19 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

• Egypt after Mubarak - Egypt’s Enduring Challen ...
  The U.S.-Egypt bilateral relationship developed rapidly following the 1978 Camp David Accords. While the ties spanned many fields, the foundation of the contact was the military relationship. As a memo from the U.S. embassy in Cairo explained in 2009:President Mubarak and military leaders view o ...
• The Obama Edge - America’s Heavy-handed Foreig ...
  The Obama administration is withholding $800 million of the $2 billion in current aid to Pakistan, angry over the (limited) level of Pakistani pursuit of Taliban elements attacking U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. The United States believes intelligence information provided to Pakistan has b ...
• Liberia on Edge - Univ. of Maryland Professor ...
  The American professor at the center of what is becoming a pre-election scandal in Liberia says he played no role in preparing a pre-election analysis for the ruling Unity Party of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The Online Liberian publication FrontPage Africa reported over the July 9-10 weeke ...
• Nigeria on Edge - Nigerian "Elders" Forum Conc ...
  In Nigeria, a leading member of the “Elders Forum” in northern Borno State has expressed concern about a government-backed unit formed to stop violence by the Islamic sect Boko Haram. According to the Nigeria Tribune newspaper, the federal government recently set up the Special Joint Military Ta ...
• The Music Edge - Smithsonian Celebrates the Ri ...
  Rhythm and blues. It's an American treasure and a powerful influence on popular culture. The evolution of this art form was celebrated at the Smithsonian’s recent Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington. Rhythm and blues was invented by African Americans more than 70 years ago. The ...

High Country News

• Rocky Mountain wolf recovery leader was not yo ...
  An interview with Ed Bangs, who recently retired from heading the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's gray wolf recovery program
• Leadville, an old Colorado mining town, may re ...
  As prices soar, Freeport McMoRan ponders reviving the town's Climax molybdenum mine
• Montana's top gun-rights advocate has a nation ...
  Gary Marbut's case for state rights in gun regulations is spreading from Montana to the West and beyond.
• Justice delayed but finally delivered
  After 15 long years, Elouise Cobell's class action suit over missing Indian trust fund accounts has been settled.
• Going down the road feeling bad
  Life in the rural West is wonderful, unless you find yourself in need of serious medical care.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• A Beginners Guide To The Debt Ceiling Debate
  The Talmud says: "One should not extravagantly distribute more than one fifth of one's income to charity." Are the sages saying there�s a ceiling cap on giving charity? Yes they are, because if everyone were to give too much away there would be too many mouths to feed. If you have been gett ...
• Congress Gets Tough on Palestinian Authority; ...
  By Barry Rubin The Associated Press reports: “American aid to the Palestinians is in jeopardy over their ties to the terrorist group Hamas, unwillingness to restart negotiations with Israel and push for statehood at the United Nations over U.S. resistance, congressional Republicans and D ...
• Poor Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Is Too S ...
  To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, "Well, there she goes again!" Sheila Jackson Lee, the woman who, every day tries to show that Barbara Boxer is only the second dumbest person in Congress,� made another really dumb comment.� This time she says that the GOP is only pushing this debt ceiling debate ...
• New Obama Administration Achievement: Messing ...
  It�s truly amazing that literally every day the Obama administration finds a new way to mess up the Middle East. July 14-15, 2011, is a new record since it damaged Western interests and any hope for a stable future in three countries almost simultaneously! I noted a few days ago that the O ...
• When the US and Israel REALLY became Allies-Ja ...
  For the first twenty years of her existence, the United States was not Israel's staunchest ally, believe it or not, France was the Jewish state's biggest benefactor. True the US was the first country to recognize Israel after she declared independence in May 1948, but that was the stron ...

The Real Agenda

• Seguro Social Privado de Chile En Prosperidad
  Adaptación Luis R. Miranda The New American Como ejemplo silencioso de cómo privatizar la Seguridad Social funciona en el mundo real, el experimento chileno de 30 años ha tenido éxito más allá de las expectativas. En lugar de crear un enorme déficit para financiar el viejo sistema “PayGo” ...
• Chile’s Private Social Security Prospering
  by Bob Adelmann The New American As a quiet example of how privatizing Social Security works in the real world, Chile’s 30-year experiment is succeeding beyond expectations. Instead of running huge deficits to fund the old “PayGo” system, private savings now exceed50 percent of the country’s Gro ...
• NYC: The most Surveilled City in the World!
  Excuse? Testing New Technology Aimed At Reducing Traffic Congestion CBS July 18, 2011 What if you could fix a traffic jam with a push of a button? It might be just wishful thinking or it could become reality under a new high-tech traffic monitoring system unveiled by Mayor Michael Bloomberg — op ...
• Anonymous Hacks Monsanto
  by Fahmida Y Rashid EWeek July 18, 2011 Anonymous releases information stolen from Monsanto as the US Senate addresses cyber-security issues The hacking group Anonymous has struck again, this time releasing documents it said it stole from the network of giant biotechnology and agricultural seed ...
• Moody’s: No Debt Ceiling, Continue Charade
  The Credit Rating Agency founded by Berkshire Hathaway wants the fiscal charade to continue, but does not want limits. And who the heck gave this corporation the right to rate anything? The Bankers. By Walter Brandimarte Reuters July 18 Ratings agency Moody’s on Monday suggested the United State ...

Wind Watch

• Pennsylvania wind turbines deadly to bats, cos ...
  The butterfly effect suggests the flapping of a tiny insect’s wings in Africa can lead to a tornado in Kansas. Call this the bat effect: A bat killed by a wind turbine in Somerset can lead to higher tomato prices at the Wichita farmers market. Bats are something of a one-species stimulus program ...
• Vast wind energy proposal could kill endangere ...
  The Obama administration is evaluating a plan to allow a 200-mile corridor for wind energy development from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico that would allow for killing endangered whooping cranes. The government’s environmental review will consider a permit sought by 19 energy developers that would ...
• Pentagon: Nueces, Duval County wind farms coul ...
  CORPUS CHRISTI â A proposed wind farm in the Chapman Ranch area is one of 20 projects that could cause problems for the military, according to a nationwide review of renewable energy projects conducted by the Department of Defense. The finding, announced Thursday, could cause delays or threaten ...
• Wind farm cleared by state panel; Regulators o ...
  Construction on a wind farm slated for the Fletcher and Tenney mountain ridges in Groton is going forward after approval by state regulators. The state Site Evaluation Committee late last week rejected an appeal by Groton and Rumney residents to stop the project and approved the proposal submitt ...
• Consultant will begin study of options for mit ...
  Selectmen made no definitive decision regarding the future of the town�s two wind turbines last night, but will have the town�s consultant Weston & Sampson investigate a range of options that could mean taking down both machines and selling them to another community on one end of the spectrum to ...

Tippers News

• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
  Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher Away C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
• Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
  This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Debt Controversy Lacks Consensus Among Economists
  “The politicians grappling over how to pay the nationâs debts have been contributing to the heat of summer with back-and-forth charges that their opponents are disregarding the laws of economics. Such laws, unfortunately, do not exist. Economists agree that federal borrowing must be reduced, but ...
• Agreement Emerging on Debt Ceiling
  “A bipartisan effort in the Senate to allow President Obama to raise the federal debt ceiling in exchange for about $1.5 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years gained momentum Sunday, as leaders agreed they would have to act in the next two weeks to avert a potential default by the U.S. governm ...
• Neither Party Pleases Public in Debt Fight
  “Americans are unimpressed with their political leaders’ handling of the debt ceiling crisis, with a new CBS News poll showing a majority disapprove of all the involved parties’ conduct, but Republicans in Congress fare the worst, with just 21 percent backing their intransigent resistance to rai ...
• In Shadow of Death, Iraq and U.S. Tiptoe Aroun ...
  “The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is privately telling American officials that it wants their Army to stay here after this year. The Americans are privately telling their Iraqi counterparts that they want to stay. But under what conditions, and at what price to the Americans ...
• As White House Talks Falter, Senate Works on A ...
  “Late Thursday, McConnell told a radio interviewer that the new debt-reduction panel would “probably be part of the bill” and that it would likely be asked to issue its report by the end of the year. Given the high stakes, Reid and McConnell were moving quietly. Too much information, Reid said, ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Living with Disabilities in Uganda
  The plight of persons with disabilities in Uganda and other parts of Africa is exacerbated by the fact that PWD are discriminated against and not protected by the law.
• Women's Struggle in Sierra Leone
  The struggle for equal opportunities for women in all aspects of Sierra Leone's socio-economic life is as crucial for our country's future as it is for women.
• South Sudan: Safeguarding Independence
  The world's newest nation has reason to look positively as its future, but South Sudan must work hard to safeguard its hard-won independence.
• AIDS at 30: Lessons Learned
  For the last 30 years, the battle against AIDS is one that we have been both winning and losing on a global scale.
• Nigeria: Ten Unavoidable Issues
  Over the next four years, Nigeria's leaders have an opportunity to address a host of issues that have plagued the country both domestically and in terms of foreign policy.

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

• Marcy Wheeler, aka. Emptywheel, has a new home
  You can find Marcy’s new home here.  Her goodbye post from FDL is here.  Bmaz is going with her.  I have added their new home to my blogroll. If you haven’t read Marcy in the past, you should start, she’s able to dig down into stories and find what matters.  Bmaz’s legal analysis is also [...]
• So, compared to McCain, was Obama actually the ...
  I thought so at the time, but I’ve been wondering for a while.  As I’ve pointed out, frequently, Bush failed to slash Social Security.  Obama is probably going to do so soon.  I doubt McCain, any more than Bush, could have done so. Of course, on the negative side McCain might have gone to war ...
• Stirling Newberry and Ian Welsh on Virtually S ...
  You can listen live here. (Same link will probably work for listening after the fact, will update if not.)
• On Social Security Cuts
  February 9, 2009: Then we’re going to get entitlement “reform.” Since Obama is promising this to Blue Dogs, this isn’t going to be anything you’re going to like. January 4, 2010: So you’re far more likely to see Medicare and Social Security gutted, than you are to see the military budget cut in ...
• Deserve: the deadliest word
  I hate the word “deserve” because lord save us all from what we “deserve”, but lately I find it hard to remember that one good person is worth saving, or that most people are just weak, not evil.  The world will burn, in war, and famine, and revolution, and climate change and it will burn [...]

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Top Egyptologist Zahi Hawass fired
  Zahi Hawass, Egypt's antiquities minister, has been fired in a cabinet reshuffle. The move aims to appease critics of the current government, which has retained many officials who were part of the regime of former president president Hosni Mubarak. Hawass, a prominent archaeologist, was appoi ...
• Scaled-up study of soldiers points to doubled ...
  Cross-posted from Nature Medicine's news blog, Spoonful of Medicine. By Roxanne Khamsi. PARIS — A massive review of the medical records of nearly 300,000 US veterans lends weight to the notion that traumatic brain injury might contribute to the risk of cognitive impairment later in life. Neur ...
• Contested plagiarism charge on new Turkish gov ...
  German politicians found guilty of plagiarism have seen their careers stumble. First came the forced resignation in March of the German defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg - the University of Bayreuth withdrew his PhD thesis after identifying extensive plagiarism. Other German politician ...
• A barrage of ideas at TED, from the power of h ...
  Posted on behalf of Philip Campbell What did the 900 or so high achievers who paid £5000 to attend last week's TED Global conference in Edinburgh get for their money? Any TED conference is, in effect, a living magazine of emotional and intellectual positivity. It hits the attendees with a ...
• Dawn probe orbits asteroid Vesta
  The Dawn spacecraft has successully gone into orbit around Vesta (see right), a main-belt asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, according to NASA. You can read more about the mission in our recent news story.

new geography

• The Evolving Urban Form: Chicago
  Looks can be deceiving. No downtown area in the western world outside Manhattan is more visually impressive than Chicago. Both the historic Loop and the newer development north of the Chicago River, especially along North Michigan Avenue have some of the most iconic structures outside of eme ...
• Are Millennials the Solution to the Nation’s H ...
  During his Twitter-fed Town Hall, President Obama admitted that the housing market has proven one of the “most stubborn” pieces of the economic recovery puzzle to try and fix.  The President --- as well the Congress and the building industry --- should  consider a new path to a solution for ...
• A Most Undemocratic Recovery
  Unemployment over nine percent, the highest rate this far into a “recovery” in modern times, reflects only the surface of our problems. More troubling is that over six million American have been unemployed for more than six months, the largest number since the Census began tracking their n ...
• A Divided Vietnamese Community in France and I ...
  Several countries with the largest Vietnamese populations today – United States, Canada and Australia – did not have such communities until after the Vietnam War. France, the largest non-English speaking community in the Vietnamese diaspora with about 300,000 strong, illustrates a much more com ...
• Let's Face It, High Speed Rail Is Dead
  Advocates were ecstatic when President Obama had $8 billion for high speed rail put into the stimulus bill. His administration planned to make HSR one of the cornerstones of its infrastructure investment program. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood visited Europe to check out HSR there in ...

