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Sunday, July 17, 2011

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Israel eyes 10 pct of energy from renewable by 2020
Reuters Africa
TEL AVIV, July 17 (Reuters) - Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved a plan to advance the production of energy from renewable resources, seeking 10 percent of electricity production from such methods by 2020. "The aim of the plan is to reduce emissions ...
Wind farms enable state electric utilities to meet 2010 energy standard
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
New wind farms built in Wisconsin and neighboring states have enabled the state's electric utilities to comply with the first phase of the state's renewable energy standard, and most are well on their way to meeting the state's 2015 green energy target ...
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NREL identifies viable renewable energy sources for the CNMI
Saipan Tribune
By Mark Rabago An assessment report submitted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory concluded that opportunity exists for the implementation of renewable energy technologies in the CNMI. NREL's “Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Initial ...
Pentagon clears Kansas wind projects
BusinessWeek
The Pentagon issued a report Thursday on its review of 249 renewable energy projects in 35 states and Puerto Rico. The department found no problems with 229 of the projects. The report cleared all six of the Kansas wind projects reviewed. ...
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The BP Spill One Year Later: Renewing Trust Along With Ecology
Huffington Post (blog)
But something else had been dealt a deadly blow, something just as difficult to restore as damaged ecology and economic well-being: trust. With the dissipation of the surface oil due to sun and wave action, a strange denial began to set in. ...
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Washington's Litter Prevention Hotline Dumped
KEPR 19
By David Klugh DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY NEWS RELEASE -- Beginning July 15, 2011 callers to Washington Department of Ecology's "Litter and It Will Hurt" campaign hotline will hear a recorded message telling them that, due to state budget cuts, ...
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State agency will join Whatcom County in review of Cherry Point cargo terminal
Bellingham Herald
The state Department of Ecology has agreed to share the lead role with Whatcom County as the hotly contested Gateway Pacific Terminal project moves through an extensive regulatory process. Ecology's acceptance of that role appears to resolve a squabble ...
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Emissions From Microsoft, Dell Data Centers Worry Residents
PCWorld
The Washington State Department of Ecology is holding a public meeting on Wednesday evening in Quincy for residents to comment on an application from Dell for permission to use 28 generators powered by diesel engines. Quincy, a town of around 6000 ...
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Darren Clarke Keeps Head Above Water
Wall Street Journal
By PETER DIXON, THE TIMES Darren Clarke maintained his position at the top of the leaderboard at the 140th Open Championship and will go into the final round at Royal St George's tomorrow bidding to win the Claret Jug at the twentieth time of trying. ...
Natural gas drilling threatens NYC water supply
Crain's New York Business
By Kate Sinding And Eric A. Goldstein The real estate industry, homeowners and anyone paying a water bill in New York City all have a big stake in the state's proposal for industrial gas drilling in the upstate Marcellus Shale. ...
Water woes: Experts encourage folks not to give up on lawns
ReporterNews.com
A citation may be issued for excess water from a yard or carwash running more than 75 feet down a gutter or alley. First offense for a water conservation ordinance violation is a minimum fine of $50. Victor Cristales/Reporter-News Mike Reppart moves a ...
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Officials have few options
Amarillo.com
Cities are tightening water restrictions, amid the driest October-through-June stretch in Texas history. So what can the government do to help those who are hit hardest? Not much, at the state level, experts say. Droughts are tricky to manage. ...
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • AMERICA GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE IN THE MIDDLE ...
    Summary: Egypt protestsThe latest methodologically serious poll of Arab public opinion—the “Arab Attitudes, 2011” survey, see here, conducted by IBOPE Zogby International for the Arab American Institute Foundation—should (but probably won’t) be read in the White House as a wake-up call about ...
  • Zardari leaves for Iran tomorrow
    Summary: President Asif Ali Zardari will discuss vital issues relating to bilateral and regional developments and will share with the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about Pakistan point of views. President Zardari had visited Te ...
  • Iran determined to improve ties with Europe: FM
    Summary: Iran and the European Union (EU) have strengthened their resolve to enhance relations, Salehi said on Thursday. The Iranian minister described as "constructive" the outcomes of his two-nation European tour of Slovenia and Austria earlier this week. His visits to Slovenia and Austri ...
  • DETERMINED TO DELEGITIMATE THE ISLAMIC REPUBLI ...
    Summary: One might have anticipated that the dismal results of neoconservative foreign policy during the George W. Bush Administration would have discredited neoconservative ideas and their proponents. This has not been the case. Notwithstanding the forthright efforts of Rep. Ron Paul (R-T ...
  • Russia offers 'phased' approach on Iran
    Summary: Lavrov-ClintonRussia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has laid out a new “step-by-step” approach that would enable Iran to take steps to address questions raised by the UN nuclear agency on the country's nuclear program. source: Press TVread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Thursday News Flash: Sci, Space, Tech
    Mystery From the Sun: Huge Solar Storm Still Puzzles 11 Years Later One million degree hot solar plasma travels along magnetic loops in the sun's atmosphere during the Bastille Day solar storm of 2000. Eleven years ago this week, one...
  • Solving the Mystery of Our Atmosphere's Electr ...
    NASA Rockets cutting the very edge of space are probing mysterious electric currents found in the uppermost reaches of the ionosphere that can disrupt communications and GPS satellites that beam signals through it. To study the ionosphere, scientists are launching...
  • Image of the Day: Violent Winds from a Central ...
    This composite Chandra X-ray (blue and green) and optical (red) image of the active galaxy, NGC 1068, shows gas blowing away in a high-speed wind from the vicinity of a central supermassive black hole. Regions of intense star formation in...
  • White Dwarfs Locked in Death Spiral May Reveal ...
    Harvard Astronomers have discovered a pair of white dwarfs --burned-out cores of stars like our Sun--spiraling into one another at breakneck speeds. These white dwarfs are so near they make a complete orbit in just 13 minutes, but they are...
  • Mystery Solved: What Triggers a Sleeping Blac ...
    \ A new study combining data from ESO's Very Large Telescope and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory has turned up a surprise. Most of the huge black holes in the centres of galaxies in the past 11 billion years were...

Natural News

  • AIDS drugs linked to premature aging, dementia ...
    (NaturalNews) A study recently published in the journal Nature Genetics explains that nucleoside analog reverse-transcriptase inhibitors, or NRTIs, which are drugs used primarily in Africa and other developing regions of the world to treat HIV and AIDS, are responsible for causing heart disease, ...
  • Biotech farm to milk mutant transgendered offs ...
    (NaturalNews) The insatiable lust among genetic engineers to tamper with the natural order has reached new freak-show proportions. Genetic butchers from AgResearch, which NaturalNews recently reported had reluctantly abandoned a 13-year animal cloning operation due to an overwhelming number of a ...
  • Hollywood begins mass brainwashing campaign to ...
    (NaturalNews) The entertainment industry is no stranger to government propaganda campaigns, and the latest Hollywood flicks are no exception. A quick look at the trailer for the upcoming release of the movie Contagion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g) reveals what appears to be a mass ...
  • Antimicrobial copper kills 97 percent of deadl ...
    (NaturalNews) A new study presented at the World Health Organization's (WHO) 1st International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC) in Geneva, Switzerland, has revealed that the use of antimicrobial copper surfaces in hospitals helps reduce the rate of hospital-acquired infecti ...
  • TSA failure: 25,000 airport security breaches ...
    (NaturalNews) If you think the establishment of the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) after 9/11 has really helped to make the skies safer, think again. A new report issued by the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign ...

Threat Level

  • Judge Fines Righthaven $5,000
    A Las Vegas federal judge has sanctioned copyright troll Righthaven to the tune of $5,000 for making misrepresentations to the court. U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt of Nevada last month ordered Righthaven explain why Hunt should not sanction it for trying to “manufacture standing.” (.pdf) Standi ...
  • Court OKs Airport Body Scanners, Rejects Const ...
    A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously declined to block the government from using intrusive body scanners across airports nationwide, saying it is “not persuaded by any of the statutory or constitutional arguments” against them. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Cir ...
  • Deadline Looms for Online Gamblers to Petition ...
    Tens of thousands of U.S.-based internet gamers lost their bankrolls on Black Friday: April 15, the day the federal government seized the finances and domains of the world's largest offshore, online gambling sites.
  • Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed
    A little more than a year ago, Wired.com published excerpts from instant messenger chats between accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo, the ex-hacker in whom he confided and who reported him to the authorities. It's now time to reveal the previously unpublished portions of the ...
  • Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to ...
    A Minnesota hacker prosecutors described as a "depraved criminal" was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror that turned his neighbors' lives into a living nightmare.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • From Political to Pathological: Republicans an ...
    "The chief consequence of the conservatives' unrelenting faith in the badness of government," Thomas Franks wrote three years ago in The Wrecking Crew, "is bad government." But would happen if virtually every article of that faith were wrong or, much worse, a blatant lie? Then you'd have somet ...
  • The Republicans' Constitutional Con Job
    As the GOP hostage-taking drama over raising the debt limit appears headed towards a final showdown, Republican Congressmen, Senators and presidential candidates alike are pushing the "Cut, Cap and Balance" pledge. While Mitch McConnell's "Plan B" would see Republicans yield on boosting the $14 ...
  • Republican Secrets of the Debt
    On the same day that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Wall Street rating agencies joined the ever-louder chorus of voices warning Republicans that failure to raise the U.S. debt ceiling would result in "calamity," Speaker John Boehner announced that at leas ...
  • GOP on the Debt: No Democratic President, No P ...
    Summing up the current Republican debt ceiling hostage-taking are two of the most telling statements in the annals of American politics. "Reagan," Vice President Dick Cheney famously declared in 2002, "proved deficits don't matter." And on Monday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor added, "Wha ...
  • And the Winner Is...
    Among the truisms of American politics is this: the side decrying "class war" is the one winning it. So it is with the ongoing Republican hostage-taking drama over the debt ceiling and upper-income tax increases. Facing overwhelming pressure from his own party, Speaker John Boehner retreated f ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Culture jamming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Culture jamming, coined in 1984,[1][2][3] denotes a tactic used by ... Culture jamming is usually employed in opposition to a perceived appropriation of public ...
  • Culture Jam
    Culture Jam is the innovative social media technology company behind PromoJam, the ground breaking social marketing platform, and upcoming technologies ...
  • Nome, Dagny: Culture Jamming
    For some, culture jamming is more or less anything that mixes art, ... Finally, I will discuss whether culture jamming as a countercultural movement can aspire ...
  • Wooster Collective: Culture Jamming Archives
    Posted by marc at 7:00 AM in Culture Jamming | add to del.icio.us. add to digg. add to ... marc at 7:59 AM in Culture Jamming | add to del.icio.us. add to digg ...
  • Culture jamming - Definition | WordIQ.com
    Culture jamming, or sniggling, is the act of using existing mass media to comment on those very media themselves, using the original medium's communication method. ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Lions Could Be Extinct in 10-15 Years!
    Lions, these wonderful big cats -- I think there isn't anybody who has ever avoided their charm -- could be extinct in just 15 years. Even though they are dangerous, they are lovable, too. But, unfortunately, there's some really bad news: their numbers have been shrinking tremendously over the l ...
  • Top 7 Animal Videos of the Week + Baby Dalmati ...
    Top animal videos and stories of the week, in no particular order:
  • Just Do It: UK Climate Activism Film {VIDEOS}
    At the end of 2010, I wrote a piece on an exciting, fabulous, inspiring documentary on UK climate change activism over on Change.org. The film is actually launching today. Researching the piece, I discovered all sort of awesome UK climate activism I wasn't aware of before. It made me really re ...
  • “Guerilla Ballet” Crashes BP-Sponsored Opera E ...
    Friends of a fellow Important Media writer, 3 ballet dancers, made a statement this week by interrupting BP's 3rd Summer Screen in Trafalgar Square, London. The ballet dancers danced a short piece based on Swan Lake, "with the classic tale used as analogy for BP’s controversial investment in the ...
  • U.S. Chamber of Secrets Launched
    350.org is continuing on its campaign to expose the U.S. Chamber of Secret's dirty, U.S.-unfriendly practices with a new campaign, website and all: The U.S. Chamber of Secrets. Yes, that would be a spoof on Harry Potter. And, yes, 350.org is comparing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Lord Voldemort.

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Los Llanos (The Plains) of Venezuela. Their mu ...
    The great Orinoco River flows in a region shared by Venezuela and Colombia and along the watershed of the river lies Los Llanos, grasslands as far as the eye can behold. The unresticted openness and wild beauty of the plains have attracted humans for thousands of years, first with nomadic...
  • Country Joe McDonald, "Feel Like I'm Fixing To ...
    Editor's Comment: Yeah, I know (sigh), it's just that old, has-been hippie music again, Woodstock and times past. But when many hear it today they hear Vietnam all over again in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Palestine and whoever is next in Washington's crosshairs. The question is whether ...
  • Every One Spends 236 Dollars On Weapons; The L ...
    HUMAN WRONGS WATCH Military expenditure amounted to 1630 billion dollars in 2010, i.e, 236 dollars per person in the world. Meanwhile, UN asks for 16 dollars to save each one of the over two million children needing urgent life-saving actions if they are to survive in drought-affected ...
  • Murdoch Meltdown: News Corp Imploding; Raising ...
    The recent developments unfolding at News Corp challenge the idea of corporate personhood and whether justice can really be served when corporations are given the privileges of personhood. There are also the aspects of accountability that come with being considered a person.  The even ...
  • China Assisting Pakistan in Upgrading Power In ...
    July 16, 2011 Chinese fiscal assistance is allowing Pakistan to begin rebuilding its energy infrastructure in its portion of the contested Himalayan state, which it labels “Azad Kashmir,” heavily damaged during last year’s flooding. A senior official at the Planning Commission told journal ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    The word you are groping for here is "complicit" "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 handwritten notes listing nearly 4,000 celebrities, p ...
  • Only Kentucky Stupid Enough to Pay $40 Million ...
    Make no mistake: this is entirely the fault of Cowardly Waste of Oxygen Steve Beshear, who is running for re-election by pandering to freakazoid conservatards who will never, ever vote for him. From the Herald: Originators of a proposed biblical theme park that would include a full-size replica ...
  • Our Last Balanced Budget Was Just 11 Years Ago
    It's only republicans who are incapable of balancing a budget, Mitchie-poo. Steve Benen: We're facing a jobs crisis, weak economic growth, and the prospect of voluntarily default, created entirely by congressional Republicans, in less than three weeks. With this in mind, Senate Minority Leader M ...
  • Prison Hunger Strikes Spread
    Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars: The conditions in our jails continue to be a disgrace, and in many places, they're getting worse because they've been outsourced to for-profit companies (and we all know what that means). Yet jail reform is far down on the list of liberal priorities. It's easy t ...
  • There is run-of-the-mill dumbassery, and then ...
    Christopher Eric Wey can never be accused of being the sharpest tool in the shed, that's for sure. Not after a stunt like this: Any seasoned airplane traveler knows it is hard enough trying to get a six-ounce bottle of contact solution onto an airplane, much less a quarter-ounce of military expl ...

