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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 II

Case About Bird Flu

  • Why Alex Jones is right to condemn the UK rioters
    Alex Jones at Infowars has strongly condemned the actions of the UK rioters , and he is right to do so because we need consistency when it comes to applying moral standards. If we criticise the yob culture of the mega banks and demand prison sentences for the criminal banksters — a report on t ...
  • Plundering Arsonists Looters Are Criminals Not ...
    Infowars.com August 9, 2011 BlackBerry organized flash mobs bent on rampant property destruction, looting, robbery, arson and assault are not revolutionaries. They are plundering criminals. Check out the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoN-v2OmbFM&feature=player_embedded �
  • Claim: Youths Offered Money To Start Riots
    Violence in Leicester after “journalists” tried to pay off kids, according to Tweets Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Wednesday, August 10, 2011 As massive unrest plaguing the United Kingdom spread from London to other cities last night, claims emerged that individuals calling themselves journali ...
  • Bail-outs chip away at France and Germany too
    Investors have begun to question whether France and Germany can credibly underwrite the debts of southern Europe without losing their AAA ratings and succumbing to the crisis themselves. Non-EMU Sweden now enjoys cheaper borrowing than Germany.  By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 8:05PM BST 09 Aug 2011 ...
  • AAmbrose Evans-Pritchard: euro is ‘unsav ...
    � � Telegraph columnist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard tells Robert Miller why the single currency cannot work in its current form, and what he believes will happen to the eurozone next. � http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8691310/Ambrose-Evans-Pritchard-euro-is-unsaveable.html

Invisible Opportunity

  • Whores to the Right of Me, Whores to the Left ...
    By Les Visible Well, we’re back in the doldrums of the false Sea of Tranquility, near the Whores Latitudes and the boats are being pulled by whores, who spend their time dreaming about less arduous employment in the alleys near the dumpsters, where they used to ply their trade. Occasionally they ...
  • How Michele Bachmann Bought the Ames Straw Poll
    by Paul Krugman on August 14th, 2011 t1larg.strawpollgroup.gi Headlines on FoxNews, CNN, MSNBC, and all over the web should have been “Randy Travis Wins Ames Straw Poll Edging out Ron Paul” instead of headlines which touted Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s victory. Bachmann spent upwards of $1 m ...
  • Shaped Charges and the World Trade Center Coll ...
    Here’s what demolition experts use in steel framed buildings, the linear shaped charge … It generates around 3,000,000 psi pressure … at a speed in excess of 27,000 feet per second … There are over 1000 different types of explosive … With the use of delays we can control … where the debris lands ...
  • A 9/11 Challenge/Experiment
    This is just is a rough idea for an interesting but educational science project, a demonstration or maybe a challenge experiment – perhaps with real money involved – to prove a small but significant point about 9/11. 1. Take an ordinary kerosene burning lamp like the kind our grandparents used t ...
  • Why Does Mainstream Media Disrespect Ron Paul?
    By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Watching the Sunday talk shows and looking at the reporting from this weekend’s Republican straw poll, you would not think that Congressman Ron Paul even participated in the event. Paul came in a very close second to Representative Michele Bachmann in a field of ...

Veterans Today

  • They Died in Vain; Deal With It
    “If they ask you why we died, tell them because our fathers lied.” The Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) can be expected to beat a steady drumbeat of “they shall not have died in vain. But they did. I know it is a hard truth, but they did die in vain.
  • Texas man making dangerous voyage to site of 1 ...
    At the site, Toenjes will be holding a memorial service honoring those killed on the USS Liberty by the Israeli military. by Col. Ann Wright (Ret.)
  • How Navy Secretary Lehman’s Maritime Str ...
    Trowbridge H. Ford The disappearance of President Reagan’s Navy Secretary John F. Lehman, Jr. from the American political scene after he apparently resigned on February 16, 1987, was the greatest mystery until recently. The high-flying, flamboyant youngster, still in his forties, seemed destined ...
  • To borrow an old quote we must say to Washingt ...
    A simple plan to the budget cuts - Follow what the private sector has had to do
  • Congressional Junkets to Israel
    Eighty-one House members, one fifth of the chamber, will visit Israel during the traditional summer recess, instead of addressing festering local issues at home during the nation's gravest economic crisis too serious to ignore.

electric politics

  • Debt Doldrums
    Barack Obama and John Boehner probably worked out most of it over golf. What political theater! And why is it you never hear of Nancy Pelosi on the links? To talk about the so-called "debt ceiling" crisis I turned to Charles Tiefer, a former General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, ...
  • The Art of Courage
    A little voice in your conscience tells you something. You listen. You start to think maybe you're right and everybody else is wrong. You do something about it. Next thing you know you're in a life and death struggle against evil forces bent on world domination. Well, maybe that's a slight exag ...
  • The Wild Dollar
    Because the public hasn't had what's happening properly reported, the Republicans think that, in the debt ceiling standoff, they can trample democratic norms and perhaps even go so far as to trigger another collapse of the world economy. What a bizarre strategy to pursue (supposedly) on behalf ...
  • Göbekli Tepe
    At what point does an original idea engender action? And to what extent does that action set a lasting course? We can examine the social history of an idea, written, as it were, in stone, at G�bekli Tepe, an archeological site approximately 11,500 years old (or perhaps even older) in southern T ...
  • The Athenian Zephyr
    Neoliberal bankers wants to turn the Greek public into chattel. The Greek public objects. It's a theoretically long-predicted fork in the road for the European Union: either Greece defaults (it could have been any one of certain member states) and the European debt crisis spreads — possibly/pro ...

PR News

  • Fenton launches in-house video unit
    NEW YORK: Fenton Communications, a public-interest communications agency, recently launched a new division called Fenton Studios, which will create in-house video content for clients.
  • Provimi to retain brand name after Cargill deal
    MINNEAPOLIS: The Provimi brand will retain its name following Monday's announcement that Cargill will acquire the global animal nutrition business from private equity firm Permira for $2.1 billion.
  • Makovsky adds two to health practice
    NEW YORK: Makovsky & Company expanded its healthcare practice with two new additions: Arielle Bernstein as VP, and Elaine Andrecovich as account supervisor.
  • DKC named AOR for beauty retailer Ulta
    BOLINGBROOK, IL: DKC Public Relations has been named AOR for consumer publicity for Ulta, a national beauty retail company.
  • Journal Register Company names new editor-in-chief
    YARDLEY, PA: Local news provider Journal Register Company has appointed Jim Brady to the new role of editor-in-chief, in which he will oversee news coverage and the company's newsgathering operations.

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.  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”?   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?   By Dr. Truess (rhymes with Suess). Who’s who in the “patriot” zoo?  It’s so full of worms and primordial goo – MY – what can one do? Watch your step, cause there’s lots of bad pooh – smelly stuff that will stick on your shoe! There’s Turner, and Jones, and [...]

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • AT&T Says It Will Call Me Back About Bill Disp ...
    Consumerist reader Sam says he cancelled his AT&T service on June 8. But when he got the bill a few weeks later, it hadn't been prorated and was demanding payment for the entire month. Little did Sam know that his attempt to dispute an obvious billing error would land him in the hands of a coll ...
  • Google Adds To Tablet & Smartphone Business Wi ...
    Software giant Google announced this morning its intention to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings, the smartphone and tablet arm of Motorola, for $12.5 billion, or $40 per share--a 63-percent premium over Friday's closing price for Motorola stock. The announced buyout--the largest ever made by Goog ...
  • Ball Park & Oscar Mayer Square Off In Court Ov ...
    "Let the wiener wars begin." That's what a judge in a legal battle between the nation's two biggest hot dog brands declared earlier today, as the makers of Oscar Mayer and Ball Park franks each accused the other of misleading and deceptive advertising practices. Lawyers for Ball Park's parent ...
  • This Best Buy Bundle Is Greater Than The Sum O ...
    Reader Kevin was flipping through the online version of the latest Best Buy circular when he stumbled upon the car charger/headphone/iPod Touch case bundle seen here for a total of $29.97, a purported savings of $42. Which would be nice, except for the fact that you can save even more by actua ...
  • Starbucks Shuts Down Jonathan's Card Over Frau ...
    The Jonathan's Card social experiment is over. The experiment proved that someone will always come along and ruin anything that's fun. Since July, the entire world has shared one Starbucks stored-value payment and rewards card, which originally belonged to a guy named Jonathan. People from all ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Why the New Healthcare Law Should Have Been Ba ...
    Two appellate judges in Atlanta — one appointed by President Bill Clinton and one by George H.W. Bush – have just decided the Constitution doesn’t allow the federal government to require individuals to buy health insurance. The decision is a major defeat for the White House. The so-called “indiv ...
  • “The Help”
    Opening August 10 in theaters nationwide, the Tate Taylor directed film âThe Help,â based on Mississippi-born Kathryn Stockettâs #1 New York Times best-selling novel of the same name, is a must see. According to Amy Kaufman, writing in the August 12 Los Angeles Times, those who saw the film, â…g ...
  • ChemTrail Droppings: Toxic Metals and Chemical ...
    The existence of an unusual type of aerial activity, generally termed Chemtrails, has been reported for many years now. While it is scientifically accepted that normal contrails may persist for hours and spread, Chemtrails are widely debated, said to differ in their configuration from contrails, ...
  • Best of ThePoliticalCarnival.net – Bachmann Co ...
    Michele Bachmann Wins Iowa Straw Poll Via a Politico email alert, but only because we have to keep you informed. This was a ridiculous event to which cable “news” gave way too much breathless coverage: Michele Bachmann has been named the winner of the Iowa straw poll, taking 4,823 votes out of n ...
  • You Always Have a Choice
    Guest Column by Chris Gelken, CEO, Ridealist Let me preface this with: The world doesn’t owe you anything. And if you think it does, you are in for a crushing disappointment. You think you can rely on people? Your closest family perhaps – at a stretch. But outside of that, you are on your own. ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Is this Australia’s Tea-Party Moment?
    Tomorrow, a road convoy will set off from Port Hedland in Western Australia for a journey across the country. Two more convoys will leave Perth and Cairns on Thursday. By the end of this week, 11 convoys will be in motion, all heading to a single convergence point next Monday. This is the ”convo ...
  • Stop the Environment
    More evidence of the backlash against the dominant Green-memes. (There’s a rich field of possibilities there for the taking.) Funny or Die do a pretty good job. UPDATE:  hilariously I hear, these are “warmer” personalities, thanks Bananabender and Curt, but if they thought they were poking fun ...
  • We reclaimed the word Skeptic — next we reclai ...
    It’s hard to believe, but not long ago, people used to write to me to tell me not to use the word “skeptic” telling me it had a bad name. “Use the word realist” they said. But I wasn’t going to let the forces of darkness get away with destroying the English language. I’m proud [...]
  • David Archibalds Speech — plus protests coming up
    Monday 15th at Tanya Plibersekâs office, Sydney 12 noon – 2pm. 150 Broadway. The Minister for Doomsday. Tuesday August 16th 2011 Parliament House Canberra 12 noon. Details here August 22nd The Convoy of No Confidence arrives in Canberra. See Just Grounds for details. (Get the petitions in the po ...
  • The money – you earn it, they print it. Welcom ...
    Ladies and gentlemen, it’s obvious (to anyone who knows there’s no free lunch) that one way or another this Festival of Funny Money was going to end in tears. And so it flows… but let’s not forget what lead us to this, the problem that lies under all others. The government can print (base) money ...

ReNew America

  • RenewAmerica columnist Marielena Stuart announ ...
    (Marielena Stuart) - I love America. My adopted country opened its doors to me and my family so that we could walk into the greatness of its freedom and its founding values. Every time I look at our beautiful flag and place my hand over my heart for the Pledge of Allegiance and sing our National ...
  • The war habit: What are we doing in Libya?
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - So how are things going for us in Libya? What's the latest? Haven't heard? Neither have I. That must mean things are going to hell in a rocket-ship, because with Obama in the White House, the media have accorded the silent treatment to any bad news on that war front. W ...
  • Perry, Bachmann blast Obama in Iowa 'shootout'
    (NewsMax) - The appearances of Rep. Michele Bachmann and Gov. Rick Perry on the same stage in Waterloo, Iowa, Sunday evening were billed as the "shootout at the O.K. Corral," but the target for the two Republican candidates was President Barack Obama instead of each other...
  • Savage and the fall of the U.K.
    (Joseph Farah) - It's been more than two years since Britain banned entry to American talk-radio phenom Michael Savage, along with a short list of terrorists, neo-Nazis murderers and other vile scum. It was in May 2009 that the British government released a list of 16 persona non grata -- banned ...
  • To reform immigration, legal and illegal
    (Mark Krikorian) - Members of the chattering classes keep hoping the immigration issue will just go away. I was once interviewed on a radio show along with an activist on the other side who said Mexico's falling birthrate would mean that pretty soon we'd be scratching our heads wondering what al ...

Truth Offering

  • The Bilderberg Conference, 2011 - St. Moritz, ...
    If you frequent this site, you've likely heard of the Bilderberg group; a cadre of the world's most wealthy and powerful men and women who decend upon some, often remote, location each year. The reason they're called the "Bilderberg Group" is because their first-ever meeting in 1954, took place ...
  • Original Music Created for TruthOffering.com b ...
    Talented singer and musician Chris Phenom has created two tracks for TruthOffering.com, and we want to share them with you. Chris's tracks feature some amazing lyrics that relate directly to what we're trying to get at here at TruthOffering.com: the Truth! Listen to what he has to say, and check ...
  • Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
    It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, ...
  • US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom ...
    The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic f ...
  • Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
    1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the ...

2012 Blog

  • Rennes-Le-Chateau, Bugarach and 2012
    I’ve been reporting over at 2012 News about Bugarach (France), where many 2012ers and UFO fans are allegedly gathering. So many in fact that the mayor of the small village has complained, and a government ...Rennes-Le-Chateau, Bugarach and 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:New ...
  • Rennes-Le-Chateau, Bugarach and 2012
    I’ve been reporting over at 2012 News about Bugarach (France), where many 2012ers and UFO fans are allegedly gathering. So many in fact that the mayor of the small village has complained, and a government ...Rennes-Le-Chateau, Bugarach and 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:New ...
  • Ancient Tunnel Network
    I need to buy the book, for this report from the Daily Mail makes it hard to assess whether there truly was a network (from Scotland to Turkey), or if people in various places just ...Ancient Tunnel Network is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Mammoth and Rhino in Ancient Scotland Tun ...
  • Coming Soon: Take Shelter
    Take Shelter is a new independent movie that was screened at Sundance, Cannes (where it won two prizes) and just recently the Melbourne International Film Festival, where I caught it. This is quite possibly the ...Coming Soon: Take Shelter is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Bunker Gu ...
  • DNA Comes From Outer Space
    I’m a fan of panspermia, particularly the idea the mushroom spores traveled to Earth and gave humans a little extra something. The concept was given a real boost this week with news that components of ...DNA Comes From Outer Space is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Where did we come ...

