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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

CFACT

• Not much pop to corn controversy
• The icky problem of sewage treatment
• CEI's Chris Horner on White House lawsuit
• Eco-Lifestyles becoming a regular part of campus
• Interview: House Resources on Healthy Forests

Ria Novosti Online News

• Siberian forest fire area shrinks by 50 pct ov ...
• Russia could lift sunken Bulgaria cruise ship ...
  Rescuers could raise the wreckage of Bulgaria cruise ship from the bed of the Volga River already on Sunday, if they manage to place the second lifting cable under the riverboat, Deputy Transport Minister Viktor Olersky said.
• Brazil launches construction of four Scorpene- ...
  The construction of four Scorpene-class attack submarines for the Brazilian Navy was launched on Saturday at a plant near Rio de Janeiro.
• At least 5 killed, 18 injured as bus collides ...
  At least five people, including two children, were killed and 18 others were injured when a bus collided with a truck in Russia's Novosibirsk region early on Sunday, emergencies services said.
• Turkish Cypriots to help Greek neighbors tackl ...
  The Turkish Cypriot authorities will help their Greek Cypriot neighbors tackle massive electricity shortages caused by an emergency at the island's main power station which was knocked out in an arms blast on Monday, the Greek Cypriot government spokesman said.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Reactor in Japan's Fukui prefecture shut down ...
  A reactor at the Kansai nuclear power plant in Japan's Fukui prefecture has been halted due to a problem with its cooling system, Kyodo quoted the plant's operator as saying on Saturday.
• Atlantis crew leaves historic flag aboard ISS
  Space shuttle Atlantis astronauts brought with them a historic U.S. flag that flew aboard shuttle Columbia on America's first shuttle flight, STS-1 in 1981, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said on Saturday.
• Russia's Soyuz spacecraft with U.S. satellites ...
  Soyuz-2.1a space carrier with six U.S. Globalstar-2 communications satellites blasted off on Wednesday morning from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, said.
• Roscosmos set for 3rd attempt to launch Soyuz ...
  The Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, will go for the third attempt on Wednesday to launch Soyuz-2.1a space carrier with six U.S. Globalstar-2 communications satellites, a spokesman for the agency said.
• Russian research vessel begins Arctic shelf re ...
  Members of the expedition on the delimitation of the Russian Arctic shelf on the research vessel Akademik Fyodorov have begun seismic studies in the area north of Franz Josef Land, a representative of the Rosatom Flot (Russian Atomic Fleet) company Ekaterina Ananyeva said.

Pruning Shears

• Taking Wisconsin nationwide: The Rebuild The A ...
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postWhen the protests in Wisconsin erupted over the winter I remember having an exchange with Athenae. She had been holding her breath every single day because she was sure at any moment it would fall apart. There was good reason to ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Preston J. Suter, 22, Sandy, UT.Army Spc. Jordan C. Schumann, 24, Port Saint Lucie, FL.Army ...
• 'No On SB 5': The summer pause
  Last Wednesday We Are Ohio dropped off 1,298,301 signatures at the Secretary of State’s office to put the citizen veto of SB 5 on the ballot. For the time being that puts activists in a bit of a holding pattern. Enough signatures need to be validated to put it on the ballot in November, and si ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Robert G. Tenney Jr., 29, Warner Robins, GA.Army Capt. Matthew G. Nielson, 27, of Jefferson, ...
• 'No On SB 5': How we got 1.3 million signatures
  One at a time, that’s how.I know that’s a flippant way to put it, but all the big picture stuff risks losing sight of the most important thing of all: This happened because passionately committed individuals took it upon themselves to get the training and put themselves in a position to ask thei ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Back to the Future: The Cities of Tomorrow
  I Love cities-of-the-future illustrations from the old pop-culture bin. In "yesterday's tomorrow," they always get things so wonderfully wrong.Click here to read this article
• Would You Eat Mutant Meat?
  While we all agree that the food industry needs to be able to deliver food free of disease-causing pathogens like E. coli and salmonella, there is no real agreement on exactly how to do that.Click here to read this article
• USDA Seeks Ways to Boost Farm-to-School Programs
  The popularity of farm-to-school programs that put locally grown food on cafeteria trays has exploded in recent years - so much so that the federal agency in charge of school lunches is giving them a new stamp of approval.Click here to read this article
• Why Americans Can't Afford to Eat Healthy
  The easiest way to explain Gallup's discovery that millions of Americans are eating fewer fruits and vegetables than they ate last year is to simply crack a snarky joke about Whole Foods really being "Whole Paycheck." Click here to read this article
• Doctors Mull a 'World without Antibiotics'
  While analyzing supermarket chicken meat and Dutch hospital patients, scientists found a worrisome similarity between the two: they both tested positive for the disease-causing bacteria Escherichia coli -- and the organisms carried the same genes conferring drug resistance, suggesting a passage ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Hen Party: Historic Agreement to Promote Stand ...
  United Egg Producers (UEP) has partnered with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), agreeing to work together toward legislation of national standards to be used in egg production.
• TIME Magazine: Spotlight on IFAP and “Conceale ...
  When looked at through the lens of public health, the abuse that we see in the Mercy for Animals video constitutes not only cruelty to animals, but cruelty to humans as well, including the dehumanizing influence on workers forced to labor under conditions that ultimately breed contempt for the a ...
• Focus on Food Day: The Consequences of Meat
  Earlier this week, CLF’s Robert S. Lawrence, MD, and Keeve Nachman, PhD, kicked off the Center for a Livable Future’s countdown to Food Day with a webinar, “Industrial food animal production and the high-meat American diet: health and environmental consequences.” (Audio; slides). October 24, 20 ...
• Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grow ...
  June 9-12, Amanda Behrens and I journeyed to Missoula, Montana for the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). The conference, entitled Food ...
• Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
  Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
  NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...
• News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...
  NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART The Facebook page on Macsyna King is dishonest. They have known all along that Macsyna has neither sought nor been offered any money or compensation for the book Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart. Still, the...
• Sea-level study released - yawn
  Mann, Ramstorf and other 'usual suspects' have released their 'it's worse than we thought' sea level "study". Newspaper paraphrases: Looking back in history, the researchers found that sea level was relatively stable from 100 BC to AD 950. Then, during...
• Where's my global warming dude?
  Temperature trend from HadCRUT for the past decade says it all, really: Hat tip: Steve Goddard
• Prepare for global cooling - it's official
  To coincide with the release of Air Con Climategate Edition on Kindle, there's been a stunning announcement today that we appear to be seeing major changes in the Sun, of a type that heralded the Little Ice Age. The full...

My Care2 Picks

• No Carbon Tax Rally Hyde Park Sydney 9 July 20 ...
  http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html is only one of my links about relegating fortune telling to a carny scam http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/03/climate.htmlSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Natural Gas Fracking Will F**k Up Your World
  an awesome demonstration of the power of fracking poisons to kill whole forests : NPR had a fantastic story on Friday about the relationship between fracking and the cluster of earthquakes earlier this year in ArkansasSubmitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Rejection by African Union of ICC's Qaddafi ar ...
  If an entire continent rejects an alleged international institution's actions as illegitimate and self-serving, does said institution still get to call itself "international?" ICC 'arrest warrant' for Qaddafi soundly rejected by the 53-member African UnioSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� � ...
• Afghan War will Shift to India?
  In fact, under the pretext of Talibanisation of Pakistan and unrest in the country, which has collevtively been created by the American CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad,......Submitted by Imran F. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• NATO Is An Outlaw, The ICC Is Its Accomplice - ...
  The International Criminal Court at The Hague is a pariah in the world of Justice and International Law; those who work for it are traitors to their cause, the Institution itself is an insult to every fibre of civilisation and a knife in the back...Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note-i ...

Angry Indian News

• Chavez Gives Details of his Health
  Chavez Gives Details of his Health: [granma.cubaweb.cu/english/] Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, gave details on Wednesday of his state of health and the subsequent phases of the process of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• SRI LANKA – 2 years on – No war but no peace f ...
  SRI LANKA – 2 years on – No war but no peace for women still facing the consequences of war � LANKA Independent: "The unedited Statement below is from women in Sri Lanka, but individual and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Actions in Solidarity with California Hunger S ...
  Actions in Solidarity with California Hunger Strike: Montreal Represents! » SABOTAGEMEDIAMontreal, July 8: For the second time this week, people in Montreal acted in solidarity with the historic... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Prensa Latina News Agency - South America Dona ...
  Prensa Latina News Agency - South America Donates 70 Million to Haiti: "Quito, Jul 12 (Prensa Latina) The member countries of the Union of South American Nations have contributed 70 million of 100... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Daily Kos: Skinheads Hunt Native American Fami ...
  Daily Kos: Skinheads Hunt Native American Family: Guess Who Gets Arrested?The PatternSince this crime occurred, the family has found out that skinheads have attacked other Native American families in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Alternative Markets, Barter Systems, and Local ...
  We can sit around on our asses and complain about the terrible state of the world, or we can take it upon ourselves to clean up the mess. That’s all there is. If you are afraid to take action, then I suggest you consider what will happen if you don’t. I see far more danger in complacency and fea ...
• Truth Squad Radio: GMO Deregulation and Agenda 21
  Scotts' GE Kentucky Bluegrass will not be regulated as either a plant pest or noxious weed, and these are the ONLY two ways that GMOs can be regulated by the USDA. Join us as we discuss this issue of the year!
• Codex Commission – Voluntary GMO Labeling Okay ...
  Codex has capitulated on the GM labeling issue after a battle spanning approximately 20 years, stating that it will allow countries to label GMOs and the WTO will not legally challenge them for it.
• GMO Rice is On It’s Way to a Store Near You
  Short, fun video about a very serious subject - GMO rice.
• Truth Squad Radio – Dave Hodges Exposes the Gu ...
  Dave Hodges of the Common Sense Radio Show will join us Wednesday, July 6, 6-8pm Pacific time, to expose the Gulf coast depopulation agenda!

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Cartwright: Budget cuts could force a return t ...
  ShareThisCartwright: Budget cuts could force a return to the draft 14 Jul 2011 The Pentagon is considering massive changes to the force -- including a draft -- amid fears that new and far deeper budget cuts are looming just over the horizon, a top military official said Thursday. Marine Gen. Jam ...
• US soldier killed in southern Iraq, fourth Ame ...
  ShareThisUS soldier killed in southern Iraq, fourth American fatality this month 16 Jul 2011 The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed while conducting military operations in southern Iraq. The military gave no further details in a statement released late Friday, and the name of ...
• US is real enemy of Pakistan: Leader
  ShareThisUS is real enemy of Pakistan: Leader[Not just Pakistan.] 16 Jul 2011 Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, says the United States is the real enemy of the national unity of Pakistan. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks during a meeting with Pakistani President ...
• Bodyguard who killed Karzai's brother was trus ...
  ShareThisBodyguard who killed Karzai's brother was trusted CIA contact 16 Jul 2011 The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai's brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban. Sardar Mohammad, who shot Ahmed Wali Karzai at hi ...
• Karzai assassin had been CIA contact
  ShareThisKarzai assassin had been CIA contact 16 Jul 2011 The guard who assassinated Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother was a trusted CIA contact before he joined forces with the Taliban, The Independent reported. Sardar Mohammad, who shot Ahmed Wali Karzai Tuesday in Kandahar, also attende ...

Daily Loaf

• 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
  I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
• Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
  Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  ...
• D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
  Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
• Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
  The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
• Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
  April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Part 2 – Demyelination, ...
  Article is intended to be read in conjunction with Part 1: VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix â A Legacy Of Shame Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation ...
• VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
  Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
• VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
  Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
• VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
  “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
• VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
  “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• You Know You're Getting Old When...
  A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
• Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
  Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
• Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
  After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
• Strawberry Picking
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

• Left of Bang
  14 July 2011 A few years ago, a British officer said to me they want to get as far left of bang as possible.� The farther left of bang, the better.� Right of bang is a crater and a memorial service. A main goal in staying left of bang is to disrupt enemy bomb-making cells.� In the early days ...
• Iraq: Inside the Inferno – Foreword by CSM Jef ...
  13 July 2011 Below is the Foreword that Command Sergeant Major Jeff Mellinger wrote for INFERNO. Jeff is a true warrior. We met in 2005 as I wrote about in the dispatch series, WALKING THE LINE. Since then, CSM Jeff Mellinger and I have traveled thousands of miles together across some rough Ir ...
• Rule of Law
  Partners in Law 13 July 2011 Kandahar, Afghanistan Most Afghans hate warlords.� Most Afghans hate the Taliban.� When the warlords ruled Afghanistan it was lawless, and so many people welcomed the Taliban who beat back the warlords and installed crude justice.� Soon, the Taliban, staggered by t ...
• Naval STEM
• IJC: Change of Command
  And a Few Thoughts IJC INVITES MEDIA TO ISAF Joint Command Official Change of Command Ceremony KABUL, Afghanistan (July 9) � Media are invited to attend the change of command ceremony when Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez will welcome Lt. Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti as the new commander of ISAF Join ...

The Killing Train

• Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
  This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.
• Watch out for election day fraud
  Francis Fox Piven (who has had her own experiences recently with Harper's US mentors) and Richard Cloward wrote a very interesting book called "Why Americans Don't Vote", which showed how a key electoral strategy in the US has always been demobilizing opposing voters, a strategy just as importan ...
• Today's election thoughts
  Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
• 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
  The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
• Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
  Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more

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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• At the mercy of Burmese ‘law’, Suu ...
  The government's use of tailor-made laws will be determined by the level of perceived political threat Aung San Suu Kyi poses in her actions
• Defections rattle Burmese embassy in US
  Burma's embassy to Washington has been rattled by two defections of senior diplomats in an embarrassment for the military-backed regime which wants to show the world that it is evolving.
• Child torturer sentenced
  A man facing charges of severely torturing a child in Irrawaddy Division’s Henzada town has been sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday
• Burma army use aircrafts to bomb Shan positions
  Shan State Army claims fighter aircrafts belonging to the Burmese army carried out bombing raids on troops' positions in Kehsi Mansan township
• Army’s use of Convict Porters a War Crime
  Army's use of Convict Porters a War Crime

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Queensland floods and Russian heatwave will be ...
  Chris Huhne's 'carbon saving' measures could double energy bills within nine years - so Australian floods might help to wash down the British voter's bitter pills, says Christopher Booker.
• The Phoenix dust storm shows that, whatever th ...
  Rain or shine, drought, flood or dust-storm, the warmist faith decrees that all 'freak weather events' are man-made, says Christopher Booker.
• £50 trillion needs to be spent on going green ...
  Almost £50 trillion must be spent on green technology over the coming decades if the world is to avert a "major planetary catastrophe", the United Nations has claimed.
• Man-made climate change evidence 'hidden' by s ...
  Cutting down on pollution from Chinese coal plants could actually make the earth become warmer, according to a new study.
• Proof that the Government is tilting at windmills
  The policy on which our national energy strategy is now centred is a ludicrously expensive, self-defeating joke, says Christopher Booker.

National Geographic | Environment

• Giant Undersea Volcanoes Found Off Antarctica
  Large undersea volcanoes off Antarctica—some Mount Fuji-size—were recently discovered via sonar, scientists say.
• War Game Exposes Grim Reality: Few Oil Crisis ...
  Former U.S. government officials struggle to game out solutions in a mock oil crisis with its roots in today’s headlines.
• To Curb Driving, Cities Cut Down on Car Parking
  Cities worldwide find that managing parking is an effective, if indirect, means of addressing energy, traffic, and climate change concerns.
• New Pit Viper Found—One of World's Smallest
  Dubbed a "surprise gift" by scientists, a new snake species found in China is one of the littlest pit vipers in the world.
• Photos: 4 Natural Wonders Added to World Herit ...
  NoneIt's not hard to see why these sites were added this year to the UN's list of global natural treasures. Plus: sites on the rebound—and the decline.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Ninth Circuit partially reinstates 'Don't Ask ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Friday ordered [text, PDF] the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy (DADT) [10 USC � 654; JURIST news archive] to remain partially in place in order for the court to fully consider the issues concerning the policy's complete r ...
• Russia president signs law regulating abortions
  [JURIST] Russian President Dmitry Medvedev [official profile; JURIST news archive] signed a law on Thursday that will place restrictions on abortion [JURIST news archive] by requiring that clinics warn women of the health hazards associated with the practice. Abortions in Russia are free at any ...
• Federal appeals court rejects challenge to TSA ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Friday unanimously rejected [opinion, PDF] a constitutional challenge to the full-body scans conducted at airports by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) [official website]. The appeals court ...
• FBI to probe News Corp in 9/11 phone hacking s ...
  [JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] on Friday announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) [official website] will open an inquiry into whether journalists working for the media company News Corporation (News Corp.) [media website] and its subsidiaries violate ...
• Violent crime rate along US-Mexico border decl ...
  [JURIST] Rates of violent crime along the US-Mexico border [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] have been declining for several years, according to a USA Today analysis [text; interactive materials] released Thursday. The study indicated that, on average, US border cities were safer than other cities i ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• What the President Knows (and When He Knew It)
  Early this morning I quoted reader DM's argument that, despite appearances of President Obama being pushed around and treated like a doormat by more aggressive Republicans, his debt-and-deficit policy actually reflected a shrewd, progressive, long-term strategic view. Here are words of accord fr ...
• Countdown to Default: The Latest Debt-Ceiling News
  What's the debt ceiling? ... What happens if we don't raise it by August 2? ... Is it even constitutional? ... Do we have to have this debate every year? ... Why do we have a debt ceiling to begin with?... What's the "McConnell Proposal"? ... Tracking debt-ceiling developments as they break 1 ...
• Rep. Cantor Wrap-up for Now
  Following two previous items on his role as the man who is happy to blow up the debt talks rather than compromise with a Democratic President or even his own party's Speaker, these final (I hope) responses about "young gun" Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia. - Several readers wrote in to complain ab ...
• Terms of the Debt-Ceiling Debate, Through the ...
  Thanks to Google Ngrams, which tracks the frequency of word use in all books in the Google Books corpus, political terms are traceable throughout the ages. Putting aside any skepticism about Google's ability to catalogue every word used in history, the graphs do show us that some of these ter ...
• Is Peter Orszag Going Rogue on the Debt Ceiling?
  Former OMB director Peter Orszag left the Obama administration last year for Citigroup. But his opinions about what's going on in Washington are highly sought after by Citigroup clients. Part of his job is to advise institutional clients like hedge funds and mutual funds, which are growing nervo ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...

