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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

16 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

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Renewable Energy Consumption Tops Nuclear for First Time
TechCrunch
According to a new report from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the consumption of engery from renewable sources recently topped both the current and the historical consumption levels for nuclear energy. The shift was immediately caused ...
FuelCell to show off hydrogen fuel process
Hartford Business
Danbury's FuelCell Energy Inc. is preparing to show off Tuesday in California the capability of its alternative power plant to co-generate renewable hydrogen to run automobiles. With state and federal energy and air-quality authorities looking on, ...
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Consumers Energy expands program to buy back solar power
The Detroit News
Consumers Energy is rolling out another round of its popular program to buy renewable energy generated by solar systems owned by its customers, the Jackson-based company said Tuesday. The utility's Experimental Advanced Renewable Program has added 2 ...
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Briefly... CITY/REGION | Philadelphia Daily News | 2011-08-16
Philadelphia Daily News
The Corbett administration has defended its policies on renewable energy and conservation, and denied that it is putting aside those efforts in favor of Pennsylvania's booming natural-gas industry. The administration made the statements in response to ...
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Human Habitat

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Homosexual Bonds Just as Strong as Heterosexual in Zebra Finches
International Business Times
Also, evidence of penguins "flirting" with members of the same sex has been noted in the wild. The study on the zebra finches was first reported by the BBC and published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
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GEC Announces $1.5 Million Funding for Company Projects
MarketWatch (press release)
MONTCLAIR, NJ, Aug 16, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Global Ecology Corporation (GEC), (otcqb:GLEC) announced today that it has received an initial draw as part of a $1500000 funding from an investment partnership that will enable the company to ...
Business Ecology Webinar: Formal Business Architecture
Sacramento Bee
By Business Ecology Initiative NEEDHAM, Mass., Aug. 15, 2011 -- Presented by Theodore Kahn, Independent Systems and Business Architect, formally a Systems Engineer working on NASA's Constellation Program NEEDHAM, Mass., Aug. ...
Animals Photographed In Natural Environment By Conservation International
Huffington Post
A global camera trap mammal study was recently conducted by Dr. Jorge Ahumada, ecologist with the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network (TEAM) and his team at Conservation International. The study took nearly 52000 photos of 105 species ...
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Water Power

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E. coli in Water Sickens 11 at Ogden Valley Campground
Food Poison Journal
Weber-Morgan Health officials alerted campers to E. coli contamination discovered in the water at two Ogden-area campgrounds that has sickened several young girls at Camp Shawnee. The health department has asked that users of the campgrounds bring ...
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Why Cleaned Wastewater Stays Dirty In Our Minds
NPR
Even though sewage water can be treated and cleaned, psychologists say getting the "cognitive sewage" out of the water is much more difficult. A boom sweeps around a tank at a sewage treatment plant in Coos Bay, Ore. Even though sewage water can be ...
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2 rescued as water pours in elevator
Detroit Free Press
"We hit the water; we heard swishing," Tyler said. Then the water started pouring in. "I was freaked out -- the water was almost chest-high," he said. They feared electrocution and jumped into a rubberized utility cart they had with them. ...
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Adam Carolla in hot water over anti-gay comments
CNN
I'm a comedian, not a politician" (EW.com) -- Another day, another comedian in hot water. Anti-gay comments made last week by Adam Carolla on his Podcast, "The Adam Carolla Show," prompted GLAAD to speak out against the radio host today in a release ...
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Former CIA officer slams US policy on MEK
    Summary: GiraldiFormer CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the MEK’s rightful place on the State Department’s (admittedly flawed and politicized) terrorism list; why a lack of determined opposition (unlike to, say, Jonathan Pollard’s pardon) will probably get the MEK what it wants; why Amer ...
  • Senators Want ‘Crippling’ New Iran Sanctions
    Summary: US SenateJohn Glaser, Assistant Editor at Antiwar.com, discusses his article “Senators Want ‘Crippling’ New Iran Sanctions” about the 92 senators eager to punish Iranian civilians (the neocons want in on it too); the staggering price Iraqis paid for twelve years of sanctions; a remi ...
  • U.S. politicians' favorite terrorist group
    Summary: Rajavi and SaddamGiven the supreme importance of the fight against terrorism and the terrible ramifications which ostensibly exist for providing material support to terrorists, it is puzzling to see prominent individuals within the U.S. political establishment openly lobbying for, a ...
  • MEK and bogus documents on Iran's nuclear program
    Summary: PorterGareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the infamous “laptop of death” documents from which the vast majority of “evidence” about Iran’s supposed clandestine nuclear weapons program comes from; the conspicuous mistakes in the documents that ...
  • GOP Debate on Foreign Policy: All About Iran
    Summary: The Iowa Republican President Debate spent much of its time, predictably, meandering ever so close to issues of substance, before quick and dramatic retreat from serious stances and back to the safety of sloganeering. source: Antiwar.comread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Milky Way's Halo -A Fossil of Smaller Ancient ...
    "We still have a lot to understand." Masashi Chiba of Japan's Tohoku University. Indeed! If gazing up at the Milky Way can make you feel dizzy, it could be because the outer galaxy has been discovered to be a mix...
  • Massive Dark Objects of the Universe (Halos & ...
    The biggest things in the universe have gotten bigger the past couple of years - or rather, they've always been bigger and we somehow missed it up to now. Supercomputer simulations of galactic core black holes indicate that instead of...
  • "Deadly Dwarfs" --Could They be the Cause of t ...
    The physicist Enrico Fermi once asked referring to visits to Earth by extraterrestrial civilizations: Where are they? The accurate answer might well be: destroyed by radiation from supernova explosions. Most astronomers today believe that one of the plausible reasons we...
  • Image of the Day: Spectacular Galaxy Fandango!
    Two merging galaxies located 140 million light-years from Earth resemble a giant celestial mask in this false-color image. The ice-blue eyes are actually the galaxies' cores, and the mask is their spiral arms. The galaxies, called NGC 2207 and IC...
  • Prehistoric Mystery Insect Baffles Science Com ...
    Scientists at the Stuttgart Natural History Museum and colleagues have discovered a new insect order from the Lower Cretaceous of South America. The spectacular fossils, named Coxoplectoptera by their discoverers, represent extinct relatives of modern mayflies, but significantly differ from...

Natural News

  • Disappearing act: Job approval ratings for Con ...
    (NaturalNews) In past election years, there was a joke that the choices for president were so bad someone ought to put Mickey Mouse on the ballot because he'd probably win. Based on the most recent public opinion polls, Mickey is looking better and better.A sinking economy, coupled with stagnati ...
  • 'Big Latch On' holds breastfeeding awareness d ...
    (NaturalNews) Mothers who breastfeed their babies in public are probably used to frequent stares and occasional negative comments about keeping such affairs in private. However, Big Latch On, an international group started in 2005 to promote breastfeeding, is hoping to change the cultural stigma ...
  • NaturalNews publishes names of government agen ...
    (NaturalNews) The Rawesome Foods raid that took place August 3, 2011, is being publicly described by many as an act of "government terrorism" against innocents (http://www.naturalnews.com/033258_Rawesome_Foods_videos.html). And yet there has been very little information published about the names ...
  • Centering meditation
    (NaturalNews) Today I am going to share about meditation and prayer. One of the goals is to get the mind's velocity below the supersonic level and further down to the point where you are ready to touch down on experiences of being. We will wash our minds and bring our awareness into the heart ch ...
  • Europe to lead the financial collapse of the West?
    (NaturalNews) In case you haven't noticed - and, in lieu of the press generated by the recent battle royal over how much to increase the U.S. national debt, most of you probably haven't - Europe is on the brink of financial collapse. But before you shed too many tears for the Mother Continent, s ...

Threat Level

  • Book Excerpt: Ghost in the Wires — My Adventur ...
    In his newly published autobiography, America’s most famous ex-hacker, Kevin Mitnick, tells his own story for the first time. In this excerpt, Mitnick describes his 1992 investigation into the mystery hacker “Eric,” who’d begun pumping him for information. Mitnick’s spy-versus-spy duel with the ...
  • Cellphone Service Stays On During San Francisc ...
    SAN FRANCISCO — Despite a 72-hour Twitter and e-mail campaign by members of the online hacker collectiveƂ Anonymous, a demonstration at a San Francisco subway station drew what appeared to be under a few dozen protesters Monday. Instead, the Civic Center station platform here was riddled mostly ...
  • San Francisco Subway Shuts Cell Service to Foi ...
    For apparently the first time in the United States, a government agency shuttered mobile-internet and phone service in a bid to quash a demonstration -- the same type of speech suppression exercised by Middle Eastern tyrannies to quell dissent.
  • Owner of Video Rental Stores Stocked With Pira ...
    A California man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for running three Sacramento-area video stores offering mostly pirated music and movies for sale or rental.
  • After Cheating Scandal, FBI Agents to Be Teste ...
    The FBI is planning on testing agents about their understanding of the bureau's surveillance guidelines, a move coming more than a year after the Justice Department discovered widespread cheating on the exam.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Conservatives Insist Bush, Not Obama, is Like ...
    At an event in Iowa Monday, President Obama explained that venomous political rhetoric is nothing new in American history, noting "Lincoln -- they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me." Judging by the immediate and furious reaction from the conservative commentariat, right ...
  • For Obama, the Center Doesn't Hold
    With his approval rating at a new low over concerns about the still-ailing economy, President Obama hit the road this week to launch what the AP deemed a "counteroffensive." The only question, to continue the stale military analogy, is whether Obama intends to shore up his center or bolster his ...
  • The Five Jobs Bills Obama Should Send Congress ...
    As the New York Times reported Sunday, within the Obama White House a fierce debate is raging about what to do next about jobs and the economy. But on the same day Americans learned advisers David Plouffe and Bill Daley are pushing President Obama to put forward only proposals which can pass Co ...
  • S&P: Republicans' Toxic Tea Poisoned U.S. Cred ...
    During the just concluded debt ceiling crisis, only one American political party was willing to see the United States default and its economy crippled rather than raise the nation's borrowing limit. That culprit was the Party of Lincoln, whose namesake once explained the Confederacy's threat to ...
  • Iowa Debate Confirms GOP Won't Pay Down the Debt

Blackspot News Feed

  • Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Opening of Mubarak Tria ...
    Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous was on site in Cairo today as former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, appeared in court for the first time to face allegations of corruption and the killing of protesters during the uprising that overthrew his rule. The trial has been adjourne ...
  • Thousands Protest Widening Inequality in Israe ...
    In Israel, tens of thousands have joined nationwide protests against high costs of living and growing income inequality. Protesters have set up more than 40 tent encampments scattered across Israel, with as many as 120,000 people turning out to demand lower taxes and increased access to educatio ...
  • Syrian Forces Attack Civilians in Hama as U.N. ...
    Syrian forces are pushing toward the center of the restive city of Hama as they continue an offensive in which an estimated 140 people have been killed. Residents say they saw explosions Wednesday morning and lines of tanks heading into the city. Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admir ...
  • Economist Dean Baker Predicts A "Really Bad De ...
    President Barack Obama welcomed the deficit deal as "an important first step" and urged both parties to work together on a larger plan to cut the deficit. The deal includes no new tax revenue from wealthy Americans and no additional stimulus for the lagging economy. It has a provision to create ...
  • Rep. Donna Edwards on Why She Voted Against De ...
    President Obama has signed legislation to increase the U.S. debt ceiling in time to avoid a national default. The $2.1 trillion deficit-reduction plan cleared its final hurdle in the Senate yesterday, passing with a 74-to-26 vote. Six Democrats and 19 Republicans opposed the measure. Members of ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Amoeba Kills Humans — Another Global Warming R ...
    A deadly, brain-eating amoebe has killed at least one boy and one girl recently. The amoebe proliferates at high water temperatures. Water temperatures are higher than normal due to human-caused global warming. Connect the dots. Related posts:Onion Video on Twitchy Climate Scientists (+ Top 12 ...
  • BART Gets Hacked by Anonymous & Instigates Hug ...
    Ride BART! (If you're in the area and it's an option, that is.) It's a great green living option. But also get out and voice your concern about BART's lack of interest in democracy when you get the chance! Tons of BART riders and protesters did just that yesterday... Related posts:Are Republic ...
  • Real Live Vertical Farm Built In South Korea, ...
    Vertical farming, as a concept, has been around for years, but it's being put into practice and showing results in South Korea... Related posts:South Korea Hit with Deadly Landslides (from Heavy Rains) Cloud Vortices off South Korea Farm Bill Redux: A Second Change at Real Reform
  • We Are All Connected – Inspiring Video Remix o ...
    Symphony of Science is a remix project designed to combine science knowledge and philosophy through music. "We Are All Related" is an inspiring example. Related posts:Hopi Elders’ Response to Japanese Nuclear Disaster Earth (Tribute Video) Ninmah: Lady Mother Ć¢ Trail of Tears 2011 [MUSIC VIDEO]
  • Ecological Change May Result from Climate Chan ...
    Much focus has been given to the increasing climate change taking place at the poles, both the Arctic and Antarctica. However new research out of The Pennsylvania State University shows that such climate change-induced warming could very well end up affecting the poles geography and geology in d ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Zliten Massacre carried out by the British Roy ...
    Editor's Comment: The first video republished below shows the people of Zliten, Libya following the merciless attack by British war planes from approximately two o'clock to four o'clock on the morning of August 8. The video is in Arabic but the panic and horror on their faces and the physical...
  • Shattered Illusions of Economic Recovery: Capi ...
    “Karl Marx got it right, at some point capitalism can destroy itself,” said Mr. Roubini, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “We thought markets worked. They’re not working.” The world economy is in shambles and about to get worse, according to even mainstream economists. ...
  • Samba Pa Ti - Santana (Live in Mexico) - Musi ...
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  • Government strike-breaking against Verizon wor ...
    15 August 2011 This article is available in pdf format. We encourage readers to download and distribute it on the picket lines and in working class communities. The World Socialist Web Site invites Verizon workers and their supporters to send comments on the strike to the WSWS editori ...
  • Super rich guy says to stop coddling the super ...
    The following op-ed appeared in the New York Times yesterday, Sunday. We assume there is no need to explain who the author is. But true to form, the financial press have been all over this today to explain why Mr Buffett has it all wrong. They are full of shit....

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Time to Give 'Em Hell, Obama
    If reports over the weekend are to be believed, President Obama plans to seek re-election touting an economic program whose centerpiece is a "returning hero tax credit" that would reward companies that hire disabled and unemployed war veterans coming home after tours of duty in Afghanistan and I ...
  • The Liberal America Conservatards Long For
    I can't stand to be around conservatards. It's not the stupidity that gets me the most; it's not the god-bothering, it's not even the hippie-punching. It's the fake nostalgia for a "conservative" America that in actual fact was a liberal accomplishment. Steve Benen: I've read Joe Scarborough's l ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    No, @GovernorPerry, you dimestore cowboy dumbfuck, monetary policy isn't "treasonous" but talk of secession sure as hell is, so if there's gonna be any hangin's, let's start with your ass instead of Bernanke's. That is what you were implying there, innit Stud? "Texas Governor Rick Perry, who ent ...
  • Who's Buying Off The "Super Committee"?
    Might be info worth saving as we watch this bunch do their "work". �It's the second donor category I find most interesting. �I also wonder why contributions from "Democratic/Liberals are shown in Category 1 and nothing from "Republican/Conservatives but at least you can get an idea of who owes w ...
  • So that's how Fox News does it
    Repetition, repetition, repetition. That's the first rule of propaganda. �And think propaganda doesn't work? Even on well-educated, presumably sophisticated audiences? Well, here is James Kwak of Baseline Scenario and co-author with Simon Johnson of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the N ...

