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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

5 July - RSS SnapShot ! Pt I

To Do

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Hawaii is a Renewable Energy Lover's Paradise
ECNmag.com
- Jul 05, 2011
- 4 hours ago
While it's easy for visitors to appreciate its sun-kissed beaches and warm ocean breezes, you may not realize Hawaii also is a renewable energy lover's paradise. Sunshine and wind, especially, are in abundant supply. The Aloha State is planning to ...
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National Renewables Cooperative Members Purchase MISO Wind Energy
PR Newswire (press release)
- Jul 05, 2011
- 3 hours ago
The three member-owned G&Ts, Prairie Power, Inc., Southern Illinois Power Cooperative and Wabash Valley Power Association are entering into an 18-year power purchase agreement with E.ON Climate & Renewable North America, Inc. The agreement was ...
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'Liberator' generates power from low-grade heat
Greenbang
- Jul 05, 2011
- 10 hours ago
The shipments will go to Newton Investments BV, a renewable energy investment company in the Netherlands. The firm plans to offer green renewable energy products in the European Union using available credits and incentives. “We believe the Liberator ...
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Renewable Tariffs 'Distort' Market, Alberta Energy Minister Says
Bloomberg
- Jul 05, 2011
- 2 hours ago
By Jeremy van Loon - Tue Jul 05 20:16:15 GMT 2011 Feed-in tariffs, used to support renewable energy development in Germany, the UK and more than 40 other countries, “distort” markets and there are no plans to use them in Alberta, the Canadian ...
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Human Habitat

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Sustainability Day hosted by City, SEC
Sonoma Index-Tribune
- Jul 05, 2011
- 6 hours ago
By Emily Charrier-Botts INDEX-TRIBUNE ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Whether it's changing to CFL bulbs or installing a rain water collection system, the City of Sonoma and the Sonoma Ecology Center are eager to help Valley residents find ways to be more ...
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Plan a trip to the beach with Ecology's new online tool
Access Washington
- Jul 05, 2011
- 19 minutes ago
OLYMPIA – Anyone interested in visiting one of Washington's public beaches now has a great new online recreational planning tool, thanks to the Department of Ecology (Ecology). A new Public Beach Access feature on Ecology's Coastal Atlas website ...
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Ecology Youth Corps back on the roadways for summer litter pickup
Access Washington
- Jul 05, 2011
- 19 minutes ago
Last summer, for the first time in 36 years, Ecology Youth Corps (EYC) workers did not pick up litter due to budget reductions. “It's great to have the crews back to help keep Eastern Washington's highways clean this summer,” said Gary Lambacher who ...
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Douthitt to step down as dean of School of Human Ecology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Jul 01, 2011
- Jul 01, 2011
Douthitt says she will continue to serve until a new dean is appointed and the renovation and expansion of the Human Ecology Building is complete. Chancellor Biddy Martin praised Douthitt's leadership, creativity and innovation as dean. ...
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Water boatman: Loudest animal per pound champ
CBS News
- Jul 05, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Instead, please, if you haven't already, meet the water boatman. He's not easy to spot, as he's only 2mm long. However, he enjoys a technique of making noise that, scientists have now discovered, can be as loud as a large orchestra sounds to the rich ...
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Pall Highlights Contamination Control and Water Reclaim Technologies at ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jul 05, 2011
- 7 hours ago
Pall will also present its fully automatic Water Reclaim System for recovering over 90% of deionized water used during silicon ingot shaping. The system efficiently and economically removes the resultant silicon fines without the need for chemical ...
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Report: Water quality is good
Pinnacle News
- Jul 05, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Adam Breen Hollister's water is notoriously hard and can be, at various times, murky and smelly, but the city's annual Drinking Water Quality Report shows that it is safe to drink. The more than 6000 customers who received the eight-page report in ...
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Craven County looks to deter high water usage, charge higher rate
WNCT
- Jul 05, 2011
- 55 minutes ago
High water usage has left the county struggling to keep up with the demand and if people don't start using less water, officials say they might soon find they have none at all. “Water is a valuable resource and we have to protect it,” said David ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Tehran Hosts Hiroshima Peace and Friendship De ...
    Summary: Tehran Peace MuseumOn the occasion of the international day for banning use of chemical and microbial weapons, the Peace Museum which has been opened at Tehran’s City Park to keep memory of Iraqi chemical weapons used against Iran, is hosting a delegation of Hiroshima people who rep ...
  • Iran mourns 1988 airliner downing by US warship
    Summary: IranAir 655"The crime by the United States is never forgivable. The stain will remain on the U.S. forever," said Hesameddin Ansari, 34, who lost his father in the crash. source: APread more
  • Washington's Favorite Terrorists
    Summary: Dr Trita Parsi In the 10 years that I have lived in Washington, I have never seen lobbyists for al-Qaeda parade through the halls of Congress. I have not seen any events on Capitol Hill organized by Hamas. And I have not seen any American politicians take campaign contributions fro ...
  • "Iran got no nukes and US knows that"
    Description: Washington is ignoring its own intelligence because it is hell-bent on finding nuclear weapons that do not exist, Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh told RT. URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_HvZHdcXQk
  • Iran calls for OIC resolution on total nuclear ...
    Summary: Israel's Dimona nuclear plantTEHRAN, June 28 (MNA) – Iran has proposed that nuclear weapons throughout the world should be dismantled, Ali Akbar Salehi said on Tuesday in the 38th meeting of Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). source: Mehr Newsread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Five-Year Search leads to Discovery of the Mos ...
    A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant quasar to date — a development that could help further our understanding of the universe when it was still in its infancy following the Big Bang. This brilliant and rare beacon,...
  • Could the Milky Way Become Contaminated By the ...
    When the Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific they were immediately whisked off into quarantine, spending three weeks in a rather unglamorous steel shell for fear that they'd contracted lethal space-plagues. A recent paper by Professor Cockell of...
  • Image of the Day: "The Great Search"
    ALMA antennas under the Milky Way. ALMA stands for Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. It has 66 high precision antennas, which are either 39 feet (12 meters) or 22 feet (7 meters) wide. ALMA is the largest astronomical project in existence....
  • EcoAlert: Warming Oceans Will Undermine the Po ...
    Warming of the ocean's subsurface layers will melt underwater portions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets faster than previously thought, according to new University of Arizona-led research. Such melting would increase the sea level more than already projected. The...
  • "Out of Africa" --Which Way Did Humans Migrate?
    It is a widely held and scientifically viable belief that humans originated in sub-Saharan Africa some 150 to 200 thousand years ago. However our migration away from there, to populate immediate areas and, later, the planet, is currently conjecture. Archaeological...

