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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, July 7, 2011

7 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

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UN reports strong surge in investments in green energy
UN News Centre
Global investment in green energy rose by 32 per cent last year, driven largely by wind farms in China and small-scale solar panels on rooftops in Europe, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a new report on renewable energy trends ...
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Klobuchar, Thune announce bipartisan compromise on renewable energy
Coon Rapids ECM Publishers
The bipartisan agreement would dedicate two-thirds of the savings from existing money – $1.3 billion – to debt reduction and the remaining $668 million in savings to renewable fuel incentives, helping provide consumers with lower gas prices. ...
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How Industrial Waste Becomes a Renewable Energy Play
Seeking Alpha
When investors look for renewable energy plays they usually dream of wind farms and solar panels. Seen from that prism there may not appear to be much happening. Wind and solar are still pretty small industries. All non-hydroelectric renewable energy, ...
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Duke Energy buys 131 MW Kansas wind farm
Reuters
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Utility owner Duke Energy Corp said it has acquired a fully developed and contracted 131 megawatt wind power project in Kansas from CPV Renewable Energy as part of its plans to raise its clean energy portfolio, ...
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Human Habitat

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Young visitors get acquainted with W.Va. culture, history and ecology
Beckley Register-Herald
Orientation on local culture, history and ecology came at the request of the Scouts themselves, says Robin Snyder, Chief of Interpretation and Visitor Services for the New River Gorge National River. “Here they are, and this is going to be their home ...
Ecology Proposes Interim Cleanup at Bellingham GP Site
KGMI
Brian Sato with the Department of Ecology says they're proposing an interim cleanup at the former paper mill on Bellingham Bay. He says it's the first step in the huge process of decontaminating Bellingham's waterfront. “And we've identified these ...
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Clallam says no thanks to phase II stormwater permit
Peninsula Daily
By Rob Ollikainen PORT ANGELES — Clallam County told the state Department of Ecology in a letter signed by the commissioners Tuesday that unincorporated Port Angeles urban growth area shouldn't be covered by the 2012 National Pollutant Discharge ...
Technology Serving Ecology
Jerusalem Post
By KKL-JNF STAFF A variety of KKL JNF projects related to water were presented at the CleanTech exhibition, the annual international conference for clean water and energy technology, which took place in Tel Aviv this week. A variety of KKL JNF projects ...
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Water Power

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Some cities slow to cover up drinking water supply
The Associated Press
The open-air reservoir contains treated water that goes directly to people's spigots, and Seater's decision to urinate there after a night of drinking led Portland officials to drain the entire basin to keep from rattling the public's nerves about the ...
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NH's Hampton Beach rated clean-water 'superstar' by national group
Washington Post
By AP, HAMPTON, NH — Consistently clean water at New Hampshire's Hampton Beach State Park has helped the beach receive a “superstar” beach ranking from a national group. The National Resources Defense Council released this year's water quality report ...
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LaBonge, DWP Mourn Passing of Catherine Mulholland
Patch.com
The granddaughter of William Mulholland, the man who brought Owens Valley water to Los Angeles, died Wednesday at her home in Camarillo, a spokeswoman for the Department of Water and Power said. "She was a dear friend, a joy to communicate and ...
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Europe Stocks Tread Water
Wall Street Journal
By MICHELE MAATOUK LONDON—European stocks were marginally higher Thursday, as investors refrained from making any bold moves ahead of interest-rate decisions by the European Central Bank and the Bank of England as well as key data releases. ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • OIL AND THE IRANIAN-SAUDI “COLD WAR”
    Summary: One of last month’s most interesting developments in Persian Gulf power politics played out not in the Middle East, but in Vienna, Paris, and Washington. For these Western cities were the venues for an important series of exchanges that revealed much about the changing balance of p ...
  • Tehran Hosts Hiroshima Peace and Friendship De ...
    Summary: Tehran Peace MuseumOn the occasion of the international day for banning use of chemical and microbial weapons, the Peace Museum which has been opened at Tehran’s City Park to keep memory of Iraqi chemical weapons used against Iran, is hosting a delegation of Hiroshima people who rep ...
  • Iran mourns 1988 airliner downing by US warship
    Summary: IranAir 655"The crime by the United States is never forgivable. The stain will remain on the U.S. forever," said Hesameddin Ansari, 34, who lost his father in the crash. source: APread more
  • Washington's Favorite Terrorists
    Summary: Dr Trita Parsi In the 10 years that I have lived in Washington, I have never seen lobbyists for al-Qaeda parade through the halls of Congress. I have not seen any events on Capitol Hill organized by Hamas. And I have not seen any American politicians take campaign contributions fro ...
  • "Iran got no nukes and US knows that"
    Description: Washington is ignoring its own intelligence because it is hell-bent on finding nuclear weapons that do not exist, Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh told RT. URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_HvZHdcXQk

The Daily Galaxy

  • Obama to NASA: "New Technology 'Breakthroughs' ...
    "Let's start thinking about, what's the next horizon? What's the next frontier out there? In order to do that, we'll need some technological breakthroughs that we don't have yet." --U.S. President Obama Space shuttle Atlantis on Pad 39A at Kennedy...
  • The Ultimate Space Travelers --Microbes Surviv ...
    In a unique experiment on a galactic scale, millions of bacterial spores have been purposely exposed to space, to see how solar radiation affects them and the results supported the idea that not only could life have arrived on Earth...
  • New Force Powering Earth's Tectonic Plates Dis ...
    Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have identified a new mechanism driving Earth's massive tectonic plates, bringing fresh insight into long-standing debates about how powerful geological forces shape the planet, from earthquake ruptures to mountain formations....
  • Dwarf Galaxies Orbiting The Milky Way Overturn ...
    It turns out that we don't know everything about the universe. Shocking, we know, but you'd be surprised how often science writers, politicians, or intelligent design idiots confuse "non-omniscience" with "everything is WRONG!" Now some are saying that Newton screwed...
  • Image of the Day: Saturn Agonistes --1.5-Billi ...
    These false-color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle a day in the life of a huge storm that developed from a small spot that appeared 12 weeks earlier in Saturn's northern mid-latitudes. It was the largest and most intense observed...

Natural News

  • Help save Nick's Organic Farm from government ...
    (NaturalNews) A 31-year-old heritage organic farm in Maryland is being threatened with takeover by the county in which it is located, and your help is needed to stop these efforts. Nick's Organic Farm is the only farm in Montgomery County, Md., that produces organic seeds, and it is strategicall ...
  • Is your medication causing you to suffer from ...
    (NaturalNews) Most people trust that the medicines that they take will help them overcome illness, enhance their health and promote well-being. Unfortunately medications often deplete important nutrients from the body, and people don't find the relief that they seek.People who have become malnou ...
  • FDA's scheme to outlaw nearly all nutritional ...
    (NaturalNews) Yesterday we reported on the FDA's new scheme for outlawing nearly all nutritional supplements formulated after October, 1994 (http://www.naturalnews.com/032912_FDA_dietary_supplements.html). That was just the beginning of this story, because a detailed analysis of the proposed new ...
  • Cold fusion devices produce far more energy th ...
    (NaturalNews) Cold fusion is real, but mass American news sources are not covering it. Experiments are currently being duplicated across the world, to add further verification to the body of scientific proof. It is now possible to create energy with commonplace resources at no cost to the enviro ...
  • Deadly chemical accident at Tyson chicken proc ...
    (NaturalNews) The accidental mixing of two unidentified chemicals at a Tyson chicken processing plant in Springdale, Ark., has landed 173 of its roughly 300 workers in the hospital, according to reports. The two chemicals, which Tyson refused to identify, somehow got mixed together to produce de ...

Threat Level

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

PERRspectives : Blog

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

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • ‘Thinking’ Like a Climate Skeptic (cartoon)
    More on the cooling sensation of coal emissions From Treehugger: Without China’s Coal Burning The Hottest Decade On Record Would’ve Been Even Hotter From The Independent: Chinaâs power stations generate âfuture spikeâ in global warming From Grist: How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic Joe’s cartoon a ...
  • America Set to Suffer Continued Flooding Throu ...
    The American Midwest and northern Plains are preparing for continued flooding, with the threat of above average rainfall expected to continue through the summer, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service, who believe that flooding this year could rival t ...
  • British Landscape Detailed Like Never Before
    Using 70 satellite images taken between 2005 and 2008, scientists have developed a digital map of Britain that shows in remarkable detail the mosaic of vegetation and land-cover types that makes up the British landscape. “At a time when our land surface is under increasing pressure, reliable inf ...
  • PACT Underwear Now Helping Everyday Heroes
    I did a post on PACT underwear's "Beyond Coal" underwear line and activism back in April. Now, the company has a new announcement out that I thought was worth sharing.
  • Arizona Dust Storms Follow Tremendous Arizona ...
    The United States is getting its share of "natural" disasters this year, and the Southwest U.S. especially. Unprecedented drought, wildfires, and now dust storms. Just what the climate scientists have predicted and been warning us about for years. (Of course, expected to get much worse though if ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • War against Libya: an economic catastrophe for ...
    One of the motives for the war against Libya is to stop the development of the black continent, to enable the setting up of an AfriCom military base in Cyrenaica and to begin the colonial exploitation of Africa for the benefit of the United States. In order to understand this...
  • BBC: al Qaeda Does Not Exist - Critical Analysis
    Editorial comment: This video from 2008 is based on Jason Burke's book 'Al Qaeda'. It is well worth being brought up again at this time because of the major importance of tearing apart the Al Qaeda myth and also because of all the hoopla surrounding the recent and very questionable...
  • PASOK: Pan Hellenic Socialist Kleptocrats - G ...
    “George Papandreou is not bought, he is rented. He sells public enterprises to the multinationals. He reduces wages, pensions and employment at the behest of the IMF. He turns over the public treasury to the European banks. He supports NATO’s war against Libya. He directs the Greek Coast Guard t ...
  • European think-tank warns: Insurgency strength ...
    5 July 2011 The latest June 25 report on the US and NATO occupation of Afghanistan by the European-based International Crisis Group (ICG) concludes that the Taliban and other insurgent organisations are extending their influence across the country, and particularly around the capital Kabul. ...
  • UK lawmakers to debate Murdoch press phone-hac ...
    (Reuters) - British lawmakers will hold an emergency debate on Wednesday over a phone-hacking scandal at a top-selling newspaper that has prompted calls for the resignation of a well-connected Rupert Murdoch executive and provoked a public outcry that could damage the paper's sales. Rev ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Free Country, My Ass
    I'm going to bet that public employees like police and firefighters are going to have to accept being photographed by citizens long before employees of private corporations have to. Digby: Where at least I know I'm free ... A Miami photographer was escorted off a US Airways plane and deemed a "s ...
  • Budget debate not about what we can afford, bu ...
    A respondent in the Washington Post's comment section today, by the name of "Woolfeeee," wants to know why I can't get it through my thick head that we can only spend what we can afford. "It's leftist, out of control, childish spending that will wreck this society - and the only thing that will ...
  • Why Aren't We in the Streets?
    The calls for massive general strikes in the U.S. appear to be running on two different tracks: one for union members and public employees - people who still have jobs - and one for the millions of unemployed - who do not. Making two different calls splits our forces and falls into the anti-soli ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Rebels finally move toward Libyan capitol. "Libyan rebels in the country's western mountains advanced a dozen kilometres on Wednesday, seizing a town in another step toward securing a key north-south road that would open the way to the capital. After a roughly six-hour battle that lasted through ...
  • Am I still shrill?
    -- by Blue Girl I mean, I have been called "shrill" -- and a hell of a lot worse -- for calling voter ID legislation out for the racist garbage it is. It is meant to disenfranchise voters who tend to vote for Democrats. Period. Full stop. So now that it isn't just us dirty fuckin' hippie blogge ...

Care 2

  • The 'enraging' salaries of America's top execs ...
    Corporate bigwigs like Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman got big pay raises from 2009 to 2010. The rest of us, not so much Submitted by Carrie Burton to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline! ...
    . The numbers are staggering: tar sands mining in Canada�s Boreal forest could claim the lives of 160 million migratory birds -- including millions of backyard songbirds we love seeing and hearing every summer. Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Stop Live Food Animal Exports from Australia - ...
    Australia's willingness to export animals -- knowing that tens of thousands will die enroute and that surviving animals will endure treatment that would be illegal in Australia -- is immoral and unforgiveable. Ask the Australian government to ban all animSubmitted by Albert M. to Animals �|� �N ...
  • Jane Scott Is Dead at 92; Veteran Rock Music C ...
    It was the singular combination of Kleenex, peanut butter, a shower cap and earplugs that let Jane Scott thrive in her chosen field for nearly 40 years. Ms. Scott, who long before her retirement in 2002 was widely described as the world�s oldest rock Submitted by Rosemary R NO FORWARDS T ...
  • 10 Major Mobile Learning Trends to Watch For
    Teachers and administrators have been bringing technology into the classroom for decades now, but with the advent of cloud computing and the proliferation of smaller, more portable computers and Internet-capable devices, Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Glenn Carle’s Terrorism Confession.
    The Interrogator: An Education by retired CIA officer, Glenn Carle, is a must read. Carle provides one more voice of sanity and experience to the raging debate surrounding the use of torture aka “enhanced interrogation techniques” against terrorist suspects. I don’t know Glenn Carle but our path ...
  • “Operation Fast And Furious” Gets The Furious ...
    This has been an evolving issue, the ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious. In case you are unfamiliar with this program, here are the basics to this program: A U.S. law enforcement operation intended to crack down on major weapons traffickers on the Southwest border spiraled out of control as federa ...
  • Romney Squirrel (& Open Thread)
    Romney’s primary campaign message is reduced to repeating the word “failed” about almost anything and to remarking that the recession is (was?) worse “because of our president” and that the recovery is “anemic” “because of our president.” This video from July 4th contradicts the chatter of the d ...
  • The Saudi Hollywood Makeover
    The tense relationship between Pakistan and the United States has often been described as a bad marriage. Like a couple teetering on divorce but frozen in mutually dependent inertia, the U.S. wants one thing while Pakistan wants another, at least most of the time. This love-hate relationship lon ...
  • What A Bargain – NOT!
    That would be the cost of each new job saved by the $666 billion dollar stimulus. A bargain it most definitely was not. But can we just pause for a moment as we look at this figure – 666? I mean, really – can this be a coincidence that the number for the Anti-Christ is [...]

