29 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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

• Reporting from Your Mobile Phone? The Mobile M ...
  Drumroll, please! MobileActive.org is pleased to introduce the Mobile Media Toolkit, the newest project that's all about Making Media Mobile. The Mobile Media Toolkit helps you make sense of the growing role of mobile tech in media. The Toolkit provides how-to guides, wireless tools, and ...
• Visualizing 10 Years of Violence Against Journ ...
  Internews and Nai, an Afghan media advocacy organization, have collected hundreds of reports of threats, intimidation, and violence faced by journalists in Afghanistan. We recently announced a new site, which features 10 years of these reports. While Nai's data previously resided in spreadsheets ...
• 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

• New York Times Horribly Wrong on the Deaf
  This is in response to Monica Davey�s NY Times article, �Among Twists in Budget Woes, Tensions Over Teaching the Deaf� of July 26, 2011. Comments are no longer accepted :( We deserve full recognition of American Sign Language (ASL) we hand to Deaf lives. What bugs me more is when editors/reporte ...
• 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 ...

High Country News

• Ice matters
  We're not just losing our glaciers; we're unraveling the systems that sustain all life on earth.
• Suckling responds: Cashing in? Nope, just savi ...
  Kieran Suckling responds to Ted Williams' column arguing his group files gratuitous lawsuits and profits off them.
• The Global West: how foreign investment fuels ...
  China's insatiable energy appetite is fueling a natural resource boom in the West.
• Milestone in Cobell Indian trust case
  Elouise Cobell's long-running lawsuit over Indian trust accounts appears to be finally reaching a settlement.
• In search of diversity in our national parks
  One man's quest to understand why people of color are underrepresented in outdoor recreation and the conservation movement.

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

• Top Congressional Democrats Complain OBAMA IS ...
  This morning on Morning Joe the hosts were discussing the debt ceiling and the president�s handling of the issue with Peggy Noonan who wrote an article very critical of Obama in the WSJ today (among other things she called him a loser). Scarborough interrupted Noonan to� reveal that just tw ...
• The Balanced Budget Amendment Text in Boehner 2.0
  Having just gotten off the phone with some house staffers I can confirm the following: A balanced budget amendment has been added to the Boehner bill.� After this morning's caucus meeting, GOP leadership is confident that the bill now has enough support to pass. The details of the BBA ...
• Newsbusted Exclusive: Anthony Weiner To Promot ...
  Anthony Weiner's rehabilitation is taking somewhat a different tact, in a Newsbusted exclusive we learn that the disgraced congressman may be back in the halls of Congress not as a member but to lobby for an anti-sexting law. This is is just one of the stories covered in today's edition of News ...
• Palestinian “Moderate” Shows Why Real Peace is ...
  By Barry Rubin Nabil Shaath has given a fascinating and insightful interview that is well worth analyzing. But first let�s take a look at who Shaath is. Supposedly, he is the archetypal Palestinian moderate. There was a time when the Western media ridiculed the Israeli declaration th ...
• MSNBC's Sharpton Hire Was a "Payback" For Help ...
  Earlier this week I criticized MSNBC for hiring "Reverend" Al Sharpton to host the 6pm slot Even their usual biased version of the news would be preferable to a supposed �Reverend� who bears false witness and who was complacent in the deaths of eight innocent people. This is a new low in ca ...

The Real Agenda

• Genocídio Genético: Engenharia Genética Ameaça ...
  A engenharia genética não é nova. Aparentemente, ela tem sido discutida, se não aplicada, desde 1960. O problema com a modificação genética de plantas, animais, plantas e animais, clonagem e fusão de genes não é sua existência. É o resultado dessas práticas não regulamentadas que deve alarmar-no ...
• Pentagon to Use Genetic Code to Identify Perfe ...
  by Joe Wolverton, II The New American January 24, 2011 Old soldiers never die, they just pass on their genetic code? A report issued by a defense science advisory panel suggests that the Pentagon may begin collecting DNA from military personnel to identify the genome sequence that defines a good ...
• House Committee Approves Database Surveillance ...
  Steve Watson Infowars.com July 25, 2011 Legislation that will force Internet providers to store information on all their customers and share it with the federal government and law enforcement agencies was significantly beefed at the last minute yesterday and approved by a U.S. House of Represent ...
• Genocidio Genético: Cómo la Ingeniería Genétic ...
  La ingeniería genética no es nueva. Al parecer, se ha discutido -si no aplicado- desde la década de 1960. El problema con la modificación genética de plantas, animales, plantas y animales, la clonación y fusión de genes no es su existencia. Es el resultado de estas prácticas no reguladas lo que ...
• Genetic Genocide: How Misused Science Endanger ...
  Genetic engineering is not new. Apparently, it has been talked about -if not applied- since the 1960′s. The issue with genetic modification of plants, animals, animals and plants, cloning and splicing genes is not its existence. It is the results of these unregulated practices what should alarm ...

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 ...
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The Freeman

• Milton Friedman
  Sunday is the 99th anniversary of the birth of Milton Friedman (1912-2006), one of the greatest champions of freedom and free markets in our time. Among FEE’s first publications was Friedman’s essay demolishing the case for rent control, written with another future Nobel Prize-winner, George Sti ...
• U.S. Default Would Not Be Unprecedented
  Why do the media and politicians persist in saying the U.S. government has never defaulted on its “obligations” before? It most certainly has. Marc Joffee, a consultant in the credit assessment field, writes in “Correction: The US Has Defaulted Before and It Can Default Again”: One troubling asp ...
• Big Three Now Support Fuel Economy Standards
  “Four years ago, the American auto industry was so opposed to higher fuel economy standards that executives of Detroit camped out in Washington in an unsuccessful bid to undercut them. On Friday, when President Obama is scheduled to announce even stricter standards â in fact, the largest increas ...
• Senate Committee Votes to Ban Stimulant
  “A bill that would ban the new stimulant drug known as bath salts passed the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously Thursday.” (New York Times) Why do we put up with this stuff? FEE Timely Classic “The Drug Warâs Assault on Liberty” by Lance Lamberton
• Economy Slowed First Half of the Year
  “The economy slowed in the first six months of 2011 to its weakest pace since the recession ended. ” (Washington Post) Score another one for Keynesian policies. FEE Timely Classic “The Return of the Keynesians” by Christopher Lingle

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: Hope in Mississippi
  By Joe Atkins, Labor South A hardened, intransigent right-wing has taken over the Republican Party and proved its willingness to take the nation to the economic brink to protect its well-heeled financial backers. Legislators have targeted government workers and immigrants as the source of th ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The apartheid of wealth
  Percent by which the net worth of white U.S. households fell from 2005 to 2009: 16 Of black households: 53 Of Hispanic households: 66 Number of times by which the median wealth of white households now surpasses that of Hispanic households: 18 Of black households: 20 Amount of weal ...
• Lessons of Tennessee coal ash disaster lost in ...
  An Inspector General's review done in response to the 2008 coal ash disaster at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee has turned up widespread groundwater contamination from coal ash disposal sites at the company's power plants around the South, with some of the po ...
• 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 ...

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

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

Ian Welsh

• Predicted August 2nd 2008
  20) A huge push to gut entitlements in 2009, no matter who is president. Even if the US quickly pulls out of Iraq, the deficit will be totally out of control, and hundreds of billions will be needed for bailouts. A rapid consensus will form that rather than increasing taxes significantly on the ...
• Stirling Newberry asks if Obama is the worst p ...
  Well?  Go on over, and see what you think, where does Obama rank in terms of worst presidents ever? I mean, he didn’t/hasn’t caused a civil war, so he’s probably not in first place.  But… Also a detailed explanation of how the debt limit is raised, and a good list of the worst things Obama [...]
• 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 ...

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• With budget cuts looming, US science strives t ...
  It's been a week of budget mayhem in Washington and the impact of what is almost certain to be a tougher fiscal climate in 2012 is making itself felt in all kinds of ways. One example is the now often repeated mantra that investment in science and technology can become a driver of economic ...
• Obama announces new automobile efficiency stan ...
  US President Barack Obama announced new automobile standards on Wednesday, unveiling an agreement with automakers that would very nearly double the average fuel efficiency of today's vehicles by 2025. The agreement advances Obama's signature achievement in the domestic energy arena: brokerin ...
• US Court upholds Myriad's breast cancer gene p ...
  The biotechnology industry breathed a deep sign of relief today, as a US Appeals court upheld a company’s controversial patents on genes linked to breast cancer. The US Federal Appeals Court in New York overturned a lower court’s ruling in a case pitting the genetics testing firm Myriad Genet ...
• Bt cotton cuts pesticide poisoning
  Over the past ten years that farmers in India have been planting Bt cotton - a transgenic variety containing genes from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis making it pest resistant - pesticide use has been cut by at least half, a new study shows. The research also found that the use of ...
• Atacama's ALMA prepares to study the Universe
  The European partners of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) – a radio telescope in Chile – have finally delivered a radio antenna to the project (press release). And it’s a significant one: the 16th, which means that the telescope’s first original science observations can be ...

new geography

• How Los Angeles Lost Its Mojo
  Los Angeles today is a city in secular decline. Its current political leadership seems determined to turn the sprawling capitalist dynamo into a faux New York. But they are more likely to leave behind a dense, government-dominated, bankrupt, dysfunctional, Athens by the Pacific. The greatness o ...
• Moving from the Coast
  For years both government and media have been advancing the notion that   America's coastal counties are obtaining most of the population growth at the expense of interior counties. For example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported in the 1990s: Coastal areas are cro ...
• Zipcars: The Car Sharing Market Gets Zapped
  A growing sector of the urban populace is turning to “car sharing” — sharing vehicles through membership in nonprofit or for-profit organizations — for cost and convenience. Since 2006, membership in car sharing organizations has grown from about 100,000 to more than 500,000 people. Althoug ...
• 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 ...

GM Watch

• Fedoroff declares war against EPA over GM
  NOTE: More about pro-GM zealot Nina Fedoroff 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: ...
• 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 ...

spiked

• Libya: palace intrigue replaces people power
  Recent events confirm that NATO’s numpty-led war has led to the colossal disempowerment of the Libyan people.
• The Hour: the Fifties in colour
  Abi Morgan’s much-hyped new drama feels like Britain’s liberals stealing conservatives’ favourite monochrome decade.
• From holiday resort to footballing force
  Could Malaga FC, flush with overseas investment, finally break the Real-Barca stranglehold on La Liga?
• Don’t turn Norway into Europe’s 11 ...
  Sections of the European liberal elite are trying to make moral mileage out of this rampage just as shamelessly as the right did with 9/11.
• The rise of the eco-imperialists
  Why the United Nations is wrong to depict everything from war to famine as a ‘climate change issue’.

