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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 III

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Work is still kicking my ass and keeping me away from the internets. But I have managed to read enough to be annoyed. This op-ed from the Council on Foreign Relations says that we need to raise the debt ceiling because, if we do not, then: 1. We will be forced to cut defense spending and [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I suspect it will be another week before I can complete part two to that media post. I want to finish reading A Mixtape Manifesto first. And The Economist put out a whole media’ issue that I haven’t gotten around to yet. I’ll have something for you though. Related to Thursday’s post on the socia ...
  • Deal Breaker
    I recently read The World That Never Was. I really liked it, despite the fact that it includes a gazillion people and can be hard to follow (even for someone who was familiar with many of the players). The book basically covers the period between Haymarket and WWI. There is one part of the book ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I spent the weekend at the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy. Had a really great time with more than 200 of the least pretentious people doing some of the most cool things. Red Emma’s did their usual bang up job with Friday night dinner at 2640. Great speakers at the dinner, especially ...
  • Ciao Newsrooms. I Won’t Miss You.
    Chris Hedges recently wrote one of those sad obituaries for newsrooms. He longs for the old timey orgs like in All the President’s Men. But Iâm not buying all the chicken little stuff when it comes to news. I don’t think the death of newsrooms is such a tragedy. And I’m not just saying that [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Sony Meets Air Quality Targets, Cuts Emissions 31%
    Image: Ian Muttoo via flickr Electronics giant Sony announced today that since 2000, it has achieved a 31 percent reduction in global CO2 emissions. The company boasts that means it surpassed its 2006 "Green Management" goal by 24 percent, but the original goal of 7 percent was not exactly ...
  • Glacial Balance: Film to Reveal Climate Impact ...
    Glacial Balance is a proposed documentary film project about the effects that the warming climate is having on the once-mighty glaciers in the Andes. Featuring talking head interviews with the likes of Al Gore, as well as ample footage of the beautiful Andean landscape, the film will trace t ...
  • Congress Bans Department of Defense From Getti ...
    Defense Department Hospital at Fort Devoir, credit Department of Defense The US Government has been a big supporter of LEED, thanks to that radical leftist George Bush, who imposed Executive Order 13423, which set "goals in the areas of energy efficiency, acquisition, renewable energy, toxi ...
  • Clothes Made from Milk -- Yes, Milk. (Video)
    Image via YouTube screengrab Milk is the raw material for a new fabric created by 28-year-old German biologist Ande Domaske, who has created a string of beautiful designs based on the silky smooth fabric. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Rush Limbaugh Explains His Global Warming Theo ...
    Photo credit: Palm Beach County Sherrif's Office Everybody ready for a good one? Here it is: Rush Limbaugh's official "theory" for why people believe in global warming. And bear in mind that he's not being facetious here -- this is stone cold serious reasoning. This is what happens when he' ...

Biosingularity

  • Drug Reverses Accelerated Aging in Human Cells
    The drug rapamycin has been found to reverse the effects of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, a fatal genetic disease that resembles rapid aging, in cells taken from patients with the disease. Rapamycin, an immunosuppressant drug used to prevent rejection of transplanted organs, has already ...
  • Oxygen on the Brain
    AN ANCIENT CELLULAR PROGRAM to protect cells when oxygen is low seems crucial for the production of new brain cells. For more than two billion years on this planet, O2 has been the go-to gas for generating efficient cellular energy. But life on Earth never takes oxygen for granted. “When it runs ...
  • A Nanotube Patch to Help Heal the Heart 
    Researchers create carbon nanotubes that mimic natural tissue and can regenerate heart cells in a dish. A conductive patch of carbon nanotubes can regenerate heart tissue growing in a dish, according to preliminary research from Brown University. The patch, made of tiny chains of carbon atoms th ...
  • Dietary Supplement May Help Prevent Preeclampsia
    An inexpensive dietary supplement appears to help prevent the serious pregnancy complication preeclampsia in high-risk women, according to a new study. But researchers say the effect in lower-risk pregnancies remains to be determined. In the study from Mexico, women who ate daily food bars conta ...
  • Tiny variation in one gene may have led to cru ...
    The human brain has yet to explain the origin of one its defining features — the deep fissures and convolutions that increase its surface area and allow for rational and abstract thoughts. An international collaboration of scientists from the Yale School of Medicine and Turkey may have discovere ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Protesting FedEx Tax Dodgery and Union Busting
     FedEx is notorious for union busting and tax dodging. So US Uncut and the Madison Socialist Alternative got some folks together, made some signs, and headed down to the local branch here in Madison, WI to let them know how we feel about that.  Package handlers at the FedEx Ground warehouse in ...
  • Did Wall Street Kill Rock and Roll? No, and ne ...
    Earlier this week Mother Nature paid us a harsh visit:There was pretty significant damage to our yard and no electricity for over a day. On the bright side, no one was hurt and our house was largely unscathed. And that’s a pretty darn bright side. However, there have also been calls and arran ...
  • GOP Booze Cruise Protest Flotilla
    On Sunday night, the Walworth County, WI GOP held a fundraiser/rich guy boat party in Lake Geneva. In attendance were Rep. Paul “Medicare Vouchers” Ryan and WI Lieutenant Governor Rebecca “Gay Marriage Is Like People Marrying Their Furniture” Kleefisch.  So, of course, also in attendance were ab ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Also: Giving fake vaccines to poor people breaks the Evil Meter.And Reuters, you do not have to call the people getting killed suspected ...
  • Taking Wisconsin nationwide: The Rebuild The A ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postWhen the protests in Wisconsin erupted over the winter I remember having an exchange with Athenae. She had been holding her breath every single day because she was sure at any moment it would fall apart. There was good reason to ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • No Free Pass for New Genetically Engineered Crops!
    Click here to read this article
  • Monsanto Nation: Taking Down Goliath
    After two decades of biotech bullying and force-feeding unlabeled and hazardous genetically engineered (GE) foods to animals and humans, it's time to move beyond defensive measures and go on the offensive. With organic farming, climate stability, and public health under the gun of the gene engi ...
  • US Cities Face Water-Related Climate Dangers
    Rising sea waters may threaten U.S. coastal cities later this century, while the Midwest and East Coast are at high risk for intense storms, and the West's water supplies could be compromised.Click here to read this article
  • Now Famous Climate Activist Who Faked Utah Ene ...
    A Utah man lionized by environmentalists for crashing a 2008 government auction of energy leases near two national parks was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $10,000 on Tuesday.Click here to read this article
  • Repressing Health Rights and Alternative Medic ...
    Are the NDI guidelines the ultimate FDA tool to freeze dietary supplement innovation? A special report by Robert Verkerk, PhD, ANH-USA Scientific Director and ANH-Europe Executive and Scientific Director.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Roundup-Resistant Weeds Threaten U.S. Food Sec ...
    Roundup-resistant weeds are a rapidly emerging threat that puts U.S. agriculture in a terribly precarious position. The threat has evolved from farmers’ heavy use of the herbicide glyphosate, (aka Roundup, a Monsanto product) to control weeds, and farmers’ simultaneous reliance on crop varieties ...
  • Preparing for Peak Oil
    Peak oil is inevitable. At some point, global oil supplies will peak and then decline (it may be happening already), driving up the cost of oil and petroleum products. But what happens to our food systems, which rely heavily on oil, when oil becomes scarce?
  • Carnivores and Climate Change
    You know what you ate this week—but do you know how it will affect climate change and the planet? As of today, you can use the Environmental Working Group (EWG)’s newly launched website to get information on food carbon footprints.
  • Carnivores and Climate Change
    You know what you ate this week—but do you know how it will affect climate change and the planet? As of today, you can use the Environmental Working Group (EWG)’s newly launched website to get information on food carbon footprints.
  • Hen Party: Historic Agreement to Promote Stand ...
    United Egg Producers (UEP) has partnered with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), agreeing to work together toward legislation of national standards to be used in egg production.

Investigate - Breaking News

  • BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...
    FROM AN EXTRACT OF BREAKING SILENCE Published in the latest Investigate HIS/HERS magazine... What you are about to read has been described as the most controversial book ever published in New Zealand. It wasn’t supposed to be. But news sent...
  • BREAKING SILENCE news release
    BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE By Ian Wishart $39.99, Howling At The Moon Publishing Ltd RELEASE DATE: Imminent Final opportunity to pre-order for delivery on Day One: www.howlingatthemoon.com The new book that shatters myths surrounding the Kahui murder case is...
  • News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
    NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...
  • News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...
    NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART The Facebook page on Macsyna King is dishonest. They have known all along that Macsyna has neither sought nor been offered any money or compensation for the book Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart. Still, the...
  • Sea-level study released - yawn
    Mann, Ramstorf and other 'usual suspects' have released their 'it's worse than we thought' sea level "study". Newspaper paraphrases: Looking back in history, the researchers found that sea level was relatively stable from 100 BC to AD 950. Then, during...

My Care2 Picks

  • Corexit
    Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Blood Contamination EXTREME ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD In the waters of the GULF OF MEXICO at depths of 700 to 1,500 meters,Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The United States Should Do More to Promote Sa ...
    Some forms of energy production are safer and pose fewer catastrophic consequences for environmental and public health than others...... learn about the most practical, environmentally-friendly, and cost-efficient ways to produce clean, renewable energySubmitted by John Farnham to Green Lifesty ...
  • Project Camelot TV
    Bayuali > Dialogue of energies in the universe. The Dogon Speak to the World Knowledge released to return to the knowledge of our ancestors of links between humans and Earth Energies so as to restore balance to world Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
  • Disaster in the Gulf
    BP oil blowout has devastated the region. Are we any safer today? At the broadest level, the answer is no. The administration has settled for half measures instead of the robust overhaul of safeguards it promised.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
    Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.Federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine to babies between two and 12 monthsSubmitted by John Farnham to Health & Well ...

Angry Indian News

  • Open call to Wikimania: ‘Edit’ occupation and ...
    Open call to Wikimania: ‘Edit’ occupation and apartheid out of Palestine! | BDSmovement.net Occupied Palestine- Wikimania’s decision to hold its annual conference this August in Israel despite its... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Jews sans frontieres: Israel on trial in South ...
    Jews sans frontieres: Israel on trial in South AfricaSouth Africa’s leading federation of trade unions, the ruling African National Congress party, the South African Communist Party, and Zackie... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Women slam Aquino for deepening poverty and ma ...
    Women slam Aquino for deepening poverty and marginalization - Bulatlat “Aquino promised change, but the conditions of women and our families have worsened. Just a little over a year into his... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • granma.cu - U.S. prisoners continue hunger strike
    granma.cu - U.S. prisoners continue hunger strike: HUNDREDS of prisoners incarcerated in California are on hunger strike to protest their isolation, torture and other abuse, but the news is barely... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How a clueless "terrorism expert" set media su ...
    How a clueless "terrorism expert" set media suspicion on Muslims after Oslo horror | The Electronic Intifada: Immediately after news of the bombing of government buildings in Norway’s capital Oslo,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Murdochs were given secret defence briefings
    ShareThisMurdochs were given secret defence briefings 27 Jul 2011 The extraordinary access that Cabinet ministers granted Rupert Murdoch and his children was revealed for the first time yesterday, with more than two dozen private meetings between the family and senior members of the Government i ...
  • Afghan militants attack NATO base
    ShareThisAfghan militants attack NATO base 26 Jul 2011 Several militants have attacked a major NATO airbase at an airport in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, injuring two security forces personnel. "A few men threw hand grenades at the airport gate and the troops returned fire and the attac ...
  • US-led troops kill more Afghan civilians
    ShareThisUS-led troops kill more Afghan civilians --US-led French troops open fire on�vehicle 27 Jul 2011 At least three Afghan civilians have been killed in an attack by US-led foreign forces in troubled northeastern Afghanistan, local authorities say. The incident happened as US-led French tro ...
  • Kandahar mayor killed in Afghan blast
    ShareThisKandahar mayor killed in Afghan blast 27 Jul 2011 A bomb attack has killed Afghanistan's Kandahar Mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi and wounded another, an Afghan official says. "An explosion ripped through Municipality department of Kandahar city, the capital of Kandahar province this morning ...
  • Walker Makes It Harder to Obtain Voter ID, Shu ...
    ShareThisWalker Makes It Harder to Obtain Voter ID, Shuts DMV Offices in Dem. Areas By Mike Hall 26 Jul 2011 In May, Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed a Voter ID bill that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of students, seniors, poor and minority Wisconsin voters who don't have drivers' licenses ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Part 2 – Demyelination, ...
    Article is intended to be read in conjunction with Part 1: VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix â A Legacy Of Shame Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

  • Taliban Attacking More Children
    26 July 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Over the past several days there have been news stories here in Afghanistan about the Taliban strangling an 8-year-old boy.�� The reports say that his father refused to turn over a police vehicle to the enemy, and so they murdered his ...
  • A Fine Talk by Joe Galloway
    Published: 23 July 2011 Joe Galloway, at the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association, 2011Convention "Thanks to all of you for giving me the honor of speaking to you. I have got to tell you that looking out across this assemblage I must confess: I haven't seen this many bad boys collected in one ...
  • INFERNO BOOK UPDATE-Election Day: Early Morning
    21 July 2011 I remember writing these words during my first month in Iraq. The war was full on and it was anybody's guess how that first election day would land. Here are some thoughts I penned during that time: Here on the ground, it is clear that Iraq already is embroiled in civil war. But ...
  • Left of Bang
    14 July 2011 A few years ago, a British officer said to me they want to get as far left of bang as possible.� The farther left of bang, the better.� Right of bang is a crater and a memorial service. A main goal in staying left of bang is to disrupt enemy bomb-making cells.� In the early days ...
  • Iraq: Inside the Inferno – Foreword by CSM Jef ...
    13 July 2011 Below is the Foreword that Command Sergeant Major Jeff Mellinger wrote for INFERNO. Jeff is a true warrior. We met in 2005 as I wrote about in the dispatch series, WALKING THE LINE. Since then, CSM Jeff Mellinger and I have traveled thousands of miles together across some rough Ir ...

The Killing Train

  • Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
    This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.
  • Watch out for election day fraud
    Francis Fox Piven (who has had her own experiences recently with Harper's US mentors) and Richard Cloward wrote a very interesting book called "Why Americans Don't Vote", which showed how a key electoral strategy in the US has always been demobilizing opposing voters, a strategy just as importan ...
  • Today's election thoughts
    Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
  • 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
    The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
  • Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
    Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more