Tikun Olam

• Israel Project Puts Another High-Powered Far-R ...
  I reported here a few years ago about The Israel Project’s “Hasbara Handbook,” created for it by Republican master strategist, Frank Luntz.  He was paid handsomely for his work, earning over $200,000 from the group in 2009.  Apparently, TIP is strengthening its ties to the Republican far-right ...
• Site Outage, Access Restored (I Hope)
  I apologize to my readers for the site being mostly inaccessible for the past 24 hours.  The Israeli Channel 10 TV news program ran a story about my Gideon Sa’ar post and it apparently caused a massive server load.  This caused Hostgator, my web host, to suspend my site.  I didn’t find out ab ...
• Israeli Education Minister, Gideon Sa’ar, Rumo ...
  Word is just beginning to break inside Israel about a possible sex scandal involving a “senior Israeli political figure.”  Several days ago, Maariv political affairs correspondent Shalom Yerushalmi was interviewed on Channel 10 (just prior to 6:00 mark) about stories that were too hot to handl ...
• Bibi Buys UN Votes Against Palestinian Statehood
  Bibi Netnayahu reminds me of the quintessential Eastern European Jewish peddler traipsing the countryside selling just about anything anyone would pay a kopek to buy.  You want a hair brush?  I’ve got one.  A rooster?  Got one of those too.  A bridegroom for your daughter?  Nothing is too ...
• Netanyahu Family’s Racist History: Like Father ...
  Jewish tradition declares that children shall not be punished for the sins of their fathers.  But it didn’t anticipate a son like the 19 year-old Yair Netanyahu, who appears to retain some of the harsh Arab-hatred that characterizes both his father, Benyamin, and 98 year-old grandfather, Ben Zi ...

If Americans Knew

• Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
  In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
• Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
  US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
• Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
  Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
• Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
  Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
• As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
  Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...

David J. Gregory

• Help to overcome
  SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]
• USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
  The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
• FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
  by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
• My Predicament
  For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...
• High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
  O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]

Unsuitable Blog

• Why So Few Unsuitablogs?
  I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
• Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
  We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...
• Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
  In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
• Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty Secrets
  JUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...
• I’m On The Run
  Actually I’m not. It would have been quite exciting to have been writing a blog from an internet cafe somewhere, or hijacking a wireless connection outside an office building, but it seems I am safe and snug in my home completely bereft of law enforcement officers hammering at my door demanding ...

Subalternate Reality

• Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
  Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
• Praying On Qasr al-Nil
  One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
• “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
  The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
• All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
  Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
• Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
  Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...

Idea Lab | Technology

• How Social Networking Can Help Neighbors Durin ...
  Can social-networking sites be used by neighbors to help each other during disasters, as well as with more pedestrian issues the rest of the time? NPR recently covered political scientist Daniel Aldrich's work looking at how neighbors help each other during disasters. From NPR: Aldrich's ...
• Stop Yammering and Start Hammering: How to Bui ...
  Over the next four weeks, a very interesting experiment is going to unfold. The most exciting part about it is that it’s entirely open source: You can observe it, interact with it, and improve it. We’re calling this experiment the “learning lab.” It’s the second stage of the Knight-Mozill ...
• How TileMill Improved Ushahidi Maps to Protect ...
  In May I worked with Plan Benin to improve its Violence Against Children (VAC) reporting system. The system uses FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi to collect and visualize reports of violence against children. Ushahidi develops open-source software for information collection, visualization and interacti ...
• When Moral Systems Miss the Point in Newsgames
  In "Newsgames: Journalism at Play," we argue that the news quiz "is an incredibly simple type of game, but one that nevertheless can transmit factual information in a refreshing way." Perhaps our favorite example is an op-ed suite from The New York Times called "Turning Points, 2008 Edition," wh ...
• MIT Lesson: Change Happens Everywhere; Activis ...
  I attended last Thursday's afternoon plenary "Civic Media Mobilization," at the 2011 Knight Civic Media conference, expecting to hear discussion about specific activist technologies and techniques. I was also anticipating some juicy political friction between the Tea Party consultant and the imm ...

Cutting Edge News

• Guyana on Edge - Guyana sails into Unchartered ...
  As Guyana prepares for its upcoming parliamentary elections, tensions between its two major political parties ride high.� The People�s Progressive Party (PPP) and the People�s National Congress (PNC), bitter adversaries since their inception in the 1950s, are the main contenders for the presiden ...
• Mexico on Edge - A Politically-Dependent Appro ...
  The effectiveness of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in reducing immigration levels in a given country is well documented within the European Union (E.U.) as part of the E.U. regional policy governing admittance of new� member states.� Given the current failure of U.S. policies to stem t ...
• Brazil on Edge - Brazilian Congress Fails to R ...
  A string of recent events indicates that Amazonian deforestation and violence against environmental activists are on the rise. The Brazilian Congress’s lower house approves a bill that weakens protection of the rainforest—which may explain the drastic increase in deforestation, as land clearers ...
• Edge on Terrorism - Obama administration Seeks ...
  Just when you thought it not possible for the Holder Justice Department to become any more hostile to the national and homeland security interests of the American people, along comes yet another travesty.� This one threatens both, as it apparently would involve turning loose in America a convict ...
• Edge of the Universe - The Universe May Have B ...
  Physicists and astronomers have long believed that the universe has mirror symmetry, like a basketball. But recent findings from the University of Michigan suggest that the shape of the Big Bang might be more complicated than previously thought, and that the early universe spun on an axis.To tes ...

High Country News

• Leadville, an old Colorado mining town, may re ...
  As prices soar, Freeport McMoRan ponders reviving the town's Climax molybdenum mine
• Montana's top gun-rights advocate has a nation ...
  Gary Marbut's case for state rights in gun regulations is spreading from Montana to the West and beyond.
• Justice delayed but finally delivered
  After 15 long years, Elouise Cobell's class action suit over missing Indian trust fund accounts has been settled.
• Going down the road feeling bad
  Life in the rural West is wonderful, unless you find yourself in need of serious medical care.
• A fire lookout in a wilderness speaks of our past
  The Green Mountain Fire Lookout in Washington's Glacier Peak Wilderness is worth preserving, partly in memory of the workers who built it.

CounterCurrents

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• Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market- The G ...
  By William HicksContinuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years
• Disastrous US Jobs Report Points To Deepening ...
  By Barry GreyUS payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department
• A State For Jews
  By William James Martin Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state - Israel- which is a state for Jews, and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians
• Israelis Rush For Second Passports
  By Franklin Lamb Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 s ...

Contagious Love Experiment

• Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
  Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
• Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
  Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
• Practicing Peace in the New Year
  A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
• Sharing the writing of another Stieber
  My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
• Article in FOR
  The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...

Yid With Lid

• When the US and Israel REALLY became Allies-Ja ...
  For the first twenty years of her existence, the United States was not Israel's staunchest ally, believe it or not, France was the Jewish state's biggest benefactor. True the US was the first country to recognize Israel after she declared independence in May 1948, but that was the stron ...
• The Obama Administration’s “Mission Accomplish ...
  By Barry Rubin Leon Panetta, leaving the CIA directorship post to become secretary of defense, and General David Petraeus, leaving the job of commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan to become CIA chief, have just come close to declaring victory in the war against terrorism, though that�s a ...
• Thank You All For Your Well Wishes
  Thank you everybody for the well wishes you have sent. As you can probably tell I am not yet 100% but I am doing a bit better everyday. Only two posts by me today because I still have to take long breaks after typing...but the shoulder is much better than it was Tuesday morning.� Hopefully I wil ...
• Join the “We Know” Movement on the Debt Ceiling
  Over the past couple of days a small but potentially highly influential campaign within the Tea Party Movement began to take shape centered around the fearmongering and scare tactics being employed by Democrats, a complicit media, and the White House itself. Calling out the lies and d ...
• Newly Released Documents Proves The White Hou ...
  Back in October 2009 the White House received a major league bitch slap� as it tried to escalate its censorship of Fox News but received no cooperation from the other networks. On Special Report host Bret Bair told the story of Obama's foolishness: "Today there was an announcement by the a ...

The Real Agenda

• U.S. Court Rules in favor of Body Scanners
  The Court defied Fourth Amendment and told TSA to get public comments on body scanners. Associated Press July 16, 2011 The public should have had the chance to raise concerns about full body scanners before the government put them in airports around the country, a federal appeals court said Frid ...
• ¿Cómo el globalismo destruye puestos de trabaj ...
  Aunque los Efectos negativos de la Globalización se sienten más y peor en Estados Unidos y otros Países Desarrollados, no pasará mucho tiempo para que esos mismos efectos se vean en el resto de las economías. Adaptación Luis R. Miranda American Dream 14 de julio 2011 Mientras la mayoría de los e ...
• Google Is Making Us All Dumber
  Sajid Farooq NBC July 15, 2011 Struggling to remember street names or basic math? Blame Google. A new study by Columbia University psychologists does just that. A new type of amnesia, called the Google Effect, is impacting how humans remember facts because we rely too much on search engines to r ...
• California to Teach of history of Homosexualit ...
  Wyatt Buchanan SFGate July 15, 2011 Public schools in California will be required to teach students about the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans starting Jan. 1 after Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed a controversial bill to add the topic to the social sciences c ...
• O Poder Horizontal do Estado
  Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 13 de julho de 2011 Quantos liberais, libertários, conservadores e anarquistas, para citar alguns, não gostam dos resultados derivados de ter um Estado fora de controle? Seria interessante a realização de uma pesquisa para descobrir exatamente. No entanto, uma ...

Wind Watch

• Wind farm cleared by state panel; Regulators o ...
  Construction on a wind farm slated for the Fletcher and Tenney mountain ridges in Groton is going forward after approval by state regulators. The state Site Evaluation Committee late last week rejected an appeal by Groton and Rumney residents to stop the project and approved the proposal submitt ...
• Consultant will begin study of options for mit ...
  Selectmen made no definitive decision regarding the future of the town�s two wind turbines last night, but will have the town�s consultant Weston & Sampson investigate a range of options that could mean taking down both machines and selling them to another community on one end of the spectrum to ...
• Voters back turbine ban
  FRANKLIN GROVE � Residents in the Franklin Grove area voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to ban industrial wind turbines. In the nonbinding referendum, 137 voters, or 75 percent, backed the ban, while 45, or 25 percent, opposed it. Voters in Frankin Grove and those within 1.5 miles of its boundaries c ...
• North Kingstown moves to prohibit wind turbines
  NORTH KINGSTOWN �� The Town Council Monday night took steps that would prohibit wind turbines in all parts of town except Quonset, which does not fall under its zoning authority. Proposals for two large wind turbines by Wind Energy Development LLC have sparked considerable resistance among some ...
• Proposed Palm Beach wind farm could shred birds
  Good jobs. Clean energy. Mangled birds. These are the possible results of a vast wind farm proposed for the agricultural lands of western Palm Beach County. Wind Capital Group, a St. Louis energy company, wants to build about 80 turbines across 16,000 acres of the Everglades Agricultural Area, w ...

Tippers News

• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
  Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher Away C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
  Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (:Submitted by Evelyn J. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• In Shadow of Death, Iraq and U.S. Tiptoe Aroun ...
  “The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is privately telling American officials that it wants their Army to stay here after this year. The Americans are privately telling their Iraqi counterparts that they want to stay. But under what conditions, and at what price to the Americans ...
• As White House Talks Falter, Senate Works on A ...
  “Late Thursday, McConnell told a radio interviewer that the new debt-reduction panel would “probably be part of the bill” and that it would likely be asked to issue its report by the end of the year. Given the high stakes, Reid and McConnell were moving quietly. Too much information, Reid said, ...
• Taxation Is Still Robbery
  It is sad that most self-styled lovers of humanity embrace a money-raising system grounded in the threat of physical force – violence -- against people who themselves have not used force.
• To Track Militants, U.S. Has System That Never ...
  “In Iraq and Afghanistan, all detainees and prisoners must submit to such scrutiny. But so do local residents who apply for a government job, in particular those with the security forces and the police and at American installations. A citizen in Afghanistan or Iraq would almost have to spend eve ...
• Tensions Escalate as Stakes Grow in Fiscal Clash
  “Mr. McConnell portrayed his proposal as a last-stand way to spare Republicans from being blamed for a default if no alternative plan could be approved.” New York Times Crises produce plenty of blame to shift onto opponents.  Talk about perverse incentives. FEE Timely Classic “The Politics of D ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
  This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...
• Journalists, take another look at Tumblr
  For a long time I had trouble appreciating Tumblr, but I think I finally understand its strengths — and I must not be the only one. Tumblr is now one of the top 25 websites in the U.S., according to data from Quancast, as reported in a new article at TechCrunch. It gets close to 5,000 pagevie ...
• Branding: Should journalists build a personal ...
  If you’re teaching journalism today, you must be aware of the discussion that surrounds branding. If you’re a young journalist, or someone planning to enter the field of journalism, you need to understand what personal branding means. On June 23, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten wrote ...
• Journalists: How to get started with Twitter
  If you haven’t yet found any value in using Twitter, here’s what you should consider. On the topic of WHY to get started, John Robinson (the editor of the News & Record, in Greensboro, North Carolina) wrote a very good piece for ASNE this week. If youâre not on Twitter, youâre making your job ...
• Tune up your skills this summer
  Looking over my Google Analytics data today, I found that these are some of the most-visited pages on this blog: How to shoot video interviews Why does anyone major in journalism? A few words about digital audio recorders Recording phone calls: For reporters Now printable! Reporterâs Guid ...

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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Women's Struggle in Sierra Leone
  The struggle for equal opportunities for women in all aspects of Sierra Leone's socio-economic life is as crucial for our country's future as it is for women.
• South Sudan: Safeguarding Independence
  The world's newest nation has reason to look positively as its future, but South Sudan must work hard to safeguard its hard-won independence.
• AIDS at 30: Lessons Learned
  For the last 30 years, the battle against AIDS is one that we have been both winning and losing on a global scale.
• Nigeria: Ten Unavoidable Issues
  Over the next four years, Nigeria's leaders have an opportunity to address a host of issues that have plagued the country both domestically and in terms of foreign policy.
• Political Expediency May Forfeit Reform in Somalia
  The Kampala Accord aims to end Somalia's transitional government, removing its prime minister in the process. Is this the best thing for the people?

Telegraph UK - oil

• Hope for motorists as oil price tumbles
  Drivers can finally expect some relief at the petrol pump, after the price of oil dropped sharply.
• Oil refinery blast: Chevron site has excellent ...
  The safety record at the Chevron oil refinery in Pembroke has been praised following the fire and explosion which killed four contractors.
• Petrol retailers told to help motorists as oil ...
  Petrol retailers are under pressure to cut the cost of motoring after oil prices plummeted on the world market.
• Chris Huhne needs a lesson in economics
  Plundering the profits from North Sea oil will only hold back Britain's recovery, argues Jeremy Warner.
• The Gulf of Mexico is not as clean as they say
  Assessing the true toll of the Deepwater Horizon blow-out is only starting, says Geoffrey Lean.

Ian Welsh

• So, compared to McCain, was Obama actually the ...
  I thought so at the time, but I’ve been wondering for a while.  As I’ve pointed out, frequently, Bush failed to slash Social Security.  Obama is probably going to do so soon.  I doubt McCain, any more than Bush, could have done so. Of course, on the negative side McCain might have gone to war ...
• Stirling Newberry and Ian Welsh on Virtually S ...
  You can listen live here. (Same link will probably work for listening after the fact, will update if not.)
• On Social Security Cuts
  February 9, 2009: Then we’re going to get entitlement “reform.” Since Obama is promising this to Blue Dogs, this isn’t going to be anything you’re going to like. January 4, 2010: So you’re far more likely to see Medicare and Social Security gutted, than you are to see the military budget cut in ...
• Deserve: the deadliest word
  I hate the word “deserve” because lord save us all from what we “deserve”, but lately I find it hard to remember that one good person is worth saving, or that most people are just weak, not evil.  The world will burn, in war, and famine, and revolution, and climate change and it will burn [...]
• I think the oligarchs are overplaying their hand
  In particular the Greek “bailout” was a mistake.  A horribly punitive measure, with virtually the entire “Socialist” party voting for it, it wasn’t a bailout of Greece, but a bailout of investors.  As part of the response, the Greek ministry of finance was set alight. The oligarchs, by making ...

Media Consortium

• Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability | ...
  Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. The programs are an integral part of staying competitive within your market, so they should be created wisely.
• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...

Reality Asserts Itself

• Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
  My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
• PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
  A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
• FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
  I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
• PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
  Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
• China and the end of the end of history
  Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• National Academies panel ponders research univ ...
  A US National Academies panel studying the future of American research universities is considering recommending a third big push, similar to the establishment of land grant universities after the Civil War and the federal investment in research universities after World War two, that would involv ...
• ‘Reverting to voting could be harmful’ whaling ...
  This year’s annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has ended, not unexpectedly, in acrimony and farce. Every year the commission meets to discuss the hunting of whales. Every year conservationists push for fewer whales to be caught. Every year Japan, Norway and other nat ...
• NRC task force proposes new safety guidelines ...
  Four months after the Fukushima crisis garnered its first headlines in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami, nuclear authorities are still trying to define an appropriate response that will reassure politicians and the public without creating an unnecessary burden on industry. This week a t ...
• NRC task force proposes new safety guidelines ...
  Four months after the Fukushima crisis garnered its first headlines in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami, nuclear authorities are still trying to define an appropriate response that will reassure politicians and the public without creating an unnecessary burden on industry. This week a t ...
• Technicolour toad spotted after 87 years
  Posted on behalf of Chloe McIvor. The striking Bornean rainbow toad (Ansonia latidisca) has been seen for the first time since the 1920s and finally caught on camera. Previously, the only image of the toad was a black and white drawing, but we can now see that the toad clearly deserves its ti ...

new geography

• A Most Undemocratic Recovery
  Unemployment over nine percent, the highest rate this far into a “recovery” in modern times, reflects only the surface of our problems. More troubling is that over six million American have been unemployed for more than six months, the largest number since the Census began tracking their n ...
• A Divided Vietnamese Community in France and I ...
  Several countries with the largest Vietnamese populations today – United States, Canada and Australia – did not have such communities until after the Vietnam War. France, the largest non-English speaking community in the Vietnamese diaspora with about 300,000 strong, illustrates a much more com ...
• Let's Face It, High Speed Rail Is Dead
  Advocates were ecstatic when President Obama had $8 billion for high speed rail put into the stimulus bill. His administration planned to make HSR one of the cornerstones of its infrastructure investment program. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood visited Europe to check out HSR there in ...
• America’s Burgeoning Class War Could Spell Opp ...
  Last week�s disappointing job reports, with unemployment rising above 9%, only reinforced an emerging reality that few politicians, in either party, are ready to address. American society is becoming feudalized, with increasingly impregnable walls between the classes. This is ironic for a nation ...
• "Art, Design, Portland" District Offers Opport ...
  In a dreary economy, with record numbers of Portlanders unemployed and underemployed, the shared work space is hoping to tap into the city�s DIY sensibility to foster innovation, creativity and a new connection to work. But similar projects have tried here before --- and failed. Will ADX�s new a ...

