- Today’s Terrorism News
Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
- Today’s Terrorism News
In Association with The Soufan Group 93 Dead in Twin Attacks in Norway; Suspect to Appear in Court The suspect accused of killing 93 people in twin terror attacks in Norway on Friday is due in an Oslo courtroom Monday, … Continue reading →
- Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot Alpha 3 Quick Review
Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot Alpha 3 was released few weeks ago. I decided to properly install Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric in my netbook along with Ping-Eee OS this time around instead of just experimenting it with a USB install. I have been using Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 as my primary OS for almost 2 wee ...
- 5 Android Apps for Remotely Controlling Banshe ...
Android Market is such an awesome place for exploring and finding new interesting stuff. On one such recent explorations, I discovered these great Android apps with which you will be able to remotely control major multimedia apps for Linux incuding Banshee, Amarok, VLC, XBMC and Boxee from y ...
- Faenza Icon Theme 1.0 Released
Faenza has always been my favourite icon theme for Ubuntu. We have had numerous posts on Faenza Icon theme before with some of them like this one here becoming hugely popular among our readers. Well the good news is, Faenza has just breached version 1.0. Faenza 1.0 adds a number of new ...
- 8 Best CAD Apps for Linux
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology for the process of design and design-documentation.�But are there any good free CAD apps for Linux? Strangely, that is one of the questions we often receive in our mail. We will try to list not just the free CAD apps here, but als ...
- Linus Switches to Xfce, Calls GNOME 3 an Unhol ...
Linus Torvalds becomes the latest to join GNOME 3.0 haters club. In a recent discussion at Google+, Linus went on to call GNOME 3 an unholy mess and called for a�GNOME 2 fork.� Linus Torvalds on GNOME 3.0 "While you are at it, could you also fork gnome, and support a gnome2 environment?" ...
- TOXIC METALS FOUND IN PANDEMRIX SWINE FLU VACC ...
*A DOCTOR IN SWEDEN HAS FOUND THE TOXIC METALS ARSENIC AND TIN IN PANDEMRIX SWINE FLU VACCINE *DEADLY POISONS PRESENT IN SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS *NATIONAL AUTHORITIES FAILED TO REACT TO HIS RESEARCH *DOCTOR FEARS THE CONTAMINATION OF DRUGS WITH POISONOUS METALS COULD BE WIDESPREAD � A doctor inSwed ...
- NORWEGIAN POLICE COME UNDER FIRE FOR INACTION ...
*Heavily armed police stood and watched shooting spree of Anders Behring Breivik for half an hour; police were only 600 metres from Utoya island with plenty of boats available, say witnesses *Police tried to stop tourists from rescuing trapped campers *Video shows police anti terrorism unit arri ...
- Alex Jones: London riots a pretext for Interne ...
Alex Jones: London riots a pretext for Internet crackdown • RT August 18, 2011 Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan were two of several demonstrators that were given harsh sentences for petty crimes in the recent UK riots. Another looter got six months for stealing a case of bottled water ...
- “THE FOURTH IMPERIUM” : CHAPTER TWO
It is June 2011. The globe’s elite are meeting at a hotel in the mountains of Switzerland to push forward their agenda for a one-world government, one-world bank, one-world police and army. Not everything is going according to their plans. Jean Renard, the head of the eurozone central bank, is a ...
- Resistance by German people and parliament to ...
August 17, 2011, 12:37 PM GMT Merkel and Sarkozy Recycle Old Ideas By Bernd Radowitz , WSJ It’s not surprising that investors gave a lukewarm reaction to the proposals made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday–with great fanfare–in the Élysée Palace in ...
- The Murdochs’ Casablanca Moment
As Lord Acton famously put it, power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. What lessons can New Yorkers draw from the Rupert Murdoch phone-hacking scandal in England? What lessons can we draw about the NYPD?
- MI5′s Peter Wright: Soviet Spy, Double A ...
By Trowbridge H. Ford Peter Wright of Britain’s Security Service aka MI5 has been made the subject of ridicule for so long, especially over the plots he developed to remove Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and former Director General Roger Hollis from power because they were Soviet moles, that t ...
- Framing the Patsy: The Case of Lee Harvey Oswald
The deliberate dissemination of false information about JFK continues to this day. Professor Hany Farid, a member of the computer science faculty at Dartmouth, affords a stunning illustration, where he injected himself into a long-running dispute concerning the authenticity of photographs relate ...
- With Slavery, Injustice For All
People believe that 1865 marked the ending of slavery in America, and they are wrong.
- Carnage in Norway – Refreshing the Narrative
War-making storylines tend to lose their steam. Sustained warfare requires more than just a plausible Evil Doer. A credible narrative is also essential. To remind us who to hate, who better than a murderous Nordic Muslim-hater?
- Permanent Aridification Transforms the America ...
It's happening now but we won't be able to say with absolute certainty that it's happened for probably another couple of decades. Thanks to anthropogenic climate change the American Southwest is entering a new, and permanent, condition of increased aridity. It's not a "drought," it's the new no ...
- Debt Doldrums
Barack Obama and John Boehner probably worked out most of it over golf. What political theater! And why is it you never hear of Nancy Pelosi on the links? To talk about the so-called "debt ceiling" crisis I turned to Charles Tiefer, a former General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, ...
- The Art of Courage
A little voice in your conscience tells you something. You listen. You start to think maybe you're right and everybody else is wrong. You do something about it. Next thing you know you're in a life and death struggle against evil forces bent on world domination. Well, maybe that's a slight exag ...
- The Wild Dollar
Because the public hasn't had what's happening properly reported, the Republicans think that, in the debt ceiling standoff, they can trample democratic norms and perhaps even go so far as to trigger another collapse of the world economy. What a bizarre strategy to pursue (supposedly) on behalf ...
- Göbekli Tepe
At what point does an original idea engender action? And to what extent does that action set a lasting course? We can examine the social history of an idea, written, as it were, in stone, at G�bekli Tepe, an archeological site approximately 11,500 years old (or perhaps even older) in southern T ...
- Crowne Plaza launches Marry Me campaign
ATLANTA: InterContinental Hotels Group's Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts kicked off a campaign today called Marry Me 11.11.11, aimed at giving 11 couples a celebrity wedding.
- New Mexico Tourism to issue RFP this fall
SANTA FE, NM: In an effort to attract more visitors to the "Land of Enchantment," the New Mexico Tourism Department will issue a national RFP for long-term PR support this fall, said Monique Jacobson, cabinet secretary.
- Smirnoff and Madonna team up for global campaign
NORWALK, CT: Smirnoff has launched its global Nightlife Exchange Project for the second year in a row, but this time, the vodka company teamed up with Madonna.
- Social media numbers don't tell the whole story
What do Walgreens, Intel, Walmart, and American Express have in common? Each has a Facebook page, Twitter handle, and Foursquare account, aggregating millions of followers and "likes."
- WPP Digital acquires Rockfish Interactive
NEW YORK: WPP Digital, the digital investment arm of WPP, has acquired Rockfish Interactive, an Arkansas-based digital marketing agency.
- 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 ...
- Subway Ad Serves Up Birdbaths Of Hamburger Gre ...
Subway's "Eat Fresh" campaign is all very well and good, but fast food is fast food. Sure, you can order a six-inch turkey sub loaded with vegetables and no cheese or mayo with a side of apple slices. Or you can get a footlong tuna salad sub that has more fat than a Big Mac and fries. Which do ...
- Comcast Withdraws Complaint About DirecTV NFL ...
Earlier this month, Comcast filed a lawsuit against DirecTV, alleging that the satellite provider's ads touting free access to its NFL Sunday Ticket package were misleading. Today, the Kabletown folks say they have withdrawn that complaint because DirecTV has stopped running the ads. From the ...
- Friday Tipster Round-Up: Display Blowout Edition
Thousands of readers have already downloaded our free Consumerist Tipster App. Here are just a handful of the photos they've sent in. Remember that you can always see even more Tipster photos on our Facebook page. V: "Food any time of day... Oh how inconvenient!" Kathy's local Menards se ...
- Report Your iPhone Stolen, Get A Visit From Th ...
Apple shipped Dianna's iPhone via FedEx to her apartment, but an unknown neighbor signed for it, and the phone never reached Dianna. She filed a police report on the missing phone, which earned her an early-morning visit from three men she calls FedEx's "thugs." She writes: I filed a police r ...
- In-N-Out Burger Sues Maryland Burger Joint Ove ...
The lawyers at In-N-Out Burger have a bit of an issue with a Maryland burger shop called Grab-N-Go, claiming that eatery's name, logo and menu items are a little bit too close to the bigger chain's trademarks. In-N-Out, which recently topped a Consumer Reports survey of fast food chains, filed ...
- Development Agencies Fail to Take On Corruptio ...
Canadian Press: Darling of Development World, Stung by Corruption Problems, Says Others in Worse Shape The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – a $21.7 billion health fund backed by prominent celebrities – is responding to allegations that the fund has lost up to $34 millio ...
- Feds Subpoena Lawyer in CIA Leak Case: Whistle ...
St. Louis Beacon: Feds Take Unusual Step of Subpoenaing Sterling's Lawyer The lawyer representing Jeffrey Sterling – the former CIA officer charged with leaking national security secrets to the press – was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in order to discuss Sterling’s case. Fed ...
- Teresa Chambers Case Highlights Limitations of ...
Last week, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ordered the National Park Service to reinstate whistleblower Teresa Chambers as Chief of the U.S. Park Police, as well as to reimburse her for back pay and legal costs. Her case garnered national attention when she was removed by the Bush ...
- Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator ...
By Wikimedia user Markus Schweiss Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator Killed Whistleblower Bill? This article details how the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) – a bill that would have strengthened protections for federal employees – was killed by one senator’s d ...
- Justice Department Leakers of Classified Info. ...
Three months ago, journalist Michael Isikoff noted the disturbing "Double Standard" in White House Leak Inquiries. But now it's not just the Executive Branch. Josh Gerstein of Politico just published an article on how a judge ruled that the Justice Department can keep secret names of its own ...
- The Media’s Outing of Queen Latifah
If you are “chomping at the bitâ for down-to-earth Jersey girl Dana Owens a.k.a reigning Hip-hopâs Queen Latifah to come out of her open closet, don’t hold your breath. If, however, you’ve derived pleasure from Queen Latifah’s unintended “Gotcha!” moments of being outed — and there are many — so ...
- The President’s Bold Jobs Bill (Maybe)
The President is sounding like a fighter these days. He even says he’ll be proposing a jobs bill in September – and if Republicans don’t go along he’ll fight for it through Election Day (or beyond). That’s a start. But read the small print and all he’s talked about so far is extending the payrol ...
- How Austerity Is Ushering in a Global Recession
Not only is the United States slouching toward a double dip, but so is Europe. New data out today show even Europe’s strongest core economies – Germany, France, and the Netherlands – slowing to a crawl. We’re on the cusp of a global recession. Policy makers be warned: Austerity is the wrong medi ...
- It’s Time for a Pro-Quality-of-Life Movement
The problem with the pro-life movement is their concerns for “life” end at birth. While writing a story about the famed Octomom (who living up to her comic book villain moniker managed to incense both pro-life and pro-choice groups), one of the pro-life advocates I interviewed explained they wer ...
- Egypt’s Spring Becomes a Long Hot Summer
Denis Campbell writes in a guest column for Professor Juan Cole’s Informed Comment. Democracy is messy. Freedom is contagious. For 18 days in January and February, the world sat on the edge of its seats watching an Egyptian people yearning to breathe free. The overthrow of Hosni Mubarak by a plu ...
