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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 31, 2011

31 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • How a Physician Cured Her Son's Autism...
    Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride has a full-time medical practice in the United Kingdom where she treats children and adults with autism, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, immune disorders, and digestive problems. Here, she shares her insights about Gut and Psy ...
  • Another Reason to Ditch Your Non-Stick Cookware
    A recent study examined blood samples that were taken from California women at different time periods -- the 1960s, the 1980s, and 2009.� They were examined for the presence of 12 perfluorinated compounds (PFCs). In each time period, perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) was present at the highest c ...
  • The "New" Hidden Pandemic Sweeping Across America
    Dr. Jack Thrasher has a PhD in cell biology from the UCLA School of Medicine, and is an expert on the impact of mold on human health.� Here, he discusses the health effects of toxic molds and bacteria, as well as his recommendations for remediation.
  • How Can a 4000% Increase in Bipolar Disorder B ...
    The number of American children diagnosed with bipolar disorder increased 40-fold over the past decade. But now many psychiatrists are backing away from the diagnosis. Many are worried that thousands of children may have been mistakenly diagnosed with the disorder.�Overzealous doctors, quirks i ...
  • Can Vitamin D3 in Combination with This Spice ...
    Patients with Alzheimer's disease tend to suffer from brain amyloidosis, a condition related to defective clearance of amyloid-beta in their brains by their innate immune system. In order to improve the innate immune system of Alzheimer's patients, researchers looked at the immune stimulation e ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Griff Rhys Jones models for Survival
    Griff Rhys Jones modelling Jimmy Pike T-shirt for Survival © Survival Comedian, actor, presenter and author Griff Rhys Jones models Survival’s new T-shirt by internationally acclaimed Aboriginal artist Jimmy Pike, saying, ‘I am delighted to support Survival and their urgent work for threat ...
  • Malaysia’s King at eco awards as Sarawak’s for ...
    Deforestation caused by loggers in a Penan region in Borneo, Malaysia. © Andy and Nick Rain/Survival The King of Malaysia and HRH the Prince of Wales attended a reception in London yesterday on behalf of The Earth Awards. The event was hosted in partnership with START, an initiative of the ...
  • Progress Can Kill – Peru’s new government warned
    Survival's 'Progress Can Kill' highlights the dangers of forcing 'development' on tribal peoples. © Survival Peruâs new government will take office today having received a stark warning of the imminent dangers faced by its countryâs indigenous population. Survival has sent copies of two ...
  • Brazil to ‘do to Indians what Australia did to ...
    A Kayapó indigenous man. The Kayapó tribe is one of many whose livelihoods will be devastated by the Belo Monte dam. © Antonio Bonsorte/Amazon Watch A Brazilian government official has suggested that Brazil will treat its indigenous peoples like Australia treated the Aboriginals. Curt Tren ...
  • Vedanta: time to give up on Niyamgiri mine
    Vedanta's AGMs have seen numerous protests against the planned bauxite mine. © Survival FTSE100 company Vedanta Resources will face vocal protests tomorrow from Survival and other groups telling the company to give up on their notorious Niyamgiri mine in Orissa, India. Vedanta was denied ...

Montreal Gazette

  • The Gazette's view, in short
    OK, so it's nice that the federal government is doing something in recognition of our head of state's upcoming diamond jubilee. But it begs better explanation than has so far been furnished as to why this required the replacement of two Canadian art masterworks by a photograph of Elizabeth II on ...
  • Bus drivers should be held to a higher standard
    It's bad enough that Quebec drivers are prone to flouting the law that prohibits talking on handheld cellphones while behind the wheel. Even more worrying is that bus drivers are often among the delinquents.
  • Tighten the rules on subsidies for municipal p ...
    It is unfortunately impossible to ban municipal political parties, even though it might make for less sleaze in local government and more bang for the taxpayer buck.
  • Tighten the rules on subsidies for municipal p ...
    It is unfortunately impossible to ban municipal political parties, even though it might make for less sleaze in local government and more bang for the taxpayer buck.
  • Your Views: 24-hour shifts; STM service; milit ...
    Finally. It took a young intern to put forth the best and most logical arguments on the issue of 24-hour shifts among medical residents.

Food World Order

  • food banks across the country hit by hunger, t ...
    salvation army's food pantry almost empty from rocky mount telegram: Food is in short supply at the area’s Salvation Army pantries. For the first time in a long time, local Salvation Army staff members have reported a severe shortage in nonperishable food donations coming into the organizatio ...
  • 7/28 binge & purge: land grab, evil ingredient ...
    japan asks: where's the nuclear beef?* japan's food-chain threat multiplies as radiation spreads* feds to grab land for homeland security forces* who put mcdonald's in charge of kids' health?* ranks of hungry children swell, worrying doctors* what's really in the food? the a to ...
  • bad food? tax it, and subsidize vegetables
    from nytimes: What will it take to get Americans to change our eating habits? The need is indisputable, since heart disease, diabetes and cancer are all in large part caused by the Standard American Diet. (Yes, it’s SAD.) Though experts increasingly recommend a diet high in plants and low i ...
  • 7/21 binge & purge: famine, drought & censored ...
    Coming in 2012: Genetically modified front lawns and the mass spraying of neighborhoods and playgrounds with RoundUp* Drought of 2011: Southern US Desperate For Rain As Middle America Continues To Get Scorched* UN declares two areas of Somalia to be in famine, ugres action* Why is Miche ...
  • 'my dog eats better than i do': pets join in o ...
    from latimes: When Gabriel, a 10-year-old rescue cat from Chinatown, tucks into his morning meal, you won't see any Friskies or Meow Mix in his bowl. Ahi tuna and duck are more the ticket. "I think there's more than enough pesticides and chemicals and that kind of stuff in human food," says Gabr ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has bee ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of m ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 � In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort � S Shyam Prasad �
  • Pastor arrested for murdering minor girl
    source:  MSN India, 30 June, 2011 � Guntur (AP), Jun 30 (PTI) A local pastor was arrested for allegedly murdering a teenager after she became pregnant with his child, police said today. The victim, identified as Monica (17) from Nadendla village in the district was working ...
  • Conversation with a Convert
    source: The Undercurrent, 26 March, 2011 Somewhere in Tamil Nadu The cab was waiting at the end of the road waiting to take us to our destination. The driver was a 50 something man and there was a picture of the Christian prophet Jesus on his dash board. After a few kilometeres of dr ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans for mankind? H ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU

The Economic Collapse

  • GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Head Of Obama&#8217 ...
    Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China.  GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now GE has announced that it "is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray ...
  • Stress!
    Has anyone else noticed that the level of stress in this country appears to be extremely high right now?  Today, it seems like our federal government, our state governments and most American families live in a constant state of crisis.  Everywhere you look there are major proble ...
  • Broke! 10 Facts About The Financial Condition ...
    The crumbling U.S. economy is putting an extraordinary amount of financial stress on American families.  For many Americans, "flat broke" has become a permanent condition.  Today, over half of all American families live paycheck to paycheck.  Unemployment is rampant and those th ...
  • Layoffs, Layoffs Everywhere You Look There Are ...
    The competition for jobs in the United States is absolutely brutal right now, and it is about to get worse.  A new wave of layoffs is sweeping across America.  During tough economic times, Wall Street favors companies that are able to cut costs, and the fastest way to "cut costs ...
  • Madness: 39 Things That Are Driving Ordinary A ...
    Have you noticed that almost everyone seems really angry these days?  Frustration with the government and with most of the other major institutions in our society seems to grow by the day.  According to a brand new ABC News/Washington Post poll, 80 percent of Americans say that ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Sunday Paper Review: 31st July 2011
    Is it safe? Can we look at the papers? Will they be full of 'Hackgate' stories which look at only the 'leftist' agenda? Will they be full of Norway nutter stories where anyone who disagrees with 'leftists' is branded an 'extremist' for having an opinion? Let's find out in this, the first pape ...
  • 100,000 Patriots Required: Apply Within
    The ever patriotic Daily Express is taking the Government at its word and launching a yet another campaign to get a referendum on the UK's withdrawal from the European Empire. This one, however, might actually work. The latest tactical move by the newspaper follows an announcement by the G ...
  • Labour emboiled in News International sleaze: ...
    When David Cameron recently put himself at the centre of an unprecedented three and a half hour question marathon at the dispatch box of the House of Commons, there was one point he laboured in exchanges with Labour leader Ed Miliband. Miliband - cheered on by The Guardian and the BBC - has t ...
  • Slovakian People: We're not keen on this EU sh ...
    No need for us to comment, is there? None of us want you, European Empire. Not we the people, anyway. RT can be found on Sky Channel 512. Note that the EU-collaborative BBC won't tell you any of this. From the UK? Oppose the great EU? Racist! Xenophobe! (according to the BBC/Guardian set ...
  • Ron Paul 2012... if the USA has any sense.
    What the world needs now is... Ron Paul. Don't you wish we had someone like that in Downing Street..? Or even in the House of Commons..? Indeed, back at home, the awful bank that is Lloyds TSB - the one with vast billions of our taxpayer money - has been busy writing to all its customers a ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Hope in Mississippi
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South A hardened, intransigent right-wing has taken over the Republican Party and proved its willingness to take the nation to the economic brink to protect its well-heeled financial backers. Legislators have targeted government workers and immigrants as the source of th ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The apartheid of wealth
    Percent by which the net worth of white U.S. households fell from 2005 to 2009: 16 Of black households: 53 Of Hispanic households: 66 Number of times by which the median wealth of white households now surpasses that of Hispanic households: 18 Of black households: 20 Amount of weal ...
  • Lessons of Tennessee coal ash disaster lost in ...
    An Inspector General's review done in response to the 2008 coal ash disaster at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee has turned up widespread groundwater contamination from coal ash disposal sites at the company's power plants around the South, with some of the po ...
  • VOICES: 'This is what hope looks like'
    As a West Virginia native whose family battled coal companies, Tim DeChristopher understands the perils of life in a resource extraction colony. His experience led him to become an environmental activist who was arrested in 2008 for disrupting a federal government auction of oil and gas leases b ...
  • Is Rick Perry getting cold feet over The Response?
    By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer You've gotta wonder if Rick Perry may come to regret "initiating" The Response, his Christians-only prayer rally. As I documented in a cover story for the Observer, Perry has thrown in with a strange band of fundamentalists from the bleeding edge of American C ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group 93 Dead in Twin Attacks in Norway; Suspect to Appear in Court The suspect accused of killing 93 people in twin terror attacks in Norway on Friday is due in an Oslo courtroom Monday, … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Humble Indie Bundle 3 is Here, Pay What You Wa ...
    Humble Indie Bundle 3 is here folks! Grab your copy of 5 really good, cross platform, DRM free, Indie games at the price you decide! If initial statistics are any indication,�Humble Indie Bundle 3 is going to be an even bigger success.� Humble Indie Bundle 3 Video Intro Buy Humble I ...
  • Chromium Browser Causing Significant Increase ...
    I recently noticed a strange bug while using Chromium web browser in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal powered laptops and netbooks(Intel platform). There is an immediate spike in power usage whenever Chromium is running. Chromium Browser Causing Increase in Laptop Power Usage The way I found th ...
  • Most Interesting Video on Google+ I Have Seen ...
    Google+ is Google's latest venture into social networking space. You all know that already. But what does it really do differently when compared to Facebook? Well, the video below is probably the simplest answer to that. Watch and enjoy. What is Google Plus? Sounds very�interesting� ...
  • Joli OS Review: Is it the Best OS Available fo ...
    Joli OS 1.2 is a very interesting project. It is basically an Ubuntu based Linux distro optimized to work in netbooks and other older computer hardware. When you think about it, there is not much choice for netbook users as far as Linux distros are concerned. Joli OS is among the rare few. But i ...
  • Firefox 8 is 20% Faster than Firefox 5, Instal ...
    Firefox 8 recently found its way into the nightly build channel. According to a recent study by extremetech.com, Firefox 8 is already 20% faster than Firefox 5 in almost every metric and has got a drastically reduced memory footprint as well. Key Points of the Study Firefox 8 is 20% faste ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Alex Jones: ‘Anders Behring was Masons’ Patsy’
    Check out the interview with Alex Jones on Anders Behring Breivik as a Masons’ patsy on RT. http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-anders-behring-was-masons-patsy/ Breivik was a freemason belonging to the St Johannes lodge according to some media sources and  he also mentioned terror cells in Aus ...
  • The Federal Reserve Made $16 Trillion In Secre ...
    The American Dream July 25, 2011 A one-time limited GAO audit of the Federal Reserve that was mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has uncovered some eye-popping corruption at the Fed and the mainstream media is barely even covering it.  It turns out that the ...
  • Police Knew Gunman’s Name Before Arrest
    � British news anchor questions how authorities were aware of Breivik�s identity in advance Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Monday, July 25, 2011 Despite being portrayed by the media as inept due to the length of time it took them to reach the island of Utoeya, it has now emerged that police kne ...
  • Evidence Shows Norway Terror Attack a False Flag
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com July 23, 2011 Prior to the events in Norway, the Department of Homeland Security released a propaganda video characterizing white middle class Americans as terrorists and members of white al-Qaeda, a term designed to conflate the image of the CIA-created Islamic terror gr ...
  • Murdoch’s Vaccine World – James Murdoch ...
    By Catherine J. Frompovich | July 22nd, 2011 | Everyone by now has heard about the phone tapping scandal that rocked both the British newspaper world and Rupert Murdoch’s business empire. But what needs to be spotlighted, I think, is the possible role that Murdoch’s London Times may have played ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Microsoft lays out plans to unleash ‘altered p ...
    You could not make this up.  This is not the business that humanity wants Bill Gates in… by POPEYE Filed under Eugenics (SLASHDOT) In its just-published patent application for Adapting Parasites to Combat Disease, Microsoft lays out plans to unleash âaltered parasitic organismsâ on humans, incl ...
  • One More Lone Gunman who wasn’t Alone
    By Les Visible You would think they would have the numbers straight by now. I keep seeing the number 76 and then I see where it is over a hundred or in the high 90’s. There’s so much being written about it at the moment that you can’t keep up with it and, as the [...]
  • GLADIO 2.0 : WHY THE WEST CAN’T RESIST THE NOR ...
    By Stone Pinkerton Gonzo Town How do you define bizarre in today’s every increasingly wacky world of terrorism? Ever since the Cold War was won and history ended, we have been inundated with a seemingly never ending succession of spectacularly staged terror attacks and carefully crafted psy-ops. ...
  • Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Po ...
    Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) ...
  • Israeli Art Students Lived in World Trade Cent ...
    Four of the so-called “Art Students”- (Mossad Agents) – did an “art installation” IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER in 2001,before the attacks. In a radio interview,Jonathon Brown of “Core of Corruption” fame outlines his evidence and explains how his phone has been tapped since discovering this informa ...