GM Watch

• Rothamsted cuts to agroecology "Swimming again ...
  NOTE: More on Rothamsted: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Rothamsted_Research --- --- Rothamsted Cuts to Agroecology "Swimming Against the Tide" GM Freeze, 15 July 2011 The decision by Rothamsted Research to close three major departments central to their agroecological research base has bee ...
• Rothamsted cuts to agroecology "Swimming again ...
  NOTE: More on Rothamsted: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Rothamsted_Research --- --- Rothamsted Cuts to Agroecology "Swimming Against the Tide" GM Freeze, 15 July 2011 The decision by Rothamsted Research to close three major departments central to their agroecological research base has bee ...
• Enquêtes de la WDR sur le World Wide Fund for ...
  Enquêtes de la WDR sur le World Wide Fund for Nature Le WWF et l'industrie / Le pacte avec le panda[1] Par Lars Langenau[2] sueddeutsche.de Média [Original allemand: http://bit.ly/SZPandaPakt] 22 juin 2011, 19h00 Quels sont les véritables liens entre le WWF et l'industrie? À l'heure du cinquant ...
• Enquêtes de la WDR sur le World Wide Fund for ...
  Enquêtes de la WDR sur le World Wide Fund for Nature Le WWF et l'industrie / Le pacte avec le panda[1] Par Lars Langenau[2] sueddeutsche.de Média [Original allemand: http://bit.ly/SZPandaPakt] 22 juin 2011, 19h00 Quels sont les véritables liens entre le WWF et l'industrie? À l'heure du cinquant ...
• Shock documentary: WWF and industry - The pact ...

spiked

• Making a crisis out of a Greek drama
  ESSAY: To overcome the Eurozone crisis, we should declare war on the fatalist notion that sluggish growth is the ‘New Normal’.
• How green politicking will deepen fuel poverty
  British consumers will pay a high price for Chris Huhne’s desire for moral grandstanding on climate change.
• Building a wall between adults and children
  The vital interactions between one generation and the next are being hampered by overblown fears of ‘stranger danger’.
• How Human Rights Watch plans to rescue US impe ...
  HRW is demanding that Bush be tried for war crimes only because it wants to resuscitate US authority over the uncivilised hordes.
• Spraying for peace in the Middle East
  Nathalie Rothschild reports from Hebron on the Western spraycan activists who are graffiting the West Bank.

Cryptogon

• Flood Berm Collapses at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
  Via: AP: A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early April for refueling, and there is no w ...
• Greece: ‘A Sovereign Debt Crisis of Soph ...
  Via: Telegraph: The essence of ancient Greek tragedy is that the audience knows it will end in disaster, but feels compelled to watch the horror unfold. And so it is with the modern version, a sovereign debt crisis of Sophoclean dimensions. Themes of the great dramatist’s finer works are all the ...
• Threat of $100 Billion Hit if U.S. Top Rating Lost
  I definitely wouldn’t assume that the impact of a credit rating cut would be limited to $100 billion. I doubt there is any way to know what the impact will be because so many derivatives have been struck off the underlying debt. In other words, this $100 billion number may be just the tip of [...]
• Fukushima Residents’ Urine Now Radioactive
  Via: Japan Times: More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday. Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, whi ...
• Friend of British Prime Minister Found Dead in ...
  Via: Belfast Telegraph: Detectives are hoping toxicology results will shed light on the death riddle of a senior Tory in a Glastonbury Festival VIP toilet. Christopher Shale, 56, a close friend of David Cameron, was discovered slumped in a cubicle in the backstage area on Sunday morning. The Pri ...

The Economic Collapse

• 10 Signs That The American People Are Starting ...
  All over America, restlessness and frustration are growing. It has now been almost three years since the great financial crash of 2008, and yet the U.S. economy is still a complete and total mess.  In fact, there are all sorts of signs that things are about to get even worse, an ...
• If The U.S. Government Loses Its AAA Rating It ...
  For decades, the U.S. government has had a AAA rating.  On the scales used by the big three credit rating agencies, that is the highest credit rating that a government can get.  Moody's scale actually uses lettering that is a little different from the other two big agencies ("Aa ...
• 15 Examples That Show Many Americans Have Beco ...
  More Americans than ever are desperate for money and many of them will do just about anything to get it.  The crumbling U.S. economy has pushed millions of ordinary Americans to the brink of utter desperation.  When it comes time to choose between being able to survive or breaki ...
• A Bad Mood Has Descended On World Financial Ma ...
  Have you noticed that a really bad mood seems to have descended on world financial markets?  Fear and pessimism are everywhere.  The global economy never truly recovered from the financial crisis of 2008, and right now everyone is keeping their eyes open for the next "Lehman Bro ...
• Uh Oh – Italy Is Coming Apart Like A 20 ...
  Did anyone really think that Italy would be able to get through this thing without needing a bailout?  Just when you thought that things in Europe could get back to normal for a little while, here comes Italy.  On Friday, there was a bit of a "mini-panic" as investors started du ...

Desertification

• The worst drought in the Horn of Africa for 60 ...
  Read at : Google Alert – Images of the Africa Drought http://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/Cheshire/Cheadle/SK8/News/Whats-On/201437-Retrak:-horn-of-Africa-crisis-appeal-in-Cheadle-Hulme Retrak: Horn of Africa crisis appeal in Cheadle Hulme Author: Lucy Derges The worst drought in the Horn of Africa for ...
• Severe food crisis in East Africa (Google / Th ...
  Read at : Google Alert – Images of the Africa Drought http://www.world-science.org/podcast/drought-in-east-africa-what-constitutes-a-famine-saturns-storm/ Drought in East Africa, What Constitutes a famine? Saturnâs Storm Download MP3 East Africa is experiencing a severe food crisis. Two seasons ...
• Swale gardening in the desert (Google / Easy G ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desert gardening http://www.easygardeningideas.com/a-surprising-new-way-of-gardening-in-the-desert.html A Surprising New Way of Gardening in the Desert Have you ever heard of a swale? Most people havenât unless they have been practicing a whole new way of gardening in … ...
• Africa Drought (Herberito LOPEZ)
  Today, I received an email from Herberito LOPEZ, bringing me some interesting information on drought in Africa and the southwest moving of the Shara desert dust.  He is wondering if the Africa Drought  and Africa Saharan Desert south boundary shift … Continue reading →
• Smallholder’s life in Devon (UK) and pol ...
  VIDEO seen at : http://youtu.be/oukwJ7Q_MWE The Good Life Mason Style �

The Paper Trail

• Center staff honored with awards
  Spring is journalism awards season and we’re delighted that the Center for Public Integrity and partner NPR have received a prestigious Dart Award for the story “Seeking Justice in Campus Rapes.” The award is bestowed by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.
• A new site, a new era
  Make iWatch News your daily source for investigative and accountability news from around the corner – and across the globe.
• Accountant gets $4.5 million from IRS for whis ...
  PHILADELPHIA — An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award.
• Hey Congressman! How many federal workers are ...
  When Republican Mike Pence stood in front of a crowd of conservative activists at the end of March, he left no question as to his views on a possible government shutdown.
• E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley ...
  An employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives alleged that he was “called to the carpet” by supervisors, accused of lying and ordered to write down everything that was said in meetings that were held with Senate staffers conducting an inquiry, according to newly release ...

backofthebook.ca

• 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 ...

libcom

• Samsung workers in Mexico on hunger strike - S ...
  Huelga de hambre.jpg Four female workers, unfairly fired and victims of workplace abuse, have caged themselves and sewn their lips shut as they launch a hunger strike and one threatens to burn hersel ...
• Industrial Workers of the World Migrant Cleane ...
  cleaners-strike--fnv.jpg A participant's report on Friday's strike and picket by cleaners at Guildhall (City of London), in protest at late and unpaid salaries going back months. ...
• Southampton: Britain's Wisconsin?
  southampton strike.jpg Public sector workers in Southampton are reaching the end of a week of strike action, organised in response to swingeing cuts and job losses being implemented by the Conservati ...
• Brisbane Food Not Bombs Kitchen vs Talisman Sa ...
  Press statement from Brisbane Food Not Bombs, Australia in resistance to the Talisman Sabre War Games. Join us at the Food not Bombs kitchen, Brisbane Square, Brisbane CBD, 1pm on Saturday the 16th of July- to voice our opposition to ...
• Preliminary notes towards an account of the "m ...
  Greece drumming riot picture.jpg The movement of the assemblies in the squares started completely unexpectedly on the 25th of May in Athens. It’s unclear which was the initial group of people that to ...

Free Range International

• AWK Whacked
  So it seems that Ahmed Wali Karzai (aka AWK or A-wak, as it’s pronounced), was whacked by one of his own guards yesterday, sending everyone in the US and Afghan governments into a tizzy as they try to figure out how to fill the power vacuum created by his demise.  I really can’t say for [...]
• FRI Rides Again
  As a devoted follower of FRI for the past few years, I was as disappointed as the rest of you readers to hear that Baba Tim was going dark on the site.  So, given the fact that I’m currently in a position to continue providing dispatches from the freeranger perspective in [...]
• FabFi on the front page of New York Times
  Here’s an update in an attempt to counteract the thoroughly depressing news of Tim going silent. (Anyone who knows Tim in person knows that you can’t actually silence him; he’s still ranting but we’ve turned off the blog-mike). With Kanani’s help, I’ve put this post in Babatim format. This wee ...
• There’s Fire
  Fighting season is now on. This year the villains strategy appears to involve deliberate attacks on aid projects and let me tell you something we (the outside the wire aid community) are getting hammered.  In the last week a majority of us have had to deal with murders, intimidation, shootings, ...
• Where There Is Smoke
  In the Helmand Province, this year’s fighting season has started off with a whimper.  On May Day (as predicted) the only action was in Paktika Province where a child suicide bomber violated the latest Taliban public announcement by blowing himself up in a police station.  The Taliban had just ...

The Story Behind the Story

• Ritual Murder – MUST WATCH VIDEO!!!
  Ritual Murder is not just a “Jewish” problem.  It is a Mormon problem, and a Roman Catholic “Problem” as well. On July 19, 1990, a “General Authority” of the LDS “Mormon” Church named Glen Pace wrote a memo that he eventually leaked to the Utah Media concerning Satanic Ritual Abuse.  In this m ...
• Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?? Kapparot ...
  Animal Sacrifice is clearly a precept and mainstay of the Khazarian “Jewish Religion”.    Is it just animals such as chickens and goats that are “sacrificed” in this obviously Satanic ritual, or do the Khazarian  “global elite” prefer human beings – especially children for their bloody sacri ...
• FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation, o ...
  Horowitz and Kane, by their own admission, have publicly declared that they have been actively soliciting the San Francisco FBI Office to “investigate” A. True Ott as a dangerous subversive, hate-mongering, anti-semitic, anti-government, murdering “domestic terrorist Satanist” with a large organ ...
• MORE TRUTH EXPOSING SATANIC CULT PRACTICES!
  Horowitz and Kane have the “chutzpah” to say my posts concerning Jewish lies and extremism are “hateful” when all they do is tell the unvarnished truth???   Try telling that to the PARENTS of little 8-year old Leiby Kleitzy Mr. Horowitz NPD.  This innocent little lad had the terrible misfortu ...
• Horowitz and Kane’s TWISTED Civil Case V ...
  https://ocapps.occourts.org/civilwebShopping/DisplayCaseInformation.do?caseNbr=30-2011%2000480327&caseYear=2011&source=case_src_dtl# Sheri Kane and Leonard Horowitz’s P.R. gambit has officially backfired.  Showing that their allegations against me, A. True Ott to be completely malicious and fra ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
  Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
• Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
  Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
• Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
  There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
• Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
  Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
• Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
  It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...
  CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
• Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
  Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
• Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
  The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
• Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
  Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
• Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
  Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.

Scotts Contracting

• US Chamber’s history,and the stuff we fo ...
  Dear friends, What is the US Chamber of Commerce hiding? Our team recently decided to dig into the US Chamber’s history–and the stuff we found is not pretty. You’ve got to see it to believe it: Visit www.USChamberOfSecrets.org With the final installment of the Harry Potter movie series premierin ...
• Solar economics- A whole new ball game
  One of the things that drives alternative energy advocates up the wall about trying to explain the benefits of these energy sources is that some people simply don’t understand the economics of alternative energy. Nowhere is this more obvious than with solar power. The average solar panel is actu ...
• Insulation ROI- Be Energy Smart and Money Wize
  Misunderstood Payback Periods of Proper Insulation: This is a huge mistake people make. I had a consumer recently tell me that 2 years was too long to get all his money back. If he understood Payback periods, he’d understand that he was turning down a 50% return on his money. Now, investments th ...
• Petition to Stop Ameren UE-Coal Ash Utility Wa ...
  Petition: We, the undersigned, are opposed to placing a coal ash utility waste landfill in the Labadie Bottoms floodplain of the Missouri river as proposed by AmerenUE. The proposed landfill will store harmful quantities of toxic heavy metals and other contaminants. Despite Ameren’s assurances o ...
• six neighborhood factors that affect the envir ...
  The Greenest Building Is The One That’s Already Built ⦠Sometimes Posted June 20, 2011 by Kaid Benfield copied from: http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/kaidbenfield/26182/greenest-historic-building-one-thats-right-context?utm_source=scc_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter Iâ ...

The View From Abroad

• Western Imperialism Strikes Again
  The invasion of Libya is about imperialism not protection of civilians.
• What Obama Should Have Said
  As I was reading President Obama's speech last week, I dozed off into a glorious daydream.
• “Where’s the Beef”?
  After Osama bin Laden was killed, why wasn't his body displayed for verification.
• Bernanke is Still Clueless
  Ben Bernanke has been consistently wrong in the past. Why does anybody listen to him anymore?
• Dangers are Inherent in the War with Qaddafi
  Libya could become the next quagmire for American forces.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Obsolete Pentagon Programs Among Beneficiaries ...
  Increase in defense spending a symptom, in part, of bad economy.
• Will Iraqi Commandos Trained by U.S. Be Turned ...
  The U.S.-trained Iraqi commando corps -- arguably one of the Iraq War's few success stories -- may be misused or dissolved when the U.S. leaves.
• Coalition of the Billing
  Award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill discusses the growing use of mercenaries by the United States government.
• Reduce Corruption, Defeat the Taliban
  The United States wants to negotiate with the Taliban from a position of strength. But reining in Afghan government corruption, not applying ever more military pressure, is the key to gaining a strong hand.
• Foreign Policy Goes Gaga
  Celebrities are going global in their activism. But are they doing the right thing?

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• دگرديسی جريان اقتدارگرادرانتخابات مجلس آينده:ش ...
  وضعيت رقبا و توان مالی و تبليغاتی و برنامه‌ی آنها در انتخابات مجلس آينده به صورت زير قابل ترسيم است:
• China, Iran celebrate 40th anniversary of dipl ...
  Iran and China on Friday celebrated here the 40th anniversary of their diplomatic relations, as a Chinese leader visited to strengthen political and economic ties.
• Iran says it can block 'Internet in a suitcase'
  Iran's intelligence minister said Friday that his country has found a way to block the so-called "Internet in a suitcase," a program reportedly developed by the U.S. to bring online access to dissidents around the world.
• Iran installing advanced nuclear machines for ...
  VIENNA - Iran is stepping up centrifuge development work aimed at making its nuclear enrichment more efficient, diplomats say, signalling a possible advance in the Islamic Republic�s disputed atomic programme. � read more
• دور جدیدی از تحرکات نظامی ـ امنیتی جمهوری اسلا ...
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Most Revolutionary Act

• The Destruction of American Unions
  The effect of the 1947 Taft Hartley Act on union membership was almost immediate. In 1946 the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) had 6.3 million members. By 1954, when it merged with the AFL, this number was 4.6 million. This steady drop continued. In 1954 34.7% of American workers bel ...
• Selling Books – Excerpt from Interview
  “Selling Books” recently did a fantastic interview about my young adult novel The Battle for Tomorrow: a Fable Tell us something about yourself: I’m a 63 year old, recently retired child and adolescent psychiatrist, single mother and activist, who emigrated to New Zealand 8 ½ years ago after ...
• How Taft Hartley Restricts Labor Rights
  Sit down strike The US union movement was built during the last serious recession (the Great Depression, which started in 1929). Then, as now, employers took advantage of the economic downturn to cut wages, pile on work and force employees to work under sweatshop conditions. In the 1930s organiz ...
• The Dread U-Word
  Like the F-word, the U-word is largely taboo in polite society, especially among younger Americans. According to a recent survey 41% of Americans “disapprove” of unions % (see http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/09/why-has-union-membership-declined.html). Generation X,Y and Z A ...
• Paid Sick Leave: One for Our Side
  WFP rally In June, Connecticut became the first state to require private employers to provide paid sick leave. The US is the only country in the industrialized world with no national requirement for employers to provide paid sick leave. Under the new Connecticut law, workers are entitled to earn ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film
  Revolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition to Swe ...
• On Nataline Sarkisyan's 21st Birthday
  Last night in Los Angeles, while the Prince and Princess (William and Kate) – or is it now the Duke and Duchess? – were gathering all the media attention for their glamorous evening among the stars, a very different yet equally glamorous night was unfolding just a few miles away.  On the sales f ...
• MichaelMoore.com Exclusive: Wikileaks Cable Al ...
  Wikileaks Cable Allegedly Leaked by Bradley Manning Caught Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Discussing Outsourcing to India That May Have Cost Manning's OWN FATHER His Job "The afternoon I reached Brian Manning, he was at home in Oklahoma City, in a room in his ranch house that Bradley had ...
• Glenn Beck on Muslims, Obama and Michael Moore ...
  From Glenn Beck's radio show, June 2, 2011: ... PAT GRAY: How does a guy who immigrated here from -- was it India? I think India. He's got Muslim parenthood and he comes here and he enjoys incredible success. The guy's a national television host and a best-selling author. He probably makes ...
• In His Latest Attack, Beck's Sidekick Highligh ...
  On today's edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck and�his sidekick�Pat Gray criticized CNN Host and Time editor Fareed Zakaria for comments�suggesting that the U.S. Constitution was not perfect. Zakaria made the comments during an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose earlier this week. (This was part ...

Salon

• The secret war in Somalia
  Writing in the Nation this week, Jeremy Scahill revealed that the CIA is running "a counterterrorism training program for Somali intelligence agents and operatives" at Mogadishu’s airport and also using a secret prison in the beleaguered Horn of Africa nation.
• News Corp. executives dropping like flies
  Rebekah Brooks, the head of News International, the U.K. newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, finally resigned today, because she was in charge of News of the World when it was hacking everyone in Britain. Les Hinton, head of Dow Jones & Co. and publisher of the Wall Street Journal ...
• A progressive case for deficit cutting?
  President Obama took the time to directly address his progressive critics in Friday's press conference, even as the default apocalypse looms ever larger before him. I appreciate that. He made the case that people who believe government must play a larger role advancing opportunity for everyon ...
• Marcus Bachmann says he is not anti-gay, is ve ...
  Marcus Bachmann, a non-licensed "clinical therapist" who "cures" homosexuals (and takes Medicaid payments) at his two Minnesota clinics, says he is not "anti-gay," despite the fact that he is clearly very much anti-gay.
• Can Obama pull a Clinton on the GOP?
  This was originally published on Robert Reich's blog

SMB News

• Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
  For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
• Kasaba throws spit on the camera
  \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
• K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
  For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
• Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
  For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
• Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
  For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Bike lanes: Separated for safety
  Cyclists should focus on making separated bike lanes happen quickly instead of fighting lost battles on Jarvis St.
• First Nations: Forge hope from the pain
  It is time to reset the Canadian government’s relations with First Nations.
• India confronts terror
  Homegrown Indian terrorists are suspected of the Mumbai bomb blast, pressuring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to deal with domestic extremists.
• Debt crisis: Burning down the U.S. house
  Canadians can only hope that Obama manages to persuade Congress to raise the debt ceiling and avert a calamity.
• Africa’s deadly summer
  Canada should do its bit as the United Nations appeals for help for East African drought victims.

