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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 II

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Independence Day: Goodbye Banksters (sorry, fe ...
    So! It's July Fourth! Independence Day! We've got a lovely letter that we're sending to one of Britain's biggest banking firms today. The letter tells them to get stuffed. They will not be getting any more imaginary money out of me to pay back any imaginary debt made up through criminal ra ...
  • Meet my Great-Great Grandmother
    Meet my Great-Great Grandmother. Yes, that actually is really and genuinely my mother's mother's mother's mother. I post this photograph of my dear relative in a political context. We see, on the news, reports of what is happening in the world - particularly in Greece and Spain. For my ...
  • Quote of the Day: The 'No Sh*t, Sherlock!' edition
    We're not making this one up... "While our proposals for high speed rail will obviously have an impact on those communities directly affected, we are absolutely committed to doing everything possible to mitigate this." Say what? What was that first part again? "While our proposals for h ...
  • Load of dirty bankers: International criminal ...
    We kid you not. The international criminal corporate cartel that is busy looting Greece (and other nations) on the path to global government... ...stands accused of committing illegal chemical warfare against the people of Greece. Here's the news round-up - watch these through in sequence ...
  • Quote of the Day: The 'yes, it's a fellow blog ...
    "Having qualified for an early lobotomy, his conversion to a full-time moron is now complete, yet his words, instead of being greeted with snorts of derision, actually get house room in what has become the fantasy world of British politics, where normal life has been suspended." ...but about ...

Facing South

  • Mississippi civil rights activist honored for ...
    By Jonah Most, New America Media It was reading Malcolm X that convinced Chokwe Lumumba to go to law school. Malcolm X had wanted to be a lawyer, but his teachers discouraged him. As an undergraduate student at Kalamazoo College in Michigan in the late 1960s, Lumumba decided to be the lawyer ...
  • Illegal campaign contributions spotlight Koch ...
    As Americans prepared to celebrate their independence from a foreign power, the Federal Election Commission reached a settlement in a case involving a foreign corporation making thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to state-level political candidates over a four-year period. ...
  • VOICES: Amazon's anti-tax crusade
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest When large companies complain about taxes, they are usually talking about levies they have to pay out of their own deep pockets. Amazon.com is engaged in a battle to make it easier for its customers to avoid paying their taxes -- their sales tax, that is, ...
  • New labor rules could help workers' organizing ...
    By Jenny Brown and Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes The IKEA furniture factory in Danville, Va., is hot in the summer, but workers can expect it to be even hotter this year. They filed a petition for representation on June 20, kicking off the arduous process that leads to a typical union election in ...
  • Are teachers and police officers imaginary people?
    Growing up, some children have imaginary friends. Today, many politicians seem to live in a world of imaginary workers. Or at least they think they're imaginary: To most people, school teachers, police officers, librarians and other public servants are very real. The public sees them every ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Matthew Olsen Nominated to Lead Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olsen, the general counsel of the National Security Agency and a longtime Justice Department official, has been nominated to replace Michael Leiter as the head of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Today’s Terrorism News will return Tuesday, July 5. U.S. to Investigate Two Detainee Deaths in CIA Custody On Thursday, the Justice Department announced that the deaths of two detainees in CIA custody overseas will … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Three Convicted of Bronx Synagogue Bomb Plot Sentenced to 25 Years Three men convicted last year of plotting to bomb a Bronx synagogue and Jewish community center were each sentenced to 25 years in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Taliban Militants Attack Kabul Hotel A small team of up to eight Taliban militants attacked a landmark Kabul hotel popular with foreigners on Tuesday, setting off an hours-long siege that only ended with NATO … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Yemen Says It Foiled al Qaeda Attack Yemenâs state news agency reported Monday that security forces have arrested six alleged al Qaeda militants who were planning attacks on âvital and economic installationsâ in the … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

  • Greeks defy police crackdown, protests against ...
    *Greeks continue to protest banker bailouts as  police order more tear gas following riots leaving 300 injured *Greek MP says he was threatened with death if he did not vote for the EU, IMF and ECB austerity measures *Economist Hans Werner Sinn warns that the eurozone bailouts for banks will cos ...
  • Greek MP told: vote for IMF, EU austerity or b ...
    Greek MP says he received death threats before crucial vote  Ekathimerini A Socialist deputy who last week grabbed headlines for making a controversial about-turn on the government’s austerity measures, has said he received death threats ahead of the vote. In an interview with a local channel of ...
  • Irish ponder future under EU jackboot
    Greece ‘will pay for â¬110bn bailout with its sovereignty’ By Thomas Molloy, Irish Independent Monday July 04 2011 GREECE received a stark warning yesterday about the cost of the latest bailout in comments which were likely to send a chill down the spines of citizens in other countries that may ...
  • Irish groups likely to challenge bailouts in s ...
    Even as Germanyâs highest constitutional court in Karlsruhe is preparing to hear oral arguments challenging the legality of the Greek and other bailouts tomorrow , John O’Brennan says that it is almost certain that Euro-skeptic groups will ask the Irish Supreme Court to rule on the constitution ...
  • Rating agency throws doubt on Greece bailout & ...
    S.&P. Warns Bank Plan Would Cause Greek Default By DAVID JOLLY, New York Times Published: July 4, 2011 PARIS — Greece risks being judged in default on its debt obligations if banks are forced to bear part of the pain, Standard & Poor’s said Monday, suggesting that current proposals for rescuing ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Historical fact: Independence Day is a celebra ...
    By Mike Adams Happy July 4th, my fellow Americans. It’s the Independence Day weekend! Independence from what, you might ask? As even the somewhat revisionist history taught in public schools readily admits, July 4th is a celebration of independence from government tyranny under British rule. And ...
  • Video – Looks like GADDAFI has some support!
  • The Audacity of Hope [Amazing Video]
    by Debbie Menon Greece has somehow maneuvered itself (or been maneuvered) into a financial crisis which threatens the incumbent government, and the economic quality of corporate life in Greece if IMF and World Bank historical response are pursued. So, to whom will they turn for relief? Is it any ...
  • TSA Abuses: Seeing the Forest and the Trees by ...
    by Anthony Gregory, June 30, 2011 The Transportation Security Administration is finally getting some of the bad publicity it deserves. We read about an elderly woman forced to remove her adult diaper to go through the screening process. We learn about a mentally disabled passenger deprived of hi ...
  • The TSA’s tentacles spread
    Jennifer Abel It’s eight months now since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) abandoned its last pretence of respect for America’s constitutional principles, by mandating no traveller may fly in American airspace unless TSA agents first see and/or feel said traveller’s genitalia. Th ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

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

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

  • Plagiarist with a recently rescinded PhD appoi ...
    Sylvana Koch-Mehrin had her doctorate rescinded by the University of Heidelberg for containing over 30% plagiarism in May 2011, and now in June she has been named EU commissioner for research.
  • Earthquakes July 5th
    Following up from the red warning last week an earthquake shakes Melbourne, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand's lower North Island and a powerful 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits Western Japan today. Generally the number of earthquakes during the period warned about was at the heightened ...
  • Reducing sulphur emissions caused post-1970 gl ...
    New paper "The post 1970 period of warming, which constitutes a significant portion of the increase in global surface temperature since the mid 20th century, is driven by efforts to reduce air pollution in general and acid deposition in particular"
  • Tepco shares rise sharply on reports of planne ...
    Tepco shares rose almost 20% today as reports on Sunday described government plans to break-up the Japanese utility and to nationalise its nuclear plant assets.
  • Signs that the Japanese recovery is beginning
    Japan’s industrial production rose at the fastest pace in more than 50 years, led by carmakers as they restored operations at plants after a record earthquake and tsunami on March 11. Factory output increased 5.7 percent in May from April, the biggest gain since 1953.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Chase And BoA Quietly Cutting Balances For Opt ...
    It's a lovely surprise to get in the mail from your bank, a letter telling you they're going to cut your mortgage balance in half while increasing your interest rate slightly. NYT reports that tens of thousands of option-arm mortgagors, homebuyers with a loan that had a low introductory interes ...
  • 16 Tales Of Frugal Fathers
    We got over 226 comments when we asked you, "What's the most frugal thing your dad ever did?" You guys have some really crafty pops. Your stories were humorous, heartfelt, and inspiring. I seriously got misty reading some of them. Others made me fearful for how our generation of young men will ...
  • Personal Finance Roundup
    The 25 Documents You Need Before You Die [Wall Street Journal] "Here is a rundown of the most important documents you'll need to have signed, sealed and delivered." 10 Costs That Can Ruin Your Retirement Savings [Smart Money] "Unknown fees in your 401(k) plans, IRAs and other retirement accoun ...
  • Government May Defund Veggie E.Coli, Salmonell ...
    Budget-crunching federal lawmakers are considering taking away funding from a government safety program that prevents your salads from getting certain potentially deadly toppings, such as e.coli and salmonella. The Microbiological Data Program, which tests 15,000 annual samples of fruits and ve ...
  • Michigan Inmate Sues Because He's Denied Porn
    A 21-year-old Michigan inmate has filed a lawsuit that contends he's been stripped of civil rights because he isn't allowed to look at porn, claiming his lack of access to the material gives him a "poor standard of living" and "sexual and sensory deprivation." The AP reports the man, who was c ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Manipulating Obama: Moving Left
    The reelection bid of President Barack Obama has posed some interesting dilemmas for those who helped push the change agenda. The change agenda has evolved into a manipulation agenda, whereby everybody has a new demand for the President. The new demand is an extension of the old demands of class ...
  • Nuclear/Chemical Disasters (Part 2): Chernobyl ...
    In what is now northern Ukraine, in the small village of Pripyat, in the city of Chernobyl, a catastrophic nuclear meltdown occurred 25 years ago on April 26, 1986. Together with the recent nuclear crisis in Japan, we need to ask ourselves if the world has progressed toward safer nuclear energy. ...
  • July 4 Infamy: Republicans Try to Destroy Amer ...
    Ron Paul would defeat the debt-ceilingincrease and cause a global crash. Paul Ryan would destroy Medicare and impose a huge punishment on seniors. Mitch McConnell has said his No. 1 goal is to destroy President Obama, not improve our economy, and has abused the rules of the Senate to obstruct ev ...
  • EuroMillions’ 3-Card Monty… £160MM 12x Rollove ...
    “Find the Queen!” The street huckster says in 3-card Monty. You win the first few rounds… then get taken for everything. The UK Government sponsors a similar game costing UK taxpayers and creating gamblers everywhere. The ‘new’ EuroMillions was quietly launched in May with staggering rejiggered ...
  • Nuclear/Chemical Disasters (Part 1): The Most ...
    Near the southern Ural Mountains, in the Russian province of Chelyabinsk, there is a Soviet nuclear facility called the Mayak Chemical Combine (MCC). From 1948 until 1990 when the last of five reactors was shut down, the Combine contaminated the region to such an extent that it is now known as t ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Monckton: The Climate of Freedom — Hancock Lec ...
    Background notes to the Lang Hancock Memorial Lecture by Christopher Monckton (70 pages) Click on the image to download the pdf. —————– CONTENTS Death by consensus p 2 Can we trust the consensus? p 4 Concessions to consensus p14 Can we reliably predict long-term future climate states? p 15 Is th ...
  • Monckton Evans Nova — speaking Monday night in ...
    See the Monckton Tour page for details. 5.45pm  Wilsmore Lecture Theatre. UWA Chemistry Dept.  $25. Ph 043 542 3636 to Book. Then we’re all travelling to Newcastle and Sydney this week. Book now!
  • Survey shows skeptics are smarter
    I kid you not. Chris Mooney at Desmog has got the data that shows skeptics were more literate and numerate than believers, and he wants to share it. Last week, an intriguing study emerged from Dan Kahan and his colleagues at Yale and elsewhere–finding that knowing more about science, and being b ...
  • The Fog of War — more propaganda against Monckton
    Anson Cameron makes a PR contribution in the big fog of the Climate War (Please: don’t dump the Monck), and I must say that it’s more sophisticated than the 50 religious academics who have no answer to Monckton and are terrified he might — God-forbid — speak. Cameron’s been called out from somew ...
  • The Fog of War — more propaganda against ...
    Anson Cameron makes a PR contribution in the big fog of the Climate War (Please: don’t dump the Monck) and I must say that it’s more sophisticated than the 50 religious academics who have no answer to Monckton and are terrified he might — God-forbid — speak. Cameron’s been called out from somewh ...

