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The Intelligence Daily
- Iran Sentences U.S. ‘Hikers’ To Eight Years In ...by RFE/RL The website for Iranian state television is reporting that an Iranian court has sentenced...
- Egyptian ambassador to remain in Tel Aviv – Fo ...by RIA Novosti Egypt on Saturday said it would not recall its ambassador to Israel and would limit...
- Survival is Simpleby Luke EastwoodAt this, still early, point in the twenty first century only the sensory deprived...
- Egypt Withdraws Ambassador to Israel Following ...VOA News Cairo also demand apology for remarks made by Israel Egypt is withdrawing its ambassador...
- Kremlin: North Korean Leader Arrives In Russiaby RFE/RL The Russian government has confirmed that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has arrived in...
My AntiWar
- Syria?s ally Iran is the real targetSummary: Syria?s ally, Iran, is the real target of what looks to me like a coordinated effort to sow chaos in the region: the idea is to draw the Iranians into a proxy war in support of the regime, and lay the groundwork for an all-out US-Israeli attack on Tehran. The encirclement of the Irania ...
- ENRICHMENT STILL THE KEY TO PROGRESS IN NUCLEA ...Summary: We have long argued that there will not be a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear issue without explicit recognition?from the United States and other Western countries, first of all?of the Islamic Republic?s right to the full range of civil nuclear technologies and activities, ...
- Russia: NATO plans campaign in Syria, tightens ...Summary: NATO is planning a military campaign against Syria to help overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad with a long-reaching goal of preparing a beachhead for an attack on Iran, Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said. source: RIA Novostiread more
- Egypt: an Incomplete Revolution
- Swiss Recall Ambassador to Syria, Condemn Violence
CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
- Russia: NATO plans campaign in Syria, tightens ...Summary: NATO is planning a military campaign against Syria to help overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad with a long-reaching goal of preparing a beachhead for an attack on Iran, Russia's envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said. source: RIA Novostiread more
- ENRICHMENT STILL THE KEY TO PROGRESS IN NUCLEA ...Summary: We have long argued that there will not be a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear issue without explicit recognition—from the United States and other Western countries, first of all—of the Islamic Republic’s right to the full range of civil nuclear technologies and activitie ...
- Syria’s ally Iran is the real targetSummary: Syria’s ally, Iran, is the real target of what looks to me like a coordinated effort to sow chaos in the region: the idea is to draw the Iranians into a proxy war in support of the regime, and lay the groundwork for an all-out US-Israeli attack on Tehran. The encirclement of the Ira ...
- Iran seeks reciprocal pledges in N talksSummary: SalehiIran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has underlined the necessity for reciprocal commitments during any nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West. source: PressTVread more
- IRAN AND THE BOMBSummary: NatanzIs Iran actively trying to develop nuclear weapons? Members of the Obama Administration often talk as if this were a foregone conclusion, as did their predecessors under George W. Bush. There is a large body of evidence, however, including some of America’s most highly classif ...
The Daily Galaxy
- Astronomers Discover New Models for Solar-Syst ...Our solar system, where planets have a range of sizes and move in near-circular paths, may be the exception rather than the rule, according to a German-British team led by Professor Pavel Kroupa of the University of Bonn. The astronomers...
- Mars' Clue: Why 'Super-Earths' May Exist as De ...Rocky planets a few times heavier than Earth might lack a protective magnetic field that originates from an iron core that is at least partly molten. Simulations of super-Earths between a few times and 10 times Earth's mass suggests that...
- "Weird Water" --Extreme H2O (Today's Most Popular)Exotic new states of water have raised questions about what we really know about one of the most common and abundant substances on the planet. First there was the discovery that you can actually burn salt water if you zap...
- Could the Moon be 200 Million Years Younger th ...A rock thought to date from the moon's formation points to the satellite being about 200 million years younger than previously calculated, suggesting its history may need to be revisited. Lars Borg at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California...
- Image of the Day: Strange "Milky-Way" Spirals ...Forty years ago, the Mariner 9 spacecraft relayed to Earth the first video images of Mars' northern polar ice cap, revealing a strange pattern of "Mily Way"-like spiral swirls that has puzzled scientists ever since. Using data from the Mars...
Natural News
- Burning up food prices: More corn going to eth ...(NaturalNews) The world has a food shortage. This isn't speculative or subjective, and it's not fear-mongering or alarmist. It's a well-documented fact and, what's more, the real experts - those who aren't influenced by government or corporate interests - have been trying to make that case for m ...
- Global warming fraud: Iconic polar bear on mel ...(NaturalNews) Images of periled polar bears sinking into arctic seas because of melting polar ice caps have become an iconic symbol of the devastating consequences of so-called global warming. But a new government investigation into the supposed science surrounding this now-infamous urban legend ...
- Interview with Sally Fallon from the Weston A ...(NaturalNews) Sally Fallon Morell is the president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a non-profit nutrition education organization. Weston A. Price was a dentist, a cultural researcher and author of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. He discovered that every society on planet Earth began to e ...
- Calendar of upcoming events: Heirloom seed exp ...(NaturalNews) Here's a short list of some upcoming events that you may find quite fascinating. Some are local events (USA) and others are available streamed online (anywhere in the world).Thank you to our Facebook fans who helped us assemble this list! (www.Facebook.com/HealthRanger)Upcoming eve ...
- Obama tells farmer no need to worry about gove ...(NaturalNews) During a town hall meeting yesterday, when an Illinois farmer told President Obama he was concerned about upcoming regulations regarding the Food Safety Modernization Act and would rather be farming than "filling out forms and permits," Obama had choice words to offer in reply: "Do ...
Threat Level
- Lawmakers Call for Probe of Medical Devices Af ...Two federal lawmakers have asked the General Accountability Office to look into the security of medical devices after a researcher showed how he was able to hack his insulin pump and alter settings due to security flaws in the system. Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), membe ...
- Hackers Expose San Francisco Subway Police DataNo one is claiming immediate responsibility for Wednesday's hacking of the BART Police Officers Association's website and publicizing personal information of union members who patrol the San Francisco region's subway.
- IT Administrator’s Hacking Spree Foiled by $5 ...An information-technology administrator has pleaded guilty to crippling his former employer’s network after FBI agents traced the attack to the Wi-Fi network at a McDonald’s restaurant in Georgia. The administrator was caught after he used his credit card to make a $5 purchase at the restaurant ...
- San Francisco Subway Spokesman Says Cellphone ...The San Franciso subway’s chief spokesman was the brainchild behind Thursday “gut wrenching” decision to shutter mobile-internet and phone service to quell a planned protest, the spokesman, Linton Johnson, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. His idea, which was approved by the agency’s lawye ...
- Book Excerpt: Ghost in the Wires — My Adventur ...In his newly published autobiography, America’s most famous ex-hacker, Kevin Mitnick, tells his own story for the first time. In this excerpt, Mitnick describes his 1992 investigation into the mystery hacker “Eric,” who’d begun pumping him for information. Mitnick’s spy-versus-spy duel with the ...
PERRspectives : Blog
- Name That Texan!Karl Marx famously said that "history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." So it is with Texas Governors George W. Bush and Rick Perry. After all, Perry isn't merely trying to follow the path blazed by his predecessor from the Lone Star State to the White House. Not four years ...
- Conservatives Insist Bush, Not Obama, is Like ...At an event in Iowa Monday, President Obama explained that venomous political rhetoric is nothing new in American history, noting "Lincoln -- they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me." Judging by the immediate and furious reaction from the conservative commentariat, right ...
- For Obama, the Center Doesn't HoldWith his approval rating at a new low over concerns about the still-ailing economy, President Obama hit the road this week to launch what the AP deemed a "counteroffensive." The only question, to continue the stale military analogy, is whether Obama intends to shore up his center or bolster his ...
- The Five Jobs Bills Obama Should Send Congress ...As the New York Times reported Sunday, within the Obama White House a fierce debate is raging about what to do next about jobs and the economy. But on the same day Americans learned advisers David Plouffe and Bill Daley are pushing President Obama to put forward only proposals which can pass Co ...
- S&P: Republicans' Toxic Tea Poisoned U.S. Cred ...During the just concluded debt ceiling crisis, only one American political party was willing to see the United States default and its economy crippled rather than raise the nation's borrowing limit. That culprit was the Party of Lincoln, whose namesake once explained the Confederacy's threat to ...
Blackspot News Feed
- UntitledYeah, I�ve got nothing today.� Back tomorrow!
- InterludeRaffertie mix – Xfm 06/08/11 by Mary Anne Hobbs on Mixcloud
- What next for Wisconsin?Dems gain 2 State Senate seats in recall elections, but fail to secure needed majority
- Will CFTC Limit Excessive Speculation?Bart Chilton Pt.3: For regulations to be effective, there has to be political will and proper resources
- As Biden Visits China, Author David Wise on "T ...Vice President Joe Biden arrived in China yesterday to begin a five-day trip aimed at reassuring leaders there of the stability of the U.S. economy and to begin building a relationship with that country’s most likely next president, Xi Jinping. The visit to the largest foreign creditor to the Un ...
Consortium News
- The Myopic Madness of the GOP
- Lemmingly, We Roll Along
- The World at a Tipping Point
- Truth Still a Casualty at Dieppe
- Pakistan Demands Veto on Drone Strikes
TruthOut
- Congress Must Debate the Libya WarThe US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
- News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
- In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
- Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)read more
- Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...
Planetsave
- Colbert Chats with GOP Wordsmith/Spinmaster, C ...Frank Luntz is, no doubt, good with words (and a little more than that). He holds his fair share of responsibility for the climate crisis we're in, too, as he has helped the Republican Party avoid action on this critical topic through word games. (Note: he doesn't like talking about that much th ...
- 90 Second of Inspiration Video (Moving Planet ...Received this a week ago from 350.org. Just got around to watching it. Worth a share. Really like the music that kicks in about halfway through it. Related posts:Moving Planet & 350 Dominicana Let’s Ride Together Poplar Leaves Inspiration & Model for Energy-Efficient Cool Roof Technology
- Obama’s Defining Moment, Huge Tar Sands Action ...I received an email from 350.org the other day with a link to a great Bill McKibben article in the Washington Post. Worth a read. Here's the intro: Related posts:BART Gets Hacked by Anonymous & Instigates Huge BART Protest (+ Top Activism & Politics Stories) Top 15 Activism Stories of the Week ...
- Bicycling Facts Infographic (+ Top Green Livin ...Just ran across this great infographic on bicycling facts and the future of bicycling on our sister site sustainablog and, of course, wanted to share it on here. It's the feature green living "story" of the day. The infographic is from our friends over at Well Home Energy Audit. Check it out and ...
- New Computer Chip ‘Thinks’ Like a Brain CellA collaboration between IBM and DARPA has produced "next generation" computer chips that adapt well to unexpected inputs due to their structural mimicking of the brain's neurons. Applications for these "neuro-synaptic chips" include analyzing financial market fluctuations and even predicting ...
Water Quality - WordPress
- Inaugural issue of the Journal of Water, Sanit ...The International Water Association (IWA) has made the first issue of its new peer-reviewed Journal
- Md. To Accept New Oyster Aquaculture ApplicationsANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland will begin taking applications for new aquaculture leases in oy
- Otaua CatchmentUpper Otaua catchment Kia ora At the Waiora Hokianga meeting held 13 July 2011, it was decided to fo
- Roadside Garden: bioswale projects to restore ...Streets and parking lots funnel rainwater directly to stormdrains, and those connect with our sewers
- Reverse Osmosis System - Improving Your Water ...What is a reverse osmosis system? The ROS screens out materials down to the ion which means they bl
Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts
- Franklin Lamb: US has decided to recognize Lib ...by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Turkey July 15, 2011 Image by Jacob Anikulapo via F
- Tareq Aziz: "Ill, Isolated and Abandoned" by F ...by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 15 July, 2011 “The expense of spirit in a wast
- The Great Brainwashing... Continues! by Philip ...by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 14, 2011 Replaced text July 22, 2011 We
- What Is Sadr's Game on Future U.S. Troop Prese ...by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS 14 July, 2011 WASHINGTON, Jul 14
- Chinook Disaster: Did Britain Sacrifice Counte ...by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad July 14, 2011 Belfast, Ireland Image via Wikipe
Axis of Logic
- You’re Appointing Who? Please Obama, Say It’s ...The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke. Here’s the back story. When FDA scientists were asked to weigh in on what was to become the most radical and...
- Occupy Wall Street. "A worldwide shift in revo ...A worldwide shift in revolutionary tactics is underway right now that bodes well for the future. The spirit of this fresh tactic, a fusion of Tahrir with the acampadas of Spain, is captured in this quote: The antiglobalization movement was the first step on the road. Back then our model...
- Venezuela Makes A Huge Transfer Of Gold From S ...We watched the story reported by Swiss Info (below) unfold in real time over the last two days on TeleSur, VTV and CNN (English & Spanish) here in Venezuela. The Swiss Info report tries to explain the Chávez government's decision to return Venezuela's gold bullion to Venezuela with the following ...
- Indian activist to launch public fast as gover ...NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's beleaguered government caved in to popular fury over corruption on Wednesday after thousands protested across the country, granting permission for a self-styled Gandhian crusader to stage a 15-day hunger strike in public. Anna Hazare was arrested on Tue ...
- WikiLeaks Reveal: U.S. and UN Supervised Integ ...Throughout 2004 and 2005, Haiti’s unelected de facto authorities, working alongside foreign officials, integrated at least 400 ex-army paramilitaries into the country’s police force, secret U.S. Embassy cables reveal. For a year and a half following the ouster of Haiti’s elect ...
They Gave Us a Republic
- What "Radical Environmentalism" Will Get YouDigby: Here's the latest on the EPA's reign of terror, or Britain's version of it anyway: Once nearly extinct in England, otters have now returned to every county, indicating that rivers are at their healthiest in decades. Conservationists had predicted that it would be another 10 years before ...
- The Nightowl NewswrapCreepy. @BofA_News sidling up to @GovernorPerry in earshot of a live mic is the latest bit of evidence that Citizen's United will be the death of the republic if it's not overturned. "In what looked like a covert lobbying effort, a top Bank of America official brushed past Gov. Rick Perry (R) du ...
- "These anti-union folks have amnesia"It would be nice if this were backed up with some strong legislative proposals (force the repug fuckers to vote it down), but I can't remember the last president who spoke this strongly in favor of unions. Steve Benen: This may be familiar ground, but I was glad to see President Obama deliver an ...
- Not Going Back_Because Not leaving?Kevin Baron, Stars & Stripes: Panetta: Iraq has already said yes to extended U.S. presence Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday that Iraq has already said yes to extending noncombat U.S. forces there beyond 2011, and that the Pentagon is negotiating that presence. "My view is that they fin ...
- How To Win A Presidential Medal of Freedom (Un ...Wikipedia:� The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is-along with the comparable Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of U.S. Congress-the highest civilian award in the United States. �It recognizes those individuals who have made ...
Care 2
- ACTION ALERT: Time To Put An End To Brutal Gi ...Among the most notable animals frequently caught in the paths of gillnets are bottlenose dolphins, harbor porpoises, and endangered sea turtles. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Abused dog Dottie will melt the coldest of hea ...Gonzales, Louisiana - A week ago, Dottie was discovered lying in a yard. Her head was swollen and her neck was split open...a laceration caused by a shoelace embedded deeply into her flesh. Submitted by Sophia P. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Four horses seized from Texas propertyThe horses - two geldings, a yearling and a pony - were kept on a property of about 120 acres without food or appropriate care, the SPCA alleges. The remains of two dead horses were also found on the property near a low-lying, tree-filled areSubmitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
- 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Breakthrough with Fibo ...13-year-old Aidan Dwyer has used the Fibonacci sequence to devise a more efficient way to collect solar energy, earning himself a provisional U.S. patent and interest from �entities� apparently eager to explore commercializing his innovation.Submitted by Kathy B. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! ...
- USDA Scientist: Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide D ...Monsanto's real PR headache involves one of its flagship products very much in the here and now: the herbicide Roundup (chemical name: glyphosate), upon which Monsanto has built a highly profitable empire of "Roundup Ready" genetically modified seeds.Submitted by Judy C. to Science & Tech �|� � ...
Smirking Chimp
- What's the Matter with Obama? It's the Not Car ...
- This Economy Needs a Little More Elvis, a Lot ...
- 'Step Right up!' Snake Oil for Sale
- Punishments Don't Fit the Crime: In Pennsylvan ...
- Underground Education: Frog Gravy 23 [with jai ...
Paul Krugman
- Swede Talk, Swede TalkBut skip the lutefisk.
- Fancy Theorists of the World UniteYou have nothing to lose but the WSJ.
- Socialist Hellhole BloggingStockholm, the howling wilderness.
- Germany and MichiganMore similar than you think.
- Finally, Someone to Run Against Wall StreetEnter Elizabeth Warren.
No Quarter
- Is it real or is it not … oh yeah, this really ...Really. It is. Late on this hot Friday afternoon, I just can’t put my finger on what’s real, especially on what matters. One of the pleasures of hitting Google’s News page is that I never know what I’ll spot there or, having clicked one headline, what else I’ll bump into via links to more storie ...
