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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.

Monday, July 25, 2011

25 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • PEMEX and the Long Road to Privatization
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. ——————————– Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) is the state-owned oil company (and natural gas) of México, which since the 90’s has been discussed for privatization like many other state-owned companies in Méx ...
  • The SPR as a National Piggy Bank
    Join the forum discussion on this post I was strongly opposed to the recent decision to release oil from U.S. and international strategic petroleum reserves. I have covered the reasons for my opposition many times, but the single biggest reason I oppose these sorts of releases is that the funda ...
  • Book Review: Energy, Convenient Solutions
    Join the forum discussion on this post I read two books on my recent trip to Europe. The first was Cracking the Carbon Code by Terry Tamminen. l reviewed that book here, and indicated that while I disagree with the notion that we will come up with a viable solution to rising carbon emissions, s ...
  • Renewables 2011 Global Status Report Released
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century has just released their annual Renewables 2011 Global Status Report. I was one of the reviewers of the draft report, and therefore got to read and comment on it prior to publication. The report provi ...
  • Barack Obama: A Mediocre President
    Join the forum discussion on this post In 2008, I believed all year long that Barack Obama would win the presidency. Even when Hillary Clinton was still the favorite to win the nomination, I thought Obama’s charisma would ultimately win him the Democratic nomination, and then the presidency. Th ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • Poll: Shoppers of All Ages, Income Levels Over ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—A new poll looking at consumer preference regarding organic versus conventional food is enough to send shivers down th read more
  • 5 Things You Didn't Know About Your Dinner
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It's no secret that factory farms are heinous, polluting messes. Farm operators inject their animals with antibiotics and growth hormones that, in the form of animal waste, run off to nearby rivers and ponds. Growing all the grain used to feed these animals requires thou ...
  • Mystery Meat No More? USDA Issues New "Enhance ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It looks like the U.S. read more

big think

  • Trypophobia
    Does this picture of a harmless lotus pod give you the howling fantods? I'll admit, it squicks me a little. Jennifer Abbasi reports on the Popular Science blog that there's something of a grassroots movement afoot to recognize "trypophobia," an irrational aversion to the sight of clustered hol ...
  • Abusing George Orwell
    No journalist worth his or her salt should rejoice in the downfall of another. There are plenty of commentators in particular that I could name who infuriate me, who have in fact infuriated for me for years, or who I have had real spats with. I would be disappointed if some of them didn’t feel t ...
  • We Fear First and Think Second, and We Fear Mo ...
    ���� Funny thing about fear. By the time you feel it, your body is already quite busy keeping you safe. Your brain is first and foremost a survival machine, and at the slightest hint of danger, before the thinking conscious part of the brain even gets involved, it instinctively sets off a ...Rea ...
  • Why We'll Never Escape "Catch-22"
    Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 turns fifty this year, and like its hero Yossarian, it seems destined to survive for the long haul. It's the best kind of literary paradox, a classic that people still love. In some ways, it's attained this status despite its own efforts. In the novel's first chapter, ...
  • Different 'Enemy,' Same Rhetoric: 21st Century ...
    They live in a parallel society, a world apart, where they obey an alien law and pray to an alien God. Their liberal allies foolishly promote toleration and claim these strangers can be assimilated, but that will never happen. Whatever their public face, their real goal is to take over our socie ...

Information Liberation

  • Welcome to Needle Park
    The Panic in Needle Park was a 1971 movie starring Al Pacino, about a heroin addict couple whose life spins out of control. It was set in a New York City park frequented by heroin dealers and heroin addicts. The other well-known "needle park" operate...
  • The Lying Prosecution in the Casey Anthony Trial
    It stressed more than once that Casey Anthony had repeatedly searched for chloroform on the internet, proving her intention to commit murder. An expert, one of the prosecution's very own witnesses, came forward and told the prosecution their assertio...
  • I the Person versus We the People
    Years ago, an overzealous conference staffer decided that Murray Rothbard needed to lose some weight for the sake of the movement. Thus, she made a cutting remark about the hefty dessert on his plate. Murray jabbed the cake with his fork and lifted ...
  • No Felony Charges For Longmont Woman In TSA Gr ...
    LONGMONT, Colo. (CBS4) * No felony charges will be filed against the Colorado woman who allegedly sexually assaulted a Transportation Security Administration agent in Phoenix. [...] Miyamae*s attorney Judd Golden says his client was violated, enda...
  • Wisdom From an Ex-Marine
    My response to those that claim they protect our freedom is this: When was the last time you protected me from the federal or state governments that have no problem enacting laws that require background checks for gun purchases, enacting laws*that*en...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Right-Wing Nut Cases Are Every Bit As Reprehen ...
    I’ve said before many times on this blog, the left-right divide is a fiction. The real differentiation in politics is between Libertarianism and Totalitarianism. Left-wingers and right-wingers merely squabble over what freedoms they choose to repress first: economic or personal. … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge
    A few thoughts while I’m still working on my next main article. You’ve heard me mentioning in the last thread the tenuous situation currently existing on the Australian parliament’s Lower House, the House of Representatives. Of the 150 seats, Labor … Continue reading →
  • MSM – A Monoculture
    Just a quick post today, as we’re all still recuperating from the ‘flu down here. I guess we can’t ignore the goings on in the British media; James is on the case, so I thought I’d give you all a … Continue reading →
  • Style Versus Substance
    In May this year, Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Corporation created space travel history by achieving the first “feathered” re-entry of its experimental craft, SpaceShipTwo. Oversize stabilizers mounted on the wingtips rotated upwards by 65°, giving the craft the geometry … Continue rea ...
  • The Australian Labor Party – A Dying Brand
    The Australian Labor Party does not even call itself a socialist party. Actually it is a liberal-bourgeois party. V.I. Lenin, 1913 Democracy in Australia in 2011 stands at a crossroads. The Australian Labor Party, Australia’s oldest political party and traditional … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Wear sunscreen
    Remember that speech that led to that Baz Luhrmann hit, “Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen“? It was good advice and still is. Here, my friend Kat Arney, blogger, broadcaster, cancer expert and harpist, explains the ins and outs of sun protection. It perhaps should also be mentioned that you can ...
  • Higgs glimpse?
    Higgs glimpse? – Lots of hype going on around the possibility of having spotted a glimpse of the Higgs boson that, in theory, endows matter with mass. Of course, despite the press conferences and hype, the physicists are still stressing that it is far too early to know whether the signals they h ...
  • Rosalind Franklin Google Doodle
    Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British X-ray crystallographer who made pioneering contributions to the understanding of the detailed molecular structures of the genetic code with her data from DNA and RNA as well as viruses, coal and graphite. She died prematurely a ...
  • Periodic table of rock and metal
    What if the whole of the Periodic Table were all rocks and metal? And what if it were created in 1987 by Jesus, he of the Roadside as a tribute to Guns ‘n Roses? It is obviously a concept whose time has come, because there are several others around that attempt to knock out the [...]Periodic tab ...
  • It’s not what you know…
    It’s not what you know, but who you know. It is something of a cliché, but in a world where the social context of knowledge is becoming increasingly important. Think Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Mendeley etc. The data, the information, seems only relevant if we have some kind of peer review, the ...

RFF Library

  • Projecting Coral Reef Futures Under Global War ...
    Science (July 22, 2011, v333 n6041 p418-422 ; doi:10.1126/science.1204794) / by John M. Pandolfi, Sean R. Connolly, Dustin J. Marshall and Anne L. Cohen (available to RFFers on site — contact library if you have trouble downloading this article) http://bit.ly/om7lTP [Abstract]   Many physiolog ...
  • A profile of border protection in Egypt: An Ef ...
    World Bank / by Alberto Valdés and William Foster http://bit.ly/qa3ZSz [Abstract] This study examines recent effective rates of protection across the Egyptian economy, using an ad valorem price wedge introduced by nontariff barriers and energy subsidies, and compares today’s effective rates of ...
  • Under What Conditions Does a Carbon Tax on Fos ...
    World Bank / by by Govinda R. Timilsina, Stefan Csordás, and Simon Mevel http://bit.ly/nrV0g6 [Abstract] A carbon tax is an efficient economic instrument to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide released from fossil fuel burning. Its impacts on production of renewable energy depend on how it is de ...
  • Strategic Climate Policy with Offsets and Inco ...
    World Bank / by Jon Strand http://bit.ly/qQ8muo [Abstract]  This paper provides a first analysis of optimal offset policies by a “policy bloc” of fossil fuel importers implementing a climate policy, facing a (non-policy) fringe of other importers, and a bloc of fuel exporters. The policy bloc u ...
  • World Oil Price and Biofuels : A General Equil ...
    World Bank / by Govinda R. Timilsina, Simon Mevel, and Ashish Shrestha http://bit.ly/oSglCm [Abstract]  The price of oil could play a significant role in influencing the expansion of biofuels. However, this issue has not been fully investigated yet in the literature. Using a global computable ge ...

Scientific American - News

  • Flawed Diamonds Deliver Precious Details about ...
    Girls and the rest of us aside, diamonds can be a geologist's best friend--especially if that geologist has a mass spectrometer and is looking for clues about what Earth looked like billions of years ago. [More]
  • NASA's Next Mars Rover to Land at Huge Gale Crater
    WASHINGTON -- It's official: NASA's next Mars rover has a landing site, and it's a giant crater called Gale.NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is slated to launch in late November, and will drop a car-size rover named Curiosity at the Gale crater. [More] ...
  • Centennial Anniversary: Bingham Rediscovers th ...
    On July 24, 1911, Yale University lecturer and amateur archaeologist Hiram Bingham completed a steep climb from Peru's Urubamba River valley through the thin air of the Andes Mountains to one of the most significant and lasting discoveries in archeological history--the Inca ruins of Machu Pi ...
  • Stratospheric Pollution Helps Slow Global Warming
    Despite significant pyrotechnics and air travel disruption last year, the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull simply didn't put that many aerosols into the stratosphere. In contrast, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, put 10 cubic kilometers of ash, gas and other materials into the sky, an ...
  • NASA's Space Shuttle by the Numbers: 30 Years ...
    NASA's space shuttles have racked up an amazing set of accomplishments over the last 30 years, not to mention the miles and statistics. But after three decades and 135 flights, the era of the NASA space shuttle is at an end.The final shuttle flight, NASA's STS-135 mission aboard Atlantis , will ...

First Truths

  • F.Y.I.
    Some among those reading this may already have heard the sad news that, at the end of this month, I'll be leaving C4SS, a decision required by strains on my schedule that no longer permit the volume of writing I've taken on for the past year or so. It's been an indescribable honor to be a part o ...
  • L. Susan Brown on Power
    I found this passage in Reinventing Anarchy, Again�(edited by Howard J. Ehrlich): To speak of power as a thing or phenomenon that can exist independent of human consciousness is to profoundly misunderstand the whole problem of power itself. Power exists as a relationship between individual human ...
  • Weir's "Anarchy & Culture"
    From David Weir's Anarchy & Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism: Of the principal anarchists Proudhon seems most typical of the transfer of the romantic-Enlightenment mixture of ideas from social to aesthetic theory. Proudhon's aesthetic ideas are especially contradictory, although such ...
  • Miscellaneous Thoughts on Law School
    The meaning of the word �logical� that laypeople use when they�re debating politics with family members in the living room�the word�s colloquial use�is nothing at all like the �logical� that law school expects you to be. The logic that law school will test, the sort that�s set out in Gordian for ...
  • New Left Revisionism and the Crisis Tendencies ...
    The following excerpt from International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology�(eds. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski)�will be of interest for left libertarians: Rothbard's view of the relationship between big business and government in the rise of American 'statism' draws additionally from the wo ...

Media Co-Op

  • Ontario patient advocate body under threat
    Ontario Government to have CMHA to assume oversight of PPAO A coalition of concerned, consumer/survivors. academics, lawyers and individuals have said that there is "a clear and dangerous conflict-of-interest" in the Ontario governments de ...
  • Save SFPIRG's Space!
    Upcoming Events on the SFPIRG Lease Hello everyone,  As you know, on July 8th, the SFSS Space Oversight Committee recommended that the SFSS Board terminate its lease with SFPIRG. This coming week, the Board and Space Oversight Committee ...
  • A Parade - Halifax Pride Parade Pageantry
    Halifax - "There's always people who speak against it. But there seems to be so much love for Pride here in Halifax," says Paul Forrest, Pride Parade Coordinator. "It's amazing to see how colourful and excited people get because they're coming to the Pride parade. They know they have expectation ...
  • A March, Not A Parade - Halifax Dyke and Trans ...
    HALIFAX - On July 22nd, queer women, trans people, and their allies, gathered for the first annual Halifax Dyke and Trans March. In light of the fact that the pomp and pageantry of the Pride Parade was scheduled for the very next day, I found myself wondering; Why two parades? Rena Kulczycki, on ...
  • Canada prepared for 'lethal force' against Nat ...
    Biting a chunk out of the common adage that a few "bad apples" in the police are responsible for misconduct, Winnipeg Indigenous leader Leslie Spillett pointed to an inherent "culture of oppression" in Canada's police forces at an international conference on policing.  Spillett outlined the hist ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • A tribute to Amy Winehouse
    This is a reprint of something I wrote in July of 2008: I admit that I had thought that Amy Winehouse was just another one of the media grotesques, a sort of Paris Hilton with a beat. I thought that her big hit "Rehab" was a catchy update of the Stax/Atlantic sound, sung in blackface. I sa ...
  • Somalia Famine
    David Seaton's News Links According to the UN, more than six out of every 10,000 people are dying of hunger every day in some parts of the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia, with more than half the children there suffering from acute malnutrition. This is far above the normal fami ...
  • The Murdoch Turkey Shoot
    David Seaton's News Links (Britain's politicians) had been pushed into taking a stand by the overwhelming public revulsion that greeted the discovery that the mobile telephone of Milly Dowler, the murdered Surrey schoolgirl, had been hacked. Even so, it was a dramatic show of political will. �T ...
  • Is the world run by Psychopaths?
    Charming, materialistic, aggressive, self-centred, Machiavellian, thrill-seeking alpha males with little respect for rules who eat stress for breakfast � sound like a banker you know? If so, think again: it is a summary of the traits of psychopaths. Financial Times There is a class of individua ...
  • Murdoch... Beyond Parody
    This misreading of the political mood has been the thread through News International’s bungled response to the phone-hacking affair. Odd really when one recalls that Rupert Murdoch was once the most politically-attuned and ruthless media proprietor in living memory. Phillip Stephens - Financial ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • INSIDE Your Home: The Ugly Invaders Which Can ...
    By Dr. Mercola You are immersed in an ocean of air every minute of the day, whether you are running a marathon or asleep in your bedroom. Your health depends on the continuous balance of inspiration and expiration, the delicate exchange of gases between you and Earth's atmosphere. Accord ...
  • Could this Commonly Used Body Care Ingredient ...
    Triclosan is an antimicrobial chemical found in personal care and sanitizing products. It can be found in soaps, toothpaste, and hair products. But there have been recent concerns about its possible effects on human health -- and triclosan has been detected in human breast milk, blood, and urine ...
  • Cuddling May Be Key to Long-Term Happy Relatio ...
    A new study that looked at middle-aged and older couples found that cuddling and caressing can boost satisfaction.� The study also revealed that: Tenderness is more important to men than to women Men are more likely to report being happy in their relationship Women are ...
  • The Smear Campaign They Used to Try to Shut Us Up
    Barbara Loe Fisher is a pioneer in vaccine education and safety, and the founder of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC). In an effort to educate and offer a counterbalance to the massive amounts of traditional mass media exposure on vaccines, which rarely ever mentions the potentia ...
  • Flush Away Artery Plaque with a Natural Remedy ...
    Health Videos - L-Arginine: The Miracle Molecule Health Videos - Fight Aging with L-Arginine Health Videos - Men's Sexual Health Helped by L-Arginine.