Veterans Today

  • New moves to curb criticism of Israel in US an ...
    New legislation in the US threatens to conflate campus criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. A number of new initiatives to curtail freedom of speech by conflating opposition to Israeli crimes with anti-Semitism are underway in the United States and Canada.
  • Organized Political Terrorism: The Norwegian ...
    “So let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionist,s against all cultural Marxists/Multiculturalists”. Anders Behring Breivik’s Manifesto “. . . two more cells exist in my organization”. . . Ander Behring Breivik in police custody (Reuters 7/25/11)
  • Andy Berwick and the Protocols of the Elders o ...
    I haven't done one of these segments for awhile. They don't readership numbers nor go viral, not like conspiracy pieces. Increasingly, as I gain "followers," what had been a "labor of love" becomes more "hard labor." With that goes any residual signs of wit or humor.
  • If I can’t laugh it’s NOT my REVOL ...
    As I am deadly serious about reaching Stephen and also Jon Stewart- for another of my dreams is that Jon would read and discuss my third book, "BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010" I have been speaking up on Youtube and I also TWEETED ...
  • Watt Street Rejoices While Main Street Cries & ...
    It’s time to face reality and finally get beyond the lies and misinformation that caused and perpetuate our current economic crisis by recognizing that we are in a deepening recession, we’re broke and millions of Americans want truthful answers and jobs ~ not lies, hype and theater.

electric politics

  • The Art of Courage
    A little voice in your conscience tells you something. You listen. You start to think maybe you're right and everybody else is wrong. You do something about it. Next thing you know you're in a life and death struggle against evil forces bent on world domination. Well, maybe that's a slight exag ...
  • The Wild Dollar
    Because the public hasn't had what's happening properly reported, the Republicans think that, in the debt ceiling standoff, they can trample democratic norms and perhaps even go so far as to trigger another collapse of the world economy. What a bizarre strategy to pursue (supposedly) on behalf ...
  • Göbekli Tepe
    At what point does an original idea engender action? And to what extent does that action set a lasting course? We can examine the social history of an idea, written, as it were, in stone, at G�bekli Tepe, an archeological site approximately 11,500 years old (or perhaps even older) in southern T ...
  • The Athenian Zephyr
    Neoliberal bankers wants to turn the Greek public into chattel. The Greek public objects. It's a theoretically long-predicted fork in the road for the European Union: either Greece defaults (it could have been any one of certain member states) and the European debt crisis spreads — possibly/pro ...
  • Forgetting Vietnam
    America's final retreat from Vietnam could have been a whole lot worse. Ambassador Graham Martin, mistakenly thought to be on the last chopper out, didn't follow through on the fact that he left a final contingent of Marine Security Guards on the Embassy's rooftop. Higher-ups in the military ch ...

PR News

  • Waggener Edstrom to part ways with BMC Software
    HOUSTON: Waggener Edstrom will not re-pitch the BMC Software account when its five-year global AOR contract comes to an end in October.
  • Old Spice says Fabio campaign hit high marks
    CINCINNATI: Despite skepticism from various media sources, Procter & Gamble's Old Spice insists the "Mano a Mano in El Baño" campaign is a success, and it has the numbers to back it up.
  • Fiat-Chrysler's restructure leaves comms unaff ...
    AUBURN HILLS, MI: Fiat has developed a group executive council as part of the company's merger with Chrysler, and while management will be reorganized, communications will be left unchanged.
  • PepsiCo ramps up digital efforts at BlogHer
    PURCHASE, NY: PepsiCo will be attending the BlogHer conference in San Diego for the third time in August, and this year, the company will offer more digital and traditional initiatives than ever before.
  • Tourism PR heats up this summer
    International tourism boards are hiring PR agencies at a rapid pace this summer to better appeal to US travelers, particularly in countries facing perception problems.

The Story Behind the Story

  • Who’s Who In the Zoo – By Dr. True ...
    Who’s Who in the Zoo?   By Dr. Truess (rhymes with Suess). Who’s who in the “patriot” zoo?  It’s so full of worms and primordial goo – MY – what can one do? Watch your step, cause there’s lots of bad pooh – smelly stuff that will stick on your shoe! There’s Turner, and Jones, and [...]
  • QUOTE OF THE DECADE!!
    The Quote of the Decade âThe fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.  It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills.  It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to [...]
  • TRUTH REVEALED – 528 is the Frequency of ...
    This is a very complex and multi-faceted topic.  It involves exposing something called “Kabalah” (the CUBE) as well as “Enochian Magic” and the darkest sorcery ever performed on Planet Earth.   It involves exposing demonology and inter-dimensional “conjuring” of entities called Nephilim or Ji ...
  • AUDIT THE FED??? WHAT ABOUT STARTING WITH THE ...
      House Passes DeFazio’s Amendment to Audit the Pentagon.  GREAT JOB CONGRESSMAN!!!! This is all about accountability in government – something that to date has BEEN SORELY LACKING. No More DUAL ISRAELI CITIZENS such as Dov Zackheim controlling the Pentagon’s purse strings!!  Never forget the ...
  • Edgar Steele Story PART II
    Sex, Lies & Audiotape (Part II) by Edgar J. Steele Here Come de Fix I had an inkling that the fix was in on the morning of the second day of the pretrial hearing concerning our forensic audiology eperts. The lead prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney Traci Whelan, was smiling, humming to herself and ...

k2p blog

  • Politics of hate create strange bedfellows
    For these so-called "right-wing, nationalist" parties, I think it is wrong to attribute anything other than "hate" as their ideology. As times change the object of their hate evolves and changes to whatever they consider is currently popular to fear and to hate.
  • What population problem? More brains and hands ...
    Malthus' ideas haven't quite been discredited but his alarmism certainly has. People are not just mouths to feed but also brains that can think and hands and legs that can work very hard.
  • New York Post implicated? Told to preserve ema ...
    New York Post staff have been told by News Corp. to preserve any documents that may relate to phone hacking or payoffs to officials as the News of the World hacking scandal spreads across Murdoch's empire. The clear implication is that something illicit has taken place at the New York Post - pos ...
  • Another plagiarist politician is now appointed ...
    In Turkey a plagiarist - Ömer Dinçer - has been appointed Minister of Education !!
  • Seeking notoriety Paul Ray would now like to h ...
    Probably seeking all the notoriety he can get Paul Ray of the EDL has now admitted that he was in contact with the killer and concedes to The Telegraph that he may may have been the inspiration for Breivik. His incoherent ramblings would indicate that he is little more than a two-bit, publicity- ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Weighing Term Life Insurance Against Whole Life
    When it comes time to buy life insurance, you're faced with a difficult choice. Do you buy low-cost term life insurance that retains no cash value or spring for the more expensive whole life option that doubles as something like a savings account? In a MoneyNing post that probes the quandary, ...
  • AT&T Confirms Plan To Throttle Top 5% Of Smart ...
    Earlier today, rumors were circulating that AT&T would begin throttling the data speeds of users who went over a certain usage threshold. Now, the company has confirmed these reports, though it does not give specifics on what line a user has to cross before their data starts going at a snail's ...
  • The Consumerist Tipster App: Open 7 Days A Wee ...
    Thousands of readers have already downloaded our free Consumerist Tipster App. Here are just a handful of the photos they've sent in. Remember that you can always see even more Tipster photos on our Facebook page. Jen: "Look carefully at the center book in the 'teaching zone.'" Larry ...
  • Which Type Of Flier Are You -- And Which Airli ...
    Customer dissatisfaction with the airline industry continues to sink. It currently ranks last among the 47 industries tracked by the American Customer Satisfaction Index. But that doesn't meant you can't at least try to find the commercial carrier that will least annoy you. Over at SmartMoney. ...
  • Could Free Internet Porn Lead To Higher Cable ...
    While mainstream content providers continue looking for ways to put their videos behind paywalls, there is no shortage of adults-only footage available online for absolutely no cost to the viewer (or so we've been told). But could this fleshy free-for-all end up causing your cable to company to ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Pro Football to Thrive and Grow, Player Rep Jo ...
    Pro football will thrive and grow because it is based on a revenue-sharing model that strengthens all of its 32 teams simultaneously, says John âJackâ Mula, the noted players’ representative. Going back to its earliest days, the executives who developed the sport âunderstood that in order for th ...
  • News of the World Charities – Shame on You!
    Guest Column by Chris Gelken, CEO, Ridealist When I first read the story yesterday that it had taken more than 50 telephone calls to find just three charities that would agree to be the beneficiary of a huge payment of cash stemming from the final edition of the News Of The World, I really didn’ ...
  • The Empty Bully Pulpit
    How did we get into this mess? I thought I’d seen Washington at its worst. I was there just after Watergate. I was there when Jimmy Carter imploded. I was there during the government shut-down of 1995. But I hadn’t seen the worst. This is the worst. How can it be that with over 9 [...]
  • Wait, Parts of the FAA Have Been Shut Down? We ...
    by Marian Wang, ProPublica Thought Congress had averted a government shutdown by striking a 2011 budget deal back in April? That’s only partly true. While lawmakers deadlock over long-term deficit reduction plans tied to the raising of the debt ceiling, one federal agency—the Federal Aviation Ad ...
  • Don’t Fall for the GOP Lie: There is No Budget ...
    A friend who’s been watching the absurd machinations in Congress asked me “what happens if we don’t solve the budget crisis and we run out of money to pay the nation’s bills?” It was only then I realized how effective Republicans lies have been. That we’re calling it a “budget crisis” and worryi ...

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JoNova

  • We need a free market in climate science
    This weekend, I’ve got another article in The Weekend Australian. It’s a credit to the Murdoch News team that they are willing to print both points of view. This point is one that resonates with many people — a consensus can be bought with monopolistic science funding. It explains  why research ...
  • We need a free market in climate science
    This weekend, I’ve got another article in The Weekend Australian. It’s a credit to the Murdoch News team that they are willing to print both points of view. This point is one that resonates with many people — a consensus can be bought with monopolistic science funding. It explains  why research ...
  • BREAKING Australian Carbon Tax Legislation Rel ...
    The Carbon Tax legislation has been released finally: The draft from the Climate Change Department. It’s supposed to be a simple tax on every ton of pollution. But nothing is simple when you try to tax a basic element of life. In a true free market you only need a buyer, a seller and a [...]
  • BREAKING Australian Carbon Tax Legislation Rel ...
    The Carbon Tax legislation has been released finally: The draft from the Climate Change Department. It’s supposed to be a simple tax on every ton of pollution. But nothing is simple when you try to tax a basic element of life. In a true free market you only need a buyer, a seller and a [...]
  • Speedy – better than the real thing
    Speedy posted this skit in the comments thread here at #85. From that sequestered position, it’s taken two weeks but it’s going viral and Oops!,  the satire of Clarke and Dawe is being credited to Clarke and Dawe. I’ve had 6 emails in the last couple of days. Let’s give Speedy some credit! Aust ...

ReNew America

  • Senate rejects Boehner plan, Reid won't allow ...
    (Washington Examiner) - As expected, the U.S. Senate voted 59 to 41 to table House Speaker John Boehner's plan to increase the debt limit that had been passed by the House just hours earlier...
  • The no votes: 22 GOPers who balked Boehner
    (Politico) - Speaker John Boehner pushed his debt-ceiling bill through the House Friday night with the support of 218 Republicans. Here are the 22 no votes...
  • Bachmann, campaigning, touts tough stance on debt
    (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann flaunted her staunch opposition to raising the debt ceiling on Thursday as she made the case she should be elected the next president of the United States...
  • Did Palin urge freshmen to vote against Boehne ...
    (NewsMax) - Is Sarah Palin swaying tea party conservatives to vote against House Speaker John Boehner's debt plan? The former Republican vice presidential nominee put an enigmatic comment on her Facebook page Thursday afternoon that seemed to warn freshman Republicans in the House that they just ...
  • New York Times reader kills dozens in Norway
    (Ann Coulter) - The New York Times wasted no time in jumping to conclusions about Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who staged two deadly attacks in Oslo last weekend, claiming in the first two paragraphs of one story that he was a "gun-loving," "right-wing," "fundamentalist Christian," oppo ...

Truth Offering

  • Diet Myths THEY Don’t Want You To Know
    MyPyramid.....of DEATH!I've been studying health and nutrition for about six years now. In fact, I credit my nutritional awakening with spurring on my awakening in all other aspects of life, from economics to politics. And I'll tell you the crux of what sparked my craving for the truth: Going ba ...
  • Original Music Created for TruthOffering.com b ...
    Talented singer and musician Chris Phenom has created two tracks for TruthOffering.com, and we want to share them with you. Chris's tracks feature some amazing lyrics that relate directly to what we're trying to get at here at TruthOffering.com: the Truth! Listen to what he has to say, and check ...
  • Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
    It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, ...
  • US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
    The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
  • Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
    1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...