Natural News

  • Cold fusion devices produce far more energy th ...
    (NaturalNews) Cold fusion is real, but mass American news sources are not covering it. Experiments are currently being duplicated across the world, to add further verification to the body of scientific proof. It is now possible to create energy with commonplace resources at no cost to the enviro ...
  • Deadly chemical accident at Tyson chicken proc ...
    (NaturalNews) The accidental mixing of two unidentified chemicals at a Tyson chicken processing plant in Springdale, Ark., has landed 173 of its roughly 300 workers in the hospital, according to reports. The two chemicals, which Tyson refused to identify, somehow got mixed together to produce de ...
  • Bill Gates in global push to vaccinate every c ...
    (NaturalNews) Microsoft guru Bill Gates is busy rallying the troops to bring about what he calls "vaccine equity," which is his plan to vaccinate every single child in the world. Manipulating the heart strings of his listening audience, Gates stated at a recent Global Alliance for Vaccines and I ...
  • Push to secretly approve GM corn in Pakistan l ...
    (NaturalNews) Attempts by biotechnology giant Monsanto to thwart the proper approval process for its GM corn in Pakistan have led to massive outcry by various stakeholders who recognize they have been deliberately ignored and betrayed by their own government. And the uproar against this high-lev ...
  • Japan to give dosimeters to children living ne ...
    (NaturalNews) In an effort to keep track of how much radiation they are being exposed to, the Japanese government plans to give children living near the Fukushima nuclear complex radiation dosimeters.City officials from Fukushima, some 40 miles from the plant which was crippled following a March ...

Threat Level

  • ‘Massive Infringement’ Case Against CNET Dropped
    Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit accusing CNET of facilitating “massive copyright infringement” by distributing peer-to-peer software dropped their case Monday. The May lawsuit was lodged in Los Angeles by a handful of musicians and filmmaker Alkiviades David. They accused CBS Interactive â CNET’ ...
  • Lawyer to Judge: I Swear My Browser Ate My Hom ...
    A lawyer for copyright troll Righthaven is declaring under penalty of perjury that an update to his computer’s browser prohibited him from electronically submitting a legal filing by an angry judge’s deadline. And it was no ordinary filing U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt was demanding. Nevada’s c ...
  • Judge: Google Can Be Sued for Wiretapping in S ...
    A federal judge has found that Google can be held liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open Wi-Fi routers, dealing the search giant a serious legal setback for activity it has engaged in across the United States for years. That ruling, the first of its kind, was handed down late ...
  • Newspaper Chain Fights for Copyright Troll’s S ...
    Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling. After standing on the sidelines while professional content-troll Righthaven fights in court, the newspaper company that seeded the venture joined the fray late Tuesday, telli ...
  • FBI Raids Iowa Woman’s Home in Lulz Security H ...
    The hacking group Lulz Security ended its 50-day reign of terror this weekend, but the law enforcement hunt for its members will go on. Last week, FBI agents raided an Iowa woman's home because of her connections to the group.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Reagan Litmus Test
    On July 4, U.S. officials, foreign dignitaries and conservative luminaries gathered outside the American embassy in London to unveil a $1 million statue of Ronald Reagan. As it turns out, the timing was more than a little ironic. Because even as the Gipper was honored in Britain, it's increasi ...
  • Everything I Know About the Founding Fathers I ...
    Every Fourth of July, we Americans celebrate our independence and pause to reflect on the enduring wisdom of our Founding Fathers who envisioned the cherished liberties we so often take for granted. But this year, the commemoration is tinged with sadness as evidence mounts that Americans don't ...
  • Oregon Tax Plan Shows the Way for Minnesota
    While the nation is celebrating its independence this Fourth of July weekend, few in Minnesota are in a partying mood. The government shutdown continues in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, with services stopped and 23,000 employees furloughed as a $1.4 billion, two-year budget gap remains unfilled. R ...
  • President Obama's Address to the Nation on the ...
    President Obama Addresses the Nation on the Debt Ceiling* (As Prepared for Delivery, July 1, 2011.) My fellow Americans, I want to speak to you today about a matter of the greatest national urgency. We face a crisis unique in our history. This threat comes not from a foreign foe or bloodthi ...
  • Default Deniers or How the GOP Learned to Lov ...
    When it comes to perpetuating the Bush tax cut windfall for the wealthy, Republicans have long been the party which cried "uncertainty." ""We're calling for an end to the threat of tax hikes," as Speaker John Boehner put it in one formulation, "to provide certainty to those in our country who c ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Culture jamming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Culture jamming, coined in 1984,[1][2][3] denotes a tactic used by ... Culture jamming is usually employed in opposition to a perceived appropriation of public ...
  • Culture Jam
    Culture Jam is the innovative social media technology company behind PromoJam, the ground breaking social marketing platform, and upcoming technologies ...
  • Nome, Dagny: Culture Jamming
    For some, culture jamming is more or less anything that mixes art, ... Finally, I will discuss whether culture jamming as a countercultural movement can aspire ...
  • Wooster Collective: Culture Jamming Archives
    Posted by marc at 7:00 AM in Culture Jamming | add to del.icio.us. add to digg. add to ... marc at 7:59 AM in Culture Jamming | add to del.icio.us. add to digg ...
  • Culture jamming - Definition | WordIQ.com
    Culture jamming, or sniggling, is the act of using existing mass media to comment on those very media themselves, using the original medium's communication method. ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Updates on New Zealand Penguin from Antarctica ...
    It's been a little while since I last wrote about Happy Feet, the second penguin in history known to have swum from Antarctica to New Zealand. So, here are a number of updates about the emperor penguin from the last week or so.
  • Retreating Ice in Greenland [Photo of the Day]
    This Envisat image taken on June 23, 2011, shows the retreating ice across part of the east coast of Greenland.
  • More Rain Means Less Snow Means Faster Arctic ...
    According to new research presented at the XXV International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly in Melbourne, Australia, rising temperatures in the Arctic have led to an increase in the amount of rainfall, and thus, a decrease in the amount of snowfall.
  • Pending Solar Minimum Might Mean Colder UK Winters
    Scientists predict that our Sun is heading into a period of minimal activity, and in a study released Tuesday, researchers believe that this minimum may increase the probability of unusually cold winter temperatures throughout the United Kingdom.
  • Small Bird’s High-Speed Mating Dance Amazes Sc ...
    A tiny bird called a golden-collared Manakin displays one of Nature's most amazing "mating dances" -- demonstrating the male's speed and agility, and thus its genetic fitness.