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Exposed: Ethiopia gives farmland to foreigners ...
    The Omo River is home to eight separate tribes. © Joey L / joeyl.com A Survival investigation has uncovered alarming evidence that some of Ethiopiaâs most productive farmland is being stolen from local tribes and leased to foreign companies to grow and export food â while thousands of it ...
  • Survival chosen as Art London charity
    Aladdin Sane by Duffy © Duffy Survival has been chosen as one of the charities for Art London (6-10 October 2011). To coincide Ghislain Pascal, Director of The Little Black Gallery and long time supporter of Survival, has curated an exhibition of photographs which will all be sold in ai ...
  • Uncontacted Indians’ forest ‘sprayed with chem ...
    Thousands of Indians are threatened by the rise in deforestation near the Madeira dams © Clive W. Dennis A large stretch of Amazon forest in a region where uncontacted Indians are thought to be living, has reportedly been destroyed illegally with chemical defoliant sprayed from an airplane ...
  • Machu Picchu celebrations just 100km from unco ...
    Machu Picchu, Peru © Martin St-Amant – Wikipedia – CC-BY-SA-3.0 July 24 marks the 100th anniversary of the âdiscoveryâ of Machu Picchu, the Inca citadel high in the Peruvian Andes, by U.S. explorer and academic Hiram Bingham. But while Peru celebrates the legacy of the indigenous Inca ...
  • Further blows to Vedanta's notorious Niyamgiri ...
    Vedanta's aluminium refinery at Lanjigarh, Odisha, seen from the Niyamgiri Hills © Survival In rapid succession, Vedanta has had the Environment Clearance for its Niyamgiri mine cancelled and lost an appeal to expand the neighbouring alumina refinery. In virtually his last act in office, ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • bad food? tax it, and subsidize vegetables
    from nytimes: What will it take to get Americans to change our eating habits? The need is indisputable, since heart disease, diabetes and cancer are all in large part caused by the Standard American Diet. (Yes, it’s SAD.) Though experts increasingly recommend a diet high in plants and low i ...
  • 7/21 binge & purge: famine, drought & censored ...
    Coming in 2012: Genetically modified front lawns and the mass spraying of neighborhoods and playgrounds with RoundUp* Drought of 2011: Southern US Desperate For Rain As Middle America Continues To Get Scorched* UN declares two areas of Somalia to be in famine, ugres action* Why is Miche ...
  • 'my dog eats better than i do': pets join in o ...
    from latimes: When Gabriel, a 10-year-old rescue cat from Chinatown, tucks into his morning meal, you won't see any Friskies or Meow Mix in his bowl. Ahi tuna and duck are more the ticket. "I think there's more than enough pesticides and chemicals and that kind of stuff in human food," says Gabr ...
  • 7/14 binge & purge: gardens, floodgates & play ...
    record 1 in 6 now on food stamps as depression escalates* 12 signs that the world is running out of food* police state in action: woman faces 93 days in jail for planting vegetables in her front yard* bureaucrats in michigan threaten woman with jail time for vegetable garden* food fi ...
  • genetically modified food labels don't sit wel ...
    agreement on labeling probably won't have much effect in US from latimes: Activists rejoiced last week when a hard-fought battle over international standards for labeling genetically modified food came to an end — finally — after decades of debate. But the agreement, which many say opens the ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has bee ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of m ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 � In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort � S Shyam Prasad �
  • Pastor arrested for murdering minor girl
    source:  MSN India, 30 June, 2011 � Guntur (AP), Jun 30 (PTI) A local pastor was arrested for allegedly murdering a teenager after she became pregnant with his child, police said today. The victim, identified as Monica (17) from Nadendla village in the district was working ...
  • Conversation with a Convert
    source: The Undercurrent, 26 March, 2011 Somewhere in Tamil Nadu The cab was waiting at the end of the road waiting to take us to our destination. The driver was a 50 something man and there was a picture of the Christian prophet Jesus on his dash board. After a few kilometeres of dr ...

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Drought Of 2011: The Southern United States Is ...
    2011 sure has been a wild year for America so far.  First we had unprecedented tornado outbreaks, then we had horrific flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, then we had record setting wildfires and now we are facing a crippling drought all over the southern United ...
  • 18 Signs That Global Financial Markets Smell B ...
    Can you smell it?  There is blood in the water.  Global financial markets are in turmoil.  Banking stocks are getting slaughtered right now.  European bond yields are absolutely soaring.  Major corporations are announcing huge layoffs.  The entire global financial system appears ...
  • Too Big To Fail?: 10 Banks Own 77 Percent Of A ...
    Back during the financial crisis of 2008, the American people were told that the largest banks in the United States were "too big to fail" and that was why it was necessary for the federal government to step in and bail them out.  The idea was that if several of our biggest bank ...
  • 10 Signs That The American People Are Starting ...
    All over America, restlessness and frustration are growing. It has now been almost three years since the great financial crash of 2008, and yet the U.S. economy is still a complete and total mess.  In fact, there are all sorts of signs that things are about to get even worse, an ...
  • If The U.S. Government Loses Its AAA Rating It ...
    For decades, the U.S. government has had a AAA rating.  On the scales used by the big three credit rating agencies, that is the highest credit rating that a government can get.  Moody's scale actually uses lettering that is a little different from the other two big agencies ("Aa ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Confused by the news? "Problem, Reaction, Solu ...
    The following is a talk that David Icke gave in the by-election called when David Davis MP resigned his seat in Haltemprice and Howden to put the issue of the 'Big Brother' state into the spotlight. It seems timely to share it with you here now as it probably explains perfectly what you're wa ...
  • Spanish Revolution LIVE - Part #2
    They're back... the Spanish people have turned out in force, again, to try to reclaim their democracy and shape their own destiny. Hit the lower 'play' buttons under the streams to stay on this blog: The people of England stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the people of Spain; all European ...
  • Quote of the Day: 24th July 2011
    "The notion of an administration led by the Euro-eunuchs Cameron and Osborne, with their bags carried by that bloke from the school run who is married to some Spanish woman, engaging in realpolitik in Brussels is as probable as John Prescott delivering a grammatical sentence. Cameron has already ...
  • Don't hate the politicians! Only they can save ...
    Yesterday, following the terrible events in Norway, much finger pointing was being done at "right wing extremists" and "Christian fundamentalists". We, at this blog, urged caution. This morning, in the Independent on Sunday, there's a story which causes us to raise an eyebrow or three. ...
  • It's best not to rush to judgment over the Nor ...
    In the immediate moments following the outrages in Norway that have now claimed so many innocent lives, there has been a rush to jump to the wrong conclusion. The first responses were an assumption that the appalling attacks were the actions of an Islamist "jihadi" group - an assumption helpe ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: The forgotten legacy of the excess pro ...
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Behind all the ideological posturing going on in Washington over the debt ceiling, there is a surprising amount of consensus on the wrongheaded proposition that corporations need more tax relief. The bipartisan Gang of Six plan that has recently been at ...
  • Does new legislation to restore the Gulf go fa ...
    A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last week directs Clean Water Act fines that BP and other companies will pay for last year's Gulf oil disaster to restoration efforts in the region. Environmental advocates say the introduction of the RESTORE Gulf Coast States Act -- an acronym for Resources ...
  • Republican redistricting strategy limits publi ...
    Texas took its newly drawn political maps to federal court this week, asking a panel of judges to review the proposed congressional, legislative and state Board of Education districts for compliance with the Voting Rights Act. Section 5 of the Act, which bans racial discrimination in voting pra ...
  • Class-action suit filed after Katrina hospital ...
    By Sheri Fink, special to ProPublica A New Orleans judge gave preliminary approval today to a settlement agreement that would end a class-action lawsuit against one of the nation's largest publicly owned health care companies. Under the terms of the deal, Ten ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Gang of Six takes from poor, ...
    Under the Senate's so-called "Gang of Six"* debt plan unveiled this week, percent of deficit reduction that comes through spending cuts to social programs including health care, education and environmental protection: 100 Amount by which the plan cuts Medicare, the health care program for senio ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group 93 Dead in Twin Attacks in Norway; Suspect to Appear in Court The suspect accused of killing 93 people in twin terror attacks in Norway on Friday is due in an Oslo courtroom Monday, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Doubts Over Death of Senior Yemeni Qaeda Leader Yemenâs defense ministry said Thursday that a senior leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Ayed al-Shabwani, was killed earlier this week in fighting near … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Arraigned Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who is accused of a shooting rampage that killed 13 and wounded 32 others at Fort Hood in November 2009, was arraigned in a U.S. … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group U.S. Charges Two Men with Illegal Lobbying for Pakistan Two Pakistani-American men were charged Tuesday with being on the payroll of Pakistanâs ISI and illegally lobbying the U.S. government over the issue of Kashmir … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty to Terror Recruitment Role A Somali-American man in Minnesota pleaded guilty Monday to a charge that he helped Minneapolis-area Somali men travel to their homeland to take up arms with … Continue reading →

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Tech Drive In

  • Most Interesting Video on Google+ I Have Seen ...
    Google+ is Google's latest venture into social networking space. You all know that already. But what does it really do differently when compared to Facebook? Well, the video below is probably the simplest answer to that. Watch and enjoy. What is Google Plus? Sounds very�interesting� ...
  • Joli OS Review: Is it the Best OS Available fo ...
    Joli OS 1.2 is a very interesting project. It is basically an Ubuntu based Linux distro optimized to work in netbooks and other older computer hardware. When you think about it, there is not much choice for netbook users as far as Linux distros are concerned. Joli OS is among the rare few. But i ...
  • Firefox 8 is 20% Faster than Firefox 5, Instal ...
    Firefox 8 recently found its way into the nightly build channel. According to a recent study by extremetech.com, Firefox 8 is already 20% faster than Firefox 5 in almost every metric and has got a drastically reduced memory footprint as well. Key Points of the Study Firefox 8 is 20% faste ...
  • Microsoft Just Want to Say, Happy Birthday Lin ...
    As widely misinterpreted by many out there, this is NOT an official video made by Microsoft. It's just a user submitted video to Linux Foundation website. Worth a watch anyway. Microsoft Just Want to Say, Happy Birthday Linux! Find more such interesting stuff in our Videos category. ...
  • Prey Helps You Locate Stolen Devices, Ubuntu a ...
    Prey is an open source application that will help you track and find your device, let it be your Ubuntu powered laptop or Android smartphone, if it ever gets stolen. Ofcourse the person who stole the device will have to boot and connect it to the internet somehow for Prey to work. What is ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Murdoch’s Vaccine World – James Murdoch ...
    By Catherine J. Frompovich | July 22nd, 2011 | Everyone by now has heard about the phone tapping scandal that rocked both the British newspaper world and Rupert Murdoch’s business empire. But what needs to be spotlighted, I think, is the possible role that Murdoch’s London Times may have played ...
  • EMA issues Pandemrix warning due to narcoplepsy
    Pandemrix Swine Flu Vaccine Narcolepsy Warning Posted by Pharmaceutical International’s Senior Journalist on 22/07/2011 – 14:50:00 The EMA (European Medicines Agency) has issued a warning over a swine flu vaccine that, in the UK alone, millions of people have been supplied with. GlaxoSmithKline’ ...
  • NEW GREEK BAILOUT IS BAD DEAL FOR TAX PAYERS, ...
    *Greece defaults but default arranged in such a way that tax payers will pay more *All of the 109-billion euro new Greek bailout will go for financing Greek debt until 2014 *ESF to be able to buy debt on secondary market and issue bonds; transfer union cemented *Key issues of Greek insolvency an ...
  • PEOPLE POWER IN GERMANY WRECKS HAVOC WIT ...
    * ECB, EU and IMF increase preasure on Germany to agree to EU treasury, debt pool and tax collection *Widespread popular opposition in Germany to the eurozone bankster bailouts has reached critical mass: German financial expert predicts end of the euro currency bloc brought about by popular upri ...
  • German financial expert predicts popular upris ...
    Great interview in German with German financial expert Dirk Müller on the  inevitability of the end of the euro currency bloc in its current form: either the markets or an uprising by the people against the tax burden they have to pay to fund interest payments to banks will bring about an end to ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Norway Notes – Updated | Veterans Today
    By Gordon Duff New questions: A second shooter was reported by some survivors. Initial reports that our “terrorist,” now said to be a farmer with unlimited access to tons of fertilizer to be used to make explosives, has one minor glitch to it. He is an organic farmer and would have had NO access ...
  • Norway: “We will not be Naive” &#8 ...
    The brutal slaughter in Norway represents a watershed moment in history. A point at which the global media asks us to turn our attentions in a particular direction. They want us to believe that one man singlehandedly devised and executed this hellish massacre of more than 85 defenseless teenager ...
  • Connecting the Dot Machine
    By Les Visible Yes, the connections to Israel are too numerous and timely to be coincidental and one Norwegian leader has kind of implied something to that affect. Here’s another amazing statistic. It seems like there are more congressional trips to The Black Hole of Planet Earth that there are ...
  • Norway Terror Attack Originally Framed as Musl ...
    By Scott Carpenter By the time reports confirmed the shooter at the labor party camp was a blonde Caucasian, I thought for sure this typical speculation would come to end. However, immediately after hearing this first confirmation, the CNN desk reporter interviewed what initially appeared to be ...
  • Young people should not take flu vaccine, watc ...
    Martin Beckford By Martin Beckford The European Medicine Agency said that Pandemrix should only be given to the under-20s if they are at risk of contracting swine flu and alternative jabs are not available. Its announcement comes after studies showed that young people who were given the vaccine ...

