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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.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

27 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran Ate My Homework. Again
    Summary: Commander Jeff HuberThen-ambassador to Iraq and charter New American Centurion Zalmay Khalilzad promised to pony up proof of the allegations outlined by Gordon. The military trotted out some of its very best PowerPoint palaver for a select audience of embedded media trustees, in wh ...
  • Iran's civil society speaks up about US war wi ...
    Summary: The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has just released an opinion poll report of 35 of the most highly informed and well respected members of Iran’s civil society regarding an attack on Iran by the US and allies. Bottom line, there is unanimous agreement by these demo ...
  • Iran accuses U.S., Israel of being involved in ...
    Summary: Ali LarijaniTEHRAN, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Iranian officials on Sunday accused the United States and Israel of being involved in the assassination of an Iranian academic who was shot dead on Saturday in front of his house. source: China Viewread more
  • AP Iran Scare Piece Proves Itself Wrong
    Summary: Tehran ReactorGeorge Jahn’s new Iran piece in the Associated Press, despite its emotional headline and anonymous scare quotes, actually makes a strong case that neither Iran’s president, nor its head-Ayatollah are interested in obtaining nuclear weapons. source: Antiwar.comread more
  • Iranian Exile Group Poses Vexing Issue for U.S ...
    Summary: Rajavi and SaddamMr. Butler is keen to puncture what he believes is the false narrative that has sprouted around the group since the American invasion, which has helped it secure such prominent support. Contrary to widespread belief, he says, the group never provided any valuable in ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Earth's Long-Sought-For Trojan Asteroid Compan ...
    The discovery of a long-sought-for Trojan companion, called 2010 TK7, which measures only about 300 yards across, makes Earth the fourth planet in the solar system that's known to share its orbit with an asteroid. The tiny object was discovered...
  • Image of the Day: White-Dwarf Thermonuclear "Z ...
    "Zombie" stars that explode like bombs as they die, only to revive by sucking matter out of other stars. According Andy Howell, an astrophysicist at UC Santa Barbara, this isn't the plot for the latest scifi blockbuster,iInstead, it's something that...
  • Found! Lost 1967 Space Probe that Crashed on F ...
    NASA scientists believe they may have found the final resting place of Lunar Orbiter 2 which achieve lasting fame when it sent back a stunning oblique image of the Copernicus crater in 1967 (above), dubbed "the picture of the century"...
  • Upcoming Mars "Curiosity" Mission: Could It Fi ...
    NASA's new Mars rover has instruments to detect organics, but won't be able to determine if any derived from life. The goal of the mission is to understand if the environment could have supported life on Mars -- and preserved...
  • Mystery Solved: Water in Saturn's Atmosphere f ...
    Until now, Saturn's atmosphere was known to contain traces of gaseous water in its deeper layers. An enigma has been the presence of water in its upper atmosphere. ESA's Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon...

Natural News

  • Obamacare opponents in Ohio collect enough sig ...
    (NaturalNews) After months of collecting signatures to get a constitutional amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, on the November 8 ballot, Ohio residents opposed to the health care overhaul have finally achieved success.Reports indicate that the g ...
  • May I Be Frank? Stunning new film documents th ...
    (NaturalNews) Meet Frank Ferrante - a boisterous 54-year-old Sicilian from Brooklyn, NY, living in San Francisco. Frank has a love of great food, beautiful women and a good time, but he is also a former drug and alcohol addict, overweight, and fighting Hepatitis C. Estranged from his daughter, F ...
  • Consolidation of seed companies leading to cor ...
    (NaturalNews) Throughout the history of agriculture across the globe, farming has always been a diversified sector of the economy. Small, self-sustaining, family farms were the order of the day in most cultures. Even as small farms grew larger and more specialized over time, many of them still s ...
  • No longer deniable: Under runaway debt burden, ...
    (NaturalNews) Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner recently told FOX News, "We write 80 million checks a month. There are millions and millions of Americans that depend on those checks coming on time."That quote, all by itself, tells you just about everything you need to know about what America has b ...
  • Study pushes dangerous drug as urinary infecti ...
    (NaturalNews) A just published study emphasizes that the super strong Big Pharma antibiotic combo trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (dubbed TMP-SMX, for short, and marketed as Bactrim, Bethaprim, Cotrim and Septra) appears to be more effective for repeated urinary tract infections (UTIs) than the ti ...

Threat Level

  • Rogue Academic Downloader Busted by MIT Webcam ...
    Hacker and activist Aaron Swartz faces federal hacking prosecution for allegedly downloading millions of academic documents via MIT’s guest network, using a laptop hidden in a networking closet. Swartz, 24, faces 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine under the indictment, announced last week ...
  • Scotland Yard Busts Suspected LulzSec Spokesman
    The London Metropolitan Police on Wednesday arrested a 19-year-old Shetland Islands man who they say is "Topiary," the most visible figure in LulzSec.
  • In ‘Anonymous’ Raids, Feds Work From List of T ...
    It turns out there's a method behind the FBI's raids of suspected Anonymous members around the country. The bureau is working from list, provided by PayPal, of the 1,000 internet IP addresses responsible for the most protest traffic during Anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal last December.
  • DHS Fears a Modified Stuxnet Could Attack U.S. ...
    One year after the discovery of a sophisticated worm that was used to attack centrifuges in Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told Congress it fears the same attack could now be used against critical infrastructures in the U.S. DHS “is concerned that attackers coul ...
  • How a Security Researcher Discovered the Apple ...
    A security "noob" mistake has left the batteries in Apple's laptops open to hacking, which could result in a bricked battery or, in a worst case scenario, fire or explosion. This was revealed Friday after Accuvant Labs security researcher Charlie Miller disclosed that he plans to detail the hack ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Welcome to Jonestown on the Potomac
    The cult members have gathered. They've drunk the Kool-Aid. The poison already flowing through their veins, they are hallucinating and lashing out against the unbelievers. But this time, the death spasms aren't their own, but their nation's. Unless they get what want, Congressional Republica ...
  • Republicans Broke It. Will Democrats Own It?
    Appearing on Face the Nation Sunday, Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin warned House Speaker John Boehner about his paternity for the economic catastrophe resulting from a Republican failure to increase the U.S. debt ceiling. "If you break it," Durbin told Boehner, "you own it." But as the ...
  • Fiscal Train Wreck Pawlenty Calls Obama a "Chi ...
    It's tough to be taken seriously as a presidential contender when you call yourself "T-Paw" and repeatedly trumpet your "smoking hot wife" as a qualification for the White House. But just two days after having to deny he was preparing to pull the plug on his flat-lining campaign, Tim Pawlenty m ...
  • Boehner's Double-Dealing on the Debt Ceiling
    If it appears that John Boehner is suffering from multiple personality disorder over the debt ceiling stand-off, that's because he is. Torn between his duty to the national interest as Speaker of the House and to the Tea Party caucus that put him there, for months Boehner has ping-ponged betwee ...
  • The Republican God Pledge
    For weeks, Republican presidential candidates have been a running a gauntlet of ever-more draconian pledges put forth by party purists. Grover Norquist's anti-tax oath, the Susan B. Anthony List anti-abortion manifesto , the "Marriage Vow" and the "Cut, Cap and Balance" pledge are just some of ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Amazon.com: Culture Jam: How to Reverse Americ ...
    Amazon.com: Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--And Why We Must (9780688178055): Kalle Lasn: Books
  • Israeli MK: "anti-Boycott Law Threatens Democracy"
    Parliament member Dov Khenin and many on Israeli left warn new anti- Boycott law violates freedom of speech
  • Assange & Žižek in conversation
    This conversation is great, and not just because it’s revealed Žižek watched the last season of 24 for the same reasons and reached the same conclusions as I did (more on that later.) But amongst everything else to also hear them talk about the power of Murdoch‘s “Evil Empire”, News Internati ...
  • Muslim Victim of Post-9/11 Hate Crime Calls on ...
    In Texas, a hate crime victim is attempting to save the life of a convicted murderer who shot him in the face at close range after 9/11. Rais Bhuiyan is suing Governor Rick Perry in order to stop the execution of death row prisoner Mark Stroman scheduled for Wednesday. Stroman shot Bhuiyan in 20 ...
  • Ralph Nader's Solution to Debt Crisis: End Cor ...
    As negotiations continue on a debt deal, we ask longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader for his solution. Nader says, “Now we have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And it's not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate we ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Plastic {Infographic}
    Plastic -- it is everywhere and, while it has helped humanity in some ways, it is also wreaking havoc on ecosystems and organisms around the world (including humans). Here is an interesting infographic with some stunning and disturbing information on how much plastic we use, what problems it's l ...
  • Johnson & Johnson Announces New Sustainable In ...
    On the heels of their 125th anniversary, health care product and pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson announced their ambitious five-year plan to move in a new sustainable and environmentally friendly direction.
  • South Korea Hit with Deadly Landslides (from H ...
    South Korea just got nailed with some heavy rain that has triggered landslides in and flooding in and near its large capital city, Seoul. 32 have been confirmed dead so far. (Whatever you do, don't consider that is has anything to do with climate change, even though this is exactly the sort of c ...
  • Environmental & Climate Science News {Weekly R ...
    Some top climate science stories from the pastw eek or so (other than what we've already covered):
  • Iceberg Floating off Newfoundland Coast {Photo ...
    The Petermann Ice Island-A (PII-A) iceberg can be seen in this July 20th image floating off the coast of Newfoundland, almost a year after it calved off the Petermann Glacier on the northwest coast of Greenland.

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Axis of Logic

  • Why Anders Behring Breivik Cannot Be Dismissed ...
    When I wrote my analysis last December on the “Axis of Islamophobia,”laying out a new international political network of right-wing ultra-Zionists, Christian evangelicals, Tea Party activists and racist British soccer hooligans, I did not foresee a terrorist like Anders Behring Breivik emerging ...
  • Dumb things the right-wing US media says about ...
    Last week’s tragedy in Norway has left the world stunned. The magnitude of the bloodbath is difficult to comprehend. As news of the massacre began to trickle out, speculation was rampant as to the perpetrator and the motive. Not surprisingly, much of the early accounts falsely alleged an Al ...
  • WikiLeaks documents shed light on US-backed in ...
    27 July 2011 US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks expose some of the real reasons and diplomatic tensions behind NATO’s ongoing bombardment of Libya. Far from initiating a “humanitarian” intervention to protect civilians against Muammar Gaddafi’s government, Washington backed the NATO ...
  • Jam With Tarika! (Madagascar) - Music and Ent ...
    Taste this! (The video is an Axis of Logic republication from October 27, 2010. We've been asked at times about the lyrics of the song. From what we understand, it's about "Koba," a rice dish and how to prepare it. - eds.)...
  • Tragedy in Oslo: Islam has nothing to do with ...
    The recent act of terrorism in Norway that killed many innocent civilians has been twisted and used as an opportunity by the capitalist media and politicians to demonise Islam and Muslims, to justify ongoing Western terrorism. The aim is to enforce a distorted view that Islam is associated with ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • All geopolitics is local
    Graffiti on a gas station pump in the Texas panhandle. This is ironic on so many levels, especially so when there are producing oil wells in the same area as the gas station. What's the matter with Kansas? On Interstate 35 just north of the Flint Hills. Have you noticed that lately right win ...
  • Shades of Fascism
    Out of all the smoke and mirrors, the clouds of dessicated bullshit that have enveloped Washington like a Phoenix dust storm and the millions of meaningless words that have been pouring out of the capital this past couple of weeks, only one thing has clearly emerged... this country is righteousl ...
  • Another Unconsitutional Bush Leftover Still in ...
    I'd call trying to kill all the Smirky/Darth black ops a game of whack-a-mole, but apparently the Obama administration is not even trying to whack them. Here's an especially nasty one: No, the FBI actually does not have to respect the First Amendment rights of American citizens. Firedoglake: The ...
  • Has US politics progressed to "the accession o ...
    If the political upheavals in present-day America look like those of the four societies he studied in his classic work, The Anatomy of Revolution, the late Crane Brinton might say that America stands at the border between "the failure of the moderates" and "the accession of the extremists." Most ...
  • Reason number 9,987 why for-profit medicine ha ...
    Medicare represents a hell of a dilema for me. I look at the looming collapse of the system if we don't do something about it and I feel panic and horror. It is such a wonderful program and it does so much to improve the lives and quality of life of America's senior citizens and I want it preser ...

Care 2

  • 20 Most Impressive Science Fair Projects of Al ...
    From exploring the effectiveness of cancer treatments to revolutionizing the disposal of plastics, these students prove you don�t have to be an adult to have amazing, world-changing ideas about science.Submitted by Katie Miller to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Row rages over calls for cull as wolves spread ...
    The wolf, pursuing its lightning reconquest of France, has reached the Vosges Mountains on the Alsace-Lorraine border for the first time in 80 years.A delegation of Alpine shepherds' leaders and local politicians will petition the environment minister, NaSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals � ...
  • Give us a home! Nine puppies survive being tos ...
    .Submitted by michael Cave to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Donald Trump Tells GOP To Default Just to Scre ...
    This is the most hooligan statement I've come across so far in American politcs. That is saying something, though Trump could take that as a compliment.Submitted by Alexandra Rodda to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Meet Erick Erickson, the Toxic Idiot Guiding H ...
    The notably nasty CNN commentator claims Republican House members are really taking his advice to heart.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