- The Green Thing: the old and wise fight back
This was forwarded to me via email. The modern version of “green” is so tame. When it comes to recycling material, living without disposable goods, and leaving a smaller carbon footprint, the real experts are the long lived people who’ve been there, done that, and did it so much better, so lon ...
- Gillard has a problem: Growing Convoy on the w ...
1,410 miles or 2,270 km to go Fifty cars, trucks and vans, and there were at least four helicopters watching the action as the North Queensland Convoy headed through Charters Towers. Images like these will make the Labor Party break into a sweat. These pics from the You tube of the aerial shots ...
- Gillard has a problem: Growing Convoy on the w ...
1,410 miles or 2,270 km to go Fifty cars, trucks and vans, and there were at least four helicopters watching the action as the North Queensland Convoy headed through Charters Towers. Images like these will make the Labor Party break into a sweat. These pics from the You tube of the aerial shots ...
- More photos from both sides of a Nation protes ...
UPDATED: Former CSIRO researcher talks about the lack of freedom to speak against the government. See Angry Anderson’s speech and Art Raiches speech about the decline of CSIRO:Â Art Raiche on CSIRO Canberra Protest. Dr Raiche talked of the days when the CSIRO was a world class organisation and ...
- More photos from both sides of a Nation protes ...
Destination Canberra – nearly 4000 km away This is a protest to set records. For these vehicles in Perth, it’s 4 days of driving nearly every waking hour (and another 4 days minimum to return). The cost of petrol, accommodation, wear and tear and camper-hire, not to mention time-off-work, mean y ...
- Vital organ transplantation--not truly dead
(Paul A. Byrne, M.D.) - The August 29, 2000 Address of Blessed John Paul II is often quoted by those in support of obtaining vital organs for transplantation, but other statements by Pope John Paul II and a more recent statement by Pope Benedict XVI are ignored...
- Joe Wilson: I was right to yell 'you lie' at Obama
(Newsmax) - Nearly two years after shouting "You lie" at President Barack Obama during an address to a joint session of Congress, South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson says he has been vindicated. Wilson was heavily criticized for breaching decorum by yelling out during Obama's speech outlining his hea ...
- Larry Klayman wins round against Obamacare
(Politico) - Larry Klayman -- the conservative gadfly and attorney whose prolific lawsuits made him the bane of the Clinton administration -- just won a round in court against the Obama administration's health care reform effort. Klayman and a new legal group he founded, Freedom Watch, filed sui ...
- Arizona wins victory against Planned Parenthood
(Newsmax) - Arizona won a victory against Planned Parenthood, the abortion and women's health provider, after an appellate court removed the group's injunction against state legislation that interfered with its activities, reports CNSNews.com...
- Ten Commandments the only solution to the worl ...
(Dennis Prager) - There is only one solution to the world's problems, only one prescription for producing a near-heaven on earth. It is 3,000 years old. And it is known as the Ten Commandments. Properly understood and applied, the Ten Commandments are really all humanity needs to make a beautifu ...
- Fact: You Have Rights Because Government Says ...
Here's a quick follow-up article to the one posted a few days ago about the Rawesome Food Club raid. Feast your eyes on the following statements released by the Food and Drug Administration regarding the raid. Note: Below, 'Plaintiffs' refers to James Stewart, Rawesome's founder, Sharon Palmer, ...
- Another Unlawful Raid On Rawesome
Want an undeniable truth? Our government is out of control. To deny that is to deny all sense of reason and logic; to regress to your simple-minded, consensus trance thought (un)process. To me, this is the fatal flaw in the argument of all those who support government, or in this case, BIG gover ...
- Diet Myths THEY Don’t Want You To Know
MyPyramid.....of DEATH!I've been studying health and nutrition for about six years now. In fact, I credit my nutritional awakening with spurring on my awakening in all other aspects of life, from economics to politics. And I'll tell you the crux of what sparked my craving for the truth: Going ba ...
- Today's Quote
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell
- Poll: Are the Current E.coli Outbreaks False F ...
This week, we wanted to get your thoughts on the current E. coli outbreaks. Are they random, unfortunate events? Or is there a depopulation agenda being carried out by the eugenicist global elite? Here's what you thought (click to enlarge):
- Rick Perry: 2012 False Messiah?
For multiple reasons I have been looking for a very religious politician to enter the 2012 US presidential race (I asked at the forum back in March). The election occurs just one month prior to the end ...Rick Perry: 2012 False Messiah? is a post from: 2012 Blog No related posts.
- In Brief: Elenin, NASA and more
2012 Forum has been written about at Vice Magazine, where they condescendingly describe the five types of folk who visit there. By the way, that’s not my picture: http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/08/15/the-five-people-you-meet-on-the-apocalyptic-message-board/ NASA has decided to make a p ...
- Important (?) Dates Leading Up To Dec 2012
Obviously Dec 21, 2012 is the date we all have in mind. Even so, amongst the various researchers of 2012 and end times, these dates are also worth noting: Aug 22 2011 (+/- 3 days) – ...Important (?) Dates Leading Up To Dec 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Same old inaccuracie ...
- Important (?) Dates Leading Up To Dec 2012
Obviously Dec 21, 2012 is the date we all have in mind. Even so, amongst the various researchers of 2012 and end times, these dates are also worth noting: Aug 22 2011 (+/- 3 days) – ...Important (?) Dates Leading Up To Dec 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Same old inaccuracie ...
- Another Day, Another Cable TV SHTF Preppers Show
A few weeks ago I mentioned Doomsday Preppers, which aired on Nat Geo, and now we have Livin’ for the Apocalypse on TLC. It features Dennis McClung – once more waving the flag for 2012ers ...Another Day, Another Cable TV SHTF Preppers Show is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Doomsday ...
- 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 ...
- Libya and the End of Western Illusions
Just under half of Europeans still support the war against Libya. Their position is based on erroneous information. They still believe, in fact, that in February the “Gaddafi regime” crushed the protests in Benghazi with brutal force and bombed civilian districts in Tripoli, while the Colonel hi ...
- Why Are Those Damn Kids Rioting?
The world has taken to rioting but one must be careful not to assume that because they are happening at the same time it’s for the same reason or reasons. However, to look at the UK riots and the one in Vancouver, after a hockey loss by the home team, is to see, I think, [...]
- Western Civilization Large as Life and Twice a ...
The 2011 riots in England have brought us back to the talks about crisis of multiculturalism in Europe. Few people understand what does it mean. But many swaggeringly take on to speak up. Their speculations lead mostly to a primitive conclusion: people with different colors of skin cannot live t ...
- Falsified Major Media Reports on Libya
Major media specialize in what they do best: truth inversion (aka bad fiction), not doing what journalists are supposed to do – their job, especially covering imperial wars for dominance and rich spoils. With Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) falling apart and rebel forces in disarray, ...
- Syria: the Cost of Crisis
Syria has entered the sixth month of anti-government riots, orchestrated from abroad. Protesters no longer seek moderate reforms, they aggressively demand Bashar Assad`s resignation. Western media accuse Damascus of ‘opposing democratic changes’. The former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ...
- A Prednisone Problem: Lost Bone Density
[Editor's Note: Why does a drug that can do so much good have so many horrendous side-effects? And what do you do when faced with this type of problem? - Denise] Image Credit: Thirteen of Clubs � So, aside from living day to day with either Oreo or chocolate cake or various flavors of pie crum ...
- Ghost Chickens In The Sky
"Ghost chickens,"�boomed a broken baritone near my head.��Imagine my surprise the other day when my 15-year-old burst into song in the grocery store. In public. Within earshot of a very cute young lady at the cash register.��"Ghost chickens in the sky,"�the voice rang out again. �Now, this is a ...
- iPhone Photography - How Did I Do That?
�I started out with two photos I took of the same rose, one from the front, one from the side. I brought them into FX Photo Studio, cropped them square and saved them.�I brought each image back into FX Photo Studio and applied the "explosion" filter to them...and saved the images to my Photo ...
- It's Law and Order, But What Are They Wearing ...
I've long been a Law & Order fan. �I got seriously hooked on it two decades ago when gritty cop shows were more of a novelty. The original series with its signature bum bum tones has always been my favorite.� Thanks to syndication,� I've seen every episode at least three or four times.So, it was ...
- Three Cheers for The League of Aging Gracefully
[Editor's Note:� I loved what Shannon wrote about these British Beauties.� More Hollywoulders could use to take that vow. Nothing distracts more from a performers talent than a botched nose job.� --Morgan} How refreshing. A trio of British actresses who are well-respected and beautiful, to boot ...
- China Pharma Turns Dead Babies Into Stamina Bo ...
A South Korean documentary crew is accusing Chinese pharmaceutical companies of selling dead baby pills as stamina boosters. China’s Big Pharma is literally making a killing from a new endeavor. According to a South Korean SBS ...
- The Amazing Emotional World Of Bees
It appears that bees experience very real, very human feelings. At least that’s the vibe they emanated to recent researchers. They are prone to feeling discouraged and pessimistic depending on environment, circumstances, and external stimuli. Could this be ...
- Third Victim Of Fatal Water Brain Attacking Amoeba
Two, no three, have passed away this summer from a ravaging brain amoeba found in fresh waters. What sounds more like the plot of a scary sci-fi thriller has occurred around 120 times since the ...
- Farmers Fight Back Against Monsanto – Update
In March, HFA reported about the large group of family farmers, seed companies, and agricultural organizations and The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) filing suit against Monsanto. They were preemptively defending themselves against being sued for patent ...
- Only Crazy People Drink Raw Milk?
By contributing author, Jon Rappoport, The National Health Federation, August 12th THE WIDER IMPLICATIONS AUGUST 5, 2011. The federal raid on Rawesome Foods in Venice, California, is based on the insistence (with guns) that private citizens can’t make ...
- Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
- Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
- Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
- “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
- Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...
- Friday roundup, Aug. 19, 2011
In this Sept. 2004 file photo, flowers and wreaths are shown outside the Jim Walters Mine No. 5 in Brookwood, Ala., in remembrance of the explosions that killed 13 miners on Sept. 23, 2001. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration is offering grants to states and nonprofits to develop trai ...
- Congressional Research Service: EPA regulatory ...
There’s a significant story out today from The Hill’s Energy and Environment Blog, reporting: Utility industry claims that looming Environmental Protection Agency rules for power plants will create an economic âtrain wreckâ are overblown, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) says ...
- Bad poll numbers: What’s a coal company ...
A coal truck drives out of downtown Welch, W.Va. (AP Photo/Jon C. Hancock) Some of the reactions and the coverage to this week’s public opinion poll on mountaintop removal coal mining have been a bit bizarre. Take this from a story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, for example: Jason Hayes, the co ...
- Tree sit ends at Alpha Natural Resources
This just in announcing the end of the latest tree-sitting protest against mountaintop removal (see previous posts here, here and here): Catherine-Ann MacDougal is descending her oak tree on Coal River Mountain that she has lived in for the past month in protest of strip mining, and police have ...
- New report: State coal ash rules inadequate
While federal regulation of toxic coal-ash handling and disposal seems stalled at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — and faces efforts for a congressional block by West Virginia Rep. David McKinley — the safety and environmental integrity of coal-ash impoundments around the country rests ...
- Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the ...
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. In 2001, Borders agreed to hand over its online business to Amazon under the theory that online book sales were non-strategic and unim ...
- Political Perspective Needed
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- APT Attackers Hiding In Plain Sight – Dark Reading
Ever wonder exactly why cyberespionage attackers can be so difficult to detect? These so-called advanced persistent threat (APT) attackers increasingly are camouflaging their activities by using tools that exist in the targeted host, operating via commonly used network ports, and even hiding the ...