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

• GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Head Of Obama&#8217 ...
  Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China.  GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now GE has announced that it "is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray ...
• 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 ...
• Layoffs, Layoffs Everywhere You Look There Are ...
  The competition for jobs in the United States is absolutely brutal right now, and it is about to get worse.  A new wave of layoffs is sweeping across America.  During tough economic times, Wall Street favors companies that are able to cut costs, and the fastest way to "cut costs ...
• Madness: 39 Things That Are Driving Ordinary A ...
  Have you noticed that almost everyone seems really angry these days?  Frustration with the government and with most of the other major institutions in our society seems to grow by the day.  According to a brand new ABC News/Washington Post poll, 80 percent of Americans say that ...
• 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 ...

Desertification

• More than three-quarters of the 519 farmers in ...
  Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93367 KENYA: Farmers reap rewards of switching to maize AHERO, 29 July 2011 (IRIN) – The Kano plains, in Kenya’s western Nyanza Province, are well known for rice production, but after years of poor prices and competition … Continue reading →
• “If we are to avoid this crisis becoming an ev ...
  UN CALLS FOR MORE FUNDS TO SAVE LIVES ACROSS HORN OF AFRICA New York, Jul 29 2011  3:05PM The United Nations today appealed for a further $1.4 billion to save the lives of some 12 million people across the Horn … Continue reading →
• Desertification control photos in N.W. China ( ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2011-07/01/c_13961397.htm Desertification control in northwest China PHOTO 1 : Villagers plant artemisia in the sand area in Liuyaotou Village, Yanchi County, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Jul ...
• Desertification in Africa (FAO / CENA)
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://cenafrica.net/2011/819/land-and-environmental-degradation-and-desertification-in-africa/ Land and Environmental Degradation and Desertification in Africa
• Estimates of just how much the ice will melt a ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110728144727.htm Sea Level Rise Less from Greenland, More from Antarctica, Than Expected During Last Interglacial ScienceDaily (July 28, 2011) â During the last prolonged warm spell on Earth, the oceans were at least four meters — and … Cont ...

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

• Booking Granny
  By Alison@Creekside There's just so much wrong with this news story about the Canada Border Services Agency arresting and jailing a 66-year old woman for 12 days, for trafficking, possessing, and importing heroin, because their swab-test of a jar of motor oil in her vehicle incorrectly iden ...
• 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 ...

libcom

• Palestinian quarry workers strike
  Salit strikers.jpg Palestinian workers at a quarry at an Israeli settlement in the occupied territories have gone on strike over unpaid wages. The strike began last month at Sa ...
• The End Of Hollywood? - if only
  Crowd Riots After Los Angeles Police Shut Down Block Party, Movie Premiere A police car was set on fire and crowds fought in Los Angeles Wednesday night after the LAPD shut down an impromptu "block party" because thousands of people who showed up refused ...
• 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

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

• Who’s Who In the Zoo – By Dr. True ...
  Who’s Who in the Zoo?   By Dr. Truess (rhymes with Suess). Who’s who in the “patriot” zoo?  It’s so full of worms and primordial goo – MY – what can one do? Watch your step, cause there’s lots of bad pooh – smelly stuff that will stick on your shoe! There’s Turner, and Jones, and [...]
• 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 ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

• “Champions of Energy Efficiency in Indus ...
  News Release Contact: Neal Elliott 202.487.0615 (c) or 202.507.4009 (p) Media Contact: Patrick Kiker 202.507.4043 (p) ACEEE Names "Champions of Energy Efficiency in Industry" Niagara Falls, New York (July 28, 2011): The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) named four Champion ...
• FIT Guide for Policymakers-NREL
  Hot Off the Press Feed-in tariffs (FITs) have been celebrated as one of the more effective policies to promote renewable energy deployment. This technical report, written by NREL and E3 Analytics, is a guide for policymakers to help implement FITs without breaking the bank. The report discusses ...
• Winery Invitation from Missouri Coalition for ...
  MO Coalition for the Environment SAVE THE DATE: September 30th Poured: A Taste of Space 2011 Missouri Coalition for the Environment Wine and Cheese Event Event: "Poured – A Taste of Space" Date: Friday, September 30, 2011 Time: 5:30pm – 8:30pm Venue: SPACE, LLC Architecture Firm 4168 Manchester ...
• Tax the Polluters not the Citizens
  Hello, With the debt ceiling crisis looming, Republican leaders like John Boehner (Ohio) and Eric Cantor (Va.) keep insisting on draconian cuts that would decimate our government’s ability to protect people and the environment, while defending tax breaks for polluters and the wealthiest individu ...
• 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 ...

The View From Abroad

• We Can’t Afford to Raise the Debt Ceiling
  Obama was correct to reject raising the debt ceiling in 2006.
• Western Imperialism Strikes Again
  The invasion of Libya is about imperialism not protection of civilians.
• What Obama Should Have Said
  As I was reading President Obama's speech last week, I dozed off into a glorious daydream.
• “Where’s the Beef”?
  After Osama bin Laden was killed, why wasn't his body displayed for verification.
• Bernanke is Still Clueless
  Ben Bernanke has been consistently wrong in the past. Why does anybody listen to him anymore?

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Cluster
  "Strange fruit" of a different kind, but similarly chilling, hangs in Gaza
• U.S. Arms Sales to Repressive Regimes Overloo ...
  Arms control in a U.S. context tends to evoke more discussion about domestic gun ownership than, say, arms sales to repressive regimes.
• Bottom of the "Bucket" List: the Manhattan Pr ...
  What could be more tasteless and less profitable than a national park system commemorating the development of nuclear weapons?
• The Dual Failure of Night Raids and Drones
  The military thinks it has a winning combination, but night raids and drones are actually helping to lose the war in Afghanistan.
• Afghanistan: Anatomy of a Hit
  The assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai is certain to destabilize Kandahar, making the need for talks with the Taliban evermore likely.

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• مرگ کاراته کارلرستانی:دعا و بادزدن به جای آمبو ...
  مرگ کاراته کار لرستانی شايد در ابتدا تنها در حد يک خبر کوتاه به آن پرداخته شد ولی به نظر می رسد اين موضوع زوايای پنهان ديگری نيز دارد که بايد مورد توجه قرار گيرد. read more
• سن اعتياد در ايران به ۱۳سال رسيده است
  ايسنا:عضو هيات علمی دانشگاه علامه طباطبايی گفت: در حال حاضر سن اعتياد در کشور به ۱۳ سال رسيده است. به گزارش ايسنا سيد رضا نقيب السادات در همايش بزرگ پيشگيری از آسيب های اجتماعی پديده اعتياد و طلاق که در ساری برگزار شد اظهار کرد: در حال حاضر شکل آسيب های اجتماعی تغيير کرده و دامنه پديده اعتياد گ ...
• «تدریس فیزیک و شیمی برای بهاییان اقدام علیه ام ...
  اینک با گذشت بیش از دوماه از بازداشت این افراد، خبر رسیده که اتهام آنان "اقدام علیه امنیت ملی" است.شیرین عبادی حقوقدان و وکیل رهبران جامعه بهایی درباره این اتهام چنین می‌گوید: «آیا تدریس فیزیک و شیمی و زبان انگلیسی و کامپیوتر از مصدایق براندازی نرم یا سخت است که دولت ادعا می‌کند این‌ها اقدام علی ...
• Martiros Saryan’s “Persia” being restored
  The painting “Persia” by Martiros Saryan is being restored on financing from the Armenian Ministry of Culture. The seven-member group headed by Gayane Kazanti started the restoration works on June 25. read more
• دولت آمریکا: عامل سرشناس القاعده در ایران فعال است
  دیوید کوهن، معاون وزیر خزانه‌داری در امور تروریسم و اطلاعات مالی گفت: "ایران امروز بزرگترین دولت حامی تروریسم در جهان است. ما با افشا کردن معامله مخفی ایران با القاعده که به آن گروه اجازه می‌دهد منابع مالی و عواملش را از طریق (ایران) منتقل کند، یکی دیگر از جنبه‌های حمایت بی همتای ایران از تروری ...

Most Revolutionary Act

• Generation Z and Psychological Oppression
  Egyptian teenagers (Generation Z consists of young people born after 1990) Much has been made of the role of youth in sparking the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. The historical significance of the mass insurrections in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and ...
• 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 ...

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

• The end of John Boehner?
  What we've suspected all along can now be asserted with confidence: John Boehner is a SINO�-- Speaker-in-name-only. And after what went down -- or, more accurately, what didn't go down -- in the House on Thursday night, it's fair to wonder how much longer he'll even be that.
• Phone given to missing girl's mother by Rebeka ...
  So you know how News Corp.'s News of the World tabloid illegally accessed the voice-mail boxes of the victims of crimes, including a missing girl who'd been killed? There was another missing girl, whose mother was befriended by then News-editor Rebekah Brooks, whose name was not in the notes ...
• Poor Goldman CEO is just "misunderstood"
  A few weeks ago, I published a list of 10 of the most illustrative "Let them eat cake" moments of the Great Recession. But then I realized, as the Great Recession drags on, there's going to be an endless supply of such moments because, as this recent Associated Press headline proves, we're fa ...
• And if the Democrats cave one final time ...
  Right now, President Obama is vowing to veto the debt ceiling plan that John Boehner hopes to push through the House this evening. And Harry Reid has made it clear that the Boehner proposal, as currently constituted, has no chance of clearing the Senate.
• The Pentagon's manipulative PR stunt
  Fenway Park, Boston, July 4, 2011. On this warm summer day, the Red Sox will play the Toronto Blue Jays. First come pre-game festivities, especially tailored for the occasion. The ensuing spectacle -- a carefully scripted encounter between the armed forces and society -- expresses the distill ...

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

• A treasure, by any name
  What started in 1967 as a small project for Canada's centennial year has evolved into a huge celebration capturing the best of Toronto's character.
• Reckless cuts threaten city
  Lacking a reliable map, and even a real destination, Toronto’s executive committee is embarking on a sweeping cost-cutting exercise that could profoundly damage the character of this city.
• Atwood reads mood
  Margaret Atwood is one Torontonian who refuses to be bullied.
• 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.