GM Watch

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

spiked

• Murdochphobia is not as radical as you think
  Whatever you think of Rupert Murdoch (I’m not a fan), you should be concerned that bashing him has become the only political game in town.
• ‘Of course I support a free press, but&# ...
  All-party support for regulating the media threatens to reverse the historic gains of the struggle for press freedom.
• My PAIN at being hacked by the tabloids
  A politician-cum-celeb says only a sharp-fanged regulator can stop the scuzzy press from invading voicemails.
• Lib-Con family policy: Maggie meets Mary Poppins
  The coalition’s family policy is an unholy marriage of Thatcher-style traditional moralism and New Labour-style therapeutic interventionism.
• Why is the government wrecking homes?
  The new effort to clamp down on ‘sham marriages’ is, in fact, a mean-spirited attack on free movement.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

• 18 Signs That Global Financial Markets Smell B ...
  Can you smell it?  There is blood in the water.  Global financial markets are in turmoil.  Banking stocks are getting slaughtered right now.  European bond yields are absolutely soaring.  Major corporations are announcing huge layoffs.  The entire global financial system appears ...
• Too Big To Fail?: 10 Banks Own 77 Percent Of A ...
  Back during the financial crisis of 2008, the American people were told that the largest banks in the United States were "too big to fail" and that was why it was necessary for the federal government to step in and bail them out.  The idea was that if several of our biggest bank ...
• If The U.S. Government Loses Its AAA Rating It ...
  For decades, the U.S. government has had a AAA rating.  On the scales used by the big three credit rating agencies, that is the highest credit rating that a government can get.  Moody's scale actually uses lettering that is a little different from the other two big agencies ("Aa ...
• 15 Examples That Show Many Americans Have Beco ...
  More Americans than ever are desperate for money and many of them will do just about anything to get it.  The crumbling U.S. economy has pushed millions of ordinary Americans to the brink of utter desperation.  When it comes time to choose between being able to survive or breaki ...
• Outcasts: Tonight Tens Of Thousands Of Formerl ...
  Economic despair is beginning to spread rapidly in America.  As you read this, there are millions of American families that are just barely hanging on by their fingernails.  For a growing number of Americans, it has become an all-out battle just to be able to afford to sleep und ...

Desertification

• Garden Up ! (Google / Seasonal Wisdom)
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.seasonalwisdom.com/2011/07/book-review-garden-up-vertical-gardening/ Book Review: Garden Up! (Vertical Gardening) by Teresa O’Connor on July 18, 2011 Whatâs the best way to maximize outdoor spaces, hide eyesores and create drama in your garden? ...
• Maximize your yard’s potential by growin ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://thedailynewsonline.com/lifestyles/article_e9e970ea-b0de-11e0-9e95-001cc4c03286.html Grow up! Maximize space with vertical gardening Associated Press Big on ideas but short on space? Maximize your yard’s potential by growing up â not out â with vert ...
• Substances in Dry Onion Skin Beneficial to Hea ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110714073348.htm ScienceDaily (July 14, 2011) â More than 500,000 tonnes of onion waste are thrown away in the European Union each year. However, scientists say this could have a use as food ingredients. The brown skin and … Continue reading →
• Iran to Hold 2nd National Confab on Combating ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://payvand.com/news/11/jul/Iran-Conference-on-Combating-Desertification.jpg www.desert-wetland.ir
• Kubuqi International Desert Forum (Google / Tu ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.tumenprogramme.org/data/upload/IMG_1426_Y0XuCd.jpg Events & News-GTI News-Kubuqi International Desert Forum to … The forum aimed to act as a platform to discuss the challenges and measures to combat desertification. Under the theme of âDesert-T ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

• 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 ...

libcom

• Hackney school teachers to strike.
  untitled.JPG Teachers at Cardinal Pole school in Hackney are set to strike this week over suspected victimisation of a union rep. Last week Hackney NUT announced that staff at ...
• Samsung workers in Mexico on hunger strike - S ...
  Huelga de hambre.jpg Four female workers, unfairly fired and victims of workplace abuse, have caged themselves and sewn their lips shut as they launch a hunger strike and one threatens to burn hersel ...
• Industrial Workers of the World Migrant Cleane ...
  cleaners-strike--fnv.jpg A participant's report on Friday's strike and picket by cleaners at Guildhall (City of London), in protest at late and unpaid salaries going back months. ...
• Southampton: Britain's Wisconsin?
  southampton strike.jpg Public sector workers in Southampton are reaching the end of a week of strike action, organised in response to swingeing cuts and job losses being implemented by the Conservati ...
• Brisbane Food Not Bombs Kitchen vs Talisman Sa ...
  Press statement from Brisbane Food Not Bombs, Australia in resistance to the Talisman Sabre War Games. Join us at the Food not Bombs kitchen, Brisbane Square, Brisbane CBD, 1pm on Saturday the 16th of July- to voice our opposition to ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• Murd – Och = Mur – Der = Genocide!
  Murdoch and Vaccines: Exposure of Crimes Reveals a Much Larger Story By William Newton “… the evidence of sleazy and scandalous behavior of the Murdoch papers has expanded geometrically.” Michael Collins Rupert Murdoch’s news empire faces intense media and legal scrutiny.  Current revelations fo ...
• 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 ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...
  CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
• Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
  Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
• Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
  Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.
• Don Tapscott
  Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
• Roberta Jamieson
  Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Myanmar May Be Closer to Becoming Burma Again ...
  The time may be at hand when Myanmar's ethnic minorities can overwhelm the Myanmar army.
• Is China's String of Pearls Real?
  China is modernizing its navy, but is it really about to build a network of overseas bases?
• Afghanistan Bleeding U.S. Financially Even Mor ...
  The United States is spending even more of its GDP on Afghanistan than did the Soviet Union.
• Obsolete Pentagon Programs Among Beneficiaries ...
  Increase in defense spending a symptom, in part, of bad economy.
• Will Iraqi Commandos Trained by U.S. Be Turned ...
  The U.S.-trained Iraqi commando corps -- arguably one of the Iraq War's few success stories -- may be misused or dissolved when the U.S. leaves.

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• Herman Cain to Iran: 'If you mess with Israel ...
  Herman Cain loves deep dish pizza, but he may love Israel more. How do I know? I'm pretty sure he wouldn't go to war with a man who stole a  pepperoni slice; but if he were president and if a country, even one with a huge army like Iran's, caused problems with an ally like Israel, there'd be tr ...
• پاسخ مرتضوی به خانواده شهدای کهریزک: دادگاه به ...
  متهم ردیف اول پرونده جنایات کهریزک، به اظهارات اولیای دم جوانانی که در بازداشتگاه کهریزک کشته شده‌اند، واکنش نشان داد و با بی‌شرمی تمام، ادعا کرد که مطالب رسانه‌ها علیه او و دو قاضی دیگری که در این پرونده متهم هستند، “تماماً خلاف واقع و ساخته و پرداخته افرادی است که در دوران تصدی قضات مورد اشاره ...
• Pakistan, Iran become 'natural allies'
  The participation by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in the two-day conference on terrorism held at Tehran on June 25 was invested with political symbolism as a mark of displeasure towards the United States. But Zardari's return to Tehran within three weeks on a second visit on Saturday unmi ...
• Iran's "Strongest Man" Killed
  Rouhollah Dadashi, Iranian Powerlifter, Bodybuilder and Strongman, was attacked by and stabbed to death Saturday night in the city of Karaj west of Tehran. Dadashi participated five times in Iran's Strongest Man competition, and he reached the final of all of them. He earned the champion titl ...
• A Craze for Pooches in Iran Dogs the Morality ...
  Iranians have turned to the Internet to organize antigovernment protests. Now they're flocking online to defy another Islamic Republic edict: buying and selling dogs. Pooch lovers in Iran are clicking on popular websites like Woof Woof Iran Digital Pets and Persianpet to pick their favorite c ...

Most Revolutionary Act

• Reinventing Rank and File Unionism
  Spanish general strike Sept 2010 In my view, the failure of the Obama administration and Congress to prevent Republican states from stripping workers of all union protections – as well as their threats to repeal Medicare, Medicaid and Social – leave American workers no choice but to follow the e ...
• The Destruction of American Unions
  The effect of the 1947 Taft Hartley Act on union membership was almost immediate. In 1946 the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) had 6.3 million members. By 1954, when it merged with the AFL, this number was 4.6 million. This steady drop continued. In 1954 34.7% of American workers bel ...
• Selling Books – Excerpt from Interview
  “Selling Books” recently did a fantastic interview about my young adult novel The Battle for Tomorrow: a Fable Tell us something about yourself: I’m a 63 year old, recently retired child and adolescent psychiatrist, single mother and activist, who emigrated to New Zealand 8 ½ years ago after ...
• How Taft Hartley Restricts Labor Rights
  Sit down strike The US union movement was built during the last serious recession (the Great Depression, which started in 1929). Then, as now, employers took advantage of the economic downturn to cut wages, pile on work and force employees to work under sweatshop conditions. In the 1930s organiz ...
• The Dread U-Word
  Like the F-word, the U-word is largely taboo in polite society, especially among younger Americans. According to a recent survey 41% of Americans “disapprove” of unions % (see http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/09/why-has-union-membership-declined.html). Generation X,Y and Z A ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• Meet the "Pea Party"
  On Feb. 19, 2009, during the program "Squawk Box," CNBC's Rick Santelli gave the newly formed Tea Party movement its first major publicity, with an epic on-air rant: "We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July. All you capitalists that want to show up to Lake Michigan, I'm gonna sta ...
• Arianna Huffington v. Frederick Douglass
  The White House released video of a formerly private meeting President Obama held with a group of college students in Boston last March, where he discussed the importance of political compromise. Some of the students were active in college Democrats and Republicans groups, others were indepen ...
• The GOP's perverse debt default incentive
  The GOP leadership's current debt ceiling strategy seems to go something like this: For the rest of this week, they'll give their party's true believers the run of the House, letting them pass ideologically pure budget-related legislation that will instantly die in the Democratic-controlled S ...
• Yet more News Corp. scandal updates
  So here's what's new since I last wrote about News Corp., a couple of hours ago:
• Conservative activists confronted Cain over an ...
  Herman Cain's latest anti-Muslim position -- his stated belief that Americans have a right to ban the building of mosque in their communities -- hasn't provoked a response from the rest of the Republican presidential field.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Old scourges resurface
  Syphilis and gonorrhea, two diseases thought to have been almost eradicated, have returned because people are ignoring safe sex methods.
• Raining on Ford’s parade
  Mayor Rob Ford finds himself talking about tax hikes, of up to 3 per cent, as high-priced consultants fail to find much "gravy."
• Clean up traffic chaos at Island airport
  Despite opposition to the Island airport, city council has approved building a pedestrian tunnel to the terminal.
• System failed mentally ill teen
  Inquest will probe death of Gleb Alfyorov, who needed a mental health assessment but was taken to jail.
• Bike lanes: Separated for safety
  Cyclists should focus on making separated bike lanes happen quickly instead of fighting lost battles on Jarvis St.

