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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

3 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Robert G. Tenney Jr., 29, Warner Robins, GA.Army Capt. Matthew G. Nielson, 27, of Jefferson, ...
  • 'No On SB 5': How we got 1.3 million signatures
    One at a time, that’s how.I know that’s a flippant way to put it, but all the big picture stuff risks losing sight of the most important thing of all: This happened because passionately committed individuals took it upon themselves to get the training and put themselves in a position to ask thei ...
  • Merrill Lynch Pays Back its Bailout with Free ...
    Today on the Capitol square in Madison, a group called US Uncut (@usuncutwi) partnered with “too big to fail” bank Merrill Lynch to help give a little something in return for the taxpayer bailout they received.  A table was set up in front of the Merrill Lynch branch on the square, and well-dres ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Jonathan Schell on the Orwellian evasions of our latest war:Nonetheless, the Obama administration insists it is not a war. Why? Because, ac ...
  • Anti-Fracking group meeting in Cleveland Heigh ...
    Sunday, June 263:00 AM - 4:30 PMWhere: 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights 44118Main Branch of Cleveland/University Hts. Library Meeting Room B, first floorThe new Cuyahoga County group, the Burning River Anti-Fracking Network, is meeting this Sunday to work on getting a ban on fracking in Clevelan ...

Organic Consumers.org

Center for a Livable Future

  • TIME Magazine: Spotlight on IFAP and “Conceale ...
    When looked at through the lens of public health, the abuse that we see in the Mercy for Animals video constitutes not only cruelty to animals, but cruelty to humans as well, including the dehumanizing influence on workers forced to labor under conditions that ultimately breed contempt for the a ...
  • Focus on Food Day: The Consequences of Meat
    Earlier this week, CLF’s Robert S. Lawrence, MD, and Keeve Nachman, PhD, kicked off the Center for a Livable Future’s countdown to Food Day with a webinar, “Industrial food animal production and the high-meat American diet: health and environmental consequences.” (Audio; slides). October 24, 20 ...
  • Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grow ...
    June 9-12, Amanda Behrens and I journeyed to Missoula, Montana for the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). The conference, entitled Food ...
  • Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
    Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...
  • New USDA Report Stresses Regulations on Antibi ...
    A new technical review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “A Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance,” calls the issue a growing public health concern worldwide, stating the misuse of antimicrobial drugs in food animal production and human medicine is the main factor accelerating antimicrobial res ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
    NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...
  • News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...
    NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART The Facebook page on Macsyna King is dishonest. They have known all along that Macsyna has neither sought nor been offered any money or compensation for the book Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart. Still, the...
  • Sea-level study released - yawn
    Mann, Ramstorf and other 'usual suspects' have released their 'it's worse than we thought' sea level "study". Newspaper paraphrases: Looking back in history, the researchers found that sea level was relatively stable from 100 BC to AD 950. Then, during...
  • Where's my global warming dude?
    Temperature trend from HadCRUT for the past decade says it all, really: Hat tip: Steve Goddard
  • Prepare for global cooling - it's official
    To coincide with the release of Air Con Climategate Edition on Kindle, there's been a stunning announcement today that we appear to be seeing major changes in the Sun, of a type that heralded the Little Ice Age. The full...

My Care2 Picks

  • Rejection by African Union of ICC's Qaddafi ar ...
    If an entire continent rejects an alleged international institution's actions as illegitimate and self-serving, does said institution still get to call itself "international?" ICC 'arrest warrant' for Qaddafi soundly rejected by the 53-member African UnioSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� � ...
  • Afghan War will Shift to India?
    In fact, under the pretext of Talibanisation of Pakistan and unrest in the country, which has collevtively been created by the American CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad,......Submitted by Imran F. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • NATO Is An Outlaw, The ICC Is Its Accomplice - ...
    The International Criminal Court at The Hague is a pariah in the world of Justice and International Law; those who work for it are traitors to their cause, the Institution itself is an insult to every fibre of civilisation and a knife in the back...Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note-i ...
  • Guantanamo Bay Prison and Torture News.
    Since the US started shipping prisoners from around the world to Guantánamo, approximately 99% have never been charged with any transgression, much less a crime. The victims of the United States are too innumerable to count.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • A New Documentary: The Terror Within
    Unprecedented abuses of the PATRIOT Act in the case of whistleblower Julia Davis: aerial surveillance with a Blackhawk helicopter and a fixed-wing airplane, warrantless surveillance, wiretaps, sneak and peek burglaries, Internet monitoring and On-Star traSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...

Angry Indian News

  • Ethiopia Detains Journalists on Charges of Ter ...
    Ethiopia Detains Journalists on Charges of Terrorism: [ezega.com] "June 30, 2011 - Ethiopia has issued a statement, saying that the detained journalists were planning sabotage in the country. The... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Survival Sex in Haitian IDP Camps | AidNews
    Survival Sex in Haitian IDP Camps | AidNews: "Source: Humanitarian Accountability PartnershipCountry: HaitiA recent UNHCR study has been published on the phenomenon of engaging in sexual exchanges in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • New declaration shows indigenous peoples will ...
    New declaration shows indigenous peoples will | [indigenousportal.com]Sunday June 19 ended Indigenous Terra Madre in Jokkmokk. A manifest, Jokkmokk Declaration, established by consensus among the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • IRIN Asia | BANGLADESH: Chittagong rights viol ...
    IRIN Asia | BANGLADESH: Chittagong rights violations continue, says UN | Bangladesh | Human Rights: "DHAKA, 28 April 2011 (IRIN) - The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord has yet to be fully... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Rebels committing atrocities in Libya, charges ...
    Rebels committing atrocities in Libya, charges ex-lawmaker: "CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney didn't want to be fooled again by the American media's bad track... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • ExxonMobil Oil Spill in Mont. River Prompts Ev ...
    ShareThisExxonMobil Oil Spill in Mont. River Prompts Evacuations --It was unclear how far the oil plume might travel. 03 Jul 2011 Hundreds of barrels of crude oil spilled into Montana's Yellowstone River after an ExxonMobil pipeline beneath the riverbed ruptured, sending a plume 25 miles downstr ...
  • Former CIA agent reveals 'torture' methods and ...
    ShareThis'I had to psychologically dislocate a detainee': Former CIA agent reveals 'torture' methods and secret prison in memoir --The agency send the pair to 'Hotel California,' a so-called 'black site' or secret prison in an undisclosed foreign country, according to the book. 02 Jul 2011 A for ...
  • Secret Service visits CLG member, asks about S ...
    ShareThisSecret Service visits CLG member, asks about SeizeDC --In two-hour session, Secret Service agents ask, 'What do you know about SeizeDC?' By Lori Price 03 Jul 2011 Citizens for Legitimate Government readers are aware of the numerous .govs and .mils in the CLG website logs. [See: CLG Suns ...
  • CLG member gets Secret Service vist
    ShareThisCLG member gets Secret Service vist 03 Jul 2011 Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) Newsletter subscriber and Facebook friend, Chad Smith,* informed me he received a visit from two Secret Service agents at his home. He was questioned for two hours, and asked about CLG's upcoming Se ...
  • Captain of American boat jailed in Athens
    ShareThisCaptain of American boat jailed in Athens --Captain, organizers charged with felonies 02 Jul 2011 The captain of a US boat carrying activists who tried to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza was jailed Saturday in Athens, organizers of the flotilla said. John Klusmer is being charged wit ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
  • VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
    “Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Soldiers' Angels July Newsletter 2011
    Please click here to view the entire newsletter.
  • Correction: Haqqani leader who supported Kabu ...
    From: IJC Media Operations.Org Date: June 30, 2011 20:31:13 GMT+04:30 To: Undisclosed recipients:; Subject: Correction:� Haqqani leader who supported Kabul attack killed in precision airstrike - IJC News Release #2011-06-S-104-CORRECTION (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE ...
  • Cheering for Mass Murder
    (a quick, unedited message from Kabul) Hotel Under Fire 29 June 2011 Kabul, Afghanistan There is heavy security around Kabul.� A �ring of steel�, as they call it, which is under Afghan authority.� I�ve been driving around Kabul for several weeks and have never seen a foreign guard, and seldom ...
  • Message From Secretary Gates
    29 June 2011 The message below is going out this morning to all US military personnel, active and reserve, around the world: TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES: TOMORROW, 30 JUNE 2011, I WILL RETIRE AS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.� IT HAS BEEN THE GREATEST HONOR OF MY LIFE TO SERV ...
  • Eight suicide bombers killed by Afghan Nationa ...
    29 June 2011 �زارت ام�رداخ�� جم��ر� اس�ام� ا�غا�ستا� دا�غا�ستا� داس�ام� جم��ر�ت دک�ر��� �ار� �زارت Ministry of Interior of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ر�است عم�م� د�تر د رس��� ا� عام� ا��ک� ر�است ر�است مطب�عات � ر�ابط عام� � Directorate of media and public relation Statement Date: 29/Jun ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • 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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • KIA hold talks with Burmese Army
    KIA hold talks with Burmese Army
  • German weapons firm in Burma capital
    Chief of leading ammunitions manufacturer with an ignominious history in Burma in Naypyidaw for talks with top government figures
  • Suu Kyi on China, war and peace
    Fighting has engulfed parts of Kachin state in northern Burma for nearly four weeks, forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi tells DVB of her sadness that fellow countrymen continue to turn against one another, and urges China to engage in mediation ...
  • Mystery surrounds China border photo
    Image of plain-clothed Burmese men crossing into China sparks rumours of Chinese complicity in the fighting against Kachin rebels
  • Suu Kyi to visit Bagan with son
    Opposition icon to make first trip outside of Rangoon since 2003 prior to announcing details of her first post-release political tour

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Morocco voters overwhelmingly approve revised ...
    [JURIST] Moroccan voters on Friday overwhelmingly approved a revised version of the constitution, highlighted by fewer powers reserved for their king. With 94 percent of polling stations reporting and 98 percent of voters in approval, Interior Minister Taib Cherkaoui announced [AFP report] that ...
  • Federal judge blocks Kansas abortion law requi ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Kansas [official website] on Friday issued a preliminary injunction to block a Kansas regulation [SB36] requiring clinics within the state to obtain a license to perform abortions [JURIST news archive]. If not for Judge Carlos Murgui ...
  • Federal appeals court finds Michigan affirmati ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Friday that Proposal 2 [text; JURIST news archive], an amendment to the Michigan Constitution [text, PDF] banning affirmative action in public employment, public education and state contracting, is unc ...
  • Federal appeals court dismisses suit to force ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Friday dismissed [opinion, PDF] a case brought by Washington state, South Carolina and other local governments challenging the Depart of Energy (DOE) [official website] failure to make a permanent nuclear ...
  • Ivory Coast issues international arrest warran ...
    [JURIST] The Ivory Coast issued international arrest warrants Friday for aides of former president Laurent Gbagbo [BBC profile]. The prosecutor's office in the capital Abidjan issued the warrants [Reuters report], most notably for Charles Ble Goude, the leader of Gbagbo's youth militia, accusing ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Clinton Calls on Obama Not to 'Blink' on Debt- ...
    "I hope they will make a mini-deal," Clinton said of the debt ceiling negotiations at an interview conducted at the Aspen Ideas Festival SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images Aspen, Colo.--Former President Bill Clinton Saturday night urged President Obama not to "blink" at Republican demands to exclude ...
  • 9/11 and One Measure of bin Laden's Success
    (click image for larger version) The 10th Anniversary of 9/11 will be upon us soon - and it got me to thinking what the now dead Osama bin Laden was able to achieve in terms of achieving one of his goals - getting the US to spend a lot of treasure on trying to feel more safe in an unsafe wo ...
  • Don't Balance the Budget on the Backs of Gover ...
    Matthew Yglesias has a novel idea for handling the country's growing debt issues: The best way to handle this, in the first instance, is to pay contractors with IOUs. The firms that supply the United States military aren't cash-constrained and they don't want to give up the Pentagon as a ...
  • Ron Paul Leads Pawlenty, Huntsman in 2nd Quart ...
    The second-quarter of political fundraising ended on Thursday, and while we won't reach the filing deadline for another two weeks, campaigns are starting to announce their hauls. So far, this is what we know: Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has raised at least $4.5 million, and his campaign is ...
  • America's Imprudent Obsession With the Muslim ...
    The U.S. has interests in the Middle East and North Africa, but we're focusing on those regions to the exclusion of bigger threats After the U.S., which spends more on "defense" than all its rivals combined, the 10 nations that spend the most on their capacity to wage war are China, France, t ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Rabbi Dov Lior: ‘Democracy, Idol Worship of Ou ...
    For those of you not privy to the vicissitudes of daily Israeli politics, you may not have heard of the long-running charade involving Rabbi Dov Lior, one of Israel’s leading extremist settler rabbis.  Keep in mind that he, and hundreds more Jewish clerics with the same or similar views, are on ...
  • Department of Homeland Security: Israel ‘Promo ...
    This is one of the stranger and more interesting news to come out of the Department of Homeland Security.  Last May, DHS issued a report which enunciated the rules Immigration and Customs Enforcement would use to arrest, detain and deport undesirable aliens.  Part of this document lists count ...
  • Israeli Deputy Prime Minister: Flotilla Sabota ...
    Well, Bogie Yaalon’s actual words quoted in Ynet (Hebrew) were: “Those problems the Flotilla’s having in realizing their plans didn’t just happen. They’re thanks to the work of the political echelon whose focus was on diplomatic political issues, and operational work of the IDF to prepare for ev ...
  • Israel Announces Ten Year Ban on Hope
    Israel, which recently threatened to ban for ten years any foreign journalist joining the Gaza flotilla, has announced that it also plans to ban the following words and phrases for ten years: Audacity, Hope, liberation, Tahrir, Nakba, Naksa, Al Quds, Occupation, BDS, boycott, divestment, sanctio ...
  • Michael Weiss Supports Banning Palestinian, Bu ...
    This is getting to be a habit.  I seem to have gotten under Michael Weiss’ skin.  He takes umbrage with a minor error in my blog post attacking his hysterical coverage of Sheikh Salah’s banning.  I said that his Henry Jackson Society brought Doron Almog via video uplink to speak at a British ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
    The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
  • FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
    by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
  • My Predicament
    For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...
  • High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
    O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]
  • CHANGING SERVERS: EYEONCITRUS.COM
    EYEONCITRUS.COM IS CHANGING SERVERS AND MAY BE DOWN FOR UP TO 48 HOURS, PLEASE KEEP CHECKING, WE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Unsuitable Blog

  • Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
    In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
  • Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty Secrets
    JUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...
  • I’m On The Run
    Actually I’m not. It would have been quite exciting to have been writing a blog from an internet cafe somewhere, or hijacking a wireless connection outside an office building, but it seems I am safe and snug in my home completely bereft of law enforcement officers hammering at my door demanding ...
  • Everyone Must Follow The Rules (Apart From Tho ...
    Enjoy the moment – the personification of Evil is dead. Take to the streets and express your sheer joy at the end of a symbol. Paint your banners and hold them high; unfurl your flags and wave them in the night sky; don your army surplus trousers and bare your chests: we have a winner [...]
  • Scholastic U-Turn On Coal: Shame About Their O ...
    Well, that didn’t last long. From the first outrage to a “Move along, nothing to see here!” clean up of the website, Scholastic seem to have recovered relatively easily from what they claim was just a mistake. When Scholastic published a set of four worksheets and a printable map (see here for a ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • When Moral Systems Miss the Point in Newsgames
    In "Newsgames: Journalism at Play," we argue that the news quiz "is an incredibly simple type of game, but one that nevertheless can transmit factual information in a refreshing way." Perhaps our favorite example is an op-ed suite from The New York Times called "Turning Points, 2008 Edition," wh ...
  • MIT Lesson: Change Happens Everywhere; Activis ...
    I attended last Thursday's afternoon plenary "Civic Media Mobilization," at the 2011 Knight Civic Media conference, expecting to hear discussion about specific activist technologies and techniques. I was also anticipating some juicy political friction between the Tea Party consultant and the imm ...
  • TileMill Opens Up a World of Mapping Possibili ...
    One of our favorite collaborative open data projects is OpenStreetMap. We've talked before about the project's goals, how its free and open nature is advantageous for non-profit and commercial applications alike, and how its open and near-real-time editing process is a major advantage in rapidly ...
  • Knight Announces 2011 News Challenge Winners
    Not so long ago, journalists were playing catch-up in the digital media space. But at this year's MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, it's become evident that journalism 2.0 is growing up. Alberto Ibargüen, CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, today announced the winners of the K ...
  • Find the 'Big Carrot' in Your Mobile App
    In the past, I've talked about some of the nuances in creating a location-based mobile app. Now I'd like to share some techniques for how we decided what to include in version 1 of the CityCircles mobile app, and how we accomplished what we did, to help you narrow your focus for any future apps ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Greece Shows Gumption in Defying Hamas-Bound F ...
    Hooray for the Greece government for showing real gumption at a time when its economic house is in disorder and its streets are aflame with austerity rioters (see Greece Stands Up to Illegal Gaza Flotilla--Arrests American Captain, Page One, July 2, 2011). I refer to the decision by Athens to ar ...
  • Proud My Country Greece Stood Up to Gaza Flotilla
    I am proud that my adopted country Greece stood fast against the latest Gaza flotilla (see Greece Stands Up to Illegal Gaza Flotilla--Arrests American Captain, Page One, July 2, 2011). With all the black eyes Greece is taking now over the budget crisis and bloody riots, this is a shining moment ...
  • Greece Should Ignore Gaza Flotilla Pressure
    All Greeks should push back on the Internet war now being launched against our nation by the organizers of the Second Gaza Flotilla (see Greece Stands Up to Illegal Gaza Flotilla--Arrests American Captain, Page One, July 2, 2011). Hamas is a dangerous terrorist organization that throws its polit ...
  • Flotilla to Hamas - Illegal Gaza Flotilla Dete ...
    An international aid flotilla is continuing with plans to sail to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip despite a series of setbacks.Pro-Palestinian activists organizing the aid flotilla say they still intend to challenge Israel's blockade on Gaza, a day after an American boat was intercepted by the Greek ...
  • Flotilla to Hamas - Greece Stands Up to Illega ...
    Greek authorities, showing "unusual maritime courage at a moment of high national stress,"�according to�one State Departmernt source,� have arrested the civilian captain of a US-flagged ship bound for the Gaza strip and aimed at challenging Israel's maritime blockade of the Palestinian territory ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Obama Forming an "I Really Love Israel" PR Squ ...
    Perhaps in response to the Politico report earlier this week, it appears that some low-level Jewish players have decided to seal their place in the progressive movement rather than act for the best interests of both the United States and its valuable Mid-East ally,� Israel. According to the WAPO ...
  • Project Gunrunner Assault Weapons Showing Up A ...
    "Project Gunrunner" (A.K.A Fast and Furious) was a project of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fireworks where basically some "geniuses" high up in ATF (and possibly the DOJ) thought it would be a great idea to sell assault weapons to the violent Mexican drug cartels. AYes, that's right, the ...
  • Is A Deal With the Taliban The Basis for U.S. ...
    By Barry Rubin Ahmad Rashid is widely considered to be the best journalist on Afghan and related Pakistani issues. And he has a scoop over the secret U.S. negotiations with the Taliban. I respect him though I don’t necessarily agree with him. And Rashid’s points must be integrated into the ...
  • Shale Oil Could Provide the Stimulus the Econo ...
    New York state regulators will recommend today that the use of hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas be allowed in much of the state, but will remain banned in areas that supply drinking water to New York City and Syracuse.� The draft report by the state Department of Environmental Con ...
  • Celebrate Tomorrow The Real Independence Day W ...
    "Why then sir, why do we longer delay? Why still deliberate? Let this happy day give birth to an American Republic. Let her arise not to devastate and to conquer but to reestablish the reign of peace and law. The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us. She demands of us a living example of freedom tha ...

The Real Agenda

  • CSIRO Iniciará Experimentos com Trigo Transgên ...
    ABC News Tradução Luis R. Miranda 1 de julho de 2011 CSIRO tem sido autorizada para conduzir os primeiros experimentos com trigo geneticamente modificado em humanos. A empresa obteve a autorização na Austrália. Genes do trigo foram modificados para reduzir o índice glicêmico e aumentar a fibra p ...
  • CSIRO Iniciará Ensayos con Trigo Transgénico e ...
    ABC News Adaptación Luis R. Miranda 24 de junio 2011 CSIRO ha recibido permiso para llevar a cabo el primer ensayo con trigo transgénico en humanos. Tal permiso fue obtenido en Australia, en donde la empresa ya había realizado otros ensayos con animales a los cuales también alimentó con trigo ge ...
  • Você precisa de um pesticida? Tente óleo de canola
    E se óleo de canola não é sua coisa, tente óleo de soja NaturalNews.com Traducao Luis R. Miranda 1 de julho de 2011 Em um vídeo chocante, Mike Adams (o Ranger de Saúde) revela que os óleos de cozinha comuns, tais como óleo de canola e óleo de soja são usados como ingredientes ativos de [...]
  • ¿Necesita un pesticida? Use aceite de canola
    Y si el aceite de canola no es lo suyo, ¿qué le parece aceite de soja? NaturalNews.com Adaptación Luis R. Miranda 1 de julio 2011 En un nuevo e impactante video, Mike Adams (el Ranger de la Salud) revela que los aceites de cocina comúnes, tales como el aceite de canola y aceite de soja [...]
  • India: Rajasthan in ‘cars for sterilisat ...
    BBC July 1, 2011 Health officials in the Indian state of Rajasthan are launching a new campaign to try reduce the high population growth in the area. They are encouraging men and women to volunteer for sterilisation, and in return are offering a car and other prizes for those who come forward. A ...

Wind Watch

  • Group recommends stricter noise levels for Mic ...
    EAST LANSING, Mich. â As the call for alternative energy grows louder in Michigan and more communities consider wind farms, a group led by a pair of Michigan State University professors has issued a report calling for stricter regulations on noise levels and providing zoning guidelines for local ...
  • Turbine meeting turns out hundreds, forces can ...
    RIGA, Mich. � When Riga Township resident �Lady� MacBeth arrived at the Riga Municipal Building Thursday night to hear the Riga Township Board�s final decision on zoning ordinances that will determine the fate of 200 wind turbines proposed for the area, she was told to turn around. The building ...
  • State takes jurisdiction over wind farm
    Instead of local officials, a state committee will decide whether a wind farm will be built in Antrim because the local process could have derailed the state’s energy goals. Earlier this year, Antrim selectmen, about 100 residents and Antrim Wind Energy LLC, part of Eolian Renewable Energy of De ...
  • Umatilla County turbine rules OK’d
    A victory years in the making was handed down by Umatilla County Commissioners on Tuesday. Commissioners Dennis Doherty, Larry Givens and Bill Hansell, in a series of three separate votes, changed existing rules and creating new ones regarding where and how industrial wind turbines can be built. ...
  • 1,500 protest as Powys council urges wind farm ...
    Councillors in Powys have voted for an immediate review of wind farm policy at a special meeting in Welshpool. Around 1,500 anti-wind farm protesters lobbied ahead of the council meeting at Welshpool livestock market. The council unanimously supported a motion urging the Welsh Government to requ ...

Tippers News

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

  • Default in the Future
    An economist makes a persuasive case that the powers that be will decide a default on the government's debt is the best available alternative.
  • Feds Warn of Crackdown on Medical Marijuana
    “The U.S. Justice Department says that marijuana dispensaries and licensed growers in states with medical marijuana laws could face prosecution for violating federal drug and money-laundering laws.” (USA Today) Another broken promise. FEE Timely Classic “Taking Drug Laws Seriously” by Thomas Szasz
  • Retailers Upset about Fed Switch on Swipe Fees
    “Angry retailers Thursday promised to fight a new Federal Reserve decision reversing its previous position and nearly doubling the maximum amount banks can charge on âswipe feesâ when customers make debit card purchases.” (Washington Times) Two factions of the business world fight over regulatio ...
  • The Other Principle of Classical Liberalism
    If government grants certain privileges to those who are married, it must grant them equally to all its citizens who wish to marry.
  • Obama Tilts toward Boeing in NLRB Fight
    “In his first public comments on a simmering labor-management battle, President Obama Wednesday appeared to sympathize with aerospace giant Boeing in its fight with labor unions and the National Labor Relations Board over a major new nonunion manufacturing plant in South Carolinaâ¦. In his White ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • VOICES: 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

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Ian Welsh

  • I think the oligarchs are overplaying their hand
    In particular the Greek “bailout” was a mistake.  A horribly punitive measure, with virtually the entire “Socialist” party voting for it, it wasn’t a bailout of Greece, but a bailout of investors.  As part of the response, the Greek ministry of finance was set alight. The oligarchs, by making ...
  • One more note on the New York Gay Marriage, Cu ...
    1) The left sells each other out for either small tactical gains, or nothing at all (hello national NARAL) all the time, so why shouldn’t the gays promise to help Cuomo in his next election for giving them gay marriage, even if it screws unions and helps an austerity governor? 2) The reason gays ...
  • Basics: anyone who will sell you out is not on ...
    Look, if a special interest that is nominally on the left is willing to sell out other parts of the left in order to get its little item, they are not on your side.  Period.  End of sentence.  An alliance, coalition or ideological movement’s first and most important rule is solidarity: NEVER ...
  • Less Cuomo Fellation please
    Como’s still busy destroying unions and crushing standards of living in New York. I’m so pro-gay marriage I once didn’t talk to my father for 6 months because of an argument over it, but it is not the only issue, and it does not make Cuomo a good governor any more than any other single [...]
  • The Psychiatric Drug Industry
    The New York Review of Books looks into the question of why there is an epidemic of mental illness, and if the drugs used to treat problems like depression actually work. Short answer, no, the evidence for the drugs working is exceptionally weak. Longer answer, the drugs mess with the patient’s ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Top five fundamental neutron physics efforts r ...
    Is there any imbalance in the way that the electric charge of a neutron (a positive and a negative, canceling to zero) is distributed within the particle? So far, the answer has been no -- and this has been tested to mind-boggling levels of precision. But pressing even further in a quest for th ...
  • Webb telescope delayed past 2018?
    Hubble’s successor -- the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) -- is in a heap of trouble. Things were already bad in October, when it was supposed to launch in 2014 and its price tag stood at $5 billion. Then in November, an independent review said its costs had risen to $6.5 billion and that it ...
  • Two bats, an owl and a polar bear
    Things are hopping these days at the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency that implements the Endangered Species Act. Yesterday, longtime FWS staffer Dan Ashe was finally confirmed as the new head of the agency, more than six months after he was nominated. He was sworn in this morning. As ...
  • Cool Videos: How Tibetan singing bowls make dr ...
    The whole point of this post is to show cool video, so let's just cut to the chase: That is a drop of silicon oil apparently hovering above a bowl filled with the stuff. It's definitely the coolest liquid trick I've seen since the bouncing shampoo demonstration a few years back. Denis Ter ...
  • H1N1 vaccine linked to narcolepsy, finds Swedi ...
    An H1N1 pandemic flu vaccine may be linked to a severe form of narcolepsy in children and adolescents in Sweden, finds a new country-wide study by the country’s Medical Products Agency. The findings support a preliminary study of four regions of Sweden, released in March, as well as a Januar ...

new geography

  • Living and Working in the 1099 Economy
    We used to call it �Free Agent Nation.�� Now, it seems like the new term of art will be �The 1099 Economy.�� �While the names may change, they all point to a phenomenon of rising importance: the growing number of Americans who don�t have a �regular job� but instead work on individual contrac ...
  • Drones on the Prairie
    When the Base Realignment and Closure Commission was drawing up its list of military installations to close back in 2005, consultants assured the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota, that its Air Force base would be spared. Days before the list was made public, though, word leaked out that ...
  • The Evolving Urban Area: Seattle
    Lunching at Seattle's Space Needle, the casual observer might imagine that one of the nation's most dense urban areas is spread out below. To the immediate south of the Space Needle is one of the nation's premier downtown areas. In 2000 downtown Seattle had the seventh largest employment ba ...
  • Will J.R. Recognize the New Dallas?
    In the sixties and seventies, Dallas’s prime tourist attraction was an assassination site. The town seriously needed a new image. It got one in a soap opera that revealed a city besieged by blonds, big  hair and big homes. “Dallas,” which premiered in 1978, did for Big D what “Sex in the Cit ...
  • Can Florida Escape the Horse Latitudes?
    When it comes to the winds of change, Florida remains in the horse latitudes.  This zone of the Atlantic around 30 degrees latitude was so named by ship captains because their ships, becalmed in the water, seemed to move faster when they lightened their load by throwing off a few horses.  F ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Celebrating Independence Yet Enslaved To Debt
    Every year when July 4th rolls around, Americans from coast to coast celebrate July 4th with cookouts, outdoor concerts and fireworks.  We love celebrating Independence Day and yet we are deeply enslaved to debt.  We like to think of ourselves as "free" and yet we have rolled up ...
  • Will Barack Obama Use The 14th Amendment As A ...
    As the deadline to raise the debt ceiling draws closer, many are now wondering if Barack Obama will try to go around Congress if a deal is not reached by August 2nd.  In particular, a number of voices (including U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner) are now touting the 14th ...
  • Shell Game
    The entire U.S. financial system has become a gigantic shell game.  While it is still in motion, a shell game can be mesmerizing to watch.  But when it ends the consequences can be painful.  So exactly what is a shell game?  According to Wikipedia, a shell game "is portrayed as ...
  • 50 U.S. Health Care Statistics That Will Absol ...
    The U.S. health care system has become one gigantic money making scam, and you are about to see the statistics that prove it.  Today, the United States spends more on health care per person than any other country in the world by far.  The health insurance companies and the big p ...
  • Economic Recovery?
    If this is supposed to be an "economic recovery" it sure is pathetic.  In fact, as you will read below, the numbers tell us that this is the worst economic recovery that the American economy has ever seen.  If what we had experienced was a "normal" recession and a "normal" recov ...

Desertification

  • Missing Food : grain (or vegetables and fruits ...
    VIDEO seen at : Missing Food: The Case of Postharvest Grain Losses in Sub-Saharan Africa http://youtu.be/4JGC7peGBwo Reducing post-harvest losses is an essential pillar in a successful food strategy. —————- MY COMMENT (Willem Van Cotthem) So is offering seeds of vegetables … Continue reading →
  • L’accaparement mondial des terres agrico ...
    Les fonds de pension : des acteurs clés dans l’accaparement mondial des terres agricoles Les acquisitions de terres agricoles à grande échelle provoquent conflits et controverses dans le monde entier. Et pourtant, les fonds continuent à déferler sur les terres … Continue reading →
  • ‘Seed Mothers’ identifying, collec ...
    Read at : http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56332 INDIA ‘Seed-Mothers’ Confront Climate Insecurity By Manipadma Jena BHUBANESWAR, India, Jul 1, 2011 (IPS) – In eastern Orissa stateâs tribal hinterlands about 200 âseed-mothersâ are on mission mode – identifying, collecting and conserving traditi ...
  • New book on Urban School Gardens (City Farmer ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/06/12/roots-and-research-in-urban-school-gardens/ Roots and Research in Urban School Gardens Linked by Michael Levenston By Veronica Gaylie Peter Lang Publishing June 15, 2011 http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Research-Urban-School-Gardens/dp/1433115255/ref=nt ...
  • City malnutrition drops as more affordable fru ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/06/13/fao-urban-horticulture-in-the-congo-reaps-400-million-for-small-growers/ FAO â Urban horticulture in the Congo reaps $400 million for small growers Linked by Michael Levenston How a project for development of urban and peri-urban horticulture in fi ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Voices of the Manchester strike
    castlefield.jpg Thousands marched through the streets of Manchester today in support of public sector strikes called against proposed pension reforms and in opposition to the government’s austerity d ...
  • Greece: 2nd Day of General Strike 29/6 - Unpre ...
    policestones4.jpg A timeline account of the day. Relentless riot police attacks with teargas, physical violence and even rocks. Hundreds of injured demonstrators. Square raided but not evacuated. ...
  • The demolition of social housing?
    Pruitt-IgoeDemolish.jpg A look at far reaching changes in social housing policy being introduced by the UK government. Social housing in the UK provides homes for 8 million peo ...
  • J30 strike - updates and accounts
    strike.jpg Today, hundreds of thousands of workers in the UK across several unions are taking strike action against the government's austerity measures, in particular the attack on public sector pens ...
  • Bust the myths: six reasons to support the pen ...
    Freedom-J30website.png This week will see a wave of strikes across Manchester and the country as thousands of teachers, lecturers and civil servants take part in strikes called in opposition to pensi ...