2012 Blog

  • NASA: Global Warming Model Wrong
    It is a fact that the average global temperature has not risen in the last decade. This highlights the difference between computer models and actual measurement and observation. Because the computer models vary greatly, we ...NASA: Global Warming Model Wrong is a post from: 2012 Blog Rela ...
  • The Ancient Bunkers of Cappadocia
    Colleagues accuse me of thinking every ancient underground structure was a bunker, and I mostly do. This is one of my favourites. You can do your own research, this is just to let you know ...The Ancient Bunkers of Cappadocia is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:5000+1 Bunkers for Mosc ...
  • Google+ for 2012
    If you have a Google account, there’s a new way of sharing and spreading 2012 information at Google+. My profile is here if you want to add me to a circle: https://plus.google.com/109767201828606148490 If you want an invite ...Google+ for 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:201 ...
  • Locked Gates by Howard West
    There are a few authors out there who have flown beneath the radar, yet their research is unique, interesting and meaningful in a 2012 way. You could blame self-publishing for their lack of fame, yet ...Locked Gates by Howard West is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Giza Pyramids Mimi ...
  • Buy A Dish
    Ever wanted to own a satellite communications dish? For post-SHTF reception or perhaps doing SETI work? Or just because it is cool owning a piece of history? This is the ground station that received the ...Buy A Dish is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Doomsday Bunker News

Facing South

  • VOICES: Hope in Mississippi
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South A hardened, intransigent right-wing has taken over the Republican Party and proved its willingness to take the nation to the economic brink to protect its well-heeled financial backers. Legislators have targeted government workers and immigrants as the source of th ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The apartheid of wealth
    Percent by which the net worth of white U.S. households fell from 2005 to 2009: 16 Of black households: 53 Of Hispanic households: 66 Number of times by which the median wealth of white households now surpasses that of Hispanic households: 18 Of black households: 20 Amount of weal ...
  • Lessons of Tennessee coal ash disaster lost in ...
    An Inspector General's review done in response to the 2008 coal ash disaster at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee has turned up widespread groundwater contamination from coal ash disposal sites at the company's power plants around the South, with some of the po ...
  • VOICES: 'This is what hope looks like'
    As a West Virginia native whose family battled coal companies, Tim DeChristopher understands the perils of life in a resource extraction colony. His experience led him to become an environmental activist who was arrested in 2008 for disrupting a federal government auction of oil and gas leases b ...
  • Is Rick Perry getting cold feet over The Response?
    By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer You've gotta wonder if Rick Perry may come to regret "initiating" The Response, his Christians-only prayer rally. As I documented in a cover story for the Observer, Perry has thrown in with a strange band of fundamentalists from the bleeding edge of American C ...

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Oriental Review

  • Blond Beast and the Future of Terror
    Norway tragedy of the last week would apparently make a tectonic shift in global social processes. It will significantly affect European politics and influence the ideological schemes of the Western world. As always, the mainstream trend describing Anders Behring Breivik as mentally insane solo ...
  • Norway’s Bloodbath Reflects Mental Balka ...
    The avalanche of comments in the wake of the twin terrorist attack in Europe’s exemplary Norway range from expressions of belief that the terrorist at the epicenter of the disaster must be insane and the possibility of recurrences of the situation can be safely discounted to claims that the plot ...
  • Norway’s Enigmatic «Lone Terrorist»
    Anders Breivik already seems to have emerged as one of the XX century’s top-famous terrorists. Day by day his popularity visibly grows not only in the ranks of the European radical right but also among the Europeans with otherwise mainstream views. Grabbing the media headlines, the Oslo and Utoy ...
  • Europe’s Quiet Corner Under Terrorist Attack
    The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the New York Trade Center left the world divided. The US Administration and its giant propaganda machine made huge efforts to convince their audiences that the terrorist act had been perpetrated by Al Qaeda, but the developments that followed pointed w ...
  • Smashing Greater Central Asia (I)
    After ten years of raging warfare in Afghanistan, watching the fight slowly ooze across the invisible Durand Line into Pakistan, we have the right to wonder whether the war is any closer to ending today?  It is  perfectly reasonable to suspect that if we were allowed to know the truth we would u ...

BlogHer

  • Wanna Know If There's An App For That? Well, t ...
    Gonna get all Inception on you. Watch out.Say you're surfing a site and think: "Hmm, I wonder if there's an app for that?" (For the site, that is.) Well, the Googlers want to help make your life a whole lot easier by showing you —in your address bar— if there's an app for that.So to be clear: if ...
  • I Have Two Kids... or Maybe Three
    While my parents are still young, I found myself reading this post by Sarah at Mamas Against Drama with deep interest. My mom has been talking to me a lot as of late how her life has changed since she's been caring for the lot of my grandparents. While no one has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, ...
  • The Great Non-Dairy Ice Cream Taste-Off
    July's the Month of Ice Cream on BlogHer -- and as you know, I adore Month of Anything Food (cf. Month of Pie) and would love to play along. But my stupid tummy hates ice cream. Serve me up more than a teaspoon of frozen dairy -- ice cream, gelato, fro-yo, soft-serve, semifreddo, ice milk, -- an ...
  • New Fuel Economy Standard: 54.5 mpg by 2025
    Clean air lovers rejoice: Cars in the U.S. are going to get a lot more fuel efficient. Earlier today, President Obama -- along with automakers -- announced new fuel economy standards. As NPR reports, "The agreement pledges to double overall fuel economy to 54.5 mpg by 2025, bringing even greater ...
  • Summer Internships and the Price of Privilege
    When Benjamin Franklin said, �An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest,� I am pretty sure he didn�t mean forking over thousands of dollars so your kid could participate in a fancy (unpaid) internship. But that is exactly what parents of privilege are doing this summer.�What?� you ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Avoid Root Canals Like The Plague
    Root canals are almost as common as fillings now; about 60 million are performed every year. “Root canals are almost ALWAYS infected and will nearly always be dripping bacteria into your bloodstream forever. ” Many healthy people ...
  • SMART METERS: A Triple Threat
    The public has been largely shrouded in darkness about Smart Meters implemented without consent, but as they find out more there is growing opposition. They invade privacy (and remove consumer control), are microwave and radiowave ...
  • Agenda 21 In One Easy Lesson
    What’s the deal with Agenda 21 and what are its implications for American citizens? The mysterious protocol with a number is being tossed about and its action items are trickling right down into the city ...
  • Extra Sunlight Cuts Risk Of Diabetes Up To 50%
    After decades of ostracizing the sun, we are finding out more and more just exactly how beneficial an extra touch of sunlight is for prevention. Australia launched one of the largest breakthrough studies on people with ...
  • Walnuts Are ‘Officially’ Drugs &#8 ...
    Last year, the FDA hassled Diamond Foods Walnuts about claims on the packaging that stated omega-3 fatty acids in walnuts have been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease and some types of cancer. ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, July 29, 2011
    A rescuer rests during a break at Sukhodolskaya-Vostochnaya coal mine in Lugansk region, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2011. Eighteen miners died and another 20 were missing Friday after an explosion in the coal mine in eastern Ukraine known to be dangerous due to large methane build-ups, officials ...
  • 20 killed in 2 Ukraine mining accidents
    Relatives of dead miners react at Sukhodolskaya-Vostochnaya coal mine in Lugansk region, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Photomig) Here’s the latest from The Associated Press: KIEV, Ukraine (AP) â A blast at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine and an elevator collapse at another on Friday k ...
  • UMWA blasts W.Va. state museum
    Just in from the United Mine Workers of America, this three-page letter to W.Va. Culture and History Commissioner Randall Reid-Smith, in which UMWA President Cecil Roberts raises major questions about the state museum’s portrayal of coal history: Over the past months, several members of the UMWA ...
  • Results of latest MSHA ‘impact’ in ...
    This just in from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 222 citations, orders and safeguards during special impact inspections conducted at 12 coal mines and two metal/no ...
  • After optimistic MSHA report, 3 more coal deaths
    I’m always wary of news releases or statements that offer optimistic information about the count of coal-mining deaths in our country … and this week offers another example of why. Yesterday, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration issued a news release saying: The U.S. Department of Labo ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussion ...
    via theatlantic.com Habeas Data. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsXKCD Radiation Dose ChartVisualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart | Doug McCuneUpdated Subnetting PostAll-time Data Breaches | Flowing DataA Digital IO WorkflowBrowser CombatEliminating Redund ...
  • ROME | A Google Film
    via ro.me Un. F**king. Believable. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsA Google+ Cheat-SheetHipster SharksEarth vs. Google EarthA Digital IO WorkflowDon’t LikeBrowser CombatDon’t Be a Cryptic Ass
  • Why Some Notables Don’t Believe in God
    Earlier this year, Andrew Zak Williams asked public figures why they believe in God. Now itâs the turn of the atheists â from A C Grayling to P Z Myers â to explain why they donât. via newstatesman.com Click through to the article to read concise explanations for why various notables do not beli ...
  • Google Offers DNS-based Site Optimization Serv ...
    Page Speed Service is the latest tool in Google’s arsenal to help speed up the web. This service is also their most ambitious yet. When you sign up and point your site’s DNS entry to Google, they’ll enable the tool which will fetch your content from your servers, rewrite your webpages, and serve ...
  • A Philosophical Reason for Preferring Apple Ov ...
    The horse is dead. Design, feel, features, openness, customizability — we’ve heard it all. The main arguments are well understood by anyone with an interest in this discussion. But there’s another one that I’ve not heard articulated yet — the argument for why both companies do what they do. Or, ...

Fitwatch

  • Solidarity with Charlie Gilmour
    Predictably there has been a lot of interest and comment on the sentencing of Charlie Gilmour to sixteen months for two counts of violent disorder. It has been both suggested this was lenient because he’ll only do eight months or less on a tag, and that it was a harsher sentence because of his p ...
  • Report from the frontlines of the Ardoyne Oran ...
    Taken from the Workers Solidarity Movement Posted 2011-07-14 Rioting erupted in ‘nationalist areas’ across the North on Tuesday after the annual Orange Order parades. The worst of the trouble was in Ardoyne in North Belfast which left 16 police officers injured and with over 60 lethal plastic bu ...
  • Plastic bullets used in Belfast riots
    It’s hard to comment on a situation when the only information you have is from BBC reports, but the riots that took place in nationalist / republican areas of Belfast after the 12th July Orange Order parades should probably get at least some mention here, and particularly the continued use of pl ...
  • Free Francis Fernie. Resist political sentencing
    Last week, a 20 year old man was given twelve months for violent disorder relating to protests on March 26th outside Fortnum and Masons. He threw two placard sticks, neither of which hurt anyone nor were capable of causing harm. This man, pictured in one of Operation Malone's witch hunts, handed ...
  • 30 Years Since the Liverpool 8 Uprising &#8211 ...
    It was July 1981 when the Liverpool 8 Uprising - or 'Toxteth Riots' as it became known - began. Following the typically aggressive and heavy-handed arrest of Leroy Cooper on Friday 3 July, anger erupted on the streets of one of Liverpool's most deprived areas in one of the most voracious display ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Protests mar Rio, World Cup Party
    breakingnews.ie -Brazil’s 2014 World Cup party began in earnest today but against a background of bickering between organisers and the government, concerns over preparations and a protest by those who claim the tournament is adversely affecting the livelihoods of thousands. A crowd of several hu ...
  • No end to pot free-for-all
    Chico Enterprise-Record – Our view: Caught between the feds and marijuana users, local government just can’t win. There are a couple of stories in Friday’s newspaper that provide a wonderful snapshot of the situation that has afflicted California since the passage of the incredibly vague Proposi ...
  • This is just callous cruelty.
    Sister Lee, WWH – Because it’s Sunday almost 8AM, I turned on Fox instead of MSNBC. I know I should be in some house of worship instead, praying for our very souls. Surprising me, a Democratic Congressman is on with one of the Fox media readers. Suffice it to say they each had their talking [...]
  • Marley’s music, message recalled at Peop ...
    Gary Soulsman The News Journal – WILMINGTON — âItâs hot and makes you feel like youâve arrived in Jamaica.â Jarvis Berry of Coatesville, Pa., felt that way today after ducking into some shade at the Peoplesâ Festival at Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park. He thinks reggae star Bob Marley, who was a ...
  • About Time Man! – Statue honors music le ...
    By JIM SALTER,(AP) â The image is timeless Americana: Chuck Berry hunched over, ready to launch into his famous Duck Walk, picking his Gibson guitar and wailing a song. It’s the image captured in the statue of the man considered by many to be the father of rock and roll, dedicated Friday in the ...

reference frame

  • HadCRUT3: 30% of stations recorded a cooling t ...
    In a previous blog entry, I encouraged you to notice that HadCRUT3 has released the (nearly) raw data from their 5,000+ stations. Temperature trends (in °C/century, in terms of colors) over the whole history as recorded by roughly 5,000 stations included in HadCRUT3. To be discu ...
  • Barack Obama's addicted to spending
    CBS News chose this title - with an extra "Face It" at the beginning - and it is true. It's true that he has not only borrowed nearly 5 trillion dollars in his first three budgets. We can see it's true because of his way of thinking. His speeches leave no room for doubts that he is onl ...
  • Greenpeace has paid for a Volkswagen ad
    The company thanks Two days ago, James Delingpole discussed the topic how the environmentalists abuse little children. I agree with his important words but let me look at it from another perspective. During communism, Czech carmaker Škoda managed to export some cars to th ...
  • HadCRUT3: raw data released
    Many climate blogs and media have reminded us that the Met Office has released the raw data from the weather stations that the HadCRUT3 dataset is based upon. (This dataset is co-managed by East Anglia University which was the main player of the Climategate.) I re-learned about the URL ...
  • Main polar bear alarmist put on leave, investi ...
    Scientific misconduct almost certainly demonstrable You may have forgotten about it but one of the early stimuli that energized the recent wave of hysteria about the so-called "global warming" was a claimed observation of four dead polar bears floating on the sea after a thunderstorm i ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • The End of Fear – Follow in the steps of ordin ...
    Το τέλος του φÏβου… The end of fear… by magiconteam Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Stop Living In Fear! Stop living in fear! It lowers your vibrations and helps... Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Radio 13 Aug 2010 Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Ra ...
  • Darwin was right: Arrival of the Post-Petroleu ...
    Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial civilization. The star ...
  • Greek Revoultion is now Live
    I am streaming the coverage of protests from Greece. It will run as long as the video feed keeps coming to me. Just so you know…Greece is 7 hours ahead of EST. LIVE STREAMING: Γενική Απεργία ενάντια στο… by News247 Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Postcards from the G ...
  • Burzynski Cures Cancer – The Magic of Antineop ...
    THIS VIDEO WILL BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE OWNER ON JUNE 20 2011 Curing cancer is frowned upon big government and BIG PHARMA, especially when the patent for the cure is owned by a single doctor, and they can’t have a taste of the pie. So what do they do? They sick their hound dog, [...] Related p ...
  • French Whistleblowers reaveal the set up of Do ...
    I saw this over at SGTReport.com and it is worth repeating here. French insiders reveal the reason why DSK had to be taken out. It was all about the missing gold baby. Watch this one explode before summer is out. Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Commodities / Gold and ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • GAO Flunks Some States on Tap Water Quality Mo ...
    By Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A new report from the Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, shows that a number of states have made serious errors in tap... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • GAO Knocks EPA Tap Water Monitoring
    By Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A new report from Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, shows that a number of states have made serious errors in tap water... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Reusing Your Gray Water: State Laws Vary for H ...
    By Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst Recently, we took a look at the water-saving potential of residential "gray" water, which, naturally, leads people to wonder: Can I use this technology in my home, too? The answer? It depends. Some... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
  • GAO to EPA: Improve Implementation of Safe Dri ...
    By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst, Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant, and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A Government Accountability Office investigation released last week has found that the Environmental... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • New & Improved: Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011
    By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011, introduced June 24 by Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) has a simple aim: to give the federal Food and Drug Administration... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • What Kurosawa's 'Dreams' says about the creati ...
    "Man is a genius when he is dreaming."�Akira Kurosawa It�s fitting that Dreams is screening in the middle of the IFC Center�s career-spanning retrospective of Akira Kurosawa�s films and not at the end. Though Kurosawa has said that, �my films come from my ...
  • The sad story of Steinbrenner-scarred Hideki I ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • Another whipping from Manchester United, but t ...
    HARRISON, N.J.—Two men, both in Manchester United garb, were talking as they walked toward Wednesday night's match between the Red Devils and a Major League Soccer All-Star team at Red Bull Arena.“They wanted me to buy things that said 'Manchester United’ ...
  • Silicon Island? Often-fractious Roosevelt Isla ...
    Roosevelt Island wants to have a research and engineering campus, very badly. And so a number of local officials joined councilmember Jessica Lappin, whose district includes the 2.5-mile long stretch of Roosevelt Island, in a press conference that was a pi ...
  • Soarin'! Already! Santonio Holmes breaks out t ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More