treehugger

  • Sony Meets Air Quality Targets, Cuts Emissions 31%
    Image: Ian Muttoo via flickr Electronics giant Sony announced today that since 2000, it has achieved a 31 percent reduction in global CO2 emissions. The company boasts that means it surpassed its 2006 "Green Management" goal by 24 percent, but the original goal of 7 percent was not exactly ...
  • Glacial Balance: Film to Reveal Climate Impact ...
    Glacial Balance is a proposed documentary film project about the effects that the warming climate is having on the once-mighty glaciers in the Andes. Featuring talking head interviews with the likes of Al Gore, as well as ample footage of the beautiful Andean landscape, the film will trace t ...
  • Congress Bans Department of Defense From Getti ...
    Defense Department Hospital at Fort Devoir, credit Department of Defense The US Government has been a big supporter of LEED, thanks to that radical leftist George Bush, who imposed Executive Order 13423, which set "goals in the areas of energy efficiency, acquisition, renewable energy, toxi ...
  • Clothes Made from Milk -- Yes, Milk. (Video)
    Image via YouTube screengrab Milk is the raw material for a new fabric created by 28-year-old German biologist Ande Domaske, who has created a string of beautiful designs based on the silky smooth fabric. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Rush Limbaugh Explains His Global Warming Theo ...
    Photo credit: Palm Beach County Sherrif's Office Everybody ready for a good one? Here it is: Rush Limbaugh's official "theory" for why people believe in global warming. And bear in mind that he's not being facetious here -- this is stone cold serious reasoning. This is what happens when he' ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Rights group urges DRC to arrest war crimes su ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Tuesday urged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to arrest suspected war criminal Bosco Ntaganda [case materials], a Congolese general wanted [arrest warrant, in French] by the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] f ...
  • Federal court upholds stem cell research
    [JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Wednesday dismissed [summary judgment text, PDF] an appeal attempting to overturn April's decision [text, PDF; JURIST report] that ended an injunction [JURIST reports] on federal funding of embryonic stem cell [JUR ...
  • Indian couple challenges UK immigration law
    [JURIST] An Indian couple on Wednesday challenged a UK immigration law that contains an English language speaking requirement. The provision [Home Office backgrounder], which was announced in June 2010 by UK Home Secretary Theresa May [official website], requires an immigrant to be able to speak ...
  • Obama issues sanctions to fight international ...
    [JURIST] US President Barack Obama issued an executive order [text] Monday imposing economic sanctions to combat international organized crime [JURIST news archive] operations, freezing their US assets, preventing the transfer of property to the organizations and criminalizing providing aid the ...
  • Rights group urges Bangladesh to ensure fair t ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Wednesday urged [press release] the government of Bangladesh to ensure that those accused of being involved in a February 2009 mutiny [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] are given fair trials. Members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) [off ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Washington Wants to Avoid Default, but It Can' ...
    With time running out, lawmakers still haven't crafted any bill that can raise the debt limit. Will they manage to pass one by Aug. 2? APThe aspirations don't match the situation.To hear them talk, the White House and every key player on Capitol Hill wants to avoid the first-ever default ...
  • Boehner: Tough to Revive Bipartisan 'Humpty Du ...
    The House Speaker said Republicans would press ahead with their own proposal should Obama continue to reject a two-tier plan With Asian markets set to deliver a verdict within hours on the U.S. debt crisis, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on ...
  • Progress Toward a Debt Deal?
    With the clock ticking down to the reopening of the markets, Congressional leaders try to patch together a two-step agreement ...
  • Let Them Eat Cake Alive & Well in Beverly Hills
    I love Los Angeles (I know -- few seem to want to admit it), but I love Washington, DC more.  I love DC's intrigue and policy banter -- the passionate debates about Israel and Palestine, about nuclear vs. renewables, about Grover Norquist vs. big government Republicans (& MoveOn), about whethe ...
  • How to Be a Right-Leaning Journalist
    A libertarian guide for young reporters tells us how media, ideological or otherwise, should work in the digital age With the rise of ideological journalism over the past decade, a period when opinionated bloggers, Web journalists, and muckraking activists have changed the face of the profess ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Emil Grunzweig’s Assassin: ‘I Killed the Israe ...
    Maariv has scored the first media interview (Hebrew) with Yona Avrushmi, the murderer of Peace Now co-founder, Emil Grunzweig.  Avrumi was freed from prison several months ago after serving his full 27 year sentence for the assassination that shocked all Israel for its brazenness.  In the interv ...
  • IDF War Against Palestinian Theater
    Not content to wage war on armed militants (of whom there are very few these days in the West Bank), earlier today the famed special forces of the Israeli army staged a daring raid on Jenin’s Freedom Theater.  In a bold tactical stroke, they woke up a night watchman at 3:30AM by throwing hunks ...
  • Iranian Assassination: Israeli TV Report Hints ...
    Several days ago, yet another Iranian scientist was assassinated in the streets of Teheran, making this the third such killing or attempted killing in a year and at least five overall if my count is correct.  I’ve written before about the earlier incidents.  The only difference this time is th ...
  • Breivik’s Neo-Nazi Manifesto, Latter-Day Mein ...
    Hitler had his Jewish problem. Anders Breivik, his Muslim problem. The more I read of Breivik’s manifesto, A European Declaration of Independence, the more it appears to me a latter-day version of Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Remember that when the dictator-to-be wrote his magnum opus he had not yet dev ...
  • Anders Breivik, Norwegian Terror Suspect, Admi ...
    The death toll from the savage attack in Norway has risen to 92 today.  Anders Breivik, a radical rightist who posted regularly to a neo-Nazi internet forum, is the only suspect arrested so far in the killings.  Electronic Intifada published excerpts of a 1,500 page magnum opus written by Breivi ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • London 2012: Crass, Commercial and Completely ...
    The Olympic Charter reads as follows: Fundamental Principles of Olympism 1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of eff ...
  • Why So Few Unsuitablogs?
    I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
  • Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
    We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...
  • Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
    In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
  • Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty Secrets
    JUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: âWhen a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.â I wasnât commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to describe the s ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • DocumentCloud Weathers Obama Birth Certificate ...
    When President Obama released his birth certificate and dozens of news organizations turned to DocumentCloud to present it to their readers, I snarked a bit. Though the birth certificate did prompt a few questions -- which we're still navigating -- about the best way to handle duplicate uploads, ...
  • Prototypes, Visualizations Take Shape in Knigh ...
    Today marks the end of the second week of the Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab, an experiment in which 63 "mad scientists" with ideas for how to improve digital storytelling have been thrown together in a common digital space to learn and refine those digital ideas. In the first week, we heard la ...
  • Dotspotting + Embeds = Great Maps of Prisons, ...
    There are three basic parts to working with online representations of urban civic data in Dotspotting: collating the data, manipulating it, and then sharing and publishing it. Up until now, we've been focused on the first two, which makes sense. Obviously you need to be able to gather and work w ...
  • How Social Networking Can Help Neighbors Durin ...
    Can social-networking sites be used by neighbors to help each other during disasters, as well as with more pedestrian issues the rest of the time? NPR recently covered political scientist Daniel Aldrich's work looking at how neighbors help each other during disasters. From NPR: Aldrich's ...
  • Stop Yammering and Start Hammering: How to Bui ...
    Over the next four weeks, a very interesting experiment is going to unfold. The most exciting part about it is that it’s entirely open source: You can observe it, interact with it, and improve it. We’re calling this experiment the “learning lab.” It’s the second stage of the Knight-Mozill ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge on Terrorism - The Method of the Mad Norw ...
    At first, the media called Anders Behring Breivik a Christian fundamentalist, some of them even a Roman Catholic. This shows the cavalier use of the word “fundamentalist” prevailing today in several quarters. In fact, Breivik is something different, as evidenced by his videos, his postings on do ...
  • Edge on Terrorism - Where the Violent Right me ...
    The horror of mass murder in Oslo last week begs nothing as much as distance. All the first comments were wrong. Knowledgeable people - "experts" - were sure it was Muslims and wondered why Norway was a target since Norway is certainly hospitable to Muslims and hostile - sometimes virulently hos ...
  • Medical Edge - Re-Programmed Adult Skin Cells ...
    The University of Michigan's Consortium for Stem Cell Therapies has achieved another of its primary goals: reprogramming adult skin cells so they behave like embryonic stem cells. The reprogrammed cells are called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells. They display many of the most scient ...
  • The Race for Solar - Photovoltaic Inverter shi ...
    �Smart� photovoltaic�inverter (PV)�shipments are forecast to grow to 27 GW in 2015, accounting for almost 60 percent of the market compared to just 20 percent in 2010 according to the latest report from market analyst, IMS Research. The growth is being driven by utility concerns over grid imbala ...
  • The Way We Are - Luxury Cars Don't Necessarily ...
    If you think driving a luxury car like a BMW, Lexus or Cadillac makes you feel better—think again, says a University of Michigan researcher."Almost everyone assumes that driving a luxury car is more enjoyable than driving an economy car, but the reality is more complicated," said Norbert Schwarz ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • White House Knew About ATF's Fast and Furious ...
    "Project Gunrunner" (A.K.A Fast and Furious) was a project of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fireworks where basically some "geniuses" high up in ATF (and possibly the DOJ) thought it would be a great idea to sell assault weapons to the violent Mexican drug cartels. Yes, that's right, the US ...
  • Libyan Rebels, Egyptian “Democracy” Become Mai ...
    By Barry Rubin As I predicted in early February, it is now clear that Egypt no longer tries seriously to stop weapons and terrorists and money from flowing into the Hamas arsenals in the Gaza Strip. Western newspaper headline statements by the military that it will keep the treaty with Isr ...
  • The August 2 Drop Dead Date For a Deal Is Real ...
    Well, well if August 2nd is the drop dead date for raising the debt limit, it seems the US gets eight days of being undead. According to a NY Times report, early tax payments and some treasury department maneuvering has allowed Turbo-Tax Tim Geithner to store a little extra money under the White ...
  • Obama Has The GOP Set Up To Take Fall For Cre ...
    Whether we end up with Harry Reid's� $2.7 trillion cut plan which really only cuts $1.7 trillion or Speaker Boehner's $1 trillion dollar cut which actually cuts only $850 billion or some other scheme which we don't know about, one thing is very clear, the United States is about to lose its AAA C ...
  • Obstruction of Justice? Obama Administration A ...
    It appears that the Obama administration is forgetting a key rule of politics, its not the mistake that gets you, it's the cover-up. For the second time in less than a month they are being accused of obstructing the Congressional� inquiry into Operation Fast and Furious, the ATF operation w ...

The Real Agenda

  • NSA Admits to Tracking Americans Via Cell Phones
    PrisonPlanet.com July 27, 2011 The general counsel of the National Security Agency testified to a Senate hearing yesterday that he believes the agency has the authority to track Americans via cell phones. “There are certain circumstances where that authority may exist,” said Matthew Olsen the cu ...
  • Stronger, Ever More Poisonous Flu Shot
    From the same fear mongers who brought you the H1N1 Flu Shot fraud, now comes the one size fits all “universal” flu shot. Certainly a convenient way to get us all dependent, intoxicated and to make our immune systems even weaker before the next PANDEMIC. Pay attention to the fraud all over this ...
  • Anders Breivik Insano, Usou Drogas Antes do Ataque
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 26 de julho de 2011 O advogado de Anders Behring Breivik, Geir Lippestad, disse que seu cliente lhe disse que ele estava em uma guerra e que seria reivindicado em 60 anos. De acordo com Lippestad, Breivik parece ter enlouquecido e admitiu ter consumido drogas ...
  • Podemos Acreditar o que diz Anders Breivik?
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 25 de julho de 2011 E Anders Behring Breivik, o suposto terrorista que explodiu um prédio do governo em Oslo, Noruega, uma fonte confiável para o público saber por que e como ele realizou o ataque? Seus conhecido e colega, Ulav Andersson, diz que Breivik pode ...
  • Anders Breivik Insano, Usó Drogas antes del Ataque
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 26 de julio 2011 El abogado de Anders Behring Breivik, Geir Lippestad, dijo que su cliente le dijo que estaba en una guerra y que iba a ser reivindicado en 60 años. De acuerdo con Lippestad, Breivik parece haberse vuelto loco y admitió haber consumido drogas a ...

Wind Watch

  • Protestors target turbine test center
    Attempts to clear a forest to make way for a wind turbine test centre in northern Jutland were abandoned on Thursday after interference by protesters. Nine police officers accompanied the Danish Nature Agency�s tree felling machines into the �stersild dune plantation but were stopped when approx ...
  • A shift in the wind in Southwest Virginia
    Western Virginia, with its prominent ridgetops, is attracting more wind-energy scouts trying to site the state’s first wind farm. A formal request to place turbines on Poor Mountain in southwest Roanoke County is expected later this year or next. In addition, wind energy executives are evaluatin ...
  • Spanish bird protection group halts Iberdrola ...
    SPAIN: The Supreme Court of Castile and León has ordered a provisional freeze on the building at the 21MW Curueña II project, developed by a consortium led by Iberdrola, due to irregularities by the regional administration during the environmental impact assessment of the project. The ruling is ...
  • Wind power wants U.S. oil tax break used by KK ...
    Wind-power companies want to follow KKR & Co. and Blackstone Group LP in tapping a Reagan-era tax break for oil and gas companies when U.S. renewable energy tax credits start expiring at the end of this year. Developers of wind farms and solar power plants have begun lobbying for legislation tha ...
  • Developers and protestors clash at wind projec ...
    Lincoln – The contrast was as clear as day. “Maine as a Vacation Land is gone,” said tourist, Rainer Egle. One group celebrating by barbeque. “It’s a good day,” said First Wind CEO, Paul Gaynor. The other protesting their success. “Yesterday our camp went up for sale and we came here for nature, ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Default Not Inevitable
    Freeman columnist Don Boudreaux puts the “default” scare into perspective in an op-ed in The Daily. Choice quote: After paying creditors [in August], the government will have $87.8 billion on hand in ready cash in August to spend on its myriad programs â such as Social Security, wars in the Mid ...
  • Patents Suspected of Stifling Innovation
    “Patents have been popping up in the news quite a bit over the last few weeks. As the economy continues to stumble along, companies and investors are working even harder to find ways to make a profit. This includes enforcing their patents. And these patent enforcement efforts have ensnared techn ...
  • Debt-Controversy Fatigue Sets in
    “Washington’s latest stalemate has inflamed partisan passions over federal spending, with the threat of an economic calamity in the balance. Yet across the nation, many people see a wearyingly familiar fight â one they simply want to end.” (USA Today) Government is hazardous to your health. FEE ...
  • Contradicting Keynes: Bernanke’s Debt Default ...
    Did the person supposedly in charge of determining interest rates in the United States through Federal Reserve credit creation really say that?
  • Bastiat’s Letters Published
    Frederic Bastiat is FEE’s godfather and a favorite of freedom-philosophy advocates everywhere. So it is fantastic that Liberty Fund will be publishing Bastiat’s collected works under the able editorship of Jacques de Guenin and David M. Hart. The first volume to arrive is The Man and the Statesm ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • VOICES: 'This is what hope looks like'
    As a West Virginia native whose family battled coal companies, Tim DeChristopher understands the perils of life in a resource extraction colony. His experience led him to become an environmental activist who was arrested in 2008 for disrupting a federal government auction of oil and gas leases b ...
  • Is Rick Perry getting cold feet over The Response?
    By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer You've gotta wonder if Rick Perry may come to regret "initiating" The Response, his Christians-only prayer rally. As I documented in a cover story for the Observer, Perry has thrown in with a strange band of fundamentalists from the bleeding edge of American C ...
  • EPA standards on mountaintop removal fall shor ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency has released its final guidance on mountaintop removal in an effort to improve standards for permitting surface mining operations in Central Appalachia. While environmental advocates say they appreciate the agency's effort to curb water pollution from mountai ...
  • VOICES: The forgotten legacy of the excess pro ...
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Behind all the ideological posturing going on in Washington over the debt ceiling, there is a surprising amount of consensus on the wrongheaded proposition that corporations need more tax relief. The bipartisan Gang of Six plan that has recently been at ...
  • Does new legislation to restore the Gulf go fa ...
    A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last week directs Clean Water Act fines that BP and other companies will pay for last year's Gulf oil disaster to restoration efforts in the region. Environmental advocates say the introduction of the RESTORE Gulf Coast States Act -- an acronym for Resources ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Morocco: All Hail the (Democratic) King
    Morocco's recent constitutional referendum is not only being welcomed by the people, but could set an example across the Arab region in terms of the potential of reform.
  • North Africa and E.U. Energy Security
    Given the energy dependence of European countries on North African and Middle Eastern states, financial consequences of further upheavals in the Arab world could be global and deep.
  • Living with Disabilities in Uganda
    The plight of persons with disabilities in Uganda and other parts of Africa is exacerbated by the fact that PWD are discriminated against and not protected by the law.
  • Women's Struggle in Sierra Leone
    The struggle for equal opportunities for women in all aspects of Sierra Leone's socio-economic life is as crucial for our country's future as it is for women.
  • South Sudan: Safeguarding Independence
    The world's newest nation has reason to look positively as its future, but South Sudan must work hard to safeguard its hard-won independence.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • More Notes on the Debt Ceiling “Negotiat ...
    If Obama didn’t want it to happen, if he didn’t want to “negotiate”, he would have: 1) raised the debt limit during the lame duck Congress.  He could have raised it enough to get him through 2 years. 2) Accepted the clean debt-ceiling bill, offered by McConnell, as noted by Stewart M. 3) simply ...
  • More Notes on the Debt Ceiling “Negotiation”
    If Obama didn’t want it to happen, if he didn’t want to “negotiate”, he would have: 1) raised the debt limit during the lame duck Congress.  He could have raised it enough to get him through 2 years. 2) Accepted the clean debt-ceiling bill, offered by McConnell, as noted by Stewart M. 3) simply ...
  • Earbugs
    This blog isn’t exactly known for casual posts, but I thought I’d make an exception and share the music I’m currently enjoying. The first one is via Samuel Smith at Scholars and Rogues: The next one is a bit monotonous but the strings and the buildup suit my mood. A good blood-pumper. This next ...
  • Earbugs
    This blog isn’t exactly known for casual posts, but I thought I’d make an exception and share the music I’m currently enjoying. The first one is via Samuel Smith at Scholars and Rogues: The next one is a bit monotonous but the strings and the buildup suit my mood. A good blood-pumper. This next ...
  • Thank God for our enemies
    though it’s a pity about our leaders. I feel bad for the Anonymous hackers who were arrested today, but it’s also a good thing, in that it will radicalize the hacker community even further and force them to adapt and change their tactics.  They are the bleeding edge of real resistance, and they ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Astronomers spot Earth's first orbital partner
    The Earth has a very skittish dance partner. Locked ahead of the Earth’s orbit lies a 300-metre lump of rock -- Earth’s first trojan asteroid, astronomers report today in Nature. The points 60 degrees ahead of and behind a planet are one type of Lagrange point -- stable gravitational wells w ...
  • HEP-2011: Higgs hunting at 144GeV
    Today, the two big detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) delivered a plenary at the Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics in Grenoble. The results were largely the same as those given on Friday, but there was also a taste of what's to come. First, a quick recap: the LHC is a m ...
  • US judge rules decisively for federal funding ...
    In a victory for supporters of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research, a US district judge ruled today that government funding of the research is legal, despite an existing law that prohibits US funding of research in which an embryo is destroyed. The 38-page summary judgment by Royce L ...
  • Robot water strider skims the surface
    Posted on behalf of George Wigmore. While walking on water may be a dream for humans, it has become a step closer for robots. Qinmin Pan and colleagues at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China have developed a water-walking robot, mimicking the abilities of the water strider, an insect ...
  • Primate research gets provisional thumbs-up in ...
    Primate research ought to continue in the UK because of its importance to human health and basic science, says a new report (download a PDF here) commissioned by the major funders of this research. The report also calls for “rigorous” experimental and ethical oversight of the work. Approximat ...

