ...
    As you may have heard by now, the Minnesota state shutdown is likely to come to an end soon, as Governor Mark Dayton offered the state Republican leadership a Hobson’s Choice: Dayton offered to accept their June 30 budget proposal, which delays school payments and doesnât tax the rich, on these ...

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  • INDIA: Temple Treasures Open Up Problems of Plenty
    The discovery that treasures lying in the vaults of an ancient temple in Thiruvananthapuram may be worth more than 25 billion dollars is raising questions regarding the vast wealth owned by religious shrines in this impoverished country.
  • MIDEAST: Borders in Way of Orders
    Waddah Bsaiso is ready to export, if the Israeli-imposed siege would allow him. He has the experience, the contacts, and the products, but is prevented by Israel's strict ban on virtually all Gazan exports, save a token amount of flowers periodically allowed out of the Strip.
  • CUBA: Communist Academic Recovers His Party Card
    Cuban historian and columnist Esteban Morales, who was reinstated as a member of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) after being expelled a year earlier for writing articles about corruption in the country, said he would continue exercising his right to express criticism, as the duty and moral o ...
  • LATIN AMERICA: Sustainable Development, Not 'G ...
    With less than a year to go for the Rio+20 Summit, civil society in Latin America and the Caribbean is mustering its strength to defend the principles of sustainable development, as opposed to the model of a "green economy", which it views as only benefiting the business interests of big compa ...
  • BURKINA FASO: Big Boost for Small Agricultural ...
    The government of Burkina Faso has responded to long-standing demands of farmers for greater support for small family producers with the launch of "Operation 100,000 Ploughs". Smallholder farmers say this will strengthen the country's food security.

Scoop - NZ

  • Fisk on Murdoch: 'Why I had to leave The Times'
    The end came for me when I flew to Dubai in 1988 after the USS Vincennes had shot down an Iranian passenger airliner over the Gulf. Within 24 hours, I had spoken to the British air traffic controllers at Dubai, discovered that US ships had routinely been threatening British Airways airliners, an ...
  • UK fish 'n chips linked to Icelandic whale sla ...
    British diners could unwittingly be supporting Iceland's whale hunt as a major UK fish wholesaler continues to source seafood from an Icelandic company linked to the killing of endangered fin whales. Consumers are being urged to question the source of the fish at more than 10,000 fish and chi ...
  • Murdoch: More than BSkyB is at stake
    The furore has caused severe damage to News Corp and strained Murdoch’s political ties to breaking point. The contagion has now spread to America, where News Corp is listed, sparking chatter that Rupert’s son James, deputy chief operating officer of News Corp, will never be able to succeed his f ...
  • US investors sue News Ltd.
    Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is facing a billion–dollar lawsuit from shareholders alleging that the phone hacking scandal is evidence of a corporate culture that had "run amok".
  • AEP: Italy and Spain in Turmoil
    "We've painted ourselves into a corner. At this point, either someone – Germany, the European Central Bank – has to fundamentally shift position, or everything blows up," an EU official told Reuters. Berlin has resisted any move to buy or guarantee the bonds of distressed debtors, viewing it ...

Independent - London

  • Nato hands over province to local forces
    Afghanistan began the long-publicised transition to control of its own security amid secrecy, not fanfare, on Sunday, a reminder of how volatile the country is even as Nato troop drawdowns get under way.
  • Powerful eruption at Indonesian volcano
    A volatile volcano in central Indonesia unleashed its most powerful eruption yet, spewing hot ash and smoke thousands of feet (meters) into the air and sending panicked villagers racing back to emergency shelters. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
  • Roadside bomb kills two in Baghdad
    Iraqi officials say a roadside bomb targeting a security patrol has killed one policeman and a passer-by in western Baghdad.
  • Radiation concerns for Japan's beef supply
    Concerns about radiation-tainted beef are intensifying as Japanese officials struggle to determine the scope of the problem and prevent further contamination of the meat supply.
  • Troops crackdown on Syria protests
    Syrian troops backed by tanks stormed a town near the border with Lebanon as security forces rounded up more than 500 people, including a leading opposition figure, across the country over the past two days, activists said.

Rogue Government.com

  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
  • Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
    A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.
  • Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
    The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...
  • Australian kids are living in climate of fear
    On the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon tax package announcement, psychologists and scientists said the lessons were alarmist, created unneeded anxiety among school children and endangered their mental health.
  • Over 1,400 arrested, tear gas fired in Malays ...
    Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government.

Innovation Canada

  • Virtual practice makes perfect
    For Halifax-based neurosurgeon David Clarke, the Monday-afternoon surgery session of Aug. 17, 2009, was anything but routine. For starters, his patient’s brain tumour was located in a tricky spot, close to the delicate part of the brain that controls speech. A small slip of the scalpel either wa ...
  • A powerful elixir
    The good news is that there are more than a million cancer survivors in Canada. The bad news is that they live with the long-term effects of treatment, including extreme fatigue, memory and attention problems, bone density loss, leading to fractures, and a sometimes debilitating anxiety over can ...
  • No more slipping through the cracks
    At any given time, some 19,000 children are in foster care in Ontario, placed there for their protection by one of the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies (CAS). While CAS caseworkers write meticulous reports on the children who pass through the system, the details contained in the thousands ...
  • Back home on the range
    It’s a little-known fact: Half the Earth’s surface is foraged by domesticated animals, which has enormous impacts on our increasingly precious fresh water. In British Columbia alone, about 50 percent of mostly crown land is licensed to ranchers who need forage and water for their 400,000 head of ...
  • Living on the edge
    It’s not unusual for scientists to become excited when talking about their research. But Ken Storey is an explosion of exuberance, repeatedly interrupting his own discourse to head in new directions. Such frenetic energy is paradoxical for a man whose research deals with organisms that can delib ...

