31 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Angry Indian News

• PACBI-City artist Spurns Israel invite for Pal ...
  PACBI-City artist Spurns Israel invite for Palestine cause: "It was billed as the first major show of Indian art in Tel Aviv. But with a section of Indian artists deciding to skip the event, and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Hundreds meet to oppose EDL in Tower Hamlets|3 ...
  Hundreds meet to oppose EDL in Tower Hamlets|30Jul11|Socialist Worker: by Siân Ruddick and Ken OlendeSome 600 people crammed into the London Muslim Centre in east London last night for a rally... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Cubans Aren't Racist, But… - IPS ipsnews.net
  Cubans Aren't Racist, But… - IPS ipsnews.net: By Patricia Grogg/ Credit:Patricia Grogg/IPSCredit:Patricia Grogg/IPSHAVANA, Jul 29, 2011 (IPS) - "I'm not racist, but at night, if I see three black men... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Venezuela Sends 50 Tons of Food Aid, Five Mill ...
  Venezuela Sends 50 Tons of Food Aid, Five Million Dollars, and Solidarity to Somalia | venezuelanalysis.com: Mérida, July 28th 2011 (Venezuelanalysis.com) - On Wednesday the Venezuelan government... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Bolivia: Evo fears US plot to frame him for dr ...
  Bolivia: Evo fears US plot to frame him for drugs | World War 4 Report: Speaking before a conference of campesina women in Cochabamba July 25, Bolivia's President Evo Morales said he fears a US plot... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Incompetence Sets A Precedent – GE Alfalfa
  Contemporary law is no longer based on the Constitution and common law, but has been replaced by case law precedents. The GE alfalfa case (Forage Genetics and Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms) is disturbing because it appears that a dangerous precedent has been set.
• Genetically engineered maize with synthetic to ...
  This maize was approved for usage in food and feed by the EU Commission on 17th of June. It produces a combination of three different insecticidal toxins, one of which is synthesised artificially. Further, the plants are made tolerant to the herbicide glyphosate (known as Roundup).
• Smart Meters – You don’t have to get one!
  VIDEO explaining what Smart (Spy) Meters actually do, and how to make sure that you do not get one of these.
• Feds to Grab Land for Homeland Security
  H.R. 1505: Another Federal land grab, with exemptions from environmental regulations, and a few more just for good measure. And just who has the authority over these lands? Why Homeland Security, of course.
• USDA Attacks Rural America with Smart Meters
  On June 9, 2011, the Obama Administration Established the “White House Rural Council to Strengthen Rural Communities” via Executive Order. “Strengthening Rural Communities” is the spin. The real issue is control. Rural communities are where food is grown, and control of food is a main priority f ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• FBI unable to find army rifles
  ShareThisFBI unable to find army rifles 31 Jul 2011 The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has been unable to track down two dozen rifles stolen from a military base in California. The rifles, stolen on July 15th, were AK-47s which had been stored in a supply warehouse at the army post at Fort I ...
• 27 rifles stolen from Southern California mili ...
  ShareThis27 rifles stolen from Southern California military base --Feds offer $10,000 reward for more arrests 30 Jul 2011 More than two dozen assault rifles have been stolen from a Southern California military base, and investigators sought the public's help as they looked to arrest suspects and ...
• Japan now under flood
  ShareThisJapan now under flood 31 Jul 2011 Much of Japan's northern area is now under water, following torrential rain from a weather system that has already killed dozens of people on the Korean peninsula. The disaster-ravaged Japan is likely to see more flooding in the next days, with forecast ...
• Financial leaders prepare for possible governm ...
  ShareThisFinancial leaders prepare for possible government default [You can be *sure* that Blackwater --� and every other mercenary firm and terrorist group on the US payroll -- will get their money.] 31 Jul 2011 As Republicans and Democrats squabble in Washington, D.C., over raising the nation' ...
• ABC News: GOP, White House have deal framework
  ShareThisABC News: GOP, White House have deal framework 30 Jul 2011 ABC News has learned Republicans negotiating with [the surrender of] the White House have drafted a tentative framework that would prevent the government from defaulting on its loans. According to an ABC News source, the framewo ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• More Flak from Military Public Affairs
  29 July 2011 � Over the past seven years, there has been a long string of issues flowing from military public affairs officers.� Most of the PAs have been professional, but on balance the experience has been extremely negative.� This is the opposite of what I've experienced with combat units, wh ...
• Taliban Attacking More Children
  26 July 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Over the past several days there have been news stories here in Afghanistan about the Taliban strangling an 8-year-old boy.�� The reports say that his father refused to turn over a police vehicle to the enemy, and so they murdered his ...
• A Fine Talk by Joe Galloway
  Published: 23 July 2011 Joe Galloway, at the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association, 2011Convention "Thanks to all of you for giving me the honor of speaking to you. I have got to tell you that looking out across this assemblage I must confess: I haven't seen this many bad boys collected in one ...
• INFERNO BOOK UPDATE-Election Day: Early Morning
  21 July 2011 I remember writing these words during my first month in Iraq. The war was full on and it was anybody's guess how that first election day would land. Here are some thoughts I penned during that time: Here on the ground, it is clear that Iraq already is embroiled in civil war. But ...
• Left of Bang
  14 July 2011 A few years ago, a British officer said to me they want to get as far left of bang as possible.� The farther left of bang, the better.� Right of bang is a crater and a memorial service. A main goal in staying left of bang is to disrupt enemy bomb-making cells.� In the early days ...

The Killing Train

• The politics of economic self-destruction
  Sorry for the hiatus. Partly I've been busy with work and life and been unable to spend as much time doing articles. Partly I am trying to train myself to not relate to the world through 2000 word articles but to have a little more variety, including longer things (ie., books), one of which I am ...
• Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
  This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.
• Watch out for election day fraud
  Francis Fox Piven (who has had her own experiences recently with Harper's US mentors) and Richard Cloward wrote a very interesting book called "Why Americans Don't Vote", which showed how a key electoral strategy in the US has always been demobilizing opposing voters, a strategy just as importan ...
• Today's election thoughts
  Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
• 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
  The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...

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) ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Travel restrictions for Muslims loosened
  Muslims in Arakan state allowed to travel outside of their designated regions after decades of tight state-enacted restrictions
• The lives of others
  View Photo Album As Australia signs off on a controversial deal to send 800 asylum seekers to be processed in Malaysia, Reuters photographer Bazuki Muhammad documents the lives of a group of Burmese refugees living in Kuala Lumpur. With Malaysia yet to ratify and international treaty on the trea ...
• Burmese fans pelt winning opposition
  World Cup qualifying football match between Burma and Oman ends prematurely after Burmese fans riot in the stands
• At a critical juncture, Burma’s governme ...
  Three-part essay explores Burma's problematic relationship with China and the potential for Naypyidaw to build closer ties with another global powerhouse
• Armed groups urge Suu Kyi mediation
  Offer of negotiating role from opposition leader garners support among leaders of ethnic armies currently engaged in fighting

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Rajendra Pachauri is back to tell us: Trust me
  The IPCC's chairman wants us to forget all those scandals about hockey sticks and HImalayan glaciers, writes Christopher Booker.
• Can Prof Rajendra Pachauri really survive 'Gla ...
  The head of the UN panel on climate change, Prof Rajendra Pachauri, is still adamant that one famously exaggerated report should not cost him his job , says Peter Stanford.
• Steve Jones tells the BBC: don't give 'deniali ...
  In his report for the BBC Trust, Steve Jones actually attacks Auntie for having too little global-warming bias, writes Christopher Booker.
• Horn of Africa drought: African desperation
  Telegraph View: In the 1980s rich nations reacted far too slowly to mass starvation in Ethiopia. The same mistake must not be repeated.
• Queensland floods and Russian heatwave will be ...
  Chris Huhne's 'carbon saving' measures could double energy bills within nine years - so Australian floods might help to wash down the British voter's bitter pills, says Christopher Booker.

National Geographic | Environment

• Pictures We Love: Best of July
  NoneSlimy seas, stormy skies, a bull's ear—National Geographic photo editors eye the month's best new pictures and find ten favorites.
• Bats Drawn to Plant via "Echo Beacon"
  A Cuban plant that depends on bat pollination evolved a special leaf that acts like a satellite dish for bats' sonar, new research says.
• Gulf Spill's Effects Unknown For Years?
  More than a year after the Deepwater Horizon spill, scientists say it could take a decade to figure out how the oil affected the Gulf of Mexico's environment. Video.
• Photos: Thick Green Algae Chokes Beach—Swimmer ...
  NoneMats of bright green algae have again coated miles of shoreline in eastern China—and locals act like it's a day at the beach.
• Heat Wave Due to "Exceptionally Strong" Air Mass
  A stubborn high-pressure system is causing sweltering temperatures in much of the U.S—and there's no relief in sight, experts say.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Florida Secretary of State requests approval o ...
  [JURIST] Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning [official website] on Friday announced [press release] that he is seeking approval of portions of the state's new election law in a federal court in Washington, DC. In June, Florida officials filed an application with the US Department of Justice ...
• Federal judge declares Florida controlled subs ...
  [JURIST] A federal judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida [official website] has declared [order, PDF] the state's controlled-substances laws, which criminalize the "unknowing" possession of a controlled substance, unconstitutional. The decision, issued on Wednesday, ...
• Michigan AG appeals decision overturning affir ...
  [JURIST] Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette [official website] on Friday appealed a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] overturning the state's affirmative action ban. Proposal 2 [text; JURIST news archive], an amendment to the Michigan Constitution ...
• Federal appeals court allows patents of human ...
  [JURIST] The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit [official website] on Friday ruled 2-1 [opinion, PDF] that patents held on two genes linked to hereditary ovarian and breast cancer are valid. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) [advocacy websi ...
• Mubarak trial to be held at new location outs ...
  [JURIST] The trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive] will be held at a police academy located on the outer border of Cairo, an Egyptian judge announced Saturday. Officials chose the new location for the added security [AP report], after reportin ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...

Tikun Olam

• Geller Accessory After Fact to Breivik Massacre?
  Little Green Footballs reports that Pam Geller published an e-mail from an unnamed Norwegian anti- jihadi in 2007, which indicated he was planning a major terror attack to dramatize his cause. Geller was so shocked by what he wrote that she called it “devastating in its matter of factness.” She ...
• Settler MKs Welcome Russian Neo-Nazi Holocaust ...
  When an Israeli reader sent this story to me I couldn’t believe the headline summarized above.  Further, in this day and age of Norwegian neo-Nazi, anti-jihadi attacks which wrap themselves in the Israeli flag, this story is simply mind-blowing. It begins with a visit from a Russian neo-Nazi de ...
• Truthout Publishes My Latest Piece on Possible ...
  I’ve distilled my reporting on Iran in the past month and added some new material in this new piece published today at Truthout: Senior Israeli, US Intelligence Figures Warn of Israeli Attack Against Iran.  The heading above the title says it has 108,000 Facebook Likes.  Given that Truthout i ...
• Iran Assassination: Melman Hints Israel Killed ...
  In reporting on the recent assassination of Iranian electrical engineering graduate student, Darioush Rezaeinejad, I’ve noted the possibility of the Lillehammer-like mistake by which the Mossad may’ve killed the wrong man.  The reason is that at first the news media reported the victim was nucl ...
• Geller, Anti-Jihadi Blogs Have ‘Very Real Bloo ...
  “People like Fjordman and Pamela Geller and the right-wing blogosphere who spew apocalyptic rhetoric and refuse to denounce the extremists among them now have the very real blood of children on their hands.” OK, let take a quiz: who wrote that?  Glenn Greenwald, perhaps?  Andrew Sullivan?  Or ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• Reporting from Your Mobile Phone? The Mobile M ...
  Drumroll, please! MobileActive.org is pleased to introduce the Mobile Media Toolkit, the newest project that's all about Making Media Mobile. The Mobile Media Toolkit helps you make sense of the growing role of mobile tech in media. The Toolkit provides how-to guides, wireless tools, and ...
• Visualizing 10 Years of Violence Against Journ ...
  Internews and Nai, an Afghan media advocacy organization, have collected hundreds of reports of threats, intimidation, and violence faced by journalists in Afghanistan. We recently announced a new site, which features 10 years of these reports. While Nai's data previously resided in spreadsheets ...
• DocumentCloud Weathers Obama Birth Certificate ...
  When President Obama released his birth certificate and dozens of news organizations turned to DocumentCloud to present it to their readers, I snarked a bit. Though the birth certificate did prompt a few questions -- which we're still navigating -- about the best way to handle duplicate uploads, ...
• Prototypes, Visualizations Take Shape in Knigh ...
  Today marks the end of the second week of the Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab, an experiment in which 63 "mad scientists" with ideas for how to improve digital storytelling have been thrown together in a common digital space to learn and refine those digital ideas. In the first week, we heard la ...
• Dotspotting + Embeds = Great Maps of Prisons, ...
  There are three basic parts to working with online representations of urban civic data in Dotspotting: collating the data, manipulating it, and then sharing and publishing it. Up until now, we've been focused on the first two, which makes sense. Obviously you need to be able to gather and work w ...

