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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.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

18 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Consumerist

  • Get Your Free Xbox 360 From Dell For Only $100
    It was probably a glitch and not a nefarious plot on Dell's part, but Chris found it odd when he tried to take advantage of Microsoft's back-to-school promo where a free Xbox comes with certain Windows laptops. Dell's site kept showing that adding on the free Xbox promo made his total $100 high ...
  • AT&T Customer Diagrams His Labyrinthine Path T ...
    After reading this AT&T customer's story about being sent to collections while disputing a billing error, Consumerist reader Paul wrote in to share his recent hellish ordeal with the Death Star -- in diagram form. Following the diagram is like following one of those Family Circus comics where ...
  • Amazon Super Saver Shipping No Longer Availabl ...
    Bad news for regular Amazon.com shoppers who live in United States territories: the online retail behemoth now limits their free Super Saver shipping to only residents of the fifty states. Reader Barbara in Puerto Rico wonders why this is. "They ship all their stuff through USPS anyway," she po ...
  • Government Agencies Are Big Targets For Phone ...
    Crammers are ripping off taxpayers across the country by getting fake charges put on the phone bills of government agencies. CBS Sacramento reports on how government agencies in Sacramento are finding about $1,000 a month. The US Postal Service found even more, getting crammed for $110,000. An ...
  • Morton's Delivers Man Steak At Airport After H ...
    Before boarding his plane from Tampa to Newark, Peter Shankman jokingly asked Morton's Steakhouse over Twitter if they could meet him with a porterhouse steak when he landed. Lo and behold, they did. Shankman blogs:Looking for my driver, I saw my name, waved to him, and started walking to the ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Look Out, World, If Rick Perry Wins
    The news that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is seeking the Republican presidential nomination may well send a tremor through the Muslim world. That’s because Perry, an evangelical Christian who would make a formidable candidate, appears to actually believe the U.S. military is divinely directed and is l ...
  • Shell Withholds Information On North Sea Oil S ...
    Royal Dutch Shell announced Monday, 15 August, it had contained an oil spill from a rig off Scotland’s eastern coast by shutting in the well, but did not say how much oil remains in the pipeline. They claim nearly 54,600 gallons of oil spilled into the North Sea from the Gannet Alpha oil rig. It ...
  • UK Progressive Agrees with FOX News OpEd – PMO ...
    No, there are no icicles forming in hell. Some stories require broader coverage. Former: US Attorney General Mukasey, Homeland Security Secretary Ridge and FBI Director Freeh penned an Op-Ed for FOX News and while I rarely agree with FOX, I substantively agree with this trio that Camp Ashraf is ...
  • War on Wages – For God’s Sake
    The newscasts were saying the same thing: “GE announced the cut of 11,000 jobs as its stock rallied” – “Sunbeam Corp. declared a quarterly dividend of $3.00 a share on news it was moving its manufacturing facilities to Mexico, meaning the loss of 10,000 North Carolina jobs” – “Sun Oil Company re ...
  • Why the New Healthcare Law Should Have Been Ba ...
    Two appellate judges in Atlanta — one appointed by President Bill Clinton and one by George H.W. Bush – have just decided the Constitution doesn’t allow the federal government to require individuals to buy health insurance. The decision is a major defeat for the White House. The so-called “indiv ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Tuesday’s protest in Canberra
    August 16th, 2011. It’s just another huge rally at Parliament House. There was a crowd of 3000 according to the ABC report, but Nick Bryant from the BBC estimated 4,000-5,000, and significantly he also admitted that the crowd was not a red-neck, ute crowd, and that for many it was their first pr ...
  • Tuesday’s protest in Canberra
    August 16th, 2011. It’s just another huge rally at Parliament House. There was a crowd of 3000 according to the ABC report, but Nick Bryant from the BBC estimated 4,000-5,000, and significantly he also admitted that the crowd was not a red-neck, ute crowd, and that for many it was their first pr ...
  • Through the looking glass greenly at the ABC
    Is the ABC biased? Do we even need to ask? The local state Liberals (the conservative party, who are in government in this state of Western Australia) voted overwhelmingly in favor of a Royal Commission on climate change science. Now that is a news story all by itself. It could have had headline ...
  • Through the looking glass greenly at the ABC
    Is the ABC biased? Do we even need to ask? The local state Liberals (the conservative party, who are in government in this state of Western Australia) voted overwhelmingly in favor of a Royal Commission on climate change science. Now that is a news story all by itself. It could have had headline ...
  • Convoy leaving from Perth 7am tomorrow (Thursday)
    Janet Thompson, organizer of the Perth Convoy (the Orange convoy) writes to me: The Perth Convoy departs Thursday 7am sharp at Belmont Racecourse. Please come and drive with them for a short while just to give them a big send off on their long journey to Canberra. Janet also says: “Hey, you gott ...

ReNew America

  • Vital organ transplantation--not truly dead
    (Paul A. Byrne, M.D.) - The August 29, 2000 Address of Blessed John Paul II is often quoted by those in support of obtaining vital organs for transplantation, but other statements by Pope John Paul II and a more recent statement by Pope Benedict XVI are ignored...
  • Ten Commandments the only solution to the worl ...
    (Dennis Prager) - There is only one solution to the world's problems, only one prescription for producing a near-heaven on earth. It is 3,000 years old. And it is known as the Ten Commandments. Properly understood and applied, the Ten Commandments are really all humanity needs to make a beautifu ...
  • Obama: Tea-party GOP blocking U.S. recovery
    (Washington Times) - A day after clashing with a tea party activist, President Obama Tuesday told crowds here that it was "a faction in Congress" that was to blame for blocking economic progress. At a rural jobs forum, Mr. Obama ticked off a list of pending bills that he said would create jobs...
  • It's going to be a long, ugly campaign
    (Washington Examiner) - President Obama is barnstorming the Midwest this week on a tax-paid but transparently political bus tour. He's shaking hands, bashing Republicans at every turn in his speeches, meeting with Democratic officials and activists who support his re-election, and otherwise acti ...
  • GOP candidates must declare opposition to Sharia
    (Robert Spencer) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry has set many a heart a-flutter by joining the hunt for the Republican presidential nomination, but not so fast: Hard-Left advocacy journalist Justin Elliott of Salon hailed Perry as the "pro-Sharia candidate," and exulted that Perry "is a friend of the th ...

Truth Offering

  • Fact: You Have Rights Because Government Says ...
    Here's a quick follow-up article to the one posted a few days ago about the Rawesome Food Club raid. Feast your eyes on the following statements released by the Food and Drug Administration regarding the raid. Note: Below, 'Plaintiffs' refers to James Stewart, Rawesome's founder, Sharon Palmer, ...
  • Another Unlawful Raid On Rawesome
    Want an undeniable truth? Our government is out of control. To deny that is to deny all sense of reason and logic; to regress to your simple-minded, consensus trance thought (un)process. To me, this is the fatal flaw in the argument of all those who support government, or in this case, BIG gover ...
  • Diet Myths THEY Don’t Want You To Know
    MyPyramid.....of DEATH!I've been studying health and nutrition for about six years now. In fact, I credit my nutritional awakening with spurring on my awakening in all other aspects of life, from economics to politics. And I'll tell you the crux of what sparked my craving for the truth: Going ba ...
  • Today's Quote
    "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell
  • Poll: Are the Current E.coli Outbreaks False F ...
    This week, we wanted to get your thoughts on the current E. coli outbreaks. Are they random, unfortunate events? Or is there a depopulation agenda being carried out by the eugenicist global elite? Here's what you thought (click to enlarge):

2012 Blog

  • Important (?) Dates Leading Up To Dec 2012
    Obviously Dec 21, 2012 is the date we all have in mind. Even so, amongst the various researchers of 2012 and end times, these dates are also worth noting: Aug 22 2011 (+/- 3 days) – ...Important (?) Dates Leading Up To Dec 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Same old inaccuracie ...
  • Important (?) Dates Leading Up To Dec 2012
    Obviously Dec 21, 2012 is the date we all have in mind. Even so, amongst the various researchers of 2012 and end times, these dates are also worth noting: Aug 22 2011 (+/- 3 days) – ...Important (?) Dates Leading Up To Dec 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Same old inaccuracie ...
  • Another Day, Another Cable TV SHTF Preppers Show
    A few weeks ago I mentioned Doomsday Preppers, which aired on Nat Geo, and now we have Livin’ for the Apocalypse on TLC. It features Dennis McClung – once more waving the flag for 2012ers ...Another Day, Another Cable TV SHTF Preppers Show is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Doomsday ...
  • Rennes-Le-Chateau, Bugarach and 2012
    I’ve been reporting over at 2012 News about Bugarach (France), where many 2012ers and UFO fans are allegedly gathering. So many in fact that the mayor of the small village has complained, and a government ...Rennes-Le-Chateau, Bugarach and 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:New ...
  • Rennes-Le-Chateau, Bugarach and 2012
    I’ve been reporting over at 2012 News about Bugarach (France), where many 2012ers and UFO fans are allegedly gathering. So many in fact that the mayor of the small village has complained, and a government ...Rennes-Le-Chateau, Bugarach and 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:New ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Super Congress and the Super ...
    Number of lawmakers on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction -- also known as the "Supercommittee" or "Super Congress" -- assigned to find ways to reduce the budget deficit: 12 Amount by which the Super Congress, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, is charged with reduci ...
  • Unions divided over holding Democratic convent ...
    Thirteen labor unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO are refusing to participate in the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. because of the state's harsh anti-union laws. But that decision isn't sitting well with labor leaders in North Carolina, who helped lobby for Charlotte to ...
  • Americans for Prosperity wants to revise histo ...
    The Brave New Foundation video released earlier this week about the Koch brothers' role in the fight over school re-segregation in Wake County, N.C. has struck a sour note with Americans for Prosperity. The Koch-funded conservative advocacy group is the focus of the video for its invo ...
  • Lawsuit targets carbon-pollution exemption for ...
    Conservation groups filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's exemption of wood-fired power plants and other biomass incinerators from carbon-dioxide pollution limits under the Clean Air Act for the next three years while it studies the issue. The groups that f ...
  • How America's safety net has become a dragnet
    By Barbara Ehrenreich, New America Media The most shocking thing I learned from my research on the fate of the working poor in the recession was the extent to which poverty has indeed been criminalized in America. Perhaps the constant suspicions of drug use and theft that I encountered in l ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Why Are Those Damn Kids Rioting?
    The world has taken to rioting but one must be careful not to assume that because they are happening at the same time it’s for the same reason or reasons. However, to look at the UK riots and the one in Vancouver, after a hockey loss by the home team, is to see, I think, [...]
  • Western Civilization Large as Life and Twice a ...
    The 2011 riots in England have brought us back to the talks about crisis of multiculturalism in Europe. Few people understand what does it mean. But many swaggeringly take on to speak up. Their speculations lead mostly to a primitive conclusion: people with different colors of skin cannot live t ...
  • Falsified Major Media Reports on Libya
    Major media specialize in what they do best: truth inversion (aka bad fiction), not doing what journalists are supposed to do – their job, especially covering imperial wars for dominance and rich spoils. With Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) falling apart and rebel forces in disarray, ...
  • Syria: the Cost of Crisis
    Syria has entered the sixth month of anti-government riots, orchestrated from abroad. Protesters no longer seek moderate reforms, they aggressively demand Bashar Assad`s resignation. Western media accuse Damascus of ‘opposing democratic changes’. The former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ...
  • On Empire’s “Sons of a Bitch” and Their Fate
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said either about the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza (Senior), or about the Dominican tyrant Trujillo: âHe may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitchâ. It has become a usual strategy for the US to place a stake on this category of associates in international ...