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Portugal drug law show results ten years on, e ...
    Health experts in Portugal said Friday that Portugal's decision 10 years ago to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rather than punishing them is an experiment that has worked. "There is no doubt that the phenomenon of addiction is in decline in Portugal," said Joao Goulao, President o ...
  • He's Back! Chavez delivers a powerful speech o ...
    Axis of Logic News Brief: On the eve of the July 5 celebrations of Venezuelan independence from the Spanish, dressed in his army green uniform and red berét, President Chávez is delivering his return home greetings and an inspiring challenge to tens of thousands of Chávistas - "the Red Tsunami". ...
  • Matt Damon as Will Hunting had it right 14 yea ...
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  • The UN Is Aiding a Corporate Takeover of Drink ...
    Early last month, pharmaceutical titan Merck became the latest multinational to pledge allegiance to the CEO Water Mandate, the United Nations' public-private initiative "designed to assist companies in the development, implementation and disclosure of water sustainability policies and practices ...
  • President Hugo Chávez and The Caviar of the Le ...
    Introduction A handful of Left Wing Writers (LWWs) have begun to ramp up their attacks on President Chávez, published on English and Spanish websites over the last few months in the run-up to the 2012 Venezuelan presidential elections. In some cases, the Left Media publishes the attacks, want ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • You think?
    The smack your forehead meter pegged at "permanent brain damage": Texas Town Dismisses Police Because Of Budget Crisis Jun. 29 2011 - 6:59 pm "...We had to do something drastic," says Jerry Flowers, a city councilman in Alto, Texas. "The police department," the curiously named Mr. Flowers goes ...
  • Conservatives laugh at the very idea of impart ...
    I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine, a lawyer, who used to do baseball arbitrations in his spare time. �Our talk revealed everything that is wrong with American politics today. My friend was accustomed to being called an idiot, or worse, by irate baseball writers or fans who thou ...
  • What If We Fought Back?
    Kevin Drum asks what if you held a class war and no one showed up: But then, for about the thousandth time, my mind wanders over the past ten years. Republicans got the tax cuts they wanted. They got the financial deregulation they wanted. They got the wars they wanted. They got the unfunded spe ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Nineteen to Zero Bruce Bartlett has compiled all the polls since the first of the year that ask Americans how they feel about taxing the rich. Short answer: We're for it. All nineteen polls show overwhelming support for taxing the parasites and easing up on the middle class and the working poor. ...
  • Before the holiday slips away...
    ...we have to hear Fourth of July by Dave Alvin. He is another one of those people I met when I worked at the original Grand Emporium, before the juke-joint turned into just another fucking nightclub. Dave is a genuinely nice guy and this song is a classic of the American Music genre that he, ...

