- Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
source: India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
- The changing face of the church
source: Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has bee ...
- 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 ...
- The Debt Ceiling Deal From Hell
Is the debt ceiling deal supposed to be some sort of a cruel joke? Is this what the American people have been waiting months and months for? The "debt ceiling deal from hell" is a complete and total fraud. Barack Obama will not need to worry about the debt ceiling again until ...
- GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Head Of Obama’ ...
Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China. GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now GE has announced that it "is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray ...
- Stress!
Has anyone else noticed that the level of stress in this country appears to be extremely high right now? Today, it seems like our federal government, our state governments and most American families live in a constant state of crisis. Everywhere you look there are major proble ...
- Broke! 10 Facts About The Financial Condition ...
The crumbling U.S. economy is putting an extraordinary amount of financial stress on American families. For many Americans, "flat broke" has become a permanent condition. Today, over half of all American families live paycheck to paycheck. Unemployment is rampant and those th ...
- Layoffs, Layoffs Everywhere You Look There Are ...
The competition for jobs in the United States is absolutely brutal right now, and it is about to get worse. A new wave of layoffs is sweeping across America. During tough economic times, Wall Street favors companies that are able to cut costs, and the fastest way to "cut costs ...
- BP oil spill compensation fund chief blasted f ...
Before President Obama appointed him to administer the $20 billion compensation fund for the 2010 BP oil disaster, Kenneth Feinberg ran two other disaster-related funds. One was for Vietnam veterans sickened by exposure to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange. The other was for victims of the 9/11 t ...
- VOICES: Does the debt deal make you sick?
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Sinking stock markets are not the only sign that the eleventh-hour debt ceiling deal was the wrong solution to the wrong problem. The announcement by Cargill that it is recalling an astounding 36 million pounds of salmonella-tainted ground turkey product ...
- A wingnut and a prayer
By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer With each passing day, Rick Perry's Christian prayer-and-repentance rally, The Response, seems like more of a mistake, a classic act of hubris by a politician still learning his way around the national stage. First, the backlash has been fierce, not just from ...
- Utilities spark protests by sticking ratepayer ...
Consumer advocates are blasting the Georgia Public Service Commission's unanimous vote this week requiring ratepayers to bear the burden of cost overruns during construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle while protecting the profit margin of the Southern Company's largest subsidiar ...
- South Carolina immigration law starts new era ...
New America Media Editor's Note: The battle over immigration is now being waged at the state level. Since Arizona's immigration law SB 1070 went into effect one year ago, five states -- Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah -- have passed similar laws. South Carolina's new immi ...
- Today’s Terrorism News
Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group 93 Dead in Twin Attacks in Norway; Suspect to Appear in Court The suspect accused of killing 93 people in twin terror attacks in Norway on Friday is due in an Oslo courtroom Monday, … Continue reading →
- Linus Switches to Xfce, Calls GNOME 3 an Unhol ...
Linus Torvalds becomes the latest to join GNOME 3.0 haters club. In a recent discussion at Google+, Linus went on to call GNOME 3 an unholy mess and called for a�GNOME 2 fork.� Linus Torvalds on GNOME 3.0 "While you are at it, could you also fork gnome, and support a gnome2 environment?" ...
- Humble Indie Bundle 3 Adds 6 More Games Taking ...
Humble Indie Bundle 3 offer just got a wee bit sweeter. Now, along with the 5 games that comes with Humble Indie Bundle 3(which you can buy at the price you decide), you could obtain 6 more games taking the total number of games to 11. Updated Humble Indie Bundle 3 Offer The response to H ...
- 5 Open Source 3D Modelling & Rendering Apps fo ...
We have discussed a lot about real world applications of 3D modelling and rendering tools like Blender before, but not really about the choice of tools itself. What are the best, free and open source, 3D modelling and rendering apps available for Linux? Let's find out. Art of Illusion is a ...
- Bisigi Themes Natty PPA Updated, Install 15 Gr ...
Bisigi themes has a special place in the hearts and minds of long term Ubuntu users. I have been using Ubuntu for about 5 years now and in my opinion, the first set of really professional looking themes were introduced by Bisigi. And unlike many other theme packs for Ubuntu, every single Bisigi ...
- Humble Indie Bundle 3 is Here, Pay What You Wa ...
Humble Indie Bundle 3 is here folks! Grab your copy of 5 really good, cross platform, DRM free, Indie games at the price you decide! If initial statistics are any indication,�Humble Indie Bundle 3 is going to be an even bigger success.� Humble Indie Bundle 3 Video Intro Buy Humble I ...
- Alex Jones: ‘Anders Behring was Masons’ Patsy’
Check out the interview with Alex Jones on Anders Behring Breivik as a Masons’ patsy on RT. http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-anders-behring-was-masons-patsy/ Breivik was a freemason belonging to the St Johannes lodge according to some media sources and  he also mentioned terror cells in Aus ...
- The Federal Reserve Made $16 Trillion In Secre ...
The American Dream July 25, 2011 A one-time limited GAO audit of the Federal Reserve that was mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has uncovered some eye-popping corruption at the Fed and the mainstream media is barely even covering it. It turns out that the ...
- Police Knew Gunman’s Name Before Arrest
� British news anchor questions how authorities were aware of Breivik�s identity in advance Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Monday, July 25, 2011 Despite being portrayed by the media as inept due to the length of time it took them to reach the island of Utoeya, it has now emerged that police kne ...
- Evidence Shows Norway Terror Attack a False Flag
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com July 23, 2011 Prior to the events in Norway, the Department of Homeland Security released a propaganda video characterizing white middle class Americans as terrorists and members of white al-Qaeda, a term designed to conflate the image of the CIA-created Islamic terror gr ...
- Murdoch’s Vaccine World – James Murdoch ...
By Catherine J. Frompovich | July 22nd, 2011 | Everyone by now has heard about the phone tapping scandal that rocked both the British newspaper world and Rupert Murdoch’s business empire. But what needs to be spotlighted, I think, is the possible role that Murdoch’s London Times may have played ...
- Unheimlich and Strano
by Les Visible My goodness, is this so? I guess it has to be. As I’ve said many times, if something horrible and heinous and violent is taking place, you can track it to Israel and Zionism pretty much refero. Now we have Sue Rabbitt Roff promoting organ sales to pay down student loan debts [...]
- As we Come to The Changing Line
By Les Visible Well now. It is something to see isn’t it? But I had a point in mind when I did it because I wanted to get it out of the way for myself ahead of time. I have certain gifts, I don’t think they are all that remarkable and I don’t actually possess [...]
- The Dolphins Sunbathing on The Armageddon Train
By Les Visible Tell me that you are surprised. Go ahead, it is okay. This congressional bill that they spent so much time wrangling over and twisting their little hands over while their mouths were busy elsewhere working on the bankers, accomplished not only no good but attacked the very things ...
- Palestine and the Irresistible Winds of Change
By Les Visible The Palestinians are going to declare statehood, or nationhood, in September, regardless of whatever does or doesn’t happen, concerning the international backing being sought. Right on cue, the Ashke-Nazi’s have come up with their own final solution to the problem they created. Wh ...
- Dr Sue Rabbitt Roff wants a NHS organ harvesti ...
Dear All To get through life, you need all your body parts and preferably in good condition. I spoke out against the idea of presumed consent for organ donation because it is a violation of sovereignty of people’s bodies. The State doesn’t own you when alive and they have certain no right to can ...
- The Art of Courage
A little voice in your conscience tells you something. You listen. You start to think maybe you're right and everybody else is wrong. You do something about it. Next thing you know you're in a life and death struggle against evil forces bent on world domination. Well, maybe that's a slight exag ...
- 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 ...
- Who’s Who In the Zoo – By Dr. True ...
Who’s Who in the Zoo?  By Dr. Truess (rhymes with Suess). Who’s who in the “patriot” zoo? It’s so full of worms and primordial goo – MY – what can one do? Watch your step, cause there’s lots of bad pooh – smelly stuff that will stick on your shoe! There’s Turner, and Jones, and [...]
- QUOTE OF THE DECADE!!
The Quote of the Decade âThe fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to [...]
- TRUTH REVEALED – 528 is the Frequency of ...
This is a very complex and multi-faceted topic. It involves exposing something called “Kabalah” (the CUBE) as well as “Enochian Magic” and the darkest sorcery ever performed on Planet Earth.  It involves exposing demonology and inter-dimensional “conjuring” of entities called Nephilim or Ji ...
- AUDIT THE FED??? WHAT ABOUT STARTING WITH THE ...
House Passes DeFazio’s Amendment to Audit the Pentagon. GREAT JOB CONGRESSMAN!!!! This is all about accountability in government – something that to date has BEEN SORELY LACKING. No More DUAL ISRAELI CITIZENS such as Dov Zackheim controlling the Pentagon’s purse strings!! Never forget the ...
- Edgar Steele Story PART II
Sex, Lies & Audiotape (Part II) by Edgar J. Steele Here Come de Fix I had an inkling that the fix was in on the morning of the second day of the pretrial hearing concerning our forensic audiology eperts. The lead prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney Traci Whelan, was smiling, humming to herself and ...
- Friday Tipster Round-Up: Inappropriately Bolde ...
Thousands of readers have already downloaded our free Consumerist Tipster App. Here are just a handful of the photos they've sent in. Remember that you can always see even more Tipster photos on our Facebook page. Marc: "Odd choice in what to BOLD on this product." Reader saleenl learn ...
- Man With Breast Cancer Can't Get Medicaid Cove ...
While breast cancer in males is not common, it's no yellow lobster. But a South Carolina state program that provides Medicaid to breast cancer patients in need had to deny a patient because of his Y chromosome. The patient, a 26-year-old male whose job laying tile doesn't pay enough for him to ...
- Elderly Woman Dies From Heat After Her A/C Was ...
Two days after she reported her central air conditioning had been stolen, a 79-year old woman in Texas died from heat-related causes. The woman's air conditioning unit sat on the ground outside her house and was only protected by a cage with a lock on it. The most recent theft was at least the ...
- Woman & Carriage Driver Disagree About Horse's ...
Imagine you're visiting New York City and you decide to take your family on a ride through Central Park in a horse-drawn carriage. Now imagine that the horse pulling said carriage has a bit of a freak out and collapses mid-ride. What do you do when, moments later, you see that same horse and dr ...
- Record-High 45.8 Millions Americans Using Food ...
According to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's latest report on its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps), a record 45.8 million Americans received SNAP benefits during the month of May, up 12% from the same month in 2010 and 34% from two years ago. The largest increase cam ...
- 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 ...
- 30 Years Ago Today: The Day the Middle Class D ...
Friends, From time to time, someone under 30 will ask me, “When did this all begin, America’s downward slide?” They say they’ve heard of a time when working people could raise a family and send the kids to college on just one parent’s income (and that college in states like California and New Yo ...
- Save the Nation
The gathering storm of a recession for the nation and a depression for tens of millions of our neighbors threatens America with the danger of a lost decade of crushing economic pain. President Obama and Congress can save the nation from this fate by reaching a new agreement to lower the deficit ...
- Why S&P Has No Business Downgrading the U.S.
Standard & Poor’s downgrade of America’s debt couldn’t come at a worse time. The result is likely to be higher borrowing costs for the government at all levels, and higher interest on your variable-rate mortgage, your auto loan, your credit card loans, and every other penny you borrow. Why did S ...
