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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, August 20, 2011

20 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Race and Poverty Often Unjustifiably Tied to S ...
    Elementary, middle, and high schools with large minority populations--but not necessarily higher crime rates--are far more likely than others to require students and visitors to pass through metal detectors, according to new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American So ...
  • Less Depression for Working Moms Who Expect Th ...
    Working mothers who expressed a supermom attitude that work and home lives can be blended with relative ease showed more depression symptoms than working moms who expected that they would have to forego some aspects of their career or parenting to achieve a work-life balance. Katrina Leupp, a Un ...
  • Less Depression for Working Moms Who Expect Th ...
    Working moms have lower rates of depression than their stay-at-home counterparts, but buying into the supermom myth could put working mothers at greater risk for depression, suggests new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
  • Empowerment, Self-Defense Motivating Factors f ...
    Texas women who hold concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) are motivated to do so by feelings of empowerment and a need for self-defense, according to new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
  • Active Participation in Voluntary Organization ...
    The decline in active memberships in civic groups, fraternal organizations, and other local associations is greater than the increase in checkbook memberships, according to new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Natural Health News

  • Blaming Others Can Ruin Your Health
    For years, statistics have been piling up showing the connection between emotions and severe physical illness such as heart problems. Now, a new book, �Embitterment: Societal, Psychological and Clinical Perspectives,� talks about how bitterness and blaming others can contribute to health problem ...
  • What Is Causing Men's Decreasing Hormone Levels?
    As reported by CNN Health, two major studies, one in U.S. men and another in Danish men, have confirmed that their testosterone levels have dropped approximately 22 percent between 1987 and 2004. Other new health challenges that today’s men are facing include sex organ malformations, which nearl ...
  • Is Electronic Media Exposure Adversely Affecti ...
    A study published recently in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine has shown a “significant” connection between the amount of time teenagers spend watching TV or playing computer/video games and risky behaviors such as physical fights and alcohol use before age 13.
  • Dogs Can Smell Cancer on Your Breath
    Lung cancer is really hard to detect early. But a new study done in Germany, reported by Gizmodo.com, has found that dogs can be taught to sniff out 71 out of 100 cancer patients. They also were able to pick out 372 out of 400 who did NOT have the disease. � ��Not only that, but they could te ...
  • This Vitamin Found Highly Useful in Treatment ...
    Another study on vitamin D�s effects on cancer prevention has come out, with evidence that vitamin D slows the action of a key carcinogenic protein that causes colon cancer. The new study confirmed previous findings that vitamin D can help control cancer tumors. � �Our study has confirmed the ...

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • The Bear Is Back!
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Well, at least it is in Michelle Bachmann’s world: I would say it’s a unified message. It really is about jobs and the economy. That doesn’t mean people haven’t [sic] forgotten about protecting life and marriage and the sanctity of the family. People are ...
  • Prosecuting Piracy
    by Michael Scharf by Michael Scharf After 200 years of quiescence, Piracy has re-emerged as a major problem for world shipping.  A recent report has documented that Piracy has resulted in more than $12 billion in losses in the past twelve months alone.  According to an August 11, 2011 article ...
  • An Opportunity for Judicial Review of the Exis ...
    by John Dehn by John Dehn Let me respond to Kevin’s thoughtful post and discuss an opportunity for judicial review of an (implicit or explicit) elected branch assertion of the existence of an armed conflict.  (After all, I promised Raha an example that I have not yet provided.) In my opinion, ...
  • The Judiciary and Armed Conflict: What About H ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Apologies for the non-existent blogging of late — a few weeks ago a car knocked me off my bike, breaking a small bone in my forearm and badly bruising my ribs.  I didn’t need surgery or even a cast, fortunately, but I haven’t been able to type more than ...
  • Rent Liechtenstein for $70,000 per Night
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen How could I have missed this? According the Guardian: The principality of Liechtenstein has decided to make itself available to private clients, from $70,000 (£43,000) a night, complete with customised street signs and temporary currency… Since then they have w ...

Public News Service

  • Planned Parenthood Ends Abortion Services in R ...
    Planned Parenthood Ends Abortion Services in Rural Arizona Phoenix, AZ – One week after an appeals court allowed key parts of a state law restricting abortion to take effect, Planned Parenthood Arizona has announced it will no longer offer abortion services outside of Metro Phoenix and Tucson. S ...
  • Is "Job-Killing" AT&T T-Mobile Merger a Droppe ...
    Is "Job-Killing" AT&T T-Mobile Merger a Dropped Call? Phoenix, AZ – It will likely result in the loss of 20,000 jobs. So why – with the economy the way it is – would the takeover of T-Mobile by AT&T make sense? It doesn't, say opponents, and their view may be gaining sway in Washington, D.C. Com ...
  • AZ Among Worst States for Family Food Hardship
    AZ Among Worst States for Family Food Hardship Phoenix, AZ – Arizona ranks 7th worst among the states for food hardship among families with children, according to a new report from the Food Research and Action Center. Among cities, Tucson was 15th worst for food insecurity and metro Phoenix was ...
  • Cell Phone Brain Cancer Study Doesn't Ring Tru ...
    Cell Phone Brain Cancer Study Doesn't Ring True? Scientists Explain Why Phoenix, AZ – A new journal study says kids using cell phones don't face a higher risk of brain cancer than those who don't use mobile phones. But two California scientists who have looked at the report say that's not the wh ...
  • Mesa Councilman: Clean Economy Expanding Quick ...
    Mesa Councilman: Clean Economy Expanding Quickly in AZ Mesa, AZ – Arizona’s emerging “clean” economy has already produced thousands of good-paying jobs. But a Mesa councilman says the state is just getting started. Comments from Dave Richins, Mesa council member and Sun Corridor Legacy Program D ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Lawsuit To Halt GE Crops On Southeastern Refuges
    Genetically Engineered Crops on 25 Refuges in 8 States Are Illegal A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks to end cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) crops on twenty-five national wildlife refuges across the U.S. Southeast.  The suit is ...
  • U.S. Congress Turns Up The Heat On Genetically ...
    23 Members of Congress say “GE fish would not be in the public interest” NEWLY PUBLISHED STUDIES HIGHLIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF ESCAPED GE FISH Members of Congress turned up the heat on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday, sending strongly worded, bipartisan letters calling ...
  • U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Amendment ...
    Sixty-Seven Organizations and Businesses Endorse Amendment;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its decision yesterday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving genetically eng ...
  • FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
    Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Racism, riots and resistance|20Aug11|Socialist ...
    Racism, riots and resistance|20Aug11|Socialist Worker ollowing the urban revolt that saw riots across Britain, Weyman Bennett spoke to Socialist Worker about the causes of the uprisings and the demonisation that followed themWhat do you say to those who argue that the riots were not about poli ...
  • British Jealous of America’s Savage Police | C ...
    British Jealous of America’s Savage Police | Common Dreams A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford In the wake of rebellions that spread to much of urban Britain, the ruling Conservative Party government is not only sounding like their racist ...
  • Occupied Palestine | فلسطين | iRemember… | الشهداء
    Occupied Palestine | فلسطين | iRemember… | الشهداء Click on the names to see the related news 153 Shaheed Samed Abdel-Muati | Killed by Israeli Occupation during assault on Gaza | Aug 19, 2011 152 Shaheed Mohammed Enaya, 22 years old.Killed by Israeli Occupation during assault on Gaza ...
  • Amy Goodman: Authorities suppress protests aga ...
    Authorities suppress protests against BART police in San Francisco | rabble.ca What does the police killing of a homeless man in San Francisco have to do with the Arab Spring uprisings from Tunisia to Syria? The attempt to suppress the protests that followed. In our digitally networked world, th ...
  • London Fallout: The Post Riots World | Raciali ...
    London Fallout: The Post Riots World | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture More police shadiness in the Mark Duggan case came to light:Responding to inquiries from the Guardian, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said in a statement: “It seems possible th ...

Pensieve

  • Capybara or Chupacabras?
    Checking my website’s analytics yesterday, I found an unusual spike in hits on an old post about the Chigüire. Turns out there’s been an internet craze about Capybaras, which in Venezuela are called Chigüires. The reason: a 100-pound capybara was found in water treatment plant in Los Angeles. ...
  • What is a meme?
    This is an explanation for the teeming masses of muggles (the unfamiliarized) of the meme phenomena in the 21st century internet, including rage comics, and the bewildering Nyan cat. Related posts:Link: Man Dies After 3-day Gaming Binge, CNN I’ve Found my Q and my X Statue of Liberty? New Year’s ...
  • Google Acquisition of Motorola Mobility, by NMA
    The video above depicts the news that has rocked the technology sector this week, with quirky Taiwanese humor. New Media Animation is known for its humorous reinterpretations of news. This video is shorter and less hilarious than usual, but marks the first time Apple CEO Steve Jobs is the villai ...
  • In the Fall
    In The Fall from Steve Cutts on Vimeo. J.K. Rowling wrote, through her character, Albus Dumbledore: âTo the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.â This echoes my personal lack of fear for death, which comes from my faith. To me, death means the moment of my resurrection…a v ...
  • Monster Mask – Pomplamoose
    Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn. They are an indie band whose medium of choice is YouTube. As a result of their success, they are now selling their music on iTunes as well. What sets them apart, besides their enormous talent in arrangement, playing multiple inst ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israel’s Tahrir [1]: Will the Revolution ...
    Ok… a little bird told me there was this teeny, modest wavelet of demonstrations in Israel, so maybe it’s time I write something about it. (snark, snark; actually my mom, two of my siblings and a couple of nieces were among those 4-5% of Israel’s population, over 300,000 people, taking to the st ...
  • Report on Summer Camps at Susya and Umm-Al-Kheir
    The summer camps at Susya and Umm-Al-Kheir have just ended. Both camps are organized locally, and funded with the help of outside donors. Villages Group activists help arrange these funds, work with organizers to help meet their needs, and – most rewardingly – visit the camps to interact with th ...
  • Freedom Theatre Update: First rule about being ...
     `Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. `No, no!’ said the Queen. `Sentence first–verdict afterwards.’ Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Here’s an update about the latest arrest at the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp. The previous ...
  • Antisemitism and Political Blogging: Personal ...
    My 5-year involvement with this site has been somewhat intermittent. Although I love to blog, there is still this other pesky thing called “life” that often tends to take precedence. At other times, despair about my main blogging subject (Israel-Palestine, hereafter I-P), and the apparent futili ...
  • Israeli Army ambushes Freedom Theater
    Soldiers have stormed the Freedom Theatre of Jenin, whose co-founder Juliano Mer-Khamis was slain earlier this year. URGENT PRESS RELEASE From The Freedom Theater Foundation, Jenin, Palestine 04.46 (gmt+2), July 27, 2011 Special Forces of the Israeli Army attacked the Freedom Theater in Jenin Re ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Podponics. Next-gen urban farming
    Podponics manufactures grow rooms in shipping containers, and because they completely control the environment, crop yields are much higher First, we are able to have year-round crop production. Second, we have much higher crop density and predictable results by completely controlling the growth ...
  • Indeed
  • Jaw-dropping bike riding
    Danny Macaskill – Industrial Revolutions Industrial Revolutions sees Danny take his incredible bike skills into an industrial train yard and some derelict buildings.’ Filmed in the beautiful Scottish countryside
  • Google magic?
    There was a cut fiber cable in our area and internet service was down for a few hours EXCEPT for Google sites. I could get on all Google sites and virtually no others. I wonder, maybe Google has their own fiber?
  • US Navy embracing social media
    The general message is that the US Navy realised it could no longer afford not to participate in social media despite potential security risks and the challenges of a “dizzying” communications environment.

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Ron Paul Birthday Money Bomb Starts Midnight T ...
    KEEP THE MESSAGE OF FREEDOM ALIVE! via DailyPaul.com P L E D G E   N O W Donate at: R O N P A U L 2 0 1 2 . C O M Facebook Event Page After our amazing success in the Ames Straw Poll and our historic vote turnout, we are planning [...]
  • Vacation reading at the Vineyard? O’Bomb ...
      (AP)  VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. — President Barack Obama began the first full day of his Martha’s Vineyard vacation on Friday by dropping into a bookstore with daughters Malia and Sasha, emerging to shouts of “2012!” and “Four More Years.” Inside the Bunch of Grapes bookstore, Obama, casually dre ...
  • Goldman Sachs VP Changed Name, Now a Top Congr ...
    � Thursday 18 August 2011 by: Lee Fang, ThinkProgress | Report Peter Haller, now a congressional staffer, was previously known as Peter Simonyi when he served as a VP to Goldman Sachs. (Photo: bbrslaw.com) Has Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) turned the House Oversight Committee into a bank lobbying fir ...
  • Did the Isreali Mossad plot to Sterilize Egypt ...
      Egypt’s Al-Ahram daily claims Israeli Ofir Harrari accused of spying for Israel, devised to sell Egypt hair products endangering reproductive abilities Roee Nahmias – YNetNews Israeli citizen Ofir Harrari, recently accused by Egypt of spying for Israel, was allegedly involved in a complicated ...
  • Great Ron Paul Punk Rock Anthem (video)
    “Ron Paul Anthem” by Humboldt Lagoon! on i-tunes,amazon,8/20/11 (Ron’s Birthday!) Partial proceeds of downloads will benefit Ron Paul 2012 campaign! Copyright, 2011 Erik LaVergne Music A.S.C.A.P. Sing along: The only one that sticks to his guns In the house of the rising sun RON PAUL! RON PAUL! ...

The Air Vent

  • Slow Feedback
    A recent Lindzen and Choi paper was highlighted at WUWT.  I’ve read it a couple of times and found it to be a comprehensible thing with not many field specific statements to grock the point.A lot of acronyms but those also are workable with time.  What they say, if I am understanding, is that ...
  • Cognitive Dissonance and a Sustainable Future
    I believe we are seeing some frightening signs from the economy again. I’m very concerned with what we will see in the coming weeks.  Our industry is a sensitive indicator of the economy and oft times we have data well before the papers report it.  If the trends of the past two weeks continue, ...
  • Paul Dennis Article -Normal Editorial Process
    I wrote to the Guardian several times after Steve McIntyre questioned them to see if they would simply state that they did not receive my full name from government sources.  The best they would say was that there were plenty of ways any reporter worth his salt could find me.    I kept at it desp ...
  • Manifest Skeptology
    I hate the term ‘Manifesto’.  Every time I read it I imagine some religious cult promoting a complex yet divinely unquestionalbe truth.  A skeptic manifesto is an oxymoron by birth — almost.  It fixes your position and in an improper fashion.  Without much thought, a manifesto would seem to ...
  • A more detailed reply to Pat Frank – Part 1
    We’ve been discussing Pat Franks recent temperature uncertainty publications for quite some time on this other thread. I’m not pleased to say that nearly zero ground has been made in understanding the problems in this work and even some very sharp people have missed the mark. I’ll give it an hou ...

Focal Point

  • Uh Oh... Long Beach Police Chief Says Photogs ...
    Long Beach photographers beware, Police Chief Jim McDonnell is a harsh critic: Long Beach (Calif.) Police Chief Jim McDonnell is defending his officer who detained a Long Beach Post contributor for taking pictures of an oil refinery on June 30. “If an officer sees someone t ...
  • Wasting Fish To Save It? Tom Gogola Wins Sidne ...
    The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced Tuesday that Tom Gogola has won the August Sidney Award for excellence in socially conscious journalism for his story, "Bycatch 22: As a twisted consequence of overfishing regulations, commercial fishermen have no choice but to catch sea bass, flounder ... ...
  • We're #1: TIME Rates Big Think Top Site for Ne ...
    Yesterday, TIME named Big Think 2011's top News & Information website! [Photo credit: Lindsay Beyerstein, all rights reserved.]Read More
  • Dan Savage Asks What to Tell a Guy in a Sexles ...
    To be fair, Dan Savage wasn't talking to me. I was just listening in on this fight he's having with some people he calls the "monogamusts." I think a monogamust is someone who champions monogamous marriage as the universal human ideal and condemns all other kinds of intimate relationships. Or ma ...
  • Hallelujah, I'm a Bum! Or, Why a Hobo-Themed W ...
    From Amanda, I learn that a couple decided--apparently of their own free will--to have a hobo-themed wedding.� Lest you think this post comes from a place of knee-jerk anti-hobo animus, let me assure you that I love Utah Phillips and Ted Conover as much as anyone you will ever meet. I unders ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Germany, Ceglia, Comments Bo ...
    German Privacy Office Condemns Like Button – The privacy office of Northern German state Schleswig-Holstein has called for a ban of the Like button on grounds that it violates user privacy by sending browsing behavior data to Facebook. Starting at the end of September, it plans to sue German w ...
  • Milyoni’s Facebook Credits for Video Rentals A ...
    Facebook ecommerce developer Milyoni has added new sharing features to its Social Theater app that lets Pages rent videos to users for Facebook Credits. Social Theater, which powers rentals for Warner Bros’ The Dark Knight and the ACL music festival, now allows users to leave timed comments, sha ...
  • Facebook Tries Replacing “Most Recent” with a ...
    For the past few months, Facebook has been testing several home page redesigns that add a second, real-time news feed to the right of the central Top News feed. In the latest tested design, Facebook has removed the Most Recent tab of the news feed and replaced it with a real-time activity feed t ...
  • Friend Quizzes, Korea.com, Photos, Phrases and ...
    Korea.com’s embedded website app topped our list of emerging applications by monthly active users this week. Then a French app that purports to tell you who’s looking at your profile followed. The rest of the list was split between Page tab apps, photo apps, friend quizzes with some video, comic ...
  • Facebook Adds 14 Day Restoration Window to the ...
    If an administrator selects to delete one of their Facebook Pages, it will now remain visible to the public for a 14 day restoration period in which the admin can cancel the deletion before it becomes permanent. Admins can also opt to “unpublish” their Page if they want it immediately removed fr ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • 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.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Fethullah Gulen Foundations in US on Our Tax D ...
    Gulen US Charter Schools: Where is Your Money Going?! This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Senators Want Secret Warrantless Wiretap Renewal, Censorship of War Casualties in US, First Presidential Campaign Finance Report, The Harrowing Drone Damages in Pakistan, US Accuses Iran of “Secret Deal” with Al-Qaeda, DOD Full-Spectrum Cyberspace Budget Lunacy, The Coming Partition of Libya? & ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    The Moral Bankruptcy of American Spooks, US Missile Shield May Be Precursor for Attack on Iran, Al-Qaeda Leader Hails Syrian Protestors, Ford Takes US Taxpayers Bailout & Deserts Sinking Ship, Feds to Grab Land for Homeland Security, Hidden Hegemony: Canadian Mining in Latin America, What is a D ...
  • BFP Food for Thought: What’s so “Alternative” ...
    All Quasi Roads Lead to the Same Establishment I simply don’t get it! Actually, I haven’t been ‘getting it’ for a while. Maybe you can help me get it; will you? Here is the quandary: There are several major websites out there with quite a following. These websites advertise themselves as the ‘al ...