Energy Collective

• Germany’s Grand Energy Experiment
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• Costs and Hazards of Unconventional Natural Ga ...
• Distributed Power Is The Best Way To Relieve E ...
  I just attended a presentation by Marlene Grundstrom, who works with the Stockholm Environment Institute on energy access and energy poverty.
• World's First Complete Electric Vehicle Chargi ...
• Maybe It’s Time To Stop Talking About Climate
  Maybe it’s time to stop talking about climate change. And to stop pushing for comprehensive “climate policy.”

EU Times

• Russia wildfires cover above 21,500 ha
  The total land area ablaze in Russia has increased drastically over the past day as the government tries to fight the ongoing wildfires, according to the Russian emergencies ministry. The emergencies ministry officials have said that some 3,000 hectares of land has been covered by wildfires sinc ...
• Scent of Arab Spring in Israel
  Tens of thousands are taking part in nationwide mass protests in Israel to demand the government provide cheaper housing and lower the cost of living. The biggest protest yet, centered in Tel-Aviv, is planned for Saturday night. ­On July 25, 30,000 people marched through Tel-Aviv demanding a dec ...
• Iran ranks first in scientific growth
  Iran’s Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Mehdinejad Nouri says the country has the fastest scientific growth in the world. âOver the past 30 years, Iran has ranked first in the world, with the eleven-fold increase in science growth,â said Mehdinejad Nouri, quoted by th ...
• Who Orchestrated the Religious war in the Balkans?
  On July 18, the USA and NATO were accused of the massacre in the Balkans. Such accusations wouldn’t be surprising, if they came from the Serbs, for instance. This time, it goes about Croatia and Britain. To be more precise, it goes about the former commander of UN forces in Bosnia and Herzegovin ...
• Russia Downs US Missile After Norway, Obama Se ...
  In actions more reminiscent of the Cold War than modern times the foreign military intelligence directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) is reporting today that the Northern Fleet’s Yekaterinburg nuclear powered submarine successfully fired a RSM-54 Sineva (SS-N-23 Skiff in NATO classifica ...

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

• Judge orders release of grand jury testimony o ...
  The secret grand jury testimony of President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal was ordered to be released on Friday by a federal judge because of its significance in American history.   U.S . District Judge Royce Lamberth granted a request by historian Stanley Kutler , who has written seve ...
• The New Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Dominates Ne ...
  It's Friday, the traditional Day of Rage in the Muslim world, after the imams finish ginning up the crowd with their sermons. In Egypt, it's particularly intense as the military junta hasn't been able to fix Egypt's essential problem, which is how to deal with a population of 80 million that it ...
• Why Does Boehner Hate America?
  Let's be honest, there's a reason why House Speaker John Boehner is finding it so difficult to secure enough votes within his own party to raise the debt ceiling, whatever the terms: a large chunk of congressional Republicans want the federal government to default . I'm not being hyperbolic; th ...
• Google buys 1,030 IBM patents, girding its loi ...
  Google has snapped up more than a thousand IBM patents, a move that likely doubled the number of patents held by the search giant. Many patent law experts are suggesting the move was intended to give Google a bit more leverage in its ongoing litigation around the Android operating system
• Plume looks to future, sees Facebook on horizon
  As it stands, Plume is one of the more popular third-party Twitter clients available for Android. With a clean UI, multiple options for customization and timely updates, Plume currently stands with a four and a half star rating in the Market. And its team of authors (LevelUp Studio) has earned ...

Groklaw

• Appellate Court Says Breast-Cancer Genes Can B ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which have been linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, can be patented. The ruling is a victory for Myriad Genetics, which owns the BRCA patents, and it overturns a district court ruling invali ...
• Google Search Now Optimized For Tablets
  It's never been hard to use Google's search engine from your iPad or Android tablet - but the experience is about to get significantly nicer. Today Google has announced that it's rolling out a new, touch-friendly version of Google search that makes some key changes for the tablet form factor. T ...
• Stallman: Re: Compiled files without sources????
  They are in Emacs releases 23.2 and 23.3. They have been in all pretests since emacs-23.1.90, dated 2009-12-09. They were merged into the Emacs trunk in bzr 97804, dated 2009-09-28; here's a URL for that: We have made a very bad mistake. Anyone redistributing those versions is vi ...
• Microsoft's Web map exposes phone, PC locations
  Microsoft has collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world and makes them available on the Web without taking the privacy precautions that competitors have, CNET has learned. The vast database available through Live.com publishes the prec ...
• Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents in July
  On July 11th and 12th, Google recorded the assignment of 1,030 granted patents from IBM covering a range of topics, from the fabrication and architecture of memory and microprocessing chips, to other areas of computer architecture including servers and routers as well. A number of the patents al ...

WideShut

• Tom Secker Talks 7/7 On The WideShut Webcast
  On this week's show Keelan talks to Tom Secker, maker of the "7/7 Seeds of Deconstruction" film.
• Princess Diana Death: French Authorities May A ...
  French judge could arrest British police for hiding document where Diana predicts her death via car crash. WideShut re-examines the case.
• Every Good Mother Deserves Foeticide
  Steve Power looks at the push for paid and forced sterilisation at the hands of Project Prevention.
• Tony Farrell On The WideShut Webcast: 7/7 & 9/ ...
  Tony Farrell, former Principal Intelligence Analyst for South Yorkshire Police, discusses why he believes 7/7 & 9/11 were inside jobs and how that led to his dismissal.
• Sun Newspaper Picks Up On Tony Farrell Story
  Former police intelligence analyst victim of subtle mainstream media hit-piece.

Politics in the Zeros

• Due for release as conscientious objector, wan ...
  The accused Fort Hood plotter had a bomb making recipe from Al Qaeda magazine and yelled “Nidal Hasan” in court. (Hasan is accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009.) He was arrested for possession of child porn before being released as a CO and then went AWOL. He was caught with ample ...
• Obama called for Social Security cuts, not Rep ...
  “The Republicans, Speaker Boehner or Majority Leader Cantor did not call for Social Security cuts in the budget deal. The President of the United States called for that,â says Democratic Rep. Conyers, who is calling for a protest at White House.
• Some fool here will probably call this jihad t ...
  800 person squirt gun fight in Tehran. Tehran Live has lots more photos. And a fun, soggy time was had by all!
• U.S. may be entering years of political deadlock
  Reuters President Barack Obama’s ability to get any significant legislation passed before next November’s election is all but gone and whoever sits in the White House in 2013 will likely face a Congress unable to tackle major issues. Business Insider That raises questions about what would happ ...
• Polizeros Radio. Peasants with pitchforks, Oba ...
  We had a wide-ranging show last night, with Keith Boyea joining Steve Hynd and myself. Listen to the show on BlogTalkRadio or on iTunes. Topics: Both parties are quite willing to fund-raise off the debt ceiling kabuki, oblivious and uncaring of the consequences, which could include a government ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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

Just World News

• Place your orders now for Zurayk's 'War Diary: ...
  You can now go to the 'Buy' button on the web-page for Rami Zurayk's 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006' and place your advance order for this unique, 60-page work. The ebook will cost you $4.00 (in many different formats), and the paperback will cost you $7.00, plus shipping. Here is the back-cover text ...
• 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.

frogblog

• Breakdown of Burmese ceasefire
  On Wednesday, Wellington’s Kachin community arrived in Parliament grounds to protest the increasing violence happening in their home province. Kachin state is the Northern most state in Burma, neighbouring China. The Kachin community told me about the breakdown, last month, of a 17 year ceasefir ...
• Blair: Politician for the rich
  While many New Zealanders are struggling to make ends meet, others could afford a hefty $1000 to hear (and be photographed with) the former British PM Tony Blair when he spoke in Auckland today. Yes, Mr Blair is a politician for the rich. He only became Prime Minister after flying to Australia i ...
• 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 ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Friday Cat Blogging - 29 July 2011
  We got Inkblot a new area rug to tear to shreds this week, this time in bright olive green. Sets him off well, don't you think.1 (Naturally we do all our interior decorating with cat complementing in mind.) On the right we have — what? Let's call it experimental catblogging. Domino has a sou ...
• Advice for John Boehner
  Chad Orzel talks to his daughter about the process of creating art: She went on to explain that the car had been inside the marker, but then she took the top off the marker, and put it on the paper, and the car came out. Which is pretty impressive. She's just about to turn three, and she' ...
• Inflating Away the Debt
  Tyler Cowen points today to John Hussman saying something that's been in the back of my mind for a long time but never quite made it onto the blog: Here in the U.S., [debt held by the public] amounts to about 60% of GDP and rising, due to recent budget deficits of about 10% of GDP annuall ...
• Economy Update: Still Sucking
  GDP grew last quarter at a rate of 1.3%. That's pretty sluggish. What's worse, as Matt Yglesias points out, GDP for the previous three years was revised substantially downward at the same time. So to summarize: The Great Recession was worse than we thought. The recovery was slower th ...
• Why Is Obama Such a Wimp?
  There's a fair amount of armchair psychoanalyzing here, but Bruce Bartlett has an interesting theory today about why President Obama continually thinks that pre-emptive compromise will bring Republicans to the table: it's because he never had the pleasure of negotiating with either the Sovie ...

Insanity Report

• Woman kicked Out of Walmart for Wearing String ...
  You know…this is why I don’t go into Walmart often. I always tell people that Walmart is where “Hot Ghetto Mess Meets White Trash” and main, this video proves it. This lady is upset because Walmart employees told her she had to put a shirt on? Ma’am…you’re walking around in a bikini top. That’s ...
• IC 261: Cooking with Bey
  Topics: Captain America and the integrated Army A butt slasher stalks women in VA malls Beyonce has a cooking book coming out Bill O’Reilly thinks the Norway killer can’t be Christian cause Christians don’t commit mass murder PETA thinks animals suffer like black did during slavery Share with yo ...
• 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 ...