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 ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • On Empire’s “Sons of a Bitch” and Their Fate
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said either about the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza (Senior), or about the Dominican tyrant Trujillo: âHe may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitchâ. It has become a usual strategy for the US to place a stake on this category of associates in international ...
  • “Black” Month of United Kingdom – ...
    The violent events held the United Kingdom continues to take front page news around the world. Faced with real urban guerrilla groups, the authorities are striving to keep things under control. Thousands of extra police officers flooded into London Wednesday in a bid to end Britain’s worst rioti ...
  • Riots in Britain: Back to the Future
    Exactly thirty years ago Brixton exploded with rage against the de facto occupation of Brixton by the Met police. And, as I write this, all kinds of madness is going down in various parts of London and elsewhere. The Scarman Report was one of the most influential reports in postwar Britain, yet ...
  • Can We Rule Out a New Pearl Harbour?
    Most people have heard of Pearl Harbor, especially after the Hollywood movie of the same name came out. Yes, The film in which the charming Kate Beckinsale plays nurse Evelyn Johnson. But I’m sure you’re familiar with that blockbuster. Everybody in Hollywood seems to drink, smoke, snort a few, g ...
  • Who Needs A Crisis in Kosovo?
    A new round of tensions in Kosovo recently grew out of a âtrade warâ at the border of the breakaway province. Formally, the conflict can be traced back to Pristina’s July 20 decision to ban imports from Serbia, a step supposed to mirror the position taken by Belgrade which does not recognize Kos ...

BlogHer

  • (VIDEO) Start Your Day With a Happiness Prescr ...
    Question:� What do you do to get your day going on an upbeat, positive note? Short Answer:� Adopting my quick, easy and fun four-minute morning routine will help you build a happiness pra ...
  • Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words
    Her assignment as a young freelance journalist wasn’t exactly telling of her talent or eventual influence. A piece on textured stockings. “I’m not sure I knew what feminism was,” says Gloria Steinem in “Gloria: In Her Own Words,”the one-hour HBO documentary about her remarkable life. I guess she ...
  • It's Resurrect Romance Week
    In the 90s, relationship issues author Michael Webb faced an issue many of us who write about love have grappled with at some time or other: Valentine’s Day. This holiday, while full of good intention, was created by companies who stood to gain a lot from people who purchased their products to ...
  • Show & Tell: NieNie Asks -- Are You Ready for ...
    It's almost that time -- school. Are you ready? How have you prepared -- or not prepared -- for school this year? I want to know! Leave a comment or a photo and show me.
  • Welcome to a Month of Photo Tips on BlogHer!
    I am the world's worst photographer. I'm not being self-deprecating. I really am. And I'm over it. Being utterly unable to record my memories at this year's BlogHer hobbled me -- personally and professionally. Also: Humiliating. THIS is my absolute best BlogHer '11 pic. Yeah, I can't tell tha ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • rBGH Milk: Cruelty, GM Hormones & E. Coli
    rBGH Milk Production: Animal Cruelty, Genetically Modified Hormones and E. Coli By contributing author, Brandon Turbeville With the current controversy surrounding the government crackdown on wholesome, organic, and locally produced milk, it is important to understand the products we ...
  • Cancer Research For 10 Yrs Useless: Fraud, Say ...
    Cancer Research of 10 Years Useless: Fraudulent Studies, Says Mayo Clinic JAMA’s editor calls fraudulent medical research a ‘scar on the moral body of science’. But it’s really just part of an entire system of fraud ...
  • Proposed Rule On Farms Called ‘Absurd’
    The Federal Department of Transportation is pushing for a move to require anyone on a farming operation to obtain commercial drivers licenses to use typical farming equipment. “If the DOT reclassifies farm vehicles and implements ...
  • Stink Bugs Return In Greater Force
    Experts are warning that the fall stink bug plague is returning with a vengeance; this time as unwelcome house guests. They are not known to carry disease but they do bite, cause massive crop damage, are ...
  • Why We Must Forgive If We Are Ever To Heal
    Forgiveness is growing as a healing tool across all spectra of faith and medicine. Although Oxford defines it as a pardon, new researchers are quick to intercede that forgiveness is not a full dismissal, condoning ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Another W.Va. coal miner dies on the job
    This just in from the West Virginia Office of Miners Health, Safety and Training: The West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training confirms a fatality occurred this morning at Mingo Logan Coal Company Mountaineer II Mine in Logan County. The accident occurred before 7 a.m. this mo ...
  • Mixed narrative: More on CNN and Blair Mountain
    Whethe It’s been more interesting to watch the reactions to CNN’s highly-promoted piece on Blair Mountain and mountaintop removal than it was to watch the show itself. Initially, some environmental groups — especially Appalachian Voices — were promoting the heck out of this show. Many folks I he ...
  • Friday roundup, Aug. 12, 2011
    The helmet of Chilean miner Carlos Barrios is seen on display during a press preview for the “Against All Odds” exhibition commemorating the rescue of 33 Chilean miners, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) The big, h ...
  • Bee Tree public hearing: Does WVDEP listen to ...
    W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection official Greg Demyan talks to citizens during a public hearing earlier this week. Gazette Photo by Ken Ward Jr. PETTUS, W.Va. — Darrell O’Brien of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection was pointing to the large mining maps taped to ...
  • New CNN survey shows again that most Americans ...
    There’s a new public opinion survey out this morning from CNN and ORC International that concludes: Fifty-seven percent of respondents in a CNN/ORC survey released Thursday say they oppose the controversial mining process, in which a mountain is blasted apart and the debris deposited in nearby v ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The Ultimate Bash Prompt
    I just installed Lion and decided to do a refresh on my Bash prompt. After an hour of research and tinkering this is what I ended up with. It not only displays user, host, and directory information in a nicely color-coded manner, but it also gives git information. Here’s the code at Pastie. And ...
  • A Clean Blog Design
    Related PostsHow to Mention Your Ph.DBlue Bottle Coffee Web DesignNew Twitter Background27bslash6.comThe Power of PosterousGoogle Tasks Chrome ExtensionUsing Twitter Search to Find Interesting People to Follow
  • Introduction to Databases – Stanford University
    A bold experiment in distributed education, “Introduction to Databases” will be offered free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011. Students will have access to lecture videos, receive regular feedback on progress, and receive answers to questions. When you successfully comple ...
  • BeEF’s Metasploit Plugin
    via youtube.com Thanks to @jhaddix for posting this. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe Known UniverseâªDu Hast as a Cappellaâ¬âBob’s Burgers SkitWhy Fight Religion?Google+ Circles ExplainedâªHitchens on the Catholic ChurchSam Harris Answers Reddit’s Questions
  • Crime & Punishment Through The Ages
    via laurennicoleroth.tumblr.com Thanks to Lauren for this link. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsIf San Francisco Crime were Elevation | Doug McCuneThe Ideal American Business ModelHipster SharksWhy do apps from the same company look worse on Android than on iPho ...

Fitwatch

  • Don’t Panic: Don’t Talk
    The Met today released another 44 photos of people they want to 'talk to'. The pictures are often of poor quality, and many of the 'targets' are masked up. The police have little chance of identifying many of these without help. The information printed above has been distributed around London, b ...
  • The reason why the youth hate the police
    This brilliant video appeared on youtube, and has also been published on the Police State UK site. It really shows the sort of mind-set the police have. I'd guess that a lot of people will recognise that arrogant, petty and vindictive attitude. The cops appear to be Forest Gate, and as far as I ...
  • This is what ‘robust’ policing loo ...
    The video shows a unit of Manchester riot police baton, punch and kick three youths on push bikes. The police carrying on kicking and punching them even when they are on the ground. Is this the sort of 'robust' policing that David Cameron and the politicians of all parties have been clamouring for?
  • A fitwatcher’s view of the riots
    I’ve felt a lot of emotions over the past few days ranging from joy to grief to anger. It’s been amazing to see people fighting back against the police and it’s been equally horrific to see damage to people’s homes and small shops, let alone the deaths in Birmingham yesterday. However, today I a ...
  • Police place emphasis on corporate property pr ...
    Cars were burned and local businesses attacked in Hackney last night, in the third night of rioting in London. Local residents could only watch as their vehicles were smashed and torched, and in some cases homes were also damaged. Local businesses were also attacked and looted. The local communi ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • New Website Targets Teachers and Students to S ...
    artdaily.org – WASHINGTON, D.C.- Developed in collaboration with the Akwesasne Mohawk of northern New York, the Campo Kumeyaay Nation of southern California, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe of northern Minnesota and the Lummi Nation of Washington state, the Smithsonianâs National Museum of the Ame ...
  • The Wretched “War on Terror” and t ...
    By Adnan Al-Daini,OpEdNews – The wretched “war on terror” has led to the invention of phrases and rebranding of nasty illegal practices, in a cynical way to circumvent the rule of law, with the English language stretched to the point where words began to take on new more sinister meanings. Peopl ...
  • The wall that divided the world
    euronews.net - Work began on the Berlin Wall on 13 August, 1961. Once completed, it would measure 155 kilometres and become one of the most rigorously fortified borders in the world. At least 136 people died in the 28 years that the Wall split the German capital. After the Second World War, two ...
  • Tar Sands pipeline could be ‘game over&# ...
    uuworld.org- In late August, Barbara Ford will cross the country from her home in Portland, Ore., with several other members of that city’s First Unitarian Church. They’re headed for Washington, D.C., to participate in a large public witness event calling attention to the threat of global climat ...
  • Hippie TV News and Stuff w/Winston Smith and t ...
    Weekly news video from Worldwide Hippies In Depth News with a Difference. A Little Truth From Winston Smith. Eyes On Activism; PEnolan reports from the Big Apple each week. Commentary from Dr. Woody This week;Judge watching , PE NOLAN has a report, A commentary from Dr, woody, our Asshole of the ...

reference frame

  • Australia: convoy of no confidence
    The people of Australia had been annoyed by the pissing contests between Melbourne and Sydney - both of which had the potential to become the capital of the continent - so they built Canberra as a compromise. Meanwhile, a completely new political species has evolved in Canberra - ...
  • PBS: The Fabric of the Cosmos
    Brian Greene's first popular book, The Elegant Universe, has been a bestseller and PBS/NOVA shot a $3.5 million TV program with the same name. His second popular book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, was also successful. So a natural next step is to shoot a PBS/NOVA program with the same nam ...
  • Ex-alarmist Pawlenty ends presidential campaign
    In the morning, I suffered from one of my bad habits - visiting the blog of Capitalist Imperialist Pig, something that I have done many times since the first moments when the anonymous far left alarmist anti-string New Mexico professor began to attack your humble correspondent on a regular ...
  • Thorium nuclear power plant in your car
    Update: Anthony is telling me that a story about the Tucker cars at the end of his blog entry shows that he reposted the report about the thorium cars as a kind of satire, and I kind of believe him after some e-mail exchanges, even though I am sure that he understands that it was very likel ...
  • First Prague "gay pride"
    The second largest city of Czechia, Brno, has already survived its first "gay pride" (even though it did lead to some battles). However, today's happening was the first time when the march came to the Czech capital. Czech President Václav Klaus's aide, Mr Petr Hájek - a creationi ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Rachel Corrie 5th Grade Speech I’m here becaus ...
      Uploaded by theevilofthezionists on Sep 19, 2008 Rachel Corrie, a true hero was murdered by the State of Israel. Rachel Corrie was killed by the state of Israel, and by its brutal regime that practices not only ‘mass punishment’ but also ‘ethnic cleansing’. The same regime that has displaced o ...
  • Nobel Prize Winning Economist Paul Krugman’s c ...
    A lot of people consider Paul Krugman world-renowned for his economic insight; but in reality he is just another New World Order stooge. Here he is live on CNN touting the use of a fake alien invasion to help boost the economy. Believe it or not, he is right. Think about how it would mobilize [. ...
  • Reuters and Incest – Screwing America through ...
    A well written article that describes exactly what is wrong with America. You are controlled by Corporate Fascist Thugs and here is yet one more example: Reuters Edits Iowa Poll Reality According to Globalist Agenda Or how Reuters slit its legitimacy’s wrists. an editorial by Tony Cartalucci Oft ...
  • This could be the next President of the United ...
    Hmmm I don’t know whether to go eat or masturbate or do both. This is the first time that a potential Presidential Candidate has turned me on. Pass the mustard – Hold the mayo! From ZeroHedge: Bachmann Wins Ames Straw Poll With 29% Of Vote, Ron Paul Takes Second With 28% Submitted by Tyler Durde ...
  • ‘Preppers’ stock up on guns’n'gear as financia ...
    So the government says that these type of people are terrorists. Have you ever noticed that the government is developing a pattern of labeling anyone who is ‘awake’ as a terrorist? Why is that? They do not like it that we have their global Ponzi scheme of death and fear figured out. Have a nice ...

Truth About Our World

  • The Activities at Mena – MENA is no myth!
    From:  http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/mena.php “If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.”   – George Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter     George Bush with legendary CIA agent Felix Rodrigu ...
  • Food Matters
    A “New” Approach to Health from Jamie Simko on Vimeo.
  • FIRST YOU`VE GOT TO GET MAD
  • The Israeli Awakening?
  • Real American History that’s NOT in Hist ...
    � How to KILL your STRAWMAN and be truly FREE! (Part 1) -         Steve Beckow From: http://nexusilluminati.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-kill-your-strawman-and-be-truly.html You see, I�ve been studying the law: constitutional, maritime, Universal Commercial Code (UCC), common law, etc, and I am a ...

