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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.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

9 July - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
New law focuses on energy financing
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Neil Abercrombie signed into law Friday a bill directing the state Public Utilities Commission to study a program to encourage more consumers to move to renewable energy. The so-called on-bill financing, if deemed viable and implemented by the PUC, ...
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Sempra Unit inks deals for renewable energy
Reuters
July 8 (Reuters) - Regulated utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), a unit of Sempra Energy , signed contracts for a 150 megawatt (MW)solar power plant and a 40 MW geothermalpower plant with two entities in California. It signed the solar contract ...
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Abu Dhabi hosts Africa meeting on renewable energy
The Associated Press
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — African governments should consider investing in renewable energies like wind, solar and hydro power to help feed the continent's growing energy demands and combat threats of climate change, the head of a new ...
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Renewable energy tops nuclear power in the US
Ars Technica
A report produced on behalf of Bloomberg says that investments in renewable energy have gone up by roughly a third over the last year, to $211 billion. Led by China's renewable push, the world is now on a trajectory that will see its investments in ...
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Human Habitat

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Ecology and Environment, Inc. Doubles Dividend Increase
MarketWatch (press release)
Ecology and Environment, Inc. has completed more than 50000 projects for a wide variety of clients in 113 countries, providing environmental solutions in nearly every ecosystem on our planet. The Company is listed on the NASDAQ under the symbol EEI and ...
Ecology Center camp to teach kids outdoor skills
OCRegister
3 Nights Accommodations at Cabo Azul Resort in a 1 Bedroom Villa for $500 The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano will present an Elemental Awareness Camp on July 18-21 in which children ages 9-12 will learn outdoor survival skills and ways to ...
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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Water Power

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Drought forces pumping to meet Pecos water needs
BusinessWeek
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN New Mexico water managers said Friday they are hopeful that summer rains will alleviate the pains of a persistent drought, but until then, they're scrambling to meet demands across the state. Along the Pecos River in eastern New ...
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Halliburton confirms well contamination in Duncan
BusinessWeek
Halliburton Co. has found contamination in 18 water wells in Duncan and said it's taking steps to correct the problem. In testing the wells, Halliburton detected perchlorate, which it described as a colorless salt that could -- in high enough ...
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AP: Pa. seeks stronger look at drilling near water
BusinessWeek
"The heart of the matter is that those water bodies overlay, almost to a T, where predominantly the drilling activity is occurring," Campbell said. The settlement contains "very significant sea changes in the way we are permitting those facilities ...
Parents Can Help Stop Spread of Water Park Illnesses
U.S. News & World Report
SATURDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) -- Too few parents understand their role in stopping the spread of infections at water parks, a new survey suggests. Each year, more than 10000 people in the United States get sick from infections picked up at water ...
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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

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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.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • 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 ...
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    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 ...

Media Co-Op

  • A Mohawk perspective on the Eska Water boycott
    interview with journalist Clifton Nicholas via Kanesatake Listen to an interview with journalist and social activist Clifton Nicholas, from the Mohawk community of Kanesatake, on the recently launched AD campaign by Eska water corporation ...
  • Freedom for Tahrir Three
    Coleman, Kneen, Ruch, all receive 30 day suspended sentence, 80 Euro fine. Napoli, Greece - Today, in the stifling Mediterranean heat, under a gold-leaf portrait of Jesus Christ, the trial of Michael Coleman, Soha Kneen, and Sandra Ruch to ...
  • How It went Down: On board the Tahrir
    Through it all--and by "all" I mean getting boarded by the Greek Special Forces on the high seas as the Tahrir attempted to leave Agios Nikolaos bound for Gaza--I was struck by the humanity of the Greek Special Forces. These were the same men who had been sitting at the marina, under an umbrella ...
  • Tahrir and all aboard are safe after high seas ...
    Apologetic Greek Special Forces Get 'Kayaked', Operate Ineffectual Water Cannon, Cause Diesel Leak on Tahrir After Ramming her into Port. Yesterday, July 4th, the Tahrir chose to make a break for Gaza. Bogged down by the seemingly endless ...
  • Canadian Flotilla ship stopped by coast guards
    A Canadian ship taking part in a planned aid flotilla to Gaza has been boarded by Greek coast guards after attempting to break out of Crete harbour This article was originally posted by Al Jazeera English. A Canadian ship taking part in a ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Sign of the Times: Glenn Beck to address the K ...
    David Seaton's News LinksWe do live in a society in which things have become almost inscrutably complex. (...) I think the rise in autism diagnosis has a lot to do with children coming into a society that no longer makes much sense socially and contains within all the incentives for behavioral m ...
  • DSK: do you have to be nice person to get raped?
    Portrait of a used KleenexAlthough the Manhattan district attorney�s office agreed last week to release Mr. Strauss-Kahn from house arrest, prosecutors said they still believed that there was evidence of a forcible sexual attack. Most of their problems with the case, they said, had to do not wit ...
  • Notes on a conversation
    David Seaton's News LinksA couple of days ago I spent a hot Madrid summer evening sitting in a sidewalk café, chatting and reminiscing late into the night over tapas with a group of Americans from San Francisco, who you might say were a good cross section of modern progressive, middle class Amer ...
  • DSK: New Developments
    (S)upporters raised the prospect of Mr Strauss-Kahn�s return to French politics, while snap opinion polls found strong popular support for a presidential bid from the man once tipped as the candidate most likely to beat President Nicolas Sarkozy in next year�s election. � Financial TimesDavid Se ...
  • 'Singing penis' sets noise record for water in ...
    David Seaton's News Links�In a phenomenon, which I believe is known as "fractalization", the tiniest parts of nature are reproduced on a much larger scale and vice versa. For example, under a microscope, a grain of sand appears identical to the tallest mountains... or the following story:A tiny ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • 60 Things that Can Go Terribly Wrong with Hepa ...
    The website Green Med Info has assembled 44 articles which together list 60 diseases or adverse unintended consequences associated with hepatitis B vaccination. Among the problems the vaccination may cause are: Autoimmune inflammatory polyneuropathy Multiple sclerosis Anaphyl ...
  • This Company Spends Over $5M a Year to Lobby U ...
    The Monsanto Company spent $1.4 million to lobby the federal government just in the first quarter of 2011, according to a recent disclosure report.� That's still less than the $2.5 million Monsanto spent in a single three month period only a year earlier. The company primarily lobbied Congress ...
  • The Healthy Snack that Can Actually Improve Yo ...
    A study sought to evaluate the effect of an almond-enriched low-calorie diet on body composition and metabolism in a weight reduction program. The results showed that supplementation with almonds, in contrast to complex carbohydrates, was associated with greater reductions in weight and BMI, wai ...
  • FDA Says: Drinking This Natural Food is a Crime
    On May 16th, Representative Ron Paul asked, "If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?" Paul was talking about the FDA ban on the interstate sale of raw milk for human consumption — milk that has ...
  • How You Can Recycle Soap to Save Lives
    Every barely used bar of soap you leave in your hotel room could now be helping poor children fight disease. �Derreck Kayongo and his Global Soap Project collect used hotel soap from across the U.S. �The soaps are cleaned and shipped to impoverished nations such as Haiti, Uganda, Kenya and Swazi ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • The crown should appeal the Turcotte verdict
    It came at the end of one of the most publicized and gripping trials Quebec has seen in many years. The facts of the case that were not disputed are profoundly disturbing. The defence acknowledged that the doctor stabbed his 3-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son multiple times in the course of ...
  • Deaths on the roads: can more be prevented?
    Summer wasn't even officially under way in Quebec before six young people lay dead in the mangled wreckage of a road accident. By the time the weekend of June 17-19 was over, 12 Quebecers had died in road accidents, half of them under the age of 25. Police suspect the usual culprits - alcohol an ...
  • Closing refinery opens opportunities for east end
    Where the downtown and the western part of the island were home to light industry, financial services and much of the retail sector, heavy industry settled in the east end. With the dismantling of the refinery, announced by the Charest government last week, another piece will fall off this artif ...
  • Closing refinery opens opportunities for east end
    Shell Canada Ltd.'s refinery in the east end of Montreal has long stood as a kind of sentinel, protecting the once-dynamic blue-collar neighbourhoods that surround it.
  • Doing my royal duty
    Forty-eight hours covering the royal tour and I have new respect and admiration for those who cover political campaigns.