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

• Breakthrough lights way for RNA discoveries
  The ability to tag proteins with a green fluorescent light to watch how they behave inside cells so revolutionized the understanding of protein biology that it earned the scientific teams who developed the technique Nobel Prizes in 2008. Now, researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have dev ...
• Dissecting dyslexia: Linking reading to voice ...
  When people recognize voices, part of what helps make voice recognition accurate is noticing how people pronounce words differently. But individuals with dyslexia don't experience this familiar language advantage, say researchers. read more
• Scientists report dramatic carbon loss from ma ...
  In a study published in this week's issue of Nature, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) senior scientist Gauis Shaver and his colleagues, including lead author Michelle Mack of the University of Florida, describe the dramatic impacts of a massive Arctic wildfire on carbon releases to the atmosph ...
• FDA should invest in developing a new regulato ...
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should gather the information needed to develop a new regulatory framework to replace the 35-year-old 510(k) clearance process for medical devices, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The 510(k) process lacks the legal basis to be a reliable p ...
• Rate of stroke increasing among women during, ...
  The stroke rate for pregnant women and those who recently gave birth increased alarmingly over the past dozen years, according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. read more

unEarthed

• Protecting Polluters, Not People, One Rider at ...
  H.R. 2584 compromises public, especially in environmental justice communities Millions of Americans are already suffering from asthma. (Chris Jordan / Earthjustice) ...
• Friday Finds: Tequila Transformation
  Wrecked summer vacations, revved up gas mileage, watered down chemical regs The agave plant, typically used to distill tequila. Courtesy of kimsdinner. Teq ...
• Tracking the Anti-Environmental Congress
  Did you hear what they are up to? Did you hear about the secret attacks being planned on public health and the environment of the United States? Probably not. ...
• 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 ...

Brave New Climate

• Germany’s grand energy experiment
  Most readers of BNC know the story — after the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the German government announced that Germany would phase out all of its nuclear generation capacity by 2022. In almost the same period, Germany also aims to cut its national greenhouse gas emissions to 40% of 1990 levels (b ...
• 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): ...

Indigenist Opinion

• 2 Spirits: Native Lesbians and Gay Men : Osa H ...
  2-Spirited people (Native lesbians and Gay men) from the Bay Area share their experience of overlapping gender, ethnic and cultural identities as they explore and define their visions of utopia. Coordinating Producer: Osa Hidalgo de la Riva for Royal Eagle-Bear Productions (Oakland, CA )
• Colombia: Play Democracy, Hide the Corpses - A ...
  Colombia: Play Democracy, Hide the Corpses - Anarkismo Not a week goes in Colombia without reports of assassinations and persecution of labor and political activists. Ana Fabricia Cordoba, gender activist and leader of displaced peasants, was shot dead on June 7th inside a street bus, after she ...
• Jews sans frontieres: Why write about Jews?
  Jews sans frontieres: Why write about Jews? Beware – a publicity blurb about a book follows. The book is mine – Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights – and it analyses diaspora Jewish opposition to Israel. There'll be a description of what the book is about over at Mondoweiss. There’s another d ...
• 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 ...

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

• Systemic Global Financial Instability Is Sprea ...
  By Charles Hugh Smith The root causes of global financial instability cannot be wished away or "solved" with modest policy tweaks: they are systemic. [Read More]
• 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 ...

+972

• In case of a war, we should resist
  Netanyahu does not have many cards left to play. His way out may be a war – and we should be ready for it, and reject it Netanyahu’s magic hat is emptying quickly. Unlike his last term, he failed in buying the students for a few slices of plzza, and his attempt to preempt the “stroller [...]
• Israel privatizing its national parks to susta ...
  The Knesset approved a first reading of a bill that would privatize the administration of its national parks, all in an effort to protect the control of a settlement organization over an archeological site in East Jerusalem. While thousands of Israelis are protesting the price of goods and hous ...
• Report: Israeli soldier tweets from detained p ...
  In what appears to be an escalation in the Israeli army’s attempts to intimidate unarmed protesters from joining protests in Nabi Saleh, soldiers apprehended a Palestinian-American college student this morning at the entrance to Nabi Saleh as the weekly demonstration against the occupation was ...
• Confessions of a reborn non-Zionist
  The son of a Zionist family, Ari Miller immigrated to Israel dreaming of combat tours in the IDF, followed by a political or diplomatic career in the service of his new homeland. Today, his life couldn’t be farther away from those fantasies. A personal journey By Ari Miller | Photos from the aut ...
• A message to Glenn Beck from a concerned Israe ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Landmark Product Stewardship Bill passes the ...
  Landmark legislation that will reduce waste, increase recycling, and manage the environmental, health and safety impacts of products has been unanimously passed by the Senate today.
• Minister welcomes settlement between SA and V ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke today welcomed the settlement between South Australia and Victoria on water trading rules.
• Gillard Government invests to boost water eff ...
  The Gillard Government will be investing $845 million in the 2011-12 Budget to deliver water infrastructure projects and manage water sustainably in communities across Australia.
• Australia continues to lead the way in Antarc ...
  Australia's position as a world leader in Antarctic research will be backed by $28.3 million in the 2011-12 Budget, Environment Minister, Tony Burke announced today.
• Official opening of the Woodcroft Community C ...
  Woodcroft Community Centre has been transformed into a groundbreaking green hub through the Australian Government's Green Precincts Fund.

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

• some commentary on the utoya shootings | beha ...
  With more expectation that adults, however young, can take responsibility, in this case be allowed to carry firearms, perhaps this would not have happened.
• will the eussr use the current european debt c ...
  The imbalance between affluent North and the feckless (?) South may play into the hands of the EU Commissars.
• october 1939 - the phoney war is under way, an ...
  Some exceptions to the rule - smoking kills. How the cigarette indusctry used to entice new customers, and addicts.
• ambrose is back - some background notes on uk ...
  From a perceptive columnist, together with commentary from abelard.
• german reasoning for fossil fuels | fun news a ...
  When Green dogma overwhelms scientific numeracy.

The Parallel Parliament

• Citizenship – “Information vs. Kno ...
  New figures have just been released revealing that two-thirds of Canadian households have internet access and eight out of ten have home computers – all this higher than the OECD average.  With that distinct cutting-edge advantage, one would think Canada would enjoy a deeply engaged citizenry. S ...
• Citizenship – “Click Here For Demo ...
  It is remarkable how the push for a new kind of democracy within Canada depends so much on the availability and use of the Internet. When first introduced into the political realm it was welcomed as the new “Holy Grail” for democracy – a use of technology that could revolutionize citizens and pe ...
• 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 ...

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

• Warren Buffett: Debt Ceiling Should Be Removed
  Jennifer Epstein reports: "Buffett's suggestion to get rid of the debt ceiling comes after bond rating agency Moody's made the same point in a report on Monday. The debt limit has 'change[d] almost 100 times over the years' and 'I think seven times in the Bush administration,' Buffett said." ...
• Warren Buffett: Debt Ceiling Should Be Removed
  Jennifer Epstein reports: "Buffett's suggestion to get rid of the debt ceiling comes after bond rating agency Moody's made the same point in a report on Monday. The debt limit has 'change[d] almost 100 times over the years' and 'I think seven times in the Bush administration,' Buffett said." ...
• House GOP Plays Movie Clip Inciting Violence t ...
  Excerpt: "The House GOP leadership played a short clip from the Ben Affleck movie 'The Town' to rally their caucus around Boehner's debt plan: ... 'I need your help ... And we're going to hurt some people.'" Actor Ben Affleck suddenly has a role in Washington's debt-ceiling debate. (photo: AP ...
• House GOP Plays Movie Clip Inciting Violence t ...
  Excerpt: "The House GOP leadership played a short clip from the Ben Affleck movie 'The Town' to rally their caucus around Boehner's debt plan: ... 'I need your help ... And we're going to hurt some people.'" Actor Ben Affleck suddenly has a role in Washington's debt-ceiling debate. (photo: AP ...
• 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 ...

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

• Nutrition Programs: How Many Spending Cuts Can ...
  In the midst of economic instability, it’s become clear that funding for major federal programs will be subject to cuts, and nutrition programs are no exception. Perhaps cuts are unavoidable, but it is essential that we examine their potential impact on public health. According to a recent USDA ...
• 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.

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

• RCEN e-Bulletin: July 27, 2011 Edition
  Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN) The�July 27, 2011 edition of the�RCEN�e-Bulletin�is now available on the�Canadian Environmental Network website. Source: Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN) ...
• Hand Helping Contest: win $5000 in design & ma ...
  Deadline:� 31 Aug 2011 - 21:59 Organization:� Hybrid Ideas Inc. Or ...
• North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper's Swim Guide
  Looking for a great Alberta beach this long weekend? Thereâs an app for that! North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper 27 Jul 2011 Ed ...
• Alberta Ecotrust Major Project Grants
  Deadline:  15 Aug 2011 (All day) Organization:  Alberta Ecotrust The deadline to submit a Letter of Intent ...
• Urban Lakes & Wetlands Workshop
  Alberta Lake Management Society 30 Sep 2011 - 00:00 - 1 Oct 2011 - 00:00 18th Annual ALMS�Workshop Urban lakes are unique, and as such pose unique management issues. The focus of ...

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 29, ...
  ==== U.S. Plans Interceptor Missile Radar System In NATO States Russian Envoy Visits Turkey Over NATO Interceptor Missile System Japan To Allow Interceptor Missile Transfers To NATO Nations U.S. Missile Shield To Spark Nuclear Arms Race: North Korea Kosovo-Serbia: NATO Declares Crossings “Restri ...
• Kenzaburō Ōe: Categorical imperative to renoun ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Kenzaburō Ōe From the Nobel Prize in Literature lecture (1994) ***** [T]o obliterate from the Constitution the principle of eternal peace will be nothing but an act of betrayal against the peoples of Asia and the victims of the Atom Bom ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 28, ...
  ==== NATO’s Asian, African Wars: Italy Extends Funding For Afghan, Libyan Missions NATO Troops Slay Pregnant Afghan Woman, Child, Young Man Kosovo: More Attacks On NATO Forces Kosovo Separatists Flex Muscles, Russia Concerned Canada Spends $3.3 Billion For Arctic Patrol Ships Against Russia Cana ...
• Joseph Conrad: Men go mad in protest against & ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Joseph Conrad From Autocracy and War (1905) From the firing of the first shot on the banks of the Sha-ho, the fate of the great battle of the Russo-Japanese war hung in the balance for more than a fortnight. The famous three-day battles ...
• 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 ...