Cutting Edge News

• Egypt after Mubarak - Militants Attack Sinai G ...
  Gunmen destroyed a natural gas facility along a pipeline leading from Egypt to Israel on July 30 in northern Sinai Peninsula. The attack occurred at Sheikh Zuayed near El-Arish, the terminal which is the main liquefying station for gas exported to Israel and Jordan from Egypt. This is the third ...
• Edge on Terrorism - Thwarted Terrorist Attack ...
  An AWOL U.S. soldier was arrested the evening of July 27 on an outstanding child pornography warrant in Killeen, Texas, and is suspected to have been plotting an attack on Fort Hood. The suspect, Pfc. Nasser Jason Abdo from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was reportedly arrested by the Killeen Police D ...
• Artificial Intelligence - Humanoid Robots may ...
  STMicroelectronics and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa announced the creation of a joint laboratory for research and innovation in bio-robotics, smart systems and microelectronics. The work at the new laboratory in Catania, Italy is to lead to a better understanding of the physical design of ...
• The Medical Edge - Linking Mind to Artificial ...
  Four universities won a $1.2 million grant to develop prosthetics that deliver sensory information to patients and can be controlled by their thoughts. Rice University, the University of Michigan, Drexel University and the University of Maryland will work on the four-year project with funds from ...
• Book Reviews - 'Wasting Minds' and Why Johnny ...
  Wasting Minds: Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do About It. Ronald A. Wolk. ASCD. 2011. 256 pages.Ronald Wolk, who grew up in Pittsburgh and now lives in Rhode Island, earned a distinguished reputation as an education journalist. As founder and first editor of Education Week, ...

High Country News

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

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• A Stupid, Stupid Decision By CPAC
  The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally � not a 20 percent traitor. -Ronald Reagan�A "funny thing happened" while we were concentrating on the debt ceiling crisis at the end of last week, on Friday it told GOProud the organization for Gay Conservatives that ...
• BREAKING----DEAL! Boehner And White House Rea ...
  �The first indication of a deal was when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) abruptly delayed a late-Saturday night test vote on his plan lifting the federal debt ceiling until 1 p.m. Sunday afternoon, and said the move was made at the request of the White House. Then around 11p ...
• Peace Process Profiteers and The Blessings of ...
  By Barry Rubin Israel's historic position toward the territories captured in the 1967 war has been: Israel will control this land until it can achieve peace or at least a better situation for itself by leaving them. Jordan made peace. And it agreed to pull out of most of the Gaza Stri ...
• Today's Debt Ceiling Votes --Some Unanswered Q ...
  Like most political junkies, I have spent most of this week closely following the debt ceiling debate. With the help with some contacts on the hill I gained a good insight into what happened and why it happened.� Despite all the knowledge gained there are still so many questions remaining. Here ...
• Boehner Bill Passed, Moody's Says No Change an ...
  Thankfully, the Boehner bill passed (as expected) but by a relatively close margin 218-210 and 7 abstentions . Most of the debate was the normal political hoo-ha, but Boehner's speech was emotional and hard hitting. Boehner said in part: �I stuck my neck out a mile to try to get an ...

The Real Agenda

• The Doped States of America
  Everyday more American newborns suffer the threat of intoxication and the consequent withdrawal from painkillers. RT.com July 30, 2011 It looks like the penchant for prescription drug addiction`doesn’t skip a generation. A new report issued by the White House Office on Drug Control Policy reveal ...
• Genocídio Genético: Engenharia Genética Ameaça ...
  A engenharia genética não é nova. Aparentemente, ela tem sido discutida, se não aplicada, desde 1960. O problema com a modificação genética de plantas, animais, plantas e animais, clonagem e fusão de genes não é sua existência. É o resultado dessas práticas não regulamentadas que deve alarmar-no ...
• Pentagon to Use Genetic Code to Identify Perfe ...
  by Joe Wolverton, II The New American January 24, 2011 Old soldiers never die, they just pass on their genetic code? A report issued by a defense science advisory panel suggests that the Pentagon may begin collecting DNA from military personnel to identify the genome sequence that defines a good ...
• House Committee Approves Database Surveillance ...
  Steve Watson Infowars.com July 25, 2011 Legislation that will force Internet providers to store information on all their customers and share it with the federal government and law enforcement agencies was significantly beefed at the last minute yesterday and approved by a U.S. House of Represent ...
• Genocidio Genético: Cómo la Ingeniería Genétic ...
  La ingeniería genética no es nueva. Al parecer, se ha discutido -si no aplicado- desde la década de 1960. El problema con la modificación genética de plantas, animales, plantas y animales, la clonación y fusión de genes no es su existencia. Es el resultado de estas prácticas no reguladas lo que ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

• Default … or Renege?
  Via Don Boudreaux, Roger Garrison notes that one cannot choose to default. As he wrote to Boudreaux: You mention, though, that the government could “choose to default.” Well, if default means that you’re unable to pay, then “choosing to default” must mean that you “choose to be unable to pay.” H ...
• Milton Friedman
  Sunday is the 99th anniversary of the birth of Milton Friedman (1912-2006), one of the greatest champions of freedom and free markets in our time. Among FEE’s first publications was Friedman’s essay demolishing the case for rent control, written with another future Nobel Prize-winner, George Sti ...
• U.S. Default Would Not Be Unprecedented
  Why do the media and politicians persist in saying the U.S. government has never defaulted on its “obligations” before? It most certainly has. Marc Joffee, a consultant in the credit assessment field, writes in “Correction: The US Has Defaulted Before and It Can Default Again”: One troubling asp ...
• Big Three Now Support Fuel Economy Standards
  “Four years ago, the American auto industry was so opposed to higher fuel economy standards that executives of Detroit camped out in Washington in an unsuccessful bid to undercut them. On Friday, when President Obama is scheduled to announce even stricter standards â in fact, the largest increas ...
• Senate Committee Votes to Ban Stimulant
  “A bill that would ban the new stimulant drug known as bath salts passed the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously Thursday.” (New York Times) Why do we put up with this stuff? FEE Timely Classic “The Drug Warâs Assault on Liberty” by Lance Lamberton

Teaching Online Journalism

• 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
  I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in my o ...
• Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
  This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...
• Journalists, take another look at Tumblr
  For a long time I had trouble appreciating Tumblr, but I think I finally understand its strengths — and I must not be the only one. Tumblr is now one of the top 25 websites in the U.S., according to data from Quancast, as reported in a new article at TechCrunch. It gets close to 5,000 pagevie ...
• Branding: Should journalists build a personal ...
  If you’re teaching journalism today, you must be aware of the discussion that surrounds branding. If you’re a young journalist, or someone planning to enter the field of journalism, you need to understand what personal branding means. On June 23, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten wrote ...
• Journalists: How to get started with Twitter
  If you haven’t yet found any value in using Twitter, here’s what you should consider. On the topic of WHY to get started, John Robinson (the editor of the News & Record, in Greensboro, North Carolina) wrote a very good piece for ASNE this week. If youâre not on Twitter, youâre making your job ...

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

• Boehner’s plan has 900 billion in cuts
  Obama’s has 4 trillion. Boehner’s plan also calls for a committee to find another 1.8 billion.  Even with that, we’re talking 2.7 billion of cuts, still less than Obama’s plan That is all.
• Predicted August 2nd 2008
  20) A huge push to gut entitlements in 2009, no matter who is president. Even if the US quickly pulls out of Iraq, the deficit will be totally out of control, and hundreds of billions will be needed for bailouts. A rapid consensus will form that rather than increasing taxes significantly on the ...
• Stirling Newberry asks if Obama is the worst p ...
  Well?  Go on over, and see what you think, where does Obama rank in terms of worst presidents ever? I mean, he didn’t/hasn’t caused a civil war, so he’s probably not in first place.  But… Also a detailed explanation of how the debt limit is raised, and a good list of the worst things Obama [...]
• More Notes on the Debt Ceiling “Negotiat ...
  If Obama didn’t want it to happen, if he didn’t want to “negotiate”, he would have: 1) raised the debt limit during the lame duck Congress.  He could have raised it enough to get him through 2 years. 2) Accepted the clean debt-ceiling bill, offered by McConnell, as noted by Stewart M. 3) simply ...
• More Notes on the Debt Ceiling “Negotiation”
  If Obama didn’t want it to happen, if he didn’t want to “negotiate”, he would have: 1) raised the debt limit during the lame duck Congress.  He could have raised it enough to get him through 2 years. 2) Accepted the clean debt-ceiling bill, offered by McConnell, as noted by Stewart M. 3) simply ...

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Nuclear commission eyes new path on waste as l ...
  The White House's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future released its interim report on Friday, calling for the establishment of a new public process - as well as a new independent organization with access to truly dedicated funding - to identify a long-term solution for nuclear wast ...
• With budget cuts looming, US science strives t ...
  It's been a week of budget mayhem in Washington and the impact of what is almost certain to be a tougher fiscal climate in 2012 is making itself felt in all kinds of ways. One example is the now often repeated mantra that investment in science and technology can become a driver of economic ...
• Obama announces new automobile efficiency stan ...
  US President Barack Obama announced new automobile standards on Wednesday, unveiling an agreement with automakers that would very nearly double the average fuel efficiency of today's vehicles by 2025. The agreement advances Obama's signature achievement in the domestic energy arena: brokerin ...
• US Court upholds Myriad's breast cancer gene p ...
  The biotechnology industry breathed a deep sign of relief today, as a US Appeals court upheld a company’s controversial patents on genes linked to breast cancer. The US Federal Appeals Court in New York overturned a lower court’s ruling in a case pitting the genetics testing firm Myriad Genet ...
• Bt cotton cuts pesticide poisoning
  Over the past ten years that farmers in India have been planting Bt cotton - a transgenic variety containing genes from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis making it pest resistant - pesticide use has been cut by at least half, a new study shows. The research also found that the use of ...

new geography

• How Los Angeles Lost Its Mojo
  Los Angeles today is a city in secular decline. Its current political leadership seems determined to turn the sprawling capitalist dynamo into a faux New York. But they are more likely to leave behind a dense, government-dominated, bankrupt, dysfunctional, Athens by the Pacific. The greatness o ...
• Moving from the Coast
  For years both government and media have been advancing the notion that   America's coastal counties are obtaining most of the population growth at the expense of interior counties. For example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported in the 1990s: Coastal areas are cro ...
• Zipcars: The Car Sharing Market Gets Zapped
  A growing sector of the urban populace is turning to “car sharing” — sharing vehicles through membership in nonprofit or for-profit organizations — for cost and convenience. Since 2006, membership in car sharing organizations has grown from about 100,000 to more than 500,000 people. Althoug ...
• California Wages War On Single-Family Homes
  In recent years, homeowners have been made to feel a bit like villains rather than the victims of hard times, Wall Street shenanigans and inept regulators. Instead of being praised for braving the elements, suburban homeowners have been made to feel responsible for everything from the Great Rece ...
• India Conquers the World
  From the exclusive Club Lounge on the 19th floor of Singapore’s Mandarin Oriental, Anish Lalvani gazes out at the city’s skyline, a dazzling array of glass and steel and vertical ambition. The Lalvani family has come a long way since the days when Anish’s paternal grandfather, Tirath Singh Lalva ...

GM Watch

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

spiked

• Libya: palace intrigue replaces people power
  Recent events confirm that NATO’s numpty-led war has led to the colossal disempowerment of the Libyan people.
• The Hour: the Fifties in colour
  Abi Morgan’s much-hyped new drama feels like Britain’s liberals stealing conservatives’ favourite monochrome decade.
• From holiday resort to footballing force
  Could Malaga FC, flush with overseas investment, finally break the Real-Barca stranglehold on La Liga?
• Truth is the first casualty of war movies
  A new film about the Russian-Georgian War of August 2008 claims to be ‘based on actual events’. Like hell it is.
• From working class to incapacitated class
  How radical activists shifted from viewing the working classes as powerful to pitying them as pathetic.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

• GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Head Of Obama&#8217 ...
  Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China.  GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now GE has announced that it "is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray ...
• 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 ...