Care 2

  • Zimbabwe:Zanu thugs slaughter Lowveld elephants
    The union said in a notice to members last week that the elephants had their heads hacked off and were left with their tusks intact, showing that the attackers were not professional poachers after the ivory.Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Monkees' Davy Jones Reacalls Beatles Frien ...
    When he appeared on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' with the Beatles in 1964, Davy Jones had no idea he was staring at his future. On the show, he performed a song from 'Oliver!' the Broadway show he was acting in at the time. But two years later, he'd be castSubmitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to ...
  • Agony and Ivory
    Alex Shoumatoff travels from Kenya to Seattle to Guangzhou, China, to expose those who are guilty in the massacre�and recognize those who are determined to stop it. Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Former street dog looking for a family - Natio ...
    Los Angeles, California - At just 18 months of age, Riley has experienced more "life" than most dogs will ever see. Submitted by Sophia P. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • "Please Vote for Jane Goodall Institute Today!"
    Giving back is beautiful and your vote can make a difference! Come back daily to vote for your favorite cause � you can vote up to 5 times per day!Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Fixing the Economy, Solving the Housing Glut
    The wrangling over the Federal Budget is a long term issue and, as I have written previously, does nothing to get the economy up and running. The key is housing. Consider the following. In communities across the nation, but especially in Florida, Arizona and California, people find themselves ow ...
  • “Celebrate Good Times, Come On!”
    The US Women’s National Team has made it into the Finals of the Women’s World Cup. Woohoo! It was an exciting match, dominated in possession by their opponent, France, but the US scored the most goals, 3 – 1. This is the first time the Women’s Team has made it back to the Finals since [...]
  • On Voting For Women … And Palin
    Editor’s Note: Special thanks to Linda for volunteering to prepare this interesting discussion for your reading. Regular readers know that the writers under Larry Johnson’s No Quarter banner are a diverse group, from a variety of backgrounds, who came together in passionate support of Hillary Cl ...
  • Feel Good! Open Thread
    One of our NoQuarter writers — you’re going to hear from many of the writers later on! (check back at 18:30 ET) — works an extra job to make sure that her mother has a decent place in which to live. This video is a salute to her and to all children who look out [...]
  • Are We Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It An ...
    I am. I am totally fed up with both the Republicans and the Democrats. Let’s start with the Republicans. When Republicans controlled the Presidency and the Senate, what did they do when George W. Bush was in charge? Started an unnecessary war in Iraq that has left Iran as the dominant power in t ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Intense Exercise Can Decrease Symptoms of Anxiety
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Evidence has shown that exercise can help combat the symptoms of several mental health problems, including depression and stress. But a new study suggests that people who suffer from panic and high levels of anxiety may also benefit from regular, intense exercise. ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy weekend! Enjoy this week’s top news :-) Eating Disorders Often Reduce Lifespan Positive Perception May Lessen Teen Anxiety Is Meditation the Push-Up for the Brain? Study Shows Practice May Have Potential to Change Brain’s Physical Struct ...
  • Now What? All Graduated and No Place to Go
    Congratulations to all of you college grads out there! You made it through four or more years of cramming for tests, writing papers, late nights studying (and other late night activities), hangovers, morning classes, dining hall food or top ramen and boxed macaroni and cheese. You also had a lot ...
  • New Dimensions of Sexual Identity
    Everyone has a sexual identity. This might sound like a really simple and obvious thing to say, but I’ve found in my work as a therapist and an educator that people often only think of “gay” and “lesbian” when they hear the terms “sexual identity” or “sexual orientation.”  So, the first thing to ...
  • Positive Perception May Lessen Teen Anxiety
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Approximately 10 to 15 percent of teenagers experience anxiety issues. But a new study hopes to be able to offer options for treating this problem. Researchers at Oxford University believe that teaching teens to perceive situations in a positive way could prevent ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • EPA concerned about MTR link to birth defects ...
    EPA concerned about MTR link to birth defects Charleston Gazette Federal environmental regulators are looking closely at a new scientific study that found Appalachian residents who live near mountaintop removal mine sites face an increased risk of birth defects. US Environmental Protection Agen ...
  • Mountaintop removal not creating jobs, regulat ...
    Mountaintop removal not creating jobs, regulation not killing them Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Mountaintop removal mining operations do not create coal jobs in local communities, concluded a new study published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. But that didn ...
  • Kennedy Jr. says West Virginia coal industry o ...
    Kennedy Jr. says West Virginia coal industry out of control in documentary The Seattle Times Robert Kennedy Jr., activist and environmental lawyer, is passionate about ending "mountaintop removal" coal mining in West Virginia. In a phone interview about the documentary film, "The Last Mountain, ...
  • Capital Fringe Festival: Cry of the Mountain e ...
    The Georgetown Voice (blog) Capital Fringe Festival: Cry of the Mountain echoes excellence The Georgetown Voice (blog) This one-woman play about mountaintop removal in Appalachia balances entertainment with its environmentalist message thanks to a nuanced script and outstanding delivery by Adel ...
  • Coal lawyers blame birth defects on inbreeding ...
    Coal lawyers blame birth defects on inbreeding, deny coal's role Creative Loafing (blog) Babies born in areas with mountaintop-removal mining have higher rates of birth defects � we know that from a study that came out last month. But, say coal companies, that doesn't mean the mining CAUSES the ...

Memeorandum

  • New Stable of Wealthy Donors Fueled Obama Camp ...
    Nicholas Confessore / New York Times: New Stable of Wealthy Donors Fueled Obama Campaign's Record Fund-Raising Quarter  —  President Obama recruited roughly 150 new elite donors, raising as much as a half a million dollars each, to help propel him to a large and early lead over his Republican ...
  • Obama-Dalai Lama meeting angers China (CNN)
    CNN: Obama-Dalai Lama meeting angers China  —  (CNN) — China spoke out strongly Sunday against a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama, saying it “hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and harmed Sino-U.S. relations.”  —  “This action seriously interfered with China' ...
  • G.O.P. Freshmen Say Debt Concerns Them More Th ...
    Robert Pear / New York Times: G.O.P. Freshmen Say Debt Concerns Them More Than Re-election  —  WASHINGTON — For years, legislation to raise the federal debt limit offered plenty of political theater on Capitol Hill, with the party out of power using it to rail against the party in power.
  • 29% Are Conservative on Fiscal and Social Issu ...
    Rasmussen Reports: 29% Are Conservative on Fiscal and Social Issues, 10% Liberal on Both  —  Voters remain slightly more conservative when it comes to fiscal policy than they are on social issues, while 29% still say they are conservative in both areas.  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports national ...
  • WEEKLY ADDRESS: A Unique Opportunity to Secure ...
    The White House: WEEKLY ADDRESS: A Unique Opportunity to Secure our Fiscal Future  —  WASHINGTON - In this week's address, President Obama called on both parties to work together to find a balanced approach to solving our nation's deficit problem.  The President emphasized the importance of com ...

Energy & Environment News

  • Making Sustainable Surfboards
    Danny Hess of San Francisco left his job as a building contractor to devote himself to creating environmentally friendly and long-lasting surfboards.
  • House Votes to Hamper a Law on Light Bulbs
    The House voted on Friday to withhold funding to enforce part of a 2007 law that increases efficiency standards for light bulbs.
  • Green: As 'Sinks' for Carbon, Forests Are Even ...
    Each year, about one-third of the carbon dioxide released through the burning of fossil fuels is absorbed by the world's forests, a new study says. But deforestation is having a devastating effect.
  • Business Briefing | INDUSTRY: Irrigation Suppl ...
    Valmont Industries posted quarterly results that beat estimates on higher sales at its irrigation segment and it forecast full-year profit above market estimates on expectations of improving demand for utility and irrigation equipment.
  • Utility Shelves Ambitious Plan to Limit Carbon
    The abandonment of the United States’ most prominent plan to capture carbon dioxide from an existing coal-burning power plant hurts efforts to rein in emissions tied to global warming.

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China Dialogue

  • A dog fight in China
    In a culture in which views of canines can be contradictory, animal-protection activists’ recent rescue of over 500 dogs bound for slaughter has ignited controversy. Meng Si examines the dispute.The “April 15th Incident” -- when a group of animal-lovers halted and rescued a truck-load of dogs bo ...
  • Scientists and sceptics
    On climate change, vaccine safety and other issues, science is under attack from increasingly vocal critics. Researchers are fighting back, but will they be able to change minds? Andrew Jack reports.Emily Shuckburgh spends much of her time wrapped up against the cold on the far side of the world ...
  • Slideshow: Living on scraps
    Beijing’s informal recyclers – often new arrivals from the countryside – make a priceless, though unacknowledged, contribution to the city. Here, Chen Liwen introduces a series of photos depicting their way of life.Recycling has a very long history in China. The beginning of the founding era of ...
  • Connecting the green dots
    Often overlooked, grid operators are at the frontlines of climate change. As Germany embarks on an ambitious plan to scale up renewables, Letha Tawney looks at the challenge of transmission.  In renewable-energy circles, there is a real excitement about Germany’s latest plans to move away fro ...
  • Deserted islands
    Rising seas threaten to force whole populations off atoll nations. But where will they go? And will their countries still exist? Gregory Wannier examines the legal implications.In December 2008, a series of swells coinciding with seasonal high (“king”) tide engulfed the island atoll of Majuro, c ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Judge Fines Righthaven $5,000
    A Las Vegas federal judge has sanctioned copyright troll Righthaven to the tune of $5,000 for making misrepresentations to the court. U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt of Nevada last month ordered Righthaven explain why Hunt should not sanction it for trying to “manufacture standing.” (.pdf) Standi ...
  • Court OKs Airport Body Scanners, Rejects Const ...
    A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously declined to block the government from using intrusive body scanners across airports nationwide, saying it is “not persuaded by any of the statutory or constitutional arguments” against them. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Cir ...
  • Deadline Looms for Online Gamblers to Petition ...
    Tens of thousands of U.S.-based internet gamers lost their bankrolls on Black Friday: April 15, the day the federal government seized the finances and domains of the world's largest offshore, online gambling sites.
  • Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed
    A little more than a year ago, Wired.com published excerpts from instant messenger chats between accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo, the ex-hacker in whom he confided and who reported him to the authorities. It's now time to reveal the previously unpublished portions of the ...
  • Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to ...
    A Minnesota hacker prosecutors described as a "depraved criminal" was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror that turned his neighbors' lives into a living nightmare.

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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • Tucker Adkins Raw Milk Dairy linked to as many ...
    The FDA is working with officials in North Carolina and South Carolina to investigate an outbreak of campylobacteriosis in three people who consumed raw milk from Tucker Adkins Dairy in York, S.C. The three confirmed cases and another five probable cases are from three different households and e ...
  • 500 Pennsylvania Inmates Sickened by Salmonella
    According to the AP, the Pennsylvania Department of Health has confirmed a suspected outbreak of salmonella poisoning at a federal prison in northeastern Pennsylvania, that has reportedly sickened more than 500 inmates and guards. The Health Department's director of communications, Christine Cr ...
  • Testing for non-O157 E. coli - "American consu ...
    In response to Obama Administration inaction, Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro issued a statement today following the announcement by Beef Products, Inc. (BPI) that it will begin testing for an additional six strains of E. coli currently not required by the U.S. Department of Agriculture: … We kno ...
  • Chronology of the E. coli O104:H4 Outbreak Inv ...
    According to the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, as of today, the cumulative number of probable and confirmed STEC cases in the EU/EEA is 3,867 (not including six in the United States, including one death). This includes 762 HUS STEC cases and 3,105 non-HUS STEC cases. In tot ...
  • A Rat Lungworm in your salad?
    A lovely thought as my daughters and I head out to one of the local restaurants here in Hawaii. I wonder if the organic, local salad that we order tonight was grown with any concern for good agricultural practices and inspected by a local government official, or if a local farmer grew it that s ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: NYC fleet adds 70 plug-in vehicles, ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Truck, Work, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Ford, Police/Emergency, Electric NYC Chevy Volt Police Car - Click above for high-res image gallery As much as the average driver doesn't really have to worry about "range anxiety" during a normal driving day, we will gran ...
  • Official: Toyota issues recall for Highlander, ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Crossover, Lexus, Toyota Lexus RX 400h - Click above for high-res image There's a problem with some 2006 and 2007 model year Toyota Highlander Hybrid and Lexus RX 400h vehicles. Today, Toyota announced that it will voluntarily recall 45,500 Highlander Hybrid an ...
  • Video: New Prius rap video takes to cruising W ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Whole Foods Parking Lot - Click above to watch video after the jump Turns out, you can spin the whole "cashed up greenie" bit into a few minutes of enjoyable parody rap. Don't believe us? Check out "Whole Foods Parking Lot," the fi ...
  • Report: Glenn Beck goes off on GM's Akerson ov ...
    Filed under: GM, Electric Glenn Beck on the gas tax - Click above to watch video after the jump If there's one thing that is fast becoming true about the Chevy Volt, it's that right-wing political pundits really, really don't like it. So, we will admit up front that this story comes straigh ...
  • Official: Mitsubishi sets Canadian i-MiEV pric ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Canada, Electric $32,998. That's the price that Mitsubishi Motors has announced for the i-MiEV in Canada when the little space egg goes on sale there later this year. (That's $33,891 U.S. at today's exchange rate). Yes, Canada will ge ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Book Excerpt: "Haiti: After the Earthquake," B ...
    Read the first chapter of Haiti after the Earthquake, the new book by Paul Farmer, renowned physician and social justice advocate. On Thursday’s show we will talk to Farmer about his book, and his experience working with Special Envoy for Haiti Bill Clinton in post-earthquake recovery efforts ...
  • Soldier Suicides and the Politics of President ...
    President Barack Obama just announced a reversal of a long-standing policy that denied presidential condolence letters to the family members of soldiers who commit suicide. Relatives of soldiers killed in action receive letters from the president. Official silence, however, has long stigmatized ...
  • "Malcomology": The Late Dr. Manning Marable's ...
    In the last months of his life Dr. Manning Marable recorded a series of videos to accompany his book "Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention." Marable died on April 1, 2011, just days before the book’s publication. His family has shared with Democracy Now! the last two installments of the six-part "M ...
  • "Malcolmology": Episode Six of the Late Dr. Ma ...
    Watch the sixth installment of the "Malcolmology" video project, a unique collaboration between truth2power films and the late Dr. Manning Marable, author of the new Malcolm X biography, "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention". In this episode, "A Hero For Our Times", Dr. Marable talks about the ...
  • WikiLeaks, Wimbledon and War
    Last Saturday was sunny in London, and the crowds were flocking to Wimbledon and to the annual Henley Regatta. Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blower website Wikileaks.org, was making his way by train from house arrest in Norfolk, three hours away, to join me and Slovenian philosophe ...

Suzie-Q

  • Neocons Fume Over US Boat to Gaza
    opednews.com July 16, 2011 By Ray McGovern My co-passengers and I of the U.S. Boat to Gaza have now gone from “High-Seas Hippies,” according to the right-wing Washington Times, to participants in a flotilla full of “fools, knaves, hypocrites, bigots, and supporters of terrorism,” says Alan Dersh ...
  • Murdoch lieutenant Hinton quits Dow Jones
    By Paul Thomasch and Yinka Adegoke NEW YORK, July 15 (Reuters) – Les Hinton, the top executive of Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones & Co, resigned on Friday after becoming a target of criticism for the phone-hacking scandal that occurred when he oversaw News Corp’s British newspapers. Hinton stepped do ...
  • Revealed: Cameron’s 26 meetings in 15 mo ...
    By Oliver Wright and Nigel Morris, independent.co.uk Saturday, 16 July 2011 The scale of private links between David Cameron and News International was exposed for the first time last night, with the Prime Minister shown to have met Rupert Murdoch’s executives on no fewer than 26 occasions in ju ...
  • Rupert Murdoch says sorry to Dowler family ove ...
    15 July 2011 BBC Click on link for video A “humbled and very shaken” Rupert Murdoch has apologised to the family of Milly Dowler in a meeting in London. The chairman of News Corporation requested the meeting after it emerged that the murdered schoolgirl’s mobile phone was hacked by the News of t ...
  • Rupert Murdoch ‘sorry’ in newspape ...
    16 July 2011 BBC National newspapers are running a full-page advert with a signed apology from Rupert Murdoch over “serious wrongdoing” by the News of the World. The advert states: “We are sorry for the serious wrongdoing that occurred.” Rebekah Brooks, a former editor of the paper, and senior N ...

Solari

  • Is Wireless the Next Asbestos?
    By Gloria Vogel Could radio frequency-producing antennas that are essential for the wireless world be the next asbestos for the insurance industry? They could, writes Gloria Vogel, managing director of New York-based Vogel Capital Management. The insurance industry must reassess its risk managem ...
  • Curtis Mayfield ~ New World Order
    Myspace Video Released Oct 3 2007 Lyrics Curtis Mayfield Wikipedia
  • Dick Gregory on the Real Deal
    Related Videos Related reading : Dick Gregory Wikipedia Dick Gregory Global Watch Web Page Dick Gregory Google Videos (2008)
  • Cancer: What Would I Do?
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Questions about cancer seem to percolating these days. I have gotten several questions about what a person should do if they are informed they have cancer. Here is my list of the initial steps I would take: 1. Prayer Cancer is often a symptom of a deeper problem. Praye ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses.” ~ Utah Phillips Related reading: Utah Phillips Wikipedia Bruce âUtahâ Phillips Biography Americans Who Tell The Truth

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Attritionist Letter #2 — our military se ...
    Summary:   With US forces engaged around the world in six conflicts (and many small ones), each the day our media paint a picture of the armed services.  News, articles, books, movies — seldom have we been so well informed about our mechanized high-tech defense professionals — the very model ...
  • Today’s tea party propaganda
    Summary: The Tea Party movement provides a picture of the increasingly dysfunctional OODA-loop (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) of American society, where outlandish statements are accepted unquestioningly by true believers. In this environment we can work 24-7 correcting these misrepresentaions (and ...
  • Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
    Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history.  This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
  • Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
    Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history.  This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
  • The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
    Summary:   Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations.  Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies.  With the permission of the th ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Demanding Dignity on Kabul’s Streets, Afghan W ...
    Kabul, Afghanistan – Holding signs that read “This street belongs to me too”; “We won’t tolerate insults anymore”; and a banner with a verse from the Koran emphasizing the wrongness of abusing women, around 30 young Afghan women and men marched in the sweltering afternoon heat to protest the r ...
  • Impunity Gap: Sri Lanka
    (see first post in this series: Mind the Impunity Gaps) There is increasing pressure for justice in Sri Lanka for crimes committed in the long civil war between the Government and secessionist Tamil Tigers (LTTE) and that ended in May 2009. While the Sri Lankan government has publicly pledged t ...
  • US-Morocco Treaty Partnership at 225
    Today marks the 225th anniversary of the longest unbroken treaty relationship to which the United States is a party. On July 15, 1786 (18 Ramadan 1200), in Marrakech, American agent Thomas Barclay was handed the final protocol of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship by his Moroccan counterpart Tah ...
  • Neocon Foreign Policy Initiative Still Clingin ...
    FPI Board Member Bill Kristol Republicans and neocons who had either previously called on the Obama administration to recall U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford or tried to block his confirmation as ambassador have been fairly quiet since Ford’s bold move to join protesters in the Syrian cit ...
  • Iraq Thinks Its Politicians and Parties Are Fa ...
    In early June 2011, the Greenberg Quinland Rosner Research company in conjunction with the National Democratic Institute released their latest public opinion poll of Iraqis. The survey was conducted from February to March, and consisted of 2,400 in-person interviews of people 18 years or older. ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Obama Dumps Policy for Politics
    There is a brief respite today after the flurry of White House summits between President Obama and leaders from Congress. The two sides spent the week negotiating a way to bridge the impasse on raising the debt ceiling that, if not resolved by Aug 2, threatens to permanently alter the United Sta ...
  • Out-Hawking the Deficit Hawks
    There are two ways for Democrats to assess which of the deals coming out of the debt-ceiling negotiations is best. There are a few deals out there that, according to the polls, will be most popular -- ones that would reduce the deficit by up to $4 trillion with a mix spending cuts and revenue in ...
  • Today at the Prospect
    David Callahan explains how 18 states are disenfranchising minorities, the poor and the elderly. Scott Lemeiux analyzes the most Supreme Court case you probably didn't hear about in the news.
  • Rick Perry Strangely Unable to Alter God's Ete ...
    (Flickr/Gage Skidmore) Texas governor Rick Perry might remind you of George W. Bush, but more and more he's making Bush look like Madalyn Murray O'Hair. Here's the latest (via ThinkProgress): Employing deeply religious language that national experts say affords both power and peril for his poli ...
  • Reign of the Fanatics
    Ezra Klein has an interview with budget guru Stan Collender that's worth reading to understand some of the dynamics at play within the Republican party in this debate over the debt ceiling. Collender describes how he was invited to speak to Tea Party Republicans after the 2010 election: After m ...