Care 2

  • Forever Wild- Save the Rhino
    The Wilderness Foundation launched the Forever Wild � Save the Rhino campaign in May, 2011. The Campaign aims to gather support from the public and various stakeholders to help fight against rhino poaching in South Africa. �It is only through a GLOBAL Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Not ...
  • Illegal Monkey Trade in Bali Raises Concerns
    Bali is fast becoming a key hub in the illegal primate trade, with more than 200 endangered Javan lutungs trafficked through the resort island every month, animal rights activists claimed on Sunday. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • A Chip Off the Old Tin Foil Hat
    See 1st commentSubmitted by Tom S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • PETITION ALERT: Stop the permission for an in ...
    Multinational Intervet International wants to test a genetically engineered live attenuated Pasteurella multocida and Mannheimia haemolytica deletion mutant vaccine (PM-MH) against respiratory disease in little, 4000 two- weeks young- calves and older Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Europe, save the ancient tree o ...
    Chestnut tree has nurtured for centuries the farmers of the mountains in all temperate zones around the world, from Asia to America, from the north of European Alps to south of the Italian Apennines.Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Independence Day, For One And All! (Open Thread)
    This country has problems everywhere you turn.  Our military is overextended in three arenas, none of which is working to our advantage.  Our biggest military achievement of the last five years was to kill Osama bin Laden, and then we come to find he was a washed up has-been that nobody listened ...
  • It’s The Fourth Of July – Happy Independence Day
    Happy Independence Day, everyone! Apparently, I need to make clear the year we actually gained our independence – 1776, and that it was from England. It turns out, many of our young people are unaware of these facts. How this can possibly be, I don’t know, but it is the sad reality, according to ...
  • Understanding the Economic Collapse
    If you want to understand the roots of the 2008 economic collapse start with the book by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. The New York Times Book review offered well deserved praise: Two of our finest business journalists have wr ...
  • McCotter Rocks Lightning
    Editor’s Note: Larry Johnson joins the weekly Sunday experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show tonight @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes (see instructions), or go to the show’s NYC anchor station, WABC. Scroll down and click “Listen Live.” FYI: Batchelor’s show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a. ...
  • Celebrating The Fourth Of July? You Must Be A ...
    By a slight, statistically insignificant margin, according to a new Harvard Study. No, I am not making this up. Really. I swear. Paul Bedard had this report in the US World and News Report, “Harvard: July 4th Parades Are Right-Wing.” Who knew, right? I just thought these parades were celebrating ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Binge-Drinkers May be Putting Their Mental Hea ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Young adults do not consider the long-term effects of binge-drinking. But a new study reveals that this type of alcohol consumption could lead to impaired cognitive functioning. A study involving 29 binge-drinkers, ranging in age 18-25, examined the brain scans of ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy Fourth of July weekend! We hope this gives you some fun reading and talking points for you and your family over this long weekend :-) A War Inside: Saving Veterans from Suicide Extreme Teen Dieting Behaviors Carry Into Adulthood Childhoo ...
  • Food vs Kids
    My son who is 4 months old is eating pureed foods now. He is eating and liking his fruit and vegetables. I am happy about that. I know that is all he knows at this point but as he grows up, it will be more of a challenge to have him eat his fruits and [...]
  • Understanding Relapse – The “Danger Zone”
    Many people I work with have often been successful at maintaining some sort of long-term sobriety/abstinence from alcohol or drugs. If you participate in AA/NA, getting your one month chip is often described as exhilarating. There is a boost in self-confidence and hope in one’s ability to regain ...
  • Recommendations for Alcohol Use in Elderly are ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Research has shown that moderate alcohol consumption can provide physical and mental health benefits in adults of all ages. But a new report from the The Royal College of Psychiatrists of London has some experts worried about the new recommendations. The report wa ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • The people versus Massey Energy - People's World
    People's World The people versus Massey Energy People's World Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bo Webb, Maria Gunnoe, Michael Shnayerson, Joe Lovett, Bill Raney, Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, Jennifer Hall-Massey, Ed Wiley, Chuck Nelson and Don Blankenship The Last Mountain is a new documentary on mo ...
  • Residents of Telluride, Col., raising money to ...
    Residents of Telluride, Col., raising money to help Twilight, W.Va. Huntington Herald Dispatch Filmmaker Adams Wood and (OVEC organizer Maria Gunnoe attended the festival, speaking about efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining. Gunnoe was a keynote speaker at the event's “Awareness into ...
  • Great American Taxi: Free MP3 For Blair Mounta ...
    JamBase Great American Taxi: Free MP3 For Blair Mountain Awareness JamBase For Great American Taxi and frontman Vince Herman, who grew up in West Virginia, fighting for social justice in Appalachia and calling for an end to mountaintop removal seems the natural thing to do. According to a recen ...
  • Not safe to have children in mountain homeland ...
    Lexington Herald Leader Not safe to have children in mountain homeland Lexington Herald Leader A recent study in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Research shows that birth-defect rates are alarmingly higher where mountaintop removal coal mining occurs. That encompasses the entirety of Ea ...
  • The 'Civil Rights Movement' of our time - Time ...
    The 'Civil Rights Movement' of our time Times Record Thanks to The Times Record and reporter Seth Koenig for informing readers of the tragedy called mountaintop removal (MTR) that occurs daily in West Virginia and other Appalachian coal states (“Blair Mountain Revisited,” June 24). ...

Memeorandum

  • Romney supporters raise $12 million to bolster ...
    Michael O'Brien / The Hill: Romney supporters raise $12 million to bolster WH bid  —  A super-PAC run by supporters of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) announced a $12 million haul during the first half of this year.  —  Restore Our Future, the outside spending group founded by support ...
  • Paul Ryan Responds To David Brooks: We Won't C ...
    Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress: Paul Ryan Responds To David Brooks: We Won't Cut Loopholes To Reduce Deficit, Only To Finance More Tax Cuts  —  As the August debt ceiling deadline looms and Republicans continue refusing to consider revenue increases, conservative New York Times columnist Davi ...
  • Public Opinion Snapshot: Public Calls for Acti ...
    Ruy Teixeira / Center for American Progress: Public Opinion Snapshot: Public Calls for Action on Housing  —  The housing market remains depressed.  Foreclosures continue, and many homeowners are having trouble meeting their mortgage payments.  So it should come as no surprise that the public b ...
  • U.S. Officials Behind 'Fast and Furious' Gun S ...
    William La Jeunesse / Fox News: U.S. Officials Behind ‘Fast and Furious’ Gun Sales Should Be Tried in Mexico, Lawmaker Says  —  While the investigation continues into the U.S. operation that helped send thousands of guns south of the border, Mexican lawmakers say they'll press for extradition a ...
  • The Shame of the Cities and the Shade of LBJ ( ...
    Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia: The Shame of the Cities and the Shade of LBJ  —  President Lyndon Johnson and the “best and the brightest” who staffed his administration led this country into three quagmires.  By far the most famous, but perhaps not the most expensive and dangerous resulted ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Militarising climate change
    Armed forces must join the fight against climate change, believes Major General Muniruzzaman. Here, the Bangladeshi strategist tells Isabel Hilton why.Major General Muniruzzaman is the president of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies in Dhaka. He has served as a senior officer ...
  • A revolutionary climate?
    Uprisings in the Arab world this year remind us how extreme weather can help to create geopolitical chaos by raising food prices and causing hunger. Tommy Stadlen explains.When tomorrow’s historians assess the origins of the “Arab Spring” revolutions, a number of plausible causes will present th ...
  • Limits to environmentalism (1)
    In his vision of a no-growth, non-GDP-focused world existing and flourishing within ecological limits, UK sustainability expert Tim Jackson dodges some fundamental issues, according to Andrew Pendleton.Editor’s note: Tim Jackson, who has been at the forefront of research and teaching in sustaina ...
  • Limits to environmentalism (2)
    Innovation leads to greater productivity, which leads to job losses – but that trend poses a dilemma for sustainability expert Tim Jackson’s no-growth argument and how a “steady state” economy works, Andrew Pendleton contends.Editor’s note: Tim Jackson, who has been at the forefront of research ...
  • China’s new wastelands
    In the middle ground between booming cities and rural villages, rubbish is causing friction. Yang Chuanmin visits a Shanghai family, who blame a plastics-recycling centre for the death of their child.Lu Junyi and Wang Qin’s second child, Wang Bole, was 15 months old when he was diagnosed with ac ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • National Organization for Marriage astroturfed ...
    In a press conference held by the National Organization for Marriage and its allies days before the NY Senate voted for marriage equality, NOM head Maggie Gallagher brought up the so-called negative religious impacts of marriage equality by citing the work of “leading legal scholars.” Skip ...
  • Boo Hoo Conservative Victimology: Glenn Beck a ...
    Cue up the violin for a sad, sad and familiar song: Conservatives are victims once more in the Age of Obama. In New York City’s Bryant Park, with “patriotic” blanket in tow, Glenn Beck was set upon by “bloodthirsty,” “hateful,” liberals that wanted to “lynch him” because he is a Conservative. [I ...
  • The Truth About Women, Aging & Retirement
    Do you ever worry about ending up “a bag lady”? If so, you are not alone. And if current trends don’t change, that fear is not entirely irrational. Last week Merrill Lynch hosted an online presentation about the state of women & retirement. In our CrazyBusy 24/7 world it’s so easy to tune out wh ...
  • Why Prescription Ecstasy or LSD Could Happen M ...
    If a growing phalanx of scientists get their way, prescriptions for psychedelic drugs could be yours within 10 years.
  • Switch The Switch
    Reverend Billy’s brilliantly bombastic, boldly brief Earthalujah sermons — now available as a podcast! Watch more episodes and subscribe at revbilly.com/podcast.What if there is a switch in our brains that Bond-like villains can flip with impunity, sending us into spasms of shopping? Horribly, ...

