3 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Tech Drive In

• 5 Quick Tips to Improve Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Per ...
  In my opinion, one area where successive Ubuntu releases�continuously�under-performed is on the overall system performance front. Every new Ubuntu release feels more and more bloated, especially so with latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. I was quite taken aback by fact that, even the so called U ...
• Nautilus Elementary Ambiance Theme Adds PPA, L ...
  Nautilus Elementary Ambiance GTK theme by simplygreat is perhaps the most beautiful mod of default Ubuntu Ambiance theme. We have featured it already in our top themes for Ubuntu 11.04 post. Few things have changed lately and the latest Nautilus Elementary Ambiance theme now comes with a PPA. In ...
• 9 Good Terminal Emulators for Linux
  We have featured a few Terminal emulators before and introduced you to applications like CLI Companion that makes you more familiar with command line in Linux. Now, we want to take it to a whole new level. A collection of really good Terminal emulator apps for Linux. Guake for its apparent ...
• Interesting Ubuntu Unity Concept with Android- ...
  We have featured a number of really good Ubuntu Unity concepts before, here is another one which supposedly deals with the trash button in Unity more efficiently. Ubuntu Unity Desktop Concept The idea�proposes an Android-like system where the trash icon only appears when you are dragging ...
• [Fix]WiFi Driver Breaks After Update in Ubuntu ...
  If your Intel WiFi 5100 series WiFi driver broke down after latest update in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS desktop, understand that you are not the only one here with the same problem. A good friend of mine had the exact same issue. This is what you need to do to solve 'WiFi driver breaks after update' issue ...

Case About Bird Flu

• REVOLUTION IN GREECE IS POSSIBLE, SAYS GERMAN ...
  *Greek TV station shows video proving Greek police used agents provocateurs to ignite violence against peaceful protests *Photos show Greek police hurling stones and missiles at crowds *German economist warns Greek economy will collapse due to EU and IMF austerity measures, says revolution is po ...
• Why it is time to cut off all funding for the EU
  The German government is opposed to EU plans to raise its own revenue from sales taxes and financial taxes, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Hendrik Kafsack speculates that the EU might be seeking to raise funds independently because eurozone voters are becoming increasingly critical of i ...
• DENMARK IS THE ONLY COUNTRY SHUTTING DOWN FAIL ...
  From the Wall Street Journal For the second time this year, the Danish government has done a remarkable thing: It has shut down a failed bankâand imposed losses on the bank’s senior creditors in the process. Fjordbank Mors, a small bank even by Danish standards, threw itself at the mercy of the ...
• Geithner prepares escape after destroying US d ...
  Geithner may leave Treasury post after debt talks Updated 7:15 p.m. ET, CBS PHILADELPHIA — A person familiar with his thinking says Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is considering leaving the administration following the current round of budget negotiations. The source spoke to the Associated ...
• Goldman Sachs to move centre of operations to ...
  Goldman to Embark on Hiring Spree in Singapore By Charlie Gasparino Published June 27, 2011 | FOXBusiness As Goldman Sachs (GS) plans major job cuts in the United States, the firm is planning to expand overseas with a major hiring spree in Singapore and taking the unusual step of alerting Congre ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Video – Looks like GADDAFI has some support!
• The Audacity of Hope [Amazing Video]
  by Debbie Menon Greece has somehow maneuvered itself (or been maneuvered) into a financial crisis which threatens the incumbent government, and the economic quality of corporate life in Greece if IMF and World Bank historical response are pursued. So, to whom will they turn for relief? Is it any ...
• TSA Abuses: Seeing the Forest and the Trees by ...
  by Anthony Gregory, June 30, 2011 The Transportation Security Administration is finally getting some of the bad publicity it deserves. We read about an elderly woman forced to remove her adult diaper to go through the screening process. We learn about a mentally disabled passenger deprived of hi ...
• The TSA’s tentacles spread
  Jennifer Abel It’s eight months now since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) abandoned its last pretence of respect for America’s constitutional principles, by mandating no traveller may fly in American airspace unless TSA agents first see and/or feel said traveller’s genitalia. Th ...
• Documents reveal TSA ignored dangers of body s ...
  The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) says that is has official documents that reveal the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) deliberately ignored warnings that airport body scanners pose a health risk; the internal documents and email exchanges show that TSA officials brushe ...

Veterans Today

• It’s Always About The Money So On With This RE ...
  As the August 2nd deadline fast approaches to raise the government-borrowing limit, President Obama called on Congress two days before this Independence Day to make a deal and announced, “Nothing can be off-limits. We've got to cut the deficit.” The Declaration of Independence of 4 July 1776, in ...
• Put Away The Flags / There Is Nothing Natural ...
  The so called “War on Terror” is rationalized economic rape with Iraq and Afghanistan as the prime examples.
• Countdown to Invasion
  Tripoli’s 3,200 neighborhoods, independently of the Libyan Armed Forces, are intensively preparing for the possibility that NATO forces or those they are seen as increasingly arming and directing, might invade the cosmopolitan greater Tripoli area during the coming weeks or months.
• Feeding the Brave Flotilla to Israel’s Slaveri ...
  Our oh-so-moral international community, always poking its democracy-loving nose into any trouble spot that might threaten western security (whatever that means) and always eager to mobilize its mighty weapons of war, is still reluctant to operate on the cancer it foolishly implanted into the Ho ...
• The Audacity of Hope [Amazing Video]
  The US Government has never shown much interest in its citizen’s welfare or safety when it has involved the slightest conflict of interest with some client despot or petty dictatorial puppet…

electric politics

• The Wild Dollar
  Because the public hasn't had what's happening properly reported, the Republicans think that, in the debt ceiling standoff, they can trample democratic norms and perhaps even go so far as to trigger another collapse of the world economy. What a bizarre strategy to pursue (supposedly) on behalf ...
• Göbekli Tepe
  At what point does an original idea engender action? And to what extent does that action set a lasting course? We can examine the social history of an idea, written, as it were, in stone, at G�bekli Tepe, an archeological site approximately 11,500 years old (or perhaps even older) in southern T ...
• The Athenian Zephyr
  Neoliberal bankers wants to turn the Greek public into chattel. The Greek public objects. It's a theoretically long-predicted fork in the road for the European Union: either Greece defaults (it could have been any one of certain member states) and the European debt crisis spreads — possibly/pro ...
• Forgetting Vietnam
  America's final retreat from Vietnam could have been a whole lot worse. Ambassador Graham Martin, mistakenly thought to be on the last chopper out, didn't follow through on the fact that he left a final contingent of Marine Security Guards on the Embassy's rooftop. Higher-ups in the military ch ...
• Constitutional Chains
  The U.S. Constitution has not led to a more perfect union. In some ways — see the Civil War — it was a suicide pact. So must it, indeed, be the only legitimate political expression of who we are as Americans? To think about some of the flaws at the creation I turned to Dr. Mark A. Graber, autho ...

PR News

• LivingSocial hires Weinstein to lead comms
  WASHINGTON: LivingSocial recently bolstered its comms team with the hire of Andrew Weinstein as head of communications, a newly created position for the online daily deals company.
• SiliconBlue Technologies hires Cain Communications
  SANTA CLARA, CA: SiliconBlue Technologies, a leading company in the custom mobile device market, selected Cain Communications as AOR for marketing communications.
• Dow Jones hires director of corporate comms, A ...
  HONG KONG: Dow Jones & Company appointed Chad Tendler as director of corporate communications for the Asia Pacific region, effective July 21.
• Ogilvy ditches $9M California high-speed rail ...
  CHICAGO: Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide has confirmed that it has terminated a $9 million contract with the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
• Supertel names Arkfeld director of corporate comms
  NORFOLK, NE: Supertel Hospitality, a real estate investment trust that owns 103 hotels in 23 states, hired Krista Arkfeld to the newly created position of director of corporate communications.

The Story Behind the Story

• More From THE ZOMBIE Files —— A MU ...
  From the “X-Files” of Dr. Patricia M. Jordan, DVM comes this incredible snippet dateline 2009: ST-246 Used to Treat Complications From Exposure to Recombinant Vaccinia Virus Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:31am EDT http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v8/38a9/0/0/%2a/v;44306;0-0;0;38919074;1627-170/40;0/0/0;;~o ...
• Jews Against Zionism and Zionists. (JAZZ)
      http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/holocaust/gedalyaliebermann.cfm   THE ROLE OF ZIONISM IN THE HOLOCAUST Article by Rabbi Gedalya Liebermann – Australia “Spiritually and Physically Responsible ” From its’ inception, many rabbis warned of the potential dangers of Zionism and open ...
• Zombie Watch Update
  Here we go.  The evidence continues to mount. Published on Deccan Chronicle (http://www.deccanchronicle.com) � Mutant rabies, flu viruses could lead to havoc June 25: The rabies season has just receded. And it�s time now for the human influenza or common cold to make our lives miserable. Rabies ...
• Khazarian Satanic Porn — Plumbing New Depths
  In this public You-tube clip, which is a digital recording of a VERY PUBLIC PRESENTATION at the 2011 Conspiracy Conference, “Investigative Reporter” and consort of Leonard Horowitz, Sherri Kane maliciously attacked ex-VietNam war veteran Timothy White by accusing him of being a felon, rapists, a ...
• Is A. True Ott a “Jew-Hating Man”, ...
  In an e-mail to me in August 2010, Khazarian Blue-Blood Jew Leonard G. Horowitz wrote: “How STUPID of you ——- to EXPOSE YOURSELF AS A JEW-HATING MAN!!!”   What exactly “exposed” me?  Merely using the term “Khazar” and “Goy” in an earlier post to his sweetie Sherri Kane in describing her and m ...

k2p blog

• DSK case collapsing: Was this just French poli ...
  The charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn are collapsing. Were the rape charges just the machinations of the anti- DSK faction in France to get him out of the running for French President and - incidentally - to replace him with a Sarkozy-friendly Christine Lagarde.
• Nature editorial chastises IPCC for conflict o ...
  The Nature editorial published today will be unwelcome criticism for the IPCC from a normally very friendly quarter. Now with the natural death of the Kyoto Protocol and with a few decades of cooling in front of us it is time for the IPCC to be disbanded.
• Iraq and Afghanistan wars have provided a $4 t ...
  Whether the economic, social and political benefits of the $4 trillion and 225,000 lives spent on the War on Terror have been worthwhile is a question that will not be properly answered except in the light of historical perspective.
• Earthquakes this week
  Following the Weather Action warning last week , Earthquakes so far this week (23rd – 29th June). >= 6.5 6 – 6.5 5 – 6 4 – 5 < 4 Earthquake report is here.
• Hari, Johann: Plagiarising Churnalist
  "A celebrated left wing commentator's career is in the balance after an Internet campaign forced him to admit recycling quotes in his interviews"- The Telegraph.

Left Foot Forward

• The untold story of the AV referendum campaign
  Successfully building the largest grassroots democratic movement in recent history is the untold story of the AV referendum campaign, writes Katie Ghose.
• Round two for the Regional Growth Fund – but i ...
  Yesterday saw the deadline pass for the second round of bidding to the government’s Regional Growth Fund, but is the cupboard now bare? Kevin Meagher reports.
• When will politicians stop taking the public f ...
  Politicians refuse to tell the truth to voters, when they say that immigration is the cause of persistently high worklessness, writes Declan Gaffney.
• DWP faces legal challenge over welfare cuts
  The Disability Alliance is taking legal action against the government's disability reforms, arguing that they disproportionately affect disabled people and their families.
• Iain Duncan Smith is not “daring to tell the t ...
  Iain Duncan-Smith's 'bravery' on immigration may have played well on the Daily Mail, but it ignored several inconvenient facts.

Consumerist

• HP Gives Gal Warranty By Accident, Knows It, L ...
  Donni is totally stoked! She bought a refurb HP laptop that kicked the bucket after its 90-day warranty expired. She gave up hope but then HP randomly sent her an email asking her if she wanted to renew her warranty. Donni called them up and they scratched their heads and said, yeah, that shoul ...
• Whose $100 Million ATM Receipt Is This?
  Speculation ran rampant this week after Dealbreaker posted an image of an ATM receipt found in the tony Hamptons showing the account holder had a $99,864,731.94 balance as to whose it could be. Was it Appaloosa Management bigwig David Tepper? He said no. Paulson? Bloomberg? Who knows! No on ...
• Why Shacking Up May Not Save You Money
  People in serious relationships tend to spend so much time together that it seems silly to pay two rents, so it feels natural to move in together. But the move may not always end up saving money. Alpha Consumer examines a Pew report (PDF) on the economics of living together and draws some inte ...
• Here Are Some Indivisually Rapt Tipster Submis ...
  It's only been a few days since we announced the free Consumerist Tipster iPhone App and we've been overwhelmed by all the submissions. But before we head off for the holiday weekend, here are some of the funnier submissions. To your left is a submission from Spotty, who saw this curi ...
• Windex Now Has Refill Pouches You Mix Yourself
  Windex today launched Windex Minis, which let you refill your bottle of Windex by pouring in a pouch of Windex liquid, adding water, and stirring. They're cheaper and there's less waste. The bigger question is whether Americans will even go for a refillable at all. While refillables are the n ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• The Hardest Cases: When Children Die, Justice ...
  by A.C. Thompson and Chisun Lee, ProPublica, and Joe Shapiro and Sandra Bartlett, NPR Read Part One here. There is a growing awareness among medical practitioners of “mimics”: ailments that can cause the kind of bruising and bleeding once assumed to be telltale indicators of child abuse. A 200 ...
• Best of ‘The Political Carnival’
  (Another interesting week for the Laffy and Paddy at The Political Carnival.net. Michele Bachmann’s ethically challenged husband, Sarah and Bristol Palin’s book signing flop and trouble in paradise (aka his home state) for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Enjoy! -Ed.) Bachmann Family Clinic m ...
• The Hardest Cases: When Children Die, Justice ...
  by A.C. Thompson and Chisun Lee, ProPublica, and Joe Shapiro and Sandra Bartlett, NPR Her name was Isis Charm Vas and at 6 months old she was a slight child — fifth percentile in height and weight. When the ambulance sped her to Northwest Texas Hospital on a Saturday morning in October 2000, d ...
• Repatriate Prosperity
  Many of America’s largest global companies are lobbying hard for a tax holiday to repatriate to the U.S. nearly $1 trillion that they have amassed from foreign business. This plan as proposed will almost certainly not be enacted. The president and Congress will not agree to support a giant windf ...
• Tracy Morgan’s Homophobic Rant is About Black ...
  While I will continue to argue that the African American community doesnât have patent on homophobia, it does, however, have a problem with it. And Tracy Morgan, comedian and actor on NBCâs “30 Rock,” is another glaring example of the malady. During a standup performance this month at the Ryman ...

NewsAlert

• Why Legalize Now?
  The Mises Institute
• A-Rod 'played in same illegal poker ring as To ...
  The Daily Mail reports:Alex Rodriguez allegedly played in the same illegal poker ring as a string of A-list stars, it has been reported. Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are all alleged to have been caught up in the gambling ring, which cost $100,000 to get into. The ...
• New Hampshire's hardy economy makes campaignin ...
  The L.A. Times reports:Unemployment is lower and the state's doing much better than most of the country, but that doesn't mean everyone is content with Obama's policies.
• The Worst States For Business
  CNBC
• Strauss-Kahn Case Adds to Doubts on Prosecutor
  The New York Times

JoNova

• The Fog of War — more propaganda against ...
  Anson Cameron makes a PR contribution in the big fog of the Climate War (Please: don’t dump the Monck) and I must say that it’s more sophisticated than the 50 religious academics who have no answer to Monckton and are terrified he might — God-forbid — speak. Cameron’s been called out from somewh ...
• Viscount Monckton answers Megan Clement of “Co ...
  Answers by The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley to questions by Megan Clement of âConversationâ 30 June 2011 All of the questions and answers herein must be reproduced in full: otherwise none of my answers may be disseminated in any form, in whole or in part. … * * * … Q. Iâm mainly interested in ...
• Viscount Monckton answers Megan Clement of “Co ...
  Answers by The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley to questions by Megan Clement of âConversationâ 30 June 2011 All of the questions and answers herein must be reproduced in full: otherwise none of my answers may be disseminated in any form, in whole or in part. … * * * … Q. Iâm mainly interested in ...
• Terrified of Monckton! GetUP don’t want ...
  Menzies House are reporting that GetUP are so scared that some Australians might hear Christopher Monckton speak, that they had a campaign to get the Brisbane Broncos football club to break their contract and cancel the “Climate of Freedom” speeches by Monckton in Brisbane. GetUP are a virtual a ...
• Terrified of Monckton! GetUP don’t want anyone ...
  Menzies House are just reporting that GetUP are so scared that some Australians might hear Christopher Monckton speak, that they had a campaign to get the Bronco’s to break their contract and cancel the “Climate of Freedom” speeches by Monckton in Brisbane. GetUP are a virtual arm of Labor Party ...

