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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 III

Public News Service

  • AZ Among Worst States for Family Food Hardship
    AZ Among Worst States for Family Food Hardship Phoenix, AZ – Arizona ranks 7th worst among the states for food hardship among families with children, according to a new report from the Food Research and Action Center. Among cities, Tucson was 15th worst for food insecurity and metro Phoenix was ...
  • Educators: Parent Involvement Vital in Kids&#8 ...
    Educators: Parent Involvement Vital in Kids’ Sexuality Education Phoenix, AZ – As Arizona kids head back to classes, schools are increasingly emphasizing the importance of parental involvement in their education. A PTA official and a sex educator says the concept becomes even more vital in the d ...
  • Arizona's Long-Term Drought the New Norm, say ...
    Arizona's Long-Term Drought the New Norm, say Climate Scientists Phoenix, AZ – While the current Arizona drought is the result of naturally varying conditions, climate scientists predict much more of the same in coming decades because of long-term warming trends. Comments from Richard Seager (SE ...
  • AZ Schools Find New Ways to Involve Parents
    AZ Schools Find New Ways to Involve Parents Phoenix, AZ – As a new school year begins, Arizona parents are moving beyond their traditional school helper roles to becoming full partners in the education of their children. And schools are developing innovative parent engagement programs. Comments ...
  • Office Stress Expert: AZ Social Workers Risk B ...
    Office Stress Expert: AZ Social Workers Risk Burnout Phoenix, AZ – Arizona social workers and others in similar professions face a high potential of burnout, because of job-related stress. But recognizing that stress can make it easier to deal with. Comments from Jennifer Powell, attorney, lice ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Lawsuit To Halt GE Crops On Southeastern Refuges
    Genetically Engineered Crops on 25 Refuges in 8 States Are Illegal A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks to end cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) crops on twenty-five national wildlife refuges across the U.S. Southeast.  The suit is ...
  • U.S. Congress Turns Up The Heat On Genetically ...
    23 Members of Congress say “GE fish would not be in the public interest” NEWLY PUBLISHED STUDIES HIGHLIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF ESCAPED GE FISH Members of Congress turned up the heat on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday, sending strongly worded, bipartisan letters calling ...
  • U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Amendment ...
    Sixty-Seven Organizations and Businesses Endorse Amendment;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its decision yesterday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving genetically eng ...
  • FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
    Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Gordon Campbell : On the Government’s latest p ...
    Gordon Campbell - On the Government’s latest plans to Americanise the welfare system: "What is it about National’s plans for welfare reform and natural disasters? On the same day in February that the Welfare Working Group released its loopy agenda of reform proposals – which included the option ...
  • C.L.R. James: A Biographical Introduction
    C.L.R. James: A Biographical Introduction: "C.L.R. James' The Black Jacobins, first published in 1938, was a forbidden book in South Africa until the recent dismantling of apartheid. It's not hard to see why. James researched his account of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian slave uprising wi ...
  • Tasers Implicated in Excited Delirium Deaths : NPR
    Tasers Implicated in Excited Delirium Deaths : NPR: Medical Condition or Legal Cover? Civil-liberties groups fear that the diagnosis is being used to cover up police abuse — and to protect companies like Taser International from lawsuits. Taser International, the company that makes stu ...
  • Angela Davis: make prisons obsolete | Green Le ...
    Angela Davis: make prisons obsolete | Green Left Weekly Distinguished US activist, writer and former political prisoner Angela Davis addressed a public forum in Sydney on August 11 organised by the prisoner rights group Sisters Inside. Davis was a keynote speaker at the Sisters Inside's 6th Int ...
  • Anarchists respond to the London riots - Solid ...
    Anarchists respond to the London riots - Solidarity Federation | libcom.org With media sources blaming “anarchy” for the unfolding violence in London and across England, the North London Solidarity Federation has released the following statement as a response from an anarchist organisation activ ...

Pensieve

  • Monster Mask – Pomplamoose
    Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn. They are an indie band whose medium of choice is YouTube. As a result of their success, they are now selling their music on iTunes as well. What sets them apart, besides their enormous talent in arrangement, playing multiple inst ...
  • Terry Gilliam’s Do It Yourself Animation Show
    This video shows old-school animation techniques that translate very well into flash animation. Using cut-outs makes animation musch simpler. With flash, shape-based characters can easily be created and stored in libraries, and used like paper cutouts, but without the hassles seen in the video. ...
  • Anonymous to “Destroy” Facebook on Nov. 5
    The hacking collective Anonymous has called its “legions” of hackers to “destroy” Facebook on November the 5, 2011. Novemeber the 5th has special significance for the group as that date of the foiled gunpowder plot planned by Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators. Guy Fawkes was the inspiration of ...
  • Sinister and Hilarious, Party in the CIA
    Move over Jonathan Swift, Wierd Al Yancovic is my new favorite political satirist. This song is a parody of the much-ballyhooed “Party in the USA” by Miley Cyrus. Does anyone else think that the head of state mistakenly assassinated in this video looked a little like former Colombian president A ...
  • 150 Free Google+ Invitations
    I’ve been using Google Plus since it’s second week, and am excited about its potential. Google needs to address a few issues, like being able to collapse posts, an easier way to manage contacts after you’ve put them in circles, and not forcing users to reveal their identity. Still, it’s a very ...

Green Times

  • The world experience
      As this signs shows, the world is huge, and cities and places to see are innumerable. Travelling is such a unique and amazing experience, not just to contemplate beautiful landscapes but also to learn and share different cultures.   Although most forms of travel produce carbon emissions (gl ...
  • Go Green Tips ~ to Save Energy
    Looking for tips and tricks to help live a more environmentally-sensitive lifestyle? Try out some of our favourite tips to help you save energy…
  • Environmental News 29/07/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • WOW!
    How to save a humpback whale! Humpback whales are an endangered species (wildlife/endangered-species.html), and are still a target for the whaling "industry". Since the whaling moratorium was introduced in 1966, their population has partially recovered; however, entanglement in fishing g ...
  • Environmental News 28/07/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israel’s Tahrir [1]: Will the Revolution ...
    Ok… a little bird told me there was this teeny, modest wavelet of demonstrations in Israel, so maybe it’s time I write something about it. (snark, snark; actually my mom, two of my siblings and a couple of nieces were among those 4-5% of Israel’s population, over 300,000 people, taking to the st ...
  • Report on Summer Camps at Susya and Umm-Al-Kheir
    The summer camps at Susya and Umm-Al-Kheir have just ended. Both camps are organized locally, and funded with the help of outside donors. Villages Group activists help arrange these funds, work with organizers to help meet their needs, and – most rewardingly – visit the camps to interact with th ...
  • Freedom Theatre Update: First rule about being ...
     `Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. `No, no!’ said the Queen. `Sentence first–verdict afterwards.’ Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Here’s an update about the latest arrest at the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp. The previous ...
  • Antisemitism and Political Blogging: Personal ...
    My 5-year involvement with this site has been somewhat intermittent. Although I love to blog, there is still this other pesky thing called “life” that often tends to take precedence. At other times, despair about my main blogging subject (Israel-Palestine, hereafter I-P), and the apparent futili ...
  • Israeli Army ambushes Freedom Theater
    Soldiers have stormed the Freedom Theatre of Jenin, whose co-founder Juliano Mer-Khamis was slain earlier this year. URGENT PRESS RELEASE From The Freedom Theater Foundation, Jenin, Palestine 04.46 (gmt+2), July 27, 2011 Special Forces of the Israeli Army attacked the Freedom Theater in Jenin Re ...

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • Manifest Skeptology
    I hate the term ‘Manifesto’.  Every time I read it I imagine some religious cult promoting a complex yet divinely unquestionalbe truth.  A skeptic manifesto is an oxymoron by birth — almost.  It fixes your position and in an improper fashion.  Without much thought, a manifesto would seem to ...
  • A more detailed reply to Pat Frank – Part 1
    We’ve been discussing Pat Franks recent temperature uncertainty publications for quite some time on this other thread. I’m not pleased to say that nearly zero ground has been made in understanding the problems in this work and even some very sharp people have missed the mark. I’ll give it an hou ...
  • Disclosure by Proxy??
    Steve McIntyre has posted on something we’ve discussed behind the scenes for some time now.  It was a weekend morning at the end of January 2010 when I got the call from Guardian reporter David Leigh for asking for Patrick Condon.  Now, the interesting thing about it was that I had not release ...
  • You Sure?
    Don’t let anyone tell you that the science is settled on AGW.  Judith Curry has an interesting post on just what might be causing CO2 increases other than mankind.  Hell, even I was convinced that man likely caused CO2 increases.   It appears that there is some evidence that the CO2 rise may ...
  • Extreme
    When those who would control spending are the extremists, what does it say for our future?  Of all things the Tea Party movement stands for, the central issue is spending control.  The mainstream media ensures that the Tea Party is continually painted as extremist yet this simple central point i ...

Focal Point

  • Dan Savage Asks What to Tell a Guy in a Sexles ...
    To be fair, Dan Savage wasn't talking to me. I was just listening in on this fight he's having with some people he calls the "monogamusts." I think a monogamust is someone who champions monogamous marriage as the universal human ideal and condemns all other kinds of intimate relationships. Or ma ...
  • Hallelujah, I'm a Bum! Or, Why a Hobo-Themed W ...
    From Amanda, I learn that a couple decided--apparently of their own free will--to have a hobo-themed wedding.� Lest you think this post comes from a place of knee-jerk anti-hobo animus, let me assure you that I love Utah Phillips and Ted Conover as much as anyone you will ever meet. I unders ...
  • Video: A Mariachi Band Serenades a Beluga Whale
    In my Room 101, I am this beluga: Watch. HT: Loren Beyerstein. �Read More
  • How Many Swastikas Does a Guy Have to Tattoo o ...
    Here's a strange story: Erica Herrera plans to marry Curtis Allgier, even though he's an incarcerated alleged murderer with white supremacist tattoos all over his face and she's not white. (Full-sized image) Herrera attempts to explain her decision to the Associated Press in terms of kind of . ...
  • New York Owl Felled By Herpes
    City investigators have determined that a great horned own found dead in Inwood Hill Park last month succumbed to avian herpes. The virus is not transmissible to humans. [Photo credit: Great horned owl by Vicki's Nature, Creative Commons.]Read More

Inside Facebook

  • Platform Update: Credits Insights, Platform Po ...
    Amongst a flurry of announcements about changes to games on its platform, Facebook recently updated the Developers Blog regarding the addition of a new Insights analytics tab for Facebook Credits. The latest Platform Update also included announcements about how app-to-user request notification ...
  • Featured Facebook Campaigns: Pizza Hut, Domino ...
    Brands used everything from coupons to nostalgia to recruit Likes on their Facebook Pages this week. Pizza Hut gave out coupons, while Domino’s Pizza gave out free pizzas with a side of nostalgia, then there were sweepstakes for guitars, cars and vacations from Clearasil, Super8 and Cost Plus Wo ...
  • Buddy Media Raises $54 Million Fourth Round Th ...
    In a move that could accelerate the consolidation of ecommerce, marketing games, and Facebook Ads API companies into Page management giants, Buddy Media has raised a $54 million Series D round of funding. The funding comes from late-stage investors GGV Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Ba ...
  • Mobile, Pages, Calendars, Quizzes, Dating and ...
    Facebook’s mobile application topped our list of the fastest growing by monthly active users this week, and then Page tab apps, calendar apps in several languages, quizzes and dating apps filled out the list. The titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from be ...
  • This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
    Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network this past week. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Monday, August 8th, 2011 Emerging Paid iOS Apps: Zeptolab’s New Cut The Rope Title, Lockify Gamevil’s Smartphone Revenues ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Pakistan Punished in Pipelinestan, Moving Toward Guerilla War in Afghanistan, Drone Strikes as Police Work!, Israel Withheld Evidence in Killing, The Assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai & More! I am going to start with a piece of news you all have already seen and read. I am listing this only bec ...
  • Brushfire with Julia: Freedom to Withhold Info ...
    Department of Homeland Security Finds FOIA to be “Politically undesirable”!  In theory, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) guarantees the legal right of the American public to obtain federal agency records. Judicially enforceable, FOIA was designed to ensure public access to Executive Branch ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Time for Upping the Iran Propaganda … Again, Pakistan: Tide In-Tide Out, South Sudan Independence & What it’s Really About, Israelis Torture of Children in the Occupied Territories, Torture Whitewash & More   Here are two news articles on Pakistan-US relations (While reading the following recall ...
  • Part III. A Watch-Dog for All Seasons
    Carnegie Corporation: We Love POGO, So Does the Entire US Government! In the spring of 2010 the Carnegie Corporation issued a glowing report on their favorite government watchdog Project on Government Oversight (POGO). The report was meant to justify and showcase the large grants given to POGO b ...

Afro Spear

  • “Mayor Nutter’s City of Tough Love ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter went where few black  leaders have gone. And I think I can count those other who did on one hand. Nutter dared speak truth to action on the critical state of black youth in this country. In an address confronting increasing youth v ...
  • Is Britain cascading into third “worldne ...
    What recently transpired in the UK, unearthed a hidden malady of racism and hypocrisy. We used to believe that the UK is an ideal society that promotes and protects human rights, prosperity and equality. We goofed. UK we used to superficially know is different from the real and true one. Had thi ...
  • Save The Children East Africa Appeal
    Donate here
  • “Is feminism really un-African?” b ...
    Very interesting post and conversation. I encourage any comments to be made at original post (here).  As my feminist consciousness has developed the more I’ve become aware, both explicitly and implicitly, that there is a popular notion that feminism is un-African. Every time I write a post about ...
  • Niggazz are Wannaa-bee Gangstazz
    Football is a violent sport. No doubt it plays into the gladiator blood sport mythos of days gone by. It’s also BIG business. I’ve heard that the current labour dispute between the owners and players is at the root, really about how to divvy up $9 billion is yearly revenue… basically the owner ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

  • OdeLive presents health pioneer Johan Boswinkel
    By: Ode Warning! This story is about a man who has developed a groundbreaking new therapy: healing with light. The man is not a doctor. Nor is he an accredited scientist. His proof is rather anecdotal, and yes, countless skeptics are eagerly lining up to attack ...
  • Three creative ways people are bringing hope a ...
    By: Anne Thomas Even though the initial intensity of the March 11 disaster has subsided, many people still feel a deep tugging to help Japanese disaster victims. Since that subtle pull is strong and persistent, people are finding very creative ways to bring hop ...
  • Saying goodbye to David Servan-Schreiber
    By: Ode Ode columnist David Servan-Schreiber died on the evening of Sunday, July 24. He was 50. A professor of psychiatry in the US and France, Servan-Schreiber wrote the bestselling Anticancer: A New Way of Life and The Instinct to Heal, both read around the w ...
  • Meditating on Pema Chödrön's 'Dusk on the River'
    By: Anne Thomas Although my main job is in a university, I also teach privately. My favorite of those lessons is an advanced English class for adults. I have been teaching them for many years, so we have become good friends. Since they are well educated and tal ...
  • Women broadcasting peace in Brazil
    By: PeaceCorso So of course you know how once something enters your conscious awareness, you see it everywhere. You will not be surprised that Brazil is showing up all over my reality. Here’s a wonderful story about women in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro broad ...

OpEd News

  • Room 101
    File this one under some people will believe anything, after over a week of market volatility caused by manufactured crisis's the news media tells a worried public, "Its alright now, you can go back to sleep. There will be no recession, move along, nothing to see here."
  • Economic End Times
    Economic Depression
  • Netanyahu Spurns Social Justice Demands
    Class war
  • Michele Bachmann Wins Ames Straw Poll, Tim Paw ...
    Michele Bachmann won an important victory, but the presidential race has just started.
  • Save Medicare and Medicaid by Issuing Debt-Fre ...
    This article is intentionally brief. Medicare and Medicaid are in danger of further cuts (whitewashed as "entitlement reform"). Congress could instead issue debt-free United States Money (analogous to the paper United States Notes issued 1862-1971) in some reasonable amount. This would be a way ...

