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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

2 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Germany Shows How Renewable Energy Should Be Done
DailyFinance
By Travis Hoium, The Motley Fool Posted 7:06PM 08/01/11 Investing Germany is doubling its efforts to be a renewable-energy power over the next 50 years, and it's expanding beyond just solar power. After the country put the kibosh on exploding solar ...
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NREL Partners With Semikron To Develop Renewable Energy Inverter
North American Windpower
by NAW Staff on Tuesday 02 August 2011 The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), along with industrial partner Semikron and with funding from the California Energy Commission (CEC), has developed a prototype of a 50 kW ...
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South Africa calls for bids to meet renewables target
Environmental Finance
The South African government has invited proposals to build renewable energy projects, but developers question whether the process will allow the country to meet its target to build 3.8GW of capacity in the next five years. As Durban prepares to hold ...
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Tom Buis: Motorists deserve the chance to buy home-grown fuel
Post-Bulletin
In 2011, the 21 ethanol plants in Minnesota will produce more than 1.1 billion gallons of homegrown, renewable fuel, putting Americans to work and reducing our dependence on oil from nations like Libya, Venezuela and Iran. But even with our maturing ...
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Human Habitat

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US Ecology, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2011 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
"US Ecology's performance in the second quarter was terrific and illustrates the underlying strength of our core assets, business model and solid execution of our strategy," commented President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Baumgardner. ...
Rutgers professor wins 'restoration ecology' award
MyCentralJersey.com
Steven N. Handel, professor of ecology and evolution at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences has been selected for the Theodore Sperry Award by the Society for Ecological Restoration International. ...
Ecology alert over Ramadan food wastage
Trade Arabia
About 30 per cent of all food purchased in Bahrain during Ramadan will be thrown away, which takes up landfill space and releases harmful emissions when it breaks down, said a top environmentalist. The demand for meat, chicken, vegetables, fruits, ...
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Maple Leaf Reforestation buys KS Ecology assets in China for $2 million
Winnipeg Free Press
CALGARY - Maple Leaf Reforestation Inc. (TSXV:MPE) said Tuesday it has signed a formal agreement to buy KS Ecology (Canada) Inc., a tree plantation company with operations in China, for $2 million worth of stock. Maple Leaf said it will issue 13.5 ...
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Water Power

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Large water company buying smaller Conn. firms
BusinessWeek
By STEPHEN SINGER Aquarion Water Co., the largest investor-owned water utility in New England, has been on a buying spree in Connecticut, purchasing dozens of water systems and several small companies in the last few months. ...
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Richardson, NTMWD Implement Stage 2 Water Restrictions
NBC Dallas-Fort Worth
By Frank Heinz AP The city of Richardson will implement Stage 2 water conservation measures beginning Friday, Aug. 19, at the request of the North Texas Municipal Water District. Under Stage 2, the city will accelerate efforts to reduce water use by no ...
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Octus Completes Seven Water Efficiency Retrofit Projects
MarketWatch (press release)
"We believe water is the next frontier for resource efficiency due to rapidly increasing water costs and ever constrained supply," said Octus CEO Chris Soderquist. "Our strategy in this area is to implement turnkey water efficiency solutions for ...
Worries Over Water As Natural Gas Fracking Expands
NPR
That's created jobs and wealth, but it may be damaging drinking water. That's because when you "frack," as hydraulic fracturing is called, you pump millions of gallons of fluids underground. That cracks the shale a mile deep and drives natural gas up ...
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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • IRAN AND AL-QA’IDA: CAN THE CHARGES BE SUBSTAN ...
    Summary: This is all strongly reminiscent of the way in which the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations prepared the way for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. And much of the mainstream media seems content to reprise the dishonorable role they played in making that war possible. As her ...
  • Unfolding the Syrian paradox
    Summary: The US has a record of attempting to intervene in Syria that even predates the US Central Intelligence Agency's and British intelligence's 1953 coup in Iran against prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Between 1947 and 1949, American government officials intervened in Syria. Their aim ...
  • India and Iran resolve oil payment dispute
    Summary: India would pay mainly in euros and also use other currencies to settle its debt source: India Info-onlineread more
  • 'Iran snubs US-led political approaches'
    Summary: A senior member of Iran's Majlis (parliament) says the Islamic Republic will not tolerate US' extralegal moves that go beyond the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regulations. source: PressTVread more
  • Iran Helping Iraqi Insurgents…Make That Al-Qaeda
    Summary: "Iran arming Iraq insurgents" was last month's story. Today's papers are telling a different story; the new line being pushed by U.S. officials is that Iran is supporting Al-Qaeda. source: Fairread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Oxygen Molecules Discovered in the Orion Star- ...
    "Oxygen is the third most common element in the universe and its molecular form must be abundant in space," said Bill Danchi, Herschel program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The Herschel Space Observatory's large telescope and state-of-the-art infrared detectors...
  • Has Earth Experienced an Increase in Asteroid ...
    Danger looms from out of space: asteroids and comets are a threat to our planet. The history of Earth has always been punctuated by cosmic catastrophes. Several studies have claimed to have found periodic variations, with the probability of giant...
  • Oxygen! Its Evolution on Earth (Today's Most P ...
    Scientists are getting closer to unlocking the secrets of oxygenation of the Earth's biosphere -its oceans and atmosphere- with new research shows that shows that organisms like vascular plants may have appeared and evolved under lower oxygen conditions than previously...
  • Image of the Day: Dark, Strange Beauty of the ...
    The Cone Nebula, part of a much larger star-forming complex, is at bottom with inverted Christmas Tree cluster NGC 2264 above the cone; the bright star just above the cone is the tree topper and the very bright star at...
  • "Death Star" Alert: Infrared Space Observatory ...
    Last week, astronomers studying observations taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission discovered the first known "Trojan" asteroid orbiting the sun along with Earth. The WISE mission is to search for "dark" objects in space like brown dwarf...

Natural News

  • New EPA-approved DuPont herbicide linked to wi ...
    (NaturalNews) The DuPont chemical company recently received approval from the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) for its new herbicide Imprelis (aminocyclopyrachlor), which has been alleged as an "environmentally friendly" alternative to other herbicides.However, a recent New York Times (NYT ...
  • Scientists hyping 'universal' flu shot to perp ...
    (NaturalNews) Influenza vaccination rates are on the decline as Americans increasingly learn not only that flu shots contain harmful additives like Thimerosal (mercury), but also that they do not even work as claimed (one of the "side effects" of getting a flu shot, after all, is the flu itself) ...
  • Seven startling things most people still don't ...
    (NaturalNews) Most people, even smart people, know surprisingly little about the way money really works in Big Government. With the debt ceiling fiasco suddenly raising awareness of the possibility of a total global financial blowout, now seems like a good time to remind people of seven disturbi ...
  • Review of Genetic Armageddon video report by A ...
    (NaturalNews) One of the most important video reports you'll see all year is called Genetic Armageddon. It was released just a few days ago by the Alex Jones / InfoWars team and has already racked up nearly 200,000 views on YouTube. We've posted it on NaturalNews.TV where we encourage you to wat ...
  • Free energy scientist and NASA astronaut Brian ...
    (NaturalNews) Brain O'Leary passed away last week (July 28th, 2011). A former NASA astronaut and PhD recipient from the University of California at Berkeley (1967), Dr. O'Leary was more recently known for his research and advocacy into alternative energy (free energy).Originally trained as a con ...

Threat Level

  • Alleged Miley Cyrus Hacker Pleads Guilty to Sp ...
    A hacker who boasted that he was responsible for stealing and posting provocative pictures stolen from Miley Cyrus’ Gmail account pleaded guilty on Monday to other charges involving credit card fraud and hacking. Josh Holly, 21, pleaded guilty to possessing about 200 stolen credit card numbers, ...
  • Researchers Say Vulnerabilities Could Let Hack ...
    Vulnerabilities in electronic systems that control prison doors could allow hackers or others to spring prisoners from their jail cells, according to researchers.
  • Feds Defend Seizure of WikiLeaks Supporter’s L ...
    The Justice Department on Thursday fired back against a lawsuit filed by a WikiLeaks supporter and friend of accused leaker Bradley Manning over the warrantless seizure of his laptop, arguing that they held onto the machine for a lengthy 49 days only because he refused to provide the password, ...
  • Document: FBI Surveillance Geeks Fear, Love Ne ...
    Can’t wait for 4G to become the ubiquitous standard for mobile communication? On the edge of your seat for the unveiling of Microsoft’s secret Menlo Project and Greenfield application? You’re not the only one watching the growth of these and other new technologies with rapt attention. According ...
  • Rogue Academic Downloader Busted by MIT Webcam ...
    Hacker and activist Aaron Swartz faces federal hacking prosecution for allegedly downloading millions of academic documents via MIT’s guest network, using a laptop hidden in a networking closet. Swartz, 24, faces 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine under the indictment, announced last week ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Real Losers in the Debt Deal
    The ink isn't yet dry (or even written) on the 11th hour debt deal, but the media are already doing their usual body count of the victors and vanquished. In the Washington Post, conventional wisdom regurgitation machine Chris Cillizza produced the predictable winners and losers list. While the ...
  • The Republican Debt Orgy in Pictures
    "In Washington more spending and more debt is business as usual," House Speaker John Boehner declared on Monday before warning, "I've got news for Washington - those days are over." The days, Boehner should have explained, before Barack Obama took the oath of office. As Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI ...
  • GOP Threatens Economic 9/11 over Debt Ceiling
    "The people who are threatening not to pass the debt ceiling are our version of al Qaeda terrorists.," former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neilldeclared in April, adding, "They're really putting our whole society at risk by threatening to round up 50 percent of the members of the Congress, who ...
  • Why They Fight
    On Thursday, House Republicans will vote on John Boehner's debt plan. But whether they follow his order to "get your ass in line" or not (and 23 have already gone on record saying they won't), Republican hostage takers on Capitol Hill will continue to threaten the United States with default - a ...
  • This Tea Party Sides with the British
    From the beginning, the Tea Party has had it wrong on virtually every matter of fact - and history. Far from being Taxed Enough Already, over 95% of working Americans received relief from President Obama even as the total federal tax burden as a percentage of the U.S. economy plummeted to its l ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Amazon.com: Culture Jam: How to Reverse Americ ...
    Amazon.com: Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--And Why We Must (9780688178055): Kalle Lasn: Books
  • Israeli MK: "anti-Boycott Law Threatens Democracy"
    Parliament member Dov Khenin and many on Israeli left warn new anti- Boycott law violates freedom of speech
  • Assange & Žižek in conversation
    This conversation is great, and not just because it’s revealed Žižek watched the last season of 24 for the same reasons and reached the same conclusions as I did (more on that later.) But amongst everything else to also hear them talk about the power of Murdoch‘s “Evil Empire”, News Internati ...
  • Muslim Victim of Post-9/11 Hate Crime Calls on ...
    In Texas, a hate crime victim is attempting to save the life of a convicted murderer who shot him in the face at close range after 9/11. Rais Bhuiyan is suing Governor Rick Perry in order to stop the execution of death row prisoner Mark Stroman scheduled for Wednesday. Stroman shot Bhuiyan in 20 ...
  • Ralph Nader's Solution to Debt Crisis: End Cor ...
    As negotiations continue on a debt deal, we ask longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader for his solution. Nader says, “Now we have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And it's not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate we ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Environmental Politics News of the Week
    Some top politics stories of the past week or so. Mostly, things that make you go "Ugh..." Related posts:Crazy Environmental Politics News of the Week Global Warming and Environmental Politics News of the Week Crazy Environmental & Global Warming Politics News {Weekly Round-Up}
  • Top Green Living Stories of the Week
    Here are a ton of great green living stories from the past week or so from around the internet. Enjoy & drop more in the comments below if you have more to share. Related posts:Green Living Stories of the Last Week (or So) Green Living Stories {Weekly Round-Up} Top Green Living Stories {Weekly ...
  • Greenland More Stable than Antarctica
    “If West Antarctica collapsed, that means it’s more unstable than we expected, which is quite scary,â said a scientist who set out to determine whether Greenland or Antarctica will introduce more melting water to rising sea levels. Many scientists have assumed that the Greenland ice sheet was th ...
  • America Experiencing ‘Exceptional Drought’
    The percent of continental America currently experiencing exceptional drought has reached the highest levels ever recorded over the past 12 years. Related posts:Sixty Year Drought on Southwest American Horizon Lake Tanganyika Experiencing Unprecedented Warming American Southwest Heading for Pe ...
  • Isolated Russian Volcanoes from Space [Photo o ...
    In Russia's far east is the Kamchatka Peninsula, which drops down between the Pacific Ocean on its east and the Sea of Okhotsk on its west side. Show central in this image is an isolated volcanic group that includes the most active volcano in Eurasia; Klyuchevskaya Sopka. Related posts:The Str ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • The War on You - Economy
    Let the word go forth from Washington!  The corporate rulers occupying our nation's capital have declared war on just about every citizen. Have no doubt: those in the upper ranges of the top 1% of wealth in this country (aka The Money Party) want to kick you to the curb....
  • ALBA : Sovereignty, Justice, Transparency - N ...
    ALBA - the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of the Americas has strengthened the sovereignty of the countries of Central America and the Caribbean and permitted economic justice for their peoples by means of policies of redistribution of wealth and resources. For rejecting the domination of gi ...
  • Three Neoliberal Tales: The Inter-oceanic Trai ...
    The manner in which people commute is another indicator of the structural violence lived every day by the working class in Honduras and throughout Latin America. Amid high prices, pollution, theft and immobility, grants are given to transport media owners and not to the user. Millions of people ...
  • Small business owner in the U.S."Mad as Hell" ...
    Are you kidding me?...
  • Horrors Of US-NATO Butchery Of Libya Revealed ...
    Last night, NATO bombed the Libyan Broadcasting company killing 3 civilians and injuring 15 others. They don't like any TV here except NATO propaganda. I am attaching 2 more leaflets, NATO dropped these last week. In what alternate Universe does NATO think these people will take any advice from ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • A Ransom We Already Regret
    Robert Reich: nyone who characterizes the deal between the President, Democratic, and Republican leaders as a victory for the American people over partisanship understands neither economics nor politics. The deal does not raise taxes on America's wealthy and most fortunate - who are now taking h ...
  • Liberals and Liberty
    Amazes me no end how the most authoritarian-submissive conservatards claim for themselves the mantle of "liberty," when human freedom and liberty grow and expand only under liberalism. Steve Benen: LIBERALS AND LIBERTY... One of my abiding peeves is the degree to which conservatives exploit and ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    The company @GOPLeader keeps...We already know that Pammy Atlas is a genocidal nutcase who justifies the murder of children by a Christian terrorist with a glib, blase, "Note the faces which are more MIddle [sic] Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian." No, we are more interested in the picture of ...
  • Bad Deal Done
    No, the surprise appearance of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords does not make me feel any better about it. TPM: Still, scores of progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans voted against the legislation, which ultimately passed 269-161. Democrats split evenly: 95-95. The Republicans broke down 174 ...
  • Your peaceful moment of Zen
    In case the Satan Sandwich has raised your blood pressure: At 6:30 a.m. - a side canyon just below milepost 1 on the Catalina Highway north of Tucson. On the drive down the mountain this evening the temperature dropped to 61 degrees during a heavy rain. Stay cool.

