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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, August 22, 2011

22 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • How It Took 15 Hours To Use My $309 Virgin Ame ...
    It's wonderfully easy to book a flight using travel mega-sites like Expedia, but even easier for the buck to be passed and companies to refuse to communicate when things go wrong. That's what happened to Sara when she had to cancel and rebook a flight reservation originally made on Virgin Ameri ...
  • Social Security Disability Payments Could Dry ...
    The Social Security disability fund may not be able to make payments come 2017, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). About 13.6 million people receive federal disability benefits, according to the Associated Press. Reserved for people with a substantial work hi ...
  • Electric 'Boozer' Car Whizzes Past 1,000 Miles ...
    Detractors of all-electric vehicles, beware. A group of German automotive students has set a new distance record for EVs -- 1,013 miles on a single charge -- and may point the way to future battery-powered cars that won't give owners "range anxiety." The Schluckspecht -- "boozer" or "heavy dri ...
  • Number Of Delinquent Mortgages Sneaks Back Up
    After several quarters of decreasing mortgage delinquency rates, that number saw a slight uptick in the second quarter of 2011, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's latest survey data. The mortgage delinquency rate for the second quarter was 8.44%, an increase of .12% from the first ...
  • Radio Shack's Hassle-Free Replacement Plan Ful ...
    While buying headsets at Radio Shack,Orlando let himself be talked into buying the Shack's replacement plan for the item. There's no hassle to using the plan, the salesperson assured him, but he probably should have realized that there is no such thing as "no hassle" at Radio Shack. While the p ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

  • Dominoes Positioned? Ben Ali, Mubarak, Qadaffi ...
    There was a famous US auto repair telly advert where a sinisterly grinning mechanic said, “you can pay me now… or you can pay me later.” Those who doubt whether the Arab Spring was successful need only view this morning’s joyous photos of rebel fighters taking control of Tripoli to see that whil ...
  • Are You Awake Enough?
    by Rickie Moore, Ph.D. The oldest written records of mankind, the Vedas, tell us we are asleep. That we are not who we think we are. Amazing, isn’t it? The first entry in the journal of mankind is a call to awaken. But what exactly does awaken mean? Awaken to what? Why should I? How [...]
  • Governments Trample Each Other In Their Haste ...
    Genetically modified (GM) maize is a crop governments and local agencies love to promote as it promises the highest productivity increases. Seed and bio-tech companies, like Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta and Dow, profit greatly as farmers switch to GM seeds, their demand for pesticides and fertiliz ...
  • The Media’s Outing of Queen Latifah
    If you are “chomping at the bitâ for down-to-earth Jersey girl Dana Owens a.k.a reigning Hip-hopâs Queen Latifah to come out of her open closet, don’t hold your breath. If, however, you’ve derived pleasure from Queen Latifah’s unintended “Gotcha!” moments of being outed — and there are many — so ...
  • The President’s Bold Jobs Bill (Maybe)
    The President is sounding like a fighter these days. He even says he’ll be proposing a jobs bill in September – and if Republicans don’t go along he’ll fight for it through Election Day (or beyond). That’s a start. But read the small print and all he’s talked about so far is extending the payrol ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Italy caught emitting 10 times as much of a po ...
    HFC-23 is 15,000 times as potent as CO2 in the greenhouse gas stakes. It’s only made by six factories in the whole of Europe. Given that, you would think that they’d have this one esoteric compound completely tracked, measured to the nth, audited and cross checked, right? After all, how devastat ...
  • The Green Thing: the old and wise fight back
    This was forwarded to me via email. The modern version of “green” is so tame. When it comes to recycling material, living without disposable goods,  and leaving a smaller carbon footprint, the real experts are the long lived people who’ve been there, done that, and did it so much better, so lon ...
  • The Green Thing: the old and wise fight back
    This was forwarded to me via email. The modern version of “green” is so tame. When it comes to recycling material, living without disposable goods,  and leaving a smaller carbon footprint, the real experts are the long lived people who’ve been there, done that, and did it so much better, so lon ...
  • Gillard has a problem: Growing Convoy on the w ...
    1,410 miles or  2,270 km to go Fifty cars, trucks and vans, and there were at least four helicopters watching the action as the North Queensland Convoy headed through Charters Towers. Images like these will make the Labor Party break into a sweat. These pics from the You tube of the aerial shots ...
  • Gillard has a problem: Growing Convoy on the w ...
    1,410 miles or  2,270 km to go Fifty cars, trucks and vans, and there were at least four helicopters watching the action as the North Queensland Convoy headed through Charters Towers. Images like these will make the Labor Party break into a sweat. These pics from the You tube of the aerial shots ...

ReNew America

  • Warren Buffett's quest for 'sacrifice': you first
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - Right up front, let us stipulate the following: 1 -- I respect Warren Buffett. How can anyone not? Wall Street's most famous investor did not attain that status without abundant smarts. He is a prime example of what makes the free enterprise system work...
  • Arizona governor: Obama acts like he's above l ...
    (NewsMax) - Republicans are attacking President Barack Obama for acting like a "king that is above the law" in deciding to pick and choose which illegal aliens to deport. "The Obama administration cannot get its amnesty schemes through Congress, so now it has resorted to implementing its plans v ...
  • Obama showing blacks how Big Government failed ...
    (Star Parker) - Election of our nation's first black president is delivering an unexpected message to our black population. Blacks are discovering that what a man or woman does is what matters, not the color of his or her skin. It seems ridiculous to point out that this was supposedly the point ...
  • Huntsman pounds Perry on climate change, Fed
    (Associated Press) - Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is pounding away at rival Rick Perry's skepticism of manmade global warming and criticism of the nation's central banker, saying those stands hurt the GOP and make the Texas governor come off as a not-so-serious national figure...
  • The partier in chief
    (Washington Times) - President Obama is chilling out at the beach while the country's economic engine is headed for a deep freeze. Those lucky enough to have a job will slug it out at work Monday while Mr. Obama parties with the rich and powerful...

Truth Offering

  • Fact: You Have Rights Because Government Says ...
    Here's a quick follow-up article to the one posted a few days ago about the Rawesome Food Club raid. Feast your eyes on the following statements released by the Food and Drug Administration regarding the raid. Note: Below, 'Plaintiffs' refers to James Stewart, Rawesome's founder, Sharon Palmer, ...
  • Another Unlawful Raid On Rawesome
    Want an undeniable truth? Our government is out of control. To deny that is to deny all sense of reason and logic; to regress to your simple-minded, consensus trance thought (un)process. To me, this is the fatal flaw in the argument of all those who support government, or in this case, BIG gover ...
  • Diet Myths THEY Don’t Want You To Know
    MyPyramid.....of DEATH!I've been studying health and nutrition for about six years now. In fact, I credit my nutritional awakening with spurring on my awakening in all other aspects of life, from economics to politics. And I'll tell you the crux of what sparked my craving for the truth: Going ba ...
  • Today's Quote
    "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell
  • Poll: Are the Current E.coli Outbreaks False F ...
    This week, we wanted to get your thoughts on the current E. coli outbreaks. Are they random, unfortunate events? Or is there a depopulation agenda being carried out by the eugenicist global elite? Here's what you thought (click to enlarge):

2012 Blog

  • FBI Monitoring Survivalists
    I’ve been pretty confident that government and law enforcement agencies are not spying on me. After all, they are so busy with terrorists, why would they bother looking at doomsday theorists? Sure, if I was running ...FBI Monitoring Survivalists is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Au ...
  • Rick Perry: 2012 False Messiah?
    For multiple reasons I have been looking for a very religious politician to enter the 2012 US presidential race (I asked at the forum back in March). The election occurs just one month prior to the end ...Rick Perry: 2012 False Messiah? is a post from: 2012 Blog No related posts.
  • In Brief: Elenin, NASA and more
    2012 Forum has been written about at Vice Magazine, where they condescendingly describe the five types of folk who visit there. By the way, that’s not my picture: http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/08/15/the-five-people-you-meet-on-the-apocalyptic-message-board/ NASA has decided to make a p ...
  • Important (?) Dates Leading Up To Dec 2012
    Obviously Dec 21, 2012 is the date we all have in mind. Even so, amongst the various researchers of 2012 and end times, these dates are also worth noting: Aug 22 2011 (+/- 3 days) – ...Important (?) Dates Leading Up To Dec 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Same old inaccuracie ...
  • Important (?) Dates Leading Up To Dec 2012
    Obviously Dec 21, 2012 is the date we all have in mind. Even so, amongst the various researchers of 2012 and end times, these dates are also worth noting: Aug 22 2011 (+/- 3 days) – ...Important (?) Dates Leading Up To Dec 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Same old inaccuracie ...

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 ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Conquest By Assimilation
    Our passive-aggressive foreign policy ensures that we do not create too much resistance to our plans, by forcing ourselves openly upon other weaker nations.  We tend to sort of back through their doors, sort of sidling-in, in a crab-like sideways motion.  The “internship” programs run by the Sta ...
  • Libya and the End of Western Illusions
    Just under half of Europeans still support the war against Libya. Their position is based on erroneous information. They still believe, in fact, that in February the “Gaddafi regime” crushed the protests in Benghazi with brutal force and bombed civilian districts in Tripoli, while the Colonel hi ...
  • Why Are Those Damn Kids Rioting?
    The world has taken to rioting but one must be careful not to assume that because they are happening at the same time it’s for the same reason or reasons. However, to look at the UK riots and the one in Vancouver, after a hockey loss by the home team, is to see, I think, [...]
  • Western Civilization Large as Life and Twice a ...
    The 2011 riots in England have brought us back to the talks about crisis of multiculturalism in Europe. Few people understand what does it mean. But many swaggeringly take on to speak up. Their speculations lead mostly to a primitive conclusion: people with different colors of skin cannot live t ...
  • Falsified Major Media Reports on Libya
    Major media specialize in what they do best: truth inversion (aka bad fiction), not doing what journalists are supposed to do – their job, especially covering imperial wars for dominance and rich spoils. With Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) falling apart and rebel forces in disarray, ...

BlogHer

  • Would You Buy This for Your Daughter? Lingerie ...
    [It could just be me, being the crazy feminist or overwrought mom that I am. But the idea of a line of lingerie for young girls kind of bugs me. Wasn’t the furor over 10-year-old Thylane Blondeau posing like a sexpot in French Vogue just last week? The outrage was so great that Thylane’s mom had ...
  • Texturize Your Fabric
    I do a lot of fabric collage, especially when it comes to my art purses. Instead of always going for plain old fabric, I'll construct my own from scraps or contrasting prints. Here's how I do it... For this specific design, I used black and white batik fabric, as well as colored batik. I cut the ...
  • Food Photography Secrets, Revealed
    Note: BlogHer originally syndicated Dawn's piece in 2010. It's such a gimme for our Month of Photo Tips that we've added it to the series! You'll note comments from a while ago below. -- Julie Everyone seems to be spilling their food photography secrets these days, and honestly, I'm so glad the ...
  • Rachel Hawkins' Demonglass: An Excellent Sequel
    [Editor's note: I just picked up Demonglass, the sequel to Rachel Hawkins Hex Hall, from the library. I was eager to start it but after reading this review from Kelly I find myself wanted to ignore everything else to read it. - Karen] Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins WOW. OH MY WOW! I am always af ...
  • Tea Calling the Kettle Black: My Response to A ...
    You've all seen and heard about this, right?Abercrombie & Fitch has requested that Mike, "The Situation" Sorrentino, from the emmy-award-winning show,�The Jersey Shore,�stop wearing their clothing because his association with their brand "could cause significant damage to their image."And they'r ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • GE Spider Goats To Make Bulletproof SKIN
    Spider goats, or goats that can produce spider silk used to be an interesting conspiracy subject brought up on late night shows like Coast To Coast. Nope, it’s real. The silk was never successfully farmed ...
  • Let’s Put a Stop to the War on Salt
    Mrs. Obama and other anti-junk food lobbyists are compelling food manufacturers to strip their foods of the sodium content. Most of the anti-salt campaigns stem from single source in the ’70s and since then, we’ve ...
  • The Future Of GM Under Fire In AU
    All views of Greenpeace aside, when they say NO GMOs, they mean business. HFA reported last month when three Greenpeace women scaled a fence and razed a GM wheat field trial with weed whackers. Australia has ...
  • Happiness: Woman Has Not Used Money In 15 Yrs
    Money buys convenience…or does it? Does money distract us from what’s important? Heidemarie Schwermer thinks so, for she has never been happier in all her life. At age 69, the last 15 of her golden years ...
  • China Pharma Turns Dead Babies Into Stamina Bo ...
    A South Korean documentary crew is accusing Chinese pharmaceutical companies of selling dead baby pills as stamina boosters.  China’s Big Pharma is literally making a killing from a new endeavor. According to a South Korean SBS ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • About the jobs: Is there a war on coal?
    The Daily Mail’s Jared Hunt had an interesting story this morning. Headlined, “State jobs data less than positive,” the story explained that despite a drop in unemployment, the number of West Virginians working or looking for work has dropped to its lowest level since 1993. If you read further d ...
  • Sen. Manchin’s confusing press releases, ...
    Sen. Joe Manchin likes to issue press releases. He especially likes it if those releases can tout new jobs or investment in West Virginia — or maybe work in the words “common sense.” But the one his press office issued in Friday was especially puzzling. Headlined, Manchin Statement Regarding Con ...
  • EPA kept visit to W.Va. coalfields quiet
    Last week, public radio reporter Erica Peterson at WFPL was reporting on a visit by top U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials to the coalfields of Kentucky. UPDATED: Erica has a wrap-up piece on the EPA tour here. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson wasn’t part of the event, but apparentl ...
  • Friday roundup, Aug. 19, 2011
    In this Sept. 2004 file photo, flowers and wreaths are shown outside the Jim Walters Mine No. 5 in Brookwood, Ala., in remembrance of the explosions that killed 13 miners on Sept. 23, 2001. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration is offering grants to states and nonprofits to develop trai ...
  • Congressional Research Service: EPA regulatory ...
    There’s a significant story out today from The Hill’s Energy and Environment Blog, reporting: Utility industry claims that looming Environmental Protection Agency rules for power plants will create an economic âtrain wreckâ are overblown, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) says ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Socratic Irony
    This is “The dissimulation of ignorance practised by Socrates as a means of confuting an adversary”.[21] Socrates would pretend to be ignorant of the topic under discussion, in order to draw out the inherent nonsense in the arguments of his interlocutors. Chambers dictionary has: “a means by whi ...
  • A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm ...
    The thing is, Apotheker’s relevant experience was serving as CEO of SAP. What’s SAP? SAP is an enterprise software and consulting company. Honestly, we all should have seen this coming. You don’t bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn around a PC and device maker. You bring in an enterpri ...
  • How Many Steps Does it Take to Get From a Part ...
    if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at Philosophy. this raises a number of questions Q: though i wouldn’t be surprised if it’s true for most articles it can’t be true for all articles. can ...
  • Reality is Organization
    Our entire universe consists of matter and energy interacting with itself according to the laws of physics. That is reality. This is a world of subatomic particles smashing into each other trillions of times per second according to a list of rules. The result of some of these collisions is a par ...
  • True Christian Economics
    But to understand just how non-capitalistic Christianity is supposed to be we turn to the first chapter after the gospels, Acts, which describes the events of the early church. Chapters 2 and 4 state that all “the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions an ...

