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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, July 23, 2011

23 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Veterans Today

  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – July ...
    In June, VA’s Women Veterans Call Center started to contact women Vets to educate them on VA health care and gender-specific services available at VA facilities. In the first month, the Call Center reached over 1,000 female Vets.
  • Nuclear Weapons and Hypocrites in High Places
    Nuclear Ambiguity is an Israeli-American policy for without the West's agreement, there would be no ambiguity. Israel and the United States have also worked in collaboration in targeting Iran, but Washington is eager for ‘plausible deniability.’ There’s no denying the hypocrisy in high places.
  • Coming Together To Fight For A Troubled Veteran
    When the standoff began on a humid August night, it seemed destined to become one more case of a returned soldier pulled down by a war he could not leave behind.
  • Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Homeless Veterans ...
    Edward H. Seiler, Director of the Huntington VA Medical Center, extends an invitation to Veterans, their families and members of the community to attend a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the new Homeless Veterans Resource Center, located at 624 9th Street in Huntington on July 29, 2011 at 11 a.m.
  • VA Announces Blue Button Prize Competition
    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today it is offering a $50,000 prize to the first team that builds a personal health record (PHR) using the Blue Button℠ download format, and arranges to install the PHR on the websites of 25,000 physicians across America.

electric politics

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

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • Edgar Steele Story PART II
    Sex, Lies & Audiotape (Part II) by Edgar J. Steele Here Come de Fix I had an inkling that the fix was in on the morning of the second day of the pretrial hearing concerning our forensic audiology eperts. The lead prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney Traci Whelan, was smiling, humming to herself and ...
  • FBI Stings Edgar Steele — Conviction App ...
    Attorney Edgar Steele was clearly on the B’nai B’rith ADL hit list.  He represented Aryan supremacists and actually promoted their rhetoric – exposing to the best of his ability the “Khazarian” agenda.   He was eloquent and believable in his presentations. So, the FBI supplied an undercover m ...
  • 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 ...

k2p blog

  • New uranium finds help fuel India’s nucl ...
    The civil nuclear program in India is heavily dependent upon import of nuclear fuels. Nevertheless new finds of low-grade uranium ore in India provide comfort for the continuing nuclear program in the wake of Fukushima.
  • Were Stephenson, Hayman, Yates and Wallis all ...
    In the phone hacking scandal the particularly "chummy" relationships between media and police seem exactly like those between members of an exclusive club where all members are charged with providing succur and assistance to each other,
  • 3-D printing!! Cool
    Advanced 3D printing technologies yield models that can serve as product prototypes.
  • Ahluwalia is no longer at University of East L ...
    The University of East London has parted company with Jatinder Ahluwalia following revelations that he was found guilty of research misconduct at two previous universities.
  • The difference between a scientist and an engineer
    The difference between a scientist and an engineer is that the scientist describes what is whereas an engineer uses what is to create artefacts.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • "Secret" Way To Keep Buying Paper Savings Bond ...
    The Treasury announced last week that, in order to save money, they're going to stop selling paper saving bonds after Jan 2012. Gone will be the days when a grandparent could walk down to the bank and sock away $50 every year to make an ironclad investment for their grandchildren. But there is ...
  • Incredibly Rare Yellow Lobster Shows Up At Wegmans
    The staff at the Wegmans grocery store in Pittsford, NY, hit the lottery earlier this week -- well, the seafood lottery at least -- when they discovered an incredibly rare yellow lobster among the other clawed crustaceans in its Monday delivery. According to Buffalo.com, lobsters with the gene ...
  • Cheesecake Factory Once Again Dominates List O ...
    Once again, the folks at the Center for Science in the Public Interest have taken a look around that the menus of this nation's restaurant chains to identify those items that seem so yummy on paper, so long as you're not actually reading the nutrition info. In its latest Nutrition Action Heal ...
  • Co-Eds Say It's Sexier If You Have Health Insu ...
    According to a new survey, 90% of college students say that they were attracted to someone and then found out they had health insurance, they would be more likely to be more attracted to him or her. So forget shopping for sexy lingerie, or perfecting your conversational skills, if you really wa ...
  • Supermarkets Manipulating Multiples To Get You ...
    Supermarkets are rolling out the apparent discounts more than ever. Ten for $10! Five for $5! And shoppers, thinking they're getting a deal, are gobbling it up. Never mind that you can get the same price if you just bought one of the items. NYT reports that while these type of "deals" have alw ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Lofty Matters: Murdoch, Committee Hearings and ...
    by Felix Columbidae, Human Rights TV Media history has been made today for if anyone would have said this time last year that we would hear Rupert Murdoch explaining himself on public radio (BBC Radio 5) then that person would have been locked away in an asylum. The testimony is going on as I wr ...
  • Of Greatness, Dogs, and Great Dogs
    by Professor Andrea Defusco-Sullivan American College of History and Legal Studies, Salem, N.H. What do George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln have in common? Brilliant minds? Eloquence? Patriotism? Certainly. But if the axiom “great minds think al ...
  • Tiny Manston Airport Near The Open Championshi ...
    The newsletter An Executive Review of Business Travel arrives every Monday morning and is great fun to read. Today this item caught my attention (reproduced with the permission of AERBT.co.uk editors). Flybe wins the Open Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland may have won golf’s Open Championship at ...
  • It’s FOX’s Night-Mare the F—C—P—A!
    With apologies to the Village People, much has been made of Rupert Murdoch’s month-us horribilis over the News of The World mobile phone hacking scandal. Serious questions now arise over whether or not the taint will stain his US holdings, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post or FOX News. Last ...
  • New Age Food: Self Regulating GMOs
    In the US, Genetically Modified Organisims (GMOs) fall under regulatory jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Environmental Protection Association (EPA). Now, more than ever, environmentalists are complaining that poli ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • The Real Monckton Debate
    The National Press Club Climate change debate between Lord Christopher Monckton and Richard Dennis. The ABC appear to have lost the debate for their 10pm Channel 24 slot. Somehow I don’t think they would have lost the footage if Christopher Monckton had made a mistake… Had he made a gaffe, it wo ...
  • Lord Christopher Monckton, and that waste-of-t ...
    The truth about the “Lord” claim I care not about the UK peerage, but for the record, when people mockingly claim Christopher Monckton is not a Lord it shows just how desperate they are to attack the man and distract people from hearing his arguments. The correct answer when people say: “He’s no ...
  • Spending billions? Why not do a due diligence ...
    Here’s an edited version of a comment found on Watts UP (h/t Ian :-). A retired project engineer explains to Julia Gillard why peer review reports are not the same as a proper due diligence study — something smaller organizations would have done for projects twenty million times less ambitious t ...
  • Labor sets new record in Unpopularity – worst ...
    The latest Morgan Poll: In the first Australia-wide voting intention poll conducted since Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the details of the Carbon Tax the latest telephone Morgan Poll conducted over the last two nights, July 13/14, 2011 shows the L-NP 60.5% with a record winning lead ove ...
  • The pendulum is swinging back now: Climate Rap
    This is a great turning point. I know this has been circulating for weeks, but if you haven’t seen this climate rap, do check it out. Good Friday night stuff. The warmers have been pretending for so long that they are the little guys fighting Big Oil, Big Industry, and Bad Government. The ruse w ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Snow Falling on Atacama Desert
    Snow Falling on Atacama Desert is a post from: 2012 Blog Snow Falling on Atacama Desert is a post from: 2012 Blog One of the driest places on Earth was hit with a blizzard: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14067245 Australian mining towns have their coldest ...
  • Hawass Fired (again)
    Hawass Fired (again) is a post from: 2012 Blog Hawass Fired (again) is a post from: 2012 Blog He had it good for a very long time.  He established himself as the Indiana Jones of Egypt. He had TV shows that screened globally. He dominated ... Related posts:UPDATE: Za ...
  • New Info on Comet Elenin
    New Info on Comet Elenin is a post from: 2012 Blog New Info on Comet Elenin is a post from: 2012 Blog 2012 author Carl Johan Calleman has jumped on the bandwagon, making a connection between the comet and his proposed Mayan calendar end-date: The comet Elenin, which ... ...
  • Strange Goings-On > UFOs?
    Strange Goings-On > UFOs? is a post from: 2012 Blog Strange Goings-On > UFOs? is a post from: 2012 Blog Just like nuclear power plants, it seems that nuclear missile bases are a step or two of redundancy short: When Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming lost ... Related ...
  • Howden Hill > Silbury Jr.
    I’ve often thought that Silbury Hill was unappreciated in the greater scheme of ancient mysteries. Primarily because it is just a hill.  Yet when you look at the figures, it was quite an achievement for its era ... Related posts:Asteroid Tsunamis Not So Bad After All? New Hominid = Myst ...

Facing South

  • Spillionaires revisited: Gov't official's asso ...
    By Kim Barker, ProPublica Last month, Craig Taffaro Jr., the president of Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish, lambasted a ProPublica story while testifying before a congressional committee. The story, published in April, described how some local powerbrokers and ...
  • Feds' own data raise questions about effort to ...
    There was an outpouring of anger from fishermen at a public meeting held in Mississippi last week to discuss federal plans for addressing a dramatic increase in deaths of endangered sea turtles. The government is considering requiring all shrimpers with skimmer boats to use turtle-excluder devic ...
  • 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 ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • Rupert Murdoch, Wendi Deng, and an Embarrassin ...
    Editor's Note: Today Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks testified before members of Parliament about the News International phone hacking scandal, which has resulted in a wave of resignations and arrests, including Brooks'. Murdoch, the CEO of News International parent company News Corp, refused ...
  • Mysteries of Children
    Wow summer vacation has officially begun -- how time sure flies when you are sedated! A few days ago I was hiding in my closet from the brats children when I came to the realization that I am raising 8 children yet I haven’t a clue about them. Perhaps they should be added alongside the Bermud ...
  • Jennifer Weiner's Then Came You: Absolutely Fa ...
    [Editor's note: I either love or hate Jennifer Weiner's books, there's no between for me, so I wait until the reviews roll in before I decide whether to pick them up. I think Kelly's review might have convinced me to check out Then Came You. - Karen] Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner I’d be lyi ...
  • (VIDEO) Dana Cowin on the Growth of the Food & ...
    Food & Wine Editor-in-Chief Dana Cowin spent 2.5 Minutes With genConnect at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. She talked about the rise of the Classic and what was new at this year's event. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Prior to taking control of Food & Wine as edito ...
  • Is Google Search Destroying Your Memory?
    Science Magazine published an article this week titled Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips. Translated into nonscientific terms, the consequences seem to be that we are forgetting everything we once remembered. Image: Tangled Mess by mlkeewa ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • 131 Children Vaccinated At Gunpoint in Malawi
    The Gates Foundation has long been in an aggressive effort to vaccinate the world and often targets poor Africans. The Gates’ web site showcases Melinda Gates applauding Malawi for enforcing vaccine programs with its helpful ...
  • City Life Destroys Brain & Emotional Health
    Who fares better, the town mouse or the country mouse? According to recent German research, city dwellers experience much higher percentages of anxiety, release of stress hormones, hypertension, depression and mental disorders. Social scientists predict ...
  • Vitamin D Could Have Saved Mozart
    While it is unclear what actually killed Mozart at the youthful age of 35, two researchers believe it was ultimately a vitamin D deficiency. He was constantly ill during the long winter months and fell ...
  • Who’s Serving Wood In Your Food?
    How much wood could a wood chuck, chuck? How much have we been chucking down all these years? You’ve, no doubt, come across the ingredient cellulose on many packaged foods like ice cream, pizza, meat, macaroni, chips ...
  • AMA: Parents Should Lose Custody of ‘Sup ...
    Did our eyes deceive us? The Journal of American Medical Association answers the question “Should parents lose custody of super-obese kids?” with a resounding affirmative! Apparently, this is already happening! Doctors are accusing and reporting ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Running Right: Alpha and unions
    Here’s a new story out from the AP’s Vicki Smith: The United Mine Workers says a notice the new owners posted at a West Virginia mine where 29 men died in an explosion last year is a standard industry tactic aimed at discouraging attempts to unionize. Spokesman Phil Smith says the union knows ab ...
  • Strip mining and birth defects, by the numbers
    There’s was a great piece from Sue Sturgis at Facing South that I missed last week when I was doing our Coal Tattoo Friday Roundup … so I wanted to mention it here. In INSTITUTE INDEX: Appalachia’s deepening human rights crisis, Sue outlines some of the numbers about the new study exposing the l ...
  • MSHA gets order to block inspection warnings
    Here’s a news release from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a permanent injunction in U.S. district court against CAM Mining LLC of Pike County, Ky., prohibiting advance communication of any federal mine inspection. On July 15, in the U.S. ...
  • How aggressive is MSHA’s regulatory agenda?
    Near the end of last week’s U.S. Department of Labor “web chat” about the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s latest regulatory agenda, the DOL webmasters posted this comment from Dennis O’Dell, MSHA chief Joe Main’s successor as health and safety director for the United Mine Workers: While ...
  • Friday roundup, July 15, 2011
    In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the first survivor is pulled out alive more than 180 hours, or about seven and a half days, after being trapped in a collapsed coal mine in Heshan City, southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Sunday, July 10, 2011. The mine operated by G ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