Care 2

  • âªWe are Anonymous (Animal Liberation #1)â¬â ...
    Anonymous is a new direct action group in town. A wonderful friend/animal rights activist Marla Stormwolf-Patty from facebook sent me this. I thank her & I thank Anonymous for standing up for our animalsSubmitted by Kathy C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why are more pregnant women having strokes?
    The elderly aren't the only ones at risk for strokes, which are increasingly striking women shortly before or after they give birthSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Furry Feet Rescue to close because of one comp ...
    Furry Feet Rescue is a tax exempt charity the saves strays. It is run out of a home. One person complained and code enforcement revoked their business license, despite other neighbors and adopters who say that the house is clean. Please help!Submitted by Beth M. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • South African soldiers battle rhino poachers i ...
    In April, South African soldiers were deployed in Kruger National Park to safeguard the border with Mozambique, where heavily armed and highly organised poachers have driven the slaughter of rhinos to record levels to feed an Asian black market for traditSubmitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� ...
  • International 4million euros bluefin tuna tra ...
    The port authorities of Maddalena in Sardegna, Italy, have found some one thousand administrative violations of blue fin protection laws - the falsification of obligatory fishing and trading documents on a massive scale. The violations are worth some Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Not ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • At the Heart of A Republic is Not Democracy…
    It is the protection of individual rights and liberties from both the omnipotence of a majority and the despotism of an elite through a limited, representative government and the rule of law as established by the consent of the governed. (A discussion of political systems and Republic vs Democra ...
  • Budget Control Act of 2011
    Don’t take my word for it or the word of anyone else. Read it for yourself. Click here to read the so-called “deficit deal.” Click here if you want to read the section-by-section analysis of the bill (i.e., what does it really mean). It is important to recognize that an immediate cut in Federal ...
  • Enter a Contest, Write a Cartoon Caption on Ob ...
    You’re all so bright and wickedly sarcastic, that this is a natural for you: Tom Toles, the Washington Post’s political cartoonist, has created a cartoon but left the caption blank. Contestants can come up with and submit captions, which Toles will read, selecting a winner. PLEASE share your sub ...
  • Have The Left Wheels Come Off the Obama Train?
    * Bumped Up * A compendium of articles are circulating from liberal legislators and thinkers questioning President Obama’s democratic credentials, appalled at his actions, some demanding he be challenged for the Democratic nomination next year. Glenn Greenwald, typically writing for Salon, recen ...
  • Breaking: Speaker Boehner’s PowerPoint Present ...
    D.C. reporters are referencing a PowerPoint presentation by Speaker John Boehner that explains and illustrates the deal. I hunted around, visited Boehner’s House site, checked the WaPo, but found 7 pages of PowerPoint slides in “Boehner Outlines Debt Agreement” at the NY Times blog, The Caucus: ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Traumatic Events in the News & Our Collective ...
    I didn’t cry when I saw the panic stricken families of the 69 children shot dead on Utoya Island in Norway last weekend. I didn’t linger longer than usual when they showed the bombing in the center of Oslo that killed 8 people. The sight of shattered windows and blown up cars provided no shock [...]
  • What to Do When You Think Your Relationship is ...
    You are in a relationship, but sometimes you feel something in the pit of your stomach that reminds you that you are not happy. You love your partner with all your heart, yet you feel as if you are missing something better. You wonder if something out there just might be more fulfilling, and you ...
  • Self-Compassion after Trauma
    A common but not frequently recognized side effect of traumatic life experiences is an excessive harshness towards self, which often times co-exists with a healthy degree of care and concern for others. While this harshness towards self can be expressed in a multitude of ways, a commonality is t ...
  • Are Latina Women at Increased Risk for PTSD du ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Many women experience post-traumatic stress during and after pregnancy. But a new study discovered that in low-income Latina women, the presence of psychological problems can increase the risk for PTSD during pregnancy and postpartum. “PTSD symptoms during pregnan ...
  • Children with ADHD May Benefit from Transcende ...
    Transcendental meditation (TM) was used in a new study to determine if it would help children with ADHD improve their focus and attention. “We chose the TM technique for this study because studies show that it increases brain function. We wanted to know if it would have a similar effect in the c ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Appalachian horror: mountaintop mining - Saras ...
    Appalachian horror: mountaintop mining Sarasota Herald-Tribune 18, 2008 file photo, a mountaintop removal mining site is seen at Kayford Mountain, W.Va., with Coal River Mountain, left, in the background. (Associated Press archive) By DAN RADMACHER One of the hardest adjustments when I moved to ...
  • Researcher: Many Studies Show Mountaintop Remo ...
    Researcher: Many Studies Show Mountaintop Removal Damages Health Public News Service The author of two recent studies showing higher rates of cancer and birth defects in the areas around mountaintop removal mines says those results are part of a consistent pattern. West Virginia University prof ...
  • EPA finally doing its job in coalfields - Lexi ...
    Lexington Herald Leader EPA finally doing its job in coalfields Lexington Herald Leader Last September, I joined a few thousand men and women in the nation's capital for an anti-mountaintop removal march from Lafayette Park to the White House. Our route led us past the Environmental Protection ...
  • West Virginia Mountains Flattened to Retrieve ...
    ABC News West Virginia Mountains Flattened to Retrieve Coal ABC News "The only reason you see mountain top removal happening in this country is because people don't know about it...nobody would allow this to happen." With mountaintop removal mining, the trees, soil and land from a few hundred f ...
  • Extra 60000 Cancer Cases from Mountaintop Remo ...
    Care2.com Extra 60000 Cancer Cases from Mountaintop Removal Care2.com Researchers from West Virginia University studied cancer rates in counties of West Virginia where mountaintop removal is practiced for coal mining. In these areas they found a higher cancer rate, “There are 1.2 million people ...

Memeorandum

  • 'We Have Compromised Our Way Into Disaster' (S ...
    Spiegel Online: ‘We Have Compromised Our Way Into Disaster’  —  Mark Meckler, 49, the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots in the United States, talks to SPIEGEL about the US debt ceiling, the radical right's uncompromising fight against the national debt and the “complete economic disaster” h ...
  • Uneasy House OK's Debt Deal (Wall Street Journal)
    Wall Street Journal: Uneasy House OK's Debt Deal  —  Both Parties Find Fault With Bill; Senate to Vote Tuesday  —  WASHINGTON—The House passed a $2.4 trillion debt-ceiling increase Monday night with the Senate planning to follow on Tuesday, after one of the most ferocious fights ever over gove ...
  • Obama to head home for 50th birthday fundraise ...
    Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune: Obama to head home for 50th birthday fundraiser  —  The sound of helicopters over the Chicago lakefront today signaled the practice drills that accompany a presidential visit.  And with Congress poised to act on a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling, Presiden ...
  • It's Public Opinion, Stupid (Kevin Drum Feed)
    Kevin Drum Feed: It's Public Opinion, Stupid  —  Jared Bernstein praises the president with faint damns: … I think this is roughly correct.  Public opinion is everything.  Ronald Reagan was successful because public opinion supported him: he wanted to cut taxes and raise defense spending and s ...
  • Joe Biden on Shooting Victim Gabrielle Gifford ...
    Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Joe Biden on Shooting Victim Gabrielle Giffords: “She's Now a Member of Cracked Head Club Like Me”  —  You just can't make this up.  —  Oaf Joe Biden told reporters he joked with shooting victim about “cracked heads.”  —  “She's now a member of the cracked head c ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • End of the high-speed myth?
    As China struggles with the aftermath of a fatal train wreck, its breakneck push to lead the world in rail is under scrutiny. Lu Zongshu, Shen Nianzu and Zhu Yang report.On the evening of July 23, at least 40 people were killed when two trains collided near Wenzhou, on the high-speed line that r ...
  • Hard slog to greener banks
    China’s financial behemoths are still providing key support to major polluters, writes Yuan Ying. They have a long way to go to meet global green standards. At the end of April, Chinese environmentalist Yu Xiaogan ...
  • Losses at sea
    Coastal pollution is back in the public eye thanks to the latest oil spill in the Bohai Gulf. Xia Jun looks at three maritime lawsuits, and what they tell us about environmental litigation in China.Editor’s note: this summer’s oil spill in the Bohai Sea has once again brought the issue of marine ...
  • Back in the flow
    China’s polluted, drought-ridden Yellow River once struggled to reach the sea. Now the “mother river” is being restored to health, writes Jonathan Watts, but for many the benefits remain to be seen.On one wall of the control centre, a mosaic of TV screens flickers back and forth between the late ...
  • Eight cases that mattered
    From a successful challenge to Beijing’s planning authorities to damages for mass tadpole deaths, the 2000s were full of turning points for green law in China. Here, chinadialogue presents its picks of the decade.Chinese people are coming to an ever-graver understanding of the dual changes of ec ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Alleged Miley Cyrus Hacker Pleads Guilty to Sp ...
    A hacker who boasted that he was responsible for stealing and posting provocative pictures stolen from Miley Cyrus’ Gmail account pleaded guilty on Monday to other charges involving credit card fraud and hacking. Josh Holly, 21, pleaded guilty to possessing about 200 stolen credit card numbers, ...
  • Researchers Say Vulnerabilities Could Let Hack ...
    Vulnerabilities in electronic systems that control prison doors could allow hackers or others to spring prisoners from their jail cells, according to researchers.
  • Feds Defend Seizure of WikiLeaks Supporter’s L ...
    The Justice Department on Thursday fired back against a lawsuit filed by a WikiLeaks supporter and friend of accused leaker Bradley Manning over the warrantless seizure of his laptop, arguing that they held onto the machine for a lengthy 49 days only because he refused to provide the password, ...
  • Document: FBI Surveillance Geeks Fear, Love Ne ...
    Can’t wait for 4G to become the ubiquitous standard for mobile communication? On the edge of your seat for the unveiling of Microsoft’s secret Menlo Project and Greenfield application? You’re not the only one watching the growth of these and other new technologies with rapt attention. According ...
  • Rogue Academic Downloader Busted by MIT Webcam ...
    Hacker and activist Aaron Swartz faces federal hacking prosecution for allegedly downloading millions of academic documents via MIT’s guest network, using a laptop hidden in a networking closet. Swartz, 24, faces 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine under the indictment, announced last week ...

Equality Trust

  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • 77 Sick, 1 Dead from Antibiotic-resistant Salm ...
    As I said to the AP: Food safety advocate Bill Marler, an attorney who has represented victims of the nation's biggest food-borne illness outbreaks, said he believes the three positive samples should prompt a recall. "Consumers have no idea what to do except not eat ground turkey," he said. ...
  • Does Cargill have a Salmonella Turkey Problem?
    I am at the 100th meeting of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) in Milwaukee (See our booth). All the talk of course was about food safety as I gave the opening speech this morning about the Food Safety Modernization Act and handed out $40,000 in scholarships to local, sta ...
  • Pasteurized Milk Sickens Five with Yersinia en ...
    The Pennsylvania departments of Health and Agriculture and the Allegheny County Health Department are advising the public of the possible health risks associated with products, specifically glass-bottled milk, from Brunton Dairy in Aliquippa, Beaver County. Since June 15, five individuals – thr ...
  • "Dead Milk" 23, "Magic Milk" 202
    So, who is winning? I was asked to talk with Sally Fallon Morrell on the Kojo Nnamdi show on WAMU Public Radio in D.C. last week in what the host determined to be the “Raw Milk Wars.”  The producer who called me said that she had tried to find someone, anyone, in public health to go on the show ...
  • More Campylobacter Cases Reported from Point M ...
    I was off to Wisconsin (I think it still is the dairy state) this morning for the IAFP conference when another raw milk issue landed in my inbox – I need to update my chart at www.realrawmilkfacts.com. Alaska state health officials updated the June report of Campylobacter illnesses on what appe ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: 2025 CAFE target set at 54.5 mpg; ev ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal Following the official announcement this morning that the new 2025 Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard would be set at 54.5 miles per gallon, our email box overflowed with something we rarely see: near-unanimous support. Everyone from the automakers to the Un ...
  • Report: White House lowers 2025 CAFE target to ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal What's the difference between 56.2 and 54.5 miles per gallon? Way more than 1.7 mpg, that's for sure. The Detroit News is reporting that the Obama White House is dialing down the proposed 2025 fuel economy requirement to 54.5 mpg. Earlier, we had heard that 62 ...
  • Official: NYC fleet adds 70 plug-in vehicles, ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Truck, Work, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Ford, Police/Emergency, Electric NYC Chevy Volt Police Car - Click above for high-res image gallery As much as the average driver doesn't really have to worry about "range anxiety" during a normal driving day, we will gran ...
  • Official: Toyota issues recall for Highlander, ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Crossover, Lexus, Toyota Lexus RX 400h - Click above for high-res image There's a problem with some 2006 and 2007 model year Toyota Highlander Hybrid and Lexus RX 400h vehicles. Today, Toyota announced that it will voluntarily recall 45,500 Highlander Hybrid an ...
  • Video: New Prius rap video takes to cruising W ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Humor Whole Foods Parking Lot - Click above to watch video after the jump Turns out, you can spin the whole "cashed up greenie" bit into a few minutes of enjoyable parody rap. Don't believe us? Check out "Whole Foods Parking Lot," the fi ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Billy Bragg on Death of Fellow British Singer- ...
    While on tour in the United States, legendary British rocker and activist, Billy Bragg, joined Democracy Now! for an extended interview. One of the many topics he discussed was the tragic death of the British singer-songwriter, Amy Winehouse. "I’m very, very sorry that someone as clearly as t ...
  • "A Victory In The War Against Profiteering." B ...
    "War is a racket," wrote retired U.S. Marine Major General Smedley D. Butler, in 1935. That statement, which is also the title of his short book on war profiteering, rings true today. One courageous civil servant just won a battle to hold war profiteers accountable. Her name is Bunnatine "Bu ...
  • New York Set to Close School for Troubled Teen ...
    As Congress considers spending cuts to reduce the deficit, critics warn that reduced education, healthcare and other social services will disproportionally impact low-income communities of color. This is the case in New York City, where a high school that provides drug treatment to former gang ...
  • The British Watergate: A Backgrounder on the M ...
    The London-based journalist Richard Gizbert, host of the Al Jazeera program "The Listening Post," chronicles how the Murdoch phone hacking scandal has shaken the British government, media system and public. A must-watch interview on how the scandal has unfolded and what it means for people in t ...
  • VIDEO: Rebekah Brooks Testimony Raises More Qu ...
    Former News International executive Rebekah Brooks testified before the British Parliament July 19 as the phone hacking scandal engulfing the Murdoch media empire continues to grow. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch also testified at the same hearing. Click here to watch the ...

Suzie-Q

  • Debt Ceiling: Fighting the Dark Side
    Huffington Post 7/30/11 Jennifer Bendery WASHINGTON — With just three days left until the country is set to begin defaulting on its debt, the House rejected a debt proposal by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Saturday — a move Republicans designed purely for theatrics to show the bi ...
  • Tony Blair to face ‘scathing criticism&# ...
    Tony Blair will face scathing criticism from Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry over his role in the Iraq war, according to reports. The former prime minister will be held to account for major failings in the war in which 179 British soldiers, 3,500 US soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis died, it has ...
  • Debt Ceiling Deadline Looms (LATEST UPDATES)
    AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 7/27/11 09:52 PM ET Updated: 7/29/11 10:19 AM ET Neither the House nor the Senate has a clear path forward for must-pass legislation to allow the government to continue to borrow to pay its bills, putting lawmakers and financial markets alike on edge less tha ...
  • Another House Committee To Consider Global Gag ...
    � � � Earlier this month, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed an amendment that would restore and expand the so-called global gag rule, a provision prohibiting foreign organizations receiving U.S. development assistance from using their own funds to perform abortions or provide women with ...
  • With Default Seven Days Away, House GOP Fixate ...
    � � While the rest of the country focuses on the looming deadline to raise the nation�s debt ceiling, House Republicans are taking advantage of their distraction to repeal environmental regulations and pass the most severe environmental budget cuts in 35 years. Republicans are pushing a bill tha ...