Food World Order

  • united nations report calls for the doubling f ...
    from voanews: The United Nations warns the world's farmers will have to double the amount of food they produce to keep up with a rapidly growing population. The U.N.'s latest World Economic and Social Survey, released Tuesday, says global food production will need to jump by 70 to 100 percent by ...
  • sonic, burger king now serving hamburgers, fri ...
    from christian post: “I'll take the number one, with fries and a...beer?” That's right, a new item that fast food chains are experimenting with, in a limited number of locations, is the selling of alcohol in some restaurants. Two Sonic restaurants in South Florida, one in Miami and the other in ...
  • 6/30 binge & purge: false floods, seed supplie ...
    feds buying up farmland they flooded; soros in on it* video: odd letter from corps upsets property owners in kansas city, mo* georgia's harsh immigration law leaves crops rotting in fields* free the florida 'food terrorists'* amid record-high food prices, monsanto grows q3 profits 77 ...
  • health alert: 32% of organic produce contains ...
    from anthony gucciardi: It is common knowledge that conventional produce contains a whole list of questionable chemicals and harmful pesticides. Linked to birth defects and lower IQ in children, conventional pesticides are known to be health disruptors. But what about organic produce? Perchlorat ...
  • why are food prices rising so fast?
    from the economic collapse blog: If you do much grocery shopping, you have probably noticed that the cost of food has been rising at a very brisk pace over the past year. So why are food prices rising so fast? According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, inflation is still very low and th ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of m ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 � In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort � S Shyam Prasad �
  • Pastor arrested for murdering minor girl
    source:  MSN India, 30 June, 2011 � Guntur (AP), Jun 30 (PTI) A local pastor was arrested for allegedly murdering a teenager after she became pregnant with his child, police said today. The victim, identified as Monica (17) from Nadendla village in the district was working ...
  • Conversation with a Convert
    source: The Undercurrent, 26 March, 2011 Somewhere in Tamil Nadu The cab was waiting at the end of the road waiting to take us to our destination. The driver was a 50 something man and there was a picture of the Christian prophet Jesus on his dash board. After a few kilometeres of dr ...
  • Study suggests 'born-again' believers have sma ...
    source:  USA today, May 24, 2011  DURHAM, N.C. � For decades, mainline Protestants have been beset by bad news: declining numbers, aging membership, waning cultural influence.A new study from  Duke University Medical Center, however, gives these Protestants one reason for cheer: they seem ...
  • Study suggests 'born-again' believers have sma ...
    source:  USA today, May 24, 2011  DURHAM, N.C. � For decades, mainline Protestants have been beset by bad news: declining numbers, aging membership, waning cultural influence.A new study from  Duke University Medical Center, however, gives these Protestants one reason for cheer: they seem ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans for mankind? H ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU

The Economic Collapse

  • The Sovereign Debt Crisis Is Never Going To En ...
    In the past, there certainly have been governments that have gotten into trouble with debt, but what we are experiencing now is the first truly global sovereign debt crisis.  There has never been a time in recorded history when virtually all of the governments of the world were ...
  • Without Low Interest Rates, The U.S. Financial ...
    Right now, interest rates are near historic lows.  The U.S. government is able to borrow gigantic mountains of money for next to nothing.  U.S. consumers are still able to get home loans, car loans and student loans at ridiculously low interest rates.  When this low interest rat ...
  • Celebrating Independence Yet Enslaved To Debt
    Every year when July 4th rolls around, Americans from coast to coast celebrate July 4th with cookouts, outdoor concerts and fireworks.  We love celebrating Independence Day and yet we are deeply enslaved to debt.  We like to think of ourselves as "free" and yet we have rolled up ...
  • Will Barack Obama Use The 14th Amendment As A ...
    As the deadline to raise the debt ceiling draws closer, many are now wondering if Barack Obama will try to go around Congress if a deal is not reached by August 2nd.  In particular, a number of voices (including U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner) are now touting the 14th ...
  • Shell Game
    The entire U.S. financial system has become a gigantic shell game.  While it is still in motion, a shell game can be mesmerizing to watch.  But when it ends the consequences can be painful.  So exactly what is a shell game?  According to Wikipedia, a shell game "is portrayed as ...

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The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Day: 6th July 2011
    "As our politicians continually impose on us ever higher taxes and other costs supposedly in the cause of 'fighting climate change' — costs that have already helped to increase every family's energy bills by an average £200 a year — they have been carried away by a collective fantasy that has no ...
  • UKIP's Nigel Farage: "We're headed for a Europ ...
  • People of Europe, rejoice: "EU is disintegrati ...
    Denmark has reclaimed some sovereignty over it's own national borders - a move which the BBC and Guardianistas would no doubt brand as being the hallmark of 'Little England xenophobia'... but the Danish are reclaiming some sovereignty, the French are doing it, the Italians and the Germans are do ...
  • A public service announcement to the criminal ...
    Note: The following is posted on behalf of the Greek people who find sympathy and solidarity with this and with many patriotic Englishmen. Our hat-tip for the post is towards the Runnymede Institute and the back-up can be found on the RT presenter Max Keiser's website. And the globalist crook ...
  • Quotes of the Day: 5th July 2011
    We'll dig out the authoritative transcript of this tomorrow when Hansard put it online. Meanwhile, we give a hat-tip to John Redwood MP who reports that Douglas Carswell MP has today said of the Greek bailouts: "It is the first time in history that they have been ladling the water into the ...