  • Solidarity with Charlie Gilmour
    Predictably there has been a lot of interest and comment on the sentencing of Charlie Gilmour to sixteen months for two counts of violent disorder. It has been both suggested this was lenient because he’ll only do eight months or less on a tag, and that it was a harsher sentence because of his p ...
  • Report from the frontlines of the Ardoyne Oran ...
    Taken from the Workers Solidarity Movement Posted 2011-07-14 Rioting erupted in ‘nationalist areas’ across the North on Tuesday after the annual Orange Order parades. The worst of the trouble was in Ardoyne in North Belfast which left 16 police officers injured and with over 60 lethal plastic bu ...
  • Plastic bullets used in Belfast riots
    It’s hard to comment on a situation when the only information you have is from BBC reports, but the riots that took place in nationalist / republican areas of Belfast after the 12th July Orange Order parades should probably get at least some mention here, and particularly the continued use of pl ...
  • Free Francis Fernie. Resist political sentencing
    Last week, a 20 year old man was given twelve months for violent disorder relating to protests on March 26th outside Fortnum and Masons. He threw two placard sticks, neither of which hurt anyone nor were capable of causing harm. This man, pictured in one of Operation Malone's witch hunts, handed ...
  • 30 Years Since the Liverpool 8 Uprising &#8211 ...
    It was July 1981 when the Liverpool 8 Uprising - or 'Toxteth Riots' as it became known - began. Following the typically aggressive and heavy-handed arrest of Leroy Cooper on Friday 3 July, anger erupted on the streets of one of Liverpool's most deprived areas in one of the most voracious display ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies: A New Voice in the Wilderness
    WWH- We would like to introduce to all our readers; our newest writer Edward Croft. Ed is a wonderful addition to our unique and talented staff of writers. Look for Ed each Sunday at 8:00 pm eastern. And welcome him with your comments and warm wishes. With no further ado. Here is Edward Croft. F ...
  • Assessing a famine: the food crisis in the Hor ...
    CBC News – What is a famine? The United Nations has not yet declared the food crisis in the Horn of Africa a famine, but parts of the region have been classified as being in a “humanitarian emergency” phase, which is only one step away from a “famine” designation on the UN’s scale of food [...]
  • Where Rachel Maddow Dares Not Tread
    By Daniel C. Maguire,consortiumnews – To MSNBCâs Rachel Maddow: On your show of July 14, you spoke of your complete freedom to say what you want on your show and Bill Moyers gently demurred, speaking of restricting forces that hover over journalists. Bill Moyers was correct. I cannot believe you ...
  • European Court of Human Rights recognizes the ...
    amnesty.org – A landmark ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for the first time explicitly recognizing the right to conscientious objection to military service has been welcomed by Amnesty International. Today’s court judgement found in favour of Vahan Bayatyan, a Jehovah’s Witne ...
  • Justice Clarence Thomas; pervert, lier, corrup ...
    WWH – Can you have these in prison? Open Forum: Supreme Court scandal Bob Uppgaard – Our system of government rests on the fundamental fairness of the highest court in the land. Recent stories about Supreme Court justices, including Justice Clarence Thomas, threaten that perception. In January 2 ...

reference frame

  • International Math Olympiad 2011
    When I participated at IMO 1992 in Moscow, people were laughing that our year was so unlucky to have Moscow - but I am actually happy it was Moscow. This year, kids compete in Amsterdam which I visited in 1997 and 2002, to make you start to think about functions with period 5 which you ...
  • Daily Kos: a good article on imminent Higgs de ...
    The Daily Kos, a far left-wing U.S. community website, has been often mentioned on this blog but I guess that this is the first time when it happens in a positive way. (Well, it's actually the second time.) A writer nicknamed "Science" has written an article about the expected imminent ...
  • Larry Summers: U.S. default would make Lehman ...
    Although many people have some idea, I consider the opinions of Lawrence Summers concerning the state of the U.S. economy to be more relevant than the opinion of others - at least those in the Democrat Party. In the video above, he says that the daddy truck - the U.S. government ...
  • TRF beats Al Gore's megaproject
    If you forgot about the name, Al Gore is a former U.S. vice-president and the de facto leader of the world's global warming alarmist movement. He remains at large; he hasn't even been forced to return the Nobel Prize yet. One week ago, on July 12th, he has launched his new Climate Real ...
  • CERN boss: I forbade employees to interpret ou ...
    Political pressure on scientific research even at CERN began to resemble the undemocratic regimes of the past Veteran science journalist Nigel Calder has found an incredible interview with Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the boss of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in "Die Welt ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

  • New & Improved: Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011
    By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011, introduced June 24 by Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) has a simple aim: to give the federal Food and Drug Administration... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...
  • Think your Water Bottle is "BPA Free"? Better ...
    By Margot Pagan, EWG Summer Press Intern Is your reusable water bottle aluminum? In an effort to be more sustainable and protect my health, I made the switch from plastic water bottles to my reliable metal bottle that I carry... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
  • U.S. Forest Service: Fracking Killed Trees
    By Justine Chow, Natural Resources Summer Researcher Chemical-laden wastewater generated by a natural gas hydraulic fracturing operation killed more than half a stand of trees in a field study at the Monongahela National Forest, according to a new report... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • On Conservation: Even your water can be reused
    By Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, my mother used to admonish me to conserve water during droughts. "Turn off the faucet while you brush your teeth," she'd say, "and take a shorter... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...
  • Cosmetics Industry To Disavow Hair Straighteners
    By David Andrews, Ph.D., EWG senior scientist Most people are - by now - well aware that overexposure to formaldehyde is unsafe. From the FEMA trailer fiasco (remember Katrina?) to the Obama administration's recent decision to classify formaldehyde as... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • SirenFest grows up and moves to Manhattan, for ...
    The dock does not feel like a dock, it just happens to be made of wood; the whole environment seems contrived for tourists and class trips rather than a raucous showcase for challenging, loud, difficult, erudite new music. At first, the crowd seemed, to me ...
  • On Rupert Murdoch's performance before Parliam ...
    To many of us, Rupert Murdoch's testimony—much of which has so far involved mumbled, slowly delivered monosyllables, admissions of not knowing important details about the phone-hacking scandals that embroiled his British newspapers division, and at times h ...
  • The many uses, good and bad, of Rachel Uchitel ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • Fearing life after Bloomberg, New York's busin ...
    In late April, the immaculate chairwoman of the New York real-estate lobby and her husband, an Upper East Side plastic surgeon, hosted a fund-raiser for the City Council speaker, Christine Quinn, at their condo across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. R ...
  • Rudy Giuliani isn't John McCain, and his New H ...
    "I think John had exactly the right strategy," Giuliani said.There's a problem, though: This wasn't really McCain's strategy in '08. Yes, it's true that McCain's campaign ended up downplaying expectations for their candidate in Iowa, that McCain himself sk ...

Views & News from Norway

  • The ‘third Norwegian’ cycling hero
    Ryder Hesjedal was the third rider to cross the finish line of Tuesday’s 16th stage of the Tour de France, right behind winner Thor Hushovd and second-place winner Edvald Boasson Hagen, both of Norway. Hesjedal, it turns out, can claim strong Norwegian roots as well, giving the country pretty mu ...
  • Bear scare for fisherman
    Torstein Røisgaard had perhaps the ultimate fishing tale to tell after a routine trip ended with a major bear scare early Tuesday morning. Røisgaard, from Notodden, had headed out for a late-night fishing trip to Trolltjønn near Smådøla in the mountain valley of Numedal. Suddenly he saw a large ...
  • Man charged with killing foster mother
    A 35-year-old man with a history of psychiatric problems and a long criminal record was charged Tuesday for the murder of his 56-year-old foster mother in the coastal community of Tvedestrand, southern Norway. The 35-year-old has admitted killing the woman, who was found beaten to death in her h ...
  • ‘Thor de France:’ He wins again
    Norwegian superstar cyclist Thor Hushovd wowed the crowds again when he won the 16th stage of the prestigious Tour de France on Tuesday. Hushovd finished just ahead of fellow Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen, making it another great day for Norwegian fans. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported tha ...
  • Abbas launches state initiative in Oslo
    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been in Oslo this week, where he launched a new drive towards statehood by signing an agreement with Norway that upgrades the Palestinians’ representative office in Oslo to an embassy. Norway remained non-committal, though, towards formally recognizing a n ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