Care 2

  • The "Tiger State" loses its sobriquet
    That Madhya Pradesh lost the sobriquet of �Tiger State� after the last national tiger census conducted in 2010-11 is now history. Having had the largest number of tigers during the preceding censuses it was widely known as the �Tiger State�. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • In loving memory of Dexter
    Dexter has died. It is with very heavy heart that I share with you our little Dexter has crossed over the rainbow bridge.Submitted by Paola Ghidotti to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Oil and Gas Project Threatens Lynx
    In an area of wilderness outside of Yellowstone National Park where there may be only about 10 wild lynx left, an oil and gas project has been proposed. Why does it appear oil companies like to drill in critical wildlife habitat? Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note-it ...
  • How America Criminalized Poverty
    The viciousness of state officials to the poor and homeless is breathtaking, trapping them in a cycle of poverty.Submitted by Bonnie B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israeli invention can sniff cancer
    An Arab-Israeli researcher at the Technion has figured out a way to identify cancer in a person's breathSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Perry vs. Romney (UPDATE)
    Let Michelle Bachmann enjoy her Iowa straw poll squeaker. Like Ron Paul, come January 2012, she will be a non-factor. Has nothing to do with her wearing a skirt. If she flipped roles and experience with Tim Pawlenty I would be making the case that T-Paw is an air-head with no substantive leaders ...
  • Lost Leader
    Barack Obama seems incapable of learning. A true leader, facing the economic chaos of the past week and signs that the weak US economic recovery is faltering, would take action, even symbolic, to demonstrate he takes the problem seriously and is trying to do something about it. Not Barack Obama. ...
  • Saturday * Open Thread [Iowa Update]
    [IUPDATE] IOWA Straw Poll Results: Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty take top three spots. Shocker: Rick Perry’s write-in campaign beat Mitt Romney.. Below, we go from Afghan perverts to a wholly new way of approaching politics that makes good sense, via a progressive named Jane Hamsher w ...
  • Another Captain Obvious
    “Hillary had been tested. Eight years in the meat grinder. She’d have been a better president.” Yet another columnist says he “should have voted for Hillary.” Meh. You think? I used to find this sort of public re-thinking a little satisfying, but quite frankly now it just makes me mad. (In 2009, ...
  • Some Navy SEAL Families Pissed at Obama [Updat ...
    I have hesitated writing about the combat deaths of members of SEAL Team Six in last week’s helicopter crash. This goes in the category of “shit happens.” The loss is awful. It is akin to what Marshall University experienced when their football team died in an airplane crash back int he seventie ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Sudden Gains in PTSD Treatment May Predict Pos ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Children and adolescents who suffer from post-traumatic stress benefit from prolonged exposure (PE) treatment if they experience sudden gains early on, according to a new study. Researchers from Boston University and Bar-Ilan University collaborated to determine i ...
  • Dating After Divorce and Blending Families
    You’ve been divorced for three years and have been working at moving on in your life, establishing new relationships and feeling so much better about yourself than you have in a very long time. You are grateful for your friends and family and the support they have given you. You have met someone ...
  • Can Dissonance-Based Treatment Decrease Eating ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In an effort to understand how to better treat women with eating and food issues, researchers conducted a study comparing the long-term effectiveness of a dissonance-based eating disorder program versus a traditional educational intervention. Eric Stice, Paul Rohd ...
  • Family Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Offe ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Depression affects approximately 7.5 million adults. Because of this, nearly 15 million children currently live with a depressed parent. These children are nearly four times more likely to develop depression as a result, and treating this group of adults and child ...
  • Depressive Symptoms May Predict Delinquent Beh ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Researchers from the University of Central Florida, the Family Services Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina, and the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, wanted to determine if depressive symptoms predicted delinquent behavior in ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Poll: Appalachian voters oppose mountaintop mi ...
    Poll: Appalachian voters oppose mountaintop mining, want strong protections The Hill (blog) Green groups released a poll of Appalachian voters Tuesday that shows opposition to “mountaintop removal” coal mining and backing for politicians that favor tougher environmental regulation of the contro ...
  • New poll details opposition to mountaintop rem ...
    Treehugger New poll details opposition to mountaintop removal Charleston Gazette (blog) Voters in Appalachia would also use this issue as a criterion in electoral choices, and are far less likely to support public officials who would weaken environmental protections on mountain top removal mini ...
  • CNN's mountaintop removal doc garners praise, ...
    CNN International CNN's mountaintop removal doc garners praise, anger, and everything in between Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) CNN's documentary on mountaintop removal, The Battle for Blair Mountain, aired last night and is burning up the web today. Thanks to everyone who tuned in an ...
  • Fourteen Arrested as Community & Climate Activ ...
    Fourteen Arrested as Community & Climate Activists March in St. Louis It's Getting Hot In Here Bank of America stops financing for companies engaged in mountaintop removal coal mining and companies pursuing coal export infrastructure 4. Peabody Energy end coal extraction and switch completely t ...
  • CNN Tries, Fails to Cover Mountaintop Removal ...
    CNN CNN Tries, Fails to Cover Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Mother Jones Unfortunately, though, the CNN piece starts from the same tired tropes to talk about the issue and misses the bigger questions about mountain top removal coal mining. The headline on the web piece is your first sign that ...

Memeorandum

  • EPA won't tighten carbon monoxide standards (A ...
    Andrew Restuccia / The Hill: EPA won't tighten carbon monoxide standards  —  The Environmental Protection Agency opted Monday not to strengthen existing air-quality standards for carbon monoxide, a move that was met with immediate frustration by clean-air and public-health groups.  —  The EPA s ...
  • Cuccinelli says he may challenge Warner for U. ...
    Anita Kumar / Washington Post: Cuccinelli says he may challenge Warner for U.S. Senate in 2014  —  Much of the speculation about Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's political future has focused on whether the Republican who has made a name for himself suing the federal government would r ...
  • The Clear Case for the Gas Tax (New York Times)
    New York Times: The Clear Case for the Gas Tax  —  Unless Congress extends it, the 18.4 cents-a-gallon federal gas tax will expire on Sept. 30.  Allowing that to happen would be tremendously destructive.  It would bankrupt the already stressed Highway Trust Fund, with devastating effects on the ...
  • U.S. Senator seeks to cut aid to elite IDF uni ...
    Barak Ravid / Haaretz: U.S. Senator seeks to cut aid to elite IDF units operating in West Bank and Gaza  —  Senator Patrick Leahy claims Shayetet 13 unit, undercover Duvdevan unit, and the Israel Air Force Shaldag unit are involved in human rights violations in occupied territories.
  • California's 'Amazon Tax' Already Proving a Bu ...
    Capitol Confidential / Big Government: California's ‘Amazon Tax’ Already Proving a Bust  —  California recently instituted as part of its budget solution an “Amazon Tax” aimed at forcing out-of-state, online retailers with no physical presence in the Golden State to collect and remit sales tax ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.8, Ceram Sea, Indonesia
    Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:03:57 UTCTuesday, August 16, 2011 08:03:57 PM at epicenterDepth: 37.20 km (23.12 mi)
  • M 5.4, Bonin Islands, Japan region
    Tuesday, August 16, 2011 03:36:35 UTCTuesday, August 16, 2011 01:36:35 PM at epicenterDepth: 33.80 km (21.00 mi)
  • M 5.7, Ecuador
    Monday, August 15, 2011 02:53:18 UTCSunday, August 14, 2011 09:53:18 PM at epicenterDepth: 166.80 km (103.64 mi)
  • M 5.1, north of Ascension Island
    Sunday, August 14, 2011 01:29:39 UTCSunday, August 14, 2011 12:29:39 AM at epicenterDepth: 11.80 km (7.33 mi)
  • M 5.0, Banda Sea
    Saturday, August 13, 2011 21:31:20 UTCSunday, August 14, 2011 06:31:20 AM at epicenterDepth: 177.30 km (110.17 mi)

China Dialogue

  • “Keep it in the ground”
    Environmentalists are urging Barack Obama to refuse permission for a tar-sands-oil pipeline from western Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. North America must not become the new middle east, argues Bill McKibben.The climate problem has moved from the abstract to the very real in the last 18 months. ...
  • Germany’s great gamble
    If politicians in Berlin were as sensitive to economic risks as the dangers of nuclear power, they would abandon their radical energy experiment now, writes industry insider Walter Hohlefelder.In no industrial nation in the world has the peaceful use of nuclear energy been so controversial for s ...
  • Keeping high-speed rail on track
    Beijing must respond to public anger over mismanagement of its railways, but not by ditching plans for faster trains, writes Damien Ma. An uncomfortable lesson for Beijing that rose from the mangled debris of the high-speed rail (HSR) accident is that a crash inside China is heard instantly a ...
  • A warning for China’s nuclear sector
    The deadly Wenzhou crash highlights the dangers of mega-infrastructure projects moving too far, too fast. Chinese decision-makers should take note, argues Kevin Jianjun Tu.The collision of two high-speed trains just outside Wenzhou on the night of July 23 – an accident that killed at least 40 pe ...
  • New war on e-waste
    America’s discarded laptops and smartphones continue to wreak environmental havoc in developing countries. Could an export ban make a difference? Abi Barnes reports.Visit the website of Chicago-based Intercon Solutions and you may think you’ve stumbled upon a paragon of the recycling industry. T ...

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Threat Level

  • Book Excerpt: Ghost in the Wires — My Adventur ...
    In his newly published autobiography, America’s most famous ex-hacker, Kevin Mitnick, tells his own story for the first time. In this excerpt, Mitnick describes his 1992 investigation into the mystery hacker “Eric,” who’d begun pumping him for information. Mitnick’s spy-versus-spy duel with the ...
  • Cellphone Service Stays On During San Francisc ...
    SAN FRANCISCO — Despite a 72-hour Twitter and e-mail campaign by members of the online hacker collectiveƂ Anonymous, a demonstration at a San Francisco subway station drew what appeared to be under a few dozen protesters Monday. Instead, the Civic Center station platform here was riddled mostly ...
  • San Francisco Subway Shuts Cell Service to Foi ...
    For apparently the first time in the United States, a government agency shuttered mobile-internet and phone service in a bid to quash a demonstration -- the same type of speech suppression exercised by Middle Eastern tyrannies to quell dissent.
  • Owner of Video Rental Stores Stocked With Pira ...
    A California man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for running three Sacramento-area video stores offering mostly pirated music and movies for sale or rental.
  • After Cheating Scandal, FBI Agents to Be Teste ...
    The FBI is planning on testing agents about their understanding of the bureau's surveillance guidelines, a move coming more than a year after the Justice Department discovered widespread cheating on the exam.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • 10-month-old Oregon Salmonella victim to sue m ...
    A total of 107 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 31 states linked to Cargill ground turkey. Ruby Lee was one of those. She lives in Oregon. Since 1993, Cargill has been the source of contaminated meat implicated in at least 10 major out ...
  • Wales Kebabs and Scottish Potted Meat E. coli Risk
    A few years ago I attended food Safety conferences in London and then in Cardiff, Wales and gave a history lesson on E. coli Outbreaks in the United States. This weekend Cardiff, Wales health officials urged the public to remain vigilant as the number of E. coli O157:H7 cases rose to a possible ...
  • North Carolina Olive Garden to Face Hepatitis ...
    For years I have been warning food manufacturers and restaurants to voluntarily vaccinate their employees against Hepatitis A.  Large, well-publicized Hepatitis A outbreaks have become increasingly common in the restaurant industry. As of last Friday afternoon, the Cumberland County North Carol ...
  • Listeria monocytogenes prompts avocado dip recall
    Listeria monocytogenes was found in the imported avocado pulp used in various Layer Dip products made by Fresh Food Concepts, Inc. of Buena Park, California. Accordingly, the company is recalling its Layer Dip products containing guacamole because the avocado. The products affected by the recall ...
  • 380,000 Pounds of Canadian Bacon Recalled Due ...
    Aliments Prince, S.E.C., an establishment from Ontario, Canada, is recalling approximately 380,000 pounds of diced bacon products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. Through routine ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: 2012 Nissan Altima, NV van recalled fo ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Nissan For a two-week period this year, Nissan apparently incorrectly assembled the air bag control unit in both the 2012 Altima and the 2012 NV work van. That's the news from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which today announced a small recall of the ...
  • Official: Ford Focus Electric will offer solar ...
    Filed under: Ford, Electric Running an electric car on the power of the sun is many an EV enthusiast's dream. Ford isn't the first company to combine EV charging with solar energy, but it is trying to make it as easy as possible to go from driving on imported oil to extremely local energy. ...
  • Official: First-ever heavy-duty truck efficien ...
    Filed under: Truck, Government/Legal If you're not sure why today's announcement from the Obama Administration about the first-ever fuel economy standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses is important, read this. Okay, now that we're all on the same page, let's take a look at the new standa ...
  • Nissan's reponse to Top Gear? Here, hav ...
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, UK, Celebrities, Humor, ElectricWhen Top Gear said that, "In the real world, [the Tesla Roadster] doesn't seem to work," the electric automaker responded with a lawsuit. Nissan is taking a different tack, putting a clever twist on the one-sided, anti-EV message th ...
  • Official: 2025 CAFE target set at 54.5 mpg; ev ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal Following the official announcement this morning that the new 2025 Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard would be set at 54.5 miles per gallon, our email box overflowed with something we rarely see: near-unanimous support. Everyone from the automakers to the Un ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan's Atomic Tr ...
    In recent weeks, radiation levels have spiked at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors in Japan, with recorded levels of 10,000 millisieverts per hour (mSv/hr) at one spot. This is the number reported by the reactor’s discredited owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., although that number is simply as ...
  • Book Excerpt: "Hiroshima Cover-up: How the War ...
    As the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, read a chapter of Amy and David Goodman’s book, Exception to the Rulers, to learn how how the Pulitzer PrizeĆ¢winning science reporter, William L. Laurence, was on the payroll of the War Department while also reporting for The New York Times ...
  • The Hiroshima Cover-Up
    As the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 approaches, we feature this article by Amy Goodman and David Goodman that was originally published on August 5, 2005 in The Baltimore Sun. A story that the U.S. government hoped would never see the light of day finall ...
  • War, Debt and the President
    President Barack Obama touted his debt ceiling deal Tuesday, saying, “We can’t balance the budget on the backs of the very people who have borne the biggest brunt of this recession.” Yet that is what he and his coterie of Wall Street advisers have done. In the affairs of nations, Alexander H ...
  • Billy Bragg on Death of Fellow British Singer- ...
    While on tour in the United States, legendary British rocker and activist, Billy Bragg, joined Democracy Now! for an extended interview. One of the many topics he discussed was the tragic death of the British singer-songwriter, Amy Winehouse. "I’m very, very sorry that someone as clearly as t ...

Suzie-Q

  • Businesses lose confidence in Obama
    ABC Professor Peter Morici discusses where the United States can turn to improve its economy and credit rating. Roubini: Bush Responsible for Economic Woes WSJ, 8/12/2011 3:01:26 PM In a clip from his interview with WSJ’s Simon Constable, Dr. Nouriel Roubini insists that it was the policies of G ...
  • US checks S&P’s adding after downgrade
    BigPond News Sunday, August 14, 2011 Ƃ» 01:29pm The US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a probe into the process by which Standard Poor’s downgraded the US credit rating, the Wall Street Journal reported. US officials lashed out at SP after it docked the country’s credit rating fr ...
  • After Supporting Tea Party Protests, Fox News ...
    Earlier today, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) faced angry questions from Iowans over his proposed cuts to entitlement programs. In an attempt to dismiss the legitimate concerns of the questioners, Fox News declared them to be liberal plants. During the segment, the conservative news outlet displ ...
  • BREAKING: S & P Downgrades U.S. Credit For Fir ...
    � Reuters reports: �The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor�s on Friday, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for the world�s largest economy.� The new rating is AA+. In explaining their decision Standard & Poors cites both the decision by Republicans in Congress ...
  • Keith’s Special Comment: The Four Great ...
    Obama on the Backs of the Poor OpEdNews 8/3/11 By Ray McGovern What are we to make of the Obama-brokered deal on debt and spending? It was certainly what the Germans call eine schwere Geburt (a difficult birth); it was one of the few times I would have favored abortion. I am reminded of a [...]

