- Rejection by African Union of ICC's Qaddafi ar ...
If an entire continent rejects an alleged international institution's actions as illegitimate and self-serving, does said institution still get to call itself "international?" ICC 'arrest warrant' for Qaddafi soundly rejected by the 53-member African UnioSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� � ...
- Afghan War will Shift to India?
In fact, under the pretext of Talibanisation of Pakistan and unrest in the country, which has collevtively been created by the American CIA, Indian RAW and Israeli Mossad,......Submitted by Imran F. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- NATO Is An Outlaw, The ICC Is Its Accomplice - ...
The International Criminal Court at The Hague is a pariah in the world of Justice and International Law; those who work for it are traitors to their cause, the Institution itself is an insult to every fibre of civilisation and a knife in the back...Submitted by David Buchan to World �|� �Note-i ...
- Guantanamo Bay Prison and Torture News.
Since the US started shipping prisoners from around the world to Guantánamo, approximately 99% have never been charged with any transgression, much less a crime. The victims of the United States are too innumerable to count.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
- A New Documentary: The Terror Within
Unprecedented abuses of the PATRIOT Act in the case of whistleblower Julia Davis: aerial surveillance with a Blackhawk helicopter and a fixed-wing airplane, warrantless surveillance, wiretaps, sneak and peek burglaries, Internet monitoring and On-Star traSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
“The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
- VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
“The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
- VRM: L-Histidine, Squaline, & Human Chorionic ...
“Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine. Believe not in vaccination, it is a world wide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with consequences measured today by tears and sorrow ...
- You Know You're Getting Old When...
A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
- Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
- Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
- Strawberry Picking
Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
- Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...
- 235 Troops Reenlist
04 July 2011 On the 4th of July, General David Petraeus reenlists 235 troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
- Lahu Skin Disease
4 July 2011 Kandahar, Afghanistan An email came from Audra Morgan, an American friend in northern Thailand.� Audra writes: "The Lahu tribe has a repeating genetic flaw that causes skin with no melanin and no oil ducks.� These kids live very painful, short lives.� They are burned by light ins ...
- Soldiers' Angels July Newsletter 2011
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- Correction: Haqqani leader who supported Kabu ...
From: IJC Media Operations.Org Date: June 30, 2011 20:31:13 GMT+04:30 To: Undisclosed recipients:; Subject: Correction:� Haqqani leader who supported Kabul attack killed in precision airstrike - IJC News Release #2011-06-S-104-CORRECTION (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE ...
- Cheering for Mass Murder
(a quick, unedited message from Kabul) Hotel Under Fire 29 June 2011 Kabul, Afghanistan There is heavy security around Kabul.� A �ring of steel�, as they call it, which is under Afghan authority.� I�ve been driving around Kabul for several weeks and have never seen a foreign guard, and seldom ...
- Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.
- Watch out for election day fraud
Francis Fox Piven (who has had her own experiences recently with Harper's US mentors) and Richard Cloward wrote a very interesting book called "Why Americans Don't Vote", which showed how a key electoral strategy in the US has always been demobilizing opposing voters, a strategy just as importan ...
- Today's election thoughts
Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
- 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...
- Canadians are annoyed - deliberation vs. engin ...
Pollsters now get people to press buttons about how they are feeling as they watch debates, and have discovered that Canadians are annoyed. This then feeds back to politicians, who try to, presumably, be less annoying, or, perhaps, try to blame other politicians for the annoyance. read more
- 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 ...
- Tunisia ex-president Ben Ali sentenced in abse ...
[JURIST] Former Tunisian president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] was sentenced to an additional 15 years in prison [TAP News Agency report] on Monday by the Tunisian Court of Criminal Appeal after being found guilty in absentia on charges of illegal possession of dru ...
- Mladic removed from ICTY courtroom, not guilty ...
[JURIST] Ratko Mladic [ICTY backgrounder, PDF; JURIST news archive] made his second appearance Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website], but was removed from the courtroom for disrupting the proceedings. Throughout the proceedings, Mladic ...
- DOJ files brief in Supreme Court to stay execu ...
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice [official website] Friday filed an amicus brief [text, PDF] with the US Supreme Court [official website] in an attempt to stay the execution of Mexican national Humberto Leal Garcia [advocacy website]. Leal Garcia's defense team filed a writ of certiorari [t ...
- Rhode Island governor signs same-sex civil uni ...
[JURIST] Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee [official website] on Saturday signed into law a bill [H6103, PDF] that legalizes same-sex civil unions in the state. The bill effectively adds a "Civil Unions" chapter to the Rhode Island General Laws section governing domestic relations, affording ...
- Rights group asks judge to block Texas abortio ...
[JURIST] The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) [advocacy website] filed a motion for a preliminary injunction [text, PDF] Thursday to block a new Texas requiring a woman to have a sonogram with the doctor describing the fetus in detail before having an abortion [JURIST news archive]. The CRR ...
- Romney Super PAC Raises $12 Million
Mitt Romney ranks in the top tier of GOP fundraisers, and he can spend millions of his own dollars on the 2012 campaign. As such, he's expected to enjoy a cash advantage over his GOP presidential rivals. Now, he'll get some added help from an outside group run by his supporters, which has rai ...
- Joe Biden's Office Joins Twitter
The veep himself won't be tweeting at @VP, but his staff will provide updates on what he's up to The office of Vice President Joe Biden is now on Twitter, tweeting as @VP. While the vice president won't actually be doing any of the tweeting, his staff says the account will be used ...
- Bill Clinton Handicaps the GOP Presidential Ca ...
At the Aspen ideas festival, the former commander in chief offers his thoughts on Romney, Huntsman, Bachmann, and how Obama can win in 2012 ASPEN, Colo. -- Former President Clinton, playing handicapper in chief, labeled Republican front-runner Mitt Romney "a much better candidate" ...
- In Latest TV Ad, Pawlenty Campaigns on Shutdown
Tim Pawlenty is running for president on a calm-guy/effective-manager image, stressing his record as governor of a blue state. But a new Iowa TV ad highlights a moment that puts him less obviously in a favorable light: Minnesota's 2005 government shutdown. "Minnesota government shut down? ...
- The Making of the President: The 1960s
With the 2012 presidential cycle heating up, I took a break over the holiday weekend to watch "The Making of the President: The 1960s," a set of three documentaries based on the classic Theodore H. White books that are being re-released today by Acorn Media Group. These contemporaneous films cov ...
- September Surprise: Israeli Attack on Iran?
A retired journalist who covered the intelligence beat, and with extensive senior intelligence sources, reports to me that Israel is planning to attack Iran before the September UN meeting at which Palestinian statehood will be discussed and possibly approved. Â He wrote to me some weeks ago: …S ...
- Irish Gaza Flotilla Activists: ‘Israel Sabotag ...
The Irish Flotilla ship, Saorise, was sabotaged about a week ago while it sat in a Turkish port. This was after the Turkish government directed the aid group, IHH, to remove the Mavi Marmara from the Flotilla. Â While a Turkish diplomat claimed no sabotage had occurred to the Irish boat, the act ...
- Israeli Ministers, IDF Commander to Honor Raci ...
Just yesterday I wrote a post in which I called the police interrogation of Rabbi Dov Lior for incitement a “charade,” since the authorities cannot nor will not do anything meaningful to address the savagery and violence of his views against Palestinians and Israeli democracy. Â He supports the ...
- Gaza Flotilla Boats Detained by Greeks to Sail ...
Mary Hughes-Thompson, who is aboard the Canadian ship of the Gaza flotilla, the Tahrir, which is anchored in Crete and blocked by the Greek Coast Guard is about to attempt to set sail to join its comrade boats who’ve already departed and plan to join up in the Mediterranean before they proceed t ...
- Rabbi Dov Lior: ‘Democracy, Idol Worship of Ou ...
For those of you not privy to the vicissitudes of daily Israeli politics, you may not have heard of the long-running charade involving Rabbi Dov Lior, one of Israel’s leading extremist settler rabbis. Â Keep in mind that he, and hundreds more Jewish clerics with the same or similar views, are on ...
- Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
- Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
- Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
- Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
- As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...
- USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
- FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
- My Predicament
For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...
- High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]
- CHANGING SERVERS: EYEONCITRUS.COM
EYEONCITRUS.COM IS CHANGING SERVERS AND MAY BE DOWN FOR UP TO 48 HOURS, PLEASE KEEP CHECKING, WE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
- Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
- Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty Secrets
JUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...
- I’m On The Run
Actually I’m not. It would have been quite exciting to have been writing a blog from an internet cafe somewhere, or hijacking a wireless connection outside an office building, but it seems I am safe and snug in my home completely bereft of law enforcement officers hammering at my door demanding ...
- Everyone Must Follow The Rules (Apart From Tho ...
Enjoy the moment – the personification of Evil is dead. Take to the streets and express your sheer joy at the end of a symbol. Paint your banners and hold them high; unfurl your flags and wave them in the night sky; don your army surplus trousers and bare your chests: we have a winner [...]
- Scholastic U-Turn On Coal: Shame About Their O ...
Well, that didn’t last long. From the first outrage to a “Move along, nothing to see here!” clean up of the website, Scholastic seem to have recovered relatively easily from what they claim was just a mistake. When Scholastic published a set of four worksheets and a printable map (see here for a ...
- Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
- Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
- “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
- All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order. âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
- Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…” Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
- When Moral Systems Miss the Point in Newsgames
In "Newsgames: Journalism at Play," we argue that the news quiz "is an incredibly simple type of game, but one that nevertheless can transmit factual information in a refreshing way." Perhaps our favorite example is an op-ed suite from The New York Times called "Turning Points, 2008 Edition," wh ...
- MIT Lesson: Change Happens Everywhere; Activis ...
I attended last Thursday's afternoon plenary "Civic Media Mobilization," at the 2011 Knight Civic Media conference, expecting to hear discussion about specific activist technologies and techniques. I was also anticipating some juicy political friction between the Tea Party consultant and the imm ...
- TileMill Opens Up a World of Mapping Possibili ...
One of our favorite collaborative open data projects is OpenStreetMap. We've talked before about the project's goals, how its free and open nature is advantageous for non-profit and commercial applications alike, and how its open and near-real-time editing process is a major advantage in rapidly ...
- Knight Announces 2011 News Challenge Winners
Not so long ago, journalists were playing catch-up in the digital media space. But at this year's MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, it's become evident that journalism 2.0 is growing up. Alberto Ibargüen, CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, today announced the winners of the K ...
- Find the 'Big Carrot' in Your Mobile App
In the past, I've talked about some of the nuances in creating a location-based mobile app. Now I'd like to share some techniques for how we decided what to include in version 1 of the CityCircles mobile app, and how we accomplished what we did, to help you narrow your focus for any future apps ...
- Japan After the Quake - Japanese Electronics I ...
The electronics industry supply chain is expected to be completely recovered from the after effects of the March 11 earthquake in Japan by the end of the third quarter, according to a report by market research firm IHS iSuppli.Electronics companies with operations near the epicenter of the quake ...
- The Nanotech Edge - Nanotubes not Toxic, Resea ...
Nanotubes may not be intrinsically toxic, as previously reported elsewhere. Rather, contaminants mixed in during their manufacture should be held responsible for their adverse health effects, according to a University of Texas study funded by Semiconductor Research Corp (SRC)."Carboxylated singl ...
- The Race for EVs - Better Place Inaugurates Fi ...
Denmark is the newest country to get Israeli innovator Shai Agassi’s battery-switching stations. The first of 20 long-planned Better Place battery swap stations slated for installation over the next twelve months was inaugurated June 30, CNet is reporting.The EV battery switching station was ins ...
- Egypt after Mubarak - Egypt’s Enduring Challen ...
Unlike Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution, Egypt’s Papyrus Revolution was not sparked primarily by economic grievances. Dissatisfaction with authoritarian government—and especially with Hosni Mubarak— served as the chief mobilizing factor in the demonstrations. While the economy was not the primary is ...
- Telcos on Edge - Capital Rivals: A Telecom Bat ...
The telecommunications industry has experienced tremendous growth over the past two decades, and along with it, an explosion of political activity.Recent revolutions in wireless technologies and data delivery speeds have transformed an industry once hallmarked by utility poles and roto-dialing t ...
- Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
- Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
- Practicing Peace in the New Year
A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
- Sharing the writing of another Stieber
My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
- Article in FOR
The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out:Â http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rhetoric and Re ...
- WOW, The Lid Cited In Article About Jews in C ...
I received a pleasant July 4th surprise yesterday in the form of a JTA article about Jews in the Conservative new media. Along with the "usual suspects" Drudge, Breitbart and Jewish World Review were the likes of Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs, Carl of Israel Matzav and me, the Yidwithlid.� Thanks ...
- Hizballah Brags About Waging War on America; T ...
By Barry Rubin Sometimes a big scoop is lying in plain sight and this often happens nowadays because either the mass media does not pick up a big story or the experts don’t properly analyze it. So while what I am about to tell you has been in the public domain for more than three years, it ...
- Remembering Entebbe 35 Years Ago Today: When L ...
