2 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Amped Status

• The Obama Administration’s “Secret ...
  By Tom Burghardt During the run-up to the reauthorization of three expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act, Senator Wyden charged that the administration and FBI were relying on a “secret” interpretation of law to vacuum-up exabytes of data, including cell phone location records and internet ...
• Systemic Global Financial Instability Is Sprea ...
  By Charles Hugh Smith Systemic causes of global financial instability include the "normalcy bias," super-low interest rates, central-bank induced inflation and loss of faith in institutions. [Read More]
• Tim DeChristopher Fought Back Against The Orga ...
  By David DeGraw When Democratic Institutions No Longer Give Citizens Power, Civil Disobedience Becomes Essential to Challenge Legalized Injustice - Here's a roundup of coverage on Tim DeChristopher's prison sentence and several important speeches he has given. [Read More]
• Systemic Global Financial Instability Is Sprea ...
  By Charles Hugh Smith The root causes of global financial instability cannot be wished away or "solved" with modest policy tweaks: they are systemic. [Read More]
• Introducing the AmpedStatus Board of Trust &#8 ...
  We've been informally asking our readers to name their most trusted reporters. We are specifically looking for people who are independent and not trapped in partisan Democrat Vs Republican groupthinking boxes. Here are the top 20 most often mentioned people thus far. [Read More]

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• Israel social camp takes its baby steps
  No, the social movement cannot afford to raise Palestinian issues right now. But it is coming All over the place, pro-Palestinian activists are voicing a sharp criticism of the Israeli social justice movement: There can be no justice, they say, without raising the issue of the occupation and th ...
• This strange American obssesion with “th ...
  What is it that makes so many American reports on events in Israel end up with the question of “the return of the Zionist Left?” Ethan Bronner’s recent story on the cost of living protest in Israel is yet another example of this trend. By cherry picking a few comments and mixing them with the [...]
• Jewish Tahrir? Israel witnessing mass protests
  Jewish Tahrir? Israel witnessing mass protests
• The two-state solution will die in September
  If all goes as planned, the U.S. will effectively send the two-state solution into oblivion this September, after caving into Israeli demands to torpedo the Palestinian unilateral declaration of independence at the United Nations Sometime in September, in just over a month, U.S. President Barac ...
• The tent protest: neither social justice, nor ...
  This article was jointly written by Dahlia Scheindlin and Joseph Dana, based on our shared experiences of the protests. The popular, mass protests here that began as a cry of rage against housing prices have evolved admirably into a public outcry against a slew of deep-rooted problems in Israeli ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Gillard Government invests to boost water eff ...
  The Gillard Government will be investing $845 million in the 2011-12 Budget to deliver water infrastructure projects and manage water sustainably in communities across Australia.
• Australia continues to lead the way in Antarc ...
  Australia's position as a world leader in Antarctic research will be backed by $28.3 million in the 2011-12 Budget, Environment Minister, Tony Burke announced today.
• Official opening of the Woodcroft Community C ...
  Woodcroft Community Centre has been transformed into a groundbreaking green hub through the Australian Government's Green Precincts Fund.
• $300,000 Fellowship to sequence Antarctic Kri ...
  The genome of one of the most successful species on Earth, Antarctic Krill, will be sequenced for the first time thanks to a new Gillard Government $300,000 Antarctic Science Fellowship.
• Farmers helping to protect endangered ecologi ...
  Farmers in New South Wales and South Australia will receive support from the Gillard Government for vital work protecting five endangered ecological communities on 19,474 hectares of privately managed land.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

• why are fools like obama desperately trying t ...
  Looking behind the so-called deficit crisis.
• a climber's race - this year's vuelta a espagn ...
  With unprecidentedly steep climbs, and lots of them, this year's race will be tough to ride and spectacular to watch.
• some commentary on the utoya shootings | beha ...
  With more expectation that adults, however young, can take responsibility, in this case be allowed to carry firearms, perhaps this would not have happened.
• will the eussr use the current european debt c ...
  The imbalance between affluent North and the feckless (?) South may play into the hands of the EU Commissars.
• october 1939 - the phoney war is under way, an ...
  Some exceptions to the rule - smoking kills. How the cigarette indusctry used to entice new customers, and addicts.

The Parallel Parliament

• Citizenship – “Online Map but Offl ...
  Interesting responses on the last two posts on the Internet and democracy, and, as expected, they have been divided, at times even sharp. Some view the digital world as a vast sea of unrefined opinions, whereas others believe no filters should be put in place – let citizens sift through it for t ...
• Citizenship – “Information vs. Kno ...
  New figures have just been released revealing that two-thirds of Canadian households have internet access and eight out of ten have home computers – all this higher than the OECD average.  With that distinct cutting-edge advantage, one would think Canada would enjoy a deeply engaged citizenry. S ...
• Citizenship – “Click Here For Demo ...
  It is remarkable how the push for a new kind of democracy within Canada depends so much on the availability and use of the Internet. When first introduced into the political realm it was welcomed as the new “Holy Grail” for democracy – a use of technology that could revolutionize citizens and pe ...
• Citizenship – “Bull Run”
  My wife Jane and I would have been in Spain last week, taking part in the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. We’d wanted to do it for 10 years and thought this was to be the year. But with the change in lifestyle that comes with losing an election, that dream is over. For [...]
• Citizenship – Captives of Ourselves
  Aleksandr Soizhenitsyn, Nobel Prize-winning author, moved to Vermont to escape the horrific memories he shared in books like his Gulag Archipelago. To everyone’s surprise, a number of years later he returned to Russia to live out his remaining days. Asked why he would abandon the beauty and free ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

• FOCUS: Pelosi on the Fence
  The report begins: "Democrats are all over the map on the debt deal, and their leaders are no exception. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Congress needs to get the deal to President Barack Obama 'as soon as we can,' while House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is expressing ambivalence about ...
• GMAC Files False Documents in Foreclosures
  Paul Kiel reports: "GMAC, one of the nation's largest mortgage servicers, faced a quandary last summer. It wanted to foreclose on a New York City homeowner but lacked the crucial paperwork needed to seize the property. Their solution? Make one up." Salem, Mass., Registrar of Deeds John O'Brie ...
• The GOP Gets Its Way
  Intro: "As reports of a possible deal leaked out late Saturday night, it appears that Obama is meeting the Republicans - on their terms. Michael Tomasky on what to watch for today." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid addresses reporters on Capitol Hill, 07/30/11. (photo: Evan Vucci/AP) ...
• Digital Dump
  Intro: "The information-technology revolution has made us smarter, faster, and more globally savvy. It has also seeped poison." Scenes from Ghana's digital wasteland. (photo: Courtesy of Pieter Hugo/Yossi Milo Gallery New York) {rsnslider}{wrap height="2200" scrolling="no"}http://www.n ...
• Chamber of Commerce to Politicians: Quiet on D ...
  Intro: "The US Chamber of Commerce has written a letter to members of the House telling them that voting for federal contractors to be more transparent about their political spending, will negatively impact their legislative scorecard." The US Chamber of Commerce has written a letter to House ...

War Resisters League

• Wisconsin Updates!
  Since Joy First’s article on the occupation of the Wisconsin capitol in the spring issue of WIN magazine, organizers have continued to coordinate actions and protests, keeping the public focused on this issue. Here are some updates: Around the grounds of the capitol on June 4, protesters set up ...
• Know Before You Go, ‘Cause There’s ...
  At the National Network Opposed to the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) gathering in 2009, youth staffers of the Ya-Ya (Youth Activists-Youth Allies) Network, a youth-led organization based in NYC that focuses on counter-recruitment and other kinds of social justice work, met with reps from WRL N ...
• WRL Organizers Criss-cross the Country
  The following are several brief reports from organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa on their travels across the country from Chicago to New Mexico, and Pittsburgh to Detroit. On May 31st, field organizer Ali Issa made a trip to Chicago where he took part in a joint stra ...
• No Surprises from the War-Makers!
  Well, Obama made it clear on Wednesday. His war in Afghanistan will go on through 2014 and probably far beyond. While some may have hoped for a shift in his approach, many of us didn’t expect much, and we certainly didn’t get much. The change in Afghanistan that he spoke about, meant to be heard ...
• In Afghanistan Speech, Obama Offers Token Troo ...
  President Obama passed up an opportunity to recognize our democracy and respect the views of the vast majority of the American people. June 22, 2011 President Obama’s speech tonight violated one of his most important campaign promises: to “end the mind-set that leads to war.” To the contrary, hi ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Hey, USDA, Who’s Your Daddy?
  For whom does the USDA work? A recent development involving a vanished technical review makes me wonder if the agency is working to assure a safe and nutritious food supply for the U.S. citizenry, or to protect the profits of the agro-industrial complex. Tom Philpott did a great job covering the ...
• Threats from Nervous Hog Farmers
  Mark Bittman, whose regular food systems columns in the New York Times are an excellent source of thoughtful commentary on the ills of industrialized agriculture, commented last month on the odd-couple arrangement brokered by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the United Egg Prod ...
• Nutrition Programs: How Many Spending Cuts Can ...
  In the midst of economic instability, it’s become clear that funding for major federal programs will be subject to cuts, and nutrition programs are no exception. Perhaps cuts are unavoidable, but it is essential that we examine their potential impact on public health. According to a recent USDA ...
• Roundup-Resistant Weeds Threaten U.S. Food Sec ...
  Roundup-resistant weeds are a rapidly emerging threat that puts U.S. agriculture in a terribly precarious position. The threat has evolved from farmers’ heavy use of the herbicide glyphosate, (aka Roundup, a Monsanto product) to control weeds, and farmers’ simultaneous reliance on crop varieties ...
• Preparing for Peak Oil
  Peak oil is inevitable. At some point, global oil supplies will peak and then decline (it may be happening already), driving up the cost of oil and petroleum products. But what happens to our food systems, which rely heavily on oil, when oil becomes scarce?

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• RCEN e-Bulletin: July 27, 2011 Edition
  Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN) The�July 27, 2011 edition of the�RCEN�e-Bulletin�is now available on the�Canadian Environmental Network website. Source: Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN) ...
• Hand Helping Contest: win $5000 in design & ma ...
  Deadline:� 31 Aug 2011 - 21:59 Organization:� Hybrid Ideas Inc. Or ...
• North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper's Swim Guide
  Looking for a great Alberta beach this long weekend? Thereâs an app for that! North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper 27 Jul 2011 Ed ...
• Alberta Ecotrust Major Project Grants
  Deadline:  15 Aug 2011 (All day) Organization:  Alberta Ecotrust The deadline to submit a Letter of Intent ...
• Urban Lakes & Wetlands Workshop
  Alberta Lake Management Society 30 Sep 2011 - 00:00 - 1 Oct 2011 - 00:00 18th Annual ALMS�Workshop Urban lakes are unique, and as such pose unique management issues. The focus of ...

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2 ...
  ==== Libyan War: U.S. Celebrates Launching of 2,000th Tomahawk Missile British Warplanes Provide Air Support For Libyan Rebel Attacks France Gives $259 Million Of Seized Libyan Government Assets To Rebels Thaci’s Enforcers: NATO Removes Serb Barricades In Kosovo Afghanistan: NATO Implicated In K ...
• Militarist myopia: George Bernard Shaw’s ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts George Bernard Shaw Common Sense About the War (1914) I. “Let a European war break outâthe war, perhaps, between the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, which so many journalists and politicians in England and Germany contemplate wi ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 1 ...
  ==== NATO Attack On Libyan Television Kills Three, Wounds 15 As In Serbia And Elsewhere, U.S. And NATO Target Media In Libya Murder By Video Game And “Bug Splats”: CIA Drone War In Pakistan Pakistani ISI Chief Asked U.S. To Stop Deadly Drone Strikes Two-Thirds Of New Zealanders Want Special Forc ...
• Sidney Lanier: Death in Eden
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Sidney Lanier From Tiger-Lilies (1867) It is the first day of May, 1864, and this hypothetical course which has just been marked out is being actually pursued by an ordinary looking traveller upon an ordinary looking horse. Suddenly he ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 31, ...
  ==== Libya: The True Costs Of War Americanization And Militarization Of Canadian Foreign Policy NATO Certifies Another Bulgarian Warship For Deployment Uganda: AFRICOM Chief Pledges U.S. Role In Fighting LRA Vermont: NATO Obstacle Course Training For Military “Olympics” U.S. Senate Tells Russia ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• Super Congress To Target Second Amendment
  Unconstitutional body created by debt deal to get “even greater super powers” Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Infowars.com Monday, August 1, 2011 The so-called “Super Congress” that is about to be created with the debt ceiling vote will have powers far beyond just controlling the nation’s purse ...
• Shepard Ambellas On Global Events & ELENIN
  The Intel Hub August 1, 2011 Recently Shepard appeared on Truth Denied Radio Hosted by Roxy Lopez. From the Debt ceiling, New World Order, and ELENIN Shepard covers it in a 15 minute segment. More detailed data will be released on The Intel Hub over the coming weeks. The recent earth changes She ...
• The Case Against Elitism And A Blueprint For U ...
  By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie And Intel Hub Contributing Writer August 2, 2011 It is hard to deny the fact that the so-called “truth movement” has been gaining steam over the years. Now, we could argue all day long about what exactly the truth movement is, but for the sake of clarity ...
• Martial Law in North America Represents The To ...
  By Saman Mohammadi The Excavator August 1, 2011 Martial is coming to America and Canada in slow motion. The train left the station a long time ago. And the cunning conductors are not going to lose their nerve as their train of evil approaches the final destination: mass detention of activists, v ...
• The Missing Security Tapes From The World Trad ...
  The Intel Hub By Susan Lindauer – Contributing Writer August 1, 2011 Late on the night of August 23, 2001, at about 3 a.m. security cameras in the parking garage of the World Trade Center captured the arrival of two or three truck vans. Visual examination determined the vans were separate and un ...

FRS

• Egypt: The Friday of Reaction and Bigotry
  [A strong advocate of secular revolution posted this report of the 7/30/11 rally at Tahrir Square in Cairo, on www.3arabawy.org.  Given the history of what came to replace the Shah of Iran, these are timely insights for the worldwide revolutionary movement to discuss and debate. -- Frontlines ed ...
• People’s Hearing: “Charge the SFPD ...
  People’s Tribunal on Racism and Police Violence http://peopleshearing.wordpress.com Charge the SFPD with Murder of Kenneth Harding and Serial Murders in the Black Community! Unite to Create an Independent Investigation to Indict the Murderers! Justice for Kenneth Harding! Stop the Cover-up! Stop ...
• Nepal One Year Later: Still Waiting to be Born
  � [In this report for the interesting blog Winter Has Its End, the writers describe the current situation in Nepal as a very contradictory and  eery calm of frustration and anticipation.  It relates the unsure optimism of grassroots activists that this could be the calm before a revolutionary st ...
• Egypt: the long shadow of Mubarak and the rol ...
  “Long live Egypt’s Supreme Council” — With Mubarak out of power and SCAF taking the reigns, what’s next for the country?  Joseph Massad 28 Jul 2011 Egyptians have been protesting against the country’s military rulers continuing Mubarak-esque policies [EPA] Many Egyptians are expressing concerns ...
• Who Will Protect Us From the Police?
  Kenneth Harding, the San Francisco Police and the Media July 27, 2011 by MICHAEL CALDERÓN-ZAKS I should mention my connection to both San Francisco (where I was born, raised, and reside) and Seattle (where I received a Bachelors degree), where 19-year old Kenneth Harding is from and had an exagg ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
  am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
• One for the Women
  It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
• Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
  Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
• Slander vs. Sanity
  Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...
• NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
  On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]

StillSmallVoice

• Tweeting Ramadan
  Islam's holy month began Monday, and some Muslims are using Twitter to pray and study together, writes Cathy Lynn Grossman at USA Today.
• In case you missed it, most recently in Courtr ...
  On Monday, Judge Dan Shaban penalized St. Francis Hospital for concealing records pertinent to a series of lawsuits -- two of which have gone through court already -- revolving around the hospital's in-house child sex abuser, George Reardon, former head of endocrinology. For decades, Reardon u ...
• Insurers must pay for birth control
  On Monday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said insurance companies must pay for birth control, with no co-pays. Also covered for free, starting next August, will be: Well-woman visits.Screening for gestational diabetes.Testing for the human papillomavirus (HPV) as part of cer ...
• Trolls need love, too
  Behold This Troll-Post, and thank you, Sharon, for the link. You can listen (if you missed it) John Dankosky's "Where We Live" on the topic of trolls here. Flickr photo
• Doing the debt ceiling, the FDR way
  I have found my new favorite website, Too Much, from the Institute for Policy Studies.�

Associated Content

• Politicians Must Take Action on Debt Ceiling S ...
  After a long debate, leaders of both sides have reached a tentative debt ceiling agreement. Both sides had to compromise, but leaders are pushing it as the best shot they have. So what is in this agreement?Contributor: Cameron D. St.Michael Published: Aug 01, 2011
• After 40 Years Will D.B. Cooper Mystery Finall ...
  The mysterious case of D.B. Cooper is one that legends are made of. Could this mystery be finally coming to an end? Here is the story of Cooper and a recent clue into this puzzle.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Aug 01, 2011
• Kings of Leon's Rock Star Image Suffers After ...
  The Hollywood Reporter recently covered the unexpected exit of Kings of Leon lead singer Caleb Followill in the middle of a concert at Dallas' Gexa Energy Pavilion Friday night.Contributor: Sarah F. Sullivan Published: Aug 01, 2011
• Bringing Religions Together with a Ramadan Hoo ...
  Most people have never heard of a Ramadan Hoot and Holler until they visit my home during Ramadan.Contributor: Maryam Louise Published: Aug 01, 2011
• Can Ubaldo Jimenez Trade Change Indians' Pitch ...
  The Indians have had to deal aces like Cliff Lee and C.C. Sabathia, and watch them excel and win big elsewhere. Now Cleveland hopes that bringing in Rockies' ace Ubaldo Jimenez will pay off for them, before their current slide costs them the AL Central.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: J ...

