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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

2 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Part 2 – Demyelination, ...
    Article is intended to be read in conjunction with Part 1: VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix â A Legacy Of Shame Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
  • VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
    “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

  • Iraq: Inside the Inferno – Brave Men & Demons
    01 August 2011 As the Iraq War slipped into chaos, few writers were willing to step out and call the barbaric behavior of our enemy what it was--barbaric. Words have power. So do pictures. Strict censoring of our own reporting and photos by the mainstream media does not make the enemy less sa ...
  • More Flak from Military Public Affairs
    29 July 2011 � Over the past seven years, there has been a long string of issues flowing from military public affairs officers.� Most of the PAs have been professional, but on balance the experience has been extremely negative.� This is the opposite of what I've experienced with combat units, wh ...
  • Taliban Attacking More Children
    26 July 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Over the past several days there have been news stories here in Afghanistan about the Taliban strangling an 8-year-old boy.�� The reports say that his father refused to turn over a police vehicle to the enemy, and so they murdered his ...
  • A Fine Talk by Joe Galloway
    Published: 23 July 2011 Joe Galloway, at the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association, 2011Convention "Thanks to all of you for giving me the honor of speaking to you. I have got to tell you that looking out across this assemblage I must confess: I haven't seen this many bad boys collected in one ...
  • INFERNO BOOK UPDATE-Election Day: Early Morning
    21 July 2011 I remember writing these words during my first month in Iraq. The war was full on and it was anybody's guess how that first election day would land. Here are some thoughts I penned during that time: Here on the ground, it is clear that Iraq already is embroiled in civil war. But ...

The Killing Train

  • The politics of economic self-destruction
    Sorry for the hiatus. Partly I've been busy with work and life and been unable to spend as much time doing articles. Partly I am trying to train myself to not relate to the world through 2000 word articles but to have a little more variety, including longer things (ie., books), one of which I am ...
  • Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
    This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.
  • Watch out for election day fraud
    Francis Fox Piven (who has had her own experiences recently with Harper's US mentors) and Richard Cloward wrote a very interesting book called "Why Americans Don't Vote", which showed how a key electoral strategy in the US has always been demobilizing opposing voters, a strategy just as importan ...
  • Today's election thoughts
    Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
  • 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
    The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...

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 " ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Indiana appeals order blocking Planned Parenth ...
    [JURIST] Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller [official website] filed an appeal [brief, PDF] Monday to lift a judge's decision to block parts of a controversial state law [HEA 1210] denying that medicaid funds go to Planned Parenthood of Indiana (PPIN) [advocacy website]. Zoeller filed the app ...
  • DOJ challenges Alabama immigration law
    [JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Monday filed a complaint [text, PDF] in the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama [official website] challenging an Alabama law [HB 56 text] that expands restrictions on undocumented immigrants. The DOJ contends t ...
  • US top military official says troops need immu ...
    [JURIST] Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff [official website], Admiral Mike Mullen [official profile], said Tuesday that US troops must be granted immunity in order to remain in Iraq beyond the end-of-the-year deadline. It is up to the Iraqi Parliament to decide whether they still need a ...
  • Belarus lawmakers move to ban silent protests
    [JURIST] Members of the Belarus Parliament have introduced a bill that would ban so-called "silent protests," including those involving large groups of people basically doing nothing. The law seems aimed at stopping numerous silent protests [AFP report] across Belarus with protestors meeting in ...
  • Austria court rejects Serbia extradition reque ...
    [JURIST] An Austrian court on Friday rejected Serbia's extradition request for former Bosnian general and suspected war criminal Jovan Divjak. The court ruled that Divjak likely would not receive a fair trial [AP report] if he were extradited, expressing concerns that Serb authorities would not ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Washington Wants to Avoid Default, but It Can' ...
    With time running out, lawmakers still haven't crafted any bill that can raise the debt limit. Will they manage to pass one by Aug. 2? APThe aspirations don't match the situation.To hear them talk, the White House and every key player on Capitol Hill wants to avoid the first-ever default ...
  • Boehner: Tough to Revive Bipartisan 'Humpty Du ...
    The House Speaker said Republicans would press ahead with their own proposal should Obama continue to reject a two-tier plan With Asian markets set to deliver a verdict within hours on the U.S. debt crisis, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on ...
  • Progress Toward a Debt Deal?
    With the clock ticking down to the reopening of the markets, Congressional leaders try to patch together a two-step agreement ...
  • Let Them Eat Cake Alive & Well in Beverly Hills
    I love Los Angeles (I know -- few seem to want to admit it), but I love Washington, DC more.  I love DC's intrigue and policy banter -- the passionate debates about Israel and Palestine, about nuclear vs. renewables, about Grover Norquist vs. big government Republicans (& MoveOn), about whethe ...
  • How to Be a Right-Leaning Journalist
    A libertarian guide for young reporters tells us how media, ideological or otherwise, should work in the digital age With the rise of ideological journalism over the past decade, a period when opinionated bloggers, Web journalists, and muckraking activists have changed the face of the profess ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Maariv Political Correspondent Warns of ‘Milit ...
    In the past week, Israel has witnessed the largest mass social protest movement in decades. 150,000 demonstrated a few nights ago in cities and towns throughout Israel against the rising cost of living and deterioration in virtually every aspect of Israeli quality of life including massive cuts ...
  • Geller Accessory After Fact to Breivik Massacre?
    Little Green Footballs reports that Pam Geller published an e-mail from an unnamed Norwegian anti- jihadi in 2007, which indicated he was planning a major terror attack to dramatize his cause. Geller was so shocked by what he wrote that she called it “devastating in its matter of factness.” She ...
  • Settler MKs Welcome Russian Neo-Nazi Holocaust ...
    When an Israeli reader sent this story to me I couldn’t believe the headline summarized above.  Further, in this day and age of Norwegian neo-Nazi, anti-jihadi attacks which wrap themselves in the Israeli flag, this story is simply mind-blowing. It begins with a visit from a Russian neo-Nazi de ...
  • Truthout Publishes My Latest Piece on Possible ...
    I’ve distilled my reporting on Iran in the past month and added some new material in this new piece published today at Truthout: Senior Israeli, US Intelligence Figures Warn of Israeli Attack Against Iran.  The heading above the title says it has 108,000 Facebook Likes.  Given that Truthout i ...
  • Iran Assassination: Melman Hints Israel Killed ...
    In reporting on the recent assassination of Iranian electrical engineering graduate student, Darioush Rezaeinejad, I’ve noted the possibility of the Lillehammer-like mistake by which the Mossad may’ve killed the wrong man.  The reason is that at first the news media reported the victim was nucl ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...

David J. Gregory

  • Help to overcome
    SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]
  • USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
    The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
  • FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
    by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
  • My Predicament
    For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...
  • High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
    O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]

Unsuitable Blog

  • London 2012: Crass, Commercial and Completely ...
    The Olympic Charter reads as follows: Fundamental Principles of Olympism 1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of eff ...
  • Why So Few Unsuitablogs?
    I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
  • Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
    We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...
  • Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
    In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
  • Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty Secrets
    JUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: âWhen a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.â I wasnât commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to describe the s ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Reporting from Your Mobile Phone? The Mobile M ...
    Drumroll, please! MobileActive.org is pleased to introduce the Mobile Media Toolkit, the newest project that's all about Making Media Mobile. The Mobile Media Toolkit helps you make sense of the growing role of mobile tech in media. The Toolkit provides how-to guides, wireless tools, and ...
  • Visualizing 10 Years of Violence Against Journ ...
    Internews and Nai, an Afghan media advocacy organization, have collected hundreds of reports of threats, intimidation, and violence faced by journalists in Afghanistan. We recently announced a new site, which features 10 years of these reports. While Nai's data previously resided in spreadsheets ...
  • DocumentCloud Weathers Obama Birth Certificate ...
    When President Obama released his birth certificate and dozens of news organizations turned to DocumentCloud to present it to their readers, I snarked a bit. Though the birth certificate did prompt a few questions -- which we're still navigating -- about the best way to handle duplicate uploads, ...
  • Prototypes, Visualizations Take Shape in Knigh ...
    Today marks the end of the second week of the Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab, an experiment in which 63 "mad scientists" with ideas for how to improve digital storytelling have been thrown together in a common digital space to learn and refine those digital ideas. In the first week, we heard la ...
  • Dotspotting + Embeds = Great Maps of Prisons, ...
    There are three basic parts to working with online representations of urban civic data in Dotspotting: collating the data, manipulating it, and then sharing and publishing it. Up until now, we've been focused on the first two, which makes sense. Obviously you need to be able to gather and work w ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Medical Edge - A Game-changer in Breast Ca ...
    Early detection is the key to improving breast cancer survival rates, but mammography is not the ideal method to accomplish this goal. On this point, medical experts across the globe agree.Not as clear is what could do the job without the disadvantages of mammography, which often causes pain or ...
  • The Water’s Edge - Turning Gray Water Green
    The facts on the ground are stark: Israel is in a serious water deficit. The Sea of Galilee is shrinking every year, as are its underground aquifers. Yet water needs are increasing along with energy costs.One answer to this crisis may be found in the water we send down the sink and bathtub drain ...
  • The Medical Edge - Blood and Lymphatic Vessels ...
    “I believe there is real magic in the way that embryos develop. I’ve been studying them for almost 15 years and I haven’t stopped being amazed,” says Dr. Karina Yaniv of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Department of Biological Regulation.Dr. Yaniv focuses on examining how blood and lymphatic ...
  • Book Event - The Launch of Reawakening by Arms ...
    The evening of July 23, dozens of Washington’s journalism elites got out of the triple-digit heat for a few hours and gathered in Northwest D.C. to celebrate the release of Armstrong Williams’s newest offering, Reawakening Virtues. The gathering was hosted by the families of Morton Bender, the h ...
  • Egypt After Mubarak - Egypt turns to the Dark ...
    One navigates in the dark, we do not know where Egypt will go," says Fr. Luciano Verdoscia, a Catholic missionary serving in Egypt. In Cairo, tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Tahrir Square on July 29, in response to an appeal launched by the Muslim Brotherhood. Fifteen lay politica ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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  • Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market- The G ...
    By William HicksContinuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years
  • Disastrous US Jobs Report Points To Deepening ...
    By Barry GreyUS payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department
  • A State For Jews
    By William James Martin Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state - Israel- which is a state for Jews, and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians
  • Israelis Rush For Second Passports
    By Franklin Lamb Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 s ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...

Yid With Lid

  • REVOLT: Progressives Fighting Compromise. Rep ...
    Yikes! As bad as the reaction to the Compromise bill from some conservative members of the GOP, the reaction of the Progressives is much, much worse.� The liberal progressives are having a major hissy fit. One senior member of the Democratic Caucus has called for mass rallies in front of the Whi ...
  • Debt Deal: A Political Win For Conservatives, ...
    After weeks of hard negotiation a compromise deal is has been drafted and will be voted on by both houses before the end of the day tomorrow. This deal does give a political victory for some of the players and more importantly can even lead to a victory for the country provided that GOP lead ...
  • Terrorism and Oslo, Talk is Cheap
    By Barry Rubin One of the most sensitive aspects of the very sensitive subject of the murderous terrorist attack in Norway by a right-wing gunman is this irony: The youth political camp he attacked was at the time engaged in what was essentially (though the campers didn’t see it that way ...
  • Boehner Releases "Sell Piece" Giving Details O ...
    �Embedded below is a power point Presentation sent out by the Speaker to sell the House on the compromise deal worked out between GOP leadership and the POTUS this weekend. I received the presentation from a Congressional Staffer so I know its legit. As we stand right now, Harry Reid has e ...
  • Assassination As Political Strategy: Islamists ...
    Annie Hall: “Sometimes I ask myself how I’d stand up under torture.” Alvie Singer: “You kiddin’? If the Gestapo would take away your Bloomingdale’s charge card you’d tell ‘em everything.” –”Annie Hall” By Barry Rubin Abdel Fattah Younes, the top military commander of the Libyan reb ...

The Real Agenda

  • Debt Deal Surprise # 1: Unconstitutional &#822 ...
    Unconstitutional body created by debt deal to get “even greater super powers” Infowars.com 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 strings – its authority will extend to t ...
  • U.S. is a “parasite” on Global Economy
    Reuters August 1, 2011 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means “like a parasite” on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets. “They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight ...
  • Spending Cuts? What Cuts? Oh, Phantom Cuts!
    by Rep. Ron Paul August 1, 2011 One might think that the recent drama over the debt ceiling involves one side wanting to increase or maintain spending with the other side wanting to drastically cut spending, but that is far from the truth.  In spite of the rhetoric being thrown around, the real ...
  • 20 U.S. States Consider Raw Milk Illegal
    by Karen De Coster Activist Post August 1, 2011 On the raw milk front, Dairyherd.com has some interesting survey results on comparative raw milk regulations on a state-by-state basis. To summarize, thirty states allow consumers to transact with raw milk producers while twenty states prohibit tha ...
  • Debt Deal: ”It’s like Curing a Dru ...
    By David Lawder Reuters August 1, 2011 The tentative deal to avoid a crushing debt default is at best a mild relief for the U.S. economy that nearly stalled in the first half of the year and has yet to show signs of any realistic pickup. The plan for $2.4 trillion in spending cuts over [...]