Energy Collective

• Mayor Bloomberg Draws The Line Against Closing ...
  Governor Andrew Cuomo won't give up on his obsessive quest
• Recovering Appalachia: A Transition From Coal ...
  I had such a great response to my recent commentary that I thought it would be worth the time to take an in depth look at the implications of the massive undertaking of transitioning Kentucky to solar.�
• The U.S. Military Targets Fossil Fuel Addiction
  The U.S. military uses more energy than any single organization in the world, at a cost of $15 billion a year for operations across the globe, with almost all those dollars going to fuel costs. But that dependence has a human cost. More than 3,000 U.S. soldiers or contractors have been killed or ...
• Renewable Energy Keeps Growing: Rio Earth Summ ...
  Several new reports released over the past few days show that renewable energy keeps growing, with more countries implementing policies or incentives to spur renewable energy deployment.� The studies found that renewable energy accounted for $211 billion in new investments in 2010 � an increase ...
• Natural Gas Shift Requires $205 Billion In New ...
  Bill Loveless of Platts Energy Week recently interviewed Don Santa, President and CEO of INGAA (Interstate Natural Gas Association of America), about a study that his organization commission from ICF International. According to the study, the shifts in natural gas supply areas combined with shif ...

EU Times

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

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• CATALOGUE by TheFind for Facebook Too! Browse ...
  Today we are announcing the launch of our CATALOGUE shopping app on Facebook . The app, which re-imagines the catalog shopping experience for iPad and Android tablets, has now been expanded to the Facebook platform with the vision of enhancing online shopping via the social sharing of catalogs ...
• Where to watch the Murdoch testimony live online
  Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch will be testifying in front of the UK parliamentâs media select committee today, answering questions about the phone hacking scandal that led to the closure of Murdochâs News of the World newspaper . Members of parliament will also grill Rebekah Brooks, ...
• One-Stop China + Baidu = A music platform laun ...
  Man, when I said that the record labels are signing with all of these music streaming services, I didnât think I would see this news come through the wire. It irks me, though, that they do sign up in all of these places, but still have no fathoming clue about how to monetize it without making t ...
• You want a detailed debt reduction plan? Tom C ...
  Senator Coburn tellin' it like it is; can you dig it? Which he revealed today .  A 9 Trillion dollar one; which, you know, is some serious money even in Washington DC… From the Miami Herald : One of the Senate’s staunchest budget-cutters unveiled Monday a massive plan to cut the nation’s defic ...
• Rupert Murdoch: Let the media mogul off the ho ...
  Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul at the center of News Corp.'s hacking scandal, has been the topic of several commentaries in recent days, including two editorials that distinguish the difference between the British and American press and questions about whether Congress should "Americanize" thi ...

Groklaw

• Apple Patents Portrait-Landscape Flipping: the ...
  Here's some prior art from June 2001. In that period, at Compaq/HP's Cambridge Research Laboratory, we had ported Linux to the iPAQ handheld (with touch screen & expansion capability). Colleagues of mine, including Jamey Hicks, Andy Christian, Frank Bomba, Ben Curis had built an expansion pack ...
• How Murdoch can satisfy Wall Street
  But how should the company go forward from here? "The conventional wisdom in a reputational crisis that threatens an organization or brand is to be contrite, be truthful and be swift," observed James O'Rourke, a management professor at the University of Notre Dame. "One further consideration th ...
• How Linux saved my computer from Windows Update
  If it wasn't for Linux, a Windows Update crash would have forced me to format my drive and reinstall everything. ... At this point I took to twitter and sbisson suggested I try using Linux to tunnel through to the problematic driver and delete it. I used an old computer to burn a copy of Ubuntu ...
• Murdoch: The dog that did not bark
  The evidence seems very strong that everyone of importance in the UK was under surveillance by News International, with message interception and document extraction bestowed on prime ministers and princes alike. This happened for many years, and was as open a secret as could be. For want of a b ...
• Bilski's growing up, and smacking down some ba ...
  A new study of the first full year of decisions applying Bilski to software confirms that the direction of the case law is toward finding software is not patentable subject matter. The study [PDF] by Robert Greene Sterne and Michelle K. Holoubek is titled The Practical Side of §101 : One year p ...

WideShut

• Sun Newspaper Picks Up On Tony Farrell Story
  Former police intelligence analyst victim of subtle mainstream media hit-piece.
• Al Qaeda Using Old Friends At CIA In Facebook ...
  Al Qaeda are gonna get you on Facebook! But who founded Facebook, and who founded Al Qaeda?
• July 12, 2011, WideShut Webcast
  Recent 7/7 developments, Mandelson's meeting with Rothschild, and the phone hacking scandal. All on this week's WideShut Webcast.
• Former Police Intelligence Analyst Sacked For ...
  A Police Intelligence Analyst turns in threat assessment claiming the New World Order is the main terror threat and gets fired.
• Mandelson Meets With Rothschild Again
  Unelected life peer Lord Mandelson, meets with Nat Rothschild and mining magnates in Porto Montenegro.

Politics in the Zeros

• Latest on phone hacking and Murdoch
  Rumors are that Rupert Murdock may be replaced at News Corp CEO. Maybe. But will he go gently? And if he’s still Chairman of the Baord and his CEO replacement is a long-time aide, then what has changed? Not much that I can see. Interestingly, Rupert Murdoch has been doing rather badly during tes ...
• CEOs claim California is worst state for business
  California ranked dead last in a poll of 556 CEOs asking which state is the best place to do business. While CEOs are certainly not an unbiased lot, they also have considerable say in where to open new facilities. And it appears they would rather be hung upside down than do business in Californi ...
• Google+. Google gets social networking right t ...
  Google had two abortive attempts at social networking, Buzz and Wave. Both got a bit of buzz then disappeared beneath the waves. Google+ is different. It’s fun to use, powerful, has features Twitter and Facebook don’t, and perhaps most importantly, shows no sign of slowing down a few weeks after ...
• Another top police official resigns in Murdoch ...
  Mr. Yates is a high profile officer who had been involved in earlier inconclusive police investigations of the scandal.
• Why hitting debt limit may mean Social Securit ...
  The money in the Social Security accounts are just bookkeeping entries. The government long ago “restructured” Social Security, taking the accumulated and current savings and spending it on the usual guns-and-butter, leaving the Social Security Trust (and apparently most inside-the-beltway types ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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

Just World News

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

frogblog

• The Libyan mess
  In March the Greens came out in opposition to the NATO air operations over Libya. We said they would probably prolong Gaddafi’s Arab League stay in power by allowing the dictator to present himself as a nationalist, fighting foreign intervention. Four months later we’ve been proved right.   The ...
• General debate, July 17, 2011
• Warming up Re-Orientation
  I’m on the road touring New Zealand’s universities for Re-Orientation Week talking to students about the issues facing them. I’m also investigating cold flats in various towns and hosting “flat warming parties” to talk about my warm healthy rental campaign. I love getting out and about talking t ...
• 60,000 people are not wrong about cuts to earl ...
  The 60,000 strong early childhood education (ECE) petition presented to Parliament this week represents a heartfelt message to the Government to invest in the best for our youngest citizens.
• The Lignite Mirror Maze
  If the Ministry of Economic development can join the Coal Association to lobby the Government, should the Environment Ministry not join the Wind Association to do the same?

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Wall Street Starts Getting Nervous About the T ...
  From the Wall Street Journal: Worries about government debt rocked capital markets on both sides of the Atlantic Monday, as fears that the Greek crisis will spread combined with concerns at the standoff over the U.S. debt ceiling....Adding to the market woes were indications that, after m ...
• Michele Bachmann's Headaches
  The Daily Caller reports that Michele Bachmann frequently suffers from severe migraine headaches: The Minnesota Republican frequently suffers from stress-induced medical episodes that she has characterized as severe headaches. These episodes, say witnesses, occur once a week on average an ...
• No, We Will Not Default the Debt on August 4
  All three credit rating agencies have now announced that they'll downgrade the United States if it fails to pass a debt limit increase and then defaults on its bond payments. Fitch is the latest: The Fitch credit rating agency has warned that it could downgrade the nation's credit rating ...
• Quote of the Day: The WSJ Editorial Page Sinks ...
  From Felix Salmon, on a Wall Street Journal editorial over the weekend that lashed out at Rupert Murdoch's critics: That editorial has achieved the remarkable feat of making the WSJ editorial page even less respected than it was before. I'm not sure I've ever read an editorial quite so ...
• Liberalism and its Discontents
  Back in the 90s, if you'd asked me what my political persuasion was, I probably would have said I was sort of a neoliberal (in the American, Charlie Peters-ish sense of the word). My political leanings are liberal, but my temperament is technocratic and market oriented, and that made me a pr ...

Insanity Report

• 2012 Idiot Watch: Herman Cain Doesn’t Like Mu ...
  Herman Cain said Sunday that Americans should be able to ban Muslims from building mosques in their communities. “Our Constitution guarantees the separation of church and state,” Cain said in an interview with Chris Wallace on âFox News Sunday.â “Islam combines church and state. They’re using th ...
• IC 258: The Joy of Being a Redneck
  Topics: Wearing heels to a wine festival When classless people come to a classy event Kriss & Kev discover an amazing show on Rednecks and guns Netflix raises its rates A dumb woman tries to kill a woman who “looked” like Casey Anthony Woman dies from having sex with dog…that she’s allergic to T ...
• So This Dumb Bitch……
  Some people are so stupid I swear they shouldn’t be allowed to breathe… CHOUTEAU, Oklahoma — An Oklahoma woman believes outrage over the Florida murder case almost cost her her life. The 26-year-old says a crazed woman tried to kill her because the woman thought she was Casey Anthony. It happen ...
• They’re Letting a Pedophile Do What?
  From the “We Need More Common Sense In Our Laws” Department: TACOMA, Wash. — A strange quirk in the law is allowing an accused child rapist to watch child pornography inside the Pierce County Jail. Marc Gilbert is accused of sexually assaulting young boys and videotaping the abuse. Under the law ...
• FacePalm of the Week: She Died From What?
  So the first FacePalm of the Week in a long time and I had to find something that really made me put my head in my hands in shame.  Well, thanks to H2oKev and what he tweeted yesterday, I have just the right story: A MAN HAS appeared before Limerick District Court charged with ordering [...]

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• HIV therapies provide near normal lifespan in ...
  A landmark study by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) shows that patients in Africa receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) for HIV can expect to live a near normal lifespan. read more
• Penn researchers find neural signature of 'men ...
  Almost everyone has experienced one memory triggering another, but explanations for that phenomenon have proved elusive. Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have provided the first neurobiological evidence that memories formed in the same context become linked, the foundation of the theo ...
• Hydrogen may be key to growth of high-quality ...
  A new approach to growing graphene greatly reduces problems that have plagued researchers in the past and clears a path to the crystalline form of graphite's use in sophisticated electronic devices of tomorrow. read more
• UCLA study shows bacteria use Batman-like grap ...
  Bacteria use various appendages to move across surfaces prior to forming multicellular bacterial biofilms. Some species display a particularly jerky form of movement known as "twitching" motility, which is made possible by hairlike structures on their surface called type IV pili, or TFP. read more
• USC research: Cancer cells and stem cells shar ...
  Oncogenes are generally thought to be genes that, when mutated, change healthy cells into cancerous tumor cells. Scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have proven that those genes also can change normal cells into stem-like cells, paving the way ...

unEarthed

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

Brave New Climate

• For climate’s sake, nuclear power is not an ‘o ...
  [This is an abridged amalgam of writings by me on nuclear power and climate change that I've published on BNC and elsewhere over the last two years. It has been updated with some commentary on recent events - the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, Germany's announced withdrawal from nuclear energy, and s ...
• Climate change update by the numbers
  Here are some figures to illustrate the latest global data on global warming. Data are from NCDC and GISS. First, a 12-month running mean of global surface temperature anomalies since 1980 (i.e. for each month, an average is taken of the previous 12-month period – ‘calendar year’ is irrelevant): ...
• Why pro-nuclear environmentalism has failed wh ...
  With George Monbiot on the debating warpath against Greenpeace and in support of nuclear power as a serious mechanism for tackling climate change, and Mark Lynas’ new book on planetary boundaries and techno-fixes, “The God Species“, now out (despite some weird problems on the launch day), it r ...
• Carbon tax in Australia in 2011
  Australia is set to introduce a carbon tax (details to be released on Sunday 10 July 2011). This post is the place to discuss this policy — the good and the bad. A description, from the Australian Parliamentary Library: A carbon tax is a tax on energy sources which emit carbon dioxide. It is a [...]
• Lacklustre results from the Colorado Integrate ...
  A common lament of those analysts wishing to get to grips with the real-world performance of solar thermal power plants has been, well… an absence of data. Trainer noted, in ‘Solar Thermal Questions‘: It would be great to get some actual data on their year round performance. I have found it fien ...