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

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Health, Poisons, Diseases, Drugs • Re: Possibl ...
    Thanks for those latest finds /tab. Its all stranger than fiction to me now, but this thread got me pulling on other threads and I'm watching all kinds of real life dramas unfold amidst this dawning reality. Below is the latest piece on newly discovered benefits of cannabinoid therapy I've co ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • G ...
    . . Goldman Sachs Jews Lloyd Blankfein Lloyd Craig Blankfein (born September 20, 1954) is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Goldman Sachs. He has been in this position since 2006. He is the Gala Chairman of the Rockefeller family's Asia Society in New York. On January 13, 201 ...
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    Whaler wrote: Alan Sabrosky, US Marine Corps veteran-The Autograph-07-13-2011 iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Ffz0koJb that's a good interview. i posted the Sabrosky interview Monday AM @ http://forums.anandtech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=24 then, i got banned Monday AM. bummer St ...
  • Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: [ Th ...
    Dear Freinds, Why people have no need to be responsible for the money private banks issued is obvious to you? It is because the wealth the money is to represent is not the private banks possessions. If the government signed the paper says, in effect, people is to be responsible for it then ...
  • Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: [ Th ...
    Dear Freinds, Why people have no need to be responsible for the money private banks issued is obvious to you? It is because the wealth the money is to represent is not the private banks possessions. If the government signed the paper says, in effect, people is to be responsible for it then ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • The World at 7 Billion: Can We Stop Growing Now?
    With global population expected to surpass 7 billion people this year, the staggering impact on an overtaxed planet is becoming more and more evident. A two-pronged response is imperative: empower women to make their own decisions on childbearing and rein in our excessive consumption of resource ...
  • Forests Absorb One-Third of Fossil Fuel Emissi ...
    Forests play an even greater role in Earth’s climate system than previously known, according to the most comprehensive assessment yet of the carbon storage potential of the world’s wooded areas. Between 1990 Wikimedia Commons and 2007, the planet’s tropical, temperate, and boreal forests absor ...
  • Loss of Large Predators Has Sweeping Impact on ...
    The loss of top predators in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments has had a major impact on ecosystems worldwide, leading to changes in vegetation, more wildfires, a decline in water quality, and an increase in infectious diseases and invasive species, according to a study publish ...
  • Population of Snow Leopards Discovered in Afgh ...
    Researchers say they have discovered a population of endangered snow leopards in the remote mountains of northeastern Afghanistan, a promising development for View photos WCSSnow leopard photographed by a camera trap a species whose numbers have plummeted in recent decades. Using camera traps ...
  • Key CO2 Capture Project Is Suspended by Major ...
    The U.S.’s most ambitious project to capture and sequester carbon from a coal-fired power plant has been shelved by a large utility company, which says that the lack of climate legislation and support from state governments has rendered the $668 million project financially untenable. American El ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Top octopus soccer prognosticator missed picki ...
    An octopus from Berlin beat seven rivals from across Germany in a contest to predict results at the Women's World Cup soccer tournament by correctly choosing the winner in four of six games covered, but it missed Japan's victory in the final, organizers said. The octopus, named Ophira, hence f ...
  • Brittleness factor of aging reactors key resta ...
    In the world of nuclear reactor science and safety, the ductile-brittle transition temperature, which is used to measure the strength of the inner wall of a reactor pressure vessel, is a critical factor. The steel walls of a reactor vessel wear out through years of direct exposure to neutron i ...
  • Morgan Stanley likely to name MUFG's Tamakoshi ...
    Morgan Stanley is likely to appoint Ryosuke Tamakoshi to its board as the second representative from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., according to a person briefed on the discussions. Tamakoshi, the former chairman of Mitsubishi UFJ, will represent the nation's biggest publicly traded bank ...
  • Halladay can't deal with heat, Cubs
    Aramis Ramirez and Carlos Pena homered to back a dominant start by Rodrigo Lopez, and the Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia 6-1 on Monday night as Phillies ace Roy Halladay left the game because of the heat. Halladay doubled over and was visited by a trainer after Starlin Castro led off the fifth ...
  • Fukushima cattle under shipment ban
    The government banned beef cattle shipments from Fukushima Prefecture on Tuesday, more than a week after meat from the prefecture showed high levels of radioactive cesium, including some already sold and consumed. Alarm has spread nationwide over the estimated 650 cows from Fukushima, Niigata ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

  • Murdoch is not the only maggot in the rotten apple
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the rot in the British body politic goes much deeper than those whose reputations have been tarnished through complicity with Rupert Murdoch's empire, and that the British people must mobilize to reclaim their institutions that have been hijacked by Israel's stooges ...
  • Method in Netanyahu's madness: Israel rules ou ...
    Jonathan Cook argues that by outlawing non-violent protest against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the siege of Gaza and leaving only violence as a mode of resistance, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his supporters believe that they can "safeguard the legitima ...
  • Americans: facing the world and facing ourselves
    Lawrence Davidson explains why most Americans "neither see themselves as others see them nor look honestly into their own faces", and in consequence, "are led to collectively act in self-destructive ways".
  • Herem law in the context of Jewish past and pr ...
    Gilad Atzmon looks into the traditional Jewish herem culture underlying the law recently passed by the Israeli parliament criminalizing calls for the boycott of Israel or the illegal Jewish settlements.
  • US Congress loves being lied to about the Isra ...
    Stuart Littlewood reminds Israel's stooges and other ignoramuses in the US Congress of a few basic facts about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict - the sheer injustice suffered by the Palestinians at the hands of Israel and its US supporter - and concludes: "There is only one thing worse than bein ...

Physics Today

  • Researchers attempt quantum superposition of a ...
    New Scientist: Can large objects follow quantum laws? To answer that question, Oriol Romero-Isart from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and colleagues are experimenting to see whether a nanometer-sized glass sphere can exist in two entirely distinct places at one ...
  • As severe weather grows, forecasters have beco ...
    New York Times: As increasingly severe weather destroys crops and urban infrastructure, and as scientists explore the implications of climate change, TV weather forecasters have gained in importance. And since the advent of Doppler radar in the 1980s, their role has gone from delivering National ...
  • House passes energy funding bill
    Science: As US lawmakers argued over long-term deficit reduction, the Republican-controlled House managed to pass a few energy measures on Friday. An amendment to bring proposed 2012 funding for the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy up to the current-year level of $ ...
  • Carbon atoms set free by UV light
    Nature: A team of physicists in Australia has found that sunlight can cause diamond to lose atoms. Diamonds are usually etched by laser in a process called ablation, whereby atoms are burned from the surface, leaving behind a rough, damaged area more like that of graphite, writes James Mitchell ...
  • Galaxy's spin may help explain matter-antimatt ...
    Space.com: A physicist at the UK’s University of Warwick believes he has found a testable explanation for apparent CP violation. In a paper published in Europhysics Letters, Mark Hadley suggests that researchers have neglected to take into account the significant impact of the rotation of our ga ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show,'-24
    by footprints (Posted Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:49:38 GMT) Episode 21-Season Three Filmed September 23rd 2011 Duration-45 Minutes Omar Abdulla: Welcome to The 'Omar Abdulla,' SHOW produced by Footprints Filmworks...It has been a rollar-coaster ride here in Greece as many of our viewers have been ...
  • News media won't report
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:38:59 GMT) $12 Billion For Them - 1.5 Million Homeless For Us Lilith - 7 days ago - rense.com Does anyone possess a clue as to why our U.S. government spends $12 billion every 30 days in Afghanistan and Iraq while 1.5 million of our citizens remain hom ...
  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show,'-23
    by footprints (Posted Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:29:11 GMT) Episode 21-Season Three Filmed September 23rd 2011 Duration-45 Minutes Omar Abdulla: Welcome to The 'Omar Abdulla,' SHOW produced by Footprints Filmworks...It has been a rollar-coaster ride here in Greece as many of our viewers have been ...
  • Global Warming Alarmist demands more militancy ...
    by lindseya (Posted Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:30:40 GMT) What percentage of global warming deniers can't differentiate between weather and climate? It seems like half the questions in the global warming section these days are 'if global warming is true why is it snowing today?'
  • Bin Laden and Julian Assange, False flag and l ...
    by lalaw (Posted Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:35:15 GMT) It has emerged recently that Assange is in the UK since October which means that all those three successive and massive US documents "leaks" have been orchestrated by him from his secret residence in the UK. So why is this done from the UK. The ans ...

Peakwater

  • North India Hydro Boom Leaves Communities High ...
    “Rivers and streams are being diverted from one valley into another, with serious impacts. The 800 MW Parbati-II Hydroelectric Project is one such example. The Parbati River is  just one of a number of rivers and streams being diverted through a long tunnel from the Parbati valley into the Sain ...
  • Seville pot farms linked to water woes
    Seville’s 400 residents have lived years with tainted drinking water from their only well, but they say there is a new problem in town — water-hogging marijuana gardens. The outdoor gardens planted in the last year are taking so much of the town’s water that it sometimes takes 45 minutes to fill ...
  • Drought Just One Example of Africa’s Changing ...
    “As a prolonged, severe drought puts 10 million people at risk in East Africa, humanitarian agencies are hard-pressed to supply enough food and water. Crops have been destroyed, farmland damaged, seeds consumed as food and livestock sold so families can survive. Thousands of people have migrated ...
  • Roger Dolan: Better ways to get water
    “The regional project to supply water for the Peninsula is in deep trouble from a wide range of problems. Yet, proponents of the desalination project and many Peninsula citizens feel it is their only option. In fact, it isn’t the only choice, and it certainly isn’t the best or least expensive. T ...
  • Catastrophe looms unless China signs water-sha ...
    “The new plans involve the diversion of water from the Brahmaputra to the upper reaches of the north-western Chinese province of Xinjiang which has recently experienced serious droughts. The plans follow the announcement in 2010 that China is building a hydroelectric project near the âgreat be ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Washington Doublespeak on Social Sec ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has consistently pointed out that Social Security is strong and not related to the debt ceiling crisis, today issued the following statement after the so-called ‘Gang of Six’ Senators issued a draft of a plan that would put Social Security on the chopping ...
  • Kucinich Continues Efforts to Save Cleveland C ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is continuing his efforts to support community churches and to keep the ‘community anchors’ open for Cleveland area residents. In a letter outlining the importance of these churches, Congressman Kucinich has requested to meet with Reverend John Smith, Archbisho ...
  • Kucinich Defends American Waterways; Don’t Mak ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime advocate of environmental protection, spoke out against H.R. 2018, the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011, which would remove vital protections of our nation’s waterways. “I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 2018, which would be more ap ...
  • The Concerns of Seniors are a ‘Big Deal;’ Don’ ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) again took to the House floor today to continue his unflinching defense of senior citizens and Social Security from those who would pay off the debt by creating economic insecurity for our seniors. See video here. The full text of Congressman Kucinich�s remar ...
  • Debt Political Theater Diverts Attention While ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor about the massive transfer of wealth from the American people to the hands of the few by virtue of wars, energy policies and monetary policies. He called upon Americans to witness Wall Street�s theft of Main Street, which has left ...