Free Range International

  • FabFi on the front page of New York Times
    Here’s an update in an attempt to counteract the thoroughly depressing news of Tim going silent. (Anyone who knows Tim in person knows that you can’t actually silence him; he’s still ranting but we’ve turned off the blog-mike). With Kanani’s help, I’ve put this post in Babatim format. This wee ...
  • There’s Fire
    Fighting season is now on. This year the villains strategy appears to involve deliberate attacks on aid projects and let me tell you something we (the outside the wire aid community) are getting hammered.  In the last week a majority of us have had to deal with murders, intimidation, shootings, ...
  • Where There Is Smoke
    In the Helmand Province, this year’s fighting season has started off with a whimper.  On May Day (as predicted) the only action was in Paktika Province where a child suicide bomber violated the latest Taliban public announcement by blowing himself up in a police station.  The Taliban had just ...
  • Leadership 101
    Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is never pleasant to observe, especially when it is an American President doing the snatching.  President Obama was running strong:  1. He just announced The Dream Team taking over the Afghan campaign,  2. He launched a unilateral direct action mission d ...
  • May Day
    The ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) has taken an unusual step by issuing a warning to all internationals, alerting of coordinated “spectacular attacks”,  kidnapping of internationals, suicide bombings, and all manner of general mayhem to kick off  Sunday, 1 May.  To the bes ...

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 ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
    Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
  • Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
    The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
  • Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights Advocate
    President of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.
  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 22, 2011)
    Highlights of the conversation with Peter originally broadcast Jan 17 and 18, 2011.
  • Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
    Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.

Scotts Contracting

  • Insulation ROI- Be Energy Smart and Money Wize
    Misunderstood Payback Periods of Proper Insulation: This is a huge mistake people make. I had a consumer recently tell me that 2 years was too long to get all his money back. If he understood Payback periods, he’d understand that he was turning down a 50% return on his money. Now, investments th ...
  • Petition to Stop Ameren UE-Coal Ash Utility Wa ...
    Petition: We, the undersigned, are opposed to placing a coal ash utility waste landfill in the Labadie Bottoms floodplain of the Missouri river as proposed by AmerenUE. The proposed landfill will store harmful quantities of toxic heavy metals and other contaminants. Despite Ameren’s assurances o ...
  • six neighborhood factors that affect the envir ...
    The Greenest Building Is The One That’s Already Built ⦠Sometimes Posted June 20, 2011 by Kaid Benfield copied from: http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/kaidbenfield/26182/greenest-historic-building-one-thats-right-context?utm_source=scc_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter Iâ ...
  • Estimating Tips for Spray Foam Window/Door Sealant
    While Working on an Material Estimate for Installing 10 Replacement Windows. I wanted to share this Information on from Dow Great Stuff. Sizes and Estimated Yields for GREAT STUFF PRO™ Window & Door Insulating Foam Sealant Can Size, oz (g) Delivery No. of Windows(1) 20 (567) Reusable Straw 6-9 2 ...
  • Energy Efficiency Key to Reducing the Need to ...
    report says EERS policies are driving energy efficiency investments and energy cost savings to unprecedented levels national energy policy remains beyond the reach of Congress ((13 of the 19 states are achieving 100% or more of their goals)) U.S. states lead on energy efficiency, lower utility b ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iran Funnels New Weapons to Iraq and Afghanistan .
    Iran's elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has transferred lethal new munitions to its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months, according to senior U.S. officials, in a bid to accelerate the U.S. withdrawals from these countries. They said Iranians have also gi ...
  • وزارت ارشاد ایران 'بنیاد مد و لباس' راه اندازی ...
    به گزارش خبرگزاری فارس، محمد حسینی، وزیر ارشاد و فرهنگ اسلامی، با اشاره به روز ۳۱ تیرماه که "روز عفاف و حجاب" نامگذاری شده، گفته است که "بنیاد ملی مد و لباس فعالیت خود را در راستانی ترویج فرهنگ عفاف و حجاب آغاز کرده است."
  • مقابله با اینترنت نامرئی آمریکا/ اینترنت ملی م ...
    دولت آمریکا از آغاز جنگ نرم در فضای سایبر با فناوری جدیدی تحت عنوان "اینترنت چمدانی" خبر داده که قرار است به صورت پنهان از مرزهای کشورها عبور داده شود اما در این میان به نظر می‌رسد ایران پیش‌تر از اینها برای مقابله با اینگونه تهدیدها در حال یافتن راهکار بوده است.
  • هشدارچهره‌های ایرانی درمورد 'تجاوز بی‌سابقه‌'ح ...
    ۶۷ نفر از چهره‌های شناخته شده ایرانی در خارج از کشور در نامه‌ای به احمد شهید، گزارشگر ویژه شورای حقوق بشر سازمان ملل متحد، به او هشدار داده‌اند که "تجاوزات حکومت جمهوری اسلامی" در ایران به حقوق بشر به "سطح بی سابقه‌ای" رسیده است.
  • Iran state TV censors Ahmadinejad video clip
    Iran's state television has censored a video clip that showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemning recent arrests of his close allies. Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), which is under the direct control of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, transmitted only an edited ve ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Speculating with our Food
    The Chicago Mercantile (commodities) Exchange In 2011, “food derivative” speculation has replaced financial derivatives as the hot new investment promoted by major investment banks like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. According to new research from the World Development Movement, the same banks tha ...
  • Can Human Nature be Repaired?
    Racehorse trainer Anti-capitalist John Strachey touches briefly on the Human Nature debate in his 1933 Coming Struggle for Power (see “Is Capitalism Doomed?” http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2010/08/14/is-capitalism-doomed/). He makes the observation that despite unimaginable technologic ...
  • The Biology of Human Behavior
    Brain synapses In my last blog, I discussed Marx and Engels response to the four specific character flaws that the ruling elite put forward in opposing alternative political/economic systems, such as socialism and participatory democracy. I look at contemporary research into human behavior and w ...
  • Marx and Engels on Human Nature
    As I outlined in my last blog, the capitalist class (which has near absolute control over public education and the mainstream media) maintains that a ruling privileged elite is essential for the survival of civilization. In their view, this is due to innate flaws of human nature that allegedly m ...
  • Is Human Nature Flawed?
    This is the first of a series of posts on the age-old Human Nature debate and the question of whether human beings are capable of achieving true participatory and economic democracy. The failure of the world’s great economic powers to solve the global debt crisis, coupled with growing politic ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Glenn Beck on Muslims, Obama and Michael Moore ...
    From Glenn Beck's radio show, June 2, 2011: ... PAT GRAY: How does a guy who immigrated here from -- was it India? I think India. He's got Muslim parenthood and he comes here and he enjoys incredible success. The guy's a national television host and a best-selling author. He probably makes ...
  • In His Latest Attack, Beck's Sidekick Highligh ...
    On today's edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck and�his sidekick�Pat Gray criticized CNN Host and Time editor Fareed Zakaria for comments�suggesting that the U.S. Constitution was not perfect. Zakaria made the comments during an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose earlier this week. (This was part ...
  • TOM MORELLO : THE NIGHTWATCHMAN TO RELEASE UNI ...
    FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE TITLE TRACK “UNION TOWN” AVAILABLE NOW   NEW FULL LENGTH ALBUM, WORLD WIDE REBEL SONGS, TO BE RELEASED LATE SUMMER   April 28th, 2011 -- New York, New York -- Tom Morello is set to release Union Town via New West Records digitally on May 17th with a physical CD and Vinyl rel ...
  • New York Times: Claims Gaddafi Tried to Assass ...
    From 'TARGET QADDAFI' by Seymour Hersh, New York Times, February 22, 1987 ... In the weeks following Sadat's death, newspapers and television reported a barrage of Qaddafi death threats to Reagan and senior Administration officials. Secret Service protection was ordered for the President's ...
  • New York Times: U.S. Specifically Targeted Gad ...
    From 'TARGET QADDAFI' by Seymour Hersh, New York Times, February 22, 1987 ... The mission was the first combat assignment for most of the fliers. Qaddafi's home and his camouflaged Bedouin tent, where he often worked throughout the night, were inside the grounds of El-Azziziya. The notion o ...

Salon

  • Protesters rally against Georgia immigration law
    Thousands of marchers stormed the Georgia Capitol on Saturday to protest the state's new immigration law, which they say creates an unwelcome environment for people of color and those in search of a better life.
  • Prince Albert of Monaco marries Charlene Wittstock
    A day after the civil wedding that transformed one-time Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock into the Princess of Monaco, she and Prince Albert II wed in a star-studded religious ceremony Saturday.
  • Vulnerable feel the pinch of Minnesota shutdown
    Minnesota lawmakers headed home for a long holiday weekend, bracing for likely public anger as some of them meet constituents for the first time since a failure to reach a budget agreement forced a government shutdown.
  • Pink-washed: Gay rights and the Mideast conflict
    A mysterious video painting the organizers of the latest Gaza flotilla as anti-gay was exposed as a hoax last week, in the latest instance of what pro-Palestinian activists call "pinkwashing."
  • Accuser's lies jeopardize DSK case, experts say
    The hotel maid who accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault may have inflicted fatal damage on her own case by lying to prosecutors about her life story and what she did in the moments after the suspected attack, legal experts said.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • A Solution for Biofuels? Researchers Quadruple ...
    My Clean Break column revisits the importance of producing biofuels from algae, especially in the case of producing renewable fuels fo
  • UMW: Messaging A Clean-Energy Future
    When it comes to discussing the value and power of a clean-energy future, in a way that touches core values and life-experiences of a good share of Americans, perhaps it is time to think and speak UMW.� No �� not the United Mine Workers.� Instead,� when we think UMW and energy, we should tur ...
  • Back to Basics on Climate Science
    Last week I had the privilege to attend an MIT forum and listen to the keynote address given by Nobel laureate Mario Molina. The subject of the address was the issue of conveying an understanding of the science of climate change to the general public. Professor Molina won the Nobel Prize and is ...
  • Study: Miami Has Best C02 Practices, Denver Be ...
    Yesterday, the results of a study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and commissioned by Siemens was released that assesses and compares 27 major U.S. and Canadian cities on environmental performance and policies across nine categories � CO2 emissions, energy, land use, buildings ...
  • T. Boone Terrorism: Droughts Pit Natural Gas I ...
    Speaking of less water, Travis Waldron has a fine observation on irresponsible action by fossil fuel companies, specifically drillers using Billions of Gallons of Potable Water for fracking. Where? In Drought-Stricken Texas, of course.

EU Times

  • Gaza freedom flotilla stuck in Greece
    The audacity of hope, the US boat in the Gaza freedom flotilla, makes a break for freedom out of the harbour in Athens. It’s quickly intercepted by the Greek coastguard, and escorted into a naval base, where it’s now trapped. The Greek government has officially made it clear that it’s enforcing ...
  • Most Americans don’t know the significance of ...
    Mark Dice talks with beachgoers in San Diego, California to ask them why the 4th of July holiday was started. Many of them have no clue at all and simply agree with him when he insinuates blatantly false explanations. Check out Mark’s new book Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True on Am ...
  • Gypsies Face Ghettoization in Romania
    In Arizona, politicians are trying to build a wall on the Mexican border to keep illegals out. Across the Atlantic, in an industrial city in Romania, a wall is being built to keep people in. The local government of the city of Baia Mare in northern Romania is trying to erect a concrete wall in [...]
  • Asian-born Australians may soon become majority
    Asian-born Australians may soon outnumber whites, says government study. The number of Asians in Australia has almost doubled in a decade, from 1.03 million in mid-2000 to 2.1 million in the middle of last year, according to government statistics. Pramod Kumar is part of a wave of immigration th ...
  • Strauss-Kahn released without bail
    Former International Monetary Fund chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has walked out of court free without bail. His release came after prosecutors raised doubts over the credibility of the hotel housekeeper who has accused him of sexual assault. Prosecutors agreed to release the former IMF head on ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • US Hell Fire strikes against terrorist Pakista ...
    Washington Post: The CIA three months ago suspended its long-standing use of an air base in Pakistan as a launch site for armed drones targeting members of al-Qaeda and other militant groups, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials. U.S. personnel and Predator drones remain at the facility, i ...
  • All U.S. Drone Strikes In Pakistan Originate F ...
    The Shamsi airbase in Balochistan has been used by the Americans for supplies to ISAF forces in Afghanistan and for launching drone attacks in tribal areas. - Reuters Photo CIA Idles Drone Flights From Base In Pakistan -- Washington Post The CIA three months ago suspended its long-standing use ...
  • Monaco's Princely Wedding
    I enjoyed watching the wedding of Prince Albert of Monaco to the former Miss Wittstock, now Princess Charlene . It was held in the palace rather than in the cathedral, for reasons of space. I was impressed by the serenity and recollection of the new princess during the nuptial mass. A recent Ca ...
  • Syrian Revolution : Hama leads the way to libe ...
    Yesterday Nearly one million Syrians took the street through out the country to send one message to Bashar El Assad and his regime , this message was simple and direct. It was one word “ Leave”. Yes nearly One million because when there were nearly 700,000 brave and great Syrians in one city of ...
  • ‘Arab Spring’ Turns to Long, Hot Summer in Syr ...
    Hundreds of thousands of protesters poured into the streets of Syrian cities on Friday to call for the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad in one of the largest outpourings of opposition since protests began over three months ago. At least 12 protesters were killed by Assadâs internal security ...