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley

Enviroblog

  • DOE fracking report states obvious, little else
    By Shannon Morgan, EWG legal assistant, and Alex Rindler, EWG Government Affairs Assistant People across the country are rightly concerned about natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing near their homes. Thanks to new technologies, the exploitation... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Cancer: Belatedly, Environmental Causes Get th ...
    By Justine Chow and Feifei Li, EWG Research Assistants In discussions of the causes of cancer, environmental exposures have long been the unloved stepchild. But that's changing. For decades, most cancer researchers focused on genetics, diet, smoking and... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • California and Hawaii Lead the Way on Chromium ...
    By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist On July 27, 2011, the state of California put in place a strong, first-in-the-nation, health-based safety goal for hexavalent chromium (or chromium-6), the "Erin Brockovich" chemical, in drinking water. This... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • On Fracking: Now, Cracks in the Façade
    By LeeAnn Brown, EWG Press Secretary Imagine, if you can: Nearly overnight, your water well begins producing slimy, off-color foul smelling and worse tasting water. It's unusable. You can't drink it. You can't bathe in it. You can't wash dishes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • GAO Flunks Some States on Tap Water Quality Mo ...
    By Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A new report from the Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, shows that a number of states have made serious errors in tap... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Mark Sanchez once said he once wanted to fight ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • The amazing, pathetic, must-see outrage of Rob ...
    Like many of today's action stars, the post–World War II actor Robert Ryan was defined by his physique. His sunken, beady eyes, pronounced brow and heavy bags under his eyes gave him a simian appearance. That animalistic quality is the cornerstone of Ryan’ ...
  • A replacement for the "Ground Zero cross" is i ...
    “When you’re tall, you’re allowed to cry a little bit,” Jon Krawczyk said Thursday night as he stood on a downtown sidewalk before the newly installed cross at St. Peter’s Church. “How do you create something to replace something so beautiful? That cross w ...
  • 'Rent' goes up again off-Broadway, this time a ...
    In 1996 the landmark rock musical about AIDS was remarkable for how well it reflected downtown life at the time. (Hold the snark about how much grittier it really was downtown. We’re talking about Broadway, where a stage adaptation of Big mounted the same ...
  • 'News' gets Levi Aron while the 'Post' plays w ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More

Views & News from Norway

  • Roads and rails under water again
    The unrelenting rains of the summer of 2011 continue to flood and wash away local roads and a major highway in southern Norway, as well as force closure once again of a key passenger- and cargo train line. Transport engineers say they’ve never seen anything like the water damage caused over the ...
  • Two killed in bus-car crash
    Two persons were killed and two injured when a bus collided with a car on the E16 highway near Bolstad in Hordaland County, western Norway, late Monday afternoon. Police said the accident occurred near the Vassenda tunnel between Bergen and Voss. There were 26 passengers plus the driver on the b ...
  • Statoil finds more oil in North Sea
    Norwegian state-controlled oil company Statoil announced Tuesday that its latest discovery in the North Sea can be even bigger than officials thought when it was first made public earlier this month. It could end up as one of the 10 largest oil discoveries ever on the Norwegian continental shelf ...
  • Still in mourning, but on the job
    Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has had to shift focus from world affairs to tragedies at home since terror struck Norway on July 22, but he’s been out traveling again for talks with, among others, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He also appears keen to share what he’s learned after we ...
  • A-ha reunites for memorial concert
    The only Norwegian band ever to have been top of the charts in the USA, A-ha, will reunite for one time only to play at a special memorial concert for those killed in the Oslo bombing and Utøya shootings. A-ha, famous for their worldwide hit “Take on Me,” had retired after a world tour at [...]

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Human-Empowered, Enlightened, and Energized Tr ...
    by Brad Lancaster Years ago at a red light I looked into the car beside me and saw the frowning driver’s hair blowing into the back seat as though she were leaning into a mighty storm. But her windows were up. The gale was coming from her air conditioner — on a beautiful day when an [...]
  • Yacon Syrup
    by Zaia Kendall We had an over-abundant supply of yacon that had to be harvested. Yacon (also known as ground apple) grows very easy in our (sub-tropical) climate — one plant produces many rhizomes for division and re-planting. It needs very little attention when in the ground and Tom is of the ...
  • USDA Abdicates GMO Oversight and Welcomes Roun ...
    Editor’s Note: Just as we’re learning a great deal more about the dangers of Roundup, Monsanto’s glyphosate herbicide, the U.S. government is bringing us Roundup Ready lawns for our children to play on…. The US Dept of Agriculture just dropped a bomb on GMO regulations in America. Their announc ...
  • Raging Storms and Rising Seas Swelling the Ran ...
    by Lester R. Brown In late August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approached the U.S. Gulf Coast, more than 1 million people were evacuated from New Orleans and the small towns and rural communities along the coast. Once the storm passed, it was assumed that the million or so Katrina evacuees would, ...
  • US GMO Farmers = Corporate Serfs, and the Atta ...
    The video above — Farmer to Farmer: The Truth About GM Crops — narrated by UK farmer Michael Hart, tells us that U.S. GMO farmers are not necessarily GMO farmers out of choice any more. The seeds cost too much, the chemicals cost too much, and they now need to use a lot [...]

Pointman's

  • London’s burning, an alternative viewpoint.
    You know what you do when one or two hundred kids in hoodies turn up in your high street and start looting it? Nothing. Thatâs what you do because youâre helpless. Thereâs only one of you and the police force you trusted are nowhere in sight. Yes, youâve called them but youâre just another one … ...
  • I’m not a scientist but …
    For a number of reasons, having âmade my bonesâ in permanent employment, the rest of my career would be termed freelance. I deliver measured amounts of expertise for clients of my choosing in the areas in which I know I operate well. The point is, you have to step out of your comfort zone and … ...
  • On murderous madmen.
    The tragic events of last week in Norway do give you pause for thought. How could anyone do that and especially to defenseless young people? Does it say something about us all? Are we all capable of doing something like that? The answer is no and thatâs not just my subjective opinion, itâs a fac ...
  • You gotta have a sense of humour …
    You look at stuff and you wonder. Maybe you donât, maybe a lot of people donât, maybe they never do. Well, I do. I suppose itâs just me being an awkward cuss but at this stage in the game, Iâm pretty reconciled to that. You are what you are, so just chaw down and get … Read more
  • Words of wisdom from the Goracle of Helpme.
    Alâs fallen on hard times. Long gone are the days of the $100,000 appearance fee at speaking engagements. Most of that all went into that Chicago Carbon Exchange thingy which didnât turn out to be such a smart investment after all. Anyway, you canât keep a good man down so heâs working on a come ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Noose Hanging Outside High School in Northern ...
    From a US Department of Justice press release: The Justice Department today announced that three men were charged for their role in intentionally attempting to intimidate and interfere with African-American students who were attending Beekman Junior High School in Beekman, Morehouse Parish, ...
  • Groups Ask Court to Remove Individuals Convict ...
    From our friends at Center for Constitutional Rights: Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie, Esq., the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Law Clinic, and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP argued in federal court for a r ...
  • Why I Was Willing to be Arrested on the Gulf C ...
    The day before yesterday, on August 4, 2011, one year after the President of our United States stood on national television and said that 75% of the oil that had spewed into our Gulf was gone, I was booked into the New Orleans Parish Police lock-up with the charge of criminal trespassing. ...
  • Danziger Officers Found Guilty - Statements of ...
    Statement of Lance Madison I am thankful to have some closure after six long years of struggling for justice. I am most grateful to my family, and especially my brother Romell. Without the support and hard work of my family, I might still be in prison on false charges, and the truth about ...
  • Three Arrested in BP Protest in Downtown New O ...
    Yesterday, more than 75 people protested BP's continued negligence in the Gulf. Chanting, "The oil's still here, and so are we!" the group was protesting a lack of clean-up and recovery. Activist Cherri Foytlin informed the group that state police had said they could not approach the entrance to ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." Edward Gibbon, English historian (1737-1794) From: "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" http://www.tomatobubble.com/fh1.html 1763 Mayer Amschel Rothschild establishes the Rothschild ...
  • False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
    Juliet Buck: Osama Bin Laden - The U.S. Of Empire’s Middle Eastern Boogey Man (RADICAL SAHM) Submitted by Rob Williams on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 12:09pm. You know how you watch CSI and you point and laugh and roll your eyes at the rank silliness of all the 72” LCD touch screens, rotating hologra ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    David Livingstone - 02/02 - Kabbalah, Mystery Religions, World Conspiracy -- JoBloSho iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHsQc6MyhoA Synagogue of Satan part 1 iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yHLQ2UNqz0 The Truth Behind the "Star of David" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPFn76 ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Buchanan used to report for a St. Louis Globe Democrat back in the 1960s-70s. I'm sure he sees the J-Tribe behind it all... --------- Multiculturalism has "utterly failed," said Germany's Angela Merkel, only to be echoed by Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron… hmm The Fire This Time—Pat Buc ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    related: ----------- Immigration - Poverty In America By Frosty Wooldridge 8-15-11 While attending a conference in Denver, Colorado, I noticed dozens of beggars on the streets. They stood at intersections carrying cardboard signs that read, "Homeless, anything will help, God bless." As I ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • New MIT Battery Design Could Double Range of E ...
    Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a new battery technology that they say would significantly reduce the size of electric car battery Dominick Reuter/MIT“Cambridge crude” systems and potentially double the range of electric vehicles. The technology uses a ty ...
  • Israel Expands Desalination; Study Touts New S ...
    Israel has announced plans to build a $423 million (1.5 billion shekel) desalination plant in the Mediterranean coastal city of Ashdod that officials say will provide 100 million cubic meters of water annually, or about 15 percent of the nation’s drinking water needs. When completed in 2013, the ...
  • Emissions from Tar Sands Will Dwarf Carbon Cut ...
    Carbon dioxide emissions from the exploitation of Alberta’s tar sands will far outweigh emissions reductions in other sectors of Canada’s economy and will be a major contributor to the country missing As Alberta’s Tar Sands Boom, Foes Target Project’s LifelinesExploiting North America’s larges ...
  • Effects of Texas Drought Could Be Felt for Yea ...
    Scientists predict the effects of a historic one-year drought in Texas could have profound ecological impacts that will be felt for years to come. Only about six inches of rain have fallen since January, compared with a norm Getty Images of about 13 inches, making it the worst recorded drough ...
  • China’s Nuclear Power Plans Unfazed by Fukushi ...
    In the wake of the Fukushima meltdowns, some nations are looking to move away from nuclear power. But not China, which is proceeding with plans to build 36 reactors over the next decade. Now some experts are questioning whether China can safely operate a host of nuclear plants. BY DAVID BIELLO

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Britain gropes for solutions
    The images of burning buildings and looting of shops that took place between Aug. 5 and 9 in parts of London and other major cities, including Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool, have rightly made the English people ashamed. The damage caused has been serious and some families have lost their ...
  • Why do Japanese advertisers suggest Internet-s ...
    It seems that everywhere you look in Japan these days, printed advertising has Internet-style "search buttons" somewhere in the design, with Japanese text inside a box indicating the term to be searched. And many TV commercials end with a short phrase "such and such de kensaku" ("search on the I ...
  • Ten ways to reduce America's budget deficit
    It's true: Deficit reduction isn't an economic panacea. It won't instantly boost the economy or the stock market. It won't automatically end financial turmoil. But none of this means that we should ignore deficits. Allowing the government's debt to spiral upward tempts a full-blown future financ ...
  • ASEAN faces a Chinese dilemma
    As the United States and Europe struggle with heavy debts and weak growth, China increasingly powers the expansion of nearly every economy in the Asia Pacific region. It raises a critical question, particularly for Southeast Asia and Australia: Which are the ties that bind — those of commerce an ...
  • Ray of light amid the nuclear gloom
    The United Nations' latest renewable energy report is a ray of sunshine amid the gloom of Japan's nuclear disaster. According to the REN21 Renewables 2011 Global Status Report, last year renewable energy accounted for 16 percent of global final energy consumption and close to 20 percent of globa ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Stimulus vs Public Investment
    A column by Nobel Prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz in the Financial Times makes what I think is an important point. The current debate over fiscal policy for the US, Europe and Canada is often characterized in the media as one between advocates of  higher deficits from Keynesian style stimul ...
  • Tea Party North
    Last week, Travis Fast noted Terry Corcoran’s strained argument that over-regulation of banks is what ails the global economy. Terry’s next column went even further off the deep end, endorsing the hard-money libertarianism of gold bugs like Eric Sprott. Today’s column is a full-blown defence of ...
  • C. D. Howe’s Overnight Moves Need Work
    Less than a month ago, the C. D. Howe Institute released a paper by Michael Parkin, “Overnight Moves: The Bank of Canada Should Start to Raise Interest Rates Now.” The next day, its Monetary Policy Council called on the Bank to increase the overnight interest rate. This call was terrible. The fo ...
  • The Strange Case of Saskatchewan’s Elect ...
    In the aftermath of the May federal election, many Saskatchewan voters were justifiably surprised by the results. Despite garnering 32.3 % of the total provincial vote, the federal NDP was completely shut-out in our province. Conversely, the Conservatives – with a little over half of the popular ...
  • About those “unfunded liabilities”
    When it comes to the Canada Pension Plan, a major talking point from the right is that the CPP has “unfunded liabilities”, with the implication that is not affordable and financially unsustainable. This is nonsense, a scare tactic based on an accounting fiction that counts only future expenditur ...

ReDress

  • Education and behaviour in Israel and Palestine
    Lawrence Davidson argues that while levelling charges of incitement at the Palestinian educational system, Israelis themselves have been practising on their own children a form of indoctrination that vilifies Palestinians and Arabs.
  • Israel’s "Jews first, democracy second" law an ...
    Uri Avnery considers Israel's latest racist law, which gives primacy to Jews of any nationality over indigenous non-Jewish citizens, and views some of the unsavoury characters behind this law, from war crimes suspect Avi Dichter to members of the Kadima party, a "haphazard collection of frustrat ...
  • Obama straining every nerve against UN members ...
    Josh Ruebner argues that Obama administration statements justifying the US position against Palestinian membership in the UN "are so illogical that they can be seen only as pretexts for clinging to the crumbling façade of Israeli occupation and apartheid".
  • The Zionists and the US Islamophobes behind No ...
    Lawrence Davidson views the Israelis and Americans responsible for cultivating the environment in which Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik thrived and found encouragement.
  • "Could Arab (Palestinian) staying power ultima ...
    Alan Hart considers the scenarios which could result from the Palestinian steadfastness that has confounded Zionist and Arab regime hopes that the Palestine file would close after the dispossession of Palestinians in 1948, and argues that the world should be prepared for an Israeli false flag op ...