Afro Spear

  • The Audacity of Hate
    “The poor will always be with us…” Matthew 26:11 There are one group of people that Americans hate more than foreign terrorists. The poor within their own borders. They would rather send millions of dollars, as well as their armed forces, to assist and relieve the sufferings of the poor and dis ...
  • “Mayor Nutter’s City of Tough Love ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter went where few black  leaders have gone. And I think I can count those other who did on one hand. Nutter dared speak truth to action on the critical state of black youth in this country. In an address confronting increasing youth v ...
  • Is Britain cascading into third “worldne ...
    What recently transpired in the UK, unearthed a hidden malady of racism and hypocrisy. We used to believe that the UK is an ideal society that promotes and protects human rights, prosperity and equality. We goofed. UK we used to superficially know is different from the real and true one. Had thi ...
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  • “Is feminism really un-African?” b ...
    Very interesting post and conversation. I encourage any comments to be made at original post (here).  As my feminist consciousness has developed the more I’ve become aware, both explicitly and implicitly, that there is a popular notion that feminism is un-African. Every time I write a post about ...

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Gr ...

Ode Magazine

  • Expanding the border of local food advocates
    By: thayerd Thousands of people, mostly women and children, have been walking for days. Not just a day or two, they've been walking for fifteen to twenty days, bound for Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Many of the women have lost children to hunger during the tre ...
  • Sharing optimism and joy with sidewalk chalk
    By: mmlarsen Remember when you were a kid and you’d draw pictures and write happy thoughts with chalk in your driveway and down the sidewalks of your street? And the adults always smiled when they read the big, paste-colored messages? This is just like that. On ...
  • OdeLive presents health pioneer Johan Boswinkel
    By: Ode Warning! This story is about a man who has developed a groundbreaking new therapy: healing with light. The man is not a doctor. Nor is he an accredited scientist. His proof is rather anecdotal, and yes, countless skeptics are eagerly lining up to attack ...
  • Three creative ways people are bringing hope a ...
    By: Anne Thomas Even though the initial intensity of the March 11 disaster has subsided, many people still feel a deep tugging to help Japanese disaster victims. Since that subtle pull is strong and persistent, people are finding very creative ways to bring hop ...
  • Saying goodbye to David Servan-Schreiber
    By: Ode Ode columnist David Servan-Schreiber died on the evening of Sunday, July 24. He was 50. A professor of psychiatry in the US and France, Servan-Schreiber wrote the bestselling Anticancer: A New Way of Life and The Instinct to Heal, both read around the w ...

OpEd News

  • What we have to fear isn't just fear
    This friend of a friend of a friend is not a "bad" man. And that is the problem today, the one we need to be terrified of. It's not badness, necessarily. It's much more serious: it's profoundly stupid ignorance.
  • The Window and The Mirror
    Warren Buffett, empathy and entitlement, racism and privilege, with soundtrack by Booker T and Bob Dylan.
  • Original Investigation: Who - and What - Are B ...
    We have this president, this one who according to the magazine article didn't ask about the core issues -- why this man was killed, who killed him, under whose orders, what would be done with the body. Well, he may not want answers. But we ought to want them. Otherwise, it's all just a game.
  • Rick Perry's Glenn Beck Problem
    Perry told reporters that Beck was leading a movement to take back America and "I consider myself proud to be in that army."
  • How Republicans avoid angry constituents...out ...
    Republicans have figured out a way to both make a buck off of doing their public duty of meeting with constituents, and making sure that they never again have to answer an uncomfortable question. Here's how:

Switchboard

  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile The controversial Isla Riesco coal-mining project took another step forward last Friday when a high-level government commission gave final approval to the first of five mines, Mina Invi ...
  • NRDC in the News 8/19: Shell's drilling risks, ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The Telegraph UK quoted from and referenced Frances Beinecke’s  New York Times op-ed piece, where she argued that Shell should not be allowed to drill in the Arctic… In a Fortune Magazine article, ...
  • NRDC in the News 8/18: Shell's drilling plans, ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Frances Beinecke explained the grave risk associated with Shell's plan to drill four exploratory wells off the North Slope of Alaska, in an op-ed piece published in The New York Times... In a USA T ...
  • Clinton's tar sands pipeline "safety condition ...
    Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC Proponents of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline are using a disingenuous argument to avoid further scrutiny of TransCanada’s proposed pipeline. They argue that the concerns of lando ...
  • It's Official: N.E. Clean Fuels Standard Is a ...
    Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City Yesterday, it became official: 11 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states officially published an economic analysis of a Clean Fuels Standard (CFS) for the region, following a leak of the report earlier in ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The Object of Nostalgia Matters…
    Yglesias on Reihan Salam’s claim that white conservatives aren’t racist, but rather simply nostalgic about an American that has largely ended: On its face itâs difficult to make sense of that. John Boehner was born in 1949. Does he feel nostalgic for the higher marginal tax rates of the America ...
  • Henry (1994-2011)
    Among his numerous claims to fame, I suppose Henry was the closest thing to a proper mascot we’ve ever had at LGM. Back in the day, when I could be counted on to write about much of anything at all, I mentioned him quite frequently, usually with gratuitous pictures of the poor guy straddling one ...
  • Race and Sports Broadcasting
    Rule #1 of sports broadcasting–always, always, always compare a player to someone of the same racial background. At Baseball Prospectus (not sure how much of this you can see without a subscription), Frankie Piliere pokes at what is one of the most annoying parts of sports broadcasting, and some ...
  • The 2008 Counterfactual
    Rebecca Traister has a terrific piece about counterfactuals and the 2008 primary. Amanda has some comments as well. Traister does a good job of outlining the where there may have differences — Obama’s coatails (which were likely decisive in the Hagan and Franken Senate races) versus the unlikeli ...
  • Perry’s Sex-Ed Shuffle
    I think I agree with Paul’s interpretation of the clip of Perry babbling nonsense about sex ed. While I agree in general that Perry isn’t very bright, I think in this case the bobbing and weaving isn’t a sign of stupidity so much as that when it comes to winger support for abstinence-only educti ...

Desert Research Institute

  • ASCENT Connecting women in atmospheric sciences
    Atmospheric Science Collaborations and Enriching Networks (ASCENT) is a program focusing on women in atmospheric science/meteorology. It’s designed to initiate positive professional relationships among female faculty of different ranks and postdoctoral researchers.
  • DRI and UNR Scientists Help Agencies Preserve ...
    DRI and The University of Nevada have highly cooperative, productive and ongoing research programs across a variety of topics in the Lake Tahoe Basin that are doing their best to provide quality science to inform basin managers and policymakers.
  • Storm Peak Lab Celebrates the 4th of July and ...
    There is nothing like a small-town parade on the 4th of July. The scientists and volunteers at the DRI Storm Peak Lab (SPL) in Steamboat Springs, Colo. participated in this year’s Steamboat Springs Fourth of July Parade. The parade theme was the “Greatest Summer on Earth.”
  • In Memoriam: DRI President Dr. James V. Taranik
    President of DRI in 1987, Dr. James V. Taranik was internationally known for his research in aerospace remote sensing, and his professional career had already included senior positions with NASA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Iowa Geological Survey, and the University of Iowa.
  • DRI Researcher Earns Grant to Study the Season ...
    A DRI researcher will lead a team that is heading to Antarctica to study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Controversial billboard depicting contaminated ...
    The Sautners from Dimock put up a billboard that has a picture of their dirty water and the words “FIX IT” on Rt. 29 in the heart of Cabot Oil & Gas territory. As soon as it went up, they held a press conference.  Angry pro-gas neighbors were also there –  and Cabot spokesman George Stark. [...]
  • Waterdog Training August 11th
    Below is note from Erica about the upcoming Waterdog training at Ives Run. Hello Everyone I just wanted to remind everyone that we are hosting another Advanced Waterdog Training on August 11th at Ives Run from 5-9 pm.  Please let me know if you can make it and also please feel free to share it [...]
  • PennFuture files federal lawsuit against Marce ...
    Harrisburg, PA (July 21, 2011) – Citizens for Pennsylvania‟s Future (PennFuture) filed a lawsuit today in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania against Ultra Resources, Inc., for air pollution at its Marcellus Shale drilling sites, which violates the federal Cl ...
  • Advanced Waterdog Training in August
    An advanced Waterdog training will take place on August 11th. Details from the flyer are below. Hello Waterdogs, I wanted to invite all of you to our Advanced Waterdog Training on August 11 from 5:00—9:00. This training will only be for people who have already attended the initial training. We w ...
  • A Substitute for Tears…
    Two fellows that have had profound effects on the music in my life have each written songs about the gas drilling and want to preserve the beauty and purity of places they have come to know and love in Pennsylvania. Check out Van Wagner’s tune here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trxrh_FmPeI&fea ...

News Blaze

  • UNICEF Appeals for Help to Save 390,000 Starvi ...
    In addition to the tens of thousands of Somalis who have already died as a result of the drought-induced famine, which has been exacerbated by conflict and poverty, an estimated 390,000 children are suffering from malnutrition. Four fifths of them a
  • Suicide Bombing At Pakistani Mosque Kills More ...
    A suicide bombing at a mosque in north-western Pakistan has reportedly killed more than 40 people and injured at least 100 others.
  • Fears of Double-Dip Recession Continues to Grow
    The Standard & Poor's 500 index also suffered big losses, dropping 53.24 points, or 4.5 percent, to 1,140.65. The Nasdaq composite index lost 131.05 points, or 5.2 percent, falling to 2,2380.43.
  • High-Profile Woman Judge Slain in Brazil
    Gabriela Knaul, the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, issued a statement a week after Judge Patr�cia Lourival Acioli was shot dead by unknown gunmen at her home near Rio de Janeiro.
  • USF Poly Creates Computer Forensics Lab
    Called the Computer Forensics Laboratory, the newly opened lab focuses on cyber forensics, a special field of criminal investigation used by the FBI, as well as by individual police departments across the country, to track down people using computer

environment 360

  • 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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Great News: "An Alien Invasion Would Save the ...
    Paul Krugman Wants Manufactured Threat From OuterSpace to Revive Economy. A Keynesian-infused Space Alien Economic Bubble to revive the depressed one we have right now. Dr Michio Kaku, renowned physicist, author and the apparent mouth piece for the scientific dictatorship that is the NWO, talks ...
  • Donations revive SETI quest
    The SETI Institute’s search for extraterrestrial intelligence is back on track, thanks to more than $200,000 in donations from thousands of fans. "We’re not completely out of the woods yet, but everybody’s smiling here," the institute’s chief executive officer, Tom Pierson, told me today. In Apr ...
  • NATO and Turkey Support Armed Rebels in Syria. ...
    The Western media has played a central role in obfuscating the nature of foreign interference in Syria including outside support to armed insurgents. In chorus they have described recent events in Syria as a "peaceful protest movement" directed against the government of Bashar Al Assad. Recent d ...
  • Why do banks make so much money?
    Basically, because they’re allowed to create money out of thin air — and then lend that money at an interest rate. This video explains how it works.
  • Huckabee garners criticism for selling 9/11 ki ...
    As the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 nears, Mike Huckabee this week began promoting his company’s latest animated educational video for children: "9/11 and the War on Terror." The release of the kids’ cartoon has sparked significant criticism, accusing Huckabee of profiting off the 2001 terror at ...

Russia Today

  • Bank, gold or mattress – NY chooses
    Against a backdrop of market turmoil, the public has mostly left the traders to worry about slumping stocks. But with investments and pension funds on the line, New Yorkers tell RT where they are putting their money.
  • Hostilities snowball as Hamas calls off truce ...
    Hamas has called off its truce with Tel-Aviv as Israel and Palestine continue hostilities into a third day. The Gaza Strip has been targeted by the Israeli air force in overnight raids.
  • Sukhoi Superjet shines at MAKS $10 billion avi ...
    Deals signed during the international air show MAKS have surpassed the event’s previous record of $10 billion. The Sukhoi Superjet 100, a joint project between Russia and France, hits the best-seller list.
  • Coup of '91 - tank tracks to democracy
    The events of just three days in August 1991 changed the course of Russian history. But they also became a sort of watershed event for the country's military and its role in politics.
  • Panic and anger of Moscow ’91 - anticipating d ...
    Moscow, August 20, 1991: turmoil reigns as tanks roll through the streets and parliament is hidden by barricades. But the group of hard-line Communists behind the coup were not destined to succeed - the Soviet Union was...

Not My Tribe

  • The shocking part about the AI PACkers… ...
    It’s not the blatant anti-Semitism involved in wanting to set Israel up as a target for near-total destruction, it’s not their arrogance in making money supplying the means, the money, weapons, propaganda, anti-social gospel of indifference, answering the question of Cain “am I my brothers keepe ...
  • I know where Congressman Lamborn is. Because n ...
    Calls to Doug Lamborn’s office inquiring as to his whereabouts produces this charade: “Um, I don’t know. Let me ask. Could you hold please?” And we never get an answer. That his office won’t say, coupled with the media’s strange incuriosity, points to a self-enforced news moratorium on where a f ...
  • Before tarring himself Representative Tar Baby ...
    Do you remember that Colorado Representative Doug Lamborn had a nickname before he pinned the latest on his sorry tail? Before Tar Baby, Lamborn was known for another remark whose meaning he insists he hadn’t intended, when he left a telephone message with a local couple, threatening “consequenc ...
  • I’ve been criticized for this picture be ...
    That is ARVN General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing Murdering Capt. Nguyen Van Lem of the VietMinh. The excuse often given for the General killing a prisoner is that members of Gen Nguyen’s family had been killed recently. So had members of Capt Nguyens family, probably at the orders of Gen Nguyen. ...
  • Dear President Tar Baby…
    Does anyone know if Rep. Lamborn really sent an apology to President Obama for calling him a Tar Baby? Has anyone seen it? Lamborn’s office issued a press release saying “the congressman is confident that the President will accept his heartfelt apology.” News headlines regurgitated the story sig ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • AE911Truth 10th Anniversary Activities
    Posted by John-Michael P. Talboo One simple action that can be taken to help out this campaign is sigining up to make phone calls to other ae911truth petition signers. I have made around 120 myself. You don't have to get off your butt if you don't want, but get involved! Click here for ...
  • The truth and the authority
    Watching AE911Truth's new mini movie on WTC7, I was reminded of what actress Christine Ebersole said five years ago on the fifth anniversary of 9/11: "Truth is authority; authority is not truth". All the debunkers have ever really had is the appeal to authority, but now they don't even ha ...
  • Lack of 9/11 Air Defence Explained?
    Posted by John-Michael P. Talboo In a post entitled "NORAD's 'Lies' Explained?" Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog recently wrote that the blog of 9/11 Commission staffer Miles Kara explains "the erroneous assertion that the military found out about Flight 93 long before they did." ...
  • 9/11 10th Anniversary Campaign
    Click here to support the 9/11 families and first responders as they call for a new investigation in the largest 9/11 campaign ever! Debunking the Debunkers Regarding Building 7 '9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out' Trailer & Rebuttal to Pat Curley Related Info: 9/11 ...
  • SLC and Censorship
    On the Screw Loose Change Blog we find this... SLC: "we are proud of our reputation as one of the few places that both sides can post their arguments."http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2011/05/semi-ban.html I thought I would see if that was true recently when they seemed to be rather c ...

Fooducate

  • Insurance Companies Say: Quit the Fizzy Pop
    Via: Term Life Insurance Check out this infographic, published not by doctors, not by dietitians, and not by the government. This “propaganda” is disseminated by a for-profit organization that has a direct financial interest in reducing your junk food intake – an insurance company. For the ful ...
  • Fall In Love With A New Whole Grain
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl The comfort zone of American cuisine is meat, potatoes, and a wee bit of vegetables. When it comes to whole grains, we are sadly lacking. Several of my blog readers were interested in something called “Wheatberry Salad”. From Denise: I wo ...
  • Velveeta’s Cheesy Skillets – Liquid Gold?
    Have you seen the ads for Kraft’s Velveeta brand? The cheese-like product has been around for decades, and is now expanding to the dinner table. A series of humorous TV ads has been making the rounds promoting the “liquid gold”. From Velveeta’s facebook page: In 1928, the light of VELVEETA was c ...
  • True (?) Lemon For your Water
    Here’s an interesting product. Many people are trying to switch from sugary or diet soft drinks to water. But they can’t seem to bring themselves to drinking unflavored H 2 O. Adding some flavor makes the difference, and a wedge of  lemon is probably at the top of the list. Alas, what if you do ...
  • The New Lunchables with Fruit. Is this the Bes ...
    It’s back to school season and we’re taking a look at foods many parents are likely to pack in their kids bags. Lunchables is a very successful brand that we have reviewed in the past. Our conclusion then was that even a sandwich with peanut butter and jelly was better for your child. That’s why ...

Traffikd

  • Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
    Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
  • 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
    As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
  • Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
    Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.

Survival International

  • International condemnation of controversial Et ...
    The Mursi are one of the tribes living along the Omo Valley. © Eric Lafforgue/Survival Kenyan MPs and the UN’s World Heritage Committee have called on Ethiopia to halt construction of the controversial Gibe III dam on the Omo River. In its annual report published last month, UNESCO’s World ...
  • Amazon pipeline gets go-ahead amid reports of ...
    Oil industry barges are a constant sight on the rivers of northern Peru © Survival A 200km oil pipeline in the Amazon has been given the go-ahead, amidst controversy over a âcover-upâ of evidence that uncontacted Indians live in the region. French oil company Perenco plans to spend $350m ...
  • Innu protest at mineral exploration project in ...
    An Innu camp at Black Fish Lake, one day's journey from Natuashish and en-route to hunting grounds in the North and West. © Dominick Tyler/Survival One of the largest Innu communities in Quebec, eastern Canada, is embroiled in a row with an iron-ore mining company. The company, Cap-Ex Ve ...
  • ‘Staged’ tribal TV series spurs Ethical Code f ...
    Filmmakers have a responsibility to portray tribal people fairly. © Survival Following the recent furore over the BBC and Travel Channelâs âstagedâ tribal TV series, Survival International has released a code of practice for filmmakers working with tribal peoples (pdf, 983 KB). The guidel ...
  • Land at last for Paraguay Indians
    An Enxet child in Paraguay © Jonathan Mazower/Survival Almost 9,000 hectares of ancestral land has been returned to Enxet Indians in Paraguay, more than a decade after their campaign to reclaim it began. The Kelyenmagategma, a small community of Enxet Indians, had been forcibly evicted fro ...