ReNew America

  • Reflections on Independence Day
    (Samuel Doniger) - On July 4, 1776, members of the Second Continental Congress gathered in the modest enclosures of Independence Hall to declare the birth of what would become the greatest nation the world had ever known...
  • DeMint: Tea Party revolutionizing GOP, America
    (Newsmax) - The best way for Republicans to win back the majority in the Senate is "to do what we say we're going to do," argues tea party favorite Sen. Jim DeMint in an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview. The South Carolina conservative maintains that he'd "rather have 30 Republicans who believe in ...
  • America's Fourth, the spirit of 1776
    (Marie Jon, RA analyst) - "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." -- Thomas Jefferson...
  • Cornyn: GOP may accept 'mini' debt-ceiling deal
    (Bloomberg) - Republicans would accept a "mini" deal with the Obama administration on raising the debt limit, Senator John Cornyn of Texas, a Republican leader, said. Cornyn said today on "Fox News Sunday" that while Republicans would prefer a long-term deal, they would accept a shorter-term agr ...
  • 2011 Declaration of Independence from big gove ...
    (Frank Miniter) - The Declaration of Independence, signed July 4, 1776, was a moral and profound list of grievances and/or charges detailing why colonial Americans found it necessary to separate themselves from the English Parliament and King George III...

Truth Offering

  • Diet Myths THEY Don’t Want You To Know
    MyPyramid.....of DEATH!I've been studying health and nutrition for about six years now. In fact, I credit my nutritional awakening with spurring on my awakening in all other aspects of life, from economics to politics. And I'll tell you the crux of what sparked my craving for the truth: Going ba ...
  • US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
    The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
  • Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
    1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...
  • Our Diet Is Killing Our DNA!
    Few people are aware of this simple fact: what you eat directly impacts your DNA. This likely seems like a strange new concept to most, considering we're all brought up with such an incorrect understanding of human health and wellness. Five years back, I was no different -- well, I always cared ...
  • Chemtrails: Scars in the Sky
    Geoengineering is a relatively new idea to the world. According to�Wikipedia,�"The modern concept of�geoengineering�(or�climate engineering) is usually taken to mean proposals to deliberately manipulate the�Earth's�climate�to counteract the effects of�global warming�from�greenhouse gas�emissions ...

2012 Blog

  • Killer Koala Unearthed
    Like a giant (size of a rhino) cross between a wombat and a koala, the Diprotodon supposedly died out in Australia 25,000 years ago. As with all other extinct megafauna, experts figure that they were ... Related posts:Stegomastadon: Another Unexplained Extinction Giant Wombat News Mammoth ...
  • Eclipse Quakes in Melbourne, Auckland & Taupo
    While lunar eclipses tend to trigger major quakes, we have been seeing solar eclipses (July 1) setting off quakes in places that don’t usually get them. On Friday Auckland had a 2.9 quake – unusual ... Related posts:Lunar Eclipse = Quakes? Moon and rain = quakes Central Lunar Eclipse in 5 ...
  • US Grid: Add Hackers To The List
    The US power grid is extremely vulnerable, as are those in Europe. Primarily because they are old and over-burdened, but also because they are targets. If terrorists took out a number of transmission substations or ... Related posts:Power Grid Disinformation?? US Grid Concerns Continue Ne ...
  • Global Warming Running Out of Steam
    I’ve put in enough research to have decided that there is insufficient evidence to support the concept of man-made climate change, and that any warming or cooling is to do with the Sun. In the ... Related posts:Global Warming or Ice Age? Global Warming: Is it just the Sun? SHTF = Climate ...
  • Bunker Video with Great Tips
    This two parter (the second video is at my 2012 Videos page) is not only a great way to see what a $170K bunker looks like (that’s delivered and installed, by NBC, if anyone is ... Related posts:Vivos: Budget Bunker Space in Nebraska Bunker Business Booming The Great Escape: 20 People Lea ...

Facing South

  • Mississippi civil rights activist honored for ...
    By Jonah Most, New America Media It was reading Malcolm X that convinced Chokwe Lumumba to go to law school. Malcolm X had wanted to be a lawyer, but his teachers discouraged him. As an undergraduate student at Kalamazoo College in Michigan in the late 1960s, Lumumba decided to be the lawyer ...
  • Illegal campaign contributions spotlight Koch ...
    As Americans prepared to celebrate their independence from a foreign power, the Federal Election Commission reached a settlement in a case involving a foreign corporation making thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to state-level political candidates over a four-year period. ...
  • VOICES: Amazon's anti-tax crusade
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest When large companies complain about taxes, they are usually talking about levies they have to pay out of their own deep pockets. Amazon.com is engaged in a battle to make it easier for its customers to avoid paying their taxes -- their sales tax, that is, ...
  • New labor rules could help workers' organizing ...
    By Jenny Brown and Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes The IKEA furniture factory in Danville, Va., is hot in the summer, but workers can expect it to be even hotter this year. They filed a petition for representation on June 20, kicking off the arduous process that leads to a typical union election in ...
  • Are teachers and police officers imaginary people?
    Growing up, some children have imaginary friends. Today, many politicians seem to live in a world of imaginary workers. Or at least they think they're imaginary: To most people, school teachers, police officers, librarians and other public servants are very real. The public sees them every ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • Dry Your Clothes for Free
    Want to do your laundry the eco-friendly way? It�s a simple, two-step process:1)��� Wash most everything in cold water (The only thing I wash in hot water is towels.) 2)��� Hang your laundry out to dry. Benefits? ⢠�� Save energy, lower your electric or gas bill, and reduce your carbon ...
  • Bad Moms Don't Always Turn into Good Grandmas
    I never felt safe in my parents' home. As a child, I would instead seek shelter outside during stormy weather. I thought of this as Lilly woke crying from her nap the other day when it started thundering, and she said it was skummelt (scary). Later on as I was making dinner, I asked her how she ...
  • (VIDEO) José Andrés on His New "America Eats T ...
    Chef Jos� Andr�s of ThinkFoodGroup spent 2.5 Minutes With genConnect at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. He talked about his new project, America Eats Tavern, which opened yesterday in partnership with and support of a National Archives exhibit, What's Cooking, Uncle Sam?. video platformvideo ...
  • My Year Sans Facebook
    It's been over a year since I deactivated my Facebook account. How do I know this? Because I've been counting the days on my desk calendar. Just kidding! I'm not that much of a loser. Jeez. I was cleaning out old emails, and I noticed my deactivate notice was dated April 2010. I was shocked w ...
  • Holly Kearl: Stopping Street Harassment
    �Like them boobs!!�� That's the most innocuous thing a guy has ever screamed at me from his car. But it�s hardly the most disgusting or offensive. Since I was a girl, it seems like I�ve heard every foul-mouthed proposition dudes can muster. If you take the time to ask, most women will tell you ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

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

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

  • This is a FITwatch Call-out.
    This is a FITwatch Call-out. This is a call-out to all those who have ever been on the recieving end of "intelligence-led" policing. This is a call-out to all those who have been pushed up against a wall by riot cops and illegally stop-and-searched. This is a call-out to all those who have had t ...
  • Turning the tables on FIT – June 30th
    Great to see FIT photographer Gavin Paul getting a hard time on June 30th.
  • Harassment style policing at J30 protest
    One of the most striking feature of today’s J30 protests was the unfettered intimidation and harassment dished out by the Met. They blatantly targeted a large scale stop and search programme at anyone they decided they didn’t like the look of, often young men, who were pulled from the crowd if t ...
  • Filming in a public place, Greek Embassy, 16 June
    This is a great video of a very camera shy cop with an incredibly dodgy understanding of the law.
  • New PND increases police ‘data power’
    The new Police National Database PND is now up and running. All of the 43 police forces can now easily and quickly share any information they hold, on a single platform. This will not only include criminal records, but all that ‘intelligence’ that is so lovingly gathered by FIT teams at politica ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Vancouver Island man with mental age of 6 jail ...
    BY LINDSAY KINES, POSTMEDIA NEWS – A young man with the mental age of six has been sent to jail in Victoria because the B.C. government has no other place to house him, court documents show. In the latest case highlighting gaps in services for the developmentally disabled, the 23-year-old man pl ...
  • $11 billion treasure revealed beneath temple i ...
    CNN – A court-ordered search of vaults beneath a temple in India has turned up a treasure worth at least $11 billion, according to reports from the Indian state of Kerala. An inventory of what lies beneath the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, as reported on the website Business ...
  • AM Drive w/Dr. Woody: Space
    Since “Earth” is pretty much a closed system, all the water on Earth has been used and re-used, and re-used for countless milennia, so the water in your coffee or your juice this morning probably once was dinosaur piss… Woody’s not a cosmologist but I suspect “life”–self-reproducing organisms–is ...
  • Strauss-Kahn’s Accuser Doubly Vicitimise ...
    By Portia Crowe | IPSnews – NEW YORK, Jul 1, 2011 (IPS) – Despite questions about her credibility, the Sofitel maid who is accusing former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault is still a victim and should be treated as one, according to her attorney. “The victim here made some mist ...
  • Desmond Tutu: Ending Nuclear Evil
    project-syndicate – CAPE TOWN â Eliminating nuclear weapons is the democratic wish of the worldâs people. Yet no nuclear-armed country currently appears to be preparing for a future without these terrifying devices. In fact, all are squandering billions of dollars on modernization of their nucle ...