BlogHer

  • Project Runway Recap: The Top 14 Run Away to t ...
    The Project Runway designers team up, and that's never pretty! Oh and also...being almost a week late with my recap isn't pretty either. This episode kicks off with a sight I really hadn't expected to see: As though Heidi needed to be any taller and more Amazon-Goddess-like, she comes out on s ...
  • Photography 102: Lighting
    For more photography how-tos, check out: Photography 101I've really started to take an interest in improving my photography since around the time I posted my photography 101 post.After reviewing the basics, next up on the list was lighting.Previously, I was shooting on our dining room table. Eve ...
  • (VIDEO) VH1 Wants You to DO SOMETHING! Tony H ...
    Tony Hawk wants you to get out there and do something. Also, my camera is a celeb magnet, and I'm never giving up my secrets, but more on that in tomorrow's video montage of celebrities grilling me about my set up as their publicists rush them past. But since I've discovered my secret interview- ...
  • (VIDEO) Rita Arens Interviews Penguin's Collee ...
    BlogHer's Rita Arens talks with Colleen Lindsay, Penguin USA's community manager of Book Country, about writing genre fiction, how to kickstart your publishing career online, and the BlogHer Book Club, a collaboration with Penguin. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo playerMore B ...
  • (VIDEO) Jose Antonio Vargas: "I Am an American"
    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas talks to genConnect at BlogHer '11 on coming out as undocumented and his Define American project. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo playerMore By and About Jose Antonio Vargas Interview: Bloggers Can Change the Conversation ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Farmers Fight Back Against Monsanto – Update
    In March, HFA reported about the large group of family farmers, seed companies, and agricultural organizations and The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) filing suit against Monsanto. They were preemptively defending themselves against being sued for patent ...
  • Only Crazy People Drink Raw Milk?
    By contributing author, Jon Rappoport, The National Health Federation, August 12th THE WIDER IMPLICATIONS AUGUST 5, 2011. The federal raid on Rawesome Foods in Venice, California, is based on the insistence (with guns) that private citizens can’t make ...
  • 15 Reasons To Eat Organic Food
    Only fifteen reasons? When people say they won’t bother with organic, here are some compelling reasons to switch. The biggest complaint about organic is the cost. There are a few reasons for the cost and there ...
  • It’s Not Easy Being Filthy Rich
    The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. Ecclesiastes 5:12 You would think the rich would be the happiest and ...
  • rBGH Milk: Cruelty, GM Hormones & E. Coli
    rBGH Milk Production: Animal Cruelty, Genetically Modified Hormones and E. Coli By contributing author, Brandon Turbeville With the current controversy surrounding the government crackdown on wholesome, organic, and locally produced milk, it is important to understand the products we ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • New report: State coal ash rules inadequate
    While federal regulation of toxic coal-ash handling and disposal seems stalled at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — and faces efforts for a congressional block by West Virginia Rep. David McKinley — the safety and environmental integrity of coal-ash impoundments around the country rests ...
  • Daily Mail ignores WVU coal health studies, th ...
    Over the last five years, Michael Hendryx and other researchers at West Virginia University, in conjunction with scientists at Washington State University and elsewhere,  have published 18 studies in peer-reviewed science journals about the potential public health impacts of mountaintop removal ...
  • New poll details opposition to mountaintop removal
    Coal River Mountain as seen from nearby Kayford Mountain. Photo courtesy of Coal River Mountain Watch. Last week’s CNN poll about mountaintop removal had some Coal Tattoo readers wanting more … and today, we’ll get more. There’s a new poll out this morning examining public attitudes across Appal ...
  • Alpha/Massey wants details on slurry settlemen ...
    This just in from Vicki Smith at The Associated Press … One wonders if trying to identify who provided information to the media is part of Alpha’s “Running Right” program … Lawyers for Massey Energy Co. want to know who violated the confidentiality of a $35 million settlement agreement reached w ...
  • Another W.Va. coal miner dies on the job
    This just in from the West Virginia Office of Miners Health, Safety and Training: The West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training confirms a fatality occurred this morning at Mingo Logan Coal Company Mountaineer II Mine in Logan County. The accident occurred before 7 a.m. this mo ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The “Super Congress”
    This “Super Congress,” composed of members of both chambers and both parties, isn’t mentioned anywhere in the Constitution, but would be granted extraordinary new powers. Under a plan put forth by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his counterpart Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Ne ...
  • My Favorite Illusion
    via youtube.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe Known UniverseâªDu Hast as a Cappellaâ¬âBob’s Burgers SkitIS TROPICAL | THE GREEKSâªCLOCKWORK CITYâ¬âTrogdor the Burninator!BeEF’s Metasploit Plugin
  • The Ultimate Bash Prompt
    I just installed Lion and decided to do a refresh on my Bash prompt. After an hour of research and tinkering this is what I ended up with. It not only displays user, host, and directory information in a nicely color-coded manner, but it also gives git information. Here’s the code at Pastie. And ...
  • A Clean Blog Design
    Related PostsHow to Mention Your Ph.DBlue Bottle Coffee Web DesignNew Twitter Background27bslash6.comThe Power of PosterousGoogle Tasks Chrome ExtensionUsing Twitter Search to Find Interesting People to Follow
  • Introduction to Databases – Stanford University
    A bold experiment in distributed education, “Introduction to Databases” will be offered free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011. Students will have access to lecture videos, receive regular feedback on progress, and receive answers to questions. When you successfully comple ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Rush Limbaugh is a Racist, Homophobic, Glutton ...
    Media Matters – Rush Limbaugh’s “Or-Bam-eo” Slur Today on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh described a new Oreo that will have both chocolate and vanilla cream as a “biracial” cookie and said that “it isn’t going to be long before it’s going to be called the Or-Bam-eo or something like this.” Limba ...
  • Fukushima now radiating everyone: ‘Unspe ...
    Deborah Dupre, Human Rights Examiner – CBS exposes extreme Fukushima radiation human rights violations while U.S. media remains silent Australia’s CBS exposed the “unspeakable” realities of the Japanese catastrophe in its 60 Minutes program Sunday night during which leading nuclear scientist Dr. ...
  • WWH News Briefs Thursday
    Indian activist to launch public fast as government relents (Reuters) – India’s beleaguered government caved in to popular fury over corruption on Wednesday after thousands protested across the country, granting permission for a self-styled Ghandian crusader to stage a 15-day hunger strike in pu ...
  • As The Cookie Crumbles: Experimental States
    (WWH: 8/18/11) For most of us, the most difficult thing to grasp, to understand, about Michelle Bachmann and her ilk–now Rick Perry, Ex-Sen. Frothy Cocktail, Sarah Palin and most of the rest of the GOPhux “Clown Car of Candidates”–is “how they can seem to lie so outrageously, to be in such appar ...
  • What is a “Know-Nothing”?
    patheos.com – Anti-Catholicism was once so acceptable in America that you could buy candy promoting it. On the night of April 6, 1844, a mob of white Protestant males calling themselves “Native Americans” marched toward a Roman Catholic Church on Brooklyn’s Court Street, intent on burning it to ...

reference frame

  • Lindzen-Choi 2011 published
    WUWT brings us some good news and the final version of the Lindzen-Choi 2011 article published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences: On the Observational Determination of Climate Sensitivity and Its Implications (full text PDF)This is an updated version of their 2009 artic ...
  • Lepton-Photon 2011
    The Lepton-Photon 2011 conference begins on Monday, Aug 22nd, and ends on Saturday, Aug 27th in Bombay. The ATLAS blog suggests that their collaboration will present experimnetal results based on 2 inverse femtobarns of data - doubling what we could see just a month earlier (in G ...
  • SciAm, Gavin Schmidt despise climate facts
    Scientific American, one of the most ideological and most persistent defenders of the dying climate alarm, has decided that John Cook's memes-vs-slogans format of presenting the climate orthodoxy is the most efficient format that alarmists have ever invented - despite the fact that John Coo ...
  • FC Copenhagen 1-3 FC Victoria Pilsen
    Tonight, FC Victoria Pilsen was the only team that won on a hostile stadium. Clinical Plzeň stun København (UEFA) The adjective "clinical" for the Pilsner play is kind of amusing; not sure whether it's the most objective one. Our team was surely unaffected by irrational expectations tha ...
  • Australia: convoy of no confidence
    The people of Australia had been annoyed by the pissing contests between Melbourne and Sydney - both of which had the potential to become the capital of the continent - so they built Canberra as a compromise. Meanwhile, a completely new political species has evolved in Canberra - ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Up close, Michele Bachmann's secret-agent poli ...
    Peter Waldron, an evangelical minister who told the publication that he is doing outreach on Bachmann's behalf to the born-again community, spent more than a month in Kampala's Luzira Prison in 2006, and possesses a resume more in keeping with a spy novel ...
  • Azi, again
    Back in 2006, when I had the pleasure of announcing that Azi Paybarah would be joining my colleagues and me at The New York Observer, I wrote, among other things, that I was "bordering on giddy." More
  • F.A.Q.: Why are the G.O.P. elites recoiling?
    Perry (supposedly) was going to be the G.O.P's white knight: someone who could bond with the party base the way Bachmann can but who is savvy enough about it that he doesn't get caricatured as a crazy. But the sounds we're hearing now from the elites sugge ...
  • Madoff-victim trustee Irving Picard makes trag ...
    For a while now, the owners of the Mets have had a massive problem in the problem in the person of Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee for the victims of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.Picard has filed a complaint against the owners—Sterling Equities, ...
  • Baby-buying socialite Taylor Stein gets awesom ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More

Views & News from Norway

  • ‘Most expensive’ yet again
    NEWS ANALYSIS: Another ranking of the world’s major cities places the Norwegian capital in the top spot as most expensive, way ahead of cities known for high prices like Tokyo, Paris and New York. What may be most worrisome for Oslo residents, though, is how low they rank in actual purchasing po ...
  • ‘Guilty’ plea fuels oil sands oppo ...
    Greenpeace was among environmental groups calling on Norwegian oil company Statoil to finally heed ongoing calls for it to pull out of its controversial oil sands project in Alberta, after reports that Statoil was pleading guilty to various water use violations in the Canadian province. Statoil ...
  • Statoil back in court over oil sands project
    Jubilation over a major new oil discovery by Norwegian oil company Statoil this week overshadowed less positive news concerning Statoil’s controversial involvement in an oil/tar sands project in Alberta, Canada. Statoil has been charged with several violations of water usage at the site south of ...
  • Analysts predict new oil ‘bonanza’
    News of a major oil discovery and a huge drilling rig deal this week has fueled expectations that Norway’s oil and offshore industries are on the verge of another “golden age.” Some analysts see a new “bonanza” for oil and offshore companies. Among them is Terje Fatnes, an analyst for brokerage ...
  • Youngest prince starts school
    Prince Sverre Magnus, the youngest child of Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit, was due to start school on Thursday, and be escorted to his first day of class by none other than Queen Sonja. She’ll likely prefer to simply be along for the event as his grandmother. Both ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Summer Permaculture Tips and Tricks
    by Chuck Burr, Southern Oregon Permaculture Institute (SOPI) Here are the Summer permaculture tips and tricks from the Southern Oregon Permaculture Institute — enjoy and pass them on. 1. Permaculture blueberries. After two years of hand-weeding our two acres of blueberries we have let them go w ...
  • The Power of International Law to Create the N ...
    Editor’s Note: At time of writing, Polly is on a speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand — check out dates and locations here. Maddy Harland meets Polly Higgins, a barrister who is campaigning for the United Nations to adopt an additional crime against peace: Ecocide. by Maddy Harland, editor ...
  • Polly Higgins Speaking Tour (Australia, New Ze ...
    Regular readers will know I’m keen to see society structured in a way that prioritises people and place over corporations and short-term, profit-centric, economic-growth-focussed idiocy. Whilst politicians are arguing over debt ceilings, corporate tax exemptions, how much more money to mag ...
  • Human-Empowered, Enlightened, and Energized Tr ...
    by Brad Lancaster Years ago at a red light I looked into the car beside me and saw the frowning driver’s hair blowing into the back seat as though she were leaning into a mighty storm. But her windows were up. The gale was coming from her air conditioner — on a beautiful day when an [...]
  • Yacon Syrup
    by Zaia Kendall We had an over-abundant supply of yacon that had to be harvested. Yacon (also known as ground apple) grows very easy in our (sub-tropical) climate — one plant produces many rhizomes for division and re-planting. It needs very little attention when in the ground and Tom is of the ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Cops Knocking on your Door: New NOPD Initiativ ...
    A few weeks back, New Orleans City Business reported that NOPD officers had begun randomly checking car doors, locking unlocked cars, and leaving notes behind, either saying they had locked the door, or congratulating citizens on locking their own doors. Clearly, this new policy was an atte ...
  • FREE Mortgage Relief Fair Set for the Westbank ...
    A group of local nonprofits and community development partners have joined together to help address the needs of homeowners in the greater New Orleans area, with a focus on those who have been affected by the oil spill and may be behind on their mortgage payments or are facing foreclosure. ...
  • Noose Hanging Outside High School in Northern ...
    From a US Department of Justice press release: The Justice Department today announced that three men were charged for their role in intentionally attempting to intimidate and interfere with African-American students who were attending Beekman Junior High School in Beekman, Morehouse Parish, ...
  • Groups Ask Court to Remove Individuals Convict ...
    From our friends at Center for Constitutional Rights: Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie, Esq., the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Law Clinic, and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP argued in federal court for a r ...
  • Why I Was Willing to be Arrested on the Gulf C ...
    The day before yesterday, on August 4, 2011, one year after the President of our United States stood on national television and said that 75% of the oil that had spewed into our Gulf was gone, I was booked into the New Orleans Parish Police lock-up with the charge of criminal trespassing. ...