Popsci - Science

• Scientists Transform Acids Into Bases, Defying ...
  If you took high school chemistry, you probably did a simple experiment in which you dipped pH test paper into beakers bearing various liquids and watched the strip change colors. If it was acidic, the paper turned toward the red end of the color spectrum; if it was basic, it darkened toward th ...
• Appeals Court Upholds Companies' Right to Pate ...
  Two of the three judges are also scientists In a victory for biotechnology companies, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that human genes can be patented. Odds are pretty good the case will make its way to the Supreme Court, and it’s possible the justices will rule the other way, so this is n ...
• Herschel Telescope Finds Oxygen Molecules in Space
  Astronomers are finding more and more of life’s key ingredients in deep space, from amino acids to a huge water reservoir, and now molecular oxygen. Teams working with the Herschel Space Telescope have confirmed finding O2 in the Orion nebula, the first time scientists have been able to pinpoin ...
• Largest Fungus In The World Found Under Tree i ...
  A half-ton, 33-foot-long fungal fruiting body was discovered growing under a felled tree in China, researchers said. It’s the most massive fruiting body — equivalent to a mushroom, in other fungal species — ever discovered. The giant fungus is estimated to be 20 years old, according to the BBC. ...
• This Week in the Future, July 25-29, 2011
  As the International Space Station zooms past a space berry to splash down in the ocean, dolphins with superpowers look on. Welcome to this week in the future. Want to win this gorgeous a Baarbarian illustration, on a t-shirt? It's easy! The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we're

Veterans Today

• Censoring History – From Robert E. Lee t ...
  The War Between the States has a many parallels with 911...
• God Bless Cantankerous Old Men
  “Why aren’t the young people out protesting? Why aren’t they going nuts over what’s happening? Why aren’t they going after these fucking CEOs?”
• Time to Say a Resounding “No” to G ...
  Bring the Army home and close the friggin' borders totally, "shoot to kill" totally. Freeze all assets held by Federal Reserve banks. If any (almost all) those banks are found to be foreign owned, declare all relationships with them to be inconsistent with our constitution. America will no lo ...
• Oxymoron…Congress can solve the financial cris ...
  Special column on the budget compromise
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded a $904,184,088 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the modification of an existing contract to procure 6,963 Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. Work will be performed in Oshkosh, Wis.

War is Business

• Inside Look At Yet Another Religious Group Wit ...
  If the state of Oregon believes the board of Akal Security is led by untrustworthy people, then why do the departments of Defense and Homeland Security continue to award contracts to the company?
• China-Pakistan Port Deal Another Sign Of Wanin ...
  Buy Baluchistan Buy Baluchistan • Read more at WSJ.com: World News
• Temptations Of The Flesh: GOP Freshmen Can&#82 ...
  Sell promises Sell promises • Read more at National Security on iWatch News
• CJ Chivers Examines Libyan Rebels’ Seabo ...
  Buy scarcity Buy scarcity • Read more at NYT > Home Page
• Afghan Soldier Says ‘The Quality Of Ever ...
  Buy bad apples Buy bad apples • Read more at The Killid Group website - News on Afghanistan reports analysis pictures cartoon

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Arctic Ice extent heads for satellite record low
  Exceptionally warm weather across the North Pole during the first half of July, with temperatures up to 8C above normal, could lead to record low ice extent this year according to experts, based on data collected by satellites which started in 1979. Arctic sea ice is already lower than at the ...
• My experience with solar panels
  I thought I might share a recent personal experience of mine. Having considered the idea of generating my own electricity by way of solar photo voltaic panels on my roof for the last few months, I have finally taken the plunge. My house is directly south facing, so the roof is in a prime posi ...
• Rest of July heading for a washout
  Most parts of the country have enjoyed a fine summers day today, with plenty of sunshine. But although it's the last thing the UK tourist industry wants to hear, the message is enjoy it while it lasts. By the weekend low pressure will again be dominating our weather as the jet stream moves fu ...
• Global temperatures: Up sharply in June.
  The latest global temperature has been released and according to the UAH satellite measure June's anomaly was 0.314C above the running 30 year mean, up from +0.133C in May Adjusted to the more standard time period used by the Met Office and the WMO, the anomaly is now +0.567C above the 1961-199 ...
• Unsettled June weather to extend into July
  Despite the warm and sunny conditions in the last few days, the unsettled weather which plagued much of June looks set to return. June turned out to be wet across the UK, dominated by low pressure. Averaged across England & Wales, 122% of average rainfall was recorded. In our region, for a ch ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• US Budget, Rearranging Debt Chairs on the Titanic
  I have saved myself from wasting tremendous amounts of time and effort blogging about the US lifting its $14.3 trillion debt limit which was set to be reached on August 2. Alike any other junkie unable to go cold turkey, the US cannot resist another fix. So, it was inevitable that, pretensions t ...
• Belarus Solves Its Woes...by Re-Joining Russia?
  [NOTE: Instead of watching a country breaking apart over balance of payments difficulties, today we have possibly another route that involves being re-absorbed by a country that appears to be on sounder financial footing.] Ah, the end of the Iron Curtain. Certainly one of the more momentous occu ...
• Christine Lagarde: This is Not Your Father's IMF
  One of the critiques levelled against Christine Lagarde in succeeding the ill-fated Dominique Strauss Kahn was that she was too closely associated with contemporary powers-that-be lurching from one crisis to another on the European scene. Having since assumed office as the current IMF managing d ...
• 'Political Tours': Visit North Korea (and More)
  Here's another instalment of Weird Things I Come Across on the Internets. I dunno why I was shown a banner ad for Political Tours--maybe it's a sign that I should visit fewer international affairs sites--but its pitch sure is interesting (if gimmicky): Political Tours is a revolutionary concept ...
• 21st Century USA ≈ 17th Century Polish Empire?
  Tis perhaps appropriate that my fondness for historically informed performances (HIP) of classical music ties into international political economy for two obvious reasons. First, with most music commissioned for religious rather than secular purposes during past eras, it highlights how music pla ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Head Of Obama&#8217 ...
  Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China.  GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now GE has announced that it "is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray ...
• Stress!
  Has anyone else noticed that the level of stress in this country appears to be extremely high right now?  Today, it seems like our federal government, our state governments and most American families live in a constant state of crisis.  Everywhere you look there are major proble ...
• Broke! 10 Facts About The Financial Condition ...
  The crumbling U.S. economy is putting an extraordinary amount of financial stress on American families.  For many Americans, "flat broke" has become a permanent condition.  Today, over half of all American families live paycheck to paycheck.  Unemployment is rampant and those th ...
• Layoffs, Layoffs Everywhere You Look There Are ...
  The competition for jobs in the United States is absolutely brutal right now, and it is about to get worse.  A new wave of layoffs is sweeping across America.  During tough economic times, Wall Street favors companies that are able to cut costs, and the fastest way to "cut costs ...
• Madness: 39 Things That Are Driving Ordinary A ...
  Have you noticed that almost everyone seems really angry these days?  Frustration with the government and with most of the other major institutions in our society seems to grow by the day.  According to a brand new ABC News/Washington Post poll, 80 percent of Americans say that ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Interview with Jay Donahue about the Californi ...
  Jay talks about the continuing struggle inside California State prisons Download At: ...
• Anarcho-punk zine PunkWay #6, 2011
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• Need Tech Help? Offering it? Put a free ad in ...
  Are you part of a cool hacking, DIY, or tech project that needs more volunteers, users, or testers? Are you part of a radical project that needs...
• A Fake Image: About the Fraud of the Void Netw ...
  The social revolt of December 2008, triggered, among other things, an increased interest abroad about the struggles in Greece. For this reason, ...
• New Fringe Fest Musical Inspired by Union Figh ...
  When a coworker at Starbucks approached barista Ted Dewberry about forming a union at their workplace, his initial reaction was fear. Working 17 ho...

E U Times

• TSA employees now developing cancer clusters f ...
  In a new twist to the TSA saga to which we can only say, “We told ya so,” the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that reveal TSA employees are reporting “cancer clusters” among their own employees who work near radiat ...
• Half of European men share King Tut’s DNA
  Nearly half of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, British media report, citing a team of geneticists in Switzerland. Scientists at a Zurich-based DNA genealogy center, reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh, who ascended the throne at the age of n ...
• Debt Ceiling Roulette
  In this game, the house always wins. Bipartisan complicity stacked the deck against millions of working households, needing to know that political Washington is scamming them. The end result is the banana republicanization of America. American writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter: 1862 – 1910) ...
• Asylum Seekers Riot in Bari Italy
  African immigrants have gone on the rampage in Bari, Italy, blocking roads and a railway line, setting things on fire and attacking police and passers-by with iron bars. The Africans were being housed at an immigration center in the town, which has now been set on fire. They are demanding that t ...
• Russia and China, said will oppose UN meet on ...
  UN Security Council member Germany on Sunday formally requested emergency consultations by the 15-nation body on the Syrian government’s deadly offensive against demonstrators, a spokesman said. A meeting could be held on Monday. But the move is likely to reopen bitter divisions within the Secur ...

Voiceless Victim

• Protect the sanctity of the confessional to co ...
  Responses to the Cloyne report have included calls to break that ultimate coverup con trick “the sanctity of the confessional”. That really got the paedophile protectors squealing in horror. Imagine not getting special treatment and not being allowed to commit whatever crimes they like without c ...
• Imagine How It Feels
  How many people talk about the issue of Catholic Church enabled child sexual abuse without a thought for how it feels to be the victim of such abuse? This issue is, after all, about children. Yesterday’s children whose lives were irreparably damaged by their abuse and who are still being re-abus ...
• Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
  I used to think the John Jay College  of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
• Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
  This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...
• Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint &# ...
  Here is the first part of my Top 10 Reasons Why John Paul II Is No Saint. This list refers only to the child rape epidemic. There are many more issues on which the Patron Saint of Paedophiles has left the world a far, far worse place than he found it, and many instances where [...]

WL Central

• 2011-08-02 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 13:20 PM The Pentagon will invest up to 42 million dollars in a program ...
• 2011-08-01 Interview with organizer of Tenness ...
  Tweet Tennessee is planning a 'Day of Rage' at the state capitol on Tuesday, August 2 at 9:00 am, 600 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee.. WL Central writer, Alexa O'Brien, spoke with the organizer of the Tennessee Day of Rage, Lara Jennings, on August 1, 2011 as Jennings prepares for the p ...
• 2011-08-01 United States Day of Rage and Occup ...
  TweetOne citizen. One dollar. One vote. The US Day of Rage, a movement launched on March 10 of this year, appears to be taking off with the anger and frustration surrounding the ongoing debt crises this week. The movement describes itself as an "assymetrical self organizing political movement of ...
• 2011-08-01 Alleged Lulzsec hacker Jake Davis c ...
  Tweet18 year old Jake Davis was charged with five offenses under the Computer Misuse Act, the Serious Crime Act and the Criminal Law Act. He was released on bail. Davis' lawyer admitted that his client was linked to Anonymous, but that there was no evidence he took part in hacks. After the court ...
• 2011-08-01 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 10:30 AM Diplomatic cables reveal the U.S. was in contact with military ...

U N News

• UNESCO condemns murders of journalists in Mexi ...
  The United Nations agency tasked with defending and promoting press freedom today condemned the murders of journalists in Mexico and Brazil, two Latin American countries where reporters have already been killed this year.
• Aid challenges and Government stalemate hinder ...
  A United Nations advisory group on Haiti today reported improvements in the earthquake-torn country but said aid coordination remains a challenge, and a stalemate in the formation of the Government is delaying aid.
• UN human rights officials voice concern at clo ...
  United Nations human rights officials today urged Haitian authorities to ensure that the closure of camps for people displaced by last year's catastrophic earthquake is done in a planned way as part of a broader plan to improve access to adequate housing.
• UN official urges positive social legacy' fro ...
  The upcoming World Cup soccer tournament and Summer Olympics in Brazil should be harnessed to deliver a "positive social legacy" for the South American country and beyond, the United Nations envoy for sports and peace has said.
• Ban asks Iberoamerican artists for help in sol ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today asked television producers and artists in Spain, Portugal and Latin America to use their imaginative talents to find new ways to help solve challenges related to the environment, women's empowerment, organized crime and drug trafficking.

Conspiracy Reality TV

• HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
  You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...
• Population Control – Eugenics Depopulation Agenda
  Eugenicists who have still caught on to the discredited principles of eugenics, now attach these ideas to environmentalism and population control in an attempt to carry on eugenics in a more veiled form. Malthusian population control was now emphasized.
• CAMP FEMA: American Lockdown
  The martial law portions of Rex 84 were outlined in a 1982 memo, written by FEMA deputy John Brinkerhoff. Martial law was to be declared in the event of a national crisis, yet the plan did not define the term "national crisis". The plan allowed FEMA to take control of both federal and state gove ...
• 2012 – Science or Superstition – End Times Pre ...
  December 21, 2012, the end date of the sophisticated long count calendar created by the ancient Maya in Central America. Countless books and websites, magazine articles and newspaper headlines debate its meaning, with enthusiasts in two camps; those for casting apocalypse, the end of time, and t ...
• A Machine To Die For: The Quest For Free Energy
  There's a thing called the classified patent system which hardly anybody knows about. And every time you apply for a patent it goes through a screening by someone from the Department of Defense here in this country as well as other countries. And if this device has any kind of defense associated ...

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• China's Energy Shortages Start to Bite
  • (http://twitter.com/share) New reports say the effects are starting to ripple across society
• Hindu Influence and Southeast Asia
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Did the Hindus get there first?
• Hong Kong and Anti-Filipino Sentiment
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Right of abode for your domestic helper isn’t likely
• China's Fake Apple Stores Look so Real
  • (http://twitter.com/share) [He] got me invested in some kinda fruit company
• Book Review: Searching for Singapore's Porn Star
  • (http://twitter.com/share) A new book seeks out the legend of Singapore's record-setting sex goddess

We Know the Lies

• SMART METERS... A COMPLETE SURVEILLANCE OF AL ...
• Your Tax Dollars at Work... Defense and War Sp ...
• Leaked!... Documents for Industry Catalog and ...
• History... The Two Existing Forms of the Unite ...
• Rule: ‘Martial Law’ – Obama To Use Dictatorial ...

Tarpley

• Dear Congressman: Thanks to the XIV Amendment, ...
  By Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. Washington DC, August 1, 2011— As the twilight descends over the nationâs capital today, more and more members of Congress from both the Tea Party right and the Progressive left, as well as intelligent moderates of all types, are demonstrating an increasing willingnes ...
• České
  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Svenska Türk Zhongwén   Teroristické útoky v Norsku â útok pod faleÅ¡nou vlajkou: Více než jeden stÅelec na ostrovÄ; Paralelní cviÄení zahrnující výbuch bomby v Oslu ...
• NATO, Facing Defeat in Libya, Lashes out in Ba ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 30, 2011 [download video]
• Libyan Rebel Supreme Commander Younis, Two Col ...
  CIA’s Hifter Prime Suspect in Slayings; Jalil Lies as Front Man for Terrorists; Tribal Warfare Looms; UN Mandate to Expire in September; Top Hawk Anne Marie Slaughter Admits NATO Defeat in Financial Times Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV July 29, 2011 [download video] [...]
• The US Constitution Makes Default Illegal: Wha ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net My fellow Americans: I speak to you tonight in an hour of grave danger to our nation. As you know, within the next few hours our government is in danger of failing to make payments of interest and principal which the United States Treasury has contracted to ...

Modern Survivalism

• Social Chaos Survival Guide
  Chaos – Lacking order or predictability. Complete disorder and confusion. Behavior so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions. A condition or place of great disorder or confusion. Any confused, disorderly mass. There is no agreed upon definiti ...
• A New Media Survival Contest
  msb-note The Safecastle Freedom Awards contest will giveaway prizes after the end of 2011 worth $12,000! All you have to do is submit a ‘guest post’ to Modern Survival Blog to be automatically entered to win. “We are looking for the best original, web-based content of the year that is related to ...
• Survival Preparedness for $100 dollars
  Guest Post: by ‘Be informed’ I was holding a hundred dollar bill the other day and I really started to think about just how much of certain survival items that this thin piece of cloth could still buy (that is until the dollar falls into a cesspit. I used the companies on MSB and all [...]
• We Are Rapidly Approaching A Dangerous Time…
  We are rapidly approaching a dangerous time in our history. Society as we know it is vulnerable to political and social unrest. This impending crisis comes as a consequence of our flawed foreign and domestic economic policies… Dangerous times indeed The only way that we can prevent blood from ru ...
• US Debt and Default Talk
  Jim Rogers: The US is the biggest debtor nation in the history of the world. This cannot go on forever. Eventually, the creditors are going to say “no more, that is the end of the line”. If you think the problems are bad now, you wait till we do not have any more credit, you [...]