ReNew America

• Recent court decisions reveal a double-standar ...
  (Patrick Garry, RA analyst) - In two decisions announced this week, the Supreme Court's liberal wing shows a curious and seemingly inconsistent stance toward First Amendment freedoms. In Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, the wing, with the exception of Justice Breyer, found that a Ca ...
• Eric Holder: unfit for his office, Congress ne ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The "I" word is something one is well-advised to use sparingly lest it be abused and over-used. Impeachment is a constitutional option that has -- during our nation's history -- been approached with super-caution. After all, officials at the very top echelons of our go ...
• California taxes the Internet
  (Los Angeles Times) - Reporting from Sacramento-- Shopping at Amazon.com Inc. and other major Internet stores is poised to get more expensive. Beginning Friday, a new state law will require large out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases that their California customers make on t ...
• Federal appeals court upholds Obama health car ...
  (Fox News) - President Obama's controversial health care law got a major boost Wednesday when the first ruling by a federal appeals court affirmed that Congress can require Americans to have minimum insurance coverage...
• Media ignores Biden, Obama gaffes while target ...
  (Newsmax) - Although the media appears focused right now on any verbal blunders coming from the mouths of conservative Republicans, history indicates that bloopers are truly bipartisan. Here's a comparison of embarrassing remarks made by three political leaders: GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann, Presid ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Global Warming Running Out of Steam
  I’ve put in enough research to have decided that there is insufficient evidence to support the concept of man-made climate change, and that any warming or cooling is to do with the Sun. In the ... Related posts:Global Warming or Ice Age? Global Warming: Is it just the Sun? SHTF = Climate ...
• Bunker Video with Great Tips
  This two parter (the second video is at my 2012 Videos page) is not only a great way to see what a $170K bunker looks like (that’s delivered and installed, by NBC, if anyone is ... Related posts:Vivos: Budget Bunker Space in Nebraska Bunker Business Booming The Great Escape: 20 People Lea ...
• Australia: White Supremist Can Keep Gun
  While this might not sound so strange to Americans, down in Australia this is welcome news for survivalists. Darryl Potts, who believes there is a Jewish conspiracy to destroy other races, had his AB firearms ... Related posts:Bunker Guidelines for Victoria, Australia
• Doomsday Preppers (was) on Nat Geo
  In case you missed it on Monday night (USA), two segments can be seen on video, right here! If you like the style of Dennis McClung, consider purchasing products from 2012Supplies.com. And keep an eye out, ... Related posts:Rob on Nat Geo – Sneak Peek New Camping Doomsday Date: Oct 21 ...
• Piers Corbyn: Red Alert until July 2nd
  Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction.com has forecast the following for the period of June 27-July 2, with the greatest likelihood July 1-2: Major Earthquake Volcanism Tornadoes and Tornado Swarms Other Extreme Weather His methodology is not clear, but it might not ... Related posts:Sol ...

Facing South

• VOICES: Amazon's anti-tax crusade
  By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest When large companies complain about taxes, they are usually talking about levies they have to pay out of their own deep pockets. Amazon.com is engaged in a battle to make it easier for its customers to avoid paying their taxes -- their sales tax, that is, ...
• New labor rules could help workers' organizing ...
  By Jenny Brown and Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes The IKEA furniture factory in Danville, Va., is hot in the summer, but workers can expect it to be even hotter this year. They filed a petition for representation on June 20, kicking off the arduous process that leads to a typical union election in ...
• Are teachers and police officers imaginary people?
  Growing up, some children have imaginary friends. Today, many politicians seem to live in a world of imaginary workers. Or at least they think they're imaginary: To most people, school teachers, police officers, librarians and other public servants are very real. The public sees them every ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The politics of debt
  Date that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and other GOP leaders walked out of negotiations with the Obama administration on lifting the U.S. debt ceiling over their opposition to raising more revenue: 6/23/2011 Date that the U.S. is expected to run out of cash unless the deb ...
• List of state immigration laws blocked in fede ...
  By Marian Wang, ProPublica Last week, we noted that several states' tough, new immigration laws have been challenged in court. Arizona and Utah both recently had key parts of their laws blocked by federal judges. Now, add Georgia and Indiana to the list.� On Monday, a federal judge in Georgia ...

One News Page

• Liza Minnelli picks up Silver Clef 'Icon Award'
  Cabaret star Liza Minnelli is named an icon by the music therapy charity Nordoff Robbins.
• Bad weather halts Amarnath yatra!
  The Amarnath Yatra was halted on Sunday due to landslides and bad weather along the route to the Kashmir cave shrine.
• Kvitova beats Sharapova to win Wimbledon title
  LONDON (Reuters) - Nerveless 21-year-old Petra Kvitova delivered a remarkable performance of confidence and power to out-gun favourite Maria Sharapova and win the Wimbledon title for the first time with a convincing 6-3 6-4 victory on Saturday.
• Key suspect arrested in Jyotirmoy Dey murder case
  Mumbai, Jul 3: The Mumbai police was able to arrest Vinod Chembur, a key figure in connection with Jyotirmoy Dey murder case. He is believed to have financed the murder operation of the high profile murder of the MidDay senior crime
• Was Strauss-Kahn's rape accuser maid a 'hooker'?

Global Research TV

• Foundations of Social Engineering
• Voters Evolt!
• Thousands Evacuated from Los Alamos Nuclear Fa ...
• Speaking Truth to Power: Faces of War
• There's Something In The Water: Dangers of Sod ...

Daily Tech

• Kodak Falls Short in $1B USD Patent Dispute; A ...
  Court does allow some Kodak claims to continue, though licensing will likely be greatly reduced
• Mall Uses Airport Body Scanning Technology for ...
  Unique Solutions' newest technology is called "mybestfit," and it utilizes the body scanning technology used in airports -- except it keeps your clothes on
• 7/1/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday
• Computer Chess Champion Caught Injecting Perfo ...
  Code theft -- the performance enhancing drug of the future?
• Facebook: Star of the Online Advertising World
  Facebook raked in $2 billion in online display advertising revenues this year

Oriental Review

• Moscow and Ankara: Reshaping the Geopolitics o ...
  Speaking at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London recently, Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül said that the role of the West in global politics was gradually diminishing, and called for the creation of the new world order based on harmonious relations between the US and other worl ...
• US-Led Commodity Boom: Fake Prices, Global Crises
  When I first entered the floor and learned about oil pricing, it was clear that the cash market, where real barrels of oil were bought and sold, was where pricing was decided. Later, it became increasingly clear that the source of prices was coming from the futures markets that I engaged in, wit ...
• Swiss Banking Insider Reveals Secrets of Bilde ...
    ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes a thrilling interview with an anonymous Swiss banker taken in MosÑow on May 30, 2011, few days before the annual meeting of the Bilderberg club in Switzerland…   Q: Can you tell us something about your involvement in the Swiss banking business? A: I have worked for ...
• Credit Rating Agencies’ Potential To Erase Sov ...
  The history of credible data collection for the needs of private businesses in the US was relatively short. The 1907 stock market crash was the watershed moment after which the dependence of credit rating agencies (CRAs) on powerful corporations and their complicity with the rated companies, esp ...
• The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation`s Impact ...
  In my last article I had stated that the main interest of the countries of the region in the deliberations of the SCO summit would be the manner in which they handled the question of the granting of membership to the four countries-Pakistan, India, Iran and Mongolia – which now have observer sta ...

BlogHer

• A Mother's Sexuality: Taking Back MILF
  I've entertained the discussion of women as Marilyns or Jackies, generalizing to describe problems of misaligned expectations between partners, but it wasn't until I finished reading America's Queen, Jackie Kennedy Onassis' biography by Sarah Bradford, that I realized how wrong these assumptio ...
• What to Know Before You Go to the Farmers Market.
  In my family going to the farmers market is an adventure. But what do you need to know before you go?Be sure to take cash small bills work best. Most vendors don�t take credit or debit cards. Although they will take SNAP benefits at our local markets.Bring your own bags, some vendors have bags ...
• Show & Tell: NieNie Asks -- What Is Your Favor ...
  What is your favorite childhood memory? Here is Ollie with girl-friend Lucy playing on the backyard swing. He has never been more in love. What's yours? Leave a comment or a photo -- I want to know! Sponsored:� No
• Sparkling Strawberry Sangria
  [Editor's Note: Strawberries are in season, and that means it's a great time to use them in a drink that's fruity, refreshing, and not so sweet that it turns off those who prefer a drier adult beverage. This sangria recipe features a whole host of summer fruits mixed together to create a delici ...
• How to Tell if Your Website's Hacked
  Tech4Mommies has a great tip for testing your site to see if you've been hacked. You can even automate the test to alert you in the future. She writes, The hacks I�ve seen recently have mostly been spam injection, and meta hijacking. What this means is that if you do a google search and your s ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Ways To Celebrate Your Freedom Like A Rebel &# ...
  If we’re not laughing, we’re crying right? It’s hard to find humor when reports constantly assault our psyches by depicting the blatant trampling of our rights. But being a “rebel” today means different types of battles ...
• Miscarriage? Face Prison Time For Murder
  Did you know that US women are currently facing prison time for murder after suffering miscarriages and stillbirths? At least 38 states have introduced “foetal homicide laws” and around 300 women in South Carolina alone ...
• Diet Soda Sweeteners = Weight Gain, Diabetes, ...
  Artificial sweeteners have been swinging extreme ends of the pendulum in the mainstream media. Safe, not safe, safe…or at least the American Dietetics Association teaches that it’s great for diabetics and weight loss. But two new ...
• Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring, July 1, 2011
  Barbara Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center brings a message of liberty this holiday and how it relates to bills in place to force parents to vaccinate their children. She is one of the ...
• Lyme Cover Up Rages On
  What have you heard about tickborne Lyme for the last 30 years? That it’s rare, scary, acute, treatable… The government warns about its spread and implores people to go to a doctor upon seeing the ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, July 1, 2011
  While I was out last week, there was just a ton of coal news, so I’ll try to do a roundup of as much of it as I can here … First, there was a close call and some good news out of Kentucky, when three miners emerged safely after being trapped underground for 14 [...]
• More controversy over Brushy Fork slurry impou ...
  Photo of the Brushy Fork impoundment, by Vivian Stockman, with flight services provided by SouthWings. The folks from Coal River Mountain Watch announced today that they’re having a press conference next week to urge the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to take strong ...
• Birth defects study: More inconvenient facts a ...
  I was out of town last week when news broke of the latest major scientific study about the serious public health impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining. My buddy Dr. Paul Nyden covered it for the Gazette with this front-page story, reporting: Researchers found “significantly higher” rates of ...
• Is MSHA partly to blame for UBB deaths?
  At the end of yesterday’s MSHA press conference, a local radio reporter asked a pretty darned good question. It went something like this: Is Massey 100 percent responsible for the 29 deaths at the Upper Big Branch Mine? Or is MSHA also to blame, at least in part? Put in a practically impossible ...
• Is keeping ‘two sets of books’ a p ...
  MSHA officials — from left to right, Patricia Smith, Kevin Stricklin and Joe Main — await the start of a press conference Wednesday. Photo by Ken Ward Jr. Officials from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration — with a little help from initial media reports like mine last night — have pro ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

• Turning the tables on FIT – June 30th
  Great to see FIT photographer Gavin Paul getting a hard time on June 30th.
• Harassment style policing at J30 protest
  One of the most striking feature of today’s J30 protests was the unfettered intimidation and harassment dished out by the Met. They blatantly targeted a large scale stop and search programme at anyone they decided they didn’t like the look of, often young men, who were pulled from the crowd if t ...
• Filming in a public place, Greek Embassy, 16 June
  This is a great video of a very camera shy cop with an incredibly dodgy understanding of the law.
• New PND increases police ‘data power’
  The new Police National Database PND is now up and running. All of the 43 police forces can now easily and quickly share any information they hold, on a single platform. This will not only include criminal records, but all that ‘intelligence’ that is so lovingly gathered by FIT teams at politica ...
• FIT teams in plain clothes come out for UKuncu ...
  The 41 ukuncut demonstrations taking place around the UK yesterday resulted in only nine arrests, in Manchester. It is interesting that the arrests were for breach of the peace. Given that Ukuncut protesters elsewhere were also threatened with BOP arrests, it seems there was a bit of a tendency ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Let the Fracking begin – Gov. Andrew Cuo ...
  WWH – toadie; A side kick, a tag-a-long, one who is sent to do the dirty work. ibtimes – New York state appears likely to lift its ban on extracting natural gas through the controversial process known as hydraulic fracturing after the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation released upd ...
• Gaza flotilla: US Media, PR tools for Israel?
  AlJazeeraEnglish WWH – Worldwide Hippies was contacted by AlJazeeraEnglish, to give our opinion on the media reporting on the Gaza Floatilla. Included in this video from AlJazeeraEnglish is our response. Even before the boats of Freedom Flotilla II set sail for Gaza, the PR and media machine was ...
• Hippie TV: Shorts
  WWH -Hippie TV brings you, short video’s from around the web each saturday. If you have a video you would like to see featured or a suggested video. Let us know. Send information to joe@worldwidehippies.com And watch our Hippie TV news each monday. Or visit and subscribe to our Channel on Youtub ...
• The Collapse of Capitalism, Part One: Planned ...
  WWH -I have always believed that Capitalism is doomed to fail. Well, actually, I guess there are a few who think it’s a great success and the cat’s meow and all that, but if anyone thinks it is meant to be a system that satisfies people’s basic needs, it is a miserable failure. That’s OK. [...]
• The Final Act of the Casey Anthony Circus
  By Geraldo Rivera | Fox – The power of the Casey Anthony drama is self-evident in the gaggle of passengers gathered around this airport’s television monitors. Like millions of Americans, they are following every twist and turn as this painful but compelling case careens to its dramatic conclusio ...

reference frame

• Petra Kvitová wins her first Wimbledon
  Czech tennis player Ms Petra Kvitová (21) didn't care that Mr Maria Sharapova (24) was more experienced, richer, taller (Petra's 6 feet is 2 inches too little!), prettier - or, let's say, even prettier :-) - born in a larger country, and emitting annoying sounds all the time. When it c ...
• INTEGRAL / IBIS: Lorentz symmetry at the Planc ...
  Bob has pointed out the following June 2011 preprint: Constraints on Lorentz Invariance Violation using INTEGRAL/IBIS observations of GRB041219AThey used IBIS, the imager on board of the INTEGRAL satellite, to look at gamma ray bursts in the Crab Nebula. The most relevant gamma ray burst ...
• Swedish monetary policy: a success
  Nominal GDP targeting seems clever Sweden is one of the EU countries that didn't enter the eurozone and it's arguably the most healthy country when it comes to the recovery from the recent recession. Sweden would be led by the socialists for decades which didn't destroy the Scandinavia ...
• IBM: phase-change memory, PCM
  Phys Org (and those who follow them) informs about a new breakthrough of IBM that could lead to a two-order-of-magnitude improvement of flash-like memories. The technical paper is here: Drift-tolerant multilevel phase-change memory (PDF) The first author is Papandreou - clearly a chap f ...
• D0: a 4-sigma evidence for new CP violation in ...
  The anomaly grew from 3 sigma to 4 sigma On July 1st, I just updated the title of this article - originally posted on June 24th - because the D0 Collaboration has just posted a new preprint in which the anomaly grew from 3.2 to 3.9 sigma, or 4.2 sigma if counted more inclusively, once ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Darwin was right: Arrival of the Post-Petroleu ...
  Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial civilization. The star ...
• Burzynski Cures Cancer – The Magic of Antineop ...
  THIS VIDEO WILL BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE OWNER ON JUNE 20 2011 Curing cancer is frowned upon big government and BIG PHARMA, especially when the patent for the cure is owned by a single doctor, and they can’t have a taste of the pie. So what do they do? They sick their hound dog, [...] Related p ...
• French Whistleblowers reaveal the set up of Do ...
  I saw this over at SGTReport.com and it is worth repeating here. French insiders reveal the reason why DSK had to be taken out. It was all about the missing gold baby. Watch this one explode before summer is out. Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Commodities / Gold and ...
• Greece Yesterday – Largest Uprising Todate
  This was the center of Athens yesterday, June 12, 2011. Any questions? More Postcards From A Pre-Revolutionary Greece; Presenting “Goldman’s Employee Of The Decade” Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2011 11:05 -0400 Ben Bernanke Goldman Sachs Greece Testimony Last night’s major anti-IMF rally a ...
• Flag Worship and Voting Ensures Slavery
  Many times I have tried to explain to Charles Leblanc, a local Fredericton Blogger, that voting ensures a continuation of our slavery. To further drive this home here is a video from Stefan Molyneux of Feedomain Radio that eloquently explains how we are nothing more than cattle to our leaders. W ...