- The Ship of State: Run AgroundWhile the good ship USS America was being tossed by the waves of the growing storm, Captain O’Bomba sat in his quarters enjoying an expensive after-dinner sherry with his First Mate, Bidet. The ship was veering left and right in a snake-like fashion while also rising and falling on large waves. ...
- “What happened to laying flat, Steve? BE SAFE. ...As I browsed the backlog of messages on my Facebook wall, I saw the above FB wall message to our NoQuarterUSA contributor, Steve Clemons, and wondered what the heck is up! As I read more of Steve’s and his friends’ back-and-forth messages, I figured out that Steve is staying at the “ex-Intercont ...
- Obama’s Middle East DisasterFeckless. Futile. Foolish. Three descriptors that capture the abysmal state of Barack Obama’s misguided, rudderless Middle East policy. While the White House will try to blame Hillary for this mess, the reality is that she is carrying out the policy laid down by the White House. Boy, what a turd ...
- SEC Attorney Darcy Flynn Blows Whistle on Wall ...BOMBSHELL!!! Since early 2009 I have written at length about the regulatory capture that has dominated the financial industry. I have defined this concept in layman’s terms as the Wall Street-Washington incest. Today a close friend and regular reader of Sense on Cents shares a story which blows ...
Futurismic
- Personal Information: episode 24Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
- Arguments against life extensionVia Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
- Daddy, where does innovation come from?Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
- Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
- How to be a futuristThe irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...
Therapy News
- New Study Tests Integration of Beck’s Cognitiv ...A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Patrick Pössel, of the Eberhard-Karls-University, studied students to determine if a combination of two popular theories on depression, namely Beck’s Cognitive Theory and Response Style Theory, would provide better accuracy if elements of both were integrated. Pös ...
- New Research Identifies Risk Factors for Alcoh ...A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Researchers from the University of Michigan conducted a study to determine what pre-existing factors present the highest risk for youth developing alcohol dependency. The team examined data from 401 children for their three year-long study. The data was collected ...
- Why Do I Have to Talk About My Painful Feeling ...You’ve sat comfortably on your therapist’s couch for six months talking about everything under the sun; how you prefer to do your laundry, how nothing is ever good enough for your spouse, how irritating your mother is when she compares you to your older sister, how traffic makes you crazy. You ...
- Are the London Riots a Result of Groupthink?The recent riots in London are the worst the city has seen in years. However, the psychology that lies at the root of the mob mentality is apparent every day, everywhere. What spurs thousands of young people to damage and destroy inanimate objects? What prompts groups of people who have never me ...
- New Study Examines Risk Factors for PTSD and A ...A GoodTherapy.org News Headline People who suffer from PTSD often choose a strategy of avoidance coping (AVC) in order to manage their symptoms. This technique is also found in people who struggle with alcohol use disorders (AUD). “Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use (SUDs) c ...
Mountaintop Removal
- EPA officials tour eastern Ky. - Houston ChronicleEPA officials tour eastern Ky. Houston Chronicle They attended a community meeting Thursday in Whitesburg where residents described problems with coal dust, mountaintop removal blasting and regulation enforcement, according to WFPL radio (http://bit.ly/ov7VPl ). EPA Region Four administrator Gw ...
- Tree-sit concludes after 30 days of blocking w ...Tree-sit concludes after 30 days of blocking work on Coal River Mountain RAMPS ... HNN Huntingtonnews.net Many discussed their concern over the health impacts of mountaintop removal, blasting near the Brushy Fork Impoundment, and the destruction of the mountains where they and their families ha ...
- Coal Industry Leader Criticizes EPA Tour, WFPL ...Global Warming (blog) Coal Industry Leader Criticizes EPA Tour, WFPL Coverage WFPL On Thursday, WFPL Environment Reporter Erica Peterson reported residents describing ongoing problems with coal dust, mountaintop removal and the lack of state and local regulation. Several residents complained ab ...
- The myth of mountaintop removal mining - The G ...Mother Jones The myth of mountaintop removal mining The Guardian As filmmaker Mari-Lynn Evans has said of the CNN programme referred to by Keating: "Mountain top removal mining is not an issue of jobs v the environment. It is an issue of corporate profits and corrupt politicians v the health an ...
- Does God support mountaintop removal mining? - ...Does God support mountaintop removal mining? CNN (blog) Art Kirkendoll, a former West Virginia county commissioner, says that God clearly supports mountaintop removal mining, which is vigorously opposed by environmentalists. Check out the clip. My God has already given us an answer to this abou ...
Memeorandum
- To Run or Not to Run - That is Paul Ryan's que ...Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard: To Run or Not to Run — That is Paul Ryan's question. — For months the Republican presidential campaign has been a sleepy affair. The biggest news was that one supposedly top candidate had refused to criticize the frontrunner. Riveting. — The last week ...
- Dismal poll numbers for Obama in PA (Colby Itk ...Colby Itkowitz / Morning Call: Dismal poll numbers for Obama in PA — Economy drags down approval numbers in Pennsylvania, a state the president would likely need to win a second term. — U.S. President Obama holds a baby after landing in Buzzard's Bay before boarding Marine One to take him t ...
- Rove: Palin will run (Byron York/Campaign 2012)Byron York / Campaign 2012: Rove: Palin will run — Former Bush advisor Karl Rove says he believes former Alaska governor Sarah Palin will enter the Republican presidential race sometime around Labor Day. Appearing on Fox News Saturday morning, Rove said Palin “has a schedule next week that l ...
- Our Politics Are Sick - We have a tendency to ...Kurt Andersen / New York Times: Our Politics Are Sick — We have a tendency to elect presidents who seem like the antitheses of their immediate predecessors — randy young Kennedy the un-Eisenhower, earnest truth-telling Carter the un-Nixon, charismatic Reagan the un-Carter, randy young Clinton ...
- Gov. Christie admits climate change is a real ...Christopher Baxter / New Jersey Online: Gov. Christie admits climate change is a real problem, that human activity plays a role — TRENTON — In case anyone had any doubts on where Gov. Chris Christie stands on climate change, he made his position crystal clear this afternoon: It's real and it ...
Energy & Environment News
- Two Oklahoma Indian Tribes Contest State for W ...The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian tribes are suing the State of Oklahoma to stop the export of water that they say they have held the rights to since the 1830s.
- World Briefing | EUROPE: Britain: Oil Leak Sto ...Royal Dutch Shell said Friday that it had closed a valve from which oil was spilling into the North Sea, calling it a “key step” in stopping the leak at its Gannet Alpha platform.
- Belarus Suspends Pact to Give Up Enriched UraniumThe suspension of the deal, in which Belarus had agreed to give up its supply of highly enriched uranium, comes in response to the latest wave of economic sanctions imposed by Washington.
- A Year Full of Weather Disasters and an Econom ...Normally, three or four weather disasters a year in the United States will cause at least $1 billion in damages each. This year, there were nine such disasters.
- Green Blog: All Deliberate Speed for Nuclear R ...The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has decided to take a painstakingly methodical approach to any policy changes adopted in response to the Japan's nuclear meltdown.
5+ quakes - 7 days
- M 5.1, Fiji regionSaturday, August 20, 2011 10:27:16 UTCSaturday, August 20, 2011 10:27:16 PM at epicenterDepth: 2.60 km (1.62 mi)
- M 5.1, VanuatuSaturday, August 20, 2011 09:50:18 UTCSaturday, August 20, 2011 08:50:18 PM at epicenterDepth: 35.10 km (21.81 mi)
- M 5.0, KyrgyzstanSaturday, August 20, 2011 05:31:22 UTCSaturday, August 20, 2011 11:31:22 AM at epicenterDepth: 23.40 km (14.54 mi)
- M 5.2, Tonga regionSaturday, August 20, 2011 01:25:03 UTCSaturday, August 20, 2011 01:25:03 PM at epicenterDepth: 34.20 km (21.25 mi)
- M 5.1, Hokkaido, Japan regionFriday, August 19, 2011 19:10:11 UTCSaturday, August 20, 2011 04:10:11 AM at epicenterDepth: 311.60 km (193.62 mi)
China Dialogue
- Opaque waters at Killer LakeRwanda plans to turn dangerous gases dissolved in Lake Kivu into a major energy source. Reporting from its shores, Andre Vltchek asks if this is a blessing for locals – or a risk too far.The shores of Lake Kivu, encircled by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, are among the mo ...
- China probes its Africa model (2)China can improve its policies on aid and investment in Africa, writes Yi Yimin in the second section of a two-part article. But doing so will require a more open conversation.As outlined in the previous section of this article, Chinese investments in fields such as energy, mining, dam construct ...
- China probes its Africa model (1)As the public turns its attention to Chinese investments in Africa's fossil fuels, mining and dams, some have noticed parallels with environmental and social problems at home, writes Yi Yimin.Chinese investments in Africa are starting to attract more media coverage and public attention in China. ...
- China in Africa: deepening the debate Sam Geall introduces a series of articles that seek to enhance our understanding of environment and development in Africa – and China’s increasingly controversial role on the continent.In late March this year, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) signed a deal with China Development Bank, de ...
- “Keep it in the ground”Environmentalists are urging Barack Obama to refuse permission for a tar-sands-oil pipeline from western Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. North America must not become the new middle east, argues Bill McKibben.The climate problem has moved from the abstract to the very real in the last 18 months. ...
AlterNet Top Stories
- Public unrest, social institutions and trustBy Iyiola Solanke, Associate Professor in Law, Leeds University Law School, England,We will no doubt be asking for some time to come what happened in Englandâs towns and cities over the past few days. It is clear that the trigger was the police response to the marchers requesting an explanation ...
- Dear Soledad: Appalachians Respond to CNN̵ ...With a mounting deathtoll and a 40-year rap sheet that marks it as our nation’s most urgent health and humanitarian crisis, mountaintop removal mining is hardly a new issue. Enter Soledad O’Brien, whose CNN special last night, “Battle for Blair Mountain,” arguably reached more Americans during p ...
- Inconvenient Facts: The Whiteness of Memory in ...Stockettâs novel presented a vision of segregation in service of a feel-good story, but the film version of The Help is even more distant from the virulence of American racism. Its villains, Junior League bigots who wear smart little suits to cover their scales, are so cartoonish that viewers wo ...
- A Summer of Choice: What We Learned in GermantownWritten by Erin Matson for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Can we finally say this out loud? Operation Rescue was pathetic. They declared a “Summer of Mercy 2.0″ outside the Germantown, Md., cl ...
- Study Shows Telemedicine Abortion is Safe and ...Written by Wyndi Anderson and Melanie Zurek for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Big pharma and advances in medicine get a lot of attention for improving health, but several recently published s ...
Threat Level
- Lawmakers Call for Probe of Medical Devices Af ...Two federal lawmakers have asked the General Accountability Office to look into the security of medical devices after a researcher showed how he was able to hack his insulin pump and alter settings due to security flaws in the system. Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), membe ...
- Hackers Expose San Francisco Subway Police DataNo one is claiming immediate responsibility for Wednesday's hacking of the BART Police Officers Association's website and publicizing personal information of union members who patrol the San Francisco region's subway.
- IT Administrator’s Hacking Spree Foiled by $5 ...An information-technology administrator has pleaded guilty to crippling his former employer’s network after FBI agents traced the attack to the Wi-Fi network at a McDonald’s restaurant in Georgia. The administrator was caught after he used his credit card to make a $5 purchase at the restaurant ...
- San Francisco Subway Spokesman Says Cellphone ...The San Franciso subway’s chief spokesman was the brainchild behind Thursday “gut wrenching” decision to shutter mobile-internet and phone service to quell a planned protest, the spokesman, Linton Johnson, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. His idea, which was approved by the agency’s lawye ...
- Book Excerpt: Ghost in the Wires — My Adventur ...In his newly published autobiography, America’s most famous ex-hacker, Kevin Mitnick, tells his own story for the first time. In this excerpt, Mitnick describes his 1992 investigation into the mystery hacker “Eric,” who’d begun pumping him for information. Mitnick’s spy-versus-spy duel with the ...
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PDA AMERICA
- Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
- IOT: Healthcare for All Jan CallCall – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
- PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
- War is a Crime: Join In For JusticeWarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
- An American Suicide TerroristWilliam John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
Marler Blog
- Food Safety News Publisher's Platform - Private AGTune into Food Safety News Sunday morning and read the full story. Everyone seems to hate government now days. From being afraid of the FDA “food police” trying to steal your seeds, to trying to privatize social security, government is perceived as both overbearing and incompetent (at the same ...
- Cowans Gap E. coli Illnesses Increase to 14 in ...The number of confirmed cases in an E coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Cowans Gap State Park is now 14, the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced Thursday. In a statement, health department officials said 11 cases involve Pennsylvania residents — six from Franklin County, four from Lancast ...
- E. coli O157:NM Sickens Nine From Michigan McN ...9 Ill, including 6 hospitalized - The Michigan Departments of Community Health (MDCH) and Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) are issuing a public health alert regarding E. coli O157:H7:NM illnesses linked to the consumption of ground beef from McNees Meats and Wholesale LLC, a meat-proces ...
- It is time to Test, not Talk TurkeyTalk Turkey - "to discuss a problem in a serious way with a real intention to solve it". In 2008 and 2009 I commissioned a 5,000-sample $500,000 baseline study of the prevalence of non-O157 Shiga-Toxin E. coli.� I will spare you the outcome, but you can download the PowerPoint and sample resul ...
- Cargill now linked to 111 sickened with 1 deat ...The CDC reported moments ago that the number or ill has risen to a total of 111 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 31 states between February 27 and August 9, 2011. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama ( ...
AutoblogGreen
- Video: Presidential candidate Bachmann promise ...Filed under: Etc. How's this for bold? Congresswoman Michell Bachmann, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who won the Ames Straw Poll last weekend, has just stated that one thing we'd get with a Bachmann Administration is - ready? - cheap gasoline. According to Politico sh ...
- Report: 2012 Nissan Altima, NV van recalled fo ...Filed under: Recalls, Nissan For a two-week period this year, Nissan apparently incorrectly assembled the air bag control unit in both the 2012 Altima and the 2012 NV work van. That's the news from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which today announced a small recall of the ...
- Official: Ford Focus Electric will offer solar ...Filed under: Ford, Electric Running an electric car on the power of the sun is many an EV enthusiast's dream. Ford isn't the first company to combine EV charging with solar energy, but it is trying to make it as easy as possible to go from driving on imported oil to extremely local energy. ...
- Official: First-ever heavy-duty truck efficien ...Filed under: Truck, Government/Legal If you're not sure why today's announcement from the Obama Administration about the first-ever fuel economy standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses is important, read this. Okay, now that we're all on the same page, let's take a look at the new standa ...
- Nissan's reponse to Top Gear? Here, hav ...Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, UK, Celebrities, Humor, ElectricWhen Top Gear said that, "In the real world, [the Tesla Roadster] doesn't seem to work," the electric automaker responded with a lawsuit. Nissan is taking a different tack, putting a clever twist on the one-sided, anti-EV message th ...
Rafe's Radar
- SurfEasy: Browsing privacy for GrandmaClever private browsing utility bundles portable browser, proxy server connection on a USB key. ...
- Will Call frees you from the tyranny of choiceSmart last-minute ticket sales site gets you into a live event hours from now. ...
- Sit back and relax: Console.fm is in your headNew Pandora-like music player that specializes in electronica gives us a preview of the indie radio station of the ...
- LaunchRock sets up site launch placeholdersYou think we're not in a bubble? Then how did a company that simply creates "coming soon" pages get funding? Thank ...
- Opportunity marks the (parking) spotWhy can't anyone create a good market for street parking spot data? ...
Camera Obscura
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- Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
- The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
- Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
- Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
Democracy Now!
- Egyptians Defend Viral Video Activist Charged ...Asmaa Mahfouz is one of Egyptâs most prominent activists. The 26-year-old helped co-found the influential April 6 Youth Movement in 2008 that helped pave the way for the revolution through years of grassroots organizing and street protests. A few days before January 25, she posted two videos on ...
- San Francisco Bay Area’s BART Pulls a MubarakWhat does the police killing of a homeless man in San Francisco have to do with the Arab Spring uprisings from Tunisia to Syria? The attempt to suppress the protests that followed. In our digitally networked world, the ability to communicate is increasingly viewed as a basic right. Open communi ...
- Verizon Workers, Management Dig in for Decisiv ...On the 10th day of the most important labor fight in America, striking Verizon worker Alexandra Camacho stood on a streetcorner in downtown Brooklyn and vowed to stay out as long as necessary. "They want to strip from us everything we’ve won in the past," the slender Camacho said. "They even ...
- From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan's Atomic Tr ...In recent weeks, radiation levels have spiked at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors in Japan, with recorded levels of 10,000 millisieverts per hour (mSv/hr) at one spot. This is the number reported by the reactor’s discredited owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., although that number is simply as ...
- Book Excerpt: "Hiroshima Cover-up: How the War ...As the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, read a chapter of Amy and David Goodman’s book, Exception to the Rulers, to learn how how the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning science reporter, William L. Laurence, was on the payroll of the War Department while also reporting for The New York Times ...
Suzie-Q
- Morning Briefing: August 19, 2011During a townhall meeting earlier this week, constituents in Rep. Randy Hultgren’s (R-IL) congressional district hectored him about raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations. The Washington Post reports, “It is a scene that has been repeated at town hall meetings across the country this Augu ...