Solari

  • Congressman Kucinich on Social Security
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  • Entrainment, Subliminal Programming and Financ ...
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday evening on the The Solari Report (6pm PT/9pm ET) I will be speaking with scientist Adam Trombly about the use of entrainment technology and subliminal programing to engineer financial transactions. Example: You have been approached by a private investment ...
  • Dark Crosses Everywhere
    By Cam Hui I reviewed many of the world’s stock market charts this weekend and what I found were numerous Dark Crosses where the 50-day moving averaged and crossed under the 200 day-day moving average. These are ominous signs indicating the overall trend has turned south. In fact, most Dark Cros ...
  • Silver Gold Calculator Available at iTunes! Ar ...
    Announcing theƂ Silver Gold Calculator from Solari and The Moneychanger now available at the iTunes store! It’s been a while in coming, but it’s available now. Solari and The Moneychanger’s Silver and Gold Calculator can be installed on your mobile device, iPhone, iPod, iPad or [...]
  • Quote du Jour
    Which leads into the ‘thought’ I’d like to share. That is, to keep in mind that we are in EndGame, and that the ShockDoctrine is in effect. That is to say, the Gloves Are Off. That which you believed Never Could Happen, is now On The Table, for the EndGame. The Twin Towers [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • What will our Mercs do when our wars wind down ...
    Summary:  Again we turn harsh lights on the future of America.  The US government has created a pool highly skilled mercs (on a base of people the government itself trained).  What will these people do when our wars wind down?  To create serious trouble only a few need sell their knowledge and e ...
  • The men of US Special Operations Command are h ...
    Summary:   The FM website discusses facts and insights too harsh for most to see (as seen in the 16 thousand comments during the past 4 years).  Today we look at the men in the US Special Operations Command.  Heroes, but not all the deeds we ask them to do are heroic. In many ways our Special [...]
  • Very funny. But the joke is on us.
    Summary:Ƃ  More humor on the FM website, a funny circulating to AmericanƂ chuckles around the web.Ƃ  It saysƂ something about us.Ƃ  Something sad. Ƃ  ______________________ The Wizard of Oz appeared on screenƂ in 1939. Today, if Dorothy were toƂ meet men with no brains, no hearts, and no balls, ...
  • Listen to the voice of America’s decline ...
    Summary:Ƃ  Many comments sent to the FM website speak from the heart, sharing the writer’s response to the new world described on these pages.Ƃ  Sometimes clear, hard, and rational.Ƃ  Sometimes visionary.Ƃ  Sometimes delusional.Ƃ  But most often angry, expressing the anger that so often marks mo ...
  • Today’s geopolitical analysis. Let&#821 ...
    Spending:Ƃ Ć‚  An American geopolitical expert must beƂ able to spout arrantƂ nonsense with a straight face.Ƃ  Bonus points for innumeracy.Ƃ  Today we have a classic example for your entertainment.Ƃ  Unfortunately it’s not funny, as we watch America’s wealth flow down the drain. Money paragraph i ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Pakistan: A Country With Its Own Interests
    Very nice scoop from Mark Mazzetti in the New York Times who reveals that American officials have concluded that after it crashed during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound “Chinese engineers Ć¢ at the invitation of Pakistani intelligence operatives Ć¢ took detailed photographs of the severed ...
  • Don't Call It A Caliphate
    The Sharia-panic crowd is convinced of the far-fetched theory that American Muslims are involved in a sinister, secret plot to infiltrate American political institutions in order to establish Taliban-style Islamic law in the United States. But what if there actually was a religious ideology hold ...
  • The Real Legacy of David Petraeus
    In a few weeks from now David Petraeus will leave the US military to take on his new responsibilities as Director of Central Intelligence. I look forward to this happening because then hopefully I will no longer have to read valentines to Petraeus like the one Joe Klein just published in Time ma ...
  • Old School Realism and the Problem of Society
    The ongoing debate between Dan Drezner and Anne-Marie Slaughter, two of the online US foreign policy community’s leading lights, is an excellent one. Not only is there an attempt to present foreign policy differences which do matter, but are not often enough fleshed out, but it gives me a chance ...
  • The More Things Change: Historical Observation ...
    I recently stumbled across a really interesting RAND report, published in the spring of 1965 by one G.C. Hickey. "The American Military Advisor�and His Foreign Counterpart: The Case of Vietnam" (pdf) was based on interviews conducted by the author in the field over a ten-month period in 1964, an ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Rick Perry's Threats Establish Him as a Mainst ...
    Three days out of the gate, and Texas Governor Rick Perry has already had his first gaffe in the Republican presidential primary. Speaking before a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Monday, Perry called loose monetary policy and act of treason, and made not-so-subtle threats about the physical safe ...
  • Is Rick Perry Too Dumb?
    Ta-Nehisi Coates isn't worried that Rick Perry might be too dumb to be president: I'm sure there some level of imbecility which would be too much for Americans, but it seems that the ability to understand and speak to the ambitions of a critical mass of the electorate is much more important. In ...
  • If the President Defends Liberalism and No One ...
    In their despair over the debt-ceiling deal, liberals have admonished President Obama for his failure to use the �bully pulpit� and take his case to the public. Political psychologist Drew Westen offered a lengthy version of this argument in last week�s New York Times, lamenting Obama�s failure ...
  • The Vision Thing
    At Politico, Glenn Thrush explores President Obama’s vision problem, or his alleged inability to articulate a unified message for the country. Taking a page from discontented liberals, Thrush compares Obama unfavorably with Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy: Obama has groped for a larger m ...
  • The Meaning of Gaffes
    If you'll permit a little cross-self-promotion, I had a piece in Sunday's Washington Post, which opened this way: If you aren't old enough to remember it, you've probably heard the story of the most consequential presidential campaign gaffe of the modern era. In 1972, Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie r ...

Buzzflash

  • Bill Berkowitz: "I'll Vote for You Next Novemb ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT I'm not a devoted fan of Ed Shultz's MSNBC show, but when I tune in, I do appreciate his passion and willingness to fight for the working poor and the middle class. I can also share Schultz's frustration the night after Wisconsin Democrats failed in t ...
  • Declining Middle Class Pays for the Lavish, Gl ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Increased taxes on billionaires don't put a damper on investment, and a billionaire should know. That's what Warren Buffet lays out in a blockbuster August 14 op-ed in The New York Times, in which he begs Congress to stop tossing money at the wealthi ...
  • It Ain't Called Disaster Capitalism for Nothing!
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Ask your run-of-the-mill Republican candidate what's wrong with government and he or she will tell you that we can't keep "taxing and spending."  If you ask him or her to explain that position, you'll learn that government ought not to tax billiona ...
  • The Republican Presidential Primary Could Be a ...
    Body Strangely, as the Republican presidential nominating process heats up it seems ever more boring and inconsequential. Choosing from a slate of candidates who could be participants in a remake of the movie Dumb and Dumber and who repeat talking points that lack substan ...
  • The GOP Has Become a Cult, And the Tax Cut Man ...
    How radical and cultish are the declared Republican candidates for president? The answer is clear from a question that came 48 minutes into the FOX sponsored Iowa "debate" on Thursday. According to a TIME magazine blog of the event, the moderator, FOX's Bret Baier, asked "everyone to raise the ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Diluting homeopathic advertising
    Diluting homeopathic advertising HT @SilvianaJ – The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered online homeopathy advertisers to stop making claims that their treatments work. [Because they don't!] The ASA’s remit was extended to regulating websites in March 2011, since when it says it has rece ...
  • Billions upon billions
    Back in the day, we Brits had big billions. A billion was a million millions. Obviously, the “bi” doubling up the “illion” from million. What else would it be? Well…of course…the Americans wanted to talk bigger still and so made their billion a mere 1000 million. Back then, it was hard to be a m ...
  • Wi-Fi by LED light
    Forget Fanny by Gaslight…an LED light went on for German physicist Harald Haas who suggests that we could utilise LED lightbulbs as an alternative route for connecting to the Internet without disrupting the use of those LEDs for simple illumination. You can dim the lights so that they no longer ...
  • Moving pictures for motoring molecules
    Researchers in Japan have used high-speed atomic force microscopy (AFM) to shoot an action movie of the biological molecular motor ATPase. ATPase, an enzyme embedded in cell membranes, produces the cellular fuel molecule ATP. the enzyme has two rotating components, but until now only X-ray cryst ...
  • Sciencebase social media
    For those who hadn’t gathered yet, sciencebase is almost everywhere on teh internets, from trunk.ly to Tumblr from LinkedIn to YouTube. The four main places you can get updates from the site are through the site’s RSS newsfeed, on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. The Periodic Table icons I create ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Al-Jazeera Journalist Detained by Israel
    The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Israel to clarify the legal basis for holding Al-Jazeera correspondent Samer Allawi, who has been in Israeli state custody since Tuesday.read more
  • Young Syrian Activists Held Amid Widespread Re ...
    At least three young human rights activists who helped to organize peaceful protests in and near Damascus are being held incommunicado in unknown locations after their recent arrest, while fears are growing for a fourth who has gone missing. The news of the activists’ plight comes amid reports t ...
  • Tallying the Benefits of Regulation: Five Work ...
    Five major worker health and safety rules, most of which were initially opposed by industry, have saved thousands of lives, prevented tens of thousands of injuries and in at least one case improved productivity,�a Public Citizen analysis released today�shows. The analysis comes as corporate inte ...
  • Kucinich, Michaud Organize Opposition to Korea ...
    Representatives Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Michael Michaud (D-ME), members of the House Trade Working Group, have begun organizing in the House of Representatives to garner opposition to the proposed Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) expected to be considered by Congress in September. Kuci ...
  • Lawsuit Challenges Clean Air Act Exemption for ...
    Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging an Environmental Protection Agency rule that exempts large-scale biomass-burning facilities from carbon dioxide limits under the Clean Air Act for the next three years. Georgia ForestWatch, Wild Virginia, the Center for Biological Diversity, ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • FDR Went to Wisconsin to Battle 'Economic Roya ...
    John Nichols President Obama is interrupting his long vacation to bus across the battleground states of the Midwest this week, on an officially “non-political” journey that his aides obviously hope will renew a connection with the people w ...
  • Why Racism Doesn’t Die
    Michael Nagler Stephanie Van Hook This country is famous for one of the most organized and inspiring nonviolent movements in modern history. It unfolded sixty years ago in the aftermath of the Hol ...
  • Truckers Play a Key Food Safety Role
    Amanda Hitt Food safety is running afoul in Springdale — in more ways than one. First, meat and grain agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. recalled 36 million pounds of ground turkey linked to a salmonella outbreak and temporarily shut its turk ...
  • How Safe Are You? What Almost $8 Trillion in N ...
    Chris Hellman The killing of Osama Bin Laden did not put cuts in national security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did.� And mild as those projected cuts might have been, last week newly minted Secretary of Defen ...
  • Terrror, American-Style
    Tom Engelhardt Back in October 2003, when I posted Noam Chomsky’s “Cuba in the Crosshairs” at TomDispatch, I wrote: “Those of us of a certain age are unlikely to forget ‘the most dangerous moment in human history’ -- the Cuban missile cris ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Water Wars Continue
    Alabama and Florida are appealing a ruling that handed metro Atlanta a big victory in a tri-state fight over water.
  • Alabama, Florida Appeal Water Wars Ruling
    Today Alabama, Florida, Alabama Power Company and the City of Apalachicola, Florida asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling made by a three-judge panel in June that focuses on how much water the city of Atlanta can withdraw from Lake Lanier and the Chattahoochee River.
  • Ala., Fla. appeal ruling in tri-state water wars
    This story will be updated. http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/ encourages readers to interact with one another. We will not edit your comments, but we reserve the right to delete any inappropriate responses.
  • AL, FL Appeal Water Wars Ruling
    Georgia's neighbors asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday to reconsider a ruling that affirmed metro Atlanta's right to take water from Lake Lanier on the Chattahoochee River.
  • Water Wars: Judge Denies Niles Injunction
    Glenview scored an early victory in court in their water war with Niles Friday as Cook County Circuit Court Judge Rita Novak denied Niles' motion to be paid immediately while the case works its way through the courts.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Donors help keep Palestinians in cages
    Charlotte SilverThe Electronic IntifadaRamallah International aid donors are using Palestine as a laboratory for a neo-liberal economic�experiment.
  • UK bans Israeli settler rabbi who called for k ...
    Asa WinstanleyThe Electronic IntifadaLondon The UK has banned Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, who has incited the murder of non-Jews, including civilians and children from coming to the country. But the timing is�curious.
  • Odd jobs help Gaza families scrape by
    Eva BartlettThe Electronic IntifadaGaza City Throughout Gaza, children take on responsibilities of adults to help their families, and adults revert from skilled labor to doing nearly anything to bring in a�salary.
  • Preserving Palestinian heritage one stitch at ...
    Emily LawrenceThe Electronic IntifadaHebron Palestinian women in Hebron have formed a traditional handicrafts cooperative to preserve cultural heritage and provide stable income for dozens of families hit hard by the economic effects of Israel’s occupation.
  • Gazans vent anger as Israel deprives prisoners ...
    Mohammed OmerThe Electronic IntifadaGaza City Access to education for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails is getting worse. The 1,800 Palestinian prisoners who were supposed to complete their secondary school exams were not permitted to do so by the Israeli Prison�Service.

The Wonk Room

  • Rove Slaps Rick Perry: Distancing Yourself Fro ...
    In his early stages of his presidential campaign, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is already fighting off comparisons to another self-assured, former Texas governor who swaggered into the White House. “Is Rick Perry too George W. Bush-y?” a headline on the Washington Post asks. Josh Green on The Atlantic ...
  • Gov. Rick Perry’s Texas Supreme Court Si ...
    The Texas Supreme Court is absolutely dominated by Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) nominees. Seven of the Texas Supreme Court’s nine members were appointed Perry, and no one has benefited more from this arrangement than wealthy corporations. The Texas Supreme Court “sided with consumers in 27 percent of c ...
  • ‘Louie’ Is More Standup Than Sitco ...
    Ezra Klein’s asked me to weigh in on some thoughts he has about Louie, continuity, and sitcom v. standup formats: Sitcoms tend to have one defined plot that stretches through 22 minutes of show. Stand up, of course, doesn’t. An act consists of jokes and observations that may or may not be connec ...
  • S&P Downgrades Planet Earth and Humanity, Citi ...
    – Chris Mooney, with an Important News Update by Joe Romm Washington, D.C.Ć¢In a move that came as a shock both in this city and throughout the planet on which it is located, Standard & PoorĆ¢s late Monday downgraded Earth from its unique HHH ratingĆ¢the only one in the galaxyĆ¢to HH+. The coveted H ...
  • The Texas Difference
    Is Rick Perry a 10th Amendment nutter who wants to deem the entire federal government unconstitutional or is he, as Erica Greider argues, a savvy business conservative who you underestimate at your peril. Both, I would argue. That’s in part because Texas is a bit unusual for a conservative juris ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Absolutely Disgusting
    There's so much evil in the world, but the sheer injustice and cruelty and selfishness represented by this story really affected me. "Iraq foots the bill for its own destruction" by Murtaza Hussain: Billions of dollars in reparations are indeed being paid for the Iraq War, but not to Iraqis ...
  • Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Ass on the W ...
    So, Tony Warr is retiring. I'd never heard of him before today. He's Toronto's Deputy Police Chief. Given the fact that he's retiring, it doesn't seem likely that I'll ever hear about him again. Which will be a good thing: The public and media overreacted to events during the G20 summit, and p ...
  • Riots in Britain
    I would suspect that decades of neoliberal-created hopelessness, combined with recent austerity, combined with evidently racist policing, are behind this. Riots are an expression of anger. Anger isn't a synonym for happiness, or politeness, or mercy. Anger is anger. And revolutions aren't ...
  • Sad Stories
    I like Barbara Ehrenreich's writing. I liked her books Nickel and Dimed about working class poverty and Bait and Switch about middle class desperation. We have enough problems of our own here in Canada, but I was affected by everything in Erenreich's "CommonDreams" article: "Nickel and Dimed (20 ...
  • Death Threats Against Rob Ford
    Obviously, they give the Small Dead Animals crowd an opportunity to crow about the inherent violence and inhumanity and the inability to tolerate democracy that is inherent to the political left and etc., etc., blah, blah, blah. Who cares? Rob Ford is a stinking, lying asshole. I don't want t ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Mayor of St-ThĆ©odore-d'Acton dumps large rock ...
    In a bizarre situation in St-ThĆ©odore-d'Acton, Quebec, Mayor Dany LariviĆØre dumped a 20-tonne rock on his ex-wife's driveway to 'wish' her a 'happy birthday'.
  • Double the success for Sania Mirza in comeback ...
    For Indian tennis player Sania Mirza, the road back from a wrist injury has been a long and arduous one to say the least.
  • Reports of Quebec Premier's death a hoax, Le D ...
    The editor-in-chief of Le Devoir, a French daily newspaper in Montreal, claims the newspaper was hacked following a false report that stated Quebec Premier Jean Charest was rushed to the hospital and died after suffering a heart attack.
  • Hockey star Rick Rypien found dead at home
    Forward Rick Rypien of the Winnipeg Jets was found at his Alberta home today. The RCMP said that the 27-year-old hockey player's death is not considered suspicious.
  • Canada’s Welcome Mat To Crime
    As Canadian taxpayers contemplate personal debt ceilings, increasing costs of living, increasing taxes, and regressing net incomes, they are being failed by a broken judicial system and police forces who are no longer able to act for their protection.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • National Post: U.S. troubles darken cloud over ...
    A National Post editorial from the ninth of August raises concerns about Canada’s purchase of the F-35 amid the budgetary crisis playing out in the United States (“Editorial: U.S. Troubles darken cloud over F-35,” National Post, 9 August 2011). Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), a former naval aviat ...
  • Third time’s a charm? F-35 fleet grounded again
    The U.S. Air Force grounded its fleet of Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighters earlier this month — for the 3rd time in less than year. In October 2010 the company grounded the fleet of 20 F-35s purchased by the US military after discovering a software glitch during simulation tests.Ƃ ...
  • Canada reverses position on Arms Trade Treaty
    The Conservative government has repositioned itself as a less-than-useful partner in the lead-up to negotiations on the United Nations’ Arms Trade Treaty, reports Kenneth Epps, senior program officer at Project Ploughshares (Kenneth Epps, “Hunting down an Arms Trade Treaty,” Embassy Magazine, 3 ...
  • Hiroshima day, 2011
    Today, August 6th, is the 66th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, the first time a nuclear weapon was used against human beings. The second, and so far last, use of nuclear weapons against people was the atomic bombing of Nagasaki three days later on August 9th, ...
  • Afghan interpreters allowed into Canada “disap ...
    The government has proclaimed its intent to help Afghan interpreters who worked with the Canadian Forces to come to Canada, but many of those who have already arrived feel “abandoned” and “disappointed”. Reporting for Ipolitics.ca, Murray Brewster and Steve Rennie have found discontent among for ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Treat Skin Disorders and Stomach Ulcers With C ...
    June 8th, 2011 Natural News By: Shona Botes Calendula (or Marigold as it is most commonly known as) is found growing in many homes throughout Europe, South Africa and Europe. These flowers have been used for many years to treat conditions such as eczema, boils, abscesses and stomach ulcers. Its ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-8-11
    Today, constitutional lawyer, Jonathan Emord, stops by the show to reveal the truth about government censorship over the airwaves and America’s debt crisis. Was the bailout a waste of time? What should have been done and what should we do moving forward? Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Supp ...
  • Use These Natural Foods For Homemade Skincare
    June 8th, 2011 Natural News By: Elizabeth Walling Forget shopping at department stores for expensive skin care products. Instead, head to your kitchen for the best kept secrets for naturally beautiful skin. That`s right: food is your medicine and when it comes to skin care, these foods provide e ...
  • Olive Oil Reduces Risk of Stroke
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By:Ƃ  J.D. Heyes Another new study has confirmed what we’ve known for quite some time – that olive oil contributes to better health. According to researchers who followed about 7,000 people aged 65 and older in three French cities for five years, olive oil can hel ...
  • Bill Gates, Monsanto Hijack ‘Humanitarian Aid’ ...
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Ethan A. Huff Those still in denial about the connection between the so-called “humanitarian” efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the bigger agenda to thrust genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) on the populations of the world (among other thi ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Open Letter to Barack Obama - pre-election
    We - citizens of Haiti, political militants and unionists of the grassroots movement for democracy in our country - solemnly address ourselves to you on the eve of the election that will most likely make you the next president of the United States....
  • Brazil: The high price of clean, cheap ethanol
    Brazil hopes to supply drivers worldwide with the fuel of the future - cheap ethanol derived from sugarcane. It is considered an effective antidote to climate change, but hundreds of thousands of Brazilian plantation workers harvest the cane at slave...
  • Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
    Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...
  • Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
    ColorOfChange.org - http://www.colorofchange.org/farmers/?id=1842-429864 is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only ...
  • Extradition threat for Black Liberation activist
    As the US opens up political channels with Cuba, Black Liberation Army - http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html activist Assata Shakur faces extradition from the country where she has lived under political asylum since 1984, writes Paul Scott. While the mainstream media portrays Shak ...