Greg Palast

  • Me and Piers Morgan:Hacked and AttackedHow Mor ...
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout.org/Buzzflash I am not surprised that Piers Morgan has been outed for hacking phones (listening, in one case, to personal messages between Heather Mills and Paul McCartney). I learned about the creepy antics of this one-man TV-host crime spree the hard way ...
  • Not Another Ransom Notefrom Congressman Boehner
    by Greg Palast It was quite upsetting to find our President blindfolded and tied to a chair at the GOP Tea Party headquarters, but I'm sure the $2.2 trillion ransom we paid to the hostage-takers is worth it. Well, now that the Obama presidency is over, we can move on to more serious matters ...
  • Who killed "Stieg" Larsson?
    I asked my daughter if she would like to add her own recollections about JK Rowling and the "alternative" Harry Potter endings Jo Rowling told us when we were hanging out in the Green Room at BBC Television Centre. (I provide investigative stories for the BBC current affairs program Newsnight.) ...
  • It's Not Default of Obama:Jail GOP Deadbeats f ...
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash.com Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist gave debtors' prison a bad rap. Too bad. I'd say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea. Bush reads from My Pet BudgetLet's talk about how w ...
  • Harry Potter: Jo’s Other Ending
    By Jo (J.K.) Rowling as told to Greg Palast and the Palast twins [18 July 2011] Some of you may recall that, years ago, when I lived in England, writing for The Guardian, when I shared the bestseller list with Jo Rowling (she at the pinnacle, me in the valley), we became buds through my twins ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle boring white buttons?
    We’ve had an email from Sally: I always snip buttons from old clothes before using them for rags but after a few years of my three’s school shirts, I’ve got more plain white buttons than I know what to do with. If they were pretty I’d keep them for crafts but they’re boring! Any ideas? [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle crême brulée/desser ...
    We’ve had an email from Jeroen: We designed a lid for the Bonne Maman crême brulée cup that we usually through away. Here you can see a short movie about it: While I’ll admit the lid is very cute and well made, it didn’t occur to me that it needed one before reusing — my [...]
  • How can I use up “past it” frozen ...
    We’ve had an email from Joanna: I found some part-used bags of frozen peas, sweetcorn and broccoli at the bottom of my chest freezer – expiry date 2009! My hubs is happy to ignore expiry dates but we tried some of the peas and they were tough and tasted washed out, not good! Any other [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle sweetcorn plants?
    Tina has asked a very timely question: what can I use sweetcorn plants for? I like to eat or use as much of my plants as possible, before composting the rest. There must be a million uses for corn plants, but can I find any? help! We’ve already covered the empty cobs, after the lovely [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle combs?
    Janet has asked us a question on the Suggest an Item page: I have several combs that I don’t use. Can they be re-used or recycled? Any unrequired combs found in our house are cleaned then used for cat/dog brushing – they seem to prefer combs to brushes, and their combs go missing with startling ...

Age of Autism

  • A Comparative Analysis of Human Rights through ...
    By LJ Goes (artwork Amy Einhorn books/Putnam Order the book here.) Of the many complex pieces that form the autism parenting puzzle, it's the copious amounts of scientific and medical journal reading that I find the most arduous. It would...
  • Will I Have a Second Child with Autism? A Thir ...
    Hi, friends. I have a new post up at HuffPo - a different take on the Pedatrics study on siblings. As always, I'd appreciate if you'd pop over to HuffPo and and leave a comment. Then FB share and Tweet...
  • Tune into HDNet's World Report Tuesday 8/23 9p ...
    HDNet World Report - Vaccines and Autism: Mixed Signals Health officials in the U.S. have consistently denied that there is any link between childhood vaccines and autism. So why is the government quietly doling out big settlements to families who...
  • Part 2 The Greatest Challenge: Autism and an O ...
    This is the second and final part of this series written by Bob and Jane Smith about their 13 year old son TJ. Read Part 1 Autism and an Out of Home Placement HERE. (Names changed to protect the family.)...
  • Holier than Thou BMJ Editor Godlee Fails to Ac ...
    Holier than thou BMJ editor, Godlee, fails once again to acknowledge journal's Merck conflict in the MMR affair By John Stone Following an editorial calling for tighter standards on Conflict of Interest by British Medical Journal editor Fiona Godlee, the...

Global BDS Movement

  • Map test
    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Israeli air raid on Gaza kills Palestinian you ...
    KUNA – A Palestinian youth was killed and another one was injured as an Israeli drone fired missiles at a group of Palestinians in an auto market to the east of Al-Zaytoun district, southeast Gaza City, on Friday. The air raid killed Mohammad Enaya, 22, and injured another man in the market, spo ...
  • Deadly flash floods in Pittsburgh
  • U.S. – US inflation rises 0.5% in July
    CNBC – US inflation accelerated at a faster rate last month as consumers faced higher prices for food and energy, fuelled by volatility in commodity costs over recent months. Read Article
  • ACLU, activist groups sue Boston Police over s ...
    Boston Herald – The Boston Police Department has refused to release documents that describe its policies and practices for monitoring political protest groups and âsuspicious activityâ and should be forced by a judge to produce records, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the American Civi ...
  • USA – Bacteria from Dog Feces Present in ...
    ScienceDaily â Bacteria from fecal material — in particular, dog fecal material — may constitute the dominant source of airborne bacteria in Cleveland’s and Detroit’s wintertime air, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Interior department to hold big gulf oil lease ...
    The Obama administration plans to offer more than 20 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas leases, the first such sale since the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.
  • Agency seeks to end sea otter relocations, to ...
    After 24 years of barring sea otters from most Southern California waters and trying to establish a colony for the threatened animals on San Nicolas Island, federal wildlife officials on Wednesday announced a proposal to abandon the program, saying it...
  • Angeles National Forest gets new supervisor
    The U.S. Forest Service has selected Thomas Contreras to be supervisor for the Angeles National Forest. He has been serving in that position on an interim basis for several months. Contreras has worked for the Forest Service since 1976, and...
  • Mountain yellow-legged frogs could not survive
    Officials announced this week the deaths of 104 mountain yellow-legged frogs that had been rescued from the fire-stripped San Gabriel Mountains in 2009. The federally endangered frogs, which recently metamorphosed from the tadpole stage, died in captive breeding tanks over...
  • Lake Tahoe clarity second-worst on record
    Lake Tahoe lost nearly 4 feet of clarity last year, sending water visibility to the second worst level on record.

water.org

  • Levi’s drive for Water.org via Facebook ...
    Leviâs Drive for Water.org via Facebook (New York Times) – Leviâs is adding a hue to its marketing efforts: Facebook blue. The purveyor of all things denim has teamed up with the social media giant on the next phase of its âGo Forthâ campaign. On Tuesday, Leviâs will announce the campaign exclus ...
  • The @water Twakeover (Globe and Mail)
    New trend on Twitter: handing over your account (Globe and Mail) – This month the latest social media trend seems to be encouraging legitimate takeovers. The Water.org group (@water), which works with communities in developing countries to meet water and sanitation needs, will soon be handing it ...
  • Water.org will hand over its Twitter (Mashable)
    Water.org Will Hand Over Its Twitter Account to Contest Winner (Mashable) – Water.org is surrendering its Twitter account, @Water, for an entire week to the user who racks up the most votes on its site. To enter, you must be following @Water on Twitter. Then sign up to participate with a shor ...
  • Gary White talks water on MSNBC
    World faces a water crisis (MSNBC) – Gary White interviewed by Martin Bashir June 30, 2011 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
  • Leadership wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company)
    Leadership Wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company) 30 second MBA video series: Part 1 – Gary White – Executive Director and Cofounder, Water.org Part 2 – Matt Damon – Cofounder, Water.org

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • Not Jewish enough for Glenn Beck nor Israeli ...
    Next week, conservative political commentator Beck plans to hold a mass rally to "Restore Courage" in Jerusalem. His goal: saving Israel and the United States from apocalyptic destruction in the form of the two-state solution. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • U.S. Senator seeks to cut aid to elite IDF uni ...
    U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy is promoting a bill to suspend U.S. assistance to three elite Israel Defense Forces units, alleging they are involved in human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Buying Democracy - ALEC
    State legislators are recruited to attend ALEC conventions & given model legislation to introduce back home which promotes the goals of ALEC. Over 2000 legislators from every state are members of ALEC. BP oil was the major sponsor of the recent conventionSubmitted by Care For All to US Politics ...
  • ALEC Using Taxpayer Funds to Destroy Governmen ...
    ALEC has written hundreds of laws that will benefit their members' industries & provide nothing for consumers. But that's not the end of the story -- ALEC is actually using taxpayer's money to help push their small-government, pro-corporate agenda.Submitted by Care For All to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Obama Bails Out TX, Perry Takes Credit- Anders ...
    Obama Bails Out TX, Perry Takes Credit- Anderson Cooper Keeping them HonestSubmitted by Linda Tucker to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • UNICEF Appeals for Help to Save 390,000 Starvi ...
    In addition to the tens of thousands of Somalis who have already died as a result of the drought-induced famine, which has been exacerbated by conflict and poverty, an estimated 390,000 children are suffering from malnutrition. Four fifths of them a
  • Suicide Bombing At Pakistani Mosque Kills More ...
    A suicide bombing at a mosque in north-western Pakistan has reportedly killed more than 40 people and injured at least 100 others.
  • Fears of Double-Dip Recession Continues to Grow
    The Standard & Poor's 500 index also suffered big losses, dropping 53.24 points, or 4.5 percent, to 1,140.65. The Nasdaq composite index lost 131.05 points, or 5.2 percent, falling to 2,2380.43.
  • High-Profile Woman Judge Slain in Brazil
    Gabriela Knaul, the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, issued a statement a week after Judge Patr�cia Lourival Acioli was shot dead by unknown gunmen at her home near Rio de Janeiro.
  • USF Poly Creates Computer Forensics Lab
    Called the Computer Forensics Laboratory, the newly opened lab focuses on cyber forensics, a special field of criminal investigation used by the FBI, as well as by individual police departments across the country, to track down people using computer

Worldnews

  • Thousands support Hazare with candle ligh ...
    Surat/Ralegaon Siddi/Agra, Aug.20 (ANI): Thousands of people across India held peaceful candle-light vigils and torch rallies onFriday to support veteran anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare after he walked out of New Delhi's Tihar Jail to carry his fast in public for the enactment of a strong J ...
  • Foreigners join Hazare's nation-wide anti ...
    Varanasi/Mumbai/Siliguri, Aug.20 (ANI): Support for anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare is spreading throughout the country, with foreigners too participating in demonstrations in support. � Foreign tourists in Varanasi have joined Indians in support of Hazare. They participated in a yagna to p ...
  • Left Front students protest against Mamat ...
    Kolkata, Aug.20 (ANI): Hundreds of students belonging to the Left Front marched towards the state assembly on Friday to lampoon the West Bengal government headed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for misusing its political...
  • West Bengal to be renamed as Pashchim Ban ...
    Kolkata, Aug.20 (ANI): A committee comprising West Bengal's Commerce Minister Partha Chatterjee and other opposition party leaders has unanimously proposed that the state of West Bengal be renamed as "Paschim Banga".� The decision was taken at an all-party meeting...
  • Geelani warns govt. to release political ...
    Srinagar, Aug.20 (ANI): The chairman of the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani has asked the government to release the valley's political prisoners before Eid or face consequences.� Addressing media here on Friday, Geelani demanded that political prisoners sh ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Advanced Batteries: Here Come the Californians
    Several of the new grants went to companies that received awards in 2009 as part of the $2 billion Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative (DOE-FOA-26). But a number of awardees were new. Most striking was the concentration of awardees in California. Amprius, App ...
  • 6 Energy Topics For US Presidential Candidates
    As the US heads into the process of electing its next President, many subjects and issues will be debated. While climate change may not be the defining issue of the moment in the USA, given the long term importance of the subject it would be useful to understand how the various candidates for of ...
  • Living Off the Grid: No Longer Just for the Amish
    Whether you’re reading this on your computer or mobile device, you needed electricity from the grid to power at least one device in the process. Those electrons come from far-flung power plants, across miles of transmission lines, and out of a plug in your wall. This process may seem like just a ...
  • Washington Must Think Globally And Act Regionally
    If Washington wants to enable the growth of American’s clean energy economy, it must think globally and act regionally. The global energy industry is in the midst of a multi-decade transformation into a collection of clean energy sectors. The US is lagging China and number of overseas competitor ...
  • America’s Resource Renaissance
    American oil industry leadership groups such as the National Petroleum Council and the American Petroleum Institute have been meeting in recent months to fashion new frameworks for the industry to ensure best practices for oil and natural gas drilling. That’s the good news. The bad news is t ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Rick Perry: Extremist White America's Evangeli ...
    by Stephen Lendman Consider the unpalatable 2012 options, a choice between: -- a so far unopposed lawless/crime boss/militarist/pro-war/anti-populist president; and -- a rogue's gallery of Republican aspirants, looking more like a police lineup than legitimate candidates for any offi ...
  • Dispatch From Libya, Tripoli on the Cusp
    By FRANKLIN LAMB TripoliTruth be told, some foreign observers, and certainly this one, having been based in Tripoli the past nearly eight weeks, have not taken very seriously occasional media predictions that Tripoli might soon be invaded by “NATO rebels” -- though not by NATO country force ...
  • Cops kill 3 as farmers protest water project, ...
    By Rady Ananda On August 9, police shot nine farmers, killing three, who were part of a mass protest against a water pipeline project in Baur Village, 50 miles east of Mumbai, India. �Police also smashed cars, fired tear gas and threw rocks at farmers as they fled the violence. �This was all ca ...
  • Daily Rogue State Israeli Lawlessness
    by Stephen Lendman It begs the question why Israelis put up with lawless governance harming them as well as Palestinians. When will weeks of social injustice outrage arouse them to embrace universal equity? Why haven't Martin Luther King's words hit home that, "Injustice anywhere is a ...
  • Falsified Major Media Reports on Libya
    by Stephen Lendman 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 an ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Inequality Bad for Business
    CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes how the business establishment is growing concerned about income inequality in Canada in this Canada Business article. Read the article here.
  • The Strange Case of Saskatchewan's Electoral B ...
    Simon Enoch discusses Saskatchewan's rather unique electoral boundaries and how they influenced the 2011 federal election in the CCPA's Behind the Numbers blog.
  • Job posting: Online Communications Officer
    The CCPA National office is seeking an Online Communications Officer to join our communications team in Ottawa to support and expand the CCPA’s ongoing communications and outreach efforts. The deadline for applications is August 19, 2011. Click here for the full job posting.
  • Hennessy's Index: Gone Fishin'
    Hennessy's Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. This August, Hennessy's Index looks at vacation time - how do Canadian vacations stack up?� For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index
  • New Report - The Public Policies Needed to Bui ...
    With the release of the final report in the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Saskatchewan series �Transforming Saskatchewan�s Electrical Future,� former Saskatchewan Cabinet Minister Peter Prebble outlines the public policies that will be required to truly transform Saskatchewan into a ...

World Wide Hippies

  • 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 ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

  • Updated Statistical, Economic and Historical R ...
    We have updated our References section and, for the first time, also published our References ordered by Subjects – probably the most comprehensive trove on Statistical, Economic, Monetary and Historical Data etc. … References by Subject References â General and Applied Statistics References â E ...
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...
    … and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent count ...
  • How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
    Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s the advi ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • How to Fix the Broken Cellulosic Ethanol Incen ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Overview: Mandates, Zero Production, Penalties, and the Failure of the Current System In the previous post, I discussed the annual ritual of rolling back the cellulosic ethanol mandates by 90% or more. For three years running, cellulosic ethanol productio ...
  • Cellulosic Ethanol Targets: Mandating the None ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Another Year, Another Chapter In what is becoming an annual ritual, the EPA is once more scaling back the cellulosic ethanol mandate for 2012. The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act mandated that we would use 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethan ...
  • Will a SmartGrid and GM’s Volt Stimulate the E ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from Victor Sequeira. Mr. Sequeira is Principal of VerisNRG LLC, a Houston based energy consultancy. He can be reached at victorseq [at] comcast [dot] net —————————— Can GMâs Volt Provide a Jolt to the Electric Car Industry? ...
  • When Falling Oil Prices are Bad News
    Join the forum discussion on this post Economic Heartache Normally, consumers consider falling oil and gasoline prices to be good news. They have to pay less to fill up their tanks. And if the reason for that is that oil supplies are increasing at a rate faster than demand is increasing, it ca ...
  • The Need for a Real Domestic Alternative Energ ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following is a guest post from Andrew Smolski of OilPrice.com. ———————————– Alternative energy (or renewable energy) is a new manufacturing industry paradigm that is in its infancy. However, the discussion is not new, and it looks as if the Unite ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The InGREENspirational 7!
    "Meet amazing people. Learn cool stuff. And have lots of fun along the way." read more
  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • How Your Slow Money Can Remake Our Food and Fi ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—After the stock market rose and fell by 400 points for four consecutive days, one Reuters financial journalist called last week's Wall Street roller coaster "one of the most volatile weeks in memory." The economy took a dive, and politicians and pundits started hand-wrin ...
  • Wind Turbines at Home Depot: A Cool Deal, or H ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you've caught wind of Home Depot's summer initiative to start selling wind turbines in stores in certain parts of the country, you might think it sounds like a great idea. But some wind energy experts say the initiative will leave a lot of well-meaning homeowners disa ...

big think

  • Can Ecstasy Treat Cancer?
    What's the Latest Development? Already known to be a potent weapon in the fight against cancer, the effectiveness of the drug ecstasy has been modified 100-fold by British and Australian scientists. The lead researcher of the study, professor John Gordon of the University of Birmingham, said . ...
  • From Old Medicines, New Cures
    What's the Latest Development? By combining information�on the genetic effect of existing drugs with data on the genetic impact of various diseases, researchers may be able to uncover new uses for old medications. Atul Butte, a bioinformatics expert at Stanford University, said: "Our hypothesi ...
  • Female Smokers at Higher Risk Than Men
    What's the Latest Development? Women who smoke face significantly higher cardiovascular health risks than men do suggests a major study on women and smoking released by the World Health Organization last week. The study,�published in the medical journal�The Lancet, found that women who smoke n ...
  • New Microscope Could Unlock D.N.A.'s Secrets
    What's the Latest Development? A new microscope developed by a group of German biophysicists will allow scientists to look at how molecules interact within human cells on a millisecond-by-millisecond time scale. "Current microscopy techniques can home in on a single spot within a cell, but the ...
  • The Cho Show: She's The One That She Wants
    What's the Big Idea? Who is�Margaret Cho? Beautiful, notorious, and the one that�Cyndi Lauper wants. But before she was selling out 15-city tours and dancing with the stars, Cho suffered from an identity crisis. "I was in the very first Asian-American family television show ever in 1994, All ...