- Lapidarium
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- You Want Compromise? Sure You Do – NYTimes.com
Political clustering is reflected in religious participation and even shopping choices. David Wasserman, of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, recently calculated that 89 percent of the Whole Foods stores in the United States were in counties carried by Barack Obama in 2008, while 62 percent ...
- Don’t Panic: Don’t Talk
The Met today released another 44 photos of people they want to 'talk to'. The pictures are often of poor quality, and many of the 'targets' are masked up. The police have little chance of identifying many of these without help. The information printed above has been distributed around London, b ...
- The reason why the youth hate the police
This brilliant video appeared on youtube, and has also been published on the Police State UK site. It really shows the sort of mind-set the police have. I'd guess that a lot of people will recognise that arrogant, petty and vindictive attitude. The cops appear to be Forest Gate, and as far as I ...
- This is what ‘robust’ policing loo ...
The video shows a unit of Manchester riot police baton, punch and kick three youths on push bikes. The police carrying on kicking and punching them even when they are on the ground. Is this the sort of 'robust' policing that David Cameron and the politicians of all parties have been clamouring for?
- A fitwatcher’s view of the riots
I’ve felt a lot of emotions over the past few days ranging from joy to grief to anger. It’s been amazing to see people fighting back against the police and it’s been equally horrific to see damage to people’s homes and small shops, let alone the deaths in Birmingham yesterday. However, today I a ...
- Police place emphasis on corporate property pr ...
Cars were burned and local businesses attacked in Hackney last night, in the third night of rioting in London. Local residents could only watch as their vehicles were smashed and torched, and in some cases homes were also damaged. Local businesses were also attacked and looted. The local communi ...
- WWH News Briefs Saturday
Deal frees 3 men convicted in Cub Scout slayings ONESBORO, Ark. (AP) — Sentenced to die for the terrifying slayings of three Cub Scouts, Damien Echols once came within three weeks of being executed. Released Friday under an unusual plea deal after more than two decades on death row, Echols has c ...
- A prime aim of the growing Surveillance State
Glen Greenwald - Several weeks ago, a New York Times article by Noam Cohen examined the case of Aaron Swartz, the 24-year-old copyright reform advocate who was arrested in July, after allegedly downloading academic articles that had been placed behind a paywall, thus making them available for fr ...
- Jailing People Because They Are Too Poor to Pa ...
WWH – DETROIT â The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan said earlier this month that they are challenging âpay or stayâ sentences imposed on five persons across the state who were illegally jailed for being too poor to pay court fines. In each instance, the judge failed to ho ...
- The Witch King
by Diane Gee – The Professional Left: Fuck Obama and his bullshit, but vote for him anyway, because PERRY is the alternative. The Real Left: These are no alternatives. The prophesy foretells it. I mean, its like, inevitable dudes. No man can kill the witch king, and we have to vote for the democ ...
- Is it Green or is it just Greed?
Glenn Simpson,WWH – One result of a week of rioting and it’s aftermath, here in Britain, is the relegation from our front pages, and media, of coverage of the economic crisis engulfing the Country. Americans may find it hard to believe that the UK price of Petrol is now $8.00 + a gallon and risi ...
- Unity and uniqueness of string theory became a ...
At the beginning of the year, I was kind of amazed by the quality of Physics Stack Exchange. There were actual experts over there and meritocracy mostly worked worked. So I have also answered 661 questions�and became the highest-score user on that server. But sometimes in Spring, I cou ...
- CO2, AGW makes animals disoriented, move to North
And aliens came to exterminate the deniers The media interest in global warming has dropped to about 1/3 of the peak traffic we saw around early 2007. The people's desire to search for global warming has decreased to 1/6 of what it was at the beginning of 2007. An off-top ...
- Eurozone government and financial transaction tax
Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy are going through another wave of their radical inventions and assorted ideas in order to show how creative and ingenious they are. To stabilize the fiscal discipline of the eurozone member countries, they have proposed a genuine eurozone government. Or an ...
- Lindzen-Choi 2011 published
WUWT brings us some good news and the final version of the Lindzen-Choi 2011 article published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences: On the Observational Determination of Climate Sensitivity and Its Implications (full text PDF)This is an updated version of their 2009 artic ...
- Lepton-Photon 2011
The Lepton-Photon 2011 conference begins on Monday, Aug 22nd, and ends on Saturday, Aug 27th in Bombay. The ATLAS blog suggests that their collaboration will present experimnetal results based on 2 inverse femtobarns of data - doubling what we could see just a month earlier (in G ...
- Freedom is just another word for no one left t ...
This video has more one-liners than a stand-up comic ‘cept in this case no one is laughing. This is putting the corrupt occupiers of the ivory towers on notice…. Assholes, your time has come. Prepare for your comeuppance. Uploaded by ledaOhio937 on Aug 17, 2011 Listen to this… Heretic Production ...
- Rachel Corrie 5th Grade Speech I’m here becaus ...
Uploaded by theevilofthezionists on Sep 19, 2008 Rachel Corrie, a true hero was murdered by the State of Israel. Rachel Corrie was killed by the state of Israel, and by its brutal regime that practices not only ‘mass punishment’ but also ‘ethnic cleansing’. The same regime that has displaced o ...
- Nobel Prize Winning Economist Paul Krugman’s c ...
A lot of people consider Paul Krugman world-renowned for his economic insight; but in reality he is just another New World Order stooge. Here he is live on CNN touting the use of a fake alien invasion to help boost the economy. Believe it or not, he is right. Think about how it would mobilize [. ...
- Reuters and Incest – Screwing America through ...
A well written article that describes exactly what is wrong with America. You are controlled by Corporate Fascist Thugs and here is yet one more example: Reuters Edits Iowa Poll Reality According to Globalist Agenda Or how Reuters slit its legitimacy’s wrists. an editorial by Tony Cartalucci Oft ...
- This could be the next President of the United ...
Hmmm I don’t know whether to go eat or masturbate or do both. This is the first time that a potential Presidential Candidate has turned me on. Pass the mustard – Hold the mayo! From ZeroHedge: Bachmann Wins Ames Straw Poll With 29% Of Vote, Ron Paul Takes Second With 28% Submitted by Tyler Durde ...
- Flame Retardants: Banned, but not gone
By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Even though toxic flame retardant chemicals were banned in 2006, pregnant women in California carry high levels of the hazardous substances in their blood, according to a new study by scientists at the University... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
- DOE fracking report states obvious, little else
By Shannon Morgan, EWG legal assistant, and Alex Rindler, EWG Government Affairs Assistant People across the country are rightly concerned about natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing near their homes. Thanks to new technologies, the exploitation... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
- Cancer: Belatedly, Environmental Causes Get th ...
By Justine Chow and Feifei Li, EWG Research Assistants In discussions of the causes of cancer, environmental exposures have long been the unloved stepchild. But that's changing. For decades, most cancer researchers focused on genetics, diet, smoking and... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
- California and Hawaii Lead the Way on Chromium ...
By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist On July 27, 2011, the state of California put in place a strong, first-in-the-nation, health-based safety goal for hexavalent chromium (or chromium-6), the "Erin Brockovich" chemical, in drinking water. This... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
- On Fracking: Now, Cracks in the Façade
By LeeAnn Brown, EWG Press Secretary Imagine, if you can: Nearly overnight, your water well begins producing slimy, off-color foul smelling and worse tasting water. It's unusable. You can't drink it. You can't bathe in it. You can't wash dishes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
- Regular old vampires: 'Fright Night' retreats ...
The Twilight juggernaut, while popular amongst tween girls for obvious, hormonally induced reasons, has done much to defang the bloodsucker myth, to the detriment of the genre. Vampire tales are considerably less chilling when the vampire in question is en ...
- Does the buck stop with Andrew Cuomo and Chris ...
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner?��� More
- Charles Busch's muse, an aging actress in Kips ...
Busch wrote his latest play with actor Marcia Jean Kurtz in mind, and you can see why. It’s a difficult role, as Olive doesn’t let up on the kvetching until the last scene. Kurtz keeps the volume turned up, but now and then lets the audience see her sensit ...
- Picking up where Hillary left off, Kirsten Gil ...
In a move to preempt a conceivable move to close Brooklyn’s Fort Hamilton, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced a fall conference to look at possible ways to adapt the base to better prepare for cuts or closures.Speaking to reporters at the base on Wednesd ...
- A 'kinky sex clue' versus a Bruckheimer-ready ...
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
- Sights of summer in scenic Lyngør
PICTURE SERIES: As summer winds down in Norway, memories linger and the locals start looking forward to next year, not least to visiting fabled Sørlandet. It takes a boat ride to get there, but the historic village of Lyngør, set on a group of islands off Norway’s south coast, is well worth th ...
- No canon salute as mourning ends
As Norway heads into a long weekend of special ceremonies to conclude its official mourning period after last month’s terrorist attacks, Crown Princess Mette-Marit has refused to allow the military to fire canons in recognition of her 38th birthday on Friday. Blasts from canons at 16 sites aroun ...
- Artist can’t paint in prison
Odd Nerdrum, the Norwegian artist sentenced to two years in jail for tax evasion, won’t be allowed to keep painting in prison. He’s appealing his sentence, but if it stands, the 67-year-old Nerdrum will have to leave his brushes and easels behind. Newspaper Aftenposten reported that the Justice ...
- Memorials to end mourning period
Survivors of the July 22 massacre on Utøya were returning to the island on Friday as a special weekend of state-sponsored memorial ceremonies to honor victims and their families got underway. The memorials were to climax on Sunday afternoon with a large, national ceremony inside the Oslo Spektru ...
- Survivors, mourners and police defend terror r ...
Norwegian police have come under increasing criticism over their response to the terrorist attacks of July 22, but details released this week help explain the extraordinary pressure they were under. Many survivors and the families of victims, meanwhile, are basically telling the critics to shut ...
- Live Streaming of the International Permacultu ...
For those who cannot make it to the IPC10 in Jordan next month (September 2011), my announcement here should hopefully be gladly received! PRI Australia has put up the funds for the additional equipment I needed to enable me to live-stream the International Permaculture Conference (IPC10) to the ...
- How to Revive the Honeybee
I recently saw a new film, Queen Of The Sun: What are the bees telling us?, about the global honeybee crisis and colony collapse disorder. From a holistic perspective the movie tells a story of transformation of beekeeping and the relationship of humans and bees to explore what is really go ...
- Summer Permaculture Tips and Tricks
by Chuck Burr, Southern Oregon Permaculture Institute (SOPI) Here are the Summer permaculture tips and tricks from the Southern Oregon Permaculture Institute — enjoy and pass them on. 1. Permaculture blueberries. After two years of hand-weeding our two acres of blueberries we have let them go w ...
- The Power of International Law to Create the N ...
Editor’s Note: At time of writing, Polly is on a speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand — check out dates and locations here. Maddy Harland meets Polly Higgins, a barrister who is campaigning for the United Nations to adopt an additional crime against peace: Ecocide. by Maddy Harland, editor ...
- Polly Higgins Speaking Tour (Australia, New Ze ...
Regular readers will know I’m keen to see society structured in a way that prioritises people and place over corporations and short-term, profit-centric, economic-growth-focussed idiocy. Whilst politicians are arguing over debt ceilings, corporate tax exemptions, how much more money to mag ...
- So, which is it; Global Warming, Climate Disru ...