Fitwatch

  • Don’t Panic: Don’t Talk
    The Met today released another 44 photos of people they want to 'talk to'. The pictures are often of poor quality, and many of the 'targets' are masked up. The police have little chance of identifying many of these without help. The information printed above has been distributed around London, b ...
  • The reason why the youth hate the police
    This brilliant video appeared on youtube, and has also been published on the Police State UK site. It really shows the sort of mind-set the police have. I'd guess that a lot of people will recognise that arrogant, petty and vindictive attitude. The cops appear to be Forest Gate, and as far as I ...
  • This is what ‘robust’ policing loo ...
    The video shows a unit of Manchester riot police baton, punch and kick three youths on push bikes. The police carrying on kicking and punching them even when they are on the ground. Is this the sort of 'robust' policing that David Cameron and the politicians of all parties have been clamouring for?
  • A fitwatcher’s view of the riots
    I’ve felt a lot of emotions over the past few days ranging from joy to grief to anger. It’s been amazing to see people fighting back against the police and it’s been equally horrific to see damage to people’s homes and small shops, let alone the deaths in Birmingham yesterday. However, today I a ...
  • Police place emphasis on corporate property pr ...
    Cars were burned and local businesses attacked in Hackney last night, in the third night of rioting in London. Local residents could only watch as their vehicles were smashed and torched, and in some cases homes were also damaged. Local businesses were also attacked and looted. The local communi ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Tar-sands protestors get some action from Obam ...
    grist.org -The 15-day campaign at the White House to stop the Keystone XL pipeline has begun, and thanks to the U.S. Park Police, it’s taken a totally unexpected turn. In negotiations with the police prior to the action that began on Saturday, the police were very clear that what would happen af ...
  • Two Cool; Boomer News – Get Bent – ...
    YOGA: Locals bend with this trend THE GAZETTE – Once a fringe activity popular with hippies and low-impact-sports nuts, yoga has gone mainstream in the Pikes Peak region. And adherents say itâs creating a sense of community in an area known for its transient population. We have, it seems, collec ...
  • Extraterrestrials: Fukushima linked to an inte ...
    WWH; OK. it’s a stretch. But, what if… agoracosmopolitan.com – The key to âmaking senseâ of the Fukushima nuclear disaster may lie in our willingness to understand the unfolding of an inter-dimensional war. In this apparent inter-dimensional war, the human understanding of reality is being turne ...
  • WWH News Briefs Monday
    Clashes near Gadhafi compound in Libyan capital TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) â Tanks opened fire at rebels trying to storm Moammar Gadhafi’s main compound in Tripoli on Monday, although the whereabouts of the longtime Libyan leader remained unknown a day after a lightning advance by opposition fighters w ...
  • Caught? Fake conservative identities re-writin ...
    opednews.com – I noticed for years that people have been going into my message boards – particularly around the time of elections – and posting right-wing propoganda – and one guy ADMITTED that he’s being paid by Conservative organizations to do this. But it appears that the Chamber of Commerce ...

reference frame

  • Czech koruna as another Swiss franc
    According to Record PLC, a London-based currency manager overseeing $31 billion, the Czech crown (CZK or Kč in Czech) may supplement (if not replace) the Swiss franc (CHF, Corporation Helvetia Franc) as the top safe haven currency: Bloomberg, Business Insider, San Francisco ChronicleWell, ...
  • Sharks join aliens in their bloody fight again ...
    Yesterday, we learned that Al Gore's extraterrestrial environmentalist pals are preparing a friendly but lethal attack against the Earth in which they will annihilate us. Some heretics have expressed doubts about the aliens' capacity to resuscitate the Kyoto protocols and cap-and ...
  • Unity and uniqueness of string theory became a ...
    At the beginning of the year, I was kind of amazed by the quality of Physics Stack Exchange. There were actual experts over there and meritocracy mostly worked worked. So I have also answered 661 questions�and became the highest-score user on that server. But sometimes in Spring, I cou ...
  • CO2, AGW makes animals disoriented, move to North
    And aliens came to exterminate the deniers The media interest in global warming has dropped to about 1/3 of the peak traffic we saw around early 2007. The people's desire to search for global warming has decreased to 1/6 of what it was at the beginning of 2007. An off-top ...
  • Eurozone government and financial transaction tax
    Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy are going through another wave of their radical inventions and assorted ideas in order to show how creative and ingenious they are. To stabilize the fiscal discipline of the eurozone member countries, they have proposed a genuine eurozone government. Or an ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Freedom is just another word for no one left t ...
    This video has more one-liners than a stand-up comic ‘cept in this case no one is laughing. This is putting the corrupt occupiers of the ivory towers on notice…. Assholes, your time has come. Prepare for your comeuppance. Uploaded by ledaOhio937 on Aug 17, 2011 Listen to this… Heretic Production ...
  • Rachel Corrie 5th Grade Speech I’m here becaus ...
      Uploaded by theevilofthezionists on Sep 19, 2008 Rachel Corrie, a true hero was murdered by the State of Israel. Rachel Corrie was killed by the state of Israel, and by its brutal regime that practices not only ‘mass punishment’ but also ‘ethnic cleansing’. The same regime that has displaced o ...
  • Nobel Prize Winning Economist Paul Krugman’s c ...
    A lot of people consider Paul Krugman world-renowned for his economic insight; but in reality he is just another New World Order stooge. Here he is live on CNN touting the use of a fake alien invasion to help boost the economy. Believe it or not, he is right. Think about how it would mobilize [. ...
  • Reuters and Incest – Screwing America through ...
    A well written article that describes exactly what is wrong with America. You are controlled by Corporate Fascist Thugs and here is yet one more example: Reuters Edits Iowa Poll Reality According to Globalist Agenda Or how Reuters slit its legitimacy’s wrists. an editorial by Tony Cartalucci Oft ...
  • This could be the next President of the United ...
    Hmmm I don’t know whether to go eat or masturbate or do both. This is the first time that a potential Presidential Candidate has turned me on. Pass the mustard – Hold the mayo! From ZeroHedge: Bachmann Wins Ames Straw Poll With 29% Of Vote, Ron Paul Takes Second With 28% Submitted by Tyler Durde ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
    The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

  • Flame Retardants: Banned, but not gone
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Even though toxic flame retardant chemicals were banned in 2006, pregnant women in California carry high levels of the hazardous substances in their blood, according to a new study by scientists at the University... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • DOE fracking report states obvious, little else
    By Shannon Morgan, EWG legal assistant, and Alex Rindler, EWG Government Affairs Assistant People across the country are rightly concerned about natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing near their homes. Thanks to new technologies, the exploitation... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Cancer: Belatedly, Environmental Causes Get th ...
    By Justine Chow and Feifei Li, EWG Research Assistants In discussions of the causes of cancer, environmental exposures have long been the unloved stepchild. But that's changing. For decades, most cancer researchers focused on genetics, diet, smoking and... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • California and Hawaii Lead the Way on Chromium ...
    By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist On July 27, 2011, the state of California put in place a strong, first-in-the-nation, health-based safety goal for hexavalent chromium (or chromium-6), the "Erin Brockovich" chemical, in drinking water. This... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • On Fracking: Now, Cracks in the Façade
    By LeeAnn Brown, EWG Press Secretary Imagine, if you can: Nearly overnight, your water well begins producing slimy, off-color foul smelling and worse tasting water. It's unusable. You can't drink it. You can't bathe in it. You can't wash dishes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • Why Charlie Rangel's real mistake was going on ...
    Charlie Rangel let himself get used by Fox News late last week, and he seemed to realize it about halfway through his appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor,” when he snapped at guest-host Laura Ingraham: “Bill O'Reilly told me he had a secret weapon. I didn't ...
  • Regular old vampires: 'Fright Night' retreats ...
    The Twilight juggernaut, while popular amongst tween girls for obvious, hormonally induced reasons, has done much to defang the bloodsucker myth, to the detriment of the genre. Vampire tales are considerably less chilling when the vampire in question is en ...
  • Does the buck stop with Andrew Cuomo and Chris ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner?��� More
  • Charles Busch's muse, an aging actress in Kips ...
    Busch wrote his latest play with actor Marcia Jean Kurtz in mind, and you can see why. It’s a difficult role, as Olive doesn’t let up on the kvetching until the last scene. Kurtz keeps the volume turned up, but now and then lets the audience see her sensit ...
  • Picking up where Hillary left off, Kirsten Gil ...
    In a move to preempt a conceivable move to close Brooklyn’s Fort Hamilton, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced a fall conference to look at possible ways to adapt the base to better prepare for cuts or closures.Speaking to reporters at the base on Wednesd ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Plans abound to ‘take back’ Utøya
    Survivors of last month’s massacre on the island of Utøya, along with a wide array of supporters, are determined to “take back” the island and “make it even better” than it was before a lone gunman killed 69 people there on July 22, 55 of whom were teenagers. Millions are flowing into a fund to ...
  • Terror defendant still in isolation
    The lone bomber and gunman who has confessed to killing 77 persons in two terrorist attacks in Norway last month remains in full isolation at the country’s top-security prison outside Oslo, following his latest appearance in court on Friday. Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old right-wing extre ...
  • Norway hopes for a ‘new Libya’
    Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre was following the developments in Libya closely on Monday, and noted that embattled Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi had “several opportunities” to end the conflict earlier. Støre claimed the NATO bombings in which Norway took part have played a deci ...
  • Future unclear for new Munch Museum
    It remains unclear whether a controversial new building for Oslo’s Munch Museum will actually take form on the waterfront at Bjørvika, after politicians voted last week to postpone a final decision until after the municipal elections on September 12. The city’s development committee was suppose ...
  • Singing out again, in sympathy
    Morten Harket of the famed Norwegian rock band “a-ha” was among those performing at the National Memorial Ceremony at the Oslo Spektrum arena on Sunday, joining a long list of other musicians, actors and literary figures who wanted to show their support for victims of the July 22 terrorist attac ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Live Streaming of the International Permacultu ...
    For those who cannot make it to the IPC10 in Jordan next month (September 2011), my announcement here should hopefully be gladly received! PRI Australia has put up the funds for the additional equipment I needed to enable me to live-stream the International Permaculture Conference (IPC10) to the ...
  • How to Revive the Honeybee
    I recently saw a new film, Queen Of The Sun: What are the bees telling us?, about the global honeybee crisis and colony collapse disorder. From a holistic perspective the movie tells a story of transformation of beekeeping and the relationship of humans and bees to explore what is really go ...
  • Summer Permaculture Tips and Tricks
    by Chuck Burr, Southern Oregon Permaculture Institute (SOPI) Here are the Summer permaculture tips and tricks from the Southern Oregon Permaculture Institute — enjoy and pass them on. 1. Permaculture blueberries. After two years of hand-weeding our two acres of blueberries we have let them go w ...
  • The Power of International Law to Create the N ...
    Editor’s Note: At time of writing, Polly is on a speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand — check out dates and locations here. Maddy Harland meets Polly Higgins, a barrister who is campaigning for the United Nations to adopt an additional crime against peace: Ecocide. by Maddy Harland, editor ...
  • Polly Higgins Speaking Tour (Australia, New Ze ...
    Regular readers will know I’m keen to see society structured in a way that prioritises people and place over corporations and short-term, profit-centric, economic-growth-focussed idiocy. Whilst politicians are arguing over debt ceilings, corporate tax exemptions, how much more money to mag ...

