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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 III

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

  • The Audacity of Hate
    “The poor will always be with us…” Matthew 26:11 There are one group of people that Americans hate more than foreign terrorists. The poor within their own borders. They would rather send millions of dollars, as well as their armed forces, to assist and relieve the sufferings of the poor and dis ...
  • “Mayor Nutter’s City of Tough Love ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter went where few black  leaders have gone. And I think I can count those other who did on one hand. Nutter dared speak truth to action on the critical state of black youth in this country. In an address confronting increasing youth v ...
  • Is Britain cascading into third “worldne ...
    What recently transpired in the UK, unearthed a hidden malady of racism and hypocrisy. We used to believe that the UK is an ideal society that promotes and protects human rights, prosperity and equality. We goofed. UK we used to superficially know is different from the real and true one. Had thi ...
  • Save The Children East Africa Appeal
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  • “Is feminism really un-African?” b ...
    Very interesting post and conversation. I encourage any comments to be made at original post (here).  As my feminist consciousness has developed the more I’ve become aware, both explicitly and implicitly, that there is a popular notion that feminism is un-African. Every time I write a post about ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

  • Expanding the border of local food advocates
    By: thayerd Thousands of people, mostly women and children, have been walking for days. Not just a day or two, they've been walking for fifteen to twenty days, bound for Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Many of the women have lost children to hunger during the tre ...
  • Sharing optimism and joy with sidewalk chalk
    By: mmlarsen Remember when you were a kid and you’d draw pictures and write happy thoughts with chalk in your driveway and down the sidewalks of your street? And the adults always smiled when they read the big, paste-colored messages? This is just like that. On ...
  • OdeLive presents health pioneer Johan Boswinkel
    By: Ode Warning! This story is about a man who has developed a groundbreaking new therapy: healing with light. The man is not a doctor. Nor is he an accredited scientist. His proof is rather anecdotal, and yes, countless skeptics are eagerly lining up to attack ...
  • Three creative ways people are bringing hope a ...
    By: Anne Thomas Even though the initial intensity of the March 11 disaster has subsided, many people still feel a deep tugging to help Japanese disaster victims. Since that subtle pull is strong and persistent, people are finding very creative ways to bring hop ...
  • Saying goodbye to David Servan-Schreiber
    By: Ode Ode columnist David Servan-Schreiber died on the evening of Sunday, July 24. He was 50. A professor of psychiatry in the US and France, Servan-Schreiber wrote the bestselling Anticancer: A New Way of Life and The Instinct to Heal, both read around the w ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Pennsylvania: Never ending bad news about natu ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Pennsylvania is a state where the bad news about natural gas operations never seems to end. The latest? Drilling mud has been spilled four times into Laurel Lake Creek during drilling of a natur ...
  • Tar Sands and My Itsy-Bitsy Bison Blunder...
    Josh Mogerman, Senior Media Associate, Chicago I was recently quoted in a Greenwire piece that was picked up by the New York Times online related to some tar sands oil industry practices in Canada. The quote came out of a very long conversation, ...
  • Supersized Water Diversion Raises Questions fo ...
    Ed Osann, Senior Policy Analyst, Santa Monica In about 10 days, I’m going to be relaxing on a sandy Lake Michigan beach in Northwest Indiana, with the dunes to my back and the lake stretching in front of me to the horizon.  And looking out at the ...
  • NRDC in the News 8/17: Climate change inaction ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The Washington Post quoted Dan Lashof expressing concern about Congress getting in the way of any climate change action… Josh Mogerman criticized the Canadian tar sands oil industry's greenwashing ...
  • Court Upholds Energy Efficiency Standards for ...
    Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York Every step forward we take on energy efficiency in the United States is cause for celebration.    So join me in a toast to a small triumph for more efficient small motors! Yesterday, NRDC rece ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Vandalizing Reagan Murals
    I don’t usually support vandalism, but there are exceptions to every rule. Pretty brave act in Cookeville, Tennessee.
  • Tokyo Naval Treaty?
    I have thoughts on arms control and aircraft carriers: China, India and Japan do not appear to be on the verge of breaking the bank in an effort to match each other’s construction. Still, from a vantage point of 10 or 20 years out, it might make sense for the Asian powers to think in [...]
  • I Guess I’ll Burn Down This Strawman
    I have more to say about what the presidency and what it can and can’t accomplish based on Jeff Shessol’s terrific book on FDR and the court-packing fight.   But since I have a couple deadlines, I’ll make a point that should be more obvious first.   Glenn Greenwald is impressed by this vastle ...
  • The “Tort Reform” Scam
    One of the few specific health care reforms Republicans are willing to endorse are caps on lawsuit damages.   Needless to say, Rick Perry has been touting the caps in Texas.    The problem is that while they prevent some malpractice victims from being adequately compensated, they don’t actu ...
  • Another Victim of Cultural Sophisticates!
    Shorter Rich Lowry:  The primary reason liberals don’t like a politician who argues that almost the entire modern federal state is unconstitutional, is a radical social reactionary, and blithely covers up his executions of innocent people is that he’s from Texas.  

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • HEALTH CARE LAW: A SPECIAL REPORT
    The Affordable Care Act enshrines a hope — that doctors, hospitals and other providers will team up to improve patient care and reduce costs. But there's also a fear — that doctors, hospitals and other providers will team up to stifle competition and raise prices instead.
  • SOCIAL MEDIA: Changing behavior is a matter of ...
    We achieve the things we think about most, and everybody at a firm can be in control of his own destiny.
  • In notable post-'Bilski' ruling, Federal Circu ...
    In a closely watched case about business method patentability following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found broad software patent claims invalid because they attempt to capture "unpatentable mental processes."
  • Mattel ordered to post $315M bond to appeal Br ...
    U.S. District Judge David Carter ruled on Aug. 16 that the unpredictability of economic conditions and Mattel's own financial reports justified requiring a bond while the Barbie manufacturer appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
  • What if law schools opened their own law firms?
    Law schools have been pummeled with criticism for not producing practice-ready attorneys, so two law professors have come up with a novel fix: Law schools should operate their own law firms.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • 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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Great News: "An Alien Invasion Would Save the ...
    Paul Krugman Wants Manufactured Threat From OuterSpace to Revive Economy. A Keynesian-infused Space Alien Economic Bubble to revive the depressed one we have right now. Dr Michio Kaku, renowned physicist, author and the apparent mouth piece for the scientific dictatorship that is the NWO, talks ...
  • Donations revive SETI quest
    The SETI Institute’s search for extraterrestrial intelligence is back on track, thanks to more than $200,000 in donations from thousands of fans. "We’re not completely out of the woods yet, but everybody’s smiling here," the institute’s chief executive officer, Tom Pierson, told me today. In Apr ...
  • NATO and Turkey Support Armed Rebels in Syria. ...
    The Western media has played a central role in obfuscating the nature of foreign interference in Syria including outside support to armed insurgents. In chorus they have described recent events in Syria as a "peaceful protest movement" directed against the government of Bashar Al Assad. Recent d ...
  • Why do banks make so much money?
    Basically, because they’re allowed to create money out of thin air — and then lend that money at an interest rate. This video explains how it works.
  • Huckabee garners criticism for selling 9/11 ki ...
    As the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 nears, Mike Huckabee this week began promoting his company’s latest animated educational video for children: "9/11 and the War on Terror." The release of the kids’ cartoon has sparked significant criticism, accusing Huckabee of profiting off the 2001 terror at ...

Russia Today

Not My Tribe

  • Dear President Tar Baby…
    Does anyone know if Rep. Lamborn really sent an apology to President Obama for calling him a Tar Baby? Has anyone seen it? Lamborn’s office issued a press release saying “the congressman is confident that the President will accept his heartfelt apology.” News headlines regurgitated the story sig ...
  • Screw McCain, with a bayonet, sideways so it h ...
    So he chose a career path after almost becoming an Communist Flying Ace (destroyed three U.S. airplanes including the one he ditched into the bayou in North Vietnam) to exploit his status as a POW after he got arrested, lawful, for a terrorist act, bombing civilians in a country against which th ...
  • War costs many times what Pentagon reported, S ...
    We’ve been told, you know, that the total spending on the Wars Of Conquest in the Bananastans was “only” a Trillion dollars. For those who don’t visualize numbers very well, that’s a million times a million. Using the largest standard bill in U.S. Currency, the $100, it would take a suitcase to ...
  • Rip-off movie of the day “Warriors”
    I think that’s the title. Anyway, story line: Older brother runs away from home at age 16. Younger brother grows up resenting older brother. So far they got Cain and Abel kind of sideways, but the story isn’t copyrighted in the first place and they put enough poetic license to it that we won’t n ...
  • Bill Graber, fake lesbian activist, agent prov ...
    HELP! Any other sites out there being threatened by Bill Graber, fake lesbian blogger, DADT spoiler and Syria false flag propaganda troll? Now he’s pretending copyright infringement, trying to withdraw his ugly mug from public view. He’s threatening to sue NMT, our host, and I guess …half the we ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • The truth and the authority
    Watching AE911Truth's new mini movie on WTC7, I was reminded of what actress Christine Ebersole said five years ago on the fifth anniversary of 9/11: "Truth is authority; authority is not truth". All the debunkers have ever really had is the appeal to authority, but now they don't even ha ...
  • Lack of 9/11 Air Defence Explained?
    Posted by John-Michael P. Talboo In a post entitled "NORAD's 'Lies' Explained?" Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog recently wrote that the blog of 9/11 Commission staffer Miles Kara explains "the erroneous assertion that the military found out about Flight 93 long before they did." ...
  • 9/11 10th Anniversary Campaign
    Click here to support the 9/11 families and first responders as they call for a new investigation in the largest 9/11 campaign ever! Debunking the Debunkers Regarding Building 7 '9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out' Trailer & Rebuttal to Pat Curley Related Info: 9/11 ...
  • SLC and Censorship
    On the Screw Loose Change Blog we find this... SLC: "we are proud of our reputation as one of the few places that both sides can post their arguments."http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2011/05/semi-ban.html I thought I would see if that was true recently when they seemed to be rather c ...
  • 9/11 Attacks Ten Years Later - Be a Part of Hi ...
    Posted by John-Michael P. Talboo 9/11 "debunker" Ryan Owens has declared that the 9/11 truth movement is dead. Please join blog contributor Adam Taylor and myself in New York City this upcoming September 11th and help prove that he is dead wrong. Immortal Technique - What A Patriot Does ...

Fooducate

  • True (?) Lemon For your Water
    Here’s an interesting product. Many people are trying to switch from sugary or diet soft drinks to water. But they can’t seem to bring themselves to drinking unflavored H 2 O. Adding some flavor makes the difference, and a wedge of  lemon is probably at the top of the list. Alas, what if you do ...
  • The New Lunchables with Fruit. Is this the Bes ...
    It’s back to school season and we’re taking a look at foods many parents are likely to pack in their kids bags. Lunchables is a very successful brand that we have reviewed in the past. Our conclusion then was that even a sandwich with peanut butter and jelly was better for your child. That’s why ...
  • Ironed Out – What You Don’t Know About This Nu ...
    What do you know about Iron, an essential mineral for our physical wellbeing? Iron is an important mineral found in our blood important for transporting oxygen around our bodies, to keep us feeling energetic and ensuring a healthy immune system Men, women, children and adults all require differe ...
  • Parents: That Cereal is NOT as Healthy as You ...
    Scientists at Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity conducted an interesting study with cereals: Through an online survey, researchers asked parents with children between the ages of 2 and 11 to view images of actual box fronts of childrenâs cereals. While the cereals were of below-aver ...
  • Sea Salt vs. Table Salt – The Truth
    This is a guest blog post by Claire Harrison The other day I found myself standing in front of an array of gourmet sea salts, each packaged in a small plastic tub.  The labels were in different pastel colours and the font style was kinda hip looking, if you know what I mean.  Those packages [...]

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Amazon pipeline gets go-ahead amid reports of ...
    Oil industry barges are a constant sight on the rivers of northern Peru © Survival A 200km oil pipeline in the Amazon has been given the go-ahead, amidst controversy over a âcover-upâ of evidence that uncontacted Indians live in the region. French oil company Perenco plans to spend $350m ...
  • Innu protest at mineral exploration project in ...
    An Innu camp at Black Fish Lake, one day's journey from Natuashish and en-route to hunting grounds in the North and West. © Dominick Tyler/Survival One of the largest Innu communities in Quebec, eastern Canada, is embroiled in a row with an iron-ore mining company. The company, Cap-Ex Ve ...
  • ‘Staged’ tribal TV series spurs Ethical Code f ...
    Filmmakers have a responsibility to portray tribal people fairly. © Survival Following the recent furore over the BBC and Travel Channelâs âstagedâ tribal TV series, Survival International has released a code of practice for filmmakers working with tribal peoples (pdf, 983 KB). The guidel ...
  • Land at last for Paraguay Indians
    An Enxet child in Paraguay © Jonathan Mazower/Survival Almost 9,000 hectares of ancestral land has been returned to Enxet Indians in Paraguay, more than a decade after their campaign to reclaim it began. The Kelyenmagategma, a small community of Enxet Indians, had been forcibly evicted fro ...
  • Brazil bolsters security as ‘crisis situation’ ...
    The FUNAI base which was over-run by suspected drug traffickers. © Maria Emília Coelho/ Survival The Brazilian government says it will dispatch National Security Force agents to help protect a tribe of uncontacted Indians missing after drug traffickers attacked a government guard post. L ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle crême brulée/desser ...
    We’ve had an email from Jeroen: We designed a lid for the Bonne Maman crême brulée cup that we usually through away. Here you can see a short movie about it: While I’ll admit the lid is very cute and well made, it didn’t occur to me that it needed one before reusing — my [...]
  • How can I use up “past it” frozen ...
    We’ve had an email from Joanna: I found some part-used bags of frozen peas, sweetcorn and broccoli at the bottom of my chest freezer – expiry date 2009! My hubs is happy to ignore expiry dates but we tried some of the peas and they were tough and tasted washed out, not good! Any other [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle sweetcorn plants?
    Tina has asked a very timely question: what can I use sweetcorn plants for? I like to eat or use as much of my plants as possible, before composting the rest. There must be a million uses for corn plants, but can I find any? help! We’ve already covered the empty cobs, after the lovely [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle combs?
    Janet has asked us a question on the Suggest an Item page: I have several combs that I don’t use. Can they be re-used or recycled? Any unrequired combs found in our house are cleaned then used for cat/dog brushing – they seem to prefer combs to brushes, and their combs go missing with startling ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make attractive ...
    Carmen from South Africa has sent an email asking: What can I reuse/recycle to make attractive garden edging? I’ve always been quite taken with the idea of wine bottles for garden edging (and an item on my long, long to-do list is to try making a raised bed on the same principle). For a more [...]