new geography

  • California Wages War On Single-Family Homes
    In recent years, homeowners have been made to feel a bit like villains rather than the victims of hard times, Wall Street shenanigans and inept regulators. Instead of being praised for braving the elements, suburban homeowners have been made to feel responsible for everything from the Great Rece ...
  • India Conquers the World
    From the exclusive Club Lounge on the 19th floor of Singapore’s Mandarin Oriental, Anish Lalvani gazes out at the city’s skyline, a dazzling array of glass and steel and vertical ambition. The Lalvani family has come a long way since the days when Anish’s paternal grandfather, Tirath Singh Lalva ...
  • Permeable Pavement: Looking Below The Surface
    How can we prevent situations where environmental 'solutions’ end up in failure? The tale of problems encountered with the misuse of pervious pavers (also known as porous or permeable pavers), used as an eco- friendly option, provides some answers. Low impact sidewalk and street installations ...
  • Citizen Bloomberg - How Our New York Mayor has ...
    This piece originally appeared in the Village Voice. After a charmed first decade in politics, Mayor Mike Bloomberg is mired in his first sustained losing streak. His third term has been shaky, marked by the Snowpocalypse, the snowballing CityTime scandal, the backlash to Cathie Black and "g ...
  • Why America’s Young And Restless Will Abandon ...
    For well over a decade urban boosters have heralded the shift among young Americans from suburban living and toward dense cities. As one Wall Street Journal report suggests, young people will abandon their parents� McMansions for urban settings, bringing about the high-density city revival so fe ...

GM Watch

  • Federoff declares war against EPA over GM
    NOTE: More about pro-GM zealot Nina Federoff here: http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11942 http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11954 --- --- Scientists protest EPA proposal to expand biotech regulation By Stephen Clapp Friday July 22 2011, Volume: ...
  • Rothamsted cuts to agroecology "Swimming again ...
    NOTE: More on Rothamsted: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Rothamsted_Research --- --- Rothamsted Cuts to Agroecology "Swimming Against the Tide" GM Freeze, 15 July 2011 The decision by Rothamsted Research to close three major departments central to their agroecological research base has bee ...
  • Rothamsted cuts to agroecology "Swimming again ...
    NOTE: More on Rothamsted: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Rothamsted_Research --- --- Rothamsted Cuts to Agroecology "Swimming Against the Tide" GM Freeze, 15 July 2011 The decision by Rothamsted Research to close three major departments central to their agroecological research base has bee ...
  • Rothamsted cuts to agroecology "Swimming again ...
    NOTE: More on Rothamsted: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Rothamsted_Research --- --- Rothamsted Cuts to Agroecology "Swimming Against the Tide" GM Freeze, 15 July 2011 The decision by Rothamsted Research to close three major departments central to their agroecological research base has bee ...
  • Enquêtes de la WDR sur le World Wide Fund for ...
    Enquêtes de la WDR sur le World Wide Fund for Nature Le WWF et l'industrie / Le pacte avec le panda[1] Par Lars Langenau[2] sueddeutsche.de Média [Original allemand: http://bit.ly/SZPandaPakt] 22 juin 2011, 19h00 Quels sont les véritables liens entre le WWF et l'industrie? À l'heure du cinquant ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • A dream about famine, hunger, malnutrition, dr ...
    Do we still have to be convinced that there is an urgent need for assisting the millions of people suffering from drought, malnutrition, hunger and famine in the Horn of Africa ?  Who could deny that there is an urgent … Continue reading →
  • URGENCY OF FUNDING HORN OF AFRICA RELIEF EFFOR ...
    BAN STRESSES URGENCY OF FUNDING HORN OF AFRICA RELIEF EFFORTS New York, Jul 27 2011  3:05PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed the need for urgent funding to carry out critical humanitarian efforts in the Horn of Africa and assist the … Continue reading →
  • Each and every one of us needs to act now (WFP)
    I’ve just returned from a trip to Somalia and Kenya where it’s truly a life and death situation. I met a young mother in Mogadishu who walked for four days in search of food. She lost three children. The famine … Continue reading →
  • Farming in the desert (Almarai Farming Division)
    Is farming in the desert possible ?  If it really is, then we can solve the hunger problem, and that of child malnutrition, and the migration problem, and that of famine in the Horn of Africa, and …   Please … Continue reading →
  • Rwanda : need for more strategies to fight des ...
    Read at : http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=14630&article=41323 Land Centre chief joins fight against desertification By Stevenson Mugisha The Director General of the National Land Centre (NLC) said there is need for more strategies to fight desertification and land degradation in the co ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

  • Stockwell Day: The result of insane, extreme r ...
    By Alison@Creekside CBC Power & Politics on the Oslo massacre, at noon Friday, edited: Evan Solomon: This raises again the spectre of international terrorism. Stockwell Day: As recently as July 8th in Norway there was a dragnet for al-Qaeda suspects related to the Manchester bombing. Whethe ...
  • Bob Rae, Super-Elite!
    By Frank Moher Oh, grow a sense of humour, already. Canadian novelist Kenneth J. Harvey's piece in today's Globe, "Thank you, Bob Rae, for stealing my plane seat," is inspiring an unseemly fuss among my facebook and twitter peeps. Harvey's article, a funny and typically shrewd account of his ...
  • Canada’s startups get the flag
    By Mark Evans Canada’s startup landscape is healthier than ever, as evidenced by the recent International Startup Festival in Montreal. Putting aside the ambitious name (I would have selected something like the Canadian Startup Festival), the fact that it was well-organized and well-attend ...
  • Where is James Moore?
    By Frank Moher Two weeks ago in this space I wrote about the Conservative government's politically-motivated decision to withdraw funding from the Toronto theatre and arts festival, SummerWorks. To recap: Last year, the company presented a play, Homegrown, that the Prime Minister's Office dec ...
  • The A word
    By Alison@Creekside The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism has released its Final Report -- two years in the making -- on what co-chair and former Lib MP Mario Silva refers to as the "wave of anti-Semitism we are witnessing in our nation".  A 71% increase. Yet a mere ...

libcom

  • Disgruntled bosses are attacking anarchist hos ...
    sos_ddos0.jpg Since 19th of July, Russian anho.org (shorthand for "Anarchist Hosting") has been targeted with a DDoS - attack. Since then, numerous activist website s have been unaccessible - incl ...
  • South Africa: ANC Frame-Up of Abahlali baseMjo ...
    AbM_logo_big.jpg The 12 Abahlali baseMjondolo activists arrested after the attack on the movement in late 2009 have all been fully acquitted in court - and the state excoriated from the bench for its ...
  • Italy: NO TAV / Genoa / Naples / Other News
    An update on the last few weeks in Italy - NO TAV protests, Genoa 10 years after the G8, and more. NO TAV read more
  • Hackney school teachers to strike.
    untitled.JPG Teachers at Cardinal Pole school in Hackney are set to strike this week over suspected victimisation of a union rep. Last week Hackney NUT announced that staff at ...
  • Samsung workers in Mexico on hunger strike - S ...
    Huelga de hambre.jpg Four female workers, unfairly fired and victims of workplace abuse, have caged themselves and sewn their lips shut as they launch a hunger strike and one threatens to burn hersel ...

Free Range International

  • Riding A Dead Horse
    I thought you might all appreciate some Afghan humor today.  I found this on the website Who is Who in Afghanistan, which is a great site to check out if you want dirt on Afghan politicians and power brokers.  Most of the content on the site seems to be provided by Afghans themselves, and althou ...
  • The Plot Thickens
    I meant to get this post up sooner, but a 48-hour bout with the flu left my brain too cooked to come up with any sort of cogent analysis regarding the assassination of Karzai ally Jan Mohammad Khan (JMK).  To tell you the truth, I don’t have one theory on whose behind the killing – [...]
  • AWK Whacked
    So it seems that Ahmed Wali Karzai (aka AWK or A-wak, as it’s pronounced), was whacked by one of his own guards yesterday, sending everyone in the US and Afghan governments into a tizzy as they try to figure out how to fill the power vacuum created by his demise.  I really can’t say for [...]
  • FRI Rides Again
    As a devoted follower of FRI for the past few years, I was as disappointed as the rest of you readers to hear that Baba Tim was going dark on the site.  So, given the fact that I’m currently in a position to continue providing dispatches from the freeranger perspective in [...]
  • FabFi on the front page of New York Times
    Here’s an update in an attempt to counteract the thoroughly depressing news of Tim going silent. (Anyone who knows Tim in person knows that you can’t actually silence him; he’s still ranting but we’ve turned off the blog-mike). With Kanani’s help, I’ve put this post in Babatim format. This wee ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • QUOTE OF THE DECADE!!
    The Quote of the Decade âThe fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.  It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills.  It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to [...]
  • TRUTH REVEALED – 528 is the Frequency of ...
    This is a very complex and multi-faceted topic.  It involves exposing something called “Kabalah” (the CUBE) as well as “Enochian Magic” and the darkest sorcery ever performed on Planet Earth.   It involves exposing demonology and inter-dimensional “conjuring” of entities called Nephilim or Ji ...
  • AUDIT THE FED??? WHAT ABOUT STARTING WITH THE ...
      House Passes DeFazio’s Amendment to Audit the Pentagon.  GREAT JOB CONGRESSMAN!!!! This is all about accountability in government – something that to date has BEEN SORELY LACKING. No More DUAL ISRAELI CITIZENS such as Dov Zackheim controlling the Pentagon’s purse strings!!  Never forget the ...
  • Edgar Steele Story PART II
    Sex, Lies & Audiotape (Part II) by Edgar J. Steele Here Come de Fix I had an inkling that the fix was in on the morning of the second day of the pretrial hearing concerning our forensic audiology eperts. The lead prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney Traci Whelan, was smiling, humming to herself and ...
  • FBI Stings Edgar Steele — Conviction App ...
    Attorney Edgar Steele was clearly on the B’nai B’rith ADL hit list.  He represented Aryan supremacists and actually promoted their rhetoric – exposing to the best of his ability the “Khazarian” agenda.   He was eloquent and believable in his presentations. So, the FBI supplied an undercover m ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Thank you for standing up for Medicare and Soc ...
    Subject: Tell Senate Republicans: It’s crazy to cut Medicare and Social Security Dear Friend, No matter how dire the situation, Senate Republicans seem determined to prove they can act irresponsibly. Senate Republicans are unanimously supporting a draconian constitutional amendment that they cla ...
  • US Chamber’s history,and the stuff we fo ...
    Dear friends, What is the US Chamber of Commerce hiding? Our team recently decided to dig into the US Chamber’s history–and the stuff we found is not pretty. You’ve got to see it to believe it: Visit www.USChamberOfSecrets.org With the final installment of the Harry Potter movie series premierin ...
  • Solar economics- A whole new ball game
    One of the things that drives alternative energy advocates up the wall about trying to explain the benefits of these energy sources is that some people simply don’t understand the economics of alternative energy. Nowhere is this more obvious than with solar power. The average solar panel is actu ...
  • Insulation ROI- Be Energy Smart and Money Wize
    Misunderstood Payback Periods of Proper Insulation: This is a huge mistake people make. I had a consumer recently tell me that 2 years was too long to get all his money back. If he understood Payback periods, he’d understand that he was turning down a 50% return on his money. Now, investments th ...
  • Petition to Stop Ameren UE-Coal Ash Utility Wa ...
    Petition: We, the undersigned, are opposed to placing a coal ash utility waste landfill in the Labadie Bottoms floodplain of the Missouri river as proposed by AmerenUE. The proposed landfill will store harmful quantities of toxic heavy metals and other contaminants. Despite Ameren’s assurances o ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Jewish group urges Iran be barred from Olympic ...
    JERUSALEM — A Jewish organization says Iran should be barred from taking part in the Olympics and other international sporting events until its athletes stop boycotting their Israeli counterparts. The World Jewish Congress says the Iranian behavior is “unsportsmanlike and smacks of anti-Semitism ...
  • Armenian monuments in Iran protected by state
    Armenian historical monuments on the territory of Iran are protected by the state, chairman of Armenian Cultural Foundation Samvel Karapetyan said. Some cases of marauding took place at the Armenian cemeteries. Monuments of architecture are in due condition, they are protected by the state. C ...
  • به یاد زندانیان سیاسی جانباخته در جریان قتل عا ...
    اجساد قربانیان این جنایات را مخفیانه در خاوران تهران، دارالرحمه شیراز، باغ رضوان اصفهان، حیات دادگاه انقلاب سنندج و دهها مکان دیگر دفن کردند. read more
  • کنترل رسمی سپاه بر نفت!
    سردار رستم قاسمی فرمانده قرارگاه خاتم النبیای سپاه، پیش از این مهم ترین بخش های صنعت نفت ایران در پارس جنوبی، را در کنترل خود داشته است. او در نخستین اظهارنظر خود بعد از معرفی اش به عنوان وزیر پیشنهادی به کابینه، گفته است از قرارگاه سازندگی خاتم در قراردادهای نفتی استفاده خواهد کرد.
  • Iran Ate My Homework Again
    In a kinder, gentler, saner America the body politic would have dismread more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Confessions of a Carnivore
    Venus fly trap - a meat eating plant As a strong sustainability activist, I feel quite embarrassed admitting that I derive nearly all my dietary protein from animal sources (eggs and fish). Explaining why I do so is even more embarrassing – an autoimmune disease that makes it virtually impossibl ...
  • Life After Capitalism
    Like many sustainability activists, I strongly believe that with advanced planning and preparation, the demise of capitalism could be an extraordinarily positive change for most of humankind. As I have blogged previously (see http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2011/07/18/global-capitalism ...
  • TEOFWAWKIT: The End of the World as We Know It
    New dollar bill from http://racismandnationalconsciousnessnews.org This is the third of a series of posts discussing the likelihood that capitalism is on the verge of collapse and what a post-capitalistic world might look like. Marx predicts that the collapse of capitalism will be followed by ei ...
  • America’s Proxy Energy Wars
    My last blog suggested that the current US wars in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia are really proxy wars with China over oil and gas resources. I continue the discussion by outlining the crucial Chinese and US alliances in the region. The prime ministers of China and ...
  • Global Capitalism: a House of Cards
    This is the first of a series of posts discussing the likelihood that capitalism is on the verge of collapse and what a post-capitalistic world might look like. Fatal Debt Contagion As the global recession and debt crisis worsens, even mainstream analysts are starting to speculate that global c ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Letter from Environmental Leaders on the Perse ...
    Dear Friends, On July 26th 2011, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. On March 3rd, Tim was found guilty of two felony counts for participating in a peaceful act of civil disobedience. A bright, charismatic young man could face up to ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address at Forbes Field ...
    ROOSEVELT: Mr. Chairman, Governor Earle, my friends of Pennsylvania: A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. Tonight I am going to talk to you about the box score of the Government of the United States. I am going to tell you the story of our fight to beat down the depression ...
  • Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film
    Revolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition to Swe ...
  • On Nataline Sarkisyan's 21st Birthday
    Last night in Los Angeles, while the Prince and Princess (William and Kate) – or is it now the Duke and Duchess? – were gathering all the media attention for their glamorous evening among the stars, a very different yet equally glamorous night was unfolding just a few miles away.  On the sales f ...
  • MichaelMoore.com Exclusive: Wikileaks Cable Al ...
    Wikileaks Cable Allegedly Leaked by Bradley Manning Caught Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Discussing Outsourcing to India That May Have Cost Manning's OWN FATHER His Job "The afternoon I reached Brian Manning, he was at home in Oklahoma City, in a room in his ranch house that Bradley had ...