Fast Company

• Twitter's $800M Cash Injection, Skype's iPad A ...
  This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.Twitter Is $800 Million Richer. Twitter's just landed an $800 million venture funding deal, led by Russian VC firm DST Global. So say the rumors anyway, but if it's true it could be the largest such deal in history ...
• Mapping The Real State Of America
  A new atlas gives a sense of what's truly happening in America. We look at a few excerpts to see how much we're driving and what we're eating.America is a mighty big country. It contains multitudes, and it can be hard to get a sense, sitting in, say, Montana, what's happening thousands of miles ...
• How Short-Lived, Slow-Moving Companies Can Be ...
  Cities get faster and more productive as they get bigger and last forever. Companies get slower and more boring, and then they go out of business. Can companies change that model? Ecologically, cities are what humans do--just as bacteria create biofilms and trees make stable soil communities, Ho ...
• Trademarkia Adds Reviews To 140 Years Of Brand ...
  How a new ratings system and lightning-fast database is kicking off conversations about brands that launched as far back as 1872, all the way up through ... tomorrow. Trademarkia is enabling a new kind of dialog around brands--allowing people to talk about products and brands that date all the ...
• Hacking The Big Apple
  When is a city like a startup? Last weekend, the City of New York hosted a hackathon to re-envision its website, NYC.gov. Here's what geeks from Manhattan, NY, to Manhattan, Kansas, had to say about how a gov site should serve its citizens. On Sunday evening, in Manhattan, a young man named Noel ...

Jadaliyya

• Al-Jazeera Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor ...
  This is a brief interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on the UN Security Council and Syria, and the pressure that might be placed on the Syrian regime to halt its crackdowns on protesters.�The interview comes after the Syrian regime entered and besieged the northern city of ...
• South Sudan: Post-Independence Opportunities a ...
  The independence of South Sudan, and the birth of the fifty-fourth state on the African continent, is a pivotal and historic event for the state of Sudan, and for the continent as a whole. The significance of the event goes beyond a mere change in the geographical boundaries of the divid ...
• "The Real News" Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Ed ...
  This is an interview conducted by TheRealNews.com with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Hesham Sallam after the events of this past Friday in Tahrir Square. Hesham discusses some of the tensions underlying the conduct os Islamists vis-a-vis the larger struggle to institutionalize the revolution in Eg ...
• Culture XVI
  This is our sixteenth weekly section. We have five posts; Amal Hanano continues her diary from Aleppo. Gaelle Raphael translates a poem by the great Syrian poet Saniyya Salih. Youssef Rakha examines the cultural discourse in Egypt. Nezar Andary reviews May Odeh's�Diaries. Sinan Antoon tr ...
• It's Not Him, It's Them
  [This is the ninth installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous posts here] On the quietest Friday, a few weeks ago, I convinced my parents to honor a family tradition and go out for lunch. The narrow, cobblestoned streets were still and empty, as ...

mediagazer

• A Rift Divides Members of Journalism Groups (T ...
  Tanzina Vega / New York Times: A Rift Divides Members of Journalism Groups  —  As the National Association of Black Journalists opens its annual conference in Philadelphia on Wednesday, a topic of conversation is likely to be its recent efforts to get more black anchors on prime-time news progr ...
• McGraw-Hill in Cross Hairs (Wall Street Journal)
  Wall Street Journal: McGraw-Hill in Cross Hairs  —  Two big investors have upped their stake in McGraw-Hill Cos. in a move that could lead to a push to break up the conglomerate, known as much for its financial data and bond ratings as its textbooks for school children.  —  Hedge fund firm Jana ...
• Hayes to Host MSNBC's Weekend Morning Show (Br ...
  Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: Hayes to Host MSNBC's Weekend Morning Show  —  Christopher L. Hayes of The Nation magazine will host a weekend morning show for MSNBC beginning in September, the channel said Monday.  —  MSNBC was earlier reported to be developing a show for Mr. Hayes, who has bee ...
• "A great story to tell to advertisers": How TP ...
  Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab: “A great story to tell to advertisers”: How TPM increased its ad sales revenue 88 percent from last year  —  This June, Talking Points Memo had the biggest ad sales month in its eleven-year history, closing out a half-year period that saw ad sales revenue g ...
• How to: get to grips with SEO as a journalist ...
  Malcolm Coles / Journalism.co.uk: How to: get to grips with SEO as a journalist  —  The first part in a series on developing a better understanding of Search Engine Optimisation specifically for journalists  —  Journalism has an unhappy history with SEO.  Actually, all online content has an un ...

Chemtrail News

• 200 Million Tons of Aluminum Aerosol Chemtr ...
  Discussion about 200 Million Tons of Aluminum Aerosol Chemtrail Poisoning All Life! Scientific Proof! at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum.www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1580852/pg1
• ~Australia gives murdoch $10m for chemtrail ...
  Murderer, I mean, Murdoch: http://www.bing.com/search?q=murdoch+heroin&go=&qs= n&sk=&sc=1-14&form=QBLH Thank you to TheL…chemtruth.ning.com/video/australia-gives-murdoch-10m
• Chemtrail at New York City, July 27 201 ...
  This video demonstrates how easy and safe it is to destroy chemtrails, high in the sky. using very small amounts of vinegar vapors...even from ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev4hnCMFpnU
• Chemtrail Conspiracy... - Cnufos
  Here is a ling to a guy who is writing a thesis on chemtrails and its relation to Morgellons disease. I'm not sure about its validity but its more ...cnufos.ning.com/xn/detail/6313808:Comment:46660?xg...
• Are the trails left by aircrafts in the sky da ...
  He says the “chemtrail” theory has been thoroughly discredited by the scientific .... There is no need to invoke the existence of mysterious “chemtrails” to ...

World News - Top Stories

• 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 ...

no frakking consensus

• Canadian Scientists and the World Wildlife Fund
  When hundreds of Canadian scientists - and 12 science bodies - joined a World Wildlife Fund ad campaign they undermined their own authority. They became politically-motivated actors in a political discussion.
• How the IPCC Defines ‘Distinguished Scie ...
  Where, on the CV of a person employed by Greenpeace for the past 17 years, does it say distinguished scientist?
• Prof Condemned for Not Teaching IPCC Reports
  Skeptical climate scientist Chris de Freitas has been savaged by a journalist who complains that 3,000-page IPCC reports aren't on his Geography 101 reading list.
• Calling Skeptics Stupid Doesn’t Convince ...
  How does calling me stupid and equating me with a Holocaust denier advance the debate? Is the fate of the planet really at stake - or are we just playacting in a sandbox?
• Greenpeace Disses ‘Covert Calculations&# ...
  Greenpeace has seen the light. Years after it became the norm in climate science to hoard & hide data, Greenpeace is now complaining about such behaviour.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 7/27/11 - ACLU Historical Timeline
  aclu.procon.org - UPDATED: ACLU Historical Timeline - Read about the history of the American Civil Liberties Union from its formation in 1920, through their organizational split over Japanese internment in 1942, to the ACLU's defense of the right for American Nazis to march in Skokie, IL in 1977 ...
• 7/27/11 - Is illegal immigration an economic b ...
  immigration.procon.org - UPDATED: Is illegal immigration an economic burden to America? - Read pro and con statements from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (pro), Dr. Alan Greenspan (con), Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen (pro), the Washington Post (con), and many others in our recen ...
• 7/25/11 - Should teachers get tenure?
  teachertenure.procon.org - NEW: Should teachers get tenure? - Read pro and con arguments from the National Education Association (pro), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (con), New York State United Teachers (pro), New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (con), Louisiana Federation of Teachers (pro), ...
• 7/22/11 - Should flavored milk be available in ...
  milk.procon.org - UPDATED: Should flavored milk be available in schools? - The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board of Education voted 5-2 to remove chocolate, strawberry, blueberry, rootbeer, and all flavored milks from LAUSD schools. Over 95% of US school districts still offer the ...
• 7/20/11 - Obama administration to support repe ...
  gaymarriage.procon.org - Obama administration to support repeal of Defense of Marriage Act. The announcement follows President Obama's decision on Feb. 23, 2011 to instruct the Justice Department to stop defending DOMA, the federal law that defines marriage as a legal union between a man and wom ...

Truth About Our World

• George Carlin and Bill Hicks tell it like it is
• Time For Laughs… and a bit of reality
• How to Change Our Reality
• Taking Responsibility (Taking your power back)
• Humans and the Virtual Reality

Gyrovague's Raves

• The invasive species war
  Do we protect native plants because theyâre better for the earth, or because we hate strangers? A cherished principle of environmentalism comes under attack (Left: iStock photo; Right: Roel Smart/iStock photo) Leon Neyfakh EARLIER THIS MONTH, a troop of volunteers in Newton piled into canoes and ...
• Deceptive Picture
  How Oscar Wilde painted over âDorian Gray.â Alex Ross Even before Wilde sent the manuscript of âThe Picture of Dorian Grayâ to the typist, he was hesitating over its homoerotic content. Oscar Wilde was not a man who lived in fear, but early reviews of âThe Picture of Dorian Grayâ must have given ...
• How an argument with Hawking suggested the Uni ...
  John Timmer 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 out of a long argument ...
• The Jargon of the Novel, Computed
  Graphic by Joon Mo Kang; source: Corpus of Contemporary American English, 425 million words, 1990-2011; data set measures all forms of the word âbolt.â By BEN ZIMMER We like to think that modern fiction, particularly American fiction, is free from the artificial stylistic pretensions of the past ...
• Snacks of the Great Scribblers
  Wendy MacNaughton ⦠Walt Whitman began the day with oysters and meat, while Gustave Flaubert started off with what passed for a light breakfast in his day: eggs, vegetables, cheese or fruit, and a cup of cold chocolate. The novelist Vendela Vida told me she swears by pistachios, and Mark Kurlan ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Open meeting on open science – some highlights
  FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE We kicked off our Science as a public enterprise  study with a public event at the Southbank Centre last month. The full recording of the first debate is now available. Download audio file  (Apologies for the mixed quality – the audience mikes were ...
• Engineering public engagement
  FROM EMMA WOODS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE What is so unusual about geoengineering? What sets it apart from other controversial technologies? One thing that strikes me as particularly atypical is that the social dimensions of geoengineering are being addressed well ahead of the development of ...
• Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
  FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
• Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
  FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
• Opening up scientific information: a shared hi ...
  There are two parts to the story of the birth of the internet. Networked computers exchanging packets of information have existed since the 1960s, facilitated largely by a government project in the USA.   The interface that allows anyone to share anything with anyone, anywhere – the combinatio ...

NAU Resistance

• U.S. Ambassador Says Perimeter Security Deal W ...
  - Joint Border Inspection Facilities | Relocation Of U.S. Food Inspectors At Canadian Plants And Vice-Versa |Greater Sharing Of Intelligence & Harmonizing Regulations | Greater Use Of Biometrics To Track Travelers In Real Time
• Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
  "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
• Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
  "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
• VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ...
  "Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM
• VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ...
  "Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• No Carbon Tax Protest: photos
  Some random thoughts as we steam towards the biggest social and economic blunder of the millennium. Calculations about what people will pay on average per week are speculative and have no guarantees attached. That’s clearly just a marketing gimmick. What we should be more concerned about is wh ...
• TVO Canada interviews Gage, Zwicker, Zarembka ...
  http://ae911truth.org/en/news-section/41-articles/513-tvo-debate.html Written by AE911Truth Staff | 17 may 2011 Canadian Public Broadcasting TV Station TVO Interviewed AE911Truth's Richard Gage, AIA, Barrie Zwicker (Towers of Deception), Author Paul Zarembka on the program "The Agenda" wi ...
• A green tide sweeps Canberra
  On 4th July 2011 the Greens will control nine seats in the Federal Senate, giving them the balance of power and ushering in a new era of enviro-politics. Tonight Josh Jackson and I wade into the battle over carbon taxes and attempt to restore some sanity to the debate. In particular we take ...
• 9/11 Troll Alert
  Coinciding with the approaching 10th anniversary of 9/11, it seems we are experiencing a new campaign to undermine and destroy the 9/11 truth movement. Truther groups have been buzzing over the past two days with news about the "defection" of Love Police founder Charlie Veitch from the 9/11 t ...
• TSA’s assault on human dignity continues ...
  There has been the usual hand wringing and a flood of TV reports over the latest TSA outrage: the "grope down" of a six year old girl, daughter of Todd and Selena Drexel, at an airport in New Orleans. I present below some of the recent coverage: "Right now at Armstrong International ...

Beacon

• An Invasion of Great White Sharks?
  Great white shark. © Oceana/David Stephens Editor's note: Happy Shark Week! All week long we'll be re-capping some highlights from Shark Week programming, starting with today, and "Great White Invasion." Great white sharks appear to be more common than ever nowadays, according to “Great Wh ...
• Friday Infographic: Fishing Down the Food Chain
  This is the second in a series of ocean infographics by artist Don Foley. These infographics also appear in Oceana board member Ted Danson�s book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� � With shark week fast approaching, how about a shark-related infographic to whet ...
• Shark Week Cometh
  Shark Week is almost here -- are you ready? For the second year in a row, Oceana is partnering with Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, which kicks off on Sunday, July 31st at 9PM. We’re especially stoked about the host this year, comedian and Chief Shark Officer Andy Samberg. For a one-hour s ...
• Caleb Pungowiyi: 1941-2011
  We are incredibly saddened by the passing of Caleb Pungowiyi, a longtime Alaska Native leader and Oceana�s Senior Advisor and Rural Liaison. Originally from the St. Lawrence Island village of Savoonga, Caleb�s work was a critical part of Oceana�s accomplishments in Alaska.�He was a passiona ...
• Josh Lucas Joins Oceana in Oregon
  Earlier this summer, actor Josh Lucas traveled to the Oregon Coast with Oceana, Nautica and GQ to explore the area�s unique marine environment. Lucas visited picturesque Yaquina Head, a promontory southwest of Portland known for its views of the gray whale migration route and seabird nesting a ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Excogitations On The Messy Birth Of The Contin ...
  The Revolutionary states were mostly an aggregation of agricultural communities who traded raw goods for British and French surplus goods. Roads were inadequate to provide major thoroughfares from one state to the next, so trade was mostly conducted along rivers. Let's face it. This was not a na ...
• The Sukhoi SuperJet 100
  The Sukhoi SuperJet 100 One of the most important Russian domestic aviation programs, the SuperJet100 will compete in the regional jet category where Bombardier and Embraer dominate. The government is subsidizing much of the development to compete in the 75 seat to 95 seat market for jets. Still ...
• I Uncovered This Strange Story From Vietnam By ...
  Hercules C-130 Dropping Supplies In Khe Sanh I can’t help but be fascinated by accounts coming from credible witnesses about unusual phenomena. This page was no exception. Enjoy. It’s weird. “In early 1968, during the TET Offensive I was a Loadmaster on a C-130 cargo aircraft attached to the 834 ...
• Abraham Lincoln’s Grand Strategy Of The ...
  General George Meade, Winner At Gettysburg � July 1863 was a bad month for the Confederacy. Timid tempestuous Union Army Commander Scott McClellan had been fired, and replaced with a feisty unapologetic and aggressive new combat commander that had put the Army of the Potomac and the Union army t ...
• Astounding Silent Gun Camera Footage From WWII
  Click here to view the embedded video. � Click here to view the [...]

Taylor Marsh

• Biden on Point, while Republicans Balk at ‘Pro ...
  It always comes down to relationships and Pres. Obama just doesn’t have them. Joe does. An interesting back story put together by Politico’s Glenn Thrush, Carrie Budoff Brown, Manu Raju and John Breshnahan. [...] With the talks going nowhere Saturday morning, the White House made âour last play, ...
• Pelosi: Give me a ‘Satan Sandwich’ with ‘Satan ...
  BREAKING… HOUSE PASSES ‘SATAN SANDWICH’ It was 1978 and Jimmy Carter was on his way down, down, down, and Donna Summers, disco and Reaganomics was on the way in and up. So, if in the 21st century we’re going to revisit Republican economics of the ’80s, we might as will bring back disco too. Demo ...
• Tea Party Politics is Crazy, But They Won
  “The âhobbitsâ won.” – Mark Thiessen This is what happens when the man in the White House doesn’t have the leadership character for the job. As for all those analysts, including a lot of progressives and new media sites, who tried to stuff the Tea Party in the racist bin thinking that would be e ...
• Republicans Fake Pres. Obama Out of his Shorts
  For the deal itself, given the available information, is a disaster, and not just for President Obama and his party. [...] Make no mistake about it, what we’re witnessing here is a catastrophe on multiple levels. It is, of course, a political catastrophe for Democrats, who just a few weeks ago s ...
• Let’s Make a Mess
  “I would say … that symbolically, that agreement is moving us to the point where we are having the final interment of John Maynard Keynes,” he said, referring to the British economist. “He normally died in 1946 but it appears we are going to put him to his final rest with this agreement.” – Huff ...