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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

  • TRUTH REVEALED – 528 is the Frequency of ...
    This is a very complex and multi-faceted topic.  It involves exposing something called “Kabalah” (the CUBE) as well as “Enochian Magic” and the darkest sorcery ever performed on Planet Earth.   It involves exposing demonology and inter-dimensional “conjuring” of entities called Nephilim or Ji ...
  • AUDIT THE FED??? WHAT ABOUT STARTING WITH THE ...
      House Passes DeFazio’s Amendment to Audit the Pentagon.  GREAT JOB CONGRESSMAN!!!! This is all about accountability in government – something that to date has BEEN SORELY LACKING. No More DUAL ISRAELI CITIZENS such as Dov Zackheim controlling the Pentagon’s purse strings!!  Never forget the ...
  • 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 ...

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Want A Job? Try Texas Or North Dakota
    While some parts of the country continue to struggle, Texas has added over 500,000 jobs during the last five years, making it the overall leader in job growth, according to an analysis of statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. North Dakota, which added about 41,000 jobs over the same p ...
  • Google Places Drops Reviews From Yelp And Othe ...
    Google has removed outside customer reviews from Google Places, its service that offers details and recommendations on local businesses, and has replaced them with an option for users to add their own reviews. Google Places previously featured preview snippets of customer reviews from sites li ...
  • Hyatt Apologizes For Turning Heatlamps On Stri ...
    The Hyatt hotel chain has issued an apology after heatlamps were turned on above workers who were striking out front of the Park Hyatt Chicago during a day when the heat index was 90 degrees. MSNBC reports how last Friday about 25 workers were gathered out front to protest their going without ...
  • Landmark St. Louis Del Taco Building Granted R ...
    A flying saucer-shaped former Del Taco, built in 1967 and slated for destruction this year, has been saved from the wrecking ball, thanks in part to an active Facebook campaign -- and a personal plea from St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay. The building, which was originally a gas station, was due t ...
  • Amazon Puts Nintendo 3DS "Under Review"
    Amazon.com has flagged the Nintendo 3DS as "under review" because "customers have told us there may be something wrong with our inventory of the item, the way we are shipping it, or the way it's described here," according to a notice on the 3DS's page. However, despite the notice's claim that t ...

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

  • Could James Murdoch Be Punished If He Lied Bef ...
    by Marian Wang, ProPublica It’s three against one for James Murdoch. That’s the latest tally of how many former News International executives have publicly accused the son of Rupert Murdoch of giving inaccurate testimony before Parliament last week. The younger Murdoch says he stands by his test ...
  • Why Medicare Is the Solution — Not the Problem
    Not only is Social Security on the chopping block in order to respond to Republican extortion. So is Medicare. But Medicare isn’t the nation’s budgetary problems. It’s the solution. The real problem is the soaring costs of health care that lie beneath Medicare. They’re costs all of us are bearin ...
  • New Japan Law ‘Cleanses’ Bad Nuclear News
    Friday, July 15, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (METI) – Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, opened a call for bids (tender) regarding the “Nuclear Power Safety Regulation Publicity Project”, for contractors to monitor blogs and tweets posted about nuclear power and radiation. Saturday, ...
  • As Harry Reid Battles, Democrats Must Not Surr ...
    When the full truth is told about the secret deals that will define the fiscal future of America and the fate of programs at the heart of the Democratic Party heritage, it will be clear that Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is the most important leader in Washington carrying the torch, against great ...
  • Editorial: Why I Love Obama – Principals of No ...
    Now that Sherwood Ross got EVERYONE’s attention… my reply. President Obama plays poker. When I contributed the Poker and Politics column â07-â09 for WPT (World Poker Tour) Magazine before they were sold, I talked about how poker and politics are so similar. In poker you play the man (woman) and ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Australian sea-levels respond to CO2 by slowin ...
    It’s worse than we thought. The models I mean — they are more hopeless at predicting things like regional sea-level rise than we had reckoned, and we thought they were god-awful. Remember the awe-inspiring, grant-inducing and legislation-bending Victorian report suggesting “up to 45,000 Victoria ...
  • Monckton to Turnbull: Challenge to an absolute ...
    Christopher Monckton is toying with Turnbull. It would be beautiful to watch The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, following what the great Alan Jones has described as his “6-0, 6-0, 6-0 victory” over the director of the Australia Institute in a debate about the climate at the National Press Club ...
  • This is why they want to stop skeptics speakin ...
    Christopher Monckton had no slides, no graphs, and only part of one hour, and was faced with tough questions from seasoned journalists, 100 stacked seats of activists who hate him, and yet in that time 9% of the people who saw the debate and thought we needed to act on CO2, changed their mind. T ...
  • This is not journalism, Wendy Carlisle
    Background Briefing ABC Radio National July 17th I’m sure Wendy Carlisle thinks she’s helping Australia. The awarded writer who calls herself a science journalist, breaks laws of reason, makes a litany of careless errors, ambushes interviewees with false claims, and devoutly stares past hundreds ...
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • Rupert Murdoch and the media wars: so what els ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - "I think he's trying to destroy The New York Times," a newspaper editor opined to me shortly after worldwide media mogul Rupert Murdoch had acquired and poured money into upgrading The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)...
  • Hill poll: Media unethical, biased toward Demo ...
    (Newsmax) - Journalists who need an ego boost about their chosen profession as a lofty endeavor won't like their reflection in a new poll from The Hill. Almost 70 percent of likely voters characterize the Fourth Estate as biased, and 57 percent contend that reporters are very unethical, or at le ...
  • N.Y. gay marriage law faces first legal challenge
    (Washington Times) - The day after New York became the sixth U.S. state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a traditional-values law firm filed a lawsuit to overturn the law, saying that politicians used a "corrupt legislative process" to enact it...
  • Anti-gay marriage rallies as NY ceremonies begin
    (Associated Press) - Thousands of opponents of gay marriage are protesting in cities across New York as the first weddings are performed in the state...
  • States enact record wave of anti-abortion laws
    (Washington Times) - Inspired by a contentious Nebraska law, abortion opponents in five other states have won passage of measures banning virtually all abortions after five months of pregnancy. The late-term bans -- based on the premise that fetuses at that stage can feel pain, a view that has b ...

Truth Offering

  • Diet Myths THEY Don’t Want You To Know
    MyPyramid.....of DEATH!I've been studying health and nutrition for about six years now. In fact, I credit my nutritional awakening with spurring on my awakening in all other aspects of life, from economics to politics. And I'll tell you the crux of what sparked my craving for the truth: Going ba ...
  • US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
    The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
  • Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
    1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...
  • Our Diet Is Killing Our DNA!
    Few people are aware of this simple fact: what you eat directly impacts your DNA. This likely seems like a strange new concept to most, considering we're all brought up with such an incorrect understanding of human health and wellness. Five years back, I was no different -- well, I always cared ...
  • Chemtrails: Scars in the Sky
    Geoengineering is a relatively new idea to the world. According to�Wikipedia,�"The modern concept of�geoengineering�(or�climate engineering) is usually taken to mean proposals to deliberately manipulate the�Earth's�climate�to counteract the effects of�global warming�from�greenhouse gas�emissions ...

2012 Blog

  • Buy A Dish
    Ever wanted to own a satellite communications dish? For post-SHTF reception or perhaps doing SETI work? Or just because it is cool owning a piece of history? This is the ground station that received the ...Buy A Dish is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Doomsday Bunker News
  • Tsunami Survival Capsule
    Tsunami Survival Capsule is a post from: 2012 Blog Tsunami Survival Capsule is a post from: 2012 Blog Found at TechFlash: …a tsunami escape capsule that could protect up to six people for as little as $1,000….The idea is simple: a 7-foot diameter ball, probably made ... ...
  • 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 ... ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: The forgotten legacy of the excess pro ...
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Behind all the ideological posturing going on in Washington over the debt ceiling, there is a surprising amount of consensus on the wrongheaded proposition that corporations need more tax relief. The bipartisan Gang of Six plan that has recently been at ...
  • Does new legislation to restore the Gulf go fa ...
    A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last week directs Clean Water Act fines that BP and other companies will pay for last year's Gulf oil disaster to restoration efforts in the region. Environmental advocates say the introduction of the RESTORE Gulf Coast States Act -- an acronym for Resources ...
  • Republican redistricting strategy limits publi ...
    Texas took its newly drawn political maps to federal court this week, asking a panel of judges to review the proposed congressional, legislative and state Board of Education districts for compliance with the Voting Rights Act. Section 5 of the Act, which bans racial discrimination in voting pra ...
  • Class-action suit filed after Katrina hospital ...
    By Sheri Fink, special to ProPublica A New Orleans judge gave preliminary approval today to a settlement agreement that would end a class-action lawsuit against one of the nation's largest publicly owned health care companies. Under the terms of the deal, Ten ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Gang of Six takes from poor, ...
    Under the Senate's so-called "Gang of Six"* debt plan unveiled this week, percent of deficit reduction that comes through spending cuts to social programs including health care, education and environmental protection: 100 Amount by which the plan cuts Medicare, the health care program for senio ...

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Oriental Review

  • Smashing Greater Central Asia (I)
    After ten years of raging warfare in Afghanistan, watching the fight slowly ooze across the invisible Durand Line into Pakistan, we have the right to wonder whether the war is any closer to ending today?  It is  perfectly reasonable to suspect that if we were allowed to know the truth we would u ...
  • Chavez’s Health Problems and the Future ...
    Reports that Chavez underwent two surgeries in Cuba drew a mixed reaction in Venezuela. His supporters sound concerned and compassionate, while the radical opposition makes no attempts to disguise its heightened expectations. Over the past decades, Chavez has survived countless attempts on his l ...
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • Announcing: BlogHer '11 Swag Exchange and Ship ...
    We are proud to announce the Future Friendly Swag Exchange and our outbound shipping at BlogHer '11!� Here are all the specifics.With the support of Future Friendly the Swag Exchange will be available on Friday and Saturday at the San Diego Convention Center and on Sunday we'll be at the Marriot ...
  • Make Mini Ice Cream Drumsticks At Home
    [Editor's Note: These adorable DIY ice cream cones are just big enough for about three bites of sweet goodness. Making the cones is as easy as putting a panini press to work! I love this inventive idea for a dessert that would be fun to enjoy on any day, but would be especially great for a party ...
  • New Dept. of Labor Guide Aimed at Homeless Fem ...
    With the growing presence of women in the US Armed Forces comes the growing need for services for returning women veterans who find themselves unable to get a foothold in civilian life. Far too many female veterans end up homeless, and a new study by the US Department of Labor finds that too man ...
  • 3 Powerful Tips to Find Time to Do Your "To-Do ...
    Honest and practical tips to help you find time to really do your "to-do list". My favorite line from this post "Finding time to plan is like scanning the landscape from up in the air." really sums it up. Learn how to get more done with ease with these three powerful tips. Finding time to co ...
  • Yes, Yoda, There Is a Try
    My son has recently picked up a very bad habit, and I am very concerned. This habit is worse than kicking a puppy. It is worse than cussing in church. It is worse than smoking, drinking and general carousing on a school night. It it much, much worse than forgetting your mother's birthday.It's so ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Did A Trip To The Dentist Accelerate Columbo&# ...
    Do you know someone whose Alzheimer’s progression sped rapidly after surgery? Lieutenant Columbo, a hero to many, was portrayed by the talented Peter Falk, who in reality, battled severe Alzheimer’s for the last four years before ...
  • USDA Wants Hipster Farmers
    Youth in their 20s and 30s are taking their hands to the plow, but what does the new trend in Hipster farming mean for the food future? It is true, many of the younger generation ...
  • Is It Too Late To Buy American?
    Even America’s cloud has silver linings. Just as reports tried to rally spirits with statistics about the decrease in unemployment, some major companies went down, leading to a whopping number of layoffs. Meanwhile, ABC News, showed ...
  • Shunned For Exemption: No Vaccine? No School, ...
    HFA reported about a new aggressive push from doctors to intimidate parents into children vaccinations. At the same time, states like WA passed legislation to stifle exemptions for any reason. Now we can see more manifestations ...
  • Fortified Superfoods Aim to Convince Public of ...
    GMO supporters and scientists are unflinching under ever-growing public disapproval of GM foods. Instead of “this will end world hunger,” the new ploy is, “this will make you healthy.” Despite the GM tomato fiasco of the ...