Switchboard

  • California Coastal Dreaming, Take 2
    Annie Notthoff, California Advocacy Director, San Francisco office and Sacramento    Stillwater Cove, Monterey County Looking out at the waves of Monterey Bay, with sand between my toes and the summer coastal fog wrapping me in its arms, I once ...
  • CNN's mountaintop removal doc garners praise, ...
    Melissa Waage, Campaign Director, Washington, DC CNN’s documentary on mountaintop removal, The Battle for Blair Mountain, aired last night and is burning up the web today. Thanks to everyone who tuned in and followed the conversation on Twitter la ...
  • Power Shift 2011: Back for More!
    Kelly Henderson, Climate Center Program Assistant, Washington, D.C. Four months ago, I joined almost 10,000 college students and young adults at the Washington, D.C. Convention Center to prove to the world that when it comes to the environment, we ...
  • Poultry that are not fed antibiotics have much ...
    Avinash Kar, Staff Attorney, San Francisco The turkey recall I recently blogged about has focused a spotlight on the issue of antibiotic resistance, as evidenced by the recent widespread news coverage of a new study showing that poultry farmers wh ...
  • NRDC Helps Win Protections for Vulnerable Sout ...
    David Newman, Oceans Program Attorney, New York Last week, I reported that the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC) was on the verge of removing more than three dozen fish species from protective management.  Ironically, this short-si ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Perry: The Radical Alternative to Bachmann
    Now that he has made his intention to run official, Rick Perry should be considered one of the two frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. His selling points to the Republican base are clear: he has more obvious appeal to the conservative base than former pro-choicer and ...
  • Grand Old Arsehole of the Day
    Kris Jordan.
  • Brown Sugar
    Another entry tonight from Elizabeth Fries Ellet’s New Cyclopaedia of Domestic Economy, and Practical Housekeeper, from 1871. This bit is on adulterated sugar. “The sugar, if it be brown, without taking note of such items as a little lead, a good deal of sand, some clay and flour is pretty nearl ...
  • The Mystery of Rick Perry’s “Fed U ...
    Scott’s post makes me wonder just when Rick Perry started thinking seriously about running for president. Yglesias points out that the book Fed Up, which appeared under Perry’s name nine months ago, argues that the modern administrative state is basically unconstitutional (with a bit of hedging ...
  • In Fairness, Quoting Perry *Is* Devastating
    You will also remember this technique from Republican Supreme Court nominations, but apparently the new winger line is that it’s a completely unfair smear to accurately quote Rick Perry’s views. And, in a sense, it is! More on Perry in a bit…

Desert Research Institute

  • ASCENT Connecting women in atmospheric sciences
    Atmospheric Science Collaborations and Enriching Networks (ASCENT) is a program focusing on women in atmospheric science/meteorology. It’s designed to initiate positive professional relationships among female faculty of different ranks and postdoctoral researchers.
  • DRI and UNR Scientists Help Agencies Preserve ...
    DRI and The University of Nevada have highly cooperative, productive and ongoing research programs across a variety of topics in the Lake Tahoe Basin that are doing their best to provide quality science to inform basin managers and policymakers.
  • Storm Peak Lab Celebrates the 4th of July and ...
    There is nothing like a small-town parade on the 4th of July. The scientists and volunteers at the DRI Storm Peak Lab (SPL) in Steamboat Springs, Colo. participated in this year’s Steamboat Springs Fourth of July Parade. The parade theme was the “Greatest Summer on Earth.”
  • In Memoriam: DRI President Dr. James V. Taranik
    President of DRI in 1987, Dr. James V. Taranik was internationally known for his research in aerospace remote sensing, and his professional career had already included senior positions with NASA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Iowa Geological Survey, and the University of Iowa.
  • DRI Researcher Earns Grant to Study the Season ...
    A DRI researcher will lead a team that is heading to Antarctica to study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • 4th Circuit: Anti-retaliation provision of wag ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has ruled that a job applicant can't bring a retaliation lawsuit against a prospective employer under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Specifically, the court found that a company that refused to hire an applicant because she brought a FLSA case against ...
  • MGA seeks hefty bond while Mattel pursues Brat ...
    Bratz doll manufacturer MGA Entertainment Inc. is asking that Mattel Inc. post a $464.83 million bond while the Barbie manufacturer appeals a jury's $88 million trade-secrets theft verdict against it.
  • CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING & BANKRUPTCY: A SPECIA ...
    From covering the debate over whether the Supreme Court's ruling in Stern v. Marshall will create inefficiency and increase delays to examining why Chapter 11 business filings are lower than many expected, this special report delves into recent trends in bankruptcy litigation.
  • SOCIAL MEDIA: Are you beer-worthy?
    Beer-worthiness speaks to the question, "Is this someone you would enjoy talking to, strategizing with and taking a break with when you aren't in the heat of litigation?" How do we achieve this status?
  • OPINION: House GOP can't block recess appointments
    Obama should feel free to make appointments at any time when the Senate is not sitting as a deliberative body.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Controversial billboard depicting contaminated ...
    The Sautners from Dimock put up a billboard that has a picture of their dirty water and the words “FIX IT” on Rt. 29 in the heart of Cabot Oil & Gas territory. As soon as it went up, they held a press conference.  Angry pro-gas neighbors were also there –  and Cabot spokesman George Stark. [...]
  • Waterdog Training August 11th
    Below is note from Erica about the upcoming Waterdog training at Ives Run. Hello Everyone I just wanted to remind everyone that we are hosting another Advanced Waterdog Training on August 11th at Ives Run from 5-9 pm.  Please let me know if you can make it and also please feel free to share it [...]
  • PennFuture files federal lawsuit against Marce ...
    Harrisburg, PA (July 21, 2011) – Citizens for Pennsylvania‟s Future (PennFuture) filed a lawsuit today in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania against Ultra Resources, Inc., for air pollution at its Marcellus Shale drilling sites, which violates the federal Cl ...
  • Advanced Waterdog Training in August
    An advanced Waterdog training will take place on August 11th. Details from the flyer are below. Hello Waterdogs, I wanted to invite all of you to our Advanced Waterdog Training on August 11 from 5:00—9:00. This training will only be for people who have already attended the initial training. We w ...
  • A Substitute for Tears…
    Two fellows that have had profound effects on the music in my life have each written songs about the gas drilling and want to preserve the beauty and purity of places they have come to know and love in Pennsylvania. Check out Van Wagner’s tune here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trxrh_FmPeI&fea ...

News Blaze

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

Red Ice Creations

  • Pedophiles in Hollywood - Amoral. Disgusting. ...
    How’s this for a deal: If you’re a director on a movie, and you’re directing a child as your star, and you molest the child-- you don’t get to direct another movie! Not the case with Victor Salva, the Hollywood director who molested one of his child stars, yet continues to make movies with kids, ...
  • Casting Couch Nightmares: What Does It Take to ...
    Related: Degenerates in Hollywood The casting couch -- trading sexual favors for a role, representation or anything that will help an aspiring performer take that next step to stardom -- is alive and well in Hollywood. Megan Fox told British GQ that she was “heartbroken” over the number of legen ...
  • Paedophilia is Hollywood's Biggest Problem, Ex ...
    Actor Corey Feldman has sensationally claimed that his Lost Boys co-star Corey Haim was the victim of a paedophile who was also a Hollywood mogul. The Lost Boys actor said he was 'literally surrounded' by paedophiles at the age of 14, but didn't realise 'until I was much older what they were and ...
  • Breakthrough: Electronic circuits that are int ...
    A team of engineers today announced a discovery that could change the world of electronics forever. Called an "epidermal electronic system" (EES), it’s basically an electronic circuit mounted on your skin, designed to stretch, flex, and twist — and to take input from the movements of your body. ...
  • UFOs, Aliens, and the Question of Contact
    This video explores the secrecy surrounding the greatest cover-up of all time, presenting an overview of the UFO phenomenon, aliens, abductions, disclosure, and hyperdimensional realities. Based on "UFOs, Aliens and the Question of Contact". Our views on life and existence, science and religion, ...

Russia Today

  • Eurobonds off Merkel-Sarkozy summit agenda
    The French and German leaders will not discuss Eurobonds during their meeting in Paris on Tuesday.
  • UK Yob Generation bites the hand that beats it ...
    The UK riots may come as a shock to many but not to anyone who has had their wits about them. That is the view of Francis Gilbert, author of Yob Nation and frequent commentator on youth culture.
  • "Asia to bear brunt of US money-printing"
    America’s plan to cope with its economic woes by printing more money will only lead to more inflationary headaches worldwide and especially in Asia, believes Hong Kong investment adviser Puru Saxena.
  • Billions cleared for take-off at MAKS airshow
    The ongoing biennial MAKS aviation show near Moscow is showcasing billions of dollars’ worth of new technology as the future of the world’s civilian and military aviation gather on one spot.
  • American majority wants Cuban embargo lifted
    Poll after poll show a growing number of Americans want an end to the US embargo on Cuba. It has been in place for over half a century and though it was designed to bring down Fidel Castro, it is Cuba’s citizens who...

Not My Tribe

  • Capital is a Treasonous offense.
    So now Britain got “Shell”ed in their own territory waters and the once-proud Royal Navy is facing the same kind of humiliation handed to the once-proud U.S. Navy in OUR territorial waters. Our navy got bitch-slapped by the British, told to scurry off and mind their own affairs and let the Grown ...
  • The wondrous tale of Brer Lamborn, Brer FOX, a ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS- If US Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) remembered one thing from the Uncle Remus stories, it was not to touch that Tar Baby! You know, the one Brer Rabbit once mistook for a cute black infant who wouldn’t tip his hat to his better. Or was it a Porch-Monkey? Colorado Springs District 5 ...
  • Who has got their boot on Rawesome Foods and t ...
    It’s tempting to urge organic growers to push ahead with sustainable health communities, agents of the corporate food distopia be damned, but here’s what happened to Rawesome Foods: raids by the Feds, food stocks destroyed, arrests and prohibitive fines. How do you combat a police state intent o ...
  • If Obama is a Trojan Horse, we better brush up ...
    Yeah, the Right has abused this cliché: President Obama is a Trojan Horse for health care, for Socialism, yada yada, ad nauseum. Finally the Left is coming round to see Obama as no less a Trojan Horse. But for who? The same old oligarchs.   We thought the barbaric Right had flown off in Dubya’s ...
  • Stubby the tractor warns animal pals: move out ...
      My new favorite children’s book is a 1963 story by Marion Borden, about a little red tractor named Stubby who delays plowing the meadow until all of his wild animal friends have resettled to safety. It’s a comprehensive list, considering the reading level, of the biodiversity displaced by agri ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • SLC and Censorship
    On the Screw Loose Change Blog we find this... SLC: "we are proud of our reputation as one of the few places that both sides can post their arguments."http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2011/05/semi-ban.html I thought I would see if that was true recently when they seemed to be rather c ...
  • 9/11 Attacks Ten Years Later - Be a Part of Hi ...
    Posted by John-Michael P. Talboo 9/11 "debunker" Ryan Owens has declared that the 9/11 truth movement is dead. Please join blog contributor Adam Taylor and myself in New York City this upcoming September 11th and help prove that he is dead wrong. Immortal Technique - What A Patriot Does ...
  • 9/11: The Absurdity of the No-Planes-in-New Yo ...
    YouTube.com alawson911 PLEASE SEE THE BEST COMMENT EVER, BELOW. Although it will make sense if viewed in isolation, this is not meant to be a stand-alone video; it was compiled as a companion to a text article of the same name. Links to the websites that host the article are as follows: The ...
  • Dr. Crockett Grabbe-National Swindle on the Wo ...
    Related Info: Dr. Grabbe's website: http://www.sealane.org/ Dr. Grabbe's book: http://tinyurl.com/3s4sqcw Dr. Grabbe's scholarly papers on the collapse of the WTC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Science in the Bush: When Politics Displaces Phy ...
  • '9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out' ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog writes: I love that they got Lynn Margulis, National Medal of Science winner to tell us about the problems with NIST. She must have won her medal in structural engineering, right? Well, no, she won it for microbiology. Which, if we were talking about ...

Fooducate

  • The New Lunchables with Fruit. Is this the Bes ...
    It’s back to school season and we’re taking a look at foods many parents are likely to pack in their kids bags. Lunchables is a very successful brand that we have reviewed in the past. Our conclusion then was that even a sandwich with peanut butter and jelly was better for your child. That’s why ...
  • Ironed Out – What You Don’t Know About This Nu ...
    What do you know about Iron, an essential mineral for our physical wellbeing? Iron is an important mineral found in our blood important for transporting oxygen around our bodies, to keep us feeling energetic and ensuring a healthy immune system Men, women, children and adults all require differe ...
  • Parents: That Cereal is NOT as Healthy as You ...
    Scientists at Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity conducted an interesting study with cereals: Through an online survey, researchers asked parents with children between the ages of 2 and 11 to view images of actual box fronts of childrenâs cereals. While the cereals were of below-aver ...
  • Sea Salt vs. Table Salt – The Truth
    This is a guest blog post by Claire Harrison The other day I found myself standing in front of an array of gourmet sea salts, each packaged in a small plastic tub.  The labels were in different pastel colours and the font style was kinda hip looking, if you know what I mean.  Those packages [...]
  • Is the Government Setting Us Up to Make Bad Fo ...
    It costs more to eat healthy, and the government is partially to blame. These are the conclusions of a team of scientists from the University of Washington in Seattle. In a study recently published on Health Affairs, the authors hypothesized about the effects of increasing or decreasing nutrient ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • Me and Piers Morgan:Hacked and AttackedHow Mor ...
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout.org/Buzzflash I am not surprised that Piers Morgan has been outed for hacking phones (listening, in one case, to personal messages between Heather Mills and Paul McCartney). I learned about the creepy antics of this one-man TV-host crime spree the hard way ...
  • Not Another Ransom Notefrom Congressman Boehner
    by Greg Palast It was quite upsetting to find our President blindfolded and tied to a chair at the GOP Tea Party headquarters, but I'm sure the $2.2 trillion ransom we paid to the hostage-takers is worth it. Well, now that the Obama presidency is over, we can move on to more serious matters ...
  • Who killed "Stieg" Larsson?
    I asked my daughter if she would like to add her own recollections about JK Rowling and the "alternative" Harry Potter endings Jo Rowling told us when we were hanging out in the Green Room at BBC Television Centre. (I provide investigative stories for the BBC current affairs program Newsnight.) ...
  • It's Not Default of Obama:Jail GOP Deadbeats f ...
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash.com Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist gave debtors' prison a bad rap. Too bad. I'd say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea. Bush reads from My Pet BudgetLet's talk about how w ...
  • Harry Potter: Jo’s Other Ending
    By Jo (J.K.) Rowling as told to Greg Palast and the Palast twins [18 July 2011] Some of you may recall that, years ago, when I lived in England, writing for The Guardian, when I shared the bestseller list with Jo Rowling (she at the pinnacle, me in the valley), we became buds through my twins ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle crême brulée/desser ...
    We’ve had an email from Jeroen: We designed a lid for the Bonne Maman crême brulée cup that we usually through away. Here you can see a short movie about it: While I’ll admit the lid is very cute and well made, it didn’t occur to me that it needed one before reusing — my [...]
  • How can I use up “past it” frozen ...
    We’ve had an email from Joanna: I found some part-used bags of frozen peas, sweetcorn and broccoli at the bottom of my chest freezer – expiry date 2009! My hubs is happy to ignore expiry dates but we tried some of the peas and they were tough and tasted washed out, not good! Any other [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle sweetcorn plants?
    Tina has asked a very timely question: what can I use sweetcorn plants for? I like to eat or use as much of my plants as possible, before composting the rest. There must be a million uses for corn plants, but can I find any? help! We’ve already covered the empty cobs, after the lovely [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle combs?
    Janet has asked us a question on the Suggest an Item page: I have several combs that I don’t use. Can they be re-used or recycled? Any unrequired combs found in our house are cleaned then used for cat/dog brushing – they seem to prefer combs to brushes, and their combs go missing with startling ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle small pieces of fab ...
    Last week, I posed a question from Annetta about what to reuse or recycle to make a bird bath – thanks for all the great suggestions. Annetta asked another question – about fabric: Any other good ideas for using fabric. I have tons of it and I am getting bored making blankets and tote bags. [...]