Facing South

  • 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 ...
  • Is Georgia the new Arizona?
    Since last year, Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 -- the state's restrictive immigration law -- has been a key lightning rod for the nation's immigration debate. Arizona is still roiling with controversy -- this week, activists are calling for a boycott of Major League Baseball's annual All-Star game ...
  • Mississippi civil rights activist honored for ...
    By Jonah Most, New America Media It was reading Malcolm X that convinced Chokwe Lumumba to go to law school. Malcolm X had wanted to be a lawyer, but his teachers discouraged him. As an undergraduate student at Kalamazoo College in Michigan in the late 1960s, Lumumba decided to be the lawyer ...
  • Illegal campaign contributions spotlight Koch ...
    As Americans prepared to celebrate their independence from a foreign power, the Federal Election Commission reached a settlement in a case involving a foreign corporation making thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to state-level political candidates over a four-year period. ...
  • VOICES: Amazon's anti-tax crusade
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest When large companies complain about taxes, they are usually talking about levies they have to pay out of their own deep pockets. Amazon.com is engaged in a battle to make it easier for its customers to avoid paying their taxes -- their sales tax, that is, ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Somali Held Offshore Is Indicted in NYC on Terrorism Charges A Somali man suspected of ties to al Shabab and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was captured in the Gulf of Aden on … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Matthew Olsen Nominated to Lead Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olsen, the general counsel of the National Security Agency and a longtime Justice Department official, has been nominated to replace Michael Leiter as the head of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Today’s Terrorism News will return Tuesday, July 5. U.S. to Investigate Two Detainee Deaths in CIA Custody On Thursday, the Justice Department announced that the deaths of two detainees in CIA custody overseas will … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Three Convicted of Bronx Synagogue Bomb Plot Sentenced to 25 Years Three men convicted last year of plotting to bomb a Bronx synagogue and Jewish community center were each sentenced to 25 years in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Taliban Militants Attack Kabul Hotel A small team of up to eight Taliban militants attacked a landmark Kabul hotel popular with foreigners on Tuesday, setting off an hours-long siege that only ended with NATO … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 10 Popular Real Time Strategy(RTS) Games for Linux
    Except for some really casual games for Linux and the best of paid games for Linux collection, games for Linux and Ubuntu is a category we haven't yet really covered here at all. That is going to change from now on. Here is a quick list of 10 real time strategy(RTS) games for Linux(mostly open-s ...
  • ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Running Ubuntu 11.04[ ...
    This is one of the advantages of having an open device running an open OS. ASUS Eee Transformer Pad is already among the fastest selling Android tablets�out there and it is powered by latest Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS. YouTube user lilstevie89 have managed to install and run Ubuntu 11.04's classic ...
  • 5 Quick Tips to Improve Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Per ...
    In my opinion, one area where successive Ubuntu releases�continuously�under-performed is on the overall system performance front. Every new Ubuntu release feels more and more bloated, especially so with latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. I was quite taken aback by fact that, even the so called U ...
  • Nautilus Elementary Ambiance Theme Adds PPA, L ...
    Nautilus Elementary Ambiance GTK theme by simplygreat is perhaps the most beautiful mod of default Ubuntu Ambiance theme. We have featured it already in our top themes for Ubuntu 11.04 post. Few things have changed lately and the latest Nautilus Elementary Ambiance theme now comes with a PPA. In ...
  • 9 Good Terminal Emulators for Linux
    We have featured a few Terminal emulators before and introduced you to applications like CLI Companion that makes you more familiar with command line in Linux. Now, we want to take it to a whole new level. A collection of really good Terminal emulator apps for Linux. Guake for its apparent ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • U.S. Fort Calhoun nuclear plant flooded
    The Fort Calhoun plant north of Omaha in the US state of Nebraska has been surrounded by flood water from the Missouri River for over ten days. As worries mount, US authorities have reassured the public the plant is safe. Could this be another Fukushima? Operators of the Fort Calhoun plant say n ...
  • TSA Can Grope Dying Old Ladies; But Can’ ...
    from the security-theater dept Apparently the TSA’s Security Theater is a comedy. Pjerky was the first of a whole bunch of you to alert us last week about the TSA’s massive failure to catch a Nigerian man who boarded a flight without a valid boarding pass. The man successfully flew from New York ...
  • Bill Gates in global push to vaccinate every c ...
    By Jonathan Benson Microsoft guru Bill Gates is busy rallying the troops to bring about what he calls “vaccine equity,” which is his plan to vaccinate every single child in the world. Manipulating the heart strings of his listening audience, Gates stated at a recent Global Alliance for Vaccines ...
  • Historical fact: Independence Day is a celebra ...
    By Mike Adams Happy July 4th, my fellow Americans. It’s the Independence Day weekend! Independence from what, you might ask? As even the somewhat revisionist history taught in public schools readily admits, July 4th is a celebration of independence from government tyranny under British rule. And ...
  • Video – Looks like GADDAFI has some support!

Veterans Today

  • A Greek Tragedy: Seizing the Gaza Flotilla on ...
    Greece's relationship with Israel suddenly improved after Israel's murderous attack on the Turkish ship a year ago which led to a souring of the long good relations between Israel and Turkey.
  • Killing Old People Is Fiscally Responsible
    "The fiscal good has to outweigh the pain," a nameless Democrat told the Washington Post regarding President Obama's latest proposal to massively cut Social Security, against the wishes of the vast majority of Americans.
  • Anthony Lawson : Scarier than 9/11/01 was 5/24/11
    It was the final nail in a coffin, the construction of which began long ago The Death of American Democracy By Anthony Lawson The collapses of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre, on September 11, 2001, were the most frightening images that I have ever seen, up until May 24th, 2011, when B ...
  • Hasbara Psychosis
    What is absolutely clear is that, once again, the abuser and the murderer considers itself (herself) to be the 'victim'.
  • Drawdown of American Troops Has Finally Arrived
    Proxy war fought by Pakistan at the behest of USA in 1980s in return for $3.5 billion assistance proved too costly for Pakistan.

electric politics

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

PR News

  • Boston Scientific names Kaigler SVP of corpora ...
    NATICK, MA: Boston Scientific, a global manufacturer of medical devices, has appointed Denise Kaigler to SVP of corporate communications.
  • McDonald's to host Olympics webcast
    OAKWOOD, IL: With the McDonald's London 2012 Olympic Games a year away, the fast food giant has decided to host a live global media webcast on July 20 to explain its sponsorship campaign.
  • Lionsgate restructures PR to align with online ...
    SANTA MONICA, CA: Looking to streamline communications efforts and further align the company's publicity and online efforts, Lionsgate restructured its film publicity division into two teams.
  • ATK selects Blue Heron as AOR
    NORMAN, OK: ATK recently selected Blue Heron Communications as AOR for its security brands, which include Blackhawk, a tactical, military, shooting sports, and law enforcement equipment manufacturer.
  • AvalonBay hires Blue Bug Digital for social media
    WASHINGTON: AvalonBay Communities, a company specializing in developing, acquiring, and managing luxury apartment communities, hired Blue Bug Digital as its social media AOR.

The Story Behind the Story

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

k2p blog

  • Colder winters to come and solar influence on ...
    Britain is set to face an increase in harsh winters, with up to one-in-seven gripping the UK with prolonged sub-zero temperatures based on research that identified how low solar activity affected winter weather patterns.
  • Renewable Energy follies: Subsidies discourage ...
    A key problem with subsidising "renewable energy" is that the economics become so distorted that developers/owners focus first on maximising the extraction of subsidies and not on the long-term operation of the plant or the production of power.
  • Plagiarist with a recently rescinded PhD appoi ...
    Sylvana Koch-Mehrin had her doctorate rescinded by the University of Heidelberg for containing over 30% plagiarism in May 2011, and now in June she has been named EU commissioner for research.
  • Earthquakes July 5th
    Following up from the red warning last week an earthquake shakes Melbourne, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand's lower North Island and a powerful 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits Western Japan today. Generally the number of earthquakes during the period warned about was at the heightened ...
  • Reducing sulphur emissions caused post-1970 gl ...
    New paper "The post 1970 period of warming, which constitutes a significant portion of the increase in global surface temperature since the mid 20th century, is driven by efforts to reduce air pollution in general and acid deposition in particular"