Wind Watch

  • Protestors target turbine test center
    Attempts to clear a forest to make way for a wind turbine test centre in northern Jutland were abandoned on Thursday after interference by protesters. Nine police officers accompanied the Danish Nature Agency�s tree felling machines into the �stersild dune plantation but were stopped when approx ...
  • A shift in the wind in Southwest Virginia
    Western Virginia, with its prominent ridgetops, is attracting more wind-energy scouts trying to site the state’s first wind farm. A formal request to place turbines on Poor Mountain in southwest Roanoke County is expected later this year or next. In addition, wind energy executives are evaluatin ...
  • Spanish bird protection group halts Iberdrola ...
    SPAIN: The Supreme Court of Castile and León has ordered a provisional freeze on the building at the 21MW Curueña II project, developed by a consortium led by Iberdrola, due to irregularities by the regional administration during the environmental impact assessment of the project. The ruling is ...
  • Wind power wants U.S. oil tax break used by KK ...
    Wind-power companies want to follow KKR & Co. and Blackstone Group LP in tapping a Reagan-era tax break for oil and gas companies when U.S. renewable energy tax credits start expiring at the end of this year. Developers of wind farms and solar power plants have begun lobbying for legislation tha ...
  • Developers and protestors clash at wind projec ...
    Lincoln – The contrast was as clear as day. “Maine as a Vacation Land is gone,” said tourist, Rainer Egle. One group celebrating by barbeque. “It’s a good day,” said First Wind CEO, Paul Gaynor. The other protesting their success. “Yesterday our camp went up for sale and we came here for nature, ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher Away C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • U.S. Manufacturing Grinds to Near Halt
    “Manufacturing in the U.S. almost stalled in July, threatening to deprive the two-year recovery of one of its main drivers.” (Washington Post) Imagine if there had been no stimulus! FEE Timely Classic “And the Slump Goes On” by Angel Martín Oro
  • Co-Pays for Women’s Medical Services Barred
    “Marking a new milestone in long-running efforts to make health insurance more equitable for women, the Obama administration announced Monday that tens of millions of women will soon be able to get birth control, breast pumps, HIV tests and five other categories of preventive services without co ...
  • House Authorizes More Debt
    “After months of partisan impasse, the House on Monday approved a budget agreement intended to head off a potential government default, pushing Congress a big step closer to the conclusion of a bitter fight that has left both parties bruised and exhausted.” (New York Times) Political demagoguery ...
  • Security Theater Adds a New Act
    TSA agents plan to “chat you up” ... or maybe they will interrogate you under sweat-inducing spotlights.
  • “Framework” Reached on Debt Ceiling
    “Congressional leaders of both parties and President Obama said they have agreed to a framework for a fiscal deal that they will present to their caucuses Monday morning, moving Congress closer to taking up a measure that could pass both the House and Senate with bipartisan support and be signed ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • 5,000 followers on Twitter
    Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a litt ...
  • 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
    I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in my o ...
  • Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
    This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...
  • Journalists, take another look at Tumblr
    For a long time I had trouble appreciating Tumblr, but I think I finally understand its strengths — and I must not be the only one. Tumblr is now one of the top 25 websites in the U.S., according to data from Quancast, as reported in a new article at TechCrunch. It gets close to 5,000 pagevie ...
  • Branding: Should journalists build a personal ...
    If you’re teaching journalism today, you must be aware of the discussion that surrounds branding. If you’re a young journalist, or someone planning to enter the field of journalism, you need to understand what personal branding means. On June 23, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten wrote ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The debt deal's unequal burden
    Under the U.S. debt ceiling agreement expected to be signed into law by President Obama today, initial cuts to federal discretionary spending over the next decade: about $1 trillion Additional amount in cuts to be proposed by an evenly bipartisan, 12-member Joint Select Committee on Deficit Red ...
  • A dolphin's dilemma for fishermen in the Gulf
    By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf Louisiana shrimp buyer Dean Blanchard has seen plenty of crazy things during his�life in�the bayou. But his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets�the day he watched a mother dolphin pushing her dead baby calf towards him�as he�stood on the�commerci ...
  • VOICES: Hope in Mississippi
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South A hardened, intransigent right-wing has taken over the Republican Party and proved its willingness to take the nation to the economic brink to protect its well-heeled financial backers. Legislators have targeted government workers and immigrants as the source of th ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The apartheid of wealth
    Percent by which the net worth of white U.S. households fell from 2005 to 2009: 16 Of black households: 53 Of Hispanic households: 66 Number of times by which the median wealth of white households now surpasses that of Hispanic households: 18 Of black households: 20 Amount of weal ...
  • Lessons of Tennessee coal ash disaster lost in ...
    An Inspector General's review done in response to the 2008 coal ash disaster at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee has turned up widespread groundwater contamination from coal ash disposal sites at the company's power plants around the South, with some of the po ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Morocco: All Hail the (Democratic) King
    Morocco's recent constitutional referendum is not only being welcomed by the people, but could set an example across the Arab region in terms of the potential of reform.
  • North Africa and E.U. Energy Security
    Given the energy dependence of European countries on North African and Middle Eastern states, financial consequences of further upheavals in the Arab world could be global and deep.
  • Living with Disabilities in Uganda
    The plight of persons with disabilities in Uganda and other parts of Africa is exacerbated by the fact that PWD are discriminated against and not protected by the law.
  • Women's Struggle in Sierra Leone
    The struggle for equal opportunities for women in all aspects of Sierra Leone's socio-economic life is as crucial for our country's future as it is for women.
  • South Sudan: Safeguarding Independence
    The world's newest nation has reason to look positively as its future, but South Sudan must work hard to safeguard its hard-won independence.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • What the Debt Limit Crisis Should Have Taught You
    This is not primarily about the Tea Party It is about what rich donors want.  The Tea Party does not even have the amount of muscle progressives do.  Progressives can bring tens of thousands of people out, the Tea Party can rarely even get above 1,000.  They are a convenient excuse to do what th ...
  • Boehner’s plan has 900 billion in cuts
    Obama’s has 4 trillion. Boehner’s plan also calls for a committee to find another 1.8 billion.  Even with that, we’re talking 2.7 billion of cuts, still less than Obama’s plan That is all.
  • Predicted August 2nd 2008
    20) A huge push to gut entitlements in 2009, no matter who is president. Even if the US quickly pulls out of Iraq, the deficit will be totally out of control, and hundreds of billions will be needed for bailouts. A rapid consensus will form that rather than increasing taxes significantly on the ...
  • Stirling Newberry asks if Obama is the worst p ...
    Well?  Go on over, and see what you think, where does Obama rank in terms of worst presidents ever? I mean, he didn’t/hasn’t caused a civil war, so he’s probably not in first place.  But… Also a detailed explanation of how the debt limit is raised, and a good list of the worst things Obama [...]
  • More Notes on the Debt Ceiling “Negotiat ...
    If Obama didn’t want it to happen, if he didn’t want to “negotiate”, he would have: 1) raised the debt limit during the lame duck Congress.  He could have raised it enough to get him through 2 years. 2) Accepted the clean debt-ceiling bill, offered by McConnell, as noted by Stewart M. 3) simply ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Vesta ready for its close-up
    Posted on behalf of George Wigmore. Spiraling away from earth towards its rocky target, NASA’s Dawn mission is poised to start exploring one of the largest asteroids in the Solar System. These ancient time capsules could give insight into the formation of plants, and the origins of the solar ...
  • Bush's science advisor John Marburger dies, ag ...
    When he was nominated as President George W. Bush’s chief science advisor, he was described as a mild-mannered mediator and public explainer of science. But John H. Marburger, who died on Thursday aged 70, will be remembered as the man who staunchly defended Bush’s policies in the face of angry ...
  • How many research papers are freely available?
    A fortnight ago, support for the principle that research papers should be freely available flared up into a sudden flash-fire of tweets, blogs, news articles and online activism. That was in reaction to the federal indictment of computer coder and activist Aaron Swartz, who downloaded over 2 mil ...
  • Merck shutters RNAi research facility
    Less than five years after betting $1.1 billion on the power of RNA-interference (RNAi) to treat disease, pharmaceutical powerhouse Merck is shutting down the San Francisco research facility it acquired when it purchased Sirna Therapeutics, a biotechnology firm that specialized in RNAi, in 2006. ...
  • Greek geology body faces the (rock) hammer
    Earth scientists are mounting a campaign to keep the Greek geological survey alive in the face of austerity budget cuts. The Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration (IGME) – the Greek equivalent of the US Geological Survey – was the only scientific body named in Greece’s spring economic ...

new geography

  • Sustaining the Suburbs
    The proposition is simple, if not overwhelming.  If we want sustainable cities � however you define �sustainable� � we had better put some effort into the quality of suburban life.  We need to get over denigrating suburbs and sprawl.  That simply ducks the issue of where and how most peo ...
  • The 2012 Vote: A Newly Diverse Center
    Demographic transformations are changing how the American people vote. In 2010, only 15 per cent of Americans claimed to be completely unaffiliated independent voters, while 48 per cent identified with the Democratic Party and 37 per cent with the Republican Party. Back in the 1990s, party ident ...
  • How Los Angeles Lost Its Mojo
    Los Angeles today is a city in secular decline. Its current political leadership seems determined to turn the sprawling capitalist dynamo into a faux New York. But they are more likely to leave behind a dense, government-dominated, bankrupt, dysfunctional, Athens by the Pacific. The greatness o ...
  • Moving from the Coast
    For years both government and media have been advancing the notion that   America's coastal counties are obtaining most of the population growth at the expense of interior counties. For example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported in the 1990s: Coastal areas are cro ...
  • Zipcars: The Car Sharing Market Gets Zapped
    A growing sector of the urban populace is turning to “car sharing” — sharing vehicles through membership in nonprofit or for-profit organizations — for cost and convenience. Since 2006, membership in car sharing organizations has grown from about 100,000 to more than 500,000 people. Althoug ...

GM Watch

  • Fedoroff declares war against EPA over GM
    NOTE: More about pro-GM zealot Nina Fedoroff here: http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11942 http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11954 --- --- Scientists protest EPA proposal to expand biotech regulation By Stephen Clapp Friday July 22 2011, Volume: ...
  • Federoff declares war against EPA over GM
    NOTE: More about pro-GM zealot Nina Federoff here: http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11942 http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11954 --- --- Scientists protest EPA proposal to expand biotech regulation By Stephen Clapp Friday July 22 2011, Volume: ...
  • Rothamsted cuts to agroecology "Swimming again ...
    NOTE: More on Rothamsted: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Rothamsted_Research --- --- Rothamsted Cuts to Agroecology "Swimming Against the Tide" GM Freeze, 15 July 2011 The decision by Rothamsted Research to close three major departments central to their agroecological research base has bee ...
  • Rothamsted cuts to agroecology "Swimming again ...
    NOTE: More on Rothamsted: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Rothamsted_Research --- --- Rothamsted Cuts to Agroecology "Swimming Against the Tide" GM Freeze, 15 July 2011 The decision by Rothamsted Research to close three major departments central to their agroecological research base has bee ...
  • Enquêtes de la WDR sur le World Wide Fund for ...
    Enquêtes de la WDR sur le World Wide Fund for Nature Le WWF et l'industrie / Le pacte avec le panda[1] Par Lars Langenau[2] sueddeutsche.de Média [Original allemand: http://bit.ly/SZPandaPakt] 22 juin 2011, 19h00 Quels sont les véritables liens entre le WWF et l'industrie? À l'heure du cinquant ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Flood Berm Collapses at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
    Via: AP: A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early April for refueling, and there is no w ...
  • Greece: ‘A Sovereign Debt Crisis of Soph ...
    Via: Telegraph: The essence of ancient Greek tragedy is that the audience knows it will end in disaster, but feels compelled to watch the horror unfold. And so it is with the modern version, a sovereign debt crisis of Sophoclean dimensions. Themes of the great dramatist’s finer works are all the ...
  • Threat of $100 Billion Hit if U.S. Top Rating Lost
    I definitely wouldn’t assume that the impact of a credit rating cut would be limited to $100 billion. I doubt there is any way to know what the impact will be because so many derivatives have been struck off the underlying debt. In other words, this $100 billion number may be just the tip of [...]
  • Fukushima Residents’ Urine Now Radioactive
    Via: Japan Times: More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday. Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, whi ...
  • Friend of British Prime Minister Found Dead in ...
    Via: Belfast Telegraph: Detectives are hoping toxicology results will shed light on the death riddle of a senior Tory in a Glastonbury Festival VIP toilet. Christopher Shale, 56, a close friend of David Cameron, was discovered slumped in a cubicle in the backstage area on Sunday morning. The Pri ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Famine in Somalia could spread without the fun ...
    SOMALIA: UN OFFICIAL WARNS FAMINE COULD SPREAD WITHOUT ADEQUATE RELIEF FUNDING New York, Aug  1 2011  4:05PM The United Nations humanitarian chief warned today that the famine in Somalia could spread if the international community does not provide the funds … Continue reading →
  • Long-term sustainability of the Community Seed ...
    VIDEO seen at : http://youtu.be/-RST0bDn6-o Innovation through the Community Seed Funds activity The Community Seed Funds Activity was selected to be presented at the first World Bank Innovation Days in 2009. This video explains the major innovative aspect of this … Continue reading →
  • I’n Dancing and Singing in the Drought ( ...
    You probably know I’m not the actor Gene KELLY, that’s why I’m not dancing and singing in the rain, but in the drought. The reason for my optimistic mood today is quite simple :  there are so many remarkable reports … Continue reading →
  • The worst drought to strike the region in deca ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA14488 NASA Satellite Tracks Severity of African Drought Northeast Africa continues to reel from the effects of the worst drought to strike the region in decades. The arid conditions … Cont ...
  • Benefits of a container garden wherever you li ...
    Read at : Google Alert – container gardening http://cchronicle.com/2011/07/the-revolution-is-in-the-dirt/ The Revolution is in the Dirt by Nicki Lisa Cole As Raj Patel illuminated in his 2007 book Stuffed and Starved, the global food systemâdominated by large multinational corporationsâdoes not ...