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Making Friends with Grief
    This month I had promised to deliver Part 2 of my article “Making Friends with Feelings”. And my theme is not going to diverge much from this topic, but there has been a bit of a change in my writing plan. Since my last blog post, my dad was diagnosed with and unsuccessfully treated for [...]
  • Hollywood’s Distorted Body Image Can Cause Eat ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Emily Fox-Kales is a professor of media psychology and of cultural studies at Northeastern University, a clinical psychologist and author of a new book that takes aim at Hollywood’s unrealistic ideals of body images and how they can affect the eating habits of our ...
  • Two New Studies Address Psychological Impact o ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In two separate studies, the prevalence of media and its direct impact on society’s youth was examined. The first study looked at how internet usage affects college students and increases their likelihood to develop depression. Dr. Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH, ...
  • Should Jared Loughner be Forced to Take Anti-P ...
    Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords made her first public appearance last week when she joined her husband at the Houston Space Center as he received the Space Flight Medal. Giffords, who is still recovering from the brain injury she sustained from a gunshot wound to the head, will continue therapy ...
  • Taking Care of Yourself Will Enhance Your Rela ...
    Are you a person who takes care of everyone else before yourself? Do you believe you should put yourself last? If you take care of other’s needs before your needs routinely, then you may have co-dependent tendencies. Taking care of yourself enables you to then be available to take care of others ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • From Telluride to Twilight - The Daily Planet
    From Telluride to Twilight The Daily Planet There, a group of residents is battling to prevent mountaintop removal coal-mining from encroaching on the town — an operation they think will bring ruin to the environment and spell the demise of Twilight. In recent months, Twilight has been ... ...
  • Deadlines extended in Blair Mountain court fig ...
    Deadlines extended in Blair Mountain court fight Huntington Herald Dispatch The fight is over a place that historians, environmentalists and labor leaders believe is at risk of becoming a mountaintop removal coal mine. Last month, hundreds marched 50 miles and rallied atop Blair Mountain to mar ...
  • Deadlines extended in Blair Mountain court fig ...
    People's World Deadlines extended in Blair Mountain court fight Daily Mail - Charleston The fight is over a place that historians, environmentalists and labor leaders believe is at risk of becoming a mountaintop removal coal mine. Last month, hundreds marched 50 miles and rallied atop Blair Mou ...
  • The people versus Massey Energy - People's World
    People's World The people versus Massey Energy People's World Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bo Webb, Maria Gunnoe, Michael Shnayerson, Joe Lovett, Bill Raney, Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, Jennifer Hall-Massey, Ed Wiley, Chuck Nelson and Don Blankenship The Last Mountain is a new documentary on mo ...
  • Residents of Telluride, Col., raising money to ...
    Residents of Telluride, Col., raising money to help Twilight, W.Va. Huntington Herald Dispatch Filmmaker Adams Wood and (OVEC organizer Maria Gunnoe attended the festival, speaking about efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining. Gunnoe was a keynote speaker at the event's “Awareness into ...

Memeorandum

  • Calorie counts don't change most people's dini ...
    Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post: Calorie counts don't change most people's dining-out habits, experts say  —  Oh, calories.  There are so many of you at the Cheesecake Factory.  —  The Firecracker Salmon appetizer, rolled in spinach, deep-fried in a crisp wrapper, served with sweet hot ...
  • Exclusive: Treasury secretly weighs options to ...
    Reuters: Exclusive: Treasury secretly weighs options to avert default  —  (Reuters) - A small team of Treasury officials is discussing options to stave off default if Congress fails to raise the debt limit by the August 2 deadline, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
  • Lehman Borrowed $18 Billion From Undisclosed F ...
    Bloomberg: Lehman Borrowed $18 Billion From Undisclosed Fed Program During '08 Crisis  —  Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEHMQ)'s brokerage borrowed as much as $18 billion in four separate loans from a previously secret program of the U.S. Federal Reserve in June 2008, three months before its ...
  • Ruthless People - Libs to Ginsburg: Drop dead. ...
    James Taranto / Wall Street Journal: Ruthless People  —  Libs to Ginsburg: Drop dead.  —  Some legal observers would like to be rid of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Associated Press reported over the weekend.  These aren't conservatives who find her too activist but liberals who find her to ...
  • Illegal Immigration From Mexico At Lowest Leve ...
    Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Illegal Immigration From Mexico At Lowest Level In Nearly 60 Years  —  People from Mexico aren't as interested in coming to the United States as they used to be: … The logical response to such a stark change in circumstances is to ask why it's happening.

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

  • The paradoxes of water: efficiency
    As long as people merely “rent” the resource, efficiency devices increase overall consumption, say James Workman and Montgomery Simus. Frugally conserved water is lost through new demand by the system as a whole.The ghost of the famous economist William Stanley Jevons is disrupting China’s effor ...
  • The paradoxes of water: value
    In China, water scarcity limits growth and urbanisation escalates a crisis, say James G Workman and Montgomery F Simus. Opening a four-part series, they address the subject of value, the first conservation challenge to overcome.Peter Brabeck-Letmathe chairs Nestlé, the world’s 44th-largest compa ...
  • Growing prospects
    Success at an experimental farm in eastern China strengthens the case for investing in organic agriculture as a basis for building food security, writes Jiang Gaoming.My team of botanists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has completed test plantings of organic wheat at the Hongyi Organic Farm ...
  • Militarising climate change
    Armed forces must join the fight against climate change, believes Major General Muniruzzaman. Here, the Bangladeshi strategist tells Isabel Hilton why.Major General Muniruzzaman is the president of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies in Dhaka. He has served as a senior officer ...
  • A revolutionary climate?
    Uprisings in the Arab world this year remind us how extreme weather can help to create geopolitical chaos by raising food prices and causing hunger. Tommy Stadlen explains.When tomorrow’s historians assess the origins of the “Arab Spring” revolutions, a number of plausible causes will present th ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

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

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Is that a mouse in your Dole Tender Garden Salad?
    I must admit, I am still feeling a bit depressed over the FDA's revision to its website and the lack of any interest in it.� Thankfully, I have many an internet friend who kindly thought sending me a story about one Mr. Jones who claims he found a grisly mouse in a bag of Dole Tender Garden sala ...
  • Four French, including baby in a coma, linked ...
    According to French news sources, four new patients, including a baby in a coma, were admitted between Monday and Tuesday at University Hospital of Lille, according to the Regional Agency health (ARS). The baby, aged 20 to 30 months, was admitted to the ICU of the hospital on a ventilator and ...
  • The FDA and Revisionist History of it Position ...
    I am old enough to remember when Politburo members would disappear from photos, and I was bothered by the Europeans when I posted - "EFSA and ECDC Change Published Risk Assessment because "some key partners involved felt that it may unnecessarily harm the company to publish its name while the ...
  • Unnamed Egyptian Fenugreek Seed Grower and Unn ...
    The European Union has banned imports of Egyptian fenugreek seeds after they were linked to E. coli O104:H4 outbreaks in Germany and France that has sickened over 4,200 and killed 50 throughout Europe and the Untied States. "The analysis of information from the French and German outbreaks leads ...
  • The FDA considers any disease-causing strain o ...
    I was rereading the June 3, 2011 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) statement on E. coli O104:H4 outbreak in Europe on my flight from Seattle to Boston today thinking about meeting a many who has spent over 30 days hospitalized from eating E. coli – tainted fenugreek sprouts. On June 3 in addit ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • WikiLeaks, Wimbledon and War
    Last Saturday was sunny in London, and the crowds were flocking to Wimbledon and to the annual Henley Regatta. Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blower website Wikileaks.org, was making his way by train from house arrest in Norfolk, three hours away, to join me and Slovenian philosophe ...
  • Montana Farmer Says Exxon Refuses to Admit Ext ...
    Click here to see more photos of oil on Alexis Bonogofsky’s land. Family farmer, Alexis Bonogofsky, didn’t get a phone call from Exxon Pipeline Co. when its pipeline ruptured Friday night beneath the Yellowstone River, leaking as much as 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the water and ...
  • Watch: Full Video of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange ...
    On Saturday Amy Goodman moderated a conversation with WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange and renowned Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek in London. The talk provided a rare opportunity to hear two of the world’s most prominent thinkers discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time ...
  • U.S. Officials: Pakistan Spy Agency Deliberate ...
    Obama administration officials have told the New York Times that senior officials of the Pakistani spy agency, the ISI , ordered the killing of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad of the Asia Times in an effort to silence him. One U.S. official said, âEvery indication is that this was a delibe ...
  • LIVE BLOG: Greek Authorities Intercept U.S. Bo ...
    Democracy Now! producer Aaron Maté files exclusive audio reports on board the Gaza-bound "Audacity of Hope". The ship set sail from Greece at approximately 9:30 a.m. EDT but was soon stopped by Greek authorities. Listen to Aaron’s reports as the scene develops. Listen Update at 12:30 p ...

Suzie-Q

  • Afternoon Jukebox
  • Universal Health Care: Can We Afford Anything ...
    Truthout Tuesday 5 July 2011 by: Gerald Friedman, Dollars & Sense Why only a single-payer system can solve America’s health-care mess. America’s broken health-care system suffers from what appear to be two separate problems. From the right, a chorus warns of the dangers of rising costs; we on th ...
  • A Note Of Bad News….
    To my blogging friends: I have some very bad news. My daughter-in-law was killed last night in an auto accident. It was her 30th birthday & she leaves behind my son & my two young grandchildren. I will be taking time away from posting for awhile. Please drive carefully over the holiday weekend! ...
  • Israel to Stop Flotilla “Without Physica ...
    Clinton: Gaza flotilla a bid to provoke Israel by Gaza Flotilla 101 June 23, 2011 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday criticized activists planning to challenge Israel’s sea blockade of the Gaza Strip, saying their efforts are neither “necessary or useful” in helping the Palest ...
  • The Invisible Army
    The Invisible Army For foreign workers on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, war can be hell. The New Yorker by Sarah Stillman June 6, 2011 It was lunchtime in Suva, Fiji, a slow day at the end of the tourist season in September of 2007, when four men appeared in the doorway of the [...]

Solari

  • 2nd Quarter 2011: Looking Back
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday night on The Solari Report is our 2nd Quarter Wrap Up. In our year-end wrap up, 2010: The Road Turns East, I said that in 2011 the economy would continue in a Slow Burn. Indeed it has. In the second quarter, numerous events underscored how the political e ...
  • McDonnell Property Analytics Report for Southe ...
    Southern Essex Registry of Deeds Audit Reveals That 75% of Assignments of Mortgage Are Invalid; O’Brien Says Banks Responsible for an Epidemic of Fraud.  Once again urges Attorney’s General to stop Bank settlement talks. Yesterday at the Annual Conference of The International Association of Cler ...
  • Puffing Goldman
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I just finished reading William D. Cohan’s history of Goldman Sachs, Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World. It purports to tell us how Goldman Sachs ended up “ruling the world.” Indeed, it gives us a detailed, well written version of the official hi ...
  • The Normalcy Bubble
    By Sam Smith I was driving along when one of those smugly assured network financial advisors began talking about how to prepare for one’s retirement. I reached my destination before I got her name but I sure got her message. Basically, it was not to count on having Social Security, Medicare, Me ...
  • What a Coincidence! Strauss-Kahn Is a Free Man!
    By Catherine Austin Fitts The day after the US choice to run the IMF is put in place and the Greek workout proceeds, the US determines that the New York indictment which caused the former head of the IMF to resign was based on unreliable testimony. What a surprise! This note in from a reader… = ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • The United Nations Just Told Reuters What Abou ...
    Richard Lough of Reuters has just opened the ugly can of worms no one in the maritime shipping industry ever wanted to see opened. Make no mistake, the Obama administration didn't want to see this report either. Ransoms paid to Somali pirates to free merchant vessels are ending up in the hands ...
  • U.N. Report: Israel Used Disproportionate Forc ...
    A new United Nations report criticized Israel’s use of disproportionate force in clashes with Palestinian protesters attempting to enter Israel from Lebanon. Seven died and 111 were injured when the Israeli army opened fire on the protesters during their commemoration — known as Nakba Day — of P ...
  • Keeping Up with Mideast Changes
    The Obama administration took two important steps last week that demonstrated much-needed realism and nuance in the evolving U.S. relationship with political Islam. First, on Wednesday, it unveiled a new counterterrorism strategy that focuses squarely on Al Qaeda and its affiliates. It ackno ...
  • Refugee Aid Feeding Libya’s Rebels?
    An army marches on its stomach, and the stomachs of Libya’s western rebels are frequently filled with food brought over the Tunisian border. One shop owner in the Tunisian town of Tataoine claims that anti-Gaddafi fighters “come with euro, dollar, pound. Seventy thousand, one hundred thousand do ...
  • A House Divided Against Itself Still Rests on ...
    My latest at WPR expresses skepticism regarding the practical import of a realist/neocon divide in the GOP: However, it is probably too soon to expect the return of a “realist” foreign policy establishment in the GOP. As a result, the candidate that ultimately emerges victorious from the Republi ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Kent Conrad's Wild-Eyed Leftism
    North Dakota Democratic senator Kent Conrad isn't particularly liberal. He is only the 32nd most liberal member of the Senate, according to National Journal's vote rankings for the 111th Congress, and has a well-established reputation for social conservatism and deficit hawkery. My colleague B ...
  • How Casey Can Allow States To Effectively Over ...
    Igor Volsky has an excellent post about the new Kansas abortion regulations Pema wrote about last week. The regulations have caused two of the state's three abortion clinics to shut down and the third to remain open only at the discretion of a board. Volsky makes an excellent point about how, ...
  • Republicans Slam the Breaks on Transportation ...
    Over on the homepage, Jason Mark has an article on how the transportation bill reauthorization could finally be an opportunity for progressives in Congress to begin tackling climate change. "Transportation accounts for more than two-thirds of the nation’s oil use and about 25 percent of its carb ...
  • Today at the Prospect
    Jason Mark explains how the transportation reauthorization bill could create jobs, diminish oil dependence, and make your town a better place to live.
  • Bachmann, the Gay Alamo, and the Campaign Trail
    Michele Bachmann's rapid rise to national prominence is a product of media savvy, clear focus, and above all, good timing. In the period from 2008 to now, when the Republican Party became enthralled with its most radical elements and essentially turned the party over to them, leading those eleme ...