Signs of the times

  • Indonesia Mount Lokon Volcano Spews Ash in Big ...
    A volatile volcano in central Indonesia unleashed its most powerful eruption yet Sunday, spewing hot ash and smoke thousands of feet (meters) into the air and sending panicked villagers racing back to emergency shelters. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Mount Lokon, located on nor ...
  • US: Bee Swarms Plague California Neighbourhood ...
    Aggressive swarms of bees tormenting a Southern California neighbourhood have killed a family dog. Kim Bammes' chocolate Labrador mix, Reggie, died after being stung so many times in the yard of her Wildomar home the veterinarian lost count. Residents in the southwest Riverside County communit ...
  • U.S. national debt: dancing on the brink of a ...
    Budget and debt problems are once again racking America. Barack Obama has failed to persuade the Republican majority in Congress to raise the national debt ceiling. That much is nothing new, and similar attempts will be unlikely to succeed in the future. Since July 10, the White House has been ...
  • Idaho, US: Lightning Sparks Off Wildfires Acro ...
    Firefighters say lightning is likely responsible for three grass fires early Saturday morning in the Boise area. Crews responded to a fire off Highway 55 by the Shadow Valley Golf Course, a small grass fire near Broadway and Myrtle and a large fire near Gowen and Orchard. It made for a busy mo ...
  • UK: Archaeologists Uncover the Remains of Anci ...
    The remains of what could be an Iron Age Highlander, who lived around 2,000 years ago, have been found during an archaeological dig in Caithness. The human remains, which include a skull and bones, were found this week in the ruins of a broch - a massive stone wall Iron Age roundhouse - at Thru ...

The Galloping Beaver

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  • Judge for yourself . . .
    SUITE101.COM is an interesting site that covers a whole range of human endeavours. Their history section has a fascinating article by Rupert Taylor, "Matthew Begbie: British Columbia's "Hanging Judge"". It's a look at Begbie's time as the first judge of the new colony of British Columbia. These ...
  • Rube would've loved this . . .
    LOVE A GOOD RUBE GOLDBERG, and there's this creative bunch, OK GO, who have an incredible RG set-up, "This Too Shall Pass". Worth the watch. Love the TV and the piano, myself.
  • Perspectives . . .
    Monica Joshi, 22, kills some time before her graveyard shift at a Gurgaon call center. MOTHER JONES has a great article by Andrew Marantz, "My Summer at an Indian Call Center". Lessons learned: Americans are hotheads, Australians are drunks—and never say where you're calling from.• • • Ever ...
  • PSA Dep't.
    Dear World,Please stop freaking out about 2012. Our calendar ends there because some Spanish dirtbags invaded our country and we got a little busy, OK? Sincerely,The Mayans

Media Matters for America

  • On Fox, Wash. Post's Lane Asks For It ...
    While participating in a panel discussion about new emails purportedly showing "White House Bias" against Fox News, Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane commented that he'd "like to see the internal emails here at Fox about the Obama administration" as a contrast. Lane is in luck. Inte ...
  • Fox's Bolling On CA Education Reform: "What T ...
    Fox News' Eric Bolling mischaracterized an education reform bill in California, claiming that "what they want to do" is rewrite textbooks to say that, "by the way, George Washington was a homosexual, or, you know, so and so was a lesbian." In fact, the new law simply requires public schools ...
  • Ingraham Uses Heath Care Reform And Stimulus M ...
    Guest hosting�The O'Reilly Factor, Laura Ingraham criticized President Obama for saying that the Bush tax cuts -- rather than health care reform and a stimulus that "didn't work" -- are largely to blame for the debt. But the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the Affordable ...
  • PHONE HACKS: A Guide To Resignations, Arrests, ...
    The News Corporation phone hacking and bribery story has brought down executives, reporters, and editors on both sides of the Atlantic. Here is a list of arrests, convictions, firings, suspensions, and resignations that have occured during the scandal. Les Hinton Job At News Corp.: Executiv ...
  • Right-Wing Media Revive GOP Talking Point That ...
    With the debt limit deadline approaching and deficit-reduction talks underway, right-wing media are parroting the old GOP talking point that the nation's deficit is a "spending problem, not a revenue problem." But numerous economic experts have said that decreased revenue is a major cause of th ...

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TPM Cafe

  • The High Price of Nukes
    As President Obama and Republicans in Congress go down to the wire in negotiations over a package of budget cuts that would clear the way for raising the debt ceiling, we shouldn't lose sight of one key source of reductions: military spending. Although it was not mentioned in the President's pr ...
  • What The UN Vote Means--And Does Not
    My friend Alvaro de Soto, the former Special Ambassador of the United Nations's Secretary-General to the Middle East peace process, is a legend in the UN, from which he is now retired. Peruvian by birth, an aide to Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Alvaro was an indispensable mediator i ...
  • So Much for 'Long Form'....
    OK, here's a take-away from my post on Rupert Murdoch two slots below: Alexander Hamilton, worried about the young American republic in 1801, founded the New York Post. Rupert Murdoch, keen to intensify his perverse groping of bodies politic, bought the Post in 1977 and turned it into a dai ...
  • What Blinded Murdoch's Enablers and Apologists?
    As Rupert Murdoch was closing in with his bid for Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal five years ago, what Harper's magazine former editor Lewis Lapham calls "the orchestra of high-minded opinion" could be heard tuning up to play "This Is The Best of All Possible Worlds," its familia ...
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Public Citizen in Texas

  • LCRA meeting in Bay City on the White Stallion ...
    At LCRA’s Board of Directors meeting on June 15, 2011, they discussed a contract to sell up to 25,400 acre-feet of water a year to White Stallion Energy Center for a power plant in Matagorda County.  The LCRA Boardroom was filled with citizens against the contract, and the board heard public co ...
  • What is all this brouhaha over light bulbs?
    “In 2007, little seemed problematic about the energy-efficient light bulb or the law signed by President George W. Bush, which called for the incandescent bulb to be phased out in favor its energy-saving counterpart. But that was before the rise of the Tea Party”. So begins an article by Natasha ...
  • Dresden Nuclear Power Plant issues alert
    Exelon’s  Dresden Nuclear Power Plant located in Morris, Ill., roughly 60 miles southwest of Chicago declared an alert at 10:16 a.m. CT today after a chemical leak restricted access to a vital area that houses plant cooling water pumps.  The leaking chemical is sodium hypochlorite, which is si ...
  • Urge DOE to regulate fracking
    Yesterday, Public Citizen spoke before the Department of Energy subcommittee tasked with natural gas drilling and outlined the key steps needed to properly oversee the process of fracking. We are calling on the subcommittee to recommend closure of many loopholes that create regulatory exemptions ...
  • New EPA standards for coal plant emissions alr ...
    Here’s some great news! With EPA tightening the standards for coal plant emissions, Energy Future Holdings, the parent company of Luminant (formerly TXU) and the major electric power provider for much of North and West Texas, is considering how to respond to new federal clean-air regulations.  ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • "Owling" takes over from planking craze
    Planking is being superceded by an even more peculiar internet craze known as "owling". Owling involves perching on top of things in a crouching posit...
  • "Extinct" toad rediscovered in Malaysia
    A species of toad last seen 90 years ago has been found alive and well in the jungles of Borneo. The Borneo Rainbow Toad was found by a team of scient...
  • Doga: yoga classes for dogs
    A new trend from the Far East is coming to the US - yoga classes for dogs, otherwise known as "doga". The classes are intended to help dogs find their...
  • 200ft crop circle within yards of Stonehenge
    A massive crop circle has turned up in a wheat field right next to the historic Stonehenge. Speculation continues as to who is responsible, some belie...
  • Australia to kill farting camels ?
    Scientists have expressed outrage over plans to kill camels in Australia due to their excess flatulence. The latest suggested action in the war agains...

