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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

19 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Consumerist

  • Borders Gets No Love From Bidders, Forced To L ...
    Though Borders had received a tentative "stalking horse" bid earlier this month for around $215 million, that deal has since fallen apart and no one else has stepped up to the bidder's box. Thus, the company has decided to say "aw, screw this," and liquidate. If the bankruptcy court approves t ...
  • Should We Meddle In Furniture Sales Commissions?
    Susan and her husband recently made a decent-sized purchase from Raymour & Flanigan, a chain in the Northeast that sells nice quality furniture. On a return visit to make some changes to their order, they learned that the original person who helped them had to split his commission on the sale w ...
  • 7 Ways To Keep Your House Extra Hot This Summer
    If there's anything that makes a summer heatwave even better, it's finding ways to capture that stifling heat and keep it in your home for as long as possible. Our toasty friends at Freeshipping.org compiled this useful list of ways to defeat your air conditioner and make sure your house stays ...
  • Delta To Cut Service To Up To 24 Smaller Markets
    Citing financial losses and empty seats, Delta Airlines has announced that it will soon be cutting service to up to 24 smaller markets in eight states, mostly in the north-central region of the country. Many of the Delta routes to the cities affected by the cuts (see below for complete list) w ...
  • Reader: TSA Agent Cracks Timothy McVeigh Joke ...
    For all the wise-cracking most of us do about the TSA and airport security procedures, we also know that when it comes time to actually pass through the checkpoint on our way to the gate, it's probably not the best time to be a jokester. But, says a Consumerist reader, there is at least one TSA ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Development Agencies Fail to Take On Corruptio ...
    Canadian Press: Darling of Development World, Stung by Corruption Problems, Says Others in Worse Shape The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – a $21.7 billion health fund backed by prominent celebrities – is responding to allegations that the fund has lost up to $34 millio ...
  • Feds Subpoena Lawyer in CIA Leak Case: Whistle ...
    St. Louis Beacon: Feds Take Unusual Step of Subpoenaing Sterling's Lawyer The lawyer representing Jeffrey Sterling – the former CIA officer charged with leaking national security secrets to the press – was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in order to discuss Sterling’s case. Fed ...
  • Teresa Chambers Case Highlights Limitations of ...
    Last week, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ordered the National Park Service to reinstate whistleblower Teresa Chambers as Chief of the U.S. Park Police, as well as to reimburse her for back pay and legal costs. Her case garnered national attention when she was removed by the Bush ...
  • Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator ...
    By Wikimedia user Markus Schweiss Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator Killed Whistleblower Bill? This article details how the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) – a bill that would have strengthened protections for federal employees – was killed by one senator’s d ...
  • Justice Department Leakers of Classified Info. ...
    Three months ago, journalist Michael Isikoff noted the disturbing "Double Standard" in White House Leak Inquiries.  But now it's not just the Executive Branch.  Josh Gerstein of Politico just published an article on how a judge ruled that the Justice Department can keep secret names of its own ...

UK Progressive

  • Of Greatness, Dogs, and Great Dogs
    by Professor Andrea Defusco-Sullivan American College of History and Legal Studies, Salem, N.H. What do George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln have in common? Brilliant minds? Eloquence? Patriotism? Certainly. But if the axiom “great minds think al ...
  • Tiny Manston Airport Near The Open Championshi ...
    The newsletter An Executive Review of Business Travel arrives every Monday morning and is great fun to read. Today this item caught my attention (reproduced with the permission of AERBT.co.uk editors). Flybe wins the Open Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland may have won golf’s Open Championship at ...
  • It’s FOX’s Night-Mare the F—C—P—A!
    With apologies to the Village People, much has been made of Rupert Murdoch’s month-us horribilis over the News of The World mobile phone hacking scandal. Serious questions now arise over whether or not the taint will stain his US holdings, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post or FOX News. Last ...
  • New Age Food: Self Regulating GMOs
    In the US, Genetically Modified Organisims (GMOs) fall under regulatory jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Environmental Protection Association (EPA). Now, more than ever, environmentalists are complaining that poli ...
  • State Fracking Rules Could Allow Drilling Near ...
    by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica The latest draft of guidelines for hydraulic fracturing in New York could open the door to drilling within 1,000 feet of aging underground tunnels that carry water to New York City—a far cry from the seven-mile buffer once sought by city officials. The draft envir ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Lord Christopher Monckton, and that waste-of-t ...
    The truth about the “Lord” claim I care not about the UK peerage, but for the record, when people mockingly claim Christopher Monckton is not a Lord it shows just how desperate they are to attack the man and distract people from hearing his arguments. The correct answer when people say: “He’s no ...
  • Spending billions? Why not do a due diligence ...
    Here’s an edited version of a comment found on Watts UP (h/t Ian :-). A retired project engineer explains to Julia Gillard why peer review reports are not the same as a proper due diligence study — something smaller organizations would have done for projects twenty million times less ambitious t ...
  • Labor sets new record in Unpopularity – worst ...
    The latest Morgan Poll: In the first Australia-wide voting intention poll conducted since Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the details of the Carbon Tax the latest telephone Morgan Poll conducted over the last two nights, July 13/14, 2011 shows the L-NP 60.5% with a record winning lead ove ...
  • The pendulum is swinging back now: Climate Rap
    This is a great turning point. I know this has been circulating for weeks, but if you haven’t seen this climate rap, do check it out. Good Friday night stuff. The warmers have been pretending for so long that they are the little guys fighting Big Oil, Big Industry, and Bad Government. The ruse w ...
  • Greens reveal their aims: Environment? Who cares?
    Hypocrisy soup for an entree anyone? The Greens say they want to protect the environment, that CO2 is evil, and that we must be considerate of foreigners. But their actions speak louder than their tie-dyed t-shirts. Example 1: They get a pot of $10 billion to hand out to their friends, their fan ...