Age of Autism

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Asia – Japanese yen flirts with record h ...
    Newsy - Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com
  • Indonesian Survivor of Mob Attack by Muslims I ...
    NY Times – An Indonesian man who survived a deadly mob attack by Muslim hard-liners was sentenced Monday to six months in prison, prompting outrage from rights groups over a sentence harsher than those received by some of his assailants. Deden Sudjana, a member of Ahmadiyya, a minority Muslim se ...
  • USA: Study questions important Beta-blocker trials
    Reuters – A new study suggests Americans with heart failure may benefit less from recommended medications than patients in other countries. The findings, which one doctor called “provocative,” point to an emerging problem in drug development: As research becomes increasingly international, the o ...
  • More tests not always needed for diagnosis
    Reuters – Examining patients and taking a medical history are more useful to hospital doctors in diagnosing patients than high-tech scans, according to a study from Israel. Tests such as CT scans and ultrasounds add to hospital bills, but doctors said that such tests given right after patients s ...
  • US – Being Like Soros in Buying Farmland ...
    Bloomberg – Perry Vieth baled hay on a neighborâs 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 heâd never have to work as hard again for a paycheck. Thirty-eight years later, and after a ca ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • A 'fundamental conundrum' at Yosemite
    As Yosemite's rivers swell with record snowmelt and its trails fill with sightseers, somewonder whether the amusement park-like atmosphere in Yosemite Valley are giving some visitors a false sense of security. "It's a fundamental conundrum for the Park Service that...
  • Peter Douglas' departure marks end of an era
    Some believe the departure of Peter Douglas from the California Coastal Commission leaves a major void. His departure marks the end of an era and leaves many wondering how regulation of coastal development might change in his absence. It is...
  • L.A. debates recycling policy
    The Times Home section this week offers a guide to recycling in Los Angeles. Times Staff Writer Mary MacVean reports the L.A. Bureau of Sanitation has been mandated by the state, and move toward Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's zero-waste goal: Empty...
  • Public artwork at downtown Los Angeles' Downey ...
    The artwork, which is 20 feet wide by three feet tall, was installed three weeks ago high on a wall in the foyer of the Downey Pool on the 1700 block of North Spring Street. The panel of rainbow colors and dreamlike reflections was an immediate hit at the pool, which reopened a year ago after ex ...
  • The water's up at Lake Powell
    Water levels at Lake Powell, one of the Colorado River's biggest reservoirs, have risen to the highest point in a decade.

water.org

  • Levi’s drive for Water.org via Facebook ...
    Leviâs Drive for Water.org via Facebook (New York Times) – Leviâs is adding a hue to its marketing efforts: Facebook blue. The purveyor of all things denim has teamed up with the social media giant on the next phase of its âGo Forthâ campaign. On Tuesday, Leviâs will announce the campaign exclus ...
  • The @water Twakeover (Globe and Mail)
    New trend on Twitter: handing over your account (Globe and Mail) – This month the latest social media trend seems to be encouraging legitimate takeovers. The Water.org group (@water), which works with communities in developing countries to meet water and sanitation needs, will soon be handing it ...
  • Water.org will hand over its Twitter (Mashable)
    Water.org Will Hand Over Its Twitter Account to Contest Winner (Mashable) – Water.org is surrendering its Twitter account, @Water, for an entire week to the user who racks up the most votes on its site. To enter, you must be following @Water on Twitter. Then sign up to participate with a shor ...
  • Gary White talks water on MSNBC
    World faces a water crisis (MSNBC) – Gary White interviewed by Martin Bashir June 30, 2011 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
  • Leadership wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company)
    Leadership Wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company) 30 second MBA video series: Part 1 – Gary White – Executive Director and Cofounder, Water.org Part 2 – Matt Damon – Cofounder, Water.org

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Not Jewish enough for Glenn Beck nor Israeli ...
    Next week, conservative political commentator Beck plans to hold a mass rally to "Restore Courage" in Jerusalem. His goal: saving Israel and the United States from apocalyptic destruction in the form of the two-state solution. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • U.S. Senator seeks to cut aid to elite IDF uni ...
    U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy is promoting a bill to suspend U.S. assistance to three elite Israel Defense Forces units, alleging they are involved in human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Buying Democracy - ALEC
    State legislators are recruited to attend ALEC conventions & given model legislation to introduce back home which promotes the goals of ALEC. Over 2000 legislators from every state are members of ALEC. BP oil was the major sponsor of the recent conventionSubmitted by Care For All to US Politics ...
  • ALEC Using Taxpayer Funds to Destroy Governmen ...
    ALEC has written hundreds of laws that will benefit their members' industries & provide nothing for consumers. But that's not the end of the story -- ALEC is actually using taxpayer's money to help push their small-government, pro-corporate agenda.Submitted by Care For All to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Obama Bails Out TX, Perry Takes Credit- Anders ...
    Obama Bails Out TX, Perry Takes Credit- Anderson Cooper Keeping them HonestSubmitted by Linda Tucker to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • WWE SummerSlam 2011 PPV results
    Shocking results from last Sunday’s SummerSlam as we go into this week’s RAW. Firstly, CM Punk beat John Cena, becoming the disputed champion. No, that’s not a typo, I do mean disputed champion. Special referee Triple-H counts to 3 and gives Punk the win but he seemingly doesn’t notice that ...
  • Louboutin vs YSL red sole lawsuit update
    Atlanta fashionistas, the latest update on the Christian Louboutin versus Yves Saint Laurent case for the latter manufacturing red-soled shoes, popularized by the former some 20 years ago is that Louboutin’s legal team is prepared to fight to the teeth and appealing the New York court rulin ...
  • Drinking Chocolate Can Be Healthy?
    Stop the presses, hold the tweets and facebook updates!  Does that headline really say what it looks like it says?  Drinking chocolate can be healthy?  The answer to that question: YES!  Now, what’s the next question – Where can you find it?  Well, look no further than right down the road i ...
  • Titan Travel launches new programme of El ...
    Titan Travel has unveiled its 2012 programme of award-winning river cruises for independent travellers with three brand new itineraries in a brochure that has a fresh, new pictorial style which illustrates more clearly the elegance of the cruise experiences available. The programme is opera ...
  • Jay-Z spends $250,000 on champagne
    Jay-Z has splashed out $250,000 on champagne. The hip-hop star was out celebrating the recent release of his and Kanye West's joint album 'Watch The Throne' in Miami on Sunday when he purchased "bottle after bottle" of the alcohol because he didn't want to be "upstaged" by Dallas Mavericks ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • WEBB GOLD 1/10 (Iodine) Rinse [Webb Chemical S ...
    Updated Date: Aug 15, 2011 EST
  • [Comment] A new biomarker for mitochondrial di ...
    Mitochondrial respiratory chain disease mimics many neurological diseases and remains a major diagnostic challenge even for experienced clinicians. The complexity arises from the involvement of the mitochondrial and the nuclear genomes, and the rising number of associated genetic defects. The in ...
  • [Editorial] Grand Challenges in neurology: a g ...
    The results of the Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health study, published in July, focus attention on the barriers— the grand challenges—to reducing the devastating impact of neurological, psychiatric, and substance-use disorders. The initiative, led by the US National Institutes of Health a ...
  • [Comment] Tracking of striatal degeneration in ...
    Development of disease-modifying or neuroprotective therapies are the challenging aims in the treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Two main insights, studied extensively over the past several years, have not only helped to elucidate the pathophysiological mechanisms of the diseas ...
  • As Networks Speed Up, Data Hits a Wall
    Cellphone plans that let people gobble up unlimited data are disappearing as new data-heavy services catch on.

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

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Peoples Voice

  • Riots in UK could Forshadow Riots in US
    Tim Gatto The British government has charged that the riots are being caused by an increase in “criminality”. This is patently ridiculous. What is the difference in London or Manchester now than last year? If these riots are presumed to be the act of “criminals”, then what triggered these “crim ...
  • Behind the Foodborne Illness Numbers: Politics ...
    By Rady Ananda With all the milk raids over the past few years, you wouldn’t think that dairy is the safest type of food in the U.S., or that factory foods cause 70% of all foodborne illnesses – but that’s just what a new study by the University of Florida reveals. [1] Using data from the Cent ...
  • Farewell Content: Class Wars and Ass Wars&#821 ...
    By Gary Corseri “Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars. That make ambition virtue!” --William Shakespeare (Othello) “It would be supererogatory for me to list those areas in which thoughtful Americans feel that collapse is coming.” --Anth ...
  • Riots Across Britain: Perhaps More than Meets ...
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article said the following: On August 6, rioting began in Tottenham, North London after police shot and killed Mark Duggan, a 29-year old father of four. It triggered other outbreaks on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday in Brixton, Enfield, Walthamstow, Islington, H ...
  • Big Brother Has Arrived
    By Philip Giraldi Leading neoconservative Richard Perle has said that one of the many reasons he admires the Israelis is the moral clarity that they exhibit on the issue of terrorism. What exactly that means is not itself clear, but it would appear to be a carte blanche for any and all Israeli ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Inequality Bad for Business
    CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes how the business establishment is growing concerned about income inequality in Canada in this Canada Business article. Read the article here.
  • The Strange Case of Saskatchewan's Electoral B ...
    Simon Enoch discusses Saskatchewan's rather unique electoral boundaries and how they influenced the 2011 federal election in the CCPA's Behind the Numbers blog.
  • Job posting: Online Communications Officer
    The CCPA National office is seeking an Online Communications Officer to join our communications team in Ottawa to support and expand the CCPA’s ongoing communications and outreach efforts. The deadline for applications is August 19, 2011. Click here for the full job posting.
  • Hennessy's Index: Gone Fishin'
    Hennessy's Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. This August, Hennessy's Index looks at vacation time - how do Canadian vacations stack up?� For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index
  • New Report - The Public Policies Needed to Bui ...
    With the release of the final report in the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Saskatchewan series �Transforming Saskatchewan�s Electrical Future,� former Saskatchewan Cabinet Minister Peter Prebble outlines the public policies that will be required to truly transform Saskatchewan into a ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Why the ‘Black Woodstock’ document ...
    guardian.co.uk – Footage of the Harlem cultural festival in 1969 has been gathering dust in a vault for the last 40 years. But this vital historical document needs to see the light of day “Black Woodstock” (Wattstax in 1972 has also been labelled the “Black Woodstock”, but this Harlem show came ...
  • Data forgeries: Fukushima and Gulf Oil Spill s ...
    WWH. Sometimes I just want to scream! agoracosmopolitan.com - Ms. Moret reveals that her research has uncovered that the misleading radiation surveys and maps released by the Japanese government purportedly of radiation levels from the Fukushima area were in fact documents originally authored an ...
  • Bill Puts Ethics Spotlight On The (Roaches) Su ...
    NPR – At times of partisan stress in American Politics, the Supreme Court often becomes part of the game, and the ethics of individual justices become a focus of criticism. Liberal groups are leading the charge now. Common Cause, for instance, discovered that Justice Clarence Thomas failed to re ...
  • WWH News Briefs Tuesday
    Thousands of sacks of food aid stolen in Somalia ith American peanut butter and Kuwaiti dates showing up in Mogadishu’s markets, the World Food Program admits it has been investigating food aid theft in Somalia for the past two months. Thousands of sacks of food aid intended for starving Somalis ...
  • 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 ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Cellulosic Ethanol Targets: Mandating the None ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Another Year, Another Chapter In what is becoming an annual ritual, the EPA is once more scaling back the cellulosic ethanol mandate for 2012. The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act mandated that we would use 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethan ...
  • Will a SmartGrid and GM’s Volt Stimulate the E ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from Victor Sequeira. Mr. Sequeira is Principal of VerisNRG LLC, a Houston based energy consultancy. He can be reached at victorseq [at] comcast [dot] net —————————— Can GMâs Volt Provide a Jolt to the Electric Car Industry? ...
  • When Falling Oil Prices are Bad News
    Join the forum discussion on this post Economic Heartache Normally, consumers consider falling oil and gasoline prices to be good news. They have to pay less to fill up their tanks. And if the reason for that is that oil supplies are increasing at a rate faster than demand is increasing, it ca ...
  • The Need for a Real Domestic Alternative Energ ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following is a guest post from Andrew Smolski of OilPrice.com. ———————————– Alternative energy (or renewable energy) is a new manufacturing industry paradigm that is in its infancy. However, the discussion is not new, and it looks as if the Unite ...
  • ‘Tis the Season for Oil Company Misinformation
    Join the forum discussion on this post In my travels around the globe, I have never been to another country that regards their oil companies as we do here in the U.S. I have actually been in countries where people view their domestic oil companies as a source of national pride. Here in the U.S. ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • Ground Beef Recall for Southeast, Possibly Nat ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The Southeastern U.S., and possibly the rest of the country, is facing another ground meat recall, this time with beef. read more
  • Spoiler Alert: Your Child's Lunch Probably Isn ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the end of the last school year, a Chicago principal made headlines when she banned school lunches brought from home. While healthy-food advocates chastised the decision as a way to force kids to buy unhealthy school food, the principal may have been on to something, ...
  • Is "Biodegradable" Always Good?
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—We all want to leave a lighter mark on the planet, so when we see products advertised as "biodegradable," it's natural to assume they're a greener choice. After all, who wouldn't want a product to degrade back into the planet from which it came? But thanks to the garbage ...

big think

  • Transaction: A Model for Digital Journalism
    What's the Latest Development? This is a message for journalists: You are a brand. Thanks to advancements in communication technology, i.e. the Internet, today's readers expect direct communication with you. While journalism largely remains a "top-down, one-to-many business with a 'Voice of Go ...
  • In Praise of Being Overconnected
    What's the Latest Development? Before taking time out with family on summer weekends, the advice that author Bruce Feiler received from all corners was to switch off his mobile devices and spend time away from the Internet. He did just the opposite. "During weekends this summer, I would pursue ...
  • The Book is Dead. Long Live the Book!
    Unscientific Poll: On average, during a typical New York City morning subway commute, Summer 2011, there are four people reading on tablets and e-readers, and five reading print books, up from about 1 to 7 two summers ago. Outside of rush hour, many a toddler can be seen tapping away at an ...Re ...
  • Does the Internet Make Us More Altruistic?
    Over the past week, Jonathan’s Card became one of the more fascinating online social experiments ever conducted in full public view. The basic premise was simple – a single individual (Jonathan Stark) posted the details of his Starbucks loyalty card online, loaded it up with $30, and then ... ...
  • Postings Update
    For the past several weeks I've had severely limited internet access thanks to Itisalat and TE Data (two of Cairo's least helpful internet providers), which has been responsible for the lack of posts.� It certainly hasn't been for a lack of things to discuss: Raymi's audio tape, an Ansar al-Shar ...

Information Liberation

  • Bureaucrats block $1 million Italian supercar ...
    Italian automaker Pagani was to begin selling its $1 million, 700 horsepower Huayra supercar in the U.S. later this year but federal safety regulators have said "Not so fast." Pagani had applied for an exemption from federal auto safety rules req...
  • Pity the Poor, Persecuted Police
    Michael Kennedy is Chief of Police in tiny Sunriver, Oregon, an unincorporated resort village in the Beaver State's Deschutes County. Kennedy insists that his police force has been terrorized for years by a marauder named Robert Foster. ...
  • Obama wants to be your landlord: 'Gov't consid ...
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration may turn thousands of government-owned foreclosures into rental properties to help boost falling home prices. The Federal Housing Finance Agency said Wednesday it is seeking input from investors on how to...
  • Free Talk Live Host Ian Freeman Caged for 90 Days
    Facebook Update from Pete Voluntaryist Eyre: *Today *judge* Arnold ordered Ian caged for 90 days for sitting in front of the vehicle that over a year ago held Heika Courser (who was cuffed for a victimless action). Ian*s request to remain free unt...
  • The Cybersecurity-Industrial Complex
    In the last two years, approximately 50 cybersecurity-related bills have been introduced in Congress. In May the White House released its own cybersecurity legislative proposal. The Federal Communications Commission and the Commerce Department have e...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Playing The Race Card Part II: Anarchy In The UK
    What do you make of the riots happening in many British cities? I’ve read with some interest the discussion on GE’s blog, although I personally believe the emphasis on race is misplaced. I’m just returned from a week on the … Continue reading →
  • Now Reap The Whirlwind
    The Dow Jones Industrial Average today closed down 512 pointsâthe biggest one-day fall since the 2008 financial crisisâin the wake of the stitched-up deal hammered out in the U.S. Congress on raising the debt ceiling. Carnage is expected today on … Continue reading →
  • Same Old Same Old…
    I’ve been scanning the news pages for anything that reads like common sense in this whole debt ceiling issue. With very little success. And with less than twelve hours to go before Brucker Bummer, the American Precedent, must sign off … Continue reading →
  • Is There Really Such A Thing As National Chara ...
    I found myself asking this question after reading GE’s thought-provoking essay in Notting Hill Editions. In it, James contrasts what he sees as different national traits of America with those of his homeland. He finds himself concluding that the positives … Continue reading →
  • Right-Wing Nut Cases Are Every Bit As Reprehen ...
    I’ve said before many times on this blog, the left-right divide is a fiction. The real differentiation in politics is between Libertarianism and Totalitarianism. Left-wingers and right-wingers merely squabble over what freedoms they choose to repress first: economic or personal. … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

  • Quinnipiac Poll on Fracking in New York
    Quinnipiac University http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/ny/ny08112011.doc [WEAN News Channel site]  According to a new Quinnipiac poll, 47 percent of voters surveyed are in favor of natural gas drilling, while 42 percent are opposed. The poll found that people like the potential economic ...
  • Improving the Safety and Environmental Perform ...
    US DOE, Natural Gas Subcommittee of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, Safety of Shale Gas Development http://www.shalegas.energy.gov/ [From a post in The Hill's E2 blog by Ben Geman] The oil-and-gas industry and environmentalists alike are claiming a new federal report on natural gas helps ...
  • U.S. Billion-Ton Update: Biomass Supply for a ...
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the US DOE, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office of the Biomass Program http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/pdfs/billion_ton_update.pdf [From an article in Green Car Congress]   The US Department of Energy released a new report—2011 U.S. Billion-Ton Upd ...
  • Climate Pragmatism: Innovation, Resilience and ...
    The Hartwell group for the Breakthrough Institute http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2011/07/climate_pragmatism_innovation.shtml [From a post by Michael Levi] Climate Pragmatism, which is well worth reading, makes two basic points. First, internationally, we’re heading (or at least should be headin ...
  • How Risk Perceptions Influence Evacuations Fro ...
    Rice University, Baker Institute for Public Policy http://bakerinstitute.org/publications/POL-pub-SteinHurricaneRiskPerception-080311.pdf [Abstract]  This study shows that people are more sensitive to overall perceived hurricane-related hazards than they are to individual risk types. Emergency m ...