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Climate

  • Pickens Losing to Koch in Natural-Gas Feud
    Source:� Bloomberg T. Boone Pickens, who�s been saying for more than a year that Congress was poised to pass his plan to subsidize natural-gas vehicles, is facing opposition led by fellow billionaire Charles Koch.
  • W.Va. Firm Plans to Drill Again in National Forest
    Source:� AP The president of a Clarksburg gas company that inadvertently killed a tiny patch of the Monongahela National Forest by legally dousing it with drilling wastewater says he will eventually drill again in the nearly m ...
  • Water Quality Expert Sees Potential in W.Va. D ...
    Source:� MSNBC The regulatory program on fracking that comes together in West Virginia could be the standard for shale development regulation across the United States.
  • New Air Study Finds Chemicals Near Gas Drillin ...
    Source:� The Colorado Independent At least 22 toxic chemicals, were found in nine separate air samples taken near gas drilling operations by community advocacy and environmental groups in Garfield and La Plata counties in Colo ...
  • Vast Wind Energy Proposal Could Kill Endangere ...
    Source:� Reuters The Obama administration is evaluating a plan to allow a 200-mile corridor for wind development from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico that would allow for killing endangered whooping cranes.

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Booman Tribune

  • Peanuts Thread
    So, I was wracking my brain trying to remember the name of the little red-haired girl when I realized that I could ask The Google. Of course, I didn't have much of a chance of remembering it since it was only mentioned once, and never in the strip. The 1977 animated TV special It's Your Firs ...
  • The Rout is On
    Lisa Mascaro and Kathleen Hennessey of the Los Angeles Times have a piece on the Republican capitulation. As I predicted repeatedly that he would, the Speaker is now in the process of explaining basic economic and political reality to the Tea Party elements of his caucus. Because they would not ...
  • Going to My 1st Gay Pride Parade Today
    I've never gone to or marched in a gay pride parade before, but this is a good one to make my first. The state of New York passed marriage equality legislation this Summer, so it should be an especially joyous occasion. I will be marching with a group of fellow Unitarian-Universalists from the ...
  • Think About Our Ocenas
    You might want to take a little time this afternoon to peruse a report on the health and future of our oceans. You can choose from the short summary or the long one (both in PDF form). The report was created by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO). The bottom line is th ...
  • After This is Over
    I don't know how the whole debt limit crisis will shake out. I suspect that McConnell's kabuki will prevail. Regardless, I can already see some fallout for the Republicans. The party has been rent in two. A precursor of this was seen when Rand Paul defeated Mitch McConnell's preferred candid ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • First Ever Pictures of a Fish Using Tools!
    First photographs of a fish in the wild using tools! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Amazing Bornean Rainbow Toad Rediscovered Afte ...
    An amazing colorful rainbow toad has been rediscovered, discover how. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Holy Rats! The Temple of Karni Mata
    Karni Mata is an Indian temple where rats are venerated. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Three of the Loudest Animals in the World
    A bug that "sings" by rubbing his penis and oil birds and frogs are all among the loudest animals in the world. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Longer a Man's Ring Finger the Better Endo ...
    Penis length may be easy to tell according to a new study. Discover why and how. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • By Anon request: A few loose ends on foreign e ...
    Time to check in with the Big Weird! I was requested by some anonymous person to post this. I don't personally conclude that 9-11 was triggered by Mini-Nukes but it's interesting that videos featuring a Russian guy with that view named Dimitri Khalezov are automatically blocked from upload on yo ...
  • "Creating an atmosphere of fear for journalist ...
    Glenn Greenwald nails this one. Journalists have nowhere to run under the nightmarish corrupt DOJ regime -- and the lickspittles are not the ones subject to the special operations & continuous COINTELPRO patterns. Big ups to seeing our local repression campaign against antiwar activists duly not ...
  • Two murky major elements of covert American po ...
    Truth trickles out a little bit at a time. People have to dig around diligently for stuff like this... then nasty patterns emerge. Here are two really nifty ones I spotted just recently. Nosh on this as you will... Back in the Depression, the US Treasury Department got a mysterious office called ...
  • Lollin about at Netroots Nation 2011 #NN11 Can ...
    I am working this week at Netroots Nation - conveniently located at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Howard Dean made fun of me a bit for running flat-out back to fetch a Firewire drive with the key new video cut for DFA as the Keynote had already started. Yes Really :-D Good times! Good times ...
  • Can Has Wargame, "Southland" Pre-scripting the ...
    "Is this real world or exercise??" --A memorable quote from air traffic controller on 9-11 Logistically speaking, how the hell did the West start bombing Libya so quickly? A French/NATO military exercise (aka wargame) called Southern Mistral was scheduled for almost the exact same time. Are war ...

Daily Censored

  • BAMN: Taking an Activist Stance: Students and ...
    BAMN will be participating in the Save our Schools conference and rally July 28-30. We are helping to raise funds to document the event, as well as sponsoring a workshop during the conference. Here is where you can donate for the documentary:   http://www.indiegogo.com/Save-Our-Schools-March-Doc ...
  • Anti-Muslim Bigotry: SPLC Intelligence Report
    � This summer�s �Intelligence Report� by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) features an article by Robert Steinback titled the, �Jihad Against Islam�.  The SPLC is a non-profit organization founded by civil rights lawyers and headed up by a group of  lawyers, educators, and journalist that a ...
  • If government created money instead of debt: A ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com The US suffers from debt-damned economics: a Robber Baron-era paradigm whereby the harder Americans work, the more in debt we collectively descend. The reason is public confusion between “money” (which the US does not create and use to facilitate trade) and “deb ...
  • Michael Collins: BBC – Murdoch’s L ...
    The Times of London, Sunday Times, stands accused of tapping into former Labour Party Leader Gordon Brown’s private medical records. According to the story published today by BBC, Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of the Times parent, News International, called Brown in 2006 when he was Chancello ...
  • 3-minute video: state-owned banks end Wall St. ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com The US suffers from debt-damned economics: a Robber Baron-era paradigm whereby the harder Americans work, the more in debt we collectively descend. The reason is Orwellian confusion between “money” (which the US does not create and use to facilitate trade) and “ ...