ReNew America

  • The debt ceiling mess, and our House of Lords
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - In trying to cope with the debt ceiling, the Republicans are re-learning that the country cannot be run from Capitol Hill -- not from both legislative houses, let alone one. Compounding the challenge is that one house -- in this case Harry Reid's United States Senate - ...
  • Obamageddon
    (Joseph Farah) - "We're running out of time," says Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner about the absolute necessity of raising the debt limit that would, no matter how you slice it, allow Barack Obama to continue his profligate and unprecedented spending binge. His scare tactics about an approac ...
  • Gohmert: Obama is 'Scarer-in-Chief,' his tacti ...
    (Newsmax) - GOP leaders simply need to look at history to realize why they must reject Democratic pleas for tax hikes and focus on spending cuts to reduce the deficit, Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert tells Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview...
  • The expanding catalogue of Obamacare fables
    (Michelle Malkin) - Is there a health insurance horror story disseminated by the White House and its allies that ever turned out to be true? Obamacare advocates have exercised more artistic license than a convention of Photoshoppers. Now, a prominent sob story shilled by President Obama himself ...
  • Disarming Democrats on debt
    (Emily Miller) - Fear is the weapon of choice for Democrats intent on protecting their ability to spend - no matter the price. Administration officials insist that if they don't get an increase in the debt ceiling within the next two weeks, America will default. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Gei ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Hawass Fired (again)
    Hawass Fired (again) is a post from: 2012 Blog Hawass Fired (again) is a post from: 2012 Blog He had it good for a very long time.  He established himself as the Indiana Jones of Egypt. He had TV shows that screened globally. He dominated ... Related posts:UPDATE: Za ...
  • New Info on Comet Elenin
    New Info on Comet Elenin is a post from: 2012 Blog New Info on Comet Elenin is a post from: 2012 Blog 2012 author Carl Johan Calleman has jumped on the bandwagon, making a connection between the comet and his proposed Mayan calendar end-date: The comet Elenin, which ... ...
  • Strange Goings-On > UFOs?
    Strange Goings-On > UFOs? is a post from: 2012 Blog Strange Goings-On > UFOs? is a post from: 2012 Blog Just like nuclear power plants, it seems that nuclear missile bases are a step or two of redundancy short: When Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming lost ... Related ...
  • Howden Hill > Silbury Jr.
    I’ve often thought that Silbury Hill was unappreciated in the greater scheme of ancient mysteries. Primarily because it is just a hill.  Yet when you look at the figures, it was quite an achievement for its era ... Related posts:Asteroid Tsunamis Not So Bad After All? New Hominid = Myst ...
  • Brisbane Not Safe / Allen West Attacked
    According to Vivos, the American company that constructs the bunkers, âabout two dozenâ Brisbane residents are among âhundredsâ of Australians enquiring about spots in massive underground bunkers that can house 1000 people ... Related posts:Old Missile Silo = Safe Home Thanks Cataclysm, ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Using a Civil War-era law to hold BP a ...
    By Lindsey Williams, Bridge the Gulf As President Obama said during his campaign, "Workers are the eyes and ears of enforcement." They are the ones who see companies dump toxic chemicals into the water, misuse oil rigs in ways that ruin the blow-out preventer or ignore fire hazards. Employees ...
  • Could Rep. Cantor's debt default brinksmanship ...
    House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) raised eyebrows in Washington last week when he scuttled House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) efforts to reach a compromise with President Obama to raise the U.S. debt ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline. Early in the week, Cantor rejected a budge ...
  • 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 ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Who Decides On Nation-States?
    The national aspirations of peoples are governed by rank public relations schemes On July 9, the Republic of South Sudan became the newest internationally-recognized nation-state. As the result of a civil war truce and peace deal worked out five years previously, South Sudan and its former maste ...
  • The West and Syria
    Unlike other Arab leaders confronted to a protest movement such as former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak or Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched a wide political reform program coupled with a reasonable timetable extending until the end of 2011 at the most. ...
  • Benghazi: Criminal Rebellion
    Rebellion in Benghazi is being fomented by the mafia, controlling the traffic of “living stock” to Europe. Libyan “revolution” that seemingly started within the framework of Arab Spring happened to be a quite different matter. Given all the outward simplicity, Libyan events are different from wh ...
  • Mumbai’s Woes and their Implications
    Mumbai is India’s most prosperous as well as most cosmopolitan city. The city’s local trains everyday carry about 7 million diverse people, and to this gigantic fare is everyday added 1200 families who reach city from different corners of India in search of better life. Mumbai, also India’s tins ...
  • EU – Summit on the Titanic’s board
    European leaders delayed the Friday’s Summit, two days after the EU Finance ministers reunion did not reach any result on Greece. In addition, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, was crucial in resisting pressure for a meeting on Friday, arguing that it would be too early to deliver the compre ...