We had nearly two decades worth of propaganda telling us we were the cause of the planet warming up and unless we stopped emitting carbon, we were all going to burn up in the looming thermogeddon. This scare was branded Global Warming and gradually entered the popular consciousness. People natur ...
- London’s burning, an alternative viewpoint.
You know what you do when one or two hundred kids in hoodies turn up in your high street and start looting it? Nothing. Thatâs what you do because youâre helpless. Thereâs only one of you and the police force you trusted are nowhere in sight. Yes, youâve called them but youâre just another one … ...
- I’m not a scientist but …
For a number of reasons, having âmade my bonesâ in permanent employment, the rest of my career would be termed freelance. I deliver measured amounts of expertise for clients of my choosing in the areas in which I know I operate well. The point is, you have to step out of your comfort zone and … ...
- On murderous madmen.
The tragic events of last week in Norway do give you pause for thought. How could anyone do that and especially to defenseless young people? Does it say something about us all? Are we all capable of doing something like that? The answer is no and thatâs not just my subjective opinion, itâs a fac ...
- You gotta have a sense of humour …
You look at stuff and you wonder. Maybe you donât, maybe a lot of people donât, maybe they never do. Well, I do. I suppose itâs just me being an awkward cuss but at this stage in the game, Iâm pretty reconciled to that. You are what you are, so just chaw down and get … Read more
- The best video export options
How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
- Video Resources updated
The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching video in ...
- Flash Journalism updates
I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
- New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less versatile in several w ...
- Convert WMA files with Switch
Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we can edit them ...
- Cops Knocking on your Door: New NOPD Initiativ ...
A few weeks back, New Orleans City Business reported that NOPD officers had begun randomly checking car doors, locking unlocked cars, and leaving notes behind, either saying they had locked the door, or congratulating citizens on locking their own doors. Clearly, this new policy was an atte ...
- FREE Mortgage Relief Fair Set for the Westbank ...
A group of local nonprofits and community development partners have joined together to help address the needs of homeowners in the greater New Orleans area, with a focus on those who have been affected by the oil spill and may be behind on their mortgage payments or are facing foreclosure. ...
- Noose Hanging Outside High School in Northern ...
From a US Department of Justice press release: The Justice Department today announced that three men were charged for their role in intentionally attempting to intimidate and interfere with African-American students who were attending Beekman Junior High School in Beekman, Morehouse Parish, ...
- Groups Ask Court to Remove Individuals Convict ...
From our friends at Center for Constitutional Rights: Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), police misconduct attorney Andrea J. Ritchie, Esq., the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Law Clinic, and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP argued in federal court for a r ...
- Why I Was Willing to be Arrested on the Gulf C ...
The day before yesterday, on August 4, 2011, one year after the President of our United States stood on national television and said that 75% of the oil that had spewed into our Gulf was gone, I was booked into the New Orleans Parish Police lock-up with the charge of criminal trespassing. ...
- Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
Welcome to you 1:18Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Sat Aug 20, 2011 2:59 am
- Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
Are Stocks (Re-)Entering "Free Fall Territory"? Prechter's New VIDEO Theorist Prepares You for What's Next There's only one forecaster who can keep YOU a step ahead of "astonishing" By Robert Folsom Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:45:00 ET The amazing market volatility of the past month has brought an ( ...
- Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
Are Stocks (Re-)Entering "Free Fall Territory"? Prechter's New VIDEO Theorist Prepares You for What's Next There's only one forecaster who can keep YOU a step ahead of "astonishing" By Robert Folsom Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:45:00 ET The amazing market volatility of the past month has brought an ( ...
- Historical Events • Re: BCCI and The Secret Fi ...
Dear CSR, That is a rare and remarkable find, linking Rothschild to BCCI through the Jew Dr. Alfred Hartmann. This is truly major, it makes me want to draw the map of the whole RICO again with the new evidence. Wait, I think I'll just hang myself instead.Statistics: Posted by Michael K. — Fr ...
- The Information Underground Radio Show • Re: A ...
Thanks for the link. I didn't know you guys were still doing shows, but then I haven't been here for a while and the other shows I had bookmarked came to a crashing halt (it appeared) in 2010.Statistics: Posted by Obadiah 1:18 — Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:51 pm
- Species Moving Rapidly in Response to Climate ...
A new study finds that animal and plant species are responding to the effects of climate change at a rate two to three times faster than previously believed. Researchers at the University of York in the UK found University of YorkComma butterfly that in more than 2,000 instances, species are ch ...
- Extreme Weather Disasters Take Record Toll in ...
The U.S. has already tied the record for the number of extreme weather events causing more than $1 billion in damage in one year, with the cumulative tab so far reaching $35 billion, government officials said. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), there have be ...
- UK Otter Populations Rebound Two Decades After ...
Environmental officials say otter populations have returned to every county in the United Kingdom, just two decades after pollution had nearly wiped them out. At least two otters have been found building homes The Independent along rivers in Kent, the last county where the animals had not be ...
- A Planetary Crisis Is A Terrible Thing to Waste
There are striking similarities between the current economic and ecological crises — both involve indulgent over-consumption and a failure to consider the impacts on future generations. But it’s not too late to look to new economic and environmental models and to dramatically change course. BY ...
- Nations Set Heat Records As Summer Temperature ...
Six nations across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa experienced record high temperatures this summer, as for the second consecutive summer meteorologists reported some of the highest temperatures in Forum: Is Extreme Weather Linked to Global Warming?In the past year, the world has seen a larg ...
- 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 Worms
by 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 shilling
By 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 scare
By 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 ...
- Candidate Kaieda eases on Ozawa
Trade minister Banri Kaieda expressed his intention Friday to run for the Democratic Party of Japan presidency and succeed Prime Minister Naoto Kan, and hinted he may lift the suspension on former party leader Ichiro Ozawa, who will soon go on trial. With Kan expected to leave office by the en ...
- Wenger losing touch with reality
"Imagine the worst situation, we lose Fabregas and Nasri — you cannot convince people you are ambitious after that." - Arsene Wenger, July 2011
- World's best shoppers at my beach shop
Having run a beach shop for eight years now, I've been able to observe the shopping practices of the Japanese firsthand. My summer shop on the island, mainly stocked with accessories and beach clothing, is targeted toward women on vacation.
- Energy bill paves way for Kan exit
The Lower House is set to pass legislation to subsidize renewable energy amid a push to reduce dependence on nuclear power, paving the way for Prime Minister Naoto Kan to quit as early as next week. The bill requires utilities to buy electricity generated by geothermal, solar and wind sources ...
- Nuclear policy scaled back
The new five-year science and technology program approved Friday by the Cabinet excludes references to an earlier draft that promoted next-generation nuclear technologies, reflecting the government's backpedaling on atomic power policy amid the Fukushima nuclear crisis. Noting the urgency of r ...
- The New Cost of Criminal Pardons
The Conservative government, with the collaboration of opposition parties, hastily passed a piece of legislation (Bill C-23A) last year which makes it more difficult for offenders to obtain a pardon for their offences. This was the government’s response to the news that notorious child-molester ...
- Stimulus vs Public Investment
A column by Nobel Prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz in the Financial Times makes what I think is an important point. The current debate over fiscal policy for the US, Europe and Canada is often characterized in the media as one between advocates of higher deficits from Keynesian style stimul ...
- Tea Party North
Last week, Travis Fast noted Terry Corcoran’s strained argument that over-regulation of banks is what ails the global economy. Terry’s next column went even further off the deep end, endorsing the hard-money libertarianism of gold bugs like Eric Sprott. Today’s column is a full-blown defence of ...
- C. D. Howe’s Overnight Moves Need Work
Less than a month ago, the C. D. Howe Institute released a paper by Michael Parkin, “Overnight Moves: The Bank of Canada Should Start to Raise Interest Rates Now.” The next day, its Monetary Policy Council called on the Bank to increase the overnight interest rate. This call was terrible. The fo ...
- The Strange Case of Saskatchewan’s Elect ...
In the aftermath of the May federal election, many Saskatchewan voters were justifiably surprised by the results. Despite garnering 32.3 % of the total provincial vote, the federal NDP was completely shut-out in our province. Conversely, the Conservatives – with a little over half of the popular ...
- USA's myopic extremists take the lead
Lawrence Davidson considers the worldview and political "philosophy" of America's myopic extremists, such as Michelle Bachmann and others in the Republican and Tea parties, who seem to be capturing the imagination of a significant minority of the US electorate that is essentially parochial and h ...
- Education and behaviour in Israel and Palestine
Lawrence Davidson argues that while levelling charges of incitement at the Palestinian educational system, Israelis themselves have been practising on their own children a form of indoctrination that vilifies Palestinians and Arabs.
- Israel’s "Jews first, democracy second" law an ...
Uri Avnery considers Israel's latest racist law, which gives primacy to Jews of any nationality over indigenous non-Jewish citizens, and views some of the unsavoury characters behind this law, from war crimes suspect Avi Dichter to members of the Kadima party, a "haphazard collection of frustrat ...
- Obama straining every nerve against UN members ...
Josh Ruebner argues that Obama administration statements justifying the US position against Palestinian membership in the UN "are so illogical that they can be seen only as pretexts for clinging to the crumbling façade of Israeli occupation and apartheid".
- The Zionists and the US Islamophobes behind No ...
Lawrence Davidson views the Israelis and Americans responsible for cultivating the environment in which Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik thrived and found encouragement.
- Map tracks ice flow across Antarctica
BBC: Scientists have produced what they say is the first complete map of how the ice moves across Antarctica, writes Jonathan Amos for the BBC. Published online by Science, the map was assembled from billions of radar data points collected between 1996 and 2009 by satellites belonging to Europe, ...
- Women value a college degree more highly than ...
Chronicle of Higher Education: According to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, women tend to value higher education more than men do. Of the approximately 2100 people surveyed, about one-third held a bachelor’s degree or higher. Most respondents agreed that a college education ...
- Dazzling blobs shed new light on the universe
The Guardian: Lyman-alpha blobs (Lab) are gigantic clouds of hydrogen gas hundreds of thousands of light-years across. Discovered in the 1990s, they emit a bright, ethereal glow when electrons lose energy inside the hydrogen atoms, a process that produces a luminous signature known as the Lyman- ...
- Nuclear cruise ship bides its time in Baltimore
Los Angeles Times: The Savannah, one of only four nuclear-powered cargo and passenger ships ever built, and the only one built in the US, resides at Pier 13 of the Canton Marine Terminal in Baltimore, Maryland. President Eisenhower proposed building the vessel in 1955 to promote the nonmilitary ...
- Diamond nanoparticles detected in candlelight
Telegraph: Researchers at the UK’s University of St. Andrews may have discovered a new source of diamonds: a candle flame. Previous work had already shown that hydrocarbon molecules at the bottom of the flame are converted into carbon dioxide by the time they reach the top. To find out what happ ...
- US-Israel Trade: Espionage, Thefts, Secrets
by umajeff21 (Posted Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:54:15 GMT) Any latest developments? It's almost scary stuff. Amazed by the way they are doing it. Gross! ----------- blog uk
- Media suppress Ron Paul
by katsung47 (Posted Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:13:04 GMT) Who won the Republican Presidential Debate? Active Cities : 6,965 Total Votes : 40,882 National Vote Paul .....25248 Gingrich ...5863 Cain .......3169 Bachmann ...2438 Romney ...2376 Santorum ..1032 ...
- New debt ceiling deal
by katsung47 (Posted Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:09:55 GMT) New debt ceiling deal (8/2/2011) The debt ceiling negotiation reveals one truth, that this nation is controlled by a covert dictatorship which represents the interest of a rich people group, and the so said law makers don't represent the voter ...