Buzzflash

  • The Pigs Are Flying at the New York Times: Dav ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT I gather it's freezing down in Hell And all pigs are flying: David Brooks says some higher Taxes are worth trying.   read more
  • Right Wing Terrorism is Happening Right Now in ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Daryl Johnson, a former senior domestic terrorism analyst with the DHS, says that his 'greatest fear is that domestic terrorists in this country will somehow become emboldened to the point of carrying out a mass-casualty attack, because they perceive ...
  • How Did Corporations Become Deified in America?
    How did corporations ever come to be deified in America? Because the Republican Party, the White House (to a great degree) and the corporate mass media hold out global businesses to be the "savior" of the US. Forget that Michele Bachmann is claiming that she is running for president because ...
  • Would Someone Please Put a Fork In Mark Halperin?
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT He called President Obama "kind of a dick." MSNBC has no room for such views But especially with Glenn Beck's departure Mark would fit in nicely at Fox News.read more
  • Just a Few Ways Corporations Kill Innovation i ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH FOR TRUTHOUT Innovation used to be a hallmark of America, and so I read with interest about a July 4th Declaration of Innovation that declares, We, the people of the United States of America, hold these truths to be self-evident - that great innovators drive A ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Bleached in space
    Bleached in space – Great news for cosmic hairdressers. ESO has discovered hydrogen peroxide in space. If you look at the photo, there’s a little red ring, that’s the stuff right there. On Earth, hydrogen peroxide plays a key role in the chemistry of water and ozone in our planetâs atmosphere, b ...
  • Brain tumours and mobile phones
    Brain tumours and mobile phones – It’s interesting that the WHO has adopted what is essentially a non-scientific stance regarding the safety, or putative lack thereof, of mobile phones when it comes to effects on the human brain, and specifically the development of tumours. The precautionary pri ...
  • Scanning for juvenile delinquency
    Scanning for juvenile delinquency – Impulsiveness in youth is not a criminal offence, although if it reaches into the realm of delinquency it can quickly become so. Researchers in the US are using functional magnetic resonance imaging to see whether the brains of young offenders differ in some b ...
  • The real reason for pruney fingers
    The real reason for pruney fingers – Sit in a bath too long and your fingers will wrinkle up. Everyone from 5 to 95 knows that. The scientific explanation was always that the skin absorbs water and the underlying layer buckles. That’s as may be, but writing in Nature News, Ed Yong explains an ex ...
  • The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Unce ...
    The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty – “In today’s unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers–and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Food & Water Watch’s 2011 Smart Seafood Guide ...
    European green crabs and blue tilapia may sound like exotic, even make-believe versions of more familiar types of seafood, but according to the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch, they’re real, they’ve invaded U.S. waters, and cooking and eating them is a delicious way to stop their dest ...
  • Statement on Introduction of Work-Sharing Bill ...
    Dean Baker, co- director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), released the following statement on the introduction of new work-sharing bills by Sen. Jack Reed (RI) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT):read more
  • Budget Cuts Hit Women Disproportionately Hard
    The New York Times reported yesterday: “President Obama stepped up pressure on Congressional Republicans on Tuesday to agree to a broad deficit-cutting deal, pledging to put popular entitlement programs like Medicare on the table in return for Republican acquiescence to some higher taxes.”read more
  • Kucinich and Amash Work to End Libyan War
    A bipartisan amendment to end the war in Libya, cosponsored by Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Justin Amash (R-MI), Ron Paul (R-TX), Tim Johnson (R-IL), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) and Richard Nugent (R-FL), is expected to be debated tonight or tomorrow. The vote is likely to happen Thursday. The amendmen ...
  • Court Rules That Sea Turtles Need Stronger Pro ...
    Conservation groups scored a victory in court Tuesday to gain new protections for imperiled sea turtles from death and injury in the Gulf of Mexico bottom longline fishery for grouper, tilefish, and sharks. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida ruled that the National Mari ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Worse Than Fiction: America’s Overcrowded Cellar
    Roy Eidelson In a 1973 short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” fantasy writer Ursula Le Guin describes a peculiar city where the inhabitants’ prosperity depends entirely upon the endless suffering of a single young child, locked ...
  • The Five-Fingered Ways of Knowing
    Robert C. Koehler “We are a people who never made singing or dancing an unrespected way oread more
  • Yellowstone River Spill Shows Dangers of Even ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz 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 Montana. The mess is likely a wakeup call for o ...
  • Improve Medicare and Expand It to All
    In honor of its 46th birthday this month, here is a brief history of Medicare: of the bitter controversy surrounding its creation, its subsequent achievements, and its current position at the center of congressional budget debates.read more
  • Budget Wars Consist of One-Sided Compromises
    Allison Kilkenny The national calls for “shared sacrifice” during these times of austerity presuppose that giant corporations like Goldman Sachs and Exxon Mobil share the same amount of privilege and power as, say, your grandmother. If the ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Bringing hope and history to Balata camp youth
    Mel FrykbergThe Electronic IntifadaBalata refugee camp The Yaffa Community Center, named after the city of Jaffa in present-day Israel, was established in 1996 by a group of Palestinian intellectuals. It was established to teach the next generation of Palestinians about their culture, history an ...
  • Israeli checkpoints kill women in childbirth, ...
    The Electronic Intifada For three years now a United Kingdom medical journal The Lancet has been working with Palestinian health professionals and researchers to document the effects of stressful living — coping with economic difficulties and shortages, restrictions on movement, political tensio ...
  • Children not exempt from widespread torture in ...
    The Electronic Intifada Sleep deprived and suffering from a broken leg, 16-year-old Muhammad Halabiyeh endured days of torture at the hands of Israeli soldiers and police officers, who punched him repeatedly in the face and abdomen, shoved needles into his hand and leg, and threatened the Palest ...
  • Challenging Israeli apartheid -- by plane
    Mazin QumsiyehThe Electronic Intifada This week, hundreds of activists plan on challenging Israel’s apartheid apartheid by flying in to Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv as part of the “Welcome to Palestine” initiative. Heraclitis once stated that “There is nothing permanent except change,” and i ...
  • Learning capoeira in the shadow of Israel's wall
    The Electronic Intifada The Bidna Capoeira project aims to help children cope with trauma by learning capoeira, an age-old Afro-Brazilian martial�art.

The Wonk Room

  • What Is The Case Against Calorie Menu Labeling
    Another day another article about how requiring restaurants to list the calorie counts of their meals doesn’t impact consumer behavior. Personally, I don’t find this all that surprising. Behavior tends not to change that much in the short term. I think the real issue here is that you’re changing ...
  • As Obama Floats Unpopular Spending Cuts In Deb ...
    Reports surfaced last night that President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) may be close to reaching a deal on raising the nation’s debt ceiling that would generate as much as $1 billion in new revenues while cutting close to $4 trillion in spending over the next decade. The deal repo ...
  • The 2012 Candidates On The Arts: Jon Huntsman
    With arts and public broadcast issues percolating on the edge of the race for the 2012 presidential race, I thought it made sense to look at where the declared and prospective candidates for president have stood on arts issues throughout their careers. Their views on everything from arts educati ...
  • The FAMiLY Leader Requires Anti-Marriage Equal ...
    The FAMiLY LEADER has been incredibly influential in the Republican Presidential Primary, organizing speaking tours for the candidates in Iowa and setting the standard for social conservative values. Bob Vander Plaats, the organization’s President and CEO, was named one of the top 10 most covete ...
  • Utah Exchange Head: Huntsman’s Health Re ...
    The GOP can complain about “burdensome” new Affordable Care Act regulations and standards, but it’s going to be hard to ignore the fact that some of these requirements are actually quite similar to a law signed by former governor and current 2012 presidential contender Jon Huntsman. Consider thi ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • A Little Footnote on harper's Stupitity
    Last year I blogged about an incendiary Toronto Sun cover story about a theatre festival featuring a play about a Canadian terrorist. I just found out that the festival in question; Summerworks, lost its $47,000 in federal funding. No doubt part of the reason is that the harpercons don't believ ...
  • The New Homophobia
    It's fooking amazing innit? Have you heard of "The New Anti-Semitism"? Apparently, when people criticize the IDF for shooting Palestinian children in the back, or the government of Israel for launching an illegal invasion of Gaza or Lebanon and carpet-bombing civilians, it's really just an exc ...
  • Margie Gillis and the War in Afghanistan
    Some, some dumb-ass moron at the wingnut welfare news channel was hypocritically bitching and moaning about how Margie Gillis's dance company got $1.2 million over 13 years. This in a country where the government won't even tell us what it's multi-billion dollar fighter planes and prisons boond ...
  • So What Happened?
    As I said in my last post, my conclusion that the harpercon government has no legitimate authority arose out of my support for Brigette DePape's violation of Parliamentary decorum during the Speech From the Throne. As I said, I actually have a great deal of reverence for our democratic instituti ...
  • "Tee-Hee"
    I've take some criticism for describing the harpercon majority government as "illegitimate." This criticism tends to come from empty-headed morons whose opinions I have as much regard for as I would a huge, steaming piece of dog-shit on my front steps. There seems to be some inexplicable confus ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Part of Toronto Yonge Subway Line shutdown due ...
    There is currently no subway service on the Yonge-University-Spadina line for transit riders travelling between Eglinton and Bloor Stations. The Toronto Transit Commission shutdown subway service for an emergency track repair.
  • Wolverine takes to the stage in Toronto
    Hugh Jackman may be known as Wolverine on the big screen but his first love is the stage. Until July 17 he is in Toronto at the Princess of Wales Theatre starring in Hugh Jackman In Concert.
  • Not Since Moses: Running on the ocean floor
    The sea in Nova Scotia's Minas Basin sometimes drops from 15 metres to zero in six hours, and some people see that as an opportunity to run a marathon on the sea bed.
  • Public's help nabs fake cop in Toronto
    A man posing as an undercover policeman who targeted elderly men in downtown Toronto didn't stand a chance once his image was featured on local media news stations. The public quickly called the police ending a crime wave that now includes 14 victims.
  • Anti Royalty: From Ottawa street cartoon to Qu ...
    The royal tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to Canada could set up a new stage for debates and polls showing to what extent a British Monarchy is welcomed in Canada.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Wounded Soldier, ex-Ombudsman challenging CF ‘ ...
    Cpl. Ryan Elrick, a Canadian soldier who lost his legs in Afghanistan, is taking the federal government to court, saying the policy known as Universality of Service is discriminatory and unconstitutional. Elrick spent three years training as an intelligence officer following his wounding but has ...
  • “Crown jewel” of Canadian peacekeeping closing ...
    The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) has announced that it is shutting down its operations in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia (David Pugliese, “Cash-strapped peacekeeping centre closing Nova Scotia office,” Ottawa Citizen, 10 June 2011). The organization is attempting to cut costs after having been adv ...
  • Layton, Harris criticize timing of document dump
    Opposition leader Jack Layton has accused the Harper government of taking a “very cynical” approach in its release of documents on the Afghan detainee file. The release of 4000 pages worth of documents came just as MPs are gearing down for summer recess. â[The Government] chose a date that will ...
  • Green Party’s Elizabeth May only dissenter to ...
    Elizabeth May stood alone in Parliament last week in opposing extension of the military mission in Libya, resulting in a vote of 294 in favour and 1 opposed (Jane Taber, Why Elizabeth May refuses to be a rubber stamp in the commons, Globe and Mail, 15 June 2011).  Defence Minister Peter MacKay a ...
  • Ceasefire.ca Members’ survey results on Libya ...
    I support Canada’s military mission in Libya and think it should be extended. (1806 responses)

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Jamie Oliver Shows How Much Sugar Is in Flavor ...
    April 20th, 2011 TVSquad.com By: Jason Hughes Last season, ‘Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution’ (Tue., 8PM ET on ABC) went to Huntington, W.V., one of America’s unhealthiest cities. This year, he was off to one of its largest. Once there, he met resistance at just about every corner. The Los Angeles ...
  • 10 Countries With The Most Billionaires
    April 20th, 2011 Huffington Post By: Harry Bradford No longer dominated by Americans and Europeans, the members of the world’s billionaire club increasingly hail from around the globe, first and third world countries alike. And while some of the mega-rich might may spend more time on yachts than ...
  • Apple Founder Steve Jobs Has 6 Weeks to Live?
    April 20th, 2011 The National Enquirer There’s been worldwide interest since we reported that Apple boss Steve Jobs – the mastermind behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad – could have only six weeks to live! Shocking photos obtained exclusively by The ENQUIRER show the 56-year-old cancer-stricken com ...
  • Plants ‘Can Think and Remember’
    April 20th, 2011 BBC News By: Victoria Gill Plants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems. These “electro-chemical signals” are carried by cells that act as “nerves” of the plants. In their experi ...
  • Chicken Samples Contaminated
    April 20th, 2011 AOL News By: Andrew Schneider This is a rough month for carnivores and others who like eating safe meat. Two studies, one released last week and the second made public today, have scientifically tested beef, chicken, pork and turkey purchased from groceries in six cities from Se ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haitian: Protest brutal attack on street vend ...
    On Saturday, April 11th, a little past 3 p.m., a MINUSTAH (UN) soldier, Nigerian Cpl. Nagya Aminu, was shot and killed in downtown Port-au-Prince. While this killing was widely reported in the international media, what followed the killing was not. I...
  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descen ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
  • Global: It takes a Villager
    Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...