- Businesses lose confidence in ObamaABC Professor Peter Morici discusses where the United States can turn to improve its economy and credit rating. Roubini: Bush Responsible for Economic Woes WSJ, 8/12/2011 3:01:26 PM In a clip from his interview with WSJ’s Simon Constable, Dr. Nouriel Roubini insists that it was the policies of G ...
- US checks S&P’s adding after downgradeBigPond News Sunday, August 14, 2011 » 01:29pm The US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a probe into the process by which Standard Poor’s downgraded the US credit rating, the Wall Street Journal reported. US officials lashed out at SP after it docked the country’s credit rating fr ...
- After Supporting Tea Party Protests, Fox News ...Earlier today, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) faced angry questions from Iowans over his proposed cuts to entitlement programs. In an attempt to dismiss the legitimate concerns of the questioners, Fox News declared them to be liberal plants. During the segment, the conservative news outlet displ ...
- BREAKING: S & P Downgrades U.S. Credit For Fir ...� Reuters reports: �The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor�s on Friday, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for the world�s largest economy.� The new rating is AA+. In explaining their decision Standard & Poors cites both the decision by Republicans in Congress ...
Solari
- Shadowstats: Inflation at 11.2%[click on the image for a larger version] Source: Shadow Government Statistics
- U.S. Inquiry Is Said to Focus on S.&P. RatingsBy Louise Story The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation’s largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis, according to two people interviewed by the government and another briefed ...
- Morgan Stanley Cuts Global Growth Forecast Wit ...By Paul Panckhurst Morgan Stanley cut its forecast for global growth this year, citing an “insufficient” policy response to Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, weakened confidence and the prospect of fiscal tightening. The bank estimates expansion of 3.9 percent, down from a previous forecast of 4.2 ...
- Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold HomeBy Daniel Cancel and Nathan Crooks Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as prices for the metal rise to a record. Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 tons of ...
- Voila! The Failure of Centralization Means Mor ...By Greg Keller and Juergen Baetz Paris (AP) — France and Germany called on Tuesday for a “new economic government” for Europe, with mandatory balanced budgets enshrined in the constitutions of all euro zone members as a way to overcome the debt crisis that has threatened to fracture the continen ...
Insurgency Watch - Newswire
- Times ScareISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
- Stepping up - University at Buffalo The SpectrumStepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
- Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
- Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
- Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
AlterNet - Rights and Liberties
- Why 'Constitutional Conservatives' Like Michel ...It's ironic that those claiming fealty to the constitution habitually thumb their noses at its most sacred principle.
- President Rick Perry's America: No Country For ...Coming of age as a woman in Rick Perry's Texas is sort of like living in the wild, wild west, like an Annie Ovary of women's health, dodging old men wielding vaginal probes.
- The Shocking Pattern of Obama Repeating Some o ...Obama forged a continuation of the Bush years, doubling Bush's war in the Arab world, hiring staff from the Bush Administration, and tossing civil liberties aside for "security."
- Why Are Some Otherwise Progressive Members of ...The Park Slope Food Co-Op is a progressive Brooklyn institution. But one very vocal faction is fiercely opposed to a campaign seeking justice in Palestine.
- Iraq Withdrawal? Don't Take it to the BankObama promised on the campaign trail, "I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." But don't count on cashing that check.
Sideways News
- Could you be a 10:10 community champion?The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
- Brit mums strict about eco-choresFamilies in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
- UK venue offers rainforest weddingsGetting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
- Battery recycling 'too difficult'The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
- 10 green resolutions to save you moneyBy taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...
Fabius Maximus
- Our fears are unwarranted. America is in fact ...Summary: The good news is our problems are relatively minor. Our leaders probably will take the necessary reforms during the next few years. Of course they will govern in the best interests of our plutocratic elites, not us. We’re along for the ride, sliding towards the Third Republic ...
- What will our Mercs do when our wars wind down ...Summary: Again we turn harsh lights on the future of America. The US government has created a pool highly skilled mercs (on a base of people the government itself trained). What will these people do when our wars wind down? To create serious trouble only a few need sell their knowledge and e ...
- The men of US Special Operations Command are h ...Summary: The FM website discusses facts and insights too harsh for most to see (as seen in the 16 thousand comments during the past 4 years). Today we look at the men in the US Special Operations Command. Heroes, but not all the deeds we ask them to do are heroic. In many ways our Special [...]
- Very funny. But the joke is on us.Summary: More humor on the FM website, a funny circulating to American chuckles around the web. It says something about us. Something sad.  ______________________ The Wizard of Oz appeared on screen in 1939. Today, if Dorothy were to meet men with no brains, no hearts, and no balls, ...
- Listen to the voice of America’s decline ...Summary: Many comments sent to the FM website speak from the heart, sharing the writer’s response to the new world described on these pages. Sometimes clear, hard, and rational. Sometimes visionary. Sometimes delusional. But most often angry, expressing the anger that so often marks mo ...
Open Your Eyes News
- Vatican kicks out Roma on EasterPress TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
- Euro strikes 16-month high against dollarBreitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
- British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrsPressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
- Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
- Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...
The Progressive Realist
- If Assad “Must Go” but Prefers to Keep Massacr ...In my thrill-a-minute life as a professional political blogger, I can easily say that the Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator who, ethically speaking, is obligated to stop killing people and start resigning. But when the United States government makes that claim, I do worry that we’re entering ...
- Before the Fall: Planning for Post-Qaddafi LibyaA while back on this blog there was a debate about how and when to measure whether the war in Libya was worth it. Eric Martin made the observation that: Despite these harbingers of future unrest, there has been a dearth of planning for the postwar transition period. Which organizations/nations w ...
- Navy Green Energy Moves One Step ForwardThe nation appears to finally be thinking seriously about energy. As blog readers know, I thought the biggest mistake of the Obama administration early on was the focus on health care instead of focusing on renewable energy resources. Most folks disagreed with my opinion, which is fine, but I st ...
- Bolton Hits Back at Tea Partiers for Saying ‘S ...Tea Party activists are calling on the “super committee” tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in budget cuts to make sure that the Pentagon’s budget remains on the table. âNothing should be sacred, and everything needs to be evaluated and cut as much as it can be,â said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founde ...
- Karabakh Military Build-UpIn recent months, observers of the south Caucasus have been concerned about rising tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan as negotiations over the status of the latter’s breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh go nowhere. Most recently, Karabakh’s top military commander has been advertising a bui ...
TAPPED - The American Prospect
- Candidates and ConsumptionIn a column tearing his party a new one for ever defending Sarah Palin, David Frum says that we should "Quit treating consumption patterns as substitutes for character": It's very important that politicians understand the everyday lives of Americans. It's important that politicians champion the ...
- The Not-So Windy Road from the House to the Pr ...On Tuesday reports came out that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is considering jumping into the GOP presidential race. Just two days earlier, sitting members of the House of Representatives � Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul --�finished in first and second place in the Iowa Straw Poll. Though none of the ...
- Rick Perry Talks About SexWe sure are talking about Rick Perry a lot. But why stop now -- he's not only new, but interesting in ways that some of his opponents aren't. Jonathan Chait brings us this video of Perry seemingly flummoxed when confronted with the fact that his preferred policy of abstinence education doesn't w ...
- Republicans Can't Seem to Go a Day Without Ins ...Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn went on something of a speaking tour yesterday, warning�of impending economic disaster and predicting the demise of Medicare. It has been an exercise in sensationalism � at one point, while voicing his frustrations with the Senate, Coburn said that �It�s just a good t ...
- Rick Perry's Higher Education WoesTexas Governor Rick Perry’s has had a tough go with higher education. Costs to attend the state's college have shot past the support the state provides to students. State community colleges, for example, are 90 percent more expensive since 2000 while, over the same period, government spending in ...
Buzzflash
- Creationist Rick Perry Proves That Evolution P ...MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The creationist crowd does have some proof that Darwin wasn't right about every individual in a species. They are living proof: after all, they haven't evolved. The other day, a very young boy in New Hampshire got the better of Rick Perry with a ...
- What is Happening With the Leftist Tilt in Sou ...NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Over the past few years, the international left has derived much satisfaction from the course of South American political and economic integration. The novelty of such integration is that it has proceeded along progressive lines and has been pushed by re ...
- The Imagination of America's Founders Is a Lar ...Body The biggest hurdle we face today is whether we choose to move forward as a nation or backward, away from progress and toward the ways not of our forefathers, but of the most hide-bound, parochial elements in our society. Our founders were not similar to the way today's conser ...
- Texas State Board of Education Declares War on ...MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The Texas State Board of Education declares war on the Declaration of Independence. That's one perspective on the Lone Star State board that approves educational textbooks in Texas. After all, when you delete Thomas Jefferson - author of the Decla ...
- Republicans Accuse White House and Hollywood o ...BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Rep. Peter King, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, thinking that Hollywood's elite will try and bail Obama out with an October 2012 release of a film about the assassination of Osama bin Laden, calls for an investigation. Here's ...
Glenn Greenwald - Salon
- A prime aim of the growing Surveillance StateAs economic anxiety and social unrest increase, control over Internet technology and communication becomes vital
- Obama v. Bush on power over CongressIs a weak presidency real or an excuse used to justify Obama's failures?
- The misery of the protracted presidential camp ...Tuck in for some cheap, empty, accountability-free punditry -- also called "coverage of the presidential campaign"
- Pakistani belief about drones: perceptive or p ...President Obama's former National Intelligence Director makes the case that drones are counter-productive
- Why "business needs certainty" is destructiveToo many business executives are paid handsomely for taking no risk, and that's bad for all of us
The BiPartisan Report
- Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
- Nihilism 1 American People Nil
- Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
- Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
- Those holier than thou Conservatives
Sciencebase
- Red, red, red wine and moreMy four latest science news stories now live on SpectroscopyNOW, kicking off with an item about adulteration and red wine – Various approaches to statistical analysis of spectroscopic data can reveal whether red wine has been adulterated with anthocyanins to artificially improve, “correct”, its ...
- Diluting homeopathic advertisingDiluting homeopathic advertising HT @SilvianaJ – The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered online homeopathy advertisers to stop making claims that their treatments work. [Because they don't!] The ASA’s remit was extended to regulating websites in March 2011, since when it says it has rece ...
- Billions upon billionsBack in the day, we Brits had big billions. A billion was a million millions. Obviously, the “bi” doubling up the “illion” from million. What else would it be? Well…of course…the Americans wanted to talk bigger still and so made their billion a mere 1000 million. Back then, it was hard to be a m ...
- Wi-Fi by LED lightForget Fanny by Gaslight…an LED light went on for German physicist Harald Haas who suggests that we could utilise LED lightbulbs as an alternative route for connecting to the Internet without disrupting the use of those LEDs for simple illumination. You can dim the lights so that they no longer ...
- Moving pictures for motoring moleculesResearchers in Japan have used high-speed atomic force microscopy (AFM) to shoot an action movie of the biological molecular motor ATPase. ATPase, an enzyme embedded in cell membranes, produces the cellular fuel molecule ATP. the enzyme has two rotating components, but until now only X-ray cryst ...
Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire
- CFTC Report Reveals Rampant Speculation in Oil ...Sen. Bernie Sanders offered the following statement after having reviewed a list of speculative oil traders responsible for the 2008 spike in oil prices.� This list was compiled by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).read more
- CFTC Report Reveals Rampant Speculation in Oil ...Sen. Bernie Sanders offered the following statement after having reviewed a list of speculative oil traders responsible for the 2008 spike in oil prices.� This list was compiled by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).read more
- Leaked Oil Trading Documents Underscore Role o ...Note: The Wall Street Journal this week ran a story about confidential documents from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that named traders who held oil futures in 2008, when oil prices spiked to record highs. The growing controversy over the leaking of trading documents naming 219 investo ...
- Leaked Oil Trading Documents Underscore Role o ...Note: The Wall Street Journal this week ran a story about confidential documents from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that named traders who held oil futures in 2008, when oil prices spiked to record highs. The growing controversy over the leaking of trading documents naming 219 investo ...
- Tar Sands Pipeline: “A Climate Killing Disaster”Starting this weekend people from across the country will gather in Washington D.C. to oppose the Keystone XL, a 1,700 mile pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The protest will continue for two weeks.read more
Common Dreams-Views
- Fixing Schools: A Smart Plan for JobsMichelle Chen Politicians love to talk about how to “fix” the education system, from imposing standardized tests to shuttering “failing” schools. But they've been ignoring a big, basic fix for the nation's schools—one that might help fix t ...
- Beyond Frankenfoods and Toxics: OCA’s Ten Reas ...Ronnie Cummins Organic foods and products are the fastest growing items in America's grocery carts. Thirty million households, comprising 75 million people, are now buying organic foods, clothing, body care, supplements, pet food, and othe ...
- How Washington Could Create Jobs Right NowMichael Winship I like to ask friends about the oddest summer job they ever had. One talks about how he used to don a rubber suit every morning at a Sylvania electronics plant in Syracuse, NY, and climb into a tank, where he dipped televis ...
- Want Public Safety? Don't Disable Cell PhonesEva Galperin In response to outrage over last week's shutdown of cell phone service in four San Francisco stations on rumors of a planned protest, BART officials have repeatedly claimed their decision was necessary to maintain public safet ...
- Elections and EvolutionChristopher Brauchli The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.read more
Newshoggers - AfPak
- Ex D.N.I. Blair: The Hippies Were Right (Again)HASH(0x9eae7c0)
- The U.S. Has Created The Next Afghan Civil WarHASH(0xa33fa28)
- Karzai's Strongman Brother Killed In The Potte ...HASH(0xa03eca0)
- Swimming In A Sea Of Night RaidsHASH(0xa2ef660)
- 2 notes on Afghanistan and the failure of COINHASH(0x9dab938)
Water Wars
- Water WarsSPARKS – Dozens of Washoe County residents turned out at Sparks High School Thursday during the last of nine Bureau of Land Management (BLM) open house sessions to protest a proposed pipeline that would ship water from rural northeastern Nevada to Las Vegas, citing the loss of environmental, eco ...
- Water Wars ContinueAlabama and Florida are appealing a ruling that handed metro Atlanta a big victory in a tri-state fight over water.
- Alabama, Florida Appeal Water Wars RulingToday Alabama, Florida, Alabama Power Company and the City of Apalachicola, Florida asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling made by a three-judge panel in June that focuses on how much water the city of Atlanta can withdraw from Lake Lanier and the Chattahoochee River.
- Ala., Fla. appeal ruling in tri-state water warsThis story will be updated. http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/ encourages readers to interact with one another. We will not edit your comments, but we reserve the right to delete any inappropriate responses.
- AL, FL Appeal Water Wars RulingGeorgia's neighbors asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday to reconsider a ruling that affirmed metro Atlanta's right to take water from Lake Lanier on the Chattahoochee River.
WordPress | Economics
- American Healthcare = Indentured Servitude for ...The notion that we should continue to link healthcare to large companies…is nuts. Let’s
- The Fix for Europe: Default?The Fix for Europe: Default?, posted with vodpod
- Markets: More Tough Times Ahead?Markets: More Tough Times Ahead?, posted with vodpod
- Europe Haunts the Market !I am having alot of problems with WordPress. Unable to do much work so there will be few posts. Hope
- Do or dieYet another dumb, uneducated, religious fundamentalist, anti-science, neoconservative, gun-toting Te
Electronic Intifada
- Gaza lifeguards deprived of rescue equipment b ...Eva BartlettThe Electronic IntifadaGaza Strip Power cuts and a lack of basic rescue equipment due to Israeli restrictions mean that Gaza lifeguards can’t reach swimmers in danger.
- Palestinian youth in Gaza skeptical about PA's ...Mohammed Rabah SulimanThe Electronic IntifadaGaza Strip As the Palestinian Authority approaches the United Nations to ask for full membership for the “State of Palestine,” many young people in Gaza are highly doubtful the move can secure Palestinian rights.
- Video survey: Racism rampant among Israeli youthEli Ungar-SargonThe Electronic Intifada A survey of 250 Israeli Jews reveals the extent of anti-Arab racism in�Israel.
- Why was the PA hosting American Kabbalah touri ...Michelle GyeneyThe Electronic IntifadaNablus The Palestinian Authority cooperated with Israeli forces to host a fabricated “Peace and Freedom Day” rally in Nablus, while prohibiting local Palestinian tour guides from discussing politics with Kabbalist tourists from the US.
- Donors help keep Palestinians in cages Charlotte SilverThe Electronic IntifadaRamallah International aid donors are using Palestine as a laboratory for a neo-liberal economic�experiment.
The Wonk Room
- When Culture ConvictsSome additional real talk on cultural signifiers, the West Memphis Three, and Cameron Todd Willingham from quadmoniker at PostBourgie: There’s another problem that ties both cases together, and that’s the bigger one. In the Willingham case, a taste in Led Zeppelin marked him as a killer. In the ...
- Unemployed Constituents Stage Sit-In At Paul R ...Yesterday, seven unemployed constituents of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) staged a sit-in at his office in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to protest the congressman’s decision not to hold any free public town halls during the August recess. An additional 100 protesters picketed outside the office. Politico reporte ...