Authentically Wired

  • NO right to know
    � �� What don�t you understand �� corporate says you have NO right to disclosure �� NO right to know how they are killing you �� � EPA Refuses to Study Risks of Coal Ash Uses it Endorses eNews Park Forest http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/science-a-environmental/25489-epa-refuses-to-study-risks ...
  • “King” Pearce…?
    ⦠Another opportunity for âKingâ Pearce to see if he can influence Arizonaâs judicial system ⦠Sen. Pearce challenges recall; opponents say he’s running scared   By Dennis Welch  ⦠ The Arizona Guardian Backers of Senate President Russell Pearce on Monday filed a lawsuit asking the court to s ...
  • PUBLIC SERVANT…?
    ⦠Just what part of PUBLIC SERVANT donât you understand Senator Nelson ⦠? Sen. Nelson to Fiesta Bowl: We don’t have to pay By Dennis Welch â¦The Arizona Guardian When it comes to pushing back against the Fiesta Bowl apparently Sen. John Nelson has no friends at the state Capitol. Last week th ...
  • robo-signers
      ⦠Reuters – America’s leading mortgage lenders vowed in March to end the dubious foreclosure practices that caused a bruising scandal last year. But a Reuters investigation finds that many are still taking the same shortcuts they promised to shun, from sketchy paperwork to the use of "robo-si ...
  • “original intent”
    � �� Come on ��the �original intent� of any REDISTRICTING is to make damn sure my man get re-elected �� Next question ��? ��"Original Intent" of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission�� Posted by AzBlueMeanie��http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2011/07/original-intent-of-the-arizona-in ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Changespotting: Marvels of postmodern medicine?
    Vocal cords can easily be damaged from overuse, medical procedures or various illnesses and the resulting scar tissue can make speech almost impossible. A synthetic gel
  • Shuttle's days numbered but spinoffs here to stay
    Science from the space shuttle has helped open Earth's eyes to the cosmos and sister planets.It created perhaps the most detailed topographical map of Earth. It even still is helping doctors understand, and sometimes fix, what...
  • Neil Domigan: KiwiNet needed to help spur busi ...
    Spending on science with a clear focus needs to grow, writes Dr Neil Domigan, a director of Cranleigh Merchant Bankers. The formation of KiwiNet by some universities and Crown research institutes to help with the commercialisation...
  • NASA's asteroid mission
    NASA's Dawn spacecraft was captured into orbit around the massive asteroid Vesta after a 2.7 billion kilometre journey and is preparing to begin a study of a surface that may date to the earliest era of the solar system, the space...
  • Brain cells from skin an 'astounding' step
    Skin cells from a 30-year-old woman have been turned directly into mature nerve cells similar to those found in the brain using a procedure that promises to revolutionise the emerging field of regenerative medicine.Scientists...

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Hit & Run | Reason

  • "You are the most vile, unprofessional, and de ...
    Republican Rep. Allen West writes a not-so-kind note to his fellow Florida representative, Democrat Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. The subject line of the email? "Unprofessional and Inappropriate Sophomoric Behavior from Wasserman-Schultz." 
  • New Jersey Proceeds With Medical Marijuana Dis ...
    Today New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced that he will proceed with plans to allow distribution of medical marijuana by six nonprofit organizations, despite federal prosecution threats. Christie, who had been dragging his feet in implementing New Jersey's medical marijuana law ...
  • New at Reason: Ronald Bailey Welcomes an Envir ...
    In his new book, The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans, eco-activist and journalist Mark Lynas admits that he and his fellow environmentalist ideologues have been scientifically wrong about a lot of things including nuclear power and biotech crops. Reason Sci ...
  • Sometimes the Headline Says it All
    "Tabloids don't deserve the 1st Amendment: Our respect for freedom of the press shelters their illegal conduct." Thanks to Ken Basart for the link.
  • Welch & Gillespie: Doubling Down on Bets t ...
    Writing in the Charlottesville Examiner Libertarian, Richard Sincere interviews Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch about the making of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America. Excerpt: "It was a combination of looking at how good ...

Mercury Rising

  • Rupert Murdoch: “I’m out of touch& ...
    Testimony to the Committee on Culture, Media, and Sport. Murdoch’s properties aren’t culture, so I guess this is either about media or sport. See Guardian for full live blog. Not very enlightening testimony. Rupert feigns deafness, James emphasizes that hush money to victims was paid out after t ...
  • FOX’s Roger Ailes Linked To Longtime US ...
    My, my. Up to this point Rupert’s been trying to insulate his TV fiefdom from his doomed print-media fiefdom. But that strategy may be about to collapse, as longstanding allegations that Murdoch employee (and former Nixonite and former RNC chair) Roger Ailes phone hacked US citizens for FOX News ...
  • Such a relief to hear…
    Aaron Sheldrick, Bloomberg: Tokyo Electric Power Co. is rushing to install a cover over a building at its crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant to shield it from wind and rain as Typhoon Ma-on approached Japan’s coast from the south. The cover will be placed over the turbine building of the ...
  • And in opposite world…
    Image by Chris Riddell of the Guardian Ed Pilkington, The Guardian: The Wall Street Journal has attempted to redirect the criticism that has been levelled against its owner, Rupert Murdoch, against the journalists who uncovered the illegal phone hacking and bribery at the News of the World. In a ...
  • London’s Top Cop Resigns, Rebekah Brooks ...
    The implosion of News International continues apace. Exhibit A: Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World and allegations that police officers were bribed to leak sensitive information. Exhibit B: 7.33pm: Metropolitan police co ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Parashakti's Voyage
    RS is a proud sponsor of the Dance of Liberation screening featuring Parashakti’s spiritual voyage with renowned spiritual leaders and elders. July 31, NYC. read more
  • Making The Fifth Sacred Thing Movie -- A Magic ...
    � "Consciousness is the most stubborn stuff in the universe, and the most fluid," says Lily, a character in my futuristic novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing.  "It can be rigid as concrete, and it can change in an instant.  A song can change it, or a story, or a fragrance wafting by on the wind." r ...
  • Manmade Tree Plague
    Across the U.S. trees are dying in mass numbers due to a new brand of weedkiller manufactured by DuPont and approved for use by the EPA. According to reports, the herbicide Imprelis "was claimed to be safer for the environment than its predecessors," but landscapers and environmentalists have n ...
  • Bridging Dimensions
    � Two decades ago, the Amazonian plant medicine ayahuasca was largely unknown in the Western world. Few people outside of a circle of fringe scientists and daredevil psychonauts were privy to the obscure psychedelic brew, and fewer still had experienced its powerful effects firsthand. Yet ove ...
  • Singularities and Nightmares
    � In this provocative essay from 2004, the author discusses issues that strike us as even more relevant today than when it was written. We present it here for the benefit of the Reality Sandwich community.   � Overview read more

Desertification

  • Eleven Million at Risk in Horn of Africa
    "I have never seen anything like it. Many mothers have lost three or four children. It's a tragedy out here," Austin Kennan, regional director for the Horn of Africa for Concern Worldwide, told IPS from within the crisis zone.
  • UN: Somalia Is 'Worst Humanitarian Disaster'
    The head of the United Nations refugee agency has described the situation in drought-hit Somalia as the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world, after meeting with those affected at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
  • Dam Project in Turkey Breeds Controversy
    The tranquillity and mystery of this town on the banks of Tigris River will not last long. The millennia-old town will be nearly totally destroyed once the nearby Ilisu dam, built for energy and irrigation, is complete.
  • AFRICA: Eco-Labels "Greenwashing" Forest Explo ...
    "Eco-label fatigue" is setting in as green logging certification schemes are undermining proper government management of forest resources while "greenwashing" private ownership of these public resources, critics say.
  • NIGER: Caring for the River, Reaping the Benefits
    In anticipation of growing sorghum during the coming rainy season, Hamadou Abdou and his son are busy preparing the soil on the family's farm in Bougoum, a village in the west of Niger.

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Eleven Million at Risk in Horn of Africa
    "I have never seen anything like it. Many mothers have lost three or four children. It's a tragedy out here," Austin Kennan, regional director for the Horn of Africa for Concern Worldwide, told IPS from within the crisis zone.
  • Sanitation Moves Up Global Development Agenda
    With nearly 40 percent of the world's population lacking adequate sanitation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced an initiative Tuesday to invest 42 million dollars in new grants to help "reinvent the toilet".
  • The "Disappeared" - New Face of Mexico's Drug War
    Chess player Roberto Galv�n, 33, was detained Jan. 25 by the police in the northeast Mexican state of Nuevo Le�n as he sat on a bench in the central square of General Ter�n, a town 100 km from Monterrey. No one has seen him since.
  • Execution Videos Strike Terror in Pakistan
    A video showing a group of 16 Pakistani policemen, hands tied behind their backs, being executed by Taliban gunmen in the Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is only the latest in a series showing brutal acts designed to strike terror in the areas bordering Afghanistan.
  • MALAWI: Women Get Dirty to Stop Water Scarcity
    Ethel James cannot wait for the gravity-fed water scheme in her area to be fixed so that she and the other women in her village will no longer have to wake up before dawn everyday to queue for water.

Scoop - NZ

  • Live Coverage: phone hacking scandal
    Page updates every minute 12.49am: The Times has confirmed that its web addresses have been taken down as a precautionary measure. News International's corporate website, www.NewsInt.co.uk, is also offline. 12.37am: James Ball, a data journalist working for the Guardian investigations t ...
  • Phone-hacking whistle-blower found dead
    A former News of the World journalist who made phone-hacking allegations against the paper has been found dead. Sean Hoare had told the New York Times the practice was far more extensive than the paper acknowledged when police first investigated hacking claims. Hertfordshire Police said th ...
  • The Dark side of MasterChef
    Two million Australian viewers are addicted to MasterChef Australia. Another 4 million watch from time to time. I am one of the addicted. I'm drawn to the show's production values, which are brilliant, far better than the English original. But this brilliance does not blind me to the dark side o ...
  • Pilger: Murdoch - A Cultural Chernobyl
    “As I lay in my hospital bed,” Eddie said, “the hospital staff kept the Sun away from me. It’s bad enough when you lose your 14-year-old son because you’re treating him to a football match. Nothing can be worse than that. But since then I’ve had to defend him against all the rubbish printed by t ...
  • Embattled Murdochs target of personal lawsuits
    Rupert and James Murdoch are to be sued personally for their handling of the phone-hacking debacle, it emerged on Thursday night as the family’s woes intensified on both sides of the Atlantic.

Independent - London

  • Serbia arrests last war crimes fugitive
    A Serbian government official has confirmed the arrest of Goran Hadzic, the last remaining fugitive sought by the UN war crimes court.
  • Gun battle as Nato hands over key Afghan city
    Gunmen attacked a police station in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar city and killed its commander today as a security handover designed to showcase the strength of Afghan forces got underway in a neighbouring province.
  • Cyprus could need bailout after blast
    Cyprus may need foreign financial aid unless drastic action is taken to deal with the impact of an explosion which decimated its largest power station, central bank governor Athanasios Orphanides has warned.
  • Parts of south Somalia suffering from famine, ...
    The UN says tens of thousands of people have died in Somalia from causes related to malnutrition and parts of the country are suffering from famine in the worst drought for over half a century.
  • Why world leaders are losing hearts and minds
    Cometh the hour, cometh the man. But not as far as Western politics are concerned, apparently. All through Europe and America, as Japan, Western democracies are suffering a collapse of leadership and a catastrophic decline in popular confidence in them. It's not as though the need for leadershi ...