reference frame

  • Obama's long form birth certificate is a forgery
    I used to be a lukewarm birther but when Obama's folks released the long form birth certificate (key PDF for this article),I lost most of my interest. The birthers gradually began to resemble those who doubted moonlanding. Well, the analogy surely wasn't that perfect but I did decide to w ...
  • Mark Lynas: how far the new wisdom of ex-green ...
    I have also been pleased by climate activist Mark Lynas' article in the Daily Mail: You mustn't believe the lies of the Green zealots. And I should know - I was oneWell, I surely agree with both points in the title - you mustn't believe the lies of the Green zealots; and Mark Lynas should ...
  • Jeff Harvey: summary of Strings 2011
    Strings 2011 in Uppsala, Sweden is over. Here are the videos sorted according to the speaker. I decided to embed the summary talk by Jeff Harvey - a co-father of heterotic strings, orbifolds, and assorted solitons and instantons in string theory and elsewhere - because it's fun and co ...
  • Petra Kvitová wins her first Wimbledon
    Czech tennis player Ms Petra Kvitová (21) didn't care that Mr Maria Sharapova (24) was more experienced, richer, taller (Petra's 6 feet is 2 inches too little!), prettier - or, let's say, even prettier :-) - born in a larger country, and emitting annoying sounds all the time. When it c ...
  • INTEGRAL / IBIS: Lorentz symmetry at the Planc ...
    Bob has pointed out the following June 2011 preprint: Constraints on Lorentz Invariance Violation using INTEGRAL/IBIS observations of GRB041219AThey used IBIS, the imager on board of the INTEGRAL satellite, to look at gamma ray bursts in the Crab Nebula. The most relevant gamma ray burst ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • The End of Fear – Follow in the steps of ordin ...
    Το τέλος του φÏβου… The end of fear… by magiconteam Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Stop Living In Fear! Stop living in fear! It lowers your vibrations and helps... Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Radio 13 Aug 2010 Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Ra ...
  • Darwin was right: Arrival of the Post-Petroleu ...
    Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial civilization. The star ...
  • Burzynski Cures Cancer – The Magic of Antineop ...
    THIS VIDEO WILL BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE OWNER ON JUNE 20 2011 Curing cancer is frowned upon big government and BIG PHARMA, especially when the patent for the cure is owned by a single doctor, and they can’t have a taste of the pie. So what do they do? They sick their hound dog, [...] Related p ...
  • French Whistleblowers reaveal the set up of Do ...
    I saw this over at SGTReport.com and it is worth repeating here. French insiders reveal the reason why DSK had to be taken out. It was all about the missing gold baby. Watch this one explode before summer is out. Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Commodities / Gold and ...
  • Greece Yesterday – Largest Uprising Todate
    This was the center of Athens yesterday, June 12, 2011. Any questions? More Postcards From A Pre-Revolutionary Greece; Presenting “Goldman’s Employee Of The Decade” Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2011 11:05 -0400 Ben Bernanke Goldman Sachs Greece Testimony Last night’s major anti-IMF rally a ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Axis of idle: Mob wife, car crash, Jeter poste ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • With enemies like these, Chris Christie doesn' ...
    Only in New Jersey could it even possibly be a sign of a healthy, functioning political partnership when the president of the State Senate calls the governor "a rotten prick."That's how Stephen Sweeney, a South Jersey Democrat who has led Trenton's upper c ...
  • How the New York Asian Film Festival grew up w ...
    It’s hard not to be fascinated by the New York Asian Film Festival.Subway Cinema, the festival’s programmers, pride themselves on screening the most inspired pop cinema you’ve probably never heard of. The festival hasn’t had a dull year yet, thanks to its ...
  • Cuomo won, but did he clean up Albany?
    ALBANY—We had been standing at attention for over an hour last Friday, waiting for someone to emerge from the second-floor conference room where Governor Andrew Cuomo was taking meetings. The legislative session was building to a noisy end, with the possib ...
  • D.S.K. swallows a bird, but the tabs won't eat ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More

Views & News from Norway

  • Portrait of Norway’s ‘powers that ...
    It’s traditional for King Harald and Queen Sonja to invite the politicians forming Norway’s government (cabinet) for seasonal dinners, but this year’s pre-summer gathering was a bit different. Instead of a formal affair at the Royal Palace, the lawmakers and members of the royal family got toget ...
  • Crash victims were in same family
    Norway’s worst mainland helicopter crash ever turned even more tragic on Tuesday, when police reported that all five persons killed in the accident were in the same family. Other family members on the ground witnessed the fiery crash into a remote mountainside in Hardanger. Ãyvind Rossland of th ...
  • Whaling protests die down
    After years of being on the defensive, Norwegian officials reportedly have begun to relax a bit after a marked decline in international protests over their controversial whaling activity. Now the Foreign Ministry even seems ready to hand over responsibility for whaling to the Fisheries Ministry. ...
  • Hurtigruten show set Guinness record
    It’s official: Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK)’s marathon TV documentary that aired an entire Hurtigruten voyage live last month has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. NRK got the word on Tuesday that its nearly six-day show “Hurtigruten Minute by Minute” was approved as the world’s l ...
  • Five found dead in helicopter crash
    UPDATED: A helicopter with five persons on board crashed into a mountainside in a remote portion of Norway’s famed Hardanger district Monday evening. It’s believed to the worst helicopter accident ever on the Norwegian mainland. Three bodies had been found by Tuesday morning and two were still l ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Another Internship Comes to a Close
    It’s project time and all the interns at Zaytuna are busy working away at their individual endeavors. The past two months has been a real roller coaster ride – a wild dive into a vast new world of information and knowledge and everyone is enjoying the practical opportunity now given to delve in ...
  • 18-Month Permaculture Volunteer Opportunity in ...
    The river that runs past the HEPA site Photos © Craig Mackintosh Regular readers will know about our ongoing work with partner organisation, SPERI (Social Policy Ecology Research Institute), in Vietnam. (See here, here, here, here and here for example.) Well, the PRI is working with the Austr ...
  • Hell On Earth
  • What the Frack is Going On?
    Hungry for energy? Worried that oil is running dry and coal is getting squeezed out? Well, don’t panic — now we have gas on the menu (literally…)! It doesn’t matter where it is, or how hard it is to reach. We will just drill, baby, drill! Hydraulic fracturing (otherwise known as ‘fracking’) ...
  • Strong Support for National Water Audit
    by Ian Douglas In welcoming the call by Federal Greens Senator, Sarah Hanson-Young, for a national audit of water licence holdings, national coordinator of Fair Water Use, Ian Douglas, commented today, “We have longstanding concerns about the sale of water licences to overseas interests, as ther ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    . . Clay Douglason Zionism and Jews iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo-VF61Bt70 iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU624e6Q0Us Kaminski iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk9k0vnVJuo iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHa7RXCYx2A . .Statistics: Posted by /tab — ...
  • Philosophy • Re: Freemason defence of the Talm ...
    http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/protocols.html History of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion Freemasonry was linked to the Protocols by Sergei Aleksandrovich Nilus (1862-1929) when he included the Protocols as an appendix to the 1905 second edition of his 1901 autobiography, The Gre ...
  • Philosophy • Re: Freemason defence of the Talm ...
    http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/webster_n.html Nesta H. Webster’s Secret Societies hiddenmysteries.com From The French Revolution : a study in democracy, published in 1919, to Spacious days : an autobiography published in 1949, the English author, Nesta Helen Webster née Bevan (1867-1 ...
  • Philosophy • Freemason defence of the Talmud.. ...
    http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/van_hyning.html it seems they dont like Freedman....ironic really i thought. .......and with all the religion debates recently about the OT, i thought this excerpt was pertenient. Falsifiers of the Talmud Antisemites such as Van Hyning, Nesta Webster, B ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Israeli rabbi urges killing of non-Jews http://www.presstv.ir/detail/186902.html An ultra-orthodox Israeli rabbi has defended the killing of non-Jews, including infants, in his new book on ways to tackle 'threats' against Israel. In a sequel to his earlier book The King's Torah, Rabbi Yitz ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Rare Earth Mineral Deposits Discovered on Paci ...
    Japanese geologists say they have located vast deposits of rare earth minerals — crucial to the production of high-tech electronics and components of the emerging green energy industry — 2 to 4 miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. A team led by University of Tokyo researcher Tasuhiro Ka ...
  • As Alberta’s Tar Sands Boom, Foes Target Proje ...
    Exploiting North America’s largest oil deposit has destroyed vast stretches of Canada's boreal forest, arousing the ire of those opposed to this massive development of fossil fuels. Now those opponents are battling the Keystone XL pipeline, which would pass through environmentally sensitive West ...
  • U.S. Wine Regions Vulnerable to Warmer Tempera ...
    Warming temperatures could significantly impact some of America’s premium wine growing regions within three decades, including counties in California that produce some of the nation’s most expensive wines, ShutterstockGrapes on the vine according to a new Stanford University study. In Northern ...
  • Court Orders Compensation in Deaths of Samsung ...
    A Korean court has ordered Samsung Electronics to compensate the family of two former employees who died of leukemia, ruling that there was likely a link between their deaths and exposure to chemicals at the company’s semiconductor plants. The ruling by Judge Jin Chang-su overturns a 2009 decisi ...
  • Green Activists Feel Sting of Chinese Governme ...
    Even before this spring’s ominous clampdown on China’s public-interest lawyers, writers, and activists, the country’s fledgling environmental community felt the authorities’ noose tightening. BY CHRISTINA LARSON

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • No WikiLove for Canada Day
    Wikipedia is working on a new feature to allow visitors to express appreciation for the poor beleaguered editors. Visitors will have the opportunity to click on a Wikilove icon (a heart), which will allow them to send a message of appreciation. Seems that editors get a lot of ...
  • RIM chaos overestimated, but . . .
    By Mark Evans With all the talk about Research in Motion’s financial and marketshare struggles, many people tend to overlook the fact that it is still a wireless behemoth, albeit one with intense and growing competition. But it's not just another “a Nortel.”. Nevertheless, RIM needs to mak ...
  • The Conservatives’ Homegrown censorship
    By Frank Moher We can now begin to see how the Conservative government intends to use its majority to chop arts funding in Canada, particularly to any artistic expression it doesn't like or agree with. In the short term at least, it will be a death by a thousand cuts. This ...
  • Bill Blair’s G20 alibi
    By Alison@Creekside An interview with Andre Marin, Ontario Ombudsman and author of the G20 report "Caught in the Act," sheds a little light on the blackout surrounding who was responsible for ordering kettling at the G20 a year ago. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, as we have previously he ...
  • Potter too much
    By Rachel Krueger As though the tenterhooks weren’t tight enough for Harry Potter 7.2: The One Where It Actually Ends, the Rowling megalith taunted its fans last week with the mysterious offer of . . . Pottermore. Pottermore, the powers promised, was a Thing That Was Not A Book But Was Sti ...

Daily Beast

  • The Hemingway Lesson
    Today’s whimpy, techno-reliant men could learn from the most macho of American writers.
  • The Martyrdom of DSK
    DSK’s French friends declare him a victim of a faulty American judicial system. But, as Christopher Dickey reports, it’s not over yet.
  • Secret Gulf Firefight Video
    Is this the British Navy firing on an Iranian speedboat? It has the U.S. worried about an accidental war.
  • No Apologies Over DSK
    The credibility issues of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s accuser are no reason to be embarrassed about the case.
  • Biggest 2012 Campaign Whoppers
    The Daily Beast looks at the 10 biggest campaign fibs so far.

Loonwatch

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Japan Times

  • Cabinet OKs ¥2 trillion quake-aid budget
    The Cabinet of Prime Minister Naoto Kan agreed Tuesday on a draft �2 trillion second extra budget for fiscal 2011 that would finance relief work following the March earthquake and tsunami, including health checks on people affected by the Fukushima nuclear plant crisis. The government plans to ...
  • Kin bequeath writer Inoue's works to Sendai
    The family of writer Hisashi Inoue, who died in April 2010, has donated 32,000 pages of his hand-written manuscripts to Sendai, which will display them in a local museum, city officials said Tuesday. The Sendai Literature Museum now owns most of the manuscripts left by Inoue, a well-known nove ...
  • Tohoku riled by Matsumoto's shortcomings
    The resignation Tuesday of reconstruction minister Ryu Matsumoto over a series of inflammatory remarks rekindled anger among municipal leaders and residents in the Tohoku region, while heightening concerns about progress toward rebuilding from the March calamity. Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama cri ...
  • NFL retirees file court complaint
    While NFL owners and players appear to be inching toward a resolution of the league's long lockout, a group of retired players is clamoring to be more involved in the discussions. The group filed a class-action complaint against the owners and current players in federal court Monday, saying th ...
  • Otsu set for Monchengladbach move
    Yuki Otsu is poised to join Borussia Monchengladbach from J. League leaders Kashiwa Reysol, becoming the latest Japanese export to the German Bundesliga. The Japan Under-22 striker left for Germany on Tuesday and both clubs will sit down at the negotiating table once the 21-year-old has succes ...