The Paper Trail

  • Center staff honored with awards
    Spring is journalism awards season and we’re delighted that the Center for Public Integrity and partner NPR have received a prestigious Dart Award for the story “Seeking Justice in Campus Rapes.” The award is bestowed by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.
  • A new site, a new era
    Make iWatch News your daily source for investigative and accountability news from around the corner – and across the globe.
  • Accountant gets $4.5 million from IRS for whis ...
    PHILADELPHIA — An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award.
  • Hey Congressman! How many federal workers are ...
    When Republican Mike Pence stood in front of a crowd of conservative activists at the end of March, he left no question as to his views on a possible government shutdown.
  • E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley ...
    An employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives alleged that he was “called to the carpet” by supervisors, accused of lying and ordered to write down everything that was said in meetings that were held with Senate staffers conducting an inquiry, according to newly release ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Adobe Previews Adobe Flash Killer
    by Eric Pettifor Back in March, I criticized Apple for not including support for Adobe Flash in their iPad tablet. Their reasoning seemed to be at least in part that Flash was going away, to be replaced by HTML 5 with support from javascript and CSS, to which I responded ...
  • Alykhan and Ezra’s ethical snake oil
    By Alison@Creekside Alykhan Velshi's wee blog Ethical Oil, named after Ezra's book, has relaunched with an expensive new look and some spiffy ethical oil pop-up campaign ads to greet you when you enter the site. You can choose either good or evil -- you know, conflict oil = woman being ston ...
  • Booking Granny
    By Alison@Creekside There's just so much wrong with this news story about the Canada Border Services Agency arresting and jailing a 66-year old woman for 12 days, for trafficking, possessing, and importing heroin, because their swab-test of a jar of motor oil in her vehicle incorrectly iden ...
  • Stockwell Day: The result of insane, extreme r ...
    By Alison@Creekside CBC Power & Politics on the Oslo massacre, at noon Friday, edited: Evan Solomon: This raises again the spectre of international terrorism. Stockwell Day: As recently as July 8th in Norway there was a dragnet for al-Qaeda suspects related to the Manchester bombing. Whethe ...
  • Bob Rae, Super-Elite!
    By Frank Moher Oh, grow a sense of humour, already. Canadian novelist Kenneth J. Harvey's piece in today's Globe, "Thank you, Bob Rae, for stealing my plane seat," is inspiring an unseemly fuss among my facebook and twitter peeps. Harvey's article, a funny and typically shrewd account of his ...

libcom

  • Anti-fascist festival and anarchist bookfair i ...
    The fourth ZAF (Zrenjanin Anti-fascist Festival) will be held on 30th of September and 1st of October 2011. The fourth ZAF (Zrenjanin Anti-fascist Festival) will be held on 30th of September and 1st of October 2011. in the Cultural C ...
  • Palestinian quarry workers strike
    Salit strikers.jpg Palestinian workers at a quarry at an Israeli settlement in the occupied territories have gone on strike over unpaid wages. The strike began last month at Sa ...
  • The End Of Hollywood? - if only
    Crowd Riots After Los Angeles Police Shut Down Block Party, Movie Premiere A police car was set on fire and crowds fought in Los Angeles Wednesday night after the LAPD shut down an impromptu "block party" because thousands of people who showed up refused ...
  • Disgruntled bosses are attacking anarchist hos ...
    sos_ddos0.jpg Since 19th of July, Russian anho.org (shorthand for "Anarchist Hosting") has been targeted with a DDoS - attack. Since then, numerous activist website s have been unaccessible - incl ...
  • South Africa: ANC Frame-Up of Abahlali baseMjo ...
    AbM_logo_big.jpg The 12 Abahlali baseMjondolo activists arrested after the attack on the movement in late 2009 have all been fully acquitted in court - and the state excoriated from the bench for its ...

Free Range International

  • This Ain’t Route 66
    Since so many people in the western media have been freely tossing words like “Taliban” and “terrorist” around recently, I thought I’d give you all a slice of life glimpse into what it’s like to actually live here in Afghanistan with real terrorists.  We Americans have a love affair with cars, ...
  • An Open Letter to Martin Frost
    Dear Mr. Frost, Yesterday, while perusing through my usual roundup of blogs and new sites, I ran across your article, The Tea Party Taliban, on Politico.com.  I’m sure you thought you were quite clever, likening the American Tea Party to the Afghan Taliban, with statements such as this: Ten year ...
  • Riding A Dead Horse
    I thought you might all appreciate some Afghan humor today.  I found this on the website Who is Who in Afghanistan, which is a great site to check out if you want dirt on Afghan politicians and power brokers.  Most of the content on the site seems to be provided by Afghans themselves, and althou ...
  • The Plot Thickens
    I meant to get this post up sooner, but a 48-hour bout with the flu left my brain too cooked to come up with any sort of cogent analysis regarding the assassination of Karzai ally Jan Mohammad Khan (JMK).  To tell you the truth, I don’t have one theory on whose behind the killing – [...]
  • AWK Whacked
    So it seems that Ahmed Wali Karzai (aka AWK or A-wak, as it’s pronounced), was whacked by one of his own guards yesterday, sending everyone in the US and Afghan governments into a tizzy as they try to figure out how to fill the power vacuum created by his demise.  I really can’t say for [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • Who’s Who In the Zoo – By Dr. True ...
    Who’s Who in the Zoo?   By Dr. Truess (rhymes with Suess). Who’s who in the “patriot” zoo?  It’s so full of worms and primordial goo – MY – what can one do? Watch your step, cause there’s lots of bad pooh – smelly stuff that will stick on your shoe! There’s Turner, and Jones, and [...]
  • QUOTE OF THE DECADE!!
    The Quote of the Decade âThe fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.  It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills.  It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to [...]
  • TRUTH REVEALED – 528 is the Frequency of ...
    This is a very complex and multi-faceted topic.  It involves exposing something called “Kabalah” (the CUBE) as well as “Enochian Magic” and the darkest sorcery ever performed on Planet Earth.   It involves exposing demonology and inter-dimensional “conjuring” of entities called Nephilim or Ji ...
  • AUDIT THE FED??? WHAT ABOUT STARTING WITH THE ...
      House Passes DeFazio’s Amendment to Audit the Pentagon.  GREAT JOB CONGRESSMAN!!!! This is all about accountability in government – something that to date has BEEN SORELY LACKING. No More DUAL ISRAELI CITIZENS such as Dov Zackheim controlling the Pentagon’s purse strings!!  Never forget the ...
  • Edgar Steele Story PART II
    Sex, Lies & Audiotape (Part II) by Edgar J. Steele Here Come de Fix I had an inkling that the fix was in on the morning of the second day of the pretrial hearing concerning our forensic audiology eperts. The lead prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney Traci Whelan, was smiling, humming to herself and ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...
    CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
  • Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
    Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
  • Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
    Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.
  • Don Tapscott
    Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
  • Roberta Jamieson
    Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.

Scotts Contracting

  • sign our EMERGENCY LETTER to President Obama
    Dear Readers, The New York Times and the Washington Post are reporting that President Obama may offer cuts to Social Security and Medicare to the GOP in their Debt Ceiling deal. This is an “All hands on deck” moment for every progressive in America: the same Republicans who raised the debt ceili ...
  • Lighting Design Basics- Electrical Issues
    ELECTRICAL: Lighting Design Basics AMBIENT HOUSE LIGHTING Ambient light (or fill light) is the soft, general illumination that fills a room and softens the shadows. As a rule, the fixtures (often called luminaires in the lighting industry) used to provide ambient light should not draw attention ...
  • solar industry continued its impressive growth ...
    U.S. Solar Industry Grows 66% Q1/10 – Q1/11In what continues to be an era of slow growth for the U.S. economy, the domestic solar industry continued its impressive growth rate into the first quarter of 2011, according to a report released last month by the Solar Energy Industries Association and ...
  • Commission on waste promotes nuclear power but ...
    Share Join List Videos Twitter Website Donate Commission on waste promotes nuclear power but rejects reprocessing -for now The Obama administration’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, in its draft report released today, predictably advocates continued support for nuclear power. ...
  • Stress and Pollution
    Stress and Pollution.

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Teenagers in the First Intifada
    1987 Intifada - note slingshot Like the 1976 Soweto uprising, the teenagers who sparked the first Palestinian Intifada in 1987 were influenced by a similar breakdown in parental authority, though for different reasons. From 1967, when Israel first seized the Gaza strip from Egypt, until the ...
  • Lessons from Soweto
    Soweto Uprising This is the second in a series of posts regarding the potential for a generation Z uprising. The 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa is widely credited as heralding the start of mass popular resistance to apartheid. While various scholars dispute its significance relative to oth ...
  • Generation Z and Psychological Oppression
    Egyptian teenagers (Generation Z consists of young people born after 1990) Much has been made of the role of youth in sparking the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. The historical significance of the mass insurrections in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and ...
  • Confessions of a Carnivore
    Venus fly trap - a meat eating plant As a strong sustainability activist, I feel quite embarrassed admitting that I derive nearly all my dietary protein from animal sources (eggs and fish). Explaining why I do so is even more embarrassing – an autoimmune disease that makes it virtually impossibl ...
  • Life After Capitalism
    Like many sustainability activists, I strongly believe that with advanced planning and preparation, the demise of capitalism could be an extraordinarily positive change for most of humankind. As I have blogged previously (see http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2011/07/18/global-capitalism ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Letter from Environmental Leaders on the Perse ...
    Dear Friends, On July 26th 2011, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. On March 3rd, Tim was found guilty of two felony counts for participating in a peaceful act of civil disobedience. A bright, charismatic young man could face up to ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address at Forbes Field ...
    ROOSEVELT: Mr. Chairman, Governor Earle, my friends of Pennsylvania: A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. Tonight I am going to talk to you about the box score of the Government of the United States. I am going to tell you the story of our fight to beat down the depression ...
  • Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film
    Revolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition to Swe ...
  • On Nataline Sarkisyan's 21st Birthday
    Last night in Los Angeles, while the Prince and Princess (William and Kate) – or is it now the Duke and Duchess? – were gathering all the media attention for their glamorous evening among the stars, a very different yet equally glamorous night was unfolding just a few miles away.  On the sales f ...
  • MichaelMoore.com Exclusive: Wikileaks Cable Al ...
    Wikileaks Cable Allegedly Leaked by Bradley Manning Caught Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Discussing Outsourcing to India That May Have Cost Manning's OWN FATHER His Job "The afternoon I reached Brian Manning, he was at home in Oklahoma City, in a room in his ranch house that Bradley had ...

Salon

  • Are your genes somebody else's property?
    Can companies make you pay to look at your own genes? A federal appeals court ruling on Friday found that they could.
  • The Founding Fathers would have hated the debt ...
    This originally appeared at New Deal 2.0
  • Rep. Lamborn likens Obama to a "tar baby"
    "Tar Baby" -- from time to time, this ugly racially charged phrase has come up in our political discourse. Most often, the term is applied to a situation or a thing. John McCain, for example, used it to describe divorces. Likewise, Mitt Romney used it to describe the Big Dig. In both instance ...
  • Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer fundraise on ...
    As a writer, it sure sucks when someone murders a bunch of people based on your ideas. (I mean, I assume that sucks. Weirdly, it's never happened to me.) So you can understand why right-wing anti-Islam bloggers are all being kind of defensive, these days.
  • Is the Internet for elites?
    For years, the elitism card has been the most oft-used trope to denigrate Internet content. Republicans, for instance, have basically tried to portray "netroots" activists as the new limousine liberals happy to proscribe policies that they themselves have no stake in. Conservative Democrats, ...

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

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

EU 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 ...