War in Context

  • Juliano ship heads for Gaza
    Ynet reports: The Gaza-bound Juliano ship left Greece Wednesday afternoon, after suffering huge delays due in part to a ban set by Athens on the departure of flotilla ships from its ports. On board the ship are 20 activists. Last week flotilla organizers claimed that Israel had sabotaged the s ...
  • ‘Sexy Israel’ getting treatment for flotilla n ...
    Dimi Reider writes: I’m somewhat of a fool for excruciatingly bad Hasbara videos, but this one surely takes the cake: From this video, we learn “Israel” is massively paranoid, even somewhat hysterical, believing edited second-hand evidence from biased sources (IDF spokesman’s video from the ...
  • Audacity of Hope’s attempt to break the Greek ...
  • Challenging Israeli apartheid — by plane
    Mazin Qumsiyeh writes: This week, hundreds of activists plan on challenging Israel’s apartheid apartheid by flying in to Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv as part of the “Welcome to Palestine” initiative. Heraclitis once stated that “There is nothing permanent except change,” and indeed human hi ...
  • The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians along Gre ...
    The Washington Post reports: The Israeli troops and bulldozers arrived in the early morning and quickly got to work, tearing down shelters made of plastic netting and poles that had served as homes for about 100 people in this impoverished Bedouin community in the parched Jordan Valley. The af ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Quote of the week – CRU is now a candida ...
    From Andrew Orlowski, the Register UK: In Parliament’s enquiries into the Climategate Affair, Graham Stringer MP was surprised to learn that the CRU team couldn’t produce the same result twice. “When I asked Oxburgh if [Keith] Briffa [CRU academic] could … Continue reading →
  • A mini-movie in blackboard form – Why Th ...
    A “visual broadside”, so to speak, in a short but sensible and entertaining video. This is based on Roy Spencer’s work and it is a must watch. I highly recommend sharing this video on every blog and website you can. … Continue reading →
  • Driest place on Earth: Atacama desert in Chile ...
    Weather Post by Dr. Ryan Maue The Atacama desert in Chile described as the driest place on Earth just got walloped by an extreme cold front (climate change) and was buried in snow. From NDTV: (with video coverage) According to … Continue reading →
  • San Francisco Chronicle uncorks a vintage clim ...
    Weather Post by Dr. Ryan Maue Those reading the San Francisco* Chronicle on Wednesday were treated to a front page story on California’s Climate:  Warmer interior leads to cooler coastline. “Fair weather fans who believe global warming will bathe San … Continue reading →
  • McIntyre calls on PNAS & Michael Mann to issue ...
    Steve McIntyre’s analysis of contaminated data used by Mann et al 2008 demonstrates that relevant criteria for retraction has been met based on PNAS publication policy. Dirty Laundry II: Contaminated Sediments From time to time, scientists inadvertently use contaminated data and … Continue read ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Tamil APPG and Global Tamil Forum Parliamentar ...
    by Suren Surendiran Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.tamilsforum.com 7 July, 2011 Issued for Immediate Release PRESS STATEMENT July 6th 2011 TAMIL APPG AND GLOBAL TAMIL FORUM PARLIAMENTARY RECEPTION RALLIES SUPPORT FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE IN SRI LANKA A packed reception in the British Pa ...
  • The Lies That Sold Obama’s Escalation in ...
    by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Truthout 6 July, 2011 A few days after Barack Obama’s December 2009 announcement of 33,000 more troops being sent to Afghanistan, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Robert Gates advanced the ...
  • Huwaida Arraf: Breaking the Blockade
    Dandelion Salad AlternateFocus on Jul 6, 2011 The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian led movement committed to solving issues between Israel and Palestine. Huwaida Arraf is one of the co-founders of the group and was filmed giving a speech at San Diego State University. Dur ...
  • The Journey from Watch-Dogs to Lap-Dogs by Sib ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post July 6, 2011 A Classic Story of Government Watch-Dogs Turned Corporate-Foundation Lap-Dogs I am not a big fan of ‘one size fits all.’ I do not subscribe to ‘everything is either black or white.’ I usually ...
  • Kucinich: Vote to cut off funds
    Dandelion Salad by Dennis J. Kucinich Washington, Jul 6, 2011 A bipartisan amendment to end the war in Libya, cosponsored by Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Justin Amash (R-MI), Ron Paul (R-TX), Tim Johnson (R-IL), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) and Richard Nugent (R-FL), is expected to be debated tonight or ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    'Fox News' Announces President Obama Has Been Shot And Killed By Darryl Mason Ten hours, that's 10 fucking hours, after a series of fake tweets announcing President Barack Obama had been shot twice in a restaurant and subsequently died from the wounds, this shocking (but fake) news remains the ...
  • No title
    Warner Bros. Loses Millions On Harry Potter 5, Ninth Biggest Grossing Movie Of All Time...Somehow To the outside world, this is known as 'Hollywood Accounting', but when I was in LA in 2001 it was called FuckYou Accounting by independent producers. I'm guessing it still is : According to the (W ...
  • No title
    The Tsunami Is Here, But Don't Forget To Close Your Car Door When You Run What can you say while watching this video of the Japanese tsunami, shot from inside a car, except Holy Fucking Shit! Just extraordinary, in a world filled with cameras, we are seeing the reality of natural disasters like ...
  • No title
    JK Rowling Will Be First Author To Earn $1 Billion From E-Books By Darryl Mason UPDATE : Since the story below was posted, JK Rowling has held a press conference and announced the following : * She won't be writing an eighth Harry Potter novel, saying, "I do have closure with Harry. I have no ...
  • No title
    Almost 1 million views on YouTube in a handful of days for a professor explaining in two minutes some of the biggest problems with the American economy? Who said there isn't an audience for the truth?

Wired - Science

  • The Space Shuttle Program’s Oddest Passengers
    See Also: Final Space Shuttle Mission Will Feature iPhones What Will Happen to All the Shuttle Stuff? Baby Squid, Bugs and Microbes Launched Into Space 3 Great Ways to Watch the Last Space Shuttle Missions
  • Listen to a Thunderstorm on Saturn
    NASA's Cassini spacecraft eavesdropped on a storm on Saturn on March 15, 2011, by capturing pulses of radio waves from the lightning strikes, and sent back audio of the event.
  • Storms Threaten Friday Space Shuttle Launch
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — A wave of tropical storms heading toward Kennedy Space Center threatens to delay the last launch of NASA’s space shuttle program Friday morning. “It’s not looking favorable right now for launch,” said shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters, who gave a 70 percent chance ...
  • The Mystery of the (Maybe) Missing Monarchs
    Two recent studies of monarch butterfly populations paint very different pictures of the champion migrant’s long-term fate. In March, ecologist Lincoln Brower of Virginia’s Sweet Briar College expressed concern that monarchs are perilously close to collapse. But in June, University of Georgia e ...
  • NASA’s Stillsuit: Atlantis Crew to Test Pee-Re ...
    A textbook-sized kit that can convert urine into drinkable water will accompany NASA's last space shuttle mission this Friday.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • UN: Israel used unnecessary force against prot ...
    A new report of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is highly critical of Israel for its handling of incidents on the border with Lebanon on May 15 - Nakba Day. It concludes that the Israeli soldiers... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Swiss company cancels deal to sell cement to G ...
    The Swiss company that had sold cement to Swedish activists planning to sail to Gaza as part of an international aid flotilla said Wednesday that due to "force majeure," it had decided to cancel... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Rashid Khalidi: Human dignity in Jerusalem
    The continuous desecrations taking place in Mamilla are not isolated or random acts. They are part of a pattern of systematically discriminatory policies that have been implemented against... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • “We Divest” Flashmob in NYC
    "We Divest From Israel's Occupation performs a flashmob in Times Square to call on TiAA-CREF to stop profiting from Occupation. The flashmob comes after TIAA-CREF refused to allow a shareholder ... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Richard Sliverstein: September surprise – Isra ...
    A retired journalist who covered the intelligence beat, and with extensive senior intelligence sources, reports to Richard Silverstein that Israel is planning to attack Iran before the September UN... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Is Obesity Contagious? Authors Explain How Obe ...
    Along the lines of the old saying, "Birds of a feather flock together," the study showed that people do cluster according to size, but few clues explain why.
  • Control of Gene Expression: Mediator MED26 Shi ...
    A report from the Conaway lab at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in the July 8, 2011, edition of the journal Cell identifies a switch that allows RNA polymerase to shift gears from neutral into drive and start transcribing. This work sheds light on a process fundamental to all plant o ...
  • Toxic Waste Dumps in Campania Region of Southe ...
    Scientific evidence is mounting in support of a significant increase in cancer mortality and malformations occurring in specific areas of the Campania Region of Southern Italy, where improper waste management and illegal waste trafficking have been repeatedly documented, according to "Wasting li ...
  • UNH Survey Center: Obama Approval Rating Remai ...
    President Barack Obama's job performance rating in New Hampshire remains low, with his handling of the economy the most significant factor in dragging down his popularity, according to the latest WMUR Granite State Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
  • Heavy Exercise Not Too High a Hurdle for Baria ...
    Bariatric surgery patients can undertake a rigorous exercise program after the procedure, in order to continue to lose weight and avoid regaining weight, according to a UT Southwestern Medical Center study.

Natural Health News

  • Why Do Millions of Kids in the U.S. Have Liver ...
    Obesity levels are now so high that many children are suffering from disease more commonly associated with alcohol abuse. �Many of them will develop cirrhosis, and some will require liver transplants. Studies show that millions of children in the U.S. are suffering from "non alcoholic liver di ...
  • Scientists Discover That Antimicrobial Wipes a ...
    The main compounds in antibiotic wipes, creams and soaps -- triclosan and triclocarban -- have been added to chopping boards, refrigerators, plastic lunchboxes, and mattresses in an attempt to halt the spread of microbes. But studies show that these antibiotic chemicals are no more likely than ...
  • Now You Can Use Modern Technology to Help You ...
    Modern technology can now be employed to help you sleep.� White Noise, for example, is an iPhone app that comes with a large menu of sleep-aiding noises. Other methods include: The Marpac Sound Screen 980A, which creates white noise mechanically. A variety of noise-masking devices s ...
  • Do You Have Any of These Symptoms of an Unheal ...
    Researchers have discovered some early ways to detect whether you might be at risk for a heart attack.� Yahoo Health collects some symptoms you might not have known about: Neck pain: If you feel like you�ve pulled a muscle in the side of your neck, especially if it doesn't go away, it could be ...
  • How the System FORCES Vaccines to Essentially ...
    A growing number of parents believe that vaccines are unsafe, and are refusing or delaying shots for their children.� Some pediatricians, in response, are requiring parents in their medical practices to vaccinate their children or seek health care elsewhere Among those taking the stand are the ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoki ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Will the Supreme Court or Rick Perry Stay the ...
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness We now know that there is broad agreement that if Texas Governor Perry goes forward with today’s scheduled execution of Humberto Leal, he will be doing so in violation of law.  Who has said so?  Well, the U.S. government, the U.S. Supreme Court, at lea ...
  • Foreign Officials Immunity Determinations in U ...
    by Ingrid Wuerth by Ingrid Wuerth The article, Foreign Officials Immunity Determinations in U.S. Courts:  The Case Against the State Department, considers the executive branch’s power to make foreign official immunity determinations that are binding in U.S. courts. As many readers know, the Fo ...
  • Discussion on Foreign Officials Immunity
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Over the course of the next few days we are pleased to have Ingrid Wuerth discuss her article on Foreign Officials Immunity Determinations in U.S. Courts: The Case Against the State Department. Her article was recently published in the Virginia Journal of Intern ...
  • Sorting Through the Somali Case
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Cross posted at Balkinization Big news in the past day is the Obama administration’s announcement that a Somali national captured by the U.S. military somewhere in the Gulf has been transferred to New York for federal prosecution on terrorism-related ...
  • Victor Kattan on Palestinian Statehood
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I’m under the pump because of a deadline, but I wanted to call readers’ attention to a short editorial at OpenDemocracy.net written by Victor Kattan about the PLO/PA’s intention to ask the UN General Assembly to recognize Palestinian statehood in Septemb ...

Public News Service

  • 60 MPG by 2025?
    60 MPG by 2025? Phoenix, AZ – 60 miles-per-gallon by 2025? Some experts say it’s a feasible goal for automakers, and they are encouraging the Obama Administration to make that the requirement as they review proposed increases in fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks. Comments from ...
  • Study: Health Insurance Gives Arizonans No Gua ...
    Study: Health Insurance Gives Arizonans No Guarantee Against Medical Debt Phoenix, AZ – Having health care coverage doesn’t mean paying medical bills will be easy. In fact, 27 percent of Arizonans with insurance are carrying medical debt, or say they’ve had trouble paying health care bills. A n ...
  • MN State Government Shuts Down, Battle Lines Drawn
    MN State Government Shuts Down, Battle Lines Drawn St. Paul, MN - This is Day One of the state government shutdown in Minnesota, the result of a budget impasse between Governor Dayton and the Republican lawmakers who control the Legislature. Comments from Andy Birkey, senior political reporter f ...
  • 4th of July Pet Owner Tip: Don't Invite Fido
    4th of July Pet Owner Tip: Don't Invite Fido Phoenix, AZ - The bang and boom of celebrating America's independence this weekend can come at a cost for our pets. The Humane Society of the United States is reminding people of the stress loud fireworks and celebrations can cause for animals. The or ...
  • What's For Dinner? Restaurants Offer More Meat ...
    What's For Dinner? Restaurants Offer More Meatless Options Phoenix, AZ - There's a growing movement among restaurants in Arizona and across the nation to encourage residents to consider more vegetarian options. Some restaurant chains are adopting the concept of "Meatless Mondays," to encourage c ...

Center for Food Safety

  • U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Amendment ...
    Sixty-Seven Organizations and Businesses Endorse Amendment;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its decision yesterday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving genetically eng ...
  • FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
    Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...
  • Environmental Groups Petition Federal Governme ...
    FDA poised to take action on the first-ever application to market a genetically engineered salmon without adequate consideration of environmental risks and public input Earthjustice, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for ...
  • CA GE Fish Labeling Bill Held
    Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) was informed by Assemblymember Huffman’s office that they have decided to hold AB 88—the California bill which would require that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—as a 2-year bill. This means it w ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • 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, ...

Pensieve

  • For Everyone Else…there’s Wikileaks
    What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo. The ingenious ad above highlights the plight of Wikileaks after the US Government either directly, or indirectly, pressured businesses like PayPal and MasterCard to block all their donations. The US and other secretive nations despi ...
  • Mountains of Santa Catarina
    I am working at a factory well outside of Monterrey, which is backed by some of the most amazing mountains I have ever seen. Devoid of trees because of lack of moisture, they show the tortured formations of the earth that thrust them up. Lit by a setting sun after a summer shower, they were [... ...
  • TS Arlene Threatens Mexico
    A year after Hurricane Alex slammed into Monterrey, bringing torrential rains in its wake, Tropical Storm Arlene, the first Atlantic tropical storm of 2011, threatens to do the same. We are currently in drought conditions, so a bit of rain will do us good. But, too much could be very damaging to ...
  • A tree in a stone
    This is a video I took last saturday at La Estanzuela natural park, my favorite park in Monterrey. I figured that with all the negative publicity lately about violence in La Estanzuela, we might need something peaceful to counteract it. Related posts:La Estanzuela Peaceful Violence and Mel’s Sai ...
  • Pine Cones [Flickr]
    aaronernestoortizlopez posted a photo:

Green Times

  • Environmental News 04/07/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Priority to nature
    A road divided for a tree in New Zealand, what a funny and beautiful gesture to support environmental preservation (climate-change/environmental-preservation.html)! In a world where human activity and needs are becoming a priority, natural environment (glossary/categories/lifestyle/natural-envi ...
  • Take a breath
      Taking a breath in a green environment is so pleasant after a busy week! And look how beautiful this green Kiwi landscape is! But, what is the future of this natural beauty if we don't take care of it? So, environmental preservation (climate-change/environmental-preservation.html) and pro ...
  • Environmental News 01/07/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 30/06/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Greece does U.S. and Israel’s bidding, d ...
    By now you have probably heard that the U.S.Boat to Gaza, the “Audacity of Hope” made an attempt to set sail and was turned back by the Greek Coast Guard. Read Jewish Voice for Peace’s alert as it was happening here. Here is a roundup of Democracy Now! breaking coverage of the U.S. boat’s attemp ...
  • Following Barrier’s Rerouting, Residents ...
    From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee VIdeo of the victory celebrations, warning contains LOTS of car honking! This Friday, as part of the weekly demonstration, residents of Bil’in will commence the construction of a new neighborhood of the village, ‘Bil’in West”, on lands returned to ...
  • Susya Creative and Learning Center: 1st Annive ...
    On Saturday, May 28th, 2011, a celebration was held at the Palestinian village of Susya to mark the frist anniversary of the Susya Creative and Learning Center’s activity. Four hundred guests took part in the festivities – half of them Palestinians from Susya and the area, and the others – Israe ...
  • A bad day for Israeli democracy
    Coalition of Women for Peace, whose campaign we have featured before on this site, have a new video, and sadly, a new update on the progress of the “Boycott Bill” working its way through the Israeli Knesset. H/t to ACRI for the blog title, it came from the subject line of their email alerting us ...
  • Schivone: A Moment Before Boarding the Next Fl ...
    Crossposted from Ha’aretz A moment before boarding the next flotilla Iâd rather use my influence and power, in concert with other members of American civil society, to actively and nonviolently resist policies I consider abominable. By Gabriel Matthew Schivone You might wonder what would ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Solar thermal plant in Spain generates power f ...
    It uses molten salt to store heat to generate power when the sun has set. This was indeed a milestone. It’s the first ever solar plant to generate for 24 hours continously. However, it can only do this in the summer and when the sky is cloudless. Plus, the output  is just 20 MW. So, [...]
  • TSA warns of Huge Peril but with no evidence
    Terrorists could implant explosives in themselves, TSA said, alerting us to apparently fictional threats, since they also said there was no actual evidence such plots were being planned. I suppose attack-trained chihuahuas with explosives on their backs could swarm airports or that TSA could sto ...
  • The History of English in Ten Minutes
    Fun and informative
  • The real phone hacking issue. Who runs Britain?
    Is it a democratically elected government and parliament that is accountable to those who elected them? Or is it a right wing media mogul who isn’t even eligible to vote in this country yet through his media empire has been able and allowed to set the nation’s political agenda for nigh on three ...
  • Financial Times on phone hacking scandal
    The latest allegations in the phone hacking scandal at News Corp’s UK tabloid papers elevate it to a new level. This is no longer just a matter of journalists infringing the privacy of celebrities in order to gossip about them in print. By intercepting the voice messages of a murdered schoolgirl ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • The IPCC’s alteration of Forster & Gregory’s m ...
    Nic Lewis has made an interesting discovery deep within AR4, he sent some information on it to me last month.   It appears that the likelihood of high climate sensitivity was a little tweaked with respect to the cited literature.  He’s asked me to carry the link as he posted it on Judith Curr ...
  • Updated Spencer Ocean Model
    Roy Spencer pointed out that his simple ocean model had an error of a factor of ten in the heat capacity of water.  It is a simple spreadsheet linked below that anyone can work with. simple-forcing-feedback-ocean-heat-diffusion-model-v1.0 FOLLOWUP NOTE: The above spreadsheet has an error in the ...
  • A Travesty for Colose, Show the Data
    The main reason I tried to quit blogging is because I don’t have time to work math.  The family, business and life in general are far more important as so many of you were very adamant (and correct) in explaining to me.   It is nice though to talk with a bunch of very smart people [...]
  • Skeptics are the Educated
    An interesting post at Judith Curry’s blog links to a paper by Dan Kahan and an article at DeSmog blog.   Sadly, skeptics actually are rational people, who actually understand science.  What’s worse, the more people understand, the more likely they are to be skeptical!  Apparently the reader ...
  • Roy Spencer, Missing Heat
    This is a very interesting post by Dr. Roy Spencer on the failure of the ocean to warm according to models, more misleading by the IPCC of that failure, and a simple powerful demonstration which shows where models likely go wrong. It definitely deserves more attention. The result – a greatly red ...

Focal Point

  • Stephen Colbert's Parody PAC Could Have Real I ...
    Comedian Stephen Colbert is satirizing the impact of money in politics by applying to form his very own Super PAC. The comedian submitted a real application and testified before the Federal Elections Commission. Unfortunately, some campaign finance reform activists worry that the joke will get o ...
  • Thankfully, Self-Immolater Thomas Ball Didn't ...
    Immolating yourself on the courthouse steps to underscore your belief that you were wrongfully separated from your wife and denied custody of your children is the ultimate self-refutation. Especially if your posthumously published terrorist manifesto incites others to torch police stations and ...
  • Photos of Historic NYC Pride March
    The 31st annual New York City Pride March was held just two days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill making New York the sixth and largest state to achieve equal marriage. The firs marriage licenses for same-sex couples will be available on July 24. Sex advice columnist Dan Savage and husban ...
  • New York Gay Rights Disco Rock Mash-Up
    Last night, an equal marriage bill passed the New York State Senate and was signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo. New York has become the sixth, and largest, state to achieve equal marriage. This is the first time in U.S. history that equal marriage has been ratified by a Republican-contro ...
  • Jack Shafer, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Terrible ...
    In his recent essay, "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant," star reporter Jose Antonio Vargas recalls being sent to the U.S. at the age of 12 to live with his grandparents, naturalized American citizens. He says he thought he was a legal immigrant until the DMV rejected his application for a ...

Inside Facebook

  • How to Drive Users to Major Milestones on Face ...
    While listening to and engaging with your customers is the top priority for all brands with a presence on Facebook, growing the number of Likes on your Page is also of major importance. There is no recommended maximum for a Page’s Likes – the bigger, the better. In previous articles we have look ...
  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at SponsorPay, Zen Entertainment, PopCap Games, Tagged, King.com, Dyna ...
  • Facebook Launching Ad Hoc Group Chat, New Chat ...
    CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced that Facebook is launching several new features, including ad hoc group chat, a new design for its Chat interface, and a Skype integration to allow for video calling. These features are already live for some users, and the global roll out to the rest of the us ...
  • Zuckerberg Confirms That Facebook Has Reached ...
    Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook had surpassed 750 million monthly active users today at a product launch in Palo Alto. He said the company had declined to announce it earlier because it’s become focused on other metrics, including how actively users are sharing information. “Hopefully, w ...
  • Live-Blogging a Facebook Chat Product Launch a ...
    Today, Facebook is launching a new product at its Palo Alto headquarters. The company has done far fewer press events like this in 2011 versus last year, especially last fall. The previous one was in early April, about something different — its Open Compute data project. Our paraphrased live-blo ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Palestinian people power - could it be a game- ...
    Alan Hart argues that sheer people power - hundreds of thousands or even millions of unarmed Palestinians marching on the Israeli-stolen Palestinian lands - is the only real option the Palestinians have of capturing the hearts and minds of world public opinion and forcing the West, including the ...
  • Palestine’s “last village” faces bulldozers to ...
    Jonathan Cook reports on plans by Israel to demolish the Palestinian village of Lifta, near Jerusalem, in order to build holiday homes for wealthy foreign Jews and to erase for Israelis "all troubling reminders of an earlier Palestinian presence".
  • Gazan reality faces political spin as flotilla ...
    Richard Lightbown describes the reality of extreme hardship in the Gaza Strip, "denied by world political leaders who know the facts better than anyone", that has led to the formation of yet another flotilla for Gaza, and chronicles the Israeli, US and European dirty tricks aimed at aborting the ...
  • US boat to Gaza passengers call for US Declara ...
    Henry Norr reports on a "Declaration of Independence from Israel" written by the passengers of the US boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, and handed to the US Embassy in Athens, in protest at Israel's use of its powerful influence inside the US to secure Washington's backing for its illegal poli ...
  • Real hate preachers behind UK arrest of respec ...
    Jonathan Cook argues that Britain's Israel-lobby-inspired arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah "threatens the very values it claims to be protecting" by silencing "those who are best placed to critique Western policies - the victims of them" - and refusing "to allow the West’s most cherished assumptions ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 billion) in pote ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 billion) in pote ...
  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the seco ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener: Who Watches the Watchdogs?
    What influence do corporate foundation donors have over the organizations they are propping up? Last month, the EyeOpener investigated the “transparency award” that was bestowed on Obama this past March by a bevy of government watchdog NGOs who are ostensibly advocating for more government openn ...
  • Part II. The Journey from Watch-Dogs to Lap-Dogs
    A Classic Story of Government Watch-Dogs Turned Corporate-Foundation Lap-Dogs I am not a big fan of ‘one size fits all.’ I do not subscribe to ‘everything is either black or white.’ I usually refrain from hasty labeling and categorization based on too few facts. With that said, and with no hesit ...
  • The Missing Words in Our Declaration of Indepe ...
     “I hereby declare, on oath, that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domesticâ-Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to USA  Yesterday, as I was walking among grocery shelves, I passed by thousands of packaged hotdog ...
  • Podcast Show #48
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Russ Baker Russ Baker joins us to discuss the case of the former Israeli Spy Chief Meir Dagan, who contends that Israel’s top leaders lack judgment, considers a military attack on Iran “a stupid idea”, and criticizes Israel for having failed to put forward a peace init ...
  • The Tentacles of Megas: Reaching from the Gove ...
    Who Controls Who with What The mega billionaires of the mega corporations directly influence and control the mega public servants – think from presidents down to presidentsâ appointees. Some aptly refer to these âmegasâ collectively as the shadow government. The mega billionaires of the mega cor ...

Afro Spear

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...

Ode Magazine

  • Turn conflict into connection and collaboration
    By: JohnKinyon In my last post I described the language and skills that give us power to return to presence and centeredness when we are in conflict; we can turn conflict into understanding and connection within ourselves and with others. From a place connectio ...
  • Finding harmony through conflict
    By: TrishLay When I was three years old, my adoptive mother was holding me as we stood in line at the grocery store. A gentleman in front of us turned and said what a pretty little girl I was. I then replied with, "No I’m not…I’m adopted." Being adopted we ...
  • How language connects and resolves conflict
    By: JohnKinyon Dear Ode readers, I want to share with you a language of connection for resolving conflicts. I have found it leads to clarity, ease and effectiveness, in work and personal life. It is not a foreign language, but a human language. It helps u ...
  • Radiant health and peace in São Paulo, Brazil
    By: PeaceCorso Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, wrote in his seminal book, The Science of Mind, "If we wish to come to the Spirit for the healing of our wounds, let us come in peace and with spontaneous joy, for the Spirit is joy." It is wi ...
  • How loss relates to success and happiness
    By: Charlie_Badenhop I was sitting around having dinner with a few friends, about a month after the big earthquake and tsunami up north of Tokyo. "Now is the time for the Japanese people to show their true spirit," Suzuki-san said. "You never really know t ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Experts Call for More Government Support to Ca ...
    Shravya Reddy, India Analyst, New York On June 29, NRDC organized a roundtable discussion in New York with leading scientists, researchers, universities, corporations, investment firms and some non profits, all of whom are keenly interested in col ...
  • EPA finalizes punt on carbon pollution from bi ...
    Nathanael Greene, Director of Renewable Energy Policy, New York City On July 1, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson signed the final plan giving facilities burning biomass a three-year exemption from Clean Air Act permitting requirements for carbon dio ...
  • Oil Spill on the Yellowstone River Hits Close ...
    Matt Skoglund, Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana Less than a mile from our office, as I write this, snowmelt from the Northern Rockies screams downstream in the Yellowstone River.  The Yellowstone – the longest undammed river in the lower 4 ...
  • Common Sense Rethink for the Oceans
    Lisa Speer, Director of the International Oceans Program, New York “Not only are we already experiencing severe declines in many species to the point of commercial extinction in some cases, and an unparalleled rate of regional extinctions of hab ...
  • Protecting the Giant Groupers of the Deep
    David Newman, Oceans Program Attorney, New York When it comes to the ocean’s biggest animals, you probably think of whales, or perhaps fast and flashy fish like blue marlin.  Well, let me introduce you to the giant groupers.  These are massive and ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • How it’s supposed to work
    The perfectionist strain in American culture tends to rebel against the idea that in a well-functioning criminal justice system lots of probably-guilty people should not be convicted.
  • Speaking of Covertly Pretentious…
    I love this take on Kevin Smith: It would be hard to count the number of times Kevin Smith has justified his filmmaking by explaining in his Comic Book Guy voice that he just makes “dick-and-fart joke movies” and that taking them seriously misses the point. If only this were true. The problem wi ...
  • New frontiers in grand larceny
    I shit you not. Theft� �� At 7:56 p.m. Sunday, a 36-year-old man reported the theft of a Sarah Palin cut-out from the Alaska Shirt Company in the 400 block of Franklin Street. The cut-out has an estimated value of $1,400. No word on whether Rich Lowry is back in town this week.
  • A House Divided Against Itself Still Rests on ...
    My latest at WPR expresses skepticism regarding the practical import of a realist/neocon divide in the GOP: However, it is probably too soon to expect the return of a “realist” foreign policy establishment in the GOP. As a result, the candidate that ultimately emerges victorious from the Republi ...
  • The “How Victims Are Supposed to Act&#82 ...
    Yesterday’s big tabloid story actually has some things in common with our discussion about the DSK prosecution yesterday.   Correct me if I’m wrong — I don’t claim to have followed the Anthony case closely — but it seems to be that the widely vilified Anthony jury acted in a very responsible m ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Storm Peak Lab Celebrates the 4th of July and ...
    There is nothing like a small-town parade on the 4th of July. The scientists and volunteers at the DRI Storm Peak Lab (SPL) in Steamboat Springs, Colo. participated in this year’s Steamboat Springs Fourth of July Parade. The parade theme was the “Greatest Summer on Earth.”
  • In Memoriam: DRI President Dr. James V. Taranik
    President of DRI in 1987, Dr. James V. Taranik was internationally known for his research in aerospace remote sensing, and his professional career had already included senior positions with NASA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Iowa Geological Survey, and the University of Iowa.
  • DRI Researcher Earns Grant to Study the Season ...
    A DRI researcher will lead a team that is heading to Antarctica to study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms.
  • Abnormal Spring
    If you're new to Northern Nevada, you've probably already asked yourself this question: is this a normal spring? The calendar says we're three weeks from the start of summer, but winter still holds us in its grip. It leads us to wonder if something bigger is a foot, Dr. Kelly Redmond explains.
  • What effect do clouds have on climate?
    What is the climate effect of tiny particles such as aerosols, soot, and dust, in the atmosphere? Dr. Eric Wilcox, a world-class sailor and researcher, is exploring the answers to these questions linking the ever-changing composition of Earth’s atmosphere and climate change.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Connecticut becomes first state to require pai ...
    When it takes effect next Jan. 1, Connecticut's new paid sick leave law for service workers could create a host of thorny compliance issues for employment lawyers.
  • Lawyers choose their sides in Los Angeles Dodg ...
    More lawyers are jumping into the bankruptcy of the Los Angeles Dodgers while Dewey & LeBoeuf, lead counsel to the storied baseball team, reported that it received $293,000 to prepare the Chapter 11 filing.
  • How should an ethical prosecutor deal with a h ...
    It is clear that the New York County District Attorney's Office has, in this case, as in prior rape cases, proceeded with scrupulous adherence to ethical and constitutional requirements.
  • More bad news for law grads: They're earning less
    The employment news just keeps getting worse for freshly minted lawyers. Not only did fewer recent graduates land law firm jobs, as the National Association for Law Placement reported in June, but they also are earning less than their predecessors.
  • Colorado's former dean dies at 68
    Former University of Colorado Law Dean David Getches, 68, died at his home of pancreatic cancer on July 5, just days after stepping down from the deanship on June 30, the university announced.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Water Dog Training in July
    I wanted to let everyone know they are planning another basic waterdog training on July 14th from 7-9 at the Tokishi Building in Wellsboro.  Please pass this on to others that may be interested.  There is also going to be another Advanced Training in August. (I will pass on more information as I ...
  • Forced Pooling: When Landowners Can’t Say No t ...
    by Marie C. Baca, Special to ProPublica May 19, 2011 As the shale gas boom sweeps across the United States, drillers are turning to a controversial legal tool called forced pooling to gain access to minerals beneath private property–in many cases, without the landowners’ permission. Forced poo ...
  • Gas industry no longer must comply with stric ...
    Deadline for policy reversal looms TAKE ACTION TODAY The facts: In December, 2010, a policy document was put in place by DEP, advising air quality professionals responsible for permitting of gas industry compressors and other sites to consider the aggregation (total toxic accumulation) of air em ...
  • SPORTSMEN MARCELLUS SHALE SUMMIT
    Saturday, June 4th University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown Campus In the heart of the Marcellus Shale region, sportsmen and women, and conservation groups are working together to identify and propose solutions to mitigate the impacts from gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing on hunting, fishing an ...
  • Water Well Owner Network Training in Wellsboro, PA
    I’d like to pass this info along from the RDA —- This just in from the Master Well Owners Network. This is a group within Penn State which trains people who have private wells. My husband and several of our friends have received this training, which we all found quite valuable. You learn about t ...