Energy Collective

• Energy Policy by Crisis
  A crisis can motivate a Big Idea. But there are other ways to motivate a Big Idea. Courage by political leaders is one. Desperation and courage are, after all, close cousins. We need to demand courage from our political leaders on the subject of energy policy. The American people will reco ...
• Was Vermont's Lowell Mountain Wind Turbine Fac ...
  �The Green Mountain Power-proposed 63 MW Lowell Mountain wind turbine facility with (21) 3 MW Danish wind turbines stretched along 4 miles of ridge lines has nothing to do with community-scale wind, everything with utility-scale wind. GMP is using blatant PR to soft-soap/deceive Vermonters.� �
• Big Oil Lobbies to Keep ItsTax Breaks Off the ...
  As debt negotiations continue in Congress, President Obama appears to be sticking to his guns on repealing the enormous tax breaks enjoyed by the oil and gas industry. The industry takes advantage of tax breaks dating back to the dawn of the oil age – the kind of fiscal encouragement intended to ...
• That's Fracked Up! Natural Gas Giant Chesapeak ...
  I first wrote about Sundrop Fuels back in
• Climate Change On Kilimanjaro
  Glaciers on the summit of Mount KilimanjaroI recently returned from climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania for a great cause, and I was reminded why I le

EU Times

• South Sudan becomes an independent nation
  South Sudan has become the world’s newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries attending celebrations in the capital, ...
• Sea of voices at Tahrir Square protest
  There were men on stages calling for faster trials for ministers associated with the regime. A separate stage featured a speaker chanting anti-Israel phrases. A musician with an amplifier began to sing revolutionary anthems. And then there were the conversations of tens of thousands of people. “ ...
• Marine Le Pen ahead of Sarkozy in presidential ...
  Marine Le Pen the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen recently became leader of the National Front succeeding her father. She is turning out to be a slick operator. With the French presidential elections less than a year away she is polling ahead of President Sarkozy. She doesn’t deny that there used ...
• House Amendments Defunding Libya War Fail
  Following yesterday’s votes, the House once again rejected an Amendment offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D – OH) which would have defunded the war in Libya. The vote failed 169-251 and saw solid Republican support, but coupled with overwhelming opposition from Democrats. The new vote would have ...
• China warns U.S. officials not to meet Dalai Lama
  China’s Foreign Ministry warned U.S. officials on Thursday not to meet with visiting exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it hoped Washington “appropriately dealt” with Tibet-related issues. China reviles the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Dalai Lama, saying he supports the use of violence ...

Stonecipher News

• Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
  Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
• Natural Acne Remedies
  There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
• Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
  Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
• Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
  Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
• Reasons to Donate Blood
  Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• ITC Finds HTC Has Violated Two Apple Patents
  Apple landed a crucial blow in its patent fight with HTC Friday when the ITC found that HTC had violated two Apple patents. The ruling on Apple’s original complaint would block the import of infringing devices and would force it to take those devices off the market in the US. Most of those devi ...
• Late night explosions rock Tripoli
  TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) â Tripoli was rocked by a series of explosions accompanied by the sounds of aircraft in the early hours of Sunday morning, suggesting new airstrikes by NATO forces. Libyan television reported the explosions took place in the eastern suburb of Tajoura. Just after midnight Sun ...
• A contrite Murdoch takes out "We are sorry" ne ...
  The News of the World hacking scandal continues to rock the News Corp empire of Rupert Murdoch. He's had to close the newspaper, fire executives (with others resigning) and watch the future of his empire (the BSkyB satellite deal) go down in flames. The heir to the business, his son james may b ...
• thepoliticalnotebook:Syria. The Arab Spring ra ...
  thepoliticalnotebook : Syria. The Arab Spring rages on in Syria, with Assadâs forces clashing with the pro-democracy movement yesterday, leaving at least 27 people killed . The crackdown was concentrated in Damascus and its suburbs, where peaceful protests were quickly met with tear gas and liv ...
• Phil Mickelson gets in position for a best-eve ...
  Maybe it's the double-glove thing. Phil Mickelson and the British Open generally go together like Phil Mickelson and sensible, conservative shotmaking. In all his long, illustrious and probably Hall-of-Fame career, Mickelson has exactly one more top 10 in the British Open than you do, a third-p ...

Groklaw

• #shakespeare4murdoch tweets
  @DaveMcKinnon23: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Quick! Hack their relatives' cellphones... @fleetstreetfox: Let he who is without PIN hack the first phone... @BrianCathcart: Come, let's away to prison; we two alone will sing like birds i' the cage ... @johnprescott: Remorse, remorse. M ...
• Chromebooks: Not Flops!
  It's been exactly one month since the first Chromebooks - netbooks powered by Google's Chrome OS -- became available for purchase, and so far, sales seem to be holding up. Over at CNet, Brooke Crothers checked Amazon's list of best-selling laptops, and found the number four spot occupied by Ace ...
• "Android's really on a tear"... "despite the e ...
  Larry Page: To your question on Android and patents and so on. Obviously we have a number of intellectual property patents in progress not just already issued. I must just say, Android's really on a tear. I mentioned there were over 550,000 new Android daily activations previously. And there's ...
• Hacking crisis widens, for Murdoch and British ...
  While the police investigation has largely centered on cellphone hacking by journalists at News of the World, it has now spread to the investigative unit of the Sunday Times, a person familiar with internal News Corp. discussions said. That person, as well as a person with knowledge of the scope ...
• The Next Network Policy Battle
  I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The biggest threat to the Internet innovation ecosystem from network operators is not discrimination but terms of interconnection. Metered billing, bandwidth caps, and wholesale transit fees can all be implemented consistently with net neutrality rul ...

WideShut

• Al Qaeda Using Old Friends At CIA In Facebook ...
  Al Qaeda are gonna get you on Facebook! But who founded Facebook, and who founded Al Qaeda?
• July 12, 2011, WideShut Webcast
  Recent 7/7 developments, Mandelson's meeting with Rothschild, and the phone hacking scandal. All on this week's WideShut Webcast.
• Former Police Intelligence Analyst Sacked For ...
  A Police Intelligence Analyst turns in threat assessment claiming the New World Order is the main terror threat and gets fired.
• Mandelson Meets With Rothschild Again
  Unelected life peer Lord Mandelson, meets with Nat Rothschild and mining magnates in Porto Montenegro.
• Remember The 7/7 London Bombings? Remember The ...
  6 years on from the 7/7 Bombings, who remembers the mysterious Jaguar at Luton station car park?

Politics in the Zeros

• Industrial composting, 40 acres of it
  Treehugger has lots more info.
• Solar powered electric scooter
  CleanTechnica has the details.
• Murdock, Scotland Yard, and cozy relationships
  Scotland Yard is essentially the detective branch of the Metropolitan Police of greater London which now appears to have been comatose about investigating early claims of News of the World phone hacking. NY Times: Stain from tabloids rubs off on a cozy Scotland Yard Washington Post: In Britain, ...
• 40 ways the working class is being systematica ...
  From those crazed radicals at Business Insider.
• Vending machines for bicycle parts
  Bike Fixtation offers self-service kiosks on an extended-hours basis for bicyclists in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. You can buy a tube or patch kit, pump up your tires for free, and make simple adjustments using supplied tools.

TVNZ - Top Stories

• One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
  One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
• Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
  Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
• Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
  Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
• Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
  A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
• Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
  Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

• New e-book soon: 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006'
  Today is the fifth anniversary of the beginning of that terrible march of folly, the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006. So I'm delighted to announce today that my publishing company, Just World Books, will shortly be publishing as a short e-book War Diary: Lebanon 2006, by the Lebanese social activist ...
• Afghanistan, logistics, geopolitics, war, peace
  The WaPo's Craig Whitlock has an informative piece in today's paper about the many continuing challenges the U.S. military has faced as it attempted to provide logistic support to the "surged" U.S. troop presence in very distant Afghanistan. Supplying these troops is particularly hard, due to t ...
• Speaking about out recent Gaza/Cairo trip: Cha ...
  Bill the spouse and I will be speaking about our recent trip to Gaza and Cairo at an event sponsored by my Quaker meeting in Charlottesville, on July 11. Details are here.
• My piece on Egypt and Gaza, at ME Channel
  ... is here. I rather like the title they put on it, "Tahrir's journey to Palestine". In fact, the journey that the "spirit of of the Tahrir uprising" has to make before it gets to Palestine is just about as long and difficult as the journey that anyone needs to make to get from the outside wor ...
• Reactions to Gaza Flotilla 2
  Nine boats of siege-busting 'Freedom Rider' activists are now gathering in the Mediterranean, preparing to challenge the longrunning siege that is one of the main tools through which Israel continues to stifle the lives and livelihoods of all of Gaza's 1.6 million people. An act of collective p ...

frogblog

• General debate, July 17, 2011
• Warming up Re-Orientation
  I’m on the road touring New Zealand’s universities for Re-Orientation Week talking to students about the issues facing them. I’m also investigating cold flats in various towns and hosting “flat warming parties” to talk about my warm healthy rental campaign. I love getting out and about talking t ...
• 60,000 people are not wrong about cuts to earl ...
  The 60,000 strong early childhood education (ECE) petition presented to Parliament this week represents a heartfelt message to the Government to invest in the best for our youngest citizens.
• The Lignite Mirror Maze
  If the Ministry of Economic development can join the Coal Association to lobby the Government, should the Environment Ministry not join the Wind Association to do the same?
• A transport poll Joyce won’t like
  A Herald-DigiPoll released today shows what we’ve been saying for months - Aucklanders want a CBD rail link, not more roads.

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• Disintegrating Economic Recovery
  The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...
• Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
  What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
• (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
  President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
• The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
  The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
• Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
  Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Good Night
  Here's a picture of the nearly full moon from a few days ago. Not bad for a cheap little camera, is it? Comments | Post Comment����
• Black Sites in Somalia?
  Jeremy Scahill has a long piece about Somalia in The Nation this week, which includes a charge that the Obama administration is effectively running a black site prison in Mogadishu despite promises two years ago that all the Bush-era black sites had been shut down. The following excerpt is l ...
• Getting Inside the Republican Mind
  Let's review Republican priorities, shall we? First off, here are three Republicans explaining why a bad economy is something to be concerned about. Hint: it's not because of the human misery of millions of home foreclosures and tens of millions of unemployed. From conservative analyst Er ...
• Goldman Forecast: Economy Sucking Ever Worse
  James Pethokoukis helpfully tweets an abysmal new economic forecast from Goldman Sachs: In Obamaland these may be alarm bells, but if the rest of Pethokoukis's tweets are any indication, Republicans hear them as the bells of Christmas in July. Unfortunately, they understand the lessons of ...
• The Return of the 8x8 Myth
  Hooray! One of my favorite pet peeves is in the news again. It's the infamous — and endlessly debunked — 8x8 rule, namely that adults should be sure to drink at least 8 glasses of water per day. I got interested in this several years ago because I'm a human camel: I don't drink anywhere near ...

Insanity Report

• So This Dumb Bitch……
  Some people are so stupid I swear they shouldn’t be allowed to breathe… CHOUTEAU, Oklahoma — An Oklahoma woman believes outrage over the Florida murder case almost cost her her life. The 26-year-old says a crazed woman tried to kill her because the woman thought she was Casey Anthony. It happen ...
• They’re Letting a Pedophile Do What?
  From the “We Need More Common Sense In Our Laws” Department: TACOMA, Wash. — A strange quirk in the law is allowing an accused child rapist to watch child pornography inside the Pierce County Jail. Marc Gilbert is accused of sexually assaulting young boys and videotaping the abuse. Under the law ...
• FacePalm of the Week: She Died From What?
  So the first FacePalm of the Week in a long time and I had to find something that really made me put my head in my hands in shame.  Well, thanks to H2oKev and what he tweeted yesterday, I have just the right story: A MAN HAS appeared before Limerick District Court charged with ordering [...]
• Another Reason to Vote Herman Cain 2012…
  …he has a gospel album. No I’m not joking.� Republican 2012 Presidential candidate has a gospel album and it hit the web the other day.  Hey look at it this way, President Obama has a Grammy for his audio book, maybe this is the first step for Herman Cain towards the Presidency.  First his a ...
• Liberals and Underestimating the Power of the ...
  So first things first Fuck Bill Maher. I know I know.  Some Liberals love this guy and he can do no wrong like he’s Jesus.  I have to give it to him, it is a pretty funny how he’s been able to escape criticism.  He says he wishes the first black President was more “gangsta” [...]

Simple Climate

• Warming puts species at one in ten extinction ...
  Comparing predictions and measurements of the effects of climate change on plants and animals over the past five years shows predictions are accurate, and possibly optimistic, according to the University of Exeter's Ilya Maclean.
• Chinese pollution postpones temperature rises
  Sulphur emissions countered greenhouse gases to cause the much-debated “pause” in warming trend from 1998-2008, but only temporarily, Boston University's Robert Kaufmann told Simple Climate.
• Sea-level rise is the fastest in 2,000 years
  University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin Hortonand colleagues show that sea level has risen at an average of 2.1 mm per year since around 1900, after having stayed roughly stable for the previous two millennia.
• Shrinking Arctic ice area is just the tip of t ...
  Old, thicker, ice cover has suffered extreme losses, says the University of Colorado's James Maslanik, providing more evidence of how humans are changing the planet.
• Climate rhythm shift brings early calving
  Chillingham cattle, which are able to breed all year round, are having more calves in winter due to earlier springs, reducing their chances of surviving a year, find Sarah Burthe of the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and colleagues, showing that even mammals with breeding flexibility are ...

e!Science News

• UWM research offers hope for treatment of coca ...
  New discoveries by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) offer potential for development of a first-ever pharmacological treatment for cocaine addiction. read more
• Informed-consent forms should be shortened, si ...
  An in-depth review of consent forms provided to volunteers for HIV/AIDS research in the United States and abroad about study procedures, risks and benefits has found that the forms were extremely long and used wording that may have been complex enough to hinder full understanding, according to b ...
• New health-care payment system slows spending ...
  In a new study with implications for state and federal efforts to reform payments to doctors and hospitals to encourage greater coordination of care, Harvard Medical School researchers found that a global payment system underway in Massachusetts lowered medical spending while improving the quali ...
• Fossil forensics reveals how wasps populated r ...
  Exceptionally preserved fossils of insect cocoons have allowed researchers in Argentina to describe how wasps played an important role in food webs devoted to consuming rotting dinosaur eggs. The research is published today (15th July) in the scientific journal Palaeontology. read more
• New gene for intellectual disability discovered
  A gene linked to intellectual disability was found in a study involving the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) – a discovery that was greatly accelerated by international collaboration and new genetic sequencing technology, which is now being used at CAMH. read more

unEarthed

• OMG, GMOs: Organic Seed Farmer Frank Morton
  "Genetic engineering is of no benefit to me. It's nothing but a threat." Frank Morton is an organic farmer in Oregon's Willamette Valley. (This is the third ...
• Friday Finds: Schmuck Hunt
  Conservative face off, hot climate deniers, big coalâs big misstep The hunting and fishing crowd is increasingly unhappy with GOP efforts to slash conservation spending. Photo courtesy of ...
• OMG, GMOs: Pesticide Expert Charles Benbrook
  "It's a technology custom-designed to promote the emergence of weed resistance." Scientist Charles Benbrook is a pesticide policy expert and weed resistance specialist. ...
• Pictures Of What House Voted To Support
  Anti-Clean Water Act bill endorses toxic slime in Florida Anabaena algae bloom in Caloosahatchee River at Franklin Lock, June 17, 2008. (John Cassani) The U ...
• One Baaaaad Mother...
  Cherise Udell, inspiring mom for clean air, defends right to breathe in Utah Cherise Udell of Utah Moms for Clean Air. Photo: Chris Jordan / Earthjustice I ...

Brave New Climate

• Climate change update by the numbers
  Here are some figures to illustrate the latest global data on global warming. Data are from NCDC and GISS. First, a 12-month running mean of global surface temperature anomalies since 1980 (i.e. for each month, an average is taken of the previous 12-month period – ‘calendar year’ is irrelevant): ...
• Why pro-nuclear environmentalism has failed wh ...
  With George Monbiot on the debating warpath against Greenpeace and in support of nuclear power as a serious mechanism for tackling climate change, and Mark Lynas’ new book on planetary boundaries and techno-fixes, “The God Species“, now out (despite some weird problems on the launch day), it r ...
• Carbon tax in Australia in 2011
  Australia is set to introduce a carbon tax (details to be released on Sunday 10 July 2011). This post is the place to discuss this policy — the good and the bad. A description, from the Australian Parliamentary Library: A carbon tax is a tax on energy sources which emit carbon dioxide. It is a [...]
• Lacklustre results from the Colorado Integrate ...
  A common lament of those analysts wishing to get to grips with the real-world performance of solar thermal power plants has been, well… an absence of data. Trainer noted, in ‘Solar Thermal Questions‘: It would be great to get some actual data on their year round performance. I have found it fien ...
• Open Thread 17
  The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...

Indigenist Opinion

• Dr. Fidel Castro: Lo que debe demandarse a Est ...
  Lo que debe demandarse a Estados Unidos | Cubadebate: "Costa Rica's meeting did not lead or could lead to peace. The people of Honduras are not at war, only use weapons coup against him. They should demand an end to its war against the people. Such a meeting between Zelaya and the coup would onl ...
• Producer Profile: Shelley Niro | NAPT
  Producer Profile: Shelley Niro | NAPT: "By Ben Kreimer In Shelley Niro’s debut feature film, Kissed by Lightning, a Mohawk woman works through the grief surrounding the death of her husband by painting the stories he used to tell. Mavis Dogblood, played by Kateri Walker (Chippewa of the Thames ...
• Korean Resisters to New U.S. Navy Base Arreste ...
  Korean Resisters to New U.S. Navy Base Arrested | War Is A Crime .org I have very tragic news to report from Jeju Island South Korea. At the crack of dawn on Thursday, undercover police officers came to Gangjeong village and arrested three major leaders of the peaceful resistance: Village Chie ...
• (VIDEO) Chávez: ¡Viva Libia y su independencia!
  (VIDEO) Chávez: ¡Viva Libia y su independencia! (Google Translation) Caracas, 14 Jul. AVN .- "How long will this outrage? Still leave Libya. It is a heroic people and free, and its government respond to Libya, not the interests of the empire nor the old nor the new empires Live Libya and indepe ...
• Pan-African News Wire: Kwame Nkrumah Essay on ...
  Pan-African News Wire: Kwame Nkrumah Essay on African Socialism RevisitedKwame Nkrumah 1967 African Socialism Revisited Paper read at the Africa Seminar held in Cairo at the invitation of the two organs At-Talia and Problems of Peace and Socialism. Published: by Peace and Socialism Publishers ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Entitlement Reform? Sure! Corporate Entitlements
  What pisses me off most is the nonsensical discussion of how we balance our budget, or reduce our deficit. The MSM narrative is the Democrats won’t stand for “entitlement” cuts and the Republicans won’t stand for any tax increases anywhere, anytime, for any reason. Deadlock. This whole argument ...
• Jim DeMint – Fuck You
  Fuck you Jim. You want to slam the poor, the sick, and the elderly to “balance the budget” and won’t even consider cutting corporate welfare, or having the billionaires, or the companies they own stock in pay their fair share. I pray that there is justice in this world and some day you will be [...]
• Van Jones = Reboot the American Dream
  “We’re not broke, we’ve been robbed. Someone has our money”
• Exxon Gets 20 Billion a Year in Corporate Welfare
  The amount of taxes we don’t collect from Exxon plus their handouts equals around 20 billion dollars a year. And this is just one company. Spending isn’t the problem. Corporate welfare, and billionaire welfare is the problem.
• Politifact – Jon Stewart Was Right
  How hard did your dishonest organization have to twist  into a pretzel to name Stewart’s factual statement about Fox News viewers as false? Misinformed, uninformed, and lied to. Fox lemmings.