- A Shocking View of Bullying
I would imagine that Amy Hatch, a freelance writer contributing to the Huffington Post, is as good a mother as she is a writer. However, neither of those occupations prepared her to write intelligently about the deadly scourge that infects the lives of too many American teens and pre-teens and, ...
- While on Summer Recess, Congress Blocks Recess ...
by Marian Wang, ProPublica As many have noted, members of Congress left behind some unfinished business when they headed home for their August recess. But here’s something else you should know: Even though hordes of lawmakers have left D.C., neither chamber of Congress officially adjourned. The ...
- Al Gore admits defeat
The end of the Great Global Warming Scam is just that much closer. Al Gore admits defeat: “When you go and talk to any audience about climate, you hear them washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again,” he continued. “There’s no longer a shared reality on an issue like [...]
- Blockbuster: Planetary temperature controls CO ...
There goes another “fingerprint”… It’s not just that man-made emissions don’t control the climate, they don’t even control global CO2 levels. Judging by the speech Murry Salby gave at the Sydney Institute, there’s a blockbuster paper coming soon. Listen to the speech: “Global Emission of Carbon ...
- Blockbuster: Plantary temperature controls CO2 ...
There goes another “fingerprint”… Judging by the speech Murry Salby gave at the Sydney Institute, there’s a blockbuster paper coming soon. Listen to the speech: “Global Emission of Carbon Dioxide: The Contribution from Natural Sources” Professor Murry Salby is Chair of Climate Science at Macquar ...
- The petition the Convoy will carry to Canberra ...
The Convoy to Canberra protest is generating a massive response. Organizers have been astounded at the number of cars and trucks joining in. Gobsmacked! It is shaping up to be a historic event! Remember, even if you can’t drive the whole way, you can show you support and join the convoy just f ...
- We can lower Australian CO2 emissions by… (wai ...
A joint writing project: Anton Lang (who writes as TonyfromOz at PAPundits), Tony Cox, and Jo Nova It’s the paradox that will torture the Greens. What if the best way to achieve their environmental aims as well as providing jobs and power was to build more coal fired power stations? Imagine if w ...
- Downgrade may cloud Obama re-election bid
(Bloomberg News) - The downgrade of the U.S.'s AAA credit rating by Standard & Poor's darkens President Barack Obama's re-election chances while also damaging members of Congress from both parties as they prepare for the 2012 campaign, political analysts said...
- Ron Paul: Debt deal is a 'fraud'
(NewsMax) - Republican Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul tells Newsmax the bill designed to cut the budget deficit and raise the debt ceiling is a "fraud" because it actually does nothing to reduce current spending levels. The Texas lawmaker also says it is "discouraging" that many ...
- Perry: Turn to God for answers to nation's woes
(Associated Press) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry is asking Christians to turn to God for answers to the nation's troubles as he holds court over a national prayer event attended by roughly 30,000 people. The Republican who is considering running for president delivered a speech that included prayer an ...
- Schooling Matt Damon
(Michelle Malkin) - Actor Matt Damon is a walking, talking public service reminder to immunize your children early and often against La-La-Land disease. In Damon's world, all public school teachers are selfless angels. Government workers and Hollywood entertainers are impervious to economic ince ...
- The case against Perry
(Joseph Farah) - Some people still don't appreciate why Rick Perry's remark to Republican fat cats condoning the New York Legislature's vote to approve same-sex marriage should disqualify him from consideration for the Republican presidential nomination. Here's an example of one quizzical letter ...
- Another Unlawful Raid On Rawesome
Want an undeniable truth? Our government is out of control. To deny that is to deny all sense of reason and logic; to regress to your simple-minded, consensus trance thought (un)process. To me, this is the fatal flaw in the argument of all those who support government, or in this case, BIG gover ...
- Diet Myths THEY Don’t Want You To Know
MyPyramid.....of DEATH!I've been studying health and nutrition for about six years now. In fact, I credit my nutritional awakening with spurring on my awakening in all other aspects of life, from economics to politics. And I'll tell you the crux of what sparked my craving for the truth: Going ba ...
- 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):
- 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):
- A little poison helps, a lot harms – “hormesis”
You may have come across hormesis previously: charcoal water is often used when people have overdosed on their medications, but too many charred steaks increases your cancer risk many ancient sites (i.e. stone circles) have people who ...A little poison helps, a lot harms – “hormesis” is a p ...
- Mini Ice Age Coming – Simple Explanation
I love simplicity. It beats math-heavy arguments, or singular ideas that need an entire book to try and convince you. Check this out for a simple explanation for why you could/should be preparing for the ...Mini Ice Age Coming – Simple Explanation is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:M ...
- NASA: Global Warming Model Wrong
It is a fact that the average global temperature has not risen in the last decade. This highlights the difference between computer models and actual measurement and observation. Because the computer models vary greatly, we ...NASA: Global Warming Model Wrong is a post from: 2012 Blog Rela ...
- The Ancient Bunkers of Cappadocia
Colleagues accuse me of thinking every ancient underground structure was a bunker, and I mostly do. This is one of my favourites. You can do your own research, this is just to let you know ...The Ancient Bunkers of Cappadocia is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:5000+1 Bunkers for Mosc ...
- Google+ for 2012
If you have a Google account, there’s a new way of sharing and spreading 2012 information at Google+. My profile is here if you want to add me to a circle: https://plus.google.com/109767201828606148490 If you want an invite ...Google+ for 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:201 ...
- BP oil spill compensation fund chief blasted f ...
Before President Obama appointed him to administer the $20 billion compensation fund for the 2010 BP oil disaster, Kenneth Feinberg ran two other disaster-related funds. One was for Vietnam veterans sickened by exposure to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange. The other was for victims of the 9/11 t ...
- VOICES: Does the debt deal make you sick?
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest Sinking stock markets are not the only sign that the eleventh-hour debt ceiling deal was the wrong solution to the wrong problem. The announcement by Cargill that it is recalling an astounding 36 million pounds of salmonella-tainted ground turkey product ...
- A wingnut and a prayer
By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer With each passing day, Rick Perry's Christian prayer-and-repentance rally, The Response, seems like more of a mistake, a classic act of hubris by a politician still learning his way around the national stage. First, the backlash has been fierce, not just from ...
- Utilities spark protests by sticking ratepayer ...
Consumer advocates are blasting the Georgia Public Service Commission's unanimous vote this week requiring ratepayers to bear the burden of cost overruns during construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle while protecting the profit margin of the Southern Company's largest subsidiar ...
- South Carolina immigration law starts new era ...
New America Media Editor's Note: The battle over immigration is now being waged at the state level. Since Arizona's immigration law SB 1070 went into effect one year ago, five states -- Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah -- have passed similar laws. South Carolina's new immi ...
- Ramadan and the Crusaders’ War in Libya
Libyans will observe the annual Muslim holy fast of Ramadan this year under extremely difficult conditions that resemble nothing so much as what happened a century ago when Italian “crusaders” appeared in their desert expanses. It begins on August 1 and forbids the faithful from partaking of foo ...
- Changing Dynamics in the Af-Pak
The visit of Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff to China and later to Afghanistan towards in July have given rise to speculations about the probable coming together of the two powers to adopt an accommodative approach on various issues including Afghanistan…Though ...
- Political Battles on Kyrgyzstan’s Horizon
For the first time in Kyrgyzstan’s post-Soviet history, the elections which are due in the fall of 2011 present the republic with a chance to name a new country leader at the polling booths rather than at the peak of public unrest. Its previous two regime changes which culminated in the unseatin ...
- The Ideology of the Loser
Is Not a Winning Strategy The more that we observe our fellow man, the more obvious it becomes that humanity is unable to understand the problems that it causes for itself. If humans do not have the intellectual capacity to recognize most of their problems as being self-generated, then they are ...
- Covering the Somalian Famine
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as a result of a global oversupply of grain staples. Since the 1980s, grain markets have been deregulated under the supervision of the World Ba ...
- Pink Gin Cocktail
[Editor's Note: Sometimes the best cocktails are also the simplest ones. This cocktail is an easy combination of gin augmented with Angostura bitters, but that means it requires quality ingredients. As the post says, stay away from cheap gin! --Genie] Pink Gin Recipe My English father had des ...
- Help A Homeowner: Name That Flower
Carla moved into a beautiful new home with an array of blooming flowers. Problem? She needs help naming all of them! She's asking for your help!She says:Now that we are in our third summer in our home, I thought I should find out what exactly is growing and make myself a little landscape plan fo ...
- An Unsubscribing Odyssey
Unsubscribing from all those emails you don't want can be pretty daunting, as Ellen Henderson discovered. She said, It occurred to me the other day, not for the first time, that I get too much stupid e-mail. I’m not talking about spam, to which I concede defeat. Spam e-mail, like its meaty names ...
- Life Lessons From a Horse :: The First Fall
They say the first fall is the hardest. I think they mean for the rider, but let me tell you, it is no picnic for the mother, either! I have been writing about Rowan's (almost 6) experience learning to ride a horse~ a desire she has held for the better part of her 6 years.� You can find past ...
- The Frustrations of Finding Appropriate Daycare
[Editor's Note: Nothing is more frustrating that not being able to find safe, reliable care for your child. Whether it's every day daycare, part time in-home care or a babysitter, the process can be daunting. It's Blogworthy has been through the wringer with finding a new daycare solution for he ...
- Small Victory: Court Rules Pesticides As Illeg ...
Oluf Johnson’s organic crops were repeatedly ruined by neighboring farmers not following proper protocol for pesticide spraying. Until now, he was unable to receive compensation for his losses as courts ruled “particle matter” does not ...
- Incompetence Sets A Precedent – GE Alfalfa
We know that the USDA deregulated GE alfalfa and it’s clear that environment, health and the Constitution play no role at all in ushering in genetically modified crops. Rather, each new step forward for Monsanto ...
- Who Owns Your Genes? The Case Continues…
Last week, a court ruling overturned previous court decisions to disapprove gene patents and allowed Myriad Genetics control patents on two breast genes supposedly for cancer research. This prohibits other companies from researching them. It appears ...
- Who Owns Your Genes? The Case Continues…
Last week, a court ruling overturned previous court decisions to disapprove gene patents and allowed Myriad Genetics control patents on two breast genes supposedly for cancer research. This prohibits other companies from researching them. It appears ...
- Moms Have Stronger Tendency To Mimic Daughters ...
Like daughter, like mother. When most of us think of generational habits, we picture the children mimicking parents’ behavior, even during adulthood. When it comes to buying habits, however, just the opposite seems to ring true. ...
- 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 ...
- Friday roundup, Aug. 5, 2011
Relatives mourn over a coffin with remains of a miner killed in a mine accident in Bazhanova coal mine in the small town of Makeyevka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Sunday, July 31, 2011. Many people were killed in two separate mine accidents in eastern Ukraine on Friday. Sunday was declared ...
- Judge to lawmakers: ‘Beef up” WVDEP
I’m just back from a status conference where U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver heard from citizen groups, state officials and the federal government regarding the status of West Virginia’s Special Reclamation Fund — the WVDEP program meant to clean up coal-mine sites abandoned since 1977. J ...
- Citizens sue over ‘frivolous’ Blai ...
On the heels of last week’s demand for an investigation of what the United Mine Workers alleges are misleading coal exhibits at the West Virginia State Museum, citizen groups have now sued the state Department of Environmental Protection over its refusal to consider “lands unsuitable for minin ...
- SCSR troubles: What’s a coal miner to do?