Groklaw

  • Patent case has high stakes for medical tests
    At issue is whether it's possible to patent a test that measures how patients respond to treatments. The high court's ruling could have widespread implications on diagnostic tests and other patents involving genetic screening.... Mayo and its backers, including the American Medical Association a ...
  • State, Federal Wiretap Applications Up 34%
    Authorities reported they encountered encryption during six state wiretaps. But investigators, the report said, still managed to obtain the plain text of the communication. - BLT
  • Unbelievable statements in GPL related case in ...
    So let me phrase this more clearly: Somebody, under oath is stating at the Supreme Court, that GPL-Licensed software (which the Linux kernel definitely is), has no copyright restrictions? And that any derived work is the sole property of whoever created the derivative? What kind of pot are they ...
  • Oracle v. Google Android® Update
    Yesterday, the PTO issued a non-final rejection of Oracle's U.S. Patent No. 6,125,447 (90/011,491). The examiner found that all 24 claims of the '447 patent are anticipated by either of two prior art references. Oracle may now traverse the rejection, and if the PTO maintains the rejection, Ora ...
  • Executive offers peek under the Red Hat
    Q: You know about the decline of Novell Inc., which was supposed to be your primary competitor in Linux software. What went wrong there? Paul Cormier: It's a travesty. An absolute travesty. Customers were starting to want open source. So they'd come in with open source and [Novell would] try t ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Biffy Clyro perform Mountains at Glastonbury 2011
  • Wasn’t the Iraq War supposed to be winding down?
    U.S. monthly combat deaths in Iraq hit 3-year high
  • Storing wind power energy in compressed air tanks.
    Storing excess wind power as compressed air in underground caverns to drive turbines later when needed is cost-effective and useful. But that means siting wind farms where the caverns are. SustainX thinks they have an even more cost effective approach. Store the energy in compressed air tanks an ...
  • Be scared, be very scared
    Google’s driverless cars are now legal in Nevada. Yes, I know that Google had one of their driverless cars go from S.F. to L.A. on twisty Route 1 along the coast and it performed wonderfully. Further, this technology might well save lives. But, having thousands of driverless cars speeding around ...
  • Strauss-Kahn maid as hotel hooker
    NY Post “There is information . . . of her getting extraordinary tips, if you know what I mean. And it’s not for bringing extra f–king towels,” a source close to the defense investigation said yesterday. This is from the defense but it fits what has been emerging. From day one, Sue thought the h ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Speaking about out recent Gaza/Cairo trip: Cha ...
    Bill the spouse and I will be speaking about our recent trip to Gaza and Cairo at an event sponsored by my Quaker meeting in Charlottesville, on July 11. Details are here.
  • My piece on Egypt and Gaza, at ME Channel
    ... is here. I rather like the title they put on it, "Tahrir's journey to Palestine". In fact, the journey that the "spirit of of the Tahrir uprising" has to make before it gets to Palestine is just about as long and difficult as the journey that anyone needs to make to get from the outside wor ...
  • Reactions to Gaza Flotilla 2
    Nine boats of siege-busting 'Freedom Rider' activists are now gathering in the Mediterranean, preparing to challenge the longrunning siege that is one of the main tools through which Israel continues to stifle the lives and livelihoods of all of Gaza's 1.6 million people. An act of collective p ...
  • Sally Sockpuppet and her friends
    Well, just as I thought. Commenter "Sally J" who was trying to argue that she'd "visited Gaza with a volunteer church group" just in April and that nearly everything there is fine... turns out to be one of the multiple-personality sock-puppets who visit the blog from time to time. Here is a s ...
  • Eyes Open in Gaza, June 2011
    The Gaza Strip is a heavily urbanized sliver of land, some 30 miles long, that nestles against the southeast corner of the Mediterranean and that for many reasons-- including the fact that more than 75% of its 1.6 million are refugees from within what is now Israel-- has always been a crucible f ...

frogblog

  • General debate, July 3, 2011
    Hope people are keeping warm. Frigging cold in Welly!
  • Big ups to Air New Zealand for standing up aga ...
    Eighteen months ago, Air New Zealand was copping a lot of flack over its misogynist "cougar" advertising. Today, Air New Zealand has redeemed itself. It has taken a stand against EMA Northern Chief Executive Alasdair Thompson's appallingly misogynist comments attempting to justify women being ...
  • Lobbyist breaches ramparts of NZ Broadcasting
    Barrie Saunders of lobbyists Saunders and Unsworth has assured the Government his firm will forgo other media clients after being appointed to TVNZ’s board of directors for three years.
  • What Taliban hotel attack says about NZ milita ...
    It will be a difficult time for the families of NZSAS soldiers injured in Afghanistan and my sympathy goes out to them as the wait for updates on the medical situation of their loved ones. On the political level, the Taliban raid on the Intercontinental Hotel underlines the failure of the US-led ...
  • Nick Smith lost for words on lignite mining
    It seems Environment Minister Nick Smith still doesn’t get it that “best practice” as far as lignite is concerned is to leave it in the ground. He was lost for words when challenged on this in Southland on Tuesday evening.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
    What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
  • (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
    President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
  • Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
    Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
  • What should be done with illegal immigrants?
    That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Al Gore and the Referees
    Walter Russell Mead, in yet another lengthy critique of liberals who think that facts and empirical evidence ought to be taken seriously, explains to Al Gore the role of the referee in professional wrestling: Among other things, professional wrestling works as a kind of folk satire — and ...
  • Quote of the Day: Sunblock and Sexual Abuse
    From the Washington Post, in a story about a new Maryland regulation preventing adults from helping kids apply sunscreen at summer camp: Mitchell said he did not know of any cases of inappropriate touching by counselors that might have led to the new regulations. Sexual abuse is a seri ...
  • Friday Big Cat Blogging - 1 July 2011
    On the left, this is how Inkblot imagines himself when he's snoozing on the lovely, warm patio soaking up the summer heat. He is, in his imagination, King of the Jungle, lord of all he surveys. (Except perhaps for the Queen of the Jungle, biding her time outside the frame of the photo.) Thi ...
  • Ed Miliband Demonstrates How to Stay on Message
    Via Time's Adam Sorensen, this is pretty entertaining. It's Ed Miliband, leader of Britain's Labor Party, who's obviously memorized the talking point he wants to make and then proceeds to make it in precisely the same words five times in a row to every question asked. One gets the impression ...
  • Fixing the Deficit By Doing Nothing
    Via Ezra Klein, here's an interesting chart. CRFB's Marc Goldwein shows us graphically the difference between the CBO's "Extended Baseline Scenario" — which assumes current law just goes on forever — and its "Alternative Fiscal Scenario," which is supposed to be a somewhat more realistic loo ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 255: Gay Pride
    Topics: Texas close to getting Confederate flag license plates The Throat punch Gay marriage passes in NY David Tyree and others made about gays getting married Protecting the sanctity of marriage by marrying a 16 year old Chris Brown’s back to whining Share with your friends:
  • IC 254: Father’s Day Controversy
    Topics: Why is Father’s Day so complicated? Can men get 1 day please? PETA goes overboard…again Amy Winehouse is on drugs…again…why are we shocked? Weiner resigns and progressives are pissed at the President Share with your friends:
  • IC 253: The Great Weiner Debate
    Topics: McDonald’s is racist? The Alamo Drafthouse shows why the customer isn’t always right The great circumcision debate Anthony Weiner and liberals turn an anthill into the Alps… Share with your friends:
  • Lupe and the Blissful Ignorance of Not Voting
    So yesterday evening Ryce and I did a podcast, IC 252:  Pedophile Insurance (Cheap Plug) and one of the topics we talked about was Lupe Fiasco’s comments about President Obama being the world’s biggest terrorist. I had a few comments about that issue then but felt the need to write this follow ...
  • IC 252: Pedophile Insurance
    Topics: Lupe acts like Lupe Is Obama a terrorist? How important is voting? A 2 vehicle, 1 bear accident Creflo Dollar defends Eddie Long Herman Cain…the gift that keeps giving…. Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Sea-level rise is the fastest in 2,000 years
    University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin Hortonand colleagues show that sea level has risen at an average of 2.1 mm per year since around 1900, after having stayed roughly stable for the previous two millennia.
  • Shrinking Arctic ice area is just the tip of t ...
    Old, thicker, ice cover has suffered extreme losses, says the University of Colorado's James Maslanik, providing more evidence of how humans are changing the planet.
  • Climate rhythm shift brings early calving
    Chillingham cattle, which are able to breed all year round, are having more calves in winter due to earlier springs, reducing their chances of surviving a year, find Sarah Burthe of the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and colleagues, showing that even mammals with breeding flexibility are ...
  • History warns of civilisation-crushing climate ...
    After giant sandworms cause an argument between me and my girlfriend about whether climate-related civilisation-wide disasters are possible, reviewing scientific evidence of such events through history force me to concede that they are.
  • Vikings’ Greenland demise tells climate tale
    Two civilisations – including the Vikings – disappeared from Greenland at times of rapid climate change William D'Andrea of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and colleagues find, but understanding how those changes happens is more important than the impact they had, he asserts.

e!Science News

  • Web weaving skills provide clues to aging
    Young house spiders weave webs with perfect angles and regular patterns, but as they reach old age their webs deteriorate, showing gaping holes and erratic weaving. read more
  • Pre-pregnancy diet affects the health of futur ...
    Poor maternal diet before conception can result in offspring with reduced birth weights and increased risk of developing type II diabetes and obesity. read more
  • Scientists discover that Hawai'i is not an evo ...
    The question of why there are so many species in the sea and how new species form remains a central question in marine biology. Below the waterline, about 30% of Hawai'i's marine species are endemic – being found only in Hawai'i and nowhere else on Earth – one of the highest rates of endemism fo ...
  • NASA's Aura Satellite measures pollution from ...
    NASA's Aura Satellite has provided a view of nitrogen dioxide levels coming from the fires in New Mexico and Arizona. Detecting nitrogen dioxide is important because it reacts with sunlight to create low-level ozone or smog and poor air quality. read more
  • Gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori protects ...
    Infection with the gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori provides reliable protection against allergy-induced asthma, immunologists from the University of Zurich have demonstrated in an animal model together with allergy specialists from the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg Un ...

unEarthed

  • Friday Finds: Follow the Money
    Extreme weather, germy pillows, feminine mice A recent Greenpeace investigation found that dirty energy companies have been financing a prominent climate change denier. Photo courtesy of ...
  • Obama to Science: See Ya After the Elections!
    Under mounting political pressure, administration dumps science-based policy “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster tha ...
  • Clean Power to the People
    Good air quality shouldn�t be a fairy tale Once upon a time, a valley known for being so fertile that it could grow much of America's produce came to be know ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Coal Ash Making Headlines
    From Kentucky to Tennessee and West Virginia... Coal ash A round-up of coal ash in headlines this week: As we wait for the mark-up to begin on Rep. David M ...
  • Persuasion by Coloring Book
    An energy company puts its fate into the hands of the kiddies Fracosaurus There is a curious technique employed by some companies involved in the resource- ...

Brave New Climate

  • Lacklustre results from the Colorado Integrate ...
    A common lament of those analysts wishing to get to grips with the real-world performance of solar thermal power plants has been, well… an absence of data. Trainer noted, in ‘Solar Thermal Questions‘: It would be great to get some actual data on their year round performance. I have found it fien ...
  • Open Thread 17
    The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...
  • Sustainable energy choices for the 21st Centur ...
    Climate change and sustainability of the global human enterprise are two of the most critical issues of the 21st Century. If we are to tackle these problems effectively, we need to make prudent, evidence-based choices about energy. This is the story told by this short (2 min, 35 sec) animated vi ...
  • Clearing up the climate debate
    The Conversation is a recently established website set up to provide an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the Australian university and research sector. Over the last few weeks, a group of climate scientists and academics from other relevant disciplines, have been ...
  • Golf balls and elephants – energy densit ...
    I’m currently developing a short (2 minute, 30 second) animated video on nuclear power and climate change, with help from friend Ben Heard and the skills of Ron Furner and his team at Fury Films. Near the end of the vid, we talk about the vast amount of energy embodied in so-called ‘nuclear wast ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • American Indian "Jimbo" Simmons Gaza Flotilla ...
    Gilad Atzmon - Writings - American Indian "Jimbo" Simmons Gaza Flotilla Interview 
  • Two weeks ahead of release, jailed editor sudd ...
    Two weeks ahead of release, jailed editor suddenly facing possible death penalty or life imprisonment - Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders is extremely disturbed by the Sudanese justice system’s decision to keep Abuzar Ali Al-Amin, the deputy editor of the opposition daily Rai A ...
  • Repressing Support For Palestine’s Basic Human ...
    By TheAngryindian -�06.30.2011 Editor's Note: As a supplement to the material raised in this editorial, please review,�Google Warns of Escalating Web Censorship - Mobiledia,�How Israeli hasbara�works - Blog - The Arabist�and,�Spying On Juan Cole | ThinkProgress �Be nice to the whites, ...
  • A Memo For Zionists
    A Memo For Zionists: To: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu From: Jackie Muhammad Re: Your Washington, D.C. Meeting With President Obama (FinalCall.com) - Twenty seven years ago the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said, “Now that nation called Israel never has had any peace in 40 years and y ...
  • Is Greece Being Blackmailed to Put the Brakes ...
    Is Greece Being Blackmailed to Put the Brakes on Gaza Flotilla? | Common Dreams by Medea Benjamin The 50 passengers and crew on the U.S. boat to Gaza have converged in Athens, Greece, ready to head out to sea to join an international fleet of ships that will challenge the Israeli-imposed naval ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Jim DeMint – Fuck You
    Fuck you Jim. You want to slam the poor, the sick, and the elderly to “balance the budget” and won’t even consider cutting corporate welfare, or having the billionaires, or the companies they own stock in pay their fair share. I pray that there is justice in this world and some day you will be [...]
  • Van Jones = Reboot the American Dream
    “We’re not broke, we’ve been robbed. Someone has our money”
  • Exxon Gets 20 Billion a Year in Corporate Welfare
    The amount of taxes we don’t collect from Exxon plus their handouts equals around 20 billion dollars a year. And this is just one company. Spending isn’t the problem. Corporate welfare, and billionaire welfare is the problem.
  • Politifact – Jon Stewart Was Right
    How hard did your dishonest organization have to twist  into a pretzel to name Stewart’s factual statement about Fox News viewers as false? Misinformed, uninformed, and lied to. Fox lemmings.
  • Jobs Boehner?
    When will Boehner and the Republicans in the House stop attacking women, and seniors long enough to pass a bill to create jobs? No Ayn Rand voodoo economics fantasy tax cuts for billionaires trickle down crap. I mean real job creating legislation.

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • Fraudclosure Watch: Firefighter to Demolish Ho ...
    By Robert Somerton The Somerton family just received notice from Bank of America that the foreclosure process on their home has been accelerated. "Rather than allow Bank of America to auction it off in the fraudulent foreclosure Ponzi scheme, bogus modification scam now sweeping our nation," Ro ...
  • Let’s Buy Our Government Back From Speci ...
    By Charles Hugh Smith The goal in buying our Congress back from the banking cartel et al. would not be to compete with the special interests for congressional favors — it would be to elect a Congress which would eradicate their power and influence altogether. [Read More]
  • A99 #OpESR RICO Class Action Lawsuit Against t ...
    By David DeGraw Have Anonymous Operations against the Federal Reserve uncovered secret information? It appears so. A99 OpESR has just released a new video seeking legal counsel pertaining to a RICO Class Action Lawsuit against the Federal Reserve and it's shareholders. [Read More]
  • Banana Republic Watch: The Supreme Court Vs Th ...
    By AmpedStatus Editor Recent rulings provide clear evidence that the Supreme Court has devolved into a kangaroo court which serves the interests of the global financial elite at the expense of the rights of the American people. [Read More]
  • Bernanke Plunders the US Economy Then Says He ...
    The Federal Reserve's polices are destroying the real economy to enrich the "Too Big to Fail" banks. This is obvious to everyone, except Ben Bernanke.