Salon

  • Addicted to hype
    This just in: People feel lonely and deprived when they give up the Internet for a day. That's the not-so-shocking conclusion from a new study by a British consumer research firm called Intersperience.
  • Rick Warren's wealth-driven tweet
    Twitter was jumping for hours after the Obama-Boehner debt-ceiling throw-down Monday night, but one tweet cut through the chatter. Rev. Rick Warren, the conservative impresario of Saddleback Community Church known for his work on poverty and AIDS issues, let loose mid-evening with the observa ...
  • Blogger says Piers Morgan phone-hacked
    Unctuous CNN personality Piers Morgan was the editor of British tabloid the Daily Mirror until he was forced to resign after printing hoax images of British soldiers abusing detainees. He went on to become a talent show judge or something, until CNN decided this disgraced former editor of a d ...
  • The difference between understanding Obama's s ...
    The estimable Glenn Greenwald has taken issue with a piece that I�wrote about President Obama and the left, which appeared Monday on Salon.��
  • The anti-gay bullying problem is bigger than B ...
    Mother Jones published a story Monday detailing the disturbing recent history of anti-gay bullying in a school system in the heart of Michele Bachmann's Minnesota congressional district. In just the past two years, there have been nine suicides in the Anoka-Hennepin school district, and a num ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Breaking up is tough enough
    Ontario has a new requirement that couples seeking a divorce hear about alternatives to litigation.
  • The fix is far from in
    By refusing to move out of 24 Sussex Dr., Prime Minister Stephen Harper seems to be putting his image as a penny-pincher ahead of essential repairs.
  • A waterfront gem
    Sherbourne Common, Toronto's newest shoreline feature, is a most original park — combining a massive artwork, playground, and water treatment plant.
  • Need knows no season
    Toronto’s food banks could use a burst of midsummer generosity. Their stocks are running low.
  • Norway defiesthe haters
    Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg spoke for millions when he vowed that mass murder won't shake Norway's open spirit and efforts to better the world.

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.

EU Times

  • Norway Premier “Begged” Putin To Stop Massacre ...
    A startling Federal Security Service (FSB) report on the 22 July massacre in Norway states that two-days prior to this catastrophic attack Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg [photo top right with Putin] placed an “urgent” call to Putin “begging” Russia’s leader to help stop the events tha ...
  • Ex-army chief held after Guinea’s President es ...
    Guinean President Alpha Conde escaped two attacks on his residence on Tuesday that killed at least three people and left his home riddled with bullets, in assaults which authorities linked to former senior officers in the army. The attacks renewed international concerns about the stability of th ...
  • Xi Jinping: China will ‘smash’ Tibet separatism
    The man expected to be China’s next president has promised to “smash” any attempts to destabilise Tibet. Xi Jinping, who is due to succeed President Hu Jintao in 2013, said he would fight against “separatist activities” linked to the Dalai Lama. He was speaking in Lhasa as part of a trip to mark ...
  • US drone shot down over Iran nuclear site
    Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has shot down a US spy drone which was flying over the central Iranian province of Qom, a lawmaker says. A member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Majlis (Parliament), Ali Aqazadeh Dafsari, said on Tuesday that the ...
  • Tanks enter town as Syria protests swell
    Army presses ahead in its campaign to overcome anti-regime revolt, prepares to intervene in Al-Bukamal. The Syrian army on Sunday set its sights on the town of Zabadani near the Lebanon border as it pressed ahead in its campaign to overcome an anti-regime revolt, a human rights activist said. In ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Researchers lose bid to block human embryonic ...
    Human embryonic stem cells hold promise for new medical therapies, and the Obama administration has attempted to lift restrictions on the public funding of the research that were put in place by the preceding president. That attempt was put on hold when some researchers who focus on adult stem ...
  • Bill O'Reilly's Christianism - And Breivik's, Ctd
    Pareene deconstructs the Fox News host's blinkered argument : Does [Breivik] go to church? Does he believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ? Is he a biblical literalist? I have no idea. There's plenty about him that would lead a devout Christian to consider Breivik "not a 'real' Christian." Here ...
  • Washington Redskins Set to Trade Donovan McNab ...
    Stick a fork in it, it’s just about done.  The Washington Redskins have agreed to trade Donovan McNabb to the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings get the veteran QB in exchange for a 6th round pick in 2012 and possibly another 6th rounder in 2013. The deal is contingent upon McNabb agreeing to rene ...
  • Samsung Galaxy S II coming soon to Clove in White
    The chaps at Clove have given us a shout this afternoon to let us know that the popular Samsung Galaxy S II will be available in White from approximately 15th August. Loads of iPhone fans waited for a long time for a white version so I am sure this new white Galaxy S II will be just as popular. ...
  • Chaos in the House: Cantor tells freshman to q ...
    House majority whip Eric Cantor and House speaker John Boehner. Eric Cantor, the hedge fund managers’ man in Washington (and he’s surely hearing from them right about now), told House Republicans in a closed-door meeting yesterday to quit “ grumbling and whining” about Speaker John Boehner’s de ...

Groklaw

  • InterDigital goes after Nokia, Huawei, and ZTE
    The developer of wireless technologies said today that it has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission, seeking a ban on the importation of 3G phones, USB laptop sticks, mobile hot spots, tablets, and other wireless components from the three companies. The company separatel ...
  • Microsoft Back In Bed With SUSE Linux
    But critics of the arrangement say it amounts to little more than a high-tech protection racket, under which Microsoft wields the threat of lawsuits to get organizations that run Linux to purchase the certificates. "SUSE's patent deal with Microsoft has always hurt the entire software community ...
  • Europe's Film Heritage Now Available Online
    Although we often invoke "Hollywood" when we talk about the movie industry, many of the world's greatest films and much of the world's film history comes from outside that Los Angeles district. A nod here goes to the Lumière Brothers, of course, two of the earliest filmmakers. But rousing applau ...
  • One Small Antitrust Victory for Google
    The suit claimed that Google unfairly demoted TradeComet's ranking on its site to eliminate a competing search engine. Tiny TradeComet's lawyer turned out to be none other than Charles "Rick" Rule, Microsoft's longtime outside antitrust counsel. (Microsoft denied it was behind the suit, or any ...
  • A priceless win at the Supreme Court? No, it h ...
    A big victory at the Supreme Court isn't priceless, after all. It costs somewhere north of $1,144,602.64. That's what the video game industry spent to convince the court that California's law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors violated the First Amendment. And it asked ...

WideShut

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.”

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Nurturing that better future
    All my wonderful longtime readers here at JWN may wonder why I've been so silent recently. Two reasons, mainly. I've been deep immersed in the most wonderful forms of family life; and I've also been racing against the clock on the 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006' project. In the past three months, we' ...
  • New e-book soon: 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006'
    Today is the fifth anniversary of the beginning of that terrible march of folly, the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006. So I'm delighted to announce today that my publishing company, Just World Books, will shortly be publishing as a short e-book War Diary: Lebanon 2006, by the Lebanese social activist ...
  • Afghanistan, logistics, geopolitics, war, peace
    The WaPo's Craig Whitlock has an informative piece in today's paper about the many continuing challenges the U.S. military has faced as it attempted to provide logistic support to the "surged" U.S. troop presence in very distant Afghanistan. Supplying these troops is particularly hard, due to t ...
  • Speaking about out recent Gaza/Cairo trip: Cha ...
    Bill the spouse and I will be speaking about our recent trip to Gaza and Cairo at an event sponsored by my Quaker meeting in Charlottesville, on July 11. Details are here.
  • My piece on Egypt and Gaza, at ME Channel
    ... is here. I rather like the title they put on it, "Tahrir's journey to Palestine". In fact, the journey that the "spirit of of the Tahrir uprising" has to make before it gets to Palestine is just about as long and difficult as the journey that anyone needs to make to get from the outside wor ...

frogblog

  • General debate, July 27, 2011
  • Ohariu: deal or no deal?
    There’s been a lot of talk lately on electorate deals and I’d like to put myself on the record as the Green Party candidate standing in Ōhariu.
  • Norway massacre: Key points finger in wrong di ...
    I almost fell of my chair when I heard John Key use the Norway massacre to justify New Zealand’s military involvement in Afghanistan. He said the killings were part of global terrorism and why New Zealand is in Afghanistan “trying to make the world a safer place.” The problem is that right-winge ...
  • General debate, July 23, 2011
    Gosh the weather sucks, do keep warm and dry.
  • Israeli SAR leader had worked in intelligence
    One bit of information that hasn't come out yet is that Hilik Magnus, who led the private Israeli search and rescue team which arrived in Christchurch shortly after the February 22 quake had previously worked for Israeli intelligence.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Tooth Fairies and Quarters
    A survey by Visa says that the recession has caused a drop in the average amount the Tooth Fairy pays for a tooth, from $3 to $2.60. Jon Chait comments: Clearly this is a prime expenditure to cut back when you're feeling strapped. But $2.60 seems really high to me. My kids each lost a too ...
  • Chart of the Day: Yet More Bad Job News
    Via Economix, this chart comes from a new study by the National Employment Law Project, and it shows yet another way in which our jobless recovery is grim news. As you can see, we lost only a small number of low-paying jobs during the Great Recession and we've since gained almost all of them ...
  • The Republican Clown Show Proceeds Apace
    Politico has the latest on the clown show that is the modern Republican Party: House Republicans on Wednesday morning were calling for the firing of the Republican Study Committee top staffer after he was caught sending e-mails to conservative groups urging them to pressure GOP lawmakers ...
  • The Truth About Stella Liebeck
    I've long been pissed off over the case of Stella Liebeck. You remember her, right? The woman who spilled some McDonald's coffee on herself while carelessly careening down the highway and then scored a million-dollar jackpot when her high-priced lawyer convinced a credulous jury to stick it ...
  • Time to Chill on Default Fever
    I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but this morning I opened my LA Times and found this: Wall Street has tried to ignore the threat posed by Washington failing to raise the debt ceiling. No more.....Without a deal, the most feared scenario is that the U.S. will miss payments on its bon ...

Insanity Report

  • FacePalm of the Week: Christians Don’t Commit ...
    Now that Glenn Beck is gone, Bill O’Reilly has an opening to go back to being the second craziest, batshit insane person at Fox News (he’s still got a long way to go to pass Hannity). O’Reilly hasn’t wasted any time to pick up his 2nd place trophy though. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews. ...
  • Captian America and Why I Don’t Mind Escapes F ...
    Last night I read an article that complained that Captain America: The First Avenger did a disservice by not showing the US Army during WWII as segregated. And apparently the author of that article wasn’t alone.  A few other people had that same problem.  Some didn’t have as much of a problem ...
  • Cenk Uygur Gets Sand in His Anus
    So Cenk Uygur is trying to say that he’s no longer a host on MSNBC because he was “challenging Obama” too much.  Sir…let me explain something to you.  You aren’t at MSNBC anymore because: YOU SUCK I get it.  You have a really popular Internet show where people watch when they want to get conf ...
  • IC 260: Hoodlum Weather
    Topics: The current heatwave People don’t know how to dress in the heat Skinny boxers Amy Winehouse dies The cycle of watching celebrity train wrecks then crying when they die continues Religious fanatics Kriss thinks up the new religion: The Church of Insanity The debt ceiling debate Reid and P ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: It’s Not Sexist…But Sti ...
    For this Week’s FacePalm I have 2 separate incidents but they have something in common.  Both incidents involve people having an opportunity to address a problem but failing to do so by focusing on something that isn’t the issue. First up….Migraine-Gate starring Michele Bachmann. Apparently GOP ...

Simple Climate

  • Aerosols paint clearer warming slowdown picture
    Contributions to climate change from “stratospheric aerosols” vary more than realised, Ellsworth Dutton and his NOAA colleagues find, potentially providing a partial explanation for slower warming from the late 1990s.
  • Warming puts species at one in ten extinction ...
    Comparing predictions and measurements of the effects of climate change on plants and animals over the past five years shows predictions are accurate, and possibly optimistic, according to the University of Exeter's Ilya Maclean.
  • Chinese pollution postpones temperature rises
    Sulphur emissions countered greenhouse gases to cause the much-debated “pause” in warming trend from 1998-2008, but only temporarily, Boston University's Robert Kaufmann told Simple Climate.
  • Sea-level rise is the fastest in 2,000 years
    University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin Hortonand colleagues show that sea level has risen at an average of 2.1 mm per year since around 1900, after having stayed roughly stable for the previous two millennia.
  • Shrinking Arctic ice area is just the tip of t ...
    Old, thicker, ice cover has suffered extreme losses, says the University of Colorado's James Maslanik, providing more evidence of how humans are changing the planet.

e!Science News

  • Material created at Purdue lets electrons 'dan ...
    A team of Purdue University researchers is among a small group in the world that has successfully created ultrapure material that captures new states of matter and could have applications in high-speed quantum computing. read more
  • As unhealthy food outlets multiply, teens eat ...
    Got lots of fast food restaurants and other outlets that sell junk food in your neighborhood? Then your teen is more likely to nosh regularly on burgers and fries and wash them down with a soda. read more
  • DNA solves identities of Australian melons and ...
    Molecular data have shown that three Australian Cucurbitaceae species initially collected in 1856 but never accepted as separate species are distinct from each other and that one of them is the closest relative of the honeymelon, Cucumis melo. The names for these species are sorted out in a stud ...
  • Electronic publishing 'goes live': News from t ...
    The Nomenclature Section of the 18th International Botanical Congress in Melbourne, in July 2011, proposed and approved sweeping changes to the way scientists name new plants, algae, and fungi. To demonstrate the efficiency of electronic publishing, the first open access plant taxonomy journal P ...
  • CT shows changes in lungs associated with COPD ...
    Using computed tomography (CT), researchers have identified two types of structural changes in the lungs of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that are associated with frequent exacerbations, or episodes when symptoms suddenly worsen. Their findings are published online i ...

unEarthed

  • America's Wildlife Win Congressional Showdown
    Republicans abandon ship to keep species on the ESA ark Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA) The current leaders in the House think that saving America’s wildlife is aski ...
  • The Great Promise of Clean Air
    Powerful new commercial asks America to stand up for kids' health Tommy Allred. Meet Tommy Allred. He lives in Midlothian, TX, a town of fewer than 10,000 r ...
  • Congress Puts Polluters in the Rider's Seat
    Hijacking our democracy to attack our environment Part of The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy (1773) by Domenico Tiepolo. If you've ever suspected t ...
  • Next Time You Sneeze, Turn Off The Car
    Ragweed's bad for allergies, but so is climate change It happens to me every spring. The flowers start to bloom, and the days become warm and full of sunshine. ...
  • Greetings From "Frackistan"
    Across the U.S., people are rising up against "fracking" for natural gas Up and down the Rockies, in Texas, across much of the northeast, and perhaps soon in y ...

Brave New Climate

  • Fukushima, IFRs and an MIT debate
    Back in May, I published a critique of an MIT report on the future of the nuclear fuel cycle (MIT FNFC), on behalf of Yoon Chang and the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Since that time, SCGI member Steve Kirsch (a MIT alumnus and benefactor) has been trying to get MIT to engage with thei ...
  • Radiation hormesis?
    At the height of the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, there was a lot of discussion in the comments of this blog about the impact of radiation on human health. In particular, there was a debate about whether the linear no-threshold hypothesis (LNT) or the hormetic dose response (RH) was more scientific ...
  • For climate’s sake, nuclear power is not an ‘o ...
    [This is an abridged amalgam of writings by me on nuclear power and climate change that I've published on BNC and elsewhere over the last two years. It has been updated with some commentary on recent events - the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, Germany's announced withdrawal from nuclear energy, and s ...
  • Climate change update by the numbers
    Here are some figures to illustrate the latest global data on global warming. Data are from NCDC and GISS. First, a 12-month running mean of global surface temperature anomalies since 1980 (i.e. for each month, an average is taken of the previous 12-month period – ‘calendar year’ is irrelevant): ...
  • Why pro-nuclear environmentalism has failed wh ...
    With George Monbiot on the debating warpath against Greenpeace and in support of nuclear power as a serious mechanism for tackling climate change, and Mark Lynas’ new book on planetary boundaries and techno-fixes, “The God Species“, now out (despite some weird problems on the launch day), it r ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • Introducing the AmpedStatus Board of Trust &#8 ...
    We've been informally asking our readers to name their most trusted reporters. We are specifically looking for people who are independent and not trapped in partisan Democrat Vs Republican groupthinking boxes. Here are the top 20 most often mentioned people thus far. [Read More]
  • Enough With the Democrat Vs Republican Nonsens ...
    By John R. Talbott All this Democrat Vs Republican nonsense is fabricated by the real enemy - the big bankers and corporations who want us at each others' throats. It is time to launch a new political party, one with a very simply stated but enormous task, to get the special interest money and l ...
  • The Kleptocratic Eurozone “Fix” Wi ...
    By Charles Hugh Smith The only way out of the Eurozone end-game is massive debt forgiveness and a return to national currencies. The first will destroy the banks, the second will destabilize the German export economy. "Extend and pretend" is an endgame, not a fix. [Read More]
  • Who Rules America? An Investment Manager Break ...
    By G. William Domhoff An investment manager who works with very wealthy clients shares his concerns on extreme wealth inequality: "A highly complex and largely discrete set of laws and exemptions from laws has been put in place by those in the uppermost reaches of the U.S. financial system. Ordi ...
  • Austerity and Deficit Hawks Say, “Let Th ...
    By David DeGraw The vultures are circling above the debt ceiling, along with the austerity and deficit hawks, ready to pounce on what little remains. No matter how technocratically skilled the ruling class is, at some point 250 million Americans are going to become aware that they have been thro ...