Views & News from Norway

  • One survivor’s harrowing tale
    SPECIAL FEATURE: Among the hundreds of people on the island of Utøya when a killer attacked on July 22, 2011 was 23 year old Tore Sinding Bekkedal from Oslo. He has written his version of what happened on that terrible Friday afternoon at the summer camp for the Norwegian Labour Party’s youth o ...
  • Cathedral concert honours victims
    A memorial concert held at Oslo Cathedral for the victims, survivors and emergency service personnel involved in the terror attacks on Oslo and Utøya island was seen by thousands of Norwegians and others from around the world on the night of Saturday 30 July. The event, organized by Norwegian B ...
  • Breivik planned palace attack
    The confessed perpetrator of the Oslo and Utøya attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, planned to attack the royal palace and the Labour Party’s headquarters in central Oslo as well as other locations that would “hit the government,” the Norwegian police have revealed. Newspaper VG reports that Brei ...
  • Terror threat unchanged, confessed gunman unde ...
    Norway’s special police intelligence unit PST announced that the overall threat of terror from extreme groups on both the right and left side in Norway hasn’t changed as a result of last week’s attacks. Meanwhile, the man behind those attacks underwent a second full day of questioning at the mai ...
  • All attack victims identified
    Norwegian police and forensic specialists have now finished identifying all the victims of last Friday’s bombing of government headquarters in Oslo and a subsequent massacre at the Labour Party youth organization’s summer camp on Utøya, an island in the Tyri Fjord. The final death toll was set ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • 50 Million Trees and Counting: Trees for the F ...
    Here’s some great weekend inspiration to encourage you into a more productive new week. I think you’ll enjoy this one. Duration: 9 mins
  • Permaculture Featured on New York Times
    We all know the world is looking for answers to very pressing questions — so it’s high time the mainstream media started to share them! As such, it’s great to see the following article on the New York Times website. Thanks to New York Times writer Michael Tortorello, and well done to Wayne Weis ...
  • Why Have Permaculture Design Courses for Women?
    What: Permaculture Design Course for Women When: 30 October — 12 November, 2011 Where: Just up the road from the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm, at Eternity Springs Art Farm Cost: AU$950 Why set up permaculture design courses just for women? There are both practical and historical reasons to do so. L ...
  • Letters from Slovakia – Contemplating the Roma ...
    In a world of decreasing energy excess, will ancient hostilities get reignited or defused? What will peak oil and economic collapse mean for our human relationships if we fail to prepare for the stress ahead? “It was a dark and misty night…” So begins many a dramatic work of fiction. I am not ...
  • Rob Hopkins: Transition to a World Without Oil
    Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement, gives a great TED Talk.

Pointman's

  • On murderous madmen.
    The tragic events of last week in Norway do give you pause for thought. How could anyone do that and especially to defenseless young people? Does it say something about us all? Are we all capable of doing something like that? The answer is no and thatâs not just my subjective opinion, itâs a fac ...
  • You gotta have a sense of humour …
    You look at stuff and you wonder. Maybe you donât, maybe a lot of people donât, maybe they never do. Well, I do. I suppose itâs just me being an awkward cuss but at this stage in the game, Iâm pretty reconciled to that. You are what you are, so just chaw down and get … Read more
  • Words of wisdom from the Goracle of Helpme.
    Alâs fallen on hard times. Long gone are the days of the $100,000 appearance fee at speaking engagements. Most of that all went into that Chicago Carbon Exchange thingy which didnât turn out to be such a smart investment after all. Anyway, you canât keep a good man down so heâs working on a come ...
  • The Al Gore Climate Reality Event : A call to ...
    Thereâs an interesting proposal being made at Anthony Wattâs site WUWT to fight the upcoming Al Gore Climate Reality Event scheduled for Sept. 14th 2011. In essence, it suggests setting up a central resource which will contain quotes by global warming high priests. Whatâs being called for is yo ...
  • Internet Security 3: The Worst Sort Of Predator.
    This is a nasty, distasteful and distressing area to post a topic on but if it saves the happy childhood of one kid, itâll be worth it. If you’re a parent, which I am, anything like this is tough going but Iâd encourage you to read on. I think it was Will Rogers who said … Read more

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute C ...
    From our friends with Urban Bush Women: On Saturday, July 30th at 3:00 and 7:00, Urban Bush Women (UBW) presents the culminating performance for its third New Orleans Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) at Lusher Charter School's Goldring Auditorium, 7315 Willow Street, (Jeanette Street Entr ...
  • Devastating Report Exposes Feinberg's Unequal ...
    Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) set up in the aftermath of the BP Drilling Disaster, has broken with his own past practices - as well as the evidence compiled by scientists and the experience of Gulf Coast residents - to deny all health claims filed by Gu ...
  • Highlights in Local Activism Against the Priso ...
    Here on the Louisiana Justice Institute blog, we have been following developments in the Danziger Bridge investigation and other police violence and corruption cases, as well as activism against abuses at Orleans Parish Prison and other aspects of the Prison Industrial Complex, since early on th ...
  • Prosecution Rests in Danziger Trial
    The article below originally appeared on the New Orleans Tribune/Tribune Talk website The prosecution rested its case this week in the Danziger Bridge police violence trial with one final witness testimony, perhaps the most moving. Lesha Bartholomew, who was 17 at the time of the incident, b ...
  • Rethinkers Speak Out on Childhood Obesity and ...
    From our Friends at ReThink: Candy Bars, Prison Bars How Schools Can Reverse the Major Youth Epidemics of Our Times The unstoppable Rethinkers - school reformers, aged 8-18 - want to interrupt what they call "the two biggest youth epidemics of our time," childhood obesity and the school-to-p ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    This gives me 5 days to think about keeping the site open or not ___________________________________________________________________ his is a notice that an invoice has been generated on 31/07/2011. Your payment method is: PayPal Invoice #xxxxx Amount Due: $105.00 USD Due Date: 01/08/2011 ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Nice article MSMD. Excellent points. EJP is obviously a shill. His arguments are ridiculous.Statistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:48 am
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    bluejelly wrote: Yes, Breivik was not fully on our page, but certainly taking down the children of politicians and future wannabe labor politicians.......I do not feel any remorse for those people. ... In some aspects, the gantlet has been thrown down, I don't know what is going to come from it ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    I think it's fair to say that in light of these revelations Norris will not now be future president of Ireland. It's Jewish tinkering in the democratic process of a state were there is only a handful of Jews. This letter was released by the Israeli embassy. Norris was an outspoken critic of ...
  • Zionist Influence/Power • Opus Judei
    Editorial Comment: You will be surprised to find that "Saint" (barf, gag) Escriva, founder of the Opus Dei organization embodies things which I'm sure many of you cannot begin to reconcile within your minds. On the one hand, he was a dedicated fascist who defended Hitler, Mussolini and Franco ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • New Fuel Economy Standard Agreed to by White H ...
    The Obama administration and U.S. automakers have agreed on a new fuel economy standard that would require cars and light trucks to achieve an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, a target that officials say will reduce U.S. fuel consumption 40 percent below today’s levels and cut greenhous ...
  • ‘Land Grab’ in Africa Threatens Continent’s Fo ...
    China, India, Libya, Saudi Arabia and other countries are buying up vast amounts of farmland in Africa, threatening the food security of millions of impoverished people on the continent, according to a new study. The Worldwatch Institute reports that to ensure the food security of their own peo ...
  • UK Offshore Wind Sector is Fastest-Growing in ...
    The vast majority of new offshore wind turbines built in European waters this year have been installed in the UK, according to the European Wind Energy EWEA Association. Of 108 new turbines installed off the European coast during the first half of 2011, 101 were built in the UK. But so far only ...
  • Warming Arctic Temperatures Cause Release of L ...
    Warming temperatures in the Arctic are causing the release of toxic pollutants long trapped in the region’s ice, snow, and ocean waters, a new study says. In an analysis of air-monitoring data collected at sites in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago and the Canadian province of Nunavut, researchers s ...
  • Arctic Blog: A Place for Wildlife In the Natio ...
    In the third in a series of blogs from the Arctic, biologist Steve Zack, of the Wildlife Conservation Society, explains how he and other scientists are assessing key Steve Zack blogs from the Arctic for Yale e360. The third in a series. wildlife habitats within the 23-million-acre National ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Booking Granny
    By Alison@Creekside There's just so much wrong with this news story about the Canada Border Services Agency arresting and jailing a 66-year old woman for 12 days, for trafficking, possessing, and importing heroin, because their swab-test of a jar of motor oil in her vehicle incorrectly iden ...
  • Stockwell Day: The result of insane, extreme r ...
    By Alison@Creekside CBC Power & Politics on the Oslo massacre, at noon Friday, edited: Evan Solomon: This raises again the spectre of international terrorism. Stockwell Day: As recently as July 8th in Norway there was a dragnet for al-Qaeda suspects related to the Manchester bombing. Whethe ...
  • Bob Rae, Super-Elite!
    By Frank Moher Oh, grow a sense of humour, already. Canadian novelist Kenneth J. Harvey's piece in today's Globe, "Thank you, Bob Rae, for stealing my plane seat," is inspiring an unseemly fuss among my facebook and twitter peeps. Harvey's article, a funny and typically shrewd account of his ...
  • Canada’s startups get the flag
    By Mark Evans Canada’s startup landscape is healthier than ever, as evidenced by the recent International Startup Festival in Montreal. Putting aside the ambitious name (I would have selected something like the Canadian Startup Festival), the fact that it was well-organized and well-attend ...
  • Where is James Moore?
    By Frank Moher Two weeks ago in this space I wrote about the Conservative government's politically-motivated decision to withdraw funding from the Toronto theatre and arts festival, SummerWorks. To recap: Last year, the company presented a play, Homegrown, that the Prime Minister's Office dec ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Settsu handcuffs batters as Hawks sweep F's
    Tadashi Settsu tossed eight shutout innings, leading the charge as the front-running Softbank Hawks beat the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 2-0 to complete a three-game sweep on Sunday. Settsu (9-5), who yielded just two hits, walked three and struck out seven, threw batters off balance with an ...
  • Debt surrealists defy reality: What looks like ...
    Images of "The Treachery of Images," the painting by the Belgian artist Rene Magritte, who wrote "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe") under his his impeccable portrait of a smoking pipe, keeps flashing off and on in my mind as I look at what is going on in the increasingly surreal wo ...
  • ASEAN rises to a challenge
    Last week a sense of optimism wafted out of the Bali meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ASEAN and China agreed on "guidelines" for implementing their previously agreed 2002 Declaration on Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC). Some players including China hailed ...
  • Power unions donate ¥100 million to DPJ
    The ruling Democratic Party of Japan accepted more than �100 million in donations over a three-year period through 2009 from political groups formed by electric utility unions, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday. With power company executives already known to have made large contributions to th ...
  • Colts sign Manning to longer deal
    Peyton Manning has a new long-term deal in time to report to training camp. He still hasn't been cleared to practice.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Decarbonizing Homes and the Price of Gas
    Our climate justice framework for BC is to eliminate fossil fuels by 2040. In the household sector, this poses a significant challenge, not so much in terms of technology and knowledge, but because natural gas is much cheaper than electricity per unit of energy. Even though BC has among the lowe ...
  • Understanding Québec’s Orange Wave Part Three: ...
    Simon Tremblay-Pepin is a researcher at IRIS, a Montreal-based progressive think tank. In my previous two posts I discussed how neither a rise in left-wing sentiment nor a surge in support for the federalist option caused the “orange wave” in Québec during the last federal election. I will now o ...
  • Understanding Québec’s Orange Wave Part Two: W ...
    Simon Tremblay-Pepin is a researcher at IRIS, a Montreal-based progressive think tank. In my previous post, I addressed how Québec was not reinventing itself as a socialist haven. I will now attempt to show that the NDP’s impressive showing in Québec does not indicate a rejection of sovereignty. ...
  • Understanding Québec’s Orange Wave Part one: a ...
    Simon Tremblay-Pepin is a researcher at IRIS a Montreal-based left-wing think tank. From an outsider’s point of view, the last federal election may give the impression that a majority of Québécois(es) has converted to social democracy and asymmetrical federalism. This analysis aims to demonstrat ...
  • Financial Crisis as a Way of Life
    By Ellen Russell (as appeared in Rabble, July 14, 2011) From Wall Street to Iceland to Greece to Ireland, the world is lurching from one financial crisis to the next.   The financial panic of 2008 has morphed into the era of financial crises. If you think you live in an oasis away from financial ...