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  • News you may have missed #540
    Bulgaria bars ex-spies from holding diplomatic posts. Ex-spymaster says Canada is too concerned about torture. NSA whistleblower requests reduced sentence.
  • News you may have missed #539
    Former CIA officer urges US-Pakistan reconciliation. Pakistan spy director comes to US following aid cut. Secret CIA site in Somalia revealed.
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    Egyptian diplomat dead in London after bizarre suicide attempt. CIA agent Wali Karzai dead in Afghanistan. How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet.
  • Exclusive: intelNews readers get 20% off espio ...
    It is not every day that $19.95 can get you direct video access to a five-day intelligence and espionage conference. Plus, intelNews has worked out a deal with conference organizers for a further 20% discount off the final price of the event. The conference, which will take place in New York fro ...
  • News you may have missed #537 (bin Laden edition)
    Ex-CIA chief speaks on al-Qaida after Osama. CIA organized fake vaccination drive to get bin Laden family DNA. CIA moves to protect key analyst in bin Laden raid.

War is a Crime.org

  • Murdoch's World: Demagoguery, Propaganda, Scan ...
    ��Murdoch's World: Demagoguery, Propaganda, Scandal, Sleaze, and Warmongering - by Stephen Lendman � Famed journalist George Seldes (1890 - 1995) condemned press prostitutes in books like "Lords of the Press," denouncing their corruption, suppression of� truth, and news censorship before televis ...
  • Upcoming Holy Land Foundation Appeal for Justice
    ��Upcoming Holy Land Foundation Appeal for Justice - by Stephen Lendman � On September 1, the US 5th Circuit Appeals Court will hear arguments on behalf of five wrongly convicted Holy Land Foundation (HLF) principles. More on their case below. � On June 15, 2009 former UK MP turned activist Geor ...
  • You Can't "Rebuild a Dream" While Funding the ...
    Two proposals to stop the insane military and war spending snuck through into the 40 idea that the Rebuild the Dream people are allowing votes on.� Go vote for them: http://contract.rebuildthedream.com
  • Every Parade Should Have This
    From Roger Leisner in Maine.
  • The Paradox of Progress
    ��Months ago, I attended David Swanson�s book signing in Baltimore to purchase his remarkable work,�War is a Lie, and to hear Swanson, Debra Sweet, and Andy Worthington speak. During the question-and-answer period, a woman stood and introduced herself. Speaking beautifully, softly, and passionat ...

Grist - News

  • Play chutes and ladders on public transportation
    by Jess Zimmerman. The designers of this "Transit Accelerator" in the Dutch city of Utrecht have the right idea about making public transportation fun: turn it into a board game, or recess. What other inspiration can public transit take from childhood? Personally I'd like to see merry- ...
  • Mom who lost son in hit-and-run could face mor ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Raquel Nelson of Marietta and her three children were hit by a tipsy two-time hit-and-runner, Jerry L. Guy, in April 2010. Nelson's 4-year-old later died of his injuries. But prosecutors dropped a homicide charge against Guy, and he was sentenced to two years for hit-an ...
  • For the first time ever, renters can get solar ...
    by Christopher Mims. There's a reason California is the largest solar market in the country -- I mean, aside from its abundance of sun. Namely, its regulators keep coming up with new ways to allow people to DIY-up their own distributed energy systems. Their latest brainstorm is a measure ...
  • Panasonic capitalizes on earthquake by replaci ...
    by Christopher Mims. Panasonic, the largest appliance maker in Japan, has announced plans to shutter 20 percent of its 230 factories in order to cut costs. But rather than lose that land, the company is capitalizing on Japan’s post-earthquake need for housing. It’s replacing the factories ...
  • Most of the U.S. could be energy self-sufficient
    by Jess Zimmerman. With a little development elbow grease, we could be in pretty good shape for the day the energy apocalypse comes and states have to split into small self-reliant compounds. The majority of U.S. states -- 31 of the 50 -- could be completely self-sufficient with locall ...

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Digg Green

  • NASA: STS-135 Crew Pay Tribute to the Spa ...
    The STS-135 crew provided a recorded message as a tribute to Atlantis, the entire Space Shuttle Program and team. In the message, Ferguson spoke about the U.S. flag displayed behind them that was flown on the first space shuttle mission, STS-1. It was flown on this mission to be presented t ...
  • Mental Math in Infants
    Babies understand counting before they utter numbers
  • APOD: 2011 July 16 - Starry Night over Du ...
    A starry night over the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is really not so starry.
  • Dawn spacecraft to study origins of Earth
    A spacecraft from California named Dawn will begin a yearlong visit to the brightest asteroid in the distant sky this weekend to study how Earth and its closest planets formed more than 4 billion years ago. After a...
  • Obama dials for pizza, gets space station
    Astronauts aboard the International Space Station got a very long-distance call Friday from US President Barack Obama, who joked that he thought he was dialing out for pizza.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Gentile Jambalaya is on the Menu
    By Les Visible Homeland Security and the TSA (a division of Israeli Global Control) are hot to toss you into a blender and render you into cannibal chowder or Gentile Jambalaya. They were working on the recipe in the aftermath of Katrina. Few people are aware that Michael Brown, head of FEMA (an ...
  • AP source: FBI reviews News Corp. 9/11 phone claim
    By TOM HAYS, Associated Press â 8 hours ago NEW YORK (AP) â The FBI has begun a preliminary inquiry based on concerns in Congress over a report that media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. sought to hack into the phones of Sept. 11 victims, a law enforcement official said Thursday. The decision ...
  • A Murdoch Note
    By Gordon Duff Who is Rupert Murdoch? What he is not is an Australian “right wing” billionaire. Murdoch, though born in Australia is an Israeli citizen and Jewish. Why is this important? Murdoch is now admitted to have controlled the political systems in Britain and America for two decades. He h ...
  • A Trompe L’Oeil on the Face of It
    By Les Visible As I was saying… what I notice more than anything these days, is the corruption. Itâs not all I notice. I notice the weariness in people and the fixity of routine. As the world becomes more uncertain, people retreat more completely into the repetition of familiar things. Thereâs a ...
  • I’m with Stupid and Proud of It
    By Les Visible For ten days I didn’t read the news except for twice as a brief scan. I didn’t miss it and it made no difference that I hadn’t seen it. News is just once more packaged product from the ‘shake and bake’ manufacturers. It’s a traveling t-shirt with DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger and all [...]