Desertification

• ‘Water gel’ promises bumper harves ...
  Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/07/kenya-newly-introduced-water-gel.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 Kenya: Newly-introduced ‘water gel’ promises bumper harvest in dry spell by Bob Koigi B ...
• Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in A ...
  Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/07/book-biofuels-land-grabbing-and-food.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 Book: Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa Editors: Prosper B. Maton ...
• Less water, more biomass with the Buried Diffu ...
  Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/07/buried-diffuser-improved-drip.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 The Buried Diffuser, an improved drip irrigation technique by Chahbani Bellachheb Drip irr ...
• Vertical farms in Suwon, South Korea (Treehugger)
  Read at : http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/07/lettuce-look-at-a-working-vertical-farm-korea.php?campaign=daily_nl Real Live Vertical Farm Built In South Korea, Churning Out Lettuce by Lloyd Alter, Toronto We have been showing conceptual vertical farms for years, but in Suwon, South Korea the ...
• China’s practice of buying up land contr ...
  Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/07/german-official-blames-chinese-land.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 German official blames Chinese land buys for Africa drought Germany’s Africa policy ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

• Palestinian quarry workers strike
  Salit strikers.jpg Palestinian workers at a quarry at an Israeli settlement in the occupied territories have gone on strike over unpaid wages. The strike began last month at Sa ...
• The End Of Hollywood? - if only
  Crowd Riots After Los Angeles Police Shut Down Block Party, Movie Premiere A police car was set on fire and crowds fought in Los Angeles Wednesday night after the LAPD shut down an impromptu "block party" because thousands of people who showed up refused ...
• Disgruntled bosses are attacking anarchist hos ...
  sos_ddos0.jpg Since 19th of July, Russian anho.org (shorthand for "Anarchist Hosting") has been targeted with a DDoS - attack. Since then, numerous activist website s have been unaccessible - incl ...
• South Africa: ANC Frame-Up of Abahlali baseMjo ...
  AbM_logo_big.jpg The 12 Abahlali baseMjondolo activists arrested after the attack on the movement in late 2009 have all been fully acquitted in court - and the state excoriated from the bench for its ...
• Italy: NO TAV / Genoa / Naples / Other News
  An update on the last few weeks in Italy - NO TAV protests, Genoa 10 years after the G8, and more. NO TAV read more

Free Range International

• An Open Letter to Martin Frost
  Dear Mr. Frost, Yesterday, while perusing through my usual roundup of blogs and new sites, I ran across your article, The Tea Party Taliban, on Politico.com.  I’m sure you thought you were quite clever, likening the American Tea Party to the Afghan Taliban, with statements such as this: Ten year ...
• Riding A Dead Horse
  I thought you might all appreciate some Afghan humor today.  I found this on the website Who is Who in Afghanistan, which is a great site to check out if you want dirt on Afghan politicians and power brokers.  Most of the content on the site seems to be provided by Afghans themselves, and althou ...
• The Plot Thickens
  I meant to get this post up sooner, but a 48-hour bout with the flu left my brain too cooked to come up with any sort of cogent analysis regarding the assassination of Karzai ally Jan Mohammad Khan (JMK).  To tell you the truth, I don’t have one theory on whose behind the killing – [...]
• AWK Whacked
  So it seems that Ahmed Wali Karzai (aka AWK or A-wak, as it’s pronounced), was whacked by one of his own guards yesterday, sending everyone in the US and Afghan governments into a tizzy as they try to figure out how to fill the power vacuum created by his demise.  I really can’t say for [...]
• FRI Rides Again
  As a devoted follower of FRI for the past few years, I was as disappointed as the rest of you readers to hear that Baba Tim was going dark on the site.  So, given the fact that I’m currently in a position to continue providing dispatches from the freeranger perspective in [...]

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

• Stress and Pollution
  Stress and Pollution.
• Sustainability?
  Sustainability?.Take a moment and think about this: 50,000 years ago, erect humanoids were almost  eliminated by an Ice Age. Scientists estimate that roughly 3000 individuals existed during that time. They survived by adaptation to change, ability to understand consequences of doing nothing,  a ...
• “Champions of Energy Efficiency in Indus ...
  News Release Contact: Neal Elliott 202.487.0615 (c) or 202.507.4009 (p) Media Contact: Patrick Kiker 202.507.4043 (p) ACEEE Names "Champions of Energy Efficiency in Industry" Niagara Falls, New York (July 28, 2011): The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) named four Champion ...
• FIT Guide for Policymakers-NREL
  Hot Off the Press Feed-in tariffs (FITs) have been celebrated as one of the more effective policies to promote renewable energy deployment. This technical report, written by NREL and E3 Analytics, is a guide for policymakers to help implement FITs without breaking the bank. The report discusses ...
• Winery Invitation from Missouri Coalition for ...
  MO Coalition for the Environment SAVE THE DATE: September 30th Poured: A Taste of Space 2011 Missouri Coalition for the Environment Wine and Cheese Event Event: "Poured – A Taste of Space" Date: Friday, September 30, 2011 Time: 5:30pm – 8:30pm Venue: SPACE, LLC Architecture Firm 4168 Manchester ...

The View From Abroad

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

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

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• Alef by Paulo Coelho in Persian
  Paulo Coelho : "As I don’t have a publishing house in Farsi, Dr. Hejazi translated the book. He did it for free and I am posting it for free here read more
• Iran could release 2 Americans, lawyer says
  (CBS/AP)  TEHRAN, Iran - Two Americans jailed in Iran on charges of espionage could be released after a court hearing slated for Sunday, their lawyer said. � Masoud Shafiei said Saturday the fact that the session in the trial of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal would coincide with the second an ...
• Senior Iranian commander says Israel behind No ...
  The head of the Iranian military on Saturday accused 'the Zionists' of being behind the terrorist attacks in Norway, the Iranian state-owned English-language broadcaster Press TV reported on Saturday. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of Iran's armed forces, Hassan Firouzabadi, said in a ...
• جنجال بر سر تغییر نام پول ملی ایران
  اقدام بانک مرکزی جمهوری اسلامی ایران برای حذف چهار صفر از واحد پول کشور.read more
• Iran courts post-Mubarak Egypt, worrying allies
  There is strong popular support in Egypt for a foreign policy that does not so strongly mirror Washington's, which proponents argue will help restore the country's clout as a regional leader.

Most Revolutionary Act

• Lessons from Soweto
  Soweto Uprising This is the second in a series of posts regarding the potential for a generation Z uprising. The 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa is widely credited as heralding the start of mass popular resistance to apartheid. While various scholars dispute its significance relative to oth ...
• Generation Z and Psychological Oppression
  Egyptian teenagers (Generation Z consists of young people born after 1990) Much has been made of the role of youth in sparking the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. The historical significance of the mass insurrections in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and ...
• Confessions of a Carnivore
  Venus fly trap - a meat eating plant As a strong sustainability activist, I feel quite embarrassed admitting that I derive nearly all my dietary protein from animal sources (eggs and fish). Explaining why I do so is even more embarrassing – an autoimmune disease that makes it virtually impossibl ...
• Life After Capitalism
  Like many sustainability activists, I strongly believe that with advanced planning and preparation, the demise of capitalism could be an extraordinarily positive change for most of humankind. As I have blogged previously (see http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2011/07/18/global-capitalism ...
• TEOFWAWKIT: The End of the World as We Know It
  New dollar bill from http://racismandnationalconsciousnessnews.org This is the third of a series of posts discussing the likelihood that capitalism is on the verge of collapse and what a post-capitalistic world might look like. Marx predicts that the collapse of capitalism will be followed by ei ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• The Confederate we still don't know
  On July 31, 1861, exactly 150 years ago Sunday, the Richmond Examiner reported that Gen. Robert E. Lee, who at that time was serving as a confidential military adviser to President Jefferson Davis, was on his way to western Virginia (now West Virginia) to consult with other Confederate genera ...
• Momentum for the 14th Amendment solution?
  (UPDATED)
• Planned Parenthood firebombed, right wing silent
  Someone firebombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in McKinney, Texas, late Tuesday night. Because it was so late, no one was hurt. The clinic doesn't provide abortions, but there had been protesters there earlier that day anyway. You might've read about the news on Twitter or on a liberal blog. ...
• Obama's whistleblower war suffers two defeats
  The Obama administration's unprecedented war on whistleblowers suffered two serious and well-deserved defeats.  The first occurred in the prosecution of NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, who was accused of multiple acts of espionage, only for the DOJ to drop virtually all of the charges right b ...
• This week in global-warming denial
  July has been marked by an abundance of new evidence and arguments�that point to the adverse effect of man-made climate change. But,�surprisingly, it's been a controversial study from a controversial�scientist that has generated the most buzz. Unsurprisingly, a slew of�prominent right-leaning ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• India and Pakistan move on
  After a season of mistrust, India and Pakistan seem to be moving on.
• Teen deaths shame us all
  The coroner's report on Gleb Alfyorov's death is achingly familiar.
• Safety first this summer
  Preventable deaths, especially on water, are a sad part of summer. On civic holiday weekend, let's put safety first.
• Mayor Ford gets an earful
  There's a reason Toronto has never before run a city hall meeting for 22 straight hours. It's a poor way to elicit residents’ views.
• A treasure, by any name
  What started in 1967 as a small project for Canada's centennial year has evolved into a huge celebration capturing the best of Toronto's character.

Energy Collective

• The Economics of EV Battery Reuse
  The challenge of repurposing EV batteries should not blind the industry to the important nature of that challenge. Maximizing EV battery residual value is critical to reducing battery costs and making EV’s attractive to the average automobile consumer. Producing a battery that can capture maxim ...
• A Dolphin's Dilemma for Fishermen in the Gulf
  Louisiana shrimp buyer Dean Blanchard has seen plenty of crazy things during his�life in�the bayou. But his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets�the day he watched a mother dolphin pushing her dead baby calf �towards him�as he�stood on the�commercial dock of his once thriving seafood business ...
• Germany’s Grand Energy Experiment
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• Costs and Hazards of Unconventional Natural Ga ...
• Distributed Power Is The Best Way To Relieve E ...
  I just attended a presentation by Marlene Grundstrom, who works with the Stockholm Environment Institute on energy access and energy poverty.

EU Times

• Who is killing the Iranian Scientists?
  Western and Israeli media were quick to announce that the 35-year-old Iranian Dariush Rezai killed on July 23 in Tehran was a prominent nuclear physicist who played an important role in the development of Iran’s nuclear program. Iranian authorities have confirmed the fact of murder. However, acc ...
• Tomb of Jesus’s disciple found in Turkey
  Archeologists have found the tomb of St. Philip the Apostle, one of the 12 original disciples of Jesus Christ, in the southwestern province of Denizli in Turkey. The tomb was discovered at the ruins of a recently unearthed church in the ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis (Pamukkale), said Italia ...
• Breivik could be put in mental institution if ...
  Anders Behring Breivik, the principal suspect in the twin terror attacks in Norway last Friday, may undergo compulsory medical treatment following a medical examination, a Swedish law expert said on Wednesday. Lawyer Bernt Birkeland said if the medical exam proves that Breivik was insane, he wou ...
• Obama approval rating hits all-time low
  US President Barack Obama’s approval rating has hit an all-time low as there seems to be no end in sight to the country’s debt ceiling impasse. According to a Gallup poll on Friday, only 40 percent of respondents said they approved of Obama’s job performance, leaving the president’s rank at its ...
• Norway Terror Attacks a False Flag?
  More Than One Shooter on Island; Oslo Bomb Drill Just Concluded; Was It NATO’s Revenge for Norway’s Decision to Stop Bombing Libya? Washington DC, July 24, 2011 – The tragic terror attacks in Norway display a number of the telltale signs of a false flag provocation. It is reported that, although ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• In Syria, the government is the real rebel
  The increasing violence in Syria is transforming the country into a Hobbesian state. A Very Good Piece By Larbi Sadiki Al-Jazeera "There have been many setbacks during the "Arab Spring". None, however, are more flagrantly obvious than in Syria
• Jets Sign Plaxico Burress
  After getting out of prison, Plaxico Burress was looking for a new home. On Sunday, he found it. The New York Jets have signed Plaxico Burress to a one-year contract worth $3,017,000. If healthy and dedicated, the tall and talented wide receiver will likely start for the Jets. Going to the Jets ...
• Google optimizes its search page for iPad and ...
  If an iPad or other tablet has become a vital part of your daily life, you’re probably doing a lot of searches on the web using these devices. And Google knows that. That’s why they just made their search page friendlier for tablet devices such as the iPad and Android tablets. This enhancement ...
• The Revolution Begins in Tel Aviv
  Two young people who caught my eye in the endless stream of people in Tel Aviv last night were proudly wearing t-shirts with the slogan "Revolution!" stamped on the front. No busses, no organized political mobilizations, just endless streams of people, marching in the heart of Tel Aviv – near t ...
• Google has updated the Gmail app for Android
  Google has updated the Gmail app for Android The Gmail update allows users to download priority e-mails first, so that the app fetches fewer messages and uses less data, thus using less battery life. As we all know, Android can use all the help it can get for saving battery life, especially 4G ...

Groklaw

• Aspen Institute: Cyber Security (video)
  Bloomberg's Allan Holmes moderates a conversation with former CIA Director Gen. Michael V. Hayden, Dell SecureWorks' Jon Ramsey, and AGT International's Mati Kovachi.[PJ: At the end, a VC guy points out that under the proposed "first to file" patent reform act, it would be possible for bad acto ...
• Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful
  Most lawyers involved in open source have supported the trend towards wider use of formal contributor agreements, by helping to write them and by advising clients to use them. In this talk I take a contrarian view, drawing on my experiences as Red Hat's open source licensing counsel. I argue tha ...
• Homeland Security Investigations brings counte ...
  As part of the operation, Ryan Breen, 31, of Savannah, N.Y., was also arrested and charged with using the Internet to traffic in counterfeit goods. Breen was identified as the owner and operator of a website seized in this operation that sold unauthorized apparel from the FX Network series "Sons ...
• Apple iPads Come Highly Recommended But So Do ...
  Recently research group IHS iSuppi released results from a customer satisfaction study among tablet owners. ...Unsurprisingly Apple topped the list with an average customer rating of 8.8 out of 10. The interesting thing is the company that came after Apple in the study, budget tablet maker Zeni ...
• Foxconn to replace workers with 1 million robo ...
  Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labor expenses and improve efficiency, said Terry Gou, founder and chairman of the company, late Friday. The robots will be used to do simple and routine work such as spraying, ...