Information Underground

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Nations Set Heat Records As Summer Temperature ...
    Six nations across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa experienced record high temperatures this summer, as for the second consecutive summer meteorologists reported some of the highest temperatures in recorded history. According to the Weather Underground blog, the hottest undisputed temperatures ...
  • Water Risk Mapping Project Attracts Major Glob ...
    Several global corporations have joined a World Resources Institute project that is developing a new database and mapping tools to help companies manage their water resources and reduce risk. The Aqueduct project — which so far has enlisted companies such as Coca-Cola, General Electric, and Dow ...
  • U.S. Carbon Capture Projects Selected for Furt ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy has selected four projects for continued research into developing carbon capture technologies, with the goal of achieving 90 percent carbon dioxide removal. While existing carbon capture technologies require enormous amounts of energy — adding as much as 80 percent ...
  • Rising Food Costs Compounding East African Fam ...
    The volatility of global food prices has contributed to the growing humanitarian tragedy in the Horn of Africa and will continue to keep the world’s poorest populations on the edge of starvation, according to a new report by the World Bank. While the emergency was triggered by prolonged drought ...
  • Initiative Asks Companies To Assess Their ‘Pla ...
    An international initiative this fall will encourage hundreds of organizations to assess their use and recycling of plastics in a push to call more attention to the vast amounts of plastic waste entering the environment. While many companies and organizations are familiar with their “carbon foot ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Grampus rally keeps defending champions atop s ...
    Josh Kennedy leveled five minutes from time as Nagoya Grampus came from behind twice to earn a 2-2 draw away to Gamba Osaka on Wednesday to stay top of the table in the J. League. Defending champion Nagoya extended its unbeaten streak to 16 matches and moved to 43 points, two points clear of G ...
  • Yen gains spur worst slump for inflation-linke ...
    Japan's inflation-linked bonds are poised for a second monthly fall as the stronger yen exacerbates deflationary pressure on an economy still reeling from the quake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. Securities that reflect the outlook for consumer prices handed investors a 0.02 percent loss thro ...
  • Mitsubishi starts data center fund
    Mitsubishi Corp. started Japan's first real estate fund that invests in data centers, seeking to benefit from a �1.36 trillion market amid rising demand after the March earthquake. Diamond Realty Management Inc., a unit of Mitsubishi, began the �25.8 billion fund this month, with investment fr ...
  • Arsenal begins new era
    Arsenal began life without Cesc Fabregas with a 1-0 win over Udinese on Tuesday, although a lively performance from the visitors ensured the Champions League playoff remains in the balance heading into the second leg. Theo Walcott scored just four minutes into the first leg to raise spirits am ...
  • Chili Peppers dominate Summer Sonic
    It was clear on the second day of Summer Sonic that this year's event belonged to the evening's headliners Red Hot Chili Peppers. A casual stroll around Chiba's Makuhari Messe complex revealed a noticeable uptick from the day before in the number of shirtless dudes sporting tribal-band tattoos. ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • The New Cost of Criminal Pardons
    The Conservative government, with the collaboration of opposition parties, hastily passed a piece of legislation (Bill C-23A) last year which makes it more difficult for offenders to obtain a pardon for their offences.  This was the government’s response to the news that notorious child-molester ...
  • Stimulus vs Public Investment
    A column by Nobel Prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz in the Financial Times makes what I think is an important point. The current debate over fiscal policy for the US, Europe and Canada is often characterized in the media as one between advocates of  higher deficits from Keynesian style stimul ...
  • Tea Party North
    Last week, Travis Fast noted Terry Corcoran’s strained argument that over-regulation of banks is what ails the global economy. Terry’s next column went even further off the deep end, endorsing the hard-money libertarianism of gold bugs like Eric Sprott. Today’s column is a full-blown defence of ...
  • C. D. Howe’s Overnight Moves Need Work
    Less than a month ago, the C. D. Howe Institute released a paper by Michael Parkin, “Overnight Moves: The Bank of Canada Should Start to Raise Interest Rates Now.” The next day, its Monetary Policy Council called on the Bank to increase the overnight interest rate. This call was terrible. The fo ...
  • The Strange Case of Saskatchewan’s Elect ...
    In the aftermath of the May federal election, many Saskatchewan voters were justifiably surprised by the results. Despite garnering 32.3 % of the total provincial vote, the federal NDP was completely shut-out in our province. Conversely, the Conservatives – with a little over half of the popular ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

  • Computer modeling streamlines molecule search
    Nature: Researchers have been refining a computer modeling tool that can screen millions of organic molecules for specific properties. Once they’ve narrowed down the choices, they hand them off to chemists to synthesize. "It's how the pharmaceutical people do it: the theorists give a ranking to ...
  • Texas and Antarctica were attached, rocks hint
    National Geographic: Pangea was not the only supercontinent in Earth's past. Rodinia, its predecessor, contained most of Earth's landmasses from about 1.1 billion to 750 million years ago. Staci Loewy of California State University, Bakersfield, and colleagues collected rocks from the North Amer ...
  • 'Early wood' samples reshape plant history
    BBC: Woody plants probably appeared earlier than previously thought. Phillipe Gerrienne of the University of Liege, Belgium, and colleagues made a study of plants from the Early Devonian age, about 10 million years before the widespread appearance of shrubs and trees, and found rings of cells th ...
  • Google's buyout of Motorola is latest in tech ...
    New York Times: Recently Google bought out Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in order to acquire its some 17 000 patents. Such buyouts are becoming more common, say analysts, and this growing patent gold rush runs counter to what the patent system was set up to achieve. Instead of spending mon ...
  • CT scans for lung cancer trigger debate
    Washington Post: A recent federal study found that screening heavy smokers and former smokers who are 55–74 years old reduced by 20% the chances of their dying of lung cancer. As a result, CT scans are being used more frequently to screen people for lung cancer, prompting significant disagreemen ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • Frack’ Oil Wells Draw California Into Debate
    “A company called Venoco Inc. wants to try hydraulic fracturing in the Hames Valley near Bradley, using a high-pressure blend of water, sand and chemicals to crack rocks deep underground and release oil locked in the stone. The same technique has revolutionized America’s natural gas business in ...
  • Belo Monte dam marks a troubling new era in Br ...
    “Belo Monte is just one of a dozen giant dam projects Brazil plans to build in the Amazon region in the coming decades and opens up the world’s largest tropical rainforest to oil and mining exploration The Kayapó chief stands, and a hush comes over the circle. All the other caciques wait expect ...
  • Coca-Cola Mexico harvesting 1.25Bl/y of rainwater
    “The Coca-Cola Mexico Foundation captures 1.25Bl/y of water through its water harvesting programs, Luis Fuentes, Coca-Cola Mexico’s deputy director of corporate communication, told BNamericas. The foundation set up a national reforestation and water harvesting program in 2007 in association with ...
  • Slippery Banana Peels Could Be A Savior For Po ...
    “Banana peels don’t get a lot of respect. Though we here at Shots have never actually heard of anyone slipping on one, it seems they’re stuck in the cultural lore as a nuisance, or even a hazard. “But a Brazilian researcher, who also happens to be a banana lover has taken an interest in the [...]
  • Desalination Should Be A Last Resort
    “One of humankindâs worst tragedies is currently unfolding in the Horn of Africa, and it is caused by the absence of water. Two years of failed rain, and subsequent drought and famine, is responsible for the daily deaths of roughly 2,000 people in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. According to the ...

D. Kucinich

  • State Error Denies Thousands of Qualified Sen ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is today seeking urgent federal assistance to provide needed services to seniors after a state error has resulted in as many as 15,000 qualified seniors and disabled individuals being denied continued Medicare Part B premium and copayment assistance, as well as ...
  • Need Concrete Plans to Rebuild Infrastructure; ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to colleagues to enlist support for his dramatic, new, concrete plan to get Americans working again, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and to take control of our monetary policy from private banks to promote the public interest.� "It is time to g ...
  • Kucinich to Obama: Free Trade = Fewer U.S. Jobs
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to President Obama in response to claims that free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Colombia will spur job growth.� President Obama is scheduled to speak in Iowa today, a state that has lost 21,500 jobs from free trade policies according to B ...
  • Congressional Briefing 2011-- Professor Kaoru ...
    Congressional Briefing 2011, July 26, 2011 Office of Congressman Dennis Kucinich Professor Kaoru Yamaguchi, Ph.D. Doshisha Business School Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan This briefing, held in the Cannon House Office Building, presented the findings of fundamental economic r ...
  • Kucinich Stands Up for the Rights of Workers, ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has consistently defended the rights of workers nationwide, is organizing within the Congress to protect the rights of American workers. Workers at Boeing in Washington State exercised their rights and Boeing retaliated against those workers by moving work ...