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

  • Friday roundup, July 22, 2011
    Pakistani Shazad Hayat, 9, and his sister Nooreen, 8, break coal as they work in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, July 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) Let’s start off the week with some different takes on EPA’s final water quality guidance for Appalachian co ...
  • Rep. Rahall: Obama EPA is appointing itself &# ...
    Every four years, West Virginia’s Democratic political leaders wonder why they can’t convince voters in the state’s coalfields to support Democratic presidential candidates — at least in big enough numbers to make us a “Blue State” again. Could one reason be that during recent Democratic adminis ...
  • If coal is so good, then why is W.Va. so poor?
    A coal truck drives out of downtown Welch, W.Va., Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Jon C. Hancock) As we wrap up another week of news from the coalfields of West Virginia, it’s worth looking back to see exactly who is asking the tough questions that need to be asked about this industry and its ...
  • Massey slurry case gearing up for trial
    Jimmy Murphy of Sprigg, W.Va., holds a jar filled with well water from his home he says was contaminated with coal slurry by Massey Energy and subsidiary Rawl Sales & Processing, prior to court hearing Monday, Nov. 15, 2010, in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner) Vicki Smith over at Th ...
  • West Virginia’s boom-and-bust energy economy
    Just in time to aid in the discussion of whether the Obama administration’s new guidance to limit mountaintop removal is a “job destroyer” — as the National Mining Association claims — the fine folks at the West Virginia Center for Budget & Policy have issued a report called “Booms and Busts: Th ...

Daniel Miessler

  • ‪Hitchens on the Catholic Church
    via youtube.com Eviscerating. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe Known UniverseâªDu Hast as a Cappellaâ¬âBob’s Burgers SkitWhy Fight Religion?Google+ Circles ExplainedSam Harris Answers Reddit’s QuestionsMiss USA 2011 â Should Math Be Taught In Schools?
  • All Non-Africans Part Neanderthal | Discovery News
    If your heritage is non-African, you are part Neanderthal, according to a new study in the July issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution. Discovery News has been reporting on human/Neanderthal interbreeding for some time now, so this latest research confirms earlier findings. Damian Labuda of th ...
  • A Deductive Argument for Most Agnostics Being ...
    One of the most commonly held debates between non-believers is that of whether someone is agnostic or atheist. The problem is that both terms have, in addition to their various, actual definitions, a number of associations that go along with them, and this generally injects confusion into the di ...
  • Why Sam Harris is Somewhat Incorrect About Rej ...
    via youtube.com This is very compelling, but I have a strong counterargument. Essentially, if people start collecting behind the banner of reason and evidence, it will become inefficient and silently deafening to *not* have a term associated with this approach to finding truth. Bundles of people ...
  • Sam Harris Answers Reddit’s Questions
    via youtube.com This is a great way to spend 54 minutes. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe Known UniverseâªDu Hast as a Cappellaâ¬âBob’s Burgers SkitWhy Fight Religion?Google+ Circles ExplainedMiss USA 2011 â Should Math Be Taught In Schools?Google Chrome Owne ...

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

  • Hippie TV News and Stuff, with Joe McEvoy (Win ...
    This Week: A Montage of Ass#$%$s of the week. Please share with your favorite Ass^#$$ WWH- Worldwide Hippies brings you news and commentary, to inform you and move you to action. Worldwide Hippies News and Stuff is a weekly video, produced by WWH. Connect with us on Utube. The Worldwide Hippies ...
  • You can’t get there from here
    by tim waters – Ya Canât get there from Here Itâs almost been two years that Iâve been participating in discussions on line. Iâve made lots of friends and Iâve lost plenty along the way. Opinions! Yeah we all have them. Rich, poor, learned and not so much. Itâs the one thing we all have [...]
  • Norway to protect the best of what it is — a t ...
    By: Shawn Pogatchnik, AP – OSLO – Confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik hoped to trigger a nationalist revolution in Norway. But his double act of mass murder and destruction seems to have stirred only dignified defiance in this wealthy, idealistic nation renowned for its commitment to peac ...
  • The First Lady … Monsanto-Washington Vs ...
    By Lenore Daniels, OpEdNews - The First Lady and the Monsanto-Washington Unification Process Vs. Our Human Rights The effect is again a magical and hypnotic one–the projection of images which convey irresistible unity, harmony of contradictions. Thus the loved and fear Father, the spender of lif ...
  • NYC Uncut Returns to Brooklyn for a Sleep-in a ...
    WWH – On Saturday, July 23, 2011, NYC Uncut brought their pillows, sleeping bags, and pjs to a Chase branch at 101 Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The sleep-in/teach-in was built on several similar actions held earlier this summer targeting Bank of America branches in Brooklyn and Queens, and ...

reference frame

  • Breivik's political opinions
    The main "intellectual" message of the Norwegian mass killer is "summarized" in this intimidating manifesto: 2083: a European Declaration of Independence (PDF)With its 1,500 pages, it's more modest than the 1905-page manifesto of Mitchell Heisman who committed suicide in Cambridge, Massac ...
  • Theory vs phenomenology in the days of experim ...
    Exactly twenty years ago, in August 1991, Paul Ginsparg launched the arXiv - which used to be known under the main URL xxx.lanl.gov for many years. The first hep-th paper would be a black hole paper by Horne and Horowitz. Congratulations, Paul! Using the modern terminology, Paul's ...
  • Nine days before a possible collision with a d ...
    Fox News (I,II) presents a sensible update about the new developments 9 days before a conceivable conflict between the U.S. government and the U.S. debt ceiling. While there exists no clear glimpse of an agreement between the different groups of lawmakers and politicians at this ...
  • Why a Higgs boson could also have mass 144 GeV
    These have been hugely hectic days in particle physics during which the particle physicists have been drowning in a greater sea of new empirical information than at any 3-day period during the last 35 years, to say the least. Someone has just observed Higgs at the CMS at CERN's L ...
  • Phil Gibbs' Tevatron+LHC Higgs synthesis: 111- ...
    Phil Gibbs has digitized the graphs indicating the cross sections and exclusions for the Higgs mass, as presented by the D0, CDF, ATLAS, and CMS Collaborations during the recent two days. I have gotten a copy of the D0 and CDF numbers and got a similar result in Mathematica as he did ...

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

  • OKA— Kulcha
    This album is a collection of live tracks from 2 different gigs, one in Australia and one Canada, no overdubs, just raw Oka tracks as they went down. If you have heard Oka live and enjoyed it this is definitely worth a listen. credits released 09 February 2011 Dub, Edits & The Jamaican Mule by O ...
  • OKA— PANDANUS
    Dub, Edits & The Jamaican Mule by OKA okamusic.bandcamp.com
  • OKA—Music Makes Me Happy
    Dub, Edits & The Jamaican Mule by OKA okamusic.bandcamp.com
  • OKA—- Totem (Live)
    Dub, Edits & The Jamaican Mule by OKA okamusic.bandcamp.com
  • OKA— Chuckie Dub
    Chuckie Dub from Album: Dub, Edits & The Jamaican Mule by OKA This album is a collection of live tracks from 2 different gigs, one in Australia and one Canada, no overdubs, just raw Oka tracks as they went down. If you have heard Oka live and enjoyed it this is definitely worth a listen. credits ...

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
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • 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

Enviroblog

  • GAO to EPA: Improve Implementation of Safe Dri ...
    By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst, Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant, and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A Government Accountability Office investigation released last week has found that the Environmental... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • D.S.K. accuser Nafissatou Diallo reveals herse ...
    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
  • Bleak house: The problem with some New York sh ...
    The guy ahead of me set a gray, molded plastic tub, the kind you might soak your feet in, down on the wide table. He took his jacket, wallet, loose change, lighter and other personal items from the basin and slid it toward me before moving on.The first thi ...
  • 'The Muppets Take Manhattan': An anthem for th ...
    It’s easy to understand why the Landmark Sunshine Cinema regularly screens The Muppets Take Manhattan as part of their midnight-movie initiative.As an instructional guide, the movie is probably of limited use to actual human beings. But it's a fantasy you ...
  • Hillary Clinton is aging, and the weather is old
    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
  • Jay Walder won't be answering to Andrew Cuomo ...
    Everyone seems to agree that Jay Walder has been a very effective head of the M.T.A., which under his leadership continued to provide a functional transportation system and build for the future, even as enormous budgetary pressure necessitated cuts in spen ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Flooding hits southern Norway
    Severe flooding has hit Notodden in the Telemark region of southern Norway, where a crisis alert has been declared and several people have been evacuated. An estimated 100 millimeters of rain fell in a 24-hour period over the weekend. Civil defense units have been called in to aid emergency serv ...
  • Calls to regulate fertilizer after bomb
    Calls for stronger regulation of the sale of ammonium nitrate fertilizers have been made following the suspected use of the materials in the bombing of Oslo on Friday July 22  - with experts suggesting that new EU regulations set to be introduced in Norway are not enough. The alleged perpetrato ...
  • Horrific details continue to emerge
    Descriptions of the sheer horror of Friday’s terrorist attacks both in Oslo and on the island of Utøya continue to emerge this week, including a report of how an unarmed security guard on the island was among the first victims of lone gunman Anders Behring Breivik. The guard was an off-duty pol ...
  • Norwegians take back their capital
    The flags were still flying at half-mast and a few helicopters still whirred overhead, but Norwegians took to the streets of their capital on Monday and made it clear Oslo wasn’t in the hands of any terrorists. They held tributes to the victims of a lone gunman and bomber on Friday, quietly surv ...
  • Confessed terror suspect held in jail
    An Oslo judge has ordered Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to bombing Norway’s government headquarters on Friday and then slaughtering at least 86 members of the Labour Party’s youth organization AUF in a massacre at their summer camp, to be held in prison for at least eight weeks while ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Green Cleaning Can be Easy and Fun, Plus My Be ...
    When I first remember seeing the ‘conventional’ way of cleaning bathtubs, with my mum bent over with a scrubbing brush, groans of effort and beads of sweat on her forehead, with the chemical smell of Jif (or Cif in other countries) floating through the air and her nostrils, I knew there had to b ...
  • Gold Coast Permaculture Connects With the Comm ...
    by Vanessa Fernandes The Beginnings of an Urban Agriculture Project In conjunction with the Gold Coast City Council sponsored Active and Healthy Programme, Gold Coast Permaculture is initiating a series of workshops designed to encourage city residents to involve themselves in growing food for ...
  • Planting Garlic
    by Mark Brown Does your garlic get inundated with rye and winter grass? It can take the shine off a pleasant experience. A "trick" I learned some years ago on the PRI forum has helped us and may help you too. The process involves first chipping the weeds from the bed and allowing them to wilt [...]
  • Growing Water Deficit Threatening Grain Harvests
    by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Many countries are facing dangerous water shortages. As world demand for food has soared, millions of farmers have drilled too many irrigation wells in efforts to expand their harvests. As a result, water tables are falling and wells are going dry in so ...
  • The Greenhorns and Joel Salatin in Gerringong, ...
    The night before our workshop with Joel Salatin at Jamberoo, there’s going to be an awesome evening. It’s the Australian premiere of The Greenhorns, a new and funky film on young farmers. And Joel Salatin will be there, slurping soup and talking farming. The Greenhorns is a great new film we d ...

Pointman's

  • You gotta have a sense of humour …
    You look at stuff and you wonder. Maybe you donât, maybe a lot of people donât, maybe they never do. Well, I do. I suppose itâs just me being an awkward cuss but at this stage in the game, Iâm pretty reconciled to that. You are what you are, so just chaw down and get … Read more
  • 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 ...