Threat Level

  • ‘Massive Infringement’ Case Against CNET Dropped
    Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit accusing CNET of facilitating “massive copyright infringement” by distributing peer-to-peer software dropped their case Monday. The May lawsuit was lodged in Los Angeles by a handful of musicians and filmmaker Alkiviades David. They accused CBS Interactive â CNET’ ...
  • Lawyer to Judge: I Swear My Browser Ate My Hom ...
    A lawyer for copyright troll Righthaven is declaring under penalty of perjury that an update to his computer’s browser prohibited him from electronically submitting a legal filing by an angry judge’s deadline. And it was no ordinary filing U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt was demanding. Nevada’s c ...
  • Judge: Google Can Be Sued for Wiretapping in S ...
    A federal judge has found that Google can be held liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open Wi-Fi routers, dealing the search giant a serious legal setback for activity it has engaged in across the United States for years. That ruling, the first of its kind, was handed down late ...
  • Newspaper Chain Fights for Copyright Troll’s S ...
    Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling. After standing on the sidelines while professional content-troll Righthaven fights in court, the newspaper company that seeded the venture joined the fray late Tuesday, telli ...
  • FBI Raids Iowa Woman’s Home in Lulz Security H ...
    The hacking group Lulz Security ended its 50-day reign of terror this weekend, but the law enforcement hunt for its members will go on. Last week, FBI agents raided an Iowa woman's home because of her connections to the group.

Equality Trust

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • The FDA considers any disease-causing strain o ...
    I was rereading the June 3, 2011 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) statement on E. coli O104:H4 outbreak in Europe on my flight from Seattle to Boston today thinking about meeting a many who has spent over 30 days hospitalized from eating E. coli – tainted fenugreek sprouts. On June 3 in addit ...
  • Nearly 4,200 Sickened and at least 50 Dead in ...
    The European Food Safety Authority reports as of July 4 - 892 HUS cases, including 32 deaths, and 3,281 non-HUS cases, including 17 deaths, have so far been reported. The table below shows the distribution of reported cases per country. Since the last update, Germany reports no additional HUS c ...
  • French Woman Dies From E. coli O145, a dozen s ...
    Non-O157 E. colis – What us worry in the United States? Hell, let’s stop testing produce! According to French news reports (via Google translator), a 78-year-old Bordeaux woman, unrelated to the group of Bordeaux E. coli O104:H4 cases, died Friday at the University Hospital of Bordeaux after ...
  • Evergreen Fresh Sprouts Recalls its Sprouts Du ...
    Moyie Springs, Idaho-Evergreen Fresh Sprouts, LLC announced a voluntary recall of Alfalfa Sprouts and Spicy Sprouts because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. The recalled sprouts have been linked to a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections. As of June 27, 2011, a to ...
  • E. coli O26 Hits at Least Five in Idaho
    John Stucke of the The Spokesman-Review reported a few moments ago that at least five kitchen workers at Camp Lutherhaven have been sickened by E. coli O26 according to Idaho Panhandle Health officials. Three more staffers are ill, but lab tests haven’t linked it to the bacterial infection. No ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Toyota issues recall for Highlander, ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Crossover, Lexus, Toyota Lexus RX 400h - Click above for high-res image There's a problem with some 2006 and 2007 model year Toyota Highlander Hybrid and Lexus RX 400h vehicles. Today, Toyota announced that it will voluntarily recall 45,500 Highlander Hybrid an ...
  • Video: New Prius rap video takes to cruising W ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Whole Foods Parking Lot - Click above to watch video after the jump Turns out, you can spin the whole "cashed up greenie" bit into a few minutes of enjoyable parody rap. Don't believe us? Check out "Whole Foods Parking Lot," the fi ...
  • Report: Glenn Beck goes off on GM's Akerson ov ...
    Filed under: GM, Electric Glenn Beck on the gas tax - Click above to watch video after the jump If there's one thing that is fast becoming true about the Chevy Volt, it's that right-wing political pundits really, really don't like it. So, we will admit up front that this story comes straigh ...
  • Official: Mitsubishi sets Canadian i-MiEV pric ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, Budget, Hatchback, Mitsubishi, Canada, Electric $32,998. That's the price that Mitsubishi Motors has announced for the i-MiEV in Canada when the little space egg goes on sale there later this year. (That's $33,891 U.S. at today's exchange rate). Yes, Canada will ge ...
  • Official: New pictures of Tesla Model S Alpha ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Tesla, Design/Style Tesla Model S Alpha - Click above for high-res image gallery Tesla Motors has put up some new pictures of the Tesla Model S Alpha, and its gorgeous new model looks more production-ready than ever. The changes we can see are subtle, but compared to ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Watch: Full Video of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange ...
    On Saturday Amy Goodman moderated a conversation with WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange and renowned Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek in London. The talk provided a rare opportunity to hear two of the world’s most prominent thinkers discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time ...
  • U.S. Officials: Pakistan Spy Agency Deliberate ...
    Obama administration officials have told the New York Times that senior officials of the Pakistani spy agency, the ISI , ordered the killing of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad of the Asia Times in an effort to silence him. One U.S. official said, âEvery indication is that this was a delibe ...
  • LIVE BLOG: Greek Authorities Intercept U.S. Bo ...
    Democracy Now! producer Aaron Maté files exclusive audio reports on board the Gaza-bound "Audacity of Hope". The ship set sail from Greece at approximately 9:30 a.m. EDT but was soon stopped by Greek authorities. Listen to Aaron’s reports as the scene develops. Listen Update at 12:30 p ...
  • Nuclear Hubris: Christian Parenti On What Japa ...
    In part two of our conversation with journalist Christian Parenti he discusses his recent article, Nuclear Hubris: Could Japan’s Disaster Happen Here?, about what the meltdown of three nuclear reactors in Japan means for the expansion of the nuclear power industry United States. "I think its ...
  • Book Excerpt: "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change ...
    Read the first chapter of "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence," by award-winning writer Christian Parenti, who will be interviewed tomorrow on Democracy Now! In the book he explores how, from Africa to Asia, extreme weather brought on by global warming is unleashi ...