Before It's News

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

Intel Hub

• Confirmation: Man Made Global Warming Is A Com ...
  The Intel Hub By Dr. Mark Sircus- Contributing Writer July 29, 2011 I told you it was getting colder and the weather was getting worse! It is not often that one is confirmed as strongly as I have been in the past two days. I stuck my neck out starting three years ago about global [...]
• Exclusive: ATF Intimidates Gun Owners With Hom ...
  Federal agency attempts to make firearms retailers spy on their customers under new illegal directive Paul Joseph Watson & Aaron Dykes Infowars.com Friday, July 29, 2011 Even as it finds itself embroiled in a scandal that saw weapons being deliberately sent to criminal gangs in Mexico, the ATF h ...
• Chilling Video Captures Man’s Cries For ...
  Pixiq By Carlos Miller July 29, 2011 Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia, kept calling for his father as police beat and tased him repeatedly. But his father, a retired Orange County sheriffâs deputy, was not around. It wasn’t until after Thomas slipped into a coma and wa ...
• U.S. Now An Electronic Concentration Camp
  American Free Press By Kenneth Rhoades & Debra Poulsen July 29, 2011 Thanks to the freedom, liberty and Constitution loving newspaper, AMERICAN FREE PRESS, the continuing crimes against humanity in the form of non-consensual experimentation on American citizens are finally being brought to the a ...
• The Tea Parties
  By Kelleigh Nelson NewsWithViews.com July 29, 2011 “It is a known fact that the policies of the government today, whether Republican or Democrat are closer to the 1932 platform of the Communist Party than they are to either of their own party platforms in that critical year.” –Walter Trohan (190 ...

FRS

• People’s Hearing: “Charge the SFPD ...
  People’s Tribunal on Racism and Police Violence http://peopleshearing.wordpress.com Charge the SFPD with Murder of Kenneth Harding and Serial Murders in the Black Community! Unite to Create an Independent Investigation to Indict the Murderers! Justice for Kenneth Harding! Stop the Cover-up! Stop ...
• Nepal One Year Later: Still Waiting to be Born
  � [In this report for the interesting blog Winter Has Its End, the writers describe the current situation in Nepal as a very contradictory and  eery calm of frustration and anticipation.  It relates the unsure optimism of grassroots activists that this could be the calm before a revolutionary st ...
• Egypt: the long shadow of Mubarak and the rol ...
  “Long live Egypt’s Supreme Council” — With Mubarak out of power and SCAF taking the reigns, what’s next for the country?  Joseph Massad 28 Jul 2011 Egyptians have been protesting against the country’s military rulers continuing Mubarak-esque policies [EPA] Many Egyptians are expressing concerns ...
• 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 [...]

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

• Some citizens aren't paying their share
  According to Connecticut Voices for Children, Connecticut's wealthiest citizens pay just half as much of their income as do the poor and middle class, based on data gathered after this year's tax reforms. According to Voices: estimates show that Connecticut’s low- and middle-income families wi ...
• Hmmm...a repressive regime says "no sexy girls"
  Interesting that the Chinese goverment has issued a rule that there will be no scantily-clad women at an online gaming expo. You can read more about ChinaJoy -- going on now -- here. Though some of the research is a little dated, you can read about the portrayal of women in video games here. A ...
• Should the 9/11 cross go?
  Some atheists are suing to have removed the 17-foot cross retrieved from the rubble of the World Trade Center after 9/11. They're saying that because the cross is a symbol of Christian faith, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, which is government-funded, should not include it. You c ...
• Most terrorists have one thing in common.
  They're male. Flickr photo
• Happy Friday!
  At 7 p.m. Sunday, tune into WHUS for Susan Forbes Hansen's "The Sunday Night Folk Festival." She's graciously asked me to join her, and I'm bringing Mr. Still Small Voice, who has a nicer radio voice than I. Don't worry. We won't sing, but we will play some of our favorite folk/gospel/who kno ...

Associated Content

• How Will Chad Ochocinco Fit in with Brady, Bel ...
  NFL trades and deals are coming in waves with the end of the lockout. Among the deals to make headlines this week was the acquisition of Chad Ochocinco by the New England Patriots.Contributor: Lisa Ware Published: Jul 29, 2011
• Patriots Beyond Competition with New Players
  With the NFL lockout finally over, the trade window has opened to a lot of squads looking to add the finals pieces to their championship teams.Contributor: Hobson Lopes Published: Jul 29, 2011
• Discovery Channel Celebrates Sharks with 24th ...
  On July 31 at 9 p.m. Eastern, the Discovery Channel will kick off its annual Shark Week.Contributor: Jacob Willard Published: Jul 29, 2011
• Conservative Civil War Obscures Purpose of Deb ...
  Sarah Palin, in a somewhat oblique warning to Republican House freshmen, suggested on her Facebook page that they might find themselves with primary opponents next year if they vote for the Boehner debt ceiling bill.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jul 29, 2011
• An Outlandish Ride with 'Cowboys & Aliens'
  Critic Robert Denerstein says 'Cowboys & Aliens' is so absurd it can't help but produce bits of whacky fun. But the movie's aim is far from dead-on.Contributor: Robert Denerstein Published: Jul 28, 2011

Popsci - Science

• This Week in the Future, July 25-29, 2011
  As the International Space Station zooms past a space berry to splash down in the ocean, dolphins with superpowers look on. Welcome to this week in the future. Want to win this gorgeous a Baarbarian illustration, on a t-shirt? It's easy! The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we're
• New Fluorescent 'Spinach' Molecule Illuminates ...
  Greens are good for you The newest optical techniques are making cell biology a little clearer, but it’s still a murky business, watching cells work. A new technique that illuminates RNA — the builder of proteins, making copies according to DNA’s blueprint — is one way to shine a light on that ...
• Photovoltaic Breakthrough Lets Engineered Mate ...
  Metamaterials to the rescue once again Metamaterials as a class get a lot of press for their ability to exhibit a negative refraction index, the characteristic that lets them bend light around a space or object (the much ballyhooed “invisibility cloak”). But designer metamaterials have potentia ...
• Half-Synthetic Half-Biological Material Replac ...
  In reconstructive surgery, if a doctor needs a bone he or she can turn to a range of plastics, ceramics, or metals as suitable replacements. But when it comes to soft tissues--like the kind found in that most cosmetically important area, the face--replacements are scarce, and the ones that do e ...
• As Synthetic Biology Marches On, Our First Enc ...
  Should we find alien life elsewhere in the universe, what would it look like? Biologists on Earth don’t even agree on how life arose here--or what the definition of life really is--but one thing biologists do seem to agree on is that it would be really useful to have a second example of life to ...

Veterans Today

• Madsen Cites Mossad in Norway Terror
  Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-plagued News International, The Sun, went to press with the following false headline: “Norway’s 911: ‘Al Qaeda’ Massacre.” On March 29, 2011, Harvard Law School’s extremist Zionist Professor Alan Dershowitz penned a piece in the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, a newsp ...
• Israeli Commandos Raid “Freedom Theater& ...
  “The coming third Palestinian intifada will take the form of cultural resistance to the Israeli occupation” Juliano Mer Khamis
• De-Zionification Now
  f we want to save our society from being dragged into a violence with no end, we must de-Zionise every possible aspect of our culture, media and political institutions.
• Veterans Benefits VS. Entitlements Others Feel Due
  What is the difference between an earned contractual benefit and an "entitlement". We seemed to have lost track.
• The Military Solution
  As a Rhodesian anti-terrorist in the early ‘70s, I figured that the combination of normal African cruelty with Jewish Communism was the ultimate in political sadism. The atrocities I witnessed were shocking and revolting.

War is Business

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

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• 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

• 'Political Tours': Visit North Korea (and More)
  Here's another instalment of Weird Things I Come Across on the Internets. I dunno why I was shown a banner ad for Political Tours--maybe it's a sign that I should visit fewer international affairs sites--but its pitch sure is interesting (if gimmicky): Political Tours is a revolutionary concept ...
• 21st Century USA ≈ 17th Century Polish Empire?
  Tis perhaps appropriate that my fondness for historically informed performances (HIP) of classical music ties into international political economy for two obvious reasons. First, with most music commissioned for religious rather than secular purposes during past eras, it highlights how music pla ...
• 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Head Of Obama&#8217 ...
  Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China.  GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now GE has announced that it "is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray ...
• 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 ...
• Layoffs, Layoffs Everywhere You Look There Are ...
  The competition for jobs in the United States is absolutely brutal right now, and it is about to get worse.  A new wave of layoffs is sweeping across America.  During tough economic times, Wall Street favors companies that are able to cut costs, and the fastest way to "cut costs ...
• Madness: 39 Things That Are Driving Ordinary A ...
  Have you noticed that almost everyone seems really angry these days?  Frustration with the government and with most of the other major institutions in our society seems to grow by the day.  According to a brand new ABC News/Washington Post poll, 80 percent of Americans say that ...
• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Interview with Jay Donahue about the Californi ...
  Jay talks about the continuing struggle inside California State prisons Download At: ...
• Anarcho-punk zine PunkWay #6, 2011
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• Need Tech Help? Offering it? Put a free ad in ...
  Are you part of a cool hacking, DIY, or tech project that needs more volunteers, users, or testers? Are you part of a radical project that needs...
• A Fake Image: About the Fraud of the Void Netw ...
  The social revolt of December 2008, triggered, among other things, an increased interest abroad about the struggles in Greece. For this reason, ...
• New Fringe Fest Musical Inspired by Union Figh ...
  When a coworker at Starbucks approached barista Ted Dewberry about forming a union at their workplace, his initial reaction was fear. Working 17 ho...

E U Times

• Russia wildfires cover above 21,500 ha
  The total land area ablaze in Russia has increased drastically over the past day as the government tries to fight the ongoing wildfires, according to the Russian emergencies ministry. The emergencies ministry officials have said that some 3,000 hectares of land has been covered by wildfires sinc ...
• Scent of Arab Spring in Israel
  Tens of thousands are taking part in nationwide mass protests in Israel to demand the government provide cheaper housing and lower the cost of living. The biggest protest yet, centered in Tel-Aviv, is planned for Saturday night. ­On July 25, 30,000 people marched through Tel-Aviv demanding a dec ...
• Iran ranks first in scientific growth
  Iran’s Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Mehdinejad Nouri says the country has the fastest scientific growth in the world. âOver the past 30 years, Iran has ranked first in the world, with the eleven-fold increase in science growth,â said Mehdinejad Nouri, quoted by th ...
• Who Orchestrated the Religious war in the Balkans?
  On July 18, the USA and NATO were accused of the massacre in the Balkans. Such accusations wouldn’t be surprising, if they came from the Serbs, for instance. This time, it goes about Croatia and Britain. To be more precise, it goes about the former commander of UN forces in Bosnia and Herzegovin ...
• Russia Downs US Missile After Norway, Obama Se ...
  In actions more reminiscent of the Cold War than modern times the foreign military intelligence directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) is reporting today that the Northern Fleet’s Yekaterinburg nuclear powered submarine successfully fired a RSM-54 Sineva (SS-N-23 Skiff in NATO classifica ...