+972

  • With the US boat out, Flotilla to set sail tom ...
    The US boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, is dead in the water. Its captain, an American citizen who goes only by the name Captain Jack, will be brought before a judge on felony charges on Tuesday in Athens. Passengers on the ship have been given the freedom to leave the military port where [...]
  • Standing where Bilin fence stood, change begin ...
    Last Friday was the first weekly demonstration since the Israeli authorities moved the separation barrier in Bil’in. It’s hard to believe but that fence, which for years was the physical symbol of the occupation, is no longer standing where it used to. By Libby Lenkinski The experien ...
  • Hundreds to challenge Israeli restrictions on ...
    Israel is not yet done with the second flotilla, and a new effort to challenge its control over the travel to and from Palestinian Territories might take place this week – in no other place than the Tel Aviv International Airport This post was updated. A coalition of organizations has made pub ...
  • State’s attempt to challenge radical rab ...
    The state’s meek attempt to detain two prominent rabbis who’ve been evading police summons for weeks only underscores how helpless the state has become before the decentralised rabbinical church. This morning, police briefly detained prominent rabbi Yaakov Yossef on suspicion of incitement by v ...
  • In South Hebron hills, Palestinians always fea ...
    Dolev Rahat returns with experiences and impressions from the journey of destruction wrought by the Israeli Civil Administration at the Palestinian village of  Bir El Id, located in the South Hebron Hills By Dolev Rahat | Originally published by Rabbis for Human Rights On Monday, June 20th, ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Landmark Product Stewardship Bill passes the ...
    Landmark legislation that will reduce waste, increase recycling, and manage the environmental, health and safety impacts of products has been unanimously passed by the Senate today.
  • Minister welcomes settlement between SA and V ...
    Water Minister Tony Burke today welcomed the settlement between South Australia and Victoria on water trading rules.
  • Large scale environmental water release for M ...
    More than 150 gigalitres of water recovered for the environment will be delivered to hundreds of wetlands along the Murrumbidgee River, benefiting the Murray system as far downstream as South Australia's Lower Lakes and Coorong.
  • Deadline extended for West Kimberley National ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the deadline for a decision about National Heritage listing of the west Kimberley until the end of August to allow further community consultation and further consideration of whether the proposed heritage values are sufficiently comprehensive.
  • Call for nominations for Environmentalist of ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has called for nominations for the 2011 Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award and the Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • The $8.5 Billion Bank of America Deal Will Hur ...
    The institutional players in one act of Fraudclosuregate are cashing in on an enormous payofff….$8.5 Billion! And guess who gets sacrificed in all this?  YOU….the American people! Did you need one more example of two sets of rules? Of fundamental unfairness…. The light grows more dim every day. ...
  • The US, A Nation in Foreclosure
    Sometimes we need pictures to help tell the story.  I have suggested that everyone involved in the process, attorneys, judges, legislators, policymakers ask themselves a very simple question: “What will we do with all the foreclosed homes?” Our economy is bad and it keeps getting worse.  Jobs ...
  • THE Next Mortgage Bombshelll….
    The private insurers that cover $700 billion of U.S. mortgages are facing an onslaught of foreclosures. The big three—MGIC, Radian, PMI—are at risk. The housing market has been a cruel goddess, destroying the finances of millions of Americans and driving the economy and financial system to near ...
  • A World Wide Credit Catastrophe….
    I remember reading a little book a while ago, a book that talked about universal human truths, principles and a set of guidelines that should be followed by people and the institutions that govern them. The book pushed hard on things like working hard, very hard and looking out for those around ...
  • Florida’s Governor Rick Scott- Throw Hom ...
    Rick Scott, Florida popular governor made a special surprise appearance at the Florida Bar Annual Meeting where he urged attorneys and Bar leadership to GET THEM FORECLOSURES MOVING….IF COURTS CAN’T SPEED THINGS THOUGH….TAKE EM OUT OF COURT AND LET’S GO NON-JUDICIAL Now we all need to be very, v ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • My Graduation
    He just turned 14 this past week and last night was his Grade 8 graduation – high school now beckons. LIke every other parent present, I watched as my son Ater strode across the stage to accept his diploma to the cheering of his classmates. Closing in on six feet in height, he beamed from [...]
  • Strawberry Fields
    What does a riding association do when its chosen member lost in a recent election? Historically there have been numerous answers – hold fundraisers, find a leader to follow, begin organizing immediately for the next campaign. This list is correct, as far as it goes. Perhaps Liberals, and others ...
  • Strawberry Fields
    What does a riding association do when its chosen member lost in a recent election? Historically there have been numerous answers – hold fundraisers, find a leader to follow, begin organizing immediately for the next campaign. This list is correct, as far as it goes. Perhaps Liberals, and others ...
  • Speciation
    Even for someone as brilliant as Charles Darwin, it took a while to figure it out. He had chafed at the iron rules of scientific societies, feeling that they were populated by elite patrons who would only verify certain scientific advancements and discoveries that came through established channe ...
  • Not What, But Why
    The flourishing of grassroots activity taking place around the rebuilding of the Liberal Party has produced a multitude of ideas coming from numerous regions of the country. I’ve enjoyed the perspectives and the zeal with which they are brought forth. It seems to me though that we might have the ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
    by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
  • In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
  • Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
    UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
  • Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
  • Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
    by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...

2020 Science

  • Synthetic biology, ethics and the hacker culture
    While the DIY Biotechnology community has grown considerably since this post, the piece still captures something of what is still a young movement, and one that challenges assumptions about top-down technology innovation. Originally posted June 13 2008 Read Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World is Fla ...
  • Nano-sunscreens leave their mark
    Most manufacturers of nanomaterial-based sunscreens try to make sure that the material they use doesn’t generate harmful chemicals in the presence of sunlight.  But the paper this piece was based on suggested that some photoactive materials might be slipping through the net. Originally posted J ...
  • Value-added nanotechnology
    The more the debate over what precisely nanotechnology is goes on, the more inclined I am to think that it’s something of an illusion.  Sure, nanoscale science is real.  And there are clearly technologies that exploit this.  But are they nanotechnologies, or are they simply clever uses of sci ...
  • Is nanotechnology suffering from “silent rave” ...
    I couldn’t resist finishing the August in the Archives series with this piece on “silent rave” syndrome, which I am sad to say still seems to inflict the emerging technologies community! Originally posted October 5 2008 The silent rave might seem a rather bizarre social phenomenon; a group of st ...
  • Rethinking nanotechnology – responding to a re ...
    Back in July, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) posted a Request For Information in the Federal Register for input to the next NNI strategic plan – to be published later this year.  The closing date for comments was a couple of weeks ago now.  I got mine in in the nick of time.  ...

Reader Supported News

  • Greek Coast Guard Blocks US to Gaza Ship
    Common Dreams reports: "Blocked: US to Gaza Boat Detained After Greek Coast Guard Blocks Offshore. 'Audacity of Hope' organizers had said passengers would resist Greek efforts to prevent their departure." The Audacity of Hope as it left port. (photo: US Boat to Gaza/Twitter) {rsnslider ...
  • Greek Coast Guard Blocks US to Gaza Ship
    Common Dreams reports: "Blocked: US to Gaza Boat Detained After Greek Coast Guard Blocks Offshore. 'Audacity of Hope' organizers had said passengers would resist Greek efforts to prevent their departure." The Audacity of Hope as it left port. (photo: US Boat to Gaza/Twitter) {rsnslider ...
  • Minnesota Residents Outraged Over the Shutdown
    Tim Mak reports: "Angry Minnesota residents were fuming Friday over the state government shutdown - delaying the issuance of marriage licenses, evicting campers from state parks and furloughing about 23,000 nonessential government employees." Hundreds of demonstrators hold a candlelight vigil ...
  • Minnesota Residents Outraged Over the Shutdown
    Tim Mak reports: "Angry Minnesota residents were fuming Friday over the state government shutdown - delaying the issuance of marriage licenses, evicting campers from state parks and furloughing about 23,000 nonessential government employees." Hundreds of demonstrators hold a candlelight vigil ...
  • FOCUS: DSK Accuser's African Connection
    Intro: "The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is crumbling. Was there a shakedown? A conspiracy? The answers will come from New York's West African community." France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (left) greets Guinea President Alpha Conde at the Elysee Palace in Paris, 03/23/1 ...

War Resisters League

  • No Surprises from the War-Makers!
    Well, Obama made it clear on Wednesday. His war in Afghanistan will go on through 2014 and probably far beyond. While some may have hoped for a shift in his approach, many of us didn’t expect much, and we certainly didn’t get much. The change in Afghanistan that he spoke about, meant to be heard ...
  • In Afghanistan Speech, Obama Offers Token Troo ...
    President Obama passed up an opportunity to recognize our democracy and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people. June 22, 2011 President Obama’s speech tonight violated one of his most important campaign promises: to “end the mind-set that leads to war.” To the contrary, hi ...
  • Money for Our Communities, Not for War!
    Take Action! It’s very encouraging that the US Conference of Mayors just passed a strong resolution initiated by CODEPINK for bringing our “war dollars home” (read press release or NY Times article on this). Unfortunately, later this week the House of Representatives is poised to pass the Defens ...
  • Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...
    “I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
  • The Broken Rifle in Kabul
    The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • TIME Magazine: Spotlight on IFAP and “Conceale ...
    When looked at through the lens of public health, the abuse that we see in the Mercy for Animals video constitutes not only cruelty to animals, but cruelty to humans as well, including the dehumanizing influence on workers forced to labor under conditions that ultimately breed contempt for the a ...
  • Focus on Food Day: The Consequences of Meat
    Earlier this week, CLF’s Robert S. Lawrence, MD, and Keeve Nachman, PhD, kicked off the Center for a Livable Future’s countdown to Food Day with a webinar, “Industrial food animal production and the high-meat American diet: health and environmental consequences.” (Audio; slides). October 24, 20 ...
  • Puget Sound Food Network Connects Locally Grow ...
    June 9-12, Amanda Behrens and I journeyed to Missoula, Montana for the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN). The conference, entitled Food ...
  • Now in the Senate, PAMTA Pushes Forward
    Last week, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) took an important stand in support of America’s health by reintroducing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 1211). The bill aims to prevent the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture to ensure their conti ...
  • New USDA Report Stresses Regulations on Antibi ...
    A new technical review by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “A Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance,” calls the issue a growing public health concern worldwide, stating the misuse of antimicrobial drugs in food animal production and human medicine is the main factor accelerating antimicrobial res ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: July 2, 2011
    ==== Video And Text: Even If Gaddafi Is Killed, NATO To Take Over North Africa Clinton, Community Of Democracies And Invasions Of Sovereign Nations Prague/Arab Springs: Clinton Targets Syria, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia Russia Slams West For Striving To Topple Middle Eastern Governments $4 Trillion ...
  • Libya And Millennium Of War
    Stop NATO July 2, 2011 Libya And Millennium Of War Rick Rozoff On June 26 the West’s war against Libya reached its hundredth day. Launched on March 19 with a barrage of bombing raids and Tomahawk cruise missile attacks conducted by American, British and French warplanes, ships and submarines, co ...
  • Franz Werfel: To a Lark in War-Time
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Franz Werfel Poems Translated by Edith Abercrombie Snow The First Transport of Wounded 1914 Careful! No outburst now! Tremble! Hush! You people, you folk, it is true! Yes, it is true! Do not sob out, you people! Hold the scream tight in ...
  • Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: July 1, 2011
    ==== Libya: 13,324 NATO Sorties, 5,005 Strike Missions NATO Preparing Ground Operation In Libya: Russian Envoy NATO Chief: Main Objective Is To Topple Libyan Government Russia: NATO Breaches International Law In Libya Saudis Tell NATO Of “Untold, Dramatic Consequences” Regarding Iran Singapore T ...
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne on war: Drinking out of sk ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Nathaniel Hawthorne From Chiefly About War Matters By a Peaceable Man (1862) Will the time ever come again, in America, when we may live half a score of years without once seeing the likeness of a soldier, except it be in the festal mar ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Karl Denninger: The People Must Retain The Rig ...
    By Karl Denninger July 3rd, 2011 …. in the event of any unlawful intrusion into their home. Including an intrusion by alleged police officers. City police say the two people inside the home had no time to respond. They were sleeping when they heard a loud noise downstairs. “Three men all identi ...
  • Explosion And Smoke At French Nuclear Power St ...
    Lucaswhitefieldhixson.com July 3rd, 2011 Update: In 2009, the number 2 reactor building was closed after a fire. In December 2010, the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) announced it had approved an extension of “ten more years” of the operation of reactor No. 1 the plant. Tricastin involved in uran ...
  • Flashback: Misleading Information Posted To In ...
    Levees.org July 3rd, 2011 – Originally posted on August 20th, 2008 Below is a small sample taken from thousands of comments posted by individuals with usernames solidly confirmed to originate at various times during 2008 from computers at the Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District. Levees. ...
  • Levee Breach Site: Historic Plaque Unveiling
    YouTube July 3rd, 2011 On May 20, 2011, Levees.org and Irvin Mayfield Jr presented a gift to the people of Gentilly. Together they held an Unveiling Ceremony of a Louisiana State Historic Plaque near ground zero of the London Avenue Canal breach site (east side). Though the plaque is a gift, the ...
  • Exxon Oil Spill: At Least 42,000 Gallons Of Cr ...
    The Intel Hub July 3th, 2011 If history is any indication, this spill will be downplayed and blamed on everything possible besides Exxon. Let us pray that they do not decide to use deadly dispersant or any other toxic chemicals on this oil spill! We must DEMAND that dispersant poisoning does NOT ...

FRS

  • British workers strike against pension cuts
    BY JILL LAWLESS ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — British teachers and public-sector workers swapped classrooms and offices for picket lines Thursday as hundreds of thousands walked off the job to protest pension cuts. Airport operators warned there could be long lines at immigration entry points becaus ...
  • California Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Isola ...
    [Supporters of the prisoners demonstrated on July 1st, as the prisoners launched their hunger strike at Pelican Bay and Corcoran Prisons.  The bourgeois media has limited coverage of the events, focusing on their standard methods of discrediting the struggle for justice with slanders like "they ...
  • Greek Communists condemn Papandreou government ...
    Communist Party of Greece (m-l) Press Release:  About the âFree Gazaâ Mission Tuesday June 28, 2011–The Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist) condemns the criminal and provocative stance of the government of Israel in its attempt to discourage the international humanitarian mission again ...
  • US/Israel threaten the existence of the UN if ...
    [New levels of imperialist and Zionist blackmail arrogantly introduced, telling the world with a sneer:  "If we can't have the settler-colonial occupation of Palestine, you can't have the UN."  --  Frontlines ed.] —————————————————- US ‘could withdraw funding from UN if Palestine state is rec ...
  • Israel Shaken by boats of non-violent human ri ...
    [After weeks of making threats on the flotilla, including Israeli military planning with simulated attacks on yachts, and lining up US and other government's support for a murderous assault, Israel has now successfully bribed the bankrupt Greek government to stop the boats from leaving Greek wat ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • A little more listening with Sunday's column...
    To read the column, go here. And thank you, Cynical, for the song. It's perfect.
  • Reader, I am off to hold the grandbabies
    I wrote my Sunday column about the lil' shavers -- which, upon reflection, is completely uncool and I strive so mightily to be cool. As I write this, the babies are still in the NICU, but only because they're super-cute and the nurses can't stand the thought of turning loose of them and I don' ...
  • Today in Courtroom 3B
    It was deju vu all over again at Waterbury Superior Court in testimony at the second St. Francis Hospital child sexual abuse trial. Today, the court watched videotaped testimony of Dr. Paul Stagg, of Vermont, a former intern at Saint Francis Hospital, and they listened to live testimony from Dr ...
  • Being green
    Sarah Laskow at Grist says what you buy matters more than where you live. You can read more here, or here.
  • And while we're on the subject of worker safet ...
    ...check out what ProPublica has to say about nuclear safety. (A hint? It isn't pretty. Nor is it safe.) Reuters photo

Associated Content

  • Fireworks Laws Vary Throughout U.S.
    Fireworks laws governing the sale and use of celebratory explosive devices vary widely in the United States. While many states seemingly encourage the use of fireworks due to a lack of restrictions, others make it very clear that fireworks are illegal.Contributor: Jeff Briscoe Published: Jul 02, ...
  • How 'Transformers 3: The Dark of the Moon' Got ...
    '..."Transformers: The Dark of the Moon' begins with a fascinating alternate history of the Apollo program to tie it in with the war between two groups of giant robots from outer space for the Earth with the humans caught in between.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jul 02, 2011
  • Defense Rests in Casey Anthony Trial
    On day 13 of one of the most talked about defense cases in recent history, lawyers for accused murderer, Casey Anthony, rested their assertion that the death of Anthony's daughter, Caylee, was an accident which snowballed into an uncontrollable tale.Contributor: D. Benjamin Satkowiak Published: ...
  • Declaration of Independence a Feast of Words f ...
    Too often I think I don't have time for the Declaration of Independence. It sounds important, but I don't have the time to actually read it. Find out why I changed my mind this year.Contributor: Bex Barker Published: Jul 01, 2011
  • Trickle-Down Has Equaled Only a Trickle of Jobs
    It seems President Obama is figuring out that what Americans have long figured out: Congress is the antonym for progress.Contributor: Giuseppe Giannet Published: Jul 01, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • This Week in the Future, June 27-July 1, 2011
    Happy Fourth of July! And happy Canada Day to our neighbors to the north, though there doesn't happen to be any maple leafery in this week's Baarbarian-inked This Week in the Future illustration. There are fireworks, though. And who doesn't love fireworks? Especially in ultra-slow motion. Want ...
  • Drink Up! Red Wine Can Counteract the Negative ...
    Good news for oenophiles: Wine can offset the negative effects of weightlessness. We’ve already seen the first beer brewed for drinking in space — any vintners want to take up the challenge of bottling the first zero-g grenache? Scientists have long known that red wine has health benefits; it c ...
  • Fireworks + Explodables + Ultra-High Speed Pha ...
    The Phantom line of ultra-high-speed video cameras have held PopSci's rapt attention even before the v12 model won our Best of What's New Award in 2008. So what better way to celebrate our nation's independence than aiming a Phantom v641 from New Jersey's Vision Research at all manner of explo ...
  • Are We Prepared for a Catastrophic Solar Storm?
    A solar disaster isn't a question of if, but when--and it looks like soon One of the biggest disasters we face would begin about 18 hours after the sun spit out a 10-billion-ton ball of plasma--something it has done before and is sure to do again. When the ball, a charged cloud of particles cal ...
  • Sherlock the German Corpse-Sniffing Vulture Is ...
    Sherlock the cadaver sniffing vulture isn’t working out so well for police in Germany. Authorities there have spent the last few months trying to train a team of three vultures to work like cadaver dogs in the air, covering wide swaths of territory while using their keen sense of smell to lead ...