A government photo shows the SCSRs that Sago miners tried to use to survive after the January 2006 explosion. We broke the story in this morning’s Gazette about what federal mine safety regulators are calling a plan to “phase out” the troubled SR-100 self-contained, self-rescuer devices manufact ...
- Alpha reports $56.4 million quarterly loss
This just in from Alpha Natural Resources: Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: ANR), a leading U.S. coal producer, reported a second quarter loss of $56.4 million or $0.36 per diluted share, including the impact of $254.4 million of pre-tax merger-related expenses, which included a $108.3 milli ...
- Don’t Be Agnostic About Ridiculous Propositions
Many are confused about the meaning of agnosticism as it relates to things we as humans are not certain about. The common mistake is combining things we don’t know yet (A) with those that are probably unknowable (B) with those things that are ridiculous (C). Agnosticism is reserved for types A a ...
- SQL Injection is 90% SQL, WebSec is 90% WebDev
I believe too many people take the wrong approach to security, or “hacking”. Most who seek this ability clamor for answers to questions like, “How can I hack SQL?” “How can I hack Linux?” “How can I hack web applications?” There’s a really simple answer. Learn SQL. Learn Linux. Learn to build we ...
- SQL Injection is 95% SQL, and the Rest of Info ...
I’ve been frustrated for a long time with the ‘teach me to hack’ mentality. Not because I have a problem with beginners (quite the opposite, actually), but because certain people just never get the concept of security testing in the first place. Yes, “hacking” is a loaded term. I am using it as ...
- Polygot Programmers
Programming enthusiast Joe is browsing Hacker News on a Saturday afternoon, and sees a story about Clojure, a Lisp-like programming language which he keeps hearing about. The comments on the story are filled with positive experiences reported by his peers, so he decides to spend a few hours chec ...
- Daring Fireball: Google: Patently Absurd
No one other than Nathan Myhrvold and his cronies sees the U.S. patent system as functioning properly, but Google’s hypocrisy here is absurd. Google isn’t arguing against a handful of never-should-have-been-issued software patents. They’re not arguing against patent trolls like Myhrvold and his ...
- Facebook site calling for photos of PSNI cops ...
Facebook has pulled a page calling for members to share accounts and photographs of PSNI (police service of northern Ireland) cops who have been engaged in the harassment of people in republican areas following recent conflicts between republicans and police. The Crown Forces Watch page stated, ...
- The new crime of anarchism!
Every few years, anarchists are deemed scary again, the media goes into hysterical overdrive and policing becomes more repressive. It is a pattern we have seen repeated several times over the years. However, the news briefing from Project Griffin, issued each week from Chief Inspector Nick Smith ...
- Political Policing during Royal Wedding in Edi ...
Reposted from Indymedia Scotland Originally posted 30/07/11 Lothian and Borders police are today conducting a systematic programme of harassment aimed at people who have been politically active in Edinburgh. At approximately 1pm this afternoon two police vans parked up in front of a flat in the ...
- Solidarity with Charlie Gilmour
Predictably there has been a lot of interest and comment on the sentencing of Charlie Gilmour to sixteen months for two counts of violent disorder. It has been both suggested this was lenient because he’ll only do eight months or less on a tag, and that it was a harsher sentence because of his p ...
- Report from the frontlines of the Ardoyne Oran ...
Taken from the Workers Solidarity Movement Posted 2011-07-14 Rioting erupted in ‘nationalist areas’ across the North on Tuesday after the annual Orange Order parades. The worst of the trouble was in Ardoyne in North Belfast which left 16 police officers injured and with over 60 lethal plastic bu ...
- How Supreme Court Cabal With Right-Wing and Ko ...
By Jim Hightower,Alternet – Corrupt, right-wing Supreme Court justices are abusing their power, fraternizing with the Koch brothers and fixing elections (among other horrors). Bill Watterson is Mark Twain–with a drawing pen. He is a master cartoonist, but also a sharp-witted observer of the absu ...
- Tottenham in flames as riot follows protest
The Observer – Two police patrol cars, a passenger bus and several shops were attacked and set alight in north London as violence erupted Two police cars, a bus and several shops were attacked and set ablaze in north London on Saturday night as violence erupted following a protest demanding “jus ...
- WWH Homegrown this week; Sherry Pasquarello
Sherry Pasquarello is an eclectic little woman who has been published in the Individualist Newsletter, Black Roses, online at the Amateur Poetry Journal and the Alchemy lit. mag, and elsewhere. Sherry is a member of the international PK poetry kit list workshop and has been included in many of t ...
- WWH Homegrown this week; Phil Polizatto
Phil Polizatto – Worldwide Hippies Bureau Chief – West Coast USA, is a graduate of The School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He was a feature writer for the overseas division of UPI, a copywriter for CBS, and an award-winning corporate film producer. Mr. Polizatto is a published poet ...
- WWH Homegrown this week; Dr. Woody
“Dr. Woody” is a nom du blogue used by John Konopak, Ph.D., rogue scholar and rhetorical handyman who operates Konopelli Enterprises, a blogging and real estate empire that spans Albuquerque, NM, from the Valley to the Heights. He has formerly been a professor at a couple of big schools, a journ ...
- Man who cut his throat: I will go nuts because ...
Via Centennial CourierAugust 2nd and 3rd, 1911: While the contemporaries are "driven up the wall" because of the rainy Summer, one hundred years ago people were dying because of genuine seizures caused by the neverending heat waves. Steam battleship Thunderer where a stoker went ...
- RIP: Standard & Poor's AAA rating of U.S. bond ...
In November 1917, the Bolsheviks ignited their October Revolution and overtook Russia. They were ultimately successful despite the attempts of some forces that tried to stop them. Czechoslovak Legions grabbed about one-half of Siberia. Here they proudly pose above some hunted dow ...
- Andrea Rossi and cold fusion
There are lots of interesting articles on Anthony Watts' blog but when I saw the text by Ric Werme Andrea Rossi’s E-cat fusion device on targetand noticed that it has a perfect, 5-star rating, I had to tell myself: holy cow! Do the skeptics really abandon 100% of their skepticism in order ...
- HadCRUT3: raw data released
Update on Saturday 6 pm: I have completely digitized the HadCRUT3 zip file to arrays that are verified. There are lots of usually minor inconsistencies and missing entries but surely lots of useful data, too. For example, below is the map of the stations I have made in a simple way. D ...
- Can one sharply separate forcings and feedbacks?
Andrew Dessler is employed as a climate alarmist in Texas (at Texas A&M). He recently expressed his opinion about the new paper by Spencer and Braswell (reactions in the media via Google News). According to Dessler, the "paper is not really intended for other scientists, since th ...
- The End of Fear – Follow in the steps of ordin ...
Το τÎλος 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 ...
- On Fracking: Now, Cracks in the Façade
By LeeAnn Brown, EWG Press Secretary Imagine, if you can: Nearly overnight, your water well begins producing slimy, off-color foul smelling and worse tasting water. It's unusable. You can't drink it. You can't bathe in it. You can't wash dishes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
- GAO Flunks Some States on Tap Water Quality Mo ...
By Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A new report from the Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, shows that a number of states have made serious errors in tap... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
- GAO Knocks EPA Tap Water Monitoring
By Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A new report from Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, shows that a number of states have made serious errors in tap water... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
- Reusing Your Gray Water: State Laws Vary for H ...
By Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst Recently, we took a look at the water-saving potential of residential "gray" water, which, naturally, leads people to wonder: Can I use this technology in my home, too? The answer? It depends. Some... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
- GAO to EPA: Improve Implementation of Safe Dri ...
By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst, Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant, and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A Government Accountability Office investigation released last week has found that the Environmental... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
- A retrospective highlighting the dark worldvie ...
It’s striking that BAM Cinematek is kicking off its comprehensive retrospective of the films of Francesco Rosi with The Truce. The Truce is an adaptation of The Reawakening, Primo Levi’s memoirs about his journey back to Italy after his imprisonment in Aus ...
- Dow in a disastrous dive; Yankees seek a Bosto ...
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
- Taking a break from seniors, David Weprin targ ...
This afternoon, Assemblyman David Weprin was standing in front of Queens Borough Hall with his wife, two daughters and a host of elected officials. He was the only man on the steps.Since being handed the Democratic nomination in a special election for Anth ...
- 'Arthur,' annotated: Some comedies are funnier ...
I was leaving the Trinity Church soup kitchen last Wednesday afternoon when I heard a guy yelling across its courtyard, “…and they hand out free snacks!”He was calling out to a woman on the sidewalk near the church gate. She was tapping her head and mo ...
- Going bananas for James Franco, cashing in on ...
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
- Soldiers come home from Libya
Norwegian soldiers who have returned from the NATO operations in Libya this week have described their experience in the military conflict, while domestic criticism continued. Norway had contributed to the NATO operations in Libya with six F-16 fighter jets, reduced to four in June, which return ...
- Stocks and oil fund take further hit
The Norwegian stock exchange fell to a new low for the year on Friday despite promising unemployment figures from the USA, as it was revealed that the country’s sovereign wealth fund (often referred to as the “oil fund”) had also suffered from the difficult international financial environment. ...
- ‘Fjordman’ reveals identity
36 year-old Peder Jensen has given an interview to Norwegian newspaper VG where he reveals that he is the man behind the “Fjordman” blog referenced repeatedly in the online manifesto of Oslo and Utøya attacks suspect Anders Behring Breivik. After being identified by the police and subsequently ...
- Polar bear kills one in Svalbard
UPDATED: A polar bear has killed one and seriously injured four others who were part of a British school trip at the Von Postbreen glacier on the remote island of Spitsbergen, the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago. The bear has been shot by those in the vicinity. New ...
- Flowers taken in as dead laid to rest
Oslo city council and many others around Norway have begun the work of gathering in flowers and other items left at places around the country to remember the victims of the Oslo and Utøya terrorist attacks. This week has seen the funerals for many of those who died, with those buried thus far li ...
- Naomi Klein on Geoengineering and the Western ...
Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, gives an insightful talk in the podcast below on the madness of our western lifestyles and the geoengineering it’s giving birth to. For more reading on geoengineering click here, and to understand global dimming, click here. Click play below ...
- Geoff Lawton Asks for Your Help!
To assist, please go here and make your contribution to the spread of permaculture in some of the neediest places on earth.
- Armed Raid on Raw Food Producers – the FDA Has ...
The U.S. government obviously thinks raw food producers are extremely dangerous people. Why else would they send armed men to deal with them? A multi-agency SWAT-style armed raid was conducted this morning by helmet-wearing, gun-carrying enforcement agents from the LA County Sheriff’s Off ...
- Designers & Consultants Resource Page
Since I starting teaching at the PRI with the new Urban Landscape Design Course there have been calls to make the information from the course available to students and interested people out there in the world that can’t jump on a plane and get to The Channon. Our fearless webmaster Craig Macki ...
- All is Not Well With the U.S. Organic Trade As ...
Most permaculturists are aware that in regards to food today, ‘organic’ can often mean little, or nothing at all. The video below proves that the name can actually mean even worse than nothing — as we see that the U.S.’s ‘Organic Trade Association’ is unlike anything their name suggests. Indeed, ...
- I’m not a scientist but …
For a number of reasons, having âmade my bonesâ in permanent employment, the rest of my career would be termed freelance. I deliver measured amounts of expertise for clients of my choosing in the areas in which I know I operate well. The point is, you have to step out of your comfort zone and … ...
- On murderous madmen.
The tragic events of last week in Norway do give you pause for thought. How could anyone do that and especially to defenseless young people? Does it say something about us all? Are we all capable of doing something like that? The answer is no and thatâs not just my subjective opinion, itâs a fac ...
