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Monday, August 22, 2011

22 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Utilities Weigh Price of Power with Aging Plants and Renewable Mandates
Craig Daily Press
It is a question utilities have to ask as they replace aging power plants and face mandates to add renewable energy. Colorado, for example, will require that 30 percent of all generation for investor-owned utilities comes from renewable sources by 2020 ...
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Solar energy project to power Campbell Soup building
Power Engineering Magazine
BNB Renewable Energy Holdings and Enfinity America Corp. partnered on a 9.8 MW solar power project at the Campbell Soup Co.'s (NYSE: CPB) facility in Ohio. Under terms of the agreement, Enfinity will arrange project financing of the project and will ...
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Ameresco acquires APS Energy Services
Proactive Investors USA & Canada
Renewable energy company Ameresco (NYSE:AMRC) said today it has acquired privately-held APS Energy Services from Pinnacle West Capital Corp (NYSE:PNW) in a bid to strengthen its presence in the Southwest. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ...
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California Hits a Renewable Energy Home Run
Motley Fool
By Travis Hoium | More Articles The California Public Utility Commission may be redefining the way we view subsidies for renewable energy. Instead of a government defined feed-in tariff, which is often slow to react and leads to wild swings in demand, ...
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Wash. to end vehicle emissions tests by 2020
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The Ecology Department says that by 2020 it will stop requiring the tests. John Raymond, who's worked on the state's emissions program since it began in 1981, tells KIRO-TV (http://bit.ly/n1S9T8 ) that Washington's air quality has improved a lot since ...
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Lynx 'not doomed' by inbreeding
BBC News
The study is published in the journal Molecular Ecology. The authors say that the findings should offer hope to conservationists who are trying to pull this critically endangered cat back from the brink of extinction. Love Dalen, from the Swedish ...
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Family Day at Ecology Park
Peterborough Examiner
By DALE CLIFFORD Examiner It was a special one at that, too, as the Ecology Park celebrated its 20th anniversary with Family Day at its site adjacent to Beavermead Park off Ashburnham Rd. Saturday. With only a couple of weeks left in the season, ...
The Ecology of Compromise: The Desert Tortoise and the Solar Farm
Decoded Science
From an ecology perspective, the desert tortoise has an important role to play in its desert home. Although every species is important, some species act as ecological glue, allowing the entire system to hold together. These species are so critical that ...
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Water service restored to Fort Washington school
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
by Mimi Liu, Staff Writer Water service has been restored to a Fort Washington school after a nearby water main break early Monday morning, the first day of classes for Prince George's students. Kimberly Knox, a spokeswoman for the Washington Suburban ...
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More flooding reax
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
As the co-director of the Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority said Saturday, there may not be "any system that can handle 2 inches of rain in 37 minutes." But questions about the agency's handling of the city's sewer infrastructure are bound to come up ...
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Rohner Says Water Stocks Inexpensive on `Scarcity Value'
Washington Post
22 (Bloomberg) -- Philippe Rohner, a portfolio manager at Pictet Asset Management, discusses investing in the water industry. Rohner speaks from Geneva with Linzie Janis on Bloomberg Television's "Countdown." (Source: Bloomberg) (/Bloomberg) ...
Leap Frogs Soar Into Chicago Air & Water Show
Military & Aerospace Electronics
More than two million air-show enthusiasts watched the US Navy parachute demonstration team, the Leap Frogs, perform during the 53rd Chicago Air and Water Show, Aug. 20-21. The air show also included segments by the US Army parachute team, ...
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • War Party Loves the MEK Terror Cult
    Summary: Bolton and RajavisDaniel Larison, writer for The American Conservative Magazine, discusses the many prominent Democrats and Republicans trying to whitewash the MEK’s image; evidence that most US supporters are ignorant of the group’s terrorist credentials (and that the “M” stands fo ...
  • Russia: NATO plans campaign in Syria, tightens ...
    Summary: NATO is planning a military campaign against Syria to help overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad with a long-reaching goal of preparing a beachhead for an attack on Iran, Russia's envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said. source: RIA Novostiread more
  • ENRICHMENT STILL THE KEY TO PROGRESS IN NUCLEA ...
    Summary: We have long argued that there will not be a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear issue without explicit recognition—from the United States and other Western countries, first of all—of the Islamic Republic’s right to the full range of civil nuclear technologies and activitie ...
  • Syria’s ally Iran is the real target
    Summary: Syria’s ally, Iran, is the real target of what looks to me like a coordinated effort to sow chaos in the region: the idea is to draw the Iranians into a proxy war in support of the regime, and lay the groundwork for an all-out US-Israeli attack on Tehran. The encirclement of the Ira ...
  • Iran seeks reciprocal pledges in N talks
    Summary: SalehiIran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has underlined the necessity for reciprocal commitments during any nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West. source: PressTVread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • NASA's Search for Mystery Organic Molecules in ...
    A team of NASA and European scientists recorded the "fingerprints" of mystery molecules in two distant galaxies, Andromeda and the Triangulum. Astronomers can count on one hand the number of galaxies examined so far for such fingerprints, which are thought...
  • Bacteria Thrived on an Earth with No Oxygen 3. ...
    Microfossils found in Australia show that more than 3.4 billion years ago, bacteria that fed on sulphur compounds to survive, thrived on an Earth that had no oxygen --a finding that boosts hopes life has existed on Mars and elsewhere,...
  • Image of the Day: The Ancient "Riverbeds" of M ...
    David Leverington, an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech, believes that what we view as the largest ancient riverbeds on Mars most likely were created not by water, but by massive, fast-moving, low-viscosity lava flows that...
  • Today's Feature: Is Earth's DNA Unique or a Un ...
    "Life has been using a standard set of 20 amino acids to build proteins for more than 3 billion years," said Stephen J. Freeland of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Hawaii. "It's becoming increasingly clear that many...
  • EcoAlert: Global Warming Affecting Alaska's Wa ...
    "Unless we dramatically reduce our greenhouse emissions, the walrus is on a trajectory toward extinction." Rebecca Noblin, director of the Center for Biological Diversity. Scientists fear declining Arctic sea ice and warming waters may have caused an unprecedented mass migration...

Natural News

  • Academics who lend their names to Big Pharma g ...
    (NaturalNews) A college student who pays his friend to write a paper for him is guilty of plagiarism -- and if he is caught, he could receive a failing grade or even be expelled from school. But when drug companies secretly pay doctors or academics to pretend as though they wrote journal-publish ...
  • Is Alex Jones for real?
    (NaturalNews) One of the most common question I'm asked these days is also one of the easiest to answer: Is Alex Jones for real? In a word, yes.But there's more to it than that, of course. The whole story doesn't become fully apparent until you're hanging around Alex Jones in person, at his stud ...
  • Vitamin Water exposed as sugar water in Food I ...
    (NaturalNews) In a new Food Investigations video entitled, "The Vitamin Water Deception," the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org) takes aim at the misleading marketing and high sugar content of Vitamin Water (a Coca-Cola product). The video was created by the Consumer ...
  • Doctors discover female reproductive system gr ...
    (NaturalNews) Doctors treating an otherwise healthy Indian farmer, who was recently admitted to a hospital near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, in India, were shocked to discover that the man, identified as "Ryalu," had a lot more than simple digestive problems in his pain-stricken abdomen. According to ...
  • Architects and engineers challenge official st ...
    (NaturalNews) Most of us remember the horror of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and the mental images of the collapse of the twin World Trade Center towers is forever etched into our minds. But while the reason for their demise is well-known, well documented and well accepted, there remain serious d ...

Threat Level

  • Lawmakers Call for Probe of Medical Devices Af ...
    Two federal lawmakers have asked the General Accountability Office to look into the security of medical devices after a researcher showed how he was able to hack his insulin pump and alter settings due to security flaws in the system. Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), membe ...
  • Hackers Expose San Francisco Subway Police Data
    No one is claiming immediate responsibility for Wednesday's hacking of the BART Police Officers Association's website and publicizing personal information of union members who patrol the San Francisco region's subway.
  • IT Administrator’s Hacking Spree Foiled by $5 ...
    An information-technology administrator has pleaded guilty to crippling his former employer’s network after FBI agents traced the attack to the Wi-Fi network at a McDonald’s restaurant in Georgia. The administrator was caught after he used his credit card to make a $5 purchase at the restaurant ...
  • San Francisco Subway Spokesman Says Cellphone ...
    The San Franciso subway’s chief spokesman was the brainchild behind Thursday “gut wrenching” decision to shutter mobile-internet and phone service to quell a planned protest, the spokesman, Linton Johnson, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. His idea, which was approved by the agency’s lawye ...
  • Book Excerpt: Ghost in the Wires — My Adventur ...
    In his newly published autobiography, America’s most famous ex-hacker, Kevin Mitnick, tells his own story for the first time. In this excerpt, Mitnick describes his 1992 investigation into the mystery hacker “Eric,” who’d begun pumping him for information. Mitnick’s spy-versus-spy duel with the ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • "Truth Teller" Huntsman Takes on the "Not Inte ...
    This weekend, former Utah Governor and GOP White House hopeful Jon Huntsman came out swinging against his Republican rivals. Positioning himself as a "truth-teller," Huntsman blasted Rick Perry on evolution and global warming, attacked Michele Bachmann over her jaw-dropping stands on the debt c ...
  • Republicans' "Missing Millionaires" Turn Up Sa ...
    For Republicans hoping to preserve the Bush-era tax cut windfall for the wealthy, the past week was not a happy one. While billionaire Warren Buffett asked Congress to "stop coddling the super-rich," GOP representatives found themselves under attack from constituents who polls show overwhelming ...
  • Name That Texan!
    Karl Marx famously said that "history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." So it is with Texas Governors George W. Bush and Rick Perry. After all, Perry isn't merely trying to follow the path blazed by his predecessor from the Lone Star State to the White House. Not four years ...
  • Conservatives Insist Bush, Not Obama, is Like ...
    At an event in Iowa Monday, President Obama explained that venomous political rhetoric is nothing new in American history, noting "Lincoln -- they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me." Judging by the immediate and furious reaction from the conservative commentariat, right ...
  • For Obama, the Center Doesn't Hold
    With his approval rating at a new low over concerns about the still-ailing economy, President Obama hit the road this week to launch what the AP deemed a "counteroffensive." The only question, to continue the stale military analogy, is whether Obama intends to shore up his center or bolster his ...

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  • What next for Wisconsin?
    Dems gain 2 State Senate seats in recall elections, but fail to secure needed majority
  • Will CFTC Limit Excessive Speculation?
    Bart Chilton Pt.3: For regulations to be effective, there has to be political will and proper resources
  • As Biden Visits China, Author David Wise on "T ...
    Vice President Joe Biden arrived in China yesterday to begin a five-day trip aimed at reassuring leaders there of the stability of the U.S. economy and to begin building a relationship with that country’s most likely next president, Xi Jinping. The visit to the largest foreign creditor to the Un ...

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TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Franz Josef Land Beneath the Clouds (Photo of ...
    The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra satellite captured this image of Franz Josef Land as the clouds parted on August 14. Related posts:Black and White Clouds {Photo of the Day} Clouds from International Space Station {Photo of the Day} Volcanic Islands S ...
  • New Study Finds Illegal Trade in Threatened Tu ...
    The latest report published by the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC reveals that an alarming number of protected and endangered tortoises and freshwater turtles are openly for sale in Indonesia. Related posts:Pangolin Trade Much Worse than Expected, Seized Notebooks Show 470+ Endanger ...
  • Greenpeace Competition to Design Next VW Film
    Greenpeace has a pretty huge campaign geared at getting Volkswagen (VW) to drop it's anti-climate-action efforts that I've covered a couple times now. Related posts:“A Stormtrooper Sees the Light” & “Brian the Stormtrooper Part II” Greenpeace Videos Greenpeace Competition to Design New BP Logo ...
  • Worst Corporation of the Year? (Corporate Hall ...
    Corporate Accountability International is hosting its annual Corporate Hall of Shame "awards." Good list of candidates to choose from. Make your way over to the Corporate Hall of Shame Voting Booth to vote. Here's a preview of the corporations in the running this year: Related posts:‘Financial ...
  • U.S. Breaks Extreme Weather Records, Asia Brea ...
    The U.S. has already set its new record for most damage caused from extreme weather events in a year. (We haven't even hit hurricane season and there's also no end in sight to Texas' devastating, record-breaking drought). The tab is already over $1 billion this year, with the cumulative total si ...

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Axis of Logic

  • FNRP: Two Peasant Leaders Killed This Week in ...
    Lunes 22 de Agosto de 2011 -Red Morazanica de Informacion. The Vice President of MUCA, Pedro Salgado and his wife, Reina Mejía, were killed on Sunday 22 in their home in the town of La Concepción around 7:40 pm. A few days ago Secundino Ruiz, president of MARCA was killed during...
  • U.S. aid implicated in abuses of power in Colo ...
    The Obama administration often cites Colombia’s thriving democracy as proof that U.S. assistance, know-how and commitment can turn around a potentially failed state under terrorist siege.   The country’s U.S.-funded counterinsurgency campaign against a Marxist rebel group — and the civili ...
  • Breaking News: 'Rebels being gathered in Tripo ...
    August 22, 2011 Independent journalist Lizzie Phelan who is in Tripoli says allowing the rebels inside the capital could well be a strategic move on the part of Libya troops who have corralled the rebels into a single location. She argues that loyalist forces remain ...
  • Breaking News: 'Rebels being gathered in Tripo ...
    Independent journalist Lizzie Phelan who is in Tripoli says allowing the rebels inside the capital could well be a strategic move on the part of Libya troops who have corralled the rebels into a single location. She argues that loyalist forces remain in de facto control of the city. Most.. ...
  • This fall, visit beautiful Kabul - World News
    Canadians. Gotta love 'em. Now that all those pesky troops from Canada and the US are getting reading to exit Afghanistan, some space is finally being freed up for tourists. And who wouldn't want to visit? It's not every day you get to experience the joys of a country blasted...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Conservatives, Nostalgia, and Racism
    Bigotry is bad. We can all agree on that. So it's understandable why no one wants to be known as a bigot or be associated with prejudice of any kind. But what about devout religious followers whose reading of the Bible compels them to shun gays and curse their sexuality? What about white suprema ...
  • Repugs on the Run, So Pile On at Your Congress ...
    It's August of 2009 all over again, except this time it's the repugs on the run and the liberals on offense. First, Paul Ryan demonstrated his corporate cluelessness by ... well, I'll let Down with Tyranny explain: And his latest stunt-- and hence this request to donate $15 to Rob Zerban's campa ...
  • Right-Wing Reign Of Error: How Kooks Like Bach ...
    Sometimes it happens because they're stupid -- and sometimes it happens because they're convinced that everybody else is stupid. Either way, the right wing in America can't be trusted for any kind of facts or history, recent or distant. Their inaccuracies are countless, but a few more recent one ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    @MicheleBachmann fails to realize that it isn't the gaffes, it's the pure, unadulterated dumbassery behind them that rankles. "During a press availability following a speech in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Friday, Michele Bachmann was asked about a narrative that hasn't gone away during the s ...
  • Now it gets dicey
    You know the old saying -- be careful what you wish for, because you might get it. I hate to be a buzzkill, but that keeps running through my mind as the news out of Tripoli is that the Qadaffi regime is over. Rebel forces have started taking his sons into custody and the hunt for Qadaffi himsel ...