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

  • Highlights in Local Activism Against the Priso ...
    Here on the Louisiana Justice Institute blog, we have been following developments in the Danziger Bridge investigation and other police violence and corruption cases, as well as activism against abuses at Orleans Parish Prison and other aspects of the Prison Industrial Complex, since early on th ...
  • Prosecution Rests in Danziger Trial
    The article below originally appeared on the New Orleans Tribune/Tribune Talk website The prosecution rested its case this week in the Danziger Bridge police violence trial with one final witness testimony, perhaps the most moving. Lesha Bartholomew, who was 17 at the time of the incident, b ...
  • Rethinkers Speak Out on Childhood Obesity and ...
    From our Friends at ReThink: Candy Bars, Prison Bars How Schools Can Reverse the Major Youth Epidemics of Our Times The unstoppable Rethinkers - school reformers, aged 8-18 - want to interrupt what they call "the two biggest youth epidemics of our time," childhood obesity and the school-to-p ...
  • 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 ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    PS R.I.P to all our people that died for Israel, yet againStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:26 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    As usual, I've not followed this too much but I do read and I remember downloading from ZH the 1500 page manifesto bullshit and my first reaction was, why the fuck did he write in English? End of story Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:23 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Question to the admins: sorry for putting this here but it takes at between 10-50 attempts for me to login each time, I get a banned screen. Is it me or the site? or is there anything I can do?Statistics: Posted by Moe Foe — Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:34 pm
  • Technology, Energy, Genetically Modified or En ...
    Well not suprising, it is hardly ingenious. Google has been mapping peoples networks while they have been driving around recording images for streetview as well, although it is not really related to each other. If you have a iphone or some other device, if you go in range of a wireless network ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    checkitb4uwreckit wrote: ... All of the above was hysterical strawman arguments. It's too much effort to try to extract any points you may have so I won't be entertaining it anymore. checkitb4uwreckit wrote: Not necessarily. I sense the Jews are gearing up for a mass demonization of Whites ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • U.S. Land in Flood Plains Could Increase 45 Pe ...
    The amount of U.S. land located within flood plain zones is expected to increase by 40 to 45 percent by the end of this century, according to a study of the impacts of climate change on the federal flood insurance program. The study, which will be released later this summer, projects that a wide ...
  • Forum: Assessing Obama’s Record on the Enviro ...
    When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, environmentalists were optimistic that their issues would finally become a priority at the White House. So how is Obama doing? Yale Environment 360 asked a group of environmentalists and energy experts for their verdicts on the president's performance.
  • Stratospheric Pollution Is Slowing Global Warm ...
    Sulfur dioxide being spewed into the stratosphere by coal-fired power plants and volcanic eruptions has blunted the impact of global warming over the past decade, offsetting roughly one third of the increased heat caused by greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study. Researchers at the U ...
  • Hilary Clinton Advocates For Clean Cookstoves ...
    Secretary of State Hilary Clinton urged India to rapidly adopt inexpensive, clean-burning cookstoves and said that two major Indian trade federations had agreed to help disseminate the technology throughout the country. Clinton, who last year launched a $50 million U.S. program to expand clean c ...
  • Bloomberg Gives $50 Million To Sierra Club’s A ...
    New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that his main charitable organization will give $50 million over the next four years to the Sierra Club to expand the group’s campaign to retire coal-burning power plants and replace them with renewable energy. Appearing with Sierra Club Preside ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Stockwell Day: The result of insane, extreme r ...
    By Alison@Creekside CBC Power & Politics on the Oslo massacre, at noon Friday, edited: Evan Solomon: This raises again the spectre of international terrorism. Stockwell Day: As recently as July 8th in Norway there was a dragnet for al-Qaeda suspects related to the Manchester bombing. Whethe ...
  • Bob Rae, Super-Elite!
    By Frank Moher Oh, grow a sense of humour, already. Canadian novelist Kenneth J. Harvey's piece in today's Globe, "Thank you, Bob Rae, for stealing my plane seat," is inspiring an unseemly fuss among my facebook and twitter peeps. Harvey's article, a funny and typically shrewd account of his ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • The End of the White Outsider
    Sixty years ago, Holden Caulfield defined the outsider, but demographic changes mean there’s a need for new non-white heroes.
  • Britain’s Right-Wing Hate
    Anders Breivik’s manifesto echoes loudly in Britain. William Underhill reports on the Oslo bombing suspect's radical views.
  • A Master’s New Side
    THE DAILY PIC: Lee Friedlander, the genius of black-and-white, did "straight" pop-star shots, in color, that were anything but dull.
  • Oslo Killings and Conservatives
    Michael Medved says the crime was ultimately about evil, not ideology.
  • ABC Bans Paying News Subjects
    The network is effectively ending the practice after a Casey Anthony embarrassment. By Howard Kurtz.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Miyazato cards first win of year at Evian
    Ai Miyazato clinched her first title of the year at the Evian Masters on Sunday and pledged to share her prize money with the people still suffering in the aftermath of the disasters back home in Japan. Miyazato shot a 2-under 70 to protect her two-shot lead and hold off a surge from Stacy Lew ...
  • Energy woes boost Asian sweet crude demand
    The biggest jump in three years in the nation's imports of oil for power generation is driving a rally in demand for Asian sweet crude. Minas, Indonesia's largest crude grade, traded Thursday at $6.12 a barrel more than Brent, the European benchmark grade, according to data compiled by Bloombe ...
  • Honda's third Vietnam bike plant
    Honda Motor Co. said Monday it plans to build a third motorcycle plant in Vietnam to boost its annual production capacity there by 500,000, to 2.5 million units. Its local unit, Honda Vietnam Co., will invest about �9.6 billion ($120 million) to build the new plant in Ha Nam Province, some 40 ...
  • Nakajima leads Lions to victory
    Desperate to halt a nine-game skid, last-place Seibu Lions manager Hisanobu Watanabe named Hiroyuki Nakajima as the team's captain during the All-Star break. Nakajima on Monday showed he's more than up for the new job, smacking a tie-breaking two-run shot in the eighth inning off Chiba Lotte M ...
  • TV: Analog out, digital in, with rivals Net, s ...
    Sunday marked a nationwide transition to digital terrestrial television broadcasting, bringing to an end over five decades of analog transmissions in Japan. The history of television broadcasting in Japan parallels the nation's postwar economic growth.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Financial Crisis as a Way of Life
    By Ellen Russell (as appeared in Rabble, July 14, 2011) From Wall Street to Iceland to Greece to Ireland, the world is lurching from one financial crisis to the next.   The financial panic of 2008 has morphed into the era of financial crises. If you think you live in an oasis away from financial ...
  • Family Values and Budget Cuts
    Once again, in the middle of summer, the anti-government government has unleashed more anti-policy policy via a compliant Statistics Canada. Who needs data when you’ve got family values? The Harper team knows what you need. (Hint: tax cuts. Oops! Not for you sister, if you’re a single mom.) The ...
  • 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 ...

ReDress

  • Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik's fello ...
    Gilad Atzmon views an article by Zionist writer and former Trotskyite David Horowitz, written on the eve of the Utoeye Island massacre in Norway, "which could well have provided mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik with all the motivation he needed to commit his crime".
  • Was Norway massacre a reaction to boycott Isra ...
    Gilad Atzmon highlights Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's enthusiastic support for Israel and the sympathy he has received from Israelis and, in the light of this, asks whether Breivik might have been a "Sabbath Goy" responding to the Norwegian Workers Youth League's - to which al ...
  • Rupert Murdoch's intellectual terrorism
    Paul J. Balles views the corrupting influence of Rupert Murdoch and his media empire on the politics, culture and media of the English-speaking world.
  • 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 ...

Physics Today

  • Graphene could speed up computers
    Independent: Cell phones, computers, and other electronic devices could run much faster if they were made with graphene, the world’s thinnest material. Writing in the journal Nature Physics, Nobel laureates Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov from Manchester University, and their coworkers, have re ...
  • Arctic ice melt is releasing pollutants, warn ...
    Guardian: The warming of the Arctic is releasing toxic materials such as pesticides and industrial chemicals that have been trapped in ice and cold water. Called persistent organic pollutants (POPs), the manmade compounds, which can cause cancers and birth defects, were banned under the 2004 Sto ...
  • Russian space telescope finally launches
    Science: On 18 July the Russian orbital radio telescope Spektr-R was finally launched, writes Daniel Clery for Science. Originally designed in 1982, the satellite was put on hold following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The goal of the Russian satellite is to work with ground-based radioteles ...
  • Europhysics conference evaluates LHC experiments
    New Kerala: Yesterday kicked off the 2011 International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics in Grenoble, France. Results will be presented from all fields of research, including the Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN. “So far we’ve collected as much data as was planned for the w ...
  • NASA to launch next Mars rover this year
    NASA: Scheduled to launch late this year, NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, will land at the foot of a mountain inside the planet's Gale crater sometime in August 2012. “Curiosity not only will return a wealth of important science data, but it will serve as a precursor mission for human explora ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show-29,'
    by footprints (Posted Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:22:36 GMT) Episode 27-Season Four Filmed November 11 Duration-45 Minutes Omar Abdulla: Welcome to The 'Omar Abdulla,' SHOW produced by Footprints Filmworks...We have a 'power-packed-presentation,' today as we have one of Canada's leading men-Prime Mi ...
  • Focus on Rupert Murdoch
    by rev111 (Posted Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:07:21 GMT) Rupert Murdoch’s intellectual terrorism. … Murdoch has now admitted to have controlled the political systems in Britain and America for two decades. He has had the power to choose national leaders, make policy, pass laws at will.” Murdoch’s me ...
  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show,' 28
    by footprints (Posted Sat, 23 Jul 2011 06:45:45 GMT) Episode 26-Season Four Fiilmed November 7th 2011 Duration 2011 Omar Abdulla: Welcome to The 'Omar Abdulla,' SHOW produced by Footprints Filmworks...Today, we will be speaking about the Metropolitan, Urban, Rural and Village life of ordinar ...
  • NeoCons are the culprits
    by Rev333 (Posted Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:54:03 GMT) Where are the neo-conservatives who brought on this economic and political mess? --- By Helen Thomas … It was the neo-cons who decided America should have an empire in the 21st century. Their design for the world has caused hundreds of t ...
  • Oil price and Iran war
    by katsung47 (Posted Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:01:56 GMT) 12. Financial tsunami created to stabilize the dollar (12/16/08) On 7/4, I wrote "556. Petro-dollar, the cause of Iran war (7/4/08)". I think it touches the core. From 7/5 to 7/8, the oil price dropped for four days from $145 to $136 a barrel. ...

Peakwater

  • The Geopolitics of Water in the Nile River Basin
    “In Africa, access to water is one of the most critical aspects of human survival. Today, about one third of the total population lack access to water. Constituting 300 million people and about 313 million people lack proper sanitation. (World Water Council 2006). As result, many riparian countr ...
  • AT&T fined over San Jose fuel spill
    “AT&T will pay $40,490 in fines for violating California water pollution and hazardous waste laws after an equipment failure at its San Jose facility caused 1,300 gallons of diesel fuel to spill into the Guadalupe River, officials announced Thursday. The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Of ...
  • Super-foam Makes Contaminated Water Fit to Drink
    “It started as an experiment to create an absorbent material for the next generation of diapers, but it turned out to be so much more. Using by-products from the lumber industry and crushed sea shells, a team of scientists at North Carolina State University came up with a foam substance with abs ...
  • Oklahoma Cattle Ranchers Pray For Rain
    “Extreme heat and drought are spreading across 14 states in the US. From Arizona all the way to Florida, it’s as if the entire South of the country were burning from below, adding pressure to states and towns already struggling to recover from the financial crisis and high unemployment. We just ...
  • What’s In the Water?
    “We like to believe that most tap water is safe to drink and that our state and federal regulators are on the job when it comes to ensuring that’s the case. But a new report from the General Accountability Office suggests that a lack of data from the states is causing problems for the Environme ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Protect Social Security; Numbers Sho ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has ardently defended Social Security, today released the following statement regarding attempts to inject Social Security into an unrelated debate about the debt and the deficit. �Social Security is strong. It is not a government piggy bank and it is 100 ...
  • Kucinich Asks Tough Questions About FBI Invest ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder asking tough questions about the Federal Bureau of Investigation�s large commitment of resources to investigate small, local groups of individuals whose primary concern is peace.� Congressman Kucinich also asked for a ...
  • Senator Obama vs. President Obama
    September 6, 2008, Speech to the AARP Convention, C-SPAN "[John McCain's] campaign has...suggest[ed] that the best answer to the growing pressures on Social Security might be to cut cost-of-living adjustments or raise the retirement age.� I will not do either." October 30, 2007, Democratic Deb ...
  • Kucinich: “Chained C.P.I Chains Seniors to Pov ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) took to the House floor again today to defend seniors from unfair attempts to cut Social Security benefits.� Kucinich has previously pointed out that Social Security is financially sound and should not be connected to the federal deficit debate. See video here ...
  • Kucinich Defends Boeing Workers; Calls for Def ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made a strong defense of the National Labor Relations Act and the right of workers at Boeing to seek a remedy for violations of the law. (For a legal background of the Boeing case, click here.) Congressman Kucinich has previously defended the Boeing work ...

Authentically Wired

  • and our “press” does not ask
    �� OK �� City Council does not ask questions and guess what the citizens/voters of Phoenix don�t ask questions of the City Council �� and our �press� does not ask either �� so �� what �� surprise �� Phoenix transit figures incorrect for 6 years �� City misreported administrative costs to the fed ...
  • PUSH BACK …
      ⦠Perfectly understandable when you accept that when people are pushed ⦠they push back and not always in methods deemed acceptable ⦠Produce pillaging on the rise in California as farm thieves nab fruits and veggies, farm equipment, copper California’s Central Valley, which has long been c ...
  • … Anger … aggression … repri ...
    � ��� Question to Sec Homeland Security Napolitano �� these types of acts on the part of your TSA do not promote security� �� Anger �� aggression �� reprisal �� YES �� TSA Screener Brings Woman to Tears through Aggressive Body Search �� But for once, they do not harass the man videotaping it � [...]
  • Raw Milk Unfreedom and FDA Propaganda
      ⦠Mon$anto has too much invested in RbGH (GMO) to allow you to drink raw unadulterated milk ⦠Raw Milk Unfreedom and FDA Propaganda   Posted by Karen De Coster on July 24, 2011 03:34 PM ⦠http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/91938.html   It’s legal to sell raw milk or raw organic ...
  • … Look it’s really simple
      ⦠Look itâs really simple ⦠if âcorporateâ canât make a buck ⦠we ainât never going to be permitted to consume it ⦠Just follow the $$$ ⦠got it ⦠Here’s a great example of anti-cancer medicine that the FDA and medical establishment absolutely does not want you to know about: Hidden [...]

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

  • Editorial: An expensive voyage to the final f ...
    Some of their names harked back to a golden age of exploration. Others conveyed the promise of one to come. The space shuttles - Endeavour, Discovery, Atlantis, Challenger and Columbia - offered the prospect of a whole new approach...
  • Tortoise loses leg - but gains a wheel
    When he had his damaged leg amputated, vets thought 12-year-old Gamera would be slower than the proverbial tortoise.But instead he has every chance of overtaking the hare after his missing leg was replaced with a US$7 ($8) castor...
  • All pain, no gain for hip patients
    Bruce Greenfield may be the last New Zealander implanted with a faulty hip joint that is causing turmoil in the orthopaedic world and heartache for patients.As a doctor - a general practitioner - Greenfield is well placed to recognise...
  • Dogs' new best friend buries wolf pack theory
    Professor John Bradshaw is holding out a clenched fist - you might see this as a novel way of greeting a stranger were it not that it is my dog, Lily, he is approaching. He is giving her a chance to have a good sniff at him.Before...
  • Red zone re-opens after 5.1 aftershock
    The Christchurch red zone has re-opened after a 5.1 aftershock in Canterbury this morning.Indicator buildings in the Christchurch central city were inspected after the large aftershock, which struck at 5.39am, near Dunsandal,...