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Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama Losing His Mojo
    Looks like serveral of us had the same reaction to Jon Stewart’s take down of Barack Obama last night–Obama’s gots big troubles. The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook If this was a genuinely serious, life-and-death issue I doubt ...
  • Where’s the Plan Barky?
    Outraged by Barack Obama’s complete abdication of responsibility to lead? Well, if you aren’t just watch this–you will be. Remember “Where’s the beef?” This is the new 21st Century version. He only has articulated one idea remotely resembling a plan–RAISE TAXES. That’s it. However, he completely ...
  • Obama’s Debt Terrorism
    Barack Obama is a fiscal terrorist. No other way to look at it. Rather than make a rational, informed argument about transforming the nightmare of Federal spending and taxation, he is scaring the shit out of the elderly and fomenting class warfare. While he did not produce the Democrat ad that p ...
  • Live-Blogging Obama’s National Address [UPDATE ...
    Who knows what Obama will have to say at 9 p.m. ET, or if it even warrants a national address. As the panel said on FNC’s new show, The Five, presidents customarily wait to address the nation until a deal has been reached, not while debate rages on. Bill O’Reilly correctly asserts that “although ...
  • A Mating Dance, But Not For Us
    The invitation said eight o’clock, but the doors don’t open until well after ten.  Music and laughter is in full swing.  It wafts out to us as we wait in the rain.  We enter the ballroom, cold and wet, but with our heads held high.  Our designated seats are in a corner far removed from the ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Reconstructing Meaning
    Last month we discussed the role affect regulation plays in recovery from trauma. Affect is driven by thoughts and in turn, thoughts are informed by meanings. It is useful to note at the outset many of these meanings lie outside conscious mind’s power and scope. Deeper mind, with its vast storeh ...
  • I’m Right, You’re Wrong
    It’s a classic. Of all the themes in the history of relational strife, the I’m Right, You’re Wrong story is by far the most common. And like many things common, we often take it for granted or overlook the magnitude of its influence. When couples enter into therapy together, it may be a hidden g ...
  • Prescription Painkillers May Lead to Drug Addi ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new study shows that young adults who were prescribed painkillers, or were raised in a home were drug use or alcohol abuse was present, were more likely to struggle with drug addiction. A team of researchers from Drexel University’s School of Public Health found ...
  • Boston Study May Have National Implications fo ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new study conducted by researchers at the Harvard Medical School shows that access to outpatient psychiatric treatment in Boston is insufficient to meet the needs of those in crisis. The researchers believe that their findings parallel national conditions becaus ...
  • Is it Harder to Mourn an Actual Loss or Loss o ...
    âWhich is harder – mourning an actual loss or mourning the ‘ideal’ of something you never had?â This question was recently posted to the wall of my professional services page on a popular social networking site. I thought this was an intriguing question and one you yourself may have pondered in ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Republicans Take Aim at Environmental Rules - ...
    RisMedia.com (press release) Republicans Take Aim at Environmental Rules New York Times Another would severely restrict the Department of Interior's ability to police mountaintop-removal mining. And then there is the call to allow new uranium prospecting near Grand Canyon National Park. There i ...
  • Letter: See 'The Last Mountain' - Knoxville Me ...
    De Smog Blog (blog) Letter: See 'The Last Mountain' Knoxville Metro Pulse [�Not So Explosive,� by Cari Wade Gervin, July 21, 2011] This movie basically documents the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining where, in order to access a seam of coal, the upper portion of a once living mountain ...
  • Coal vs. Environment – Soledad O'Brien Explore ...
    Coal vs. Environment � Soledad O'Brien Explores Both Sides of Mountaintop Removal CNN (blog) Across the nation, a schism that separates pro-coal and pro-environment movements over mountaintop removal, a destructive yet highly effective form of strip mining, is deepening. CNN documents the inten ...
  • EPA Provides Final Guidance on Mountaintop Rem ...
    Electric Co-op Today EPA Provides Final Guidance on Mountaintop Removal Mining SustainableBusiness.com After a year-long analysis of the science and consideration of 60000 public comments, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued final guidance on how mountaintop removal coal mines in A ...
  • Commentary: House's plan threatens California' ...
    Commentary: House's plan threatens California's air and water Kansas City Star ... air and water resources, slash the Interior Department's Land and Water Conservation Fund and make it easier for mining companies to carry out "mountaintop removal" � in which entire tops of mountains are sheared ...

Memeorandum

  • Lessons From the Malaise (David Leonhardt/New ...
    David Leonhardt / New York Times: Lessons From the Malaise  —  When I began covering the American economy 11 years ago, it was the envy of the world.  —  The last 11 years have not been kind to it.  First came the dot-com bust.  Then there was the weakest economic expansion in decades, followed ...
  • Who Elected the Rating Agencies? (Wall Street ...
    Wall Street Journal: Who Elected the Rating Agencies?  —  Kibitzers help turn an artificial crisis into a real one.  —  In the palavering over the Greece bailout, an obstacle was the European Central Bank's insistence that nothing be done that might allow the ratings agencies to declare that G ...
  • A Clean Debt Ceiling Increase Wouldn't Avoid C ...
    Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress: A Clean Debt Ceiling Increase Wouldn't Avoid Cuts  —  I've been in a few conversations with various people this week citing one strategy or another that they claim could have produced a “clean” debt ceiling increase and avoided the current legislative crisis.  ...
  • Planned Parenthood clinic attacked with Moloto ...
    Danny Gallagher / courier-gazette.com: Planned Parenthood clinic attacked with Molotov cocktail  —  MCKINNEY - Officials with Planned Parenthood confirmed that their McKinney clinic was the target of violence sometime last night.  —  Holly Morgan, director of media relations and communications ...
  • Powerful GOP group backs Boehner plan (Michael ...
    Michael O'Brien / The Hill: Powerful GOP group backs Boehner plan  —  The big-spending conservative group Crossroads GPS said Wednesday that it supports House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) plan regarding the debt limit, and said it would support those lawmakers who vote for the plan.

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Back in the flow
    China’s polluted, drought-ridden Yellow River once struggled to reach the sea. Now the “mother river” is being restored to health, writes Jonathan Watts, but for many the benefits remain to be seen.On one wall of the control centre, a mosaic of TV screens flickers back and forth between the late ...
  • Eight cases that mattered
    From a successful challenge to Beijing’s planning authorities to damages for mass tadpole deaths, the 2000s were full of turning points for green law in China. Here, chinadialogue presents its picks of the decade.Chinese people are coming to an ever-graver understanding of the dual changes of ec ...
  • Shaping China’s green laws
    Beijing may have drawn on global knowledge to write its pollution legislation, but the product is uniquely Chinese, writes Charles McElwee in a summary of the story so far.American, European and Japanese environmental experts will find familiar elements in China’s environmental laws. China has b ...
  • Legal lessons from America
    Does US case-law have anything to teach China’s green warriors? Alex Levinson and Kristen McDonald run through key lawsuits that have shaped the way citizens and campaign groups can use their courts.America’s environmental laws have influenced the development of green legislation abroad: China’s ...
  • Seeking damages
    With no law governing pollution compensation in China, victims can become double losers. Former eco-official Zhang Kunmin tells Meng Si why legislation is needed – but will still take 10 years to emerge.Compensation paid to victims of major environmental incidents in China in recent years has fa ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Feminism, Gender Politics, and the Budget
    by Claire Snyder-Hall Crossposted from Tikkun Daily Do feminist organizations have anything to say about the battle over the debt ceiling? If they do, it certainly hasn’t gotten much coverage. It seems that they should, since many of the budget cuts proposed by the Republican Party and the O ...
  • A “Hair”-oing Tale: What Does It M ...
    57% of men entering the workforce negotiate their salaries, while only 7% of women do. Ouch. This is one of the many powerful messages I took away from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s riveting TEDwomen presentation on why we have too few women leaders. I highly recommend watching this 15-minute t ...
  • Death For Profit
    In March 2009, Roberto Martinez-Medina was detained and arrested for not having a driver’s license or proof of legal status. Immediately after his arrest, Medina was sent to CCA’s (Corrections Corporation of America) Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. Less than a month later Roberto M ...
  • Why the Christian Right Becomes More Extreme A ...
    The political movement is “revengeâ€-based, rather than rooted in any particular Christian philosophy.
  • Are You Afraid to Display a Bumper Sticker? Yo ...
    Once upon a time, bumper stickers were a harmless way to engage other motorists on the merry way to work or a vacation in the Wisconsin Dells. But today, with road rage and polarizing politics, displaying a bumper sticker is more like establishing eye contact with a yard dog. A yard dog who does ...

Threat Level

  • Rogue Academic Downloader Busted by MIT Webcam ...
    Hacker and activist Aaron Swartz faces federal hacking prosecution for allegedly downloading millions of academic documents via MIT’s guest network, using a laptop hidden in a networking closet. Swartz, 24, faces 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine under the indictment, announced last week ...
  • Scotland Yard Busts Suspected LulzSec Spokesman
    The London Metropolitan Police on Wednesday arrested a 19-year-old Shetland Islands man who they say is "Topiary," the most visible figure in LulzSec.
  • In ‘Anonymous’ Raids, Feds Work From List of T ...
    It turns out there's a method behind the FBI's raids of suspected Anonymous members around the country. The bureau is working from list, provided by PayPal, of the 1,000 internet IP addresses responsible for the most protest traffic during Anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal last December.
  • DHS Fears a Modified Stuxnet Could Attack U.S. ...
    One year after the discovery of a sophisticated worm that was used to attack centrifuges in Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told Congress it fears the same attack could now be used against critical infrastructures in the U.S. DHS “is concerned that attackers coul ...
  • How a Security Researcher Discovered the Apple ...
    A security "noob" mistake has left the batteries in Apple's laptops open to hacking, which could result in a bricked battery or, in a worst case scenario, fire or explosion. This was revealed Friday after Accuvant Labs security researcher Charlie Miller disclosed that he plans to detail the hack ...

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • Pilgrim's Pride and FSIS Issue CLASS I RECALL ...
    A CLASS I Recall is a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death. This recall release is being reissued to expand the July 20 recall to include an undetermined amount of additional ready-to ...
  • The Raw Milk Wars - Kojo Nnamdi Radio Show
    So, what are you doing Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 12:06 p.m. Eastern Time? Me, I get to square off with Sally Fallon, who believes raw milk is “magic food.” Me, I think any food that is marketed to kids and has sickened them needs to be reasonably regulated. Here is the teaser to Kojo’s sho ...
  • Salmonella Papaya Outbreak began January 2011 ...
    � The CDC reports that a total of 99 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Agona have been reported from 23 states between January 1 and July 22, 2011. The number of ill persons identified in each state with the outbreak strain is as follows: Arkansas (1), Arizona (3), Cal ...
  • $1.1 Million Judgment Entered in Sangar Celery ...
    In January of this year we filed suit on behalf of the family of Hermillo Castellano who was one four people who died as a result of consuming the contaminated Sangar celery. Castellano was in a San Antonio hospital with a previous condition in May 2010 when he consumed chopped celery. Three da ...
  • It has been a busy week in the Food Safety New ...
    It started out with my comments in the article - “El Dorado County farmers challenge food regulations” on the desire by some to forgo food safety oversight simply because the food is local. I had a different take: Local food isn't necessarily healthy food, said Bill Marler, a Seattle food safe ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: White House lowers 2025 CAFE target to ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal What's the difference between 56.2 and 54.5 miles per gallon? Way more than 1.7 mpg, that's for sure. The Detroit News is reporting that the Obama White House is dialing down the proposed 2025 fuel economy requirement to 54.5 mpg. Earlier, we had heard that 62 ...
  • Official: NYC fleet adds 70 plug-in vehicles, ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Truck, Work, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Ford, Police/Emergency, Electric NYC Chevy Volt Police Car - Click above for high-res image gallery As much as the average driver doesn't really have to worry about "range anxiety" during a normal driving day, we will gran ...
  • Official: Toyota issues recall for Highlander, ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Crossover, Lexus, Toyota Lexus RX 400h - Click above for high-res image There's a problem with some 2006 and 2007 model year Toyota Highlander Hybrid and Lexus RX 400h vehicles. Today, Toyota announced that it will voluntarily recall 45,500 Highlander Hybrid an ...
  • Video: New Prius rap video takes to cruising W ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Whole Foods Parking Lot - Click above to watch video after the jump Turns out, you can spin the whole "cashed up greenie" bit into a few minutes of enjoyable parody rap. Don't believe us? Check out "Whole Foods Parking Lot," the fi ...
  • Report: Glenn Beck goes off on GM's Akerson ov ...
    Filed under: GM, Electric Glenn Beck on the gas tax - Click above to watch video after the jump If there's one thing that is fast becoming true about the Chevy Volt, it's that right-wing political pundits really, really don't like it. So, we will admit up front that this story comes straigh ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • New York Set to Close School for Troubled Teen ...
    As Congress considers spending cuts to reduce the deficit, critics warn that reduced education, healthcare and other social services will disproportionally impact low-income communities of color. This is the case in New York City, where a high school that provides drug treatment to former gang ...
  • The British Watergate: A Backgrounder on the M ...
    The London-based journalist Richard Gizbert, host of the Al Jazeera program "The Listening Post," chronicles how the Murdoch phone hacking scandal has shaken the British government, media system and public. A must-watch interview on how the scandal has unfolded and what it means for people in t ...
  • VIDEO: Rebekah Brooks Testimony Raises More Qu ...
    Former News International executive Rebekah Brooks testified before the British Parliament July 19 as the phone hacking scandal engulfing the Murdoch media empire continues to grow. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch also testified at the same hearing. Click here to watch the ...
  • "Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Eat Humble Pie." By Am ...
    “People say that Australia has given two people to the world,” Julian Assange told me in London recently, “Rupert Murdoch and me.” Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, was humbly dismissing my introduction of him, to a crowd of 1,800 at East London’s Troxy theater, in ...
  • VIDEO: Rupert Murdoch hit with paper plate cov ...
    Prior to pieing, assailant tweets, “It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat.” Unharmed, the Murdochs continued hearing.

Suzie-Q

  • Another House Committee To Consider Global Gag ...
    � � � Earlier this month, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed an amendment that would restore and expand the so-called global gag rule, a provision prohibiting foreign organizations receiving U.S. development assistance from using their own funds to perform abortions or provide women with ...
  • With Default Seven Days Away, House GOP Fixate ...
    � � While the rest of the country focuses on the looming deadline to raise the nation�s debt ceiling, House Republicans are taking advantage of their distraction to repeal environmental regulations and pass the most severe environmental budget cuts in 35 years. Republicans are pushing a bill tha ...
  • Alan Grayson explains… “Why Boener ...
    This went out in an email to previous supporters of Alan Grayson this morning.� Dear Linus, I know why House Speaker John Boehner walked out of debt ceiling talks with President Obama on Friday. It�s because Boehner can�t deliver. It doesn�t matter what terms the President offers. It�s that simp ...
  • How Murdoch’s Times of London and Fox News Coo ...
    By David Fiderer, a lawyer who covers the energy industry for several global banks in New York.  This is an OpEdNews.com repost. If you wondered whether Murdoch’s various news outlets operate in sync when they misrepresent the facts about climate change, consider the deceitful reporting done by ...
  • SocialSecurity & The Deficit: Keeping the Promise
    Pushing Crisis: GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling in Order to Impose Radical Pro-Rich Agenda DEMOCRACY NOW� July 22. 2011 President Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling befo ...