BlogHer

  • Save That Jar: Here are 50 Ways to Reuse It!
    Glass jars are a classic way to add character to any room. From housing tealights to sorting pencils and pens, their uses are never ending. Stephanie Lynn put some heavy thought into that concept and came up with 50 creative ways to use them.This is one example - make enclosed shadow boxes!Steph ...
  • Sexy Suimsuits for Little Girls: Really?
    [Would you be appalled if a swimwear company was using sexy images of little girls in their ads? Melissa Wardy at Pigtail Pals sure was, so she wrote a letter to Submarine Swimwear CEO Deborah Soriano and posted it on her blog. The response Melissa got wasn’t exactly appreciative--Mona.] She wri ...
  • How to Create Great Content so Your Business P ...
    BlogHer Spotlight: Stefanie Frank If you own a business, you have to become an expert in marketing. And, content (call it copy, writing, marketing copy, whatever...) is the key to great marketing. In this post you get a pithy and packed interview with Michael A. Stelzner (founder of SocialM ...
  • Sharing the Harvest
    Yesterday, I enjoyed a couple of�sweet and tangy Lemon Boy tomatoes from my neighbor�s garden. A few days earlier, I�noticed that they had some large, green Big Boys, which looked perfect for frying, so I picked a few, and in anticipation of the Austin Food Blogger Alliance�s upcoming pie baking ...
  • I Don't Remember Much of My Son's First Year
    I’m going to let you in on my dirty little motherhood secret -- I don’t remember much about Weston’s first year.There -- I said it. Out loud. On the Internet.Greasy hair -- check. Man hands -- check. Alien looking baby -- check.Most of my memories are tied to pictures; physical proof that he w ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • 131 Children Vaccinated At Gunpoint in Malawi
    The Gates Foundation has long been in an aggressive effort to vaccinate the world and often targets poor Africans. The Gates’ web site showcases Melinda Gates applauding Malawi for enforcing vaccine programs with its helpful ...
  • Who’s Serving Wood In Your Food?
    How much wood could a wood chuck, chuck? How much have we been chucking down all these years? You’ve, no doubt, come across the ingredient cellulose on many packaged foods like ice cream, pizza, meat, macaroni, chips ...
  • AMA: Parents Should Lose Custody of ‘Sup ...
    Did our eyes deceive us? The Journal of American Medical Association answers the question “Should parents lose custody of super-obese kids?” with a resounding affirmative! Apparently, this is already happening! Doctors are accusing and reporting ...
  • Early TSA Practices Exposed!
    Andy, what happened? I only thought that more power and control would protect our towns – I never intended for any of this!       The clip might seem like a disappointing gag but it highlights the absurd ...
  • Why Big Pharma Now Outsources Its Clinical Tri ...
    Why is Big Pharma outsourcing its clinical drug trials to children in poverty stricken nations like India? Maybe it’s because justice isn’t served when they die after being used as human guinea pigs. After all, if ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • How aggressive is MSHA’s regulatory agenda?
    Near the end of last week’s U.S. Department of Labor “web chat” about the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s latest regulatory agenda, the DOL webmasters posted this comment from Dennis O’Dell, MSHA chief Joe Main’s successor as health and safety director for the United Mine Workers: While ...
  • Friday roundup, July 15, 2011
    In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the first survivor is pulled out alive more than 180 hours, or about seven and a half days, after being trapped in a collapsed coal mine in Heshan City, southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Sunday, July 10, 2011. The mine operated by G ...
  • W.Va. leaders keep their heads in the sand on ...
    It’s been a year and a half since the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd cautioned West Virginians and their coal industry to “embrace the future.”  Remember what he said: To be part of any solution, one must first acknowledge a problem. To deny the mounting science of climate change is to stick our head ...
  • Trial delayed for Upper Big Branch security chief
    In a March 15, 2011 photo, Massey Energy Security Chief Hughie Elbert Stover, center, and his wife, left, are swamped by members of the media as they leave the Federal courthouse in Beckley after.  (AP Photo/The Register-Herald, F. Brian Ferguson) U.S. District Judge Irene C. Berger today issued ...
  • AEP puts brakes on touted carbon capture project
    Gazette photo by Lawrence Pierce The New York Times broke the story late last night: A major American utility is shelving the nation’s most prominent effort to capture carbon dioxide from an existing coal-burning power plant, dealing a severe blow to efforts to rein in emissions responsible for ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