War in Context

  • U.S. senator seeks to cut aid to Israeli speci ...
    Haaretz reports: U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy is promoting a bill to suspend U.S. assistance to three elite Israel Defense Forces units, alleging they are involved in human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Leahy, a Democrat and senior member of the U.S. Senate, wants assistance ...
  • We’ve been warned: the system is ready to blow
    From Britain, Larry Elliott writes: For the past two centuries and more, life in Britain has been governed by a simple concept: tomorrow will be better than today. Black August has given us a glimpse of a dystopia, one in which the financial markets buckle and the cities burn. Like Scrooge, we ...
  • Libyan rebels ‘take Az-Zawiyah’
    The New York Times reports: After a period of political turmoil, fighters opposing Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi advanced on several fronts on Sunday, seizing ground in the strategic city of Zawiyah that placed them on Tripoli’s doorstep and threatening to cut off an important supply line for the col ...
  • Who is in control of the Libyan opposition?
    The Washington Post reports: The retired accounting professor who runs the city council of the Libyan rebel capital wants you to know: “There is good news in Benghazi!” Just ignore the smell. “Electricity, benzene, water, gas — all okay. No rockets, no fighting — all okay. Sewage? Big headache ...
  • Syrian navy pounds the port city of Latakia
    Anthony Shadid reports: In yet another escalation of its crackdown on dissent, the Syrian government unleashed navy vessels, tanks and a mix of soldiers, security forces and paramilitary fighters against the port city of Latakia on Sunday, killing at least 25 people, including three children, a ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Riots May Have Killed Britain’s Green Co ...
    Newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser at the GWPF   The riots and their fallout will eat up all the political oxygen for months, if not years to come. A party conference season that should have seen at least some debate … Continue reading →
  • Kiwis flummoxed by significant snow
    Climate Poetic justice in the land of ETS. From the Sydney Morning Herald: Freak snowfall has NZ reeling WELLINGTON: New Zealand is shivering through a one-in-50-year polar blast that has brought snow to much of the country, the weather service … Continue reading →
  • Climate Craziness of the Week: Anthropogenic G ...
    I would not have believed the claim if I hadn’t read it here: So the idea is that everybody should lose ten kilos the result of which would be a drop in greenhouse emissions that would be the equivalent of … Continue reading →
  • The heartbreak of ethanes
    From the National Science Foundation Ethane levels yield information about changes in greenhouse gas emissions Research at Greenland and Antarctic shows decline in methane and ethane levels Recent data from NSF-funded research in both Greenland and Antarctica demonstrate that fossil-fuel … Conti ...
  • Quantifying the Fukushima reactor leak with at ...
    From the University of California – San DiegoƂ  via Eurekalert First quantitative measure of radiation leaked from Fukushima reactor Observations of radioactive sulfur that formed when seawater was used to cool reactors and spent fuel ponds reveal the amount of … Continue reading →

treehugger

  • Compact Kitchen Folds Up And Hides When Not Needed
    Images credit Johanneke Procee Almost every kitchen you see, no matter how big or how small, seems to have the same form, an upper cabinet a foot deep, a lower cabinet two feet deep, and a counter in the middle. Really, little has changed since Christine Frederick in 1910. That's why Jo ...
  • Composting "Shuttle" Service Seeks Crowd-Sourc ...
    Image credit: Compost Now Composting indoors is possible, but it is not always practical. And while some people without land have had success with a DIY worm bin, there are plenty of people who no doubt wish that they had municipal composting or even
  • American Design Heroes Honoured on Stamps
    Photo: usps.com Finally some of the great heroes of American design are being honoured by the US Postal Service. The twelve designers (one lone female) that have been chosen represent the most important and, dare we say it, iconic designs of the twentiet...Read the full story on TreeHugge ...
  • Shell Oil Spill in North Sea has Loosed 55,000 ...
    Photo credit: mikebaird via Flickr/CC BY Shell has released a statement saying that an accident on one of its rigs in the North Sea has led to 56,000 gallons of oil spilling out thus far. The oil giant is calling the disaster "significant", and it doesn't bode well for Shell's current pla.. ...
  • Energy Use in NYC Schools is Down 11% Since 20 ...
    Photo credit: paulinaclemente via Flickr/CC BY Okay, it's not just thanks to Post-Its. But they helped. A report in today's New York Times documents how the region's schools drastically cut their energy consumption. Like the story about Tokyo slashing its energy bills with voluntary citizen ...

Biosingularity

  • Study: Many With ADHD Can’t Control Emotions
    More than half of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) also have trouble regulating their emotions, and that difficulty may be passed through families, a new study shows. Researchers are calling this cluster of symptoms deficient emotional self-regulation (DESR). It involv ...
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Stem cell-related changes that may contribute ...
    A new study from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) offers an explanation for why our brains produce fewer and fewer neurons with age, a phenomenon thought to underlie age-related cognitive decline. The study, published as the cover story in the May 6 issue of Cell Stem Cell, suggests that thi ...
  • Mutation provides new insight into the molecul ...
    A new study identifies the mutation that underlies a rare, inherited accelerated-aging disease and provides key insight into normal human aging. The research, published by Cell Press online May 5 in the American Journal of Human Genetics, highlights the importance of a cellular structure called ...
  • Study takes closer look at calorie restrictors
    Trent Arsenault has eaten the same breakfast, lunch and dinner almost every day for the past four or five years: a fruit smoothie in the morning, a spinach salad at noon and another fruit smoothie after work. Every now and then he’ll add a snack to his day. Maybe a spoonful of almond butter or [...]

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Spencer C. Duncan, 21, of Olathe, KS.Army Sgt. Alexander J. Bennett, 24, of Tacoma, WA.Army ...
  • Wisconsin's big union win and the growing libe ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postTuesday’s recall elections in Wisconsin were a stunning rebuke to the Republican party. As Craig Gilbert wrote back in March: “History tells us that most of the 16 recall attempts under way in Wisconsin are likely to fail. It als ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Staff Sgt. Kirk A. Owen, 37, of Sapulpa, OK.Marine Staff Sgt. Leon H. Lucas Jr., 32, of Wilson, N ...
  • So, anything interesting going on?
    I’m getting away from it all this week, and it looks like I picked a fine week to do so.
  • Protesting FedEx Tax Dodgery and Union Busting
     FedEx is notorious for union busting and tax dodging. So US Uncut and the Madison Socialist Alternative got some folks together, made some signs, and headed down to the local branch here in Madison, WI to let them know how we feel about that.  Package handlers at the FedEx Ground warehouse in ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Why Gaza Doesn't Need Monsanto's Wonder Seeds
    Climatewire recently ran a rather tedious article rehashing Monsanto's familiar talking points, on the occasion of a media conference put on by the GMO seed/agrichemical giant. Here's a sample: The company's pipeline is teeming with seeds aimed to protect farmers from losses due to pests, heat, ...
  • More Colleges Offering Organic, Sustainability ...
    Misha Manuchehri slowly picks her way through plots of barley, wheat and peas. Every so often, the graduate student in crop science at Washington State University stoops to pluck an errant weed at a farm just off campus.Click here to read this article
  • Can We Have Health Reform Without an Individua ...
    The essential vote on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel that ruled that the individual-coverage mandate in President Obama's healthcare reform is unconstitutional did not come from a reactionary Republican appointed by Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush.Click here to read this article
  • Why is George Soros Selling Gold and Buying Fa ...
    Food prices are skyrocketing all across the globe, and there's no end in sight. The United Nations says food inflation is currently at 30% a year, and the fast-eroding value of the dollar is causing food prices to appear even higher (in contrast to a weakening currency).Click here to read this a ...
  • Many Natural & Organic Cosmetic Brands Falling ...
    New research finds few natural & organic cosmetic brands are living up to their marketing claims. In the first study of its kind, Organic Monitor assessed over 50 international brands of natural cosmetic products and ranked them in terms of their naturalness.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Dam Water in China: Is It Worth It?
    In western China, massive dams are being built along 12 waterways. The dams are supposed to aid economic development—but experts are saying it’s likely that the dams will do more harm than good. When China pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40-45 percent of the 2005 levels at the Cop ...
  • Organic Poultry Farms Brew Profoundly Fewer An ...
    Amy Sapkota's research confirms what has long been suspected but never documented in the U.S.—poultry growers who convert to an organic system can reduce the incidence of antibiotic resistance and make an important contribution to safeguarding the health of the public.
  • James Beard Leadership Awards: Recognizing Foo ...
    Today the James Beard Foundation named the 10 recipients of its inaugural Leadership Awards, expanding the Foundation’s focus to include game-changing pioneers who have inspired positive action to improve our country’s food system.
  • Bee More Delicious, Hon
    The main goal of this project is to keep the bees alive and healthy, especially as colony collapse disorder threatens bee populations, and therefore food systems. Any surplus honey she gets from the hive is a bonus. “Whether we deserve it or not is another matter,” said Khasawinah.
  • Salmonella Outbreak: USDA Gets It Half-Right
    The newest superbug in town is Salmonella Heidelberg, and the USDA has issued words of caution to U.S. consumers and instructions for proper meat handling—but it needs to press for reform in agricultural practices, as well. The CDC has identified S. Heidelberg as “resistant to many commonly pres ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Climate study endorses central premise of Air Con
    A central premise of my book Air Con, from 2009, appears to have been validated by new peer reviewed research. My argument, which Climate Change minister Nick Smith and self-proclaimed climate expert - truffle grower Gareth Renowden, tried to challenge...
  • BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...
    FROM AN EXTRACT OF BREAKING SILENCE Published in the latest Investigate HIS/HERS magazine... What you are about to read has been described as the most controversial book ever published in New Zealand. It wasn’t supposed to be. But news sent...
  • BREAKING SILENCE news release
    BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE By Ian Wishart $39.99, Howling At The Moon Publishing Ltd RELEASE DATE: Imminent Final opportunity to pre-order for delivery on Day One: www.howlingatthemoon.com The new book that shatters myths surrounding the Kahui murder case is...
  • News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
    NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...
  • News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...
    NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART The Facebook page on Macsyna King is dishonest. They have known all along that Macsyna has neither sought nor been offered any money or compensation for the book Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart. Still, the...

My Care2 Picks

  • Norway's 9/11: The Horror Is In The Message
    You will send your troops where we tell you, you will buy foreign products regardless of ethical considerations, you will stop supporting the vermin we are trying to eradicate, and under no circumstances will you threaten anyone. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Concealed Weapons Against the Environment
    2012 spending bill for the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agencyincluded an astonishing 39 anti-environmental riders Here are some of the other riders that were still pending as of FridaySubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why Is The Monterey Bay Aquarium Greenwashing ...
    Nation�s major sustainable food writers and bloggers converge on Monterey, CA for an invite-only sustainable food conference. New sponsor this year: Kellogg Garden Products that has contaminated �organic� school gardens in LA with sewerage sludgeSubmitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �| ...
  • A Timeline of Events
    Mar 2011 Congressional Republicans declare intention to hold full faith and credit of the United States hostage � a move without precedent in American history � until massive debt-reduction plan is approved.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The second Great Contraction
    The global economy is misdiagnosed as being in a "Great Recession", but the real problem is an overleveraged system.There is no quick escape without a scheme to transfer wealth from creditors to debtorsSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • In Flex We Trust - 50 African Youth Caught Up ...
    In Flex We Trust � 50 Teens Arrested In Philly Curfew Crackdown: "The arrests began about 9 p.m. Friday downtown and on South Street, a 10-block strip of bars, restaurants and stores on the edge of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • UNIFIED STATEMENT: Human Rights and Community ...
    UNIFIED STATEMENT: Human Rights and Community Organisations condemn attempts to silence BDS Movement :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]:... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • I CARE - EXPERT: UK RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST COULD ...
    I CARE - News - Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe 14/8/2011- Anti-Islamist group, English Defence League (EDL), could carry out a Norway-style attack in Britain unless the government cracks down on... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • I CARE - NEW REPORT – ENEMIES NOT ALLIES: THE ...
    I CARE - News - Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe 15/8/2011- A new report by One Law for All explores how the far-Right has attempted to hijack opposition to Islamism for its own ends. It focuses on... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Thousands of Palestinians flee refugee camp ne ...
    Thousands of Palestinians flee refugee camp near Latakia, Syria - UNRWA :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] Thousands of Palestinian... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • FDA New, Stealth Dirty Trick To Take Your Supp ...
    Codex Alimentarius - Taking your Supplements by Stealth.
  • An Appeal to the People of London
    "You are part of the generation, the only generation fit and healthy enough to take on these creeps..... don't take the bait. Go home and prepare for the real fight."
  • 2 GMO Soys Set to Invade the EU
    Dupont/ Pioneer made the plants tolerant to herbicides (glyphosate and ALS-inhibitor) Monsanto inserted a gene for producing insecticides. Despite the actual findings, in July 2011, both applications received favourable opinions from the EFSA. This means that products derived from these plants m ...
  • Truth Squad Radio: Smart Meters/ Electronic In ...
    John & Pauline Holeton join TS Radio for a second time to discuss the nationwide revolt against Smart Meters. Smart Meters are a surveillance device and pose a significant danger to your health. These radio frequency meters can be used to affect your mental state and create confusion and letharg ...
  • Guerrilla Warfare Gardening
    This is guerrilla warfare using seeds as weapons of mass deliverance.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • UK riots: magistrates told 'ignore the rule bo ...
    ShareThisUK riots: magistrates told 'ignore the rule book' and lock up rioters --Magistrates have been told that they can ignore sentencing guidelines and hand down more draconian penalties to rioters and looters. 15 Aug 2011 Courts are being advised that the scale of last week's civil disobedie ...
  • California Researchers Detect Radioactive Rele ...
    ShareThisCalifornia Researchers Detect Radioactive Release From Fukushima Plant 15 Aug 2011 California scientists witnessed a spike in radioactive airborne material in March following the meltdown of Japan's wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, a study showed. Researchers at the Unive ...
  • Official: BART justified in cutting cell phone ...
    ShareThisOfficial: BART justified in cutting cell phone service, may do it again�15 Aug 2011 The threat of spreading protests prompted transit officials in San Francisco to successively close and reopen several key downtown subway stations on Monday... Meanwhile, an official with the system stoo ...
  • Commuters turned away as protest closes 4 BART ...
    ShareThisCommuters turned away as protest closes 4 BART stations 15 Aug 2011 Rush-hour commuters in San Francisco were turned away from BART on Monday evening after authorities shut down four stations amid a protest over alleged brutality by transit agency police. A portion of busy Market Street ...
  • Hackers threaten Fullerton police website, email
    ShareThisHackers threaten Fullerton police website, email --Group Anonymous is seeking prosecution of officers involved in confrontation with homeless man and resignation of police chief. 14 Aug 2011 The hacker group Anonymous threatened to disrupt the Fullerton Police Department's website and e ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.Ƃ  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.Ƃ  ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Part 2 – Demyelination, ...
    Article is intended to be read in conjunction with Part 1: VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Ć¢ A Legacy Of Shame Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxĆ¢s innovative synthetic ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxĆ¢s innovative synthetic ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

  • Body Bags & Speedballs
    Body bag drag 16 August 2011 Zhary District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan The enemy is easily resupplied.� His arteries for food and water are shorter than snake legs.�� He can buy or steal much of what he needs to fight.��� We don�t steal food or materials from locals, so we must plan for ...
  • War Dogs & Veloci-Chickens in Afghanistan
    Task Force Spartan Pushing Deeper into Taliban Country. A canine team at rest. 15 August 2011 Zhary District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan War Puppies Friday morning I was out for a run on base and must have seen five working dogs and their handlers.� The two dogs you will see in these disp ...
  • Infiltration: Operation Flintlock Part II
    4-4Cav Soldiers stuffed into CH-47 helicopter during mission. August 11, 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan The plan was bold and dangerous.� The troops were to fly by CH-47 helicopters to the insertion point.� There would be no moonlight.� Illumination was predicted to be 1%. ...
  • Operation Flintlock: Some Notes
    Planning Operation Flintlock at FOB Pasab, formerly FOB Wilson. 09 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan The ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches.� For us, the Iraq war has essentially come and gone between 2003 and 2008, though we continue to lose troops th ...
  • Men at War: Come Home with Your Shield, or On It
    During the mission 08 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan The men here can be seen saluting senior officers, while saying, �Sir, with your shield or on it.�� This is the mantra of Task Force Spartan. On the morning of 30 July, members of 4-4Cav boarded CH-47 helicopters ...