WideShut

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

Politics in the Zeros

• Kucinich on the national debt
  I completely agree with Kucinich on ending the wars, having public works projects, and green jobs incubators. But why the insistence that the debt ceiling should be increased with no strings attached? This akin to homeowners six years ago who thought prices would go up forever hence they could ...
• Dimbulbs in DC about to bring forth a mouse
  And kick the can down the road yet again. $1.2 trillion in cuts over 10 years? Chump change. Plus a ‘Super Congress’ which must act on up to $1.6 trillion more in cuts by November which Congress must approve else mandated cuts happen. Since those mandated cuts include defense, you can be sure ou ...
• “Days, not weeks”, eh? Libya quaqmire worsens
  Earlier this week Britain, in an obvious sign of desperation, said they might accept Gaddafi remaining in Libya if he stepped down. A few days ago, the rebel’s military chief was assassinated by Islamist militia members. A Gaddafi spokesperson says this shows the rebels aren’t capable of governi ...
• Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T” now world’s hottes ...
  It rates at an insanely hot 1,463,700 Scoville units (Jalapenos are 5,000-7,000, Habaneros 500,000 or so) And yes, someone eats one whole in a few seconds in the video (then starts hopping around the house, eating bread and drinking milk to counter its fearsome effects)
• Google directories
  Google blogs. They have over 160 blogs covering everything from renewable energy to their mutitude of products as well as hardcore developer stuff. Google Twitter accounts Google Facebook Pages Google YouTube channels

TVNZ - Top Stories

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

Just World News

• Remembering Qana, five years on
  On this day five years ago, at 1:30 am Lebanon time, Israel's U.S.-supplied warplanes attacked houses in the south Lebanese village of Qana, killing more than 60 civilians, 37 of them children. Go watch this soberly reported video clip from Britain's Channel 4 to get a measure of the horror. Th ...
• Place your orders now for Zurayk's 'War Diary: ...
  You can now go to the 'Buy' button on the web-page for Rami Zurayk's 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006' and place your advance order for this unique, 60-page work. The ebook will cost you $4.00 (in many different formats), and the paperback will cost you $7.00, plus shipping. Here is the back-cover text ...
• Nurturing that better future
  All my wonderful longtime readers here at JWN may wonder why I've been so silent recently. Two reasons, mainly. I've been deep immersed in the most wonderful forms of family life; and I've also been racing against the clock on the 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006' project. In the past three months, we' ...
• New e-book soon: 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006'
  Today is the fifth anniversary of the beginning of that terrible march of folly, the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006. So I'm delighted to announce today that my publishing company, Just World Books, will shortly be publishing as a short e-book War Diary: Lebanon 2006, by the Lebanese social activist ...
• Afghanistan, logistics, geopolitics, war, peace
  The WaPo's Craig Whitlock has an informative piece in today's paper about the many continuing challenges the U.S. military has faced as it attempted to provide logistic support to the "surged" U.S. troop presence in very distant Afghanistan. Supplying these troops is particularly hard, due to t ...

frogblog

• Breakdown of Burmese ceasefire
  On Wednesday, Wellington’s Kachin community arrived in Parliament grounds to protest the increasing violence happening in their home province. Kachin state is the Northern most state in Burma, neighbouring China. The Kachin community told me about the breakdown, last month, of a 17 year ceasefir ...
• Blair: Politician for the rich
  While many New Zealanders are struggling to make ends meet, others could afford a hefty $1000 to hear (and be photographed with) the former British PM Tony Blair when he spoke in Auckland today. Yes, Mr Blair is a politician for the rich. He only became Prime Minister after flying to Australia i ...
• General debate, July 27, 2011
• Ohariu: deal or no deal?
  There’s been a lot of talk lately on electorate deals and I’d like to put myself on the record as the Green Party candidate standing in Ōhariu.
• Norway massacre: Key points finger in wrong di ...
  I almost fell of my chair when I heard John Key use the Norway massacre to justify New Zealand’s military involvement in Afghanistan. He said the killings were part of global terrorism and why New Zealand is in Afghanistan “trying to make the world a safer place.” The problem is that right-winge ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• The Economy in 50 Words or Less
  Every quarter, the Kauffman Foundation surveys a set of economics bloggers about the state of the economy. The full report for the third quarter is here. The summary is below. It seems about right to me. Comments | Post Comment����
• Friday Cat Blogging - 29 July 2011
  We got Inkblot a new area rug to tear to shreds this week, this time in bright olive green. Sets him off well, don't you think.1 (Naturally we do all our interior decorating with cat complementing in mind.) On the right we have — what? Let's call it experimental catblogging. Domino has a sou ...
• Advice for John Boehner
  Chad Orzel talks to his daughter about the process of creating art: She went on to explain that the car had been inside the marker, but then she took the top off the marker, and put it on the paper, and the car came out. Which is pretty impressive. She's just about to turn three, and she' ...
• Inflating Away the Debt
  Tyler Cowen points today to John Hussman saying something that's been in the back of my mind for a long time but never quite made it onto the blog: Here in the U.S., [debt held by the public] amounts to about 60% of GDP and rising, due to recent budget deficits of about 10% of GDP annuall ...
• Economy Update: Still Sucking
  GDP grew last quarter at a rate of 1.3%. That's pretty sluggish. What's worse, as Matt Yglesias points out, GDP for the previous three years was revised substantially downward at the same time. So to summarize: The Great Recession was worse than we thought. The recovery was slower th ...

Insanity Report

• Woman kicked Out of Walmart for Wearing String ...
  You know…this is why I don’t go into Walmart often. I always tell people that Walmart is where “Hot Ghetto Mess Meets White Trash” and main, this video proves it. This lady is upset because Walmart employees told her she had to put a shirt on? Ma’am…you’re walking around in a bikini top. That’s ...
• IC 261: Cooking with Bey
  Topics: Captain America and the integrated Army A butt slasher stalks women in VA malls Beyonce has a cooking book coming out Bill O’Reilly thinks the Norway killer can’t be Christian cause Christians don’t commit mass murder PETA thinks animals suffer like black did during slavery Share with yo ...
• FacePalm of the Week: Christians Don’t Commit ...
  Now that Glenn Beck is gone, Bill O’Reilly has an opening to go back to being the second craziest, batshit insane person at Fox News (he’s still got a long way to go to pass Hannity). O’Reilly hasn’t wasted any time to pick up his 2nd place trophy though. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews. ...
• Captian America and Why I Don’t Mind Escapes F ...
  Last night I read an article that complained that Captain America: The First Avenger did a disservice by not showing the US Army during WWII as segregated. And apparently the author of that article wasn’t alone.  A few other people had that same problem.  Some didn’t have as much of a problem ...
• Cenk Uygur Gets Sand in His Anus
  So Cenk Uygur is trying to say that he’s no longer a host on MSNBC because he was “challenging Obama” too much.  Sir…let me explain something to you.  You aren’t at MSNBC anymore because: YOU SUCK I get it.  You have a really popular Internet show where people watch when they want to get conf ...

Simple Climate

• Fire amid the ice kindles global and local worries
  After a record Arctic tundra wildfire in 2007 released as much carbon as all plants in similar landscapes absorbed in a year, University of Florida's Michelle Mack warns such fires could again become common, as they were 10,000 years ago.
• Aerosols paint clearer warming slowdown picture
  Contributions to climate change from “stratospheric aerosols” vary more than realised, Ellsworth Dutton and his NOAA colleagues find, potentially providing a partial explanation for slower warming from the late 1990s.
• Warming puts species at one in ten extinction ...
  Comparing predictions and measurements of the effects of climate change on plants and animals over the past five years shows predictions are accurate, and possibly optimistic, according to the University of Exeter's Ilya Maclean.
• Chinese pollution postpones temperature rises
  Sulphur emissions countered greenhouse gases to cause the much-debated “pause” in warming trend from 1998-2008, but only temporarily, Boston University's Robert Kaufmann told Simple Climate.
• Sea-level rise is the fastest in 2,000 years
  University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin Hortonand colleagues show that sea level has risen at an average of 2.1 mm per year since around 1900, after having stayed roughly stable for the previous two millennia.

e!Science News

• Genome-wide study reveals 3 new susceptibility ...
  Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine (CGM), together with colleagues at Kyoto University, Tsukuba University, Harvard University, and other medical institutions have identified three new loci associated with susceptibility to adult asthma in the Japanese population. The findings ...
• Soybean genetic treasure trove found in Swedis ...
  The first screening by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists of the American ancestors of soybeans for tolerance to ozone and other stresses had an eye-opening result: The world superstars of stress resistance hailed from a little village in far northern Sweden, called Fiskeby. read more
• Penn chemists make first molecular binding mea ...
  Even in trace quantities, the radioactive gas radon is very dangerous; it is second only to cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer deaths in the United States. The expense and precautions necessary to study it safely have limited research into its properties. Now, University of Pennsylvani ...
• Caltech researchers increase the potency of HI ...
  If one is good, two can sometimes be better. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have certainly found this to be the case when it comes to a small HIV-fighting protein. read more
• Restoring happiness in people with depression
  Practicing positive activities may serve as an effective, low-cost treatment for people suffering from depression, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Duke University Medical Center. read more

unEarthed

• OMG, GMOs: Food Safety Attorney George Kimbrell
  "This technology is a one-trick pony." George Kimbrell, staff attorney at Center for Food Safety, is serving as co-counsel in Earthjusticeâs genetically engineered sugar beet and alfalfa ...
• Protecting Polluters, Not People, One Rider at ...
  H.R. 2584 compromises public, especially in environmental justice communities Millions of Americans are already suffering from asthma. (Chris Jordan / Earthjustice) ...
• Friday Finds: Tequila Transformation
  Wrecked summer vacations, revved up gas mileage, watered down chemical regs The agave plant, typically used to distill tequila. Courtesy of kimsdinner. Teq ...
• Tracking the Anti-Environmental Congress
  Did you hear what they are up to? Did you hear about the secret attacks being planned on public health and the environment of the United States? Probably not. ...
• America's Wildlife Win Congressional Showdown
  Republicans abandon ship to keep species on the ESA ark Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA) The current leaders in the House think that saving America’s wildlife is aski ...

Brave New Climate

• Germany’s grand energy experiment
  Most readers of BNC know the story — after the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the German government announced that Germany would phase out all of its nuclear generation capacity by 2022. In almost the same period, Germany also aims to cut its national greenhouse gas emissions to 40% of 1990 levels (b ...
• Fukushima, IFRs and an MIT debate
  Back in May, I published a critique of an MIT report on the future of the nuclear fuel cycle (MIT FNFC), on behalf of Yoon Chang and the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Since that time, SCGI member Steve Kirsch (a MIT alumnus and benefactor) has been trying to get MIT to engage with thei ...
• Radiation hormesis?
  At the height of the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, there was a lot of discussion in the comments of this blog about the impact of radiation on human health. In particular, there was a debate about whether the linear no-threshold hypothesis (LNT) or the hormetic dose response (RH) was more scientific ...
• For climate’s sake, nuclear power is not an ‘o ...
  [This is an abridged amalgam of writings by me on nuclear power and climate change that I've published on BNC and elsewhere over the last two years. It has been updated with some commentary on recent events - the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, Germany's announced withdrawal from nuclear energy, and s ...
• Climate change update by the numbers
  Here are some figures to illustrate the latest global data on global warming. Data are from NCDC and GISS. First, a 12-month running mean of global surface temperature anomalies since 1980 (i.e. for each month, an average is taken of the previous 12-month period – ‘calendar year’ is irrelevant): ...