Solari

  • The Cost of US University
    [click on the image for a larger version] By Michael Feldstein Continue reading the article . . .
  • Quote du Jour
    “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” ~ Sun Tzu Related reading: Sun Tzu Wikipedia Solari Report Blog Commentaries: The Art of War (19 Aug 10)
  • Fed President Hints at Broad Money-market Fix
    By Ross Kerber A senior Federal Reserve official is prescribing sweeping medicine to stabilize the $2.5 trillion money market mutual fund industry, which would be rattled by potential downgrades of the government securities that are among its key holdings. Boston Federal Reserve President Eric R ...
  • ‘Super Congress’: Debt Ceiling Neg ...
    By Ryan Grim Washington – Debt ceiling negotiators think they’ve hit on a solution to address the debt ceiling impasse and the public’s unwillingness to let go of benefits such as Medicare and Social Security that have been earned over a lifetime of work: Create a new Congress. This “Super Cong ...
  • The Fed Audit: $16 Trillion in Secret Loans
    By Senator Bernie Sanders The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Rao Responds
    On the blog he created to discuss ideas from the book: http://www.tempobook.com/2011/07/24/chet-richards-review-of-tempo-on-fabius-maximus/ You may also be interested in following him at his personal blog: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ �
  • Book Review: Tempo
    Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making by Venkatesh Rao (Ribbonfarm, 2011; 154 pages) Reviewed by Chet Richards July 24, 2011 A good book is read more than once while accumulating copious notes in its margins and on the blank pages that the publisher has thoughtf ...
  • Book review: The Next Wave: On the Hunt for A ...
    Summary:   A review of The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda’s American Recruits by Catherine Herridge.  Reviewed by “GI” Wilson (Colonel, USMC, retired). When reading Catherine Herridge’s smashing investigative work on terrorism, The Next Wave, the lyrics from Jimmy Buffet’s “Trouble on ...
  • Attritionist Letter #2 — our military se ...
    Summary:   With US forces engaged around the world in six conflicts (and many small ones), each the day our media paint a picture of the armed services.  News, articles, books, movies — seldom have we been so well informed about our mechanized high-tech defense professionals — the very model ...
  • Today’s tea party propaganda
    Summary: The Tea Party movement provides a picture of the increasingly dysfunctional OODA-loop (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) of American society, where outlandish statements are accepted unquestioningly by true believers. In this environment we can work 24-7 correcting these misrepresentaions (and ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Les Grandes Vacances and the Financial Crisis
    As the European policy elite prepares for their normal practice of taking August off — because, after all, nothing big ever happens in August or September that you’d need to be ready for — there are conflicting messages about whether this is actually a good idea.  First, a nice quote via a Reu ...
  • Why Does Dinesh D’Souza Advocate Colonialism?
    Via a rightly appalled Ta-Nehisi Coates, the latest from Dinesh D’Souza’s brief for colonialism: Each spring, the King’s College, a Christian school occupying two floors in the Empire State Building, hosts a series of lectures and debates on a single theme. This year’s theme is villainy. In a w ...
  • Ten "Whats" With…Laurie Garrett
    Laurie Garrett. Courtesy of Laurie Garrett. Laurie Garrett is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Ms. Garrett is the only writer ever to have been awarded all three of the Big “Ps” of journalism: the Peabody, the Polk, and the Pulitzer. Her expe ...
  • The Debt Ceiling Crisis and National Security
    It is a central tenet of the right-wing, generally Republican, overwhelmingly pro-TEA Party movement that wields a stranglehold on the U.S. House of Representatives that the central government is not good for much. It does not, of course, put its belief in quite those terms, but nonetheless, tha ...
  • Where the Arab Spring “Fits”
    Olivier Roy has a piece over at New Statesman on some of the regional and global political implications of the unrest and revoluti0n that continues to pulse through the Middle East. It’s one of those articles that manages at once to say a few vaguely interesting things without having much of a c ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Tootle, the Ex-Gay Train
    In Slate, Jessica Roake tells us that beloved children's book/television/licensed product line Thomas the Tank Engine actually tells a nightmarish tale of imperialist triumph and oppression. She makes a pretty compelling case, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to tell you about something e ...
  • Today at the Prospect
    Ben Adler explains how a third-party candidate could be a disaster for American politics. Robert B. Reich writes that Obama has failed us a bully-pulpit president.
  • The Freshman Problem
    It's natural to assume that if you're a member of Congress, you have access to all kinds of inside information, and your job makes you deeply informed about all sorts of issues, particularly whatever is dominating the nation's debate at a particular moment. For some members, that's true. But not ...
  • Reid Plan? Boehner Plan? Either Way, the Right ...
    Back in May, House Speaker John Boehner went before the Economic Club of New York to offer the GOP’s opening bid on debt-ceiling negotiations. His demands were straightforward: Republicans would only support raising the debt limit if it came with cuts that would exceed the increase in borrowing ...
  • Whose (De)Fault Is This?
    If there's a default, there will be a lot of finger-pointing, but most of the blame should fall on Republican leadership in the House. TPM's Josh Marshall equated the negotiations between the House, Senate, and administration to a game of chicken, except one of the cars has no driver. No one kn ...

Buzzflash

  • Orwell Rolls in His Grave at the Misleading Sp ...
    MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Ignorance isn't bliss, or so we are learning as political discourse based on misinformation plays itself out in the corporate mass media and the halls of Congress. As the narrator/director of the cult classic documentary, "Orwell Rolls in His Grave," asks ...
  • The Reason Why Obama Will Not Invoke the 14th ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There's a simple reason that President Obama will not invoke the 14th Amendment to resolve the debt-ceiling crisis: the Supreme Court. Yes, there is speculation that Obama is too risk averse to assert that the Constitution gives him the power to un ...
  • The Damage Done to America by Global Warming W ...
    PETER G. COHEN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There is another way to look at it! Whether we are talking about national military, industrial, trade, business or other issues, it is important to remember that we are in the early stages of extreme weather change. We cannot make decisions based on 20th ...
  • FOX is Second Only to North Korea in Peddling ...
    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Oh it's been one sweet ride. The GOP found itself to be the sugar daddy of all sugar daddies, who not only had money, and plenty of it, but controlled a growing media empire. He personified everything the GOP had come to believe about the supremacy of capi ...
  • Michele Bachmann: Bubblehead In A Bubble
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Why didn't a top aide pull Michele aside And say, "Please listen to me, Missy: I love Marcus just as much as you do but His voice does sound a little bit sissy.   And as far as your incapacitating migraines go, You shouldn't now be reeling with it Being r ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • House Votes to Save Endangered Species Act
    An effort to guard our nation’s endangered and imperiled species, and to protect our cornerstone Endangered Species Act, has passed in the House of Representatives today. The House majority today voted to block the extreme “Extinction Rider” in its spending bill, H.R.2584. This Extinction Rid ...
  • House Votes Down ‘Extinction Rider’ That Would ...
    In a victory for imperiled species, the U.S. House of Representatives today voted not to include the “extinction rider” in an appropriations bill that would have stopped the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from spending any money to protect new species under the Endangered Species Act or to desig ...
  • Issues to Raise with Egyptian Military Leaders ...
    The arrival of an Egyptian military delegation in Washington to discuss military assistance presents U.S.read more
  • Amnesty International Welcomes Release of Huma ...
    Today, a court in Krasnoyarsk decided to release Aleksei Sokolov on parole. He was arrested in May 2009 and sentenced for theft and robbery a year later, on charges that many believed to have been fabricated in response to his human rights work in defense of prisoners' rights. He was allowed to ...
  • Obama Administration Endangers Lives with Four ...
    Today, the Obama administration delayed for the fourth time in a year its decision on whether to strengthen clean air standards for ozone, the main component of urban smog. The following is a statement from Earthjustice attorney, David Baron: "This deplorable delay—the fourth so far—means more d ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The GOP’s State-by-State Crusade to Disenfranc ...
    Katrina vanden Heuvel With only a week left before the United States of America could default on its debt, it’s easy to look at the federal government and wonder how we ever made it this far. Who would have guessed that a committed gang of ...
  • Boycotting Fascism?
    Mark LeVine During the last week angry young residents of Tel Aviv have been staging a sit-in, or, more accurately, a tent-in, along fashionable Rothschild Boulevard to protest their being priced out of the housing market in Israel's cultu ...
  • The Dual Failure of Night Raids and Drones
    Adam Cohen Adapting to an unconventional war, the United States and its allies picked up some new tactics in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the past few years, drone attacks and night raids have become staples of the effort to combat al-Qaed ...
  • The Long-Term Legacy of 9/11
    David Sirota Like most Americans, I can still remember it as if it were yesterday: The images of the burning building on the screen, the murmurings of bewildered morning TV anchors, the burst of "holy shit!" subject lines in my email box a ...
  • Connecting the Dots on Disaster
    Tom Engelhardt When it comes to the Murdoch scandal, where everyone’s having such a rollicking good time, it hasn't been particularly hard for reporters, pundits, and commentators to connect a few dots, even across an ocean.  Yes, you can ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Trauma of Palestinian children increasing, say ...
    The Electronic IntifadaRamallah The number of Palestinian children with post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety disorders including depression has increased, according to Médecins Sans Frontières and Palestinian organizations specializing in mental�health.
  • France honors educator of Gaza's children
    Rami AlmeghariThe Electronic IntifadaGaza In a special ceremony at the French Cultural Center in Gaza City earlier this month, a representative of the French consulate in Jerusalem presented the highest award bestowed on non-French citizens to Reem Abu Jaber, head of the Qattan Centre for the Ch ...
  • Gaza families demand right to visit prisoners
    Eva BartlettThe Electronic IntifadaGaza City On 11 July, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Palestine Red Crescent Society helped facilitate a demonstration to protest the ban on Palestinians from Gaza visiting their imprisoned loved�ones.
  • Israeli left's awakening too little, too late
    Raja ShehadehThe Electronic Intifada The strong reaction by left-wing Israelis to the recently passed “boycott law” must have astounded many in the country’s right-wing government and made them wonder why such a strong reaction now.
  • Who is the real oppressor of Gaza women's rights?
    Yasmeen El KhoudaryThe Electronic IntifadaGaza Strip Why won’t the international media ask women in Gaza what really matters to them? Yasmeen El-Khoudary comments for The Electronic Intifada.

The Wonk Room

  • Herman Cain Apologizes To Muslim-Americans
    After saying he wouldn’t appoint Muslims to his cabinet and saying that communities have the right to ban mosques, presidential candidate Herman Cain apologized to Muslim-Americans today in a statement to TPM, saying he was “truly sorry” for potentially violating the freedom of religion guarante ...
  • Oh Well, Whatever, Nevermind
    I really can’t believe that Nevermind is 20 years old. I’ve mentioned that I grew up fairly oblivious about pop culture, but my cousin Eliza, bless her, hooked me up with a lot of Nirvana, Beck, and Hole, and Kurt Cobain was definitely the first rock star I ever admired, even if I didn’t really ...
  • Rep. Broun Trivializes Massive Spending Cuts: ...
    Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), the congressman who proposed a preposterous bill to lower the debt ceiling, today trivialized enormous cuts to government services by comparing them to someone having to drop out of a country club because of the bad economy. Broun is opposing the deficit reduction plan pu ...
  • The Colonial Origins Of American Prosperity
    “The Colonial Origins of the Divergence in the Americas: A Labour Market Approach” (PDF) extends the analysis I offered earlier today to conclude that in fact North America emerged as the richest place in the world as far back as the 17th century. They calculate “welfare ratios” that compare nom ...
  • Lesbian Houston Mayor Annise Parker On Her Rel ...
    This afternoon, during an interview with SiriusXM’s Michelangelo Signorile, Houston Mayor Annise Parker — the first elected gay mayor of a major U.S. city — discussed the latest gay-baiting tactics of her political opponents, her background as a lesbian activist in the 1970s and 1980s and somewh ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • harper: "Majority government allows me to embr ...
    So, now the prick (inspired by the tutelage of his senile mentor Tom Flanagan) has decided that the need for pretense is over. They were never conquered. They signed treaties with us. We broke them. We stole their land. In the 1970s, they began to rise up and challenge the illegal status-quo. T ...
  • No Unions, No Welfare State, No Justice
    Used to be that unions (or the threat of unions) could compel employers to pay decently. Government efforts to achieve something approaching full employment, combined with welfare payments (or unemployment insurance) to the unemployed or marginalized, mitigated poverty somewhat. These governmen ...
  • The Proper Way to Respond to International Tra ...
    OH! Somebody did something horrible and killed a bunch of people! I hate that person! OH! A different group of people did something horrible to another different group of people! What's wrong with the people who did the horrible thing?? OH NO! The group of people who were attacked did somethi ...
  • Helping the Neighbours ...
    My neighbours were trying to build a tree-house for their kids, where they and their friends could play. But they didn't know what they were doing. A few broken bones later, I decided to help. But then it occurred to me that I was really busy and I didn't want to spend any of my time or money ...
  • A Steady Diet of Garbage
    Radio alarm clock wakes 'em up to some spewing hate-fest. Turn on the television and there's FOXNews telling them that Obama the fascist-socialist is spending them into penury and the only option is to cut taxes for billionaires and slash social security and medicare. Read a Charles Adler colu ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Senior jailed for 12 days after oil mistaken f ...
    A 66-year-old American woman ended up being jailed for 12 days when Canadian Border Service Agency guards mistook a jar of motor oil for heroin.
  • Miami grafitti tours
    While our mayor continues his war on graffiti here in Toronto, Miami has taken the opposite approach and is embracing, and even encouraging visual artists to liven up the city streets and alleys.
  • Toronto stays green as construction goes up al ...
    Toronto-Part of Toronto's charm is that it remains a city full of greenery, even in the midst of growing construction. That touch of nature at every turn is something that residents may take for granted until there is a threat.
  • Ontario Wants Fair Deal with Ottawa on Immigration
    Ontario projects a growing dependency on immigrant communities to grow the work force in the province, so it's looking for a fair deal with the federal government.
  • Toronto Police launch Social Media Program
    On Wednesday the Toronto Police Services officially launched their redesigned website while at the same time launching the the Toronto Police Service's Social Media Strategy at the Toronto Police College.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Pat Stogran calls $2 billion promised to veter ...
    Last September, amidst outrage by soldiers and reports in the media critical of the government’s treatment of veterans, the Harper government promised $2 billion in increased benefits. It was announced at the time that the money would go to “increased financial support for seriously injured Vet ...
  • Talks collapse in Bahrain
    Bahrain, a Persian Gulf nation that has been the site of pro-democracy protests over recent months, is entering a new, uncertain phase after the collapse of talks between the main Shiite opposition party and the ruling Sunni elite (Associated Press, “Shiite Party in Bahrain Leaves Talks With Rul ...
  • How much would you give to stop Harper’s steal ...
    Would you give $7 each month to stop Harper's stealth fighters? Go to https://www.ceasefire.ca/donate/donate.php
  • Ceasefire.ca volunteers send letters to 2500 s ...
    A photo of our team of volunteers sending letters to 2500 Ceasefire.ca supporters.
  • Canada makes the wrong move at Conference on D ...
    Cesar Jaramillo, program officer at Project Ploughshares, argues against the recent decision to boycott the UN Conference on Disarmament (Cesar Jaramillo, “Canadaâs disarmament conference boycott is ill-advised,” Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 14 July 2011): Canadaâs newly elected Conservative major ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Olive Oil Reduces Risk of Stroke
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By:  J.D. Heyes Another new study has confirmed what we’ve known for quite some time – that olive oil contributes to better health. According to researchers who followed about 7,000 people aged 65 and older in three French cities for five years, olive oil can hel ...
  • Bill Gates, Monsanto Hijack ‘Humanitarian Aid’ ...
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Ethan A. Huff Those still in denial about the connection between the so-called “humanitarian” efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the bigger agenda to thrust genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) on the populations of the world (among other thi ...
  • J&J Recalls 40,000 Bottles of Schizophrenia Dr ...
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Jonathan Benson The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Co.’s pharmaceutical division just cannot seem to get its act together. A recent recall involving 16,000 bottles of its schizophrenia drug Risperdal, and 24,000 bottles of a generic version of the same drug, mark yet ...
  • What’s Wrong With Our Food System?
    Click here for the video!
  • Dollar Seen Losing Global Reserve Status
    June 28th, 2011 Financial Times By: Jack Farchy The US dollar will lose its status as the global reserve currency over the next 25 years, according to a survey of central bank reserve managers who collectively control more than $8,000bn. More than half the managers, who were polled by UBS, predi ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: Conference will establish African Soci ...
    On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...
  • Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
    Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
  • Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
    The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of tru ...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...