News Blaze

  • Two Utah City Councils Reverberate With Hindu ...
    Zed recited lines from Rig-Veda, the oldest scripture. He started and ended the prayer with 'Om,' the mystical syllable containing the universe, which in Hinduism is used to introduce and conclude religious work. Om was followed by Gayatri Mantra
  • Citizens of Solomon Islands Celebrate Their I ...
    Ms. Clinton said the United States and Solomon Islands share a long history of friendship and cooperation, forged during World War II and continuing today.
  • Nepalese Wish King Gyanendra a Very Happy Birthday
    Though presently living as a private citizen of Nepal, His Royal Majesty represents a link of cultural and institutional continuity with Nepal's heritage and with the origins of Nepali unity.
  • Chisora Believes Fury Nothing More Than Dreami ...
    'The Big Brawl,' presented by Hennessy Sports, is being distributed in the United States by Integrated Sports Media for live viewing at 3 PM/ET - 12 PM/PT on both cable and satellite pay-per-view via iN Demand, DIRECTV, and Avail-TVN, for a sugges
  • Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama Team Fights Ba ...
    The group already has prepared a new TV ad for Wisconsin, but they say they are trying to raise money to get these TV ads seen in more critical locations throughout Wisconsin.

environment 360

  • Phosphate: A Critical Resource Misused and Now ...
    Phosphate has been essential to feeding the world since the Green Revolution, but its excessive use as a fertilizer has led to widespread pollution and eutrophication. Now, many of the world’s remaining reserves are starting to run low. BY FRED PEARCE
  • Effects of Global Warming ‘Masked’ by Asia Pol ...
    A new study says rising sulfur emissions from the growth of Asian industry triggered a cooling effect that partially offset the effects of global warming for a decade. While carbon dioxide emissions increased by nearly a third from 1998 to 2008, global surface temperatures did not rise sharply d ...
  • New Database of Plant Traits Emerges as Tool i ...
    A consortium of scientists has compiled a database that categorizes millions of traits for nearly a quarter of the world’s plant species, a resource they say will help researchers more accurately model the effects of climate change in different environments. The project, known as TRY, has so far ...
  • Nearly 10 Percent of Fish Caught for Study Con ...
    Nearly 1 in 10 fish collected in the Pacific Ocean during a recent study contained plastic debris, in what researchers call troubling evidence of the significant amount of plastic entering the food chain. The study, Scripps InstitutionTwo lanternfish and plastic debris collected in study condu ...
  • Major Fuel Economy Boost Envisioned by Obama A ...
    The Obama administration is considering a new fuel economy standard that would require cars and light trucks to achieve an average of 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025, an ambitious target that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions but drive up the cost of automobiles. While still a starting point i ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Mirage "City" Mysteriously Appears in China - ...
    ITN, a broadcast network in Britain, posted video last week of a stunning mirage in East China that features a city skyline, replete with what appear to be buildings and trees.Video-curation site Devour.com writes the mirage appeared over the Xin'an River in East China. ITN is the only news netw ...
  • Psychopaths Run The World
    Although Sigmund Freud introduced the world to the word psychopath in his book Psychopathology of Everyday Life, published in 1901, it wouldn't be until forty years later that a true definition of psychopathology was developed to include the personality type of psychopath: a scientific understan ...
  • Humans May Have ’Magnetic’ Sixth Sense
    Humans may have a sixth sense after all, suggests a new study finding that a protein in the human retina, when placed into fruit flies, has the ability to detect magnetic fields. The researchers caution that the results suggest this human protein has the capability to work as a magnetosensor; ho ...
  • Second HongKong child dies of mutated scarlet ...
    A mutated strain of scarlet fever more resistant to antibiotics has killed a second child in Hong Kong, the first deaths from the illness in the southern Chinese city in at least a decade. Certain characteristics of the new strain likely make it more contagious, and it may be responsible for an ...
  • Magnitude-6.7 quake hits Japan (June 23, 2011)
    A magnitude-6.7 earthquake rattled northeast Japan on Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It was the same area of the Pacific where a massive magnitude 9 quake hit on March 11, triggering a deadly tsunami. At least 23,000 people were killed or left missing in those disasters, ...

Russia Today

  • “ET life inevitably exists due to universal la ...
    RT spoke with Andrey Finkelstein, Director of the Institute of Applied Astronomy about the scientific reasoning behind his controversial statement that in 20 years humanity will discover aliens and they are likely to...
  • UN to report on Gaza fleet raid as second aid ...
    A French ship from the new Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian supplies for Palestinians in Gaza has been stopped in Crete harbor. Meanwhile, the UN is due to report on last May's fatal raid by Israeli troops on the...
  • Striking gold in the cold
    Talks on who owns the territory surrounding the North Pole are coming to a point. Russia has brought the request for the UN to look at Arctic borders forward by two years, as four other countries eye up getting access...
  • A million and one problems for IMF to solve on ...
    The cash-strapped EU is giving Christine Lagarde much to think about in her first days in charge of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
  • Drug gangs force techies into cyber-crime
    It has emerged that drug dealers in Mexico have been kidnapping computer programmers to force them to hack into bank systems. Experts say the IT experts are also being used for credit card fraud scams.

Not My Tribe

  • First they came for the communists, but we all ...
    First they came for the Communists,⨠and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, â¨and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews,⨠and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for me⨠[...]
  • Solo Gaza relief ship Dignite Al Karama presse ...
    Not only have nation states refused to sanction humanitarian relief missions to illegally besieged Gaza, events this week prove they are unanimous in prohibiting even citizens doing it themselves. Yet, one brave vessel has eluded sabotage, lawsuit, bureaucracy, and Greece’s Coast Guard paramilit ...
  • Temporarily embarrassed millionaires cursing g ...
    Thinking about the Tea Party Po’folk: “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” â John Steinbeck
  • French craft DIGNITY breaks for Gaza, leads Fl ...
    UPDATED– In a flurry of conflicting tweets, French Flotilla II member DIGNITE AL KARAMA made for the open sea, beyond the reach of Greek authorities currently detaining the AUDACITY OF HOPE, TAHRIR, LOUISE MICHEL, GUERNICA, JULIANO and others. Reporter Quentin Girard has been communicating the D ...
  • IMF pick Christine Lagarde-Obamette updates be ...
    IMF DSK replacement Christine Lagarde assumes leadership of the International Monetary Fund today, the world’s most powerful woman. Will she be the spoonful of sweetness to make austerity cuts go down? How’s your blood-sugar crashing on Obama? My guess is this fairy grandmother gambit will go do ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Politicians Really Are Puppets
    Here British Labour leader Ed Miliband gives pretty much exactly the same scripted response to five successive questions with the same vocal inflections and everything. It's as if he's some kind of robot! Presenting Ed Milibot: The interviewer's thoughts: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/bfensm
  • Unnecessary Freefall Revisit #2038046179007145309
    Thanks to 'Charlie Gate', many truthers, particularly in the UK, have been brushing up on their 9/11 knowledge, and there has been fierce debate on YouTube about things like the freefall of WTC7. The apologists for NIST have been claiming that WTC7's 2.25 seconds of free fall can be explained ...
  • Chris Mohr's "respectful rebuttal" smells like ...
    Chris Mohr is uploading 'respectful rebuttal' videos of Gage's presentations. I've just quickly looked at this one ... I may watch the others later. Some thoughts... One minute in Mohr states that Gage does not acknowledge the differences in construction between the twin towers and the other ...
  • Charlie Veitch Parroting Outdated Official Cla ...
    In recent interviews justifying his sudden U-Turn on 9/11, Charlie Veitch has made some incorrect claims about WTC7. He says he spoke to an expert who told him that 25% of WTC7 was scooped out. This is an old claim that even NIST have abandoned. The claim was made in Appendix L to their 2004 pr ...
  • Another Balzac Vitry Verinage
    This is another Verinage demolition of an apartment building in the same area (Balzac Vitry-Sur-Seine) as the other one. This demolition was in June of last year. And here's a speed time plot... Can't get much clearer than that really!

Fooducate

  • WhoNu Cookies: Oreo Copycat, Nutrition Impostor
    Check out this new product, a “nutrition rich cookie”. At a first glance, WhoNu looks like an Oreo. But the package promises so much more: As much fiber as a bowl of oatmeal As much calcium and vitamin D as an 8 oz glass of milk As much vitamin C as a cup of blueberries. [...]
  • How Do Food Prices Affect Childhood Obesity?
    One of the logical assumptions about the current obesity epidemic is that it is caused by the wide availability of cheap junk food. Obviously, the food industry does not feel this way, and lays the blame elsewhere. The Economic Research Service of the USDA decided to rigorously study the effects ...
  • Eat Your Berries! (10 Interesting Facts)
    We had an interesting opportunity to participate in the Berry Health Benefits Symposium last week outside of  Los Angeles. No, until a few months ago we did not know there was a conference dedicated to berries either! but it turns out that every two years, industry and researchers meet to discus ...
  • How Independent are YOUR Food Choices?
    Happy 4th of July everyone! We’d rather it be called Independence Day, because that is what we have been celebrating for the past 200 years, not a date 7/04. As we head to cookouts, picnics, bar-b-ques and other food related festivities, we should consider ourselves the luckiest people in the wo ...
  • A Tale of 4 Hot-Dogs, Which Do You Choose?
    This 4th of July, Americans will eat over 150 million hot dogs. While wieners are a classic American dish, they are not the healthiest or tastiest meat product out there. What they do have is a smooth, easy-on-the-eyes-and-mouth consistency. It’s easy to get kids to like them. Here’s a look at 4 ...

Traffikd

  • Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
    Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
  • 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
    As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
  • Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
    Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.

Survival International

  • Innu agreement signed while the Duke and Duche ...
    Innu children © Serge Jauvin/Survival The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have visited Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories. According to reports, they were met by Inuit and Chipewyan drummers and dancers, and subsequently visited a teepee at Blatchford Lodge. While they have ...
  • Tour operators oppose human safaris
    Tourist films Jarawa on the Andaman Trunk Road © Survival The Association of Tour Operators in India’s Andaman islands has come out in support of Survival’s call for tourists to stop using the illegal road that cuts through the forest of the recently contacted Jarawa tribe. President of th ...
  • UN fails uncontacted Indians
    Members of an Ayoreo family contacted in 2004. © GAT The UN’s flagship business initiative is being used as a tool to mask human rights abuses, according to Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay. Leaders of the tribe, some of whose members are still uncontacted, have written to the UN Global Compact ...
  • Nharo Bushman face eviction tomorrow
    Bushman woman, CKGR, Botswana 2004 © Stephen Corry/Survival Nharo Bushmen in south-west Botswana will be forcefully evicted from their land tomorrow, according to national newspaper The Voice. The Bushmen have vowed to resist eviction from their homes in Xanagas, Kgalagadi District. One ...
  • Case against Amazon Indian leader ‘closed’
    Indigenous rights leader and AIDESEP president, Alberto Pizango. © AIDESEP A two-year legal case against the leader of Peru’s Amazon Indian organisation has been shelved. Alberto Pizango was forced into exile following violent clashes between indigenous protesters and police in June 2 ...

Greg Palast

  • Drowning Fish?
    by Greg Palast June 30th, 2011 July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the path can't imagine. My D ...
  • ZD Roberts Has Something to Say
    I just wanted to send a thanks to all those who have donated to the Gil Palast Memorial fund over the past couple of months. I know Gil would have been happy to see that so many people still believe in the power of journalism. Back in 2008 I got to meet Greg's Dad — he [...]
  • Ce soir ! Achtung! BP en eaux troubles + Die B ...
    Tonight! 28 June. On ARTE, in French and German — in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Holland and (check listing for French Canada) … BP: In Deep Water — The first of Greg Palast’s investigative reports on BP, the Bribery & Pollution company masquerading as an oil company. La M ...
  • Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa
    by Greg Palast for The Guardian Now that I've dispensed with the obvious and obnoxious teaser headline, let's drop the towel and expose Dominique Strauss-Kahn's history of arrogant abuse. The truth is, the grandee of the IMF has molested Africans for years. On Wednesday, the New York Times r ...
  • So, Osama walks into this bar...
    by Greg Palast from Armed Madhouse: just so we don't forget... So, Osama walks into this bar, see? And Bush says, “Whad’l’ya have, pardner?” and Osama says... ...But wait a minute. I’d better shut my mouth. The sign here in the airport says, “Security is no joking matter.” But if security’ ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I make sure a spray bottle is really c ...
    We’ve had lots of suggestions over the years on how to reuse spray bottles from commercial cleaning products and the like but Nancy has just emailed a related question: First I want to comment that this is a fantastic website! Everyone in the world should be accessing it. My question is this: I’ ...
  • How can I reuse/recycle foil bag linings to ma ...
    We’ve had an email from long-time commenter Melinda: I’ve recently been struck with the foil linings of snack bags, and even dog food bags. Has anyone used these to create something solar, such as a cooker? What items have been put to solar use and how? Making a solar cooker is on my to-do list ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle horse hair?
    We’ve had an email from Bea: I’ve always put my horse’s tail and mane clippings on the his manure heap to compost down but I recently wondered if I could use them for something else instead. I’ve heard of horse hair mattresses but don’t think I have enough for that! According to Wikipedia, horse ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle door handles/door k ...
    We’ve had an email from Jill: The last people who lived in our house were obsessed with those naff fake gold handles. We’ve just changed them all out but now have a stash of really ugly handles. Can they be recycled? They probably can be recycled with normal metal scrap – I’m not sure what [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle personalised weddin ...
    We’ve had an email from Rosey: We just got married (yay!) and while we tried to keep the waste to a minimum, we have ended up with about 100 personalised wedding cake boxes leftover. Not sure how that happened! They’re just card but I’d like to reuse them anyway but didn’t know what to do [...]