Pointman's

  • So, which is it; Global Warming, Climate Disru ...
    We had nearly two decades worth of propaganda telling us we were the cause of the planet warming up and unless we stopped emitting carbon, we were all going to burn up in the looming thermogeddon. This scare was branded Global Warming and gradually entered the popular consciousness. People natur ...
  • London’s burning, an alternative viewpoint.
    You know what you do when one or two hundred kids in hoodies turn up in your high street and start looting it? Nothing. Thatâs what you do because youâre helpless. Thereâs only one of you and the police force you trusted are nowhere in sight. Yes, youâve called them but youâre just another one … ...
  • I’m not a scientist but …
    For a number of reasons, having âmade my bonesâ in permanent employment, the rest of my career would be termed freelance. I deliver measured amounts of expertise for clients of my choosing in the areas in which I know I operate well. The point is, you have to step out of your comfort zone and … ...
  • On murderous madmen.
    The tragic events of last week in Norway do give you pause for thought. How could anyone do that and especially to defenseless young people? Does it say something about us all? Are we all capable of doing something like that? The answer is no and thatâs not just my subjective opinion, itâs a fac ...
  • You gotta have a sense of humour …
    You look at stuff and you wonder. Maybe you donât, maybe a lot of people donât, maybe they never do. Well, I do. I suppose itâs just me being an awkward cuss but at this stage in the game, Iâm pretty reconciled to that. You are what you are, so just chaw down and get … Read more

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Effort Launches to Rename Danziger Bridge
    From the TribuneTalk Website: The African American Leadership Project (AALP) will observe the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina at the foot of the Danziger Bridge at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 29—six years to the day after Hurricane Katrina. At the commemoration, organizers will also announce ...
  • Katrina Pain Index 2011: Race, Gender, Poverty
    By Bill Quigley and 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 impossible to understand what happened and what still remains without considering race, gen ...
  • Greater New Orleans Community Data Center to H ...
    From our Friends at Greater New Orleans Community Data Center: The 2005 storms that devastated the Gulf region will long be studied by policy analysts, historians, and social commentators for their size and impact. Since 2005, the world has witnessed new devastation with earthquakes in Hai ...
  • Cops Knocking on your Door: New NOPD Initiativ ...
    A few weeks back, New Orleans City Business reported that NOPD officers had begun randomly checking car doors, locking unlocked cars, and leaving notes behind, either saying they had locked the door, or congratulating citizens on locking their own doors. Clearly, this new policy was an atte ...
  • FREE Mortgage Relief Fair Set for the Westbank ...
    A group of local nonprofits and community development partners have joined together to help address the needs of homeowners in the greater New Orleans area, with a focus on those who have been affected by the oil spill and may be behind on their mortgage payments or are facing foreclosure. ...

Information Underground

  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2T in Loans By Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz - Aug 21, 2011 7:01 PM ET The Fed’s Secret Liquidity Lifelines The Federal Reserve provided as much as $1.2 tillion in public money to banks and other companies from August 2007 through April 2010 to head off a depress ...
  • Historical Events • Re: BCCI and The Secret Fi ...
    Dear CSR- Could you tell me whether you see Jewry behind Neo-Eurasianism?Statistics: Posted by Michael K. — Sun Aug 21, 2011 4:54 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    He did, sort of, or at least allowed his guest and callers to back on RBN He did, sort ofStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Sun Aug 21, 2011 3:32 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    He did, sort of, or at least allowed his guest and callers to back on RBN http://www.archive.org/details/JasonBer ... ontroversy embed Download mp3 file Even got some TIU members on these shows.Statistics: Posted by maz — Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:41 pm
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    A little late Piper, you could have easily done this 3 years ago when we asked you and fuck WW2 and the Nazis, call Jones out on the jews and Zionism _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ http://michaelcollinspiper.podbean.com/ . ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • The Long Strange Journey Of Earth’s Traveling ...
    Airborne microbes — such as bacteria, fungal spores, and tiny algae — can travel thousands of miles and high into the stratosphere. Now scientists are beginning to understand their possible role in creating clouds, causing rain, spreading disease, and even changing climate. BY FRED PEARCE
  • Species Moving Rapidly in Response to Climate ...
    A new study finds that animal and plant species are responding to the effects of climate change at a rate two to three times faster than previously believed. Researchers at the University of York in the UK found University of YorkComma butterfly that in more than 2,000 instances, species are ch ...
  • Extreme Weather Disasters Take Record Toll in ...
    The U.S. has already tied the record for the number of extreme weather events causing more than $1 billion in damage in one year, with the cumulative tab so far reaching $35 billion, government officials said. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), there have be ...
  • UK Otter Populations Rebound Two Decades After ...
    Environmental officials say otter populations have returned to every county in the United Kingdom, just two decades after pollution had nearly wiped them out. At least two otters have been found building homes The Independent along rivers in Kent, the last county where the animals had not be ...
  • A Planetary Crisis Is A Terrible Thing to Waste
    There are striking similarities between the current economic and ecological crises — both involve indulgent over-consumption and a failure to consider the impacts on future generations. But it’s not too late to look to new economic and environmental models and to dramatically change course. BY ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Report on interrogation recording
    A study panel at the Justice Ministry on Aug. 8 issued a report which said that electronic recording of interrogation of suspects by investigators is effective in objectively recording the interrogation situation, deterring inappropriate interrogation and preventing false charges. Acting on Ju ...
  • Peace Boat-Rolls Royce talks lay bare ethical ...
    Convinced the recovery in Tohoku will result in the birth of widespread corporate philanthropy in Japan, in the same way the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake prompted the proliferation of volunteerism, Peace Boat director Tatsuya Yoshioka spent a day in June shepherding a busload of businesspeople ...
  • Helping Brazilian kids master local life
    Tetsuyoshi Kodama, a second-generation Japanese-Brazilian, became the first foreign national to pass the taxi driver test in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1991. After driving around the city of Hamamatsu for about four years, he took on other jobs, including at a temporary employment agency and as a ...
  • Kan to spell out no-go zone reality
    Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Monday he intends to visit Fukushima Prefecture as early as Saturday to tell local officials and residents that some areas near Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s radiation-emitting Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant are likely to remain no-go zones for a long time. Kan is exp ...
  • Ondagumi president Chuya Onda
    Chuya Onda, 68, is the president of Ondagumi, one of Japan's biggest hikiya companies. Hikiya specialize in deconstructing, rebuilding and moving buildings. They are also experts at lifting up houses in order to make them earthquake-proof with special high-tech materials. Since the Great East Ja ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • The New Cost of Criminal Pardons
    The Conservative government, with the collaboration of opposition parties, hastily passed a piece of legislation (Bill C-23A) last year which makes it more difficult for offenders to obtain a pardon for their offences.  This was the government’s response to the news that notorious child-molester ...
  • Stimulus vs Public Investment
    A column by Nobel Prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz in the Financial Times makes what I think is an important point. The current debate over fiscal policy for the US, Europe and Canada is often characterized in the media as one between advocates of  higher deficits from Keynesian style stimul ...
  • Tea Party North
    Last week, Travis Fast noted Terry Corcoran’s strained argument that over-regulation of banks is what ails the global economy. Terry’s next column went even further off the deep end, endorsing the hard-money libertarianism of gold bugs like Eric Sprott. Today’s column is a full-blown defence of ...
  • C. D. Howe’s Overnight Moves Need Work
    Less than a month ago, the C. D. Howe Institute released a paper by Michael Parkin, “Overnight Moves: The Bank of Canada Should Start to Raise Interest Rates Now.” The next day, its Monetary Policy Council called on the Bank to increase the overnight interest rate. This call was terrible. The fo ...
  • The Strange Case of Saskatchewan’s Elect ...
    In the aftermath of the May federal election, many Saskatchewan voters were justifiably surprised by the results. Despite garnering 32.3 % of the total provincial vote, the federal NDP was completely shut-out in our province. Conversely, the Conservatives – with a little over half of the popular ...

ReDress

  • USA's myopic extremists take the lead
    Lawrence Davidson considers the worldview and political "philosophy" of America's myopic extremists, such as Michelle Bachmann and others in the Republican and Tea parties, who seem to be capturing the imagination of a significant minority of the US electorate that is essentially parochial and h ...
  • Education and behaviour in Israel and Palestine
    Lawrence Davidson argues that while levelling charges of incitement at the Palestinian educational system, Israelis themselves have been practising on their own children a form of indoctrination that vilifies Palestinians and Arabs.
  • Israel’s "Jews first, democracy second" law an ...
    Uri Avnery considers Israel's latest racist law, which gives primacy to Jews of any nationality over indigenous non-Jewish citizens, and views some of the unsavoury characters behind this law, from war crimes suspect Avi Dichter to members of the Kadima party, a "haphazard collection of frustrat ...
  • Obama straining every nerve against UN members ...
    Josh Ruebner argues that Obama administration statements justifying the US position against Palestinian membership in the UN "are so illogical that they can be seen only as pretexts for clinging to the crumbling façade of Israeli occupation and apartheid".
  • The Zionists and the US Islamophobes behind No ...
    Lawrence Davidson views the Israelis and Americans responsible for cultivating the environment in which Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik thrived and found encouragement.

Physics Today

  • Map tracks ice flow across Antarctica
    BBC: Scientists have produced what they say is the first complete map of how the ice moves across Antarctica, writes Jonathan Amos for the BBC. Published online by Science, the map was assembled from billions of radar data points collected between 1996 and 2009 by satellites belonging to Europe, ...
  • Women value a college degree more highly than ...
    Chronicle of Higher Education: According to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, women tend to value higher education more than men do. Of the approximately 2100 people surveyed, about one-third held a bachelor’s degree or higher. Most respondents agreed that a college education ...
  • Dazzling blobs shed new light on the universe
    The Guardian: Lyman-alpha blobs (Lab) are gigantic clouds of hydrogen gas hundreds of thousands of light-years across. Discovered in the 1990s, they emit a bright, ethereal glow when electrons lose energy inside the hydrogen atoms, a process that produces a luminous signature known as the Lyman- ...
  • Nuclear cruise ship bides its time in Baltimore
    Los Angeles Times: The Savannah, one of only four nuclear-powered cargo and passenger ships ever built, and the only one built in the US, resides at Pier 13 of the Canton Marine Terminal in Baltimore, Maryland. President Eisenhower proposed building the vessel in 1955 to promote the nonmilitary ...
  • Diamond nanoparticles detected in candlelight
    Telegraph: Researchers at the UK’s University of St. Andrews may have discovered a new source of diamonds: a candle flame. Previous work had already shown that hydrocarbon molecules at the bottom of the flame are converted into carbon dioxide by the time they reach the top. To find out what happ ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • Congressional Junkets to Israel
    by Rev333 (Posted Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:59:53 GMT) US Congress Moves to Israel in Deficit-Reduction Effort August 12 2011; Disassociated Press In the wake of the announcement that 81 US Congressmen are leaving on an AIPAC-sponsored junket to Israel, the new SuperCongress announced today that t ...
  • Ron Paul names US internal Enemies
    by Rev333 (Posted Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:12:01 GMT) Michele Bachmann: Likudnik - Not suitable for President. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7cMxE1o ... r_embedded
  • Ron Paul names US internal Enemies
    by Rev333 (Posted Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:34:01 GMT) Road to the White House. - Ron Paul in Florida 8-19-11: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PaulRemar http://www.campaignforliberty.com/
  • Ron Paul names US internal Enemies
    by Rev333 (Posted Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:42:22 GMT) Ron Paul identifies America's internal Enemies: AIPAC, PNAC, Trilaterals, CFR, NWO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki9GAE1Z ... re=related >>> finally, a man with backbone speaks up! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
  • Technology Transfer to Israel
    by Rev333 (Posted Sat, 20 Aug 2011 06:33:23 GMT) Israel Slap US in the Face AGAIN! and Again. http://tiny.cc/lffix

Peakwater

  • Pollution In Ganga Claims More Lives Than Bomb ...
    “Today most people do not realize that nearly a million people living along the banks of the Ganga die each year due to illnesses caused by its polluted water…,” “A few dozen people dying in bomb blasts in India becomes big news worldwide, and rightly so. But the tragic deaths of many people, wh ...
  • What Italy’s Defeat of Water Privatizati ...
      “In Italy last month, an overwhelming number of people (96 percent of the 57 percent of the population that voted) cast their ballots for a peaceful future based on shared ownership of water. The referendum overturned a law passed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconiâs government, which would h ...
  • Prevent Florida Civil War Over Water
    “The regional water policy approach we have with five water management districts is imperfect, but it is superior to a centralized system that would muffle local voices. And we must push our state and federal legislators to back reasonable efforts to strike that balance. Putnam said that the fed ...
  • Ghana Expert Calls For Tougher Laws Against Wa ...
    “People have therefore called on the government to put in place the necessary legislation and infrastructure to ensure that the area would not go the way of some oil-producing African countries where the resource had been mismanaged. The West African country discovered oil in commercial quantiti ...
  • Somalia: Rights Group Says All Sides Guilty Of ...
    “The report’s author, Ben Rawlence, told the BBC that al-Shabab carries out unrelenting daily repression and brutality in areas under its control, taxing the population for access to water, forcefully recruiting men so they cannot grow crops and restricting access to aid agencies. “Al-Shabab mus ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Time for White House to Get Real on ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called upon the White House to �get real� on jobs and not wait until September to announce plans to get America working again. Kucinich�s statement comes as President Obama wraps up a Midwestern �jobs tour� that lacked specific proposals, but included a p ...
  • State Error Denies Thousands of Qualified Sen ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is today seeking urgent federal assistance to provide needed services to seniors after a state error has resulted in as many as 15,000 qualified seniors and disabled individuals being denied continued Medicare Part B premium and copayment assistance, as well as ...
  • Need Concrete Plans to Rebuild Infrastructure; ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to colleagues to enlist support for his dramatic, new, concrete plan to get Americans working again, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and to take control of our monetary policy from private banks to promote the public interest.� "It is time to g ...
  • Kucinich to Obama: Free Trade = Fewer U.S. Jobs
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to President Obama in response to claims that free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Colombia will spur job growth.� President Obama is scheduled to speak in Iowa today, a state that has lost 21,500 jobs from free trade policies according to B ...
  • Congressional Briefing 2011-- Professor Kaoru ...
    Congressional Briefing 2011, July 26, 2011 Office of Congressman Dennis Kucinich Professor Kaoru Yamaguchi, Ph.D. Doshisha Business School Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan This briefing, held in the Cannon House Office Building, presented the findings of fundamental economic r ...