  • Report from the frontlines of the Ardoyne Oran ...
    Taken from the Workers Solidarity Movement Posted 2011-07-14 Rioting erupted in ‘nationalist areas’ across the North on Tuesday after the annual Orange Order parades. The worst of the trouble was in Ardoyne in North Belfast which left 16 police officers injured and with over 60 lethal plastic bu ...
  • Plastic bullets used in Belfast riots
    It’s hard to comment on a situation when the only information you have is from BBC reports, but the riots that took place in nationalist / republican areas of Belfast after the 12th July Orange Order parades should probably get at least some mention here, and particularly the continued use of pl ...
  • Free Francis Fernie. Resist political sentencing
    Last week, a 20 year old man was given twelve months for violent disorder relating to protests on March 26th outside Fortnum and Masons. He threw two placard sticks, neither of which hurt anyone nor were capable of causing harm. This man, pictured in one of Operation Malone's witch hunts, handed ...
  • 30 Years Since the Liverpool 8 Uprising &#8211 ...
    It was July 1981 when the Liverpool 8 Uprising - or 'Toxteth Riots' as it became known - began. Following the typically aggressive and heavy-handed arrest of Leroy Cooper on Friday 3 July, anger erupted on the streets of one of Liverpool's most deprived areas in one of the most voracious display ...
  • This is a FITwatch Call-out.
    This is a FITwatch Call-out. This is a call-out to all those who have ever been on the recieving end of "intelligence-led" policing. This is a call-out to all those who have been pushed up against a wall by riot cops and illegally stop-and-searched. This is a call-out to all those who have had t ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • “Whites Only” Sign; What year is this?
    By Alix Bryan,.richmond.com – A local organization, Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia (HOME) conducted an investigation into a “whites only” for rent sign posted in Henrico County. HOME received a call on June 30 about the for rent sign, which was posted at the intersection of Gayton ...
  • GOP accusations fly over obscure Medicare board
    WASHINGTON (AP) â So long death panels. Hello “rationing” board. An independent panel authorized by President Barack Obama’s health care law to control excessive Medicare cost increases is drawing heavy fire from Republicans. Nearly every health industry lobbying group is pushing for its repeal, ...
  • Cordray to Lead Consumer Agency: Obama Throws ...
    By Matt Stoller,nakedcapitalism.com – Obama vs. Elizabeth Warren Last week, I caught some of the grilling of Elizabeth Warren by GOP Congressmen during the House Oversight Reform Hearing. At one point, a Republican Congressmen asked Warren if she was ârunning a campaignâ to convince people of th ...
  • As Arctic Ice Shrinks, Pacific Species Invade ...
    Michael Ricciardi,planetsave.com – The largest species invasion in over 2 million years is now underway as Arctic ice cover melts and shrinks, permitting a freer exchange of species between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans; dire and dramatic consequences for Atlantic biodiversity are predicted. F ...
  • Hippie TV News and Stuff, with Joe McEvoy (Win ...
    This Week :Fallout from fukushima, Beer a powerful motivator, Obama keeps the protesters away,N Dakota should get a huge refund, Pe nolan with her report. Assho;e of the week and more. PLEASE SHARE. WWH- Worldwide Hippies brings you news and commentary, to inform you and move you to action. Worl ...

reference frame

  • TRF beats Al Gore's megaproject
    If you forgot about the name, Al Gore is a former U.S. vice-president and the de facto leader of the world's global warming alarmist movement. He remains at large; he hasn't even been forced to return the Nobel Prize yet. One week ago, on July 12th, he has launched his new Climate Real ...
  • CERN boss: I forbade employees to interpret ou ...
    Political pressure on scientific research even at CERN began to resemble the undemocratic regimes of the past Veteran science journalist Nigel Calder has found an incredible interview with Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the boss of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in "Die Welt ...
  • CMS: a near 3-sigma excess of 390 GeV 3-jet RP ...
    Many 3-sigma deviations have been reported, especially by the Tevatron, and especially by its CDF, and most of us mostly ignore them. CDF in particular has recently produced many claims that seem to be rubbish. However, this new paper: Search for Three-Jet Resonances in pp Collisions ...
  • Climate soothers begin to show their teeth
    In the recent years, we have witnessed hundreds of attacks against the dignity and sometimes physical safety of the climate skeptics. Death threats; tattooing; fired climatologists; Nuremberg trials; No Pressure 10:10 and detonating skeptical children; and constant demonization in the media ...
  • Why is the Earth so fat?
    From Physics Stack Exchange: click for more answers, details, and discussions Mark Eichenlaub: I made a naive calculation of the height of Earth's equatorial bulge and found that it should be about 10 km. The true height is about 20 km. My question is: why is there this discrepancy? ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Fearing life after Bloomberg, New York's busin ...
    In late April, the immaculate chairwoman of the New York real-estate lobby and her husband, an Upper East Side plastic surgeon, hosted a fund-raiser for the City Council speaker, Christine Quinn, at their condo across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. R ...
  • Rudy Giuliani isn't John McCain, and his New H ...
    "I think John had exactly the right strategy," Giuliani said.There's a problem, though: This wasn't really McCain's strategy in '08. Yes, it's true that McCain's campaign ended up downplaying expectations for their candidate in Iowa, that McCain himself sk ...
  • Ray Kelly exalted, Paul Stephenson scolded, Ca ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • John Liu, comptroller and prospective mayoral ...
    On Wednesday night, 18 people sat in a multi-purpose room at Prospect Park Residence, a senior living center at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. Down the hall, bright fliers advertised an electric boat tour in Prospect Park and a rooftop ice cream party earli ...
  • "Deathly Hallows Part 2": In which Harry Potte ...
    Anyone looking forward to the latest and, if series creator J.K. Rowling is to be believed, last Harry Potter film will not be disappointed.�Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2�ends the movie franchise on just the right note. Director David Yates c ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Abbas launches state initiative in Oslo
    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been in Oslo this week, where he launched a new drive towards statehood by signing an agreement with Norway that upgrades the Palestinians’ representative office in Oslo to an embassy. Norway remained non-committal, though, towards formally recognizing a n ...
  • Støre urges more aid for Palestinians
    Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre warns that the Palestinians face a serious economic crisis because of a lack of financial support for the Palestinian authorities. He urged donor nations to make an extra contribution, especially those in neighboring and Arabic countries. Norway heads the group ...
  • Funds to save rainforests pile up
    Norway has committed billions in funding to help preserve the world’s rainforests but much of the money remains sitting in bank accounts, reports Oslo-based Development Today. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s high-profile effort to reverse climate change through rainforest preservation seems to ...
  • Norwegian Air flying high, too
    Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) reported good results earlier this month and now its arch-rival in Norway, Norwegian Air, has done the same. Norwegian is making a lot of money on the fees it charges for everything from seat reservations to checking luggage, something SAS doesn’t do but sometimes sti ...
  • Whales pay a visit to Bergen
    As many as 100 grindhvaler (pilot whales) swam into the Byfjord just outside Bergen on Sunday and came surprisingly close to the city’s Nordnes peninsula before heading north again. By Monday afternoon, though, they were threatened by curious boaters whom experts feared were coming too close to ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Paul Taylor on Composting (Video)
    Soil and compost wizard, Paul Taylor, takes us through the process of building a compost pile.
  • Water is life! – Tamera is Creating a Model fo ...
    by Tamera, Portugal The Tamera water landscape is a model and an educational project for natural water management and the renaturation of damaged landscapes all over the world and a basis for forestation, horticulture and agriculture in regions threatened by desertification. It is a globally ada ...
  • Has-Beans
    The government and the industry promised that they had dealt with aminopyralid poisoning. They haven’t. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. Pictures and captions from John Mason. This image shows sunflowers that began life ...
  • Jail Time for Planting Front Yard Garden?
    This is by-law madness, and it’ll have to change…. I rather blatantly encourage everyone to disregard dumb rules like this which would stop you from increasing your resiliency and demonstrating better use of your lawn space. The more of us who rebel against absurdity, the easier it becomes to le ...
  • Bees Versus Elephants
    Not too many permaculturists have to deal with problems as potentially destructive, and even deadly, as elephants. But, I have met some of these people in my travels (see here and here). For those around the world grappling with this oversized issue, here is some potential help born of good perm ...