Alexander Higgins

  • Sinister Cyber Surveillance Plot Revealed In F ...
    A sinister cyber surveillance plot revealed in this rare fascinating look deep into the underground world of the fascist partnership of corporate and government black operations.
  • ABC News Says They Made An Error In Reporting ...
    ABC says they made an error in an evacuation zone was issued around the Fort Calhoun Nuclear power plant and have issued a takedown order demanding that all references to the story be removed from the internet.
  • Guardian: Leaked Emails Reveal Government Cons ...
    The British newspaper The Guardian has obtained emails showing that government officials conspired with the nuclear industry to downplay the Fukushima nuclear disaster to prevent damage to the nuclear power industry.
  • Video shows shocking police abuse amid Greek p ...
    A video published to YouTube by someone who was in the midst of the riots rocking Athens this week shows police in full body armor beating protesters with clubs as they attempt to clear a public area.
  • Let’s Torture the Truth Out of Suicide B ...
    General David Petraeus, new CIA Director, says we should try to torture the truth out enemy combatants even though research shows torture usually leads to false confessions.

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Government Assaults on Unions: The Economic Hi ...
    In the early 1980s, the world was gripped by recession. Following the troubled years of the 1970s, there was considerable worry throughout the developed world that we had entered a period of endemic stagnation. The real problem, it was claimed, was that the western economies had lost their abili ...
  • The NDP and “Big Labour”
    Rob Silver, a sharp guy I first met through university debate, has written a rather disappointing piece entitled, “Would NDP be neutral were it in power during a labour dispute?” This question is interesting and significant. On the one hand, the NDP’s political philosophy is strongly supportive ...
  • Corporate Canada’s Cash Stash
    Statistics Canada figures indicate that private non-financial corporations held $471 billion of cash in the first quarter of 2011 ($322 billion of Canadian currency plus $149 billion worth of foreign currency). Including short-term paper would bring this total to half a trillion dollars, enough ...
  • Omnibus Crime Bill an Injustice
    This fall the Harper government will pass an omnibus crime bill that will imprison thousands more Canadians and cost billions of dollars. It will not do as advertised by the Conservatives and drive the crime rate down. It will simply incarcerate for longer the many citizens who fall afoul of the ...
  • BC’s Regressive Tax Shift
    With much of the talk on taxes in BC about the HST, we issued a new report today that looks at the bigger context for BC’s tax system (Vancouver Sun oped here, CTV News story here). Iglika Ivanova, Seth Klein and I compare and contrast BC’s tax system after a decade where tax cuts were [...]

ReDress

  • Gazan reality faces political spin as flotilla ...
    Richard Lightbown describes the reality of extreme hardship in the Gaza Strip, "denied by world political leaders who know the facts better than anyone", that has led to the formation of yet another flotilla for Gaza, and chronicles the Israeli, US and European dirty tricks aimed at aborting the ...
  • US boat to Gaza passengers call for US Declara ...
    Henry Norr reports on a "Declaration of Independence from Israel" written by the passengers of the US boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, and handed to the US Embassy in Athens, in protest at Israel's use of its powerful influence inside the US to secure Washington's backing for its illegal poli ...
  • Real hate preachers behind UK arrest of respec ...
    Jonathan Cook argues that Britain's Israel-lobby-inspired arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah "threatens the very values it claims to be protecting" by silencing "those who are best placed to critique Western policies - the victims of them" - and refusing "to allow the West’s most cherished assumptions ...
  • Libya and hypocrisy of the "left"
    Sami Jamil Jadallah reminds the fake "leftists" and "anti-imperialists" who are flocking to defend Libyan mafia boss Muammar Gaddafi of the dictator's litany of crimes against his own people, including mass murder, his theft of his country's wealth and his longstanding friendship with Israel, th ...
  • Islamophobia on the rise in USA
    Paul J. Balles argues that Islamophobia is growing and spreading prejudice against Muslims in the US, a fact that is underlined by a recent report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has collected and relayed the facts and identified both vilifiers and supporters of Islam and Mus ...

Physics Today

  • Japan finds rare earths in Pacific seabed
    BBC: China currently produces 97% of the world's rare-earth metals, which are used in industrial applications, green-energy technologies, and high-tech appliances. However, Yasuhiro Kato of the University of Tokyo and colleagues now say they have discovered deposits of the minerals in the sea mu ...
  • Computer-aided glasses could help the visually ...
    Independent: A pair of lightweight glasses with built-in stereoscopic cameras similar to those used in computer games consoles could soon be helping people with visual impairment to see again, writes Steve Connor for the Independent. The materials and software used in the device are similar to t ...
  • NASA faces dearth of mission leaders
    Nature: A demographic analysis shows that NASA's cohort of experienced, highly qualified principal investigators (PIs) able to lead Discovery-class missions—a series of focused planetary science projects to explore the solar system—is nearing retirement age. Susan Niebur first noticed the demogr ...
  • China's coal burning may have slowed global wa ...
    Washington Post: Massive coal burning in China may have slowed global warming over the past 10 years, according to a study by Robert Kaufmann of Boston University and colleagues, which was published yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Burning coal releases carbon dioxid ...
  • Cornish tsunami triggers multiple explanations
    Daily Mail: Earlier this week a small tsunami struck off the Cornish coast of England. Just before it struck, people along the coastline reported that the air went unnaturally still and their hair "stood on end." Several theories have been proposed to explain the phenomenon. One is that the tsun ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show-15,'
    by footprints (Posted Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:40:06 GMT) Episode Twelve-Season Two Filmed August 10 Duration 45 Minutes Omar Abdulla: Welcome to 'The Omar Abdulla,' Show produced by Footprints Filmworks...This show is protected by an age restriction of 18 and if you are younger than this age, pl ...
  • Iraqi officials rap US money plea
    by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:51:29 GMT) Quote, "Iraqi officials rap US money plea Sun Jul 3, 2011 Iraqi politicians have voiced outrage at the US request from Baghdad to allocate massive chunks of domestic budget to the American troops and embassy in the violence-hit country. The ...
  • News media won't report
    by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:49:33 GMT) $12 Billion For Them - 1.5 Million Homeless For Us Lilith - 7 days ago - rense.com Does anyone possess a clue as to why our U.S. government spends $12 billion every 30 days in Afghanistan and Iraq while 1.5 million of our citizens remain hom ...
  • Oil price and Iran war
    by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:39:13 GMT) 12. Financial tsunami created to stabilize the dollar (12/16/08) On 7/4, I wrote "556. Petro-dollar, the cause of Iran war (7/4/08)". I think it touches the core. From 7/5 to 7/8, the oil price dropped for four days from $145 to $136 a barrel. ...
  • The Fake Osama Bin Laden Image
    by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:35:20 GMT) The purpose to stage “kill Bin Laden” show is to justify a false flag nuclear attack in US. They want to make people believe where the nuclear bomb comes from. If Pakistan could hide Bin Laden, they also could supply Al Qaida nuclear bomb. That ...

Peakwater

  • Africa Drought Endangers Millions
    “Drought conditions and extreme food shortages in the area at expected to last into 2012. “The prognosis is that it’s going to go downhill from here,” Bunker said. “Resources are woefully inadequate,” OCHA emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos said in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio ...
  • Congested Missouri River Threatens Tributaries
    “In a season of flooding by some of the nation’s biggest rivers, it’s streams most Americans have never heard of that could cause some of the worst problems in the Midwest. Hundreds of tributaries that feed the congested Missouri River face a greater-than-normal flood risk this summer because of ...
  • The Decline Of Agriculture?
    “Severe weather events around the world will increase, even parts of the globe that don’t normally see extreme weather events,” said Steff Gaulter, Al Jazeera’s senior weather presenter. “Those parts of the world that already struggle with water shortages will find matters worsening, including A ...
  • Fuel-Cell system produces electricity from bac ...
    “Emefcy’s technology uses naturally occurring bacteria in an electrogenic bioreactor to treat wastewater. The organic material in the waste produces power and treated water, transforming wastewater treatment from an energy-intensive, cost-intensive and carbon-intensive process, into an energy-ge ...
  • ‘Super sewer’ plans must be rethou ...
    “The plan to build a £3.6bn “super sewer” to collect the millions of tonnes of raw sewage that over flows into the river Thames after heavy rain must be rethought to save money, the leaders of 14 city councils will tell environment minister Richard Benyon on Monday. “In an unprecedented move, ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • Arizona’s “growth” industries
      ⦠Might there be a correlation between expanded private prisons and the âhungerâ Mr. Montini notes in his column â¦? GOP/TeaParty â Republican – Az Gov Jan Brewer  along with âEmperorâ Russell Pearce can find money for 5,000 more âcorporateâ prison beds ⦠but are unwilling to find funding fo ...
  • like taking candy from a baby …
    � �� Whatever lead you to conclude that the public sector was to benefit on any manner from the revenue stream generated by corporate owned traffic cameras ��? �� From the outset this was nothing more than another privatization of a service once performed exclusively by public sector personnel � ...
  • Is this truly justice… ?
    � �� Perhaps not you or me �� but our children and grandchildren will pay a significant price for our willingness to inflict this form of hubris on a fellow human �� Is this truly justice�� ? Filed under: Blogroll
  • PEACE
    … Doubtful this is anything you will see on any corporate owned media … people around our world ignited for PEACE … See video here … http://youtu.be/PS91BaRaqZw Worldwide rallies cry for peace and gather in solidarity. Western media ignores these peaceful gatherings and if they report, they focu ...
  • Is that what we truly want…?
    � �� It strikes me that our everyday actions will only serve to provide us more of the slimy political reality about which columnist Laurie Roberts has been so diligently attempting to make us aware �� Is that what we truly want��? � Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Magnitude 5 quake felt in Masterton, Hawkes Bay
    A magnitude 5 earthquake jolted the Hawkes Bay area tonight. The 5.0 quake at 8.36pm was felt widely in Southern Hawkes Bay, according to GNS Science. It was centred approximately 120km east of Masterton and 60km east of Porangahau...
  • 4.4 quake strikes off Wairarapa coast
    A 4.4 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of the Wairarapa this morning, GNS Science reportsThe quake struck at 4.06am, and was centred 60km southeast of Porangahau at a depth of 20km.- NZ Herald staff
  • Sir Peter Blake awards: Sam Johnson
    Special Leadership Award As the general of his own army at the tender age of 22, Sam Johnson is using a new style to rally his troops.Gone are the structured lines of command, the barked orders and the regimented structure....
  • 4.1 quake strikes West Coast
    Westland was shaken by a 4.1 magnitude earthquake tonight.The 7.43pm tremor was centred 30km south of Whataroa, 114km south-west of Hokitika, at a depth of 5km, GNS Science reported.- NZPA
  • The Swedish preschool where gender is ignored
    At the Egalia preschool, staff avoid using words like "him" or "her" and address the 33 youngsters as "friends" rather than girls and boys.From the colour and placement of toys to the choice of books, every detail has been carefully...