On America's two hundredth birthday it was Israel that showed the world the "Spirit of 1776." On June 27, 1976, Air France Flight 139, carrying 248 passengers and a crew of twelve, took off from Athens, heading for Paris. Soon after the 12:30 p.m. takeoff, the flight was hijacked by two ...
- IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776...ONE NATION UNDER GOD
When was the last time you read the entire Declaration of Independence? its probably been way too long. Below is a video reading and the written text of the Declaration, I will not add or subtract from it. Just read the entire document below in the context of all of the rights and fr ...
- Confessions Of A Jew-Basher (Eric Boehlert is ...
A funny thing happened while I was taking my Shabbos nap the other day, Mr. Media Matters himself, Eric Boehlert read one of my posts. Exciting right? I mean it's not as cool as when Andrew Breitbart takes one of my posts from one of the "Bigs" �and puts it on his�refrigerator, but it�s still ...
- Monsanto accused of violating bio-safety rules
The Hindu July 5, 2011 The Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS), a farmers’ organisation, on Monday joined hands with Greenpeace and sought an immediate ban on all open field experiments of Genetically Modified (GM) crops in the country by Monsanto (a bio-technology company), in the wake of alle ...
- Kenya makes it legal to produce and import GMO
Kenya has become the fourth country in Africa to open up to genetically modified (GM) crops after approving laws to allow their production and importation. Business Live July 5, 2011 East Africa’s leading economy follows South Africa, a leader in the continent on biotechnology and a major export ...
- Austeridade e catástrofes financeiras são as t ...
Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 1 de julho de 2011 Os terroristas econômicos que causaram a atual crise financeira, que certamente não são os capitalistas, mas corporações bancárias monopolistas, não pararam por aí e continuam a ameaçar países com duas táticas diferentes: a austeridade e a a ...
- Growing fake meat in labs to cut ‘emissi ...
Ethan Huff NaturalNews.com July 04, 2011 Instead of focusing on ending the horrendous factory farming practices that inhumanely confine cattle to tight living spaces, and subject them to an unnatural diet of genetically-modified (GM) corn and soybeans, scientists from Oxford University have deci ...
- Islam as a Geopolitical Tool to Control the Mi ...
by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Global Research.ca July 4, 2011 As Washington and its cohorts march towards the Eurasian Heartland, they have tried to manipulate Islam as a geo-political tool. They have created political and social chaos in the process. Along the way they have tried to redefine Islam ...
- Group recommends stricter noise levels for Mic ...
EAST LANSING, Mich. â As the call for alternative energy grows louder in Michigan and more communities consider wind farms, a group led by a pair of Michigan State University professors has issued a report calling for stricter regulations on noise levels and providing zoning guidelines for local ...
- Turbine meeting turns out hundreds, forces can ...
RIGA, Mich. � When Riga Township resident �Lady� MacBeth arrived at the Riga Municipal Building Thursday night to hear the Riga Township Board�s final decision on zoning ordinances that will determine the fate of 200 wind turbines proposed for the area, she was told to turn around. The building ...
- State takes jurisdiction over wind farm
Instead of local officials, a state committee will decide whether a wind farm will be built in Antrim because the local process could have derailed the state’s energy goals. Earlier this year, Antrim selectmen, about 100 residents and Antrim Wind Energy LLC, part of Eolian Renewable Energy of De ...
- Umatilla County turbine rules OK’d
A victory years in the making was handed down by Umatilla County Commissioners on Tuesday. Commissioners Dennis Doherty, Larry Givens and Bill Hansell, in a series of three separate votes, changed existing rules and creating new ones regarding where and how industrial wind turbines can be built. ...
- 1,500 protest as Powys council urges wind farm ...
Councillors in Powys have voted for an immediate review of wind farm policy at a special meeting in Welshpool. Around 1,500 anti-wind farm protesters lobbied ahead of the council meeting at Welshpool livestock market. The council unanimously supported a motion urging the Welsh Government to requ ...
- Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...
- Journalists, take another look at Tumblr
For a long time I had trouble appreciating Tumblr, but I think I finally understand its strengths — and I must not be the only one. Tumblr is now one of the top 25 websites in the U.S., according to data from Quancast, as reported in a new article at TechCrunch. It gets close to 5,000 pagevie ...
- Branding: Should journalists build a personal ...
If you’re teaching journalism today, you must be aware of the discussion that surrounds branding. If you’re a young journalist, or someone planning to enter the field of journalism, you need to understand what personal branding means. On June 23, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten wrote ...
- Journalists: How to get started with Twitter
If you haven’t yet found any value in using Twitter, here’s what you should consider. On the topic of WHY to get started, John Robinson (the editor of the News & Record, in Greensboro, North Carolina) wrote a very good piece for ASNE this week. If youâre not on Twitter, youâre making your job ...
- Tune up your skills this summer
Looking over my Google Analytics data today, I found that these are some of the most-visited pages on this blog: How to shoot video interviews Why does anyone major in journalism? A few words about digital audio recorders Recording phone calls: For reporters Now printable! Reporterâs Guid ...
- 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 ...
- Deserve: the deadliest word
I hate the word “deserve” because lord save us all from what we “deserve”, but lately I find it hard to remember that one good person is worth saving, or that most people are just weak, not evil. The world will burn, in war, and famine, and revolution, and climate change and it will burn [...]
- I think the oligarchs are overplaying their hand
In particular the Greek “bailout” was a mistake. A horribly punitive measure, with virtually the entire “Socialist” party voting for it, it wasn’t a bailout of Greece, but a bailout of investors. As part of the response, the Greek ministry of finance was set alight. The oligarchs, by making ...
- One more note on the New York Gay Marriage, Cu ...
1) The left sells each other out for either small tactical gains, or nothing at all (hello national NARAL) all the time, so why shouldn’t the gays promise to help Cuomo in his next election for giving them gay marriage, even if it screws unions and helps an austerity governor? 2) The reason gays ...
- Basics: anyone who will sell you out is not on ...
Look, if a special interest that is nominally on the left is willing to sell out other parts of the left in order to get its little item, they are not on your side. Period. End of sentence. An alliance, coalition or ideological movement’s first and most important rule is solidarity: NEVER ...
- Less Cuomo Fellation please
Como’s still busy destroying unions and crushing standards of living in New York. I’m so pro-gay marriage I once didn’t talk to my father for 6 months because of an argument over it, but it is not the only issue, and it does not make Cuomo a good governor any more than any other single [...]
- Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
- PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
- FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
- PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
- China and the end of the end of history
Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...
- Malarial whodunit continues as study implicate ...
Posted on behalf of Joseph Milton. Which of our primate relatives spread malaria to humans? It’s a question with many of the elements of a murder mystery; the story involves a series of unfortunate victims, a long list of likely perpetrators, many of whom have been the prime suspect at some p ...
- Wellcome Trust proposal for Olympic site in je ...
Plans to transform the London Olympic park into a research centre may be extinguished before the Olympic torch ever reaches Stratford, the east London neighbourhood where the 2012 Games will be based. The Wellcome Trust has threatened to rescind its £1 billion investment proposal to convert the ...
- Harvard scientists disciplined for not declari ...
Posted on behalf of Penny Sarchet. Three US psychiatrists, responsible for trailblazing the use of antipsychotic drugs in children, are facing sanctions for their failure to declare their acceptance of millions of dollars from pharmaceutical companies between 2000 and 2007. Joseph Biederma ...
- Top five fundamental neutron physics efforts r ...
Is there any imbalance in the way that the electric charge of a neutron (a positive and a negative, canceling to zero) is distributed within the particle? So far, the answer has been no -- and this has been tested to mind-boggling levels of precision. But pressing even further in a quest for th ...
- Webb telescope delayed past 2018?
Hubble’s successor -- the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) -- is in a heap of trouble. Things were already bad in October, when it was supposed to launch in 2014 and its price tag stood at $5 billion. Then in November, an independent review said its costs had risen to $6.5 billion and that it ...
- Honolulu: Mega Rail Project in a Micro City
An exorbitantly costly rapid transit heavy rail project has been proposed for the small Hawaiian island of Oahu, where the leading metropolis, Honolulu, ranks 53rd in population among U.S. cities, with less than 500,000 people. If the project moves forward it will be the world's only elevated he ...
- Australians Are Getting A Carbon Tax They Don’ ...
Within weeks, the Australian government is expected to announce a package of measures including a carbon tax to stimulate renewable energy sources and abate carbon emissions. Officials, activists and journalists around the world will hail Australia as a courageous and forward-looking country, re ...
- Living and Working in the 1099 Economy
We used to call it �Free Agent Nation.�� Now, it seems like the new term of art will be �The 1099 Economy.�� �While the names may change, they all point to a phenomenon of rising importance: the growing number of Americans who don�t have a �regular job� but instead work on individual contrac ...
- Drones on the Prairie
When the Base Realignment and Closure Commission was drawing up its list of military installations to close back in 2005, consultants assured the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota, that its Air Force base would be spared. Days before the list was made public, though, word leaked out that ...
- The Evolving Urban Area: Seattle
Lunching at Seattle's Space Needle, the casual observer might imagine that one of the nation's most dense urban areas is spread out below. To the immediate south of the Space Needle is one of the nation's premier downtown areas. In 2000 downtown Seattle had the seventh largest employment ba ...
- Flood Berm Collapses at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
Via: AP: A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early April for refueling, and there is no w ...
- Greece: ‘A Sovereign Debt Crisis of Soph ...
Via: Telegraph: The essence of ancient Greek tragedy is that the audience knows it will end in disaster, but feels compelled to watch the horror unfold. And so it is with the modern version, a sovereign debt crisis of Sophoclean dimensions. Themes of the great dramatist’s finer works are all the ...
- Threat of $100 Billion Hit if U.S. Top Rating Lost
I definitely wouldn’t assume that the impact of a credit rating cut would be limited to $100 billion. I doubt there is any way to know what the impact will be because so many derivatives have been struck off the underlying debt. In other words, this $100 billion number may be just the tip of [...]
- Fukushima Residents’ Urine Now Radioactive
Via: Japan Times: More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday. Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, whi ...
- Friend of British Prime Minister Found Dead in ...
Via: Belfast Telegraph: Detectives are hoping toxicology results will shed light on the death riddle of a senior Tory in a Glastonbury Festival VIP toilet. Christopher Shale, 56, a close friend of David Cameron, was discovered slumped in a cubicle in the backstage area on Sunday morning. The Pri ...
- Number One? 20 Not So Good Categories That The ...
Is the United States "number one"? Many Americans take deep pride in their nation and the truth is that the U.S. has a lot going for it. The United States has the largest economy in the world. The United States also has the most powerful military on the entire planet. The Un ...
- Celebrating Independence Yet Enslaved To Debt
Every year when July 4th rolls around, Americans from coast to coast celebrate July 4th with cookouts, outdoor concerts and fireworks. We love celebrating Independence Day and yet we are deeply enslaved to debt. We like to think of ourselves as "free" and yet we have rolled up ...
- Will Barack Obama Use The 14th Amendment As A ...
As the deadline to raise the debt ceiling draws closer, many are now wondering if Barack Obama will try to go around Congress if a deal is not reached by August 2nd. In particular, a number of voices (including U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner) are now touting the 14th ...
- Shell Game
The entire U.S. financial system has become a gigantic shell game. While it is still in motion, a shell game can be mesmerizing to watch. But when it ends the consequences can be painful. So exactly what is a shell game? According to Wikipedia, a shell game "is portrayed as ...
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Prepper Dad? Even Robert K ...
Are you familiar with Robert Kiyosaki? He is best known for the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series of books. Over 26 million books authored by Kiyosaki have been sold and he is recognized as a financial expert by millions of people across the globe. Well, guess what? Even Robert Ki ...
- Missing Food : grain (or vegetables and fruits ...
VIDEO seen at : Missing Food: The Case of Postharvest Grain Losses in Sub-Saharan Africa http://youtu.be/4JGC7peGBwo Reducing post-harvest losses is an essential pillar in a successful food strategy. —————- MY COMMENT (Willem Van Cotthem) So is offering seeds of vegetables … Continue reading →
- L’accaparement mondial des terres agrico ...
Les fonds de pension : des acteurs clés dans l’accaparement mondial des terres agricoles Les acquisitions de terres agricoles à grande échelle provoquent conflits et controverses dans le monde entier. Et pourtant, les fonds continuent à déferler sur les terres … Continue reading →
- ‘Seed Mothers’ identifying, collec ...
Read at : http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56332 INDIA ‘Seed-Mothers’ Confront Climate Insecurity By Manipadma Jena BHUBANESWAR, India, Jul 1, 2011 (IPS) – In eastern Orissa stateâs tribal hinterlands about 200 âseed-mothersâ are on mission mode – identifying, collecting and conserving traditi ...
- New book on Urban School Gardens (City Farmer ...
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/06/12/roots-and-research-in-urban-school-gardens/ Roots and Research in Urban School Gardens Linked by Michael Levenston By Veronica Gaylie Peter Lang Publishing June 15, 2011 http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Research-Urban-School-Gardens/dp/1433115255/ref=nt ...