Care 2

  • The Store Wars: Organic food versus chemicals ...
    Welcome to a clever and funny vegi-animation parody of Star Wars, made to alert people to the serious problems facing our food supply in our current society.Submitted by Marty Kassowitz to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Gaza militants fire Grad rockets, Qassam into ...
    Rockets fired at Ashkelon, Qassam and mortar shells fired at southern Israel; rockets cause no casualties or damage; IDF strikes targets in northern Gaza Strip.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • U.K.: Activists prepare for battle to save co ...
    The fight over Lydd airport's proposed expansion in Kent highlights the conflict awaiting the government's new planning policy frameworkSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: WOLVES FACING EXTINCTION! ...
    Aug 30 the bloodbath begins in WY, ID and MT. They are going to be shooting wolves possibly to extinction. At least this is what our govenment and the farmers want. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Major Backlash at Right-Wing Ohio Governor Has ...
    Recall victories in Wisconsin and plummeting approval ratings have John Kasich scared--and now he wants to make a deal with labor and progressive groups.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

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No Quarter

  • Hold Your Water and Fire on Libya
    Man, the cable news folks never learn. They are almost aspirating their tongues as they struggle to lend an air of crisis and impending doom to the events unfolding in Libya. Here is what is really going on–first and foremost you are hearing and seeing a well coordinated information operation th ...
  • No Jobs Home
    The CBC sponsored Jobs Fair in Atlanta drew thousands, some of whom waited overnight in the heat. The WSJ reports that seniors cannot and will not retire. The late report in the week report from JP Morgan points to 3Q of 2012 jobless rate climbing to 9.5%. POTUA aims to pitch a jobs program to [...]
  • No Dorothy Yet, In Our Land of Oz
    Last week, a friend sent me a fun bit of political humor (h/t S. Moss): The movie Wizard of Oz is 72 years old. Today, if Dorothy were to encounter Men with no brains, no hearts, and no courage She wouldn’t be in Oz … She’d be in Congress! I immediately wanted to add âOr in the Wh ...
  • Is it real or is it not … oh yeah, this really ...
    Really. It is. Late on this hot Friday afternoon, I just can’t put my finger on what’s real, especially on what matters. One of the pleasures of hitting Google’s News page is that I never know what I’ll spot there or, having clicked one headline, what else I’ll bump into via links to more storie ...
  • The Ship of State: Run Aground
    While the good ship USS America was being tossed by the waves of the growing storm, Captain O’Bomba sat in his quarters enjoying an expensive after-dinner sherry with his First Mate, Bidet.  The ship was veering left and right in a snake-like fashion while also rising and falling on large waves. ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Moody? – Blame it on the Weather
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In a recent study, researchers from Utrecht University, Catholic University Leuven, VU University Amsterdam and Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, collaborated to identify if particular groups of individuals are more vulnerable to weather related moods. Because ...
  • Is Anxiety Sensitivity Genetic or Environmental?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline To answer that question, researchers at King’s College, London, and the University of London, studied over 1,300 twins, using data from a longitudinal study. The twins were between the ages of 12 and 19 years old at the beginning of the study. The participants wer ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy weekend! Enjoy this week’s top news :-) Childhood ADHD Prevalence Rises By 28% in Ten Years Is Therapy More Effective if Your Therapist Likes You? Sex Differences in Mental Illess: Men More Likely to Develop Substance Abuse, Antisocial P ...
  • Children in the Balance: Should You Rethink Yo ...
    From infancy through young adulthood, our children’s consciousness of themselves in the world is being forged, tenuously dangling between entitlement, insecurity and, we hope, a third and better option. We have the responsibility as parents to provide a developmentally-rich context in which sati ...
  • Steering Clear of the Marital Money Pit
    It’s nearly impossible these days to pick up the paper or turn on the news without learning of yet another study or statistic indicating a weak recovery or a chronic recession. While it has taken its toll on families and communities in the way of foreclosures and bankruptcy, the recession has st ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • EPA officials tour eastern Ky. - Houston Chronicle
    EPA officials tour eastern Ky. Houston Chronicle They attended a community meeting Thursday in Whitesburg where residents described problems with coal dust, mountaintop removal blasting and regulation enforcement, according to WFPL radio (http://bit.ly/ov7VPl ). EPA Region Four administrator Gw ...
  • Tree-sit concludes after 30 days of blocking w ...
    Tree-sit concludes after 30 days of blocking work on Coal River Mountain RAMPS ... HNN Huntingtonnews.net Many discussed their concern over the health impacts of mountaintop removal, blasting near the Brushy Fork Impoundment, and the destruction of the mountains where they and their families ha ...
  • Coal Industry Leader Criticizes EPA Tour, WFPL ...
    Global Warming (blog) Coal Industry Leader Criticizes EPA Tour, WFPL Coverage WFPL On Thursday, WFPL Environment Reporter Erica Peterson reported residents describing ongoing problems with coal dust, mountaintop removal and the lack of state and local regulation. Several residents complained ab ...
  • The myth of mountaintop removal mining - The G ...
    Mother Jones The myth of mountaintop removal mining The Guardian As filmmaker Mari-Lynn Evans has said of the CNN programme referred to by Keating: "Mountain top removal mining is not an issue of jobs v the environment. It is an issue of corporate profits and corrupt politicians v the health an ...
  • Does God support mountaintop removal mining? - ...
    Does God support mountaintop removal mining? CNN (blog) Art Kirkendoll, a former West Virginia county commissioner, says that God clearly supports mountaintop removal mining, which is vigorously opposed by environmentalists. Check out the clip. My God has already given us an answer to this abou ...

Memeorandum

  • Democrats considered recalling Gov. Chris Chri ...
    The Auditor: Democrats considered recalling Gov. Chris Christie  —  For a brief time this summer, Democrats were considering doing something no major political party has ever attempted in New Jersey, The Auditor has learned: Recall a sitting governor.  —  As outrage among Democrats over Gov. C ...
  • Jon Huntsman Comes Out Swinging Against GOP Ri ...
    Imtiyaz Delawala / ABCNEWS: Jon Huntsman Comes Out Swinging Against GOP Rivals  —  Former Utah Governor and U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman came out swinging against his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, taking aim at Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Rep. Michele Bachmann for s ...
  • About Noah Feldman - Balanced Budget Acts as D ...
    Noah Feldman / Bloomberg: About Noah Feldman  —  Balanced Budget Acts as Dumb in Europe as in U.S.: Noah Feldman  —  If you think balanced-budget amendments are the stuff of madmen or dreamers, you were in for a surprise this month.  —  No, not the requirement of the U.S. debt-ceiling agreement ...
  • Smithers Sees 'Significant' S&P 500 Rally (Ann ...
    Anna Kitanaka / Bloomberg: Smithers Sees ‘Significant’ S&P 500 Rally  —  U.S. stocks are set for a “significant rally” which will provide an opportunity for investors to sell before equities resume declines, according to economist Andrew Smithers.  —  Companies are cashed up and likely to buy ...
  • Obama Jobs Plan Meets Early Resistance From Re ...
    Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post: Obama Jobs Plan Meets Early Resistance From Republicans … Following a few dismal weeks on Wall Street and talk of a double-dip recession, President Obama will soon announce a new jobs plan that is expected to include an extension of payroll tax cuts, new rev ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Looking closer at the Congo
    An NGO report on Chinese investment in the Democratic Republic of Congo opens a vital debate, but its methodology leaves the reader wanting a fuller version of the facts, write Johanna Jansson and Jiang Wenran.Editor’s note: this article concludes a series of commentaries on chinadialogue about ...
  • Opaque waters at Killer Lake
    Rwanda plans to turn dangerous gases dissolved in Lake Kivu into a major energy source. Reporting from its shores, Andre Vltchek asks if this is a blessing for locals – or a risk too far.The shores of Lake Kivu, encircled by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, are among the mo ...
  • China probes its Africa model (2)
    China can improve its policies on aid and investment in Africa, writes Yi Yimin in the second section of a two-part article. But doing so will require a more open conversation.As outlined in the previous section of this article, Chinese investments in fields such as energy, mining, dam construct ...
  • China probes its Africa model (1)
    As the public turns its attention to Chinese investments in Africa's fossil fuels, mining and dams, some have noticed parallels with environmental and social problems at home, writes Yi Yimin.Chinese investments in Africa are starting to attract more media coverage and public attention in China. ...
  • China in Africa: deepening the debate
    Sam Geall introduces a series of articles that seek to enhance our understanding of environment and development in Africa – and China’s increasingly controversial role on the continent.In late March this year, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) signed a deal with China Development Bank, de ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • President Rick Perry's America: No Country For ...
    Coming of age as a woman in Rick Perry's Texas is sort of like living in the wild, wild west, like an Annie Ovary of women's health, dodging old men wielding vaginal probes.
  • In a Victory, Virginia Prisons Will Limit the ...
    Written by Katherine Greenier for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. The Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) Director Harold Clarke has led the DOC though a forward-thinking policy change tha ...
  • 3 Reasons Why the Tar Sands Pipeline Has to Be ...
    Here's three reasons why the pipeline is truly idiotic and why I'm willing to get arrested to stop it.
  • Murdoch’s Web of Corruption Continues To ...
    The story of News Corps ever unraveling corruption is still far from over. This week’s revelations in the News Corp drama highlights the lies in the Murdochs’ prior testimony to parliament, and demands that more questions be answered regarding who knew what and did what. At this point the leve ...
  • Earth Preaching
    Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture – all wrapped into one big institution – that is simple common sense!  When we draw our last breath together, all the functions of living will be mixed together in that one breath.  There won’t be separate powers anymore. Ala ...

Threat Level

  • Lawmakers Call for Probe of Medical Devices Af ...
    Two federal lawmakers have asked the General Accountability Office to look into the security of medical devices after a researcher showed how he was able to hack his insulin pump and alter settings due to security flaws in the system. Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), membe ...
  • Hackers Expose San Francisco Subway Police Data
    No one is claiming immediate responsibility for Wednesday's hacking of the BART Police Officers Association's website and publicizing personal information of union members who patrol the San Francisco region's subway.
  • IT Administrator’s Hacking Spree Foiled by $5 ...
    An information-technology administrator has pleaded guilty to crippling his former employer’s network after FBI agents traced the attack to the Wi-Fi network at a McDonald’s restaurant in Georgia. The administrator was caught after he used his credit card to make a $5 purchase at the restaurant ...
  • San Francisco Subway Spokesman Says Cellphone ...
    The San Franciso subway’s chief spokesman was the brainchild behind Thursday “gut wrenching” decision to shutter mobile-internet and phone service to quell a planned protest, the spokesman, Linton Johnson, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. His idea, which was approved by the agency’s lawye ...
  • Book Excerpt: Ghost in the Wires — My Adventur ...
    In his newly published autobiography, America’s most famous ex-hacker, Kevin Mitnick, tells his own story for the first time. In this excerpt, Mitnick describes his 1992 investigation into the mystery hacker “Eric,” who’d begun pumping him for information. Mitnick’s spy-versus-spy duel with the ...

Equality Trust

  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • It was a good day to be a trial lawyer
    In 2009 Linda Rivera, a 57-year-old mother of six from Nevada, was stricken with what one doctor described as “the severest multi-organ (bowel, kidney, brain, lung, gall bladder, pancreas) case of E. coli O157:H7 mediated Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome I have seen in my extensive experience.”  Linda’ ...
  • President Obama, go back to "Bunch of Grapes" ...
    I was reading this morning that President Obama picked up two books on an outing to Martha’s Vineyard Bookstore “Bunch of Grapes” with daughters Sasha and Malia on Friday: "The Bayou Trilogy," a mystery collection by Daniel Woodrell set in Louisiana, and "Rodin's Debutante," a novel by Ward Just ...
  • $2,500 Scholarship to be Funded in Memory of S ...
    A new scholarship at Maiden High School will be announced next week. The Food Safety Law Firm, Marler Clark, will donate $2,500 to fund the Bobby “Pete” Raw Hullett Science and Medicine Scholarship for students who are interested in pursuing higher education in the science or medical field. “Th ...
  • Food Safety News Publisher's Platform - Private AG
    Tune into Food Safety News Sunday morning and read the full story. Everyone seems to hate government now days. From being afraid of the FDA “food police” trying to steal your seeds, to trying to privatize social security, government is perceived as both overbearing and incompetent (at the same ...
  • Cowans Gap E. coli Illnesses Increase to 14 in ...
    The number of confirmed cases in an E coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Cowans Gap State Park is now 14, the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced Thursday. In a statement, health department officials said 11 cases involve Pennsylvania residents — six from Franklin County, four from Lancast ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Video: Presidential candidate Bachmann promise ...
    Filed under: Etc. How's this for bold? Congresswoman Michell Bachmann, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who won the Ames Straw Poll last weekend, has just stated that one thing we'd get with a Bachmann Administration is - ready? - cheap gasoline. According to Politico sh ...
  • Report: 2012 Nissan Altima, NV van recalled fo ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Nissan For a two-week period this year, Nissan apparently incorrectly assembled the air bag control unit in both the 2012 Altima and the 2012 NV work van. That's the news from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which today announced a small recall of the ...
  • Official: Ford Focus Electric will offer solar ...
    Filed under: Ford, Electric Running an electric car on the power of the sun is many an EV enthusiast's dream. Ford isn't the first company to combine EV charging with solar energy, but it is trying to make it as easy as possible to go from driving on imported oil to extremely local energy. ...
  • Official: First-ever heavy-duty truck efficien ...
    Filed under: Truck, Government/Legal If you're not sure why today's announcement from the Obama Administration about the first-ever fuel economy standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses is important, read this. Okay, now that we're all on the same page, let's take a look at the new standa ...
  • Nissan's reponse to Top Gear? Here, hav ...
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, UK, Celebrities, Humor, ElectricWhen Top Gear said that, "In the real world, [the Tesla Roadster] doesn't seem to work," the electric automaker responded with a lawsuit. Nissan is taking a different tack, putting a clever twist on the one-sided, anti-EV message th ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Egyptians Defend Viral Video Activist Charged ...
    Asmaa Mahfouz is one of Egyptâs most prominent activists. The 26-year-old helped co-found the influential April 6 Youth Movement in 2008 that helped pave the way for the revolution through years of grassroots organizing and street protests. A few days before January 25, she posted two videos on ...
  • San Francisco Bay Area’s BART Pulls a Mubarak
    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, the ability to communicate is increasingly viewed as a basic right. Open communi ...
  • Verizon Workers, Management Dig in for Decisiv ...
    On the 10th day of the most important labor fight in America, striking Verizon worker Alexandra Camacho stood on a streetcorner in downtown Brooklyn and vowed to stay out as long as necessary. "They want to strip from us everything we’ve won in the past," the slender Camacho said. "They even ...
  • From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan's Atomic Tr ...
    In recent weeks, radiation levels have spiked at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors in Japan, with recorded levels of 10,000 millisieverts per hour (mSv/hr) at one spot. This is the number reported by the reactor’s discredited owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., although that number is simply as ...
  • Book Excerpt: "Hiroshima Cover-up: How the War ...
    As the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, read a chapter of Amy and David Goodman’s book, Exception to the Rulers, to learn how how the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning science reporter, William L. Laurence, was on the payroll of the War Department while also reporting for The New York Times ...

Suzie-Q

  • Morning Briefing: August 19, 2011
    During a townhall meeting earlier this week, constituents in Rep. Randy Hultgren’s (R-IL) congressional district hectored him about raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations. The Washington Post reports, “It is a scene that has been repeated at town hall meetings across the country this Augu ...
  • Businesses lose confidence in Obama
    ABC Professor Peter Morici discusses where the United States can turn to improve its economy and credit rating. Roubini: Bush Responsible for Economic Woes WSJ, 8/12/2011 3:01:26 PM In a clip from his interview with WSJ’s Simon Constable, Dr. Nouriel Roubini insists that it was the policies of G ...
  • US checks S&P’s adding after downgrade
    BigPond News Sunday, August 14, 2011 » 01:29pm The US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a probe into the process by which Standard Poor’s downgraded the US credit rating, the Wall Street Journal reported. US officials lashed out at SP after it docked the country’s credit rating fr ...
  • After Supporting Tea Party Protests, Fox News ...
    Earlier today, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) faced angry questions from Iowans over his proposed cuts to entitlement programs. In an attempt to dismiss the legitimate concerns of the questioners, Fox News declared them to be liberal plants. During the segment, the conservative news outlet displ ...
  • BREAKING: S & P Downgrades U.S. Credit For Fir ...
    � Reuters reports: �The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor�s on Friday, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for the world�s largest economy.� The new rating is AA+. In explaining their decision Standard & Poors cites both the decision by Republicans in Congress ...