Buzzflash

  • Is the Tea Party a Promoter of Economic Anarch ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH FOR TRUTHOUT Is the Tea Party just another name for an anarchy party? Granted, given that the Tea Party was financially turbo-charged by the Koch Brothers (Americans for Prosperity) and Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, it's a challenge to define members of the loose ...
  • Is the Tea Party Lining up With the Religious ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If either Texas Governor Rick Perry, who is going to be the host of the upcoming Christian event, "The Response," (and, who has also not yet declared his candidacy), or Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann manages to snare the Republican Party's pres ...
  • Michelle Bachmann Worked for the IRS: "The Tax ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "The tax collector cometh" could have been the headline for Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign launch in Waterloo, Iowa - her hometown - awhile back, but it wasn't. Although Bachmann refers to her "experience as a tax attorney" in her official ...
  • Republicans Don’t Understand How to Balance th ...
    Body That arrogant, tea-partying, tax obsessed Republican, Grover Norquist, was a guest on Washington Journal for what seemed like the millionth time. Of course it hasn't been quite that many visits, but he keeps showing up with his anti-Obama, tax-cutting rhetoric often enough to ...
  • What if Rupert Murdoch's First Name Was Hakeem?
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Illegal & secret information was obtained on theRoyal family and a Prime Minister.There were payoffs to cops and bribes galore ---One can only conclude this is sinister. Wouldn't the main person who was behind thisMulti-decade diabolical schemeNowadays be ca ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 10 things you maybe didn’t know about rainbows
    I am currently reading the most excellent “The Sun’s Heartbeat” by astronomy writer Bob Berman. It’s the kind of book I’d love to be able to write, informative, entertaining, engaging and witty. In it, Berman explains the solar things you may always have wondered about from total eclipses (far m ...
  • New nuclear power stations
    New nuclear power stations – The UK government is/has approved the building of 8 nuclear power stations in the UK at Hartlepool; Sellafield, Cumbria; Heysham, Lancashire; Wylfa, Isle of Anglesey; Sizewell, Suffolk; Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex; Oldbury, Gloucestershire and Hinkley Point in Somerset. P ...
  • Use a bulldog to put your cat in standby mode
    Cat lovers everywhere might baulk at this veterinarian’s approach to putting cats in “standby” mode, but it’s not painful and simply hooks into the reflex that makes kittens go entirely limp when they are grabbed by the she cat by the scruff of their neck. It’s probably not advisable to do this ...
  • More pretty, ugly people
    On Monday I posted a Youtube clip revealing a weird perception phenomenon in which even the prettiest girl seems to appear, fleetingly, as if she were an ogre or a troll. Take a look at the ugly pretty girl phenomenon here. I’m never satisfied to simply echo what others have said, so contacted c ...
  • Ugly, pretty girls
    This is just plain odd. An accidental discovery. But, why does it happen? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what if something more subtle is occurring? The phenomenon is known as “flashed face distortion effect” and is described in a research paper thus: “We describe a novel face distort ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • The Concerns of Seniors are a ‘Big Deal;’ Don’ ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) again took to the House floor today to continue his unflinching defense of senior citizens and Social Security from those who would pay off the debt by creating economic insecurity for our seniors. See video here. The full text of Congressman Kucinich’s remarks ...
  • VPC Endorses New Federal Gun Anti-Trafficking Bill
    Today at a Capitol Hill press conference, the Violence Policy Center (VPC) strongly endorsed legislation introduced by Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Elijah Cummings (D-MD) to help stem the flood of military-style firearms from the United States to Mexico and other countries in the W ...
  • Gulf Shrimpers Violating Laws that Require Tur ...
    The Gulf of Mexico commercial shrimp trawl fleet is the target of increased law enforcement to ensure compliance with required Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs). An estimated 200 vessels have inspected this month by federal officials and 71 were given either warnings for TEDs problems discovered wh ...
  • NARAL Pro-Choice America Praises Stop Deceptiv ...
    Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, praised  Rep. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.)  for their continued efforts to forward legislation that would give the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the authority to protect women from anti-choice “crisis pregnancy center ...
  • Free Press Action Fund Slams House Majority's ...
    On Friday, the House Commerce Committee held a hearing to address wireless spectrum and public safety issues. The hearing follows the Wednesday release of draft legislation called the “Spectrum Innovation Act of 2011” by the committee’s majority staff.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • No Class Warfare Here!
    Harold Meyerson Whenever liberals note that the rich are getting richer while everyone else is either treading water or sinking, or that profits are up while wages are down, or, worse yet, that profits are up because wages are down, those ...
  • Abuses in Tech Industry in China Exposed
    Michelle Chen The Information Age once promised a new industrial revolution, in which ugly smokestacks and Third World sweatshops would be overwritten by antiseptic roboticized assembly lines, ceaselessly pumping out state-of-the art elect ...
  • #OccupyWallStreet: A Shift in Revolutionary Ta ...
    Alright you 90,000 redeemers, rebels and radicals out there, a worldwide shift in revolutionary tactics is underway right now that bodes well for the future. The spirit of this fresh tactic, a fusion of Tahrir with the acampadas of Spain, is captured in this quote:read more
  • Syria, the US and the Vienna Convention
    Christopher Brauchli Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right. — Carl Schurz, Address at Anti-Imperialistic Conference 1899read more
  • On Biking, Why Can’t the US Learn Lessons from ...
    Elisabeth Rosenthal This spring, curiosity propelled me onto a New York City subway bound for Prospect Park West in Brooklyn, where a new bike path along the edge of Brooklyn’s largest park had angry residents worked up into a lather.Eco I ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Where are the Palestinians?
    Mairav ZonszeinThe Electronic IntifadaTel Aviv Amid all the sensational scenes of recent confrontation between Israeli authorities and Western “pro-Palestinian” activists (including Israelis), what became apparent was that Palestinians themselves could not be seen or heard.
  • Israeli propaganda festival finds few fans in ...
    Stephanie WestbrookThe Electronic IntifadaMilan Palestine solidarity activists in Milan held vibrant protests against an Israeli propaganda festival in the city center last month, highlighting Italian complicity with the Israeli�occupation.
  • "Dignity" ship remains destined for Gaza
    Begoña AstigarragaThe Electronic IntifadaAthens The French vessel Dignité-al Karama is the only boat from the Freedom Flotilla II now sailing for Gaza in an attempt to break the maritime siege imposed by�Israel.
  • The most powerful weapon is our humanity
    Dina ElmutiThe Electronic Intifada As she exits Palestine, Dina Elmuti reflects on the oppressive apparatus that surrounds her, and on the growing global struggle to break through it with something stronger, our�humanity.
  • How Greece abandoned Palestine
    David CroninThe Electronic Intifada No doubt, Greece’s refusal to allow the Freedom Flotilla II to set sail for Gaza was partly the result of pressure — and possibly even financial blackmail — from the US and Israel. Nonetheless, it was not an isolated occurrence but the logical consequence of a ...

The Wonk Room

  • The Trouble With Grand Bargaineering
    Reihan Salam rights about some of the social origins of political polarization in the fact that different kinds of people live in different kinds of places. To this I would add the baseline fact that extreme non-polarization in the 20th century was an artifact of Jim Crow. Members of congress’ v ...
  • Fannie, Freddie, “The Crisis”
    I sometimes don’t know what it is people mean by the phrase “the financial crisis” and certainly Tyler Cowen’s post in defense of the “blame Fannie Mae” account leaves me scratching my head as to which crisis he’s talking about. This, to me, is what “the financial crisis” is: 1. There was a larg ...
  • Fashion Copyrights: Still a Terrible Idea
    When I wrote about intellectual property law ruining Star Trek’s utopian scenario of plenty some people responded by noting that recipes aren’t copyrightable and patent terms expire. All true, but the point is that the entire framework of intellectual property is a social creation that’s changed ...
  • Pawlenty Decries ‘Catastrophic Scandal&# ...
    Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s (R-MN) quest for the White House has thus far failed to catch fire with voters or big money donors. In a potential bid to rake in donations from the financial sector, Pawlenty has begun demanding a repeal of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ...
  • 5,000 Poor Dallas Residents Stampede Each Othe ...
    Thursday morning, 5,000 Dallas residents in need of housing assistance showed up at the Jesse Owens Memorial complex early in the morning, hoping to be one of the lucky few to get a coveted spot on a waiting list for housing vouchers. Only 100 vouchers were available. Some people had camped out ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • A Great Summary of the Hollow Core of Rupert M ...
    Jeff Sparrow: "The Phony Populism of Rupert Murdoch": Consider the United States, where, after decades of the neoliberalism that Murdoch has unceasingly championed, an extraordinary ten per cent of the total personal income goes to the top 0.1 per cent of the populace, a disparity only rivall ...
  • Politics Costs Money
    And we don't have it. In the 1970s, the government started to fund groups to provide alternative analysis. They don't do that anymore. Because alternative analysis is dangerous. From the 1950s to today, the trade unions are a huge source of funding for lefty initiatives. However, under decades ...
  • Did they find those WMDs yet?
    Seriously? Oh, ... and when did Rob Ford decide that some of Toronto's library branches were part of the "gravy train" of "waste" he's been screeching about? Everything our opponents believe seems to turn out to be a big pile of garbage. Given their demonstrated contempt for democracy, when c ...
  • Would Any Canadian Government Recognize Palest ...
    So, the stupid, lying, pathetic closet-case who pretends to be Canada's Foreign Minister says that Canada won't recognize Palestine's right to exist. Having just torn apart Rosie DiMoron's incoherent, rambling gibberish that was her attempt to defend Canada's involvement in Afghanistan, I reali ...
  • "Fisking" Rosie DiMoron's Steaming Pile of Cra ...
    Keep watching this space if you're interested. If you haven't read her stream of nonsensical gibberish, here it is. Bye for now.

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Digital Journal

  • Canada: Compulsive hoarder faces eviction
    A woman in Surrey, British Columbia told CBC News she may be forced to move into a shelter if her housing provider evicts her for compulsive hoarding.
  • Canada's income inequality is a startling econ ...
    Depending on who you talk to, Canadians and the Canadian economy are in a fantastic position relative to the international community. Others are not so complimentary.
  • Swiss Government Bans Video On Execution-Style ...
    A documentary by humanitarian organisation Augenauf was banned shortly after it was broadcast on Swiss television. It depicts a reconstruction of the execution-style deportation practiced by Swiss Government.
  • Toronto names parkette in honour of slain poli ...
    On January 12 Toronto mourned as Toronto Police Sergeant Ryan Russell was killed in the streets of Toronto during the line of duty. Today the city celebrated his memory with the dedication of the Sergeant Ryan Russell Parkette at 250 Avenue Road.
  • Vision loss doesn't stop photographer Tara Mil ...
    This year's winner of the CNIB Eye Remember photo contest can barely see the beauty she captures on film. Tara Miller of Winnipeg is legally blind with only 10 percent vision in her left eye.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Barbara Yaffe, Council on Hemispheric Affairs: ...
    Citing a newly published paper by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Vancouver Sun columnist Barbara Yaffe is calling on the Canadian public to “familiarize itself with the ongoing debate over the purchase of the F-35s” (Barbara Yaffe, “The F-35 is the wrong plane for the job in Canada, Washing ...
  • Wounded Soldier, ex-Ombudsman challenging CF ‘ ...
    Cpl. Ryan Elrick, a Canadian soldier who lost his legs in Afghanistan, is taking the federal government to court, saying the policy known as Universality of Service is discriminatory and unconstitutional. Elrick spent three years training as an intelligence officer following his wounding but has ...
  • “Crown jewel” of Canadian peacekeeping closing ...
    The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) has announced that it is shutting down its operations in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia (David Pugliese, “Cash-strapped peacekeeping centre closing Nova Scotia office,” Ottawa Citizen, 10 June 2011). The organization is attempting to cut costs after having been adv ...
  • Layton, Harris criticize timing of document dump
    Opposition leader Jack Layton has accused the Harper government of taking a “very cynical” approach in its release of documents on the Afghan detainee file. The release of 4000 pages worth of documents came just as MPs are gearing down for summer recess. â[The Government] chose a date that will ...
  • Green Party’s Elizabeth May only dissenter to ...
    Elizabeth May stood alone in Parliament last week in opposing extension of the military mission in Libya, resulting in a vote of 294 in favour and 1 opposed (Jane Taber, Why Elizabeth May refuses to be a rubber stamp in the commons, Globe and Mail, 15 June 2011).  Defence Minister Peter MacKay a ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-17-11
    Find out why the mainstream media news anchors are nothing more than actors and puppets! PLUS, Dr. Marc Sorenson joins the show and explains where you can get your Vitamin D3 and why it is so essential to your health and your body! Health: Chocolate Better Than Aspirin For Heart Attacks Orange J ...
  • Vaccines Lower Immunity
    May 23rd, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Paul Fassa Vaccinations are even worse than what most have thought. Vaccine injuries that can happen to anyone randomly amongst the vaccinated are not the only issues. Some experts claim vaccines lower immunity for everyone who receives them. The increased dise ...
  • Does Drinking Lots of Coffee Really Help to Pr ...
    May 23rd, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Ethan A. Huff Coffee addiction may not be the detriment to health many people think it is, according to a new study published in the journal Breast Cancer Research. Postmenopausal women over 50 who drink five or more cups of coffee every day may be as much as 5 ...
  • FDA Targets Supplement Manufacturers, Falsely ...
    May 31st, 2011 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff In the eyes of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there is no difference between a legitimate, scientifically-backed health claim, and a phony, made-up claim, as it concerns food and dietary supplements. Only FDA-approved drugs, you see, prov ...
  • CDC Admits Flu Vaccines Don’t Work (Whic ...
    May 31st, 2011 Natural News By: Mike Adams I’m always amused by the purchasing process of electronics or appliances at big box stores. On one hand, as their sales associate calmly explains to you, whatever product you’re buying is such high quality that you’ll be extremely satisfied with your pu ...

Pambazuka News

  • Caribbean: Civil society demands Haiti debt ca ...
    Organizations representing Caribbean civil society organizations and social movements have written to G8 finance ministers, the World Bank, and the IMF, to demand an immediate and unconditional cancellation of Haiti's external debt....
  • US: System owes Troy Davis another day in court
    It is wrong to execute an innocent man. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will now consider whether it is constitutional. Troy Anthony Davis, convicted of murder, is asking the courts to hear evidence that key government witnesses have r...
  • Haiti: Open Letter to Barack Obama - pre-election
    We - citizens of Haiti, political militants and unionists of the grassroots movement for democracy in our country - solemnly address ourselves to you on the eve of the election that will most likely make you the next president of the United States....
  • Brazil: The high price of clean, cheap ethanol
    Brazil hopes to supply drivers worldwide with the fuel of the future - cheap ethanol derived from sugarcane. It is considered an effective antidote to climate change, but hundreds of thousands of Brazilian plantation workers harvest the cane at slave...
  • Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
    Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...

War in Context

  • Rupert Murdoch’s empire must be dismantled say ...
    The Guardian reports: Ed Miliband has demanded the breakup of Rupert Murdoch’s UK media empire in a dramatic intervention in the row over phone hacking. In an exclusive interview with the Observer, the Labour leader calls for cross-party agreement on new media ownership laws that would cut Mur ...
  • How the British police colluded with News of t ...
    The New York Times reports: 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 handwritten notes listing nearly 4,000 celebrities, politicians, sports stars ...
  • $14 million and gag orders for departing News ...
    The Independent reports: Five days after the News of the World rolled off the presses for the last time, Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of its publisher News International, walked out of the company with a severance package estimated by senior colleagues at £3.5m. Her departure follows th ...
  • The fight to rescue the Arab spring
    The Guardian reports: The historic revolutions that have rippled through the Arab world this year were in danger of eclipse on Friday night as protesters returned to the streets to profess their disgust at how the movement is being stymied by regimes old and new. Six months after the Arab spri ...
  • Campaigners seek arrest of former CIA legal ch ...
    The Guardian reports: Campaigners against US drone strikes in Pakistan are calling for the CIA’s former legal chief to be arrested and charged with murder for approving attacks that killed hundreds of people. Amid growing concern around the world over the use of drones, lawyers and relatives o ...