- City malnutrition drops as more affordable fru ...
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/06/13/fao-urban-horticulture-in-the-congo-reaps-400-million-for-small-growers/ FAO â Urban horticulture in the Congo reaps $400 million for small growers Linked by Michael Levenston How a project for development of urban and peri-urban horticulture in fi ...
- 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 ...
- FabFi on the front page of New York Times
Here’s an update in an attempt to counteract the thoroughly depressing news of Tim going silent. (Anyone who knows Tim in person knows that you can’t actually silence him; he’s still ranting but we’ve turned off the blog-mike). With Kanani’s help, I’ve put this post in Babatim format. This wee ...
- There’s Fire
Fighting season is now on. This year the villains strategy appears to involve deliberate attacks on aid projects and let me tell you something we (the outside the wire aid community) are getting hammered. Â In the last week a majority of us have had to deal with murders, intimidation, shootings, ...
- Where There Is Smoke
In the Helmand Province, this year’s fighting season has started off with a whimper.  On May Day (as predicted) the only action was in Paktika Province where a child suicide bomber violated the latest Taliban public announcement by blowing himself up in a police station.  The Taliban had just ...
- Leadership 101
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is never pleasant to observe, especially when it is an American President doing the snatching. President Obama was running strong: 1. He just announced The Dream Team taking over the Afghan campaign, 2. He launched a unilateral direct action mission d ...
- May Day
The ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) has taken an unusual step by issuing a warning to all internationals, alerting of coordinated “spectacular attacks”, kidnapping of internationals, suicide bombings, and all manner of general mayhem to kick off  Sunday, 1 May.  To the bes ...
- 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 ...
- Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
- Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
- Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen. In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
- Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here̵ ...
Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
- Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...
- Insulation ROI- Be Energy Smart and Money Wize
Misunderstood Payback Periods of Proper Insulation: This is a huge mistake people make. I had a consumer recently tell me that 2 years was too long to get all his money back. If he understood Payback periods, he’d understand that he was turning down a 50% return on his money. Now, investments th ...
- Petition to Stop Ameren UE-Coal Ash Utility Wa ...
Petition: We, the undersigned, are opposed to placing a coal ash utility waste landfill in the Labadie Bottoms floodplain of the Missouri river as proposed by AmerenUE. The proposed landfill will store harmful quantities of toxic heavy metals and other contaminants. Despite Ameren’s assurances o ...
- six neighborhood factors that affect the envir ...
The Greenest Building Is The One That’s Already Built ⦠Sometimes Posted June 20, 2011 by Kaid Benfield copied from: http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/kaidbenfield/26182/greenest-historic-building-one-thats-right-context?utm_source=scc_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter Iâ ...
- Estimating Tips for Spray Foam Window/Door Sealant
While Working on an Material Estimate for Installing 10 Replacement Windows. I wanted to share this Information on from Dow Great Stuff. Sizes and Estimated Yields for GREAT STUFF PRO™ Window & Door Insulating Foam Sealant Can Size, oz (g) Delivery No. of Windows(1) 20 (567) Reusable Straw 6-9 2 ...
- Energy Efficiency Key to Reducing the Need to ...
report says EERS policies are driving energy efficiency investments and energy cost savings to unprecedented levels national energy policy remains beyond the reach of Congress ((13 of the 19 states are achieving 100% or more of their goals)) U.S. states lead on energy efficiency, lower utility b ...
- Iran Funnels New Weapons to Iraq and Afghanistan .
Iran's elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has transferred lethal new munitions to its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months, according to senior U.S. officials, in a bid to accelerate the U.S. withdrawals from these countries. They said Iranians have also gi ...
- وزارت ارشاد ایران 'بنیاد مد و لباس' راه اندازی ...
به گزارش خبرگزاری فارس، محمد حسینی، وزیر ارشاد و فرهنگ اسلامی، با اشاره به روز ۳۱ تیرماه که "روز عفاف و حجاب" نامگذاری شده، گفته است که "بنیاد ملی مد و لباس فعالیت خود را در راستانی ترویج فرهنگ عفاف و حجاب آغاز کرده است."
- مقابله با اینترنت نامرئی آمریکا/ اینترنت ملی م ...
دولت آمریکا از آغاز جنگ نرم در فضای سایبر با فناوری جدیدی تحت عنوان "اینترنت چمدانی" خبر داده که قرار است به صورت پنهان از مرزهای کشورها عبور داده شود اما در این میان به نظر میرسد ایران پیشتر از اینها برای مقابله با اینگونه تهدیدها در حال یافتن راهکار بوده است.
- هشدارچهرههای ایرانی درمورد 'تجاوز بیسابقه'ح ...
۶۷ نفر از چهرههای شناخته شده ایرانی در خارج از کشور در نامهای به احمد شهید، گزارشگر ویژه شورای حقوق بشر سازمان ملل متحد، به او هشدار دادهاند که "تجاوزات حکومت جمهوری اسلامی" در ایران به حقوق بشر به "سطح بی سابقهای" رسیده است.
- Iran state TV censors Ahmadinejad video clip
Iran's state television has censored a video clip that showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemning recent arrests of his close allies. Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), which is under the direct control of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, transmitted only an edited ve ...
- Corporatizing Global Food Production
A UK company started in 1997 called Emergent Asset Management claims to be the largest speculative fund investing in African industrial agriculture. See http://media.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/OI_EAM_Brief_1.pdf. It uses private equity to take control of large tracts ...
- Speculating with our Food
The Chicago Mercantile (commodities) Exchange In 2011, “food derivative” speculation has replaced financial derivatives as the hot new investment promoted by major investment banks like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. According to new research from the World Development Movement, the same banks tha ...
- Can Human Nature be Repaired?
Racehorse trainer Anti-capitalist John Strachey touches briefly on the Human Nature debate in his 1933 Coming Struggle for Power (see “Is Capitalism Doomed?” http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2010/08/14/is-capitalism-doomed/). He makes the observation that despite unimaginable technologic ...
- The Biology of Human Behavior
Brain synapses In my last blog, I discussed Marx and Engels response to the four specific character flaws that the ruling elite put forward in opposing alternative political/economic systems, such as socialism and participatory democracy. I look at contemporary research into human behavior and w ...
- Marx and Engels on Human Nature
As I outlined in my last blog, the capitalist class (which has near absolute control over public education and the mainstream media) maintains that a ruling privileged elite is essential for the survival of civilization. In their view, this is due to innate flaws of human nature that allegedly m ...
- MichaelMoore.com Exclusive: Wikileaks Cable Al ...
Wikileaks Cable Allegedly Leaked by Bradley Manning Caught Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Discussing Outsourcing to India That May Have Cost Manning's OWN FATHER His Job "The afternoon I reached Brian Manning, he was at home in Oklahoma City, in a room in his ranch house that Bradley had ...
- Glenn Beck on Muslims, Obama and Michael Moore ...
From Glenn Beck's radio show, June 2, 2011: ... PAT GRAY: How does a guy who immigrated here from -- was it India? I think India. He's got Muslim parenthood and he comes here and he enjoys incredible success. The guy's a national television host and a best-selling author. He probably makes ...
- In His Latest Attack, Beck's Sidekick Highligh ...
On today's edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck and�his sidekick�Pat Gray criticized CNN Host and Time editor Fareed Zakaria for comments�suggesting that the U.S. Constitution was not perfect. Zakaria made the comments during an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose earlier this week. (This was part ...
- TOM MORELLO : THE NIGHTWATCHMAN TO RELEASE UNI ...
FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE TITLE TRACK “UNION TOWN” AVAILABLE NOW NEW FULL LENGTH ALBUM, WORLD WIDE REBEL SONGS, TO BE RELEASED LATE SUMMER April 28th, 2011 -- New York, New York -- Tom Morello is set to release Union Town via New West Records digitally on May 17th with a physical CD and Vinyl rel ...
- New York Times: Claims Gaddafi Tried to Assass ...
From 'TARGET QADDAFI' by Seymour Hersh, New York Times, February 22, 1987 ... In the weeks following Sadat's death, newspapers and television reported a barrage of Qaddafi death threats to Reagan and senior Administration officials. Secret Service protection was ordered for the President's ...
- Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
- Kasaba throws spit on the camera
\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
- K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
- Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
- Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
- Truth from Mainstream Media is a Welcome and r ...
Leave it to KGO, San Francisco’s most historic broadcast station, to be one of the only mainstream U.S. media groups to tell what appears to be, a fair story about the Greek authorities blocking of the Gaza blockade breaker: Freedom Flotilla II. KGO has always been a hallmark of media freedom on ...
- Patriot Act most unconstitutional US law
The United States Congress has severely encroached on Americans’ civil liberties and constitutional rights with its post-9/11 adoption of the contentious Patriot Act, says writer and radio host Stephen Lendman. “The Patriot Act in fact was written many months before the 9/11 event that made it p ...
- Greek Sovereignty to be “Massively Limited” by ...
The cost of a decision last week to allow globalist vultures to metaphorically hog-tie Greece while the EU and IMF commences a good old fashioned economic pillaging of her state assets is a total evisceration of the country’s sovereignty, according to Eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker. “The so ...
- Iran to test-fire new supersonic missiles
Iran plans to test-fire new âsupersonic surface-to-sea missilesâ as part of its war games in the Persian Gulf in the coming days, says a senior Iranian military commander. Commander of the Aerospace Division of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh sai ...
- Poverty in Russia grows faster than expected
The number of impoverished people in Russia has increased by 2.3 million and made up 22.9 million in one year, the Russian Federal Statistics Agency said. Many experts believe that official statistics does not reflect the real state of affairs and is very often undervalued. Therefore, it means t ...
- Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
- Natural Acne Remedies
There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
- Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
- Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
- Reasons to Donate Blood
Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...
- Official Google+ App for iPhone Now Awaits App ...
Despite being accessible only to a select few for the time being, the official Google+ app for the iPhone will hit the App Store anytime soon â possibly before the service even goes public. Just after Google+ opened to those with an invitation last week, an information page revealed an official ...
- Obama May Endorse Steep Medicare And Medicaid ...
President Barack Obama is considering hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid as part of a deal to raise the debt limit and close the deficit. According to The New York Times , the White House would be willing to make $340 billion in reductions to the social insurance p ...
- PAKISTAN: Did Senior ISI Officials Order Salee ...
According to the New York Times , US officials have concluded, based on classified intelligence, that "senior officials of [Pakistan's] spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence," directed the killing of Asia Times Online investigative journalist Saleem Shahzad , who disappear ...
- iPhone 4 Prototype Pulled From eBay
Yesterday, a number of reports surfaced which highlighted that a prototype of Apple’s year-old iPhone 4 had hit auction site eBay . Carrying a bid of $1,525 , (at the time of writing) , item 130540359649 was available to bid on until early this morning when the auction was pulled. The device wa ...
- Baidu Teams up with Bing to Offer English-lang ...
Baidu , the largest search engine which claims over 83.6% of Chinese search market share, announced this Monday that the company had struck a deal to team up with Microsoft’s search offering Bing in an effort to speed up Baidu’s overseas expansion pace. According to the deal reached by th ...
- Cisco Poised to Help China Keep an Eye on Its ...
Western companies including Cisco Systems Inc. are poised to help build an ambitious new surveillance project in China-a citywide network of as many as 500,000 cameras that officials say will prevent crime but that human-rights advocates warn could target political dissent.... The people familia ...
- Pay Frozen, More New York Judges Leave Bench
But across the country - and in New York, more than most places - being a judge has in recent years come with one big negative: the salary. New York judges have not had a raise in 12 years, making the state one of the more extreme examples of a growing pay gap nationally between judges and other ...
- Microsoft Joins with Chinese Search Giant Baid ...
Chinese search giant Baidu (80% of the Chinese search market) now has a willing partner to officially provide its censored English-language search results -- Microsoft's Bing ( http://j.mp/lf8tdu [Reuters] ). In a carefully worded statement, Baidu explained that Microsoft was not submittin ...
- Reporting Patent Cases is Hard
As mentioned in my previous post, the U.S. International Trade Commission gave notice today [June 30] of a fairly intricate set of determinations in an investigation involving Kodak, Apple, and RIM. As is invariably the case with patent matters, the details of the determinations are being misrep ...
- What Gets Redacted in Pacer?
To summarize, out of 6208 redacted documents, there are 4315 Social Security that can be redacted automatically by machine, 449 addresses whose redaction doesn't seem to be required by the rules of procedure, and 419 "trade secrets" whose release will typically only harm the party who fails to r ...
- Afghanistan, logistics, geopolitics, war, peace
The WaPo's Craig Whitlock has an informative piece in today's paper about the many continuing challenges the U.S. military has faced as it attempted to provide logistic support to the "surged" U.S. troop presence in very distant Afghanistan. Supplying these troops is particularly hard, due to t ...
- Speaking about out recent Gaza/Cairo trip: Cha ...
Bill the spouse and I will be speaking about our recent trip to Gaza and Cairo at an event sponsored by my Quaker meeting in Charlottesville, on July 11. Details are here.