Solari

  • Crossing America
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I left San Francisco on Saturday, July 23 and drove to Laguana Beach. The next day I drove to Tucson, Arizona. After two days in Tucson, I headed east and north to Santa Fe, New Mexico for a meeting on Thursday morning and then southeast to Midland, Texas. Midland [...]
  • Sally Fallon on Nourishing Traditions
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday evening on the The Solari Report I are more than pleased to welcome Sally Fallon of the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund for a discussion of how you access and maintain a delicious, healthy diet and connect with the p ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early success of science, but in a rather grisly morning after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimportant or actually deteriorated ends.” ~ Ald ...
  • Debt-Limit Deal to Get Congress Vote Today
    By Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Mike Dorning Congressional leaders, leaving no extra time before a default threatened for tomorrow, are racing to push through a compromise sealed with President Barack Obama last night to raise the U.S. debt limit by at least $2.1 trillion and slash government spen ...
  • Where is the Money? Let’s Get it Back!
    About the Author Catherine Austin Fitts is president of Solari, Inc. Ms. Fitts served as Assistant Secretary of Housing during the first Bush Administration, lead financial advisor to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Clinton Administration and is a former managing ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Rao Responds
    On the blog he created to discuss ideas from the book: http://www.tempobook.com/2011/07/24/chet-richards-review-of-tempo-on-fabius-maximus/ You may also be interested in following him at his personal blog: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ �
  • Book Review: Tempo
    Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making by Venkatesh Rao (Ribbonfarm, 2011; 154 pages) Reviewed by Chet Richards July 24, 2011 A good book is read more than once while accumulating copious notes in its margins and on the blank pages that the publisher has thoughtf ...
  • Book review: The Next Wave: On the Hunt for A ...
    Summary:   A review of The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda’s American Recruits by Catherine Herridge.  Reviewed by “GI” Wilson (Colonel, USMC, retired). When reading Catherine Herridge’s smashing investigative work on terrorism, The Next Wave, the lyrics from Jimmy Buffet’s “Trouble on ...
  • Attritionist Letter #2 — our military se ...
    Summary:   With US forces engaged around the world in six conflicts (and many small ones), each the day our media paint a picture of the armed services.  News, articles, books, movies — seldom have we been so well informed about our mechanized high-tech defense professionals — the very model ...
  • Today’s tea party propaganda
    Summary: The Tea Party movement provides a picture of the increasingly dysfunctional OODA-loop (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) of American society, where outlandish statements are accepted unquestioningly by true believers. In this environment we can work 24-7 correcting these misrepresentaions (and ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • WaPo Ombudsman Defends Rubin’s Shoddy Norway T ...
    Washington Post Ombudsman Patrick Pexton After neoconservative Washington Post “Right Turn” opinion blogger Jennifer Rubin drew criticism for jumping to blame Muslim extremists for the attacks on Norway (actually carried out by a right-wing anti-Muslim extremist), the vaunted newspaper’s ombud ...
  • The Last Mughal
    Emperor Bahadur Shah II Source: Wikimedia Commons The din of the Great Rebellion of 1857 will continue to echo into our era, marred as it is by ongoing wars and insurgencies in Muslim lands. I believe that a careful study of those events are pertinent for American and European students of ...
  • Afghanistan: US and Pakistan Seek to Reinforce ...
    Kabul, Afghanistan-American and allied forces in Afghanistan are strengthening a layered defense along the border with Pakistan to seize Haqqani network militants as they try to make their way to Kabul to carry out spectacular attacks, according to senior military officers. -- New York Ti ...
  • Saudi Arabia Wants a U.S.-Built Fleet
    There is a sense this deal is getting closer and closer. Saudi Arabia plans to raise its arms purchases from the United States to $90bn from the $60bn announced last year, as the kingdom seeks to upgrade it navy, diplomats in the Gulf said this week. Last year, US officials said Riyadh planned ...
  • Sustainable Strategy and Domestic Dissonance
    Much virtual ink has already spilled in discussion of Richard Haass’s “Restoration” foreign policy piece. One of the more disturbing trends that it reflects, along with much of the criticism of it, is the conflation of foreign and domestic policy. It is not that a foreign policy is necessarily e ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • What Would the Supreme Court Do?
    Jeffrey Rosen has an interesting piece on how the Supreme Court would treat the Obama administration circumventing a default by invoking the 14th Amendment. Since the House hasn't passed the relevant legislation yet, the question is worth considering. Rosen argues that the Court would be ver ...
  • No Deal Is the Best Deal for GOP Presidential ...
    If you want a sense of how far right the Republican base is right now, even with the GOP’s huge victory on the debt ceiling, look no further than the Republican presidential candidates and their statements on the agreement reached last night. For erstwhile moderate Mitt Romney, the deal is a n ...
  • Under Health-Care Reform, Contraception Is Free
    Today, the Department of Health and Human services announced that contraception will be included in a list of preventative services that women's insurance plans will provide free of charge. That means they'll be provided without co-insurance charges or co-pays. The services include: well-woman ...
  • Looking Forward to the Next Hostage Crisis
    Happy Mitch, sad Barack. As you've heard by now, the debt ceiling deal includes an immediate round of cuts, and then a second round of cuts recommended by a bipartisan commission. Unless the debt-slashing recommendations of the commission are approved through Congress, a series of across-the-bo ...
  • Blame Where It's Due
    So far, the response to the debt-ceiling deal announced last night has been as asymmetrical as its contents; the right has been mum, with few Republicans coming out to condemn or praise the agreement. The left, on the other hand, is apoplectic. That�s because the deal � which slashes spending by ...

Buzzflash

  • Letter to the Editor - Government by Hostage T ...
    MARK PERKEL, LETTER TO THE EDITOR ON BUZZFLASHT AT TRUTHOUT For those Americans who don't understand the debt deal it's government by hostage taking. Congress forms a gang of 12 who are supposed to agree on a way to cut the deficit. If the gang fails or congress doesn't pass what they recommend, ...
  • Homegrown Economic Terrorism
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT I might have respected the Republicans If they'd gone into hibernation In shame over the disasters they caused During Dubya's administration. However, that isn't how they roll --- Their main goal is catering to the rich Even if they make our country worse T ...
  • The GOP Lies: 97% of Small Businesses Would No ...
    Recently, BuzzFlash at Truthout talked about how Republican Congressional "deficit reduction" and tax cuts for the rich and corporations don't help and even hurt small businesses in America, because the actual policies facilitate large companies in crushing small business competitors.  But anoth ...
  • Why is GOP Hypocrisy So Brazen and Audacious? ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT For many years, BuzzFlash offered a GOP hypocrite of the week award. The problem was not in finding someone who fit the "honor," it was selecting one from a teeming cauldron of candidates. In some ways, hypocrisy is a built-in component of being an ...
  • "Heil Hitler" Buchanan Defends Norway Mass Mur ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Why go out on a limb & bother To take the time to co-opt him? He doesn't like his dad, Pat --- Why don't you just adopt him?read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Genetics at a SNP
    Genetics at a SNP – There are genetic variants, SNPs, associated with a tendency to have almost any physical trait such as baldness, athleticisim, green eyes, red hair, obesity, alcohol dependence, type 2 diabetes and many other diseases, even the amount of earwax one produces. There are also SN ...
  • Headless zombie squid and dead frogs dancing
    It is possible to re-animate dead appendages with a little salt, either table salt or in solution form as soy sauce. Be warned, this may put you off your breakfast. In the first video (which seems to have first appeared on the web a couple of years ago but a variant of which went viral [...]Head ...
  • Wear sunscreen
    Remember that speech that led to that Baz Luhrmann hit, “Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen“? It was good advice and still is. Here, my friend Kat Arney, blogger, broadcaster, cancer expert and harpist, explains the ins and outs of sun protection. It perhaps should also be mentioned that you can ...
  • Higgs glimpse?
    Higgs glimpse? – Lots of hype going on around the possibility of having spotted a glimpse of the Higgs boson that, in theory, endows matter with mass. Of course, despite the press conferences and hype, the physicists are still stressing that it is far too early to know whether the signals they h ...
  • Rosalind Franklin Google Doodle
    Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British X-ray crystallographer who made pioneering contributions to the understanding of the detailed molecular structures of the genetic code with her data from DNA and RNA as well as viruses, coal and graphite. She died prematurely a ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Sen. Coburn is Dead Wrong on Worker Safety
    A deficit reduction report that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) published in late July relies on misrepresented data when it calls for a $72.6 million cut to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) budget. One section of the report, entitled “Back in Black,” urges Congress to elimin ...
  • With Debt Ceiling Agreement at Hand, Congress, ...
    We’re pleased to see that the bloated national security budget is finally on the chopping block. The proposed Joint Select Committee on Budget Reductions will not have much trouble finding wasteful national security spending: the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) and Taxpayers for Common Se ...
  • Victory for Women’s Health: HHS Announces that ...
    Planned Parenthood applauds the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decision to include the full range of FDA-approved contraceptive methods as a women’s preventive health service, making it available without co-pays or cost sharing.  The HHS announcement follows a strong recommen ...
  • Debt Deal Creates “‘Catfood Commission’ on Ste ...
    GWENDOLYN MINK, wendymink at gmail.comread more
  • Debt Ceiling Deal a Blow to Women's Economic S ...
    The debt ceiling agreement reached by the White House and congressional leaders over the weekend deals a serious blow to women's economic security. If approved by both houses of Congress, the agreement will impose $1 trillion in cuts to programs such as family planning clinics, food stamps, coll ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • US Debt Deal: How Washington Lost the Plot
    Dean Baker President Obama and the Republicans in Congress have finally worked out a deal over the debt ceiling. It appears as though the Republicans got most of what they wanted: big cuts to domestic spending and no tax increases.read more
  • Health Insurers Sacrifice Americans for Profit
    Wendell Potter Three of the biggest health insurers have announced quarterly earnings in the past few days. If Americans were able to eavesdrop on what executives from those firms tell their Wall Street masters every three months, they wou ...
  • The Goons of August
    Robert Kuttner Let us face the momentous truth: The United States has been rendered ungovernable except on the extortionate terms of the far-right. For the first time in modern history, one of the two major parties is in the hands of a fac ...
  • Obama Just Got Run Over
    Matthew Rothschild The debt ceiling agreement is a disaster. The Republicans won. The tea partiers won. The Democrats lost. Progressives lost. The American people lost. And Obama lost. Obama has largely himself to blame for this rout. For ...
  • To Post Ombud, Critics of 'Muslims Did It' Blo ...
    Peter Hart Washington Post ombud Patrick Pexton weighed in yesterday (7/31/11) on the criticisms of right-wing Post blogger Jennifer Rubin. She was among a handful of media personalities who declared the Norway terror attacks to be the wor ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • End blockade now, says UN group in rare Gaza visit
    Thalif DeenThe Electronic Intifada For the first time in 43 years, members of the UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices in Occupied Territories gained entry into Gaza in July, through Egypt which ousted its Israeli-friendly president Hosni Mubarak following massive public protest ...
  • New moves to curb criticism of Israel in US an ...
    Kristin SrzemskiThe Electronic Intifada A number of new initiatives to curtail freedom of speech by conflating opposition to Israeli crimes with anti-Semitism are underway in the United States and�Canada.
  • Palestinian Christians protest Anglican chief' ...
    Sarah IrvingThe Electronic Intifada Comments by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the Anglican and Episcopalian churches worldwide, have aroused anger among Palestinian�Christians.
  • Israel's prison walls cannot keep us apart
    Fidaa ElaydiThe Electronic IntifadaDallas Fidaa Elaydi’s uncle has been imprisoned in Israel for more than twenty years, and his family in Gaza have not been able to visit him for the past six.
  • The sham solidarity of Israel’s Zionist left
    Budour Youssef HassanThe Electronic Intifada Recent marches in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv raise urgent questions about the true meaning of joint�struggle.

The Wonk Room

  • WaPo Ombudsman Defends Rubin’s Shoddy No ...
    After neoconservative Washington Post “Right Turn” opinion blogger Jennifer Rubin drew criticism for jumping to blame Muslim extremists for the attacks on Norway (actually carried out by a right-wing anti-Muslim extremist), the vaunted newspaper’s ombudsman Patrick Pexton wrote that he chatted w ...
  • VIDEO: As Congresswoman Gabby Giffords Makes H ...
    This evening, as the House of Representatives convened to vote on the debt ceiling plan, Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) made a surprise appearance to cast her first vote since the shooting earlier this year. Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) praised Giffords, noting the admiration the country ...
  • Mitch McConnell Vows To Hold Debt Ceiling Host ...
    While a deal has been struck to raise the debt ceiling for now, many progressives have worried that the damaged has been already been done in that Republicans learned that “raw extortion works and carries no political cost,” as the New York Times’ Paul Krugman wrote today. “Irresponsible brinksm ...
  • The Vote
    I was glad to see that the debt ceiling bill passed the House predominantly with Republican votes. Whether or not you think enacting this plan is superior to trying something weird like platinum coins, it clearly reflects conservative priorities. Even if you somehow think that the cuts aren’t cu ...
  • The Green Scare: GOP’s Issa Wants to Inv ...
    California Republican Darrell Issa isn’t interested in energy security, reducing pollution, helping consumers cuts costs or preparing the nation for peak oil. The same day that the Obama administration announced an historic fuel efficiency standard that will reduce oil dependency by billions of ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Obama Betrayal and Canada's Economy
    Can't say much about Obama's sell-out. He's a PR creature, designed to serve the US-American corporate elite. This isn't a "cave-in." This is what he wanted to do. His whole administration has been a pretense of caving-in to Tea-Bagger demands. But keep in mind, government austerity during a re ...
  • The Growth of Entitlements
    I was reading the comments section to this Royson James article, wherein he points out that Ford obviously lied about how he could find a billion dollars worth of "gravy" at City Hall and eliminate it without having to cut services. As a result of his threatened service cuts and library closings ...
  • Post For The Day
    A YouTube Clip
  • More Disgusting Bullshit From Rob "Lying Sack ...
    So, it turns out that the lying, cowardly prick is unimpressed with the lack of suggestions coming from the citizenry: During the interview, which was recorded in the morning or early afternoon, he [Ford] was asked by Cybulski to identify the best suggestion he had heard during the meeting. H ...
  • Un-Fuck You Rob Ford
    So, the liar, the coward, ... during his insulting marathon communication strategy has decided to lie about his father's legacy, and the legacy of his father's chief, the murderously incompetent Mike Harris, and to obscure their role in impoverishing Toronto and smashing together the discordant ...

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Digital Journal

  • Vancouver Police make fifth arrest in Con Air ...
    In less than a week, half the people named in the current Con Air's 10 Most Wanted List have been arrested in Vancouver and will be returned to the jurisdictions they fled to avoid prosecution.
  • Lt. Gov. of Ontario commemorates John Graves S ...
    Lieutenant Governor of Ontario David C. Onley and City Councillor Michael Thompson commemorated Simcoe Day, a day that honours the first Lieutenant Governor and founder of the Town of York, John Graves Simcoe.
  • Study shows connection between web browser, IQ ...
    Have you ever associated a person's favorite literature or their hobbies with their level of intelligence? Although revealing to an extent, a recent study, however, shows that there is--perhaps--an easier method to discover how intelligent a person is.
  • Turkey’s Silent Civil War: Top Military Comman ...
    Turkey’s silent civil war between secularists and Islamist ruling party took a new turn as top military resigned en masse. 246 officers in jail without indictment. Canada receiving new wave of refugee applications. Biblical prophecy cited.
  • Toronto Pauses for Caribbean Carnival
    Despite the big success of Caribbean Carnival's first staging at Exhibition Place on Saturday in Toronto, there were people who thought something was missing in the event.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Pat Stogran calls $2 billion promised to veter ...
    Last September, amidst outrage by soldiers and reports in the media critical of the government’s treatment of veterans, the Harper government promised $2 billion in increased benefits. It was announced at the time that the money would go to “increased financial support for seriously injured Vet ...
  • Talks collapse in Bahrain
    Bahrain, a Persian Gulf nation that has been the site of pro-democracy protests over recent months, is entering a new, uncertain phase after the collapse of talks between the main Shiite opposition party and the ruling Sunni elite (Associated Press, “Shiite Party in Bahrain Leaves Talks With Rul ...
  • How much would you give to stop Harper’s steal ...
    Would you give $7 each month to stop Harper's stealth fighters? Go to https://www.ceasefire.ca/donate/donate.php
  • Ceasefire.ca volunteers send letters to 2500 s ...
    A photo of our team of volunteers sending letters to 2500 Ceasefire.ca supporters.
  • Canada makes the wrong move at Conference on D ...
    Cesar Jaramillo, program officer at Project Ploughshares, argues against the recent decision to boycott the UN Conference on Disarmament (Cesar Jaramillo, “Canadaâs disarmament conference boycott is ill-advised,” Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 14 July 2011): Canadaâs newly elected Conservative major ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Herpes Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
    June 29th, 2011 ScienceDaily.com Laboratories at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Brown University, and House Ear Institute (HEI) have developed a new technique to observe herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1) infections growing inside cells. HSV1, the cause of the common cold sore, persists in ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-29-11
    Today, Kevin reveals the gruesome details behind the government’s secret plan to wipe out the elderly population! Plus, find out why wheat bread isn’t as good for you as you once thought and why doing a mineral detox is so vital to your long-term health. Self Help: Add Yourself Into The ‘Kevin W ...
  • The FDA is giving you cancer
    Well, they’re at it again!! The FDA has officially declared that the sun is unsafe and is actually urging you to lather your poor body with toxin sunscreens!! As you are well aware, sunlight is one of the vital elements to live a healthy lifestyle! It has even been proven that a lack of sunli ...
  • ‘How To Catch A Predator’ Host Caught Cheating ...
    June 30th, 2011 The Washington Post By: Jen Chaney Chris Hansen, host of Dateline’s “To Catch a Predator,” has allegedly been caught himself. As The Atlantic notes, the National Enquirer reportedly has video footage of the married Hansen, 52, on a date with an anchorwoman at an NBC affiliate in ...
  • Man Who Turned In $17,000 Fined For Not Tellin ...
    June 30th, 2011 ChicagoTribune.com By: Deanese Williams-Harris An Arlington Heights man was fined $500 after he turned in $17,000 but lied about how and where he actually found the cash, police said today. Robert Adams, 54, was cited today for filing a false report with the Rolling Meadows Polic ...