Watts Up With That?

  • “Climate Reality” is Al Gore&#8217 ...
    Story submitted by Stephen Rasey On  July 12, I wrote a comment cautioning not to underestimate the Gore Climate Reality event scheduled for Sept. 14, 2011.    Mixing metaphors, I said that this was an âAll Inâ bet and that this … Continue reading →
  • Curious summer weather in China
    From NTD Television Snow Covers Sichuan State Highway 318 in Summer While people in other regions of China, are enduring the hot summer, a bizarre scene of drifting snow covered the Zheduo Mountain section of the Sichuan State Highway 318 … Continue reading →
  • Location location, location: Wind Turbine Powe ...
    Wind Turbine power output is increased ten-fold by careful spacing, and direction of rotation, when compared to existing best practices. Click image for video surveyGuest post by Roger E. Sowell Summary:  A new study from CalTech shows that wind-turbine spacing, … Continue reading →
  • I need your help for a short research project
    No, I’m not asking for money, just some crowdsourced help. I have a short project that I can do in some free time tomorrow night, that is if I can get a little help. As you folks know by now, … Continue reading →
  • Devastating paper on IPCC consensus
    I’m pinched for time, so I’ll unashamedly pinch this from Bishop Hill (who I don’t think will mind): A devastating paper by Jane Goodwin on Iowa State university is discussed at Judy Curry’s blog. The subject is the IPCC consensus: … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Ralph Nader, Ted Turner and Peter Lewis: Billi ...
    Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader C-SPAN Video Library New York Public Library | LIVE from the NYPL May 4, 2011 In his novel Ralph Nader imagines placing seventeen billionaires in one room to solve the country’s problems, from the redevelopment of New Orleans to a reassessment of corporate citiz ...
  • Has President Obama Failed Labor and the Envir ...
    by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com July 17, 2011 After significant compromise with the recalcitrant Republicans who want to continue to give the wealthy tax advantages while cutting significant social programs, President Obama has finally taken a stand on debt ...
  • James Bamford: The Secrecy of the Obama Admini ...
    by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post July 17, 2011 James Bamford joins us to discuss the case of NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, the government’s overreach in bringing espionage charges against him, and the Obama Adminis ...
  • You Can’t Kill a Planet and Live on It, ...
    Dandelion Salad by Frank Joseph Smecker and Derrick Jensen Truthout July 16, 2011 Let’s expose the structure of violence that keeps the world economy running. With an entire planet being slaughtered before our eyes, it’s terrifying to watch the very culture responsible for this – the culture of ...
  • The Great Global Debt Depression: It’s All Gre ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 15, 2011 In late June of 2011, the Greek government passed another round of austerity measures, ostensibly aimed at getting Greece “back on track” to economic progress, but in reality, implementing a systematic program of ‘social geno ...

Your New Reality

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    The new show from the creators and actors of Trailer Park Boys looks utterly demented. As we hoped :
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    Rupert Murdoch's Massive Spying Operations Finally Exposed Police Paid By Murdoch Execs To Spy On Celebrities, Politicians And Terror Victims Murdoch Faces Spying And Hacking Probe In US Rupert Murdoch cries for himself, not his victims By Darryl Mason It's been a long time coming, but the ...
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    'Fox News' Announces President Obama Has Been Shot And Killed By Darryl Mason Ten hours, that's 10 fucking hours, after a series of fake tweets announcing President Barack Obama had been shot twice in a restaurant and subsequently died from the wounds, this shocking (but fake) news remains the ...
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    Warner Bros. Loses Millions On Harry Potter 5, Ninth Biggest Grossing Movie Of All Time...Somehow To the outside world, this is known as 'Hollywood Accounting', but when I was in LA in 2001 it was called FuckYou Accounting by independent producers. I'm guessing it still is : According to the (W ...
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    The Tsunami Is Here, But Don't Forget To Close Your Car Door When You Run What can you say while watching this video of the Japanese tsunami, shot from inside a car, except Holy Fucking Shit! Just extraordinary, in a world filled with cameras, we are seeing the reality of natural disasters like ...

Wired - Science

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Sheizaf: Everything you (never) wanted to ...
    Basically, the anti-boycott law allows all those who feel they have been harmed by a boycott, whether against Israel or an Israeli institution or territory (i.e. the settlements in the West Bank) to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Amnesty International: Israel anti-boycott law ...
    Amnesty International's Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Philip Luther: "Despite proponents’ claims to the contrary, this law is a blatant attempt to stifle peaceful dissent and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Rachel Corrie’s family claim Israeli military ...
    Cindy Corrie: "After more than a year of hearings, we are at this moment in much the same place as we were when they began – up against a wall of Israeli officials determined to protect the state at... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Uri Avnery, will the Boycott Law make you stop ...
    Uri Avnery: "The boycott law is a sophisticated law. It doesn't impose criminal sanctions on someone who calls for boycotting the settlements. If it did, we wouldn't have the slightest problem; we... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Haaretz: The boycott law subverts Israeli demo ...
    This is a politically opportunistic and anti-democratic act, the latest in a series of outrageously discriminatory and exclusionary laws enacted over the past year, and it accelerates the process of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Novel In-Vitro Enhancement Enables Accelerated ...
    SMARTube cuts false recent classifications, shows potential for use in incidence estimates. Unique new epidemiological tools aim to differentiate between recent and long-term HIV infections and measure incidence that can assist public health efforts
  • Research Reveals That Significantly More Genet ...
    Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center say there are at least 70 genetic mutations involved in the formation of colon cancer, far more than scientists previously thought.
  • Surgeons Pioneer New Ways to Treat Diabetes
    Surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center are innovating new ways to treat diabetes using techniques from weight-loss surgery, including experimental procedures to improve blood glucose levels and address a major complication of the disease.
  • Expert Available to Comment on U.S. Recognitio ...
    U.S. recognition of the rebel leadership in Libya as the country's legitimate government is a major step in establishing a new order in the war-torn country, according to an Indiana University expert on international legal affairs.
  • Children with Public Health Insurance Less Lik ...
    Children with public insurance are 22 percent less likely to receive comprehensive primary care than those with private insurance, according to new research from the University of Michigan Medical School.

Natural Health News

  • Why You Should Keep Smoking Rather than Take N ...
    New warnings are on the way for one of the most popular smoking cessation drugs on the market. Chantix has been found to increase the risk of serious cardiovascular events. A new study showed that varenicline, marketed by Pfizer under the name Chantix, is associated with a 72 percent increased ...
  • Sleeping Longer Helps Athletes Reach Peak Perf ...
    Yet another study has reinforced knowledge of the value of sleep. Research now suggests that sleeping longer can markedly improve physical performance. Stanford University's male basketball team was asked to sleep for 10 hours a night for around six weeks. They found that their shooting accurac ...
  • This Natural Vitamin Helps Protects Your Brain ...
    Alpha-tocotrienol, a natural form of vitamin E, can trigger production of a protein in the brain that clears toxins from nerve cells, preventing those cells from dying after a stroke.� But this is just one of three mechanisms identified so far that this form of vitamin E uses to protect your bra ...
  • This Fat Helps Reduces Anxiety and Inflammation
    New research shows that healthy young people who consumed more omega-3 fats showed a marked reduction both in inflammation and, somewhat surprisingly, also in anxiety. Omega-3’s such as EPA and DHA have long been considered positive additives to the diet. Previous research suggested that the co ...
  • 15,000 Restaurants Order Healthier New Kids Meals
    More than 15,000 U.S. restaurants, representing 19 chains, are participating in a voluntary new initiative called Kids LiveWell.� Meals that fit into the program will carry an icon of a red apple. Such meals must include an entrée, a side dish and beverage, and contain 600 calories or less, as ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoki ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • A Last Word on Cyberthreats
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I’ve blogged about cyberthreats a lot this week.  But, before we head into the weekend, I wanted to flag a Federalist Society Cyber Security Symposium, which an interested reader called to my attention.  Now, the Symposium itself was held last month at Step ...
  • A Last Word on Cyberthreats
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I’ve blogged about cyberthreats a lot this week.  But, before we head into the weekend, I wanted to flag a Federalist Society Cyber Security Symposium, which an interested reader called to my attention.  Now, the Symposium itself was held last month at Step ...
  • A Response to Frédéric Mégret by Philip Alston
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Philip Alston responds to Frédéric Mégret's comments on Alston's recently published article, Hobbling the Monitors: Should U.N. Human Rights Monitors be Accountable?. This post is part of the Second Harvard Internationa ...
  • A Response to Frédéric Mégret by Philip Alston
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Philip Alston responds to Frédéric Mégret's comments on Alston's recently published article, Hobbling the Monitors: Should U.N. Human Rights Monitors be Accountable?. This post is part of the Second Harvard Internationa ...
  • A Response to Philip Alston by Frédéric Mégret
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Frédéric Mégret, Assistant Professor of Law at McGill University Faculty of Law and Canada Research Chair in the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, responds to Philip Alston, Hobbling the Monitors: Should U.N. Hum ...

Public News Service

  • AARP Arizona: "Fuera manos" de Social Security ...
    AARP Arizona: "Fuera manos" de Social Security y Medicare Phoenix, AZ – El director y presidente estatal de la AARP Arizona se reunió con representantes de AARP de todo el país en Washington, D.C. esta semana, en un encuentro con las delegaciones de los congresos estatales. Su mensaje: mantenga ...
  • AARP Arizona: “Hands Off” Social S ...
    AARP Arizona: “Hands Off” Social Security and Medicare Phoenix, AZ – The director and state president of AARP Arizona joined AARP representatives from around the country in Washington, D.C. this week, meeting with state congressional delegations. Their message: keep discussions about Social Secu ...
  • In Search of More "Elbow Room" for Arizona Chi ...
    In Search of More "Elbow Room" for Arizona Chickens Washington, DC – Two national groups have formed an unlikely partnership to push Congress for new standards for egg producers. If they get their way, all hens will get bigger and better living quarters, and consumers will have more information ...
  • Tucson Forum Set on Alleged Abuse of Detained ...
    Tucson Forum Set on Alleged Abuse of Detained Immigrants Tucson, AZ – Allegations of human and civil rights abuses against immigrants detained in Arizona will be the focus of a Tucson community forum tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. A new two-year study from ACLU-Arizona finds that thousands of immig ...
  • National Security Bill Questions for AZ, Organ ...
    National Security Bill Questions for AZ, Organ Pipe Monument Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee is holding a hearing on a bill today (Friday) that expands the powers of the Department of Homeland Security to override 36 environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act. Loc ...

Center for Food Safety

  • U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Amendment ...
    Sixty-Seven Organizations and Businesses Endorse Amendment;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its decision yesterday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving genetically eng ...
  • FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
    Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...
  • Environmental Groups Petition Federal Governme ...
    FDA poised to take action on the first-ever application to market a genetically engineered salmon without adequate consideration of environmental risks and public input Earthjustice, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for ...
  • CA GE Fish Labeling Bill Held
    Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) was informed by Assemblymember Huffman’s office that they have decided to hold AB 88—the California bill which would require that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—as a 2-year bill. This means it w ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • 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 ...

Pensieve

  • Impeachment: an Overdue Constitutional Amendment
    Photo by codepinkhq After skimming over the Truth Commission’s report, I found that one of their recommendations is to introduce an impeachment mechanism to the Honduran Constitution. An impeachment mechanism would have been sufficient to achieve the goal the Congress and Supreme Court wanted in ...
  • Official Truth Comission Report now Available
    Photo by OEA – OAS The Honduran Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, (CVR in Spanish), created in the wake of the 2009 removal of Manuel Zelaya from the Presidency, has made its report available on its website. Apparently this is the full version, complete and underacted. As soon as I read ...
  • Protection or Truth?
    Photo by OEA – OAS An argument in favor of secrecy is that secrecy protects people. In places like Afghanistan, or Honduras, the government is powerless to protect those implicated in international intrigues or scandals. Informants and victims may be targeted for retaliation if they lead to nega ...
  • For Everyone Else…there’s Wikileaks
    What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo. The ingenious ad above highlights the plight of Wikileaks after the US Government either directly, or indirectly, pressured businesses like PayPal and MasterCard to block all their donations. The US and other secretive nations despi ...
  • Mountains of Santa Catarina
    I am working at a factory well outside of Monterrey, which is backed by some of the most amazing mountains I have ever seen. Devoid of trees because of lack of moisture, they show the tortured formations of the earth that thrust them up. Lit by a setting sun after a summer shower, they were [... ...

Green Times

  • Environmental News 04/07/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Priority to nature
    A road divided for a tree in New Zealand, what a funny and beautiful gesture to support environmental preservation (climate-change/environmental-preservation.html)! In a world where human activity and needs are becoming a priority, natural environment (glossary/categories/lifestyle/natural-envi ...
  • Take a breath
      Taking a breath in a green environment is so pleasant after a busy week! And look how beautiful this green Kiwi landscape is! But, what is the future of this natural beauty if we don't take care of it? So, environmental preservation (climate-change/environmental-preservation.html) and pro ...
  • Environmental News 01/07/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 30/06/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Julia Chaitin: First They Came for the Boycotters
    Instead of blogiating myself about the wonderful new “Boycott the Boycott” Law the democratic geniuses in the Knesset have just cooked up, I am crossposting what Dr. Julia Chaitin just wrote on her blog. Julia (bio) is a lecturer in psychology at the Sapir College in Sderot. She specializes in ...
  • Greece does U.S. and Israel’s bidding, d ...
    By now you have probably heard that the U.S.Boat to Gaza, the “Audacity of Hope” made an attempt to set sail and was turned back by the Greek Coast Guard. Read Jewish Voice for Peace’s alert as it was happening here. Here is a roundup of Democracy Now! breaking coverage of the U.S. boat’s attemp ...
  • Following Barrier’s Rerouting, Residents ...
    From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee VIdeo of the victory celebrations, warning contains LOTS of car honking! This Friday, as part of the weekly demonstration, residents of Bil’in will commence the construction of a new neighborhood of the village, ‘Bil’in West”, on lands returned to ...
  • Susya Creative and Learning Center: 1st Annive ...
    On Saturday, May 28th, 2011, a celebration was held at the Palestinian village of Susya to mark the frist anniversary of the Susya Creative and Learning Center’s activity. Four hundred guests took part in the festivities – half of them Palestinians from Susya and the area, and the others – Israe ...
  • A bad day for Israeli democracy
    Coalition of Women for Peace, whose campaign we have featured before on this site, have a new video, and sadly, a new update on the progress of the “Boycott Bill” working its way through the Israeli Knesset. H/t to ACRI for the blog title, it came from the subject line of their email alerting us ...

Politics in the Zeros

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...

Deadline Live

  • GOP leader cites Casey Anthony in Somali terro ...
    July 11, 2011|By James Oliphant | Washington Bureau LA Times The top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, says the Casey Anthony trial is proof that American courts aren’t proper venues for trials of suspected terrorists. “We found with the Caylee Anthony case how difficult it is to get a ...
  • Bradley Manning Chat Logs Revealed
    � Brian Beyer, July 14, 2011 Antiwar.com Glenn Greenwald yet again dismantles the lies and smears that were used against Bradley Manning by Adrian Lamo and Wired magazine. This must read piece really questions the journalistic integrity of Wired as well as the honesty of Lamo, both of which are ...
  • Nude, bound woman found dead in Big Pharma CEO ...
      July 16, 2011 By Madison Ruppert – BLN Contributing Writer Blacklisted News If a dead woman was found naked, with her hands tied behind her back and her feet bound hanging from a balcony, most people would think it would become a criminal investigation from the outset. When the home in which ...
  • STAR TREK: The Search for Ron Paul
    Captain Picard must find Congressman Paul and save the Federation.
  • Newt Gingrich campaign, Morally bankrupt and o ...
      ATLANTA (AP) — Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign is more than $1 million in debt, according to his campaign disclosure provided to The Associated Press on Friday. The former House speaker’s campaign raised $2.1 million since he got into the race earlier this year. But he spent $1.8 million ...