Age of Autism

  • Part 1 The Greatest Challenge: Autism and an O ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Below is part one of a two part series sent to us by Bob and Jane Smith who recently placed their 13 year old son TJ in a group home. (Names changed to protect the family.) We...
  • Protecting Their Own: The Unofficial Vaccinat ...
    By LJ Goes At present I have over 15 physicians programmed into my blackberry. Those are just the doctors, pediatricians, specialists and family practitioners I talk to on a regular basis. There are several others I research, cold call and...
  • Kim Stagliano on TodayMoms Blog: Will I Have a ...
    Thank you to everyone who has commented and/or emailed me from the MSNBC TodayMoms blog after this post below. The emails especially charmed me - each one touching and personal. As we read of the horrors that the isolation, frustration...
  • Rick Perry and The Conflicts of Government Lic ...
    Last Spring, Mark Blaxill authored three posts about Merck's Gardasil HPV vaccine and the symbiosis of government and commerce. Texas Governor Rick Perry is in the news not only for his Presidential bid, but his close relationship with Merck, including...
  • AofA Contest: Win 2 Gluten Free King Arthur Fl ...
    The fine folks at King Arthur Flour have offered two free GF mixes to a lucky AofA reader. I've tried every mix except the bread - and they are delicious. I doctor the cookie mix weekly, adding raisins, coconut flour,...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

  • New patent granted to Bayer breaks the law
    The comprehensive patent will give Bayer monopoly control over important food crops including both genetic engineering in plants and the process for conventional breeding and plants derived thereof.
  • TS Radio with guest Laura Leigh on the obliter ...
    Join us Tuesday evening at 8 CST!   Listen Live HERE! Laura Leigh is an award winning artist, journalist and videographer. She is founder and President of Wild Horse Education, which funds her work and is on the Board of Directors and is Vice President of the Wild Horse Freedom Federation which ...
  • FDA New, Stealth Dirty Trick To Take Your Supp ...
    Codex Alimentarius - Taking your Supplements by Stealth.
  • An Appeal to the People of London
    "You are part of the generation, the only generation fit and healthy enough to take on these creeps..... don't take the bait. Go home and prepare for the real fight."
  • 2 GMO Soys Set to Invade the EU
    Dupont/ Pioneer made the plants tolerant to herbicides (glyphosate and ALS-inhibitor) Monsanto inserted a gene for producing insecticides. Despite the actual findings, in July 2011, both applications received favourable opinions from the EFSA. This means that products derived from these plants m ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • International war crimes court should investig ...
    Telegraph – The UN human rights chief is expected to tell the Security Council on Thursday that the international war crimes court should investigate Syria’s deadly crackdown, according to diplomatic sources. The 15-nation council is to meet on the Syria crisis amid growing concern over Presiden ...
  • Experts redesign common microbe to fight drug- ...
    Reuters – Researchers in Singapore have re-engineered a harmless strain of bacteria to fight another common, drug-resistant microbe that spreads in hospitals and is deadly to patients with weak immune systems. To fight the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium, the scientists used a strain of the E.c ...
  • Vitamin D levels appear to be associated with ...
    Medical Xpress – As an individual’s level of vitamin D increases, the risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) seems to increase as well, although factors such as ultraviolet (UV) radiation exposure may complicate the relationship, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Dermat ...
  • Environment Takes a Dramatic Decline as an Iss ...
    Globe Net – Toronto – In just three years, the environment has lost its status as one of the top five issues facing Canadians, with only 49 per cent ranking it as very important. According to Bensimon Byrne’s latest Consumerology Report, concern has fallen significantly since 2008 (down 11 point ...
  • Russia Pushes To Claim Arctic As Its Own
    Npr – The Arctic may be the world’s next geopolitical battleground. Temperatures there are rising faster than anywhere else in the world, and the melting ice will have profound consequences for the roof of the world, opening strategic waterways to shipping, reducing the ice cap on Greenland, and ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Angeles National Forest gets new supervisor
    The U.S. Forest Service has selected Thomas Contreras to be supervisor for the Angeles National Forest. He has been serving in that position on an interim basis for several months. Contreras has worked for the Forest Service since 1976, and...
  • Mountain yellow-legged frogs could not survive
    Officials announced this week the deaths of 104 mountain yellow-legged frogs that had been rescued from the fire-stripped San Gabriel Mountains in 2009. The federally endangered frogs, which recently metamorphosed from the tadpole stage, died in captive breeding tanks over...
  • Lake Tahoe clarity second-worst on record
    Lake Tahoe lost nearly 4 feet of clarity last year, sending water visibility to the second worst level on record.
  • A 'fundamental conundrum' at Yosemite
    As Yosemite's rivers swell with record snowmelt and its trails fill with sightseers, somewonder whether the amusement park-like atmosphere in Yosemite Valley are giving some visitors a false sense of security. "It's a fundamental conundrum for the Park Service that...
  • Peter Douglas' departure marks end of an era
    Some believe the departure of Peter Douglas from the California Coastal Commission leaves a major void. His departure marks the end of an era and leaves many wondering how regulation of coastal development might change in his absence. It is...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Rick Perry's Texas Hometown Feels Abandoned By ...
    "The governor of Texas sold out to Tom DeLay and the national Republican Party to the detriment of West Texas," Stenholm said at the time. "He's not the same Rick Perry that he was when he was going to Paint Creek School."Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Obama, Tea Party Supporters Get In Heated Exch ...
    "He said we were acting like terrorists," Iowa Tea Party activist Ryan Rhodes said, confronting the president after the Decorah town hall as Obama worked a rope line of audience members. "What we stand for is limited government and a balanced budget," Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • NDP: Tony Clement Created G8 Slush Fund
    "I think we've moved well beyond the fact that Tony Clement took $50 million in border infrastructure money -- money that would have helped trade, money that would have made Canadians more secure -- and he spent it on gazebos and glow sticks," the NDP's ASubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
  • The Closing of the Canadian Mind? Readers Respond
    Last week I wrote a tongue-in-cheek missive that examined the narrow-mindedness that has become increasingly common in the Canadian body politic over the last few years. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Regulators Reject Propo ...
    Harper, often referred to as "George W. Bush's Mini Me," is known for having mounted a Bush like war on government scientists, data collectors, transparency, and enlightenment in general. He is a wizard of all the familiar tools of demagoguery....Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-i ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Kidnappers announce ransom fee for father ...
    Nigerian international's father has not been seen since his disappearance in Jos on Friday, with 24-year-old having already appealed for help in search on Monday Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 By Andrew Kennedy Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�Chelsea, John Obi Mikel Getty Images.. ...
  • 'The fairest result would have been a dra ...
    The Spanish custodian says neither team deserved to win after full-time, while criticising Barcelona's foul-play attitude at the end of the match Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 By Luis Mira Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�Barcelona, Real Madrid, Iker Casillas Real Madrid goalkeepe ...
  • James Lawton: Old invincibility now only ...
    One of Arsene Wenger's most passionate admirers, Arsenal's old Double-winning goalkeeper Bob Wilson, has rather brought matters to a head. While charging the media with an active, pernicious conspiracy against the great manager, he wonders, disdainfully, about their idea of a replacement. L ...
  • Europa League preview: Jol and Ramos go h ...
    Martin Jol will face Juande Ramos tonight for the first time since he was replaced as Tottenham manager by the Spaniard in 2007. Jol's Fulham host Ukrainian side Dnipro, now managed by Ramos. Ramos's spell in charge lasted only one year. "He was there for 10 or 11...
  • Messi double devastates 10-man Real as Fa ...
    Lionel Messi carried on where he left off last season, scoring twice as Barcelona beat Real Madrid 3-2 at the Nou Camp to win the Spanish Super Cup 5-4 on aggregate last night. Cesc Fabregas, Barça's new signing from Arsenal, came on for his debut late in the second half. After their...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Nigeria: Gombe State, World Bank Battle Malaria
    Malaria has claimed the lives of over 700 people in Gombe state in the last two and half years according to the Evaluating Officer of the World Bank Assisted Malaria Control Booster Project in Gombe, Mallam Ahmed Audu. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
  • Uganda: HIV Silently Eating Up Police Force
    From afar, Special Police Constable Charles Biddemu is like any other ordinary policeman doing his job of protecting and serving Ugandans. But when you dig deeper, he also doubles as an HIV counsellor. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
  • FDA approves first antivenom for Centruroides ...
    FDA has approved the first antivenom treatment specifically for a scorpion sting by the Centruroides scorpions in the United States. The new biologic treatment?called Anascorp?was designated an orphan drug and given priority review because adequate treatment did not exist in the United State ...
  • Research Identifies How Vitamin D Combats MS
    While for years scientists have noted an association between levels of vitamin D in a person's body and the person's ability to resist or minimize the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS), the mechanism involved has not been established. However new research by Sylvia Christakos, Ph.D., of UMDNJ-N ...
  • CANINE WITH EPIITALIS FOR JOINT AND CARTILAGE ...
    Updated Date: Aug 16, 2011 EST

Common Dreams

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Guarding the Grid
    In 2003, an overheated power line near Cleveland, Ohio sagged into a tree and shorted out. It started a cascade of power line failures across the Midwest, Northeast and parts of Canada, and causing the worst blackout in U.S. history. Since then, utilities and grid operators have used new technol ...
  • Northeast Clean Fuels Standard = Thousands of ...
    An economic analysis done for 11 northeast and mid-Atlantic states shows that a clean fuels standard (CFS) is a winning idea for the region.� It could save consumers in the region billions, bring in billions more in revenue for these states, and create up to 50,000 jobs per year � dramatically i ...
  • Maine Passes Historic Law to Reduce Oil Use
    Oil dependence is an issue that can bring together people from all over the political spectrum, as it touches on national security, economics and the environment. So it’s not terribly surprising – although it is encouraging -- that the nation’s first oil-savings bill was passed in a state led by ...
  • TCASE 14: Assessment of Electricity Generation ...
    In the previous TCASE post, I considered how various low-carbon energy technologies meet the following criteria:�commercial readiness, scalability, dispatchability, fuel constraints, load access, storage requirements, capacity factor and emissions intensity. Here I consider the next issue: cost ...
  • Will Natural Gas Remain Cheap for 10-20 Years?
    John Rowe, the soon to be retired CEO of Exelon, the largest nuclear plant operator in the United States, said the following during a talk at the American Nuclear Society Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo in Hollywood, FL.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Cops kill 3 as farmers protest water project, ...
    By Rady Ananda On August 9, police shot nine farmers, killing three, who were part of a mass protest against a water pipeline project in Baur Village, 50 miles east of Mumbai, India. �Police also smashed cars, fired tear gas and threw rocks at farmers as they fled the violence. �This was all ca ...
  • Daily Rogue State Israeli Lawlessness
    by Stephen Lendman It begs the question why Israelis put up with lawless governance harming them as well as Palestinians. When will weeks of social injustice outrage arouse them to embrace universal equity? Why haven't Martin Luther King's words hit home that, "Injustice anywhere is a ...
  • Falsified Major Media Reports on Libya
    by Stephen Lendman 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 an ...
  • Pakistan Independence Day: Strange Celebration
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. When was the last time Pakistan got independence from the colonial rule? Many would time it - August 14 (month of Ramadan) 1947. That is right and that was the only time power was peacefully transferred by the British Empire to the chosen representatives of the new ...
  • Economic End Times
    by Stephen Lendman Despite a deepening global depression, establishment economists are in denial. On June 9, the Wall Street Journal said those surveyed expected slow, steady growth through 2011, despite high US unemployment, a housing depression, European sovereign debt in crisis, and the u ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • 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 ...
  • Hacktivism’s Global Reach, From Targeting Scie ...
    democracynow.org – In recent years, online hackers who identified as being part of Anonymous and other groups have carried out dozens of high-profile online operations. When MasterCard and Visa suspended payments to WikiLeaks last December, hackers with Anonymous briefly took down the websites o ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