Truth Survival + RSS

  • SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AARON MCCOLLUM ON UT ...
      This Thursday I will be the guest on Universal Truth Evolution Radio to discuss some extremely important information and make a special announcement. I ask that everyone who takes the information provided on Truth Survival tune in to this … Continue reading →
  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →
  • THOUGHTS AND PERSPECTIVE ON THE CURRENT MADNESS
            Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Government Controlled Media, Mind Control, Police State, Survival Info, Uncategorized Tagged: Civil Disobedience, cyberspace, Dis-information, Disclosure, Do It Yourself, Economic Collaps ...
  • SMART METERS: PRIVACY ISSUES, RADIATION, ELECT ...
      Smart Meters are yet another tool of Command & Control by those who have their tentacles of power over those of us trying to live a life free of corruption, pollution and elitist rule. These devices are infesting the … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • New at Reason: A. Barton Hinkle on Left-Wing V ...
    Boy, those sure have been some mighty peaceful protests against government budget cuts in Greece, haven’t they? You bet they have, observes A. Barton Hinkle, at least if you ignore the rock-throwing, fire-setting, window-smashing, and blood-spilling. So why does the mainstream media k ...
  • Reason.tv: The Killing of Allen Kephart - How ...
    On May 11, 43-year old Allen Kephart died after being tased multiple times by three San Bernardino, California sheriff's deputies during a routine traffic stop. Kephart, a quiet and well-liked member of the tight-knit mountain community around Lake Arrowhead, allegedly ...
  • Hail to the Liberal Version of the Laffer Curve
    Investors Business Daily discovers the new thinking in Obama's economic planning: a liberal version of the Laffer Curve, "which posited that certain tax cuts will pay for themselves by accelerating economic growth." "One of the most important things we can do for debt and deficit ...
  • Reason Morning Links: FOIA Turns 45, Cisco to ...
    Cisco is going to build a 500,000-camera surveillance system for the Chinese government. Department of Justice sues Boston College to force the school to share IRA interviews with the British government.    The Obama Administration manages to "selectively enforce" immigrati ...
  • New at Reason: Tim Lynch on How Plea Agreement ...
    Most Americans are under the mistaken impression that when the government accuses someone of a crime, the case typically proceeds to trial, where a jury of laypeople hears arguments from the prosecution and the defense, then deliberates over the evidence before deciding on the defenda ...

Mercury Rising

  • MN GOP Legislators, Leaders Melting Down As Vo ...
    State Republican legislators have been getting reamed out by their constituents this weekend over forcing the state to shut down: As Republican Sen. Ted Daley hustled up Yankee Doodle Road in the lineup for Eagan’s Fourth of July parade, some of his constituents wondered loudly why he wasn’t at ...
  • Don’t mourn. Organize.
    Once, many years ago while campaigning door-to-door, I got into a discussion with a woman as to what freedom is. Thinking that she would respond with words asserting freedom of speech, press, religion, and so on, I asked her, “Is it just the right to buy whatever you want?” To which she said yes ...
  • Minnesota GOP: Of The Rich, By The Rich, For T ...
    If, after Tom Emmer’s War on the Waitstaff last year, there was any doubt in anybody’s mind that the Republican Party of Minnesota does not encourage among its ranks any sort of empathy for the average Minnesotan who isn’t a Mr. or Ms. Gotrocks, state legislator and ALEC member Mary Kiffmeyer ha ...
  • Taibbi, Hari: Not Giving Credit Where It&#8217 ...
    No sooner than the dust started to settle over Matt Taibbi’s substandard cut-and-paste job that purported to be an original article on Michele Bachmann, than we find that another progressive journalist hero has feet of clay where attributions are concerned: A 2009 interview with Afghan women’s r ...
  • Petters, 2008: Bachmann Pal Vennes Says He&#82 ...
    Once again, Ken Avidor comes through with the goods. In this case, the goods involve a trial audio recording and transcript. The recording and transcript (from which the above YouTube is excerpted) document Ponzi schemer Tom Petters, in a September 8, 2008 conversation with Deanna Coleman (who h ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Colombia Asks Caribbean to Look South
    The 15-member Caribbean Community's annual summit, which concluded here Monday, reflected here broader trends of south- south cooperation and integration, both within and beyond the region itself.
  • UNDP Calls for Reforms to Deter Violence, Frau ...
    When the longtime dictatorial president of an authoritarian regime in Southeast Asia eventually agreed to hold nationwide elections, he ensured the polls were rigged favouring his ruling party's victory.
  • KENYA: Budget Cushions Agricultural Sector Ami ...
    As the country's inflation rate hits a staggering 14.5 percent – compared to 4.5 percent in December 2010 - Kenyans are struggling to afford basic commodities like maize, amid a shortage of the staple food.
  • Civil Society Unifies Position Ahead of Aid Summit
    Civil society groups say they want to have a stronger voice in setting the development agenda ahead of a key global summit on aid effectiveness later this year.
  • BRAZIL: More Community Input Needed in Relocat ...
    Jos� Luiz Ferreira, 60, was born poor and is still poor, but was able to get an education. Known as Seu Luiz (Mr. Luiz) in Vila Nova Chocolat�o, the Porto Alegre neighborhood where he lives, he earns a meager living by giving English classes. And he sees eagles where everyone else sees chickens.

Scoop - NZ

  • Blair bags lucrative hedge fund deal
    Tony Blair will add to the fortune he has made since leaving office after agreeing to become a paid speaker for Lansdowne Partners, a London-based hedge fund managed by a major Conservative party donor. ...Lansdowne became known for making money by betting on the fall of the Barclays and Norther ...
  • Princess 'tried to flee three times'
    But sources cited by Le Journal du Dimanche said the former Charlene Wittstock, 33, tried to take refuge in her country’s embassy in Paris when she went to the French capital in May to try on her wedding dress. instead palace officials confiscated her passport and persuaded her to take part in ...
  • John Key's Panglossian Disorder
    “Panglossian Disorders” are defined as: “The neurotic tendency toward extreme optimism in the face of likely cultural and planetary collapse.” Borrowing Voltaire’s character Pangloss in his novel Candide, we might speak of a Panglossian Disorder as the belief that “all is well and everything ...
  • The end of monarchical exceptionalism
    The notion of monarchical exceptionalism rests on two premises, only one of which has any basis in reality. The first premise is that monarchies that allow for some degree of political participation - notably Morocco, Jordan, and Kuwait - can tolerate a much broader space for legal political dis ...
  • Archaeology in Ōtautahi/Christchurch
    1: What is the effect of liquefaction on buried archaeological remains in the quake zones? 2: Are the buildings being monitored and recorded appropriately? .. media have been reporting the work of such groups as Cera, NZHPT, the Recovery Council, Engineering Firms and Architects from the b ...

Independent - London

  • Yemen airstrikes kill nine
    Officials in Yemen say airstrikes have killed six militants and three civilians in southern towns seized by Islamist fighters.
  • Vatican opens archives for unprecedented exhibit
    The Vatican will be displaying 100 select documents from its Secret Archives at an unprecedented exhibit next year, including previously unpublished papers on its World War II-era pope.
  • Earthquake jolts western Japan
    An earthquake with preliminary magnitude 5.4 jolted Wakayama prefecture in western Japan today, the Meteorological Agency said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damages and no tsunami warning was issued.
  • 'High price' of Afghan operation
    The apparent capture and killing of a British soldier in Afghanistan showed the "high price" being paid to stabilise the country, David Cameron said today.
  • Japanese minister quits after reconstruction row
    Japan's new disaster reconstruction minister resigned today after his widely criticised behaviour during a visit to the quake-devastated north east coast, where he refused to shake a governor's hand, scolded the official and threatened to withhold aid.

Rogue Government.com

  • Govs. Rick Perry And Rick Scott Go AWOL Durin ...
    The Koch brothers host a few of these gatherings each year to bring together conservative lawmakers and corporate titans to discuss their agenda and raise money for political groups, such as Americans for Prosperity and other Koch-funded enterprises.
  • Ruptured Pipeline Spills Oil Into Yellowstone ...
    An ExxonMobil pipeline running under the Yellowstone River in south central Montana ruptured late Friday, spilling crude oil into the river and forcing evacuations. 
  • Director of Australian Reserve Bank: Global E ...
    THE global economy is facing ''a slow-motion train wreck'' with Greece only the first nation to be hit, Reserve Bank director Warwick McKibbin has told a Melbourne conference.
  • Iran Funnels New Weapons to Iraq and Afghanistan
    Iran's elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has transferred lethal new munitions to its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months, according to senior U.S. officials, in a bid to accelerate the U.S. withdrawals from these countries.
  • Absent fathers who won’t pay child support fa ...
    Absent fathers who defy orders to pay towards their children’s care face immediate suspension of their driving licences and passports under new plans outlined today.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Korean office tower evacuated after mysterious ...
    Authorities in Seoul, South Korea, ordered the evacuation of a 39-story office building Tuesday after occupants reported that it shook for about 10 minutes, local media reported. There was no seismic activity reported at the time of the tremors, which began about 10:10 a.m., according to a re ...
  • New research shows that we control our forgetf ...
    Have you heard the saying "You only remember what you want to remember"? Now there is evidence that it may well be correct. New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that we can train ourselves to forget things. The assumption that we human beings can control and intentionally forget ...
  • U.S.: Fairfield Township deals with sinkhole
    Fairfield, Ohio - Butler County Road Engineers are trying to deal with a sinkhole that has formed at the intersection of Hamilton-Mason Road and Morris Road in Fairfield Township. They say a water main break has caused the sinkhole sometime early Saturday. They've placed road closure signs an ...
  • Council spends £100,000 on 'McPath' to he ...
    It's unlikely to impress Jamie Oliver. Far from discouraging pupils from a junk food diet, a council is making it even easier to indulge - by spending �100,000 on a footpath from their school gate to McDonald's. Every lunchtime 200 pupils shun school meals to walk along the grass verge of a b ...
  • When science backfires: Bizarre events, crazy ...
    If there's one thing scientists keep discovering it's that there are some hilariously bizarre events surrounding some of their advances. Take the pesticide that burst on to the scene in 1931 - and went off like a bomb when it reacted with fibres in clothes. The amusing tale of Farmer Buckley's ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Fireworks . . .
    WIRED has a great piece on DIY fireworks. It seems that there are those who find commercial fireworks dull and banal, and some have resorted to making their own. Essentially all public shows will use mass-produced factory fireworks, mostly from China; competition and regulation have largely snuf ...
  • George Michael at Toronto Pride march?
    Oops, my bad! I'm told that's just Toronto city councillor Giorgio Mammoliti (above) indulging his creepy and very peculiar fetish (well, one of them anyway) for lesbians who support justice for the Palestinians.
  • Questions for the Boat People . . .
    CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS IS UNIMPRESSED. And he has some hard questions for these well meaning mariners. To read all about them, click on the link.The tale of the Gaza "flotilla" seems set to become a regular summer feature, bobbing along happily on the inside pages with an occasional update. A nic ...
  • "The Freedom Ride of this era"
    Toronto Star reporter Jim Rankin is filing live reports from Greece onboard the Canadian boat Tahir carrying 19 Canadians, two of whom have been arrested and held without charges. The Tahir is taking on water, having been slammed into a cement wall while being detained by Greek authorities. ...
  • It is staggering...
    ...that the most liberal, rights inclined, democratic states in the world, states with armed forces drilled from recruit school on the Geneva Conventions regarding prisoners of war could so completely fail to find a coherent policy on the treatment of prisoners of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Au ...