Truth About Our World

• Global Awakening Defined: We Are Just Beginnin ...
• David Icke and Others on Chemtrails
  I’ve been wondering lately, if by posting these kinds of stories, I’m doing exactly what “they” want, to perpetuate fear and confusion… In this case, chemtrails, I have no proof that it’s true, other then having seen those “trails” up in the sky myself.  I don’t know if they’re chemtrails or tr ...
• Massive wildfires threaten to ignite 30000 bar ...
  If nothing else, just question the “coincidence ” of various nuclear facilities being threatened now, either by earthquakes (Fukushima), fire (New Mexico), or water (Nebraska).  Mother nature having it’s revenge , or… planned??? July 01, 2011 by: Jonathan Benson Threats of radioactive disaster ...
• Look who’s buying up flood ravaged farm land
  Double Red Alert Posted by Ann Barnhardt Missouri River Flooding Cattle commodities broker Ann writes: Two HUGE intel leads in my email box this morning from way-back contacts that I�ve had for years, that are actually somewhat connected concepts. 1. File this one under �Now It All Makes Sense�. ...
• The Olgacom Scandal Explained: the connection ...

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence

Enviroblog

• Cosmetics Industry To Disavow Hair Straighteners
  By David Andrews, Ph.D., EWG senior scientist Most people are - by now - well aware that overexposure to formaldehyde is unsafe. From the FEMA trailer fiasco (remember Katrina?) to the Obama administration's recent decision to classify formaldehyde as... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• On Propaganda: Fracking Fun for the Very Young
  By Alex Formuzis, Father of Two and EWG V-P for Media Relations The natural gas industry has lost much support among adults who live in communities where fracking has left the water undrinkable and home values plummeting, but all is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
• Fracking Hearing: Standing room only and plent ...
  By Leeann Brown, Shannon Morgan and Alex Rindler, EWG Staff Following up on last week's contentious hearing in Washington, Pa., the U.S. Energy department has scheduled two all-day sessions for Tuesday, June 28, and Wednesday, July 13, to listen to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• Half-Baked: FDA's New Sunscreen Regulations Fa ...
  By: Thomas Cluderay, EWG staff attorney and David Andrews, Ph.D., EWG senior scientist Imagine grabbing a cookbook to find the perfect recipe for key lime pie to present at your summer barbeque. Thumbing through the pages, you locate an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
• U.S. (finally) Labels Formaldehyde "Known Huma ...
  By Paul Pestano, Research Analyst After decades of debate, the Obama administration last week classified formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen, a label that is likely to advance regulatory steps to restrict this widely used hazardous chemical. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• How the New York Asian Film Festival grew up w ...
  It’s hard not to be fascinated by the New York Asian Film Festival.Subway Cinema, the festival’s programmers, pride themselves on screening the most inspired pop cinema you’ve probably never heard of. The festival hasn’t had a dull year yet, thanks to its ...
• Cuomo won, but did he clean up Albany?
  ALBANY—We had been standing at attention for over an hour last Friday, waiting for someone to emerge from the second-floor conference room where Governor Andrew Cuomo was taking meetings. The legislative session was building to a noisy end, with the possib ...
• D.S.K. swallows a bird, but the tabs won't eat ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• 'News' dominates dog days as 'Post' chases And ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• Tragedy in the Bronx faces off against comedy ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More

Views & News from Norway

• Youngster wins scholarship to write
  Last fall, Eline Johnsen Helledal, 19, wrote an article about her relationship with her substance-abusing brother and submitted it to a reporting competition held by newsmagazine A-magasinet. Helledal’s story was strong enough to take first place in the competition, but the story does not end th ...
• Ancient coin confirms saga
  A rare German coin – a silver pfenning from the Harz mountains – was found during an excavation at Avaldsnes on Karmøy, close to Stavanger on the south west coast. The coin confirms references in Snorre Sturlason’s ancient norse king saga to a royal estate during the time of Harald I of Norway, ...
• Crown couple arrive in Monaco
  Crown Prince Håkon Magnus and Crown Princess Mette-Marit arrived in Monaco this afternoon. They will attend the royal wedding of Prince Albert of Monaco to Charlene Wittstock, scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Friday. The crown couple traveled by car to the principality, after arriving at the airport ...
• Kidnapped girl out of reach
  A nine year old girl of Polish origin was abducted while in the care of the state child protection services (Barnevernet) Tuesday evening. Celebrity private detective Krysztof Rutkowski has taken responsibility for the kidnapping, explaining that he has returned the girl to her parents in Poland ...
• Paternity leave is overrated
  When extended paternity leave was introduced by the labor party in 1993, it was argued that fathers spending six weeks at home with newborns would have a slew of socioeconomic benefits; it would help dad become an equal caregiver to mom, strengthen women’s standing in the job market and balance ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• What the Frack is Going On?
  Hungry for energy? Worried that oil is running dry and coal is getting squeezed out? Well, don’t panic — now we have gas on the menu (literally…)! It doesn’t matter where it is, or how hard it is to reach. We will just drill, baby, drill! Hydraulic fracturing (otherwise known as ‘fracking’) ...
• Strong Support for National Water Audit
  by Ian Douglas In welcoming the call by Federal Greens Senator, Sarah Hanson-Young, for a national audit of water licence holdings, national coordinator of Fair Water Use, Ian Douglas, commented today, “We have longstanding concerns about the sale of water licences to overseas interests, as ther ...
• Atro-City
  As Sydney residents are being paid to leave the city, the case for compact, high-density settlement becomes clearer than ever. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom For at least a century, governments have tried to urbanise the ...
• Greenpeace Takes on Monsanto Over ‘Pesticides ...
  Editor’s Note: In addition to the post below, check out this, this and this. It seems that Monsanto, and even industry regulators, have known for decades that glyphosate (the main ingredient of Roundup) causes birth defects, even in very low doses "comparable to levels of pesticide residues foun ...
• A Greek Island PDC With Rhamis Kent and Nicola ...
  Join internationally-renowned PRI permaculture designer and teacher, Rhamis Kent on the beautiful Island of Lefkas, Greece, for an internationally recognised permaculture design course. Over 15 days you will learn the basic theory of permaculture ethics, principles, design processes and implemen ...

Pointman's

• Another body floats by.
  The Japanese have a proverb; if you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by. In the year and a half since climategate, itâs been happening with increasing frequency. The latest one is a main stream media (MSM) journalist called Johann Hari who works at the Inde ...
• The death of journalism and the irresistible r ...
  The IPCC has screwed up again. They published a claim last month in their renewables report saying that renewable technologies could supply 80% of world-wide energy needs by the mid-century. What they actually published was an executive summary of the report, not the report itself. That was publ ...
• Line of Descent Chapter 26
  Chapter 26 Krupmeyer stared through the smoke at the black indistinct figure rising up through the hole in the floor in front of him. His eyes watered from the acrid smoke and his ears were filled with a high-pitched ringing from the effects of the explosion. The figure seemed to unbend slowly u ...
• Love is simply not an option.
  Love is a word in every language. It has a lot of meanings and covers a lot of ground. Itâs a universal. We make love but what weâre actually doing is expressing our love by giving mutual physical pleasure to each other and of course, itâs the best fun. Where thereâs no emotional love there, … R ...
• The power of dreams and the power of nightmares.
  There are patterns in politics which are hardy perennials. Theyâve been there for as long as politics has been around, which is to say forever. Politicians need you to vote for them and the way they do this is to sell you something. The thing they sell you of course is a promise but to … Read more

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Displaced Women Demand Justice in Port au Prince
  By Bill Quigley and Jocelyn Brooks “We women demand!…” sang out a hundred plus voices “…Justice for Marie!” Marie, a 25 year old pregnant mother, was injured by government agents when they slammed a wooden door into her stomach during an early morning invasion of an earthquake displacement ...
• Project Transparency Posts New Financial Discl ...
  Project Transparency, a program run by Louisiana Justice Institute, has posted 2009 and 2010 financial disclosure forms for many members of our city government, including the mayor, city council members, city attorney, police superintendent, and several key mayoral staff. The documents are avail ...
• Sex Offender Registration for Sex Workers Ends ...
  Louisiana's era of forcing certain convicted sex workers to register as sex offenders appears to be over. Governor Jindall's office announced today that he had signed into law a bill, sponsored by Louisiana State Representative Charmaine Marchand Stiaes, that effectively moves prostitution convi ...
• Amnesty International Launches Campaign to Fre ...
  From our friends at Amnesty International and International Coalition to Free the Angola 3: The US state of Louisiana must immediately remove two inmates from the solitary confinement they were placed in almost 40 years ago, Amnesty International said today. Albert Woodfox, 64, and Herman ...
• NOPD Continues to Target Sex Workers and Other ...
  The Times-Picayune reported today on two large busts of sex workers under Louisiana's archaic "Crime Against Nature" law. These arrests come just as the Louisiana legislature has passed a bill that would do away with the law, which the US Justice Department has said unfairly targets LGBT indivi ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  The Jew World Order smart grid is implementing the radiation-emitting smart meters all over the world now. Setting up the BEAST.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:30 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  That quote says it all. He is a crypto-Bol-shit-vik.Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:07 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  More on Operation Bojinka -- amateurish like a Hotel in Madagascar. In the 1980s they were "Freedom Fighters" now they are "Terrorists" ...it's all a bag of Jew Sh*t and Scams... -- CSR --------- Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law, killed in Madagascar By Bill Roggio Jan ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Rockclimber wrote: So where do you stand on this CSR? Agnostic, or have you joined MikeWBs camp? Here this fits: http://www.historycommons.org/entity.js ... on_bojinka Hey R.C., I had a long post that got dropped. Here's my take. Islamic violence in Bosnia, Africa, Afghanistan, Indones ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/grid.html POWER GRID TAMPERING WILL END AN ERA See the update, which answers a question about DC connected main lines below this report. The entire premise of my report is based on the fact that you cannot run multiple frequencies simultaneously on the grid w ...

TVNZ

• Opposition wins Thai election by a landslide - ...
  The opposition won Thailand's general election by a landslide tonight, exit polls showed.  
• Cheers and some boos greet royal tour in Quebec
  Anti-monarchist protesters have booed Prince William and Catherine in Quebec.
• More questions raised about Strauss-Kahn's accuser
  Scrutiny of the accuser in the sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn intensified on Saturday after more revelations about her conduct following the purported May 14 attack
• Crowds cheer Monaco's Prince Albert and bride
  Monaco's ruler Prince Albert has married South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock.
• Syria's Assad sacks key governor a day after p ...
  Syria's President has sacked the governor of Hama province a day after mass protests.

environment 360

• U.S. Wine Regions Vulnerable to Warmer Tempera ...
  Warming temperatures could significantly impact some of America’s premium wine growing regions within three decades, including counties in California that produce some of the nation’s most expensive wines, ShutterstockGrapes on the vine according to a new Stanford University study. In Northern ...
• Court Orders Compensation in Deaths of Samsung ...
  A Korean court has ordered Samsung Electronics to compensate the family of two former employees who died of leukemia, ruling that there was likely a link between their deaths and exposure to chemicals at the company’s semiconductor plants. The ruling by Judge Jin Chang-su overturns a 2009 decisi ...
• Green Activists Feel Sting of Chinese Governme ...
  Even before this spring’s ominous clampdown on China’s public-interest lawyers, writers, and activists, the country’s fledgling environmental community felt the authorities’ noose tightening. BY CHRISTINA LARSON
• Intensifying Signs of Warming Continued in 201 ...
  The world showed signs last year of accelerated warming, with carbon dioxide emissions continuing to soar, ice retreating in Greenland at the fastest rate in recorded history, and 2010 tying 2005 as the warmest year on record, according to a U.S. government report. The State of the Climate Repor ...
• Green Energy Breakthroughs Could Boost U.S. Ec ...
  Breakthroughs in green energy technology, coupled with supportive government policies, could add $155 billion to the U.S. economy annually and create more than 1.1 million jobs by 2030, according to an analysis by Google.org, the internet search giant’s philanthropic arm. Using an analytic set o ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Toxic Reverend - Revelations
  Tags: toxins chemicals health_concerns
• Corporate Crime Reporter
  Tags: Crime Corporate activism news
• Pubget: the search engine for life-science PDFs
  Tags: life-science PDFs search search engine
• www.parliament.uk Home page - UK Parliament
  Tags: uk parliament legislation law News politics
• Fasting Connection
  Tags: fasting health cleansing

backofthebook

• RIM chaos overestimated, but . . .
  By Mark Evans With all the talk about Research in Motion’s financial and marketshare struggles, many people tend to overlook the fact that it is still a wireless behemoth, albeit one with intense and growing competition. But it's not just another “a Nortel.”. Nevertheless, RIM needs to mak ...
• The Conservatives’ Homegrown censorship
  By Frank Moher We can now begin to see how the Conservative government intends to use its majority to chop arts funding in Canada, particularly to any artistic expression it doesn't like or agree with. In the short term at least, it will be a death by a thousand cuts. This ...
• Bill Blair’s G20 alibi
  By Alison@Creekside An interview with Andre Marin, Ontario Ombudsman and author of the G20 report "Caught in the Act," sheds a little light on the blackout surrounding who was responsible for ordering kettling at the G20 a year ago. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, as we have previously he ...
• Potter too much
  By Rachel Krueger As though the tenterhooks weren’t tight enough for Harry Potter 7.2: The One Where It Actually Ends, the Rowling megalith taunted its fans last week with the mysterious offer of . . . Pottermore. Pottermore, the powers promised, was a Thing That Was Not A Book But Was Sti ...
• The lost art of imagining retribution
  By Jan Drabek Probably the most bizarre attempt to deal with the Stanley Cup riots to date was the announcement of a group getting together to sing O Canada at the corner of Georgia and Hamilton. But other unusual takes abound, among them that of the bicycle-loving mayor of Vancouver who ...

Daily Beast

• O’Connor’s Videogame Revolution
  The former justice tells Danielle Friedman about her new mission: teaching kids about government through gaming.
• Great Weekend Reads
  A history of shoplifting and two new novels to read this weekend.
• Negroponte Is Unbloodied and Unbowed
  After 44 years in foreign service, John Negroponte has no regrets. He talks to Lloyd Grove about the Iraq intelligence “fiasco,” Osama bin Laden’s death—and why the end of the Cold War was a bigger deal than 9/11.
• A Masterpiece Pulled Apart
  A new view of “Saint Francis” by Giovanni Bellini shows that its oils are miraculous at conveying light.
• Geithner's Push from Behind
  The leak that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was thinking of leaving may have bee designed hasten Obama’s chance to remake his economic policy.

Loonwatch

• Udo Ulfkotte and Fecal Jihad: Asymmetric Warfa ...
  Is it too early to hand the award to Udo Ulfkotte for "craziest conspiracy theory award 2011?"
• Creeping Shariah: Stealth Threat or Conspiracy ...
  Is Creeping Shariah a stealth threat quietly overtaking the USA, or is it a conspiracy theory? You decide.
• Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Declares Support f ...
  Al-Azhar's wants Egypt to shine a path towards Democracy.
• LGF: British Branch of the ‘Anti-Jihad&# ...
  Full Blown anti-Semitism is pushing the meltdown of the Islamophobic EDL.
• Frontpage Muslim-bashing Authority Can’t Do a ...
  Frontpage spreads misinformation and lies about the supposed "kidnapping" of two Christian girls.