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Denied For A Credit Card Or Loan? Lenders Will ...
    If you've ever been turned down for a credit card, auto or student loan -- or maybe your application was accepted but you didn't get the best interest rate -- and wanted to see a copy of the actual credit score used in the lender's decision-making process, you were probably out of luck. But sta ...
  • The TSA Is All Worried About Surgically Implan ...
    The threat of drinking water and toothpaste has been securely locked up in a plastic sandwich bag. And those new-fangled scanners can see if you're carrying a huge knife and/or grenade in your crotch. But a new threat has the TSA focusing its interest on something that its fancy electronics and ...
  • Get These 25 Documents Ready Before You Kick T ...
    After trying out base jumping and reconnecting with your estranged son, there's a couple things you'll want to add to your bucket list. Like getting these 25 documents ready so people know what to do with your bucket after you've kicked it. Everyone knows about getting a will ready, but you'l ...
  • How Nasty Is Your Bottled Water?
    Does your bottled water taste funny? It's not just that it's probably only tapwater. Environmental Working Group rated 173 brands of bottled water based on their sourcing information, purification, testing, and how transparent the information on their label and website was. Turns out, some of t ...
  • Keep Your Dogs Away From Gum With Xylitol So T ...
    Icebreakers gum may be a great way to "break the ice," but you wouldn't want to use them to help your dog freshen his breath. Many pet owners aren't aware that the artificial sweetener inside it and many other products, Xylitol, can be acutely toxic to dogs if the canines eat it. KCBS has the t ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Editorial: Is EuroMillions Now Impossible to W ...
    6½ weeks and this record 13th rollover will erase all previous jackpot records AND could earn a deserved black eye on Camelot, The National Lottery and the UK government. If it does not fall, the astoundingly high EuroMillions jackpot ends and, ironically, after missing the prediction 6 question ...
  • Nuclear/Chemical Disasters (Part 3): What Have ...
    The world watched anxiously as a nuclear emergency unraveled at the Fukushima Daiichi complex, along the ravaged northeastern coast of Japan, as operators dumped seawater into 2 reactors in a final cooling effort to prevent a nuclear meltdown after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake and 23-foot ...
  • Casey Anthony Trial Shows the Limits of Forens ...
    by Aarti Shahani, ProPublica Earlier today, an Orlando, Fla., jury found Casey Anthony not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, bringing to a stunning end a trial that had fixated the nation for weeks. The case turned on similar questions of forensic expertise and evidence as those ...
  • Manipulating Obama: Moving Left
    The reelection bid of President Barack Obama has posed some interesting dilemmas for those who helped push the change agenda. The change agenda has evolved into a manipulation agenda, whereby everybody has a new demand for the President. The new demand is an extension of the old demands of class ...
  • Nuclear/Chemical Disasters (Part 2): Chernobyl ...
    In what is now northern Ukraine, in the small village of Pripyat, in the city of Chernobyl, a catastrophic nuclear meltdown occurred 25 years ago on April 26, 1986. Together with the recent nuclear crisis in Japan, we need to ask ourselves if the world has progressed toward safer nuclear energy. ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Cartoon world of Global Warming — watch the me ...
    Share this with friends: What a great video. Enjoy. Skill and talent meet a roomful of science. Thanks to encounterbooks I like it! Hat tip to Christian K in Germany. http://tinyurl.com/6howlvu   PS: I’m touring at the moment with Monckton, sorry for the gaps between posts. It’s much fun all ro ...
  • Monckton: The Climate of Freedom — Hancock Lec ...
    Background notes to the Lang Hancock Memorial Lecture by Christopher Monckton (70 pages) Click on the image to download the pdf. —————– CONTENTS Death by consensus p 2 Can we trust the consensus? p 4 Concessions to consensus p14 Can we reliably predict long-term future climate states? p 15 Is th ...
  • Monckton Evans Nova — speaking Monday night in ...
    See the Monckton Tour page for details. 5.45pm  Wilsmore Lecture Theatre. UWA Chemistry Dept.  $25. Ph 043 542 3636 to Book. Then we’re all travelling to Newcastle and Sydney this week. Book now!
  • Survey shows skeptics are smarter
    I kid you not. Chris Mooney at Desmog has got the data that shows skeptics were more literate and numerate than believers, and he wants to share it. Last week, an intriguing study emerged from Dan Kahan and his colleagues at Yale and elsewhere–finding that knowing more about science, and being b ...
  • The Fog of War — more propaganda against Monckton
    Anson Cameron makes a PR contribution in the big fog of the Climate War (Please: don’t dump the Monck), and I must say that it’s more sophisticated than the 50 religious academics who have no answer to Monckton and are terrified he might — God-forbid — speak. Cameron’s been called out from somew ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

  • Today's Quote
    "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell
  • Poll: Are the Current E.coli Outbreaks False F ...
    This week, we wanted to get your thoughts on the current E. coli outbreaks. Are they random, unfortunate events? Or is there a depopulation agenda being carried out by the eugenicist global elite? Here's what you thought (click to enlarge):
  • Today's Quote
    "When one does not see what one does not see, one does not see that one is blind" - Paul Veyne� �
  • CIA Report: United States Account Balance = -$ ...
    Let me ask you something: if you're in a massive amount of debt, should you spend even more money? Sorry, stupid question, right? Of course, the answer is "no," you shouldn't. Believers in Keynesian monetary theory -- like Ben Bernanke and his predecessors, as well as past and present Presidents ...
  • The Food Pyramid Becomes...MyPlate!
    Forget the Food Pyramid. The new government food propaganda comes to us in the form of "MyPlate."If you're anything like me, you grew up knowing -- because government said so -- that the way we should eat is as prescribed by the Food Pyramid. The Food Pyramid was "it," man! Everyone was using it ...

2012 Blog

  • Nat Geo: Were Humans Domesticated?
    While it certainly wasn’t the focus or intention of the article, this is how part of it reads: If Andersson’s theory is correct, it may turn out to have intriguing implications for our own species. Harvard ... Related posts:Humans are still evolving! Doomsday Preppers (was) on Nat Geo Ro ...
  • Killer Koala Unearthed
    Like a giant (size of a rhino) cross between a wombat and a koala, the Diprotodon supposedly died out in Australia 25,000 years ago. As with all other extinct megafauna, experts figure that they were ... Related posts:Stegomastadon: Another Unexplained Extinction Giant Wombat News Mammoth ...
  • Eclipse Quakes in Melbourne, Auckland & Taupo
    While lunar eclipses tend to trigger major quakes, we have been seeing solar eclipses (July 1) setting off quakes in places that don’t usually get them. On Friday Auckland had a 2.9 quake – unusual ... Related posts:Lunar Eclipse = Quakes? Moon and rain = quakes Central Lunar Eclipse in 5 ...
  • US Grid: Add Hackers To The List
    The US power grid is extremely vulnerable, as are those in Europe. Primarily because they are old and over-burdened, but also because they are targets. If terrorists took out a number of transmission substations or ... Related posts:Power Grid Disinformation?? US Grid Concerns Continue Ne ...
  • Global Warming Running Out of Steam
    I’ve put in enough research to have decided that there is insufficient evidence to support the concept of man-made climate change, and that any warming or cooling is to do with the Sun. In the ... Related posts:Global Warming or Ice Age? Global Warming: Is it just the Sun? SHTF = Climate ...

Facing South

  • 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 ...
  • Is Georgia the new Arizona?
    Since last year, Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 -- the state's restrictive immigration law -- has been a key lightning rod for the nation's immigration debate. Arizona is still roiling with controversy -- this week, activists are calling for a boycott of Major League Baseball's annual All-Star game ...
  • Mississippi civil rights activist honored for ...
    By Jonah Most, New America Media It was reading Malcolm X that convinced Chokwe Lumumba to go to law school. Malcolm X had wanted to be a lawyer, but his teachers discouraged him. As an undergraduate student at Kalamazoo College in Michigan in the late 1960s, Lumumba decided to be the lawyer ...
  • Illegal campaign contributions spotlight Koch ...
    As Americans prepared to celebrate their independence from a foreign power, the Federal Election Commission reached a settlement in a case involving a foreign corporation making thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to state-level political candidates over a four-year period. ...
  • VOICES: Amazon's anti-tax crusade
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest When large companies complain about taxes, they are usually talking about levies they have to pay out of their own deep pockets. Amazon.com is engaged in a battle to make it easier for its customers to avoid paying their taxes -- their sales tax, that is, ...