Pambazuka News

  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descen ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
  • Global: It takes a Villager
    Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Global: New murders and fumigations in ancestr ...
    In only two weeks, four Afro-Colombian leaders have been murdered, and several subjected to death threats. Fumigations have caused the internal displacement of more than 100 Afro-Colombians. The violation of Afro-Colombian fundamental rights continue...

War in Context

  • Tom Engelhardt: two-faced Washington
    Lowering Americaâs war ceiling? Imperial psychosis on display By Tom Engelhardt By now, it seems as if everybody and his brother has joined the debt-ceiling imbroglio in Washington, perhaps the strangest homespun drama of our time.  It’s as if Washington’s leading political players, aided ...
  • Islamophobia, Zionism and the Norway massacre
    In a Washington Post op-ed, Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League compared the Islamophobia that led Anders Behring Breivik to massacre 77 innocent people in Norway to the anti-Semitism that resulted in the Holocaust. Ali Abunimah welcomes the fact that Foxman is echoi ...
  • It’s time to scrutinize Fox
    Michael Massing says that now Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is under examination, it’s time to scrutinize Fox News. Since being launched in 1996, Fox has had a profound and toxic effect on the press and politics in this country. With a daily prime-time viewership of around 2 millionâmore than t ...
  • Syria — ‘Hama is getting massacred’
    The New York Times reports: Syrian security forces bombed the central city of Hama for a second day on Monday as the government pressed its campaign to crush a four-month-old popular uprising against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. On Sunday, at least 70 people were killed when the ...
  • Pamela Geller condemns victims of terrorism in ...
    Anyone can denounce violence. Ku Klux Klan leaders and all sorts of other hatemongers are well practiced in making pro forma statements about being law-abiding, peace-loving Americans. So when Pamela Geller says “I abhor violence” but then goes on to describe the victims of Anders Behring Breivi ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Aerosol sat observations and climate models di ...
    From the University of Michigan something I think Dr. Roy Spencer will be interested in as it is yet another case where models and satellite observations differ significantly. See the figure S1 at the end of this article – Anthony … Continue reading →
  • Drought by area impacted is worst ever – ...
    From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln , a new record in the 12 year old drought monitor. US sets drought monitor’s ‘exceptional drought’ record in July Worst classification for drought in nearly 12 percent of contiguous US The percent of contiguous … Continue reading →
  • July UAH global temperature, up slightly
    UAH Global Temperature Update July, 2011: +0.37 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer How ironic..a âglobal warming denierâ reporting on warmer temperatures The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for July, 2011 increased to +0.37 deg. C (click on the … Continue reading →
  • New term from the Chronicle: “Climate Th ...
    Below is an excerpt of the piece: Climate Thuggery July 29, 2011, 10:04 am By Peter Wood Is anthropogenic global warming (AGW) a valid scientific theory?  Is it well supported by the empirical data or is it mostly an artifact … Continue reading →
  • Rise of the 1st Law Deniers
     by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. So, we continue to be treated to news articles (e.g. here, and here.) quoting esteemed scientists who claim to have found problems with our paper published in Remote Sensing, which shows huge discrepancies between … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • The US Dictatorship and its White House Servan ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 1 August, 2011 If there is one thing that the office of President Barack Obama demonstrates it is that democracy does not exist in the United States. This may seem a rather outlandish statement. For many people, the fact that the 44th presiden ...
  • Super Congress = Fascism by The Other Katherin ...
    by The Other Katherine Harris Featured writer Dandelion Salad Glitzqueen August 1, 2011 No “Super Congress” should be acceptable to anyone who claims to be a Democrat.  This is fascism on a plate!  It’s bad enough we’ve got five kinglets running amok on the Supreme Court. My son and I, life-l ...
  • Anger Tsunami: Mass protest wave reaches Israe ...
    Dandelion Salad RussiaToday on Jul 30, 2011 The biggest wave of protest rallies in years is due to start shortly in Israel. Demonstrators will take to the streets in seven cities across the country. And activists hope the rally in Tel Aviv alone will attract half-a-million people. Thousands have ...
  • The Debt Ceiling Set For Progressive Repealing ...
    Dandelion Salad by Prof. Michael Hudson Global Research July 29, 2011 Mr. Obama’s scare tactics to get Democrats to vote for his Republican Wall Street plan The Wall Street bailout melodrama should be viewed as a dress rehearsal for today’s debt-ceiling non-crisis. You know that the debt kerfuff ...
  • Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the Wor ...
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org July 31, 2011 Originally published and crossposted from www.commondreams.org February 16, 2007 There is a “mystery” we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor c ...

Your New Reality

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    United States Marine Corps officer, General James N. Mattis : "You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually it's qui ...
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    How Rupert Murdoch Conned British MPs By Playing The Sad, Pathetic Old Man Card By Darryl Mason Rupert Murdoch, at first, refused to appear before British MPs to answer questions about News International's involvement in phone hacking, spying, blackmail and police corruption. But so furious wa ...
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    The Rupert Murdoch Hacking And Spying Scandal has given competing media companies, independent news agencies, bloggers and tweeters enormous opportunities to feast on, mock and profit from Murdoch's legal problems. Now it's time for advertising agencies to get their share of the cash-in from the ...
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    One of the reasons I love Twitter is it forces people to say what they want to say in as few a words as possible. Sure they can tease with a line and then link to a 1000 word essay, but it's much better when the truth of the matter is nailed then and there in one or two tweets. Like this double ...
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    Ex-Murdoch Editor Claims Phone Of Dead Girl Hacked Only To Help Police One of the most bizarre explanations for journalists spying on victims of crime and why Rupert Murdoch journalists at the News Of The World paid investigators to hack into the phone of a missing 13 year girl, of course it co ...

Wired - Science

  • Robot Taught to Think for Itself
    By Katie Scott, Wired UK A robot that uses its own reasoning when faced with a task it hasn’t completed before has been unveiled by the Hasegawa Group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The robot uses a technology called SOINN (Self-Organising Incremental Neural Network). Osamu Hasegawa is ...
  • Animal Astronauts Float in Zero G for Science
    See Also: Invertebrate Astronauts Make Space History The Space Shuttle Program’s Oddest Passengers Video: Spider Spins Zero-Gravity Web in Space Spiders and Space: The Most Popular Stories of 2010
  • Sea Turtle GPS Shows Ocean-Spanning Leatherbac ...
    The fact that leatherback turtles swim thousands of miles is driven home beautifully in this new map of their sophisticated, ocean-spanning movements. Between 2000 and 2007, biologists attached GPS transmitters to 126 leatherbacks nesting in Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. ...
  • Groovy Giant Asteroid Spins in New NASA Video
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience1089842295001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); NASA today revealed the first close-up imagery of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in our solar system. The ion-propelled spacecraft Dawn, which took ...
  • How a Holographic Universe Emerged From Fight ...
    By John Timmer, Ars Technica The proponents of string theory seem to think they can provide a more elegant description of the Universe by adding additional dimensions. But some other theoreticians think they’ve found a way to view the Universe as having one less dimension. The work sprung ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Joel Beinin: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict ...
    The great majority of the Israelis demanding affordable housing, even if they may understand the connection, are reluctant to articulate that their economic distress is exacerbated by the cost of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Amira Hass: Palestinians’ low salaries also li ...
    A Palestinian financial crisis? Problems with donor countries? Economist Raja Khalidi offers some different explanations for the PA's fiscal problems. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA websit ...
  • No housing shortage over the Green Line
    Anyone who asserts that there is no construction in Israel should peruse OECD data on building beyond the Green Line. 9% of GDP beyond the Green Line comes from construction, compared with 4.7% of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Ahmed Tibi: A strike against free speech
    Because I believe in ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, equal rights for Palestinians and Jews, and the right of return for Palestinian refugees forced from their homes and lands... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Gideon Levy: The tent protesters must graduate ...
    The time has come to stick their hand in the fire and fight for all the issues they have steered clear of so far - the security budget, the settlements, the occupation, the breaches of democracy and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Study Explains Why Muscles Weaken with Age and ...
    Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have discovered the biological mechanism behind age-related loss of muscle strength and identified a drug that may help reverse this process.
  • It's in the Sugar: Mayo Clinic Shows How Metab ...
    Providing new insight into the biomechanics of regenerative medicine, researchers at Mayo Clinic have shown how cellular metabolism facilitates stem cell procurement from regular tissue.
  • Geisinger's ProvenCare Lung Cancer Collaborati ...
    Leaders of Geisinger Health System's ProvenCare(r) Lung Cancer program have partnered with health care providers across the country in an effort to replicate the program's effectiveness with treating lung cancer patients.
  • The Hearing Journal Directory Is Now Exclusive ...
    The leading source of information on the global hearing industry is now available exclusively online at The Hearing Journal Directory. The new, free online directory provided by The Hearing Journal, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, offers audiology pro ...
  • One-Third of Brain Hemorrhage Survivors Have P ...
    One-third of patients who have survived a life-threatening subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) have disabling symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), reports a study in the August issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Li ...

Natural Health News

  • High Risk for Breast Cancer? Avoid this Dange ...
    A recent study looked at mammography radiation-induced DNA damage in epithelial breast cells. The results showed that damage was induced both through a low-dose effect and a repeated dose effect. According to the study, as reported by Green Med Info: �These findings may lead us to re-evaluate ...
  • Fructose Proven Far More Harmful Than Sugar
    While all sugar-sweetened beverages promote the development of obesity, it has been theorized that drinks sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup may be particularly detrimental to health, as they contain fructose in its 'free' monosaccharide form. A new experiment tested whether consuming 'fre ...
  • Add this Simple Trick to Your Meals to Help Ke ...
    A new study found that people who chew their food more take in fewer calories.� Chewing your food 40 times instead of a typical 15 times could result in your consuming nearly 12 percent fewer calories. The study found a connection between the amount of chewing and levels of several hormones tha ...
  • Genes Are NOT the Main Cause of Autism
    Many scientists have believed that genetics accounted for 90 percent of a child's risk for autism. A new study, however, suggests that environmental factors could play a much larger role. The research looked at nearly 200 pairs of twins, and found, to the researchers’ surprise, that a greater n ...
  • FDA Finds Vaccine Plant Has Burnt Shrink Wrap ...
    In the latest quality problem identified by U.S. regulators at Merck�s biggest vaccine-making plant, charred bits of plastic shrink wrap have been found in vials of the vaccines.� Merck said it isn't aware of any adverse health events associated with the problem. Affected vaccines included Gard ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Guilfoyle on the Mavi Marmara
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I want to call readers’ attention to Douglas Guilfoyle’s article “The Mavi Marmara Incident and Blockade in Armed Conflict,” which is forthcoming in the British Year Book of International Law.  (Subscription required.)  It’s absolutely superb — compreh ...
  • Guilfoyle on the Mavi Marmara
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I want to call readers’ attention to Douglas Guilfoyle’s article “The Mavi Marmara Incident and Blockade in Armed Conflict,” which is forthcoming in the British Year Book of International Law.  (Subscription required.)  It’s absolutely superb — compreh ...
  • Punishment for Terrorism in Norway
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Professor Cecilia Marcela Bailliet of the University of Oslo has a very useful post over at IntLawGrrls on possible criminal punishment for right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik. Contrary to what has been reported elsewhere, according to Bailliet it is pos ...
  • Punishment for Terrorism in Norway
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Professor Cecilia Marcela Bailliet of the University of Oslo has a very useful post over at IntLawGrrls on possible criminal punishment for right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik. Contrary to what has been reported elsewhere, according to Bailliet it is pos ...
  • Consular Convention Implementing Legislation: ...
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness Though it produced hardly a ripple in the news (given all the other drama on Capitol Hill this week), Senator Leahy held a hearing yesterday on the legislation he has introduced to enforce the notification provisions of the Vienna Convention on Consular ...

Public News Service

  • Senate Committee to Consider Imported Prescrip ...
    Senate Committee to Consider Imported Prescription Drug Safety Washington, D.C. – Nearly half of the manufactured medicines and 80 percent of the raw materials to make them comes from overseas. Arizona Senator John McCain is a member of a Senate committee considering giving the FDA more power t ...
  • Cardiologist: Don’t Be Afraid of Hands-O ...
    Cardiologist: Don’t Be Afraid of Hands-Only CPR Phoenix, AZ – Sudden cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., and immediate, effective CPR can more than double a victim’s chance of survival. New guidelines say hands-only CPR is just as effective as CPR with breaths in t ...
  • New Promises to Children: Campaign Kicks Off i ...
    New Promises to Children: Campaign Kicks Off in Arizona Phoenix, AZ – A promise to children: An opportunity for healthy brain development, school preparation, and nurturing environments. That’s the basis of the “National Movement for America’s Children” to encourage everyone to get involved to i ...
  • Number of Children with Food Allergies on the Rise
    Number of Children with Food Allergies on the Rise Phoenix, AZ - About eight-percent of children in the United States may have a food allergy, according to a new study (from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine). Comments from allergist Dr. Allan Stillerman with Minnesota-based ...
  • Ending Wilderness Protection for AZ Forests?
    Ending Wilderness Protection for AZ Forests? Phoenix, AZ - More than a million acres of potential wilderness in Arizona’s national forests would lose protection under a bill being heard today in a U.S. House committee. The Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act would open up so-called roadless ...

Center for Food Safety

  • U.S. Congress Turns Up The Heat On Genetically ...
    23 Members of Congress say “GE fish would not be in the public interest” NEWLY PUBLISHED STUDIES HIGHLIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF ESCAPED GE FISH Members of Congress turned up the heat on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday, sending strongly worded, bipartisan letters calling ...
  • U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Amendment ...
    Sixty-Seven Organizations and Businesses Endorse Amendment;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its decision yesterday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving genetically eng ...
  • FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
    Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...
  • Environmental Groups Petition Federal Governme ...
    FDA poised to take action on the first-ever application to market a genetically engineered salmon without adequate consideration of environmental risks and public input Earthjustice, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • The Sentencing of Tim DeChristopher Highlights ...
    The Sentencing of Tim DeChristopher Highlights the Conflict Between the People and Corporate-Government [globalresearch.ca] The trial and sentencing of Tim DeChristopher highlights the conflict between the people of the United States and the corporate-government that protects the privileged. In ...
  • CopWatch (2002)
    Winner: 2003 Media That Matters - Media Activism Award (Guerrilla News Network) American television audiences have long been accustomed to the celebration of rawkus police action via the Fox Network's signature exploitation, COPS. And while, for many, the show is a tell-tale sign of ...
  • 2 Spirits: Native Lesbians and Gay Men : Osa H ...
    2-Spirited people (Native lesbians and Gay men) from the Bay Area share their experience of overlapping gender, ethnic and cultural identities as they explore and define their visions of utopia. Coordinating Producer: Osa Hidalgo de la Riva for Royal Eagle-Bear Productions (Oakland, CA )
  • Colombia: Play Democracy, Hide the Corpses - A ...
    Colombia: Play Democracy, Hide the Corpses - Anarkismo Not a week goes in Colombia without reports of assassinations and persecution of labor and political activists. Ana Fabricia Cordoba, gender activist and leader of displaced peasants, was shot dead on June 7th inside a street bus, after she ...
  • Jews sans frontieres: Why write about Jews?
    Jews sans frontieres: Why write about Jews? Beware – a publicity blurb about a book follows. The book is mine – Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights – and it analyses diaspora Jewish opposition to Israel. There'll be a description of what the book is about over at Mondoweiss. There’s another d ...