Authentically Wired

  • Thoughtful path to heal 2000 years of pedophil ...
    � � �� 2000 years later and the Catholic Church steadfastly remains blind to discrimination �� sexism �� �� I do not find this surprising when their POPE �� reputedly God�s handpicked representative on Earth �� refuses to take a definite stand on the 2000 years of pedophilia � Filed under: Blogroll
  • Subliminal Programming
    ⦠Subliminal Programming â what is it, how it works ⦠It’s hard enough to protect ourselves against dirty tricks. It is another thing to protect ourselves against invisible technology and dirty tricks that we cannot even fathom exists. Letâs talk about entrainment and subliminal programming â ...
  • making skin “bulletproof”
    … making skin “bulletproof” will only result in the military-industrial complex in developing some other form of vicious weapon to kill … … this new “skin” process could if used in a positive and humanitarian manner be a blessing and boon to all mankind … … left in the hands of the corporatists ...
  • … Our collective hubris has consequences ...
    � �� Our collective hubris has consequences �� �� � for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction � �� �� only now, after the fact, are �we� slowly beginning to become aware of the effect of our dams as they block natural water flows �� � Filed under: Blogroll
  • No drought in Arizona …?
    � �� Might this suggest that Arizona adopt a �state-wide� water conservation program so that no matter where one lives in our state they have �safe� water in sufficient quantity to live �� �� Otherwise if you happen to live outside �metro� Phx/Tucson there is a real probability that either CAP a ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • Scientists seek to turn chickens into mini-din ...
    Harvard scientists are hoping to turn chickens into mini-dinosaurs, according to the Daily Mail. Scientists at the Ivy League university have 'rewound' evolution with chicken DNA to create embryos with alligator-like snouts instead...
  • Tech grants keeping research in NZ: Ancare
    Technology grants worth millions from the Government will keep research from heading overseas, says Ancare Scientific managing director Colin Harvey.The $50 million of Technology Development Grants awarded to 19 businesses last...
  • Brain and body in pursuit of pleasure
    Whether it's sex, chocolate or a watching the All Blacks on a winning streak, there's nothing quite like pleasure. But what drives it, why does it sometimes make us feel guilty and why do we risk so much to pursue it? Cliff Taylor...
  • Battle on the forecast front
    In the end, boisterous Auckland weatherman Philip Duncan gave in gracefully - thanks MetService, he wrote on Facebook, for your early and accurate snowstorm forecast.Credit where credit's due, he said: "They nailed this one from...
  • Drug offers hope for spinal cord patients
    New Zealand scientists have taken big strides towards producing a drug treatment for spinal cord injuries - an exciting development for anyone confined to a wheelchair by back or neck injuries.The Auckland University neuroscientists...

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Hit & Run | Reason

  • What Next for Libya? Various Opinions on the F ...
    After six months of protracted fighting, U.S.- and NATO-backed Libyan rebels are finally days, not weeks, away from taking Tripoli and ousting the Gaddafi clan. Now that the initial fighting appears to be over, what happens next in this choose-your-own-adventure novel? Do we stay i ...
  • Libya, End Zone Taunting, and the Success Curse
    Tacking onto Nick Gillespie's post below about the Center for American Progress' end zone taunting and premature "Mission Accomplished!" declaration about Libya, here is something for the debased (but thankfully dwindling) political tribes to remember: There is a Success Curse in ...
  • If You Live in the Seattle Area, Come Hear Gil ...
    On Tuesday, August 23, the Reason Foundation (the nonprofit that publishes this website) is hosting an afternoon conference on drug-policy reform. Among the speakers will be Jacob Sullum, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch, along with folks such as the Drug Policy Alliance's Ethan Na ...
  • Reason.tv: Regulation and the Entrepreneur
    At a time when political leaders are talking a lot about the need to create jobs from the top down, Donna Matias is taking more of a bottom-up approach. Matias and her colleagues at the Entrepreneurship Clinic at the University of San Diego Law School provide pro bono l ...
  • Does Toppling Qaddafi Make U.S. Involvement in ...
    Over at the Washington Examiner, Timothy P. Carney asks a basic question about the U.S. role in Libya: Does being on the winning side make President Obama's intervention - which was undertaken without even a pretense of constitutionally required congressional authorization - legal? ...

Mercury Rising

  • But who cares, as long as we have cheap gas, eh?
    Kit Gillet, The Guardian Sitting amid buckets of rice in the market, Nguyen Thi Lim Lien issues a warning she desperately hopes the world will hear: climate change is turning the rivers of the Mekong Delta salty. “The government tells us that there are three grams of salt per litre of fresh wate ...
  • Say “hi” to Maplight
    I’ve added Maplight to the blogroll. It is a database that exposes how money flows into politics to influence congressional votes.
  • DC Park Police’s Unusually Harsh Treatme ...
    Last week, Jane Hamsher pointed out how utterly unusual it was for Dan Choi to be facing Federal charges for nonviolent White House protests. The official excuse is that it’s because Choi was arrested three times, but there are scads of people out there who have been arrested far more often (Dan ...
  • Dozens Jailed For Days In White House Tar Sand ...
    As mentioned earlier today, Jane Hamsher, Bill McKibben, Dan Choi, John “Scarecrow” Chandley, and several others were jailed today during the Tar Sands Action protest at the White House. The intention, which goes against previous arrest precedents which typically involve getting a ticket and a c ...
  • Jane Hamsher, Bill McKibben And Others Arreste ...
    Jane Hamsher, Dan Choi, and Bill McKibben were continuing their ongoing Powershift action “What To Do When The President Is Not That Into You” by taking part in the Tar Sands protest in front of the White House this morning. Jane was livestreaming the event and attempting to live-tweet it as wel ...

Reality Sandwich

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  • Interweave in the Steel City
    Friday, September 2 at 8:00pm - September 3 at 4:00am 5118 Penn Avenue (Across from Spak Bros.) Pittsburgh PA 15224 Facebook event:  https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152549871493875 A party can be a dream, an initiation, an otherworld that changes, challenges and strengthens ...
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  • Bidder 70 Speaks
    Tim DeChristopher posed as a bidder in a government held oil and gas land auction.  He successfully won $1.8 million worth of land. Tim’s spontaneous actions to save pristine land from exploitation, during a government sale of public land; for pennies on the dollar to the oil industry, was less ...

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • Russia N-proposal could be breakthrough
    After a period of cooling relations between Iran and Russia, Patrushev's visit to Tehran and Salehi's journey to Russia can be considered as a fresh start in Tehran-Moscow relations.
  • 'Gaddafi either psychopath or narcissist'
    Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is either a psychopath or a narcissist who will end up committing suicide or fighting alongside his dwindling group until he is killed.
  • More fighters go to Tripoli to aid battle
    Boatloads of Libyan opposition fighters have been sent from the western Libyan city of Misratah to the capital, Tripoli, in order to help with the battle against forces loyal to the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
  • Gaddafi's son flees with loyalists' help
    Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's eldest son Muhammad has managed to flee from the custody of opposition fighters with the help of Gaddafi's loyalists.
  • US drone strike kills 5 in NW Pakistan
    A non-UN-sanctioned US airstrike has killed at least five in Pakistan's troubled tribal belt, Pakistani security officials say

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • ECONOMY-ZIMBABWE: Good Policies Make for Good ...
    With effective political and economic policies, Africa can be a haven for multinational companies (MNCs) even in the continent's least developed countries.
  • Arab Spring Slips Into Tunisian Fall
    Seven months after Tunisia's historic uprising which saw the ouster of long-time dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and gave birth to the region's Arab Spring, many Tunisians are losing confidence in the progress of their revolution.
  • INDIA: Civil Society Shows Its Muscle
    In his Independence Day address to the nation on Aug. 15 Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh vowed to fight corruption, but nationwide agitations since then demanding an effective ombudsman to check graft showed an unconvinced public.
  • THAILAND: Yingluck Will Need Luck and Pluck
    As she stepped into her role as an ing�nue on the macho stage of Thai politics, the backers of Yingluck Shinawatra, the country's first woman prime minister, had hoped she would enjoy a honeymoon period.
  • JAPAN: Fukushima Gives Renewable Energy a Chance
    After decades of not bothering to switch off the lights in unoccupied rooms in their Tokyo home, Masayoshi Sakurai and his children now meticulously make sure they do.

Scoop - NZ

  • CLINTON: BUDGET CUTS THREATEN US PACIFIC PRESENCE
    Budget cuts in the United States could force an abrupt pullout of the US security presence in the Pacific at a time when China's power is rising, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned. Earlier this month, the U.S. Congress passed legislation approving US$2.1 trillion in cuts to gov ...
  • Friedman's Little Shop of Horrors
    Privatization and free market guru Milton Friedman. Friedman advised governments in economic crisis to follow strict austerity measures, combining radical cuts in social services with the full-scale privatization of their more lucrative assets. Many countries in Latin America auctioned off every ...
  • Klein: Looting with the Lights Off
    I keep hearing comparisons between the London riots and riots in other European cities – window-smashing in Athens or car bonfires in Paris. And there are parallels, to be sure: a spark set by police violence, a generation that feels forgotten. But those events were marked by mass destruction ...
  • NZ-made canoes complete Pacific voyage
    Six voyaging canoes from Pacific islands, including New Zealand, have completed their journey to San Francisco. The 100 crew members, from New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Hawaii, greeted locals at an open day in San Francisco Bay. The voyage was organised by a ...
  • Reporter implicates Murdoch executives
    Phone hacking was widely known about at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, according to a reporter blamed as the sole culprit, contradicting repeated denials by senior executives and dragging Britain's prime minister back into the scandal. In a letter written four years ago in an appeal aga ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
    Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.

Innovation Canada

  • Tele-coaching
    Children in Nova Scotia who suffer from disruptive behaviour, anxiety disorders or other moderate mental health issues often fail to receive timely access to psychological care. It can take up to a year to see a psychologist for treatment. Dalhousie University psychologist Patrick McGrath is dev ...
  • Always wear sunscreen
    As the summer signals hot weather and long days at the beach, doctors, cosmeticians and mothers everywhere rally to proffer their standard warning: “Always wear sunscreen.” But for people who are allergic to sunblock, like Elda Scaiano, it is impossible to wear commercial sunscreens. Fortunately ...
  • Virtual practice makes perfect
    For Halifax-based neurosurgeon David Clarke, the Monday-afternoon surgery session of Aug. 17, 2009, was anything but routine. For starters, his patient’s brain tumour was located in a tricky spot, close to the delicate part of the brain that controls speech. A small slip of the scalpel either wa ...
  • A powerful elixir
    The good news is that there are more than a million cancer survivors in Canada. The bad news is that they live with the long-term effects of treatment, including extreme fatigue, memory and attention problems, bone density loss, leading to fractures, and a sometimes debilitating anxiety over can ...
  • No more slipping through the cracks
    At any given time, some 19,000 children are in foster care in Ontario, placed there for their protection by one of the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies (CAS). While CAS caseworkers write meticulous reports on the children who pass through the system, the details contained in the thousands ...

Signs of the times

  • US: Mystery Odor blankets San Diego
    A mysterious fuel-like odor was noticed all across San Diego County on Wednesday. San Diego residents all across the county reported an odor similar to kerosene on Wednesday. No explanation has been given at this time, however the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District tested the air ...
  • UN peacekeeping force: Israeli forces crossed ...
    Israeli troops crossed into Egypt by land on Thursday, which prompted Egyptian security personnel to clash with them, said a report issued Saturday by the UN peacekeeping force in Sinai. Media reports had said an Israeli helicopter crossed the border to pursue suspected militants and then fir ...
  • Spain expresses support for independent Palest ...
    Foreign Minister says he hopes an upcoming summit of European Union foreign ministers will 'give Palestinians hope that a state could become reality.' Spain hopes a meeting of European Union foreign ministers on Sept. 2 will bring progress toward the recognition of a Palestinian state, Minist ...
  • Healthy Food Options? Why You Should Never Tak ...
    Today's post is a guest blog from current Cressey Performance intern, Tyler Simmons. I had a super busy week, so when Tyler brought up this topic at CP the other day, I jumped at the opportunity to get him to write about it. You won't be disappointed. Many people don't know this, but before 1 ...
  • What Congress Won't See on Its Trip to Israel ...
    Congressman Russ Carnahan joined nearly 20 percent of the United States House of Representatives in a trip to Israel this month. Paid for by an affiliate of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, these 81 representatives are supposed to represent our interests but are choosing to spend ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Disciplining...
    Travelling through villages in a very poor country once, I was struck by how happy and well behaved the children were. I never once saw a parent discipline a child. The children would help the adults with meals and such, and the rest of the time they were allowed to roam free and play. I thin ...
  • Royal baubles and trinkets
    A political stunt. Why else would Airshow ruck up to the podium and make such a nostalgia laden announcement regarding the Canadian Forces when the latter's actual Commander in Chief is in Nunavut? There's really nothing hidden here. Junior actually tells us exactly why he did it, and not Mr. J ...
  • London security . . .
  • Mammoliti will protect our precious bodily fluids
    Toronto city councillor George "Giorgio" Mammoliti (he changed his name in 2002 from English to Italian to better reflect his desire to suck up to immigrant voters in his ward Italian heritage) has apparently finally made the full journey from populist leftist to card-carrying member of Monster ...
  • How things work . . .
    TED TALKS cover the whole panoply of human endeavours. Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, mo ...