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

• 2011-07-29 Investigation into Polish CIA priso ...
  TweetThe investigation into an alleged CIA black site in the Masovian village of Stare Kiejkuty has been extended by six months, a spokesperson for the Warsaw prosecutor's office confirms to Polish press agency PAP. According to a source quoted by PAP, the prosecution requires additional evidenc ...
• 2011-07-29 Lulzsec's Topiary and the Shetland ...
  TweetOn Wednesday the 27th of July the Metropolitan Police issued a press release stating that an 18 year old man had been arrested at a residential address on the Shetland Islands. The reason for his arrest is described as follows: "He is believed to be linked to a continuing international inve ...
• 2011-07-29 Wikileaks: "A passionately eager Bu ...
  TweetPutin and bulgarian PM Borissov A diplomatic cable of the US embassy in Sofia, dated October 2, 2008, has been revealed on WikiLeaks, focusing on Bulgaria's energy dependence from Russia. The report titled "BULGARIA AND THE ENERGY KNOT: SCENESETTER FOR OCT 7 VISIT OF SPE GRAY," has been ...
• Competition Entry: WikiLeaks: Can the Venezuel ...
  TweetBy Nikolas Kozloff With a big question mark hanging over the health of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, the right wing opposition sees opportunity. Though Chávez initially claimed that he was merely suffering from a “pelvic abscess,” the firebrand leader subsequently conceded that he had ...
• 2011-07-29 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. 12:30 PM A year has passed since Bradley Manning was transferred from a ...

U N News

• UNESCO condemns murders of journalists in Mexi ...
  The United Nations agency tasked with defending and promoting press freedom today condemned the murders of journalists in Mexico and Brazil, two Latin American countries where reporters have already been killed this year.
• Aid challenges and Government stalemate hinder ...
  A United Nations advisory group on Haiti today reported improvements in the earthquake-torn country but said aid coordination remains a challenge, and a stalemate in the formation of the Government is delaying aid.
• 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.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
  You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...
• 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 ...

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

• Burma's Numerological Nightmare
  The leaders in Naypyidaw prefer fortune tellers to foreign policy experts
• Indonesia's Verdict of Shame
  Religious extremists get a light tap from the court in Ahmadiyah mob murder
• The Aquino-Arroyo Contest Heats Up
  Gloria checks into the hospital, suffering from back pain and corruption charges
• Decoding China's North Korean Policy
  To sway Pyongyang, China does what nations do – follow its own interests
• Indonesian Mob Leaders Get Away with Murder
  District court hands out slaps on the wrist for religious fanatics who murdered sect members in February

We Know the Lies

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

Tarpley

• The US Constitution Makes Default Illegal: Wha ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net My fellow Americans: I speak to you tonight in an hour of grave danger to our nation. As you know, within the next few hours our government is in danger of failing to make payments of interest and principal which the United States Treasury has contracted to ...
• The Debt Ceiling Crisis: When Statutes Conflic ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com July 25, 2011 [download audio]
• Breivik: A Patsy on Steroids — Not Authe ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show
• Norway: Don’t Be Hypnotized by the Fake ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show
• 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 ...

Modern Survivalism

• US Debt and Default Talk
  Jim Rogers: The US is the biggest debtor nation in the history of the world. This cannot go on forever. Eventually, the creditors are going to say “no more, that is the end of the line”. If you think the problems are bad now, you wait till we do not have any more credit, you [...]
• Berkey Water Filters
  msb-note This website depends nearly entirely upon the results of the support that you provide by clicking-on and purchasing products that hopefully fit in with your survival preparedness plans. Without your support, this site could not sustain itself because it takes time and money to stay on t ...
• 300 Foot Tsunami and East Coast Destruction
  ‘Hierro’, a volcano, an island of the Canary Islands of Spain named ‘El Hierro’, summits at 1500 meters (4,900 feet), and has suddenly become highly active with more than 700 earthquakes in just a matter of days – leading some to believe that ‘something’ is about to happen. Super Tsunami About E ...
• 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 ...

Fast Company

• Breach Of The Week: Your Smartphone Is A Hacke ...
  Packed with personal data, and taken with you everywhere, your smartphone is an ideal target for hackers. And both iOS and Android have vulnerabilities.Why Apple Updated iOS This WeekApple's iPhone is often touted as being more "secure" than Google's Android equivalents because it has a tightly ...
• The 5 Questions Entrepreneurs Need To Ask In O ...
  In my last post, I cautioned about the dangers of learning about venture capital from watching a TV show. After all, would you learn about how to remove a gallbladder from watching ER, or how to behave if you're arrested from Law and Order? No, TV isn't reality (even reality TV) and Shark Tank i ...
• Can The Simple Flywheel Replace The High-Tech ...
  It's an old technology for storing energy that's finally getting an update, and it's appearing everywhere from power plants to Formula One race cars, and will soon be hiding in your wheels, helping save you fuel.It's a not a new battery or super-hot liquid salt. But while they are not the sexies ...
• When It Comes to Fast Food, Labeling Can Lower ...
  Those calorie counts on fast food menus that make you feel bad about your extra-large fries actually work. Unless, of course, you found the advertisements really convincing.As communities implement sometimes-contentious food labeling requirements in fast food establishments, research shows that ...
• Kevin Systrom Says Instagram Is More Than Just ...
  "We're out to fundamentally change the way people communicate and share, not just create a pretty photo-sharing app," says Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom.I love Instagram. At first I was skeptical about yet another photo-sharing app, but as soon as I started using it I discovered an entire social n ...

Jadaliyya

• On the Historical Study of South Asia and Sufi ...
  In the following conversation with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Ziad Abu-Rish, UCLA Professor of History Nile Green discusses some of the issues arising from the study of “Muslims of South Asia and the wider Persionate world.” The bulk of the interview addresses issues related to the study of the ...
• Can the Palestinian Leadership Pave the Way fr ...
  Middle Eastern analysts concerned with the Palestinian statehood bid have rightly highlighted the benefits conferred by such status. They assume, however, that the current Palestinian leadership is willing to take the necessary steps in order to lead Palestinians from statehood on paper ...
• What is a Citizen? (Or, What if Layla Were Pri ...
  On the surface, the question �What is a Citizen?� seems easy to answer. A citizen is a person who is endowed with legal rights by, and duties to, the country of which one is a citizen. Thus, a U.S. citizen is someone who is allowed to vote in U.S. state and federal elections, to serve in ...
• Breaking the Siege and the Diplomatic Impasse: ...
  [This interview was conducted by Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat. Huwaida Arraf is Chairperson of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Steering Committee and Co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement.]� NE: Let's get some of the basics first�how many passengers were a part of the Fr ...
• 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 ...

mediagazer

• David Minthorn is the grammar and style expert ...
  Paul Farhi / Washington Post: David Minthorn is the grammar and style expert for the Associated Press  —  In its modern, digital forms, writing has become something like an untended garden.  It's overgrown with text-speak and crawling with invasive species like tweets and dashed-off e-mails.  O ...
• TCA: HBO Execs Still Hoping Time Warner, Cable ...
  R. Thomas Umstead / Multichannel: TCA: HBO Execs Still Hoping Time Warner, Cablevision Go For HBO Go  —  ‘Luck’ To Debut in 2012  —  HBO executives say that they're hoping to secure distribution deals for HBO Go holdouts Time Warner Cable and Cablevision in the near future.  —  HBO co-president ...
• 2007 Letter Clearing a Tabloid Comes Under Scr ...
  New York Times: 2007 Letter Clearing a Tabloid Comes Under Scrutiny  —  LONDON — When a Parliamentary committee first confronted The News of the World with charges of phone hacking in 2007, the paper's owners produced a reassuring, one-paragraph letter from a prominent London law firm named Har ...
• News Corp. tells New York Post: Save any phone ...
  Joe Flint / Company Town: News Corp. tells New York Post: Save any phone hacking information  —  News Corp. has told staffers at its New York Post tabloid to “preserve and maintain” any information related to phone hacking or government payoffs in exchange for scoops.  —  The memo comes in resp ...
• In Deal With NBC, Amazon Seeks to Widen Its Vi ...
  Brian Stelter / New York Times: In Deal With NBC, Amazon Seeks to Widen Its Video Streaming Service  —  Amazon, the online retailing giant, announced a deal with NBCUniversal for access to part of Universal Pictures' film library on Thursday, its second such pact in the streaming video space in ...

Chemtrail News

• Are chemtrails real and contrails a con
  If you run a Google search onchemtrails you will find thousands of entries for websites devoted to the subject forums where chemtrails are discussed daily ...bardofely.hubpages.com/.../Are-chemtrails-real-and-contrails-...
• US conspiracy theories shared by Norway killer
  Chemtrails are now part of the New World Order theory – poisoned jet exhaust is said to be a plot to reduce the population. Among the evidence cited are the ...
• Top conspiracy theories
  CHEMTRAILS. Chemtrail proponents say some contrails – the white streaks trailing jets in the sky – are often mysterious substances, possibly poisonous, ...
• chemtrail questions with links
  Discussion about chemtrail questions with links at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1576622/pg1
• Chemtrails my story and research
  I first heard the term chemtrails several years ago in Nexus magazine It is said thatthere are two types of people in the world those that read Nexus and ...bardofely.hubpages.com/.../Chemtrails---my-story-and-researc...