Indigenist Opinion

• 4 Republican congresspeople ‘pledge’ to hold W ...
  4 Republican congresspeople ‘pledge’ to hold West Bank: [mondoweiss.net] "According to a rightwing Israeli news site, settler lobbyist David Ha'Ivri met with four Republican congresspeople and got them to 'pledge' to support settlements in the West Bank (language is vague). The congresspeople in ...
• Murdoch scandal: hypocritical warmongers expos ...
  Murdoch scandal: hypocritical warmongers exposed | Green Left Weekly: "By Tony Iltis Murdoch-owned tabloid gloating over the sinking of Argentine ship ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands War in 1982. More than 300 lives were lost in the attack. The scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch and his ...
• 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• Financial Terrorism Analysis: How Global Banke ...
  By Andrew Gavin Marshall Greece is a microcosm of the global economy: mired in excessive debt, economically ruined, increasingly politically repressive and socially explosive. What is happening in Greece is happening in the US - the implementation of a systematic program of 'social genocide' in ...
• Obama Is A Bankster Puppet “Who Brought ...
  By Michael Hudson Only a Democrat posing as a left-winger could support the anti-labor, anti-wage, pro-Wall Street policies that his advisors have been pressing. The economy’s going under because Wall Street and investors realize that it’s a done deal. That Mr. Obama is going to succeed in pushi ...
• The Great Game: Robbing the US Population to E ...
  By Charles Hugh Smith Here's the Great Game: mask the nation's rising wealth inequality with Central State spending that keeps the debt-serfs passive – all funded by debt, of course. Earned incomes for the bottom 95% are falling and wealth is accumulating in the top 1%. [Read More]
• Obama and Congress to Complete Their Financial ...
  By Steve Lendman It's a done deal to slash Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other social spending while leaving outsized military budgets and generous handouts to corporate favorites in place. Only revolutionary change and routing of bipartisan criminals can stop them. It's high time pu ...
• More Wall Street Bailouts to Come – Why ...
  By Washington's Blog The biggest banks are insolvent. By failing to break up them up, the government will keep taking emergency measures to try to cover up their insolvency - further draining the life blood out of the real economy. [Read More]

+972

• All is calm on the western front
  You got to love IDF spokesperson (my bold): @IDFSpokesperson #Israel Navy calmly boarded #dignite, which illegally attempted to break lawfully imposed naval blockade on #Gaza
• Rightist blog’s ridiculous scoop: Palest ...
  US-based blog Elder of Ziyon has posted a somewhat Orwellian piece: The latest installment in the “there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza” Hasbara-project actually celebrates the fact that a new Gaza supermarket actually sells Israeli goods. ⦠if [passengers of the flotilla] do visit Metro [ ...
• After anti-democratic legislation, Supreme Cou ...
  Neve Gordon argues that the 'boycott bill' is a turning point in the erosion of Israeli democracy, and part of the Knesset's greater strategy in which the next target is the Supreme Court.
• New Hasbara video reveals inner world of deput ...
  So this is where deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon exists: In a vast white space populated by magically appearing and reappearing figments of his imagination. Why am I not surprised. I wonder if the comment about Israel not trying to occupy the Kingdom of Jordan  being a “painful compromise” ...
• Why did so few Palestinians march for statehoo ...
  Palestinian belief in the two-state solution is dropping rapidly, and Israelis who aren’t yet willing to come out should be warned: It is now, or never. In an effort to save the two states solution, thousands of Israelis and Palestinians marched from Jaffa gate to the Sheikh Jarrah neig ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Governor General awards 2011 Antarctic Medal
  Leading Antarctic Marine Biologist, Dr Stephen Nicol, and a Master of Australia's Antarctic research and resupply vessel, Captain Murray Doyle, have been awarded the 2011 Antarctic Medal.
• $100 million for stormwater harvesting and re ...
  Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Don Farrell, today announced the opening of a third stormwater grants round to ease pressure on drinking water supplies and improve the quality of our urban waterways.
• $118 million for Coorong and Lower Lakes reco ...
  The Gillard Government will provide an additional $118 million to ensure a healthy and sustainable future for South Australia's Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth region.
• Nominations open for Prime Minister's Water W ...
  Commercial and industrial companies that can demonstrate recent water savings are encouraged to nominate for the 2011 Prime Minister's Water Wise Award.
• Gillard Government delivers first sustainable ...
  The Gillard Government today released the nation's first ever dedicated sustainable population strategy which sets out the framework, backed by new funding for a sustainable Australia.

Matt Weidner Blog

• IT IS A CRIME! (WITH NO PUNISHMENT, NO CONSEQU ...
  From Today’s AP story: Mortgage industry employees are still signing documents they haven’t read and using fake signatures more than eight months after big banks and mortgage companies promised to stop the illegal practices that led to a nationwide halt of home foreclosures. It is a federal crim ...
• Reuters- RoboSigning All Over Again…and ...
  Good lawyers and judges all over this county recognized the dangers if we just sat back and let the banks continue with the same sloppy and improper practices that got us in this mess in the first place.  The pushback was the first fight against Robo Signing. Despite all the attention, keep in m ...
• Lawsuit Alleges Banks Are Playing Dirty Pool, ...
  Trust me, I speak from direct and first hand experience. I’m muzzled right now, but if I get pushed much further they’re going to leave me in a position of nothing left to lose…then they had better really watch out. Considering the circumstances, I’ve been very, very restrained thus far while st ...
• The Florida Bar Speaks- Lawyers Must Disclose ...
  You really must read the entire release, and especially the statements from the member of the Bar that reviewed the Opinion…..the implications here are quite huge…. FLORIDA BAR Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• The Devastating Jobs Picture And Why We’ ...
  In some ways, it was better when talk of catastrophe and Financial Armageddon was isolated to nutjobs out there on the internet.  But details on Financial Armageddon are now trickling out into mainstream media sources. Unfortunately, too many Americans just don’t get it.  The corporate titans ...

abelard - news

• is there any madness humans won't try? | fun n ...
  Being really 'close up and personal' with some of nature.
• more on news international | politics uk news ...
  The "collective desire for absolute transparency" has led toseeing some warts that have turned to cancer.
• the screws is mostly a big non-'story' - we're ...
  Things are as they are because we have yet to evolve to a better state. It isn't a plot. It certainly isn't exciting, let alone interesting.
• at last, a reporter concentrates on the real c ...
  Murdoch's irrrelevant. This is what is really relevant.
• the Left fights for a biased media | politics ...
  Objective analysis of why US and UK broadcast media is mostly biased, left-wing propoganda. And why Sky puts out pap in the UK.

The Parallel Parliament

• Citizenship – “Dangerous Citizens& ...
  You likely never heard of Edward Bernays, but his ideas have shaped your life in more ways than you can imagine. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays lived in the U.S., attempting to work out a living prior to World War One. He achieved fame by creating an overnight sensation. Approached by toba ...
• Citizenship – The Democratic Death Gene
  Almost 50 years ago, economic guru Milton Friedman made an observation that was destined to have dramatic results: “Every act of government intervention limits the area of individual freedom directly and threatens the preservation of freedom indirectly.” Thus began the great campaign to undermin ...
• Citizenship – “Wandering Between T ...
  I’m a citizen attempting to discover methods and models of empowerment within my community. Unlike many, I have a great respect for the place of politics in the shaping of the national character and its ability for change through effective legislation and economic innovation. I believe the true ...
• Citizenship – “Dumb and Dumber”
  I don’t think I ever learned so much as the almost five years I served in Parliament. It was like having a university come to you and teach some of the most important research, data and social trends in a manner purposefully dedicated to assist in passing better legislation. So much of it has st ...
• Citizenship – “If Only I’d B ...
  I was joking to a neighbour last week that getting out of politics is a lot harder than getting in … well, sort of. Part of it’s true though. There are a lot of details to transition through as you move back to private life and one of the more difficult aspects is what to [...]

Vaccine Awakening

• What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
• Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
  by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
• In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
• Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
  UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
• Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...

2020 Science

• Is nanotechnology suffering from “silent rave” ...
  I couldn’t resist finishing the August in the Archives series with this piece on “silent rave” syndrome, which I am sad to say still seems to inflict the emerging technologies community! Originally posted October 5 2008 The silent rave might seem a rather bizarre social phenomenon; a group of st ...
• Rethinking nanotechnology – responding to a re ...
  Back in July, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) posted a Request For Information in the Federal Register for input to the next NNI strategic plan – to be published later this year.  The closing date for comments was a couple of weeks ago now.  I got mine in in the nick of time.  ...
• What do people think about synthetic biology?
  The fifth Hart survey of what American adults think about emerging technologies like nanotechnology and synthetic biology was released today by my former colleagues at the Woodrow Wilson Center – the first since I left the group earlier this year. Each summer for the past five years, the Wilson ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Well I guess it had to happen one day – after hanging out in QUACs (QUasi Academic Concerns) for more years than I care to remember, I am finally a bona fide academic!  Last week I shed my visiting professor status at the University of Michigan and took up the mantles of Professor of Environmen ...
• Could precisely engineered nanoparticles provi ...
  This is an extremely quick and dirty blog post, as I really need to be somewhere else.  But while traveling to the World Economic Forum meeting in China today, I came across a new paper that piques my interest. The paper is by David Keith at the University of Calgary (published in the Proceeding ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

• WRL Organizers Criss-cross the Country
  The following are several brief reports from organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa on their travels across the country from Chicago to New Mexico, and Pittsburgh to Detroit. On May 31st, field organizer Ali Issa made a trip to Chicago where he took part in a joint stra ...
• No Surprises from the War-Makers!
  Well, Obama made it clear on Wednesday. His war in Afghanistan will go on through 2014 and probably far beyond. While some may have hoped for a shift in his approach, many of us didn’t expect much, and we certainly didn’t get much. The change in Afghanistan that he spoke about, meant to be heard ...
• In Afghanistan Speech, Obama Offers Token Troo ...
  President Obama passed up an opportunity to recognize our democracy and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people. June 22, 2011 President Obama’s speech tonight violated one of his most important campaign promises: to “end the mind-set that leads to war.” To the contrary, hi ...
• Money for Our Communities, Not for War!
  Take Action! It’s very encouraging that the US Conference of Mayors just passed a strong resolution initiated by CODEPINK for bringing our “war dollars home” (read press release or NY Times article on this). Unfortunately, later this week the House of Representatives is poised to pass the Defens ...
• Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...
  “I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]

Center for a Livable Future

• Carnivores and Climate Change
  You know what you ate this week—but do you know how it will affect climate change and the planet? As of today, you can use the Environmental Working Group (EWG)’s newly launched website to get information on food carbon footprints.
• Hen Party: Historic Agreement to Promote Stand ...
  United Egg Producers (UEP) has partnered with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), agreeing to work together toward legislation of national standards to be used in egg production.
• TIME Magazine: Spotlight on IFAP and “Conceale ...
  When looked at through the lens of public health, the abuse that we see in the Mercy for Animals video constitutes not only cruelty to animals, but cruelty to humans as well, including the dehumanizing influence on workers forced to labor under conditions that ultimately breed contempt for the a ...
• Focus on Food Day: The Consequences of Meat
  Earlier this week, CLF’s Robert S. Lawrence, MD, and Keeve Nachman, PhD, kicked off the Center for a Livable Future’s countdown to Food Day with a webinar, “Industrial food animal production and the high-meat American diet: health and environmental consequences.” (Audio; slides). October 24, 20 ...
• Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grow ...
  June 9-12, Amanda Behrens and I journeyed to Missoula, Montana for the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). The conference, entitled Food ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

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

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 19, ...
  ===== NATO’s Libya War: Attack Helicopters, Bombers, Predator And Reaper Drones U.S. Marines Lead War Games In Georgia New NATO Commander Faces Riskiest Situation In 10-Year Afghan War France, Germany, Poland Push EU Military Headquarters In Brussels Combat Forces’ Effectiveness: NATO Joins EU D ...
• Gustave Flaubert and George Sand: Monstrous co ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Gustave Flaubert and George Sand Correspondence Translated by A.L. McKensie ***** To George Sand Wednesday evening 1870 What has become of you, dear master, of you and yours? As for me, I am disheartened, distressed by the folly of my c ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 18, ...
  ==== Libyan War: 15,540 NATO Air Missions, 5,858 Strike Sorties West’s “Political Solution” Is No Solution For Libya Neighboring Niger Fears Somalia-Like Danger In Libya U.S. Recognizes Its Future Stooges In A Divided Libya Three NATO Soldiers Killed In Eastern Afghanistan Ice Wars: Huge Oil, Mi ...
• Stephen Spender: Ultima Ratio Regnum
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Stephen Spender Ultima Ratio Regnum (1939) The guns spell money’s ultimate reason In letters of lead on the spring hillside. But the boy lying dead under the olive trees Was too young and too silly To have been notable to their importan ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: June 17, ...
  ==== Over 20 Explosions As NATO Bombers Attack Tripoli Suburb Fight For Libyan Oil Continues Libya’s “Freedom Fighters” Engage In Pillage British, South African Heads Of States Set To Clash On Libya Georgia’s Saakashvili Attends Otto Von Habsburg’s Funeral AFRICOM Is In Place, The Recolonization ...