Stonecipher News

  • Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
    Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
  • Natural Acne Remedies
    There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
  • Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
    Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Jennifer Lopez in Vanity Fair: “I love myself ...
    As we talked about yesterday , Jennifer Lopez managed to score the September cover of Vanity Fair . There were rumors that it was going to Linnocent, so I don’t know what happened there
  • A.M. Vitals: Pfizer Earnings Rise 5.5% in Seco ...
    Pfizer Reports: Pfizer earnings rose 5.5% in the second quarter, to $2.61 billion, or 33 cents a share, from $2.48 billion, or 31 cents a share, the WSJ reports . Excluding restructuring charges, earnings fell by a penny to 60 cents. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected 59 cents. S ...
  • Syria updates (Zvi)
    From Zvi: 24 more people (unverified) were killed in Syria on Monday ( Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ). 150 more were arrested. 6 more were killed early on Tuesday. Reuters , quoting a source in Erbin: "People marched after the nightly Ramadan prayers. Security cars and pick-up trucks wit ...
  • Apple iPhone 5 delayed until late October, lea ...
    Uh oh. Up until now, the tradition has been for Steve Jobs to take the stage and launch a new version of the popular iPhone every June. This year, it looked like the next iteration — which could be called the iPhone 4S or the iPhone 5 — would get pushed until September. Now, it’s looking like a ...
  • norway_massacre_1960445c
    I have always thought there was something murderous about metrosexuality. Not least because, as Mark Simpson has observed in his latest book, Metrosexy, metrosexuality can be seen to mark the beginning of the death of sexuality (and even gender difference) altogether: âContrary to what you have ...

Groklaw

  • Keynote by Karen Sandler, Executive Director, ...
    Karen M. Sandler is the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. Prior to joining GNOME, she was General Counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. Karen continues to do pro bono legal work with SFLC and serves as an officer of both the Software Freedom Conservancy and SFLC. [PJ: She talks a ...
  • HTC Files Appeal Against US Ruling Favoring Ap ...
    On Thursday, the U.S. commission released details of a July 1 ruling which found in favor of S3 and declared that some Apple products did violate patents held by S3. But it found against S3's claim that some of Apple's high profile mobile products, including the iPad and iPhone, violated its pa ...
  • Google Chrome becomes UK's second most popular ...
    Google's Chrome is Britain's second most popular browser, a sign of the internet giant's increasing grip on the UK search market. Three years after launch, Chrome last month captured 22% of UK users and marginally overtook Mozilla's Firefox browser, according to the web metrics firm Statcounter ...
  • Dane County DA requests special prosecutor for ...
    Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne is asking that a special prosecutor be appointed to decide whether any criminal charges should be filed involving an alleged fracas in June between state Supreme Court justices David Prosser and Ann Walsh Bradley. In a news release issued Monday morni ...
  • Adobe Edge: What You Need to Know
    Adobe released a preview of its upcoming Adobe Edge software Monday morning. But what exactly is this new program, and why are web developers so excited about it? Here's what you need to know. What is Adobe Edge? Edge is a new web development tool from Adobe that makes it easy to create animat ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

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

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Remembering Qana, five years on
    On this day five years ago, at 1:30 am Lebanon time, Israel's U.S.-supplied warplanes attacked houses in the south Lebanese village of Qana, killing more than 60 civilians, 37 of them children. Go watch this soberly reported video clip from Britain's Channel 4 to get a measure of the horror. Th ...
  • Place your orders now for Zurayk's 'War Diary: ...
    You can now go to the 'Buy' button on the web-page for Rami Zurayk's 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006' and place your advance order for this unique, 60-page work. The ebook will cost you $4.00 (in many different formats), and the paperback will cost you $7.00, plus shipping. Here is the back-cover text ...
  • Nurturing that better future
    All my wonderful longtime readers here at JWN may wonder why I've been so silent recently. Two reasons, mainly. I've been deep immersed in the most wonderful forms of family life; and I've also been racing against the clock on the 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006' project. In the past three months, we' ...
  • New e-book soon: 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006'
    Today is the fifth anniversary of the beginning of that terrible march of folly, the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006. So I'm delighted to announce today that my publishing company, Just World Books, will shortly be publishing as a short e-book War Diary: Lebanon 2006, by the Lebanese social activist ...
  • Afghanistan, logistics, geopolitics, war, peace
    The WaPo's Craig Whitlock has an informative piece in today's paper about the many continuing challenges the U.S. military has faced as it attempted to provide logistic support to the "surged" U.S. troop presence in very distant Afghanistan. Supplying these troops is particularly hard, due to t ...

frogblog

  • Water pollution and debunking the Yale study
    The Government is once again under attack for it’s lack of effective action to clean up waterways. The Cawthron Institute released a report stating that the Government’s National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management combined with the subisdies for new irrigation, and hence new cows and pol ...
  • Labour’s adoption approach underwhelming ...
    Labour MP (and perhaps crucially candidate for Auckland Central) Jacinda Ardern announced last week that she will seek to introduce a Member’s Bill to require the Law Commission to update its previous advice on adoption law and draft a bill to overhaul the current law in this light. Readers may ...
  • Round up of transport news
    I’ve been whipping around the country a lot lately visiting students at Orientation. So I haven’t had a chance to post much. But here’s a bit of a round up of the big transport stories of the last few weeks and my reaction. More funds for rail upgrades in Wellington. The government has announced ...
  • What is to be Dunne?
    Stuff, 2 August 2011: Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne yesterday announced a 12-month ban on 43 legal highs, which will be in force by the end of the week. NZ Medical Journal, 25 November 2005: Mr Dunne has described the efforts in New Zealand to prevent the sale of tobacco to underage chil ...
  • General debate, August 1, 2011

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Disintegrating Economic Recovery
    The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...
  • Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
    What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
  • (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
    President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
  • Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
    Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • The Belly-Zapping Hormone that Helps Make Your ...
    Yahoo Health has assembled 10 expert tips to keep your stomach flat and lean. Here are a few of them. To read the rest of the tips, you can click on the link below: Eat at the magic hour: Have a snack that contains protein between 3 PM and 4 PM. It will boost your metabolism and balance your ...
  • Does This Dangerous Chemical Lurk In Your Wallet?
    The primary sources of human exposure to the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) are not well characterized. Especially little is known about the presence of BPA in paper products, such as paper currencies, and its implications for human exposure. In a recent study, paper currencies ...
  • Is This the Best Commercial You've Ever Seen?
    This amazing commercial from Google Video about the Isuzu Gemini is more than 30 years old and will delight and surprise you. These cars perform amazing crazy stunts and this is not animated. These cars are really flying through the air! This video should win some type of award. The music has ...
  • Are Synthetic Thyroid Drugs, Like Synthroid, A ...
    The thyroid drug Synthroid (levothyroxine sodium), as the name implies, is anything but natural. It is not bio-equivalent to the natural hormone thyroxine, but is instead a synthetic, hormone-like substance with very different properties. In conventional medical treatment for hypothyroidism, on ...
  • 10 Technologies That Will Change the World in ...
    Dave Evans is Cisco's chief futurist, and the chief technologist for the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group. He outlined what he believed to be 10 technological trends that will change the world in 10 years. Here are some of them: The Internet of Things: There are now more things are ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

  • Quebecers are tired of Transport's no-fault at ...
    Although nobody died or was hurt in Sunday's Ville Marie Tunnel incident, the unfolding investigation into the cause of the collapse of a ceiling grid and supporting beams is sure to be one of the most closely followed investigations in recent memory in Quebec.
  • Your Views: Long-gun debate; Montreal roads
    I was horrified to learn that the Ruger Mini 14 used at �cole Polytechnique to kill 14 women is still sold as a hunting rifle
  • The Gazette's View: Quebecers are tired of Tra ...
    Although nobody died or was hurt in Sunday’s Ville Marie Tunnel incident, the unfolding investigation into the cause of the collapse of a ceiling grid and supporting beams is sure to be one of the most closely followed investigations in recent memory in Quebec.
  • Editorial: Ville Marie collapse illustrates de ...
    It's such a fortunate thing that nobody was hurt in Sunday's collapse of a concrete ceiling grid at the eastern end of the Ville Marie Tunnel.
  • Return of the Expos is a pipe dream, for now
    But here's the thing: when it comes to sports franchises that have folded and died, even when it's over it's never really over. There's always some hope of resurrection, however slim. Look at the National Hockey League's Winnipeg Jets, reborn this summer as a result of the relocation of the Atla ...

Food World Order

  • food banks across the country hit by hunger, t ...
    salvation army's food pantry almost empty from rocky mount telegram: Food is in short supply at the area’s Salvation Army pantries. For the first time in a long time, local Salvation Army staff members have reported a severe shortage in nonperishable food donations coming into the organizatio ...
  • 7/28 binge & purge: land grab, evil ingredient ...
    japan asks: where's the nuclear beef?* japan's food-chain threat multiplies as radiation spreads* feds to grab land for homeland security forces* who put mcdonald's in charge of kids' health?* ranks of hungry children swell, worrying doctors* what's really in the food? the a to ...
  • bad food? tax it, and subsidize vegetables
    from nytimes: What will it take to get Americans to change our eating habits? The need is indisputable, since heart disease, diabetes and cancer are all in large part caused by the Standard American Diet. (Yes, it’s SAD.) Though experts increasingly recommend a diet high in plants and low i ...
  • 7/21 binge & purge: famine, drought & censored ...
    Coming in 2012: Genetically modified front lawns and the mass spraying of neighborhoods and playgrounds with RoundUp* Drought of 2011: Southern US Desperate For Rain As Middle America Continues To Get Scorched* UN declares two areas of Somalia to be in famine, ugres action* Why is Miche ...
  • 'my dog eats better than i do': pets join in o ...
    from latimes: When Gabriel, a 10-year-old rescue cat from Chinatown, tucks into his morning meal, you won't see any Friskies or Meow Mix in his bowl. Ahi tuna and duck are more the ticket. "I think there's more than enough pesticides and chemicals and that kind of stuff in human food," says Gabr ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has bee ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of m ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 � In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort � S Shyam Prasad �
  • Pastor arrested for murdering minor girl
    source:  MSN India, 30 June, 2011 � Guntur (AP), Jun 30 (PTI) A local pastor was arrested for allegedly murdering a teenager after she became pregnant with his child, police said today. The victim, identified as Monica (17) from Nadendla village in the district was working ...
  • Conversation with a Convert
    source: The Undercurrent, 26 March, 2011 Somewhere in Tamil Nadu The cab was waiting at the end of the road waiting to take us to our destination. The driver was a 50 something man and there was a picture of the Christian prophet Jesus on his dash board. After a few kilometeres of dr ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans for mankind? H ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU

The Economic Collapse

  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • 9/11: According to the experts - Architects an ...
    For more info on Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, click HERE.
  • Dear Police, all sixty million of us would lik ...
    It finally happened, then. We are now officially a police state. We know this because something else finally happened - The Guardian reported something worthwhile. Remember when we warned that all that 'Al Qaeda' nonsense was all about cracking down on our civil liberties and freedoms? ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 31st July 2011
    Is it safe? Can we look at the papers? Will they be full of 'Hackgate' stories which look at only the 'leftist' agenda? Will they be full of Norway nutter stories where anyone who disagrees with 'leftists' is branded an 'extremist' for having an opinion? Let's find out in this, the first pape ...
  • 100,000 Patriots Required: Apply Within
    The ever patriotic Daily Express is taking the Government at its word and launching a yet another campaign to get a referendum on the UK's withdrawal from the European Empire. This one, however, might actually work. The latest tactical move by the newspaper follows an announcement by the G ...
  • Labour emboiled in News International sleaze: ...
    When David Cameron recently put himself at the centre of an unprecedented three and a half hour question marathon at the dispatch box of the House of Commons, there was one point he laboured in exchanges with Labour leader Ed Miliband. Miliband - cheered on by The Guardian and the BBC - has t ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The debt deal's unequal burden
    Under the U.S. debt ceiling agreement expected to be signed into law by President Obama today, initial cuts to federal discretionary spending over the next decade: about $1 trillion Additional amount in cuts to be proposed by an evenly bipartisan, 12-member Joint Select Committee on Deficit Red ...
  • A dolphin's dilemma for fishermen in the Gulf
    By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf Louisiana shrimp buyer Dean Blanchard has seen plenty of crazy things during his�life in�the bayou. But his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets�the day he watched a mother dolphin pushing her dead baby calf towards him�as he�stood on the�commerci ...
  • VOICES: Hope in Mississippi
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South A hardened, intransigent right-wing has taken over the Republican Party and proved its willingness to take the nation to the economic brink to protect its well-heeled financial backers. Legislators have targeted government workers and immigrants as the source of th ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The apartheid of wealth
    Percent by which the net worth of white U.S. households fell from 2005 to 2009: 16 Of black households: 53 Of Hispanic households: 66 Number of times by which the median wealth of white households now surpasses that of Hispanic households: 18 Of black households: 20 Amount of weal ...
  • Lessons of Tennessee coal ash disaster lost in ...
    An Inspector General's review done in response to the 2008 coal ash disaster at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee has turned up widespread groundwater contamination from coal ash disposal sites at the company's power plants around the South, with some of the po ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group 93 Dead in Twin Attacks in Norway; Suspect to Appear in Court The suspect accused of killing 93 people in twin terror attacks in Norway on Friday is due in an Oslo courtroom Monday, … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Bisigi Themes Natty PPA Updated, Install 15 Gr ...
    Bisigi themes has a special place in the hearts and minds of long term Ubuntu users. I have been using Ubuntu for about 5 years now and in my opinion, the first set of really professional looking themes were introduced by Bisigi. And unlike many other theme packs for Ubuntu, every single Bisigi ...
  • Humble Indie Bundle 3 is Here, Pay What You Wa ...
    Humble Indie Bundle 3 is here folks! Grab your copy of 5 really good, cross platform, DRM free, Indie games at the price you decide! If initial statistics are any indication,�Humble Indie Bundle 3 is going to be an even bigger success.� Humble Indie Bundle 3 Video Intro Buy Humble I ...
  • Chromium Browser Causing Significant Increase ...
    I recently noticed a strange bug while using Chromium web browser in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal powered laptops and netbooks(Intel platform). There is an immediate spike in power usage whenever Chromium is running. Chromium Browser Causing Increase in Laptop Power Usage The way I found th ...
  • Most Interesting Video on Google+ I Have Seen ...
    Google+ is Google's latest venture into social networking space. You all know that already. But what does it really do differently when compared to Facebook? Well, the video below is probably the simplest answer to that. Watch and enjoy. What is Google Plus? Sounds very�interesting� ...
  • Joli OS Review: Is it the Best OS Available fo ...
    Joli OS 1.2 is a very interesting project. It is basically an Ubuntu based Linux distro optimized to work in netbooks and other older computer hardware. When you think about it, there is not much choice for netbook users as far as Linux distros are concerned. Joli OS is among the rare few. But i ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Alex Jones: ‘Anders Behring was Masons’ Patsy’
    Check out the interview with Alex Jones on Anders Behring Breivik as a Masons’ patsy on RT. http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-anders-behring-was-masons-patsy/ Breivik was a freemason belonging to the St Johannes lodge according to some media sources and  he also mentioned terror cells in Aus ...
  • The Federal Reserve Made $16 Trillion In Secre ...
    The American Dream July 25, 2011 A one-time limited GAO audit of the Federal Reserve that was mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has uncovered some eye-popping corruption at the Fed and the mainstream media is barely even covering it.  It turns out that the ...
  • Police Knew Gunman’s Name Before Arrest
    � British news anchor questions how authorities were aware of Breivik�s identity in advance Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Monday, July 25, 2011 Despite being portrayed by the media as inept due to the length of time it took them to reach the island of Utoeya, it has now emerged that police kne ...
  • Evidence Shows Norway Terror Attack a False Flag
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com July 23, 2011 Prior to the events in Norway, the Department of Homeland Security released a propaganda video characterizing white middle class Americans as terrorists and members of white al-Qaeda, a term designed to conflate the image of the CIA-created Islamic terror gr ...
  • Murdoch’s Vaccine World – James Murdoch ...
    By Catherine J. Frompovich | July 22nd, 2011 | 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 ...