Hudson New York

• The Myth of Brotherhood Moderation
  Although in the early days of Egypt's revolution, the predominant narrative in American media and decision-making circles insisted that the revolution had been brought about by essentially secular people --- that Egypt was on the verge of becoming a true
• Fatah Infighting Helping Hamas
  Until recently, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan were close friends and political allies. Now the two men are engaged in a bitter dispute that is threatening to divide the ruling Fatah faction. Hamas, of
• Islamist and Nationalist Radicalism Among Germ ...
  Of the many signs that point to the growing influence among Turks and Kurds living in Germany of the Justice and Development Party [AKP], which represents an "updated" Islamist ideology, the worst aspect of it is that it will likely go unopposed. The
• Understanding The Default Debate
  "Default" is a word used so often in the last weeks it engenders numbness across the nation. Presumably default would mean the U.S. credit rating would be downgraded resulting in higher prices, increased interest rates and a belief that America is in
• Turkish Government Set to Reshape Army
  Turkey's Supreme Military Council, or YAŞ, will begin its annual four-day meetings Monday with many question marks after the unprecedented resignations of its military brass Friday put the shape of the new command structure in serious doubt. Prime

Urban Survival

• Gold’s Rise Assured…but…..
  The fact that Congress has raised the nation’s debt ceiling is not really sinking into people’s consciousness yet, but if you look at the price of gold, up over $1,638  ( a decent return from our $265/$275 entry point in … Continue reading →
• Coping with ‘Nosty”(damn us) and E ...
  My friend Stu (the Age of Desolation) has been thinking on Nostradamus and Comet Elenin and sent me this a couple of days ago, which seems pertinent – I just (somewhat absent mindedly) keep forgetting to mention… “George,Just read your … Continue reading →
• The Last Chance Rally
  This website is primarily about longwave economics, it’s application to living the “strategic life” and – with any luck, skill, daring, or some combination thereof, making a few bucks along the way.  Over the last two weeks, I’ve managed to … Continue reading →
• Coping: With Vacation Stories
  Want to have some fun this summer, while you and I are sweating like underpaid grunts trying to make ends meet?  Look for what I call “vacation stories” to appear in media.  The LA Times story “Park service to thing … Continue reading →
• The Two (Rotten) Default Choices
  Time to talk about economic hemlock and how we’d like to go:  With the republicorps unable (unwilling?) to bring a budget resolution to a vote in the House, congressman Ron Paul’s got it figured, sadly, pretty much right.  The US … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Links for 2011-08-01 [del.icio.us]
  Bob Chapman - The Money Radio - 31 Aug 2011 | Bob Chapman The International Forecaster Blog Tom Cloud : Gold goes up 13 percent up each time the Dollar goes down 1 percent | Gold and Silver Blog Tom Cloud : Gold goes up 13 percent up each time the Dollar goes down 1 percent | Gold and Si ...
• Johan Galtung on The Oslo Bombing
  Johan Galtung , a Norwegian sociologist a peace... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• American Corporations outsourcing to India
  America you bought into the Capitalist lies. Yeah... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Max Igan The NWO want to make the planet Unifo ...
  Max Igan - Revolution Radio - July 24, 2011 Max... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Max Igan The NWO want to make the planet Unifo ...
  Max Igan - Revolution Radio - July 24, 2011 Max... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

• MIND CONTROL 86: The Finale
  This is the last episode of the series. I will make an attempt to summarize where we have come from and where we are going. Hopefully the summary in itself….. will throw the final bit of light to understanding the message of Christ….. and why he was sent to us. So let’s start from the [...]
• CONCEPT PHOTOGRAPHY – “The Haunted ...
  Filed under: CREATIVITY Tagged: concept photography, creativity, fashion photography
• WHY DO WE NEED AN AMERICAN IDOL?
  They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but in the world we live in today it is a noticeable fact that more often than not this isn’t the case. Sometimes certain things are created simply to exploit the naive and frivolous nature of what society has become, and that is usually where ...
• IN MY STOMACH
  It wasn’t just inside me, it was in front of me. An unflattering protrusion that I couldn’t help but carry along wherever I went. This alien life form that I had never seen had been inhabiting my body for 9 months. I could feel it moving around, stretching its arms and legs like it owned [...]
• MIND CONTROL 85: A Thin Line Between Pleasing ...
  Crossing over to the other end of the spectrumâ¦â¦ there are those who do have a genuine desire to know the Fatherâ¦â¦ but they feel the need to make this known to the rest of the worldâ¦.. and end up going about things the wrong way. Matt 6:1-18 1 “BEWARE OF PRACTICING YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• A call for more naturally derived medicinals
  Keeley Wray, is the Technology Marketing Specialist in the Technology and Innovation Development Office at Children's Hospital Boston asks : Where's the business model for "naturally derived medicinals"? From Children's Vector blog: If more companies found ways to commercialize natural comp ...
• Woods Hole, the Gulf oil spill and the istisob ...
  As some of us rumble on and off the ferry to Martha's Vineyard, the scientists at the nearby WHOI are working away. An article in the lab's Oceanus magazine tells the tale of yet another useful, custom-built, underwater device. This time, their work aims to answer questions about the Gulf oil sp ...
• New Army engineer in charge of ecosystem resto ...
  When officers in the Army Corp of Engineers get a new job, they get more than new offices. Last week, the corp held a "Change of Command ceremony" at historic Faneuil Hall in Boston were District Commander Col. Tom Feir passed the command flag -- signifying change of command authority -- to n ...
• MIT's Belcher talks about bioengineering on to ...
  Angela Belcher and her Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT use "advanced bioengineering techniques to explore the interface between inorganic and organic materials for applications to energy, medicine, electronics, nanomechanics, and the environment. In other words, she turns living cells into t ...
• Researchers in New England solve lizard/turtle ...
  More here from the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. From Nature News: According to the fossil record, turtles first appeared in the Triassic period around 230 million years ago, and have changed little since. Crucially, turtles lack temporal fenestrae, suggesting ...

NRDC Switchboard

• 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 ...
• Thank You, Early Electric Vehicle Adopters
  Max Baumhefner, Sustainable Energy Fellow, San Francisco There are waiting lists for both the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt, full of Americans who want to be part of the most exciting evolution in automotive technology since we switched from coal-fir ...
• People in Los Angeles say air pollution is sti ...
  Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica The most recent PPIC Survey on Californians and the Environment shows that Californians overwhelmingly feel that air pollution is the biggest environmental problem ...
• Making Buses Better
  Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. I don’t like to take sides in the bus v. rail food fight – I believe they both have a role to play – but it does seem to me that buses, despite their cost-effectiveness, get th ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, August 1, 2011: 2 Detroit MI cops subject of suit by ex-Army medic claiming they rammed his car then beat him while he was cuffed. [3] http://ow.ly/1vf3jJ Miami Beach FL settles suit ...
• Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 07-30 ...
  A few things before I start with this weekend’s report. Today, Radley Balko asked his readers an interesting question as to whether appointing or electing law enforcement leadership had anything to do with police misconduct. It was an interesting question so I decided to run some analysis on our ...
• Officer-Involved Fatality Tracking
  A few times a month we’ll be asked for information about how many people died in officer-involved incidents and what percentage of those fatalities were questionable. Since we currently only track fatalities associated with credible allegations of misconduct we cannot provide information on tota ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 22 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, July 29, 2011: 6 Fullerton CA cops who beat & tasered homeless man to death return to duty as FBI begins investigation [0] http://ow.ly/1v7Z92 New York NY cops may face charges after ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, July 28, 2011: 5 Fullerton CA police officers are being investigated after witnesses accused them using of excessive force in the brutal beating and tasering death of a homeless ma ...

Total Collapse

• Putin says US a ‘parasite’ on world economy
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday accused the United States of acting as a “parasite” on the world economy by accumulating massive debts that threaten the global financial system. “The country is living in debt. It is not living within its means, shifting the weight of responsibili ...
• China To ‘Employ’ 1 Million Robots
  A Taiwanese manufacturer of parts for Apple, Nokia and Dell is planning to replace staff on assembly lines in its Chinese factories with robots. Foxconn also counts Hewlett-Packard and Sony Ericsson amongst its clients. The company presently “employs” 10,000 robots, but plans to increase this to ...
• Debt deal likely to face defeat in US House on ...
  The markets are popping champagne. The traders are clapping and cheering. The media is awash with the phrase “the crisis is over”. But for a default to be averted, a vote on the agreement reached today still needs to be voted on and approved. Democratic and Republican leaders have conceded that ...
• Turkey’s Entire Military Command Quits
  Turkey’s army chief-of-staff and the entire military command have resigned in a row with the government about promotions for generals held in an alleged anti-government plot, broadcasters reported Friday. General Isik Kosaner stepped down after having met with Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyi ...
• “MARTIAL LAW” Rule In New Debt Bill ? (FOX NEWS)
  WTF IS GOING ON IN AMERICA ? Fox news aired live on july 28th a new rule in the debt ceiling talks called ” Martial Law” WHAT THE F*** ? Martial law is the imposition of military rule by military authorities over designated regions on an emergency basis—usually only temporary—when the civilian g ...

Daily Dose

• Growing global Bitcoin exchange Ruxum set to s ...
  Despite having been around for a couple of years, Bitcoin has really taken off this year. The peer-to-peer currency is being billed by some as having the potential to replace the current international monetary system. You can read more about what Bitcoin is, how it started, where it’s going an ...
• Man becomes the first Briton to receive an art ...
  The first ever entirely-artificial heart transplant in the UK has taken place at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. Matthew Green, a 40-year old father who was dying from heart failure, received a plastic implant during a 6-hour operation last month. The device is powered by a “freedom portable dr ...
• Shutl, the super-fast delivery service, expand ...
  Shutl is a UK startup that promises to bring delivery up to speed by letting shoppers get what they want, when they want it. We last wrote about the company back in May, just as it had secured some big-name clients and £650k in funding, and today it announces that it’s rolling its service out ...
• CashPlayTV: The world’s first 24-hour mobile a ...
  Launching today, CashPlayTV is claiming to be the worldâs “first ever 24-hour quiz TV channel to run solely on social networks and mobile devices”. CashPlayTV presenters pose a series of questions to viewers, with the channel offering multiple ways for players to interact, ranging from free ent ...
• Skype for iPad is Here [Updated]
  Update: It seems that Skype pressed the big red button a bit too fast. In a tweet, the company explains that the application “went live prematurely” and has now been pulled. Finally you can do away with the oversized iPhone version of Skype on your iPad because the official app is  available f ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

• Chart: US suffers record drought
  An exceptional drought is still scorching major parts of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. A new report from the National Drought Mitigation Center finds that over July, nearly 12 percent of the US saw exceptional drought conditions, the highest record since monitoring began a dozen ye ...
• Beetles: nature's herbicide
  New research in the Journal of Applied Ecology shows that ground beetles help farmers in the UK by devouring weed seeds before they can sprout. The researchers say the study finds another proof of how biodiversity—the multitude of species on Earth—provides 'free' ecosystem services for people.
• How fruit defines Borneo
  Among conservationists and biologists, the mega-island of Borneo is a sort of Mecca. Its rich plant and animal biodiversity, as well as high degree of endemism (unique species found nowhere else) make it a naturalist's dream. There is one aspect of this biological richness which applies to the ...
• Picture of the day: beach on a tropical island ...
  Beach on Nosy Mangabe, a tropical island paradise for wildlife enthusiasts.
• Pictures of the day: pink animals
  As a follow up to last week's popular "Unusually Blue Animals" post, here are some animals that are pretty in pink.

Sierra Express

• Yehri Wi Cry Inc first mission trip to Sierra ...
  Freetown, Sierra Leone, August 1, 2011:  For Yehri Wi Cry, Inc.’s (YWC) first initiative, President and Co-Founder, Marie Mansaray, Co-Presidents Nadia Sasso and Zainab Fadiu-Deen, and Secretary, Nadeen Lewally have arrived in Freetown, Sierra Leone to distribute birthing kits and incentive pack ...
• An Olympic trophy carries dust
  âMemories last forever – Mary Lou Retton, Olympic Gymnastâ After my summer break Iâve been back in action, this time speaking on SLBCâs Tea Break about the 2012 Olympics, which start in London 1 year from now. In July next year, thousands of young people will march proudly into a magnificent new ...
• 1st WARFP-SL World Bank Review Mission Arrives ...
  The first review mission for the West Africa Regional Fisheries Programme has arrived in Sierra Leone over the weekend and yesterday, August 1st, commenced work by paying courtesy calls to the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Dr. Soccoh Kabia  and the Deputy Minister of Finance, Momod ...
• Update – SLPP election ends and Maada Bio wins
  Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio took Presidential leadership of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) at exactly 5:50 am (Sierra Leone time) August 1st, 2011. He scored 238 votes as against Usman Boie Kamara who came second with 186 votes. In his victory statement, Bio thanked all, including ...
• Corruption – employment wahala at SLBC
  It was a black day for management and board members of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Cooperation (SLBC) Friday 29th when workers downed tools in protest of what they called ‘unfair recruitment,’ ‘late payment of salaries’ and no better condition of service for the employees. The strike, accordin ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• No milk price promises from minister
  Agriculture Minister David Carter cannot assure New Zealanders they are not paying too much for milk despite a report this morning which found retail and wholesale markets were competitive enough not to require price controls.In...
• Regulator rejects milk price probe
  New Zealand's antitrust regulator has ruled out price controls for the nation's domestic milk, saying enough rivalry exists between the two main supermarket chains while for wholesale milk, Fonterra and Goodman Fielder compete...
• Commerce Commission's decision on milk price i ...
  The Commerce Commission will release its decision tomorrow on whether to hold an inquiry into the retail price of milk.A Consumer NZ commissioned survey of 1000 people found 91 per cent thought they were paying a high price for...
• Milk lovers travel for cheap deal
  Aucklanders fed up with unaffordable dairy prices are driving across town to buy cheap milk in bulk from a Mt Wellington superette selling at cost price.Satish Masters, owner of the Harris Rd Superette and Lotto, said customers...
• US report backs Fonterra pricing
  As the dairy industry waits to see if the Commerce Commission will hold an inquiry into retail milk prices, a report commissioned by Fonterra says the way the dairy giant sets the farm-gate price is sound.Fonterra has been coming...

The Bovine

• “Queen of the Sun” movie about bee ...
  This movie will be shown at the Toronto Underground Cinema, Aug 5-12: About the film: In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, a scientist, philosopher & social innovator, predicted that in 80 to 100 years honeybees would collapse. His prediction has come true … Continue reading →
• Latest GMO corn introduction makes it appear H ...
  From Lucy Sharratt, on Rabble.ca “Health Canada has begun permitting genetically engineered (GE, also called genetically modified or GM) foods onto the market without any health safety assessment. Our government has never adequately examined the safety of GE foods and … Continue reading →
• Ontario raw milk farmer and educator Michael S ...
  From the Institute for Liberal Studies website: “The world-famous Liberty Summer Seminar will be held on August 6-7, 2011 in Orono, Ontario. This event combines two days of lectures on the ideas of liberty with camping, music, and friendship. The Liberty Summer … Continue reading →
• NPR raw milk debate: WAPF’s Sally Fallon ...
  From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “It continues to amaze me how controversial and provocative a topic raw milk is. Every few weeks, it seems, more media outlets are writing and broadcasting about it. In media lingo, … Continue reading →
• “Irradiation could do for food what past ...
  From Mark Bittman in the New York Times: “After the E. coli outbreak in Europe last month â which sickened more than 3000 people and killed at least 50 â it was impossible not to think about irradiation. âWhat if,â I asked … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Spain, Italy, Belgium Bond Spreads Hit Euro Re ...
  The idea that the latest Greek bailout plan would solve anything is officially dead. Government bond spreads of Spain, Italy, and Belgium are at all-time highs. The yield on 10-year bonds of Spain and Italy are now both well North of 6%. Here are a few charts to consider. Belgium 10-Year Govern ...
• Petroleum Distillates Demand Shows "Definite E ...
  Charts of petroleum usage show signs of an economic downturn starting in April or May of 2011 says my friend Tim Wallace who writes ...Hello Mish Attached are two charts from my Petroleum Distillates Distribution Demand file. The first chart shows year-over-year demand from peak levels. As we h ...
• Central Falls Bankruptcy Update "All Contracts ...
  In an update to my post earlier today and as expected, but sooner than expected (less than a day) Central Falls Collective Bargaining Contracts Voided In Bankruptcy.The state-appointed receiver overseeing cash-strapped Central Falls filed for bankruptcy Monday morning on the city's behalf in an ...
• Cuts, What Cuts? Deficit Bill Has No Cuts, No ...
  Democrats are unhappy about alleged cuts to social programs. Republicans are unhappy about alleged cuts to military spending. With everyone seemingly unhappy, including President Obama, is the deficit bill a good compromise? Before deciding, please consider a few choice comments regarding budge ...
• Recession is "Real Risk" According to Dow Jone ...
  Further adding to the evidence of a huge US slowdown, a Dow Jones Sentiment Indicator says Return to a Recession is a Real Risk Economic sentiment level drops to 41.5 in July; Troubles on Main Street and in Washington drag indicator down. As Washington focuses on the debt ceiling, there are s ...