ReDress

  • Israel and the American Jewish voter
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the bizarre phenomenon of a Democratic and a Republican candidate fighting a congressional election in a New York district not over national or local issues, but over which of the two is more loyal to Israel.
  • Norwegian mass murderer Breivik's ideological ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's ideological and spiritual soulmates in Britain: pro-Israel advocate Melanie Phillips and the equally pro-Israel racist far right, such as the English Defence League and the neo-conservative Zionist blog Harry’s Place.
  • Death and contradiction: the case of Iran’s nu ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers two contradictions underlying US policy towards Iran: on the one hand an anti-Iranian, anti-Muslim and pro-Israel worldview manifested in, among other things, the murder of Iranian nuclear scientists on the pretext that Iran represents a nuclear threat, and on the oth ...
  • Norway's monster and the poison of Zionist pro ...
    How much was the mind of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik conditioned and warped by Zionist propaganda as peddled with the assistance of Christian fundamentalism by much of the Western mainstream media and many websites?
  • Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik's fello ...
    Gilad Atzmon views an article by Zionist writer and former Trotskyite David Horowitz, written on the eve of the Utoeye Island massacre in Norway, "which could well have provided mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik with all the motivation he needed to commit his crime".

Physics Today

  • Earth's first Trojan asteroid found
    National Geographic: Earth's first Trojan asteroid, 2010 TK7, has been discovered. About 1000 feet wide, it travels with Earth around the Sun at a distance of about 50 million miles, writes Ker Than for National Geographic. Trojans are bodies that exist in orbital "sweet spots" between Lagrange ...
  • House Republicans target environmental rules v ...
    New York Times: Even as the House, Senate, and White House wrangle over raising the US debt ceiling, Congressional appropriators are at work writing bills that fix spending for the next fiscal year, which begins on 1 October. As the New York Times's Leslie Kaufman reports, the House version of t ...
  • Black hole collision may have set off firework ...
    Science: Evidence suggests that the now quiescent, supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way experienced a period of intense activity a few million years ago that produced some of the highest-energy radiation in the universe. A pair of gamma ray-emitting gas bubbles that seem to ha ...
  • Detecting a driver's brain waves can cut braki ...
    BBC: Benjamin Blankertz and his colleagues at the Berlin Institute for Technology have demonstrated in the lab that it's possible to detect a driver's intention to brake before he or she actually brakes. In their experiment, volunteers drove an arcade-like simulator and were given the task of ke ...
  • Huge Arctic fire had big impact on carbon cycle
    BBC: A paper published today in Nature warns of a feedback mechanism that could accelerate the impact of global warming in the Arctic region. The unusually dry summer of 2007 helped to fuel the Anaktuvuk River fire, which destroyed as much Alaskan tundra as did all previous fires since 1950. Led ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show-33,'
    by footprints (Posted Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:43:59 GMT) Episode 30-Season Four Filmed November 21st 2011 Duration-45 Minutes Omar Abdulla: Welcome to The 'Omar Abdulla,' SHOW filmed in Vancouver where the 'city never sleeps...' Footprints Filmworks is proud to honor an advertisement deal of $4 m ...
  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show-32,'
    by footprints (Posted Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:26:04 GMT) Episode 29-Season Four Filmed 19 November 2011 Duration-45 Minutes Omar Abdulla: Welcome to The 'Omar Abdulla,' SHOW filmed today at the Kiddies Campus in Ottawa...Today, we are joined by parents Zenobia Kallis and Eshaq Kallis who have be ...
  • Norway massacre is a false flag
    by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:00:26 GMT) It's a false flag attack. The killer said he hates Muslims but what his target were the sons and daughters of the government elites. He was born in Norway and chose as his targets not Muslims whose presence he detests, but the Labor Party ...
  • CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists
    by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:42:36 GMT) 675. Virus attack and boat sinking (7/19/2011) In web site unforumzed.com, a man kept on suggesting me to stop post the revelation article. Cake Balls by Autumn: “Maybe if you stopped posting crap all over the internet, the FBI wouldn't be ...
  • News media won't report
    by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:38:52 GMT) Quote, "Late Night Snack: Arrested in Orlando for Feeding the Homeless July 2, 2011By Sarah Jones Food Not Bombs activists get arrested for feeding the homeless, chanting “Food is a right, not a privilege”. Twice a week, these activists gat ...

Peakwater

  • LAOS: Villagers brace for relocation as dam pr ...
    “I don’t have any power over this decision,” said Ting, 50, who like other Lao villagers, goes by only one name. He earns a living ferrying passengers across the Mekong River in a motorized skiff and lives in Pakmon, a village of 150 families just 30km upstream from the proposed US$3.8 billion d ...
  • Can water end the Arab-Israeli conflict?
    “Around three weeks ago on a late Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers armed with a truck and a digger entered the Palestinian village of Amniyr and destroyed nine water tanks . One week later, Israeli forces demolished water wells and water pumps in the villages of Al-Nasaryah, Al-Akrabanyah and ...
  • Water Woes, Tensions And Wars
    “The water spring lies in our area and you dare connect pipes and take away all our water?” shouts Rajesh Thapa, a resident of the upper Tara at Sita Ram Dahal, a resident from the lower Gadhi. “There’s not enough water for us. Our water mills are drying up and if this continues, we don’t [...]
  • Santa Cruz City Council OKs studying water swa ...
    “The council unanimously agreed to join a study with regional water agencies for swapping supplies, an idea explored but abandoned 21 years ago. In recent years, however, the county had laid the groundwork for a new study funded by a state grant that will evaluate trading water between Santa Cru ...
  • Kalamazoo River Oil Spill One-Year Anniversary
    “The Lakehead Line 6B re-opened in September, and today carries 1,020,600 gallons per day of medium to heavy grades of crude oil from Griffith, Ind., to Sarnia, Ontario, traversing southern Michigan under communities such as Niles, Mendon, Marshall and Howell, according to the company’s websit ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Why I Voted for Senator Reid’s Revis ...
    Washington D.C. (July 30, 2011) � Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after voting in favor of Senator Reid�s revised bill to raise the debt ceiling. �I have had and continue to have serious concerns about Senator Reid�s revised bill.� The cuts to discretio ...
  • “The American People Do Not Want Us to Burn Do ...
    Washington D.C. (July 29, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today delivered the following speech on the floor of the House of Representatives. See video here. “Here’s how we can take a couple steps back from the brink of default: “First, raise the debt ceiling until December 31, 2012 ...
  • “We are the United States of America, the grea ...
    Washington D.C. (July 28, 2011) � Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today went to the House floor to outline the steps we can take to avoid default and lead America out of debt. See the video here. The full text of Congressman Kucinich�s remarks follow: �Here is what we should do to avoid def ...
  • Kucinich: UN Mandate to Protect Libyan Civilia ...
    Kucinich Renews Call for Ceasefire and Political Solution Washington D.C. (July 26, 2011) � Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime proponent of peace, today wrote to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressing his concern �that the United Nations is selectively applying i ...
  • Kucinich: White House Now Conceals Plan to Cut ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement: �Last Friday, the President told the nation that he offered a plan that would cut $650 billion from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Last night in his address to the nation, the President didn�t want to �bore� Ame ...

Authentically Wired

  • PIRATE RADIO
    � �� The movie ��PIRATE RADIO �� 2009 �� is what some may consider an irreverent look at the foundation of government�s unrelenting need to control �� And for my money �� it is �� and thank God �� set in circa 1960�s when England/Great Britain declared war on airing of any �rock and roll� [...]
  • Food chain sacrificed for profit$ …
    � �� Contemplate if you will the effect of GMO alfalfa into our �food-chain� �� dairy �� eggs �� beef �� sheep �� cheese �� ice cream �� welcome to Mon$anto�$ world �� � Incompetence Sets A Precedent � GE Alfalfa 07-29-2011 ��� �Farm Wars The GE alfalfa case (Forage Genetics and Monsanto v Geert ...
  • Watch the video then contemplate …
      ⦠A cancer perspective not supported by Monsanto ⦠the American Cancer Society ⦠         âbigâ pharma ⦠  Watch the video then contemplate ⦠  Advocating a sea change in the way we understand and confront cancer, ‘Anticancer’ is a radical synthesis of science and personal experience, an ...
  • So just what the hell do you really expect AG/ ...
    � �� So you really think AG/Horne will do anything about it �� so far he�s chosen to run from the Sen. Lori �cute-pink-gun� Klein incident �� run from the Sen. Scott �I�m a legislator you can�t touch me� Bundgaard assault incident �� leave Sheriff Joe�s 145 degree tent city jail fully operationa ...
  • can you spell terrified …
    �� HELLO �� can you spell terrified �� Bush explains slow reaction to September 11 attacks � VIEW VIDEO HERE �� http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/094023-2011-07-29-bush-explains-slow-reaction-to-september-11-attacks.htm?From=News 07-29-2011 ��� �Reuters Former President George W. Bush says his ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Brazilian senator: Forest Code reform necessar ...
    Over the past twenty years Brazil has emerged as an agricultural superpower: today it is the largest exporter beef, sugar, coffee, and orange juice, and the second largest producer of soybeans. While much of this growth has been fueled by a sharp increase in productivity resulting from improved ...
  • Forest Code bill could undermine sustainable g ...
    In May Brazil's House of Representatives passed a bill that will reform the country's Forest Code, which requires farmers and ranchers in the Amazon to maintain a legal forest reserve amounting to 80 percent of total landholdings. Environmentalists say the bill, which is undergoing revision bef ...
  • Dung beetles: a sewage SWAT team
    Biology Professor Doug Emlen speaks with Laurel Neme on her 'The WildLife' radio show and podcast about the biology and armaments of dung beetles. An expert on the evolution and development of bizarre shapes in insects, Emlen notes that dung beetles are one of the 'kings' of odd morphology.
  • How do we save Africa's forests?
    Africa's forests are fast diminishing to the detriment of climate, biodiversity, and millions of people of dependent on forest resources for their well-being. But is the full conservation of Africa's forests necessary to mitigate global climate change and ensure environmental stability in Africa ...
  • Could palm oil help save the Amazon?
    For years now, environmentalists have become accustomed to associating palm oil with large-scale destruction of rainforests across Malaysia and Indonesia. Campaigners have linked palm oil-containing products like Girl Scout cookies and soap products to smoldering peatlands and dead orangutans. ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • And now, a car that cooks tea
    Nissan and Mitsubishi say their electric cars can be used for more than just going to the grocery store. Soon, the battery-powered vehicles may also help owners cook dinner during a blackout.Mitsubishi is working to increase the...
  • Virus kills fifth horse in New South Wales
    A fifth horse has died from the Hendra virus in New South Wales. The horse died at a property near Mullumbimby on the NSW north coast, the Department of Primary Industries confirmed. Four other horses on the quarantined property...
  • China's deep sea sub probes ocean's riches
    China has boldly gone where few nations have gone before. It has sent a manned submersible vessel to a depth of 5000m below the sea in its attempt to dominate the scientific exploration of the mineral-rich seabed.The Jiaolong, China's...
  • Owen Glenn: Use science, technology to be inno ...
    In the second of a series leading up to the election, Owen Glenn says exporters' form matters even more than the All Blacks'. Every four years, rugby puts New Zealand on the world stage. Our exporters do the same every day.Unlike...
  • Study: Earth shares its orbit with tiny asteroid
    Like a poodle on a leash, a tiny asteroid runs ahead of Earth on the planet's yearlong strolls around the sun, scientists report.The discovery of this companion, which measures only about 300 meters across, makes Earth the fourth...

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  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Reason Writers in the New York Post: ...
    Writing in the Sunday New York Post, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch criticize the serial abuses of language in the debt-ceiling debate. Sample: A funny thing happened on the way to a resolution over raising the nation's credit limit: The most basic definitions of easy-to-unders ...
  • Reason.tv - What We Saw at the Save Our School ...
    On July 30th, 2011, teachers, parents and advocates such as actor Matt Damon, author Jonathan Kozol, and historian Diane Ravitch gathered for the Save Our Schools Rally outside the White House. The purpose of the event: "To put the public back in public schools." Re ...
  • Attn, Portland Reasonoids: Matt Welch & Ni ...
    Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch will be at the celebrated Portland, Oregon bookstore Powell's City of Books on Burnside on Monday, August 1 to talk about and sign copies of their new book, The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What Wrong's With Ameri ...
  • Must Cowboy Poets Die for America to Live? PJT ...
    Reason's Nick Gillespie talked with PJTV's James Poulos about the debt limit's impact on cowboy poets, whether John Boehner and Harry Reid are up to their jobs, and how hate mail is actually a sign that we've never been so free... Click above to watch at PJTV (registration may be r ...
  • Harry Reid Happy to Play Politics With the Deb ...
    In the debt limit debate, Democratic leadership has spent a lot of time complaining about Republicans being intransigent, refusing to work together, and playing politics rather than working toward solutions. Of course, as Byron York notes, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid's vote rec ...

Mercury Rising

  • Growth Dance Religion
    Near the depths of Plains Indians defeats in the American conquest, the Paiute shaman Wovoka had a vision of the Second Coming of Christ in which the resurrected Jesus promised to save the Indians from the white man. The new religion was widely adopted. (The religion figured in the massacre at W ...
  • Default now appears inevitable
    43 Republican Senators Sign Letter Opposing Reid Debt Plan Of course, three Republicans could decline to join a filibuster. Looking at who signed the letter, even the so-called “responsible Republicans” (Lugar, McCain) are on board with blowing things up. I guess that the Democrats could cave an ...
  • Nouriel lays his marker
    No link. * Need to narrow deficit by 5.4% of GDP ($800B) * Should raise taxes by 2.4%, cut expenditures by 3% * Spending cuts must include military and entitlements * Should backload austerity * Plans on the table are exactly opposite of optimal * If there is no course change, there will be a [...]
  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Alexander sleeps very cute.
  • Dripdripdrip: the water torture of Rupert Murdoch
    Just when you think the Murdoch phone hacking scandal can’t get uglier, it does. Nick Davies and Amelia Hill, The Guardian: Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targ ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Trending Dissent
    We all remember "Change" so well, possibly because it has collapsed on itself with an embarrassing irony that characterizes the monstrous absurdities and doublespeak throughout modern Americanism.  Now, nearly four years since the Bush Administration, "#fuckyouwashington" has become a trending ...
  • Has Burning Man Reached Its Limits?
    � The sell out of this year's Burning Man, for the first time ever, has created a firestorm of debate across the burner community. The sight of tickets being sold on eBay at around $1000 each has shaken up the burner ethos of participation and radical inclusion. For the first time, Burning ...
  • A Manifesto at the Burner Apocalypse
    "I support irresponsible optimism." -- Gallactik Flleet Komander "When life gives you lemons, make art." -- Surface Taktical Advizor � Dearest Burner community, read more
  • Tantric Giveaway
    [Reality Booty] •  RS is giving away 3 Ananda Nidra’s Tantric Meditation albums. Share your thoughts on how tantra has changed your life, or why you deserve a copy to win a CD.  The Reality Sandwich editorial crew will select their 3 favorite entries on August 4. --- read more
  • Sacred Economics: Chapter 5, "The Corpse of th ...
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Desertification

  • EAST AFRICA: Massive Aid Needed to Stave off D ...
    International donors have given more than one billion dollars to ease the famine in Somalia and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa, but U.N. officials say another billion will be needed to prevent the situation from deteriorating in other areas.
  • Eleven Million at Risk in Horn of Africa
    "I have never seen anything like it. Many mothers have lost three or four children. It's a tragedy out here," Austin Kennan, regional director for the Horn of Africa for Concern Worldwide, told IPS from within the crisis zone.
  • UN: Somalia Is 'Worst Humanitarian Disaster'
    The head of the United Nations refugee agency has described the situation in drought-hit Somalia as the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world, after meeting with those affected at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
  • Dam Project in Turkey Breeds Controversy
    The tranquillity and mystery of this town on the banks of Tigris River will not last long. The millennia-old town will be nearly totally destroyed once the nearby Ilisu dam, built for energy and irrigation, is complete.
  • AFRICA: Eco-Labels "Greenwashing" Forest Explo ...
    "Eco-label fatigue" is setting in as green logging certification schemes are undermining proper government management of forest resources while "greenwashing" private ownership of these public resources, critics say.