- Family Research Council Affiliates Took Millio ...The Family Research Council’s state-based affiliates have “raked in nearly $6 million in state and federal funds over the last five years” for abstinence-only and marriage promotion programs, the American Independent’s Andy Birkey is reporting. The state chapters took the money despite FRC’s pub ...
- Fox Viewers Overwhelmingly Think We Should Pre ...A new (supposedly) NASA-funded study postulating that aliens may attack humans over climate change had all the ingredients for a perfect Fox faux controversy — it bolstered their anti-science narrative, painted their opponents as clownish radicals, and highlighted wasteful government spending on ...
- BlunderingGavyn Davies: Governments have routinely responded to any form of financial trouble by tightening the near term fiscal stance, while failing to address their long term sustainability problems. This, according to almost all economists who have opined on the subject, is precisely the wrong way aro ...
thwap's schoolyard
- Sometimtes They Really Are Just Fucking MoronsReagan, bush II, harper, Mike Harris, Tim Hudak, Ernie Eves, John Baird, Jim Flaherty, William Kristol, Ezra Levant, and of course, Rob Ford. When you factor in the way that they get so handsomely rewarded for their services and the fact that they want government to fail in order to slash ser ...
- Socialist DucksThis essay was penned by Brian LaBreton. It was the winning entry into the Fraiser Institute's "Future 'Conservative' Hacks of Canada" contest. Brian is a second-year university student, studying economics. His parents are both high-school teachers and he hates them deeply. He also had the misfo ...
- APTN Update on Pickton InquiryOne of our great national disgraces is being covered by the APTN News.
- Absolutely DisgustingThere's so much evil in the world, but the sheer injustice and cruelty and selfishness represented by this story really affected me. "Iraq foots the bill for its own destruction" by Murtaza Hussain: Billions of dollars in reparations are indeed being paid for the Iraq War, but not to Iraqis ...
- Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Ass on the W ...So, Tony Warr is retiring. I'd never heard of him before today. He's Toronto's Deputy Police Chief. Given the fact that he's retiring, it doesn't seem likely that I'll ever hear about him again. Which will be a good thing: The public and media overreacted to events during the G20 summit, and p ...
on Government Oversight
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Digital Journal
- There's something for everyone's taste at Toro ...Going to Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition is one of those times during the year like Christmas. You are expected to 'pig out' and eat loads of sweets!
- Toronto's CNE's The Farm brings farm animals u ...The Farm is the CNE's special place for farm animals bringing delight to children of all ages. In a city like Toronto seeing farm animals up close is not a common experience.
- Ethnic Press ready to educate at the CNEA diverse culture of immigrants help make up Canada. Those immigrants embrace their new homeland while still holding on to their past.
- CNE opened today in Toronto starting 18 days o ...There's something about the Canadian National Exhibit that brings out the kid in all of us in Toronto. Maybe it's the rides, the games or just the smiles that appear on almost all of the kids racing around the midway.
- CNE hosts Canadian Military: Rangers assist th ...One of the most visited spots at every CNE is the Canadian military's exhibit. The military brings out their coolest vehicles giving visitors an insider's view of what the troops do.
End Homelessness | Change.org
- Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
- Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
- Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
- LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
- Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
Ceasefire.ca
- Peacekeeping contribution remains dismalCanada was once the largest single contributor to UN peacekeeping operations. Today, according to Canadians for Peacekeeping‘s third annual factsheet on Canada and UN peacekeeping, we rank 53rd among contributing countries. The ranking represents a slight drop in Canada’s position compared to la ...
- A Season of Non-Violence: 64 Ways for 64 DaysPummy Kaur, a Vancouver-based author and social justice activist, has just released a new book entitled 'A Season of Non-Violence: 64 Ways for 64 Days'.
- National Post: U.S. troubles darken cloud over ...A National Post editorial from the ninth of August raises concerns about Canada’s purchase of the F-35 amid the budgetary crisis playing out in the United States (“Editorial: U.S. Troubles darken cloud over F-35,” National Post, 9 August 2011). Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), a former naval aviat ...
- Third time’s a charm? F-35 fleet grounded againThe U.S. Air Force grounded its fleet of Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighters earlier this month — for the 3rd time in less than year. In October 2010 the company grounded the fleet of 20 F-35s purchased by the US military after discovering a software glitch during simulation tests. ...
- Canada reverses position on Arms Trade TreatyThe Conservative government has repositioned itself as a less-than-useful partner in the lead-up to negotiations on the United Nations’ Arms Trade Treaty, reports Kenneth Epps, senior program officer at Project Ploughshares (Kenneth Epps, “Hunting down an Arms Trade Treaty,” Embassy Magazine, 3 ...
Kevin Trudeau Show
- Olive Oil Reduces Risk of StrokeJune 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By:Â J.D. Heyes Another new study has confirmed what we’ve known for quite some time – that olive oil contributes to better health. According to researchers who followed about 7,000 people aged 65 and older in three French cities for five years, olive oil can hel ...
- Bill Gates, Monsanto Hijack ‘Humanitarian Aid’ ...June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Ethan A. Huff Those still in denial about the connection between the so-called “humanitarian” efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the bigger agenda to thrust genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) on the populations of the world (among other thi ...
- J&J Recalls 40,000 Bottles of Schizophrenia Dr ...June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Jonathan Benson The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Co.’s pharmaceutical division just cannot seem to get its act together. A recent recall involving 16,000 bottles of its schizophrenia drug Risperdal, and 24,000 bottles of a generic version of the same drug, mark yet ...
- What’s Wrong With Our Food System?Click here for the video!
- Dollar Seen Losing Global Reserve StatusJune 28th, 2011 Financial Times By: Jack Farchy The US dollar will lose its status as the global reserve currency over the next 25 years, according to a survey of central bank reserve managers who collectively control more than $8,000bn. More than half the managers, who were polled by UBS, predi ...
Pambazuka News
- Global: Conference will establish African Soci ...On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...
- Global: It takes a VillagerOwino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
- Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism ...Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
- USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. ...A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
- Global: New murders and fumigations in ancestr ...In only two weeks, four Afro-Colombian leaders have been murdered, and several subjected to death threats. Fumigations have caused the internal displacement of more than 100 Afro-Colombians. The violation of Afro-Colombian fundamental rights continue...
War in Context
- Israeli army hasn’t the faintest idea who laun ...The Real News Network’s Lia Tarachansky asked IDF Spokesperson Lt. Colonel Avital Leibovitz how the IDF reached their conclusions about who was responsible for Thursday’s attacks near Eilat in southern Israel. Tarachansky: On what are you basing your conclusion that this group [the Popular Resi ...
- Next stop Tripoli — Libya’s rebels sense victo ...The Independent reports: Another town falls. Another hook of the trap around Tripoli locks into place. More die, more homes burn, the hatred deepens. But after months of savage strife, there is now a sense that the endgame is at last approaching in Libya’s bloody civil war. The latest battlegr ...
- While Gaza is being bombed by Israel, Hamas ar ...Ma’an News Agency reports: The military wing of Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades, has called off a ceasefire with Israel and will allow factions in Gaza to respond to Israeli attacks, Al-Aqsa Radio reported late Friday. “There can be no truce with the Israeli occupation while it commits massacres ...
- Anti-Arab sentiment in IsraelEli Ungar-Sargon writes: Over the past three years, my wife Pennie and I have been working on a documentary film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During our second production trip to the region, one of the many remarkable people we encountered was Uri Davis. He is one of a handful of Isr ...
- Hold Israel accountable with Leahy lawJosh Ruebner writes: Apologists for Israeli occupation and apartheid claim that advocates for holding Israel accountable for its human rights abuses of Palestinians are “singling Israel out for extra scrutiny” or “holding Israel to a higher standard than other countries.” Yet, ironically, Isr ...
Watts Up With That?
- Saturday Silliness – Concerned Cartoon C ...People send me things. The story a couple of days ago about Union of Concerned Scientists (Be a concerned scientist – valid credit card required) has prompted some interest in their cartoon contest. Hi Anthony, Seems the UCS are having … Continue reading →
- Oh noes! Cities endanger the future environmentFrom Yale University Growth of cities endangers global environment New Haven, Conn.âThe explosive growth of cities worldwide over the next two decades poses significant risks to people and the global environment, according to a meta-analysis published today in PlosOne. Researchers … Continue rea ...
- Interpretation of the Global Mean Temperature ...By Girma Orssengo, PhD In his Caltech commencement address in 1974, Professor Richard Feynman advised students the following: âDetails that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them.â [1] Using the global mean temperature (GMT) … Continue reading →
- Detecting sunspots before they form allows for ...From Stanford University New method detects emerging sunspots deep inside the sun, provides warning of dangerous solar flares, say Stanford researchers Sunspots spawn solar flares that can cause billions of dollars in damage to satellites, communications networks and power grids. … Continue read ...
- Ryan Maue’s paper in GRL in AGU’s ...We’ve known this for quite some time, but I wanted to offer my congratulations to Dr. Maue. I’m thankful that you are a WUWT contributor. – Anthony AGU journal highlights — Aug. 18 The following highlights summarize research papers that … Continue reading →
treehugger
- The Bacon Candle: Your Life May Depend On ItPhoto by Syriloth/Creative Commons It's The End Of The World As We Know It. What are you going to do? Your flashlight batteries are dead. Hell, your candle wax is even running low. All you have left to eat is bacon. Well, at least there are worse ways to die. But wait ... A burned-out candl ...
- The Recycled Paper Dress That Gets Better with ...The "Ready-to-wear-away" dress wears away as you wear it. Photo: Deborah Feingold On TreeHugger, we like to focus on fashion that is built to last but this unusual garment could hardly go down without a mention. Called the "Ready-to-wear-away" dress, it is more an artistic creation than a w ...
- Double Impact: Why DIY Cleaning Supplies Make ...Last week, we asked you to join in the Giveaway 4 Good and vote on a new Double Impact challenge by telling us how you prefer to live frugal and green. The votes are in and the majority of readers selected making your own cleaning supplies. Here's why Sommer Poquette at Green and Clean Mom s ...
- Billboard Houses Bats and Translates Their Spe ...All Images Courtesy of Chris Woebken If you've ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they're up to, this is the billboard for you. The "Bat Billboard," a collaboration of designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko, is a design that will not only house bats, but ...
- Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Have No Car ...Here is an interesting juxtaposition of stories; Kaid Benfield at NRDC Switchboard picks up on a study about how dangerous it is to be a pedestrian in America. He quotes Transportation for America: In the last decade, from 2000 through 2009, more than 47,700 pedestrians were killed in th ...
Biosingularity
- Team describes neurological basis for embarras ...Recording people belting out an old Motown tune and then asking them to listen to their own singing without the accompanying music seems like an unusually cruel form of punishment. But for a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, ...
- New Research Suggests Dramatic Shift In Unders ...Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in collaboration with researchers at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, have made a critical discovery that may lead scientists to abandon the use of broad conventional ethnic labelsâAfrican-American, Hispanic, and Caucasianâto es ...
- Anti-inflammatory drug may fight breast cancerGerman researchers have identified an unexpected molecular marker that predicts how sensitive hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancers are to chemotherapy. Triple-negative breast cancers –which do not express the genes for estrogen receptor, or progesterone receptor and do not have Her2/neu ...
- The soul of a cell: Researchers used advanced ...Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have taken a machine already in use for the measurement of impurities in semiconductors and used it to analyze immune cells in far more detail than has been possible before. The new technology lets scientists take simultaneous measurement ...
- Juice cocktail ‘good for heart’A blend of fruit juices, including grape, cranberry and blackcurrant, may have benefits for the heart, research suggests. French scientists tested the blend on pig arteries in the lab, and found it caused artery walls to relax. It remains to be seen whether fruit juices can improve vascular heal ...
CFACT
- The clear-cutting facts about the rainforestAre we really losing one football field every minute?
- New predictions of warming lack scientific basisWorst-case scenairos do not paint accurate picture of climate
- Cloudy days ahead for global climate modelsComputers still not reliable in predicting climate
- Corn dogs: A New Eco-Villain?Controversy is latest in biotech battle
- Examining China's emissions claimsEvidence suggests China not cutting greenhouse emissions
Ria Novosti Online News
- Indian Navy unveils second 'stealth-like' frigateThe Indian Navy put into service its second "stealth-like" frigate on Saturday, IANC news agency reported citing the Navy's press service.
- Russia’s most popular carsThe most popular cars in terms of sales in January-July 2011.
- Museum of Vanished Taste in KolomnaThe recipe for apple pastila (meringue), a delicacy that made the city of Kolomna famous throughout pre-revolutionary Russia, was restored in 2008. At the Museum of Vanished Taste, which recreates the ambience of the 19th century, visitors are able not only to learn about the history of this exc ...
- Man mauled to death by polar bear in Russia's ...A polar bear that mauled a man to death in Russia's Far Eastern region of Chukotka has been shot along with two other bears wandering near a village, a co-chairman of the Committee for Marine Mammals, Andrei Boltunov, said on Saturday.
- Egyptian ambassador to remain in Tel Aviv - Fo ...Egypt on Saturday said it would not recall its ambassador to Israel and would limit itself to inviting the Israeli ambassador to Egypt for consultations at the Foreign Ministry in Cairo.
Ria Novosti - Science & Technology
- Missing satellite found off designated orbitThe Russian Express-AM4 communication satellite, missing after Thursday's launch, could not separate from the booster and was found off the designated orbit, a source in the Russian space program said on Friday.
- Russia may allocate $340 mln for new technoparksThe Russian Communications Ministry is hoping to receive an additional 9.9 billion rubles ($340 million) from the state budget for the construction of new technological clusters, Russian daily Izvestia said on Friday.
- Chinese scientists come up with plan to save E ...A group of Chinese scientists have proposed using a solar sail to prevent the possible collision of Apophis, a 46 million ton asteroid, with the Earth in 2036.
- Dalai Lama awarded honorary doctorate in EstoniaThe Dalai Lama was on Thursday awarded an honorary doctorate in Oriental Studies from the University of Tartu in Estonia.
- Russia loses contact with new satelliteThe designer and manufacturer of a Russian satellite launched on Thursday has no information about its location or condition, the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said.
Pruning Shears
- 'No on Issue 2': Yes, GOP, this is really happ ...Last week the Ohio politics blog Plunderbund had a series of posts about the sudden and dramatic sense of desperation that had seized the right. The panic began with an editorial from the conservative Columbus Dispatch. It was so completely at odds with reality that even a casual follower of s ...
- Weekend wrapupNo Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Spencer C. Duncan, 21, of Olathe, KS.Army Sgt. Alexander J. Bennett, 24, of Tacoma, WA.Army ...
- Wisconsin's big union win and the growing libe ...No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postTuesday’s recall elections in Wisconsin were a stunning rebuke to the Republican party. As Craig Gilbert wrote back in March: “History tells us that most of the 16 recall attempts under way in Wisconsin are likely to fail. It als ...
- Weekend wrapupNo Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Staff Sgt. Kirk A. Owen, 37, of Sapulpa, OK.Marine Staff Sgt. Leon H. Lucas Jr., 32, of Wilson, N ...
- So, anything interesting going on?I’m getting away from it all this week, and it looks like I picked a fine week to do so.
Organic Consumers.org
- USDA Scientist: Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide D ...August hasn't been a happy month the for the Monsanto PR team. No, I'm not referring to my posts on how Gaza and Mexico don't need the company's high-tech seeds-the ones it will supposedly be "feeding the world" with in the not-so-distant future.Click here to read this article
- Turning Point in DC: Climate Justice Movement ...When climate change activist Tim DeChristopher received a two-year jail term in July, his supporters declared him an American hero.Click here to read this article
- High Food Prices Driving Global UnrestThe waves of social unrest and political instability seen recently around the world have coincided with large peaks in global food prices, US researchers have found.Click here to read this article
- Maine Farmers Push for Changes in Federal Agri ...In the face of a weak U.S. economy, and increasing debt, Congress is considering cuts to federal farm subsidies that go back to the Depression era.Click here to read this article
- Cultivating Knowledge and Crops: Women Are Key ...Women account for 75 percent of the agricultural producers in sub-Saharan Africa, but the majority of women farmers are living on only $1.25 per day, according to researchers from the Worldwatch Institute.Click here to read this article
Center for a Livable Future
- Sweating the small stuff: engineered nano-mate ...Many public health hazards are too small to see. This is especially true of engineered nano-materials, or ENMs. As their name implies, these materials are small—no more than a few hundred nanometers in diameter. (For perspective, one nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or one human hair sp ...
- Dam Water in China: Water LosersAlong the Keriya River, one of twelve waterways in western China where dam construction began last year, the mood is weary and palpably tense. For those on the bank, what the dams will bring remains uncertain; what they have taken away is already great. New York Times journalist Jim Yardley writ ...
- Dam Water in China: Is It Worth It?In western China, massive dams are being built along 12 waterways. The dams are supposed to aid economic development—but experts are saying it’s likely that the dams will do more harm than good. When China pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40-45 percent of the 2005 levels at the Cop ...
- Organic Poultry Farms Brew Profoundly Fewer An ...Amy Sapkota's research confirms what has long been suspected but never documented in the U.S.—poultry growers who convert to an organic system can reduce the incidence of antibiotic resistance and make an important contribution to safeguarding the health of the public.