Pointman's

  • Words of wisdom from the Goracle of Helpme.
    Alâs fallen on hard times. Long gone are the days of the $100,000 appearance fee at speaking engagements. Most of that all went into that Chicago Carbon Exchange thingy which didnât turn out to be such a smart investment after all. Anyway, you canât keep a good man down so heâs working on a come ...
  • The Al Gore Climate Reality Event : A call to ...
    Thereâs an interesting proposal being made at Anthony Wattâs site WUWT to fight the upcoming Al Gore Climate Reality Event scheduled for Sept. 14th 2011. In essence, it suggests setting up a central resource which will contain quotes by global warming high priests. Whatâs being called for is yo ...
  • Internet Security 3: The Worst Sort Of Predator.
    This is a nasty, distasteful and distressing area to post a topic on but if it saves the happy childhood of one kid, itâll be worth it. If you’re a parent, which I am, anything like this is tough going but Iâd encourage you to read on. I think it was Will Rogers who said … Read more
  • Line of Descent Chapter 27
    Chapter 27 Drayton waited with Krupmeyer amid the ruins of the summer house. He sat on the floor, resting his injured back against the wall. It throbbed with a steady nagging ache that the drugs could not quite mask. Beside him on the floor, Krupmeyer lay in a stretcher. About them, the team of ...
  • Another body floats by.
    The Japanese have a proverb; if you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by. In the year and a half since climategate, itâs been happening with increasing frequency. The latest one is a main stream media (MSM) journalist called Johann Hari who works at the Inde ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Moving Forward With the Status Quo
    A Response to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s Veto of Senate Bill 67, by Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children: When Governor Bobby Jindal vetoed State Senate Bill 67 (SB 67), he failed to protect the right to education for thousands of Louisiana school children. Each y ...
  • Danielle Metz, A Prisoner of the US Drug War
    In 1993, at the age of 26, Danielle Metz was sentenced to serve three life sentences plus twenty years for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. It was her first conviction. Evidence suggests that Danielle never knew that her husband, Glenn, was involved in drugs. When they married, he was 30 years ...
  • Stereotypes, Myths, & Criminalizing Policies: ...
    An important statement from the New Orleans organization the Women's Health and Justice Initiative: Since the beginning of the year, we have witnessed a surge of legislative attacks targeting poor communities through bills calling for mandatory drug testing as an eligibility requirement to re ...
  • Benefits to Support BreakOUT, Building the Pow ...
    From our friends at BreakOUT! and Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana: On Sunday, June 12th the performers of Lucky Cheng's reunited for a spectacular show to benefit JJPL's project BreakOUT!, which fights the criminalization of LGBTQ youth in New Orleans. Although the famed New Orleans ...
  • Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Louis ...
    From a press release issued today by the US Department of Justice: The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana and a number of Louisiana state agencies and officials alleging that the state has violated its obligations under the Nationa ...

Information Underground

  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    Whaler wrote: Alan Sabrosky, US Marine Corps veteran-The Autograph-07-13-2011 iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Ffz0koJb that's a good interview. i posted the Sabrosky interview Monday AM @ http://forums.anandtech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=24 then, i got banned Monday AM. bummer St ...
  • Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: [ Th ...
    Dear Freinds, Why people have no need to be responsible for the money private banks issued is obvious to you? It is because the wealth the money is to represent is not the private banks possessions. If the government signed the paper says, in effect, people is to be responsible for it then ...
  • Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: [ Th ...
    Dear Freinds, Why people have no need to be responsible for the money private banks issued is obvious to you? It is because the wealth the money is to represent is not the private banks possessions. If the government signed the paper says, in effect, people is to be responsible for it then ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    It is well-known that DMT almost universally is associated with seeing extra-dimensional beings--whether they are real or simply a product of the imagination that is un-controllable; this is very similar to what happens when we dream. I have never experienced DMT, mainly because my heart could ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    It is in my "signature." I have not been feeling-well for a while, so I have not been posting, but I hope to post some things this week. LINDSEYStatistics: Posted by LordLindsey — Tue Jul 19, 2011 12:40 am