  • Updated Statistical, Economic and Historical R ...
    We have updated our References section and, for the first time, also published our References ordered by Subjects – probably the most comprehensive trove on Statistical, Economic, Monetary and Historical Data etc. … References by Subject References â General and Applied Statistics References â E ...
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...
    … and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent count ...
  • How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
    Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s the advi ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • How to Fix the Broken Cellulosic Ethanol Incen ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Overview: Mandates, Zero Production, Penalties, and the Failure of the Current System In the previous post, I discussed the annual ritual of rolling back the cellulosic ethanol mandates by 90% or more. For three years running, cellulosic ethanol productio ...
  • Cellulosic Ethanol Targets: Mandating the None ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Another Year, Another Chapter In what is becoming an annual ritual, the EPA is once more scaling back the cellulosic ethanol mandate for 2012. The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act mandated that we would use 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethan ...
  • Will a SmartGrid and GM’s Volt Stimulate the E ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from Victor Sequeira. Mr. Sequeira is Principal of VerisNRG LLC, a Houston based energy consultancy. He can be reached at victorseq [at] comcast [dot] net —————————— Can GMâs Volt Provide a Jolt to the Electric Car Industry? ...
  • When Falling Oil Prices are Bad News
    Join the forum discussion on this post Economic Heartache Normally, consumers consider falling oil and gasoline prices to be good news. They have to pay less to fill up their tanks. And if the reason for that is that oil supplies are increasing at a rate faster than demand is increasing, it ca ...
  • The Need for a Real Domestic Alternative Energ ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following is a guest post from Andrew Smolski of OilPrice.com. ———————————– Alternative energy (or renewable energy) is a new manufacturing industry paradigm that is in its infancy. However, the discussion is not new, and it looks as if the Unite ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • Wind Turbines at Home Depot: A Cool Deal, or H ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you've caught wind of Home Depot's summer initiative to start selling wind turbines in stores in certain parts of the country, you might think it sounds like a great idea. But some wind energy experts say the initiative will leave a lot of well-meaning homeowners disa ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Easy Refrigerator Pickles, ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At this point in your summer, you likely have cucumber, zucchini, and summer squash coming out your ears. If you're sick of zucchini bread and cucumber salads, grab some vinegar and start pickling! Just about any vegetable can be pickled, and so can fruit (pickled waterm ...
  • Farm Animal Abuse Targeted by USDA
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Factory farms have a lot of problems, among them water and air pollution from animal waste and the ridiculous read more

big think

  • Leave Your Job. Take Your Inspiration.
    What’s the Big Idea?  Marc Cenedella is something of a guru. As founder and CEO of TheLadders.com, an online community for executive-level jobseekers, the self-proclaimed "populist scientist of employment" is asked all the time what makes someone a great entrepreneur. But entrepreneurship is n ...
  • How Far Can an Artist Go in a Religious Country?
    The recent controversy in Manila over local artist Mideo Cruz’s Kulo exhibition raises the question of how far an artist can go in terms of religious art in a religious country—in this case, the Philippines, which is more than 80% Roman Catholic. Kulo, which means “boil,” set Cardinal Gaudencio ...
  • Should we be Better Prepared for Asteroids?
    What's the Latest Development? NASA has begun locating and tracking smaller�asteroids, but there are thousands still at large. If one of these were on course to strike Earth, sky surveys would give us no more than a month of warning. In that case, deflection is probably not an option. Instead, ...
  • What Rick Perry's Candidacy Reveals About Pola ...
    Over the coming months, I will be blogging regularly on the topic of polarization, highlighting research and trends on the nature, causes, and possible solutions to the nation's political paralysis.� One of the causes I will be spotlighting is the growth in ideologically-driven activists and don ...
  • In Britain Ed Miliband Prepares For The Wrong ...
    Britain's�Opposition leader, Ed Miliband has emerged from two national crises with flying colours.�He may have been a little late coming to the first - the Murdoch hacking scandal - but better late than never. As it was, he managed to sound both authoritative and urgent when turning his fire on ...

Information Liberation

  • Day of Reckoning
    The trigger that apparently caused the market meltdown was the ever-so-slight suggestion from Standard & Poor's that the US government*s fiscal health might not be all that it is cracked up to be. This was not a case of the little boy no...
  • The Totalitarianism of the Progressive Mindset
    The left loves to talk about humanitarianism, putting people above profits, and saving the poor and disadvantaged from the inequity of private enterprise. Yet behind the rhetoric of all economic interventionism is the iron fist of the state. ...
  • The TSA Exposed for Exposing Us -- Again
    The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) finds itself indebted to the Nazis yet again. Adolph himself wrote in Mein Kampf, "... [T]he principle * which is quite true in itself * that in the big lie there is always a certain force of cred...
  • Wall Streeters Quitting Jobs to Become Farmers ...
    Perry Vieth baled hay on a neighbor's farm in Wisconsin for two summers during high school in 1972 and 1973. The grueling labor left him with no doubt about getting a college degree so that he'd never have to work as hard again for a paycheck. Thirty...
  • Jim Rogers: U.S. Headed for Fiscal Armageddon
    Billionaire investor Jim Rogers blames the Federal Reserve for U.S. economic woes. In an exclusive Newsmax.TV video, Rogers contends that the United States is still in recession, that more downgrades are coming, that Bernanke and Geithner should st...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Red, red, red wine and more
    My four latest science news stories now live on SpectroscopyNOW, kicking off with an item about adulteration and red wine – Various approaches to statistical analysis of spectroscopic data can reveal whether red wine has been adulterated with anthocyanins to artificially improve, “correct”, its ...
  • Diluting homeopathic advertising
    Diluting homeopathic advertising HT @SilvianaJ – The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered online homeopathy advertisers to stop making claims that their treatments work. [Because they don't!] The ASA’s remit was extended to regulating websites in March 2011, since when it says it has rece ...
  • Billions upon billions
    Back in the day, we Brits had big billions. A billion was a million millions. Obviously, the “bi” doubling up the “illion” from million. What else would it be? Well…of course…the Americans wanted to talk bigger still and so made their billion a mere 1000 million. Back then, it was hard to be a m ...
  • Wi-Fi by LED light
    Forget Fanny by Gaslight…an LED light went on for German physicist Harald Haas who suggests that we could utilise LED lightbulbs as an alternative route for connecting to the Internet without disrupting the use of those LEDs for simple illumination. You can dim the lights so that they no longer ...
  • Moving pictures for motoring molecules
    Researchers in Japan have used high-speed atomic force microscopy (AFM) to shoot an action movie of the biological molecular motor ATPase. ATPase, an enzyme embedded in cell membranes, produces the cellular fuel molecule ATP. the enzyme has two rotating components, but until now only X-ray cryst ...

RFF Library

  • Economic Analysis of a Program to Promote Clea ...
    Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management http://bit.ly/pIpZ1B [From a Greenwire article bt Jason Plautz, sub. req'd]   A plan requiring 11 Northeast and mid-Atlantic states to slash heat-trapping emissions from transportation fuel could slash oil consumption by as much as 8.7 billion ...
  • Global Gradients of Coral Exposure to Environm ...
    PLoS ONE (Published Aug. 10 20111 v6 n8 e23064 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023064) / by Joseph Maina, Tim R. McClanahan, Valentijn Venus, Mebrahtu Ateweberhan and Joshua Madin http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0023064 [Abstract]  Background: The decline of coral re ...
  • Satellite Methods Underestimate Indirect Clima ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (August 16, 2011 vol. 108 no. 33 13404-13408) / by Joyce E. Penner, Li Xu and Minghuai Wang (open access article) http://www.pnas.org/content/108/33/13404.short [Abstract] Satellite-based estimates of the aerosol indirect effect (AIE) are consisten ...
  • The Index of Energy Security Risk
    Institute for 21st Energy Security http://www.energyxxi.org/images/Energy_Index_2011_FINAL.pdf [From Press Release]  With the release of the 2011 edition of the U.S. Chamber’s Energy Institute Index of Energy Security Risk, there is now clear and compelling evidence that America is facing increa ...
  • Volatility of Power Grids under Real-Time Pricing
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology / by Mardavij Roozbehani, Munther A Dahleh and Sanjoy K Mitter www.mit.edu/~mardavij/publications_files/Volatility.pdf [Abstract]  The paper proposes a framework for modeling and analysis of the dynamics of supply, demand, and clearing prices in power system ...

Scientific American - News

  • Marijuana Plant Sequenced
    At last, the field of genomics has something to offer Cheech and Chong. DNA sequencing hit a new high last night with the midnight release of the Cannabis sativa genome. The raw sequence was posted on Amazon’s EC2 public cloud computing service by a young company called Medicinal Genomics , whi ...
  • China's First Space Lab Tiangong 1 May Launch Soon
    The buzz out of Beijing is that China's Tiangong 1 space lab may fly sooner than expected, perhaps soaring into space by this month's end.That might be the case, according to China space watcher Gregory Kulacki, a senior analyst and China Project manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS ...
  • Why Carbon Dioxide Is a Greenhouse Gas
    The Australia-based Galileo Movement touts a series of "basic facts" on carbon dioxide that attempt to explain why the greenhouse gas can't contribute to climate change.John Smeed, the movement's co-founder, says the case against carbon dioxide as a global warming culprit is simply a matter of " ...
  • 'Galileo Movement' Fuels Climate Change Divide ...
    A new group challenging the general consensus on climate science is getting significant air time in Australia, where uproar over a proposed carbon tax may topple the country's minority government.Launched in February, the Galileo Movement is getting much of its lift from its influential "patron, ...
  • How Did BART Kill Cellphone Service?
    The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) shut down subterranean cellular phone service on August 11, stifling protests that had been set to take place on its train platforms that day. Demonstrators had planned to stop trains from running in response to the fatal shooting of an ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Calling BS on the Media: Great Moments in Figh ...
    Riots in the UK may have caused a headache for the police services and businesses in the country, but they've also caused problems for pundits and reporters alike. Above, ...
  • National Campus and Community Radio Associatio ...
    From the streets to the radio airwaves, Palestine will be free! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUG 10 2011 -- The National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA), an organization representing 82 radio stations from every corner of Canada, ...
  • Elections in Kanehsatà:ke: Real Change?
    I’ve never voted in band council elections—ever. I can’t. My conscience won’t let me participate in or support a racist system that’s deliberately designed to deny me of my political, social, religious and spiritual rights. This same system hems me in with regulations that continue to treat me a ...
  • NDP says “No” to essential services for disabled
    Siphoning thousands of dollars from a special needs program for the disabled while pumping tens of millions into a convention centre is an NDP “betrayal” said many in attendance at a Halifax news conference on Aug. 16.  People with disabilities and their advocates urged the government to cancel ...
  • Preventative Medicine: Rallying Today for the ...
    Citizens' group launches 3-year campaign to protect and extend medicare in 2014 Act now, or watch publicly-funded health care creep away in three years. That’s the message from a local citizens’ group launching a long-term campaign to “pro ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Presidential Vacation Watch
    I know this is of keen interest to everyone, so here's the scoop on President Obama's August vacation at Martha's Vineyard: How does the number of vacation days the president has spent compare to his predecessors? CBS Radio's Mark Knoller has kept track of presidential vacations for years ...
  • The Eternal Search for a White Knight
    Seriously? Republicans are continuing to pine for another white knight? Rick Perry has only been in the race for five days, but his run of flaky off-the-cuff remarks already has�the rumor mills rekindling over Paul Ryan and Chris Christie. (Though not for Rudy Giuliani, if you can believe that ...
  • Girl Forced to Apologize to Boy Who Raped Her
    A special ed girl in a Missouri middle school reported that she was raped a couple of years ago. But school officials insisted that her story was made up and badgered her into recanting: Following instructions from the school, the girl wrote an apology to the boy she accused of raping her ...
  • Chart of the Day: Panicking About the Dollar
    You know how conservatives don't really care much about the deficit when a Republican is president, but it becomes something close to Armageddon-in-waiting whenever a Democrat is in the White House? Yesterday Matt Yglesias pointed out that the same thing is true about conservative reaction t ...
  • Quote of the Day: Charming Even When He's a Prick
    From Will Wilkinson, who scored a front-row Iowa diner seat to an encounter between Rick Perry and a libertarian critic who thinks he's just another big spendin' liberal: I enjoyed witnessing this fleeting, close-up moment of flesh-pressing campaign politicking. Mr Perry's skillful exit f ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 266: Rebooted
    Topics: Kriss shares his “moment of stupidity” Reboots & remakes of movies Kid kills great grandmother with sword Woman killed in Aruba had an insurance policy taken out on her Allen West says he’s the Modern Day Harriet Tubman Share with your friends:
  • We Need Common Sense Laws
    It’s no secret that I’m no fan of criminals.  I watch Lockup, Jail and Locked Up Abroad just so I can laugh and make fun of all the idiots that do dumb shit that get them thrown in jail.  When the prisoners at Pelican Bay went on a hunger strike to protest “harsh conditions” in [...]
  • Welcome to the Campaign Rick Perry
    About a month ago, I closed the comments on a post I had written 2 years ago called “Why Texas Sucks“.  I was tired of getting comments from people who clearly hadn’t even read the post.  Well, last week I reopened the comments.  Why? Easy: Rick Perry. Rick Perry was the force behind most of ...
  • The “Fuck The Police” Face Tattoo
    You gotta love the stupidity of the face tattoo.  Nothing says “I’m not interested in becoming a regular and productive member of society” like it.  I mean sure, if you become a rapper, athlete or become that 1 in 10,000,000 that hits the lotto, then yeah, maybe you can afford the gratificatio ...
  • IC 265: The Strawberry Letter
    Topics: Dylan reads his very own “Strawberry Letter” How to deal with a crazy person US skier gets kicked off team for peeing on an 11 year old Michele Bachmann wins the Iowa straw poll the GOP Debate Why we need a moderate republican President Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Sniffer dogs can be used to detect lung cancer
    Sniffer dogs could be used for the early detection of lung cancer, according to new research published in the European Respiratory Journal. read more
  • Human pathogen killing corals in the Florida Keys
    A research team from Rollins College in Florida and the University of Georgia has identified human sewage as the source of the coral-killing pathogen that causes white pox disease of Caribbean elkhorn coral. Once the most common coral in the Caribbean, elkhorn coral was listed for protection und ...
  • Most physicians will face malpractice claims, ...
    While most U.S. physicians will face a malpractice lawsuit at some time in their careers, a new study finds, the vast majority of those suits will not result in payment to a plaintiff. The report, which will appear in the August 18 New England Journal of Medicine, provides the most comprehensive ...
  • Maternal fat has negative impact on embryo dev ...
    Exposing eggs to high levels of saturated fatty acids -- as commonly found in the ovaries of obese women and those with Type II diabetes -- compromises the development of the embryo, according to new research published in PLoS ONE. read more
  • Everyday clairvoyance: How your brain makes ne ...
    Every day we make thousands of tiny predictions -- when the bus will arrive, who is knocking on the door, whether the dropped glass will break. Now, in one of the first studies of its kind, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are beginning to unravel the process by which the brain ...