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 ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • The Art of Courage
    A little voice in your conscience tells you something. You listen. You start to think maybe you're right and everybody else is wrong. You do something about it. Next thing you know you're in a life and death struggle against evil forces bent on world domination. Well, maybe that's a slight exag ...
  • The Wild Dollar
    Because the public hasn't had what's happening properly reported, the Republicans think that, in the debt ceiling standoff, they can trample democratic norms and perhaps even go so far as to trigger another collapse of the world economy. What a bizarre strategy to pursue (supposedly) on behalf ...
  • Göbekli Tepe
    At what point does an original idea engender action? And to what extent does that action set a lasting course? We can examine the social history of an idea, written, as it were, in stone, at G�bekli Tepe, an archeological site approximately 11,500 years old (or perhaps even older) in southern T ...
  • The Athenian Zephyr
    Neoliberal bankers wants to turn the Greek public into chattel. The Greek public objects. It's a theoretically long-predicted fork in the road for the European Union: either Greece defaults (it could have been any one of certain member states) and the European debt crisis spreads — possibly/pro ...
  • Forgetting Vietnam
    America's final retreat from Vietnam could have been a whole lot worse. Ambassador Graham Martin, mistakenly thought to be on the last chopper out, didn't follow through on the fact that he left a final contingent of Marine Security Guards on the Embassy's rooftop. Higher-ups in the military ch ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • Who’s Who In the Zoo – By Dr. True ...
    Who’s Who in the Zoo?   By Dr. Truess (rhymes with Suess). Who’s who in the “patriot” zoo?  It’s so full of worms and primordial goo – MY – what can one do? Watch your step, cause there’s lots of bad pooh – smelly stuff that will stick on your shoe! There’s Turner, and Jones, and [...]
  • QUOTE OF THE DECADE!!
    The Quote of the Decade âThe fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.  It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills.  It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to [...]
  • TRUTH REVEALED – 528 is the Frequency of ...
    This is a very complex and multi-faceted topic.  It involves exposing something called “Kabalah” (the CUBE) as well as “Enochian Magic” and the darkest sorcery ever performed on Planet Earth.   It involves exposing demonology and inter-dimensional “conjuring” of entities called Nephilim or Ji ...
  • AUDIT THE FED??? WHAT ABOUT STARTING WITH THE ...
      House Passes DeFazio’s Amendment to Audit the Pentagon.  GREAT JOB CONGRESSMAN!!!! This is all about accountability in government – something that to date has BEEN SORELY LACKING. No More DUAL ISRAELI CITIZENS such as Dov Zackheim controlling the Pentagon’s purse strings!!  Never forget the ...
  • Edgar Steele Story PART II
    Sex, Lies & Audiotape (Part II) by Edgar J. Steele Here Come de Fix I had an inkling that the fix was in on the morning of the second day of the pretrial hearing concerning our forensic audiology eperts. The lead prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney Traci Whelan, was smiling, humming to herself and ...

k2p blog

  • US debt ceiling parasitism
    "The US is not living within its means, shifting the weight of responsibility on other countries and in a way acting as a parasite." - Vladimir Putin
  • Penn Psychiatrist Accuses Five Colleagues of P ...
    A University of Pennsylvania researcher has accused five colleagues of scientific misconduct for allegedly allowing a drug company to put their names on a paper that they did not write
  • A nano-battery on a nano-wire
    A team of scientists has created a battery so small that it fits into a "nanowire," a wire whose thickness is less than the wavelength of visible light.
  • Perhaps there is no life on other planets
    That life and civilisations exist on other planets is merely a belief and there is no science to show that life is not unique to Earth.
  • Politics of hate create strange bedfellows
    For these so-called "right-wing, nationalist" parties, I think it is wrong to attribute anything other than "hate" as their ideology. As times change the object of their hate evolves and changes to whatever they consider is currently popular to fear and to hate.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • FCC Broadband Study Shows Which Companies Actu ...
    Today, at -- of all places -- a Best Buy in Washington, DC, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced the results of the agency's Measuring Broadband America study, which looked to put a more accurate number on what consumers should be expecting from their broadband providers. The FCC stu ...
  • Mocking Hacker Stock Photo Art
    It can be so hard to find just the right photo to illustrate a story about hacking. Luckily, stock photo agencies have stepped up to the challenge. But how to navigate through all the options? Do you go for the keyboard wrapped in chains, or the skeleton in a blazer on a laptop? Thankfully, B ...
  • Most Computers Now Use Something Other Than Wi ...
    Windows XP, Microsoft's ridiculously popular operating system, is about to turn 10 years old. While it's still the most popular OS out there, as of the end of July it's no longer installed on the majority of active systems. According to TechSpot, XP's market share has slipped to 49.94 percen ...
  • Personal Finance Roundup
    5 Reasons To Keep A Work Diary [Open Forum] "The results have been profound for me. I'd recommend this practice to anyone." 33 Factors for How to Choose a College [Money Crashers] "What metrics should you analyze when trying to find the best college for you?" 5 myths about Social Security [MS ...
  • Dunkin' Donuts Worker Allegedly Adds Nasty Ing ...
    Two police officers in Boston grew suspicious when they ordered coffee at Dunkin' Donuts and witnessed the worker slink out of sight to make their drinks. They turned their attention to a monitor with a camera in the back room and saw the worker allegedly add nasal mucus to their coffee. My Fo ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Sluts and Man Whores – For God’s Sake!
    I was in my favorite restaurant rehashing yet another “funny” movie featuring 20 to 30 something’s acting like cleaned up pigs, but with a lower moral standard; then pigs that is! My server Michelle popped up at the table. She asked, “What’s wrong?” I responded “you are like 26″ and I went on to ...
  • More Peace Corps, Less Pentagon
    If the United States attempted to “conquer” by love rather than force of arms, it might be respected, not reviled, globally. If the White House took an altruistic approach in foreign affairs — that is, if it rejected greed, exploitation, and war in favor of fair play, charity, and humanitarian a ...
  • Ransom Paid
    Anyone who characterizes the deal between the President, Democratic, and Republican leaders as a victory for the American people over partisanship understands neither economics nor politics. The deal does not raise taxes on America’s wealthy and most fortunate — who are now taking home a larger ...
  • Understanding ‘Debtageddon’ Tuesday
    If you get your US news from FOX or SKY, you have a SPIN on the debt ceiling debate that strains reality to the breaking point. What’s at stake on Tuesday is the “full faith and credit” of the United States in a completely ‘politician-manufactured’ crisis. The effect though is very real. If it s ...
  • Black Leaders Rebuke Obama
    Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), a 24-term congressmember who is highly revered in the African-American community, is openly dissatisfied with the president’s handling of the self-inflicted debt ceiling crisis.  Speaking of concessions the president is willing to make to avoid a default if the debt cei ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • We can lower Australian CO2 emissions by&#8230 ...
    A joint writing project: Anton Lang (who writes as TonyfromOz at PAPundits), Tony Cox, and Jo Nova It’s the paradox that will torture the Greens. What if the best way to achieve their environmental aims as well as providing jobs and power was to build more coal fired power stations? Imagine if w ...
  • The Branch Carbonian Cult
    Some commenters wonder why I allow the word cultist, but sometimes there is no better term. Remember, apocalyptic storms are coming, and we’re all going to die, unless we heed the prophesies of the new Gods of Science. What’s the difference between a real disaster foretold by scientists, or a cu ...
  • The Branch Carbonian Cult
    Some commenters wonder why I allow the word cultist, but sometimes there is no better term. Remember, apocalyptic storms are coming, and we’re all going to die, unless we heed the prophesies of the new Gods of Science. What’s the difference between a real disaster foretold by scientists, or a cu ...
  • We need a free market in climate science
    This weekend, I’ve got another article in The Weekend Australian. It’s a credit to the Murdoch News team that they are willing to print both points of view. This point is one that resonates with many people — a consensus can be bought with monopolistic science funding. It explains  why research ...
  • We need a free market in climate science
    This weekend, I’ve got another article in The Weekend Australian. It’s a credit to the Murdoch News team that they are willing to print both points of view. This point is one that resonates with many people — a consensus can be bought with monopolistic science funding. It explains  why research ...

ReNew America

  • Open letter to Sen. Mike Lee
    (RenewAmerica) - Dear Senator Lee, Tea Party conservatives are counting on you to step up and filibuster easy Senate passage of Speaker Boehner's House-approved debt deal that would raise our nation's debt ceiling by the largest increase in U.S. history...
  • $2.4 trillion would be largest debt-limit incr ...
    (CNSNews.com) - The bill to increase the federal debt limit that has been put before Congress today would increase that limit by up to $2.4 trillion, which would be the largest increase in the debt limit in U.S. history by a margin of half a trillion dollars, according to records published by th ...
  • Debt-limit vote breaks GOP pledge to post bill ...
    (CNSNews.com) - When the House of Representatives voted this evening on legislation to increase the limit on the federal debt by as much as $2.4 trillion, House Republicans broke a promise included in their 2010 Pledge to America to post the text of bills online "for at least three days" before ...
  • The death of reality
    (Richard Viguerie) - The deal to raise the debt ceiling is the death of reality in Washington, D.C. Everyone involved in this deal knows that it does not solve the real crisis that the American people want solved -- the unsustainable spending, deficits and debt that has created the need to raise ...
  • Michele Bachmann, the debt ceiling, and a blue ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - In 2008, Americans wanted a "different kind" of president. They got one, but the buyer's remorse in 2011 is pervasive. The much-maligned Tea Party movement -- initially a populist pushback to Obamacare -- symbolizes that regret...

Truth Offering

  • Today's Quote
    "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell
  • Poll: Are the Current E.coli Outbreaks False F ...
    This week, we wanted to get your thoughts on the current E. coli outbreaks. Are they random, unfortunate events? Or is there a depopulation agenda being carried out by the eugenicist global elite? Here's what you thought (click to enlarge):
  • Today's Quote
    "When one does not see what one does not see, one does not see that one is blind" - Paul Veyne� �
  • CIA Report: United States Account Balance = -$ ...
    Let me ask you something: if you're in a massive amount of debt, should you spend even more money? Sorry, stupid question, right? Of course, the answer is "no," you shouldn't. Believers in Keynesian monetary theory -- like Ben Bernanke and his predecessors, as well as past and present Presidents ...
  • The Food Pyramid Becomes...MyPlate!
    Forget the Food Pyramid. The new government food propaganda comes to us in the form of "MyPlate."If you're anything like me, you grew up knowing -- because government said so -- that the way we should eat is as prescribed by the Food Pyramid. The Food Pyramid was "it," man! Everyone was using it ...