The Air Vent

  • Subsampled Confidence Intervals – Zeke
    Sub-sampling is hard to argue with.  Zeke has done a post on global temperatures at the Blackboard taking 500 stations at a time and looking at the extremes of averages.   It presented a set of very tight error bars based on weather variance, sampling errors, and any other random events which af ...
  • Chugging Along
    Steve Mosher has continued his work on GHCN station global temperature reconstruction package in R.  The most recent version is documented in his blog here.  He has developed an elegant set of commands for computing global temperatures in R and is working on release of an R library package for t ...
  • Decisions we don’t need your help with
    One of the several ignorant things that president Bush did was sign a law banning incandescent lights. Yes it came from a liberal House and Senate but he did sign it. It looks like the House will send a repeal of it up for vote shortly but it won’t likely get past our anti-economic growth presi ...
  • Uncertainty in Air Temperatures
    Pat Frank has a new article recently published in E&E on the statistical uncertainty of surface temperatures.  He has requested an open venue for discussion of his work here.  This is an opportunity for readers to critically asses the methods and understand whether the argument/conclusion is s ...
  • Climate Sensitivity – NicL
    Nic Lewis asked me to post a link to Judith Curry’s blog carrying a letter to Gabi Hegerl regarding the significant problems in AR4 working group 1 forcings.   As I understand it, this was the only non-modeled forcing analysis presented in AR4.  In other words, the only truly observed data ha ...

Focal Point

  • Frank Bruni Comes Out as Poseur, Explains Enti ...
    When Frank Bruni was hired as an op/ed columnist for the New York Times, I doubted that he was qualified. His latest column puts those doubts to rest. Bruni is totally unqualified. The piece reads like a livejournal rant. In a nutshell: Bruni's glad there won't be any more Harry Potter movies ...
  • Attention, Space Cadets: Do Not Proposition Wo ...
    In a recent vlog, Skepchick Rebecca Watson had some friendly advice for male skeptics seeking to make women feel comfortable and welcome at skeptical gatherings. She mentioned, offhandedly, that during a recent conference in Dublin, a guy followed her into the elevator at 4:00am and invited her ...
  • Lindsay Beyerstein Joins Sidney Hillman Founda ...
    This week, I joined the Sidney Hillman Foundation as the lead blogger for the Hillman Blog. The Hillman Foundation was founded to honor Sidney Hillman the late founder and president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. The foundation's mission is to promote excellence in journalism. The ...
  • DSCC Hits Up Koch Industries for Cash, As Usua ...
    An official with the arch conservative Koch Industries delivered a stinging rebuke to Sen. Patty Murray of the DSCC for attempting to solicit a contribution: For many months now, your colleagues in the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee leadership have engaged in a series of disparag ...
  • A Lawyer's Advice for Reporters Covering Rape ...
    Attorney Jill Filipovic has a terrific primer for reporters covering rape cases. Her post was inspired by this story in Mother Jones about the Jamie Leigh Jones/KBR rape case. Jones alleges that she was gang raped while working for KBR in Iraq. Last year, Megan Carpentier wrote a bracing debun ...

Inside Facebook

  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at W3i, Context Optional, Acquinity Interactive,TinyCo, Glu Mob ...
  • Facebook Roundup: China, Paul Adams, Video Cal ...
    China Will Not Invest in Facebook – Chinaâs Investment Corp is not set to invest in Facebook stock, according to a report, since the CIC sees the company as overvalued. Facebookâs Paul Adams Blogs About Google, Book – Paul Adams, Facebookâs current Global Brand Experience Manager Paul Adams and ...
  • Report: Facebook Working With News Publication ...
    Facebook has been successfully pushing the Like button and other features to media companies in recent years. But now it is busy working on a special project with around a dozen major news outlets to create “Facebook editions” of their publications within its home site, Forbes reports. The repor ...
  • MySpace, Facebook Live, Change.org, Hulu and M ...
    The apps on our list this week were interesting in that they were varied and didn’t really share any common themes, among them were a Page tab app, a birthday calendar app, several Facebook Connect apps a professional networking app, Facebook’s livestream app and MySpace’s Connect app for music ...
  • How to Sync Your Facebook Page Updates With Tw ...
    The following is an excerpt. The complete article, available in our Facebook Marketing Bible, includes the full six steps why you shouldn’t syndicate your Page updates to Twitter and should write custom updates for each network instead. For the busy marketer, syncing the updates from your bran ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 billion) in pote ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 billion) in pote ...
  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Gimme a Break: The CIA Asset Turned Taliban Bo ...
    Spin the Spin to Get the Spun Story Un-Spun  I said I was not going to waste time writing about the Ahmed Wali Karzai assassination story and let the stenographers in our media spread the preapproved nonsense. I wrote my piece and provided you with my own humble two cents, and I was ready to [...]
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    More Planes & Bombs for Libya, Libya in Pictures, the Covert War in Yemen, the Staggering Price Tag for Iraq-Afghan Wars, Budget Cut=Return to the Draft?, Echelon Incest, The Silent Liquidity Freeze & More Newsworthy NATO Calls for More Planes to Bomb Libyan Targets Libya in Pictures: What the M ...
  • Podcast Show #50
    The Boiling Frogs Presents James Bamford James Bamford joins us to discuss the case of NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, the government’s overreach in bringing espionage charges against him, and the Obama Administration’s unprecedented level of retaliation against government whistleblowers. He dis ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    New US Jails in Afghanistan, the Syrian Paradox, MIC: The Enemy Within, Media’s Endless War Propaganda, CIA in Business with the Parent Group to Al-Qaeda … & More! Newsworthy ‘Deadliest Six Months’ for Civilians in Afghanistan U.S. Building New Jails across Afghanistan Iran Rejects US Claims of ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    CIA Secret Sites in Somalia, the Next Massacre: Pakistan, What Panetta Saw-What we got, Questioning the âTruthâ about 9/11 & More! The CIA’s Secret Sites in Somalia Officials: NATO Kills 16 Civilians in Afghan Air Strike Next Up: Pakistan- Ominous signs of a major new war Why Ahmed Wali Karzai w ...

Afro Spear

  • Niggazz are Wannaa-bee Gangstazz
    Football is a violent sport. No doubt it plays into the gladiator blood sport mythos of days gone by. It’s also BIG business. I’ve heard that the current labour dispute between the owners and players is at the root, really about how to divvy up $9 billion is yearly revenue… basically the owner ...
  • “Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for Pre ...
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  • the Lupe Fiasco fiasco
    “My fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policie ...
  • A Sunday Sermon
  • sat’day riddymz
    WOW!! It’s hard to fathom that it’s been 2 years ago today already that MJ died. I for one have come to appreciate his music more and more.

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...

Ode Magazine

  • Trekking to bring literacy to women in the Nep ...
    By: BrigitteMuir After you've climbed the world's highest mountains, including the mother of them all - Mount Everest - what on Earth is there left to do? If you’re Brigitte Muir, OAM, the first Australian to climb the highest peak on every continent - an ...
  • Turn conflict into connection and collaboration
    By: JohnKinyon In my last post I described the language and skills that give us power to return to presence and centeredness when we are in conflict; we can turn conflict into understanding and connection within ourselves and with others. From a place connectio ...
  • Finding harmony through conflict
    By: TrishLay When I was three years old, my adoptive mother was holding me as we stood in line at the grocery store. A gentleman in front of us turned and said what a pretty little girl I was. I then replied with, "No I’m not…I’m adopted." Being adopted we ...
  • How language connects and resolves conflict
    By: JohnKinyon Dear Ode readers, I want to share with you a language of connection for resolving conflicts. I have found it leads to clarity, ease and effectiveness, in work and personal life. It is not a foreign language, but a human language. It helps u ...
  • Radiant health and peace in São Paulo, Brazil
    By: PeaceCorso Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, wrote in his seminal book, The Science of Mind, "If we wish to come to the Spirit for the healing of our wounds, let us come in peace and with spontaneous joy, for the Spirit is joy." It is wi ...

OpEd News

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Law and law school economics
    David Segal has written another interesting piece on the state of legal education, this time focusing on the business side of law schools. Much of the piece is taken up with a case study of New York Law School and its dean, Richard Matasar. I’ve long been an admirer of Matasar’s efforts to refor ...
  • Midnight…
    Anybody else think that Midnight in Paris was a little weak for its 92% rating?  The chief insight is simultaneously rushed and painfully obvious, the in laws, the fiance, and the friends (with the exception of Michael Sheen) are cliche annoying instead of character annoying, Hemingway was a bo ...
  • Waaaaaaa!!!!!!!!
    Yes, clearly the Blue Jays must have been stealing signs for Bartolo Colon to implode…… I haven’t felt this bad for the Yankees since Brian Cashman cried that the Mariners used him to get Texas to up the ante for Cliff Lee.
  • Most Prominent Politicians (XI): New York
    This was a really hard list to put together. The bench in New York is probably deeper than any other state in the nation. 1. Franklin Roosevelt–our second greatest president. 2. Theodore Roosevelt–I actually don’t like TR for a lot of reasons that eventually I’ll get into here, but one cannot de ...
  • Alas
    Consiglieres Brooks and Hinton may have resigned, but it seems pretty clear that having been killed by the Murdoch family the good Wall Street Journal is never coming back.

Desert Research Institute

  • Storm Peak Lab Celebrates the 4th of July and ...
    There is nothing like a small-town parade on the 4th of July. The scientists and volunteers at the DRI Storm Peak Lab (SPL) in Steamboat Springs, Colo. participated in this year’s Steamboat Springs Fourth of July Parade. The parade theme was the “Greatest Summer on Earth.”
  • In Memoriam: DRI President Dr. James V. Taranik
    President of DRI in 1987, Dr. James V. Taranik was internationally known for his research in aerospace remote sensing, and his professional career had already included senior positions with NASA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Iowa Geological Survey, and the University of Iowa.
  • DRI Researcher Earns Grant to Study the Season ...
    A DRI researcher will lead a team that is heading to Antarctica to study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms.
  • Abnormal Spring
    If you're new to Northern Nevada, you've probably already asked yourself this question: is this a normal spring? The calendar says we're three weeks from the start of summer, but winter still holds us in its grip. It leads us to wonder if something bigger is a foot, Dr. Kelly Redmond explains.
  • What effect do clouds have on climate?
    What is the climate effect of tiny particles such as aerosols, soot, and dust, in the atmosphere? Dr. Eric Wilcox, a world-class sailor and researcher, is exploring the answers to these questions linking the ever-changing composition of Earth’s atmosphere and climate change.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Drilling Strains 911 Resposes at Tioga Court House
    Being that I now live in south central PA, I listen to the WITF radio station on my way to work and back. They have been doing bits and pieces here and there about the Marcellus drilling and this month they have introduced a program called “State Impact Pennsylvania”.  So far this program seems ...
  • Water Dog Training in July
    I wanted to let everyone know they are planning another basic waterdog training on July 14th from 7-9 at the Tokishi Building in Wellsboro.  Please pass this on to others that may be interested.  There is also going to be another Advanced Training in August. (I will pass on more information as I ...
  • Forced Pooling: When Landowners Can’t Say No t ...
    by Marie C. Baca, Special to ProPublica May 19, 2011 As the shale gas boom sweeps across the United States, drillers are turning to a controversial legal tool called forced pooling to gain access to minerals beneath private property–in many cases, without the landowners’ permission. Forced poo ...
  • Gas industry no longer must comply with stric ...
    Deadline for policy reversal looms TAKE ACTION TODAY The facts: In December, 2010, a policy document was put in place by DEP, advising air quality professionals responsible for permitting of gas industry compressors and other sites to consider the aggregation (total toxic accumulation) of air em ...
  • SPORTSMEN MARCELLUS SHALE SUMMIT
    Saturday, June 4th University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown Campus In the heart of the Marcellus Shale region, sportsmen and women, and conservation groups are working together to identify and propose solutions to mitigate the impacts from gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing on hunting, fishing an ...

News Blaze

  • 'Dawn' Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid ...
    If Vesta is more massive, its gravity is stronger, meaning it pulled Dawn into orbit sooner. If the asteroid is less massive, its gravity is weaker and it would have taken the spacecraft longer to achieve orbit. With Dawn now in orbit, the science t
  • US Marks With Sadness 2nd Anniversary of the D ...
    The United States today remembered with sadness the second death anniversary of human rights defender and journalist Nataliya Estemirova, and the death of Forbes journalist and editor Paul Klebnikov, who died in Russia seven years ago on the 9th of
  • Revolution in Favour of Sustainable Developmen ...
    He called for a revolution in favour of sustainable development in which a green economy is driven by business, supported by governments, and embraced by the people.
  • TNC Sets Libya on Path Toward Security and Pro ...
    She pointed out that the TNC gave important assurances regarding its intention to pursue democratic reform that is inclusive geographically and politically, and to uphold Libya's international obligations and to disburse funds in a transparent mann
  • Hindus Ask Macedonia to End Roma Apartheid
    Zed argued that in spite of this much publicized 'Inclusion' initiative involving political commitment by governments of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slova

environment 360

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

Red Ice Creations

  • Globalism in History: Internationalism and Her Law
    As Eric Blair put it, in order for one to understand present events, those of yesteryear must be spelled out. Daily, the populace is bombarded with revisionist propaganda and so citizens must frequently instill themselves with past truths, so as not to forget. What is called "globalism" today em ...
  • Strauss-Kahn + Connexions + CIA
    The Saga of the EX IMF Chief, who has now been granted bail and is now under 24hr surviellance seems to have an interesting twist. We Know, that "Strauss-Kahn is a member of elite groups who meet behind closed doors. He belongs to the Bildebergers. HE IS ONE of THEM.BUT, at the same time he is t ...
  • Strauss-Kahn Prosecution Said to Be Near Colla ...
    The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse as investigators have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who charged that he attacked her in his Manhattan hotel suite in May, according to two well-placed law enforcement officials. Altho ...
  • Greek Parliament Passes Law To Sell State Assets
    Greek plans to sell state assets as part of a 78 billion-euro ($111 billion) budget retrenchment are "not a fire sale," the official in charge said. "It's a professionally run privatization plan and we go through professional procedures of sale through tender processes," George Christodoulakis, ...
  • "Ea Enki" - ASCII Code Found in Italian Crop F ...
    Two extraordinary 2011 crop formations have been reported in the northwestern town of Poirino, Italy, on June 13 and 20, 2011. Poirino is a town in the Province of Turin in the Italian Piedmont region located about 12 miles (20 km) southeast of Turin (Torino) where the famous Christ Shroud is ke ...

Russia Today

  • First-past-the-post: City racing show kicks of ...
    Several Moscow streets have been impassible all day on July 17 - but not because of the notorious traffic jams. They have been sealed off temporarily to become the realm of the fast and the furious.
  • US raised debt ceiling 102 times – economist
    President Obama has warned the US is running out of time to deal with its financial troubles - the Congress must raise the current $14.3-trillion debt ceiling again. And as Professor Rodrigue Tremblay told RT, this has...
  • Operation to raise Bulgaria from riverbed underway
    Divers have ended the work on sealing the sunken Bulgaria passenger ship, and the lifting operation has started. Bulgaria sank in minutes on July 10 killing at least 114 people.
  • Newspapers are Murdoch’s tools of war – journalist
    Rupert Murdoch is rapidly losing allies on both sides of the Atlantic, with his media empire under pressure from all sides. Journalist Afshin Rattansi believes Murdoch still has some “ammunition” to battle his enemies.
  • Man in lions’ cage: five weeks face to face
    Not only does Ukrainian mini-zoo owner Aleksandr Pylyshenko want to move in with a family of lions – he is also planning to stay with them long enough to get into their skin, broadcasting the “animality show” on the...

Not My Tribe

  • Destitute Detra Farries tried to prevent her v ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS– Uh oh, news at six. I chanced upon District 17, room S380 today where Detra Farries is accused of dragging a tow-truck driver to his death earlier this year. The mother of eight was trying to prevent her vehicle, filled with all the family’s belongings, from being towed from an ...
  • Crimes of News of the World belong to Rupert M ...
    The issue of Rupert Murdoch’s lawless news empire isn’t about phone hacking to break news, it’s about surveillance used for the same purposes as intelligence agencies, to control political climates, to effect outcomes based on what you have on the players. Does the FBI have to find evidence of m ...
  • Knesset makes BDS movement illegal, says boyco ...
    Following their no hamfisted holds barred blocking of the Gaza aid flotilla, Israel yesterday declared illegal the rising domestic support for the BDS movement. The free speech ban extends even to non-Israelis in the occupied territories. Suggesting it’s not going to be BDS activistists who ulti ...
  • Find the Michele Bachmann inside you
    So Michele Bachmann was a tax collector. Sarah Palin was an oil industry stooge. The media didn’t conjure these villainesses from whole or rare cloth. Most politicians are corporate functionaries before they bill the public to do it. If they haven’t dedicated their lives expressly to destroying ...
  • Next Gaza Freedom Flotilla will be an anti-glo ...
    Israel successfully defended its inhumane siege of Gaza against the Second Freedom Flotilla, currently regrouping in Greece. Let’s recap: the French Dignite Al Karama awaits permission to leave Crete, the Swedish/Greek MV Juliano overcame sabotage which crippled the Irish MV Saoirse and unconfir ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Politicians Really Are Puppets
    Here British Labour leader Ed Miliband gives pretty much exactly the same scripted response to five successive questions with the same vocal inflections and everything. It's as if he's some kind of robot! Presenting Ed Milibot: The interviewer's thoughts: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/bfensm
  • Unnecessary Freefall Revisit #2038046179007145309
    Thanks to 'Charlie Gate', many truthers, particularly in the UK, have been brushing up on their 9/11 knowledge, and there has been fierce debate on YouTube about things like the freefall of WTC7. The apologists for NIST have been claiming that WTC7's 2.25 seconds of free fall can be explained ...
  • Chris Mohr's "respectful rebuttal" smells like ...
    Chris Mohr is uploading 'respectful rebuttal' videos of Gage's presentations. I've just quickly looked at this one ... I may watch the others later. Some thoughts... One minute in Mohr states that Gage does not acknowledge the differences in construction between the twin towers and the other ...
  • Charlie Veitch Parroting Outdated Official Cla ...
    In recent interviews justifying his sudden U-Turn on 9/11, Charlie Veitch has made some incorrect claims about WTC7. He says he spoke to an expert who told him that 25% of WTC7 was scooped out. This is an old claim that even NIST have abandoned. The claim was made in Appendix L to their 2004 pr ...
  • Another Balzac Vitry Verinage
    This is another Verinage demolition of an apartment building in the same area (Balzac Vitry-Sur-Seine) as the other one. This demolition was in June of last year. And here's a speed time plot... Can't get much clearer than that really!