Energy News

• Fire breaks out at Los Alamos Technical Area 5 ...
  Los Alamos lab prepares to reopen as fire threat eases, Reuters, ...Read More
• Fire from Unit No. 1 transformer at French nuc ...
  Explosion and fire at French nuclear plant, Deutsche Presse Agentur July ...Read More
• Prime Minister’s former nuclear adviser: ...
  Radiation Expert Predicts More Threats, Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2011: ...Read More
• Radiation monitoring station data was actually ...
  Japanese Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation, Asia Pacific Journal, July ...Read More
• Blown up levee caused 3 to 4 inch rise in wate ...
  Explosives Used to Breach Levee; Investigation Underway, WOWT, July 1, 2011: ...Read More

Japan Times

• Sengoku urges Kan to resign soon
  Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku on Saturday urged Prime Minister Naoto Kan to step down soon, saying a clean break is necessary. "A leader who remains in his post after expressing his readiness to resign will end up having no authority," Sengoku told reporters in the city of Tok ...
• Scout says Kelley OK'd payments
  The owner of a Texas-based scouting service tells Yahoo Sports that Oregon coach Chip Kelly personally approved a $25,000 payment to him that's the focus of an NCAA investigation. The payment to Will Lyles in February 2010 has been questioned because of his relationship with running backs Lach ...
• Here's herbs with a cherry on top
  "Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme" is the refrain to one of my favorite songs, the traditional English ballad "Scarborough Fair," which was made famous when Simon and Garfunkel released it in 1966. Though I do like folk songs, I've never been to Scarborough (in North Yorkshire), let alone to ...
• Major firms start weekend shifts
  Major companies on Saturday began operating on weekends to reduce demand for electricity use on weekdays in the face of possible power shortfalls this summer. The start came a day after the government imposed restrictions on electricity consumption by large-lot users in eastern and northeaster ...
• Sawa's hat trick powers Japan in rout of Mexico
  Veteran midfielder Homare Sawa scored a hat trick as Japan romped into the quarterfinals of the Women's World Cup with a 4-0 thrashing of Mexico on Friday afternoon. Two goals in the space of as many first-half minutes from Sawa and Shinobu Ono put Norio Sasaki's side in control and Sawa nette ...

Alexander Higgins

• Guardian: Leaked Emails Reveal Government Cons ...
  The British newspaper The Guardian has obtained emails showing that government officials conspired with the nuclear industry to downplay the Fukushima nuclear disaster to prevent damage to the nuclear power industry.
• Video shows shocking police abuse amid Greek p ...
  A video published to YouTube by someone who was in the midst of the riots rocking Athens this week shows police in full body armor beating protesters with clubs as they attempt to clear a public area.
• Let’s Torture the Truth Out of Suicide B ...
  General David Petraeus, new CIA Director, says we should try to torture the truth out enemy combatants even though research shows torture usually leads to false confessions.
• Rioters Turn Athens Greece Into A War Zone &#8 ...
  After Greek politicians sold out an 80% majority opposed to the banker bailout and passed draconian austerity measures, using the excuse they were blackmailed, the rioters in Athens responded by turning Greece into a war zone and setting banks, cars, and the Finance Ministry on fire.
• EPA Monitoring Smoke From Wildfire At Los Alam ...
  The EPA is now monitoring smoke from the wildfire near the Los Alamos nuclear weapons facility for radiation after a whistleblower revealed that up to 30,000 barrels of plutonium contaminated waste is being stored on site inside of highly flammable fabric tents.

Macleans - Central

• This is the week that was
  Happy Canada Day from Stephen Harper and Prince William. Charlie Angus won at filibustering. John
• ‘A day of unity’
  The prepared text of Prince William’s remarks on Parliament Hill. Bonjour Ottawa! Bonjour Canada! Bonne
• ‘There is something special about our co ...
  The prepared text of the Prime Minister’s statement at Canada Day ceremonies on Parliament Hill.
• The Commons: Pledging allegiance
  Canada may lack the romanticism of revolution. But 144 years into our national experiment, we get to lay some claim to Will and Kate.
• The last 25 years in books
  Samara and the Writers’ Trust of Canada have released their shortlist for the best political

Making It Count - CCPA

• The NDP and “Big Labour”
  Rob Silver, a sharp guy I first met through university debate, has written a rather disappointing piece entitled, “Would NDP be neutral were it in power during a labour dispute?” This question is interesting and significant. On the one hand, the NDP’s political philosophy is strongly supportive ...
• Corporate Canada’s Cash Stash
  Statistics Canada figures indicate that private non-financial corporations held $471 billion of cash in the first quarter of 2011 ($322 billion of Canadian currency plus $149 billion worth of foreign currency). Including short-term paper would bring this total to half a trillion dollars, enough ...
• Omnibus Crime Bill an Injustice
  This fall the Harper government will pass an omnibus crime bill that will imprison thousands more Canadians and cost billions of dollars. It will not do as advertised by the Conservatives and drive the crime rate down. It will simply incarcerate for longer the many citizens who fall afoul of the ...
• BC’s Regressive Tax Shift
  With much of the talk on taxes in BC about the HST, we issued a new report today that looks at the bigger context for BC’s tax system (Vancouver Sun oped here, CTV News story here). Iglika Ivanova, Seth Klein and I compare and contrast BC’s tax system after a decade where tax cuts were [...]
• Not allowed to talk about poverty
  BC Stats put out a release yesterday with the headline “Low Income Cut-Offs (LICOs) are a Poor Measure of Poverty” and author Dan Schrier gets in a dirty hit right in first paragraph: Despite protestations from Statistics Canada that LICOs are not meant to be used as a measure of poverty, there ...

ReDress

• Feeding the brave flotilla to Israel’s slaveri ...
  Stuart Littlewood views the British government's unwillingness - as evident from the statements of its ministers in Parliament - to support its citizens' right to go about their lawful business delivering humanitarian aid to besieged Gaza and to protect them from Israeli threats to slaughter the ...
• Israel and the issue of delegitimization
  Lawrence Davidson argues that it is not enough simply to oppose Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and that it is Israel's discriminatory ethno-religious structure - its Zionist ideology - that makes it illegitimate and must be the focus of international opposition.
• Gaza flotilla versus diaspora Jewry
  Gilad Atzmon considers Israel's announced plan to use Jewish diaspora communities, Jewish organizations and friends of Israel around the world to disseminate propaganda via social media in the event of an Israeli massacre of human rights and aid activists abroad the 2011 Gaza-bound humanitarian ...
• Dispelling Libyan myths
  Anne Marlowe debunks some of the common myths about the Libyan uprising prevalent among certain quarters in the West, from the myth that Libya is tribal, to the nonsense about the uprising being a "civil war", to misinformation about the governance and forces of the anti-Gaddafi opposition.
• A "responsible end" in Afghanistan?
  As the USA begins its gradual troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Lawrence Davidson reflects on how the failure to learn the lessons of history, and an absence of executive and legislative accountability rooted in the American public's disinterest in politics and foreign policy, have led to more ...

Physics Today

• Cornish tsunami triggers multiple explanations
  Daily Mail: Earlier this week a small tsunami struck off the Cornish coast of England. Just before it struck, people along the coastline reported that the air went unnaturally still and their hair "stood on end." Several theories have been proposed to explain the phenomenon. One is that the tsun ...
• The fluid dynamics of Tibetan singing bowls
  BBC: Researchers have developed a mathematical model to describe the acoustics and fluid dynamics of water in ceremonial Tibetan singing bowls. According to John Bush of MIT and Denis Terwagne of Belgium’s University of Liege, who yesterday published a paper in the journal Nonlinearity, “rubbing ...
• Self-driving cars get the go-ahead in Nevada
  PC Magazine: Earlier this month Nevada passed a bill that will require its Department of Motor Vehicles to draw up rules for autonomous vehicles, which the state defines as motor vehicles that use artificial intelligence, sensors, and GPS coordinates to drive themselves without the active interv ...
• Baseball superstitions put to the test
  PhysOrg: Lloyd Smith, an associate professor at Washington State University's School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, recently investigated three questions of relevance to major league baseball: Can a baseball be hit farther with a corked bat? Is there evidence that the baseball is livel ...
• Working toward a nuclear clock
  New Scientist: Atomic clocks, the most accurate clocks to date, use the visible light or microwave signals that atoms predictably emit when one of their electrons drops from a high-energy state to a lower-energy state. The signals are so regular that atomic clocks are used to define the length o ...

Revolutionary Politics

• Technology Transfer to Israel
  by Rev333 (Posted Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:36:53 GMT) Israel Slap US in the Face AGAIN! and Again. http://tiny.cc/lffix
• Technology Transfer to Israel
  by Rev333 (Posted Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:17:58 GMT) The tendency of Jews to collaborate in occult schemes to transfer money out of Gentiles's pockets may have been the reason for their persecution throughout history. http://www.ishitech.co.il/From.HTML
• Fiesta Solar, the green festival
  by Terrence (Posted Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:58:35 GMT) The main purpose of the Belgian organization ‘Solar zonder Grenzen’ which organized the Fiesta Solar was to arrange a festival that would run completely on solar energy. A mobile energy supplier was developed especially for this green event: the ...
• Bin Laden and Julian Assange, False flag and l ...
  by lalaw (Posted Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:38:12 GMT) It has emerged recently that Assange is in the UK since October which means that all those three successive and massive US documents "leaks" have been orchestrated by him from his secret residence in the UK. So why is this done from the UK. The ans ...
• Fake Holocaust Memoirs
  by Rev333 (Posted Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:59:50 GMT) A Schwindler's List

Peakwater

• Britain’s Rivers ‘Being Ruined By ...
  “Current abstraction by firms from rivers and groundwater sources is so high that it would take the equivalent of 23 million people to stop using water every day to get back to environmentally sustainable levels. The report by Policy Exchange, David Cameron’s favourite think-tank, calls for the ...
• Oil Spill In Montana River Forces Evacuation
  “An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River near Billings in south-central Montana ruptured and dumped an unknown amount of oil into the waterway, prompting temporary evacuations along the river Saturday morning. Company spokeswoman Pam Malek said the pipe leaked for about a ha ...
• Burma’s war in Kachin State directly related t ...
  “Last Friday, hundreds of people in the US, Denmark, United Kingdom, Malaysia, and elsewhere gathered to protest the recent deadly clashes between Burmese authorities and ethnic militias in Burmaâs northern Kachin State. Standing in front of Burmese and Chinese embassies, Kachin nationals held u ...
• Cuomo Will Seek to Lift Ban on Hydraulic Fract ...
  “The Cuomo administration is seeking to lift what has effectively been a moratorium in New York State on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique used to extract natural gas from shale, state environmental regulators said on Thursday. The process would be allowed on private lands, openin ...
• Ravi Water Flow: India, Pak Engineers Battle I ...
  “AMRITSAR: Every year the banks of river Ravi becomes the battle field for the engineers of both India and Pakistan during rainy the season. Indian engineers are at war of wits with their Pakistani counterparts in not only preventing the erosion of strategically important land on banks of Ravi ...

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich Cautions Media: Diplomacy Works
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following remarks: �How the U.S. and the international community, including the media, assess the crisis in Syria will affect whether Syria experiences a transformation to democracy, or whether it becomes the flash point for a new war in t ...
• Response to an Article by Syrian Arab News Age ...
  Today, the Syrian Arab News Agency published an article that contained a number of mistranslations and mischaracterized statements that I made during a news conference in Damascus. While on fact-finding mission in Syria, I was asked to share my initial reactions with some journalists, which I ...
• Kucinich on Fact-Finding Mission to Syria and ...
  At the request of many of his constituents, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is currently on a fact-finding mission to Syria and Lebanon. He is accompanied by a small delegation which includes his wife, Elizabeth. Congressman Kucinich, who represents a district that includes many Arab-America ...
• Kucinich: Congress Votes Overwhelmingly Agains ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after the House of Representatives rejected a measure offered by Representative Rooney that would have limited the U.S. involvement in the war in Libya. The Rooney bill was defeated after a bill authorizing the war in Libya wa ...
• Kucinich: Defeat the Authorization for the War
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led bipartisan opposition to the war in Libya, today addressed the House, urging his colleagues to take a two-step approach to ending the U.S. involvement in the war in Libya. Congressman Kucinich will also be sending messages encouraging his colle ...

Authentically Wired

• So do you think
  ⦠So do you think Mon$anto ⦠CODEX ⦠USDA ⦠really want you to know ⦠? Article and a video revealing how canola oil is the No. 1 ingredient in a pesticide product that kills bugs. It’s 96% canola oil! Here’s the article: http://www.naturalnews.com/032853_canola_oil_pesticides.html And here ...
• … Do you really find this the least bit ...
  �� Do you really find this the least bit surprising ��? New Documents Prove TSA �Mischaracterized� Safety Aspects Of Full Body Scanners � Steve Watson �� Prisonplanet.com �� June 27, 2011 �� http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-documents-prove-tsa-mischaracterized-safety-aspects-of-full-body-scanners ...
• Milk and Grain Addiction
  Milk and Grain Addiction The take home here is that grains and milk both have proteins that bind with receptors to effectively encourage satisfaction with the food but actually sidesteps the choices your body wishes to make. The problem is that we want to over eat these foods and that promotes e ...
• One can only wonder
  ⦠One can only wonder on which   military contractor these two bozos end up on when they either retire or get defeated at the next elections⦠They both sold their soul$…               Filed under: Blogroll
• America’s permanent war agenda
    America’s permanent war agenda   Stephen Lendman â¦Date: June 30, 2011 â¦The Business of America is War – by Stephen Lendman ⦠http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/Print-Page.htm?EdNo=001&Info=0152535 Noted trends analyst Gerald Celente said it, and it’s true. In fact, America’s business is ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Dung beetles: a sewage SWAT team
  Biology Professor Doug Emlen speaks with Laurel Neme on her 'The WildLife' radio show and podcast about the biology and armaments of dung beetles. An expert on the evolution and development of bizarre shapes in insects, Emlen notes that dung beetles are one of the 'kings' of odd morphology.
• How do we save Africa's forests?
  Africa's forests are fast diminishing to the detriment of climate, biodiversity, and millions of people of dependent on forest resources for their well-being. But is the full conservation of Africa's forests necessary to mitigate global climate change and ensure environmental stability in Africa ...
• Could palm oil help save the Amazon?
  For years now, environmentalists have become accustomed to associating palm oil with large-scale destruction of rainforests across Malaysia and Indonesia. Campaigners have linked palm oil-containing products like Girl Scout cookies and soap products to smoldering peatlands and dead orangutans. ...
• Conservation issues in Tanzania
  What's happening in Tanzania? This is a question making the rounds in East African conservation circles. Why is a nation that has so much invested in wild lands and wild animals pursuing projects that researchers say will not only gravely harm some of the nation's world-famous wildlife and ecosy ...
• Belief and butchery: how lies and organized cr ...
  Few animals face as violent, as well organized, and as determined an enemy as the world's rhinos. Across the globe rhinos are being slaughtered in record numbers; on average more than one rhino is killed by poachers everyday. After being shot or drugged, criminals take what they came for: they s ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Sir Peter Blake awards: Sam Johnson
  Special Leadership Award As the general of his own army at the tender age of 22, Sam Johnson is using a new style to rally his troops.Gone are the structured lines of command, the barked orders and the regimented structure....
• 4.1 quake strikes West Coast
  Westland was shaken by a 4.1 magnitude earthquake tonight.The 7.43pm tremor was centred 30km south of Whataroa, 114km south-west of Hokitika, at a depth of 5km, GNS Science reported.- NZPA
• The Swedish preschool where gender is ignored
  At the Egalia preschool, staff avoid using words like "him" or "her" and address the 33 youngsters as "friends" rather than girls and boys.From the colour and placement of toys to the choice of books, every detail has been carefully...
• Insurance industry facing a climate of fear
  This month, as the US reeled from some very nasty weather - floods in Mississippi, drought in Texas, tornadoes in the Midwest - the New York Times got right down to brass tacks: given damage to property, crops and lost business,...
• Emperor penguin on the mend, still critical
  Happy Feet seems to be on the mend, despite still being in a critical condition.The Emperor Penguin was taken to Wellington Zoo on Friday after eating sand at Peka Peka Beach on the Kapiti Coast.Its stomach was flushed out...