Scientific American - News

  • How Did BART Kill Cellphone Service?
    The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) shut down subterranean cellular phone service on August 11, stifling protests that had been set to take place on its train platforms that day. Demonstrators had planned to stop trains from running in response to the fatal shooting of an ...
  • Journey to a Giant World: Launch Shots of the ...
    NASA launched its Juno probe on August 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will be a meeting of mythological mates , as Juno is named after the queen of the Roman mythological gods and has been sent to enter orbit around the planet named after Juno's husband Jupite ...
  • Astronaut Snaps Spectacular Meteor Photo From ...
    The annual Perseid meteor shower peaked this weekend, and one astronaut living aboard the International Space Station captured a stunning view of the light show from space. [More]
  • Rabble with a Cause: Were the London Riots a S ...
    The deadly mob violence that wracked England this past week has abated, as police came out in force and used surveillance images to track down and arrest some 1,900 alleged rioters. As London and other cities in the nation recover, officials and the public may be left wondering how to prevent ...
  • Skinlike Electronic Patch Takes Pulse, Promise ...
    You might think that temporary tattoos look cool, but what if they could also collect and transmit information about your heart rate , temperature, muscle contractions or brain waves? [More]

First Truths

  • "Capitalism" as "Anti-Concept"
  • Inverted Queries re Human Nature
    From Randall Amster's Anarchy, utopia, and the state of things to come: [T]he question is often posed: How can a society achieve the production, distribution, and maintenance of public goods absent a central authority? In other words: How can free individuals be encouraged to work and provide fo ...
  • "What Anarchists Believe"
    The following is a favorite passage of mine from What Is Anarchism?: An Introduction, edited by Donald Rooum: Anarchists believe that the point of society is to widen the choices of individuals. This is the axiom upon which the anarchist case is founded.If you were isolated you would still have ...
  • Profit as Unequal Exchange
    A passage from�Herfried Münkler's The New Wars�that will be interesting for anarchists: The economic rationality in their action consists in the fact that they make violence a means to an income, or that through violence they are able to influence exchange relations to their advantage. Warlords ...
  • F.Y.I.
    Some among those reading this may already have heard the sad news that, at the end of this month, I'll be leaving C4SS, a decision required by strains on my schedule that no longer permit the volume of writing I've taken on for the past year or so. It's been an indescribable honor to be a part o ...

Media Co-Op

  • RIP Wendy Babcock
    While I don’t always miss TO, there is nowhere I would rather be at this moment. My friend, Wendy Babcock, was found dead at her home yesterday; an apparent suicide. Wendy’s loss hurts; all death does but this is the second suicide in my circle in the past 13 months. My ex-wife Tricia killed her ...
  • “African People Pulling Together”
    African Nova Scotians Consider Joining the African Union at Recent Town Hall Meeting “I’m a black man from a hostile environment,” says David Horne. Horne is an international facilitator with the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC), and he ...
  • A String of Town Halls Unite African Nova Scotians
    The start of a Nova Scotia SRDC Chapter The first of several Town Halls in Nova Scotia was held during the Annual Africville Reunion on July 30th. �The Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC) and Ujaama, a community development initiative for ...
  • Dispatches from post-terror Norway
    Last month, a white, far-right, Christian fundamentalist in Olso, Norway orchestrated a terror-attack which bombed downtown Olso and killed between 60-70 people and injured close to 100 others on at a Labour-party youth camp near the Norwegian capital. Friends of the Media Co-op in Norway have o ...
  • Media Co-op Investor: July
    We Blow-Up the Image of SNC-Lavalin Welcome to Media Co-op Investor! Note: this will be the last company entry in the Media Co-op Investor Series.� The final pieces in the series will feature stories on our annual report to media coop fake ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • From Utoya Island to Capitol Hill
    David Seaton's News LinksDefinition of DECLASSTransitive verb: to remove from a class; especially to assign to a lower social status It is ridiculed by poets and libertines; idolized by moralists; the target of speeches by politicians, popes and all others who climb into the pulpit to recruit vo ...
  • Norway: a taste of the magma
    David Seaton's News LinksMagma (from Greek μάγμα "paste") is a mixture of molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and may also exist on other terrestrial planets. Wikipedia The Norwegian right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed at least 7 ...
  • A tribute to Amy Winehouse
    This is a reprint of something I wrote in July of 2008: I admit that I had thought that Amy Winehouse was just another one of the media grotesques, a sort of Paris Hilton with a beat. I thought that her big hit "Rehab" was a catchy update of the Stax/Atlantic sound, sung in blackface. I sa ...
  • Somalia Famine
    David Seaton's News Links According to the UN, more than six out of every 10,000 people are dying of hunger every day in some parts of the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia, with more than half the children there suffering from acute malnutrition. This is far above the normal fami ...
  • The Murdoch Turkey Shoot
    David Seaton's News Links (Britain's politicians) had been pushed into taking a stand by the overwhelming public revulsion that greeted the discovery that the mobile telephone of Milly Dowler, the murdered Surrey schoolgirl, had been hacked. Even so, it was a dramatic show of political will. �T ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Rick Perry Gets Suckered By an Urban Legend
    Generally speaking, blogging is like shouting into a hurricane: it might make you feel better, but hardly anyone hears you and it rarely has any real-world impact. Still, every once in a while something you write makes a teensy tiny bit of difference. So this email made m ...
  • Quote of the Day: Ben Bernanke Would be Treate ...
    From Rick Perry, revving up an Iowa crowd about the treachery of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke: If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this ...
  • Repeal the 17th Amendment!
    Several people today, after combing through Rick Perry's book, have noted his peculiar dislike of the 17th Amendment. In case you're a little fuzzy on which amendment is which, this is not the one that implemented the income tax. It's the one that mandated the direct election of senators, in ...
  • No, Ron Paul Doesn't Deserve Any More Attention
    Roger Simon writes today that Ron Paul got "shafted" by the media because he got no credit for his second place finish in the Ames straw poll: “Close” does not fully describe Paul’s second-place finish. Paul lost to Bachmann by nine-tenths of one percentage point, or 152 votes out of 16,8 ...
  • The Real Michele Bachmann
    Over the next few months we're going to be treated to an endless slew of articles about Rick Perry that treat him as just another normal, garden variety presidential candidate. It's going to be a master class in how fast the bar of crazy can get lowered. Ditto for Michele Bachmann, who was ...

Insanity Report

  • Welcome to the Campaign Rick Perry
    About a month ago, I closed the comments on a post I had written 2 years ago called “Why Texas Sucks“.  I was tired of getting comments from people who clearly hadn’t even read the post.  Well, last week I reopened the comments.  Why? Easy: Rick Perry. Rick Perry was the force behind most of ...
  • The “Fuck The Police” Face Tattoo
    You gotta love the stupidity of the face tattoo.  Nothing says “I’m not interested in becoming a regular and productive member of society” like it.  I mean sure, if you become a rapper, athlete or become that 1 in 10,000,000 that hits the lotto, then yeah, maybe you can afford the gratificatio ...
  • IC 265: The Strawberry Letter
    Topics: Dylan reads his very own “Strawberry Letter” How to deal with a crazy person US skier gets kicked off team for peeing on an 11 year old Michele Bachmann wins the Iowa straw poll the GOP Debate Why we need a moderate republican President Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Bert & Ernie Sitting In ...
    I’ve been burned out this week.  My job actually had me doing work, so the posts I’ve been working on I’ve had to put on the back burner.  But I didn’t want to end this week without posting something. Enter the petition for Bert & Ernie to get married.  Yes…the Bert & Ernie from Sesame [...]
  • IC 264: Putting the Cape Up
    Topics: Tyler Perry might get his own channel? Wigger Day People on welfare are like raccoons Poor people, out of sight out of mind Tavis & West go on a Poverty tour…in an Airconditioned bus Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • More turtles could become fish supper with warming
    By collecting baby green turtles and clothing them in “swimming vests”, University of Queensland's David Booth and Andrew Evans have showed that higher temperatures reduce their swimming ability, making it more likely they'll be eaten as they enter the sea.
  • Climate controls must cover gases other than CO2
    Combining controls on emissions of less well-known greenhouse gases with CO2 limits would slow warming more rapidly, say Jim Butler of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and colleagues.
  • Fire amid the ice kindles global and local worries
    After a record Arctic tundra wildfire in 2007 released as much carbon as all plants in similar landscapes absorbed in a year, University of Florida's Michelle Mack warns such fires could again become common, as they were 10,000 years ago.
  • Aerosols paint clearer warming slowdown picture
    Contributions to climate change from “stratospheric aerosols” vary more than realised, Ellsworth Dutton and his NOAA colleagues find, potentially providing a partial explanation for slower warming from the late 1990s.
  • Warming puts species at one in ten extinction ...
    Comparing predictions and measurements of the effects of climate change on plants and animals over the past five years shows predictions are accurate, and possibly optimistic, according to the University of Exeter's Ilya Maclean.

e!Science News

unEarthed

  • Friday Finds: SpongeBob's Global Warming Consp ...
    Food foraging, corporate greenwashing, big rig gas sipping SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water for talking to kids about climate change. Photo courtesy of gnislew ...
  • U.S. Faces Hard Landing At Europe's Tea Party
    Airlines can't fly past EU's "cap and trade" regulations Courtesy Treehugger.com Non-European airline carriers are up in arms over new EU regulations that w ...
  • Lessons Unlearned
    Feds greenlight first offshore drilling plans in Arctic since Gulf spill Last summer, we were captivated by a live video feed of oil spewing from a broken well ...
  • Friday Finds: (Corporate) Welfare Queens
    Koch-sponsored legislation, toxic drinking water, News Corp. climate scandal Energy companies to taxpayers: "Money, please." Photo courtesy of epSos.de Dir ...
  • America's Gut Feeling About Climate Change
    They don't know the science or human connection -- they do know it's real When it comes to climate change, the fact is that most Americans don’t know the facts ...

Brave New Climate

  • TCASE 13: Assessment of suitability of technol ...
    The problem of replacing our dependence on fossil fuels is complex. In Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy (TCASE) #12, a checklist was provided to allow assessment of energy transition plans. The sort of questions listed in TCASE 12 are critical for evaluating the feasibility of future ...
  • A critique of the 2011 IPCC Report on Renewabl ...
    The following is a detailed guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). In it, he provides the most detailed critique I’ve yet seen of the recent IPCC renewable energy scenarios report. Now, I don’t agree with everything Ted says — in particular the con ...
  • Hansen warns not to drink sustainable energy K ...
    Regular readers of BNC would know that I’m hardly the only climate change researcher to recommend serious deployment of nuclear energy to displace fossil fuels. (Although I’m often portrayed as an isolated [and presumably therefore ignorant?] voice on this point). One very prominent example of a ...
  • Carbon smoke and mirrors – the reality o ...
    When it comes to energy and carbon emissions reduction, the devil is always in the detail. So too with Australia’s plans to cut its emissions by five per cent below year 2000 levels by 2020. But first, let’s look at the big picture. Why we need to do this As a scientist who researches the impact ...
  • Germany’s grand energy experiment
    Most readers of BNC know the story — after the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the German government announced that Germany would phase out all of its nuclear generation capacity by 2022. In almost the same period, Germany also aims to cut its national greenhouse gas emissions to 40% of 1990 levels (b ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Gordon Campbell : On the Government’s latest p ...
    Gordon Campbell - On the Government’s latest plans to Americanise the welfare system: "What is it about National’s plans for welfare reform and natural disasters? On the same day in February that the Welfare Working Group released its loopy agenda of reform proposals – which included the option ...
  • C.L.R. James: A Biographical Introduction
    C.L.R. James: A Biographical Introduction: "C.L.R. James' The Black Jacobins, first published in 1938, was a forbidden book in South Africa until the recent dismantling of apartheid. It's not hard to see why. James researched his account of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian slave uprising wi ...
  • Tasers Implicated in Excited Delirium Deaths : NPR
    Tasers Implicated in Excited Delirium Deaths : NPR: Medical Condition or Legal Cover? Civil-liberties groups fear that the diagnosis is being used to cover up police abuse — and to protect companies like Taser International from lawsuits. Taser International, the company that makes stu ...
  • Angela Davis: make prisons obsolete | Green Le ...
    Angela Davis: make prisons obsolete | Green Left Weekly Distinguished US activist, writer and former political prisoner Angela Davis addressed a public forum in Sydney on August 11 organised by the prisoner rights group Sisters Inside. Davis was a keynote speaker at the Sisters Inside's 6th Int ...
  • Anarchists respond to the London riots - Solid ...
    Anarchists respond to the London riots - Solidarity Federation | libcom.org With media sources blaming “anarchy” for the unfolding violence in London and across England, the North London Solidarity Federation has released the following statement as a response from an anarchist organisation activ ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Say it Joe. Republicans are Terrorists
    Unfortunately I have way too much credit card debt, and some credit lines too. I was terrorized by the fact that if the tea party traitors were able to force us to default on our debt, my interest rates, and payments would be going up. This could wipe me out. Yes Joe, they were terrorizing [...]
  • Entitlement Reform? Sure! Corporate Entitlements
    What pisses me off most is the nonsensical discussion of how we balance our budget, or reduce our deficit. The MSM narrative is the Democrats won’t stand for “entitlement” cuts and the Republicans won’t stand for any tax increases anywhere, anytime, for any reason. Deadlock. This whole argument ...
  • Jim DeMint – Fuck You
    Fuck you Jim. You want to slam the poor, the sick, and the elderly to “balance the budget” and won’t even consider cutting corporate welfare, or having the billionaires, or the companies they own stock in pay their fair share. I pray that there is justice in this world and some day you will be [...]
  • Van Jones = Reboot the American Dream
    “We’re not broke, we’ve been robbed. Someone has our money”
  • Exxon Gets 20 Billion a Year in Corporate Welfare
    The amount of taxes we don’t collect from Exxon plus their handouts equals around 20 billion dollars a year. And this is just one company. Spending isn’t the problem. Corporate welfare, and billionaire welfare is the problem.

Appalachia Rising

  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
    Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

  • Download Free PDF, Kindle, Word Doc of Full Re ...
    You can now download the full version of our groundbreaking extensive new report, “Analysis of Financial Terrorism in America,” in several file formats here. [Read More]
  • EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of Financial Terrorism in ...
    By David DeGraw Groundbreaking extensive new report on the financial destruction of the United States: "Despite increasing personal financial hardship, most Americans remain unaware of the economic world war currently unfolding. An all-pervasive corporate and government propaganda campaign has e ...
  • The Covert Origins of World War III – US ...
    By Nick Turse Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the U.S. military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world’s countries. This new Pentagon power elite is waging a global war whose size and scope has never been revealed, until now. [Read More]
  • The American Rebellion Has Begun – Now I ...
    By Kevin Zeese The people of the United States are ready to revolt against the tyranny of corporate power. We are part of a rising tide of Americans who have had enough. [Read More]
  • The Obama Administration’s “Secret ...
    By Tom Burghardt During the run-up to the reauthorization of three expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act, Senator Wyden charged that the administration and FBI were relying on a “secret” interpretation of law to vacuum-up exabytes of data, including cell phone location records and internet ...