Suzie-Q

  • A Note Of Bad News….
    To my blogging friends: I have some very bad news. My daughter-in-law was killed last night in an auto accident. It was her 30th birthday & she leaves behind my son & my two young grandchildren. I will be taking time away from posting for awhile. Please drive carefully over the holiday weekend! ...
  • Israel to Stop Flotilla “Without Physica ...
    Clinton: Gaza flotilla a bid to provoke Israel by Gaza Flotilla 101 June 23, 2011 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday criticized activists planning to challenge Israel’s sea blockade of the Gaza Strip, saying their efforts are neither “necessary or useful” in helping the Palest ...
  • The Invisible Army
    The Invisible Army For foreign workers on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, war can be hell. The New Yorker by Sarah Stillman June 6, 2011 It was lunchtime in Suva, Fiji, a slow day at the end of the tourist season in September of 2007, when four men appeared in the doorway of the [...]
  • Christ Rice: Ca$hing in on Hard Times
    Click pic to enlarge A coleague  just resently recieved this in the mail from the future CEO of this company. We’re excited about moving forward on this and anticipate putting food on the table on a global basis. and as far as promotion goes, all options will be on the table. When the times get ...
  • Supreme Court Sides With Wal-Mart In Sex Bias Case
    Supreme Court Sides With Wal-Mart In Sex Bias Case Huffington Post First Posted: 06/20/11 10:30 AM ET Updated: 06/20/11 02:16 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of female employees in a decision that makes i ...

Solari

  • 2nd Quarter 2011: Looking Back
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday night on The Solari Report is our 2nd Quarter Wrap Up. In our year-end wrap up, 2010: The Road Turns East, I said that in 2011 the economy would continue in a Slow Burn. Indeed it has. In the second quarter, numerous events underscored how the political e ...
  • A Big Chart on Too Big to Fail
    Most call it one of the biggest financial crises in living memory. Others call it one great big Ponzi scheme. Whatever you want to call it, a bunch of people lost a bunch of money and the world of high finance may never be the same… Who Started It? Continue reading the article . . .
  • The Complete History Of 2011 So Far
    By Joe Weisenthal [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . .
  • Prince Talks About Chemtrails
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  • Money & Markets - Week of 7.3.11
    YouTube (13 June 11) London and Chilean Stock Exchanges Are in The Process of Integration MercoPress (2 July 11) St. Louis Fed Study Says QE Devalued Dollar by 6.5 to 11 Percent GATA (30 June 11) Retiring Rich With One Investment Per Decade Thomas De Maesschalck’s Blog (3 Jan 10)

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
    Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history.  This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
  • Attritionist Letter #1 – the tides turn, ...
    Summary:   With US military forces engaged around the world in the long war, with three conflicts burning at once (on very different scales), the doctrines we choose may have a large effect on American history.  This, the first of the Attritionist Letters, describes the issues and the sta ...
  • The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
    Summary:   Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations.  Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies.  With the permission of the th ...
  • The Attritionist Letters, volleys in the long ...
    Summary:   Key points of military history are marked by debates among soldiers, usually invisible to the public but affecting the course of nations.  Such a debate is underway now about the doctrines by which we wage the long war against jihadists and their allies.  With the permission of the th ...
  • Could a new Constitutional Convention help ref ...
    Summary:  Many people seek changes to the Constitution as a palliative to our problems.  Disappointment awaits them, especially if they succeed.  Proper treatment requires accurate diagnosis, and even a cursory look at America shows that our problems have a simple cause.  Us.  Tinkering with the ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Libyan Institutions
    Robert Haddick has an appropriate degree of skepticism regarding plans to maintain the Libyan Army in case of Gaddafi’s fall: The “Bremer Hypothesis” may get another test in Libya, as Mitchell seems determined to learn from the presumed error. Mitchell and his colleagues are assuming — or at lea ...
  • Iran's Theocracy: From Khomeini to Khameini
    Iran's Theocracy: From Khomeini to Khameini: It is not common in the United States to have a personal briefing on the state of Iran’s government from someone who was present at the creation of the Islamic Republic, who is a trained cleric, who knows all the key players, and who has spent jail ti ...
  • Why Not "Momentum III" in Afghanistan?
    Does anyone know who names campaign phases? Like what actual office in DOD assigns the official names? Because I'd never seen them before yesterday, when the Pentagon announced that new campaign stars were authorized for additional phases in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Here's part of the press re ...
  • Are These Hostilities?
    Drones over Somalia: The clandestine American military campaign to combat Al Qaedaâs franchise in Yemen is expanding to fight the Islamist militancy in Somalia, as new evidence indicates that insurgents in the two countries are forging closer ties and possibly plotting attacks against the United ...
  • Ninety Years On, Communism in China
    Today the Chinese Communist Party celebrates 90 years of existence (the China Digital Times has a good roundup here). FP’s Christina Larson reports that every public TV in the country is tuned into the festivities, whether people are watching or not. This begs the obvious question: Is it still M ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Purity and Electability
    Like most people with well-defined ideological views, liberals want their political standard-bearers to represent their interests and stand-up for liberalism as a governing ideology. Typically, this is viewed as good messaging -- the public likes progressive policies -- and good politics. As the ...
  • Today at The Prospect
    Paul Waldman writes that Mark Halperin is the kind of D.C. pundit who doesn't believe policy matters.
  • Herman Cain Flame-Out Proceeding Ahead of Schedule
    Herman Cain, the candidate Morry Taylor wishes he could have been, is apparently encountering some difficulties: Herman Cain's presidential campaign should be flying high. Last week, the highly anticipated first poll from the Des Moines Register put him in third place, with 10 percent support, ...
  • It's Not a Faction, It's the Party
    David Brooks is on the New York Times op-ed page because he's the kind of conservatives liberals like -- friendly, reasonable-sounding, uncomfortable with vilifying his opponents, even if he almost always comes down on the side of whatever Republicans want to do. Not that elite liberals (e.g. pe ...
  • The Real Problem
    Over the holiday weekend, Talking Points Memo's Brian Beutler highlighted this gem of a chart from the Senate Appropriations Committee: As Hawaii Democratic Senator Daniel Inoyue explained in a statement, "Although non-defense discretionary spending in nominal dollars has increased, when tak ...