2012 Blog

  • Mini Ice Age Coming – Simple Explanation
    I love simplicity. It beats math-heavy arguments, or singular ideas that need an entire book to try and convince you. Check this out for a simple explanation for why you could/should be preparing for the ...Mini Ice Age Coming – Simple Explanation is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:M ...
  • NASA: Global Warming Model Wrong
    It is a fact that the average global temperature has not risen in the last decade. This highlights the difference between computer models and actual measurement and observation. Because the computer models vary greatly, we ...NASA: Global Warming Model Wrong is a post from: 2012 Blog Rela ...
  • The Ancient Bunkers of Cappadocia
    Colleagues accuse me of thinking every ancient underground structure was a bunker, and I mostly do. This is one of my favourites. You can do your own research, this is just to let you know ...The Ancient Bunkers of Cappadocia is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:5000+1 Bunkers for Mosc ...
  • Google+ for 2012
    If you have a Google account, there’s a new way of sharing and spreading 2012 information at Google+. My profile is here if you want to add me to a circle: https://plus.google.com/109767201828606148490 If you want an invite ...Google+ for 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:201 ...
  • Locked Gates by Howard West
    There are a few authors out there who have flown beneath the radar, yet their research is unique, interesting and meaningful in a 2012 way. You could blame self-publishing for their lack of fame, yet ...Locked Gates by Howard West is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Giza Pyramids Mimi ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The debt deal's unequal burden
    Under the U.S. debt ceiling agreement expected to be signed into law by President Obama today, initial cuts to federal discretionary spending over the next decade: about $1 trillion Additional amount in cuts to be proposed by an evenly bipartisan, 12-member Joint Select Committee on Deficit Red ...
  • A dolphin's dilemma for fishermen in the Gulf
    By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf Louisiana shrimp buyer Dean Blanchard has seen plenty of crazy things during his�life in�the bayou. But his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets�the day he watched a mother dolphin pushing her dead baby calf towards him�as he�stood on the�commerci ...
  • VOICES: Hope in Mississippi
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South A hardened, intransigent right-wing has taken over the Republican Party and proved its willingness to take the nation to the economic brink to protect its well-heeled financial backers. Legislators have targeted government workers and immigrants as the source of th ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The apartheid of wealth
    Percent by which the net worth of white U.S. households fell from 2005 to 2009: 16 Of black households: 53 Of Hispanic households: 66 Number of times by which the median wealth of white households now surpasses that of Hispanic households: 18 Of black households: 20 Amount of weal ...
  • Lessons of Tennessee coal ash disaster lost in ...
    An Inspector General's review done in response to the 2008 coal ash disaster at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston plant in eastern Tennessee has turned up widespread groundwater contamination from coal ash disposal sites at the company's power plants around the South, with some of the po ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Four Months of War in Libya
    NATO’s military operation against Libya, conducted mainly by the armed forces of the US, France and Britain, is speeding up the formation of a new system of international relations. At the same time the war serves as a firing ground for testing the strategy of the United States Africa Command (U ...
  • The Myth of Russian Mafia in Latin America
    Back in the Cold War days, the US propaganda ignited fears of Soviet expansionism and espionage in Latin America to frighten the continent’s governments into cooperating with Washington in the fight against the fictitious threat posed by the USSR and the Eastern bloc. Under the resulting arrange ...
  • Blond Beast and the Future of Terror
    Norway tragedy of the last week would apparently make a tectonic shift in global social processes. It will significantly affect European politics and influence the ideological schemes of the Western world. As always, the mainstream trend describing Anders Behring Breivik as mentally insane solo ...
  • Norway’s Bloodbath Reflects Mental Balka ...
    The avalanche of comments in the wake of the twin terrorist attack in Europe’s exemplary Norway range from expressions of belief that the terrorist at the epicenter of the disaster must be insane and the possibility of recurrences of the situation can be safely discounted to claims that the plot ...
  • Norway’s Enigmatic «Lone Terrorist»
    Anders Breivik already seems to have emerged as one of the XX century’s top-famous terrorists. Day by day his popularity visibly grows not only in the ranks of the European radical right but also among the Europeans with otherwise mainstream views. Grabbing the media headlines, the Oslo and Utoy ...

BlogHer

  • How to Market Yourself as a Niche Diversity Bl ...
    [Editor's Note: Have you ever wondered why some bloggers seem to get more business opportunities? Or maybe you have a niche blog, targeted to a an ethnic audience or to the LGBT community, and would like to hear how to improve your odds of getting some of those opportunities. Tracey Friley from ...
  • Are Weaker Role Models Better for Women?
    Role models... they are SO important. As women we've received mixed messages about what constitutes a good role model. A recent New York Times article has this blogger wondering if weaker=better. Surely that can't be so, can it? An honest and interesting take on this paradoxical approach to r ...
  • BlogHer Network Member News: Reagan Breinholt' ...
    Reagan Breinholt (Reagan's Blob and Hairdresser on Fire) and her family are featured in the August edition of Reader's Digest.Mrs. Limestone's house, the star of A Brooklyn Limestone in Progress, is going to be featured in the upcoming Matthew Mead Holiday magazine.Merry-Jennifer Markham of the ...
  • Harry and Me - Growing Up Together
    [Editor's Note: Megan wrote one of the sweetest farewell posts to Mr. Potter I've yet to read.� Enjoy.� --Morgan]This past weekend I was lucky enough to see an advanced screening of the final Harry Potter movie. It was bittersweet to say the least. I tried to explain to the bf why I teared up (o ...
  • Skin Care Streamlined: A Few Minutes Make a Hu ...
    Question:� How do you take care of your skin when you have zero "me time?" Short Answer:� Skin care is crucial to looking and feeling radiant throughout the day and for years to come, so ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • The Secret Ingredient In Your Orange Juice
    Those of us who drink store bought orange juice most likely go for the fresh squeezed, not from concentrate variety. But even this kind is unsafe from a troublesome ingredient you’ll never find on the carton. ...
  • Dr. Oz Finally Discusses GMOs
    It is still incredible that the average American is oblivious to the amount of GMOs they consume and the risks to their health. This is largely due to lack of labeling requirements and media silence. Perhaps ...
  • Mighty Power Of Tart Cherries – Goodbye ...
    Once there was a man who had such severe gout, his doctor told him he’d need surgery to remove three toes. They were stiff, bent up, and crippled from the pain of gout, caused by ...
  • Avoid Root Canals Like The Plague
    Root canals are almost as common as fillings now; about 60 million are performed every year. “Root canals are almost ALWAYS infected and will nearly always be dripping bacteria into your bloodstream forever. ” Many healthy people ...
  • SMART METERS: A Triple Threat
    The public has been largely shrouded in darkness about Smart Meters implemented without consent, but as they find out more there is growing opposition. They invade privacy (and remove consumer control), are microwave and radiowave ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Probe goes on, but Crandall Canyon fades from view
    As the 4th anniversary of the Crandall Canyon Mine Disaster approaches, my buddy Mike Gorrell at the Salt Lake Tribune has a story about the ongoing criminal investigation — and about how mine disasters easily fade from our minds. Mike reports: Little has happened in the quest to determine more ...
  • MSHA, NIOSH mum about CSE Corp.’s plans ...
    The folks at CSE Corp. have been churning out news releases about their new Self-Rescuer Long Duration, or SRLD, which is being promoted as an improvement on and replacement for the company’s long-troubled SR-100 self-contained self-rescuers. Back in February, CSE said in one release: CSE Corpor ...
  • Why coal miners die on the job
    This MSHA photo shows a mounting bracket and wooden boards that interfered with the shuttle car operator’s visibility. Here’s the conclusion from the latest coal-mining death report issued by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: On Wednesday, October 27, 2010, at approximately 7:50 a. ...
  • Friday roundup, July 29, 2011
    A rescuer rests during a break at Sukhodolskaya-Vostochnaya coal mine in Lugansk region, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2011. Eighteen miners died and another 20 were missing Friday after an explosion in the coal mine in eastern Ukraine known to be dangerous due to large methane build-ups, officials ...
  • 20 killed in 2 Ukraine mining accidents
    Relatives of dead miners react at Sukhodolskaya-Vostochnaya coal mine in Lugansk region, Ukraine, Friday, July 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Photomig) Here’s the latest from The Associated Press: KIEV, Ukraine (AP) â A blast at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine and an elevator collapse at another on Friday k ...

Daniel Miessler

  • The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussion ...
    via theatlantic.com Habeas Data. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsXKCD Radiation Dose ChartVisualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart | Doug McCuneUpdated Subnetting PostAll-time Data Breaches | Flowing DataA Digital IO WorkflowBrowser CombatEliminating Redund ...
  • ROME | A Google Film
    via ro.me Un. F**king. Believable. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsA Google+ Cheat-SheetHipster SharksEarth vs. Google EarthA Digital IO WorkflowDon’t LikeBrowser CombatDon’t Be a Cryptic Ass
  • Why Some Notables Don’t Believe in God
    Earlier this year, Andrew Zak Williams asked public figures why they believe in God. Now itâs the turn of the atheists â from A C Grayling to P Z Myers â to explain why they donât. via newstatesman.com Click through to the article to read concise explanations for why various notables do not beli ...
  • Google Offers DNS-based Site Optimization Serv ...
    Page Speed Service is the latest tool in Google’s arsenal to help speed up the web. This service is also their most ambitious yet. When you sign up and point your site’s DNS entry to Google, they’ll enable the tool which will fetch your content from your servers, rewrite your webpages, and serve ...
  • A Philosophical Reason for Preferring Apple Ov ...
    The horse is dead. Design, feel, features, openness, customizability — we’ve heard it all. The main arguments are well understood by anyone with an interest in this discussion. But there’s another one that I’ve not heard articulated yet — the argument for why both companies do what they do. Or, ...

Fitwatch

  • The new crime of anarchism!
    Every few years, anarchists are deemed scary again, the media goes into hysterical overdrive and policing becomes more repressive. It is a pattern we have seen repeated several times over the years. However, the news briefing from Project Griffin, issued each week from Chief Inspector Nick Smith ...
  • Political Policing during Royal Wedding in Edi ...
    Reposted from Indymedia Scotland Originally posted 30/07/11 Lothian and Borders police are today conducting a systematic programme of harassment aimed at people who have been politically active in Edinburgh. At approximately 1pm this afternoon two police vans parked up in front of a flat in the ...
  • Solidarity with Charlie Gilmour
    Predictably there has been a lot of interest and comment on the sentencing of Charlie Gilmour to sixteen months for two counts of violent disorder. It has been both suggested this was lenient because he’ll only do eight months or less on a tag, and that it was a harsher sentence because of his p ...
  • Report from the frontlines of the Ardoyne Oran ...
    Taken from the Workers Solidarity Movement Posted 2011-07-14 Rioting erupted in ‘nationalist areas’ across the North on Tuesday after the annual Orange Order parades. The worst of the trouble was in Ardoyne in North Belfast which left 16 police officers injured and with over 60 lethal plastic bu ...
  • Plastic bullets used in Belfast riots
    It’s hard to comment on a situation when the only information you have is from BBC reports, but the riots that took place in nationalist / republican areas of Belfast after the 12th July Orange Order parades should probably get at least some mention here, and particularly the continued use of pl ...