- You gotta have a sense of humour …
You look at stuff and you wonder. Maybe you donât, maybe a lot of people donât, maybe they never do. Well, I do. I suppose itâs just me being an awkward cuss but at this stage in the game, Iâm pretty reconciled to that. You are what you are, so just chaw down and get … Read more
- Words of wisdom from the Goracle of Helpme.
Alâs fallen on hard times. Long gone are the days of the $100,000 appearance fee at speaking engagements. Most of that all went into that Chicago Carbon Exchange thingy which didnât turn out to be such a smart investment after all. Anyway, you canât keep a good man down so heâs working on a come ...
- The Al Gore Climate Reality Event : A call to ...
Thereâs an interesting proposal being made at Anthony Wattâs site WUWT to fight the upcoming Al Gore Climate Reality Event scheduled for Sept. 14th 2011. In essence, it suggests setting up a central resource which will contain quotes by global warming high priests. Whatâs being called for is yo ...
- 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 ...
- Danziger Officers Found Guilty - Statements of ...
Statement of Lance Madison I am thankful to have some closure after six long years of struggling for justice. I am most grateful to my family, and especially my brother Romell. Without the support and hard work of my family, I might still be in prison on false charges, and the truth about ...
- Three Arrested in BP Protest in Downtown New O ...
Yesterday, more than 75 people protested BP's continued negligence in the Gulf. Chanting, "The oil's still here, and so are we!" the group was protesting a lack of clean-up and recovery. Activist Cherri Foytlin informed the group that state police had said they could not approach the entrance to ...
- Jury Begins Deliberations in Danziger Trial
A version of this article was originally published on the New Orleans Tribune/TribuneTalk website: With closing statements completed on Tuesday, focus in the Danziger incident now turns to the jury, which begins deliberating today on the 25 charges faced by the officers, after receiving final ...
- State of Louisiana Continues to Support Sex Of ...
This June, criminal justice activists in Louisiana won a major victory with the passage of a bill that effectively moved prostitution convictions back to the level of misdemeanor, heralding the end of Louisiana's archaic practice of forcing sex workers to register as sex offenders. But lawyers ...
- Defense rests in Danziger Trial, insisting vic ...
This article originally appeared on the New Orleans Tribune/Tribune Talk website: After less than one full week and having presented the testimony of only one of the five defendants, the defense in the Danziger police violence trial rested their case on Thursday. Much of the defense relied ...
- Granny Turmel and the red separatist scare
By Montreal Simon As the Liberals continue their fevered pathetic assault on Nycole Turmel. No doubt hoping that out of her ashes, their shrunken party will rise again, like some fleshless phoenix. Or some charred scarecrow. Even as they help fuel comments like this and this and this in ...
- No Murdoch-style scandal in Canada, you say?
By Alison@Creekside We've been getting a lot of stories from our media lately (here, here, and here), assuring us that an equivalent to the Rupert Murdoch scandal couldn't possibly happen in Canada. Really? No cozy incestuous relationships? No dirty tricks? On March 30, 2009, Stephen Ha ...
- Adobe Previews Adobe Flash Killer
by Eric Pettifor Back in March, I criticized Apple for not including support for Adobe Flash in their iPad tablet. Their reasoning seemed to be at least in part that Flash was going away, to be replaced by HTML 5 with support from javascript and CSS, to which I responded ...
- Alykhan and Ezra’s ethical snake oil
By Alison@Creekside Alykhan Velshi's wee blog Ethical Oil, named after Ezra's book, has relaunched with an expensive new look and some spiffy ethical oil pop-up campaign ads to greet you when you enter the site. You can choose either good or evil -- you know, conflict oil = woman being ston ...
- Booking Granny
By Alison@Creekside There's just so much wrong with this news story about the Canada Border Services Agency arresting and jailing a 66-year old woman for 12 days, for trafficking, possessing, and importing heroin, because their swab-test of a jar of motor oil in her vehicle incorrectly iden ...
- Zvonareva hangs on for win over Ivanovic
Vera Zvonareva of Russia won the first four games of the third set, then held on for a 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 win over fifth-seeded Ana Ivanovic of Serbia in the semifinals of the Mercury Insurance Open on Saturday night. The top-seeded and third-ranked Zvonareva, who won a hardcourt event last week in ...
- Taming the yen
The government on Thursday intervened in the foreign exchange market to weaken the yen, which had hovered at near record-high levels against the U.S. dollar. In collaboration with the government, the Bank of Japan promptly took steps to ease the money supply to help the economy overcome the effe ...
- G-7 market stability talks in offing
The deputies of the financial chiefs of the Group of Seven industrialized nations on Sunday confirmed the need to hold ministerial talks on market stability amid the U.S. and EU debt, sources said. The finance ministers and central bank governors of the G-7 — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, ...
- Hansen recovers mojo to win 200 breaststroke title
Brendan Hansen isn't scared of the 200-meter breaststroke anymore. He conquered the fear that had lingered since the 2008 U.S. Olympic trials with a resounding victory in the event at the national championships Saturday night, completing a sweep of the breaststroke events in his comeback from ...
- U.S. to send first envoy to Nagasaki A-bomb rites
The U.S. will for the first time send a representative to Nagasaki's annual peace memorial ceremony Tuesday marking the 1945 atomic bombing of the city, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo said Sunday. "I am honored to be the first U.S. representative to attend the Peace Memorial in Nagasaki, and to exp ...
- Canada’s GHG Commitment Problem
For the past decade, Canada’s GHG emission targets were framed by the Kyoto Protocol, in which Canada committed to a 6% reduction in emissions by 2012 relative to 1990 levels (590 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, or Mt CO2e). In spite of signing this treaty and its ratification throu ...
- Clemens vs. Clemens
Jason Clemens, who hangs his hat at several right-wing think-tanks (the Fraser, Pacific Research and Macdonald-Laurier Institutes), lauds Canadian fiscal conservatism in today’s Wall Street Journal: Canada’s government, for example, has grown smaller over the last 15 years. Total government spen ...
- Decarbonizing Homes and the Price of Gas
Our climate justice framework for BC is to eliminate fossil fuels by 2040. In the household sector, this poses a significant challenge, not so much in terms of technology and knowledge, but because natural gas is much cheaper than electricity per unit of energy. Even though BC has among the lowe ...
- Understanding Québec’s Orange Wave Part Three: ...
Simon Tremblay-Pepin is a researcher at IRIS, a Montreal-based progressive think tank. In my previous two posts I discussed how neither a rise in left-wing sentiment nor a surge in support for the federalist option caused the “orange wave” in Québec during the last federal election. I will now o ...
- Understanding Québec’s Orange Wave Part Two: W ...
Simon Tremblay-Pepin is a researcher at IRIS, a Montreal-based progressive think tank. In my previous post, I addressed how Québec was not reinventing itself as a socialist haven. I will now attempt to show that the NDP’s impressive showing in Québec does not indicate a rejection of sovereignty. ...
- War on error: how Israel bankrupted America
Paul J. Balles looks at how, by dragging the USA into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on false premises, Israel, the world’s first practitioner of terrorism, has almost bankrupted America.
- Statehood: Palestinians must show they mean bu ...
Stuart Littlewood calls on the Palestinians to pursue a two-pronged strategy: on the one hand bid for UN recognition of their statehood because they must have "equal rank to Israelis within the international community and a level playing field", while developing and expanding boycott, divestment ...
- Libya, Western intervention and the left's gre ...
Redress Information & Analysis looks back at the Libyan uprising as it unfolded, from the eruption of the peaceful civil and political rights protests and the Gaddafi regime's hyper-violent response, to the UN Security Council's authorization of the use of force to protect Libyan civilians. We p ...
- Palestinian bid for UN statehood recognition
Lawrence Davidson argues that, while UN recognition of Palestinian statehood could be potentially of psychological value to the Palestinian cause, "boycott, divestment and sanctions within the context of increasing worldwide awareness of Israel's essential racist nature shows real promise of res ...
- Israel and the American Jewish voter
Lawrence Davidson analyses the bizarre phenomenon of a Democratic and a Republican candidate fighting a congressional election in a New York district not over national or local issues, but over which of the two is more loyal to Israel.
- No turning back for light
Nature: Optical computer chips carry information via light rather than electrical current and transfer data at about 10 gigabits per second, which is more than 100 times faster than the best electronic chips. However, to be commercially viable, optical chips need their own equivalent of the elec ...
- Japan earthquake vibrations nearly reached space
National Geographic: The vertical motion of the March 2011 megathrust earthquake and resulting tsunami in eastern Japan produced vibrations that affected Earth's atmosphere—all the way up through the ionosphere. The vibrations at ground level were akin to low-frequency sound waves and didn't tra ...
- Liquid water may flow on Mars
New York Times: As scientists report today in Science, Mars may have liquid water flowing on its surface. They base their theory on the observation of fingerlike streaks up to five yards wide on some of the planet’s steep slopes. The streaks, which appear to grow and shift in summer and fade in ...
- Science stereotypes reexamined
Telegraph: “Not many girls appreciate how much fun science can be,” according to 14-year-old Samara Villion, who was participating in a school program at the Royal Institution of Great Britain’s Young Scientist Centre. Although more women are pursuing careers in science, writes Sally Williams fo ...
- A long, hot summer for Tokyo universities
Chronicle of Higher Education: Across Tokyo, universities are trying to cut their electricity use by 15%. Tokyo's power comes from Tepco, operator of the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear plants, which have been inoperable since the 11 March earthquake and tsunami. Many other reactors are also ...
- Norway massacre is a false flag
by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:00:26 GMT) It's a false flag attack. The killer said he hates Muslims but what his target were the sons and daughters of the government elites. He was born in Norway and chose as his targets not Muslims whose presence he detests, but the Labor Party ...
- Oil price and Iran war
by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:52:53 GMT) 13. Harassment from Feds (12/28/08) I said oil price started to drop after my article of July 4th. When the planed Iran war went soured in August, the Inside group planed a financial crisis to stabilize the dollar. It started on 9/14, when Lem ...
- The Fake Osama Bin Laden Image
by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:49:57 GMT) Two years ago I predicted the Feds would use Bin Laden, Al Qaida and Pakistan to activate false flag nuclear bomb attack. Operation Geronimo was exactly the practise of that plan. 587. A nuclear bombing to justify Iran war (2/10/09) For the ...
- CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists
by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:42:36 GMT) 675. Virus attack and boat sinking (7/19/2011) In web site unforumzed.com, a man kept on suggesting me to stop post the revelation article. Cake Balls by Autumn: “Maybe if you stopped posting crap all over the internet, the FBI wouldn't be ...
- News media won't report
by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:38:52 GMT) Quote, "Late Night Snack: Arrested in Orlando for Feeding the Homeless July 2, 2011By Sarah Jones Food Not Bombs activists get arrested for feeding the homeless, chanting “Food is a right, not a privilege”. Twice a week, these activists gat ...
- When The Water Ends: Africa’s Climate Conflicts
“For thousands of years, nomadic herdsmen have roamed the harsh, semi-arid lowlands that stretch across 80 percent of Kenya and 60 percent of Ethiopia. Descendants of the oldest tribal societies in the world, they survive thanks to the animals they raise and the crops they grow, their travels de ...