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  • Notes from Caracas: “Social justice&#822 ...
    Venezuela has undergone a socio-economic transformation over the last decade, amid calls for “social justice.” Many people have paid the price, with their savings and their lives. Tel Aviv’s protesters should be aware of the costs of attaining what they are calling for. A tale of two cities I ...
  • Yisrael Beiteinu MK: Tent organizers are like ...
    MK Faina Kirshenbaum from Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu Party – the same MK responsible for proposing the bill to establish parliamentary committees to investigate the funding of NGOs in Israel – was quoted today in Israel’s Ynet as saying that the tent protest organizers remind her of Palestinia ...
  • IDF promotes torture-endorsing colonel to general
    Colonel Itay Virov, who won notoriety when he admitted he allowed torture, will become a brigadier general soon The IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Binyamin Ganz, decided (Hebrew)  to promote Colonel Itay Virov, formerly the commander of the designated occupation brigade Kfir, to brigadier general ...
  • Arab-Israelis should find an ally in the Israe ...
    By Asma Agbariyeh-Zahalka The writer, a native of Jaffa, believes the current political unrest will bury the fanatical nationalism and extremism of Arabs in Israel, just as it will bury Jewish fanatical nationalism Israelis by the hundreds of thousands have marched in protest since July 14, shou ...
  • Can J14 turn the tables for the progressive ca ...
    The revolutionary social struggle taking place in Israel today is nearing a critical juncture: either it crumbles under the boot of “security needs” and racial segregation, or breaks free from all previous dogmas and reboots our political system. By Haggai Matar Perhaps it is due time to say the ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Robo Signing And Desecration of Our Courts- Th ...
    You would have thought the banksters would have gotten the message…they were after all given a total pass.  Not even a slap on the wrist, it was just a collective dodge….they were permitted to moonwalk away from the crime scenes. Did they learn any lesson?  You bet, the lesson is we can just k ...
  • Fraudclosure in Florida, A Survey and The Cris ...
    Florida was well into the acute phase of the foreclosure crisis during the dark days of fall 2008 when Bush and Paulson wrote the blank checks that bailed out the banks, Wall Street institutions and the criminals that brought our country to the brink of economic Armageddon.  Bush wrote the check ...
  • BOMBSHELL- Listen to This Rally on The Steps o ...
    The First Annual Rally in Tally! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • LYTTLE v. BANKUNITED- Another Headscratcher of ...
    Here goes another spellbinding appeal written by that masterful author George Gingo. You really must sit down and study the attached appellate brief which reads more like a nail biting crime novel than some dry academic appeal. I mean, seriously. Put yourself in the moment, picture the courtroom ...
  • Brand New, Hot Off The Presses MERS Policy Bul ...
    After years of claiming that assignments don’t matter and the date of assignment certainly doesn’t matter, the MERS Monster has finally changed its tune, effective July 21, 2011: The Certifying Officer must execute the assignment of the Security Instrument from MERS before initiating foreclosure ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Citizenship – “A Purpose Held in C ...
    We have all come from a rich heritage. Our democratic ideals descend from the ancient Greeks by way of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And no matter how much this process has been defiled and corrupted over the centuries, it still constitutes the only real political morality currently in ...
  • Citizenship – “The Problem of Diff ...
    So here’s where today’s average Canadian citizen is situated. To one degree or another elites have always managed this country, but in recent years their ideological divisions and partisan animosities have begun to degrade both the effectiveness and belief in democracy itself. Since the First Wo ...
  • Citizenship – “The National Forgin ...
    Perhaps Canada never really had a democracy, at least the way we think about it today. In the days of Confederation, there remained a belief that abided for over a century: the system worked best when the intelligent elite ran the business of the country. But the illusion of democracy was import ...
  • Citizenship – “The Lost Keys of De ...
    Sometimes I wonder if we’re not like the fellow who lost his car keys in the parking lot and was poking around under the street light in an effort to locate them. When someone asked why he wasn’t looking around his car that was a far way off, he merely responded, “It’s easier to see [...]
  • Citizenship – “Illiberal Democracy ...
    As mentioned in a previous post, the Chilean elite work diligently to resist the kind of changes that would be required to bring about social equity, environmental sustainability, and have developed a tradition of suppressing smaller and medium-sized businesses that could pose a threat to their ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
  • Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
    by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
  • In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
  • Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
    UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
  • Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize
    A weekly reflection on life in academia This week I’m well and truly lost – tomorrow I’m being initiated into the mysteries of collegiate football, and I’m terrified! Just in case you are one of the 6.5 billion people in the world who doesn’t eat, drink and sleep American football (a perceived m ...
  • Nanotechnology 2.0: The next ten years of nano ...
    Sometime in the past couple of weeks – I’m not entirely sure when as accounts are conflicting – the World Technology Evaluation Center (WTEC) posted a draft of a new report examining the long-term impacts and research directions of nanotechnology.  The “Nano2″ study was supported by the Nationa ...
  • Rehabilitating “Risk”
    Now that I’ve had some time to get to grips with my new position as Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, I thought it was high time I started letting people know something about where the Center will be heading over the next few years.  Cross-posted on the Risk Science Ce ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    A weekly reflection on life in academia. Ann Arbor in the fall is beautiful. It’s possibly the closest I’ve come to an English Autumn since arriving in the US nearly eleven years ago. Walking the dog the other morning, there was a definite scent of damp, decaying leaf-litter in the air; a scent ...
  • Science and the Media – a collection of essays ...
    Back in August, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences published a collection of essays under the editorship of Donald Kennedy and Geneva Overholster on the (seemingly) increasingly strained relationship between science and the media.  I was too embroiled in the move to Michigan at the time to ...

Reader Supported News

  • Mubarak Trial Adjourned Amid Chaotic Scenes
    AlJazeera reports: "The trial of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's former president, who faces charges over the deaths of protesters during the uprising that led to his toppling earlier this year, has been adjourned until next month amid chaotic scenes in a Cairo court. Trial judge Ahmed Rifaat said the co ...
  • 12 Unions to Boycott Democratic Convention
    Excerpt: "'There is broad frustration with the party and all elected officials, broad frustration with the lack of a union agenda,' Michael Monroe, chief of staff of the AFL-CIO's building trades division, told The Associated Press. 'People are looking for outlets to express that frustration.' T ...
  • Bachmann Cover: The Outtakes
    The recent photograph of Michele Bachmann on the cover of Newsweek has caused some controversy, with the look in her eyes leading some to remark that she seems crazy. Here are more images, some used in the magazine and some outtakes, of Bachmann in Washington and on the campaign trail in Iowa. ...
  • FOCUS: Clarke Alleges CIA Cover-Up Prior to 9/11
    Shenon writes: "Clarke's theory addresses a central, enduring mystery about the 9/11 attacks - why the CIA failed for so long to tell the White House and senior officials at the FBI that the agency was aware that two Al Qaeda terrorists had arrived in the United States in January 2000, just days ...
  • Why Looming Budget Battles Might Still Shut Do ...
    Lois Beckett reports: "The Securities and Exchange Commission, Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Health and Human Services could face partial shutdowns this fall, as a politically polarized Congress faces a Sept. 30 deadline to approve a new federal budget." Trays of printed S ...

War Resisters League

  • Digging into the Operation Recovery Campaign
    Check out this post from Operation Recovery organizers who have been working hard down at Ft. Hood in Texas. To get plugged in to working with the current GI Coffeehouses, including Under the Hood Cafe near Ft. Hood, contact WRL Organizing Coordinator, Kimber Heinz at kimber@warresisters.org. By ...
  • “The Flavor of Freedom” . . . and ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a book review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in Manhattan.] Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love and War by Annia Cieza ...
  • Wisconsin Updates!
    Since Joy First’s article on the occupation of the Wisconsin capitol in the spring issue of WIN magazine, organizers have continued to coordinate actions and protests, keeping the public focused on this issue. Here are some updates: Around the grounds of the capitol on June 4, protesters set up ...
  • Know Before You Go, ‘Cause There’s ...
    At the National Network Opposed to the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) gathering in 2009, youth staffers of the Ya-Ya (Youth Activists-Youth Allies) Network, a youth-led organization based in NYC that focuses on counter-recruitment and other kinds of social justice work, met with reps from WRL N ...
  • WRL Organizers Criss-cross the Country
    The following are several brief reports from organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa on their travels across the country from Chicago to New Mexico, and Pittsburgh to Detroit. On May 31st, field organizer Ali Issa made a trip to Chicago where he took part in a joint stra ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Leaving Afghanistan
    Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
  • Raging at Rawalpindi
    American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • AEN Casino Volunteers
    Position:� Sorters and Chip Runners Organization:� Alberta Environmental Network ...
  • Tell Environment Minister Peter Kent to keep h ...
    Council of Canadians On August 10, 2011 the Alberta Utilities Commission gave final approval to Calgary-based Maxim Power for the construction of a new conventional coal-fired plant near Grande Cache. The plant was approved despite soon- ...
  • Call for Delegates: Member, Water Conservation ...
    Initiative:� Water Conservation, Efficiency and Productivity Team Position:� Member ...
  • How to Prevent More “Potatogates”
    New Report Makes Recommendations on Future Public Land Sales Alberta Wilderness Association 4 Aug 2011 The “Potatogate” lan ...
  • The Water Log — August 3, 2011
    Water Matters The August 3, 2011 issue of The Water Log is available on the Water Matters website. Contents Drilling Below the Surface: Groundwater Risks and In Situ Oil Sands�Development A Nervous Summer for the Land-Use Fram ...

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 1 ...
    ==== Report: $3.7 Trillion For U.S. Wars, $12,000 Per Person NATO Troops Arrest Five Afghan Civilians, Torch Two Vehicles NATO Tankers Destroyed Near Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Pakistan: 47 U.S. Drone Strikes This Year, 450 Deaths Kosovo Serbs Protest New Threat To Security 86,000 U.S., South K ...
  • Nikos Kazantzakis: Francis of Assisi
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Nikos Kazantzakis From the novel Saint Francis (1962) Translated by Peter Bein “Peace, my bothers,” he cried in a voice that was supplicating, afflicted. “How can we bring peace to the world if we do not have peace in our own hearts? On ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 1 ...
    ==== NATO’s Libyan War: Over 19,000 Air Missions, 7,200 Strike Sorties Gaddafi Calls On Libyans To Take Up Arms Against NATO Gaddafi Support Soars Amid NATO Bombing Libyan War: U.S. Global Hawk Drone “Reaches Critical Milestone” Afghan War: Over 50,000 NATO Sorties In Last Year, 10,000 Special F ...
  • H.L. Mencken: New wars will bring about an unp ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts H.L. Mencken From In Defense of Women (1918/1922) The present series of wars, it seems likely, will continue for twenty or thirty years, and perhaps longer. That the first clash was inconclusive was shown brilliantly by the preposterous ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 1 ...
    ==== Libya: Almost 19,000 NATO Sorties, Over 7,000 Strike Missions New Massacre: NATO Plans Intensive Air Strikes On Libyan-Tunisian Border British Warplanes Fly 3,000-Mile Sorties To Bomb Libya Turkey May Join NATO Action Against Syria NATO To Arm Syrian Insurgents, Prepares Military Interventi ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Dutch Government Gives € 1,000,000.00 Stolen L ...
    The Intel Hub August 15, 2011 Dutch FM Rosenthal (l): “We don’t recognize governments… but we DO support anti-government rebels” The Dutch government has given ⬠1,000,000.00 ($ 1,425,000.00) in frozen Libyan assets belonging to Gaddafi and Libya to the World Health Organisation (WHO) to “grant ...
  • Police Officer Shot Dead After Pointing Stun G ...
    The Daily Mail August 15, 2011 A police officer killed while responding to a domestic disturbance in a small eastern Pennsylvania borough had pointed a stun gun at two dogs before being shot, court records reveal. Freemansburg police officer Robert Lasso had pointed at the attacking dogs when th ...
  • Policeman Retaliates Against Videographer
    Russia Today August 15, 2011 Melvin Jones III was beaten unconscious by Springfield Police officers during a routine traffic stop. Medical records show that parts of Jones’ skull were shattered due to the beating and has become partially blinded in one eye. One thing that the officers were unawa ...
  • Video Of Protest Against San Fransisco BART &# ...
    The Intel Hub August 15, 2011 Protests over multiple fatal police shootings carried out by BART in San Fransisco have caused BART to shut down train stations in an attempt to quell the so called civil disturbance. BART, a police force apparently above the Constitution also recently shut off cell ...
  • Institutionalized Robbery Of The American Peop ...
    By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie And Intel Hub Contributing Writer August 15, 2011 Many people in the so-called truth movement have long known about the $2.3 trillion that went mysteriously missing on September 10th, 2001. This, of course, was all but completely ignored by the mainstream ...

FRS

  • California Prison Crisis Sparks Statewide Hung ...
    By Angola 3 News, 11 August, 2011 Angola3news.com:  An interview with Isaac Ontiveros of Critical Resistance On July 20, hunger strikers at California’s infamous Supermax, Pelican Bay State Prison Secure Housing Unit (PBSP-SHU), declared victory and ended their nearly three-week fast for human ...
  • Nepal: Maoist dispute comes alive in play
    2011-08-10 HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE BIRATNAGAR: The dispute among UCPN-Maoist senior leaders seems to have percolated into party’s cultural front as well. The case in point is a row over a play to be staged in Biratnagar as part of a cultural show. Pushpa Kamal Dahal faction wants to scrap the pla ...
  • Report from India: The Struggle Against Displ ...
    Announcing a program on  the people’s struggles in India A presentation by Partho Sarathi Ray — A molecular biologist, member of Sanhati, an activist with first-hand knowledge of the peopleâs movements in India. See an article about Special Economic Zones (from Sanhati) by Partho Sarathi Ray at ...
  • Indian Military Intelligence Director visits N ...
    by Akhtar Jamal Islamabad—A poweful Indian military delegation led by its Military Intelligence Director, Lieutenant General D.S. Thakur arrived in Kathmandu on Wednesday on a five-day visit to Nepal. The Indian team on Wednesday met with Nepalese Minister for Defence Bishnu Prasad Poudel and De ...
  • India: Protesters “demanded water, but t ...
    Video grabs Policemen firing on farmers on the Pune Expressway Aug 11, 2011 — Video grabs show policemen firing at the protestors on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. Amnesty International issued a statement, “The Government of Maharashtra must ensure a thorough and fair inquiry into deaths during a p ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Demand for Return of Trade Not Aid Property
    Let is be known that the pictured 18-ton truck has been fraudulently registered in the name of Catherine Sarah Myles and taken to a destination unknown and against my expressed will. The registration of the vehicle in Catherine Myles name has been verified by the Metropolitan and Swansea Police ...
  • Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
    am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
  • One for the Women
    It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
  • Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
    Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
  • Slander vs. Sanity
    Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Capitalism v. Christianity
    A new survey from Public Religion Reseach Institute says that just 38 percent of Americans believe capitalism and Christianity are compatible. Forty-six percent believe they are at odds. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • The importance of local
    In the last week or so, I've stopped at three different farm stands here in Connecticut, and have enjoyed corn, peaches, and herbs I haven't been able to grow myself. (The tomatoes, I have -- scads and scads of tomatoes, and basil and parsley). Local tastes better. Local is better. And Mik ...
  • Global economics explained for you
    And thanks, Cynical, for the link.
  • About that Super Committee...
    MAPLight (love them) has analyzed campaign contributions of the 12 members of the so-called Super Committee, the group charged with debt reduction, here. Here's a sampling: Top 10 Industry Contributors to Super Committee Members (PACs and Employees) Industry Totals Lawyers/Law Firms $31,529 ...
  • More Christian than you
    Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry as Christian as he thinks he is? Given that the newly-minted presidential candidate is running an overtly religious campaign, perhaps it's a fair question from Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former lieutenant governor of Maryland, at The Atlantic. And thanks, Randy, for the ...

Associated Content

  • Tim Pawlenty Could Never Catch Fire, so He Cal ...
    Sagging poll numbers and a shortage of campaign cash had bedeviled the Tim Pawlenty campaign for the presidency even before the Ames Straw Poll. But a third place showing convinced the former Minnesota governor to toss it in.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Aug 14, 2011
  • Reaction to Michele Bachmann's Victory in the ...
    A few thoughts on the Iowa Straw PollContributor: Jared Feldman Published: Aug 14, 2011
  • 50 Years Ago the Rise of the Berlin Wall Showe ...
    Saturday, August 13, is the 50th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall. The Wall eventually became a barrier of concrete, barbed wire, land mines, and towers filled with uniformed men with orders to shoot anyone who crossed.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Aug 13, 2011
  • Ames Straw Poll: Is it All Hype and No Substance?
    It is being hailed as an important moment in politics. But is it really? Or is it a lot of well-publicized hype over nothing much?Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Aug 13, 2011
  • Is Sarah Palin a Cunning Politician or Just a ...
    Sarah Palin is a fascinating person to write about. That applies whether one is favorably disposed toward her, or whether one spews at the very mention of her name. A case in point of the latter is Kathleen Parker's latest Washington Post column.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Aug 13, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Punching Stan In The Face, In Ultra Slow Motion
    This is what they call "the sweet science," right? In 2008, Popular Science named Vision Research's Phantom V12 slow-motion video camera one of the best products of the year. This summer, we drove out to the headquarters of Vision Research in New Jersey to talk to the Phantom folks, see firstha ...
  • Lasers that Flash in a Quintillionth of a Seco ...
    An international team of researchers spanning Australia, North America, and Europe has created a model for a new kind of attosecond laser that should be able to film individual electrons as they participate in chemical reactions. Such high-res, high-speed data gathering has never been achieved ...
  • This Week in the Future, August 8-12, 2011
    Look at all this amazing stuff on earth! Olympic-level sprinters with no legs, mothers with superhuman strength, and gangsta-rapping sparrows, among so much else--and it all might have come from space. Want to win this gorgeous a Baarbarian illustration, on a t-shirt? It's easy! The rules: Foll ...
  • This Worm Is the First Animal Engineered to Pr ...
    Meet the 21st amino acid Researchers at Cambridge claim they’ve engineered the first animal with artificial information embedded in its genetic code in such a way that it generates biological molecules that have never been seen before in nature. That is, it churns out an amino acid that is whol ...
  • 'Epidermal Electronics' Paste Peelable Circuit ...
    Someday soon, hospital patients won’t be hooked up to wires and monitors -- instead, electronic patches will be temporarily tattooed onto their bodies. Doctors will be able to monitor their vital signs without poking and prodding, and patients wearing neck patches will even be able to communica ...