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...

Inhabitat

  • Pete Goldlust Carves Colorful Crayons into Int ...
    These days the keyboard may be the dominant medium of creation, but there are still plenty of people holding tight to their trusty pencils and crayons. Inspired by the disjunctions seen in the world around us, Pete Goldlust is using these colorful sticks of wax to express his views on the state ...
  • VIDEO INTERVIEW: Architect Chad Oppenheim on S ...
    In this video interview Miami architect Chad Oppenheim - designer of the stunning green COR Tower for Miami –  talks about the changing real estate market, the construction economy and his take on sustainability as a factor in the growth of both industries. Jump ahead for his enlightening insi ...
  • Spain’s Gemasolar Array is the World’s First 2 ...
    Torresol Energy has overcome one of solar energy’s biggest challenges: operating when the sun doesn’t shine. The 19.9 MW Gemasolar concentrated solar power plant in Spain’s Andalucia province has two tanks of molten salt (MSES) that store heat energy generated throughout the day. Unlike normal p ...
  • Vote For Eco Furniture Company Viesso in the B ...
    “Sleep on it. Store in it.” That’s the concept behind LA-based Viesso‘s stylin’ bamboo Buden bed collection. Built from sustainable bamboo and FSC-certified birch, this multifunctional green design is a great way to transform your bedroom from blah to breathtakingly modern. Viesso is a small gre ...
  • Kyle Bean’s Life-Like Portraits are Made Entir ...
    Read the rest of Kyle Bean’s Life-Like Portraits are Made Entirely Out of Pencil Shavings Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: kyle bean, pencil art, pencil portraits, pencil shaving art, portraits pencil shavings, recycled portraits, wallpaper handmade issue, waste material portraits

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wild Parrots Get Names From Parents
    Before a green-rumped parrotlet is even able to chirp and squawk, mom and dad teach it a distinct series of sounds used by parrots to recognize a specific individual. In short, they give their nestling a name. Researchers have observed captive parrots using so-called contact calls to identify m ...
  • Watch the World’s Largest Shark Tank on Live W ...
    Live Videos by Ustream From now until Aug. 7, you can swim with sharks from your desk, thanks to a live webcam embedded in the world’s largest shark tank. To get excited for Shark Week, the Discovery Channel teamed up with the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta to place a live streaming peephole in the ...
  • Alpha-Baboon Benefits Come at Stressful Cost
    If you’re a baboon, being in charge gives you a lot of advantages: you have better access to food, you get more action from the ladies, and your kids tend to grow faster and live longer. Low-rankers, meanwhile, must expend more time and energy to get food and mating opportunities. It makes sens ...
  • Spacecraft Visits Giant Asteroid This Weekend
    A spacecraft launched in 2007 will soon slide into orbit around Vesta, the solar system’s second-heaviest asteroid. Located 117 million miles from Earth, Vesta has a circumference of 329 miles. When NASAâs Dawn spacecraft arrives over the weekend of July 16, it will be the first human object t ...
  • Endangered Snow Leopards Caught on Camera in A ...
    A surprisingly healthy population of rare snow leopards has been caught on camera in the wilds of Afghanistan. Researchers spotted 30 snow leopards in 16 different locations by placing camera traps in the mountains of northeastern Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor. Snow leopards are threatened by p ...

PakAlert

  • Libya in Pictures: What the Mainstream Media D ...
    Mirage fighters, F16 fighters, B-2 Stealth bombers, 15,000 NATO air sorties. the bombing of thousands of civilan targets... NATO is said to be coming to the rescue of the Libyan people. That is what we are being told. Western journalists have quite deliberately distorted what is happenin ...
  • We Must Risk Everything
    In the article and the video I just footnoted, the core of our problems comes from the fact of the deliberate destruction of the roots of all societies. That destruction that has been going on since the West murdered 59 million of the natives that lived here, and went on to become the global-out ...
  • The Coming Insurrection – A Final Warning to G ...
    In 2008, nine individuals believed to have written "The Coming Insurrection" were arrested on charges of terrorism by the French government. . This video presents some excerpts of that book.
  • Iran moves nuclear enrichment programme to und ...
    Iran has begun efforts to shift its nuclear enrichment programme to an underground bunker where experts warn it could stage a last dash for a nuclear weapon
  • Video: Murdoch behind 9/11, Iraq, Afghan wars ...
    Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has played a significant role in the elections of three U.S. presidents, as well as some of the events that have happened during their administrations including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the economic meltdown, says Gordon Duff, s ...

Andy Worthington

  • A Good Day for Justice: British Supreme Court ...
    In a triumph for the principles of open justice, and a snub to the Tory-led coalition government, the British Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday that the government and the intelligence agencies cannot use secret evidence in court to prevent open discussion of allegations that prisoner ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Al-Qaeda Film &#822 ...
    Recently, I was happy to follow up on my discussion on Press TV of “You Don’t Like the Truth,” the harrowing documentary about Guantánamo’s former child prisoner Omar Khadr, with another discussion, this time about “The Oath,” an extraordinary documentary by American filmmaker Laura Poitras. Se ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
  • John Walker Lindh, Torture Victim and 9/11 Sca ...
    Back in May, after the assassination of Osama bin Laden should have brought an end to the “War on Terror,” Frank Lindh, the father of John Walker Lindh, the first convicted prisoner in the Bush administration’s phoney war, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times, which I cross-posted here with comm ...
  • UK Torture Inquiry Boycotted by Lawyers, As Da ...
    Last Wednesday, just before David Cameron was engulfed in the News of the World phone hacking crisis, he had the opportunity to practice demonstrating the disregard for justice that he called on in response to the Murdoch scandal, when he attempted to distance himself from his friendship with tw ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Yet Another White Nationalist Leader Felled by ...
    Not that Klansmen and their ilk should ever be associated with negative stereotyping, mind you – but it does seem that the type of man who rises to leadership positions in the white nationalist universe has a peculiar knack for becoming entangled in child-sex scandals. The latest is Neal Ray Sch ...
  • Influential Christian Identity Pastor Dies
    Peter John “Pete” Peters, a Christian Identity minister whose messages of hate and white supremacy inspired four decades of extremists, including murderers, has died at his home in LaPorte, Colo., authorities confirmed Friday. He was 64. Peters was the pastor of the LaPorte Church of Christ and ...
  • Banned from Internet, Neo-Nazi Comes Back Via ...
    Bill White, the vicious neo-Nazi Internet gossip who spent more than two years in prison on charges of using the Internet to threaten a perceived enemy, is up to his old tricks. Once the head of the neo-Nazi American National Socialist Workers Party, White went to prison in 2008 after posting pe ...
  • News Roundup for July 15, 2011
    An Illinois man who claimed to be a part of a militia sleeper cell has pleaded guilty to possession of illegal firearms and threatening his wife. Lowell Aughenbaugh, 48, had threatened to injure his wife, with whom he is in divorce proceedings. A search of the home of Aughenbaugh’s father reveal ...
  • Anti-Gay Zealot Warns Gay-Friendly Measures Wi ...
    Anti-gay zealot Peter LaBarbera has offered a curious rationale for why the United States should not promote the rights of LGBT people: It might upset Muslims. In an article published Wednesday on the Christian-oriented website One News Now, LaBarbera, who is founder and president of Americans f ...