- My piece on Egypt and Gaza, at ME Channel
... is here. I rather like the title they put on it, "Tahrir's journey to Palestine". In fact, the journey that the "spirit of of the Tahrir uprising" has to make before it gets to Palestine is just about as long and difficult as the journey that anyone needs to make to get from the outside wor ...
- Reactions to Gaza Flotilla 2
Nine boats of siege-busting 'Freedom Rider' activists are now gathering in the Mediterranean, preparing to challenge the longrunning siege that is one of the main tools through which Israel continues to stifle the lives and livelihoods of all of Gaza's 1.6 million people. An act of collective p ...
- Sally Sockpuppet and her friends
Well, just as I thought. Commenter "Sally J" who was trying to argue that she'd "visited Gaza with a volunteer church group" just in April and that nearly everything there is fine... turns out to be one of the multiple-personality sock-puppets who visit the blog from time to time. Here is a s ...
- Scientists respond to Feds claim that trout ar ...
Invasive trout blamed for poor water quality — are farmers off the hook?   Press Release by Science Media Centre  at 6:49 am, 05 Jul 2011 Scientists are questioning claims by a prominent dairy industry representative, suggesting trout are a ‘disastrous species’ — no better than ‘freshwate ...
- What are the Police doing about bike safety?
Many of us love to ride bikes. It’s a great way to get around, keep fit, beat the traffic, and save the planet. But it’s not as safe as it should be. Green Party Active Transport spokesperson and champion of all people who ride bikes, Kevin Hague, recently discovered that Police do very little w ...
- Vote for change lobbyist really does want to l ...
It appears some of the founders of the âVote for Changeâ lobby really would prefer to live in a dictatorship and a fascist one at that rather than a democracy with MMP. Exceptionally unsavoury cyber-rants of one of Vote for Change’s founding members, Alex Fogerty, have apparently been unearthed. ...
- Booksellers should defend freedom of expression
As a former bookseller I have been disturbed that some booksellers (Paper Plus and the Warehouse) have been panicked by a Facebook campaign into refusing to stock Ian Wishart’s book Breaking Silence: the Kahui Case. It sets a bad precedent when for booksellers to ban from their shelves other boo ...
- General debate, July 3, 2011
Hope people are keeping warm. Frigging cold in Welly!
- Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
- (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
- The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
- Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
- What should be done with illegal immigrants?
That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
- Wall Street: Yep, They Still Own the Place
Today the blogosphere features a fight over "business process" patents — things like Amazon's patent for one-click checkout, for example. These have been abused pretty badly, and Wall Street is fighting back. How? They got Chuck Schumer to insert a special provision in a bill that changes th ...
- Wrecking the Country for Political Gain
Megan McArdle writes today that if Republicans really follow though on their insane threat to allow the United States to default on its debt, it would probably be good for Democrats in the 2012 election. A reader asks: if that's the case, then why are Democrats fighting so hard against it? W ...
- Republicans and Consumer Safety
The LA�Times' David Lazarus asks a question: What is it about consumer protection that Republican lawmakers don't like? Is it that they want to see their constituents fleeced and flimflammed by businesses? Is it that they don't care? Hmmm. Tough question. Let's keep reading: Or is i ...
- The ISI and the Murder of Syed Saleem Shahzad
A few weeks ago I wrote about the apparent murder of Syed Saleem Shahzad, a Pakistani journalist who had long been a thorn in the side of the ISI, Pakistan's intelligence service. On May 31, he was found in a canal 80 miles outside of Islamabad, tortured and beaten, with his cell phone wiped ...
- Independence Day Cat Blogging
Since I forced everyone to go through Inkblot withdrawal on Friday, here's some bonus catblogging for you. This year Inkblot is decked out in all his patriotic finery (i.e., a stars-and-stripes themed tablecloth that now has to be laundered before we can use it for tonight's festivities) and ...
- Sea-level rise is the fastest in 2,000 years
University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin Hortonand colleagues show that sea level has risen at an average of 2.1 mm per year since around 1900, after having stayed roughly stable for the previous two millennia.
- Shrinking Arctic ice area is just the tip of t ...
Old, thicker, ice cover has suffered extreme losses, says the University of Colorado's James Maslanik, providing more evidence of how humans are changing the planet.
- Climate rhythm shift brings early calving
Chillingham cattle, which are able to breed all year round, are having more calves in winter due to earlier springs, reducing their chances of surviving a year, find Sarah Burthe of the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and colleagues, showing that even mammals with breeding flexibility are ...
- History warns of civilisation-crushing climate ...
After giant sandworms cause an argument between me and my girlfriend about whether climate-related civilisation-wide disasters are possible, reviewing scientific evidence of such events through history force me to concede that they are.
- Vikings’ Greenland demise tells climate tale
Two civilisations – including the Vikings – disappeared from Greenland at times of rapid climate change William D'Andrea of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and colleagues find, but understanding how those changes happens is more important than the impact they had, he asserts.
- New methods allow for insights into molecular ...
Researchers of the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch have gained new insights into planarian flatworms, which are an attractive model for stem cell biology and regeneration. Close collaboration between four la ...
- A chaperone system guides tail-anchored membra ...
FRANKFURT. A newly synthesized protein is as fragile as a newborn baby. It could never fold into its correct three dimensional structure if it was not protected by chaperones within the densely populated cytosol. In case of membrane proteins chaperones do not only pre-vent their aggregation, but ...
- Birth rates after ICSI increase in first trime ...
The research, presented at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, also showed that rates of preclinical abortion (defined as a miscarriage so early in the pregnancy that there is no clinical or ultrasound evidence of the pregnancy), miscarriage and ov ...
- 'Vanishing twin' explains increased risk of bi ...
Professor Michael Davies will tell the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Wednesday) that the "vanishing twin" phenomenon, in which only one child is born from a pregnancy that originally starts as a multiple pregnancy, is linked to a nearly two-fo ...
- Simple test gives accurate prediction of ovula ...
This meant that the calendar method predicted ovulation correctly in only one in four women, whereas the ClearBlue Digital Ovulation test (20 test pack) predicted correctly in 99% of women over the same period. read more
- Lacklustre results from the Colorado Integrate ...
A common lament of those analysts wishing to get to grips with the real-world performance of solar thermal power plants has been, well… an absence of data. Trainer noted, in ‘Solar Thermal Questions‘: It would be great to get some actual data on their year round performance. I have found it fien ...
- Open Thread 17
The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the general content of this ...
- Sustainable energy choices for the 21st Centur ...
Climate change and sustainability of the global human enterprise are two of the most critical issues of the 21st Century. If we are to tackle these problems effectively, we need to make prudent, evidence-based choices about energy. This is the story told by this short (2 min, 35 sec) animated vi ...
- Clearing up the climate debate
The Conversation is a recently established website set up to provide an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the Australian university and research sector. Over the last few weeks, a group of climate scientists and academics from other relevant disciplines, have been ...
- Golf balls and elephants – energy densit ...
I’m currently developing a short (2 minute, 30 second) animated video on nuclear power and climate change, with help from friend Ben Heard and the skills of Ron Furner and his team at Fury Films. Near the end of the vid, we talk about the vast amount of energy embodied in so-called ‘nuclear wast ...
- Alison Owings: The Damaging Three Words of the ...
Alison Owings: The Damaging Three Words of the Declaration of Independence: [huffingtonpost.com] "Say what? From the elegantly-quotable Jefferson? Yes. '... the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.' While Na ...
- Filip Spagnoli: Inattentional Blindness and th ...
Inattentional Blindness and the Persistence of Human Rights Violations | P.a.p.-Blog | Human Rights Etc.: "Why do human rights violations endure? Because we don’t see them. We often suffer from so-called inattentional blindness, the phenomenon of not being able to perceive things that are in pla ...
- American Indian "Jimbo" Simmons Gaza Flotilla ...
Gilad Atzmon - Writings - American Indian "Jimbo" Simmons Gaza Flotilla Interview
- Two weeks ahead of release, jailed editor sudd ...
Two weeks ahead of release, jailed editor suddenly facing possible death penalty or life imprisonment - Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders is extremely disturbed by the Sudanese justice system’s decision to keep Abuzar Ali Al-Amin, the deputy editor of the opposition daily Rai A ...
- Repressing Support For Palestine’s Basic Human ...
By TheAngryindian -�06.30.2011 Editor's Note: As a supplement to the material raised in this editorial, please review,�Google Warns of Escalating Web Censorship - Mobiledia,�How Israeli hasbara�works - Blog - The Arabist�and,�Spying On Juan Cole | ThinkProgress �Be nice to the whites, ...
- Entitlement Reform? Sure! Corporate Entitlements
What pisses me off most is the nonsensical discussion of how we balance our budget, or reduce our deficit. The MSM narrative is the Democrats won’t stand for “entitlement” cuts and the Republicans won’t stand for any tax increases anywhere, anytime, for any reason. Deadlock. This whole argument ...
- Jim DeMint – Fuck You
Fuck you Jim. You want to slam the poor, the sick, and the elderly to “balance the budget” and won’t even consider cutting corporate welfare, or having the billionaires, or the companies they own stock in pay their fair share. I pray that there is justice in this world and some day you will be [...]
- Van Jones = Reboot the American Dream
“We’re not broke, we’ve been robbed. Someone has our money”
- Exxon Gets 20 Billion a Year in Corporate Welfare
The amount of taxes we don’t collect from Exxon plus their handouts equals around 20 billion dollars a year. And this is just one company. Spending isn’t the problem. Corporate welfare, and billionaire welfare is the problem.
- Politifact – Jon Stewart Was Right
How hard did your dishonest organization have to twist into a pretzel to name Stewart’s factual statement about Fox News viewers as false? Misinformed, uninformed, and lied to. Fox lemmings.
- Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
- Press Conference to be Held on June 15
Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
- Press Inquiries
All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
- New Flier for Appalachia Rising
- Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...
- Disclaimer: Working with ACRI
To all 972mag.com readers: As of July 1, 2011, I am doing media work on a freelance basis with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. This means that I will not be reporting on anything related to ACRI during the time I am working for them. It is also important to note and remind readers th ...
- IDF officers to hide their identity for fear o ...
In an attempt to protect themselves from prosecution abroad, IDF officers will hide their identity The IDF is increasingly worried about the possibility of being prosecuted abroad for war crimes: Maariv published an article this morning (Hebrew), saying senior officers will have their identities ...
- Haaretz’s pundit takes on US envoy Ross ...
Akiva Eldar, an expert on the peace process, avid supporter of the two-states solution and author of “Lords of the Land“, a history of the Israeli settlement project, harshly criticizes the White House’s envoy to the Middle East, Dennis Ross, for backing the demands of an extreme rightwing Israe ...
- Could Sunday mornings in Israel become “ ...
Oh boy, I’d be one happy camper if this could happen: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is checking out if we can have Sundays off… Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decided to appoint a committee to examine the issue, led by head of the National Economic Council Prof. Eugene Kendal. Netanyahua ...
- Ministers and general to honor Rabbi charged w ...
Dov Lior, whose detainment caused riots, will receive an award in the presence of two ministers and an active duty general Much has been written recently about the detainment of Dov Lior, the rabbi who endorsed the gentile-slaying manual, Torat Ha’Melekh. Lior ignored a police summons for a year ...
- The $8.5 Billion Bank of America Deal Will Hur ...
The institutional players in one act of Fraudclosuregate are cashing in on an enormous payofff….$8.5 Billion! And guess who gets sacrificed in all this? YOU….the American people! Did you need one more example of two sets of rules? Of fundamental unfairness…. The light grows more dim every day. ...
- The US, A Nation in Foreclosure
Sometimes we need pictures to help tell the story. I have suggested that everyone involved in the process, attorneys, judges, legislators, policymakers ask themselves a very simple question: “What will we do with all the foreclosed homes?” Our economy is bad and it keeps getting worse. Jobs ...
- THE Next Mortgage Bombshelll….
The private insurers that cover $700 billion of U.S. mortgages are facing an onslaught of foreclosures. The big three—MGIC, Radian, PMI—are at risk. The housing market has been a cruel goddess, destroying the finances of millions of Americans and driving the economy and financial system to near ...
- A World Wide Credit Catastrophe….
I remember reading a little book a while ago, a book that talked about universal human truths, principles and a set of guidelines that should be followed by people and the institutions that govern them. The book pushed hard on things like working hard, very hard and looking out for those around ...
- Florida’s Governor Rick Scott- Throw Hom ...
Rick Scott, Florida popular governor made a special surprise appearance at the Florida Bar Annual Meeting where he urged attorneys and Bar leadership to GET THEM FORECLOSURES MOVING….IF COURTS CAN’T SPEED THINGS THOUGH….TAKE EM OUT OF COURT AND LET’S GO NON-JUDICIAL Now we all need to be very, v ...
- Invincible Summer
As a wonderful Bloc MP, she was one of my favourite champions in Parliament. We served on the Status of Women committee together for a couple of years and I was increasingly refined by her advocacy and resolute spirit. When she contacted me on Facebook last week, asking me to be her friend, a wa ...