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • US: Will the National Debt Continue to Grow?
    This May the United States have passed yet another upper limit of the national debt that Congress approved last year at a dizzy level of $14.3 trillion. Now U.S. leadership has mere weeks to avoid default that may take place right after the 2nd of August. The only option viewed as the means of s ...
  • Anglo-Saxon Roots of German Nazism
    More than six decades after Berlin’s capitulation which capped World War II, the war is still raging, now in the form of revisionist attempts to cast a shadow over the memory of Soviet soldiers who fought in it. Among other things, the efforts aimed at equating fascism â a monster nurtured by th ...
  • Libya: Absurdity Grows
    For three months «no-flight zone» over Libya is being secured. Even this simple phrase, a single sentence, is enough for expressing the entire absurdity of this Middle-Eastern war. Libya is still being bombed. NATO aviation makes 50–60 operation flights a day in average, hunting the so-called mi ...
  • Moscow and Ankara: Reshaping the Geopolitics o ...
    Speaking at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London recently, Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül said that the role of the West in global politics was gradually diminishing, and called for the creation of the new world order based on harmonious relations between the US and other worl ...
  • US-Led Commodity Boom: Fake Prices, Global Crises
    When I first entered the floor and learned about oil pricing, it was clear that the cash market, where real barrels of oil were bought and sold, was where pricing was decided. Later, it became increasingly clear that the source of prices was coming from the futures markets that I engaged in, wit ...

BlogHer

  • What If You Can't Say No?
    BlogHer Spotlight: Miranda - Not Super Mom. Is work-life balance as simple as just saying no? Not according to this working mother. Read what she has to say about saying no (or not being able to). I read a syndicated post on BlogHer today that has just kind of stuck in my head all aftern ...
  • Our Food Diversity is Shrinking. So Why Should ...
    A friend and colleague�sent me a link to an article from National Geographic that explains how food sources�crops, vegetables and animals bred for food�around the globe are becoming less biologically diverse. The story, titled�Food Ark, is very interesting and worth reading if you, you know, eat ...
  • Widow vs. Widow
    She said “Well, at least you got to say good-bye.”Anger rises in me because I see her comment as one of those my-situation-is-worse-than-yours comments.Anger because she wants to beat me to the bottom, to claim more grief, more anger, more despondency than me.Anger because really? Do we have to ...
  • Trend Alert: Mineral Blue!
    I have been seeing hints of mineral blue every where lately! What better place to showcase this current trend than on your feet! Shoes of any color can add just the right touch to finish off a look. Try to pair with matching earrings or skinny belt cinched at the waist. Below are some of my ...
  • Five Great Summer Hats
    With summer in full swing it can be hard to look cool when the temperatures are so hot. Here are five summer hats guaranteed to keep the sun off your brow while looking lovely. Hat number 1: from JCrew. Stripes are hot. Hat number 2: Land's End Canvas. The perfect combo of traditional and ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Ron Paul Goes After The TSA
    Last week signaled the end to Texan lawmaker David Simpson’s bill to criminalize TSA groping. Not to be deterred, Ron Paul reintroduced  the “American Traveler Dignity Act” on Independence Day. The first introduction died in last year’s ...
  • Bayer Settles $750 Mill For Longtime GM Rice D ...
    CropScience of Bayer settled $750 million with US farmers to end a five-year legal battle over GM rice crops. In 2006, it was discovered that Bayer’s experimental GM long-grain rice strain made its way, unapproved, ...
  • Mini Car, TV, $22 for Sterilization In India
    In an effort to control India’s growing population, health officials west of New Delhi are offering incentives like TVs, a mini car, and food processors to the first sterilization participants. Others who get vasectomies will ...
  • Easy DIY Air Purifier Around $30
    Effective air purifiers are a Godsend to allergy sufferers. Mold, dust, pollen, pollution and odors are a concern whether you have allergies or not. But who wants to pay $800 or more for a breath ...
  • Ways To Celebrate Your Freedom Like A Rebel &# ...
    If we’re not laughing, we’re crying right? It’s hard to find humor when reports constantly assault our psyches by depicting the blatant trampling of our rights. But being a “rebel” today means different types of battles ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Brushy Fork impoundment: What about blasting?
    Photo of the Brushy Fork impoundment, by Vivian Stockman, with flight services provided by SouthWings. After our Coal Tattoo post Thursday night on the continuing controversy over the Brush Fork Impoundment, the AP’s Vicki Smith followed up with this more detailed piece, reporting: Regulators ha ...
  • Friday roundup, July 1, 2011
    While I was out last week, there was just a ton of coal news, so I’ll try to do a roundup of as much of it as I can here … First, there was a close call and some good news out of Kentucky, when three miners emerged safely after being trapped underground for 14 [...]
  • More controversy over Brushy Fork slurry impou ...
    Photo of the Brushy Fork impoundment, by Vivian Stockman, with flight services provided by SouthWings. The folks from Coal River Mountain Watch announced today that they’re having a press conference next week to urge the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to take strong ...
  • Birth defects study: More inconvenient facts a ...
    I was out of town last week when news broke of the latest major scientific study about the serious public health impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining. My buddy Dr. Paul Nyden covered it for the Gazette with this front-page story, reporting: Researchers found “significantly higher” rates of ...
  • Is MSHA partly to blame for UBB deaths?
    At the end of yesterday’s MSHA press conference, a local radio reporter asked a pretty darned good question. It went something like this: Is Massey 100 percent responsible for the 29 deaths at the Upper Big Branch Mine? Or is MSHA also to blame, at least in part? Put in a practically impossible ...

Daniel Miessler

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

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • 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 ...