change: org.

  • Tim Collette: “I’m at the end of m ...
    Y­­ou would think, after being caught overcharging 4,000 service members and illegally foreclosing on 14 military families, JPMorgan Chase would be bending over backwards to repair its image with the military. But apparently, Chase’s customer 'service' only goes so far for our men and women in u ...
  • Mayor Wharton's Memphis Blues: Missing Dogs, A ...
    Memphis Mayor Wharton promised to clean up the shelter when he took office in 2009. So far, he has spent the past two years defending the shelter's mismanaged operations instead of confronting the challenge of taking a stand for animals. In the most recent blow to the reputation of Memphis Anima ...
  • Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Delta Leave CVN.org; A ...
    Pressure is increasing on Apple to remove their online store from the “Christian Values Network” (CVN), after several other corporations have removed their stores this week. More than 3,500 people have signed Western Washington University student Ben Crowther’s Change.org petition to Apple. CVN ...
  • Only 3 Days Left to Stop a Wisconsin Factory Farm
    When a factory farm sets its sights on a community, it takes a pretty dedicated group to keep it from being built. A group fighting a 5,000-cow dairy farm in Richfield, Wisconsin has taken some pretty big steps to do just that. Activists stoked the media's interest in their cause. They've garner ...
  • WATCH: Jose Antonio Vargas Thanks Change.org S ...
    Did you catch last night's Colbert Report? If not, check out the video below the jump. Not only did Jose Antonio Vargas hold his own against Stephen's satirical anti-immigrant attacks, the two had a few moments of amusing banter. What was your favorite bit? Mine was a toss-up between Stephen cal ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Former Obama Supporters: 'Touch Social Program ...
    The liberal advocacy group Progressive Change Campaign Committee delivered 200,000 pledges to President Obama's campaign headquarters Friday, demanding he hold their line in debt ceiling negotiations or lose their support. read more
  • House Leaders to Palestine: Seek UN Recognitio ...
    The top Republican and Democrat foreign aid leaders in the House of Representatives are warning the Palestinian Authority (PA) that U.S. aid will be withheld if the Palestinians seek recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September. ...
  • Debt Talks Yield Little More Than Partisan Pos ...
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Friday that he's hopeful of breaking a "logjam" and finding a way to raise the federal debt ceiling, even as House Republicans prepare a vote next week on a deficit-cutting plan that's sure to win votes from most Republicans — and to go nowhere in the Dem ...
  • NSA Whistleblower Charged Under Spy Act Gets P ...
    A former high-ranking US intelligence official who was accused of passing classified information from the secretive National Security Agency (NSA) to a reporter was sentenced Friday to a year's probation. read more
  • The Fight to Rescue the Arab Spring
    The historic revolutions that have rippled through the Arab world this year were in danger of eclipse on Friday night as protesters returned to the streets to profess their disgust at how the movement is being stymied by regimes old and new. ...

Lifehacker

  • This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
    Google+Facebook Extension Integrates Facebook Viewing and Updating on Google+ (Chrome/Firefox/Internet Explorer) If you're loving Google+ but finding it to be virtual ghost town while your friends slowly trickle in, the Google+Facebook browser extension incorporates your Fa ...
  • Hotmail Adds a "My Friend's Been Hacked&q ...
    Microsoft has just beefed up its Hotmail security with new features that make it easier to report hacked email accounts. More��
  • New Version of iSwipe Gets Better Features and ...
    iOS: The newest version (currently beta 3) of keyboard replacement app iSwipe adds new and improved visual cues to make the swipe-to-type keyboard more accurate and easier to use. More��
  • Build a Double-Decker Standing Desk for Less t ...
    Standing desks are a nice alternative to sitting down all day but they can be expensive (even at IKEA). The IKEA-obsessed DIYers at IKEA hackers detail how to build your own out of a couple table tops and some supports for under $30. Mo ...
  • View ZIP and RAR Files in Google Docs with thi ...
    Chrome: The "Open ZIP and RAR With GDocs" Chrome extension lets you view the contents of a compressed archive directly in your browser using Google Docs' convenient support for ZIP and RAR archives. More��

Water Privatization

  • Biofeedback System Used to Support NASA Missio ...
    The NEEMO-9 project involved under water research since the environment provides some useful similarities to working in space. It included the use of biofeedback to monitor physiological changes in the astronauts.(PRWEB) July 17, 2011 When the space shuttle Atlantis returns from the Internationa ...
  • Chicago mayor to lay off workers to plug budge ...
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - With Chicago still facing a lingering deficit in its current budget, Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled on Friday a series of steps that will lead to up to 625 layoffs.
  • Chicago mayor to lay off workers to plug budge ...
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - With Chicago still facing a lingering deficit in its current budget, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday unveiled steps that will lead to up to 625 layoffs.
  • Chicago mayor to lay off workers to plug budge ...
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - With Chicago still facing a lingering deficit in its current budget, Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled on Friday a series of steps that will lead to up to 625 layoffs.
  • Water Challenges Asia’s Rising Powers – Part II
    India and China account for one third of the world’s population; each consumes more freshwater than other nations. Per inhabitant per year, though, India uses less than half what’s used in the US, China uses less than one third.