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.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • July global temperatures show further rise
    The latest global temperature for July, according to the UAH satellite measure, has shown a further rise from June, and now stands at 0.372C above the running 30 year mean. Adjusted to the more standard time period used by the Met Office and the WMO, the anomaly is now approximately +0.625C ...
  • August warmth to be short lived
    The warm air that has greeted the start of August looks set to a blip in what is certain to be described come September as yet another disappointing, unsettled summer. Highest temperatures will be in the Southeast of the UK, where 30C (86F) is likely in the next 24 hours, but the warmth will be ...
  • Arctic Ice extent heads for satellite record low
    Exceptionally warm weather across the North Pole during the first half of July, with temperatures up to 8C above normal, could lead to record low ice extent this year according to experts, based on data collected by satellites which started in 1979. Arctic sea ice is already lower than at the ...
  • My experience with solar panels
    I thought I might share a recent personal experience of mine. Having considered the idea of generating my own electricity by way of solar photo voltaic panels on my roof for the last few months, I have finally taken the plunge. My house is directly south facing, so the roof is in a prime posi ...
  • Rest of July heading for a washout
    Most parts of the country have enjoyed a fine summers day today, with plenty of sunshine. But although it's the last thing the UK tourist industry wants to hear, the message is enjoy it while it lasts. By the weekend low pressure will again be dominating our weather as the jet stream moves fu ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Best Served Cold: US Harrassment of S&P Begins
    Ah, revenge. In case you missed it, I guess that it was coming anyway: A few days ago prior to the US downgrade, I discussed how Italy had raided rating agencies S&P and Moody's over the appropriateness of their practices in assigning ratings to its sovereign debt. Aside from them insinuating th ...
  • 40 Years Ago Today: Nixon Kills Dollar-Gold Peg
    With apologies to dandy Sgt Pepper: It was forty years ago today The dollar-gold standard went away It's been going in and out of money For crisis-hit countries it ain't funny So may I reintroduce to you The act you've forgotten all these years Tricky Dicky's dollar-gold killing day ...
  • Fred Bergsten Has Gone Nuts Over China
    I was doing the usual thing trawling through newswire features on Yahoo! News when I came across a rather fantastically titled Reuters piece on how China may be the "worst protectionist ever." Reading the article in question, we gather that the person who said this was none other than Fred Bergs ...
  • Roubini: Marx Was Right & Markets Aren't Working
    It appears that even Mr. Roubini Global Economics Monitor himself cannot but return to the scribblings of one of the central figures in classic political economy, Karl Marx. (Yes, neoclassical economics becomes tiresome after a while and lacks explanatory power for phenomena outside its narrow ...
  • London's Burning: LSE Brain Trust on England Riots
    [Cue the Clash's "London's Burning" for a trip up and down memory lane.] I'll take a breather here and insource blogging material for this post from various members of the LSE's brain trust. Certainly, a huge amount of intellectual firepower can be marshalled here from various academics working ...

Economic Collapse Blog

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

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

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

Voiceless Victim

  • Australian Clergy Sex Abuse Victims Deserve Ju ...
    The Catholic Church does not commit sex crimes against children and the vulnerable. It does, however, ensure that known child sex predators are protected by their status as representatives of the Catholic Church, facilitated to continue offending, and facilitated in privileged and unquestioned a ...
  • Protect the sanctity of the confessional to co ...
    Responses to the Cloyne report have included calls to break that ultimate coverup con trick “the sanctity of the confessional”. That really got the paedophile protectors squealing in horror. Imagine not getting special treatment and not being allowed to commit whatever crimes they like without c ...
  • Imagine How It Feels
    How many people talk about the issue of Catholic Church enabled child sexual abuse without a thought for how it feels to be the victim of such abuse? This issue is, after all, about children. Yesterday’s children whose lives were irreparably damaged by their abuse and who are still being re-abus ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
    I used to think the John Jay College  of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
  • Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
    This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...

WL Central

  • 2011-08-15 Some oddities about Openleaks
    TweetThe recent controversy surrounding Openleaks and its founder Daniel Domscheit-Berg prompted us to have a closer look on the project. At first glance, the main media partner of the project appears to be TAZ, a well respected leftist publication, who granted Openleaks a subdomain during the i ...
  • Chaos Computer Club expels Daniel Domscheit-Berg
    TweetOpenleaks founder Daniel Domscheit-Berg has been expelled from the Chaos Computer Club on grounds of damaging the reputation of the club. Following a meeting of the board members, he was handed a written notice at the Chaos Communication Camp in Finowfurt. According § 5 of the club statutes ...
  • Third Monthly WikiLeaks Central Essay Competit ...
    TweetTHEME The third monthly WikiLeaks Central Essay Competition 2011 solicits an answer to the question: What are the root causes of the global economic crisis? All sources used must be clearly identified when they occur and include the name of the source, and, when available, a hypertext link ...
  • 2011-08-15 Anonymous on the Rail for Justice # ...
    TweetFirst it was Scientology, then Paypal and WikiLeaks, Tunisia and Egypt, aiding the free flow of communication. The online collective Anonymous never seems to sleep. Its allegiance goes beyond any nationality or political ideology. Their track record shows effectiveness. The recent HB Gary F ...
  • 2011-08-15 Announcing the WikiLeaks Central C ...
    TweetThe second monthly WikiLeaks Central Competition 2011 focused on soliciting analysis of one or more of the US State Department cables released by WikiLeaks. The winner is: Syria: the canary in the coal mine by JP Orient What we liked most about the winning essay was the writer's ability to ...

U N News

  • Global economy on the agenda during General As ...
    Economic governance, globalization and the role of the United Nations topped the agenda during a one-day visit today to Argentina by General Assembly President Joseph Deiss.
  • UN-backed scheme enables Colombian indigenous ...
    Sixty indigenous families in Colombia are selling handicrafts in the capital, Bogotá, to cater to an influx of fans attending the ongoing youth soccer World Cup tournament as part of a United Nations-backed initiative to alleviate poverty.
  • Ban welcomes measures announced by US to help ...
    The steps recently announced by President Barack Obama of the United States to strengthen his Government's capacity to help prevent genocide and other mass atrocities are "promising" initiatives, said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
  • Murder of Dominican journalist sparks condemna ...
    The United Nations agency tasked with promoting press freedom today deplored the slaying of a print and television journalist in the Dominican Republic who had spoken out against drug trafficking.
  • UN encourages Haitians to reach consensus on n ...
    The United Nations has encouraged all political actors in Haiti to search for a consensus amid the ongoing struggle between President Michel Martelly and Parliament over the confirmation of a new prime minister.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
  • Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
    Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
  • HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
    You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...
  • Population Control – Eugenics Depopulation Agenda
    Eugenicists who have still caught on to the discredited principles of eugenics, now attach these ideas to environmentalism and population control in an attempt to carry on eugenics in a more veiled form. Malthusian population control was now emphasized.

Rewilding Institute

  • Congratulations to The Center for Biological D ...
    What terrific news from our friends at the Center! We appreciate their efforts and hope you do, too. Please show them your support with your thanks and a donation.   Check out the Center’s Historic Victory website for more on this breaking agreement.     I’ve been waiting years to write these w ...
  • Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
    Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it.  As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
    Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
    Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
  • Record Big Game Die-offs in Northern Rockies
    Winter die-offs are always characteristic of ungulate populations that have exceeded natural carrying capacity, usually because of management efforts to increase numbers for the benefit of hunters. In areas where wolves and other large predators are well established, ungulates seldom perish from ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tarpley

  • CRISI: RITORNA LA GRANDE DEPRESSIONE
    di Stefania Limiti – 15 Agosto 2011 Secondo Tarpley, l’agenzia di rating S&P’s potrebbe prendere di mira la Francia. La crisi attuale presenta molte affinità con quella del ’29: occorre reagire pianificando una strategia per la ripresa. E intanto in alcuni Paesi Ue, compresa l’Italia, sono viet ...
  • US State Department Gives Benghazi Rebels the ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 9, 2011 [download video] [download audio]
  • United States Under Attack by International Zo ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show Infowars August 8, 2011 [download audio]
  • Syrian Army Quells Rebellion of CIA-Backed Mos ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Russia Today August 4, 2011 [download file]
  • Français
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Srpski Svenska Türk Zhongwén   Operation sous Fausse Bandière en Norvège: Attention aux Taupes, aux Techniciens, et aux Exercices Policiers, et seulement après au Lampiste ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Comet Honda and Elenin Crossing Orbits
    Comet Honda is zipping past the Earth during the middle of August while at the same time, Comet Elenin appears on a bee line to nearly intersect with the orbit of Comet Honda on September 28,29. Given the current NASA JPL coordinates and orbital information, we’ll all live to see another day… bu ...
  • Today in the News:
    News Today (August 15, 2011)   Was it flooding or ongoing accidents that led to a natural gas liquids leak into the Missouri River…? Leak in a 10 Mile Section of 33,000 Barrels Per Day Pipeline   Looking to refinance or mortgage? Best to think about it now….. In a few years, these rates will [...]
  • 50 Events That Could Tip the US Over The Brink
    Guest Post: by ‘Be informed’ The weakened United States is teetering on a cliff waiting for the “next” episode to push it over the proverbial brink, a tipping point, reached through a severe incident. The following 50 events all exist within the realm of possibilities and may be severe enough to ...
  • Arctic Sea Ice To EXPAND For A Decade?
    Credit: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research The most recent version of the most powerful climate modeling software in the world, the Community Climate System Model, a computer climate model created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) surprisingly found that in some ...
  • Today in the News:
    News Today (August 14, 2011)   MIT researchers – have they discovered a cure for viral infections or just another drug for pharmaceuticals to peddle? MIT Discovers Cure for Viral Infections…   Maximize your harvest by planting fall and winter crops now, while it’s still summer. Planting Your Own ...

Fast Company

  • CrossFit: Where Navy SEALs and Pregnant Soccer ...
    A new rapidly growing, community oriented exercise gym, CrossFit, has developed its own multi-million-dollar slice of the fitness industry on the backs of all-star athletes, elite armed forces, and power moms. "Oh, F**k!" huffs a tree trunk of a man, whose hunched, sweat-drenched body looks l ...
  • Harry Potter Spell To Help Sell Sony E-Reader ...
    Sony has scored an exclusive lead on other e-readers in selling copies of Harry Potter as e-texts, industry sources tell The Register. It's all a part of Pottermore, the upcoming online Potter portal. The deal could leave the Amazon-dominated e-reader market spellbound.The Pottermore site went l ...
  • Rich Ross Makes Moves (And Movies) At Disney
    Innovation in Hollywood isn't for the faint of heart. Meet Rich Ross, the outsider (from television, no less!) tugging Disney's movie studio into the 21st century. [UPDATE: Now there's even more tugging, following halted production on one of the first big franchises in his stable, "The Lone Ran ...
  • 5 Steps To Get Your Business Ready For Masteri ...
    B2B companies have traditionally been laggards in social media, unlike their quick-adopting consumer counterparts. One reason is that B2B doesn�t facilitate the instant easy connections with customers or prospects that B2C can do so well. Consumers, for instance, frequently define themselves by ...
  • Building Roads That Work For Animals And People
    It looks like a regular overpass, but it's not for cars, it's for bears. Highway designs that allow animals to pass over or under without becoming road kill are getting more and more common, but will they work in the Serengeti, when the road crosses the largest animal migration in the world?A ma ...

Jadaliyya

  • New Additions to the Literature on Cairo
    Nezar AlSayyad. Cairo: Histories of a City. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. David Sims. Understanding Cairo: the Logic of a City out of Control. Cairo; New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2010. Nezar AlSayyad’s Cairo: Histories of a City ...
  • A Creature Which Would Be Impossible If It Did ...
    Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, which turns thirty this year, opens with one of the most celebrated bouts of throat-clearing in literary history: I was born in the city of Bombay...once upon a time. No, that won’t do, there’s no getting away from the date: I was born in Doctor Nar ...
  • On the Current Conjuncture in Israel
    Many progressives around the world have been wondering out loud about what exactly has been going on here for the last month. Who are the unprecedented crowds taking to the streets in the name of "the people" (ha'am), demanding "social justice" (tzedek hevrati), and what exactly do they ...
  • I'm Sorry
    [This is the eleventh installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous posts here.] The hours before leaving are always the worst. It is the curse of al-mahjar, the diaspora, no matter how long you have lived away from home, a part of you is uprooted ...
  • The Syrian "Common": The Uprising of the Worki ...
    The ongoing Syrian uprising has paradoxical effects on Syrian society. On the one hand, it is an unparalleled opportunity for political education and for gaining a better understanding of the country�s affairs in general. On the other, it raises the human cost of the political transforma ...

mediagazer

  • Pulse Beats The Drum For International Growth, ...
    Ingrid Lunden / paidContent: Pulse Beats The Drum For International Growth, Signs Up Al Jazeera  —  Pulse, the news-reading app for iOS and Android devices, has signed up its first international partner, and it's a biggie: Al Jazeera will become the first foreign news organization to partner w ...
  • Newspapers need a jolt of Silicon Valley DNA ( ...
    Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur: Newspapers need a jolt of Silicon Valley DNA  —  I started my career as a newspaperman, became a Silicon Valley CEO and work today as a consultant helping media companies understand technology and helping technology companies understand the media.  Here' ...
  • Hacking: Committee Releases Potentially Devast ...
    Staci D. Kramer / paidContent: Hacking: Committee Releases Potentially Devastating NoTW Correspondence  —  The House of Commons Select Committee investigating widespread hacking at News of the World and a host of potential ripple effects, including a possible coverup by News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), ...
  • MPs 'likely' to recall James Murdoch (Press Ga ...
    Press Gazette: MPs ‘likely’ to recall James Murdoch  —  James Murdoch is “likely” to be recalled before the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee as part of its inquiry into phone hacking at the News of the World, Labour MP Tom Watson said today.  —  Amid continued questions about the exte ...
  • Phone hacking: News of the World reporter's le ...
    Nick Davies / Guardian: Phone hacking: News of the World reporter's letter reveals cover-up  —  Disgraced royal correspondent Clive Goodman's letter says phone hacking was ‘widely discussed’ at NoW meetings  —  • Read Clive Goodman's letter to News International  —  Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoc ...

Chemtrail News

  • chem trail SDR-H80 70x - 700x 20110808- ...
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  • ChemTrail Droppings: Toxic Metals and C ...
    The existence of an unusual type of aerial activity, generally termed Chemtrails, has been reported for many years now. While it is scientifically accepted ...www.ukprogressive.co.uk/wp.../08/chemtrails-300x199.jpg
  • How to get rid of chemtrail and other t ...
    NaturalNews Chemtrails pollution food additives and pharmaceuticals poison us daily with heavy metals pesticides and other pollutants Humans are caught in a ...www.naturalnews.com/033322_chemtrails_detox.html
  • HAARP CHEMTRAIL or NATURAL? WTF IS THIS ...
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  • ChemTrail Droppings: Toxic Metals and C ...
    The existence of an unusual type of aerial activity, generally termed Chemtrails, has been reported for many years now. While it is scientifically accepted ...

World News - Top Stories

  • WWE SummerSlam 2011 PPV results
    Shocking results from last Sunday’s SummerSlam as we go into this week’s RAW. Firstly, CM Punk beat John Cena, becoming the disputed champion. No, that’s not a typo, I do mean disputed champion. Special referee Triple-H counts to 3 and gives Punk the win but he seemingly doesn’t notice that ...
  • Louboutin vs YSL red sole lawsuit update
    Atlanta fashionistas, the latest update on the Christian Louboutin versus Yves Saint Laurent case for the latter manufacturing red-soled shoes, popularized by the former some 20 years ago is that Louboutin’s legal team is prepared to fight to the teeth and appealing the New York court rulin ...
  • Drinking Chocolate Can Be Healthy?
    Stop the presses, hold the tweets and facebook updates!  Does that headline really say what it looks like it says?  Drinking chocolate can be healthy?  The answer to that question: YES!  Now, what’s the next question – Where can you find it?  Well, look no further than right down the road i ...
  • Titan Travel launches new programme of El ...
    Titan Travel has unveiled its 2012 programme of award-winning river cruises for independent travellers with three brand new itineraries in a brochure that has a fresh, new pictorial style which illustrates more clearly the elegance of the cruise experiences available. The programme is opera ...
  • Jay-Z spends $250,000 on champagne
    Jay-Z has splashed out $250,000 on champagne. The hip-hop star was out celebrating the recent release of his and Kanye West's joint album 'Watch The Throne' in Miami on Sunday when he purchased "bottle after bottle" of the alcohol because he didn't want to be "upstaged" by Dallas Mavericks ...

no frakking consensus

  • Comic Relief
    A 3-minute spoof video on environmental public service announcements. No matter where you stand on global warming, this should make you chuckle.
  • The Y2K Scare, the Media & Climate Change
    Media coverage of climate change has a great deal in common with how the press covered the Y2K scare. There's little evidence that news outlets learned much from that embarrassing episode.
  • Rajendra Pachauri: Friend of the Environment?
    Auditors investigating mismanagement of the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in India say a committee that was supposed to monitor environmental concerns appears to have never met. IPCC chairman Pachauri was a member.
  • Naming Names: Marine Experts Tainted by Activi ...
    The list of people who've accepted $150,000 from an advocacy organization is a long one. There are lots of PhDs here, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with full-blown political activists.
  • Pew, What’s That Smell?
    An activist group has been funding a particular corner of scientific research to the tune of $1 million a year for more than two decades. Do we really think this hasn't influenced how those working in that field see the world?