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Islamic Force Rises in Tunisia
    The fundamentalist Ennahda party seems poised to take advantage of a chaotic situation ahead of general elections in Tunisia. Ennahda and other Islamist parties are taking advantage of the Aug. 2 deadline for registration for elections coinciding with the start of the holy month of Ramad ...
  • SPAIN: "Indignant" Demonstrators Marching to B ...
    Protesters from several European Union cities have begun to follow the example of hundreds of demonstrators from Spain who are marching from Madrid to Brussels, the bloc's de facto capital, in a growing protest against the effects of the economic crisis and the fiscal adjustment policies adopt ...
  • Water Crisis Offers Chance for Unity over Strife
    As record-breaking temperature highs and rapidly melting ice caps fuel fears about impending "water wars", some experts in Washington say that the threat of full-blown conflict is exaggerated, adding that robust institutions and solid treaties could transform water crises into internat ...
  • Fish Swim in Israel's Desert
    "It wasn't easy to convince people that growing fish in the desert makes sense," reminisces marine biologist Samuel Appelbaum, peering through the opaque water where thousands of barramundi are being harvested.
  • MEXICO: The Long March to Justice for Migrants
    For the second time in a little over a month, Wilfredo, a 26-year-old Salvadoran construction worker, is trying to make it into the United States without papers to join his sister in Arlington, Texas.

Scoop - NZ

  • Are cancers newly evolved species ?
    Cancer patients may view their tumors as parasites taking over their bodies, but this is more than a metaphor for Peter Duesberg, a molecular and cell biology professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Cancerous tumors are parasitic organisms, he said. Each one is a new species that ...
  • IT giants 'ripping off Whitehall'
    Government departments have been ripped off by an "oligopoly" of IT giants, a damning report by a committee of MPs has found. Some were paying as much as 10 times the commercial rate for equipment and up to £3,500 on a single desktop PC. The public administration committee said an "obscene ...
  • US report: end loan guarantees to Israel by 2012
    An internal report of the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of State recommends terminating the U.S. loan guarantee program to Israel at the end of 2011.
  • Thatcher’s biographer: the left may be right
    It has taken me more than 30 years as a journalist to ask myself this question, but this week I find that I must: is the Left right after all? You see, one of the great arguments of the Left is that what the Right calls “the free market” is actually a set-up. The rich run a global sys ...
  • Amy Goodman: Questions hanging over Murdoch, USA
    The contagion affecting News Corp has spread rapidly in the US. The FBI is investigating potential criminal hacking of the voicemails of victims of the 9/11 attacks. Lawmakers and grassroots groups are also calling for an investigation into whether the bribing of police was a violation of the Fo ...

Independent - London

  • Syrian army kills 62 in attacks
    Syrian security forces killed at least 62 people today in an escalation of the crackdown on protests ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, activists and residents said.
  • Bomb kills 11 at police HQ in Afghanistan
    A suicide bomber blew himself up today at the gate of the police headquarters in Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan, killing at least five security officers in a city where Afghans have recently taken control of security.
  • At least five die in Moscow riverboat collision
    A riverboat collision with a barge in central Moscow killed at least five people and the death toll may rise to 10, Interfax news agency said today, citing an official investigating the accident.
  • Seven killed in China stabbing rampage
    Seven people were killed and 22 injured when two knife-wielding men hijacked a truck and then attacked a crowd, Chinese police sources said.
  • Afghan civilians pay lethal price for new poli ...
    Civilians are bearing the brunt of the international forces' onslaught against the Taliban as the coalition rushes to pacify Afghanistan before pulling out its troops, it was claimed last night.

Rogue Government.com

  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
  • Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
    A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.
  • Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
    The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...
  • Australian kids are living in climate of fear
    On the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon tax package announcement, psychologists and scientists said the lessons were alarmist, created unneeded anxiety among school children and endangered their mental health.
  • Over 1,400 arrested, tear gas fired in Malays ...
    Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government.

Innovation Canada

  • Always wear sunscreen
    As the summer signals hot weather and long days at the beach, doctors, cosmeticians and mothers everywhere rally to proffer their standard warning: “Always wear sunscreen.” But for people who are allergic to sunblock, like Elda Scaiano, it is impossible to wear commercial sunscreens. Fortunately ...
  • Virtual practice makes perfect
    For Halifax-based neurosurgeon David Clarke, the Monday-afternoon surgery session of Aug. 17, 2009, was anything but routine. For starters, his patient’s brain tumour was located in a tricky spot, close to the delicate part of the brain that controls speech. A small slip of the scalpel either wa ...
  • A powerful elixir
    The good news is that there are more than a million cancer survivors in Canada. The bad news is that they live with the long-term effects of treatment, including extreme fatigue, memory and attention problems, bone density loss, leading to fractures, and a sometimes debilitating anxiety over can ...
  • No more slipping through the cracks
    At any given time, some 19,000 children are in foster care in Ontario, placed there for their protection by one of the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies (CAS). While CAS caseworkers write meticulous reports on the children who pass through the system, the details contained in the thousands ...
  • Back home on the range
    It’s a little-known fact: Half the Earth’s surface is foraged by domesticated animals, which has enormous impacts on our increasingly precious fresh water. In British Columbia alone, about 50 percent of mostly crown land is licensed to ranchers who need forage and water for their 400,000 head of ...

Signs of the times

  • Deadly Tornado Hits City in Russia's Far East
    One person has been killed and twenty eight others injured as a powerful tornado hit the Russian far-eastern city of Blagoveshchensk. The tornado was so powerful that it tore the roofs from houses, turned over vehicles, flattened trees and smashed windows in several buildings. Local authoriti ...
  • Vanuatu - Earthquake Magnitude 6.2 - Jul 31
    Date-Time: Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 14:34:50 UTC Monday, August 01, 2011 at 01:34:50 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location: 16.998�S, 171.588�E Depth: 23.1 km (14.4 miles) Region: VANUATU REGION Distances: 361 km (224 miles) ENE of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu ...
  • Northern Japan Battered by Floods
    Northern Japan has been battered by torrential rain and floods killing one person. Niigata and Fukushima prefectures have been the areas worst hit with a number of people missing and 400,000 advised to evacuate their homes as authorities fear potential landslides. The floods strike nearly five m ...
  • No Joke: UK Anti-Satire Law Means Daily Show's ...
    One of the nice things about having a Bill of Rights is that it specifically lays out freedoms given to the people and the press. The U.S. Constitution declares that freedom of speech and freedom of the press can never be infringed upon. Unfortunately, if you live in a nation where this is not c ...
  • Cancer-stricken WTC worker gets $0 settlement ...
    Cancer-stricken Ground Zero worker Edgar Galvis has finally received a compensation check -- for zero dollars. The 51-year-old Queens man, who suffered sinus problems and then throat cancer after months of removing toxic debris from the World Financial Center, was relieved to get a check in t ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Pillage . . .
    THE LENS is an investigative site that looks at life in Louisiana. Matt Davis has a disturbing article, "Overmedicating young inmates called chemical restraint". It seems that state Governor Bobby Jindal has cut back on facilities for teens with psychological problems that require long-term trea ...
  • Doesn't flounder . . .
    ARKIVE is a site devoted to life on earth. An amazing BBC video of an osprey doing what ospreys do so well.ARKive - Osprey video - Pandion haliaetus - 00The Encyclopedia of Life is another great site, too.
  • Hold your breath . . .
    IF YOU DRIVE THROUGH NORTH DAKOTA, keep the windows rolled up, and maybe change the air filters in the HVAC system, if it has them. Why? According to Annalee Newitz at io9, those roads can kill. Her article, "The roads in North Dakota are giving people cancer" is worth checking out. In Dunn Coun ...
  • Folk wisdom . . .
    WHEN YOU'RE HOLDING A HAMMER, everything looks like a nail. Written by Bryan Glover, a Tennessee middle school football coach — who got fired for writing it. I don't like the Obama-bashing, but the lyrics are entertaining.
  • Christian terrorism . . .
    WILLIAM SALETAN has a fine article in SLATE about the massacre in Norway, "Christian Terrorism", where he asks a cogent question, "If Muslims are responsible for Islamic terrorism, are Muslim-bashers responsible for the massacre in Norway?"On Friday, anti-Islamist blogger Pamela Geller pounced o ...

Media Matters for America

  • Unto The Breach: Media Conservatives Uncover ...
    After President Obama encouraged voters to "email" or "Tweet" lawmakers in order to "keep the pressure on Washington" to reach a compromise and avoid default, media conservatives announced that Obama had declared "Twitter War on Republicans."After President Obama Called On Voters To "Email" ...
  • Right-Wing Media Mount Last-Ditch Effort To "H ...
    Days before a potential default crisis, right-wing media are engaged in a full-throated lobbying effort against a compromise to avoid default, urging Republicans to "hold the line" and act like "winners."Right-Wing Media Lobbies GOP To Risk Default And Refuse A Deal Limbaugh: "Winners Do Not ...
  • Conservative Media Myths About Fuel Economy St ...
    Conservative media are promulgating the myths that higher fuel economy standards are unattainable with current technology, will cost consumers and will increase traffic deaths. In fact, automakers have said they will be able to meet the standards, consumers will net thousands in fuel savings, a ...
  • O'Reilly Can't Find The "Shadowy Figures" Behi ...
    Bill O'Reilly made the argument to Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham that there are no "shadowy figures ... behind the tea party," unlike with progressive movements, which have "guy like Soros and these MoveOn people" with "so much power behind the scenes." In fact, the tea party movement h ...
  • The Bigotry Of Pat Buchanan
    Pat Buchanan wrote in his recent syndicated column that accused Norway mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik may be "evil," but when it comes to his reported belief that there's a coming "climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world ... Breivik may be right." Buchanan, w ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The Streets Of Tel Aviv: Bursting The Bubble?
    More than a hundred thousand young Israelis, in every major city, took to the streets on Saturday night to protest the prohibitively high cost of living, especially the very high cost of housing. Last week, a tent city went up on Rothschild Boulevard--supposedly, the epicenter of the Tel Aviv bu ...
  • An Open Letter to the Rest of the World
    Dear onlookers around the world, As politics in my country becomes dominated by a reckless tantrum over the simple matter of paying our debts, many of us are all too conscious of the doubts and concerns this is raising for the rest of you. Speaking as someone who has spent an entire career ad ...
  • How to Assess Obama´s Leadership
    President Obama´s mishandling of the Republican-generated debt-ceiling crisis cannot be excused by comparing his fine motives and principles, which enjoy the support of most Americans, with the Republicans´ all-too-obvious, increasingly wild, lack of the same. What we face is not the questio ...
  • The Real Gems of the Republican Talking Points
    If nothing else, you have to give the Republicans credit for sheer gall in the debt ceiling debate, and they've been at their best worst in the last few days. I'd like to take this moment to examine some of my personal faves. Let's start with the charge that President Obama isn't showing any ...
  • Re: Obama's Deficit Strategy in April. I Would ...
    The following was posted on April 13, when President Obama gave his big deficit-reduction speech. What would you change here to distinguish his leadership of the past three weeks from the following characterization of it in regard to the same matters four months ago? For an elaboration on what h ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Israeli troops attack 3 non-violent protests i ...
    On Friday four people were injured and four arrested, as Israeli troops attacked anti-wall protests organized in a number of West Bank communities. Protests took place in the central ...
  • Israel struggles with free-speech rights (Edm ...
    A string of new laws passed this year by Israel's right-leaning Knesset has triggered an unusually rancorous debate here over where to draw the line on free speech, exposing shifting ...
  • Israeli soldiers attack Palestinian journalist ...
    Palestinian photojournalist Moheeb Al-Barghouthi was beaten by Israeli soldiers Friday covering a demonstration in the Nabi Saleh village near Ramallah. The journalist said the soldie ...
  • From London to Bil'in by bicycle (yisraelpnm)
    In the village Bil'in soldiers fired tear gas at the weekly protest there as internationals and Israeli supporters joined the villagers after midday prayers. Many were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation. Joining the protest today were a group of supporters from the United Kingdom, Ir ...
  • U.N. Rights Committee Breaks 43-Year Israeli T ...
    For the first time in 43 years, members of the 'U.N. Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices in Occupied Territories' gained entry into Gaza last week, through Egypt which ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Far better fuel economy in our future
    With the backing of major carmakers, President Obama announced a plan to increase the fleet average fuel economy of new cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, nearly double the current levels. The new standards are the result of a compromise with the industry after the White House ini ...
  • All the world’s a “fracking” stage, and all th ...
    Seems like everyone is jumping onto the “Fracking” bandwagon.  In an earlier blog we talked about the US Department of Energy’s entrance into the “Fracking” fray with Secretary Steven Chu appointing an Energy Advisory Board subcommittee on natural gas, led by former CIA director John Deutch, who ...
  • German low-level radioactive waste – could thi ...
    Earlier this week, NPR reported on the anticipated arrival of nearly 1,000 tons of nuclear waste from Germany at Oak Ridge, TN. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a plan in June for an American company to import and burn low-level nuclear waste from Germany.  The radioactive residue left ...
  • Coal ash contaminates groundwater at some TVA ...
    A report by the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Office of Inspector General found that the groundwater at some coal ash sites is contaminated with arsenic and other toxic pollutants and is a health hazard. Levels at the Gallatin plant site in Sumner County and at the Cumberland site, 50 miles ...
  • Congress should vote against reducing a review ...
    The Terry-Greene Tar Sands Resolution Would Allow Hasty Decision to Be Made Regarding an Oil Pipeline Through Texas  The Terry-Greene Tar Sands Resolution (H.R .1938), which is scheduled for a vote Tuesday, would expedite the approval for construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, requiring a dec ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • How long can you live after decapitation ?
    Is it possible that a person could remain aware for up to a minute after being decapitated ? Its a question that has been asked for centuries, just ho...
  • Artifact may be world's first protractor
    A mysterious object recovered from an Egyptian tomb has baffled archaeologists for years. The object was found in the tomb of the ancient Egyptian arc...
  • Lightning strikes "out of the blue"
    Sometimes lightning can strike when we least expect it - even when there is a clear blue sky. This is exactly what happened to 11-year-old Britney Weh...
  • 'Vampire' stalking Siberian livestock
    Farmers in Siberia having reported their goats being killed by a mystery creature and drained of blood. One animal keeper described an experience one ...
  • Amnesia leaves woman with 17 year gap
    A 34-year-old mother woke up one day believing she was still 15 and about to sit her school exams. Naomi Jacobs couldn't understand what was happening...