Before It's News

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

Intel Hub

• Dangerous Levels Of Radiation Recorded In Cana ...
  The Intel Hub By Alex Thomas July 19, 2011 Multiple videos have been released showing high levels of radiation in Canada as the corporate media continues to cover up the real dangers posed by the  Fukushima nuclear disaster. The tests were taken in multiple places in Canada including Lake Louise ...
• Death Loving Media Attacks Children
  YouTube July 19, 2011 The Ultra Powerful want the Planet all to themselves,so they brainwash the public to think it is cool to roll over and die. Well I see you and I will not bend over and take it Control freak scum. If people are so bad let’s start with you, stop having 5 [...]
• Debt Ceiling Psy Op: Broken Promises Broken Dreams
  By MN Gordon Economic Prism July 19, 2011 Total Debt Saturation White House and Congressional efforts to reach a Grand Bargain are merely a distraction.  The basis for such a bargain – reduce spending so the debt limit can be raised – is fraud and folderol.  Nothing that we’ve seen suggests the ...
• Mass Psychosis In The US
  AlJazeera By James Ridgeway July 18, 2011 How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs. Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics ...
• Small Arkansas Town Wants To Ban Free Speech A ...
  The Intel Hub By Alex Thomas July 18, 2011 A small Arkansas town of 850 is attempting to ban groups from meeting to talk about the city without first getting permission from the city itself. In a move reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the Gould, Arkansas City Council has moved to ban all groups from ...

FRS

• Haiku for Pelican Bay‏
  Pelican Bay Haiku Notes on Torture & Survival by devorah major six feet by ten feet wider than a lead coffin no natural light sometimes only darkness a punishment for surviving so many shades of black or weeks of  light bulb days have no rhythm but howls torture knows no clocks twenty three hour ...
• California inmates on third week of hunger str ...
   Julie Small | KPCC After nearly three weeks, more than 300 California inmates are still refusing to eat in what’s become a long-running protest against conditions in prison isolation units. Varying accounts show the number of hunger strikers is dropping. But those still part of the protest face ...
• SF police kill teen, Kenneth Harding, as he ra ...
  [Since this police murder, the SFPD has expended massive efforts to make claims of "evidence"--which may have been planted--that the victim was a gunman and the aggressor, and further, that the victim was a criminal, a "bad person," who deserves no consideration or sympathy.  As further reports ...
• Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers Reject Proposal: T ...
  Hungerstrike News July 17, 2011 No. 1, Day Seventeen Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Friday, July 15 – This afternoon leaders of the Pelican Bay hunger strike unanimously rejected a proposal from the CDCR to end the strike. In response to the prisonersâ five, straightforward demands, ...
• Egypt: Islamists, Which Side Are You On?
  from MR Zine (http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/hamalawy150711.html) by Hossam el-HamalawyThe Islamist forces, without exception, are now against the sit-ins in Tahrir, Suez, Alexandria, and elsewhere in the country.  And I mean here the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafis, Gamaa Islamiya, and even ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

• Harry Potter is the devil
  If you think certain folks have given up decrying the wizardry of the mega-hit books/movie/cottage industry that is Harry Potter, think again. And thanks, Right Wing Watch, for the link.
• Diamonds (and millionaires) are a girl's best ...
  A new course offered in China teaches women how to snag a rich man. Because why should the U.S. be alone in striving? (And I hadn't watched this clip in years. Look! Women as chandeliers!)
• Today's guest blogger: Diane Coffey
  Diane Coffey is a soon-to-be-married native of Hebron, with big plans for the rest of her life. Although today I’m working in Princeton University’s storied Notestein Hall, in a little more than a month from now, I will be back on an airplane to India. Though this will be my seventh flight ther ...
• Valuing the invaluable
  AARP released a report on Monday that says 42.1 million people cared for adult family members with some kind of limitations in 2009. That's $450 billion in unpaid work at no small emotional and physical cost to the caregiver. In Connecticut, says the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, ...
• On being a canary in the coal mine:
  Connecticut Forum just announced that Majora Carter will join the panel of Our Fragile Earth next May 5.

Associated Content

• Michele Bachmann Wins Fourth Consecutive Iowa Poll
  Contending (albeit distantly) with frontrunner Mitt Romney in national polls, Bachmann is putting the former Massachusetts governor in the runner-up position in Iowa. But she hasn't just done it once or twice. Bachmann has now won four straight Iowa pollsContributor: Saul Relative Published: Jul ...
• Jane Fonda Blames 'The Vast Right Wing Conspir ...
  Jane Fonda is blaming the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy for a cancellation of a planned appearance by her on the QVC network to promote her new book, '..."Prime Time.' It seems that some people can't get past the visit to Hanoi.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jul 17, 2011
• Casey Anthony Released from Jail into a Hostil ...
  After firing up America with her murder trial, and with her controversial acquittal, Casey Anthony was made a free woman early Sunday morning. But is the worst still ahead for her, given the difficulties that lie ahead now?Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Jul 17, 2011
• Big Opening for 'The Undefeated' Has Implicati ...
  Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jul 16, 2011
• Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony: Another Coupl ...
  Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are just another one of the many celebrity divorces announced so far this year. Here is a look their ill-fated marriage, and some of the possible reasons for its end.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Jul 16, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Dawn Spacecraft Successfully Enters Orbit Arou ...
  After a somewhat harrowing waiting period, NASA confirmed over the weekend that its Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. All apparently went according to plan, but NASA had to wait a while to make sure, because Dawn could not communicate with Earth while its ion thrus ...
• Mice Engineered to Lack Muscle Contraction Gen ...
  Around mile 10 of a recent half marathon, my quadriceps started to tighten and my feet increasingly felt like lead. Along with improving my training, perhaps in the future I will use zinc-finger nuclease scissors to snip out a gene called IL-15Rα, so I can run long distances with ease. Mice tha ...
• Climate Scientists Request Protection From Som ...
  First Australian climate scientists had to go into witness protection. Now they’re being threatened by pirates. Or their research is, anyway. Climate scientists are asking the Australian and U.S. navies to help ward off pirates so they can deploy robotic instruments in the western Indian Ocean ...
• Tonight, a NASA Probe Will Orbit Massive Belt ...
  Enough with the lasts at NASA these days — here’s a first for you. The Dawn spacecraft is about to become the first probe to orbit a main-belt asteroid. After speeding through the solar system for four years with ion thrusters, Dawn is now poised to enter orbit around Vesta later tonight, wher ...
• New Genome Editing Method Helps Scientists Rew ...
  A new “find-and-replace” genome editing method enables scientists to make large-scale changes to the genetic code of a living cell, faster than previous editing technology by a factor of two. The new method could be used to engineer cells that produce new proteins, or to design genetic “firewal ...

Veterans Today

• History Always Repeats With Government/Oil/Ban ...
  The following Appeared in Newsreal Magazine in summer of 1977, and was taken from an earlier article in the Christian Science Monitor.
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  ITT Systems Corp., Colorado Springs, Colo., was awarded a $267,918,208 cost-plus-award-fee contract. The award will provide for the modification of an existing contract to provide base operations and security support services in support of the military troops and equipment moving through the co ...
• Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses
  A prominent condition affecting Gulf War Veterans is a cluster of medically unexplained chronic symptoms that can include fatigue, headaches, joint pain, indigestion, insomnia, dizziness, respiratory disorders, and memory problems.
• Murdochgate: Now its “Trashgate” ...
  Brooks's husband, Charlie, arrived and tried to reclaim it. He was unable to prove the bag was his and the security guard refused to release it.
• Japan Takes The Gold After Sawa’s Amazin ...
  In Japanese, Homare means Noble Honor and yesterday Homare Sawa had the noble honor of bringing a Japanese team back from the precipice of a certain World Cup defeat in the final minutes of extra time with one of the greatest pressure goals in World Cup history ~ counting both men and women.

War is Business

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

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• Karamoja, UN's Grand Experiment in Weaning Off Aid
  Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime The terrible drought situation in East Africa is once again causing a reappraisal of modern aid along the contours of the oft-quoted line above. Having been asked by our local parish to cont ...
• Detours on Yuan's Road to Global Currency Status
  Or so the folks at the Wall Street Journal say, at least. In principle, there is much to be said about the Chinese yuan becoming a global currency. After all, isn't it odd that trading which involves the currency of the world's second largest economy is a mere rounding error in global foreign ex ...
• Study a BA in Football Business [!] at Burnley ...
  The best way to make a small fortune in football (soccer) is to start with a big one I must confess having taken my share of fluff courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. You've probably come across those: academically lightweight elective subjects typically offered during the summer ...
• Indonesia and the Ultimate Tobacco Ban Protest
  Just look at the size of that sucker. Philip Morris, eat your heart out! I am genuinely of two minds over cigarette smoking bans being imposed throughout the world. The Emmanuel that wants to live a reasonably healthy lifestyle abhors the practice and the many diseases it gives rise to. But, the ...
• 40 Years Ago: Ping-Pong Diplomacy & China's Rise
  Here's a timely scenario for you given the fortieth anniversary of ping-pong diplomacy between the US and China: What if the Cold War never ended, the Iron Curtain never fell, and the US failed to exploit the growing ideological divide between China and Russia? In general, international relation ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 18 Signs That Global Financial Markets Smell B ...
  Can you smell it?  There is blood in the water.  Global financial markets are in turmoil.  Banking stocks are getting slaughtered right now.  European bond yields are absolutely soaring.  Major corporations are announcing huge layoffs.  The entire global financial system appears ...
• Too Big To Fail?: 10 Banks Own 77 Percent Of A ...
  Back during the financial crisis of 2008, the American people were told that the largest banks in the United States were "too big to fail" and that was why it was necessary for the federal government to step in and bail them out.  The idea was that if several of our biggest bank ...
• If The U.S. Government Loses Its AAA Rating It ...
  For decades, the U.S. government has had a AAA rating.  On the scales used by the big three credit rating agencies, that is the highest credit rating that a government can get.  Moody's scale actually uses lettering that is a little different from the other two big agencies ("Aa ...
• 15 Examples That Show Many Americans Have Beco ...
  More Americans than ever are desperate for money and many of them will do just about anything to get it.  The crumbling U.S. economy has pushed millions of ordinary Americans to the brink of utter desperation.  When it comes time to choose between being able to survive or breaki ...
• Outcasts: Tonight Tens Of Thousands Of Formerl ...
  Economic despair is beginning to spread rapidly in America.  As you read this, there are millions of American families that are just barely hanging on by their fingernails.  For a growing number of Americans, it has become an all-out battle just to be able to afford to sleep und ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Need Tech Help? Offering it? Put a free ad in ...
  Are you part of a cool hacking, DIY, or tech project that needs more volunteers, users, or testers? Are you part of a radical project that needs...
• A Fake Image: About the Fraud of the Void Netw ...
  The social revolt of December 2008, triggered, among other things, an increased interest abroad about the struggles in Greece. For this reason, ...
• New Fringe Fest Musical Inspired by Union Figh ...
  When a coworker at Starbucks approached barista Ted Dewberry about forming a union at their workplace, his initial reaction was fear. Working 17 ho...
• BMedia Collective Variety Show #3: Earth Day Inc.
  This episode explores the connections between environment destruction and the economic and cultural systems that enable it.�Movements a...
• Submit to BUSTING BOREDOM! A zine about house ...
  House arrest is used in the kanadian (in)justice system often as a punitive bail condition. It's very isolating and used by the state as an atte...