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Hit & Run | Reason

  • American Public Sends Hilarious and Sad $80 Mi ...
    A sad story in today's Washington Post of soft-hearted citizens who have been sending a stream of pathetically tiny donations to the federal government since 1961 to help pay down the debt. Utterly futily, as it happens: A stream of checks, cash and even gold coins is pouring in ...
  • If at First You Don't Get a Prison Sentence, T ...
    Two years ago Steven D. Ballinger of Collinsville, Illinois, was sentenced to two and a half years of probation in state court after he pleaded guilty to sexual abuse and child pornography charges stemming from his videotaped encounter with a 12-year-old girl in July 2006, when he ...
  • New at Reason: Ira Stoll on the Debt Debate
    You can fool around with inflation and with the percentage of GDP and with the revenue side of the equation, observes Ira Stoll, but the bottom line is that the federal government is spending about double what it was at the end of the Clinton administration. It’s time to set the recor ...
  • Reason.tv: Fighting the War on Cameras - Jerom ...
    Can the police detain you for taking pictures of a routine traffic stop? Police in Washington D.C. say they can. In 2010, photographer and student Jerome Vorus was detained and questioned by police after he photographed a traffic stop in Georgetown. The ACLU says he was ...
  • Meddling in Other People's Diets Is 'Fun' and ...
    Mark Bittman, who for years wrote "The Minimalist," a useful and entertaining recipe column in the food section of The New York Times, is now an op-ed columnist for the paper. That's too bad, because he was much better at the former job. In an essay that ran in the Sunday edition o ...

Mercury Rising

  • How we sleep
    A fascinating Podcast about sleep by Professor Russell Foster.
  • Respecting the oaf of office
    Via Avedon, this article from Bloomberg: Gov. Scott Walker’s administration is working on finalizing a plan to close as many as 10 offices where people can obtain driver’s licenses in order to expand hours elsewhere and come into compliance with new requirements that voters show photo IDs at the ...
  • The greasy pole
    Reuters: OPEC’s proven crude oil reserves rose 12.1 percent in 2010 to 1.19 trillion barrels led by Venezuela, which has surpassed Saudi Arabia as the group’s largest reserves holder, OPEC said in its Annual Statistical Bulletin. This is heavy oil in the Orinoco basin, not so easy to exploit. An ...
  • Norwegian Media: Breivik Part Of International ...
    So much for the “lone nut” theory that’s always dragged out and dusted off whenever a right-winger commits an act of terror. That construct is no longer operative, to paraphrase Ron Ziegler. Ketil B. Stensrud, who has written for the UK’s Independent and Daily Mirror and has a wealth of Norwegia ...
  • Restoring the monarchy: the American Legislati ...
    John Nichols has been spearheading an investigation of the American Legislative Council (ALEC), an organ of the corporate state founded by Paul Weyrich. Weyrich famously said that when people vote, the right loses. So, here are some excerpts. Julie Underwood: Public schools,” ALEC wrote in its 1 ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Wisdom's Dare: The Future of a Divine Experiment
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  • The Women's Visionary Congress
    RS is a proud sponsor of the fifth annual Women’s Visionary Congress: a three day event featuring discussions and presentations by women healers, scholars, activists and artists who study consciousness and altered states. --- read more
  • Spacetime and Spin
    NASA’s long term Gravity Probe-B mission has proven that Einstein’s general relativity is, once again, accurate. The ambitious experiment showed that the space-time around the Earth appears indeed to be distorted, as it is described in his benchmark work on gravitation. read more
  • Pig Pancreases for Humans
    New technology may allow researchers to grow human organs inside of pigs. Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi of the University of Tokyo presented the idea at a European genetics conference last month. Nakauchi and his colleagues created genetic deficiencies in the embryos of mice so that the mice ...
  • Awakening to the Synchronic Order
    � The following is exerpted from Time, Synchronicity and Calendar Change: the Visionary Life and Work of José Argüelles, published by Law of Time Press. There will come a time when the birds will fall from the trees, the rivers will be poisoned and the wolves will die in the forests. But t ...

Desertification

  • EAST AFRICA: Massive Aid Needed to Stave off D ...
    International donors have given more than one billion dollars to ease the famine in Somalia and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa, but U.N. officials say another billion will be needed to prevent the situation from deteriorating in other areas.
  • 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.

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Q&A: Budget Woes Could Hamper ICC Investigations
    The work of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world's first and only permanent court that pursues war criminals, is likely to be hampered by a shortage of funds next year.
  • BRAZIL: Lax Limits on Agrotoxics in Drinking Water
    Brazil sets acceptable drinking water limits for 22 different types of pesticides and fertilisers, 13 heavy metals, 13 solvents and six disinfectants. However, these are sometimes exceeded for economic reasons or due to inadequate monitoring.
  • In Sri Lanka Democracy Rides on Wheels
    If voters in this remote village, deep inside Sri Lanka's former war zone, turned out in strength for the historical Jul. 23 local body elections, it had to do with the availability of buses to ferry them to the nearest polling station 20 km away.
  • Worrying Dysfunction in DR Congo Airports
    Major operational shortcomings are behind the recent spate of crashes at airports around the Democratic Republic of Congo, raising questions about safety for aircraft and passengers in the central African country.
  • SWAZILAND: Economic Crisis Means Short Supply ...
    Swaziland's economic crisis has affected its ability to provide healthcare as the country's buffer stock of antiretrovirals (ARVs) has fallen below the prescribed three-month supply.

Scoop - NZ

  • Amy Goodman: Questions hanging over Murdoch, USA
    The contagion affecting News Corp has spread rapidly in the US. The FBI is investigating potential criminal hacking of the voicemails of victims of the 9/11 attacks. Lawmakers and grassroots groups are also calling for an investigation into whether the bribing of police was a violation of the Fo ...
  • Galloway: Murdoch empire sinking beneath the s ...
    David Cameron is slowly sinking into the Murdoch quicksands for several reasons. His relations with Murdoch's top-brass, now under investigation, have turned out to be almost comically close. He was a "riding partner" of Rebekah Brooks, Murdoch's British CEO, who was arrested by police on Sunday ...
  • 'Bewildered' Rupert Murdoch suffers a close s ...
    If it hadn't been for the presence at the hearing of his son James, News Corp and its News International subsidiary would have lost what little credibility they have left. If it wasn't for his wife Wendy's right hook, he would have lost what little dignity he has left too, under a pile of shavin ...
  • Politico: Rupert Murdoch could be replaced
    A leadership change at News Corp., currently headed by CEO Rupert Murdoch, is being considered, Bloomberg and CNBC reported Monday. On Monday some members of News Corp.’s board of directors weighed a move that would put COO Chase Carey in the chief executive slot, Bloomberg reported, citing s ...
  • National drops 5% in Roy Morgan, Left surges
    TV1′s poll on Sunday was supposedly curtains for CGT, so what does it mean that the latest Roy Morgan has the Nats down 5% and the Left in striking range of an upset win? It means don’t draw instant conclusions linking one poll to one policy (although it must be tempting when you’ve spent $30K g ...

Independent - London

  • Norway gunman warns of 'more cells'
    Anders Behring Breivik told a Norwegian judge today his bombing and shooting rampage that killed scores aimed to save Europe from a Muslim takeover, and said that "two more cells" existed in his organisation.
  • Hollywood for trapped Chile miners
    The story of the Chilean miners who were trapped underground for more than two months is on its way to the big screen.
  • DNA experts highlight problems with Amanda Kno ...
    The investigators who collected the genetic evidence used to convict American student Amanda Knox of murder in Italy made a series of glaring errors, including using a dirty glove and not wearing caps, two independent forensic experts said today.
  • Breton's seaweed festival - in pictures
    Over the weekend locals took part in the annual seaweed festival or Fete du Goemon in western Brittany, France.
  • Teens mauled by bear in Alaska
    Alaska State Troopers say a brown bear that was with her cub attacked teens participating in a survival skills course, badly injuring two in the group.

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

  • Always wear sunscreen
    As the summer signals hot weather and long days at the beach, doctors, cosmeticians and mothers everywhere rally to proffer their standard warning: “Always wear sunscreen.” But for people who are allergic to sunblock, like Elda Scaiano, it is impossible to wear commercial sunscreens. Fortunately ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Like Daughter, Like Mother
    Moms, your daughters don't want to be like you when they grow up - or at least, they don't want to dress like you. It's the other way around, according to a forthcoming study in the Journal of Consumer Behaviour. Researchers polled 343 mother-daughter pairs (average ages 44 and 16, respectivel ...
  • U.S.: Thousands of fish turned up dead in Indi ...
    Seymour, Indiana- Imagine thousands of fish literally turn up dead in a lake near your home. That's just what happened at a lake in Seymour, Indiana. So, our viewers called us asking us to get answers. Neighbors say they've never seen anything like this before. Stinking, dead fish giving off ...
  • Children Abandoned on East Africa's "Roads of ...
    Desperate Somali mothers are abandoning their dying children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency food centers in drought-hit eastern Africa, U.N. aid officials said Monday. Josette Sheeran, executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, told a conference in R ...
  • Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! Chinese villag ...
    This ape made a monkey of Chinese villagers who feared it was a visitor from another world. Locals panicked when Mao Xiping, a housewife from the village of Gezhai, in Henan province, central China, found the scraggy simian stealing cucumbers from her flat. She thought it was a harmless rabb ...
  • The Incredible Shrinking Human Brain
    The human brain is big, and it's powerful, able to dream up innovative solutions to complex problems. Yet our brains don't age well: As we grow older, they tend to shrink and become increasingly vulnerable to cognitive dysfunctions such as memory loss and dementia. A new magnetic resonance ima ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Marty's perspective . . .
    Like a bastard in the sand, indeed — thanks, Marty.
  • Awesome . . .
    CATHERINE DESTIVELLE is unique. Amazing!
  • Take out the garbage . . .
    NOW, THAT'S FIREPOWER. John Moses Browning would be so pleased with the design's reliability and simplicity. I wonder if they make a 10-gauge, for heavy-duty garbage removal? Then again, like the video shows, you can carry two of 'em for maximum expression of your point of view, so a 10-gauge pr ...
  • Interesting times . . .
    LIKE DIRTY HARRY SAID, "A good man has to know his limitations". That's good advice, but unfortunately, politicians of all kinds ignore it, because it constrains the ego, as we see in Stevie and his orcs, and especially in the Chinese ruling elite.You see, the Chinese have a Taiwan fixation — t ...
  • Urk . . .
    The recession has hit everybody really hard... • My neighbor got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. • CEO's are now playing miniature golf. • Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen. • I saw a Mormon with only one wife. • If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you ca ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News Mocks Security Threat To Small Island ...
    Fox News host Greg Gutfeld dismissed the notion that small island states face an existential threat from climate change. However, studies have shown that ongoing climate change has severe consequences for the habitability of many small islands.Fox Dismisses Existential Threat To Small Islands ...
  • Right-Wing Media Defend, Deny Anti-Islamic Rhe ...
    Following the terrorist attacks in Norway by anti-Muslim fundamentalist Anders Behring Breivik, the right-wing media have leapt to defending their own Islamophobic response to the attacks, often by making absurd claims like calling Breivik a "jihadist."Many Right-Wing Media Figures Leapt To Bla ...
  • Bozell Downplays Reagan's Warning Against Risk ...
    Appearing on Fox & Friends, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell dismissed President Reagan's 1987 warning that Congress should avoid using the debt ceiling for "brinkmanship" that would threaten default and harm the economy, pointing instead to comments Reagan made in the same speech o ...
  • Right-Wing Media Freak Out About Contraception ...
    The right-wing media responded with outrage after the nonpartisan Institute of Medicine released a recommendation that all health insurance plans should cover contraception without cost to the consumer. But health experts agree with the Institute of Medicine's analysis that universal contracept ...
  • Fox Continues To Ignore Economists To Push For ...
    Fox continues to push for a budget deal that would include a "balanced budget amendment," like the bill recently passed by the House -- but economists agree that a balanced budget amendment would make recessions worse and damage the economy.Fox Continues To Push For Balanced Budget Amendment Do ...