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.

bloody crossroads

• Today’s Stories
  Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
• No title
  Should have my latest article, a big piece about health care and how we’re being screwed by the insurance corporations, up this weekend… Meantime check out this insightful discussion with economist Richard Wolff about the debt ceiling debate as theatre … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Why I can almost guarantee their will be no default: the corporations don’t want it.  Read this Times piece about how the Chamber of Commerce is urging Republicans to make a deal Median wealth of whites is now 20 times … Continue reading →
• A Sense of Betrayal
  Staff Sergeant Javier Ocasio speaks out against an unjust war: “The issue for me is the morals and ethics behind it, the standards that were let down, all the things that went wrong, you know thatâs all I think about, … Continue reading →
• Today’s Stories
  Drought/famine in Somalia is worst humanitarian crisis in the world today, a result of climate change and neoliberal policy Cenk Uygur not the only one to be silenced by MSNBC; here’s a discussion of the network’s recent history of censorship … Continue reading →

gCaptain

• ABB wins $1,000,000,000 offshore wind contract
  HVDC Light transmission link will connect North Sea wind farms to German power grid Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 2 2011 � ABB, the leading power and Continue Reading �
• Juhu Beach, Mumbai: a.k.a. Ship Magnet Beach
    Photo: SHASHI ASHIWAL www.thehindu.com There must be a giant magnet sitting underneath Mumbai’s Juhu Beach because in less than 6 weeks, two huge merchant Continue Reading »
• Ships Come In As Deals Heat Up – Private equit ...
  By Gina Chon, The Wall Street Journal Deal action is heating up in the shipping industry, which suffered during the financial crisis but has since Continue Reading �
• A look at the new U.S. Merchant Marine Forever ...
  Illustration courtesy USPS Last week, the United States Postal Service issued 60 million Forever stamps commemorating the history of the U.S. Merchant Marine.  The stamps, Continue Reading �
• What happened to the oil in the Gulf? WHOI an ...
  NOTE: Last week the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute taught us about the chemical makeup of the oil plume created after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.  Today, Continue Reading �

  IPS - Inter Press Services

• JORDAN: Ripe for Reform, Slow to Change
  Having weathered the maelstrom that engulfed the Middle East earlier this year, Jordan's government has faced simmering unrest as protesters continue to press for political and economic reforms.
• CHINA: Tianjin Embraces its Colonial Legacy
  When the old Astor Hotel reopened to great fanfare from the local city fathers here in 2010, it marked more the return of the "Grande Dame of Tianjin" to the city's growing collection of luxury hotels. It was a travel back to the future. It manifested the city leaders' eagerness to embra ...
• U.S.: Military Hawks Upset with Debt Deal
  As both houses of Congress began debating the 11th-hour debt limit deal hashed out Sunday night by senior lawmakers and the White House, neo-conservatives and other national security hawks complained bitterly Monday that the final package may force major cuts in defence spending in the ...
• Libya Paralyses Security Council on Syria
  The U.N. Security Council has continued to remain politically paralysed on the indiscriminate killings of civilians in Syria, and that paralysis, according to U.N. diplomats, has been triggered ironically by the ongoing turmoil in another Arab nation - Libya.
• BRAZIL: Family Farms Fight for Survival in Sea ...
  A bullet to his shoulder forced him to spend seven days in the hospital. In another attempt on his life, he was shot at three times, but miraculously escaped unscathed. "I will never sit next to a window again," says Brazilian rural activist Walter Moura.

Scoop - NZ

• Right-Wing Euro Populists Find Israeli Allies
  Islamophobic parties in Europe have established a tight network, stretching from Italy to Finland. But recently, they have extended their feelers to Israeli conservatives, enjoying a warm reception from members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition.
• Anders Behring Breivik, Mystery Man
  What do we really know about Anders Behring Breivik, the Norway mass murderer who killed in the name of his anti-Muslim ideology, nearly a week after his horrific rampage? We know what he did, and why he did it: he left behind not only a 1,500 page manifesto, in which he pours out his hatred of ...
• Krugman: The President Surrenders
  A deal to raise the federal debt ceiling is in the works. If it goes through, many commentators will declare that disaster was avoided. But they will be wrong. For the deal itself, given the available information, is a disaster, and not just for President Obama and his party. It will damage a ...
• Cameron adviser: abolish consumer rights, jobc ...
  According to the Financial Times, Hilton's wackiest ideas included abolishing maternity rights as well as all consumer rights legislation to help kickstart the economy into life. He allegedly suggested that Cameron should ignore European labour rules on temporary workers – a decision that, if ...
• Iceland’s loud No !
  The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other economies?

Independent - London

• William Hague pledge over Syria culprits
  Those responsible for the bloody crackdown on anti-government demonstrators in Syria will be "singled out and held accountable", Foreign Secretary William Hague warned today.
• Man, 74, gored to death in bull run
  A 74-year-old man died today after being gored in the neck by a bull during a town's summer festival.
• Video: Shot Congresswoman gets standing ovation
  Congresswoman and Arizona shooting survivor Gabrielle Giffords is met with applause during her return to Washington.
• Video: Robot seal helps Japan victims
  Two small white robotic seals are being used to comfort elderly victims of Japan's tsunami and earthquake.
• Video: Robot seal helps Japan victims
  Two small white robotic seals are being used to comfort elderly victims of Japan's tsunami and earthquake.

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

• Always wear sunscreen
  As the summer signals hot weather and long days at the beach, doctors, cosmeticians and mothers everywhere rally to proffer their standard warning: “Always wear sunscreen.” But for people who are allergic to sunblock, like Elda Scaiano, it is impossible to wear commercial sunscreens. Fortunately ...
• Virtual practice makes perfect
  For Halifax-based neurosurgeon David Clarke, the Monday-afternoon surgery session of Aug. 17, 2009, was anything but routine. For starters, his patient’s brain tumour was located in a tricky spot, close to the delicate part of the brain that controls speech. A small slip of the scalpel either wa ...
• A powerful elixir
  The good news is that there are more than a million cancer survivors in Canada. The bad news is that they live with the long-term effects of treatment, including extreme fatigue, memory and attention problems, bone density loss, leading to fractures, and a sometimes debilitating anxiety over can ...
• No more slipping through the cracks
  At any given time, some 19,000 children are in foster care in Ontario, placed there for their protection by one of the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies (CAS). While CAS caseworkers write meticulous reports on the children who pass through the system, the details contained in the thousands ...
• Back home on the range
  It’s a little-known fact: Half the Earth’s surface is foraged by domesticated animals, which has enormous impacts on our increasingly precious fresh water. In British Columbia alone, about 50 percent of mostly crown land is licensed to ranchers who need forage and water for their 400,000 head of ...

Signs of the times

• 20-million-year-old ape skull unearthed in Uganda
  A team of Ugandan and French paleontologists announced Tuesday they had found a 20-million-year-old ape skull in northeastern Uganda, saying it could shed light on the region's evolutionary history. "This is the first time that the complete skull of an ape of this age has been found ... it is ...
• Fatal Radiation Level Found at Japanese Plant
  Tokyo - The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant said Monday that it measured the highest radiation levels within the plant since it was crippled by a devastating earthquake. However, it said the discovery would not slow continuing efforts to bring the plant's damaged reactors under ...
• Venezuela's Mysterious Catatumbo Lightning Phe ...
  A mysterious symphony of rapid-fire lightning bolts used to create the greatest light show on Earth over the Catatumbo River in Venezuela -- until suddenly they stopped and no one knew why. More than 40,000 bolts ripped across the night sky as many as 300 nights a year for nine hours at a time. ...
• US, Woodpecker-Saving Daughter Costs Mom $500, ...
  Fredericksburg, Virginia - Eleven-year-old aspiring veterinarian, Skylar Capo, sprang into action the second she learned that a baby woodpecker in her Dad's backyard was about to be eaten by the family cat. "I've just always loved animals," said Skylar Capo. "I couldn't stand to watch it be e ...
• NASA Dawn Spacecraft Reveals New Insights Into ...
  NASA's Dawn spacecraft is beginning the first of it four intensive research orbits, with its initial run around the Vesta asteroid scheduled to begin on 11 August. The spacecraft will soon begin circling the giant asteroid at an altitude of roughly 1,700 miles, providing key data and in-depth a ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Tsk, tsk . . .
  Marvelous moron.
• Abstractions
  When the housing/credit crisis hit in the US a couple years ago and we started to see the first reports house repossessions and the evisceration of suburbs and residential neighourhoods in the US, I remember asking myself where these people went. Now, with US economy well into depression, and t ...
• Rest in Peace, Rod "croghan27" MacLean
  I'm sad today to learn from Dr. Dawg of the recent passing of Rod MacLean, known to readers as the erudite commenter "croghan27". Please visit Dawg for further details.
• Harphyrric
  LFR highlights another example of the Party of Harper's political partisanisation of the Canadian Forces (and federal departments. and scientists. and whatever else they can control that might sit a few degrees off of whatever magical bearing they're following that day.) In this case, it seems t ...
• Up, up and away . . .
  KEN COUCH has a great hobby: lawn chair flying. According to GIZMODO, last week,he hitched 105 helium balloons to a lawn chair and set out on a nine-hour adventure that took him to a height of 13,000 feet, traveling 193 miles from his home in Bend, Oregon, all the way to the other side of the st ...

Media Matters for America

• Netanyahu Apparently Embracing "The Destructio ...
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly open to negotiate with the Palestinians along the lines that President Obama laid out in May in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that called for a peace agreement based on 1967 borders with mutually agreed u ...
• Attack On DHS Travels From Conspiracy-Monger A ...
  A story about a Department of Homeland Security video that began at a website operated by radio host Alex Jones and was then covered on Fox News is just the latest example of how Fox has been moving increasingly toward pushing the conspiratorial views of Jones.After Alex Jones Took Credit For P ...
• Right-Wing Media Excise "Democrats" Out Of Nor ...
  Right-wing blogs including Andrew Breitbart's website and Fox Nation are dishonestly editing comments made by CBS chief White House correspondent Norah O'Donnell to make up evidence that she is liberally "biased." But the full transcript of O'Donnell's comments makes clear that she was asking t ...
• Fox Defaulted To Bad Economic Policy During De ...
  During the debt ceiling debate, Fox has relentlessly pushed economic policies and positions that experts have said would be harmful to the economy, including downplaying default concerns, openly advocating for default and a credit downgrade, and actively lobbying for a balanced budget amendment ...
• Unto The Breach: Media Conservatives Uncover ...
  After President Obama encouraged voters to "email" or "Tweet" lawmakers in order to "keep the pressure on Washington" to reach a compromise and avoid default, media conservatives announced that Obama had declared "Twitter War on Republicans."After President Obama Called On Voters To "Email" ...

Global Research.ca

• Lies and Media Manipulations regarding the Pro ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• CIA Forced to Release Long Secret Official His ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• BREAKING NEWS: Libyan Transitional Council Reb ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Hidden Agenda: The "Debt Crisis Plan" was to ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• NATO's ultimate war crime: Libya's water supply
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• The Republic After Obama
  Hannah Arendt characterized politics as a realm of "speech-acts," in which words are close enough to deeds so that the words aren't evasive or empty and the deeds aren't mindless and brutal. Yet as recently as April, our national orchestra of high-minded opinion presented President Obama's o ...
• US Debt Deal: How Washington Lost the Plot
  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. On the plus side, social security and Medicaid appear to be largely in t ...
• Presented By:
• The Streets Of Tel Aviv: Bursting The Bubble?
  More than a hundred thousand young Israelis, in every major city, took to the streets on Saturday night to protest the prohibitively high cost of living, especially the very high cost of housing. Last week, a tent city went up on Rothschild Boulevard--supposedly, the epicenter of the Tel Aviv bu ...
• An Open Letter to the Rest of the World
  Dear onlookers around the world, As politics in my country becomes dominated by a reckless tantrum over the simple matter of paying our debts, many of us are all too conscious of the doubts and concerns this is raising for the rest of you. Speaking as someone who has spent an entire career ad ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Israeli Arabs more likely to be convicted for ...
  Arab Israelis who have been charged with certain types of crime are more likely than their Jewish counterparts to be convicted, and once convicted they are more likely to be sent to p ...
• How Israel's left is missing the point (Ben W ...
  When the Knesset passed the anti-boycott law earlier this month, there was a huge outcry. Days later, Israel's cabinet voted to extend another piece of legislation. The Citizenship an ...
• Al Walajah faces separation wall construction ...
• Palestinians Prepare for Massive Uprising (Me ...
  Leading members of the Palestinian Popular Committees in the West Bank plan massive civil unrest and disobedience against the Israeli occupation authorities come September when the Pa ...
• U.N. Rights Committee Breaks 43-Year Israeli T ...
  For the first time in 43 years, members of the 'U.N. Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices in Occupied Territories' gained entry into Gaza last week, through Egypt which ...

Water - AlterNet

• Corporations Are Waging a War on Public Resour ...
  Corporations are looking for ways to capitalize on public assets without uttering the now unpopular term 'privatization.'
• Why Does Massey Energy Get Away With Murder Wh ...
  They violated the Clean Water Act over 4,500 times in a six year time period and are responsible for the deadliest coal mining accident in over 40 years.
• Why Governments Are on the Hook to Ensure Clea ...
  The right to water and sanitation are living documents waiting to be used for transformational change around the world.
• Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Incoming? House ...
  Forcing a vote on a matter that may bind the United States' fate to fossil fuels for decades to come is the most irresponsible aspect of all in this debate.
• Naomi Klein: The Real Reason Why Exxon's Oil S ...
  Global warming's possible role in a Montana environmental disaster.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Elderly? Poor? Need help paying your summer ...
  The leading cause of weather related deaths in the U.S. is due to heat, yet during one of worst heat waves in state history, Texas is holding onto millions of dollars intended to help hundreds of thousands of elderly and low-income residents pay their electric bills. The Dallas Morning News repo ...
• Far better fuel economy in our future
  With the backing of major carmakers, President Obama announced a plan to increase the fleet average fuel economy of new cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, nearly double the current levels. The new standards are the result of a compromise with the industry after the White House ini ...
• All the world’s a “fracking” stage, and all th ...
  Seems like everyone is jumping onto the “Fracking” bandwagon.  In an earlier blog we talked about the US Department of Energy’s entrance into the “Fracking” fray with Secretary Steven Chu appointing an Energy Advisory Board subcommittee on natural gas, led by former CIA director John Deutch, who ...
• DOE weighing in on the fracking debate
  US Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chu may play a role in sorting out the entangled mess of misinformation and spin about the environmental impacts of gas drilling. U.S. gas producers are looking to ramp up industrialization in rural areas outside of some of the nation’s largest cities.  S ...
• Coal ash contaminates groundwater at some TVA ...
  A report by the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Office of Inspector General found that the groundwater at some coal ash sites is contaminated with arsenic and other toxic pollutants and is a health hazard. Levels at the Gallatin plant site in Sumner County and at the Cumberland site, 50 miles ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Have our brains reached maximum capacity ?
  Scientists have claimed that our brains have reached their limit and that we can't get any smarter. The reason for this is because in order for that t...
• Virgin Galactic chief pilot announced
  David Mackay will be flying tourists in to space on Virgin's sub-orbital space flights within two years. The 53-year-old has had a lifelong ambition t...
• Crop circle secrets and physics
  Its one the most enduring phenomena of recent times, but just how are complex crop circles created ? Richard Taylor, director of the Materials Science...
• NASA probe to peer through Jupiter's clouds
  NASA's new Juno spacecraft is set to begin a five year voyage to Jupiter later this week. Juno will study the gas giant in detail and will peer throug...
• Giant fungus discovered in China
  The largest known fruiting body of a fungus has been found on the underside of a tree in China. The massive fungus is 10m long, is 20 years old and we...

Grassroots

• Monsanto Nation
  Subheadline:� Taking Down Goliath Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Ronnie Cummins is a veteran activist, author, and organizer. He is the International Director of the Organic Consu ...
• Losing Jerusalem, Piece by Piece
  snaking_wall.jpg In Bir Nabala, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem, Israel’s separation Wall provides a concrete backdrop to what was once a view of the old city. On a stormy afternoon, Bir Nabala’s head of counsel Haj Tawfik Nabeli guided m ...
• Taking on TIAA-CREF, with pain and outrage
  Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Alice Rothchild is a Boston-based physician, a Grassroots International supporter, and author of "Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish Trauma and Resilience." Her website is www.alicerothchild.com. ...
• Funding Global Movements… one grant at a time
  mexico201012--139.jpg By Alicia Tozourread more
• Up Against the Wall: Beehives of Resistance an ...
  palestine201105-16.jpg Eight years ago this month, the International Court of Justice ruled in an advisory opinion that �the construction of the wall, and its associated régime, are contrary to international law.��While neither the state o ...

Climate

• Durban Talks Unlikely to Strike Climate Deal: U.N
  Source:� Reuters Major climate talks in South Africa at year-end will be unlikely to strike agreement on a new pact, but will be important in determining the shape of long-term climate efforts, a U.N. official said.
• ADB Warns of Bumpy Road into 'Asian Century'
  Source:� AFP Asia could be as wealthy as Europe by mid-century, but only if it tackles key challenges from inequality and corruption to climate change, an Asian Development Bank study said Tuesday. �
• Scientists Name World's Most Important Marine ...
  Source:� Guardian read more
• NASA Going Green with Solar-Powered Jupiter Probe
  Source:� AP NASA heads for Jupiter this week. And its mission can't get much greener than this: a solar-powered, windmill-shaped spacecraft.
• Suspended Arctic Scientist to Be Questioned ov ...
  Source:� Guardian read more

GreenBiz

• 6 Things You Need to Know to Get Certified Und ...
  During a webcast organized by GreenBiz.com this week, representatives from the US Department of Energy and Underwriters Laboratories walked through the details of the just-released energy management standard, and how companies can get on board, quickly.
• First Takes: Budget Cuts May Kill Gov't Green ...
  Automakers agree to 54.5 mpg by 2025; budget cuts likely to doom green government spending; China moves forward with climate change strategy, and more ...
• Climate Corps 2011: Taking the Temperature of ...
  After a successful lighting retrofit study at Hospital Corporation of America last year, an EDF Climate Corps fellow seeks a way to more efficiently heat and cool medical facilities and warehouses.
• Leaders in Energy Star Buildings Challenge Cut ...
  Half-way through the EPA's yearlong challenge to spur energy efficiency in existing buildings, the University of Central Florida and Scientific Instruments have both hit the 30 percent mark for energy savings to date.
• Can the Cleaning Industry Design a Concentrate ...
  When will manufacturers rise to the occasion and rethink their designs to help consumers adopt concentrates?