Solari

  • A Review of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When ...
    by Catherine Austin Fitts One of my favorite books is Laurence Gonzales’ Deep Survival . Laurence has joined me on The Solari Report — I highly recommend this interview to subscribers – Deep Survival. Deep Survival is about who lives and who dies in traumatic wilderness experiences. Beautifully ...
  • Quote du Jour
    There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. ~ Aeschylus Related reading: Aeschylus Wikipedia
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  • Indecision 2012 – Corn Polled Edition &# ...
    The Daily Show – Indecision 2012 – Corn Polled Edition – Ron Paul & the Top Tier Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
  • Shadowstats: Inflation at 11.2%
    [click on the image for a larger version] Source: Shadow Government Statistics

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Our fears are unwarranted. America is in fact ...
    Summary:  The good news is our problems are relatively minor.  Our leaders probably will take the necessary reforms during the next few years.  Of course they will govern in the best interests of our plutocratic elites, not us.  We’re along for the ride, sliding towards the Third Republic ...
  • What will our Mercs do when our wars wind down ...
    Summary:  Again we turn harsh lights on the future of America.  The US government has created a pool highly skilled mercs (on a base of people the government itself trained).  What will these people do when our wars wind down?  To create serious trouble only a few need sell their knowledge and e ...
  • The men of US Special Operations Command are h ...
    Summary:   The FM website discusses facts and insights too harsh for most to see (as seen in the 16 thousand comments during the past 4 years).  Today we look at the men in the US Special Operations Command.  Heroes, but not all the deeds we ask them to do are heroic. In many ways our Special [...]
  • Very funny. But the joke is on us.
    Summary:  More humor on the FM website, a funny circulating to American chuckles around the web.  It says something about us.  Something sad.   ______________________ The Wizard of Oz appeared on screen in 1939. Today, if Dorothy were to meet men with no brains, no hearts, and no balls, ...
  • Listen to the voice of America’s decline ...
    Summary:  Many comments sent to the FM website speak from the heart, sharing the writer’s response to the new world described on these pages.  Sometimes clear, hard, and rational.  Sometimes visionary.  Sometimes delusional.  But most often angry, expressing the anger that so often marks mo ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...

The Progressive Realist

  • OMG, Hillary Said Other Nations' Views Can Be ...
    Will our conservative friends ever realize it's not always about us, or will they keep freaking out any time someone suggests that American positions and declarations might not be the key to every situation around the world. The other day Heather flagged the following quote from Secreatary of St ...
  • Timing and Libya
    Shadi Hamid has a post up at the Atlantic taking meta-stock of the events in Libya so far. Like most everyone, I’m quite happy to watch Qaddafi’s regime fall, and like most sensible people I’m pretty nervous regarding what comes next, given the general fluidity of the political situation there a ...
  • The Fall of Tripoli Is the End of the Beginning
    This is the latest from Tripoli. Libyan rebels claimed to be in control of most of the Libyan capital on Monday after their lightning advance on Tripoli heralded the fall of Moammar Gadhafi's nearly 42-year regime. Scattered battles erupted, and the mercurial leader's whereabouts remained unk ...
  • The UN’s Three Options for LIbya
    Now that Libya is on the precipice of being fully under the control of forces loyal to the Transitional National Council the task of building a post-Khadafi future is underway. Daniel Serwer offers some good guidance on what is needed in the immediate post conflict phase (no reprisal killings, ...
  • Clashing Networks and Foreign Policy
    Anne Marie Slaughter and Dan Drezner had an interesting debate last week on the role of nonstate actors in foreign policy. AMS stakes out a “modern/liberal-social” position highlighting the role of nonstate actors, whereas DD takes a “subtle realist” view, maintaining the priority of states and ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Candidates and Consumption
    In a column tearing his party a new one for ever defending Sarah Palin, David Frum says that we should "Quit treating consumption patterns as substitutes for character": It's very important that politicians understand the everyday lives of Americans. It's important that politicians champion the ...
  • The Not-So Windy Road from the House to the Pr ...
    On Tuesday reports came out that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is considering jumping into the GOP presidential race. Just two days earlier, sitting members of the House of Representatives � Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul --�finished in first and second place in the Iowa Straw Poll. Though none of the ...
  • Rick Perry Talks About Sex
    We sure are talking about Rick Perry a lot. But why stop now -- he's not only new, but interesting in ways that some of his opponents aren't. Jonathan Chait brings us this video of Perry seemingly flummoxed when confronted with the fact that his preferred policy of abstinence education doesn't w ...
  • Republicans Can't Seem to Go a Day Without Ins ...
    Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn went on something of a speaking tour yesterday, warning�of impending economic disaster and predicting the demise of Medicare. It has been an exercise in sensationalism � at one point, while voicing his frustrations with the Senate, Coburn said that �It�s just a good t ...
  • Rick Perry's Higher Education Woes
    Texas Governor Rick Perry’s has had a tough go with higher education. Costs to attend the state's college have shot past the support the state provides to students. State community colleges, for example, are 90 percent more expensive since 2000 while, over the same period, government spending in ...

Buzzflash

  • Anarchism, Chomsky, Chavez and Authoritarian O ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT On the U.S. left, there are certain sacred cows that one should never take on directly.  For years, Hugo Chávez of Venezuela has been, for the most part, sacrosanct and immune from criticism.  The underlying reasons for this kid glove treatment are hardl ...
  • Creationist Rick Perry Proves That Evolution P ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The creationist crowd does have some proof that Darwin wasn't right about every individual in a species. They are living proof: after all, they haven't evolved. The other day, a very young boy in New Hampshire got the better of Rick Perry with a ...
  • What is Happening With the Leftist Tilt in Sou ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Over the past few years, the international left has derived much satisfaction from the course of South American political and economic integration. The novelty of such integration is that it has proceeded along progressive lines and has been pushed by re ...
  • The Imagination of America's Founders Is a Lar ...
    Body The biggest hurdle we face today is whether we choose to move forward as a nation or backward, away from progress and toward the ways not of our forefathers, but of the most hide-bound, parochial elements in our society. Our founders were not similar to the way today's conser ...
  • Texas State Board of Education Declares War on ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The Texas State Board of Education declares war on the Declaration of Independence. That's one perspective on the Lone Star State board that approves educational textbooks in Texas. After all, when you delete Thomas Jefferson - author of the Decla ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CFTC Report Reveals Rampant Speculation in Oil ...
    Sen. Bernie Sanders offered the following statement after having reviewed a list of speculative oil traders responsible for the 2008 spike in oil prices.� This list was compiled by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).read more
  • CFTC Report Reveals Rampant Speculation in Oil ...
    Sen. Bernie Sanders offered the following statement after having reviewed a list of speculative oil traders responsible for the 2008 spike in oil prices.� This list was compiled by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).read more
  • Leaked Oil Trading Documents Underscore Role o ...
    Note: The Wall Street Journal this week ran a story about confidential documents from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that named traders who held oil futures in 2008, when oil prices spiked to record highs. The growing controversy over the leaking of trading documents naming 219 investo ...
  • Leaked Oil Trading Documents Underscore Role o ...
    Note: The Wall Street Journal this week ran a story about confidential documents from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that named traders who held oil futures in 2008, when oil prices spiked to record highs. The growing controversy over the leaking of trading documents naming 219 investo ...
  • Tar Sands Pipeline: “A Climate Killing Disaster”
    Starting this weekend people from across the country will gather in Washington D.C. to oppose the Keystone XL, a 1,700 mile pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The protest will continue for two weeks.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Crisis of Confidence: How Washington Lost Fait ...
    Karen Greenberg As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the unexpected extent of the damage Americans have done to themselves and their institutions is coming into better focus.  The event that “changed everything” did turn out to chan ...
  • Katrina Pain Index 2011: Race, Gender, Poverty
    Bill Quigley Davida Finger Six years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast.� The impact of Katrina and government bungling continue to inflict major pain on the people left behind.� It is impo ...
  • US Park Police Seek to Intimidate Oil Pipeline ...
    A major two-week action involving daily sit-ins at the White House against the granting of a permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline began Saturday. Just over seventy people were arrested. The action continues today, as over thirty plan to engage in civil disobedience at the White House ag ...
  • US Park Police Seek to Intimidate Oil Pipeline ...
    A major two-week action involving daily sit-ins at the White House against the granting of a permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline began Saturday. Just over seventy people were arrested. The action continues today, as over thirty plan to engage in civil disobedience at the White House ag ...
  • The Myth of Mountaintop Removal Mining
    Beth Wellington CNN correspondent Soledad O'Brien's recent piece on mountaintop removal (MTR) in the Appalachian mountains has the troubling title, "Steady job or healthy environment: what [sic] would you choose?" How about we choose both ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Water Wars
    SPARKS – Dozens of Washoe County residents turned out at Sparks High School Thursday during the last of nine Bureau of Land Management (BLM) open house sessions to protest a proposed pipeline that would ship water from rural northeastern Nevada to Las Vegas, citing the loss of environmental, eco ...
  • Water Wars
    SPARKS – Dozens of Washoe County residents turned out at Sparks High School Thursday during the last of nine Bureau of Land Management (BLM) open house sessions to protest a proposed pipeline that would ship water from rural northeastern Nevada to Las Vegas, citing the loss of environmental, eco ...
  • Water Wars Continue
    Alabama and Florida are appealing a ruling that handed metro Atlanta a big victory in a tri-state fight over water.
  • Alabama, Florida Appeal Water Wars Ruling
    Today Alabama, Florida, Alabama Power Company and the City of Apalachicola, Florida asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling made by a three-judge panel in June that focuses on how much water the city of Atlanta can withdraw from Lake Lanier and the Chattahoochee River.
  • Ala., Fla. appeal ruling in tri-state water wars
    This story will be updated. http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/ encourages readers to interact with one another. We will not edit your comments, but we reserve the right to delete any inappropriate responses.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Demolitions by Israel increase fivefold, says ...
    IRINThe Electronic IntifadaRamallah Skyrocketing Israeli policies of home demolitions in Area C have displaced more than 650 Palestinians In the first six months of 2011�alone.
  • Gaza lifeguards deprived of rescue equipment b ...
    Eva BartlettThe Electronic IntifadaGaza Strip Power cuts and a lack of basic rescue equipment due to Israeli restrictions mean that Gaza lifeguards can’t reach swimmers in danger.
  • Palestinian youth in Gaza skeptical about PA's ...
    Mohammed Rabah SulimanThe Electronic IntifadaGaza Strip As the Palestinian Authority approaches the United Nations to ask for full membership for the “State of Palestine,” many young people in Gaza are highly doubtful the move can secure Palestinian rights.
  • Video survey: Racism rampant among Israeli youth
    Eli Ungar-SargonThe Electronic Intifada A survey of 250 Israeli Jews reveals the extent of anti-Arab racism in�Israel.
  • Why was the PA hosting American Kabbalah touri ...
    Michelle GyeneyThe Electronic IntifadaNablus The Palestinian Authority cooperated with Israeli forces to host a fabricated “Peace and Freedom Day” rally in Nablus, while prohibiting local Palestinian tour guides from discussing politics with Kabbalist tourists from the US.

The Wonk Room

  • August 22 News: Canada Moves to Phase Out Coal ...
    Canada moves to phase out coal Canada released long-awaited regulations Friday that analysts said could phase out most of the country’s coal by midcentury. The new rules apply a stringent performance standard on new plants, requiring them to emit roughly the same greenhouse gases as natural gas ...
  • God Cuts Off Pope Benedict’s Anti-Gay Ma ...
    Pope Benedict XVI was forced to cut short his anti-gay marriage speech in Madrid this weekend after “powerful winds and sheets of rain struck at a vast air base, whipping off his skullcap, shaking the stage and knocking over at least one tent.” He did get at least this much out: “The Lord calls ...
  • Where The Missing Jobs Are
    Northwestern’s Robert Gordon runs the numbers and illustrates which sectors are most responsible for America’s jobs deficit, looking not just at where the losses have been but on where the shortfalls are relative to a full employment hypothetical: â The shortfall of consumer-services spending is ...
  • During Financial Crisis, Fed Has More In Outst ...
    Via “Freedom of Information Act requests, months of litigation and an act of Congress,” Bloomberg News complied data on the full extent of the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending during the 2008 financial crisis. At the peak of its lending — December 5, 2008 — the Fed had $1.2 trillion in loans ...
  • Donald Trump Warns Libyan Rebels Will Be &#821 ...
    Now that Libya’s NATO-backed rebels have taken the capital of Tripoli, political gadfly Donald Trump wants the insurgents to repay the West for its help by turning over the country’s oil. “You know, in the old days, when you won a war, to the victor go the spoils,” Trump said, “why don’t we take ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Oppressed People Complain Too Much
    Except for the REAL oppressed people that is: WHITE MALES Yeah, because EXCUSE ME, but First Nations peoples get to occupy buildings and land all the time, and they DON'T ALWAYS GET SHOT AND KILLED FOR IT!!! And Black People? Get a ticket on the "Clue Train": Racism was defeated in the Ame ...
  • Excellent Article on European Financial Crisis
    As good a source as I've yet found on the subject - Vicente Navarro: "Crisis and Class Struggle in the Eurozone" Another characteristic of this group of countries is the acceptance by the governing social democratic parties of most of the neoliberal policies pushed by the EU establishment. Th ...
  • Sometimtes They Really Are Just Fucking Morons
    Reagan, bush II, harper, Mike Harris, Tim Hudak, Ernie Eves, John Baird, Jim Flaherty, William Kristol, Ezra Levant, and of course, Rob Ford. When you factor in the way that they get so handsomely rewarded for their services and the fact that they want government to fail in order to slash ser ...
  • Socialist Ducks
    This essay was penned by Brian LaBreton. It was the winning entry into the Fraiser Institute's "Future 'Conservative' Hacks of Canada" contest. Brian is a second-year university student, studying economics. His parents are both high-school teachers and he hates them deeply. He also had the misfo ...
  • APTN Update on Pickton Inquiry
    One of our great national disgraces is being covered by the APTN News.

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Canadian political leader Jack Layton, 1950-2011
    "Your support and well wishes are so appreciated. Thank you. I will fight this – and beat it," wrote NDP leader Jack Layton on Facebook. Sadly the cancer he so bravely fought claimed Jack Layton Monday in the middle of the night. He was just 61.
  • Canadian NDP Leader Jack Layton dies after bat ...
    Canadian New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton, 61, died Monday morning after battling with cancer. The news comes after Layton won his biggest political achievement of becoming the official Opposition in Canadian Parliament.
  • Google+ rolls out 'verification badges' to users
    Google has announced it is rolling out verification badges that would allow users of its Google + determine the authenticity of profiles on its social networking site. It is focusing on celebrities for now and plans to expand later.
  • Somali-Canadians Set Prioritized Famine Respon ...
    Concerned Somali-Canadians in Toronto converged at the Alliance Neighbourhood Services on Jane Street on the evening of Wednesday, August 17th for a community consultation meeting to map out an effective response plan for the ongoing famine in Somalia.
  • Body found in Ontario pond could be missing Br ...
    A body pulled from a pond north of Toronto is thought to be that of a missing woman from Brampton. Peel Police said that there is a reasonable suspicion that the body found Sunday is that of Raquel Junio who was reported missing on Thursday.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Australia’s F-35 order ‘up in the air’
    Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith has warned Parliament that repeated cost increases and delays in the F-35 programme were falling out of line with limits set by the government and military planners (Australia to decide on F-35 fighter purchase in 2012: Govt, Reuters, 17 August 2011). Sm ...
  • Peacekeeping contribution remains dismal
    Canada was once the largest single contributor to UN peacekeeping operations. Today, according to Canadians for Peacekeeping‘s third annual factsheet on Canada and UN peacekeeping, we rank 53rd among contributing countries. The ranking represents a slight drop in Canada’s position compared to la ...
  • A Season of Non-Violence: 64 Ways for 64 Days
    Pummy Kaur, a Vancouver-based author and social justice activist, has just released a new book entitled 'A Season of Non-Violence: 64 Ways for 64 Days'.
  • National Post: U.S. troubles darken cloud over ...
    A National Post editorial from the ninth of August raises concerns about Canada’s purchase of the F-35 amid the budgetary crisis playing out in the United States (“Editorial: U.S. Troubles darken cloud over F-35,” National Post, 9 August 2011). Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), a former naval aviat ...
  • Third time’s a charm? F-35 fleet grounded again
    The U.S. Air Force grounded its fleet of Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighters earlier this month — for the 3rd time in less than year. In October 2010 the company grounded the fleet of 20 F-35s purchased by the US military after discovering a software glitch during simulation tests. ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Olive Oil Reduces Risk of Stroke
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By:  J.D. Heyes Another new study has confirmed what we’ve known for quite some time – that olive oil contributes to better health. According to researchers who followed about 7,000 people aged 65 and older in three French cities for five years, olive oil can hel ...
  • Bill Gates, Monsanto Hijack ‘Humanitarian Aid’ ...
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Ethan A. Huff Those still in denial about the connection between the so-called “humanitarian” efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the bigger agenda to thrust genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) on the populations of the world (among other thi ...
  • J&J Recalls 40,000 Bottles of Schizophrenia Dr ...
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Jonathan Benson The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Co.’s pharmaceutical division just cannot seem to get its act together. A recent recall involving 16,000 bottles of its schizophrenia drug Risperdal, and 24,000 bottles of a generic version of the same drug, mark yet ...
  • What’s Wrong With Our Food System?
    Click here for the video!
  • Dollar Seen Losing Global Reserve Status
    June 28th, 2011 Financial Times By: Jack Farchy The US dollar will lose its status as the global reserve currency over the next 25 years, according to a survey of central bank reserve managers who collectively control more than $8,000bn. More than half the managers, who were polled by UBS, predi ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
    Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
  • Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
    The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of tru ...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...