Physics Today

  • Dawn spacecraft begins study of asteroid Vesta
    Space.com: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, launched in September 2007, arrived last month at the asteroid Vesta and will spend a year circling it before moving on to arrive at the even larger asteroid Ceres in 2015. The first spacecraft to visit an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, ...
  • US launches eco-network
    Nature: Traditionally, environmental monitoring has been a small-scale local science, but now the US is moving it toward a continental-scale group enterprise. The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) will comprise 20 core observatories, each representing a distinct eco-region throughou ...
  • Darkest planet spotted by astronomers
    BBC: A planet about 750 light-years away in the Draco constellation has an albedo darker than coal. It reflects less than 1% of its star's light; in contrast, Earth reflects about 37% of the Sun's light and Jupiter reflects about 52%. First discovered by the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey in 20 ...
  • Rice University chemists grow graphene from fo ...
    Chemical and Engineering News: A team of chemists at Rice University has shown how to prepare graphene from everyday materials, including grass, a cockroach leg, bulk polystyrene, chocolate, and even Girl Scout cookies. As detailed in a paper published online at ACS Nano, James Tour and colleagu ...
  • Hypersonic plane makes brief test flight
    New York Times: Yesterday a test run of an experimental aircraft ended abruptly when it crashed in the Pacific Ocean. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, capable of flying at 13 000 mph, is the fastest aircraft ever built. It is pa ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Oil price and Iran war
    by katsung47 (Posted Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:35:04 GMT) Oil 14. Orderly bankruptcy, an intimidation to investors (1/10/09) On 5/17/08, Congress passed the bill to raise the cap of jumbo loan rates on mortgage from previous $417,000 to $729,750 in high priced parts of the country . . On same day, Fa ...
  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show,' 39
    by footprints (Posted Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:38:02 GMT) Episode 36-Season Five Filmed-December 11th 2011 Duration-45 Minutes Omar Abdulla: Welcome to The 'Omar Abdulla,' SHOW filmed by Footprints Filmworks...Today, we are located at a waterfall park in Cape Town at the 'two-sisters,' river in P ...
  • The Fake Osama Bin Laden Image
    by katsung47 (Posted Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:37:44 GMT) Where will the nuclear bomb come from? "CIA spy" Davis was giving nuclear bomb material to Al-Qaeda, says report By ANI | ANI – Sun, Feb 20, London, Feb 20(ANI): Double murder-accused US official Raymond Davis has been found in possession of ...
  • Norway massacre is a false flag
    by katsung47 (Posted Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:35:28 GMT) 677. Norway terror attack to distract July plot (7/30/2011) In #675, written on 7/19, I predicted a new plot was coming, the time likely would be around 7/21. My prediction was very accurate. The Feds made it a big plot. 7/21. Court of Canad ...
  • CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists
    by katsung47 (Posted Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:31:51 GMT) 677. Norway terror attack to distract July plot (7/30/2011) In #675, written on 7/19, I predicted a new plot was coming, the time likely would be around 7/21. My prediction was very accurate. The Feds made it a big plot. 7/21. Court of Canad ...

Peakwater

  • Belo Monte dam marks a troubling new era in Br ...
    “Belo Monte is just one of a dozen giant dam projects Brazil plans to build in the Amazon region in the coming decades and opens up the world’s largest tropical rainforest to oil and mining exploration The Kayapó chief stands, and a hush comes over the circle. All the other caciques wait expect ...
  • Coca-Cola Mexico harvesting 1.25Bl/y of rainwater
    “The Coca-Cola Mexico Foundation captures 1.25Bl/y of water through its water harvesting programs, Luis Fuentes, Coca-Cola Mexico’s deputy director of corporate communication, told BNamericas. The foundation set up a national reforestation and water harvesting program in 2007 in association with ...
  • Slippery Banana Peels Could Be A Savior For Po ...
    “Banana peels don’t get a lot of respect. Though we here at Shots have never actually heard of anyone slipping on one, it seems they’re stuck in the cultural lore as a nuisance, or even a hazard. “But a Brazilian researcher, who also happens to be a banana lover has taken an interest in the [...]
  • Desalination Should Be A Last Resort
    “One of humankindâs worst tragedies is currently unfolding in the Horn of Africa, and it is caused by the absence of water. Two years of failed rain, and subsequent drought and famine, is responsible for the daily deaths of roughly 2,000 people in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. According to the ...
  • Water and sanitation in Katine
    “Here, as in many parts of rural Africa, fetching water is a woman’s job, as are most household chores. Therefore, a water source that is not only closer to home but safe goes some way to improving the lives of women such as Ati. Her family pays UShs 500 (18 US cents) a month to the [...]

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich to Obama: Free Trade = Fewer U.S. Jobs
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to President Obama in response to claims that free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Colombia will spur job growth.� President Obama is scheduled to speak in Iowa today, a state that has lost 21,500 jobs from free trade policies according to B ...
  • Congressional Briefing 2011-- Professor Kaoru ...
    Congressional Briefing 2011, July 26, 2011 Office of Congressman Dennis Kucinich Professor Kaoru Yamaguchi, Ph.D. Doshisha Business School Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan This briefing, held in the Cannon House Office Building, presented the findings of fundamental economic r ...
  • Kucinich Stands Up for the Rights of Workers, ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has consistently defended the rights of workers nationwide, is organizing within the Congress to protect the rights of American workers. Workers at Boeing in Washington State exercised their rights and Boeing retaliated against those workers by moving work ...
  • 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. Ku ...
  • One and a Half Years After Killing a 6-Year Hi ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after President Obama called for a road construction bill so that �companies can put tens of thousands of people to work right now building our roads and bridges and airports and seaports.� Kucinich said Congress should suppor ...

Authentically Wired

  • … did it surprise U …
    �� A very entertaining and informative perspective on Education �� Open either video below and watch ��. � http://dalailamacenter.org/blog-post/sir-ken-robinson-changing-paradigms http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html � �� did it surprise U �� Filed under: Blogroll
  • ACCOUNTABILITY & YOU
    � �� Much has been written and discussed of late surrounding the Arizona State Senator Lori Klein cute pink gun fiasco �� and thus far it appears she remains �fee� �� unencumbered �� unchallenged by any police or legal authority �� unaccountable for her action �� no city, county, state or federa ...
  • citizens-united & their $uper commttee
      ⦠Thank$ to âcitizens-unitedâ do you actually believe that defen$e Spending will take a hit ⦠maybe a little poke here and there ⦠but rest assured their corporate intere$t$ will be carefully guarded by the â$uperâ Committee ⦠Debt ‘Super’ Committee and Defense Spending By Donna Cassata, A ...
  • Rawesome Foods
    �� NaturalNews NaturalNews publishes names of government agents who masterminded Rawesome Foods raid 08-14-2011� ⢠ naturalnews.com The Rawesome Foods raid that took place August 3, 2011, is being publicly described by many as an act of "government terrorism" against innocents. And yet there has ...
  • redistricting
    ⦠It appears that at best âredistrictingâ merely perpetuates current inequity ⦠and it must be what âweâ want as we remain ⦠deaf ⦠dumb ⦠silent ⦠Arizona’s Population, Representation at Odds By Dennis Welch   â¦The Arizona Guardian With Republicans controlling two-thirds of the Legislatu ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Indonesia's moratorium disappoints environment ...
    The moratorium on permits for new concessions in primary rainforests and peatlands will have a limited impact in reducing deforestation in Indonesia, say environmentalists who have reviewed the instruction released today by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The moratorium, which too ...
  • FSC mulls controversial motion to certify plan ...
    Members of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), meeting in Malaysia this week for its General Assembly, will consider various changes to the organization, including a vote on a controversial motion that would open the door—slightly at first—to sustainable-certification of companies that have be ...
  • Unpaved road through Serengeti to progress
    After a week of confusion, the Tanzanian government has finally clarified its position on the hugely-controversial Serengeti road. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, confirmed that a paved highway will not be built through the northern Serengeti National Park, however ...
  • Richard Leakey: 'selfish' critics choose wrong ...
    The controversial Serengeti road is going ahead, but with conditions. According to the Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, the road will not be paved and it will be run by the Tanzanian park authority who will have the power to monitor traffic to 'ensure no harm ...
  • Arctic on the line: oil industry versus Greenp ...
    At the top of the world sits a lone region of shifting sea ice, bare islands, and strange creatures. For most of human history the Arctic remained inaccessible to all but the hardiest of peoples, keeping it relatively pristine and untouched. But today, the Arctic is arguably changing faster than ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Drug offers hope for spinal cord patients
    New Zealand scientists have taken big strides towards producing a drug treatment for spinal cord injuries - an exciting development for anyone confined to a wheelchair by back or neck injuries.The Auckland University neuroscientists...
  • The trouble with good-looking people
    Kate Moss, George Clooney, Natalie Portman and Brad Pitt may be many people's ideas of dream dates. But pioneering research which combines economics and biology suggests they may not be perfect life partners.According to a study...
  • Future of space travel: Looking for liftoff
    It's billionaire Richard Branson's boldest plan - sending tourists soaring into space. But the countdown to commercial spaceflight hasn't always gone smoothly The frontier of commercial spaceflight, which opened when Nasa's shuttle...
  • Monitoring health without all the wires
    One day monitoring a patient's vital signs like temperature and heart rate could be a simple as sticking on a tiny, wireless patch, sort of like a temporary tattoo.Eliminating the bulky wiring and electrodes would make the devices...
  • Interest in Antarctic booty set to heat up
    In February, as the navy's new patrol ship Wellington hammered through mountainous seas off Antarctica, New Zealand was sending a message to the world: we're here, and we intend to stay.But some of the planet's most powerful nations...

Truth Survival + RSS

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  • AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
      http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlightenment, Forb ...
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  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • New at Reason: Gene Healy on Richard Nixon’s B ...
    Forty years ago this week, President Richard Nixon showed us just how dangerous unchecked executive power can be to the free-enterprise system. On Aug. 15, 1971, in a nationally televised address, Nixon announced, "I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the Un ...
  • Hey Romney: If Corporations Are People, the Wa ...
    Econlog's David Henderson follows up on Romney's accurate observation that corporations, like soylent green, are made of people:  Romney's passion and clarity on this are admirable. And until now, I've found little to admire in Romney. Now, the next step for him—which a patient ...
  • New at Reason: A. Barton Hinkle on Partisan Po ...
    "It's time for leadership, not petty partisan politics," declares Courtney Lynch, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Virginia. She raises an interesting point, albeit unintentionally: When is it time for partisan politics? If now is not a good time, wonders A. Barton Hinkle, when wo ...
  • Reason.tv: Obamacare, Government Insurance Exc ...
    One of the features of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health-care reform bill colloquially known as Obamacare, is the creation of insurance exchanges that will offer heavily subsidized policies and coverage for people who cannot get insurance throu ...
  • After Striking the Mandate, Should the 11th Ci ...
    Last week's 11th Circuit appeals court decision on ObamaCare was a victory for foes of the mandate: The three-judge panel voted 2-1 to uphold a lower court's decision to strike down the mandate as unconstitutional. And it was an especially important victory because it came in what ...

Mercury Rising

  • A prayer for Riverbend
    She moved from Iraq to this: This morning, Syrian tanks and gunboats reportedly shelled the main Mediterranean port city of Latakia, killing one person and bringing the total dead to at least 28 since government forces moved into the city on Saturday. The violence follows massive demonstrations ...
  • Immigrant eyes
    for Kate, with her Irish green eyes.
  • The return of slavery: tenant farming
    Seth Lubove, Bloomberg: Perry Vieth baled hay on a neighbor’s farm in Wisconsin for two summers during high school in 1972 and 1973. The grueling labor left him with no doubt about getting a college degree so that he’d never have to work as hard again for a paycheck. Thirty-eight years later, an ...
  • “Is Rick Perry Gay? Is Mitt Romney Mormo ...
    While reading the comments section of a story in Nerve concerning the outing of Phillip Hinkle, an anti-gay archconservative Bible-thumping Republican state legislator in Indiana, by the rent boy he’d hired off of Craigslist, I ran into this interesting comment: Better than Marcus Bachmann getti ...
  • Flying blind
    I have no idea what the markets will do this week. If they were behaving rationally, the S&P would be at 900. If the drop in consumer sentiment was noise, and the unemployment figures show stabilization, and the Europeans are really achieving a solution, and recent corporate profits are represen ...

Reality Sandwich

  • My Tzolk’in Life Video Contest
    The Mayan Calendar Portal, the popular web site dedicated to the sacred Mayan Calendar, announces the "My Tzolk'in Life" video contest.  The purpose of the contest is to share your story of how the Mayan Calendar and MCP's daily energy postings have improved or changed your life, and how you ar ...
  • RS Plant Medicine Retreat with Daniel Pinchbec ...
    RS Plant Medicine Retreat with Daniel Pinchbeck & the Kaxinawa Chapadas Dos Veideiros, Brazil,  Nov. 4-12 Reality Sandwich invites you to embark on a 9-day shamanic journey of deep healing, discovery, and transformation. Set in the breathtaking, world-famous Chapadas Dos Veideiros nationa ...
  • The Reincarnational Process and the Eternal Va ...
    � The following is excerpted from from Psychic Psychology: Energy Skills for Life and Relationships, published by North Atlantic Books.  We want to discuss an idea of reincarnation that we expect will be new to our readers. We find that this understanding places desire in a reassuring ligh ...
  • Raid on Rawesome
    The California government committed what many feel amounts to an alarming act of state-sponsored terrorism against the health food store Rawesome Foods in Venice. read more
  • The Field: The Reality of Things
    � The following is excerpted from The Basic Code of the Universe: The Science of the Invisible in Physics, Medicine and Spirituality, published by Inner Traditions. � read more

Desertification

  • EAST AFRICA: Massive Aid Needed to Stave off D ...
    International donors have given more than one billion dollars to ease the famine in Somalia and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa, but U.N. officials say another billion will be needed to prevent the situation from deteriorating in other areas.
  • Eleven Million at Risk in Horn of Africa
    "I have never seen anything like it. Many mothers have lost three or four children. It's a tragedy out here," Austin Kennan, regional director for the Horn of Africa for Concern Worldwide, told IPS from within the crisis zone.
  • UN: Somalia Is 'Worst Humanitarian Disaster'
    The head of the United Nations refugee agency has described the situation in drought-hit Somalia as the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world, after meeting with those affected at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
  • Dam Project in Turkey Breeds Controversy
    The tranquillity and mystery of this town on the banks of Tigris River will not last long. The millennia-old town will be nearly totally destroyed once the nearby Ilisu dam, built for energy and irrigation, is complete.
  • AFRICA: Eco-Labels "Greenwashing" Forest Explo ...
    "Eco-label fatigue" is setting in as green logging certification schemes are undermining proper government management of forest resources while "greenwashing" private ownership of these public resources, critics say.

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • Blast kills 7, inures 8 in Afghanistan
    At least seven people have been killed and eight others wounded in a bomb explosion in the southern province of Uruzgan in Afghanistan, officials say.
  • Iran FM due in Moscow to discuss ties
    Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has travelled to the Russian capital of Moscow at the head of a political delegation to hold talks with senior Russian officials.
  • Iran-Russia ties at high level: Moscow
    Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich says Russia's political and economic relations with Iran stand at a high level and continue to increase on a daily basis.
  • 'US devises plots to stay longer in Iraq'
    'US devise plots to stay longer in Iraq'The White House Spokesman Jay Carney has said the US will take into account any Iraqi request for Washington to stay in the oil rich country.
  • Iran denies role in Iraq-Kuwait port row
    Iran's Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danaeifar says the Islamic Republic plays no role in the dispute between Kuwait and Baghdad over the construction of a Kuwaiti port near the Iraqi border.