The Killing Train

  • Things they don't tell you about capitalism: a ...
    Published on ZNet Ha-Joon Chang is a development economist with a special interest in economic history. His most recent book, “23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism”, as well as previous books, have critiqued neoliberalism and laissez-faire economics. I interviewed him by telephone on A ...
  • Ultraviolent conflicts
    Between economic austerity and riot stories, my reading is out of sync with the headlines. I've been reading more about African conflicts, especially very recent and ongoing ones. Specifically: -Allen and Vlassenroot's book on the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. -Jason Stearns's book on the Co ...
  • Numeracy alert. Gravy drain.
    I read Metro Today on the subway today. There was a story blaming City of Toronto staff for squandering - wait for it - up to $1 MILLION dollars in sole-sourced contracts. So, Rob Ford is right, and there is waste to be cut, eh? Except that $1 million is, for example, 1/3 of what the KPMG report ...
  • The politics of economic self-destruction
    Sorry for the hiatus. Partly I've been busy with work and life and been unable to spend as much time doing articles. Partly I am trying to train myself to not relate to the world through 2000 word articles but to have a little more variety, including longer things (ie., books), one of which I am ...
  • Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
    This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.

treehugger

  • Compact Kitchen Folds Up And Hides When Not Needed
    Images credit Johanneke Procee Almost every kitchen you see, no matter how big or how small, seems to have the same form, an upper cabinet a foot deep, a lower cabinet two feet deep, and a counter in the middle. Really, little has changed since Christine Frederick in 1910. That's why Jo ...
  • Composting "Shuttle" Service Seeks Crowd-Sourc ...
    Image credit: Compost Now Composting indoors is possible, but it is not always practical. And while some people without land have had success with a DIY worm bin, there are plenty of people who no doubt wish that they had municipal composting or even
  • American Design Heroes Honoured on Stamps
    Photo: usps.com Finally some of the great heroes of American design are being honoured by the US Postal Service. The twelve designers (one lone female) that have been chosen represent the most important and, dare we say it, iconic designs of the twentiet...Read the full story on TreeHugge ...
  • Shell Oil Spill in North Sea has Loosed 55,000 ...
    Photo credit: mikebaird via Flickr/CC BY Shell has released a statement saying that an accident on one of its rigs in the North Sea has led to 56,000 gallons of oil spilling out thus far. The oil giant is calling the disaster "significant", and it doesn't bode well for Shell's current pla.. ...
  • Energy Use in NYC Schools is Down 11% Since 20 ...
    Photo credit: paulinaclemente via Flickr/CC BY Okay, it's not just thanks to Post-Its. But they helped. A report in today's New York Times documents how the region's schools drastically cut their energy consumption. Like the story about Tokyo slashing its energy bills with voluntary citizen ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal appeals court reinstates African-Ameri ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] on Monday reinstated [opinion, PDF] a lawsuit filed by an African American firefighter claiming the firefighter promotion exams used in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, are discriminatory. In 2003, the New Haven Civil ...
  • Rights group urges Egypt to drop charges again ...
    [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Monday called on Egyptian authorities to drop charges [press release] against a female blogger accused of insulting Egyptian armed forces and inciting the use of violence on Twitter [official website]. Asmaa Mahfouz, 26, voiced her concer ...
  • Arkansas judge rules part of execution law unc ...
    [JURIST] An Arkansas judge on Monday ruled that part of the state's law governing executions is unconstitutional. The provision in state law allowing "any other chemical or chemicals" to be used for lethal injections violates [AP report] the constitution's protection against cruel and unusual pu ...
  • HRW urges end to Somalia armed conflict
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Monday accused [press release] all parties to Somalia's ongoing armed conflict of engaging in rights violations and urged the parties to immediately end abuses against citizens. In a report entitled "You Don't Know Who To Blame: War Crimes ...
  • UN urges probe of Sudan Kordofan region war crimes
    [JURIST] The UN on Monday called for a thorough investigation [press release] into alleged violations of international law and war crimes in the Southern Kordofan area of Sudan [BBC backgrounder]. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the former UN Mission in Sudan (UN ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Washington Wants to Avoid Default, but It Can' ...
    With time running out, lawmakers still haven't crafted any bill that can raise the debt limit. Will they manage to pass one by Aug. 2? APThe aspirations don't match the situation.To hear them talk, the White House and every key player on Capitol Hill wants to avoid the first-ever default ...
  • Boehner: Tough to Revive Bipartisan 'Humpty Du ...
    The House Speaker said Republicans would press ahead with their own proposal should Obama continue to reject a two-tier plan With Asian markets set to deliver a verdict within hours on the U.S. debt crisis, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on ...
  • Progress Toward a Debt Deal?
    With the clock ticking down to the reopening of the markets, Congressional leaders try to patch together a two-step agreement ...
  • Let Them Eat Cake Alive & Well in Beverly Hills
    I love Los Angeles (I know -- few seem to want to admit it), but I love Washington, DC more.  I love DC's intrigue and policy banter -- the passionate debates about Israel and Palestine, about nuclear vs. renewables, about Grover Norquist vs. big government Republicans (& MoveOn), about whethe ...
  • How to Be a Right-Leaning Journalist
    A libertarian guide for young reporters tells us how media, ideological or otherwise, should work in the digital age With the rise of ideological journalism over the past decade, a period when opinionated bloggers, Web journalists, and muckraking activists have changed the face of the profess ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Aipac 81: Whoring and Schnorring
    There’s an old country saying, “If I’m lyin’ I’m cryin’,” which isn’t at all the same as the Israeli satiric saying “shooting and crying.” Ƃ But Antony Loewenstein retweeted my post about the 81 shining Congressional stars who took Aipac’s gelt and joined its recent Israel junket. Ƃ In response ...
  • Glenn Beck: J14 Protesters ‘Communists’
    Glenn Beck, once again proving he’s one of the biggest idiots on the planet (barring genuine monsters like Moamar Qaddafi, Kim Jong Il and Bashar Assad), has called the J14 tent protesters who’ve been demonstrating in massive waves of hundreds of thousands around the country, “Communists:” The c ...
  • Sen. Pat Leahy Proposes Banning U.S. Military ...
    Senator Pat Leahy (Dem. VT), at the instigation of some of his Vermont constituents, is proposing to add three IDF special forces units to the list of those military forces to which the U.S. may not offer aid: Leahy, who heads the Senate Appropriations Committee’s sub-committee on foreign operat ...
  • Website Down
    I apologize to readers that my posts have been inaccessible since last night. Ƃ I’ve been doing some internal work merging tags and it appears this may’ve corrupted the database table that housed my posts. Ƃ My host tells me they were able to restore them all. Ƃ They should now all be visible to ...
  • Maariv Reports Abusisi Plea Deal Imminent, Def ...
    As part of the Kabuki-like posturing common to Israeli justice and politics, Maariv reports a supposed plea deal between Dirar Abusisi’s attorney and the Israeli state prosecutor under which the suspect would receive a 15-20 year sentence for his alleged crimes. Ƃ Tal Linoy, Abusisi’s attorney, ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...

David J. Gregory

  • Help to overcome
    SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]
  • USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
    The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
  • FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
    by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
  • My Predicament
    For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...
  • High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
    O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]

Unsuitable Blog

  • London 2012: Crass, Commercial and Completely ...
    The Olympic Charter reads as follows: Fundamental Principles of Olympism 1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of eff ...
  • Why So Few Unsuitablogs?
    I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
  • Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
    We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...
  • Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
    In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
  • Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty Secrets
    JUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: Ć¢When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.Ć¢ I wasnĆ¢t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to describe the s ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The AtlanticĆ¢s Jeffrey Goldberg Ć¢ one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq Ć¢ has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatĆ¢s taken over the streets of Egypt. Ć¢I support democratization, but,Ć¢ he cautions, Ć¢the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryĆ¢s strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.Ƃ  Ć¢Confusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • With The Tiziano Project, Citizen Media Evolves
    In 2006, the phrase "community journalism" was exploding as a possible savior for the journalism industry (similar to the much-hyped hyper-local journalism today). Somewhere along the way, however, the concept got washed over by a sea of organizations simply distributing Flip Video cameras a ...
  • The State Decoded Aims to Make State Laws Acce ...
    State laws are written for and by attorneys. While that might make for a good legal system, it sure makes them hard for regular people to understand. There's code law -- what law books are full of -- and then there's case law, which is how the laws are actually interpreted by courts. Every t ...
  • DocumentCloud Welcomes a New Lead Developer
    As DocumentCloud settles into our comfy, new home in Missouri, we're quite pleased to welcome Ted Han aboard as our new lead developer. Though our prior lead developer, Jeremy Ashkenas, has moved to a full-time position at The New York Times, he continues to be an active and enthusiastic contrib ...
  • The Argo Philosophy: Capitalize, Synthesize, H ...
    Part of the mission behind NPR's Project Argo is to construct a software platform that can maximize the output of a one- or two-person team of reporters. Project Argo is a collaboration between NPR and member stations to strengthen public media's role in local journalism. As the project has prog ...
  • FrontlineSMS: Engaging the Audience to Transfo ...
    If some projections are correct, the world is only a year or so from a major milestone: some time in 2012, there will be one active mobile phone connection for every person on the planet. The question is no longer whether mobile phones will transform, well, everything, but how. At Frontline ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Medical Edge - New Drug could Identify Vir ...
    Most bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics such as penicillin, discovered decades ago. However, such drugs are useless against viral infections, including influenza, the common cold, and deadly hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola.Now, in a development that could transform how viral i ...
  • The Computing Edge - New Internet Anti-Censors ...
    A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites.The system is called Telex, and it is the brainchild of computer science researchers at the Univer ...
  • Book Review - J-Street, Jeremy Ben-Ami and his ...
    Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder and president of J Street, has written a highly misleading book titled "A New Voice for Israel" portraying himself as a passionate supporter of Israel and a dedicated Zionist and extolling the virtues of his purportedly "pro Israel pro-peace" organizationThe opening secti ...
  • Inside Pakistan - Finding a Bride the Old-Fash ...
    Farah Hatim, 24, a resident of Rahim Yar Khan in South Punjab was abducted on May 8, 2011 by Zeehan Ilyas and his brothers Imran and Gulfam. She forced to convert to Islam and marry Zeeshan Ilyas. Human rights organizations and the Catholic Church had condemned the act and demanded action in res ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Federal Lawsuit Links ...
    In just a month, America will observe the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.Over the past decade, the U.S. government has relentlessly pursued the al Qaeda masterminds behind that day’s catastrophic events: Osama bin Laden has been killed, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been captured a ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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  • Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market- The G ...
    By William HicksContinuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years
  • Disastrous US Jobs Report Points To Deepening ...
    By Barry GreyUS payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department
  • A State For Jews
    By William James Martin Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state - Israel- which is a state for Jews, and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians
  • Israelis Rush For Second Passports
    By Franklin Lamb Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 s ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out:Ƃ http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...

Yid With Lid

  • VAMPIRE BATS Added To The Official “Stupid Thi ...
    Once again, its time to add to the Official �Stupid Things Used To Fear Monger About Global Warming� List.� The new entry is Vampire Bats, not the political kind but the tiny flying mammal kind. Since July 2009 global warming moonbats have blamed each of� the following on global warming, ...
  • Symbol of Egypt’s "Awakening" On Trial For Ad ...
    By Barry Rubin Asmaa Mahfouz, the April 6 Youth Movement leader who said she began the Egyptian revolution with a tweet, has been arrested, charged with inciting violence against the military and insulting the armed forces, and will be tried by a military court. This is, of course, the ...
  • The Crown Heights Riot, 20 Years Ago This Week ...
    Twenty years ago this week, a tragic car accident in Crown Heights Brooklyn escalated into a pogrom directed at the Jewish people in the neighborhood.� At the time the media described it as violence between the area's Blacks and Jews,� but that is the politically correct version.� What was descr ...
  • The Progressive Strategy: Hate, Fear, Stereoty ...
    by Barry Rubin When one talks to supporters of President Barack Obama, one quickly learns that his actual policies and their relative success or failure are of no importance for many of them. Some have defected, many more are worried (even if they won�t admit it publicly) but might over ...
  • The Inside Truth Behind "Journalistic Integrity"
    A large chunk of my career (16 years) was spent in the world of advertising. I worked for various advertising agencies planning and negotiating and recommending the placement of media for many top advertisers.� Basically I spent money, but since it was other people's money I had to make sure the ...

The Real Agenda

  • One European Government
    RT August 16, 2011 Germany and France are calling on all euro-zone members to enshrine a balanced budget in their constitution, as well proposing a collective “government” led by the EU president. In one of the most dramatic expansions of state power since the onset of the EU debt crisis, France ...
  • Switzerland’s Central Bank wants to Dest ...
    Although the value of the Franc is in part a consequence of the current global economic crisis, the government and the central bank want to artificially devalue it. No paper currency is safe –from the bankers. By Simone Meier Bloomberg August 15, 2011 Switzerland, the nation that hasnĆ¢t gone to ...
  • Roundup causes Plant, Soil Disease
    The heavy use of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide appears to be causing harmful changes in soil and potentially hindering yields of the genetically modified crops that farmers are cultivating, a government scientist said on Friday. by Carey Gillam Reuters August 15, 2011 KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reute ...
  • Going Organic Cuts Poultry Farms’ “Superbug” B ...
    by Katherine Harmon Scientific American August 15, 2011 The government has come under fire this week for revelations that it knew about antibiotic resistant Salmonella in poultry products that has killed at least one person and sickened more than 100 across the country. Although this is one of t ...
  • Bachman Bought Votes in Iowa
    The Ames event was considered to be a Republican fundraiser, yetƂ BachmannĆ¢s campaign bought and Ć¢handed out at least 4,000 free tickets to supporters.Ć¢ Activist Post August 15, 2011 Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is being called the “Queen of the Straw Poll” after her victory at the Iowa straw ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind, wilderness chief forest plan concerns
    HOT SPRINGS � Wind energy and wilderness areas on the George Washington National Forest were the main topics of conversation at a public meeting on the proposed plan revision for the forest last Wednesday at Valley Elementary School. During question-and-answer and breakout sessions, citizens ask ...
  • Federal officials investigate eagle deaths at ...
    Pine Tree facility in the Tehachapi Mountains faces scrutiny over the deaths of at least six golden eagles, which are protected under federal law. Prosecution would be a major blow to the booming industry. Federal authorities are investigating the deaths of at least six golden eagles at the Los ...
  • Vinalhaven residents ask court to vacate wind ...
    Augusta Ć¢ Claiming three successive Maine Department of Environmental Protection commissioners acted on political motivation, a group calling itself Fox Islands Wind Neighbors petitioned Kennebec County Superior Court on July 28, challenging Fox Islands Wind LLC’s compliance with a condition of ...
  • Wind farm on Mount Massaemet?
    SHELBURNE � A Shelburne Center landowner is to meet with the town Zoning Board of Appeals Thursday night to discuss the permit process for a possible wind farm on Mount Massaemet. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. According to the ZBA meeting agenda, the board is to �review w ...
  • Frankfort wind project proceeds against voters ...
    FRANKFORT, Maine � Selectmen have chosen not to enforce a wind power moratorium the town�s voters enacted in May. After a wind energy firm expressed interest in installing four to six wind turbines on top of Mount Waldo, residents decided to temporarily ban all wind power activities to give the ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by CherAwayAtLake C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �| ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Was Freeborn John Tortured in Vain?
    The right against self-incrimination is currently under concerted attack by those who pit it against “security.”
  • Proficiency Is in Eye of School Authorities
    “Ć¢ProficientĆ¢ is relative. Across the country, student performance on standardized reading and math tests is worse than most states lead parents to believe, according to a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics, an arm of the federal Education Department. Under current law, ...
  • Drastic Fed Response Seen in the Offing
    “Some economists say the Federal Reserve will likely take dramatic steps in coming months to head off another recession. The Fed said Tuesday it likely will keep short-term interest rates near zero at least through mid-2013 Ć¢ an extraordinary commitment that shows the central bank doesn’t expect ...
  • Statue of Liberty Will Close for Renovation
    “The Statue of Liberty will close for a year at the end of October as it undergoes a $27.25 million renovation that will make the interior safer and more accessible, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Wednesday.” (Washington Post) ItĆ¢s not just the symbol of liberty that needs ...
  • Social Cooperation
    We should realize that the terms “individualism,” “self-reliance,” and “independence” can lend themselves to undesirable caricatures.