Media Matters for America

  • Wash. Times Continues Its Ferven ...
    In an August 19 editorial titled, "Obama: Whites need not apply,"�The Washington Times�declared that a recent executive order signed by President Obama to promote diversity in the federal workforce "will intensify programs that discriminate against white Americans." Indeed,�The Washington Times ...
  • Glenn Beck's History Of Using The Holocaust To ...
    Glenn Beck has repeatedly been criticized for his wildly inappropriate use of Holocaust and Nazi imagery to attack his opponents. Beck Has Been Criticized For His Use Of Holocaust And Nazi Imagery Beck's Rhetoric Prompted 400 Rabbis To Urge Fox News To Sanction Beck.�Jewish Funds for Justice ...
  • Fox's The Five Averages One Distortio ...
    In just over six minutes, four hosts of Fox's The Five peddled six distortions while launching an unrelenting attack on clean energy investments.The Five: Wrong About The Relative Size Of Clean Energy Jobs Fox Fact: "The Brookings Institution Found Clean Technology Jobs Accounted For Just 2 Pe ...
  • Fox "Straight News" Pushes Impeachment Of Obam ...
    Fox News' supposed "straight news" division pushed the theory that President Obama may have committed an impeachable offense by pursuing a new immigration policy, which instructs law enforcement personnel to use prosecutorial discretion to postpone deportation proceedings of certain undocumente ...
  • Right-Wing Blogs Falsely Claim Obama "Cancel[e ...
    Conservative blogs have responded to the Obama administration's announcement of a new immigration policy by claiming that the�president is "cancel[ing]" or "end[ing]" deportation of undocumented immigrants. In fact,�the new policy prioritizes�the deportation of�criminals, and cases that are pos ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Note to Conservatives - It Isn't Always About Us
    I'm returning to my proper foreign policy subject matter after several weeks of irresistible debt ceiling / Republican presidential follies blogging. The topic today: must the United States position itself at the forefront of every important struggle in the world, or else become a shadow of our ...
  • Fareed Zakaria Has a Problem
    Many people defer to Fareed Zakaria's virtuosity and sheer ubiquity as the neo-liberal consciousness-shaper of our time and as a deft, ingratiating undertaker for the punch-drunk, pitifully stupid America he finds all around him. Actually, Zakaria, an immigrant from India, Muslim by background, ...
  • Is Capitalism Doomed?
    This article originally appeared in Project Syndicate. NEW YORK--The massive volatility and sharp equity-price correction now hitting global financial markets signal that most advanced economies are on the brink of a double-dip recession. A financial and economic crisis caused by too much pri ...
  • Motorola's Cellphones: An Elegy
    I am having a strangely sentimental response to Motorola selling its cellphone business to Google--presumably so that Google will be able to create a serious competitor for Apple in mobile devices (like the iPhone and iPad) and acquire Motorola patents for the growing Silicon Valley patent war. ...
  • Joe Walsh's Ex-Wife: Quit Lying
    Congressman Joe Walsh told Obama to "quit lying." Here, Walsh's ex-wife tells Joe to "quit lying" about the child support he owes�her. Walsh accused Obama of spending money like a drunken sailor, but Walsh is the one who spent money on vacations and his campaign while getting his condo f ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Brutality, arrests, live bullets, and stun gre ...
    Supported by Israeli and international activists, the residents of Beit Ommar gathered for a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with Gaza. This followed the recent Israeli airstrikes there which killed 14 people, including 13 year old Mahmoud Abu Samara. As the demonstration attempted to march ...
  • Israeli forces detain 120 Palestinians in West ...
    Israeli forces detained 120 Palestinians, mostly Hamas supporters, overnight Saturday in the southern West Bank, witnesses and officials said. More than 100 military jeeps stormed Heb ...
  • Medics: Child injured in Israeli strike on nor ...
    Israeli missiles struck the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday morning seriously injuring a 12-year-old boy, medics said. Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya said the boy was injured i ...
  • 7 injured as Israeli forces raid northern Gaza ...
    Israeli forces launched another round of fierce airstrikes on the northern Gaza Strip Sunday afternoon causing explosions which rattled Gaza City. Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salm ...
  • Eilat Attacks and Escalation in Gaza (IMEU)
    A deadly three-pronged attack by unidentified gunmen on Israeli soldiers and civilians near the Red Sea resort town of Eilat on Thursday triggered a serious escalation in violence, wi ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • SPIN BABY SPIN – Renewables continue to grow i ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the operators of the Texas electric grid, has released its Emerging technologies report that includes the state of renewables on the Texas grid. Some interesting facts show that wind generation continues to provide a significant amount of energy ...
  • Pipelines trump your property rights.
    Energy companies are increasingly suing South Texas landowners as they work to build pipelines to accommodate surging oil and gas production. The question isn’t whether a company can route a pipeline across a property owner’s land.  Pipeline companies, under Texas law, wield the power of eminen ...
  • Strange but true tale from the world of Texas ...
    Leave it to Texans for Public Justice to bring us another strange but true tale from the world of Texas lobbyists. A well known Texas lobbyist was recently caught writing himself unauthorized checks out of a client’s political committee.  That in and of itself is not strange, wrong, but not str ...
  • Texas drought, is this a come to Jesus or clim ...
    The worst Texas drought since the 1950s has a handful of cities facing a prospect they’ve never encountered before: running out of water. Many lakes and reservoirs across the state are badly depleted after more than a month of 100-degree temperatures and less than 1 inch of rain. The worst-off c ...
  • A Plethora of Candidates for PUC Commissioner ...
    So far, there are nine candidates for the PUC Commission position that was vacated by PUC Chair, Barry Smitherman, when he resigned after being appointed by Governor Perry to the Texas Railroad Commission.   Included in the slate of candidates are attorneys, elected officials, and civil engineer ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Latest Attacks Bring Fire and Fear to Gaza
    border_boy.jpg Soon after shameful attacks killed six in southern Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that militants would pay �a very heavy price.��And then his warplanes proceeded to pound civilian areas with missiles. So far nine Pale ...
  • Seeing REDD
    no_redd.jpg Like most other market-based solutions, REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), and its more recent avatar REDD +, are fundamentally about profit – not forests, not people, and not global warming or ...
  • Program Coordinator for the Middle East and Haiti
    Grassroots International seeks an experienced individual to work as an active member of its Grantmaking & Advocacy Team.�The Program Coordinator develops and manages programs consistent with Grassroots� mission in two key overseas program areas: Palestine/Israel and Haiti. Qualifications:� ...
  • Youth carry the work forward
    Subheadline:� Leading the way for economic development, climate justice and sustainability From her humble beginnings, Sayra never imagined the profound impact she would have on the global movement for food sovereignty.read more
  • Cooling and feeding the planet with agroecology
    288400_10150260430494792_570449791_7037238_4222546_o.jpg In order to fix the broken food system, we need to de-colonize our minds. To prove that, do this short exercise. What comes to your mind, when you hear the word �Agriculture?� Is it ...

Climate

  • Police Arrest Dozens Protesting Oil Pipeline a ...
    Source:� Reuters Authorities arrested dozens of people on Sunday protesting outside the White House against a proposed $7 billion oil pipeline they oppose for environmental reasons.
  • Christie Pulls New Jersey Out of Clean-Air Pact
    Source:� NorthJersey.com Gov. Christie vetoed legislation late Friday that would have required New Jersey to remain in a 10-state program to reduce GHG emissions � a program Christie had previously called a "failure."
  • ConocoPhillips Finds 9 New Leaks in China Oil ...
    Source:� AFP U.S. oil giant ConocoPhillips, already facing legal action and mounting public anger over a huge oil spill off China's northeast coast, has found nine new leaks in the same area, authorities said.
  • Japan Pins Hopes on Green Power Laws, Risks Abound
    Source:� Reuters Japan has the opportunity to show how strong their support is for boosting renewable power supply to replace nuclear reactors with the passage of a green subsidy scheme likely within days.
  • Hopes Low Before South Africa Climate Change Talks
    Source:� AP South Africa's foreign minister said Monday she is hoping for compromise but expects only incremental progress in climate change talks she's hosting in Durban.

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • America in Afghanistan until 2024 ?
    Afghanistan and the United Statesd are negotiating a status of forces pact, under which according to reports, troops may stay on well beyond 2014.
  • UN tells Mbeki he got it wrong on Ivory Coast
    This week U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's chief of staff, Vijay Nambiar, defended the United Nations' record on Ivory Coast, telling Thabo Mbeki in a highly unusual public rebuttal that it was the former South African president -- not the international community -- who got it wrong in the w ...
  • UN sends mixed signals on civilian deaths in Libya
    The United Nations has been sending mixed signals lately about NATO's record with civilian casualties in the alliance's sixth month of air strikes against troops and military sites linked to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
  • Berlin Wall, 1961-1989, R.I.P
    The Berlin Wall has been gone for more than 20 years but its construction 50 years ago still fascinates Berlin and the world. There is almost nothing left of it, to the chagrin of tourists and Berliners with a sense of history.
  • When there are no people in Pakistan
    A brilliant reconstruction of the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden has left one player out of the narrative - the people of Pakistan where it was conducted.

Booman Tribune

  • My Nomination for the Best Picture Oscar
    Keven Smith screened it at the Sundance Film Festival back in January. I guess it's the anti-Atlas Shrugged only with a believable story, one that -- you know -- could actually happen in light of past events some of you might recall. Considering Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry have both be ...
  • The GOP's True Colors
    There are certain 'teaching moments' when the Republicans do something so transparently hostile to average people and so obviously in the service of wealthy people (at everyone else's expense), that you can actually use them as an example that can be quite convincing in recruiting people away f ...
  • Mission Accomplished in Libya?
    Right now, much of Libya is celebrating and even giving our president credit for the downfall of the Gaddafi regime. I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but we've seen similar things in the past. We watched Iraqis dance on the face of a fallen Saddam Hussein statue and celebrate the colla ...
  • The President Issues a Statement
    This came in the mail about a half an hour ago: Statement of President Barack Obama Tonight, the momentum against the Qadhafi regime has reached a tipping point. Tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a tyrant. The Qadhafi regime is showing signs of collapsing. The people of Libya are ...
  • No Magical Thinkers
    So, a couple of evangelical scientists decided to concede that Adam & Eve were not real people and that the theory of evolution is valid. Of course, they are getting some pushback. From my viewpoint, a historical Adam and Eve is absolutely central to the truth claims of the Christian faith, ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Bizarre Portuguese Flintstones House Built ...
    A bizarre stone house built between two enormous boulders read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Threatened Zo’é Tribe of the Amazon Rainforest
    Distinctive because of their long lip plugs, the Zo’é are a threatened tribe living deep in the Amazon rainforest. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Bizarre Sex Education Posters from the Early 2 ...
    A look back at posters aimed at stamping out the sexually transmitted diseases of syphilis and gonorrhea in the early to mid-20th century. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Young and Old: Incredible Retakes of Past Port ...
    Sander Koot discusses his amazing series "Back from the Future, which shows "people photographed in the same style as a special occasion photo from the past. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Illegal Rosewood Logging Threatens Madagascar' ...
    A new film about Madagascar called "Trouble in Lemur Land" discusses the impacts of illegal rosewood logging on the silky sifaka lemur. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Israel's Anti-Egypt Posturing a Boon to Eilat ...
    Israeli denunciations of the "Arab Spring" are counterproductive because they only reinforce the perception that Israel supports dictatorial rule in the region.
  • Calling for a Ceasefire in Libya
    A call to Congress for a cease-fire in Libya, issued by U.S. Non-Governmental Organizations that support human rights and democracy in Africa.
  • Naval Base Tears Apart Korean Village
    The struggle over Jeju Island in South Korea is heating up, with civil society activists standing up against a powerful military.
  • China and the U.S. Debt
    China is rightly critical of U.S. economic behavior. But it should also be looking more carefully at its own economic challenges.
  • Shadow Warriors: Movin' On Up
    The U.S. is embarking on a military sea change that will replace massive deployments, like Iraq and Afghanistan, with stealthy night raids, secret assassinations, and death-dealing drones.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Libyans, Prepare to Hail & Welcome the New NAT ...
    Libya looks like it's finally kicking into the next step. I posted this up onto Agonist. Sorry for lack of links but you can google this stuff... As we close in on 50,000,000 good Americans on food stamps, yet another occupation & Hard Power hegemony scheme kicks off. Get ready for Monday's mark ...
  • Mercury in Retrograde; 2012 is a trick says Au ...
    I don't really get the Mercury Retrograde thing but a lot of people swear by it. Consult here: Is Mercury in Retrograde? It apparently will be retrograde for the next 5 days -- I am supposed to be careful with communications... 2011 Taurus Year Ahead... More on retrograde. I don't know, astrolog ...
  • After London riots: Internets attention turns ...
    Earlier :) Nov 20 2010: TC Indymedia Exclusive: Secret 'Trigger' & blueprint for emergency domestic military crackdown plan revealed | HongPong.com Moar Recently: Reacting to London riots - A Little Truth about America's situation Emerged! Marc Ambinder (marcambinder) on Twitter A few lat ...
  • Pawlenty promotes Mossad plane crash/bombing o ...
    UPDATE Sunday Aug14: LOLSo long and thanks for all the mullet. Theory: TPaw was not supposed to brag about Mossad ops at the debate - lol his campaign is Over Like Clover in an Iowa pasture. Why not? :-D Our former Governor Tim Pawlenty plays for the ruthless neo-Cheneyite role in a future Repu ...
  • August LinkDump! London Calling; Darcus Howe f ...
    Riots are about power, and they are about catharsis..... No one expected this. The so-called leaders who have taken three solid days to return from their foreign holidays to a country in flames did not anticipate this. The people running Britain had absolutely no clue how desperate things ha ...