reference frame

  • Should America raise the debt ceiling?
    Jon Stewart answered the question in the simplest possible way: he looked into the two future parallel worlds according to Everett's Many-Worlds Interpretation where the debt ceiling was either raised or not: Via A.A. More seriously, if America doesn't raise the debt ...
  • I was wrong: DjVu may have created all Obama c ...
    During the most recent 24 hours, I spent a few hours by looking for some additional anomalies in the long form Obama certificate. And I have spent a very similar amount of time by trying to look for alternative explanations - i.e. methods to create a multi-layered PDF file with similar biza ...
  • Did Chinese coal cause the cooling since 1998?
    BBC and others celebrate a great new paper in PNAS that claims to finally explain why there hasn't been any warming in the last decade or so. How did the research start? China is considered by Al Gore to be the world's leader in the improvements of the environment. He scream ...
  • Obama's long form birth certificate is a forgery
    I used to be a lukewarm birther but when Obama's folks released the long form birth certificate (key PDF for this article),I lost most of my interest. The birthers gradually began to resemble those who doubted moonlanding. Well, the analogy surely wasn't that perfect but I did decide to w ...
  • Mark Lynas: how far the new wisdom of ex-green ...
    I have also been pleased by climate activist Mark Lynas' article in the Daily Mail: You mustn't believe the lies of the Green zealots. And I should know - I was oneWell, I surely agree with both points in the title - you mustn't believe the lies of the Green zealots; and Mark Lynas should ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • The End of Fear – Follow in the steps of ordin ...
    Το τέλος του φÏβου… The end of fear… by magiconteam Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Stop Living In Fear! Stop living in fear! It lowers your vibrations and helps... Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Radio 13 Aug 2010 Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Ra ...
  • Darwin was right: Arrival of the Post-Petroleu ...
    Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial civilization. The star ...
  • Greek Revoultion is now Live
    I am streaming the coverage of protests from Greece. It will run as long as the video feed keeps coming to me. Just so you know…Greece is 7 hours ahead of EST. LIVE STREAMING: Γενική Απεργία ενάντια στο… by News247 Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Postcards from the G ...
  • Burzynski Cures Cancer – The Magic of Antineop ...
    THIS VIDEO WILL BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE OWNER ON JUNE 20 2011 Curing cancer is frowned upon big government and BIG PHARMA, especially when the patent for the cure is owned by a single doctor, and they can’t have a taste of the pie. So what do they do? They sick their hound dog, [...] Related p ...
  • French Whistleblowers reaveal the set up of Do ...
    I saw this over at SGTReport.com and it is worth repeating here. French insiders reveal the reason why DSK had to be taken out. It was all about the missing gold baby. Watch this one explode before summer is out. Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Commodities / Gold and ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Getting jolly with Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • The verdict: Feds chip away at the New York-Al ...
    I spent about ten months reporting on Albanian organized crime, all leading up to three weeks in a New York federal court house for the first trial of a group Albanian-Americans with ties to the organized international drug trade.The jury decided the c ...
  • Suddenly, New York musters its obligatory outr ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • Axis of idle: Mob wife, car crash, Jeter poste ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • With enemies like these, Chris Christie doesn' ...
    Only in New Jersey could it even possibly be a sign of a healthy, functioning political partnership when the president of the State Senate calls the governor "a rotten prick."That's how Stephen Sweeney, a South Jersey Democrat who has led Trenton's upper c ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Skepticism grows over immigration
    A new study suggests that half of all Norwegians want to shut Norway’s borders to new immigrants. Just as many believe integration efforts have failed. Immigrants from North America, Asia, Africa and other parts of the world only make up around 10 percent of the population in Norway, but it does ...
  • Man charged in Bislett murder
    Police have filed murder charges against one of the men initially arrested after 35-year-old Einar Opsahl was gunned down execution-style on a street near Bislett Stadium in Oslo last month. The suspect is a 29-year-old man who came to Norway as a child from Laos in 1990 and has been convicted ...
  • Football fiasco for women’s team
    Norway’s national football (soccer) team not only lost an important match against Australia on Wednesday evening, and their chance to proceed to the quarter finals of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Now they stand to lose financial support as well. The Australians beat the Norwegians 2-1 at the matc ...
  • Icicles led to injury and prison
    An Oslo court sent a powerful message to property owners on Thursday: Remove snow and icicles hanging off rooftops in winter, or risk going to jail. Both the owner and manager of an apartment building in Oslo’s fashionable Frogner district were sentenced to prison and fined heavily after failing ...
  • Even more trouble for Oslo hospitals
    State-run Oslo University Hospital, which encompasses some of the capital’s largest hospitals, already is facing severe budget pressure in the midst of a costly merger. Now another state agency, this one in charge of labour issues, is threatening to shut down parts of the hospitals because of th ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Positive Examples of Agricultural and Communit ...
    I’m adding the following clips as a positive supplement to the preceding post. I think it’s important to see that positive work is happening, and that GMOs are not only not needed, but they are a definite threat to these excellent efforts. Permaculturists working, or intending to work, in Kenya ...
  • Kenyans Demand a Stop to GMO Food Imports
    A press release from the African Biodiversity Network We demand the recognition of organic agriculture and other agro-ecological farming practices in Kenya’s agriculture policies and practices. The developers of GMOs have exerted great pressure to ensure that our recently enacted Biosafety Act ...
  • Edgevertizing – the Story of the Itinerant Jap ...
    by Cecilia Macaulay Knife shaperner photo by Cecilia Marginal overheads This itinerant knife sharpener does the rounds every few months in my neighbourhood in Tokyo. Knife sharpener photo by Cecilia No office, no rent, no clocking in necessary — just a bike, a whetstone, and som ...
  • Rising Temperatures Melting Away Global Food S ...
    by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Heat waves clearly can destroy crop harvests. The world saw high heat decimate Russian wheat in 2010. Crop ecologists have found that each 1-degree-Celsius rise in temperature above the optimum can reduce grain harvests by 10 percent. But the indirect e ...
  • Self-Sufficiency and Survival Foods… Are You P ...
    Planting a garden with food potential is one of the most valuable things we can do. Will we always have a free country with unlimited food supply? Could a major calamity or drought affect the supply and the price of food? Could rolling strikes disrupt electricity, water, telephone, transport and ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Settlement Reached in "Road Home" Racial Discr ...
    From our friends at Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center: Today, African-American homeowners and two civil rights organizations announced a settlement in a post-Hurricane Katrina housing discrimination lawsuit brought against the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ...
  • Displaced Women Demand Justice in Port au Prince
    By Bill Quigley and Jocelyn Brooks “We women demand!…” sang out a hundred plus voices “…Justice for Marie!” Marie, a 25 year old pregnant mother, was injured by government agents when they slammed a wooden door into her stomach during an early morning invasion of an earthquake displacement ...
  • Project Transparency Posts New Financial Discl ...
    Project Transparency, a program run by Louisiana Justice Institute, has posted 2009 and 2010 financial disclosure forms for many members of our city government, including the mayor, city council members, city attorney, police superintendent, and several key mayoral staff. The documents are avail ...
  • Sex Offender Registration for Sex Workers Ends ...
    Louisiana's era of forcing certain convicted sex workers to register as sex offenders appears to be over. Governor Jindall's office announced today that he had signed into law a bill, sponsored by Louisiana State Representative Charmaine Marchand Stiaes, that effectively moves prostitution convi ...
  • Amnesty International Launches Campaign to Fre ...
    From our friends at Amnesty International and International Coalition to Free the Angola 3: The US state of Louisiana must immediately remove two inmates from the solitary confinement they were placed in almost 40 years ago, Amnesty International said today. Albert Woodfox, 64, and Herman ...

Information Underground

  • False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
    Was this connected to Roux's mission in Nepal? http://india.indymedia.org/en/2002/09/2190.shtml POSSIBLE CIA HAND IN THE MURDER OF THE NEPAL ROYAL FAMILY By repost 25/09/2002 At 14:36 (This is a reposting of a Madison IMC article) CIA involvement is claimed in June 2001 massacre of Nepal's ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    MikeWB wrote: sullivan, this had nothing to do with you. Sorry, Mike, don't ever presume to tell me what does or does not have something to do with me. What he wrote and what you wrote were not contained in private messages. They were posted for others to see. So it does have something to do w ...
  • False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
    Correction: Apparently, the American Airlines flights 11 and 77 were not the only things to pass through the fires of 9-11 without final destruction. Should read: ...the United Airlines Flights 93 and 175....Statistics: Posted by Michael K. — Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:09 am
  • False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
    P.S. - Roux's political connections: http://stevenwarran-backstage.blogspot.com/2010/08/connecticuts-sept-11-victims.html James M. Roux, 43, formerly of New London Roux, a lawyer who was born in New London, was aboard United Airlines Flight 175, which crashed into the trade center's south ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Another incredulous Holohoax tale...kind of like Bernie Madoff or Goldman Sachs in a strange way...--CSR ---------- David Faber (author) Because of Romek At age 13, he was a fighter with Soviet partisans. -- (So he's probably lying...and was fed stories by Jacob Javits... IMHO...) --CSR ...

TVNZ

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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • "Kohitsugire: Ancient Calligraphy Fragments"
    Kohitsugire are fragments of ancient calligraphy manuscripts. These sections or pages of text were originally part of scrolls or books such as the famous "Kokin Wakashu," an Imperial anthology of poetry popular with aristocrats during the Heian and Kamakura periods. The fragments, which were d ...
  • Daring stunts feature at circus
    Come one, come all to the 109th Kinoshita Circus, complete with lions, elephants and tremendous feats of daring. The circus, which happens annually and at venues around the country, is being held at the Shoko Center in Hiroshima until July 19.
  • Key to 'East Asian' health
    On May 8, 2011, leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations issued a joint statement to reaffirm their commitment toward the development of a common position on global issues. The statement reflects an endeavor to reshape the traditional principles of the ASEAN way by enhan ...
  • No guarantees for Japan after 2012
    In recent years both the United States and Japan have seen leadership changes at the highest levels of government. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama was elected U.S. president, followed in 2009 by the ascendance of the Democrat Party of Japan, ending the nearly unbroken postwar dominance of the Lib ...
  • Live from Tokyo, it's Saturday Night!
    Ladies and gentlemen, it's Saturday Night Live Japan! Say what? Saturday Night Live Japan?