Authentically Wired

  • “WE” are the joke …
    �� Do you think if this were you or me �� we would be have gifted the same judicial understanding �� �� And he continues to �serve & protect� us �� �� Look in the mirror �� �WE� are the joke �� � Filed under: Blogroll
  • GANNETT … “spinmeister” …
    �� This is NOT what is routinely reported in the Arizona Republic Real Estate Section which one concludes Arizona housing is in the pink �� This error is understandable given the Arizona Republic is owned by �big� corporate media �� Gannett �� one of America�s �spinmeister� �� � Filed under: Blo ...
  • … WELCOME TO ARIZONA … PRIVATE PRI ...
    … HEY … come on now … Gov Brewer and King Pearce have more pre$$ing i$$ue$ and bigger fi$h to fry … … HEY … they need to enrich one of their more prominent $upporter$ with a prominent position at the Arizona tax payer funded hog trough … Like say … 5,000 more prisoners to [...]
  • NO DELAY
    … AIN’T GOING TO BE NO DELAY … … Delay … HELL NO … full speed ahead … Gov Brewer and King Pearce have campaign promises to fulfill … … Besides it’s good for our economy … building … new prison guards … … What don’t you understand … Brewer and Pearce OWE and their [...]
  • CUMIN
    �� CUMIN �� http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumin �� Look what it can do �� � Two Grams of this Household Spice Lowered Blood Sugar by a Whopping 62 mg/dl � � Posted By�Dr. Mercola���August 17 2011�� http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/17/this-kitchen-spice-doubles-as-a-memor ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Is Indonesia losing its most valuable assets?
    Deep in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo in the late 1980s, researchers made an incredible discovery: the bark of a species of peat swamp tree yielded an extract with potent anti-HIV activity. An anti-HIV drug made from the compound is now nearing clinical trials. It could be worth hundreds o ...
  • Indonesia's moratorium disappoints environment ...
    The moratorium on permits for new concessions in primary rainforests and peatlands will have a limited impact in reducing deforestation in Indonesia, say environmentalists who have reviewed the instruction released today by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The moratorium, which too ...
  • FSC mulls controversial motion to certify plan ...
    Members of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), meeting in Malaysia this week for its General Assembly, will consider various changes to the organization, including a vote on a controversial motion that would open the door—slightly at first—to sustainable-certification of companies that have be ...
  • Unpaved road through Serengeti to progress
    After a week of confusion, the Tanzanian government has finally clarified its position on the hugely-controversial Serengeti road. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, confirmed that a paved highway will not be built through the northern Serengeti National Park, however ...
  • Richard Leakey: 'selfish' critics choose wrong ...
    The controversial Serengeti road is going ahead, but with conditions. According to the Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, the road will not be paved and it will be run by the Tanzanian park authority who will have the power to monitor traffic to 'ensure no harm ...

Science - NZ Herald

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

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Hit & Run | Reason

  • Reason Lunchtime Links: Jobless Claims Up, L.A ...
    Jobless claims rise by 9,000. Obama says he has a jobs plan.  Morgan Stanley warns the U.S. is now "dangerously close" to another recession. The city of Los Angeles fires credit rating agency Standard & Poors from one of its contracts. The Justice Department, meanwhile, ...
  • Obama's Green Jobs Failures
    Investor's Business Daily looks at President Obama's promise to create five million "green jobs" over the next decade. So far, at lot of stimulus money has been spent pushing enviro-work. But there hasn't been a lot of progress, and in a number of cases, the money appears to have bee ...
  • Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on R ...
    Conservatives and liberals are both going to be disappointed with Gov. Rick Perry’s economic record in Texas, notes Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia in her latest column at The Daily. Conservatives, because it’s not all Perry is making it out to be. Liberals, because it’ ...
  • New at Reason: John Stossel on the GOP Preside ...
    Did we learn anything from last week's Republican presidential debate? There were the usual platitudes like "bring people together," but there was also plenty of talk about the private sector. John Stossel surveys the good, the bad, and the ugly. View this article.
  • PolitiFact Gets High-Speed Rail Facts in Flori ...
    High-speed rail supporters are still trying to turn back the clock on Gov. Rick Scott’s decision to reject federal funding for the proposed Tampa-to-Orlando rail line. PolitiFact Florida writes: Though Gov. Rick Scott killed the Tampa-to-Orlando high-speed rail line months ago, ...

Mercury Rising

  • Know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ...
    At this moment (1AM Eastern), looks like another down open for the markets. In Asia, there are concerns about a strong yen hurting Japanese exports and inflation and overinvestment in China (as opposed to creating a consumer economy) leading to slower growth, and maybe a crash in 18 months. A mo ...
  • The Murdoch Stasi
    One of the things that is most troubling about the United States is that it is possible for a corporation to keep a person from working–and reduce them to destitution– purely because they have annoyed the corporation. How can the American people call ourselves “free” or a “democracy,” if people ...
  • Pipe (bad) dream: the Fukushima meltdown
    David McNeill and Jake Adelstein, The London Independent: The Independent has spoken to several workers at the plant who recite the same story: serious damage, to piping and at least one of the reactors, occurred before the tsunami hit. … “Someone yelled that we all needed to evacuate. But I was ...
  • Remember When Argentina Was The World’s ...
    Remember when Argentina was officially the World’s Biggest Fiscal Basketcase? Remember when, in the 1990s and early ’00s, its being reduced to penury was big news (though the reason therefor — namely, its trying to follow the IMF ‘austerity’ aka kill-the-poor plan — was soft-pedaled when it was ...
  • The wobblies: markets hit resistance
    This interesting article by Whitney Kisling and Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg, suggests that there may be a connection between the stock market’s recent fall and the drawing down of margin (loans to investors) at the brokerages: Investor credit at Wall Street brokerages is falling by the most in a year ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Sacred Economics: Chapter 8, "The Turning of t ...
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  • Interweave in the Steel City
    Friday, September 2 at 8:00pm - September 3 at 4:00am 5118 Penn Avenue (Across from Spak Bros.) Pittsburgh PA 15224 Facebook event:  https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152549871493875 A party can be a dream, an initiation, an otherworld that changes, challenges and strengthens ...
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  • Bidder 70 Speaks
    Tim DeChristopher posed as a bidder in a government held oil and gas land auction.  He successfully won $1.8 million worth of land. Tim’s spontaneous actions to save pristine land from exploitation, during a government sale of public land; for pennies on the dollar to the oil industry, was less ...
  • Bioneers Is Back
    "On October 14-16 the 2011 Bioneers Conference will explore the forefront of positive change in inspiring keynote talks, panels, workshops and intensives.  Connect with leading-edge people and ideas. Network with dynamic changemakers. See Moving Image Festival screenings and attend networking r ...

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • Karachi violence claims 39 lives
    Reports say two straight days of violence have killed at least 39 people and wounded several others in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi.
  • Weekly US jobless claims hits 408k
    New claims for unemployment benefits in the US have escalated beyond the official 400,000 forecast as the world's largest economy struggles with a failing economy.
  • Hamas rejects Israel's accusations
    The Gaza-based Hamas government has dismissed Israeli claims, accusing resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip of organizing the deadly shooting attacks in southern Israel.
  • Iran's 3rd aid convoy lands in Somalia
    The third batch of humanitarian aid provided by Iran's Red Crescent Society (IRCS) to help with the relief of famine-hit Somalia has arrived in the Horn of Africa nation.
  • 'Obama reneges on his promises'
    A US columnist says President Barack Obama has failed to fulfill his pre-election promises of helping the poor Americans by creating jobs for them.

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Rallies Grow Across India for Jailed Activist
    Huge protests have taken place across India in support of a jailed anti-corruption campaigner who has been demanding a tough anti-graft law.
  • U.S.: National Outcry Builds Against Deportations
    When 20-year-old Isaura Garcia called the 911 emergency hotline while being physically abused by her partner, she never imagined that her plea to U.S. legal authorities would lead to imprisonment and possible deportation.
  • CUBA: Dreams and Progress in a Rural Community
    The day that electricity arrived in the Cuban village of Jova, there were shouts, laughter and tears of joy, even among the most incredulous, who had doubted it was possible. "I didn't know what to do; it actually made me nervous," Carmen Carvallosa confessed.
  • U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Holds Fast to Status Quo
    The United States is likely to maintain and sustain its huge arsenal of nuclear weapons for many years to come, even though President Barack Obama has repeatedly stressed that he stands for nuclear disarmament and global peace, non-proliferation experts believe.
  • MALAWI: Hospitals Struggle Amid Water Shortage
    Two battered plastic chairs bar entry to the toilets at the Bangwe Township Clinic in Blantyre. The toilets are not working because there is no running water – yet again. And if patients want to use the facilities they will have to run to the next- door primary school, which has pit latri ...

Scoop - NZ

  • All Black Abstinence Ads Ditched
    One telco staffer today said: "I too am disgusted at this ridiculous ad, already in my call centre some staff have had to field calls from angry customers who want to disconnect all services". "I just wish the marketing [department] had run a poll with the staff to see what they thought befo ...
  • Re-Examining the Arab Spring
    It is now more than six months since the beginning of the Arab Spring, and it is important to take stock of what has happened and what has not happened. The reasons for the widespread unrest go beyond the Arab world, although, obviously, the dynamics within that world are important in and of the ...
  • Carabinieri fight Gladiators in Colosseum
    Italian police have arrested 20 gladiator impersonators, in an undercover operation outside the Colosseum in Rome. The suspects are accused of intimidating and attacking their competitors, to win a share in a lucrative business. The men, who dress up in ancient Roman costume, are a familia ...
  • The spectre of Shell on NZ's horizon
    The flames of Shell are flames of Hell, We bask below their light, Nought for us to serve the blight, Of cursed neglect and cursed Shell. - Ogoni protest song, circa 1970. As global oil reserves run low, the oil giants are looking further and further afield in search of new oil. From the ...
  • The Roots of Breivik's Ideology
    Breivik should be understood as an ideologue driven by reasons and not just as a psychological case. A careful reading of his 2083 manifesto reveals four distinct influences we need to understand: contemporary Islamophobic ideologies, cultural conservative/neo-Confederate traditions, elements of ...

Independent - London

  • Leaders urge Syria's Assad to quit
    David Cameron today joined the leaders of France and Germany in calling on Syria's President Bashar al Assad to end the violence and stand down in the best interests of his country.
  • Five die as gunmen target Israel
    At least five people have died when gunmen armed with heavy weapons, guns and explosives launched three attacks in quick succession in southern Israel near the border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
  • Several die in Israel attacks
    Several people have been killed in attacks in southern Israel, a military spokesman said today.
  • Video: Thief found using technology
    Computer expert Greg Martin helped police retrieve his stolen laptop using open source software.
  • Video: Truck hangs off tall building
    A rubbish lorry has crashed through a parking garage wall three stories up in New York, leaving it dangling off the edge.

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • NASA: Comet Elenin Poses No Threat to Earth
    Often, comets are portrayed as harbingers of gloom and doom in movies and on television, but most pose no threat to Earth. Comet Elenin, the latest comet to visit our inner solar system, is no exception. Elenin will pass about 22 million miles (35 million kilometers) from Earth during its closes ...
  • Bush On Steroids Plus Gun Powder and Horse Semen
    Lots of news on Rick Perry: The more we know, the scarier it gets. His 10 most insane ideas here; his fondness for executions, sometimes of the innocent, here; takedowns of his Texas un-miracle here and here; his plan for anarchy by repealing all regulations, including those that don't exist, here.
  • US, California: Militant Makes Death Threat Ag ...
    A Muslim militant has urged American followers to assassinate talk show host David Letterman, saying his tongue deserved to be cut out, a U.S. intelligence monitoring group said on Wednesday. The SITE intelligence group said the death threat was posted on an online website used by militants aft ...
  • US: Meteorite Alert
    Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office has issued a meteorite alert for residents of small towns east of Cleveland, Ohio. There could be space rocks on the ground waiting to be found. "On August 8 at 1:22 Eastern Daylight Time, all-sky cameras belonging to the Southern Ontario M ...
  • US, Florida: Race Separating Brother and Siste ...
    Is race keeping a brother and sister from attending the same school? That's the question facing the Polk County School Board. The students' parents have been fighting for weeks to get their kids in the same magnet school. For the family, it's not about race. They say it's simply about keeping ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Royal baubles and trinkets
    A political stunt. Why else would Airshow ruck up to the podium and make such a nostalgia laden announcement regarding the Canadian Forces when the latter's actual Commander in Chief is in Nunavut? There's really nothing hidden here. Junior actually tells us exactly why he did it, and not Mr. J ...
  • London security . . .
  • Mammoliti will protect our precious bodily fluids
    Toronto city councillor George "Giorgio" Mammoliti (he changed his name in 2002 from English to Italian to better reflect his desire to suck up to immigrant voters in his ward Italian heritage) has apparently finally made the full journey from populist leftist to card-carrying member of Monster ...
  • How things work . . .
    TED TALKS cover the whole panoply of human endeavours. Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, mo ...
  • Felonious checks in . . .
    Felonious Munk is pissed about the US debt. He's got a point, too.