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • More US Hysteria: Arkansas town seeks to ban f ...
    Gould, Arkansas, is a small town of about 850 people. If the city council has its way, those 850 people will be barred from gathering together to discuss city matters without approval from the city government. Mayor Earnest Nash is completely opposed to the plan and is willing to go to court r ...
  • Newspaper Takes Money from Food Company to Pro ...
    Have you heard the adage 'don't believe what you read'? In the area of health I believe this is generally good advice. Trawling through newspapers has convinced me that much of what is written about how best to manage our health is based more on science fiction rather than fact. I believe this a ...
  • Do You Have an "ANT" Infestation? How to Deal ...
    How do you deal with negative thoughts and limiting beliefs? Are you aware of your self-talk and thinking patterns? Many people suffer from an ANT infestation, which stands for Automatic Negative Thoughts. Our self-talk is often automatic and can be difficult to notice. We go through life maki ...
  • US: Police in Georgia Shut Down Girls' Lemonad ...
    Midway - Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits. Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar says police also didn't know how the lemonade was made, who made ...
  • Rupert murdoch fired by his own company
    The American board of News Corporation - the parent company of News International - has decided to replace Rupert Murdoch as the chief executive officer of his own media empire. The decision has been made over fears that the 80-year-old tycoon would not be able to ward off attacks over avalanch ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Rupert Murdoch is not a banker
    Mr. Murdoch is a media mogul. He doesn't hold sway in the global financial system like the folks at Goldman Sachs, or any of the houses responsible for the crash in 2008. He isn't someone of import to the economic ideology of political leaders. Especially since his papers have spied on said poli ...
  • Only men
    A couple observations regarding the Day of Murdoch. 1. Watching and listening to father and son in front of British MPs, one can't help but sense the physical personification of the transnational corporatism and private power they represent and enable. Their accents are literally off-shore, wi ...
  • [R]evolution?
    You know, as we may well be watching the collapse the Murdoch empire, the regional uprising against old regimes in the Middle-East, the potentially catastrophic default of the US debt...I wonder if we will look back at this time in a few years and describe it as the beginning of the end for thes ...
  • The head weasel speaks . . .
    SCANDAL ABOUNDS, and Rupert says he's not responsible. Yet the dead-carp smell continues to grow, engulfing Newscorp in a miasma, and there are signs that it might even make it to the US, to become Fox's worst nightmare. Jeremy Kinsman has a fine op-ed comment on the CBC site, "Don't cry for Ru ...
  • Way out of Africa . . .
    ACCORDING TO IO9, homo sapiens got hooked-up with homo neanderthalensis on the way out of Africa. The proof resides on a chunk of the X chromosome of non-african h. sapiens. Neanderthals, one of the last extant hominid species other than our own, left Africa somewhere between 400,000 and 800,00 ...

Media Matters for America

  • O'Reilly Falsely Claims No U.S. Employee Of Ne ...
    Bill O'Reilly claimed that no American employee of News Corp. has been "implicated" in the company's hacking scandal and that "in the United States, there isn't any intrusion of this story thus far on News Corp. properties. None." In fact, Les Hinton, who is an American citizen, was the CEO of ...
  • Democrats Are "Slave Master": Ted Nugent's ...
    In his latest Washington Times column, Ted Nugent suggested that the Democratic Party is a "modern-day slave master" to low-income Americans. This is just the latest in Nugent's long history of violent and inflammatory rhetoric that has often targeted President Obama and other Democrats, as wel ...
  • Hannity Wrongly Blames Debt-Ceiling Crisis On ...
    Sean Hannity claimed that the United States is "going to lose our AAA bond rating because [President Obama] spent us into oblivion." In fact, most of the current deficit and projected deficits can be attributed to a decrease in revenue due to the economic downturn, as well as policies already i ...
  • Big Government Downplays Concern Over Def ...
    A post on Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website downplayed concerns that the federal government could default if the debt ceiling is not raised by August 2, claiming that "the whole 'crisis' is as phony as a $3 Federal Reserve note." However, experts agree that if the U.S. were to default a ...
  • Fox News Lobbies For Balanced Budget Amendment ...
    Fox News has aggressively supported a Republican plan to add a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. However, progressive and conservative experts alike have made clear that a balanced budget amendment would make future recessions worse and damage the current recovery.While Economic Ex ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Puncturing the Anti-Government Big Lie
    What's to be done about a domestic political discourse becoming unmoored from reality? The debt ceiling stand-off and early rounds of the 2012 campaign debate on the economy are disheartening markers of the sorry state of American politics. One of our two major parties has staked its entire argu ...
  • What the Murdoch Bombshells Really Reveal
    Breathtaking accounts like this of the Murdoch meltdown by Don Van Natta Jr., Sarah Lyall, and others are precisely what the New York Times is on earth to do. And that the Times is really doing it is doubly gratifying if you've read the exposes here and in the Washington Monthly in May of ho ...
  • The High Price of Nukes
    As President Obama and Republicans in Congress go down to the wire in negotiations over a package of budget cuts that would clear the way for raising the debt ceiling, we shouldn't lose sight of one key source of reductions: military spending. Although it was not mentioned in the President's pr ...
  • What The UN Vote Means--And Does Not
    My friend Alvaro de Soto, the former Special Ambassador of the United Nations's Secretary-General to the Middle East peace process, is a legend in the UN, from which he is now retired. Peruvian by birth, an aide to Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Alvaro was an indispensable mediator i ...
  • So Much for 'Long Form'....
    OK, here's a take-away from my post on Rupert Murdoch two slots below: Alexander Hamilton, worried about the young American republic in 1801, founded the New York Post. Rupert Murdoch, keen to intensify his perverse groping of bodies politic, bought the Post in 1977 and turned it into a dai ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Israel approves more settlement units in West ...
    Israel's Construction and Housing Ministry approved Monday a tender for the construction of 294 housing units to be built in the West Bank settlement Beitar Illit, Israeli media repor ...
  • Culture is Resistance (aic)
    From July 5-9, the Alternative Information Center held its first ever Culture is Resistance! Week, which explored the interconnections between culture, resistance and oppression. Held ...
  • Alternative Remedies Fall Short in Gaza (Eva ...
    "When I came back to Gaza in 2006, before the siege started, people came to me for acupuncture," says Dr. Hisham Mwtoweh, a medical doctor and acupuncture practitioner trained in Chin ...
  • Abbas ready to bypass opposition to Palestinia ...
    President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday said he was ready to circumvent opposition from the United States to a bid for statehood by taking the proposal to the United Nations' General Assemb ...
  • French aid ship sails towards Gaza (Al Jazeera)
    A French yacht carrying pro-Palestinian activists which set sail from a Greek island at the weekend, is expected to reach the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, organisers said. The Dignite Al Ka ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Conservative Republicans tout new Railroad Com ...
    Texas Railroad Commissioner Barry Smitherman, appointed to his new post exactly one week ago, received the Conservative Republicans of Texas’ (CRT) first endorsement of the 2012 political season on Friday. Formerly the chairman of the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC), Smitherman was appoint ...
  • Need a geiger counter? There’s an app for that!
    Had a nuclear power plant meltdown in your neighborhood and need to check radiation levels?  Well, there’s an iphone app for that. Crazy as it may sound, Safecast, a global project created after the March 11th earthquake and tsunami that caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Ja ...
  • NRC’S TASK FORCE RECOMMENDS CHANGES TO REACTOR ...
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Japan Task Force has proposed improvements in areas ranging from loss of power to earthquakes, flooding, spent fuel pools, venting and preparedness, and said a “patchwork of regulatory requirements” developed “piece-by-piece over the decades” should be replace ...
  • LCRA meeting in Bay City on the White Stallion ...
    At LCRA’s Board of Directors meeting on June 15, 2011, they discussed a contract to sell up to 25,400 acre-feet of water a year to White Stallion Energy Center for a power plant in Matagorda County.  The LCRA Boardroom was filled with citizens against the contract, and the board heard public co ...
  • What is all this brouhaha over light bulbs?
    “In 2007, little seemed problematic about the energy-efficient light bulb or the law signed by President George W. Bush, which called for the incandescent bulb to be phased out in favor its energy-saving counterpart. But that was before the rise of the Tea Party”. So begins an article by Natasha ...

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Reuters Global

  • The power of a soccer ball
    Anyone who watched the women's World Cup final might have wondered if it's possible to harness that pure human energy. Turns out, it is.
  • On the Afghanistan-Pakistan border : cutting o ...
    Pakistan's defence minister has threatened to move forces away from the Afghan border, where they are deployed to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban, if the United States cuts off aid to the cash-strapped country
  • Drone strikes are police work, not an act of war?
    Launching an air strike in another nation would normally be considered an act of aggression. But advocates of America's rapidly expanding unmanned drone programme don't see it that way.
  • Pakistan’s Shamsi base : a mystery wrapp ...
    Pakistani defence minister's remarks that U.S. had been shut out of a base used for drone aircraft have touched off a new controversy in their troubled relationship.
  • Will the Arab Spring bring U.S.-style “c ...
    One signpost of the shift from the old collective way of approaching politics toward the new and more individualistic one is a change in slogans. “Dignity is the new slogan,”