Appalachia Rising

• Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
  Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
• Press Conference to be Held on June 15
  Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
• Press Inquiries
  All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
• New Flier for Appalachia Rising
• Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
  Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

• The Great Game: Robbing the US Population to E ...
  By Charles Hugh Smith Here's the Great Game: mask the nation's rising wealth inequality with Central State spending that keeps the debt-serfs passive – all funded by debt, of course. Earned incomes for the bottom 95% are falling and wealth is accumulating in the top 1%. [Read More]
• Obama and Congress to Complete Their Financial ...
  By Steve Lendman It's a done deal to slash Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other social spending while leaving outsized military budgets and generous handouts to corporate favorites in place. Only revolutionary change and routing of bipartisan criminals can stop them. It's high time pu ...
• More Wall Street Bailouts to Come – Why ...
  By Washington's Blog The biggest banks are insolvent. By failing to break up them up, the government will keep taking emergency measures to try to cover up their insolvency - further draining the life blood out of the real economy. [Read More]
• Buying Passivity With Food Stamps and Unemploy ...
  By Charles Hugh Smith Poverty is on the rise in America, and buying passivity with cheap bribes has limits when applied to a fraying middle class. [Read More]
• The Quagmire of Empire: Has US Foreign Policy ...
  By Kevin Zeese I can't remember a time when the US military has been stuck in so many war quagmires at once - Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya. Relations with nuclear-armed Pakistan are at their lowest levels ever. Other challenges in Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Iran and several other countries have the mili ...

+972

• Watch: IDF terrorizes a Palestinian village
  I try not to use loaded words like “terrorizes” in my writing, but there is simply no other way to describe this video, showing four army vehicles enter the small village of Nabi Saleh (West Bank) in the middle of the night, throw stun grenades and shoot tear gas at the homes of the sleeping [...]
• Poll: Majority of Israeli Jews will refuse to ...
  According to the poll, only 20% of Jews were shocked and angered to find out they were just “pawns” in the Christian fundamentalist’s plan On the heels of Glenn Beck’s visit to the Knesset last week and ahead of his keynote speech this week at the 2011 Christians United for Israel (CUFI) Washin ...
• Opinion: Extremist Rabbi Dov Lior has widespre ...
  By Eyal Clyne On Monday 27 June, Rabbi Dov Lior was arrested by the Israeli police for refusing to report for questioning about his religious sponsorship of a book advocating racism and war crimes (i.e. “permitting” the killing of civilians in Gaza, according to Halacha). For decades many Israel ...
• Will cost-of-living protests become larger pol ...
  The protests against rising rent prices in Tel Aviv are becoming politicized, and the Treasury’s plan to raise electricity prices may backfire In the last couple of days, a number of disaffected Tel Avivians decided to protest against the problem of the costs of living in the city, particularly ...
• Photo Essay: East Jerusalem march for Palestin ...
  The demonstration today in Jerusalem in support of Palestinian independence was attended by anywhere from 2000 to 4500 people (according to a Facebook post), who marched from the Old City’s Jaffa Gate to Sheikh Jarrah. I was there and organizers announced 3,000 attendees at the end, but Channel ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Alice Springs becoming water smart
  Alice Springs will save up to 1.6 billion litres of drinking water a year as part of a two-year initiative to reduce the pressure on groundwater resources in the local aquifer.
• Australia's delegation to attend internationa ...
  Environment Minister Tony Burke is leading Australia's delegation to the 63rd annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Jersey, United Kingdom.
• $50 million to support Murrumbidgee Irrigatio ...
  Irrigation efficiency in the Murrumbidgee will be boosted by a Gillard Government project to upgrade water delivery systems and return water to the environment.
• Gillard Government supports conservation and ...
  The Gillard Government will provide $2.5 million through the Coral Triangle Initiative to help its neighbours in their efforts to protect the region's marine environment and support sustainable livelihoods and food security.
• Gillard Government backs Murray-Darling Basin ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke today announced delivery partners for the second round of grants under the Government's successful On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program which is helping irrigation communities boost efficiency in on-farm water use and returning more water to the environment.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Systematic Violations of Servicemember Civil R ...
  The world needs to know that real foreclosure defense in Florida especially began when passionate attorneys from Legal Aid offices across this state, stood up and started fighting for families.  Jacksonville Legal Aid has always been on the forefront of the foreclosure fight, and the good work s ...
• What Are You Going To Do This Weekend To Serve ...
  If you read this blog, you know what is happening in this country. I am so grateful to every one of you who takes the time to share their struggles with the rest of the world.  Your voice is being heard. After all these months, the rest of the world is waking up.  They are [...]
• Florida Fraduclosure Investigations: A Snuff Film
  For an instant, a brief moment in time, Floridians and consumers across this country had public officials and fighters who were standing up to the banks and institutions and fighting for the good of the American people.  But all of that has changed now.  The fighters are getting snuffed out, one ...
• The Most Important Notices That Have NEVER Bee ...
  Men and who put on a uniform and serve our country have a special place in my heart.  I have said it before and I continually state it, If you serve in the military and you face foreclosure, I will consult with you for free. Above and beyond me, the honorable and dedicated attorneys that [...]
• Foreclosures Filings- The Press Reports on the ...
  Matthew Weidner, a St. Petersburg lawyer who focuses on foreclosures, doesn’t see an end to the doomsday scenario caused by foreclosures. He blames executives at Wall Street lenders for the increased filings. “This is a catastrophe being laid upon a crisis,” he said. “America is foreclosing upon ...

abelard - news

• at last, a reporter concentrates on the real c ...
  Murdoch's irrrelevant. This is what is really relevant.
• holier than thou, saviour of the world - our v ...
  Former prime minister again displays his (low) level of morality and ethics.
• the screws is mostly a big non-'story' - we're ...
  Things are as they are because we have yet to evolve to a better state. It isn't a plot. It certainly isn't exciting, let alone interesting.
• some cycling slang/dictionary | the Tour de Fr ...
  The whys and wherefores of many of those seemingly obscure cycling words and phrases.
• A65 :the autoroute de Gascogne, from Langon t ...
  Major update, with photos, old postcards, history and commentary on and of this spanking new motorway.

The Parallel Parliament

• Citizenship – “Wandering Between T ...
  I’m a citizen attempting to discover methods and models of empowerment within my community. Unlike many, I have a great respect for the place of politics in the shaping of the national character and its ability for change through effective legislation and economic innovation. I believe the true ...
• Citizenship – “Dumb and Dumber”
  I don’t think I ever learned so much as the almost five years I served in Parliament. It was like having a university come to you and teach some of the most important research, data and social trends in a manner purposefully dedicated to assist in passing better legislation. So much of it has st ...
• Citizenship – “If Only I’d B ...
  I was joking to a neighbour last week that getting out of politics is a lot harder than getting in … well, sort of. Part of it’s true though. There are a lot of details to transition through as you move back to private life and one of the more difficult aspects is what to [...]
• Citizenship – Making the Greater Decisions
  Let me introduce you to Kai Nagata, if you don’t know him already. I was pointed in his direction by my friend Jodi Simpson, who has taken to calling Kai her “new hero.” It’s easy to see why. At 24 years of age, he’s made some pretty major decisions in his young life that actually [...]
• Citizenship – Living in an Age of Stuff
  There was nothing I could do but wait. I was to meet an old friend at Starbucks for a tea, but in front of me was a group of four placing their orders. There was Misto with non-fat, a caramel Machiatto (seriously, I’m not making this up), a Frappucino with caramel on top, and, thankfully, [...]

Vaccine Awakening

• Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
  by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
• In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
• Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
  UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
• Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
• Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
  by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...

2020 Science

• Smart science for the 21st century
  In February 2008, the National Academy of Engineering launched 14 grand challenges for engineering.  These were the inspiration for this post, but rather than focus on the challenges themselves, I thought it would be interesting to consider how science and technology are going to help address th ...
• I’m breathing in nanoparticles, so why aren’t ...
  This was based on a piece I originally wrote for Nano Today – the blog was a slightly extended version of what was published.  Although it was written two years ago, it’s still surprising how few people realize that breathing in nanoparticles is an everyday fact of life, and that to make sense ...
• Enough meetings already!
  I couldn’t resist reposting this piece, as it captured so well my frustration at the time of spending so much time in meetings – usually for someone else’s benefit.  Sadly, I didn’t learn the error of my ways – my travel schedule has, if anything, got worse since then! Originally posted May 8 2 ...
• Decoupling “nanotechnology”
  Even though it was written a couple of years ago, this post remains very relevant as people continue to make sense of nanotechnology.  Maybe it’s time to revisit yellow-technology! Originally posted May 17 2008. Nanotechnology as an overarching concept is great for sweeping statements and sound ...
• Synthetic biology, ethics and the hacker culture
  While the DIY Biotechnology community has grown considerably since this post, the piece still captures something of what is still a young movement, and one that challenges assumptions about top-down technology innovation. Originally posted June 13 2008 Read Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World is Fla ...

Reader Supported News

• After BP's Oily Assault, Fishermen Struggle to ...
  Excerpt: "The oil is not gone; it keeps coming in places like Grand Isle, LA, and Biloxi,MS, rolling in with the tides as globs of tar balls and sheen. Louisiana beaches near Port Fouchon and parts of the rich fishing grounds in Barataria Bay remain still closed due to oil contamination." The ...
• After BP's Oily Assault, Fishermen Struggle to ...
  Excerpt: "The oil is not gone; it keeps coming in places like Grand Isle, LA, and Biloxi,MS, rolling in with the tides as globs of tar balls and sheen. Louisiana beaches near Port Fouchon and parts of the rich fishing grounds in Barataria Bay remain still closed due to oil contamination." The ...
• Exposed: Congressional Legislature Approved by ...
  Excerpt: "The Center for Media and Democracy has learned ... corporate-politician committees secretly voted on bills to rewrite numerous state laws. According to the documents we have posted to ALEC Exposed, corporations vote as equals with elected politicians on these bills. These task forces t ...
• Exposed: Congressional Legislature Approved by ...
  Excerpt: "The Center for Media and Democracy has learned ... corporate-politician committees secretly voted on bills to rewrite numerous state laws. According to the documents we have posted to ALEC Exposed, corporations vote as equals with elected politicians on these bills. These task forces t ...
• Justice Department Asked to Investigate Murdoc ...
  Herb Jackson reports: "In a separate letter, Sen. Bob Menendez, also D-NJ, asked Holder to have the Justice Department investigate a Daily Mirror story that reporters tried to get information on the phone records of 9/11 victims and their families." Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., smiles a ...

War Resisters League

• No Surprises from the War-Makers!
  Well, Obama made it clear on Wednesday. His war in Afghanistan will go on through 2014 and probably far beyond. While some may have hoped for a shift in his approach, many of us didn’t expect much, and we certainly didn’t get much. The change in Afghanistan that he spoke about, meant to be heard ...
• In Afghanistan Speech, Obama Offers Token Troo ...
  President Obama passed up an opportunity to recognize our democracy and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people. June 22, 2011 President Obama’s speech tonight violated one of his most important campaign promises: to “end the mind-set that leads to war.” To the contrary, hi ...
• Money for Our Communities, Not for War!
  Take Action! It’s very encouraging that the US Conference of Mayors just passed a strong resolution initiated by CODEPINK for bringing our “war dollars home” (read press release or NY Times article on this). Unfortunately, later this week the House of Representatives is poised to pass the Defens ...
• Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...
  “I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
• The Broken Rifle in Kabul
  The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Hen Party: Historic Agreement to Promote Stand ...
  United Egg Producers (UEP) has partnered with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), agreeing to work together toward legislation of national standards to be used in egg production.
• TIME Magazine: Spotlight on IFAP and “Conceale ...
  When looked at through the lens of public health, the abuse that we see in the Mercy for Animals video constitutes not only cruelty to animals, but cruelty to humans as well, including the dehumanizing influence on workers forced to labor under conditions that ultimately breed contempt for the a ...
• Focus on Food Day: The Consequences of Meat
  Earlier this week, CLF’s Robert S. Lawrence, MD, and Keeve Nachman, PhD, kicked off the Center for a Livable Future’s countdown to Food Day with a webinar, “Industrial food animal production and the high-meat American diet: health and environmental consequences.” (Audio; slides). October 24, 20 ...
• Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grow ...
  June 9-12, Amanda Behrens and I journeyed to Missoula, Montana for the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). The conference, entitled Food ...
• Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
  Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• Leaving Afghanistan
  Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
• Raging at Rawalpindi
  American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
• Crazy Like a Fox
  In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
• Addicted to Contractors
  The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Is natural gas a climate change solution for C ...
  New report finds numerous problems with push to expand natural gas production Pembina Institute David Suzuki Foundation ...
• Request for Ambient Air Quality Objectives Sta ...
  Initiative:  Ambient Air Quality Objectives Stakeholder Advisory Committee (AAQO SAC) Position:  Four ENGO delegates and four ...
• Ambient Air Quality Objectives - Stakeholder A ...
  Initiative:  Ambient Air Quality Objectives Position:  Four ENGO delegates and four Alternates Request for A ...
• Edmonton Bicycle Commuters July 2011 Newsletter
  Edmonton Bicycle Commuters (EBC) The July 2011 issue of the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters newsletter. You'll find information about EBC's summer urban cycling & mechancs courses, volunteer opportunities, �upcoming events, and a call to acti ...
• Responses to the AUC approval of the Milner Co ...
  On June 30, 2011— the day before the Canada Day long weekend— the Alberta Utilities Commission approved Maxim Power Corp.'s 500-megawatt coal-fired Milner Power Plant expansion proposal. This move has been viewed by some as a cynical attempt to bypass the new proposed federal coal plant regula ...

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: June 17, ...
  ==== Over 20 Explosions As NATO Bombers Attack Tripoli Suburb Fight For Libyan Oil Continues Libya’s “Freedom Fighters” Engage In Pillage British, South African Heads Of States Set To Clash On Libya Georgia’s Saakashvili Attends Otto Von Habsburg’s Funeral AFRICOM Is In Place, The Recolonization ...
• Lucian: War propaganda and its hyperbole
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Lucian From A True Story Translated by A.M. Harmon tudents, I think, after much reading of serious works may profitably relax their minds and put them in better trim for future labour. It would be appropriate recreation for them if they ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 16, ...
  ==== 120-Day War: 15,308 NATO Sorties Over Libya, 5,767 Strike Missions Britain Adding More Warplanes For Intensified Attacks On Libya Several NATO Fighter Jets Violate Pakistani Airspace Another NATO Soldier Killed By Afghan Counterpart NATO Chief Criticizes Czech Republic For Not Spending More ...
• Thomas Hardy: All-Earth-gladdening Law of Peac ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Thomas Hardy A Christmas Ghost Story (1899) South of the Line, inland from far Durban, A mouldering soldier lies–your countryman. Awry and doubled up are his gray bones, And on the breeze his puzzled phantom moans Nightly to clear Canop ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: June 15, ...
  ==== NATO’s Air War In Libya: 15,193 Sorties, 5,721 Strike Missions NATO Chief Demands More Warplanes For Strikes Against Libya Venezuela Condemns NATO’s Military Aggression Against Libya Britain Deploys Warship For NATO Libyan Operations China, Russia Refuse To Attend Libya Contact Group Meetin ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• Beyond Absurd: Obama Thinks 80% Of Americans W ...
  By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie And Contributing Writer July 16, 2011 With a tanking economy and average Americans struggling to pay the bills, our so-called President is under the impression that 80% of the people of the United States seek even more taxes. If Obama was only referring t ...
• Goldman Bet Against Entire European Nations &# ...
  Washington’s Blog July 16, 2011 It is well-documented that big banks like Goldman Sachs made money by betting against investments which they themselves bundled and sold to their own clients, such as packages of subprime mortgage-related products such as collateralized debt obligations. This prac ...
• New Movie “Contagion” Brings Bird ...
  The Intel Hub By Alex Thomas July 16, 2011 A new major motion picture set to open on September 9th has taken bird flu fear mongering to new levels. Contagion, a movie staring Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Jude Law, tells the story of a mutating bird flu virus that kills within days. As people [...]
• Protesters Outside The Gates Of Bohemian Grove ...
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• Jeremy Scahill Claims U.S. Media Blackout On S ...
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FRS

• Egypt: Islamists, Which Side Are You On?
  from MR Zine (http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/hamalawy150711.html) by Hossam el-HamalawyThe Islamist forces, without exception, are now against the sit-ins in Tahrir, Suez, Alexandria, and elsewhere in the country.  And I mean here the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafis, Gamaa Islamiya, and even ...
• How Greece abandoned Palestine
  [Israel has expended great effort in Europe in recent years (a la AIPAC's relentless manipulation of US politics) -- acquiring compliant politicians, quelling liberal critics, and quashing supporters of Palestinian rights. The following is a case study of the engagement of  the Greek government ...
• Indian Maoists: the Political Struggle with Ad ...
  � � [There have been interesting developments in India, where the formal police and army forces involved in "Operation Green Hunt" have in recent years been supplanted by rogue forces (para-military and para-police) recruited from among the oppressed tribal people.  Now the official disbanding o ...
• Maoists join hands with South Asian sister out ...
  [This news report from Indian bourgeois press this week, is referring to a previously-reported meeting or conference held several months ago, in March 2011.  Why do they bring up old news?  Because, they seem to be telling the government, "don't even consider talks or peace moves with these guys ...
• Palestinians Struggle to Decolonize Education, ...
  by Jillian Kestler-D’Amours | Antiwar.com | July 14, 2011 EAST JERUSALEM — Widespread strikes across Palestinian civil society could be in store for East Jerusalem at the start of the next school year, as the municipality moves ahead with its current plan to implement an Israeli curriculum in Pa ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
  am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
• One for the Women
  It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
• Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
  Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
• Slander vs. Sanity
  Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...
• NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
  On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]

StillSmallVoice

• A little more reading with Sunday's column...
  To read more reaction to the Everything I Do Is Wrong ad campaign, go here or here or here or here. To read more about Regina Barreca, go here. Or here. To see some more sexist (and vintage!) ads, go here. To read more about the creators of the campaign, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, go here. ...
• If you've nothing better to do...
  I'm speaking at the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University at noon on Tuesday, July 26. Admission is free, and sinners are welcome.
• Can one be a submissive wife and the leader of ...
  Michele Bachmann wants to test that. To read more, go here�or here. And thanks, Steve and Annie, for the link.
• Things we'll miss if the debt ceiling isn't raised
  According to Kevin Drum at Mother Jones, if we spend what we have for the month of August, that means we don't have money for defense spending, and: ...not the FBI, not foreign embassies, not the court system, not prisons, not disaster relief, not unemployment insurance, not the border patrol, ...
• Before you judge...
  And we already had Friday Judgment, anyway: Animal rights activists in China are trying to convince their fellows that animals aren't necessarily for eating. (Meanwhile? This is an interesting book that I would finish if I could figure out where I laid it down. Have you seen it? I already looke ...