Worldwide Hippies

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

reference frame

  • HadCRUT3: annual mean temperatures and seasons
    Once you convert the HadCRUT3 raw data into a format you can deal with - using a programming language that is able to compute things - it is straightforward to draw various graphs. A few days ago, I calculated the warming trends as seen at various stations among the 5,000 stations - an ...
  • Reason why men dominate in science: Holly Goodhead
    BBC and the world's best feminist scientists have spent decades by the search for a social explanation why the percentage of women in natural sciences is well below 50 percent. Finally, they have found the culprit: The subtle messages that put women off science As you could have ex ...
  • Old theories as limits of the new ones
    Scientific progress leads to the discovery of new theories that go beyond the old ones. But the new theories rarely denounce their successful predecessors as pure trash. Instead, they incorporate them as limits. There are many points about the relationship between the old theories and ...
  • The Cloud Mystery
    Henrik Svensmark on climate change If you have 53 spare minutes and you haven't seen the 2007 Danish documentary (in English) yet, here it is: You will see Svensmark, his collaborators, Shaviv, Veizer, and many others in this documentary about cosmoclimatology. ...
  • HadCRUT3: 30% of stations recorded a cooling t ...
    In a previous blog entry, I encouraged you to notice that HadCRUT3 has released the (nearly) raw data from their 5,000+ stations. Temperature trends (in °C/century, in terms of colors) over the whole history as recorded by roughly 5,000 stations included in HadCRUT3. To be discu ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • The End of Fear – Follow in the steps of ordin ...
    Το τέλος του φÏβου… The end of fear… by magiconteam Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Stop Living In Fear! Stop living in fear! It lowers your vibrations and helps... Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Radio 13 Aug 2010 Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Ra ...
  • Darwin was right: Arrival of the Post-Petroleu ...
    Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial civilization. The star ...
  • Greek Revoultion is now Live
    I am streaming the coverage of protests from Greece. It will run as long as the video feed keeps coming to me. Just so you know…Greece is 7 hours ahead of EST. LIVE STREAMING: Γενική Απεργία ενάντια στο… by News247 Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Postcards from the G ...
  • Burzynski Cures Cancer – The Magic of Antineop ...
    THIS VIDEO WILL BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE OWNER ON JUNE 20 2011 Curing cancer is frowned upon big government and BIG PHARMA, especially when the patent for the cure is owned by a single doctor, and they can’t have a taste of the pie. So what do they do? They sick their hound dog, [...] Related p ...
  • French Whistleblowers reaveal the set up of Do ...
    I saw this over at SGTReport.com and it is worth repeating here. French insiders reveal the reason why DSK had to be taken out. It was all about the missing gold baby. Watch this one explode before summer is out. Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Commodities / Gold and ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • GAO Flunks Some States on Tap Water Quality Mo ...
    By Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A new report from the Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, shows that a number of states have made serious errors in tap... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • GAO Knocks EPA Tap Water Monitoring
    By Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A new report from Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, shows that a number of states have made serious errors in tap water... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Reusing Your Gray Water: State Laws Vary for H ...
    By Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst Recently, we took a look at the water-saving potential of residential "gray" water, which, naturally, leads people to wonder: Can I use this technology in my home, too? The answer? It depends. Some... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
  • GAO to EPA: Improve Implementation of Safe Dri ...
    By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst, Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant, and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A Government Accountability Office investigation released last week has found that the Environmental... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • New & Improved: Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011
    By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011, introduced June 24 by Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) has a simple aim: to give the federal Food and Drug Administration... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Diamond District businesses lauded, urged to s ...
    On Monday morning, the business improvement district representing Midtown’s Diamond District unveiled a study highlighting the economics behind the dense, jostling row of jewelers along 47th Street.Those numbers showed more than 4,100 businesses employing ...
  • The problem with Port Authority boss Chris War ...
    When the New York Post reported in late May that Governor Cuomo was planning to can Port Authority executive director Christopher Ward, the man widely credited with transforming the symbol of public-private incompetence known as Ground Zero into a functi ...
  • A Jet is bought and paid for, but is the debt- ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • What Kurosawa's 'Dreams' says about the creati ...
    "Man is a genius when he is dreaming."�Akira Kurosawa It�s fitting that Dreams is screening in the middle of the IFC Center�s career-spanning retrospective of Akira Kurosawa�s films and not at the end. Though Kurosawa has said that, �my films come from my ...
  • Runaway sidekick: How little Tani Kocareli esc ...
    Neritan (Tani) Kocareli is 30 years old. He arrived in the United States from Albania when he was 17, after he, his brother and his parents won an immigration lottery. Later, he became a citizen.Tani lived in Ridgewood, Queens and went to high school ther ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Norwegian jets return from Libya
    Norwegian F-16 fighter jets engaged in the NATO operations in Libya returned home on Monday 1 August, as Norway’s direct involvement in the mission effectively comes to an end. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reports that Norwegian fighters flew 596 of the 6,125 missions by NATO in total so far, d ...
  • Police will have stricter gun control
    A number of calls have been made for stricter gun regulation and changes to the Norwegian criminal code after the terrorist attacks on Oslo and Utøya, with police, politicians and academics welcoming a debate. When such a debate will be able to occur is more uncertain, with the American police c ...
  • Muhammad Ali writes to Norway
    Former world heavyweight champion boxer Muhammad Ali has sent a letter of condolence to the people of Norway following the terrorist attacks on Oslo and Utøya island, news agency AP reports. In a letter written by Ali’s wife based on feelings communicated by the former boxer (who suffers from ...
  • Norwegian Muslims react to attacks
    Many Norwegian Muslims were harassed in the hours following the Oslo attacks before the arrested suspect was confirmed to be ethnically Norwegian. Nonetheless, many observers, backed by polling data and a surge of interest in integration initiatives, suggest that Norway has reacted with greater ...
  • Day of mourning to be held 21 August
    Norwegian politicians of all political parties have gathered in parliament to remember the victims of the Oslo bombing and Utøya shootings – during which Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg confirmed that a national day of mourning will take place on Sunday 21 August. Stoltenberg spoke after the p ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • How the Billionaires Broke the System
    The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. There are two ways of cutting a deficit: raising taxes or reducing spending. ...
  • Get the Most From Your Visit to the Internatio ...
    In case you’ve not been paying attention, I thought I’d mentioned that in addition to what will be an awesome International Permaculture Conference & Convergence (IPC10), there are some courses both before and after the event which you may find to be valuable add-ons to your stay, and which wil ...
  • Clicktivist
    Click for larger view Courtesy: Marc Roberts
  • The Urban Permaculture DVD and the Sound-Proof ...
    The biggest problem with chicken houses in urban settings has got to be the hyper-vocal rooster. If you want to avoid having tired grumpy neighbours, what can you do? Even giving them a few eggs per week is unlikely to assuage their wrath. There are obvious options to deal with this situation, b ...
  • 50 Million Trees and Counting: Trees for the F ...
    Here’s some great weekend inspiration to encourage you into a more productive new week. I think you’ll enjoy this one. Duration: 9 mins

Pointman's

  • On murderous madmen.
    The tragic events of last week in Norway do give you pause for thought. How could anyone do that and especially to defenseless young people? Does it say something about us all? Are we all capable of doing something like that? The answer is no and thatâs not just my subjective opinion, itâs a fac ...
  • You gotta have a sense of humour …
    You look at stuff and you wonder. Maybe you donât, maybe a lot of people donât, maybe they never do. Well, I do. I suppose itâs just me being an awkward cuss but at this stage in the game, Iâm pretty reconciled to that. You are what you are, so just chaw down and get … Read more
  • Words of wisdom from the Goracle of Helpme.
    Alâs fallen on hard times. Long gone are the days of the $100,000 appearance fee at speaking engagements. Most of that all went into that Chicago Carbon Exchange thingy which didnât turn out to be such a smart investment after all. Anyway, you canât keep a good man down so heâs working on a come ...
  • The Al Gore Climate Reality Event : A call to ...
    Thereâs an interesting proposal being made at Anthony Wattâs site WUWT to fight the upcoming Al Gore Climate Reality Event scheduled for Sept. 14th 2011. In essence, it suggests setting up a central resource which will contain quotes by global warming high priests. Whatâs being called for is yo ...
  • Internet Security 3: The Worst Sort Of Predator.
    This is a nasty, distasteful and distressing area to post a topic on but if it saves the happy childhood of one kid, itâll be worth it. If you’re a parent, which I am, anything like this is tough going but Iâd encourage you to read on. I think it was Will Rogers who said … Read more

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • State of Louisiana Continues to Support Sex Of ...
    This June, criminal justice activists in Louisiana won a major victory with the passage of a bill that effectively moved prostitution convictions back to the level of misdemeanor, heralding the end of Louisiana's archaic practice of forcing sex workers to register as sex offenders. But lawyers ...
  • Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute C ...
    From our friends with Urban Bush Women: On Saturday, July 30th at 3:00 and 7:00, Urban Bush Women (UBW) presents the culminating performance for its third New Orleans Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) at Lusher Charter School's Goldring Auditorium, 7315 Willow Street, (Jeanette Street Entr ...
  • Devastating Report Exposes Feinberg's Unequal ...
    Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) set up in the aftermath of the BP Drilling Disaster, has broken with his own past practices - as well as the evidence compiled by scientists and the experience of Gulf Coast residents - to deny all health claims filed by Gu ...
  • Highlights in Local Activism Against the Priso ...
    Here on the Louisiana Justice Institute blog, we have been following developments in the Danziger Bridge investigation and other police violence and corruption cases, as well as activism against abuses at Orleans Parish Prison and other aspects of the Prison Industrial Complex, since early on th ...
  • Prosecution Rests in Danziger Trial
    The article below originally appeared on the New Orleans Tribune/Tribune Talk website The prosecution rested its case this week in the Danziger Bridge police violence trial with one final witness testimony, perhaps the most moving. Lesha Bartholomew, who was 17 at the time of the incident, b ...

Information Underground

  • Zionist Influence/Power • Re: Opus Judei
    Editorial Comment: Did you notice the worst spy scandals in US history became a dead issue in the press after 9-11.? Did you realize that Putin himself was KGB chief in East Germany at the time these secrets were compromised to Russia? Also notice below, that the Russian Orthodox Archbishop ...
  • Zionist Influence/Power • Re: Opus Judei
    http://www.mgr.org/ODRobertHanssenPerversion.html The Perversions of ex-FBI Agent and Opus Dei Member - Robert Philip Hanssen and The Price to the Security of the United States of America (and we worry about Muslim fanatics...) by Lee Penn NOTE: The following is an excerpt from an artic ...
  • Historical Events • Re: Carter Glass (Rothschi ...
    Much of this was borrowed from Eustace Mullins but it has a few good items: --------- THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT The end of the Civil War in 1865, ruined the Illuminati's chances to control our monetary system, as they did in most European countries. So, the Rothschilds modified their plan for ...
  • Historical Events • Re: Carter Glass (Rothschi ...
    From Eustace Mullins: Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins Dedicated to two of the finest scholars of the twentieth century GEORGE STIMPSON and EZRA POUND who generously gave of their vast knowledge to a young writer to guide him in a field which he could not have managed alo ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Just wanted to throw this out there to see what people think... I was looking into the source of the leak on Irish Presidential candidate David Norris and apparently it was this Irish-Zionist blogger John Connolly, on the farthest left. I want to make a contribution, though it may be a smal ...

TVNZ

environment 360

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

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Adobe Previews Adobe Flash Killer
    by Eric Pettifor Back in March, I criticized Apple for not including support for Adobe Flash in their iPad tablet. Their reasoning seemed to be at least in part that Flash was going away, to be replaced by HTML 5 with support from javascript and CSS, to which I responded ...
  • Alykhan and Ezra’s ethical snake oil
    By Alison@Creekside Alykhan Velshi's wee blog Ethical Oil, named after Ezra's book, has relaunched with an expensive new look and some spiffy ethical oil pop-up campaign ads to greet you when you enter the site. You can choose either good or evil -- you know, conflict oil = woman being ston ...
  • Booking Granny
    By Alison@Creekside There's just so much wrong with this news story about the Canada Border Services Agency arresting and jailing a 66-year old woman for 12 days, for trafficking, possessing, and importing heroin, because their swab-test of a jar of motor oil in her vehicle incorrectly iden ...
  • Stockwell Day: The result of insane, extreme r ...
    By Alison@Creekside CBC Power & Politics on the Oslo massacre, at noon Friday, edited: Evan Solomon: This raises again the spectre of international terrorism. Stockwell Day: As recently as July 8th in Norway there was a dragnet for al-Qaeda suspects related to the Manchester bombing. Whethe ...
  • Bob Rae, Super-Elite!
    By Frank Moher Oh, grow a sense of humour, already. Canadian novelist Kenneth J. Harvey's piece in today's Globe, "Thank you, Bob Rae, for stealing my plane seat," is inspiring an unseemly fuss among my facebook and twitter peeps. Harvey's article, a funny and typically shrewd account of his ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Yen overvalued by the markets, Noda warns
    Currency markets have overvalued the yen, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda warned Tuesday, while declining comment on possible intervention to weaken the currency and protect domestic industries. The Bank of Japan, which will hold a policy meeting later this week, came under pressure from the g ...
  • Former champ Hasegawa to fight on
    Hozumi Hasegawa, who relinquished his WBC featherweight crown in his first title defense in April, is not going to throw in the towel on his career and vowed Monday to keep fighting. "Boxing is my life. I want to keep fighting with my whole body and soul," Hasegawa told a news conference at hi ...
  • Nagatomo injury worries Zaccheroni
    Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni said Monday he has had no updates on Yuto Nagatomo's dislocated shoulder but is praying the injury to the Inter Milan defender is not serious. Nagatomo has returned to Italy with the team doctor to undergo extensive tests after suffering the injury to his right s ...
  • Williams completes comeback with title
    Serena Williams smashed one final serve, dropped her racket, clenched her hands together and raised her arms in triumph. At long last, a champion again.
  • Hara needs to show patience as Giants try to b ...
    One could only imagine the thoughts running through Tatsunori Hara's mind as he watched his Yomiuri Giants blow a five-run lead against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Sunday. For the Kyojin manager, it's been a familiar sight in a season where nothing has gone as expected.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Clemens vs. Clemens
    Jason Clemens, who hangs his hat at several right-wing think-tanks (the Fraser, Pacific Research and Macdonald-Laurier Institutes), lauds Canadian fiscal conservatism in today’s Wall Street Journal: Canada’s government, for example, has grown smaller over the last 15 years. Total government spen ...
  • Decarbonizing Homes and the Price of Gas
    Our climate justice framework for BC is to eliminate fossil fuels by 2040. In the household sector, this poses a significant challenge, not so much in terms of technology and knowledge, but because natural gas is much cheaper than electricity per unit of energy. Even though BC has among the lowe ...
  • Understanding Québec’s Orange Wave Part Three: ...
    Simon Tremblay-Pepin is a researcher at IRIS, a Montreal-based progressive think tank. In my previous two posts I discussed how neither a rise in left-wing sentiment nor a surge in support for the federalist option caused the “orange wave” in Québec during the last federal election. I will now o ...
  • Understanding Québec’s Orange Wave Part Two: W ...
    Simon Tremblay-Pepin is a researcher at IRIS, a Montreal-based progressive think tank. In my previous post, I addressed how Québec was not reinventing itself as a socialist haven. I will now attempt to show that the NDP’s impressive showing in Québec does not indicate a rejection of sovereignty. ...
  • Understanding Québec’s Orange Wave Part one: a ...
    Simon Tremblay-Pepin is a researcher at IRIS a Montreal-based left-wing think tank. From an outsider’s point of view, the last federal election may give the impression that a majority of Québécois(es) has converted to social democracy and asymmetrical federalism. This analysis aims to demonstrat ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