War in Context

  • Watch Al Jazeera broadcasting live from the ce ...
    Dennis Kucinich gets the prize for the worst-timed op-ed of the year: “Time to end Nato’s war in Libya” appearing today in The Guardian. As the war enters its sixth month, it is time for the US president and secretary of state to clean up the mess they’ve created with this needless military int ...
  • Libya — the first real victory in the Arab Awa ...
    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy To all those who argued that NATO’s involvement would irredeemably taint the Libyan revolution, here’s an idea that could be too much to wrap your mind around. Look at the ongoing struggle in Syria, the brutally crushed ...
  • Israel’s security strategy — when in doubt, hi ...
    Three days after the attacks by gunmen outside Eilat in southern Israel, what do we know about the identities of the gunmen? Almost nothing. In the mainstream media they are blithely referred to as “Palestinian gunmen” yet so far the only basis for this description is the unsubstantiated word o ...
  • Celebratory explosions in Tripoli?
    In a telephone address to the Libyan people, Muammar Gaddafi appealed to them to “Go forward, go forward,” and he then hung up. An advance is indeed under way, but not the one Brother Muammar was asking for. “If you can call any mobile number in Tripoli, you will hear in the background the beau ...
  • Egyptians protesting outside the Israeli embas ...
    On August 19-20, 2011 Egyptians mobilized for a demonstration in front of the Israeli Embassy demanding the removal of the flag and for the ambassador to leave as an Egyptian Army officer and 2 soldiers were killed at the Israeli-Egyptian border by Israeli helicopter the day before. A man called ...

Watts Up With That?

  • La Niña returns
    While we wait for NOAA to update their ENSO meter on the WUWT sidebar, Bob Tisdale is way ahead of them. Visually, the La Niña seems rather obvious in the image below: More is available at the WUWT ENSO page … Continue reading →
  • Climate predictions in 1974 – Famous gla ...
    Story Submitted by Geir Hasnes While we were going through the heaps of papers after a deceased family member some days ago, I noticed a newspaper clipping from the Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende, August 31, 1974, where glaciologists stated that … Continue reading →
  • Weekly Climate and Weather Roundup
    Quote of the Week: “Why should we have anybody spend money on a program that nobody’s thought through?” - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - Number of the Week: 141,200 … Continue reading →
  • My surfacestations project at the AMS conference
    Co-author Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon presents the results of the SurfaceStations project to the 19th Conference on Applied Climatology 18â20 July 2011, Asheville, North Carolina. AMS just posted these presentations (h/t to Zeke at Lucia’s) and I’m providing them here also … Continue reading →
  • Currents and climate – still not settled
    From Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  via Eurekalert Newly discovered Icelandic current could change North Atlantic climate picture An international team of researchers, including physical oceanographers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has confirmed the presence of a ...

treehugger

  • Double Impact Challenge On Healthy Eating Habits
    Which healthy eating habit should Double Impact add next? Every week, we've been asking you to help vote on new Double Impact challenges so that you can keep earning points and rewards for your favorite charity! But now your vote can also earn you a prize as part of Double Impact's Giveaway ...
  • 10 High-Function, Low Impact Birdfeeders (Slid ...
    Photo: redyellowandblueink.etsy.com Make your backyard a haven for local birds with these chic feeders -- some of which are aimed specifically at certain breeds, and all of which use recycled, upcycled, or biodegradable materials. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Neon Bicycles Pop Up in Toronto and Defy the Mayor
    Photo: good You can fight City Hall, sometimes. In this lovely little story, a Toronto woman decided to paint and spruce up an old bicycle that had been locked to a pole and abandoned for ages. In an act of civic disobedience, she painted it neon red and planted the basket. Result: a par ...
  • Elephant Wows Biologists With Its Clever Use o ...
    Screenshot via PLoS ONE / cc Kandula, a seven-year-old Asian elephant with a soft-spot for fruit, is forcing biologists to rethink the limits of pachyderm intelligence after displaying some remarkable problem-solving skills. At the National Zoo in Washington DC, researchers studying animal b ...
  • Timeshare A Backyard? Yes A Piece Of Summer In ...
    photo by Bonnie Hulkower Only in New York, where space is scarce and summer is brief, would one be able to pay to rent a backyard for a few hours. But that is what my friend Ben Pomeroy, of Now or Never radio, did last week. He rented a space called "Timeshare Backyard." Timeshare Backyard ...

Biosingularity

  • A new program for neural stem cells
    Neural stem cells can do a lot, but not everything. For example, brain and spinal cord cells are not usually generated by neural stem cells of the peripheral nervous system, and it is not possible to produce cells of the peripheral nervous system from the stem cells of the brain. However, resear ...
  • Sound Test Might Signal Minimal Consciousness
    Talk between the brain’s decision-making center, or frontal cortex, and other brain regions might distinguish aware individuals from those stripped of conscious thought. Identifying such signaling malfunctions could speed the diagnosis of vegetative states and give scientists insight into such d ...
  • An Inside Look at the Teen Brain
    Eva-Marie Fredric thought her then-14-year-old son, Dylan, could handle the task of packing for their trip to the mountains. But when the two arrived at the campsite, she found the tent — but no tent poles. “We slept outside on an inflated air mattress, freezing our bums off, with the dog huddle ...
  • How to control complex networks
    At first glance, a diagram of the complex network of genes that regulate cellular metabolism might seem hopelessly complex, and efforts to control such a system futile.However, an MIT researcher has come up with a new computational model that can analyze any type of complex network — biological, ...
  • The Human Body, Searchable in 3-D
    The first online 3-D interactive search tool of the human body was released today.  It allows a user to view and navigate the human anatomy, male or female, down to the finest detail—from the muscles and deep muscles to the nerves, arteries, vessels, and bones. This new tool, called BodyMaps, wa ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Gaddafi - a lifetime in politics
    Time seems to be up for Muammar Gaddafi, who has ruled Libya for over 40 years in a unique, sometimes eccentric style, after rebel forces claimed much of the capital, Tripoli.
  • Deeper Than Oil: A Fun Soviet Place
    In 1966, a Soviet-Mongolian youth friendship festival took place on the banks of Lake Manzherok in Russia’s Altai Republic. This might not seem like much to you, but for the then insular Soviet Union, it was a big thing indeed.
  • Kim Jong-il arrives in Russia in an armored tr ...
    The Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Kim Jong-il, arrived in the Amur Region on August 21 on an official visit to Russia. Distrustful of aircraft, the Supreme Leader travels by rail. He arrived at Bureya station in the Amur Region in a 17-car armored tra ...
  • “Fire and forget:” Engineers unveil new missil ...
    The Kornet-EM – a multipurpose long-range missile system developed in Tula – was unveiled at the MAKS-2011 air show.
  • Former Bank of Moscow president Borodin suspec ...
    Former bank of Moscow President Andrei Borodin is suspected of illegally selling shares in Estonia's lender Eesti Krediidipank, causing a 12 million euro loss to the bank, a law-enforcement source told RIA Novosti on Monday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Lance Cpl. Travis M. Nelson, 19, of Pace, FL.Army Spc. Joshua M. Seals, 21, of Porter, OK.Army ...
  • 'No on Issue 2': Yes, GOP, this is really happ ...
    Last week the Ohio politics blog Plunderbund had a series of posts about the sudden and dramatic sense of desperation that had seized the right. The panic began with an editorial from the conservative Columbus Dispatch. It was so completely at odds with reality that even a casual follower of s ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Spencer C. Duncan, 21, of Olathe, KS.Army Sgt. Alexander J. Bennett, 24, of Tacoma, WA.Army ...
  • Wisconsin's big union win and the growing libe ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postTuesday’s recall elections in Wisconsin were a stunning rebuke to the Republican party. As Craig Gilbert wrote back in March: “History tells us that most of the 16 recall attempts under way in Wisconsin are likely to fail. It als ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Staff Sgt. Kirk A. Owen, 37, of Sapulpa, OK.Marine Staff Sgt. Leon H. Lucas Jr., 32, of Wilson, N ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Genetically Modified Papayas Attacked In Hawaii
    HONOLULU — The destruction of thousands of papaya trees on the Big Island has some farmers speculating it's the work of activists who are against genetically modified fruit.Click here to read this article
  • Governments Trample Each Other In Their Haste ...
    As the food crisis looms, the real danger for the nourishment, health and culture of the world is whether to choose Monsanto's agenda over strengthening the world's agriculture. Consumer beware: Cultivation of GMOs will accelerate the loss of the world's food sovereignty and contaminate vital n ...
  • Sunflowers Melt Fukushima's Nuclear Snow
    Sparks from burning strips of paper swirled into the hot summer sky, carrying the names of the dead above a temple in Fukushima where thousands of sunflowers have been planted to help fight the omnipresent radiation.Click here to read this article
  • Peeling Back the Label
    Peeling Back the Label It can be confusing trying to make sense of all the environmental claims plastered on food products lining grocery store aisles. Here's the truth behind the print.Click here to read this article
  • Putnam County Readies for Long Class-Action La ...
    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Putnam County is gearing up for a lengthy class action trial that will require additional staff and support at the courthouse for months.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Sweating the small stuff: engineered nano-mate ...
    Many public health hazards are too small to see.  This is especially true of engineered nano-materials, or ENMs.  As their name implies, these materials are small—no more than a few hundred nanometers in diameter.  (For perspective, one nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or one human hair sp ...
  • Dam Water in China: Water 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.

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Reviews of Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart
    REVIEWS OF BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE BY IAN WISHART Firstly, we are very glad to have read it and thankful that Wishart (and King) have written it. Wishart has done the entire body politic a great deal of good....
  • Climate study endorses central premise of Air Con
    A central premise of my book Air Con, from 2009, appears to have been validated by new peer reviewed research. My argument, which Climate Change minister Nick Smith and self-proclaimed climate expert - truffle grower Gareth Renowden, tried to challenge...
  • BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...
    FROM AN EXTRACT OF BREAKING SILENCE Published in the latest Investigate HIS/HERS magazine... What you are about to read has been described as the most controversial book ever published in New Zealand. It wasn’t supposed to be. But news sent...
  • BREAKING SILENCE news release
    BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE By Ian Wishart $39.99, Howling At The Moon Publishing Ltd RELEASE DATE: Imminent Final opportunity to pre-order for delivery on Day One: www.howlingatthemoon.com The new book that shatters myths surrounding the Kahui murder case is...
  • News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
    NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...

My Care2 Picks

  • Norway's 9/11: The Horror Is In The Message
    You will send your troops where we tell you, you will buy foreign products regardless of ethical considerations, you will stop supporting the vermin we are trying to eradicate, and under no circumstances will you threaten anyone. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Concealed Weapons Against the Environment
    2012 spending bill for the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agencyincluded an astonishing 39 anti-environmental riders Here are some of the other riders that were still pending as of FridaySubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why Is The Monterey Bay Aquarium Greenwashing ...
    Nation�s major sustainable food writers and bloggers converge on Monterey, CA for an invite-only sustainable food conference. New sponsor this year: Kellogg Garden Products that has contaminated �organic� school gardens in LA with sewerage sludgeSubmitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �| ...
  • Globalist Imperial Network
    The mechanics of world empire, in particular the current corporate-financier oligarchy has been examined in great detail. The US State Department, supporting NGOs funded directly by both US taxpayers' money as well as funds from the Fortune 500 corpSubmitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World �|� ...
  • Pragmatism not Idealism
    This is the math and logic that underpins the arguments of "climate pragmatism" -- such as espoused in the report released yesterday by that name, The Hartwell Paper and The Climate Fix.Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Maan News Agency: Rights group: Teenager kille ...
    Maan News Agency: Rights group: Teenager killed Tuesday was disabled: BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A young Palestinian shot dead Tuesday in the Gaza Strip suffered from mental disabilities and was in an area... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Indicted war criminal on payroll of UK Israel ...
    Indicted war criminal on payroll of UK Israel lobby | The Electronic Intifada: On Friday, I wrote about how Michael Herzog, a retired Israeli brigadier general, is working for one of the most... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Pan-African News Wire: Venezuelan President Ch ...
    Pan-African News Wire: Venezuelan President Chavez Denounces West Over Libya: CARACAS (AFP)--Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a staunch ally of embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, slammed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Gaddafi llama a resistir ataques de la OTAN a ...
    Gaddafi llama a resistir ataques de la OTAN a la capital Gaddafi calls to resist attacks by NATO to the capital [granma.cubaweb.cu] TRIPOLI, August 21 .- The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi today... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Mathaba - Rebels Cannot Advance An Inch Withou ...
    Mathaba - Rebels Cannot Advance An Inch Without NATO: Libyan government spokesman, Ibrahim Moussa has said the rebels and NATO are not fighting a clean war, because they are kidnapping and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Hurricane Irene a serious threat to U.S. East ...
    ShareThisHurricane Irene a serious threat to U.S. East Coast 22 Aug 2011 Hurricane Irene, a category one storm with maximum winds of 80 mph, continues to intensify as it moves west-northwestward at 13 mph. Current model track guidance is nearly unanimous in steering Irene towards the southeast U ...
  • Perry Made a Million on Land While in Office
    ShareThisPerry Made a Million on Land While in Office 19 Aug 2011 Texas Governor Rick Perry, who has never been paid a government salary of more than $150,000, became a millionaire while in public office through well-timed sales in the Texas real estate market. The Republican presidential hopefu ...
  • Gaddafi tells Libyans to save Tripoli from 're ...
    ShareThisGaddafi tells Libyans to save Tripoli from 'rebels' 21 Aug 2011 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi made a second appeal for his people to "save Tripoli" from a rebel US-backed offensive, in an audio message played on state television on Sunday. "It is the obligation of all Libyans. It is a q ...
  • Iraq denies striking deal on U.S. troops stayi ...
    ShareThisIraq denies striking deal on U.S. troops staying beyond 2011 20 Aug 2011 Iraq denied what the U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said about agreeing to allow some U.S. troops to stay in the country after the 2011 withdrawal deadline, official television reported on Saturday. "The Ir ...
  • U.S. forces to stay in Iraq into 2012, says Le ...
    ShareThisU.S. forces to stay in Iraq into 2012, says Leon Panetta 19 Aug 2011 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Iraq's government has agreed to extend the U.S. military presence in the country beyond 2011 -- but Iraq quickly rejected the claim. The word from Panetta, during an interview with S ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in the body. All vaccine d ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix solutions ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – ...
    Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; hindering the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation (circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, s ...
  • VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Part 2 – Demyelination, ...
    Article is intended to be read in conjunction with Part 1: VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix â A Legacy Of Shame Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Tracer Burnout
    A Female Engagement Team (FET) at work in an Afghan compound. The notions that women should not, cannot, or do not go into combat, all are invalid. They should, they can, and they do. And here we need them. 22 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan, 4-4Cav ...
  • Battlefield Forensics
    The Later meeting 18 August 2011 Task Force Spartan, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan During a planning session at a sand table, numerous firefights broke out.� We were at safe distance but close enough to hear heavy volumes of machine gun, AK-47 and RPGs.� The enemy had hit three targets simult ...
  • JTAC: Joint Terminal Attack Controller
    17 August 2011 4-4Cav in Combat Operation Flintlock We made it off the helicopter landing zone with no fighting. The enemy was not afraid of us, but they must have been taken by surprise. Two Air Force JTACs were along for the mission, as they nearly always are in deliberate attacks that mi ...
  • Body Bags & Speedballs
    Body bag drag 16 August 2011 Zhary District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan The enemy is easily resupplied.� His arteries for food and water are shorter than snake legs.�� He can buy or steal much of what he needs to fight.��� We don�t steal food or materials from locals, so we must plan for ...
  • War Dogs & Veloci-Chickens in Afghanistan
    Task Force Spartan Pushing Deeper into Taliban Country. A canine team at rest. 15 August 2011 Zhary District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan War Puppies Friday morning I was out for a run on base and must have seen five working dogs and their handlers.� The two dogs you will see in these disp ...