Age of Autism

  • Mercury Leaves Its Mark: Autism, Cancer & Neur ...
    By Teresa Conrick If you have been following this series (Part 1 and Part 2) on the connections of mercury, both environmental and pharmaceutical, I hope that it has become clear that many diseases appear to be sparked by exposure...
  • An Open Thank You Letter From a Non Autism Mom
    I made a promise to myself a while back. There were two women, should I ever be so lucky to speak to them, I would say thank you. Jenny and Barbara. I owed so much to them and they didn’t...
  • Part 2 of 3. Unanswered Questions about the He ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Thank you to Hilary Butler of the Beyond Conformity blog for allowing us to share this post with you. Please mark Beyond Conformity in your favorites. The presentation to the American Institute of medicine (IOM) about the...
  • NIMH Releases "Autism Balance Tips to Environm ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Autism affects upward of 1% of American kids today. There "is no cure." There is no test. There is precious little hope for treatment in mainstream medicine. It's a crisis for America the likes of which we...
  • Dan Olmsted Interviewed on Progressive News Ne ...
    From the Editor: I had the good fortune to be interviewed for an hour by Jon Rappoport on the Progressive News Network Wednesday and the interview is available at http://thejonrappoportshow.podbean.com/mf/web/5gpqqu/TheJonRappoportShow062911.mp3. Jon is a knowledgeable and astute host and we got ...

Global BDS Movement

  • Map test
    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Outrage as Germany ‘sells’ 200 tanks to Saudi ...
    Russia Today - Germany is reportedly selling two hundred battle tanks to Saudi Arabia. Talk of a deal has caused outrage among Germany’s opposition politicians, who claim the government would be breaking its own export rules. Peace activist Jens Wagner says he fears the heavy weapons could be us ...
  • Internet Freedom Under Attack – US anti- ...
    Guardian – British website owners could face extradition to the US on piracy charges even if their operation has no connection to America and does something which is most probably legal in the UK, the official leading US web anti-piracy efforts has told the Guardian. The US’s Immigration and Cus ...
  • Review raises questions over benefits of cutti ...
    Reuters – In an analysis that set off a fierce debate over the health effects of salt, researchers said on Wednesday they had found no evidence that small cuts to salt intake reduce the risk of developing heart disease or dying prematurely. In a systematic review published by The Cochrane Librar ...
  • Green tea lowers cholesterol, but only a little
    Reuters – Drinking green tea seems to cut “bad” cholesterol, according to a fresh look at the medical evidence. The finding may help explain why green tea has been linked to a lower risk of heart disease, the leading killer worldwide, Xin-Xin Zheng and colleagues from Peking Union Medical Colleg ...
  • International body ICSPA to fight cybercrime g ...
    BBC – The International Cyber Security Protection Alliance (ICSPA) has been set up to fight cybercrime on a global scale. Launched in London on Tuesday, the new body unites governments, international businesses and law enforcement agencies, including Europol. Read article Editors comment: Global ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Grizzly bear kills hiker in Yellowstone Nation ...
    when they encountered the sow and her cubs. The bear, apparently reacting to the perceived threat to her cubs, fatally attacked the man, park officials said. The woman was unhurt.
  • Light-brown apple moths: California deploys wa ...
    The insatiable fruit- and leaf-eating light-brown apple moth may meet its match this month as California prepares to release hundreds of tiny, stingerless wasps. The move is part of a continuing effort to move away from aerial pesticide spraying to...
  • ExxonMobil attempts to limit oil spill on Yell ...
    “We can’t really tell what it’s going to do for our fisheries downstream,” Eric Beebee, 37, said of the oil as he worked at Bighorn Fly and Tackle Shop in Billings, Sunday. “If it was going to effect anybody, it’s going to be the farmers and the ranchers because the water is pushed up so high, w ...
  • Warmer temperatures threaten Northern Californ ...
    In the next 30 years, high-value vineyards in Northern California could shrink by 50% because of global warming, according to a new Stanford University study released Thursday. Applying scenarios from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scientists used a climate...
  • Pacific Ocean study finds fish tainted by plastic
    Southern California researchers found plastic in nearly 1 in 10 small fish collected in the northern Pacific Ocean in the latest study to call attention to floating marine debris entering the food chain. The study published this week by scientists...

water.org

  • Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan (Fast Co ...
    Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa? (Fast Company) – The inside story of Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe’s great crises. Once upon a time, Matt Damon went for a long walk in rural Zambia. The devoted family man and method [...]
  • Interview with Water.org’s April Rinne (GGT)
    INTERVIEW: Water.Org’s April Rinne (Green Global Travel) – While other charities may have similar goals, Water.org’s WaterCredit program is unique in that it is works in partnership with microfinance institutions to establish markets in which there is fair access to affordable loans for everyone ...
  • You’re Invited: June 1st Conference Call
      Wednesday, June 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049
 Participant code: 449749# Not everyone who needs water should have to wait for charity to find them. Learn how Water.org is putting microfinance tools and partnerships to use in helping people get safe water ...
  • Brightest students solving the water crisis
    Hult International Business School Global Case Challenge crowd sources solutions to the water crisis with help from the Clinton Global Initiative. Team from Cambridge University wins Case Challenge.
  • Student group Project RightChoice (Dartmouth)
    Student org. hosts fundraising gala (The Dartmouth) – By selling raffle tickets for a $2,500 cash reward and hosting games with prizes from over 50 local business, members of the student group Project RightChoice raised over $20,000 to support the charity organization Water.Org at a Cinco de May ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • French Boat Successfully Sails for Gaza
    The main French boat is still docked in Athens, but a second, smaller boat, carrying 8 French nationals, has succeeded in avoiding Greek authorities and is expected to reach Gaza no later than Thursday. Submitted by Ken D. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Flotilla: Even state officials say Netanyahu, ...
    "There isn't a shred of evidence that extreme elements will initiate resistance against IDF soldiers. There is no knowledge of the existence of firearms on the ships."Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Rabbi Lior's racism is not his fault
    "The difference between the Israeli soul, its independence, its inner yearning, its aspiration, its characteristics and disposition, and the soul of all the other nations, is greater and deeper than the difference between the soul of a human being and theSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
  • The Olso Accords are all but dead
    According to the Oslo Accords, the final-status agreement was supposed to have been decided upon 13 years ago - meaning that we would be celebrating its bar mitzvah this year. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy
    Why has the United States government supported counterinsurgency in Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, and many other places around the world, at such a loss of human life to the populations of those nations? Why did it invade tiny Grenada and then PanamaSubmitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Two Utah City Councils Reverberate With Hindu ...
    Zed recited lines from Rig-Veda, the oldest scripture. He started and ended the prayer with 'Om,' the mystical syllable containing the universe, which in Hinduism is used to introduce and conclude religious work. Om was followed by Gayatri Mantra
  • Citizens of Solomon Islands Celebrate Their I ...
    Ms. Clinton said the United States and Solomon Islands share a long history of friendship and cooperation, forged during World War II and continuing today.
  • Nepalese Wish King Gyanendra a Very Happy Birthday
    Though presently living as a private citizen of Nepal, His Royal Majesty represents a link of cultural and institutional continuity with Nepal's heritage and with the origins of Nepali unity.
  • Chisora Believes Fury Nothing More Than Dreami ...
    'The Big Brawl,' presented by Hennessy Sports, is being distributed in the United States by Integrated Sports Media for live viewing at 3 PM/ET - 12 PM/PT on both cable and satellite pay-per-view via iN Demand, DIRECTV, and Avail-TVN, for a sugges
  • Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama Team Fights Ba ...
    The group already has prepared a new TV ad for Wisconsin, but they say they are trying to raise money to get these TV ads seen in more critical locations throughout Wisconsin.

Worldnews

  • Singapore Temasek investments edge up to ...
    SINGAPORE -- Singaporean state investment company Temasek Holdings said its investments inched higher to a fresh record high in its last financial year as Asian companies reaped solid profits. Temasek said in an annual report Thursday that the value of its investments rose 3.8 percent to 19 ...
  • Plant a tree in the fall for shade in yea ...
    The hot summer weather may have home owners thinking about trees, but experts say now's not the best time to plant them. If you can, wait until fall because fall trees do better, said Brian Jervis, horticulture extension educator with Tulsa Master Gardeners. A 3- to 6-inch layer of mulch an ...
  • Why Hollywood drives Emma insane
    It is traditionally the place where every starlet heads to seek fame and fortune. But at 21 Emma Watson already has both of those in abundance and sees little need to relocate to Los Angeles. The actress, who plays Hermione in the Harry Potter films, has admitted she was put off by Hollywoo ...
  • Some cities slow to cover up drinking wat ...
    PORTLAND, Ore. - Josh Seater could have done some serious harm when he stepped up to the wrought-iron fence around a Portland reservoir last month if he were holding something more ominous than a full bladder. The open-air reservoir contains treated water that goes directly to people's spig ...
  • How to trek to Amarnath cave? Shrine boar ...
    Srinagar, July 7 (IANS) Thursday, July 07, 2011 --> No cigarettes, no plastic, no slippers and no saris either please... as the number of devotees who performed the Amarnath pilgrimage reached 150,000 Thursday, the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) again issued a detailed list of dos and do ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Obama Under Fire Over Detention of Terror Susp ...
    The Obama administration approved the secret detention of a Somali terror suspect on board a US navy ship, where for two months he was subjected to military interrogation in the absence of a lawyer and without charge. read more
  • UN Refugee Agency Warns of Crisis 'of Unimagin ...
    High levels of malnutrition, combined with ongoing violence in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation, are threatening "a human tragedy of unimaginable proportions", the UNHCR warned. Following several seasons of failed rains and spiralling global food prices, drought has hit more than 12 million pe ...
  • Private Security Industry Booming, Says Small ...
    UNITED NATIONS - A booming private security industry - triggered mostly by terrorist threats, domestic insurgencies and drug wars - deploys some 20 million armed personnel worldwide: twice the number of police officers, according to the annual 2011 Small Arms Survey released here. Outside of war ...
  • Exxon's Yellowstone Oil Spill Shows Pipeline Risks
    The environmental disaster that began unfolding last week when an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured in Montana and spilled an estimated 42,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River highlights the serious environmental risks associated with the oil industry's infrastructure -- and foreshadows the ...
  • Hundreds of Afghans Protest NATO Air Raid Deaths
    GHAZNI, Afghanistan - Hundreds of people gathered in a restive Afghan province to protest the deaths of two young shepherds they said were killed by a foreign air strike on Wednesday, an Afghan official said. Elsewhere, 32 men from a mine clearance organisation were kidnapped by unknown gunmen i ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Where Do You Plug In?
    A signal that plug-in transportation isn’t just for California any more, the Electric Power Research Institute brings its Plug-In Conference and Exposition to the East Coast on July 18, 2011. In its 4th year, the conference makes one giant leap out of its comfort zone in California and heads all ...
  • Natural Gas Taking America's Electric Power Se ...
    Many view natural gas as the key feature of the United States' new energy economy.� Whether this is true or not is still to be determined.� What is evident, though, is that natural gas is a growing energy resource for America.� According to the latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Admi ...
  • Audio Archive: Fukushima and Nuclear Power
    �Listen to The Energy Collective's panelists as they seek answers to questions raised after Fukushima and discuss nuclear power's role in our energy future. The panel covered topics as wide ranging as the carbon cost of countries' choice to abandon nuclear, what we know about future of nuclear p ...
  • March of the Elites: Why Grassroots Can't Save ...
    The campaign to avert cataclysmic climate change soldiers on. Despite an aggressive global economic crisis that unequivocally stole some wind from the sails of climate action, the movement lingers, organizing marches and rallies for the coming climate revolution. But action on the climate-energy ...
  • Dust Storm Gives Phoenix A Preview of Mega-Dro ...
    This blog before noted that over the last decade the Southwest U.S. has suffered the sharpest temperature increase on the continent. Brad Johnson now reports�on a�dust storm up to 50 miles wide and a mile high that �descended on the Phoenix area.

Green House - USA Today

  • Green House takes brief hiatus
    This Green House community will take a hiatus until August, because its moderator, Wendy Koch, is on medical leave. Please check back in a few weeks for environmental news and updates on her journey in green living.
  • My green house is finally, almost, done
    "It's surreal," my husband Alex said about living in our new home a few days after moving in last month. Indeed, it is. We've nurtured the project so long on paper that actually being inside it felt odd or dream-like.
  • U.S. national parks suffer from climate change ...
    America's national parks are suffering as wildlife such as gray wolves disappears, air quality deteriorates and many waterways are polluted, an upcoming report will reveal.
  • Fastest sea-level rise in 2,100 years linked t ...
    The sea-level is now rising faster along the U.S. Atlantic coast than at any time in the past 2,100 years, and this surge is linked to increasing global temperatures, an international research team reports.
  • Supreme Court backs EPA over states on climate ...
    The Supreme Court unanimously rejected Monday a lawsuit by six states that were suing five major power companies for emitting greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Media Porn Hides Real Threats to Children
    By Michael Collins Who knows if Casey Anthony is guilty or innocent? Even Casey might not know at this point. We do know one thing, without any doubt. As our economy and nation crumble around us, we're being amused to death by the corporate media. They've got good reason to keep the headlin ...
  • Let Us Sail to Gaza
    by Stephen Lendman Freedom Flotilla II participants demand their lawful right to deliver vital humanitarian aid to Gaza. However, an Israeli/Washington/Greek conspiracy block them. Nonetheless, they persist, trying to overcome imperial ruthlessness and succeed. A June 27 Jerusalem Post ( ...
  • Libya: Flashpoint for Global Conflict
    by Stephen Lendman On July 3, Peter Dale Scott told Progressive Radio News Hour listeners what he fears most. He repeated it in a July 4 email, citing a Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com article, accessed through the following link: http://www.infowars.com/report-ground-invasion-of-libya-w ...
  • PASOK: Pan Hellenic Socialist Kleptocrats
    James Petras “George Papandreou is not bought, he is rented. He sells public enterprises to the multinationals. He reduces wages, pensions and employment at the behest of the IMF. He turns over the public treasury to the European banks. He supports NATO’s war against Libya. He directs the Greek ...
  • The self-perceptions of Black people are being ...
    F. Jones “Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein The perceptions of black people are being covertly negatively shaped by White elites to ensure the continuance of white dominance and control. It is a very sophisticated racist system that is much less ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • BC's unfair tax system means wealthy pay lower ...
    Today the CCPA-BC released a new report that reveals how ten years of tax cuts and changes have created an unfair system in which the wealthy pay lower taxes and the public treasury is starved for funds. Not only are BC's wealthiest 20% of households paying the lowest tax rate, tax cuts have led ...
  • Job posting: Online Communications Officer
    The CCPA National office is seeking an Online Communications Officer to join our communications team in Ottawa to support and expand the CCPA’s ongoing communications and outreach efforts. The deadline for applications is August 19, 2011. Click here for the full job posting.
  • Linda McQuaig in Regina and Saskatoon!
    � Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Linda McQuaig will speak in both�Regina and Saskatoon on Wednesday October 19th and�Thursday October 20th. Linda will discuss her new book, The Trouble with Billionaires, �which critically examines how extremes of wealth undermine both our qua ...
  • Cashing in: Canada’s CEO salary surge
    Maclean's magazine focuses on Canada's highest paid 50 CEOs and finds their take-home pay increases to be "astronomical". Macleans writes: "In the past 12 years, there’s been a 444 per cent salary increase for Canada’s top CEOs." Read more here.
  • Where the millionaires live
    The Globe and Mail created an interesting infographic that breaks down millionaires by where they live in the world. It shows Canada as home to 282,000 millionaires. See it here.