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MIDEAST: Divided We Execute
    The execution of a Palestinian father and son by Hamas security forces in Gaza throws up a sharp difference over the death penalty between Gaza and the West Bank. In the West Bank a temporary moratorium in in place.
  • PAKISTAN: Violence Killing the Poor
    Taj Bibi's eyes well up as she recalls the day her ten-year-old son was shot dead, a victim of the violence sweeping through the port city of Karachi since early July. "My three sons, the 12-year-old twins and Adnan, 10, went out to play cricket in the street after lunch. Around 4 pm, th ...
  • EGYPT: Labour Unions Shake Off Old Masters
    The trade union federation that ex-dictator Hosni Mubarak used to repress labour movements and mobilise regime support for sham elections during his 30-year rule has been disbanded, striking a powerful blow to the old order.
  • NAMBIA: No Option but to Adapt to a Changing C ...
    Extreme weather conditions predicted because of climate change in Namibia are likely to have a tremendous effect on the 70 percent of the country's people who live in rural areas and depend heavily on agriculture.
  • VENEZUELA: Caribbean Town Declares Plastic Bag ...
    A Venezuelan municipality where the main industry is oil refining, and that has an import-export "free zone", is set to become a plastic bag-free area.

Scoop - NZ

  • The Roots of Breivik's Ideology
    Breivik should be understood as an ideologue driven by reasons and not just as a psychological case. A careful reading of his 2083 manifesto reveals four distinct influences we need to understand: contemporary Islamophobic ideologies, cultural conservative/neo-Confederate traditions, elements of ...
  • Fisk: Jumblatt on Syria
    It seems that "some" in the Baath party regime do not want to translate President Bashar al-Assad's promises of reform into action. Soldiers shouldn't shoot at civilians. Jumblatt says that the lesson of Norway is also a lesson for the Syrian regime; it has not escaped the Arab world that Anders ...
  • New Yorker: Getting Bin Laden
    No American was yet inside the residential part of the compound. The operatives had barely been on target for a minute, and the mission was already veering off course.
  • Still crazy to buy in Oz at current prices
    # By all measures of value, house prices in Australia are at or near the highest levels they have ever been. # Recent tiny house price falls are meaningless in the most overpriced housing market in the world - long term housing slumps can take years, or even decades. # Recent short term inter ...
  • US: Planned layoffs surge
    If the layoffs continue to increase, Owens said, the effects will be brutal for an already battered American workforce. “I think that we will see an increase in poverty and a growth in bankruptcies,” she said. Even more worrisome: An extension of federal unemployment insurance for the long-te ...

Independent - London

  • Sarkozy and Merkel propose eurozone government
    All countries that use the euro should have mandatory balanced budgets and better coordination of economic policy, the leaders of France and Germany said today, pushing for long-term political solutions instead of immediate financial measures like a single European bond.
  • UN envoy meets both Libya factions
    The United Nations' special envoy for Libya is meeting representatives of both sides of the conflict.
  • Police detain Indian hunger striker
    A prominent anti-corruption activist has been detained by police just hours before he was set to embark on a public hunger strike which was certain to embarrass India's scandal-plagued government.
  • Police detain Indian hunger striker Anna Hazare
    A prominent anti-corruption activist has been detained by police just hours before he was set to embark on a public hunger strike which was certain to embarrass India's scandal-plagued government.
  • Eurozone economic growth stalls
    The UK's recovery prospects were dealt a blow today as figures revealed the country's largest export market - the eurozone - saw a dramatic slowdown in economic growth.

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.

Innovation Canada

  • Tele-coaching
    Children in Nova Scotia who suffer from disruptive behaviour, anxiety disorders or other moderate mental health issues often fail to receive timely access to psychological care. It can take up to a year to see a psychologist for treatment. Dalhousie University psychologist Patrick McGrath is dev ...
  • Always wear sunscreen
    As the summer signals hot weather and long days at the beach, doctors, cosmeticians and mothers everywhere rally to proffer their standard warning: “Always wear sunscreen.” But for people who are allergic to sunblock, like Elda Scaiano, it is impossible to wear commercial sunscreens. Fortunately ...
  • Virtual practice makes perfect
    For Halifax-based neurosurgeon David Clarke, the Monday-afternoon surgery session of Aug. 17, 2009, was anything but routine. For starters, his patient’s brain tumour was located in a tricky spot, close to the delicate part of the brain that controls speech. A small slip of the scalpel either wa ...
  • A powerful elixir
    The good news is that there are more than a million cancer survivors in Canada. The bad news is that they live with the long-term effects of treatment, including extreme fatigue, memory and attention problems, bone density loss, leading to fractures, and a sometimes debilitating anxiety over can ...
  • No more slipping through the cracks
    At any given time, some 19,000 children are in foster care in Ontario, placed there for their protection by one of the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies (CAS). While CAS caseworkers write meticulous reports on the children who pass through the system, the details contained in the thousands ...

Signs of the times

  • Weather traps investigators at An-12 crash sit ...
    Investigators cannot leave the site where an aging Antonov An-12 cargo plane crashed in Russia's Far East last week due to poor weather conditions, a spokesman for the local emergencies ministry's department said. "Investigators, forensics and aviation experts - in all, about 40 people, canno ...
  • Ahmadinejad warns U.S., Israel of 'crushing re ...
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday once again warned the United States and Israel against even contemplating a strike against the Islamic nation. "They want to do it, but they know our power. They know that we would give them a very decisive response," he said in an exclusive int ...
  • Children of depressed mothers have a different ...
    This release is available in French. Researchers think that brains are sensitive to the quality of child care, according to a study that was directed by Dr. Sonia Lupien and her colleagues from the University of Montreal published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Th ...
  • Wonder what it's like to have no sense of smel ...
    As I was sitting in the office one day, a colleague at a desk 3ft away looked up with a curious expression. She glanced around searchingly until her gaze settled on me. 'My dear,' she said in her customary grand manner, 'are you wearing perfume?' I nodded, replying: 'Do you like it?' She smi ...
  • Cancer Research of 10 Years Useless: Fraudulen ...
    JAMA's editor calls fraudulent medical research a 'scar on the moral body of science'. But it's really just part of an entire system of fraud in medicine. Medical science is rampant with fraud. At the Mayo Clinic, ten years of research that appeared to be leading towards harnessing the immune s ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Mammoliti will protect our precious bodily fluids
    Toronto city councillor George "Giorgio" Mammoliti (he changed his name in 2002 from English to Italian to better reflect his desire to suck up to immigrant voters in his ward Italian heritage) has apparently finally made the full journey from populist leftist to card-carrying member of Monster ...
  • How things work . . .
    TED TALKS cover the whole panoply of human endeavours. Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, mo ...
  • Felonious checks in . . .
    Felonious Munk is pissed about the US debt. He's got a point, too.
  • Health tip . . .
  • Solidarity
    Please join with people of conscience around the world at noon on Saturday, August 20 to support the people of Syria. I'll be joining my friends, film maker Azam Fouk Aladeh and theatre director Majdi Bou-Matar in the public square outside Kitchener's city hall. We will be raising our voices in ...

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media Attack Secret Service For Com ...
    Right-wing media attacked President Obama for traveling on buses that reportedly cost $1.1 million each on his bus tour through the Midwest. But Secret Service officials have said the buses will pay for themselves over time and have also said there has been "demonstrated need for [the buses] fo ...
  • McCaughey Whitewashes Rulings Upholding Health ...
    In a New York Post column, Betsy McCaughey hyped a recent federal appeals court ruling striking down the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). But McCaughey, who has a long history of misinforming on health care, ignored ...
  • Right-Wing Media Attack New Fuel-Efficiency St ...
    Right-wing media have attacked new fuel-efficiency standards for heavy-duty trucks by seizing on reports that the plan would increase the cost of the trucks. But both the Obama administration and the trucking industry say the costs would be quickly recouped in money saved on fuel expenses, ...
  • Dear Limbaugh, Critics Accused You Of "Lying" ...
    Rush Limbaugh complained recently that critics constantly accuse him of "lying" and "making [things] up," a charge he steadfastly dismissed. However, Media Matters has rounded up some of the whoppers he's told this week alone.Limbaugh Whined That Critics Accuse Him Of "Lying" Limbaugh Complain ...
  • Right-Wing Media Erase Conservative Cash In WI ...
    Right-wing media have falsely claimed that "unions and left-wing groups" spent roughly $30 million, or have otherwise ignored money spent by conservative groups, to influence the recent Wisconsin recall elections. In fact, about $30 million was reportedly spent by right-wing and left-wing group ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Bachmann & The Golden Bough
    If there's one book that's familiar to every Liberal Arts major it's probably James Frazer's mighty tome on comparative religion, 1890's "The Golden Bough." For generations many undergraduates have probably used this classic work the way I did: as a doorstop, as a paperweight and as something to ...
  • President Obama Joins the Cult of Economics De ...
    A front page story in Sunday's New York Times gave the country the bad news. President Obama is no longer paying attention to economists and economics in designing economic policy. Instead, he will do what his campaign people tell him will get him re-elected, presumably by getting lots of money ...
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  • Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Home Economics ...
    These are all different spheres that work differently, right? How long will we keep hearing these analogies about balancing household budgets or belt-tightening? Aside from the fact that it often makes sense for households and businesses to take on debt, I think we're going to have trouble doing ...
  • Anarchy In The UK... But Could It Hit The US?
    Only a few weeks back, British columnists were jestingly describing the UK Parliament's uproarious reaction to "Murdoch-gate" as "British Spring." Newspaper articles were filled with playful puns on Arabic names, along with a mirthful contrast between the scale of the Arab revolts and the one ta ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • The Public Needs Protection From Fracking Dangers
    Public Citizen today urged a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) task force to prioritize the safety of water resources at contamination risk from hydraulic fracturing. Among the solutions Public Citizen proposed is repeal of the various exemptions the natural gas industry has received from federal ...
  • From toilet water to tap water, the new liquid ...
    So after years of diminishing water supplies made even worse by the second-most severe drought in state history, some West Texas communities are resorting to a plan to turn sewage into drinking water. A water-reclamation plant believed to be the first in Texas will supply Big Spring, Midland, Od ...
  • Groups use social networking as a response to ...
     The Day When $$$$ Equals Speech The American public has become increasingly frustrated and angry about the corporate corruption of Congress. With the influence over politics wielded by wealthy corporate interests through their political spending, even modest efforts to curb pollution, ensure cl ...
  • Heat Wave Renews Call for Renewable Energy
    At the height of the energy crisis last week, Public Citizen’s Texas director, Tom “Smitty” Smith, told the Austin Chronicle, “Austin Energy was one of the first cities in the United States to really aggressively try to do this kind of load management, and days like this show how effective it is ...
  • Big Hot Texas Sun: Problem or Resource?
    We’re in the midst of a heat wave and drought that are on record to be Texas’ worst in recorded history. (and now imagine if global warming actually kicked in, the way all those scientists say! *wink*) But we have a few options. Cope, adapt, or conquer. I much prefer the last solution to the [...]

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Cooling and feeding the planet with agroecology
    288400_10150260430494792_570449791_7037238_4222546_o.jpg In order to fix the broken food system, we need to de-colonize our minds. To prove that, do this short exercise. What comes to your mind, when you hear the word �Agriculture?� Is it ...
  • Famine in the Horn of Africa -- Back to the Future
    eritrea-famine.jpg Nearly 30 years ago the world was shocked by images of famine and hunger in the Horn of Africa. Those images inspired a tremendous outpouring of generosity among ordinary people everywhere, and spurred a generation of ac ...
  • Development, a fairy tale of catastrophic prop ...
    times_square.jpg Amnesty International released a report on indigenous rights this week called �Sacrificing Rights in the Name of Development: Indigenous Peoples Under Threat in the Americas,� which exposes the impact of development projec ...
  • Challenging Mega-Dams through the People’s Per ...
    anaa_logo.jpg The La Parota mega-dam being constructed in Guerrero, Mexico will displace over 5,000 families and have an indirect impact on an additional 15,000 lives.� That is unless the Assembly of Environmentally Impacted Communities (A ...
  • Monsanto Nation
    Subheadline:� Taking Down Goliath Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Ronnie Cummins is a veteran activist, author, and organizer. He is the International Director of the Organic Consu ...

Climate

  • Kansas Coal Plant Critics File Supreme Court ...
    Source:� The Topeak Capital-Journal Environmentalists opposing a $2.8 billion coal plant in Kansas filed a brief with the Kansas Supreme Court outlining objections to a state permit that was issued for the plant.
  • Rick Perry Has Called Texas Climate Scientists ...
    Source:� ThinkProgress Green Among many other statements disputing the consenus on human-made warming, Rick Perry argues that climate science is "all one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight," in hi ...
  • Melting Sea Ice Leads to Walrus Stampedes, Sci ...
    Source:� LiveScience.com Melting sea ice and the earlier-than-normal movement of walruses has conservationists worried this year might bring another mass migration of the massive animals to shore.
  • MIT Weighs the Lifecycle Impacts of Concrete
    Source:� Greenbiz.com Concrete is literally the backbone of our infrastructure, but it often takes a bad rap for the carbon intensity of its key ingredient: cement. Research from MIT could change they way we look at the mainst ...
  • Solar Roadways to Build Solar-Powered Parking Lot
    Source:� CNET News Solar Roadways has received a $750,000 grant from the Federal Highway Administration to build a parking lot paved with solar panels in Idaho.

GreenBiz

  • MIT Weighs the Lifecycle Impacts of Concrete
    Concrete is literally the backbone of our infrastructure, but it often takes a bad rap for the carbon intensity of its key ingredient: cement. Research from MIT could change they way we look at the mainstay in construction materials.
  • What NASCAR Can Teach Sustainability Professionals
    NASCAR is a 63-year-old, family-run, privately held company that governs America's No.1 spectator sport -- a showcase for fast cars zooming around racetracks. How is it making green work?
  • Cisco Quietly Shuts Down Building Energy Manag ...
    Buried in its fourth-quarter earnings call, Cisco announced this week that it was pulling the plug on its Mediator software suite, following the lead Google and Microsoft as software companies bail out on the energy management space.
  • BMW Embraces New Fuel Efficiency Goals as VW, ...
    The German automakers are taking decidedly different tacks in response to the White House's new rules requiring 54.5 MPG by 2025. Will BMW end up as Germany's greenest automaker?
  • C3 Leaves Stealth Mode to Shake up Energy Mana ...
    After three years under the radar, with $45 million in funding, all-star board members like Condoleezza Rice and a customer roster including Dow and Masdar City, C3 is poised to have a major impact on the energy management market.