Truth Survival + RSS

• DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
  Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →
• THOUGHTS AND PERSPECTIVE ON THE CURRENT MADNESS
          Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Government Controlled Media, Mind Control, Police State, Survival Info, Uncategorized Tagged: Civil Disobedience, cyberspace, Dis-information, Disclosure, Do It Yourself, Economic Collaps ...
• SMART METERS: PRIVACY ISSUES, RADIATION, ELECT ...
    Smart Meters are yet another tool of Command & Control by those who have their tentacles of power over those of us trying to live a life free of corruption, pollution and elitist rule. These devices are infesting the … Continue reading →
• BIG SOCIETY, COMMON PURPOSE & AGENDA 21
  Report written by Roma AKA A2B *Special Note from Aaron- For those who have wondered what A2B means. It stands for Allergic to Bullshit. Thanks Roma for telling it like it is.           Thereâs an ever … Continue reading →
• THE SCHUMANN RESONANCE: THE HEART BEAT OF EART ...
  Earlier today Meredith and I were looking over the recent news which is normal for us. We almost everyday find something unusual that gets little recognition by even the Truth Movement community. Today we found two stories that have sparked … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

• Catching up With Reviews & Commentary Abou ...
  Some excerpts from commentary about our book. Bretigne Shaffer, Barron's: The book's most exciting parts deal with the power of peaceful, impassioned individuals to alter repressive societies: How, back when home-brewing was still illegal in America, a few people who cared ...
• This Independence Day...Ask a Libertarian!
  On June 15, 2011, Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, the co-authors of "The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America," took questions via Reason.com, Facebook, and Twitter and fired off rapid-response videos. Watch the ...
• Pyongyang College Students Probably Weren't Le ...
  Kim Jong-Il will transfer power to his twenty-something son one day soon, but he’s keeping things commie-classic with a new decree declaring that manual labor beats book learning. According to the University World News: Diplomats in Pyongyang confirmed that students were bein ...
• Is Your Suitcase Causing the Recession?<="" a="">
  Conservatives had plenty of fun and larfs at President Obama's expense recently, after the commander in chief called out ATMs and kiosks as job-killers. Here’s what Obama said in a June 14 Today Show interview:  [T]here are some structural issues with our economy, where a lot ...
• <="" a=""> <Wagnerian Ticket Schwindle: Government Gives B ...
  This Fourth of July, here's a reason to be glad that you live in a country without a culture ministry. Germany's Bayreuth Festival, the annual marathon performance of Richard Wagner's operas, is embroiled in scandal over how tickets get sold. Bloomberg's Catherine Hickley reports ...

Mercury Rising

• Arne Carlson: Pawlenty Caused Minnesota Budget ...
  Just to remind everyone: Carlson contends that his administration didn’t just point out the long-term structural problems in the 1995 report that Downey was referring to. Rather, it made the “reforms” necessary to correct the problems. Carlson also contends that Tim Pawlenty, as majority leader ...
• Assange interview
  You can now see Amy Goodman interview Julian Assange here.
• Power corrupts…
  Rory Carroll, The Guardian: Speaking to the Observer last week, Chomsky has accused the socialist leader of amassing too much power and of making an “assault” on Venezuela’s democracy. “Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, such as fighting ...
• MN GOP: Bizarre Bedroom Agenda and 7,700 Rich ...
  The story is here. The 7,700 rich people? The state’s millionaires and billionaires, all of whom already pay less percentage-wise in taxes than the other 99.7% of all Minnesotans.
• The Maculate Conception of FOXNoise
  John Cook, Gawker (via Ritholtz): Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a “fair and balanced” counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presid ...

IPS - Inter Press Services

• FILM: So Much More Than Just 'Trafficked Women'
  Mimi Chakarova had one simple objective in filming 'The Price of Sex,' her award-winning documentary about sex trafficking in Eastern Europe: "I'm trying to reach millions of people," she told IPS. "It's kind of a big goal to have."
• MIDEAST: Dancing in a Palestinian Bubble
  It's Thursday night, the beginning of the weekend in the Muslim world, and time to party and let one's hair down in Ramallah, the occupied West Bank's isolated bubble and de facto capital.
• MIDEAST: Gaza Flotilla Move Sinks
  The besieger is besieged, such is the forlorn fact emanating from the order by Greece to block the ships docked at its ports from setting sail to the Palestinian strip of land, and that fact seems to have sealed the Flotilla's fate.
• MIDEAST: Israel Denies Healthcare to Refugees
  Medication and pillboxes fill two white bookcases, lining the wall behind a volunteer Israeli doctor. He talks to a patient in Hebrew about the man's medical condition, as another man is examined behind a curtain that divides the small office. In the next room, at least 40 people – mainl ...
• Strauss-Kahn's Accuser Doubly Vicitimised, Adv ...
  Despite questions about her credibility, the Sofitel maid who is accusing former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault is still a victim and should be treated as one, according to her attorney.

Scoop - NZ

• John Key's Panglossian Disorder
  “Panglossian Disorders” are defined as: “The neurotic tendency toward extreme optimism in the face of likely cultural and planetary collapse.” Borrowing Voltaire’s character Pangloss in his novel Candide, we might speak of a Panglossian Disorder as the belief that “all is well and everything ...
• The end of monarchical exceptionalism
  The notion of monarchical exceptionalism rests on two premises, only one of which has any basis in reality. The first premise is that monarchies that allow for some degree of political participation - notably Morocco, Jordan, and Kuwait - can tolerate a much broader space for legal political dis ...
• Archaeology in Ōtautahi/Christchurch
  1: What is the effect of liquefaction on buried archaeological remains in the quake zones? 2: Are the buildings being monitored and recorded appropriately? .. media have been reporting the work of such groups as Cera, NZHPT, the Recovery Council, Engineering Firms and Architects from the b ...
• Has ANZUS passed its use-by date?
  FOR sixty years the ANZUS alliance has been the holy grail of Australian security policy. It is the alliance on which Australia ultimately relies for national survival in the event of an armed attack that it can’t repel alone. But questions are emerging about the long-term value of ANZUS to A ...
• AJ: Afghan war on 'agriterror'
  The narcotics trade thrives in Afghanistan, but why are poppy lords not prosecuted with the same zeal as the Taliban? The opium economy makes up an estimated 35 per cent of Afghanistan's GDP. It is vital to the livelihoods of millions of Afghans who work all along the poppy chain: from farmin ...

Independent - London

• Thailand braced for election violence
  A year after violent clashes left more than 90 people dead and drove a divisive knife through Thai society, the country today goes to the polls for an election that could cause yet more turmoil and confrontation. It could also deliver Thailand its first female prime minister.
• Thailand braces for uncertain future
  A year after violent clashes left more than 90 people dead and drove a divisive knife through Thai society, the country today goes to the polls for an election that could cause yet more turmoil and confrontation. It could also deliver Thailand its first female prime minister.
• The gilded generation: What is it like to grow ...
  When the French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States in 1831 to study the fledgling country and a moment of economic and territorial expansion, he noted a tendency towards a disequilibrium of wealth, as great fortunes were made. It was a period that reached its apog ...
• Strauss-Kahn could yet be French PM
  France, scarcely recovered from the earthquake of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest, was struggling to cope yesterday with the tsunami of his possible return to presidential politics. Even if he is rapidly cleared of attempted rape in New York, most media commentators believe it is already too la ...
• 'Gender-neutral' pre-school accused of mind co ...
  At the Egalia pre-school, staff avoid using words such as "him" or "her" and address the 33 youngsters as "friends" rather than girls and boys. From the colour and placement of toys to the choice of books, every detail is planned to make sure the children are not exposed to sexual stereotypes.

Rogue Government.com

• Fukushima spin was Orwellian
  It was an open secret that Britain's decision to back nuclear power in 2006 was pushed through government by a cosy group of industrialists and others close to Tony Blair, and that a full debate about the full costs, safety and potential impact on future generations was suppressed.
• China Opens Oil Field in Iraq
  China’s largest oil company has begun operations at Al-Ahdab oil field in Iraq, making the field the first major new area to start production in Iraq in 20 years, according to an official news report on Tuesday. 
• Strauss-Kahn Prosecutors Said to Agree to Rel ...
  Prosecutors agreed to release former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on his own recognizance, two people familiar with the matter said.
• Israel passes draft law requiring Palestinian ...
  The law will now be passed to the full Knesset for a final reading, where it is expected to pass due to the current makeup of the Knesset.
• India: Cars for Sterilisation
  Health officials in the Indian state of Rajasthan are launching a new campaign to try reduce the high population growth in the area.

Innovation Canada

• No more slipping through the cracks
  At any given time, some 19,000 children are in foster care in Ontario, placed there for their protection by one of the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies (CAS). While CAS caseworkers write meticulous reports on the children who pass through the system, the details contained in the thousands ...
• Back home on the range
  It’s a little-known fact: Half the Earth’s surface is foraged by domesticated animals, which has enormous impacts on our increasingly precious fresh water. In British Columbia alone, about 50 percent of mostly crown land is licensed to ranchers who need forage and water for their 400,000 head of ...
• Living on the edge
  It’s not unusual for scientists to become excited when talking about their research. But Ken Storey is an explosion of exuberance, repeatedly interrupting his own discourse to head in new directions. Such frenetic energy is paradoxical for a man whose research deals with organisms that can delib ...
• Giving thanks
  “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” Michael Douglas’s character famously declared in the movie Wall Street. “Greed is right. Greed works.” It was after filming last year’s sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, that Douglas noticed a strain in his larynx and soreness in his jaw. His d ...
• The people’s museum
  While the recent major renovations to the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA) involved plenty of additions and upgrades to its infrastructure, it’s the way people can now use the space that’s really transformed it. When MOA moved from the basement of the UBC Library int ...

Signs of the times

• US: Heavy rains swamp crops near Harwood, Nor ...
  Landowners living along the Rush River say its running faster and 18 feet deeper. Typically it runs only a couple of feet deep. Farmers in the area also say much of their soybean crop has been ruined by the water. And never have they dealt with this much flooding this late in the year. Lowell ...
• Karma is finally catching up on him? Jury conv ...
  Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been convicted of 17 of the 20 charges against him, including all 11 charges related to his attempt to sell or trade President Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat. Jurors deadlocked on one charge of attempted extortion in an alleged shakedown involving ...
• Thailand Kicks Off Vote Amid Crisis
  Thai people have begun voting in general elections seen as crucial in resolving a long-running political crisis in the southeastern Asian country. Television stations reported long lines at polling stations nationwide on Sunday as registered voters take part in elections for a new 500-member pa ...
• 'Special Tribunal for Lebanon Part of Psywar A ...
  The Hezbollah leader says the US-funded Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) was established to turn world public opinion against the resistance and to foment sectarian strife in Lebanon. Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah made the remarks in Beirut on Saturday night during a te ...
• Meltdown: What Really Happened at Fukushima?
  It's been one of the mysteries of Japan's ongoing nuclear disaster: How much of the damage did the March 11 earthquake inflict on Fukushima Daiichi's reactors in the 40 minutes before the devastating tsunami arrived? The stakes are high: If the quake alone structurally compromised the plant an ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Pictures of the past . . .
  Today's Inspiration is an interesting blog devoted to illustrators. Some of 'em are Canadian, eh. But check 'em all out, glorious work.After Franklin Arbuckle, Rex Woods was probably Maclean's magazine's most prolific cover artist during the 50's. Some have called Woods "the Norman Rockwell of C ...
• The Big Lie Dep't.
  TRUTHOUT has a great article by Dr. Cynthia Boaz, "14 Propaganda Techniques Fox "News" Uses to Brainwash Americans" that is worthy of your attention. Here's the first five: 1. Panic Mongering 2. Character Assassination/Ad Hominem 3. Projection/Flipping 4. Rewriting History 5. Scapegoat ...
• Competence . . .
  THE BOSTON HERALD has a mind-boggling report. Apparently, the municipal workers at Veteran’s Memorial Pool at Lafayette Park in Fall River aren't the sharpest tools in the drawer. You see, poor Marie Joseph (above) went into the pool, and didn't come out — for over two days. YIKES!Later that nig ...
• enough with the uniform fetish already
  "Wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross" indeed. Didn't thousands of brave Canadians die in World War Two just so we could avoid exactly this kind of creeping militarism and fascist-style soldier worship? It really is just a matter of time before Stephen Harper appears in a fancy uniform wit ...
• Cops get house arrest for beating up disabled ...
  �This behaviour we expect from gang members on the street, not the police. The idea that someone who committed a crime like this would be allowed to ever possess a handgun, let alone be sent into volatile situations requiring judgment and restraint while armed is simply out of the question.�So s ...

Media Matters for America

• Right-Wing Blogosphere Downplays Conservative ...
  After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act, many right-wing bloggers criticized the decision or downplayed its significance. But one of the judges who voted to uphold the statute was Jeffrey S ...
• FLASHBACK: Right-Wing Media Who Claimed Govt. ...
  Right-wing media are defending tax breaks for corporate jet owners, arguing that ending them is tantamount to "class warfare" and also would not significantly lower the deficit. But right-wing media have previously claimed that the government "can't afford" to continue to provide funds to NPR, ...
• Beck Uses Last Show To Reminisce About Some Of ...
  On the last episode of his Fox News show, Glenn Beck took some time to reflect on some of his wildest theories as well as people and organizations he repeatedly smeared during his tenure at Fox.Beck Brags About Taking On George Soros On His Last Show, Beck Says: "We've Taken On ... George Soro ...
• Conservative Media Shout "Class Warfare" To De ...
  The right-wing media responded with outrage after President Obama called on Congress to eliminate tax breaks on corporate jets in order to help stave off a default crisis -- accusing Obama of waging "class warfare.""Class Warfare": Right-Wing Media Figures Object To Rolling Back Tax Breaks For ...
• Glenn Beck's Top 5 Most Inflammatory Moments
  In more than two years on Fox News, Glenn Beck inundated his viewers with violent, inflammatory rhetoric. Media Matters presents a selection of his worst offenses. 5. Beck Accused The Obama Administration Of Provoking Conservatives Into Violence. Following the passage of the health care reform ...

Global Research.ca

• The Invasion of Australia: Official, At Last
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Getting used to Life without Food
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• France arming Libyan rebels in violation of UN ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Russia Today: A new kind of Media? A Projectio ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• War Propaganda: Western Media Promotes NATO Te ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Open Internet Coming Out of Paris
  Here follows my short speech at the OECD high level meeting on the open internet. "Great congratulations are due to the OECD for the remarkable communique to which so many have agreed as the culmination of the two-day high level meeting here in Paris on the growth and development of the Inte ...
• Douglas Feith and American Narcissism
  The other day I argued we should rename the debate over American exceptionalism. Let's refer to the Republican candidates' ideology as American infallibility, since it's distinguished by unwavering belief in the inherent justness of American cause. Think of it as the Superman Doctrine, fighting ...
• Don't Know Much about Geography
  One of the most absurd arguments for a continuing presence in Afghanistan propounded the morning after President Obama's speech was this one from Bruce Reidel, military industrial apparatchik and his New York Times mouthpiece David Sanger. What the raid of the Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad, ...
• Netanyahu Delegitimizes Israel
  The "pro-Israel" lobby's latest hobbyhorse is "delegitimization." Those who criticize Israeli policies are accused of trying to "delegitimize" Israel, which supposedly means denying Israel's right to exist. Even President Obama has gotten into the act, stating in his May 19 speech that "for ...
• Greece, Economists, And The Value Of The Euro
  Is the euro bad for Greece? "I've never seen Europe in such dire straits," Roger Cohen writes in yesterday's Times. "Greece is full of the aganaktismenoi, or the outraged, who resent the sharp cuts and sales of state industries made necessary because there is no drachma to devalue in order to re ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Leftist Greek MPs accuse government of caving ...
  Eight ships in the Gaza-bound flotilla were barred from leaving the Greek ports where they are anchored in the wake of an order issued on Friday by the Greek government. Flotilla part ...
• Gaza flotilla ship turned around by Greek coas ...
  The Greek Coast Guard intercepted the Gaza flotilla's American ship this afternoon, less than one hour after it had set sail from the Athens port. The Greek authorities demanded the b ...
• Israel Denies Healthcare to Refugees (Jillian ...
  Medication and pillboxes fill two white bookcases, lining the wall behind a volunteer Israeli doctor. He talks to a patient in Hebrew about the man's medical condition, as another man ...
• Greece arrests captain of US Gaza-bound boat ...
  The captain of a US ship bound for Gaza has been arrested by Greek authorities for a felony after being brought before a prosecutor, activists have told Al Jazeera. The boat, which is ...
• U.S. flotilla boat stopped by Greek Coast Guar ...
  The Greek Coast Guard intercepted the Gaza flotilla’s American ship this afternoon, less than one hour after it had set sail from the Athens port. The Greek authorities demanded the b ...