Teaching Online Journalism

  • 5,000 followers on Twitter
    Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a litt ...
  • 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
    I’ve spent a huge amount of timeƂ this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in my o ...
  • Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
    This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...
  • Journalists, take another look at Tumblr
    For a long time I had trouble appreciating Tumblr, but I think I finally understand its strengths — and I must not be the only one. Tumblr is now one ofƂ the top 25 websites in the U.S., according to data fromƂ Quancast, as reported in a new article at TechCrunch. It gets close to 5,000 pagevie ...
  • Branding: Should journalists build a personal ...
    If you’re teaching journalism today, you must be aware of the discussion that surrounds branding. If you’re a young journalist, or someone planning to enter the field of journalism, you need to understand what personal branding means. On June 23, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten wrote ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Can Rick Perry govern?
    By Dave Mann, Texas Observer "With the support of my family and unwavering belief in the goodness of America, I declare to you today as a candidate for president of the United States."With those words, Gov. Rick Perry on Saturday ended years of speculation and made official what had become a ...
  • Video spotlights Koch brothers' role in N.C. s ...
    The role that the conservative billionaire Koch brothers' money has played in an ongoing fight over the re-segregation of public schools in one North Carolina community is the focus of a new video from Brave New Foundation, a progressive media organization based in California. The 11-minute vid ...
  • South lags in farmers markets
    This is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 12th annual National Farmers Market Week, an occasion to highlight the benefits of bringing affordable, healthy food closer to consumers. A new report released for the occasion shows that the South lags behind other regions in the number of farmers m ...
  • Report for Obama questions effectiveness of ga ...
    By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica In sharp contrast with gas industry portrayals, the draft report released yesterday by a federal panel on shale gas drilling explicitly acknowledges that current regulations may be insufficient to protect the environment and publi ...
  • Next low-wage haven: USA
    By Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes Jokes about the U.S. becoming "Europe's Mexico" are commonplace, but now high-priced consultants are pushing the notion in all seriousness. They're predicting that within five years certain Southern U.S. states will be among the cheapest manufacturing locati ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Morocco: All Hail the (Democratic) King
    Morocco's recent constitutional referendum is not only being welcomed by the people, but could set an example across the Arab region in terms of the potential of reform.
  • North Africa and E.U. Energy Security
    Given the energy dependence of European countries on North African and Middle Eastern states, financial consequences of further upheavals in the Arab world could be global and deep.
  • Living with Disabilities in Uganda
    The plight of persons with disabilities in Uganda and other parts of Africa is exacerbated by the fact that PWD are discriminated against and not protected by the law.
  • Women's Struggle in Sierra Leone
    The struggle for equal opportunities for women in all aspects of Sierra Leone's socio-economic life is as crucial for our country's future as it is for women.
  • South Sudan: Safeguarding Independence
    The world's newest nation has reason to look positively as its future, but South Sudan must work hard to safeguard its hard-won independence.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Next President of the US
    Not that my track record on Presidential predictions is all that good, but I’m laying odds it’s Rick Perry.
  • Unbelievable disrespect to a black man in Britain
    Watch.Ƃ  Seriously, watch it. It’s hard to know what to say, because what I’m thinking is unprintable.Ƃ  Yeah, what a surprise that the riots occurred.Ƃ  What a surprise.Ƃ  And cracking down will make it worse, not better.Ƃ  This isn’t even close to over, and it will never be over while men or w ...
  • Socially how the next 20 odd years will play out
    Ok, let’s get down to brass tacks.Ƃ  The riots in Britain are an important event, and combined with the decision to double down on austerity they tell us a lot.Ƃ  This is my baseline, loose model for the next generation. The decision has been made by Cameron and society in general that the way t ...
  • Hard and Complicated Aren’t Synonyms
    The chart above is my second favourite chart. It’s a chart of per capita health expenditures over the last forty odd years and what I want you to look at is Canada and the US. You’ll see that at one point Canada actually spent more per capita than the US, then over less than a [...]
  • The monopoly of violence and simple solutions ...
    One of the interesting things happening in Britain is the formation of ad-hoc groups for neighbourhood defense.Ƃ  People have noticed that the police can’t defend them, and have decided to defend themselves. This it is not a good thing for the State, which is why the police are strongly against ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Chemists protest against UK funding cuts
    Before the British government decided to cut science funding, researchers rallied in protest. Now that research funding agencies are deciding how to parcel out the government cuts, the protests have shifted down to the level of affected individual disciplines. Today, some 100 senior chemists aro ...
  • Lawsuit dismissal removes cloud over Alzheimer ...
    In a move that researchers called a victory for science, a lawsuit that threatened scientists who use mouse models in Alzheimer’s research has been dismissed. In February 2010, the Alzheimer’s Institute of America (AIA) in Kansas City, Kansas, filed a lawsuit against the Jackson Laboratory o ...
  • India’s biodiversity agency to sue Monsanto
    Posted on behalf of K. S. Jayamaran. The controversy over genetically modified (GM) brinjal (eggplant) in India has taken a new turn with a move to prosecute its developers - further delaying commercial cultivation of the country’s first GM food crop. Although the insect resistant brinjal ...
  • Using fossil leaf veins to reconstruct past cl ...
    You can’t understand the global carbon cycle without understanding the activities of leaves. Leaves turn CO2 into sugar during photosynthesis, emits it during respiration and releases it when it rots. Leaf shape, size and structure is influenced tradeoffs between how many resources you spend ...
  • Multiple US agencies submit scientific integri ...
    Nineteen federal agencies have sent policies on scientific integrity to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) by a 5 August deadline, the office said in a blog post today. The submissions are part of US President Barack Obama’s initiative on scientific integrity being ...

new geography

  • The U.K. Riots And The Coming Global Class War
    The riots that hit London and other English cities last week have the potential to spread beyond the British Isles. Class rage isn’t unique to England; in fact, it represents part of a growing global class chasm that threatens to undermine capitalism itself. The hardening of class divisio ...
  • Who Lost the Middle Class?
    Forty years from now, politicians, writers, and historians may struggle to understand how America, once the quintessential middle-class society, became as socially stratified as Europe or even Brazil. Should that dark scenario come to pass, they would do well to turn their attention firs ...
  • Biggest Boomer Towns
    The boomer generation, spawned (literally) in the aftermath of the Second World War, will continue to shape the American landscape well into the 21st Century. They may be getting older, but these folks are still maintaining their power. Those born in the first ten years of the boomer gen ...
  • Britain Needs a Better Way to Get Rich Than Lo ...
    Mark Duggan, father of four, was armed with a Bruni BBM semi-automatic pistol when he was shot dead by armed police on 4 August. Despite initial reports Duggan did not fire on the officers from the Trident Police Unit, an armed force dedicated to dealing with “gun related murders within Lond ...
  • Commercial Real Estate: Shrinking to Fit
    We are going to need less commercial real estate in the future, at least on a per-unit-of-population basis. Advances in communications technology are causing profound and sometimes unanticipated changes in our lives. Retail Markets The coming change is most obvious in retail markets. Americ ...

GM Watch

  • India's GM bill "anti-people, anti-nature"
    Press Release: COALITION FOR A GM-FREE INDIA  BRAI BILL 2011 IS NO BETTER THAN ANTI-PEOPLE, ANTI-NATURE BRAI 2009  IT IS A BLATANT ATTEMPT TO BULLDOZE STATE GOVTS' & CITIZENS' RESISTANCE TO GM CROPS:  WRONG BILL BY WRONG PEOPLE FOR WRONG REASONS: ALL PROGRESSIVE PARTIES AND THEIR MPs SHOULD R ...
  • GM protest in Warsaw
    GM protest in Warsaw News from Poland, 16 August 2011 http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/53445,GM-protest-in-Warsaw A demonstration calling for President Komorowski not to sign off on a new law allowing GM seeds to be used in Poland took place in Warsaw over the weekend. On 31 July 2011 the Se ...
  • Public pressure halts GM trials in Spain
    Public pressure halts GM trials in CastellĆ³n, Spain Phil Lee  Friends of the Earth International, August 12 2011  http://www.foei.org/en/what-we-do/food-sovereignty/latest-news/demonstrations-stop-genetically-modified-rice-with-human-genes Friends of the Earth Spain celebrates the suspension of ...
  • GM contamination rampant at canola spill site
    1.GM contamination rampant at canola spill site 2.GM crops could be an issue in NSW --- --- 1.GM contamination rampant at canola spill site Gene Ethics, 15 August 2011 http://www.geneethics.org/enews/display/55 Williams farmer Geoff Reed has seen flocks of parrots feeding on GM canola seed outs ...
  • GM contamination rampant at canola spill site
    1.GM contamination rampant at canola spill site 2.GM crops could be an issue in NSW --- --- 1.GM contamination rampant at canola spill site Gene Ethics, 15 August 2011 http://www.geneethics.org/enews/display/55 Williams farmer Geoff Reed has seen flocks of parrots feeding on GM canola seed outs ...

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Cryptogon

  • Feds Allowed Sinaloa Cartel to Move Cocaine In ...
    Via: El Paso Times: U.S. federal agents allegedly allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel to traffic several tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for information about rival cartels, according to court documents filed in a U.S. federal court. The allegations are part of the defense of Vice ...
  • U.S. Wants to Build Cybersecurity Protection P ...
    Better make sure your car’s firewall and antivirus definitions are up to date. *grin* Via: Network World: As cars and other forms of transportation increasingly rely on online systems for everything from safety to onboard entertainment, the cybersecurity threat from those who would exploit such ...
  • Facebook Comes Before Tap Water as India’s Poo ...
    Via: Bloomberg: In a two-room shanty with no running water in northern Mumbai, Darshana Verma makes tea on a small stove. On a bench nearby, her 18-year-old son, Vishal, messages Facebook friends on the keypad of his Nokia smartphone. “This is the Internet age,” said the 36-year-old domestic hel ...
  • Rawsome Farm Buying Club Raided Again
    Look at all of the agencies associated with this nonsense!? Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office: Agencies taking part in the ongoing investigation include the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; the California Franchise Tax Board; the California Department of Food and AgricultureĆ¢s Milk and Da ...
  • Japan Launches Campaign to Weaken Yen
    Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. It’s starting (again): At a minimum, states will try unilateral capital controls in an attempt to prevent their currencies from disorderly appreciation vs. the toxic dollar. Via: Wall Street Journal: Japan stepp ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 16 Statistics Which Prove That The American Pe ...
    According to a whole host of polls and surveys, the American people are incredibly angry right now.  The American people are hopping mad at the government, the American people are hopping mad about the economy and the American people are hopping mad about the direction that this ...
  • 10 Signs That Economic Riots And Civil Unrest ...
    You should let the video footage of the wild violence that just took place in London burn into your memory because the same things are going to be happening all over the United States as the economy continues to crumble.  We have raised an entire generation of young people with ...
  • The Stock Market Crash Of 2011?
    How far does the stock market have to go down before we officially call it a crash?  The Dow is now down more than 2,000 points in just the last 14 trading days.  So can we now call this "The Stock Market Crash of 2011"?  Today the Dow was down 519 points.  Yesterday, an announc ...
  • The Federal Reserve Saves The Stock Market?
    The Federal Reserve has saved the stock market!  Well, at least for a day.  That was one heck of a "dead cat bounce" that we saw on Tuesday.  Normally, after the kind of dramatic decline that we saw on Monday there is some sort of a rebound, but on Tuesday the market did not beg ...
  • A 634 Point Stock Market Crash And 8 More Reas ...
    Are you ready for part two of the global financial collapse?  Many now fear that we may be on the verge of a repeat of 2008 after the events of the last several days.  On Friday, Standard & Poor's stripped the U.S. government of its AAA credit rating for the first time in histor ...

Desertification

  • Democratisation of agriculture to feed the hun ...
    Yesterday, I republished on this blog a part of an article in the Business Mirror about the nice work of Mr. Perfecto ‘Jojo’ ROM, agriculturist of the Xavier University in the Philippines : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/08/14/philippine-university-graduate-practices-urban-farming-to-answer-foo ...
  • By walking office to office collecting donatio ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.iol.co.za/business/international/ghana-schoolboy-launches-solo-famine-fundraiser-1.1117078 Ghana schoolboy launches solo famine fundraiser As international aid agencies scramble for donations for East AfricaĆ¢s famine victims, one m ...
  • Kid raising money for wells in Africa (Google ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.reporternews.com/news/2011/aug/13/6-year-old-leukemia-patient-in-abilene-raises-in/ 6-year-old leukemia patient in Abilene raises money for water wells in Africa By Greg Kendall-Ball More than 30,000 people have died, and more than ...
  • It is critical that we fully fund the humanita ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/14/sheeran.end.hunger/ You have the power to end hunger By Josette Sheeran, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Josette Sheeran is the executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme, which … Continue read ...
  • Various measures to prevent desertification (G ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.f-paper.com/?i759730-From-the-source-to-Combat-Desertification From the source to Combat Desertification newspaper commentator Meisong Wu Combating desertification, Sichuan how to do? Expansion of desertified land in the Northwest Plateau of Si ...

The Paper Trail

  • Center staff honored with awards
    Spring is journalism awards season and we’re delighted that the Center for Public Integrity and partner NPR have received a prestigious Dart Award for the story “Seeking Justice in Campus Rapes.” The award is bestowed by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.
  • A new site, a new era
    Make iWatch News your daily source for investigative and accountability news from around the corner – and across the globe.
  • Accountant gets $4.5 million from IRS for whis ...
    PHILADELPHIA — An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award.
  • Hey Congressman! How many federal workers are ...
    When Republican Mike Pence stood in front of a crowd of conservative activists at the end of March, he left no question as to his views on a possible government shutdown.
  • E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley ...
    An employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives alleged that he was “called to the carpet” by supervisors, accused of lying and ordered to write down everything that was said in meetings that were held with Senate staffers conducting an inquiry, according to newly release ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Is CSIS replaying the Arar card?
    By Alison@Creekside A leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui  in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute between Montreal and France. It has already been enthusiasticall ...
  • Designer Worms
    by Eric Pettifor Remember all those episodes of the various Star Treks where characters were genetically altered, either willingly or unwillingly, by some means or other? It would happen within the course of a single episode and be neatly fixed at the end, with a hypo from the lovely Dr. ...
  • Hinkle, Lilley, Mammoliti: So much Con Klown b ...
    By Montreal Simon Oh dear. What a dilemma eh? I just created my very own Con Klown Hypocrisy Award. But now I can't seem to decide who is this week's winner. So please help me out . Here are the candidates in no particular order: (1) PHILLIP HINKLE, the 64-year old Republican State ...
  • The Star and The Mark: open for shilling
    By Shannon Rupp The Toronto Star just announced that you can’t trust a thing you read on their website -- although that’s not quite the way they phrased it. Canada’s largest daily has joined forces with TheMarkNews.com, one of those free blogger sites, to acquire a small army of unpaid "commu ...
  • 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 ...