unEarthed

  • Tr-Ash Talk: State of Failure
    Twelve states lack any regulation of coal ash toxic waste Coal ash Yes, we’re still waiting. And while we wait for comprehensive federal standards that regu ...
  • Powerful Opposition to MTR in the Heart of Coa ...
    New poll finds voters of all stripes disapprove of the destructive mining practice A major new poll released today reveals some shocking truths about public op ...
  • Friday Finds: SpongeBob's Global Warming Consp ...
    Food foraging, corporate greenwashing, big rig gas sipping SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water for talking to kids about climate change. Photo courtesy of gnislew ...
  • U.S. Faces Hard Landing At Europe's Tea Party
    Airlines can't fly past EU's "cap and trade" regulations Courtesy Treehugger.com Non-European airline carriers are up in arms over new EU regulations that w ...
  • Lessons Unlearned
    Feds greenlight first offshore drilling plans in Arctic since Gulf spill Last summer, we were captivated by a live video feed of oil spewing from a broken well ...

Brave New Climate

  • TCASE 14: Assessment of electricity generation ...
    In the previous TCASE post, I considered how various low-carbon energy technologies meet the following criteria: commercial readiness, scalability, dispatchability, fuel constraints, load access, storage requirements, capacity factor and emissions intensity. Here I consider the next issue: cost ...
  • TCASE 13: Assessment of suitability of technol ...
    The problem of replacing our dependence on fossil fuels is complex. In Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy (TCASE) #12, a checklist was provided to allow assessment of energy transition plans. The sort of questions listed in TCASE 12 are critical for evaluating the feasibility of future ...
  • A critique of the 2011 IPCC Report on Renewabl ...
    The following is a detailed guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). In it, he provides the most detailed critique I’ve yet seen of the recent IPCC renewable energy scenarios report. Now, I don’t agree with everything Ted says — in particular the con ...
  • Hansen warns not to drink sustainable energy K ...
    Regular readers of BNC would know that I’m hardly the only climate change researcher to recommend serious deployment of nuclear energy to displace fossil fuels. (Although I’m often portrayed as an isolated [and presumably therefore ignorant?] voice on this point). One very prominent example of a ...
  • Carbon smoke and mirrors – the reality o ...
    When it comes to energy and carbon emissions reduction, the devil is always in the detail. So too with Australia’s plans to cut its emissions by five per cent below year 2000 levels by 2020. But first, let’s look at the big picture. Why we need to do this As a scientist who researches the impact ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Between colonialism and class: Why the left sh ...
    Despite justified fears of a false debate that would only deepen the exploitation and oppression, it would be irresponsible to give up this opportunity for radical change, writes Tent Protest activist Matan Kaminer By Matan Kaminer / Originally published on jadaliyya.com Many progressives aroun ...
  • +972 Podcast: The tent protests and beyond
    We are delighted to introduce our very first podcast – this time, dealing with the wider social and political implications of the tent protests. In the studio are +972 bloggers Dahlia Scheindlin, Dimi Reider, Aziz Abu Sarah and Joseph Dana, each bringing their own take and perspective on the Jul ...
  • Israel’s social protests: the key to cha ...
    For the first few weeks of the housing-cum-social protests in Israel, nothing else seemed to matter. For at least a week or two after the “J14” protests began (on July 14, in Tel Aviv), the press happily let it muscle out everything else – Palestinians, Iran, September, democracy barely reached ...
  • Are ’supporters’ being hired to at ...
    An ad on Janglo seeks people to serve as ambassadors for their countries of origin at Glenn Beck’s Restoring Courage rally. Will they get paid? “Depends where you’re from” By Mya Guarnieri The uber-conservative Christian Zionist commentator Glenn Beck has arrived in Israel. He will hold his âRes ...
  • The J14 movement is political, theological and ...
    By Louis Frankenthaler Just in case it hasn’t been clarified, the J 14 protest movement is political. Moreover, the issue itself is ideological, and the establishment faith in extremist capitalism is theological. Marching in Jerusalem with 30,000 angry citizens is political. It is a politica ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Large scale environmental water release for M ...
    More than 150 gigalitres of water recovered for the environment will be delivered to hundreds of wetlands along the Murrumbidgee River, benefiting the Murray system as far downstream as South Australia's Lower Lakes and Coorong.
  • Deadline extended for West Kimberley National ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the deadline for a decision about National Heritage listing of the west Kimberley until the end of August to allow further community consultation and further consideration of whether the proposed heritage values are sufficiently comprehensive.
  • Call for nominations for Environmentalist of ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has called for nominations for the 2011 Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award and the Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award.
  • Water reuse scheme benefits Hawkesbury River
    Construction of a treated wastewater re-use scheme at South Windsor as part of an Australian Government funded project to improve the health of the Hawkesbury River has progressed significantly.
  • World Environment Day delivers $86 million fo ...
    Federal Water and Environment Minister Tony Burke and South Australia’s Water and Environment Minister Paul Caica today outlined $86.7 million for a new project to improve the river’s health and resilience of its wetlands and floodplains from the Victorian border to Wellington.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Citizenship – “True Politics”
    Like it or not, so much of what we do can be called “politics.” Shawn is a friend of mine in London who tweets relentlessly on the unwillingness of various levels of government to solve common problems. He networks with others, puts forward ideas and concepts, and uses his skills in the digital ...
  • Citizenship – “Politics By Another ...
    I haven’t been under any delusion about the possibility of citizens coming together on a national scope to take their country back. Our divisions, even the good ones, are so pronounced, and the challenge of starting a national conversation so confronted with obstacles, that the possibilities are ...
  • Citizenship – “A Purpose Held in C ...
    We have all come from a rich heritage. Our democratic ideals descend from the ancient Greeks by way of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And no matter how much this process has been defiled and corrupted over the centuries, it still constitutes the only real political morality currently in ...
  • Citizenship – “The Problem of Diff ...
    So here’s where today’s average Canadian citizen is situated. To one degree or another elites have always managed this country, but in recent years their ideological divisions and partisan animosities have begun to degrade both the effectiveness and belief in democracy itself. Since the First Wo ...
  • Citizenship – “The National Forgin ...
    Perhaps Canada never really had a democracy, at least the way we think about it today. In the days of Confederation, there remained a belief that abided for over a century: the system worked best when the intelligent elite ran the business of the country. But the illusion of democracy was import ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Is nanotechnology suffering from “silent rave” ...
    I couldn’t resist finishing the August in the Archives series with this piece on “silent rave” syndrome, which I am sad to say still seems to inflict the emerging technologies community! Originally posted October 5 2008 The silent rave might seem a rather bizarre social phenomenon; a group of st ...
  • Rethinking nanotechnology – responding to a re ...
    Back in July, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) posted a Request For Information in the Federal Register for input to the next NNI strategic plan – to be published later this year.  The closing date for comments was a couple of weeks ago now.  I got mine in in the nick of time.  ...
  • What do people think about synthetic biology?
    The fifth Hart survey of what American adults think about emerging technologies like nanotechnology and synthetic biology was released today by my former colleagues at the Woodrow Wilson Center – the first since I left the group earlier this year. Each summer for the past five years, the Wilson ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Well I guess it had to happen one day – after hanging out in QUACs (QUasi Academic Concerns) for more years than I care to remember, I am finally a bona fide academic!  Last week I shed my visiting professor status at the University of Michigan and took up the mantles of Professor of Environmen ...
  • Could precisely engineered nanoparticles provi ...
    This is an extremely quick and dirty blog post, as I really need to be somewhere else.  But while traveling to the World Economic Forum meeting in China today, I came across a new paper that piques my interest. The paper is by David Keith at the University of Calgary (published in the Proceeding ...

Reader Supported News

  • Democrats Finish 'Recall Summer' With 2 Big Wins
    John Nichols reports: "Wisconsin Democrats have won the last two of nine state Senate recall elections held over the course of the summer, meaning that the opponents of Gov. Scott Walker's attacks on collective-bargaining rights have prevailed in the majority of recall elections and claimed the ...
  • Mubarak Trial Adjourned Amid Chaotic Scenes
    AlJazeera reports: "The trial of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's former president, who faces charges over the deaths of protesters during the uprising that led to his toppling earlier this year, has been adjourned until next month amid chaotic scenes in a Cairo court. Trial judge Ahmed Rifaat said the co ...
  • 12 Unions to Boycott Democratic Convention
    Excerpt: "'There is broad frustration with the party and all elected officials, broad frustration with the lack of a union agenda,' Michael Monroe, chief of staff of the AFL-CIO's building trades division, told The Associated Press. 'People are looking for outlets to express that frustration.' T ...
  • Bachmann Cover: The Outtakes
    The recent photograph of Michele Bachmann on the cover of Newsweek has caused some controversy, with the look in her eyes leading some to remark that she seems crazy. Here are more images, some used in the magazine and some outtakes, of Bachmann in Washington and on the campaign trail in Iowa. ...
  • FOCUS: Clarke Alleges CIA Cover-Up Prior to 9/11
    Shenon writes: "Clarke's theory addresses a central, enduring mystery about the 9/11 attacks - why the CIA failed for so long to tell the White House and senior officials at the FBI that the agency was aware that two Al Qaeda terrorists had arrived in the United States in January 2000, just days ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Dam Water in China: Water Losers
    Along the Keriya River, one of twelve waterways in western China where dam construction began last year, the mood is weary and palpably tense. For those on the bank, what the dams will bring remains uncertain; what they have taken away is already great. New York Times journalist Jim Yardley writ ...
  • Dam Water in China: Is It Worth It?
    In western China, massive dams are being built along 12 waterways. The dams are supposed to aid economic development—but experts are saying it’s likely that the dams will do more harm than good. When China pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40-45 percent of the 2005 levels at the Cop ...
  • Organic Poultry Farms Brew Profoundly Fewer An ...
    Amy Sapkota's research confirms what has long been suspected but never documented in the U.S.—poultry growers who convert to an organic system can reduce the incidence of antibiotic resistance and make an important contribution to safeguarding the health of the public.
  • James Beard Leadership Awards: Recognizing Foo ...
    Today the James Beard Foundation named the 10 recipients of its inaugural Leadership Awards, expanding the Foundation’s focus to include game-changing pioneers who have inspired positive action to improve our country’s food system.
  • Bee More Delicious, Hon
    The main goal of this project is to keep the bees alive and healthy, especially as colony collapse disorder threatens bee populations, and therefore food systems. Any surplus honey she gets from the hive is a bonus. “Whether we deserve it or not is another matter,” said Khasawinah.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 1 ...
    ==== U.S. Deploys Two More Predator Drones For NATO’s Libyan War NATO To Test European Interceptor Missile Initial Operational Capability 246,000 U.S. Troops Abroad: “Space Has Revolutionized How We Fight” 1.2 Million Combat Hours: Robots To Give Pentagon Casualty-Free Wars U.S. Navy On Arctic: ...
  • Romain Rolland: Ara Pacis and Ave, Caesar, Mor ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Romain Rolland Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul Ara Pacis (1914) De profundis clamans, out of the abyss of all the hates, To thee, Divine Peace, will I lift up my song. The din of the armies shall not drown it. Imperturbable, I behold ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 1 ...
    ==== Lockheed, MEADS Unveil European Interceptor Missile Battle Manager South Korea Builds Supersonic Cruise Missiles To Strike Aircraft Carriers South Korea To Deploy Powerful Anti-Submarine Missiles On Aegis Class Destroyers Warfighting Capabilities: U.S. Applies Afghan, Iraqi Combat Experienc ...
  • Ronsard: Far away from Europe and far from its ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Pierre de Ronsard From The Fortunate Islands (1560) Translated by Dr. Sahar Amer Let us sail away, friends, since the wind commands That we unmoor; let us go with vigorous arms, Let us push the ship towards the blessed fields, Towards t ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 1 ...
    ==== Report: $3.7 Trillion For U.S. Wars, $12,000 Per Person NATO Troops Arrest Five Afghan Civilians, Torch Two Vehicles NATO Tankers Destroyed Near Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Pakistan: 47 U.S. Drone Strikes This Year, 450 Deaths Kosovo Serbs Protest New Threat To Security 86,000 U.S., South K ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Former IRS Agent Joe Banister Interview On The ...
    The Intel Hub August 17, 2011 Former IRS Agent Joe Banister Joins The Freedomlink Radio for an interview about the illegal IRS and much more. http://www.thefreedomlinkradio.com http://www.oriontalkradio.com http://www.theintelhub.com var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":};
  • Shady Christian Fundamentalist And CIA Asset R ...
    By Andrew W. Griffin Red Dirt Report, editor And Intel Hub Contributing Writer August 17, 2011 OKLAHOMA CITY â A story in The Atlantic today highlights the case of evangelical Christian and Republican operative Peter E. Waldron, a shady character âsome say a spy – who spent more than a month in ...
  • Libya: Psy-Ops and War Games – Live Report
    The Intel Hub By Susan Lindauer August 17, 2011 Here’s breaking News from a confidential source inside Tripoli. And it’s nothing like what CNN is broadcasting…  Pay attention to live reports from Zawia: First, today the power went out in all of Tripoli today.  As a gift to the Muslim community ...
  • Ron Paul Vs …Tea-o-cons Or Obama
    The Intel Hub August 18, 2011 When comparing Ron Paul with the numerous neocons currently running for the GOP Presidential nomination as well as President Obama, a clear picture emerges. Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate for freedom and liberty! Please share this vital video with your friends and f ...
  • Radioactive Rain In Toronto Canada As Large Sc ...
    The Intel Hub August 18, 2011 An independent radiation test in Toronto Canada has revealed startling levels of radiation just days after famed nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen claimed that radioactive rain would continue to hit the west coast for upwards of a year. The radiation test was conducted ...