Guardian

  • Indonesian volcano has biggest eruption yet
    Mount Lokon on Sulawesi island shoots hot ash and debris 3,500 metres into the air, sending villagers racing to sheltersA volatile volcano in central Indonesia has unleashed its most powerful eruption yet, spewing hot ash and smoke thousands of metres into the air and sending panicked villagers ...
  • British soldier killed in southern Afghanistan
    Investigation under way into reports that serviceman was shot by a member of the Afghan national army in HelmandA British soldier has been shot dead in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence confirmed on Sunday.The serviceman from 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) was killed whil ...
  • Vatican excommunicates bishop ordained by Chin ...
    Relations between China and Vatican City reach an all-time lowThe Vatican excommunicated a Chinese bishop as relations between the Catholic Church and the government in Beijing plunged to their lowest level in recent memory.Joseph Huang Bingzhang was thrown out of the church just two days after ...
  • I share grief for stabbed Briton, says suspect ...
    Parent of man accused of teenager's murder in Greece offers sympathy to victim's familyThe mother of the young Greek accused of murdering a British holidaymaker on the Ionian island of Zante (Zakynthos) said she was driven by only one desire � to comfort the murdered teenager's mother.Breaking h ...
  • Legal aid U-turn 'will penalise the innocent'
    The Ministry of Justice plans to stop refunding the defence costs of people who are acquittedInnocent people will be forced to pay thousands of pounds for their own defence lawyers after a controversial coalition U-turn on legal aid.The move, which lawyers' organisations claim puts a price on ju ...

McClatchey

  • Mexican heroin use on upswing among California ...
    FRESNO, Calif. -- Mexico's heroin industry has had a bullish few years thanks, in part, to the drug's emergence as a popular choice of teenagers.
  • Rick Perry began his political career as a you ...
    Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a no-apologies conservative known for slashing government spending and opposing all tax increases, is about as Republican as you can get.
  • Sheriff: Missing Indian teen wandered Californ ...
    MERCED, Calif. -- A boy from India who went missing in Los Angeles had been wandering in Merced County and foraging for food for 10 to 15 days before being found in Livingston on Wednesday, the Merced County Sheriff's Department said Friday.
  • After 68 years, ‘Battling Buzzards’ ...
    COLUMBUS, Ga. -- Members of a World War II combat unit known as the Battling Buzzards returned to Fort Bennings Eubanks Field for the last time Friday during a reunion at the jump school.
  • 2 plead guilty to trafficking walrus tusks, po ...
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Two men charged with trading in hundreds of pounds of walrus tusks and two polar bear hides admitted in court Friday to breaking federal marine mammal laws. A third member of the alleged conspiracy is set to enter a guilty plea Tuesday.

Afghanistan Sun

  • Elusive Snow Leopards Discovered In Remote Cor ...
    A "surprisingly healthy" population of rare snow leopards has been discovered in the remote northeastern stretches of Afghanistan, one of the few areas largely unaffected by the near ...
  • NATO, Afghan army kill at least 13 Taliban
    KABUL, Afghanistan -; Afghan and NATO troops on Sunday killed at least 13 Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan after an overnight gunbattle ended with an airstrike on the building where the ...
  • British soldier killed in southern Afghanistan
    Afghanistan , the Ministry of Defence confirmed on Sunday.The serviceman from 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) was killed while conducting a routine patrol with members of the Afghan ...
  • Claims Brit Soldier Killed By Afghan Army Member
    He was serving with the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's). The soldier was supporting a routine patrol alongside the Afghan National Army when both groups came under small arms fire. ...
  • Shooter in Afghan army uniform kills NATO trooper
    Kabul: A man in an Afghan army uniform shot and killed a NATO service member Saturday, and the Taliban said the assailant was a sleeper agent who had infiltrated the Afghan military.Cases of foreign ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Environmental whistleblowers' options while wa ...
    My colleague, Lindsey Williams, is today's guest blogger on Bridge the Gulf.  Bridge the Gulf is a citizen journalism project dedicated to saving communities on the Gulf Coast. Today, Lindsey is marking the one-year anniversary of the day the Deepwater Horizon oil well was finally capped.  Yet ...
  • Grand Jury Report: San Francisco Whistleblower ...
    A grand jury report released Monday, July 11th, found that San Francisco’s whistleblower program is riddled with shortcomings. The whistleblower program is designed to protect public interest by encouraging employees to disclose waste, fraud, and abuse. However, the report concluded that the p ...
  • Fourth Circuit again saves False Claims Act fr ...
    Yesterday, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, overruled a petition for rehearing filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), OMB Watch, and the Government Accountability Project (GAP). By rejecting the petition for rehearing, the Fourth Circuit again saved Am ...
  • Blue Bird Bus Corp. Settles Whistleblower Case ...
    Blue Bird Bus Corp., a bus manufacturing company based in Fort-Valley, Georgia, has recently settled a case with the U.S. Department of Labor to pay more then $176,000 in back wages and interest to a former maintenance employee who was illegally terminated in 2004. Blue Bird has also agreed to ...
  • Whistleblowers: From the American Revolution t ...
    On July 25, 2011, one of the nation’s leading whistleblower attorneys, Stephen M. Kohn, will share compelling insights from his newly-released book, The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself at the Mid-Manhattan New York Public Library. The ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

  • Rich Fiscus' Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    This week's favorites post comes from Rich Fiscus, who hasn't commented on the site much, but when he does, it's almost always worth reading. By far, my favorite story of the week was one that seems to have gotten very little attention from the Techdirt community. That's understandable sinc ...
  • Yes, Silicon Valley Is Filled With Trivial Sta ...
    One of the more annoying logical fallacies of the post-gatekeeper era is that because so many people/companies/groups can do something, then the overall output is worthless. We hear this all the time. For example, people will claim that "blogging" sucks, because many blogs suck, and it doesn't ...
  • Verizon Tells Customer To Get A Lawyer & A Sub ...
    I've noticed in the last couple years that major telcos have really ramped up their customer service. I've had very positive exchanges with folks at Sprint and AT&T -- two companies, which used to have reputations for horrible customer service. Sprint, in particular, appears to have made it ab ...
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    I've noticed in the last couple years that major telcos have really ramped up their customer service. I've had very positive exchanges with folks at Sprint and AT&T -- two companies, which used to have reputations for horrible customer service. Sprint, in particular, appears to have made it ab ...
  • Court: Naked Scanners Are Constitutional; But ...
    This isn't a huge surprise, as we said when the lawsuit was first filed, but EPIC has failed in its attempt to have the TSA's naked scanners declared unconstitutional. The court seems to think the scans are just dandy, though it had some trouble with how they were implemented. There were two k ...