Anna's News

  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitariesSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the....Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a...Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Green energy investment hits record global high
    Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle �|� � ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 8/9/11 - Are felons more likely to vote for De ...
    felonvoting.procon.org - UPDATED: Are felons more likely to vote for Democrats over Republicans?
  • 8/5/11 - Find Your Body Mass Index (BMI)
    obesity.procon.org - NEW: Find Your Body Mass Index (BMI) - The average BMI in the US is 27.8 for males and 28.1 for females. Use our new chart to find your BMI and see how you compare to the national average.
  • 8/5/11 - US and Global Obesity Levels: The Fat ...
    obesity.procon.org - NEW: US and Global Obesity Levels: The Fat Chart - 21.8% of the total global population and 33.9% of the US population is obese. Between 1960 and 2006 obesity rates in the US more than doubled, making the US the most obese industrialized country on Earth. See our new chart t ...
  • 8/4/11 - Six States with Pending Legislation t ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - UPDATED: Six States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Bills in six states died in committee when legislative sessions adjourned, leaving pending legislation in IL, MA, NH, NY, OH, and PA.
  • 7/27/11 - ACLU Historical Timeline
    aclu.procon.org - UPDATED: ACLU Historical Timeline - Read about the history of the American Civil Liberties Union from its formation in 1920, through their organizational split over Japanese internment in 1942, to the ACLU's defense of the right for American Nazis to march in Skokie, IL in 1977 ...

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 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Features Postmodernism is dead
    Edward Docx A new exhibition signals the end of postmodernism. But what was it? And what comes next? I have some good newsâkick back, relax, enjoy the rest of the summer, stop worrying about where your life is and isnât heading. What news? Well, on 24th September, we can officially and definitiv ...
  • Obsessive-compulsive?
    Jonathan Tel Nicholson Baker’s new novel is a bizarre riff on pornographic themes. The problem is it’s just not creepy enough… House of Holes By Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster, £14.99) âShe went to a quarry with her Geology 101 classâ¦It was vast and they dug granite there, mostly for tombst ...
  • Why Are Scientific Retractions Increasing?
    Jonah Lehrer In the WSJ, Gautam Naik reports on a troubling surge in scientific retractions: Since 2001, while the number of papers published in research journals has risen 44%, the number retracted has leapt more than 15-fold, data compiled for The Wall Street Journal by Thomson Reuters reveal. ...
  • Drug Resistance From Aquaculture?
    Maryn McKenna In the midst of the giant Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak last week â now up to 107 cases in 31 states, and triggering a recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey â it was easy to miss that a second and even more troubling strain of resistant Salmonella is on the move. As … Read more
  • Righthaven rocked, owes $34,000 after "fair us ...
    Nate Anderson The wheels appear to be coming off the Righthaven trainwreck-in-progress. The litigation outfit, which generally sues small-time bloggers, forum operators, and the occasional Ars Technica writer, has just been slapped with a $34,000 bill for legal fees. Righthaven v. Hoehn, filed i ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • PolicyLab on open science
    On the morning of 1 September, we are holding a PolicyLab event with Michael Nielsen: ‘An open and shut case? debating the purposes of open science’.  We sent out this invitation to those who have signed up to hear about our events. (You can sign up by emailing science.policy@royalsociety.org ...
  • Open meeting on open science – some highlights
    FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE We kicked off our Science as a public enterprise  study with a public event at the Southbank Centre last month. The full recording of the first debate is now available. Download audio file  (Apologies for the mixed quality – the audience mikes were ...
  • Engineering public engagement
    FROM EMMA WOODS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE What is so unusual about geoengineering? What sets it apart from other controversial technologies? One thing that strikes me as particularly atypical is that the social dimensions of geoengineering are being addressed well ahead of the development of ...
  • Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
    FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
  • Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
    FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...

NAU Resistance

  • The Consolidation Of North America Continues B ...
    Top Priority "According to a newly released study by Angus Reid on behalf of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association, 60% of respondents support changing Provincial rules that currently prevent convenience and grocery stores from selling alcohol"
  • U.S. Ambassador Says Perimeter Security Deal W ...
    - Joint Border Inspection Facilities | Relocation Of U.S. Food Inspectors At Canadian Plants And Vice-Versa |Greater Sharing Of Intelligence & Harmonizing Regulations | Greater Use Of Biometrics To Track Travelers In Real Time
  • Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
    "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
  • Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
    "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
  • VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ...
    "Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of child ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Some CO2 lies
    From Malcolm Roberts, of the Galileo Movement: Measurements of global CO2 levels used by the UN reveal that CO2 levels are a result of temperature, not a cause. CO2 does not drive temperature. Temperature determines CO2 levels. Yet the government and Greens tells us the opposite. Saying CO2 dr ...
  • A dark satire comes to life: David Cameron&#82 ...
    U.K. Prime minister David Cameron has announced sweeping new powers to be given to police to curb violence and restore law and order in the country. Many of the themes in his speech before Parliament on 11 August are reminiscent of the film "V for Vendetta", which is a satirical depiction of a ...
  • Everywhere is War
    Tonight I'm joined by Josh Jackson as we plough through the maelstrom of international turmoil, including wars, riot and financial collapse. In particular we look are the UK riots and their relationship to uprisings in the Middle East, as well as the likely fallout from the downgrading of the ...
  • 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out
    We Are Change Sydney and Truth News Australia are proud to host a screening of this exciting new documentary film by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Saturday, September 10, 2011, 7:00 PM Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney (map) The film features cutting-edge ...
  • No Carbon Tax Protest: photos
    Some random thoughts as we steam towards the biggest social and economic blunder of the millennium. Calculations about what people will pay on average per week are speculative and have no guarantees attached. That’s clearly just a marketing gimmick. What we should be more concerned about is wh ...

Beacon

  • Rehabbed Sea Turtles Released in Chesapeake Bay
    Oceana the sea turtle, an endangered Kemp's ridley. � National Aquarium Last Friday the National Aquarium and Oceana released three endangered Kemp�s ridley sea turtles into the Chesapeake Bay at Maryland's Point Lookout State Park. The turtles came to the National Aquarium this winter from ...
  • Friday Infographic: Offshore Drilling
    This is the third �in a series of ocean infographics by artist Don Foley. These infographics also appear in Oceana board member Ted Danson�s book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� � Last year�s Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico was not an isolated e ...
  • Ted Danson's "Oceana" Now Available on Kindle
    I hope you've already picked up your copy of Ted Danson's book, "Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What You Can Do To Save Them." But if you haven't, great news: It's now available on your Kindle. This book represents the culmination of Ted's 25+ years of ocean activism, and we couldn't be ...
  • Photo of the Week: Atlantic Puffin
    © Oceana/Carlos Suarez Our crew aboard the Ranger spotted this charming seabird near Spain’s Gibraltar Strait. Puffins feed by diving for fish underwater, using its strong wings to swim. They breed in large clifftop colonies, and the puffin parents take turns incubating the egg. Puffins e ...
  • Video: Chile’s Underwater Trove
    Earlier this year, Oceana Chile sailed to far-flung Alexander Selkirk Island, named for the Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway on the island, probably inspiring the story of Robinson Crusoe. The island is one of three that comprise the Juan Fernández Archipelago, which sits mor ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Emperor Theodsius’s UFO Sighting
    Nurenburg UFOs in 1600s, Just To Make The Point That earlier People Didn't Quite Know What To Make Of UFOs. One of the things I love to do is order all the free books and the odd books on online booksellers. I often come across things like this from “Wonder of the Sky” A compendium of  [...]
  • World War II Notification Telegrams.
    WWII Telegram POW Telegram WWII [...]
  • Russell Brand’s Beautifully Written Comm ...
    Russell Brand …I found those protests exciting, yes, because I was young and a bit of a twerp but also, I suppose, because there was a void in me. A lack of direction, a sense that I was not invested in the dominant culture, that government existed not to look after the interests of the people [...]
  • This Would NEVER Happen In America.
    Egyptian Riot Police Tunisia Turns Off Internet � Following a speech in which Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stated that all censorship of the Internet and traditional media will be halted, Tunisia appears to have shut off its Internet filtering system. At around 9:45pm local time, ...
  • Astonishing Animation By Damien Nenow Of Two W ...
    Click here to view the [...]

Taylor Marsh

  • Obama to Middle Class: More ‘Burden Sharing’ R ...
    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy …and the hits just keep on comin’. Pres. Obama, campaigning in Iowa, got this response: After waving her hat to get President Obama’s attention, Bev explained her history and posed the question. In response, The President ...
  • Rick Perry, Not Ready for the National Stage
    This guy may be good for Texas, but he’d be a disaster for America around the world. It’s one thing when Tea Party politicians in the House don’t understand economics. But when you have presidential candidates like Rick Perry running around saying Ben Bernanke would be considered “treasonous” fo ...
  • Warren Buffet Begs Congress to ‘Stop Coddling ...
    Warren Buffet lets Congress have it today. OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afgh ...
  • Call Him ‘Crotch’
    Paul Belaga, does a classic take on Rick Perry for the Daily Beast: He wore his jeans so tight, and, umm, adjusted himself so often that my fellow young legislative aides and I used to call him Crotch. Even among state representatives, even among Texas Aggies (graduates of this cute remedial sch ...
  • The Sunday Early Bird News Round-Up *updated*
    Good morning and welcome to Sunday. On this day in history, August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. And right now, he is turning over in his grave. Some links for you to peruse: ~UPDATE: Tim Pawlenty just quit the Presidential race. ~Ok, Bachmann ...

Hudson New York

  • Where Is The Palestinian Spring?
    The tough measures imposed by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have deterred many Palestinians from taking to the streets. Fatah thugs were used to assault dozens of young Palestinians who had been camping in the center of Ramallah to call for
  • America's Need to Tighten Relations With Canada
    From an economic financial crisis to a President that has groveled before America's staunchest foes, America, at a crossroads, shares a border with Canada, a trusted ally that has transitioned from long years of Liberal anti-American governance to a
  • The World of Political Discourse Aims at the I ...
    When the president of the United States says we have to control expenditures and then advocates dramatic increases in the budget, it is perplexing.. When we are told the economy is in recovery, but according to recent reports the unemployment rate has
  • Iran Claims Capture of Wanted Terrorist, Ankar ...
    A senior Iranian lawmaker's claim that the No. 2 figure in a terrorist group had been captured by Iranian security forces put Ankara on alert Sunday due to ambiguity over the identity of the captured terrorist. The state news agency claimed the figure
  • European Concerns Over Muslim Immigration Go M ...
    A new opinion survey shows that more than half of all Europeans believe there are too many immigrants in their countries and that immigration is having a negative impact on their lives. The findings – which come as Europeans are waking up to the

Urban Survival

  • The War on The People
    This is the website the PowersThatBe don’t want you to read.  That’s becoming clear since we had a major virus attack this weekend that, near as I can tell, had two purposes:  Deny people access to our impartial reality checks … Continue reading →
  • Hack Attacks and New Toys
    I didn’t even get down to the airport this weekend to see the “new” (really old) airplane I bought, thanks to the mess with the nasty bastards who decided to attack my websites. Still, I plan to sneak down there … Continue reading →
  • Where’d “Normal” Go?
    One good guess:  Normal is probably not hanging around Wall Street.  The price of gold, which had popped up briefly this week to north of $1,800 had been beaten under $1,750 this morning.  But the truth of the matter is … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With GlobalRev in the News
    Eventually, this is a discussion of network topologies for social use, but like anything else around here, we start somewhere near the middle of the story, like so: Got home from the airport around 5:30 PM, or so (next story) … Continue reading →
  • About That "Four"
    (Marysville, OH)  Are we on our leg down to 9,600 now?  Still pondering the market results from yesterday, since I had re-entered a ‘half-in’ short position on Tuesday in the afterhours market when I got to thinking that “You know, … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Another reason to love the Banks ?!!!!
    UK Banks Fund Cluster Bombs : 111 countries ban... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Links for 2011-08-15 [del.icio.us]
    Forty Years after Bretton Woods, Gold always King | Gold and Silver Blog The Rise Of Ron Paul | Alex Jones Infowars Blog The Rise Of Ron Paul Max Keiser : David Cameron is a schmuck | Max Keiser Blog Max Keiser : David Cameron is a schmuck | Max Keiser Blog Max Keiser : David Ca ...
  • The U.S. economic policies threatens the Amer ...
    Raising taxes NEVER solves the problem. I'm a big... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Capitalism Is The Crisis
    Corporate control of government is an inevitable... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Argentina s Economic Collapse , What lessons f ...
    From one of the 10 most riches nation on earth... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

  • THE CHILDISH LOOK
    There’s something about the way a baby looks at people that’s different. Perhaps its something to do with the fact that for the first year or so they have a fairly limited vocabulary, and their eyes are the window through which they gain their first perceptions of life. When an adult makes eye c ...
  • DARING TO UNDERSTAND FAITH 2: Primal Religions
    It is difficult to pinpoint the exact origin of religious beliefs, so it would be much wiser to assume that several religions were at play within different cultures at opposite ends of the world. Continents like Africa, Asia and the America’s traditionally held on to certain beliefs and life ...
  • MAKE US LAUGH
    Welcome once again to “Make Us Laugh!”. The rules are simple – Tell a short funny story using the featured picture as inspiration, in 50 words or less. We’ll kick start with a story of our own. Let’s see who can “Make Us Laugh!”. Feel free to also comment on whose story you think is [...]
  • NIGERIAN GANGSTERS vs GANGSTERS IN ENGLAND
    “Its a beef ting, and man dem wanna come at me like I aint gon do nufink! This aint no joke, what do you fink vis is? Man lookin to lick them if they don quit gassing.” The anger on the English streets is evident in the language, even though the language itself struggles to [...]
  • LONDON TOWN IS FALLING DOWN
    It was a loaded gun. The safety was off, and it was cocked and ready for an eager finger to pull the trigger. London town is falling down, and there are no fair ladies in sight. Let’s face it, its been coming for a long time. It doesn’t take a sociological analyst to see that the [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • NYTimes on unjunked DNA and cancer
    The more we learn, the less we know. Harvard researchers chime in as the NYTimes reports on yet another cancer theory. These days "junk" DNA is referred to more respectfully as "noncoding" DNA, and researchers are finding clues that "pseudogenes" lurking within this dark region may play a role ...
  • Massachusetts scholars mix science, nature and ...
    Head east on Cambridge Street and the restaurants and bookstores of Inman Square gradually give way to nail parlors, fish markets and corner shops. But, tucked away between them is a tiny operation called Threla. There, you'll find MIT grad Tseh-Hwan Yong cooking up her own brand of lotions, lip ...
  • MIT grad students plug into science policy
    With budget cutters looming over NSF and NIH, no smart scientist can ignore what's happening in Washington. So, we take note of the MIT Science Policy Initiative. This student group is aimed at : • educating students in the policies governing science research and innovation • exploring how ...
  • Will MIT's DRACO lead to a more powerful Volde ...
    PLoS ONE offers a paper on MIT's new new broad-spectrum antiviral approach, dubbed Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) Activated Caspase Oligomerizer (DRACO) that selectively induces apoptosis in cells containing viral dsRNA, rapidly killing infected cells without harming uninfected cells. We have al ...
  • New NIH funding for colon cancer, heart diseas ...
    New NIH grants cover research into aspirin and colon cancer, acupuncture for pain and inflammation and heart disease. We link to the new grants -- and a few notable renewals -- below. You can find more on the NIH Reporter, a handy database of grants, mandated by Congress INFLAMMATION AND INFEC ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Are Millennial Voices the Answer to the Climat ...
    Radha Adhar, Program Assistant, Washington, DC I was born in 1986. Which makes me a member of the millennial generation. I want be a source of information for youth who don’t know about climate change but want to learn. I want to help give a voic ...
  • California Coastal Dreaming, Take 2
    Annie Notthoff, California Advocacy Director, San Francisco office and Sacramento    Stillwater Cove, Monterey County Looking out at the waves of Monterey Bay, with sand between my toes and the summer coastal fog wrapping me in its arms, I once ...
  • Power Shift 2011: Back for More!
    Kelly Henderson, Climate Center Program Assistant, Washington, D.C. Four months ago, I joined almost 10,000 college students and young adults at the Washington, D.C. Convention Center to prove to the world that when it comes to the environment, we ...
  • CNN's mountaintop removal doc garners praise, ...
    Melissa Waage, Campaign Director, Washington, DC CNN’s documentary on mountaintop removal, The Battle for Blair Mountain, aired last night and is burning up the web today. Thanks to everyone who tuned in and followed the conversation on Twitter la ...
  • Poultry that are not fed antibiotics have much ...
    Avinash Kar, Staff Attorney, San Francisco The turkey recall I recently blogged about has focused a spotlight on the issue of antibiotic resistance, as evidenced by the recent widespread news coverage of a new study showing that poultry farmers wh ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, August 15, 2011: Cook Co IL deputy may still be fired after judge’s surprising acquital for videotaped incident where a detainee suffered significant facial injuries when the deputy ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 08-13 ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of August 13-14, 2011: 3 Davie FL cops are the subject of a suit by an 18yr-old honors student, shown above, who was repeatedly punched, kicked, tasered and attacked by a police dog ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, August 12, 2011: Pima County AZ sheriff’s dept & members of a regional swat team are being sued by the family of an ex-marine who was shot to death during a questionable raid that tu ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, August 11, 2011: Fullerton CA police still insist that they will not release a video showing their officers beat and taser Kelly Thomas, who died days later from his injuries, beca ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    It was a slow reporting day for a Wednesday but here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, August 10, 2011: 2 Manitou Springs CO cops sued by man for allegedly breaking his ribs by tasering him in the face & jumping on [...]