FRS

  • Israel uses “primitive, racist” po ...
    Mel Frykberg,The Electronic Intifada Ramallah, 11 August 2011 (Thousands of Palestinian families have a loved one in Israeli prison.  Haytham Othman/Maan Images) RAMALLAH (IPS) – âIâm sick with worry about my daughter,â Yehiya al-Shalabi says. âIâm afraid of what they are doing to her. She ha ...
  • NYPD’s social networking unit tracking t ...
    [True to form, whenever the police announce or reveal a new and broadly intrusive program  which violates privacy rights, they combine the announcement with a hysteric claim of social decay "beyond the old tools of control" and an implied--but disingenuous--claim that "ordinary, good people" hav ...
  • San Francisco: BART backs off tactic of cutti ...
    After taking heat from the ACLU and being hacked by Anonymous for shutting down cellphone service to four stations last week, the Bay Area’s BART kept cell service on during Monday protests. (BART police officers push back a protester at the Civic Center station in San Francisco, Monday, Aug. 15 ...
  • Indian Maoists expose and denounce the latest ...
    COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST), CENTRAL COMMITTEE Press Release (June 24, 2011) The offer for peace talks by the President of India is nothing but a ploy to divert the people from the reality of OGH Phase -2! On June 24, the President Pratibha Patil who came on a visit to Chhattisgarh capital ...
  • Oakland schools police chief allegedly used slur
    [Police Chief Pete Sarna is Chief of the Oakland School Districts Police, which has been protested and condemned for the murder of a young Black man, Raheim Brown, earlier this year.  This article reveals a certain mind-set in command of that department--though it also quotes a friend of Sarna w ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • Naughty word alert
    But I'm trusting you'll get over it.
  • Had an abortion?
    For six days during the Madrid's World Youth Day, the Vatican is offering atonement. Confess your abortion�-- which the Church normally punishes with excommunication -- and you get forgiveness and reentry into the church. Some 200 confesson booths have been set up for the expected 1 million bel ...
  • Two senators have written religious books
    And one of them is Connecticut's own Sen. Joe Lieberman, with his "The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath." Reconnecting with the Sabbath -- and slowing down for it -- has been a theme of several initiatives, including this one. The other is senatorial scribe is Sen. Jim DeM ...
  • What "submit to your husbands" really means
    For a particular brand of Christian (my brand, and others, in fact), "wives, submit yourselves to your husbands" ranks right up there with the Ten Commandments. Some of us live that way. And some of us don't. And thank you, Sensible, for spelling it out for the newbies. I wish I'd said this, bu ...
  • Kazillionaires! Will you do your part?
    Salon is publicly asking America's very rich to pony up�-- as Warren Buffett suggested. Think they'll get many takers?

Associated Content

  • Who Pays the Price for 'Real Housewives' Fame?
    Russell Armstrong, estranged husband of 'Real Housewives' star Taylor Armstrong, was found dead in Los Angeles Monday, begging the question: What is the price of reality TV fame, and who will pay it?Contributor: Kim Jacobs Walker Published: Aug 16, 2011
  • 'Kate Plus Eight' Cancellation for the Best
    'Jon and Kate Plus Eight,' minus Jon, equals canceled.Contributor: Kristin Watt Published: Aug 16, 2011
  • 34 Years After Elvis Presley's Death, His Musi ...
    34 years ago, on Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Presley passed away. Here is how "The King" continues to live on.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Aug 16, 2011
  • BART Conflict Reveals Power of the Cell Tower
    As San Francisco's BART conflict demonstrates, cell phones bring a new, highly effective tool to the battle for free speech.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Aug 16, 2011
  • Firefox 6 Released Too Soon?
    Firefox 6 officially released Tuesday as part of Mozilla's new lightning-fast development cycle. For a browser where the usefulness is based substantially on add-ons developed by third parties, is the cycle too short for developers to adjust?Contributor: Adam Justice Published: Aug 16, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Alligator Fat Could Fill Your Gas Tank and Fue ...
    Tastes like chicken, runs like diesel Every year, about 15 million pounds of alligator fat is dumped into landfills as a byproduct of alligator meat processing. It would certainly be better to reuse this gloopy mess for a greater purpose, no? As it turns out, alligator fat is a prime candidate ...
  • Space Boat: A Nautical Mission to an Alien Sea
    In 2006, while flying by Saturn’s moon Titan, the radar on NASA’s Cassini orbiter discovered seas of liquid ethane and methane on the moon’s –300ºF surface, the only bodies of liquid we know of that exist anywhere but on Earth. Some of the oily seas appeared on Cassini’s radar to be larger tha ...
  • Symbiotic Bacteria Serve as Hydrogen "Fuel Cel ...
    Hydrogen fuel cells offer plenty of promise as an alternative fuel source for everything from cars to generators — but they remain expensive, complicated and mostly rare. It turns out that a deep sea ecosystem already uses such portable fuel cells, in a manner of speaking. Researchers have foun ...
  • Astronaut Captures Perseid Meteor Shower From ...
    It was tricky to shoot the Perseid Meteor Shower this weekend, even with our sister site Pop Photo's eternally helpful guide, due to the the bright moon (and excessive rain here in the Northeast). But those aren't such big problems when you're shooting not from down on Earth, but from the Inter ...
  • Earth-Based Mars500 Crew Breaks Endurance Reco ...
    An increasingly pale six-member crew on a fake mission to Mars has just reached a new landmark: 438 days in isolation. The streak beats the record held by someone who actually spent that time in space, former Mir space station resident Valeri Polyakov. The Mars500 crew is just a couple months a ...

Veterans Today

  • Iran-Contra’s Ollie North: From Key Oper ...
    When a C-123K supply plane loaded with lethal weapons, allegedly belonging to a Pennsylvania company, Corporate Air Services, was shot down over Nicaragua on October 6, 1986, killing pilots William Cooper and Wallace Sawyer.
  • Defense Spending Will and Should be Cut but Ho ...
    As gridlock and debate recently raged over debt ceilings and how and where to cut the federal budget a band-aide was applied that raised the U.S. debt ceiling for now.
  • Phony Letterman Threat Tracked to Israeli SITE
    This video makes up one small piece of evidence leading investigators to Tel Aviv when looking for the real perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks. You see, this video was prepared and passed on to Fox News prior to 9/11.
  • Hiroshima to Fukushima, Finishing the Job
    I predict a bloody December as many normal peoples’ hopes for a healthy kid are shattered beyond all recognition by a Fukushima Daiichi crop of monster, deformed, crazed or dead kids.
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    Medico Industries, Inc., Wilkes Barre, Pa. (W15QKN-11-D-0149); Modern Industries, Inc., Erie, Pa. (W15QKN-11-D-0200); and T&A Screw Products, Terryville, Conn. (W15QKN-11-D-0201), were awarded a $185,000,000 firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award-task-order contr ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Hard Up Manchester United's Singapore Salvation
    It's not me who came up with the stereotype of the Ugly American: fat, loud, thick and full of debt--they themselves did. Yet few raise others' ire more than the reviled Glazer clan, rapacious Ameriscum owners of Manchester United. These modern Yanquis par excellence are saddling this proud foot ...
  • Tobin Tax, Merkel & Sarkozy's Euro "Saviour"?
    At various times in the aftermath of the US-engineered global financial crisis, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have both called for a Tobin Tax to be applied to financial transactions. By imposing a small tax on financial transactions such as foreign exchange trading, seriously large revenues ...
  • Roubini, Marx, Globalization & First World Ine ...
    This post is a continuation of a recent thread in which more or less conventional economist Nouriel Roubini lauds Marx for correctly describing the situation most of the industrialized world now finds itself in. But first let me revisit a step-by-step compressed version of Marx's explanation: ...
  • Best Served Cold: US Harrassment of S&P Begins
    Ah, revenge. In case you missed it, I guess that it was coming anyway: A few days ago prior to the US downgrade, I discussed how Italy had raided rating agencies S&P and Moody's over the appropriateness of their practices in assigning ratings to its sovereign debt. Aside from them insinuating th ...
  • 40 Years Ago Today: Nixon Kills Dollar-Gold Peg
    With apologies to dandy Sgt Pepper: It was forty years ago today The dollar-gold standard went away It's been going in and out of money For crisis-hit countries it ain't funny So may I reintroduce to you The act you've forgotten all these years Tricky Dicky's dollar-gold killing day ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 20 Signs That The World Could Be Headed For An ...
    If you thought that 2011 was a bad year for the world economy, just wait until you see what happens in 2012.  The U.S. and Europe are both dealing with unprecedented debt problems, the financial markets are flailing about wildly, austerity programs are being implemented all over ...
  • Taxed Into Oblivion
    In the United States today, we are being taxed into oblivion, yet it is being done so stealthily that most Americans don't even realize what is happening.  Most people are fixated on federal income tax rates, but the federal income tax is only one of the dozens of different taxe ...
  • 10 Signs That Economic Riots And Civil Unrest ...
    You should let the video footage of the wild violence that just took place in London burn into your memory because the same things are going to be happening all over the United States as the economy continues to crumble.  We have raised an entire generation of young people with ...
  • The Stock Market Crash Of 2011?
    How far does the stock market have to go down before we officially call it a crash?  The Dow is now down more than 2,000 points in just the last 14 trading days.  So can we now call this "The Stock Market Crash of 2011"?  Today the Dow was down 519 points.  Yesterday, an announc ...
  • GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Head Of Obama&#8217 ...
    Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China.  GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now GE has announced that it "is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • ‘Flash robs’ invade Canada
    Close to midnight on a hot summer’s night in July, the Quickie convenience store in Ottawa’s west end was virtually empty. The next minute, 40 or so youth descended en masse. As they marched in they grabbed everything in sight. The next minute, like a well-oiled many-tentacled machine, the mob t ...
  • Britain urges Asia to act over surging trade i ...
    Belief it can cure cancer has led to a huge rise in poaching of endangered animals. Britain is to ask China, Vietnam and other Asian countries to tell their citizens that rhino horn has no medicinal value, in an attempt to halt a wave of rhino poaching that may drive the endangered animals to ex ...
  • Gillard set to reject Kevin Rudd on Palestine
    Australia is almost certain to vote against a Palestinian state next month, despite an apparent push by Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd for Canberra to abstain from any such vote. Leaders of the Jewish community reacted angrily yesterday to a report that Mr Rudd had written to Julia Gillard recommen ...
  • Russian senator blames failure of multicultura ...
    The death of multicultural society and the economic crisis are to blame for the riots that have convulsed London and other British cities this week, head of the Russian upper house’s international affairs committee Mikhail Margelov said on Wednesday. “I think the events occurring in the English ...
  • Ron Paul Wins Historic Vote Total In Ames Stra ...
    Congressman Ron Paul won 4,671 votes in today’s Iowa Republican Straw Poll, topping Governor Mitt Romney’s vote total from 2007 and drawing a near statistical tie with today’s winner at 27.6 percent of the vote versus 28.5 percent. Dr. Paul’s finish earned him a strong second place and it was th ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2011-08-17 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. - New Cable(s) were released today. 10:05 PM In a diplomatic cable dat ...
  • 2011-08-17 If today is Wednesday and you are i ...
    TweetFirst published in spanish at www.periodismohumano.com. Written by Claudia Ciobanu. Hundreds of young people in Belarus take the streets weekly, bonding through social networking sites. They are protesting against the lack of free speech and the iron fist of the regime. At 7:00 pm every ...
  • 2011-08-16 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. - New Cables were released yesterday. 06:45 PM Newspaper El Comercio r ...
  • 2011-08-15 Some oddities about Openleaks
    TweetThe recent controversy surrounding Openleaks and its founder Daniel Domscheit-Berg prompted us to have a closer look on the project. At first glance, the main media partner of the project appears to be TAZ, a well respected leftist publication, who granted Openleaks a subdomain during the i ...
  • Chaos Computer Club expels Daniel Domscheit-Berg
    TweetOpenleaks founder Daniel Domscheit-Berg has been expelled from the Chaos Computer Club on grounds of damaging the reputation of the club. Following a meeting of the board members, he was handed a written notice at the Chaos Communication Camp in Finowfurt. According § 5 of the club statutes ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
  • Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
    Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
  • HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
    You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