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Repeats Debunked Claim About Heightened Fo ...
    On Fox Business, host Chris Cotter warned that a high number of enrollees in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, also known as food stamps) could lead to "economic dependence." But experts have said that high levels of food stamps use is a temporary side effect of the recession ...
  • Conservative Media Identify Latest Stealth Jih ...
    The anti-Muslim segment of the conservative media has identified yet another Republican as a traitor to America because he is supposedly too close to Muslims. The current target is Governor Rick Perry (R-TX), labeled as the "5th column candidate" by Pamela Geller because of his ties to Muslim l ...
  • Why Is Fox Going To Joe Bastardi For Climate C ...
    Fox News and Fox Business Network frequently host Joe Bastardi to comment on climate change. But Bastardi, who is a weather forecaster, not a climate researcher, has made inaccurate claims about climate science on multiple occasions and is not seen by experts as a credible source of climate inf ...
  • Right-Wing Media Push Bogus "CDLs For All Farm ...
    Even after the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a statement saying that it will not require farmers to obtain commercial driver's licenses (CDLs), members of the right-wing media continued to promote the claim.August 10: DOT Says "No Regulations Will Be Proposed For Any New Safety Requi ...
  • Just "Texas Swagger": Fox Figures Defend Perry ...
    Following Gov. Rick Perry's comment that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would be "almost treasonous" if he "prints more money between now and the election," Fox figures have defended Perry by claiming that he's "passionate," using his "Texas swagger," and that the "fundamental point he m ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Is Capitalism Doomed?
    This article originally appeared in Project Syndicate. NEW YORK--The massive volatility and sharp equity-price correction now hitting global financial markets signal that most advanced economies are on the brink of a double-dip recession. A financial and economic crisis caused by too much pri ...
  • Motorola's Cellphones: An Elegy
    I am having a strangely sentimental response to Motorola selling its cellphone business to Google--presumably so that Google will be able to create a serious competitor for Apple in mobile devices (like the iPhone and iPad) and acquire Motorola patents for the growing Silicon Valley patent war. ...
  • Joe Walsh's Ex-Wife: Quit Lying
    Congressman Joe Walsh told Obama to "quit lying." Here, Walsh's ex-wife tells Joe to "quit lying" about the child support he owes�her. Walsh accused Obama of spending money like a drunken sailor, but Walsh is the one who spent money on vacations and his campaign while getting his condo f ...
  • Bachmann & The Golden Bough
    If there's one book that's familiar to every Liberal Arts major it's probably James Frazer's mighty tome on comparative religion, 1890's "The Golden Bough." For generations many undergraduates have probably used this classic work the way I did: as a doorstop, as a paperweight and as something to ...
  • President Obama Joins the Cult of Economics De ...
    A front page story in Sunday's New York Times gave the country the bad news. President Obama is no longer paying attention to economists and economics in designing economic policy. Instead, he will do what his campaign people tell him will get him re-elected, presumably by getting lots of money ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • NRC revisiting low-level radioactive waste red ...
    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking public comment on proposed revisions to its policy statement on volume reduction of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW). The proposed revisions would urge licensees to minimize the volume of waste they produce since such a focus will extend the operati ...
  • This is the dawning of the age of the super PAC
    It is looking like the 2012 election will be dominated by the Super PAC.  If you thought your voice counted for little before, check out this MSNBC story on the new powerhouse super PAC called “Make Us Great Again” which, while claiming it is independent, just launched a website filled with pho ...
  • Post-Fukushima NRC licensing hearing begins to ...
    A licensing hearing for South Texas Project reactors begins today in Austin, Texas. The hearing is on the application to expand the South Texas Nuclear plant and raises key issues, especially in light of the explosions, fires and meltdowns at Fukushima. An Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB ...
  • Hotter ‘n Hell: the current state of Texas wea ...
    Houston hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday for the 15th consecutive day in a row breaking that city’s previous record of 14 consecutive days of 100+ degree heat set in July of 1980. For the year, Houston has seen a total of twenty-six 100-degree days. On average, the city usually only sees aro ...
  • From toilet water to tap water, the new liquid ...
    So after years of diminishing water supplies made even worse by the second-most severe drought in state history, some West Texas communities are resorting to a plan to turn sewage into drinking water. A water-reclamation plant believed to be the first in Texas will supply Big Spring, Midland, Od ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Woman attacked by "500-year-old vampire"
    A man has been arrested in Texas for breaking in to a woman's house and biting her on the neck. 19-year-old Lyle Monroe Bensley claimed that he'd done...
  • UFO filmed over Kazakhstan
    Sightings by numerous witnesses of a strange disc shaped object have taken Kazakhstan by storm. In one segment a reporter is seen talking about the si...
  • Space hotel plans announced
    Russia has revealed plans for an orbiting space hotel that is due to open as early as 2016. The hotel would offer 5-day stays for around £100,000 with...
  • Pacific eel discovery is "living fossil"
    A living fossil has been discovered in the form of a Pacific eel with unusually primitive features. The new eel has been named "Protoanguilla palau" a...
  • Goats bred to produce spider silk
    Scientists have succeeded in breeding goats capable of producing spider silk proteins in their milk. The research is designed to help avoid some of th...

Grassroots

  • Program Coordinator for the Middle East and Haiti
    Grassroots International seeks an experienced individual to work as an active member of its Grantmaking & Advocacy Team.�The Program Coordinator develops and manages programs consistent with Grassroots� mission in two key overseas program areas: Palestine/Israel and Haiti. Qualifications:� ...
  • Youth carry the work forward
    Subheadline:� Leading the way for economic development, climate justice and sustainability From her humble beginnings, Sayra never imagined the profound impact she would have on the global movement for food sovereignty.read more
  • Cooling and feeding the planet with agroecology
    288400_10150260430494792_570449791_7037238_4222546_o.jpg In order to fix the broken food system, we need to de-colonize our minds. To prove that, do this short exercise. What comes to your mind, when you hear the word �Agriculture?� Is it ...
  • Famine in the Horn of Africa -- Back to the Future
    eritrea-famine.jpg Nearly 30 years ago the world was shocked by images of famine and hunger in the Horn of Africa. Those images inspired a tremendous outpouring of generosity among ordinary people everywhere, and spurred a generation of ac ...
  • Development, a fairy tale of catastrophic prop ...
    times_square.jpg Amnesty International released a report on indigenous rights this week called �Sacrificing Rights in the Name of Development: Indigenous Peoples Under Threat in the Americas,� which exposes the impact of development projec ...

Climate

  • MIT Auto Crash Model Could Forecast Oil and Ga ...
    Source:� Green Car Congress A computer model that tests auto components for crashworthiness could also be of use to the oil and gas industry to predict how pipes may fracture in offshore drilling accidents, according to resear ...
  • Climate Change Hitting Western Australia's Sou ...
    Source:� ABC News A new report by the Climate Commission reveals there has been a 15 percent reduction in rainfall across the southwest of Western Australia over the past 40 years, seriously reducing runoff into Perth's dams ...
  • Climate Change Will Halve the Canadian Trout P ...
    Source:� The Canadian Press A new U.S. study says warmer water, altered stream flows and changes in the life cycle of bugs will reduce the number of streams that are suitable for trout by nearly half over the next 70 years. ...
  • NRC Infighting Goes Nuclear
    Source:� Politico NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko regularly faces the sharp end of Republican spears for his work to shut down the Yucca Mountain waste repository, but his biggest clash appears not to be with Capitol Hill but with ...
  • U.S. Cities Prepare to Adapt to Climate Change
    Source:� USA Today While some members of Congress debate the scientific validity of climate change, U.S. cities are going beyond efforts to mitigate it with lower emissions. They're at the forefront of an emerging trend: adapt ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

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

Booman Tribune

  • Perry's Fiercest Opponents
    I've been saying the same thing: The Bush people dont fool around, as you know, [Howard] Dean said Tuesday night on MSNBC. You can say a lot of things about Bushs presidency and his failures as president, but one thing nobody should say [anything] bad about [is] his political team. They know ...
  • Cantor's Memo
    Is this the rankest form of hypocrisy or an acknowledgment that he went too far and is responsible for our credit downgrade? Eric Cantor sent out a memo to his caucus that warns them not to resort to brinksmanship in the appropriations process (which is now operating as part of an agreed-upon d ...
  • GOP: However Bad, They're Worse
    No matter how bad you think the Republicans are, they can always surprise you by being even worse. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has jurisdiction over regulatory affairs, including of the financial services sector of the e ...
  • Terrorist School Bombing Plot Foiled
    Terrorism. Terrorist. What comes to mind when you hear those words? Well, for many Americans and much of the media, the image is of someone who looks like this: However, as may of us here realize, the most dangerous terrorists we face these days seem to all be white males, old and youn ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Joe Lieberman
    So, Sen. Joe Lieberman thinks Gov. Rick Perry has made good first impressions despite hurling terroristic threats at the chairman of the Federal Reserve. He's even thinking of voting for him because Obama has encouraged Israel's enemies. I wonder if Lieberman is familiar with Perry's crowd. ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 12 Incredible Snapshots of Animals Silhouetted ...
    Stunning silhouette photography featuring an beautiful selection of wild animals! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 13 Hottest Links of the Week
    Unlucky for some but not for Environmental Graffiti... as we bring you 13 of the best links to what's hot on the web! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Fairy Tales Recreated in 3D Balloon Art
    Airigami artist Larry Moss "bends air" by twisting balloons into amazing shapes. This time, he has taken a multimedia approach to all-time favorite fairy tales. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 10 Most Beautiful Urban Parks on Earth
    Ten beautiful parks, surrounded by urban environments and thus oases to the inhabitants of the cities in which they are located... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Huge Boost in Fish Numbers in Cabo Pulmo Natio ...
    A once depleted marine reserve has bounced back in big way with the help of local people. The number of marine species there has increased by 460%! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Remembering Claudette Manson
    Among the leaders of a movement to turn the end of the Cold War into economic opportunity was a mother of four in St. Paul, Minnesota, who had spent 14 years soldering circuit boards for nuclear submarines. Claudette Munson died of cancer on July 25.
  • The Pain in Spain
    The Spanish government has been showing the world how to repress an uprising European-style.
  • Loose Nukes: Real Threat?
    There's a lot of radioactive material in the world. But is the illegal market in nukes really a threat?
  • Feeding the World
    With evermore mouths to feed, how will we be able to coax more food out of our exhausted soil?
  • Most Asylum Seekers Are Not Cheaters
    In the wake of the DSK case, stories of asylum cheats are spreading. But the reality is of honest, desperate people navigating a deeply flawed system.

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

Daily Censored

  • PICTURE PRESIDENT GINGRICH
    By Saul Landau The world’s people face transcendent issues: climate change (tornadoes, tsunamis,droughts, hurricanes), seemingly endless wars in Asia and Africa, mass uprisings,growing world hunger – and the ever present nuclear (weapons and power) threat. Given those overwhelming issues one wou ...
  • The One Kent Coalition, a secretive organizati ...
    The legislation, ostensibly introduced to eliminate barriers to economic development, would consolidate and centralize all local governmental authority and powers, transfer ownership of all public assets and property, and abolish local representative government in the state of Michigan.  A propo ...
  • The Movement for Justice, Britain’s leading an ...
    Defend Youth Uprising! Bring Down the Government! Statement from BAMN in Britain!! ‘When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty and shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up and express their ange ...
  • Opposing the Jewish National Fund and Israeli ...
    Please click the link below to listen to the entire program on archive now: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/08/15/opposing-the-jewish-national-fund-and-israeli-apartheid Join us this episode as we spoke with Noura Erakat about the Jewish National Fund and its role in ethnically ...
  • NPR the new FOX News
    U.S. Can No Longer Afford To Be World’s Policemen : NPR www.npr.org Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, the senior Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, talks to Steve Inskeep about his opinion on the S&P credit downgrade. Frank says the U.S. spends too much money being the military p ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Remembering Claudette Manson
    Among the leaders of a movement to turn the end of the Cold War into economic opportunity was a mother of four in St. Paul, Minnesota, who had spent 14 years soldering circuit boards for nuclear submarines. Claudette Munson died of cancer on July 25.
  • Reframing Development in the Age of Vulnerability
    Rootedness could be key to enhanced well-being for communities and countries in the 21st century, given the Achilles heel of vulnerability.
  • Feeding the World
    With evermore mouths to feed, how will we be able to coax more food out of our exhausted soil?
  • Mubarak Behind Bars: Human Rights and Justice
    Human rights standards may not be met in this trial, but the more essential purpose is to prove there's no going back.
  • The Lineup: Week of Aug. 15-21, 2011
    Matias Ramos explains why states should allow undocumented immigrants who have graduated from their high schools to pay in-state tuition.