Grassroots

  • Monsanto Nation
    Subheadline:� Taking Down Goliath Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Ronnie Cummins is a veteran activist, author, and organizer. He is the International Director of the Organic Consu ...
  • Losing Jerusalem, Piece by Piece
    snaking_wall.jpg In Bir Nabala, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem, Israel’s separation Wall provides a concrete backdrop to what was once a view of the old city. On a stormy afternoon, Bir Nabala’s head of counsel Haj Tawfik Nabeli guided m ...
  • Taking on TIAA-CREF, with pain and outrage
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Alice Rothchild is a Boston-based physician, a Grassroots International supporter, and author of "Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish Trauma and Resilience." Her website is www.alicerothchild.com. ...
  • Funding Global Movements… one grant at a time
    mexico201012--139.jpg By Alicia Tozourread more
  • Up Against the Wall: Beehives of Resistance an ...
    palestine201105-16.jpg Eight years ago this month, the International Court of Justice ruled in an advisory opinion that �the construction of the wall, and its associated régime, are contrary to international law.��While neither the state o ...

Climate

  • Climate Change Transforming Britain’s Farms as ...
    Source:� Reuters British farmers are experimenting with crops such as olives and nectarines which have traditionally been imported from southern Europe, while the first British tea plantation has opened with a changing climate ...
  • Crops Collect More Cadmium as Carbon Dioxide B ...
    Source:� Chemical & Engineering News As human activity sends ever more CO2 into the air, plants may grow faster and pull more nutrients from the soil. Now a study in food crops finds that as levels of CO2 increase, rice and wh ...
  • Data Show All of Earth's Systems in Rapid Decline
    Source:� IPS All indicators reveal species going extinct faster than ever before, despite additions of new parks, reserves, and other conservation measures, according to a new study.
  • Algae Companies Diversify into Green Chemicals
    Source:� Forbes Some former algae biofuel startups are turning to more profitable products, using "green�" chemistry to replace petrochemicals or unsustainable bio-based oils.
  • Global Lithium Deposits Enough to Meet Electri ...
    Source:� Greenwire The world has enough lithium resources to power electric vehicles for the rest of the century, according to a newly published report.

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Outlines of a Deal
    If Jonathan Karl's reporting is correct, the final deal on the debt ceiling is pretty good considering that this is a hostage situation. First, the president is getting enough money that he won't have to go back and ask for more before election day in 2012. Second, the congressional debt commi ...
  • Casual Observation
    The one thing this debt ceiling death battle has succeeded in doing is making otherwise sane people start sounding like babbling idiots. I guess people are just starting to crack under the strain. I don't know if it is just dawning on people or what, but electing dozens of tea baggers to Congr ...
  • Good Night
    Nothing is going to happen in Congress before 1pm tomorrow afternoon, so you can go to sleep now. Hopefully, you have already put all your wealth in your mattress, and you will sleep well. If you want to document your displeasure with our political system, use the comments section. Discuss
  • I didn't have the words
    Despair, anger, helplessness. I confess I have felt all of those emotions, not only over the past few weeks, but ever since Al Gore conceded defeat in the 2000 election after the Supreme Court effectively appointed George W. Bush to the Presidency. I have felt helpless as horror after horr ...
  • I Went to Watch Harry Potter
    with my wife and daughter. Nice to see a story where the good guys win and the bad guys lose. Certainly better than stressing about a debt ceiling "crisis" over which I have no control. Hope you are enjoying your weekend. And yeah, this is an open thread. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Deadly Humboldt Squid Bites!
    When you swim with or near the gargantuan Humboldt squid you had better be prepared for the encounter! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Deadly Eyelash Pit Viper Strikes!
    Watch a deadly pit viper strike at its target! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Three Drastically Different Approaches to Mana ...
    The United States, Australia and Great Britain are all facing the challenges of managing wild horse populations but are doing so in very different ways... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 15 Incredible Photographs of Birds' Nests
    Fifteen stunning images of bird nests, the work of inspired photographer and author Sharon Beals. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 3 World Changing Effects of La Niña
    La Niña dances with El Niño, following a cycle of weather patterns driven by changes in temperature in the Pacific Ocean. This dance has far-reaching effects. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • How to Pick a Site for a Nuclear Waste Dump
    A blue-ribbon commission recommends a new process for choosing a permanent repository for the nation's nuclear waste based on sound science and local consent.
  • Projecting Our Nature Onto Ravenous Bears
    The bears that have been wandering into backyards or homes, looking for food and sometimes attacking people, have in some ways been shaped by humans. But in a broader, wilder way, they are simply being bears.
  • On Hudson Pollution, Back to Routine Worries
    Now that a sewage discharge caused by a fire has passed, officials call their attention to a perennial cause of contamination: storm water that overwhelms the treatment system.
  • Literacy and the Population Problem
    Compared with illiterate young women, educated ones desire smaller families and generally manage to achieve that goal, an article in the journal Science states.
  • U.S. Regulator Says Fukushima Lessons Can Perc ...
    A nuclear regulatory commissioner becomes the third of five to officially urge that the American agency proceed slowly in revising its rules and procedures in response to Japan's nuclear disaster.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Middle East nets Liberal Revolutions with Anar ...
    I had to snag a bit of this from the site Jadaliyya: Anarchist, Liberal, and Authoritarian Enlightenments: Notes From the Arab Spring -- the tipping point is referencing Max Weber, who we just don't hear enough about these days. Interesting site. I wonder to what extent the Egypt scenario connec ...
  • Bernie Sanders causes exposure of $16,000,000, ...
    The criminal banker syndicate which has captured much of our federal government has finally had some of its inner mechanics exposed thanks to Bernie Sanders, one of a handful of legit people in Congress today.... The Full Bernie post is well earned: The Fed Audit - Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie ...
  • Minnesota Government Shutdown Over: threat of ...
    This was a pretty good edit I thought (we really crafted a nice mix) but hasn't gotten too many views yet :-/ The official 2011 special session budget omnibus bills are here. LYRICS: Minnesota legislators time to get things done We've been losing everything and you think this is fun first you ...
  • Charles Blair Hill, bleeding to death at hands ...
    It's a grim world out there... caught a couple videos worth reviewing. SFPD wastes this guy & then he bleeds to death. The guy was alleged to have a firearm, and defenders of the police are already claiming bystanders snagged the gun. In any case it is an excellent sign the people are angry & in ...
  • By Anon request: A few loose ends on foreign e ...
    Time to check in with the Big Weird! I was requested by some anonymous person to post this. I don't personally conclude that 9-11 was triggered by Mini-Nukes but it's interesting that videos featuring a Russian guy with that view named Dimitri Khalezov are automatically blocked from upload on yo ...

Daily Censored

  • AM I A Socialist Like Bernie Saunders?
    “AM I A Socialist Like Bernie Saunders?” was a question someone, who friended me on FB, asked.  I think my answer to her is worth publishing here… Thank you Jennifer.  I am not a socialist, per se.  I do believe, however, that the government “could be” better able to provide us with certain s ...
  • Bullshit: the perfect academic word to expose ...
    source: Carl Herman On Bullshit, Princeton professor Harry Frankfurt’s 2005 best-seller, defines “bullshit” as saying whatever necessary to dictate an audience’s interpretation of a subject. Bullshit is comprised of lies of omission and commission, of course, but shifts as needed to maintain the ...
  • Michael Collins: The War on You
    Debt Ceiling Crisis, Debt Ceiling Talks, Medicare, President Obama, social security, Tea Party Let the word go forth from Washington! The corporate rulers occupying our nation’s capital have declared war on just about every citizen. Have no doubt: those in the upper ranges of the top 1% of wealt ...
  • Tea Party Horror Show
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  • The War on You
    Let the word go forth from Washington!� The corporate rulers occupying our nation's capital have declared war on just about every citizen. Have no doubt: those in the upper ranges of the top 1% of wealth in this country (aka The Money Party) want to kick you to the curb. They want to reduce you ...
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    ��America's Media: Dancing Around the Budget Debate Charade - by Stephen Lendman � Previous articles explained an Obama-led bipartisan conspiracy to destroy America's social contract, returning the nation to 19th harshness harshness. But you'd never know it from major media reports, op-eds and e ...
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    ��Heading Toward Economic Ruin - by Stephen Lendman � Bad policies assure bad results. Destructive ones assure calamities. Well before Obama took office, bipartisan initiatives plotted a course for disaster.� � read more
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    By Jeff Cohen If you were a spectator in a sky box seat looking directly down on the Washington debt debate, you�d be seeing a contest both narrow and off to one edge of the field -- like watching a football game being played entirely between the 10-yard line and the goal line. The big items tha ...
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    VOA NATO says it has bombed three Libyan satellite dishes in the capital, Tripoli, in an effort to prevent Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi from using state television to intimidate civilians. But the Libyan Broadcasting Coproration condemned the attack Saturday, saying three employees were kille ...

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    by Jess Zimmerman. Plastic is actually a pretty revolutionary material -- we wouldn't want to go back to a time before it existed (just a time before people started throwing it in the ocean). But it's made from petroleum, and we haven't really got to spare. So viable plastic alternativ ...
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    by Sarah Laskow. Back in 2006, Dr. Charles Monnett published an article that included observations about polar bear deaths in the Beaufort Sea. In the report, co-authored with another scientist, Monnett reported seeing four dead polar bears in 2004. Monnett works for the federal governmen ...
  • Dear skeptics: Here is more climate data than ...
    by Sarah Laskow. For the climate skeptics who dragged us all through Climategate on the conviction that climate scientists are lying jerks, here is the data you wanted to see. Here it is. The University of East Anglia put it online for all to access. This might make it harder for scientis ...
  • New photovoltaic generator runs on heat instea ...
    by Sarah Laskow. Photovoltaic cells, the basic unit of solar power systems, turn light into electricity. But fueling photovoltaics with sunlight isn't always practical. MIT scientists came up with a way around this issue: They found a really efficient way to turn heat into light. Scient ...
  • Tokyo is cutting electricity use by 15 percent
    by Sarah Laskow. Japanese people are already kicking Americans' butts when it comes to energy efficiency: They use half as much energy as we do already, despite their proclivity for gadgets like automatic toilets. But since the Fukushima meltdown, they've gotten even more hyper-aware of t ...

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    You could not make this up.  This is not the business that humanity wants Bill Gates in… by POPEYE Filed under Eugenics (SLASHDOT) In its just-published patent application for Adapting Parasites to Combat Disease, Microsoft lays out plans to unleash âaltered parasitic organismsâ on humans, incl ...
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  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
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  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...

Inhabitat

  • Backpacks for Kids Get Your Child (and a Child ...
    It’s already time to start gearing up for the new school year, and while pencils and pads are on the top of our to-buy list, we’ve also been on the hunt for right pack to put all these new supplies into. This fall we’re looking towards Schoolbags for Kids for our backpacks. What we can only [...]
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  • MoMA’s Talk to Me Exhibit Explores Communicati ...
    As denizens of the 21st Century, we’re so in-tune with technology that we don’t want just plain old computerized gadgets and time-saving machines anymore. Instead, we want relationships with our technologies. Whether we realize it or not, we want our objects to talk to us. And guess what? More o ...
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    What would you do if you were a billionaire? Buy an Aston Martin? Live on a private island? Cure world hunger? A mysterious billionaire from the United Arab Emirates has loftier ideas – literally. He has carved his name on an island near Abu Dhabi, and it is so large that it can be seen [...]

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  • Your Genome Structure, Not Genetic Mutations, ...
    A new look at the human genome suggests that unappreciated variations in its fundamental architecture, rather than point-by-point mutations, may be responsible for most genetic difference among people. Point-by-point mutations, called single nucleotide polymorphisms, involve simple changes to D ...
  • Spaceflight Psychology And The New “Right Stuff”
    With arguably the coolest job on or off the planet, astronauts need nobody’s pity of no one. Nonetheless, theirs is a life of extraordinary psychological demands: leadership, technical proficiency, split-second decision making and ironclad focus. And beyond fulfilling the “hero” requirements, a ...
  • Sheer Numbers Gave Early Humans Edge Over Nean ...
    By Kate Shaw, Ars Technica Between 35,000 and 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals in Europe and Asia were replaced by the first modern humans. Why and how this transition occurred remains somewhat controversial. New research from the journal Science suggests that sheer numbers may have played a larg ...
  • The Big Crunch: Physicists Make Time End
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  • Children Play Like Scientists Work
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PakAlert

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    In actions more reminiscent of the Cold War than modern times the foreign military intelligence directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) is reporting today that the Northern Fleet’s Yekaterinburg nuclear powered submarine successfully fired a RSM-54 Sineva (SS-N-23 Skiff in NATO classifica ...
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  • The End Of The False Flag Wars
    It is easy and comforting, for some, to see the recent and current western "military adventures" in lower income, smaller, poorly armed countries as simply a neo-colonial rampage, perhaps with the initial aim of pillaging natural resources, but later on for the simple pleasure of trashing alread ...
  • The Dual Failure of Night Raids and Drones
    Adapting to an unconventional war, the United States and its allies picked up some new tactics in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the past few years, drone attacks and night raids have become staples of the effort to combat al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The announcement of a new counterterrorism strate ...
  • New York Times Caught Publishing CIA Propagand ...
    An American investigative journalist uncovers how the New York Times tried to link the Norway attack to a Muslim group that doesn’t exist and then how it quietly pulled the story later from its online edition, without offering an apology. Alexander Higgins, also uncovers how two other news outle ...