Associated Content

• Big Opening for 'The Undefeated' Has Implicati ...
  Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jul 16, 2011
• Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony: Another Coupl ...
  Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are just another one of the many celebrity divorces announced so far this year. Here is a look their ill-fated marriage, and some of the possible reasons for its end.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Jul 16, 2011
• Carmageddon to Paralyze Los Angeles After All?
  After days of warning, Los Angeles is ready for 'Carmageddon' now that Intestate 405 is officially closed for the weekend. But after all the warnings and media hype, will there be paralyzing traffic jams on alternate routes, or are drivers truly prepared?Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: ...
• My Emmy-Predicting Crystal Ball was Cloudy
  Thursday's Emmy announcements had some surprises, some "huh?" moments and even a "how can anyone choose?" field.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Jul 15, 2011
• Calif. Secession Movement Not the First in U.S ...
  Could we soon be adding a 51st state into the Union? Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone is advocating that 13 counties in the southern half of California break away and form their own state.Contributor: Whitney Levon Published: Jul 15, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Tonight, a NASA Probe Will Orbit Massive Belt ...
  Enough with the lasts at NASA these days — here’s a first for you. The Dawn spacecraft is about to become the first probe to orbit a main-belt asteroid. After speeding through the solar system for four years with ion thrusters, Dawn is now poised to enter orbit around Vesta later tonight, wher ...
• New Genome Editing Method Helps Scientists Rew ...
  A new “find-and-replace” genome editing method enables scientists to make large-scale changes to the genetic code of a living cell, faster than previous editing technology by a factor of two. The new method could be used to engineer cells that produce new proteins, or to design genetic “firewal ...
• New Memory Device Feels Like Jell-O, Could Wor ...
  Like a delicious, biocompatible computer NC State researchers have created a new kind of soft, flexible memory device that functions like a memristor and has the consistency of Jell-O. In other words, it’s soft, flexible, works well in wet environments, and is pretty much ideally suited for bio ...
• Harvard-MIT Team's New Synthetic Vocal Cord Ge ...
  Call it a silent killer: some 6 percent of the U.S. population has some kind of voice disorder, most of those resulting from scarring of the vocal cords that can lead to diminishing or even total loss of the ability to speak. Giving voice to the voiceless, a team of Harvard and MIT researchers ...
• The First Trial of an Embryonic Stem Cell Trea ...
  Keeping in step with this week’s flood of awesome stem cell news, a development on the embryonic front: California surgeons have implanted lab-grown retinal cells into the eyes of two patients losing their vision to macular degeneration, Technology Review reports. The retinal cells were grown f ...

Veterans Today

• Army Releases June Suicide Information
  The Army released suicide data today for the month of June.
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization awarded Stratos Government Services Inc, 1400 Eye Street, Washington D.C., an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract for Military Sealift Command's next generation wideband commercial satellite communications infrastructure an ...
• Congress Blesses Israel’s Matrix of Control
  We are all occupied by Israel’s army because we are, as Zunes notes, “trapped in an early 20th century colonial mindset”. To be trapped in a colonial mindset is to be linked to a a matrix of mind control that deadens our hearts, our minds, and yes, our souls. Not convinced? You still believe tha ...
• Rupert Murdoch VS. Edward R. Murrow and Izzy Stone
  Rupert Murdoch issued an apology the day after two of his senior executives resigned over a phone hacking scandal that has engulfed his media empire. Besides amassing a media empire, Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly been accused of using his media holdings to advance his political agenda.
• VA Launches Childcare Pilot
  Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced the launch of free, drop-in childcare service centers at three VA medical centers to an audience of more than 700 participants attending the Fifth National Summit on Women Veterans’ Issues July 15-17 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capi ...

War is Business

• Inside Look At Yet Another Religious Group Wit ...
  If the state of Oregon believes the board of Akal Security is led by untrustworthy people, then why do the departments of Defense and Homeland Security continue to award contracts to the company?
• China-Pakistan Port Deal Another Sign Of Wanin ...
  Buy Baluchistan Buy Baluchistan • Read more at WSJ.com: World News
• Temptations Of The Flesh: GOP Freshmen Can&#82 ...
  Sell promises Sell promises • Read more at National Security on iWatch News
• CJ Chivers Examines Libyan Rebels’ Seabo ...
  Buy scarcity Buy scarcity • Read more at NYT > Home Page
• Afghan Soldier Says ‘The Quality Of Ever ...
  Buy bad apples Buy bad apples • Read more at The Killid Group website - News on Afghanistan reports analysis pictures cartoon

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Rest of July heading for a washout
  Most parts of the country have enjoyed a fine summers day today, with plenty of sunshine. But although it's the last thing the UK tourist industry wants to hear, the message is enjoy it while it lasts. By the weekend low pressure will again be dominating our weather as the jet stream moves fu ...
• Global temperatures: Up sharply in June.
  The latest global temperature has been released and according to the UAH satellite measure June's anomaly was 0.314C above the running 30 year mean, up from +0.133C in May Adjusted to the more standard time period used by the Met Office and the WMO, the anomaly is now +0.567C above the 1961-199 ...
• Unsettled June weather to extend into July
  Despite the warm and sunny conditions in the last few days, the unsettled weather which plagued much of June looks set to return. June turned out to be wet across the UK, dominated by low pressure. Averaged across England & Wales, 122% of average rainfall was recorded. In our region, for a ch ...
• Storms follow hottest day since July 2006
  Thunderstorms have continued to affect parts of East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia and the Southeast of England this afternoon, following yesterday's heat. Temperatures across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Monday reached 32C (90F) for the first time since July 2006. Both Robin Hood ai ...
• A sleeping sun could have a big impact on the ...
  News from scientists in America claiming that the sun is about to enter a prolonged quiet period in its history has caught the headlines this week. Whether this particular prediction comes true remains to be seen, as some scientists, including those at NASA, have consistently been proved wron ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Indonesia and the Ultimate Tobacco Ban Protest
  Just look at the size of that sucker. Philip Morris, eat your heart out! I am genuinely of two minds over cigarette smoking bans being imposed throughout the world. The Emmanuel that wants to live a reasonably healthy lifestyle abhors the practice and the many diseases it gives rise to. But, the ...
• 40 Years Ago: Ping-Pong Diplomacy & China's Rise
  Here's a timely scenario for you given the fortieth anniversary of ping-pong diplomacy between the US and China: What if the Cold War never ended, the Iron Curtain never fell, and the US failed to exploit the growing ideological divide between China and Russia? In general, international relation ...
• Of Currency Wars and Capital Controls
  As a student of South-South cooperation--no matter how its ambitious goals are often negligible or even contradictory in practice--international bodies promoting such cooperation are of interest to me. One of these happens to be the South Centre, which sends me newsletters every so often either ...
• Become Filthy Steenkin' Rich...in the Falklands
  To say British tabloids have output of variable quality is an understatement--witness Rupert Murdoch's fine mess--but the Daily Mail recently ran an interesting feature on the British Falklands. Ever since the 1982 Falklands War between the UK and Argentina put this remaining piece of Empire in ...
• Harry Potter and Hollywood Gone AWOL in Indonesia
  This being on my purported beat of Southeast Asia, here's some interesting news. One of the more practical applications for those studying political science / international relations is the area of "political risk analysis." In particular, there is concern by foreign investors of how shifting po ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 10 Signs That The American People Are Starting ...
  All over America, restlessness and frustration are growing. It has now been almost three years since the great financial crash of 2008, and yet the U.S. economy is still a complete and total mess.  In fact, there are all sorts of signs that things are about to get even worse, an ...
• If The U.S. Government Loses Its AAA Rating It ...
  For decades, the U.S. government has had a AAA rating.  On the scales used by the big three credit rating agencies, that is the highest credit rating that a government can get.  Moody's scale actually uses lettering that is a little different from the other two big agencies ("Aa ...
• 15 Examples That Show Many Americans Have Beco ...
  More Americans than ever are desperate for money and many of them will do just about anything to get it.  The crumbling U.S. economy has pushed millions of ordinary Americans to the brink of utter desperation.  When it comes time to choose between being able to survive or breaki ...
• A Bad Mood Has Descended On World Financial Ma ...
  Have you noticed that a really bad mood seems to have descended on world financial markets?  Fear and pessimism are everywhere.  The global economy never truly recovered from the financial crisis of 2008, and right now everyone is keeping their eyes open for the next "Lehman Bro ...
• Uh Oh – Italy Is Coming Apart Like A 20 ...
  Did anyone really think that Italy would be able to get through this thing without needing a bailout?  Just when you thought that things in Europe could get back to normal for a little while, here comes Italy.  On Friday, there was a bit of a "mini-panic" as investors started du ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• A Fake Image: About the Fraud of the Void Netw ...
  The social revolt of December 2008, triggered, among other things, an increased interest abroad about the struggles in Greece. For this reason, ...
• New Fringe Fest Musical Inspired by Union Figh ...
  When a coworker at Starbucks approached barista Ted Dewberry about forming a union at their workplace, his initial reaction was fear. Working 17 ho...
• BMedia Collective Variety Show #3: Earth Day Inc.
  This episode explores the connections between environment destruction and the economic and cultural systems that enable it.�Movements a...
• Submit to BUSTING BOREDOM! A zine about house ...
  House arrest is used in the kanadian (in)justice system often as a punitive bail condition. It's very isolating and used by the state as an atte...
• “If a Tree Falls”: New Documentary on Daniel M ...
  A new documentary, “If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front,” tells the story of environmental activist Daniel McGowa...

E U Times

• South Sudan becomes an independent nation
  South Sudan has become the world’s newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries attending celebrations in the capital, ...
• Sea of voices at Tahrir Square protest
  There were men on stages calling for faster trials for ministers associated with the regime. A separate stage featured a speaker chanting anti-Israel phrases. A musician with an amplifier began to sing revolutionary anthems. And then there were the conversations of tens of thousands of people. “ ...
• Marine Le Pen ahead of Sarkozy in presidential ...
  Marine Le Pen the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen recently became leader of the National Front succeeding her father. She is turning out to be a slick operator. With the French presidential elections less than a year away she is polling ahead of President Sarkozy. She doesn’t deny that there used ...
• House Amendments Defunding Libya War Fail
  Following yesterday’s votes, the House once again rejected an Amendment offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D – OH) which would have defunded the war in Libya. The vote failed 169-251 and saw solid Republican support, but coupled with overwhelming opposition from Democrats. The new vote would have ...
• China warns U.S. officials not to meet Dalai Lama
  China’s Foreign Ministry warned U.S. officials on Thursday not to meet with visiting exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, saying it hoped Washington “appropriately dealt” with Tibet-related issues. China reviles the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Dalai Lama, saying he supports the use of violence ...

Voiceless Victim

• Imagine How It Feels
  How many people talk about the issue of Catholic Church enabled child sexual abuse without a thought for how it feels to be the victim of such abuse? This issue is, after all, about children. Yesterday’s children whose lives were irreparably damaged by their abuse and who are still being re-abus ...
• Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
  I used to think the John Jay College  of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
• Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
  This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
• Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...
  Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]
• Catholic Sainthood – More Expediency Tha ...
  The former Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI, may be criminally culpable, disgracefully neglectful, deliberately deceitful, and horribly, horribly wrong in his approach to the child rape epidemic within the ranks of the Catholic Church, but there is some truth to the claims made ...

WL Central

• 2011-07-17 Freedom of Speech in the Age of Wik ...
  TweetA whirlwind of change in the way people communicate is sweeping the world. The spread of social media, blogs and online alternative media is rapidly changing how people are informed about current events. More are turning away from newspapers and TV, which have over the last few decades beco ...
• Second Monthly WikiLeaks Central Competition | ...
  TweetTHEME The second monthly WikiLeaks Central Competition 2011 will focus on soliciting analysis of one or more of the US State Department cables released by WikiLeaks. Submissions may use one or more of the cables released on the WikiLeaks Web site on or prior to 11:59 p.m. July 31, 2011. ...
• 2011-07-17 Announcing the WikiLeaks Central Es ...
  TweetThe winner is: Continued improvements in technology will eventually render the State obsolete. by xaviercromartie We would like to make clear that the judges are not 'endorsing' the underlying philosophy of the writer by announcing a winner. What we liked most about the winning essay was ...
• 2011-07-16 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 02:35 PM Wik ...
• 2011-07-16 After 10 days in #Syntagma... #euro ...
  Tweet ATHENS - It was at night, and I asked my friend if it was dangerous to head there at that time. Police lines, with buses, were blocking the streets around the Square: "Can we really go there?". In front of Parliament, a crowd was shouting and pointing toward the building. I asked what they ...

U N News

• UN and national police launch anti-crime opera ...
  The United Nations and the Haitian National Police (HNP) have launched a joint security operation to crack down on criminal activity in key areas of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
• Independent UN expert on torture calls for unr ...
  The United Nations independent expert on torture today voiced concern over restrictions imposed by the United States on access to detainees, stating that it is vital for him to have unmonitored access to Bradley Manning, the US soldier detained for allegedly leaking classified information to the ...
• UN through the lens: Looking back on a year in ...
  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon re-appointed Edmond Mulet to his former post of Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations in March 2011.
• UN human rights chief voices concern over high ...
  The United Nations human rights chief has voiced concern over escalating violence in some parts Mexico, saying organized crime and brutality could undermine the State and threaten the people''s basic rights.
• UNESCO chief condemns murder of Colombian jour ...
  The head of the United Nations agency defending press freedom today condemned the murder of independent Colombian journalist Luis Eduardo Gómez, killed by unidentified gunmen on 30 June.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• A Machine To Die For: The Quest For Free Energy
  There's a thing called the classified patent system which hardly anybody knows about. And every time you apply for a patent it goes through a screening by someone from the Department of Defense here in this country as well as other countries. And if this device has any kind of defense associated ...
• A Machine To Die For: The Quest For Free Energy
  There's a thing called the classified patent system which hardly anybody knows about. And every time you apply for a patent it goes through a screening by someone from the Department of Defense here in this country as well as other countries. And if this device has any kind of defense associated ...
• Geneticists Reveal E. Coli Super Bug O104 Was ...
  Their scientists broke down the genetics of this E. coli strain it's call O104, and if you look at it you can read the history, and the history doesn't lie. This strain was exposed repeatedly to all the 8 major classes of antibiotics that are sold by the drug companies today. This practically gu ...
• Geneticists Reveal E. Coli Super Bug O104 Was ...
  Their scientists broke down the genetics of this E. coli strain it's call O104, and if you look at it you can read the history, and the history doesn't lie. This strain was exposed repeatedly to all the 8 major classes of antibiotics that are sold by the drug companies today. This practically gu ...
• The Big Brother State and Global Surveillance
  But this also allows the secret services to gather explicit information about the nationality of every traveler. Explicit information such as your fingerprints, the color of your eyes, and a high resolution picture of your face. Information you would usually expect to be taken from suspected cri ...

Rewilding Institute

• Congratulations to The Center for Biological D ...
  What terrific news from our friends at the Center! We appreciate their efforts and hope you do, too. Please show them your support with your thanks and a donation.   Check out the Center’s Historic Victory website for more on this breaking agreement.     I’ve been waiting years to write these w ...
• Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
  Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it.  As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
  Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
  Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
• Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
  Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...

Asia Sentinel

• Waterboarding in Thailand
  Human Rights Watch Demands US Waterboarding in Thailand be Investigated
• North Korea and the Coming Crisis
  If the North collapses, South Korea’s job is going to be bigger than anybody thought
• Malaysia Bans Books
  Making fun of the government is not allowed
• Tibetan Prelates in US
  Monks seek support in Washington, DC
• Indonesia's Pols Spend Little Time Behind Bars
  Prison time a minor inconvenience

We Know the Lies

• 'Democracy' Is Not Freedom... Ron Paul
• CONFIRMED... Facebook IS in Fact Aiding Govern ...
• Avoiding Court Trials and Tickets!... 5 Words ...
• WARNING!!! E.O. 13575...The Next Land Grab... ...
• Exposed... Secret Location of New Federal Reserve

Tarpley

• Tea Party Lunatics Demand US Default; Wall Str ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 14, 2011 Audio Only [download audio]
• Italiano
  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén            1 2  >  >| page: 1 of 2   total items: 15 Misure urgenti per difendere lâeconomia italiana contro lâattacco coordinato degli speculatori inter ...
• July 14, Bastille Day: Quelle Honte!
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 13, 2011 [download audio]
• العربية
  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén   Ù…ÙابÙØ© مع اÙدÙتÙر Tarpley بÙاسطة اÙدÙتÙر شاÙر عÙ٠شاشة اÙتÙÙزÙÙÙ ÙÙبÙا blip.tv – 2011 ÙÙÙÙÙ 12 اÙÙ…ÙابÙØ© اÙت٠أ ...
• Dansk
  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén   Landkrig i Libyen snart, WW3, Webster Tarpley og NATOs skumle projekter i Mellemøsten Avisen.dk – 3. juli 2011 [permalink] [...]

Modern Survivalism

• A Survival Kit To Keep Your Car Going
  While many offer opinions about survival kits to be kept in your vehicle, tailored towards keeping you, the human, going… here is a twist on that thought while considering keeping your CAR going. A survival kit to help keep your car keep going (except after an EMP event), may include some of the ...
• Globalization is Killing Us
  As I was driving the hour commute back home this evening from visiting my wife in the hospital, I was in somewhat of a melancholy mood, and got around to thinking of the sad state of the US economy with respect to the average working person. What I mean by that, (average), is the majority [...]
• Government-Gone-Wild Benefits-Perks
  In the US, both political parties are often indistinguishable. Democrat or Republican these days, could be renamed to Democans and Republicrats. They’re basically one in the same, with ‘most’ of them primarily concerned about feathering their own nests. The ‘feathers’ come from big business, pri ...
• Events that could trigger a National Emergency
  Guest Post: by ‘Be informed’ A few ideas of possible events that could occur in the U.S. that could cause a total national emergency. For an actual long lasting national emergency to occur, probably at least 1/2 to 2/3 of the country would have to be impacted. There are definitely events that co ...
• Water Procurement for Survival
  Water is one of your most urgent needs in a survival situation. You can’ t live long without it, especially in hot areas where you lose water rapidly through perspiration. Even in cold areas, you need a minimum of 2 liters of water each day to maintain efficiency. More than three-fourths of your ...