- James Beard Leadership Awards: Recognizing Foo ...Today the James Beard Foundation named the 10 recipients of its inaugural Leadership Awards, expanding the Foundation’s focus to include game-changing pioneers who have inspired positive action to improve our country’s food system.
Investigate - Breaking News
- Climate study endorses central premise of Air ConA central premise of my book Air Con, from 2009, appears to have been validated by new peer reviewed research. My argument, which Climate Change minister Nick Smith and self-proclaimed climate expert - truffle grower Gareth Renowden, tried to challenge...
- BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...FROM AN EXTRACT OF BREAKING SILENCE Published in the latest Investigate HIS/HERS magazine... What you are about to read has been described as the most controversial book ever published in New Zealand. It wasn’t supposed to be. But news sent...
- BREAKING SILENCE news releaseBREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE By Ian Wishart $39.99, Howling At The Moon Publishing Ltd RELEASE DATE: Imminent Final opportunity to pre-order for delivery on Day One: www.howlingatthemoon.com The new book that shatters myths surrounding the Kahui murder case is...
- News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...
- News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART The Facebook page on Macsyna King is dishonest. They have known all along that Macsyna has neither sought nor been offered any money or compensation for the book Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart. Still, the...
My Care2 Picks
- Norway's 9/11: The Horror Is In The MessageYou will send your troops where we tell you, you will buy foreign products regardless of ethical considerations, you will stop supporting the vermin we are trying to eradicate, and under no circumstances will you threaten anyone. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Concealed Weapons Against the Environment2012 spending bill for the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agencyincluded an astonishing 39 anti-environmental riders Here are some of the other riders that were still pending as of FridaySubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Why Is The Monterey Bay Aquarium Greenwashing ...Nation�s major sustainable food writers and bloggers converge on Monterey, CA for an invite-only sustainable food conference. New sponsor this year: Kellogg Garden Products that has contaminated �organic� school gardens in LA with sewerage sludgeSubmitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �| ...
- Globalist Imperial NetworkThe mechanics of world empire, in particular the current corporate-financier oligarchy has been examined in great detail. The US State Department, supporting NGOs funded directly by both US taxpayers' money as well as funds from the Fortune 500 corpSubmitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World �|� ...
- Pragmatism not IdealismThis is the math and logic that underpins the arguments of "climate pragmatism" -- such as espoused in the report released yesterday by that name, The Hartwell Paper and The Climate Fix.Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
Angry Indian News
- Tottenham defence campaign launch meeting|20Au ...Tottenham defence campaign launch meeting|20Aug11|Socialist Worker Activists in Tottenham, north London, will launch a defence campaign for those arrested over the recent riots at a meeting on... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Evidence Mounts of War Crimes Unfolding in Sud ...Evidence Mounts of War Crimes Unfolding in Sudan - IPS ipsnews.net By Inaki Borda UNITED NATIONS, Aug 18, 2011 (IPS) - Witnesses reported that attacks continue on civilian populations in Sudan, even... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- MIDEAST: Palestinians Strike to Seek Historic ...MIDEAST: Palestinians Strike to Seek Historic Agreement - IPS ipsnews.net By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours The quarry where workers are striking to secure a historic agreement. / Credit:Marie... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Congressional Black Caucus sponsors fraudulent ...Congressional Black Caucus sponsors fraudulent jobs fair in Detroit: [wsws.org] On August 16, more than 5,000 people, many considered long-term unemployed and out of work for more than a year, waited... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Q&A: Native Peruvians 'More Marginalised Despi ...Q&A: Native Peruvians 'More Marginalised Despite Growth' - IPS ipsnews.net: LIMA, Aug 18, 2011 (IPS) - For the first time, a representative of the indigenous communities in Peru's Amazonas region... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
Farm Wars
- The “Non-GMO” Labeling ScamA company wants to market a product chock full of GMOs and every other thing under the sun, make it appear to be healthy, and use Non-GMO certification to sell it. So how do you do it?
- Smart Grid – The Birth of Global TechnocracySmart Grid - The Birth of Global Technocracy VIDEO - Patrick Wood
- New patent granted to Bayer breaks the lawThe comprehensive patent will give Bayer monopoly control over important food crops including both genetic engineering in plants and the process for conventional breeding and plants derived thereof.
- TS Radio with guest Laura Leigh on the obliter ...Join us Tuesday evening at 8 CST! Listen Live HERE! Laura Leigh is an award winning artist, journalist and videographer. She is founder and President of Wild Horse Education, which funds her work and is on the Board of Directors and is Vice President of the Wild Horse Freedom Federation which ...
- FDA New, Stealth Dirty Trick To Take Your Supp ...Codex Alimentarius - Taking your Supplements by Stealth.
True/Slant Headline Grabs
- The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
- Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
- How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
- ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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Citizens for Legitimate Government
- West Coast fish to be tested for Fukushima rad ...ShareThisWest Coast fish to be tested for Fukushima radiation --Agency has not yet released any specific details on the testing 19 Aug 2011 The Canadian Food Inspection Agency plans to start testing fish off the coast of British Columbia for the presence of radiation stemming from the Fukushima ...
- England riots: foreign rioters will be deportedShareThisEngland riots: foreign rioters will be deported 19 Aug 2011 Foreigners who took part in last week's rioting will be deported to "send a tough message to troublemakers," it has emerged. More than 150 people born abroad have been arrested over the looting and arson attacks which brought m ...
- US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024ShareThisUS troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024 19 Aug 2011 America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. The agreement would allow not only m ...
- National Archives: SEC wrongfully destroyed re ...ShareThisNational Archives: SEC wrongfully destroyed records --National Archives says SEC violated federal laws in past 18 Aug 2011 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission violated federal rules when it destroyed investigative records over a 17-year period, the agency that safeguards federal ...
- Young Americans flock to Israel to join armyShareThisYoung Americans flock to Israel to join army 18 Aug 2011 Hundreds of new immigrants from the U.S. landed at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel on Tuesday. An unprecedented 104 of the 360 new arrivals, came to enlist in the Israeli army. Brig. Gen. Eli Shermeister, the Chief Education Officer, ...
Daily Loaf
- 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen lifeI 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 WallopVictory 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 PickingOur 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
- JTAC: Joint Terminal Attack Controller17 August 2011 4-4Cav in Combat Operation Flintlock We made it off the helicopter landing zone with no fighting. The enemy was not afraid of us, but they must have been taken by surprise. Two Air Force JTACs were along for the mission, as they nearly always are in deliberate attacks that mi ...
- War Dogs & Veloci-Chickens in AfghanistanTask Force Spartan Pushing Deeper into Taliban Country. A canine team at rest. 15 August 2011 Zhary District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan War Puppies Friday morning I was out for a run on base and must have seen five working dogs and their handlers.� The two dogs you will see in these disp ...
- Infiltration: Operation Flintlock Part II4-4Cav Soldiers stuffed into CH-47 helicopter during mission. August 11, 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan The plan was bold and dangerous.� The troops were to fly by CH-47 helicopters to the insertion point.� There would be no moonlight.� Illumination was predicted to be 1%. ...
- Operation Flintlock: Some NotesPlanning Operation Flintlock at FOB Pasab, formerly FOB Wilson. 09 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan The ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches.� For us, the Iraq war has essentially come and gone between 2003 and 2008, though we continue to lose troops th ...
- Men at War: Come Home with Your Shield, or On ItDuring the mission 08 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan The men here can be seen saluting senior officers, while saying, �Sir, with your shield or on it.�� This is the mantra of Task Force Spartan. On the morning of 30 July, members of 4-4Cav boarded CH-47 helicopters ...
The Killing Train
- Things they don't tell you about capitalism: a ...Published on ZNet Ha-Joon Chang is a development economist with a special interest in economic history. His most recent book, “23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism”, as well as previous books, have critiqued neoliberalism and laissez-faire economics. I interviewed him by telephone on A ...
- Ultraviolent conflictsBetween economic austerity and riot stories, my reading is out of sync with the headlines. I've been reading more about African conflicts, especially very recent and ongoing ones. Specifically: -Allen and Vlassenroot's book on the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. -Jason Stearns's book on the Co ...
- Numeracy alert. Gravy drain.I read Metro Today on the subway today. There was a story blaming City of Toronto staff for squandering - wait for it - up to $1 MILLION dollars in sole-sourced contracts. So, Rob Ford is right, and there is waste to be cut, eh? Except that $1 million is, for example, 1/3 of what the KPMG report ...
- The politics of economic self-destructionSorry 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.
treehugger
- The Bacon Candle: Your Life May Depend On ItPhoto by Syriloth/Creative Commons It's The End Of The World As We Know It. What are you going to do? Your flashlight batteries are dead. Hell, your candle wax is even running low. All you have left to eat is bacon. Well, at least there are worse ways to die. But wait ... A burned-out candl ...
- The Recycled Paper Dress That Gets Better with ...The "Ready-to-wear-away" dress wears away as you wear it. Photo: Deborah Feingold On TreeHugger, we like to focus on fashion that is built to last but this unusual garment could hardly go down without a mention. Called the "Ready-to-wear-away" dress, it is more an artistic creation than a w ...
- Double Impact: Why DIY Cleaning Supplies Make ...Last week, we asked you to join in the Giveaway 4 Good and vote on a new Double Impact challenge by telling us how you prefer to live frugal and green. The votes are in and the majority of readers selected making your own cleaning supplies. Here's why Sommer Poquette at Green and Clean Mom s ...
- Billboard Houses Bats and Translates Their Spe ...All Images Courtesy of Chris Woebken If you've ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they're up to, this is the billboard for you. The "Bat Billboard," a collaboration of designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko, is a design that will not only house bats, but ...
- Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Have No Car ...Here is an interesting juxtaposition of stories; Kaid Benfield at NRDC Switchboard picks up on a study about how dangerous it is to be a pedestrian in America. He quotes Transportation for America: In the last decade, from 2000 through 2009, more than 47,700 pedestrians were killed in th ...
Democratic Voice of Burma
- Suu Kyi ‘relaxed’ after talks with ...Details of opposition leader's first meeting with Burma's premier unclear but aide says the talks were 'warm and casual'
- Thailand told to rein in human traffickersUN exeprt tells Bangkok that enforcement of laws surrounding human trafficing are weak and aid a 'culture of impunity'
- Shan children ‘used as human shields’Children as young as 10 this week forced to accompany Burmese army column through volatile stretch of Shan state
- Tavoy’s forewarningIn the late 1980s Thailand embarked on an ambitious project to transform a popular stretch of coastline east of Bangkok into the country’s largest industrial estate. Ten years later however health experts found that Rayong province, home to the 25 sq. kilometre Maptaphut complex, had Thailand’s ...
- Govt offers peace talks to ethnic armiesOlive branch offered to warring ethnic groups but scepticism of the Burmese government's true intentions remains strong
Telegraph - Climate Change
- Arctic ice cap 'near 2007 record minimum'The polar ice cap in the Arctic has melted to near its 2007 record minimum level and in some areas is 50 per cent smaller than average, Russia's environmental monitoring agency has claimed.
- Rajendra Pachauri is back to tell us: Trust meThe IPCC's chairman wants us to forget all those scandals about hockey sticks and HImalayan glaciers, writes Christopher Booker.
- Can Prof Rajendra Pachauri really survive 'Gla ...The head of the UN panel on climate change, Prof Rajendra Pachauri, is still adamant that one famously exaggerated report should not cost him his job , says Peter Stanford.
- Steve Jones tells the BBC: don't give 'deniali ...In his report for the BBC Trust, Steve Jones actually attacks Auntie for having too little global-warming bias, writes Christopher Booker.
- Horn of Africa drought: African desperationTelegraph View: In the 1980s rich nations reacted far too slowly to mass starvation in Ethiopia. The same mistake must not be repeated.
National Geographic | Environment
- Is Canadian Oil Bound for China Via Pipeline t ...In a global economy, sending more Canadian oil to Texas could be a modern silk route, a “Tar Sands Road” to China, economist says.
- Pictures: Huge Dust Storm Swallows PhoenixNoneSee the dust fly as the Phoenix area gets hit by its third major dust storm, or haboob, since early July.
- A Quest to Clean Up Canada's Oil Sands CarbonThe first large-scale effort to capture carbon dioxide emissions in the Canadian oil sands is moving closer to reality, but costs are high.
- Human Feces Bacteria Jumped to Coral, Caused D ...A coral die-off suggests seas are becoming warmer and more polluted, making the ocean more susceptible to human pathogens, a new study says.
- Texas and Antarctica Were Attached, Rocks HintAbout 1.1 billion years ago, what are now El Paso, Texas, and Antarctica appear to have existed side by side, scientists say.
Jurist - Legal Research
- Australia state to propose law requiring face ...[JURIST] The New South Wales (NSW) [official website] government is set to propose legislation next week that will require anyone wearing face coverings, including religious veils, to remove them if requested by police for identification purposes. Refusal could result in a $220 AUD fine with the ...
- Lebanon tribunal to investigate bomb attacks r ...[JURIST] The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) [official website] announced Friday that it will investigate three additional bomb attacks [press release] that may be connected to the February 2005 attack that killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri [BBC profile; JURIST news archiv ...
- Ivory Coast ex-president, wife charged with ec ...[JURIST] Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo [BBC profile] and his wife Simone were arrested and charged on Thursday for a variety of economic crimes including looting, embezzlement and armed robbery. Most of Gbagbo's remaining supporters were arrested [JURIST report] earlier this month. ...
- UN rights chief urges Syria ICC probe[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Thursday urged the UN Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official websites] to investigate the violent suppression of anti-government protests. Pillay's remarks came after the ...
- US to review deportations in 300,000 immigrati ...[JURIST] US President Barack Obama announced [press release] major reforms [guidelines, PDF] to America's current immigration [JURIST news archive] system on Thursday, putting 300,000 illegal immigrants' cases up for review and temporarily halting their deportation. The new guidelines direct the ...
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 HillsI 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 JournalistA 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
- [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
- [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
- [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
- [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
- [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...
Bulletin of American Scientists - News
- US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
- SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
- Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
- Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
- More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...
Tikun Olam
- IDF Kills 14 in Gaza, Hamas Renounces Ceasefir ...This is exactly the sort of gift that Israeli rightists like Bibi Netanyahu love. Â Faced with a mounting internal crisis in the form of the J14 movement, Palestinian rejectionists have handed him his “Get Out of Political Crisis Free” card. Â Yesterday’s attack in Eilat has fueled an Israeli re ...
- Court Dismisses Neuwirth Libel ClaimThis is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. –Psalms I’m not sure the Lord made or brought this day. Â But I do share the joy of this Biblical passage. Â Today, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Linda Lefkowitz dismissed Rachel Neuwirth’s libel claim against me. Â This is ...
- Palestinian Attack on Eilat, 8 Israeli and 6 G ...For anyone who hasn’t read Huck Finn, you must. Â Tonight calls to mind the harrowing section of that novel about the feud till death of the Hatfield and McCoys. Â In American parlance, since the publication of the book, the phrase has come to mean any sort of family feud. Â But go back and re-r ...
- Whorin’ and Schnorrin’ Jesse Jackson Jr.-StyleI’ve been keepin’ a list and checkin’ it twice to find out whose been especially naughty in joining the Aipac junket to Israel. Â 81 Congress members participated, marking the participation of an unprecedented 20% of the entire body in a single month’s worth of trips to the Holyland. With the he ...
- ‘That’s How Every Empire Falls’Way back in the dark ages when I first began writing this blog, I called it an mp3 blog and featured some of my favorite music from around the world. Â Those posts and songs are still here, though they’ve been subsumed under thousands of posts about the daily horrors of the Israeli Occupation. B ...
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 overcomeSIGLER/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 REPOSTby 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 PredicamentFor 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
- The Consumer Culture Will Never Be ConvictedNovember 28, 2008: As the recession really started to bite in the Western world, something was stirring in the minds of people across the USA. Black Friday, that time of year when, traditionally, retail businesses move from being in the “red” to being in the “black”, had taken on a Pavlovian sig ...
- 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 FreeWe, 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 ...
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 ClosureRep. 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-NilOne 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
- Mobile Tech Brings Hope to Children in Zimbabwe In Zimbabwe, it's common for people to receive information over their mobile phones rather than using email or the Internet. That's why Kubatana, a non-profit that aims to improve the accessibility of human rights and civic information in Zimbabwe, teamed up with Freedom Fone to broaden access t ...
- Public Lab Helps Communities Do 'Civic Science ...Recently, a resident of Plaquemines Parish, La., made a striking comment to me about the importance of local involvement and knowledge in post-disaster projects: Listen to the people that have been down here, lived here, fished here, and camped here their whole entire lives and even their pa ...
- An Inside Look at Stroome's Metamorphosis in T ...If you've used Stroome, our collaborative video remixing site, in the last few weeks, you will have noticed, and hopefully enjoyed, a complete redesign of the site. User flow has now been streamlined, and the embedded community and collaborative elements make the process a lot more fun: ...
- With The Tiziano Project, Citizen Media Evolves In 2006, the phrase "community journalism" was exploding as a possible savior for the journalism industry (similar to the much-hyped hyper-local journalism today). Somewhere along the way, however, the concept got washed over by a sea of organizations simply distributing Flip Video cameras a ...