Fooducate

  • How Much Water do We Really Need to Drink Each ...
    Interesting piece from ABC news debunking the so called 8 glasses of water a day myth. According to recent research – there is no medical proof our bodies need that much water. Our take, as long as plain water is your hydration choice for the 5,8, or 15 glasses a day, you’re doing good. Get [...]
  • What a Letdown: Campbell’s Zigzag on Sodium in ...
    Folks, the chart tells it all. After several years of promoting and pushing low sodium salts, Campbell’s Board of Directors has decided the strategic and widely publicized move was a mistake. Sales of the core soups have been slumping, and the missing salt has been deemed the culprit. So with a ...
  • Sign of Hope? Fast Food Chains Launch “Kids Li ...
    The National Restaurant Association has just launched a program called “Kids Live Well” that includes changes to kiddie meals being served by 19 franchises in over 15,000 locations across the country. The list includes big chains like IHOP, Burger King, and Denny’s. So what are the improvements? ...
  • Are European Nutriton Labels Better?
    Take a look at this product sent to us by Carol. It’s some sort of a chip snack sold in Stockholm. Aside from the beautiful packaging (Swedish design), there is some nutrition information provided as well. Nutrition labeling requirements in Europe are different than ours.  They also vary greatl ...
  • Junk Food Industry Lobbies Use Scare Tactics t ...
    We’ve talked about marketing to children in the past, especially how their young impressionable minds are manipulated by junk food and fast food commercials. 4 government agencies have created a set of VOLUNTARY guidelines for the industry, which they hope will help convince companies to promote ...

Traffikd

  • Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
    Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
  • 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
    As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
  • Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
    Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.

Survival International

  • Brazilian Indians receive death threats
    Almir Surui, Surui indigenous spokesman © Marc Cowan/Survival Indians of the Surui tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, who are campaigning for their land to be protected, have received death threats from loggers. Almir Surui is one of the Surui affected. He has been told, ‘We know who is agains ...
  • Victory for Borneo tribe over oil palm Goliath
    A Penan man in the Borneo rainforest. © Robin Hanbury-Tenison/Survival A small group of Borneo hunter-gatherers have scored a major victory over a giant oil palm firm that was targeting their rainforest. Survival revealed last month that the Malaysian firm Shin Yang was clearing forest and ...
  • Santander Bank admits dam funding to continue
    The Santo Antonio dam threatens to devastate the forest home of numerous tribal peoples © João Zinclar Europe’s largest bank, Santander, has admitted that its controversial financing of the notorious Santo Antonio dam in the Brazilian Amazon is set to continue, despite earlier saying that i ...
  • Brazilian Indian killed next to roadside camp
    Guarani woman from Apyka'y community, camped on the roadside © Fiona Watson/Survival A Guarani man in Brazil has been run over and killed by a bus on the highway next to which his community has been camped for almost a decade. The Guarani of Apyka’y community are living in appalling condit ...
  • Innu agreement signed while the Duke and Duche ...
    Innu children © Serge Jauvin/Survival The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have visited Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories. According to reports, they were met by Inuit and Chipewyan drummers and dancers, and subsequently visited a teepee at Blatchford Lodge. While they have ...

Greg Palast

  • Drowning Fish?
    by Greg Palast June 30th, 2011 July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the path can't imagine. My D ...
  • ZD Roberts Has Something to Say
    I just wanted to send a thanks to all those who have donated to the Gil Palast Memorial fund over the past couple of months. I know Gil would have been happy to see that so many people still believe in the power of journalism. Back in 2008 I got to meet Greg's Dad — he [...]
  • Ce soir ! Achtung! BP en eaux troubles + Die B ...
    Tonight! 28 June. On ARTE, in French and German — in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Holland and (check listing for French Canada) … BP: In Deep Water — The first of Greg Palast’s investigative reports on BP, the Bribery & Pollution company masquerading as an oil company. La M ...
  • Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa
    by Greg Palast for The Guardian Now that I've dispensed with the obvious and obnoxious teaser headline, let's drop the towel and expose Dominique Strauss-Kahn's history of arrogant abuse. The truth is, the grandee of the IMF has molested Africans for years. On Wednesday, the New York Times r ...
  • So, Osama walks into this bar...
    by Greg Palast from Armed Madhouse: just so we don't forget... So, Osama walks into this bar, see? And Bush says, “Whad’l’ya have, pardner?” and Osama says... ...But wait a minute. I’d better shut my mouth. The sign here in the airport says, “Security is no joking matter.” But if security’ ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle Stax potato chip cans?
    Tammy Gary has asked: Would love ideas to reuse the Stax potato chip cans. We don’t have Stax over here in the UK but my friend Google tells me they’re like Pringles, but packed in a plastic tube instead of waxed cardboard. Some of the Pringles ideas will still apply: they’re great for storing k ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a LOT of pinback bu ...
    (Ooops, sorry for the absence – I was busy then ill because I’d been busy and also ill because I ate some tasted-fine-but-actually-bad out of date sausages. Yes.) Right then, Nicole has been in touch asking about “pinback buttons”: I have thousands of pinback buttons from a failed work campaign. ...
  • How can I make sure a spray bottle is really c ...
    We’ve had lots of suggestions over the years on how to reuse spray bottles from commercial cleaning products and the like but Nancy has just emailed a related question: First I want to comment that this is a fantastic website! Everyone in the world should be accessing it. My question is this: I’ ...
  • How can I reuse/recycle foil bag linings to ma ...
    We’ve had an email from long-time commenter Melinda: I’ve recently been struck with the foil linings of snack bags, and even dog food bags. Has anyone used these to create something solar, such as a cooker? What items have been put to solar use and how? Making a solar cooker is on my to-do list ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle horse hair?
    We’ve had an email from Bea: I’ve always put my horse’s tail and mane clippings on the his manure heap to compost down but I recently wondered if I could use them for something else instead. I’ve heard of horse hair mattresses but don’t think I have enough for that! According to Wikipedia, horse ...

Age of Autism

  • When Science Journals are Scarier than Science ...
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. My choice for the scariest reading of the year was recently published in the journal Cancer Biology and Therapy and has the unwieldly title of Frequent Detection of Infectious Xenotropic Leukemia Virus (XMLV) in Human Cultures...
  • Canary Party FaceBook Badge Says "My Family's ...
    Invite friends and family who are concerned that medicine in general (far beyond autism) has been co-opted by pharma, food and government, limiting your personal and parental healthcare rights and needs to join The Canary Party. The Canary Party needs...
  • New Autism Twin Study Demolishes Decades-Long ...
    By Mark Blaxill For over two decades now, so-called “autism experts” have been claiming that autism is more than 90% caused by genes. The influence of these claims on autism policy and research funding is hard to overstate. But few...
  • Flu Vaccination Propaganda Never Stops
    By David Burd The United States “Flu Season” ended back in March, but ever since, and today in mid-July, I have been bombarded by radio station ads to give 6-month babies a toxic, mercury laden flu shot injection (actually two...
  • Testimony To Massachusetts Legislators on H105 ...
    Bill H.1055 An Act relative to childhood immunizations By Mr. Keenan of Salem (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1055) of Andrea Rupert for legislation to allow students not immunized to be admitted to schools upon the...

Global BDS Movement

  • Map test
    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Anonymous targets Monsanto, oil firms
    CNet – Military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton today confirmed that it was the victim of an “illegal attack,” one day after hackers posted what they said were about 90,000 military e-mail addresses purloined from a server of the consulting firm. Hackers also today said they were targeting Monsan ...
  • Ski season ‘shaping up to be best in dec ...
    Telegraph – It’s all white for this year’s ski season, with fresh snow falls breaking records and reaching depths of up to 1.6m at some resorts. The resorts are experiencing the deepest snow in the first week of July since 1990, with 158.9cm recorded at Thredbo and 13 of its 14 lifts in operatio ...
  • 28 killed as Syria protests hit new peak
    ABC – At least 28 civilians were killed in Syria overnight as security forces opened fire to quell the largest anti-regime rallies in four months, activists said. Neighbourhoods in the nation’s capital of Damascus bore the brunt of the violence, with 16 dead, including a child. Read article
  • NATO chief calls for more planes to bomb Libya ...
    Reuters – NATO members should supply more warplanes to bomb Libyan military targets, the alliance’s secretary-general said on Thursday, increasing pressure on states to contribute more to the mission. Western powers have become embroiled in a conflict in the oil-producing North African state, st ...
  • What is Problem, Reaction, Solution?
    To read out analysis, and to watch a brief video on how the human race can be so easily manipulated, visit our FEATURE PAGE

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Water conservation: Sierra Club rates L.A. and ...
    Nearly half of of the water conservation programs in 122 Los Angeles and Orange county cities fell into the “poor” or “worst” categories, in a new survey released this week. The Sierra Club Los Angeles Chapter unveiled a scorecard grading...
  • California leads 'clean economy,' study finds
    Nationwide, 2.7 million people work in the "clean economy," according to a new study. It employs nearly 320,000 people in California. In the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the sector accounts for about 90,000 workers. Based on the definition offered in...
  • Report raises questions about EPA's 2008 perch ...
    The Bush White House played a role in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's controversial 2008 decision not to regulate the drinking water contaminant perchlorate, according to a congressional watchdog agency. In a report released Tuesday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office...
  • Solar panel rebate program may relaunch in L.A.
    The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the nation's largest municipal utility, will hold public workshops this week in an effort to relaunch its troubled solar panel incentive program. In April, the city shut down the program after it...
  • Trash trucks fueled by 'trash gas': a growing ...
    The company that operates the largest trucking fleet in the waste industry is fueling more and more trucks with so-called trash gas. On Tuesday, Houston-based Waste Management Inc. will add its 1,000th truck fueled with natural gas. Powered with captured...

water.org

  • Gary White talks water on MSNBC
    World faces a water crisis (MSNBC) – Gary White interviewed by Martin Bashir June 30, 2011 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
  • Leadership wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company)
    Leadership Wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company) 30 second MBA video series: Part 1 – Gary White – Executive Director and Cofounder, Water.org Part 2 – Matt Damon – Cofounder, Water.org
  • Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan (Fast Co ...
    Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa? (Fast Company) – The inside story of Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe’s great crises. Once upon a time, Matt Damon went for a long walk in rural Zambia. The devoted family man and method [...]
  • Interview with Water.org’s April Rinne (GGT)
    INTERVIEW: Water.Org’s April Rinne (Green Global Travel) – While other charities may have similar goals, Water.org’s WaterCredit program is unique in that it is works in partnership with microfinance institutions to establish markets in which there is fair access to affordable loans for everyone ...
  • You’re Invited: June 1st Conference Call
      Wednesday, June 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049
 Participant code: 449749# Not everyone who needs water should have to wait for charity to find them. Learn how Water.org is putting microfinance tools and partnerships to use in helping people get safe water ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • The real axis of evil
    Israel, mainly created by Zionist terrorism and ethnic cleansing which saw three-quarters of indigenous Arab inhabitants of Palestine dispossessed of their homes, lands and rights has emerged as the leading terrorist state of the world. The US has givenSubmitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World ...
  • Denial of an Increased Debt Ceiling
    Margaret Mayer blasts the right wing idiots who are playing Russian roulette with our economy. All sane economists say defaulting on our debt will result in some kind of economic disaster. How bad shouldn�t even be debated. This problem needs fixed-NOW!Submitted by Jed Lemon to US Politics & Go ...
  • Peace solidarity activists detained, humiliate ...
    The besieged people in the Gaza strip are still calling on the whole international community to do whatever they can to lift the suffocating Israeli siege imposed on the coastal enclave.Submitted by Joseph M. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Palin Plots Her Next Move
    Sarah Palin hasn�t jumped into the race for the White House (yet), but she believes the prize is there for the taking. In a conversation with Peter J. Boyer, Palin warns Boehner not to raise the debt ceiling, proclaims that Obama is beatable ...Submitted by Cam V. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �No ...
  • FOCUS | Why No One on Wall Street Is Going to Jail
    Protecting the rich from the poor seems to be a national pastime.Submitted by Mary Donnelly to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • U.S. BLM Approves Four Projects Use of Public ...
    The United States Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management approved four new projects to run transmission lines through public land to transport electricity from large-scale renewable energy projects to the power grid. re ...
  • Solar Gen 2 to Supply California with Green Energy
    Solar Gen 2 LLC, a Greenwich, Conn.-based privately-held solar development firm focused on North American projects, on Monday announced the signing of a 25-year, 150-megawatt power purchase agreement with San Diego Gas & Electric Co ...
  • United States: Companies Making Solar Power Ac ...
    For years one of the biggest deterrents for consumers and power companies to implement solar generating systems has been cost. Coupled with lack of information or streamlined infrastructure, for many, the hassle and money have outwe ...
  • San Diego Gas and Electric Adds More Renewable ...
    San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), a Sempra�Energy (NYSE:�SRE) subsidiary, recently announced that it has signed two power read more
  • LADWP Reconsiders Solar Incentive Program
    The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the largest municipal utility in the U.S., is reportedly ready to reintroduce a solar incentive program (SIP) it abruptly dropped in April, ostensibly to address issues like lac ...

News Blaze

  • 'Dawn' Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid ...
    If Vesta is more massive, its gravity is stronger, meaning it pulled Dawn into orbit sooner. If the asteroid is less massive, its gravity is weaker and it would have taken the spacecraft longer to achieve orbit. With Dawn now in orbit, the science t
  • US Marks With Sadness 2nd Anniversary of the D ...
    The United States today remembered with sadness the second death anniversary of human rights defender and journalist Nataliya Estemirova, and the death of Forbes journalist and editor Paul Klebnikov, who died in Russia seven years ago on the 9th of
  • Revolution in Favour of Sustainable Developmen ...
    He called for a revolution in favour of sustainable development in which a green economy is driven by business, supported by governments, and embraced by the people.
  • TNC Sets Libya on Path Toward Security and Pro ...
    She pointed out that the TNC gave important assurances regarding its intention to pursue democratic reform that is inclusive geographically and politically, and to uphold Libya's international obligations and to disburse funds in a transparent mann
  • Hindus Ask Macedonia to End Roma Apartheid
    Zed argued that in spite of this much publicized 'Inclusion' initiative involving political commitment by governments of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slova

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Precision Gene Targeting In Stem Cells Correct ...
    Using two distinct methods, Whitehead Institute researchers have successfully and consistently manipulated targeted genes in both human embryonic stem (ES) cells and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells (adult cells that have been reprogrammed to an embryonic stem cell-like state). In one case, ...
  • Natural Chemical Found In Grapes May Protect A ...
    Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that grape seed polyphenols a natural antioxidant may help prevent the development or delay the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The research, led by Giulio Maria Pasinetti, MD, PhD, The Saunder Family Professor in Neurology, and Profes ...
  • California Nurse Staffing
    In a comprehensive analysis comparing nurse staffing in California hospitals to similar hospitals in the U.S. over nearly a decade, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing have found that controversial legislation setting nurse-to-patient ratios added more registered nurs ...
  • Discovery Of Airglow Signature Preceding Tsuna ...
    Researchers at the University of Illinois have become the first to record an airglow signature in the upper atmosphere produced by a tsunami using a camera system based in Maui, Hawaii. The signature, caused by the March 11 earthquake that devastated Japan, was observed in an airglow layer 250 k ...
  • NORCO (Hydrocodone Bitatrate And Acetaminophen ...
    Updated Date: Jul 15, 2011 EST

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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