E U Times

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

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2011-07-19 @Lulzsec does not forgive, The Sun ...
  Tweet The international community was once again surprised by the action of @Lulzsec after the reporter Sean Hoare, the first person to blow the whistle on the News of the World editor Andy Coulson, who was linked to the paper's phone hacking scandal, was found dead in his home Watford, England ...
• 2011-07-18 Sean Hoare, #NOTW whistleblower, fo ...
  TweetSean Hoare, the reporter who first blew the whistle on News of the World editor Andy Coulson for the publication's phone hacking scandal, was found dead at his home in Watford, England on Monday according to reports in the Guardian and Hollywood Reporter. The report follows the recent arres ...
• 2011-07-18 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 08:30 PM ‘U.S. supplied weapons “lost” by the Honduran military turned u ...
• 2011-07-18 The Wall Street Journal's First Ame ...
  TweetLate last night, the Wall Street Journal published a flailing, desperate editorial, attempting to tamp down the hacking scandal that has engulfed its owner Rupert Murdoch for the past two weeks. In a classic case of blame deflection, the paper took shots at several news organizations on bot ...
• 2011-07-18 News International chief Brooks ar ...
  TweetFormer Murdoch chief Rebekah Brooks was arrested and detained last night by British police on charges of conspiring to illegally intercept communications as well as corruption, in the form of bribing police. Brooks was apprehended by detectives working on Operation Weeting – the UK Metrop ...

U N News

• Ban congratulates Brazilian-Argentine agency f ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today congratulated the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC) for its 20 years of working for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
• UN and national police launch anti-crime opera ...
  The United Nations and the Haitian National Police (HNP) have launched a joint security operation to crack down on criminal activity in key areas of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
• Independent UN expert on torture calls for unr ...
  The United Nations independent expert on torture today voiced concern over restrictions imposed by the United States on access to detainees, stating that it is vital for him to have unmonitored access to Bradley Manning, the US soldier detained for allegedly leaking classified information to the ...
• UN through the lens: Looking back on a year in ...
  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon re-appointed Edmond Mulet to his former post of Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations in March 2011.
• UN human rights chief voices concern over high ...
  The United Nations human rights chief has voiced concern over escalating violence in some parts Mexico, saying organized crime and brutality could undermine the State and threaten the people''s basic rights.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• China Ignores Own Irrawaddy Dam Study
  China Power Investment’s assessment calls for Burma’s Myitsone Dam to be scrapped
• Murdoch's Long Goodbye
  The Empire crests against the digital era
• Taiwan Tries to Slow Shark-finning
  Shark’s fin soup emptying the oceans
• Waterboarding in Thailand
  Human Rights Watch Demands US Waterboarding in Thailand be Investigated
• North Korea and the Coming Crisis
  If the North collapses, South Korea’s job is going to be bigger than anybody thought

We Know the Lies

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

Tarpley

• Saudi-Iran Conflicts Benefit US-UK-Israel; Is ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 17, 2011 [download video]
• Hillary Clinton Recognizes the Al Qaeda-Based ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 16, 2011 �
• Tea Party Lunatics Demand US Default; Wall Str ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 14, 2011 Audio Only [download audio]
• Italiano
  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén            1 2  >  >| page: 1 of 2   total items: 15 Misure urgenti per difendere lâeconomia italiana contro lâattacco coordinato degli speculatori inter ...
• July 14, Bastille Day: Quelle Honte!
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 13, 2011 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• World’s Biggest Hedge Fund Founder Says& ...
  …watch out for economic collapse during the end of 2012. The exact words were, âThere hasnât been a case in history where they havenât eventually printed money and devalued their currency,â âPeople concentrate on the particular thing of the moment, and they forget the larger underlying forces,â ...
• A Survival Kit To Keep Your Car Going
  While many offer opinions about survival kits to be kept in your vehicle, tailored towards keeping you, the human, going… here is a twist on that thought while considering keeping your CAR going. A survival kit to help keep your car keep going (except after an EMP event), may include some of the ...
• Globalization is Killing Us
  As I was driving the hour commute back home this evening from visiting my wife in the hospital, I was in somewhat of a melancholy mood, and got around to thinking of the sad state of the US economy with respect to the average working person. What I mean by that, (average), is the majority [...]
• Government-Gone-Wild Benefits-Perks
  In the US, both political parties are often indistinguishable. Democrat or Republican these days, could be renamed to Democans and Republicrats. They’re basically one in the same, with ‘most’ of them primarily concerned about feathering their own nests. The ‘feathers’ come from big business, pri ...
• Events that could trigger a National Emergency
  Guest Post: by ‘Be informed’ A few ideas of possible events that could occur in the U.S. that could cause a total national emergency. For an actual long lasting national emergency to occur, probably at least 1/2 to 2/3 of the country would have to be impacted. There are definitely events that co ...

Fast Company

• Scribd Debuts Float, A Netflix-Style Competito ...
  Today, document-sharing service Scribd, the world's largest social publishing site with more than 75 million monthly readers, launched Float, an iPhone and web content-reading app that's taking aim at the likes of Pulse, Flipboard, and Instapaper. Like those popular apps, Float enables users t ...
• British Parliament Quizzing Murdochs Over Phon ...
  This and other breaking news, updated throughout the day by Fast Company's editors.Parliament Vs. Murdochs. Right now, British political authorities are quizzing global media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son James, head of the U.K. wing of the company, over the phone hacking scandal. Early in Ja ...
• Barry Diller, IAC Launch Proust, A Social Net ...
  Most social networks are aimed at the young. Not so for Proust.com, a memory-sharing service that collects remembrances of things past. Social networks are a dime a dozen these days--we have services for text-message sharing, photo sharing, location sharing, and more. But while socia ...
• The $720 House That's Built In A Week And Last ...
  India's Tata Group--known as the maker of the world's cheapest car--is setting its sights on the world's cheapest home, with a $720 flatpack house that can be constructed in a week. The world's cheapest car is manufactured by the Tata Group. So is the cheapest water filter. Now the Indian compa ...
• Apple News Roundup: Apple's Earnings Call, OS ...
  Today's Earnings CallLater today Apple will reveal its most recent quarterly finances, and the industry is aquiver with anticipation. Speculation on the stock markets has seen Apple's price soar over recent days. It's all with the expectation that having finally solved its iPad 2 supply chain is ...

Jadaliyya

• Trafficking and Foreign Labor in the Gulf: An ...
  Earlier this month, the US State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, an inventory of the world�s efforts at combating the global trade in people.�The 2011 report marks a turning point of sorts for US foreign policy. For the first time ever, the new TIP inc ...
• Jadaliyya's iPhone/iPad/iPod/iNama Kuntum App ...
  We tried to resist for a almost a year, but we were constantly asked "When will you have an app for Jadaliyya?" So we developed an App for the iPhone and iPad! شو بدنا نعمل؟ This would be the Beta version as we are trying to get your feedback as to what you'd like to see on there. You c ...
• To Die For
  [This is the seventh part of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read the previous parts�here] Like most acquaintances in our wired world, a certain �friend of a friend� had become a �friend.� I had admired her for months from afar, inspired by her bold status up ...
• Culture XIV
  Although counterrevolutions are in full swing, our weekly section brings some hope, nominally and otherwise. Amal Hanano continues her meditations about Aleppo. Gaelle Raphael translates Amal Dunqul's powerful poem, "A Special Interview with Noah's Son." Suneela Mubayi translates Sargon ...
• Amal Dunqul "A Special Interview with Noah's Son"
  Noahâs flood is coming nearer! The city is sinking little…by little Birds flee And water rises On the steps of houses Shops The post office Banks Statues (of our immortal ancestors) Temples Wheat sacks Maternity hospitals The prison gate The State House The corridors of for ...

mediagazer

• Phone-hacking: MPs to quiz Murdochs and Rebeka ...
  BBC: Phone-hacking: MPs to quiz Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks  —  MPs will question the three about their handling of the phone hacking scandal  —  News Corporation chiefs Rupert and James Murdoch and former executive Rebekah Brooks will be quizzed by MPs later about the phone-hacking scandal.
• Special report: Rupert Murdoch, a hands-on new ...
  Reuters: Special report: Rupert Murdoch, a hands-on newspaperman  —  (Reuters) - To illustrate the extent to which Rupert Murdoch used to micro-manage his newspapers, a one-time Murdoch editor told an anecdote about a typical board meeting at the mogul's UK newspaper arm in the 1980s.
• Piers Morgan takes on tabloid scandal (Burgess ...
  Burgess Everett / On Media's Blog: Piers Morgan takes on tabloid scandal  —  Former News of the World editor Piers Morgan finally, if briefly, confronted the News of the World phone-hacking scandal on Monday night after coming under pressure for avoiding coverage of the story while the rest of ...
• WP hires three bloggers to work with Ezra Klei ...
  Jim Romenesko / Poynter: WP hires three bloggers to work with Ezra Klein  —  They are Suzy Khimm, who leaves Mother Jones; Sarah Kliff, formerly of Politico; and Brad Plumer, a New Republic associate editor.  The Post memo is after the jump.  —  The Financial staff is thrilled to announce that ...
• On nonprofit sites, ideology often mixes with ...
  Rick Edmonds / Poynter: On nonprofit sites, ideology often mixes with news to create hidden slant, PEJ study finds  —  Most accounts of the changing media landscape treat nonprofit digital start-ups as an unmixed blessing, taking up some of the slack left by shrinking legacy newsrooms.

Chemtrail News

• Fake Chemtrail plan hologram‏ - YouTube
  This looks nothing like an airplane because it is NOT an airplane.www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRxI0Nk6frg
• Chemtrail Forecast Maps | AirCrap.
  The Chemtrail Forecast Maps are actual positions of the chemtrail soup grids that show where spraying operations will be concentrated for the following day.aircrap.org/wp-content/uploads/.../Chemtrail-Forecast-Maps.jp...
• Chemtrail Poisening of Humanitynano tap ...
  A Morgellons victim felt a strong choking sensation across her neck. She applied olive oil mixed with Diatomaceous Earth (powdered diatoms or Bentonite) to ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV2FEM71Xko
• Chemtrail Research July 14th 2011‏ YouTube
  Flight Radar Site http://www.flightradar24.com/ Cloud Types and Heights http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloud3.html If you want to help check out www.www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H5socmVN4I
• Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Jon Elmer, Sylv ...
  The Chemtrail "conspiracy" has been around for at least a decade now, but surprisingly few people seem to know about it, and fewer still are the figures in ...