Andy Worthington

  • Guantánamo and the Death of Habeas Corpus
    Last month, the third anniversary of Boumediene v. Bush (on June 12) passed without mention. This was a great shame, not only because it was a powerful ruling, granting the Guantánamo prisoners constitutionally guaranteed habeas corpus rights, but also because, after that bold intervention, whic ...
  • Video: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Murat Kurnaz Tel ...
    In an 11-minute interview with Russia Today (see below), former Guantánamo prisoner Murat Kurnaz recalled how he was seized in Pakistan in November 2001, and his experiences in US custody in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo. Born in Germany, but only regarded as a resident because his parents are T ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
  • Hellhole: The Most Devastating Article About L ...
    With contested claims that the three-week long hunger strike in California’s prisons has come to an end (as I discussed in a recent article, The California Prison Hunger Strike Opposing Solitary Confinement as Torture â and the Insulting Response of Prison Officials), the horrendous human rights ...
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    On Thursday July 21, as the widespread hunger strike in California’s prisons — primarily aimed at highlighting the abusive conditions in which prisoners are held in long-term solitary confinement in Security Housing Units (SHUs) — reached the three-week mark, Matthew Cate, the Secretary of the C ...

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  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
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  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
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  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
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    Those who oppose Israel’s policies deserve to die. Even teenagers. That’s the only interpretation possible of ultra-right-wing Muslim-hating blogger Debbie Schlussel’s Thursday post, in which she notes that the day before Anders Behring Breivik paid a visit to their political camp a week ago and ...
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Lifehacker

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  • Forecast App Broadcasts Future Plans to Foursq ...
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    A reader only has to look at the latest headlines to judge the timeliness of Alex Prud'homme's "The Ripple Effect."
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    The complete privatization of a military housing installation on Ellsworth Air Force Base will take longer than expected according to Ellsworth Public Affairs Officer Major Matthew Reese.
  • Free Flowing: How to Keep Our Water Supply Public
    The debate around water privatization has been raging for a while, and the global voice to keep water a public good has  been heard loud and clear  in the last year or so. Just last month, 96 percent of Italian voters elected to keep their water supply in the public domain. The vote was in react ...
  • Ramsey Board of Public Works rejects bids for ...
    RAMSEY - The Board of Public Works rejected all three bids submitted for the purchase of the borough's water and sewer systems at a public works meeting July 25, saying the bids, ranging from $10 to $13 million, were too low.

Guardian

  • Bullfighting saved from the sword as Spain rul ...
    Socialist government says ministry of culture will be responsible for development and protection of controversial sport The debate over bullfighting has been reignited in Spain after the government recognised the spectacle as "an artistic discipline and cultural product", delighting enthusiasts ...
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    Design Council chief celebrates Prince Charles' lack of involvement as traditionalists complain about 'overt prejudice'A new skirmish in a long-running and often bitterly fought architectural "style war" between modernists and traditionalists has broken out over the stadiums and arenas of the Lo ...
  • Syrian regime tanks return to Hama
    City still mourning its June dead comes under attack again as regime forces smash makeshift barricadesAs the sun was rising on the last day before Ramadan, the moment Hama's residents had feared finally arrived. Through the barren landscape came the ominous rumble of tanks, heading towards the c ...
  • Thousands protest in Israel over house prices ...
    Demonstrations in 12 cities including Tel Aviv and Haifa prompt Binyamin Netanyahu to consider cancelling parliamentary recessUp to 150,000 protesters took to the streets in cities across Israel on Saturday night in the biggest demonstrations the country has seen in decades to demand action on r ...
  • BBC faces new 24-hour news strike on Monday
    Stoppage over redundancies will be followed by 'indefinite' NUJ work to ruleThe BBC is facing another day of disruption to its news programmes on Monday with many of its journalists due to go on a 24-hour strike before beginning an "indefinite" work to rule.The industrial action by the National ...

McClatchey

  • White House, Congress getting 'very close' to ...
    WASHINGTON — White House and congressional negotiators on Sunday were getting close to a $3 trillion, last-minute deal to break the deadlock over raising the nation's debt ceiling.
  • Senate delays vote on debt bill as 11th-hour t ...
    WASHINGTON — With the deadline for a debt limit increase inching perilously closer, Congress remained deadlocked Saturday over how to avoid a crisis as both houses spent the day publicly mired in often tart, even defiant partisan votes and rhetoric.
  • Iraq boosts purchase of U.S. jets, but no deci ...
    BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki on Saturday signaled continuing military cooperation with the United States, doubling the size of a planned purchase of U.S. fighter jets, but he sidestepped the crucial question of whether American troops will be asked to stay in the country past a ...
  • D.C. visitors love the Capitol. Their lawmaker ...
    WASHINGTON — Among the thousands of visitors touring the U.S. Capitol building on a sweltering Saturday, Rich Krzysik and his family stopped for a few minutes to watch the House of Representatives engage in its routine business.
  • In Senate, bitter debate but little agreement ...
    WASHINGTON — With the deadline for a debt limit increase inching perilously closer, Congress remained deadlocked Saturday over how to avoid a crisis as both houses spent the day publicly mired in often tart, even defiant partisan votes and rhetoric.

Afghanistan Sun

  • Kabul Bank scam involved up to 40
    FILE - In this March 27, 2011 file photo, people walk past by Kabul Bank main office in Kabul, Afghanistan. As many as 40 people were allegedly involved in scams to bilk hundreds of millions of ...
  • Associate killed Karzai's half-brother
    KABUL, Afghanistan -- A Western official says the powerful half-brother of President Hamid Karzai was gunned down by an associate over a personal issue, and was not assassinated by the Taliban.The ...
  • Taliban didn't kill Karzai's half-br ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan -; A Western official says the powerful half-brother of President Hamid Karzai was gunned down by an associate over a personal issue, and was not assassinated by the Taliban. The ...
  • Taliban leaders may take Ramadan break - U.S. ...
    KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. military is waiting to see whether some Taliban leaders take a break during August for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, crossing over the border into Pakistan after ...
  • Admiral confident on Afghan withdrawal
    KABUL, Afghanistan, July 31 (UPI) -- The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, said Sunday in Kabul the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan wouldn't hurt the ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Whistleblower Trial Against Blackwater Begins
    In 2008, two former employees brought a whistleblower lawsuit against the security firm once known as Blackwater (now named Xe Services). On July 27, the trial began in Alexandria, Virginia and is expected to last two weeks. The two whistleblowers allege that the company overcharged the federal ...
  • NWC joins in NLRB amicus to preserve collectiv ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with 26 other organizations to submit an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). At stake is the right of employees to join together for collective and class actions. This long-recognized right is under attack by forced arbitrati ...
  • Legal Battle Finally Over for an "American Hero"
    The NWC is pleased to announce that whistleblower hero Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse has finally won a six-year legal battle against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 2005, Ms. Greenhouse blew the whistle on the Army Corps for extensive contractor fraud in which they were awarding secret, non- ...
  • Whistleblower Center in NYC
    The NWC is preparing for a full day of whistleblower events in New York City today. Join the NWC staff and Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn at two events teaching the public about whistleblower rights and the latest whistleblower protection laws. First, come learn about the latest whistleblo ...
  • NWC seminar on Dodd-Frank a huge success
    David Colapinto, Stephen Kohn, Sean McKessy and Michael Kohn. Photo by Lindsey Williams. Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) road trip of seminars came to ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • CommonSense's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    This week's "favorites" post comes from the aptly-named CommonSense. Who can disagree with a little CommonSense? I was starting to think that this day might never come. I've had an insightful comment show up in that weekly post before, and I've even been told by one of my favorite commente ...
  • Appeals Court Says Genes Are Patentable, Becau ...
    Well, this is unfortunate. We were quite happy with US district court judge Robert Sweet last year for making it clear that isolated genes are not patentable material in the Myriad Genetics case. This was one of those annoying patent situations where so many people had just assumed that genes ...
  • By Definition, A Defensive Patent Is A Bad Patent
    There's been a lot of talk about "defensive" patents lately, as many companies in the tech industry try to acquire patents and claim they're only doing so for "defensive" purposes -- to act as a kind of deterrent to a patent nuclear war. Of course, this only works against other companies that p ...
  • TSA May Announce New Behavior Screening Plans Soon
    Apparently the TSA is planning to roll out some changes to its screening process in the coming months, including embracing at least some of the "Israeli method" of airplane security, which tends to focus much more on behavior, rather than what you have on you. "I'm very much interested in exp ...
  • DailyDirt: Spare A Square..?
    Toilet humor might be funny to a wide audience, but to some folks, toilets are not a laughing matter -- it's business. Here are a few projects that are attempting to improve toilet technology. Some MIT business students are headed to Nairobi to start a toilet business. The pitch goes somethi ...

VacTruth

  • How To Find The Poisons In Vaccines In 5 Secon ...
    This short video shows you how to find the poisons in vaccines in 5 seconds or less.
  • Murdoch’s Vaccine World
    Everyone by now has heard about the phone tapping scandal that rocked both the British newspaper world and Rupert Murdoch’s business empire. But what needs to be spotlighted, I think, is the possible role that Murdoch’s London Times may have played in the professional evisceration of respected B ...
  • The FDA Approved New DPT Vaccine For Seniors
    It has been announced that a new vaccine has been approved by the FDA for the over 65's. GlaxoSmithKline’s Boostrix vaccine is said to be able to protect the elderly from diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough). The vaccine was originally approved for use in adolescents in 2005.
  • What Is It You Don’t Get About Vaccines?
    Public health: Not vaccinated? Not acceptable. “What does society do when one person’s behavior puts the greater community at risk? We make them stop."
  • Why Isn’t ‘Herd Immunity’ Working?
    Californians have a new law regarding vaccination of children: Effective July 1, 2011, all students in grades 7 through 12 will be required to get a booster DTP [Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (Whooping Cough)] due to outbreaks and increases for Pertussis in children. Something doesn’t make s ...

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • 100% Wind and Solar Powered Billboards Come to ...
    Image via YouTube screengrab. This week, office solutions company Ricoh unveiled what it is calling the "eco-board" - a billboard powered entirely by solar and wind power in London. Situated on the M4 motorway, the billboard is equipped with 96 solar panels and five wind turbines, and it on ...
  • Farm Sanctuary's 35 City Walk Hopes to Raise O ...
    Photo: Simon Aughton Farm Sanctuary's Walk for Farm Animals hopes to raise $1 million for abused farm animals across North America. The walk, which will take place in 35 cities, increases awareness of wide spread abuse of farm animals, particularly on larger factory farms. If there's not an ...
  • Breakthrough Could Help Chemists Compute Safer ...
    Image: Rishabh Mishra/CC This is your mission, should you choose to accept it: you are a biofuels researcher, diligently seeking a solution that can take mankind into the post-industrial revolution, an era of alternative fuels that are both sustainable and practical. You will probably spend ...
  • A Perfume Organic Promises Fresh Scents Sans C ...
    Photo: A Perfume Organic From California teens protesting Abercrombie & Fitch's toxic perfume to secret chemicals found in popular perfumes, I've written a slew of stories on the chemicals in common fragrances. So for the sake of a fresh scent sans chemicals, here's A Perfume Organic. The N ...
  • Democratic Leaders Excoriate Congressional Rep ...
    Rep. Ed Markey, photo via flickr Many greens, including me, had big problems with Waxman-Markey, the failed cap and trade bill that would have finally priced carbon but also given a lifeline to the coal industry. Whatever your feelings for the bill, the congressmen behind it, Ed Markey (MA) ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

Center for a Livable Future

  • Nutrition Programs: How Many Spending Cuts Can ...
    In the midst of economic instability, it’s become clear that funding for major federal programs will be subject to cuts, and nutrition programs are no exception. Perhaps cuts are unavoidable, but it is essential that we examine their potential impact on public health. According to a recent USDA ...
  • Roundup-Resistant Weeds Threaten U.S. Food Sec ...
    Roundup-resistant weeds are a rapidly emerging threat that puts U.S. agriculture in a terribly precarious position. The threat has evolved from farmers’ heavy use of the herbicide glyphosate, (aka Roundup, a Monsanto product) to control weeds, and farmers’ simultaneous reliance on crop varieties ...
  • Preparing for Peak Oil
    Peak oil is inevitable. At some point, global oil supplies will peak and then decline (it may be happening already), driving up the cost of oil and petroleum products. But what happens to our food systems, which rely heavily on oil, when oil becomes scarce?
  • Carnivores and Climate Change
    You know what you ate this week—but do you know how it will affect climate change and the planet? As of today, you can use the Environmental Working Group (EWG)’s newly launched website to get information on food carbon footprints.
  • Carnivores and Climate Change
    You know what you ate this week—but do you know how it will affect climate change and the planet? As of today, you can use the Environmental Working Group (EWG)’s newly launched website to get information on food carbon footprints.

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

  • What the USDA Doesn't Want You to Know about A ...
    Here is a document the USDA doesn't want you to see.Submitted by Reynard L. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Industrial Scars: The Art of Environmental Pol ...
    A photographer simultaneously captures the beauty and horror of human pollution, from thick oil spills to dirty coal miningSubmitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice
    Do you buy orange juice at the store? If you do, I�m sure you�re careful to buy the kind that�s 100% juice and not made from concentrate. After all, that�s the healthier kind, right? The more natural kind? The kind without any additives? The kind-->Submitted by Kathy B. to Health & Wellness �|� ...
  • Check this out: Learning About Public Educatio ...
    Diane Ravitch is the Elizabeth Warren of education: She knows how the system works and isn't afraid to speak truth to power. She does it with clarity, cutting through the bs of current so-called reform efforts and exposing the agendas behind them.Submitted by Myron Scott to Society & Culture � ...
  • Project Camelot TV
    Bayuali > Dialogue of energies in the universe. The Dogon Speak to the World Knowledge released to return to the knowledge of our ancestors of links between humans and Earth Energies so as to restore balance to world Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
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