Reuters Global

  • UN sends mixed signals on civilian deaths in Libya
    The United Nations has been sending mixed signals lately about NATO's record with civilian casualties in the alliance's sixth month of air strikes against troops and military sites linked to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
  • Berlin Wall, 1961-1989, R.I.P
    The Berlin Wall has been gone for more than 20 years but its construction 50 years ago still fascinates Berlin and the world. There is almost nothing left of it, to the chagrin of tourists and Berliners with a sense of history.
  • When there are no people in Pakistan
    A brilliant reconstruction of the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden has left one player out of the narrative - the people of Pakistan where it was conducted.
  • Video: DSK accuser press conference
    Live video: DSK accuser press conference
  • India and Pakistan: moving out of intensive care
    The Birkin bag was amusing but irrelevant. The direction of policy on India and Pakistan is to be found in the joint statement, for all its caution and unanswered questions.

Booman Tribune

  • How Handsome?
    I don't know. If you're honest, how many U.S presidents have been handsome. I mean, I'm a heterosexual guy, so I am not the best judge. But I think both the winners and losers of presidential elections have never been the best looking lot. Clinton, Reagan, and Kennedy weren't too hard on the ...
  • Casual Observation
    I knew they would make fun of Krugman for his space alien invasion metaphor. I also knew they would struggle mightily to understand it. Discuss
  • The Moon is Cheese
    Someone did a reality-check: There is very little dispute among scientists that human beings are the main cause of climate change, PolitiFact said Sunday. Based on our research, there is very little dispute in the scientific community, especially among climate specialists, on whether clima ...
  • Rick Perry vs. Climate Change
    In this corner, I give you the latest pray for rain (among other things) Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, GOP Presidential candidate: Perry calls global warming "all one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight." Unlike many of the other GOP presidential candidates, he ha ...
  • The Media is Always Biased
    I wasn't a Howard Dean supporter, although I greatly admired his campaign and I really liked his supporters. It was just my judgment that he didn't have what it takes to win the 2004 election. I sensed a certain tone-deafness. I also sensed a lot of hostility from the establishment of both th ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Most Beautiful Urban Parks on Earth
    Ten beautiful parks, surrounded by urban environments and thus oases to the inhabitants of the cities in which they are located... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Infant Mountain Gorilla Rescued from Poachers
    A win for our side, as a baby mountain gorilla is rescued from poachers read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • On the Deadly Trail of Poachers in Congo's Vir ...
    The horrific poaching problem in Africa's Virunga National Park, through the eyes of the rangers who risk their lives combating various armed groups. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Frank Cannonball Richards: The Man with the St ...
    Watch the man who could take a cannonball being shot into his stomach! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Release of Exotic Pets Harms Florida Everglades
    Many released exotic pets are becoming established in Florida. This is a particular concern in the Florida Everglades. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • An Index for Ocean Health
    The index, anticipated next February, measures the ability of marine ecosystems to thrive and to support human livelihoods - goals that are often in tension.
  • For Coal Plants, a Game of Chicken
    Utilities eye one another in considering whether to shut down plants or install scrubbing equipment when new environmental rules take effect.
  • Measuring Your Plastic Footprint
    A new project gives companies and institutions a mechanism for calculating how much plastic they use, reuse and recycle.
  • After 2 Studies, Methane Puzzle Persists
    Two research teams from the same university present seemingly contradictory findings on why atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, have leveled off and stabilized.
  • Film on Climate Refugees Strikes a Chord
    By focusing on the consequences of climate change rather than its scientific causes, some experts suggest that a filmmaker circumvented a divisive debate over global warming and the extent to which human activity contributes to it.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • After London riots: Internets attention turns ...
    Earlier :) Nov 20 2010: TC Indymedia Exclusive: Secret 'Trigger' & blueprint for emergency domestic military crackdown plan revealed | HongPong.com Moar Recently: Reacting to London riots - A Little Truth about America's situation Emerged! Marc Ambinder (marcambinder) on Twitter A few lat ...
  • Pawlenty promotes Mossad plane crash/bombing o ...
    UPDATE Sunday Aug14: LOLSo long and thanks for all the mullet. Theory: TPaw was not supposed to brag about Mossad ops at the debate - lol his campaign is Over Like Clover in an Iowa pasture. Why not? :-D Our former Governor Tim Pawlenty plays for the ruthless neo-Cheneyite role in a future Repu ...
  • August LinkDump! London Calling; Darcus Howe f ...
    Riots are about power, and they are about catharsis..... No one expected this. The so-called leaders who have taken three solid days to return from their foreign holidays to a country in flames did not anticipate this. The people running Britain had absolutely no clue how desperate things ha ...
  • Markets take more of a dive, so cash out and s ...
    In Afghanistan the 'Seal Six' craft evidently went down... everyone killed in action there are now called "NATO troops" instead of Americans. Heavily armed Multi-Jurisdiction FoodControl Swat teams step in to shut down & crush the Rawesome Foods outlet in Venice CA as our friendly local industri ...
  • Special Analysis :-P The interstellar/local en ...
    In July you’ll be launching another three-day Pleiadian event in Minneapolis. How many have you done so far? Christine Day, Pleiadian Ambassador!: We’ve done three in the United States and this will be our fourth one in the last 12 months. We are building one in September in Brazil and one in Ge ...

Daily Censored

  • The Movement for Justice, Britain’s leading an ...
    Defend Youth Uprising! Bring Down the Government! Statement from BAMN in Britain!! ‘When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty and shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up and express their ange ...
  • Opposing the Jewish National Fund and Israeli ...
    Please click the link below to listen to the entire program on archive now: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/08/15/opposing-the-jewish-national-fund-and-israeli-apartheid Join us this episode as we spoke with Noura Erakat about the Jewish National Fund and its role in ethnically ...
  • NPR the new FOX News
    U.S. Can No Longer Afford To Be World’s Policemen : NPR www.npr.org Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, the senior Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, talks to Steve Inskeep about his opinion on the S&P credit downgrade. Frank says the U.S. spends too much money being the military p ...
  • The Origins of Civilization always lead to Afr ...
    Click the Link Below to Listen: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/08/08/the-origins-of-civilization–africa This episode we were joined by Dr. Charles Finch for an in-depth discussion regarding the origins of civilization. Dr. Charles Finch III is the former Director of Internatio ...
  • BAMN praises the signing of part of the Califo ...
       Governor Brown has signed AB 130! Now Fight for Passage of AB 131!  The bill gives undocumented students access to private scholarships and signifies a step forward in ending the second-class treatment of undocumented youth in the state of California. “The bill is an important victory for ...

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IntelNews

  • CIA shot own planes, used napalm in Bay of Pig ...
    Newly declassified documents show that the CIA mistakenly fired at its own assault planes and resorted to using napalm to stave off successive Cuban counterattacks during the Bay of Pigs invasion.
  • News you may have missed #567
    Libya bans unauthorized cell phone use. Uzbekistan jails senior mining scientist for spying. Ex-White House official claims CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers.
  • British spies considered giving Hitler female ...
    Thanks to the tireless effort of intelligence historians, we now have a brand new revelation from spy archives that can proudly stand alongside the CIA’s acoustic kitty, and the plan to poison Cuban leader Fidel Castro with a chemical that would make his beard fall out. This latest disclosure, h ...
  • News you may have missed #566 (analysis edition)
    Stuxnet virus opens new era of cyberwar. The fallout from the Turkish Navy's recent spy scandal. New edition of classic intelligence handbook published.
  • News you may have missed #565 (United States e ...
    Secret watch-list proposal causes US privacy groups protests. US blacklists Syrian banks over WMD ties. FBI revises surveillance exam after cheating revelations.

War is a Crime.org

  • Europe's Quiet Revolution
    By�Steven Hill, RootsAction The overarching challenge in the world today is: how do we advance the institutions and practices capable of enacting a desirable quality of life for a burgeoning global population of 6.5 billion people?� And how do we accomplish that in a way that does not bu ...
  • Videos of Possible NATO Bombings in Libya
    NATO bombing of the Faculty of Law, February 8 11 Zliten http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTcGbkPE7V4 NATO bombing in Al Ajilat 05 08 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdtEZZ8WM-k NATO bombed the fishing port of Zliten May 8 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLt8UfEsXQU NATO bombing on the ...
  • Tomgram: Chris Hellman, The Pentagon's Spendin ...
    From TomDispatch China just launched a refitted Ukrainian aircraft carrier from the 1990s on its first test run -- and that�s what the only projected "great power" enemy of the U.S. has to offer for the foreseeable future.� In the meantime, the U.S. Navy has 11 aircraft carrier task forces to c ...
  • Cutting Through Hype, Hypocrisy In Vote Fraud ...
    inShare3 Recent events show why election theft deserves much more scrutiny than it receives from either government officials or news reporters. Most dramatically, a federal judge has released the 2008 testimony of GOP IT guru Michael Connell, right. The Ohio resident died in a mysterious p ...
  • United National Antiwar Committee (UNAC) Annou ...
    1.����������������� August 28 meeting in Chicago to plan NATO/G8 protests 2.����������������� UNAC calls for support to actions against the wars on African people 3.����������������� Protest against Islamophoia. 4.����������������� Palestine is coming to the UN.� Rally to demand sovereignty Now. ...

Grist - News

  • Dolphins take Manhattan
    by Jess Zimmerman. New York is becoming quite the haven of wildlife! There's the pigeons, the giant monkey on the Empire State Building, and now dolphins have been spotted in New York Harbor. The frisky sea critters haven't gotten into an empire state of mind in two years, so this is a bi ...
  • New trend: Going produce shopping in abandoned ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Most cities these days are chock-full of foreclosed properties. Some foreclosed properties are chock-full of fruit trees, vegetable gardens, and other sources of fresh produce. That adds up to a lot of tasty plant matter going to waste -- unless people take it upon them ...
  • Solar-powered bulb brings both light and comme ...
    by Christopher Mims. Steve Katsaros, inventor of the Nokero solar-powered lightbulb, recently told CNN that he decided to sell his bulbs rather than give them away, even though it runs counter to the traditional model of aid to the developing world. "Many NGOs say it's making money o ...
  • In a world of 7 billion, what does the typical ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Here's a new take on the "new normal." National Geographic has run some calculations on our population averages, now that we're staring 7 billion in the face. The verdict: The most typical human right now is a 28-year-old Han Chinese man -- there are over 9,000,000 p ...
  • Lake Michigan has become unfishable
    by Sarah Laskow. While lobster fishermen in the Long Island Sound are stubbornly — but just barely — hanging on, people who depended on the fishing stock in the Great Lakes for their livelihood can no longer make it. Lake Michigan is a "liquid desert," reports Dan Egan in the Milwaukee Jo ...

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Digg Green

  • When Galaxies Collide: Photos of Great Galacti ...
    Photos of colliding galaxies show the chaotic, beautiful process of galactic mergers.
  • 10 Vestigial Traits You Might Not Know You Had
    Humans have an amazing knack for clinging to the past. We all have traits or behaviors that suited our ancestors just fine, but no longer make any sense --but we just can't seem to get rid of them.
  • Building, Launching, and Landing a Rover (All ...
    Usually high-school rocket clubs launch an egg and try to have it land safely. But our teacher suggested that we do something harder: enter a competition to build a Mars rover that could be deployed from a rocket. A few of us started working on it.
  • Adam And Eve Did Not Literally Exist. Period.
    Studying the human genome has disproven the possibility that we sprang from two people: Karl Giberson - who taught physics at Eastern Nazarene College until his views became too uncomfortable in Christian academia - says Protestants who question Adam and...
  • Stanford researchers are redefining how the br ...
    New neurological measurement technologies and algorithms are allowing researchers a more complete look into how the brain functions. Engineers at Stanford are using these tools to better understand how the brain prepares to instruct the body to make a motion and why sometimes we react more quick ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Whores to the Right of Me, Whores to the Left ...
    By Les Visible Well, we’re back in the doldrums of the false Sea of Tranquility, near the Whores Latitudes and the boats are being pulled by whores, who spend their time dreaming about less arduous employment in the alleys near the dumpsters, where they used to ply their trade. Occasionally they ...
  • How Michele Bachmann Bought the Ames Straw Poll
    by Paul Krugman on August 14th, 2011 t1larg.strawpollgroup.gi Headlines on FoxNews, CNN, MSNBC, and all over the web should have been “Randy Travis Wins Ames Straw Poll Edging out Ron Paul” instead of headlines which touted Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s victory. Bachmann spent upwards of $1 m ...
  • Shaped Charges and the World Trade Center Coll ...
    Here’s what demolition experts use in steel framed buildings, the linear shaped charge … It generates around 3,000,000 psi pressure … at a speed in excess of 27,000 feet per second … There are over 1000 different types of explosive … With the use of delays we can control … where the debris lands ...
  • A 9/11 Challenge/Experiment
    This is just is a rough idea for an interesting but educational science project, a demonstration or maybe a challenge experiment – perhaps with real money involved – to prove a small but significant point about 9/11. 1. Take an ordinary kerosene burning lamp like the kind our grandparents used t ...
  • Why Does Mainstream Media Disrespect Ron Paul?
    By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Watching the Sunday talk shows and looking at the reporting from this weekend’s Republican straw poll, you would not think that Congressman Ron Paul even participated in the event. Paul came in a very close second to Representative Michele Bachmann in a field of ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

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Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...