The Killing Train

  • Things they don't tell you about capitalism: a ...
    Published on ZNet Ha-Joon Chang is a development economist with a special interest in economic history. His most recent book, “23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism”, as well as previous books, have critiqued neoliberalism and laissez-faire economics. I interviewed him by telephone on A ...
  • Ultraviolent conflicts
    Between economic austerity and riot stories, my reading is out of sync with the headlines. I've been reading more about African conflicts, especially very recent and ongoing ones. Specifically: -Allen and Vlassenroot's book on the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. -Jason Stearns's book on the Co ...
  • Numeracy alert. Gravy drain.
    I read Metro Today on the subway today. There was a story blaming City of Toronto staff for squandering - wait for it - up to $1 MILLION dollars in sole-sourced contracts. So, Rob Ford is right, and there is waste to be cut, eh? Except that $1 million is, for example, 1/3 of what the KPMG report ...
  • The politics of economic self-destruction
    Sorry for the hiatus. Partly I've been busy with work and life and been unable to spend as much time doing articles. Partly I am trying to train myself to not relate to the world through 2000 word articles but to have a little more variety, including longer things (ie., books), one of which I am ...
  • Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
    This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.

treehugger

  • Double Impact Challenge On Healthy Eating Habits
    Which healthy eating habit should Double Impact add next? Every week, we've been asking you to help vote on new Double Impact challenges so that you can keep earning points and rewards for your favorite charity! But now your vote can also earn you a prize as part of Double Impact's Giveaway ...
  • 10 High-Function, Low Impact Birdfeeders (Slid ...
    Photo: redyellowandblueink.etsy.com Make your backyard a haven for local birds with these chic feeders -- some of which are aimed specifically at certain breeds, and all of which use recycled, upcycled, or biodegradable materials. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Neon Bicycles Pop Up in Toronto and Defy the Mayor
    Photo: good You can fight City Hall, sometimes. In this lovely little story, a Toronto woman decided to paint and spruce up an old bicycle that had been locked to a pole and abandoned for ages. In an act of civic disobedience, she painted it neon red and planted the basket. Result: a par ...
  • Elephant Wows Biologists With Its Clever Use o ...
    Screenshot via PLoS ONE / cc Kandula, a seven-year-old Asian elephant with a soft-spot for fruit, is forcing biologists to rethink the limits of pachyderm intelligence after displaying some remarkable problem-solving skills. At the National Zoo in Washington DC, researchers studying animal b ...
  • Timeshare A Backyard? Yes A Piece Of Summer In ...
    photo by Bonnie Hulkower Only in New York, where space is scarce and summer is brief, would one be able to pay to rent a backyard for a few hours. But that is what my friend Ben Pomeroy, of Now or Never radio, did last week. He rented a space called "Timeshare Backyard." Timeshare Backyard ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Libya requests UN investigation into NATO abuse
    [JURIST] Libyan Prime Minister Al Baghdad Ali Al-Mahmoudi [BBC backgrounder] requested that the UN create a "high-level commission" to investigate alleged human rights abuses [Reuters report] by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) [official website]. Though NATO was mandated by the UN ...
  • Afghanistan election commission removes 9 lawm ...
    [JURIST] The Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) [official website] announced on Sunday that nine lawmakers will be removed from their parliamentary positions [IEC backgrounder] for election fraud in the disputed September 2010 election [JURIST report]. The representatives are to be rem ...
  • Australia Guantanamo detainee Hicks petitions ...
    [JURIST] Former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive] has filed an appeal [text, PDF] with the UN Human Rights Committee [official website] complaining of multiple violations of international law stemming from his five-year incarceration at Guantanamo fr ...
  • DOJ asks Supreme Court to uphold military impo ...
    [JURIST] Attorneys for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Thursday asked the US Supreme Court [official website] to uphold a controversial law that makes it illegal to falsely claim to be a decorated military veteran. The Stolen Valor Act [text, PDF], enacted in 2005, makes ...
  • Nebraska AG predicts state campaign finance la ...
    [JURIST] Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning [official website] on Wednesday issued an advisory opinion [text, PDF] drawing marked parallels between the state's campaign finance laws and portions of similar Arizona regulations that were recently overturned [JURIST report] by the US Supreme Cou ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Shabak Blames IDF for Eilat Terror Attack
    Until yesterday night, I thought I knew or understood most of the facts of the Eilat terror attack.  That changed with Anshel Pfeffer’s article in Haaretz (Hebrew) which reveals a huge fissure developing between Shabak and the IDF over the terror incident.  Israel’s intelligence service claim ...
  • Adam Holland: Negro’s Greatest Friend
    After I wrote the post Whorin’ and Schnorrin’, I noticed that a British Christian pro-Israel blogger, Adam Holland, unleashed a broadside against it.  I’m always prepared for attacks against my work and my views.  But I prefer attacks that at least possess a semblance of coherence.  Holland’s ...
  • IDF Kills 14 in Gaza, Hamas Renounces Ceasefir ...
    This is exactly the sort of gift that Israeli rightists like Bibi Netanyahu love.  Faced with a mounting internal crisis in the form of the J14 movement, Palestinian rejectionists have handed him his “Get Out of Political Crisis Free” card.  Yesterday’s attack in Eilat has fueled an Israeli re ...
  • Court Dismisses Neuwirth Libel Claim
    This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. –Psalms I’m not sure the Lord made or brought this day.  But I do share the joy of this Biblical passage.  Today, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Linda Lefkowitz dismissed Rachel Neuwirth’s libel claim against me.  This is ...
  • Palestinian Attack on Eilat, 8 Israeli and 6 G ...
    For anyone who hasn’t read Huck Finn, you must.  Tonight calls to mind the harrowing section of that novel about the feud till death of the Hatfield and McCoys.  In American parlance, since the publication of the book, the phrase has come to mean any sort of family feud.  But go back and re-r ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • The Consumer Culture Will Never Be Convicted
    November 28, 2008: As the recession really started to bite in the Western world, something was stirring in the minds of people across the USA. Black Friday, that time of year when, traditionally, retail businesses move from being in the “red” to being in the “black”, had taken on a Pavlovian sig ...
  • London 2012: Crass, Commercial and Completely ...
    The Olympic Charter reads as follows: Fundamental Principles of Olympism 1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of eff ...
  • Why So Few Unsuitablogs?
    I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
  • Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
    We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...
  • Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
    In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Mobile Tech Brings Hope to Children in Zimbabwe
    In Zimbabwe, it's common for people to receive information over their mobile phones rather than using email or the Internet. That's why Kubatana, a non-profit that aims to improve the accessibility of human rights and civic information in Zimbabwe, teamed up with Freedom Fone to broaden access t ...
  • Public Lab Helps Communities Do 'Civic Science ...
    Recently, a resident of Plaquemines Parish, La., made a striking comment to me about the importance of local involvement and knowledge in post-disaster projects: Listen to the people that have been down here, lived here, fished here, and camped here their whole entire lives and even their pa ...
  • An Inside Look at Stroome's Metamorphosis in T ...
    If you've used Stroome, our collaborative video remixing site, in the last few weeks, you will have noticed, and hopefully enjoyed, a complete redesign of the site. User flow has now been streamlined, and the embedded community and collaborative elements make the process a lot more fun: ...
  • With The Tiziano Project, Citizen Media Evolves
    In 2006, the phrase "community journalism" was exploding as a possible savior for the journalism industry (similar to the much-hyped hyper-local journalism today). Somewhere along the way, however, the concept got washed over by a sea of organizations simply distributing Flip Video cameras a ...
  • The State Decoded Aims to Make State Laws Acce ...
    State laws are written for and by attorneys. While that might make for a good legal system, it sure makes them hard for regular people to understand. There's code law -- what law books are full of -- and then there's case law, which is how the laws are actually interpreted by courts. Every t ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge of Terrorism - Implications and Aftermath ...
    The terrorist attack in the Negev threatens to escalate into both a wider Israel-Gaza conflict and an Egyptian-Israeli diplomatic crisis.The August 18 Palestinian terrorist attack in Israel's southern Negev Desert is the most serious such incident since 2008. The Israeli casualty toll was nearly ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Three Ways to be Rid of ...
    Today, five months after the Syrian regime began its brutal crackdown on anti-regime protestors, President Barack Obama announced that "the time has come for President Asad to step aside." The statement, released simultaneously with a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, puts to rest de ...
  • Edge on Politics - US Post Offices Targeted fo ...
    A large majority of post offices that have been targeted for closure are in Republican districts.More than 2,500 of these post offices are in GOP districts, while about 1,000 are in districts represented by Democrats, according to a review by The Hill. There were fewer than 100 stores where the ...
  • The Race for Photo-Electric - Photovoltaics En ...
    A new photovoltaic energy-conversion system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology�can be powered solely by heat, generating electricity with no sunlight at all. While the principle involved is not new, a novel way of engineering the surface of a material to convert heat into pre ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Approval Rating for Congress H ...
    Americans' approval of Congress tied an all-time low in a new Gallup poll released on August 16, underscoring the sour opinion facing lawmakers during their August recess. Just 13 percent of U.S. adults said they approve of the way Congress is handling its job, tying a previous low point set in ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Barack Obama Vs. The American People (Obama's ...
    This weekend President Obama and his campaign team went on television and made it clear he will not be running against Rick Perry, Mitt Romney or any of the other Republican Candidates, no those candidates are too formidable in his mind. The president will also refuse to run on his record and to ...
  • Why Glenn Beck Is Correct on the Middle East
    By Barry Rubin Having studied the Middle East professionally for 35 years and with a PhD in Middle East history, let me make it perfectly clear: Glenn Beck, who is holding several rallies in Israel this week, has a better grasp of Middle East politics than most Western experts, not to mention ...
  • I have Proof That God Still Performs Miracles.
    If anybody wants proof that God is still in the miracle business they should read this story about my weekend. My daughter was in a car crash on Friday that by all logic she shouldn't have survived. At about 5:45pm I was packing up my computer for the night and watching one of my guilty pl ...
  • News From Egypt, DAMN Those Jews are GOOD!
    There is an old story about a Jewish man who goes to his rabbi to let him know he is converting to Christianity and joining a Neo-Nazi party. Shocked the rabbi says, "But Bernie, you are such an observant Jew, you keep kosher, go to Synagogue and pray 3x every day, you are our number one Torah r ...
  • SMACK DOWN-Laura Ingraham Makes Charlie Rangel ...
    NOTE: if you cannot see two videos on this post please� click here New York Congressman Charlie Rangel should have quit after having his wrist slapped by the Congressional Ethics committee. The poor guy is not as sharp as he used to be, either that or he has never been interviewed by the li ...

The Real Agenda

  • Intelligence Agency Rejects Osama Murder in Pa ...
    Stratfor disputes OBL killing in Abbottabad The Nation August 22, 2011 Globally recognised intelligence and forecast STRATFOR has rejected the US Central Intelligence Agency claim that the man killed in Abbottabad’s compound by US Naval SEALs was al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. This was one of t ...
  • Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in L ...
    Bloomberg August 22, 2011 Citigroup Inc. (C) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) were the reigning champions of finance in 2006 as home prices peaked, leading the 10 biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms to their best year ever with $104 billion of profits. By 2008, the housing market’s collapse fo ...
  • Operation Mermaid Dawn: NATO Slaughter in Tripoli
    by Thierry Meyssan Global Research August 22, 2011 On Saturday evening, at 8pm, when the hour of Iftar marked the breaking of the Ramadan fast, the NATO command launched its “Operation Siren” against Libya. The Sirens were the loudspeakers of the mosques, which were used to launch Al Qaeda’s cal ...
  • Hilarious: S&P Downgrades Venezuela on “ ...
    Reuters August 19, 2011 Standard & Poor’s on Friday downgraded Venezuela’s credit ratings as it implemented a new methodology more heavily focused on political riskâa key weakness in the oil-producing country. S&P cut Venezuela’s long-term sovereign rating to B-plus from BB-minus. The outlook on ...
  • Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak Sickens ...
    By Margie Mason The Associated Press August 19, 2011 HANOI, Vietnam â Vietnam’s prime minister has put the country on alert as an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease continues to surge, killing 81 children and sickening more than 32,000 people nationwide so far this year, officials said Fri ...

Wind Watch

  • Perth and Kinross planning chief intervenes to ...
    The furious windfarm row which has divided a Fife town has escalated after a neighbouring local authority waded in. For months, residents of Newburgh have been at loggerheads over proposals to create a “community windfarm” on local land. Now Perth and Kinross Council has entered the debate, expr ...
  • Hepburn wind farm: local doctor speaks out
    A local doctor has spoken out publicly for the first time after treating patients for symptoms associated with living near wind turbines. Dr Andja Mitric-Andjic, who practises in Daylesford, said she had treated at least two local patients for sleep deprivation, and spoken with others living nea ...
  • Judge orders wind company’s tower to topple
    FAIRFIELD TWP., Mich. � A 262-foot tower set up last fall to monitor weather for a potential wind energy project must come down, a judge ruled Monday. The tower built by Orisol Energy U.S. Inc. is in violation of Fairfield Township zoning ordinances, ruled Lenawee County Circuit Judge Margaret M ...
  • Environment ministry memo puts wind under wing ...
    GUELPH � Opponents of wind farms proposed for Wellington County have more ammunition to use in their fight. A freedom of information request filed by Wind Concerns Ontario revealed a concerning memo written by Cameron Hall, a senior environmental officer in the Ontario Ministry of the Environmen ...
  • Celebrations as wind farm plan is dropped
    Villagers are celebrating after an energy giant confirmed to the Advertiser that it had halted plans for a massive wind farm on their doorstep. The news ends almost 10 years of uncertainty for residents in Abbots Bromley and Marchington who have fought bitterly against the plans for a developmen ...