Daily Censored

  • Scores of University of Maryland employees (mo ...
    On August 18, 2011, the Justice at Maryland Coalition for Workers’ Rights facilitated a Worker’s Panel and Press Conference. This event featured various workers from the University of Maryland who gave their heart-wrenching  testimonials detailing years and years of workplace abuses aimed again ...
  • University of Maryland employees (mostly custo ...
    On August 18, 2011, the Justice at Maryland Coalition for Workers’ Rights facilitated a Worker’s Panel and Press Conference. This event featured various workers from the University of Maryland who gave their heart-wrenching  testimonials detailing years and years of workplace abuses aimed agains ...
  • US soldiers: Lawful orders never exist in unla ...
    source: Carl Herman US War Crimes: US political leadership is engaged in “emperor has no clothes” unlawful wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that have escalated into Pakistan, Yemen, and with rhetoric to attack Iran that darkly includes use of nuclear weapons in official first-strike policy. The US h ...
  • Murdochs Mired in Fiction – Bearing Fals ...
    They invented and described an investigation and report that provided NoW with a clean bill of health in 2007. There’s just one problem with that assertion, according to the News International executives and outside counsel who supposedly conducted the investigation and provided a report. No suc ...
  • Bank of America, Too Bad To Succeed
    Years ago I suggested that ALL foreclosures be stopped.  All properties should have been revalued at pre-bubble level, and then all loans renegotiated to keep people IN their homes.  The banks can only get out of the properties what they can get.  That is not much in a declining economy with uns ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • The Lineup: Week of Aug. 22-28, 2011
    Ann Mesnikoff hails the government's plans to strengthen fuel-efficiency standards and Jim Hightower laments a "loopy crusade" against energy-efficient light bulbs.
  • Tar Sands Pipeline Goes Beyond Even the Usual ...
    Here's three reasons why the pipeline is truly idiotic and why I'm willing to get arrested to stop it.
  • Calling for a Ceasefire in Libya
    A call to Congress for a cease-fire in Libya, issued by U.S. Non-Governmental Organizations that support human rights and democracy in Africa.
  • Obama Announces Deportation Policy Reform
    The Obama administration announced today that it will review the deportation cases of more than 300,000 undocumented immigrants.
  • Remembering Claudette Manson
    Among the leaders of a movement to turn the end of the Cold War into economic opportunity was a mother of four in St. Paul, Minnesota, who had spent 14 years soldering circuit boards for nuclear submarines. Claudette Munson died of cancer on July 25.

IntelNews

  • Was plane carrying UN Secretary General shot d ...
    On September 17, 1961, a Douglas DC-6 transport aircraft carrying United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld crashed in the British-administered territory of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). The crash killed everyone onboard, except one passenger, who died hours later. Three successive inv ...
  • News you may have missed #573 (analysis edition)
    New report details gaps in US spy collaboration. CIA Iran-Contra figure Clair George dies. Here's why CIA 'mind control' lawsuit was thrown out.
  • News you may have missed #572
    New Zealand spy service now welcomes online tip-offs. Book claims Coco Chanel spied for Nazis. David Wise on Sino-American spy wars.
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    New Zealand spy service now welcomes online tip-offs. Book claims Coco Chanel spied for Nazis. David Wise on Sino-American spy wars.
  • News you may have missed #571
    East German spymaster's widow loses pension battle. Massive spying operation uncovered in Dominica. British spy agency called in to crack BlackBerry encryption.

War is a Crime.org

  • Military Industrial Complex Conference Adds Sp ...
    The Military Industrial Complex at 50 is adding speakers and participants.� The lowest rate for registering ends September 1st, so register now: http://warisacrime.org/registermic New speakers: Robert Naiman is Policy Director at Just Foreign Policy. Mr. Naiman edits the Just Foreign Policy d ...
  • New York Times: Lying about Libya and Palestine
    ��New York Times: Lying about Libya and Palestine - by Stephen Lendman � Note: A follow-up article will continue the narrative below. Currently, events in Tripoli are fluid. � Progressive Radio News Hour contributor Mahdi Nazemroaya's overnight email said: � read more
  • Palestinian Right of Self-Defense
    ��Palestinian Right of Self-Defense - by Stephen Lendman � Repeatedly, Israel preemptively bombs, shells, and inflicts other forms of lawless violence on Gazans, bogusly claiming self-defense.� � When they respond, Israel calls it terrorism, claiming justification for greater attacks in "self-de ...
  • Time to end Nato's war in Libya
    Whether Gaddafi goes or not, this costly intervention has thwarted peace talks and betrayed its 'humanitarian' mission By Dennis Kucinich at The Guardian
  • WTC 7 Ten Years Later

Grist - News

  • Climate change makes alien invasion more likely
    by Jess Zimmerman. Update: Depressingly, this wasn't funded by NASA at all, although one of the authors is from NASA's planetary science division (he worked on it in his free time). It's still a good read though. (Thanks, Kate Sheppard!) Here's good news for people who have been trying ...
  • PETA is starting a porn site
    by Jess Zimmerman. PETA has finally decided to drop the pretense that they're about something besides ladies in underwear. When .xxx domain names go into action in September, your friendly neighborhood animal rights crazies will be first in line -- �and they presumably don't just inten ...
  • The New York Times thinks the tar-sands pipeli ...
    by Christopher Mims. The New York Times has come out with an editorial position on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and it’s unusually definitive, considering that we still have news media trying to represent “both sides” of the climate change “debate.” Here’s how they break it down. ...
  • One thing the fall of Tripoli won’t get ...
    by Christopher Mims. It would be natural to imagine that the fall of Tripoli would mean a significant decrease in the cost of oil and the pain that the average consumer feels at the pump. After all, in February, when unrest in Libya commenced, oil prices hit a two-year high. Libya is only ...
  • Up close and personal with blight fungus and bugs
    by Sarah Laskow. 2011 is the International Year of Forests, and as part of their efforts to promote the sustainable forestry, the National Association of State Foresters, which represents state forestry agencies, and the National Network of Forest Practitioners, granted a fellowship to ...

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Digg Green

  • Life on Mars? Fossil find shows it's possible
    Scientists have found Earth's oldest fossils in Australia and say their microscopic discovery is convincing evidence that cells and bacteria were able to thrive in an oxygen-free world
  • Evidence of Active Water on Mars
    The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter beams back images that suggest rivulets of water, flowing in spring and summer, then evaporating
  • The 5 Weirdest Things That Influence How Your ...
    We never get tired of optical illusions (particularly that mind-melting one with the gray squares) -- it's good to remind yourself that your senses can't be trusted. But the one sense you'd think you could trust is taste -- nobody is going to convince you that a hamburger is apple pie.
  • Unraveling the Mysteries Under Our Very Feet
    The farthest we have ventured inside our own planet got us only 0.4 percent of the way to the core. The inner earth has been terra incognita until some recent advances in peering deep below Earth's crust.
  • Humans May Be to Blame for Shark Attacks
    Air travel, overfishing and global warming are all seen as contributing to the uptick in shark attacks.

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 ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

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Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets BeatâMay Lose Beets (cartoon) Ec ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Governmentâs Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: The USDA cav ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable). Dea ...

Inhabitat

  • Artists Turn Abandoned Bikes into Flowering Ne ...
    There are abandoned bikes in every city — locked to poles long after their owners lost their lock keys or moved away — and often they are ticketed for being left behind. A group of renegade bike warriors in Toronto have found a way to turn those forgotten bikes into green street art and after [...]
  • US Emissions Rose 4% in 2010, Partly Due to In ...
    Despite all of the ongoing efforts to increase renewable energy and curb our carbon footprints, carbon dioxide emissions in the United States rose 3.9 percent last year. While this is upsetting in itself, what’s even more worrisome is the fact that the Energy Information Administration contribut ...
  • Foster & Partners’ Futuristic New Mexico Space ...
    Read the rest of Foster & Partners’ Futuristic New Mexico Spaceport is Nearing Completion Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", Daylighting, eco design, Foster + Partners, geothermal, green design, heat rejection, New Mexico, photovoltaic panels, space travel, spa ...
  • Futuro Prefab: 1960s House of the Future Lands ...
    Read the rest of Futuro Prefab: 1960s House of the Future Lands in Rotterdam Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: future architecture, Futuristic, futuro home, Matti Suuronen, Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, rotterdam
  • Mercedes Fuel Cell Buses Log 2 Million Emissio ...
    Mercedes has been using a fleet of 36 hydrogen fuel cell buses in Hamburg, Germany, to improve fuel cell technology for its passenger cars. Now those test buses have logged an amazing 2 million emission-free kilometers! And even better than that, in the process of testing the buses, Mercedes has ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Visualized: A School Day as Data
    By putting RFIDs on children and monitoring their interactions over a single day, researchers have produced one of the most detailed analyses ever of the roiling, boiling social free-for-all that is school.
  • NASA Releases Full Map of Antarctic Ice Flows
    Vast rivers of ice flow from Antarctica’s inner regions out to the coasts, as shown in an animated map released by NASA. The map offers glaciologists and climate change researchers a full view of the speed and direction of moving ice on the continent, and reveals several new features. “This is ...
  • Physicists Find Way to Stop Coffee Rings
    By Christopher Dombrowski, Ars Technica Ever wonder why a drop of coffee leaves a ring behind when it dries? Physicists did. In 1997, they came up with a theory of how it works. It turned out to be such a universal theory that it shows up in a number of problems [...]
  • New Chip Borrows Brain’s Computing Tricks
    IBM has unveiled an experimental chip that borrows tricks from brains to power a cognitive computer, a machine able to learn from and adapt to its environment. Reactions to the computer giant’s press release about SyNAPSE, short for Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronic, ...
  • Super Small: Help Choose the Year’s Best Micro ...

PakAlert

  • The Great Collapse Has Officially Begun
    I've been warning of this for well over two years. My primary warnings were: 1) That 2008 was just a warm-up 2) That the REAL Crisis had yet to unfold 3) That the REAL Crisis would make 2008 look like a picnic Well, the period I've been warning of is now here. What's happening right now ...
  • 9/11/11 – 7 Reasons To Brace For Impact
    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it’s not looking good for this 10th anniversary of 9/11. All the indicators are there to tell us they need a massive distraction and excuse to take this idiotic war on terror to horrific new levels and even more Orwellian internal controls and crackdowns. ...
  • BREAKING: Prominent American Activist Shot By ...
    The Palestine Civil Rights Campaign-Lebanon confirms reports that Franklin Lamb was shot at approximately 11:45 a.m. on Sunday August 21 in Tripoli, Libya outside of the Corinthia Hotel where he has been staying. Franklin P. Lamb, LLM,PhD is the Director of Americans Concerned for Middle East ...
  • Video: Chaos Warned Near As Solar “Madness” Ci ...
    A chilling research paper authored by Victor A. Brumberg, a top theoretical physicist specializing in relativistic celestial mechanics and astrometry at the Institute of Applied Astronomy in St. Petersburg, is warning today that our Earth is in the grip of “Solar Madness” that is causing massive ...
  • Amy Winehouse and 27 Club
    Amy Winehouse’s untimely death was a sad event yet it brought to many a sentiment of deja-vu. She is indeed one of several artists who died at the age of 27 and one of the many celebrities who lost their lives in strange circumstances. Is there more to these deaths than meets the eye? ...

Andy Worthington

  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
  • On Holiday for Two Weeks!
    Well, my friends, it has been quite a year so far, with the death of my father in February and my own rather severe illness in March and April, which had me suffering sleep deprivation at home for two weeks, then hospitalized for another two weeks, and then largely housebound for another month. ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo on the T ...
    Today, just before I began feverishly packing for my family holiday, I was delighted to take part in a one-hour interview on the “Talking Progressive Politics” Show on Blog Talk Radio with Jim Cullen in Texas and Vicki Nikolaidis in Greece. It’s been a few weeks since I spoke publicly about Guan ...