IntelNews

  • Exclusive: Interview with ex-CIA officer Charl ...
    Yesterday I reviewed Charles S. Faddis’ new book, Codename Aphrodite (Orion, 2011), a gripping novel revolving around a former CIA case officer’s freelance operation in Athens, Greece, in pursuit of November 17, one of Europe’s most notorious urban guerrilla groups. Today intelNews hosts an inte ...
  • News you may have missed #569
    Taiwan begins to deal with its amateur spies caught by China. Egypt to try Israeli on espionage charges. Pakistan 'gave China access' to US copter used in bin Laden raid.
  • IntelNews book review: Codename Aphrodite, by ...
    Most intelNews regulars know Charles S. Faddis as the former head of the US National Terrorism Center's WMD Unit. His 20-year career as a CIA operations officer, with posts in South Asia, Near East and Europe, arguably culminated in 2002, when he led a CIA team into Iraq to help prepare the grou ...
  • News you may have missed #568
    Lebanon intercepts covert arms shipment bound for Syria. Russian embassy cars seen near murdered MI6 officer's flat. Indonesian intel reports on West Papua leaked.
  • CIA shot own planes, used napalm in Bay of Pig ...
    Newly declassified documents show that the CIA mistakenly fired at its own assault planes and resorted to using napalm to stave off successive Cuban counterattacks during the Bay of Pigs invasion.

War is a Crime.org

  • Rick Perry: Extremist White America's Evangeli ...
    ��Rick Perry: Extremist White America's Evangelical Hope - by Stephen Lendman � Consider the unpalatable 2012 options, a choice between: � -- a so far unopposed lawless/crime boss/militarist/pro-war/anti-populist president; and � read more
  • Black Libya City Said to Fall to Rebel Siege
    � by BAR executive editor Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report Western-backed rebels have made good their vow to �purge slaves, black skin,� with their reported capture of Tawurgha, a black Libyan city, after a long siege. Elsewhere, just 30 miles from the capital city of Tripoli, NATO bombed 85 ...
  • Antiwar.com Radio Takes on Panetta's "Doomsday ...
    http://antiwar.com/radio David Swanson, author of War is a Lie, discusses “The Military Industrial Complex at 50” national conference in Charlottesville, VA from September 16-18; the paltry defense spending cuts decried by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta as a “doomsday mechanism” that will endang ...
  • Panetta's Weak Case for Potential Military Wea ...
    Leon Panetta, who holds the position that we used to more usefully call "Secretary of War," makes a weak case.� Panetta considers $350 billion over 10 years, or $35 billion per year, to be serious cuts to the national security budget.� But consider the budger from which that is to be cut.� It in ...
  • Why Pakistani Military Demands a Veto on Drone ...
    By Gareth Porter, IPS ISLAMABAD, Aug 16, 2011 (IPS) - Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets U.S. drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here. The sources, who met with IPS on condition that they not be id ...

Grist - News

  • ‘Skypump’ let’s you fill &#8 ...
    by Christopher Mims. Got an electric car? And some wind? Then this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship, if you add in the Sanya Skypump for a horsepower three-way. Sure, you might think putting a wind turbine on an electric car charging station is kind of obvious, if you are a ...
  • ‘Floatovoltaics’ energize otherwis ...
    by Christopher Mims. 'Flotovoltaics,' solar panels that float on existing reservoirs, leads to all kinds of unexpected side benefits. At the Far Niente winery in Napa Valley, which pioneered the technology in the U.S., their floating solar grid reduces evaporation from their irrigation ...
  • Otters are back in England
    by Jess Zimmerman. Once nearly extinct in England, otters have now returned to every county, indicating that rivers are at their healthiest in decades. Conservationists had predicted that it would be another 10 years before the otters reached this level of repopulation, so it's a real ...
  • Infographic: What it would take to meet Obama& ...
    by Christopher Mims. Obama wants 80 percent of America's energy to come from clean and renewable sources by 2035. But what would that really take? Mostly, it means replacing 2/3 of our coal-fired power plants with power sources that don't depend on fossil fuels. The scale of that ambit ...
  • Human excrement is killing all your coral
    by Sarah Laskow. You know how when you go snorkeling, the guide tells you not to touch, breathe on, or even think about getting anywhere near the coral because it's really sensitive and also a great marine resource? Well, it's all true, but on a macro level, humans haven't been paying att ...

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Digg Green

  • Physicists undo the 'coffee ring effect' (w/ v ...
    A team of University of Pennsylvania physicists has shown how to disrupt the 'coffee ring effect' the ring-shaped stain of particles leftover after coffee drops evaporate by changing the particle shape. The discovery provides new tools for engineers to deposit uniform coatings.
  • Engineered Bacteria Mop Up Mercury Spills
    Thousands of tons of toxic mercury are released into the environment every year. Much of this collects in sediment where it is converted into toxic methyl mercury, and enters the food chain ending up in the fish we eat. New research showcases genetically engineered bacteria which are not only ab ...
  • Five Myths About Memory (And why They Matter i ...
    Reference: :Simons, D., & Chabris, C. (2011). What People Believe about How Memory Works: A Representative Survey of the U.S. Population.
  • Image of the Day: Supernova Embers! A Never-Be ...
    Studies of two supernova remnants using the Japan-U.S. Suzaku observatory revealed never-before-seen embers of the high-temperature fireballs that immediately followed the explosions. Even after thousands of years, gas within these stellar wrecks retain the imprint of temperatures 10,000 times h ...
  • Scientists Solve Titan's Arrow-Shaped Cloud My ...
    Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has what looks like an enormous white arrow about the size of Texas on its surface, and scientists at UCLA believe they have solved its mystery.

Invisible Opportunity

  • When the Musics over it Turns into Shit
    By Les Visible One can go back to the slave trade into the new world and see the stamp of The Tribe, named in the captain’s logs of the day. There’s a video out on it too. You may not care for the man who did it but that’s not the point. The point is, [...]
  • Turkey’s Military Chiefs Resign Over Staged Te ...
    By Daniel Taylor As reported by the BBC, the heads of Turkey’s armed forces, navy and air force have all resigned in response to a military plot. The plan, according to the BBC “… reportedly involved plans to bomb mosques and provoke tensions with Greece, in order to spark political chaos and ju ...
  • Murdochs savaged in withering attack by their ...
    By Cahal Milmo, Chief Reporter Wednesday, 17 August 2011 Rupert Murdoch’s own lawyers launched an extraordinary attack on him and his son yesterday by accusing News International of misleadingly using their advice to give his company a clean bill of health on phone hacking. Harbottle & Lewis, wh ...
  • Gardasil HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed
  • Indecision 2012 – Corn Polled Edition &# ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Gorgeous Rooftop Garden Apartment Grows Above ...
    Read the rest of Gorgeous Rooftop Garden Apartment Grows Above a Warehouse in London Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "living wall", eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green roof, living facade, London, Richard Rogers, roof garden apartment, rooftop apa ...
  • Next-Gen Electronics Charge Themselves With En ...
    Engineers at UCLA have developed technology that allows energy gobbling gadgets like smartphones and laptops to convert sunlight, ambient light, and their own backlight into energy. Equipping LCD-enhanced devices with so-called polarizing organic photovoltaics will recoup battery loads of lost p ...
  • 5 Tips for Greening Your Finances
    When you’re considering ways to green your lifestyle, revamping your personal finance practices probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But considering the energy and materials wasted through lengthy paper contracts, monthly mailed statements, and poorly thought out purchases, taking ...
  • World’s First Wastewater Hydrogen Fuel Plant O ...
    Air Products, one of the leaders in hydrogen fueling technology, have just announced the official opening of the world’s first fuel cell and hydrogen energy station in Orange County, California. Inaugurated today, the station is unlike any other built before, in that it draws from a nearby wast ...
  • Artomik’s Mod Recycled Foam Board Mobiles Add ...
    If you’re an architect or designer, you probably remember what it’s like to have a ton of leftover foam board from your projects and not really know what to do with it. Well Artomik is making great use of their excess foam core by turning it into mod vertical hanging sculptures. What a smart and ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Consumer Fanboys Confuse Brand Identity With T ...
    By Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica Have you ever found yourself frothing at the fingertips while explaining why someone doesn’t deserve to use an iPhone because of the offender’s deeply flawed sense of aesthetics? Have you been the type to declare that those who don’t use Android are cylons who are ...
  • Video: ‘Living Fossil’ Eel Swam at Dawn of Din ...
                        runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience1113211448001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); In an undersea cavern off the coast of Palau, biologists have discovered an eel unlike any other. Called Protoanguilla palau, its last common ancestor with ...
  • Wild Close-Ups of Rare Mammals From Huge Camer ...
    Citation: “Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: data from a global camera trap network.” By Jorge A. Ahumada, Carlos E. F. Silva, Krisna Gajapersad, Chris Hallam, Johanna Hurtado, Emanuel Martin, Alex McWilliam, Badru Mugerwa, Tim O’Brien, Francesco Rovero, Douglas Sheil ...
  • Brain’s Network of Bottlenecks May Limit Multi ...
    By Kate Shaw, Ars Technica Although the human brain is a very complex structure, it’s still not big or efficient enough to process every single thing we see, hear and do. Sometimes this limitation is a good thing, since it forces our brains to filter out minor details that we donât need to [...]
  • Scientists Want You to Track Ants in Your Neig ...
    Ants seem common and ubiquitous, especially at summertime picnics. But the names and types of ants crawling around city parks and streets are largely unknown to researchers. The School of Ants project is recruiting ant-gathering citizen-scientists for help creating detailed lists and maps of ...

PakAlert

  • US and “Allies” Prepare For War With China
    A new operational concept looks to prepare the US and its allies to deter or defeat Chinese power. AirSea Battle looks to prepare the US and its allies to deter or defeat China’s rising military power. It envisions operations of USAF fighters, bombers, and missiles coordinated with Navy aircraft ...
  • Visa’s “Just Wave and Go” Commercial aka The H ...
    Yes, this is an ideal vision of the future. ** Takes deep breath ** A bunch of brain dead, robotic humans who move and act in sync, to the beat of conformity, giving the dirty look to whoever dares not to be part of the cattle by not using a credit card that is owned by a private company part of ...
  • Armageddon? Scientists Plan Mission To Blow Up ...
    Fact following fiction? Scientists plan mission to blow up an asteroid 'hurtling towards Earth' . It seemed far-fetched on the silver screen. But the European Space Agency is planning to launch a mission similar to the plot of Hollywood movie Armageddon, in which Bruce Willis and his intrepid ...
  • The U.S. Dollar Crisis Is About to Accelerate! ...
    The debt ceiling deal agreement [is only going to exacerbate America's financial and economic woesand accelerate the demise of the U.S.] Dollar Standard which is inherently flawed and increasingly unstable. Its demise is imminent. The only question is will it be death by fire—hyperinflation—or d ...
  • Confirmed! Smoke And Steam Coming Out From The ...
    LITERALLY, smoke and steam coming out of the ground just NORTH of Los Angeles !!! just 2 days ago This 100% validates the plume activity we saw 3 weeks ago to the north east of Los Angeles, and all the way up the west coast ... exactly what I thought it would look like.. steam venting like a ...