- My Graduation
He just turned 14 this past week and last night was his Grade 8 graduation – high school now beckons. LIke every other parent present, I watched as my son Ater strode across the stage to accept his diploma to the cheering of his classmates. Closing in on six feet in height, he beamed from [...]
- Strawberry Fields
What does a riding association do when its chosen member lost in a recent election? Historically there have been numerous answers – hold fundraisers, find a leader to follow, begin organizing immediately for the next campaign. This list is correct, as far as it goes. Perhaps Liberals, and others ...
- Strawberry Fields
What does a riding association do when its chosen member lost in a recent election? Historically there have been numerous answers – hold fundraisers, find a leader to follow, begin organizing immediately for the next campaign. This list is correct, as far as it goes. Perhaps Liberals, and others ...
- Speciation
Even for someone as brilliant as Charles Darwin, it took a while to figure it out. He had chafed at the iron rules of scientific societies, feeling that they were populated by elite patrons who would only verify certain scientific advancements and discoveries that came through established channe ...
- Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
- In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
- Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
- Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
- Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
- Synthetic biology, ethics and the hacker culture
While the DIY Biotechnology community has grown considerably since this post, the piece still captures something of what is still a young movement, and one that challenges assumptions about top-down technology innovation. Originally posted June 13 2008 Read Thomas L. Friedman’s “The World is Fla ...
- Nano-sunscreens leave their mark
Most manufacturers of nanomaterial-based sunscreens try to make sure that the material they use doesn’t generate harmful chemicals in the presence of sunlight. But the paper this piece was based on suggested that some photoactive materials might be slipping through the net. Originally posted J ...
- Value-added nanotechnology
The more the debate over what precisely nanotechnology is goes on, the more inclined I am to think that it’s something of an illusion. Sure, nanoscale science is real. And there are clearly technologies that exploit this. But are they nanotechnologies, or are they simply clever uses of sci ...
- Is nanotechnology suffering from “silent rave” ...
I couldn’t resist finishing the August in the Archives series with this piece on “silent rave” syndrome, which I am sad to say still seems to inflict the emerging technologies community! Originally posted October 5 2008 The silent rave might seem a rather bizarre social phenomenon; a group of st ...
- Rethinking nanotechnology – responding to a re ...
Back in July, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) posted a Request For Information in the Federal Register for input to the next NNI strategic plan – to be published later this year. The closing date for comments was a couple of weeks ago now. I got mine in in the nick of time. ...
- Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for President
Chris Hedges writes: "When I asked Nader, who mounted campaigns for the presidency in 2000, 2004 and 2008, if he would consider running again, he answered that it was 'very unlikely. You have millions of people who say run, run, run,' he said. 'Then you put yourself out there and find they are v ...
- Hacked Documents Reveal Border Vigilante Activity
Intro: "Reports of two previously unknown border vigilante operations, including one that apparently hires US Marines as paid mercenaries, have surfaced in internal documents from the Arizona Department of Public Safety stolen and released last week by the hacker collective LulzSec. According to ...
- Hacked Documents Reveal Border Vigilante Activity
Intro: "Reports of two previously unknown border vigilante operations, including one that apparently hires US Marines as paid mercenaries, have surfaced in internal documents from the Arizona Department of Public Safety stolen and released last week by the hacker collective LulzSec. According to ...
- Greek Coast Guard Blocks US to Gaza Ship
Common Dreams reports: "Blocked: US to Gaza Boat Detained After Greek Coast Guard Blocks Offshore. 'Audacity of Hope' organizers had said passengers would resist Greek efforts to prevent their departure." The Audacity of Hope as it left port. (photo: US Boat to Gaza/Twitter) {rsnslider ...
- Greek Coast Guard Blocks US to Gaza Ship
Common Dreams reports: "Blocked: US to Gaza Boat Detained After Greek Coast Guard Blocks Offshore. 'Audacity of Hope' organizers had said passengers would resist Greek efforts to prevent their departure." The Audacity of Hope as it left port. (photo: US Boat to Gaza/Twitter) {rsnslider ...
- No Surprises from the War-Makers!
Well, Obama made it clear on Wednesday. His war in Afghanistan will go on through 2014 and probably far beyond. While some may have hoped for a shift in his approach, many of us didn’t expect much, and we certainly didn’t get much. The change in Afghanistan that he spoke about, meant to be heard ...
- In Afghanistan Speech, Obama Offers Token Troo ...
President Obama passed up an opportunity to recognize our democracy and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people. June 22, 2011 President Obama’s speech tonight violated one of his most important campaign promises: to “end the mind-set that leads to war.” To the contrary, hi ...
- Money for Our Communities, Not for War!
Take Action! It’s very encouraging that the US Conference of Mayors just passed a strong resolution initiated by CODEPINK for bringing our “war dollars home” (read press release or NY Times article on this). Unfortunately, later this week the House of Representatives is poised to pass the Defens ...
- Not Justice, Not Victory: Just Another Murder ...
“I keep thinking of how awful it was to hear that there were people actually celebrating on 9-11. Now I look at the TV and see the same thing.” -Family member of a man killed in the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. The reported killing of Osama bin Laden by a CIA operation [...]
- The Broken Rifle in Kabul
The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
- 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 ...
- European Missile System: NATO Not Prepared To ...
***** Updates on Libya war/Stop NATO News: July 5, 2011 ***** http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/07/05/52814183.html Voice of Russia July 5, 2011 NATO is not prepared to compromise John Robles Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list and a contributing writer to ...
- Updates on Libya war/Stop NATO News: July 5, 2011
==== Russia, NATO Clash Over Libya Campaign NATO Ground Operation In Libya Threat To Region: Russia NATO’s Libyan Air War: 13,873 Missions, 5,229 Combat Sorties Video And Text: U.S. Star Wars Outpost In Britain Angers Anti-War Activists 28th Australian Soldier Killed In Afghanistan Afghan War: N ...
- Video: War is a war even if they call it a hum ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVusxCfpV4 RT July 4, 2011 ‘War is a war even if they call it a humanitarian mission’ To discuss the significance of Germany’s latest move RT talks to political blogger Rick Rozoff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVusxCfpV4
- Bernard Mandeville: How to induce men to kill ...
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Bernard Mandeville From An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue Part of The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits (1714) Edited for modern English by Irwin Primer [H]ow civilized soever men may be, they never forget t ...
- Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 4, 2011
==== NATO’s Libyan War: 13,728 Sorties, 5,170 Strike Sorties Why Allow NATO Thugs To Destroy Africa Mercilessly? Turkmenistan: NATO Troops Can Join Caspian Energy War Against Russia Azerbaijan: Faithful NATO Partner On The Caspian NATO International School Of Azerbaijan Holds Session On Middle E ...
- Montana governor to tour oil spill along Yello ...
CNN July 5, 2011 Montana’s governor is scheduled to tour polluted areas of the Yellowstone River on Tuesday, days after a pipeline break sent thousands of gallons of oil gushing into the river’s rushing waters. Gov. Brian Schweitzer also will join state disaster response and environmental offici ...
- Japan: Horrific Thyroid Exposure In Children A ...
The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas July 5, 2011 The effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster are nowhere near over. We can expect massive spikes in cancers throughout Japan and other populations of world. Animals all around the region have been affected as well. The Japanese government has been hid ...
- Bad Surprise
By Virgil Burks July 5th, 2011 Last summer we were coming back from our vacation and when we pulled up to the house I noticed all the lights were on. That struck me as odd because we’d obviously turned them all off before we left and sure enough when we went inside it turned out [...]
- TSA Violates Its Own Policy To Stem Tide Of Pa ...
The TSA is intimidating passengers from filming security checkpoints before they land in a bid to stop viral YouTube videos embarrassing the federal agency Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com July 5, 2011 Hot on the heels of its attempted cover-up surrounding the dangers of naked body scanners, the ...
- Media Attacks America on Independence Day!
Prison Planet.com July 4, 2011 I was shocked over the weekend to witness a full-scale talking point in the media demonizing our Founders and the precious Constitution. Please comment below with examples you’ve witnessed over the weekend so we can compile a more detailed report later in the week. ...
- Durban, South Africa: Municipal Security and ...
3 July 2011–Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement  Municipal Security and Shack Dwellers Clash in the Kennedy Road Settlement this Morning Attempt at Armed De-electrification Successfully Resisted This morning Municipal Security Guards arrived at the Kennedy Road shack settlement and began disc ...
- Graves for the Living: Palestinian Political P ...
04/07/2011 by reham alhelsi Yesterday, 03.07.2011, around 7000 Palestinian prisoners held captives in Israeli dungeons went on a one-day hunger strike to protest the repressive measures of the Israeli prison administration. According to the Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ spokesperson: “Pales ...
- US: Pelican Bay SHU prisoners’ hunger st ...
Support the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike! by PBHungerStrike on Jul 1, 2011 This video explains what the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike is all about, with former prisoners detailing why prisoners are protesting, how this action relates to a history of prisoner-led resistance, and what people outside pris ...
- Nepal: On The Line Struggle for RevolutionR ...
[Frontlines received this interview from the Next Front (Nepal). -- Frontlines ed.] We will never let down the revolution : Kiran (Mohan Baidhya, popularly known as Comrade Kiran, is the senior vice chairman of ‘Unified ’ Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) . He has been contributing relentlessly ...
- Egypt: A report on the emergence and role of & ...
Popular committees continue the revolution As dark clouds of smoke billowed out to sea, a blazing red sun set to end a day of street battles with no telling what was to come. On 28 January in Alexandria almost every police station in the city was on fire, state security trucks were upside down a ...
- Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
- One for the Women
It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
- Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
- Slander vs. Sanity
Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...
- NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
- Jim Morrison's Ghost Turns 40 Years Old
Jim Morrison "broke on through to the other side" 40 years ago today in Paris. But although he has been dead for 40 years, he and The Doors are still as big as ever, as evidenced by bigger sales, movie biopics, and alleged photographs of Morrison's ghost.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: ...
- Fireworks Laws Vary Throughout U.S.
Fireworks laws governing the sale and use of celebratory explosive devices vary widely in the United States. While many states seemingly encourage the use of fireworks due to a lack of restrictions, others make it very clear that fireworks are illegal.Contributor: Jeff Briscoe Published: Jul 02, ...
- Hugo Chavez Treated for Cancer in Cuba, Appear ...
Previous press reports have suggested that Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan dictator, was in a Cuban hospital having a '..."pelvic abscess' treated. It now appears, contrary to previous denials, that Chavez has been treated for cancer.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jul 02, 2011
- How 'Transformers 3: The Dark of the Moon' Got ...
'..."Transformers: The Dark of the Moon' begins with a fascinating alternate history of the Apollo program to tie it in with the war between two groups of giant robots from outer space for the Earth with the humans caught in between.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jul 02, 2011
- Defense Rests in Casey Anthony Trial
On day 13 of one of the most talked about defense cases in recent history, lawyers for accused murderer, Casey Anthony, rested their assertion that the death of Anthony's daughter, Caylee, was an accident which snowballed into an uncontrollable tale.Contributor: D. Benjamin Satkowiak Published: ...
- Asian Air Pollution Could Be Behind the Halt i ...
Yes, you read that correctly. Coal-derived emissions pouring from smokestacks across Asia are--perhaps counterintuitively--responsible for a pause in global warming in the decade following 1998, but that’s no real reason to celebrate. The halt in rising temperatures is a result of the large amo ...
- Pain-Proof, Cancer-Proof Naked Mole Rat Gets I ...
The naked mole rat isn’t a particularly handsome devil, but there’s more to life than being pretty--like living ten times longer than other mammals your size, withstanding extremely harsh conditions without breaking a sweat, or beating cancer. The naked mole rat does all of these things without ...
- This Week in the Future, June 27-July 1, 2011
Happy Fourth of July! And happy Canada Day to our neighbors to the north, though there doesn't happen to be any maple leafery in this week's Baarbarian-inked This Week in the Future illustration. There are fireworks, though. And who doesn't love fireworks? Especially in ultra-slow motion. Want ...
- Drink Up! Red Wine Can Counteract the Negative ...
Good news for oenophiles: Wine can offset the negative effects of weightlessness. We’ve already seen the first beer brewed for drinking in space — any vintners want to take up the challenge of bottling the first zero-g grenache? Scientists have long known that red wine has health benefits; it c ...
- Fireworks + Explodables + Ultra-High Speed Pha ...
The Phantom line of ultra-high-speed video cameras have held PopSci's rapt attention even before the v12 model won our Best of What's New Award in 2008. So what better way to celebrate our nation's independence than aiming a Phantom v641 from New Jersey's Vision Research at all manner of explo ...
- Unsettled June weather to extend into July
Despite the warm and sunny conditions in the last few days, the unsettled weather which plagued much of June looks set to return. June turned out to be wet across the UK, dominated by low pressure. Averaged across England & Wales, 122% of average rainfall was recorded. In our region, for a ch ...