- News media won't report
by katsung47 (Posted Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:06:36 GMT) Quote, 'How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how ...
- Oil price and Iran war
by katsung47 (Posted Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:02:02 GMT) Oil 15. Maintain the crisis until Iran war coming (1/15/08) US economy takes a lot of advantage from Petro dollar. So when Iran abandons dollar as oil trading currency, it hurts dollar foundation significantly. To save the green back, the war ...
- Prevent Florida Civil War Over Water
“The regional water policy approach we have with five water management districts is imperfect, but it is superior to a centralized system that would muffle local voices. And we must push our state and federal legislators to back reasonable efforts to strike that balance. Putnam said that the fed ...
- Ghana Expert Calls For Tougher Laws Against Wa ...
“People have therefore called on the government to put in place the necessary legislation and infrastructure to ensure that the area would not go the way of some oil-producing African countries where the resource had been mismanaged. The West African country discovered oil in commercial quantiti ...
- Somalia: Rights Group Says All Sides Guilty Of ...
“The report’s author, Ben Rawlence, told the BBC that al-Shabab carries out unrelenting daily repression and brutality in areas under its control, taxing the population for access to water, forcefully recruiting men so they cannot grow crops and restricting access to aid agencies. “Al-Shabab mus ...
- Protecting Our Water Supply
“As reported in The Macomb Daily, the Republican-led legislature in Ohio wants to buck the efforts of other states and provinces to protect Great Lakes waters with its plans to increase withdrawals from the lakes, the rivers that feed them and the groundwater in the watershed area. Its rationale ...
- Pakistan’s Water Crisis
“The problem of water scarcity in the Indus basin is predicated partly on the inherent limitations of water supply in the Indus River System and partly on the growing water demand associated with inefficient water use in the process of economic and population growth.Unsustainable development pra ...
- Kucinich: Time for White House to Get Real on ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called upon the White House to �get real� on jobs and not wait until September to announce plans to get America working again. Kucinich�s statement comes as President Obama wraps up a Midwestern �jobs tour� that lacked specific proposals, but included a p ...
- State Error Denies Thousands of Qualified Sen ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is today seeking urgent federal assistance to provide needed services to seniors after a state error has resulted in as many as 15,000 qualified seniors and disabled individuals being denied continued Medicare Part B premium and copayment assistance, as well as ...
- Need Concrete Plans to Rebuild Infrastructure; ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to colleagues to enlist support for his dramatic, new, concrete plan to get Americans working again, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and to take control of our monetary policy from private banks to promote the public interest.� "It is time to g ...
- Kucinich to Obama: Free Trade = Fewer U.S. Jobs
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to President Obama in response to claims that free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Colombia will spur job growth.� President Obama is scheduled to speak in Iowa today, a state that has lost 21,500 jobs from free trade policies according to B ...
- Congressional Briefing 2011-- Professor Kaoru ...
Congressional Briefing 2011, July 26, 2011 Office of Congressman Dennis Kucinich Professor Kaoru Yamaguchi, Ph.D. Doshisha Business School Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan This briefing, held in the Cannon House Office Building, presented the findings of fundamental economic r ...
- Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
- Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...
- 900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticis ...
WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comRead: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exa ...
- Who is Deep Climate?
A new climate alarmist blog appeared on October 18, 2008 from an "unknown" Canadian setting out to both "follow the money" and "follow the science" of the "climate science 'skeptic' movement in Canada". Who in the great Northwest of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada would undertake such a daunt ...
- Are Skeptical Scientists funded by ExxonMobil?
In an article titled, "Analysing the ‘900 papers supporting climate scepticism’: 9 out of top 10 authors linked to ExxonMobil" from the environmental activist website The Carbon Brief, former Greenpeace "researcher" Christian Hunt failed to do basic research. He made no attempt to contact the sc ...
- Is Indonesia losing its most valuable assets?
Deep in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo in the late 1980s, researchers made an incredible discovery: the bark of a species of peat swamp tree yielded an extract with potent anti-HIV activity. An anti-HIV drug made from the compound is now nearing clinical trials. It could be worth hundreds o ...
- Indonesia's moratorium disappoints environment ...
The moratorium on permits for new concessions in primary rainforests and peatlands will have a limited impact in reducing deforestation in Indonesia, say environmentalists who have reviewed the instruction released today by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The moratorium, which too ...
- FSC mulls controversial motion to certify plan ...
Members of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), meeting in Malaysia this week for its General Assembly, will consider various changes to the organization, including a vote on a controversial motion that would open the door—slightly at first—to sustainable-certification of companies that have be ...
- Unpaved road through Serengeti to progress
After a week of confusion, the Tanzanian government has finally clarified its position on the hugely-controversial Serengeti road. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, confirmed that a paved highway will not be built through the northern Serengeti National Park, however ...
- Richard Leakey: 'selfish' critics choose wrong ...
The controversial Serengeti road is going ahead, but with conditions. According to the Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, the road will not be paved and it will be run by the Tanzanian park authority who will have the power to monitor traffic to 'ensure no harm ...
- Battle on the forecast front
In the end, boisterous Auckland weatherman Philip Duncan gave in gracefully - thanks MetService, he wrote on Facebook, for your early and accurate snowstorm forecast.Credit where credit's due, he said: "They nailed this one from...
- Drug offers hope for spinal cord patients
New Zealand scientists have taken big strides towards producing a drug treatment for spinal cord injuries - an exciting development for anyone confined to a wheelchair by back or neck injuries.The Auckland University neuroscientists...
- The trouble with good-looking people
Kate Moss, George Clooney, Natalie Portman and Brad Pitt may be many people's ideas of dream dates. But pioneering research which combines economics and biology suggests they may not be perfect life partners.According to a study...
- Future of space travel: Looking for liftoff
It's billionaire Richard Branson's boldest plan - sending tourists soaring into space. But the countdown to commercial spaceflight hasn't always gone smoothly The frontier of commercial spaceflight, which opened when Nasa's shuttle...
- Monitoring health without all the wires
One day monitoring a patient's vital signs like temperature and heart rate could be a simple as sticking on a tiny, wireless patch, sort of like a temporary tattoo.Eliminating the bulky wiring and electrodes would make the devices...
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- WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
- DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
Report written by Roma AKA A2B The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →
- New at Reason: Mike Riggs on Gary Johnson and ...
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is the only GOP presidential candidate who has both executive experience and good ideas. At a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Johnson laid out sound policy proposals for avoiding another fiscal crisis, reining in spending, and ...
- New at Reason: A. Barton Hinkle on Airport Sec ...
Aaron Tobey was in pre-flight screening at the Richmond, Virginia airport last year when he was directed toward one of those special imaging machines that can see through clothing. Tobey paused to strip off his T-shirt and sweatpants. On his torso he had written: "Amendment 4: The rig ...
- Rick Perry's Political Savvy
Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry an idiot? Reason contributor and former Reagan economic adviser Bruce Bartlett made a minor news splash for saying as much about the newly announced GOP presidential contender. I've never spoken to Perry, and while I've followed a number of his stat ...
- Hello My Name Is: PAID SIGNATURE GATHERER
A California bill would require people who get paid to help gather signatures on the street to wear their very own scarlet letter: Senate Bill 448, by Democratic Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, would require that paid solicitors working to qualify initiatives, recalls or referendums for ...
- The West Memphis Three Are Free
Mara Leveritt, award-winning journalist and author of the superb book Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three, reports from Arkansas: After the bang of a judge's gavel, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr., walked out of a Jonesboro courtroom as f ...
- Hacking update
Not much news, but a little. Lisa O’Carroll, The Guardian: Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the News of the World phone hacking, has been ordered by a court to reveal who instructed him to access the voicemails of model Elle MacPherson and five other public figures inclu ...
- History will regard this one deed favorably
Pro Publica has issued an important article assessing the economy (via Ritholtz). One of the most important things it does is explain what happened with the stimulus money: The Recovery Act as passed was estimated to cost about $787 billion. More than a third of that was tax cuts, and another th ...
- Friday Cat Blogging
“This is where you keep the treats, yes?”
- A picture is worth a thousand words
Will the market go up? Will it go down? I have no idea. I do know that based on fairly long-standing historical patterns, the current market level is below the norm. Not by a lot, but some. Is putting money in a good idea? I don’t know. That depends a lot on what happens with [...]
- NewsHacks
Lots of news on the phone hacking front, some favorable to Murdoch, other deadly. James Robinson, The Guardian. Required payment or hush money?: Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the News of the World phone-hacking affair, is suing the now defunct tabloid’s publisher News ...
- Norway, Japan to screen Farhadi film
Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's Nader and Simin: A Separation is slated to be screened in two international film festivals in Norway and Japan.
- US flood kills at least 3 in Pennsylvania
At least three people have died and a fourth person gone missing after a pair of storms triggered heavy flash flooding in the US state of Pennsylvania.
- US spy drone crashes in Afghanistan
A US reconnaissance drone has crashed in central Afghanistan, with the Taliban claiming they shot down the aircraft.
- Afghans block road in anti-US demo
Afghan protesters have blocked the Kabul-Kandahar highway in protest at the recent killing of four Afghan civilians in US-led operations in Ghazni Province of Afghanistan.
- Naqab operation and the Gaza massacre
Six Palestinians, including two children as well as two Egyptian border guards, were killed in an Israeli strike on the City of Gaza.
- EGYPT: The Mubarak Show Goes Into Hiding
In a shuttered Cairo caf�, Egyptians crane their necks to watch the courtroom drama unfolding on a small television screen mounted high on the wall. The camera pans across the crowded courtroom and zooms in on a frail old man lying on a stretcher inside the caged defendants' box. Part Go ...
- Sri Lanka Ducks International Probe
Although the Sri Lankan government has evaded calls for an international probe into alleged excesses while militarily defeating Tamil separatism in 2009, it may yet be called to account at the September session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
- Talks Bog Down Ahead of U.N. Health Meet
The first High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases is scheduled to take place one month from now, but U.N. member states are lagging in preparing for it, an alliance of civil society organisations says.
- Rights Commission Rebukes U.S. on Domestic Vio ...
In a groundbreaking decision that affirms domestic violence as an international human rights issue, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has ruled that the U.S. should do more to protect victims of domestic violence.
- Q&A: "Put Yourself in Our Shoes, Mr. President"
"I repeat: there will be no peace talks without concrete actions. Words are not enough," Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on a visit to Argentina this week. Earlier, in Chile, he said for the first time since taking office a year ago that he was "willing" to eventually sit down to t ...
- Friedman's Little Shop of Horrors
Privatization and free market guru Milton Friedman. Friedman advised governments in economic crisis to follow strict austerity measures, combining radical cuts in social services with the full-scale privatization of their more lucrative assets. Many countries in Latin America auctioned off every ...
- Klein: Looting with the Lights Off
I keep hearing comparisons between the London riots and riots in other European cities – window-smashing in Athens or car bonfires in Paris. And there are parallels, to be sure: a spark set by police violence, a generation that feels forgotten. But those events were marked by mass destruction ...
- NZ-made canoes complete Pacific voyage
Six voyaging canoes from Pacific islands, including New Zealand, have completed their journey to San Francisco. The 100 crew members, from New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Hawaii, greeted locals at an open day in San Francisco Bay. The voyage was organised by a ...
- Reporter implicates Murdoch executives
Phone hacking was widely known about at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, according to a reporter blamed as the sole culprit, contradicting repeated denials by senior executives and dragging Britain's prime minister back into the scandal. In a letter written four years ago in an appeal aga ...