  • Today in the News:
    News Today (August 17, 2011) Survivalism doesn’t mean just stocking up on supplies…get physically fit! Top 10 Tricks to be More Active Something to lighten the situation, my favorite is # 8 (Ken’s is # 3) Cute Patriotic Pets A 67 year old man loses his way and survives two weeks in wilderness. E ...
  • Preparedness Items For Social Unrest
    There are many survival preparedness items that you can store now, to be used later, or to be carried with you for preparedness sake, as insurance for varying degrees of an emergency. The following are suggested items that you can store and have ready for… Social Unrest, Social Upheaval, Social ...
  • Today in the News:
    News Today (August 16, 2011)   New Zealand polar surge and record low temperatures affecting South Island with snow and record cold. (Sounds similar to the winter that we had in the northern hemisphere) Heavy Snowfall Smothered New Zealand   Persistently high food prices and low food stocks indi ...
  • How Much Should I Carry in my Backpack?
    Here is a tip to help you decide how much ‘stuff’ to stuff into your backpack when readying for travel, a hike, a camping expedition, a bug-out-bag or kit, or any preparation where you need to decide what to put into your pack or take with you (or carry on your person). At some point [...]
  • Comet Honda and Elenin Crossing Orbits
    Comet Honda is zipping past the Earth during the middle of August while at the same time, Comet Elenin appears on a bee line to nearly intersect with the orbit of Comet Honda on September 28,29. Given the current NASA JPL coordinates and orbital information, we’ll all live to see another day… bu ...

Fast Company

  • Nielsen Gets More Accurate, Hackers Leak Bay P ...
    Nielsen Gets Even Better At Measuring Stuff.�Nielson Company, the group that tracks and reports consumer trends, now has a more accurate way to gather data about device users' habits. The group took the lid off a study today, measured not through the usual survey method, but using a monitoring s ...
  • Soaps 2.0: MTV's New WatchWith App Enables You ...
    Today, MTV launched the WatchWith iPhone app, a service designed to drive network engagement through social sharing, photos and video, rewards, blog posts, and more. It's part of an aggressive push by the network to capture the "second screen experience," an industry term used to describe the ...
  • A New Plan To Mutate HIV Out Of Existence
    Instead of simply blocking HIV from replicating, a new drug in trial stages causes it to mutate. If it works, it could eventually fully eliminate HIV in people who have the disease, freeing them from a lifetime of drugs. HIV is big business. The market for HIV drugs is currently $14 billion, an ...
  • "Hacking Your Education," Coming To A Bookstor ...
    Quitting college at 18 to move to Silicon Valley and pursue your startup is the stuff of Hollywood dreams. Now add a billionaire benefactor--PayPal founder and Facebook investor Peter Thiel--bankrolling you and under pressure to prove that entrepreneurship can rival Harvard as a path to success. ...
  • Why Better 3-D GPS Could Disrupt The Location ...
    Your GPS could soon know how high you are. Rice University scientists have written some smart software that better interprets the signals coming from space that tell a GPS device its altitude, with an accuracy of around a centimer. You may never have noticed it, but even when your car's unit is ...

Jadaliyya

  • The Arab-UK Spring
    Western nations have long snickered at the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East and North Africa, and have offered ad nauseum free advice to Arab leaders on how to conduct their own affairs. But on occasion tables are turned and the special wisdom and expertise of these oft-derid ...
  • The Makers of the Revolution
    All it takes is three or four fida�iyyin [persons ready to sacrifice for a cause] in every mosque chanting slogans after the end of prayer. It also depends on many factors. For example, in the coastal city of Banyas, the residents are all very familiar with each other, and it is easy to ...
  • حول النفي والخوف: فكرتان على ضوء الاحتجاج الإس ...
    ��د ط�رحت م�ا�� عد�دة ��ما �تع�� با�احتجاجات ا�اجتماع�ة-ا�ا�تصاد�ة �� إسرائ�� ��ا�ش معظم�ا مضم�� �ذا ا�احتجاج� أ� ما ��� م� شعارات �مطا�ب �ج�ات مشار�ة� �ت�ظ�ر آراء �ث�رة ت�ا��ض �ذ� ا�مطا�ب ��ذا ا�احتجاج مع �ضا��ا �أب�اء ا�شعب ا���سط��� م� خ�ا� مضم�� ا�احتجاج� شعارات� �ا�مشار��� ���. �ب� ...
  • Jadaliyya Launches "New Texts Out Now" (NEWTON)
    Jadaliyya is delighted to announce the launching of its newest section: New Texts Out Now (NEWTON); click here to access the page directly. NEWTON features interviews with writers of recently published and forthcoming books, articles, and translations, along with short excerpts from thes ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Hamid Dabashi, "Brown Skin, ...
    Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks. New York and London: Pluto Press, 2011. JADALIYYA: What made you write this book? HAMID DABASHI: This book is very much a product of the Bush era (2000-2008) � a record of my fears and trembling at the sight of a criminally delusional man at the ...

mediagazer

  • A life unravelled ... whistleblower who incurr ...
    Ed Pilkington / Guardian: A life unravelled ... whistleblower who incurred wrath of the Murdoch empire  —  Relentless legal pursuit of ex-News Corp employee likened to ‘Rambo tactics’  —  Five years ago Robert Emmel was enjoying the American dream.  He lived in a detached house in a suburb of A ...
  • Memo to newspapers: The future of media is a t ...
    Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Memo to newspapers: The future of media is a two-way street  —  Plenty of newspapers and other mainstream media entities are happy to use social tools like Twitter and Facebook to promote their content, host comments on their news stories in order to build traffic, and ...
  • Times Magazine Hires Jon Kelly (Zeke Turner/WWD)
    Zeke Turner / WWD: Times Magazine Hires Jon Kelly  —  Photo By CLINT SPAULDING/PatrickMcMullan.com … New York Times Sunday Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren has hired Jon Kelly away from Bloomberg Businessweek.  —  Kelly, 29, will run the front of the Sunday Magazine and Greg Veis will become poli ...
  • YouTube, music publishers settle copyright bee ...
    Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick: YouTube, music publishers settle copyright beef  —  A group of music publishers that joined a class action lawsuit filed against YouTube in 2007 have reached a settlement with Google's video-sharing site.  —  David Israelite, CEO of the National Music Publishers ...
  • Court Rejects Freelancer Settlement: Still No ...
    Joe Mullin / paidContent: Court Rejects Freelancer Settlement: Still No Payment From Tasini Court Win  —  Jonathan Tasini was a hero to many writers when he won his battle to get additional payments from publishers like The New York Times who had included his freelance work in databases like L ...

Chemtrail News

  • Weird chemtrail experience with friend ...
    I have also been keeping a record of when the chemtrail spraying is at its peak and I definitely feel it is connected to the rain What I am seeing in my ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread741641/pg1
  • What's the truth behind those 'chem ...
    Verdict: Chemtrails." YOU ASKED: On a clear day, I can look up and see chemtrails in the sky. From what I've read online, these aren't made by jets. ...
  • Theodora Filis - Journalist: ChemTrail ...
    Chemtrail residue has been analyzed in several locations throughout the world, and aluminum particulates are in every analysis. As the particulate clouds ...dfilis.blogspot.com/.../chemtrail-droppings-toxic-metals-and.ht...
  • CHEMTRAILS | They Don't Go Away! Ti ...
    Watch as this chemtrail does not slowly fade away like a contrail.www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R1FSSeuO9E
  • chem trail SDR-H80 70x - 700x 20110808- ...
    20110808-170014 chem trail SDR-H80 70x - 700x ... Hologram Concealing Highly Advanced Chem trail ...by BrutalTruthMediaMaui14823 ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkzShI7t3EY

World News - Top Stories

  • Kidnappers announce ransom fee for father ...
    Nigerian international's father has not been seen since his disappearance in Jos on Friday, with 24-year-old having already appealed for help in search on Monday Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 By Andrew Kennedy Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�Chelsea, John Obi Mikel Getty Images.. ...
  • 'The fairest result would have been a dra ...
    The Spanish custodian says neither team deserved to win after full-time, while criticising Barcelona's foul-play attitude at the end of the match Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 By Luis Mira Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�Barcelona, Real Madrid, Iker Casillas Real Madrid goalkeepe ...
  • James Lawton: Old invincibility now only ...
    One of Arsene Wenger's most passionate admirers, Arsenal's old Double-winning goalkeeper Bob Wilson, has rather brought matters to a head. While charging the media with an active, pernicious conspiracy against the great manager, he wonders, disdainfully, about their idea of a replacement. L ...
  • Europa League preview: Jol and Ramos go h ...
    Martin Jol will face Juande Ramos tonight for the first time since he was replaced as Tottenham manager by the Spaniard in 2007. Jol's Fulham host Ukrainian side Dnipro, now managed by Ramos. Ramos's spell in charge lasted only one year. "He was there for 10 or 11...
  • Messi double devastates 10-man Real as Fa ...
    Lionel Messi carried on where he left off last season, scoring twice as Barcelona beat Real Madrid 3-2 at the Nou Camp to win the Spanish Super Cup 5-4 on aggregate last night. Cesc Fabregas, Barça's new signing from Arsenal, came on for his debut late in the second half. After their...

no frakking consensus

  • Why I Won’t Be Renewing my ‘Econom ...
    Rather than helping to keep climate authorities honest, The Economist magazine now serves up a steady diet of green pap. When sound journalistic judgment leaves the building, I stop renewing my subscription.
  • Comic Relief
    A 3-minute spoof video on environmental public service announcements. No matter where you stand on global warming, this should make you chuckle.
  • The Y2K Scare, the Media & Climate Change
    Media coverage of climate change has a great deal in common with how the press covered the Y2K scare. There's little evidence that news outlets learned much from that embarrassing episode.
  • Rajendra Pachauri: Friend of the Environment?
    Auditors investigating mismanagement of the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in India say a committee that was supposed to monitor environmental concerns appears to have never met. IPCC chairman Pachauri was a member.
  • Naming Names: Marine Experts Tainted by Activi ...
    The list of people who've accepted $150,000 from an advocacy organization is a long one. There are lots of PhDs here, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with full-blown political activists.

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ......Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and..Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent ....Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

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

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Open office dilemma: OpenOffice.org vs. LibreO ...
    Dueling open source alternatives to Microsoft Office match word processors, spreadsheets, and much more; which one should you choose? By Neil McAllister | InfoWorld OpenOffice.org is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Originally de ...
  • Gun Running
    What’s the best way to pack heat while jogging? Brian Palmer Rick Perry fires a shooter pistol during a Texas Motor Speedway event Reporters asked newly announced presidential candidate Rick Perry on Monday whether he carries a gun while campaigning. Perry refused to answer, but he does seem to ...
  • Phillip Lim, Fashion Designer
    He makes highly stylish designer clothes at a price point that’s accessible for nonsocialites. Jessica Grose Phillip Lim Two years ago, I tried on a 3.1 Phillip Lim dress at a local boutique. It was a lightweight wool with a delicate floral print and it gathered in an ingenious knot in the front ...
  • Baby Fat
    Do birth control pills make women gain weight? Christie Aschwanden The Pill Some women are getting pregnant to avoid getting fat. According to a review published in a recent issue of the journal Contraception, concern about weight gain is among the most common reasons people quit the pill (or de ...
  • German-Hating Frenchman Sparked Nefertiti Row
    Germany and Egypt have long been at odds over the return of the famous bust of Nefertiti. Now documents found in archives show that the conflict was started by a Frenchman who had fought the Germans in World War I and considered them to be swindlers. He may have been right. Michael Sontheimer an ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • John Bursill reports on the Qantas industrial ...
    Tonight aircraft engineer John Bursill returns to the show to bring us an update on the ongoing dispute between Qantas ground crews and the corporatocracy which wants to outsource safety checks to overseas facilities. It should be noted that John Bursill does not speak as a representative of Q ...
  • The Murdoch Meltdown
    Rupert and James Murdoch testifying at the Parliamentary Inquiry Tonight I am joined by Josh Jackson as we explore the wider implications of the News Corp phone hacking scandal. In particular, we look at the future of news and whether this crisis signals the demise of traditional mass media. ...
  • TNRA reports on the latest carbon rally
    Tonight we bring you the full audio (and video) from last week's carbon rally in Hyde Park, with some discussion and commentary. The gathering at Hyde Park was very rowdy - many people have a high level of anger about the current situation and this is evident in the tone of the crowd attending ...
  • The Truther Girls review “Among The Trut ...
    Jonathan Kay went undercover among the truthers and lived to write a book about it, in which he naturally concludes what he already knew before he started his foray in the world of conspiracy theories: that truthers are crazy! More Links: New York Times book review AmongTheTruthers ...
  • Hyde Park Rally: “The Science Doesn’t Ju ...
    Come to the rally and help us make history! What: Hyde Park Rally – “The Science Doesn’t Justify a Carbon Tax” When: Saturday, July 9, 2011 12:00 PM Where: Hyde Park North More info: http://www.meetup.com/wearechange-sydney/events/24210181/ Lord Monckton, Jo Nova and Dr. David Evans ar ...