+972

  • WATCH: Palestinian youth abducted by police in ...
    While Israelis are busy pitching tents across the country, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, life under occupation goes on as usual, far away from the media’s eyes. In the shocking footage below, taken with a surveillance camera last Friday, July 22, Palestinian teens playing soccer ...
  • Jenin’s Freedom Theater raided by the Is ...
    Overnight, roughly 50 Israeli Special Forces troops raided the Jenin Freedom Theatre in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the Northern West Bank according to members of the theater. The Freedom Theater is often associated with slain Palestinian-Jewish actor Juliano Mer Khamis and his vision of cultural ...
  • Netanyahu’s “emergency solution&#8 ...
    Social justice protesters  blocked major road tonight across the country, as new protest camps were set up and evicted ones were rebuilt. Earlier today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a housing plan consisting mainly of speeding up privatisation, jarring badly with the protesters’ ...
  • Watch: The housing protest – a new natio ...
    A sound and slideshow by Eyal Warshavsky, with national anthem Hatikva as the crescendo, illustrates the powerful sense of a shared national cause emerging from the demonstration last Saturday night. What began as an outcry over high housing prices is taking on ever-larger dimensions, and Israe ...
  • Jerusalem Post “clarifies” crazy S ...
    Have you ever seen an editor in-chief attempt to explain what his newspaper actually meant in its editorial? After calling readers to use Andreas Behring Brievik’s horrific terror attack as an opportunity to discuss the failure of multiculturalism and integration, the Jerusalem Post added the fo ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Large scale environmental water release for M ...
    More than 150 gigalitres of water recovered for the environment will be delivered to hundreds of wetlands along the Murrumbidgee River, benefiting the Murray system as far downstream as South Australia's Lower Lakes and Coorong.
  • Deadline extended for West Kimberley National ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the deadline for a decision about National Heritage listing of the west Kimberley until the end of August to allow further community consultation and further consideration of whether the proposed heritage values are sufficiently comprehensive.
  • Call for nominations for Environmentalist of ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has called for nominations for the 2011 Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award and the Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award.
  • Water reuse scheme benefits Hawkesbury River
    Construction of a treated wastewater re-use scheme at South Windsor as part of an Australian Government funded project to improve the health of the Hawkesbury River has progressed significantly.
  • World Environment Day delivers $86 million fo ...
    Federal Water and Environment Minister Tony Burke and South Australia’s Water and Environment Minister Paul Caica today outlined $86.7 million for a new project to improve the river’s health and resilience of its wetlands and floodplains from the Victorian border to Wellington.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Robo Signing And Desecration of Our Courts- Th ...
    You would have thought the banksters would have gotten the message…they were after all given a total pass.  Not even a slap on the wrist, it was just a collective dodge….they were permitted to moonwalk away from the crime scenes. Did they learn any lesson?  You bet, the lesson is we can just k ...
  • Fraudclosure in Florida, A Survey and The Cris ...
    Florida was well into the acute phase of the foreclosure crisis during the dark days of fall 2008 when Bush and Paulson wrote the blank checks that bailed out the banks, Wall Street institutions and the criminals that brought our country to the brink of economic Armageddon.  Bush wrote the check ...
  • BOMBSHELL- Listen to This Rally on The Steps o ...
    The First Annual Rally in Tally! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • LYTTLE v. BANKUNITED- Another Headscratcher of ...
    Here goes another spellbinding appeal written by that masterful author George Gingo. You really must sit down and study the attached appellate brief which reads more like a nail biting crime novel than some dry academic appeal. I mean, seriously. Put yourself in the moment, picture the courtroom ...
  • Brand New, Hot Off The Presses MERS Policy Bul ...
    After years of claiming that assignments don’t matter and the date of assignment certainly doesn’t matter, the MERS Monster has finally changed its tune, effective July 21, 2011: The Certifying Officer must execute the assignment of the Security Instrument from MERS before initiating foreclosure ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Citizenship – “Bull Run”
    My wife Jane and I would have been in Spain last week, taking part in the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. We’d wanted to do it for 10 years and thought this was to be the year. But with the change in lifestyle that comes with losing an election, that dream is over. For [...]
  • Citizenship – Captives of Ourselves
    Aleksandr Soizhenitsyn, Nobel Prize-winning author, moved to Vermont to escape the horrific memories he shared in books like his Gulag Archipelago. To everyone’s surprise, a number of years later he returned to Russia to live out his remaining days. Asked why he would abandon the beauty and free ...
  • Citizenship – “From Self to Selfis ...
    By the 1990s the revolution to the “self” was almost completed, perhaps best symbolized by Edward Bernays’s television appearance on the David Lettermen show celebrating his 100th birthday and his role as the master of modern advertising. It was readily accepted that the acquisition of goods was ...
  • Citizenship – “Retail Therapy”
    Marilyn Monroe’s death in 1962 came as a profound shock, but what the public never knew was that she was under intense psychoanalysis from Anna Freud and her friends. Her former husband and well-known writer Arthur Miller went public, proclaiming that psychoanalysis was imprisoning people rather ...
  • Citizenship – “Add an Egg”
    With the arrival of the Cold War in the 1950s, a dark cloud appeared to hover over western democracies. Everything became a giant chess game between the Soviets, China and the West. Sigmund Freud’s ideas about the troublesome nature of humankind once again gained traction, but this time there wa ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • Justice Department Preparing to Subpoena News ...
    Intro: "The Department of Justice (DoJ) is preparing subpoenas as part of an initial investigation into whether News Corp violated the Foreign Corrupts Practices Act (FCPA) when its British subsidiary allegedly bribed police officers in the UK." News Corporation Chief Rupert Murdoch leaves hi ...
  • Justice Department Preparing to Subpoena News ...
    Intro: "The Department of Justice (DoJ) is preparing subpoenas as part of an initial investigation into whether News Corp violated the Foreign Corrupts Practices Act (FCPA) when its British subsidiary allegedly bribed police officers in the UK." News Corporation Chief Rupert Murdoch leaves hi ...
  • Norway Attacks: Oslo Bombing, At Least 80 Shot ...
    "A homegrown terrorist set off a deadly explosion in downtown Oslo before heading to a summer camp dressed as a police officer to commit one of the deadliest shooting sprees in history, killing at least 80 people as terrified youths ran and even swam for their lives, police said Friday." Nils My ...
  • Norway Attacks: Oslo Bombing, At Least 80 Shot ...
    "A homegrown terrorist set off a deadly explosion in downtown Oslo before heading to a summer camp dressed as a police officer to commit one of the deadliest shooting sprees in history, killing at least 80 people as terrified youths ran and even swam for their lives, police said Friday." Nils My ...
  • The Press Is Not Covering Anti-War Dissent
    Intro: "The national news media almost totally ignore homefront protests of the Afghanistan war, killer drones, torture, and more, regardless of their newsworthiness. By its lack of coverage, isn’t the press thus helping perpetuate an endless war?" British Lance Corporal Joe Glenton addresses ...

War Resisters League

  • Wisconsin Updates!
    Since Joy First’s article on the occupation of the Wisconsin capitol in the spring issue of WIN magazine, organizers have continued to coordinate actions and protests, keeping the public focused on this issue. Here are some updates: Around the grounds of the capitol on June 4, protesters set up ...
  • Know Before You Go, ‘Cause There’s ...
    At the National Network Opposed to the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) gathering in 2009, youth staffers of the Ya-Ya (Youth Activists-Youth Allies) Network, a youth-led organization based in NYC that focuses on counter-recruitment and other kinds of social justice work, met with reps from WRL N ...
  • WRL Organizers Criss-cross the Country
    The following are several brief reports from organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa on their travels across the country from Chicago to New Mexico, and Pittsburgh to Detroit. On May 31st, field organizer Ali Issa made a trip to Chicago where he took part in a joint stra ...
  • No Surprises from the War-Makers!
    Well, Obama made it clear on Wednesday. His war in Afghanistan will go on through 2014 and probably far beyond. While some may have hoped for a shift in his approach, many of us didn’t expect much, and we certainly didn’t get much. The change in Afghanistan that he spoke about, meant to be heard ...
  • In Afghanistan Speech, Obama Offers Token Troo ...
    President Obama passed up an opportunity to recognize our democracy and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people. June 22, 2011 President Obama’s speech tonight violated one of his most important campaign promises: to “end the mind-set that leads to war.” To the contrary, hi ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Roundup-Resistant Weeds Threaten U.S. Food Sec ...
    Roundup-resistant weeds are a rapidly emerging threat that puts U.S. agriculture in a terribly precarious position. The threat has evolved from farmers’ heavy use of the herbicide glyphosate, (aka Roundup, a Monsanto product) to control weeds, and farmers’ simultaneous reliance on crop varieties ...
  • Preparing for Peak Oil
    Peak oil is inevitable. At some point, global oil supplies will peak and then decline (it may be happening already), driving up the cost of oil and petroleum products. But what happens to our food systems, which rely heavily on oil, when oil becomes scarce?
  • Carnivores and Climate Change
    You know what you ate this week—but do you know how it will affect climate change and the planet? As of today, you can use the Environmental Working Group (EWG)’s newly launched website to get information on food carbon footprints.
  • Carnivores and Climate Change
    You know what you ate this week—but do you know how it will affect climate change and the planet? As of today, you can use the Environmental Working Group (EWG)’s newly launched website to get information on food carbon footprints.
  • Hen Party: Historic Agreement to Promote Stand ...
    United Egg Producers (UEP) has partnered with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), agreeing to work together toward legislation of national standards to be used in egg production.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 27, ...
    ==== OPEC Won’t “Give NATO Carte Blanche To Bomb Oil-Producing Countries” U.S. AFRICOM Commander Meets With Egyptian Junta Leader In Cairo U.S. Planning To Maintain Military Bases In Afghanistan? Poland Pushes West’s Eastern Partnership In Caucasus, Ex-USSR Kosovo On Verge Of Armed Conflict Swed ...
  • D.H. Lawrence: All modern militarism is foul
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts D.H. Lawrence From the Introduction to Memoirs of the Foreign Legion by Maurice Magnus (1922) There is M-’s manuscript then, like a map of the lower places of mankind’s activities. There is the war: foul, foul, unutterably foul. As foul ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 26, ...
    ==== Libya Accuses NATO Of Bombing Hospital, Killing Seven People NATO-ASEAN Partnership Against China? U.S. Central Command Gets Own Spy Satellite For Greater Middle East War Zones Georgia: U.S. Marines Lead Counterinsurgency Training NATO Blackmails Turkey Over Chinese, Russian Air Defense Sys ...
  • Aldous Huxley: Rhetorical devices used to conc ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Aldous Huxley From Words and Behavior (1936) Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. Without them we should live spasmodically and intermittently… If, as so often happens, we choose to give continuity to our experience ...
  • Updates on Libyan war: Stop NATO news: July 25 ...
    ==== NATO Air Attacks Shake Libyan Capital, Environs NATO’s Air Assault On Libya: 16,281 Missions, 6,142 Strike Sorties NATO Troops Shoot Dead Afghan Female Doctor, Family Members Taiwan Urges NATO, U.S. Navy To Pay Compensation To Slain Captain’s Family Ex-NATO, U.S. Military Chief Shalikashvil ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Citizen Spies, Brutal Torture Foreshadow the D ...
    An innocent European, who was sold to U.S. military by a citizen spy, spent nearly five years in Guantanamo Bay prison without charges exposes the brutality of torture.  With the DHS anti-terror apparatus now turned inward, do American citizens face the same treatment? By Eric Blair Activist Pos ...
  • Libya’s War For The Abaya
    The Intel Hub By Susan Lindauer – Contributing Writer July 27, 2011 For European bankers, it’s a war for Libya’s Gold. For oil corporations, it’s a war for Cheap Crude (now threatening to destroy Libya’s oil infrastructure, just like Iraq). But for Libya’s women, it’s a fierce, knock down battle ...
  • Wisconsin DMV Claims You Need “Bank Acti ...
    By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie And Intel Hub Contributing Writer July 27, 2011 A woman from Wisconsin captured some of the most blatant and disturbing proof of banker corruption and control over our country on video and uploaded it to YouTube on July 23rd, 2011 for the entire world to ...
  • **MEDIA ALERT** Military Training Exercises to ...
    For Immediate Release July 25, 2011 Released By: Mayor’s Office For More Information Contact: Mayor’s Press Office Press.Office@cityofboston.gov   CityofBoston.gov Joint federal military training exercises will take place within and around the Boston area between July 26th and August 5th. Milita ...
  • 9 Of Quartzsite’s 14 Cops Suspended After Blow ...
    The Intel Hub By Rady Ananda – Contributing Writer July 26, 2011 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 cityâs 14 police officers with pay, ordering the ...

FRS

  • Who Will Protect Us From the Police?
    Kenneth Harding, the San Francisco Police and the Media July 27, 2011 by MICHAEL CALDERÓN-ZAKS I should mention my connection to both San Francisco (where I was born, raised, and reside) and Seattle (where I received a Bachelors degree), where 19-year old Kenneth Harding is from and had an exagg ...
  • A Week of Action to Ground the Drones
    Drone Wars UK 1-8 October 2011 The Drones Campaign Network in the UK is calling for a week of action to protest the growing use of armed drones from 1st – 8th October.  The week will be part of the international ‘Keep Space for Peace Week’, which this year is focusing on the use of [...]
  • California: Protests Against Police Brutality ...
    by Modesto Anarcho Saturday Jul 23rd, 2011 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/07/23/18685780.php This week, protests took place in Stockton, Manteca, and Sacramento around incidents of police brutality and murder. All three demanded answers and the releasing of information by the police in re ...
  • The Struggle for Human Rights in California Pr ...
    by Bill Hackwell, writing in www.indybay.org Tuesday Jul 26th, 2011 Another strong demonstration of family members and supporters of the courageous California Prisoner Strikers took place at the doors of the California Department of Corrections in Sacramento on Monday, July 25, 2011. While the h ...
  • NAPO/MXGM statement on the passing of our Comr ...
    Jun 11, 2011 The New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement salute the life of our brother and comrade Geronimo ji Jaga. The life of Geronimo, or “G” as he was affectionately known, represents a freedom fighter that sacrificed and loved Afrikan people and humanity. Ge ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • Is Christianity compatible with capitalism?
    A new Public Religion Research Institute says some Americans don't think so. Of course, we've discussed this before.
  • They found me
    The folks at�"Saint Matthew's Churches"�(of Tulsa, Okla.) sent to my home a "prayer rug" that promises to bring me great riches, provided I: Stare into the eyes of the prayer-rug Jesus Go and be alone and kneel on this Rug of Faith Or, barring that, touch the rug with both of my knees Check th ...
  • What Andre Behring Breivik wants:
    And why that can't happen, by Der Tagesspiegel's Gerd Appenzeller, who writes: They want their countries to insulate themselves from change, they want them to shut everything out that they consider bad, and if that isn't possible, they want to destroy multiculturalism, Marxism and Islamism - ...
  • Nafissatou Diallo, DSK's accuser, speaks
    You can read more here.
  • People...people who need diamonds...
    Are the loneliest pe-ople...in the worrrrrrrld....