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Free Range International

  • Who’s the Enemy Here?
    Last week I wrote about how ordinary Afghans have much to fear from the villains when traveling on the highways and roads in this country.  This week, I’d like to address one of the biggest threats to those of us in the Kabul expat community: the Afghan government security apparatus.  I was insp ...
  • This Ain’t Route 66
    Since so many people in the western media have been freely tossing words like “Taliban” and “terrorist” around recently, I thought I’d give you all a slice of life glimpse into what it’s like to actually live here in Afghanistan with real terrorists.Ƃ  We Americans have a love affair with cars, ...
  • An Open Letter to Martin Frost
    Dear Mr. Frost, Yesterday, while perusing through my usual roundup of blogs and new sites, I ran across your article, The Tea Party Taliban, on Politico.com.  I’m sure you thought you were quite clever, likening the American Tea Party to the Afghan Taliban, with statements such as this: Ten year ...
  • Riding A Dead Horse
    I thought you might all appreciate some Afghan humor today.  I found this on the website Who is Who in Afghanistan, which is a great site to check out if you want dirt on Afghan politicians and power brokers.  Most of the content on the site seems to be provided by Afghans themselves, and althou ...
  • The Plot Thickens
    I meant to get this post up sooner, but a 48-hour bout with the flu left my brain too cooked to come up with any sort of cogent analysis regarding the assassination of Karzai ally Jan Mohammad Khan (JMK).  To tell you the truth, I don’t have one theory on whose behind the killing – [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • Will Rogers – Homespun Homilies
    Let’s take a minute and take a walk down memory lane to a time of innocence and honor – before “smart” phones and computer chips, Blue Rays and NanoTech.Ƃ  Let’s listen to Mr. Will Rogers. Timeless!! “Never squat while wearing your spurs” Will Rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash, was one of t ...
  • GOVERNMENT GONE WILD?? INDEED.
    Check out this short video, but as you watch it remember what is NOT mentioned: WHO ACTUALLY RECEIVES THE INTEREST ON THE “NATIONAL DEBT”?Ƃ Ć‚  Answer: “The International Banking Cartel – the “MoneyChangers” of Antiquity – the EDOMITE SEED OF CAIN – the KHAZARS! Never forget that this all began i ...
  • More Zionist/Edomite Insanity Exposed by Jonat ...
    Massacre In Norway: Mossad Strikes Again Under ‘Lone Gunman’ Cover 09. Aug,  2011 by Jonathan Azaziah The everyday murderous behavior of the world’s hegemonic powers, led by the exponentially powerful Zionist entity that has illegally occupied Palestine for 63 years, has split humanity right dow ...
  • What an INCREDIBLE REAL-LIFE WONDER-WOMAN!!!
    Blisteringly sexy, she killed Nazis with her bare hands and had a 5 million-franc bounty on her head. As she dies at 98, the extraordinary story of the real Charlotte Gray By Tony Rennell Last updated at 9:30 AM on 9th August 2011 She stares into the camera with a coquettish half-smile and an un ...
  • Who’s Who In the Zoo – By Dr. True ...
    Who’s Who in the Zoo?Ƃ Ć‚  By Dr. Truess (rhymes with Suess). Who’s who in the “patriot” zoo?Ƃ  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 [...]

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuringƂ  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...
    CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
  • Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
    Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
  • Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
    Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.
  • Don Tapscott
    Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
  • Roberta Jamieson
    Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.

Scotts Contracting

  • Future Fighters
    Sustainable Living Education at Unity College Say the words, “renewable energy” or “sustainable living” to the average person on the street, and you are liable to get a furrowed brow, and a cobbled together response about the environment and solar energy. Most people have a vague idea of what th ...
  • Porch Column CAD Drawings by Scotts Contracting
    CAD Details of Simple Porch Footings, Foundations, Reinforcement, Stone Ledge, and Anchor Bolts for the Column
  • Join Scotty’s Fantasy Football League
    League Name: Midwest Mayhem ln: Warriors Only Join Here: http://fantasy.nfl.com/registration/privateleaguejoin?leagueId=352267 Join Here: http://fantasy.nfl.com/registration/privateleaguejoin?leagueId=352267 When prompted, enter the League ID# and password below. League ID: 352267 League Passwor ...
  • Solar Tracker Information / Guide
    Solar trackers can generate substantially more power than fixed. Selection of a tracker type is dependent on multiple factors, including installation size, electric rates, government incentives, land constraints, budget constraints, latitude and local weather. Single-axis trackers are able to ge ...
  • MO Coalition for the Environment Monthly Diges ...
    Donate Now Become A Member Volunteer Follow us on: Facebook Twitter MCE Monthly Digest Once a month, MCE sends a brief update on the work of each of our program areas. If you’d like to receive a program’s more frequent updates, click the "update profile" link at the bottom of this email. Clean E ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • U.S. and Russia: Where's the Reset?
    The much-proclaimed reset in U.S.-Russian relations has been more rhetorical than real.
  • Nye's Future of Power
    Joseph Nye updates his analysis of soft and hard power.
  • Robbing Peter to Pay Israel
    At a time of severe economic crisis, nearly one-fifth of the House of Representatives is going on a junket to Israel this summer.
  • Review: No Exit
    A new book on North Korea provides the context for understanding its nuclear program.
  • The Crisis of Humanitarian Intervention
    Humanitarian intervention in Libya and elsewhere has led to an intensification of human rights violations, the erosion of the UN's authority, and the expansion of the reach of great powers.

Law.com

Iranian.com

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  • Ų±Ų®Ł†Ł‡، Ł†ŁŁˆŲ°، Ų¬Ų§Ų³ŁˆŲ³ŪŒ
    ŲÆŲ± Ś©Ł„ŪŒŁ‡ ŲŖŲ±ŁˆŲ±Ł‡Ų§ŪŒ Ų®Ų§Ų±Ų¬ Ś©Ų“ŁˆŲ± Ų±ŲÆّ Ų¹ŁˆŲ§Ł…Ł„ ŁŲ§Ų³ŲÆ Ų§ŪŒŲ±Ų§Ł†ŪŒ Ł…Ł‚ŪŒŁ… Ų®Ų§Ų±Ų¬ Ų±Ų§ Ł…ŪŒ ŲŖŁˆŲ§Ł† ŚÆŲ±ŁŲŖ. ŲÆŲ± Ł…ŁˆŲ±ŲÆ Ś©Ų“ŲŖŲ§Ų± Ł…ŪŒŚ©ŁˆŁ†ŁˆŲ³ Ų¢Ł†Ł‚ŲÆŲ± ŲÆŁ„ŪŒŁ„ Łˆ Ł…ŲÆŲ±Ś© ŁˆŲ¬ŁˆŲÆ ŲÆŲ§Ų±ŲÆ، Ś©Ł‡ ŲÆŪŒŲ±ŲØŲ§ŁˆŲ±Ų§Ł† Ų±Ų§ Ł†ŪŒŲ² ŲØŁ‡ ŲØŲ§ŁˆŲ± Ł‚Ų·Ų¹ŪŒ Ų±Ų³Ų§Ł†ŲÆ.read more
  • Iran orders censoring of epic Persian love sto ...
    Tehran - Iran's Culture Ministry has ordered the censoring of one of the most famous epic love stories in Persian literature more than eight centuries after it first appeared, the news agency Mehr reported Monday. Khosrow and Shirin was written by Nezami Ganjavi in 1177, published in 1180 and ...
  • ŚÆŲ²Ų§Ų±Ų“ŪŒ Ų§Ų² ŁˆŲ¶Ų¹ŪŒŲŖ Ų²Ł†Ų§Ł† Ų²Ł†ŲÆŲ§Ł†ŪŒ Ų³ŪŒŲ§Ų³ŪŒ
    Ś©Ł…ŪŒŲŖŁ‡ ŚÆŲ²Ų§Ų±Ų“ŚÆŲ±Ų§Ł† Ų­Ł‚ŁˆŁ‚ ŲØŲ“Ų±- Ų§Ų³ŲŖŁŲ§ŲÆŁ‡ Ų§Ų² Ł…Ų±Ų®ŲµŪŒ، Ų·ŲØŁ‚ Ł‚Ų§Ł†ŁˆŁ† Łˆ Ų¢ŪŒŪŒŁ†‌Ł†Ų§Ł…Ł‡ Ų³Ų§Ų²Ł…Ų§Ł† Ų²Ł†ŲÆŲ§Ł†‌Ł‡Ų§ Ų§Ų² Ų¬Ł…Ł„Ł‡ Ų­Ł‚ŁˆŁ‚ŪŒ Ų§Ų³ŲŖ Ś©Ł‡ ŪŒŚ© Ų²Ł†ŲÆŲ§Ł†ŪŒ Ł…ŪŒ‌ŲØŲ§ŪŒŲ³ŲŖ Ų§Ų² Ų¢Ł† ŲØŁ‡Ų±Ł‡‌Ł…Ł†ŲÆ Ų“ŁˆŲÆ.read more
  • Ų³Ų§Ł†Ų³ŁˆŲ± Ų§ŲÆŲØŪŒŲ§ŲŖ Ś©Ł‡Ł† ŁŲ§Ų±Ų³ŪŒ؛ Ł‡Ł…‌Ų¢ŲŗŁˆŲ“ŪŒ Ų®Ų³Ų±Łˆ Łˆ Ų“ŪŒŲ±ŪŒŁ† ...
    ŁˆŲ²Ų§Ų±ŲŖ Ų§Ų±Ų“Ų§ŲÆ Ų¬Ł…Ł‡ŁˆŲ±ŪŒ Ų§Ų³Ł„Ų§Ł…ŪŒ ŪŒŚ© Ł†Ų³Ų®Ł‡ Ų§Ų² Ł…Ł†ŲøŁˆŁ…Ł‡ «Ų®Ų³Ų±Łˆ Łˆ Ų“ŪŒŲ±ŪŒŁ†» Ų³Ų±ŁˆŲÆŁ‡‌ŪŒ Ł†ŲøŲ§Ł…ŪŒ ŚÆŁ†Ų¬ŁˆŪŒ، Ų“Ų§Ų¹Ų± ŲØŲ²Ų±ŚÆ Ł‚Ų±Ł† Ł¾Ł†Ų¬Ł…، Ų±Ų§ Ų³Ų§Ł†Ų³ŁˆŲ± Ś©Ų±ŲÆŁ‡ Ų§Ų³ŲŖ؛ «ŲÆŲ± Ų¢ŲŗŁˆŲ“ Ś©Ų“ŪŒŲÆŁ†» ŪŒŚ©ŪŒ Ų§Ų² Ų¹ŲØŲ§Ų±Ų§ŲŖ Ų³Ų§Ł†Ų³ŁˆŲ± Ų“ŲÆŁ‡‌ŪŒ Ų§ŪŒŁ† Ł…Ł†ŲøŁˆŁ…Ł‡ Ų§Ų³ŲŖ.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Cato Institute and the Drug War
    The Cato Institute This is the 2nd of 3 posts about growing broad spectrum support for ending the War on Drugs. The extremely conservative Cato Institute are clearly in the forefront of the campaign to end the war on drugs. I got a mind bending wake-up call last week from visiting their  website ...
  • Cost Cutting and the Drug War
    Ron Paul and Barney Frank - HR 2306 cosponsors Thanks to the recession and debt crisis, progressives seeking to end the failed War on Drugs have some curious bedfellows, including the ultra-conservative Cato Institute, grassroots Tea Party groups and even mainstream Republicans. Drug Policy Alli ...
  • Lessons from the Soviet Collapse
    Scenes from the Soviet Collapse This is the second of two posts on the role of food prices in triggering civil unrest. One erroneous conclusion some American activists draw from Keiser’s and Zoellick’s “food theory” of revolution (see previous post) is that organizing is unnecessary – that all w ...
  • The Tipping Point: When Do Americans Hit the S ...
    2008 Food riot (Egypt) Former Wall Street analyst (and fellow expatriate) Max Keiser predicts that American workers are unlikely to manifest the same revolutionary fervor as their comrades in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain until they experience comparable difficulties paying for food. ...
  • Free Download: Scariest Horror Flick Ever Made
    Into Eternity, Directed by Michael Madsen Download free: http://documentaryheaven.com/into-eternity/ *** New Zealand has a world reputation for surreal and gruesome horror movies. However I’ve never seen anything to compare with a recent Danish documentary called Into Eternity. Yes, documentary ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moor ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2011   Contact: Matt Smucker, 717.209.0445, jms@beyondthechoir.org   Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moore in Support of PFC Bradley Manning   Alan Moore, the world-renowned British author, issued the following statement today in support of accused WikiL ...
  • Letter from Environmental Leaders on the Perse ...
    Dear Friends, On July 26th 2011, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. On March 3rd, Tim was found guilty of two felony counts for participating in a peaceful act of civil disobedience. A bright, charismatic young man could face up to ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address at Forbes Field ...
    ROOSEVELT: Mr. Chairman, Governor Earle, my friends of Pennsylvania: A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. Tonight I am going to talk to you about the box score of the Government of the United States. I am going to tell you the story of our fight to beat down the depression ...
  • Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film
    Revolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition to Swe ...
  • On Nataline Sarkisyan's 21st Birthday
    Last night in Los Angeles, while the Prince and Princess (William and Kate) – or is it now the Duke and Duchess? – were gathering all the media attention for their glamorous evening among the stars, a very different yet equally glamorous night was unfolding just a few miles away.  On the sales f ...

Salon

  • Perry: "Almost treasonous" if Bernanke prints ...
    Sometimes it's best just to stick with your initial instinct. Speaking to a small group of Republicans in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Monday night, Texas. Gov. Rick Perry was asked by one audience member what he would do as president about the Federal Reserve. The GOP White House candidate replied, ...
  • How to end the new War Between the States
    Increasingly the battle between left and right in the United States has become a second War Between the States. Red states claim they are picking up domestic migrants and industries from blue states because the latter are too liberal in their tax, welfare and regulation policies. Blue states ...
  • Rick Perry's got some nerve
    Monday is "Get to know Rick Perry" day in the liberal wing of the media, with Paul Krugman, Joe Conason, Joshua Holland and others providing great data about the myth of the strong Texas economy and other Perry whoppers. Perry's Texas leads the nation in minimum-wage jobs, uninsured children, ...
  • Obama, FDR, and the right way to tackle a jobs ...
    "Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, throug ...
  • Shariah foes seize on Perry's ties to Muslims
    It looks like my story last week about Rick Perry's cordial relations with a group of Muslims has, as expected, generated alarm within the anti-Shariah wing of the Republican Party.

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • How We Know We Are Causing Global Heating
    by John Cook, in a Skeptical Science cross-post.
  • Earth: Ground Zero For The Permafrost Bomb
    I’ve long been a proponent of the carbon budget way of viewing our climate change predicament. By focusing on the total amount of CO2 (or CO2 equivalent other greenhouse gases) we can emit from this point forward, I think it greatly simplifies the “feeds and speeds” without introducing any inac ...
  • Hybrid Locomotives + The Batteries They Need
  • Audio Archive: Growing Wind Power
    What a great webinar this was! The conversation covered a range of topics, from the workforce needed to grow the wind industry, to hotspots of projected growth, to an onshore-offshore debate, to the perils of permitting. This was a great starting point for TEC as we seek to incorporate more ...
  • Plastic “Trees” Convert Atmospheric CO2
    Recycling has always meant reusing materials like glass or plastic, and reducing atmospheric carbon has traditionally meant cutting emissions, but what if we could combine the two to make combating climate change profitable by recycling carbon out of the atmosphere? energyNOW! correspondent J ...

EU Times

  • Gillard set to reject Kevin Rudd on Palestine
    Australia is almost certain to vote against a Palestinian state next month, despite an apparent push by Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd for Canberra to abstain from any such vote. Leaders of the Jewish community reacted angrily yesterday to a report that Mr Rudd had written to Julia Gillard recommen ...
  • Russian senator blames failure of multicultura ...
    The death of multicultural society and the economic crisis are to blame for the riots that have convulsed London and other British cities this week, head of the Russian upper house’s international affairs committee Mikhail Margelov said on Wednesday. “I think the events occurring in the English ...
  • Ron Paul Wins Historic Vote Total In Ames Stra ...
    Congressman Ron Paul won 4,671 votes in today’s Iowa Republican Straw Poll, topping Governor Mitt Romney’s vote total from 2007 and drawing a near statistical tie with today’s winner at 27.6 percent of the vote versus 28.5 percent. Dr. Paul’s finish earned him a strong second place and it was th ...
  • Russian Intelligence Calls Facebook “Informati ...
    A senior Federal Security Service (FSB) official speaking off the record to reporters this morning in the Kremlin labeled the US social media website Facebook as the world’s most dangerous “Information Warfare Weapon” and stated that unless its powers were curbed the freedoms of everyone on Eart ...
  • Italy introduces additional €45.5bn cuts
    Rome has approved a new emergency 45.5-billion-euro austerity plan in response to demands by the European Central Bank (ECB) to balance Italy’s budget by 2013. The Italian government approved the emergency package in line with the ECB request on Friday, despite strong disagreement and resistance ...

Stonecipher News

  • Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
    Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
  • Natural Acne Remedies
    There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
  • Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
    Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Thousands of Palestinians flee refugee camp ne ...
    NOVANEWS byƂ Ali Abunimah ” If the news is true that the Syrian army is shelling Ar-Raml camp in Latakia, it won’t be the first time that the Syrian regime has bombed a Palestinian refugee camp. Ƃ It shelled the camps in Lebanon in 1976 and it sponsored (through the Amal movement) the war of th ...
  • Qaddafi Forces Fire Scud Missile At Rebels Aft ...
    Forces loyal to Moammar Qaddafi fired a ballistic Scud missile into rebel-controlled territory Sunday, as that country's civil war continues, U.S. officials confirmed to The Daily Telegraph . The missile, designed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, has a range in excess of 200 miles — tho ...
  • Blueprint For NATO Attack On Syria Revealed
    NOVANEWS Strike on Syria is technically feasible, former French general says by Andrew Rettman euobserver. com A Nato strike to disable the Syrian army is technically feasible according to experts, such as former French air chief Jean Rannou. But it could make the country’s internal situation w ...
  • Beck in Israel
    Glenn Beck may, as he claims, love Israel. But that love apparently doesn’t extend to a significant number of Israelis. Haaretz reports : Glenn Beck, an American right-wing talk-show host currently visiting Israel, compared the Israeli protesters demanding social justice to communists in his sh ...
  • Why Not Televise the Mubarak Trial?
    Whatever one thinks of cameras in the courtroom, when it comes to the average criminal case, they strike one as essential when a former head of state is the defendant. It’s not as though the cameras can politicize the proceedings any more than they already, integrally, are. And yet, Monday, the ...