Information Liberation

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part II: End This N ...
    Since I posted my previous thread on this subject four weeks ago, things have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. The rather tawdry scandal involving Craig Thomson, Labor MHR for the seat of Dobell in New South Wales, has … Continue reading →
  • Playing The Race Card Part II: Anarchy In The UK
    What do you make of the riots happening in many British cities? I’ve read with some interest the discussion on GE’s blog, although I personally believe the emphasis on race is misplaced. I’m just returned from a week on the … Continue reading →
  • Now Reap The Whirlwind
    The Dow Jones Industrial Average today closed down 512 pointsâthe biggest one-day fall since the 2008 financial crisisâin the wake of the stitched-up deal hammered out in the U.S. Congress on raising the debt ceiling. Carnage is expected today on … Continue reading →
  • Same Old Same Old…
    I’ve been scanning the news pages for anything that reads like common sense in this whole debt ceiling issue. With very little success. And with less than twelve hours to go before Brucker Bummer, the American Precedent, must sign off … Continue reading →
  • Is There Really Such A Thing As National Chara ...
    I found myself asking this question after reading GE’s thought-provoking essay in Notting Hill Editions. In it, James contrasts what he sees as different national traits of America with those of his homeland. He finds himself concluding that the positives … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Red, red, red wine and more
    My four latest science news stories now live on SpectroscopyNOW, kicking off with an item about adulteration and red wine – Various approaches to statistical analysis of spectroscopic data can reveal whether red wine has been adulterated with anthocyanins to artificially improve, “correct”, its ...
  • Diluting homeopathic advertising
    Diluting homeopathic advertising HT @SilvianaJ – The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered online homeopathy advertisers to stop making claims that their treatments work. [Because they don't!] The ASA’s remit was extended to regulating websites in March 2011, since when it says it has rece ...
  • Billions upon billions
    Back in the day, we Brits had big billions. A billion was a million millions. Obviously, the “bi” doubling up the “illion” from million. What else would it be? Well…of course…the Americans wanted to talk bigger still and so made their billion a mere 1000 million. Back then, it was hard to be a m ...
  • Wi-Fi by LED light
    Forget Fanny by Gaslight…an LED light went on for German physicist Harald Haas who suggests that we could utilise LED lightbulbs as an alternative route for connecting to the Internet without disrupting the use of those LEDs for simple illumination. You can dim the lights so that they no longer ...
  • Moving pictures for motoring molecules
    Researchers in Japan have used high-speed atomic force microscopy (AFM) to shoot an action movie of the biological molecular motor ATPase. ATPase, an enzyme embedded in cell membranes, produces the cellular fuel molecule ATP. the enzyme has two rotating components, but until now only X-ray cryst ...

RFF Library

  • Annual Energy Outlook 2010 Retrospective Review
    US DOE, EIA http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/retrospective/ The Annual Energy Outlook 2010 Retrospective Review provides a yearly comparison between realized energy outcomes and the Reference case projections included in previous AEOs beginning with 1982. This edition of the report adds the AEO ...
  • EPA’s Regulation of Coal-Fired Power: Is a “Tr ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.lawandenvironment.com/uploads/file/CRS-EPA.pdf [From a post by Andrew Restuccia in The Hill's E2 blog] Utility industry claims that looming Environmental Protection Agency rules for power plants will create an economic “train wreck” are overblown, the no ...
  • Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Marcell ...
    Environmental Research Letters (2011 v6 p034014+ — 9pp) / by Mohan Jiang,W Michael Griffin, Chris Hendrickson, Paulina Jaramillo, Jeanne Van Briesen and Aranya Venkatesh (seems to be open access) http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/3/034014/pdf/1748-9326_6_3_034014.pdf [Abstract] This study es ...
  • U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2010
    US DOE, EIA http://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/carbon/ [Press Release]  U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of fossil fuels were 5,638 million metric tons carbon dioxide (MMTCO2) in 2010, an increase of 3.9 percent from the 2009 level, according to Energy-Related Carbon Diox ...
  • EPA Legal Brief on the Endangerment Finding
    US EPA epa-endangerment-brief [From Junk Science Post] EPA filed its legal brief this afternoon with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit defending its December 2009 decision that CO2 emissions threaten public welfare. Filed under: Energy and Climate Tagged: Climate Cha ...

Scientific American - News

  • Solar Blares: Listening to the Sun May Improve ...
    Peering deep into the sun's churning plasma, solar physicists have discovered a way to forecast the emergence of sunspots before they reach the solar surface. [More]
  • Marijuana Plant Sequenced
    At last, the field of genomics has something to offer Cheech and Chong. DNA sequencing hit a new high last night with the midnight release of the Cannabis sativa genome. The raw sequence was posted on Amazon’s EC2 public cloud computing service by a young company called Medicinal Genomics , whi ...
  • China's First Space Lab Tiangong 1 May Launch Soon
    The buzz out of Beijing is that China's Tiangong 1 space lab may fly sooner than expected, perhaps soaring into space by this month's end.That might be the case, according to China space watcher Gregory Kulacki, a senior analyst and China Project manager at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS ...
  • Why Carbon Dioxide Is a Greenhouse Gas
    The Australia-based Galileo Movement touts a series of "basic facts" on carbon dioxide that attempt to explain why the greenhouse gas can't contribute to climate change.John Smeed, the movement's co-founder, says the case against carbon dioxide as a global warming culprit is simply a matter of " ...
  • 'Galileo Movement' Fuels Climate Change Divide ...
    A new group challenging the general consensus on climate science is getting significant air time in Australia, where uproar over a proposed carbon tax may topple the country's minority government.Launched in February, the Galileo Movement is getting much of its lift from its influential "patron, ...

First Truths

  • "Capitalism" as "Anti-Concept"
  • Inverted Queries re Human Nature
    From Randall Amster's Anarchy, utopia, and the state of things to come: [T]he question is often posed: How can a society achieve the production, distribution, and maintenance of public goods absent a central authority? In other words: How can free individuals be encouraged to work and provide fo ...
  • "What Anarchists Believe"
    The following is a favorite passage of mine from What Is Anarchism?: An Introduction, edited by Donald Rooum: Anarchists believe that the point of society is to widen the choices of individuals. This is the axiom upon which the anarchist case is founded.If you were isolated you would still have ...
  • Profit as Unequal Exchange
    A passage from�Herfried Münkler's The New Wars�that will be interesting for anarchists: The economic rationality in their action consists in the fact that they make violence a means to an income, or that through violence they are able to influence exchange relations to their advantage. Warlords ...
  • F.Y.I.
    Some among those reading this may already have heard the sad news that, at the end of this month, I'll be leaving C4SS, a decision required by strains on my schedule that no longer permit the volume of writing I've taken on for the past year or so. It's been an indescribable honor to be a part o ...

Media Co-Op

  • Images from Unist'hot'en Camp
    These images were taken at the Unist'hot'en camp, which has been set up to protect the unceded lands of the Unist'hot'en people from a series of oil and gas pipelines proposed by the likes of Enbridge, Pacific Trails, and others ...
  • Calling BS on the Media: Great Moments in Figh ...
    Riots in the UK may have caused a headache for the police services and businesses in the country, but they've also caused problems for pundits and reporters alike. Above, ...
  • National Campus and Community Radio Associatio ...
    From the streets to the radio airwaves, Palestine will be free! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUG 10 2011 -- The National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA), an organization representing 82 radio stations from every corner of Canada, ...
  • Elections in Kanehsatà:ke: Real Change?
    I’ve never voted in band council elections—ever. I can’t. My conscience won’t let me participate in or support a racist system that’s deliberately designed to deny me of my political, social, religious and spiritual rights. This same system hems me in with regulations that continue to treat me a ...
  • NDP says “No” to essential services for disabled
    Siphoning thousands of dollars from a special needs program for the disabled while pumping tens of millions into a convention centre is an NDP “betrayal” said many in attendance at a Halifax news conference on Aug. 16.  People with disabilities and their advocates urged the government to cancel ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • From Utoya Island to Capitol Hill
    David Seaton's News LinksDefinition of DECLASSTransitive verb: to remove from a class; especially to assign to a lower social status It is ridiculed by poets and libertines; idolized by moralists; the target of speeches by politicians, popes and all others who climb into the pulpit to recruit vo ...
  • Norway: a taste of the magma
    David Seaton's News LinksMagma (from Greek μάγμα "paste") is a mixture of molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and may also exist on other terrestrial planets. Wikipedia The Norwegian right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed at least 7 ...
  • A tribute to Amy Winehouse
    This is a reprint of something I wrote in July of 2008: I admit that I had thought that Amy Winehouse was just another one of the media grotesques, a sort of Paris Hilton with a beat. I thought that her big hit "Rehab" was a catchy update of the Stax/Atlantic sound, sung in blackface. I sa ...
  • Somalia Famine
    David Seaton's News Links According to the UN, more than six out of every 10,000 people are dying of hunger every day in some parts of the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia, with more than half the children there suffering from acute malnutrition. This is far above the normal fami ...
  • The Murdoch Turkey Shoot
    David Seaton's News Links (Britain's politicians) had been pushed into taking a stand by the overwhelming public revulsion that greeted the discovery that the mobile telephone of Milly Dowler, the murdered Surrey schoolgirl, had been hacked. Even so, it was a dramatic show of political will. �T ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Friday Cat Blogging - 19 August 2011
    I have some worrying news to report. Based on the picture on the left — and believe me, this is just one of many — Inkblot's senior campaign staff is beginning to wonder if we have a Newt Gingrich problem on our hands. Inkblot insists that he's "developing new approaches and new ideas" that ...
  • Chart of the Day: Unemployment in and Around Texas
    Here's another look at Rick Perry's Texas Miracle. It shows the unemployment rate in Texas and in the 11 states immediately surrounding it in the Sunbelt and the lower Midwest. Bottom line: It's doing better than four of them and worse than seven. I don't know about you, but in my church we ...
  • Quote of the Day: The Price of Progress
    From the Congressional Research Service, in a report on the cost of new EPA regulations that will shut down some of the worst polluting coal plants in the country: The costs of the rules may be large, but, in most cases, the benefits are larger. The full report is here. Brad Plumer has ...
  • Power Without Responsibility
    Last week, Joshua Tucker suggested that parliamentary systems might generally sustain higher debt ratings than countries with presidential systems. Temple University professor Christopher Wlezien responds: Madisonian presidential systems are more responsive to changing public opinion. Tha ...
  • On the Proper Display of Panic
    Ryan Avent responds to my gloomy take on the economy last night: As a writer, it's difficult to know how to approach these situations. Is it time to panic? No, it's not. Is it time to develop a serious sense of urgency about looming crises, the better to protect against expected pain and ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 266: Rebooted
    Topics: Kriss shares his “moment of stupidity” Reboots & remakes of movies Kid kills great grandmother with sword Woman killed in Aruba had an insurance policy taken out on her Allen West says he’s the Modern Day Harriet Tubman Share with your friends:
  • We Need Common Sense Laws
    It’s no secret that I’m no fan of criminals.  I watch Lockup, Jail and Locked Up Abroad just so I can laugh and make fun of all the idiots that do dumb shit that get them thrown in jail.  When the prisoners at Pelican Bay went on a hunger strike to protest “harsh conditions” in [...]
  • Welcome to the Campaign Rick Perry
    About a month ago, I closed the comments on a post I had written 2 years ago called “Why Texas Sucks“.  I was tired of getting comments from people who clearly hadn’t even read the post.  Well, last week I reopened the comments.  Why? Easy: Rick Perry. Rick Perry was the force behind most of ...
  • The “Fuck The Police” Face Tattoo
    You gotta love the stupidity of the face tattoo.  Nothing says “I’m not interested in becoming a regular and productive member of society” like it.  I mean sure, if you become a rapper, athlete or become that 1 in 10,000,000 that hits the lotto, then yeah, maybe you can afford the gratificatio ...
  • IC 265: The Strawberry Letter
    Topics: Dylan reads his very own “Strawberry Letter” How to deal with a crazy person US skier gets kicked off team for peeing on an 11 year old Michele Bachmann wins the Iowa straw poll the GOP Debate Why we need a moderate republican President Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Climate change gets nature moving
    Our warming planet is driving species away from the Equator towards cooler climes at the poles at 17.6 kilometres per decade, find Chris Thomas from the University of York, UK, and his colleagues, up to three times as fast as previously thought.
  • More turtles could become fish supper with warming
    By collecting baby green turtles and clothing them in “swimming vests”, University of Queensland's David Booth and Andrew Evans have showed that higher temperatures reduce their swimming ability, making it more likely they'll be eaten as they enter the sea.
  • Climate controls must cover gases other than CO2
    Combining controls on emissions of less well-known greenhouse gases with CO2 limits would slow warming more rapidly, say Jim Butler of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and colleagues.
  • Fire amid the ice kindles global and local worries
    After a record Arctic tundra wildfire in 2007 released as much carbon as all plants in similar landscapes absorbed in a year, University of Florida's Michelle Mack warns such fires could again become common, as they were 10,000 years ago.
  • Aerosols paint clearer warming slowdown picture
    Contributions to climate change from “stratospheric aerosols” vary more than realised, Ellsworth Dutton and his NOAA colleagues find, potentially providing a partial explanation for slower warming from the late 1990s.

e!Science News

  • Deadly medication?
    The corpus delicti is a plain flacon from among the possessions of Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who lived around 1450 B.C., which is on exhibit in the permanent collection of the Egyptian Museum of the University of Bonn. For three and a half millennia, the vessel may have held a deadly secret. This is w ...
  • The grass is always greener
    As biodiversity declines worldwide, there is concern that this will lead to declines in the services that ecosystems provide for people, such as food production, carbon storage, and water purification. But until now it has been unclear, whether just a few or in fact a large number of the species ...
  • Metformin and exercise combination less effect ...
    It's common enough for researchers to look at the impacts of prescribed drugs on the body. And if you're a diabetes researcher who believes that exercise has great benefits for those with type 2 diabetes, you're hoping your research will show that. But when Normand Boul� looked at the dual impac ...
  • Growth of cities endangers global environment
    The explosive growth of cities worldwide over the next two decades poses significant risks to people and the global environment, according to a meta-analysis published August 19 in PlosOne. read more
  • Insulation from public pressure leads to more ...
    Medical examiners and appointed coroners are less likely to under-report suicides than are elected coroners, that's according to a new study from Temple University. read more

unEarthed

  • Shell Oil Living in a Land of Make Believe
    Earthjustice calls Shellâs oil spill response plan for the Arctic âtotally inadequateâ Oil drilling platforms at Cook Inlet, Alaska. (Photo: Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) ...
  • Friday Finds: Herbicide Overkill
    Genetically modified dilemma, school energy savings Monsanto's herbicide harms crops genetically modified to resist it. Image courtesy worldwidehippies.com ...
  • Friday Finds: When The Cure Kills
    Herbicide overkill, school energy savings The herbicide gets into crops genetically modified to resist it. Image courtesy worldwidehippies.com Monsanto’s po ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: State of Failure
    Twelve states lack any regulation of coal ash toxic waste Coal ash Yes, we’re still waiting. And while we wait for comprehensive federal standards that regu ...
  • Powerful Opposition to MTR in the Heart of Coa ...
    New poll finds voters of all stripes disapprove of the destructive mining practice A major new poll released today reveals some shocking truths about public op ...

Brave New Climate

  • TCASE 14: Assessment of electricity generation ...
    In the previous TCASE post, I considered how various low-carbon energy technologies meet the following criteria: commercial readiness, scalability, dispatchability, fuel constraints, load access, storage requirements, capacity factor and emissions intensity. Here I consider the next issue: cost ...
  • TCASE 13: Assessment of suitability of technol ...
    The problem of replacing our dependence on fossil fuels is complex. In Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy (TCASE) #12, a checklist was provided to allow assessment of energy transition plans. The sort of questions listed in TCASE 12 are critical for evaluating the feasibility of future ...
  • A critique of the 2011 IPCC Report on Renewabl ...
    The following is a detailed guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). In it, he provides the most detailed critique I’ve yet seen of the recent IPCC renewable energy scenarios report. Now, I don’t agree with everything Ted says — in particular the con ...
  • Hansen warns not to drink sustainable energy K ...
    Regular readers of BNC would know that I’m hardly the only climate change researcher to recommend serious deployment of nuclear energy to displace fossil fuels. (Although I’m often portrayed as an isolated [and presumably therefore ignorant?] voice on this point). One very prominent example of a ...
  • Carbon smoke and mirrors – the reality o ...
    When it comes to energy and carbon emissions reduction, the devil is always in the detail. So too with Australia’s plans to cut its emissions by five per cent below year 2000 levels by 2020. But first, let’s look at the big picture. Why we need to do this As a scientist who researches the impact ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Racism, riots and resistance|20Aug11|Socialist ...
    Racism, riots and resistance|20Aug11|Socialist Worker ollowing the urban revolt that saw riots across Britain, Weyman Bennett spoke to Socialist Worker about the causes of the uprisings and the demonisation that followed themWhat do you say to those who argue that the riots were not about poli ...
  • British Jealous of America’s Savage Police | C ...
    British Jealous of America’s Savage Police | Common Dreams A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford In the wake of rebellions that spread to much of urban Britain, the ruling Conservative Party government is not only sounding like their racist ...
  • Occupied Palestine | فلسطين | iRemember… | الشهداء
    Occupied Palestine | فلسطين | iRemember… | الشهداء Click on the names to see the related news 153 Shaheed Samed Abdel-Muati | Killed by Israeli Occupation during assault on Gaza | Aug 19, 2011 152 Shaheed Mohammed Enaya, 22 years old.Killed by Israeli Occupation during assault on Gaza ...
  • Amy Goodman: Authorities suppress protests aga ...
    Authorities suppress protests against BART police in San Francisco | rabble.ca What does the police killing of a homeless man in San Francisco have to do with the Arab Spring uprisings from Tunisia to Syria? The attempt to suppress the protests that followed. In our digitally networked world, th ...
  • London Fallout: The Post Riots World | Raciali ...
    London Fallout: The Post Riots World | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture More police shadiness in the Mark Duggan case came to light:Responding to inquiries from the Guardian, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said in a statement: “It seems possible th ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Say it Joe. Republicans are Terrorists
    Unfortunately I have way too much credit card debt, and some credit lines too. I was terrorized by the fact that if the tea party traitors were able to force us to default on our debt, my interest rates, and payments would be going up. This could wipe me out. Yes Joe, they were terrorizing [...]
  • Entitlement Reform? Sure! Corporate Entitlements
    What pisses me off most is the nonsensical discussion of how we balance our budget, or reduce our deficit. The MSM narrative is the Democrats won’t stand for “entitlement” cuts and the Republicans won’t stand for any tax increases anywhere, anytime, for any reason. Deadlock. This whole argument ...
  • Jim DeMint – Fuck You
    Fuck you Jim. You want to slam the poor, the sick, and the elderly to “balance the budget” and won’t even consider cutting corporate welfare, or having the billionaires, or the companies they own stock in pay their fair share. I pray that there is justice in this world and some day you will be [...]
  • Van Jones = Reboot the American Dream
    “We’re not broke, we’ve been robbed. Someone has our money”
  • Exxon Gets 20 Billion a Year in Corporate Welfare
    The amount of taxes we don’t collect from Exxon plus their handouts equals around 20 billion dollars a year. And this is just one company. Spending isn’t the problem. Corporate welfare, and billionaire welfare is the problem.