Associated Content

  • Amy Winehouse Album Sales Propel Singer to Pos ...
    Amy Winehouse has profited from Michael Jackson's sad business model: posthumous interest in one's back catalog.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Jul 26, 2011
  • U.S. Debt: Countdown to Calamity?
    The 'debt crisis' facing the nation will look particularly bad for President Obama if congressional leaders can't reach a compromise by next week.Contributor: Gregory Schmidt Published: Jul 26, 2011
  • Parties Will Reach Debt Deal
    The U.S. government will be unable to borrow money beyond Aug. 2. The debt crisis is taking its toll on American politics, but a solution is imminentContributor: William Browning Published: Jul 26, 2011
  • NFL Lockout Didn't Make it to Fourth Quarter, ...
    The NFL lockout has been resolved, and the 2011 season is coming. Here are some facts regarding the new deal and sports politics that I find interesting.Contributor: Adam Justice Published: Jul 26, 2011
  • Knights Templar Lays Foundation for Oslo Bombi ...
    Uncovering the secrets of the Knights Templar gives more insight into the thought pattern of Norwegian terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik.Contributor: Janoa Taylor Published: Jul 26, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Scientists Switch Social Behaviors On and Off ...
    Just yesterday we learned that Caltech researchers can use pulses of light to toggle aggressive behaviors in the mouse brain. Today we learn that elsewhere on the West Coast scientists are turning social behaviors in mice on and off using the same method, and that could have big implications fo ...
  • Video: Japanese Researchers Build an EV Engine ...
    With the Chinese firmly in charge of the world’s supply of rare earth metals, the Japanese have been hard at work trying to devise means to reduce their reliance on rare earths in the manufacture of things like electric car motors. Now, researchers at Tokyo University of Science say they have d ...
  • Cancers Are Newly Evolved Parasitic Species, B ...
    Cancer patients may feel like they have alien creatures or parasites growing inside their bodies, robbing them of health and vigor. According to one cell biologist, that’s exactly right. The formation of cancers is really the evolution of a new parasitic species. Just as parasites do, cancer de ...
  • Things We Can Learn From Dolphins: Electro-Sen ...
    When we figure out how to communicate with dolphins pretty soon, these are some good questions to ask: Why don’t you feel any pain when you're hurt? Can you teach us how to regrow missing body parts? And can you teach us how to sense electricity? These are some of the latest impressive attribut ...
  • Acoustic Diode Only Lets Sound Travel in One D ...
    Anyone who has ever tried to record that first feature-length album in his or her dad’s garage knows that reflecting, suppressing, and otherwise manipulating sound isn’t as simple as it might seems. We’ve got that egg-carton foam that offers some soundproofing, but beyond such muting materials ...

Veterans Today

  • The Oslo Attacks: More False Flag Evidence
    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."
  • Arrests, a Murder and a Visit to Jenin Camp
    At 3:30 AM on 27 July 2011, heavily armed and masked Israeli Forces hurled blocks of stone into several windows of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp and arrested two men. Juliano Mer-Khamis, established the Freedom Theater in 2006 and was murdered outside of it on 4 April 2011. I never m ...
  • Follow-up to Divided Government As Being Our B ...
    Throughout history US politics have been fun to watch, but the belief that we need one-party rule is what got Germany into trouble (twice), Japan once, Russia continuously, and has sent Greece down the sewer.
  • Secret Terror, The Price of Ignorance
    His Masonic friends in the police, the same police whose helicopters were disabled on "terror day," much as NORAD was mysteriously closed on 9/11, were looking out for him. Norway's police and security services are controlled by Freemasons and have a long history, dating back to 1957 when NIS D ...
  • Expect Worsening Economy, More Unemployment, H ...
    Debt Ceiling Crisis: "The Cure is as bad as disease. Spending cuts could cost economy 1-Million jobs.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Arctic Ice extent heads for satellite record low
    Exceptionally warm weather across the North Pole during the first half of July, with temperatures up to 8C above normal, could lead to record low ice extent this year according to experts, based on data collected by satellites which started in 1979. Arctic sea ice is already lower than at the ...
  • My experience with solar panels
    I thought I might share a recent personal experience of mine. Having considered the idea of generating my own electricity by way of solar photo voltaic panels on my roof for the last few months, I have finally taken the plunge. My house is directly south facing, so the roof is in a prime posi ...
  • Rest of July heading for a washout
    Most parts of the country have enjoyed a fine summers day today, with plenty of sunshine. But although it's the last thing the UK tourist industry wants to hear, the message is enjoy it while it lasts. By the weekend low pressure will again be dominating our weather as the jet stream moves fu ...
  • Global temperatures: Up sharply in June.
    The latest global temperature has been released and according to the UAH satellite measure June's anomaly was 0.314C above the running 30 year mean, up from +0.133C in May Adjusted to the more standard time period used by the Met Office and the WMO, the anomaly is now +0.567C above the 1961-199 ...
  • Unsettled June weather to extend into July
    Despite the warm and sunny conditions in the last few days, the unsettled weather which plagued much of June looks set to return. June turned out to be wet across the UK, dominated by low pressure. Averaged across England & Wales, 122% of average rainfall was recorded. In our region, for a ch ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • US "Foreign Aid," AmeriBankruptcy Victim
    To be sure, the United States used to actually aid developing countries a long time ago. Sure, the country still doles out cash and kind to exemplars of freedom 'n' growth such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, but it appears those times may not last for much longer. "Strengthening fragile stat ...
  • New Labour* on Restoring Faith in Globalization
    You will have noticed that I have placed an asterisk after New Labour. For, today's mea culpa on the shortcomings of New Labour in hindsight are largely courtesy of Lord Mandelson--formerly the EU trade commissioner and the de facto prime minister during the last days of the ill-fated Gordon Bro ...
  • WTO Heresy: D-G Pascal Lamy Warms to PTAs
    Let's get the obvious out of the way: the WTO Doha Development Agenda still looks as unsalvageable as it did at the start of this year. Being the guy who inherited the stillborn negotiations, failed to get them done during his first term, and likely will pass it on to someone else the way things ...
  • HMS Ark Royal: Floating PRC 'Disco of Doom'?
    When at anchor here I ride, my bosom swells with pride, And I snap my fingers at a foeman's taunts-- And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts! They say the truth is stranger than fiction, and I surely couldn't have made up a dafter story: "China buying the [decommissioned] Ark Royal ...
  • IMF Harps on PRC Yuan Undervaluation (Again)
    Here we go again: with China being the country with the world's largest external surplus, its role in the resolution of global economic imbalances is always going to loom large. Given the past and continuing Western dominance of international financial institutions alike the IMF-witness the Chri ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Norway Premier “Begged” Putin To Stop Massacre ...
    A startling Federal Security Service (FSB) report on the 22 July massacre in Norway states that two-days prior to this catastrophic attack Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg [photo top right with Putin] placed an “urgent” call to Putin “begging” Russia’s leader to help stop the events tha ...
  • Ex-army chief held after Guinea’s President es ...
    Guinean President Alpha Conde escaped two attacks on his residence on Tuesday that killed at least three people and left his home riddled with bullets, in assaults which authorities linked to former senior officers in the army. The attacks renewed international concerns about the stability of th ...
  • Xi Jinping: China will ‘smash’ Tibet separatism
    The man expected to be China’s next president has promised to “smash” any attempts to destabilise Tibet. Xi Jinping, who is due to succeed President Hu Jintao in 2013, said he would fight against “separatist activities” linked to the Dalai Lama. He was speaking in Lhasa as part of a trip to mark ...
  • US drone shot down over Iran nuclear site
    Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has shot down a US spy drone which was flying over the central Iranian province of Qom, a lawmaker says. A member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Majlis (Parliament), Ali Aqazadeh Dafsari, said on Tuesday that the ...
  • Tanks enter town as Syria protests swell
    Army presses ahead in its campaign to overcome anti-regime revolt, prepares to intervene in Al-Bukamal. The Syrian army on Sunday set its sights on the town of Zabadani near the Lebanon border as it pressed ahead in its campaign to overcome an anti-regime revolt, a human rights activist said. In ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Protect the sanctity of the confessional to co ...
    Responses to the Cloyne report have included calls to break that ultimate coverup con trick “the sanctity of the confessional”. That really got the paedophile protectors squealing in horror. Imagine not getting special treatment and not being allowed to commit whatever crimes they like without c ...
  • Imagine How It Feels
    How many people talk about the issue of Catholic Church enabled child sexual abuse without a thought for how it feels to be the victim of such abuse? This issue is, after all, about children. Yesterday’s children whose lives were irreparably damaged by their abuse and who are still being re-abus ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
    I used to think the John Jay College  of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
  • Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
    This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
  • Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...
    Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]

WL Central

  • OpPayPal: Hacktivists Launch New, Legal Attack ...
    TweetA second wave of online protests has been launched againt PayPal, the Internet payment company whose December 2010 blocking of WikiLeaks donations provoked angry Denial Of Service (DDOS) attacks on their site. The latest protest, code-named #OpPayPal, was launched by AntiSec hacktivists, he ...
  • 2011-07-27 Refugee rights activists stage roof ...
    TweetOn Wednesday July 27, 2011 five members of the Monash Refugee Action Collective (MRAC) gained access to the roof of the campus centre at the Clayton campus as part of a protest against the Gillard government’s treatment of asylum seekers. These students hung several banners over the side of ...
  • Twitter Archive
    TweetWikileaks' Twitter account was opened in early 2009. The first tweet dates from Feb 11 2009. Since then, Wikileaks has used its Twitter account as one of the primary tools of its public relations: announcing leaks, informing its supporters, and issuing statements to various authorities. The ...
  • 2011-07-26 The Murdoch scandal: More to come
    TweetThe past few months have seen an ongoing series of revelations that have rocked the Murdoch media empire. The News International phone-hacking scandal’s genesis began at the Murdoch owned, now-defunct News of the World UK newspaper. A new website Murdoch Leaks: www.murdochleaks.org has been ...
  • 2011-07-26 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 03:35 AM Diplomatic cable analysis published by EFF with details on priv ...

U N News

  • UN human rights officials voice concern at clo ...
    United Nations human rights officials today urged Haitian authorities to ensure that the closure of camps for people displaced by last year's catastrophic earthquake is done in a planned way as part of a broader plan to improve access to adequate housing.
  • UN official urges positive social legacy' fro ...
    The upcoming World Cup soccer tournament and Summer Olympics in Brazil should be harnessed to deliver a "positive social legacy" for the South American country and beyond, the United Nations envoy for sports and peace has said.
  • Ban asks Iberoamerican artists for help in sol ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today asked television producers and artists in Spain, Portugal and Latin America to use their imaginative talents to find new ways to help solve challenges related to the environment, women's empowerment, organized crime and drug trafficking.
  • Honduras: UNESCO deplores murders of two journ ...
    The head of the United Nations agency that works to defend press freedom spoke out today at the recent slayings of another two journalists in Honduras, where at least a dozen reporters have been killed in the past 18 months.
  • Senior UN official deplores murder of third Me ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom has condemned the killing of a Mexican journalist, the latest addition to what she called "the long list of victims sacrificed at the altar of freedom of expression."

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Population Control – Eugenics Depopulation Agenda
    Eugenicists who have still caught on to the discredited principles of eugenics, now attach these ideas to environmentalism and population control in an attempt to carry on eugenics in a more veiled form. Malthusian population control was now emphasized.
  • CAMP FEMA: American Lockdown
    The martial law portions of Rex 84 were outlined in a 1982 memo, written by FEMA deputy John Brinkerhoff. Martial law was to be declared in the event of a national crisis, yet the plan did not define the term "national crisis". The plan allowed FEMA to take control of both federal and state gove ...
  • 2012 – Science or Superstition – End Times Pre ...
    December 21, 2012, the end date of the sophisticated long count calendar created by the ancient Maya in Central America. Countless books and websites, magazine articles and newspaper headlines debate its meaning, with enthusiasts in two camps; those for casting apocalypse, the end of time, and t ...
  • A Machine To Die For: The Quest For Free Energy
    There's a thing called the classified patent system which hardly anybody knows about. And every time you apply for a patent it goes through a screening by someone from the Department of Defense here in this country as well as other countries. And if this device has any kind of defense associated ...
  • A Machine To Die For: The Quest For Free Energy
    There's a thing called the classified patent system which hardly anybody knows about. And every time you apply for a patent it goes through a screening by someone from the Department of Defense here in this country as well as other countries. And if this device has any kind of defense associated ...

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly Signaling Disaster?
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Geophysical Data Center reveals a magnetic crustal field model of the earth which shows a magnetic anomaly in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, which when coupled with other local data, raise ...
  • Disinfectant Bleach-Water Ratio
    Bleach is one of the most widely available and affordable disinfectants on earth. Clorox® brand liquid bleach was introduced in 1913 and has played a critical role in helping to protect public health by killing germs that cause illness. For years, bleach has helped purify water – particularly du ...
  • 10 Ways a Guv’ment may Shut You Up
    Guest Post: by ‘Be informed’ Message: What happens when you say something and hit a secret nerve with the government? The many survival sites and the other so called “conspiracy” internet web sites put on all sorts of valuable information from surviving through really difficult times to other fa ...
  • State Income Tax Comparison
    State Income Tax Table 2010 Individual Tax Rates (percentage) Rounded to the nearest tenth Not including whatever state deductions that may exist Although New Hampshire and Tennessee are listed as zero income tax, they do tax on interest and dividend income at 5% and 6% respectively. Three incom ...
  • 10 Year Anniversary Terrorist Attack on US Inf ...
    We (in the US) are now suddenly hearing new warnings from ‘Big Sis’ Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security that “violent extremists have, in fact, obtained insider positions,” and that “outsiders have attempted to solicit utility-sector employees” for damaging physical and cybe ...

Fast Company

  • When Hacks Attack: The Computer Security Textb ...
    A crusader from Attrition.org has found that an alarmingly high number of books written by computer security experts are nearly 100% copied from other sources. What does that say about the industry?Borrowing code is standard operating procedure for those who work with software. All modern comput ...
  • Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Are The New N ...
    Whether or not the increased number of natural disasters is real or imagined, one thing is clear: We're paying more and more money to deal with their aftermath. Major weather disasters appear to be occurring so frequently that they are now often referred to as the new normal. But are there actu ...
  • Unbound's Crowd-Financed, Spine-Tingling Effor ...
    Unbound publishing, the Kickstarter for books,�just had its very first success: It reached its target so that it could produce and then publish a new book by none other than Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame. Why is the tech and publishing world so excited about a single book from a lone, unhear ...
  • Inside The Libyan Rebels' Mobile-Phone Network
    While the world is debating what to do in Libya, the rebels have been getting technical--here's a look inside two mobile-phone networks created by the Libyan rebels to make calls without pesky surveillance and jamming. The best part? Local calls are free.While fighting between Libyan rebels and ...
  • Selling Solar Lamps Door-To-Door Powers Africa ...
    Solar Sister gives startup funds--and a $500 "business-in-a-bag"--to door-to-door solar saleswomen, illuminating villages and offering exceptional economic benefits to communities.The ubiquitous Avon saleswomen traveled first by foot, then horse and buggy, and eventually by car to sell cosmetics ...