World Wide Hippies

  • AM Drive w/Dr Woody: Items of Interest
    This mini-screed has been circulating around my part of Zuckerberg’s maze: “In the U.S.A. Homeless go without eating. In the U.S.A. Elderly go without needed medicines. In the U.S.A. Mentally ill go without treatment. In the U.S.A. Troops go without proper equipment. In the U.S.A. Veterans go wi ...
  • Collapse of Capitalism, Part IV: Razor Wire an ...
    WWH - When Egyptians rose up to oust the decades-long, brutal, dictatorial rule of Hosni Mubarak, one of the first acts of the government was to order the police and the army to protect multimillion dollar homes and neighborhoods in the hilly suburbs outlying Cairo. How very typical. It is my ex ...
  • Facebook is boosting its Chat platform
    By Rachel King ,zdnet – Facebook has been talking up an âawesomeâ announcement up until Wednesday, and here it is: Facebook is boosting its Chat platform with the addition of group chat, video calling (with Skype) and a new layout. Before you get upset about Facebook churning out yet another sid ...
  • This Time is the Last Time?
    WWH – I am a patriot only because in a democracy, dissent is a form of patriotism, and I am a person who dissents from many of our established policies, both foreign and domestic. So if there is such a thing as a dissident patriot, itâs me. I will admit that sometimes I wish I [...]
  • Scientists finally get angry about indifferenc ...
    Michael Brooks, guardian.co.uk – James Hansen never expected to become a radical activist at the age of 65. He is a grandfather who loves nothing more than exploring nature with his grandchildren. He holds down a respectable job as the director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. But ...

FourWinds10

  • SYNTHETIC SEA -- OCEANS OF PLASTIC
  • Military Debris Threaten Oceans
    BANGALORE, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) - Military debris dumped into the world’s oceans are hazardous to coral ecosystems, reefs, fish and marine wildlife, say experts, who also warn - in light of the recent tragedy in Japan - that earthquakes and tsunamis could disturb this debris and even wash it ashor ...
  • Ocean Garbage: Floating Landmines
    No matter where you travel on the Canada's West Coast, no matter how remote or seemingly untrammelled and pristine the fiord or inlet, a piece of plastic, Styrofoam or other garbage has been there before you. God knows how it got there: Dumped recklessly off a vessel, swept down a river or throu ...
  • Fight Against Marine Garbage Runs Into Plastic ...
    HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Mar 28, 2011 (IPS) - Every day, billions of plastic bags and bottles are discarded, and every day, millions of these become plastic pollution, fouling the oceans and endangering marine life. No one wants this, but there is wide disagreement about how to stop it. "Every ti ...
  • Florida spring breakers find the oil (VIDEO)

Crisis Maven

  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...
    … and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent count ...
  • How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
    Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s the advi ...
  • Politicians of all countries, recollect yourse ...
    Dear politicians, there’s no alternative to forever turning our backs on nuclear energy and fast. Sure, the nuclear industry will protest vigorously and will see profits dwindle but they will survive without much problem – as opposed to many Japanese. It is but a question of time until another c ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The follo ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This ar ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Chinese Energy Policies Harming Neighbors
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. âââââââââââ China’s omnivorous energy requirements have been attracting increasing attention as of late, as Beijing attempts to secure any and all sources of power for its growing industrial base. Nowher ...
  • Book Review: Cracking the Carbon Code
    Join the forum discussion on this post Introduction In Cracking the Carbon Code, Terry Tamminen lays out his strategy for managing and reducing carbon emissions. He describes what California has done. He describes great strides that China has made. He describes his strategic meetings on the ...
  • Worldwide Nuclear Industry Woes Deepen
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. ——————————– The year 2011 will go down for the nuclear industry worldwide as an annus horribilis. First came the March Fukushima nuclear disaster, with operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) belatedly ...
  • Tapping the SPR: The Root of Dysfunctional Ene ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Falling Into the Trap of Influencing the Crude Oil Markets It seems that nothing quite brings out the silliness in politicians like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). As you undoubtedly have now heard, the United States and the International Energy Ag ...
  • US, Other Countries Battle OPEC With Release F ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post While Robert continues his trip to Europe and across the Continental U.S., a significant piece of news has been dominating the headlines. Although we’ve been closely monitoring the release of 60 million barrels of crude on our Energy Ticker page, we also w ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • Tainted Seafood Gaining Easier Access to Store ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Eighty percent of the seafood Americans eat is imported, and according to an article appearing today on read more
  • Tomato-Loving Gardeners, Beware: Late Blight I ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Meg McGrath would be perfectly content with a super-hot, dry summer. Sure, that means more work for gardeners in the form of watering. But dry, hot conditions will stop a devastating plant disease, late blight, commonly known as tomato blight, in its tracks. In case the ...
  • E. Coli OK? As Food Recalls Rage On, Food Safe ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As the E. read more

big think

  • How Outsourcing Kills Innovation
    What's the Latest Development? When one fisherman doubles his efforts, he doubles his catch. When the entire fishing village doubles its efforts, the fishery will be quickly depleted. Harvard Business School professors David Pisano and Willy Shih worry this is happening to the American economy ...
  • Video Calling: Social Media's Battleground
    What's the Latest Development? Facebook has announced it is partnering up with Skype to allow Facebook users to call each other with their camera-enabled computers. By simply clicking an icon in a friend's profile, video calling will be easier than ever. "No need to ask what their Skype or A.I ...
  • A New Way to Build Nanotechnology
    What's the Latest Development? By combining top-down and bottom-up approaches, A team of M.I.T. researchers has found a new way to create three-dimensional nanostructures—ones that have distinctive shapes and structures at scales of a few billionths of a meter—which have become a fertile area ...
  • Will Switzerland Ban Power-Point?
    What's the Latest Development? There is a new political force is Swiss politics, or at least a new political party. Called the Anti-Power Point Party, or APPP for short, the new party hopes to "decrease the number of boring presentations worldwide." The group's founder, Matthias Poehm, has som ...
  • Control Your Home With Your Mind
    What's the Latest Development? More than 50 disabled people have been test-driving a new brain-computer interface (B.C.I.) that gives them greater control than ever before over their (modern) daily lives. "The system was developed as part of a pan-European project called Smart Homes for All, a ...

Information Liberation

  • Innovations in Technology | Jeffrey A. Tucker
    Presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 June 2011....
  • Show Love to the Merchant Class
    People can be downright nasty to store clerks and stores. It's their right: a feature of the market is that you don't have to trade with anyone in particular. And yet, it still troubles me when people are so dismissive of attempts at entrepreneurship...
  • Conspiracies
    In a June column, I concluded that *conspiracy theory* is a term applied to any fact, analysis, or truth that is politically, ideologically, or emotionally unacceptable. This column is about how common real conspiracies are. Every happening can...
  • Fireworks: Taxpayer Money, Up in Smoke
    Is it wrong that all I can see while watching the firework shows is taxpayer money going up in smoke? As much as I enjoy fireworks, I can't help but find it angering the way the 4th of July is nothing more than some hollowed out, almost sarcasti...
  • The Grand Holiday
    It is very unfortunate that the grandest holiday of all, the Fourth of July, comes but once a year. This glorious day, infused with American exceptionalism and the power of pride, is more exhilarating than sex for most patriotic Americans. Independen...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The Australian Labor Party – A Dying Brand
    The Australian Labor Party does not even call itself a socialist party. Actually it is a liberal-bourgeois party. V.I. Lenin, 1913 Democracy in Australia in 2011 stands at a crossroads. The Australian Labor Party, Australia’s oldest political party and traditional … Continue reading →
  • Beware Of Greeks Demanding Gifts
    I’ve just been reading what I regard as the most comprehensible article (to a non-economist) I’ve read covering the causes of the current PIIGS financial crisis in Europe. Have a look and let me know what you think. One paragraph … Continue reading →
  • Give ‘Em Hell, James
    It would be remiss of me not to wish our God-Emperor all the best on his current American promotional tour of his new book, Watermelons. I just heard him being interviewed here (H/T FergalR) on Ron Smith’s WBAL Radio show. I’m … Continue reading →
  • What’s Your Poison?
    In a very thinly-veiled effort to give this chronicler a few days’ breathing space, I thought I’d throw open the bar and pose the question close to everyone’s heart at 6pm. What’s everyone’s most desired drink, loved libation, needed nepenthe? … Continue reading →
  • So: Impending Ice Age Or Not?
    I thought I’d follow up the current JD thread as it seems to have worried the warmists enough to send a few new trolls over; some of the new crop even appear to be scientifically literate. The thing was sparked … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Bleached in space
    Bleached in space – Great news for cosmic hairdressers. ESO has discovered hydrogen peroxide in space. If you look at the photo, there’s a little red ring, that’s the stuff right there. On Earth, hydrogen peroxide plays a key role in the chemistry of water and ozone in our planetâs atmosphere, b ...
  • Brain tumours and mobile phones
    Brain tumours and mobile phones – It’s interesting that the WHO has adopted what is essentially a non-scientific stance regarding the safety, or putative lack thereof, of mobile phones when it comes to effects on the human brain, and specifically the development of tumours. The precautionary pri ...
  • Scanning for juvenile delinquency
    Scanning for juvenile delinquency – Impulsiveness in youth is not a criminal offence, although if it reaches into the realm of delinquency it can quickly become so. Researchers in the US are using functional magnetic resonance imaging to see whether the brains of young offenders differ in some b ...
  • The real reason for pruney fingers
    The real reason for pruney fingers – Sit in a bath too long and your fingers will wrinkle up. Everyone from 5 to 95 knows that. The scientific explanation was always that the skin absorbs water and the underlying layer buckles. That’s as may be, but writing in Nature News, Ed Yong explains an ex ...
  • The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Unce ...
    The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty – “In today’s unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers–and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by ...

RFF Library

  • Discriminating Between Cclimate Observations i ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (June 28, 2011 vol. 108 no. 26 10405-10409) / by Yi Huang, Stephen Leroy, and Richard M. Goody http://www.pnas.org/content/108/26/10405 [Abstract] In view of the cost and complexity of climate-observing systems, it is a matter of concern to know wh ...
  • U.S. Department of Energy’s Recovery Act Spend ...
    Pew Center on Global Climate Change / by Sam Wurzelmann http://www.pewclimate.org/publications/us-department-energy%E2%80%99s-recovery-act-spending The Pew Center recently released an update to its 2009 white paper on the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Recovery Act spending. The publication s ...
  • Technical Advancements and Issues Associated w ...
    US DOE, Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board http://www.nwtrb.gov/reports/technical%20lessons.pdf [From PEN-e posting]  This report from the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board “is not meant to be an assessment of the licenseability of a Yucca Mountain repository. If licensing goes forward, th ...
  • Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Lessons from ...
    National Research Council http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13143 [Summary]  The U.S. population is more than 80 percent urban. Recognizing that many metropolitan areas in the United States have been experimenting with various approaches to sustainability, and that despite the differences ...
  • Assessing National Resilience to Hazards and D ...
    National Research Council (free download with registration) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13178 [Summary] Natural disasters are having an increasing effect on the lives of people in the United States and throughout the world. Every decade, property damage caused by natural disasters a ...

Scientific American - News

  • Satellite Data Aids in Predicting Cholera Outb ...
    BOSTON – The world has seen seven global cholera outbreaks since 1817, and the current one seems to have come to stay. Rising temperatures and a stubbornly persistent, toxic bacteria strain appear to have given the disease the upper hand.Public health officials are working on vaccines, strugglin ...
  • New Report Details Uphill Battle to Solve the ...
    Chronic pain affects at least one in three adults in the U.S., which is more than the sum total of those with heart disease, cancer and diabetes combined. For many of these 116 million Americans, their pain is severe and eludes available treatments. In addition to the human suffering, the moneta ...
  • Terrorists Get Better with Practice: New Mathe ...
    War fatalities--and especially those from terrorist or insurgent attacks--seem particularly and cruelly random. But some scientists think they have found the key to predicting just when these deadly assaults will come. [More]
  • Social Climber: Google Challenges Facebook for ...
    As Friendster , MySpace and many other social-networking sites have discovered, a successful business finds a niche that draws in a large number of users and offers intriguing, easy-to-use services that keep those users interested. Whereas Facebook , LinkedIn and Twitter have excelled at ...
  • Flake Effect: Airplanes Can Trigger Snowfall a ...
    Anyone who has ever seen a streaky line of vapor, known as a contrail, behind a high-flying aircraft knows that airplanes can produce their own clouds. But in rarer cases aircraft can also punch round holes or carve long channels through existing, natural clouds. [More]

First Truths

  • Weir's "Anarchy & Culture"
    From David Weir's Anarchy & Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism: Of the principal anarchists Proudhon seems most typical of the transfer of the romantic-Enlightenment mixture of ideas from social to aesthetic theory. Proudhon's aesthetic ideas are especially contradictory, although such ...
  • Miscellaneous Thoughts on Law School
    The meaning of the word �logical� that laypeople use when they�re debating politics with family members in the living room�the word�s colloquial use�is nothing at all like the �logical� that law school expects you to be. The logic that law school will test, the sort that�s set out in Gordian for ...
  • New Left Revisionism and the Crisis Tendencies ...
    The following excerpt from International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology�(eds. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski)�will be of interest for left libertarians: Rothbard's view of the relationship between big business and government in the rise of American 'statism' draws additionally from the wo ...
  • Still More About the Marx/Proudhon Connection
    Interesting passage from George Woodcock's Proudhon biography (which I'm still slogging through) touching on the roots of Proudhonian Mutualism and its intersection, if there is one, with the ideas of Marx: Proudhon's association with the Mutualists not only gave him insight into social undercur ...
  • More on my frustration with the "post-left" te ...
    In a book of transcribed interviews, Sasha Lilley's Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult, I stumbled upon the following very insightful response that�Andrej Gruba�i� gave to a question about the place of Marxism in "reorienting [anarchism's] focus ...
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