World News - Top Stories

• Michel Bastos focussed on Lyon but leaves ...
  Brazilian winger is trying to keep an open mind over his next move after being strongly linked with Juventus this summer By Salvatore Landolina Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�Juventus, O. Lyon, Michel Fernandes Bastos Getty Images Lyon's Michel...
• Javier Pastore set for Paris Saint-Germai ...
  The Argentine's transfer is just minutes away from happening, according the Sicilian club's director, with PSG now almost certainly the player's next destination By Salvatore Landolina Tweet 6 Comments More On�:�Chelsea, Palermo, Paris Saint-Germain, Javier Pastore Getty Images Palermo...
• New Manchester City signing Sergio Aguero ...
  Twenty-three-year-old Argentine forward set to take part in Roberto Mancini's pre-season preparations in the Republic of Ireland By Chris Davie Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�Man City, Kun Agüero Getty Images Manchester City's latest signing Sergio Aguero will be officially unveiled on Friday e ...
• BREAKING NEWS: Cesc Fabregas omitted from ...
  Arsene Wenger has not selected his captain for the weekend's friendly tournament, citing the midfielder's injury and current "situation", which the Frenchman wants resolved Tweet 6 Comments More On�:�Arsenal, Barcelona...
• 'Unsettled' Fabregas out of Emirates Cup
  Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas will take no part in the Emirates Cup this weekend, manager Arsene Wenger confirmed this afternoon. Barcelona are looking to bring the World Cup winner back to the Nou Camp, but Arsenal remain determined to hold out for a £40million fee. Fabregas has not featur ...

no frakking consensus

• Canadian Scientists and the World Wildlife Fund
  When hundreds of Canadian scientists - and 12 science bodies - joined a World Wildlife Fund ad campaign they undermined their own authority. They became politically-motivated actors in a political discussion.
• How the IPCC Defines ‘Distinguished Scie ...
  Where, on the CV of a person employed by Greenpeace for the past 17 years, does it say distinguished scientist?
• Prof Condemned for Not Teaching IPCC Reports
  Skeptical climate scientist Chris de Freitas has been savaged by a journalist who complains that 3,000-page IPCC reports aren't on his Geography 101 reading list.
• Calling Skeptics Stupid Doesn’t Convince ...
  How does calling me stupid and equating me with a Holocaust denier advance the debate? Is the fate of the planet really at stake - or are we just playacting in a sandbox?
• Greenpeace Disses ‘Covert Calculations&# ...
  Greenpeace has seen the light. Years after it became the norm in climate science to hoard & hide data, Greenpeace is now complaining about such behaviour.

Anna's News

• Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
  Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ......Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
• 10 Best British Open Performances
  Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and..Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
  Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• National Parks at Risk: Photos
  National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent ....Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
• Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
  The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...

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 ...
• 7/25/11 - Should teachers get tenure?
  teachertenure.procon.org - NEW: Should teachers get tenure? - Read pro and con arguments from the National Education Association (pro), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (con), New York State United Teachers (pro), New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (con), Louisiana Federation of Teachers (pro), ...
• 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 ...

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

• Science education requires overcoming childhoo ...
  John Timmer It’s not a secret that the general population hangs on to no end of non-scientific beliefs despite contrary evidence; the Nobel Intent forums have been visited by proponents of homeopathy and intelligent design, to give just two examples. Two developmental psychologists at Yale are n ...
• College upperclassmen still fail at scientific ...
  John Timmer Most of us develop a sort of intuitive logic about how the natural world works. Unfortunately, a lot of that informal reasoning turns out to be wrong, which complicates scientific education. But as students make their way through the science education pipeline, they should gradually ...
• Leaf acts as an echo beacon to lure bat pollin ...
  Yun Xie A montage shows a bat approaching a disk-shaped leaf. As a Pallasâs long-tongued bat flies around a rainforest looking for nectar, it relies on echolocation from the sound it emits to find flowers. From a plantâs perspective, it’s good to be found by bats, which are highly mobile pollina ...
• Intel integrated graphics: finally good enough ...
  Chris Foresman At long last, Apple released Intel’s highly anticipated Sandy Bridge updates on both the MacBook Air and Mac mini earlier this month. However, many of these machinesâalong with the 13" MacBook Pro introduced earlier this yearârely solely on Intel’s integrated graphics, a move that ...
• Nova Scotia cod fishery indicates initial recovery
  John Timmer Like other areas off Canada’s east coast, the Scotian Shelf suffered a collapse of its fisheries during the 1990s. Haddock and cod were caught in an unsustainable fashion, eventually leading to a tremendous decline in their numbers that prompted the government to shut the fisheries. ...

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

• Friday Infographic: Fishing Down the Food Chain
  This is the second in a series of ocean infographics by artist Don Foley. These infographics also appear in Oceana board member Ted Danson�s book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� � With shark week fast approaching, how about a shark-related infographic to whet ...
• Shark Week Cometh
  Shark Week is almost here -- are you ready? For the second year in a row, Oceana is partnering with Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, which kicks off on Sunday, July 31st at 9PM. We’re especially stoked about the host this year, comedian and Chief Shark Officer Andy Samberg. For a one-hour s ...
• Caleb Pungowiyi: 1941-2011
  We are incredibly saddened by the passing of Caleb Pungowiyi, a longtime Alaska Native leader and Oceana�s Senior Advisor and Rural Liaison. Originally from the St. Lawrence Island village of Savoonga, Caleb�s work was a critical part of Oceana�s accomplishments in Alaska.�He was a passiona ...
• 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 ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Astounding Silent Gun Camera Footage From WWII
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• The Battle of Adrianople. 378 AD.
  Arriving Gothic cavalry poured in from behind at this unfortunate timing and the Roman order of battle on their right flank crumbled. The Romans retreated to the base of the hill where the Goths were assembled and there they were surrounded and all killed. Other portions of the Roman line held f ...
• “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 ...

Taylor Marsh

• Obama’s Numbers Tank
  The debt ceiling debacle is making everyone look rudderless and without any leadership game. The good news for Obama reelect is that the American people have the attention span of a newborn gnat. From Gallup: President Obama’s job approval rating is at a new low, averaging 40% in July 26-28 Gall ...
• Two Parties = Too Few Choices
  Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. When it comes to our two party political and governing systems and structures, we’re way beyond “dysfunctional.” With realization that challenges, from within and without the institutionalized two party system, face huge ...
• Obama: Keep those phone calls, emails and twee ...
  **UPDATED** As Speaker Boehner pitifully massages a House bill into further irrelevance, after failing to heard the Tea Party anarchists to vote on his raising the debt ceiling bill, humiliating his speakership. Pres. Obama has his own problems, after criticism began mounting that he’s been redu ...
• Boehner Yanks Debt Ceiling Bill – Doesn’t Have ...
  BREAKING – 10:30 pm: GOP Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy announces no vote tonight. …as soon as the lights go out Eric Cantor is going to start measuring for drapes. ..at least not yet. From Sam Stein: House GOP leadership announced abruptly on Thursday evening that they were suspending a vote ...
• Fun with Sarah
  As John Boehner counts votes and has one-on-one meetings, Sarah issues a veiled threat to the House Tea Party Caucus from the outskirts of Facebook. P.S. Everyone I talk to still believes in contested primaries. Of course they do, because the people Sarah talks to don’t have to actually govern t ...

Hudson New York

• Is It Time Israel Ends Oslo?
  Since the Oslo Accords came into effect, each time a breakthrough seems close, the Palestinian Liberation Organization [PLO] leadership, has exhibited a perplexing way of breaching the Accords' conditions and provoking Israel, thereby working against the
• What Do Wealthy Arabs Really Care About?
  Arab League representatives who held an emergency meeting in Cairo this week to discuss the financial crisis in the Palestinian Authority did not find time to deal with the plight of over !! million Somalis who are facing starvation due to the ravaging
• Pakistan's China Problem
  In the aftermath of America's successful attack on Osama Bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad near Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, there was speculation from both Americans and Pakistanis that Pakistan would abandon its relationship with the US for an
• Turkish PM Seeks Apology From Armenian President
  Recent remarks by the Armenian leader about "Western Armenia," an area now in Turkey, were not suitable for a statesman and president, the Turkish prime minister said Wednesday, demanding an apology. "The statements of the Armenian president are not an
• Is Terrorism Against Israel Really More Justif ...
  In a recent interview, Norway's Ambassador to Israel has suggested that Hamas terrorism against Israel is more justified than the recent terrorist attack against Norway. His reasoning is that, "We Norwegians consider the occupation to be the cause of the

Urban Survival

• The Two (Rotten) Default Choices
  Time to talk about economic hemlock and how we’d like to go:  With the republicorps unable (unwilling?) to bring a budget resolution to a vote in the House, congressman Ron Paul’s got it figured, sadly, pretty much right.  The US … Continue reading →
• Coping: Friday at the WuJo
  A number of comments have popped up in the wake of our report this week in the Case of the Missing Shirt.  Not just parallel cases, but also a few suggestions: “George, tell your reader whose shirt disappeared that it … Continue reading →
• Boehner’s Boner
  You know the political stupid season is in full swing when Judson Phillips, who’s the nominal head of the Tea Party comes out and blasts House Speaker John Boehner over his efforts to hold onto a debt ceiling bill which, … Continue reading →
• Coping: With the Aftermath of Vacations
  A kind of short rant this morning, about the Quality of Life this morning as I’ve just spent about 10=hours of effort on getting back up to speed on the kind of things that happen when one goes on vacation. … Continue reading →
• 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 →

Trends & Forecasts

• Lindsey Williams : Get out of your IRAs , 401K ...
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• AMERICA'S SECRET DESTINY
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• Gerald Celente : the country is going bankrupt
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• Massimo Mazzucco - Coast to Coast am 07-13-2011
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• Economic Armageddon and You
  Take your money out of the bank if you have some.... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

• MIND CONTROL 82: Die Hard Love
  It is critical that we understand one very important principle. Contrary to popular Christian beliefâ¦â¦. The love of the Father â¦.. is ânotâ unconditional. John 14:23-24 23 Jesus replied, “IF ANYONE LOVES ME, HE WILL OBEY MY TEACHING. MY FATHER WILL LOVE HIM, AND WE WILL COME TO HIM AND MAKE O ...
• DIGITAL ILLUSTRATIONS – By: Tony Ariawan
  Filed under: CREATIVITY Tagged: creativity, digital illustrations, illustrations
• MIND CONTROL 81: If You Knew Him, You Would Kn ...
  Let us go back in order to go forward. Jesus says: Matt 11:27-30 27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. NO ONE KNOWS THE SON EXCEPT THE FATHER, AND NO ONE KNOWS THE FATHER EXCEPT THE SON AND THOSE WHOM THE SON CHOOSES TO REVEAL HIM. 28 “Come to me, all [...]
• RADICAL DISCUSSIONS: Do Women Need Make-up Or ...
  Welcome once again to radical discussions, where Femi A and Femi J have a series of arguments about various controversial and life changing topics. The rules of war are simple – we both choose a side and the debate begins. Feel free to join in, but we do warn you that this battle ground is [...]
• 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 ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• MIT's Belcher talks about bioengineering on to ...
  Angela Belcher and her Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT use "advanced bioengineering techniques to explore the interface between inorganic and organic materials for applications to energy, medicine, electronics, nanomechanics, and the environment. In other words, she turns living cells into t ...
• 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 ...