Indigenist Opinion

• CopWatch (2002)
  Winner: 2003 Media That Matters - Media Activism Award (Guerrilla News Network) American television audiences have long been accustomed to the celebration of rawkus police action via the Fox Network's signature exploitation, COPS. And while, for many, the show is a tell-tale sign of ...
• 2 Spirits: Native Lesbians and Gay Men : Osa H ...
  2-Spirited people (Native lesbians and Gay men) from the Bay Area share their experience of overlapping gender, ethnic and cultural identities as they explore and define their visions of utopia. Coordinating Producer: Osa Hidalgo de la Riva for Royal Eagle-Bear Productions (Oakland, CA )
• Colombia: Play Democracy, Hide the Corpses - A ...
  Colombia: Play Democracy, Hide the Corpses - Anarkismo Not a week goes in Colombia without reports of assassinations and persecution of labor and political activists. Ana Fabricia Cordoba, gender activist and leader of displaced peasants, was shot dead on June 7th inside a street bus, after she ...
• Jews sans frontieres: Why write about Jews?
  Jews sans frontieres: Why write about Jews? Beware – a publicity blurb about a book follows. The book is mine – Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights – and it analyses diaspora Jewish opposition to Israel. There'll be a description of what the book is about over at Mondoweiss. There’s another d ...
• Mathaba: Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans
  Mathaba: Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans Black Star News Editorial The "rebels" in Misrata in Libya have driven out the entire Black population of the city, according to a chilling story in The Wall Street Journal today under the headline Libya City Torn by Tribal Feud." The "rebels" now e ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• Tim DeChristopher Fought Back Against The Orga ...
  By David DeGraw When Democratic Institutions No Longer Give Citizens Power, Civil Disobedience Becomes Essential to Challenge Legalized Injustice - Here's a roundup of coverage on Tim DeChristopher's prison sentence and several important speeches he has given. [Read More]
• Systemic Global Financial Instability Is Sprea ...
  By Charles Hugh Smith The root causes of global financial instability cannot be wished away or "solved" with modest policy tweaks: they are systemic. [Read More]
• Introducing the AmpedStatus Board of Trust &#8 ...
  We've been informally asking our readers to name their most trusted reporters. We are specifically looking for people who are independent and not trapped in partisan Democrat Vs Republican groupthinking boxes. Here are the top 20 most often mentioned people thus far. [Read More]
• Enough With the Democrat Vs Republican Nonsens ...
  By John R. Talbott All this Democrat Vs Republican nonsense is fabricated by the real enemy - the big bankers and corporations who want us at each others' throats. It is time to launch a new political party, one with a very simply stated but enormous task, to get the special interest money and l ...
• The Kleptocratic Eurozone “Fix” Wi ...
  By Charles Hugh Smith The only way out of the Eurozone end-game is massive debt forgiveness and a return to national currencies. The first will destroy the banks, the second will destabilize the German export economy. "Extend and pretend" is an endgame, not a fix. [Read More]

+972

• There must be 50 WAZE to erase the Green Line
  After a long day walking in the hot sun with the kids in the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo in Malcha, our next destination was Bet Shemesh. Him: Hun, can you find on WAZE (Israeli-made âsocial-GPSâ system) the quickest way to Bet Shemesh? Her: Sure Hun. Letâs see… OK, it says to go through route 375. H ...
• The real importance of the tent protest
  Last week, my colleagues Joseph Dana and Mairav Zonszein reported about the harsh treatment some of protesters got from the hand of the police following the previous social justice rally in Tel Aviv. While I don’t ignore the importance of such incidents, they might make one miss the essence of t ...
• Rick’s Weekend Wrap: Talkin’ bout a revo ...
  How to know whether the Tent Protest is shaking Netanyahu? Why should we fear the union boss who decided to join it? And what is happening meanwhile in the West Bank? Rechavia “Rick” Berman gives you the week’s top stories as they ought to be told.  A new weekly feature on +972 [...]
• WATCH: Netanyahu in interview: No protests in ...
  A common mistake for a leader is to take pride in things which he can’t anticipate or have little control over. This is Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu, in his much publicized YouTube interview, celebrating the absence of popular protest in Israel (17:00 min): Protesters are having lots of fun with ...
• Breaking: Harsh Israeli response to protest in ...
  al-Walaje, occupied West Bank – A group of about 30 international, Palestinian and Israeli demonstrators demonstrated in front of Israeli construction equipment Sunday morning, in an effort to prevent the uprooting of olive trees to make way for the continued construction of the separate wall th ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

• a climber's race - this year's vuelta a espagn ...
  With unprecidentedly steep climbs, and lots of them, this year's race will be tough to ride and spectacular to watch.
• some commentary on the utoya shootings | beha ...
  With more expectation that adults, however young, can take responsibility, in this case be allowed to carry firearms, perhaps this would not have happened.
• will the eussr use the current european debt c ...
  The imbalance between affluent North and the feckless (?) South may play into the hands of the EU Commissars.
• october 1939 - the phoney war is under way, an ...
  Some exceptions to the rule - smoking kills. How the cigarette indusctry used to entice new customers, and addicts.
• ambrose is back - some background notes on uk ...
  From a perceptive columnist, together with commentary from abelard.

The Parallel Parliament

• Citizenship – “Information vs. Kno ...
  New figures have just been released revealing that two-thirds of Canadian households have internet access and eight out of ten have home computers – all this higher than the OECD average.  With that distinct cutting-edge advantage, one would think Canada would enjoy a deeply engaged citizenry. S ...
• Citizenship – “Click Here For Demo ...
  It is remarkable how the push for a new kind of democracy within Canada depends so much on the availability and use of the Internet. When first introduced into the political realm it was welcomed as the new “Holy Grail” for democracy – a use of technology that could revolutionize citizens and pe ...
• Citizenship – “Bull Run”
  My wife Jane and I would have been in Spain last week, taking part in the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. We’d wanted to do it for 10 years and thought this was to be the year. But with the change in lifestyle that comes with losing an election, that dream is over. For [...]
• Citizenship – Captives of Ourselves
  Aleksandr Soizhenitsyn, Nobel Prize-winning author, moved to Vermont to escape the horrific memories he shared in books like his Gulag Archipelago. To everyone’s surprise, a number of years later he returned to Russia to live out his remaining days. Asked why he would abandon the beauty and free ...
• Citizenship – “From Self to Selfis ...
  By the 1990s the revolution to the “self” was almost completed, perhaps best symbolized by Edward Bernays’s television appearance on the David Lettermen show celebrating his 100th birthday and his role as the master of modern advertising. It was readily accepted that the acquisition of goods was ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

• The GOP Gets Its Way
  Intro: "As reports of a possible deal leaked out late Saturday night, it appears that Obama is meeting the Republicans - on their terms. Michael Tomasky on what to watch for today." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid addresses reporters on Capitol Hill, 07/30/11. (photo: Evan Vucci/AP) ...
• Digital Dump
  Intro: "The information-technology revolution has made us smarter, faster, and more globally savvy. It has also seeped poison." Scenes from Ghana's digital wasteland. (photo: Courtesy of Pieter Hugo/Yossi Milo Gallery New York) {rsnslider}{wrap height="2200" scrolling="no"}http://www.n ...
• Chamber of Commerce to Politicians: Quiet on D ...
  Intro: "The US Chamber of Commerce has written a letter to members of the House telling them that voting for federal contractors to be more transparent about their political spending, will negatively impact their legislative scorecard." The US Chamber of Commerce has written a letter to House ...
• Chamber of Commerce to Politicians: Quiet on D ...
  Intro: "The US Chamber of Commerce has written a letter to members of the House telling them that voting for federal contractors to be more transparent about their political spending, will negatively impact their legislative scorecard." The US Chamber of Commerce has written a letter to House ...
• Warren Buffett: Debt Ceiling Should Be Removed
  Jennifer Epstein reports: "Buffett's suggestion to get rid of the debt ceiling comes after bond rating agency Moody's made the same point in a report on Monday. The debt limit has 'change[d] almost 100 times over the years' and 'I think seven times in the Bush administration,' Buffett said." ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

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

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 31, ...
  ==== Libya: The True Costs Of War Americanization And Militarization Of Canadian Foreign Policy NATO Certifies Another Bulgarian Warship For Deployment Uganda: AFRICOM Chief Pledges U.S. Role In Fighting LRA Vermont: NATO Obstacle Course Training For Military “Olympics” U.S. Senate Tells Russia ...
• Alexei Tolstoy: The one incontestable result w ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Alexei Tolstoy From The Sisters (1921) Translated by Ivy and Tatiana Litvinova Arriving at the battle zone, the thunder of which could be heard miles away, the carts and troops seemed to be swallowed up. Here all that was living and hum ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 30, ...
  ==== NATO Armored Vehicle Kills Child, Injures Seven Other Afghans Mongolia: U.S. Leads NATO, Asian NATO Allies In Military Exercise America’s Africa Partnership Station In East Africa Call To Expand American Counterinsurgency Operations In Philippines U.S. Military To Be Based In Australia To C ...
• Hesiod: Lamentable works of Ares lead to dank ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Hesiod Translated by H.G. Evelyn-White From Theogony Cytherea bare to Ares the shield-piercer Panic and Fear, terrible gods who drive in disorder the close ranks of men in numbing war, with the help of Ares, sacker of towns… ***** From ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 29, ...
  ==== U.S. Plans Interceptor Missile Radar System In NATO States Russian Envoy Visits Turkey Over NATO Interceptor Missile System Japan To Allow Interceptor Missile Transfers To NATO Nations U.S. Missile Shield To Spark Nuclear Arms Race: North Korea Kosovo-Serbia: NATO Declares Crossings “Restri ...

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• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• South Dakota Dam Set To Burst Officials Warn
  The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas July 30, 2011 There is the potential for disaster as rising flood waters threaten to burst the White Lake Dam in Marshall County, SD. Emergency Management Officials fear that the dam might burst after pieces of the structure have already been swept away by the powe ...
• Facebook Pushing To Require Everyone’s Online ...
  The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins - Contributing Writer July 30, 2011 The Marketing Director of Facebook is openly advocating that the government be allowed to track everyone’s Internet usage which is a precursor to outright censorship and the end of Freedom of Speech. As I have previously repo ...
• NASA Warns Of Global Catastrophe Post Upcoming ...
  The Hindu July 30, 2011 NASA has warned of a once-in-a-lifetime ‘space storm’ after the sun wakes ‘from a deep slumber’ sometime around 2013, causing ‘20 times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina’. Senior space agency scientists believe that the super storm would hit like ‘a bolt of ligh ...
• Agenda 21 Coming To A Farm Near You As Federal ...
  The Intel Hub July 30, 2011 The U.S. Department of Transportation in an Agenda 21 style order, has moved to essentially ban a large part of family farms. For hundreds of years family farms have been passed from generation to generation and it has been a way of life for younger family members to ...
• Dutch Band Attacked By IDF For Bringing Happin ...
  By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie And Intel Hub Contributing Writer July 30, 2011 A 25-piece Dutch street band has been traveling through the embattled West Bank for two weeks now, enlivening and engaging the downtrodden Palestinian people. What do they get in return? Lungs full of tear g ...

FRS

• Egypt: The Friday of Reaction and Bigotry
  [A strong advocate of secular revolution posted this report of the 7/30/11 rally at Tahrir Square in Cairo, on www.3arabawy.org.  Given the history of what came to replace the Shah of Iran, these are timely insights for the worldwide revolutionary movement to discuss and debate. -- Frontlines ed ...
• People’s Hearing: “Charge the SFPD ...
  People’s Tribunal on Racism and Police Violence http://peopleshearing.wordpress.com Charge the SFPD with Murder of Kenneth Harding and Serial Murders in the Black Community! Unite to Create an Independent Investigation to Indict the Murderers! Justice for Kenneth Harding! Stop the Cover-up! Stop ...
• Nepal One Year Later: Still Waiting to be Born
  � [In this report for the interesting blog Winter Has Its End, the writers describe the current situation in Nepal as a very contradictory and  eery calm of frustration and anticipation.  It relates the unsure optimism of grassroots activists that this could be the calm before a revolutionary st ...
• Egypt: the long shadow of Mubarak and the rol ...
  “Long live Egypt’s Supreme Council” — With Mubarak out of power and SCAF taking the reigns, what’s next for the country?  Joseph Massad 28 Jul 2011 Egyptians have been protesting against the country’s military rulers continuing Mubarak-esque policies [EPA] Many Egyptians are expressing concerns ...
• Who Will Protect Us From the Police?
  Kenneth Harding, the San Francisco Police and the Media July 27, 2011 by MICHAEL CALDERÓN-ZAKS I should mention my connection to both San Francisco (where I was born, raised, and reside) and Seattle (where I received a Bachelors degree), where 19-year old Kenneth Harding is from and had an exagg ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

• A little more reading with Sunday's column...
  To read the column, go here.To read "The Christian Century's" take on it, go here. To see how Anders Behring Breivik was originally labeled an Islamic terrorist, go here or here. To read commentary on the 12-year old Jesus in the temple, go here. Here's Phil. 2:12, and here's Matt. 7:3. To read ...
• If you've nothing better to do...
  At 7 p.m. Sunday, tune into WHUS for Susan Forbes Hansen's "The Sunday Night Folk Festival." She's graciously asked me to join her, and I'm bringing Mr. Still Small Voice, who has a nicer radio voice than I. And at 9 a.m. Monday, I'm part of a discussion on John Danksosky's "Where We�Live." The ...
• Some citizens aren't paying their share
  According to Connecticut Voices for Children, Connecticut's wealthiest citizens pay just half as much of their income as do the poor and middle class, based on data gathered after this year's tax reforms. According to Voices: estimates show that Connecticut’s low- and middle-income families wi ...
• Hmmm...a repressive regime says "no sexy girls"
  Interesting that the Chinese goverment has issued a rule that there will be no scantily-clad women at an online gaming expo. You can read more about ChinaJoy -- going on now -- here. Though some of the research is a little dated, you can read about the portrayal of women in video games here. A ...
• Should the 9/11 cross go?
  Some atheists are suing to have removed the 17-foot cross retrieved from the rubble of the World Trade Center after 9/11. They're saying that because the cross is a symbol of Christian faith, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, which is government-funded, should not include it. You c ...

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

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

Veterans Today

• 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.