Inhabitat

  • Shell Struggles to Stop Second Leak on North S ...
    It’s starting to seem like we can’t even go one day without news breaking about another oil spill ravaging the environment. Last Friday, Shell confirmed that its rig on the Gannet Alpha platform in the North Sea had sprung a leak. While the company has managed to stop that main leak, they are st ...
  • Diamond-Shaped Hightseat Pavilion is a Tree-To ...
    Read the rest of Diamond-Shaped Hightseat Pavilion is a Tree-Topped Concert Venue in Romania Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "natural materials", eco design, green design, green garden, green lung, Hightseat Pavilion, natural circulation, Prechteck Architecture, romania, sustain ...
  • Plastic Disclosure Project Wants to Measure Yo ...
    We’re all very familiar with the concept of a carbon footprint, but have you ever thought about your plastic footprint? Well, the Plastic Disclosure Project (PDP) wants us to start. And considering the detrimental effects that plastic has on the environment, it’s high time we took our plastic co ...
  • Sleeper Cells: A Cluster of Porcupine-Esque Hu ...
    Read the rest of Sleeper Cells: A Cluster of Porcupine-Esque Huts Made from Found Wood Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Di Rosa Preserve, eco design, eco-art, green art, green design, hayes valley farm, recycled architecture, recycled art, Recycled Materials, sleeper cell hotels, ...
  • The 2014 BMW i3 Electric Car Spotted in Chicag ...
    We just came across a spy video (shot by YouTube user jprothe) of BMW taping a commercial or promotional video for its 2014 i3 that shows the yet to be unveiled electric vehicle in action on Wacker Drive in Chicago. BMW has already released the basic images of the vehicle and its i8 cousin, but ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Mother Nature as Engineer: 9 Design Tricks Bor ...
    See Also: Brightly Colored Bird Feathers Inspire New Kind of Laser Scientists Mimic Beetle’s Liquid Cannon Polymer Could Create Self-Healing Aircraft Architecture Fiction: Biomimetic Renewable Megacities
  • Food Prices Could Hit Tipping Point for Global ...
    When food shortages and rising prices drive people to desperation, social unrest soon follows. It’s as true today as it was in 18th-century France. According to a new analysis of food prices and unrest, the 2008 global food riots and ongoing Arab Spring may be a preview of what’s coming. “When ...
  • Big Storms Slipping Toward Earth’s Poles
    By Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica Mid-latitude storm tracks are major weather patterns that account for the majority of precipitation in the globe’s middle latitudes, which includes most of the heavily populated areas of North America, Eurasia, and Australia. Due to atmospheric circulation a ...
  • Britain’s Rarest Spider Released Back Into Wild
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Britain’s rarest spider is to set for a dramatic comeback, as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RPSB) has released the aranchid into one of the country’s hottest bug habitats. The arachnid in question is the ladybird spider — named for the bright red bodies ...
  • Hubble Photographs Dying Stars’ Glimmering Gre ...
    NASA today released a portrait of the glowing green remnants of a dying binary star system called the Necklace Nebula. Astronomers discovered the system, also known as PN G054.2-03.4, during the 2005 IPHAS sky survey. It is 9 light-years-wide and located 15,000 light years away in the constella ...

PakAlert

  • 21 Books The Ruling Elite Doesn’t Want You to Read
    The sole purpose of COINTELPRO was to destroy individuals and groups perceived as threats to the status quo in the United States. COINTELPRO was “officially” ended in 1971—although it never really ended. After the 911 attacks, the government went at it again, but this time with a scared and mo ...
  • China To US: Any Attack on Pakistan Would be C ...
    China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington’s planned attack on Pakistan will be interpreted as an act of aggression against Beijing. This blunt warning represents the first known strategic ultimatum received by the United States in half a century, going back to Soviet w ...
  • How America Could Collapse
    Scarce domestic manufacturing leaves the United States highly vulnerable to accidents and problems abroad. A few months ago, a friend in the entertainment industry told me of a new business model in Hollywood: hoarding videotapes. Apparently, the earthquake in Japan knocked offline a Sony fac ...
  • Now That U.S. Government Debt Has Been Downgra ...
    For decades, the U.S. economy was so dominant compared to the rest of the world that nobody really even challenged the status of the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency of the world. But now that U.S. government debt has been downgraded, the U.S. dollar is showing significant weakness and the U ...
  • Video: Unusual Police Activity Before London Riot
    Live TV coverage on Sky News states that local residents report unusual police activity taking place before and after officers shot dead Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London — an incident which subsequently led a protest and riots. The local Member of Parliament says that the authorities have seriou ...

Andy Worthington

  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
  • On Holiday for Two Weeks!
    Well, my friends, it has been quite a year so far, with the death of my father in February and my own rather severe illness in March and April, which had me suffering sleep deprivation at home for two weeks, then hospitalized for another two weeks, and then largely housebound for another month. ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo on the T ...
    Today, just before I began feverishly packing for my family holiday, I was delighted to take part in a one-hour interview on the “Talking Progressive Politics” Show on Blog Talk Radio with Jim Cullen in Texas and Vicki Nikolaidis in Greece. It’s been a few weeks since I spoke publicly about Guan ...
  • Michael Mansfield Defends Students’ Righ ...
    In the Observer today, the celebrated QC Michael Mansfield, who has been involved in numerous high-profile legal cases including the Guildford Four and the Stephen Lawrence murder trial, announced that he was bringing his partial retirement to an end to act on behalf of Alfie Meadows, a 20-year- ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Conservative Magazine Writer Slurs Interview S ...
    Human Events, a conservative magazine once described as Ronald Reagan’s favorite reading, published an article today entitled “The Truth about the Oath Keepers.” It detailed the group, which is mainly made up of law enforcement officials and military veterans who promise to re-swear their oath t ...
  • Unusual, Hippie-Like ‘Sovereign Citizens’ Arre ...
    Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, they’re not. Self-styled antigovernment “sovereign citizens” with dreadlocks, looking for a videotaped confrontation with law enforcement and a quick lawsuit settlement to fund their lifestyle – well, that comes closer to the real picture. That assessment, any ...
  • News Roundup for August 15, 2011
    Police in West Allis, Wis., have announced that they will pursue hate crime charges against at least one teen for the recent rash of flash mob attacks at the Wisconsin State Fair. One suspect told police that he picked out white people because they were “easy targets.” A Santa Barbara, Calif., m ...
  • Black ‘Flash Mobs’: Anti-White or Destructive ...
    An apparent wave of street rowdiness by urban black teenagers – not always accurately called “flash mobs” – has rolled across American cities, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland and Milwaukee in recent months. The phenomenon could represent the leading edge of a rise in anti-white hate a ...
  • Spokane Bombing Trial Delayed
    The unveiling of a monument to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, D.C., later this month and the trial of an alleged extremist accused of planting a bomb on the route of an MLK Day unity parade in Spokane, Wash., were set to coincide – until Friday. Would fairness and justice – h ...

change: org.

  • Demand Fullerton Police to Release Video Foota ...
    After six Fullerton Police officers beat a mentally ill, homeless man so severely on July 5 that he died from his injuries five days later, outraged residents of the Orange County, Calif., city demanded action—namely that the police chief and officers in question be held responsible. Now, Chief ...
  • Battle for Ringwood State Park Nearing Full Cl ...
    by David Wheeler, author of Wild New Jersey: Nature Adventures in the Garden State. When a state park is established, most of us rightfully assume that preservation will last forever. But in Ringwood, New Jersey, a suburban community nestled into the rugged mountai ...
  • Ringling Bros. Elephant Collapses in Anaheim
    Late at night on Sunday, August 6, in Anaheim, Calif., as the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was loading its performing animals onto boxcars, an elephant named Sarah fell from a ramp and collapsed on the ground (video). Ringling is claiming that the stumble was entirely accidental — t ...
  • Delivering 10,000 Signatures to Bank of America
    For Vera Johnson, fighting foreclosure isn't just about keeping her home. It's about keeping her job. Vera runs a thriving nursery business on her property in Seattle. Recently divorced and raising two kids, Vera needs this job to provide for her family. Last week, Vera was scheduled to have, wh ...
  • Victory! The Food Network Stops Promoting Shar ...
    Threatened sharks just swam a little closer to conservation. After many people signed a petition urging the Food Network to stop featuring shark as food, the media company removed all shark recipes from its popular Web site and issued a statement on the future use of shark at the network. “As a ...

Common Dreams -News

  • True Cost of Afghan, Iraq Wars is Anyone's Guess
    WASHINGTON — When congressional cost-cutters meet later this year to decide on trimming the federal budget, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq could represent juicy targets. But how much do the wars actually cost the U.S. taxpayer? Nobody really knows. ...
  • How Indonesia Crippled Its Own Climate Change
    SINGAPORE -- In July 2010, U.S. investor Todd Lemons and Russian energy giant Gazprom believed they were just weeks from winning final approval for a landmark forest preservation project in Indonesia. A year later, the project is close to collapse, a casualty of labyrinthine Indonesian bureaucra ...
  • GM Corn Being Developed for Fuel Instead of Food
    US farmers are growing the first corn plants genetically modified for the specific purpose of putting more ethanol in gas tanks rather than producing more food. Aid organizations warn the new GM corn could worsen a global food crisis exposed by the famine in Somalia by diverting more corn into e ...
  • Canada's Hawkish Foreign Policy at Odds with P ...
    TORONTO - Canada has flexed its military muscles, first in Afghanistan for nine years alongside NATO forces, and now in Libya in its supply of ships and combat planes for the rebel forces, but little debate has happened on the ground among Canadians themselves on this direction. A recent summer ...
  • UK Banks Fund Deadly Cluster-Bomb Industry
    British high-street banks, including two institutions that were bailed out by taxpayers, are investing hundreds of millions of pounds in companies that manufacture cluster bombs – despite a growing global ban outlawing the production and trade of the weapons. The Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds T ...

Lifehacker

  • The Fields of Gold Desktop [Featured Desktop]
    Summer is getting a little long in the tooth, but this week's featured desktop celebrates the waning summer sun in all of its beauty. Created by Flickr user Kin-Ho Ma, this desktop is beautiful, informative, and easy-to-use without being ...
  • Why You Don't Care About the Deaths of Million ...
    We have an inherent selfishness about us. It's why heroes in movies will sacrifice the world for the person s/he loves and we all find that romantic instead of disturbing. It's why we have a tendency to care a lot less about a genocide t ...
  • Ask and Answer Questions About Kitchen Gear [H ...
    Every day we're on the lookout for ways to make your work easier and your life better, but Lifehacker readers are smart, insightful folks with all kinds of expertise to share, and we want to give everyone regular access to that exceptional ...
  • Tabulate Turns All Your Chrome Browser Tabs in ...
    When you come across a single web site you want to send to a friend, that's easy to do. If you have a bunch of sites open and you want to share them all, things get a little more complex. Tabulate expedites the process of sending many UR ...
  • The Best Web Browser for Mac [Mac App Directory]
    The browser debate is pretty heated on all platforms, but we love Chrome on the Mac. It's fast, easy to use, has a great developer community, and even handles failure with grace. More��

Water Privatization

  • Bulgarian Govt Makes BGN 12 M by Privatizing C ...
    Bulgaria's government is selling "Industrial Construction Holding", a state company, to a local private investor for BGN 12.01 M, the Privatization Agency announced. The selected buyer of Industrial Construction Holding is Vodstroy 98, a Bulgarian-owned company headquartered in the eastern city ...
  • L.A. Council moves ahead with zoo privatizatio ...
    In a 9-2 vote Friday, the Los Angeles City Council passed a measure that calls for the city to begin soliciting proposals from prospective operators of the Zoo & Botanical Gardens. City officials will start reviewing responses this fall. If a contract is approved, the new operator could be in pl ...
  • Privatized This Is the Place park still relyin ...
    Privatized This Is the Place park still relying on state cash By brett prettyman The Salt Lake Tribune Published Aug 12, 2011 05:44PM MDT Privatization has been a rallying cry for critics of troubled Utah State Parks who feel private companies could do a better, more efficient job of managing th ...
  • In the US, Clean Water Is No Guarantee
    Americans use twice as much water as Europeans do and pay half as much for it. Low fees lead many Americans to take their abundant supplies for granted. Globally, most water is used for irrigation purposes, but in the US, thermoelectric generation requires more water.
  • Hard water numbers tough to swallow
    I recently read Mrs. Dalton's letter to the editor 'Current water rates are awash in inequity' (Times, July 26) and I too am concerned over the sharp increase in water rates.

Guardian

  • Facebook riot calls earn men four-year jail te ...
    Sentences handed out in Chester as lawyers and civil rights groups express alarm about 'disproportionate' punishmentsTwo men who posted messages on Facebook inciting other people to riot in their home towns have both been sentenced to four years in prison by a judge at Chester crown court.Jordan ...
  • Rick Perry attacks Ben Bernanke's 'treasonous' ...
    Texas governor's attempt to assert hawkish credentials draws criticism from moderate Republicans and White HouseThe Texas governor, Rick Perry, has staked out his challenge for the Republican presidential nomination as a hawk on economic policy by characterising the strategy of the Federal Reser ...
  • Syria ignores protests over siege of Latakia
    Assad regime continues attack on city amid calls from Turkey and regional states for halt to shelling and withdrawal of forcesThe Syrian government siege of the port city of Latakia has continued for a fourth day, despite demands from regional states that Damascus stop shelling civilian areas an ...
  • Vatican says World Youth Day is chance to conf ...
    Pope dangles 'fruits of divine grace' to excommunicated Catholics who admit, during Madrid event, to terminationsHundreds of thousands of young people descending on Madrid this week for the Catholic church's World Youth Day � which features processions, group prayers and a mass with Pope Benedic ...
  • Manchester United eyes a partial flotation on ...
    Premier League club is preparing bid to raise £610mThe Glazer family, whose ownership of Manchester United has brought unprecedented success on the field and loud protests off it, are examining proposals to raise $1bn (£610m) by floating a substantial stake on the Singapore stock exchange.The fu ...

McClatchey

  • Lack of jobs for new bridge frustrates some in ...
    EAST ST. LOUIS -- Elliott Reliford has 13 years experience as a laborer and says he's frustrated that people are coming from towns and cities far away from East St. Louis and are being allowed to work on the new Mississippi River bridge while he is still out of work.
  • Commentary: Kneecapping the 'Gang of Six'
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed on this much: Theres no room in the new deficit-cutting Supercommittee of 12 for members of the Senates Gang of Six.
  • Bachmann income disclosure lists income from f ...
    WASHINGTON — Despite repeatedly asserting that she has never received income from a family farm that has drawn federal subsidies in the past, Rep. Michele Bachmann again listed the farm as a source of income when she filed her 2010 personal financial disclosures late last week.
  • Besieged city of Hama has long been in Syrian ...
    BEIRUT, Lebanon — Raed Habbal was not a particularly devout Muslim, a relative recalls. The 19-year-old college student and scion of a socialist family in the city of Hama even occasionally took a swig of alcohol with friends, the relative says.
  • Villanova Law School censured over false admis ...
    PHILADELPHIA — Calling Villanova University Law School's grade inflation scandal reprehensible and damaging, the American Bar Association has censured the school for releasing fraudulent admissions data, but also lauded it for acting quickly to disclose the problem.