Andy Worthington

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

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Oft-Quoted Muslim-Bashers Complain of Speech S ...
    When life handed the anti-Islamic bloggers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer a lemon, they made it into lemonade. Of course, it wasn’t the first or the last time that extremist ideologues found themselves in the awkward position of having to disavow a follower who took their hateful prescriptions ...
  • Search Continues for Ex-Marine Tied to Oath Ke ...
    Charles Dyer is something of problem for the Oath Keepers, a group that started three years ago to encourage police officers and military personnel to disobey unconstitutional orders. A veteran Marine with time served in Iraq, he might have seemed to be a model of the kind of person the group wa ...
  • Radical Campus Organization Linked to Southern ...
    Youth for Western Civilization (YWC), an ultraconservative student group, has long cultivated relationships with white nationalist organizations like American Renaissance, the National Policy Institute and the H.L. Mencken Club. Last spring, it even allowed American Renaissance leader Jared Tayl ...
  • News Roundup for August 15, 2011
    Police in West Allis, Wis., have announced that they will pursue hate crime charges against at least one teen for the recent rash of flash mob attacks at the Wisconsin State Fair. One suspect told police that he picked out white people because they were “easy targets.” A Santa Barbara, Calif., m ...
  • News Roundup for August 17, 2011
    The FBI has joined the investigation into the racially motivated murder of an African-American man in Jackson, Miss. At the request of the Hinds County district attorney, the FBI is looking into whether federal hate crime charges can be applied to two teens accused of beating and then running ov ...

change: org.

  • Disturbing Report on Police-ICE Programs in Ph ...
    Before the end of this month, city officials in Philadelphia will decide whether to renew a controversial contract that allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to a citywide database, known as PARS, of all arrested persons. The system goes further than even “Secure Communities,” the co ...
  • McDonald's Serves Up Abused Pigs in its Egg Mc ...
    McDonald’s is the largest customer of the largest pork company in the world, Smithfield Foods. And lately, Smithfield has been proving itself to be one of the food industry's biggest lying liars. Back in 2007, Smithfield said it would phase out the use of gestation crates by 2017, a decision th ...
  • Will Kenya Airways Send Gay Torture Victim to ...
    In less than 24 hours, more than 800 people have joined a petition campaign started on Change.org calling on the UK's Home Office to halt the deportation of Robert Segwanyi to Uganda, where he was imprisoned and tortured for being gay. Segwanyi is scheduled for deportation on Thursday, August 18 ...
  • How to Lose Gen Y Investors and Alienate People
    This article cross-posted from The Lattice Group blog. Liz Kofman is the co-founder of The Lattice Group, a non-profit that conducts research and sparks dialogue about work-life issues from a Gen Y perspective, and a PhD candidate in Sociology at UCLA. There is absolutely nothing I love more t ...
  • Victory! The City of Baltimore has Stopped Cut ...
    When Baltimore resident David Troy realized his city was chopping down trees to improve the view of a grand prix race, he sprang into action – with huge results. In just under a week, more than 4,500 Change.org members signed his petition and stopped the city of Baltimore from chopping down as m ...

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Lifehacker

  • Add Foam Earplugs to Your Eyeglasses for a Mor ...
    As a person new to wearing eyeglasses for more than a few hours, I've noticed they sometimes get a little uncomfortable. If you have some foam earplugs lying around, however, you can easily solve that problem. More�� ...
  • Magnifier Helps Google Music Users Discover Ne ...
    If you're one of the lucky people to have access to Google Music (perhaps from a friend invite), now you have an even sweeter reason to use the service: Magnifier, Google's new music discovery service that offers free music daily. More ...
  • Eat Like a Foodie at Home, Without Breaking Yo ...
    Just because you enjoy great food doesn't mean you have to spend a lot of money dining out or buying upscale foods for delicious meals at home. With the advice of some noted chefs and food writers, you can elevate the level of your home-co ...
  • Mixest Offers Dead-Simple Music Discovery for ...
    Web/Android: Music discovery doesn't have to be a social experience, or involve searches or complicated algorithms. Mixest, a free music discovery service that specializes in obscure and independent musicians, does one thing: plays new mu ...
  • End a Call with the Power Button in Android [S ...
    A lesser-known setting in Android lets you end calls by hitting your phone's power button instead of the End button on your screen. More��

Water Privatization

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

Guardian

  • Levy proposed for Dublin Catholics as church f ...
    Leaked document says child abuse compensation payouts have brought many parishes in Irish capital close to financial collapseReparations for child abuse victims and the recession have brought Ireland's largest Catholic diocese to the brink of bankruptcy, according to a leaked document from a gro ...
  • Syria: Assad must resign, says Obama
    EU leaders echo stinging rebuke, delivered by US president in executive order imposing sanctions and assets freezeThe US and Europe have dramatically increased the pressure on the Syrian president, Bashir al-Assad, by calling on him to resign over the brutal crackdown on anti-government proteste ...
  • World stock markets plunge as fears of recessi ...
    FTSE, Dow Jones, Dax and Cac all fall as investors flee to gilts and goldGlobal stock markets crashed and gold soared to a new record high on Thursday, amid growing fears that the world is sliding into a double-dip recession.Dire manufacturing figures from the US prompted a sell-off on Wall Stre ...
  • London teenager found stabbed to death in Enfi ...
    Death of 14-year-old Leroy James is 10th fatal stabbing of a teenager in London so far this yearPolice are appealing for help to find the killer of a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed to death at a park in Enfield, north London.Officers said the crime had no apparent link to gangs.Ambulance crews ...
  • Police chiefs voice concern over extra costs o ...
    Home secretary urged to clarify whether she is willing to meet unplanned spending involved in policing disturbancesConcern is growing among senior police officers that the Home Office will not guarantee all the extra costs of policing last week's riots, leading figures in the Labour party have w ...

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Obama’s bloody “endgame” in ...
    Nearly two months after President Barack Obama announced plans for a limited withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, the evolution of US strategy in the nearly 10-year-old war points to a ...
  • 21 people killed by roadside bomb
    A female victim of a roadside bomb lies on a bed at a hospital in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. The roadside bomb killed at least 20 passengers traveling on a minibus ...
  • 3 Afghan Policemen Killed in Shootout With Army
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A shootout between Afghan police officers and soldiers in a district near this southern city on Wednesday evening left three policemen dead and at least five civilians ...
  • Stuart parents to have service for Navy son ki ...
    Family photo of Navy SEALs member Aaron Carson Vaughn, who was killed in a NATO helicopter shoot-down in Afghnaistan. The 30-year old leaves behind his wife, Kimberly, and two children, 2-year-old ...
  • Huge Afghan blast kills 27 US soldiers
    Aug 18, 2011 A powerful explosion has rocked a US military base in eastern Afghanistan and reportedly killed at least 27 American soldiers and left dozens wounded. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Legally Bought Some Books Abroad? Sell Them In ...
    Last year, we wrote about the Supreme Court's deadlocked tie over whether or not the "first sale doctrine" applies to goods made outside the US in the Omega v. Costco case (Justice Kagan recused herself due to her involvement in the case while she was Solicitor General). Because of that the rul ...
  • NY Yankees: It's Insulting To Call Us The Evil ...
    Ah, the NY Yankees. I've mentioned in the past that I'm actually a big Yankees baseball fan (last night's loss sucked), but sometimes the team (like all of Major League Baseball) does stupid things with intellectual property law. The latest is a report that the team (and Major League Baseball) ...
  • What Else Can We Patent?
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  • Guy Claims Google Owes Him $500 Billion
    I'm always interested in novel legal theories and arguments, and Eric Goldman points us to the latest attempt by one David Stebbins to convince the court system that giant companies owe him tons of money. Last time we'd checked in on Stebbins, he had been claiming Walmart owed him $600 billion, ...
  • US Court Tells Brazilian Court To Stop Ruling ...
    One of the issues that we've been discussing on Techdirt since the very beginning is the big question of how do you determine proper jurisdiction on internet related lawsuits, since the internet is accessible anywhere. Over the years there have been different rulings and different thoughts on th ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

Dandelion Salad

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

Your New Reality

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    Agree or disagree with Ron Paul's beliefs and politics, but it is impossible to deny this is one of the best campaign ads ever made :
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    The Black Night Highway Of Ancient Human History Gets A Little More Light By Darryl Mason The oldest tools used by human-like creatures every found are maybe 700,000 years old. The most ancient cave and rock carvings ever found are perhaps 40,000 years old. The oldest, still-existing c ...
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    Hacking The Human Brain Mike Wehner at Y Tech : Of all the storage mediums you use to keep information that is most important to you, your brain is by far the most complex. Because of the immense amount of data that the human brain can hold, scientists have been attempting to crack our ...
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    Now everyone has a camera, every accident and tragedy has a high-definition clip online within minutes. The stage collapses at the Indiana State Fair yesterday, in 100kmh winds, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens : The aftermath :
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    Tea Party hijacker, and Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is getting some sympathy, even from the Daily Show's Jon Stewart, for Newsweek magazine purposely choosing a bad photo of her for this recent cover : Redditers, however, think she got off lightly with Newsweek ...

Wired - Science

  • Consumer Fanboys Confuse Brand Identity With T ...
    By Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica Have you ever found yourself frothing at the fingertips while explaining why someone doesn’t deserve to use an iPhone because of the offender’s deeply flawed sense of aesthetics? Have you been the type to declare that those who don’t use Android are cylons who are ...
  • Video: ‘Living Fossil’ Eel Swam at Dawn of Din ...
                        runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience1113211448001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); In an undersea cavern off the coast of Palau, biologists have discovered an eel unlike any other. Called Protoanguilla palau, its last common ancestor with ...
  • Wild Close-Ups of Rare Mammals From Huge Camer ...
    Citation: “Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: data from a global camera trap network.” By Jorge A. Ahumada, Carlos E. F. Silva, Krisna Gajapersad, Chris Hallam, Johanna Hurtado, Emanuel Martin, Alex McWilliam, Badru Mugerwa, Tim O’Brien, Francesco Rovero, Douglas Sheil ...
  • Brain’s Network of Bottlenecks May Limit Multi ...
    By Kate Shaw, Ars Technica Although the human brain is a very complex structure, it’s still not big or efficient enough to process every single thing we see, hear and do. Sometimes this limitation is a good thing, since it forces our brains to filter out minor details that we donât need to [...]
  • Scientists Want You to Track Ants in Your Neig ...
    Ants seem common and ubiquitous, especially at summertime picnics. But the names and types of ants crawling around city parks and streets are largely unknown to researchers. The School of Ants project is recruiting ant-gathering citizen-scientists for help creating detailed lists and maps of ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: The Fight for Equality in Isr ...
    By Lia Tarachansky, The Real News Network – 11 Aug 2011 http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7158 Saturday saw the largest... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth d ...
  • Josh Ruebner: Hold Israel accountable with Lea ...
    For the sake of Abir Aramin and all Palestinians who are maimed, killed, or whose homes, farms, and infrastructure are wantonly destroyed in the course of Israel’s brutal military occupation, the US... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • IDF officer who defended beating Palestinians ...
    Head of the Kfir infantry brigade, was censured by IDF Central Command chief Gadi Shamni; was subject to criminal investigation against him, before the case was closed for lack of evidence; and is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Akiva Eldar: Israel will use Palestinian UN bi ...
    This time, too, Israel will accuse the Arabs of unilateral steps, ignore the United Nations, expand settlements in the West Bank, and build more neighborhoods for Jews in East Jerusalem. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in it ...
  • Alon Idan: Israel’s social protesters mustn’t ...
    It's no accident that the outlines of extreme capitalism, a policy based on the continual splintering of society due to competition among people, is inherent within the occupation. Anyone who travels... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Johns Hopkins Education Leaders Call for Radic ...
    Leaders in biomedical education at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are calling for a radical new approach to post-graduate training in the life sciences to address significant challenges, including an avalanche of new discoveries in the last decade and the need to transcend tradition ...
  • Cancer Stem Cells Made, Not Born
    New findings by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Whitehead Institute point to a decentralized society in tumors, with cancer cells able to interconvert between different types. These results have potential implications for the treatment of tumors, in particular, that atta ...
  • Research Improving Health Care
    In support of the Government of Canada's commitment to strengthening Canada's healthcare system, the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announced today funding for 25 policy-relevant research projects across six provinces.
  • Harnessing the Power of Plants: University Tea ...
    A USDA and Department of Energy-backed study has a research team looking at how to genetically modify sorghum to produce more biomass, which could be turned into biofuel.
  • Microbial Life on Mars: Could Saltwater Make I ...
    How common are droplets of saltwater on Mars? Could microbial life survive and reproduce in them? A new million-dollar NASA project led by the University of Michigan aims to answer those questions.