Pensieve

  • Plot Device, Allegro Non “Trope”-o
    This is a showcase of post-processing more than of acting; the effects overwhelm it. After all, it is a viral commercial for Red Giant Software. Yet, this witty short film is hilarious in exposing the over-use of movie tropes by lazy (or cowardly?) script writers who are filling movie theaters, ...
  • What is Google+?
    I’ve been testing out Google+ for the past few weeks, and although I’m not leaving Facebook anytime soon, I like the selectiveness of being able to share to different circles or everyone. Let me know in the comments if you’d like a Google+ invite. Related posts:Why Google Buzz? Your Web Alphabet ...
  • Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure
    This fascinating TED conference reveals research into the psychology of pleasure and pain. Pleasure and pain are increased or decreased by what we believe about them. Sometimes I wish I could hypnotize myself and change what I believe about my life. I’m conscious that much of my misery comes fr ...
  • Pensieve Gets a New Look
    I decided to give the blog a much-needed face lift. I decided on this theme because it needed the least amount of tweaking (so I thought). I ended up having to code myself through the installation, sadly, in order to keep my old posts and be able to show the thumbnails you can see if [...] Re ...
  • Impeachment: an Overdue Constitutional Amendment
    Photo by codepinkhq After skimming over the Truth Commission’s report, I found that one of their recommendations is to introduce an impeachment mechanism to the Honduran Constitution. An impeachment mechanism would have been sufficient to achieve the goal the Congress and Supreme Court wanted in ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Army ambushes Freedom Theater
    Soldiers have stormed the Freedom Theatre of Jenin, whose co-founder Juliano Mer-Khamis was slain earlier this year. URGENT PRESS RELEASE From The Freedom Theater Foundation, Jenin, Palestine 04.46 (gmt+2), July 27, 2011 Special Forces of the Israeli Army attacked the Freedom Theater in Jenin Re ...
  • For Israeli army, Palestinians having guests i ...
    Video of the Jully 22nd protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. Part 1 of an account of that day’s protest from our source A. is here. Her story continues… After a while, my paramedic friend and a young man from the village led me once again through back-roads and fields back to Leila’ ...
  • For Israeli army, Palestinians having guests i ...
    Here is the  video of the Nabi Saleh protest from Friday. We received this account from the same protest our anonymous  source A., an international activist living in Palestine.  She explains: This account is edited from a chat conversation describing events that took place on July 21st dur ...
  • For Lieberman, human rights = terrorism
    Well, this sums it up well. Though Israel declined to follow up the anti-Boycott bill by passing a law calling for the investigation of human rights organizations, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was not “blasted ministers for refusing to probe” From Ha’aretz, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberm ...
  • More from the Salem Music Center: Q&A with the ...
    The Villages Group continues to work closely with Salem’s Music Center, leading to ever-expanding relationships between the Center and the music-education community in Israel. Below (in reverse chronological order) are descriptions of two visits from Tel Aviv to Salem that took place over the p ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Healing PTSD through shamanism and indigenous ...
    YARINDIN from Mark Schwartz on Vimeo. My friend Dr. Richard Grossman; acupuncturist, musician, shaman, healer, is working on this worthwhile documentary movie project with others. What they’re doing is important, healing PTSD in vets using non-traditional, effective methods. They are looking fo ...
  • Debt men walking. Bill Gross of PIMCO: Debt de ...
    PIMCO manages over a trillion in bonds. Emphasis in original. Their website is really sluggish this morning, perhaps because so many want to read this. Nothing in the Congressional compromise reached over the weekend makes a significant dent in our $1.5 trillion deficit. “Out year” fantasies, a ...
  • Turning Hummers into mini-homes
    Architectural firm HplusF wants to turn old Hummer shells into homes. Here’s their plan for eight Hummer shells becoming one house. They have many other plans too. Dornob has more.
  • Can you hear? Terry Sherven
    “Revolution, can you hear, can you hear them now, can you hear them defying.”
  • Rhode island city files bankruptcy, voids publ ...
    The city said municipal workers must now pay 20% of their medical coverage and that everything was done to avoid this day but the unions wouldn’t budge. Mish Central Falls was bankrupt years ago and I said so repeatedly. The costs on taxpayers to delay this bankruptcy have been severe. Once sta ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Anarchists should be reported, advises Westmin ...
    What should you do if you discover an anarchist living next door? Dust off your old Sex Pistols albums and hang out a black and red flag to make them feel at home? Invite them round to debate the merits of Peter Kropotkin’s anarchist communism versus the individualist anarchism of Emile Armand? ...
  • This Day In History – August 2
    1610 â Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean. 1776 â The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place. 1790 â The first US Census is conducted. 1914 – As a result of the [...]
  • Nigerian state to prosecute parents over polio ...
    KANO, July 29 – A Nigerian state that has battled polio outbreaks has vowed to prosecute parents who refuse to immunise their children against the highly contagious disease, a health official said Thursday. “The government will henceforth arrest and prosecute any parent that refuses to allow hea ...
  • Federal court rules human genes can be patented
    The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled in a 2 to 1 decision Friday that human genes can be patented because the DNA extracted from cells is not a product of nature. The court held (PDF) that Myriad Genetics can patent two human genes used to predict the risk ...
  • Plant a Garden, Go to Jail for 93-Days?! Nanny ...
    They’re cracking down on food trucks in St. Louis and busting those who bust a sag in Collinsville, Illinois, but the nation’s top nanny is the Detroit-area scold who just can’t stand front-yard vegetable gardens. Last year a Georgia man who committed the same crime faced only fines, but Julie B ...

The Air Vent

  • Polarbear Science Mysteries Exposed?
    Don’t kid yourself, they want the bears to drown. Check this out at WUWT, AKA the center of the internet. Inspector generalâs transcript of drowned polar bear researcher being grilled
  • A repy to Dr. Jim Bouldin
    I’ve been gone for a while working on other things.  MikeN called my attention to a criticism by  Jim Bouldin, of my ‘probing’ of the hockey stick CPS methods. Since the Air Vent wouldn’t even be a climate blog, if it weren’t for Mann 08, it does seem important to address the criticisms by Jim ...
  • Roman M’s anomaly combination incorporat ...
    As long time readers know, I’m a fan of Roman’s temperature combination method which doesn’t require a base period window to offset individual station anomalies in global temperature averaging.   Steve Mosher has incorporated Roman’s work into his own code for R. Roman’s Method – Steve Mosher
  • Introduction to RghcnV3 – Steve Mosher
    Steve has put together a high quality series of algorithms for combining surface station data in R.  He has combined methods from a wide variety of sources with the following example incorporating ideas from my favorite blog by Tamino.  This is the kind of science I like, open source, nothing hi ...
  • Subsampled Confidence Intervals – Zeke
    Sub-sampling is hard to argue with.  Zeke has done a post on global temperatures at the Blackboard taking 500 stations at a time and looking at the extremes of averages.   It presented a set of very tight error bars based on weather variance, sampling errors, and any other random events which af ...

Focal Point

  • How Many Swastikas Does a Guy Have to Tattoo o ...
    Here's a strange story: Erica Herrera plans to marry Curtis Allgier, even though he's an incarcerated alleged murderer with white supremacist tattoos all over his face and she's not white. (Full-sized image) Herrera attempts to explain her decision to the Associated Press in terms of kind of . ...
  • New York Owl Felled By Herpes
    City investigators have determined that a great horned own found dead in Inwood Hill Park last month succumbed to avian herpes. The virus is not transmissible to humans. [Photo credit: Great horned owl by Vicki's Nature, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Cat Food Central: Boehner's Budget Proposal Wo ...
    John Boehner's budget proposal would cause the greatest increase in poverty in U.S. history, according to an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: House Speaker John Boehner’s new budget proposal would require deep cuts in the years immediately ahead in Social Security ...
  • Trypophobia
    Does this picture of a harmless lotus pod give you the howling fantods? I'll admit, it squicks me a little. Jennifer Abbasi reports on the Popular Science blog that there's something of a grassroots movement afoot to recognize "trypophobia," an irrational aversion to the sight of clustered hol ...
  • Born to Run: Poll Shows NJ Voters Evenly Split ...
    I've been trying to draft the Boss for years. Finally, a survey by Policy Policy Polling shows that New Jerseyans are as likely to support Bruce Springsteen for governor (42%) as they are to back incumbent Republican governor Chris Christie (42%), with 16% undecided. Springsteen isn't even run ...

Inside Facebook

  • The Top 25 Facebook Games for August 2011
    Kicking off the month of August on Facebook are many of the games we’re very used to seeing in the top 10, and most of which belong to Zynga: CityVille, FarmVille, and newcomer Empires & Allies. A couple of up-and-coming games catch our eye, however, toward the lower end of our top 25 Facebook g ...
  • Facebook Officially Launches Ads API, Opening ...
    Facebook today announced the official launch of Ads API, which allows developers to create tools and services that programmatically create, buy, and manage Facebook ad campaigns. The Ads API had been in limited private beta since late 2009, and has been used by brands via third-party providers t ...
  • Even as Android Eclipses iOS in U.S. Mobile Su ...
    Android may now be bigger than iOS in terms of mobile subscribers in the U.S. But in so far as app developers are concerned, iPads and iPods are still handing Apple’s platform the lead in terms of unique users. We periodically look at active usage of Facebook’s various smartphone clients to get ...
  • Roost Local Scorecard Helps Businesses See If ...
    Roost, developer of a social publishing platform, today launched a new tool for local businesses on Facebook that helps them determine what percentage of their fans actually live close enough to be customers. Roost Local Scorecard breaks down where a Page’s fans list as their current city, and p ...
  • Featured Facebook Campaigns: Alamo Rent A Car, ...
    Contests with different types of prizes were utilized by a rental car company and TV networks this week to recruit and engage fans. We’ve excerpted two of the campaigns below. You can see the full week’s coverage in the Facebook Marketing Bible, which also includes detailed breakdowns of dozens ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Palestinian bid for UN statehood recognition
    Lawrence Davidson argues that, while UN recognition of Palestinian statehood could be potentially of psychological value to the Palestinian cause, "boycott, divestment and sanctions within the context of increasing worldwide awareness of Israel's essential racist nature shows real promise of res ...
  • Israel and the American Jewish voter
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the bizarre phenomenon of a Democratic and a Republican candidate fighting a congressional election in a New York district not over national or local issues, but over which of the two is more loyal to Israel.
  • Norwegian mass murderer Breivik's ideological ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's ideological and spiritual soulmates in Britain: pro-Israel advocate Melanie Phillips and the equally pro-Israel racist far right, such as the English Defence League and the neo-conservative Zionist blog Harry’s Place.
  • Death and contradiction: the case of Iran’s nu ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers two contradictions underlying US policy towards Iran: on the one hand an anti-Iranian, anti-Muslim and pro-Israel worldview manifested in, among other things, the murder of Iranian nuclear scientists on the pretext that Iran represents a nuclear threat, and on the oth ...
  • Norway's monster and the poison of Zionist pro ...
    How much was the mind of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik conditioned and warped by Zionist propaganda as peddled with the assistance of Christian fundamentalism by much of the Western mainstream media and many websites?

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • A Forum for the Israeli Lobby, Neocons & the W ...
    A Parasitic Puppet Forums’ No-No List: From 9/11 to Israel & Obama-Cons I generally don’t like to spend time and energy going after the little parasites at the bottom of the ailing disease chain that has infested our nation. Surely they pop up here and there as examples illustrating our real dis ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Karzai Brother’s Killer: Not Taliban, Iran Gas Pipeline Bombers Killed-Arrested, Iraq to buy 36 F-16 from USA, Getting Bin Laden: What Happened in Abbottabad ‘that’ Night?, Dual Classification of Open Source Information, The Essential Rules of Tyranny, Grappling with the Banality of Evil, USA Sp ...
  • The Audacity of Hoping Hopeless Hope
    …And when you associate one thing with another over time, just the mention of the one brings the association of the other. What this will sometimes mean is that even when something is later exposed as a lie, if it was accepted as a truth for a long time, the exposure of it as a [...]
  • Boiling Frogs Post: The Coming Chapter
    What we have been doing & what we will be doing  It’s been a very busy month for Boiling Frogs Post. The ‘busy’ includes what you’ve been reading, watching and listening to here, and also what’s been taking place behind the scene invisible to you all. Let me start with what we have been doing [...]
  • Fethullah Gulen Foundations in US on Our Tax D ...
    Gulen US Charter Schools: Where is Your Money Going?! This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.

Afro Spear

  • Niggazz are Wannaa-bee Gangstazz
    Football is a violent sport. No doubt it plays into the gladiator blood sport mythos of days gone by. It’s also BIG business. I’ve heard that the current labour dispute between the owners and players is at the root, really about how to divvy up $9 billion is yearly revenue… basically the owner ...
  • “Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for Pre ...
    Click on image for article
  • the Lupe Fiasco fiasco
    “My fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policie ...
  • A Sunday Sermon
  • sat’day riddymz
    WOW!! It’s hard to fathom that it’s been 2 years ago today already that MJ died. I for one have come to appreciate his music more and more.

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

  • Three creative ways people are bringing hope a ...
    By: Anne Thomas Even though the initial intensity of the March 11 disaster has subsided, many people still feel a deep tugging to help Japanese disaster victims. Since that subtle pull is strong and persistent, people are finding very creative ways to bring hop ...
  • Saying goodbye to David Servan-Schreiber
    By: Ode Ode columnist David Servan-Schreiber died on the evening of Sunday, July 24. He was 50. A professor of psychiatry in the US and France, Servan-Schreiber wrote the bestselling Anticancer: A New Way of Life and The Instinct to Heal, both read around the w ...
  • Meditating on Pema Chödrön's 'Dusk on the River'
    By: Anne Thomas Although my main job is in a university, I also teach privately. My favorite of those lessons is an advanced English class for adults. I have been teaching them for many years, so we have become good friends. Since they are well educated and tal ...
  • Women broadcasting peace in Brazil
    By: PeaceCorso So of course you know how once something enters your conscious awareness, you see it everywhere. You will not be surprised that Brazil is showing up all over my reality. Here’s a wonderful story about women in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro broad ...
  • Imai Sensei’s vivid picture of Sendai
    By: Anne Thomas My friend Imai Sensei is a Baptist preacher who runs a homeless center here in Sendai. He has been helping victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami. He is my hero through and through. Recently he asked me to edit an article he was sending ou ...

OpEd News

  • If the Republic Had Not Died A Long Time Ago, ...
    Behind all the flim-flammery of this manufactured "crisis," we are watching the creation of a new form of government -- or rather, the further mutation of the new form of government that the United States has been crawling toward for a long time. The one thing you cannot call it is a "republic."
  • Present Political Activity and What is Possible.
    Ethics, politcs and looking at a new way of selecting represenirives.
  • A Reflection on Obama and the Current Crisis
    Instead of being such a wimp,Obama could simply announce what will happen if the debt limit isn't reached:he will pay the social security, medicare and other benefits to those Congressional districts whose representatives voted to raise the debt limit and not to those which did not. And all othe ...
  • Unplug Your TV: Help End Nuclear Power
    Want to end nuclear power? Start by unplugging your TV.
  • Forget Compromise: The Debt Ceiling Is Unconst ...
    The debt ceiling crisis can be averted by enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment, which mandates the government to pay its debts already incurred, including pensions. That means Social Security, which IS an "entitlement," in the original sense of the word. We're entitled to it because we've paid ...

Switchboard

  • Congressman Issa, Please Step Away from the Ca ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, NRDC Climate Center, Washington, D.C. Last Friday, President Obama announced another historic clean car agreement, supported by car companies, the auto workers union, environmental organizations, and states, that by ...
  • A powerful statement in the form of urban folk ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC     Detroit's problems of urban distress, decay, and inner-city abandonment are all too well-known.  Yet the city remains host to some amazing architecture, creativit ...
  • It's Time to Save Our Threatened River Herring
    Brad Sewell, Senior Attorney, New York Among all the awe-inspiring phenomena of the natural world, the immense spawning runs of alewife and blueback herring along the Atlantic Coast ranks highly. Not long ago, these platinum, big-eyed fish poured ...
  • Critically Endangered Western Gray Whales Foun ...
    Joel Reynolds, Director of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CA Laguna San Ignacio, along the Pacific coast of Baja California, is renowned as the last undisturbed breeding and ...
  • NRDC in the News 8/1: Fuel efficiency standard ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Roland Hwang praised Obama’s plan to double fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 in USA Today… Roland also spoke on NPR’s KPCC about Obama’s announcement to double overa ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Trailblazer
    Hideki Irabu, R.I.P. Good piece about his place in history and sad story here.
  • The Supreme Court and the “14th Amendmen ...
    Here I do think Obama’s unwillingness to consider the option reflects his preferences, or if not certainly reflects a serious misreading of what the Court is actually likely to do.
  • False Dichotomy
    I’m not a generally a big fan of trying to determine what public officials “really want,” not least because there’s no why of extricating policy goals from political goals and perceptions of political viability. But I certainly agree in broad terms that Obama is a moderate Democrat of the Clinto ...
  • Where the Mistakes Were Made
    As the Pauls note below, the horrible debt deal is not a pleasant thing to come back to, and I’m sure it’s not hard to convince most of our audience that it’s bad on the merits. On the politics, I think Chait gets it right. The best defense you can make of Obama is that, [...]
  • Paul Krugman is shrill
    Shorter Krugman: Coffee is for closers. Republicans will surely be emboldened by the way Mr. Obama keeps folding in the face of their threats. He surrendered last December, extending all the Bush tax cuts; he surrendered in the spring when they threatened to shut down the government; and he has ...