- The State Decoded Aims to Make State Laws Acce ...State laws are written for and by attorneys. While that might make for a good legal system, it sure makes them hard for regular people to understand. There's code law -- what law books are full of -- and then there's case law, which is how the laws are actually interpreted by courts. Every t ...
Cutting Edge News
- Film Reviews - Page One: NYT and its Self-Impo ...Page One: Inside the New York Times. Director: Andrew Rossi. Length: 88 minutes.Watching Page One: Inside The New York Times by Andrew Rossi reminded me a bit of reading the Times itself: it's all a jumble of odd and unrelated stories held together and, indeed, utterly overshadowed by one thing ...
- Film Reviews - Tabloid: Sex and Celebrity All ...Tabloid. Director: Errol Morris. Starring: Kent Gavin, Joyce McKinney. Length: 87 minutes.Those who are unschooled in the ways of our cultural élites may find it somewhat strange that Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, Mr. Death, The Fog of War) has titled his new documentary, Tabloid. I hope you ...
- Inside Latin America - Banana Oil: Inadequate ...In March 2007 in a U.S. District Court, Chiquita Brands International pled guilty to one count of “Engaging in Transactions with a Specially-Designated Global Terrorist.” The banana giant confessed to paying the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), the nation’s notoriously violent netwo ...
- Religious Freedom - Indian Constitution Violat ...Article 15 of the Indian Constitution gives fundamental rights to all Indian citizens against any form of discrimination either by the state or any citizen on the basis of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth, or any of thesem. Every Indian is proud about this guarantee without much knowin ...
- Financial Jihad - The “Boycott Israel” Movemen ...Compromise is the cornerstone of peacemaking. In the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, the international consensus for ending this conflict is the two-state solution that would create an independent State of Palestine living side-by-side with the State of Israel in peace. Israel, including its curren ...
High Country News
- Hats off for a grand American senator, Mark O. ...Former Sen. Mark O. Hatfield was one of the last of an endangered species: a principled but pragmatic moderate Republican who believed in collaboration and cared about the environment.
- Food safety is a matter of powerAround the time a small California "raw food" club was busted and its founder jailed in the name of food safety, the giant multinational Cargill escaped serious punishment for a deadly salmonella outbreak.
- A new chance for Snake River salmonThe federal government needs to seriously consider breaching four fish-killing dams on the lower Snake River, as is being done to restore salmon runs on Washington’s Elwha River.
- Ganjanomics: bringing Humboldt's shadow econom ...Marijuana growers and government officials in California's notorious "Emerald Triangle" work towards legitimizing the local cash crop.
- Re-watering Nevada's dying Walker LakeWalker Lake in northwestern Nevada has been dying for years, but locals and government officials are determined to restore it.
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 JewsBy 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 PassportsBy 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 PictureSorry 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 AntichristDear 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 YearA 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 StieberMy 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 FORThe 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:Â http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement Rhetoric and Re ...
Yid With Lid
- News From Egypt, DAMN Those Jews are GOOD!There is an old story about a Jewish man who goes to his rabbi to let him know he is converting to Christianity and joining a Neo-Nazi party. Shocked the rabbi says, "But Bernie, you are such an observant Jew, you keep kosher, go to Synagogue and pray 3x every day, you are our number one Torah r ...
- SMACK DOWN-Laura Ingraham Makes Charlie Rangel ...NOTE: if you cannot see two videos on this post please� click here New York Congressman Charlie Rangel should have quit after having his wrist slapped by the Congressional Ethics committee. The poor guy is not as sharp as he used to be, either that or he has never been interviewed by the li ...
- Newsbusted Exclusive: John Kerry to Quit SenateSenator John Kerry is tired of being a loser ! Face it, the poor guy lost out the 2004� Presidential election to George Bush and lost out to Hillary Clinton in his quest to be President Obama's Secretary of State.� The man has been a Senator for 26 years and quite frankly he is bored.� In an exc ...
- Climate Change Moonbats Warn That Warming May ...This has do be the most crazy claim ever to come out of the Climate Change Moonbats cult.� But they propose that one of the reasons extra-terrestrial may visit our planet in the future is to attack us because of our global warming problem. They say that advanced civilizations charged with protec ...
- UPDATED: Al Qaida Attack In Israel! Eight Dea ...Southern Israel was attacked by four different terrorist cells today resulting in at least seven dead six were civilians (two young children aged 6 and 4) and one was a soldier (Staff Sergeant�Moshe Naftali, a 22 year-old soldier from Ofra). At least another 40 have been injured. The co ...
The Real Agenda
- Hilarious: S&P Downgrades Venezuela on “ ...Reuters August 19, 2011 Standard & Poor’s on Friday downgraded Venezuela’s credit ratings as it implemented a new methodology more heavily focused on political riskâa key weakness in the oil-producing country. S&P cut Venezuela’s long-term sovereign rating to B-plus from BB-minus. The outlook on ...
- Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak Sickens ...By Margie Mason The Associated Press August 19, 2011 HANOI, Vietnam â Vietnam’s prime minister has put the country on alert as an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease continues to surge, killing 81 children and sickening more than 32,000 people nationwide so far this year, officials said Fri ...
- Um Novo Reichstag norte-americano Está ChegandoPor Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 18 agosto de 2011 Isso é o que os comentários do governo dos Estados Unidos parecem sugerir. Algumas semanas atrás, informamos sobre como um vídeo do Departmento de Seguranca Nacional(DHS) incitava o medo sobre os terroristas brancos de Al-Qaeda. Apenas um dia ...
- El Próximo Reichstag Estadounidense está por L ...Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 18 de agosto 2011 Eso es lo que comentarios provenientes del gobierno de los Estados Unidos parece sugerir. Hace unas semanas, informamos sobre la forma en que un vídeo del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) incitaba el temor sobre terroristas blancos de ...
- DARPA Awards $21 Million to “Thinking Ch ...IBM unveils chips that mimic the human brain by Stuart Sumner Computing.co.uk August 18, 2011 IBM has unveiled a new experimental computer chip that it says mimics the human brain in that it perceives, acts and even thinks. It terms the machines built with these chips “cognitive computers”, clai ...
Wind Watch
- Perth and Kinross planning chief intervenes to ...The furious windfarm row which has divided a Fife town has escalated after a neighbouring local authority waded in. For months, residents of Newburgh have been at loggerheads over proposals to create a “community windfarm” on local land. Now Perth and Kinross Council has entered the debate, expr ...
- Hepburn wind farm: local doctor speaks outA local doctor has spoken out publicly for the first time after treating patients for symptoms associated with living near wind turbines. Dr Andja Mitric-Andjic, who practises in Daylesford, said she had treated at least two local patients for sleep deprivation, and spoken with others living nea ...
- Judge orders wind company’s tower to toppleFAIRFIELD TWP., Mich. � A 262-foot tower set up last fall to monitor weather for a potential wind energy project must come down, a judge ruled Monday. The tower built by Orisol Energy U.S. Inc. is in violation of Fairfield Township zoning ordinances, ruled Lenawee County Circuit Judge Margaret M ...
- Environment ministry memo puts wind under wing ...GUELPH � Opponents of wind farms proposed for Wellington County have more ammunition to use in their fight. A freedom of information request filed by Wind Concerns Ontario revealed a concerning memo written by Cameron Hall, a senior environmental officer in the Ontario Ministry of the Environmen ...
- Celebrations as wind farm plan is droppedVillagers are celebrating after an energy giant confirmed to the Advertiser that it had halted plans for a massive wind farm on their doorstep. The news ends almost 10 years of uncertainty for residents in Abbots Bromley and Marchington who have fought bitterly against the plans for a developmen ...
Tippers News
- Three men helped starve kids, court tolThree 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 verdictThe 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
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- Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...
The Freeman
- Progressive IntoleranceTelevision pundits increasingly express an attitude that is at once arrogant and ignorant: People who oppose Keynesian economics must hate science and rational thought.
- Schools Face Pressure to Ban Books“U.S. schools have banned more than 20 books and faced more than 50 other challenges this year, the American Library Association reports, and many more are expected this fall.” (USA Today) In government schools this is a political issue. FEE Timely Classic “The Central Fallacy of Public Schoolin ...
- Some Illegal Immigrants Will Stay“The Obama administration said Thursday it will allow many illegal immigrants facing deportation the chance to stay in this country and apply for a work permit, while focusing on removing from the U.S. convicted criminals and those who might be a national security or public safety threat.” (Wash ...
- S&P in Government’s Sights“The Justice Department is investigating whether the nationâs largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poorâs, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis, according to two people interviewed by the government and another briefed on such interv ...
- Obama Wants New Stimulus Bill“President Obama has decided to press Congress for a new round of stimulus spending and tax cuts as he seeks to address the great domestic policy quandary of his tenure: how to spur job growth in an age of austerity.” (Washington Post) As though the government could create real jobs. FEE Timely ...
Teaching Online Journalism
- 5,000 followers on TwitterSure, 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 TodayI’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 TumblrFor 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
- Flaming drinking-water well in Kentucky illumi ...The flaming drinking water well at a home in eastern Kentucky's Pike County first came to public attention back in May, thanks to a report by a local TV station. WKYT visited the home of Calvin and Denise Howard on Big Branch Road, where the Howards reported that the water, which runs orange an ...
- VOICES: Where are the personal apologies for t ...By Kung Li The 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides generated a burst -- however brief -- of remembrance. There was Oprah Winfrey's gala show on May 4, commemorating the day the southbound Greyhound and Trailways buses pulled out of Washington, D.C. A few weeks later, a large group of Freedom ...
- INSTITUTE INDEX: Super Congress and the Super ...Number of lawmakers on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction -- also known as the "Supercommittee" or "Super Congress" -- assigned to find ways to reduce the budget deficit: 12 Amount by which the Super Congress, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, is charged with reduci ...
- Unions divided over holding Democratic convent ...Thirteen labor unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO are refusing to participate in the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. because of the state's harsh anti-union laws. But that decision isn't sitting well with labor leaders in North Carolina, who helped lobby for Charlotte to ...
- Americans for Prosperity wants to revise histo ...The Brave New Foundation video released earlier this week about the Koch brothers' role in the fight over school re-segregation in Wake County, N.C. has struck a sour note with Americans for Prosperity. The Koch-funded conservative advocacy group is the focus of the video for its invo ...
Worldpress - Africa
- Morocco: All Hail the (Democratic) KingMorocco'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 SecurityGiven 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 UgandaThe 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 LeoneThe 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 IndependenceThe 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
- North Sea oil spill is worst in a decadeAn oil spill from a Shell platform has become the worst in the North Sea in a decade, it was disclosed last night.
- Hope for motorists as oil price tumblesDrivers can finally expect some relief at the petrol pump, after the price of oil dropped sharply.
- Oil refinery blast: Chevron site has excellent ...The safety record at the Chevron oil refinery in Pembroke has been praised following the fire and explosion which killed four contractors.
- Petrol retailers told to help motorists as oil ...Petrol retailers are under pressure to cut the cost of motoring after oil prices plummeted on the world market.
- Chris Huhne needs a lesson in economicsPlundering the profits from North Sea oil will only hold back Britain's recovery, argues Jeremy Warner.
Ian Welsh
- The Next President of the USNot that my track record on Presidential predictions is all that good, but I’m laying odds it’s Rick Perry.
- Unbelievable disrespect to a black man in BritainWatch. Seriously, watch it. It’s hard to know what to say, because what I’m thinking is unprintable. Yeah, what a surprise that the riots occurred. What a surprise. And cracking down will make it worse, not better. This isn’t even close to over, and it will never be over while men or w ...
- Socially how the next 20 odd years will play outOk, let’s get down to brass tacks. The riots in Britain are an important event, and combined with the decision to double down on austerity they tell us a lot. This is my baseline, loose model for the next generation. The decision has been made by Cameron and society in general that the way t ...
- Hard and Complicated Aren’t SynonymsThe chart above is my second favourite chart. It’s a chart of per capita health expenditures over the last forty odd years and what I want you to look at is Canada and the US. You’ll see that at one point Canada actually spent more per capita than the US, then over less than a [...]
- The monopoly of violence and simple solutions ...One of the interesting things happening in Britain is the formation of ad-hoc groups for neighbourhood defense. People have noticed that the police can’t defend them, and have decided to defend themselves. This it is not a good thing for the State, which is why the police are strongly against ...
Media Consortium
- Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability | ...Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. The programs are an integral part of staying competitive within your market, so they should be created wisely.
- 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
- The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
- Gallery: 15 iPad news appsThinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
- Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...
Reality Asserts Itself
- Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El PasoMy 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 historyMany 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 )
- Wallaby genome hops into viewPosted on behalf of Lee Sweetlove. A rabbit-sized species of kangaroo has become the third marsupial to have its genome sequenced, after the grey short-tailed opossum and Tasmanian devil. The sequence of the tammar wallaby, reported in Genome Biology, provides new insights into marsupial ...
- Earth-like planets pile upA ground-based survey has turned up still more Earth-like exoplanets, including one on the inner edge of the so-called "habitable zone", where conditions might be right for life. Maybe. The High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) is a high-quality spectrograph attached to a 3.6 ...
- Brazil's yearly deforestation up 15% - but it ...Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is up 15% on last year, according to preliminary results from coarse-resolution satellite photos. Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has just issued the estimate for July, and that allows a complete August 2010-July 2011 calculation (AFP ...
- Plants and animals seek cover from climate changePosted on behalf of Lee Sweetlove. A meta-study published in Science today provides the first evidence that global movement of plants and animals to higher latitudes and altitudes is directly linked to climate change. The research, led by ecologist Chris Thomas at the University of York, UK, ...
- NIH solicits opinions (from you) on biomedical ...Do you think PhDs take too long? Feel trapped in a postdoc with no job opportunities in sight? Worried about the state of biomedical research funding? If you’re reading this while waiting for your gel to run or procrastinating on a grant application, then chances are you’ve spent a fair amount o ...
new geography
- From China’s Interior, A Step Back in Time, A ...In the China of the 21th century, the one where all is about reckless growth, competition and the inevitable slide down into vicious consumerism of colossal proportions, there is still a big portion of it that has not caught up with the craze and preserves its most traditional qualities almo ...
- Dulles Metrorail Silver Line Vs Bus Rapid TransitLong overdue rapid transit service from Washington DC to Dulles airport is now under construction. The Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project, known as the Silver Line, may seem like it was an obvious choice as a way to improve the region's public transportation. Construction began in March 2009, a ...
- Urban Violence Abroad: An Arab Spring and a Br ...Treating urbanisation as some sort of homogeneous movement, a driver of an increasingly interdependent world of shared values, behaviour, and prosperity is to oversimplify. There may be some common drivers, but urbanisation in the 21st century is likely to be quite different from urbanisati ...
- World High-Speed Cost Increase RecordCalifornia's high-speed rail project is setting speed records, not on tracks, but rather in cost escalation. Last week, the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) announced that the Bakersfield to Merced section, part of which will comprise the first part of the system to be built, will ...
- The U.K. Riots And The Coming Global Class WarThe riots that hit London and other English cities last week have the potential to spread beyond the British Isles. Class rage isn’t unique to England; in fact, it represents part of a growing global class chasm that threatens to undermine capitalism itself. The hardening of class divisio ...
GM Watch
- India's GM bill "anti-people, anti-nature"Press Release: COALITION FOR A GM-FREE INDIA BRAI BILL 2011 IS NO BETTER THAN ANTI-PEOPLE, ANTI-NATURE BRAI 2009 IT IS A BLATANT ATTEMPT TO BULLDOZE STATE GOVTS' & CITIZENS' RESISTANCE TO GM CROPS: WRONG BILL BY WRONG PEOPLE FOR WRONG REASONS: ALL PROGRESSIVE PARTIES AND THEIR MPs SHOULD R ...
- India's GM bill "anti-people, anti-nature"Press Release: COALITION FOR A GM-FREE INDIA BRAI BILL 2011 IS NO BETTER THAN ANTI-PEOPLE, ANTI-NATURE BRAI 2009 IT IS A BLATANT ATTEMPT TO BULLDOZE STATE GOVTS' & CITIZENS' RESISTANCE TO GM CROPS: WRONG BILL BY WRONG PEOPLE FOR WRONG REASONS: ALL PROGRESSIVE PARTIES AND THEIR MPs SHOULD R ...
- GM protest in WarsawGM protest in Warsaw News from Poland, 16 August 2011 http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/53445,GM-protest-in-Warsaw A demonstration calling for President Komorowski not to sign off on a new law allowing GM seeds to be used in Poland took place in Warsaw over the weekend. On 31 July 2011 the Se ...
- GM protest in WarsawGM protest in Warsaw News from Poland, 16 August 2011 http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/53445,GM-protest-in-Warsaw A demonstration calling for President Komorowski not to sign off on a new law allowing GM seeds to be used in Poland took place in Warsaw over the weekend. On 31 July 2011 the Se ...
- Public pressure halts GM trials in SpainPublic pressure halts GM trials in Castellón, Spain Phil Lee Friends of the Earth International, August 12 2011 http://www.foei.org/en/what-we-do/food-sovereignty/latest-news/demonstrations-stop-genetically-modified-rice-with-human-genes Friends of the Earth Spain celebrates the suspension of ...
spiked
- Riotous youth: hang ’em high or hug R ...Why spiked is taking neither side in the great national handwringing over whether looters should get jail time or tough love.