Appalachia Rising

  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
    Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

  • Open Letter to Warren Buffett: Put Your Money ...
    By David DeGraw If you are truly sick and tried of the "mega-rich" being "coddled" by a "billionaire-friendly Congress," as you said in your recent NY Times editorial, why don't you back up your words with some real action and put your money where your mouth is? [Read More]
  • Download Free PDF, Kindle, Word Doc of Full Re ...
    You can now download the full version of our groundbreaking extensive new report, “Analysis of Financial Terrorism in America,” in several file formats here. [Read More]
  • EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of Financial Terrorism in ...
    By David DeGraw Groundbreaking extensive new report on the financial destruction of the United States: "Despite increasing personal financial hardship, most Americans remain unaware of the economic world war currently unfolding. An all-pervasive corporate and government propaganda campaign has e ...
  • The Covert Origins of World War III – US ...
    By Nick Turse Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the U.S. military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world’s countries. This new Pentagon power elite is waging a global war whose size and scope has never been revealed, until now. [Read More]
  • The American Rebellion Has Begun – Now I ...
    By Kevin Zeese The people of the United States are ready to revolt against the tyranny of corporate power. We are part of a rising tide of Americans who have had enough. [Read More]

+972

  • IDF Spokesperson: Israel did not claim that PR ...
    Yesterday morning, I wrote a piece questioning the journalistic ethics of some in the Israeli media and, to a larger extent, the entire international press corps over of their rush to adopt the Israeli government claim that Gaza-based terror organization Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) were ...
  • Arab citizens of Israel increasingly supportiv ...
    A growing wave of opposition to high living costs begins to draw support from Arab citizens of Israel By Michal Levertov The Druze village of Hurfeish seems as pastoral as the rural north of Israel can be. Sitting on the north-western slopes of the Meron Mountains amid a national park, the cent ...
  • The threat some see in imagining a different c ...
    A recent Tablet piece described J14 protesters as “entitled yuppies” who would be unwilling to support more pressing social calls or defend their country at wartime. Yet by urging Israelis to go back to debating security concerns or the Palestinian delegations bid for statehood at the UN, the au ...
  • Who is behind the Eilat terror attack?
    The horrific terror attacks in Oslo some weeks ago provided a valuable lesson for journalists. Almost as soon as the attacks took place, journalists throughout the world rushed to place blame on Al Qaeda. Jennifer Rubin, a conservative blogger at the Washington Post known for her extreme views o ...
  • J14 to hold weekly mass rallies in defiance of ...
    Despite calls  to cancel the weekly social justice rallies, the J14 protests will go on as planned – in the form of mass memorial processions for victims of today’s attacks. Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israel already responded to the attacks with a Rafah air raid that killed six. The J14 mov ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Large scale environmental water release for M ...
    More than 150 gigalitres of water recovered for the environment will be delivered to hundreds of wetlands along the Murrumbidgee River, benefiting the Murray system as far downstream as South Australia's Lower Lakes and Coorong.
  • Deadline extended for West Kimberley National ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the deadline for a decision about National Heritage listing of the west Kimberley until the end of August to allow further community consultation and further consideration of whether the proposed heritage values are sufficiently comprehensive.
  • Call for nominations for Environmentalist of ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has called for nominations for the 2011 Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award and the Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award.
  • Water reuse scheme benefits Hawkesbury River
    Construction of a treated wastewater re-use scheme at South Windsor as part of an Australian Government funded project to improve the health of the Hawkesbury River has progressed significantly.
  • World Environment Day delivers $86 million fo ...
    Federal Water and Environment Minister Tony Burke and South Australia’s Water and Environment Minister Paul Caica today outlined $86.7 million for a new project to improve the river’s health and resilience of its wetlands and floodplains from the Victorian border to Wellington.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Citizenship – “Stuck in the Middle ...
    I don’t know if you’ve noticed it is bookstores, but there has been an increasing amount of literature clearly pessimistic on the future of democracy itself. We’ve gone from believing we could “make the world safe for democracy” to now actually questioning if it has any validity at home. That’s ...
  • Citizenship – “True Politics”
    Like it or not, so much of what we do can be called “politics.” Shawn is a friend of mine in London who tweets relentlessly on the unwillingness of various levels of government to solve common problems. He networks with others, puts forward ideas and concepts, and uses his skills in the digital ...
  • Citizenship – “Politics By Another ...
    I haven’t been under any delusion about the possibility of citizens coming together on a national scope to take their country back. Our divisions, even the good ones, are so pronounced, and the challenge of starting a national conversation so confronted with obstacles, that the possibilities are ...
  • Citizenship – “A Purpose Held in C ...
    We have all come from a rich heritage. Our democratic ideals descend from the ancient Greeks by way of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And no matter how much this process has been defiled and corrupted over the centuries, it still constitutes the only real political morality currently in ...
  • Citizenship – “The Problem of Diff ...
    So here’s where today’s average Canadian citizen is situated. To one degree or another elites have always managed this country, but in recent years their ideological divisions and partisan animosities have begun to degrade both the effectiveness and belief in democracy itself. Since the First Wo ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • What do people think about synthetic biology?
    The fifth Hart survey of what American adults think about emerging technologies like nanotechnology and synthetic biology was released today by my former colleagues at the Woodrow Wilson Center – the first since I left the group earlier this year. Each summer for the past five years, the Wilson ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Well I guess it had to happen one day – after hanging out in QUACs (QUasi Academic Concerns) for more years than I care to remember, I am finally a bona fide academic!  Last week I shed my visiting professor status at the University of Michigan and took up the mantles of Professor of Environmen ...
  • Could precisely engineered nanoparticles provi ...
    This is an extremely quick and dirty blog post, as I really need to be somewhere else.  But while traveling to the World Economic Forum meeting in China today, I came across a new paper that piques my interest. The paper is by David Keith at the University of Calgary (published in the Proceeding ...
  • Ten weeks to save the world: Nature does the S ...
    You’ve heard the rumors and read the hype – but what really goes on at the Singularity University, based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley?  Nature’s Nicola Jones recently went along to take a look, and her report has just been posted – it’s well worth reading. The Singularity Universit ...
  • Prepare and Inspire: The President’s Council o ...
    The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology – PCAST – has just released a new report on US K-12 education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (the STEM subjects).  The report provides, in the words of the Presidentâs Science Advisor John Holdren, “a strategy fo ...

Reader Supported News

  • Sheriff Joe Is Keeping the Birther Dream Alive
    Neumann writes: "While we're on the subject of Arizona and undesirables, wouldn't it be cheaper to just build a border fence around Maricopa County?" The Tea Party's very own Sheriff Joe Arpaio. (photo: Joshua Lott/Getty Images) {rsnslider}{wrap height="1800" scrolling="no"}http://gawk ...
  • Sheriff Joe Is Keeping the Birther Dream Alive
    Neumann writes: "While we're on the subject of Arizona and undesirables, wouldn't it be cheaper to just build a border fence around Maricopa County?" The Tea Party's very own Sheriff Joe Arpaio. (photo: Joshua Lott/Getty Images) {rsnslider}{wrap height="1800" scrolling="no"}http://gawk ...
  • FOCUS: Does Rick Perry Have a Porn Problem?
    Justin Elliott reports: "Here's an interesting tidbit from Rick Perry's past to keep an eye on. In the mid-1990s, the presidential candidate owned stock in a video rental store chain whose hardcore porn offerings drew the ire of conservative groups. Ironically, it was the social conservative cru ...
  • FOCUS: Does Rick Perry Have a Porn Problem?
    Justin Elliott reports: "Here's an interesting tidbit from Rick Perry's past to keep an eye on. In the mid-1990s, the presidential candidate owned stock in a video rental store chain whose hardcore porn offerings drew the ire of conservative groups. Ironically, it was the social conservative cru ...
  • Michele Bachmann: 'Beware of the Soviet Union'
    Marie Diamond reports: "On the right-wing Christian attorney Jay Sekulow's radio show, the congresswoman evinced a far more disturbing lack of basic knowledge about world history. Specifically, Bachmann said the American people are worried about 'the rise of the Soviet Union.' Apparently no one' ...

War Resisters League

  • Portand: Veteran Organizing and Economic Justice
    This past week, WRL organizers Kimber Heinz and Ali Issa attended the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace 2011 conventions. In addition to attending workshops on the GI resistance movement now, as well as building relationships with … Continue reading →
  • Digging into the Operation Recovery Campaign
    Check out this post from Operation Recovery organizers who have been working hard down at Ft. Hood in Texas. To get plugged in to working with the current GI Coffeehouses, including Under the Hood Cafe near Ft. Hood, contact WRL Organizing Coordinator, Kimber Heinz at kimber@warresisters.org. By ...
  • “The Flavor of Freedom” . . . and ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a book review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in Manhattan.] Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love and War by Annia Cieza ...
  • Wisconsin Updates!
    Since Joy First’s article on the occupation of the Wisconsin capitol in the spring issue of WIN magazine, organizers have continued to coordinate actions and protests, keeping the public focused on this issue. Here are some updates: Around the grounds of the capitol on June 4, protesters set up ...
  • Know Before You Go, ‘Cause There’s ...
    At the National Network Opposed to the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) gathering in 2009, youth staffers of the Ya-Ya (Youth Activists-Youth Allies) Network, a youth-led organization based in NYC that focuses on counter-recruitment and other kinds of social justice work, met with reps from WRL N ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Sweating the small stuff: engineered nano-mate ...
    Many public health hazards are too small to see.  This is especially true of engineered nano-materials, or ENMs.  As their name implies, these materials are small—no more than a few hundred nanometers in diameter.  (For perspective, one nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or one human hair sp ...
  • Dam Water in China: Water Losers
    Along the Keriya River, one of twelve waterways in western China where dam construction began last year, the mood is weary and palpably tense. For those on the bank, what the dams will bring remains uncertain; what they have taken away is already great. New York Times journalist Jim Yardley writ ...
  • Dam Water in China: Is It Worth It?
    In western China, massive dams are being built along 12 waterways. The dams are supposed to aid economic development—but experts are saying it’s likely that the dams will do more harm than good. When China pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40-45 percent of the 2005 levels at the Cop ...
  • Organic Poultry Farms Brew Profoundly Fewer An ...
    Amy Sapkota's research confirms what has long been suspected but never documented in the U.S.—poultry growers who convert to an organic system can reduce the incidence of antibiotic resistance and make an important contribution to safeguarding the health of the public.
  • James Beard Leadership Awards: Recognizing Foo ...
    Today the James Beard Foundation named the 10 recipients of its inaugural Leadership Awards, expanding the Foundation’s focus to include game-changing pioneers who have inspired positive action to improve our country’s food system.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2 ...
    ==== NATO Eyes Early Missile Interception Capability 30-Story, 50,000-Ton U.S. Interceptor Missile Radar Deployed After Repairs Joint Strike Fighters: Australia’s Largest Military Build-Up Since WW II Most Combat Deaths Since Second World War: Poland Loses 28th Soldier In NATO’s Asian War NATO’s ...
  • Paul Éluard: True law of men despite the miser ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Paul Éluard It’s The Sweet Law Of Men Translated by A. S. Kline It’s the sweet law of men They make wine from grapes They make fire from coal They make men from kisses It’s the true law of men Kept intact despite the misery and war [...]
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 1 ...
    ==== FAIR: NATO Air Strikes, Libyan Deaths And Media Silence U.S. NATO Quad Partners Demand Regime Change In Syria Israeli Missile Chief Briefs U.S. Space/Interceptor Missile Conference War Training In Eastern Europe: U.S. National Guard “Partners” With 65 Nations U.S. Army Plans $1 Billion 100 ...
  • Yannis Ritsos: Peace
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Yannis Ritsos Peace Translated by Kimon Friar The dreams of a child are peace The dreams of a mother are peace The words of love under the trees are peace The father who returns at dusk with a wide smile in his eyes with a basket in [...]
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 1 ...
    ==== U.S. Deploys Two More Predator Drones For NATO’s Libyan War NATO To Test European Interceptor Missile Initial Operational Capability 246,000 U.S. Troops Abroad: “Space Has Revolutionized How We Fight” 1.2 Million Combat Hours: Robots To Give Pentagon Casualty-Free Wars U.S. Navy On Arctic: ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • MOODY’S ANALYST BREAKS SILENCE: Says Rat ...
    Business Insider August 19, 2011 A former senior analyst at Moody’s has gone public with his story of how one of the country’s most important rating agencies is corrupted to the core. The analyst, William J. Harrington, worked for Moody’s for 11 years, from 1999 until his resignation last year. ...
  • American Tiffs With Israel Are Purely Superficial
    By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie And Intel Hub Contributing Writer August 19, 2011 Earlier this month, the United States was expressing “concern” over renewed Israeli housing construction in the West Bank including the approval of 1,600 settler homes. To those of us who are aware of the ...
  • Oil Rising Again from Macondo Well: BP Hires F ...
    The Stuart Smith Blog August 19, 2011 – originally published August 17th Oil from the Macondo Well site is fouling the Gulf anew â and BP is scrambling to contain both the crude and the PR nightmare that waits in the wings. Reliable sources tell us that BP has hired 40 boats from Venice to [...]
  • American Government Mafia Actively Targets The ...
    The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert – Contributing Writer August 19, 2011 Throughout history, the Mafia has run extortion schemes known as âprotection rackets.â These scams revolve around the Mafia coercing an individual or business to fork over money in exchange for protection services. When the v ...
  • Economic Prism – When Hell Froze Over
    By MN Gordon Economic Prism August 19, 2011 “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” – William Shakespeare, Macbeth Rick Perry On The Fed On Tuesday, presidential candidate Rick Perry said further money printing between now and the election by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben ...

FRS

  • “The United States Is Not Qualified to I ...
    Al-Jazeera Interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad Jadaliyya on Aug 13, 2011 This interview was conducted with Jadaliyya Co-Editor, Bassam Haddad, on the role of the United States in Syria. After five months of continuous suppression of protests in Syria, resulting in nearly 2000 deaths ...
  • LONDON AFIRE, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
    10 August 2011 After decades of political betrayal by the Labour Party, and the blatant attacks on the working class by the Tories (the British Conservative Party), there has emerged an angry and bitter class that has rocked what was once the center of a global empire: London. Fires have erupted ...
  • Maintaining the de-humanized and beastly myth ...
    August 18, 2011 Facebook Caves to the Prison-Industrial-Complex By KENNETH E. HARTMAN In a decision setting back prisoners’ rights and helping to advance the interests of prison bureaucrats and their guard union allies, Facebook announced plans to work with the California Department of Correctio ...
  • India: The state is an organized crime– ...
    COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST), CENTRAL COMMITTEE–Press Release (13 April, 2011)   Intensify Mass Struggles To Put An End To Institutionalized Corruption! In recent times, corruption has once again come to the forefront as a main issue with the exposure of massive scams like 2G spectrum, Comm ...
  • George Jackson video to commemorate 40 years s ...
    [As we approach the 40th anniversary of the execution of Black Panther leader George Jackson on August 21, 1971, this video produced from the Freedom Archives of San Francisco provides valuable memories of that historic time, which continue to resonate in the struggles today.  We urge our reader ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Demand for Return of Trade Not Aid Property
    Let is be known that the pictured 18-ton truck has been fraudulently registered in the name of Catherine Sarah Myles and taken to a destination unknown and against my expressed will. The registration of the vehicle in Catherine Myles name has been verified by the Metropolitan and Swansea Police ...
  • Announcing the Gaza to Ireland Youth Exchange
    am beyond excited to announce that we are formalising a partnership that will ensure one of my fondest goals shall be achieved, that of a youth exchange between the children of Gaza and those of Europe. I am even more excited because we are focusing on the youth of Gaza as well as Belfast and F ...
  • One for the Women
    It is said that behind every great man you will find a great woman. I do not look at myself as a great man per se, but I do see the greatness of the women in my life, and if I do indeed succeed in my ultimate goals, you can thank these women every bit as much as me. They have played the essent ...
  • Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine, Trade Not Aid
    Our Mission Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade. We do not seek simply to alleviate the suffering of the people in Gaza. Our ultimate objective i ...
  • Slander vs. Sanity
    Lesson number one, the actual agents who direct slander campaigns, those working for MI6, CIA, Mossad and other so-called “intelligence” agencies, they and their tactics are rendered useless without the presence of the most important element for successful subversion, and that would be… the idio ...

StillSmallVoice

  • A hiking we will go -- this time for real
    I am taking off for a few days, into the wilds of New Hampshire, to take a hike that was blissfully interrupted by the June birth of my twin grandbabies. I suggest you all head outdoors, take a deep breath, and walk up a hill. Check back here on Wednesday and we can share our stories.
  • She won't photograph ugly people
    Jennifer McKendrick, a self-employed photographer, has taken a stand against bullies. She won't photograph them. I don't know. I kind of like this. Flickr photo
  • Living apart in Crown Heights
    You can read more here.
  • Turns out, you CAN rip a Bible in Poland
    A Polish court just ruled that a death metal band member's ripping a Bible onstage is an act of artistic expression, not something punishable by law. And yes, that's the band in question, Behemoth, singing "Conquer All." I really don't think he should be giving that woman any more to drink abo ...
  • Children in the masjid
    Check out what Rabia Chaudry (who just left us to move to Maryland and yes, we're still sad) has written for GrowMamaGrow. I love this part, especially: I know it is sometimes difficult to tolerate disruptions in anything, whether prayer or a lecture, by children (mostly when they belong to o ...