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media Return To Using "Bogus" Math ...
    The right-wing media are promoting a claim made by a Weekly Standard writer that the stimulus has "cost $278,000 per job." However, simply dividing the amount of money spent by the number of jobs created is, according to an Associated Press fact check, "highly misleading," and economist and Nob ...
  • Right-Wing Blogosphere Downplays Conservative ...
    After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act, many right-wing bloggers criticized the decision or downplayed its significance. But one of the judges who voted to uphold the statute was Jeffrey S ...
  • FLASHBACK: Right-Wing Media Who Claimed Govt. ...
    Right-wing media are defending tax breaks for corporate jet owners, arguing that ending them is tantamount to "class warfare" and also would not significantly lower the deficit. But right-wing media have previously claimed that the government "can't afford" to continue to provide funds to NPR, ...
  • Beck Uses Last Show To Reminisce About Some Of ...
    On the last episode of his Fox News show, Glenn Beck took some time to reflect on some of his wildest theories as well as people and organizations he repeatedly smeared during his tenure at Fox.Beck Brags About Taking On George Soros On His Last Show, Beck Says: "We've Taken On ... George Soro ...
  • Conservative Media Shout "Class Warfare" To De ...
    The right-wing media responded with outrage after President Obama called on Congress to eliminate tax breaks on corporate jets in order to help stave off a default crisis -- accusing Obama of waging "class warfare.""Class Warfare": Right-Wing Media Figures Object To Rolling Back Tax Breaks For ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Letter to the Editor
    My colleague Ken Berlin and I wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times which was published in this morning's paper. Letter An Economic Stimulus Proposal Published: July 4, 2011 To the Editor: Re "Whose Stimulus?" (editorial, June 26): You missed a key point in yo ...
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  • Why Revolutions and Raptures Can't be Digitized
    Asked recently to compare Harvard and Yale undergraduates, I quipped that a Harvard student studying the German sociologist Max Weber will ask, "What were his main points, and how will they help me when I'm Secretary of State or founder and CEO of Without-a-Tracebook?" A Yale student, meanwh ...
  • Open Internet Coming Out of Paris
    Here follows my short speech at the OECD high level meeting on the open internet. "Great congratulations are due to the OECD for the remarkable communique to which so many have agreed as the culmination of the two-day high level meeting here in Paris on the growth and development of the Inte ...
  • Douglas Feith and American Narcissism
    The other day I argued we should rename the debate over American exceptionalism. Let's refer to the Republican candidates' ideology as American infallibility, since it's distinguished by unwavering belief in the inherent justness of American cause. Think of it as the Superman Doctrine, fighting ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Obscure Japanese prefecture governor could dec ...
    It appears that the fate for nuclear power in Japan following the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, could be decided by a local governor of an obscure prefecture of about 850,000 residents on the southernmost main island of Kyushu. Governor Yasushi Furukawa of Saga Prefecture, must decide in coming da ...
  • Happy 4th of July, with or without fireworks
    No oohs and aahs this Independence Day holiday in many Texas communities as months of severe drought have led to restrictions on fireworks across much of the state. Not only are dozens of counties imposing restrictions on small pyrotechnics like firecrackers and bottle rockets, (even sparklers i ...
  • The US could set a new record for billion $ we ...
    According to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), we’ve already seen eight billion-dollar weather disasters since January!   Before 2011, the most billion-dollar weather disasters recorded in one full year (since 1980) is nine in 2008. This was from a wide variety of weather ...
  • FEC approves Colbert SuperPAC – hilarity AND s ...
    Stephen Colbert and the FEC squared off today in Washington over the fake news anchor’s SuperPAC request. Colbert testified today in an FEC hearing in which he sought a media exemption so he can form his own Super political action committee. The Comedy Central host has been making fun of campaig ...
  • Dead Air for Perry
    In an interesting twist to what had been a post-session, pre-presidential run period of  crowds chanting âRun, Rick, Run!â everywhere he has shown up, probably reminiscent of the Governor’s A&M yell leader years, Rick Perry was subtly called to task for anti-immigrant efforts during both th ...

Unexplained Mysteries

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Climate

  • Plastic Solar Cells in 5-10 Years, New Step Fo ...
    Source:� Reuters Plastic solar cells may be commercially available in 5 to 10 years, said a British scientist whose group has announced a new understanding of how to produce the cheaper alternative to silicon solar panels.
  • IEA Defends Oil Release
    Source:� Wall Street Journal The agency says the supply of light, sweet crude has improved markedly following the release of strategic crude reserves, which has reduced the price differential between high-quality oil and heavi ...
  • Colorado: Shell Gets OK for Fracking in Spanis ...
    Source:� Summit County Citizens Voice Shell Oil & Gas has been cleared to drill deep into a unique geological formation near the Spanish Peaks, in southern Colorado, to explore new natural gas resources.
  • Greenpeace Ship Rainbow Warrior III Debuts
    Source:� AFP AFP - Greenpeace unveiled a new weapon in its campaign against environmental destruction � a 23 million euro ($33.4 million) ship dubbed the Rainbow Warrior III. �
  • Greenland, Antarctic Ice May Melt Faster than ...
    Source:� AP Warming air from climate change isn�t the only thing that will speed ice melting near the poles � so will the warming water beneath the ice, a new study points out.

GreenBiz

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  • Drone strikes are police work, not an act of war?
    Launching an air strike in another nation would normally be considered an act of aggression. But advocates of America's rapidly expanding unmanned drone programme don't see it that way.
  • Pakistan’s Shamsi base : a mystery wrapp ...
    Pakistani defence minister's remarks that U.S. had been shut out of a base used for drone aircraft have touched off a new controversy in their troubled relationship.
  • Will the Arab Spring bring U.S.-style “c ...
    One signpost of the shift from the old collective way of approaching politics toward the new and more individualistic one is a change in slogans. “Dignity is the new slogan,”
  • Taliban talks: the new mirage in Afghanistan
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said publicly the United States is holding talks with the Taliban. But is it already too late to reach a peaceful settlement to the war?
  • “Fearsome risks” driving policy ov ...
    In China, where a rash of protests, sometimes violent, have recently flared up and been slapped down, echoes from this year's 'Arab Spring' of rebellion against iron-fisted rulers in the Middle East and North Africa are resonating loudly.

Booman Tribune

  • Wanker of the Day: David Brooks
    David Brooks is slowly coming to an uncomfortable conclusion that is at odds with his core mission as a well-paid pseudo-intellectual hack for the corporate right. That conclusion is that the Republican Party has been taken o ...
  • Let's Market Suicide
    I swear the Chamber of Commerce would complain if the government asked businesses to voluntarily refrain from marketing suicide as an attractive option for unhappy teenagers. "What about about our Crime in the West Village
    Christopher Street isn't my favorite part of Greenwich Village because it's too crowded and commercial, but it sits at the center of a hub of my favorite part of the Village. I love the leafy side streets like Bedford, Barrow, and Grove. I also like to walk north of W. 10th Street. But, I gue ...
  • New Energy Will Win Out
    What if you could print solar panels on your InkJet printer for a fraction of the cost of paying someone to install silicon-based solar cells on your roof? Well, you might not be printing them yourself, but you should be able to buy printe ...
  • Why Economists Are Clueless re: Climate Change
    Let me get this out of the way from the start. I am not an economist. I was a lawyer before my disability, though. My first specialty was in bankruptcy, so I am all too familiar with what happens when a corporation or business becomes insolvent. In many cases firms went bankrupt because they ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Independence Day: Rise like Lions after slumbe ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Revolution and Independence. Americans of intellectual integrity and moral courage explain, document and prove current US “leadership” engage in Orwellian unlawful laws and parasitic criminally fraudulent economics. Take heart and do what you see to do: ‘Ye who ...
  • Michelle Alexander: US Prisons and The New Jim ...
    1901 picture of a ‘chain gang’ in Virginia. On so-called âindependence dayâ it is important to keep in mind what litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow (http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm), argued at an event at Demos February 18, 2010: that is that we ...
  • Former US Senator Calls for New 9/11 Investigation
    By Peter Phillips Former US Senator Mike Gravel is calling for a Citizens 9/11 Commission. “As each anniversary of 9/11 rolls by, the import of this tragedy looms ever larger in our history. Especially looming like storm clouds on the horizon of American politics are the unanswered questions abo ...
  • Michael Collins: The Wisdom of the People &#82 ...
    The citizens of the United States have excellent judgment. They have shown it consistently over time. When that judgment shifts briefly allowing a failed policy, it is a result of the vilest forms of propaganda by a small clique of liars. (Image: PS-OV-ART) The people were right about the invasi ...
  • Right-Wing High Jinks and Hypocrisy: HR 2018 a ...
      When it comes to state’s rights and the environment, the Right-wing is all over the board on this issue. Two recent events illustrate this point, this month’s Supreme Court American Electric Power Company v. Connecticut decision and the Republican proposed bill HR 2018. Last week, writing on t ...

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  • The Lineup: Week of July 3-10, 2011
    Raul A. Reyes says that Alabama's controversial new immigration law scapegoats children and Tiffany Williams explains why a new caregiving movement is emerging.
  • The New Caregiving Movement
    With Medicare and Medicaid on the chopping block at the state and federal levels, the crisis for seniors and people with disabilities is becoming as urgent as the crisis facing the workers, such as home health aides, who are caring for them.
  • The End of the Sacred Cow
    Over the last decade, military spending has nearly double. We have a bold vision about ending waste in the vast military budget, and providing a road map on how to shift security resources more effectively.
  • Europe Taking Lead on Speculations Tax
    Why is Europe leaving the United States behind on applying a small tax on financial transactions?
  • Report of the Task Force on a Unified Security ...
    With military cuts now on the negotiating table, here's a set of expert recommendations on what to cut and yet keep us safe and secure.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #531 (US edition)
    US spy agencies looking into cloud computing. Obama administration drops most CIA torture probes. US report shows increase in authorized wiretaps. Continue reading →
  • Radio station names hundreds of Zimbabwe secre ...
    A Zimbabwean opposition radio station has begun disclosing the names of hundreds of Zimbabwe intelligence operatives, in what experts say could potentially decimate Zimbabwean intelligence collection activities around the world. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #530
    Another spy ring reportedly busted in Kuwait. How defectors come in from the cold. UK report says hackers should fight cyber spies. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #529 (analysis edition)
    Analysis: US Senate backs Petraeus for CIA chief. Analysis: US spies can't stop buying face microchips from China. Analysis: Has the CIA penetrated Hezbollah? Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #528
    Bin Laden's courier linked to Pakistan spy agency. Egypt remands Israeli spy suspect in custody. US extradites fugitive Philippine police officer who served time for espionage. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • Suicide rates in US army increasing
  • Health Care in Cuba and America
    Health Care in Cuba and America - by Stephen Lendman Under Article 50 of Cuba's Constitution: "Everyone has the right to health protection and care. The state guarantees this right: -- by providing free medical and hospital care by means of the installations of the rural medical service network, ...
  • Chavez: Alive, Well and Recuperating in Caracas
    Chavez: Alive, Well, and Recuperating in Caracas - by Stephen Lendman Responding in longer form to erroneous reports of his death, Mark Twain now is quoted saying, "Reports of my death death were greatly exaggerated." Recently, major media managed (made up) news suggested that Hugo Chavez is ser ...
  • Ken to Dump Barbie Over Mattel's Destruction o ...
    Ken finds some hard truths about Barbie from Greenpeace on Vimeo.
  • Dulce Et Decorum Est
    By Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All we ...

Grist - News

  • Critical List: Oil spills into Yellowstone Riv ...
    by Sarah Laskow. 42,000 gallons of Exxon oil spilled into the Yellowstone River in Montana over the weekend. Regulators had warned the company that the pipe wasn't safe. The river's particularly high, which isn't helping clean-up. Atmospheric pollution from China's coal use temp ...
  • Top 10 greenest cities in North America
    by Jess Zimmerman. It seems like we get a new list of greenest, most climate-change-prepared, most bike-friendly etc. cities every week or so. But we never really get tired of looking at these rankings, and checking them against each other to decide where we should fantasize about moving. ...
  • Gigantic, gorgeous visualization of humanity&# ...
    by Christopher Mims. It's the Atlantic, as you've never seen it before: Cities are red, shipping routes blue, roads green and air networks in white. Click on the image to see the full map of the entire planet.
  • Severe weather costs us $485 billion per year
    by Jess Zimmerman. According to estimates from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the baseline cost of extreme weather�(which has always been with us, but which is�steadily getting worse�due to climate change)�in the United States is $485 billion a year -- 3.4 percent of the co ...
  • World’s first fracking bans come through ...
    by Christopher Mims. While we were all distracted by the possibility that New York State will allow fracking for natural gas, two big milestones in the battle to restrict the notoriously environmentally destructive process arrived on successive days: New Jersey bans fracking On June 2 ...