Beacon

  • What if an Oil Spill Happened in the Arctic?
    Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. Less than a year after the Deepwater Horizon gusher was finally sealed, oil companies are claiming they can drill safely in the Arctic Ocean, an even more fragile and forbidding environment than the Gulf of Mexico. Unfortunately, our government seems to be s ...
  • Kate Walsh to Fans: Give to Oceana
    Actress and sea turtle lover Kate Walsh posted the following video blog to her fans yesterday, urging them to give to her favorite charities - including Oceana! - instead of sending her gifts: Thanks for the shout-out, Kate! And for all you Kate and/or sea turtle fans, you can also take actio ...
  • Rehabbed Sea Turtles Released in Chesapeake Bay
    Oceana the sea turtle, an endangered Kemp's ridley. � National Aquarium Last Friday the National Aquarium and Oceana released three endangered Kemp�s ridley sea turtles into the Chesapeake Bay at Maryland's Point Lookout State Park. The turtles came to the National Aquarium this winter from ...
  • Friday Infographic: Offshore Drilling
    This is the third �in a series of ocean infographics by artist Don Foley. These infographics also appear in Oceana board member Ted Danson�s book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� � Last year�s Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico was not an isolated e ...
  • Ted Danson's "Oceana" Now Available on Kindle
    I hope you've already picked up your copy of Ted Danson's book, "Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What You Can Do To Save Them." But if you haven't, great news: It's now available on your Kindle. This book represents the culmination of Ted's 25+ years of ocean activism, and we couldn't be ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Did The Battle Of Tsushima Help Cause World Wa ...
    Battl;e Of Tsushima, Japanese Print At the beginning of the Russian-Japanese conflict, Russia was an enormous empire power at the turn of the twentieth century. It’s nearest rival soon emerged as Japan. Japan was undergoing the Meiji Restoration, often called the Meiji Restoration and Moder ...
  • Goya’s “Third Of May 1808″
    Goya's "Third Of May 1808" In 1804 Napolean Bonaparte declared himself Emperor of France, and immediately began a succession of massive wars and invasions and occupations that set a fire from Western Europe to Egypt. France needed easier access to the Mediterranean and Napolean felt Spain was an ...
  • Emperor Theodsius’s UFO Sighting
    Nurenburg UFOs in 1600s, Just To Make The Point That earlier People Didn't Quite Know What To Make Of UFOs. One of the things I love to do is order all the free books and the odd books on online booksellers. I often come across things like this from “Wonder of the Sky” A compendium of  [...]
  • World War II Notification Telegrams.
    WWII Telegram POW Telegram WWII [...]
  • Russell Brand’s Beautifully Written Comm ...
    Russell Brand …I found those protests exciting, yes, because I was young and a bit of a twerp but also, I suppose, because there was a void in me. A lack of direction, a sense that I was not invested in the dominant culture, that government existed not to look after the interests of the people [...]

Taylor Marsh

  • Perry Pouts, with a Side of Martyrdom
    Well, at least Mr. Perry didn’t double down. When a member of the audience asked Perry a question about the Federal Reserve, Perry began his answer by saying: âI got in trouble talking about the Federal Reserve yesterday. I got lectured about that yesterday.â – Rick Perry Accuses The White House ...
  • Latest News from the Chris Christie Wishing Well
    After a story minted for the Republican establishment shot through the mostly bored elite political class, NBC’s First Read got this from Gov. Christie: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) office shot down news — reported by Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter — that the governor is conducting focus grou ...
  • Obama: ‘Give me my little 10 percent’
    Maureen Dowd uses the quote that explains why Democrats now find themselves on Republican turf: In Cannon Falls, Minn., the president compared negotiating with House Republicans to negotiating with his wife. “In my house,” Obama noted, “if I said, ‘You know, Michelle, honey, we got to cut back, ...
  • What’s on your mind?
    I’m with Mr. Budowsky on Rick Perry and said so today on Twitter: When do we start the implosion countdown? It might take longer than 30 days, but I believe it’s coming. As for the Ron Paul video, I always find it interesting when guys like Mr. Paul highlight “restore liberty,” while they believ ...
  • Obama to Middle Class: More ‘Burden Sharing’ R ...
    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy …and the hits just keep on comin’. Pres. Obama, campaigning in Iowa, got this response: After waving her hat to get President Obama’s attention, Bev explained her history and posed the question. In response, The President ...

Hudson New York

  • Islam Overtaking Catholicism in France
    Islamic mosques are being built more often in France than Roman Catholic churches, and there now are more practising Muslims in the country than practising Catholics. Nearly 150 new mosques currently are under construction in France, home to the biggest
  • Britain's Riots: Entitlement Culture from Top ...
    Anarchists smashing up the Ritz; "Student" mobs attacking the Conservative Party headquarters; Anti-globalist," anti-capitalist, and pro-Hamas demonstrations in London: Britain's recent history is stuffed full of violence masquerading as serious politics
  • Female Genital Mutilation "An Obligation" Acco ...
    In June, the parliament of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) adopted a ban on domestic violence, including female genital mutilation (FGM), a "procedure" that is widespread among Iraqi Kurds. The law will come into effect once it is
  • Iranian, U.S. Envoys Flock to Prime Minister's ...
    On top of Ankara's routine political traffic, the Iranian and American envoys paid separate visits Tuesday to a senior government official, which raised questions about what's been cooking in discussions on Syria and the fight against terror. The first
  • Why Is Amnesty International Attacking Canada?
    It is a rare occurrence when a top government official comes out – on the record – to attack a human rights group. But that is what happened last week when Canada's Immigration Minister ripped into Amnesty International after it criticized Canada's plan

Urban Survival

  • Number Stew for Poochie
    Hiya, Pooch!  No surprise to our first item: Jobless situation sucks.  But we knew that much.  What we didn’t know was the numbers out this week on jobs and the Consumer Purgatory Index, so we start this morning’s tripping through … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Drought of ‘Eleven
    Most readers don’t know this, claimed an email from a reader, but the drought that started the Dust Bowl period of the 1930′s was actually started in middle/western Texas.  From there, it spread cancer-like until it had reach as far … Continue reading →
  • The Big Slide, Part V of (1)
    With the usual (monotonous, but necessary) rejoinder not to try this with your own hard-earned real money and realizing I just trade for fun (and 40% this month) I just went short the market Tuesday in order not to miss … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Wednesday at the WuJo
    This morning’s report is being created a big earlier than normal so I can be at the airport by 8:30 to shoot more landings with my fright instructor.  Under normal conditions that wouldn’t be so hard to do, but I’m … Continue reading →
  • Waiting on That Recovery
    With the return of the www.peoplenomics.com server to ‘normal’ our recovery from the vindictive/vicious hack attack on our servers this week is just about done.  That done (at least by this afternoon) life here at Uretopia Ranch will return to … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Links for 2011-08-17 [del.icio.us]
    Bob Chapman - if Ron Paul is not elected they know they will have a revolution | Bob Chapman The International Forecaster Blog Bob Chapman - if Ron Paul is not elected they know they will have a revolution Bob Chapman - if Ron Paul is not elected they know they will have a revolution | Bob ...
  • Clif High - War, Economic Collapse , Euro - 12 ...
    2011 08~12 Clif High of Webbot on Time Monk... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Gerald Celente : the EU is on the verge of col ...
    Gerald Celente on Goldseek Radio - 16 August 2011... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • London Riots Conspiracy
    I'm afraid this will happen in the U.S and it... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Gary Null : 14 American Cities Ready To Riot
    Gary Null cites 14 American cities that are ready... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

  • RESPONSE TO DAVID STARKEY’S “WHITE ...
    Filed under: EXPOSURE Tagged: Black Crime, Crime, Criminality, David Starkey, government, life, London riots, society, UK riots
  • THE CHILDISH LOOK
    There’s something about the way a baby looks at people that’s different. Perhaps its something to do with the fact that for the first year or so they have a fairly limited vocabulary, and their eyes are the window through which they gain their first perceptions of life. When an adult makes eye c ...
  • DARING TO UNDERSTAND FAITH 2: Primal Religions
    It is difficult to pinpoint the exact origin of religious beliefs, so it would be much wiser to assume that several religions were at play within different cultures at opposite ends of the world. Continents like Africa, Asia and the America’s traditionally held on to certain beliefs and life ...
  • MAKE US LAUGH
    Welcome once again to “Make Us Laugh!”. The rules are simple – Tell a short funny story using the featured picture as inspiration, in 50 words or less. We’ll kick start with a story of our own. Let’s see who can “Make Us Laugh!”. Feel free to also comment on whose story you think is [...]
  • NIGERIAN GANGSTERS vs GANGSTERS IN ENGLAND
    “Its a beef ting, and man dem wanna come at me like I aint gon do nufink! This aint no joke, what do you fink vis is? Man lookin to lick them if they don quit gassing.” The anger on the English streets is evident in the language, even though the language itself struggles to [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Get outside and play biologist for a day
    Take advantage of the last weeks of summer to get outside and play biologist for a day. Both Mass Audubon and The Trustees of the Reservation have ongoing outings all over the state. For example, at the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on Martha's Vineyard, we tried out: EARLY BIRDERS Wednesd ...
  • New England lab accidents in the news
    Two items of note in today's news: From Reuters:"Federal safety regulators say Yale University lab equipment responsible for a student's accidental death this spring lacked some required safety features, a finding that the school disputed on Tuesday. From the Globe: A Harvard animal research f ...
  • NYTimes on unjunked DNA and cancer
    The more we learn, the less we know. Harvard researchers chime in as the NYTimes reports on yet another cancer theory. These days "junk" DNA is referred to more respectfully as "noncoding" DNA, and researchers are finding clues that "pseudogenes" lurking within this dark region may play a role ...
  • Massachusetts scholars mix science, nature and ...
    Head east on Cambridge Street and the restaurants and bookstores of Inman Square gradually give way to nail parlors, fish markets and corner shops. But, tucked away between them is a tiny operation called Threla. There, you'll find MIT grad Tseh-Hwan Yong cooking up her own brand of lotions, lip ...
  • MIT grad students plug into science policy
    With budget cutters looming over NSF and NIH, no smart scientist can ignore what's happening in Washington. So, we take note of the MIT Science Policy Initiative. This student group is aimed at : • educating students in the policies governing science research and innovation • exploring how ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Tar Sands and My Itsy-Bitsy Bison Blunder...
    Josh Mogerman, Senior Media Associate, Chicago I was recently quoted in a Greenwire piece that was picked up by the New York Times online related to some tar sands oil industry practices in Canada. The quote came out of a very long conversation, ...
  • Supersized Water Diversion Raises Questions fo ...
    Ed Osann, Senior Policy Analyst, Santa Monica In about 10 days, I’m going to be relaxing on a sandy Lake Michigan beach in Northwest Indiana, with the dunes to my back and the lake stretching in front of me to the horizon.  And looking out at the ...
  • NRDC in the News 8/17: Climate change inaction ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The Washington Post quoted Dan Lashof expressing concern about Congress getting in the way of any climate change action… Josh Mogerman criticized the Canadian tar sands oil industry's greenwashing ...
  • Court Upholds Energy Efficiency Standards for ...
    Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York Every step forward we take on energy efficiency in the United States is cause for celebration.  So join me in a toast to a small triumph for more efficient small motors! Yesterday, NRDC receiv ...
  • Major international airport could open up Cost ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC Supporters of a controversial international airport proposed near Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula recently defended their project before the Legislative Assembly’s Environmental Commission.   Acco ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 27 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, August 17, 2011: At least 8 Chicago IL police officers are under investigation after they allegedly jumped a liquor store owner when they mistook him for a burglar, let them go w ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, August 16, 2011: Baltimore MD cop sentenced to 17yrs prison on manslaughter and firearm violation charges for shooting an unarmed Iraq war vet to death outside a nightclub while dru ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, August 15, 2011: Cook Co IL deputy may still be fired after judge’s surprising acquital for videotaped incident where a detainee suffered significant facial injuries when the deputy ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 08-13 ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of August 13-14, 2011: 3 Davie FL cops are the subject of a suit by an 18yr-old honors student, shown above, who was repeatedly punched, kicked, tasered and attacked by a police dog ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, August 12, 2011: Pima County AZ sheriff’s dept & members of a regional swat team are being sued by the family of an ex-marine who was shot to death during a questionable raid that tu ...

Total Collapse

  • N. Korea warns of war as US-S. Korea exercise ...
    South Korea and the United States launched a massive joint military exercise on Tuesday, prompting the North to condemn the manoeuvres as provocative and warn that “all-out war” could erupt. The two allies have described the 10-day Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise as defensive and routine but the ...
  • U.S., South Korea start military exercises wit ...
    U.S. and South Korean troops began a 10-day military exercise around Seoul on Tuesday, maneuvers the U.S. commander called “defense-oriented” during a period of heightened tensions with the communist North. The annual “Ulchi Freedom Guardian” exercise involves about 530,000 troops from South Kor ...
  • US asks China to explain why it needs aircraft ...
    The United States said Wednesday it would like China to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier amid broader US concerns about Beijing’s lack of transparency over its military aims. “We would welcome any kind of explanation that China would like to give for needing this kind of equipment,” Stat ...
  • Colonial legacy cause of UK unrest
    Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers Leader Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi blames Britain’s colonial past for the unprecedented social unrest in the country. âNo one thought that Britain, which was once a pioneer in arrogance and colonialism, would one day be engulfed in the flames of its people’s wrath ...
  • Syria, Saudi Arabia and the coming regional se ...
    While all the Saudi media pub­lished the speech of the King Abdul­lah (video) defend­ing the human rights of the Syr­ian peo­ple, one Saudi news­pa­per missed the story and pub­lished anarti­cle about poverty in one of the rich­est king­doms in the world. Inter­pret­ing the King’s words, it is n ...