- Storms follow hottest day since July 2006
Thunderstorms have continued to affect parts of East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia and the Southeast of England this afternoon, following yesterday's heat. Temperatures across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Monday reached 32C (90F) for the first time since July 2006. Both Robin Hood ai ...
- A sleeping sun could have a big impact on the ...
News from scientists in America claiming that the sun is about to enter a prolonged quiet period in its history has caught the headlines this week. Whether this particular prediction comes true remains to be seen, as some scientists, including those at NASA, have consistently been proved wron ...
- Deluge follows drought order
Sunday saw the heaviest rainfall of the year across parts of Lincolnshire, only 48 hours on from the drought order issued by the Environment Agency for parts of Eastern England. 14.4mm of rain was recorded at Coningsby yesterday. This brings the total since Friday to 28mm of rain, more than hal ...
- Flaming June could end up a washout
June's weather looks set to deteriorate further as low pressure intensifies its grip across the UK. The timing couldn't be more awkward for the Environment Agency who this morning issued a drought order for parts of Eastern England. Only hours later, the Met Office issued yellow warnings in ...
- Fukushima, TEPCO & Kamikaze Shareholder Activism
It is no surprise that with stock prices not rising with any alacrity in the developed world for years and years, shareholder activism has become a high art of sorts. The most common complaint is of firms holding too much cash on hand. Who's brave enough to invest in such an uncertain world? A ...
- Avast Ye Furriners! Arab Spring and 'Saudization'
One of the more interesting angles that migration researchers have focused on in recent years has been that of South-South migration. While the common perception we have of economic migration is of those from developing countries travelling to developed countries, about half of all migration occ ...
- If EMU is Muddled, What More EU Migration Policy?
If you think discord in economic coordination and monitoring are rife in the EU--Greece, Ireland and Portugal are really forcing these issues--what more migration? A side effect of the various uprisings in the Middle East is a steady stream of migrants heading northward to find better lives. Thi ...
- Fondly Recalling Thatcher's Handbag of IPE Doom
It is one of the most famous incidences in European integration history: Although the exact wording is still being debated to this day, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher famously went before her European Community colleagues in 1984 demanding that the UK not pay so much into the in ...
- The PRC@LSE, Niall Ferguson and Me
From left to right: your humble IPE blogger (in need of a haircut), Li Fan who is Deputy Director of the Department of Policy Planning at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Niall Ferguson who is Philippe Roman Chair for 2010-2011 "Emmanuel, let's take a photo with Professor Ferguson b ...
- Number One? 20 Not So Good Categories That The ...
Is the United States "number one"? Many Americans take deep pride in their nation and the truth is that the U.S. has a lot going for it. The United States has the largest economy in the world. The United States also has the most powerful military on the entire planet. The Un ...
- Celebrating Independence Yet Enslaved To Debt
Every year when July 4th rolls around, Americans from coast to coast celebrate July 4th with cookouts, outdoor concerts and fireworks. We love celebrating Independence Day and yet we are deeply enslaved to debt. We like to think of ourselves as "free" and yet we have rolled up ...
- Will Barack Obama Use The 14th Amendment As A ...
As the deadline to raise the debt ceiling draws closer, many are now wondering if Barack Obama will try to go around Congress if a deal is not reached by August 2nd. In particular, a number of voices (including U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner) are now touting the 14th ...
- Shell Game
The entire U.S. financial system has become a gigantic shell game. While it is still in motion, a shell game can be mesmerizing to watch. But when it ends the consequences can be painful. So exactly what is a shell game? According to Wikipedia, a shell game "is portrayed as ...
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Prepper Dad? Even Robert K ...
Are you familiar with Robert Kiyosaki? He is best known for the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series of books. Over 26 million books authored by Kiyosaki have been sold and he is recognized as a financial expert by millions of people across the globe. Well, guess what? Even Robert Ki ...
- Truth from Mainstream Media is a Welcome and r ...
Leave it to KGO, San Francisco’s most historic broadcast station, to be one of the only mainstream U.S. media groups to tell what appears to be, a fair story about the Greek authorities blocking of the Gaza blockade breaker: Freedom Flotilla II. KGO has always been a hallmark of media freedom on ...
- Patriot Act most unconstitutional US law
The United States Congress has severely encroached on Americans’ civil liberties and constitutional rights with its post-9/11 adoption of the contentious Patriot Act, says writer and radio host Stephen Lendman. “The Patriot Act in fact was written many months before the 9/11 event that made it p ...
- Greek Sovereignty to be “Massively Limited” by ...
The cost of a decision last week to allow globalist vultures to metaphorically hog-tie Greece while the EU and IMF commences a good old fashioned economic pillaging of her state assets is a total evisceration of the country’s sovereignty, according to Eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker. “The so ...
- Iran to test-fire new supersonic missiles
Iran plans to test-fire new âsupersonic surface-to-sea missilesâ as part of its war games in the Persian Gulf in the coming days, says a senior Iranian military commander. Commander of the Aerospace Division of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh sai ...
- Poverty in Russia grows faster than expected
The number of impoverished people in Russia has increased by 2.3 million and made up 22.9 million in one year, the Russian Federal Statistics Agency said. Many experts believe that official statistics does not reflect the real state of affairs and is very often undervalued. Therefore, it means t ...
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
I used to think the John Jay College of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
- Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
- Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...
Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]
- Catholic Sainthood – More Expediency Tha ...
The former Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI, may be criminally culpable, disgracefully neglectful, deliberately deceitful, and horribly, horribly wrong in his approach to the child rape epidemic within the ranks of the Catholic Church, but there is some truth to the claims made ...
- John Paul II Ain’t No Saint
Does your idea of a saint involve sacrificing innocent, vulnerable children to be preyed upon by hordes of ruthless sexual predators? Does it involve covering up for child rape on a massive scale? Does it involve creating the very conditions most likely to encourage child rape to flourish? Does ...
- 2011-07-06 Sex, lies & no videotape: Göran Rud ...
TweetGöran Rudling is a highly concerned Swedish citizen in respect of that nation's sexual offences legislation and its operation. He has particular views, some of which are most interesting ie the story of one complainant (for the moment we might refer to her as 'AA') of whom he says: it's a m ...
- 2011-07-05 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 01:25 PM "A ...
- 2011-07-04 NATO's Game Plan in Libya
Tweet1. ] Whatever his revolutionary pretensions were in the past, in the last eight years Mummar Qaddafi has become a compliant, if somewhat unorthodox, third world ruler in the world imperialist system. The changes in the stance of his regime since 2004 are unmistakable. His rapprochement with ...
- 2011-07-04: The Homophobic Smear of Bradley Ma ...
TweetA recent article by Steve Fishman in New York Magazine trots out more salacious gossip about Bradley Manning's sexuality, in what is now a sustained media campaign to discredit the military whistleblower. On foot of the Fishman article, WL Central examines the more insidious aspects of this ...
- 2011-07-04 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update," constantly updated throughout each day. The blog tracks stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks but also follows stories related to freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 08:50 PM Exc ...
- Geneticists Reveal E. Coli Super Bug O104 Was ...
Their scientists broke down the genetics of this E. coli strain it's call O104, and if you look at it you can read the history, and the history doesn't lie. This strain was exposed repeatedly to all the 8 major classes of antibiotics that are sold by the drug companies today. This practically gu ...
- The Big Brother State and Global Surveillance
But this also allows the secret services to gather explicit information about the nationality of every traveler. Explicit information such as your fingerprints, the color of your eyes, and a high resolution picture of your face. Information you would usually expect to be taken from suspected cri ...
- State Officials Privates Left Sore by TSA for ...
"And finally I said you're punishing me for opting out, aren't you?". And to her credit she said 'Yes we are'.
- The Age of Transitions – Eugenics and Transhum ...
In 1921, the American Eugenics Society was formed and began propaganda campaigns which included the promotion of eugenics in churches, schools, and state fair exhibitions. Funding for American eugenics came from the Carnegie, Harriman, and Rockefeller families among others. Eugenics was being ac ...
- CNN News Crew Threatened By Police in Joplin M ...
We can tell you about some strange things going on here. The morgue, where these bodies are right now, is a secret morgue. And it literally is secret. You call up officials that can tell us where the morgue is an they say it's a secret we can't tell you. Families don't know where the morgue is. ...
- Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it. As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages). The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
- Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages). The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
- Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
- Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...
- Today in the News:
News Today (July 5, 2011) âThe system doesnât really have the motivation to teach people how to be healthy,â but rather rely on unnecessary â yet costly â medication. US: ‘Health Care only cares about profit’ Hundreds of bankers will lose their jobs over coming weeks, victims of what senior boss ...
- Dehydration – More Common Than You Think
Dehydration occurs when the amount of water leaving the body is greater than the amount being taken in. Makes sense, yes? Up to 75% of the body’s weight is made up of water. Five quarts of blood coursing through your body are ninety percent water, and the rest of your body holds between fifty an ...
- Americans Ignorant of July 4th History
A recent ‘Marist Poll’ reveals some sad facts regarding the lack of knowledge from nearly the majority of Americans regarding their July 4th history. Most believe that it’s only about fireworks and barbeque. Only 58% of Americans know that the United States declared its independence in 1776. 26% ...
- The unanimous Declaration of the united States ...
high resolution image of the declaration of independence In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united Sates of America When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and ...
- Today in the News:
News Today (July 4, 2011) 1,440-foot-wide floodgates are releasing enough water barreling out of Lewis and Clark Lake (South Dakota – Missouri River) to cover a football field 3 1/2 feet deep every second, and will do so through the month of August. Gavins Point Dam – “I’ve never seen anything l ...
- Facebook Conversations Don't Achieve The Marke ...
Facebook Likes and comments are great, but they won't save your brand.Researcher Dan Zarella (an expert in social media analysis) set out to prove they would at least help. He found the opposite results. Zarella has been looking into all sorts of aspects of social networking and branding, and as ...
- Will iPad 3 And iPhone 5 Come With App To Trac ...
Apple is all over the tech news right now for a dozen reasons. What are the burning questions and educated guesses at answers? Read on!Will the iPad push Apple to being the top portable computer maker?Depending on how you count a portable computational device, Apple could be poised to assume the ...
- Toyota Unveils Three New EVs For 2012
Toyota is charging ahead with three new plug-in EVs for 2012. Other automakers are being more cautious, but remember: Toyota got the Prius to sell when no one was excited about hybrids. While other automakers hem and haw about the potential for electric vehicles to make it big, Toyota is chargi ...
- Smoking Isn't Why You're Thin
Despite smokers' protests, it turns out cigarettes might not be the weight-loss solution people think they are.If you're willing to put aside the cancer and emphysema and be a smoker, your last excuse might have just gone up in smoke. Smokers often claim that their habit serves as an appetite su ...
- Carmageddon's Hollywood Ending? Crowdsourcing ...
Next week, a major L.A. highway will close for two straight days. Traffic app Waze is offering its user-generated traffic information to the city's TV stations in hopes of easing congestion and attracting new users.Think driving in Los Angeles is bad now? Just wait until July 15, a day that is b ...
- Jadaliyya Launches Section on Occupation, Inte ...
Jadaliyya is delighted to announce the launching of its newest page: Occupation, Intervention, Law or O.I.L. (click here to access the page directly). This page is co-edited by Lisa Hajjar, Sherene Seikaly, Mouin Rabbani, and myself. The purpose of O.I.L. is to explore the relationship b ...
- Human Dignity in Jerusalem
The lengthy history of Jerusalem is distinguished by diverse episodes of both benevolent tolerance and inhumane intolerance. For several lengthy periods, such as most of the nineteenth century, a spirit of coexistence generally characterized the holy city. On too many other occasions, it ...
- The Legal Campaign Against American Torture
Torture, like genocide and crimes against humanity, is a gross crime under international law. The right not to be tortured is constituted through the prohibition of practices that purposefully cause harm (physical and/or psychological) to persons who are in custody but have not been foun ...
- Emergency Laws, the Arab Spring, and the Strug ...
The Arab Spring could not be more textured as different governments, political interests, and international relations have uniquely shaped each nationâs uprising. Still, certain patterns have been common to this turning point in the Arab world. These have included burgeoning protests, st ...
- Through the Looking Glass
[This is the fourth installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous installments�here] After four months of waking up early every Friday, with hope and dread to watch the Syrian uprising, being here on a Friday named Irhal, �Leave!� was a hi ...
- Djokovic proudest of putting loss to Fede ...
WIMBLEDON, England Novak Djokovic is on the path to greatness, and one way to fully grasp that is to focus not on his many successes but instead on a setback. Indeed, for all of his accomplishments already in 2011 rising to the No. 1 ranking Monday; two Grand Slam titles, including a vict ...
- Kevin Pietersen confident of return to En ...
Kevin Pietersen is convinced he is on the verge of an overdue match-winning score for England - wherever they choose to deploy him in their one-day international batting order. Pietersen again looked in imperious form in Sunday's NatWest Series defeat against Sri Lanka at Lord's. But for th ...
- Miranda Kerr's secrets to supermodel glow ...