Fast Company

• Upgrade Your Memory And Prevent Google Brain Drain
  Scientific research has proven that Google and the easy access to information that it provides can be detrimental to memory. Practice these four tricks to reverse the brain rot. Socrates warned humanity that new advances in communication would have detrimental effects on our memory. Some two tho ...
• How Hackers Stole 24,000 Files From The Pentagon
  We're all human, you know? That's roughly the trick that the hackers most likely relied on when, earlier this year, they managed to steal over 24,000 files from a defense contractor. The Pentagon won't say what files went astray, or the level of secrecy associated with the contents of the stolen ...
• This Week In Bots: The Emotional, Eyebrow-Rais ...
  Robots are getting more expressive, more than being mere lumps of plastic designed to do jobs for us in handy ways. They can now almost sing...The Moody Robo ButlerMirai Sanzo is a simple little robot-esque device from Sanyo that's closer to being a real product than many robot's we've seen. He' ...
• "China's Twitter" Is More About Jokes And Fash ...
  Twitter might boast more than 200 million users, with over 70% tweeting from outside the U.S., but Sina Weibo is fast catching up, with 140 million users and 10 million new accounts added each month. The latter service, often referred to as the "Twitter of China" (much like the Facebook copy ...
• Dekko In A Box: Justin Timberlake Follows MySp ...
  Fresh from injecting cash into a reviving MySpace, JT's also pushed money into augmented reality firm Dekko. It's in stealth mode, but here's what we know.Dekko is a stealth startup that's being funded by early-stage venture firm Venture51--and now Justin Timberlake. Not bad for a firm that was ...

Jadaliyya

• The Case Against the Grand Egyptian Museum
  A Modern Museum for an Ancient Nation? With the French Revolution came the first truly public museum in the world, the Louvre, which opened its doors in 1793. Private collections owned by wealthy individuals were made accessible to the middle and upper classes in major European cities r ...
• Urgent: Pair of Sandals for Gilboa Prison!
  [Translated from the Arabic by Sherene Seikaly. The original text can be found here.] â Did they give you a copy of the photo I faxed? â No! â What about the photo I attached to the letter? Didnât it arrive? â No, I havenât received a thing. We continue talking. Question marks wande ...
• Greece and the Gods of Neoliberalism
  Just as Zeus put Hercules through a series of humbling labors not so long ago, so too do the Gods of neo-liberalism and colonialism today put Greece�s current fearless leader through many an unsavory janitor�s task. A dirty job, but someone has to do it... � � �
• هدية المستشارة الألمانية للثورات العربية والقا ...
  �بد� أ� ا�مستشارة ا�أ�ما��ة أ�ج��ا م�ر�� تبحث ع� أس�ا� جد�دة �إضا��ة ��أس�حة بعدما خ�ضت أ�ما��ا عد�د ج�ش�ا ��م �عد �حتاج إ�� ا��ث�ر م� ا�أس�حة �ما �ا� ا��ضع ع��� حت� ا�آ�. ��د ط�ت ع���ا ص�حات ا�جرائد ا�أ�ما��ة بأخبار ع� ص��ات أس�حة سر�ة مع ا�سع�د�ة. �ط�ت ع���ا ا�مستشارة ا�أ�ما��ة م� شاشا ...
• التحرير- سول- سينتاغما، أو كيف يصبح المتوسّط ب ...
  خ�ا� س��ات أ��� ا�س�اس�� ��ب� أ� تسحب� أزمة اﻻ�تصاد اﻻسبا�� إ�� �عر شعب��ت� �آما��� را�� ثابات�ر�� رئ�س ا��زراء اﻻسبا��� ع�� إ�شاء �دعم ثبات ��م� "اﻻتحاد م� أج� ا�مت�س�ط"� �استضا� �� برش���ة اجتماعات اﻻتحاد ا�تأس�س��ة �عم� جا�دا� ع�� اتخاذ ذات ا�مد��ة م�را� ��م�ظمة ا����دة. �ا�ت ا�س�اسة ...

mediagazer

• Murdochs 'in family fallout' over crisis (Guar ...
  Guardian: Murdochs ‘in family fallout’ over crisis  —  Biographer claims Elisabeth Murdoch's outburst was directed not just at Rebekah Brooks but also her brother James  —  Tensions at the heart of Rupert Murdoch's empire are threatening to explode into the open amid claims that the media mogul ...
• Succession Drama at WSJ (The Daily Beast)
  The Daily Beast: Succession Drama at WSJ  —  Now the Murdoch scandal has claimed Dow Jones' CEO.  That has the Journal newsroom worrying they could end up working for a controversial Rupert henchman.  By Nick Summers.  —  As the British wing of the News Corp. media empire imploded this month u ...
• News Without End (Bostonia)
  Bostonia: News Without End  —  It's a rainy spring morning in midtown Manhattan, and on the sixth floor of the futuristic glass skyscraper known as Bloomberg Tower, Andy Lack is listening, energetically, as a half-dozen producers run through a short list of potential guests for Bloomberg West …
• Rebekah Brooks in line for £3.5m pay out ...
  James Chapman / Daily Mail: Rebekah Brooks in line for £3.5m pay out as News International slaps gagging orders on chief executives (apart from that inquiry on Tuesday)  —  Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was given a seven-figure severance package after resigning, it h ...
• Taint From Tabloids Rubs Off on a Cozy Scotlan ...
  Don Van Natta Jr / New York Times: Taint From Tabloids Rubs Off on a Cozy Scotland Yard  —  LONDON — For nearly four years they lay piled in a Scotland Yard evidence room, six overstuffed plastic bags gathering dust and little else.  —  Inside was a treasure-trove of evidence: 11,000 pages of ...

Chemtrail News

• A NEW ZEALAND CHEMTRAIL PROTEST IS ON T ...
  A Place To Post Information About Your Sightings of Chemtrails & More. Skip to content ... Link to the FB group NZ CHEM TRAIL PROTEST ...chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../a-new-zealand-chemtrail-...
• ChemtrailRAIN David Icke's Official ...
  Chemtrail 'RAIN'! Earth Changes / Global Warming / Chemtrails / Weather Warfare.forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?t=175733
• TheTruthSoldiersClubChemtrails : Message: C ...
  TheTruthSoldiersClubChemtrails: TheTruthSoldiersClubChemtrails.tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/.../message/126
• Chemtrail plane crashes in california?
  These people have no humanity within them. Watch out for a few more crashes of the chemtrail planes. (They will happen!) Here is another picture.nexus.2012info.ca/forum/showthread.php?4352-Chemtrail...
• Chemtrails Seeing is believing1 Social ...
  for any of you who are unaware, 90% of the time its cloudy and rainy, so creating cloud cover, is a joke The only purpose for the Criss crossing chemical ...www.jehovahs-witness.net/.../1/Chemtrails-Seeing-is-believing

World News - Top Stories

• Chavez to travel to Cuba for chemotherapy
  CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez travels to Cuba on Saturday to begin chemotherapy treatment after recently being operated on in Havana for a cancerous tumor in his pelvic region. "I hope it does not last long and I can return soon," the 56-year-old president said in a televised s ...
• Clinton Chides Turkey on Rights Record
  ISTANBUL — In a series of pointed statements, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Turkey, a close NATO ally, on Saturday, for its mixed record on press and other freedoms. The United States has long counted on Turkey, a moderate Muslim nation, to serve as a bridge between M ...
• Chelsea earn sluggish friendly success ov ...
  • Portsmouth 0-1 Chelsea • Ben Haim 7og Chelsea manager André Villas-Boas experimented with his side during their friendly win at Portsmouth. Photograph: Tom Hevezi/AP André Villas-Boas said in his first post-match press conference as Chelsea manager: "If I had a [José] Mourinho problem I w ...
• Europe Debt Crisis: Greek Prime Minister ...
  ATHENS, July 16 (Reuters) - Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou ruled out bankruptcy for his debt-choked country and said it was time for Europe to wake up and take brave decisions, according to a newspaper interview to be published on Sunday. Ahead of a summit of euro zone leaders on ...
• German Group Cancels Prize to Putin After ...
  BERLIN — A German nonprofit group canceled its annual prize ceremony on Saturday after its decision to honor Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia sparked a public outcry. In a statement, the group, Quadriga, said that the ceremony scheduled for October had been called off and the awar ...

no frakking consensus

• About My Book
  My book has a new title - and will be available in September.
• Looking for Examples of the Hockey Stick Graph
  Can you point me to science textbooks, government documents, or websites of reputable organizations where the Michael Mann hockey stick graph appears?
• IPCC Bigwigs Spout Political, Childish Nonsense
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is supposed to stick to the science. But not only do its leaders make political pronouncements - these pronouncements are startlingly unsophisticated.
• Chris Landsea and the Moral Midgets
  The scientific community expects us to trust its judgment on the question of whether global warming is the fault of human beings. But its response to the Chris Landsea affair demonstrates that that judgment is impaired.
• Landsea, the IPCC & the Union of Concerned Sci ...
  There's a link between hurricane expert Chris Landsea, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. That link is James J. McCarthy.

Anna's News

• Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
  How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the....Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
• Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
  Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a...Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Green energy investment hits record global high
  Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle �|� � ...
• News of the World staff shocked at closure
  Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 10 Ridiculous But Compelling Twitter Feuds
  Like all social networking sites, Twitter can be a wonderful outlet to share your feelings and views, but it also leaves plenty of room for offensive comments and bullying. Whether it's the empowerment of being behind a computer or the wide-reaching......Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...

Medical Marijuana

• 7/15/11 - ProCon.org was highlighted in the Co ...
  www.procon.org - On July 6, 2011, ProCon.org was highlighted in the Congressional Record when Congressman Rob Andrews (D-NJ) honored ProCon.org by reading a glowing statement about the organization on the floor of the US House of Representatives. His statement said in part: "It is my distinct p ...
• 7/14/11 - On June 21, 2011 the US Drug Enforce ...
  medicalmarijuana.procon.org - On June 21, 2011 the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) denied an Oct. 9, 2002 request to reclassify marijuana out of the most restrictive Schedule I category where heroin, LSD, and peyote are also classified, ruling that marijuana "has a high potential for ab ...
• 7/14/11 - Wisconsin became the 49th state to a ...
  concealedguns.procon.org - On July 8, 2011, Wisconsin became the 49th state to allow concealed carry. Wisconsin citizens who go through training and obtain a permit will be able to carry a concealed handgun in most public buildings and private businesses (including bars and churches) unless esta ...
• 7/13/11 - What Do Teens Drink? High School Stu ...
  milk.procon.org - NEW: What Do Teens Drink? High School Student Beverage Consumption by Race and Sex - As of spring 2010, milk remains the most popular teen beverage after water except among black teens where it ranks behind water, fruit juice, and soda. Our new chart, based on a June 17, 2011 C ...
• 7/1/11 - 24 Constitutional Challenges to Feder ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - UPDATED: 24 Constitutional Challenges to Federal Health Care Laws: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Under Fire - On June 29, 2011 a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled (2-1) to uphold the insurance mandate of the ...

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

Gyrovague's Raves

• A utopia no longer
  Two decades of the web Evgeny Morozov traces the development of the web from the laboratories of the Cold War to the world of venture capital and big money Evgeny Morozov The âvirtual communityâ: an idea that was the antithesis of Cold War paranoia The internet is a child with many fathers. It i ...
• ‘The US Is Holding the Whole World Hosta ...
   AP Grasping for a solution: Obama is making little progress on the debt-ceiling dispute. With no solution to the US debt crisis in sight, the rest of the world is starting to get nervous. German commentators urge congressional leaders to get their act together. A US default would have catastrop ...
• Full Circle
  German-Jewish Literary Culture Returns from Exile Helen Whittle   Goethe-Institut The Goethe Institute in Israel has started a unique book project. German Jews who fled Nazi persecution to what is now Israel took as many books as they could carry. But their descendants, many of whom don’t speak ...
• Mind the Impunity Gaps
  Alana Tiemessen This is the first of a series of posts on "impunity gaps" in justice for atrocities that constitute genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. There has been a resurgence of optimism for international and transitional justice because the ICC’s judicial intervention in Libya ...
• Will China and the U.S. be Strategic Partners?
  By Kirill Zubkov, Ivan Antonov The two global giants are growing closer. Will Russia oppose their possible union? Translated By Lucile McKay 6 July 2011 Edited by Kate­rina Kobylka Russia – Izvestia – Original Article (Russian) The tenth anniversary of the Agreement on Neighborliness, Friendshi ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Engineering public engagement
  FROM EMMA WOODS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE What is so unusual about geoengineering? What sets it apart from other controversial technologies? One thing that strikes me as particularly atypical is that the social dimensions of geoengineering are being addressed well ahead of the development of ...
• Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
  FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
• Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
  FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
• Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
  There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA.   The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
• Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
  There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA.   The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...

NAU Resistance

• Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
  "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
• Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
  "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
• VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ...
  "Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM
• VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ...
  "Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM
• U.S.-Canada Perimeter Security and an Integrat ...
  "The end results of a fully integrated continental security perimeter could sacrifice what is left of Canadian sovereignty and independence" -Dana Gabriel

Gaea Times

• Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
  WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
• Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
  LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
• Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
  SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
• Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
  WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
• How sex hormones influence right heart function
  WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

• No Carbon Tax Protest: photos
  Some random thoughts as we steam towards the biggest social and economic blunder of the millennium. Calculations about what people will pay on average per week are speculative and have no guarantees attached. That’s clearly just a marketing gimmick. What we should be more concerned about is wh ...
• TVO Canada interviews Gage, Zwicker, Zarembka ...
  http://ae911truth.org/en/news-section/41-articles/513-tvo-debate.html Written by AE911Truth Staff | 17 may 2011 Canadian Public Broadcasting TV Station TVO Interviewed AE911Truth's Richard Gage, AIA, Barrie Zwicker (Towers of Deception), Author Paul Zarembka on the program "The Agenda" wi ...
• A green tide sweeps Canberra
  On 4th July 2011 the Greens will control nine seats in the Federal Senate, giving them the balance of power and ushering in a new era of enviro-politics. Tonight Josh Jackson and I wade into the battle over carbon taxes and attempt to restore some sanity to the debate. In particular we take ...
• 9/11 Troll Alert
  Coinciding with the approaching 10th anniversary of 9/11, it seems we are experiencing a new campaign to undermine and destroy the 9/11 truth movement. Truther groups have been buzzing over the past two days with news about the "defection" of Love Police founder Charlie Veitch from the 9/11 t ...
• TSA’s assault on human dignity continues ...
  There has been the usual hand wringing and a flood of TV reports over the latest TSA outrage: the "grope down" of a six year old girl, daughter of Todd and Selena Drexel, at an airport in New Orleans. I present below some of the recent coverage: "Right now at Armstrong International ...

Beacon

• Last Day in Washington: Techno-Colored Crabs
  © Oceana This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Today's highlights: On their last day in Washington, the team saw an orca, spiny dogfish, techno-colored crabs and more. Washington Leg, Final Day As we prepped the ROV for its first dive, an orca slowly ma ...
• 3 Ways to Get Ready for Shark Week
  On July 31, Shark Week is back!� Need some ideas on how to celebrate this, the sharkiest time of year? We're here for you: 1.��� Share the Shark Week Love Have your friends over for a watch party. Check out the programming schedule. I recommend "Jaws Comes Home" on July 31, but there's a fu ...
• Ranger Discovers Deep-sea Coral Reef in Medite ...
  News from the deep: Oceana's crew aboard the Ranger has discovered a previously undocumented coral reef in the Alboran Sea in the high seas of the Mediterranean. The reef, which is located more than 1,300 feet below the surface and covers over 1 million square feet, is formed primarily by white ...
• Photo of the Week: Colorful Octopus
  © Oceana/Carlos Minguell The Oceana Ranger has now been at sea for several weeks, and as usual, the crew has been sending us some incredible photos. Starting this week, I’ll be posting a photo of the week from the journey. This week’s photo of a beautiful octopus comes from a dive the team ...
• Breaking: Chile Passes Shark Finning Ban
  Fantastic news! Earlier this afternoon, the Chilean National Congress passed a nationwide ban on shark finning. This groundbreaking decision comes on the heels of a very similar ban passed by the United States Congress last December, and puts both countries at the forefront of shark conserv ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Very Cool Photos of Women Building Weapons Dur ...
  German Women Making Barrage Balloons Women Making A-20 Attack Bombers in Douglas Aircraft's Longbeach California Plant Women Building Weapons Women Building B-17s Women Building Fighters � � Source: X- Planes, Blogrolled here, [...]
• Fantastic Black And White Photos Of American I ...
  Hoop On The Forehead, Crow One Blue Bead, Crow Porcupine, Cheyenne Tsaasi-Mis-Salla Or "Crow With Necklace" Sarsi Alchise, Apache � Source: MHQ Blog [...]
• The 38 Minute War.
  � Zanzibar Castle After 38 Minute British Bombardment On August 27th, 1896 a war was fouht between the United Kingdom and the Zanzibar archipelago government in the Indian Ocean east of Tanzania. Sultan Hamad Bin Thuwaini died, and that was bad because he was friendly to the British merchants tr ...
• Funniest Kung Fu Movie Over-Dubbing I Have Eve ...
  Click here to view the embedded video. Just to take a little humor break. Just had to show this to you. Of course this was a movie, if I am not mistaken, by Run Run Shaw who made these Kung Fu movies in a few days and they were wildly popular all over Asia. The British of course [...]
• Irene Wieder Russ, Survived Nagyvarad Concentr ...
  Irene Wieder Russ 3/04/23 - 7/12/11 Born in Felsozsolca, Hungary, Irene was one of nine children born to Herman and Chaya Adel Wieder. Herman Wieder was a Chassidic rabbi and the central Jewish leader of Komådi, Hungary. In 1943, Nazi’s incarcerated Irene and her family in concentration camps sp ...

Taylor Marsh

• Progressive Notes: Fight to Save Medicaid, Som ...
  Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Here is the latest ad up from National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. It is running in the DC area to influence our pols: Progressive groups have descended upon this administration like mad over all the talk of c ...
• Queer Talk: Queerdom in the 2012 O-ligarchy
  Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. To abandon the President who has delivered on the overwhelming majority of his commitment to gays and lesbians to end discrimination, especially when the alternative is virtually guaranteed to be a President who will rapi ...
• My $0.02/Saturday: Sleepyhead
  Morning, news junkies… I’m really exhausted, so this is going to be a pretty basic rundown of links and snippets, nothing fancy or earth-shattering in the way of two cents from me. This week’s Hillary photo: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and EU High Representative for Foreign Po ...
• Spew Alert!
  The Daily Show – Field of DongsGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
• Progressive Notes: More Black Women Would be I ...
  Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. As President Obama and Congressman Cantor hash out trillions in cuts, which no economist says we can afford , our POTUS has tossed in cutting Social Security benefits among other programs. Let us be clear: these SS cuts will destroy ...