TVNZ

environment 360

  • The World at 7 Billion: Can We Stop Growing Now?
    With global population expected to surpass 7 billion people this year, the staggering impact on an overtaxed planet is becoming more and more evident. A two-pronged response is imperative: empower women to make their own decisions on childbearing and rein in our excessive consumption of resource ...
  • 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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Canada’s startups get the flag
    By Mark Evans Canada’s startup landscape is healthier than ever, as evidenced by the recent International Startup Festival in Montreal. Putting aside the ambitious name (I would have selected something like the Canadian Startup Festival), the fact that it was well-organized and well-attend ...
  • Where is James Moore?
    By Frank Moher Two weeks ago in this space I wrote about the Conservative government's politically-motivated decision to withdraw funding from the Toronto theatre and arts festival, SummerWorks. To recap: Last year, the company presented a play, Homegrown, that the Prime Minister's Office dec ...
  • The A word
    By Alison@Creekside The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism has released its Final Report -- two years in the making -- on what co-chair and former Lib MP Mario Silva refers to as the "wave of anti-Semitism we are witnessing in our nation".  A 71% increase. Yet a mere ...
  • Have a cupcake, St. Joe’s
    By Jodi A. Shaw Mayor Rob Ford may have been conspicuously absent from Toronto's Pride Parade last weekend, but 16-year old Leanne Iskander more than made up for it as parade co-Grand Marshal (along with Michael Bach of Pride at Work Canada). Iskander made headlines in March when she was p ...
  • No WikiLove for Canada Day
    Wikipedia is working on a new feature to allow visitors to express appreciation for the poor beleaguered editors. Visitors will have the opportunity to click on a Wikilove icon (a heart), which will allow them to send a message of appreciation. Seems that editors get a lot of ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Fukushima cattle under shipment ban
    The government banned beef cattle shipments from Fukushima Prefecture on Tuesday, more than a week after meat from the prefecture showed high levels of radioactive cesium, including some already sold and consumed. Alarm has spread nationwide over the estimated 650 cows from Fukushima, Niigata ...
  • Typhoon may spare Fukushima
    Typhoon Ma-on slowed Tuesday as it approached southwestern Japan and was forecast to pass south of Tokyo on Wednesday night on a track that would take it away from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. The eye of the storm, categorized as "strong" by the Meteorological Agency, was about ...
  • Constructing a Pax Asia-Pacifica
    One of the main sources of tension in Asia nowadays are the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, where the Philippines, Vietnam, China and others have conflicting claims. In Chinese media reports, the heightened "unfriendliness" in the region has allegedly arisen from "bad rumors and speculat ...
  • Murdoch's malign empire
    The resignation of two key lieutenants of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his own full-page signed apology in British newspapers — "We are sorry for the widespread wrongdoing that occurred" — is clearly a desperate attempt to save his News Corporation group from being incinerated in the firestorm ...
  • Powerful typhoon heading for main islands
    A large and powerful typhoon was moving toward the main archipelago Monday, with the Meteorological Agency warning of downpours, strong winds and high waves in southwestern and western Japan through Tuesday. Typhoon Ma-on was located about 300 km northeast off Okinawa's Minamidaito Island at n ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Crime, Poverty and the Mistake of the Conserva ...
    Kudos to Iglika Ivanova for her effort to quantify the costs of poverty in British Columbia. Included in her analysis is a consideration of the relationship between crime and poverty. She correctly points out that poverty is not a cause of crime, but is rather a risk factor for crime. As one exa ...
  • From Brudenell to Brussels: Investor-Province ...
    A month ago, Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial governments volunteered to be directly sued by investors under the Agreement on Internal Trade. This quiet announcement from Brudenell, Prince Edward Island, seems to have gone almost unnoticed. But it is a huge step toward imposing the T ...
  • When Business And Progressives Agree
    It was news, not so much because of what was said, as who said it:  The Conference Board of Canada released a report on rising inequality in Canada today, noting that despite the fact that Canadians are better off than a generation ago, the richest 20% in society are taking an ever-growing share ...
  • Deconstructing BC’s carbon neutral gover ...
    Besides the carbon tax, one of the most important BC government climate action initiatives has been the adoption of Carbon Neutral Government. That is, count emissions from public buildings and travel, reduce them as much as possible and pay for carbon offsets to negate the rest. As of the 2010 ...
  • Navigating troubling economic waters
    Down south, the Obama administration is in a dangerous game of chicken with Republican congressional leaders, who are cynically holding the US economy hostage in order to impose a radical agenda of spending cuts. Obama has seemingly bought into the rhetoric of cutting debt, rather than focusing ...

ReDress

  • Method in Netanyahu's madness: Israel rules ou ...
    Jonathan Cook argues that by outlawing non-violent protest against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the siege of Gaza and leaving only violence as a mode of resistance, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his supporters believe that they can "safeguard the legitima ...
  • Americans: facing the world and facing ourselves
    Lawrence Davidson explains why most Americans "neither see themselves as others see them nor look honestly into their own faces", and in consequence, "are led to collectively act in self-destructive ways".
  • Herem law in the context of Jewish past and pr ...
    Gilad Atzmon looks into the traditional Jewish herem culture underlying the law recently passed by the Israeli parliament criminalizing calls for the boycott of Israel or the illegal Jewish settlements.
  • 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?"