Tippers News

  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
    Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Dog Beating Charge Sends Key Largo Man To Jail
    A witness said Bubba upset Mitchell when he tried to run away. Mitchell caught the dog by the collar, the witness said, and dragged him so violently inside he damaged the dog's neck and esophagus. Then Bubba grabbed a steak from the kitchen counter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note ...
  • Targeted Dog Expected to Recover; Another Fear ...
    On Saturday morning, "Shiloh" and "Weenie" went out in the fields across from their home on Ninepin Branch Road in Berlin as they normally do. But only "Shiloh" returned to the doorstep, and her owner discovered disturbing wounds.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Shoot the Shorts
    Rather than indulging in Schadenfreude, we in the United States would do well to apply European lessons to our own troubles.
  • Progressive Intolerance
    Television pundits increasingly express an attitude that is at once arrogant and ignorant: People who oppose Keynesian economics must hate science and rational thought.
  • Progressive Intolerance
    Television pundits increasingly express an attitude that is at once arrogant and ignorant: People who oppose Keynesian economics must hate science and rational thought.
  • Schools Face Pressure to Ban Books
    “U.S. schools have banned more than 20 books and faced more than 50 other challenges this year, the American Library Association reports, and many more are expected this fall.” (USA Today) In government schools this is a political issue. FEE Timely Classic “The Central Fallacy of Public Schoolin ...
  • Some Illegal Immigrants Will Stay
    “The Obama administration said Thursday it will allow many illegal immigrants facing deportation the chance to stay in this country and apply for a work permit, while focusing on removing from the U.S. convicted criminals and those who might be a national security or public safety threat.” (Wash ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Union members carrying the banner in Virginia, ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Time for another Labor South round-up: Verizon workers in Virginia join walkout Virginia workers are among the 45,000 employees of Verizon Communication who have staged a walkout stretching from the mid-Atlantic states to Maine to protest a company that pays i ...
  • Is oil still leaking from BP's Gulf disaster site?
    There is growing concern on the Gulf Coast that oil is rising again from BP's Macondo well, site of last year's catastrophic Deepwater Horizon spill, with reports of oil sightings in the area confirmed last week during aerial surveillance by a team from Louisiana's Gulf Restoration Network. On ...
  • Flaming drinking-water well in Kentucky illumi ...
    The flaming drinking water well at a home in eastern Kentucky's Pike County first came to public attention back in May, thanks to a report by a local TV station. WKYT visited the home of Calvin and Denise Howard on Big Branch Road, where the Howards reported that the water, which runs orange an ...
  • VOICES: Where are the personal apologies for t ...
    By Kung Li The 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides generated a burst -- however brief -- of remembrance. There was Oprah Winfrey's gala show on May 4, commemorating the day the southbound Greyhound and Trailways buses pulled out of Washington, D.C. A few weeks later, a large group of Freedom ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Super Congress and the Super ...
    Number of lawmakers on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction -- also known as the "Supercommittee" or "Super Congress" -- assigned to find ways to reduce the budget deficit: 12 Amount by which the Super Congress, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, is charged with reduci ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Next President of the US
    Not that my track record on Presidential predictions is all that good, but I’m laying odds it’s Rick Perry.
  • Unbelievable disrespect to a black man in Britain
    Watch.  Seriously, watch it. It’s hard to know what to say, because what I’m thinking is unprintable.  Yeah, what a surprise that the riots occurred.  What a surprise.  And cracking down will make it worse, not better.  This isn’t even close to over, and it will never be over while men or w ...
  • Socially how the next 20 odd years will play out
    Ok, let’s get down to brass tacks.  The riots in Britain are an important event, and combined with the decision to double down on austerity they tell us a lot.  This is my baseline, loose model for the next generation. The decision has been made by Cameron and society in general that the way t ...
  • Hard and Complicated Aren’t Synonyms
    The chart above is my second favourite chart. It’s a chart of per capita health expenditures over the last forty odd years and what I want you to look at is Canada and the US. You’ll see that at one point Canada actually spent more per capita than the US, then over less than a [...]
  • The monopoly of violence and simple solutions ...
    One of the interesting things happening in Britain is the formation of ad-hoc groups for neighbourhood defense.  People have noticed that the police can’t defend them, and have decided to defend themselves. This it is not a good thing for the State, which is why the police are strongly against ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Does Japan's new Fukushima exclusion zone add up?
    It appears that the Japanese government is close to announcing what many of us have suspected since the nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi began: some people won't be going home. Numerous stories are circulating today about a potential exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant. It will mainl ...
  • Agriculture drains global water resources
    The depletion of water resources including ground water and wetlands for agriculture will leave many food producing areas, such as northern China, and India’s Punjab increasingly vulnerable to drought and crop failures in future, warns a report out today. The recent droughts in Kenya and Somalia ...
  • Wallaby genome hops into view
    Posted on behalf of Lee Sweetlove. A rabbit-sized species of kangaroo has become the third marsupial to have its genome sequenced, after the grey short-tailed opossum and Tasmanian devil. The sequence of the tammar wallaby, reported in Genome Biology, provides new insights into marsupial ...
  • Earth-like planets pile up
    A ground-based survey has turned up still more Earth-like exoplanets, including one on the inner edge of the so-called "habitable zone", where conditions might be right for life. Maybe. The High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) is a high-quality spectrograph attached to a 3.6 ...
  • Brazil's yearly deforestation up 15% - but it ...
    Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is up 15% on last year, according to preliminary results from coarse-resolution satellite photos. Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has just issued the estimate for July, and that allows a complete August 2010-July 2011 calculation (AFP ...

new geography

  • Megabus – King of the Road
    In recent years there’s been a resurgence in intercity bus travel, driven by the rise of low cost, non-stop service linking tier one cities like New York, Chicago, and Washington, DC with other regional hubs in their surrounding areas. This is a lively and diverse market, particularly on the ea ...
  • From China’s Interior, A Step Back in Time, A ...
    In the China of the 21th century, the one where all is about reckless growth, competition and the inevitable slide down into vicious consumerism of colossal proportions, there is still a big portion of it that has not caught up with the craze and preserves its most traditional qualities almo ...
  • Dulles Metrorail Silver Line Vs Bus Rapid Transit
    Long overdue rapid transit service from Washington DC to Dulles airport is now under construction. The Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project, known as the Silver Line, may seem like it was an obvious choice as a way to improve the region's public transportation. Construction began in March 2009, a ...
  • Urban Violence Abroad: An Arab Spring and a Br ...
    Treating urbanisation as some sort of homogeneous movement, a driver of an increasingly interdependent world of shared values, behaviour, and prosperity is to oversimplify.  There may be some common drivers, but urbanisation in the 21st century is likely to be quite different from urbanisati ...
  • World High-Speed Cost Increase Record
    California's high-speed rail project is setting speed records, not on tracks, but rather in cost escalation. Last week, the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) announced that the Bakersfield to Merced section, part of which will comprise the first part of the system to be built, will ...

GM Watch

  • Engineering GM food for all - Nina Fedoroff
    RESPONSES TO FEDOROFF 1.Why GMOs Won’t Feed the World (Despite What You Read in The New York Times) 2.Organic farming can too feed the world 3.Will NYTimes Science Stoop To Propaganda? NOTE: On Thursday the New York Times published an Op Ed, Engineering Food for All, by Nina Fedoroff.  http://w ...
  • Engineering GM food for all - Nina Fedoroff
    RESPONSES TO FEDOROFF 1.Why GMOs Won’t Feed the World (Despite What You Read in The New York Times) 2.Organic farming can too feed the world 3.Will NYTimes Science Stoop To Propaganda? NOTE: On Thursday the New York Times published an Op Ed, Engineering Food for All, by Nina Fedoroff.  http://w ...
  • India's GM bill "anti-people, anti-nature"
    Press Release: COALITION FOR A GM-FREE INDIA  BRAI BILL 2011 IS NO BETTER THAN ANTI-PEOPLE, ANTI-NATURE BRAI 2009  IT IS A BLATANT ATTEMPT TO BULLDOZE STATE GOVTS' & CITIZENS' RESISTANCE TO GM CROPS:  WRONG BILL BY WRONG PEOPLE FOR WRONG REASONS: ALL PROGRESSIVE PARTIES AND THEIR MPs SHOULD R ...
  • India's GM bill "anti-people, anti-nature"
    Press Release: COALITION FOR A GM-FREE INDIA  BRAI BILL 2011 IS NO BETTER THAN ANTI-PEOPLE, ANTI-NATURE BRAI 2009  IT IS A BLATANT ATTEMPT TO BULLDOZE STATE GOVTS' & CITIZENS' RESISTANCE TO GM CROPS:  WRONG BILL BY WRONG PEOPLE FOR WRONG REASONS: ALL PROGRESSIVE PARTIES AND THEIR MPs SHOULD R ...
  • India's GM bill "anti-people, anti-nature"
    Press Release: COALITION FOR A GM-FREE INDIA  BRAI BILL 2011 IS NO BETTER THAN ANTI-PEOPLE, ANTI-NATURE BRAI 2009  IT IS A BLATANT ATTEMPT TO BULLDOZE STATE GOVTS' & CITIZENS' RESISTANCE TO GM CROPS:  WRONG BILL BY WRONG PEOPLE FOR WRONG REASONS: ALL PROGRESSIVE PARTIES AND THEIR MPs SHOULD R ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • UK PMs Internet Censorship Insinuation Receive ...
    Via: ZeroPaid: You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it. I’ll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I would end up writing a headline like that, I would have told them they were insane. I am simply stunned that it [...]
  • Hugo Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home Fr ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as the metal rises to record levels behind a weakening U.S. dollar. Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 ...
  • Single Seat Electric Vehicle Sets 1,000 Miles- ...
    Via: PhysOrg: An experimental electric vehicle called “Schluckspecht” (“boozer,” or “tippler” in German) has set the record for achieving the longest drive in a battery-powered vehicle on a single battery charge. Its record-breaking distance was 1,013.8 miles (1,631.5 km). The trip lasted 36 hou ...
  • Long Beach Police Department Claims Authority ...
    The U.S. horror show is plumbing new depths of fascism now. This one will definitely cause you to skip a beat. Even I had to pause and re-read this one in disbelief. Via: Long Beach Post: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no apparent ...
  • Who—and What—Are Behind the &#8220 ...
    I just included a tiny piece of this. Click through, but be ready to for a lengthy and careful meditation on total absurdity of this fabricated spectacle. Via: Who What Why: The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, an ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 21 Signs That The New Reality For Many Baby Bo ...
    All over America tonight, millions of elderly Americans are wondering if their money is going to run out before it is time for them to die.  Those that are now past retirement age are not going to be rioting in the streets, but that doesn't mean that large numbers of them are no ...
  • Taxed Into Oblivion
    In the United States today, we are being taxed into oblivion, yet it is being done so stealthily that most Americans don't even realize what is happening.  Most people are fixated on federal income tax rates, but the federal income tax is only one of the dozens of different taxe ...
  • 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 ...
  • A 634 Point Stock Market Crash And 8 More Reas ...
    Are you ready for part two of the global financial collapse?  Many now fear that we may be on the verge of a repeat of 2008 after the events of the last several days.  On Friday, Standard & Poor's stripped the U.S. government of its AAA credit rating for the first time in histor ...
  • The Debt Ceiling Deal From Hell
    Is the debt ceiling deal supposed to be some sort of a cruel joke?  Is this what the American people have been waiting months and months for?  The "debt ceiling deal from hell" is a complete and total fraud.  Barack Obama will not need to worry about the debt ceiling again until ...

Desertification

  • In informal urban settlements, malnutrition af ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=93551 KENYA: “Perfect storm” brewing among urban poor NAIROBI, 22 August 2011 (IRIN) – The food crisis that is devastating lives and killing children throughout the Horn of Africa is not restricted to the arid lands where … Continue reading →
  • Global food security, food systems, diets and ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/book/review.php?a=2139 Food security, nutrition and sustainability Edited by Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons and Tabatha Wallington Published by Earthscan Website: www.earthscan.co.uk 2011, 295pp, ISBN 978 1 84971 387 0 (Pb) £29.99 The world faces a global f ...
  • A new Green Revolution in Africa (New Agricult ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/book/review.php?a=2144 The politics of seed in Africa’s Green Revolution Edited by Ian Scoones and John Thompson Published by the Institute of Development Studies Website: www.ids.ac.uk 2011, 120pp, ISSN 0265 5012, £14.95 Significant amounts of money have bee ...
  • A ‘doubly green revolution’ in Asi ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/news/newsitem.php?a=2147 Experts discuss Asian food security With 60 per cent of rural Asians living in poverty, hundreds of experts have stressed the importance of increasing food production in a socially responsible and environmentally sustainable manner in ...
  • Africa’s potential for intensifying prod ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/book/review.php?a=2149 Climate change and food systems resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa Edited by Lim Li Ching, Sue Edwards and Nadia El-Hage Scialabba Published by FAO Website: Earthprint (to purchase this book) or FAO website (to download a free … Continue r ...

The Paper Trail

  • Romney hosts fundraiser at La Jolla home that ...
    Politics Mitt Romney's ocean-front home in La Jolla, Calif. Lenny Ignelzi/AP At his ocean front home in chic La Jolla, Mitt Romney is hosting a party for scores of his top campaign bundlers to motivate them on by dangling an Olympic style “medalist” program that can ear ...
  • Plastics industry edited environmental textbook
    Pollution In 2009, a Calif. school district added new section to a textbook titled 'The Advantages of Plastic Shopping Bags' � Americans use an estimated 100 billion plastic shopping bags each year, nearly all of them thrown away. � Jacquelyn Martin/AP Under pr ...
  • Goldman Sachs-owned solar company skips opport ...
    The Politics of Energy Part of the vast Nevada desert that Cogentrix, a Goldman Sachs-owned solar company, claimed for development, but has since given up on.�� Laura Rauch/AP file SAN FRANCISCO � Federal land managers are rejecting a Goldman Sachs-owned company's a ...
  • Top health information technology firms prefer ...
    Health Emdeon, CareFusion among those wanting former legislative, executive branch staffers Doctors, hospitals and insurance companies are making the switch to electronic health records. Lucy Pemoni/Associated Press It has long been a tradition for executive and legislat ...
  • Only 15 of top 100 health information technolo ...
    Health Many diversified firms have bigger fish to fry Despite the more than $27 billion in federal stimulus money for health information technology, many of the top firms in the field are not lobbying for a piece of that pie.

backofthebook.ca

  • Is CSIS replaying the Arar card?
    By Alison@Creekside A leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui  in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute between Montreal and France. It has already been enthusiasticall ...
  • Designer Worms
    by Eric Pettifor Remember all those episodes of the various Star Treks where characters were genetically altered, either willingly or unwillingly, by some means or other? It would happen within the course of a single episode and be neatly fixed at the end, with a hypo from the lovely Dr. ...
  • Hinkle, Lilley, Mammoliti: So much Con Klown b ...
    By Montreal Simon Oh dear. What a dilemma eh? I just created my very own Con Klown Hypocrisy Award. But now I can't seem to decide who is this week's winner. So please help me out . Here are the candidates in no particular order: (1) PHILLIP HINKLE, the 64-year old Republican State ...
  • The Star and The Mark: open for shilling
    By Shannon Rupp The Toronto Star just announced that you can’t trust a thing you read on their website -- although that’s not quite the way they phrased it. Canada’s largest daily has joined forces with TheMarkNews.com, one of those free blogger sites, to acquire a small army of unpaid "commu ...
  • Granny Turmel and the red separatist scare
    By Montreal Simon As the Liberals continue their fevered pathetic assault on Nycole Turmel. No doubt hoping that out of her ashes, their shrunken party will rise again, like some fleshless phoenix. Or some charred scarecrow. Even as they help fuel comments like this and this and this in ...

libcom

  • Verizon Strike Highlights Need for New Workers ...
    verizon.jpg 45,000 American workers from the CWA have been on strike for nearly two weeks. Adam Ford, of Infantile Disorder, examines the lengths the company and the state have gone to to undermine t ...
  • Philippine airline workers under attack!
    Philippine airline workers under attack! This is the latest development in the Philippines concerning the state and capitalists' attacks against the working class. The union despite its "pro-worker" rhetoric still cling to legal mean ...
  • IWW – Major gains at Heron Tower dispute
    Heron Tower.jpg Industrial Workers of the World Cleaners and Allied Grades Branch has secured significant gains to the benefit of low-paid cleaning staff Following negotiations ...
  • An open letter to those who condemn looting (P ...
    Looted-goods-lie-on-the-p-007.jpg Second part of an open letter from Socialism and/or barbarism about responses to looting. First part can be found here on Libcom. 3. They are ...
  • An open letter to those who condemn looting (P ...
    Rioting-in-Brixton-002.jpg An open letter from Socialism and/or barbarism about responses to looting. Dear you all, I fear we have nothing to say to each other. read more

Free Range International

  • Attention To Detail
    My good friend E2 has kept FRI alive, which enables me to throw up a post I’m dying to share.  I’m still going to stay mum about where I am and what we’re up to, but, we’ll complete our remaining projects in a few months allowing me to tell that story fairly soon…Inshallah from the [...]
  • Who’s the Enemy Here?
    Last week I wrote about how ordinary Afghans have much to fear from the villains when traveling on the highways and roads in this country.  This week, I’d like to address one of the biggest threats to those of us in the Kabul expat community: the Afghan government security apparatus.  I was insp ...
  • This Ain’t Route 66
    Since so many people in the western media have been freely tossing words like “Taliban” and “terrorist” around recently, I thought I’d give you all a slice of life glimpse into what it’s like to actually live here in Afghanistan with real terrorists.  We Americans have a love affair with cars, ...
  • An Open Letter to Martin Frost
    Dear Mr. Frost, Yesterday, while perusing through my usual roundup of blogs and new sites, I ran across your article, The Tea Party Taliban, on Politico.com.  I’m sure you thought you were quite clever, likening the American Tea Party to the Afghan Taliban, with statements such as this: Ten year ...
  • Riding A Dead Horse
    I thought you might all appreciate some Afghan humor today.  I found this on the website Who is Who in Afghanistan, which is a great site to check out if you want dirt on Afghan politicians and power brokers.  Most of the content on the site seems to be provided by Afghans themselves, and althou ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Things That Make You Say HMMMMMMM!
    He served 10 presidents, but died alone in squalor: What happened to Theodoric C. James? White House Photo – Theodoric James Jr. worked in the White House for almost 50 years. His Northwest Washington neighbors never knew he catalogued important, sometimes sensitive, documents. By Christian Dave ...
  • A Message to Horowitz and Kane – the Ill ...
    You indeed are the masters of spin – the masters of lying hypocrisy – the masters of obfuscation and calling evil good and good evil. As Khazarian Double Agents, I highly doubt you have ever read The Bible – have you?  I doubt you have read Isaiah – so let me share his words: “WOE [...]
  • Zombie Apocalpyse – What Others Are Now ...
    I first reported on this immediately after the CDC issued its report.  Now others are also writing on this topic.  GREAT NEWS!!! A. True Ott, PhD THE MEANING OF CDC “ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE” PART 2 By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu August 17, 2011 NewsWithViews.com CDC Creating a âZombie Horrorâ Conscio ...
  • The Amazing TRUE STORY of Susan Lindauer. EXT ...
    Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq Susan Lindauer
  • The NEW TEN ARTICLES OF FAITH of IGNORANT KHAZ ...
    Mormons have something called “Articles of Faith”  beginning with “We Believe”— likewise, here are TEN, BASIC 9-11 fables that our “government” want you to simply accept on BLIND FAITH!!   Are these indeed fables, or are they TRUTHS, or merely some false tenets of an “OUTRAGEOUS CONSPIRACY THE ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
    Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
  • Milos Raonic, ATP Tennis Player (Apr 2, 2011)
    The Canadian tennis star and his power serve are making waves around the world. Peter talks with Raonic about childhood ambition, focus and the sport he loves.
  • Almas Jiwani, Women's Rights Advocate
    President of National Committee of UN Women in Canada on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and the state of women around the world.
  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 22, 2011)
    Highlights of the conversation with Peter originally broadcast Jan 17 and 18, 2011.
  • Olivia Chow, NDP MP (Jan 15, 2011)
    Jack Layton and Olivia Chow: Ottawa’s political power couple -- he’s a party leader, she’s one of his backbenchers. But only one of them makes the cut for this week’s program, and its not him! Olivia Chow is our guest and there’s lots to talk about.