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  • Pigeons never forget a face
    New research has shown that feral, untrained pigeons can recognise individual people and are not fooled by a change of clothes.
  • People buy Burger King burgers to feed be ...
    This was a really stupid and bad idea!
  • Air France to power planes with cooking o ...
    In a giant nod to the growing recycled fuel industry, Air France-KLM has announced that it will start flying planes in September using a blend of kerosene and used cooking oil. More than 200 flights between Paris and Amsterdam will be the first to embrace the alternative fuel.
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    If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 years younger.
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    In 50 million years tectonic plate motions will widen the Atlantic, Africa will collide with Europe eliminating the Mediterranean, Australia will collide with Southeast Asia, and California will slide northward up the coast to Alaska. The Daily Galaxy

Invisible Opportunity

  • Historical fact: Independence Day is a celebra ...
    By Mike Adams Happy July 4th, my fellow Americans. It’s the Independence Day weekend! Independence from what, you might ask? As even the somewhat revisionist history taught in public schools readily admits, July 4th is a celebration of independence from government tyranny under British rule. And ...
  • Video – Looks like GADDAFI has some support!
  • The Audacity of Hope [Amazing Video]
    by Debbie Menon Greece has somehow maneuvered itself (or been maneuvered) into a financial crisis which threatens the incumbent government, and the economic quality of corporate life in Greece if IMF and World Bank historical response are pursued. So, to whom will they turn for relief? Is it any ...
  • TSA Abuses: Seeing the Forest and the Trees by ...
    by Anthony Gregory, June 30, 2011 The Transportation Security Administration is finally getting some of the bad publicity it deserves. We read about an elderly woman forced to remove her adult diaper to go through the screening process. We learn about a mentally disabled passenger deprived of hi ...
  • The TSA’s tentacles spread
    Jennifer Abel It’s eight months now since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) abandoned its last pretence of respect for America’s constitutional principles, by mandating no traveller may fly in American airspace unless TSA agents first see and/or feel said traveller’s genitalia. Th ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • FRY POWER: UK Airline Launches Aircraft Powere ...
    Cooking oil has been used in the past to power cars and buses, but UK-based Thomson Airways just became the country’s first airline to launch fry-powered planes. Starting next month, the airline will operate a jet service from Birmingham to Mallorca, Spain that is powered by a 50/50 blend of Jet ...
  • Quotel is a Polish Pop-Up Hotel That Makes Rec ...
    Read the rest of Quotel is a Polish Pop-Up Hotel That Makes Recycled Materials Look Posh Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, green design, hotel, ikea, Mode:Lina, Poland, pop-up hotel, Poznan International Fair, Quotel, recycled furniture, Recycled Materials, sustainable ...
  • Ford Incorporates Soy-Foam Seats Into Explorer ...
    The release of the 2011 Ford Explorer comes with some amazing news of progress for the automobile industry’s use of sustainable materials. Harking back to the company’s roots, Ford is set to implement soy-based polyurethane foam in the manufacture of their seats as one of many new eco-friendly f ...
  • New Wi-Fi Technology Could Double the Battery ...
    Wi-fi technology is wonderful – it lets us browse the web on our phones, laptops, and iPads practically wherever and whenever we want. However it also drains our batteries, forcing us to charge our devices ever night. A student from Duke University believes he has found a way to change this by t ...
  • Geek Alert! Psychedelic LED Light Paintings Ar ...
    Read the rest of Geek Alert! Psychedelic LED Light Paintings Are Created Using Roomba Robot Vacuums Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, eco-art, flickr roomba art group pool, green design, green technology, irobot, iroomba, LED, LED art, LED lights, light painting, robot ...

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  • Chimp and Dolphin Ladies United by Unreliable ...
    Despite being separated by 95 million years of evolution and utterly different environments, female chimpanzees and dolphins have a whole lot in common. They’re the bedrock of family life, hardworking moms who feed and raise kids while their fathers are out roaming. “If we want to understand wh ...
  • The Cutting-Edge Physics of Jackson Pollock
    Jackson Pollock, famous for his deceptively random-seeming drip paintings, took advantage of certain features of fluid dynamics years before physicists thought to study them. “His particular painting technique essentially lets physics be a player in the creative process,” said physicist Andrzej ...
  • Physicists: Universe Almost Certainly Not a Ho ...
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK An astrophysicist’s attempt to measure quantum “fuzziness” to find out if we’re living in a hologram has been headed off at the pass by results suggesting that we’re probably not. In October 2010, we reported on Craig Hogan’s experiments with two of the world’s most pr ...
  • DIY Fireworks Blow Away Factory-Made Displays
    On the Fourth of July, the sky above towns across the nation will glow in a blitz of factory-made colors. But some of the biggest, best and most innovative fireworks won’t be on display during the holiday. Instead, they’ll be tucked away in the garages and home workshops of hobbyists like Tom N ...
  • Bug’s Penis Makes Loudest Animal Sound
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK This minuscule water boatman might be smaller than a drawing pin, but it’s also the loudest animal on the planet. Well, relative to its body size, at least. The male lesser water boatman, aka Micronecta scholtzi, can create mating calls as loud as 99.2 decibels, which i ...

PakAlert

  • Pop Music as a Corrupting Force
    Everywhere we go we see tiny white buds resting perfectly inside ears blocking out all sounds but pop music. Is this music uplifting or degrading? I believe it is the Devil's forked tongue. Just consider the lyrics: "Just dance, it'll be ok"i, "Smack ma bitch up"ii and "Kill that nigga"iii. ...
  • Documentary: China vs US – The Coming World War
    The USA right this minute, looks just like the Roman Empire does before it fell to pieces and all that was left was Rome... That is an undeniable fact Some analysts say the US - bogged down in wars and pressed by emerging powers - will have to rethink its role in world affairs. Look at this fro ...
  • The Destabilization of Syria and the Broader M ...
    A military intervention in Syria on fake humanitarian grounds would lead to an escalation of the US-NATO led war over a large area extending from North Africa and the Middle East to Central Asia, from the Eastern Mediterranean to China's Western frontier with Afghanistan and Pakistan. It woul ...
  • The US Has Already Lost The Afghanistan War
    So in this sense, the US has already lost the Afghan conflict, its longest war. Militarily its forces have been stalemated, meaning that it has lost the all-important military initiative and is now on the strategic defensive. We have seen this before – in Vietnam. Once more, Afghanistan fulfi ...
  • CIA Coup Army Uncovered in Asia
    The pieces are not just in place for an inevitable attempted color revolution in Thailand, but a coordinated region wide conflagration of political unrest and most certainly violence. Opposition movements all falling under the same funding and same dubious associations with Western corporate-fin ...

Andy Worthington

  • Torture “Does Not Work, And Is Wrong&#82 ...
    In the US media, there’s a little bit of a buzz right now about the use of torture by the Bush administration, and much of it is the right sort of buzz — openly involving reminders that torture is a crime, and that, in addition, using torture is worthless if the aim is to produce [...]
  • Leaked Letter Reveals Tory Welfare Reform Madn ...
    Britain’s incompetent coalition government has just hit a new low. In a leaked letter to David Cameron from the office of Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, the ruinous impact of the government’s decision to cap benefits at £500 a week per family (essenti ...
  • The Guantánamo Files: An Archive of Articles & ...
    Please support my work! For over five years, I have been researching and writing about Guantánamo and the 779 men (and boys) held there over the last nine and a half years, first through my book The Guantánamo Files, and, since May 2007, as a full-time independent investigative journalist ...
  • Exiled Guantánamo Uighurs in Hamburg Art Exhib ...
    I’ve been interested in the work of the German artist Christoph Faulhaber since 2009, when I first heard about a project he had initiated in Hamburg. Entitled, “Guantánamo Allocation Center,” it involved creating a site for a proposed relocation center for Guantánamo prisoners who cannot be re ...
  • Why We Need Regular Protests Against the Coali ...
    So I was on the streets of London yesterday, after joining my wife, my son and three of his friends, whose school was closed for the day, as well as other friends and teachers from my son’s school (who even had a banner!) on a march from Lincoln’s Inn Fields to Methodist Central Hall, via [...]

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • News Roundup for July 5, 2011
    The trial of a California teen accused of a murdering a gay classmate in 2008 begins today. Brandon McInerney, 17, allegedly shot and killed Larry King, 15, in class after a long history of bullying and fights over King’s sexual orientation. A search of McInerney’s bedroom revealed white suprema ...
  • Another ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Learns ...
    Declaring yourself a “sovereign citizen” exempt from government authority and tax obligations must be something of a rush – until that government decides to slap handcuffs on you. Consider the case of Marshall Edwin Home, 81, a self-described multibillionaire and dispenser of highly questionable ...
  • Third Defendant in Nativist Home-Invasion Mur ...
    Ending the trial phase of a sad and sordid tale that has haunted Arizona for two years, a Pima County jury Friday convicted a Latino man of first-degree murder for the slayings of Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, in a home invasion committed by members of a border vigilante gro ...
  • News Roundup for July 1, 2011
    A Seattle man on trial admitted today that he attacked two women and killed one because he was under instructions from God. Isaiah Kalebu is alleged to have entered the home of a lesbian couple, raped them and stabbed one to death due to their sexual orientation. Kalebu faces an automatic senten ...
  • Obama-Bashing WorldNetDaily Chief Sues Esquire ...
    WorldNetDaily (WND) Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah really wants the world to know he’s serious about President Obama’s birth certificate, even if most of the world seems to have completely lost interest. After exhaustively demanding that the president produce his long-form birth certificate and th ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • UN: Only Green Technology Can Avert 'Planetary ...
    NEW YORK, New York - Humanity is near to breaching the sustainability of Earth, and needs a technological revolution greater and faster than the industrial revolution to avoid "a major planetary catastrophe," warns a new United Nations report. ...
  • 5,800 Attacks Are Just The Beginning After Pet ...
    When Gen. David Petraeus took command of the Afghan war effort a year ago, his officers insisted that there was no way he’d go back to the bad old days of bombing the country from the sky. This was a counterinsurgency campaign, they said; winning over the population was way more important than n ...
  • British Ministry of Defense Loses Billions in ...
    Defence chiefs have lost track of billions of pounds worth of military equipment, including more than 5,000 high-tech radios. The House of Commons defence committee, described the situation as "alarming" and indicated that the situation risked undermining calls from the military for more Governm ...
  • Wildlife Fears Over British Billionaire's Plan ...
    Britain's richest man is planning a giant new opencast mine 300 miles inside the Arctic Circle in a bid to extract a potential $23bn (£14bn) worth of iron ore. The "mega-mine" – which includes a 150km railway line and two new ports – is believed to be the largest mineral extraction project in th ...
  • China’s Power Stations Generate ‘Future Spike’ ...
    Sulphur pollutants from coal-fired power stations in China have tended to cool the global climate over the past decade in contrast to the warming effect resulting from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, scientists have found. A study has shown that the levelling ...

Lifehacker

  • Add Google Suggestions to DuckDuckGo in Your B ...
    If streamlined DuckDuckGo is your search engine of choice, this plugin's for you. The DuckDuckGo + Google Suggest Search Plugin adds Google's autocomplete suggestions to DuckDuckGo searches in your browser's search bar. More�� ...
  • Access Consumer Reports Entire Reviews Archive ...
    Sometimes you don't want "advice" on buying appliances—you wanted actual product recommendations, based on real testing. That's what Consumer Reports provides, and, for today only, you can register for a free day of full online access. Pr ...
  • How to Listen to Just the Audio from a Video P ...
    You may prefer video podcasts on your iPhone, but you're not always in a position to watch them and don't want to waste your battery by letting the video play on-screen. Rather than wasting a bunch of time syncing multiple copies of the ...
  • Prizes Lets You Enter Community-Driven Contest ...
    Prizes is a new service from Google that allows users to create or enter contests with real cash prizes. The service connects to your Facebook or Twitter account, and from there you can enter contests or create your own. More�� ...
  • Pack the Perfect Amount of Ice for Your Outdoo ...
    Buying too much ice for your drink cooler feels like a waste, but it doesn't feel as bad as coming up short. Luckily, a physics professor has applied years of mathematical training to the matter of making sure your cans stay cold. More� ...