Buzzflash

  • Just a Few Ways Corporations Kill Innovation i ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH FOR TRUTHOUT Innovation used to be a hallmark of America, and so I read with interest about a July 4th Declaration of Innovation that declares, We, the people of the United States of America, hold these truths to be self-evident - that great innovators drive A ...
  • Obama Should Become a Republican to Raise Nati ...
    MARC PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT President Obama is trying to figure out how to convince Republicans to raise the national debt limit to avoid America defaulting on its debt. I have a suggestion. Obama could switch parties and become a Republican. When Republicans are in the white hous ...
  • Declaration of Dependence: America's Infrastru ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Did you know that some of America's infrastructure is being repaired after all? The only catch is that major parts of the work are being done in China, meaning that many US construction workers stay unemployed. Take for instance the massive $7.2 bil ...
  • July 4th, Dependence Day: Dependence on Fossil ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Another July 4th is coming soon, and we'll sing with pride about living in the land of the free and the home of the brave. But freedom and braveryare ambiguous words. Our freedom to maintain an American lifestyle depends on oil from foreign countries, and ...
  • Listening to Republican Talking Points Is Like ...
    Body   Watching Republicans bicker about their talking points in Congress is like suddenly being dropped into an alternate universe. Constant references to children, grandchildren and "class warfare" are repeated ad nauseum as if they were logical absolutes in the grand scheme ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Scanning for juvenile delinquency
    Scanning for juvenile delinquency – Impulsiveness in youth is not a criminal offence, although if it reaches into the realm of delinquency it can quickly become so. Researchers in the US are using functional magnetic resonance imaging to see whether the brains of young offenders differ in some b ...
  • The real reason for pruney fingers
    The real reason for pruney fingers – Sit in a bath too long and your fingers will wrinkle up. Everyone from 5 to 95 knows that. The scientific explanation was always that the skin absorbs water and the underlying layer buckles. That’s as may be, but writing in Nature News, Ed Yong explains an ex ...
  • The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Unce ...
    The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty – “In today’s unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers–and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by ...
  • Science goes mobile – SciMobileApps
    Science goes mobile #SciMobileApps – ChemConnector Tony Williams nudged me towards a relatively new initiative to help science "get" mobile. Mobile apps for science are expanding in scope and capability very quickly, yet there is no easy way to source information regarding what is available, wha ...
  • Negative science
    Negative science – Often the "eureka moment" occurs not in the sense of "I've found it", but more as a "WTF?" Indeed, it's been estimated that more than two-thirds of scientific experiments fail to produce the results anticipated and in one way might be considered failed experiments, or negative ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Advocates Call on Obama Administration to Stre ...
    Today over 80 national, state, and local health organizations and experts, including the American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Center for Science in the Public Interest, American Public Health Association, and the National PTA, called on the Obama Administration to strength ...
  • Final Owl Recovery Plan Released
    Complying with a court order, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today filed the long-awaiting 2011 Final Recovery Plan for northern spotted owls in federal district court in Washington, D.C. The 2011 Recovery Plan came as a result of Earthjustice litigation that successfully challenged the prio ...
  • Settlement Reached to Protect Endangered Leath ...
    A settlement filed today in federal court between conservation groups and the National Marine Fisheries Service requires the government to make a final rule protecting critical habitat for the endangered leatherback sea turtle by Nov. 15, 2011. As proposed, the rule will protect sea turtles in p ...
  • Arizona Mass Shooter, Conviction of Concealed ...
    At least 319 people, including 11 law enforcement officers, have been killed in incidents not ruled self-defense involving private citizens legally allowed to carry concealedhandguns according to the June update of the Violence Policy Center's (VPC) Concealed Carry Killers on-line resource (http ...
  • Fort Bragg Support Of Graham Evangelistic Even ...
    Americans United for Separation of Church and State today asked U.S. Army leaders to ensure that officials at Fort Bragg in North Carolina don’t sponsor events that give selective benefits to religious groups.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Why Women Need to Be Part of the Peace Process
    Theresa de Langis What is wrong with this picture? After all, it looks like a typical photo of world leaders making decisions for their countries. That is precisely the problem. What’s wrong is the total absence of women—at the table, in ...
  • Debating Taboos
    Ralph Nader The first nationally televised debate (C-SPAN) on the subject of mandatory voting, or voting duty, occurred in Washington D.C. on June 27, 2011 (watch it at: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/DebateonMa). Why did it take so lo ...
  • Health Care Debate: It's Time to Get Outraged
    Wendell Potter One of my favorite bumper stickers reads, "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." That's sort of how I feel about the health care debate. If more Americans paid attention to the fate of neighbors and loved one ...
  • How Racism, Global Economics, and the New Jim ...
    Andy Kroll Like the country it governs, Washington is a city of extremes. In a car, you can zip in bare moments from northwest District of Columbia, its streets lined with million-dollar homes and palatial embassies, its inhabitants sporti ...
  • Picture Lennon as Closet Reagan Backer
    Tony Norman Imagine John Lennon a conservative. It isn't easy if you try. ImagineFilmmaker Seth Swirsky imagines just such a scenario in his new documentary "Beatles Stories." In the documentary, Fred Seamons, Lennon's personal assistant a ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