Booman Tribune

  • Romney Begins His Long Decline
    One of the simplest things to predict about the Republican nomination process was that Mitt Romney would eventually be faceplanted on his decision to create a health insurance mandate while he was the governor of Massachusetts. That process has begun now in earnest, with Michele Bachmann now ou ...
  • Your Moment of Kabuki
    The president has endorsed the Gang of Six plan. I would be pretty pissed off if he actually signed anything like that into law. But, I don't have to worry about that right now because Reid and Durbin immediately signaled that there is no time to include the proposal in any bill to raise the d ...
  • Bachmann is the Victim?
    It's somewhat ironic that on a day when Michele Bachmann's bodyguards supporters thugs "campaign handlers" are accused of roughing up Brian Ross of ABC News for daring to ask about her migraines, that the founder of the Tea Party Nation, Judson Phillips has waved the bloody flag of truthiness by ...
  • Making Us Pay for Their Folly
    The Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 have reduced the revenues taken in by the treasury by slightly more than the cost of the ten-year war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq. In other words, if we hadn't cut taxes early in the last decade, we could have paid for those wars completely. On the othe ...
  • A Pie for Murdoch
    Some idiot tried to throw a plate of shaving cream in the face of Rupert Murdoch while he was testifying before a committee of the UK Parliament. Murdoch's wife leapt to his defense and I believe she actually managed to shove the pie in the face of the would-be assailant. Nicely done. It work ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Staff Tells N.R.C. That U.S. Rules Need Overha ...
    A task force says that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission needs to apply a holistic approach to a hodgepodge of requirements that were set when individual reactors were designed, many years apart.
  • Life Is Always Greener ... in Brooklyn
    This year, 217 blocks entered the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest.
  • DuPont Is Sued Over New Herbicide
    After a weedkiller emerges as a leading suspect in the deaths of thousands of trees, property owners demand replacement trees and punitive damages.
  • N.R.C. Meets on Post-Fukushima Report
    he Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns show that it is time for "redefining the level of protection that is regarded as adequate" at American nuclear plants, a special task force of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission concluded.
  • A Gamble for Vermont Yankee
    Entergy must decide whether to spend millions on refueling a nuclear plant while it battles a state effort to shut it down.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Charles Blair Hill, bleeding to death at hands ...
    It's a grim world out there... caught a couple videos worth reviewing. SFPD wastes this guy & then he bleeds to death. The guy was alleged to have a firearm, and defenders of the police are already claiming bystanders snagged the gun. In any case it is an excellent sign the people are angry & in ...
  • By Anon request: A few loose ends on foreign e ...
    Time to check in with the Big Weird! I was requested by some anonymous person to post this. I don't personally conclude that 9-11 was triggered by Mini-Nukes but it's interesting that videos featuring a Russian guy with that view named Dimitri Khalezov are automatically blocked from upload on yo ...
  • "Creating an atmosphere of fear for journalist ...
    Glenn Greenwald nails this one. Journalists have nowhere to run under the nightmarish corrupt DOJ regime -- and the lickspittles are not the ones subject to the special operations & continuous COINTELPRO patterns. Big ups to seeing our local repression campaign against antiwar activists duly not ...
  • Two murky major elements of covert American po ...
    Truth trickles out a little bit at a time. People have to dig around diligently for stuff like this... then nasty patterns emerge. Here are two really nifty ones I spotted just recently. Nosh on this as you will... Back in the Depression, the US Treasury Department got a mysterious office called ...
  • Lollin about at Netroots Nation 2011 #NN11 Can ...
    I am working this week at Netroots Nation - conveniently located at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Howard Dean made fun of me a bit for running flat-out back to fetch a Firewire drive with the key new video cut for DFA as the Keynote had already started. Yes Really :-D Good times! Good times ...

Daily Censored

  • Fourth Solidarity Forum for Workers Rights and ...
    As I wrote at dailycensored.com on July 7th, 2011: âIn recent months, University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) facilities employees (custodial staff, housekeepers, groundskeepers, facilities workers, etc.)  have likened their work conditions to those of a “plantation” and “Nazi camp.” One UMD ...
  • Trillions for wars, billions in tax breaks for ...
    From: Larry Millerâs blog Larry Miller’s Blog Our Broken Escalator By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF  Published: July 16, 2011 NY Times THE United States supports schools in Afghanistan because we know that education is one of the cheapest and most effective ways to build a country. Alas, weâve forgotten ...
  • Michael Collins: Running Rupert to Ground – V ...
    By Michael Collins How will they get rid of Rupert Murdoch and his toxic enterprises? July 4, 2011 may turn into the people’s Independence Day.  On that day, stellar journalist Nick Davies of the Guardian released his story; Missing Milly Dowler’s voicemail was hacked by News of the World.  Tw ...
  • Prisoner Hunger Strike Enters Crisis Stage
    � Since July 1, 2011, some 6,600 mostly California state prisoners have participated in a hunger strike. The strike began at Pelican Bay and has spread to 13 other prison across the state. While most of the prisoners striking have resumed eating, there remains a core group of prisoners who have ...
  • Book Review: Overcoming Speechlessness by Alic ...
    � Alice Walker�s recent book Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel weaves a collection of horrific tales with the lifelong activist�s wisdom and words of hope. This thin 75 page book (or booklet) is published by Seven Stories Press ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #542
    Ex-spy says MI6 cut corners to back Blair's Iraq war case. Medical group criticizes CIA's vaccination scheme. Foreign spies stole weapons data from US contractor.
  • Bodyguard who killed Karzai’s brother was CIA ...
    The bodyguard who killed Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s half-brother was a trusted aide of British and American intelligence and had worked with US Special Forces in Afghanistan, before turning on his employer, according to American and British news media.
  • News you may have missed #541
    Western-aided Libyan rebels use child soldiers as young as seven. Human Rights Watch says Libyan rebels loot towns and abuse civilians. UK politicians demand extra powers to hold spies to account. British government revives GCHQ VOIP interception plan.
  • CIA bank accounts used to funnel oil deal mone ...
    Court papers in a bizarre lawsuit involving $258 million in missing funds from an international oil deal, appear to show that the funds were channeled to dormant CIA bank accounts with the help of an Agency employee.
  • News you may have missed #540
    Bulgaria bars ex-spies from holding diplomatic posts. Ex-spymaster says Canada is too concerned about torture. NSA whistleblower requests reduced sentence.

War is a Crime.org

  • Kucinich: Washington Double Speak on Social Se ...
    ‘Gang of Six’ Acknowledges Solvency of Social Security, but Incorporates it into Deficit Reduction Plan Anyway Washington D.C. (July 19, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has consistently pointed out that Social Security is strong and not related to the debt ceiling crisis, today ...
  • Talk With Afghans Directly by Skype: Ask Them ...
    Speak directly with Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers in Kabul. North America Call: (661) 673-8600 & access code: 295191#. Visit the site for schedules in your area. Mark your calendar for 9/21 UN International Day of Peace global call! http://globaldaysoflistening.org/ � The next Global Days of Li ...
  • Audio: David Swanson and Coy Barefoot on Debt ...
    Charlottesville Right Now (Subscribe) Charlottesville Right Now: 7-19-11 David Swanson LISTEN HERE read more
  • US Military: Agreement to Leave Iraq Was Never ...
    The Bush-Maliki Treaty said: "All the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory no later than December 31, 2011." Now a "former defense official with knowledge of the talks over the 2008 pact" says: "Subject to conditions on the ground in 2011 there might be revisiting of the ...
  • $360,000 to remodel 1 room used 1.5 hours per ...
    From Federal Times At least six senior Pentagon staff members, including federal civilian employees, senior executives, and uniformed officers, have filed a complaint with the Defense Department Inspector General against the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, retired Marine M ...

Grist - News

  • What’s the legal status of a country tha ...
    by Christopher Mims. By the end of this century, it's likely that at least a handful of island nations will find out what it means to become a "deterritorialized" state, writes Rosemary Rayfuse in the Times. When the last bit of Nauru, or Tuvalu, or Kiribati disappear under the waves, i ...
  • Nuclear power’s new marketing strategy: ...
    by Christopher Mims. The tag-line on this advertisement for German Atomic Forum ("founded in 1959 to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy in Germany") is "CO2 Emissions = Zero." See how they did that? They put the nuclear power plant behind some windmills and farm land, and it' ...
  • Thanks to the recession, recycling is booming
    by Christopher Mims. A few years ago, the only people who came in to Alliance Recycling in Emeryville, California were were pushing shopping carts. Now, the same center is seeing people pull up in late model cars. “Since the economy burst,” Jay Anast of Alliance told KQED, “we’ve seen m ...
  • Is it meaningless to talk about ‘sustain ...
    by Sarah Laskow. How sustainable is your jar of Ragu tomato sauce? That is an insane question, says self-described “anti-foodie” Frederick Kaufman in his TED Talk. Sustainability, Kaufman suggests, can be sort of like porn: you know it when you see it. But people really want it to be ...
  • Critical List: Mitt Romney doesn’t belie ...
    by Sarah Laskow. Mitt Romney doesn't think carbon is a pollutant and doesn't think the EPA should regulate it. But he has said that we should reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases. May he doesn't understand what those words mean? The hybrid electric flying car! (Brought to you by ...

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Digg Green

  • Space shuttle's science brought payoffs t ...
    Science from the space shuttle helped open Earth's eyes to the cosmos and sister planets. It created perhaps the most detailed topographical map of Earth. And it even is helping doctors understand, and sometimes fix, what's happening in our aging and ailing bodies.
  • Why Does Time Fly?
    It's up to your brain how long a moment lasts
  • Loss of large predators has caused widesp ...
    The decline of large predators and other 'apex consumers' at the top of the food chain has disrupted ecosystems all over the planet, according to a review of recent findings conducted by an international team of scientists and published in the July 15 issue of Science.
  • Scientists identify molecular basis for D ...
    The DNA encodes the entire genetic information required for building the proteins of the cell. Hence, DNA breaks disrupt the proteins and lead to changes in the cell function. These changes can lead to defects in the control of cellular proliferation resulting in cancer development.
  • University of Birmingham researchers deve ...
    Answering the call of germphobes and their Stepford ladies-in-waiting everywhere, researchers at the University of Birmingham have devised a silver-infused technique of warding off unwanted bacteria.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Daily Kos: Fmr. Fox News Executive: Americans& ...
    By The Anomaly Former Fox News executive Dan Cooper has claimed that a special bunker, requiring security clearance for access was created at the company’s headquarters to conduct âcounterintelligenceâ including snooping on phone records: âHas Roger Ailes been keeping tabs on your phone calls?â ...
  • Murdoch’s Deeply Hidden Jewish Roots — A Biography
    By Christopher Bollyn It is through a network of Zionist organizations, in which Murdoch plays a central role, that Murdoch is connected to the individuals who arranged the privatization – and obtained control of the World Trade Center – shortly before its destruction. These key individuals are: ...
  • Murdoch’s legal, financial woes escalate
    By Michael Isikoff The legal and financial troubles for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. are escalating on the eve of the media tycoon’s showdown appearance before a House of Commons committee Tuesday morning. Law enforcement sources tell NBC News that U.S. Justice Department officials in recent days ...
  • Dog Poet Transmitting The Apocalypse
    By Les Visible ‘Some dogs sleep easy where angels fear to tread’ Do you think that there was someone around on the day that Arch-Duke Ferdie was killed, or near Fort Sumter, overlooking any other example or maybe today, who said, “I think it’s time to get out of Dodge”? It’s probably so then as ...
  • Gordon Duff De-Mystifies Rupert Murdoch

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Design Direct Recycles 1,000 Discarded Drawers ...
    What can you do with 1,000 orphaned drawers? How about turning them into a spectacular collage of furniture full of color, character and function? Hamburg gallery Design Direct has created a new collection of cabinets using discarded drawers, setting them within a new, custom-built encasement. F ...
  • Co-tain’s Homeless Health Care Clinic Concept ...
    Last year’s FFA Orlando/AIA Florida Chapter architecture competition asked participants to design a new health care clinic for the homeless in the Paramore district of downtown Orlando, FL. Recent graduates Gretel and Lance Moore of Co-Tain rose to the challenge with this thoughtful design, whic ...
  • Dutch Polydome Could Be Used to Provide the Ma ...
    Multidisciplinary design firm Except recently unveiled its Polydome concept for meeting the world’s skyrocketing agricultural demands. Using advanced greenhouse technology, meticulously planned crop groupings and absolutely no synthetic pesticides or fertilizers, the system can produce an abunda ...
  • European Commission Sets Rules On Biofuel Prod ...
    People are divided on biofuels: on the one hand they are a decent alternative to oil and coal, on the other their creation has resulted in the destruction of forests, damage to biodiversity and the replacement of food crops. To combat this, the European Commission has set up seven schemes to ens ...
  • Please Help Us Reach Our Goal of Donating $10, ...
    YOUR CLICK COULD BE THE ONE THAT GETS US $10,000 TO REBUILD JAPAN! If you’ve been wanting to do something to help the thousands of victims of the natural disasters that tore through Japan a few months ago, now is your chance – and you can do it with just one click of your mouse. [...]