Water Privatization

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

Guardian

  • Egypt clashes after police released on bail
    Riots in Cairo after seven police officers accused of killing protesters during uprising are freedHundreds of Egyptians scuffled with security guards in a court in Cairo and blocked a major road for hours after a judge ordered the release of 10 police officers charged with killing protesters d ...
  • EU votes against reducing carbon emissions by 30%
    European Green MEPs' carbon emissions ambitions downgraded as Conservatives dilute proposalsThe European parliament on Tuesday rejected a key report that would have toughened the EU stance on greenhouse gas emissions, after political wrangling that wrecked hopes of a compromise.A rebellion by t ...
  • Rebekah Brooks: 'It's inconceivable I knew of ...
    �� News International chief executive tells staff she will not quit �� Press complaints boss says News of the World lied to inquiry �� Miliband calls on Brooks to consider 'her position'Rebekah Brooks has told employees it is "inconceivable" she knew that the News of the World hacked into Milly ...
  • Greek bailout challenged in Germany's constitu ...
    Eurosceptics argue bailouts are contrary to German constitution's protection of propertyGermany's constitutional court has begun hearing a case that will decide whether Angela Merkel's government was right to agree to last year's multimillion-euro bailout of Greece and the accompanying rescue pa ...
  • Teenager killed in Beijing escalator accident
    Dozens injured at Beijing zoo station after escalator suddenly changes direction, throwing passengers down stairwayA teenage boy has been killed and dozens of people were injured when they were thrown off an escalator that suddenly changed direction in a busy Beijing subway station.The accident ...

McClatchey

  • Cut federal debt, Americans say, even if that ...
    WASHINGTON — Despite lingering anxiety over the Great Recession, Americans by a large margin want their federal government to focus more on cutting debt than on increasing spending even temporarily to boost the economy, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
  • Israel's probe of radical Jewish text puts rab ...
    JERUSALEM — The police questioning of two prominent rabbis over their endorsement of a controversial book that authorities claim condones killing Arabs and other non-Jews is pushing the debate over whether Israel should be ruled as a religious state or as a secular one to the fore once again.
  • Why do House and Senate see Libya so differently?
    WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives has sent the White House a strong message: We're deeply unhappy about the U.S. mission in Libya. And But the Senate has signaled that it could send a very different message this week: that it's willing to authorize the operation for a year.
  • Casey Anthony not guilty of her daughter's death
    Casey Anthony has been acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, a shocking decision that took a 12-person jury less than 11 hours to reach.
  • Boxing, fading in U.S., finds its heart in Mexico
    MEXICO CITY — The rapid staccato of boxing gloves smashing against leather speed bags resounded in the Romanza Gym, a facility that's down at the heels and redolent of sweat but that enjoys an outsized legacy as a "cradle of champions."

Afghanistan Sun

  • Navy Afghan war 'objector' guilty
    A Royal Navy medic who refused to attend rifle training because of his "moral objection" to bearing arms and the war in Afghanistan has been found guilty of disobeying a lawful ...
  • 'High price' of Afghan operation
    The apparent capture and killing of a British soldier in Afghanistan shows the "high price" being paid to stabilise the country, David Cameron said.But the Prime Minister insisted the ...
  • Cameron says Taliban could have future in gove ...
    Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (CENTRE R) is greeted by Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan July 5, 2011. REUTERS/David Bebber/Pool KABUL - ...
  • British PM backs Taliban talks
    BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to support talks with the Taliban, saying that the nearly 10-year Afghan war could be resolved like the conflict in Northern ...
  • 4 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
    Four NATO soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in restive eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the military alliance said in a statement. "Three International Security Assistance Force ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • CASA de Maryland receives reprisal for helping ...
    You don't have to be an employee to suffer retaliation for speaking truth to power. This summer, I have been helping CASA de Maryland, an immigrant rights organization. We helped tenants in a number of buildings in the Hyattsville, Long Branch and Langley Park areas. They are organizing to addre ...
  • 'Project Gunrunner' Scandal Heats Up
    In January 2011, scandal broke out over “Project Gunrunner,” a program of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives agency (ATF). The intended goal of “Project Gunrunner” was to limit the flow of firearms into Mexico through close surveillance of undercover gun purchases. ATF agents encour ...
  • Seats Remaining for Los Angeles CLE Seminar
    Tomorrow, June 28th, NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn will present his Corporate Whistleblower CLE seminar in Downtown Los Angeles at Carlsmith Ball LLP. Space is still available for this special seminar. The event will run from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (PDT), and will focus on the new Dodd-F ...
  • Is the IRS Systemically Averse to Whistleblowers?
    Since the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) instituted a new whistleblower program in 2006, only one award has been made to a whistleblower, according to Mike Hudson from iWatch News. In yesterday’s article, “Red tape, old guard slow whistleblowing on corporate tax cheats,” Hudson explains why the ...
  • Kohn Op-Ed in New York Times tells the story b ...
    Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), published an op-ed article in today's New York Times.The article tells the story of Captain John Grannis, and nine other sailors of the Continental Navy. The full story is contained in The Whistleblower's Handbook ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Google Tried Bidding Geeky Numbers For Nortel ...
    Reuters has put together a nice recap of what happened inside the Nortel patent auction, which resulted in Apple, Microsoft, EMC, RIM, Ericsson & Sony getting the patents for $4.5 billion. There are a bunch of interesting bits of information in there, but one of the most bizarre is that rather ...
  • Should Americans Have To Ask What They're 'All ...
    Free Speech means you don’t have to ask if you’re allowed to say what you want. I would kill myself If I had faith in the Law Thank God for no faith. Permalink | Comments | Email This Story
  • Art Authenticator Sues The New Yorker, Claimin ...
    Last year, we wrote about a fascinating (and very long) New Yorker piece by David Grann all about famed art authenticator, Peter Paul Biro. What struck us as interesting about the story was the way in which mere claims of "science" can get people to not necessarily explore some details further. ...
  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    So, it turns out the most insightful post of the week (by a long shot) was actually this comment from Marcus Carab about Turntable.fm, but since we already had Marcus turn it into a separate post all on its own, let's just move down the list. Instead, the official winner this week is Rose M ...
  • Christopher S. Little's Favorite Techdirt Post ...
    This week's Favorites post comes from Christopher S. Little, who usually goes by another name in the comments, but didn't want us to face any sort of trademark threats... I've been given the honor of writing up my favorite posts of the week, and what a week it's been. I was asked on Tuesday ...

VacTruth

  • Was A Court Ban On Mandatory Vaccination In It ...
    Courts in Italy may have made attempts to stop mandatory vaccination. The first case involved 50 brave families who took their complaints to the appeal court in Ancona. Vactruth.com
  • What Happens When…
    With Child Protective Services (CPS) virtually in every city, county, and state in the USA, what happens when a parent harms a child? Child Protective Services removes the child from the parents’ care and custody and then places the child under the agency’s foster care program with parents facin ...
  • Top 5 Vaccine Stories for June
    We have scoured the web to bring you the top news headlines from around the world. Stay current in the latest affairs surrounding vaccines, Pharma, and the authorities who support them.Vactruth.com
  • Canada to Host Conference on False Accusations ...
    Around the world thousands of innocent parents are being falsely accused of child abuse, many of these accusations occur after a vaccine injury has taken place. The main accusations that parents and care givers are being accused of are Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy and Shaken Baby Syndrome.Vact ...
  • Antibiotics in Vaccines
    Do antibiotics then help to modify or change the immune system from its pre-antibiotic-era, into a ‘trigger-happy-response’ immune system with allergic reactions and allergies abounding in infants and toddlers?Vactruth.com

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Poll: Help Vote on the Next Double Impact Chal ...
    What should be the next Double Impact challenge?survey software Last week, TreeHugger readers selected closing the curtains to block the sun and reduce your dependence on air conditioning as a new challenge for the Double Impact platform. What will it be this week? ...Read the full sto ...
  • Without China's Coal Burning The Hottest Decad ...
    Powdered coal storage area at a Beijing power plant, photo: J W/Creative Commons According to NASA data, the past decade was the hottest ten years on record, but it would have likely been even hotter if it weren't for air pollution from China's rapid expansion of coal burning. That's the ta ...
  • British Themed Cooking, Drinking And Chilling ...
    Photos: Courtesy of architects Ana Lucia Salama and Gerson Dutra de Sá. In order to understand why would a Brazilian want to have a space themed around the British monarchy, you have to take into account this room was prepared for Casa Cor design event in Sao Paulo, which began around the m ...
  • Where the Buffalo Roam
    Click here to see the full-size image in the slideshow "Where the Buffalo Roam" by Option-G If you were the bison, what would you be thinking about the oil spill in the Yellowstone River? This is the latest piece in the TreeHugger/Option-G print series; check out the
  • UK Zoo Creates Website To Harness Next Generat ...
    Photo by Jaymi Heimbuch Like most "isms," Activism has a generational gap issue. Today's activists more often than not prefer to make a difference without having to physically do a whole lot. A zoo has created a new website in hopes to harness the good intentions of today's online-oriented ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Hermitage Capital lawyer Magnitsky's case
  • Russia slams Dutch resolution on Magnitsky
    A Dutch parliamentary resolution on the death of Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky is interference in Russia's internal affairs, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
  • The Bikini Evolution
    The world celebrates Bikini Day today. Exactly 65 years ago, on July 5, 1946, the first mini “bikini” swimsuit made its debut in Paris, France. The public was so shocked by what it saw people began to compare the bikini to a nuclear bomb explosion.
  • Fatah wants speed-up of prisoner exchange with ...
    Inter-Palestinian reconciliation will help to speed up the exchange of political prisoners between rival political movements Hamas and Fatah, a member of a Palestinian delegation in Moscow said on Tuesday.
  • The history of Vnukovo Airport in pictures
    Vnukovo Airport is one of Moscow and Moscow Region’s five main airports and the third in terms of passenger traffic (after Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo) in Russia. The airport’s history from its inception to present day – in RIA Novosti’s slide show.

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • FDA and Senator Durbin: Sneak Attack on Supple ...
    Today, both the FDA and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) dropped policy "bombs" on those of us who use dietary supplements. Click here to read this article
  • Teflon and Other Chemicals Linked with ADD, AD ...
    Children's exposure to a growing list of industrial chemicals, including certain pesticides and phthalates, has been linked to development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Now evidence suggests that perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) boost ADHD risks by making children prone to i ...
  • Will Economic Collapse Save Us from Climate Ca ...
    On June 18, the second round of 2011's UN climate change negotiations ended in Germany. As the talks drew to a close, the atmosphere was familiarly grim: little had been achieved.Click here to read this article
  • OTA Board Elections Towards a 100% Organic Board
    Political apathy is not an option. We must accept, whether reluctantly or not, that the Organic Trade Association (OTA) is the largest and most recognizable voice for the organic industry. What OTA does or doesn't do affects us all. So myself, along with many others have put forward a modest ye ...
  • Movement to Abolish Corporate Personhood Gaini ...
    In the year and a half since the Citizens United decision, Americans from all walks of life have become concerned about corporate dominance of our government and our society as a whole. In Citizens United v. FEC, the U.S. Supreme Court (in an act of outrageous "judicial activism) gutted existin ...

Center for a Livable Future

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