- Why the US is still stuck in IraqThe interminable occupation of Iraq exposes the crazy idea that Western forces can liberate foreign peoples.
- Sterilise yourself and win a car!The bribing of Indians to stop having babies is not that different to the moral blackmail used by Western Malthusians.
- Attacking press freedom in the name of privacyHaving made private conduct central to politics, it’s a bit rich for MPs now to slate the press for being obsessed with private peccadilloes.
- Policing the innocent, ignoring the riotousASBOs, CCTV, dispersal zones and a whole host of other petty�powers did nothing to prevent the looting.
Cryptogon
- UK PMs Internet Censorship Insinuation Receive ...Via: ZeroPaid: You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it. I’ll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I would end up writing a headline like that, I would have told them they were insane. I am simply stunned that it [...]
- Hugo Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home Fr ...Via: Bloomberg: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as the metal rises to record levels behind a weakening U.S. dollar. Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 ...
- Single Seat Electric Vehicle Sets 1,000 Miles- ...Via: PhysOrg: An experimental electric vehicle called “Schluckspecht” (“boozer,” or “tippler” in German) has set the record for achieving the longest drive in a battery-powered vehicle on a single battery charge. Its record-breaking distance was 1,013.8 miles (1,631.5 km). The trip lasted 36 hou ...
- Long Beach Police Department Claims Authority ...The U.S. horror show is plumbing new depths of fascism now. This one will definitely cause you to skip a beat. Even I had to pause and re-read this one in disbelief. Via: Long Beach Post: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no apparent ...
- Who—and What—Are Behind the “ ...I just included a tiny piece of this. Click through, but be ready to for a lengthy and careful meditation on total absurdity of this fabricated spectacle. Via: Who What Why: The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, an ...
The Economic Collapse
- Bad NewsThe bad news about the economy just keeps rolling in. If this is an economic recovery, what in the world is the next "recession" going to look like? Today there was another huge truckload of bad economic news. The stock market had another 400 point "correction", applications ...
- 20 Signs That The World Could Be Headed For An ...If you thought that 2011 was a bad year for the world economy, just wait until you see what happens in 2012. The U.S. and Europe are both dealing with unprecedented debt problems, the financial markets are flailing about wildly, austerity programs are being implemented all over ...
- 16 Statistics Which Prove That The American Pe ...According to a whole host of polls and surveys, the American people are incredibly angry right now. The American people are hopping mad at the government, the American people are hopping mad about the economy and the American people are hopping mad about the direction that this ...
- 10 Signs That Economic Riots And Civil Unrest ...You should let the video footage of the wild violence that just took place in London burn into your memory because the same things are going to be happening all over the United States as the economy continues to crumble. We have raised an entire generation of young people with ...
- The Stock Market Crash Of 2011?How far does the stock market have to go down before we officially call it a crash? The Dow is now down more than 2,000 points in just the last 14 trading days. So can we now call this "The Stock Market Crash of 2011"? Today the Dow was down 519 points. Yesterday, an announc ...
Desertification
- Land governance in Pakistan (SCOPE Pakistan)A message from Tanveer ARIF : SCOPE Pakistan Please see following 2 news items regarding SCOPE and ILC related activities on land governance in Pakistan; 1-Â Â Â National Dialogue on Land Grabbing in Pakistan http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/05/land-grabbing-corporate-farming-to-deepen-hunger-p ...
- Forests are the “invisible” backbo ...Read at : http://media-newswire.com/release_1151881.html Forests in arid zones need protection, says UN Convention to Combat Desertification Arid zone forests are the quintessence of Forests: Nature at Your Service, the theme of this year’s World Environment Day. These forests are the … Continue ...
- Can the dust cloud from China impact the West ...Read at : http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/8266505/desertification_can_pollutants_from.html?cat=57 Desertification: Can Pollutants from China Reach the United States? Jamie Nakamoto, Yahoo! Contributor Network There is a serious problem of desertification in China. Desertification is whe ...
- Climate Change and Rainfed Farming Systems (IC ...Read at : http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/icrisat-meeting-focuses-on-building-climate-resilient-rainfed-agriculture/ ICRISAT Meeting Focuses on Building Climate-Resilient Rainfed Agriculture The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), with JSW-Time India Earth ...
- Struggle against desertification in Israel (Yo ...Read at : http://water.sustainablelivinginhawaii.com/1275/israel-as-fast-forward-for-the-world/ Israel as âfast-forwardâ for the world by Don Child VIDEO : http://youtu.be/5HJcDOqqogg A warrior in the struggle against desertification, Prof. Alon Tal knows how Israel can contribute in many sphere ...
The Paper Trail
- $100 million for artificial legs and feet in q ...Manipulating Medicare Artificial limbs for amputees Evan Vucci/AP A Medicare investigation has turned up more than $100 million in questionable payments for artificial legs and feet, including suppliers in Alabama, Mississippi, Wyoming and Puerto Rico who were twice as ...
- Judge orders Obama administration to release a ...The White House First lady Michelle Obama speaks on the White House front lawn.� � Evan Vucci/AP In ordering the Obama administration to disclose the names of all White House visitors, a federal judge has rejected claims that doing so could harm national security and ...
- FACT CHECK: Obama claims foreign countries pay ...FactWatch In trying to highlight U.S. education inadequacy, President Obama's statement is only half true President Barack Obama waves from the East Room of the White House. � Carolyn Kaster/AP file President Obama falsely claimed teachers are paid "on par" with docto ...
- There are many restrictions on official govern ...Accountability Airport security screening Ted S. Warren/AP In recent weeks, iWatch News has published three
- Few Democrats still say no to cash from PACs Congress Debbie�Wasserman�Schultz, (D-Fla.) Democratic National Committee Chair at a Jefferson-Jackson fundraiser dinner in Hollywood. David Adame/AP President Barack Obama has sworn off special-interest money to pay for his re-election bid. But it turns out those dolla ...
backofthebook.ca
- Is CSIS replaying the Arar card?By Alison@Creekside A leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute between Montreal and France. It has already been enthusiasticall ...
- Designer Wormsby Eric Pettifor Remember all those episodes of the various Star Treks where characters were genetically altered, either willingly or unwillingly, by some means or other? It would happen within the course of a single episode and be neatly fixed at the end, with a hypo from the lovely Dr. ...
- Hinkle, Lilley, Mammoliti: So much Con Klown b ...By Montreal Simon Oh dear. What a dilemma eh? I just created my very own Con Klown Hypocrisy Award. But now I can't seem to decide who is this week's winner. So please help me out . Here are the candidates in no particular order: (1) PHILLIP HINKLE, the 64-year old Republican State ...
- The Star and The Mark: open for shillingBy Shannon Rupp The Toronto Star just announced that you can’t trust a thing you read on their website -- although that’s not quite the way they phrased it. Canada’s largest daily has joined forces with TheMarkNews.com, one of those free blogger sites, to acquire a small army of unpaid "commu ...
- Granny Turmel and the red separatist scareBy Montreal Simon As the Liberals continue their fevered pathetic assault on Nycole Turmel. No doubt hoping that out of her ashes, their shrunken party will rise again, like some fleshless phoenix. Or some charred scarecrow. Even as they help fuel comments like this and this and this in ...
libcom
- IWW – Major gains at Heron Tower disputeHeron Tower.jpg Industrial Workers of the World Cleaners and Allied Grades Branch has secured significant gains to the benefit of low-paid cleaning staff Following negotiations ...
- An open letter to those who condemn looting (P ...Looted-goods-lie-on-the-p-007.jpg Second part of an open letter from Socialism and/or barbarism about responses to looting. First part can be found here on Libcom. 3. They are ...
- An open letter to those who condemn looting (P ...Rioting-in-Brixton-002.jpg An open letter from Socialism and/or barbarism about responses to looting. Dear you all, I fear we have nothing to say to each other. read more
- Advisory Service for Squatters respond to gove ...The government consultation on attacking squatting is a very ill-informed document. As Advisory Service for Squatters explain. It admits to a lack of information, but refers to "public concern" meaning in fact a campaign by a number ...
- Tottenham and beyond: neoliberal riots and the ...hackney.jpg Writer and poet William Wall explores the link between neoliberalism and the UK riots. One of the many things that we hear repeated ad nauseam in the context of the ...
Free Range International
- Attention To DetailMy good friend E2 has kept FRI alive, which enables me to throw up a post I’m dying to share. Â I’m still going to stay mum about where I am and what we’re up to, but, we’ll complete our remaining projects in a few months allowing me to tell that story fairly soon…Inshallah from the [...]
- Who’s the Enemy Here?Last week I wrote about how ordinary Afghans have much to fear from the villains when traveling on the highways and roads in this country. This week, I’d like to address one of the biggest threats to those of us in the Kabul expat community: the Afghan government security apparatus. I was insp ...
- This Ain’t Route 66Since 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 FrostDear 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 HorseI 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 Story Behind the Story
- Things That Make You Say HMMMMMMM!He served 10 presidents, but died alone in squalor: What happened to Theodoric C. James? White House Photo – Theodoric James Jr. worked in the White House for almost 50 years. His Northwest Washington neighbors never knew he catalogued important, sometimes sensitive, documents. By Christian Dave ...
- A Message to Horowitz and Kane – the Ill ...You indeed are the masters of spin – the masters of lying hypocrisy – the masters of obfuscation and calling evil good and good evil. As Khazarian Double Agents, I highly doubt you have ever read The Bible – have you? I doubt you have read Isaiah – so let me share his words: “WOE [...]
- Zombie Apocalpyse – What Others Are Now ...I first reported on this immediately after the CDC issued its report. Now others are also writing on this topic. GREAT NEWS!!! A. True Ott, PhD THE MEANING OF CDC “ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE” PART 2 By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu August 17, 2011 NewsWithViews.com CDC Creating a âZombie Horrorâ Conscio ...
- The Amazing TRUE STORY of Susan Lindauer. EXT ...Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq Susan Lindauer
- The NEW TEN ARTICLES OF FAITH of IGNORANT KHAZ ...Mormons have something called “Articles of Faith” beginning with “We Believe”— likewise, here are TEN, BASIC 9-11 fables that our “government” want you to simply accept on BLIND FAITH!!  Are these indeed fables, or are they TRUTHS, or merely some false tenets of an “OUTRAGEOUS CONSPIRACY THE ...
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 here̵ ...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 RisksIt’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
- Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
- Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
- Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights AdvocatePresident of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 22, 2011)Highlights of the conversation with Peter originally broadcast Jan 17 and 18, 2011.
- Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.
Scotts Contracting
- Scotts Contracting- Home Energy Pros Membershi ...Congratulations! Your Home Energy Pros membership has been approved. Invite your friends to join you: http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/main/invitation/new?xg_source=msg_wel_network Thanks for joining us! Home Energy Pros Home Energy Pros is a social network *Scott’s Contracting* Green Me UP-Scotty ...
- Go green with your building project– How to build your green building business –In the building industry, green business is the only good news that is left for the consumers. Are you a promoter who is looking for constructing buildings and still struggling within the sluggish market conditions? Though traditional buildings may no ...
- Future FightersSustainable Living Education at Unity College Say the words, “renewable energy” or “sustainable living” to the average person on the street, and you are liable to get a furrowed brow, and a cobbled together response about the environment and solar energy. Most people have a vague idea of what th ...
- Porch Column CAD Drawings by Scotts ContractingCAD Details of Simple Porch Footings, Foundations, Reinforcement, Stone Ledge, and Anchor Bolts for the Column
- Join Scotty’s Fantasy Football LeagueLeague Name: Midwest Mayhem ln: Warriors Only Join Here: http://fantasy.nfl.com/registration/privateleaguejoin?leagueId=352267 Join Here: http://fantasy.nfl.com/registration/privateleaguejoin?leagueId=352267 When prompted, enter the League ID# and password below. League ID: 352267 League Passwor ...
The View From Abroad
- Ron Paul is the Only OneWanted: a new president with an understanding of economics, knowledge of international affairs, and a dedication to constitutional rights.
- We Can’t Afford to Raise the Debt CeilingObama was correct to reject raising the debt ceiling in 2006.
- Western Imperialism Strikes AgainThe invasion of Libya is about imperialism not protection of civilians.
- What Obama Should Have SaidAs I was reading President Obama's speech last week, I dozed off into a glorious daydream.
- “Where’s the Beef”?After Osama bin Laden was killed, why wasn't his body displayed for verification.
Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)
- Naval Base Tears Apart Korean VillageThe struggle over Jeju Island in South Korea is heating up, with civil society activists standing up against a powerful military.
- Loose Nukes: Real Threat?There's a lot of radioactive material in the world. But is the illegal market in nukes really a threat?
- U.S. and Russia: Where's the Reset?The much-proclaimed reset in U.S.-Russian relations has been more rhetorical than real.
- Nye's Future of PowerJoseph Nye updates his analysis of soft and hard power.
- Robbing Peter to Pay IsraelAt a time of severe economic crisis, nearly one-fifth of the House of Representatives is going on a junket to Israel this summer.
Law.com
- Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
- Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
- MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
- Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
- IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...
Iranian.com
- سیمین بهبهانی: زبان فارسی را نمیشود اخته کردبه اعتقاد شما در آغوش کشیدن جنازه خسرو توسط شیرین چه مانع دینی و شرعی دارد؟ read more
- Iran's covert war with Israel in CaspianBAKU, Azerbaijan, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A senior Iranian general has warned zerbaijan about getting too close to Israel, underlining fears in Tehran that the Jewish state could use Iran's northern neighbor to launch pre-emptive strikes against Iran's nuclear program. Israel has been quietly buildin ...
- آیت الله خامنه ای: ایران در برابر تحریم ها ضد ...آیت الله علی خامنه ای: "اگر تحریم، مؤثر و برای دشمنان کارگشا بود همان سال های اول انقلاب اهداف مستکبران را محقق می ساخت چه برسد به اکنون که ملت و نظام در مقابل تحریم ها، به تدریج حالت ضدضربه پیدا کرده اند." read more
- Iran Seizes 6,500 Bibles to Stop 'Deceiving' C ...read more
- Iran Declines Comment On Baku's Islamic Activi ...BAKU -- The Iranian Embassy in Baku has declined to comment on Azerbaijani allegations that Islamic activists arrested last week had set up a radical religious group with financial support from Baku's Cultural Center of Iran, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. read more
Most Revolutionary Act
- Progressives Who Oppose Gun ControlLyndon Johnson: Father of Gun Control I’ve always been curious how American progressives got on the wrong – anti-civil liberties – side of gun control. In my mind this has been a grave strategic error. I have written elsewhere about the extreme difficulty liberals and progressives face in engagi ...
- State and Local Support for Marijuana Decrimin ...Sativex - marijuana by prescription This is the last of three posts on ending the War on Drugs. Unlike the federal government, states aren’t allowed to run deficits. Since the 2008 economic collapse, both Democratic and Republican dominated states have been extremely proactive in reduc ...
- The Cato Institute and the Drug WarThe Cato Institute This is the 2nd of 3 posts about growing broad spectrum support for ending the War on Drugs. The extremely conservative Cato Institute are clearly in the forefront of the campaign to end the war on drugs. I got a mind bending wake-up call last week from visiting their website ...
- Cost Cutting and the Drug WarRon Paul and Barney Frank - HR 2306 cosponsors Thanks to the recession and debt crisis, progressives seeking to end the failed War on Drugs have some curious bedfellows, including the ultra-conservative Cato Institute, grassroots Tea Party groups and even mainstream Republicans. Drug Policy Alli ...
- Lessons from the Soviet CollapseScenes from the Soviet Collapse This is the second of two posts on the role of food prices in triggering civil unrest. One erroneous conclusion some American activists draw from Keiser’s and Zoellick’s “food theory” of revolution (see previous post) is that organizing is unnecessary – that all w ...
Michael Moore - Must Read
- Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moor ...FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2011 Contact: Matt Smucker, 717.209.0445, jms@beyondthechoir.org Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moore in Support of PFC Bradley Manning Alan Moore, the world-renowned British author, issued the following statement today in support of accused WikiL ...
- 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 filmRevolution 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 BirthdayLast 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 ...
Salon
- Sheriff Joe: Birther?Sheriff Joe Arpaio might be a birther, now. A quasi-birther, at least. WorldNetDaily "broke" the "news" that Arizona's most civil rights-disregarding lawman "has agreed to examine evidence challenging the validity of Barack Obama's purported long-form birth certificate in a determination of t ...
- A brief history of controversial presidential ...Barack Obama is catching a lot of flak for planning a summer vacation. The president will spend 11 days in Martha's Vineyard, and critics say that's a bad idea when markets are skittish and millions of Americans are out of work or struggling to get by. Of course, Republicans criticizing Obama ...
- The one way Michele Bachmann could actually he ...The ways in which Michele Bachmann's presidential candidacy could prove harmful -- maybe even ruinous -- to her party are easy to imagine.
- Perry camp goes on counterattack against Ron P ...A Texas Ron Paul supporter's attack on Rick Perry -- in the form of a full-page newspaper ad seeking people who have slept with the presidential candidate -- got a lot of national media attention yesterday after I published a story about it.