Desert Research Institute

  • 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.
  • Abnormal Spring
    If you're new to Northern Nevada, you've probably already asked yourself this question: is this a normal spring? The calendar says we're three weeks from the start of summer, but winter still holds us in its grip. It leads us to wonder if something bigger is a foot, Dr. Kelly Redmond explains.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • 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 ...
  • Marcellus Shale on This American Life
    If you missed this program, it is well worth listening to. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/440/game-changer

News Blaze

  • US Tells President Assad 'Stop The Slaughter Now'
    She said the United States mourns the deaths of all those killed, especially innocent children like Layal Askar, a one-year old killed by a stray bullet from a security officer's gun in the southern city of al-Hirak.
  • Two Palestinians Killed in Israeli Military Op ...
    Robert Serry, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, voiced his deep concern at the deaths resulting from the operation conducted earlier today by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the Qalandiya Refugee Camp near Ramallah.
  • Breastfeeding Reduces Death Toll of Children U ...
    Breastfeeding is directly linked to reducing the death toll of children under five, yet only 36 per cent of infants below the age of six months in developing countries are exclusively breastfed, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
  • Israeli and Lebanese Forces Exchange Fire alon ...
    The incident between the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) took place around 7 a.m. local time along the so-called Blue Line that separates the two countries, in the general area of Wazzani, according to the UN
  • NASA Invites 150 Lucky Twitter Followers to La ...
    Attendees represent 28 states, the District of Columbia and five other countries: Canada, Finland, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom. NASA randomly selected the participants from more than 1,200 online applicants.

environment 360

  • Probing the Role of the Sun In an Era of Globa ...
    Some skeptics have suggested the real culprit behind rising temperatures is increased solar activity. But a wide variety of data and experiments still provide no solid evidence to refute the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are the major reason the planet is heating up. BY MI ...
  • Greenland’s Ice Sheet May Be More Stable than ...
    Research into the last prolonged warm spell on Earth — an interglacial period roughly 125,000 years ago — shows that Greenland’s ice sheet may be more stable and Antarctica’s less stable than previous studies have shown. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin conducted a detailed study of th ...
  • Vietnam Army Plays Key Role In Illicit Laos Ti ...
    A new report says that the Vietnamese military is playing a central role in a multi-billion dollar operation to smuggle illegally cleared timber from neighboring Laos. During a two-year investigation, agents from the EIA UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), posing as timber buyers ...
  • Model of Rapeseed Plant Metabolism Yields Insi ...
    U.S. scientists have developed a model for analyzing the metabolic processes of rapeseed plants, an innovation that they say may provide insights into more optimal Brookhaven National LaboratoryRapeseed embroyos production of biofuels and alternatives to petrochemicals for some industrial uses ...
  • Dow Targets Large-Scale Production of Plastics ...
    Dow Chemical is planning construction of a bioplastics plant in Brazil that the company says will produce plastic from sugarcane in volumes competitive with Dow ChemicalBrazilian sugarcane plastics generated from petroleum. Later this year Dow, in a partnership with the Japanese firm Mitsui & ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik recruited ...
    Remember that the hearings was closed to the public and the media. Classic Scandinavian style - an "open society" right. The judge ordered that 32-year-old Andres Behring Breivik is to be detained without access to letters or visitors, apart from his lawyer. He’s getting four weeks in isolation. ...
  • 2,000-year-old bell found in Jerusalem rings again
    2,000-year-old bell in Jerusalem: a 2,000-year-old bell has been discovered by Israeli archaeologists and rang for the first time in as many years. 2,000-year-old bell found by Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem, Monday. The bell, dating back to the Second Jewish Temple period, was discovered i ...
  • Norway police lower youth camp death toll to 68
    Norwegian police said Monday that the double-counting of bodies in the chaotic aftermath of a shooting spree may have contributed to a dramatic overestimate of the number of people slain, but they offered few other details about the error. The sharp reduction in the death toll, from 86 to 68, ad ...
  • Norway massacre: Anders Breivik "Surprised" He ...
    Geir Lippestad Mr Lippestad said it was "too early" to say if his client was mad, but added: "The whole case has indicated that he is insane." He said his client had taken drugs before going on the rampage "to be strong, efficient and awake" and was "sorry that he had to do this but it was neces ...
  • Media Now Links Breivik to British "Extremists ...
    The Norwegian fanatic has been in close contact with hundreds of British right-wing extremists for two years, it emerged last night. He chatted about "tactics" on social networking sites with hundreds of members of the English Defence League (EDL) and the British National Party (BNP) and attende ...

Russia Today

  • Britain gripped by rush for Nazi gold
    Underwater treasures can charm the hearts and capture the minds of even the most practical people in the world. A team of British businessmen seems, too, to have fallen under the spell of hidden Nazi gold.
  • Vilnius vendetta: mad mayor smashes parked car ...
    The mayor’s office of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, has published a video showing its head charging in an armored military vehicle over a Mercedes car parked in a bicycle lane.
  • “US debt deal is not a victory”
    Emergency legislation to avoid an economy-rattling government default sped through the US House of Representatives on Monday night after weeks of fierce struggle and just a day before the deadline for action.
  • Violence continues in Syria as UN Security Cou ...
    The fighting for the Syrian rebel stronghold of Hama continues, with the reported number of victims reaching 140. Meanwhile the UN Security Council session discussed the latest developments of the civil conflict, but...
  • China calls US debt deal immoral
    The risk of America's possible default has echoed throughout the world with global stocks rallying following the House vote. But despite the immediate economic relief, more voices calling to replace the dollar as the...

Not My Tribe

  • Doug Lamborn won’t touch President Obama ...
    That line probably gets lots of laughs at Tea Parties, but over Denver airwaves, Congressman Doug Lamborn’s likening President Obama to a “Tar Baby” got, I’ll say it, sticky. Yeah, the expression meant “intractable quagmire” when Mitt Romney used it to describe an increasingly-cost-prohibitive s ...
  • Li’l Abner on the debt ceiling “cr ...
    When the satiric cartoon Li’l Abner was made a musical on Broadway, robber baron General Bullmoose sang Bring back the good old days, lamenting the regulation of capitalism, pondering: “How can you break the market?             How? The SEC will not allow             …one little [...]
  • Colorado Springs councilwoman pulls her Lisa C ...
    Which is worse on a city council? A council member who’s dishonest or who’s an idiot? At least in combination, the one reveals the other. Colorado Springs city council real estate proxy Lisa Czelatdko tried to use her position to get preferential treatment at the Pikes Peak Center box office, th ...
  • Ikea factory workers organized by AIM, who wil ...
    Ikea factory workers in Danville, Virginia, voted to unionize. Did they do it alone? No, they joined the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. If Ikea retail employees follow suit, maybe there’s hope for organizing the poverty-wage employees of America’s largest private ...
  • Border wars of the drug cartels, ours
    So, on Telemundo the “Border War” rhetoric took some serious hits which I cheerlessly predict the Minutemen, Tea Party and other klan groups are going to spend a lot of time, corporate money and hot air trying to patch. La Migra admitted that they are losing the border, contrary to what the Repu ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Dr. Crockett Grabbe-National Swindle on the Wo ...
    Related Info: Dr. Grabbe's website: http://www.sealane.org/ Dr. Grabbe's book: http://tinyurl.com/3s4sqcw Dr. Grabbe's scholarly papers on the collapse of the WTC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Science in the Bush: When Politics Displaces Phy ...
  • '9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out' ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog writes: I love that they got Lynn Margulis, National Medal of Science winner to tell us about the problems with NIST. She must have won her medal in structural engineering, right? Well, no, she won it for microbiology. Which, if we were talking about ...
  • 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out, ...
    This is the trailer for the expert-packed feature length documentary by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth - which premiers the week prior to September 11, 2001 around the world.
  • About "They Hate Our Freedoms"
    http://truthaction.org/forum James Dorman AKA jimd3100 Fri Jul 29, 2011 4:13 am Screw loose change blog comments on my prior post on the motives of the fruitcake asshole hijackers and how they didn't attack us because they hate our freedom like Bush would have you believe ...of course he wi ...
  • Debunking Jonathan Kay, his book Among the Tru ...
    Updated 6-16-11 Thanks to James Hufferd of 911grassroots.org for assisting me with some research for this article. James recently responded to Kay's book, to which Kay retorted, and this is my end-all be-all response to Kay. In Frank Moher's review of National Post writer Jonathan Kay's new ...

Fooducate

  • Eating Local: 4 First Steps to Become a Locavore
    This is a guest blog post by James Kim from Food on the Table Many currently contend that eating local, or becoming a “locavore,” is “the new organic.”  As organic food firms have started to use industrial, long-distance and environmentally unfriendly shipping methods, foodies have begun to look ...
  • Top 10 Healthy “Convenience” Foods
    This a guest blog post by Sharon Palmer, RD Drive-thru hamburgers, microwavable pizza pockets and bags of chips—these are the foods that probably come to mind when you think of convenience. For busy people on the run, convenience usually means fast food fare, pop in the microwave processed foods ...
  • 5 Ways the Nutrition Field Hinders Its Own Pro ...
    This is a guest blog post by Andy Bellatti, MS, RD. It originally appeared on his blog Small Bites I often write about the external factors that pose a threat to the nutrition field, including (but not limited to) Big Food’s egregious advertising budgets, deceptive claims seen on food packaging, ...
  • 8 Things to Know About Corn Syrup
    Corn syrup is used abundantly in our food industry. You’ve probably seen it as an ingredient on many products at the grocery store. You can actually buy corn syrup as a product for your recipes. But what exactly is it? 1. Corn syrup is a liquid sweetener derived from corn starch (or maize). 2. C ...
  • McDonald’s Happy Meal Makeover: A (Small) Step ...
    McDonald’s announced yesterday that the Happy Meal is changing: 1. The amount of french fries will more than halve from 2.4 oz to 1.1. 2. 5 Apple slices will be added to each Happy Meal. 3. Low fat chocolate milk will be listed as an option instead of soda. The change is being rolled out [...]

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

  • BBC & Travel Channel show ‘staged, false, fabr ...
    Matsigenka girls, Peru © G Shepard/ Survival A TV series about an Amazonian tribe has been slammed as ‘staged, false, fabricated and distorted’ by experts on the tribe. ‘Mark & Olly: Living with the Machigenga’ was shown on the Travel Channel in the US, and on the BBC last year. In the sho ...
  • 100 years on - the unsolved mystery of the rub ...
    Omarino and Ricudo, two Witoto slaves brought to the UK in 1911 © Cambridge University MAA An Amazon Indian woman has launched a public appeal to uncover the fate of two Indian slaves brought to Britain a century ago. Exactly 100 years after the Daily News first introduced her ancestors Om ...
  • Griff Rhys Jones models for Survival
    Griff Rhys Jones modelling Jimmy Pike T-shirt for Survival © Survival Comedian, actor, presenter and author Griff Rhys Jones models Survival’s new T-shirt by internationally acclaimed Aboriginal artist Jimmy Pike, saying, ‘I am delighted to support Survival and their urgent work for threat ...
  • Malaysia’s King at eco awards as Sarawak’s for ...
    Deforestation caused by loggers in a Penan region in Borneo, Malaysia. © Andy and Nick Rain/Survival The King of Malaysia and HRH the Prince of Wales attended a reception in London yesterday on behalf of The Earth Awards. The event was hosted in partnership with START, an initiative of the ...
  • Progress Can Kill – Peru’s new government warned
    Survival's 'Progress Can Kill' highlights the dangers of forcing 'development' on tribal peoples. © Survival Peruâs new government will take office today having received a stark warning of the imminent dangers faced by its countryâs indigenous population. Survival has sent copies of two ...

Greg Palast

  • 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 ...
  • Drowning Fish?
    by Greg Palast June 30th, 2011 July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the path can't imagine. My D ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle small pieces of fab ...
    Last week, I posed a question from Annetta about what to reuse or recycle to make a bird bath – thanks for all the great suggestions. Annetta asked another question – about fabric: Any other good ideas for using fabric. I have tons of it and I am getting bored making blankets and tote bags. [...]
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a bird bath?
    Annetta has emailed with two great questions. Here’s the first: Any ideas on making a bird bath out of recycled [things from] around the house? I think it depends on whether you want something pretty, quirky or just something practical for the birds to use, looks be damned. I’d love to hear idea ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle precious photo albums?
    Joan left a question on the “suggest an item” stage: A deceased good friend’s photo albums need to be disposed of. Mainly of family, friends and her cats, loathed to just chuck them in a bin, other than that, what do I do? Helpâ¦.. I’m sorry to hear about your friend, Joan. The Photos I’m [...]
  • How can I reuse LOTS of florists’ ribbon?
    Nicky has emailed to ask how she can recycle: Almost 100 kilometres of 2″ wide yellow florists ribbon. Unravelled and of varying lengths â very long to short pieces. Currently in 5 large industrial bags. Wow, that’s a fair bit of ribbon! My first thought would be to offer it to a local scrap sto ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle Leylandii/conifer b ...
    We’ve had an email from Jennifer (sorry it’s taken a few weeks to feature it, Jennifer!): We hacked down a couple of huge nasty Leylandii conifer trees from our garden this weekend and don’t know what to do with the wood and branches. It’s far too much for our own compost bin, fear for the [...]

Age of Autism

  • Team Stagliano Raises over $20,000 for Autism ...
    By Kim Stagliano Indulge me a proud wife moment. Like most couples, Mark and I share the work of raising our children. But it's usually me in the "limelight" (although sometimes it feels like a searchlight during a breakout) when...
  • The Terrible Logic of Supposedly Smart People
    By Julie Obradovic More and more lately I have read articles and editorials that call for stricter vaccine mandates using the same analogies. It's almost as if someone issued talking points to the all-vaccines-are-always-good-for-everyone-at-all-times-no-exceptions brigade and unleashed them on ...
  • Age of Autism Contest: "The Day They Sold the ...
    Fabulous Monday contest! A proud Mom sent me an email telling me her son had published a children's book, he's 9 with autism. Was I interested in reading it? Indeed! Leave a comment to win Jack Paschall's The Day They...
  • Dream On
    By Cathy Jameson “If you are alive in 2011, no matter what your age, you have been part of one of the largest and worst experiments in history. No matter how carefully you eat or drink or watch your exposure...
  • Time To Revisit Deer Part 3
    By Martin Hewitt This is the third part of an analysis of Brian Deer’s (in photo) claims that Dr Andrew Wakefield fixed the findings in the 1998 Lancet paper 'Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia' (Lancet, 1998; vol. 351, p.637), a small clinical case...