Alexander Higgins

  • US Officials Warn Bombs Surgically Implanted I ...
    The US Government bombs implanted inside the bodies of terrorists poses a new threat to airlines and will be used to justify forcing passengers into cancer causing full body x-ray scans.
  • Japan Sets Radiation Limits For Infant Drinks ...
    There is a growing call for the Fukushima Radiation Health Risk Advisor to resign after being caught telling the public several lies about the shockingly high temporary radiation standards, including radiation limits for food and beverages being raised to levels higher than the international leg ...
  • Reagan’s Cold War Dream: Outrage Over US ...
    British Citizens Express Outrage During Protests Over A US Spy Base In The UK Which Has The Ability To Eavesdrop On Telephone And Other Digital Communications Throughout Europe.
  • PC Magazine: Are Hacker Attacks Government Ope ...
    PC Magazine questions whether the recent string of hacker attacks are really a government sponsored operation meant to drum up support to push through draconian internet censorship bill that the public would otherwise protest against.
  • Anonymous Warns They Have The STUXNET Nuclear ...
    The latest videos being posted on news sites for the Hacker group anonymous highlights the hackers have a copy of the STUXNET computer virus and have posted a copy of the source code online.

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Kids These Days: Canada’s Inter-generati ...
    To counteract the record low 58.8% voter turnout in the 2008 federal election, there was an unprecedented push to engage voters this past election. With only 37% of 18-24 year-olds casting a ballot in 2008, many of the ‘get out the vote’ efforts in 2011 were focused on young voters: Rick Mercer ...
  • Government Assaults on Unions: The Economic Hi ...
    In the early 1980s, the world was gripped by recession. Following the troubled years of the 1970s, there was considerable worry throughout the developed world that we had entered a period of endemic stagnation. The real problem, it was claimed, was that the western economies had lost their abili ...
  • The NDP and “Big Labour”
    Rob Silver, a sharp guy I first met through university debate, has written a rather disappointing piece entitled, “Would NDP be neutral were it in power during a labour dispute?” This question is interesting and significant. On the one hand, the NDP’s political philosophy is strongly supportive ...
  • Corporate Canada’s Cash Stash
    Statistics Canada figures indicate that private non-financial corporations held $471 billion of cash in the first quarter of 2011 ($322 billion of Canadian currency plus $149 billion worth of foreign currency). Including short-term paper would bring this total to half a trillion dollars, enough ...
  • Omnibus Crime Bill an Injustice
    This fall the Harper government will pass an omnibus crime bill that will imprison thousands more Canadians and cost billions of dollars. It will not do as advertised by the Conservatives and drive the crime rate down. It will simply incarcerate for longer the many citizens who fall afoul of the ...

ReDress

  • 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 ...

Physics Today

  • Congress proposes canceling space telescope
    New Scientist: Yesterday, in a draft 2012 budget for NASA and other government agencies, a congressional committee proposed canceling the James Webb Space Telescope. The Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, which creates a draft budget for NASA each year, announced in a ...
  • Iceland volcano may erupt soon
    CNN: Hekla, one of Iceland's most famous volcanoes, may be about to erupt. Sensors around the volcano have picked up unusual movements over the past few days. The sensors are newly installed, and the data from them aren't seen as a definite indication of an impending explosion, but the volcano h ...
  • What to do with spent nuclear fuel?
    New York Times: As the American nuclear industry faces new scrutiny following the incident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, options for safely storing spent nuclear fuel are being reexamined, writes Matthew Wald for the New York Times. Currently, spent fuel is first stored in onsite pools to ...
  • New process makes textiles germ-free
    Science Daily: A University of Georgia researcher has invented a new technology that can render natural and synthetic materials, such as clothing and medical linens, permanently germ-free. Jason Locklin developed the antimicrobial treatment to kill a wide spectrum of bacteria, yeasts, and molds ...
  • Japan finds rare earths in Pacific seabed
    BBC: China currently produces 97% of the world's rare-earth metals, which are used in industrial applications, green-energy technologies, and high-tech appliances. However, Yasuhiro Kato of the University of Tokyo and colleagues now say they have discovered deposits of the minerals in the sea mu ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • America addicted to War
    by Rev333 (Posted Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:49:43 GMT) Cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting. http://tiny.cc/6ovzn The final bill will run at least $3.7 trillion and could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research project "Costs of War" by Brown University's Watson Institu ...
  • Gaza Aid Flotilla
    by Rev333 (Posted Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:40:36 GMT) Greece is doing Israel's "dirty work" by blocking the Gaza aid vessels. …. The Israeli government, using economic exploitation, pressured the government of Athens to widen the illegal blockade of Gaza to Greek ports …. http://www.jpost.com/I ...
  • America addicted to War
    by Rev333 (Posted Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:23:48 GMT) US economy fails due to 'military arrogance'. “The US economy is collapsing morally, the society is collapsing morally and in particularly it is collapsing economically because of the huge levels of debt the huge levels of 61.2 trillion in unfund ...
  • Iraqi officials rap US money plea
    by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:51:29 GMT) Quote, "Iraqi officials rap US money plea Sun Jul 3, 2011 Iraqi politicians have voiced outrage at the US request from Baghdad to allocate massive chunks of domestic budget to the American troops and embassy in the violence-hit country. The ...
  • News media won't report
    by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:49:33 GMT) $12 Billion For Them - 1.5 Million Homeless For Us Lilith - 7 days ago - rense.com Does anyone possess a clue as to why our U.S. government spends $12 billion every 30 days in Afghanistan and Iraq while 1.5 million of our citizens remain hom ...

Peakwater

  • Scientists predict large Bay ‘dead zone& ...
      “Scientists are predicting that this summer’s oxygen-starved “dead zone” in the Chesapeake Bay will be unusually bad – fueled by a wet spring that washed a heavy dose of nitrogen into the bay from the Susquehanna River and other tributaries. “Donald Scavia, a University of Michigan aquatic eco ...
  • Debris and Heavy Flow of Water Hamper Cleanup ...
    “Specially trained crews streaming into this refinery town to clean up tens of thousands of gallons of oil that spilled into the Yellowstone River from a ruptured Exxon Mobil pipeline over the weekend have found their efforts hampered by a muddy, raging river filled with debris. “The Yellowstone ...
  • Africa Drought Endangers Millions
    “Drought conditions and extreme food shortages in the area at expected to last into 2012. “The prognosis is that it’s going to go downhill from here,” Bunker said. “Resources are woefully inadequate,” OCHA emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos said in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio ...
  • Congested Missouri River Threatens Tributaries
    “In a season of flooding by some of the nation’s biggest rivers, it’s streams most Americans have never heard of that could cause some of the worst problems in the Midwest. Hundreds of tributaries that feed the congested Missouri River face a greater-than-normal flood risk this summer because of ...
  • The Decline Of Agriculture?
    “Severe weather events around the world will increase, even parts of the globe that don’t normally see extreme weather events,” said Steff Gaulter, Al Jazeera’s senior weather presenter. “Those parts of the world that already struggle with water shortages will find matters worsening, including A ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Continues Long-Term Fight for Gulf Wa ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today continued his long-term commitment to funding research into the cause and cure of Gulf War Illness by offering an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act, H.R. 2219, which will increase the amount of money available to the Gulf War Illnesses Research ...
  • 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 amendme ...
  • Kucinich Cautions Media: Diplomacy Works
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following remarks: �How the U.S. and the international community, including the media, assess the crisis in Syria will affect whether Syria experiences a transformation to democracy, or whether it becomes the flash point for a new war in t ...
  • Response to an Article by Syrian Arab News Age ...
    Today, the Syrian Arab News Agency published an article that contained a number of mistranslations and mischaracterized statements that I made during a news conference in Damascus. While on fact-finding mission in Syria, I was asked to share my initial reactions with some journalists, which I ...
  • Kucinich on Fact-Finding Mission to Syria and ...
    At the request of many of his constituents, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is currently on a fact-finding mission to Syria and Lebanon. He is accompanied by a small delegation which includes his wife, Elizabeth. Congressman Kucinich, who represents a district that includes many Arab-America ...