Associated Content

  • Anderson Cooper Cracks Up
    Anderson Cooper showed his 12-year-old boy self when he succumbed into a fit of giggles over potty talk while reporting on actor Gerard Depardieu. He is certainly not the first to lose it while the cameras are rolling.Contributor: Sylvie Branch Published: Aug 18, 2011
  • Christine O'Donnell Bolts from Q&A
    While making the rounds on a book tour, Christine O'Donnell fled the set of 'Piers Morgan Tonight' Wednesday evening after some tough questioning. Overall, it was more of the same from a former candidate who has never been viable.Contributor: Adam Justice Published: Aug 18, 2011
  • Burt Reynolds Enters Foreclosure; Poor Economy ...
    Hollywood stars can sometimes be forced into a reality check when they don't learn to manage their money. Burt Reynolds is about to lose his Florida home to foreclosure as he struggles within our current economy.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Aug 18, 2011
  • Perry Stumbles in First Days of Campaign
    Someone should remind Texas Gov. Rick Perry that he's out of high school and running for president of the United States. Since announcing his run for the Republican nomination, Perry has worn his Texas bravado on his sleeve.Contributor: Giuseppe Giannet Published: Aug 18, 2011
  • Unusual Capybara Not Native to California Waters
    Capybaras are the world's largest rodents.Contributor: William Browning Published: Aug 17, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • This Week in the Future, August 15-19, 2011
    This week's Baarbarian illustration shows a three-way race (...to the future!). A robot named Mabel races to prove her sporting abilities. An electric car races to prove its endurance. And an alligator races because everyone else is trying to harvest its fat. Want to win this pretty Baarbarian ...
  • Dogs Can Reliably Sniff Out Lung Cancer, Germa ...
    A dog can accurately detect the early presence of lung cancer by sniffing patients’ breath, doctors in Germany say. While researchers have known for some time that dogs can sniff out the telltale signs of other forms of cancer, this is the first study that proves dogs can reliably smell this pa ...
  • Endangered Wild Horses Get a Health Check
    In June, veterinarians at the Prague Zoo administered a check-up to Cassovia, a 550-pound female Przewalski’s horse, before moving her to a new home on the Asian steppe. Natives of Mongolia, China, Russia and Eastern Europe, Przewalski’s (pronounced “shah-val-ski”) horses are the last wild hors ...
  • Genome of Marijuana Sequenced and Published
    A Netherlands-based company called Medicinal Genomics has just announced the successful genetic sequencing of Cannabis sativa, the highly regulated annual plant that has been widely consumed for centuries as an intoxicant and a medicine. The plant, known in the vernacular as grass, tea, or moos ...
  • You Call This College? The 25 Coolest College ...
    Forget algebra homework: try building spaceships, operating a nuclear reactor or listening in to distant galaxies Forget stuffy lecture halls and humming fluorescent lights. Build robots instead! Or run a nuclear reactor. To rank the coolest labs in the country, we factored in groundbreaking re ...

Veterans Today

  • 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?

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • July global temperatures show further rise
    The latest global temperature for July, according to the UAH satellite measure, has shown a further rise from June, and now stands at 0.372C above the running 30 year mean. Adjusted to the more standard time period used by the Met Office and the WMO, the anomaly is now approximately +0.625C ...
  • August warmth to be short lived
    The warm air that has greeted the start of August looks set to a blip in what is certain to be described come September as yet another disappointing, unsettled summer. Highest temperatures will be in the Southeast of the UK, where 30C (86F) is likely in the next 24 hours, but the warmth will be ...
  • Arctic Ice extent heads for satellite record low
    Exceptionally warm weather across the North Pole during the first half of July, with temperatures up to 8C above normal, could lead to record low ice extent this year according to experts, based on data collected by satellites which started in 1979. Arctic sea ice is already lower than at the ...
  • My experience with solar panels
    I thought I might share a recent personal experience of mine. Having considered the idea of generating my own electricity by way of solar photo voltaic panels on my roof for the last few months, I have finally taken the plunge. My house is directly south facing, so the roof is in a prime posi ...
  • Rest of July heading for a washout
    Most parts of the country have enjoyed a fine summers day today, with plenty of sunshine. But although it's the last thing the UK tourist industry wants to hear, the message is enjoy it while it lasts. By the weekend low pressure will again be dominating our weather as the jet stream moves fu ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • HaHaHa: Mathlexic Biden in China, Geithner Wannabe
    On 1 June 2009, Tim Geithner famously elicited peals of laughter from Peking University students while blabbering about China's US Treasuries being a safe investment. As an aside, PKU students are sharp; after all, we at IDEAS have an LSE-PKU double degree programme with them. But anyway, a trip ...
  • Jeff Sachs on Fixing What Ails the West
    Never let it be said that Jeff Sachs has modest ambitions. After all, he's the guy who predicted that The End of Poverty was not only possible but attainable in the not-so-distant future. While those of us who lack such massive self-confidence and clairvoyance are still twiddling our thumbs, res ...
  • Now for a Real Crisis: No Football in Italy, S ...
    You are most probably aware of the bloodbath occurring in markets worldwide in anticipation of another global slowdown, with developed countries leading the way down into the abyss. I just wanted to point out that Europe's misery is being compounded by those archetypal caviar socialists, footba ...
  • Hard Up Manchester United's Singapore Salvation
    It's not me who came up with the stereotype of the Ugly American: fat, loud, thick and full of debt--they themselves did. Yet few raise others' ire more than the reviled Glazer clan, rapacious Ameriscum owners of Manchester United. These modern Yanquis par excellence are saddling this proud foot ...
  • Tobin Tax, Merkel & Sarkozy's Euro "Saviour"?
    At various times in the aftermath of the US-engineered global financial crisis, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have both called for a Tobin Tax to be applied to financial transactions. By imposing a small tax on financial transactions such as foreign exchange trading, seriously large revenues ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Bad News
    The bad news about the economy just keeps rolling in.  If this is an economic recovery, what in the world is the next "recession" going to look like?  Today there was another huge truckload of bad economic news.  The stock market had another 400 point "correction", applications ...
  • 20 Signs That The World Could Be Headed For An ...
    If you thought that 2011 was a bad year for the world economy, just wait until you see what happens in 2012.  The U.S. and Europe are both dealing with unprecedented debt problems, the financial markets are flailing about wildly, austerity programs are being implemented all over ...
  • 16 Statistics Which Prove That The American Pe ...
    According to a whole host of polls and surveys, the American people are incredibly angry right now.  The American people are hopping mad at the government, the American people are hopping mad about the economy and the American people are hopping mad about the direction that this ...
  • 10 Signs That Economic Riots And Civil Unrest ...
    You should let the video footage of the wild violence that just took place in London burn into your memory because the same things are going to be happening all over the United States as the economy continues to crumble.  We have raised an entire generation of young people with ...
  • The Stock Market Crash Of 2011?
    How far does the stock market have to go down before we officially call it a crash?  The Dow is now down more than 2,000 points in just the last 14 trading days.  So can we now call this "The Stock Market Crash of 2011"?  Today the Dow was down 519 points.  Yesterday, an announc ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Stocks Fall Anew on Debt Worries and the Economy
    After just a few days of calm, stock markets heaved again on Thursday, sending major American indexes down as much as 5 percent on persistent worries about the economy and Europe’s debt problems. The turmoil of last week returned with a vengeance as investors dumped stocks of companies that woul ...
  • Darkest planet found: Coal-Black
    Scientists have discovered a Jupiter-size gas giant planet in our galaxy, dubbed Coal-Black planet, as the darkest world in the universe, which reflects almost no light. Researchers indicate that the inky planet absorbs 99% of the light its star sends its way and reflects only one percent of the ...
  • South Africa: Face-off at Free State University
    Chaos broke out at the University of the Free State’s Bloemfontein campus on Wednesday, after about 800 people – believed to be mostly ANCYL members – stormed the main building. The group, who had been bussed in to the campus, protested against the fact that no political activities by outside gr ...
  • Apple sued by 27,000 South Korean iPhone owner ...
    A group of nearly 27,000 South Koreans is suing Apple for £15.8 million over what they claim are privacy violations from the collection of iPhone user location information. Each person in the suit is seeking one million won (£568) in damages, Kim Hyeong-seok, one of their attorneys, announced to ...
  • Obama bus tour provides glimpse of reelection ...
    During a three-day tour by bus of the Midwest, President Obama provided an early snapshot of his reelection strategy, one in which he’ll try to convince voters that his approach offers the rational path and seek to define Republicans as so unwilling to compromise they would risk financial chaos. ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Australian Clergy Sex Abuse Victims Deserve Ju ...
    The Catholic Church does not commit sex crimes against children and the vulnerable. It does, however, ensure that known child sex predators are protected by their status as representatives of the Catholic Church, facilitated to continue offending, and facilitated in privileged and unquestioned a ...
  • Protect the sanctity of the confessional to co ...
    Responses to the Cloyne report have included calls to break that ultimate coverup con trick “the sanctity of the confessional”. That really got the paedophile protectors squealing in horror. Imagine not getting special treatment and not being allowed to commit whatever crimes they like without c ...
  • Imagine How It Feels
    How many people talk about the issue of Catholic Church enabled child sexual abuse without a thought for how it feels to be the victim of such abuse? This issue is, after all, about children. Yesterday’s children whose lives were irreparably damaged by their abuse and who are still being re-abus ...
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Catholic Church Funded St ...
    I used to think the John Jay College  of Criminal Justice was a well meaning independent organisation exploited by the Catholic Church into giving credence to Catholic lies, distractions and excuses on the issue of endemic child rape within its ranks. But with the release of the latest dangerous ...
  • Vatican Guidelines Just Another PR Stunt
    This weeks’ latest Vatican guidelines on child sexual abuse continue efforts over recent years to appear as if things have changed, while actually doing everything possible to avoid being forced to take effective action. The Vatican love to pretend they are doing the right thing in dealing wi ...

WL Central

  • 2011-08-20 The Pope's visit to #Madrid ends up ...
    TweetWhile Madrid is traditionally empty in August, the city is now literally packed with Catholic pilgrims of all ages, who have come from all around the world to attend the World Youth Days, presided by the Pope Benedict XVI. Authorities estimate that around 1.4 million people have flooded the ...
  • 2011-08-19 Daniel Domscheit-Berg and the Wikil ...
    TweetToday, Daniel Domscheit-Berg confirmed to Heise that he was planning to destroy the Wikileaks documents he took with him when he left the organization. As we have reported, he had recently publicly denied that he took these documents. According to Domscheit-Berg, Wikileaks did not react fas ...
  • 2011-08-19 Documentary about the #15M movement ...
    Tweet #SpanishRevolution, documentary about the indignant 15M movement from Lainformacioncom on Vimeo.
  • 2011-08-19 The popular marches from #Madrid on ...
    TweetThe Popular March to Brussels that left the Puerta del Sol of Madrid on July 26th, is now at the Pyrenees. Until today, over one hundred people have decided to go to Brussels. The Marchers are, among other places, from Italy, Greece, Germany, France, Russia, USA, Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Tu ...
  • 2011-08-19 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 09:05 PM A cable obtained by Noticias Sin, WikiLeaks’ media partner in t ...

U N News

  • After Brazilian judge is slain, UN human right ...
    A United Nations human rights expert today called on Brazilian authorities to take immediate steps to better protect the country's judges, magistrates, prosecutors, public defenders and other lawyers in the wake of the recent assassination of a high-profile judge.
  • Global economy on the agenda during General As ...
    Economic governance, globalization and the role of the United Nations topped the agenda during a one-day visit today to Argentina by General Assembly President Joseph Deiss.
  • UN-backed scheme enables Colombian indigenous ...
    Sixty indigenous families in Colombia are selling handicrafts in the capital, Bogotá, to cater to an influx of fans attending the ongoing youth soccer World Cup tournament as part of a United Nations-backed initiative to alleviate poverty.
  • Ban welcomes measures announced by US to help ...
    The steps recently announced by President Barack Obama of the United States to strengthen his Government's capacity to help prevent genocide and other mass atrocities are "promising" initiatives, said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
  • Murder of Dominican journalist sparks condemna ...
    The United Nations agency tasked with promoting press freedom today deplored the slaying of a print and television journalist in the Dominican Republic who had spoken out against drug trafficking.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
  • Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
    Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
  • HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
    You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

  • The Keystone XL Pipeline: buried by bad decisions
    Today’s guest post is from Brian L. Horejsi, one of Canada’s toughest conservationists. As early as fall 2011 President Obama and administration insiders will approve the construction of the massive Keystone XL pipeline. With the stroke of that pen the gates will open to the daily flow of about ...
  • Congratulations to The Center for Biological D ...
    What terrific news from our friends at the Center! We appreciate their efforts and hope you do, too. Please show them your support with your thanks and a donation.   Check out the Center’s Historic Victory website for more on this breaking agreement.     I’ve been waiting years to write these w ...
  • Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
    Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it.  As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
    Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
    Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tarpley

  • CRISI: RITORNA LA GRANDE DEPRESSIONE
    di Stefania Limiti – 15 Agosto 2011 Secondo Tarpley, l’agenzia di rating S&P’s potrebbe prendere di mira la Francia. La crisi attuale presenta molte affinità con quella del ’29: occorre reagire pianificando una strategia per la ripresa. E intanto in alcuni Paesi Ue, compresa l’Italia, sono viet ...
  • US State Department Gives Benghazi Rebels the ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 9, 2011 [download video] [download audio]
  • United States Under Attack by International Zo ...
    Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show Infowars August 8, 2011 [download audio]
  • Syrian Army Quells Rebellion of CIA-Backed Mos ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Russia Today August 4, 2011 [download file]
  • Français
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Srpski Svenska Türk Zhongwén   Operation sous Fausse Bandière en Norvège: Attention aux Taupes, aux Techniciens, et aux Exercices Policiers, et seulement après au Lampiste ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Today in the News:
    News Today (August 19, 2011) Wells and other banks have started to charge fees for using their debit cards and are stripping reward points to bring in more revenues. (Now, using your own money costs you money. How about using cash instead?) U.S. Banks Charge Debit Card Fees Bank of America plans ...
  • Food and Water Survival Storage
    Once you have acquired extra survival preparedness items, where is a good location to keep these things? More specifically, with regards to food and water, what are some ideas for storage locations? Food Items Storage Locations When it comes to food storage, it is very important to find location ...
  • Why the Spreading Global Social Unrest and Chaos?
    Social unrest is spreading across the world, and the causes of this chaos do not seem to be temporary or short-lived, at least in Europe and the US. What are some of the reasons for today’s social unrest? In no particular order,   Eroding trust and faith in governments Deteriorating trustworthin ...
  • Today in the News:
    News Today (August 18, 2011) New survey reveals much higher employee contributions to health insurance in 2012. In today’s economic times, companies continue to find ways to pass on increased costs. Employees Healthcare Costs to Increase? Last week, the Fed surprised markets with an unprecedente ...
  • Today in the News:
    News Today (August 17, 2011) Survivalism doesn’t mean just stocking up on supplies…get physically fit! Top 10 Tricks to be More Active Something to lighten the situation, my favorite is # 8 (Ken’s is # 3) Cute Patriotic Pets A 67 year old man loses his way and survives two weeks in wilderness. E ...

Fast Company

  • An Antarctica Floe Chart Worthy Of Your Icy Stares
    Using new satellite data, scientists have plotted exactly how the ice moves around the South Pole, shining new light on exactly how much water is going to flood into the ocean as the ice melts.Antarctica is not just a solid block of ice. It's a living, moving area, where floes slide against each ...
  • The Search For What Clicks In The New Digital ...
    Online dating startups are using quirky concepts, and emerging technology--from facial recognition to geolocation--to challenge traditional predecessors like Match.com and eHarmony. Where’s the love and where’s the money? Like so much online content, love don't cost a thing. But it can earn the ...
  • Kill Your Router: The Internet Can Come From A ...
    Everyone needs the Internet, and as our data requirements explode, it's putting a strain on broadband networks. Luckily, scientists can make wireless signals come from your TV and your lightbulb.Internet traffic is booming, and something has got to give. Cisco reported this June that global IP ...
  • This Week In Bots: The Running, Climbing, Flyi ...
    Mabel Runs Fast, Really FastThe University of Michigan's MABEL robot is a runner, and has been for a while: Now she (he? it?) runs faster than ever, possibly as fast as a robot's run on two human-ish legs ever. Though its top speed of 6.8 miles an hour isn't up to Usain Bolt levels, it's an impr ...
  • German Court Says Facebook Like Is Ilegal, U.K ...
    This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.German Court Declares Facebook's Like Button Is Illegal. A court in Germany just decided that Facebook's "Like" button violates the nation's locked-down privacy laws. The issue is that the sequence of "likes" lets ...

Jadaliyya

  • العدالة الثورية
    "إ٠اÙÙضاة ÙÙدرÙÙ ÙÙ ÙاسÙادة اÙرئÙس ح٠اÙتÙدÙر اÙ٠م٠أعاد Ø¥Ù٠مصر مجÙس ÙضائÙا اÙأعÙÙ Ù٠مستÙÙ ÙÙاÙت٠ÙاÙ٠أضÙت Ø¥ÙÙ Ùذا اÙاÙجاز ÙضÙا Ùا ÙÙس٠حسم اÙطبÙعة اÙÙاÙÙÙÙØ© ÙÙÙÙابة اÙعامة Ùشعبة أصÙÙØ© م٠شعب ...
  • محمد محسن، شهيد غير عادي
    �عر� ع� ا�ش��د محمد محس� أ�� �ا� شابا� م�عما ب���م ا�عدا�ة �ا��رامة� ��اض� مع ر�ا�� م� أج� تح��� ح�اة �ر�مة �� ب�د� ��تط�ع إ�� حر�ة �م �ع�د�ا أب�اء ج���. �ذ�� شار� محمد �� ث�رة ��ا�ر م�ذ بدا�ت�ا� �أتت مثابرت� �إخ�اص�� �� �ر�ا��� �ت�جح �ذ� ا�ث�رة ا�مج�دة� ا�ت� سرعا� ما أ��مت ا�عا�م ��� بع ...
  • The Arab-UK Spring
    Western nations have long snickered at the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East and North Africa, and have offered ad nauseum free advice to Arab leaders on how to conduct their own affairs. But on occasion tables are turned and the special wisdom and expertise of these oft-derid ...
  • The Makers of the Revolution
    All it takes is three or four fida�iyyin [persons ready to sacrifice for a cause] in every mosque chanting slogans after the end of prayer. It also depends on many factors. For example, in the coastal city of Banyas, the residents are all very familiar with each other, and it is easy to ...
  • حول النفي والخوف: فكرتان على ضوء الاحتجاج الإس ...
    ��د ط�رحت م�ا�� عد�دة ��ما �تع�� با�احتجاجات ا�اجتماع�ة-ا�ا�تصاد�ة �� إسرائ�� ��ا�ش معظم�ا مضم�� �ذا ا�احتجاج� أ� ما ��� م� شعارات �مطا�ب �ج�ات مشار�ة� �ت�ظ�ر آراء �ث�رة ت�ا��ض �ذ� ا�مطا�ب ��ذا ا�احتجاج مع �ضا��ا �أب�اء ا�شعب ا���سط��� م� خ�ا� مضم�� ا�احتجاج� شعارات� �ا�مشار��� ���. �ب� ...

mediagazer

  • Tabloid's Pursuit of Missing Girl Led to Its O ...
    Wall Street Journal: Tabloid's Pursuit of Missing Girl Led to Its Own Demise  —  LONDON—In April 2002, News Corp.'s News of the World tabloid scrambled at least eight reporters and photographers to an Epson ink-cartridge factory in Britain's Midlands region, hoping to land a big scoop: Missing ...
  • Advice for this year's incoming journalism stu ...
    Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review: Advice for this year's incoming journalism students  —  By Robert Niles: I'm making this an August tradition, so here is my advice for this year's incoming journalism students.  These tips are given to encourage new students to look beyond the typical j- ...
  • Reuters' Anthony De Rosa: I watch TweetDeck so ...
    Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: Reuters' Anthony De Rosa: I watch TweetDeck so you don't have to  —  In a video on Reuters.com, social media editor Anthony De Rosa talks about how he uses Twitter to report news from faraway places.  He searches for the best sources at the scene and uses Twitter lists ...
  • Handing comments over to Facebook is a double- ...
    Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Handing comments over to Facebook is a double-edged sword  —  When Facebook launched the ability to embed Facebook comments on third-party websites, a lot of publishers saw it as a life-saver: not only would it improve traffic by exposing their content to others on the ...
  • Print vs. Online: How the print edition of the ...
    Jack Shafer / Slate: Print vs. Online: How the print edition of the New York Times trumps the online version.  —  A little over five years ago, I announced that I was canceling my subscription to the New York Times.  My cancellation wasn't in protest of Times coverage of the Middle East, ethnic ...