- Shell faces first Nigeria spill claims in UK
“A British court has ruled that a Nigerian community devastated by oil spills can claim compensation in the UK from the energy giant Shell. Royal Dutch Shell has already accepted responsibility and promised to pay some form of compensation for the spills, which took place in 2008 and 2009, destr ...
- Work underway on controversial Mekong River dam
“By building this dam, Laos is disregarding its regional commitments and robbing the future of millions of people in the region who rely upon the river for their livelihood and food security,” said Ame Trandem, Southeast Asia program director for International Rivers. The dam â the first of 1 ...
- In Arid South African Lands, Fracking Controve ...
“The controversy has put the government in a tough spot. Seventeen years after the end of apartheid, the African National Congress-led government is under pressure to deliver jobs, services, and greater prosperity to the countryâs largely impoverished and increasingly impatient population. The s ...
- Harvest rainwater or your taps could run dry
“BANGALORE: The BWSSB has empowered itself to take stern action against owners of those houses where rainwater harvesting (RWH) apparatus is not installed. Having issued a deadline of December 31, 2011, for installation, and published a gazette notification on July 7, BWSSB can now cut off wate ...
- Kucinich Calls for Day of Mourning and Remembr ...
Washington D.C. (August 6, 2011) � Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after a helicopter crash in Afghanistan killed at least 37 people including 31 Americans according to news reports. �The loss of our men and women serving oversees is a deeply felt tragedy.� ...
- CBO Report Finds Dept. of Energy Undercharging ...
A new report released today from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that the Department of Energy is dramatically undercharging energy companies for federal loan guarantees to build new nuclear reactors. The report, requested by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) last year as Chairman o ...
- Kucinich: Why I Voted Against S. 365, the Budg ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after voting against S. 365, the Budget Control Act of 2011. Kucinich voted in favor of a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling. S. 365, the Budget Control Act of 2011, is a landmark in American history, but for the wro ...
- Kucinich: Why I Voted for Senator Reid’s Revis ...
Washington D.C. (July 30, 2011) � Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after voting in favor of Senator Reid�s revised bill to raise the debt ceiling. �I have had and continue to have serious concerns about Senator Reid�s revised bill.� The cuts to discretio ...
- “The American People Do Not Want Us to Burn Do ...
Washington D.C. (July 29, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today delivered the following speech on the floor of the House of Representatives. See video here. “Here’s how we can take a couple steps back from the brink of default: “First, raise the debt ceiling until December 31, 2012 ...
- PRIVATE PRISONS
… Thanks to Republican/GOP Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and Tea Party State Senator Russell Pearce and their SB1070 law … CCA is poster child for the fastest growing sector in Arizona seeking new employees … PRIVATE PRISONS … and you get to carry a gun … WOW … Prisons for profit READ COMPLETE ART ...
- …How to Eat Well and Save the Planet Too ...
� ��How to Eat Well and Save the Planet Too �� � FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011 �� http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-eat-well-and-save-planet-too.html � Over the long term, and I mean long term, it is possible to feed a human population of around 100 billion people. �However our a ...
- YES … Homeland Security can watch you wh ...
⦠âBIGâ brother can pick you out of a crowd ⦠check out the link below and see for yourself ⦠YES ⦠Homeland Security can watch you whenever they want ⦠The Global Biometrics Reservation Proves You Can’t Hide In A Crowd 08-05-2011 ⢠gigapixel.com/ Destroying Native Americans was like ...
- VITAMIN “D”
â¦The Stunning Effect of This Single Vitamin on CANCER… VITAMIN âDâ ⦠READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE â¦. Posted By Dr. Mercola | August 06 2011 â¦http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/06/why-we-dont-have-a-cure-for-cancer-yet-or-do-we.aspx?e_cid=20110806_DNL_art_1 What if ...
- … YES … Our American government lies
⦠YES ⦠Our American government lies, suppresses, deceives the world but mainly you and me and we continue to allow this ⦠Whyâ¦? Censored color video from Hiroshima A-bomb aftermath 08-05-2011 ⢠boing boing The Nation’s Greg Mitchell has a new book out about the strange saga of color vi ...
- 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 ...
- Indonesia's moratorium disappoints environment ...
The moratorium on permits for new concessions in primary rainforests and peatlands will have a limited impact in reducing deforestation in Indonesia, say environmentalists who have reviewed the instruction released today by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The moratorium, which too ...
- FSC mulls controversial motion to certify plan ...
Members of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), meeting in Malaysia this week for its General Assembly, will consider various changes to the organization, including a vote on a controversial motion that would open the door—slightly at first—to sustainable-certification of companies that have be ...
- Unpaved road through Serengeti to progress
After a week of confusion, the Tanzanian government has finally clarified its position on the hugely-controversial Serengeti road. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, confirmed that a paved highway will not be built through the northern Serengeti National Park, however ...
- Richard Leakey: 'selfish' critics choose wrong ...
The controversial Serengeti road is going ahead, but with conditions. According to the Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, the road will not be paved and it will be run by the Tanzanian park authority who will have the power to monitor traffic to 'ensure no harm ...
- Arctic on the line: oil industry versus Greenp ...
At the top of the world sits a lone region of shifting sea ice, bare islands, and strange creatures. For most of human history the Arctic remained inaccessible to all but the hardiest of peoples, keeping it relatively pristine and untouched. But today, the Arctic is arguably changing faster than ...
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- AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlightenment, Forb ...
- SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AARON MCCOLLUM ON UT ...
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- 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 →
- Rand Paul Calls for Treasury Secretary Tim Gei ...
A press release sent this morning by Sen. Rand Paul's office: Sen. Rand Paul today issued a statement calling for the resignation of U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner from his cabinet post, effective immediately, for his gross mismanagement of federal economic policy and ...
- Attn, Cincinnati-Dayton-Oxford (Ohio) Reasonoi ...
The book tour for The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America makes its next stop in the charming college town of Oxford, Ohio, which is home to Miami University, the corpse of Weeb Ewbank, and me. On Saturday, July 13, Matt Welch an ...
- Standard & Poor's Downgrades U.S. Debt
Story here; PDF here. Those (many) who are rubbishing the eminently rubbishable S&P tonight are generally not grappling with something we've been talking about for years around these parts: The current fiscal trajectory of the United States is not just deteriorating rapidly, ...
- New at Reason: Mike Riggs on the Higher Educat ...
A growing chorus of economists and educators think that the higher education industry will be America's next bubble. The combination of easy credit, high tuition, and poor job prospects, writes Associate Editor Mike Riggs, have resulted in growing delinquency and default rates on n ...
- How Many Medical Marijuana Patients Are Fakers ...
A recent survey of 1,746 patients at nine medical marijuana evaluation clinics in California indicates that "the patient population has evolved from mostly HIV/AIDS and cancer patients to a significantly more diverse array." University of California at Santa Cruz sociologist Craig R ...
- Murdoch stew
Elisabeth Murdoch has declined to submit herself to becoming a human sacrifice by joining the Board at News Corp. Cops who took bribes from Murdoch will be investigated for tax evasion. Wonder what new information their plea bargains will include. “The fake sheikh,” Mahzer Mahmood of Murdoch’s T ...
- The need for Jubilation
Here’s the very definition of political risk. The Chinese are threatening, in a hectoring tone that does not befit a nation that suffered from debt slavery for two centuries or so, to refuse buy any more debt unless we cut Social Security and Medicare. The current Chinese government is, by the w ...
- Deficits driven by Bush tax cuts, recession
From CBPP via Avedon: Yeah, the wars are a factor, they should add in Medicare D, but the picture is clear: without ending the Bush tax cuts, there is simply no way to close the budget gap except to outright steal the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. Read the article. It refutes the Her ...
- The return of slavery
One of the reasons I used to refuse to invest in China, and now do so only selectively, is that they use some prison labor. Prison labor, unless it’s done at a competitive wage, is a form of slavery. So, to be consistent, I should divest from the US. Mike Elk and Bob Sloan, The [...]
- The triumph of voodoo
A couple of days ago, I posted in comments: Adding, 8/3: For those who believe in voodoo, markets at noon are below resistance, at about 1240 (S&P). Next line of resistance is ca. 1180, which would be a ca. 12% drop from recent highs. The 50% retracement would be at 1025 and the 33% retracement ...
- August 5 2011: Europe throws in the towel
- August 3 2011: The Next Bank Bailout Bloodbath ...
- August 1 2011: Of Ceilings and Dungeons
- July 28 2011: Real Black. Real Swan.
- July 26 2011: Austerity is coming to the U.S.A.
- ISRAEL: High Costs Force New Settlements of Sorts
About 10,000 people marched through the streets of downtown Jerusalem last week chanting "The people demand social justice" and calling for access to affordable housing. The demonstration was one of about a dozen taking place simultaneously throughout Israel – which drew nearly 150,000 t ...
- PAKISTAN: Tourism Takes On Taliban
Standing in the busy main market place of Mingora, it is hard to think that just two years ago this city in Swat district was under the tyranny of the Taliban.
- Between Libya and the Deep Sea
NATO's five-month bombing campaign in Libya, run under the guise of protecting civilians, is also killing victims fleeing the conflict, directly and indirectly.
- ECUADOR: Big Bucks from China Drive Domestic D ...
Ecuador sees the loans it has agreed with China as "good news," because they are long-term, and all that is required in return is "oil, and not the horrendous adjustments imposed by the IMF (International Monetary Fund)," leftwing Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa told analysts critical of th ...
- COLOMBIA: Paramilitaries Dig in to Fight Retur ...
While President Juan Manuel Santos described his government's land restitution policy as "a veritable revolution" during a speech in northwest Colombia, some 300 far-right paramilitaries were taking up positions less than 100 km from there to fight the effort to return land to small farmers di ...
- US Shale Gas Reserves May Be 100% Overstated
Shale gas has become an important and permanent feature of U.S. energy supply. Daily production has increased from less than 1 billion cubic feet of gas per day (bcfd) in 2003, when the first modern horizontal drilling and fracture stimulation was used, to almost 20 bcfd by mid-2011. There ar ...
- UK protest turns violent
Angry crowds have attacked riot police in north London following a protest at the fatal shooting of a man by armed officers earlier in the week. British police battled to restore order on Sunday as rioters went on the rampage in Tottenham, torching police cars, vans, a bus and buildings amid ...
- The West's horrible fiscal choice
The US, Britain, and Europe are together embarking on a sudden and severe tightening of fiscal policy, in unison, before economic recovery has reached safe take-off speed. The experiment was last tried in the 1930s. Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said there is now a one-third cha ...
- ECB throws Itaiy, Spain to the wolves
Its refusal to act in the face of an existential threat to monetary union has set off violent tremors across the global financial system, raising the risk that the crisis will spiral out of control. Bank shares crashed in Madrid and Milan, with Intesa Sanpaolo down 10pc and Italy's MIB index ...
- Worst NSW retail results for 50 years
When adjusted for inflation, national sales barely grew, rising 0.6 per cent, much less than the rate of population growth. But in NSW spending sank. Unpublished Bureau of Statistics figures made available to the Herald show the volume of food bought in NSW over the year fell about 1 per cent ...
- Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
- Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.
- Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...
- Australian kids are living in climate of fear
On the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon tax package announcement, psychologists and scientists said the lessons were alarmist, created unneeded anxiety among school children and endangered their mental health.
- Over 1,400 arrested, tear gas fired in Malays ...
Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government.
- Tele-coaching
Children in Nova Scotia who suffer from disruptive behaviour, anxiety disorders or other moderate mental health issues often fail to receive timely access to psychological care. It can take up to a year to see a psychologist for treatment. Dalhousie University psychologist Patrick McGrath is dev ...