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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • News Roundup for August 19, 2011
    One of the teens charged with the brutal beating and murder of an African-American man in Jackson, Miss., is now charged with capital murder. Deryl Dedmon, 19, is accused of a randomly selecting a black man, beating him with a group of teens, and running him over in an apparent hate crime. If co ...
  • Liberty Counsel Dips Toes in the ‘Patriot’ Pool
    The Liberty Counsel for Law and Policy is traditionally known for its pro bono litigation work with regard to perceived slights against the practice of Christianity in schools and other public venues, as well as its work against abortion and LGBT rights. It was no surprise, therefore, when its p ...
  • News Roundup for August 18, 2011
    A federal jury in Mobile, Ala., convicted a white supremacist on firearm and drug offenses today. It took the jury about an hour to find Daniel Dwight Brown guilty of the charges, for which he faces at least 15 years in prison. Brown is a self-avowed member of the neo-Nazi Aryan Brotherhood and ...
  • Strange Bedfellows: Nativists Sponsor, Tout Ne ...
    A mysterious anti-immigration group called Blacks for Equal Rights Coalition (BFERC) recently made its debut in Los Angeles with a July 6 “Community Outreach Summit” on “The Impact of Immigration on Black Communities.” The summit, whose entirely unnamed lineup included “advisors, educators, poli ...
  • Oft-Quoted Muslim-Bashers Complain of Speech S ...
    When life handed the anti-Islamic bloggers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer a lemon, they made it into lemonade. Of course, it wasn’t the first or the last time that extremist ideologues found themselves in the awkward position of having to disavow a follower who took their hateful prescriptions ...

change: org.

  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
    In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
  • Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
    The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
  • Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
    Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
    Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to his f ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Libyan Rebels in 'Final Push' for Capital
    Security forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have used heavy machine guns and mortars to confront lightly armed opposition forces and protesters who took to the streets of Tripoli on Saturday night in anticipation of a final rebel advance on the capital. Fighting continued into Sunday ...
  • Bill McKibben Jailed After White House Tar San ...
    Vermont environmental author and activist Bill McKibben went to Washington, D.C., in hopes of getting attention by getting arrested. This weekend he got that and more: a surprise two-night stay in jail. read more
  • Rioters' Use of Social Media Throws Telecoms F ...
    After the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and this summer's looting in England, there is no longer any doubt about the speed with which large crowds can be mobilised on to the streets. read more
  • Verizon Workers End Their Walkout
    The Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers agreed yesterday to end one of the largest strikes in a decade without winning a new contract agreement, sending their 45,000 members back to work at Verizon Communications Inc. nearly two weeks after walki ...
  • Egypt Fury Over Border Deaths
    As Israel and Gaza continued to exchange deadly rocket and missile fire, the diplomatic fallout between Israel and its regional allies worsened, with both Turkey and Egypt hardening their stance against the Netanyahu government. Thousands of Egyptians rallied outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Questioning privatization drive
    Greece will be unable to meet its fiscal deficit targets as long as it views the public sector in general as the economy’s sacred cow and pursues economic policies leading to the crowding out of the private sector.
  • OUTDOORS: Trespass case brings important issue ...
    Who owns a river? Who owns its banks and its bed? Who owns the right to float the water that flows over that bed and by those banks? Who owns the fish, or the right to fish the fish that swim in that water, by those banks and over that bed?
  • Bottled water costly for us and the planet
    I have to thank The Record for highlighting the issue of bottled water (Trustees failed both students and the planet, Our View, Feb. 26).
  • Nigeria: Taking Back Our Lives Would Be a Good ...
    Were we truly surprised by Major Hamza Al-Mustapha's revelations? Is it really news that General Olusegun Obasanjo, and the power elite around him, re-directed the privatization program to their own ends?
  • Hard water numbers tough to swallow
    I recently read Mrs. Dalton's letter to the editor 'Current water rates are awash in inequity' (Times, July 26) and I too am concerned over the sharp increase in water rates.

Guardian

  • RAF to get 14 new Chinook helicopters in £1bn deal
    Liam Fox says contract to expand Chinook fleet to 60 shows government is bringing 'reality' to the defence budgetThe Ministry of Defence is to buy 14 Chinook transport helicopters at a cost of £1bn, the defence secretary has announced.The contract, which will increase the number of Chinooks oper ...
  • 'It's game over, Gaddafi': Tripoli's citizens ...
    Most residents of the Libyan capital welcomed the rebels, but some had mixed feelings. And where was Gaddafi?For a brief few hours on Monday, Tripoli's Green Square was a tranquil place. A rebel flag hung above the old Ottoman palace. A few curious locals emerged to take a look around. What they ...
  • Clearing 2011: four students competing for eac ...
    As 190,000 students battle it out for the remaining courses, Ucas says about half may not have the grades to get a placeAt least four people are competing for each remaining university place available through clearing to start this autumn, according to official figures.The Universities and Colle ...
  • Russians dodge £75,000 bill at Sardinia's Bill ...
    Eight young Russians ordered 90 bottles of champagne during a long night at club before vanishingA Sardinian nightclub frequented by Silvio Berlusconi and famous for its high-spending customers has called in the police after a group of Russians racked up an ��86,000 (£75,000) champagne bill befo ...
  • Kate Winslet escapes fire at Richard Branson's ...
    Kate Winslet and children among 20 guests forced to flee fire on Necker islandThe actor Kate Winslet and her children were among guests who escaped after lightning from a tropical storm set fire to Sir Richard Branson's Caribbean holiday home, destroying the building.Among those also staying at ...

McClatchey

  • Libya rebel leader warns Tripoli not yet under ...
    CAIRO — Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, head of the rebel council poised to lead Libya once Moammar Gadhafi is toppled, said Monday that rebel forces are still not in control of Tripoli and that pro-Gadhafi forces were still in charge of the loyalist stronghold of Bab al Aziziyah, where Gadhafi's compound ...
  • Florida medical licenses targeted in pill mill ...
    The strike force met in Orlando in March, more than 100 police, healthcare and state regulators, to form their battle plan against a state scourge: prescription drug abuse, a public health threat that has killed thousands and reduced Florida to a national symbol for rampant pill popping and pedd ...
  • Summer vacation? Not for many small business o ...
    While some people's summer vacations take them across the country, many small-business owners are stuck at work, grappling with the decision to take even a few days off.
  • Martin Luther King joins Lincoln, Roosevelt on ...
    WASHINGTON — Rep. Frederica Wilson had a chance recently to take a private VIP tour of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, but she turned it down. Too soon, she said.
  • Back to college in Charlotte brings rough surp ...
    After dramatic cuts in state funding over the past three years, UNC Charlotte's roughly 25,000 students will find a leaner university with fewer faculty and significantly larger classes when they start a new semester today.

Afghanistan Sun

  • Roadside bomb kills 2 Afghan civilians
    The Afghan government says a roadside bomb has killed two civilians in the country's south.Helmand provincial government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi says the civilians were driving on a road in ...
  • Bomb kills shopkeeper and child in Afghanistan
    Two people were killed today when a bomb hidden in a scrap metal shop blew up in a market in southern Afghanistan, officials said.The early-morning blast in the town of Gereshk in Helmand province ...
  • Soldier involved in Afghanistan incident
    "The next of kin of the soldier involved in the incident have been notified," it said in a statement.The Chief of the Defence Force General David Hurley and Defence Minister Stephen Smith ...
  • Kiwi SAS soldier shot while trying to spot Taliban
    Fallen SAS soldier had 'passion' for job (1:50) The SAS soldier killed in a firefight in Afghanistan had gone to a balcony to get a better view of insurgents when he was shot. ...
  • WVa remembers native son killed in Afghan crash
    PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginians paid homage Sunday to a highly decorated member of the Navy who was among 30 U.S. servicemen killed in an Aug. 6 helicopter crash in Afghanistan. ...

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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Calling All Corporate Whistleblowers: SEC Rule ...
    Today is a big day for corporate fraud detection. The Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Final Rules implementing the whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act go into effect. The SEC has simultaneously launched a new Office of the Whistlebl ...
  • IRS Guidelines Discourage Whistleblowers
    Today, Tax Analysts published an article about how Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines can result in whistleblower awards being unfairly reduced. The Government Accountability Project, No FEAR Coalition and National Whistleblowers Center sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Shulman on August ...
  • Senate Whistleblower Bill called "Bride of Fra ...
    Julia Davis, a notable whistleblower who prevailed in her struggle against the Department of Homeland Security, recently released an article concerning the reintroduction of the Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 743). Ms. Davis notes that one of the main supporte ...
  • Whistleblower Trial Against Blackwater Begins
    In 2008, two former employees brought a whistleblower lawsuit against the security firm once known as Blackwater (now named Xe Services). On July 27, the trial began in Alexandria, Virginia and is expected to last two weeks. The two whistleblowers allege that the company overcharged the federal ...
  • NWC joins in NLRB amicus to preserve collectiv ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with 26 other organizations to submit an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). At stake is the right of employees to join together for collective and class actions. This long-recognized right is under attack by forced arbitrati ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

  • Public Health Official Forced To Shut Up On Tw ...
    We've been discussing lately the importance of allowing for pseudonymity, rather than requiring real names, and Todd McDermid points us to another reason why pseudonyms can be useful online. Apparently a guy named Rene Najera has been blogging and tweeting about epidemiology while at the same t ...
  • Chorus Of Mainstream Press Saying The Patent S ...
    We've been noticing that the mainstream press has really been speaking up about the broken patent system lately. It was mostly kicked off by the excellent This American Life story about just how broken our patent system is, and that seems to have thrown open the floodgates. So, suddenly an iss ...
  • Teachers In Missouri Sue For The Right To 'Fri ...
    We recently wrote about a very questionable new state law in Missouri that made it illegal for teachers to friend "current or former students" on various social networks. This broad prohibition was targeted at the misuse of social networking by some teachers to have extremely inappropriate rela ...
  • Argentine ISPs Block Over A Million Blogs In R ...
    And people wonder why we worry about plans to censor websites. Every time it happens, the censorship ends up being much broader than planned. The latest example comes from Argentina, where a court order to block two specific sites -- leakymails.com and leakymails.blogspot.com -- actually resul ...
  • Is Copyright a Moral Imperative?
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VacTruth

  • Families Sue Their Lawyers For Negligence Over ...
    The Times reported that three families are taking legal action against their former lawyers, claiming that the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccination withdrawn in 1992, caused their children to develop encephalitis and not autism.
  • Big Pharma’s Share in the Consumer Price Index
    Congress needs to stop emptying Big Pharma lobbyists’ deep pockets that makes it easy to swallow ‘pseudo-scientific’ information. Congress needs to rein in on the overwhelming push to medicalize American citizens.
  • Time to Say “Enough!”
    There comes a time in everyone’s consciousness and life when one realizes that too many things are going off beam and that life is becoming more problematic day by day, especially now when it comes to our health, which probably is our most valued personal possession, and which seems to be underm ...
  • Top 5 Vaccine Stories for July
    Top 5 Articles Hand-Picked for July.
  • How To Find The Poisons In Vaccines In 5 Secon ...
    This short video shows you how to find the poisons in vaccines in 5 seconds or less.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m still missing most everything, but I managed to catch a few bits of news. Indigenous people in Ecuador are being targeted for protest. The Eastern Navajo Diné filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the hopes of stopping uranium mining.  The petition is wor ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This will be another short one, I’m afraid. Perhaps you all could help me out, since I haven’t been able to do too much blog reading. If you read nothing else, please read this piece on the government eugenics sterilization program. It is just…. I am speechless. This is a good overview of the ba ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Work is still kicking my ass and keeping me away from the internets. But I have managed to read enough to be annoyed. This op-ed from the Council on Foreign Relations says that we need to raise the debt ceiling because, if we do not, then: 1. We will be forced to cut defense spending and [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I suspect it will be another week before I can complete part two to that media post. I want to finish reading A Mixtape Manifesto first. And The Economist put out a whole media’ issue that I haven’t gotten around to yet. I’ll have something for you though. Related to Thursday’s post on the socia ...
  • Deal Breaker
    I recently read The World That Never Was. I really liked it, despite the fact that it includes a gazillion people and can be hard to follow (even for someone who was familiar with many of the players). The book basically covers the period between Haymarket and WWI. There is one part of the book ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
    The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
  • Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
    In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
  • اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
    My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اÙباما ÙÙÙد اÙسÙطرة عÙ٠اÙÙم٠تخاطر اÙÙÙاÙات اÙمتحدة بتمÙÙ٠اÙÙاعدة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙتÙÙÙر اÙشعب اÙÙÙ…Ù٠ع٠طرÙ٠إحباط تغÙÙر اÙÙظام ÙÙا٠Ùتبت – جÙÙ ÙÙÙا٠Ùعتبر اÙÙم٠بÙد معÙØ¯Ø ÙÙد ظ٠Ùر ...
  • Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
    After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
  • Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
    Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...

Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming ...
    Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace fo ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Op ...
    Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircra ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have ...
    John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal governmen ...
    Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll f ...