Water - AlterNet

• Put Down Your Beach Towel: 10 States Where You ...
  If you're planning to hit the beach this summer, here's the scoop on which beaches have the worst water quality issues.
• Home Rule: How Communities Can Stand Up to Pol ...
  If you think that nothing can be done on the local level to combat big polluters like gas fracking companies, think again.
• We Need to Change Course: Ocean Life Is at Ris ...
  Destructive fishing practices, pollution, biodiversity loss, spreading low-oxygen "dead zones" and ocean acidification are having synergistic effects across the board.
• The UN Is Aiding a Corporate Takeover of Drink ...
  Billions of dollars are being given out to the most ardent promoters of water privatization.
• Why a Corporate Power Grab at the UN Threatens ...
  Billions of dollars are being given out to the most ardent promoters of water privatization.

Public Citizen in Texas

• The US could set a new record for billion $ we ...
  According to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), we’ve already seen eight billion-dollar weather disasters since January!   Before 2011, the most billion-dollar weather disasters recorded in one full year (since 1980) is nine in 2008. This was from a wide variety of weather ...
• Japan’s nuclear corporate & regulatory culture ...
  Bashing Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), has become a regular habit in Japan over the past three months. While Tepco managers certainly bungled the response to the crisis at the company’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, Tepco wasn’t operating in a ...
• Nowhere to run
  In a series of investigative stories, the Associated Press (AP) has been reporting on the state of the US nuclear industry in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan.  In this recent report, the AP found that as America’s nuclear power plants have aged, the once-rural areas around them have ...
• FEC approves Colbert SuperPAC – hilarity AND s ...
  Stephen Colbert and the FEC squared off today in Washington over the fake news anchor’s SuperPAC request. Colbert testified today in an FEC hearing in which he sought a media exemption so he can form his own Super political action committee. The Comedy Central host has been making fun of campaig ...
• Dead Air for Perry
  In an interesting twist to what had been a post-session, pre-presidential run period of  crowds chanting âRun, Rick, Run!â everywhere he has shown up, probably reminiscent of the Governor’s A&M yell leader years, Rick Perry was subtly called to task for anti-immigrant efforts during both th ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Paralysed man to climb mountain
  The man, who lost the ability to walk in a car accident 28 years ago, will be carried using a robot suit. Normally the idea of climbing a mountain, le...
• Woman gets pregnant while pregnant
  Having struggled with infertility one couple was surprised when two babies came along at once. What makes this particularly unusual however is the fac...
• The funniest last words in history
  Over the years several famous figures have been attributed with some rather amusing last words. General John Sedgwick famously scoffed "They couldn't ...
• World's weirdest phobias revealed
  Everyone's heard of a fear of heights or spiders, but what are some of the lesser known phobias ? Some of the things that people suffer from an irrati...
• Scientists observe dinosaur pigments
  Dinosaur fossils may finally reveal their true colours thanks to a sophisticated x-ray technique. Scientists have been able to examine tiny traces of ...

Grassroots

• Learning and Constructing with Haitians
  Subheadline:� Internationalism between Peoples Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Beverly Bell has worked with Haitian social movements for over 30 years. She is also author of the bo ...
• Thousands and thousands of people demanding cl ...
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• G20-Agriculture: Hundreds of organizations say ...
  no_land_no_food.jpg Grassroots International joined nearly 500 other organizations around the world in signing the “Dakar Appeal Against Land Grabbing.” The appeal, originally drafted at the World Social Forum in Dakar in February 2011, ca ...
• Elbit’s Cruel Profit from Palestinian Suffering
  elbit_drone.jpg As they often did on any given day, the al-Jarah family gathered for some tea, a time-honored Gazan tradition and valued opportunity for relaxation and catching up.�They enjoyed the tranquility of being together in the prot ...
• Rooted as Deep as Olive Trees
  olive_tree.jpg �read more

Climate

• Preserving Land for Northward Migration
  Source:� NYT Green A new report warns that as climate change unfolds, there will be a great need to free up new lands for species seeking habitat conditions that they are now used to in wildlands surrounding Glacier National P ...
• Amid Criticism from GOP, Environmental Groups ...
  Source:� E2-Wire Armed with a slew of new polls, environmental groups say the president's environmental record could be a major asset in 2012.
• Global Climate Change Summit Opens in Germany
  Source:� AFP An international gathering on climate change opened in Berlin on Sunday to prepare the ground for a UN summmit on the issue in Durban, South Africa in December. �
• British Academics Win Right to Temperature Dat ...
  Source:� The Washington Post The British university at the center of "Climategate" must allow independent researchers access to its closely guarded archive of global temperature records, Britain's information watchdog ruled.
• British Columbia Residents Pleased with Carbon Tax
  Source:� Vancouver Sun The Pembina Institute reported that 74 percent of British Columbia residents believe either that the province's carbon tax has been positive for the environment, or feel neutral about it.

GreenBiz

• SC Johnson Dips Into Tough Concentrates Market ...
  With its new concentrated Windex pouches, S.C. Johnson is trying to change the way people use cleaners.
• Climate Corps 2011: How Facebook is Friending ...
  'Move fast and break things' is a core motto at the apex social network; three EDF Climate Corps fellows leap into Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters to apply the concept to quickly breaking the old ways of energy management.
• 3 Reasons Why the Auto Industry Can Meet the 5 ...
  Despite what seems to be reflexive pessimism about their ability to radically boost fuel efficiency by 2025, there are no insurmountable barriers to achieving President Obama's MPG challenge -- and at least one car company is willing to try.
• San Francisco Named North America's Greenest City
  San Francisco bested contenders that included Vancouver, New York, Seattle, Denver and Boston in a study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by Siemens.
• What Google's Pulling the Plug on PowerMeter M ...
  Google will retire its home energy management tool in mid-September in the wake of slow adoption; but forecasters still predict significant growth for the market.

Reuters Global

• Will the Arab Spring bring U.S.-style “c ...
  One signpost of the shift from the old collective way of approaching politics toward the new and more individualistic one is a change in slogans. “Dignity is the new slogan,”
• Taliban talks: the new mirage in Afghanistan
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said publicly the United States is holding talks with the Taliban. But is it already too late to reach a peaceful settlement to the war?
• “Fearsome risks” driving policy ov ...
  In China, where a rash of protests, sometimes violent, have recently flared up and been slapped down, echoes from this year's 'Arab Spring' of rebellion against iron-fisted rulers in the Middle East and North Africa are resonating loudly.
• Ten years on, still trying to frame the Afghan War
  U.S. President Barack Obama is in the midst of a wrenching decision on whether to quickly bring home the 100,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan or stay the course in the hope that the situation will stabilise in the country
• No room at the Inn … but maybe a job in ...
  Lucille Lievaux, a 25-year-old French geologist, commutes to work on a plane, a 1,300-km journey from Australia's Indian Ocean city of Perth to the mining town of Karratha, a smudge of suburbia on the continent's barren northwest coast. She is part of growing army of foreigners being recruited f ...

Booman Tribune

• The Crazy Took Over
  It would be a whole lot more fun to watch Mitch McConnell squirm if I didn't have to worry that he and Boehner are incapable of making a responsible move. They stood by, and even in some respects len ...
• Why Reagan Arguments Don't Work
  I've written articles like Steven Benen's in the past and will probably do so in the future, but, lately, whenever I've been tempted to craft one I just drop the idea and move on. Why? B ...
• No Fireworks For You
  I like fireworks. Fireworks are cool. But you can't set them off in areas that have been experiencing drought conditions. So, for example, there won't be many Fourth of July fireworks displ ...
• Wingnut Logic
  I am so tired of wingnut logic. The president "railed six times...against a tax break that exists in law today because of his signature." What is ...
• GA HOA Blocks Home for Disabled Vet
  Imagine you served your country as an Army sergeant who served two tours of duty in Iraq. Imagine that during that second tour in 2008 an IED device exploded, causing you to sustain lifelong disabilities: paralysis on your right side and the inability to speak brought about by a stroke tied to ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 10 Creepiest Abandoned Prisons Ever
  Incredible images of prisons in a state of abandonment and decay, now occupied only by the ghosts of the men once incarcerated in their cells. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Why We Love to Hate Plastics
  Plastics are now so pervasive, they dominate our lifestyles. This has led to a throwaway lifestyle whereby we're caught in a plastic bubble. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Is Nuclear Power Booming Despite Fukushima?
  Nuclear power. Whether or not you believe it to be a solution to our energy crisis, there is no getting away from the discussion of nuclear power! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Tibetan Singing Bowls: Asia's Amazing Harmonic ...
  The wonderful singing bowls of Tibet and Asia, whose tones are truly music to the ears! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Grizzly Bears Seizing Salmon Out of the Air
  It's grizzly bear versus salmon time, with a stunning set of images that show a group of grizzlies gone fishin'! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• The Narco-Terror War
  To conservatives, the Drug War is as deserving of uncritical support as any other war we're losing.
• The World According to Robert Gates
  What will be the legacy of Robert Gates: trimming Pentagon bloat or holding the line against deeper cuts?
• Rethinking Sweatshop Economics
  Instead of giving two cheers to sweatshops, we should alter the policies that cause poverty in the first place
• Shifting Targets: From Iran to Libya and Syria ...
  Iran may catch a break as the United States weighs invasions of both Libya and Syria instead.
• Tracking the Saudi Arms Deal
  Washington is gearing up for a historic arms sale to Riyadh. So why is it so hard to learn the details of the deal?

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...

Al Jazeera

• Syrian tanks 'deploy outside Hama'
  Military buildup under way, activists say, two days after city saw mass protests against President Bashar al-Assad.
• US inches towards default deadline
  Economic powerhouse may face prospect of plunging back into recession if political standoff continues.
• South Sudan border region on edge
  Despite intensified patrolling, the potential for violence erupting again in Upper Nile state remains high.
• Zuma heading to Russia for Libya talks
  South African president to hold talks with Russian counterpart in bid to resolve conflict raging for nearly five months.
• Thai opposition sweeps to power
  Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of ousted former leader, set to form next government as prime minister concedes defeat.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Preserving Land for Northward Migration
  A new report warns that as climate change unfolds, there will be a great need to free up new lands for species seeking habitat conditions that they are now used to in wildlands surrounding Glacier National Park in Montana and Canada.
• In a Twist, Loggers Nurture Spotted Owls
  As spotted owl populations decline, owl and forest advocates are trying to find creative ways to preserve and restore more habitat -- even if it means accepting logging on lands they would rather see left alone.
• Redwood Monster Is a Co-Champ
  Melcor, a tree in Redwood National and State Parks in Northern California, has a 70-foot, 4-inch circumference and is 349 feet tall.
• Making a Bet on Concentrated Refills
  Will consumers be willing to buy a tiny pouch of window cleaner and dilute it in a spray bottle at home, rather than buying another bottle and generating plastic waste?
• Exxon Cut Financing to Climate Skeptics, Group ...
  Such groups received less than $800,000 from Exxon last year, down from a peak of $3.4 million in 2005.

Dot Earth News

• Time for a Checkup
  A pause to step back and sift for ways to foster progress that fits on a finite planet.
• Cuomo Clarifies Fracking and Nuclear Plans
  New York's governor cements opposition to nuclear power and support for responsible gas drilling.
• Climate Roundup
  Polar bear protection stands, British emissions curbs falter.
• Online Climate Explored at Google
  Google engages with climate scientists to develop new communication tools and techniques for fostering comprehension of climate and energy issues.
• A Reality-Based Cooking Show with a Difference
  An innovative effort to bring new energy choices to Africa combines a profit motive, a lofty goal and reality-based film-making.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• "Creating an atmosphere of fear for journalist ...
  Glenn Greenwald nails this one. Journalists have nowhere to run under the nightmarish corrupt DOJ regime -- and the lickspittles are not the ones subject to the special operations & continuous COINTELPRO patterns. Big ups to seeing our local repression campaign against antiwar activists duly not ...
• Two murky major elements of covert American po ...
  Truth trickles out a little bit at a time. People have to dig around diligently for stuff like this... then nasty patterns emerge. Here are two really nifty ones I spotted just recently. Nosh on this as you will... Back in the Depression, the US Treasury Department got a mysterious office called ...
• Lollin about at Netroots Nation 2011 #NN11 Can ...
  I am working this week at Netroots Nation - conveniently located at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Howard Dean made fun of me a bit for running flat-out back to fetch a Firewire drive with the key new video cut for DFA as the Keynote had already started. Yes Really :-D Good times! Good times ...
• Can Has Wargame, "Southland" Pre-scripting the ...
  "Is this real world or exercise??" --A memorable quote from air traffic controller on 9-11 Logistically speaking, how the hell did the West start bombing Libya so quickly? A French/NATO military exercise (aka wargame) called Southern Mistral was scheduled for almost the exact same time. Are war ...
• NASA Fears Nibiru? Why Not? Emergency Preparat ...
  Here's an interesting one! nasa is the only federal agency responsible for its people's safety and well-being here on earth and in space - Google Search YouTube - NASA Emails ALL Employees to PREPARE! June 10, 2011 - with lolsome "secret star approacheth" type commentary from jcattera. Hat tip K ...

Daily Censored

• 2011 Independence Day: Declare “emperor has no ...
  source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com “One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circum ...
• The 15M Movement Burst Into The Politicians´ A ...
  By Concha Mateos Madrid- June 29, 2011 They say ´No´, we say ´Yes´. Greece had to decide. But, what Greece? The Parliament, the lawmakers, the government, the street, Syntagma Square… what Greece? The corporate media language uses to talk about Greece as if it has a single will, an unique and un ...
• Indestructible! Nothing Can Stop it! The Bubble
  In 1958, The Blob – a gelatinous B-movie creature from outer space  – crash landed in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania consuming whatever poor screaming extra happened to be directed into its path. “Devoid of personality and intelligence,” The Blob expanded relentlessly in Cold War America, moving fro ...
• BAMN (By any Means Necessary) wins affirmative ...
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit today declared that Proposal 2 — Ward Connerlyâs ban on affirmative actionâis unconstitutional.  Affirmative action is again legal in admissions to Michiganâs public universities.  The two to one ruling came in a suit filed by the Coa ...
• Western Supported Lynching of Black Africans i ...
  Click the link below to listen to the show. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/06/30/lynching-rape-and-lies-in-libya Please join us this episode as we were joined by Dr. Randy Short and Mr. Navid Nasr for an important dialogue on the continued destructive US government, and Wester ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Life expectancy drops for women in nearly 25% ...
• US wars leave 225,000 dead, cost $4.4 trillion ...
• ICE audits disproportionately target lower-inc ...
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Institute for Policy Studies

• The End of the Sacred Cow
  Over the last decade, military spending has nearly double. We have a bold vision about ending waste in the vast military budget, and providing a road map on how to shift security resources more effectively.
• Europe Taking Lead on Speculations Tax
  Why is Europe leaving the United States behind on applying a small tax on financial transactions?
• Report of the Task Force on a Unified Security ...
  With military cuts now on the negotiating table, here's a set of expert recommendations on what to cut and yet keep us safe and secure.
• Art v. State
  Ai Weiwei has challenged the Chinese authorities with his art and his Tweets -- who will win this political tug-of-war?
• The Lineup: Week of June 27-July 3, 2011
  Peter Certo explains why he's not buying a shiny new iPad and William A. Collins says that big business is trying to keep climate change out of the news.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #528
  Bin Laden's courier linked to Pakistan spy agency. Egypt remands Israeli spy suspect in custody. US extradites fugitive Philippine police officer who served time for espionage. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #527
  Has Microsoft broken Skypeâs encryption? Ex-CIA agent loses legal battle over âunauthorizedâ book. Family of accused Australian spy seeks support. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #526
  Russia convicts colonel of exposing US spy ring. Libyan defector holed up in luxury hotel. New NZ SIGINT spy agency boss named. Continue reading →
• New Gaza flotilla organizers accuse Mossad of ...
  International organizers of a new fleet of ships that is preparing to sail for the Gaza strip, in a bid to challenge the Israeli embargo, have accused Israeli intelligence services of secretly sabotaging two of the vessels. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #525
  Hacker group LulzSec to disband after attacks on CIA. NSA veteran publishes book on secretive listening base. Aussie spy agencies feeling budget cuts effect. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

• SUNSHINE FOR WEST POINT RECRUITS
  By Nick Mottern The morning sky was blue and cloudless on Monday, June 27, 2011 as Gayle Dunkelberger, Bennett Weiss and I stood on the entry road to West Point’s Stony Lonesome Gate to greet the cadet Class of 2015 on R-Day, reception day, as they arrived with family and friends to be inducted ...
• Israeli Freedom Flotilla II Terrorism
  Israeli Freedom Flotilla II Terrorism - by Stephen Lendman Daily, Israel keeps proving its lawless rogue credentials, notably by blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza. As a result, it finds new ways to show contempt for human rights, rule of law standards, civility, fundamental Judaic tenets, and it ...
• A July Fourth Shame on the Founders
  A group of American humanitarians and activists are still trying to make their way to Gaza in protest of the harsh Israeli embargo on the 1.6 million Palestinians confined there. However, an attempt to set sail from Athens on Friday was stopped by the Greek Coast Guard, apparently at the behest ...
• Flotilla Update
  U.S. Boat to Gaza Seized by Greek Authorities and Captain Jailed Passengers Determined to Free Captain and Set Sail Again Athens--After a two hour stand off at sea, the U.S. Boat to Gaza - The Audacity of Hope - was seized by the Greek Coast Guard and forced to return to the port of Piraeus un ...
• The Gaza Flotilla: Fear of Unscripted Non-Viol ...
  By John Grant Israel and its international operatives are working overtime to stop the 10-ship Gaza flotilla from leaving Athens. The Audacity Of Hope, with 40 Americans on board, tried to leave the harbor Friday only to be chased down and threatened by an armed Greek Coast Guard boat and forced ...