War in Context

  • Norwegians still see the occupation as reason ...
    In the Hebrew daily, Ma’ariv, Norway’s ambassador to Israel, Svein Sevje, was interviewed on Tuesday and asked whether the attacks in Oslo and Utøya carried out by Anders Behring Breivik, will alter Norwegians’ perception of Palestinian attacks on Israel. Q: Has this caused you to undertake so ...
  • Norway believes democracy is the best way of c ...
    Just imagine if these words had come out of George Bush’s mouth after 9/11: “The American response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.” The Guardian reports: The Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, says his country will “not be intimidated ...
  • Europeans against multiculturalism
    At Boston Review, John R. Bowen writes: One of the many signs of the rightward creep of Western European politics is the recent unison of voices denouncing multiculturalism. German Chancellor Angela Merkel led off last October by claiming that multiculturalism “has failed and failed utterly.” S ...
  • Hardships in Tripoli buoy rebels
    The Wall Street Journal reports: Motorists in Libya’s capital can wait days for fuel, and when they get it they have to spend about $12 a gallonâwhen they used to pay 60 cents. Bank withdrawals are limited to 1,000 Libyan dinars (about $625) a month. The prices of bread and other food staples h ...
  • Inside Assad’s Syria
    (H/t Robin Yassin-Kassab.)

Watts Up With That?

  • Quote of the Month – Nature disses skeptics
    I already have a quote of the week, but since the fact that Nature decided to pay any attention at all to the Heartland Conference in Washington, D.C. which ended July 1st, this deserved a special place on WUWT, and … Continue reading →
  • Sheep study confirms a premise of McIntyre & M ...
    Yesterday, I published a press release titled Tree ring widths more affected by sheep than temperature in which researchers in Norway published a peer reviewed study stating: âWe found tree ring widths were more affected by sheep than the ambient temperature at … Continue reading →
  • Tipping points and beliefs – the 10% sol ...
    From the Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be … Continue reading →
  • Tree ring widths more affected by sheep than t ...
    From Wiley-Blackwell, via Eurekalert, something just plain surprising. Nibbling by herbivores can have a greater impact on the width of tree rings than climate, new research has found. The study, published this week in the British Ecological Society’s journal Functional … Continue reading →
  • Quote of the week: from the reductio ad absurd ...
    This story is about why laws bowing to sea level worries will make signs like this at left more common in one Australian town. I’ve seen stupidity from local city governments before, but this one takes the cake. Residents of … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Fundamentalism Kills by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig July 26, 2011 The gravest threat we face from terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular fundamentalists who propagate the big ...
  • Michael Hudson: GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Jul 22, 2011 President Obama and Republican House speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. But the deal is coming under fire from both Congres ...
  • Wisdom From Ephesus: The Gospel of John
    Dandelion Salad [Each part is 26 minutes long.] Day of Discovery On the western coast of Turkey is one of the most stunning archeological sites in the modern world, Ephesus.  Journey with author and musician Michael Card through this ancient site to discover more about the life and times of the ...
  • Saudi and Emirati Forces Open Fire on Unarmed ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 24, 2011 A shocking new video shows Saudi and Emirati forces firing indiscriminately at a crowd of unarmed youth protesting against the autocratic US-backed Bahraini government [See video below]. The attack took place after Friday prayers ...
  • Semantic Propaganda Feeds Stupidity by Joel S. ...
    by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org July 23, 2011 We would already have had a much needed American revolution in response to the tyranny of the money-fed two-party plutocracy that is destroying the middle class except for one big problem: so much of the American p ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    One of the reasons I love Twitter is it forces people to say what they want to say in as few a words as possible. Sure they can tease with a line and then link to a 1000 word essay, but it's much better when the truth of the matter is nailed then and there in one or two tweets. Like this double ...
  • No title
    Ex-Murdoch Editor Claims Phone Of Dead Girl Hacked Only To Help Police One of the most bizarre explanations for journalists spying on victims of crime and why Rupert Murdoch journalists at the News Of The World paid investigators to hack into the phone of a missing 13 year girl, of course it co ...
  • No title
    The worst famine the world has seen in decades is killing tens of thousands of people in Somalia. So Rupert Murdoch's The London Times decides this human tragedy is as good a means as any to try and steer attention away the ongoing hacking and spying scandal that continues to engulf the Times pa ...
  • No title
    The Many Sticky Threads That Make Up The Tangled Web Of Rupert Murdoch's Spying And Corruption Blech : The Murdoch Hacking, Spying And Corruption Scandal is complicated, and unless you have spent hours churning through the dozen or more articles posted everyday by the Guardian and the New Yo ...
  • No title
    Rupert Murdoch spent a small fortune on a PR company to make him come across as helpless, humble and innocent as possible, during his time before British MPs to answer questions on illegal spying and outrageous invasions of personal privacy. Or not answer them. Barbra Walters buys the fantasy, ...

Wired - Science

  • Supermassive Black Hole Sucks In Hot Gas
    A supermassive black hole pulls in hot gas, offering astronomers clues about the growth of black holes and the behavior of matter under their gravitational clutches. Previous findings have shown black holes pulling material toward them, but this black hole, at the center of large, lens-shaped g ...
  • Archaeopteryx Knocked From Roost as Original Bird
    Archaeopteryx’s status as the forerunner of modern birds is crumbling in the face of a new, closely-related fossil. The new discovery, a feathered, chicken-sized dinosaur named Xiaotingia, has prompted a fresh look at the dinosaur family tree, casting Archaeopteryx as a bird-like dinosaur rathe ...
  • Polar Dwellers Have Bigger Eyes, Brains
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Humans who live further from the equator have rapidly evolved bigger eyes and larger brains to better process the low light levels at those lofty latitudes. Anthropologists at Oxford University collected 55 skulls, dating from the 1800s, that represented 12 different p ...
  • Marvelous Destroyers: The Fungus-Farming Beetles
    All images: Jiri Hulcr See Also: Gorgeous Jeweled Beetle Reveals Its Tricks Beetles Turn Western Forests From Carbon Sink to Carbon Source Amazing World of Insect-Wing Color Discovered Ecologists: Time to End Invasive-Species Persecution Foreign Turtles Don't Smell Dangerous to Tadpoles 6 Super ...
  • How the Heat Wave Started
    The recent, record-setting heat wave appears to have been triggered by a little-noticed patch of storm activity off the western coast of Central America. Descriptions abound of the so-called heat dome, a zone of high atmospheric pressure that pushed warm air down over the central and eastern U ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Michal Shamir: More political than politics
    For Israel's housing protest to succeed, it must be defined as political - and it must be translated into political acts. The issues it raises must be placed at the center of Israel's democratic... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Dror Etkes: If only Rothschild were a settlement
    Six governments preferred to encourage Israelis to go and live on settlements rather than in the periphery of the country. This had a critical effect on the level of supply in various regions, and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Israeli minister admits state subsidizes publi ...
    Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz confirmed Monday that the state subsidizes bus tickets within West Bank settlements, causing them to be cheaper than tickets for rides within the Green... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Irene Gendzier: September 2011 and May 1948 – ...
    What will the Palestinians do at the UN in September? The question appears to haunt Washington and Tel Aviv as they prepare to block Palestinian attempts to obtain UN recognition, as though the very... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • IDF Civil Administration pushing for land take ...
    Inclusion of Jordan Valley, northern Dead Sea and area surrounding Ariel in 'settlement blocs' whose takeover the IDF Civil Administration is advancing, would prevent establishment of Palestinian... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Blueberries: a Cup a Day May Keep Cancer Away
    Blueberries are among the nutrient-rich foods being studied by UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators exploring the link between disease and nutrition. Dieticians there say as little as a cup a day can help prevent cell damage linked to cancer.
  • Enrollment Open for NC State Poole College's F ...
    Managing Disruptive Innovation is an intense, highly interactive executive program that provides company leaders not only the tools and knowledge to create tailored solutions to their organizations' most pressing problems, but also a chance to start working on those solutions as part of the pro ...
  • The "Amazing Nurses" Contest: Celebrating Amer ...
    The Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future sponsors national contest, honoring nurses' dedication to the profession.
  • Integrate Health Protection/Promotion for Heal ...
    Employers who integrate their safety initiatives with their health and wellness programming have the potential to improve the overall health and productivity of their workforces, according to a paper published recently in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM).
  • Back-to-School Tips for Parents: Ryerson Stude ...
    It may seem like only yesterday when your children were taking their first steps. Now they're entering another milestone in their lives: university or college. To ease the anxiety parents may feel as their children leave the comforts of home, Cashlyn Teggart, a seasoned fourth-year journalism st ...

Natural Health News

  • 7 Surprising Reasons You Wake Up Tired
    Fox Reno looked into the factors that don�t keep you awake, but can sabotage your sleep in more subtle ways, so the hours you spend in bed don't refresh and revitalize you.� They found seven possibilities -- here�s some of what they discovered: You sleep poorly and wake with a bad taste in your ...
  • Why Does this Fat Reduce Diabetes Risk?
    A number of studies have reported that increased blood levels of omega-3 fats are associated with reduced risk of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes affects over 220 million people globally, and kills 3.4 million every year. The number of deaths is predicted to double by 2030. �The total costs associat ...
  • Monsanto's 'Superweeds' Gallop Through Midwest
    In the mid-'90s, Monsanto introduced seeds genetically engineered to withstand its Roundup brand of herbicide. Today, these �Roundup Ready� crops are planted all across the U.S. -- 94 percent of soybeans and more than 70 percent of corn and cotton contain the Roundup-resistant gene. But when th ...
  • Vicious Attack by FDA to Eliminate Most of You ...
    U.S. Senator Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) and the FDA have launched an unprecedented and coordinated assault on the dietary supplement industry.� Unless there is a massive consumer protest, it seems likely that a significant number of people will be denied access to many dietary supplements they ...
  • Why on Earth Would Anyone Use this Dangerous D ...
    A study found that if girls at high risk of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are given the diabetes drug metformin, it could protect them against future infertility problems.� The earliest symptoms of PCOS can include weight gain, irregular menstruation, acne and excessive hair growth. PCOS can ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: A ...
    by David Sloss Mike Ramsey and Bill Dodge by David Sloss Mike Ramsey and Bill Dodge Ken Anderson, Jeremy Rabkin, and Jenny Martinez expand in various ways on the concern about constructing a grand narrative introduced on Monday by Harlan Cohen. Anderson discusses a number of questions that mig ...
  • Response to Professor Kent’s Post
    by David Golove by David Golove I want to thank the editors of Opinio Juris for hosting this forum and inviting me to participate, the editors of the Volume under review for their magnificent work in putting together such an impressive and comprehensive set of essays, and Andrew Kent for his t ...
  • International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: A ...
    by David Sloss by David Sloss I would like to thank Opinio Juris for hosting this book discussion, and I would like to thank the several contributors for their insightful and provocative posts. This post responds specifically to Andrew Kent’s skeptical reaction to David Golove’s claim that the ...
  • International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: P ...
    by William S. Dodge by William S. Dodge The joy of this project was making the kind of discovery Roger Alford recounts in his post. Alford’s chapter on international law as interpretive tool from 1901 to 1945 discusses, among other things, the Supreme Court’s various approaches to the extrater ...
  • International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: A ...
    by Harlan Cohen One of the most intriguing and admirable aspects of this book is that the editors have included within it a scathing critique of the project as a whole.  In Chapter 5, “A Social History of International Law:  A Historical Commentary, 1861-1900,” John Fabian Witt comments on thr ...

Public News Service

  • Ending Wilderness Protection for AZ Forests?
    Ending Wilderness Protection for AZ Forests? Phoenix, AZ - More than a million acres of potential wilderness in Arizona’s national forests would lose protection under a bill being heard today in a U.S. House committee. The Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act would open up so-called roadless ...
  • Help With Energy Bills Still Available for Low ...
    Help With Energy Bills Still Available for Low-Income Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – High summer energy bills can be especially painful for low-income Arizonans, sometimes threatening their ability to remain in their homes. But help is available from several sources. Comments from Arizona Community Act ...
  • Consumer Groups Hail New Federal Protection Bureau
    Consumer Groups Hail New Federal Protection Bureau Phoenix, AZ – Today (Thursday), is the first day of operations for the new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Consumer advocates say while Wall Street banks oppose the new bureau, it’s an idea that the public is solidly behind. Commen ...
  • Arizona Supporters "Plug In" at NC Clean Energ ...
    Arizona Supporters "Plug In" at NC Clean Energy Conference Phoenix, AZ - This week, Arizona clean energy advocates are participating in "Plug-In 2011," a yearly conference of clean energy technology professionals, in Raleigh, North Carolina. It's the first time the event has been held outside of ...
  • Hug It Out Today
    Hug It Out Today Phoenix, AZ – Today (Monday) is Global Hug Your Kids Day, an event started several years ago by Michelle Nichols on the anniversary of the death of her 8-year-old son - who passed away just eleven days after he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Comments from Nichols, and Sarah Wa ...