London, July 05 (ANI): Want to know the secrets behind Australian model Miranda Kerr's unusual health and beauty?� The Victoria's Secret, who...
- India helps Kyrghyzstan to set up high al ...
Bishkek (Kyrghyzstan), July 5 (ANI): Marking a major milestone in the cooperation between the two countries, Kyrghyzstan President Roza Otunbaeva and Indian Defence Minister AK Antony today inaugurated the Kyrghyz-Indian Mountain Biomedical Research Centre (KIMBMRC) at Bishkek. � The Centre ...
- India to train Kyrgyzstan armed forces
New Delhi, July 5 (ANI): India will be sending a team to train Kyrgyzstan armed forces in UN Peace Keeping Operations and impart English language skills to them. � The Indian Army team will be arriving in Kyrgyzstan by the end of this month itself� India offered its assistance to...
- France records first E. coli death
Authorities have recorded the first death in France's E. coli outbreak.Dr. Benoit Vendrely at Bordeaux Hospital in southwest France said the 78-year-old woman died early Saturday morning. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Nearly 200 rhinos killed this year in South Af ...
Nearly 200 rhinos were killed in South Africa in the first half of 2011, with most slaughtered in the world-famous Kruger National Park, environmental group WWF said.South Africa lost 193 rhinos in the first six months of the year, with 126 of them killedSubmitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
- Huge rare earth deposits found in Pacific: Jap ...
Vast deposits of rare earth minerals, crucial in making high-tech electronics products, have been found on the floor of the Pacific Ocean and can be readily extracted, Japanese scientists said on Monday. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Pipeline Rupture Spews Oil Down Yellowstone River
The spread of an estimated 1,000 barrels or 42,000 gallons of crude oil along the flooded banks of the Yellowstone River in Montana is becoming increasingly difficult to capture since an ExxonMobile pipeline ruptured late Friday night. Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
- Global warning: Scientists in U-turn as they c ...
Climate change is inextricably linked to the extreme weather that has wreaked destruction all over the world in the last ten years, scientists now claim.Experts are convinced of a legitimate link between the two after more than 20 years of reluctance.....Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
- 7/1/11 - Jail, Prison, Parole, and Probation P ...
felonvoting.procon.org - NEW: Jail, Prison, Parole, and Probation Populations in the US, 1980-2009 - The total correctional population in the US grew from 1,840,400 in 1980 to 7,255,800 in 2009. In 1980 there were 319,598 people in prison, and by 2009 that population had expanded to 1,524,513 i ...
- 6/29/11 - New York Becomes the Sixth State to ...
gaymarriage.procon.org - New York Becomes the Sixth State to Legalize Gay Marriage: Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law on June 24, 2011 that grants same-sex couples the right to marry, more than doubling the number of Americans living in states that allow same-sex marriage. New York jo ...
- 6/29/11 - US Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Ba ...
videogames.procon.org - US Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Banning Sale of Violent Video Games to Minors: On June 27, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Brown vs. Entertainment Merchants Association that the California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors violated free speec ...
- 6/24/11 - Chart of Energy Use by State and by ...
alternativeenergy.procon.org - NEW: Chart of Energy Use by State and by Source, 2008 - In 2008, the US used fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum) for 83.5 percent of its energy needs. Renewable energy (wind, solar, and biofuels) accounted for 7.4 percent. Nuclear energy represented 8. ...
- 6/22/11 - Is the use of standardized tests imp ...
standardizedtests.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Is the use of standardized tests improving education in America? - Standardized tests have been a part of American education since the mid-1800s. Their use skyrocketed after 2002's No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) mandated annual testing in ...
- 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. Â 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. Â 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). Â 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�. ...
- Married, With Infidelities
MARK OPPENHEIMER Last month, when the New York congressman Anthony Weiner finally admitted that he had lied, that his Twitter account had not been hacked, that he in fact had sent a picture of his thinly clad undercarriage to a stranger in Seattle, I asked my wife of six years, mother of our thr ...
- Death in the Pot
Deborah Blum The following menu for a 1902 Christmas dinner party standsâas far as I knowâas one of the most unusual ever printed. And also one of the least appetizing. Apple Sauce. Borax. Soup. Borax. Turkey. Borax. Borax. Canned Stringed Beans. Sweet Potatoes. White Potatoes. Turnips. Borax. C ...
- Hegemony with Chinese Characteristics
Aaron L. Friedberg THE UNITED States and the Peopleâs Republic of China are locked in a quiet but increasingly intense struggle for power and influence, not only in Asia, but around the world. And in spite of what many earnest and well-intentioned commentators seem to believe, the nascent Sino-A ...
- Feminism in the 21st century
Caitlin Moran writes about her body, Rachel Cusk dissects the aftermath of her divorce and Sylvia Walby addresses ‘raunch culture’. What do their books reveal about feminism today? Zoe Williams Feminism is back … Caitlin Moran and Germaine Greer have both attacked the elemental shame Âattached ...
- You call Greece a crisis?
Try the U.S., says China Edmund Downie A day after the Greek parliament passed another round of austerity cuts to stave off the country’s financial ruin, the third quarter economic outlook report released yesterday by the Bank of China is more worried about the situation in the U.S.: The U.S. so ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting. The meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
- Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA. Â Â The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...
- Six academies synthetic biology symposium: eng ...
Synthetic biology can be described in quite simple terms; it is the design and production of novel biological systems and organisms. It is not so simply constituted. Biological research is a vast and heterogeneous enterprise. And so the engineering of biological entities, despite its simple des ...
- Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
- Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
- Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
- Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
- How sex hormones influence right heart function
WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
- Hyde Park Rally: “The Science Doesn’t Ju ...
Come to the rally and help us make history! What: Hyde Park Rally – “The Science Doesn’t Justify a Carbon Tax” When: Saturday, July 9, 2011 12:00 PM Where: Hyde Park North More info: http://www.meetup.com/wearechange-sydney/events/24210181/ Lord Monckton, Jo Nova and Dr. David Evans ar ...
- Introducing Bitcoin: the new digital currency
Tonight I'm joined by Josh Jackson to discuss Bitcoin and what it means for the future of the global financial system. "Bitcoin is a digital currency created in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. The name refers both to the open source software he designed to make use of the currency and to the peer-to ...
- Channel Nine’s assault on vaccine scepti ...
Ellen Fanning (right) takes on Bronwyn Hancock (left) and Dr. Vera Scheibner (centre). On 10th June 2011 Channel 9 aired a "60 Minutes" episode which contained a crude piece of propaganda aimed at undermining the credibilty of vaccine sceptics. The program featured Bronwyn Hancock - a regula ...
- Alex Jones: Obama is Launching World War III
In this critically important update, Alex warns how the international banking cartel is using Obama and the US military to start World War III. The controllers of the New World Order believe they can achieve their one world government by destabilizing every country in the middle east and norther ...
- 911: The side they’ll never print
The events of September 11, 2011 were a catastrophe that shook the global population by its roots. An inhumane act largely unprecedented in the modern world was unleashed onto society causing a wave of fear and ‘terror’ that would significantly effect the years to come. Islamaphobia increased, r ...
- Oceana Uncovers Dangerous Mercury Levels in Fish
© Oceana/Juan Cuetos Spain’s biggest newspaper, El País, featured Oceana prominently in this morning’s cover story. The article describes Oceana’s unrelenting effort to make previously confidential research regarding unsafe mercury levels in large fish freely accessible to the public, highl ...
- News from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Small velella surrounded by plastic. © Scripps Institution of Oceanography Imagine you�re in a dimly lit Italian restaurant. Famished, you take the first bite of a juicy eggplant parmesan dinner, and it turns out to be a big hunk of plastic. (Yuk.) That�s the reality for fish in an area of ...
- Oceana's New Sea Turtle Children's Book
A sea turtle drawing by a student at Seaside Elementary in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Author Eric Douglas and Oceana collaborated recently to create a children’s book, “The Sea Turtle Rescue.” The book features illustrations by the talented students at Seaside Elementary School in Myrtle Beach, Sou ...
- Oceana Identifies Carnivorous Sponge in the Me ...
Carnivorous sponge (Asbestopluma hypogea) among cnidaria and other sponges in Spain's Balearic Islands. © Oceana Exciting news from across the pond: Oceana scientists, along with scientists from German and Italian universities, have identified carnivorous sponges in the deep waters of the M ...
- Oceana Joins National Aquarium for Sea Turtle ...
A rehabilitated Kemp's ridley sea turtle is released back into the wild. © Oceana/Dustin Cranor Yesterday was an exciting day for 5 rehabilitated Kemp’s ridley sea turtles. Last November, the endangered sea turtles were found stranded on the beaches of Massachusetts after having fallen vict ...
- Obama’s ‘Deal of the Century’ for Republicans
If you want one reason why Barack Obama doesn’t deserve reelection this is it. If the Republican Party were a normal party, it would take advantage of this amazing moment. It is being offered the deal of the century: trillions of dollars in spending cuts in exchange for a few hundred million dol ...
- Senators Merkeley & Udall: ‘Let’s Not Linger i ...
As a liberal who supported Pres. Obama’s Afghanistan plan when he first began it, I simply do not understand how anyone can support it today, at least not when judging what’s in U.S. interests. From their New York Times op-ed today: Nineteen months ago the president announced the surge strategy ...
- ‘John’ and the ‘Anatomy of a Lead’
Spectacular tale from the AP: Again and again, John and his team asked themselves who else might be living in that compound. They came up with five or six alternatives; bin Laden was always the best explanation. This went on for months. By about February, John told his bosses, including Panetta, ...
- Frank Rich Awakens
It’s good to new Mr. Rich back, this time in New York magazine, but he took the time in his first piece to not only revisit recent history, but also prove why his political analysis is going to take a while to recover. From “Original Sin”: The ultimate indignity, though, was a Washington Postâ…/ ...
- Sister of of Ousted Thaksin Shinawatra Wins in ...
Yingluck Shinawtra could be the country’s fist female prime minister, though this only skims the dynamics that have recently roiled Thailand. The win comes after “red-shirt” protests of last year that turned violent, billed as the people versus the establishment. From the AP: The woman poised to ...
- On Geert Wilders's Acquittal
The acquittal of Geert Wilders has deeper meanings for Europe's future than it appears at first glance. As Geert Wilders said: it is a victory for truth. But what does truth mean in international policy? Do we not see that in Eurabia the words 'justice
- Obama Undermining Moderate Muslims
The United States administration's recent decision to establish contacts with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood organization is a severe blow to moderate, secular Muslims who are trying to achieve democracy and prosperity in their countries. The U.S.
- U.S. Presses for Opposition Dialogue With Assa ...
The United States is pushing the Syrian opposition to maintain dialogue with Bashar al-Assad's regime, as details emerge of a controversial "roadmap" for reforms that would leave him in power for now, despite demands for his overthrow during the
- Life for Palestinians in Gaza Strip Improved, ...
It was a very hot weekend for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. That is why thousands of them preferred to enjoy their time on the clean beaches, swimming, sunbathing, riding horses, sailing, smoking water pipes and barbequing. These photos were provided
- Chad: Gaddafi's Best Ally
The war in Libya has mainly been characterized by inaction. But U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently said that, where Libya is concerned, it is not only inaction that is leading this war to becoming similar of the Vietnam disaster, but also
- Reading Note
OK, sorry about the odd spacing of this morning’s report – happened as part of the update to IE9 – so bear with me for a day – gonna take some time to sort this one out.
- Rallying on L.I.I.T.
Seasonal rallies on Wall Street are a wonder to behold when they dig in, and I’ve been left ‘beholding the bag’ a lot being on the wrong side of this one. Still, while I wait for the market to drop … Continue reading →
- Coping: With 7 SP1
I have survived the installation of Windows 7 Service Pack 1. But, if you haven’t done it yet – a word of advice: Don’t be a nervous columnist/analyst on a deadline on blood pressure meds. It takes a few minutes. … Continue reading →
- TGhe War with Mexico, Redux
Some Independence Day, huh? My war count is Libya, Iraq, ‘Stan, and Mexico, plus a bunch of other little ones with ‘advisors’ and such. Do your own tally. Prize me.  I’m not sure why no one wants to talk … Continue reading →
- Coping: About them Archons
If you’re sitting around with a few minutes on your hands, or more like 15 to be precise, you might want to listen to the interview with Dr. Richard Sauder over on the Time Monk Radio Network here. One clarification, … Continue reading →
- Wednesday: Cambridge scientist explains immune ...
The first in Broad's MIdsummer Nights' Science events. Go for no other reason than to check out the DNArium. (Last year they had carrot cake too.) Find a video preview and more details on the Broad blog. Nir Hacohen, a faculty member at the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, ...
- Knight News Tracker takes on Naomi Wolf and th ...
We can't wait to see the comments on this one. The MIT-based site, which critiques science reporting, takes on Naomi Wolf's post on CNN's Global Public Square entitled "Is pornography driving men crazy?" She used recent public sex scandals as her starting point, talking about "how many highly ...
- Guest post: Industry-funded spine research off ...