Green House - USA Today

  • Green House takes brief hiatus
    This Green House community will take a hiatus until August, because its moderator, Wendy Koch, is on medical leave. Please check back in a few weeks for environmental news and updates on her journey in green living.
  • My green house is finally, almost, done
    "It's surreal," my husband Alex said about living in our new home a few days after moving in last month. Indeed, it is. We've nurtured the project so long on paper that actually being inside it felt odd or dream-like.
  • U.S. national parks suffer from climate change ...
    America's national parks are suffering as wildlife such as gray wolves disappears, air quality deteriorates and many waterways are polluted, an upcoming report will reveal.
  • Fastest sea-level rise in 2,100 years linked t ...
    The sea-level is now rising faster along the U.S. Atlantic coast than at any time in the past 2,100 years, and this surge is linked to increasing global temperatures, an international research team reports.
  • Supreme Court backs EPA over states on climate ...
    The Supreme Court unanimously rejected Monday a lawsuit by six states that were suing five major power companies for emitting greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Libya in Pictures: What the Mainstream Media D ...
    By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Global Research Mirage fighters, F16 fighters, B-2 Stealth bombers, 15,000 NATO air sorties. the bombing of thousands of civilian targets.. NATO is said to be coming to the rescue of the Libyan people. That is what we are being told. Western journalists have quite ...
  • Crackdowns, Torture and Intimidation in Bahrain
    by Stephen Lendman Largely ignored by Washington, Western governments, and America's media, the ruling Al Khalifa monarchy continues cracking down brutally against nonviolent protesters since civil resistance began last February. On July 14, UK Telegraph writer Richard Spencer headlined, ...
  • Aftermath of Israeli Anti-Free Speech Law Passage
    by Stephen Lendman Buoyed by passage of their anti-boycott bill, Knesset Yisrael Beitenu and Likud party extremists taste blood and want more. Most worrisome is a proposed measure to investigate leftist group activities, heading for a final vote next week. YNet News writer Moran Azulay q ...
  • Denunciation of Israel's Anti-Boycott Law
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed it in detail, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/07/israels-knesset-passes-boycott.html Before and after its July 11 passage, critics called it outrageous, shameful, lawless, and anti-democratic. Mor ...
  • Debt Ceiling Debate Charade Masks Planned Enti ...
    by Stephen Lendman Short of finalizing details and assuring enough bipartisan support, it's a done deal to slash Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other social spending while leaving outsized military budgets and generous handouts to corporate favorites in place. At the same time ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • BC's unfair tax system means wealthy pay lower ...
    Today the CCPA-BC released a new report that reveals how ten years of tax cuts and changes have created an unfair system in which the wealthy pay lower taxes and the public treasury is starved for funds. Not only are BC's wealthiest 20% of households paying the lowest tax rate, tax cuts have led ...
  • Job posting: Online Communications Officer
    The CCPA National office is seeking an Online Communications Officer to join our communications team in Ottawa to support and expand the CCPA’s ongoing communications and outreach efforts. The deadline for applications is August 19, 2011. Click here for the full job posting.
  • Linda McQuaig in Regina and Saskatoon!
    � Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Linda McQuaig will speak in both�Regina and Saskatoon on Wednesday October 19th and�Thursday October 20th. Linda will discuss her new book, The Trouble with Billionaires, �which critically examines how extremes of wealth undermine both our qua ...
  • Cashing in: Canada’s CEO salary surge
    Maclean's magazine focuses on Canada's highest paid 50 CEOs and finds their take-home pay increases to be "astronomical". Macleans writes: "In the past 12 years, there’s been a 444 per cent salary increase for Canada’s top CEOs." Read more here.
  • Where the millionaires live
    The Globe and Mail created an interesting infographic that breaks down millionaires by where they live in the world. It shows Canada as home to 282,000 millionaires. See it here.

World Wide Hippies

  • AM Drive w/Dr. Woody: Tea-Baggage
    WWH – From time to time I worry that my pessimistic, skeptical (albeit, I believe, informed and realistic) views of the conditions of things may be exaggerated; or that I may portray things as worse than they are; may predict a bleaker future than is warranted by the facts. Then I read something ...
  • Non-violence will hurt, then heal Israel
    By Shir Hever, Special to Gulf News – It is a matter of time when apartheid in the country will go the way of apartheid in South Africa Palestinians have been fighting for their freedom for many decades but so far they have failed to defeat the Israeli military on the field of battle, and [...]
  • Bill Moyers:Lesson for Corporate Media (Video)
    truth-out.org – Bill Moyers, broadcast journalist, and author of “Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues” talks with Rachel Maddow about the investigation into questionable conduct by Rupert Murdoch’s news organization, and dangers of media empires and corporate conglomerate controlled ...
  • Hippie TV: Shorts
    WWH -Hippie TV brings you, short video’s from around the web each saturday. If you have a video you would like to see featured or a suggested video. Let us know. Send information to joe@worldwidehippies.com And watch our Hippie TV news each monday. Or visit and subscribe to our Channel on Youtub ...
  • Theodore Roszak dies at 77; coined the term &# ...
    By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times – A historian, social critic and novelist, Roszak examined the intellectual underpinnings of the social uprising of American youths that began in the mid-1960s. Theodore Roszak, a historian, social critic and novelist who saw the youth rebellions of the late 1960 ...

FourWinds10

  • SYNTHETIC SEA -- OCEANS OF PLASTIC
  • Military Debris Threaten Oceans
    BANGALORE, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) - Military debris dumped into the world’s oceans are hazardous to coral ecosystems, reefs, fish and marine wildlife, say experts, who also warn - in light of the recent tragedy in Japan - that earthquakes and tsunamis could disturb this debris and even wash it ashor ...
  • Ocean Garbage: Floating Landmines
    No matter where you travel on the Canada's West Coast, no matter how remote or seemingly untrammelled and pristine the fiord or inlet, a piece of plastic, Styrofoam or other garbage has been there before you. God knows how it got there: Dumped recklessly off a vessel, swept down a river or throu ...
  • Fight Against Marine Garbage Runs Into Plastic ...
    HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Mar 28, 2011 (IPS) - Every day, billions of plastic bags and bottles are discarded, and every day, millions of these become plastic pollution, fouling the oceans and endangering marine life. No one wants this, but there is wide disagreement about how to stop it. "Every ti ...
  • Florida spring breakers find the oil (VIDEO)

Crisis Maven

  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...
    … and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent count ...
  • How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
    Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s the advi ...
  • Politicians of all countries, recollect yourse ...
    Dear politicians, there’s no alternative to forever turning our backs on nuclear energy and fast. Sure, the nuclear industry will protest vigorously and will see profits dwindle but they will survive without much problem – as opposed to many Japanese. It is but a question of time until another c ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The follo ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This ar ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Renewables 2011 Global Status Report Released
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century has just released their annual Renewables 2011 Global Status Report. I was one of the reviewers of the draft report, and therefore got to read and comment on it prior to publication. The report provi ...
  • Barack Obama: A Mediocre President
    Join the forum discussion on this post In 2008, I believed all year long that Barack Obama would win the presidency. Even when Hillary Clinton was still the favorite to win the nomination, I thought Obama’s charisma would ultimately win him the Democratic nomination, and then the presidency. Th ...
  • What Happened at Choren?
    Join the forum discussion on this post If you have not heard by now, Choren Industries has begun bankruptcy proceedings. For those who don’t know, since 2009 I have worked as the technology advisor for the major investor and primary funding source for Choren’s day-to-day operations. I have just ...
  • Chinese Energy Policies Harming Neighbors
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. âââââââââââ China’s omnivorous energy requirements have been attracting increasing attention as of late, as Beijing attempts to secure any and all sources of power for its growing industrial base. Nowher ...
  • Book Review: Cracking the Carbon Code
    Join the forum discussion on this post Introduction In Cracking the Carbon Code, Terry Tamminen lays out his strategy for managing and reducing carbon emissions. He describes what California has done. He describes great strides that China has made. He describes his strategic meetings on the ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • Mobile Phone–Cancer Link Still Elusive, Story ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Despite having been declared a "probable human carcinogen" by the World Health Organization's International Agenc read more
  • Want Summer Flavor to Last All Year? Use a Sol ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Food dehydrators serve as a gift from the garden gods for anyone who loves indulging in homegrown, seasonal produce year-round. Tomatoes in December? No problem. Local blueberries in February? Okay. Apples and pears from your backyard trees in the middle of a winter snow ...
  • Hold the Prescription! Consider Natural Remedi ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâDoctors are handing out more pharmaceutical drug prescriptions than ever, a practice that has prompted new drug-issuing guidelines and a call for more conservative prescribing. The new guidelines, published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, call for physician ...

big think

  • The Ethics of Love
    In a previous post, Big Think invited you to pose your ethical questions to Randy Cohen, the former New York Times writer who answered reader's questions in his column "The Ethicist" for over a decade. The dilemmas he tackled ranged from the ethics of moving to higher-priced unoccupied seats a ...
  • At the heart of my classroom? Student agency a ...
    Riley Lark asks, 'What's at the heart of your classroom?' At the heart of mine are the concepts of� student agency and continuous reflection, revision, and renewal . I teach graduate students: adult teachers and administrators who want a principal or superintendent credential. I've a ...
  • How Alternative Medicine Is Helping
    What's the Latest Development? Clinics that offer alternative medical treatments like acupuncture and homeopathy are now eligible to receive federal funding if they combine those treatments with traditional medicine. Some M.D.s are up in arms, decrying practitioners of alternative treatments a ...
  • Summer Reading on the U.S. Economy
    For me, summer is a time to catch up on my reading. As I head out for a few weeks of vacation, I thought I would leave you with a few suggestions for things I thought were worth reading that you may have missed. Today, I’m going to share some of the pieces—mostly charts and graphics—relating to  ...
  • China Taking Big Steps Against AIDS
    What's the Latest Development? Executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on H.I.V./AIDS,�Michel Sidib� has just completed a whirlwind tour of China. He met with the vice-president and national health minister to discuss how China can meet the U.N.'s goals which aim for�zero new ...

Information Liberation

  • New Hampshire Judge Caught On Video Ordering F ...
    Adam Mueller, aka Ademo Freeman, stood inside the Keene District Courthouse in New Hampshire, waiting for Judge Edward Burke to step inside so he could ask him a question. Less than two minutes later, he was arrested for threatening the judge, a...
  • The Evolution of Government (Comic)
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  • Mom Arrested After Refusing TSA Molestation of ...
    Andrea Fornella Abbott of Clarksville, Tennessee, was arrested by Nashville airport authorities after she refused to let the TSA fondle her daughter. Abbott said she did not want her daughter to be "touched inappropriately" or have her "crotch gr...
  • Arrested for Being Upset About Daughter's Mole ...
    The details on this story are very sparse, and the phrasing of the reports are very upsetting. A woman, Andrea Abbott, was traveling with her teenage daughter (exact age unknown) from Nashville to Baltimore. When it came time to go through the naked ...
  • Wheelchair Couple Tells of Being 'Search Raped ...
    New Port Richey, Florida * Airport security is a part of traveling these days, from walking through X-Ray machines to being patted down. But one New Port Richey couple contacted 10 News to say the search they received went too far. *It was extreme...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • MSM – A Monoculture
    Just a quick post today, as we’re all still recuperating from the ‘flu down here. I guess we can’t ignore the goings on in the British media; James is on the case, so I thought I’d give you all a … Continue reading →
  • Style Versus Substance
    In May this year, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Corporation created space travel history by achieving the first “feathered” re-entry of its experimental craft, SpaceShipTwo. Oversize stabilizers mounted on the wingtips rotated upwards by 65°, giving the craft the geometry … Continue rea ...
  • The Australian Labor Party – A Dying Brand
    The Australian Labor Party does not even call itself a socialist party. Actually it is a liberal-bourgeois party. V.I. Lenin, 1913 Democracy in Australia in 2011 stands at a crossroads. The Australian Labor Party, Australia’s oldest political party and traditional … Continue reading →
  • Beware Of Greeks Demanding Gifts
    I’ve just been reading what I regard as the most comprehensible article (to a non-economist) I’ve read covering the causes of the current PIIGS financial crisis in Europe. Have a look and let me know what you think. One paragraph … Continue reading →
  • Give ‘Em Hell, James
    It would be remiss of me not to wish our God-Emperor all the best on his current American promotional tour of his new book, Watermelons. I just heard him being interviewed here (H/T FergalR) on Ron Smith’s WBAL Radio show. I’m … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 10 things you maybe didn’t know about rainbows
    I am currently reading the most excellent “The Sun’s Heartbeat” by astronomy writer Bob Berman. It’s the kind of book I’d love to be able to write, informative, entertaining, engaging and witty. In it, Berman explains the solar things you may always have wondered about from total eclipses (far m ...
  • New nuclear power stations
    New nuclear power stations – The UK government is/has approved the building of 8 nuclear power stations in the UK at Hartlepool; Sellafield, Cumbria; Heysham, Lancashire; Wylfa, Isle of Anglesey; Sizewell, Suffolk; Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex; Oldbury, Gloucestershire and Hinkley Point in Somerset. P ...
  • Use a bulldog to put your cat into standby mode
    Cat lovers everywhere might baulk at this veterinarian’s approach to putting cats in “standby” mode, but it’s not painful and simply hooks into the reflex that makes kittens go entirely limp when they are grabbed by the she cat by the scruff of their neck. It’s probably not advisable to do this ...
  • More pretty, ugly people
    On Monday I posted a Youtube clip revealing a weird perception phenomenon in which even the prettiest girl seems to appear, fleetingly, as if she were an ogre or a troll. Take a look at the ugly pretty girl phenomenon here. I’m never satisfied to simply echo what others have said, so contacted c ...
  • Ugly, pretty girls
    This is just plain odd. An accidental discovery. But, why does it happen? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but what if something more subtle is occurring? The phenomenon is known as “flashed face distortion effect” and is described in a research paper thus: “We describe a novel face distort ...

RFF Library

  • Soil Carbon Sequestration: An Overlooked Oppor ...
    CINCS / by Steven Shonts http://www.cincs.com/uploads/FTIDInFocus7.pdf [Summary]  Soil Carbon Sequestration (SCS) has recently received attention as a method for generating carbon offsets, due in part to new technologies and evolving regulatory frameworks. Soils have a large potential to serve a ...
  • Takings Issue Raised by Draft Discussion of Am ...
    Congressional Research Service CRS-Amtrak (CRS memorandum attached) [From an article in The Hill by Keith Laing] The Congressional Research Service said this week that the House Republican plan to privatizing rail service currently provided by Amtrak would violate the Takings Clause of the U.S. ...
  • Climate Risks and Carbon Prices: Revising the ...
    Economics for Equity and the Environment (E3) http://www.e3network.org/social_cost_carbon.html The U.S. government’s estimate of the social cost of carbon is flawed, according to a new E3 Network report, Climate Risks and Carbon Prices: Revising the Social Cost of Carbon. The peer-reviewed repor ...
  • Statement of Administration Policy: H.R. 2018 ...
    White House http://1.usa.gov/r0QHoP The Administration strongly opposes H.R 2018 because it would significantly undermine the Clean Water Act (CWA) and could adversely affect public health, the economy, and the environment. Under the CWA, one of the Nation’s most successful and effective environ ...
  • H.R. 2018: Clean Water Cooperative Federalism ...
    112th Congress, 2011-2012 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-2018 [CRS Summary]  Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011 – Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection ...

Scientific American - News

  • Piece of Mind: Is the Internet Replacing Our A ...
    Has the Internet dumbed down society or simply become an external storage unit that enhances the human brain's memory capacity? With Google , Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia at our beck and call via smart phones, tablets and laptops, the once essential function of committing facts to ...
  • Space Toilet Gives Astronauts Smelly Time in Orbit
    HOUSTON -- Even soaring high above Earth on a high-tech space station doesn't excuse astronauts from the most mundane household chores … especially when you're dealing with a smelly space toilet.The 10 astronauts on the International Space Station today (July 13) tackled the daunting chore of un ...
  • NASA Chief to Congress: Save the James Webb Sp ...
    NASA chief Charlie Bolden went to bat for the agency's imperiled next-generation space telescope Tuesday (July 12), telling members of Congress that the instrument has greater potential for discovery than the iconic Hubble Space Telescope.A proposed congressional budget bill announced last week ...
  • Economists Find Flaws in Federal Estimate of C ...
    Uncle Sam's estimate of the damage caused by each ton of carbon dioxide is fundamentally flawed and "grossly understates" the potential impacts of climate change, according to an analysis released July 12 by a group of economists.�The study found the true cost of those emissions to be far beyond ...
  • Killing Average: Can Researchers Find the Most ...
    Would you buy a product that promised that 60 percent of the time it works every time? Maybe for caricature news anchors like Ron Burgundy , there is no question that a method (exotic cologne) with this type of track record (for attracting women) would be a good investment. But what if that rat ...

First Truths

  • L. Susan Brown on Power
    I found this passage in Reinventing Anarchy, Again�(edited by Howard J. Ehrlich): To speak of power as a thing or phenomenon that can exist independent of human consciousness is to profoundly misunderstand the whole problem of power itself. Power exists as a relationship between individual human ...
  • Weir's "Anarchy & Culture"
    From David Weir's Anarchy & Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism: Of the principal anarchists Proudhon seems most typical of the transfer of the romantic-Enlightenment mixture of ideas from social to aesthetic theory. Proudhon's aesthetic ideas are especially contradictory, although such ...
  • Miscellaneous Thoughts on Law School
    The meaning of the word �logical� that laypeople use when they�re debating politics with family members in the living room�the word�s colloquial use�is nothing at all like the �logical� that law school expects you to be. The logic that law school will test, the sort that�s set out in Gordian for ...
  • New Left Revisionism and the Crisis Tendencies ...
    The following excerpt from International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology�(eds. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski)�will be of interest for left libertarians: Rothbard's view of the relationship between big business and government in the rise of American 'statism' draws additionally from the wo ...
  • Still More About the Marx/Proudhon Connection
    Interesting passage from George Woodcock's Proudhon biography (which I'm still slogging through) touching on the roots of Proudhonian Mutualism and its intersection, if there is one, with the ideas of Marx: Proudhon's association with the Mutualists not only gave him insight into social undercur ...