Center for Food Safety

  • U.S. Congress Turns Up The Heat On Genetically ...
    23 Members of Congress say “GE fish would not be in the public interest” NEWLY PUBLISHED STUDIES HIGHLIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF ESCAPED GE FISH Members of Congress turned up the heat on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday, sending strongly worded, bipartisan letters calling ...
  • U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Amendment ...
    Sixty-Seven Organizations and Businesses Endorse Amendment;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its decision yesterday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving genetically eng ...
  • FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
    Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...
  • Environmental Groups Petition Federal Governme ...
    FDA poised to take action on the first-ever application to market a genetically engineered salmon without adequate consideration of environmental risks and public input Earthjustice, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Mathaba: Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans
    Mathaba: Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans Black Star News Editorial The "rebels" in Misrata in Libya have driven out the entire Black population of the city, according to a chilling story in The Wall Street Journal today under the headline Libya City Torn by Tribal Feud." The "rebels" now e ...
  • Jim Crow in Palestine | SocialistWorker.org
    Jim Crow in Palestine | SocialistWorker.org: "'As a people who survived the Middle Passage and Jim Crow segregation--and organized successful struggles against those forms of oppression--we have a responsibility to speak out about the occupation of Palestine and share with Palestinians the lesso ...
  • Political prisoners start fasting until Aquino ...
    Political prisoners start fasting until Aquino’s Sona - Bulatlat By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Hundreds of political prisoners in various detention cells nationwide have started fasting today up to President Benigno S. Aquino III’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Monday. Drama ...
  • Anger erupts over fatal shooting of youth by S ...
    Anger erupts over fatal shooting of youth by SF police: (FinalCall.com) - A coalition of San Francisco activists, youth and religious leaders held a “No More Stolen Lies” press conference at the intersection of Third Street and Oakdale Avenue in the Bay View Hunters Point neighborhood to demand ...
  • Policing the borders means policing Canadian j ...
    Policing the borders means policing Canadian journalism? | rabble.ca: "While awaiting an important, far-reaching speech by Canada's Immigration Minister Jason Kenney on Tuesday, I was chatting to a fellow reporter when organizers kicked me out moments before it began -- despite having a press in ...

Pensieve

  • Pensieve Gets a New Look
    I decided to give the blog a much-needed face lift. I decided on this theme because it needed the least amount of tweaking (so I thought). I ended up having to code myself through the installation, sadly, in order to keep my old posts and be able to show the thumbnails you can see if [...] Re ...
  • Impeachment: an Overdue Constitutional Amendment
    Photo by codepinkhq After skimming over the Truth Commission’s report, I found that one of their recommendations is to introduce an impeachment mechanism to the Honduran Constitution. An impeachment mechanism would have been sufficient to achieve the goal the Congress and Supreme Court wanted in ...
  • Official Truth Comission Report now Available
    Photo by OEA – OAS The Honduran Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, (CVR in Spanish), created in the wake of the 2009 removal of Manuel Zelaya from the Presidency, has made its report available on its website. Apparently this is the full version, complete and underacted. As soon as I read ...
  • Protection or Truth?
    Photo by OEA – OAS An argument in favor of secrecy is that secrecy protects people. In places like Afghanistan, or Honduras, the government is powerless to protect those implicated in international intrigues or scandals. Informants and victims may be targeted for retaliation if they lead to nega ...
  • For Everyone Else…there’s Wikileaks
    What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo. The ingenious ad above highlights the plight of Wikileaks after the US Government either directly, or indirectly, pressured businesses like PayPal and MasterCard to block all their donations. The US and other secretive nations despi ...

Green Times

  • Carbon tax?
    For quite a while now Australia has been talking about adopting a carbon tax; but will it be a good option to decrease our carbon emissions (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-emission.html)? Although this measure can have impact about the country's economy, it should allow Australians - ...
  • Carbon Tax - Say Yes
    Why a carbon tax in Australia? Soon the big polluters will be paying a carbon tax but there are so many questions - like where is all the money going go? But by stopping to talk about money, this carbon tax can be a first step to move to a green Australia (glossary/categories/lifestyle/gree ...
  • Need some energy?
      We all know that eating fruits and vegetables is healthy and a great way to prevent illness. The principal element for the nutrition of vegans (glossary/categories/lifestyle/vegan.html), fruits and vegetables are one of gifts from nature. Vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and more. They are a ...
  • Nature will thank you - and so will we
      It's the last day to support your online green magazine and directory in the 2011 Sydney Business Awards!   We need your support, Vote now for Green Times! here (http://sydneybusinessawards.com.au/sba/vote/%28id%29/917) here (http://sydneybusinessawards.com.au/sba/vote/%28id%29/917) h ...
  • One by One
    Nowadays we don't measure the power of one gesture, of one smile, of a hand extended, they have all the power to change a life. Biodiversity (glossary/categories/wildlife/biodiversity.html), fauna, flora (wildlife/flora.html), all that we need to protect, to sustain our world, can be preserved ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Army ambushes Freedom Theater
    Soldiers have stormed the Freedom Theatre of Jenin, whose co-founder Juliano Mer-Khamis was slain earlier this year. URGENT PRESS RELEASE From The Freedom Theater Foundation, Jenin, Palestine 04.46 (gmt+2), July 27, 2011 Special Forces of the Israeli Army attacked the Freedom Theater in Jenin Re ...
  • For Israeli army, Palestinians having guests i ...
    Video of the Jully 22nd protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. Part 1 of an account of that day’s protest from our source A. is here. Her story continues… After a while, my paramedic friend and a young man from the village led me once again through back-roads and fields back to Leila’ ...
  • For Israeli army, Palestinians having guests i ...
    Here is the  video of the Nabi Saleh protest from Friday. We received this account from the same protest our anonymous  source A., an international activist living in Palestine.  She explains: This account is edited from a chat conversation describing events that took place on July 21st dur ...
  • For Lieberman, human rights = terrorism
    Well, this sums it up well. Though Israel declined to follow up the anti-Boycott bill by passing a law calling for the investigation of human rights organizations, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was not “blasted ministers for refusing to probe” From Ha’aretz, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberm ...
  • More from the Salem Music Center: Q&A with the ...
    The Villages Group continues to work closely with Salem’s Music Center, leading to ever-expanding relationships between the Center and the music-education community in Israel. Below (in reverse chronological order) are descriptions of two visits from Tel Aviv to Salem that took place over the p ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Hey, if you like Polizeros, use social bookmar ...
    If you find some thing of interest here, please use the social bookmarking services, which have just been updated. The Google ‘+1′ and ‘Facebook Like’ icons at the top of the right sidebar apply to the entire site. Each post now has a ‘Share’ icon at the top. You can share a post to over [...]
  • Obama “will not take yes for an answer” on deb ...
    “While it may be tempting for liberals to write this statement off as mere right-wing positioning, prominent liberal writers agree,”says Washington’s Blog, in a long, detailed post about Obama’s continual alliance with Wall Street Democrats against the rest of us. Obama never was on the liberal ...
  • Who holds the federal debt
    Congressional Quarterly on the federal debt of $14.27 trillion. Almost all of the debt held by the public is “marketable,” meaning that those securities are bought and sold in financial markets. The debt held by the Fed is part of those marketable holdings. So is the debt held by China, the lar ...
  • Adults taking jobs from teens
    The fact that employers are not hiring youth is a trend with real consequences. Fewer summer jobs for youth mean less exposure to work environments and ultimately less time to build the skills and experiences needed for career track employment. And more time to delve into the underground econom ...
  • No Banker Left Behind. Ry Cooder
    “They were all down at the White House / No banker was left behind.”

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Ten Years Ago Portugal Legalized All Drugs &#8 ...
    When the nation legalized all drugs within its borders, most critics predicted disaster. But a decade later, drug use has plunged dramatically. July 14, 2011  |  Alternet The government in Portugal has no plans to back down. Although the Netherlands is the European country most associated with l ...
  • (Sex, Lies and Audiotape Part III) by Edgar J. ...
    July 27, 2011 Free-Edgar-Steele.com They say that something is too good to be true if it looks much better than one normally would expect in a given situation; if it is not what it appears to be. Too Good There are many things about my recent trial that simply were “too good,” albeit with differ ...
  • The Scientific Dictatorship Explained
    Ed Note: We have reprinted most of the article here to protect against web scrubbings… This is very important work. Please go to this great website for more info like this, and please support all such websites any way you can! Old-Thinker News | July 26, 2011 By Daniel Taylor President Dwight D. ...
  • High loonie means more shopping in the U.S
    With a Canadian dollar surpassing $1.06 US, Canadians have even more reason to head south for the holidays. A tourism expert says Canadians will take advantage of the exchange rate this summer to make a run for the border. â(Canadians) are increasingly choosing their holiday destination over the ...
  • Mexican troops ‘accidentally’ inva ...
    AUSTIN, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors returned 33 Mexican soldiers on Tuesday who inadvertently crossed over the Rio Grande river into Texas, authorities said. The soldiers, packed into four Humvees, crossed over the Donna-Rio Bravo International Bridge into south Texas a ...

The Air Vent

  • Roman M’s anomaly combination incorporat ...
    As long time readers know, I’m a fan of Roman’s temperature combination method which doesn’t require a base period window to offset individual station anomalies in global temperature averaging.   Steve Mosher has incorporated Roman’s work into his own code for R. Roman’s Method – Steve Mosher
  • Introduction to RghcnV3 – Steve Mosher
    Steve has put together a high quality series of algorithms for combining surface station data in R.  He has combined methods from a wide variety of sources with the following example incorporating ideas from my favorite blog by Tamino.  This is the kind of science I like, open source, nothing hi ...
  • Subsampled Confidence Intervals – Zeke
    Sub-sampling is hard to argue with.  Zeke has done a post on global temperatures at the Blackboard taking 500 stations at a time and looking at the extremes of averages.   It presented a set of very tight error bars based on weather variance, sampling errors, and any other random events which af ...
  • Chugging Along
    Steve Mosher has continued his work on GHCN station global temperature reconstruction package in R.  The most recent version is documented in his blog here.  He has developed an elegant set of commands for computing global temperatures in R and is working on release of an R library package for t ...
  • Decisions we don’t need your help with
    One of the several ignorant things that president Bush did was sign a law banning incandescent lights. Yes it came from a liberal House and Senate but he did sign it. It looks like the House will send a repeal of it up for vote shortly but it won’t likely get past our anti-economic growth presi ...

Focal Point

  • New York Owl Felled By Herpes
    City investigators have determined that a great horned own found dead in Inwood Hill Park last month succumbed to avian herpes. The virus is not transmissible to humans. [Photo credit: Great horned owl by Vicki's Nature, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Cat Food Central: Boehner's Budget Proposal Wo ...
    John Boehner's budget proposal would cause the greatest increase in poverty in U.S. history, according to an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: House Speaker John Boehner’s new budget proposal would require deep cuts in the years immediately ahead in Social Security ...
  • 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 ...
  • Born to Run: Poll Shows NJ Voters Evenly Split ...
    I've been trying to draft the Boss for years. Finally, a survey by Policy Policy Polling shows that New Jerseyans are as likely to support Bruce Springsteen for governor (42%) as they are to back incumbent Republican governor Chris Christie (42%), with 16% undecided. Springsteen isn't even run ...
  • Letter to "Dear Prudence" Underscores Importan ...
    Slate's resident advice columnist recently printed a letter from an adult child with a very unusual problem: Dear Prudence, My mother died a decade ago; neither she nor my father had burial plans, so we scrambled and Dad bought a double plot. A few years later, Dad met a nice woman. They ...

Inside Facebook

  • Platform News: Facebook Lets Developers Create ...
    Facebook now allows developers to create and manage test users for their applications via the Developer app‘s graphical user interface. Previously, test users could only be created and controlled programattically through the Graph API, which may have made using them difficult for developers not ...
  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Context Optional, lolapps, ngmoco , PopCap Games, GREE Int ...
  • Facebook Users Can Now List in Their Profile T ...
    Facebook users may now display that they have an “Expected: Child” within the family section of their profile beneath their profile picture. The option is available in the Friends & Family section of the profile editor, and users may also set a due date and name for their unborn child, though no ...
  • “Facebook for Business” Resource Center Eases ...
    Yesterday, Facebook launched its “Facebook for Business” resource center, which collects instructions and guides for using Pages, ads, Sponsored Stories, and Platform applications. It walks business owners, marketers, and advertisers through the purpose and functionality of Facebook’s core produ ...
  • PicBadges, Mobile, Horoscopes, Cupid and More ...
    Yahoo topped the list of growing applications by daily active users this week, although PicBadges — which alters your profile photo with a badge — was right behind. A series of Facebook profile quizzes and apps were also popular, as was Cupid, Windows Messenger and a Page tab app. The apps on ou ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Norway's monster and the poison of Zionist pro ...
    How much was the mind of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik conditioned and warped by Zionist propaganda as peddled with the assistance of Christian fundamentalism by much of the Western mainstream media and many websites?
  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Follow the Money with Bergman: Eyeing Green Ey ...
    Why Did the GAO Just Audit the Fed? Some of the shriller Fed critics offer simple but misleading slogans like “The Federal Reserve is a private entity” and “The Fed isn’t audited.”  The truth is more complicated, and the historical background matters for citizens trying to understand why, how, a ...
  • Boiling Frogs Post Alert: Transition to Our Ne ...
    We are in the process of moving our site to a new server at a new hosting company. While we are switching our site, I’d say for the next few days, and until the new pointers all recognize the new site, some of you may be directed to our new site where our contents will [...]
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    US Envoy: NO Rush to Leave Afghanistan, A Saudi Beacon for Iraq’s Sunni Militias, The Cyber-Security Industrial Complex, UK Farmers Find Promise in a Crop Illegal in Afghanistan, Goldman Sachs: US Credit Risk if Wars Counted as ‘Cuts’, How America Became an Empire & More!  International Newswor ...
  • Brushfire with Julia: The Saudi States of America
    From BAE to Iran-Contra, 9/11 & Beyond Money makes the world go ‘round. Whose money spins your planet?  In recent decades, Saudi Arabia emerged as a skillful puppeteer, pulling the strings of its expanding influence. Dare to see the big picture, out of the context of pseudo-political loyalties, ...
  • Jamiol Presents
    Jamiol created this toon in June 2010, and in this July of 2011 nothing has changed except for the number of innocent Afghan’s killed and wounded, the number of American troops killed and wounded and the billions of dollars pumped into this quagmire that will not end for years to come. This toon ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

  • Women broadcasting peace in Brazil
    By: PeaceCorso So of course you know how once something enters your conscious awareness, you see it everywhere. You will not be surprised that Brazil is showing up all over my reality. Here’s a wonderful story about women in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro broad ...
  • Honoring the spirit that clings
    By: Anne Thomas The other day my friend Junko came rushing into my apartment. She was all excited and said, “Listen to what happened to me. I just went to get a massage. You know how much trouble I have been having ever since I started washing all those jars an ...
  • Shifting out of survival mode in Sendai
    By: Anne Thomas I am very fortunate in that work had not yet begun whilst I was involved in the significant task of moving, so I could give myself over fully to that enjoyable, but demanding task of evolving this place into a home. Actually, I realized I had ne ...
  • Eleven lessons from Nelson Mandela
    By: DavidCrane Yesterday we celebrated living legend Nelson Mandela’s birthday. Looking back on his 93 years, there are 11 lessons (from many) that I would like to share from his legacy which would help us make a small but positive mark in our society. Here the ...
  • LifeLines: A global community for good
    By: opheliar You know how there is that little something in the back of your mind that keeps gnawing away at you? That "little something" can be negative, positive, or neutral, but it is always there. Years ago a small thought germinated in my mind. At first it ...