Reuters Global

• Video: DSK accuser press conference
  Live video: DSK accuser press conference
• India and Pakistan: moving out of intensive care
  The Birkin bag was amusing but irrelevant. The direction of policy on India and Pakistan is to be found in the joint statement, for all its caution and unanswered questions.
• The power of a soccer ball
  Anyone who watched the women's World Cup final might have wondered if it's possible to harness that pure human energy. Turns out, it is.
• On the Afghanistan-Pakistan border : cutting o ...
  Pakistan's defence minister has threatened to move forces away from the Afghan border, where they are deployed to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban, if the United States cuts off aid to the cash-strapped country
• Drone strikes are police work, not an act of war?
  Launching an air strike in another nation would normally be considered an act of aggression. But advocates of America's rapidly expanding unmanned drone programme don't see it that way.

Booman Tribune

• Good Morning
  I'm much happier reading about Lou Gehrig than American politics. There's no crying in baseball. Meanwhile, it seems like everyone wants to write some kind of sob-story. If people were a little smarter, they'd internalize political defeat when it occurs and not have to be surprised when it m ...
• House Raises Debt Ceiling
  The hard part is over. The stupid crazy ridiculous pathetic disgusting House of Representatives passed the debt ceiling hike by a 269-161 margin (Dems 95-95, GOP 174-66). The highlight was the mid-vote return of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to the House floor where she cast her vote in favor of the ...
• Still Too Hot
  LINK It seems that the summer heat wave will continue through Friday as sizzling temperatures continue to soar into the 90s. A heat wave with oppressive temperatures and stifling humidity lingered and intensified in the midsection of the country through last week and the weekend, and is e ...
• Time to Hold the Gun to Their Head
  If you've been reading these pages, you know that I've been generally supportive of what the president has been trying to do about the fact that the Republicans are threatening to blow the global economy up on purpose. They obviously have the power to do that if they want to, and they're unruly ...
• The Glass Half Full Look
  If you want the most positive spin on the debt ceiling agreement, you can choose between Jay Newton-Small and Deaniac83. Those are both good pieces that make solid arguments. I have to confess I'm a little mystified by the triggers, as they seem to offer almost no incentive to the Democrats on ...

Environmental Graffiti

• The Deadly Humboldt Squid Bites!
  When you swim with or near the gargantuan Humboldt squid you had better be prepared for the encounter! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Deadly Eyelash Pit Viper Strikes!
  Watch a deadly pit viper strike at its target! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Three Drastically Different Approaches to Mana ...
  The United States, Australia and Great Britain are all facing the challenges of managing wild horse populations but are doing so in very different ways... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 15 Incredible Photographs of Birds' Nests
  Fifteen stunning images of bird nests, the work of inspired photographer and author Sharon Beals. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 3 World Changing Effects of La Niña
  La Niña dances with El Niño, following a cycle of weather patterns driven by changes in temperature in the Pacific Ocean. This dance has far-reaching effects. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Afghanistan: U.S. and Pakistan Seek to Reinfor ...
  If there are general rules of war, certainly one of them is: "Do not fight in places that the Rand McNally three-dimensional map puts lots of bumps."
• Iran Eats Nuclear Scientist Rezaie's Assassin ...
  As a smaller power, Iran is in no position to strike back at the West over the death of nuclear scientist Darioush Rezaie.
• Islamophobes Insinuate Their Way Into U.S. Int ...
  Islamophobes, passing themselves off as experts on Islam, have ingratiated themselves with the U.S. political establishment and intelligence agencies.
• A Question of Friendship
  Will the Israel/Palestine issue come between friends?
• Cluster
  "Strange fruit" of a different kind, but similarly chilling, hangs in Gaza

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...

Al Jazeera

• Deal reached to avoid US debt default
  President Obama and congressional leaders agree to lift the ceiling on US borrowing, just two days before a deadline.
• 'Task force' to respond to Israeli protests
  Israeli Prime Minister pledges to examine economic reform a day after 150,000 discontent citizens take to the streets.
• Senate leaders 'close' to deal on US debt
  Democratic and Republican leaders say they have nearly reached a tentative deal to avert default on country's debt.
• Mexico 'drug enforcer admits 1,500 killings'
  Officials say detained ex-police officer has confessed to ordering deaths while working for Ciudad Juarez drug cartel.
• Mexico 'drug enforcer admits 1,500 killings'
  Officials say detained ex-police officer has confessed to ordering deaths while working for Ciudad Juarez drug cartel.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Second-Guessing Polar Bear Research
  An inquiry by a federal agency into a biologist's integrity seems in some ways to parallel recent investigations of climate scientists.
• Did a Storm Distort Mapping of a Gulf 'Dead Zone'?
  The oxygen-depleted zone mapped last week in the Gulf of Mexico does not break records, but it is large, the government says. Yet the extent of the problem could have been masked by a tropical storm that roiled and mixed the waters, scientists add.
• Why Climate Scientists Are So Perturbed
  Society has put off the task of reducing carbon dioxide and other emissions for so long that it is on the verge of running out of time, a report argues.
• A Bigger 'Battle of the Buildings'
  This year, 245 buildings -- including hospitals, schools, banks and churches -- are competing to reduce their energy consumption, up from 14 last year.
• Japanese Amateurs Track Radiation
  Some mothers as far away as Tokyo, 150 miles south of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, have begun testing for radioactive materials.

Dot Earth News

• Radiation's Role in (Safely) Feeding the Planet
  After recent outbreaks of deadly food-borne illness, the notion of irradiating food gets a bit of traction.
• Polar Bear Science and the Spin Cycle
  An investigation into the integrity of a federal wildlife biologist spins into a debate over Arctic science and energy politics.
• Cars and Fuel: What Constructive Compromise Lo ...
  Obama unveils deal on vehicles, fuel and CO2.
• Innovation from the Bottom Up
  A foundation tries an innovative approach to finding places to use its money to foster progress -- through innovation.
• A Killer (Wasp) in the Back Yard
  A killer hauls her victim across an exurban back yard.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Special Analysis :-P The interstellar/local en ...
  In July you’ll be launching another three-day Pleiadian event in Minneapolis. How many have you done so far? Christine Day, Pleiadian Ambassador!: We’ve done three in the United States and this will be our fourth one in the last 12 months. We are building one in September in Brazil and one in Ge ...
• The Great Default & End of July; Minneapolis' ...
  Looks like they just announced some kind of debt deal, staving off total collapse for a month or 2. Next up..... In July you’ll be launching another three-day Pleiadian event in Minneapolis. How many have you done so far? Christine Day, Pleiadian Ambassador!: We’ve done three in the United State ...
• Middle East nets Liberal Revolutions with Anar ...
  I had to snag a bit of this from the site Jadaliyya: Anarchist, Liberal, and Authoritarian Enlightenments: Notes From the Arab Spring -- the tipping point is referencing Max Weber, who we just don't hear enough about these days. Interesting site. I wonder to what extent the Egypt scenario connec ...
• Bernie Sanders causes exposure of $16,000,000, ...
  The criminal banker syndicate which has captured much of our federal government has finally had some of its inner mechanics exposed thanks to Bernie Sanders, one of a handful of legit people in Congress today.... The Full Bernie post is well earned: The Fed Audit - Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie ...
• Minnesota Government Shutdown Over: threat of ...
  This was a pretty good edit I thought (we really crafted a nice mix) but hasn't gotten too many views yet :-/ The official 2011 special session budget omnibus bills are here. LYRICS: Minnesota legislators time to get things done We've been losing everything and you think this is fun first you ...

Daily Censored

• Racial Wealth Gap Largest on Record as General ...
  The median wealth of white households is 20 times larger than that of Black households, and 18 times larger than that of Latino families, a report published by the Pew Research Center shows. This is the biggest difference that the Census has found in the 25 years that it has collected this infor ...
• Something Stinks in Wisconsin
  � Something stinks in Wisconsin, and it�s not the cheese.  Once again a ultra right-wing Koch brothers astroturf group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), and the Republican Party are engaging in voter suppression, if not outright voter fraud.  AFP is one of the organizations that helped fund the p ...
• Teachers as Radicals: After SOS, What Now?
  Thanks to education commentary and policy under President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan, we don’t have to turn to George Orwell’s brilliant essays on politics and language or his classic 1984 to understand the reality of double-speak. By the end of 2010, the education focus of the Obam ...
• Psychopaths: perfect academic word for US poli ...
  source: Carl Herman Psychopaths are viciously destructive in action. They obfuscate with lies and charm. They persist only when their actions are unrecognized; 95% of the population reject such criminal destruction (here and here). US political and economic “leadership” are psychopaths because t ...
• Orlando: Not the Happiest Place on Earth
  � In the U.S., the selling pornography is a legally protected expression of free speech. Also protected speech  is the publishing and distributing of racist, hate material that advocates violence. Marching in front of woman�s health care clinics with graphic posters of aborted fetuses is also pr ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

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• Home Visits And Other 'Secrets Of The FBI'

Institute for Policy Studies

• Budgeting for the Great American Train Wreck
  Our economy needs a new stimulus package, not a poison pill.
• The Lineup: Week of Aug. 1-7, 2011
  Donald Kaul underscores the GOP's intransigence over raising the debt ceiling.
• Murdoch Gets Caught Red-Handed
  He created the perfect atmosphere for criminal activities and called it "freedom of the press."
• Ruin by Recklessness
  It is the height of recklessness for the current crop of uncompromising Republicans in Congress to play political games with our nation's economic soundness.
• White House Cornered by Its Own Immigration En ...
  Faced with a moral call to action, Obama responds with a tired political message.

IntelNews

• Former US spy chief questions ‘war on terroris ...
  America’s former top intelligence official has publicly questioned the logic and methods informing Washington’s “war on terrorism”, and called for the CIA unmanned drone assassination program in Afghanistan and Pakistan to be grounded.
• News you may have missed #555
  US spy agencies want to use photos to trace people. Norway to reassess domestic intelligence gathering. CIA pulls second station chief from Pakistan.
• Computer hacking reveals Italian spying on Rus ...
  Documents posted online by an anonymous hacker group point to extensive Italian espionage against Russian and Indian defense and energy deals.
• News you may have missed #554
  UK and US tried to delay Pakistan nuclear weapons program. FBI monitoring new phone technologies. Mongolian ex-spy chief to be extradited to Germany.
• News you may have missed #553 (Canada edition)
  Analysis: Are Chinese spies getting an easy ride in Canada? Canadian agency 'illegally spying on Canadians'. RCMP spied on Canadian academic Northrop Frye.

War is a Crime.org

• Israel: Rogue State Land of Inequality
  ��Israel: Rogue State Land of Inequality - by Stephen Lendman � Growing millions worldwide understand Israel's decades-long project to colonize Palestine, dispossess its people, steal their land, and terrorize them into submission. They also know it hasn't worked nor will it. � read more
• Bipartisan Debt Deal Betrayal
  ��Bipartisan Debt Deal Betrayal - by Stephen Lendman � Seven previous articles explained the following: � (1) Bipartisan lying manipulated popular sentiment to believe what political Washington won't tolerate - defaulting or not raising the debt ceiling. In fact, it's been done routinely 74 time ...
• To Whom Do We Now Turn?
  "The Democratic Party is running away from its traditional role of protecting the poor, the elderly, and the working class," writes Congressman Dennis Kucinich.� "To whom do these groups now turn?" We turn to ourselves, Congressman.� You know that.� And you know I love you.� But we've got to sto ...
• The Deal of Death Excludes the Wars from Possi ...
  Not all spending could be cut.� Wars are exempt: http://twitpic.com/5zg9ou
• Afghanistan War Weekly: August 1, 2011
  This week there was an even higher level of violence in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. US officials had varying theories as to the implications of these high levels of violence, including the idea that tactics used by the Taliban recently were a sign of US and NATO successes in the region. Howev ...

Grist - News

• Free birth control ruling is preventive care f ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. As of yesterday, new and renewed private insurance plans will now have to cover contraception, according to a ruling from the Department of Health and Human Services. Given that population reduction is one of the best things we can do for the planet, this is awesome new ...
• Critical List: Debt deal cuts energy programs; ...
  by Sarah Laskow. Is Congress passing a bill? Then you can bet it's bad for the environment. The debt deal is no exception. We're almost out of time to start dealing with climate change, a new report says. Emissions would need to peak in 2020 in order for the planet to escape real dam ...
• The Onion reports on puzzling behavior among c ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. All of a sudden, these normally gentle creatures are becoming agitated and making noises with their mouths! What is it, guys? Is Timmy stuck in a well?
• Republicans voted against environmental protec ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. Reps. Henry Waxman (Calif.) and Edward Markey (Mass.), of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, have been keeping tabs on Republican votes to undermine environmental legislation. They say that since taking over the majority in January, Republicans have voted 110 times ...
• Here come Japan’s post-nuclear model sol ...
  by Christopher Mims. If you thought Abu Dhabi's uber-green Masdar city was ambitious and/or doomed, just wait until you see what Japan's cooking up. In a pair of nearby cities in Hiroshima prefecture, Fukuyama and Onomichi, a coalition is going to power as much of their grid as possible w ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Turmoil in the Tea Party!
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• Matt Damon Fights for Teachers
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• Understanding the Debt Ceiling by Way of My Ba ...
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Time - Top Stories

• Beyond the Dalai Lama: Four Tibetan Spiritual ...
  When the Dalai Lama came to Washington this month, he wasn't alone
• New Attacks Shake China's Restive Xinjiang Pro ...
  Authorities in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang say a pair of terrorist attacks over the weekend left as many as 20 people dead, including five suspects
• Next Economic Crisis? A Global Manufacturing Slump
  Next Economic Crisis? A Global Manufacturing Slump
• After Fukushima, Germany's Nuclear Utility Fac ...
  Things haven't been the same for Germany's E.ON since the nuclear catastrophe in Japan. The subsequent phase-out of nuclear energy in Germany is costing the company billions, and leaves it facing radical cost-cutting measures and hundreds of layoffs
• Mass Military Resignation Fuels Turkey Tensions
  Mass Military Resignation Fuels Turkey Tensions

Digg Green

• Tequila Could Power Cars
  Normally it powers the lowering of inhibitions and silly behavior, not to mention some wicked hangovers, but researchers are also exploring the possibility of using ethanol from agave plants in deserts, because .....
• Genetically Modified Beagle Glows
  "Tegon" glows bright green under ultraviolet light in a feat that could eventually help scientists track diseases.
• NASA - Rock Layers in Gale Crater
  This oblique view of the lower mound in Gale Crater shows layers of rock that preserve a record of environments on Mars. Here, orbiting instruments have detected signatures of both clay minerals and sulfate salts, with more clay minerals apparent in the foreground of this image and fewer in ...
• Study: Fish oil in pregnancy may ward off ...
  Women who take fish oil supplements during pregnancy may boost their babies’ immune systems and help protect against colds during the first months of life, a new study shows.
• Stinkbugs Causing Major Damage
  Two invasive insects from Asia are poised to cause millions of dollars in destruction in Maryland and throughout the United States. Although no definitive methods exist to stop them just yet

Invisible Opportunity

• Microsoft lays out plans to unleash ‘altered p ...
  You could not make this up.  This is not the business that humanity wants Bill Gates in… by POPEYE Filed under Eugenics (SLASHDOT) In its just-published patent application for Adapting Parasites to Combat Disease, Microsoft lays out plans to unleash âaltered parasitic organismsâ on humans, incl ...
• One More Lone Gunman who wasn’t Alone
  By Les Visible You would think they would have the numbers straight by now. I keep seeing the number 76 and then I see where it is over a hundred or in the high 90’s. There’s so much being written about it at the moment that you can’t keep up with it and, as the [...]
• GLADIO 2.0 : WHY THE WEST CAN’T RESIST THE NOR ...
  By Stone Pinkerton Gonzo Town How do you define bizarre in today’s every increasingly wacky world of terrorism? Ever since the Cold War was won and history ended, we have been inundated with a seemingly never ending succession of spectacularly staged terror attacks and carefully crafted psy-ops. ...
• Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Po ...
  Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) ...
• Israeli Art Students Lived in World Trade Cent ...
  Four of the so-called “Art Students”- (Mossad Agents) – did an “art installation” IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER in 2001,before the attacks. In a radio interview,Jonathon Brown of “Core of Corruption” fame outlines his evidence and explains how his phone has been tapped since discovering this informa ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• The Drug War: Jim Crow in the Age of Obama
  The war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination - an engine that has brought Jim Crow into the age of Barack Obama.
• New Drugs, Same Mistakes: Congress Chooses Cri ...
  Lawmakers are forging ahead with proposals to ban synthetic drugs before scientists could better evaluate the products for health risks and benefits.
• Medical Marijuana Momentum -- Next Stop: Ohio
  Two different initiative efforts aimed at the November 2012 ballot are getting underway in Ohio and a bill is pending in the state legislature.
• Amy Winehouse: Reflections from Two Drug Polic ...
  While speculation is rife about a possible drug overdose, it doesn't really matter. Winehouse was haunted with struggles none of us will understand.
• Debunking the Myth of a Link Between Marijuana ...
  Despite media claims that marijuana can cause psychosis or schizophrenia, there's no science to back it up.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Iotti + Pavarani’s Self-Sufficient Domus Techn ...
  Read the rest of Iotti + Pavarani’s Self-Sufficient Domus Technica Center Wins Renzo Piano Award Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Class A building, eco design, energy efficient building, glazed tile, green design, Iotti and Pavarini, photovoltaic cells, Reggio Emilia, Renzo Piano ...
• 6 Most Dubious “Green” Projects from Dubai
  Read the rest of 6 Most Dubious “Green” Projects from Dubai Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: blue crystal, burj al arab, Burj al Khalifa, dubai, eco design, green design, shipping containers, solar powered desert oasis, sustainable design, top 6, world islands sinking, world's hi ...
• NASA’s Juno Spaceship to Jupiter Will Make the ...
  NASA is prepared to launch a mission to Jupiter this week that will probe deep into the planet’s clouds to reveal what it is made of. The Juno spacecraft will also make history by being the most distant space probe to use solar panels as its primary source of electricity. The decision charts a n ...
• Giant Rainbow Hued Umbrellas Pop Up in Spain!
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• Danny Hess and the Search for a Sustainable Su ...
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Pogue's Posts

• Zen and the Art of Scrolling
  David Pogue seeks answers to a condundrum: Why does Apple have Lion users drag the scrollbar up to move the page up?
• A Roar for Mac OS X Lion E-Mail
  Among the useful new features and abilities of Mac OS X Lion is an overhauled Mail application.
• Why Netflix Raised Its Prices
  Even at $16 a month, Netflix still gives you more than anyone else.
• How to Design a Hot Product
  Nasahn Sheppard, the designer of the Flip camcorder, describes the thought process of designing the popular, but now extinct, product.
• An App for Hunting Movies
  MoviesHunt finds movies across the Web.