Jadaliyya

  • After Oslo: Europe, Islam and the Mainstreamin ...
    European media coverage of the Norwegian tragedy has led with dangerous and clichéd arguments about �Islamic extremism� and multiculturalism, even after the identity of the killer was confirmed � thus contributing to the mainstreaming of racism that helped make Breivik what he is. An ho ...
  • عضوية فلسطين بالأمم المتحدة والقانون الدولي
    "ا�عض��ة با�أمم ا�متحدة م�ت�حة أمام جم�ع ا�د�� ا�محبة ��س�ام"� �ردت �ذ� ا�عبارة �� م�ثا� ا�أمم ا�متحدة ا�ذ� �تابع بأ� �ب�� د��ة ما �عض� با�أمم ا�متحدة �عتمد ع�� "�رار تتخذ� ا�جمع�ة ا�عامة با�اعتماد ع�� ت�ص�ة م� مج�س ا�أم�". تبد� ا�شر�ط �اب�ة ��ت���ذ� ���� ا��ا�ع ا��ائم ��س�اسة ا�د���ة �ا ...
  • The Syrian People Will Determine the Fate of S ...
    [This interview was conducted by Jadaliyya Co-Editor�Ibtisam Azem and first published in Arabic by Qantara. It was translated into English by Ziad Abu-Rish and Khuloud.] In the following conversation with Ibtisam Azem, a prominent Syrian opposition figure and Professor of Political Soci ...
  • Oppression 2.0: Iranian Discontent in Cyberspace
    The state of Iranian cyberspace is yet another example of the repressive relationship between the Islamic Republic's government and the people of Iran. A report by Freedom House this April ranked Iran last in regards to Internet freedom. This dismal ranking is based on Iran's "extens ...
  • نهاية ”الولائم الدسمة“ للأسرى السياسيين
    عش�ة ح��� ا�ذ�ر� ا�س���ة ا�خامسة ����ع ج�د� ��ات ا�إحت�ا� ا�إسرائ��� ج�عاد ش��ط� �� ا�أسر �ا�ذ� صاد� �� 23 م� ش�ر حز�را�� صرح �تا��ا�� بأ� "عصر ا�إمت�ازات" ��أسر� ا�س�اس��� ا���سط����� �ا�عرب �� ا�سج�� ا�إسرائ���ة� �ا�ذ�� ت��� أعداد�م ا�سبعة ا�أ�ا�� �د ��� �ا�ت��. �م� ضم� �ا�إمت�ازات� ا� ...

mediagazer

  • BSkyB Likely to Buy Back Shares (Wall Street J ...
    Wall Street Journal: BSkyB Likely to Buy Back Shares  —  LONDON—British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC is likely to announce a share buyback of as much as £1 billion ($1.64 billion) Friday, according to people familiar with the matter, as the U.K. satellite-television operator retools itself after ...
  • Friend of the Murdochs to lead internal probe ...
    David Gelles / Financial Times: Friend of the Murdochs to lead internal probe into NoW  —  One of the most popular courses at the Georgetown University law school is the “Corporations” class taught by Viet Dinh, a former assistant attorney-general.  In it, Mr Dinh gives students an introduction ...
  • Darts and Laurels - Meet Brian Condra, the med ...
    Lauren Kirchner / CJR: Darts and Laurels  —  Meet Brian Condra, the media's favorite “everyman”  —  In late 2008, as the world financial system went into collapse, a shocking self-dealing scandal toppled the Anglo Irish Bank.  As Ireland slid into recession, the government nationalized the Angl ...
  • Times editor agrees NI's handling of phone hac ...
    Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Times editor agrees NI's handling of phone hacking was ‘catastrophic’  —  James Harding says some readers cancelled subscriptions in wake of revelations about News of the World's alleged activities  —  The editor of the Times, James Harding, has admitted that News Int ...
  • Social media and the new wave of journalism (D ...
    Deborah Mackay / The Next Web: Social media and the new wave of journalism  —  The launch of Google+ has us all asking: can it beat Twitter and Facebook as a tool for journalists?  Social media is invaluable when it comes to news gathering, but what I want to know is with all this news curatio ...

Chemtrail News

  • Strange Horizons: Chemtrails: it's ...
    Need to get that across before I start getting comments telling me, "The first chemtrails were spotted in 1963! Decades before X-Files, you dumbass! ...strangehorizons.blogspot.com/.../chemtrails-its-conspiracy-ykn...
  • How To Clean Up A Chemtrail Sky - Video
    An explanation of what chemtrails are, and a demonstration of how to clean chemtrails out of the sky.. Watch Video about Chemtrail ...www.metacafe.com/watch/.../how_to_clean_up_a_chemtrail_s...
  • Chemtrail Pilots Are Guilty Of Terroris ...
    They do this willingly. It amounts to deliberately trying to harm someone. At . Watch Video about Pilots,Chemtrail,Chemtrails by Metacafe.com.www.metacafe.com/.../chemtrail_pilots_are_guilty_of_terroris...
  • I have seen a real chemtrail
    Discussion about I have seen a real chemtrail!!! at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1566868/pg1
  • Chemtrails They Have VANISHED
    Discussion about Chemtrails: They Have VANISHED! at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1572225/pg1

World News - Top Stories

  • 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...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitariesSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the....Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a...Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Green energy investment hits record global high
    Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle �|� � ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 7/27/11 - ACLU Historical Timeline
    aclu.procon.org - UPDATED: ACLU Historical Timeline - Read about the history of the American Civil Liberties Union from its formation in 1920, through their organizational split over Japanese internment in 1942, to the ACLU's defense of the right for American Nazis to march in Skokie, IL in 1977 ...
  • 7/27/11 - Is illegal immigration an economic b ...
    immigration.procon.org - UPDATED: Is illegal immigration an economic burden to America? - Read pro and con statements from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (pro), Dr. Alan Greenspan (con), Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen (pro), the Washington Post (con), and many others in our recen ...
  • 7/22/11 - Should flavored milk be available in ...
    milk.procon.org - UPDATED: Should flavored milk be available in schools? - The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board of Education voted 5-2 to remove chocolate, strawberry, blueberry, rootbeer, and all flavored milks from LAUSD schools. Over 95% of US school districts still offer the ...
  • 7/20/11 - Obama administration to support repe ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - Obama administration to support repeal of Defense of Marriage Act. The announcement follows President Obama's decision on Feb. 23, 2011 to instruct the Justice Department to stop defending DOMA, the federal law that defines marriage as a legal union between a man and wom ...
  • 7/20/11 - Obesity Drugs Timeline - Read the hi ...
    obesity.procon.org - NEW: Obesity Drugs Timeline - Read the history of drugs used to treat obesity from the late 1800s to 2011 including thyroid extract, rainbow pills, and Redux. Our new chart shows which drugs were rejected by the FDA, discontinued by the manufacturer, and remain on the market ...

Truth About Our World

  • Gunman Conspired With “Business and Political ...
    This picture reminds me of a highly sophisticated blow-up “dummy”.     Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Anders Behring Breivik said he conspired with âbusiness and political leadersâ in London years before he set about planning last weekâs massacre, an intruiging connection ...
  • Inside LSD
  • Norway Terror Attacks a False Flag: More Than ...
    by Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net Washington DC, July 24, 2011 � The tragic terror attacks in Norway display a number of the telltale signs of a false flag provocation. It is reported that, although the world media are attempting to focus on Anders Behring Breivik as a lone assassin in th ...
  • Crazy People – We Are ONE
    It is the crazy people who change the world for the better – it is the ‘sane’ ones that destroy it. ‘Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in a square hole; the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for ...
  • OKA— Kulcha
    This album is a collection of live tracks from 2 different gigs, one in Australia and one Canada, no overdubs, just raw Oka tracks as they went down. If you have heard Oka live and enjoyed it this is definitely worth a listen. credits released 09 February 2011 Dub, Edits & The Jamaican Mule by O ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • ‘Wave of death’ may not be a last gasp
    Brain may still be living a minute after decapitation By Laura Sanders Electrodes capture a large wave of activity moving through rat brains about 50 seconds after decapitation.C. van Rijn et al/PLoS One 2011 Almost a minute after a ratâs head is severed from its body, an eerie shudder of activi ...
  • Chimp brains don’t shrink
    Study indicates brain withering may be uniquely human By Laura Sanders Unlike humans, chimpanzeesâ brains donât shrink as they get older. That means that, so far, people seem to be the only lucky species whose brains wither with age, researchers report online July 25 in the Proceedings of the Na ...
  • Tossing, turning, forgetting
    Memory requires uninterrupted zâs Tina Hesman Saey Continuity of sleep, not just the total hours of nightly slumber, is crucial to forming and retaining memories, a new study in mice suggests. Mice couldnât remember objects theyâd seen before after a night of interrupted sleep, Asya Rolls of Sta ...
  • A bookshelf the size of the world
    Inside the vision for the largest library in history (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff) Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library, and others are working to create a worldwide digital public library. Richard Beck As the digitization of human culture accelerates, publishers and academi ...
  • Big Content’s latest antipiracy weapon: ...
    Timothy B. Lee As major American copyright holders continue their long war on file-sharing, the focus of the debate has increasingly shifted overseas. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun seizing the domain names of so-called rogue sites based overseas. And copyright interests ar ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Open meeting on open science – some highlights
    FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE We kicked off our Science as a public enterprise  study with a public event at the Southbank Centre last month. The full recording of the first debate is now available. Download audio file  (Apologies for the mixed quality – the audience mikes were ...
  • Engineering public engagement
    FROM EMMA WOODS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE What is so unusual about geoengineering? What sets it apart from other controversial technologies? One thing that strikes me as particularly atypical is that the social dimensions of geoengineering are being addressed well ahead of the development of ...
  • Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
    FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
  • Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
    FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
  • Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
    There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA.   The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • John Bursill reports on the Qantas industrial ...
    Tonight aircraft engineer John Bursill returns to the show to bring us an update on the ongoing dispute between Qantas ground crews and the corporatocracy which wants to outsource safety checks to overseas facilities. It should be noted that John Bursill does not speak as a representative of Q ...
  • The Murdoch Meltdown
    Rupert and James Murdoch testifying at the Parliamentary Inquiry Tonight I am joined by Josh Jackson as we explore the wider implications of the News Corp phone hacking scandal. In particular, we look at the future of news and whether this crisis signals the demise of traditional mass media. ...
  • TNRA reports on the latest carbon rally
    Tonight we bring you the full audio (and video) from last week's carbon rally in Hyde Park, with some discussion and commentary. The gathering at Hyde Park was very rowdy - many people have a high level of anger about the current situation and this is evident in the tone of the crowd attending ...
  • The Truther Girls review “Among The Trut ...
    Jonathan Kay went undercover among the truthers and lived to write a book about it, in which he naturally concludes what he already knew before he started his foray in the world of conspiracy theories: that truthers are crazy! More Links: New York Times book review AmongTheTruthers ...
  • Hyde Park Rally: “The Science Doesn’t Ju ...
    Come to the rally and help us make history! What: Hyde Park Rally – “The Science Doesn’t Justify a Carbon Tax” When: Saturday, July 9, 2011 12:00 PM Where: Hyde Park North More info: http://www.meetup.com/wearechange-sydney/events/24210181/ Lord Monckton, Jo Nova and Dr. David Evans ar ...

Beacon

  • Josh Lucas Joins Oceana in Oregon
    Earlier this summer, actor Josh Lucas traveled to the Oregon Coast with Oceana, Nautica and GQ to explore the area�s unique marine environment. Lucas visited picturesque Yaquina Head, a promontory southwest of Portland known for its views of the gray whale migration route and seabird nesting a ...
  • Kate Walsh: My Ocean Inspiration
    © Tim Calver I had the good fortune to spend quite a bit of time in and around the ocean and sea during the last few months of my hiatus from �Private Practice,� both for work and for pleasure. My love for the oceans is obvious, to be sure, but nothing reinvigorates my commitment to keepin ...
  • Friday Infographic: Fishing Weaponry
    Since a lot of what happens in the oceans is hidden from view, the issues we discuss here on the blog can often be abstract and hard to visualize. That�s why starting today, I�ll be featuring an ocean infographic by artist Don Foley each week. These infographics also appear in Oceana board memb ...
  • Photo of the Week: Long-finned Pilot Whales
    © Oceana/Carlos Minguell The Ranger crew spotted these gorgeous long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) off the coast of Calahonda, Spain. As you can see, these cetaceans have a bulbous head and short jaw, with flippers that almost look like elbows due to their sharp backward bend. L ...
  • Victory: Court Rules in Favor of Oceana on Bycatch
    © Oceana/ Jesus Renedo Great news for the oceans: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled in favor of Oceana in a suit that will require commercial fisheries from North Carolina to the Canadian border to monitor and report the amount of bycatch, or untargeted marine ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • “Don’t Be A Sucker In Germany.”
    Don't Be A Sucker In Germany This Book was published and given to occupying American soldiers as a warning about the true nature of the German people and the nature of the resistance. It is truly one of the most bigoted, racist, prejudiced piece of literature ever published. It is astonishing, y ...
  • Boudica.
    Boudica, Queen of the Iceni Boudica, was “possessed of greater intelligence than often belongs to women”, that she was tall, had hair described as reddish-brown or tawny hanging below her waist, a harsh voice and a piercing glare, and habitually wore a large golden necklace, a many-colored tunic ...
  • The Day A Mitchell B-25 Medium Bomber Careened ...
    Empire State Building On Fire After B-25 Impact It was a foggy day in New York City on a Saturday morning, July 28th, 1945. Clouds festooned skyscrapers over the island in thick layers. Although it was a Saturday, a new six-day workweek brought on by the World War helped appoint many offices wit ...
  • US Industrial Might In World War II By The Numbers
    Last night I watched a Netflix feature, on the US in World War II on The Story of Us. I have written extensively about this. The manufacturing numbers we put out were a first for industry and have barely been bested. There is a thick historical context that runs throughout these numbers as well. ...
  • Winston Churchill’s Touching Tribute To ...
    Neville Chambelain There is perhaps no character more vilified than the former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who signed the Munich Accords with the Nazi High Command. His intentions were pure, and no one at the time knew that Hitler was using this as a ruse simply to buy time before ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Fear of Making the Wrong Kind of History
    Mr. Boehner now has the GOP positioned in sight of a political and policy victory. If his plan or something close to it becomes law, Democrats will have conceded more spending cuts than they thought possible, and without getting the GOP to raise taxes and without being able to blame Republicans ...
  • Reid Shoots, Scores, by Ending Wars
    Well, at least Harry can count, not only doing proper math, but it’s likely he’s the one who has the votes he needs, while the jury’s out for Mr. Boehner. In the battle of budget scores, the Senate Democrats deficit reduction bill is the clear winner thus far over an alternative by Speaker John ...
  • Rewrite!
    …and just when Republicans were ready to declare victory. The first installment of $900 billion is contingent on enacting 10 year caps on annual appropriations which the leadership had hoped would save well over $1 trillion. But CBO late Tuesday came back with a report showing the legislation wo ...
  • Bachmann’s Big Beauty Budget
    It’s the Hillary effect again, this time on what it takes for a female candidate to run for president, including expenses a man doesn’t have to consider. I’ve been following Michele Bachmann’s makeover, which was unveiled at one point in 2010 when Sarah Palin came to campaign for her in Minnesot ...
  • Veto Recommendation Comes Down from WH/OMB on ...
    Via Mark Knoller.

Hudson New York

  • Misperceptions of the Arab Spring
    After successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt this year, Western media almost unanimously characterized protesters in the Arab Spring as "pro-democracy protesters" with no shades of gray. Any opposition to the existing regimes -- whether in Bahrain,
  • The Real Role of Israeli Arabs
    Israeli Arabs can play a role in reviving the stalled peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Although this is an internal Israeli issue between the state and its Arab citizens, -- not an issue in which the West should be involved --
  • Nuclear Cooperation between Argentina and Iran?
    With the help of Venezuela, there is reason to believe that Argentina is cooperating with Iran on its the nuclear issue in a deal that involves Argentina's willingness to drop the accusations against Iran for the 1994 bombing in return for business. In a
  • Dubrovnic on the Adriatic
    Dubrovnic, Croatia's Athens of the Adriatic, has risen from virtual destruction after Milosovic's Serbian army devastated the town in 1991: 70% of the homes were damaged from the bombing. Even the ancient wall that surrounds the old city was pounded by
  • Syrian Government to Adopt Multi-Party System
    Syria's government has endorsed a draft law that it says will allow the formation of political parties alongside President Bashar Assad's ruling Baath Party, part of a series of promised reforms that the opposition has dismissed as largely symbolic. The

Urban Survival

  • The Drop in Durables
    The odds of a second dip in the economy just moved up a north this morning with a report on Durable Goods Orders from the Census Bureau: New Orders New orders for manufactured durable goods in June decreased $4.0 billion … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the New Function of Money
    I keep coming back to the idea of copyrighting my name.  Know why?  Because then I could maybe turn around and sue all the electronic database operators who know what year the wife’s car is, which hotels we’ve stayed in, … Continue reading →
  • Housing Improves a Bit
    (Amarillo, TX)  OK, so we have a National Idiot Festival going on with the Federal Budget.  So what if 5,827 bank branches have been reorganized since IndyMac?  So what if we have more wars going on now than even under … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Smoke in Theaters
    (Amarillo, TX)  After driving clear across New Mexico – about 373.5 miles on our particular route, the last thing I was expected at dinner last night here was a conversation about ‘truth seeking’, the web bot project, and such, but … Continue reading →
  • Advisory
    This morning’s report will be posted about 20 minutes late as we’re waiting to see if I’ve got the date for the release of the monthly S&P/Case-Shiller Housing Data right…