Media Co-Op

  • SFU Student Government Moves to Displace Progr ...
    PIRG faces eviction, lockout targets campus orgs, union workers BURNABY - Over the past week, life has been turned upside down for campus and community groups on SFU's Burnaby Campus.  Last Thursday, CUPE Local 3338 members were given not ...
  • Off the Hour's Prison Radio: Prison Abolition ...
    Interview with Assistant Professor of Philosophy Brady Heiner An in-depth interview produced by Lili Eskinazi with Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Concordia University, Brady Heiner. Heiner uses tools from philosophy to understand the ...
  • Lines in the Sand
    One Tile Makes it from Nova Scotia to Gaza. The most straightforward road route to the border town of Rafah, from Cairo, heads almost due east. You will pass through the inhospitable expanse of the Sinai desert before arriving at the Medit ...
  • Lockout at SFU: Women's Centre, Out on Campus ...
    Student Society pushes CUPE 3338 out of their workplaces, picket lines formed The SFU Women's Centre, Out on Campus,�Coffee Centre, the student General Office, Finance Office, Organizing Office, and the Surrey Office are among a host of gr ...
  • SFPIRG Under Threat
    SFU's Public Interest Research Group faces potential surprise eviction In a recent meeting, the Simon Fraser Student Society's Spacing Committee passed a motion to recommend the termination of SFPIRG's lease, a move that amounts to a surp ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The Murdoch Turkey Shoot
    David Seaton's News Links (Britain's politicians) had been pushed into taking a stand by the overwhelming public revulsion that greeted the discovery that the mobile telephone of Milly Dowler, the murdered Surrey schoolgirl, had been hacked. Even so, it was a dramatic show of political will. �T ...
  • Is the world run by Psychopaths?
    Charming, materialistic, aggressive, self-centred, Machiavellian, thrill-seeking alpha males with little respect for rules who eat stress for breakfast � sound like a banker you know? If so, think again: it is a summary of the traits of psychopaths. Financial Times There is a class of individua ...
  • Murdoch... Beyond Parody
    This misreading of the political mood has been the thread through News International’s bungled response to the phone-hacking affair. Odd really when one recalls that Rupert Murdoch was once the most politically-attuned and ruthless media proprietor in living memory. Phillip Stephens - Financial ...
  • Marine Le Pen is no Sarah Palin
    Marine Le Pen David Seaton's News LinksMarine Le Pen is the leader of� France's National Front. Right now polls show her probably eliminating Nicholas Sarkozy in the first round of France's next presidential elections and facing a lackluster, Socialist, Martine Aubry, running as a hurried replac ...
  • Sign of the Times: Glenn Beck to address the K ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWe do live in a society in which things have become almost inscrutably complex. (...) I think the rise in autism diagnosis has a lot to do with children coming into a society that no longer makes much sense socially and contains within all the incentives for behavioral m ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Just 1 TBSP a Day: An Easy Way to Lower Your C ...
    By Dr. Mercola What if consuming a tablespoon or two per day of a simple food could drastically lower your chances of developing cancer, heart disease or stroke, or of contracting a life-threatening virus such as HIV? Would your interest be piqued? There is a unique freshwater plant that h ...
  • Without This, Vitamin D May Actually Encourage ...
    Vitamin K is thought to reduce coronary calcification, thereby decreasing your risk of cardiovascular disease. However, studies have reported inconsistent results -- possibly because of the different effects of vitamin K1 (phylloquinone) and vitamin K2 (menaquinone or MK). Few studies have inclu ...
  • The Food that Helps You to Detox Pesticides
    A study took a look at the of microorganisms in the degradation of the organophosphorus insecticide chlorpyrifos during kimchi fermentation. During the fermentation of kimchi, the insecticide degraded rapidly until day 3, and had degraded completely by day 9. Four lactic acid bacteria were iden ...
  • Caution to Men: These Drugs May Turn An Enlarg ...
    Dr. Rudi Moerck is a drug industry insider and an expert in chemistry, as it relates to food supplements. In this interview, he shares his knowledge about helpful supplements for prostate health.
  • The "Safe" Toxin that's Dangerously Profitable ...
    Charlie Brown, president and founder of the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry and national counsel of Consumers for Dental Choice, works tirelessly to educate the public about the health and environmental dangers of mercury fillings and to ensure more effective government oversight on am ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Brazilian Indians receive death threats
    Almir Surui, Surui indigenous spokesman © Marc Cowan/Survival Indians of the Surui tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, who are campaigning for their land to be protected, have received death threats from loggers. Almir Surui is one of the Surui affected. He has been told, ‘We know who is agains ...
  • Victory for Borneo tribe over oil palm Goliath
    A Penan man in the Borneo rainforest. © Robin Hanbury-Tenison/Survival A small group of Borneo hunter-gatherers have scored a major victory over a giant oil palm firm that was targeting their rainforest. Survival revealed last month that the Malaysian firm Shin Yang was clearing forest and ...
  • Santander Bank admits dam funding to continue
    The Santo Antonio dam threatens to devastate the forest home of numerous tribal peoples © João Zinclar Europe’s largest bank, Santander, has admitted that its controversial financing of the notorious Santo Antonio dam in the Brazilian Amazon is set to continue, despite earlier saying that i ...
  • Brazilian Indian killed next to roadside camp
    Guarani woman from Apyka'y community, camped on the roadside © Fiona Watson/Survival A Guarani man in Brazil has been run over and killed by a bus on the highway next to which his community has been camped for almost a decade. The Guarani of Apyka’y community are living in appalling condit ...
  • Innu agreement signed while the Duke and Duche ...
    Innu children © Serge Jauvin/Survival The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have visited Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories. According to reports, they were met by Inuit and Chipewyan drummers and dancers, and subsequently visited a teepee at Blatchford Lodge. While they have ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Cold beer, sunscreen, Bixis ... and parkas
    Ah, finally, summer in Montreal! Long lazy days by the pool. Hot days, cool nights. The festivals downtown. Lunch on the terrasse. Hamburgers on the barbecue. Sunscreen. Bixis. Cold beer. Parkas.
  • Great neighbourhoods revive Montreal's spirit
    The transformation of a long stretch of de Maisonneuve Blvd. from an "ugly, gloomy concrete canyon," as The Gazette's Peggy Curran called it this week, to a pedestrian-and bike-friendly street lined with outdoor terrasses, high-end stores and public art, should convince Montrealers that even the ...
  • The Gazette’s View: Great neighbourhoods reviv ...
    The transformation of a long stretch of de Maisonneuve Blvd. from an “ugly, gloomy concrete canyon,” as The Gazette’s Peggy Curran called it this week, to a pedestrian- and bike-friendly street lined with outdoor terrasses, high-end stores and public art, should convince Montrealers that even th ...
  • Consider the gun-registry decision carefully
    With a Conservative majority government now ensconced in both houses of Parliament, it is no longer a question of whether a vote to abolish the national long-gun registry will pass.
  • The Gazette's View: Consider the gun-registry ...
    With a Conservative majority government now ensconced in both houses of Parliament, it is no longer a question of whether a vote to abolish the national long-gun registry will pass.

Food World Order

  • 7/14 binge & purge: gardens, floodgates & play ...
    record 1 in 6 now on food stamps as depression escalates* 12 signs that the world is running out of food* police state in action: woman faces 93 days in jail for planting vegetables in her front yard* bureaucrats in michigan threaten woman with jail time for vegetable garden* food fi ...
  • genetically modified food labels don't sit wel ...
    agreement on labeling probably won't have much effect in US from latimes: Activists rejoiced last week when a hard-fought battle over international standards for labeling genetically modified food came to an end — finally — after decades of debate. But the agreement, which many say opens the ...
  • major grocer albertsons getting rid of self-ch ...
    chain to replace computers, wants more human contact from msnbc: One of the nation's major grocery store chains is eliminating self-checkout lanes in an effort to encourage more human contact with its customers. Albertsons LLC, which operates 217 stores in seven Western and Southern states, w ...
  • 7/7 binge & purge: fatty needs a fix
    wonder why americans are so fat?: 777-pound burger in california takes guinness record on july 4th* as commodity prices soar, so does demand for wood pulp - cellulose use increases as a 'food extender'* don't tell your kid, but there's cauliflower in his mac & cheese* it's not all ...
  • united nations report calls for the doubling f ...
    from voanews: The United Nations warns the world's farmers will have to double the amount of food they produce to keep up with a rapidly growing population. The U.N.'s latest World Economic and Social Survey, released Tuesday, says global food production will need to jump by 70 to 100 percent by ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has bee ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of m ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 � In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort � S Shyam Prasad �
  • Pastor arrested for murdering minor girl
    source:  MSN India, 30 June, 2011 � Guntur (AP), Jun 30 (PTI) A local pastor was arrested for allegedly murdering a teenager after she became pregnant with his child, police said today. The victim, identified as Monica (17) from Nadendla village in the district was working ...
  • Conversation with a Convert
    source: The Undercurrent, 26 March, 2011 Somewhere in Tamil Nadu The cab was waiting at the end of the road waiting to take us to our destination. The driver was a 50 something man and there was a picture of the Christian prophet Jesus on his dash board. After a few kilometeres of dr ...
  • Study suggests 'born-again' believers have sma ...
    source:  USA today, May 24, 2011  DURHAM, N.C. � For decades, mainline Protestants have been beset by bad news: declining numbers, aging membership, waning cultural influence.A new study from  Duke University Medical Center, however, gives these Protestants one reason for cheer: they seem ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans for mankind? H ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Sunday Paper Review: 17th July 2011
    It was with some trepidation that we started with this week's Sunday newspaper review. How many 'Hackgate' stories can one possibly cope with? Would it not be simpler just to conclude that the entire top tiers of British society and influence are corrupt to the core? The media owners, the pol ...
  • Campaign To Make the EU Flag History
    Sometimes, we're a little bit slow on the uptake, we Brits. For years, our own sense of justice and fair play, our consideration for other people's feelings have been - to our cost - exploited and played. Such sensitivity on our part and exploitation by those with unfathomable agendas led, ...
  • Quote of the Day: 16th July 2011
    "The wellbeing of millions of Europeans is being sacrificed by an out-of-touch, self-serving political elite, and what’s shocking is that our politicians are going along with it." - Douglas Carswell It's called 'treason', Douglas. But we're all watching and knitting; in us all, the spirit ...
  • New, improved Talking Clock site...
    Just in time for the Armageddon about to descend upon us (caused by the politicians and the banksters), we thought we'd spruce The Talking Clock up a little for you all. New interactive elements - easy share buttons and... gosh!... a Twitter account for people to follow. On the subject of ...
  • Did you know... [Banksters Edition]
    Did you know... ...every time you submit a valid complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service about your bank... ...the bank in question has to pay the Financial Ombudsman Service the sum of £500. Now, you might think this a good way to make banks pay. However... If I were to give ...

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 ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group U.S. Asks for Return of Classified Detention Document Given to ACLU The U.S. government accidentally gave the ACLU a classified document describing criteria it uses to hold detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Three Bombs Strike Mumbai; 18 Are Killed Three coordinated bombings struck Mumbai, India, at rush hour on Wednesday evening, killing 18 people and wounding 131 in the worst terror attacks there since the 2008 … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Head of ISI Heads to U.S. for Talks Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the head of the ISI, Pakistanâs spy agency, is headed to the United States Wednesday for talks with his U.S. counterparts on intelligence … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Brother of Hamid Karzai Killed in Kandahar The half brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was killed at his home in Kandahar Tuesday. Initial reports suggested he had been shot dead by a bodyguard, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Panetta: Defeat of al Qaeda ‘Within Reach’ On his first trip to Afghanistan since taking over as Pentagon chief on July 1, Leon Panetta said Saturday on his way to Kabul that the United … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • We are still in the very early stages of what ...
    Google CEO Larry Page has just dropped a bombshell. Along with the quarterly earnings report, co-founder and the new CEO of Google, Larry Page, presented a huge cache of statistics and data that are literally mind blowing. And he have even published the whole report as a status update in his�Goo ...
  • Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 2 Review, Sc ...
    Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 2 is released already and the changes we expected to see in Ubuntu 11.10 is slowly starting to show up. Among other things, the most important change is the arrival of GNOME 3.0 stack. Ubuntu is not based on GNOME 2.x anymore. Most of the default Ubuntu themes h ...
  • Netbook Optimized Ping-Eee OS Review
    Most of you must have heard about PinguyOS already, one of my favourite among Ubuntu derivatives. Now, they have released another version of PinguyOS called Ping-Eee OS which is supposedly optimized for small screen netbooks. Interestingly, the release coincided with my purchase of Linux pre ins ...
  • DAISHO Productivity Software for Linux
    DAISHO is a good productivity software for Windows, Mac and Linux. There is a free version called Daisho Basic for Windows and Mac, but many advanced features requires you to buy DAISHO Professional edition. But Daisho for Linux is completely free of charge. DAISHO Productivity Software for ...
  • List of Companies that Pay Royalties to Micros ...
    According to Microsoft, Google's Android OS is infringing on many of its patents and hence those manufacturers who use Android for their devices owe royalties to Microsoft. But the intriguing fact is that, instead of suing Google itself for infringing on its patents, Microsoft is finding it easy ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • IMF REPORT SHOWS IRELAND IS SINKING INTO DEBT ...
    *IMF report confirms Ireland is sinking into the same debt death spiral as Greece; second bailout virtually certain *Ireland’s national debt could reach 151% of GDP by 2016, says IMF *Tax revenues have collasped by a third, unemployment is soaring *Irish banks increeasingly insolvent and depend ...
  • ITALIAN DEBT CRISIS SPELLS ENDGAME FOR THE EUR ...
    Even Germany’s mass circulation Bild newspaper has finally acknowledged that the euro is on the verge of collapse. It reported that the endgame for the euro has begun now that Italy has fallen into the sights of speculators. http://www.bild.de/geld/wirtschaft/italien-krise/schuldenkrise-in-ital ...
  • New bailout blueprint for Greece doubles cost ...
    *For the first time since the eurozone debt crisis began, EU officials are considering allowing a selective default for Greece *New plan will actually cost eurozone tax payers twice as much because it invovles using the eurozone bailout fund to buy back Greek bonds at 50% of their value. *Banks ...
  • OBAMA THREATENS THE LIVES OF 70 MILLION AMERICANS
    As a result of the last US banking crisis in 1931, an estimated five million Americans died. That was the number of people who had vanished into thin air when the next census was taken after a Great Depression and fiscal austerity. This time round 70 million Americans could face life threatening ...
  • NEW WORLD ORDER FICTION: READ THIS ST ...
    You have seen documentaries like Alex Jones’ The Obama Deception about the activites of the New World Order; and you have read the reports on independent websites like Infowars. Now you can read about the New World Order in an exciting new format. Fiction. Fictional works by writers like Shakesp ...

Invisible Opportunity

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

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 ...

electric politics

  • The Art of Courage
    A little voice in your conscience tells you something. You listen. You start to think maybe you're right and everybody else is wrong. You do something about it. Next thing you know you're in a life and death struggle against evil forces bent on world domination. Well, maybe that's a slight exag ...
  • The Wild Dollar
    Because the public hasn't had what's happening properly reported, the Republicans think that, in the debt ceiling standoff, they can trample democratic norms and perhaps even go so far as to trigger another collapse of the world economy. What a bizarre strategy to pursue (supposedly) on behalf ...
  • Göbekli Tepe
    At what point does an original idea engender action? And to what extent does that action set a lasting course? We can examine the social history of an idea, written, as it were, in stone, at G�bekli Tepe, an archeological site approximately 11,500 years old (or perhaps even older) in southern T ...
  • The Athenian Zephyr
    Neoliberal bankers wants to turn the Greek public into chattel. The Greek public objects. It's a theoretically long-predicted fork in the road for the European Union: either Greece defaults (it could have been any one of certain member states) and the European debt crisis spreads — possibly/pro ...
  • Forgetting Vietnam
    America's final retreat from Vietnam could have been a whole lot worse. Ambassador Graham Martin, mistakenly thought to be on the last chopper out, didn't follow through on the fact that he left a final contingent of Marine Security Guards on the Embassy's rooftop. Higher-ups in the military ch ...

PR News

  • Tofutti Brands hires Rubenstein PR
    NEW YORK: Tofutti Brands, a dairy- and lactose-free food company, has hired Rubenstein Public Relations to help launch new initiatives and boost brand awareness.
  • Spotify leverages social networking for US launch
    NEW YORK: Online music streaming service Spotify initiated its long-awaited US launch this week and is leveraging an array of communications tactics to get its brand message out to consumers.
  • Domino's sees results from social media efforts
    ANN ARBOR, MI: Domino's Pizza is reaping the rewards of an increased focus on in-house efforts to reinvent the brand through social media.
  • Vimeo taps MWW as AOR
    NEW YORK: Online video-sharing service Vimeo has selected MWW Group as its AOR, following a competitive review.
  • Himle Horner names corporate reputation, CSR lead
    MINNEAPOLIS: Ruth Orrick has rejoined Himle Horner as senior counselor, where she will manage the expansion of the firm's corporate reputation management and social responsibility business portfolio.

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 ...
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