Dandelion Salad

  • The One World Company by Ellen Brown
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com August 18, 2011 What just happened in the stock market? Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose or fell by at least 400 points for four straight days, a stock market first. The worst drop was on Monday, 8-8-11, when the Dow pl ...
  • Monsanto and the mortal danger to traditional ...
    By Siv O’Neall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Axisoflogic.com August 21, 2011 The greatest threat to the future of food production in the world is the introduction of genetically engineered foods from the bio-tech industry. Contrary to their mendacious propagandized promises of solving the prob ...
  • The Attack on the British Council in Kabul by ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 21 August 2011 The attack on the British Council in Kabul on 19th August, resulting in twelve deaths and many injuries, further underlined how unwelcome the occupiers are, in a country in which they should never have been in the first place. ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Bor ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Luis Fernando Cárdenas chomsky.info August 17, 2011 Guernica: Journalists in Mexico live in constant danger. A photojournalist from the newspaper El Diario was recently murdered in Juárez. The newspaper responded by printing an op-ed piece addressed to t ...
  • Dr. Michio Kaku: Fukushima and radiation in fo ...
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox August 21, 2011 This Sunday (August 21st), Cindy brings us theoretical physicist and futurist Dr. Michio Kaku, well-known as a guest of many shows on cable television and radio.  Dr. Kaku is the ...

Your New Reality

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    Perry And Bachmann Show What They're Capable Of Fitting In Their Mouths According to the corporate American mainstream media, these two, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann, are "frontrunners" for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 ; I'm not quite sure who they're trying ...
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    Never Give An Ape A Gun, Never, Ever This series of viral vids for the Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes movie are nicely done, straight to the point and very entertaining. I was surprised by just how affecting I found the movie, and those cinema and TV trailers don't do the movie justice. It' ...
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    Agree or disagree with Ron Paul's beliefs and politics, but it is impossible to deny this is one of the best campaign ads ever made :
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    The Black Night Highway Of Ancient Human History Gets A Little More Light By Darryl Mason The oldest tools used by human-like creatures every found are maybe 700,000 years old. The most ancient cave and rock carvings ever found are perhaps 40,000 years old. The oldest, still-existing c ...
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    Hacking The Human Brain Mike Wehner at Y Tech : Of all the storage mediums you use to keep information that is most important to you, your brain is by far the most complex. Because of the immense amount of data that the human brain can hold, scientists have been attempting to crack our ...

Wired - Science

  • Visualized: A School Day as Data
    By putting RFIDs on children and monitoring their interactions over a single day, researchers have produced one of the most detailed analyses ever of the roiling, boiling social free-for-all that is school.
  • NASA Releases Full Map of Antarctic Ice Flows
    Vast rivers of ice flow from Antarctica’s inner regions out to the coasts, as shown in an animated map released by NASA. The map offers glaciologists and climate change researchers a full view of the speed and direction of moving ice on the continent, and reveals several new features. “This is ...
  • Physicists Find Way to Stop Coffee Rings
    By Christopher Dombrowski, Ars Technica Ever wonder why a drop of coffee leaves a ring behind when it dries? Physicists did. In 1997, they came up with a theory of how it works. It turned out to be such a universal theory that it shows up in a number of problems [...]
  • New Chip Borrows Brain’s Computing Tricks
    IBM has unveiled an experimental chip that borrows tricks from brains to power a cognitive computer, a machine able to learn from and adapt to its environment. Reactions to the computer giant’s press release about SyNAPSE, short for Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronic, ...
  • Super Small: Help Choose the Year’s Best Micro ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Dubious Evidence Israeli Bus ...
    Two terror attacks shook Israel on Thursday and Friday. By the weekend, eight Israelis were killed and nearly forty injured. Immediately after the attacks, the Israeli air force bombed many locations... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Adam Keller: A changed agenda?
    Someone in the wild Sinai peninsula took a decision and sent a big, well equipped squad to infiltrate across the border into the Israeli Negev, attack buses and cars and engage in running battles... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: The Fight for Equality in Isr ...
    By Lia Tarachansky, The Real News Network – 11 Aug 2011 http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7158 Saturday saw the largest... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth d ...
  • Josh Ruebner: Hold Israel accountable with Lea ...
    For the sake of Abir Aramin and all Palestinians who are maimed, killed, or whose homes, farms, and infrastructure are wantonly destroyed in the course of Israel’s brutal military occupation, the US... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • IDF officer who defended beating Palestinians ...
    Head of the Kfir infantry brigade, was censured by IDF Central Command chief Gadi Shamni; was subject to criminal investigation against him, before the case was closed for lack of evidence; and is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Is Marriage Good for The Heart?
    Giving your heart to a supportive spouse turns out to be an excellent way to stay alive, according to new research from the University of Rochester. Happily wedded people who undergo coronary bypass surgery are more than three times as likely to be alive 15 years later as their unmarried counter ...
  • Large Weight Gains Most Likely For Men After D ...
    Both marriage and divorce can act as "weight shocks," leading people to add a few extra pounds - especially among those over age 30 - according to a new study.
  • Happiness Can Deter Crime
    Happy adolescents report less involvement in crime and drug use than other youth, a new University of California-Davis study finds.
  • Large Weight Gains Most Likely For Men After D ...
    Both marriage and divorce can act as "weight shocks," leading people to add a few extra pounds--especially among those over age 30--according to a new study. But when it comes to large weight gains, the effects of marital transitions are quite different for men than they are for women.
  • Extramarital Sex and Divorce More Common Among ...
    Veterans were significantly more likely to have ever engaged in extramarital sex and ever gotten divorced than people who were never in the military, according to new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Natural Health News

  • The Big Fat Lie
    Uprising Radio interviews authors and researchers who are suggesting some novel ways of losing weight. Why we get fat and what to do about it is an ongoing topic on Uprising Radio in interviews with researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart and Vascul ...
  • Blaming Others Can Ruin Your Health
    For years, statistics have been piling up showing the connection between emotions and severe physical illness such as heart problems. Now, a new book, �Embitterment: Societal, Psychological and Clinical Perspectives,� talks about how bitterness and blaming others can contribute to health problem ...
  • What Is Causing Men's Decreasing Hormone Levels?
    As reported by CNN Health, two major studies, one in U.S. men and another in Danish men, have confirmed that their testosterone levels have dropped approximately 22 percent between 1987 and 2004. Other new health challenges that today’s men are facing include sex organ malformations, which nearl ...
  • Is Electronic Media Exposure Adversely Affecti ...
    A study published recently in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine has shown a “significant” connection between the amount of time teenagers spend watching TV or playing computer/video games and risky behaviors such as physical fights and alcohol use before age 13.
  • Dogs Can Smell Cancer on Your Breath
    Lung cancer is really hard to detect early. But a new study done in Germany, reported by Gizmodo.com, has found that dogs can be taught to sniff out 71 out of 100 cancer patients. They also were able to pick out 372 out of 400 who did NOT have the disease. � ��Not only that, but they could te ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoki ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • This Is Probably a Job for Chris Borgen, Space ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson DARPA will be making a grant award this fall to some organization to address interstellar space flight: In what is perhaps the ultimate startup opportunity, Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, plans to award some lucky, ambitious and st ...
  • This Is Probably a Job for Chris Borgen, Space ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson DARPA will be making a grant award this fall to some organization to address interstellar space flight: In what is perhaps the ultimate startup opportunity, Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, plans to award some lucky, ambitious and st ...
  • Saif Arrested! (And Snarky Thoughts on His Di ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller CNN is reporting that Libyan rebels have arrested Saif Gaddafi, Muammar’s second-eldest son long thought to be his most likely successor. Saif is one of the three suspects for whom the ICC has issued arrest warrants; the allegations include persecution a ...
  • Saif Arrested! (And Snarky Thoughts on His Di ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller CNN is reporting that Libyan rebels have arrested Saif Gaddafi, Muammar’s second-eldest son long thought to be his most likely successor. Saif is one of the three suspects for whom the ICC has issued arrest warrants; the allegations include persecution a ...
  • Call for Papers: Forces Without Borders
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Our friends at the Cornell International Law Journal have asked me to post the following call for papers.  The conference looks great; I’m disappointed that it starts the last day of my summer teaching obligations. The Cornell International Law Journal ...

Public News Service

  • Group: Arizona’s Mentally Ill Suffering ...
    Group: Arizona’s Mentally Ill Suffering Due to State Budget Cuts Phoenix, AZ – Just over a year ago, the state legislature ended most benefits for 13-thousand Arizonans with serious mental illnesses. Now an advocacy group says costs are actually growing and formerly stable individuals are caught ...
  • Planned Parenthood Ends Abortion Services in R ...
    Planned Parenthood Ends Abortion Services in Rural Arizona Phoenix, AZ – One week after an appeals court allowed key parts of a state law restricting abortion to take effect, Planned Parenthood Arizona has announced it will no longer offer abortion services outside of Metro Phoenix and Tucson. S ...
  • Is "Job-Killing" AT&T T-Mobile Merger a Droppe ...
    Is "Job-Killing" AT&T T-Mobile Merger a Dropped Call? Phoenix, AZ – It will likely result in the loss of 20,000 jobs. So why – with the economy the way it is – would the takeover of T-Mobile by AT&T make sense? It doesn't, say opponents, and their view may be gaining sway in Washington, D.C. Com ...
  • AZ Shows Improvement in Latest Measure of Kids ...
    AZ Shows Improvement in Latest Measure of Kids’ Well-Being Phoenix, AZ – Arizona has improved from 39th to 37th in the latest KIDS COUNT state rankings released today (Wednesday) by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The state’s teen birthrate and high school dropout rate are better, but Arizona sti ...
  • AZ Among Worst States for Family Food Hardship
    AZ Among Worst States for Family Food Hardship Phoenix, AZ – Arizona ranks 7th worst among the states for food hardship among families with children, according to a new report from the Food Research and Action Center. Among cities, Tucson was 15th worst for food insecurity and metro Phoenix was ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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
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  • 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 ...
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    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.

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • ‘Stealth’ warships to test China&# ...
    THE US is deploying a new generation of high-speed stealth warships to the disputed waters of the South China Sea, in a move that is bound to raise tensions with Beijing. The vessels, which cost $US440 million ($422m) each, will be deployed in the shipping lanes between Hong Kong and Singapore, ...
  • Ex-Wikileaks man ‘deleted files’
    A former Wikileaks spokesman claims to have deleted thousands of unpublished files that had been passed to the whistleblowing site. Daniel Domscheit-Berg told the German Newspaper Der Spiegel that the documents included a copy of the complete US no-fly list. He said he had “shredded” them to avo ...
  • Feds bust Iraqi crime ring said to be selling ...
    Federal law enforcement agents in San Diego arrested 60 people in connection with an Iraqi criminal ring with ties to Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa drug cartel. The gang is accused of selling drugs, machine guns and improvised bombs (IEDs) out of a social club for Iraqi immigrants in El Cajon, Cali ...
  • Children defy police in Washington, purchase l ...
    In response to a recent wave of lemonade stand shut downs and harassment of children over such petty regulations as are used to shut them down, several activist gathered at the west lawn of the capitol in Washington, DC to sell lemonade and were arrested. While the officers were technically on s ...
  • Ron Paul; Exposing Establishment Propaganda Si ...
    It is no secret that I am a huge Ron Paul supporter. I wrote quite a few write ups supporting his candidacy during the 2008 campaign. I wrote so much, in fact, that it becomes difficult to say anything that hasn’t already been said. That’s no big deal. There are many things in life that [...]

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

  • Unlicensed Silicone "Pumpers" Prey on Transwom ...
    Black market cosmeticians are preying on transwomen in New York, injecting them with huge quantities of liquid silicone to create a more feminine silhouette, sometimes with life threatening consequences, Laura Rena Murray reports in the New York Times . A young transwoman died in a Queens h ...
  • I've Always Said PETA Should Be Called "Pornog ...
    The conceptual art project known as PETA says it's planning to launch its own porn site. PETA has gotten a lot of attention for degrading women in order to stress that you shouldn't degrade animals. So, it's a natural progression for the organization, even though porn is less reliably degrading ...
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    Just goes to show that neither $1.8 million chandeliers, nor Crocs have any business existing. [Photo credit: ellenm1, Creative Commons. For illustration.]Read More
  • Breaking: Verizon Strike Ends...For Now
    Verizon workers called off their strike after the company agreed to temporarily extend their contract and return to the bargaining table. Forty-five thousand workers will return to their jobs on Monday. The workers have been off the job for two weeks. The company tried to crush the union, but ...

Inside Facebook

  • This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
    Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network this past week. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Monday, August 15th, 2011 Emerging Paid iOS Apps: Faux Security, Free Music & New Games What Could the Google-Motorola Mob ...
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    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Aarki, King.com, Acquinity Interactive, TinyCo, GREE Inter ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Germany, Ceglia, Comments Bo ...
    German Privacy Office Condemns Like Button – The privacy office of Northern German state Schleswig-Holstein has called for a ban of the Like button on grounds that it violates user privacy by sending browsing behavior data to Facebook. Starting at the end of September, it plans to sue German w ...
  • Milyoni’s Facebook Credits for Video Rentals A ...
    Facebook ecommerce developer Milyoni has added new sharing features to its Social Theater app that lets Pages rent videos to users for Facebook Credits. Social Theater, which powers rentals for Warner Bros’ The Dark Knight and the ACL music festival, now allows users to leave timed comments, sha ...
  • Facebook Tries Replacing “Most Recent” with a ...
    For the past few months, Facebook has been testing several home page redesigns that add a second, real-time news feed to the right of the central Top News feed. In the latest tested design, Facebook has removed the Most Recent tab of the news feed and replaced it with a real-time activity feed t ...

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