Total Collapse

  • U.S., South Korea start military exercises wit ...
    U.S. and South Korean troops began a 10-day military exercise around Seoul on Tuesday, maneuvers the U.S. commander called “defense-oriented” during a period of heightened tensions with the communist North. The annual “Ulchi Freedom Guardian” exercise involves about 530,000 troops from South Kor ...
  • US asks China to explain why it needs aircraft ...
    The United States said Wednesday it would like China to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier amid broader US concerns about Beijing’s lack of transparency over its military aims. “We would welcome any kind of explanation that China would like to give for needing this kind of equipment,” Stat ...
  • Colonial legacy cause of UK unrest
    Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers Leader Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi blames Britain’s colonial past for the unprecedented social unrest in the country. âNo one thought that Britain, which was once a pioneer in arrogance and colonialism, would one day be engulfed in the flames of its people’s wrath ...
  • Syria, Saudi Arabia and the coming regional se ...
    While all the Saudi media pub­lished the speech of the King Abdul­lah (video) defend­ing the human rights of the Syr­ian peo­ple, one Saudi news­pa­per missed the story and pub­lished anarti­cle about poverty in one of the rich­est king­doms in the world. Inter­pret­ing the King’s words, it is n ...
  • 81 Congressmen To Visit Israel in Coming Weeks
    Eighty-one congressmen, about 20 percent of the US House of Representatives, will visit Israel for week-long trips sponsored by American Israel Education Foundation in next three weeks during Congress’s summer recess. The first group of 26 Democrats are scheduled to arrive as early as Monday. 55 ...

Daily Dose

  • Samsung gets Galaxy Tab ban lifted in Europe, ...
    The preliminary injunction preventing Samsung from distributing the Galaxy Tab 10.1 across Europe has been lifted, reports FOSSPatents. The ban on the sale of the devices is still active in Germany, where the injunction was granted. The injunction was lifted because of doubts about the Düssel ...
  • 48% of Google+ users have never made a public post
    While Google+ might be taking off (with over 20 million users and counting) the service is mainly dominated by only a few names. As this visualization shows, most of the activity is centered around only a few people, with tenuous links to the “other half”. The brain behind the mining, Matthew ...
  • Social stockmarket Empire Avenue follows Klout ...
    Hot on the heels of Klout‘s recent integration of Foursquare and Instagram, another social influence measurement service, Empire Avenue has announced that it is adding support for both those services. Empire Avenue is similar to Klout and PeerIndex, in that it measures influence of its users on ...
  • HTC seeks US ban on Apple’s Mac, iPhone and iP ...
    Taiwanese smartphone giant HTC has followed through with its threat to protect its intellectual property in its legal fight against Apple by filing a new lawsuit in the U.S District Court in Delaware, seeking an import and sales ban in the U.S on numerous Apple products. HTC claims that Apple i ...
  • Tumblr Tuesday: Loot-alikes matches London loo ...
    Welcome to our second Tumblr Tuesday, where every Tuesday we celebrate our love of Tumblr. Tumblr, a New York City based startup, is like the FFFFound for the rest of the world. Itâs as shareable and fast-paced as Twitter but populated with more in-depth text and rich images. In the past we ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Solar Thermal a Key Driver of Renewable Energy ...
    New data released by Bloomberg New Energy Finance shows that, over the last financial quarter, a staggering $US41.7billion of new capital was invested globally in the renewable energy sector. Investments in the innovative concentrating solar thermal (CST) industry were identified as a key drive ...
  • Carbon Price Scheme – No Longer a Mystery Package
    Upon the release of Prime Minister Julia Gillard�s carbon price package (to take effect July 1, 2012), there has been talk aplenty of her plummeting popularity. The PM has dismissed the commentary in favour of the scheme�s necessity, saying, �Polls will come and go�� I�m absolutely convinced wh ...
  • BZE Executive Director pictured on front of 20 ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions is pleased to have been awarded the prestigous opportunity to be pictured on the front of the Sydney Whitepages by Telstra owned directory publisher Sensis. BZE Executive Director Matthew Wright is pictured on top of the Sydney Theatre Company with their new largescale ...
  • Carbon Price Response: A Small Step Forward, B ...
    Climate and energy security think tank Beyond Zero Emissions welcome the Labor government�s carbon price package negotiated with The Greens and lower house independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor. The proposed legislation will start the process of transitioning Australia from a 19th Century ...
  • Climate Policy unFiT for getting Rooftop Solar ...
    The Gillard government has ignored the most successful policy in the world for rolling out renewables deployed and reducing carbon emissions: the German renewable energy Feed-in Tariff. Internal analysis by Beyond Zero Emissions shows that the use of a Feed-in Tariff to get solar panels onto e ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • WWF to investigate program that partners with ...
    The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has announced an independent review of its Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN) following a report from Global Witness that criticized the conservation organization for working with a number of logging companies that destroy forests, imperil species, and ab ...
  • China opens trade in 'legal' tiger skins
    The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has warned the US, the UK, and all tiger-range nations that China has re-opened the trade in wild cat skins—including tigers—ahead of a Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting this week in Geneva, Switzerland. According ...
  • Taking corporate sustainability seriously mean ...
    As more and more people demand companies to become sustainable and environmentally conscious, many corporations are at a loss of how to begin making the changes necessary. If they attempt to make changes—but fall short or focus poorly—they risk their actions being labeled as 'greenwash'. In addi ...
  • Picture of the day: the high price of gold for ...
    The surging price of gold is impacting some of the world's most important ecosystems: tropical forests.
  • The glass is half-full: conservation has made ...
    Don't despair: that's the message of a new paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, which argues that decades of conservation actions at multiple scales have had a positive impact for many of the world's endangered species. While such actions have not yet turned back the tide of the current mas ...

Sierra Express

  • Canadian Aid Helps Sierra Leone Youth Charity ...
    Artists United For Children and Youth Development (AUCAYD) in war-torn Sierra Leone has formed its own label, AUCAYD Records, and released its debut album, Give Some Little Love, available for purchase via MapleMusic, iTunes Canada, iTunes US and Amazon. From 1991 to 2002, a civil war in Sierra ...
  • Sierra Leone Police Force and other GOSL websi ...
    What in the world is going on? Who is responsible to administer, manage and maintain these websites? Do you know that your website has been hacked?  If you do, why is it still live and not off-line while you are trying to fix the problem? Do you have the expertise to administer, manage, and main ...
  • Combema village hosts ACC
    In pursuance of its mandate of engaging public bodies, MDAs, and grass root communities in order to educate them on corruption and the Anti-Corruption and to solicit their support in the fight against corruption, the Eastern Regional office of the ACC in on Friday 12th August 2011 targeted Combe ...
  • The Premiership season has kicked off, but old ...
    The English Premier League has finally kicked off, but true to form, the talking points are not about the brilliance of players; save for the superb goal by Sebastian Larsson of Sunderland against Liverpool, but the usual controversies surrounding refereeing decisions and players’ behaviour on t ...
  • Sierra Leone’s ministers join colleagues to ap ...
    Three man delegation including two Sierra Leonean Government Ministers, Hon. Alhaji  F.B. L Mansaray from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development and Deputy Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation Minister Hon. Mrs. Ebun  Jusu and head of Economic Community of West African States(EC ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Rich-lister leads bid to keep farms from Chinese
    One of the country's richest men has emerged as a white knight investor with a $105 million bid for big dairy farms that could otherwise be sold to China.Sir Michael Fay has declared his interest in buying nine of the 16 farms once...
  • John Armstrong: National wants answers on milk ...
    Mission impossible? The green light may have been given for a long-awaited parliamentary inquiry into the price of milk. But the approval may have come too late for the commerce select committee to come up with any substantive findings...
  • Editorial: Milk inquiry must rule on prices qu ...
    Nine out of 10 people believe they are paying far too much for their milk, according to a Consumer New Zealand survey. That near unanimity is reason enough for the parliamentary select committee inquiry that received the green light...
  • Govt bows to pressure and backs milk inquiry
    The Government has bowed to public opinion and is backing a parliamentary inquiry into why milk prices are so high when New Zealand is a leading milk producer and many families are struggling to make ends meet.Labour and the Greens...
  • Parliamentary inquiry into milk price confirmed
    Cabinet has agreed to support a parliamentary select committee inquiry into the price of milk, Prime Minister John Key says.The issue will now be discussed at the National Party caucus tomorrow.Labour and Greens have been pushing...

The Bovine

  • The price of food and the cause of riots
    From the MIT Technology Review: “What causes riots? That’s not a question you would expect to have a simple answer. But today, Marco Lagi and buddies at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge, say they’ve found a single … Continue reading →
  • Catching up on the latest with Ontario raw mil ...
    An interview with Canadian raw milk farmer and advocate Michael Schmidt: Michael Interview with Michael M. Michael as the summer begins to fade many are wanting to know what has happened the last 4 months. Michael I returned from the … Continue reading →
  • “Mr. Barbara Kingsolver” finds loc ...
    From Jane Black in the New York Times: “WHEN Steven Hopp envisioned his restaurant, the Harvest Table, he drew up a list of strict rules. Local farmers would provide the produce, meats and cheeses. Lemons would be banned: after all, … Continue reading →
  • Will trial of the Rawsome Three in 2011 be lik ...
    From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “The criminal charges filed against three individuals associated with the Rawesome Food Club in Venice, CA, have gotten me thinking much about the trial of the Chicago Seven. It’s been a … Continue reading →
  • Food safety “false flag” — D ...
    From Mike Adams, on OpEd News: “Adding yet more evidence to the proof that the U.S. government maliciously promotes dangerous food borne illness outbreaks rather than trying to prevent them, evidence has emerged today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Germany, France Slide Toward Recession; German ...
    Signs point that the Eurozone economy is already in recession, but no one has called it yet. Instead, headlines read like this: German Economy Almost Stalled in Q2The German economy, Europe’s largest, almost stalled in the second quarter as the region’s sovereign-debt crisis weighed on conf ...
  • Smallest Yield Curve Gap Between US and Japan ...
    Curve Watchers Anonymous notes amazingly low yields across the entire yield curve for the US, Japan, Germany, and the UK. Here is a chart I put together this evening. Yield Curve Comparison US, Japan, Germany, UK as of 2011-08-15 Data from Bloomberg Government Bonds as of 2011-08 ...
  • Defense Industry Bribes and Legislative Whores
    In case you ever wondered how it is that Republicans do not want deficits and Democrats do not want deficits, yet we have massive and growing deficits, the following two articles will explain the reasons nicely. Special Interests Gave Millions to Budget Panel The Boston Globe reports S ...
  • Global Recession Warning
    Daiwa Capital Markets economist Kevin Lai says Hong Kong Recession Risk Is Global Warning Of nine economists in a Bloomberg News survey, Lai came closest to predicting a 0.5 percent contraction in the city’s economy in the second quarter. Only two of the analysts expected gross domestic produc ...
  • BNP Paribas leveraged 27:1; Société Générale L ...
    BNP Paribas leveraged 27:1 Jean-Pierre Chevallier reports on his Business économiste monétariste béhavioriste blog, that BNP Paribas leveraged: 27!.The real leverage of BNP Paribas is … 27.2! Indeed, the French bank counts in its equity item 2: Undated Super Subordinated Notes eligible ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Brushfire with Julia: The Saudi States of America
    From BAE to Iran-Contra, 9/11 & Beyond Money makes the world go ‘round. Whose money spins your planet?  In recent decades, Saudi Arabia emerged as a skillful puppeteer, pulling the strings of its expanding influence. Dare to see the big picture, out of the context of pseudo-political loyalties, ...
  • Jamiol Presents
    Jamiol created this toon in June 2010, and in this July of 2011 nothing has changed except for the number of innocent Afghan’s killed and wounded, the number of American troops killed and wounded and the billions of dollars pumped into this quagmire that will not end for years to come. This toon ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Obama: Transnational Organized Crime is A National Emergency!, Who Rules America, 9/11: Who Really Benefited?, Foreign Powers Behind “Cambodia Killing Fields?”, Pentagon: You Hack- We Shoot, Murdoch’s Misery- China’s Delight, The lesser Evil, & More! Newsworthy Foreign Powers behind “Cambodia Ki ...
  • BFP Food for Thought: Trying to See the Forest ...
    …and Finding Some Ones Can we just step back for a few minutes, put aside all the little meddling points showcased by the propaganda machine media and political showmen, take a look at the following facts, and try to see the forest despite the trees? An ‘alleged’ Mastermind executes a terror att ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    DARPA’s Secret Afghan Spy Machine, Hell-Bent on War, John Brennan’s False Drone Claims, U.S. Blocks Oversight of its Mercenary Army in Iraq, Central Asia-Caucasus Cyber Censors Tactics, Financial Sectors Score Big Money for Obama, Which Side of American Torture Are You On? & More! Newsworthy U.S ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many Iâve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly youâre being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

  • Transocean CEO: Wanted To Boost Norway Presenc ...
    HOUSTON (Dow Jones)- Transocean Ltd. (RIG) Chief Executive Steven Newman said that the company’s primary motivation to bid for Norwegian rig owner Aker Drilling ASA Continue Reading »
  • A Sheep Ship Stranded – 67,000 sheep stranded ...
    A livestock carrier is stranded at Port Adelaide with approximately 67,000 sheep on board. The Al Messilah, an aging Kuwaiti-flagged live animal export vessel, was Continue Reading �
  • ASIA TANKER: VLCCs Hurt By Oversupply
    Image courtesy Frontline SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)–Asia’s crude tanker market may stay depressed by heavy supply as September booking begins, but healthy demand is still supporting Continue Reading »
  • RAMBLER 100 Rescue Images and Interview with s ...
    Rambler 100 skipper George David is interviewed this morning following the dramatic capsize of his yacht and successful rescue of his crew. The media crew Continue Reading �
  • An Invisibility Cloak… For Ships
    Duke engineers have already shown that they can “cloak” light and sound, making objects invisible — now, they have demonstrated the theoretical ability to significantly Continue Reading »

Blogging Canadians

  • "The eBay Vessel"
    cslsec: Fuck ebay! by "cslsecurity" [a/k/a "cslsec"] As originally posted on: Pastebin.com August 16, 2011 cslsec beaming down to you again, this time with the booty its self! As you know, last night, or today for some of you we announced a dropping of booty from the ebay vesse ...
  • Hackers Post FALSE Story On Le Devoir Website ...
    MONTREAL — "The Quebec French newspaper Le Devoir had its website hacked early Tuesday morning, with a fake article inaccurately claiming that Quebec Premier Jean Charest had died. The phoney article stated the premier had died of a heart attack at a Montreal hospital and that the health facil ...
  • Debt Refinancing, the Federal Government and t ...
    Ok this post is in the form of a naive question.  And it goes like this:  If the Federal Government can borrow (OK MMTers don’t vide your back-end here, I know they do not have to go to the bond … Continue reading →
  • Social Justice: A Nice Idea That Destroys Humanity
    Great essay by Craig Carter from The Politics of the Cross Resurrected blog: Social Justice is an attempt to insert Christian charity into the concept of justice so that justice is then understood to include both the traditional Aristotelian-Biblical notion of justice and the Biblical notion of ...
  • Dem a take chance
    Racialized youth. Austerity gets a reaction. (But, also, sometimes when I miss you it is painful. Today, when I woke up I enjoyed the quiet of my empty bed. When I searched for you, you were present in the absence. I … Continue reading →

Press TV - Middle East

  • Saleh vows to return to Yemen 'soon'
    Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh says he will “soon” return to his country from Saudi Arabia, despite growing protests by the Yemeni people demanding him to step down.
  • Turkish PM to visit famine-hit Somalia
    Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Somalia along with his family after a summit of Islamic countries on the famine in the African country in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
  • Syrian army takes control of volatile area
    The Syrian army has taken control of almost the entire volatile Ramel neighborhood of the northwestern city of Latakia after the surrender of many members of the armed gangs in the area.
  • Yemen opposition blamed for Saleh hit
    Yemen's ruling party claims a prominent opposition leader was behind the June RPG attack that sent Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh fleeing to Saudi Arabia to seek medical treatment.
  • Bahraini hunger striker hospitalized
    A female Bahraini prisoner on hunger strike has been transferred to a hospital after her grave health conditions deteriorated.
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