World News - Top Stories

• Contador eager to make his move
  PIOULENC, France - Alberto Contador knows he is running out of time to close the gap on his Tour de France rivals. The Spaniard's bid for a fourth Tour title has yet to get going as the race enters its final week, a combination of bad luck and a nagging knee injury conspiring to make it dif ...
• 'Harry Potter' faces steep drop after rec ...
  2011-07-19 11:38:18.0'Harry Potter' faces steep drop after record startharry potter,drop box office1159104Movies2@webnews/enpproperty--> LOS ANGELES - Harry Potter finished his Hogwarts school days with box-office highs around the world. The question is whether the young wizard can continue ...
• Clinton in Delhi for 2nd round of Indo-US ...
  New Delhi, July 19, 2011 (PTI) Tuesday, July 19, 2011 --> US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in New Delhi on Monday night to attend the second round of Indo-US strategic dialogue from today. The situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan and cooperation in counter-terrorism in the bac ...
• Phone-hacking: MPs to quiz Murdochs and R ...
  News Corporation chiefs Rupert and James Murdoch and former executive Rebekah Brooks will be quizzed by MPs later about the phone-hacking scandal. The Murdochs agreed to appear before the Commons media committee after it issued a summons for them. The MPs have said they have...
• Lulz Security hackers target Sun website
  A group of computer hackers has tampered with the website of News International-owned The Sun's website. At first, readers were redirected to a hoax story which said Rupert Murdoch had been found dead in his garden. A group of hackers called Lulz Security, which has previously targeted comp ...

no frakking consensus

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

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

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

Gyrovague's Raves

• Can food be art?
  Helen Lewis-Hasteley Nathan Myhrvold was Stephen Hawking’s researcher and Bill Gates’s right-hand man at Microsoft. Now, he’s written a £395 cookbook A cutaway image of a pot roast from Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine. Photo: The Cooking Lab, LLC How’s this for a CV? Nathan Myhrvold graduat ...
• A whiff of history
  When smells vanish, we lose a whole dimension of the world. Now thereâs a movement to change that. By Courtney Humphries Think of some of your most powerful memories, and thereâs likely a smell attached: the aroma of suntan lotion at the beach, the sharpness of freshly mown grass, the floral tra ...
• Pentagon largest-ever cyber theft victim
  The Pentagon on Thursday revealed that in the spring it suffered one of its largest losses ever of sensitive data in a cyberattack by a foreign government. It’s a dramatic example of why the military is pursuing a new strategy emphasizing deeper defenses of its computer networks, collaboration w ...
• Narcissists need no reality check
  Despite inflated egos, they evaluate themselves with unexpectedly clear eyes Bruce Bower Narcissists make spectacles of their supposedly awesome selves, but they donât see the world entirely through rose-colored glasses. These sultans of self-regard accurately appraise their own personalities an ...
• Aging
  To Treat, or Not to Treat? The possibility of treating aging is not just an idle fantasy David Gems The 20th century brought both profound suffering and profound relief to people around the world. On the one hand, it produced political lunacy, war and mass murder on an unprecedented scale. But t ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

• U.S. Ambassador Says Perimeter Security Deal W ...
  - Joint Border Inspection Facilities | Relocation Of U.S. Food Inspectors At Canadian Plants And Vice-Versa |Greater Sharing Of Intelligence & Harmonizing Regulations | Greater Use Of Biometrics To Track Travelers In Real Time
• Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
  "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
• Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
  "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
• VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ...
  "Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM
• VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ...
  "Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM

Gaea Times

• Indian?s fight against child marriage in focus ...
  ABU DHABI - The spotlight was once again on India at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, courtesy a British filmmaker. Kim Longinotto in “Pink Saris” depicted the evils of child marriage and the caste conflict in the interiors of northern India - and a woman’s fight to bring about change. In her doc ...
• Rebel JD-U MP warns against Nitish?s return to ...
  PATNA - A day ahead of the first round of the six-phase Bihar assembly elections, a rebel leader of the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Wednesday appealed to farmers not to vote for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. In an appeal published in local Hindi dailies, Rajeev Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Sin ...
• Agra offers world class recording studio to Bo ...
  AGRA - Studio Wave, a new recording studio here, is being endorsed by top names in Bollywood music but the sound engineer who set it up is also hoping it will help local talent thrive. Satish Gupta, who founded it, told IANS: “The main motive of this studio is to promote local talent in music ...
• Pete Doherty creating jewellery for men
  LONDON - Singer Pete Doherty is creating his own range of jewellery. The 31-year-old crooner has collaborated with former Cartier designer Hannah Martin to create “Albion Trinketry”, a luxury range of rings, chains, cufflinks and pins. Petes been obsessed with antiques and trinkets for years, ...
• Low testosterone ?may raise risk of early death?
  WASHINGTON - A new research has linked low testosterone levels to a heightened risk of premature death from heart disease and all causes. The finding refutes received wisdom that the hormone is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Researchers base their findings on 930 men, all of whom h ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

• Ocean Acidification Threatens Global Food Security
  Image via Wikimedia Commons. It makes sense that ocean acidification is bad for marine life. But who knew it could have far-reaching effects on human health as well? A new report by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) shows that ocean acidification is threatening glob ...
• Get Your Fins on an Official Shark Week Party Kit
  We�ve got Shark Week fever early this year and it is contagious! Or at least, we hope so, because we�ve got 10 official Shark Week party kits on our hands. Want to get a hold of one? It�s pretty simple. Before noon tomorrow, Tuesday July 19, pop over to Twitter and send this tweet: I want ...
• Last Day in Washington: Techno-Colored Crabs
  © Oceana This is part of a series of posts about our Pacific Hotspots expedition. Today's highlights: On their last day in Washington, the team saw an orca, spiny dogfish, techno-colored crabs and more. Washington Leg, Final Day As we prepped the ROV for its first dive, an orca slowly ma ...
• 3 Ways to Get Ready for Shark Week
  On July 31, Shark Week is back!� Need some ideas on how to celebrate this, the sharkiest time of year? We're here for you: 1.��� Share the Shark Week Love Have your friends over for a watch party. Check out the programming schedule. I recommend "Jaws Comes Home" on July 31, but there's a fu ...
• Ranger Discovers Deep-sea Coral Reef in Medite ...
  News from the deep: Oceana's crew aboard the Ranger has discovered a previously undocumented coral reef in the Alboran Sea in the high seas of the Mediterranean. The reef, which is located more than 1,300 feet below the surface and covers over 1 million square feet, is formed primarily by white ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• And Now For Something Distinctly Feminine.
  Click here to view the embedded video. � Lady Smith S&W .38 Cal 5 [...]
• 19th Century Cane Shotguns.
  Ah the Europeans, in particular the 19th century French aristocrats who first created a panoply of hidden firearms. Barrels and bullets or shot shells all decoratively esconced in anything from 19th Century Imperial ring guns to pipes that fird a bullet to walking canes that acted as swords or g ...
• What If The Sniper In Saving Private Ryan Fire ...
  Click here to view the embedded video. (The following discussion is fascinating to me if not a complete answer, since I still don’t know if a sniper round would have cooked off an 88mm round with a head on hit). As a former M1A1 Abrams tank crewman, please accept that I do have knowledge o ...
• Very Cool Photos of Women Building Weapons Dur ...
  German Women Making Barrage Balloons Women Making A-20 Attack Bombers in Douglas Aircraft's Longbeach California Plant Women Building Weapons Women Building B-17s Women Building Fighters � � Source: X- Planes, Blogrolled here, [...]
• Fantastic Black And White Photos Of American I ...
  Hoop On The Forehead, Crow One Blue Bead, Crow Porcupine, Cheyenne Tsaasi-Mis-Salla Or "Crow With Necklace" Sarsi Alchise, Apache � Source: MHQ Blog [...]

Taylor Marsh

• Parliament Testimony Begins by Murdoch’s Being ...
  **UPDATED** “This is the most humble day of my life.” – Rupert Murdoch The hearings begin with Rupert Murdoch & his son James Murdoch asking to make opening statement, but were denied. Guardian has statement of Rupert Murdoch: Mr. Chairman. Select Committee Members: With your permission, I would ...
• Bill Clinton Would Use 14th Amendment Option ‘ ...
  Joe Conason, who has had more access to former Pres. Bill Clinton over the years than most, begins his new website launch The National Memo with a blockbuster on the debt ceiling debate. Former President Bill Clinton says that he would invoke the so-called constitutional option to raise the nati ...
• Murdoch Faces Parliament
  Prime Minister David Cameron cut short a state visit to Africa and bowed to demands for Parliament to delay its summer recess on Monday, as he confronted a growing scandal over his cozy ties with Rupert Murdoch’s top lieutenants in Britain and the opposition posed a fresh challenge to the surviv ...
• Elizabeth Warren Buzz
  “Iâve been working 14 hours a day on trying to stand thisâ¦agency up, really for more than a year now,” she said. “When I go home, Iâll do more thinking then. But I need to do that thinking not from Washington.” – The Hill Andrea Mitchell got the scoop. Elizabeth Warren isn’t ruling out a [...]
• 71% of Americans Disapprove of Republican Hand ...
  But guess what? Pres. Obama has more people disapproving of what he’s done on the debt ceiling negotiations than approving. That’s quite a feat in the face of such Republican fecklessness. [...] For Republicans, this plan is something close to the best of all possible worlds (sorry, but I do not ...

Hudson New York

• Venice: City of Dreams
  Venice is more than a city; it is the embodiment of the human spirit. Each day nature sends rising tides to test the resilience of this remarkable place. Barriers have been placed at sea to guard the land, but nature is relentlessly testing Venetian
• Israel Defense Officials Want Turkish Ties Rep ...
  Israel's defense establishment wants to see ties with Turkey repaired, even supporting an apology to Ankara for a bloody 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Israel's Haaretz Daily reported Sunday. Relations between the former allies have been in
• Should You Trust Jim Cramer?
  You know Jim Cramer. He's the star of Mad Money, the guy who tells you how to make lots of dough by taking his advice about hot stocks (such as Bear Sterns just before it crashed). Before that he made lots of money for himself and his clients by running
• Questions About "The Arab Spring"
  Reports and the analyses filed by members of the American media during the hubbub of the Khomeinist "revolution" have been, for most Iranians, painfully unforgettable. Remember the holy man called Khomeini? Today the people of the Middle East who are
• Terror in Mumbai - Again
  Once again, terror has struck the metropolis of Mumbai, India's leading commercial center. In a repetition of the homicidal assault on the city in December 2008, three coordinated bombings on Wednesday killed 18 people and injured 133, according to the

Urban Survival

• $1,600 Gold!!! The Tightrope Problem
  We begin the week casting a jaundiced eye toward Washington, where once again, the Budget High Drama continues like a never-ending rerun of some TV game show, with about as much plot.  If there was any question about why the … Continue reading →
• Coping: With Travel and Other Unpronounceables
  The trouble with travel is what?  Keeping ‘life on the road’ and ‘life in the office’ all working together seamlessly. Because, sure as hell, when I don’t, that auditor in the back of my mindwill wake me up in the … Continue reading →
• Where’d “the Trust” Go?
  We’ll get to this morning’s CPI report in a sec, but first thing out of the box this morning you might want to click over to the Forbes story “What Happened to the $2.6 Trillion Social Security Trust Fund?“  I … Continue reading →
• Coping: With “Brown Nose Friday”
  Friday’s are sometimes horrible in today’s economy, because many companies do their layoff’s on Friday.  This being one of them, a couple of notes on how to hold onto a job might be in order.  Something we chat about every … Continue reading →
• Report: Peoplenomics–On the Broken Conve ...
  Pappy used to lament the plight of dogs chasing cars. “You ever wonder what’s they do if they caught one of the damn things?” he’d ponder. Well, chasing after economic truth is a bit like that, and every once in … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• The US Humanitarian Intervention in Libya
  The US is in Libya officially to protect... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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• The Corporation - Full Movie
  The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Jeff Rense & Gerald Celente - Stop The Debt Se ...
  Gerald Celente : "...the only way we see out of... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Jesse Ventura to probably renounce the US cit ...
  Breaking News from Jesse Ventura on TSA lawsuit :... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• MIT's Particles and Nuclei International Conf ...
  More here:http://web.mit.edu/panic11/ The 19th Particles and Nuclei International Conference (PANIC11) will take place in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from Sunday July 24th through Friday July 29th 2011. The PANIC conference, which is held every ...
• Knight Sci News: Reporting on Dr. Church's DNA ...
  The scientists put it this way: "Our methods treat the chromosome as both an editable and an evolvable template, permitting the exploration of vast genetic landscapes." The news review site links to stories in New Scientist, Wired and the NYTImes. A new report from MIT, Yale, and Harvard d ...
• Science, history and literature meet at New Be ...
  Boston Day Trip: The Science of Whales and Whaling Cmbine science, history and literature with a trip to this - to use a cliché - hidden gem. Science Tuesday at the New Bedford Whaling Museum Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 1:00 pm Join our teen apprentices in the Jacobs Family Gallery as ...
• Summer science -- for kids and adults -- under ...
  The local museums and science research centers have set their summer children's programs into full gear. Check out or download our Google calendar of events. Tonight you can take your kids to a presentation on Marines science at the MIT Museum. All ages can watch the starts from the the Gillil ...
• Universal design: The science of access at the ...
  Nora Nagle has a long title: The Americans with Disabilities Act and 504 Accessibility Coordinator at the Museum of Science, Boston. She also has a big job, one that goes beyond making the museum wheelchair accessible and compliant under the ADA and Section 504, a federal civil rights law. O ...