- Always wear sunscreen
As the summer signals hot weather and long days at the beach, doctors, cosmeticians and mothers everywhere rally to proffer their standard warning: “Always wear sunscreen.” But for people who are allergic to sunblock, like Elda Scaiano, it is impossible to wear commercial sunscreens. Fortunately ...
- Virtual practice makes perfect
For Halifax-based neurosurgeon David Clarke, the Monday-afternoon surgery session of Aug. 17, 2009, was anything but routine. For starters, his patient’s brain tumour was located in a tricky spot, close to the delicate part of the brain that controls speech. A small slip of the scalpel either wa ...
- A powerful elixir
The good news is that there are more than a million cancer survivors in Canada. The bad news is that they live with the long-term effects of treatment, including extreme fatigue, memory and attention problems, bone density loss, leading to fractures, and a sometimes debilitating anxiety over can ...
- No more slipping through the cracks
At any given time, some 19,000 children are in foster care in Ontario, placed there for their protection by one of the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies (CAS). While CAS caseworkers write meticulous reports on the children who pass through the system, the details contained in the thousands ...
- Quake Flash report : Unusual earthquake close ...
An unusual weak coastal earthquake struck the Hadera and Netanya area. The earthquake was felt in Israel and in the Gaza strip. The current epicenter area can be called as very unusual. We have NO trace of any historic important earthquakes in the past. For a lot of people it will be a uniq ...
- BEST OF THE WEB: MIVILUDicrous! Mass suicide f ...
The French Government has alerted the country to the risk of mass suicides by people who believe that the world would end by December 21, 2012. A government watchdog, which monitors cults and suspicious spiritual activities, is keeping an eye on the hamlet of Bugarach in the south of France, wh ...
- Death of a campaigner: corrupt Indian official ...
Arup Kalita's body was found this week, his skeletal remains finally recovered from the shallow depths a pond in the small village of Kukurmara in India's north-eastern fringes. His mobile phone, motor bike keys, driving licence and trousers were all discovered along with his bones. How he ...
- Is this Jack the Ripper? Scotland Yard's Chief ...
Spanish handwriting expert claims to solve 120-year-old murder mystery Suspects have ranged from a member of Royal Family to a local butcher - but it is now claimed that Jack the Ripper was the very detective who led the hunt for the killer. Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline of Scotland Y ...
- Ukraine: Tymoshenko Backers Start Sit-In in Kiev
Supporters of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko have started an indefinite sit-in to protest her detention until she is released. Over 100 supporters, including members of parliament, have pitched about 30 tents near the courthouse in Kiev, vowing to continue their sit-in until ...
- He figured it out . . .
"I FIGURED IT OUT" from Jamestown High School The Pajama Game March 2010, delightful, wonderful song. According to Wiki, The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a paja ...
- A North American Union...
...of failed and failing states. Northern Mexico is riddled with drug violence. They find mass graves in the desert. There are tens of thousands of Mexican troops in the north, yet the violence continues. The cartels sometimes achieve folk hero status among the public because they, like Hezboll ...
- It's catching . . .
HIVMEDICAL XPRESS has a disturbing report: "First large study to find HIV epidemic among gays in the Middle East". HIV epidemics are emerging in several countries in the Middle East and North Africa among men who have sex with men, a term that encompasses gay, non-gay identified homosexual men, ...
- Abdelrazik, Kenney, and the extension of the state
So today we find CSIS has leaked a document suggesting that Abousfian Abdelrazik had a phone conversation where he plotted with Adil Charkaoui to blow up an airliner. In 2000. Some things come to mind. First, this has not been proven. Second, if true, there are criminal laws on the books in C ...
- Be your own boss . . .
AH, THE JOYS OF THE OWNER-OPERATOR. The freight biz has changed over the last 30 years; railroad freight declined, and humongous 18-wheelers took over. With the advent of cheap PC's and bookkeeping software, the corporate accountants realized that they could get rid of all the fleet driver jobs ...
- Attention Media: S&P Lacks Credibility
When reporting on Standard & Poor's recent downgrade of the U.S. credit rating and its assessments of the U.S. fiscal situation, media outlets should carefully examine the rating agency's credibility. Congressional Commission: Rating Agencies "Key Enablers Of The Financial Meltdown." From ...
- Fox, Limbaugh Campaign Against Majority Rule I ...
Rush Limbaugh and Fox News contributor Dana Perino have claimed that the FAA shutdown was caused by a dispute over the Democrats' "backdoor way to help the unions with the card check bill." In reality, the dispute involves corporate and Republican opposition to a decision by the National Mediat ...
- Doocy Revives "Bogus" Cost-Per-Job Math To Att ...
Recently, Fox News' Steve Doocy has repeatedly recycled the right-wing attack that the stimulus cost taxpayers between $200,000 and $278,000 per job. In fact, PolitiFact Texas rated this claim "False," and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman called the math upon which this calculation is based "bogus." ...
- Barack Ogabe: The Kenyan Anti-Colonialist Who ...
Rush Limbaugh claimed that President Obama's economic "role model" is Rubert Mugabe, who "took the white people's farms." Other conservatives have claimed that Obama is an "African colonial" and that the core of his faith "is African nativism." Limbaugh: The "Next Thing To Look Out For Is For ...
- After Insisting Debt Was "Issue Number One," F ...
Fox News has repeatedly played up the national debt as the "number one issue" facing the country, despite statements from economists that unemployment is a more pressing problem. Now, in the aftermath of a default crisis that was manufactured by conservatives, Fox is criticizing Obama for "pivo ...
- How long can we endure this drought – wait, it ...
The Climate Prediction Center says there is now a 50/50 chance of a return to La Nina conditions this fall. La Nina is an expansive area of cooler-than-normal water in the Pacific Ocean. This cooling alters weather patterns across the U.S., and almost always results in drier than normal conditio ...
- Deregulation has put Texas energy security at ...
The PUC wants to have a meeting at the end of August to try to figure out how to fix Texas’s experiment of a deregulated generation market, as we look like we are going to run out of energy during what could be ever increasing hot summers. It seems the current market based behavior doesn’t [...]
- Shut off unnessary equipment before ERCOT is f ...
As temperatures soared yesterday, ERCOT estimates that electricity usage reached an all-time peak high (breaking Wednesday’s record) with Texans using 60,157 MW of power – flying past the official record set on August 31, 2000 when 57,606 MW of power was consumed by Texans in the ERCOT service ...
- Temperatures in Texas soar — and so do energy ...
This is a reprint of a post by Jake Dyer from the RechargeTexas.com blog The rolling blackouts that swept through Texas last February have been blamed on the unexpected failure of generation plants. The temperature dropped during a cold snap, the plants froze up, and then — before anybody really ...
- LCRA cancels board meeting with the White Stal ...
August 10 LCRA Board meeting canceled after White Stallion water contract pulled from agenda Discussion and possible action by the LCRA Board of Directors on a contract to provide water to a proposed new coal plant in Matagorda County has been postponed indefinitely. This decision comes after th ...
- Development, a fairy tale of catastrophic prop ...
times_square.jpg Amnesty International released a report on indigenous rights this week called �Sacrificing Rights in the Name of Development: Indigenous Peoples Under Threat in the Americas,� which exposes the impact of development projec ...
- Challenging Mega-Dams through the People’s Per ...
anaa_logo.jpg The La Parota mega-dam being constructed in Guerrero, Mexico will displace over 5,000 families and have an indirect impact on an additional 15,000 lives.� That is unless the Assembly of Environmentally Impacted Communities (A ...
- Monsanto Nation
Subheadline:� Taking Down Goliath Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Ronnie Cummins is a veteran activist, author, and organizer. He is the International Director of the Organic Consu ...
- Losing Jerusalem, Piece by Piece
snaking_wall.jpg In Bir Nabala, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem, Israel’s separation Wall provides a concrete backdrop to what was once a view of the old city. On a stormy afternoon, Bir Nabala’s head of counsel Haj Tawfik Nabeli guided m ...
- Taking on TIAA-CREF, with pain and outrage
Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Alice Rothchild is a Boston-based physician, a Grassroots International supporter, and author of "Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish Trauma and Resilience." Her website is www.alicerothchild.com. ...
- Climate Corps 2011: Taking an HR Approach to E ...
With 30,000 employees in 73 offices, harnessing individuals' energy and efforts will be key to taking sustainability to the next level at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
- Philips' Ultra-Efficient Lightbulb Wins $10M Prize
Philips Lighting has taken the top award for the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize, netting a $10 million cash prize for its LED�light bulb that uses less than 10 watts to generate as much light as the standard 60-watt incandescent light bulb.
- Military Housing Goes Red, White & Green
Lend Lease, a low-profile property development firm that has cornered the market on military housing, is in the midst of building two of the largest solar-powered communities in the nation.
- First Takes: E.U.'s Fish-Dumping Problem, Floo ...
Fish dumped due to the European Union's fish quota system, fees for recycling and composting in the U.K., and the effect recent floods had on the oxygen-deprived "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico are among the stories we're looking at this morning.
- 6 Things You Need to Know to Get Certified Und ...
During a webcast organized by GreenBiz.com this week, representatives from the US Department of Energy and Underwriters Laboratories walked through the details of the just-released energy management standard, and how companies can get on board, quickly.
- Weekend Reading
It's easier to find the time to read long pieces of journalism on the weekends. I enjoyed reading this piece about the 8 ways our youngins are being programmed not to rebel. I'd say the number one way is The Entertainment, however you define that. Smart phones, the Internet, and television ar ...
- An Agenda 21 President?
This morning I encountered a small army of Agenda 21 paranoid fruitcakes while visiting the Phoenixville Farmer's Market. They looked kind of normal. All in their forties or fifties, a little less than average in the looks department. But zonked out of their minds on bullshit. I have their fl ...
- The Pres Tried to Save Our Credit Rating
Remember when the president suddenly offered the Republicans a grand bargain on deficit reduction and put entitlements on the table if the Republicans would only consider eliminating tax loopholes for private jet owners and other millionaires? Remember how so many progressives howled about the ...
- Casual Observation
Of course, it's only natural that Republicans will try to avert blame for our credit downgrade. What's their alternative? To accept some responsibility? But I hope at least privately that a good many of them are looking in the mirror. For a party that likes to accuse the Democrats of turning ...
- If Romney Can't Win in the South...
I wish the calendar for the GOP nomination process wasn't such a mess. It makes it nearly impossible to game out how the process will unfold. As of now, there isn't much of a Super Tuesday, and there is also a new rule that's going to change things dramatically. Primaries held before April wil ...
- 10 Most Beautiful Swamps on Earth
The mysterious swamps of the world in all their stunning natural beauty! Truly spellbinding pics! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- The Myth and Mystery Behind Crop Circles
Crop circles have evolved from simple folk art into highly complex artworks. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- GrowthBusters: A Groundbreaking Documentary fo ...
"GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth" is a new documentary by filmmaker Dave Gardner that challenges our beliefs about economic growth, population and consumption. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- Van Gogh Painting Recreated as an Amazing Livi ...
A unique living wall made of plants depicting Van Gogh's "Wheat Field with Cypresses". read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 15 Incredible Escape Tools Made by Prison Inmates
Inmates have recycled numerous items to make their escapes, both successful and not! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- Markets take more of a dive, so cash out and s ...