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TPM Cafe

  • And You Thought All the Recent Crazy Has Been ...
    As a foreign policy complement to the main insanity over the debt ceiling (see David Brooks' analysis), we have a flurry of ideological and self-indulgent Republican amendments last week to the House Foreign Affairs Committee's authorization bill (see Josh Rogin's reporting). Here's the money qu ...
  • A White House Reverie at 5 Minutes to Midnight
    Obama tells Boehner and McConnell: "Your party set out three decades ago to deepen our deficit problems [see the post just below], and brought us the economic near-meltdown of 2008. And now that you've forced the crisis into the political arena openly again and have Americans' undivided atte ...
  • The Debt Crisis' Greedheads, Fountainheads, Go ...
    Ronald Reagan's inauguration in 1981 marked the debut of a strategy to "starve the beast" of big government by ballooning its deficits and the national debt. That would generate a crisis severe enough to force drastic rollbacks of Social Security, Medicaid, and other programs that most Americans ...
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  • Best of the Commentary on Rupert's Escape
    Rupert Murdoch and his son James effected a Houdini-like escape yesterday from the none-too-tight coils of a hearing designed by British parliamentarians eager to look more righteous -- and less complicit -- than many of them actually are in the scandals they're supposedly investigating. Here ar ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Welcome to Palestine (aic)
    Organizers of Welcome to Palestine Campaign held a press conference at the AIC offices in Jerusalem on July 18, 2011. In response to a Palestinian invitation, hundreds of internationa ...
  • Women prisoners tell their stories in "Suspend ...
    Thirty-six large photographs depicting former Palestinian women prisoners and their families were hung in Ramallah's Al Mahatta Gallery earlier this month, accompanied by the photogra ...
  • Captive hearts fly free with kites in Jerusale ...
    At dusk, the skies over the city's ancient and congested heart erupt into a frenzy of activity. That is when the Palestinian youth of Jerusalem's Old City congregate near Damascus Gat ...
  • Gaza fishermen swamped by Israeli gunboats and ...
    Hani al-Asi, a fisherman since the age of 11 and a father with 12 mouths to feed, had just begun throwing his lines into the Mediterranean when an Israeli gunboat sped towards his tra ...
  • UN panel rules IDF boarded Marmara 'to kill' ...
    The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet said Sunday that the Palmer report on last year's Gaza-bound flotilla is expected to be released this week. According to the newspaper, the UN-appointed ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • A Perry EPA, brrrrr . . . cold shivers down my ...
    The EPA under Perry . . . what would that look like?  I don’t know about you, but that thought sends cold shivers down my spine, even on a 104 degree day. The Austin American Statesman takes a look at what the EPA might become with a Perry White House.  Public Citizen’s own “Smitty” weighs [...]
  • LIGHTS, CAMERA, HELP – a cause-driven film fes ...
    Lights. Camera. Help is a nonprofit film festival dedicated entirely to nonprofit and cause-driven films.  This 3-day event held in Austin Texas, July 28th through July 30th, gives films-for-a-cause the attention they deserve by putting them up on the big screen in a theater setting.  One of the ...
  • Terrorist threat to utilities, not what we nee ...
    According to ABC News, a new intelligence report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued Tuesday, entitled Insider Threat to Utilities, warns “violent extremists have obtained insider positions,” and that “outsiders have attempted to solicit utility-sector employees” for damaging p ...
  • Heat wave and poor air quality, a deadly combi ...
    Scorching temperatures continue to bake half the country, as a massive heat wave that has killed at least 22 people nationwide this week leaves twenty-nine states still under a heat advisory. Meteorologists are also warning folks in numerous cities in the northeast that they are under a code red ...
  • Kids sue TCEQ to preserve the future and halt ...
    Statewide organizations support youth as they appeal TCEQ decision denying petition to reduce carbon emissions and prevent climate catastrophe Three Texas youth and one young adult filed for judicial review today of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ) denial of their petition ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • UFO over South Africa on Google Earth
    A Google Earth user has discovered a UFO in the skies over Cape Town in South Africa. It isn't clear what the object is or if it is a genuine image, f...
  • Road-legal Batmobile developed
    Move over Batman - an aspiring racing driver has built the world's first road-legal Batmobile. Casey Putsch took five months to put together the Tim B...
  • Man wakes up in morgue, scares workers
    A man believed to be dead woke up in a morgue and scared off attendants who thought he was a ghost. The 50-year-old started screaming to be let out af...
  • Scientists catch glimpse of "God particle"
    The Large Hadron Collider has picked up fluctuations that could be from the elusive Higgs Boson particle. Scientists have however been quick to stress...
  • Massive reservoir of water found in space
    Two teams of astronomers have located an immense reservoir of water in the far reaches of the universe. The water is situated near a quasar over 30 bi...

Grassroots

  • Losing Jerusalem, Piece by Piece
    snaking_wall.jpg In Bir Nabala, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem, Israel’s separation Wall provides a concrete backdrop to what was once a view of the old city. On a stormy afternoon, Bir Nabala’s head of counsel Haj Tawfik Nabeli guided m ...
  • Taking on TIAA-CREF, with pain and outrage
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Alice Rothchild is a Boston-based physician, a Grassroots International supporter, and author of "Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish Trauma and Resilience." Her website is www.alicerothchild.com. ...
  • Funding Global Movements… one grant at a time
    mexico201012--139.jpg By Alicia Tozourread more
  • Up Against the Wall: Beehives of Resistance an ...
    palestine201105-16.jpg Eight years ago this month, the International Court of Justice ruled in an advisory opinion that �the construction of the wall, and its associated régime, are contrary to international law.��While neither the state o ...
  • The Landless Workers Movement wins the Food So ...
    mst_youth.jpg The International Links Committee of Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) announced the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil as the recipient of the 2011 Food Sovereignty Prize.�Grassroots International congratulates ...

Climate

GreenBiz

  • First Takes: India Overhauls Eco-Regulators, R ...
    A major change to how India manages environmental regulations, the green benefits of fake office plants, and pushback against new fuel efficiency rules are on our radar this morning.
  • How Chicago Can Make an Even Bigger Impact wit ...
    Mayor Rahm Emanuel has set up a bold program to make 6.5 million square feet of city-owned buildings more energy efficient -- but by using deep energy retrofit approach, the city could save as much as five times more energy.
  • Inside the Military's Green Energy Mission
    The latest episode of Energy Now looks at how the DoD is trying to trim its $15 billion annual energy bill, the Air Force's use of the country's largest solar array, and and the Army's first hybrid gas-electric tank -- from World War One
  • How Can Your Company Manage Carbon Regulations ...
    As the economy recovers, businesses are picking up steam -- but are they moving in a way that will put them in conflict with coming environmental laws? Three strategies can help keep your company growing, and in the green.
  • Show Me the Money: Energy Efficiency Financing ...
    A look at the energy efficiency market sectors, major players in the energy efficiency financing, key barriers, the primary internal and external financing strategies and recommendations for large-scale capital deployment.

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

  • Alarmed Observation
    Is anyone surprised that someone called in a bomb threat to Grover Norquist's office? The amount of stress the anti-tax Republicans are putting on people, globally, is immense. People are looking at financial ruin because of their antics, and it's inevitable that some people are going to crack ...
  • Pam Geller Compares Herself to John Lennon
    Pam Geller is a little upset that people are placing some blame on her deranged blog for inspiring the lunatic bomber and gunman in Norway. Are celebrities responsible for their stalkers? Were the Beatles responsible for Charles Manson? Or Jodie Foster responsible for the shooting of Ronald ...
  • Can You See the Kabuki Now?
    I'd like every liberal who has carped about the president's approach to the debt ceiling negotiations to pause now and consider the fact that the Republicans have now revealed their bottom line. They made an offer. Their offer is nothing. We get nothing. Not one thing that we want. Nada. A ...
  • Soc. Sec. is not an entitlement; it is a promise"
    Last night in Youngstown, Ohio, 200 or so people, seniors and activists and politicians, met at a town-hall event at United Baptist Church. Senator Sherrod Brown appeared and spoke at the event that was sponsored by the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative, the Service Employees Internation ...
  • White House Needs to Promise a Veto
    The game Boehner appears to be playing is to stall long enough that whatever he passes out of the House is presented as an either/or choice. Either the Senate agrees to it letter-for-letter or time runs out and we default. In recognition of this, Harry Reid is willing to pay a healthy ransom, ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Invasion of the American North-East by the ...
    The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, an insect native to Asia, invaded the United States in the 20th century. It now attacks and kills Eastern Hemlock trees. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • A Journey To Find the Mysterious And Elusive W ...
    The mystic Spirit bear, a white and elusive black bear. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Incredible Beauty of the Orion Nebula
    Learn about the beauty of the Orion Nebula. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Langur Monkeys: India's Animal Sentries
    India's langur monkeys are not only beautiful to look at, they can also be sentries or security guards. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Meet Mimmi: The Bear Who Loves To Practice Yoga
    An amazing bear doing Yoga positions in the morning. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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  • Bernie Sanders causes exposure of $16,000,000, ...
    The criminal banker syndicate which has captured much of our federal government has finally had some of its inner mechanics exposed thanks to Bernie Sanders, one of a handful of legit people in Congress today.... The Full Bernie post is well earned: The Fed Audit - Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie ...
  • Minnesota Government Shutdown Over: threat of ...
    This was a pretty good edit I thought (we really crafted a nice mix) but hasn't gotten too many views yet :-/ The official 2011 special session budget omnibus bills are here. LYRICS: Minnesota legislators time to get things done We've been losing everything and you think this is fun first you ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Joel Klein Meets Joel Klein to Discuss Rupert ...
    From a guest: NYC’s former Chancellor, Joel Klein, now works for Murdoch, and has been put in charge of his “internal investigation” of this scandal. At the same time questions have been raised surrounding several no-bid contracts that the NY State Education Department and the NYC Department of ...
  • If government created money instead of debt: T ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Many of America’s brightest historical minds recognized and communicated the obvious answer to US national debt: US government can create money instead of debt. Current law lets banks create what we use for money, which we then borrow at interest. This Orwellian ...
  • Teacher Inactivist Man vs. Achievement Gap Wom ...
      Teacher’s wages, student poverty, cuts in educational funds, leaving ‘children behind’, ‘failure to close the ‘achievement gap’ and more sophistry in education all combine to frame the Sophocles tragedy we call ‘educational theatre’.  As you listen to the YouTube tragic-humor found at http://w ...
  • Michael Collins: The New Know-Nothings &#8211 ...
    The Murdoch’s and their former chief executive of News International testified before a House of Commons committee yesterday. Their hours of explanations can be summarized in a phrase: we knew nothing. (Image) Rupert Murdoch was too busy flying around the world milking his cash cow media propert ...
  • Murdoch’s knife in the heart of journalism
    By Saul Landau Rupert Murdoch finally got his you know what caught in the proverbial ringer – for his employees’ hacking, not for contributing to the prolonged murder of English-language journalism. Wars, revolutions, famines and disasters occurred and Murdoch’s “journalists” juxtaposed lurid “b ...

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  • News you may have missed #548 (China edition)
    China detains Korean spy officers. US intelligence on China declassified. IMF investigators see China behind computer hacking.
  • Iran revises earlier reports of nuclear scient ...
    The government of Iran has revised earlier reports of a nuclear scientist’s assassination, saying the murdered man was a university student, and not a nuclear physicist, as it was first announced.
  • News you may have missed #547
    Finland cancels visa of ex-KGB general. Georgian 'spy photographers' to be released. Pakistani ex-spy director says US owes Pakistan.
  • News you may have missed #546
    Whistleblower says NSA mismanagement continues. Taliban claim phones hacked by NATO. Rumsfeld memo says 'US can't keep a secret'.
  • News you may have missed #545
    Pakistan restores visas to CIA personnel. German spy agency accused of playing down stolen blueprints. Ex-CIA operative says he never claimed Israel would attack Iran.

War is a Crime.org

  • Don’t Accuse Obama of “Caving”
    By Jeff Cohen In� a campaign almost as frenzied as the effort to get Barack Obama into the White House, liberal groups are now mobilizing against the White House and reported deals that would cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits. They accuse President Obama of being weak and willi ...
  • If Bush or Giuliani Had Been Stoltenberg
    The murder spree in Norway was apparently the work of a Norwegian, not a group of foreigners, and for various other reasons the comparison is not exact.� Nonetheless, it's tempting to wonder how many people would still be alive today if George W. Bush or Rudy Giuliani had spoken after the 9-11 a ...
  • Even Birds Have Withdrawn From Afghanistan
    Comparing the brain sizes of migratory birds and U.S. presidents may not help explain this one.� Birds have been avoiding Afghanistan for some years now. �Afghans with higher educations have been leaving for decades.� War profiteers, and occupation profiteers, and "reconstruction" profiteers see ...
  • Video: Karen Malpede: Why I Will Be There
  • "Shared Sacrifice"??
    "Shared Sacrifice"? WAR TAX NOW!! � Hearing: Examining the Lifetime Costs of Supporting the Newest Generation of Veterans � Committee on Veterans� Affairs United States Senate 112th Congress, First Session Hearing Schedule Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:00 a.m. Veterans and the Veterans Administrat ...

Grist - News

  • Everyone thinks Obama is doing a bad job on th ...
    by Sarah Laskow. Yale Environment 360 asked a series of environmental thinkers, activists, and policymakers what they think of Barack Obama's record on the environmental record so far. The overwhelming response was that they didn't think very much of it at all. Here’s climate writer and ...
  • The EPA does not want you feeding arsenic to y ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. It's only 16 months until the next election, and you know what that means: We are in the thick of political ad season. Mostly that makes everybody want to crawl under a sofa, but sometimes you get arresting ads like this one from American Family Voices.
  • Paper antennas pull electricity from the air
    by Jess Zimmerman. The air is full of energy -- not in a woo-woo crystal-gazing way, but in a scientific electromagnetic-radiation-from-TV-stations-and-phone-networks kind of way. That ambient energy is just being wasted. But a team from Georgia Tech is developing inkjet-printed paper ...
  • Is this the greenest college campus ever?
    by Sarah Laskow. California's Butte College has a 928-acre wildlife refuge. It promotes ride shares. It uses goats for landscaping, and worms for composting. It has LEED-certifiable buildings. And now it's going off the grid -- the first college in the country, the school claims, to be en ...
  • Painting roofs white could save a year’s ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. The White Roof Project has a simple mission: Paint black roofs white. Here's what that tiny effort gets you, according to the organization (click the picture for a more extensive infographic): A 24 billion metric ton reduction in CO2 emissions, if every roof is ...