Scotts Contracting

  • CAD Drafting Details-Structural Porch Frame
    Misc CADD Details for Adding a Porch to an Existing Home. Existing House Framing CADD Detail 1/306 Option 1 Porch Framing CADD Detail 1/307 Exterior Finish CADD Detail 1/308
  • Scotts Contracting- Home Energy Pros Membershi ...
    Congratulations! Your Home Energy Pros membership has been approved. Invite your friends to join you: http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/main/invitation/new?xg_source=msg_wel_network Thanks for joining us! Home Energy Pros Home Energy Pros is a social network *Scott’s Contracting* Green Me UP-Scotty ...
  • Go green with your building project
    – How to build your green building business –In the building industry, green business is the only good news that is left for the consumers. Are you a promoter who is looking for constructing buildings and still struggling within the sluggish market conditions? Though traditional buildings may no ...
  • Future Fighters
    Sustainable Living Education at Unity College Say the words, “renewable energy” or “sustainable living” to the average person on the street, and you are liable to get a furrowed brow, and a cobbled together response about the environment and solar energy. Most people have a vague idea of what th ...
  • Porch Column CAD Drawings by Scotts Contracting
    CAD Details of Simple Porch Footings, Foundations, Reinforcement, Stone Ledge, and Anchor Bolts for the Column

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Gun Control: Playing the Race Card
    1967 Detroit Riots Progressive “scholarly” research into gun control generally makes two equally salient points: 1) the aim of gun control legislation is to control people (mainly disenfranchised minorities and the poor), not guns and 2) in countries with strict gun control laws, the use of dead ...
  • Progressives Who Oppose Gun Control
    Lyndon Johnson: Father of Gun Control I’ve always been curious how American progressives got on the wrong – anti-civil liberties – side of gun control. In my mind this has been a grave strategic error. I have written elsewhere about the extreme difficulty liberals and progressives face in engagi ...
  • State and Local Support for Marijuana Decrimin ...
    Sativex - marijuana by prescription This is the last of three posts on ending the War on Drugs. Unlike the federal government, states aren’t allowed to run deficits. Since the 2008 economic collapse, both Democratic and Republican dominated states have been extremely proactive in reduc ...
  • The Cato Institute and the Drug War
    The Cato Institute This is the 2nd of 3 posts about growing broad spectrum support for ending the War on Drugs. The extremely conservative Cato Institute are clearly in the forefront of the campaign to end the war on drugs. I got a mind bending wake-up call last week from visiting their  website ...
  • Cost Cutting and the Drug War
    Ron Paul and Barney Frank - HR 2306 cosponsors Thanks to the recession and debt crisis, progressives seeking to end the failed War on Drugs have some curious bedfellows, including the ultra-conservative Cato Institute, grassroots Tea Party groups and even mainstream Republicans. Drug Policy Alli ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • ABC's This Week, 8/21/11: David Axelrod Talks ...
    At 7:10: JAKE TAPPER: Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore had this question that he wanted me to ask you: "Are you aware of how profoundly disappointed so many of the President's supporters are? Do you realize that each time the President moves to the right, he picks up no votes and loses many ...
  • Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moor ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2011   Contact: Matt Smucker, 717.209.0445, jms@beyondthechoir.org   Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moore in Support of PFC Bradley Manning   Alan Moore, the world-renowned British author, issued the following statement today in support of accused WikiL ...
  • Letter from Environmental Leaders on the Perse ...
    Dear Friends, On July 26th 2011, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. On March 3rd, Tim was found guilty of two felony counts for participating in a peaceful act of civil disobedience. A bright, charismatic young man could face up to ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address at Forbes Field ...
    ROOSEVELT: Mr. Chairman, Governor Earle, my friends of Pennsylvania: A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. Tonight I am going to talk to you about the box score of the Government of the United States. I am going to tell you the story of our fight to beat down the depression ...
  • Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film
    Revolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition to Swe ...

Salon

  • The demise of Gadhafi -- and an obnoxious talk ...
    The seemingly imminent demise of Moammar Gadhafi -- he apparently remains in control of at least three sites in Tripoli but there are strong signs the end is near -- does not automatically validate President Obama’s decision to intervene in Libya, nor should it silence the debate over his fai ...
  • Gadhafi's regime crumbling as rebels advance o ...
    The trappings of Moammar Gadhafi's regime crumbled Sunday as hundreds of euphoric Libyan rebels overran a major military base defending the capital, carted away truckloads of weapons and raced to the outskirts of Tripoli with virtually no resistance.
  • The Christian right's "dominionist" strategy
    An article in the Texas Observer last month about Texas Gov. Rick Perry's relationship with followers of a little-known neo-Pentecostal movement sparked a frenzied reaction from many commentators: Dominionism! Spiritual warfare! Strange prophecies!
  • U.S. Mideast policy in a single phrase
    The CIA's spokesman at The�Washington�Post, columnist David�Ignatius, recently announced that the glorifying term "Arab Spring" is no longer being used by senior intelligence officials to describe democratic revolutions in the Middle East.��It has been replaced by the more "neutral" term "Ara ...
  • The power that a president does -- and doesn't ...
    You may have seen a recent cartoon from vastleft.com that went viral, that takes to task liberals who say that Barack Obama's influence is limited ... but that electing Michele Bachmann would be a disaster. I think it does a great job of encapsulating a frustration that's very real among many ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Keeping Michele Bachmann Honest on Gas Prices
    � The Promise: Gas Below $2 a Gallon
  • UNESCO, Rolling Stones and the Art of the Trad ...
    Economists have some hard and fast rules that—to put it mildly—don’t necessarily endear them to everyone around. For one, there’s the idea of trade-offs. It makes so much sense it’s sometime easy to forget how difficult an idea it really is. You can’t always get what you want. But sometimes we s ...
  • 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 ...

EU Times

  • 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. ­“Aircraft targeted two terror tunnels and a weapons storage facility in the southern Gaza Strip, as well as a ...
  • Zimbabwe: Farm Invasions Continue Across Country
    The remaining white commercial farmers across the country are facing intensified threats by mobs of land invaders, as the lawless invasions of farms continue. Last week Banket farmer Roy Crawford was reportedly abducted from his farm and tied up with barbed wire, apparently for “failing to chant ...
  • Vatican set to hold conference on the Existenc ...
    The Vatican is now preparing us for the big message the US government and NASA are planning to announce soon. This is in anticipation to more disclosure and shocking news soon to be released little by little. Father Jonathan Morris, a corresponded of Fox News channel was the first to report this ...
  • 13-Year-Old Has a Solar Power Breakthrough
    7th grader Aidan Dwyer was walking in the woods during the winter, and looking up, he noticed something about the bare branches above him. They didn’t appear to be growing randomly. So he took some measurements of the angles of the branches, crunched some numbers, and wouldn’t you know it, he fo ...
  • Pre-Ice Age Complex Found Off Bahamas Coast
    Researchers for the Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) have investigated an underwater site with what appears to be the remains of a collapsed multi-room building. Locals first found the structure and notified A.R.E. team members who made several expeditions to the location. The ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Libya Falls! Gaddafi Bows Before President Ge ...
    View larger map   Tripoli, Libya The power of American is on display again as yet another global terrorist bows before the prophecy of sage US President George W. Bush. Nearly one decade ago, President Bush declared all moral countries upon Earth shall be at War with Terror. While liberals in A ...
  • Worrying future for Libya
    There have not been many dictators who have hung on with such determination as Colonel Gaddafi. Even with much of Tripoli taken by rebels, he was, this morning, sending tanks out from his compound. So, it looks like a bitter, Hitler-like end is in store for the man. One can hardly be optimistic ...
  • Gaza terror, media spin
    The rockets continue to fall on Israel, one landing in a (thankfully) empty gymnasium in an Israeli school. Hamas is reportedly trying to get the UN to make Israel stop firing on Gaza, but there is no word of Hamas actually intending to stop its war on Israel . And the world doesn’t seem to giv ...
  • Skype acquires New York-based Technology Star ...
    Skype has acquired New York-based start-up GroupMe. This move would help Skype in increasing the  business of providing group messaging services on smartphones. Founded by Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci, GroupMe offers free mobile applications that lets users message and make conference calls w ...
  • The nfl today crew
      Now that the league is âBack to Footballâ, Taking It to the House’s has listed the Key Dates for the 2011-2012 NFL Season, including a recap of the NFL Lockoutâs major events.  And we are certain that league talking heads, like CBSâ NFL Today crew (pictured), will have these dates circled o ...

Groklaw

  • Innovation through software licensing and copy ...
    In this video from the Red Hat Stories Liberating Innovation series, Greg DeKoenigsberg, Fedora community manager, Rob Tiller, vice president and assistant general counsel, and Richard Fontana, open source licensing and patent counsel, all from Red Hat, discuss the role of licensing in encouragi ...
  • Consumers Snatch Up Cheap H-P Tablets
    Hewlett-Packard Co.'s decision to drop the price to as low as $99 for its TouchPad tablets touched off a weekend buying rush that the company called "overwhelming." - WSJ
  • Google, Motorola and the Patent Wars
    The costs of our broken patent system are often abstract, but this month Google put a price tag on the problem: $12.5 billion. That's what Google paid for Motorola's U.S. smartphone business and its 17,000 patents. This is $12.5 billion that one of America's most creative companies will not use ...
  • Google Takes on Lodsys Patents at USPTO
    Of course, in patent reexamination, the playing field is not nearly as favorable to patentees as a district court. For example, the USPTO applies much more liberal standards relative to that of the district courts with respect to validity and claim construction. Specifically, invalidity in a dis ...
  • The Engadget Interview: HP's Stephen DeWitt di ...
    Q: Does this decision have anything to do with Windows 8 and the way we're seeing Microsoft being a little more focused on the tablet? DeWitt: I don't know if you're going to find any company out there that's had a longer-term relationship with Microsoft than we have. I mean, we've got intim ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Saturday morning plinking
    Unlike urban areas where guns can be a big deal, in the rural West people grow up with guns, respect them, they’re part of the culture, and thus no big deal These handguns belong to a friend who grew up in southern Utah, where I am now. One of the guns belonged to his [...]
  • Libya rebels take control of Green Square
    Saif Gaddafi in custody and Mohammed Gaddafi put under house arrest by rebels while on the phone with AJ. #bbpBox_105436473343475714 a { text-decoration:none; color:#2FC2EF; }#bbpBox_105436473343475714 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }Sky News and al Jazeera are making US cable coverage of ...
  • Twitter is the coverage, the mainstream media ...
    #bbpBox_105383632004325376 a { text-decoration:none; color:#2FC2EF; }#bbpBox_105383632004325376 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }Every time breaking news happens on Twitter, people get pissed at MSM for not covering it. Don't you get it? This *is* the coverage now!about 4 hours ago via webR ...
  • Eight murders a day in Juarez
    8murdersaday.com Since January 2008, the Juarez drug cartel, led by Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, has been in a turf war against the Sinoloa drug cartel, led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. This war is for the coveted smuggling routes into the USA. The Americans demand for illegal drugs has led count ...
  • First grid-connected commercial scale tidal tu ...
    The Atlantis Resources AR-1000 tidal turbine is now live off Scotland. It is 73 feet tall, and will power up to 1,000 homes. Maybe one day there will be hundreds of them.

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Israel's 'J14': New potential for Jewish-Pales ...
    As I have chronicled here and elsewhere many times, over the past decade the once-vibrant movement of Israelis actively working for an end to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza had become increasingly moribund. Yes, a small number of brave Jewish-Israeli souls participated in the weekly p ...
  • Syria, authoritarianism, war, and peace
    I regret that I haven't had much time in recent months to blog and write about the many developments in the still-unfolding 'Arab Spring.' However, I think that much of what I was writing back in March and April-- especially on the extremely upsetting and complicated series of events in Libya an ...
  • Remembering Qana, five years on
    On this day five years ago, at 1:30 am Lebanon time, Israel's U.S.-supplied warplanes attacked houses in the south Lebanese village of Qana, killing more than 60 civilians, 37 of them children. Go watch this soberly reported video clip from Britain's Channel 4 to get a measure of the horror. Th ...
  • Place your orders now for Zurayk's 'War Diary: ...
    You can now go to the 'Buy' button on the web-page for Rami Zurayk's 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006' and place your advance order for this unique, 60-page work. The ebook will cost you $4.00 (in many different formats), and the paperback will cost you $7.00, plus shipping. Here is the back-cover text ...
  • Nurturing that better future
    All my wonderful longtime readers here at JWN may wonder why I've been so silent recently. Two reasons, mainly. I've been deep immersed in the most wonderful forms of family life; and I've also been racing against the clock on the 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006' project. In the past three months, we' ...

frogblog

  • Mayoral backing for Auckland Harbour Bridge Wa ...
    It looks like there may be a breakthrough in the years long campaign for a bikeway/cycleway over the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Yesterday I attended the launch of the Pathway Working Group”s concept plan in the newly opened waterfront Wynyard Quarter. Auckland Mayor Len Brown spoke very positively ...
  • Greens’ Clean Water Initiative
    Yesterday we launched the Greens’ Clean Water initiative. You can read all about it here. It involves setting minimum standards, for water quality and for agricultural practice; putting a price on irrigation water; and using the funds raised to provide support for the cleaning up of rivers an ...
  • General debate, August 21, 2011
  • Smarter transport
    Over the last 2 days I’ve co-hosting the Smart Transport conference at Parliament with Labour MPs Phil Twyford and Jacinda Ardern. We’ve had some amazing speakers, especially Paul Mees who did a fantastic job opening the conference.
  • Long overdue progress made on mine safety
    For the last month New Zealand has been reduced to just one inspector of mines person after Kevin Poynter left for Australia. After questioning from Kevin Hague yesterday it turns out there a replacement has been found.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Shamans among us: A World of Perpetual Con ...
    Economic models are mere policy proposals; they are not the consequences of any economic system based on "natural law or even good theory, " they are not scientific; they are merely ad hoc. Furthermore, deleterious consequences often result from these models. Economists also routinely simpli ...
  • Disintegrating Economic Recovery
    The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...
  • Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
    What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
  • (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
    President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Why are They Raising a Fuss Over Raw Milk When ...
    Salmonella poisoning involving ground turkey has led to what is now the third-largest meat recall in U.S. history. �Cargill, Inc., has recalled 36 million pounds of ground turkey across the U.S. due to Salmonella poisoning. Nearly 80 victims from 26 states have been infected, and one person has ...
  • If Your Multivitamin Contains These Ingredient ...
    Both sodium selenite and selenate are classified as dangerous and toxic to the environment. They can be carcinogenic and genotoxic, and may contribute to reproductive and developmental problems in animals and humans. Nonetheless, they are the primary forms of the mineral sold on the mass market ...
  • The Type of Food that Will Slow Nearly EVERY I ...
    By Dr. Mercola You've probably heard of enzymes, and you probably already know they are important for your digestion. But you may not be aware of just how necessary enzymes are to every cell in your body�not just for digestion but for ALL your physiological processes. Enzymes are c ...
  • The Incredible Oil that Helps Prevent Heart At ...
    Dr. William Harris is a research professor at the Sanford School of Medicine in South Dakota, and an established authority on omega-3 fats. He’s a prolific researcher and has published a number of articles in some of the major peer-reviewed scientific journals. Here, Dr. Harris shares his insi ...
  • Known as the "Deadliest Nutrient" - but There' ...
    Gary Taubes is a science and health journalist, and author of several books, including Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health, and Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It. While his earlier work focused on physics, in recent years his interes ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

  • The Gazette's View: B.C. could learn a lesson ...
    Jeffs, 55, a fundamentalist Mormon leader, was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted this month of child sexual assault and aggravated child sexual assault against two girls, one 12 years old, the other 14.
  • Honesty is the best policy for 'true' sovereig ...
    It's not going to take place in a courtroom, but the de facto political trial of Parti Qu�b�cois leader Pauline Marois on charges of not promoting sovereignty strongly enough will open this weekend with the founding meeting Sunday of the Nouveau mouvement pour le Qu�bec splinter group.
  • Deaths remind us of the need for smoke detectors
    Nothing is sadder than the totally preventable death of a young family.
  • Deaths remind us of the need for smoke detectors
    Montreal firefighters had the heartbreaking job of prying open the front door of a Verdun apartment Wednesday to find a young father and mother and their 3-year-old son unconscious just a short distance from the safety of the outdoors and fresh air.
  • Military doesn't need nostalgia to be proud of ...
    Defence Minister Peter MacKay pulled out all the stops this week to convince Canadians that reinstating the designation "royal" into the names of the Canadian navy and air force was a bold, popular move, one that would pay great dividends in patriotism and pride.