Chemtrail News

  • Chemtrails Over Duncan, B.C. « British ...
    British Columbia Chemtrail Alert Monitoring & tracking the criminal toxic chemical spraying of Beautiful British Columbia's land and people ...https://britishcolumbiachemtrailalert.wordpress.com/.../chemtra...
  • Chemtrail Hypothetical???
    Discussion about Chemtrail Hypothetical??? at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1594327/pg1
  • This months Chemtrail pics uk : Politic ...
    Post subject: This months Chemtrail pics uk. Post Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:44 pm .... Chemtrail Spraying? (PICS outside my house this morning) ...www.disclose.tv/.../this-months-chemtrail-pics-uk-t57242.html
  • SEVERAL LIFE FORMS
    This is the chem trail. Small cylinders can also do this, but it looks so obvious that it is seldom done, except to cloak a small traveling cylinder or two ...
  • Weird chemtrail experience with friend ...
    I have also been keeping a record of when the chemtrail spraying is at its peak and I definitely feel it is connected to the rain What I am seeing in my ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread741641/pg1

World News - Top Stories

  • Thousands support Hazare with candle ligh ...
    Surat/Ralegaon Siddi/Agra, Aug.20 (ANI): Thousands of people across India held peaceful candle-light vigils and torch rallies onFriday to support veteran anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare after he walked out of New Delhi's Tihar Jail to carry his fast in public for the enactment of a strong J ...
  • Foreigners join Hazare's nation-wide anti ...
    Varanasi/Mumbai/Siliguri, Aug.20 (ANI): Support for anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare is spreading throughout the country, with foreigners too participating in demonstrations in support. � Foreign tourists in Varanasi have joined Indians in support of Hazare. They participated in a yagna to p ...
  • Left Front students protest against Mamat ...
    Kolkata, Aug.20 (ANI): Hundreds of students belonging to the Left Front marched towards the state assembly on Friday to lampoon the West Bengal government headed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for misusing its political...
  • West Bengal to be renamed as Pashchim Ban ...
    Kolkata, Aug.20 (ANI): A committee comprising West Bengal's Commerce Minister Partha Chatterjee and other opposition party leaders has unanimously proposed that the state of West Bengal be renamed as "Paschim Banga".� The decision was taken at an all-party meeting...
  • Geelani warns govt. to release political ...
    Srinagar, Aug.20 (ANI): The chairman of the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani has asked the government to release the valley's political prisoners before Eid or face consequences.� Addressing media here on Friday, Geelani demanded that political prisoners sh ...

no frakking consensus

  • Behind the Aliens-Will-Smite-Us News Story
    The up-and-coming generation of scientific minds appears to assume that humans are a pox on the planet.
  • Why I Won’t Be Renewing my ‘Econom ...
    Rather than helping to keep climate authorities honest, The Economist magazine now serves up a steady diet of green pap. When sound journalistic judgment leaves the building, I stop renewing my subscription.
  • Comic Relief
    A 3-minute spoof video on environmental public service announcements. No matter where you stand on global warming, this should make you chuckle.
  • The Y2K Scare, the Media & Climate Change
    Media coverage of climate change has a great deal in common with how the press covered the Y2K scare. There's little evidence that news outlets learned much from that embarrassing episode.
  • Rajendra Pachauri: Friend of the Environment?
    Auditors investigating mismanagement of the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in India say a committee that was supposed to monitor environmental concerns appears to have never met. IPCC chairman Pachauri was a member.

Anna's News

  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitariesSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the....Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a...Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Green energy investment hits record global high
    Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle �|� � ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Instantly Unforgettable
    Martin Amis remembers Philip Larkin. Martin Amis Philip Larkin in a library In the mid-1970s I edited the Weekend Competition in the literary pages of the New Statesman (with the judicious assistance of Julian Barnes). One week we threw down the following challenge: contestants were asked to rei ...
  • Why did Japan surrender?
    Sixty-six years ago, we dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Now, some historians say thatâs not what ended the war. (Keystone/Getty Images) General Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, accepted the unconditional surrender document signed by the Japanese. By Gareth Cook ...
  • Holiday Reading
      ⦠âFrom that instant her doom was sealed. The children exchanged a glance of realisation. Jeremy smiled. The lesson was continued. What possessed Jeremy now? What possesses any child, naturally perhaps, of a kindly and even sentimental nature at the sight of something helpless and in its powe ...
  • Is Capitalism Doomed?
    Karl Marx was right that globalization, financial intermediation, and income redistribution could lead capitalism to self-destruct. Nouriel Roubini Is capitalism on the verge of self-destructing? NEW YORKâThe massive volatility and sharp equity-price correction now hitting global financial marke ...
  • Hack Your Notes!
    Sleek apps that turn your iPhone or iPad into great note-taking devices. Annie Lowrey Sloppy note takers now have more optionsMany a student, journalist, and businesswoman has suffered for her flawed note taking. You accidentally get a name or a year wrong. You botch the transcription of a quote ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • PolicyLab on open science
    On the morning of 1 September, we are holding a PolicyLab event with Michael Nielsen: ‘An open and shut case? debating the purposes of open science’.  We sent out this invitation to those who have signed up to hear about our events. (You can sign up by emailing science.policy@royalsociety.org ...
  • Open meeting on open science – some highlights
    FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE We kicked off our Science as a public enterprise  study with a public event at the Southbank Centre last month. The full recording of the first debate is now available. Download audio file  (Apologies for the mixed quality – the audience mikes were ...
  • Engineering public engagement
    FROM EMMA WOODS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE What is so unusual about geoengineering? What sets it apart from other controversial technologies? One thing that strikes me as particularly atypical is that the social dimensions of geoengineering are being addressed well ahead of the development of ...
  • Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
    FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...
  • Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
    FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...

NAU Resistance

  • The Consolidation Of North America Continues B ...
    Top Priority "According to a newly released study by Angus Reid on behalf of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association, 60% of respondents support changing Provincial rules that currently prevent convenience and grocery stores from selling alcohol"
  • U.S. Ambassador Says Perimeter Security Deal W ...
    - Joint Border Inspection Facilities | Relocation Of U.S. Food Inspectors At Canadian Plants And Vice-Versa |Greater Sharing Of Intelligence & Harmonizing Regulations | Greater Use Of Biometrics To Track Travelers In Real Time
  • Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
    "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
  • Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
    "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
  • VIDEO: “THE CONFEDERATION OF CANADA AS A WAR M ...
    "Let the Fathers of Confederation explain to you why Canada cannot be annexed to the United States of America"- KM

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • John Bursill reports on the Qantas industrial ...
    Tonight aircraft engineer John Bursill returns to the show to bring us an update on the ongoing dispute between Qantas ground crews and the corporatocracy which wants to outsource safety checks to overseas facilities. It should be noted that John Bursill does not speak as a representative of Q ...
  • The Murdoch Meltdown
    Rupert and James Murdoch testifying at the Parliamentary Inquiry Tonight I am joined by Josh Jackson as we explore the wider implications of the News Corp phone hacking scandal. In particular, we look at the future of news and whether this crisis signals the demise of traditional mass media. ...
  • TNRA reports on the latest carbon rally
    Tonight we bring you the full audio (and video) from last week's carbon rally in Hyde Park, with some discussion and commentary. The gathering at Hyde Park was very rowdy - many people have a high level of anger about the current situation and this is evident in the tone of the crowd attending ...
  • The Truther Girls review “Among The Trut ...
    Jonathan Kay went undercover among the truthers and lived to write a book about it, in which he naturally concludes what he already knew before he started his foray in the world of conspiracy theories: that truthers are crazy! More Links: New York Times book review AmongTheTruthers ...
  • Hyde Park Rally: “The Science Doesn’t Ju ...
    Come to the rally and help us make history! What: Hyde Park Rally – “The Science Doesn’t Justify a Carbon Tax” When: Saturday, July 9, 2011 12:00 PM Where: Hyde Park North More info: http://www.meetup.com/wearechange-sydney/events/24210181/ Lord Monckton, Jo Nova and Dr. David Evans ar ...

Beacon

  • Friday Infographic: The Rise and Fall of a Cor ...
    This is part of a series of ocean infographics by artist Don Foley. These infographics also appear in Oceana board member Ted Danson�s book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� � Coral reefs cover around 1 percent of the world�s continental shelves, yet they provide ...
  • Join us for the Nautica Malibu Triathlon
    On August 7, it was a great privilege to be joined by some very outgoing and incredible conservationists who raced in the Nautica New York City triathlon and raised money for Oceana. In total, the team has raised over $7,300 for Oceana and there’s still a couple weeks of fundraising left if ...
  • What if an Oil Spill Happened in the Arctic?
    Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. Less than a year after the Deepwater Horizon gusher was finally sealed, oil companies are claiming they can drill safely in the Arctic Ocean, an even more fragile and forbidding environment than the Gulf of Mexico. Unfortunately, our government seems to be s ...
  • Kate Walsh to Fans: Give to Oceana
    Actress and sea turtle lover Kate Walsh posted the following video blog to her fans yesterday, urging them to give to her favorite charities - including Oceana! - instead of sending her gifts: Thanks for the shout-out, Kate! And for all you Kate and/or sea turtle fans, you can also take actio ...
  • Rehabbed Sea Turtles Released in Chesapeake Bay
    Oceana the sea turtle, an endangered Kemp's ridley. � National Aquarium Last Friday the National Aquarium and Oceana released three endangered Kemp�s ridley sea turtles into the Chesapeake Bay at Maryland's Point Lookout State Park. The turtles came to the National Aquarium this winter from ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Insurrection.
    Slaves Subjugating people is more difficult than it looks. We often forget that the slave owners have to feed and clothe the slave. The slave owner has to worry about revolts. The Army that holds a POW has to transport him and feed him, or in some way kill him. We learned from both major wor ...
  • World War I Propaganda Poster In Yiddish.
    Yiddish World War I Propaganda Poster Yiddish is a jewish language that is mostly German and Slavic languages, a little Polish and Hebrew and Russian. It was spoken by the large Eatsern European Jewish community. The poster says: “Food will win the war! You came here seeking freedom; now yo ...
  • Did The Battle Of Tsushima Help Cause World Wa ...
    Battl;e Of Tsushima, Japanese Print At the beginning of the Russian-Japanese conflict, Russia was an enormous empire power at the turn of the twentieth century. It’s nearest rival soon emerged as Japan. Japan was undergoing the Meiji Restoration, often called the Meiji Restoration and Moder ...
  • Goya’s “Third Of May 1808″
    Goya's "Third Of May 1808" In 1804 Napolean Bonaparte declared himself Emperor of France, and immediately began a succession of massive wars and invasions and occupations that set a fire from Western Europe to Egypt. France needed easier access to the Mediterranean and Napolean felt Spain was an ...
  • Emperor Theodsius’s UFO Sighting
    Nurenburg UFOs in 1600s, Just To Make The Point That earlier People Didn't Quite Know What To Make Of UFOs. One of the things I love to do is order all the free books and the odd books on online booksellers. I often come across things like this from “Wonder of the Sky” A compendium of  [...]

Taylor Marsh

  • Dash of Dan: Baklava Muffins
      I’ve always wanted to travel. France. Spain. China. Ah, dare to dream. Greece is a place I’ve always dreamt of going to. Seafood. Sun. Greek hunks. But I digress. The history of baklava, like many dishes around the world, is debated. But it is traditionally prepared in large sheets, layered wi ...
  • Former Reagan Man: ‘Rick Perry’s an idiot’
    The Daily Show – Indecision 2012 – Corn Polled Edition – Rick Perry Announces His CandidacyGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook The establishment is very nervous. “Rick Perry’s an idiot, and I don’t think anyone would disagree with that.” – ...
  • Two Parties = Too Few Choices Part IV
    Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. “I can’t wait to see which Republican candidate will terrify me into voting for Obama again.” Via SomeECards To be clear, I didn’t, and won’t, vote for Obama. I think the only “vision” he has is of himself. But the statem ...
  • Christine O’Donnell Gives Women a Bad Name
    What a petulant child. From Amanda Terkel: Former Delaware senate candidate Christine O’Donnell abruptly ended two interviews on Wednesday when the questions she was being asked became tougher, marking a rocky day of promotion for her new book. Not only did O’Donnell walk out in the middle of an ...
  • Rep. Maxine Waters Brings New Meaning to Passi ...
    Pres. Obama didn’t ride around in African American neighborhoods because that community is a lock in 2012. Any other questions, Rep. Waters? It makes this story especially precious. It also proves why Democrats, even the strongest advocates for good policy like Rep. Waters, are absolutely cluele ...

Hudson New York

  • US and EU Funding Palestinian Repression
    It is time that international donors demanded that the Palestinian Authority stop using American and EU taxpayers' money to clamp down on journalists and political activists. Otherwise, the world could witness next month the creation of yet another Arab
  • American Muslims vs. the Cultural Imperialists
    One of the most politically toxic issues of our time is called Islam in the West, and Khomeinist Political Islam by the people of Iran. What was supposed to be another Abrahamic religion has become an apparatus for global blackmail; and it is being
  • Uruguay's Diplomacy with Iran
    The Iranian Ambassador to Uruguay, Hojatollah Soltani, participated in a conference on July 27 on "Lies and Truths in the fight against Terror" organized at the Uruguay-Sweden House of Culture in Montevideo. The event was moderated by Eduardo Rubio, a
  • Turkish Government Strikes PKK After 9 Killed ...
    Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan raged against the PKK as an attack in southeast Turkey kills 9 security forces, bringing the last month's total death toll up to 31. At least 8 Turkish troops, including a major and a village guard, were killed Wednesday in
  • Justice Demands that Pollard's Sentence Be Com ...
    There are several reasons why justice demands that Jonathan Pollard's sentence be commuted to time served and that he be immediately released. The first is a legal and constitutional argument. Pollard waived his right to trial by jury in exchange for a

Urban Survival

  • Kinda Ended the Wave 4 Bounce (of I of P3B), Huh?
    I apologize in advance for some of the remarks this morning, since by the time you read this, I will be three landings, a bunch of stalls, and some back-to-back high bank turns and a recovery from unusual attitude into … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Friday in my ‘Office”
    While you’re munching der Wheaties heute morgen…er, this morning, I’ll be facing the following array of dials plus two new ones, not shown – the new iFly 700 GPS which will be on the left-hand yoke (no yoke, lol) and … Continue reading →
  • Number Stew for Poochie
    Hiya, Pooch!  No surprise to our first item: Jobless situation sucks.  But we knew that much.  What we didn’t know was the numbers out this week on jobs and the Consumer Purgatory Index, so we start this morning’s tripping through … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Drought of ‘Eleven
    Most readers don’t know this, claimed an email from a reader, but the drought that started the Dust Bowl period of the 1930′s was actually started in middle/western Texas.  From there, it spread cancer-like until it had reach as far … Continue reading →
  • The Big Slide, Part V of (1)
    With the usual (monotonous, but necessary) rejoinder not to try this with your own hard-earned real money and realizing I just trade for fun (and 40% this month) I just went short the market Tuesday in order not to miss … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Gerald Celente : The banks might close and dep ...
    Gerald Celente on Coast To Coast AM 19 Aug 2011 :... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Links for 2011-08-19 [del.icio.us]
    Buy Gold anytime you can do not worry about the price | Bob Chapman The International Forecaster Blog Buy Gold anytime you can do not worry about the price Is the Rick Perry Sex Story Important? | Alex Jones Infowars Blog Is the Rick Perry Sex Story Important? BUY SILVER & GOLD: Scott ...
  • Police State USA ?
    "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • The Business of America is WAR
    Pentagon gangsters extort & embezzle over a... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Post-Collapse Society: Innovative Rebuilding o ...
    I'm stocking up on as much as I can to avoid... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