War is Business

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

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• 'Political Tours': Visit North Korea (and More)
  Here's another instalment of Weird Things I Come Across on the Internets. I dunno why I was shown a banner ad for Political Tours--maybe it's a sign that I should visit fewer international affairs sites--but its pitch sure is interesting (if gimmicky): Political Tours is a revolutionary concept ...
• 21st Century USA ≈ 17th Century Polish Empire?
  Tis perhaps appropriate that my fondness for historically informed performances (HIP) of classical music ties into international political economy for two obvious reasons. First, with most music commissioned for religious rather than secular purposes during past eras, it highlights how music pla ...
• US "Foreign Aid," AmeriBankruptcy Victim
  To be sure, the United States used to actually aid developing countries a long time ago. Sure, the country still doles out cash and kind to exemplars of freedom 'n' growth such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, but it appears those times may not last for much longer. "Strengthening fragile stat ...
• New Labour* on Restoring Faith in Globalization
  You will have noticed that I have placed an asterisk after New Labour. For, today's mea culpa on the shortcomings of New Labour in hindsight are largely courtesy of Lord Mandelson--formerly the EU trade commissioner and the de facto prime minister during the last days of the ill-fated Gordon Bro ...
• WTO Heresy: D-G Pascal Lamy Warms to PTAs
  Let's get the obvious out of the way: the WTO Doha Development Agenda still looks as unsalvageable as it did at the start of this year. Being the guy who inherited the stillborn negotiations, failed to get them done during his first term, and likely will pass it on to someone else the way things ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Head Of Obama&#8217 ...
  Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China.  GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now GE has announced that it "is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray ...
• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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

E U Times

• Who is killing the Iranian Scientists?
  Western and Israeli media were quick to announce that the 35-year-old Iranian Dariush Rezai killed on July 23 in Tehran was a prominent nuclear physicist who played an important role in the development of Iran’s nuclear program. Iranian authorities have confirmed the fact of murder. However, acc ...
• Tomb of Jesus’s disciple found in Turkey
  Archeologists have found the tomb of St. Philip the Apostle, one of the 12 original disciples of Jesus Christ, in the southwestern province of Denizli in Turkey. The tomb was discovered at the ruins of a recently unearthed church in the ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis (Pamukkale), said Italia ...
• Breivik could be put in mental institution if ...
  Anders Behring Breivik, the principal suspect in the twin terror attacks in Norway last Friday, may undergo compulsory medical treatment following a medical examination, a Swedish law expert said on Wednesday. Lawyer Bernt Birkeland said if the medical exam proves that Breivik was insane, he wou ...
• Obama approval rating hits all-time low
  US President Barack Obama’s approval rating has hit an all-time low as there seems to be no end in sight to the country’s debt ceiling impasse. According to a Gallup poll on Friday, only 40 percent of respondents said they approved of Obama’s job performance, leaving the president’s rank at its ...
• Norway Terror Attacks a False Flag?
  More Than One Shooter on Island; Oslo Bomb Drill Just Concluded; Was It NATO’s Revenge for Norway’s Decision to Stop Bombing Libya? Washington DC, July 24, 2011 – The tragic terror attacks in Norway display a number of the telltale signs of a false flag provocation. It is reported that, although ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2011-07-31 Canada's WTF file on Wikileaks
  TweetAuthored by Joe B Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade created a WikiLeaks Task force, and this was first reported by the king of ATIP, Ken Rubin. Given the fact that Mr. Rubin didn’t release the source material didn’t really help matters, since we couldn’t pick apart the docume ...
• 2011-07-31 Malaysia limits press freedom, cabl ...
  TweetMALAYSIA - A US diplomatic cable 08KUALALUMPUR806 released by WikiLeaks on July 29, 2011 documents the arrest of controversial Malaysian blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin, as well as how the US would respond to the arrest. Kamaruddin, a contentious figure in Malaysia, had been quite outspoken w ...
• 2011-07-31 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 01:30 AM Cables detail US military designs on Haiti.. An analysis of di ...
• 2011-07-30 Brandon Neely call to action for pr ...
  TweetOn Wednesday, August 3rd at 8:30am a protest will be held at New South Wales Supreme Court, 184 Phillip St, Sydney Sydney, Australia. For more information see http://thejusticecampaign.org/. Important Telephone Numbers: Julia Gillards office (from within Australia) 02 6277 7111 Julia Gil ...
• 2011-07-29 Canadian government determined to s ...
  TweetIn a completely predictable move, the Canadian government has appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada to fight their earlier two losses in a bid to extradite Abdullah Khadr to the US. Abdullah Khadr was captured and tortured by Pakistani forces who were paid $500,000 by the US for their eff ...

U N News

• UNESCO condemns murders of journalists in Mexi ...
  The United Nations agency tasked with defending and promoting press freedom today condemned the murders of journalists in Mexico and Brazil, two Latin American countries where reporters have already been killed this year.
• Aid challenges and Government stalemate hinder ...
  A United Nations advisory group on Haiti today reported improvements in the earthquake-torn country but said aid coordination remains a challenge, and a stalemate in the formation of the Government is delaying aid.
• UN human rights officials voice concern at clo ...
  United Nations human rights officials today urged Haitian authorities to ensure that the closure of camps for people displaced by last year's catastrophic earthquake is done in a planned way as part of a broader plan to improve access to adequate housing.
• UN official urges positive social legacy' fro ...
  The upcoming World Cup soccer tournament and Summer Olympics in Brazil should be harnessed to deliver a "positive social legacy" for the South American country and beyond, the United Nations envoy for sports and peace has said.
• Ban asks Iberoamerican artists for help in sol ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today asked television producers and artists in Spain, Portugal and Latin America to use their imaginative talents to find new ways to help solve challenges related to the environment, women's empowerment, organized crime and drug trafficking.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Likely New Thai Foreign Minister Tipped
  Thaksin said to guide choice as Yingluck fills her stage
• Burma's Numerological Nightmare
  The leaders in Naypyidaw prefer fortune tellers to foreign policy experts
• Indonesia's Verdict of Shame
  Religious extremists get a light tap from the court in Ahmadiyah mob murder
• The Aquino-Arroyo Contest Heats Up
  Gloria checks into the hospital, suffering from back pain and corruption charges
• Decoding China's North Korean Policy
  To sway Pyongyang, China does what nations do – follow its own interests

We Know the Lies

• Your Tax Dollars at Work... Defense and War Sp ...
• Leaked!... Documents for Industry Catalog and ...
• History... The Two Existing Forms of the Unite ...
• Rule: ‘Martial Law’ – Obama To Use Dictatorial ...
• 'Democracy' Is Not Freedom... Ron Paul

Tarpley

• NATO, Facing Defeat in Libya, Lashes out in Ba ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 30, 2011 [download video]
• Libyan Rebel Supreme Commander Younis, Two Col ...
  CIA’s Hifter Prime Suspect in Slayings; Jalil Lies as Front Man for Terrorists; Tribal Warfare Looms; UN Mandate to Expire in September; Top Hawk Anne Marie Slaughter Admits NATO Defeat in Financial Times Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 29, 2011 [download video] [...]
• The US Constitution Makes Default Illegal: Wha ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net My fellow Americans: I speak to you tonight in an hour of grave danger to our nation. As you know, within the next few hours our government is in danger of failing to make payments of interest and principal which the United States Treasury has contracted to ...
• The Debt Ceiling Crisis: When Statutes Conflic ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com July 25, 2011 [download audio]
• Breivik: A Patsy on Steroids — Not Authe ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show

Modern Survivalism

• Survival Preparedness for $100 dollars
  Guest Post: by ‘Be informed’ I was holding a hundred dollar bill the other day and I really started to think about just how much of certain survival items that this thin piece of cloth could still buy (that is until the dollar falls into a cesspit. I used the companies on MSB and all [...]
• We Are Rapidly Approaching A Dangerous Time…
  We are rapidly approaching a dangerous time in our history. Society as we know it is vulnerable to political and social unrest. This impending crisis comes as a consequence of our flawed foreign and domestic economic policies… Dangerous times indeed The only way that we can prevent blood from ru ...
• US Debt and Default Talk
  Jim Rogers: The US is the biggest debtor nation in the history of the world. This cannot go on forever. Eventually, the creditors are going to say “no more, that is the end of the line”. If you think the problems are bad now, you wait till we do not have any more credit, you [...]
• Berkey Water Filters
  msb-note This website depends nearly entirely upon the results of the support that you provide by clicking-on and purchasing products that hopefully fit in with your survival preparedness plans. Without your support, this site could not sustain itself because it takes time and money to stay on t ...
• 300 Foot Tsunami and East Coast Destruction
  ‘Hierro’, a volcano, an island of the Canary Islands of Spain named ‘El Hierro’, summits at 1500 meters (4,900 feet), and has suddenly become highly active with more than 700 earthquakes in just a matter of days – leading some to believe that ‘something’ is about to happen. Super Tsunami About E ...

Fast Company

• President's Social Media Team Goes After Obama ...
  President Obama's social media team unleashed a torrent of tweets today, specifically calling out Republicans opposing his debt ceiling plan. President Obama's social media team unleashed a hailstorm of tweets today, galvanizing his followers to support a bipartisan debt ceiling compromise. The ...
• Breach Of The Week: Your Smartphone Is A Hacke ...
  Packed with personal data, and taken with you everywhere, your smartphone is an ideal target for hackers. And both iOS and Android have vulnerabilities.Why Apple Updated iOS This WeekApple's iPhone is often touted as being more "secure" than Google's Android equivalents because it has a tightly ...
• The 5 Questions Entrepreneurs Need To Ask In O ...
  In my last post, I cautioned about the dangers of learning about venture capital from watching a TV show. After all, would you learn about how to remove a gallbladder from watching ER, or how to behave if you're arrested from Law and Order? No, TV isn't reality (even reality TV) and Shark Tank i ...
• Can The Simple Flywheel Replace The High-Tech ...
  It's an old technology for storing energy that's finally getting an update, and it's appearing everywhere from power plants to Formula One race cars, and will soon be hiding in your wheels, helping save you fuel.It's a not a new battery or super-hot liquid salt. But while they are not the sexies ...
• When It Comes to Fast Food, Labeling Can Lower ...
  Those calorie counts on fast food menus that make you feel bad about your extra-large fries actually work. Unless, of course, you found the advertisements really convincing.As communities implement sometimes-contentious food labeling requirements in fast food establishments, research shows that ...

Jadaliyya

• Salafis in Tahrir
  A few notes on yesterday's demonstration in Tahrir, generally viewed as an Islamist show of force. First, the numbers. Based on visual cues (beards, galabiyas), signs and slogans I'm guessing at least 90 percent of those in Tahrir were affiliated with the Islamists, and at least half of ...
• حلقة الأسد الأمنية: حتمية التفكك… بعد اختبار النار
  ��اص� أ�اس م� أمثا� ا�عم�د ما�ر ا�أسد (ش��� بشار ا�أسد� �ا��ائد ا��ع�� ��حرس ا�جم��ر�)� �ا�عم�د ذ� ا��مة شا��ش (اب� عم�ة ا�أسد� �رئ�س حرس� ا�شخص�� �ا�مشر� ا��ع�� ع�� ج�از أم� ا�رئاسة)� �ا�عم�د حا�ظ مخ��� (اب� خا�ة ا�أسد� �ا�ضابط ا�أبرز �� ا��رع 251 �ا�أ��� ���ذا� �� ج�از ا�مخابرات ا�عامة ...
• The Syrian Regime's Escalation of Violence: Li ...
  According to Syrian protesters and activists, as well as regional and international media, today--Sunday July 31, 2011--is thus far the bloodiest and deadliest day of the more than four-month-old Syrian uprising. Numerous accounts and reports have described what can only be considered a ...
• The Friday of Reaction and Bigotry
  What was originally announced as a “Friday of Unity” was anything but that. You can call it, the Friday of Disunity, The Friday of Bigotry and Reaction, the Friday of Religious Fanaticism. For weeks, the Islamist forces, without exception, have been denouncing the Tahrir sit-in, spreadi ...
• Anarchist, Liberal, and Authoritarian Enlighte ...
  The Arab spring, as far as we can see, appears to require no guardian intellectual authority, no political leadership, no organized parties. In fact even after revolutionary success, those elements still fail to materialize: there is no party of the revolution anywhere, no leader emerges ...

mediagazer

• @BarackObama's Lost Followers: A Tempest In A ...
  Rachel Sklar / Mediaite: @BarackObama's Lost Followers: A Tempest In A Twitter Teapot  —  Yesterday, President Barack Obama concluded his address to the nation by urging Americans to contact their representatives and urge action on a debt ceiling resolution.  “If you want to see a bipartisan c ...
• Why Redacting E-Mails Is a Bad Idea (Arthur S. ...
  Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times: Why Redacting E-Mails Is a Bad Idea  —  TWO weeks ago, I raised questions about a New York Times article that warned of a bubble or Ponzi scheme in the development of shale gas energy.  Today I want to look closely at the front page shale gas article that ap ...
• Media groups eye reporters' Twitter fans (Tim ...
  Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Media groups eye reporters' Twitter fans  —  Twitter and other social media sites are creating new tensions in traditional newsrooms as broadcasters and newspapers grapple with individual reporters' attempts to use the web to create a personal brand.  —  The ques ...
• Daily Caller cheap-shots the New York Times (E ...
  Erik Wemple: Daily Caller cheap-shots the New York Times  —  The Daily Caller has just published a story showing how far it'll reach to allege liberal media bias.  The grabby headline: “New York Times reporter advises White House media staff on Twitter.”  —  Aha, collusion!  —  Now for the evi ...
• Judge: NYT reporter need not identify sources ...
  Josh Gerstein / The Politico: Judge: NYT reporter need not identify sources  —  A New York Times reporter need not testify in court about who gave him details on a top-secret CIA program targeting Iran, a federal judge has ruled.  —  In May, federal prosecutors subpoenaed Times reporter James R ...