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Milky Way’s Core Hides Big Twisted Ribbon
    A space telescope peering into the Milky Way galaxyâs dusty core has spied a colossal twisted ribbon of super-cooled material. Until now astronomers had only seen bits and pieces of the ribbonâs 600-light-year-wide superstructure, which resembles the Latin symbol for infinity (â). “We have a ...
  • Why Brains Get Creeped Out by Androids
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK We’ve all found ourselves in the uncanny valley before. It’s that uneasy feeling you get when viewing a realistic humanoid or CGI person that’s so close to looking human that it seems almost spooky. The actual “valley” refers to a precipitous drop in “likeability” as o ...
  • Experimental Archaeologists Test Past by Makin ...
    See Also: Neanderthals Not Dumb, but Made Dull Gadgets Scientists Find Contents of Prehistoric Messenger Bag Hominids Went Out of Africa on Rafts The First Aid: Iceman May Have Dressed His Own Wounds Uncovering the "Chimpanzee Stone Age" Evidence of Modern Smarts in Stone Age Superglue
  • Neanderthals Mated With Humans Outside of Africa
    By Katie Scott, Wired UK It has been a long held belief that our human ancestors came into contact with Neanderthals, and recent findings not only confirm this, but also suggest exactly how “close” this contact was. Damian Labuda of the University of Montreal’s Department of Pediatrics and the ...
  • Solar-Charged Nanotube Fuel May Replace Batteries
    By Yun Xie, Ars Technica Since the 1970s, chemists have worked on storing solar energy in molecules that change state in response to light. These photoactive molecules could be the ideal solar fuel, as the right material should be transportable, affordable, and rechargeable. Unfortunately, s ...

PakAlert

  • Six Steps by the IMF for a One-World Currency
    In mainstream financial circles, the concept of a global currency is often spoken of only with an atmosphere of caution. It is approached always in hypothetical terms. It is whispered of as some far off dream; a socio-economic moon landing in the far reaches of fiscal space. Perhaps in 2015, or ...
  • Solar System Weather Report: Super Storm on Sa ...
    A vast thunderstorm that erupted on Saturn during the closing weeks of 2010 is still going strong. “It looks like a comet plowing through Saturn’s northern hemisphere,” reports amateur astronomer Christopher Go. He took these pictures on February 5th using an 11-inch Celestron telescope in Cebu ...
  • Stealing the World…Country By Country
    Another consequence of this was the transfer of land from the ownership of the state to a 'World Conservation Bank' (WCB), now operating under a different name, which was proposed by a Rothschild at the Fourth World Wilderness Conference in Colorado in 1987. This was another aspect of the plan c ...
  • Food Shortages, Skyrocketing Prices And What W ...
    We are all aware of escalating food prices, but what's driving the shortages and the price hikes? The answer is multifaceted: global political unrest, inflation, weather anomalies, the nuclear incident in Japan and the rising price of oil that increases the cost of planting, harvesting and trans ...
  • 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 to be racing tow ...

Andy Worthington

  • Pie Attack on Rupert Murdoch is Highlight of C ...
    So here’s the moment that Rupert Murdoch was attacked with a pie (a plate of shaving foam) during his appearance at the House of Commons Culture Select Committee today, with his son James (photo via Twitter — click to enlarge). It was, to my mind, the only exciting moment in a frustrating day in ...
  • News of the World Whistleblower Sean Hoare, Wh ...
    It was odd, yesterday evening, to be watching the former News of the World journalist Sean Hoare discussing the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal in the BBC Panorama programme, “Murdoch: Breaking the Spell?,” on the day that he was found dead at his home in Watford. The footage was from a programme ...
  • Waiting for the Fall of David Cameron
    As the heads continue to roll in the wake of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal — with Rebekah Brooks (the CEO of News International) and Les Hinton (the CEO of Dow Jones) both resigning from Murdoch’s fast-crumbling media empire, and Sir Paul Stephenson and his deputy John Yates from t ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
  • The Time is Right for Americans to Pay Attenti ...
    Last Tuesday, Human Rights Watch released a new 107-page report, “Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees,” which is important, even though it is depressingly familiar to those of us who have been calling for accountability for the torturers of the Bush a ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Internet Messages Detail ‘Nazi Jihadist’s’ Rad ...
    A Pennsylvania man who was indicted Thursday for allegedly using the Internet to encourage Islamic fundamentalists to launch terror attacks against U.S. targets has a long history of extremism and joined a neo-Nazi group in 2003. Emerson Begolly, 22, of New Bethlehem, Pa., was about 14 when he f ...
  • News Roundup for July 19, 2011
    A former member of the white supremacist Aryan Circle prison gang pleaded guilty for his part in a 2008 murder. George Buford Scott pleaded to a single assault charge in return for testimony against a fellow gang member, Billy Wayne Haynes, in the murder of Rey Valdez in 2008. Scott was released ...
  • Neo-Nazi Twins Drop Racism for Love and Marijuana
    Lynx and Lamb Gaede were twin pop sensations for all the wrong reasons. Their songs dealt with overt white nationalist themes, and even their band – Prussian Blue – was a reference to the distinctive color of Zyclon B residue in the Nazi gas chambers. In one of the most infamous photos from thei ...
  • News Roundup for July 18, 2011
    A Texas white supremacist responsible for an anti-Muslim shooting spree faces execution on Wednesday. Mark Stroman, 41, is currently on death row for a series of revenge attacks in the days after the 9/11 terror attacks that killed two South Asian men and wounded another. The surviving victim, a ...
  • Yet Another White Nationalist Leader Felled by ...
    Not that Klansmen and their ilk should ever be associated with negative stereotyping, mind you – but it does seem that the type of man who rises to leadership positions in the white nationalist universe has a peculiar knack for becoming entangled in child-sex scandals. The latest is Neal Ray Sch ...

change: org.

  • EU’s Top Diplomat to Saudi: Stop Discrim ...
    High Representative and European Commission Vice President Catherine Ashton formally responds to Saudi women’s Change.org campaigns asking her to support for Saudi women’s right to drive; calls on Saudi Arabia to implement UN anti-discrimination convention. The European Union’s foreign policy ch ...
  • Cruel Cargo: How Airlines Keep the Primate Tra ...
    Before buying airplane tickets for your next trip, you might want to find out if your luggage is sharing cargo space with primates destined for a research lab. Depending on the airline, you could be flying with cruel cargo. American Airlines recently joined the league of airlines that refuse to ...
  • President Obama Endorsed Respect for Marriage Act
    Today President Obama endorsed the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill that would strike down DOMA and give legally married gays and lesbians the same federal rights and responsibilities as married straight couples. Shin Inouye, a spokesperson for the White House, told Change.org, "The President ha ...
  • Springfield Rejects S-Comm, Boston Activists P ...
    Big news today out of Springfield, Massachusetts: yet another city council has rejected the controversial S-Comm program. “S-Comm” is shorthand for the federal government’s “Secure Communities” deportation program, which has come under fire in recent months for the way that it breaks apart i ...
  • Californians Call on Governor Brown to Ban Can ...
    More than 16,000 people have called and emailed California Governor Jerry Brown in the last 24 hours urging him to immediately revoke the approval of the carcinogenic pesticide methyl iodide. Scientists say the safety of California’s food, farmworkers, and residents is at stake. Three farms h ...

Common Dreams -News

  • In Pakistan 'U.S. Military Aid Came With Spies ...
    KARACHI - Defense analysts in Pakistan believe that foregoing 800 million US dollars worth of aid may be a fair bargain for ridding this country of over a hundred ‘military trainers’ who were suspected of being spies. Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said that his military can ...
  • Anonymous Members Raided by FBI; Hacker Group ...
    A day after the online sect LulzSecurity pulled their own hack on Rupert Murdoch, members of the most the widely-known hacking collective Anonymous, from which LulzSec spun off, have been raided by the FBI. read more
  • Former News Int'l Chief Exec Rebekah Brooks Ge ...
    read more
  • Minn. Special Session Called to Help End Shutdown
    ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton called a special legislative session on Tuesday for a vote on a budget deal that would end the state's nearly three-week government shutdown. The governor scheduled the session to start at 3 p.m., reflecting the urgency felt to end an impasse that dis ...
  • Banks Still Robo-Signing, Filing Doubtful Fore ...
    NEW YORK/IMMOKALEE, Florida - America's leading mortgage lenders vowed in March to end the dubious foreclosure practices that caused a bruising scandal last year. But a Reuters investigation finds that many are still taking the same shortcuts they promised to shun, from sketchy paperwork to the ...

Lifehacker

  • Apple Releases Migration Assistant Update for ...
    If you've got a Mac running Snow Leopard and you're planning on buying a new Mac running Lion in the near future, you're going to want to update your Migration Assistant software. The update fixes an issue that prevents a Snow Leopard sys ...
  • Progress Bar on Tab Shows You Web Pages' Progr ...
    Firefox: If you miss real progress bars that tell you how much a web page has loaded, Progress Bar on Tab sticks them in Firefox's tab bar. More��
  • Eliminate Your Excuses by Reframing Them [Brai ...
    You can come up with a thousand reasons why you shouldn't do something, but it can be far more difficult to find one good motivational reason to move your forward. Getting past this problem may be as simple as reframing your excuses to he ...
  • Remains of the Day: Google and M-Lab Giving Aw ...
    Google and M-Lab giving away diagnostic BISMark routers; Time magazine builds a paywall for non-subscribers; BrowserID is a new way to sign into websites; Google reveals its 'celebrity acquisition plan;' take a look at the improved Gmail g ...
  • "Tomorrow Is Often the Busiest Day of the ...
    This Spanish proverb about procrastination reminds us that it's easy to put things off until tomorrow, but that will just mean having to catch up on everything the next day—with added stress and less time to boot. More » ...

Water Privatization

  • Gazette.Net: Scholar questions Frederick Count ...
    A government scholar at the University of Maryland is questioning the proposal to privatize parts of Frederick County's government, saying that "no county in the country has shifted to private contracting on as large a scale as quickly as is being proposed."
  • Frederick Co. decides not to move forward with ...
    The Frederick County Board of Commissioners decided Tuesday to back away from a proposal to privatize many government services, but did not rule out making such a move in the future.
  • 30,000 government workers to lose jobs from pr ...
    STATE workers batting for higher wages said some 30,000 employees will lose their jobs due to the government's impending plan to shut down some agencies. In a concept paper furnished to Sun.Star, the Wage Fight Alliance said the government's decision to contract-out services and/or sell public a ...
  • Public works committee plans $15M in cuts
    Toronto's public works committee gave the go-ahead to a controversial series of cuts proposed by an independent accounting firm last week that included a reduction in street cleaning and snow removal, and an end to fluoride in the city's drinking water.
  • Gazette.Net: Scholar questions Frederick Count ...
    A government scholar at the University of Maryland is questioning the proposal to privatize parts of Frederick County’s government, saying that “no county in the country has shifted to private contracting on as large a scale as quickly as is being proposed.”