  • RESPONSE TO DAVID STARKEY’S “WHITE ...
    Filed under: EXPOSURE Tagged: Black Crime, Crime, Criminality, David Starkey, government, life, London riots, society, UK riots
  • THE CHILDISH LOOK
    There’s something about the way a baby looks at people that’s different. Perhaps its something to do with the fact that for the first year or so they have a fairly limited vocabulary, and their eyes are the window through which they gain their first perceptions of life. When an adult makes eye c ...
  • DARING TO UNDERSTAND FAITH 2: Primal Religions
    It is difficult to pinpoint the exact origin of religious beliefs, so it would be much wiser to assume that several religions were at play within different cultures at opposite ends of the world. Continents like Africa, Asia and the America’s traditionally held on to certain beliefs and life ...
  • MAKE US LAUGH
    Welcome once again to “Make Us Laugh!”. The rules are simple – Tell a short funny story using the featured picture as inspiration, in 50 words or less. We’ll kick start with a story of our own. Let’s see who can “Make Us Laugh!”. Feel free to also comment on whose story you think is [...]
  • NIGERIAN GANGSTERS vs GANGSTERS IN ENGLAND
    “Its a beef ting, and man dem wanna come at me like I aint gon do nufink! This aint no joke, what do you fink vis is? Man lookin to lick them if they don quit gassing.” The anger on the English streets is evident in the language, even though the language itself struggles to [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Maine marine geologist on the science of the s ...
    Joseph T. Kelley, a professor of Marine Geology at the University of Maine, is co-author with three other scientists of "The World's Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline," which the NY Times calls "a comprehensive, readable guide to the physical features of many kinds of beach ...
  • Get outside and play biologist for a day
    Take advantage of the last weeks of summer to get outside and play biologist for a day. Both Mass Audubon and The Trustees of the Reservation have ongoing outings all over the state. For example, at the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on Martha's Vineyard, we tried out: EARLY BIRDERS Wednesd ...
  • New England lab accidents in the news
    Two items of note in today's news: From Reuters:"Federal safety regulators say Yale University lab equipment responsible for a student's accidental death this spring lacked some required safety features, a finding that the school disputed on Tuesday. From the Globe: A Harvard animal research f ...
  • Maine marine geologist on "The Science of the ...
    Joseph T. Kelley, professor of Marine Geology at the University of Maine, is co-author with three other scientists of The World's Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline, which the NY Times calls "a comprehensive, readable guide to the physical features of many kinds of beaches a ...
  • NYTimes on unjunked DNA and cancer
    The more we learn, the less we know. Harvard researchers chime in as the NYTimes reports on yet another cancer theory. These days "junk" DNA is referred to more respectfully as "noncoding" DNA, and researchers are finding clues that "pseudogenes" lurking within this dark region may play a role ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile The controversial Isla Riesco coal-mining project took another step forward last Friday when a high-level government commission gave final approval to the first of five mines, Mina Invi ...
  • NRDC in the News 8/19: Shell's drilling risks, ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The Telegraph UK quoted from and referenced Frances Beinecke’s  New York Times op-ed piece, where she argued that Shell should not be allowed to drill in the Arctic… In a Fortune Magazine article, ...
  • NRDC in the News 8/18: Shell's drilling plans, ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Frances Beinecke explained the grave risk associated with Shell's plan to drill four exploratory wells off the North Slope of Alaska, in an op-ed piece published in The New York Times... In a USA T ...
  • Changes in the Water World
    Peter Malik, Director, Center for Market Innovation, New York I just returned from a wonderful conference titled Financing Sustainable Water Infrastructure at Wingspread in Racine, WI, under the auspices of The Johnson Foundation and co-sponsored ...
  • Clinton's tar sands pipeline "safety condition ...
    Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC Proponents of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline are using a disingenuous argument to avoid further scrutiny of TransCanada’s proposed pipeline. They argue that the concerns of lando ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, August 19, 2011: A drunk New York NY police officer was arrested on a sexual assault charge after a witness called 911 while seeing him rape a school teacher at gun point early in th ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, August 18, 2011: Houston TX cop given indefinite suspension (fired) for punching cuffed suspect on video after chase [0] bit.ly/okmhPr Davidson Co TN sheriff’s dept loses suit for ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 27 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, August 17, 2011: At least 8 Chicago IL police officers are under investigation after they allegedly jumped a liquor store owner when they mistook him for a burglar, let them go w ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, August 16, 2011: Baltimore MD cop sentenced to 17yrs prison on manslaughter and firearm violation charges for shooting an unarmed Iraq war vet to death outside a nightclub while dru ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, August 15, 2011: Cook Co IL deputy may still be fired after judge’s surprising acquital for videotaped incident where a detainee suffered significant facial injuries when the deputy ...

Total Collapse

  • N. Korea warns of war as US-S. Korea exercise ...
    South Korea and the United States launched a massive joint military exercise on Tuesday, prompting the North to condemn the manoeuvres as provocative and warn that “all-out war” could erupt. The two allies have described the 10-day Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise as defensive and routine but the ...
  • U.S., South Korea start military exercises wit ...
    U.S. and South Korean troops began a 10-day military exercise around Seoul on Tuesday, maneuvers the U.S. commander called “defense-oriented” during a period of heightened tensions with the communist North. The annual “Ulchi Freedom Guardian” exercise involves about 530,000 troops from South Kor ...
  • US asks China to explain why it needs aircraft ...
    The United States said Wednesday it would like China to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier amid broader US concerns about Beijing’s lack of transparency over its military aims. “We would welcome any kind of explanation that China would like to give for needing this kind of equipment,” Stat ...
  • Colonial legacy cause of UK unrest
    Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers Leader Hojjatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi blames Britain’s colonial past for the unprecedented social unrest in the country. âNo one thought that Britain, which was once a pioneer in arrogance and colonialism, would one day be engulfed in the flames of its people’s wrath ...
  • Syria, Saudi Arabia and the coming regional se ...
    While all the Saudi media pub­lished the speech of the King Abdul­lah (video) defend­ing the human rights of the Syr­ian peo­ple, one Saudi news­pa­per missed the story and pub­lished anarti­cle about poverty in one of the rich­est king­doms in the world. Inter­pret­ing the King’s words, it is n ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    There’s a whole lot more Skitch in your Evernote. The UK Government wants to meet with social networks about policing themselves during times of unrest. HP has announced that it will discontinue webOS products. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The Next Web. ...
  • Twitter users are more likely to impact your b ...
    Now, more than ever, is the time for brands and companies to begin understanding how the chaotic and real-time world of Twitter can massively influence the ways in which consumers perceive them. With so many different channels of communication and new social networks popping up every othe ...
  • Hate the new Twitter @Username tab? Here’s how ...
    Some users of the new Twitter @Username tab have been a little peeved at the cluttered look that shoves all of the activity around your Twitter user name into one tab. If you’re one of those users, you now have reason to rejoice as Twitter has heard your pleas and made it possible for you to us ...
  • New Edgerank Pro lets you find out who views y ...
    Edgerank, a site that allows you to instantly check your Facebook Edgerank score, has just a launched a revamped version of its site and a brand new paid version. Edgerank Pro allows you to access in-depth stats on how your Page is performing with personalised recommendations to get the most ou ...
  • Geekli.st helps you find the badass needle in ...
    Silicon Valley is like no other job market in the world. While the American economy staggers forward, and politicians and private industry alike are looking for any way to create new jobs, thereâs a full-on talent war raging in the Bay Area, and in high tech clusters throughout the country. As ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Politicians Question the Role of Gas in Austra ...
    Politicians have raised fresh questions about the role of coal seam gas in Australia's energy future. Greens Senators Bob Brown and Christine Milne, along with MP Adam Bandt have all expressed concern about the emissions intensity of coal seam gas in the first week of the autumn session of parl ...
  • Carbon Price Scheme – No Longer a Mystery Package
    Upon the release of Prime Minister Julia Gillard�s carbon price package (to take effect July 1, 2012), there has been talk aplenty of her plummeting popularity. The PM has dismissed the commentary in favour of the scheme�s necessity, saying, �Polls will come and go�� I�m absolutely convinced wh ...
  • BZE Executive Director pictured on front of 20 ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions is pleased to have been awarded the prestigous opportunity to be pictured on the front of the Sydney Whitepages by Telstra owned directory publisher Sensis. BZE Executive Director Matthew Wright is pictured on top of the Sydney Theatre Company with their new largescale ...
  • Carbon Price Response: A Small Step Forward, B ...
    Climate and energy security think tank Beyond Zero Emissions welcome the Labor government�s carbon price package negotiated with The Greens and lower house independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor. The proposed legislation will start the process of transitioning Australia from a 19th Century ...
  • Clarification Needed on ‘Clean Energy’ – Scarc ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes the establishment of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). The Greens have been successful in striking forest burning out of the definition of renewable energy but have failed to negotiate the end to the pract ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Animal picture of the day: 18 pound lobster sa ...
    Although big, this is not by far the largest American lobster (Homarus americanus) ever found.
  • New species is eel-equivalent of the coelacanth
    The ocean holds endless surprises still. In an underwater cave off the Pacific island nation of Palau, reachers have made an astounding discovery: an eel species unknown to science that harkens back 200 million years. The species, described in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B as an 'enigma ...
  • Chart: US suffers record drought
    An exceptional drought is still scorching major parts of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. A new report from the National Drought Mitigation Center finds that over July, nearly 12 percent of the US saw exceptional drought conditions, the highest record since monitoring began a dozen ye ...
  • Shell spills over 50,000 gallons of oil off Sc ...
    Yesterday, Royal Dutch Shell estimated that to date 54,600 gallons of oil had spilled into the North Sea off the east coast of Scotland, spreading some 19 miles wide (30 kilometers) at its maximum. While the company stopped the initial leak on Thursday, it has now announced that the oil has foun ...
  • Featured video: WWF's Astonish Me
    Highlighting new species recently discovered around the world, the short film Astonish Me, was created as apart of a happy 50th birthday celebration for conservation organization WWF.

Sierra Express

  • Attitudinal change, an antidote to a better Si ...
    The starting point of everyone’s successful journey in life depends on his or her own attitude. Whether you call it your disposition, manner, temperament, spirit, approach, position, personality, posture, outlook or opinion your attitude has a major bearing on the level of your success, believe ...
  • The golden eye of justice sees, and requites t ...
    It is barely a week ago when London and other UK cities were gripped in a headlock of rampage, riots and wanton destruction. At the height of the destruction, a 68 year old man was allegedly killed by a 16 year old for attempting to put out a fire, three members of one close knit [...]
  • Random Musing – Lessons from the billowing ashes
    As the ember of the flames from the land of the British; from where we sucked the milk of hypocrisy, fades into ashes, it is imperative that we learn lessons especially at this period in time when the last shafts of twilights to herald the next poll in our beloved Sierra Leone are becoming more ...
  • African Petroleum anticipates potential oil fi ...
    According to OilVoice, African Petroleum’s geologists are anticipating a potential oil discovery off the waters of Liberia. One of the company’s geologists said, “It has been more than 30 years since oil companies searched for oil in this region, but the recent discovery of a major oilfield in t ...
  • New District Officers warned
    The Director of Public Sector Reform Unit,  Dr. Julius S. Sandy (in photo) has warned newly posted District Officers that their tasks ahead are enormous and that they must exercise teamwork, commitment, and prudent leadership to accomplish said tasks. Director Sandy pronounced this warning while ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Peter Lyons: Trade truths behind great milk 'r ...
    So now we are having a parliamentary select committee on the price of milk sold in New Zealand. Our politicians are keen to be seen to be responding to the public outcry at the perceived price gouging by Fonterra or the supermarkets...
  • Milk powder price drops to year low
    Whole-milk powder prices have declined to their lowest in more than a year amid escalating concerns that global economic growth may falter and reduce demand.Powder for October delivery fell to US$3359 per tonne, the lowest level...
  • Dairy prices dip 0.9pc in overnight auction
    Average prices of dairy products recorded their smallest decline in five sales at Fonterra's latest online auction, with whole milk powder leading the slide.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 0.9 per cent to US$3,660 a metric tonne, according...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Fay playing 'local' card with ...
    Sir Michael Fay is clearly playing on nationalistic sentiment against the foreign ownership of New Zealand farmland to spruik his low-ball bid to acquire nine of the 16 Crafar dairy farms.It is hard to credit that one of the great...
  • Rich-lister leads bid to keep farms from Chinese
    One of the country's richest men has emerged as a white knight investor with a $105 million bid for big dairy farms that could otherwise be sold to China.Sir Michael Fay has declared his interest in buying nine of the 16 farms once...

The Bovine

  • Paleo diet — early man goes out to eat
    From Alesh Houdek, in The Atlantic: “The idea of the Paleo diet has been around for decades, but it’s really taken off over the last couple of years, with a slew of books, blogs, and a prominent podcast espousing its virtues. And no wonderâit … Continue reading →
  • There ought to be a law… keeping kids sa ...
    From Dr. Richard Raymond, former Undersecretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture (2005-2008) on Bill Marler’s “Real Raw Milk Facts” website: “….In Colorado, it is illegal to sell raw, unpasteurized goatsâ or cowsâ milk, but the people who fell ill … Continue reading →
  • Rawsome case underlines how it’s all abo ...
    From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “There was an interesting article in the Chicago Sun-Times over the weekend about the growing popularity of locally produced food. While there have been any number of such articles in recent months, this … Continue reading →
  • Young biodynamic farmers meet, share
    From Thea Maria Carlson, on the Biodynamics blog: “This weekend, over 70 young farmers and farming enthusiasts came together for two days of inspiration and connection at Angelic Organics Farm and Learning Center in Caledonia, Illinois. As coordinator of the … Continue reading →
  • Radioactive rain falls in Toronto Aug 14
    Fukushima Japan is not as far away as we sometimes think:

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Private Consumption in Portugal Plunges 3.4%, ...
    Courtesy of Google translate, please consider Private consumption in Portugal is suffering the biggest drop in 30 yearsThe indicator of private consumption in Portugal in July recorded a fall of 3.4% compared to the homologous months of 2010, the lowest since data collection began in 1978. ...
  • Former Moody's Senior Vice President Accuses R ...
    In good times, no one wants to end a party and everyone is willing to turn a blind-eye to fraud, corruption, and excessive greed. Bear markets, however, expose the truth. Massive fraud at Moody's now coming to light. Business Insider reports MOODY'S ANALYST BREAKS SILENCE: Says Ratings Agen ...
  • Bernie Sanders Releases CFTC Data Including Na ...
    The CFTC and Wall Street are upset about a leak by Bernie Sanders that shows exactly who held what positions when crude futures topped $140 in 2008. Yahoo!Finance reports U.S. oil speculative data released by Senator sparking ire. However the article does not disclose the participants.Senat ...
  • Yet Another 2.5 Hours, 2.3% Hour Rally, This T ...
    If someone woke up at 10:00 AM Central and looked at a stock market quotes, they would have seen the stock markets essentially flat. Once again appearances would be deceiving. US Futures and Select Equities Approximately 10:15 Central click on chart for sharper image At roug ...
  • In Praise of Timely, Blatant Incompetence
    Tonight I am going to do something different, openly praise blatant incompetence. I will list my reasons later but first let me sing the praises of sheer incompetence at Moody's, Fitch, and the S&P (the big 3 rating agencies). Downgrade of U.S. Debt Long Overdue Many are in shock that ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Pakistan Punished in Pipelinestan, Moving Toward Guerilla War in Afghanistan, Drone Strikes as Police Work!, Israel Withheld Evidence in Killing, The Assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai & More! I am going to start with a piece of news you all have already seen and read. I am listing this only bec ...
  • Brushfire with Julia: Freedom to Withhold Info ...
    Department of Homeland Security Finds FOIA to be “Politically undesirable”!  In theory, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) guarantees the legal right of the American public to obtain federal agency records. Judicially enforceable, FOIA was designed to ensure public access to Executive Branch ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Time for Upping the Iran Propaganda … Again, Pakistan: Tide In-Tide Out, South Sudan Independence & What it’s Really About, Israelis Torture of Children in the Occupied Territories, Torture Whitewash & More   Here are two news articles on Pakistan-US relations (While reading the following recall ...
  • Part III. A Watch-Dog for All Seasons
    Carnegie Corporation: We Love POGO, So Does the Entire US Government! In the spring of 2010 the Carnegie Corporation issued a glowing report on their favorite government watchdog Project on Government Oversight (POGO). The report was meant to justify and showcase the large grants given to POGO b ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many Iâve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly youâre being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

  • Scandinavian ferry runs aground while captain ...
    The Finnish ferry KING carrying 54 passengers ran aground Friday after its master got stuck in the bathroom, according to a report from Reuters based Continue Reading �
  • New concept converts oceans solar energy into ...
    Illustration courtesy ABS The American Bureau of Shipping has just approved a new concept for renewable energy production for a commercial grid that converts the Continue Reading �
  • The History And Future Of Flotel Ships
    In 1977 the JCE Group AB, founder of Consafe Offshore AB, built the world�s first purpose built flotel semi-submersible, named Safe Astoria. Since that time, Continue Reading �
  • Daewoo Shipbuilding drops almost 14%, Korean m ...
    Image courtesy Reuters HONG KONG (MarketWatch)–The South Korean market led the way for hefty stock losses in Asia Friday, as risk appetite evaporated on a Continue Reading »
  • Exxon’s Billion-Barrel Secret
    HOUSTONâ (Dow Jones) The only thing that surprised the energy industry more than ExxonMobil Corp.’s mammoth oil find in the Gulf of Mexico is that it kept its size Continue Reading »

Blogging Canadians

  • On Tony Clement, free trade vs human rights, a ...
  • Pro-Abort Jackboot Exposed. Photo Deletion By ...
    In case you didn't follow the story - back in late December of 2010, during the arrest of Mary Wagner, a Toronto police officer seized the witness' camera and deleted the videos. When asked by the camera owner to disclose his name and the badge number, he cowardly stormed away. The videos were n ...
  • "The eBay Vessel"
    cslsec: Fuck ebay! by "cslsecurity" [a/k/a "cslsec"] As originally posted on: Pastebin.com August 16, 2011 cslsec beaming down to you again, this time with the booty its self! As you know, last night, or today for some of you we announced a dropping of booty from the ebay vesse ...
  • Hackers Post FALSE Story On Le Devoir Website ...
    MONTREAL — "The Quebec French newspaper Le Devoir had its website hacked early Tuesday morning, with a fake article inaccurately claiming that Quebec Premier Jean Charest had died. The phoney article stated the premier had died of a heart attack at a Montreal hospital and that the health facil ...
  • Sun News Network Stands Up To Intimidation Fro ...
    Finally, the TV network doesn't force a journalist to apologize for asking straightforward questions, but stand up for freedom of speech in spite of a massive campaign of intimidation and censorship waged by its opponents from the left: OTTAWA - Sun News Network won't roll over in the face of an ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Fresh Israeli air raid injures Gazan
    Another Palestinian has been injured in the latest Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip as the casualties are rising in the besieged region.
  • Turkish jets hit PKK terrorists in Iraq
    Turkish fighter jets have carried out fresh strikes on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq for a third consecutive night of airstrikes, Turkey's Army announces.
  • Gazan injured in fresh Israeli air raid
    Another Palestinian has been injured in the latest Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip as the casualties are rising in the besieged region.
  • Ban Israeli blood diamonds: Activist
    A member of an Irish-based pro-Palestinian group has called for a ban on Israel's 'profitable blood diamonds,' which help fan the flames of internal wars across Africa.
  • Israel mulls Egypt's ambassador recall
    Israeli diplomatic officials are holding discussions on Egypt's decision to withdraw its ambassador to Tel Aviv as tensions escalate between the two countries.
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