Grist - News

• Give 7-Up to your baby!
  by Jess Zimmerman. Hey, whatever else is wrong with our current cultural relationship with sugar water, at least nobody's pushing it as a baby formula alternative anymore, right? This 1956 ad says that 7-Up is "so wholesome" that "lots of mothers" give it to their babies. The company's ...
• Top 10 greenest cities in North America
  by Jess Zimmerman. It seems like we get a new list of greenest, most climate-change-prepared, most bike-friendly etc. cities every week or so. But we never really get tired of looking at these rankings, and checking them against each other to decide where we should fantasize about moving. ...
• Gigantic, gorgeous visualization of humanity&# ...
  by Christopher Mims. It's the Atlantic, as you've never seen it before: Cities are red, shipping routes blue, roads green and air networks in white. Click on the image to see the full map of the entire planet.
• Severe weather costs us $485 billion per year
  by Jess Zimmerman. According to estimates from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the baseline cost of extreme weather�(which has always been with us, but which is�steadily getting worse�due to climate change)�in the United States is $485 billion a year -- 3.4 percent of the co ...
• World’s first fracking bans come through ...
  by Christopher Mims. While we were all distracted by the possibility that New York State will allow fracking for natural gas, two big milestones in the battle to restrict the notoriously environmentally destructive process arrived on successive days: New Jersey bans fracking On June 2 ...

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Time - Top Stories

• Militants Teach Jihad in Indonesia's Prisons
  There's a downside to jailing Jihadis: They corrupt your prisons.
• To the Time Machine!
  Summer camp: where the living is easy and the world is wi-fi-free
• Sex, Lies And American Justice: French Still T ...
  In France, where accusers enjoy something akin to a "right to lie," the latest twists in the DSK investigation follow questions about Strauss-Kahn's treatment as a common criminal.
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Digg Green

• New Discoveries About the Early Galaxies ...
  "If you could visit a planet in one of these galaxies, the sky would be a crazy place, with tons of bright stars, and fairly frequent supernova explosions." Ranga-Ram Chary --NASA's Spitzer Science Center Astronomers have discovered that galaxies in...
• New fossils demonstrate that powerful eye ...
  Palaeontologists have uncovered half-a-billion-year-old fossils demonstrating that primitive animals had excellent vision. Scientists found exquisite fossils, which look like squashed eyes from a recently swatted fly.
• Moon and Venus at Dawn: APOD July 2nd 201 ...
  Brilliant Venus and a thin crescent Moon stood together above the eastern horizon just before sunrise on June 30. The lovely celestial pairing is captured in this colorful twilight skyview overlooking a reservoir near Izmir, Turkey. For some, the close conjunction could be viewed as a dayli ...
• Antimatter mystery gains ground
  A US particle physics experiment inches closer to explaining once and for all why there is more matter than antimatter in the Universe.
• Loudest animal is recorded for the first ...
  The loudest animal on Earth, relative to its body size, is a tiny water boatman, scientists have shown. The sound is within human hearing range and at 99.2 decibels it represents the equivalent of listening to an orchestra play loudly while sitting in the front row.

Invisible Opportunity

• Video – Looks like GADDAFI has some support!
• The Audacity of Hope [Amazing Video]
  by Debbie Menon Greece has somehow maneuvered itself (or been maneuvered) into a financial crisis which threatens the incumbent government, and the economic quality of corporate life in Greece if IMF and World Bank historical response are pursued. So, to whom will they turn for relief? Is it any ...
• TSA Abuses: Seeing the Forest and the Trees by ...
  by Anthony Gregory, June 30, 2011 The Transportation Security Administration is finally getting some of the bad publicity it deserves. We read about an elderly woman forced to remove her adult diaper to go through the screening process. We learn about a mentally disabled passenger deprived of hi ...
• The TSA’s tentacles spread
  Jennifer Abel It’s eight months now since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) abandoned its last pretence of respect for America’s constitutional principles, by mandating no traveller may fly in American airspace unless TSA agents first see and/or feel said traveller’s genitalia. Th ...
• Documents reveal TSA ignored dangers of body s ...
  The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) says that is has official documents that reveal the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) deliberately ignored warnings that airport body scanners pose a health risk; the internal documents and email exchanges show that TSA officials brushe ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• It's Feds vs. Deadheads in Missouri "Schw ...
  The DEA claims that concert camping venue engaged in open sales of cocaine, marijuana, LSD (acid), ecstasy, opium and marijuana-laced food products.
• Federal Crack Prisoners Will Get Sentence Cuts
  Thousands of inmates imprisoned on federal crack cocaine charges will be able to seek sentence reductions and early release after a US Sentencing Commission vote.
• Drug Company Profiteering, Pill Mills and Thou ...
  Corruption down the line, from Big Pharma to doctors and the war on drugs, builds a growing epidemic and an addiction-fueled empire.
• Why Prescription Ecstasy or LSD Could Happen M ...
  If a growing phalanx of scientists get their way, prescriptions for psychedelic drugs could be yours within 10 years.
• Outrageous Court Case Is the Latest Salvo in D ...
  An eight person SWAT-style raid stemmed from a neighbor complaining of ‘marijuana smell’, led to felony charges for a couple involved in legal marijuana cultivation.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Studio Swine’s Stylish Eyeglasses are Made of ...
  Eyewear comes in many shapes and sizes, but few are made with sustainable materials. But here’s a collection from two Royal College of Art graduates that turns human hair into stylish sunnies and vision sharpening specs. So whether you’re a bright blonde or a bold and brazen brunette, Azusa Mura ...
• Solar-Powered 3D Printer Turns Desert Sand Int ...
  Read the rest of Solar-Powered 3D Printer Turns Desert Sand Into Glass Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 3d printer, eco design, green design, markus Kayser, photovoltaic panel, Royal College of Art, Sahara desert, Solar Power, Solar Sinter, Sun Cutter, sustainable design
• VIDEO: The Secret Life of Paper
  Earlier this year Inhabitat’s Emily Pilloton highlighted the insightful video ‘The Secret Life of Cell Phones’ produced by environmental nonprofit INFORM, Inc. Now we are pleased to announce the launch of their latest video, The Secret Life of Paper. It explores the environmental impact of the p ...
• ASK A TECH GEEK: How Wasteful is it to Keep My ...
  Each week renowned gadget expert Peter Rojas from gadget Q&A site GDGT.com answers your questions about green technology in our Ask A Tech Geek Series. Read on for this week’s installment and submit your questions below! How wasteful is it to keep chargers/adapters plugged in when not connected ...
• DIY: Making Your Own Delicious Summer Popsicle ...
  When temperatures rise, there’s no stopping overheated hands from reaching into the freezer for something cool. But instead of letting your friends and family bite into icy bars jam packed with high-fructose corn syrup, give them something a little healthier to delight in like a homemade popsicl ...

Pogue's Posts

• Just How Many Android Tablet Apps Are There?
  Google just won't say how many apps there are for Android tablets. It is a low number and it shows the glaring downside of Android's openness: a splintered mishmash of different versions.
• We Have to Fix E-Mail
  Chris Anderson, who runs the high-profile TED conferences, recently came up with 10 principles for easing the problems of e-mail. Here are five more.
• The Quarrel Over Final Cut Continues
  The quarrel between Apple and professional video editors over the new version of Final Cut Pro continues.
• Professional Video Editors Weigh In on Final C ...
  More tips on using Final Cut Pro X, Apple's new video-editing software.
• Excited About the Cloud? Get Ready for Capped ...
  The tech world is in the middle of the "cloud" wave, but it's potential could be complicated by another looming trend -- plans that cap how much data you can use through your home broadband connection.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Bug’s Penis Makes Loudest Animal Sound
  By Mark Brown, Wired UK This minuscule water boatman might be smaller than a drawing pin, but it’s also the loudest animal on the planet. Well, relative to its body size, at least. The male lesser water boatman, aka Micronecta scholtzi, can create mating calls as loud as 99.2 decibels, which i ...
• X-rays Reveal Colors of First Birds
  By Mark Brown, Wired UK Confuciusornis sanctus, a prehistoric beaked bird which co-existed with dinosaurs some 120 million years ago, had a dark body, neck and tail, and impressive patterns along its feathers. We know that, in remarkable detail, because a team of paleontologists from California ...
• Summer Reading for Science Geeks
  With the Fourth of July upon us, it won’t be long before we’re headed to the nearest beach for some much-needed decompression. Most of us will bring a bit of page-turning light reading. But for those who want a little intellectual heft in their tote, Wired.com asked a few favorite scientists fo ...
• Millions of Fishes: The Ultimate Marine Library
  See Also: The Man Who Swims With Coelacanths Old, Ignored Records Yield 200 Years of Fish Population Data Massive North Atlantic Garbage Patch Mapped Freaky New Ghostshark ID’d Off California Coast Hidden Blades, Glowing Scorpions and Bug Genitalia: Great Science Images From the American Museu ...
• Dramatic Sunrise Over Moon’s Tycho Crater Moun ...
  A spacecraft circling the moon snapped this dramatic image of the sun rising on the mountains in the middle of Tycho crater. The 51-mile-wide depression is all that remains of a catastrophic asteroid impact 108 million years ago. Planetary scientists think the guilty asteroid was a fragment fro ...

PakAlert

• Top 10 Reasons the Newspaper is Dying
  Looking back upon the heyday of the newspaper industry, images of angry cigar-smoking editors, journalists with fedoras carrying “press” cards and sharpened pencils, and little Dickensian children on the street corner shouting “Read all about it!” are evoked. That was back when nothing MORE than ...
• The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing
  Ever since March 11, 2011, when the Japanese earthquake rattled the Asian country, there have been increasing numbers of strange coincidences involving nuclear power plants, natural disasters, and mismanagement of facilities. I say strange coincidences, because it now appears that nuclear power ...
• Countdown to Invasion; Libya’s Neighborhoods P ...
  The neighborhoods in Libya are preparing for a ground invasion and to confront directly the invaders with a plan that one imagines would not be unfamiliar to a General Giap of Vietnam or a Chinese General Lin Peio, being a massive people's defense. It has been organized with a house-by-house, ...
• What Is Agenda 21? – You’d Better Wake Up
  Agenda 21 is the official report of the United Nations Rio de Janeiro World Summit Conference of 1992, which was built on the premises of General Assembly resolution 44/228 of 22 December 1989, which was adopted when the nations of the world (?) called for the United Nations Conference on Enviro ...
• 16 Reasons Why The United States Can No Longer ...
  Did you know that the United States military is now bombing 6 different countries? U.S. aircraft are conducting air strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and now Somalia. There is a U.S. military base in over half of the countries on the planet and U.S. military spending is over ...

Andy Worthington

• Exiled Guantánamo Uighurs in Hamburg Art Exhib ...
  I’ve been interested in the work of the German artist Christoph Faulhaber since 2009, when I first heard about a project he had initiated in Hamburg. Entitled, “Guantánamo Allocation Center,” it involved creating a site for a proposed relocation center for Guantánamo prisoners who cannot be re ...
• Why We Need Regular Protests Against the Coali ...
  So I was on the streets of London yesterday, after joining my wife, my son and three of his friends, whose school was closed for the day, as well as other friends and teachers from my son’s school (who even had a banner!) on a march from Lincoln’s Inn Fields to Methodist Central Hall, via [...]
• In the US, on the International Day in Support ...
  At the weekend, to mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, which takes place on June 26 each year, President Obama issued an extraordinary statement, declaring support for those working to eradicate the use of torture, and explaining that “[t]orture and abusive treatment vio ...
• US Supreme Court Refuses to Allow Abu Ghraib T ...
  With what can only come across as cynical timing, the US Supreme Court on Monday, the day after the UN International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, declined without comment to take up a lawsuit filed on behalf of 250 Iraqis — formerly prisoners at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison near ...
• WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
  Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Pictures We Love: Best of June
  NoneSo good we had to share—ten new images that gripped Nat Geo photo editors: "supertrees," an upside-down horse, a surfer on ice, and more.
• "Exceptional" Giant Squid Found Dying off Florida
  A stirring, intact giant squid gave a fishing party a shock this week—and could give researchers new insights, scientists say.
• Pictures: Six New Natural Landmarks Named
  NoneDinosaur footprints and a "hanging lake" are now preserved as part of six new U.S. National Natural Landmarks.
• Hold the Champagne: Highway to Split Serengeti ...
  Were the hopeful headlines—"Serengeti Highway Canned: Victory for Animals!"—premature? Wildlife is still at risk, some experts say.
• Pictures: "Pancake" Sea Slug Among New Philipp ...
  NoneAn "inflatable" shark and colorful sea slugs join hundreds of new species hauled up during a recent expedition to the Philippines.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• News Roundup for July 1, 2011
  A Seattle man on trial admitted today that he attacked two women and killed one because he was under instructions from God. Isaiah Kalebu is alleged to have entered the home of a lesbian couple, raped them and stabbed one to death due to their sexual orientation. Kalebu faces an automatic senten ...
• Obama-Bashing WorldNetDaily Chief Sues Esquire ...
  WorldNetDaily (WND) Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah really wants the world to know he’s serious about President Obama’s birth certificate, even if most of the world seems to have completely lost interest. After exhaustively demanding that the president produce his long-form birth certificate and th ...
• Geller Promises to ‘Save’ Non-Muslims in Musli ...
  Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, co-heads of the anti-Muslim hate group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), have truly outdone themselves. In the wake of European authorities’ cancellation of a planned rally in Strasbourg, France, the pair has announced its most grandiose plan yet: On Sept. 11 ...
• Obama-Bashing WorldNetDaily Chief Sues Esquire ...
  WorldNetDaily (WND) Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah really wants the world to know he’s serious about President Obama’s birth certificate, even if most of the world seems to have completely lost interest. After exhaustively demanding that the president produce his long-form birth certificate and th ...
• News Roundup for June 30, 2011
  The FBI is reeling after it was discovered that Timothy Phelps of the notoriously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church was invited to address agents at FBI headquarters in Quantico, Va. High-ranking FBI officials have said they didn’t know of Phelps’ presence until recently; Phelps, son of Westboro ...

change: org.

• Victory! New York Passes Marriage Equality Bil ...
  Today is a historic day! New York's Senate passed a bill that will grant the freedom to merry for gays and lesbians! The bill will be signed by Governor Cuomo who lobbied extensively for the passage of the legislation. The law will go into effect 30 days after the bill is signed. New York's prog ...
• The Cost of Fear: Michigan's $15 Million Breed ...
  This week, Gov. Rick Snyder signed Michigan's 2011-2012 budget into law. The process wasn't pretty — a $1.5 billion shortfall had to be resolved, and in the end, public schools, universities, local governments and key services took a hit. Yet Rep. Tim Bledsoe (D-Grosse Pointe) seems to think it' ...
• Connect the Dots Coalition Will Rally Tuesday ...
  Former New York police officers Ken Moreno and Franklin Mata were found not guilty on charges related to rape. The verdict's perceived injustice -- felt even by members of the jury themselves -- has given rise to protests over the way the NYPD deals with sexual assault. But the then-officers wer ...
• Smithfield's Broken Gestation Crate Promise
  Back in 2007, Smithfield, the world's largest pork producer,  said it would phase out the use of gestation crates by 2017. Now the company has gone back on that promise even though it recently boasted record profits. Looks like the behemoth pork producer has no excuse for breaking its promise. S ...
• Tell Turn Right USA to Pull Ad Attacking L.A. ...
  It’s been called the “most offensive political ad of all time.”  That’s because it takes aim at Los Angeles Councilwoman Janice Hahn’s support of gang intervention programs by portraying her as a booty-shaking stripper performing for black thugs who demand (or rap, rather) that she “give us your ...