  • Earth's first Trojan asteroid found
    National Geographic: Earth's first Trojan asteroid, 2010 TK7, has been discovered. About 1000 feet wide, it travels with Earth around the Sun at a distance of about 50 million miles, writes Ker Than for National Geographic. Trojans are bodies that exist in orbital "sweet spots" between Lagrange ...
  • House Republicans target environmental rules v ...
    New York Times: Even as the House, Senate, and White House wrangle over raising the US debt ceiling, Congressional appropriators are at work writing bills that fix spending for the next fiscal year, which begins on 1 October. As the New York Times's Leslie Kaufman reports, the House version of t ...
  • Black hole collision may have set off firework ...
    Science: Evidence suggests that the now quiescent, supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way experienced a period of intense activity a few million years ago that produced some of the highest-energy radiation in the universe. A pair of gamma ray-emitting gas bubbles that seem to ha ...
  • Detecting a driver's brain waves can cut braki ...
    BBC: Benjamin Blankertz and his colleagues at the Berlin Institute for Technology have demonstrated in the lab that it's possible to detect a driver's intention to brake before he or she actually brakes. In their experiment, volunteers drove an arcade-like simulator and were given the task of ke ...
  • Huge Arctic fire had big impact on carbon cycle
    BBC: A paper published today in Nature warns of a feedback mechanism that could accelerate the impact of global warming in the Arctic region. The unusually dry summer of 2007 helped to fuel the Anaktuvuk River fire, which destroyed as much Alaskan tundra as did all previous fires since 1950. Led ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show-33,'
    by footprints (Posted Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:43:59 GMT) Episode 30-Season Four Filmed November 21st 2011 Duration-45 Minutes Omar Abdulla: Welcome to The 'Omar Abdulla,' SHOW filmed in Vancouver where the 'city never sleeps...' Footprints Filmworks is proud to honor an advertisement deal of $4 m ...
  • FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show-32,'
    by footprints (Posted Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:26:04 GMT) Episode 29-Season Four Filmed 19 November 2011 Duration-45 Minutes Omar Abdulla: Welcome to The 'Omar Abdulla,' SHOW filmed today at the Kiddies Campus in Ottawa...Today, we are joined by parents Zenobia Kallis and Eshaq Kallis who have be ...
  • Norway massacre is a false flag
    by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:00:26 GMT) It's a false flag attack. The killer said he hates Muslims but what his target were the sons and daughters of the government elites. He was born in Norway and chose as his targets not Muslims whose presence he detests, but the Labor Party ...
  • Oil price and Iran war
    by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:52:53 GMT) 13. Harassment from Feds (12/28/08) I said oil price started to drop after my article of July 4th. When the planed Iran war went soured in August, the Inside group planed a financial crisis to stabilize the dollar. It started on 9/14, when Lem ...
  • The Fake Osama Bin Laden Image
    by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:49:57 GMT) Two years ago I predicted the Feds would use Bin Laden, Al Qaida and Pakistan to activate false flag nuclear bomb attack. Operation Geronimo was exactly the practise of that plan. 587. A nuclear bombing to justify Iran war (2/10/09) For the ...

Peakwater

  • Will Dam Removal in the West Restore Salmon?
    “A controversial plan to remove four dams from the Klamath River to save endangered salmon could make its way to Congress in the coming weeks. Capitol Hill lawmakers will consider taking down Californiaâs Iron Gate, Copco 2, Copco 1, and John C. Boyle dams at a cost of about $1 billion, half of ...
  • LAOS: Villagers brace for relocation as dam pr ...
    “I don’t have any power over this decision,” said Ting, 50, who like other Lao villagers, goes by only one name. He earns a living ferrying passengers across the Mekong River in a motorized skiff and lives in Pakmon, a village of 150 families just 30km upstream from the proposed US$3.8 billion d ...
  • Can water end the Arab-Israeli conflict?
    “Around three weeks ago on a late Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers armed with a truck and a digger entered the Palestinian village of Amniyr and destroyed nine water tanks . One week later, Israeli forces demolished water wells and water pumps in the villages of Al-Nasaryah, Al-Akrabanyah and ...
  • Water Woes, Tensions And Wars
    “The water spring lies in our area and you dare connect pipes and take away all our water?” shouts Rajesh Thapa, a resident of the upper Tara at Sita Ram Dahal, a resident from the lower Gadhi. “There’s not enough water for us. Our water mills are drying up and if this continues, we don’t [...]
  • Santa Cruz City Council OKs studying water swa ...
    “The council unanimously agreed to join a study with regional water agencies for swapping supplies, an idea explored but abandoned 21 years ago. In recent years, however, the county had laid the groundwork for a new study funded by a state grant that will evaluate trading water between Santa Cru ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Why I Voted Against S. 365, the Budg ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after voting against S. 365, the Budget Control Act of 2011. Kucinich voted in favor of a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling. S. 365, the Budget Control Act of 2011, is a landmark in American history, but for the wro ...
  • Kucinich: Why I Voted for Senator Reid’s Revis ...
    Washington D.C. (July 30, 2011) � Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after voting in favor of Senator Reid�s revised bill to raise the debt ceiling. �I have had and continue to have serious concerns about Senator Reid�s revised bill.� The cuts to discretio ...
  • “The American People Do Not Want Us to Burn Do ...
    Washington D.C. (July 29, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today delivered the following speech on the floor of the House of Representatives. See video here. “Here’s how we can take a couple steps back from the brink of default: “First, raise the debt ceiling until December 31, 2012 ...
  • “We are the United States of America, the grea ...
    Washington D.C. (July 28, 2011) � Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today went to the House floor to outline the steps we can take to avoid default and lead America out of debt. See the video here. The full text of Congressman Kucinich�s remarks follow: �Here is what we should do to avoid def ...
  • Kucinich: UN Mandate to Protect Libyan Civilia ...
    Kucinich Renews Call for Ceasefire and Political Solution Washington D.C. (July 26, 2011) � Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime proponent of peace, today wrote to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressing his concern �that the United Nations is selectively applying i ...

Authentically Wired

  • … And just who proposes this “hors ...
    �� And just who proposes this �horse�s ass� government regulation..? � Agenda 21 Coming To A Farm Near You As Federal Government Moves To Ban Family Farms ���������������������������������������������������������������������� By Alex Thomas ��July 30,2011http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4r39US5U7 ...
  • won’t have to swallow too hard
    ⦠Donât worry âhonestâ Johnny wonât have to swallow too hard as rest assured those pulling his string$ are well taken care of ⦠McCain says he’ll ‘swallow hard’ and support deal WASHINGTON (AP) â Sen. John McCain says he’ll vote for compromise legislation averting a government default, althoug ...
  • … CLASSIC MISDIRECTION PLAY …
      ⦠CLASSIC MISDIRECTION PLAY ⦠Under cover of debt crisis, Senate looks to extend telco spying immunity   By Stephen C. Webster â¦Friday, July 29th, 2011 — 9:44 am â¦http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/29/under-cover-of-debt-crisis-senate-looks-to-extend-telco-spying-immunity/ Legislation whic ...
  • and study Chevron will
    ⦠and study Chevron will ⦠but never admit guilt or responsibility ⦠OH ⦠they may at some date pay a fine ⦠but hey itâs tax deductible ⦠! Margot Perez-Sullivan, perezsullivan.margot@epa.gov                                                                              EPA enters into agre ...
  • WATCHING YOU
      â¦Come on ⦠give it up to corporate ⦠they have your back ⦠oh, yea ⦠!   House panel approves bill forcing ISPs to log usersâ web history The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation on Thursday that would require Internet service providers (ISPs) to collect and retain records about ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • And now, a car that cooks tea
    Nissan and Mitsubishi say their electric cars can be used for more than just going to the grocery store. Soon, the battery-powered vehicles may also help owners cook dinner during a blackout.Mitsubishi is working to increase the...
  • Virus kills fifth horse in New South Wales
    A fifth horse has died from the Hendra virus in New South Wales. The horse died at a property near Mullumbimby on the NSW north coast, the Department of Primary Industries confirmed. Four other horses on the quarantined property...
  • China's deep sea sub probes ocean's riches
    China has boldly gone where few nations have gone before. It has sent a manned submersible vessel to a depth of 5000m below the sea in its attempt to dominate the scientific exploration of the mineral-rich seabed.The Jiaolong, China's...
  • Owen Glenn: Use science, technology to be inno ...
    In the second of a series leading up to the election, Owen Glenn says exporters' form matters even more than the All Blacks'. Every four years, rugby puts New Zealand on the world stage. Our exporters do the same every day.Unlike...
  • Study: Earth shares its orbit with tiny asteroid
    Like a poodle on a leash, a tiny asteroid runs ahead of Earth on the planet's yearlong strolls around the sun, scientists report.The discovery of this companion, which measures only about 300 meters across, makes Earth the fourth...

Truth Survival + RSS

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  • AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
      http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlightenment, Forb ...
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      This Thursday I will be the guest on Universal Truth Evolution Radio to discuss some extremely important information and make a special announcement. I ask that everyone who takes the information provided on Truth Survival tune in to this … Continue reading →
  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Global Temperature Trend Update: July 2011
    Every month University of Alabama in Huntsville climatologists John Christy and Roy Spencer report the latest global temperature trends from satellite data. Below are the newest data updated through July, 2011. July 2011 was 3rd warmest July in 33-year temperature record Global ...
  • Reason Morning Links: Gabrielle Giffords Retur ...
    How sweet: "Scores of Democrats initially held back from voting, to force Republicans to register their positions first. Then, as the time for voting wound down, Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, returned to the floor for the first time since being shot in J ...
  • New at Reason: Shikha Dalmia on Obama’s Top Fo ...
    Candidates never keep their promises once in office, observes Shikha Dalmia. But even by the unlovely standards of his political peers, President Barack Obama has pulled a rather impressive switcheroo from the anti-Bush to Bush-plus. He may have run on a platform to undo President Geo ...
  • Is a Streamlined Legislature the Answer to an ...
    Writing in today's New York Times, Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker and Yale law professor Oona Hathaway argue that Congress has inappropriately ceded its constitutional powers to the executive branch on issues such as fiscal policy, the war in Libya, and regulation of greenho ...
  • The Debt Deal Won't Save America's Credit Rating
    At some point, a deal to raise the federal debt limit was going to be necessary. Not pleasant, not fun, not in any way something to look forward to or cheer, but necessary as a consequence of prior profligacy and fiscal recklessness. Washington's decade-long, taxpayer-financed spendin ...

Mercury Rising

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    You will too. The music is from here. (From Eli’s Multi-Medium)
  • Markets cheer debt deal
    I think this kind of cheer is called a raspberry. I was just on a conference call and noted that the listeners were more pessimistic than Nouriel. Some phrases: * What parts of the economy are healthy? * Is there no light at the end of the tunnel? * 3-4 years of anemia * What [...]
  • MNGOP, City Mouse and Country Mouse
    As ably documented by Sally Jo Sorensen of Bluestem Prairie over the last few months, the Minnesota Republican Party has been trying to pit rural and urban parts of the state against each other, using the topic of LGA, or Local Government Aid, as the weapon. As it turns out, the pitting of Count ...
  • Shaving Washington with Occam’s Razor
    The general reaction that I hear about our current politics is that they’re all corrupt. In the colloquial sense, that’s probably true, although enough of those guys are lawyers that they’re careful to stay on the north side of the statutory line, Tom DeLay and his pals being the exception that ...
  • Debt Ceiling: Obama Wants To Cave, Tea Partier ...
    This has got to be driving John Boehner mad. Here he is, having got the cut-happy Obama to bludgeon Harry and Nancy into agreeing to yet another round of austerity for the masses and tax breaks for the upper classes, to go with the one agreed upon back in April, and those darned Tea Partiers [...]

Reality Sandwich

  • Mobbing in Peace
    On Thursday, July 28th, more than 100 cities around the world participating in the MedMob movement held public meditations in cities ranging from London to Austin. Here are some photos from Long Beach's event, held at the WalMart center in the heart of Downtown. Click here to see more photos. ...
  • Evolver Spores: Day of Action
    Evolver Spores: Day of Action Wed, Aug 17 read more
  • Mythology of Business Part 1: The Veil of Igno ...
      This is part 1 of an excerpted series for Reality Sandwich from the upcoming anthology Theread more
  • Trending Dissent
    We all remember "Change" so well, possibly because it has collapsed on itself with an embarrassing irony that characterizes the monstrous absurdities and doublespeak throughout modern Americanism.  Now, nearly four years since the Bush Administration, "#fuckyouwashington" has become a trending ...
  • Has Burning Man Reached Its Limits?
    � The sell out of this year's Burning Man, for the first time ever, has created a firestorm of debate across the burner community. The sight of tickets being sold on eBay at around $1000 each has shaken up the burner ethos of participation and radical inclusion. For the first time, Burning ...

Desertification

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