Chemtrail News

• Chemtrail Conspiracy... - Cnufos
  Here is a ling to a guy who is writing a thesis on chemtrails and its relation to Morgellons disease. I'm not sure about its validity but its more ...cnufos.ning.com/xn/detail/6313808:Comment:46660?xg...
• Are the trails left by aircrafts in the sky da ...
  He says the “chemtrail” theory has been thoroughly discredited by the scientific .... There is no need to invoke the existence of mysterious “chemtrails” to ...
• eesti chemtrail: Chemmers - Chemtrai ...
  Labels: 4 parallel chemtrail plains, Aita, video ... CHEMTRAIL RALLY ENGLAND UPDATE VIDEO 9 Part 3 ph... Chemtrails from de wing · DAVID ICKE - THE BATTLE ...chemtrail-ee.blogspot.com/2011/.../chemmers-chemtrails-inc.h...
• Massive Chemtrail Grid Over California& ...
  California skies appeared to be free of clouds and chemtrails through most of July with the exception of the daily marine layer. Radar and satellite views ...socalskywatch.wordpress.com/.../massive-chemtrail-grid-over-...
• Anti-Chemtrail Challenge For Nay Sayers ...
  We've found patents proving they exist; we've found pilots admitting to spraying them; we've found the mention of Chemtrails in government documents ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread732398/pg1

World News - Top Stories

• Hepatitis B vaccine for infants is crucia ...
  Babies currently have a five-in-one jab at two months to protect against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio and Hib. Now Ministers are considering adding a vaccine for hepatitis B to this. Each year about 325,000 Britons are diagnosed with the virus – which can cause liver cancer – ...
• Beat loneliness - to avoid a stroke: Why ...
  Loneliness is as bad for your health as smoking. It seems astonishing, I know, but scientific research suggests that social isolation, in the long term, is as damaging as a 15-a-day cigarette habit or being an alcoholic. Other studies have found that those with a poor social network are at ...
• YouTube spoofs may become legal in move t ...
  The latest internet craze of creating parodies of famous films, songs and television programmes on websites such as YouTube could really take off soon after a proposed change in the law. The controversial move would mean that the spoofs would no longer be subject to UK copyright legislation ...
• 5 Things Google+ Does Better Than Faceboo ...
  Google+ has only been active for a month, and tech enthusiasts can’t seem to get enough of it. While Google is still trying to figure out exactly how to approach social correctly, the network has built enough buzz to attract a reported 20 million users. While this doesn’t compare to Faceboo ...
• Somali refugees brave fighting in Mogadis ...
  Despite continued fighting in Mogadishu, thousands of refugees from Somali's drought-hit south are arriving in the capital. Above, refugees queue for food in a camp in the suburbs. Photograph: Mustafa Abdi/AFP/Getty Images Hit by the worst drought in 60 years, tens of thousands of people ar ...

no frakking consensus

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

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 7/27/11 - ACLU Historical Timeline
  aclu.procon.org - UPDATED: ACLU Historical Timeline - Read about the history of the American Civil Liberties Union from its formation in 1920, through their organizational split over Japanese internment in 1942, to the ACLU's defense of the right for American Nazis to march in Skokie, IL in 1977 ...
• 7/27/11 - Is illegal immigration an economic b ...
  immigration.procon.org - UPDATED: Is illegal immigration an economic burden to America? - Read pro and con statements from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (pro), Dr. Alan Greenspan (con), Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen (pro), the Washington Post (con), and many others in our recen ...
• 7/25/11 - Should teachers get tenure?
  teachertenure.procon.org - NEW: Should teachers get tenure? - Read pro and con arguments from the National Education Association (pro), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (con), New York State United Teachers (pro), New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (con), Louisiana Federation of Teachers (pro), ...
• 7/22/11 - Should flavored milk be available in ...
  milk.procon.org - UPDATED: Should flavored milk be available in schools? - The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board of Education voted 5-2 to remove chocolate, strawberry, blueberry, rootbeer, and all flavored milks from LAUSD schools. Over 95% of US school districts still offer the ...
• 7/20/11 - Obama administration to support repe ...
  gaymarriage.procon.org - Obama administration to support repeal of Defense of Marriage Act. The announcement follows President Obama's decision on Feb. 23, 2011 to instruct the Justice Department to stop defending DOMA, the federal law that defines marriage as a legal union between a man and wom ...

Truth About Our World

• George Carlin and Bill Hicks tell it like it is
• Time For Laughs… and a bit of reality
• How to Change Our Reality
• Taking Responsibility (Taking your power back)
• Humans and the Virtual Reality

Gyrovague's Raves

• Polygamists Are Coming Out of the Closet
  By Jacek Przybylski The opinion that polygamists will start advocating for marriage after the gay community scored victories in that field is very widespread. Translated By Matthew Matyjek 25 July 2011 Edited by Heidi Kaufmann Poland – Wirtualna Polska – Original Article (Polish ) The war for po ...
• German official blames China for Somalia&#8217 ...
  Edmund Downie With east Africa in the grip of famine after its worst drought in 60 years, Germany’s Africa policy coordinator has fingered an unlikely culprit: China. Agence France-Presse reports: Guenter Nooke told the daily Frankfurter Rundschau it was clear that "this catastrophe is also man- ...
• When Patents Attack
  Alex Blumberg and Laura Sydell Nathan Myhrvold is a genius and a polymath. He made hundreds of millions of dollars as Microsoft’s chief technology officer, he’s discovered dinosaur fossils, and he recently co-authored a six-volume cookbook that "reveals science-inspired tech­niques for prepar­ ...
• Science education requires overcoming childhoo ...
  John Timmer It’s not a secret that the general population hangs on to no end of non-scientific beliefs despite contrary evidence; the Nobel Intent forums have been visited by proponents of homeopathy and intelligent design, to give just two examples. Two developmental psychologists at Yale are n ...
• College upperclassmen still fail at scientific ...
  John Timmer Most of us develop a sort of intuitive logic about how the natural world works. Unfortunately, a lot of that informal reasoning turns out to be wrong, which complicates scientific education. But as students make their way through the science education pipeline, they should gradually ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

• Friday Infographic: Fishing Down the Food Chain
  This is the second in a series of ocean infographics by artist Don Foley. These infographics also appear in Oceana board member Ted Danson�s book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� � With shark week fast approaching, how about a shark-related infographic to whet ...
• Shark Week Cometh
  Shark Week is almost here -- are you ready? For the second year in a row, Oceana is partnering with Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, which kicks off on Sunday, July 31st at 9PM. We’re especially stoked about the host this year, comedian and Chief Shark Officer Andy Samberg. For a one-hour s ...
• Caleb Pungowiyi: 1941-2011
  We are incredibly saddened by the passing of Caleb Pungowiyi, a longtime Alaska Native leader and Oceana�s Senior Advisor and Rural Liaison. Originally from the St. Lawrence Island village of Savoonga, Caleb�s work was a critical part of Oceana�s accomplishments in Alaska.�He was a passiona ...
• Josh Lucas Joins Oceana in Oregon
  Earlier this summer, actor Josh Lucas traveled to the Oregon Coast with Oceana, Nautica and GQ to explore the area�s unique marine environment. Lucas visited picturesque Yaquina Head, a promontory southwest of Portland known for its views of the gray whale migration route and seabird nesting a ...
• Kate Walsh: My Ocean Inspiration
  © Tim Calver I had the good fortune to spend quite a bit of time in and around the ocean and sea during the last few months of my hiatus from �Private Practice,� both for work and for pleasure. My love for the oceans is obvious, to be sure, but nothing reinvigorates my commitment to keepin ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• I Uncovered This Strange Story From Vietnam By ...
  Hercules C-130 Dropping Supplies In Khe Sanh I can’t help but be fascinated by accounts coming from credible witnesses about unusual phenomena. This page was no exception. Enjoy. It’s weird. “In early 1968, during the TET Offensive I was a Loadmaster on a C-130 cargo aircraft attached to the 834 ...
• Abraham Lincoln’s Grand Strategy Of The ...
  General George Meade, Winner At Gettysburg � July 1863 was a bad month for the Confederacy. Timid tempestuous Union Army Commander Scott McClellan had been fired, and replaced with a feisty unapologetic and aggressive new combat commander that had put the Army of the Potomac and the Union army t ...
• Astounding Silent Gun Camera Footage From WWII
  Click here to view the embedded video. � Click here to view the [...]
• The Battle of Adrianople. 378 AD.
  Arriving Gothic cavalry poured in from behind at this unfortunate timing and the Roman order of battle on their right flank crumbled. The Romans retreated to the base of the hill where the Goths were assembled and there they were surrounded and all killed. Other portions of the Roman line held f ...
• “Don’t Be A Sucker In Germany.”
  Don't Be A Sucker In Germany This Book was published and given to occupying American soldiers as a warning about the true nature of the German people and the nature of the resistance. It is truly one of the most bigoted, racist, prejudiced piece of literature ever published. It is astonishing, y ...

Taylor Marsh

• As Obama Grasps Austerity, the Rich Get Off an ...
  “Nothing is agreed to unless everything is agreed to.” – Lawrence O’Donnell As deal rumors float above the swamp stench around Washington, based on McConnell’s devious plan (I told you so), whether it’s ABC or Major Garrett, the above O’Donnell quote is our foundation. That considered, from Garr ...
• Buying Time for the White House, Reid Postpone ...
  “Tell your henchman to stop saying nice things about me,” McConnell, the Senate minority leader, told Reid earlier this week, according to people familiar with the conversation. “It hurts me.” Even as he’s sought to project immovable unity with House Speaker John Boehner, the prospects for an el ...
• Progressive Notes: Conyers is Fed Up, Protests ...
  Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston), and others rally against cuts on the backs of the poor and middle class at the Capitol this week. Congressman Conyers (D-Mi) held a press conference with other progressives and laid into ...
• Queer Talk: Tipping Point?
  Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. Over a couple of days I suddenly saw the phrase “tipping point” show up, as related to progress toward LGBT equality. Not that it hasn’t been used before, but it was interesting to see it several times in so short a perio ...
• Dash of Dan: Cinnamon Peach Scones
  TM NOTE: Good Saturday morning and welcome Daniel! Get your favorite wake up drink and have a chat while thinking about how to treat yourself this weekend. Daniel’s passion is baking, so I’ve asked him to share his delectables on the weekends to remind us all that the joys of cooking and the spl ...

Hudson New York

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

Urban Survival

• The Two (Rotten) Default Choices
  Time to talk about economic hemlock and how we’d like to go:  With the republicorps unable (unwilling?) to bring a budget resolution to a vote in the House, congressman Ron Paul’s got it figured, sadly, pretty much right.  The US … Continue reading →
• Coping: Friday at the WuJo
  A number of comments have popped up in the wake of our report this week in the Case of the Missing Shirt.  Not just parallel cases, but also a few suggestions: “George, tell your reader whose shirt disappeared that it … Continue reading →
• Boehner’s Boner
  You know the political stupid season is in full swing when Judson Phillips, who’s the nominal head of the Tea Party comes out and blasts House Speaker John Boehner over his efforts to hold onto a debt ceiling bill which, … Continue reading →
• Coping: With the Aftermath of Vacations
  A kind of short rant this morning, about the Quality of Life this morning as I’ve just spent about 10=hours of effort on getting back up to speed on the kind of things that happen when one goes on vacation. … Continue reading →
• The Drop in Durables
  The odds of a second dip in the economy just moved up a north this morning with a report on Durable Goods Orders from the Census Bureau: New Orders New orders for manufactured durable goods in June decreased $4.0 billion … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Links for 2011-07-30 [del.icio.us]
  Peter Schiff : this is not the crisis , the crisis is coming | Peter Schiff Blog Peter Schiff : this is not the crisis , the crisis is coming Peter Schiff : this is not the crisis , the crisis is coming | Peter Schiff Blog Peter Schiff : this is not the crisis , the crisis is coming Pete ...
• Julian Assange speaks about burning mass media ...
  Julian Assange In his first-ever public address... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Alfred Adask on The Sovereign Citizens Movemen ...
  constitutionalist Alfred Adask about a 60 Minutes... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• The Boom and Bust Years
  Greenspan talking about the free market is like a... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• China - US competition for energy routes Heats Up
  80 percent of China's energy supply moves by sea... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

• MIND CONTROL 83: Because I Tell You The Truth, ...
  Why is it that till now we have failed to understand the message of Christ? Why is it that Christians have gotten the message upside down? Its simple…… The reason why Christians have never understood the message. Is because Christians don’t actually do what Christ says. They do what the “Bible” ...
• FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS – By: Naja Conrad- ...
  Filed under: CREATIVITY Tagged: Fashion, illustrations
• MIND CONTROL 82: Die Hard Love
  It is critical that we understand one very important principle. Contrary to popular Christian beliefâ¦â¦. The love of the Father â¦.. is ânotâ unconditional. John 14:23-24 23 Jesus replied, “IF ANYONE LOVES ME, HE WILL OBEY MY TEACHING. MY FATHER WILL LOVE HIM, AND WE WILL COME TO HIM AND MAKE O ...
• DIGITAL ILLUSTRATIONS – By: Tony Ariawan
  Filed under: CREATIVITY Tagged: creativity, digital illustrations, illustrations
• MIND CONTROL 81: If You Knew Him, You Would Kn ...
  Let us go back in order to go forward. Jesus says: Matt 11:27-30 27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. NO ONE KNOWS THE SON EXCEPT THE FATHER, AND NO ONE KNOWS THE FATHER EXCEPT THE SON AND THOSE WHOM THE SON CHOOSES TO REVEAL HIM. 28 “Come to me, all [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• MIT's Belcher talks about bioengineering on to ...
  Angela Belcher and her Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT use "advanced bioengineering techniques to explore the interface between inorganic and organic materials for applications to energy, medicine, electronics, nanomechanics, and the environment. In other words, she turns living cells into t ...
• Researchers in New England solve lizard/turtle ...
  More here from the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. From Nature News: According to the fossil record, turtles first appeared in the Triassic period around 230 million years ago, and have changed little since. Crucially, turtles lack temporal fenestrae, suggesting ...
• Science sans fish at Woods Hole Film Fest
  Sharks figure in some of the films slated for this weekend's Woods Hole Film Festival. Bit, even though the event is in a Cape Cod town known for marine research and ferries, the offerings are cinematic, not scientific. Still, the main character in one of the films is a Harvard biologist. From ...
• PCAST Report: Better data needed to monitor bi ...
  Daniel Schrag, director of Harvard Center for Environment, contributed to new report citing the need for better data on biodiversity and ecosystem data. Nature News reports: Biodiversity and ecosystem data gathered by US environmental monitoring programs need to be better centralized, accordi ...
• Green chemistry, birds of Cape Cod and other ...
  We've loaded up our expanded vacation calendar with science-tinged events in Boston and beyond, including Cape Cod, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. Lots of things to do with the kids, but plenty for adults, including a bird watching cruise, a talk about green chemistry, a beach biology worksho ...