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

  • Incompetence Sets A Precedent – GE Alfalfa
    Contemporary law is no longer based on the Constitution and common law, but has been replaced by case law precedents. The GE alfalfa case (Forage Genetics and Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms) is disturbing because it appears that a dangerous precedent has been set.
  • Genetically engineered maize with synthetic to ...
    This maize was approved for usage in food and feed by the EU Commission on 17th of June. It produces a combination of three different insecticidal toxins, one of which is synthesised artificially. Further, the plants are made tolerant to the herbicide glyphosate (known as Roundup).
  • Smart Meters – You don’t have to get one!
    VIDEO explaining what Smart (Spy) Meters actually do, and how to make sure that you do not get one of these.
  • Feds to Grab Land for Homeland Security
    H.R. 1505: Another Federal land grab, with exemptions from environmental regulations, and a few more just for good measure. And just who has the authority over these lands? Why Homeland Security, of course.
  • USDA Attacks Rural America with Smart Meters
    On June 9, 2011, the Obama Administration Established the “White House Rural Council to Strengthen Rural Communities” via Executive Order. “Strengthening Rural Communities” is the spin. The real issue is control. Rural communities are where food is grown, and control of food is a main priority f ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Obama announces deal on debt limit
    PressTV – The US lawmakers reach an agreement on raising the ceiling on the country’s public debt limit, which President Barack Obama says is not the deal of his choice. Read article
  • God’s Approval Rating
    Newsy  – According to a recent poll, Godâs approval rating barely cracks 50% but still beats out prominent politicians. Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com
  • Vatican recalls ambassador after Irish PM&#821 ...
    Guardian – Relations between the Irish government and the Roman Catholic church reached a historic nadir on Monday when the Vatican recalled its ambassador to Dublin, claiming “excessive reactions” in the Republic to the clerical child sex abuse crisis. The Vatican confirmed that papal nuncio, a ...
  • Syrian Forces Renew Strike on Restive City of Hama
    NY Times – A day after one of the Syrian governmentâs bloodiest assaults on the four-month-old uprising, security forces attacked the central city at the heart of the protests again on Monday, killing at least eight people, as demonstrations erupted elsewhere in Syria in support of the besieged ...
  • U.S.A – House of Reps passes debt bill
    Financial Review – The House of Representatives on Monday passed the landmark compromise significant to raise the debt ceiling and sharply cut spending, drawing a solid majority of the Republicans, along with about half of the Democrats, to push through a package that was described by man ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • California acts to limit pollutant targeted by ...
    The California Environmental Protection Agency has issued the nation’s first public health goal for hexavalent chromium, the cancer-causing heavy metal made infamous after activist Erin Brockovich sued in 1993 to prove it had contaminated groundwater in the Southern California town...
  • Green energy: California poll finds overwhelmi ...
    A new statewide survey of environment issues conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California found more residents favor climate change policy, want to cut greenhouse gas emissions and believe they are already experiencing the effects of global warming. “This...
  • Urban power like rooftop solar dominates Brown ...
    It may not be quite the renewable energy powerhouse that Germany and China are, but California will be well on its way once it speeds up installations of smaller, urban projects, Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday. At a UCLA conference...
  • More big Yellowstone fires predicted with clim ...
    Rising temperatures associated with climate change are expected to dramatically increase wildfire in and near Yellowstone National Park, transforming the landscape by 2050.
  • EPA Chief Lisa Jackson speaks at NAACP convent ...
    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson spoke to the NAACP National Convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Sunday about the impact of pollution on minority communities, an issue that will be also be explored during a Monday...

water.org

  • 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
  • Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan (Fast Co ...
    Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa? (Fast Company) – The inside story of Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe’s great crises. Once upon a time, Matt Damon went for a long walk in rural Zambia. The devoted family man and method [...]
  • Interview with Water.org’s April Rinne (GGT)
    INTERVIEW: Water.Org’s April Rinne (Green Global Travel) – While other charities may have similar goals, Water.org’s WaterCredit program is unique in that it is works in partnership with microfinance institutions to establish markets in which there is fair access to affordable loans for everyone ...
  • You’re Invited: June 1st Conference Call
      Wednesday, June 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049
 Participant code: 449749# Not everyone who needs water should have to wait for charity to find them. Learn how Water.org is putting microfinance tools and partnerships to use in helping people get safe water ...

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

  • AP Israel agrees to negotiate over pre-'67 li ...
    JERUSALEM � In a dramatic policy shift, Israel's prime minister has agreed to negotiate the borders of a Palestinian state based on the cease-fire line that marks off the West Bank, a TV station reported Monday.Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Debt Ceiling Deal Reached To Avert Default (LA ...
    Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the pact "will ensure significant cuts in Washington spending" and he assured the markets that a first-ever default on U.S. obligations won't occur.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Death for Profit - Privatized Prisons - TAKE A ...
    Private prisons don't care about who they lock up. At a rate of $200 per immigrant a night at their prisons, this is a money making scheme that destroys families and lives.Submitted by Just Carole to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • WRAPUP-10-Republican bill passes, opening path ...
    The House of Representatives approved a Republican plan to cut the budget deficit on Friday that is doomed to defeat in the Senate but which could pave the way for a bipartisan compromise to avert a U.S. debt default.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
  • Special report: Is Israel Inc. too powerful? â ...
    It took a two week-long cottage cheese rebellion to get Israelis to question the power of the country�s tycoons.Angry about high prices, consumers boycotted the beloved dairy product last month. As containers of cheese piled up on supermarket shelves, Submitted by Joseph M. to World �|� �Note- ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • US Tells President Assad 'Stop The Slaughter Now'
    She said the United States mourns the deaths of all those killed, especially innocent children like Layal Askar, a one-year old killed by a stray bullet from a security officer's gun in the southern city of al-Hirak.
  • Two Palestinians Killed in Israeli Military Op ...
    Robert Serry, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, voiced his deep concern at the deaths resulting from the operation conducted earlier today by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the Qalandiya Refugee Camp near Ramallah.
  • Breastfeeding Reduces Death Toll of Children U ...
    Breastfeeding is directly linked to reducing the death toll of children under five, yet only 36 per cent of infants below the age of six months in developing countries are exclusively breastfed, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
  • Israeli and Lebanese Forces Exchange Fire alon ...
    The incident between the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) took place around 7 a.m. local time along the so-called Blue Line that separates the two countries, in the general area of Wazzani, according to the UN
  • NASA Invites 150 Lucky Twitter Followers to La ...
    Attendees represent 28 states, the District of Columbia and five other countries: Canada, Finland, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom. NASA randomly selected the participants from more than 1,200 online applicants.

Worldnews

  • Chemists strike over new rules for drug s ...
    The day-long strike called by the chemists' association to protest a proposal to introduce stricter norms on sale of antibiotics saw patients struggling to purchase medicines on Monday morning. By afternoon, however, most had reopened their shops, citing "indiscriminate protests"...
  • Bakelite, Lucite, and the allure of early ...
    Sales of Bakelite bangles are brisk, and consumers are offered tips on how to identify the genuine article and what colors to look for when making a purchase. But there are other items made of early plastic that are fashionable to collectors. Radios, dresser sets, dice and poker chips have ...
  • Manuel Neuer delighted after first offici ...
    The former Schalke goalkeeper kept a clean sheet on his debut for the Bavarians as they progressed to the second round of the DFB-Pokal By Matthew Rossleigh Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�Bayern Munich, Schalke 04, Mario Gomez, Manuel Neuer, Eintracht Braunschweig vs Bayern Munich Bongarts Baye ...
  • US House of Representatives passes debt-l ...
    The US House of Representatives has passed by 269 votes to 161 a last-gasp deal to avoid a federal debt default. The legislation must now be passed by the Senate and approved by President Barack Obama to become law. It would raise the debt ceiling by up to $2.4tn (£1.5tn) - from $14.3tn - a ...
  • Hama assault into second day as U.N. revi ...
    AMMAN (Reuters) - A two-day assault by Syrian government forces on anti-government protesters in the city of Hama was widely condemned in the West and prompted European powers to relaunch a dormant U.N. resolution condemning Damascus for its crackdown. Tanks pounded residential neighborhood ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Media Malpractice on Debt Ceiling
    NEW YORK - There are specific patterns in corporate media coverage of political debates: Progressive ideas are generally marginalized. "Compromise" between the major parties is encouraged. Democrats should "move to the center," which in practical terms actually means moving to the right. ...
  • Union Demise Increases Wage Inequality
    BOSTON -- The plunge in U.S. worker union members explains the increase in hourly wage inequality among women and men, a Harvard University researcher says. Study author Bruce Western, a professor of sociology at Harvard University in Boston says from 1973 to 2007, wage inequality in the private ...
  • Egyptian Tanks Enter Tahrir Square
    CAIRO - The Egyptian army deployed troops in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday and�fired shots in the air to disperse remaining pro-democracy protesters. A few hundred demonstrators were staying put, state television reported, showing army vehicles in the square and people taking down tents and ca ...
  • Insurance Industry Grapples With Impact Of Cli ...
    As a surge in catastrophic weather events leads to billions of dollars in claims, climate change may pose the insurance industry’s biggest problem — and profit potential. An unusual onslaught of floods in Mississippi, tornadoes in the Midwest, drought and wildfires in Texas and earthquakes abroa ...
  • Record High Radiation at Crippled Japan Nuke Plant
    TOKYO — Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said Monday it had monitored record high radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the March 11 quake and tsunami. TEPCO said radiation levels reached at least 10 sieverts per hour near the debris left between the number one and n ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Could California Suffer The EU-ETS Problem?
    The EU Emissions Trading System is suffering a decline in fortune. The price has been relatively low since the onset of the financial crisis, driven in part by a decline in industrial activity linked to the recession, but also to continuous overlaying of policy by both Member States and the Comm ...
  • Areva Sailing in Uncharted Waters
    New CEO says it is too soon to assess the full consequences of the Fukushima disaster on its long term strategy
  • Biofuels' Potential to Transform the Global Ec ...
    Slowly but surely, an extraordinarily important new industry is slowly taking shape, with the potential to transform the global economy.After years of existing largely as an environmentalist's fantasy, commercial production of biofuels for the world civil aviation industry is slowly becoming a f ...
  • Economics or Politics? Moving Forward with Sma ...
    As debates and negotiations over the debt ceiling have been consuming congressional leaders, policymakers’ minds are probably far from Smart Grid and the future of our energy systems -- at least right now. But, for the electricity industry, the ways in which the economics of Smart Grid cont ...
  • Clean Renewables and Clean Energy Storage – A ...
    There are interesting synergies between renewable energy and energy storage that have profound implications for the Smart Grid and our energy and economic security.� Wind and solar are readily available domestic sources of clean renewable electricity and share a common characteristic of intermit ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Libya: What America's Media Won't Report
    by Stephen Lendman America's media staunchly back all US imperial wars, regurgitating officials lies as truths. Moreover, they never explain their illegality or daily crimes of war and against humanity against civilians, as well as non-military related infrastructure and other sites. N ...
  • The Norwegian response to the terror attack an ...
    Salim Nazzal Norway has proven beyond doubt its integrity by responding to the terror attack in an impressive manner. The voice of the Norwegian politicians is unanimous: Norway will in the future remain the same democratic country. Comparing the U.S. reaction and the Norwegian reaction, one ...
  • America's Media: Dancing Around the Budget Deb ...
    by Stephen Lendman Previous articles explained an Obama-led bipartisan conspiracy to destroy America's social contract, returning the nation to 19th harshness harshness. But you'd never know it from major media reports, op-eds and editorials, ducking the issue even when critical. The deb ...
  • Heading Toward Economic Ruin
    by Stephen Lendman Bad policies assure bad results. Destructive ones assure calamities. Well before Obama took office, bipartisan initiatives plotted a course for disaster. Bush accelerated it. Obama much more, so today America hangs on the precipice of what a previous article called th ...
  • The War on You
    By Michael Collins Let the word go forth from Washington! The corporate rulers occupying our nation's capital have declared war on just about every citizen. Have no doubt: those in the upper ranges of the top 1% of wealth in this country (aka The Money Party) want to kick you to the curb. ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • The cost of poverty in BC is way too high
    Iglika Ivanova did the math: it costs less to reduce poverty than to allow it to continue and pay for the consequences: poor health, lower literacy, poor school performance for children, more crime, and greater stress. Reducing poverty and easing human suffering is the right thing to do, and it ...
  • Conference Board Weighs in on the Growing Gap
    The Conference Board of Canada has released a report tracking 33 years of worsening income inequality in Canada. In this Toronto Star story, board President Anne Golden says: "While the poor are minimally better off in an absolute sense, they are significantly worse off in a relative sense. And ...
  • Video Debate Series: Role of Manufacturing in ...
    In this four-part short video series at the Globe and Mail, CCPA's own senior economist Armine Yalnizyan faces off with Mike Moffatt, an economist, consultant and lecturer in the Business, Economics and Public Policy group at the Richard Ivey School of Business on the future of manufacturing in ...
  • CCPA-Manitoba launches POLICY FIX
    We now have a BLOG aptly named POLICY FIX.�� Check it out at www.policyfix.ca!
  • Hennessy's Index: Canada vs. the OECD
    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 July, Hennessy's Index looks at the Organisation for Economic and Co-operation and Development (OECD) and how Canada fairs compares to other members on a number o ...

World Wide Hippies

  • US passes debt-limit bill: Some views
    bbc.co.uk – The US House of Representatives has passed a deal to avoid a federal debt default by 269 votes to 161. The bill is expected to be approved by the Senate and signed into law by President Barack Obama on Tuesday. It raises the debt limit by up to $2.4tn (£1.5tn) – from $14.3tn [...]
  • WWH News Briefs Today
    War to go on even if NATO bombing ends: Gaddafi camp TRIPOLI/ZLITAN, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s camp has vowed to push on with its war against rebels whether or not NATO stops its bombing campaign, leaving little room for diplomacy to end the five-month conflict. The rebel ...
  • Happy Birthday, Jerry Garcia! A Little “ ...
    By Travis Newbill,browardpalmbeach.com – Most people who love Jerry Garcia never had the good fortune of meeting him — in the conventional sense. âMany of us did not even have the good fortune of seeing Jerry Garcia in person. However, we’ve all come to know and love him in our own ways through ...
  • As The Cookie Crumbles (8/02): Capitulation H. ...
    “Dr. Woody” is a nom du blogue used by John Konopak, Ph.D., rogue scholar and rhetorical handyman who operates Konopelli Enterprises, a blogging and real estate empire that spans Albuquerque, NM, from the Valley to the Heights. He has formerly been a professor at a couple of big schools, a journ ...
  • It’s All Just A STATE OF MIND: An Interv ...
    Toni, what are your thoughts on activism? Toni: It is each individual’s responsibility to pass on the knowledge they’ve gained. Unfortunately, not everyone is open to hearing it. Ed is very passionate politically, and he’ll have more to say on the subject. My own activism is more centered in pro ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • ‘Tis the Season for Oil Company Misinformation
    Join the forum discussion on this post In my travels around the globe, I have never been to another country that regards their oil companies as we do here in the U.S. I have actually been in countries where people view their domestic oil companies as a source of national pride. Here in the U.S. ...
  • The Return of the American Diesel Car
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest essay is by Paul Nash, a regular reader here at R-Squared. Paul is an Australian who now lives near Vancouver, Canada. He is an environmental engineer who specializes in doing municipal water and energy efficiency projects, and has ha ...
  • PEMEX and the Long Road to Privatization
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. ——————————– Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) is the state-owned oil company (and natural gas) of México, which since the 90’s has been discussed for privatization like many other state-owned companies in Méx ...
  • The SPR as a National Piggy Bank
    Join the forum discussion on this post I was strongly opposed to the recent decision to release oil from U.S. and international strategic petroleum reserves. I have covered the reasons for my opposition many times, but the single biggest reason I oppose these sorts of releases is that the funda ...
  • Book Review: Energy, Convenient Solutions
    Join the forum discussion on this post I read two books on my recent trip to Europe. The first was Cracking the Carbon Code by Terry Tamminen. l reviewed that book here, and indicated that while I disagree with the notion that we will come up with a viable solution to rising carbon emissions, s ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Notes From McTeach: How Do You Tie Your Shoes?
    Comments:How Do You Tie Your Shoes? by McTeach Great post that reminds me that there is no one correct way to tie shoes and there is no one correct way to learn. - Cheryl LykowskiTags: youtube, educationby: Cheryl Lykowski
  • September 11: Teaching Contemporary History
    Comments:On Wednesday, August 3 and Thursday, August 4, 2011, the National Museum of American History, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Pentagon Memorial Fund, and Flight 93 National Memorial, will offer a FREE online conference, September 11: Teaching Contemporary History, for K-12 teac ...
  • Teaching with Wikis - home
    Comments:Teaching with Wikis  by Erin Misegadis - Carolyn RainsTags: teaching, wikis, DENby: Carolyn Rains
  • TweetGrid - by jazzychad
    Tags: twitter, tweetgridby: Cheryl Lykowski
  • Cybraryman Internet Catalogue
    Tags: wordle, wordcloud, wordcloudsby: Cheryl Lykowski

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 ...
  • How to Make Perfect Summer Burritos and Soft Tacos
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It’s spicy and satisfying, it made the top ten list of the world’s most popular foods, and chances are good that read more
  • Calories Counts on Menus: Don't Trust Them
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—With obesity rates skyrocketing, it’s time to get real about the amount of calories we ingest, whether at home or on the go. And since Americans get approximately 35 percent of their daily caloric intake from food eaten in restaurants, knowing just how many calories are ...
  • How to Outsmart Mold
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Mold isn't all bad. It's key in a compost pile, for example, where it helps breaks down organic matter into nutrients usable by plants. read more

big think

  • Is Computer Progress at an End?
    What's the Latest Development? A paper presented this summer at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture claims that Moore's law—the axiom that has correctly predicted a doubling in computer speed every two years—is about to fail us. The problem is that "the most advanced microproc ...
  • Congress' Bad Debt Ceiling Deal
    By passing�a deal to raise the debt ceiling, Congress averted a crisis that is entirely of the own making. If Congress had failed to reach an agreement, it would have forced the government to shut down essential services as well as to default on many of its financial obligations. What people usu ...
  • Anonymous and LulzSec: Modern Robin Hoods?
    What's the Latest Development? In a recent attack on the Arizona Department of Public Safety's website that lasted several weeks, large amounts of personal data were released about individual police officers and the site was, at times, taken offline. Claiming responsibility, communiqu�s from t ...
  • When it comes to learning and teaching, why do ...
    Today Seth Godin blogged: When the truth is just around the corner ... what's your posture? ... When your organization has a chance to see itself as its customers do, do your leaders crowd around, trying to glean every insight they can about the story and your future, or do they prefer ...
  • The Exasperating Maleness of Long Novels
    The literary essay I’ve enjoyed most this year has been “The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels,” published by The Millions back in May. In it, Mark O’Connell argues that the Gravity’s Rainbows and Infinite Jests of the world take their readers hostage, doling out punishments and rewards s ...