OpEd News

  • Balance is the Key!
    We need tax revenue to keep the country going. Call your Congresman.
  • Tomgram: Mike Davis, The Coming Economic Disaster
    Economically speaking, dots everywhere are almost religiously not connected, and so the thought that the global system itself might fail (as systems sometimes do) never quite manages to arise. Thank heavens, then, for Mike Davis, TomDispatch regular who has never seen a set of dots he didn't ca ...
  • Oslo massacre exposes the nexus of Islamophobi ...
    More details have emerged on the Norwegian terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik and now we have enough details to piece together what's behind Friday's massacre which saw car bombings in Oslo and a mass shooting attack on the island of Utoya that caused the deaths of more than 90 people. Hours bef ...
  • Caring Sucks!
    Despite all of the attraction that being a caring person has, it can be hazardous to your life.
  • Barack's Big Blunder
    How one gets to the finished line by racing in the wrong direction.

Switchboard

  • More jobs, cleaner air one trashcan (and recyc ...
    Adrian Martinez Last week, Los Angeles hosted an environmental stakeholder meeting to discuss potential reform to the way the City handles waste and recycling. This meeting is one in a series of stakeholder meetings that includes business, hauling ...
  • A beginning agenda for making smart growth legal
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC   When then-governor Parris Glendening announced a key portion of what was to become Maryland’s path-breaking land use legislation in the 1990s, he stood in the hist ...
  • House Committee Seeks to Gut Funding to Suppor ...
    Jake Schmidt The House Appropriations subcommittee responsible for outlining US international global warming funding has just released their bill detailing the amount of money that will support these efforts.  This comes on the heels of a House au ...
  • House under-estimates public concern over oil ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. Tonight the House passed a bill mandating a decision on the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline by November 1. This bill is unlikely to pass the Senate and become law, mos ...
  • Kalamazoo one year later: Anatomy of a tar san ...
    Anthony Swift, Policy Analyst   A year-long effort to clean up the largest tar sands spill in U.S. history has established one thing – raw tar sands crude is unlike anything we’ve had in our pipelines before.  Last year, Enbridge’s Lakehead pip ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Fuel Efficiency Standards
    The White House and the major automakers have come to a deal that would raise auto efficiency requirements to as high as 54 mpg by 2025. The automakers were not happy about this and tried a media blitz to counter it. I suspect they eventually agreed for two reasons. First, they did manage to low ...
  • Attempted Bombing of North Texas Planned Paren ...
    In case we needed a reminder of domestic, right-wing “Christian” terrorism, a wacko tossed a Molotov cocktail at a Planned Parenthood clinic in McKinney. Texas yesterday. In other news, the Dallas suburbs are awful. Appropriately (or inappropriately), the linked webpage is sponsored by an upcomi ...
  • Drinking and driving don’t mix, except i ...
    It’s been a busy day in the world of high profile athletes and drunk driving. First, former NBA star and current TV analyst Jalen Rose was given 20 days in jail for drunk driving. Rose’s sentence is remarkably harsh in that it was a first offense, and that a test at the time indicated he [...]
  • Taking Cheap Shots at the Tea Party
    John McCain, letting his “maverick” out, in response to Tea Partiers who believe that the Democrats and Obama would get the full blame for a default: By that flawed logic, âDemocrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced budget amendment and reform entitlements and the Tea Party Hobbits co ...
  • The Pernicious Myth of Voter Fraud
    The Democratic Strategist has a piece entitled “GOP Voter Suppression Scams Spreading Fast“.  It’s mostly a discussion (and reposting) of a Washington Post op-ed by Katrina vanden Heuval.  My favorite bit: The i.d. campaigns are based on a particularly flimsy excuse, the myth of “voter fraud” ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • THE 2011 MIDSIZE HOT LIST
    Twenty firms in the 50- to 150-lawyer range have proven they can continue to thrive in this troubled economy.
  • After a difficult search, Northwestern settles ...
    University of Texas law professor Daniel Rodriguez will assume the law school's top administrative position on Jan. 1. It won't be his first stint as dean — Rodriguez ran the University of San Diego School of Law from 1998 to 2005.
  • Consultant appeals fraud finding over Victoria ...
    An appeal of a civil fraud verdict against a consultant in a case from Puerto Rico — similar charges were settled against former U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) and Venable, where he is a partner, in a related case — was aired at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit on July 26.
  • Defense decries 'flagrant' misconduct in FCPA ...
    In an attempt to salvage a criminal investigation devoid of sufficient evidence, federal prosecutors resorted to misconduct to win a high-profile Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case, defense lawyers argued in a court document.
  • 'Poster child' shares frustration about pace o ...
    A recent New York Times article used New York Law School and its longtime dean, Rick Matasar, to illustrate the larger problems facing law students and legal education. The NLJ speaks with Matasar about that article and why meaningful change at law school is so slow to come about.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Advanced Waterdog Training in August
    An advanced Waterdog training will take place on August 11th. Details from the flyer are below. Hello Waterdogs, I wanted to invite all of you to our Advanced Waterdog Training on August 11 from 5:00—9:00. This training will only be for people who have already attended the initial training. We w ...
  • A Substitute for Tears…
    Two fellows that have had profound effects on the music in my life have each written songs about the gas drilling and want to preserve the beauty and purity of places they have come to know and love in Pennsylvania. Check out Van Wagner’s tune here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trxrh_FmPeI&fea ...
  • Marcellus Shale on This American Life
    If you missed this program, it is well worth listening to. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/440/game-changer
  • Drilling Strains 911 Resposes at Tioga Court House
    Being that I now live in south central PA, I listen to the WITF radio station on my way to work and back. They have been doing bits and pieces here and there about the Marcellus drilling and this month they have introduced a program called “State Impact Pennsylvania”.  So far this program seems ...
  • Water Dog Training in July
    I wanted to let everyone know they are planning another basic waterdog training on July 14th from 7-9 at the Tokishi Building in Wellsboro.  Please pass this on to others that may be interested.  There is also going to be another Advanced Training in August. (I will pass on more information as I ...

News Blaze

  • Central Florida Gifted and Talented Institute ...
    Sponsored by USF Poly and the Polk County School District, the Central Florida Gifted & Talented Institute is Polk County's only summer day program for gifted and talented students.
  • Remarkable Woman Doctor Shares Story of Authen ...
    It was my first lesson towards developing an understanding that health was not merely about medicine and healing; but also about being sensitive to one's patients.
  • Holocaust Education Teaches Lessons of History ...
    Ms. Rosenthal said she was thrilled that educators are participating in Centropa program where they have the opportunity to interact with colleagues from 14 countries and learn about the richness of Jewish life and contributions in Europe.
  • US Urges President Asad's Regime to Stop Deadl ...
    She noted that the behavior of Syria's security forces, including other such barbaric shootings, wide-scale arrests of young men and boys, brutal torture, and other abuses of basic human rights, is reprehensible.
  • Obama Administration Committed to Missile Defe ...
    He pointed out that missile defense also may help constrain regional actors from trying to inhibit or disrupt the U.S. ability to come to the defense or assistance of its friends or other states.

environment 360

  • Model of Rapeseed Plant Metabolism Yields Insi ...
    U.S. scientists have developed a model for analyzing the metabolic processes of rapeseed plants, an innovation that they say may provide insights into more optimal Brookhaven National LaboratoryRapeseed embroyos production of biofuels and alternatives to petrochemicals for some industrial uses ...
  • Dow Targets Large-Scale Production of Plastics ...
    Dow Chemical is planning construction of a bioplastics plant in Brazil that the company says will produce plastic from sugarcane in volumes competitive with Dow ChemicalBrazilian sugarcane plastics generated from petroleum. Later this year Dow, in a partnership with the Japanese firm Mitsui & ...
  • 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 ...
  • Hillary Clinton Advocates For Clean Cookstoves ...
    Secretary of State Hillary 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 ...
  • Extreme North Pole Heat Contributing to Rapid ...
    North Pole temperatures that have been 11 to 14 degrees F higher than normal, coupled with an early melting of sea ice and low snow cover in the Far North, have caused a swift retreat of sea ice this summer and could mean that the Arctic Ocean in 2011 will have the smallest sea ice extent ever r ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik recruited ...
    Remember that the hearings was closed to the public and the media. Classic Scandinavian style - an "open society" right. The judge ordered that 32-year-old Andres Behring Breivik is to be detained without access to letters or visitors, apart from his lawyer. He’s getting four weeks in isolation. ...
  • 2,000-year-old bell found in Jerusalem rings again
    2,000-year-old bell in Jerusalem: a 2,000-year-old bell has been discovered by Israeli archaeologists and rang for the first time in as many years. 2,000-year-old bell found by Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem, Monday. The bell, dating back to the Second Jewish Temple period, was discovered i ...
  • Norway police lower youth camp death toll to 68
    Norwegian police said Monday that the double-counting of bodies in the chaotic aftermath of a shooting spree may have contributed to a dramatic overestimate of the number of people slain, but they offered few other details about the error. The sharp reduction in the death toll, from 86 to 68, ad ...
  • Norway massacre: Anders Breivik "Surprised" He ...
    Geir Lippestad Mr Lippestad said it was "too early" to say if his client was mad, but added: "The whole case has indicated that he is insane." He said his client had taken drugs before going on the rampage "to be strong, efficient and awake" and was "sorry that he had to do this but it was neces ...
  • Media Now Links Breivik to British "Extremists ...
    The Norwegian fanatic has been in close contact with hundreds of British right-wing extremists for two years, it emerged last night. He chatted about "tactics" on social networking sites with hundreds of members of the English Defence League (EDL) and the British National Party (BNP) and attende ...

Russia Today

Not My Tribe

  • Oslo bomber was less Christian Jihadist than a ...
  • Tea Party revolutionaries support establishmen ...
    Amazing that the same hate groups who want to start an “Ass-tro turf” Corporate funded “revolution” to maintain the corporate status quo (isn’t a revolution supposed to overthrow the Establishment?) are providing the guns to both sides in the current Mexican revolution. But only if you’re not al ...
  • Are you there God? it’s me Anders. The i ...
    No sooner has a Mexican vigilante drug ring declared itself a law-keeping fraternity of the Knights Templar, when the Oslo gunman/bomber claims secret membership too. The “2083″ manifesto Anders Behring Breivik released through a carefully harvested email list includes a curious diary/progress l ...
  • Mr Smith goes to #FuckYouWashington
    The netizens are revolting. On the eve of US “austerity measures” the Twitterverse is crowdsourcing its ire against the de facto seat of world government. The unprintable hashtag won’t trend on social networks — it’s alleged, even as momentum builds like a movie title mashup. Typical sentiment: ...
  • CSU Drake coal plant situated in heart of Colo ...
    Europe is closing the last of its coal-fired power plants, while America rebrands coal as clean. And Colorado Springs literally embraces its pollution-spewing Martin Drake Coal Plant. You can burn fossil fuels to warm the globe from anywhere, but for a coal plant’s particulate contaminants to di ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Van The BSer Romero: We Called It!
    Awhile back, Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted an entry entitled "Jesse The BSer Ventura: I Called It!" criticising Ventura for deceptive editing on the first 9/11 episode of his show Conspiracy Theory when it was revealed that he cut off the end of an experiment by explosives exp ...
  • Kevin Ryan: The NIST WTC 7 Report is False
    This presentation describes some of the ways in which the 2008 WTC 7 report from the National Institute of Standard and Technology is false and unscientific. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Because of the 911 lie we have all been plunged into an en ...
  • A Journey With Jonathan
    A JOURNEY WITH JONATHAN A Review of the Book, “Among the Truthers,” Written by Jonathan Kay By: Jonathan H. Cole, P.E. (PDF Link) Source URL: http://911blogger.com/news/2011-07-22/journey-jonathan I should have known from the cartoons on the cover what Jonathan Kay's book, "Among the Trut ...
  • 9/11/2011 - Ten Years, No Justice
    9/11 "debunker" Ryan Owens has declared that the 9/11 truth movement is dead. Please join blog contributor Adam Taylor and myself in New York City this upcoming September 11th and help prove that he is dead wrong. http://groundzero2011.com/index.html The goal of this website is to hopefully ...
  • Silenced: TWA 800 and the Subversion of Justice
    This documentary proves that the U.S. government-including the FBI and DOJ-are totally corrupt and involved in serious felony crime and the outrageous cover-up of truth concerning the mysterious crash of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996. As you will see, Flight 800 was actually destroyed by a su ...

Fooducate

  • McDonald’s Happy Meal Makeover: A (Small) Step ...
    McDonald’s announced yesterday that the Happy Meal is changing: 1. The amount of french fries will more than halve from 2.4 oz to 1.1. 2. 5 Apple slices will be added to each Happy Meal. 3. Low fat chocolate milk will be listed as an option instead of soda. The change is being rolled out [...]
  • Could Food Diversity be Causing Obesity?
    Here’s an interesting theory on the cause for rising obesity rates. Researchers have conducted experiments to assess the validity of their theory that the abundance of food choices promotes, in some people, excess consumption: In the study out of the State University of New York at Buffalo, scie ...
  • All Natural Fruit Snack?
    Take a look at Mott’s Medley’s Fruit Snack. The package looks promising: All natural fruit snack Good source of vitamin C Gluten Free & Fat Free No Artificial Flavors, Colors, Sweeteners, or Preservatives made with real fruit and vegetable juice. But what’s really inside? What you need to know: ...
  • Please Vote for Fooducate’s Nutriton Label Red ...
    Rethink the Food Label is a project by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s News21 program and Good Magazine. They asked the public, food thinkers, nutritionists, and designers to redesign the Nutrition Facts Label to make it easier to read and more useful to people who want to consum ...
  • Fruity Cheerios – “Naturally” Flavored, Artifi ...
    Fruity Cheerios is a relatively new extension of the venerable Cheerios line of cereals. The marketing pitch is directed at moms: Kids love the fruity fun, Moms love the Calcium and Vitamin D! Here’s more copyedit: Here’s why they are so good: Made with whole grain 12 essential vitamins & minera ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Brazil to ‘do to Indians what Australia did to ...
    A Kayapó indigenous man. The Kayapó tribe is one of many whose livelihoods will be devastated by the Belo Monte dam. © Antonio Bonsorte/Amazon Watch A Brazilian government official has suggested that Brazil will treat its indigenous peoples like Australia treated the Aboriginals. Curt Tren ...
  • Vedanta: time to give up on Niyamgiri mine
    Vedanta's AGMs have seen numerous protests against the planned bauxite mine. © Survival FTSE100 company Vedanta Resources will face vocal protests tomorrow from Survival and other groups telling the company to give up on their notorious Niyamgiri mine in Orissa, India. Vedanta was denied ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • It's Not Default of Obama:Jail GOP Deadbeats f ...
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash.com Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist gave debtors' prison a bad rap. Too bad. I'd say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea. Bush reads from My Pet BudgetLet's talk about how w ...
  • Harry Potter: Jo’s Other Ending
    By Jo (J.K.) Rowling as told to Greg Palast and the Palast twins [18 July 2011] Some of you may recall that, years ago, when I lived in England, writing for The Guardian, when I shared the bestseller list with Jo Rowling (she at the pinnacle, me in the valley), we became buds through my twins ...
  • Drowning Fish?
    by Greg Palast June 30th, 2011 July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the path can't imagine. My D ...
  • ZD Roberts Has Something to Say
    I just wanted to send a thanks to all those who have donated to the Gil Palast Memorial fund over the past couple of months. I know Gil would have been happy to see that so many people still believe in the power of journalism. Back in 2008 I got to meet Greg's Dad — he [...]
  • Ce soir ! Achtung! BP en eaux troubles + Die B ...
    Tonight! 28 June. On ARTE, in French and German — in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Holland and (check listing for French Canada) … BP: In Deep Water — The first of Greg Palast’s investigative reports on BP, the Bribery & Pollution company masquerading as an oil company. La M ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a bird bath?
    Annetta has emailed with two great questions. Here’s the first: Any ideas on making a bird bath out of recycled [things from] around the house? I think it depends on whether you want something pretty, quirky or just something practical for the birds to use, looks be damned. I’d love to hear idea ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle precious photo albums?
    Joan left a question on the “suggest an item” stage: A deceased good friend’s photo albums need to be disposed of. Mainly of family, friends and her cats, loathed to just chuck them in a bin, other than that, what do I do? Helpâ¦.. I’m sorry to hear about your friend, Joan. The Photos I’m [...]
  • How can I reuse LOTS of florists’ ribbon?
    Nicky has emailed to ask how she can recycle: Almost 100 kilometres of 2″ wide yellow florists ribbon. Unravelled and of varying lengths â very long to short pieces. Currently in 5 large industrial bags. Wow, that’s a fair bit of ribbon! My first thought would be to offer it to a local scrap sto ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle Leylandii/conifer b ...
    We’ve had an email from Jennifer (sorry it’s taken a few weeks to feature it, Jennifer!): We hacked down a couple of huge nasty Leylandii conifer trees from our garden this weekend and don’t know what to do with the wood and branches. It’s far too much for our own compost bin, fear for the [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle Stax potato chip cans?
    Tammy Gary has asked: Would love ideas to reuse the Stax potato chip cans. We don’t have Stax over here in the UK but my friend Google tells me they’re like Pringles, but packed in a plastic tube instead of waxed cardboard. Some of the Pringles ideas will still apply: they’re great for storing k ...