Afghanistan Sun

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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Calling All Corporate Whistleblowers: SEC Rule ...
    Today is a big day for corporate fraud detection. The Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Final Rules implementing the whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act go into effect. The SEC has simultaneously launched a new Office of the Whistlebl ...
  • IRS Guidelines Discourage Whistleblowers
    Today, Tax Analysts published an article about how Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines can result in whistleblower awards being unfairly reduced. The Government Accountability Project, No FEAR Coalition and National Whistleblowers Center sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Shulman on August ...
  • Senate Whistleblower Bill called "Bride of Fra ...
    Julia Davis, a notable whistleblower who prevailed in her struggle against the Department of Homeland Security, recently released an article concerning the reintroduction of the Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 743). Ms. Davis notes that one of the main supporte ...
  • Whistleblower Trial Against Blackwater Begins
    In 2008, two former employees brought a whistleblower lawsuit against the security firm once known as Blackwater (now named Xe Services). On July 27, the trial began in Alexandria, Virginia and is expected to last two weeks. The two whistleblowers allege that the company overcharged the federal ...
  • NWC joins in NLRB amicus to preserve collectiv ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with 26 other organizations to submit an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). At stake is the right of employees to join together for collective and class actions. This long-recognized right is under attack by forced arbitrati ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

  • Do We Really Want The First To Come Up With An ...
    Tim Lee has another excellent post on the state of the patent system these days, taking on the claim by Michael Mace that software patents are good because it stops big companies from competing with him, by questioning whether or not there's a reasonable policy rationale for this. Lee's point i ...
  • As Governments Get Censorship Happy, New Techn ...
    We've been discussing more and more movements from various governments towards censoring the internet, whether it's things as simple as "filters" of "bad sites" or more recent efforts by governments to shut down speech they don't like from people they don't like. However, as tends to be the cas ...
  • Cooley Law School Sued Over Its Supposedly 'Mi ...
    We recently wrote about how the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, whose sole actual claim to fame appears to be that it takes on more students than any other law school, was suing some online critics. It had actually filed two lawsuits, one was against some online critics, and the other was against ...
  • DailyDirt: Cures For Everything..?
    Medical technology has come a long way from leeches and barbers. But there are still a lot of horrible diseases without cures. Here are just a few projects working on some important cures. There's a gene therapy approach to treating a form of leukemia that seems effective so far on three pat ...
  • Let's Face It: S&P's Analysis Is A Joke... But ...
    There's been a lot of attention paid to S&P over the past couple weeks, after it was the first of the big three credit rating agencies to "downgrade" US debt. As we pointed out at the time, it's pretty ridiculous to get worked up over the downgrade, because it's just one company's opinion. And ...

VacTruth

  • Big Pharma’s Share in the Consumer Price Index
    Congress needs to stop emptying Big Pharma lobbyists’ deep pockets that makes it easy to swallow ‘pseudo-scientific’ information. Congress needs to rein in on the overwhelming push to medicalize American citizens.
  • Time to Say “Enough!”
    There comes a time in everyone’s consciousness and life when one realizes that too many things are going off beam and that life is becoming more problematic day by day, especially now when it comes to our health, which probably is our most valued personal possession, and which seems to be underm ...
  • How To Find The Poisons In Vaccines In 5 Secon ...
    This short video shows you how to find the poisons in vaccines in 5 seconds or less.
  • Murdoch’s Vaccine World
    Everyone by now has heard about the phone tapping scandal that rocked both the British newspaper world and Rupert Murdoch’s business empire. But what needs to be spotlighted, I think, is the possible role that Murdoch’s London Times may have played in the professional evisceration of respected B ...
  • The FDA Approved New DPT Vaccine For Seniors
    It has been announced that a new vaccine has been approved by the FDA for the over 65's. GlaxoSmithKline’s Boostrix vaccine is said to be able to protect the elderly from diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough). The vaccine was originally approved for use in adolescents in 2005.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m still missing most everything, but I managed to catch a few bits of news. Indigenous people in Ecuador are being targeted for protest. The Eastern Navajo Diné filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the hopes of stopping uranium mining.  The petition is wor ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This will be another short one, I’m afraid. Perhaps you all could help me out, since I haven’t been able to do too much blog reading. If you read nothing else, please read this piece on the government eugenics sterilization program. It is just…. I am speechless. This is a good overview of the ba ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Work is still kicking my ass and keeping me away from the internets. But I have managed to read enough to be annoyed. This op-ed from the Council on Foreign Relations says that we need to raise the debt ceiling because, if we do not, then: 1. We will be forced to cut defense spending and [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I suspect it will be another week before I can complete part two to that media post. I want to finish reading A Mixtape Manifesto first. And The Economist put out a whole media’ issue that I haven’t gotten around to yet. I’ll have something for you though. Related to Thursday’s post on the socia ...
  • Deal Breaker
    I recently read The World That Never Was. I really liked it, despite the fact that it includes a gazillion people and can be hard to follow (even for someone who was familiar with many of the players). The book basically covers the period between Haymarket and WWI. There is one part of the book ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
    The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
  • Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
    In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
  • اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
    My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اÙباما ÙÙÙد اÙسÙطرة عÙ٠اÙÙم٠تخاطر اÙÙÙاÙات اÙمتحدة بتمÙÙ٠اÙÙاعدة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙتÙÙÙر اÙشعب اÙÙÙ…Ù٠ع٠طرÙ٠إحباط تغÙÙر اÙÙظام ÙÙا٠Ùتبت – جÙÙ ÙÙÙا٠Ùعتبر اÙÙم٠بÙد معÙØ¯Ø ÙÙد ظ٠Ùر ...
  • Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
    After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
  • Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
    Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...

Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
    Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
    Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
    John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
    Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Art Katz: The Hebraic Roots Of The Faith
    Dandelion Salad http://www.benisrael.org/ http://artkatzministries.org/ sermonindex on Jul 13, 2011 Used By Permission Of Art Katz Ministries. artkatzministries.org see Art Katz: Israel, The Suffering Servant The Jewish Foundation of Christianity The Time of Jacob’s Trouble by Art Katz Jewish Ma ...
  • Dorothy Day: Change begins with oneself (repost)
    Dandelion Salad Dorothy Day: journalist, Catholic activist, non-violent anarchist, Wobblie, succor to the poor of inner cities across America. Day willingly lived the fertile ground of voluntary poverty as a site of Love–the love she held for her God as well as the love (caritas) she expressed f ...
  • Capitalism Is The Crisis with Chris Hedges, De ...
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 10, 2011 CapitalismCrisis on Aug 9, 2011 Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity examines the ideological roots of the “austerity” agenda and proposes revolutionary paths out of the current crisis. The film fe ...
  • Farewell Content: Class Wars and Ass Wars By G ...
    By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 12, 2011 âFarewell the tranquil mind!  Farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars That make ambition virtue!â — William Shakespeare (Othello) âIt would be supererogatory for me to list those areas in which thoughtful Ame ...
  • Our Red, White and Blue Dictatorship by Ed Dunphy
    by Ed Dunphy Guest Writer Dandelion Salad August 12, 2011 In contemporary usage, dictatorship refers to an autocratic form of absolute rule by leadership unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state. This writer takes no satisfaction for this applica ...

Your New Reality

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    Now everyone has a camera, every accident and tragedy has a high-definition clip online within minutes. The stage collapses at the Indiana State Fair yesterday, in 100kmh winds, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens : The aftermath :
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    Tea Party hijacker, and Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is getting some sympathy, even from the Daily Show's Jon Stewart, for Newsweek magazine purposely choosing a bad photo of her for this recent cover : Redditers, however, think she got off lightly with Newsweek ...
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    Police in the UK are now free to brutally beat teenagers on the night streets of a city like Manchester, and they are cheered for doing so : The UK police state, it only gets worse, and more brutal, from here on in.
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    England is now using digital billboards to broadcast surveillance images of people wanted for minor crimes. screengrab from ABC News Australia None of the British bankers and financial experts who played their part in the looting that caused the global financial crisis have had thei ...
  • No title
    The Installation Of The British Police State Is Now Being Televised First the UK riots, then MPs get a free run to pass almost every law they want to licence social networking and internet use, to arm most police with plastic bullets and to install regimes of lockdowns and curfews for "trou ...

Wired - Science

  • Mother Nature as Engineer: 9 Design Tricks Bor ...
    See Also: Brightly Colored Bird Feathers Inspire New Kind of Laser Scientists Mimic Beetle’s Liquid Cannon Polymer Could Create Self-Healing Aircraft Architecture Fiction: Biomimetic Renewable Megacities
  • Food Prices Could Hit Tipping Point for Global ...
    When food shortages and rising prices drive people to desperation, social unrest soon follows. It’s as true today as it was in 18th-century France. According to a new analysis of food prices and unrest, the 2008 global food riots and ongoing Arab Spring may be a preview of what’s coming. “When ...
  • Big Storms Slipping Toward Earth’s Poles
    By Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica Mid-latitude storm tracks are major weather patterns that account for the majority of precipitation in the globe’s middle latitudes, which includes most of the heavily populated areas of North America, Eurasia, and Australia. Due to atmospheric circulation a ...
  • Britain’s Rarest Spider Released Back Into Wild
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Britain’s rarest spider is to set for a dramatic comeback, as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RPSB) has released the aranchid into one of the country’s hottest bug habitats. The arachnid in question is the ladybird spider — named for the bright red bodies ...
  • Hubble Photographs Dying Stars’ Glimmering Gre ...
    NASA today released a portrait of the glowing green remnants of a dying binary star system called the Necklace Nebula. Astronomers discovered the system, also known as PN G054.2-03.4, during the 2005 IPHAS sky survey. It is 9 light-years-wide and located 15,000 light years away in the constella ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Akiva Eldar: Israel will use Palestinian UN bi ...
    This time, too, Israel will accuse the Arabs of unilateral steps, ignore the United Nations, expand settlements in the West Bank, and build more neighborhoods for Jews in East Jerusalem. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in it ...
  • Alon Idan: Israel’s social protesters mustn’t ...
    It's no accident that the outlines of extreme capitalism, a policy based on the continual splintering of society due to competition among people, is inherent within the occupation. Anyone who travels... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
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    Moshé Machover: "He had precisely what we lacked then – a consistent and comprehensive grasp of the Zionist settlement process and especially its impact on Arab society in Palestine. We acquired from... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
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    State Department announcement comes in light of Hamas demands to audit the books of US charities, New York Times reports, which would violate U.S. policy against direct contacts with Hamas. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
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    As the movement grows, some will continue to think and demand "justice" within the borders of one nation, at the expense of the other nation that lives in this land. Others will understand that this... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • First Il-76MD transport to fly in Feb 2012
    Russia's Aviastar aircraft factory will produce the first production Il-76MD transport aircraft this year and test fly it in February 2012, a management source in the plant said at the international MAKS airshow on Tuesday.
  • Russian commander says MiG-35 equal to U.S. F- ...
    The Russian army will use new MiG-35D multirole fighters as an equal to the U.S. F-35 fighters, the Air Force chief said on Tuesday.
  • Russia’s Air Force commander sets out new plans
    The Russian Air Force is proceeding steadily with its re-equipment program despite unresolved questions about funding and deliveries of equipment, commander Col Gen. Alexander Zelin said on Tuesday on the first day of the MAKS air show.
  • Russian first stealth fighter jet 'to enter se ...
    Russia's new stealth fighter jet will enter service in 2014-2015, the country's air force chief said on Tuesday.
  • Oboronprom to boost contract portfolio to $21b ...
    Russia's state-owned United Industrial Corporation (Oboronprom), which produces helicopters, aircraft engines and air defense systems, plans to sign contracts worth a total of $21 billion by the end of 2011, chief executive officer Andrei Reus told reporters on Tuesday.

NewsWise

  • Salk Institute Named Global Leader in Plant Bi ...
    Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators has seeded the Salk Institute as the number one research organization for plant biology in the world.
  • New Tool Matches Medical Treatment Data to New ...
    A team of researchers at Duke University Medical Center wants to automate and optimize the process of developing IMRT treatment plans. They've developed a tool that draws on prior clinically approved treatment plans to create new plans and are working with RENCI to improve the tool.
  • ORNL Microscopy Generates New View of Fuel Cells
    A novel microscopy method is helping scientists probe the reactions that limit widespread deployment of fuel cell technologies.
  • Ocean's Dangerous Doorstep
    More beachgoers are injured just feet from shore than by rip tides each year at Delaware's beaches. Researchers in Delaware examine how simply playing in the ocean can lead to ruptured spleens, spinal injuries and death.
  • Researchers Discover Oldest Evidence of Nails ...
    From hot pink to traditional French and Lady Gaga's sophisticated designs, manicured nails have become the grammar of fashion.

Natural Health News

  • Has Any Company Ever Harmed the Planet More th ...
    With long-running corporate sponsorships like Disney’s Tomorrowland behind them, food giant Monsanto has managed to saturate the earth with five products that have changed both our health and the way we manage Earth’s resources. The sponsorships make this company look good – but the list that Ta ...
  • Is this Industrial Chemical Ruining the Health ...
    A new study evaluated the impact of phthalates � an industrial chemical � on reproductive outcomes and children�s health by reviewing some of the most recently published literature. According to the authors, the results suggest that: � ��� there are strong and rather consistent indications ...
  • 7 'Fat Habits' that Keep You Fat
    Did you know that simply changing a few everyday habits could be the solution to taking off unwanted pounds? That�s what viewers and readers of Today Health learned in a recent story on seven habits that can keep you fat. According to Joy Bauer, Today contributor, you can help yourself lose weig ...
  • How Statins Really Work Explains Why They Don' ...
    A new look at statins from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claims that no study has ever proven that statins improve all-cause mortality � in other words, they don�t prolong your life any longer than if you�d not taken them at all. And rather than improving your life, they actually c ...
  • Why Are Physicians Deluded about Cholesterol?
    Could it be possible that everything your doctor�s telling you about high cholesterol and how it relates to heart disease and strokes is wrong? In a thought-provoking two-part series, Dr. Ernest N. Curtis, a doctor of internal medicine and cardiology is now challenging decades-old studies that s ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Looking Forward to the Days Ahead
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    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness Opinio Juris is pleased to welcome for an extended guest-blogging stint our friend and frequent contributor, John Dehn.  John holds the rank of Major in the U.S. Army and currently serves as Senior Fellow at the Center for the Rule of Law at the U.S. Mil ...
  • Welcome Guest Blogger John Dehn
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness Opinio Juris is pleased to welcome for an extended guest-blogging stint our friend and frequent contributor, John Dehn.  John holds the rank of Major in the U.S. Army and currently serves as Senior Fellow at the Center for the Rule of Law at the U.S. Mil ...
  • Post-Conflict Potter
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Read the Harry Potter books and/or seen all the movies?  Concerned about the post-conflict issues after the end of the War with Osama bin Laden Voldemort? The folks at Foreign Policy have got your back, tying together recent articles on post-conflict studies wit ...
  • Post-Conflict Potter
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Read the Harry Potter books and/or seen all the movies?  Concerned about the post-conflict issues after the end of the War with Osama bin Laden Voldemort? The folks at Foreign Policy have got your back, tying together recent articles on post-conflict studies wit ...
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