Natural Health News

  • Obamacare Ruled Unconstitutional
    The eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Judge Roger Vinson�s ruling that the �Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act� is unconstitutional in the case brought by Florida and 25 other states, two private citizens, and the National Federation of Independent Business. It was a good star ...
  • Harvesting Fruit and Vegetables from Vacant Homes
    What could be more fun than harvesting fresh fruits and vegetables – for free? In an intriguing article, The New York Times reports that a growing number of people are helping themselves to abandoned gardens and fruit trees at vacant residences that have gone through foreclosure. The practice ha ...
  • 9 Habits that Do More Harm than Good
    You might want to think twice before you reach for the hand sanitizer, and instead, just go ahead and wash your hands the old-fashioned way with plain soap and water. You also might want to forego the flip-flops when you�re choosing which shoes to wear to work or even around the house. � These ...
  • Mayo Clinic Finds Massive Fraud in Cancer Research
    In a scandal that has reverberated around the world of cancer research, the Office of Research Integrity at the U.S. Department of Health found that a Boston University cancer scientist fabricated his findings. His work was published in two journals in 2009, and he’s been ordered to retract them ...
  • The Antioxidant that Can Actually Help Regener ...
    Scientists have found yet another positive property in resveratrol, a chemical compound found in certain plants like grapes, blueberries and cranberries. In a study published in the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, scientists reported that cardiac stem cells treated with resveratrol i ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • An Exile for Peace Deal for Gadaffi?
    by Michael Scharf by Michael Scharf It is a great pleasure to be invited to be a guest blogger on Opinio Juris for the next few weeks. Please stay tuned for my upcoming blogs about Somali piracy and the Hosni Mubarak trial later in the week. For my first blog, I want to weigh in on the provoca ...
  • Welcome Guest Blogger Michael Scharf
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen As well as John Dehn, whom Peggy has previously welcomed, we would like to welcome Michael Scharf to guest blogging with us for the next couple of weeks. Mike is probably well-known to many of our readers, especially those with an interest in international crimi ...
  • The “Costs” of Accountability in War
    by John Dehn by John Dehn I’d like to call attention to comments by Ben Wittes over at Lawfare regarding two recent New York Times editorials.  Both editorials essentially deal with issues of accountability in armed conflict.  One voiced (understandable) skepticism regarding government claims ...
  • Looking Forward to the Days Ahead
    by John Dehn by John Dehn First and foremost, I express my sincere appreciation to all of the Opinio Juris contributors (as well as special thanks to Peggy for the generous introduction).  Their hard work and keen intellects have made this site one of the preeminent public forums for discussin ...
  • Welcome Guest Blogger John Dehn
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness Opinio Juris is pleased to welcome for an extended guest-blogging stint our friend and frequent contributor, John Dehn.  John holds the rank of Major in the U.S. Army and currently serves as Senior Fellow at the Center for the Rule of Law at the U.S. Mil ...

Public News Service

  • Is "Job-Killing" AT&T T-Mobile Merger a Droppe ...
    Is "Job-Killing" AT&T T-Mobile Merger a Dropped Call? Phoenix, AZ – It will likely result in the loss of 20,000 jobs. So why – with the economy the way it is – would the takeover of T-Mobile by AT&T make sense? It doesn't, say opponents, and their view may be gaining sway in Washington, D.C. Com ...
  • AZ Shows Improvement in Latest Measure of Kids ...
    AZ Shows Improvement in Latest Measure of Kids’ Well-Being Phoenix, AZ – Arizona has improved from 39th to 37th in the latest KIDS COUNT state rankings released today (Wednesday) by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The state’s teen birthrate and high school dropout rate are better, but Arizona sti ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Amy Goodman: Authorities suppress protests aga ...
    Authorities suppress protests against BART police in San Francisco | rabble.ca What does the police killing of a homeless man in San Francisco have to do with the Arab Spring uprisings from Tunisia to Syria? The attempt to suppress the protests that followed. In our digitally networked world, th ...
  • London Fallout: The Post Riots World | Raciali ...
    London Fallout: The Post Riots World | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture More police shadiness in the Mark Duggan case came to light:Responding to inquiries from the Guardian, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said in a statement: “It seems possible th ...
  • Right wing historian David Starkey blames ‘bla ...
    Right wing historian David Starkey blames ‘black culture’ for riots|20Aug11|Socialist Worker: by Patrick Ward Establishment historian David Starkey sparked outrage last week when he blamed black culture for the “criminality” of last week’s riots. He claimed that white working class peo ...
  • Hungarian Spectrum: Strange justice: Hungarian ...
    Hungarian Spectrum: Strange justice: Hungarian prosecutors' double standards: In January 2011 a police sergeant assaulted a Roma man. He was proud of his "accomplishment" and bragged about it on Facebook: "I kicked the Gypsy's head while he was on the ground." The Legal Aid Office of National an ...
  • Brief Thoughts About the Police Killing of Yet ...
    Why the Plight of the Asiatic Black Man and His Issues With Police Brutality Should Be Everyone�s ProblembyThe Angryindian08.16.2011 �This is the Deep South�, I said. �When you have Negro guests, do you have any trouble with your White guests�? No...no...the type of White man who would come to ...

Pensieve

  • Google Acquisition of Motorola Mobility, by NMA
    The video above depicts the news that has rocked the technology sector this week, with quirky Taiwanese humor. New Media Animation is known for its humorous reinterpretations of news. This video is shorter and less hilarious than usual, but marks the first time Apple CEO Steve Jobs is the villai ...
  • In the Fall
    In The Fall from Steve Cutts on Vimeo. J.K. Rowling wrote, through her character, Albus Dumbledore: âTo the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.â This echoes my personal lack of fear for death, which comes from my faith. To me, death means the moment of my resurrection…a v ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The British riots were political, the response ...
    Belfast Telegraph The response of the authorities has certainly been political. The mass round-up of suspects, the ‘shop your neighbour’ appeals by the Murdoch-linked Met, the police mob-handed in Robocop gear using battering rams to storm into working-class homes and haul suspect teenagers off ...
  • Marc Canter on creating a new economy
    Canter thinks out of the box. He founded the company which became Macromedia which was sold to Adobe. I was at Gnomedex in 2005 when he proudly said he was a red diaper baby and his parents and grandparents were communists. Interesting guy. He thinks we need to mash up immigrants, minorities, h ...
  • Salt Lake County urban farming project a big s ...
    The county started leasing unused parkland to urban farmers under the stipulation the food be sold locally. Not only have they had bumper crops, the food is sometimes sold just a mile from where it was grown. At the fruit stand, customer Laurie Maggard learned that the field that produced her c ...
  • Ford diesel plant in UK to be 100% wind powered
    With the additional of a third turbine, Ford’s Dagenham Diesel Engine Assembly Line in the UK will be 100% wind powered, reducing CO2 emissions by 5,000 tons a year and becoming energy independent as well. Impressive!
  • Is the SEC covering up Wall Street crimes?
    Taibbi goes for the jugular. For the past two decades, according to a whistle-blower at the SEC who recently came forward to Congress, the agency has been systematically destroying records of its preliminary investigations once they are closed. By whitewashing the files of some of the nation’s ...

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

  • Memory Hole Video: How the Tea party Movement ...
    Here’s some news footage from 2007 and more recently documenting when the modern day Tea Party movement began and who’s responsible for it. It was started in 2007 from the grassroots by Ron Paul supporters for his 2008 Presidential Campaign. It was later hijacked by Republicans and Fox News maki ...
  • If you bash Limbaugh or Hannity and stick up f ...
    On Aug 8, WTNT announced it will “replace” Jerry Doyle with a confirmed GOP water-carrier (Tea o Con). Apparently WTNT in Washington DC is getting rid of Jerry Doyle’s show and replacing it with 3 neo-cons who will no doubt be touting the GOP bullet points going into an election year. http:// ...
  • Homeland Security launches new ads for public ...
    Washington (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano unveiled new television ads Wednesday for the public awareness campaign “If you see something, say something,” as the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks nears. “Today, we are stronger than we were on 9/11,” Napolita ...
  • Rick “Bilderberg” Perry’s Am ...
    The Daily Show – Indecision 2012 – Michele Bachmann Fever & Rick Perry’s AmericaGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
  • No Room for First Responders at 9/11 Ceremony
    (Newser) – They risked their health and safety in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, but now officials say some 3,000 first responders will not receive invites to the 10th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero due to space constraints, reports CNN. The city maintains that the ceremony, whic ...

The Air Vent

  • Paul Dennis Article -Normal Editorial Process
    I wrote to the Guardian several times after Steve McIntyre questioned them to see if they would simply state that they did not receive my full name from government sources.  The best they would say was that there were plenty of ways any reporter worth his salt could find me.    I kept at it desp ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • Wasting Fish To Save It? Tom Gogola Wins Sidne ...
    The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced Tuesday that Tom Gogola has won the August Sidney Award for excellence in socially conscious journalism for his story, "Bycatch 22: As a twisted consequence of overfishing regulations, commercial fishermen have no choice but to catch sea bass, flounder ... ...
  • We're #1: TIME Rates Big Think Top Site for Ne ...
    Yesterday, TIME named Big Think 2011's top News & Information website! [Photo credit: Lindsay Beyerstein, all rights reserved.]Read More
  • 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

Inside Facebook

  • Integrated Facebook Marketing: Combining Pages ...
    The following is an excerpt of the first entry in a series on integrated Facebook marketing campaigns. The full version, available in our Facebook Marketing Bible, contains more detailed strategy and walk-throughs for each step of the campaign. Businesses can market themselves by separately us ...
  • Facebook Redesigns Developer App Navigation fo ...
    Facebook has redesigned the Developer app to simplify navigation and make it easier to change basic settings. Important fields previously scattered across several tabs for Canvas, web, and mobile integrations have been aggregated into the Basic and Advanced Settings sub-tabs. With so many develo ...
  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Acquinity Interactive, King.com, Aarki, Breaktime Studios, Ace Stud ...
  • Friend Quizzes, Yahoo, Photos, Videos, Horosco ...
    Friend quiz applications were all over our list of the top growing ones by daily active users this week. There were also some video-related apps, Yahoo, and then a horoscope and Page tab app. The apps on our list below grew from between 116,500 and 4 million DAU, based on AppData, our data track ...
  • 500 Startups Demo Day: Top Facebook Integrations
    Dave McClure’s early-stage startup accelerator, 500 Startups, today held a Summer Demo Day where its second batch of companies pitch to a room of investors in hopes of gaining funding. Dozens of startups presented today, but we’re taking a closer look at those with the strongest Facebook integr ...

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 ...
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