NRDC Switchboard

• Proposed EPA Budget Cuts Will Hurt Environment ...
  Al Huang, Senior Attorney, Environmental Justice This past week, the full House of Representatives began consideration of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, FY 2012 (H.R. 2584).  As many of my colleagues have alrea ...
• What Improved Pollution and Fuel Efficiency St ...
  Simon Mui, Scientist, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, San Francisco Today the President announced a historic agreement to increase fuel economy and carbon pollution standards for new cars and trucks, achieving the equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon (mp ...
• Price Matters - Water Conservation and the Cal ...
  Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco In today’s San Jose Mercury News, Paul Wenger, of the California Farm Bureau Federation issues a caution about the limits to agricultural water conservation, citing rising prices in ...
• Gas Mileage Gains Move the Country Forward
  Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Today my colleague Luke Tonachel and I represented NRDC at the Washington ceremony where President Obama announced a triumph of American leadership, the single largest step we can take to break our c ...
• Twisted Sisters: of Whitebark Pine and Macbeth
  Louisa Willcox, Senior Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana Upon reading last week’s finding by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that whitebark pine is so threatened it warrants endangered species protections, somehow I found myself re ...

Injustice Everywhere

• Officer-Involved Fatality Tracking
  A few times a month we’ll be asked for information about how many people died in officer-involved incidents and what percentage of those fatalities were questionable. Since we currently only track fatalities associated with credible allegations of misconduct we cannot provide information on tota ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 22 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, July 29, 2011: 6 Fullerton CA cops who beat & tasered homeless man to death return to duty as FBI begins investigation [0] http://ow.ly/1v7Z92 New York NY cops may face charges after ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, July 28, 2011: 5 Fullerton CA police officers are being investigated after witnesses accused them using of excessive force in the brutal beating and tasering death of a homeless ma ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 21 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, July 27, 2011: New York NY police accused of excessive force & false arrests against Uruguayan soccer fans celebrating match [3] http://ow.ly/1v2cJA St Louis MO police sgt retires ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, July 26, 2011: Mt Rainier MD cop indicted on 12 counts for allegedly pistol whipping & shooting man he tried to sexually assault [0] http://wj.la/oHzWBd Pulaski County AR deputy fir ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

• How “create your own mobile social network” to ...
  South African mobile social networking platform Motribe launched about a year ago but already it has more than 1.5 million users. Founded by Nic Haralambous and Vincent Maher, the platform is like Ning for mobile and aims to empower brands to set up mobile web communities. In regions such as ...
• Find out more about who’s visiting your Google ...
  There’s been some talk recently about Google+ business profiles featuring the much sought after Google Analytics integration, but nothing has been said about existing personal profiles. For the time being, until we find out more from Google, there are a couple of ways you can find out informat ...
• How to take incredible photos with your phone
  We recently discovered that the iPhone has become the most commonly used camera among Flickr users. Of course, there are photography purists who will say that taking a photo with your phone isn’t the same as using a sophisticated SLR camera, but the results speak for themselves. An improvement ...
• Making sense of the Murdoch mess: A ‘Who’s Who ...
  “It is only right that you as colleagues at News International are first to hear what I have to say and that you hear it directly from me. So thank you very much for coming here and listening.” - Rebekah Brooks It’s the end of the (News of the) World July 7th 2011: the day the plug was pulled o ...
• How musicians are making money by returning to ...
  I remember being a kid and hearing about how recording songs from the radio onto a casette tape was killing music. It was happening all over the world, most prominently in the UK where the “Home Taping is Killing Music” campaign was apparently everywhere to be found. I never really bought into ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

• Picture of the day: beach on a tropical island ...
  Beach on Nosy Mangabe, a tropical island paradise for wildlife enthusiasts.
• Pictures of the day: pink animals
  As a follow up to last week's popular "Unusually Blue Animals" post, here are some animals that are pretty in pink.
• Saving (and studying) one of Nigeria's last mo ...
  Between 2000 and 2010, Nigeria lost nearly a third (31 percent) of its forest cover, while its primary forests suffered even worse: in just five years (2000 to 2005) over half of the nation's primary forests were destroyed, the highest rate in the world during that time. Yet, Nigeria's dwindling ...
• WWF partnering with companies that destroy rai ...
  Arguably the globe's most well-known conservation organization, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), has been facilitating illegal logging, vast deforestation, and human rights abuses by pairing up with notorious logging companies in a flagging effort to convert them to greener practices, alleg ...
• Video: Tiger trapped in Asia Pulp and Paper lo ...
  Caught in a snare and left for days without access to food and water, a wild Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) perished from its wounds hours after forest officers reached it. As reported by Greenpeace—which photographed and filmed the rescue attempt—the tiger was trapped at the edge of ...

Sierra Express

• Notice of Vacant Position – Logistics Represen ...
  A leading manufacturing & merchandising international company in the metallurgy field is seeking the following position: Logistics Representative Due to our worldwide expansion our group is establishing a new office in Freetown, Sierra Leone and we are hiring. All candidates must meet the follow ...
• Airtel at the pinnacle of industry in Sierra Leone
  Airtel Sierra Leone has the widest network and distribution coverage in Sierra Leone with relevant innovative products/services, a dedicated professional and motivated staff. This telephone company is the first among the rest when it comes to given back to the people. Airtel is doing well in the ...
• M/V Geo Caribbean – seismic survey
  From the 27th July 2011, The M/V Geo Caribbean will be undertaking a seismic survey on behalf of African Petroleum Corp Ltd/European Hydrocarbons in exploration of Block SL-3, Offshore; the M/V Geo Caribbean will be accompanied by two (2) escort boats for protection. The complexity of this cost ...
• AU to hold Pledging Conference on the drought ...
  Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission visits Mogadishu to highlight plight of suffering and announces plan for an international donors conference for Somalia Mogadishu, July 29th, 2011; The Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission H.E. Erastus Mwencha made a one day visit ...
• Celebrating diversity in Durham through sports
  CCACN Sports and Pickering Advisory Committee on Diversity teamup to improve the active lifestyles of multiculturalism in Durham. July 23: TORONTO, ON – CCACN SPORTS has announced the formation of a long-term partnership with the Pickering Advisory Committee on Diversity, which has committed to ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

The Bovine

• “Irradiation could do for food what past ...
  From Mark Bittman in the New York Times: “After the E. coli outbreak in Europe last month â which sickened more than 3000 people and killed at least 50 â it was impossible not to think about irradiation. âWhat if,â I asked … Continue reading →
• How will we feed ourselves when the global foo ...
  From Randy Shore, in the Vancouver Sun: “What would a city approaching food self-sufficiency look like? Peter Ladner’s soon-to-be released book The Urban Food Revolution offers tantalizing glimpses of urban environments that successfully integrate commercial enterprise, low-impact living spaces ...
• How to protect yourself from radiation
  From the Hella Delicious blog: Iâm really worried about the levels of radiation and the situation in Japan. The sad thing is there are already high levels of radiation in our worldâhigher than they were ten years ago at any … Continue reading →
• Michael Schmidt raw milk farm visit
  Pictures courtesy of Karen Selick: Karen Selick is Litigation Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation and lawyer for Michael Schmidt. The Crown (Ontario) has appealed Michael Schmidt’s January 2010 acquittal on 19 charges related to raw milk. Karen Selick was … Continue reading →
• Vaccination should not be manditory
  From Quinn O’Neill on 3 Quarks Daily.com “In a recent article for Big Think, David Ropeik argues that the risk posed by unvaccinated people is sufficient to justify coercing them into vaccinating. Measles is a potentially deadly disease and outbreaks are occurring … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Deal or No Deal? ABC Says Tentative Deal to Ra ...
  I was just getting ready to make a post titled After "Angry Exchange" Reid Postpones Senate Vote on His Plan; Majority Leader Conrad Hints at Raising Revenue Measures; Compromise in the Air. Just before I hit enter on posting, word came that a deal was reached. I will continue with my original ...
• Canada GDP Declines .3%, Largest Drop in Two Y ...
  Lost in the US deficit battles and the pathetic US GDP statistics comes yet another surprise: Canada’s Economy Shrank 0.3% in May Posting the Largest Drop in Two YearsCanada’s gross domestic product fell in May by the most in two years due to temporary disruptions in the mining and oil and gas s ...
• 43 Senate Republicans Sign Letter Opposing Rei ...
  The impasse continues. Bloomberg reports Senate Republicans Will Reject Reid’s Debt Plan.Senate Republicans will block Majority Leader Harry Reid’s debt-limit plan this weekend, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said as a partisan impasse over deficit reduction continued days before a threatened d ...
• Great Divide; Boehner Rams Through Bill that S ...
  In a nearly useless face-saving maneuver, House Speaker John Boehner managed to twist enough arms to narrowly pass his bill that was instantly rejected in the Senate. Questions abound. Was there any point to this? If so, what was it? Since everyone knew his plan would be rejected in the Senate ...
• Foreclosed 23-Story, 475,789 Sq. Ft. KeyBank C ...
  Bidders did not exactly come out of the woodwork in Cleveland as the 23 story KeyBank Center auctioned off for $7.15MBidding has ended on Cleveland’s foreclosed 23-story KeyBank Center. The 475,789 square foot building on Superior Avenue sold for $7.15 million. Bidding began on Monday afternoon ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Boiling Frogs Post: The Coming Chapter
  What we have been doing & what we will be doing  It’s been a very busy month for Boiling Frogs Post. The ‘busy’ includes what you’ve been reading, watching and listening to here, and also what’s been taking place behind the scene invisible to you all. Let me start with what we have been doing [...]
• Fethullah Gulen Foundations in US on Our Tax D ...
  Gulen US Charter Schools: Where is Your Money Going?! This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
  Senators Want Secret Warrantless Wiretap Renewal, Censorship of War Casualties in US, First Presidential Campaign Finance Report, The Harrowing Drone Damages in Pakistan, US Accuses Iran of “Secret Deal” with Al-Qaeda, DOD Full-Spectrum Cyberspace Budget Lunacy, The Coming Partition of Libya? & ...
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• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
  The Moral Bankruptcy of American Spooks, US Missile Shield May Be Precursor for Attack on Iran, Al-Qaeda Leader Hails Syrian Protestors, Ford Takes US Taxpayers Bailout & Deserts Sinking Ship, Feds to Grab Land for Homeland Security, Hidden Hegemony: Canadian Mining in Latin America, What is a D ...

bloody crossroads

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  Should have my latest article, a big piece about health care and how we’re being screwed by the insurance corporations, up this weekend… Meantime check out this insightful discussion with economist Richard Wolff about the debt ceiling debate as theatre … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Why I can almost guarantee their will be no default: the corporations don’t want it.  Read this Times piece about how the Chamber of Commerce is urging Republicans to make a deal Median wealth of whites is now 20 times … Continue reading →
• A Sense of Betrayal
  Staff Sergeant Javier Ocasio speaks out against an unjust war: “The issue for me is the morals and ethics behind it, the standards that were let down, all the things that went wrong, you know thatâs all I think about, … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Drought/famine in Somalia is worst humanitarian crisis in the world today, a result of climate change and neoliberal policy Cenk Uygur not the only one to be silenced by MSNBC; here’s a discussion of the network’s recent history of censorship … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  21st-Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor  Union worker replaced with prison labor under Scott Walker’s collective bargaining law 100 hours in an Israeli prison Wendell Potter: How our health care system cripples small business How the debt ceiling debate … Continue reading →