In Afghanistan the 'Seal Six' craft evidently went down... everyone killed in action there are now called "NATO troops" instead of Americans. Heavily armed Multi-Jurisdiction FoodControl Swat teams step in to shut down & crush the Rawesome Foods outlet in Venice CA as our friendly local industri ...
- Special Analysis :-P The interstellar/local en ...
In July you’ll be launching another three-day Pleiadian event in Minneapolis. How many have you done so far? Christine Day, Pleiadian Ambassador!: We’ve done three in the United States and this will be our fourth one in the last 12 months. We are building one in September in Brazil and one in Ge ...
- The Great Default & End of July; Minneapolis' ...
Looks like they just announced some kind of debt deal, staving off total collapse for a month or 2. Next up..... In July you’ll be launching another three-day Pleiadian event in Minneapolis. How many have you done so far? Christine Day, Pleiadian Ambassador!: We’ve done three in the United State ...
- Middle East nets Liberal Revolutions with Anar ...
I had to snag a bit of this from the site Jadaliyya: Anarchist, Liberal, and Authoritarian Enlightenments: Notes From the Arab Spring -- the tipping point is referencing Max Weber, who we just don't hear enough about these days. Interesting site. I wonder to what extent the Egypt scenario connec ...
- Bernie Sanders causes exposure of $16,000,000, ...
The criminal banker syndicate which has captured much of our federal government has finally had some of its inner mechanics exposed thanks to Bernie Sanders, one of a handful of legit people in Congress today.... The Full Bernie post is well earned: The Fed Audit - Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie ...
- The University of Maryland Workers’ Righ ...
The past several months have marked the University of Maryland (College Park), with turmoil, struggle, pain, and solidarity. This all stems from the reprehensible climate of racial discrimination, sexual abuse and mistreatment that many employees are met with each time they step on campus. Most ...
- Is there a Revolution Coming this October? (YW ...
Click the link below to listen to the show now: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/08/04/is-there-a-revolution-coming-in-october Join us this episode as we spoke with Dr. Margaret Flowers to discuss the October 6th Movement to “Stop the Machine and Create a New World”. Dr. Flowers ...
- THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE CRAZY
The political elite and its stenographic media don’t classify types of terrorists. If they did we would get the good, the bad and the crazy. Since no one is perfect, the virtuous purveyors of death and destruction naturally need flexibility. Mistakes occasionally occur. For example, when US dron ...
- The North American Nobel Prize laureate in Eco ...
Joseph Stiglitz gives a little surprise speech at one 15M movement assembly in Madrid Marches from all over the country fill up the Spanish capital with assemblies, forums, demonstrations, and actions of protest and start an international march to Brussels by Concha Mateos Madrid July 25th , 201 ...
- Gandhi on how to end injustice: Speak the trut ...
source: Carl Herman âIt is more correct to say that Truth is God than to say God is truth. …we must speak the Truth.â - Gandhi on Truth (and here, pg. 20) US injustice in major policies will end when enough Americans speak the truth. The injustice is literal: US government policies with war an ...
- Most of the country had record heat in July
by Jess Zimmerman. This July has seen so many record daytime and nighttime temperatures that if you plot them on a map, they show a nearly complete image of the lower 48 states. Almost 9,000 daily records were broken or tied last month, including 2,755 highest maximum temperature ...
- By God, Donald Trump will not let this wind fa ...
by Jess Zimmerman. Not satisfied with making (more of) a mockery of the electoral process, Donald Trump is now going after wind power, vowing to use "any legal means" to block a planned windfarm near his golf course in Scotland. Trump claims it's not simple rich-white-guy opposition to ...
- How to cover 100 percent of your car expenses ...
by Christopher Mims. Getaround is a car-sharing service like ZipCar, except instead of borrowing the company's vehicles, you're borrowing your neighbors'. If you have a set of wheels you'd like to rent out, it's possible to pay 100 percent of your vehicle expenses simply by making it a ...
- EPA found over 20 years ago that fracking cont ...
by Sarah Laskow. Fracking companies like to say that there’s never been a single case of fracking contaminating a water well. But, well, there has, and they’ve known that for over 20 years. An EPA report released in 1987 said that a tainted well in West Virginia was contaminated by fracki ...
- Texans drinking urine, consulting Bibles in fa ...
by Christopher Mims. Texas is now in the midst of its worst-ever one-year drought. Austin, Texas' capital, has received less than two inches of rain since October, a period that would normally see 18 inches. Here are just a few of the impacts of the state's ongoing drought, which is entir ...
- Unheimlich and Strano
by Les Visible My goodness, is this so? I guess it has to be. As I’ve said many times, if something horrible and heinous and violent is taking place, you can track it to Israel and Zionism pretty much refero. Now we have Sue Rabbitt Roff promoting organ sales to pay down student loan debts [...]
- As we Come to The Changing Line
By Les Visible Well now. It is something to see isn’t it? But I had a point in mind when I did it because I wanted to get it out of the way for myself ahead of time. I have certain gifts, I don’t think they are all that remarkable and I don’t actually possess [...]
- The Dolphins Sunbathing on The Armageddon Train
By Les Visible Tell me that you are surprised. Go ahead, it is okay. This congressional bill that they spent so much time wrangling over and twisting their little hands over while their mouths were busy elsewhere working on the bankers, accomplished not only no good but attacked the very things ...
- Palestine and the Irresistible Winds of Change
By Les Visible The Palestinians are going to declare statehood, or nationhood, in September, regardless of whatever does or doesn’t happen, concerning the international backing being sought. Right on cue, the Ashke-Nazi’s have come up with their own final solution to the problem they created. Wh ...
- Dr Sue Rabbitt Roff wants a NHS organ harvesti ...
Dear All To get through life, you need all your body parts and preferably in good condition. I spoke out against the idea of presumed consent for organ donation because it is a violation of sovereignty of people’s bodies. The State doesn’t own you when alive and they have certain no right to can ...
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
- Wacky-Looking “Brain Cap” Transfers Thoughts I ...
Yes, this looks like a poster for a new Sci-Fi flick, but it’s actually a hat that transfers thoughts into motion! Designed by José âPepeâ L. Contreras-Vidal, an associate professor of kinesiology, the “Brain Cap” is an innovative, non-invasive piece of headgear that has the potential to con ...
- BOOK REVIEW: The Vertical Farm by Dick Despommier
Read the rest of BOOK REVIEW: The Vertical Farm by Dick Despommier Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable agriculture", book review, dick despommier, dr. despommier, eco design, green design, organic farming, sustaianble design, sustainable farming, the vertical farm, vert ...
- Jean Nouvel’s Massive MoMA ‘Death Spire’ Plan ...
Plans for Jean Nouvelâs Death Spire (Torre Verre) atop the Museum of Modern Art were thought to have met their demise in 2009, but lo and behold the spire will rise again! Development giant Hines has taken the project into their own hands and will head the efforts to get Nouvel’s structure bu ...
- Top 6 Green Camping Gadgets for a Wilderness A ...
Summer is all about spending time outdoors, but if you’re looking for something more than pigeon watching in the park, consider taking a camping trip! Surviving the great outdoors has never been easier with technology, and we’re happy to report that there are a whole slew of new gadgets out th ...
- Our Baby Website Inhabitots Turns 3!
Little Haby is growing up so quickly! Inhabitots turned 3 years old this past week, and in celebration of our little one’s special day, Inhabitotsâ managing editor Julie Seguss rounded up her top eco-friendly birthday gifts for one, two, and 3-year-olds. If you’ve been looking for some gift ide ...
- 6 Mysteries of Jupiter NASA’s New Spacecraft M ...
A plucky spacecraft named Juno began a long journey to Jupiter today from Florida at 12:25 p.m. EDT despite a small anomaly with the helium system of its rocket ride and a boat wandering into the launch zone.
- Controversial Paper Company Relocates Sumatran ...
Wildlife conservationists and a controversial paper company this week relocated a critically endangered tiger away from plantations and onto a national park in Sumatra, an Indonesian island famous for its rich biodiversity. A veterinarian performed a final checkup on the 7-year-old female S ...
- Vibrating Glove Boosts Fingertip’s Sense of Touch
By Mark Brown, Wired UK Forget traditional comic book hero origin stories — gaining a super sense of touch can be as easy as slipping on this glove. It’s designed by a team of researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, and the glove’s tip lightly vibrates the wearer’s finger to significant ...
- Human Cells a Chimera of Ancient Life
Despite eons of mingling inside our cells, gene networks we've inherited from primitive, singled-celled ancestors have stayed separate. Our cells remain chimeras, a hybrid fusion of unrelated creatures.
- Drive to Impress Females Pushes Males Toward E ...
Again and again across the animal kingdom, males die younger than females -- a consistent, puzzling pattern of premature expiration that may be the unavoidable biological cost of impressing the ladies.
- Run On US-European Banks Brings World To Brink ...
A shocking Russian Finance Ministry report prepared for Prime Minister Putin is warning today that massive liquidity runs on American and European financial institutions over the past fortnight are in danger of collapsing the entire global economic system leaving war as the only “option” for the ...
- Video: Economic Collapse a Mathematical Certai ...
The dollar collapse will be the single largest event in human history. This will be the first event that will touch every single living person in the world. All human activity is controlled by money. Our wealth,our work,our food,our government,even our relationships are affected by money. No mon ...
- US loses AAA credit rating after S&P downgrade
One of the world's leading credit rating agencies, Standard & Poor's, has downgraded the United States' top-notch AAA rating for the first time ever. S&P cut the long-term US rating by one notch to AA+ with a negative outlook, citing concerns about budget deficits. The agency said the defi ...
- Video: Deaths of SEAL Team 6 Exposed
Associated Press sources are reporting a statistically impossible tragedy for U.S. forces in Afghanistan– that of the 38 NATO forces killed in a helicopter crash Friday night, “more than 20″ were members of SEAL Team 6, the covert unit that took credit for killing Osama bin Laden in May. Main ...
- Israel Street Protests: Suppressed by US Media ...
Well, almost. Virtually nothing shows up on US television. Some gets print coverage, but not enough to explain a major story accurately and fully. More on that below. For weeks, tens of thousands of Israelis have been protesting high prices, especially unaffordable housing, creating an intole ...
- Michael Mansfield Defends Students’ Righ ...
In the Observer today, the celebrated QC Michael Mansfield, who has been involved in numerous high-profile legal cases including the Guildford Four and the Stephen Lawrence murder trial, announced that he was bringing his partial retirement to an end to act on behalf of Alfie Meadows, a 20-year- ...
- New Revelations About The Use of Water Torture ...
For Truthout, my colleague Jeffrey Kaye, who is a full-time psychologist but somehow manages also to pursue a second career as a blogger, has just written an article about the use of water torture at Guantánamo (and elsewhere in the “War on Terror”), which has been securing excellent coverage o ...
- Britain’s Secret Post-9/11 Torture Polic ...
As the British government’s toothless torture inquiry is abandoned by ten NGOs and lawyers for the former Guantánamo prisoners, who have long recognized that it was nothing more than a whitewash, but have now given up on even trying to engage with it, politicians in the Tory-led coalition gover ...
- Ten NGOs Withdraw from UK Torture Inquiry, Cit ...
As I reported last month, ten NGOs, including Amnesty International, Liberty and Reprieve, announced their intention to boycott the government’s proposed inquiry into UK complicity in torture following the 9/11 attacks, on the first anniversary of Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement that ...
- Hosni Mubarak’s Trial Electrifies the Mi ...