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…

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Storms follow hottest day since July 2006
    Thunderstorms have continued to affect parts of East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia and the Southeast of England this afternoon, following yesterday's heat. Temperatures across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Monday reached 32C (90F) for the first time since July 2006. Both Robin Hood ai ...
  • A sleeping sun could have a big impact on the ...
    News from scientists in America claiming that the sun is about to enter a prolonged quiet period in its history has caught the headlines this week. Whether this particular prediction comes true remains to be seen, as some scientists, including those at NASA, have consistently been proved wron ...
  • Deluge follows drought order
    Sunday saw the heaviest rainfall of the year across parts of Lincolnshire, only 48 hours on from the drought order issued by the Environment Agency for parts of Eastern England. 14.4mm of rain was recorded at Coningsby yesterday. This brings the total since Friday to 28mm of rain, more than hal ...
  • Flaming June could end up a washout
    June's weather looks set to deteriorate further as low pressure intensifies its grip across the UK. The timing couldn't be more awkward for the Environment Agency who this morning issued a drought order for parts of Eastern England. Only hours later, the Met Office issued yellow warnings in ...
  • Global temperature update for May
    The global temperature according to the UAH satellite measure was +0.13C above the 30 year running mean in May, showing virtually no change from April's anomaly. Global temperatures are slowly recovering as La Nina fades in the Pacific, but remain much cooler compared with May last year, ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • If EMU is Muddled, What More EU Migration Policy?
    If you think discord in economic coordination and monitoring are rife in the EU--Greece, Ireland and Portugal are really forcing these issues--what more migration? A side effect of the various uprisings in the Middle East is a steady stream of migrants heading northward to find better lives. Thi ...
  • Fondly Recalling Thatcher's Handbag of IPE Doom
    It is one of the most famous incidences in European integration history: Although the exact wording is still being debated to this day, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher famously went before her European Community colleagues in 1984 demanding that the UK not pay so much into the in ...
  • The PRC@LSE, Niall Ferguson and Me
    From left to right: your humble IPE blogger (in need of a haircut), Li Fan who is Deputy Director of the Department of Policy Planning at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Niall Ferguson who is Philippe Roman Chair for 2010-2011 "Emmanuel, let's take a photo with Professor Ferguson b ...
  • Countering Rising Food Prices at the G-20 (Sor ...
    In case you missed it, the G-20 recently held a meeting of agricultural ministers in gay (as in happy) Paris. Given the wide range of global governance problems, focusing on things other than finance is welcome even if they ultimately return to matters of Mammon. France being the current head of ...
  • Perhaps We Should Cheer the Rising 'China Price'
    Uh-oh, here we go again with another one of these "China is pricing itself out of the cheap labour market" stories. Having recently made a mini-roundup of these, let me stick with what's supposedly new in this latest TIME story. At the national level, things are undeniably on the way up: In what ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Celebrating Independence Yet Enslaved To Debt
    Every year when July 4th rolls around, Americans from coast to coast celebrate July 4th with cookouts, outdoor concerts and fireworks.  We love celebrating Independence Day and yet we are deeply enslaved to debt.  We like to think of ourselves as "free" and yet we have rolled up ...
  • Will Barack Obama Use The 14th Amendment As A ...
    As the deadline to raise the debt ceiling draws closer, many are now wondering if Barack Obama will try to go around Congress if a deal is not reached by August 2nd.  In particular, a number of voices (including U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner) are now touting the 14th ...
  • Shell Game
    The entire U.S. financial system has become a gigantic shell game.  While it is still in motion, a shell game can be mesmerizing to watch.  But when it ends the consequences can be painful.  So exactly what is a shell game?  According to Wikipedia, a shell game "is portrayed as ...
  • 50 U.S. Health Care Statistics That Will Absol ...
    The U.S. health care system has become one gigantic money making scam, and you are about to see the statistics that prove it.  Today, the United States spends more on health care per person than any other country in the world by far.  The health insurance companies and the big p ...
  • Economic Recovery?
    If this is supposed to be an "economic recovery" it sure is pathetic.  In fact, as you will read below, the numbers tell us that this is the worst economic recovery that the American economy has ever seen.  If what we had experienced was a "normal" recession and a "normal" recov ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Gaza freedom flotilla stuck in Greece
    The audacity of hope, the US boat in the Gaza freedom flotilla, makes a break for freedom out of the harbour in Athens. It’s quickly intercepted by the Greek coastguard, and escorted into a naval base, where it’s now trapped. The Greek government has officially made it clear that it’s enforcing ...
  • Most Americans don’t know the significance of ...
    Mark Dice talks with beachgoers in San Diego, California to ask them why the 4th of July holiday was started. Many of them have no clue at all and simply agree with him when he insinuates blatantly false explanations. Check out Mark’s new book Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True on Am ...
  • Gypsies Face Ghettoization in Romania
    In Arizona, politicians are trying to build a wall on the Mexican border to keep illegals out. Across the Atlantic, in an industrial city in Romania, a wall is being built to keep people in. The local government of the city of Baia Mare in northern Romania is trying to erect a concrete wall in [...]
  • Asian-born Australians may soon become majority
    Asian-born Australians may soon outnumber whites, says government study. The number of Asians in Australia has almost doubled in a decade, from 1.03 million in mid-2000 to 2.1 million in the middle of last year, according to government statistics. Pramod Kumar is part of a wave of immigration th ...
  • Strauss-Kahn released without bail
    Former International Monetary Fund chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has walked out of court free without bail. His release came after prosecutors raised doubts over the credibility of the hotel housekeeper who has accused him of sexual assault. Prosecutors agreed to release the former IMF head on ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
    I used to think the John Jay College  of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
  • Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
    This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
  • Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...
    Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]
  • Catholic Sainthood – More Expediency Tha ...
    The former Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI, may be criminally culpable, disgracefully neglectful, deliberately deceitful, and horribly, horribly wrong in his approach to the child rape epidemic within the ranks of the Catholic Church, but there is some truth to the claims made ...
  • John Paul II Ain’t No Saint
    Does your idea of a saint involve sacrificing innocent, vulnerable children to be preyed upon by hordes of ruthless sexual predators? Does it involve covering up for child rape on a massive scale? Does it involve creating the very conditions most likely to encourage child rape to flourish? Does ...

WL Central

  • 2011-07-02 Cables reveal the logic of Nicaragu ...
    TweetAlong with insight on Hambre Cero ('Zero Hunger'), cables released by WikiLeaks provide previously unreported dark sides in inner management of social welfare programs launched by the Ortega government. This article reports the way social welfare programs are dealt with in the midst of budg ...
  • 2011-07-02 LIVE STREAM of Assange, Žižek & Goo ...
    TweetThis Saturday, July 2, Democracy Now's Amy Goodman will moderate a conversation with Julian Assange and Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek. The event is sponsored by the Frontline Club, and broadcast from The Troxy theater in London. The focus of the event will be the "ethics and philosoph ...
  • 2011-07-02 Wikileaks Notes: Stainless Steel Ra ...
    Tweet Remember that the WikiLeaks essay competion has 8 finalists Find your favorite essay in order to vote and/or comment clicking on our competition tag. Stainless Steel Rat, is the play about the life and works of Julian Assange a rip-off? Paul Tomlinson writes in the Harry Harrison Official ...
  • 2011-07-01 Wikileaks and Datacell to sue Visa ...
    TweetWikileaks has announced specifics of their threatened legal action against Visa and Mastercard. Announcement from Wikileaks below: LEGAL ACTION BY WIKILEAKS AND DATACELL AGAINST VISA AND MASTERCARD Release after Sat 2 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT WikiLeaks and Datacell (a service provider assistin ...
  • 2011-07-01 Gaza Flotilla: a fight to take a stand
    TweetThe fight enroute to Gaza between the worldwide volunteers and the governments of Israel, the United States and Greece—has been portrayed from two opposite sides, yes, but opposite in a political and moral compass completely broken: on one side, the flotilla argues the desperate need of hel ...

U N News

  • New law in El Salvador threatens judicial inde ...
    A United Nations human rights expert warned today that a newly passed Salvadorian law requiring the country's Supreme Court decisions to be unanimous could undermine the independence of the judiciary.
  • Promising UN help, Ban calls for Caribbean reg ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged Caribbean nations to combat organized crime on a regional level and promised United Nations assistance in the fight.
  • Cholera cases increasing in Haiti and Dominica ...
    Cases of cholera are on the rise in Haiti and neighbouring Dominican Republic, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, saying more than 18,000 new cases in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, have been recorded recently.
  • Guatemala: UN envoy against sexual violence ha ...
    A United Nations envoy today welcomed the arrest of a former top Guatemalan military figure accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, saying the arrest sends a strong signal that justice can prevail in the Central American country.
  • Give aid directly to Haitian institutions to b ...
    A new United Nations report says that the international community can help create jobs and support the Haitian Government in ensuring basic services by investing directly in the country's people and institutions.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Geneticists Reveal E. Coli Super Bug O104 Was ...
    Their scientists broke down the genetics of this E. coli strain it's call O104, and if you look at it you can read the history, and the history doesn't lie. This strain was exposed repeatedly to all the 8 major classes of antibiotics that are sold by the drug companies today. This practically gu ...
  • The Big Brother State and Global Surveillance
    But this also allows the secret services to gather explicit information about the nationality of every traveler. Explicit information such as your fingerprints, the color of your eyes, and a high resolution picture of your face. Information you would usually expect to be taken from suspected cri ...
  • State Officials Privates Left Sore by TSA for ...
    "And finally I said you're punishing me for opting out, aren't you?". And to her credit she said 'Yes we are'.
  • The Age of Transitions – Eugenics and Transhum ...
    In 1921, the American Eugenics Society was formed and began propaganda campaigns which included the promotion of eugenics in churches, schools, and state fair exhibitions. Funding for American eugenics came from the Carnegie, Harriman, and Rockefeller families among others. Eugenics was being ac ...
  • CNN News Crew Threatened By Police in Joplin M ...
    We can tell you about some strange things going on here. The morgue, where these bodies are right now, is a secret morgue. And it literally is secret. You call up officials that can tell us where the morgue is an they say it's a secret we can't tell you. Families don't know where the morgue is. ...

Rewilding Institute

  • Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
    Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it.  As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
    Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
    Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
  • Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
    Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
  • Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
    Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • A First Aid Kit Should Include…
    You may decide to make your own first aid kit, or you may rather purchase a ready-made first aid kit, perhaps designed for specific activities such as hiking, camping or boating. Whether you buy a first aid kit or put one together, make sure it has all the items you may need. Include any persona ...
  • A Definition of SURVIVAL
    Size Up the Situation Size Up the Situation, Surroundings, your Physical Condition, and your Equipment. Use All Your Senses, Undue Haste Makes Waste You may make a wrong move when you react quickly without thinking or planning. Remember Where You Are Always try to determine how your location rel ...
  • How To Make a Solar Still
    A solar still will provide you with 100% pure water, and will not require purification or boiling prior to drinking. The solar still technique will work just about anywhere, provided that there is enough sunlight to assist the process. Here are simple instructions how to build a solar still to e ...
  • Today in the News:
    Today in the News: News Today (July 1, 2011) U.S. Debt Deal Must Be Struck by July 22 to Prevent Default, Official Says US Debt Default in 3 Weeks That didn’t last long… Oil Prices Surging, Just 1 Week after Strategic Reserves Release Conspiracy of silence over four Iranian nuclear-capable missi ...
  • Freak UK mini-Tsunami a Reminder of Puerto-Ric ...
    An entirely unexpected, but fortunately small tsunami swept down the Yealm estuary near Plymouth, the southwest coast of the United Kingdom, yesterday. The BBC reports of rivers changing direction, fish leaping out of the water, and even hair standing on end due to static. A boatman reported, “T ...