- All Black Abstinence Ads Ditched
One telco staffer today said: "I too am disgusted at this ridiculous ad, already in my call centre some staff have had to field calls from angry customers who want to disconnect all services". "I just wish the marketing [department] had run a poll with the staff to see what they thought befo ...
- Tele-coaching
Children in Nova Scotia who suffer from disruptive behaviour, anxiety disorders or other moderate mental health issues often fail to receive timely access to psychological care. It can take up to a year to see a psychologist for treatment. Dalhousie University psychologist Patrick McGrath is dev ...
- Always wear sunscreen
As the summer signals hot weather and long days at the beach, doctors, cosmeticians and mothers everywhere rally to proffer their standard warning: “Always wear sunscreen.” But for people who are allergic to sunblock, like Elda Scaiano, it is impossible to wear commercial sunscreens. Fortunately ...
- Virtual practice makes perfect
For Halifax-based neurosurgeon David Clarke, the Monday-afternoon surgery session of Aug. 17, 2009, was anything but routine. For starters, his patient’s brain tumour was located in a tricky spot, close to the delicate part of the brain that controls speech. A small slip of the scalpel either wa ...
- A powerful elixir
The good news is that there are more than a million cancer survivors in Canada. The bad news is that they live with the long-term effects of treatment, including extreme fatigue, memory and attention problems, bone density loss, leading to fractures, and a sometimes debilitating anxiety over can ...
- No more slipping through the cracks
At any given time, some 19,000 children are in foster care in Ontario, placed there for their protection by one of the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies (CAS). While CAS caseworkers write meticulous reports on the children who pass through the system, the details contained in the thousands ...
- China Finds 100,000 SQ Miles of Radiation In P ...
China has reported that the radioactive contamination in the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima nuclear power plant is far wider than the areas released by the Japanese government. China has discovered 100,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean waters, at distances up to 800 kilometers from Fukushim ...
- US, Cleveland, Ohio: Citizens Allowed to Video ...
Cleveland Police just got new orders when it comes to people videotaping them in action. Their orders: Leave you alone! It seems almost everybody now has a cell phone camera and the city doesn't want the kind of trouble we've seen in other places. Police in Rochester made national headlines. ...
- Obesity crisis: Half a million children have l ...
Half a million children in Britain are suffering from liver disease because they are obese, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. Doctors say obesity levels are now so high that children are commonly suffering signs of disease more commonly associated with alcohol abuse, meaning many will go on to ...
- Briton: This Isn't a Carnival, It's a Police State
Next weekend, I shall be living in a police state. There will be policemen at either end of my little street, policemen on duty outside my local pub, policemen guarding the entrance to the supermarket. If I go to the shops and plan to return to my flat by anything other than the circuitous "offi ...
- US: 3 dead, 1 missing in Pittsburgh flash flooding
A pair of storms that pounded Pittsburgh on Friday cut electricity to hospitals and universities and submerged more than a dozen vehicles in a flash flood that killed a woman and two children and left another person missing and presumed dead. Officials said drivers were overwhelmed as water ro ...
- Fox's The Five Averages One Distortio ...
In just over six minutes, four hosts of Fox's The Five peddled six distortions while launching an unrelenting attack on clean energy investments.The Five: Wrong About The Relative Size Of Clean Energy Jobs Fox Fact: "The Brookings Institution Found Clean Technology Jobs Accounted For Just 2 Pe ...
- Fox "Straight News" Pushes Impeachment Of Obam ...
Fox News' supposed "straight news" division pushed the theory that President Obama may have committed an impeachable offense by pursuing a new immigration policy, which instructs law enforcement personnel to use prosecutorial discretion to postpone deportation proceedings of certain undocumente ...
- Right-Wing Blogs Falsely Claim Obama "Cancel[e ...
Conservative blogs have responded to the Obama administration's announcement of a new immigration policy by claiming that the�president is "cancel[ing]" or "end[ing]" deportation of undocumented immigrants. In fact,�the new policy prioritizes�the deportation of�criminals, and cases that are pos ...
- "Feast Your Eyes": Fox Swoons Over Rick Perry
Following Texas Gov. Rick Perry's announcement that he will seek the GOP nomination for president, Fox News has relentlessly hyped his campaign, from promoting his policies to asking whether he would "ride his horse" rather than fly on Air Force One and defending his comments about Federal Rese ...
- Fox Sees "Amnesty" Everywhere
Fox News host Dave Briggs claimed that a new immigration policy, which will postpone deportation proceedings of certain undocumented workers in order to prioritize convicted criminals, is "perhaps blanket amnesty."� Fox News has a long history of labeling immigration policies "amnesty," a term ...
- Fareed Zakaria Has a Problem
Many people defer to Fareed Zakaria's virtuosity and sheer ubiquity as the neo-liberal consciousness-shaper of our time and as a deft, ingratiating undertaker for the punch-drunk, pitifully stupid America he finds all around him. Actually, Zakaria, an immigrant from India, Muslim by background, ...
- Is Capitalism Doomed?
This article originally appeared in Project Syndicate. NEW YORK--The massive volatility and sharp equity-price correction now hitting global financial markets signal that most advanced economies are on the brink of a double-dip recession. A financial and economic crisis caused by too much pri ...
- Motorola's Cellphones: An Elegy
I am having a strangely sentimental response to Motorola selling its cellphone business to Google--presumably so that Google will be able to create a serious competitor for Apple in mobile devices (like the iPhone and iPad) and acquire Motorola patents for the growing Silicon Valley patent war. ...
- Joe Walsh's Ex-Wife: Quit Lying
Congressman Joe Walsh told Obama to "quit lying." Here, Walsh's ex-wife tells Joe to "quit lying" about the child support he owes�her. Walsh accused Obama of spending money like a drunken sailor, but Walsh is the one who spent money on vacations and his campaign while getting his condo f ...
- Bachmann & The Golden Bough
If there's one book that's familiar to every Liberal Arts major it's probably James Frazer's mighty tome on comparative religion, 1890's "The Golden Bough." For generations many undergraduates have probably used this classic work the way I did: as a doorstop, as a paperweight and as something to ...
- SPIN BABY SPIN – Renewables continue to grow i ...
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the operators of the Texas electric grid, has released its Emerging technologies report that includes the state of renewables on the Texas grid. Some interesting facts show that wind generation continues to provide a significant amount of energy ...
- Pipelines trump your property rights.
Energy companies are increasingly suing South Texas landowners as they work to build pipelines to accommodate surging oil and gas production. The question isn’t whether a company can route a pipeline across a property owner’s land. Pipeline companies, under Texas law, wield the power of eminen ...
- Strange but true tale from the world of Texas ...
Leave it to Texans for Public Justice to bring us another strange but true tale from the world of Texas lobbyists. A well known Texas lobbyist was recently caught writing himself unauthorized checks out of a client’s political committee. That in and of itself is not strange, wrong, but not str ...
- Texas drought, is this a come to Jesus or clim ...
The worst Texas drought since the 1950s has a handful of cities facing a prospect they’ve never encountered before: running out of water. Many lakes and reservoirs across the state are badly depleted after more than a month of 100-degree temperatures and less than 1 inch of rain. The worst-off c ...
- A Plethora of Candidates for PUC Commissioner ...
So far, there are nine candidates for the PUC Commission position that was vacated by PUC Chair, Barry Smitherman, when he resigned after being appointed by Governor Perry to the Texas Railroad Commission. Included in the slate of candidates are attorneys, elected officials, and civil engineer ...
- Latest Attacks Bring Fire and Fear to Gaza
border_boy.jpg Soon after shameful attacks killed six in southern Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that militants would pay �a very heavy price.��And then his warplanes proceeded to pound civilian areas with missiles. So far nine Pale ...
- Seeing REDD
no_redd.jpg Like most other market-based solutions, REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), and its more recent avatar REDD +, are fundamentally about profit – not forests, not people, and not global warming or ...
- Program Coordinator for the Middle East and Haiti
Grassroots International seeks an experienced individual to work as an active member of its Grantmaking & Advocacy Team.�The Program Coordinator develops and manages programs consistent with Grassroots� mission in two key overseas program areas: Palestine/Israel and Haiti. Qualifications:� ...
- Youth carry the work forward
Subheadline:� Leading the way for economic development, climate justice and sustainability From her humble beginnings, Sayra never imagined the profound impact she would have on the global movement for food sovereignty.read more
- Cooling and feeding the planet with agroecology
288400_10150260430494792_570449791_7037238_4222546_o.jpg In order to fix the broken food system, we need to de-colonize our minds. To prove that, do this short exercise. What comes to your mind, when you hear the word �Agriculture?� Is it ...
- Champions of Racism
Some conservative commentator whose forebears were from Bangladesh is asking me not to call racism 'racism.' One thing that is undeniably true is that American conservatives are overwhelmingly white in a country that is increasingly less so. As the number of Latinos and Asian-Americans has ...
- Damn You to Hell Jon Huntsman!
First things first: Booman, don't ever do that again! The laptop in the rain thing, that is. But seriously, have you seen this story? Jon Huntsman, lagging in public opinion polls, has scored big on Twitter with a shot at a rival's dismissive comments about evolution and global warming. ...
- Paul Ryan is a Very Big [fill in the blank]
He also must have a really tiny penis. In any event he obviously never met a political protest he won't weasel out of, even if that means he has to call the cops on unemployed and underemployed protesters in his district: Staffers for Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) called police on Thursday evening ...
- Wanker of the Day: CNN
This is what happens when you pay someone to write because they used to be important instead of because they have something interesting to say. William Bennett served as Ronald Reagan's education secretary. Then he developed a gambling problem that undermined his self-appointed mission of lect ...
- Bachmann the Liar
The fact that's she appears to be crazy may not be enough to sink her campaign, but the fact that Michele Bachmann is a really bad liar is probably a serious problem. Michele Bachmann, on the campaign trail today, offered what seems to be a new explanation for her previous work as a lawyer f ...
- Bizarre Sex Education Posters from the Early 2 ...
A look back at posters aimed at stamping out the sexually transmitted diseases of syphilis and gonorrhea in the early to mid-20th century. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Young and Old: Incredible Retakes of Past Port ...
Sander Koot discusses his amazing series "Back from the Future, which shows "people photographed in the same style as a special occasion photo from the past. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
- Illegal Rosewood Logging Threatens Madagascar' ...
A new film about Madagascar called "Trouble in Lemur Land" discusses the impacts of illegal rosewood logging on the silky sifaka lemur. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 12 Incredible Snapshots of Animals Silhouetted ...
Stunning silhouette photography featuring an beautiful selection of wild animals! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 13 Hottest Links of the Week
Unlucky for some but not for Environmental Graffiti... as we bring you 13 of the best links to what's hot on the web! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...
- Murdochs Mired in Fiction – Bearing Fals ...
They invented and described an investigation and report that provided NoW with a clean bill of health in 2007. There’s just one problem with that assertion, according to the News International executives and outside counsel who supposedly conducted the investigation and provided a report. No suc ...
- Bank of America, Too Bad To Succeed
Years ago I suggested that ALL foreclosures be stopped. All properties should have been revalued at pre-bubble level, and then all loans renegotiated to keep people IN their homes. The banks can only get out of the properties what they can get. That is not much in a declining economy with uns ...
- Blackwater and Verizon
I received the following from Blackwater representatives regarding the story I posted on Blackwater contracting with Verizon for security services. Seems that this story is false and Daily Kos, The Examiner on line, democraticunderground, and other alternative media sites have pulled the story. ...
- Verizon Corporation hires Blackwater (Xe) as s ...