NRDC Switchboard

• What Improved Pollution and Fuel Efficiency St ...
  Simon Mui, Scientist, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, San Francisco Today the President announced a historic agreement to increase fuel economy and carbon pollution standards for new cars and trucks, achieving the equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon (mp ...
• Price Matters - Water Conservation and the Cal ...
  Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco In today’s San Jose Mercury News, Paul Wenger, of the California Farm Bureau Federation issues a caution about the limits to agricultural water conservation, citing rising prices in ...
• Gas Mileage Gains Move the Country Forward
  Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Today my colleague Luke Tonachel and I represented NRDC at the Washington ceremony where President Obama announced a triumph of American leadership, the single largest step we can take to break our c ...
• Twisted Sisters: of Whitebark Pine and Macbeth
  Louisa Willcox, Senior Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana Upon reading last week’s finding by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that whitebark pine is so threatened it warrants endangered species protections, somehow I found myself re ...
• Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
  Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Regional The Inter-American Bank (IDB) will lend  US$128 million to Brazil for the hydroelectric sector.  The funds will be used to increase energy production, lower maintenance costs and add ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, July 28, 2011: 5 Fullerton CA police officers are being investigated after witnesses accused them using of excessive force in the brutal beating and tasering death of a homeless ma ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 21 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, July 27, 2011: New York NY police accused of excessive force & false arrests against Uruguayan soccer fans celebrating match [3] http://ow.ly/1v2cJA St Louis MO police sgt retires ...
• 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 ...

Total Collapse

• Turkey’s Entire Military Command Quits
  Turkey’s army chief-of-staff and the entire military command have resigned in a row with the government about promotions for generals held in an alleged anti-government plot, broadcasters reported Friday. General Isik Kosaner stepped down after having met with Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyi ...
• “MARTIAL LAW” Rule In New Debt Bill ? (FOX NEWS)
  WTF IS GOING ON IN AMERICA ? Fox news aired live on july 28th a new rule in the debt ceiling talks called ” Martial Law” WHAT THE F*** ? Martial law is the imposition of military rule by military authorities over designated regions on an emergency basis—usually only temporary—when the civilian g ...
• Investors Pull Almost $40 Billion From Money M ...
  Short-term credit markets are already hemorrhaging thanks to the lack of progress on the debt deal in Congress. This week, banks moved $37.5 billion from money market funds that are invested in Treasuries and other presumably safe securities, Dealbook reported — “the biggest weekly drop this ye ...
• Zionist trail in Norway terror attacks
  An analyst says that there are evident Zionist footprints in the twin terror attacks in Norway’s capital, Oslo, and on a nearby island which claimed the lives of 76 people. Press TV has interviewed Peter Eyre, a Middle East Consultant, for his views on the nature of last week’s bomb and gun assa ...
• Netanyahu said has turned Israel into 6,000 mi ...
  When the protest for affordable housing began, some dismissed the campaign as a “Woodstock” of college kids on vacation. By the time Saturday night rolled around, tens of thousands demonstrated in Tel-Aviv and what started as a students’ summer protest became a nationwide push for change and a ...

Daily Dose

• This week at Microsoft: DOS, Gmail, and Bing
  It’s that time again folks, the time of the week when we gather around to poke at four Microsoft stories that were big hitters in the past seven days. Instead of being serious this time around, we are going to relax and look at mostly fun stories today, because it is Friday, and it’s too hot, a ...
• These social network propaganda posters are aw ...
  Facebook, Twitter and Google+ have all taken the world by storm. It’s rare to meet anyone who doesn’t use at least one of them, although with Google+ it’s most likely someone you know on Twitter. Artist Aaron Wood created these clever propaganda posters that trumpet the creeds of the big 3. We ...
• Facebook starting to pay hackers to discover v ...
  Facebook is today beginning a program that will allow them to compensate hackers that discover vulnerabilities in the site’s code, reports Computerworld. In order to be compensated, the hackers must sign up for the new whitehat hacking portal and report the issues directly to Facebook’s securit ...
• Onswipe’s easy tablet publishing is now self s ...
  We first met with Jason L. Baptiste and Andres Barreto, the founders of Onswipe on a snowy day in late January in New York City for an interview titled, Forget apps, Onswipe is the future of publishing. The two entrepreneurs were poised for the age of that tablet, both passionate writers who ...
• TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
  Apple is the world’s leading manufacturer of Smartphones, but not for long if Samsung has any say in the matter. Other rumors say that Apple is considering a purchase of Barnes & Noble. Say goodbye to the Nook? Google’s Eric Schmidt is finally going to sit down to testify in antitrust hearings. ...

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 )

• Adaptation, justice and morality in a warming ...
  If last year was the first in which climate change impacts became apparent worldwide—unprecedented drought and fires in Russia, megaflood in Pakistan, record drought in the Amazon, deadly floods in South America, plus record highs all over the place—this may be the year in which the American pub ...
• Cute animal picture of the day: baby tarsier
  The spectral tarsier of Sulawesi is one of the world's smallest primates, weighing roughly the equivalent ten U.S. quarters when full-grown.
• Saving the wrong rhino in Indonesia?
  The slideshow titled "APP: Establishing the Facts" would indeed be laughable if they were not so sad. In the slides on “Investing in Biodiversity,” APP appears to want to show how innovative it is in the conservation arena by focusing on the Javan rhino. The slides depict photos of wildlife and ...
• Saving (and studying) one of Nigeria's last mo ...
  Between 2000 and 2010, Nigeria lost nearly a third (31 percent) of its forest cover, while its primary forests suffered even worse: in just five years (2000 to 2005) over half of the nation's primary forests were destroyed, the highest rate in the world during that time. Yet, Nigeria's dwindling ...
• Picture of the day: View of the Borneo rainfor ...
  View of the rainforest canopy from below through a fisheye lens.

Sierra Express

• National Fire Force (NFF) and ACC team up to f ...
  In a bid to addressing key corruption issues jointly with key stakeholders, the Anti-Corruption Commission has engaged Staff of the National Fire Force (NFF) in the Southern Region at its Damballa Road, Regional Office in Bo. The meeting which was held on Wednesday 27th July 2011 attracted over ...
• Launch of Peace Museum Memorial Design Competition
  A competition to design the Memorial for Sierra Leone’s new Peace Museum will be launched Monday, 1 August 2011 at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The Memorial will depict the suffering of the victims of Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war, and will promote the ideals of  peace, justice and ...
• Ambassador Munu Signs Book of Condolence at N ...
  Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia yesterday joined a good number of diplomats from different diplomatic missions at the Royal Norwegian embassy, Diplomatic Quarters in Riyadh to sign the Book of Condolences opened in the wake of last week’s attacks. Dozens of people were k ...
• West African police chiefs meet to combat crim ...
  Sixteen Police Chiefs and thirty two senior Police Commanders from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries are currently meeting in Abuja the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, under the auspices of West African Police Chiefs Committee (WAPCCO) to not only appreciate ...
• Manchester United eyeing Sierra Leone strike s ...
  According to talkSPORT, Manchester United are set to run the rule over AIK Solna strike sensation Tetteh Bangura this weekend, the latest in a long list of teams keen on watching the prolific forward in action. The Sierra Leone striker is the hottest property in Sweden right now, with his 15 goa ...

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

• “Irradiation could do for food what past ...
  From Mark Bittman in the New York Times: “After the E. coli outbreak in Europe last month â which sickened more than 3000 people and killed at least 50 â it was impossible not to think about irradiation. âWhat if,â I asked … Continue reading →
• How will we feed ourselves when the global foo ...
  From Randy Shore, in the Vancouver Sun: “What would a city approaching food self-sufficiency look like? Peter Ladner’s soon-to-be released book The Urban Food Revolution offers tantalizing glimpses of urban environments that successfully integrate commercial enterprise, low-impact living spaces ...
• 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 →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Foreclosed 23-Story, 475,789 Sq. Ft. KeyBank C ...
  Bidders did not exactly come out of the woodwork in Cleveland as the 23 story KeyBank Center auctioned off for $7.15MBidding has ended on Cleveland’s foreclosed 23-story KeyBank Center. The 475,789 square foot building on Superior Avenue sold for $7.15 million. Bidding began on Monday afternoon ...
• US GDP on Verge of Contraction in 1st Quarter, ...
  The stunner of the day is not only an anemic 2nd quarter GDP of 1.3 percent annualized, but of huge revisions all the way back to to 2007. Please consider Economy in U.S. Grows Less Than ForecastGross domestic product climbed at a 1.3 percent annual rate following a 0.4 percent gain in the prio ...
• New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warmi ...
  Forbes Magazine reports New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming AlarmismNASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-revi ...
• Boehner Humiliated, Cancels Vote, Stock Future ...
  Thursday morning Bloomberg reported House Majority Leader Cantor Predicts House Republicans Will Pass Debt Plan TodayHouse Majority Leader Eric Cantor predicted Republicans would pass a debt-limit increase plan today as some freshman lawmakers pledged support for the measure in the face of unifi ...
• Not Raising the Debt Ceiling Would be Blessing ...
  As the chances of a gaseous Congressional compromise to do nothing about deficit reduction grow larger, inquiring minds wonder just what might happen if nothing passes. Contrary to popular belief, the US would not default. Troops would still be paid. Medicare and Medicaid would not stop. The Bi ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Jamiol Presents
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
  The Moral Bankruptcy of American Spooks, US Missile Shield May Be Precursor for Attack on Iran, Al-Qaeda Leader Hails Syrian Protestors, Ford Takes US Taxpayers Bailout & Deserts Sinking Ship, Feds to Grab Land for Homeland Security, Hidden Hegemony: Canadian Mining in Latin America, What is a D ...
• BFP Food for Thought: What’s so “Alternative” ...
  All Quasi Roads Lead to the Same Establishment I simply don’t get it! Actually, I haven’t been ‘getting it’ for a while. Maybe you can help me get it; will you? Here is the quandary: There are several major websites out there with quite a following. These websites advertise themselves as the ‘al ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
  Halliburton Whistleblower Wins in Court: $970K, Obama: Bin Laden Death Ups Terror Risk for Americans, The Most Dangerous Word in the World, US in ââDenialâ Over Chinaâs Pacific Plans, The Political Theater & the Debt Ceiling Crisis & More! International Newsworthy US in ‘Denial’ Over China’s Pac ...
• 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 ...

bloody crossroads

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  Should have my latest article, a big piece about health care and how we’re being screwed by the insurance corporations, up this weekend… Meantime check out this insightful discussion with economist Richard Wolff about the debt ceiling debate as theatre … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Why I can almost guarantee their will be no default: the corporations don’t want it.  Read this Times piece about how the Chamber of Commerce is urging Republicans to make a deal Median wealth of whites is now 20 times … Continue reading →
• 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 →