Hudson New York

• Why The Palestinians Do Not Want Fayyad
  In Palestinian society, it is much more important if one graduates from an Israeli prison than from a university in Texas. This is the reason that the two Palestinian governments, both Hamas and Fatah, are dominated by graduates of Israeli prisons who
• Hezbollah in Mexico
  In June, a computer hacker group, Luiz Security, commonly abbreviated as LuizSec, targeted the Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS). LuizSec has claimed responsibility for several high profile attacks; this time, however, the 440 megabytes AZDPS
• Erdogan Expresses Hope for Consensus with BDP ...
  Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed hope that a consensus would be reached with the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) regarding the oath-taking at Parliament. BDP deputies refused to take the oath at the Turkish Parliament after one of
• Swiss Minaret Ban Survives Legal Challenge
  The European Court of Human Rights has rejected two cases brought by Muslims against Switzerland's constitutional ban on building minarets, the tower-like structures on mosques from which Muslims are often called to prayer. A seven-judge panel at the
• Turkey Reiterates Conditions to Mend Israel Ties
  Turkey still demands a formal apology and redress over the killing of its citizens by Israeli commandos aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship in May of last year, a Turkish official has said. "About the flotilla attack, Turkey has never turned down a request from

Urban Survival

• Where’d “the Trust” Go?
  We’ll get to this morning’s CPI report in a sec, but first thing out of the box this morning you might want to click over to the Forbes story “What Happened to the $2.6 Trillion Social Security Trust Fund?“  I … Continue reading →
• Coping: With “Brown Nose Friday”
  Friday’s are sometimes horrible in today’s economy, because many companies do their layoff’s on Friday.  This being one of them, a couple of notes on how to hold onto a job might be in order.  Something we chat about every … Continue reading →
• Report: Peoplenomics–On the Broken Conve ...
  Pappy used to lament the plight of dogs chasing cars. “You ever wonder what’s they do if they caught one of the damn things?” he’d ponder. Well, chasing after economic truth is a bit like that, and every once in … Continue reading →
• Peoplenomics: With the “Broken Conveyor ...
  Pappy used to lament the plight of dogs chasing cars.  “You ever wonder what’s they do if they caught one of the damn things?” he’d ponder.  Well, chasing after economic truth is a bit like that, and every once in … Continue reading →
• Odrama
  The president is making a big gamble on budget talks:  walking out of a key meeting on the budget.  But whether it will pay off, remains to be seen.  We’re getting uncomfortably close to the predictive linguistics shift in the … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Man arrested in his garage for calling cops Na ...
  A man who rightfully called a cop 'nazi' got... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Steve Quayle Global Famine GMO Food & The Dumb ...
  Steve Quayle Live on Surive 2 Thrive Radio... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• How Zbigniew Brzezinski created Al-Qaeda and T ...
  Zbigniew Brzezinski Al'qaeda's founding father,... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Alan Watt The Television is The Greatest Scien ...
  Alan Watt The Television is The Greatest... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Links for 2011-07-15 [del.icio.us]
  Marc Faber : The risk for investors is not to own any Gold |MARC FABER BLOG Marc Faber : The risk for investors is not to own any Gold Jim Rogers On Moodys Warning Of US Downgrade | JIM ROGERS BLOG , Commodities, Investments Interviews Books News Jim Rogers On Moodys Warning Of US Dow ...

Radical Chic

• MIND CONTROL 76: Bad Teachers
  Lets take a look at a few more things that Jesus had to say about menâ¦. More specificallyâ¦.. pastors. Matt 15:1-20 1 Some Pharisees and other Jewish leaders now arrived from Jerusalem to interview Jesus. 2 “Why do your disciples disobey the ancient Jewish traditions?” they demanded. “For they ...
• FIRE BOMB – By: Hamidat Popoola
  Gunfire left a hole in the tank losing gasoline… Smile babe. You always said my smile made you smile.  I’m smiling boo. Smile with me. No? Okay babe. I remember your smile  vividly when you sang me lyrics from LL Cool J’s ‘Love you better’. How ironic. Laugh together, cry together, God willing w ...
• DARING TO UNDERSTAND FAITH: The Introduction
  Believe me when i say i understand your position. Just like me you were born into a  family that believed something. You were taught what to think and shown how you should live your life. You didn’t ask too many questions because at first you had no sense of comparison. As a child your world [...]
• MIND CONTROL 75: Beware Of Men
  Jesus spent quite a considerable amount of time âwarning about men.â It is men that deceive men. Men are the ones that lead other men to believe in a lie. More specificallyâ¦â¦ Jesus constantly warned about Pastors. Matt 7:15-23 15 “WATCH OUT FOR FALSE PROPHETS. THEY COME TO YOU IN SHEEPâS CLOTH ...
• MIND CONTROL 74: Who You Are Is Who You Are
  It cannot be emphasized enough….. the fact that Jesus did not die for our sins. It is so important that we understand this…… otherwise we will miss his entire message. Jesus is not going to take the punishment for your sins. You are going to be punished for your own sins. No other person but [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• Summer science -- for kids and adults -- under ...
  The local museums and science research centers have set their summer children's programs into full gear. Check out or download our Google calendar of events. Tonight you can take your kids to a presentation on Marines science at the MIT Museum. All ages can watch the starts from the the Gillil ...
• Universal design: The science of access at the ...
  Nora Nagle has a long title: The Americans with Disabilities Act and 504 Accessibility Coordinator at the Museum of Science, Boston. She also has a big job, one that goes beyond making the museum wheelchair accessible and compliant under the ADA and Section 504, a federal civil rights law. O ...
• Wednesday talk: New chips to explore the immun ...
  The first in Broad's MIdsummer Nights' Science events-- An Immune System Primer: Vaccines, Allergies, and Immune-related disease -- drew a a good crowd to the "DNArium" last week. Nir Hacohen, a faculty member at the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, kicked off the series ...
• WBUR: Space mice to test bone drugs
  Thursday's Radio Boston had a nice interview with a local osteoporosis researcher. She's sending mice up in the shuttle to test out a new treatment. Mary Bouxsein is a scientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and has the honor of having an experiment on board Atlantis's last flight. ...
• Negelected tropical disease meeting this weeke ...
  Ever heard of Guinea Worm? Onchocerciasis? Schistosomiasis?Lymphatic Filariasis? Probably not, since these tropical disease don't get much attention outside the tropics. So, public health and biomedical researchers from around the globe will be meeting this weekend in Cambridge, Massachusett ...

NRDC Switchboard

• Remarkable Opportunity for Environmental Progr ...
  Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to India later this month for the strategic dialogue, she’s likely to get a friendlier reception than she did almost two years ago when she first met with t ...
• What do whitebark pine and Missouri River tras ...
  Louisa Willcox, Senior Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana Answer: a new, cutting edge aerial technology to comprehensively assess problems.    In 2009, when NRDC, the US Forest Service, and pilot Bruce Gordon conducted the first-ever assessme ...
• Tar sands implicated in Yellowstone River pipe ...
  Anthony Swift, Policy Analyst Exxon-Mobil has admitted that the Silver Tip pipeline which ruptured and spilled 42,000 gallons into the Yellowstone River was used to move tar sands crude. Until yesterday, the company’s position had been that the pi ...
• Is the State Water Board serious about protect ...
  Noah Long, Energy Program Attorney, San Francisco The story is getting all too familiar: Once again, the California State Water Board is considering amendments to its sensible policy to phase out once-through cooling – an outdated and destructive ...
• Group of influential Senators calls for halt i ...
  Elizabeth Shope, Advocate, Washington, D.C. Today, a group of influential Senators wrote to the State Department calling for a halt in the Keystone XL pipeline permitting process. Senator Whitehouse led the letter, with Senators Boxer, Cardin, Lau ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, July 15, 2011: Lake View IA police chief & a fellow cop subject of suit alleging they helped cover up racially motivated beating by falsely arresting the victim [3] http://bit.ly/qHh ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 21 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, July 14, 2011: Houston TX cop suspended after caught on video, shown above, walking up to cuffed suspect & punching him in the face [0] http://bit.ly/qfSlaB Washington DC police o ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, July 13, 2011: 2 New York NY (Bronx) cops charged w/assault for allegedly beating teen who quipped about cop who stepped in crap [0] http://nydn.us/ofPP7M San Bernardino Co CA dep ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our national police misconduct news feed for this Tuesday, July 12, 2011: Stamford CT police sued by woman alleging cop punched her in the head then filed false charges against her [2] http://bit.ly/oVC7Fe New York NY police sued by 2 broth ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, July 11, 2011: Kern Co CA deputy investigated for fatally shooting unarmed ex-NFL player in front of teen son in disputed incident [3] http://bit.ly/o7rQR4 Bayonne NJ settles suit fo ...

Total Collapse

• Ten million starve while West bombs Africa
  The United Kingdom, USA and France are spending 50 to 100,000 USD per aircraft per hour in their illegal campaign protecting terrorists in Libya. Meanwhile, across the continent in the Horn of Africa, ten million people are starving to death through lack of international funds. NATO is conductin ...
• European banks set for ‘Chaos Monday’ after ni ...
  The nine banks that failed the European Banking Authority’s (EBA) stress tests will have to raise just €2.5bn (£2.2bn) between them to meet their capital shortfall. City analysts and investors said the criteria used by the EBA were overly optimistic and failed to capture the severity of the curr ...
• Mass psychosis in the US
  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 the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing ...
• Hungary destroys all GMO maize fields
  Some 400 hectares of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds have been destroyed throughout Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar said. The GMO maize has been ploughed under, said Lajos Bognar, but pollen has not spread from the m ...
• Turkey to double size of its army
  With Prime Minister Erdogan’s Islamist AK party having seized its third landslide election victory in Turkey, many throughout the international community have been watching to see what will be next on the Turkish agenda. Now there are strong indicators in the Turkish media that Turkey is plannin ...

Daily Dose

• Creating a Portable Web: When your data is tru ...
  How do you create content on the web? Perhaps you upload a photo album to Facebook or write a blog post on Blogspot. That content is your data, right? Kind of. The problem is, the content and accounts you create on the Web today are locked in a structure that’s been put in place by companies su ...
• Mobile Apps: A look at what makes a good app great
  As the smartphone market continues to grow, as a large number of featurephone owners migrate to more powerful, Internet-connected and advanced devices, the demand for mobile applications has boomed. Whilst many download a large number of apps on their smartphones the average number of installed ...
• Why Orkut Will Survive Google+ (For Now)
  Are you on Orkut? You probably haven’t heard this question for at least a couple years. That is, unless you’re Brazilian. While it globally declined, Google’s seven year-old social network still claims 30 million active users in the country. But what will happen now that Google+ was launched? G ...
• Will licensing issues spoil the online media p ...
  It’s one of the Internet’s biggest killjoys. It stifles innovation, holds back progress and drives normally law-abiding people to crime. What is it? Licensing. Whenever an innovative new online approach to media comes along, it seems ‘licensing issues’ turn up to trash the party. Just think a ...
• The ROI of Social Media: 10 Case Studies
  The question of whether or not social media drives ROI still plagues many marketers and brands. The issue is not always as straightforward as it seems, as there are multiple ways to measure the benefits of social media and it isn’t as simple as looking for a direct sales return at one end, with ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Carbon Price Scheme – No Longer a Mystery Package
  Upon the release of Prime Minister Julia Gillard�s carbon price package (to take effect July 1, 2012), there has been talk aplenty of her plummeting popularity. The PM has dismissed the commentary in favour of the scheme�s necessity, saying, �Polls will come and go�� I�m absolutely convinced wh ...
• BZE Executive Director pictured on front of 20 ...
  Beyond Zero Emissions is pleased to have been awarded the prestigous opportunity to be pictured on the front of the Sydney Whitepages by Telstra owned directory publisher Sensis. BZE Executive Director is pictured on top of the Sydney Theatre Company with their new largescale rooftop solar ...
• Carbon Price Response: A Small Step Forward, B ...
  Climate and energy security think tank Beyond Zero Emissions welcome the Labor government�s carbon price package negotiated with The Greens and lower house independents Rob Oakshott and Tony Windsor. The proposed legislation will start the process of transitioning Australia from a 19th Century f ...
• Climate Policy unFiT for getting Rooftop Solar ...
  The Gillard government has ignored the most successful policy in the world for rolling out renewables deployed and reducing carbon emissions: the German renewable energy Feed-in Tariff. Internal analysis by Beyond Zero Emissions shows that the use of a Feed-in Tariff to get solar panels onto ev ...
• Clarification Needed on ‘Clean Energy’ – Scarc ...
  Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes the establishment of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). The Greens have been successful in striking forest burning out of the definition of renewable energy but have failed to negotiate the end to the practi ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Picture of the day: 4x4 driving down a giant s ...
  4x4 driving down a giant sand dune in Namibia.
• Animal photo of the day: the brilliant Red-eye ...
  The red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) is one of the most colorful and best-known tree frogs.
• Despite moratorium, soy still contributes indi ...
  Soy expansion in areas neighboring the Amazon rainforest is contributing to loss of rainforest itself, reports a new study published in Environmental Research Letters.
• Proposed changes to Brazil's Forest Code could ...
  Proposed changes to Brazil's Forest Code will hurt Brazilian agriculture, argues a leading conservationist. Carlos Alberto de Mattos Scaramuzza, WWF-Brazil's director for conservation, says the reform bill currently being evaluated by Brazil's Senate could have unexpected economic implications f ...
• Animal picture of the day: spectacular blue an ...
  Eupholus schoenherri weevil near Manokwari in West Papua.

Sierra Express

• No Mohamed Bangura against Gefle
  Mohamed Bangura will miss out on AIK’s away tie against Gefle today Sunday due to a foot injury he sustained in their last league encounter against Halmstad were he accounted for two assists. Bangura was taken off at Monday night’s 4-0 victory against Halmstad, he sustained a foot injury after t ...
• Sierra Leonean defender wanted by Allsvenskan ...
  Sierra Leonean defender David Simbo in photo who plays for Sweden’s Division 1 team Motala AIF has been under the radar by several Swedish Allsvenskan league top sides.  Reports reaching Sierra Express Sport desk UK indicate that AIK, Trelleborg FF, HBK and OSK are all interested in the service ...
• Sierra Express Media awards football stakeholders
  Freetown, Sierra Leone – Sierra Express Media newspaper, Friday July 15th bestowed five Sierra Leoneans with certificates of awards for their laudable and commendable contributions to the promotion of football in Sierra Leone.  (Photo: Management of SEM and award  recipients) Fred Clay who dou ...
• Failed ACC Commissioner takes case to Appeals ...
  Following a recent High Court judgment between the State Vs Allieu Sesay and four others, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), in line with legal stipulations, has appealed the freeing of all five accused persons of 57 count charges.  (Photo: ACC Commissioner Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara) Allieu Se ...
• 6 to Sierra Express Media award
  The Sport Department of Sierra Express Media (SEM), today Friday 15th will award six football stakeholders at its office at No. 13 Pademba Road, Freetown. The award is centered on continuous and significant contributions of certain football stakeholders in Sierra Leone. The awardees include Fred ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• A2 eyes NZX step as Aussie sales grow
  Kiwi milk company A2 Corporation is eyeing a listing on the NZX main board as it starts building its first processing plant, bucks an Australian price war and hunts for its next international market.The NZAX-listed company has...
• Dutch exec takes Fonterra job
  One of the brains behind the merger that created a Dutch dairy powerhouse has landed the top job at Fonterra.Dutchman Theo Spierings will take over from Canadian Andrew Ferrier on September 26 as chief executive of dairy co-operative...
• Fonterra names Dutch exec Theo Spierings as ne ...
  Fonterra has named Dutch dairy executive Theo Spierings as chief executive, to replace Canadian Andrew Ferrier, passing over internal candidates to run the world's biggest exporter of dairy products.Spierings will take over from...
• Dairy price boom exceeds Goldman's expectations
  Dairy farmers feeling more confident about opening cheque books is good news for the economy, says Goldman Sachs economist Philip Borkin."We are already detecting improving sentiment emerging from the rural sector as farmers begin...
• Liam Dann: No sign yet of dollar budging
  The New Zealand dollar completely shrugged off a fall in dairy prices yesterday - that's worrying.While the 6.7 per cent drop in New Zealand's most important commodity on Fonterra's auction overnight prompted a mini sell-off,...

The Bovine

• New raw milk blue bus is being made
  This just in from raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt:
• Two raw milks and the Wisconsin case
  From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “It’s becoming clear that the Wisconsin campylobacter outbreak a few weeks back, triggered by tainted unpasteurized milk from a commercial dairy, has created a dilemma for the food safety ideologues. These … Continue reading →
• B.C. man faces jail for growing food
  Jeff Nield has the story, on Treehugger.com: “Last week Colleen brought us the story of a woman in Michigan who is facing jail time for planting a garden. Sadly, this type of heavy-handed by-the-letter enforcement of bylaws exists at the … Continue reading →
• The challenge of properly valuing water, the m ...
  From James G Workman and Montgomery F Simus, China Dialog.net “Peter Brabeck-Letmathe chairs Nestlé, the worldâs44th-largest company, which last year earned US$10.5 billion in profits on US$121.1 billion in revenues. He is the consummate international businessman, bargaining hard, overseeing ...
• Alternative Markets, Barter Systems, and Local ...
  From Eric Blair at the Activist Post More and more people are becoming aware of the complete system failure we’re experiencing in the United States and around the globe. As the true nature of the control system is revealed, people tend … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Right Place to Crash the Plane; Time Running O ...
  Steen Jakobsen, chief economist for Saxo Bank in Copenhagen, pinged me with a personal thought regarding Europe: "I am just back from Italy and Russia and what really strikes me is how people have given up, and I mean totally given up. To my mind we are entering extremely difficult time where ...
• 3-D "Printing" Technology Will Blow Your Mind
  3-D printing has been around for a while but most have probably not seen or heard of it. The term "printing" is a misnomer. The results are something more akin to what you might see out of a Star-Trek replicator. URL if above video does not play: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw&fea ...
• Consumer Spending On Hold
  A Gallup Poll shows Americans Continue to Keep a Close Hold on SpendingOverall self-reported daily consumer spending in stores, restaurants, gas stations, and online averaged $69 per day during June -- unchanged from May, and essentially the same as the $67 average of June 2010. Upper-income ...
• Americans Prefer Spending Cuts Over Tax Hikes; ...
  A Gallup poll shows On Deficit, Americans Prefer Spending Cuts; Open to Tax HikesAmericans' preferences for deficit reduction clearly favor spending cuts to tax increases, but most Americans favor a mix of the two approaches. Twenty percent favor an approach that relies only on spending cuts and ...
• More BullSweet Stress-Free Tests of European Banks
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