Guardian

  • US debt ceiling: 'Gang of Six' inject hope int ...
    Group of influential senators make a proposal that might win the support of both President Obama and the RepublicansA last-ditch plan to resolve the deadlock over America's debt ceiling has raised hopes that the world's biggest economy could avoid a potentially catastrophic default, as Europe re ...
  • Israeli spy claims over Christchurch earthquake
    New Zealand prime minister confirms, but then plays down, investigation over Israeli victim who held five passportsNew Zealand intelligence services have launched an investigation into a possible Israeli spy operation in Christchurch after suspicious activity was observed in the immediate afterm ...
  • UN security council to consider climate change ...
    Special meeting to discuss 'green helmets' force to intervene in conflicts caused by rising seas levels and shrinking resourcesA special meeting of the United Nations security council is due to consider whether to expand its mission to keep the peace in an era of climate change.Small island stat ...
  • News International 'deliberately' blocked inve ...
    All-party home affairs committee report into phone hacking to be published in time for David Cameron's statement �� Read the full reportRupert Murdoch's News International company has been found by a parliamentary committee to have "deliberately" tried to block a Scotland Yard criminal investig ...
  • Briton shot dead by robbers in Venezuela
    28-year-old and his brother, who was wounded, were accosted setting off to UK at end of tourist holiday on Margarita islandA Briton has died during a robbery while on holiday in Venezuela.Thomas Ossel, 28, from Bedfordshire, was shot in the head and killed, while his brother Jack, 21, was wounde ...

McClatchey

  • Justice Department retracts court filings that ...
    WASHINGTON — Rushing into court to undo a major gaffe, Justice Department lawyers defending a civil suit Tuesday retracted statements that seemed to undercut the FBI's finding that a former Army microbiologist mailed the anthrax-filled letters that killed five people in 2001.
  • Bipartisan debt plan emerges in Senate, but Ho ...
    WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Senate plan to cut about $4 trillion from deficits over the next decade emerged as a possible debt-reduction compromise Tuesday, as President Barack Obama touted its ideas as "broadly consistent with the approach that I've urged."
  • Why don't Arabs love Obama anymore?
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama isn't living up to his promises in the Middle East, and it's driving Arab attitudes toward the United States to their lowest point in years, analysts say.
  • Inspections show violations of rules on turtle ...
    WASHINGTON — Shrimp boats that fish in the Gulf of Mexico without the required turtle-excluder devices are killing more sea turtles than is allowed under the Endangered Species Act, the advocacy group Oceana said in a report Tuesday.
  • Amend Constitution to balance budgets? No, exp ...
    WASHINGTON — When Washington's gotten snarled in budget impasses over the past 30 years, one perennial favorite remedy is to amend the Constitution to require the federal budget to be balanced. Republicans in Congress have dusted it off again, and it's front and center in today's debate over def ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • CIA trains covert units of Afghans to continue ...
    Covert forces of CIA-trained Afghan paramilitaries are being built up to continue the US-led war on the Taliban as thousands of US troops prepare to leave the country. Members of one shadowy group ...
  • French Troops Killed in Afghanistan Fought Tal ...
    French President Nicolas Sarkozy has paid tribute to seven French soldiers killed last week in Afghanistan, saying they fought in a just war against what he called the "tyranny" of the Taliban movemen
  • New Study Asserts Taliban Faction Closely Link ...
    A new study says a key faction of the Taliban has been far closer to al-Qaida than some previous analyses have suggested, raising fresh questions about Pakistan's alleged support for terrorist groups
  • Is There Anyone Left Alive Who Can Actually Ru ...
    In the late summer of 2001, I traveled to northern Afghanistan on assignment for National Geographic to meet with Ahmad Shah Massoud, the leader of the Northern Alliance and the last remaining ...
  • US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,560
    As of Tuesday, July 19, 2011, at least 1,560 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Last Call for July 20th Whistleblower Seminar
    The NWC is gearing up for our special seminar tomorrow in Washington, D.C. at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, entitled “The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Rewards Provisions.” The entire NWC staff and I are looking forward to attending this open discussion on the newest whistle ...
  • Environmental whistleblowers' options while wa ...
    My colleague, Lindsey Williams, is today's guest blogger on Bridge the Gulf.  Bridge the Gulf is a citizen journalism project dedicated to saving communities on the Gulf Coast. Today, Lindsey is marking the one-year anniversary of the day the Deepwater Horizon oil well was finally capped.  Yet ...
  • Grand Jury Report: San Francisco Whistleblower ...
    A grand jury report released Monday, July 11th, found that San Francisco’s whistleblower program is riddled with shortcomings. The whistleblower program is designed to protect public interest by encouraging employees to disclose waste, fraud, and abuse. However, the report concluded that the p ...
  • Fourth Circuit again saves False Claims Act fr ...
    Yesterday, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, overruled a petition for rehearing filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), OMB Watch, and the Government Accountability Project (GAP). By rejecting the petition for rehearing, the Fourth Circuit again saved Am ...
  • Blue Bird Bus Corp. Settles Whistleblower Case ...
    Blue Bird Bus Corp., a bus manufacturing company based in Fort-Valley, Georgia, has recently settled a case with the U.S. Department of Labor to pay more then $176,000 in back wages and interest to a former maintenance employee who was illegally terminated in 2004. Blue Bird has also agreed to ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Can Innovation Through Business 'Solve' Issues ...
    If you follow music industry news, you probably didn't miss Spotify's launch in the US last week. Prior to this launch, a Swedish music executive was interviewed about what to expect when Spotify launches in the US. One part of the interview stood out in particular: [Spotify] has eradicated mus ...
  • DailyDirt: Robots Mimicking Humans
    Most useful robots look nothing like their human creators. But since humans and robots are going to need to work together, it might help to make robots more friendly-looking. So it's not too surprising to find a bunch of robot projects developing machines that have human-like appearances and beh ...
  • Copyright Troll John Steele Insists That 70-Ye ...
    A bunch of folks have been sending in the story of a 70-year-old grandmother sued for downloading porn by bumbling copyright troll lawyer John Steele, whose claim to fame seems to be his ability to lose cases, as judges keep slamming his attempts to sue lots of people in what's clearly a shakedo ...
  • Are There Any Politicians Who Know What PROTEC ...
    Okay, this is just getting ridiculous. Last week, we wrote about Mark Lemley sending a letter to Rep. Anna Eshoo about the problems of PROTECT IP, and rather responding about that, Eshoo wrote him back about immigration. Then, we had another story about Senator Kristen Gillibrand receiving a s ...
  • Feds Charge Aaron Swartz With Felony Hacking.. ...
    Well, the big story making the rounds today has been the charges filed against Aaron Swartz by US prosecutors for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act -- a law that is all too often been abused by the feds to attack people they don't like. Wired News has the most comprehensive coverage as ...

VacTruth

  • What Is It You Don’t Get About Vaccines?
    Public health: Not vaccinated? Not acceptable. “What does society do when one person’s behavior puts the greater community at risk? We make them stop."
  • Why Isn’t ‘Herd Immunity’ Working?
    Californians have a new law regarding vaccination of children: Effective July 1, 2011, all students in grades 7 through 12 will be required to get a booster DTP [Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (Whooping Cough)] due to outbreaks and increases for Pertussis in children. Something doesn’t make s ...
  • Research Shows Vaccinations Are Causing Surge ...
    According to the organization ‘Children & Asthma in America’ there are at least 7 million children in the USA who suffer from the debilitating illness asthma. Are vaccines a major trigger?Vactruth.com
  • Is There Payola In Pharmacology?
    Do you remember a child’s saying, “Pishper shame, pishper shame, you ruined your name”, when someone was caught telling a fib? Well, what should we be saying now that it’s revealed that several respected medical researchers have been caught with their ‘disclosure pants’ down?Vactruth.com
  • Was A Court Ban On Mandatory Vaccination In It ...
    Courts in Italy may have made attempts to stop mandatory vaccination. The first case involved 50 brave families who took their complaints to the appeal court in Ancona. Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I suspect it will be another week before I can complete part two to that media post. I want to finish reading A Mixtape Manifesto first. And The Economist put out a whole media’ issue that I haven’t gotten around to yet. I’ll have something for you though. Related to Thursday’s post on the socia ...
  • Deal Breaker
    I recently read The World That Never Was. I really liked it, despite the fact that it includes a gazillion people and can be hard to follow (even for someone who was familiar with many of the players). The book basically covers the period between Haymarket and WWI. There is one part of the book ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I spent the weekend at the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy. Had a really great time with more than 200 of the least pretentious people doing some of the most cool things. Red Emma’s did their usual bang up job with Friday night dinner at 2640. Great speakers at the dinner, especially ...
  • Ciao Newsrooms. I Won’t Miss You.
    Chris Hedges recently wrote one of those sad obituaries for newsrooms. He longs for the old timey orgs like in All the President’s Men. But Iâm not buying all the chicken little stuff when it comes to news. I don’t think the death of newsrooms is such a tragedy. And I’m not just saying that [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I try to keep my petty problems out of the blog, but I have this issue with my upstairs neighbor. She is whiny, hyper-sensitive, and dateless on weekends. This has led to her complaining about us to management. We, of course, are trying to figure out how to be as loud and obnoxious as possible [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Live In A Small US City? Get Ready To Train, P ...
    Cutting the budget with a Paul Bunyan-style axe. Image credit:Wikipedia, Akeley MN Paul Bunyan sculpture. DELTA Airlines has announced it will stop serving twenty four (24) small US cities. With fuel costs so high, these small, rural airports with passenger "load factors" between 12% and 63 ...
  • We Are An Intrinsic Part Of Nature, Not Separa ...
    photo: Joe Stump/Creative Commons The following post is part of an ongoing series of posts briefly outlining how the world's major religions have traditionally viewed the environment and are putting those beliefs into practice today. For many TreeHugger readers Buddhism is probably the p ...
  • Business Lobbies Unite to Fight for More Smog
    Interest groups, the Business Roundtable chief among them, are attempting to capitalize on an anti-regulatory sentiment popular amongst American conservatives by lobbying hard against incoming Clean Air rules that would limit smog output from industry. They argue that asking major polluters ...
  • Weekday Vegetarian: Polenta with Tomato Chickp ...
    Photo Credit: Kelly Rossiter I have always been a proponent of healthy eating, and I've done a lot of cooking of legumes and vegetables over the past few years, but all caution has been thrown to the wind on my trip to France. Who can resist walking down to the boulangerie every morning for ...
  • The Late, Great Climate Scientist Dr. Schneide ...
    Dr. Stephen Schneider, one of the giants of climate science, passed away last year to the day. Over at Dot Earth, Andy Revkin celebrates his life's work by featuring this truly remarkable video, in which Schneider single-handedly takes on a room full of climate skeptics in a round of civil, ...
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