Age of Autism

  • Farewell to an Honest Scientist and a Good Friend
    Managing Editor's Note: Last week, I spoke at a conference in Cleveland. To my great pleasure, Dr. Derrick Lonsdale of Preventive Medicine Group, who was our first Defeat Autism Now! doctor, was also speaking. Dr. Lonsdale is 87 years old,...
  • Part 3: Vaccines and Autism - What Do Epidemio ...
    (Managing Editor's Note: Read Part 1and Part 2. Also, this report is available in in full .pdf (Vaccines and Autism Epidemiology HERE) “We have 16 studies already that clearly state that vaccines do not cause autism.” -- Amy Pisani, Executive...
  • AAP: Trampolining Injuries Are An EPIDEMIC!
    By Katie Wright Recently, the “Today Show” broadcast a terrifying segment on what the American Academy of Pediatrics has labeled “the epidemic of trampolining related injuries.” Trampoliners all over our nation are in jeopardy! Any random jump can result in...
  • SmartVax: Weigh The Risks
    By Scott Laster, SafeMinds SafeMinds has launched a new website, SmartVax, to change the discourse on vaccines in a manner that will create a positive environment where consumers are empowered and scientists are encouraged to pursue the necessary research on...
  • IACC Examines Dr. Tom Insel's Fine Autism Cloth
    By Anne Dachel On Monday, Jul 11, 2011, Dr. Thomas Insel, chairman of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health in support of the reauthorization of the Combating Autism...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

  • Feds to Grab Land for Homeland Security
    H.R. 1505: Another Federal land grab, with exemptions from environmental regulations, and a few more just for good measure. And just who has the authority over these lands? Why Homeland Security, of course.
  • USDA Attacks Rural America with Smart Meters
    On June 9, 2011, the Obama Administration Established the “White House Rural Council to Strengthen Rural Communities” via Executive Order. “Strengthening Rural Communities” is the spin. The real issue is control. Rural communities are where food is grown, and control of food is a main priority f ...
  • Garden Goose
    We have a goose that lives in our garden. Not just any goose, but a very special goose. His name is Dee Dee Dee, and this is his story.
  • GM Crops Farmer to Farmer – The Truth about GM ...
  • The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust Pt 3
    there is good evidence that the holocaust in the Gulf is just beginning and is now moving up the food chain and has already made its way into your local supermarket. And if you think you can dodge the obvious danger by merely avoiding the Gulf seafood, think again, as this catastrophe is permeat ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • July 2011 is Chicago’s wettest in more than a ...
    WLSAM – Just one day after a deluge gave Chicago the wettest day in its history, for as far back as such records have been kept since 1871, a morning storm made this month the wettest July in the past 120 years in the cityâs recorded history. Read story
  • Norway attack bolsters web monitoring to track ...
    The Province – Estonia is planning to bolster monitoring of the Internet to track potential extremist plots in the wake of last weekâs massacre in Norway. “Weâre waiting for the results of the investigation in Norway and after that will certainly look at whether we should make changes in legisla ...
  • Internet privacy controls challenge tech industry
    Associated Press – The federal government has put Google, Microsoft, Apple and other technology companies on notice: Give consumers a way prevent advertisers from tracking their movements across the Web – or face regulation. Yet for all its innovative know-how and entrepreneurial spirit, the tec ...
  • British Columbia – Wettest July On Record?
    CFJCTV – The rest of Canada may be sweltering in a heat wave but hot temperatures will elude BC for a while. July has been disappointing for Interior residents who are used to hot, dry days at this time of the year. Read article
  • Concern Over Intensive Treatment for Patients ...
    ScienceDaily — Doctors should be cautious about prescribing intensive glucose lowering treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes as a way of reducing heart complications, concludes a new study published online in the British Medical Journal. French researchers found that intensive glucose lowe ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Urban power like rooftop solar dominates Brown ...
    It may not be quite the renewable energy powerhouse that Germany and China are, but California will be well on its way once it speeds up installations of smaller, urban projects, Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday. At a UCLA conference...
  • More big Yellowstone fires predicted with clim ...
    Rising temperatures associated with climate change are expected to dramatically increase wildfire in and near Yellowstone National Park, transforming the landscape by 2050.
  • EPA Chief Lisa Jackson speaks at NAACP convent ...
    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson spoke to the NAACP National Convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Sunday about the impact of pollution on minority communities, an issue that will be also be explored during a Monday...
  • Study ranks air pollution from coal and oil-fi ...
    The most toxic air pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants can be found in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, according to a new study released Wednesday by the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council and Physicians for Social Responsibility. The study,...
  • Deadly rivers: Park rangers warn swimmers
    Scorching temperatures and icy-cold rivers make Sequoia, Kings Canyon and Yosemite national parks popular summer retreats. But rangers are warning visitors that they need to be especially careful this year. The Kaweah, Merced, Kern, Lemoore, and Tuolomne rivers in Central...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Israeli Army storms Freedom Theater in Jenin
    Ahmad Nasser Matahen, a night guard and technician student at the theater work up by heavy blocks of stone hurled at the entrance of the theater. As he opened the door he found masked and heavily armed Israeli Special Forces around the theater.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it ...
  • Strenger than Fiction-Israel News - Haaretz Is ...
    The slew of anti-democratic laws introduced by the current Knesset constitutes one of the darkest chapters in Israeli history.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israel sues 34 Bedouin for costs of repeated d ...
    Unprecedented law suit seeks NIS 1.8 million in damages from Negev Bedouin; Israel Lands Administration says defendants built homes on land belonging to the state. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • New York mayor officiates Jewish gay marriage ...
    Michael Bloomberg weds Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jonathan Mintz and Criminal Justice Coordinator John Feinblatt after New York legalizes same sex marriage.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • desecrating First Nations languages for a profit
    It's happening again, The misuse of Native languages and culture by non-tribal members. While tribal members are hard at work trying to revitalize and reclaim our languages, non-tribal members see a chance to make a buck.Submitted by Richard Zane Smith to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • SunPeak Solar Receives $77.4 Million Loan to D ...
    The North American Development Bank (NADB) has granted solar developer SunPeak Solar, LLC a US$77.4 million loan to construct a solar farm in California. read more
  • Solar Panels Offer Passive Energy Bonuses
    According to a report soon to be published in Solar Energy, the official journal of the International Solar Energy Society, solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on roofs are also doing a surprisingly good, if unexpected, job of keeping ho ...
  • Ex-Im Bank to Provide $25 Million to Support U ...
    The Export-Import Bank of the United States announced that it will provide loans to support the export of thin-film solar photovoltaic modules from both First Solar read more
  • U.S. BLM Approves Four Projects Use of Public ...
    The United States Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management approved four new projects to run transmission lines through public land to transport electricity from large-scale renewable energy projects to the power grid. re ...
  • Solar Gen 2 to Supply California with Green Energy
    Solar Gen 2 LLC, a Greenwich, Conn.-based privately-held solar development firm focused on North American projects, on Monday announced the signing of a 25-year, 150-megawatt power purchase agreement with San Diego Gas & Electric Co ...

News Blaze

  • Central Florida Gifted and Talented Institute ...
    Sponsored by USF Poly and the Polk County School District, the Central Florida Gifted & Talented Institute is Polk County's only summer day program for gifted and talented students.
  • Remarkable Woman Doctor Shares Story of Authen ...
    It was my first lesson towards developing an understanding that health was not merely about medicine and healing; but also about being sensitive to one's patients.
  • Holocaust Education Teaches Lessons of History ...
    Ms. Rosenthal said she was thrilled that educators are participating in Centropa program where they have the opportunity to interact with colleagues from 14 countries and learn about the richness of Jewish life and contributions in Europe.
  • US Urges President Asad's Regime to Stop Deadl ...
    She noted that the behavior of Syria's security forces, including other such barbaric shootings, wide-scale arrests of young men and boys, brutal torture, and other abuses of basic human rights, is reprehensible.
  • Obama Administration Committed to Missile Defe ...
    He pointed out that missile defense also may help constrain regional actors from trying to inhibit or disrupt the U.S. ability to come to the defense or assistance of its friends or other states.

Worldnews

  • Want to Watch Glee Online? Then Subscribe ...
    Updated. Wait or pay up for a subscription: That’s the choice that fans of Fox shows like Glee and Family Guy will be facing beginning next month, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The broadcaster will limit access to catch-up episodes of current shows to viewers that have ...
  • Too lazy to pick up the remote? The hi-te ...
    If you can’t even be bothered to pick up the remote to change the channel, this could be for you. A new gadget converts your iPhone into a universal TV controller that works on all major models of television. The VooMote One is a sleeve that fits over your mobile and allows you to choose yo ...
  • Been putting up a smokescreen? Vanessa Hu ...
    She's one of Disney's poster girls and has crafted something of a wholesome image due to that role. But Vanessa Hudgens appears to have a naughty habit that could tarnish that butter-wouldn't-melt image. The 22-year-old was caught smoking during a drive through Hollywood - and, obviously aw ...
  • From English Rose to glamourpuss: Emma Wa ...
    She may have put the magical Harry Potter franchise behind her now, but it seems Emma Watson still has the magic touch. Ditching her classic English Rose chic for a slightly edgier look, the 21-year-old appeared to have won the affections of her male co-star in a new advert. The award-winni ...
  • Palestinians will seek UN statehood recog ...
    RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian president says he will ask the United Nations to endorse Palestinian independence in September even if negotiations restart with Israel. Mahmoud Abbas' statement Wednesday signaled a hardening of his position. Previously, he had...

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Common Dreams

  • Iraq Needs US Training Past 2011, Says Foreign ...
    All American forces are scheduled to leave Iraq by the end of this year, in line with a 2008 security deal agreed to by Baghdad and Washington. But privately many Iraqi and American officials say Iraq's nascent military will still need American military assistance. Zebari and Prime Minister Nour ...
  • Democrats Seek Permanent Repeal of Global Gag ...
    Yesterday, Congresswoman Nita Lowey introduced the Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2011, a bill that would permanently repeal the Global Gag Rule (GGR), a policy that has been applied and revoked via executive order at each change in the White House, beginning with Ronald Reagan and leading mo ...
  • Breaking: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal ...
    Among the 1.2 million American citizens living in mountaintop removal mining counties in central Appalachia, an additional 60,000 cases of cancer are directly linked to the federally sanctioned strip-mining practice. read more
  • US-Pakistan Spy Wars Hit Flood Relief as Aid W ...
    Last summer aid workers in Pakistan battled with epic floods that affected 20 million people, destroyed crops and inundated one-fifth of the country. A year later they find themselves in a very different imbroglio: the escalating spy war between the US and Pakistan. ...
  • ALEC Exposed: Warming Up to Climate Change
    As the U.S. suffers through catastrophic tornadoes, heat waves, and other climate extremes - no doubt just a small taste of what the climate crisis will bring in the future - polluting industries and the politicians that serve them want to convince you that excess carbon dioxide in the atmospher ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Clean Energy Innovation Policy in Congress: Th ...
    There�s no telling what the future of new U.S. clean energy policy holds.� Congress and the White House are stalled in legislative gridlock over the debt ceiling.
  • A Filibreather For All Of Us
    Monday afternoon, 25 Representatives stood to speak out against moves to devastate protections for America’s environment: from measures to open up the Grand Canyon for uranium miners to measures to eliminate monitoring of polluters. This two-hour call for sanity was a joint move between the ...
  • Entergy to Refuel Vermont Yankee
    The utility places a $100 million bet despite a hostile political environment
  • House Committee to Gut Funding Supporting Inte ...
    The House Appropriations subcommittee responsible for outlining US international global warming funding has just released their bill detailing the amount of money that will support these efforts.� This comes on the heels of a House authorization bill passed out of committee with an amendment fro ...
  • With Cabinet Reshuffle, is India Taking a New ...
    There’s a good chance you haven’t heard of the major transition taking place on the international climate negotiation scene – but it has major implications for the future of the world’s second-biggest country, India.