Fast Company

  • Behind Google+'s Stealth March On Foursquare, ...
    With the initial fuss about Google+ dying down, the real potential for the social system to challenge popular net apps is breaking through. Foursquare-challenging check-insIf you run the mobile app version of Google+ you can't help but spot the Check-ins feature--it's right there on the front pa ...
  • This Week In Bots: Stinky Bots, Lovable Bots, ...
    What's been happening this week in the world of robotics? Read on to find out how much more clever/terrifying/increasingly useful the cyber-hood has become.Flinching dental botYou'd rather have a trainee dentist practice on a dummy before taking the drill to your sensitive molars, wouldn't you? ...
  • "FarmVille" Maker Zynga Grows A $1B IPO In Fac ...
    Social-gaming powerhouse Zynga just filed its S-1 to raise up to $1 billion in IPO. It appears virtual farms and online cities have treated the San Francisco-startup well: Zynga pulled in $91 million in profit on sales of $597 million. What's more, revenue is rocketing. The company has brought ...
  • What Hanksy's Rat-Themed Street Art Means For ...
    As Tom Hanks heads to the box office with his latest flick, a rodent-bodied spoof pops up on the streets of NYC--and on popular photo app Instagram. Is this a marketing stunt or just an odd cultural collision?Tom Hanks is gnawing his way to the box office this weekend--his dramedy Larry Crowne o ...
  • How To Prepare Our Failing Food System For The ...
    The recent rise in food prices is just the first warning sign that the way we produce food may not be working so well. There are some important changes that need to be made to continue to feed a growing population.Your local grocery store may be stocked with foods from around the world, but make ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt: The Struggle Continues
    Thousands of demonstrators filled expressing anger and determination rallied in Tahrir Square on Friday, July 1.�Sharp clashes between youth on the one hand and police and regime thugs on the other on Tuesday and Wednesday June 28 and 29 were the immediate impetus for the demonstration.� ...
  • Waiting for a Volcano? Don't Hold Your Breath
    [This is the third installment of Amal Hanano's account of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read the first two here and here] In the universe of Revolution 2.0, Facebook is the reigning capital, and The Syrian Revolution 2011 page (with over 218,000 “official” followers) is considered p ...
  • Orientalising the Egyptian Uprising, Take Two: ...
    Published by Jadaliyya on April 11 2011, Rabab el-Mahdiâs âOrientalising the Egyptian Uprisingâ precipitated a spirited discussion both in online comments on the article and offline discussions among Jadaliyya readers. While it is impossible to do justice to the article and the debates i ...
  • WANTED!
    The International Criminal Court has now officially made Qaddafi an internationally wanted felon, for Crimes Against Humanity.�Libyans everywhere are excitedly anticipating his imminent downfall. However, the �King of Kings� seems to lack the ability to take a hint. � � � � � � � ...
  • 100 Days of the 2011 Moroccan Constitution
    The February 20th Movement is the public and youthful face of the Arab spring in Morocco, emerging on that date into the streets as part of a series of coordinated Sunday demonstrations throughout the country. One of its rallying slogans is dastarat tawsi�at hay�at al-insaf wa-al-musalah ...

mediagazer

  • Paging unemployed investigative journalists! ( ...
    Jim Romenesko / Poynter: Paging unemployed investigative journalists!  —  Romenesko Misc.  —  Several weeks ago I posted an item about grants being offered to investigative journalists who have been laid off.  I asked George Polk Awards curator John Darnton how many reporters applied for the mo ...
  • The New York Times Enables In-App Subscription ...
    Graham Spencer / MacStories: The New York Times Enables In-App Subscriptions For Their iPad And iPhone Apps  —  The New York Times has today released an update for their iPad and iPhone apps that now enables users to purchase in-app subscriptions for their content that is behind a paywall.
  • Why Data Needs Journalism and Journalism Needs ...
    Nicola Hughes / Data Miner UK: Why Data Needs Journalism and Journalism Needs Data  —  I've come specifically to the Open Knowledge Conference for the track on data journalism (although I'm very interested in the open data scene anyway).  It was a call to action more than an educational exposi ...
  • At The Post, reporters get socialized to socia ...
    Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post: At The Post, reporters get socialized to social media  —  A sign of the times is that Vernon Loeb, Post Local editor, has begun mandatory social media training for the reporters and editors on the Metro staff.  This means that most editors and reporters, if ...
  • On Attribution and Credit - Ina Fried's story ...
    John Gruber / Daring Fireball: On Attribution and Credit  —  Ina Fried's story yesterday for AllThingsD about iPad-native apps crossing the 100,000 mark now credits MacStories by name, and includes this note: … The reference in the article now reads: … That's better, and crosses the line into w ...

Chemtrail News

World News - Top Stories

  • Farm crisis: A bullock cart for Ramrao
    What is common to the black-and-white classic, Oh re taal mile nadi ke jal mein from Raj Kapoor’s Teesri Kasam and Gadiwale gadi dheere haak re from Mehboob Khan’s classic Mother India or any painting of a rural landscape? The humble bullock cart, of course, which has often been used to evo ...
  • Israel, Gaza, and the Irrationality of ' ...
    Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Prior to yet another international freedom flotilla headed to Gaza, this one consisting of trying to deliver humanitarian aid and letters of solidarity, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared: "...we will not shy away from taking a ...
  • How first 24 hours shaped Japan's nuclear ...
    MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press= FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) — When Unit 2 began to shake, Hiroyuki Kohno's first hunch was that something was wrong with the turbines. He paused for a moment, then went back to logging the day's radioactivity readings. He expected it to pass. Until the shakes beca ...
  • 'Online retail industry to reach Rs 7,000 ...
    The market size of online retail industry in India is likely to touch Rs 7,000 crore by 2015 due to increasing internet penetration across the country, a survey today...
  • Kids risk ill health with too much salt
    Health experts in Britain have warned that the processed foods and sauces at the heart of the nation's diet are actually fuelling a dangerous daily overdose of salt and putting children's health at risk. Children are routinely eating too much salt, risking ill health and a shorter life. Typ ...

no frakking consensus

  • Fanaticism 101
    According to someone with a PhD from Harvard, my skeptical climate change views mean one thing: I'm intent on murdering his grandchildren.
  • The Thrashing of Al Gore Continues
    When skeptics argue with Al Gore about the science of climate change do they step right into a trap?
  • Walter Russell Mead Trashes Al Gore
    Over the past 16 months Walter Russell Mead, a Democrat, has authored a series of bracing commentaries about what's wrong with the green movement. Near the top of his list: Al Gore.
  • The Activists, the Media, and the Public
    When activists hoodwink the media - and questionable environmental scare stories are the result - why don't we care?
  • My Fave Chairman Pachauri Quote
    The credibility of the IPCC has long been in tatters. There have been multiple calls for the resignation of its chairman. Rather than addressing this state of affairs, the head of the IPCC thinks corporate entities should change their ways - because we live in a world in which "reputation and p ...

Anna's News

  • Global warning: Scientists in U-turn as they c ...
    Climate change is inextricably linked to the extreme weather that has wreaked destruction all over the world in the last ten years, scientists now claim.Experts are convinced of a legitimate link between the two after more than 20 years of reluctance.....Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
  • The painting once sold for £45 'is a long-lost ...
    A PAINTING once sold for £45 at auction has been identified as a work by Leonardo Da Vinci and is estimated to be worth a world record £120million.The oil on wood panel painting, Salvator Mundi, or Saviour of the World, depicts Christ with his right handSubmitted by Anna Smith to Society & Cultu ...
  • Antimatter Tevatron mystery gains ground
    US particle physicists are inching closer to determining why the Universe exists in its current form, made overwhelmingly of matter. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Universe's Most Distant Quasar Found, Powered ...
    A team of European astronomers has used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and a host of other telescopes to discover and study the most distant quasar found to date. This brilliant beacon, powered by a black hole with a mass two....Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • 10 Incredible TED Talks for Car Buffs
    Not everyone looks at cars and sees them as mundane contraptions meant for transportation. Some enjoy exploring them as engineering marvels, others viable works of art � and even more an amalgamation of both qualities. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 7/1/11 - Jail, Prison, Parole, and Probation P ...
    felonvoting.procon.org - NEW: Jail, Prison, Parole, and Probation Populations in the US, 1980-2009 - The total correctional population in the US grew from 1,840,400 in 1980 to 7,255,800 in 2009. In 1980 there were 319,598 people in prison, and by 2009 that population had expanded to 1,524,513 i ...
  • 6/29/11 - New York Becomes the Sixth State to ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org - New York Becomes the Sixth State to Legalize Gay Marriage: Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law on June 24, 2011 that grants same-sex couples the right to marry, more than doubling the number of Americans living in states that allow same-sex marriage. New York jo ...
  • 6/29/11 - US Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Ba ...
    videogames.procon.org - US Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Banning Sale of Violent Video Games to Minors: On June 27, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Brown vs. Entertainment Merchants Association that the California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors violated free speec ...
  • 6/24/11 - Chart of Energy Use by State and by ...
    alternativeenergy.procon.org - NEW: Chart of Energy Use by State and by Source, 2008 - In 2008, the US used fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum) for 83.5 percent of its energy needs. Renewable energy (wind, solar, and biofuels) accounted for 7.4 percent. Nuclear energy represented 8. ...
  • 6/22/11 - Is the use of standardized tests imp ...
    standardizedtests.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Is the use of standardized tests improving education in America? - Standardized tests have been a part of American education since the mid-1800s. Their use skyrocketed after 2002's No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) mandated annual testing in ...

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 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Good Communication in Early Years Key to Succe ...
    A team of researchers in the UK has shown that although social background has a noticeable effect on a child’s readiness for school, what parents do with their children, even before they begin to talk, is actually much more important. The results showed that children who were taken to the librar ...
  • Key Immune Substance Linked to Asthma
    Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have linked a master molecule of the immune system, gamma-interferon, to the pathology of asthma, in a study of mice. This somewhat surprising finding — the key immune molecule has often been assumed to steer the immune system in a different d ...
  • What Hemingway Would Think of the Internet
    Would Ernest Hemingway have embraced our modern pastimes? Twitter, yes; Angry Birds, definitely not. By Marty Beckerman, author of The Heming Way If Ernest Hemingway hadnât killed himself 50 years ago today at age 61, he probably would have died by now anyway. (No human liver could withstand mor ...
  • Bug’s Penis Makes Loudest Animal Sound
    This minuscule water boatman might be smaller than a drawing pin, but itâs also the loudest animal on the planet. Well, relative to its body size, at least. Mark Brown The male lesser water boatman, aka Micronecta scholtzi, can create mating calls as loud as 99.2 decibels, which is the equivalen ...
  • The new Rome is not the new Greece yet, but th ...
    It’s encouraging to see Americans acknowledge the hole they are in. Pity they can’t agree how to get out of it Timothy Garton Ash We are approaching the anniversary of America’s Independence Day. As we all know, 15 years ago an alien invasion, deploying giant saucer-shaped warships hovering over ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
    FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
  • Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
    FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
  • Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
    There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA.   The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
  • Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
    There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA.   The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
  • Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
    Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted.  Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...

NAU Resistance

  • Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
    "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
  • VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ...
    "Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM
  • U.S.-Canada Perimeter Security and an Integrat ...
    "The end results of a fully integrated continental security perimeter could sacrifice what is left of Canadian sovereignty and independence" -Dana Gabriel
  • IF 50%+1 IS BINDING, THE “NO” WON IN 1995!
    All that changes is the name. But it all means NORTH AMERICAN UNION. “In both 1980 and 1995, Quebec showed a willingness to negotiate … an association or partnership agreement with Canada once it became a sovereign state so that people, goods and capital could circulate freely between the two co ...
  • My Fellow Canadian and American Friends
    "It should be quite obvious to you by now that the national sovereignty of Canada and the United States is under threat. We as Canadians and you as Americans both have something equal to lose."

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • A green tide sweeps Canberra
    On 4th July 2011 the Greens will control nine seats in the Federal Senate, giving them the balance of power and ushering in a new era of enviro-politics. Tonight Josh Jackson and I wade into the battle over carbon taxes and attempt to restore some sanity to the debate. In particular we take ...
  • 9/11 Troll Alert
    Coinciding with the approaching 10th anniversary of 9/11, it seems we are experiencing a new campaign to undermine and destroy the 9/11 truth movement. Truther groups have been buzzing over the past two days with news about the "defection" of Love Police founder Charlie Veitch from the 9/11 t ...
  • TSA’s assault on human dignity continues ...
    There has been the usual hand wringing and a flood of TV reports over the latest TSA outrage: the "grope down" of a six year old girl, daughter of Todd and Selena Drexel, at an airport in New Orleans. I present below some of the recent coverage: "Right now at Armstrong International ...
  • Duelling carbon tax rallies in Sydney
    Hereward Fenton reports on pro and anti carbon tax rallies held in Sydney on 2 April 2011. Some observations about these events: The anti-carbon tax protest was composed of a wide demographic in terms of age, education and occupation, whereas the pro carbon tax group appeared to be ma ...
  • Goldstone’s shameful U-turn
    Judge Richard Goldstone in the Gaza Strip, June 2009. (UN Photo) "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report would have been a different document." Thus opens Judge Richard Goldstone's much-discussed op-ed in The Washington Post. I have a strong feeling that the editor might ...

Beacon

  • Oceana Uncovers Dangerous Mercury Levels in Fish
    © Oceana/Juan Cuetos Spain’s biggest newspaper, El País, featured Oceana prominently in this morning’s cover story. The article describes Oceana’s unrelenting effort to make previously confidential research regarding unsafe mercury levels in large fish freely accessible to the public, highl ...
  • News from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
    Small velella surrounded by plastic. © Scripps Institution of Oceanography Imagine you�re in a dimly lit Italian restaurant. Famished, you take the first bite of a juicy eggplant parmesan dinner, and it turns out to be a big hunk of plastic. (Yuk.) That�s the reality for fish in an area of ...
  • Oceana's New Sea Turtle Children's Book
    A sea turtle drawing by a student at Seaside Elementary in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Author Eric Douglas and Oceana collaborated recently to create a children’s book, “The Sea Turtle Rescue.” The book features illustrations by the talented students at Seaside Elementary School in Myrtle Beach, Sou ...
  • Oceana Identifies Carnivorous Sponge in the Me ...
    Carnivorous sponge (Asbestopluma hypogea) among cnidaria and other sponges in Spain's Balearic Islands. © Oceana Exciting news from across the pond: Oceana scientists, along with scientists from German and Italian universities, have identified carnivorous sponges in the deep waters of the M ...
  • Oceana Joins National Aquarium for Sea Turtle ...
    A rehabilitated Kemp's ridley sea turtle is released back into the wild. © Oceana/Dustin Cranor Yesterday was an exciting day for 5 rehabilitated Kemp’s ridley sea turtles. Last November, the endangered sea turtles were found stranded on the beaches of Massachusetts after having fallen vict ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

  • Let’s Play ‘Who’s More Pro-Israel?’
    Let’s see, Gaza or gossip, which shall it be? For almost every news outlet this week it was the latter, while the former is where the action is. From James Zogby writing over at Huffington Post: When it comes to issues involving Israel, politicians in Washington can become quite hysterical, maki ...
  • Sound Familiar?
    This is truly a tragedy: the great progressive hope (well, I did warn people) is falling all over himself to endorse right-wing economic fallacies. – Herbert Hoover Obama (by Paul Krugman) I’ve been writing this for four bloody years. It took flight during the “debate” on health care.
  • Progressive Notes: ERA!, NAACP Among those Pus ...
    Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Progressives are pushing on the Hill to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. In wake of the Supreme Court ruling against women in the Walmart case we need now more than ever the ERA. Rep. Maloney (D-Ny) and Sen. Menendez (D-Nj) have re ...
  • Study Shocker: 25% American Women’s Life Expec ...
    This study out is beyond appalling. Our nation is better than this. The richest nation on earth has life expectancy for women and blacks plummeting by over 25pct. We have the best healthcare in the world right? Wrong. Too many have no access to it and the government is too keen to cut the safety ...
  • Queer Talk: “Self-evident truths” about equali ...
    Joyce Arnold is a liberal Independent activist whose weekly column “Queer Talk” appears on Saturday. I found out I know someone who attended the June 30, Pride Reception at the White House. Marisa Richmond, Ph.D., is one of the people I think about when considering grassroots activism. Her many ...