Common Dreams -News

• Greece Arrests Captain of US Gaza-Bound Boat
  The captain of a US ship bound for Gaza has been arrested by Greek authorities for a felony after being brought before a prosecutor, activists have told Al Jazeera. read more
• Chavez's Cancer Revelation Rattles Venezuela
  CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez's disclosure that he is being treated for cancer is raising questions about whether he will be able to run for re-election next year and how his illness may impact the future of his socialist movement in Latin America. While Chavez remained in Cuba rec ...
• Japan: Experts Urge Great Caution Over Radiati ...
  In order to address public concerns over post 3/11 food safety, the government should be more forthcoming in the monitoring and disclosure of data regarding radiation contamination of soil, Akira Sugenoya, mayor of Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, told this reporter recently. ...
• Climate Change May Pose Biggest Security Threat
  WASHINGTON - As a budget battle rages on in the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama's military budget comes under increasingly harsh scrutiny, a report just released here by the Institute for Policy Studies suggests that reallocating defense spending towards tackling climate change might be ...
• U.S. Replaces Japan in Role of Villain on Whales
  BUENOS AIRES - The United States has taken over the pro-whaling stance traditionally championed by Japan, but instead of supporting the capture of whales for scientific research purposes, it is doing so under the guise of aboriginal subsistence quotas. This is one of the conclusions reached by L ...

Lifehacker

• This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
  Zetro Brings Windows 8's Metro-Style Interface to Windows 7 (Windows) Microsoft's Metro UI, which graces both Windows 8 and Windows Phone, is pretty snazzy, and if you're sick of the Aero look, you can bring the Metro UI to Windows 7 with the Zetro theme. More�� ...
• Use Glycerin to Prevent Windows and Mirrors fr ...
  A little glycerin added to the water for cleaning windows or mirrors will prevent them from fogging or steaming up. Winter and bad ventilation are often the main culprits in rendering reflective surfaces opaque. More�� ...
• A Strip of Bacon Saves Food from Sticking to t ...
  One bacon strip is all you need to keep your meatloaf from sticking to the pan while it cooks. The fat from one slice of bacon, placed in the bottom of the cooking pan, creates enough lubricant to prevent a sticky, burned meatloaf mess. ...
• Use Vanilla to Eradicate Fridge Odors [Clever ...
  A dab of vanilla on a cotton ball will not only help get rid of odors, it will also create a subtle but pleasant fridge smell. More��
• HardlyWork.in Lets You Goof Off on Facebook wi ...
  Web site HardlyWork.in lets you check your Facebook Newsfeed at work without the worry of prying eyes with a clever interface that poses as an Excel spreadsheet. More��

Water Privatization

• Privatization plan gets turned off in Mount Ol ...
  MOUNT OLIVE TWP. – Mayor David Scapicchio has decided to hit the shut-off valve for his plan to hire the state’s largest private water company to run one of the township’s water systems.
• Treading Water in Sluggish Market
  While many water and wastewater systems are in need of capacity and compliance-related improvements, strained municipal budgets and recession-depressed local bond ratings are slowing project implementation.
• Water privatization move fails
  RIALTO - A plan to contract out Rialto's water department to a private company has died, as did a possible quick solution to long overdue upgrades and renovations at the city's water and wastewater treatment facility.
• Water wars: 21st century conflicts?
  As almost half of humanity will face water scarcity by 2030, strategists from Israel to Central Asia prepare for strife.
• 300 Rialto residents speak out on proposed wat ...
  RIALTO - Residents continued to speak out late into the night about a plan to contract out the city's water department at a City Council meeting Tuesday. A vote was expected on the 30-year contract with American Water Works Co. Inc. following the comment period.

Guardian

• Thai exit polls signal redshirt landslide
  General election victory for Puea Thai party would mark spectacular comeback for fugitive tycoon Thaksin ShinawatraThailand's Puea Thai opposition party is poised for a landslide victory in Sunday's general election, according to exit polls.If correct they mark a spectacular comeback for Thaksin ...
• Hezbollah leader refuses to hand over Hariri s ...
  Hassan Nasrallah defies UN-backed tribunal's arrest warrants for four Hezbollah members wanted for 2005 assassinationHezbollah's leader has vowed never to turn over four members of his Shia militant group who have been indicted in the 2005 murder of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hari ...
• Royals heckled by protesters in Montreal
  After adulatory crowds in Ottawa, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's tour of Canada enters tricky phase in QuebecThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge faced the first organised protests against their visit to Canada within minutes of their arrival in Montreal on Saturday night.Demonstrators held up ...
• Thailand's redshirts prepare for another poll ...
  Rural poor hope for the return of billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra after electionSuk Somboon village turned red in the early hours of Thursday morning, when its 200 residents gathered and chanting monks made offerings. They tied scarlet thread around neighbours' wrists, put up flags along the road ...
• Rupert Grint on the end of Ron Weasley: 'It's ...
  For more than half Rupert Grint's 23 years, he has had another existence as Ron Weasley, Harry Potter's comedy sidekick. As the final film in the series is released, where to now for the number-two boy wizard?Rupert Grint describes it as like watching a row of dominoes falling towards you, and w ...

McClatchey

• Perry's red-meat Texas agenda boosts a possibl ...
  AUSTIN, Tex. — The just-concluded Texas legislative session has armed Gov. Rick Perry with a host of red-meat issues that could entice conservative Republican voters if he jumps into the wide-open presidential primary race.
• Florida Rep. Wilson steps in for jailed Navy p ...
  A South Florida congresswoman is going to bat for a U.S. military war veteran from her district who is in a Miami lockup on a passport fraud charge and fears deportation to his mothers native Bahamas.
• Navy photographer spurns deal, will spend July ...
  A U.S. military veteran of Iraq and Guant�namo on Friday spurned a government offer of pre-trial probation and instead faced the prospect of the Fourth of July in a Miami lockup while awaiting a federal passport fraud trial later this month.
• As Missouri floods, anger spills over at Army ...
  YANKTON, S.D. — Gary Schaeffer's grandkids ran to an overlook of Gavins Point Dam.
• As Missouri floods, anger spills over at Army ...
  YANKTON, S.D. — Gary Schaeffer's grandkids ran to an overlook of Gavins Point Dam.

Afghanistan Sun

• Two soldiers injured in Afghanistan
  The soldiers, serving with the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Oruzgan province, suffered shrapnel wounds and will be flown to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Centre in Germany for specialist care ...
• Three policemen killed in Taliban attack on Pa ...
  Three policemen have been killed and one wounded in a Taliban attack on a police check post in northwest Pakistan.
• 13 killed in Afghan blast
  KANDAHAR: A roadside bomb struck a minibus carrying a family of Afghan refugees on Saturday, killing up to 13 people including women and children, officials ...
• GI Afghan toll at 197
  KABUL, Afghanistan -- American troops in are being killed at the same rate as last year -- despite the Obama administration's moves to shift the burden to the Afghans. The number of Americans ...
• 'I Hope We Can We Move Forward With' ...
  - Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.), the rankingmember of the Senate Armed Services Committee,said on Thursday that he believes that Afghan President Hamid Karzai would like toforge a long-term ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• 'Project Gunrunner' Scandal Heats Up
  In January 2011, scandal broke out over “Project Gunrunner,” a program of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives agency (ATF). The intended goal of “Project Gunrunner” was to limit the flow of firearms into Mexico through close surveillance of undercover gun purchases. ATF agents encour ...
• Seats Remaining for Los Angeles CLE Seminar
  Tomorrow, June 28th, NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn will present his Corporate Whistleblower CLE seminar in Downtown Los Angeles at Carlsmith Ball LLP. Space is still available for this special seminar. The event will run from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (PDT), and will focus on the new Dodd-F ...
• Is the IRS Systemically Averse to Whistleblowers?
  Since the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) instituted a new whistleblower program in 2006, only one award has been made to a whistleblower, according to Mike Hudson from iWatch News. In yesterday’s article, “Red tape, old guard slow whistleblowing on corporate tax cheats,” Hudson explains why the ...
• Kohn Op-Ed in New York Times tells the story b ...
  Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), published an op-ed article in today's New York Times.The article tells the story of Captain John Grannis, and nine other sailors of the Continental Navy. The full story is contained in The Whistleblower's Handbook ...
• Summer interns sweating it out at NWC
  We are so thankful to have the services this Summer from this fine group of interns: Pictured here, from the left, are Emily, Michael, Zach, Ramina, Anna, Shawn, Dasha, Adam and Cho.� Not pictured: Danielle, Daniel, Parth, Andrew, Lillian and Sara. Thank you, interns.� If you are interested ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Christopher S. Little's Favorite Techdirt Post ...
  This week's Favorites post comes from Christopher S. Little, who usually goes by another name in the comments, but didn't want us to face any sort of trademark threats... I've been given the honor of writing up my favorite posts of the week, and what a week it's been. I was asked on Tuesday ...
• Ericsson Recognizes That 'Piracy' Isn't The Pr ...
  Just about a week ago, I stated: The folks in the industry (and the politicians who support them) keep thinking that the problem is "piracy." And if they just got rid of these "freeloaders," the business model solves itself. That is, they look at infringement as the problem, and business mode ...
• Imogen Heap: Connecting With Fans By Having Th ...
  Whenever I talk about the whole Connect with Fans + Reason to Buy (CwF+RtB) concept, one person that lots of people kept telling me I had to pay attention to was Imogen Heap. Unfortunately, I didn't attend MIDEM this year, so I missed out on seeing her speak at the event. But I did hear about ...
• Head Of Spanish Music Collection Society Facin ...
  Spain is one of a few countries that actually has had pretty sane copyright laws lately. Unlike other places, it has generally felt that private, non-commercial copying of content is legal, and has also rejected the idea of placing liability on third parties. And, despite claims to the contrar ...
• DailyDirt: Deadly Lab Accidents
  Working in a scientific field can be really difficult sometimes. And sometimes it can even be life-threatening. The multitude of "CSI" TV shows don't generally portray how dangerous a laboratory can be in reality, so here are some sobering links to remind us about the importance of lab safety. ...

VacTruth

• What Happens When…
  With Child Protective Services (CPS) virtually in every city, county, and state in the USA, what happens when a parent harms a child? Child Protective Services removes the child from the parents’ care and custody and then places the child under the agency’s foster care program with parents facin ...
• Top 5 Vaccine Stories for June
  We have scoured the web to bring you the top news headlines from around the world. Stay current in the latest affairs surrounding vaccines, Pharma, and the authorities who support them.Vactruth.com
• Canada to Host Conference on False Accusations ...
  Around the world thousands of innocent parents are being falsely accused of child abuse, many of these accusations occur after a vaccine injury has taken place. The main accusations that parents and care givers are being accused of are Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy and Shaken Baby Syndrome.Vact ...
• Antibiotics in Vaccines
  Do antibiotics then help to modify or change the immune system from its pre-antibiotic-era, into a ‘trigger-happy-response’ immune system with allergic reactions and allergies abounding in infants and toddlers?Vactruth.com
• GAVI Guts UK For £1.5 Billion, Bill Gates Applauds
  David Cameron hosted a meeting with GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations) and sent shock waves around the world, after he pledged £814 million of taxpayers money to the to a child vaccine programme run by the Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates. This takes the UK's total spend to £1 ...

BroadSnark

• Unions? NBA? Sigh.
  I’m in the middle of writing a completely different post on media, which is taking me entirely too long and should have been up yesterday. But while on the gerbil machine at the gym, I caught Sports Center’s coverage of the NBA lockout.  Now I can’t get my head back into what I was writing. [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I am having one hell of a time trying to catch up on blog reading and whatnot. I cannot believe how many thousands of posts have accumulated. I may have to consider culling my reader a bit. I used to work for a non-profit that helped caregivers of brain impairments. So stories, like this one, ab ...
• Whose Fault Is It?
  The Dilbert guy is being hateful and thick again. He wrote a post on the recent spate of men caught “tweeting, raping, cheating” and had this to say. The part that interests me is that society is organized in such a way that the natural instincts of men are shameful and criminal while the natura ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  So I’m gone for a week and a half and the only thing I seem to have missed is the ongoing saga of Weinergate. I really need to get me one of those anatomically correct Weiner action figures. If you haven’t read Marty Klein’s piece on the brouhaha, I would highly recommend it. Seriously, would [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  So I’m gone for a week and a half and the only thing I seem to have missed is the ongoing saga of Weinergate. I really need to get me one of those anatomically correct Weiner action figures. If you haven’t read Marty Klein’s piece on the brouhaha, I would highly recommend it. Seriously, would [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• What Obama, Media Won’t Say: Storms Threaten F ...
  by Marcia Merry Baker Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 3, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 22
• ‘Grandson of the Empire’ Bombs at Westminster
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 3, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 22
• After Strauss-Kahn: The Bailout Is Finished! N ...
  interview with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 3, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 22
• The American Tradition of Natural Law
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 3, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 22
• What Happened to Us?: What Is Our Constitution?
  by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, June 3, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 22

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• First Cookiecutter Shark Attack on Humans Docu ...
  Photo: Sharkdivers blogspot A paper published in the June edition of Pacific Science details the "First documented attack on a live human by a cookiecutter shark". Pictured above, the cookiecutter shark uses large teeth fixed in its bottom jaw to bite out a cookie-cutter shaped piece of fle ...
• Bravos! Yakitate! Origami Bags, Honeycomb Lamp ...
  Shibaya Designs napkin rings for candlelight dinners. Yakitate!, means "freshly-baked" in Japanese and a special exhibit of what young designers are cooking up was on display at the Dwell on Design event last weekend with an international accent. Selected by Birgit Lohmann of Designboom, t ...
• My charity: water Birthday, Awash with Gratitude
  Image: charity: water Never minimize the ability to live by example. My decision to rock a charity: water birthday campaign was inspired my fellow 'Huggers who've done the same like our visionary Graham Hill and our tech/water guru Jaymi. (If I'm missing anyone, insert your name here.) ...
• Corporate-Funded Climate Modelers Could Save T ...
  "Peter Pan playing the Pipes." Image credit:Wikipedia Environmentalists, government regulators, and captains of industry all rely on mathematical modeling to gain insights into how the future might turn, were a regulation passed, an investment made, or a market strategy taken. The method is ...
• Ultramarathoners Running 10,000-Kilometer Silk ...
  Photo: The Home Expedition / Running The Silk Road. Seventy-two days after setting out from Istanbul, champion distance runner Kevin Lin Yi Jie and a small team of other athletes have covered 4,434 kilometers of their 10,00-kilometer goal: Running the full length of the ancient Silk Road tr ...

Biosingularity

• Sense of justice built into the brain
  A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that the brain has built-in mechanisms that trigger an automatic reaction to someone who refuses to share. The reaction derives from the amygdala, an older part of the brain. The subjects’ sense of justice was challenged in a two-player mone ...
• Team describes neurological basis for embarras ...
  Recording people belting out an old Motown tune and then asking them to listen to their own singing without the accompanying music seems like an unusually cruel form of punishment. But for a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, ...
• New Research Suggests Dramatic Shift In Unders ...
  Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in collaboration with researchers at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, have made a critical discovery that may lead scientists to abandon the use of broad conventional ethnic labelsâAfrican-American, Hispanic, and Caucasianâto es ...
• Anti-inflammatory drug may fight breast cancer
  German researchers have identified an unexpected molecular marker that predicts how sensitive hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancers are to chemotherapy. Triple-negative breast cancers –which do not express the genes for estrogen receptor, or progesterone receptor and do not have Her2/neu ...
• The soul of a cell: Researchers used advanced ...
  Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have taken a machine already in use for the measurement of impurities in semiconductors and used it to analyze immune cells in far more detail than has been possible before. The new technology lets scientists take simultaneous measurement ...