Daily Dose

  • Twitter users are more likely to impact your b ...
    Now, more than ever, is the time for brands and companies to begin understanding how the chaotic and real-time world of Twitter can massively influence the ways in which consumers perceive them. With so many different channels of communication and new social networks popping up every othe ...
  • Hate the new Twitter @Username tab? Here’s how ...
    Some users of the new Twitter @Username tab have been a little peeved at the cluttered look that shoves all of the activity around your Twitter user name into one tab. If you’re one of those users, you now have reason to rejoice as Twitter has heard your pleas and made it possible for you to us ...
  • New Edgerank Pro lets you find out who views y ...
    Edgerank, a site that allows you to instantly check your Facebook Edgerank score, has just a launched a revamped version of its site and a brand new paid version. Edgerank Pro allows you to access in-depth stats on how your Page is performing with personalised recommendations to get the most ou ...
  • Geekli.st helps you find the badass needle in ...
    Silicon Valley is like no other job market in the world. While the American economy staggers forward, and politicians and private industry alike are looking for any way to create new jobs, thereâs a full-on talent war raging in the Bay Area, and in high tech clusters throughout the country. As ...
  • New York City’s top 10 beer gardens and roofto ...
    HopStop, a much loved website for public transit, cab, walking and biking directions can get you to and from anywhere you want to go in 57 major metropolitan markets throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Russia. As a busy 26-year old in the big city with a lemmingâs sense of direction, I u ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Over 80 percent of rediscovered species still ...
    Imagine if your job was to locate extinct species. In 2010, biologists with The Search for Lost Frogs set out on a tropical mission hoping to confirm the existence of frog species not seen in decades. The team recovered proof of four out of a hundred missing species, including a toad among the e ...
  • Ministry of Forestry continues to undermine In ...
    Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry is continuing to undermine the country's ambitious forest protection program in favor of industrial forestry interests, reports Reuters.
  • Conservation groups kicked out of CITES debate ...
    The Standing Committee of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) tossed conservations NGOs out of the room during a debate on the rise in elephant poaching for illegal ivory. A vote of seven to six sent conservation groups making up the Species Su ...
  • Cute animal picture of the day: red panda
    The red panda is found in China, Bhutan, Nepal, India, and Myanmar. Once believed to be in the bear family (like the giant panda), the species is now has its own genus in the Musteloidea, which represents weasels, raccoons, and skunks.
  • Cameratraps take global snapshot of declining ...
    A groundbreaking cameratrap study has mapped the abundance, or lack thereof, of tropical mammal populations across seven countries in some of the world's most important rainforests. Undertaken by The Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network (TEAM), the study found that habitat loss was ...

Sierra Express

  • Notice of vacant position – ADMINISTRATOR-ACCO ...
    African Minerals (SL) Ltd is inviting applications from interested candidates for the position of Administrator – Accommodation. This position is open to qualified Sierra Leoneans, and qualified women are especially encouraged to apply. The deadline for all applications is Tuesday, 30 August 201 ...
  • Alcatraz to Africa – swimming with the sharks!
    After travelling to Sierra Leone in June 2010 to assist with the site development for a health clinic, Dara Colleary, who has a background in Civil Engineering, was captivated by the warm and fragile society he met, so much so that he returned in October 2010 together with his wife, Sara, a pedi ...
  • Ambassador Bangali witnesses South Sudan’s adm ...
    Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union Commission (AUC), His Excellency Mr. Andrew Gbebay Bangali, on Monday 15th August 2011 witnessed the land mark historic ceremony when the Republic of South Sudan was formall ...
  • Guinea’s President Conde pardons jailed activists
    Guinea’s President Alpha Conde has pardoned 17 opposition activists jailed for taking part in an illegal rally in April.  (Photo: Guinea‘s President Alpha Conde has promised to heal the rift caused by elections ) The amnesty was aimed at promoting reconciliation after divisive elections last ye ...
  • Mosquitoes ‘developing resistance to bed nets’
    Mosquitoes can rapidly develop resistance to bed nets treated with insecticide, a new study from Senegal suggests.  (Photo: The mosquito transmits malaria to humans ) In recent years the nets have become a leading method of preventing malaria, especially in Africa. The researchers also suggest t ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Peter Lyons: Trade truths behind great milk 'r ...
    So now we are having a parliamentary select committee on the price of milk sold in New Zealand. Our politicians are keen to be seen to be responding to the public outcry at the perceived price gouging by Fonterra or the supermarkets...
  • Milk powder price drops to year low
    Whole-milk powder prices have declined to their lowest in more than a year amid escalating concerns that global economic growth may falter and reduce demand.Powder for October delivery fell to US$3359 per tonne, the lowest level...
  • Dairy prices dip 0.9pc in overnight auction
    Average prices of dairy products recorded their smallest decline in five sales at Fonterra's latest online auction, with whole milk powder leading the slide.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 0.9 per cent to US$3,660 a metric tonne, according...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Fay playing 'local' card with ...
    Sir Michael Fay is clearly playing on nationalistic sentiment against the foreign ownership of New Zealand farmland to spruik his low-ball bid to acquire nine of the 16 Crafar dairy farms.It is hard to credit that one of the great...
  • Rich-lister leads bid to keep farms from Chinese
    One of the country's richest men has emerged as a white knight investor with a $105 million bid for big dairy farms that could otherwise be sold to China.Sir Michael Fay has declared his interest in buying nine of the 16 farms once...

The Bovine

  • Rawsome case underlines how it’s all abo ...
    From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “There was an interesting article in the Chicago Sun-Times over the weekend about the growing popularity of locally produced food. While there have been any number of such articles in recent months, this … Continue reading →
  • Young biodynamic farmers meet, share
    From Thea Maria Carlson, on the Biodynamics blog: “This weekend, over 70 young farmers and farming enthusiasts came together for two days of inspiration and connection at Angelic Organics Farm and Learning Center in Caledonia, Illinois. As coordinator of the … Continue reading →
  • Radioactive rain falls in Toronto Aug 14
    Fukushima Japan is not as far away as we sometimes think:
  • Beyond farmers markets, in the ‘burbs
    From Susan Frick Carlman, in the Beacon News, a story titled “Farm-to-table is becoming mainstream – even out in the âburbs: “…The meat-share option is one way local food producers have made their goods more accessible. Tapping an Internet that … Continue reading →
  • Big ag launches media campaign to counter clai ...
    By Alan Rappeport in New York – from the Financial Times Big US farming groups are joining forces in a multimillion dollar marketing campaign to respond to attacks by activists and small farmers that accuse them of promoting unhealthy food … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Sentiment Leads Consumption; Sentiment Four Wa ...
    Chris Puplava at Financial Sense put together an excellent series of charts last week in Economic Indicators Show Recession As Early As Next Month. Puplava's prognosis that the "Global Economic Train Is Coming Off the Tracks". My commentary below pertains to one topic of Puplava's post ...
  • Bad Checks in Greece Soar 43% as Credit Dries ...
    It is pretty tough to pay bills when you have no job, no money, and the unemployment rate is both high and soaring. Greek Unemployment Rate Hits Record High 16.6% Inquiring minds note Greek unemployment rate hits all-time highThursday August 18, 2011: Unemployment in Greece grew at a ...
  • SEC Destroys 9,000 Fraud Files Involving Wells ...
    Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, says SEC may have destroyed documents“From what I’ve seen, it looks as if the SEC might have sanctioned some level of case-related document destruction,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, in a letter to the agency’s chairman, Mary Schapiro. ...
  • Wells Fargo Says "Gold Bubble Poised to Burst" ...
    Wells Fargo analysts proclaim Gold market is a ‘bubble poised to burst'.Speculative demand from investors has pushed the gold market into a “bubble that is poised to burst” after prices surged to a record this year, Wells Fargo & Co. said. “We have seen the economic damage” of past bubbles ...
  • Congressional Approval 13%;Theory of Elections ...
    The most recent Gallup poll shows Congressional Job Approval Ties Historic Low of 13%Americans' evaluation of the job Congress is doing is the worst Gallup has ever measured, with 13% approving, tying the all-time low measured in December 2010. Disapproval of Congress is at 84%, a percentage poi ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    The Moral Bankruptcy of American Spooks, US Missile Shield May Be Precursor for Attack on Iran, Al-Qaeda Leader Hails Syrian Protestors, Ford Takes US Taxpayers Bailout & Deserts Sinking Ship, Feds to Grab Land for Homeland Security, Hidden Hegemony: Canadian Mining in Latin America, What is a D ...
  • BFP Food for Thought: What’s so “Alternative” ...
    All Quasi Roads Lead to the Same Establishment I simply don’t get it! Actually, I haven’t been ‘getting it’ for a while. Maybe you can help me get it; will you? Here is the quandary: There are several major websites out there with quite a following. These websites advertise themselves as the ‘al ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Halliburton Whistleblower Wins in Court: $970K, Obama: Bin Laden Death Ups Terror Risk for Americans, The Most Dangerous Word in the World, US in ââDenialâ Over Chinaâs Pacific Plans, The Political Theater & the Debt Ceiling Crisis & More!  International Newsworthy US in ‘Denial’ Over China’s ...
  • Follow the Money with Bergman: Eyeing Green Ey ...
    Why Did the GAO Just Audit the Fed? Some of the shriller Fed critics offer simple but misleading slogans like “The Federal Reserve is a private entity” and “The Fed isn’t audited.”  The truth is more complicated, and the historical background matters for citizens trying to understand why, how, a ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    US Envoy: NO Rush to Leave Afghanistan, A Saudi Beacon for Iraq’s Sunni Militias, The Cyber-Security Industrial Complex, UK Farmers Find Promise in a Crop Illegal in Afghanistan, Goldman Sachs: US Credit Risk if Wars Counted as ‘Cuts’, How America Became an Empire & More!  International Newswor ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Feds sue Bollinger Shipyards
    The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Matagorda after its conversion to 123 feet. March 2004. Photo by PA3 Jonathan McCool, USCG The federal government today filed Continue Reading �
  • Subsea7 SA forced to sell off pipelay vessel a ...
    Subsea 7 S.A.’s Acergy Falcon courtesy GSP The UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OTF) has agreed not refer the merger between Subsea 7 and Acergy Continue Reading »
  • BIMCO: Freight Rates Slide Seen Continuing On ...
    LONDON (Dow Jones)–Dry bulk freight rates, already down 30% in value since the start of 2011, are likely to fall further over the coming months Continue Reading »
  • China launches maritime satellite
    China has launched a satellite that will survey the maritime environment to help prevent and reduce maritime disasters, according to a report from Voice of Continue Reading �
  • MAERSK: Deteriorating global economy putting p ...
    Image courtesy Maersk By Flemming Emil Hansen, Dow Jones & Co COPENHAGEN�Shipping and oil company A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S warned Wednesday that new shipping capacity and Continue Reading �

Blogging Canadians

  • On Tony Clement, free trade vs human rights, a ...
  • "The eBay Vessel"
    cslsec: Fuck ebay! by "cslsecurity" [a/k/a "cslsec"] As originally posted on: Pastebin.com August 16, 2011 cslsec beaming down to you again, this time with the booty its self! As you know, last night, or today for some of you we announced a dropping of booty from the ebay vesse ...
  • Hackers Post FALSE Story On Le Devoir Website ...
    MONTREAL — "The Quebec French newspaper Le Devoir had its website hacked early Tuesday morning, with a fake article inaccurately claiming that Quebec Premier Jean Charest had died. The phoney article stated the premier had died of a heart attack at a Montreal hospital and that the health facil ...
  • Debt Refinancing, the Federal Government and t ...
    Ok this post is in the form of a naive question.  And it goes like this:  If the Federal Government can borrow (OK MMTers don’t vide your back-end here, I know they do not have to go to the bond … Continue reading →
  • The dubious achievement of renaming things
    Stephen Harper and his party seem to have a real urge to rename objects and organizations, place labels and signs on things, and do all of this in the name of Canada. Looking back at their previous "achievements" on this front of "work", it's possible to predict/guess what they will turn their n ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • 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.
  • Hamas rejects role in Israel bus attacks
    Hamas has dismissed allegations by Israel's minister of military affairs accusing the resistance movement of involvement in Thursday's deadly attacks in southern Israel.
  • Several killed in attack on Israeli buses
    At least six people have been reportedly killed and dozens injured in attacks on two vehicles near the Red Sea resort of Eilat in southern Israel.
  • 2nd Israeli bus comes under attack
    More casualties have been reported as a second Israeli bus has come under a shooting attack in the Palestinian territories.
  • Several hurt in Israeli bus shooting
    Several people have reportedly been injured in a shooting attack on an Israeli bus in the city of Eilat in the occupied Palestinian land.
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