VacTruth

  • Why Isn’t ‘Herd Immunity’ Working?
    Californians have a new law regarding vaccination of children: Effective July 1, 2011, all students in grades 7 through 12 will be required to get a booster DTP [Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (Whooping Cough)] due to outbreaks and increases for Pertussis in children. Something doesn’t make s ...
  • Research Shows Vaccinations Are Causing Surge ...
    According to the organization ‘Children & Asthma in America’ there are at least 7 million children in the USA who suffer from the debilitating illness asthma. Are vaccines a major trigger?Vactruth.com
  • Is There Payola In Pharmacology?
    Do you remember a child’s saying, “Pishper shame, pishper shame, you ruined your name”, when someone was caught telling a fib? Well, what should we be saying now that it’s revealed that several respected medical researchers have been caught with their ‘disclosure pants’ down?Vactruth.com
  • Was A Court Ban On Mandatory Vaccination In It ...
    Courts in Italy may have made attempts to stop mandatory vaccination. The first case involved 50 brave families who took their complaints to the appeal court in Ancona. Vactruth.com
  • What Happens When…
    With Child Protective Services (CPS) virtually in every city, county, and state in the USA, what happens when a parent harms a child? Child Protective Services removes the child from the parents’ care and custody and then places the child under the agency’s foster care program with parents facin ...

BroadSnark

  • Deal Breaker
    I recently read The World That Never Was. I really liked it, despite the fact that it includes a gazillion people and can be hard to follow (even for someone who was familiar with many of the players). The book basically covers the period between Haymarket and WWI. There is one part of the book ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I spent the weekend at the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy. Had a really great time with more than 200 of the least pretentious people doing some of the most cool things. Red Emma’s did their usual bang up job with Friday night dinner at 2640. Great speakers at the dinner, especially ...
  • Ciao Newsrooms. I Won’t Miss You.
    Chris Hedges recently wrote one of those sad obituaries for newsrooms. He longs for the old timey orgs like in All the President’s Men. But Iâm not buying all the chicken little stuff when it comes to news. I don’t think the death of newsrooms is such a tragedy. And I’m not just saying that [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I try to keep my petty problems out of the blog, but I have this issue with my upstairs neighbor. She is whiny, hyper-sensitive, and dateless on weekends. This has led to her complaining about us to management. We, of course, are trying to figure out how to be as loud and obnoxious as possible [...]
  • Unions? NBA? Sigh.
    I’m in the middle of writing a completely different post on media, which is taking me entirely too long and should have been up yesterday. But while on the gerbil machine at the gym, I caught Sports Center’s coverage of the NBA lockout.  Now I can’t get my head back into what I was writing. [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • آليات ما بعد ثورة اليمن ينبغي أن تبدأ محلياً ...
    Mostakela: :: Ø¢ÙÙات ما بعد Ø«Ùرة اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙبغ٠أ٠تبدأ محÙÙا٠(ترجمÙ) اÙÙاتبة اÙأمرÙÙÙØ© ÙÙÙا٠تبادر باÙتراح Ø¢ÙÙات ما بعد اÙØ«Ùرة - 2011-ÙÙÙÙÙ(حزÙراÙ)-19 Ø¢ÙÙات ما بعد Ø«Ùرة اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙبغ٠أ٠تبدأ محÙÙا٠Ùتبت: جÙÙ ...
  • Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
    Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
  • Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
    Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
  • Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
    In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
  • Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
    In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...

Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
    Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
    Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
    John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
    Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...

food and water watch

  • By: April
    Please read Blue Gold and When the Rivers Run Dry....I am officially against the majority of desalination due to the fact that all the water we have now is all the water we will EVER have!
  • By: Rich's coworker
    In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
  • By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
    [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
  • By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
    [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
  • By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
    [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]

treehugger

  • US EPA Gets Tough on Glyme
    Image: Glyme molecule Glyme is a nickname for 1,2-dimethoxyethane, a solvent chemical in the glycol ether family. Glyme, and its close cousins diglyme, and ethylglyme, are suspected reproductive toxins. For example, monoglyme is officially required to carry the warnings "May impair fertilit ...
  • Sour Puss Police Bust Kiddy Lemonade Stand
    Photo: pink.polka/Flickr Here's one to file away under weird. Three little ladies in Midway, Georgia were enjoying their summer day selling lemonade when local police drove by and told them to close up shop. You'd think fresh outdoor air and the opportunity to bide summer's lazy days away f ...
  • Announcing Guilded, A New School for Sustainab ...
    Bahar Shahpar and Tara St. James of Guilded. Photo: courtesy Guilded "The fashion industry needs a wake-up call," according to ethical fashion designers-turned-teachers Bahar Shahpar, of her eponymous label, and Tara St. James of Study NY. After years working in the fashion industry and ...
  • Is it Vegan? Gelatin Made From Humans
    Photo: Daniel Morrison It's one of those truths that you'd rather not know. That bright red, orange, and green gelatin you slurped down as a child is actually made from animals. Vegans avoid it like the plague because it's derived from the collagen in an animal's skin and bones. But what if ...
  • LA Uses Scare Tactics to Reduce Traffic, Disco ...
    Photo: janoskpalko under a Creative Commons license. Los Angeles has finally found a way to cut down traffic: terror. The announcement that ten miles of Interstate 405 would be shut down for 53 hours was accompanied by a public three month long awareness campaign to warn drivers to stay awa ...

Biosingularity

  • FDA Approves Prostate Cancer Drug Zytiga
    he FDA has approved the Johnson & Johnson pill Zytiga for use in combination with the steroid prednisone to treat a certain type of late-stage prostate cancer in men who have already been treated with chemotherapy. The medication is to be used to treat patients with metastatic, castration-resist ...
  • Priming the Body to Tackle Cancer
    Melanoma, one of the most common cancers, is usually treated with surgery and aggressive chemotherapy. In a new, preliminary study, Dr. Marcus O. Butler, of Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, suggests a kinder, gentler way of treating melanoma, and perhaps other cancers, using the body’s own ...
  • Electrical Oscillations Found to be Critical f ...
    Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered that electrical oscillations in the brain, long thought to play a role in organizing cognitive functions such as memory, are critically important for the brain to store the information that allows us to navigate through our physical environment. The sci ...
  • Origami: Not just for paper anymore
    While the primary job of DNA in cells is to carry genetic information from one generation to the next, some scientists also see the highly stable and programmable molecule as an ideal building material for nanoscale structures that could be used to deliver drugs, act as biosensors, perform artif ...
  • Fantastic embryonic stem cell animation
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