Groklaw

  • Tablets, trade dress, prior art.
    The design of tabula has not changed in 1360 BC Turkey 0100 BC France 0000 AD Roman 1900 AD Britain 1950 AD Germany 2010 AD Apple * After further googling found http://larsdatter.com/tablets.htm and added the 1360BC! and 100BC entries. [PJ: He forgot one -- this 1991 demo of Go's PenPoin ...
  • FCC Probing Wireless Blocking by San Francisco ...
    The Federal Communications Commission is investigating actions last week by the transportation authority in San Francisco which interrupted wireless service in commuter stations in an effort to foil protesters who had planned demonstrations. FCC spokesman Neil Grace said in a statement on Monda ...
  • Interesting. Google gets...
    interesting. Google gets: defensive patents for Android, JavaME licence, another WebM HW supporter, and HW R&D branch. Brilliant play :o - John Drinkwater, Twitter
  • Righthaven rocked, owes $34,000 after "fair us ...
    Defense attorney J. Malcolm DeVoy was furious. "Righthaven deserves some credit for taking this position, as it requires an amazing amount of chutzpah," he wrote to the judge. "Righthaven seeks a ruling holding that, as long as a plaintiff's case is completely frivolous, then the court is depriv ...
  • Android foes still beating GPL non-compliance drum
    I asked Kuhn about this new round of comments, and he responded today that what he originally said back in May still applies. "Specifically, I see no one actually reporting a credible GPL violation in any of these blog posts. I also note that these two bloggers have not bothered to contact me a ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Japan may build biomass power plants for Fukus ...
    One question: What will the plants burn when the debris is gone? But they have to get rid of it somehow so might as well generate power from it too. Plus, the process will surely take years. Maybe they could make biofuel too.
  • Syria orders thousands into stadiums after tak ...
    Residents of Latakia were told to go to the stadium by security because the town was going to be flattened. Whn they arrived, their cell phones and ID were taken. Bodies with no ID are harder to identify, no doubt. A Palestinian refugee camp nearby has been bombed too. I didn’t think Bashar Assa ...
  • Weird Al Yankovic – Party In The CIA (Alpocalypse)
    i moved out to langely recently with a plain and simple dream; wanna infiltrate some third-world place and topple their regime. their men in black with their matching suitcases; where everything’s on a need-to-know basis; agents got that swagger; everyone so cloak and dagger. i’m feelin’ nervou ...
  • Ron Paul got almost as many votes as Bachmann ...
    Yet the MSM refuses to list him as a top tier candidate, while saying that Perry, who just entered the race, is. More than any of the Republican candidates, Ron Paul threatens the powers that be, which probably accounts for why the MSM ignores him.
  • Obama’s master plan for winning reelection and ...
    The White House thinks it can appeal to independents by advocating trade agreements and improved patent protections. Wow, inspiring stuff, isn’t it? Somehow, this is supposed to create jobs too.

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Israel's 'J14': New potential for Jewish-Pales ...
    As I have chronicled here and elsewhere many times, over the past decade the once-vibrant movement of Israelis actively working for an end to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza had become increasingly moribund. Yes, a small number of brave Jewish-Israeli souls participated in the weekly p ...
  • Syria, authoritarianism, war, and peace
    I regret that I haven't had much time in recent months to blog and write about the many developments in the still-unfolding 'Arab Spring.' However, I think that much of what I was writing back in March and April-- especially on the extremely upsetting and complicated series of events in Libya an ...
  • Remembering Qana, five years on
    On this day five years ago, at 1:30 am Lebanon time, Israel's U.S.-supplied warplanes attacked houses in the south Lebanese village of Qana, killing more than 60 civilians, 37 of them children. Go watch this soberly reported video clip from Britain's Channel 4 to get a measure of the horror. Th ...
  • Place your orders now for Zurayk's 'War Diary: ...
    You can now go to the 'Buy' button on the web-page for Rami Zurayk's 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006' and place your advance order for this unique, 60-page work. The ebook will cost you $4.00 (in many different formats), and the paperback will cost you $7.00, plus shipping. Here is the back-cover text ...
  • Nurturing that better future
    All my wonderful longtime readers here at JWN may wonder why I've been so silent recently. Two reasons, mainly. I've been deep immersed in the most wonderful forms of family life; and I've also been racing against the clock on the 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006' project. In the past three months, we' ...

frogblog

  • Fracking and the Taranaki Regional Council
    Fracking is the hydraulic fracturing of geological formations to release hydrocarbons. It has some very serious potential environmental impacts, of which groundwater contamination is the lead problem. This is why there is a moratorium on fracking in many places around the world at the moment, in ...
  • Paul Reeves the peacemaker
    Sir Paul Reeves is rightly being remembered for his wide-ranging contribution to New Zealand society. I wish to remember him as one of our foremost international peacemakers, particularly because of his work in Fiji and Guyana. Sir Paul’s quiet manner and sense of fairness saw him chosen to head ...
  • No place for TABOR in New Zealand
    The Government has introduced a TABOR Bill to Parliament.  TABOR is an acronym for “Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights”.  But rather than have anything to do with a real Bill of Rights, TABOR is actually a wacky libertarian measure designed to shrink the state and inhibit its ability to protect the vulne ...
  • Why is our Super Fund profiting from Norilsk, ...
    Norilsk Nickel is one of the world’s largest producers of nickel and palladium, as well as Russia’s leading gold producer. ItĆ¢s also one of the dirtiest mining companies in the world. The companyĆ¢s hometown operations in Russia have resulted in the city of Norilsk becoming one of the most pollut ...
  • Welfare changes: private profit and political ...
    Did I miss something? Did the Prime Minister say he was going to work with the business and community sectors to create jobs at a living wage for the 27 percent of young people with no jobs? No. But he did promise to privitise the management of youth benefits for profit via a food stamps system.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Disintegrating Economic Recovery
    The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...
  • Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
    What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
  • (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
    President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
  • Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
    Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • FINALLY People Starting to Consume Less Sugar!
    A new report finds that Americans are consuming less sugar than they did about a decade ago. About two-thirds of this decrease is the result of people drinking fewer sugar-sweetened sodas. The percentage of sugar in the U.S. diet dropped from 18 percent between 1999 and 2000 to 14.6 percent bet ...
  • The Shocking Truth About Freshly Squeezed Oran ...
    If you buy orange juice at the store, you may lean towards the kind that advertises itself as �100 percent juice� and �not made from concentrate�.� But have you ever wondered why every glass of it tastes exactly the same?� That�s because the flavor of store-bought orange juice has more to do wit ...
  • Alzheimer's: Early Detection, Risk Factors are ...
    Recent research on Alzheimer�s disease places a growing emphasis on early detection. Studies suggests that the best targets for exploring treatments are patients who do not have full-blown Alzheimer's disease, but experience mild symptoms. Signs of Alzheimer's may develop in the brain 10 to 20 ...
  • Why is the Price of Gold Exploding While Your ...
    Here's some information I first ran in this newsletter more than FIVE years ago.�The numbers have been updated, but the overall situation remains practically unchanged. Have you always wondered why the price of gold has more than doubled recently (now about $1,600 per ounce), silver has tr ...
  • This Popular Supplement Can Spike Your Heart A ...
    An analysis has found that there is a 30 percent increased risk of myocardial infarction for those taking 500 mg or more of elemental calcium. This could mean that the use of supplements to "prevent" osteoporosis must now be reconsidered. The practice may be causing an epidemic of cardiovascula ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • ‘Staged’ tribal TV series spurs Ethical Code f ...
    Filmmakers have a responsibility to portray tribal people fairly. Ƃ© Survival Following the recent furore over the BBC and Travel ChannelĆ¢s Ć¢stagedĆ¢ tribal TV series, Survival International has released a code of practice for filmmakers working with tribal peoples (pdf, 983 KB). The guidel ...
  • Land at last for Paraguay Indians
    An Enxet child in Paraguay © Jonathan Mazower/Survival Almost 9,000 hectares of ancestral land has been returned to Enxet Indians in Paraguay, more than a decade after their campaign to reclaim it began. The Kelyenmagategma, a small community of Enxet Indians, had been forcibly evicted fro ...
  • Brazil bolsters security as ‘crisis situation’ ...
    The FUNAI base which was over-run by suspected drug traffickers. Ƃ© Maria Emƃ­lia Coelho/ Survival The Brazilian government says it will dispatch National Security Force agents to help protect a tribe of uncontacted Indians missing after drug traffickers attacked a government guard post. L ...
  • Persecution of Paraguay Indians exposed to UN
    Members of the Paraguayan Ayoreo-Totobiegosode group on the day they were contacted for the first time, in 2004. © GAT UN officials have been warned of the imminent threat against the lives of Paraguay’s last remaining uncontacted tribe ahead of their meeting today that will assess the coun ...
  • World marks UN indigenous day
    Chakma family from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. Members of the Jumma tribe are protesting in Brussels and Paris. © Mark McEvoy/Survival Survival, countless indigenous organizations and many countries around the world are marking the International Day of the World’s Indigenous ...

Montreal Gazette

  • A time for new ideas in Quebec politics
    Premier Jean Charest was right about one thing at last weekend's annual convention of the youth wing of the Quebec Liberal Party: Quebec is going through a period of partisan political splintering - "un mouvement de fractionnement," as he put it - that has given the Liberals the contrasting look ...
  • This is time to fix existing infrastructure, n ...
    In a welcome sign that the Quebec government has finally grasped it cannot keep spending like there's no tomorrow, Treasury Board President Michelle Courchesne has put the brakes on the ever-ballooning $665-million Train de l'est project.
  • The Gazette's view, in short
    The Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime was ushered in four years ago by the Harper government to serve as a "one-stop shop" for victims of crime seeking help. With a staff of nine and a yearly budget of $1.5 million, the office has issued a single report to date, for 2007-08.
  • Global economic crisis an opportunity for Canada
    Watching the turmoil in the financial markets this month has been like watching the proverbial other shoe drop. Toxic private debt in 2008 that was cleaned up through government bailouts and converted into public debt is now coming back to haunt us as scary sovereign debt.
  • We owe jurors our trust and juries our respect
    In two separate incidents, parents kill their children in strikingly similar circumstances, but jurors come to two entirely different conclusions. The question is: What does that say about the value of a jury trial?

Food World Order

  • how to: plan ahead to make buying in bulk pay off
    from ap: PORTLAND, Ore. -- Grocery shoppers will tell you that their bills are getting bigger from week to week. Many are already bargain hunting, buying store brands and using coupons for the best deals. But food prices are expected to rise further -- the USDA estimates that grocery prices will ...
  • monsanto preys on popularity of omega-3s with ...
    from natural news: Leave it to Monsanto to take a good thing and corrupt it for financial gain. According to a recent report in Forbes, the multinational biotechnology-slash-agriculture-manipulating monolith has developed a new genetically-modified (GM) soybean that artificially produces steari ...
  • 8/11 binge & purge: hunger thieves, blaming ba ...
    pilfered peppers in city gardens; tomatoes, too: community gardens find theft is a fact of life* more farmers markets mean more jobs* e. coli found in deer droppings in oregon strawberry patch linked to outbreak; 14 sick, 1 dead* human tooth found in hamburger in france*
  • michigan dumps 30k college students from food ...
    from foxnews: About 30,000 college students are getting a real-world lesson in economics after cash-hungry Michigan kicked them off of food stamps to save roughly $75 million per year. Under the new rules, only single moms and students who work 20 hours a week may be able to keep their benefits, ...
  • old media refuses to cover rawesome raid, avoi ...
    witness: govt agents stole $9k in cash during #rawesome raid* It is perhaps the biggest story of the year in terms of fundamental food rights, and yet with very few exceptions, old media (traditional newspapers and news outlets) has outright refused to even cover the story. In fact, NaturalNe ...

CrusadeWatch

  • 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 ...

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 16 Statistics Which Prove That The American Pe ...
    According to a whole host of polls and surveys, the American people are incredibly angry right now.  The American people are hopping mad at the government, the American people are hopping mad about the economy and the American people are hopping mad about the direction that this ...
  • 10 Signs That Economic Riots And Civil Unrest ...
    You should let the video footage of the wild violence that just took place in London burn into your memory because the same things are going to be happening all over the United States as the economy continues to crumble.  We have raised an entire generation of young people with ...
  • The Stock Market Crash Of 2011?
    How far does the stock market have to go down before we officially call it a crash?  The Dow is now down more than 2,000 points in just the last 14 trading days.  So can we now call this "The Stock Market Crash of 2011"?  Today the Dow was down 519 points.  Yesterday, an announc ...
  • The Federal Reserve Saves The Stock Market?
    The Federal Reserve has saved the stock market!  Well, at least for a day.  That was one heck of a "dead cat bounce" that we saw on Tuesday.  Normally, after the kind of dramatic decline that we saw on Monday there is some sort of a rebound, but on Tuesday the market did not beg ...
  • A 634 Point Stock Market Crash And 8 More Reas ...
    Are you ready for part two of the global financial collapse?  Many now fear that we may be on the verge of a repeat of 2008 after the events of the last several days.  On Friday, Standard & Poor's stripped the U.S. government of its AAA credit rating for the first time in histor ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • All political protest to now be banned in atte ...
    ...best analysis that we've heard. Agree with almost everything. Here's another not unrelated view: Elsewhere, one of our Twitter friends tipped us off about a story in the Telegraph. Turns out that the community spirited people who organised themselves to clean up after feral vermin looted a ...
  • Quote of the Day: 14th August 2011
    "To pillory a man for pointing out such a glaringly obvious cultural fact just because he’s white and right-wing would have been quite wrong even before the riots. Post riots it is positively obscene. Not just obscene, in fact, but dangerous. Of course, we expect the BBC not to get it. Like t ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 14th August 2011
    So, Sunday Paper Review. We'll try and get through this without too much mention of rioting, looting or David Starkey. How's that..? I think, though, that I may be at risk of needing hospital treatment for I sense I may be about to enter into a state of shock induced spasm so severe that my c ...
  • There can be no great 'conversation' about the ...
    After the carnage that we have all witnessed on our streets, the one hope for me was that the nation could rise like a phoenix, repair itself in the very flames that burned our cities and rise again - a stronger, wiser and more mature nation. If the last twenty-four hours have taught anybody ...
  • Save the Wandsworth One! (For Now)
    Those who read our blog during the riots will know what our position was on the verminous scum that ran amok on our streets, terrorising our communities - they are feral vermin and a cancer on our society. However, this country has a system of fair play in the way that we conduct our justice. ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Can Rick Perry govern?
    By Dave Mann, Texas Observer "With the support of my family and unwavering belief in the goodness of America, I declare to you today as a candidate for president of the United States."With those words, Gov. Rick Perry on Saturday ended years of speculation and made official what had become a ...
  • Video spotlights Koch brothers' role in N.C. s ...
    The role that the conservative billionaire Koch brothers' money has played in an ongoing fight over the re-segregation of public schools in one North Carolina community is the focus of a new video from Brave New Foundation, a progressive media organization based in California. The 11-minute vid ...
  • South lags in farmers markets
    This is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 12th annual National Farmers Market Week, an occasion to highlight the benefits of bringing affordable, healthy food closer to consumers. A new report released for the occasion shows that the South lags behind other regions in the number of farmers m ...
  • Report for Obama questions effectiveness of ga ...
    By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica In sharp contrast with gas industry portrayals, the draft report released yesterday by a federal panel on shale gas drilling explicitly acknowledges that current regulations may be insufficient to protect the environment and publi ...
  • Next low-wage haven: USA
    By Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes Jokes about the U.S. becoming "Europe's Mexico" are commonplace, but now high-priced consultants are pushing the notion in all seriousness. They're predicting that within five years certain Southern U.S. states will be among the cheapest manufacturing locati ...

CenterLine

  • 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 →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 5 Android Apps for Remotely Controlling Banshe ...
    Android Market is such an awesome place for exploring and finding new interesting stuff. On one such recent explorations, I discovered these great Android apps with which you will be able to remotely control major multimedia apps for Linux incuding Banshee, Amarok, VLC, XBMC and Boxee from y ...
  • Faenza Icon Theme 1.0 Released
    Faenza has always been my favourite icon theme for Ubuntu. We have had numerous posts on Faenza Icon theme before with some of them like this one here becoming hugely popular among our readers. Well the good news is, Faenza has just breached version 1.0. Faenza 1.0 adds a number of new ...
  • 8 Best CAD Apps for Linux
    Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology for the process of design and design-documentation.�But are there any good free CAD apps for Linux? Strangely, that is one of the questions we often receive in our mail. We will try to list not just the free CAD apps here, but als ...
  • 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 ...
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