Green House - USA Today

  • Eco-friendly cigarette ads make tobacco foes fume
    A green cigarette? Is that possible? A tobacco company that uses renewable energy and hybrid vehicles has a new magazine ad for an additive-free, organic cigarette that uses the term "eco friendly." Tobacco foes are fuming.
  • Gingrich regrets climate change ad with Pelosi
    How times change! In 2006, former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich jointly urged action to address climate change with then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a liberal Democrat from San Francisco. Now, as he launches a 2012 presidential bid, he says he regrets the commercial, paid for by an environment ...
  • Green House takes brief hiatus
    This Green House community will take a hiatus until August, because its moderator, Wendy Koch, is on medical leave. Please check back in a few weeks for environmental news and updates on her journey in green living.
  • My green house is finally, almost, done
    "It's surreal," my husband Alex said about living in our new home a few days after moving in last month. Indeed, it is. We've nurtured the project so long on paper that actually being inside it felt odd or dream-like.
  • U.S. national parks suffer from climate change ...
    America's national parks are suffering as wildlife such as gray wolves disappears, air quality deteriorates and many waterways are polluted, an upcoming report will reveal.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • If you declare bankruptcy, will everything be ...
    The crazies in the United States House of Representatives would have you believe it were so. They say fix that budget before we'll raise the debt ceiling. If we don't get our fix, they announce, there's no deal. We'll just default until things get straightened out. (Image: George Romero) ...
  • The Sentencing of Tim DeChristopher Highlights ...
    By Kevin Zeese When Democratic Institutions No Longer Give Citizens Power, Civil Disobedience Becomes Essential to Challenge Legalized Injustice The trial and sentencing of Tim DeChristopher highlights the conflict between the people of the United States and the corporate-government that prote ...
  • The Oslo Attacks: More False Flag Evidence
    by Stephen Lendman The memorable line from Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore explains what's so often true, saying: "Things are seldom as they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream." With considerable mass media help, especially America's, misinformation diverts public attention from ...
  • UN Commission Flotilla Massacre Report
    by Stephen Lendman Despite irrefutable evidence, including the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) concluding last September that Israel committed serious "violations of international law, including international humanitarian law" by massacring nine Gaza Flotilla activists, injuring dozens more, i ...
  • 9 of Quartzsite's 14 cops suspended after blow ...
    By Rady Ananda Governor Jan Brewer continues to ignore the international attention paid to Quartzsite, Arizona over $5 million in corruption charges, while the Chief of Police suspended nine of the city's 14 police officers with pay, ordering them not to leave their homes between the hours of 8 ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • The cost of poverty in BC is way too high
    Iglika Ivanova did the math: it costs less to reduce poverty than to allow it to continue and pay for the consequences: poor health, lower literacy, poor school performance for children, more crime, and greater stress. Reducing poverty and easing human suffering is the right thing to do, and it ...
  • Conference Board Weighs in on the Growing Gap
    The Conference Board of Canada has released a report tracking 33 years of worsening income inequality in Canada. In this Toronto Star story, board President Anne Golden says: "While the poor are minimally better off in an absolute sense, they are significantly worse off in a relative sense. And ...
  • Video Debate Series: Role of Manufacturing in ...
    In this four-part short video series at the Globe and Mail, CCPA's own senior economist Armine Yalnizyan faces off with Mike Moffatt, an economist, consultant and lecturer in the Business, Economics and Public Policy group at the Richard Ivey School of Business on the future of manufacturing in ...
  • CCPA-Manitoba launches POLICY FIX
    We now have a BLOG aptly named POLICY FIX.�� Check it out at www.policyfix.ca!
  • Hennessy's Index: Canada vs. the OECD
    Hennessy's Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. This July, Hennessy's Index looks at the Organisation for Economic and Co-operation and Development (OECD) and how Canada fairs compares to other members on a number o ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Off grid in suburbia – no power bill
    by NICK ROSEN,.off-grid.net – AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND â I have been living off the grid for the past three years, however, my 13 year old daughter and I do not live in a rural or isolated setting, instead, we live in the middle of suburbia. It has been interesting to note the various reactions tha ...
  • Japan’s food supply under threat as radiation ...
    Charles Digges, bellona.org – The Japanese government, anxious to restore the nuclear power supply, has also finally ordered stress tests of its reactors, some of which shut down automatically during the March 11 earthquake that devastated Fukushima Daiichi, others of which have not been restart ...
  • DeChristopher sentenced to prison, 26 proteste ...
    BY BRANDON LOOMIS,The Salt Lake Tribune – Tim DeChristopherâs mouth â and not just his 2008 disruption of a federal oil and gas lease auction â landed him behind bars Tuesday, a judge said as he slapped the activist with a two-year prison term. The incarceration of the burgeoning folk hero among ...
  • In My Mail: Letter To All CITIZENS Of The World
    Joe McEvoy, WWH – I get Emails from all sorts of people and websites each day. This week, they have been heavy with the hate. “Take yer meds …”, ” Your a Fuckin Hippy Shit.” ( What ever that means.) and others, you get the idea. One of the haters, I will share with you. [...]
  • WWH News Briefs
    Beck compares Norway victims to ‘Hitler Youth’ He’s still around? msnbc.com – Conservative commentator Glenn Beck compared the victims of the shooting spree at a Norway summer camp to Nazi’s youth movement, drawing international ire. “There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a litt ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • 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 ...
  • Congress Sets Its Sights On Hormone-Disrupting ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Most companies out there are not protecting the health of consumers, and ingredients in many everyday products are sending our hormones into a full-blown tizzy. read more
  • Extra Apples Coming to a McDonald's Near You
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—McDonald's has announced that they're making changes to their Happy Meals. read more
  • Have You Been Eating the Wrong Kind of Lettuce?
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There are all sorts of salad recipes out there, and all sorts of ingredients that make an awesome read more

big think

  • Andrew Sullivan Offers Advice to Aspiring Blog ...
    In a recent Big Think interview, Daily Beast blogger Andrew Sullivan offered his advice and thoughts on blogging.� First, says Sullivan, you have to post at least twice a day -- more likely 4-5 times a day -- to be considered a blog, otherwise you are just a web site. Second, blogging is about ...
  • Fear of One Form of Food Safety is Raising You ...
                What if you could radically reduce how many people get sick from foodborne diseases like e.coli and salmonella and norovirus; one American in six (48 million people) gets sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die, each year. Of course you’d want to reduce that threat to public he ...
  • MSNBC Morning Joe Panelists Discuss Why Vietna ...
    On Morning Joe this morning, Mavin Kalb and Deborah Kalb discussed their new book "Haunting Legacy," an examination of how Vietnam has shaped the thinking and policy of presidents over the past forty years.� The discussion was fascinating as the panel featured Watergate investigative reporter ...
  • Conservative Education--Part 2: Music
    So today at the ISI honors program we were graced with a beautiful presentation on� liberty in American poetry and song.� The classy and distinguished presenter asked the students to update what he said with examples from 21st century popular songs. Needless to say, there was a lot of attentio ...
  • New Analysis: We Are Alone in the Universe
    What's the Latest Development? Astrophysicist David Spiegel at Princeton University and physicist Edwin Turner at the University of Tokyo argue, using a statistical method called Bayesian reasoning, that life here on Earth could be common, or it could be extremely rare—there's no reason to pre ...

Information Liberation

  • Bladder Cancer Survivor Subject To Second Inap ...
    "Now I'm mad. I don't like what's been going on lately, and this is the second time I've had a problem, when I was assured I wouldn't," say Sawyer. A second incident at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Sawyer says the agent never let him explain he...
  • FEMA Partners with Homeland Security on Psyops ...
    Terrorists lurk behind every corner, we can only be safe if we spy on our neighbors, rat on them to the government, and submit to grope-downs by TSA goon-squads. This message brought to you by the Department for Homeland Security, courtesy of your...
  • The Space Shuttle is dead. Good riddance!
    Did you know that two significant events in spaceflight took place in 1969? The first was the first manned landing on the moon, on July 20, 1969. The second is a little less known. Buoyed by the success of the space program, President Nixon made the ...
  • The 'Cut, Cap, and Balance' Fraud
    Before the US House of Representatives, Statement on the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act, July 19, 2011 Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak against HR 2560, the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act. This bill only serves to sanction the status quo by putting for...
  • Will Grigg on Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton
    MP3 here. (20:01) Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the *Character First* program spun off from Bill Gothard*s increasingly popular Christian ministry (or authoritarian cult) that advocates abject deference to a milit...

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

  • Great Lakes National Parks in Peril: The Threa ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council | Rocky Mountain Climate Organization www.rockymountainclimate.org/images/GreatLakesParksInPeril.pdf [From an NRDC Switchboard posting by Theo Spencer] Our report, Great Lakes National Parks in Peril: The Threats of Climate Disruption, features new information o ...
  • Thirsty for Answers: Preparing for the Water-r ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdc.org/media/2011/110727.asp [From Press Release]  The report, “Thirsty for Answers: Preparing for the Water-related Impacts of Climate Change in American Cities,” found that climate change will impact water supplies and waterways in communities acr ...
  • The Effects of Renewable or Clean Electricity ...
    Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/121xx/doc12166/07-26-Energy.pdf [From an E&E PM article by Katie Howell, sub. req'd]  Congressional proposals to implement a renewable or clean energy standard would alter the nation’s energy mix, reduce the amount of carbon dioxide pumped ...
  • Newest Version of California Cap and Trade Reg ...
    California EPA< Air Resources Board http://www.arb.ca.gov/regact/2010/capandtrade10/candtmodreg.pdf [From a Climate Wire story by Debra Kahn, sub. req'd]   California regulators released an updated version of their cap-and-trade regulations for greenhouse gases yesterday, one of the last steps ...
  • Census Bureau Budget Cuts Would Mean No Econom ...
    Washington Post (July 12, 2011)  / by Carol Morello http://wapo.st/pJRn4F The Census Bureau would have to make severe cuts in the type of data it collects from American households and businesses if its budget is slashed 25 percent, as proposed under a bill being considered by the House Appropria ...

Scientific American - News

  • Rare Volcanoes Discovered On Far Side of the Moon
    Shielded from Earth-bound eyes, the far side of the moon is home to a rare set of dormant volcanoes that changed the face of the lunar surface, a new study finds.Data and photos from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) reveal the presence of now-dead silicate volcanoes, not the more comm ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Why not write for The Dominion this month?
    Hello to all our members, As we do every month, in August we will pay two contributors for news features to be published in *The Dominion*. We prioritize solutions-oriented news pieces with a Canadian angle, including photo essays and video pitches. Pitches are welcome from anyone; priority for ...
  • Off the Hour: California Hunger Strike Solidarity
    July 16th Solidarity Demonstration in Montreal Coverage of the July 16th Solidarity Demonstration with California Prisoner's on Indefinite Hunger Strike. As of July 1st, Prisoner's in the Pelican Bay Supermaximum prison have been on hunger ...
  • Toronto Pig Save releases graphic footage of " ...
    Toronto Pig Save is releasing footage of activists taking temperatures with a digital thermometer inside pig transport trucks stopping at the long lights at Lakeshore and ...
  • 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 ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Norway: a taste of the magma
    David Seaton's News LinksMagma (from Greek μάγμα "paste") is a mixture of molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and may also exist on other terrestrial planets. Wikipedia The Norwegian right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed at least 7 ...
  • 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 ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Michigan Woman Faced 93 Days in Jail for Plant ...
    Julie Bass of Oak Park, Michigan�was faced with a possible�93 days in jail after being charged with a misdemeanor -- planting a vegetable garden in her own front yard. The garden consists of 5 raised beds, where she grows squash, corn, tomatoes, flowers, and other vegetables. Bass received a wa ...
  • The Soap You Should Never Use - But 75% of Hou ...
    The main compounds in antibiotic wipes, creams and soaps -- triclosan and triclocarban -- have been added to chopping boards, refrigerators, plastic lunchboxes, and mattresses in an attempt to halt the spread of microbes. But studies show that these antibiotic chemicals are no more likely than ...
  • Who Knew this Cocktail of up to 20 Chemicals W ...
    A single glass of milk can contain a mixture of as many as 20 painkillers, antibiotics and growth hormones.� Using a highly sensitive test, scientists found the chemicals in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk. The results show how man-made chemicals are now found throughout the food ch ...
  • Shocking Video of Inside Story of U.S. Banking ...
    The film Inside Job takes a look at the financial crisis of 2008. It documents the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry, and the consequences of that systemic corruption.
  • This Substance Fools Your Metabolism - and Tri ...
    The website Fooducate has taken a look at the annual obesity report issued by Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Here are some of the 12 shocking statistics they found: Adult obesity rates rose in 16 U.S. states over the past year, and NOT ONE state decreas ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Brazil to ‘do to Indians what Australia did to ...
    A Kayapó indigenous man. The Kayapó tribe is one of many whose livelihoods will be devastated by the Belo Monte dam. © Antonio Bonsorte/Amazon Watch A Brazilian government official has suggested that Brazil will treat its indigenous peoples like Australia treated the Aboriginals. Curt Tren ...
  • Vedanta: time to give up on Niyamgiri mine
    Vedanta's AGMs have seen numerous protests against the planned bauxite mine. © Survival FTSE100 company Vedanta Resources will face vocal protests tomorrow from Survival and other groups telling the company to give up on their notorious Niyamgiri mine in Orissa, India. Vedanta was denied ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • An absurd ruling on sexual assault: yes can no ...
    In 1967, Pierre Trudeau famously said, "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." Now, in 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada may have opened the bedroom door wider than ever when it comes to criminalizing intimacy between partners.
  • On the front lines of 24-hour shifts
    There has been much debate over the proposed end to 24-hour work shifts for medical residents. I must admit that some of what I read has left me completely perplexed.
  • Layton's hope and optimism speak to Canadians
    His visage was shockingly gaunt and his voice all but unrecognizable, but his declaration as he announced that he was once again beset by cancer was vintage Jack Layton.
  • Your Views: Norway; Richler; Bourassa; smoking
    As a Norwegian living in Montreal, the last weekend was filled with intense grief, long conversations with my family and friends, and a tireless search for more information to try to understand how such an unfathomable thing could happen.
  • The Gazette's View: Layton’s hope and optimism ...
    His visage was shockingly gaunt and his voice all but unrecognizable, but his declaration as he announced that he was once again beset by cancer was vintage Jack Layton.

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

  • Stress!
    Has anyone else noticed that the level of stress in this country appears to be extremely high right now?  Today, it seems like our federal government, our state governments and most American families live in a constant state of crisis.  Everywhere you look there are major proble ...
  • Broke! 10 Facts About The Financial Condition ...
    The crumbling U.S. economy is putting an extraordinary amount of financial stress on American families.  For many Americans, "flat broke" has become a permanent condition.  Today, over half of all American families live paycheck to paycheck.  Unemployment is rampant and those th ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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The Talking Clock

  • Anyone remember, we did actually have a Genera ...
    Cast your mind back, if you will to Thursday 6th May 2010. It was not so very long ago. On that day, the British people went with hope to their Polling Stations with hope of a new direction for the country after thirteen years of bad management of UK plc by the Labour Party - an odious, total ...
  • Dear Brussels, we want our country back. Love ...
    The people of Spain - who have, alongside the Greeks, provided a masterclass in political demonstrations (though with far less tear gas and violence than the Greeks have had to suffer) - are not giving up. Not content with the occupation of Puerta del Sol in Madrid and city squares throughout ...
  • 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 ...
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