- Does Rick Perry have a porn problem?Here's an interesting tidbit from Rick Perry's past to keep an eye on. In the mid-1990s, the presidential candidate owned stock in a video rental store chain whose hardcore porn offerings drew the ire of conservative groups, according to a 2006 report on a liberal Texas blog. That item was re ...
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 MLAsFor 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 8For 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 ‘mistakeFor 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
- Living in glass housesThe city can’t just sit by and wait for a private report into why glass is falling from Toronto condo towers.
- Nightmare in a Toronto jailCanada’s longest-running human rights case is settled, but the plaintiff’s life is in ruins.
- Voting fairness is not divisiveAll parties should agree to add seats in the Commons for Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.
- Ford’s misguidedpitch on transit Since he can’t get the private sector to pay for the Sheppard subway line, Mayor Rob Ford is trying to dump the problem on Premier Dalton McGuinty’s doorstep.
- Balance speed and justiceThe English courts are running the risk of badly overshooting by handing out wildly disproportionate sentences to looters.
Energy Collective
- Advanced Batteries: Here Come the CaliforniansSeveral of the new grants went to companies that received awards in 2009 as part of the $2 billion Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative (DOE-FOA-26). But a number of awardees were new. Most striking was the concentration of awardees in California. Amprius, App ...
- 6 Energy Topics For US Presidential CandidatesAs the US heads into the process of electing its next President, many subjects and issues will be debated. While climate change may not be the defining issue of the moment in the USA, given the long term importance of the subject it would be useful to understand how the various candidates for of ...
- Living Off the Grid: No Longer Just for the AmishWhether you’re reading this on your computer or mobile device, you needed electricity from the grid to power at least one device in the process. Those electrons come from far-flung power plants, across miles of transmission lines, and out of a plug in your wall. This process may seem like just a ...
- Washington Must Think Globally And Act RegionallyIf Washington wants to enable the growth of American’s clean energy economy, it must think globally and act regionally. The global energy industry is in the midst of a multi-decade transformation into a collection of clean energy sectors. The US is lagging China and number of overseas competitor ...
- America’s Resource RenaissanceAmerican oil industry leadership groups such as the National Petroleum Council and the American Petroleum Institute have been meeting in recent months to fashion new frameworks for the industry to ensure best practices for oil and natural gas drilling. That’s the good news. The bad news is t ...
EU Times
- Stocks Fall Anew on Debt Worries and the EconomyAfter just a few days of calm, stock markets heaved again on Thursday, sending major American indexes down as much as 5 percent on persistent worries about the economy and Europe’s debt problems. The turmoil of last week returned with a vengeance as investors dumped stocks of companies that woul ...
- Darkest planet found: Coal-BlackScientists have discovered a Jupiter-size gas giant planet in our galaxy, dubbed Coal-Black planet, as the darkest world in the universe, which reflects almost no light. Researchers indicate that the inky planet absorbs 99% of the light its star sends its way and reflects only one percent of the ...
- South Africa: Face-off at Free State UniversityChaos broke out at the University of the Free State’s Bloemfontein campus on Wednesday, after about 800 people – believed to be mostly ANCYL members – stormed the main building. The group, who had been bussed in to the campus, protested against the fact that no political activities by outside gr ...
- Apple sued by 27,000 South Korean iPhone owner ...A group of nearly 27,000 South Koreans is suing Apple for £15.8 million over what they claim are privacy violations from the collection of iPhone user location information. Each person in the suit is seeking one million won (£568) in damages, Kim Hyeong-seok, one of their attorneys, announced to ...
- Obama bus tour provides glimpse of reelection ...During a three-day tour by bus of the Midwest, President Obama provided an early snapshot of his reelection strategy, one in which he’ll try to convince voters that his approach offers the rational path and seek to define Republicans as so unwilling to compromise they would risk financial chaos. ...
Stonecipher News
- Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes InsipidusDiabetes 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 RemediesThere 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 BloodHave 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
- 5 Positives From Arizona Cardinals/Green Bay P ...The Green Bay Packers beat the Arizona Cardinals 28-20 in their Week 2 preseason game and rookie Ryan Williams might be sidelined for the season with a torn patella tendon. But despite these negatives, not everything was bad that happened Friday night at Lambeau Field. In particular, there were ...
- World Youth Day Madrid 2011: Benedict XVI cele ...Read more from the original source: World Youth Day Madrid 2011: Benedict XVI celebrates Mass with seminarians The pope arrives to Madrid’s Almudena Cathedral where roughly 5,000 seminarians waited to celebrate Mass with him. The faithful waited for him since 6:30 a.m. when the Cathedral first ...
- Troops To Remain In Afghanistan Until 2024American troops could possibly remain in Afghanistan until 2024, as the United States and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact that would keep thousands of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan to help build up the Afghan army. Telegraph reported : America and Afghanistan are close to signi ...
- Is Michele Bachmann reconsidering P5 snub?Word in Florida Republican circles is that Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is reconsidering her decision to ignore the Republican Party of Florida's straw poll in September. She called RPOF chair Dave Bitner and spoke with him today about the straw poll. Just what they said s ...
- "Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Missk ...The NYT reports, noting that Echols's case was "the highest-profile release of a death row inmate in recent memory." Under the terms of a deal reached with prosecutors, Mr. Echols, Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Misskelley leave as men who maintain their innocence yet who pleaded guilty to murder, as men ...
Groklaw
- HP's Carly Fiorina era is finally over...good ...Walter Hewlett was right. Walter Hewlett, you may remember, was the low-key, cello-playing scion of the Hewlett family who fought HP's then-CEO, Carly Fiorina, over her planned $25 billion merger with Compaq, which was announced 10 years ago next month. Hewlett's point was simple: Just maybe i ...
- Gibson Dunn's Snyder Facing Off Against Boies ...When Capital One Financial Corporation last month sued two former executives for violating the terms of their non-compete agreements, the bank's choice of lead lawyer--Orin Snyder of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher--signaled that this wasn't a routine employment dispute. The two executives now head Flor ...
- Elliott Gains Opening to Press for Change With ...Elliott Management Corp., the investor that pushed Novell Inc. to sell itself last year, amassed an 8.5 percent stake in Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (BRCD), gaining an opening it could use to agitate for change. The New York-based hedge-fund investor holds 40.8 million shares of San Jos ...
- Facebook's 'Like' button illegal in German stateThe state of Schleswig-Holstein has ordered all government offices to remove the button from their Web presence and shut down any Facebook "fan" pages, on the grounds that these things violate German and European data privacy laws. A release from the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection in ...
- An inside look at HP killing webOS hardware: H ...HP made the announcement that it was ceasing to make webOS hardware, but neglected to get a hardware licensing deal in place before doing so. This seemed to drive home the point that webOS was dead in the water, when in fact it is very much alive and was never the issue. It was the hardware that ...
WideShut
- Cameron’s Crackdown: 08/15/2011 WideShut ...On this week's WideShut Webcast Keelan looks at some of the fallout from the riots.
- Perfect Storm: The England Riots DocumentaryA look at the wider context surrounding the recent England Riots from those that experienced them.
- Has Facebook Censorship On Riots Already Begun?Facebook appears to be censoring certain posts that contain the word riots.
- Parliament: Social Networking Is To Blame For ...More CCTV, electronic tracking and shutting down of communication, Big Brother will save us as Britain collapses.
- England Riots: Pure Criminality? Or Perfect St ...Talking heads may claim the England riots are spontaneous and pure criminality, but in the context of crippling austerity it's more to do with dubious police actions, public service cuts and city poverty.
Politics in the Zeros
- Podponics. Next-gen urban farmingPodponics manufactures grow rooms in shipping containers, and because they completely control the environment, crop yields are much higher First, we are able to have year-round crop production. Second, we have much higher crop density and predictable results by completely controlling the growth ...
- Indeed
- Jaw-dropping bike ridingDanny Macaskill – Industrial Revolutions Industrial Revolutions sees Danny take his incredible bike skills into an industrial train yard and some derelict buildings.’ Filmed in the beautiful Scottish countryside
- Google magic?There was a cut fiber cable in our area and internet service was down for a few hours EXCEPT for Google sites. I could get on all Google sites and virtually no others. I wonder, maybe Google has their own fiber?
- US Navy embracing social mediaThe general message is that the US Navy realised it could no longer afford not to participate in social media despite potential security risks and the challenges of a “dizzying” communications environment.
TVNZ - Top Stories
- One dead in truck crash in Hawke's BayOne person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
- Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
- Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
- Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
- Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.
Just World News
- Israel's 'J14': New potential for Jewish-Pales ...As I have chronicled here and elsewhere many times, over the past decade the once-vibrant movement of Israelis actively working for an end to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza had become increasingly moribund. Yes, a small number of brave Jewish-Israeli souls participated in the weekly p ...
- Syria, authoritarianism, war, and peaceI regret that I haven't had much time in recent months to blog and write about the many developments in the still-unfolding 'Arab Spring.' However, I think that much of what I was writing back in March and April-- especially on the extremely upsetting and complicated series of events in Libya an ...
- Remembering Qana, five years onOn 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 futureAll 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' ...
frogblog
- Smarter transportOver the last 2 days I’ve co-hosting the Smart Transport conference at Parliament with Labour MPs Phil Twyford and Jacinda Ardern. We’ve had some amazing speakers, especially Paul Mees who did a fantastic job opening the conference.
- Long overdue progress made on mine safetyFor the last month New Zealand has been reduced to just one inspector of mines person after Kevin Poynter left for Australia. After questioning from Kevin Hague yesterday it turns out there a replacement has been found.
- Democracy, secrecy, and good process.On Thursday, Keith Locke and I spent a good part of the day in the House going to bat against the government’s ‘secret squirrel’ bill to amend the Police Act that Frog blogged on earlier . Our objections to the bill were matters both of process and substance.  I want to comment here just ...
- Exciting next phase in National Cycle NetworkIâm writing this from the Overlander train, heading North to Taumarunui. Tomorrow morning I’m part of an event there to launch the next phase of Nga Haerenga: the New Zealand Cycle Trail Network. Nga Haerenga is a joint project of the Green and National parties â Green cycling expertise and Gove ...
- MPs stunned after seeing “Sri Lanka’s Killing ...With some trepidation I helped organise a showing of “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields” in the Beehive Theatrette last Tuesday. It is a shocking film, mainly using cell-phone footage to show what it was like for the 300,000 civilians repeatedly bombed and shelled by the Sri Lankan military in the fin ...
Patronus Analytical
- Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
- Aid worker killed in Iraq
- Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
- NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
- Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras
J Kozy
- Disintegrating Economic RecoveryThe 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 JobsWhat'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 TyrannyHuge 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 Incredible Oil that Helps Prevent Heart At ...Dr. William Harris is a research professor at the Sanford School of Medicine in South Dakota, and an established authority on omega-3 fats. He’s a prolific researcher and has published a number of articles in some of the major peer-reviewed scientific journals. Here, Dr. Harris shares his insi ...
- Known as the "Deadliest Nutrient" - but There' ...Gary Taubes is a science and health journalist, and author of several books, including Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health, and Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It. While his earlier work focused on physics, in recent years his interes ...
- They Say it's Safe - But it's Unknowingly Dest ...Obesity levels are now so high that many children are suffering from disease more commonly associated with alcohol abuse. �Many of them will develop cirrhosis, and some will require liver transplants. Studies show that millions of children in the U.S. are suffering from "non alcoholic liver di ...
- Genes Are NOT the Main Cause of AutismMany scientists have believed that genetics accounted for 90 percent of a child's risk for autism. A new study, however, suggests that environmental factors could play a much larger role. The research looked at nearly 200 pairs of twins, and found, to the researchers’ surprise, that a greater n ...
- Can Drinking Darker Coffee Improve Your Health?Recent research has shown that moderate coffee consumption may be associated with a reduced risk for type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Since reactive oxygen species (ROS) are believed to be involved in both of these diseases, it was theorized that antioxidants in coffee might contribute t ...
JAMA
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Survival - tribal peoples
- International condemnation of controversial Et ...The Mursi are one of the tribes living along the Omo Valley. © Eric Lafforgue/Survival Kenyan MPs and the UN’s World Heritage Committee have called on Ethiopia to halt construction of the controversial Gibe III dam on the Omo River. In its annual report published last month, UNESCO’s World ...
- Amazon pipeline gets go-ahead amid reports of ...Oil industry barges are a constant sight on the rivers of northern Peru © Survival A 200km oil pipeline in the Amazon has been given the go-ahead, amidst controversy over a âcover-upâ of evidence that uncontacted Indians live in the region. French oil company Perenco plans to spend $350m ...
- Innu protest at mineral exploration project in ...An Innu camp at Black Fish Lake, one day's journey from Natuashish and en-route to hunting grounds in the North and West. © Dominick Tyler/Survival One of the largest Innu communities in Quebec, eastern Canada, is embroiled in a row with an iron-ore mining company. The company, Cap-Ex Ve ...
- ‘Staged’ tribal TV series spurs Ethical Code f ...Filmmakers have a responsibility to portray tribal people fairly. © Survival Following the recent furore over the BBC and Travel Channelâs âstagedâ tribal TV series, Survival International has released a code of practice for filmmakers working with tribal peoples (pdf, 983 KB). The guidel ...
- Land at last for Paraguay Indians An Enxet child in Paraguay © Jonathan Mazower/Survival Almost 9,000 hectares of ancestral land has been returned to Enxet Indians in Paraguay, more than a decade after their campaign to reclaim it began. The Kelyenmagategma, a small community of Enxet Indians, had been forcibly evicted fro ...
Montreal Gazette
- Honesty is the best policy for 'true' sovereig ...It's not going to take place in a courtroom, but the de facto political trial of Parti Qu�b�cois leader Pauline Marois on charges of not promoting sovereignty strongly enough will open this weekend with the founding meeting Sunday of the Nouveau mouvement pour le Qu�bec splinter group.
- Deaths remind us of the need for smoke detectorsNothing is sadder than the totally preventable death of a young family.
- Deaths remind us of the need for smoke detectorsMontreal firefighters had the heartbreaking job of prying open the front door of a Verdun apartment Wednesday to find a young father and mother and their 3-year-old son unconscious just a short distance from the safety of the outdoors and fresh air.
- Military doesn't need nostalgia to be proud of ...Defence Minister Peter MacKay pulled out all the stops this week to convince Canadians that reinstating the designation "royal" into the names of the Canadian navy and air force was a bold, popular move, one that would pay great dividends in patriotism and pride.
- Afghanistan's culture of corruption must be endedThe monster homes in Kandahar's Sherpur neighbourhood - built by drug traffickers, warlords and public officials - are evidence of where some of the billions of dollars in Afghan aid money went.
Food World Order
- 8/18 binge & purge: profit, problems & poopvideo: somalia, famine-for-profit & east-african food crisis* audio: arizona among worst states for family food hardship (PDF)* expert says gmo to blame for problems in colorado plants, animals* hepatitis a shot class action filed against n. carolina olive garden (PDF)* suit filed ag ...
- honey laundering: tainted & counterfeit chines ...asian honey, banned in europe, is flooding US grocery shelves* from grist: A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A Food Safety News investigation has documented that mil ...
- why is george soros selling gold & buying farm ...from natural news: Food prices are skyrocketing all across the globe, and there's no end in sight. The United Nations says food inflation is currently at 30% a year, and the fast-eroding value of the dollar is causing food prices to appear even higher (in contrast to a weakening currency). As th ...
- how to: plan ahead to make buying in bulk pay offfrom ap: PORTLAND, Ore. -- Grocery shoppers will tell you that their bills are getting bigger from week to week. Many are already bargain hunting, buying store brands and using coupons for the best deals. But food prices are expected to rise further -- the USDA estimates that grocery prices will ...
- monsanto preys on popularity of omega-3s with ...from natural news: Leave it to Monsanto to take a good thing and corrupt it for financial gain. According to a recent report in Forbes, the multinational biotechnology-slash-agriculture-manipulating monolith has developed a new genetically-modified (GM) soybean that artificially produces steari ...
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 churchsource: 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 girlsource: 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 Convertsource: 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 ManipulationCOTO 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 2011Click 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 2011SPEAKERS 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
- Bad NewsThe bad news about the economy just keeps rolling in. If this is an economic recovery, what in the world is the next "recession" going to look like? Today there was another huge truckload of bad economic news. The stock market had another 400 point "correction", applications ...
- 20 Signs That The World Could Be Headed For An ...If you thought that 2011 was a bad year for the world economy, just wait until you see what happens in 2012. The U.S. and Europe are both dealing with unprecedented debt problems, the financial markets are flailing about wildly, austerity programs are being implemented all over ...
- 16 Statistics Which Prove That The American Pe ...According to a whole host of polls and surveys, the American people are incredibly angry right now. The American people are hopping mad at the government, the American people are hopping mad about the economy and the American people are hopping mad about the direction that this ...
- 10 Signs That Economic Riots And Civil Unrest ...You should let the video footage of the wild violence that just took place in London burn into your memory because the same things are going to be happening all over the United States as the economy continues to crumble. We have raised an entire generation of young people with ...
- The Stock Market Crash Of 2011?How far does the stock market have to go down before we officially call it a crash? The Dow is now down more than 2,000 points in just the last 14 trading days. So can we now call this "The Stock Market Crash of 2011"? Today the Dow was down 519 points. Yesterday, an announc ...
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