Information Liberation

  • Planning board politico assaults disabled man ...
    An elected Fairhaven Planning Board member, who's also sits on the town's Board of Appeals, faces charges after an argument over a handicapped parking spot at the Seaport Inn and Marina, where he's a manager. Joseph Morra, 53, was charged with a...
  • Man who distributed FIJA fliers outside courth ...
    ORLANDO, Fla. * Roofing contractor Mark Schmidter learned the hard way Tuesday what can happen when you defy the administrative orders of Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry. Following a trial Tuesday, Perry found Schmidter guilty of "indirect...
  • Ideas and the Culpability for Violence
    The violence perpetuated by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway unleashed the usual torrent of blaming anyone who might have influenced the murderer's thought. He was first described as a right-wing Christian * a description designed to put a certain co...
  • Grappling with the Banality of Evil
    A headline from the UK Guardian reads "US soldier admits killing unarmed Afghans for sport." "The plan was to kill people, sir." That is what Jeremy Morlock respectfully told an army judge about his participation in a "kill team" of soldiers in Af...
  • Caught on Tape: Police beat and taser 'gentle' ...
    A shocking video has been released allegedly showing police officers tasering and beating a homeless man to death who they claim was resisting arrest. Though the video is not clear, eye witnesses say the homeless man * Kelly Thomas, 37 * was una...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • 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 →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge
    A few thoughts while I’m still working on my next main article. You’ve heard me mentioning in the last thread the tenuous situation currently existing on the Australian parliament’s Lower House, the House of Representatives. Of the 150 seats, Labor … Continue reading →
  • MSM – A Monoculture
    Just a quick post today, as we’re all still recuperating from the ‘flu down here. I guess we can’t ignore the goings on in the British media; James is on the case, so I thought I’d give you all a … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Genetics at a SNP
    Genetics at a SNP – There are genetic variants, SNPs, associated with a tendency to have almost any physical trait such as baldness, athleticisim, green eyes, red hair, obesity, alcohol dependence, type 2 diabetes and many other diseases, even the amount of earwax one produces. There are also SN ...
  • Headless zombie squid and dead frogs dancing
    It is possible to re-animate dead appendages with a little salt, either table salt or in solution form as soy sauce. Be warned, this may put you off your breakfast. In the first video (which seems to have first appeared on the web a couple of years ago but a variant of which went viral [...]Head ...
  • Wear sunscreen
    Remember that speech that led to that Baz Luhrmann hit, “Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen“? It was good advice and still is. Here, my friend Kat Arney, blogger, broadcaster, cancer expert and harpist, explains the ins and outs of sun protection. It perhaps should also be mentioned that you can ...
  • Higgs glimpse?
    Higgs glimpse? – Lots of hype going on around the possibility of having spotted a glimpse of the Higgs boson that, in theory, endows matter with mass. Of course, despite the press conferences and hype, the physicists are still stressing that it is far too early to know whether the signals they h ...
  • Rosalind Franklin Google Doodle
    Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British X-ray crystallographer who made pioneering contributions to the understanding of the detailed molecular structures of the genetic code with her data from DNA and RNA as well as viruses, coal and graphite. She died prematurely a ...

RFF Library

  • The Tragedy of the Risk-perception Commons: Cu ...
    Yale University Law School via SSRN / by Dan M. Kahan, Maggie Wittlin, Ellen Peters, Paul Slovic, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Donald Braman and Gregory Mandel http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1871503 [Abstract]  The conventional explanation for controversy over climate change emp ...
  • Regional Climate Consequences of Large-scale C ...
    Environmental Research Letters, July 2011 v6 p034001+ (9 pages); doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034001) http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/3/034001/ (open access article) [From Press Release]   While cool roofs and pavements have been found to cool the planet by preventing energy from being radiat ...
  • Will Electric Cars Transform the U.S. Vehicle ...
    Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Henry Lee and Grant Lovellette http://bit.ly/obhg4n [Summary] For the past forty years, United States Presidents have repeatedly called for a reduction in the country’s dependence on fossil fuels in general and foreign oil specifically. Stronger ...
  • Program on Technology Innovation: Integrated G ...
    Electric Power Research Institute http://my.epri.com/portal/server.pt?Abstract_id=000000000001022782 [From Green Car Congress]  The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) released a report, Integrated Generation Technology Options on the cost, performance, and technology status for eight centr ...
  • Big Chicken: Pollution and Industrial Poultry ...
    Pew Environment Group http://bit.ly/qGmIn9 [From the Baltimore Sun's B'More Green blog]   A new report says the industrialization of poultry farming over the last several decades is a major source of pollution fouling the Chesapeake Bay and other waterways around the country. “Big Chicken,” re ...

Scientific American - News

  • NASA Spacecraft Shows Giant Asteroid Vesta Lik ...
    A NASA spacecraft orbiting the huge asteroid Vesta is beaming home images that reveal the giant space rock like never before, showing its battered and pockmarked surface in stunning detail. [More]
  • How Saving Energy Means Conserving Water in U. ...
    California likes to think of itself as being ahead of the curve. So when the state set out to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regulators did all the right things - stringent tailpipe standards for cars, tighter codes for buildings, higher renewable energy standards for utilities. Then they took ...
  • Presidential Commission Seeks Volunteers to St ...
    Nestled more than half a kilometer deep in a salt mine, the plutonium slowly decays, taking some 250,000 years to become uranium. As the U.S. debates what to do with the nuclear waste produced by its fleet of 104 reactors, the radioactive legacy of decades of nuclear bomb-making sits entombed ...
  • Space Station Puts Out Welcome Mat for Private ...
    MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Despite the grounding of NASA's storied space shuttle fleet, American spaceships are expected to make three trips to the International Space Station in the coming months. [More]
  • Gout on the Rise as Americans Gain Weight
    The "disease of kings" has now reached the masses. In the past half century the prevalence of gout in the general U.S. population has more than doubled. Once thought of only for the privileged few who had the means to overindulge in food and drink, gout now afflicts more than eight million Ame ...

First Truths

  • "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 ...
  • L. Susan Brown on Power
    I found this passage in Reinventing Anarchy, Again�(edited by Howard J. Ehrlich): To speak of power as a thing or phenomenon that can exist independent of human consciousness is to profoundly misunderstand the whole problem of power itself. Power exists as a relationship between individual human ...
  • Weir's "Anarchy & Culture"
    From David Weir's Anarchy & Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism: Of the principal anarchists Proudhon seems most typical of the transfer of the romantic-Enlightenment mixture of ideas from social to aesthetic theory. Proudhon's aesthetic ideas are especially contradictory, although such ...

Media Co-Op

  • Anonymous & Antisec Rock Mantech
    Yesterday I downloaded the Fuck FBI Friday III/Mantech release, which was uploaded Friday to The Pirate Bay by Antisec & Anonymous, and this evening I ...
  • July 31-First Nations' Languages Conference, A ...
    GroundWire July 31st Edition   This week's edition produced and hosted by Sam Kriviak from CJSR in Edmonton on Treaty 6 land and traditional Cree territory. The Headlines Sam Kriviak | CJSR, Edmonton -Natalya Rougas recently won her fight ...
  • WikiLeaks Task Force - DFAIT
    The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade created a WikiLeaks Task force, and this was first reported by the king of ATIP, Ken Rubin. Given the fact that Mr. Rubin didn't release the source material didn't really help matters, since we couldn't pick apart the document, see which agencies were ...
  • Equal, but not the same
    Food shortages are plaguing Somalia. Debt ceiling debates are overwhelming the United States. A mass slaughter has terrorized Norway. Still, the world is gay. This week, disparaging headlines across the globe were counterbalanced with (fo ...
  • Reflections on Freire Part II
      The town I grew up in was quite poor and culturally reserved. Conversations rarely got more real than the weather, how the farmers were going to fair after that late frost we had and whether the Liberals would gain any more seats in the ...

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

  • The Ever Shrinking Tea Party
    According to a recent poll, only 22% of Americans consider themselves tea party members or supporters, half the number of last November. And of that 22%, two-thirds supported a debt ceiling compromise and more than half thought it should include tax increases as well as spending cuts: In ...
  • Pentagon Not a Debt Ceiling Loser After All
    I've been reading all day that the Pentagon is the big loser from today's debt ceiling deal, and I just sort of vaguely accepted that as true. They're getting socked with a pretty big chunk of the initial $1 trillion in cuts, after all. But McClatchy's Nancy Youssef sets the record straight: ...
  • Quote of the Day: Economists and the Great Rec ...
    From Scott Sumner, after reading a poll showing that there are virtually no economic forecasters anywhere in the world willing to concede that monetary policy is currently too tight: If the public of the developing world actually understood the role of economists in this crisis, we’d all ...
  • JJ Abrams and "Lost"
    The Guardian interviews JJ Abrams: Do woebegone Losties give Abrams an earful about the finale? "Oh my God, yes," he groans. "For years, I had people praising Lost to death, and now they say: 'I'm so pissed at you for the end of Lost.' I think a lot of people who were upset with the endi ...
  • The Bars Go Up, Spending Goes Down
    This chart has been making the rounds today. It's from Cato's Chris Edwards, who's pretty unhappy about the proposed spending cap in the debt ceiling deal: Wait a minute, those bars are rising! Spending isn’t being cut at all. The “cuts” in the deal are only cuts from the CBO “baseline,” ...

Insanity Report

  • FacePalm of the Week: Oh Bill
    For the second week in a row, Bill O’Reilly has managed to secure the FacePalm of the Week award.  And once again he’s done it early in the week.  I’ll be shocked if anyone can top this.  So what did he say this week?  Well, after an announcement that the White House is ordering Health [...] ...
  • Woman kicked Out of Walmart for Wearing String ...
    You know…this is why I don’t go into Walmart often. I always tell people that Walmart is where “Hot Ghetto Mess Meets White Trash” and main, this video proves it. This lady is upset because Walmart employees told her she had to put a shirt on? Ma’am…you’re walking around in a bikini top. That’s ...
  • IC 261: Cooking with Bey
    Topics: Captain America and the integrated Army A butt slasher stalks women in VA malls Beyonce has a cooking book coming out Bill O’Reilly thinks the Norway killer can’t be Christian cause Christians don’t commit mass murder PETA thinks animals suffer like black did during slavery Share with yo ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Christians Don’t Commit ...
    Now that Glenn Beck is gone, Bill O’Reilly has an opening to go back to being the second craziest, batshit insane person at Fox News (he’s still got a long way to go to pass Hannity). O’Reilly hasn’t wasted any time to pick up his 2nd place trophy though. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews. ...
  • Captian America and Why I Don’t Mind Escapes F ...
    Last night I read an article that complained that Captain America: The First Avenger did a disservice by not showing the US Army during WWII as segregated. And apparently the author of that article wasn’t alone.  A few other people had that same problem.  Some didn’t have as much of a problem ...

Simple Climate

  • 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.
  • Chinese pollution postpones temperature rises
    Sulphur emissions countered greenhouse gases to cause the much-debated “pause” in warming trend from 1998-2008, but only temporarily, Boston University's Robert Kaufmann told Simple Climate.
  • Sea-level rise is the fastest in 2,000 years
    University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin Hortonand colleagues show that sea level has risen at an average of 2.1 mm per year since around 1900, after having stayed roughly stable for the previous two millennia.

e!Science News

  • Meth use fuels higher rates of unsafe sex, HIV ...
    A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and elsewhere shows that methamphetamine use can fuel HIV infection risk among teenage boys and young men who have sex with men (MSM), a group that includes openly gay and bisexual men, as well as those who have sex with men but do not id ...
  • Brain chemical may explain why heavy smokers f ...
    Heavy smokers may experience sadness after quitting because early withdrawal leads to an increase in the mood-related brain protein monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A), a new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has shown. This finding, which was published in the Archives of Genera ...
  • Even with regular exercise, people with inacti ...
    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 percent of Americans have inactive lifestyles (they take fewer than 5,000 steps a day) and 75 percent do not meet the weekly exercise recommendations (150 minutes of moderate activity each week and muscle-strengthening activity twic ...
  • Bear bile chemical could help keep hearts in r ...
    A synthesised compound which is also found in bear bile could help prevent disturbances in the heart's normal rhythm, according to research published today in the journal Hepatology by a team from Imperial College London. read more
  • Don't suffer in silence with toe pain
    While deformities of the lesser toes (all toes other than the big toe) can be very painful, there are numerous surgical and nonsurgical treatments for these conditions that are usually quite effective. A literature review published in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons ( ...

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Carbon smoke and mirrors – the reality o ...
    When it comes to energy and carbon emissions reduction, the devil is always in the detail. So too with Australia’s plans to cut its emissions by five per cent below year 2000 levels by 2020. But first, let’s look at the big picture. Why we need to do this As a scientist who researches the impact ...
  • Germany’s grand energy experiment
    Most readers of BNC know the story — after the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the German government announced that Germany would phase out all of its nuclear generation capacity by 2022. In almost the same period, Germany also aims to cut its national greenhouse gas emissions to 40% of 1990 levels (b ...
  • Fukushima, IFRs and an MIT debate
    Back in May, I published a critique of an MIT report on the future of the nuclear fuel cycle (MIT FNFC), on behalf of Yoon Chang and the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Since that time, SCGI member Steve Kirsch (a MIT alumnus and benefactor) has been trying to get MIT to engage with thei ...
  • Radiation hormesis?
    At the height of the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, there was a lot of discussion in the comments of this blog about the impact of radiation on human health. In particular, there was a debate about whether the linear no-threshold hypothesis (LNT) or the hormetic dose response (RH) was more scientific ...
  • For climate’s sake, nuclear power is not an ‘o ...
    [This is an abridged amalgam of writings by me on nuclear power and climate change that I've published on BNC and elsewhere over the last two years. It has been updated with some commentary on recent events - the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, Germany's announced withdrawal from nuclear energy, and s ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • The Sentencing of Tim DeChristopher Highlights ...
    The Sentencing of Tim DeChristopher Highlights the Conflict Between the People and Corporate-Government [globalresearch.ca] The trial and sentencing of Tim DeChristopher highlights the conflict between the people of the United States and the corporate-government that protects the privileged. In ...
  • CopWatch (2002)
    Winner: 2003 Media That Matters - Media Activism Award (Guerrilla News Network) American television audiences have long been accustomed to the celebration of rawkus police action via the Fox Network's signature exploitation, COPS. And while, for many, the show is a tell-tale sign of ...
  • 2 Spirits: Native Lesbians and Gay Men : Osa H ...
    2-Spirited people (Native lesbians and Gay men) from the Bay Area share their experience of overlapping gender, ethnic and cultural identities as they explore and define their visions of utopia. Coordinating Producer: Osa Hidalgo de la Riva for Royal Eagle-Bear Productions (Oakland, CA )
  • Colombia: Play Democracy, Hide the Corpses - A ...
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Republicans are a Disease

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Appalachia Rising

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  • Press Inquiries
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