The New York Times said the most recent issue of the Spine Journal "represents a watershed in the long-running debate over conflicts of interest for the sponsorship of scientific studies by makers of drugs and medical devices. It is extremely rare for researchers to publicly chastise colleagues, ...
- Midsummer Nights' Science back at Broad Instit ...
There's a trendy new beer hall around the corner too. Midsummer Nights' Science is an annual lecture series that explores key advances in genomic research. This lecture series is held each summer, and is free and open to the general public. Midsummer Nights' Science at the Broad Institute take ...
- Mass General doc pans ABC News on lung study c ...
From Health News Review: Harry Demonaco, who directs the Innovation Support Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital, critiqued the ABC piece for Health News Review : The NLST paper is really a tour de force that was masterfully crafted and operationalized. The authors presented the res ...
- Yellowstone River oil spill shows dangers of e ...
Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. Once again this weekend, we saw a clear example of how water and oil don’t mix when an Exxon oil pipeline spewed around 40,000 gallons into the wild Yellowstone River in Mon ...
- 'Green cities' in the US and Canada, kind of ( ...
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC I may as well start with the caveat that any attempt to measure, score or rank places with respect to almost anything will be incomplete at best and can be wildly ...
- Wildlife Roundup: the Good News
Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago Happy 4th of July, everybody! Here’s June’s good news in wildlife conservation. Tanzania has shelved plans to build a paved highway across the Serengeti National Park, which threatene ...
- Song for the day
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC It's such a treat to see & hear Pete and Bruce together, with all of Woody's original lyrics. �Have a great day, everybody: �� Kaid Benfield writes (almost) daily�ab ...
- Yellowstone River Damaged by Exxon Pipeline Oi ...
Bobby McEnaney, Land Policy Analyst, DC While everyone is holding their collective breath, hoping that future developments do not worsen regarding the news that an Exxon pipeline carrying oil crude broke in the middle of the Yellowstone River ou ...
- Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 07-02 ...
Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Independence Day weekend of July 2 through July 4, 2011: Los Angeles County CA makes a tentative $500k settlement offer to the family of a teen who was fatally shot by a deputy in an inciden ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday the first of July, 2011: Portsmouth VA is being sued by the family of a man they claim was stumbling drunk and unarmed when he was fatally shot 11x by cop claiming he lunged [3] [...]
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, June 30, 2011: A Detroit MI gang cop is on admin duty while investigated over an excessive force incident that was captured on surveillance video which helped spark a civil rights ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, June 29, 2011: New York NY police accused of brutality in video showing at least one man repeatedly struck w/batons outside club [3] http://bit.ly/kPuLId 2 Newnan GA cops accuse ...
- National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 26 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, June 28, 2011: BART CA settled a portion of a lawsuit for $1.3mil to the mother of Oscar Grant who was fatally shot in the back while he was restrained on a train station floor [...]
- Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter loses cont ...
An F-15 fighter of the Air Self-Defense Force’s Naha Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture went missing during a training flight over the East China Sea Tuesday morning, Defense Ministry officials said. While the ASDF and the Japan Coast Guard’s 11th Regional Headquarters in Naha, Okinawa, are still se ...
- 14 Propaganda Techniques Fox “News” Uses to Br ...
There is nothing more sacred to the maintenance of democracy than a free press. Access to comprehensive, accurate and quality information is essential to the manifestation of Socratic citizenship – the society characterized by a civically engaged, well-informed and socially invested populace. Th ...
- Climate of Denial – Can Science and the Truth ...
The first time I remember hearing the question “is it real?” was when I went as a young boy to see a traveling show put on by “professional wrestlers” one summer evening in the gym of the Forks River Elementary School in Elmwood, Tennessee. The evidence that it was real was palpable: “They’re re ...
- No US warships off Kuwait
The State department said today there was “absolutely no truth” in a Moscow Radio report that five U.S. warships had arrived in Kuwait waters. Meanwhile, the main British troops landings at the Persian Gulf State of Kuwait will be completed by tomorrow or on Thursday. Foreign Secretary Lord Home ...
- Sudanese army seizes southern Libyan town – or ...
The Telegraph reports:Â Officials overseeing the no-fly zone enforced by Nato over Libya said the Sudanese move north of border had not encountered resistance from troops loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi. Since the February uprising against his regime, the Libyan leader’s forces have been concentrat ...
- PayPal UK Twitter account hacked, claims all a ...
The official, verified Twitter account for PayPal in the UK has been compromised, directing readers of the bio information to the PayPal Sucks website where horror stories from customers have been collected: It does not appear, at this time, that the breach goes any deeper than Twitter, but th ...
- Over 2/3 of Google+ users are ready to say goo ...
Google+ may be the new ‘social’ kid on the block, but The Next Web’s readers have been weighing in with their opinions and, well, it seems Google could be on to a winner with its new social platform. We asked Google+Â users: “What do you think of Google+?” At the time of writing, over 1,000 pe ...
- Microsoft picks up yet another Android patent deal
For the fourth time in the last week and a half, Microsoft has landed a patent deal with an Android vendor. This time around the company in question is Wistron, and as usual, terms of the deal were not released. Even though details were not enumerated, Microsoft did state that it will profit fr ...
- Google+: The new thing I’m totally afraid to use
Google has delivered an all-new thing that is going to help people connect with other people on the Internet, and is even considered to be Googleâs answer to Facebook. Itâs called Google+, and itâs the latest new thing that has the web all a-buzz (pun completely intended). And Iâm totally afrai ...
- Hotmail turns 15, Microsoft sings its praises
Five years is a long time in the technology world. Ten years is a millenia. Fifteen years is roughly an infinite amount of time. Today, Hotmail turned fifteen, a real accomplishment. What is perhaps even more impressive is that Hotmail is still the largest webmail provider in the world. To see ...
- Time Ripening Fast For Australia To Down Renew ...
At the recent UN Climate Talks in held in Bonn, a spokesperson for Germany's Federal Environment Agency (Eric Fee) gave a presentation outlining how Germany's energy sector could transition to a 100 per cent renewable electricity supply by 2050. The presentation was based on a 2010 study unde ...
- Time for Sustainable House Design
While the Federal Government is making half-hearted commitments to energy efficiency, trail-blazing architecture firms like G-O Logic Homes and Victoria�s own Sunpower Design are proving that sustainable housing need not cost an arm and a leg � nor necessitate the owning of a hair shirt. In Vic ...
- Labor’s Solar Flagships: Smoke and Mirrors…and ...
The Federal Government's choice of picking French state owned nuclear giant Areva to build a Solar plant based on out‐dated technology is a move that has surprised the climate and energy security think‐tank Beyond Zero Emissions. The proposed plant near the controversial coal seam gas fields at ...
- Clearing the Air on Climate Change
The annual �Science meets Parliament� (SMP) is underway this week. With debates raging over the carbon tax, representatives from The Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS) are highlighting and addressing the poor scientific literacy exercised in political a ...
- Electric vehicles: will Australia miss its ride?
The future is looking bright for electric vehicles (EV) � and their investors. Last week, California-based EV infrastructure company Better Place Australia (BPA) signed a landmark deal with multi-utility company ActewAGL to the amount of $60 million dollars over ten years. The agreement will ho ...
- Serengeti road cancelled
In what is a victory for environmentalists, scientists, tourism, and the largest land migration on Earth, the Tanzanian government has cancelled a commercial road that would have cut through the northern portion of the Serengeti National Park. According to scientists the road would have severed ...
- Ant surprises on Murciélago Islands in Co ...
The Murci�lago Islands are seven small islands off the northwest coast of Costa Rica in the Area de Conservaci�n Guanacaste (ACG), home to one of the largest intact dry tropical forests in Central America. Despite this, few scientists have studied the biodiversity of these small uninhabited isla ...
- Last search for the Eskimo curlew
The Eskimo curlew is (or perhaps, 'was') a small migratory shorebird with a long curved beak, perfect for searching shorelines and prairie grass for worms, grasshoppers and other insects, as well as goodies including berries. Described as cinnamon-colored, the bird nested in the Arctic tundra of ...
- Hot map hard to ignore: interactive map points ...
A global interactive map has been developed by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) to highlight climate impacts already occurring worldwide. From glacier melt risking water supplies in Bolivia to coral bleaching off the coast of Florida, the Climate Hot Map employs the best in climate scienc ...
- Is the Ministry of Forestry undermining Indone ...
Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry is already undermining the moratorium on new forestry concessions on peatlands and in primary forest areas, alleges a new report from Greenomics-Indonesia. The report, The Toothless Moratorium, claims that a new decree from the Ministry of Forestry converts 81,49 ...
- Mano River Union Secretary General El-Hadj Hab ...
The Secretary General of the Mano River Union (MRU) has died in motor accident. Mr. Thierno El-Hadj Habib Diallo, 65, and two of his family members were killed in a car crash in Sierra Leone while on their way to neighboring Guinea. The diplomat and executive secretary of the regional organizati ...
- The thing about 30% quota for women in Sierra ...
It might surprise you to learn that the average middle class educated Sierra Leonean woman does not think about women’s rights. More likely than not she also sees little wrong with the sexual innuendos and unsolicited sexual advances she might face at work or elsewhere. If she’s a civil servant, ...
- Kudos Judiciary, Zero ACC…
High Court’s acquittal of Allieu Sesay (in photo), his wife and three others has left the Anti Corruption Commission without option but pretends launching an appeal; unwitting and a wasteful spending of public’s fund. The plan to appeal was disclosed by the Anti Corruption Commissioner, Joseph F ...
- All clear for Cape Sierra Hotel redevelopment
Nassit and Cape Sierra Hotel Company (the Project Company set up by IDEA UK) have completed the final arrangements that will permit the redevelopment and operation of Cape Sierra Hotel subsequent to a procurement process for which the International Finance Corporation, an arm of the World Bank a ...
- Lands Minister navigates with First Lady
It beats anyone’s imagination hearing that the recently appointed Minister of Lands, Allieu Pat-Sowe, cowardly told Sierra Leoneans that a 2.2 acre land which is found lying at Aberdeen back of Bintumani hotel is the property of the First Lady of Sierra Leone. Of course, Pat-Sowe apparently has ...
- Farmageddon director is interviewed
From Nick Gillespie of Reason.tv, an interview with director Kristin Canty: “Guns drawn, a SWAT team kicks in the door of a private business. Are the cops there for drug dealers? Mafia mobsters? Terrorists? No, the long arm of the … Continue reading →
- Bayer pays compensation to farmers over crops ...
From Bloomberg, via the New York Times: “AÂ Bayer AGÂ unit will pay $750 million to settle claims with about 11,000 United States farmers who said a strain of the companyâs genetically modified rice tainted crops and ruined their export value. The … Continue reading →
- Lunatic farmer Joel Salatin on food, health an ...
From the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund: “Staci Strauss and Craig McCord of Slow Films Production Company and the sister site, The People Who Feed Us, committed a random act of kindness and activism!  The Fund is mentioned loud and proud on this … Continue reading →
- Raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt (and sons) mak ...
Raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt has been understandably busy of late: Hay is an important part of the diet of dairy cows on the Schmidt farm. It’s what they mainly eat during the winter. So hay making is really important. … Continue reading →
- Is America about to finally wake up?
From David E. Gumpert’s Independence Day post on the Complete Patient blog: This is the time of year when we are supposed to celebrate a moment when outrage and revolution were in the air. It’s easy to forget, amidst the … Continue reading →
- Bill Gross' Fatally Flawed Plan to Fix the Ed ...
Bill Gross has a Plan to Fix the Fractured U.S. Job Market. However, before you can fix any problem you have to understand what the problem is. Interestingly, Gross seems to have a handle on some aspects the problem. Here are two key points from the article on which I agree with Gross. If we ar ...
- Credit Crisis in Brazil: Consumer Loan Rates H ...
Those looking for inflation and high interest rates can find them in much beloved emerging markets, especially Brazil. Reader Otavio, from Brazil writes ... Hello Mish Otavio here, a Brazilian follower of your blog. Today I want to express my satisfaction as I read you latest post entitled Pre ...
- Jobs, Income Data Show Right-To-Work States Ha ...
Investor's Business Daily reports Jobs, Income Data Show Right-To-Work States WorkingThe business world is abuzz over the National Labor Relations Board's complaint vs. Boeing's new South Carolina production line. For NLRB critics, the case boils down to one thing: "right-to-work" laws. Right-t ...
- S&P Warns Greek Bailout Plan Constitutes Defau ...
Before receiving the next bailout tranche, Greece May Have Missed June Primary Balance TargetGreece is at risk of missing a key budget target in June, European Union experts said in a report, a sign of the uphill struggle the country faces as it tries to get its deficit reduction plans back on t ...
- "Jobless and Wageless" Recovery in Pictures; T ...
Please consider a collections of charts from The “Jobless and Wageless” Recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Annotations in red (where present)are by me. GDP 2007 Q4 - 2011 Q1 GDP made a new high but look at the amount of US fiscal stimulus from Congress, monetary stimulus from t ...
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