Authentically Wired

  • “cronyism”
    � � �� The current City of Phoenix bidding structure is designed to promote �cronyism� and backroom deal$ �� � It is well past the time to establish a fair and level playing field �� with full disclosure and transparency �� � � Filed under: Blogroll
  • shot to “kill” you
      ⦠Hey ⦠âbigâ pharma will get a shot to âkillâ you one way or another ⦠got it ⦠   Pfizerâs quit smoking drug raises heart risks by 72 percent 07-04-2011  ⢠ RawStory.com Healthy, middle-aged smokers who take Pfizer’s Chantix or Champix, one of the most popular quit-smoking drugs on the ...
  • Billy … “the borg” …
    �� Is this truly for humanitarian reason$ ��? For Billy of �the borg� �� your resistance is futile�� ��� Bill Gate$ in global push to vaccinate every child on the planet �� �(NaturalNews) Microsoft guru Bill Gates is busy rallying the troops to bring about what he calls "vaccine equity," which i ...
  • Welcome to Gestapo Arizona
    ⦠Tyrannies espoused by Russell Pearce & Jan Brewer are alive and prospering in Quartzsite ⦠Welcome to Gestapo Arizona .. L’il Hitler and Goon Squad Terrorize Quartzsite, Arizona’s Citizens. 07-04-2011  ⢠ Private Video Government at the point of a gun. If every single one of the officers is ...
  • AUTISM OUTSIDE THE A.M.A. BOX
    � �� What is important is our willingness to explore and think outside the proverbial AMA prescribed box �� � News Link� ⢠ Health and Physical Fitness Studies: Autism may be triggered in the womb 07-04-2011 ��� �RawStory.com Environmental factors may play a greater role in autism than previously ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Brazilian senator: Forest Code reform necessar ...
    Over the past twenty years Brazil has emerged as an agricultural superpower: today it is the largest exporter beef, sugar, coffee, and orange juice, and the second largest producer of soybeans. While much of this growth has been fueled by a sharp increase in productivity resulting from improved ...
  • Forest Code bill could undermine sustainable g ...
    In May Brazil's House of Representatives passed a bill that will reform the country's Forest Code, which requires farmers and ranchers in the Amazon to maintain a legal forest reserve amounting to 80 percent of total landholdings. Environmentalists say the bill, which is undergoing revision bef ...
  • Dung beetles: a sewage SWAT team
    Biology Professor Doug Emlen speaks with Laurel Neme on her 'The WildLife' radio show and podcast about the biology and armaments of dung beetles. An expert on the evolution and development of bizarre shapes in insects, Emlen notes that dung beetles are one of the 'kings' of odd morphology.
  • How do we save Africa's forests?
    Africa's forests are fast diminishing to the detriment of climate, biodiversity, and millions of people of dependent on forest resources for their well-being. But is the full conservation of Africa's forests necessary to mitigate global climate change and ensure environmental stability in Africa ...
  • Could palm oil help save the Amazon?
    For years now, environmentalists have become accustomed to associating palm oil with large-scale destruction of rainforests across Malaysia and Indonesia. Campaigners have linked palm oil-containing products like Girl Scout cookies and soap products to smoldering peatlands and dead orangutans. ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Changespotting: Dentists love this doll
    The love doll industry has met the robotics industry - but not for the reasons you might think. Students of dentistry will be able to hone their skills by practising on a l
  • Poll: NZers against sending solo parents back ...
    Most New Zealanders are against sending solo parents back to work before their children start primary school, according to a new poll.The Government is looking into the Welfare Working Group's recommendations on reforming the...
  • Magnitude 4.0 earthquake strikes off Hawkes Bay
    A 4.0 magnitude earthquake has struck off the Hawkes Bay coast this morning, GNS Science reports.The quake struck at 8.21am and was centred 40km south-east of Porangahau, in the Hikurangi Trough, at a depth of 40km.GNS Science...
  • Magnitude 5 quake felt in Masterton, Hawkes Bay
    A magnitude 5 earthquake jolted the Hawkes Bay area tonight. The 5.0 quake at 8.36pm was felt widely in Southern Hawkes Bay, according to GNS Science. It was centred approximately 120km east of Masterton and 60km east of Porangahau...
  • 4.4 quake strikes off Wairarapa coast
    A 4.4 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of the Wairarapa this morning, GNS Science reportsThe quake struck at 4.06am, and was centred 60km southeast of Porangahau at a depth of 20km.- NZ Herald staff

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Dammit, Jim, I'm An Actor, Not An Advocate for ...
    So, this exists: Presumably, programs like Social Security are only necessary until the Federation comes along and outlaws money entirely.  (Via Amanda Carpenter.) Read Reason's Tim Cavanaugh on Star Trek's 40th anniversary here. I reviewed J.J. Abrams's 2009 Sta ...
  • Jobs Are the New Terrorism
    Though I missed President Obama’s Twitter Towne Hall, I gather that he was asked about his position on a fanciful new theory regarding the 14th Amendment and the debt ceiling, and that he avoided giving an answer. Given the frenzy for this fad among pro-debt intellectuals and their ...
  • Utah Kids Call Cops After Finding Dad's Mariju ...
    Less than a month after father's day, a Salt Lake City man was arrested for pot possession when his 12- and 13-year-old kids turned him in to the police.  According to the Salt Lake Tribune, dad "faces two third-degree felony charges of child endangerment and one class B misdemean ...
  • New at Reason: Peter Suderman on Arizona's Use ...
    Arizona has a major public health problem: Too few people are smoking. That’s not the only fiscal problem the state faces. But it’s one of them. Like many states, Arizona’s public finances are in miserable shape. And according to Associate Editor Peter Suderman, much of the state’s ...
  • More Children Escape from Public Schools!
    The Wall Street Journal reports that 13 states have expanded school choice already this year, and 28 more have legislation pending. Many of the expansions are small spuds: A million or two in tax credits here, a few thousand more vouchers there. But each little escapee from a bad ...

Mercury Rising

  • Taking A Break…
    ….and relaxing: Enjoy! (I did.)
  • Letters from Cricketsville
    Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World has been caught hacking the phones of just about everyone. Politicians and celebrities of course…but also journalists and law enforcement. A kidnapped and murdered child, Milly Dowler. Detective Chief Superintendent David Cook, apparently on behalf of (!) murde ...
  • Meet Randall Wray
    Firedoglake has a post by L. Randall Wray on how The Roosevelt Institute was compromised by Pete Peterson’s money into issuing a report that said that a progressive budget could reduce the debt. A description of the man: L. Randall Wray, Ph.D. is Professor of Economics at the University of Misso ...
  • A Quick Note of Correction
    Governor Dayton is not currently asking for higher taxes on all millionaires, only on those who make $1 million or more a year — the 7,700 individuals mentioned. Karl Northman, a stalwart of the old and lamented Table Talk, set us all straight: The problem with the number of millionaires is a pr ...
  • Growing a beard
    The Longest Way 1.0 – one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.
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