Hudson New York

  • Life for Palestinians in Gaza Strip Improved, ...
    It was a very hot weekend for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. That is why thousands of them preferred to enjoy their time on the clean beaches, swimming, sunbathing, riding horses, sailing, smoking water pipes and barbequing. These photos were provided
  • Chad: Gaddafi's Best Ally
    The war in Libya has mainly been characterized by inaction. But U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently said that, where Libya is concerned, it is not only inaction that is leading this war to becoming similar of the Vietnam disaster, but also
  • Mavi Marmara Inquiry Hasn't Reached Israel
    A written inquiry by the families of victims of the deadly Israeli raid on Mavi Marmara ship has not reached Israel, says an embassy spokesman. The families' lawyer says he does not know if the letter was sent by the Turkish Foreign Ministry A written
  • The Netherlands Cuts Funding from Anti-Israel NGOs
    The Dutch Foreign Ministry says it will implement "sweeping reforms" to prevent the transfer of millions of taxpayer euros from going to Dutch humanitarian aid organizations that fund anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activities and
  • Why Muslim Demands for Headscarves Are Exaggerated
    Islamic attire for women—the burqa and hijab—are back in the news, though with a twist, as they cause problems and lawsuits in America, where they are legal. In France, however, they have been banned, and Muslim women are happily complying. There is an

Urban Survival

  • Preholiday Cheer – Web Bot Run Pending
    The market continues in pre-Fourth party mode with bad news being easily brushed aside in favor of behavior suggesting someone should hide Wall Streets keys; friends, after all, wouldn’t let friends drive this way….   At every turn bad is … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Fourth of July
    I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many fireworks stands up.  Driving across the country over the past week, seemed there were more fireworks stands that gas stations, particularly up north. The usual noise will be somewhat muted in the … Continue reading →
  • Depression 2: Global Woes
    (Palestine, TX)  The UK’s on strike, (live web cam with time sequence here from Trafalgar Square) the US is on Broke, and the world is in Rebellion as GlobalRev serves up continuous matches featuring the ‘have-nots’ against the ‘haves’ and … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Thursday at the WuJo
    Having returned from our 10-day, 2,600 mile road trip up to D-troyt for the National Society of Newspaper Columnists conference, we returned to the ranch last night, but only barely. Seems there’s a town up in Oklahoma called McAlester which … Continue reading →
  • Feeding the Bear Waits
    (Shawnee, OK) If Jerusalem and Mecca are destination cities for several religions, then Shawnee, Oklahoma is the closest thing I can offer as the point of our current pilgrimage around the country seeking better writing, better punctuation, and higher returns … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

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    The FACT is that Hussein's alleged father was not... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Mass General doc pans ABC News on lung study c ...
    From Health News Review: Harry Demonaco, who directs the Innovation Support Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital, critiqued the ABC piece for Health News Review : The NLST paper is really a tour de force that was masterfully crafted and operationalized. The authors presented the res ...
  • Globe: Senior care researchers chided on infor ...
    From The Globe: In a letter sent last week to a Harvard-affiliated institution and two other major research universities, the Department of Health and Human Services concluded that the scientists suppressed information about the dangers to elders participating in research on how to reduce often ...
  • BU study: Korean herb mix so-cheong-ryong-tang ...
    From BU's web site: BUSM researchers using a traditional Korean medicine, SO-CHEONG-RYONG-TANG (SCRT) that has long been used for the treatment of allergic diseases in Asia, found that SCRT treatment alleviates asthma-like pulmonary inflammation via suppression of specific chemokines or protei ...
  • Spine journal takes on double-dealing surgeons
    Christopher M. Bono, MD of Brigham & Women's Hospital is one of the doctorsquestioning the integrity of industry-sponsored scientist who use Infuse, a bioengineered material is used to join vertebrae to reduce back pain. The NYTimes reports: In an extraordinary move, a group of spine speci ...
  • Does the bioresearch industry need to be sold ...
    Mayor Menino thinks so. Note that Boston used incentives to lure Vertex from Cambridge to Boston. And, he'll make a pitch at the Bio meeting today. The Globe reports: Boston officials are seizing on the city's status as a magnet for federal research funding in a new campaign to brand the emerg ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Progress on "Building Solar India"
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Even as the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on countries to agree at next year’s Earth Summit to raise the share of renewables to 30 percent of the energy mix by 2030, India seems to be go ...
  • Hello Los Angeles, Houston, and the San Joaqui ...
    Adrian Martinez, Project Attorney, Southern California Air Team, Santa Monica Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in favor of clean air and promoting stronger public health for millions of Americans.  The case deal ...
  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile UNESCO made Chile’s “Corredor Biológico Nevados de Chillán y Laguna del Laja” one of its Biosphere Reserves for having an important variety of endemic species.  The international body n ...
  • ARB Announces Plans to Require Major Industria ...
    Devra Wang, Director, California Energy Program, San Francisco At a California Senate oversight hearing yesterday called by Senator Pavley, a joint author of the state’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), Air Resources Board Chairman N ...
  • A sign that walkers and cyclists need more respect
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC �� (Since the first person I showed this to failed to get the point, I'll add that this is a swampy part of Florida where certain kinds of critters do abound.) Thank ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday the first of July, 2011: Portsmouth VA is being sued by the family of a man they claim was stumbling drunk and unarmed when he was fatally shot 11x by cop claiming he lunged [3] [...]
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, June 30, 2011: A Detroit MI gang cop is on admin duty while investigated over an excessive force incident that was captured on surveillance video which helped spark a civil rights ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, June 29, 2011: New York NY police accused of brutality in video showing at least one man repeatedly struck w/batons outside club [3] http://bit.ly/kPuLId 2 Newnan GA cops accuse ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 26 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, June 28, 2011: BART CA settled a portion of a lawsuit for $1.3mil to the mother of Oscar Grant who was fatally shot in the back while he was restrained on a train station floor [...]
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, June 27, 2011: 5 Louisville KY cops sued alleging they beat man suffering from heat stroke while responding to pal’s call for help [3] http://bit.ly/kUc8bB Hancock Co ME settles suit ...

Total Collapse

  • Economic Collapse Is Coming says Robert Kiyosaki
    Are you familiar with Robert Kiyosaki? He is best known for the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” series of books.  Over 26 million books authored by Kiyosaki have been sold and he is recognized as a financial expert by millions of people across the globe.  Well, guess what?  Even Robert Kiyosaki is warni ...
  • Muammar Gaddafi threatens Europe
    Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has threatened to attack Europe in revenge for Nato’s operations in Libya. Col Gaddafi said Libya would target European “homes, offices, families” unless Nato stopped its campaign. He spoke via an audio message broadcast to tens of thousands of supporters gathered i ...
  • U.S. Designates Israel as Country That Tends T ...
    Fox News – In an implicit admission that Israel is so threatened by terrorism that it is not only surrounded by countries and territories that produce terrorists but also unwillingly harbors terrorists within its own territory in a way the most other nations in the world do not, the Obama admini ...
  • UNs Hariri tribunal indicts four Hezbollah members
    Channel 6 News – A U.N.-backed court investigating the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri on Thursday handed over the Lebanon-portion of the indictment and arrest warrants for four Hezbollah members, Lebanon’s State Prosecutor Saeed Mirza said. According to the Dai ...
  • U.S. recognizes Muslim Brotherhood
    The U.S. has decided to formally resume contact with Egyptâs Muslim Brotherhood group – which does not recognize Israel â in a move that could further alienate some Jewish voters already skeptical of President Barack Obama, it was reported. One senior U.S. official said the Brotherhoodâs rise in ...

Daily Dose

  • Google+ and its two-pronged relevance problem
    Google’s long-rumoured new social project finally arrived this week and there’s little doubt that it’s off to a good start. Consisting of Facebook-style sharing and discussion; group video chat; mobile group messaging and automated content discovery, Google+ has been met with the general approv ...
  • Check out Russell Brand’s new ads for the HP T ...
    HP is pulling out all the stops with the advertis for its TouchPad tablet. Russell Brand of Get Him to the Greek fame is showing users just how easy it is to get the most from the tablet. The series of 30-second promos, highlighted over at Business Insider, cover each of the TouchPad’s features ...
  • Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details o ...
    Heard of Fitbit? Currently only available in the US, Fitbit’s tracker is a little gadget that automatically tracks data about a personâs activities, such as calories burned, sleep quality, steps and distance. Being based in the UK, I have yet to try Fitbit personally but from my understanding, ...
  • Lifepath: If only everyones life looked as bea ...
    I came across Lifepath via a random tweet; ”this is interesting…” it said.  Clicking through, as you would, I was greeted with an astonishingly beautiful timeline of the tweeter’s life from birth to death. Everything from first words to puberty and even a heart attack, had a place on this pe ...
  • How to turn Google+ into an online photography ...
    If youâre a professional photographer, artist or illustrator, you no doubt have an online portfolio that showcases the best of your work. But what if youâre just getting started, and donât necessarily want to spring for a domain name or a website of your own? There are a lot of ways to easily c ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Time Ripening Fast For Australia To Down Renew ...
    At the recent UN Climate Talks in held in Bonn, a spokesperson for Germany's Federal Environment Agency (Eric Fee) gave a presentation outlining how Germany's energy sector could transition to a 100 per cent renewable electricity supply by 2050. The presentation was based on a 2010 study unde ...
  • Time for Sustainable House Design
    While the Federal Government is making half-hearted commitments to energy efficiency, trail-blazing architecture firms like G-O Logic Homes and Victoria�s own Sunpower Design are proving that sustainable housing need not cost an arm and a leg � nor necessitate the owning of a hair shirt. In Vic ...
  • Labor’s Solar Flagships: Smoke and Mirrors…and ...
    The Federal Government's choice of picking French state owned nuclear giant Areva to build a Solar plant based on out‐dated technology is a move that has surprised the climate and energy security think‐tank Beyond Zero Emissions. The proposed plant near the controversial coal seam gas fields at ...
  • Clearing the Air on Climate Change
    The annual �Science meets Parliament� (SMP) is underway this week. With debates raging over the carbon tax, representatives from The Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS) are highlighting and addressing the poor scientific literacy exercised in political a ...
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    The future is looking bright for electric vehicles (EV) � and their investors. Last week, California-based EV infrastructure company Better Place Australia (BPA) signed a landmark deal with multi-utility company ActewAGL to the amount of $60 million dollars over ten years. The agreement will ho ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Serengeti road cancelled
    In what is a victory for environmentalists, scientists, tourism, and the largest land migration on Earth, the Tanzanian government has cancelled a commercial road that would have cut through the northern portion of the Serengeti National Park. According to scientists the road would have severed ...
  • Ant surprises on Murciélago Islands in Co ...
    The Murci�lago Islands are seven small islands off the northwest coast of Costa Rica in the Area de Conservaci�n Guanacaste (ACG), home to one of the largest intact dry tropical forests in Central America. Despite this, few scientists have studied the biodiversity of these small uninhabited isla ...
  • Last search for the Eskimo curlew
    The Eskimo curlew is (or perhaps, 'was') a small migratory shorebird with a long curved beak, perfect for searching shorelines and prairie grass for worms, grasshoppers and other insects, as well as goodies including berries. Described as cinnamon-colored, the bird nested in the Arctic tundra of ...
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    A global interactive map has been developed by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) to highlight climate impacts already occurring worldwide. From glacier melt risking water supplies in Bolivia to coral bleaching off the coast of Florida, the Climate Hot Map employs the best in climate scienc ...
  • Is the Ministry of Forestry undermining Indone ...
    Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry is already undermining the moratorium on new forestry concessions on peatlands and in primary forest areas, alleges a new report from Greenomics-Indonesia. The report, The Toothless Moratorium, claims that a new decree from the Ministry of Forestry converts 81,49 ...

Sierra Express

  • From Encyclopedia to iPhone: Knowledge and Change
    Sierra Leone is renowned for the value its people have always accorded to education as evidenced by the loyalty of former pupils for their alma maters. Having a long tradition and being among the oldest schools is an honour proudly emphasized by schools but could it be that upholding tradition i ...
  • Investing in youth in Africa will foster a gre ...
    This week, African leaders and heads of state are gathering in Equatorial Guinea’s capital, Malabo, to discuss the state of affairs in Africa and the role of young people and their contribution to long-term development in Africa.  (Photo: Dr Namanga Ngongi, president of the Alliance for a Green ...
  • Is democracy in danger in Africa?
    In the July/August 2011 Issue of Foreign Policy Magazine the Failed States Index Compiled by the Fund for Peace is published. The Criteria that is used for a Nation to be listed is quite simple. To qualify for the list all a Nation has to do is be a member of the United Nations. Once [...]
  • Opening of AU Summit hears of need to heed les ...
    Malabo, Equatorial Guinea 30 June 2011 - The African Union Commission Chairperson Dr Jean Ping today said the popular uprisings in North Africa should be seen as an opportunity for AU member states to renew their commitment to the AU agenda for democracy and governance and to implement socio eco ...
  • Initial appearance for five accused of contemp ...
    Five persons accused of contempt have been ordered to appear before the Special Court in Freetown on July 15 to plead to charges they attempted to interfere with Prosecution witnesses. Hassan Papa Bangura, aka “Bomblast” and Samuel Kargbo, aka “Sammy Ragga”, are ordered to appear before Justice ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • India looks to tap NZ dairy know-how in trade deal
    India's Commerce Minister wants to tap into the New Zealand dairy industry's state-of-the art technology as part of a free-trade deal between the two countries.Shri Anand Sharma has urged Kiwi dairy giant Fonterra and India's...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Key woos India with his charm ...
    John Key's commercial salesmanship, flair for marketing and eye for the deal will distinguish his time as New Zealand Prime Minister on the world stage.Key's political style has taken a while to emerge.As he builds his reputation...
  • Fonterra acquires rural supplies chain RD1
    Fonterra has assumed full control of rural supplies company RD1, the dairy cooperative announced today.The company sold a 50 per cent stake in the company in 2006 to Australian rural supplies chain Landmark, owned by AWB - but...
  • Kiwi exporters savour Indian deal's potential
    New Zealand is one step closer to reaching a free trade agreement with India and Kiwi companies are optimistic about their prospects in one of the world's fastest growing markets.Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed...
  • Key: High hopes for free trade with India
    Prime Minister John Key says his fingers are crossed that a free trade agreement with India will become a reality sooner after his meeting with India's Prime Minister went better than he expected.Mr Key met with Indian Prime Minister...

The Bovine

  • Michael Schmidt to speak at Institute of Holis ...
    The following is an introduction by Sarah Dobec, IHNâs Nutrition and The Environment instructor: MICHAEL SCHMIDT: RAW MILK, BIODYNAMIC FARMING AND THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE. “Bernard is right; the pathogen is nothing; the terrain is everything.” — Louis Pasteur Michael Schmidt … Continue reading →
  • The pursuit of one’s trade — econo ...
    By Karen Selick  Bad legal reasoning â especially when it comes from the countryâs highest court â is similar to an urban legend. Once launched into the world of legal precedent, bad reasoning gets stripped down to a pithy slogan, … Continue reading →
  • “Food – the ultimate secret, expos ...
    From Alex Jones’ Infowars.com: “The grocery store, along with your kitchen sink, are two of the most dangerous places in the world. In a special video, Alex Jones addresses one of the darkest modes of power the globalists have used … Continue reading →
  • Wisconsin raw milk policy working group report ...
    Click here to download a pdf version of the report. (261 pages, 7.8 Mb file)
  • Monsanto’s leading activist has a tough ...
    From Brandon Turbeville, writing for the Activist Post: “In recent months there have been many articles dealing with the intensification of the war on milk launched by the FDA. (See here and here. Also here.) I myself, have written articles explaining the dangers of corporate control of ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • China Bought More Treasuries Than Disclosed, P ...
    Not only did China buy more treasuries than disclosed, it did so in violation of treasury auction rules.When the Treasury Department revamped its rules for participating in government bond auctions two years ago, officials said they were simply modernizing outdated procedures. The real reason f ...
  • Union-Busting is a "Godsend"; Elimination of C ...
    Congratulations to Governor Scott Walker for sticking to his guns. The state of Wisconsin is far better off because of it. So are taxpayers. Most importantly, so are the school kids. Please consider Union curbs rescue a Wisconsin school district"This is a disaster," said Mark Miller, the Wiscon ...
  • Preposterous Statements - Jim Rogers: "No Food ...
    It does not help your case when you make absurd statements to support your views. All it does is damage your credibility. Here are a couple of completely unrelated viewpoints that will show what I mean. "No Food at Any Price" Speaking on food shortages, Jim Rogers says Global Agriculture Supp ...
  • Government Shutdown in Minnesota: 23,000 of 36 ...
    In what we should all hope happens at the national level, Minnesota Shuts Down after failing to pass a balanced budget by the June 30 deadline.Minnesota's state government began a broad shutdown on Friday going into the July 4th holiday, after Democratic Governor Mark Dayton and Republican legis ...
  • Spain vs. Germany 10-Year Bond Spread; Reflect ...
    Here is an interesting chart and commentary courtesy of Steen Jakobsen, Chief Economist at Saxo Bank from Steen's Chronicle It's all Greek to me!The back and forth of headline risks continues to drive this market between risk-on and risk-off to the huge frustration of investors as visibility see ...
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