WIRED Magazine | 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 ...

PakAlert

• Insider Exposes Famous Satanists
  Both [Prime Ministers Harold Wilson] and [Ted] Heath used to sacrifice children and the British royal family still does. Ted Heath (1916-2005) took a real delight in it... Likewise, the British royals have public and very private lives... Prince William is being groomed for big things. He is a ...
• Gerald Celente: “Economic Martial Law Will Be ...
  In his latest quarterly Trends Journal (Summer 2011), Gerald Celente provides us another “history of the future,” in which he discusses global economic, monetary, and political events as they happen and what their consequences will be for months, years and decades to come. As he has said befo ...
• Systemic Global Financial Instability Is Sprea ...
  The root causes of global financial instability cannot be wished away or “solved” with modest policy tweaks: they are systemic. Systemic financial instability is spreading rapidly around the globe. Nobody knows the precise timing, of course, but if we consider the systemic causal forces at wo ...
• The Missing Security Tapes For The World Trade ...
  Late on the night of August 23, 2001, at about 3 a.m. security cameras in the parking garage of the World Trade Center captured the arrival of two or three truck vans. Visual examination determined the vans were separate and unique from trucks used by janitorial services, including different ...
• A Disturbing Trend: Many Innocent Americans Ar ...
  In recent years an unsettling pattern in law enforcement interactions has emerged. American citizens, innocent of a crime, filming a public servant performing their duties in public, have been targeted and had their constitutionally protected rights destroyed. The cases continue to pile up, s ...

Andy Worthington

• Guantánamo and the Death of Habeas Corpus
  Last month, the third anniversary of Boumediene v. Bush (on June 12) passed without mention. This was a great shame, not only because it was a powerful ruling, granting the Guantánamo prisoners constitutionally guaranteed habeas corpus rights, but also because, after that bold intervention, whic ...
• Video: Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Murat Kurnaz Tel ...
  In an 11-minute interview with Russia Today (see below), former Guantánamo prisoner Murat Kurnaz recalled how he was seized in Pakistan in November 2001, and his experiences in US custody in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo. Born in Germany, but only regarded as a resident because his parents are T ...
• WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
  Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
• Hellhole: The Most Devastating Article About L ...
  With contested claims that the three-week long hunger strike in California’s prisons has come to an end (as I discussed in a recent article, The California Prison Hunger Strike Opposing Solitary Confinement as Torture â and the Insulting Response of Prison Officials), the horrendous human rights ...
• The California Prison Hunger Strike Opposing S ...
  On Thursday July 21, as the widespread hunger strike in California’s prisons — primarily aimed at highlighting the abusive conditions in which prisoners are held in long-term solitary confinement in Security Housing Units (SHUs) — reached the three-week mark, Matthew Cate, the Secretary of the C ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Pictures We Love: Best of July
  NoneSlimy seas, stormy skies, a bull's ear—National Geographic photo editors eye the month's best new pictures and find ten favorites.
• Bats Drawn to Plant via "Echo Beacon"
  A Cuban plant that depends on bat pollination evolved a special leaf that acts like a satellite dish for bats' sonar, new research says.
• Gulf Spill's Effects Unknown For Years?
  More than a year after the Deepwater Horizon spill, scientists say it could take a decade to figure out how the oil affected the Gulf of Mexico's environment. Video.
• Photos: Thick Green Algae Chokes Beach—Swimmer ...
  NoneMats of bright green algae have again coated miles of shoreline in eastern China—and locals act like it's a day at the beach.
• Heat Wave Due to "Exceptionally Strong" Air Mass
  A stubborn high-pressure system is causing sweltering temperatures in much of the U.S—and there's no relief in sight, experts say.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• CCC Uses Unearthed Rosa Parks Essay To Vilify ...
  The discovery of a six-page essay written by civil rights icon Rosa Parks, in which she recounts the attempted rape of a black housekeeper by a white neighbor, has ignited an impassioned response from the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). Not only has the CCC attacked the Associated Press ...
• News Roundup for August 1, 2011
  A Lecompte, La., man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for shooting into the home of three Hispanic men because of their ethnicity. Johnny Mathis was accused of shooting into the home of the men with three shotgun blasts, entering the home, and only leaving as the house went up in the fla ...
• Geller Scrubs Violent Line From Norwegian Isla ...
  Pamela Geller, the reigning queen of anti-Muslim hysteria, has been feeling intensifying heat since Anders Breivik’s deadly rampage in Norway – and she’s not handling it well. Geller was one of several prominent anti-Muslim activists cited by Breivik in the 1,500-word manifesto he posted on the ...
• Third Defendant in Nativist Murder Case Escape ...
  Albert Gaxiola, the last of three defendants to be convicted in connection with the May 2009 slayings of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father in Arivaca, Ariz., will not receive the death penalty for his role in the crime, the Green Valley News reports. A jury in July sentenced Gaxiola to l ...
• Anti-Muslim Blogger: Slain Norwegian Teens Wer ...
  Those who oppose Israel’s policies deserve to die. Even teenagers. That’s the only interpretation possible of ultra-right-wing Muslim-hating blogger Debbie Schlussel’s Thursday post, in which she notes that the day before Anders Behring Breivik paid a visit to their political camp a week ago and ...

change: org.

• Grassroots Campaign Holds California's Oldest ...
  For years, the Lehigh cement quarry and plant in Cupertino, California got away with violating state environmental safety and pollution laws. Not any more. A group of citizens—with the help of 26,000 people who signed the petition started on Change.org— have proven they can make a difference, ev ...
• VICTORY! Justice Department Sues Alabama Over ...
  Today marks a great victory on the side of civil rights. Since Arizona passed its infamous anti-immigrant law SB 1070, states such as Georgia, South Carolina, Indiana, and Utah have passed their own copycat versions. By far, the worst law to be passed was Alabama’s HB 56. It turned everyone from ...
• Urban Outfitters Board Denounced for Refusal t ...
  You’d think a corporation that owns multiple brands catering solely to women would have a female-heavy board of directors. But for clothing giant Urban Outfitters Inc. — which owns Free People, Anthropologie, and BHLDN — the opposite is true. Seven people serve on the company’s board of director ...
• Victory! Scholastic Agrees To Limit Corporate- ...
  In response to pressure from parents, educators and grassroots advocates, Scholastic Inc. will drastically limit its practice of partnering with corporations to produce classroom material, the company announced last week. The publisher had been under fire since May, when it was forced to stop di ...
• SB 490: Letting the Voters Make an Informed De ...
  No one is surprised to learn that California’s death penalty is a broken and dysfunctional  system. After all, you don’t have to go far in California to find any government bureaucracy that’s broken or dysfunctional – it’s finding a functional government program that might take a while. The que ...

Common Dreams -News

• 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 ...

Lifehacker

• Learn to Love the Taste of Water [Health]
  Everyone knows drinking water is vital for our health, but not all of us are keen on its taste (or relative tastelessness). Make sure you drink enough water and enjoy drinking it with these tricks suggested by WikiHow. More�� ...
• How to Set a Sleep Timer on Your iPhone
  If you want to listen to music on your iPhone for a set period of time, maybe because you need to go somewhere in 30 minutes or you're trying to fall asleep to music, the built-in clock app has a neat feature. You can set a timer to slee ...
• Keep Small Tools in a Bucket Full of Sand to A ...
  When you're finished in the garden, place your tools in a bucket or bread pan full of sand to keep them clean, dry, and free of rust or other corrosion. The sand will wick away moisture and help keep your tools dry until the next use. ...
• Do You Track Your Health with Tech? [Reader Poll]
  There are more mobile apps and web services than ever to help you keep track of your health, diet, exercise, and medical history. Your doctor may even be using a comprehensive e-medicine system with electronic records. We're curious: do y ...
• Text Editor Anywhere Moves Text From Any Progr ...
  Windows only: If you aren't happy with the limitations of the web's plain text boxes, Text Editor Anywhere lets you edit text from any program in the editor of your choice. More��

Water Privatization

• India’s Water Management Challenge
  Widespread and perennial conflicts over land are a curtain raiser to the coming conflicts over water.
• Donald Blinken: Privatization Helps: The Hunga ...
  As Greece works itself out of financial crisis, it should look to Hungary fifteen years ago for part of the answer. Far too large a segment of the Greek economy remains locked up in public hands.
• Book review: "The Ripple Effect" provides a so ...
  A reader only has to look at the latest headlines to judge the timeliness of Alex Prud'homme's "The Ripple Effect."
• The promise and perils of privatization
  Whether or not punishments doled out for the diversion of scrap-metal funds were strict enough, whether or not the entire matter should be handed over to the feds to investigate, can -- and will -- be argued for the foreseeable future.
• Complete privatization of military housing may ...
  The complete privatization of a military housing installation on Ellsworth Air Force Base will take longer than expected according to Ellsworth Public Affairs Officer Major Matthew Reese.

Guardian

• Sharon Shoesmith unfair dismissal ruling backe ...
  Baby P case judicial review application fails leaving sacked children's services chief in line for £500,000 compensationThe supreme court has rejected applications by the Department for Education and Haringey council to challenge a landmark ruling that Sharon Shoesmith was unfairly sacked follow ...
• Phone-hacking scandal: Stuart Kuttner is lates ...
  Former managing editor and one-time public face of the News of the World taken into custodyStuart Kuttner, the public face of the News of the World and its most vocal public defender for 22 years, has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking and of bribing police office ...
• Independent Wales could have been 40% richer, ...
  Study commissioned by nationalists finds Wales might have prospered through Europe's 'small country bonus'Residents of Wales could be almost 40% richer if their homeland had become an independent nation within the European Union 20 years ago, a report claims.The study, commissioned by the Welsh ...
• Vince Cable: government plans to block illegal ...
  Business secretary to intervene in Digital Economy Act debate in speech and expected to overhaul restrictive rules on file copyingVince Cable, the business secretary, will say on Wednesday that government plans to block illegal filesharing websites under the controversial Digital Economy Act are ...
• China extends surveillance into supermarkets, ...
  Estimated 10m-plus surveillance cameras were installed in China last year, prompting human rights concernsBeijing police have ordered supermarkets and shopping malls to install high-definition security cameras, as China continues its huge expansion in monitoring technology.The country has added ...

McClatchey

• Judge blocks Kansas' Planned Parenthood de-fun ...
  What flies with the Kansas Legislature doesn't always fly in federal court.
• Federal spending cuts may hit California farm ...
  WASHINGTON — There are about 866,000 Californians who are paying for college with federal Pell grants. This week, they should count themselves lucky.
• U.S. dependence on foreign oil has dropped
  The United States was so dependent on foreign oil that by 2008 it imported two-thirds of what the country's refineries needed to produce enough gasoline, diesel and the other petroleum products to meet the country's needs.
• Feds seize drug sub off coast of Honduras
  A U.S. Coast Guard C-130 first spotted the knife-shaped craft skimming along the blue-green Caribbean waters off the coast of Honduras.
• In one tense district, Afghan crisis comes int ...
  SAROBI, Afghanistan — The atmosphere inside the district headquarters had grown as torrid as the pulsing summer heat outside when tempers finally exploded.

Afghanistan Sun

• Four Guards Reported Killed In North Afghanist ...
  Police have said that three suicide bombers attacked a guesthouse frequented by foreigners in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on August 2, killing four Afghan security ...
• Pakistan, USA, Afghanistan Hold Talks Today
  Islamabad, Aug 2 (Prensa Latina) Diplomats from Pakistan, the United States and Afghanistan will meet in this capital on Tuesday to boost the Afghan peace and reconciliation process. Washington will ...
• In one tense district, Afghan crisis comes int ...
  SAROBI, Afghanistan -- The atmosphere inside the district headquarters had grown as torrid as the pulsing summer heat outside when tempers finally exploded. "If you keep rudely interrupting ...
• Taliban suicide bomber kills 4 in Afghanistan
  A suicide bomber blew up his car outside a compound frequented by foreigners just after dawn Tuesday, killing four guards, as two other militants stormed the building in Kunduz city and engaged the ...
• Suspect in beating of Afghanistan vet waives c ...
  P ORTSMOUTH, N.H. - One of the four people accused of severely beating a war veteran outside a Portsmouth bar last month has waived his right to a probable cause hearing, a decision that moves the ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Whistleblower Trial Against Blackwater Begins
  In 2008, two former employees brought a whistleblower lawsuit against the security firm once known as Blackwater (now named Xe Services). On July 27, the trial began in Alexandria, Virginia and is expected to last two weeks. The two whistleblowers allege that the company overcharged the federal ...
• NWC joins in NLRB amicus to preserve collectiv ...
  The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with 26 other organizations to submit an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). At stake is the right of employees to join together for collective and class actions. This long-recognized right is under attack by forced arbitrati ...
• Legal Battle Finally Over for an "American Hero"
  The NWC is pleased to announce that whistleblower hero Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse has finally won a six-year legal battle against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 2005, Ms. Greenhouse blew the whistle on the Army Corps for extensive contractor fraud in which they were awarding secret, non- ...
• Whistleblower Center in NYC
  The NWC is preparing for a full day of whistleblower events in New York City today. Join the NWC staff and Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn at two events teaching the public about whistleblower rights and the latest whistleblower protection laws. First, come learn about the latest whistleblo ...
• NWC seminar on Dodd-Frank a huge success
  David Colapinto, Stephen Kohn, Sean McKessy and Michael Kohn. Photo by Lindsey Williams. Yesterday, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) road trip of seminars came to ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Judges Asked To Read 675,000 Pages To Determin ...
  Bryan points us to this bit of fun from a judge in opening his ruling in a case over the ability to trademark "quilted diamonds" on toilet paper. The appeals court ruling by Judge Terence Evans opens (as pointed out by Michael Barclay at the link above) in a rather amusing fashion, in clearly m ...
• 'Dirty' City Decides It's Cheaper To Clean Up ...
  Bas points us to the news that a city in Russia, Chelyabinsk, which is ranked in the "top 10" list of "dirtiest cities" by the government, has apparently decided that the best way to spend taxpayer money isn't necessarily to make the city any cleaner, but to clean up their Google and Yandex rank ...
• Amazon Stops Accepting Apps In Germany Due To ...
  While it appears that Apple is not having much luck in the US in claiming that Amazon violated its trademark by offering an App Store that sells (you guessed it!) apps, apparently it is having an impact in Germany. Copycense points us to the news that Amazon has sent a letter to developers in G ...
• Swiss Justice Minister Decides That ISPs Shoul ...
  There are big debates in both the US and Europe about the reasonableness and legality of requiring massive data retention by ISPs. However in Switzerland, the Justice Minister, Simonetta Sommaruga, has decided to dispense with all of that and has just told ISPs they have to start retaining all ...
• Is Google Antitrust Investigation Simply A Rep ...
  I haven't written anything about the ongoing FTC investigation of Google, because the details are still a bit iffy, but Charlotte Kiang points us to a piece she wrote up comparing the investigation of Google to the similar antitrust legal fight against Microsoft a little over a decade ago. In t ...