It has been confirmed that Blackwater, the private for profit mercenary-corporation that killed 17 civilians in Nisour Square in Baghdad in 2007, is being contracted by Verizon for security purposes (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/17/1008089/-Meet-Verizons-Newest-Security-Force:-Blackwate ...
- PICTURE PRESIDENT GINGRICH
By Saul Landau The world’s people face transcendent issues: climate change (tornadoes, tsunamis,droughts, hurricanes), seemingly endless wars in Asia and Africa, mass uprisings,growing world hunger – and the ever present nuclear (weapons and power) threat. Given those overwhelming issues one wou ...
- Bear Country
��Bear Country - by Stephen Lendman � Financial markets provide early signals of future economic conditions, good or bad. Currently, they're flashing red. � On August 19, economist David Rosenberg reported the bad news about major world stock markets in bear territory, including Germany, France, ...
- Falsified New York Times Middle East Reports
��Falsified New York Times Middle East Reports - by Stephen Lendman � They appear daily like weeds on all topics. As a result, Times reports aren't fit to read, let alone print. August 18 was no exception, publishing lies about Libyan insurgent victories.� � On August 18, headlining, "Libyan Reb ...
- Murdoch in Free Fall - Credibility Gone Billio ...
Rupert and James Murdoch conjured up a fictional report that serves as the fig leaf used to cover the naughty secret of News Corporation –- they never investigated phone hacking in general and they never tried to clean house. The House of Commons committee investigating Rupert Murdoch’s United K ...
- Lemmingly, We Roll Along; More to Die in Vain
Lemmingly, We Roll Along Ray McGovern When soldiers die, the politicians who sent them to their deaths typically use euphemisms and circumlocutions � like �lost,� �fallen,� or �ultimate sacrifice.� On one level, the avoidance of blunt language can be seen as a sign of respect, but on another, it ...
- Violence Spikes in Iraq as U.S. Considers Ways ...
By Democracy Now! It was one year ago today that the Obama administration officially announced it was pulling the last full U.S. combat brigade from Iraq. Today, roughly 46,000 U.S. troops remain in the country, along with more than 64,000 private contractors. This week, as Iraq suffers its dead ...
- Cool new game is like SimCity for the whole en ...
by Jess Zimmerman. Is environmentalism a GAME to you? Does it look like some kind of GAME??? Oh, it doesn't? Well, it could. Upcoming game Anno 2070 lets you go all Sims on the fate of the planet. You decide up front whether to throw your lot in with the Ecos (who focus on sustainabi ...
- Whales hanging out in New York
by Jess Zimmerman. First dolphins, now whales -- sea mammals in New York City are bigger than Cats! Urban nature blogger Matthew Wills caught a humpback whale frolicking off Sandy Hook, N.J., within sight of the city. (He's got some great pictures over at his blog.) Wills was dismaye ...
- Teenage genius improves solar panels using mat ...
by Sarah Laskow. You gotta heart teenage geniuses: this one, Aidan Dwyer, age 13, figured out a way to make solar panel arrays more efficient after taking a walk in the woods. Here is his basic thought-process, broken down for us non-geniuses: Tree branches grow in a specific pattern ...
- How to turn raw sewage into profit
by Sarah Laskow. For most people, having a open stream of sewage running past your backyard is a problem, not an asset. That how Keshav Tavre, who lives in Bhiwandi, India, saw it, until he decided to set up a homemade filtration system. With a series of walls and layers of soil, he was a ...
- Critical List: New York AG going after natural ...
by Sarah Laskow. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman subpoenaed three energy companies as part of an investigation into natural gas production estimates. If rats could abandon Ship Earth, they would right about now. Instead, species in the Northern Hemisphere are moving north ...
- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
- Cartoon caption contest
Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
- Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
- Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
- Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
- BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...
- The Rooftop Gardens at Rockefeller Center are ...
On a quest to visit all of New York City’s most fabulous outdoor spaces? Then the Rockefeller Center‘s hidden rooftop gardens are a must to add to your list – unfortunately, they may also be the most difficult to check off. The elaborate fountain pools, stone planters, and impeccably maint ...
- mmmm’s Offbeat Meeting Bowls Promote Community ...
What to do when all of the benches in NYC are occupied? Try taking a seat in a Meeting Bowl in Times Square! The Times Square Alliance and the Spanish collaborative mmmm took the most hectic part of NYC and added a quirky place to sit and rest. Interested in relaxing while the city bustles by ...
- Gorgeous Rooftop Garden Apartment Grows Above ...
Read the rest of Gorgeous Rooftop Garden Apartment Grows Above a Warehouse in London Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "living wall", eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green roof, living facade, London, Richard Rogers, roof garden apartment, rooftop apa ...
- INTERVIEW: Edison2′s Chief of Design Ron Mathis
Read the rest of INTERVIEW: Edison2′s Chief of Design Ron Mathis Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 100 MPGe, automotive x-prize, eco design, edison2, green design, green transportation, interview, progressive automotive x-prize, ron mathis, x-prize, x-prize competition
- VIDEO: Inhabitat Interviews Metropol Parasol A ...
Read the rest of VIDEO: Inhabitat Interviews Metropol Parasol Architect Juergen Mayer H. Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", architecture modeling technology, Deconstructivism, digital modeling technology, Erich Mendelsohn, german architects, german archi ...
- 12 Signs That We Are Getting Dangerously Close ...
Are you ready for another war? Now that Barack Obama and most of the other major leaders of the western world are publicly calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, we are getting dangerously close to war with Syria. It is not going to happen next week, and it is almost certai ...
- The United States Of Europe: A Proposed “Econo ...
Are you ready for "The United States Of Europe"? The integration of Europe is about to go to another level. As the European debt crisis deepens, there are cries all over the EU for full economic integration in Europe. On Wednesday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela ...
- Iranian Commander Predicts “Military Rule” In ...
A senior Iranian commander said that the US plans massive deployments of police forces in major cities fearing the eruption of popular protests similar to the recent developments in the Middle East, the Arab world and the European countries. The Deputy Head of Iran’s Armed Forces Joint Chiefs ...
- Big Brother 2.0: 10 New Ways That The Governme ...
Are you ready for Big Brother 2.0? If you think that the hundreds of ways that the government watches, monitors, tracks and controls us now are bad, just wait until you see what is coming. We live in an age when paranoia is running wild. As technology continues to develop at an exponential pa ...
- National Debt: To Whom the US owes it? Videos
IN 1963 YOU COULD TAKE YOUR US $1 DOLLAR SILVER CERTIFICATE TO ANY BANK AND EXCHANGE IT FOR 2 1963 FRANKLIN HALF DOLLAR SILVER COINS. CURRENTLY, HOW MANY US $1 DOLLAR FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES DOES IT TAKE TO BUY THOSE SAME 2 SILVER COINS ??? THE ANSWER IS $39 DOLLARS….. WHAT HAS CHANGED ?? ...
- WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
- WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
- WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
- On Holiday for Two Weeks!
Well, my friends, it has been quite a year so far, with the death of my father in February and my own rather severe illness in March and April, which had me suffering sleep deprivation at home for two weeks, then hospitalized for another two weeks, and then largely housebound for another month. ...
- Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo on the T ...
Today, just before I began feverishly packing for my family holiday, I was delighted to take part in a one-hour interview on the “Talking Progressive Politics” Show on Blog Talk Radio with Jim Cullen in Texas and Vicki Nikolaidis in Greece. It’s been a few weeks since I spoke publicly about Guan ...
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
- News Roundup for August 19, 2011
One of the teens charged with the brutal beating and murder of an African-American man in Jackson, Miss., is now charged with capital murder. Deryl Dedmon, 19, is accused of a randomly selecting a black man, beating him with a group of teens, and running him over in an apparent hate crime. If co ...
- Liberty Counsel Dips Toes in the ‘Patriot’ Pool
The Liberty Counsel for Law and Policy is traditionally known for its pro bono litigation work with regard to perceived slights against the practice of Christianity in schools and other public venues, as well as its work against abortion and LGBT rights. It was no surprise, therefore, when its p ...
- News Roundup for August 18, 2011
A federal jury in Mobile, Ala., convicted a white supremacist on firearm and drug offenses today. It took the jury about an hour to find Daniel Dwight Brown guilty of the charges, for which he faces at least 15 years in prison. Brown is a self-avowed member of the neo-Nazi Aryan Brotherhood and ...
- Strange Bedfellows: Nativists Sponsor, Tout Ne ...
A mysterious anti-immigration group called Blacks for Equal Rights Coalition (BFERC) recently made its debut in Los Angeles with a July 6 “Community Outreach Summit” on “The Impact of Immigration on Black Communities.” The summit, whose entirely unnamed lineup included “advisors, educators, poli ...
- Oft-Quoted Muslim-Bashers Complain of Speech S ...
When life handed the anti-Islamic bloggers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer a lemon, they made it into lemonade. Of course, it wasn’t the first or the last time that extremist ideologues found themselves in the awkward position of having to disavow a follower who took their hateful prescriptions ...
- Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
- Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
- Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
- Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18, from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to his f ...
- Victory! In Illinois, You No Longer Need to Wo ...
Thanks to action by almost 7,000 Change.org members, if you live in Illinois, you no longer have to worry whether your doctor is a rapist. Now, maybe this isn't the first concern that might pop into the standard patient's head. But the Chicago Tribune revealed that not only did a gynecologist se ...
- US Liberals Complain About Obama
WASHINGTON — Liberals argue that he gave in on the great debate over the debt ceiling. Unions are upset over his handling of unemployment and labor issues. Hispanics brought the immigration debate directly to his campaign doorstep. President Barack Obama's summer of discontent has been marked b ...
- US Troops May Stay in Afghanistan Until 2024
The agreement would allow not only military trainers to stay to build up the Afghan army and police, but also American special forces soldiers and air power to remain. The prospect of such a deal has already been met with anger among Afghanistan’s neighbours including, publicly, Iran and, privat ...
- Iran Convicts US 'Hikers' as Spies
Iran has sentenced two American hikers detained in the Islamic republic to eight years in prison on charges of "illegal entry" and "espionage", reported Iran's state television website. "According to an informed source with the judiciary, Shane Bauer... and... Josh Fattal, the two detained Ameri ...
- One in Four California Families Can't Afford F ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- One in four California households with children reported food hardship, according to a new analysis of Gallup data released last Thursday by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC). “It’s disturbing, but not surprising,” said Kelly Hardy, director of health policy at Children ...
- Revealed: Fake Facebook Identity Used By Milit ...
Earlier this year, ThinkProgress obtained 75,000 private emails from the defense contractor HBGary Federal via the hacktivist group called Anonymous. The emails led to two shocking revelations. First, that an assortment of private military firms collectively called “Team Themis” had been tapped ...
- The Colored Smoke Stream Desktop [Featured Des ...
Today's featured desktop, from reader David Molina, turns smoke into colored colored circles that occasionally carry bits of useful information. With a dock to match and not much else, it all amounts to a pleasant, informative, and cleanl ...
- Upgrade Your Home Office This Weekend [Weekend ...
We're big fans of awesome workspaces, and we've got plenty of tips and tricks to making your home office really great. Here are some of our favorites that you can easily tackle over the weekend. More��
- Know Your Network, Lesson 5: Bonus Features an ...
You've picked out your hardware and set up the basics, optimized your network for speed and performance, and set up remote access. Now it's time for a little fun. Here's a look at some cool bonus features you may have on your router and ...
- Remains of the Day: Hangout With Friends While ...
Watch, and chat about, videos with friends in real-time, find out how much money are you really saving by brown-bagging, and share any type of file on Twitter. More��
- FileStork Lets Your Friends Share Files Direct ...