Physics Today

  • House passes energy funding bill
    Science: As US lawmakers argued over long-term deficit reduction, the Republican-controlled House managed to pass a few energy measures on Friday. An amendment to bring proposed 2012 funding for the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy up to the current-year level of $ ...
  • Carbon atoms set free by UV light
    Nature: A team of physicists in Australia has found that sunlight can cause diamond to lose atoms. Diamonds are usually etched by laser in a process called ablation, whereby atoms are burned from the surface, leaving behind a rough, damaged area more like that of graphite, writes James Mitchell ...
  • Galaxy's spin may help explain matter-antimatt ...
    Space.com: A physicist at the UK’s University of Warwick believes he has found a testable explanation for apparent CP violation. In a paper published in Europhysics Letters, Mark Hadley suggests that researchers have neglected to take into account the significant impact of the rotation of our ga ...
  • Blinking bacteria may provide clue to their re ...
    Science: Like little batteries, bacteria have two charges: positive on the outside of their cell membranes, negative on the inside, writes Sara Reardon for Science. And as with batteries, that division of charge is their power source. By pumping protons across their membrane, bacteria can make e ...
  • How to attract girls into the science-major pi ...
    Chronicle of Higher Education: Nancy Linde manages educational outreach for WGBH, Boston's PBS and NPR stations. In a commentary for the Chronicle, she argues that scientists who want girls to become science majors should adopt the practices of professional marketers. WGBH recently teamed up wit ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show,'-24
    by footprints (Posted Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:49:38 GMT) Episode 21-Season Three Filmed September 23rd 2011 Duration-45 Minutes Omar Abdulla: Welcome to The 'Omar Abdulla,' SHOW produced by Footprints Filmworks...It has been a rollar-coaster ride here in Greece as many of our viewers have been ...
  • News media won't report
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:38:59 GMT) $12 Billion For Them - 1.5 Million Homeless For Us Lilith - 7 days ago - rense.com Does anyone possess a clue as to why our U.S. government spends $12 billion every 30 days in Afghanistan and Iraq while 1.5 million of our citizens remain hom ...
  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show,'-23
    by footprints (Posted Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:29:11 GMT) Episode 21-Season Three Filmed September 23rd 2011 Duration-45 Minutes Omar Abdulla: Welcome to The 'Omar Abdulla,' SHOW produced by Footprints Filmworks...It has been a rollar-coaster ride here in Greece as many of our viewers have been ...
  • Global Warming Alarmist demands more militancy ...
    by lindseya (Posted Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:30:40 GMT) What percentage of global warming deniers can't differentiate between weather and climate? It seems like half the questions in the global warming section these days are 'if global warming is true why is it snowing today?'
  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show,'-20
    by footprints (Posted Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:53:14 GMT) As stated before it costs R5000.00 for six months and shares can be traded by companies including your own company...We have a list of the companies listed in the TOP20 which is a basket and updates on a weekly basis...If the company shares ha ...

Peakwater

  • Seville pot farms linked to water woes
    Seville’s 400 residents have lived years with tainted drinking water from their only well, but they say there is a new problem in town — water-hogging marijuana gardens. The outdoor gardens planted in the last year are taking so much of the town’s water that it sometimes takes 45 minutes to fill ...
  • Drought Just One Example of Africa’s Changing ...
    “As a prolonged, severe drought puts 10 million people at risk in East Africa, humanitarian agencies are hard-pressed to supply enough food and water. Crops have been destroyed, farmland damaged, seeds consumed as food and livestock sold so families can survive. Thousands of people have migrated ...
  • Roger Dolan: Better ways to get water
    “The regional project to supply water for the Peninsula is in deep trouble from a wide range of problems. Yet, proponents of the desalination project and many Peninsula citizens feel it is their only option. In fact, it isn’t the only choice, and it certainly isn’t the best or least expensive. T ...
  • Catastrophe looms unless China signs water-sha ...
    “The new plans involve the diversion of water from the Brahmaputra to the upper reaches of the north-western Chinese province of Xinjiang which has recently experienced serious droughts. The plans follow the announcement in 2010 that China is building a hydroelectric project near the âgreat be ...
  • Water Not Fit For Drinking
    “ALLAHABAD: Several localities in Old City areas including Dariyabad, Rani Mandi, Nakhas Kohna, Ahmadganj and others are receiving contaminated water supply over the past several months and nothing has been done by the health department and Allahabad Jal Sansthan to resolve their misery. The pip ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Continues Efforts to Save Cleveland C ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is continuing his efforts to support community churches and to keep the ‘community anchors’ open for Cleveland area residents. In a letter outlining the importance of these churches, Congressman Kucinich has requested to meet with Reverend John Smith, Archbisho ...
  • Kucinich Defends American Waterways; Don’t Mak ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime advocate of environmental protection, spoke out against H.R. 2018, the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011, which would remove vital protections of our nation’s waterways. “I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 2018, which would be more ap ...
  • The Concerns of Seniors are a ‘Big Deal;’ Don’ ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) again took to the House floor today to continue his unflinching defense of senior citizens and Social Security from those who would pay off the debt by creating economic insecurity for our seniors. See video here. The full text of Congressman Kucinich�s remar ...
  • Debt Political Theater Diverts Attention While ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor about the massive transfer of wealth from the American people to the hands of the few by virtue of wars, energy policies and monetary policies. He called upon Americans to witness Wall Street�s theft of Main Street, which has left ...
  • Kucinich: Credit Rating Agencies Have No Autho ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Moody’s placed the U.S. on review for possible downgrade of the nation’s credit rating: “No nation, agency or organization has the authority to dictate terms to the United States Government,” said Kucinich. “Moody’s ...