Photos of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s 83-year old former dictator, lying on a gurney in a prison cage as his trial began in Cairo today, may well be amongst the defining images of the year, along with the giant circle of protestors in Tahrir Square, which dominated broadcasts in February this year, a ...
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
- N.J. Governor: ‘This Shariah Law Business is Crap’
Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday slammed the anti-Muslim “crazies” who have raised objections to his nomination of a Muslim lawyer to become a state Superior Court judge. “Ignorance is behind the criticism of Sohail Mohammad,” Christie said in response to a reporter’s questi ...
- Judge Likely to Suppress Statements by Spokane ...
When the FBI was about to arrest a domestic terrorism suspect in the Pacific Northwest five months ago, an elaborate plan was put together. The bureau’s Hostage Rescue Team developed a ruse to stop and arrest the suspect, and the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit helped field agents develop post-arr ...
- News Roundup for August 5, 2011
The trial of a Connecticut man on sexual assault charges has taken a bizarre turn into a constitutional debate. John McGowan, a former mayoral candidate and public access TV host, is accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a game of strip poker. McGowan said he was a member of the “soverei ...
- Racist Cult Leader Warren Jeffs Convicted of R ...
After years of state and federal investigations, it took a Texas jury a mere 3½ hours to convict racist cult leader Warren Jeffs on charges of sexually assaulting two child brides, aged 12 and 15. He is already imprisoned for an earlier conviction. Jeffs presided over a religious empire as both ...
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s AFA-sponsored Prayer R ...
After weeks of weathering criticism for associating with some of the most hateful anti-gay voices in America, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is postured for his national day of prayer and fasting tomorrow just as he was when he announced it – defiantly arm-in-arm with the vanguard of the anti-gay right. ...
- New Balance's Ties to Fiercely Anti-Gay Politics
You might know New Balance as the major brand of shoes and athletic wear found at marathons, road races, and gyms around the country. Here's what you might not know about the company: their Chairman, James Davis, has given upwards of $500,000 to Mitt Romney's campaign for President -- the same M ...
- Adding Fuel to S-Comm Controversy, DHS Scraps ...
Wow. Just as momentum for pulling cities and states out of the federal government's so-called "Secure Communities" program appeared to be reaching a fever pitch, today the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it will cancel the more than 40 agreements it had signed with states an ...
- Victory! Miami-Dade Animal Services Director R ...
Dr. Sara Pizano, the Director of Miami-Dade Animal Services, officially resigned from her position on August 4, following months of protests and controversy. Local animal advocates are celebrating what they hope will be a new day for Miami-Dade's animals. Not only do shelter records reflect that ...
- Dolce & Gabbana Tries to Silence Facebook ...
Dolce & Gabbana deleted Facebook wall posts as soon as Change.org members led by the Clean Clothes Campaign wrote on the luxury Italian fashion house’s wall, demanding that they stop using a highly dangerous garment production method which gives Dolce & Gabbana jeans a ‘worn’ look LONDON – The ...
- Resort Responds to Change.org Petition With Mi ...
Yesterday, AsiaOne reported that more than 100,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org to free 25 dolphins being held captive for a new exhibit at Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore. The petition, started by dolphin activist, Barbara Napoles, urges Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) to show goo ...
- US Special Forces Die After Taliban Shoot Down ...
HELMAND, Afghanistan - A Nato Chinook helicopter has crashed in Afghanistan, apparently shot down, killing 22 US special forces, three of their support team, their air crew, and seven Afghan commandos. It is the coalition's single worst incident during the 10-year conflict. ...
- Will 2012 Be the End of the Presidential Publi ...
It happened with typewriters, eight-tracks, VCRs and even flip-phones. Now advocates for the public financing of political campaigns fear that the system once used by most presidential candidates could also become irrelevant without an upgrade. ...
- Chile Student Protests Explode as Students Cla ...
It began as a series of peaceful protests calling for reform of the Chilean government's education system, with students staging mass kiss-ins, dressing up in superhero costumes and running laps around the presidential palace. But on Thursday these surreal protests exploded into violence as sch ...
- Japan PM marks Hiroshima with Nuclear Pledge
JAPAN - Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan has�renewed his pledge to work towards�a nuclear-free Japan as Hiroshima marked the 66th anniversary of the US atomic bombing. Speaking at a ceremony on Saturday, devoted to the victims of the bomb that killed more than 100,000 people,�Kan said the�meltdo ...
- Coalition of Immokalee Workers Brings Farmwork ...
The hot summer has brought in a bumper crop of food activism from coast to coast. For the past few weeks, a group of Florida farm workers has embarked on a marketing coup that challenges the country's food business giants by educating consumers about exploitation in the tomato industry. ...
- Israelis plan million-strong march as proteste ...
Campaigners vow 'more pressure and more people' after 300,000-strong demonstration across countryActivists behind spiralling protests in Israel plan to build on one of the biggest marches ever seen in the country by piling on "more pressure, more people, more tents and more protests" culminating ...
- Somali troops move into Mogadishu as rebels pu ...
African Union peacekeepers and soldiers hold famine-hit capital, but insurgents insist withdrawal is just a change in tacticsSomali government soldiers and African Union (AU) peacekeepers have moved tentatively to secure former rebel-held areas in Mogadishu, a day after al-Shabaab insurgents ann ...
- Four killed in Pacific island protest over cos ...
French minister for overseas territories holds urgent talks in Paris after demonstrations outside Maré airport turn violentThe French government has tried to calm tensions on the south Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia after four people died and 23 were injured in clashes during a protest at ...
- Rick Perry's call to prayer draws crowd of 30,000
Secular America watches nervously as the Christian evangelical Texas governor moves closer to presidential bidIt was billed as a day of prayer and fasting to halt America's national decline, and about 30,000 answered the call, flooding into Houston's Reliant stadium for a seven-hour marathon whi ...
- Gay Byrne considers standing for Irish presidency
Poll shows 77-year-old broadcaster, best known for the Late Late Show, is hugely popular with voters For decades, he has played the part of Ireland's on-air confessor, listening sympathetically as guests shared their most intimate stories with him � and, of course, thousands of viewers.In a some ...
- Valley where U.S. troops died supports Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan — The 30 U.S. soldiers, many of them Navy SEALs, who died Saturday in the U.S. military's single biggest loss of the Afghan war, were operating in a Taliban-controlled valley where frequent U.S.-led night raids have won the insurgents popular support, area residents sai ...
- Yemen remains unsettled by violent clashes acr ...
SANAA, Yemen — This Yemeni capital remained tense Sunday as a second day of clashes between government forces and armed supporters of powerful tribal leader Sheikh Sadiq al Ahmar threatened to reignite large scale fighting in the city.
- Slain Mercer Law graduate Lauren Giddings laid ...
LAUREL, Md. — Lauren Teresa Giddings came home Saturday.
- Commandos killed in Afghanistan were fighting ...
KABUL, Afghanistan — The 30 U.S. troops killed when their Chinook helicopter was shot down Saturday in western Afghanistan — many of them Navy SEALs &mash; were fighting a war rarely talked about.
- China slams U.S. debt situation in fierce edit ...
BEIJING — China, the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt, issued a scathing condemnation of American economic practices on Saturday, saying that "mounting debts and ridiculous political wrestling in Washington have damaged America's image abroad."
- 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 ...
- Whistleblower Trial Against Blackwater Begins
In 2008, two former employees brought a whistleblower lawsuit against the security firm once known as Blackwater (now named Xe Services). On July 27, the trial began in Alexandria, Virginia and is expected to last two weeks. The two whistleblowers allege that the company overcharged the federal ...
- NWC joins in NLRB amicus to preserve collectiv ...
The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with 26 other organizations to submit an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). At stake is the right of employees to join together for collective and class actions. This long-recognized right is under attack by forced arbitrati ...
- Legal Battle Finally Over for an "American Hero"
The NWC is pleased to announce that whistleblower hero Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse has finally won a six-year legal battle against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 2005, Ms. Greenhouse blew the whistle on the Army Corps for extensive contractor fraud in which they were awarding secret, non- ...
- Whistleblower Center in NYC
The NWC is preparing for a full day of whistleblower events in New York City today. Join the NWC staff and Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn at two events teaching the public about whistleblower rights and the latest whistleblower protection laws. First, come learn about the latest whistleblo ...
- NWC seminar on Dodd-Frank a huge success
David Colapinto, Stephen Kohn, Sean McKessy and Michael Kohn. Photo by Lindsey Williams. Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) road trip of seminars came to ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
- El_Segfaulto's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
Last week, el_segfaulto scored a rare double win, getting both "most insightful" and "funniest" comments of the week -- on two separate comments (it's been done on a single comment before). Given that, we figured he easily deserved to write up this week's "favorites" post... Good weekend e ...
- When Innovation Meets the Old Guard
You've probably heard of Khan Academy, the online lessons that have been praised so highly. Wired recently put up an article on how it's a complete game changer, and how children have been able to advance at a blistering pace using their materials. So what does the public school system think o ...
- What's In A Name: The Importance Of Pseudonymi ...
It feels like we've been having this debate for a long, long time. I still remember back in 2003 when Friendster users were up in arms over that site's sudden decision to delete "Fakester" profiles that did not use a person's real names. Four years later, Facebook started doing the same thing ...
- Mattel's Lawsuit To Claim Ownership Of Bratz C ...
As Stephan Kinsella notes, "live by IP, die by IP." You may recall the infamous legal fight over who owns the Bratz dolls. I won't go through the full history, but basically Mattel claimed that it owned the rights to Bratz dolls, because the creator of those dolls worked at Mattel (though not ...
- DailyDirt: Wacky Inventions and Inventors...
Inventions aim to improve anything and everything. So there are a lot of pretty trivial inventions out there, but every so often there are some really cool things, too. Here are just a few quick links about inventions and inventors. This device has to be seen to be believed -- and even after ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
This will be another short one, I’m afraid. Perhaps you all could help me out, since I haven’t been able to do too much blog reading. If you read nothing else, please read this piece on the government eugenics sterilization program. It is just…. I am speechless. This is a good overview of the ba ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Work is still kicking my ass and keeping me away from the internets. But I have managed to read enough to be annoyed. This op-ed from the Council on Foreign Relations says that we need to raise the debt ceiling because, if we do not, then: 1. We will be forced to cut defense spending and [...]
- Things You Might Have Missed
I suspect it will be another week before I can complete part two to that media post. I want to finish reading A Mixtape Manifesto first. And The Economist put out a whole media’ issue that I haven’t gotten around to yet. I’ll have something for you though. Related to Thursday’s post on the socia ...
- Deal Breaker
I recently read The World That Never Was. I really liked it, despite the fact that it includes a gazillion people and can be hard to follow (even for someone who was familiar with many of the players). The book basically covers the period between Haymarket and WWI. There is one part of the book ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
I spent the weekend at the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy. Had a really great time with more than 200 of the least pretentious people doing some of the most cool things. Red Emma’s did their usual bang up job with Friday night dinner at 2640. Great speakers at the dinner, especially ...
- Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
- Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
- اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اÙباما ÙÙÙد اÙسÙطرة عÙ٠اÙÙم٠تخاطر اÙÙÙاÙات اÙمتØدة بتمÙÙ٠اÙÙاعدة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙتÙÙÙر اÙشعب اÙÙÙ…Ù٠ع٠طرÙ٠إØباط تغÙÙر اÙÙظام ÙÙا٠Ùتبت – جÙÙ ÙÙÙا٠Ùعتبر اÙÙم٠بÙد معÙØ¯Ø ÙÙد ظ٠Ùر ...
- Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
- Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...
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