Food World Order

  • usda signs with rockefeller's council of found ...
    from food freedom: On Friday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA has signed an agreement with the Council on Foundations “to provide new sources of capital, new job opportunities, workforce investment strategies,” and, last on the list but the heart of it: “identification of a ...
  • ban on using food stamps to buy soda rejected ...
    from nytimes: Federal officials on Friday rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp users from buying soda and other sugary drinks with them. The decision derailed one of the mayor’s big ideas to fight obesity and poor nutrition in the city. Mr. Bloomberg a ...
  • blue plastic chips found in ground beef
    from food safety news: A North Carolina-based company has issued a recall of its ground beef product after a consumer found an unexpected ingredient in the product - blue plastic chips. Vantage Foods of Lenoir, North Carolina is recalling 1,642 pounds of ground beef that may contain the foreig ...
  • 8/18 binge & purge: profit, problems & poop
    video: somalia, famine-for-profit & east-african food crisis* audio: arizona among worst states for family food hardship (PDF)* expert says gmo to blame for problems in colorado plants, animals* hepatitis a shot class action filed against n. carolina olive garden (PDF)* suit filed ag ...
  • honey laundering: tainted & counterfeit chines ...
    asian honey, banned in europe, is flooding US grocery shelves* from grist: A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A Food Safety News investigation has documented that mil ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 21 Signs That The New Reality For Many Baby Bo ...
    All over America tonight, millions of elderly Americans are wondering if their money is going to run out before it is time for them to die.  Those that are now past retirement age are not going to be rioting in the streets, but that doesn't mean that large numbers of them are no ...
  • Taxed Into Oblivion
    In the United States today, we are being taxed into oblivion, yet it is being done so stealthily that most Americans don't even realize what is happening.  Most people are fixated on federal income tax rates, but the federal income tax is only one of the dozens of different taxe ...
  • 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 ...
  • A 634 Point Stock Market Crash And 8 More Reas ...
    Are you ready for part two of the global financial collapse?  Many now fear that we may be on the verge of a repeat of 2008 after the events of the last several days.  On Friday, Standard & Poor's stripped the U.S. government of its AAA credit rating for the first time in histor ...
  • The Debt Ceiling Deal From Hell
    Is the debt ceiling deal supposed to be some sort of a cruel joke?  Is this what the American people have been waiting months and months for?  The "debt ceiling deal from hell" is a complete and total fraud.  Barack Obama will not need to worry about the debt ceiling again until ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • The Crown vs. THE CROWN
    We know we have a few readers who are interested in lawful rebellion, freemen on the land, and fellow English constitution supporters who pop by this blog. So, for you, mind the occasional F-word, but get this: Don't skip this. It's an hour out of your life. But listen. Download. So, ques ...
  • Libyan Rebels Overthrow the BBC
    Whatever one thinks of the situation in Libya - and time will tell on that one - there are more scalps claimed by the Libya 'rebels' tonight than that of Gaddafi. Twitter was awash all late evening with political and current affairs commentators - both high profile and from the obscure and al ...
  • Quote of the Day: 70 Useful Idiots Edition
    "...this rebellion isn't quite as fierce as it may seem. One Tory backbencher tells me the Tory whips have actually encouraged this group to call for renegotiation of the UK terms of EU membership. The whips are doing this, I'm told, to stave off a greater threat: support for an in-or-out refere ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 21st August 2011
    So, after all of the headlines of recent days, weeks and months, there's absolutely nothing that the Sunday papers could serve up that would come as a surprise to anyone, right? Pick a level of society - from the top down - and it's all about corruption, sleaze and criminality marked, rather fit ...
  • Quote of the Day: 19th August 2011
    "Pay Your Carbon Taxes To Al Gore Or Space Aliens Will Attack: Having failed with drowning polar bears, global superstorms, rising sea levels and a myriad of other manufactured hoaxes, global warming alarmists have invented a new threat to try and persuade us to pay carbon taxes directly to Al G ...

Facing South

  • Union members carrying the banner in Virginia, ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Time for another Labor South round-up: Verizon workers in Virginia join walkout Virginia workers are among the 45,000 employees of Verizon Communication who have staged a walkout stretching from the mid-Atlantic states to Maine to protest a company that pays i ...
  • Is oil still leaking from BP's Gulf disaster site?
    There is growing concern on the Gulf Coast that oil is rising again from BP's Macondo well, site of last year's catastrophic Deepwater Horizon spill, with reports of oil sightings in the area confirmed last week during aerial surveillance by a team from Louisiana's Gulf Restoration Network. On ...
  • Flaming drinking-water well in Kentucky illumi ...
    The flaming drinking water well at a home in eastern Kentucky's Pike County first came to public attention back in May, thanks to a report by a local TV station. WKYT visited the home of Calvin and Denise Howard on Big Branch Road, where the Howards reported that the water, which runs orange an ...
  • VOICES: Where are the personal apologies for t ...
    By Kung Li The 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides generated a burst -- however brief -- of remembrance. There was Oprah Winfrey's gala show on May 4, commemorating the day the southbound Greyhound and Trailways buses pulled out of Washington, D.C. A few weeks later, a large group of Freedom ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Super Congress and the Super ...
    Number of lawmakers on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction -- also known as the "Supercommittee" or "Super Congress" -- assigned to find ways to reduce the budget deficit: 12 Amount by which the Super Congress, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, is charged with reduci ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 10 Good Inkscape Tutorials for Vector Graphic ...
    Inkscape is the premier open source vector graphics editor for Linux. Inkscape is cross platform and is available for Windows and Mac OS X for free download. We have dealt with a bunch of really good Inskcape tutorials before, here are even more of those. Following is a collection of 10 of ...
  • Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot Alpha 3 Quick Review
    Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot Alpha 3 was released few weeks ago. I decided to properly install Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric in my netbook along with Ping-Eee OS this time around instead of just experimenting it with a USB install. I have been using Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 as my primary OS for almost 2 wee ...
  • 5 Android Apps for Remotely Controlling Banshe ...
    Android Market is such an awesome place for exploring and finding new interesting stuff. On one such recent explorations, I discovered these great Android apps with which you will be able to remotely control major multimedia apps for Linux incuding Banshee, Amarok, VLC, XBMC and Boxee from y ...
  • Faenza Icon Theme 1.0 Released
    Faenza has always been my favourite icon theme for Ubuntu. We have had numerous posts on Faenza Icon theme before with some of them like this one here becoming hugely popular among our readers. Well the good news is, Faenza has just breached version 1.0. Faenza 1.0 adds a number of new ...
  • 8 Best CAD Apps for Linux
    Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology for the process of design and design-documentation.�But are there any good free CAD apps for Linux? Strangely, that is one of the questions we often receive in our mail. We will try to list not just the free CAD apps here, but als ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • TOXIC METALS FOUND IN PANDEMRIX SWINE FLU VACC ...
    *A DOCTOR IN SWEDEN HAS FOUND THE TOXIC METALS ARSENIC AND TIN IN PANDEMRIX SWINE FLU VACCINE *DEADLY POISONS PRESENT IN SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS *NATIONAL AUTHORITIES FAILED TO REACT  TO HIS RESEARCH *DOCTOR FEARS THE CONTAMINATION OF DRUGS WITH POISONOUS METALS COULD BE WIDESPREAD � A doctor inSwed ...
  • NORWEGIAN POLICE COME UNDER FIRE FOR INACTION ...
    *Heavily armed police stood and watched shooting spree of Anders Behring Breivik for half an hour; police were only 600 metres from Utoya island with plenty of boats available, say witnesses *Police tried to stop tourists from rescuing trapped campers *Video shows police anti terrorism unit arri ...
  • Alex Jones: London riots a pretext for Interne ...
    Alex Jones: London riots a pretext for Internet crackdown • RT August 18, 2011 Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan were two of several demonstrators that were given harsh sentences for petty crimes in the recent UK riots. Another looter got six months for stealing a case of bottled water ...
  • “THE FOURTH IMPERIUM” : CHAPTER TWO
    It is June 2011. The globe’s elite are meeting at a hotel in the mountains of Switzerland to push forward their agenda for a one-world government, one-world bank, one-world police and army. Not everything is going according to their plans. Jean Renard, the head of the eurozone central bank, is a ...
  • Resistance by German people and parliament to ...
    August 17, 2011, 12:37 PM GMT Merkel and Sarkozy Recycle Old Ideas By Bernd Radowitz , WSJ It’s not surprising that investors gave a lukewarm reaction to the proposals made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday–with great fanfare–in the Élysée Palace in ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • ZATO and the Wannabe Whores of Babylon
    By Les Visible In an age of darkness; in an age of dreadful materialism, you find things like this. Not just anyone can be The Whore of Babylon. It requires special characteristics and the absolute lack of various other things. There are so many contenders who have to be measured against the pot ...
  • Indictment of vaccine researcher demands revie ...
    By PF Louis When it comes to vaccine efficacy and safety, the vaccine industry, CDC, and other medical establishment authorities close their eyes and lie so often it sticks as reality to the mainstream media and gets to the masses. One only needs to look at the criminality of major vaccine pushe ...
  • General Albert Stubblebine III: 911 was a fraud!
  • Ron Paul Calls Out Neocons!
  • Exclusive: Staging of Major Terror Attack on U ...
    By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Plans are afoot to push the United States into an attack on Iran. Anyone knowing the political atmosphere would believe this impossible unless something really terrible were to happen. No nation on earth, we should believe, would ever stage such an event, dirty bomb ...

Veterans Today

  • Liberty for the Ron Paul Generation
    The stark reality about the Ron Paul revolution is that the power elites could not survive in a society based upon individual liberty.
  • Ismail Salami: Libya After Gaddafi
    The tyrannical rule under Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, in power for 42 years, has practically run its course as the Libyan rebels have seized most parts of the capital city, Tripoli.
  • The budget deficit debate by the “Gang of Twel ...
    The budget deficit debate by the “Gang of Twelve” should be comical at best
  • Big Brother Has Arrived
    Perhaps it is time to start offering a different narrative, one without Richard Perle’s moral clarity. by Philip Giraldi
  • Waiting for the Endgame in Libya
    Since this observer is not privy to any secrets around here and would not share them if he were, it’s fair enough to engage in frank discussions with former colleagues in Congress and new cyber acquaintances who work on the Hill.

electric politics

  • Permanent Aridification Transforms the America ...
    It's happening now but we won't be able to say with absolute certainty that it's happened for probably another couple of decades. Thanks to anthropogenic climate change the American Southwest is entering a new, and permanent, condition of increased aridity. It's not a "drought," it's the new no ...
  • Debt Doldrums
    Barack Obama and John Boehner probably worked out most of it over golf. What political theater! And why is it you never hear of Nancy Pelosi on the links? To talk about the so-called "debt ceiling" crisis I turned to Charles Tiefer, a former General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, ...
  • The Art of Courage
    A little voice in your conscience tells you something. You listen. You start to think maybe you're right and everybody else is wrong. You do something about it. Next thing you know you're in a life and death struggle against evil forces bent on world domination. Well, maybe that's a slight exag ...
  • The Wild Dollar
    Because the public hasn't had what's happening properly reported, the Republicans think that, in the debt ceiling standoff, they can trample democratic norms and perhaps even go so far as to trigger another collapse of the world economy. What a bizarre strategy to pursue (supposedly) on behalf ...
  • Göbekli Tepe
    At what point does an original idea engender action? And to what extent does that action set a lasting course? We can examine the social history of an idea, written, as it were, in stone, at G�bekli Tepe, an archeological site approximately 11,500 years old (or perhaps even older) in southern T ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • Things That Make You Say HMMMMMMM!
    He served 10 presidents, but died alone in squalor: What happened to Theodoric C. James? White House Photo – Theodoric James Jr. worked in the White House for almost 50 years. His Northwest Washington neighbors never knew he catalogued important, sometimes sensitive, documents. By Christian Dave ...
  • A Message to Horowitz and Kane – the Ill ...
    You indeed are the masters of spin – the masters of lying hypocrisy – the masters of obfuscation and calling evil good and good evil. As Khazarian Double Agents, I highly doubt you have ever read The Bible – have you?  I doubt you have read Isaiah – so let me share his words: “WOE [...]
  • Zombie Apocalpyse – What Others Are Now ...
    I first reported on this immediately after the CDC issued its report.  Now others are also writing on this topic.  GREAT NEWS!!! A. True Ott, PhD THE MEANING OF CDC “ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE” PART 2 By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu August 17, 2011 NewsWithViews.com CDC Creating a âZombie Horrorâ Conscio ...
  • The Amazing TRUE STORY of Susan Lindauer. EXT ...
    Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq Susan Lindauer
  • The NEW TEN ARTICLES OF FAITH of IGNORANT KHAZ ...
    Mormons have something called “Articles of Faith”  beginning with “We Believe”— likewise, here are TEN, BASIC 9-11 fables that our “government” want you to simply accept on BLIND FAITH!!   Are these indeed fables, or are they TRUTHS, or merely some false tenets of an “OUTRAGEOUS CONSPIRACY THE ...

k2p blog

  • Marital conservation of mass
    Women are most likely to gain weight after marriage while men tend to pile on the pounds following a divorce, according to research.
  • College athletes and accommodating professors
    The commercialisation of sport at colleges has led to a corrupt system. Perhaps if every college had a sports or athletic faculty where grades were obtained for performance and where courses at this faculty demanded a minimum level of performance, some of the hypocrisy would be eliminated.
  • Lady driver +Texas lawyer = Lexus in cement
    A female lawyer got into a sticky situation when she attempted a U-turn, only accomplished an L-turn and drove straight onto a bed of freshly laid wet cement in Houston, Texas. Police were eventually called in to rescue the woman, but it’s understood she decided to stay in her car so as not to ...
  • Vice Chancellor of Peshawar University found g ...
    The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Peshawar, Dr Azmat Hayat Khan has been found guilty of plagiarism by a three-member committee of the Higher Education Commission that was constituted to probe the matter. But dr. Khan seems to be under political protection.
  • Medtronic pays 5 surgeons $7m kickbacks in jus ...
    In the first nine months of this year alone, 5 senior spine surgeons at Norton Hospital —Steven Glassman, Mitchell Campbell, John Johnson, John Dimar and Rolando Puno— received more than $7 million from Medtronic as "royalties".
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