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • MIND CONTROL 80: In The World But Not Of The World
    Let us take a look at a prayer that Jesus said concerning his disciples. It is very important to situate the context of the scenarioâ¦.. because it is specifically about his disciples. It would be important to take what he says here into consideration⦅ assuming that we too want to be his disci ...
  • MIND CONTROL 79: Discerning The Voice Of Strangers
    For some reasonâ¦â¦ there is this illusion that Pastors are representatives of Godâ¦.. appointed by Godâ¦â¦ in order to tell us the truth about God. But the fact remainsâ¦â¦ the truth about Godâ¦.. came through âone personâ. Jesus Christ. John 10:1-18 1 “I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, THE MAN WHO DOES NO ...
  • MIND CONTROL 78: An Errand Boy Named Jesus
    This is probably one of my favorite things that Jesus ever saidâ¦..because it has had such an impact on my life. It is one of those statements that comes in conjunction with the sayingâ¦.. âput your money where your mouth isâ. It is shortâ¦.. and to the point. Jesus says: John 7:16-18 16 “MY TEA ...
  • BODY CAMOUFLAGE – By: Liu Bolin
    Filed under: CREATIVITY Tagged: creativity, painting
  • UNDERWATER SCULPTURES – By: Jason de Cai ...
    Filed under: CREATIVITY Tagged: art, creativity, sculptures

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Researchers in New England solve lizard/turtle ...
    More here from the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. From Nature News: According to the fossil record, turtles first appeared in the Triassic period around 230 million years ago, and have changed little since. Crucially, turtles lack temporal fenestrae, suggesting ...
  • Science sans fish at Woods Hole Film Fest
    Sharks figure in some of the films slated for this weekend's Woods Hole Film Festival. Bit, even though the event is in a Cape Cod town known for marine research and ferries, the offerings are cinematic, not scientific. Still, the main character in one of the films is a Harvard biologist. From ...
  • PCAST Report: Better data needed to monitor bi ...
    Daniel Schrag, director of Harvard Center for Environment, contributed to new report citing the need for better data on biodiversity and ecosystem data. Nature News reports: Biodiversity and ecosystem data gathered by US environmental monitoring programs need to be better centralized, accordi ...
  • Green chemistry, birds of Cape Cod and other ...
    We've loaded up our expanded vacation calendar with science-tinged events in Boston and beyond, including Cape Cod, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. Lots of things to do with the kids, but plenty for adults, including a bird watching cruise, a talk about green chemistry, a beach biology worksho ...
  • National Weather Service, MOS offers heat wave ...
    National Weather Service offers some technical details on today's heat wave. The Museom of Science,Boston also has an exhibit. For example, we don't need to worrry about the Mesoscale Convective System -- a cluster of thunderstorms that will pass north of New England. The Museom of Scie ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Capps Amendment to H.R. 2584: Protecting Our C ...
    John Walke, Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. Representative Lois Capps (D-CA) is offering an amendment to the House EPA-Interior spending bill that protects our children’s health from dangerous mercury pollution.  Please call ...
  • Pipeline Problems: The mess remains one year a ...
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois At this time last year, I was a very unhappy man. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil were speeding down the Kalamazoo River towards the Great Lakes from southwest Michigan a ...
  • Robert Glenn Ketchum, Our Generation's Ansel Adams
    Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA While Robert Glenn Ketchum's name recognition can be debated, his impact on the world cannot.  According to Ameri ...
  • Wildlife Wins: Endangered Species Act Funds Re ...
    Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC Republicans and Democrats can’t find a whole lot to agree on these days.  Well, today they did.  Thirty-seven Republicans joined all but 2 Democrats to pass an amendment to the Interior appropriati ...
  • Hexavalent Chromium in Drinking Water: Welcome ...
    Gina Solomon, Senior Scientist, San Francisco Today, the State of California�took an important step toward protecting people from cancer-causing chromium in drinking water. After a decade of study, public review, meetings, and scientific analysis, ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, July 26, 2011: Mt Rainier MD cop indicted on 12 counts for allegedly pistol whipping & shooting man he tried to sexually assault [0] http://wj.la/oHzWBd Pulaski County AR deputy fir ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, July 25, 2011: Monterey Co CA SWAT team is subject of a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who was unarmed when the heavily armored team launched a flash-bang grenade into his home ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 07-23 ...
    Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of July 23-24, 2011: Washington Twp PA police officer was arrested on homicide, conspiracy and possession of stolen goods charges after his father was arrested on homicide charges in ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, July 22, 2011: San Francisco CA cop who cost city over $400k in multiple brutality claims is fired 4yrs after put on desk duty [1] http://bit.ly/oad5ji US Marshals settle suit for $3 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 21 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, July 21, 2011: Philadelphia PA police are being sued by a man claiming cops used excessive force when they left son in coma after beating and tasering him in an incident that witne ...

Total Collapse

  • Anders Behring Breivik: a Judeo-Masonic Terrorist
    In the aftermath of crimes perpetrated by the Cryptocracy’s “lone nuts,” the controlled media seek to muddy the waters with competing theories, motives, background, ideologies and affiliations acribed to the shooter. In the case of Lee Harvey Oswald he has been presented as pro-Castro and anti-C ...
  • The real Norway story – A secret army of Jewis ...
    We have all witnessed a media syllabus unfold before our eyes these past few days, a demonstration of the paradigm that keeps the world locked into this false anti-terror paradigm, in which the terror is always manufactured by the people who claim to be fighting the terror. Do you get it yet? Th ...
  • Norway Premier “Begged” Putin To Stop Massacre ...
    A startling Federal Security Service (FSB) report on the 22 July massacre in Norway states that two-days prior to this catastrophic attack Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg [photo top left with Putin] placed an “urgent” call to Putin “begging” Russia’s leader to help stop the events that ...
  • Israel PM guards tell women reporters to remov ...
    Foreign journalists on Friday spoke of their distress after being asked to remove their bras for a security check before being allowed into the offices of Israel’s prime minister. The three women were told by security personnel to undress and take off their bras for x-ray in two separate inciden ...
  • Anders Behring Breivik – Knights Templar 2083 ...
    New surreal details are emerging about Breivik… The killer claims to be a Knights Templar… Wrote a 1,500 page document detailing his preparations… From the Daily Mail: Breivik’s confession comes as details of a 12-minute video entitled ‘Knights Templar 2083′, which briefly appeared on YouTube, h ...

Daily Dose

  • CBS deal bringing more content to Netflix Canada
    Those Canadians who have been subscribing to Netflix Canada have had one request at the top of their wish lists since it launched here late last year: “more content, please.” Today, the streaming video service announced a deal with CBS Corp. that will — at least partially — grant that wish. Acc ...
  • BBC iPlayer iPad app goes abroad with launch i ...
    BBC Worldwide is taking its iPad video-on-demand service iPlayer global today, with launches in 11 Western European countries, The Guardian reports. The iPad iPlayer app launched in the UK in February. The US, Canadian and Australian launches will follow before the year’s end. For now, users in ...
  • The ITC will investigate Samsung’s patent clai ...
    As Samsung and Apple continue to trade blows in their legal battle over patents, the ITC has given Samsung a bit more of a toehold Wednesday as it announced that it will investigate claims that Apple infringed on Samsung patents with its iPhone, iPod touch and iPad products. The complaint, num ...
  • US consumers prefer Windows Phone over BlackBerry
    A new survey taken by PriceGrabber highlights how far Windows Phone has yet to go before it can be considered a leading mobile operating system. When US consumers were polled, only 7% indicated that phones running Microsoft software were their preference. Apple products stormed the results, sna ...
  • Education is the next startup Gold Rush, Silic ...
    There was a time when prospectors from around the world converged on San Francisco with picks and shovels to extract gold from the rolling hills. Today, a similar migration is taking place, though the tools have changed slightly, as servers have taken the place of shovels and a sharp resume wil ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Solar Thermal a Key Driver of Renewable Energy ...
    New data released by Bloomberg New Energy Finance shows that, over the last financial quarter, a staggering $US41.7billion of new capital was invested globally in the renewable energy sector. Investments in the innovative concentrating solar thermal (CST) industry were identified as a key drive ...
  • Carbon Price Scheme – No Longer a Mystery Package
    Upon the release of Prime Minister Julia Gillard�s carbon price package (to take effect July 1, 2012), there has been talk aplenty of her plummeting popularity. The PM has dismissed the commentary in favour of the scheme�s necessity, saying, �Polls will come and go�� I�m absolutely convinced wh ...
  • BZE Executive Director pictured on front of 20 ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions is pleased to have been awarded the prestigous opportunity to be pictured on the front of the Sydney Whitepages by Telstra owned directory publisher Sensis. BZE Executive Director Matthew Wright is pictured on top of the Sydney Theatre Company with their new largescale ...
  • Carbon Price Response: A Small Step Forward, B ...
    Climate and energy security think tank Beyond Zero Emissions welcome the Labor government�s carbon price package negotiated with The Greens and lower house independents Rob Oakshott and Tony Windsor. The proposed legislation will start the process of transitioning Australia from a 19th Century f ...
  • Climate Policy unFiT for getting Rooftop Solar ...
    The Gillard government has ignored the most successful policy in the world for rolling out renewables deployed and reducing carbon emissions: the German renewable energy Feed-in Tariff. Internal analysis by Beyond Zero Emissions shows that the use of a Feed-in Tariff to get solar panels onto e ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Australian 'green' buildings used illegally lo ...
    A 'green' building development being built by Frasers Property Australia in Sydney has been accused of using illegally-sourced plywood from Malaysian state of Sarawak in Borneo, according to a new Greenpeace report. The wood in question comes from a subsidiary of Samling, a company that has been ...
  • Climate activist sentenced to 2 years in jail ...
    Yesterday a federal court in Salt Lake City, Utah convicted climate activist Tim DeChristopher of defrauding the US government, sentencing him to two years in jail and a fine of $10,000, reports the Associated Press. In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher, won the mineral rights for 22,500 acres o ...
  • WWF partnering with companies that destroy rai ...
    Arguably the globe's most well-known conservation organization, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), has been facilitating illegal logging, vast deforestation, and human rights abuses by pairing up with notorious logging companies in a flagging effort to convert them to greener practices, alleg ...
  • Video: Tiger trapped in Asia Pulp and Paper lo ...
    Caught in a snare and left for days without access to food and water, a wild Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) perished from its wounds hours after forest officers reached it. As reported by Greenpeace—which photographed and filmed the rescue attempt—the tiger was trapped at the edge of ...
  • Picture of the day: unusually blue animals
    Following up on yesterday's post on the spectacular blue anole from the Colombian island of Gorgona, here is a small collection of pure blue animals I've photographed. Birds and fish are excluded from the list since there are many blue species.

Sierra Express

  • M/V Geo Caribbean – seismic survey
    From the 27th July 2011, The M/V Geo Caribbean will be undertaking a seismic survey on behalf of European Hydrocarbons in exploration of Block SL-3, Offshore; The M/V Geo Caribbean will be accompanied by two (2) escort boats for protection. All fishing vessels are requested to keep a minimum of ...
  • ‘Heal Our Nation’ video from Sierra Leonean re ...
    Sierra Leonean recording artist Freddy Cole Shabaka has released the video for his song “Heal Our Nation” which was recorded live at the Montgomery College Performing Arts Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA in September 2010 during the Miss Sierra Leone USA Pageant. The video was produced by ...
  • SWASAL sympathises the death of Leone Stars’ m ...
    The Executive and General Membership of the Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL) wish to extend our profound and deepest condolences to the bereaved family, relatives and friends of the late Rashid Kabia, who had his sudden home call in Freetown on Tuesday 26th July 2011 aged 51 y ...
  • Is the government taking the Human Rights Comm ...
    On the 27th June 2011 the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone gave what I called a landmark ruling on the matter between Blamo Jesse Jackson and 234 others (as Complainants) and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) (as Respondents). The commissi ...
  • One year to go to London 2012 by the British F ...
    On 27 July, Britain’s young champion Tom Daley dives into the waters of our stunning new Aquatics Centre and the ripples will be felt across the world. Today, from Trafalgar Square in the heart of London, President Rogge of the International Olympic Committee will address nations around the glob ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Milk lovers travel for cheap deal
    Aucklanders fed up with unaffordable dairy prices are driving across town to buy cheap milk in bulk from a Mt Wellington superette selling at cost price.Satish Masters, owner of the Harris Rd Superette and Lotto, said customers...
  • US report backs Fonterra pricing
    As the dairy industry waits to see if the Commerce Commission will hold an inquiry into retail milk prices, a report commissioned by Fonterra says the way the dairy giant sets the farm-gate price is sound.Fonterra has been coming...
  • Dairy prices to fall, but not milk
    The price of butter and cheese will drop next month in line with falling international dairy prices - but milk will stay the same.Weakening demand in China has caused international dairy commodity prices to drop, although Fonterra...
  • Dairy America joins Fonterra auction site
    International dairy company DairyAmerica will begin selling its products on Fonterra's online auction site GlobalDairyTrade in October.The company's participation has been described as a significant development in what was already...
  • DairyAmerica joins Fonterra online auction
    DairyAmerica, a marketing company for four US dairy cooperatives, will begin selling milk products through Fonterra's GlobalDairyTrade platform in October, as the auction site opens to outside participants.Starting on October 4,...

The Bovine

  • How to protect yourself from radiation
    From the Hella Delicious blog: Iâm really worried about the levels of radiation and the situation in Japan. The sad thing is there are already high levels of radiation in our worldâhigher than they were ten years ago at any … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt raw milk farm visit
    Pictures courtesy of Karen Selick: Karen Selick is Litigation Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation and lawyer for Michael Schmidt. The Crown (Ontario) has appealed Michael Schmidt’s January 2010 acquittal on 19 charges related to raw milk. Karen Selick was … Continue reading →
  • Vaccination should not be manditory
    From Quinn O’Neill on 3 Quarks Daily.com “In a recent article for Big Think, David Ropeik argues that the risk posed by unvaccinated people is sufficient to justify coercing them into vaccinating. Measles is a potentially deadly disease and outbreaks are occurring … Continue reading →
  • Medical research is not trustworthy?
    From Amy Love via Raine Irving Saunders: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure … Continue reading →
  • California Milk Producers Board targets women ...
    From Amanda Rose at The Ethicurean: “The California Milk Processor’s Board, which brought us the Got Milk? campaign, urges men this week to tell their cranky, about-to-menstruate women: “You really need to drink more milk.” Men can get their PMS education on … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Chris Christie on Obama's Unwillingness to Sub ...
    Chris Christie takes on Republicans and Democrats in a blast at both party's unwillingness to compromise. Christie also takes Obama to task for failure to produce a plan at all. Link if above video does not play: Governor Christie on National Debt Talks: The Need for Bipartisan Compromise S ...
  • Brazil Charges 1% Tax on Bets Against US Dolla ...
    The global imbalances continue to grow and the reactions to those imbalances is nothing short of madness. As a case in point, Brazil Charges Tax on Bets Against Dollar as Real Rallies to 12-Year High. Brazil imposed a tax on bets against the U.S. dollar and warned it may boost intervention in t ...
  • "Unexpected" Decline in Durable Goods Orders; ...
    In the wake of a clearly slowing global economy why a drop in durable goods orders would be unexpected is a mystery. Nonetheless, that is what Bloomberg reports in Orders for U.S. Durable Goods Fell in June Orders for U.S. durable goods unexpectedly dropped in June, raising the risk that a slow ...
  • Vote of No Confidence: Deutsche Bank Dumps 70% ...
    Courtesy of Google Translation, El Pais reports Deutsche Bank reduces its exposure to 70% Spanish debt and other peripheralsThe German bank Deutsche Bank has reduced by 70% exposure to debt issued by countries of the periphery of the euro as Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Italy in the firs ...
  • Rating the Obama, Reid, and Boehner Deficit Re ...
    Many people have asked where they can find details of what the budget cuts proposed by President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner. Because the plans have been in a constant state of flux, and because President Obama did not release details of ongoing discussions, it has been difficult to pr ...

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 ...

bloody crossroads

  • A Sense of Betrayal
    Staff Sergeant Javier Ocasio speaks out against an unjust war: “The issue for me is the morals and ethics behind it, the standards that were let down, all the things that went wrong, you know thatâs all I think about, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Drought/famine in Somalia is worst humanitarian crisis in the world today, a result of climate change and neoliberal policy Cenk Uygur not the only one to be silenced by MSNBC; here’s a discussion of the network’s recent history of censorship … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    21st-Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor  Union worker replaced with prison labor under Scott Walker’s collective bargaining law 100 hours in an Israeli prison Wendell Potter: How our health care system cripples small business How the debt ceiling debate … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    The state of Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan according to Shehrbano Taseer, a journalist whose father was the politician who was murdered for opposing extremism The journalist who exposed the Murdoch hacking scandal discusses the story Wendell Potter: Insurance exchanges tilted … Continue rea ...
  • The Terrifying Christian Right
    The gap between fundamentalist and fascist is narrowing: The Christian Rightâs assault on America is frightening, and, as someone who grew up in a world of religious fanaticism, my personal experience gives me a sharp sense of where this is … Continue reading →
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