Authentically Wired

  • doubtful we will honestly pay heed to your effort
    � �� Thank You �� Ms. Roberts for attempting to make us aware �� ��doubtful we will honestly pay heed to your effort �� but �� I salute you as it is a worthy effort�� See Phoenix residents long ago gave up and now are content to just accept the table-scraps which fall from the [...]
  • Get real … he’s laughing at you
    … For Az Congressman Jeff Flake … Not only does he stay away from curtailing mining in the Grand Canyon issue … He laugh$ it off … all the while professing his ardent abhorrence to “earmarks” … But lavishly feeding at the mine$ hog-trough Get real … he’s laughing at you … those of you [...]
  • … And then when they are released back i ...
    … And then when they are released back into society…? … Maricopa County voters love Joe because he is comfortable that in his jail … 30% are mentally ill … 80% affected with sexually transmitted disease (STD) … But … hey … he’s still the “toughest” self-anointed sheriff in the nation providing g ...
  • … Just be careful of the hyperbole …
    �� Just be careful of the hyperbole �� �"Golden Beef" that Contains 3 to 5 Times More of This Cancer-Fighting Substance � Posted By�Dr. Mercola�|�July 18 2011� �� http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/07/18/why-do-exvegetarians-outnumber-current-vegetarians-three-to-one.aspx � ...
  • STILL BELIEVE USDA IS LOOKING OUT FOR YOU…?
    ⦠Still believe USDA is looking out for you ⦠? The GMO situation suddenly got a whole lot crazier with the USDA’s decision to stop regulating many GMOs altogether. It’s now "hands off" at the USDA, meaning most GMOs will no longer be regulated at all! As a result of this, the Scotts Miracle-G ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Is Indonesia losing its most valuable assets?
    Deep in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo in the late 1980s, researchers made an incredible discovery: the bark of a species of peat swamp tree yielded an extract with potent anti-HIV activity. An anti-HIV drug made from the compound is now nearing clinical trials. It could be worth hundreds o ...
  • Indonesia's moratorium disappoints environment ...
    The moratorium on permits for new concessions in primary rainforests and peatlands will have a limited impact in reducing deforestation in Indonesia, say environmentalists who have reviewed the instruction released today by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The moratorium, which too ...
  • FSC mulls controversial motion to certify plan ...
    Members of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), meeting in Malaysia this week for its General Assembly, will consider various changes to the organization, including a vote on a controversial motion that would open the door—slightly at first—to sustainable-certification of companies that have be ...
  • Unpaved road through Serengeti to progress
    After a week of confusion, the Tanzanian government has finally clarified its position on the hugely-controversial Serengeti road. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, confirmed that a paved highway will not be built through the northern Serengeti National Park, however ...
  • Richard Leakey: 'selfish' critics choose wrong ...
    The controversial Serengeti road is going ahead, but with conditions. According to the Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, the road will not be paved and it will be run by the Tanzanian park authority who will have the power to monitor traffic to 'ensure no harm ...

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    Spending on science with a clear focus needs to grow, writes Dr Neil Domigan, a director of Cranleigh Merchant Bankers. The formation of KiwiNet by some universities and Crown research institutes to help with the commercialisation...
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    NASA's Dawn spacecraft was captured into orbit around the massive asteroid Vesta after a 2.7 billion kilometre journey and is preparing to begin a study of a surface that may date to the earliest era of the solar system, the space...
  • Brain cells from skin an 'astounding' step
    Skin cells from a 30-year-old woman have been turned directly into mature nerve cells similar to those found in the brain using a procedure that promises to revolutionise the emerging field of regenerative medicine.Scientists...
  • Hope for vaccine in hunt for answers to killer ...
    Scientists are still trying to unlock the mysteries of the Hendra virus that has killed nine horses and required the testing of dozens of people in Queensland and New South Wales in the past three weeks.In rare cases, the virus...
  • The climate dissenter holds his ground
    It never rains, it pours. Or it burns. It began with the China floods in May last year, coinciding, in June, with

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  • Reason on Television: Tim Cavanaugh on KTLA
    Reason Senior Editor Tim Cavanaugh appeared on KTLA local channel 5 Saturday to discuss the negative-fulfillment of Carmageddon prophecies.    And don't miss Reason TV's savage nightmare journey into get-people-out-of-their-cars social engineering "Carmageddon or Lameag ...
  • New at Reason: Veronique de Rugy on the Facts ...
    According to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the U.S. government will reach its legal borrowing limit—the debt ceiling—on August 2. What will happen if the White House and congressional Republicans don’t reach an agreement before then? Will the U.S. be forced to de ...
  • Creative Destruction and the Death of Borders ...
    At the Independent Institute’s blog, Anthony Gregory celebrates today’s announcement that the Borders bookstore chain is nearing extinction: Several years ago book stores like Borders were  the subject of leftist animus. How dare they crush the smaller competition. Little book s ...
  • New at Reason: Ira Stoll on Ronald Reagan and ...
    After years of demonizing Ronald Reagan as a fiscally irresponsible tax-cutter, certain elements of the press are now trying to resurrect the Gipper as a tax increaser. It’s so absurd it’s almost funny, writes Ira Stoll. If ordinary Americans remember President Reagan as a tax-cutte ...
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    From Jake Levine, "an Internet-lover and Entrepreneur in Residence at betaworks":  What happens when Facebook or Twitter decide that it is too 'confusing' for users to see photos from Instagram posted to their network, instead of through Facebook Photos? What happens when F ...
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