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  • Norway Notes – Updated | Veterans Today
    By Gordon Duff New questions: A second shooter was reported by some survivors. Initial reports that our “terrorist,” now said to be a farmer with unlimited access to tons of fertilizer to be used to make explosives, has one minor glitch to it. He is an organic farmer and would have had NO access ...
  • Norway: “We will not be Naive” &#8 ...
    The brutal slaughter in Norway represents a watershed moment in history. A point at which the global media asks us to turn our attentions in a particular direction. They want us to believe that one man singlehandedly devised and executed this hellish massacre of more than 85 defenseless teenager ...
  • Connecting the Dot Machine
    By Les Visible Yes, the connections to Israel are too numerous and timely to be coincidental and one Norwegian leader has kind of implied something to that affect. Here’s another amazing statistic. It seems like there are more congressional trips to The Black Hole of Planet Earth that there are ...
  • Norway Terror Attack Originally Framed as Musl ...
    By Scott Carpenter By the time reports confirmed the shooter at the labor party camp was a blonde Caucasian, I thought for sure this typical speculation would come to end. However, immediately after hearing this first confirmation, the CNN desk reporter interviewed what initially appeared to be ...
  • Young people should not take flu vaccine, watc ...
    Martin Beckford By Martin Beckford The European Medicine Agency said that Pandemrix should only be given to the under-20s if they are at risk of contracting swine flu and alternative jabs are not available. Its announcement comes after studies showed that young people who were given the vaccine ...

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

  • Gehry’s Luna Park Plan to Transform Historic F ...
    Frank Gehryâs vision for a series of his signature folded towers placed in the heart of the historic Parc des Ateliers in Arles, France will have to wait – as the project has just been put on hold. The French National Commission for Historical Sites and Monument has rejected two of the five nece ...
  • Japan Using Air Conditioned Clothing to Beat t ...
    You didn’t think a little heat could faze those resourceful Japanese did you? Well, okay, a lot of heat. While most of us westerners over here are sweating up a storm even with air conditioning, many Japanese citizens have had to bear the heat while forgoing AC in order to save electricity due t ...
  • Perkins+Will’s Green-Roofed Sammamish Library ...
    Read the rest of Perkins+Will’s Green-Roofed Sammamish Library Soaks Up The Sun In Washington Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Daylighting, eco design, eco library, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green library, library, perkins and w ...
  • Pulau Joyo Is a Dreamy Driftwood Retreat in In ...
    Read the rest of Pulau Joyo Is a Dreamy Driftwood Retreat in Indonesia Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", driftwood architecture, eco design, eco-tourism, found materials, green design, hand-crafted furniture, Indoneseia, island getaway, Java Joglos, Jav ...
  • Fisker’s Multi-Speed Gearbox Could Give EVs Su ...
    Electric cars can be fun to drive because they have all their power available at all speeds, which means incredibly quick acceleration. But until now, carmakers have been limited in the performance they can offer at higher speeds because current electric cars use one-speed motors. That means the ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Cross-Species Gadget Tests Reveal Reason for D ...
    The dolphins of Australia’s Shark Bay, famed as Earth’s first marine tool-users, likely turned to gadgetry because echolocation couldn’t find the best fish, especially for hurried moms without time to hunt. It was in 1984 that researchers first observed the dolphins fitting basket sponges over ...
  • Black Hole Holds Universe’s Biggest Water Supply
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever found in the universe. It’s 12 billion light years away, and holds at least 140 trillion times the amount of water in all the Earth’s oceans combined. It manifests itself as a colo ...
  • Photographers Capture Mysterious, Beautiful Pa ...
    A single sand grain is a simple thing. But en mass, grains of sand build, slide and settle into beautiful and mysterious patterns we admire, but cannot always understand. We've gathered some of the strangest and most impressive pictures we could find of sand patterns.
  • The Hazy Science of Hot Weather and Violence
    The link between violence and hot weather is so intuitive that it’s embedded in our language: Hotheads lose tempers that flare, anger simmers and comes to a boil, and eventually we cool down. So what does science have to say? Do tempers truly soar with temperature? The answer, appropriately en ...
  • Giant Crater Is Next Mars Rover Landing Site
    The next fantastic voyage across the red planet will begin in just over a year when NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover lands in a crater 96 miles wide and three miles deep that contains a geological record of the planet’s epic history. On July 22, NASA officially announced that Curiosity will land at ...

PakAlert

  • Predictive Programming: Captain America blockb ...
    We have seen it before… Movies, and pop culture eerily “predicting” world events BEFORE they actually happen. This is generally regarded with a wary eye, and chalked up as “coincidence” – BUT what if something more sinister were occurring? Could billion dollar film, record, or book companies be ...
  • Oslo False Flag: Now Everyone’s A Suspect!
    “It’s Norway’s Oklahoma City”…”right wing connections”…”Christian fundamentalist”. I get it – everyone’s a suspect. it’s the mainstream Mr. and Mrs. Normal we need to beware of–or so they’ll twist it. Uh, by the way, that’s most of YOU!
  • Was Sinking the Titanic an Insurance Scam?
    In 1908, financier J.P. Morgan planned a brand new class of luxury liners that would enable the wealthy to cross the Atlantic in previously undreamed-of opulence. The construction of the giant vessels, the 'Olympic', the 'Titanic' and the 'Britannic,' began in 1909 at the Harland and Wolff ship ...
  • Qaddafi the Jew, the Rothschilds & the Mossad
    Colonel Gaddafi’s close ties to the Rothschild family and the Mossad make complete sense when we consider the fact that he is a Jew, the son of a Jewish mother, according to a report aired on Israeli television. How much oil money has the brutal Libyan dictator secretly stashed away in Israeli ...
  • Layoffs, Layoffs Everywhere You Look There Are ...
    The competition for jobs in the United States is absolutely brutal right now, and it is about to get worse. A new wave of layoffs is sweeping across America. During tough economic times, Wall Street favors companies that are able to cut costs, and the fastest way to "cut costs" is to eliminate ...

Andy Worthington

  • 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 ...
  • Hellhole: The Most Devastating Article About L ...
    With contested claims that the three-week long hunger strike in California’s prisons has come to an end (as I discussed in a recent article, The California Prison Hunger Strike Opposing Solitary Confinement as Torture â and the Insulting Response of Prison Officials), the horrendous human rights ...
  • The California Prison Hunger Strike Opposing S ...
    On Thursday July 21, as the widespread hunger strike in California’s prisons — primarily aimed at highlighting the abusive conditions in which prisoners are held in long-term solitary confinement in Security Housing Units (SHUs) — reached the three-week mark, Matthew Cate, the Secretary of the C ...
  • Support the Hunger Strikers of Pelican Bay, Ca ...
    On July 5, I received a press release from the Prison Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition in Oakland, California. Under the heading, “Prisoners Across at Least 6 California Prisons Join Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers: Strike Could Involve Thousands of Prisoners,” it read: More than 100 hours into an ...
  • Congress and the Dangerous Drive Towards Creat ...
    “Some issues,” the New York Times declared in an editorial on June 25, “require an unwavering stand. Preserving the role of law enforcement agencies in stopping and punishing terrorists is one of them. This country is not and should never be a place where the military dispenses justice, other th ...

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  • 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

  • News Roundup for July 25, 2011
    A trial date has been set in the case of six members of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia and their plot to murder public officials and police in the state. The judge set a trial date in April 16, 2012, for the group, which was led by Schaeffer Cox. Lawyers for the defense are still attempting [...]
  • Oslo Shooter A Frightening Reminder of Radical ...
    The horrific events that took place in Norway this past Friday— a huge bombing in central Oslo closely followed by a bloody shooting rampage on nearby Utoya island that left 93 dead—are a sobering reminder of what extreme radical-right beliefs can drive some to do. And the threat is not confined ...
  • ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Shot in Exchange of Gunfir ...
    “Sovereign citizens” – people who believe they are not subject to government or law enforcement authority – are serious and troubling annoyances to the courts, which often become bogged down with mountains of fraudulent, pseudo-legal paperwork they are known to file. But a police shootout in Hur ...
  • Neo-Nazi Webmaster May Testify in Trial of All ...
    Alex Linder, who operates a leading Internet hate forum called Vanguard News Network, is expected to be subpoenaed by the Justice Department as a prosecution witness in the trial of a man accused of planting a potentially deadly bomb on the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. “unity parade” in Spo ...
  • Anti-Muslim Activist Calls for HUAC Revival
    Frank Gaffney, an anti-Muslim activist who in April told conservatives that “Shariah is communism with a God,” has called on Congress in a Washington Times column to bring back the McCarthy-era House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). This time around, the infamous panel’s job will be t ...

change: org.

  • Progress! Governor Signs First Half of Califor ...
    A few moments ago, California Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 130, one half of a package of bills known as the California Dream Act, into law. The law grants undocumented students in the state access to private scholarships to help defray the cost of attending colleges and universities. It means ...
  • MADRE Denounces Sexual Violence Against Iraqi ...
    A petition from MADRE, a global women's rights organization, is accusing Iraqi government security forces of sexually assaulting women to break up pro-democracy protests and demanding that officials intervene to protect the peaceful demonstrators. MADRE's partner group, the Organization of Women ...
  • GLSEN Leader: MN District's Gag Policy Has "Ch ...
    The country's leading safe schools organization on Friday criticized a "neutrality" policy at Minnesota's largest school district that prevents faculty from addressing LGBT issues with students. Policies like the "neutrality" policy at the Anoka-Hennepin School District "have a chilling effect o ...
  • Sad News: NC Dreamer Fausto Palma-Guifarro&#82 ...
    The happy news this week that Fausto Palma-Guifarro, a young DREAMer from North Carolina, was granted additional time to prepare his case to stay in the United States has been tainted by some devastating news. Fausto’s brother, who was previously deported from the U.S. to Honduras, was attacked ...
  • Philadelphia Phillies Announce “It Gets ...
    The Philadelphia Phillies announced last night that they will produce an “It Gets Better” video, becoming the seventh team in professional sports to join the campaign in taking a stand against anti-gay bullying and homophobia. More than 2,000 people -- mostly Phillies fans in the Philadelphia ar ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Free Trade Deals: Lobbying Fever Foreshadows W ...
    WASHINGTON -- The three major free trade agreements Congress will soon consider are being promoted as a big win for American workers. But take a good look at who's lobbying for them most enthusiastically, and it becomes evident that the biggest winners will be giant multinational corporations -- ...
  • Mass. Gay Couples to N.Y.: DOMA Still Denies Y ...
    BOSTON -- As same-sex couples in New York prepare this weekend to tie the knot, their brethren in Massachusetts -- the first state to legalize gay marriage -- have some advice. read more
  • US Squandered £21 Billion on Private Contracto ...
    Waste, mismanagement and poorly conceived projects mean the United States could have lost more than 15 per cent of the total given out in contracts and grants. More could yet be lost as US troops pull out of Afghanistan, with the withdrawal risking "massive new wastes of money" because the Afgha ...
  • Melting Arctic Ice Releasing Banned Toxins, Wa ...
    The warming of the Arctic is releasing toxic chemicals that had been trapped in the ice and cold water, scientists have discovered. The researchers warn that the amount of the poisons in the polar region is unknown and their release could "undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and hum ...
  • France to Buy Israeli-Made Drones, Ending 42-Y ...
    The French Defense Ministry decided last week to purchase unmanned aerial vehicles from Israel, thereby bringing an end to a 42-year-old embargo on weapon purchases imposed by President Charles de Gaulle. The approved sale of Heron TP, or Eitan, will be the first time the drone is sold to a fore ...

Lifehacker

  • Apple Releases a Supplemental Update to Mac OS ...
    If you've managed to install Mac OS X Lion (if not, read this) you may have had a few migration issues. If that's the case, well, sorry! If you haven't upgraded yet, however, you'll want to at least update Snow Leopard to Apple's second ...
  • Stimulate Creativity with the SCAMPER Mnemonic ...
    If you're having trouble coming up with ideas, weblog Psychology Today recommends using this simple mnemonic to help you get the creative juices flowing. More��
  • Daily App Deals: Backup to Gmail for Android n ...
    The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More��
  • Tie Knot Water Balloon Filler Loads Water Ball ...
    I, for one, have no idea how to tie a water balloon correctly. If you're like me and manage to look like you've already lost a water balloon fight before the fight already started, you may want to check out this Tie Knot water balloon fill ...
  • How to Convince People to Let You Cut in Line ...
    If someone asks you for a small favor, you're far more likely to do it if they explain why. The thing is, it's not the reason that matters. You may think it is, but you can just as easily convince people to let you go ahead of them in li ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Amy Winehouse postmortem inconclusive, say police
    Cause of singer's sudden death remains unknown after autopsy as police say definitive results could take up to four weeksAn autopsy carried out following the sudden death of singer Amy Winehouse on Saturday has not established the cause of her death, with police saying that definitive results co ...
  • Defiant from the dock, Breivik boasts more wil ...
    Extremist's claim that there are two more cells in network prompts international investigationThe rightwing extremist who confessed to the mass killings in Norway boasted in court on Monday that there were two more cells from his terror network still at large, prompting an international investig ...
  • David Cameron sets up defences ahead of storm ...
    Figures for second quarter expected to show Britain's economy has flatlined for almost a yearAn unrepentant David Cameron prepared consumers and the markets for publication on Tuesday of gruesome growth figures by admitting Britain's "path back to growth will be a difficult one", but insisting ...
  • IMF tells US to put house in order
    �� 48 hours to get agreement on raising debt ceiling �� AAA credit rating in peril, says top bond investorThe International Monetary Fund called on the United States to resolve its debt crisis amid warnings from one of the world's most influential investors that the country risked losing its tri ...
  • On patrol with the Afghan army
    Our Afghanistan correspondent Jon Boone survived dozens of embedded missions unscathed. Then, one morning, his luck finally ran out . . .Just as I thought things couldn't get much worse, they did. The decrepit Humvee, a hand-me-down from the US Army, juddered to a halt and smoke billowed from th ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

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

  • Whistleblower Center in NYC
    The NWC is preparing for a full day of whistleblower events in New York City today. Join the NWC staff and Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn at two events teaching the public about whistleblower rights and the latest whistleblower protection laws. First, come learn about the latest whistleblo ...
  • NWC seminar on Dodd-Frank a huge success
    David Colapinto, Stephen Kohn, Sean McKessy and Michael Kohn. Photo by Lindsey Williams. Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) road trip of seminars came to ...
  • 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 ...
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