NRDC Switchboard

• It's Official: Whitebark Pine Trees are Endang ...
  Matt Skoglund, Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana A sea of dead and dying whitebark pine trees in the Northern Rockies in Montana.   Today, in response to a petition we filed in December 2008, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service found tha ...
• News from London: First-ever greenhouse gas r ...
  Rich Kassel, Senior Attorney and Director, Clean Fuels and Vehicles Project, New York City On Friday, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted the first-ever greenhouse gas regulations for new ships.  This is the first industry-wide, ...
• Will Science Trump Politics when Protecting En ...
  Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica One of the questions underlying decision making at this year's meeting of the CITES Animals Committee is the extent to which decisions will be driven by scientific evidence on the ...
• Physicians and Advocacy Groups Demand Cleaner ...
  Adrian Martinez, Project Attorney, Southern California Air Team, Santa Monica It’s been slightly more than 60 days since we, along with Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles and environmental justice groups filed a letter of intent to s ...
• NRDC in the News 7/18: Lightbulb efficiency, c ...
  NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide In a McClatchy Newspapers piece, David Goldston explained the cost and energy efficiency savings of using more efficient light bulbs, and called House Republican efforts to repeal the light bulb st ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, July 18, 2011: Tacoma WA police are the subject of a legal claim, the precursor to a lawsuit in this state, filed by a man who was wanted for vehicular assault and for shooting his [...]
• Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 07-16 ...
  Before I start on this weekend’s reports I wanted to mention an interesting report about how few law enforcement agencies track how many of their officers are convicted of criminal misconduct by Alia Wong from the Honolulu Civil Beat. She did a good job trying to present both sides of the issue ...
• Why we pulled the 7/16 San Francisco shooting ...
  Around 4:45pm on Saturday San Francisco police fatally shot a young man who fled after being detained for jumping fare on a light rail vehicle. Initial reports were that police insisted the young man was armed and had opened fire and officers returned fire without being injured. However, police ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, July 15, 2011: Lake View IA police chief & a fellow cop subject of suit alleging they helped cover up racially motivated beating by falsely arresting the victim [3] http://bit.ly/qHh ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 21 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, July 14, 2011: Houston TX cop suspended after caught on video, shown above, walking up to cuffed suspect & punching him in the face [0] http://bit.ly/qfSlaB Washington DC police o ...

Total Collapse

• China: ‘Pakistan is our Israel’
  When a US delegate once confronted a Chinese diplomat about Beijing’s uncompromising support for Pakistan, the Chinese reportedly responded with a heavily-loaded sarcastic remark: “Pakistan is our Israel”. But judging by China’s unrelenting support for some of its allies, including North Korea, ...
• Radioactive beef sold in Tokyo
  Japan’s second-biggest retailer has sold nuclear-contaminated beef in the capital Tokyo’s market and suburb area, raising great concern among the people. Aeon Co said it had sold beef from 132 cattle that ate nuclear-contaminated feed at a store in Tokyo and at more than dozen stores in the surr ...
• News Of The World Whistleblower Found Dead
  The Guardian is reporting that Sean Hoare, a former News of the World reporter who was first to allege that former editor Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead. “Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed for dri ...
• Planned Pedophilia, UN Style
  International Planned Parenthood kicks off international blitz at U.N. conference on “Sex Rights for Children.” “This story is really about preventing parents from protecting their children from sexual predators – including the State.” by Richard Evans (henrymakow.com) The International Planned ...
• Iranian ground forces are invading Iraq
  Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have taken control of three bases of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in neighboring Iraq, the state news agency reported Monday. IRNA quoted Colonel Delavar Ranjbarzadeh, a local commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guard, as saying “a large number” of m ...

Daily Dose

• EmbedPlus lets you control how a YouTube video ...
  EmbedPlus is a service which gives you far more control over how visitors to your site or blog can view and interact with videos. Regardless of what platform you use, or even if you don’t run a blog, with a few simple steps, you can add annotations, and show viewers just the parts of the video ...
• Google’s Schmidt: “Our competitors aren’t inno ...
  Google’s Eric Schmidt has publicly responded to smartphone lawsuits currently engulfing his company’s mobile operating system and vendors utilising the platform, stating that its competitors – most notably Apple – are threatened by its competition and are trying to shut down its fastest growing ...
• Samsung “did not certify” Apple Smart Cover co ...
  Samsung has moved quickly to disassociate itself from reports that it was certifying the sale of Anymode’s Smart Case, a tablet cover and stand that bears an uncanny resemblance to Apple’s Smart Cover, by stating it did not approve the certification of the product, subsequently removing it from ...
• Nokia’s “Sea Ray” Windows Phone 7.5 prototype ...
  Nokia’s “Sea Ray” Windows Phone prototype, first showcase by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop in an internal meeting in June, has emerged again, this time in a two minute hands-on video. The video shows what could be Nokia’s first Windows Phone, one of a number of devices expected to debut in October at ...
• Baidu signs licensing deal with major music la ...
  Chinese search engine Baidu has just wrapped up negotiations with major Western music labels and signed distribution deals that will effectively give Baidu users legitimate access to free music. The deal is between Baidu and One-Stop China, a venture that represents Universal Music, Warner Mus ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

• Amazon drought and forest fire prediction syst ...
  Researchers have devised a model to anticipate drought and forest fires in the Amazon rainforest.
• Despite moratorium, soy still contributes indi ...
  Soy expansion in areas neighboring the Amazon rainforest is contributing to loss of rainforest itself, reports a new study published in Environmental Research Letters.
• Fish use tools
  A blackspot tuskfish (Choerodon schoenleinii) has been photographed picking up a clam in its mouth, swimming over to a rock, and then using the rock as an anvil by smashing the clam against it until it breaks open. In the journal Coral Reefs scientists argue this is the first conclusive evidence ...
• Animal picture of the day: radio collaring a s ...
  Researchers in the Malaysian state of Sabah recently radio-collared a Bornean slow loris (Nycticebus menagensis) in order to study the little known species. A small, but big-eyed, primates slow loris spend the days sleeping and the night tracking prey, such as insects and lizards, with its large ...
• Picture of the day: 4x4 driving down a giant s ...
  4x4 driving down a giant sand dune in Namibia.

Sierra Express

• IMAT – Institute of Management, Accounting & T ...
  EDUCATE – MOTIVATE – CULTIVATE is what we believe in to provide our students with the best opportunity to achieve their educational and professional goals by being a centre of excellence in the education field. ABOUT US IMAT is a registered provider of professional courses and training in Sierra ...
• ACC and HFAC conducts a joint training in Bo
  The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), and Health for All Coalition (HFAC) has organized a two days training of HFAC monitors on Thursday 14th & Friday 15th July 2011 at the One World Link Multi-purpose Hall in Bo.  The training was attended by 60 monitors from all over the twelve districts acros ...
• UK Minister for International Development visi ...
  UK Minister for International Development, Stephen O’Brien MP (in photo), is visiting Sierra Leone today (Tuesday 19th July 2011), in his second visit to Sierra Leone as a minister of the United Kingdom Coalition Government. Mr O’Brien will see for himself how UK funding is achieving results for ...
• Freedom of Information Law; challenges & prosp ...
  When Nigeria started its campaign for an access to information law, it was not an easy task especially during the days of former President Olusegn Obasanjo, a former military General. He had his own misgivings sat the time he was President over the FOI issue in Nigeria.  The less I refer to Zimb ...
• Celebration of Nelson Mandela International Da ...
  On the occasion of the Nelson Mandela International Day observed on 18 July, the African Union wishes to join the rest of the world in congratulating Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela  on his 93rd birthday. Africa is certainly proud to be home to the icon which Madiba (as Mandela is fondly known) has be ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Fonterra sinks US$40m into third Chinese dairy ...
  Fonterra, the New Zealand dairy cooperative, will spend US$40 million developing a new 40 hectare dairy farm in Yutian County, Hebei province, marking its third farm in China.The move is the latest by Fonterra to build a fresh...
• A2 eyes NZX step as Aussie sales grow
  Kiwi milk company A2 Corporation is eyeing a listing on the NZX main board as it starts building its first processing plant, bucks an Australian price war and hunts for its next international market.The NZAX-listed company has...
• Dutch exec takes Fonterra job
  One of the brains behind the merger that created a Dutch dairy powerhouse has landed the top job at Fonterra.Dutchman Theo Spierings will take over from Canadian Andrew Ferrier on September 26 as chief executive of dairy co-operative...
• Fonterra names Dutch exec Theo Spierings as ne ...
  Fonterra has named Dutch dairy executive Theo Spierings as chief executive, to replace Canadian Andrew Ferrier, passing over internal candidates to run the world's biggest exporter of dairy products.Spierings will take over from...
• Dairy price boom exceeds Goldman's expectations
  Dairy farmers feeling more confident about opening cheque books is good news for the economy, says Goldman Sachs economist Philip Borkin."We are already detecting improving sentiment emerging from the rural sector as farmers begin...

The Bovine

• Radioactive rain falls in B.C. on June 16
  In response to silence from government and the media, here’s citizen science: Lake Louise: Kelowna: And in Red Deer, Alberta: Watch more videos from this citizen scientist.
• What do raw milk and lemonade have in common? ...
  From Tiffany Gabbay, on The Blaze.com: This story was all over the internet yesterday and today it’s even in the Toronto Star. Here’s the scoop: “MIDWAY, Ga. (AP/The Blaze) â Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by … Continue reading →
• The “Milkman” — an agent for ...
  From Kimberly Hartke, on her “Hartke is Online” blog: “I remember the milkman. Most of you maybe are too young to have such a memory. Every week, he delivered fresh milk, cream, cottage cheese to an insulated metal container on … Continue reading →
• From Kiwi petunias to GMO lawn grass, USDA ope ...
  From Paul Voosen, of Greenwire, in the New York Times: “A few years back, several New Zealand scientists began tinkering with petunias, the elegant flowers blooming in many gardens. Playing with pigment genes, they developed biotech varieties with lush dark … Continue reading →
• Twinkies vs Raw Milk — Joel Salatin
  From Karen DeCoster, writing on the LRC blog (Lew Rockwell): “Here’s Joel Salatin at the 2:50 mark of the video, stating that he thinks it is pretty amazing that we have a government that decides it is perfectly safe to … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• ECB Caves in on "Temporary" Defaults and Colla ...
  As Greek 2-year debt yields hit 39.15% the bond market finally forced the ECB's hand, and Trichet comes out looking foolish, not only on his "we say no to default" stance, even temporary defaults, but also on his ridiculous bluff repeated for the nth time just 2 days ago regarding the acceptance ...
• Treasury Spreads Widen on Debt Concerns; Bond ...
  The long-end of the treasury curve is acting sick, smack in the face of a clearly slowing global economy. Please consider Treasury Five-to-30 Spread Near Widest This Year on Debt Ceiling ConcernThe spread between five- and 30-year Treasury yields was near the widest since November as U.S. offic ...
• EU Running Out of Rabbits; 60% of Germans Have ...
  One of the things that can "save" the Euro is the creation of a European Nanny State, complete with joint fiscal policy and joint government bonds. Jean-Claude Juncker, head Euro-Zone finance minister, is in favor of the idea and ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet is agnostic. However, Jens Wei ...
• Bank of America Clobbered on $50 Billion Capit ...
  Shares of Bank of America corporation are getting clobbered once again, this time on news of a $50 billion capital shortfall related to devastating mortgage losses. Please consider BofA Mortgage Settlements Magnify Capital Strain as $50 Billion Gap Looms Bank of America Corp. (BAC) may have to ...
• Greece 2-Year Debt Hits 35.98%, Ireland Hits 2 ...
  2-Year Government Bonds Greece 2-Year Government Bonds Ireland 2-Year Government Bonds Spain 2-Year Government Bonds Italy 2-Year Government Bonds Germany 2-Year Government Bonds 10-Year Government Bonds Greece 10-Year Government Bonds Ireland 10-Year Government Bonds Spai ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
  Israel-Made Weapons in Karachi, The Criminalization of the British Media, Former Senator: 9/11 âMajor Cover Upâ, Has America Become a Nation of Psychotics?, Do Banksters Run American Foreign Policy? & More Newsworthy Arrest of Ex-CIA Lawyer Sought Over Drone Use Crackdown, Intimidation & Torture ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
  Freedom of Speech in the age of Wikileaks, Pepe Escobar: Why US Wonât Leave Afghanistan, The Story Behind Permanent War, CIA Lies: TWA, Shadow Government in Yemen, Expansion of Drone Wars, Bipolar Federal Courts & More! Newsworthy Democracy in Steep Decline around the World Pepe Escobar: Why US ...
• Happy Birthday to My Girl; My Sunshine
  Wishing you a long happy life with love & liberty
• 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 ...