  • Challenging Israeli apartheid -- by plane
    Mazin QumsiyehThe Electronic Intifada This week, hundreds of activists plan on challenging Israel’s apartheid apartheid by flying in to Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv as part of the “Welcome to Palestine” initiative. Heraclitis once stated that “There is nothing permanent except change,” and i ...
  • Learning capoeira in the shadow of Israel's wall
    The Electronic Intifada The Bidna Capoeira project aims to help children cope with trauma by learning capoeira, an age-old Afro-Brazilian martial�art.
  • Why was Salah muzzled for preaching peace in L ...
    Jonathan CookThe Electronic Intifada Israel’s legal system, despite its reputation for presuming that Palestinian citizens are habitual security offenders, has neither found Sheikh Raed Salah guilty of anti-Semitism nor of directly helping terrorists. So why is Britain being even “more Israeli r ...
  • Tutu boosts Murdoch-battered BDS campaign in S ...
    Sarah IrvingThe Electronic Intifada A letter of support from South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is regarded as a vindication of an Australian city council’s fight — currently unsuccessful — to align its purchasing policies with the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions agains ...
  • UK deportation order against Palestinian leade ...
    Asa WinstanleyThe Electronic IntifadaLondon After a furor in the British press, a political leader of Palestinian citizens in Israel remains in a British jail tonight. Authorities cut his speaking tour short by arresting him this�week.

The Wonk Room

  • Paul Ryan Thinks His Medicare Plan Is Popular
    As Greg Sargent points out, this recent statement from Paul Ryan — “When the plan is described accurately, it actually polls very well” — is still not true.
  • Ohio GOP Weakens Election Law By Allowing Poll ...
    Last week, the GOP-led House passed an election law overhaul without the highly restrictive voter ID provision. However, the House tweaked the bill to weaken a law mandating poll workers to direct voters in the wrong precinct to their correct voting location. Under the new language, a poll worke ...
  • This Is Not the Way To Build a Gay Superhero
    You know what American popular culture needs? Gay superheroes. You know what American popular culture doesn’t need? Gay superheroes who come to terms with their sexual orientation by a) beating the hell out of an army of their ex-girlfriends who b) of course have turned into a bunch of evil clon ...
  • Muslim Scholar Calls For Death Penalty For Gay ...
    Via LGBTQ Nation: At the annual Journey of Faith Islamic conference in Toronto last week, Islamic religious scholar Bilal Philips told the over 9,000 attendees that in countries governed by Islamic law, males who “confess” to homosexual behavior â or who are seen doing so by four reliable witne ...
  • Kasich’s ‘New Way’ Tramples ...
    Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) campaigned on the promise of “a new way and a new day” for all Ohioans. Within 177 of those “new days,” Kasich has demolished worker’s rights, slashed children’s health, kneecapped the middle class, insulted African-Americans, and even eliminated jobs he promised to cre ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The New Homophobia
    It's fooking amazing innit? Have you heard of "The New Anti-Semitism"? Apparently, when people criticize the IDF for shooting Palestinian children in the back, or the government of Israel for launching an illegal invasion of Gaza or Lebanon and carpet-bombing civilians, it's really just an exc ...
  • Margie Gillis and the War in Afghanistan
    Some, some dumb-ass moron at the wingnut welfare news channel was hypocritically bitching and moaning about how Margie Gillis's dance company got $1.2 million over 13 years. This in a country where the government won't even tell us what it's multi-billion dollar fighter planes and prisons boond ...
  • So What Happened?
    As I said in my last post, my conclusion that the harpercon government has no legitimate authority arose out of my support for Brigette DePape's violation of Parliamentary decorum during the Speech From the Throne. As I said, I actually have a great deal of reverence for our democratic instituti ...
  • "Tee-Hee"
    I've take some criticism for describing the harpercon majority government as "illegitimate." This criticism tends to come from empty-headed morons whose opinions I have as much regard for as I would a huge, steaming piece of dog-shit on my front steps. There seems to be some inexplicable confus ...
  • Hillary's Hypocrisy
    Here's another example of why Glenn Greenwald rocks. In his post "Plurality of Americans love Gadaffi" Greenwald quotes the abominable Hillary Clinton's yammerings about the need for support for the US-led mission of regime change in Libya: But the bottom line is, whose side are you on? Are you ...

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Digital Journal

  • Harbourfront Community Centre enters Share You ...
    The Harbourfront Community Centre in Toronto is part of the Share Your Care contest. Share Your Care is a community funding project from Evergreen and Fido to increase public green spaces for the entire community to enjoy.
  • Thousands mourn fallen officer Constable Garre ...
    Today Constable Garrett Styles, York Regional Police, was laid to rest as thousands gathered to mourn both at Ray Twinney Recreation Complex in Newmarket, Ontario and in front of televisions and computers.
  • Jays' Bautista breaks all-time record for all- ...
    Toronto Blue Jays' home run kingpin Jose Bautista has been overwhelmingly chosen by fans to start in baseball's mid-summer classic on July 12.
  • Toronto: Cigarette, hoarder caused Welleley St ...
    A single cigarette started one of the largest fires of 2010 in Toronto that left 1,200 people homeless. While no one died from the flames 17 people including five children had to be treated in hospital due to injuries.
  • NOW Magazine publishes photos of Toronto Mayor ...
    Instead of attending the Toronto Gay Pride Parade, Mayor Rob Ford spent the Canada Day long weekend with his family in cottage country. There has been much debate about his decision, and NOW Magazine has published photos of "The Ford Family Compound."
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