Filestork is a web service that lets your friends share files with you through Dropbox, even if they don't use Dropbox themselves. More��
- Nigeria: Taking Back Our Lives Would Be a Good ...
Were we truly surprised by Major Hamza Al-Mustapha's revelations? Is it really news that General Olusegun Obasanjo, and the power elite around him, re-directed the privatization program to their own ends?
- Hard water numbers tough to swallow
I recently read Mrs. Dalton's letter to the editor 'Current water rates are awash in inequity' (Times, July 26) and I too am concerned over the sharp increase in water rates.
- Bulgarian Govt Makes BGN 12 M by Privatizing C ...
Bulgaria's government is selling "Industrial Construction Holding", a state company, to a local private investor for BGN 12.01 M, the Privatization Agency announced. The selected buyer of Industrial Construction Holding is Vodstroy 98, a Bulgarian-owned company headquartered in the eastern city ...
- L.A. Council moves ahead with zoo privatizatio ...
In a 9-2 vote Friday, the Los Angeles City Council passed a measure that calls for the city to begin soliciting proposals from prospective operators of the Zoo & Botanical Gardens. City officials will start reviewing responses this fall. If a contract is approved, the new operator could be in pl ...
- Privatized This Is the Place park still relyin ...
Privatized This Is the Place park still relying on state cash By brett prettyman The Salt Lake Tribune Published Aug 12, 2011 05:44PM MDT Privatization has been a rallying cry for critics of troubled Utah State Parks who feel private companies could do a better, more efficient job of managing th ...
- Riot footage shows shots fired at police and h ...
Attempted murder investigation launched after CCTV footage of Birmingham riot shows unarmed officers and a police helicopter being shot atNew CCTV footage of the riots in Birmingham shows police officers and a force helicopter being shot at.The footage, which has been released by West Midlands p ...
- Arsenal v Liverpool - live! | Scott Murray
�� Hammer F5 or click on auto-refresh for all the latest action �� Ping your emails towards scott.murray@guardian.co.uk �� Keep up to date with our Live Scores service �� Please sign the e-petition demanding full disclosure of all government documents relating to the Hillsborough disaster45 min ...
- Record 200,000 to miss out on university
�� More than 600,000 people applied for university this year �� Ucas website received 644 hits per secondAround 200,000 people will miss out on places at UK universities this year, the highest number on record.The number of students filling vacancies through clearing has reached 13,000, with abo ...
- Egypt withdraws ambassador to Israel over poli ...
Protest at the deaths of five officers reportedly shot by Israeli forces chasing Palestinian militants after Eilat attackEgypt says it will recall its ambassador to Israel in protest at the deaths of five police officers, reportedly shot by Israeli forces.Cairo said it held Israel "politically a ...
- David Starkey defends Newsnight comment
Historian says he wasn't condemning black culture, adding that black educationalists defended his commentsThe historian David Starkey has defended comments he made last week on BBC's Newsnight � when he appeared to blame the recent riots in English cities on a black "gangsta" culture � by claimi ...
- Personal Information: episode 24
Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
- Arguments against life extension
Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate ...
- Daddy, where does innovation come from?
Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor th ...
- Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of ye ...
- How to be a futurist
The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Foll ...
- Calling All Corporate Whistleblowers: SEC Rule ...
Today is a big day for corporate fraud detection. The Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Final Rules implementing the whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act go into effect. The SEC has simultaneously launched a new Office of the Whistlebl ...
- IRS Guidelines Discourage Whistleblowers
Today, Tax Analysts published an article about how Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines can result in whistleblower awards being unfairly reduced. The Government Accountability Project, No FEAR Coalition and National Whistleblowers Center sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Shulman on August ...
- Senate Whistleblower Bill called "Bride of Fra ...
Julia Davis, a notable whistleblower who prevailed in her struggle against the Department of Homeland Security, recently released an article concerning the reintroduction of the Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 743). Ms. Davis notes that one of the main supporte ...
- Whistleblower Trial Against Blackwater Begins
In 2008, two former employees brought a whistleblower lawsuit against the security firm once known as Blackwater (now named Xe Services). On July 27, the trial began in Alexandria, Virginia and is expected to last two weeks. The two whistleblowers allege that the company overcharged the federal ...
- NWC joins in NLRB amicus to preserve collectiv ...
The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with 26 other organizations to submit an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). At stake is the right of employees to join together for collective and class actions. This long-recognized right is under attack by forced arbitrati ...
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
- So How Do We Fix The Patent System?
There's been a lot of attention lately to the massive problems with the patent system. Finally the problem has gone mainstream, in part thanks to the excellent This American Life episode on problems with the patent system. That seems to have emboldened other mainstream publications to finally ...
- Is Talking About The Beatles As A Wonderful 'S ...
Music Matters has just released the latest in its string of anti-piracy PSAs, most of which feature recording artists explaining how music has affected their lives. This one features some excellent animation, along with a nice selection of tracks, and it details one person's lifelong relationshi ...
- Judge Slams Photographer For Bogus Copyright L ...
A few weeks ago, we wrote about a ridiculous lawsuit from photographer Janine Gordon against fellow photographer Ryan McGinley. Gordon claimed copyright infringement, despite the photos not really being very similar at all. Here are a few examples: Thankfully, a judge has ...
- DailyDirt: Don't Drink The Water
Water is abundant in most places, and it's generally free -- except for folks who only drink bottled water. So people tend to take water for granted, but there are plenty of reasons to conserve water. Here are just a few reminders. About 60% of people (surveyed by the WateReuse Research Foun ...
- Court Says No Harm, No Foul With Flash Cookies
There were some articles a few months back about the use of "flash cookies," which could potentially record more information about visitors than regular cookies, and were much more difficult to turn off. As with pretty much every new privacy fear, class action lawsuits quickly followed. Howeve ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
I’m still missing most everything, but I managed to catch a few bits of news. Indigenous people in Ecuador are being targeted for protest. The Eastern Navajo Diné filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the hopes of stopping uranium mining.  The petition is wor ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
This will be another short one, I’m afraid. Perhaps you all could help me out, since I haven’t been able to do too much blog reading. If you read nothing else, please read this piece on the government eugenics sterilization program. It is just…. I am speechless. This is a good overview of the ba ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Work is still kicking my ass and keeping me away from the internets. But I have managed to read enough to be annoyed. This op-ed from the Council on Foreign Relations says that we need to raise the debt ceiling because, if we do not, then: 1. We will be forced to cut defense spending and [...]
- Things You Might Have Missed
I suspect it will be another week before I can complete part two to that media post. I want to finish reading A Mixtape Manifesto first. And The Economist put out a whole media’ issue that I haven’t gotten around to yet. I’ll have something for you though. Related to Thursday’s post on the socia ...
- Deal Breaker
I recently read The World That Never Was. I really liked it, despite the fact that it includes a gazillion people and can be hard to follow (even for someone who was familiar with many of the players). The book basically covers the period between Haymarket and WWI. There is one part of the book ...
- What QE3 Means for Europe: Stop the Threat of ...
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, July 22, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 28
- LaRouche Demands Obama End Coverup of Saudi 9/ ...
by Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, July 22, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 28
- If Europe Goes, So Does the U.S.A.: Europe’s O ...
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, July 22, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 28
- Elected Officials Must Be Citizens, Not Partis ...
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, July 15, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 27
- The Greatest Crisis in History: Can We Solve It?
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, July 15, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 27
- Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
- Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
- اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اÙباما ÙÙÙد اÙسÙطرة عÙ٠اÙÙم٠تخاطر اÙÙÙاÙات اÙمتØدة بتمÙÙ٠اÙÙاعدة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙتÙÙÙر اÙشعب اÙÙÙ…Ù٠ع٠طرÙ٠إØباط تغÙÙر اÙÙظام ÙÙا٠Ùتبت – جÙÙ ÙÙÙا٠Ùعتبر اÙÙم٠بÙد معÙØ¯Ø ÙÙد ظ٠Ùر ...
- Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
- Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...
- Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
- Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
- Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
- NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
- Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...
- Art Katz: The Hebraic Roots Of The Faith
Dandelion Salad http://www.benisrael.org/ http://artkatzministries.org/ sermonindex on Jul 13, 2011 Used By Permission Of Art Katz Ministries. artkatzministries.org see Art Katz: Israel, The Suffering Servant The Jewish Foundation of Christianity The Time of Jacob’s Trouble by Art Katz Jewish Ma ...
- Dorothy Day: Change begins with oneself (repost)
Dandelion Salad Dorothy Day: journalist, Catholic activist, non-violent anarchist, Wobblie, succor to the poor of inner cities across America. Day willingly lived the fertile ground of voluntary poverty as a site of Love–the love she held for her God as well as the love (caritas) she expressed f ...
- Capitalism Is The Crisis with Chris Hedges, De ...
with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 10, 2011 CapitalismCrisis on Aug 9, 2011 Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity examines the ideological roots of the “austerity” agenda and proposes revolutionary paths out of the current crisis. The film fe ...
- Farewell Content: Class Wars and Ass Wars By G ...
By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 12, 2011 âFarewell the tranquil mind!  Farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars That make ambition virtue!â — William Shakespeare (Othello) âIt would be supererogatory for me to list those areas in which thoughtful Ame ...
- Our Red, White and Blue Dictatorship by Ed Dunphy
by Ed Dunphy Guest Writer Dandelion Salad August 12, 2011 In contemporary usage, dictatorship refers to an autocratic form of absolute rule by leadership unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state. This writer takes no satisfaction for this applica ...
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Never Give An Ape A Gun, Never, Ever This series of viral vids for the Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes movie are nicely done, straight to the point and very entertaining. I was surprised by just how affecting I found the movie, and those cinema and TV trailers don't do the movie justice. It' ...
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Agree or disagree with Ron Paul's beliefs and politics, but it is impossible to deny this is one of the best campaign ads ever made :
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The Black Night Highway Of Ancient Human History Gets A Little More Light By Darryl Mason The oldest tools used by human-like creatures every found are maybe 700,000 years old. The most ancient cave and rock carvings ever found are perhaps 40,000 years old. The oldest, still-existing c ...
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Hacking The Human Brain Mike Wehner at Y Tech : Of all the storage mediums you use to keep information that is most important to you, your brain is by far the most complex. Because of the immense amount of data that the human brain can hold, scientists have been attempting to crack our ...
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Now everyone has a camera, every accident and tragedy has a high-definition clip online within minutes. The stage collapses at the Indiana State Fair yesterday, in 100kmh winds, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens : The aftermath :
- Lia Tarachansky: Dubious Evidence Israeli Bus ...
Two terror attacks shook Israel on Thursday and Friday. By the weekend, eight Israelis were killed and nearly forty injured. Immediately after the attacks, the Israeli air force bombed many locations... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
- Adam Keller: A changed agenda?
Someone in the wild Sinai peninsula took a decision and sent a big, well equipped squad to infiltrate across the border into the Israeli Negev, attack buses and cars and engage in running battles... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
- Lia Tarachansky: The Fight for Equality in Isr ...
By Lia Tarachansky, The Real News Network – 11 Aug 2011 http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7158 Saturday saw the largest... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth d ...
- Josh Ruebner: Hold Israel accountable with Lea ...
For the sake of Abir Aramin and all Palestinians who are maimed, killed, or whose homes, farms, and infrastructure are wantonly destroyed in the course of Israel’s brutal military occupation, the US... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
- IDF officer who defended beating Palestinians ...
Head of the Kfir infantry brigade, was censured by IDF Central Command chief Gadi Shamni; was subject to criminal investigation against him, before the case was closed for lack of evidence; and is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
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