VacTruth

• Time to Say “Enough!”
  There comes a time in everyone’s consciousness and life when one realizes that too many things are going off beam and that life is becoming more problematic day by day, especially now when it comes to our health, which probably is our most valued personal possession, and which seems to be underm ...
• How To Find The Poisons In Vaccines In 5 Secon ...
  This short video shows you how to find the poisons in vaccines in 5 seconds or less.
• Murdoch’s Vaccine World
  Everyone by now has heard about the phone tapping scandal that rocked both the British newspaper world and Rupert Murdoch’s business empire. But what needs to be spotlighted, I think, is the possible role that Murdoch’s London Times may have played in the professional evisceration of respected B ...
• The FDA Approved New DPT Vaccine For Seniors
  It has been announced that a new vaccine has been approved by the FDA for the over 65's. GlaxoSmithKline’s Boostrix vaccine is said to be able to protect the elderly from diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough). The vaccine was originally approved for use in adolescents in 2005.
• What Is It You Don’t Get About Vaccines?
  Public health: Not vaccinated? Not acceptable. “What does society do when one person’s behavior puts the greater community at risk? We make them stop."

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  Work is still kicking my ass and keeping me away from the internets. But I have managed to read enough to be annoyed. This op-ed from the Council on Foreign Relations says that we need to raise the debt ceiling because, if we do not, then: 1. We will be forced to cut defense spending and [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I suspect it will be another week before I can complete part two to that media post. I want to finish reading A Mixtape Manifesto first. And The Economist put out a whole media’ issue that I haven’t gotten around to yet. I’ll have something for you though. Related to Thursday’s post on the socia ...
• Deal Breaker
  I recently read The World That Never Was. I really liked it, despite the fact that it includes a gazillion people and can be hard to follow (even for someone who was familiar with many of the players). The book basically covers the period between Haymarket and WWI. There is one part of the book ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I spent the weekend at the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy. Had a really great time with more than 200 of the least pretentious people doing some of the most cool things. Red Emma’s did their usual bang up job with Friday night dinner at 2640. Great speakers at the dinner, especially ...
• Ciao Newsrooms. I Won’t Miss You.
  Chris Hedges recently wrote one of those sad obituaries for newsrooms. He longs for the old timey orgs like in All the President’s Men. But Iâm not buying all the chicken little stuff when it comes to news. I don’t think the death of newsrooms is such a tragedy. And I’m not just saying that [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Schiller Conference Devoted to ‘Rescuing Civil ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Obama Sends ‘Agent of a Foreign Power’ To Defe ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche Exposes Plan for U.S. Dictatorship
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche Issues New General Forecast
  EIR News Service press release.
• Glass-Steagall Gains More Support
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

• آليات ما بعد ثورة اليمن ينبغي أن تبدأ محلياً ...
  Mostakela: :: Ø¢ÙÙات ما بعد Ø«Ùرة اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙبغ٠أ٠تبدأ محÙÙا٠(ترجمÙ) اÙÙاتبة اÙأمرÙÙÙØ© ÙÙÙا٠تبادر باÙتراح Ø¢ÙÙات ما بعد اÙØ«Ùرة - 2011-ÙÙÙÙÙ(حزÙراÙ)-19 Ø¢ÙÙات ما بعد Ø«Ùرة اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙبغ٠أ٠تبدأ محÙÙا٠Ùتبت: جÙÙ ...
• Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
  Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
• Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should ...
  Post-revolutionary mechanisms in Yemen should begin locally by Jane Novak After three months of bloody protests, millions of Yemenis remain steadfast—and on the streets—throughout the nation. They want Saleh and his entire regime gone. In Sanaa, skirmishes have broken out between opposing tribes ...
• Injuries and fatalities in Yemen after anti-go ...
  In what may be the bloodiest day yet since anti-government protests broke out in Yemen two weeks ago, residents around Aden are reporting numerous fatalities as security forces opened fire on protesters in many districts throughout the day and evening Friday. Human Rights Watch issued a statemen ...
• Game changer in Yemen as protests swell
  In Egypt and Tunisia, the stance of the military was pivotal in the success of popular uprisings; in Yemen, it may be the tribes that are the determining factor. Anti-government protests across Yemen show no signs of abating. In Taiz, Yemen’s largest governorate, many who arrived last Friday are ...

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

• By: April
  Please read Blue Gold and When the Rivers Run Dry....I am officially against the majority of desalination due to the fact that all the water we have now is all the water we will EVER have!
• By: Rich's coworker
  In an effort to de-spin your story, the real reason there were no muffins or treats of any sort was because the bearer of treats was absent, and had been gone for the past few days. Perhaps if you "wish real hard" again, parabens can turn into magical antioxidants that are part of a complete ...
• By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
  [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
• By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
  [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
• By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
  [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]

treehugger

• Copenhagenizing Has Another Name: The Slow Bik ...
  Image credit Lloyd Alter We have talked about "Copenhagenizing", Mikael Colville-Anderson's term for learning to ride bikes like they do in Copenhagen, in street clothes, at a comfortable pace, usually without a helmet. Andrew Sullivan points us to the American version, where it has become ...
• What's the Difference Between Climate Skeptici ...
  When it comes to climate change skepticism versus climate change denial, the distinction between the two may seem slight, but it's very important. In the first in a series of six videos TreeHugger has done in collaboration with the good folks (and sometimes
• The TreeHugger Recap: Monday, August 1, 2011
  Photo by Joi via Flickr CC With ~30+ new posts on TreeHugger.com each weekday, we understand if you miss a post here and there. To keep you up-to-date, here's what we covered on Monday, August 1, 2011....Read the full story on TreeHugger
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Large Hydropower ...
  Three Gorges Dam, photo: Harvey Barrison/CC BY-SA From an environmental perspective hydropower is a mixed bag. Depending on how it's done (micro, small, run of river, large scale) it can be anything from a great low-carbon sustainable energy source to an environmental disaster destroying ha ...
• Space Station Architect Designs Out Of This Wo ...
  Images credit Cricket Architect and designer Garrett Finney always loved small spaces, and moved to Houston to work on the habitation module (where the astronauts live) of the International Space Station. Wanting to camp with his kids in a little more comfort than a tent, he combined his " ...

Biosingularity

• Scientists show how shifts in temperature prim ...
  Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have found a temperature-sensing protein within immune cells that, when tripped, allows calcium to pour in and activate an immune response. This process can occur as temperature rises, such as during a fever, or when it fallsâsuch as when immune cell ...
• Scientists engineer patch a heart
  Researchers at Columbia Engineering have established a new method to patch a damaged heart using a tissue-engineering platform that enables heart tissue to repair itself. This breakthrough, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is an important step forward in ...
• Study takes closer look at calorie restrictors
  Trent Arsenault has eaten the same breakfast, lunch and dinner almost every day for the past four or five years: a fruit smoothie in the morning, a spinach salad at noon and another fruit smoothie after work. Every now and then he’ll add a snack to his day. Maybe a spoonful of almond butter or [...]
• Bioprinting
• FDA Panel Urges Approval of Hepatitis C Drug
  In an18-0 vote, an FDA advisory panel recommended approval of the drug boceprevir to treat hepatitis C. Panel members called boceprevir, manufactured by Merck & Co., a weapon in the fight against chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection. Chronic HCV genotype 1 infection is the most c ...

CFACT

• Not much pop to corn controversy
• The icky problem of sewage treatment
• CEI's Chris Horner on White House lawsuit
• Eco-Lifestyles becoming a regular part of campus
• Interview: House Resources on Healthy Forests

Ria Novosti Online News

• Snake hitches a ride down highway
  A Youtube video of a snake crawling onto the windshield of a moving van in Tennessee is proving to be an internet hit. Tony Fisher of Collierville told local stations the snake came straight up from the left side of the hood of his vehicle last week, as his wife Rachel was driving. In the video, ...
• The Russian Tongue: Bookworms and bestsellers
  Although this summer in no way compares to last year’s inferno, it's still hot enough that all most of us want to do is lie around sipping cool drinks and working our way down several Best Beach Reads lists; легкое чтение (light reading) to you.
• Norway attacker demands Japanese specialists
  Andres Behring Breivik, the self-confessed perpetrator of Norway's twin terror attacks, has demanded that his mental condition be diagnosed by Japanese specialists as part of a list of demands his lawyer described as "unrealistic."
• Putin visits Seliger youth forum
  During his visit to the Russian youth activists’ annual Seliger forum, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised to join them in a weight-loss programme and tried his hand at free rock climbing, without safety equipment.
• Yves Saint Laurent’s 75th birthday
  Yves Saint Laurent ruled the world of fashion for four decades. A sophisticated young man, Saint Laurent became the head designer at the renowned House of Dior at 21.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russian radio telescope makes first loop aroun ...
  Russia's Spectr-R spacecraft with a powerful radio telescope passed the lowest point of its highly elliptical orbit for the first time since its launch on July 18, the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscomos, said on Thursday.
• ISS to be de-orbited and sunk in Pacific after ...
  The International Space Station (ISS) will be de-orbited and sunk in the Pacific Ocean after 2020 like its Russian predecessor Mir, Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) Deputy Head Vitaly Davydov said on Wednesday.
• Chinese sub dives below 5,000 meters
  The Chinese research deep-sea submersible Jiaolong with three people onboard dived to a depth of 5,057 meters in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, Xinhua said.
• China's Mars 'expedition' participant celebrat ...
  China's Wang Yue, who is currently participating in a 520-day simulation of an expedition to Mars, is celebrating his 29th birthday on Monday.
• ISS crew to launch mini-satellite on August 3
  Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will launch a mini-satellite during a spacewalk on August 3, mission control said on Friday.

Pruning Shears

• So, anything interesting going on?
  I’m getting away from it all this week, and it looks like I picked a fine week to do so.
• Protesting FedEx Tax Dodgery and Union Busting
   FedEx is notorious for union busting and tax dodging. So US Uncut and the Madison Socialist Alternative got some folks together, made some signs, and headed down to the local branch here in Madison, WI to let them know how we feel about that.  Package handlers at the FedEx Ground warehouse in ...
• Did Wall Street Kill Rock and Roll? No, and ne ...
  Earlier this week Mother Nature paid us a harsh visit:There was pretty significant damage to our yard and no electricity for over a day. On the bright side, no one was hurt and our house was largely unscathed. And that’s a pretty darn bright side. However, there have also been calls and arran ...
• GOP Booze Cruise Protest Flotilla
  On Sunday night, the Walworth County, WI GOP held a fundraiser/rich guy boat party in Lake Geneva. In attendance were Rep. Paul “Medicare Vouchers” Ryan and WI Lieutenant Governor Rebecca “Gay Marriage Is Like People Marrying Their Furniture” Kleefisch.  So, of course, also in attendance were ab ...
• Weekend wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Also: Giving fake vaccines to poor people breaks the Evil Meter.And Reuters, you do not have to call the people getting killed suspected ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Upcoming NorCal Millions Against Monsanto Events
  A list of the 8/4-8/15 MAM labeling events in Northern CaliforniaClick here to read this article
• Legalizing Marijuana Would Hinder the Multi-Bi ...
  The prohibition of marijuana in the US has led to an "underground" cannabis industry in Mexico run primarily by violent gangster cartels like the ones wreaking havoc at the southern borders of Texas, Arizona, and California.Click here to read this article
• Monsanto-Spawned Superweeds Growing Three Inch ...
  The proliferation of superweeds -- weeds that have mutated to develop resistance to popular herbicides like Monsanto's Roundup formula -- continues to rise. But the individual plants' overall size and strength is also increasing.Click here to read this article
• Eight Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back ...
  Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination. Click here to read this article
• Concealed Weapons against the Environment
  While almost no one was looking, House Republicans embarked last week on a broad assault on the nation's environmental laws, using as their weapon the 2012 spending bill for the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

• Hey, USDA, Who’s Your Daddy?
  For whom does the USDA work? A recent development involving a vanished technical review makes me wonder if the agency is working to assure a safe and nutritious food supply for the U.S. citizenry, or to protect the profits of the agro-industrial complex. Tom Philpott did a great job covering the ...
• Threats from Nervous Hog Farmers
  Mark Bittman, whose regular food systems columns in the New York Times are an excellent source of thoughtful commentary on the ills of industrialized agriculture, commented last month on the odd-couple arrangement brokered by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the United Egg Prod ...
• Nutrition Programs: How Many Spending Cuts Can ...
  In the midst of economic instability, it’s become clear that funding for major federal programs will be subject to cuts, and nutrition programs are no exception. Perhaps cuts are unavoidable, but it is essential that we examine their potential impact on public health. According to a recent USDA ...
• Roundup-Resistant Weeds Threaten U.S. Food Sec ...
  Roundup-resistant weeds are a rapidly emerging threat that puts U.S. agriculture in a terribly precarious position. The threat has evolved from farmers’ heavy use of the herbicide glyphosate, (aka Roundup, a Monsanto product) to control weeds, and farmers’ simultaneous reliance on crop varieties ...
• Preparing for Peak Oil
  Peak oil is inevitable. At some point, global oil supplies will peak and then decline (it may be happening already), driving up the cost of oil and petroleum products. But what happens to our food systems, which rely heavily on oil, when oil becomes scarce?

Investigate - Breaking News

• BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...
  FROM AN EXTRACT OF BREAKING SILENCE Published in the latest Investigate HIS/HERS magazine... What you are about to read has been described as the most controversial book ever published in New Zealand. It wasn’t supposed to be. But news sent...
• BREAKING SILENCE news release
  BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE By Ian Wishart $39.99, Howling At The Moon Publishing Ltd RELEASE DATE: Imminent Final opportunity to pre-order for delivery on Day One: www.howlingatthemoon.com The new book that shatters myths surrounding the Kahui murder case is...
• News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
  NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...
• News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...
  NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART The Facebook page on Macsyna King is dishonest. They have known all along that Macsyna has neither sought nor been offered any money or compensation for the book Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart. Still, the...
• Sea-level study released - yawn
  Mann, Ramstorf and other 'usual suspects' have released their 'it's worse than we thought' sea level "study". Newspaper paraphrases: Looking back in history, the researchers found that sea level was relatively stable from 100 BC to AD 950. Then, during...

My Care2 Picks

• Globalist Imperial Network
  The mechanics of world empire, in particular the current corporate-financier oligarchy has been examined in great detail. The US State Department, supporting NGOs funded directly by both US taxpayers' money as well as funds from the Fortune 500 corpSubmitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World �|� ...
• Pragmatism not Idealism
  This is the math and logic that underpins the arguments of "climate pragmatism" -- such as espoused in the report released yesterday by that name, The Hartwell Paper and The Climate Fix.Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Obama's Libyan Lies Exposed
  Three reasons why Qadaffi must die : why NATO and D.C. lieSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessnes ...
  Al Qaeda is always to blame, even when it isn't, even when it's allegedly the work of a Nordic, Muslim-hating, right-wing European nationalist.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Action:FIGHT BACK: Big Banks Want To Crack Dow ...
  Oppose Congressman Michael Grimm's H.R. 2483 and any other proposals to reduce rewards for corporate whistle-blowers or penalize them if they don't report to their bosses before they go public.Submitted by Terry C. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Mineworkers’ Leader, Rafael Tobón, Gunned Down ...
  Mineworkers’ Leader, Rafael Tobón, Gunned Down in Antioquía, Colombia - Democratic Underground: Mineworkers’ Leader, Rafael Tobón, Gunned Down in Antioquía, ColombiaThe ICEM condemns the cowardly... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Jewish association launches tourism project pr ...
  Jewish association launches tourism project promoting the West Bank as "part of Israel" :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "MEMO, July... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• PACBI-City artist Spurns Israel invite for Pal ...
  PACBI-City artist Spurns Israel invite for Palestine cause: "It was billed as the first major show of Indian art in Tel Aviv. But with a section of Indian artists deciding to skip the event, and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Hundreds meet to oppose EDL in Tower Hamlets|3 ...
  Hundreds meet to oppose EDL in Tower Hamlets|30Jul11|Socialist Worker: by Siân Ruddick and Ken OlendeSome 600 people crammed into the London Muslim Centre in east London last night for a rally... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Cubans Aren't Racist, But… - IPS ipsnews.net
  Cubans Aren't Racist, But… - IPS ipsnews.net: By Patricia Grogg/ Credit:Patricia Grogg/IPSCredit:Patricia Grogg/IPSHAVANA, Jul 29, 2011 (IPS) - "I'm not racist, but at night, if I see three black men... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Tent City of New Jersey: Desperate victims of ...
  ShareThisThe Tent City of New Jersey: Desperate victims of the economic slump forced to live in makeshift homes in forest [Thanks, Governor Christie!] 02 Aug 2011 In scenes reminiscent of the Great Depression these are the ramshackle homes of the desperate and destitute U.S. families who have se ...
• Sources: Joe Biden likens tea partiers to terr ...
  ShareThisSources: Joe Biden likens tea partiers to terrorists 01 Aug 2011 Vice President Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having "acted like terrorists" in the fight over raising the nation's debt limit, according to several sources in th ...
• Former NSA and CIA Director Suggests Creating ...
  ShareThisFormer NSA and CIA Director Suggests Creating 'Digital Blackwater' For Cyberwarfare 01 Aug 2011 One of the architects of US foreign policy under George W. Bush, General Michael Hayden, suggested that the US Government should consider creating a "Digital Blackwater" during an open conver ...
• Fukushima residents join antinuke campaign
  ShareThisFukushima residents join antinuke campaign 02 Aug 2011 Fukushima residents joined the chorus calling for the elimination of nuclear power as one of Japan's leading antinuclear groups kicked off its nationwide summer campaign Sunday in the city of Fukushima, located around 50 km from the ...
• Giffords in House for first time since shooting
  ShareThisGiffords in House for first time since shooting 01 Aug 2011 Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) returned to the House for the first time since she was shot last January, making a dramatic entrance Monday night during a crucial debt vote and drawing loud applause and cheers from surprised ...