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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.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

24 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Wake Up America! 10 Very Obvious Reasons Why T ...
    Do you have friends, neighbors and relatives that can't find work?  Well, unfortunately the current U.S. jobs famine is about to get a whole lot worse.  Right now there are approximately 13.9 million unemployed Americans.  That does not count those that "are not looking for work ...
  • Bad News
    The bad news about the economy just keeps rolling in.  If this is an economic recovery, what in the world is the next "recession" going to look like?  Today there was another huge truckload of bad economic news.  The stock market had another 400 point "correction", applications ...
  • 20 Signs That The World Could Be Headed For An ...
    If you thought that 2011 was a bad year for the world economy, just wait until you see what happens in 2012.  The U.S. and Europe are both dealing with unprecedented debt problems, the financial markets are flailing about wildly, austerity programs are being implemented all over ...
  • 16 Statistics Which Prove That The American Pe ...
    According to a whole host of polls and surveys, the American people are incredibly angry right now.  The American people are hopping mad at the government, the American people are hopping mad about the economy and the American people are hopping mad about the direction that this ...
  • 10 Signs That Economic Riots And Civil Unrest ...
    You should let the video footage of the wild violence that just took place in London burn into your memory because the same things are going to be happening all over the United States as the economy continues to crumble.  We have raised an entire generation of young people with ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Thought for the Day: 23rd August 2011
    In order to awake fully, do not say 'it is'. As yourself: "Why?" or "What does it mean?".
  • Are Kellogg's Frosties more lawful than an Act ...
    This is essentially a follow-up post to yesterday's much read intrigue - and thank you for your support on that one. Part of what we did afterwards, as you'll see from the updates, was to look at coats of arms and emblems. And then we noticed something. Have a look at this. This is the ...
  • The Crown vs. THE CROWN
    We know we have a few readers who are interested in lawful rebellion, freemen on the land, and fellow English constitution supporters who pop by this blog. So, for you, mind the occasional F-word, but get this: Don't skip this. It's an hour out of your life. But listen. Download. So, ques ...
  • Libyan Rebels Overthrow the BBC
    Whatever one thinks of the situation in Libya - and time will tell on that one - there are more scalps claimed by the Libya 'rebels' tonight than that of Gaddafi. Twitter was awash all late evening with political and current affairs commentators - both high profile and from the obscure and al ...
  • Quote of the Day: 70 Useful Idiots Edition
    "...this rebellion isn't quite as fierce as it may seem. One Tory backbencher tells me the Tory whips have actually encouraged this group to call for renegotiation of the UK terms of EU membership. The whips are doing this, I'm told, to stave off a greater threat: support for an in-or-out refere ...

Facing South

  • Earthquake scare at Virginia nuclear plant com ...
    The scare over the impact the Aug. 23 earthquake in Virginia had on Dominion's North Anna nuclear station underscores the seismic risks facing the U.S. nuclear industry -- and it raises urgent questions about federal regulators' reluctance to promptly implement the lessons of Japan's Fukushima d ...
  • Gov. Rick Perry flunks civil rights lesson in ...
    Each presidential election, Republicans declare that this could be the year they might win over African-American voters, or at least enough to tip the balance in key battleground states. But if surging White House hopeful Gov. Rick Perry of Texas ends up clinching the GOP nomination, he may hav ...
  • 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, gender, ...
  • 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 ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Ubuntu Software Center Overhaul in Full Swing
    Ubuntu Software Center is seeing its second round of upgrades, this time changes are even more dramatic. Good to see Canonical putting so much thrust on Software Center which has the potential to become Ubuntu's major money spinner in the near future. Brand New Ubuntu Software Cent ...
  • Ubuntu Software Center Overhaul in Full Swing
    Ubuntu Software Center is seeing its second round of upgrades, this time changes are even more dramatic. Good to see Canonical putting so much thrust on Software Center which has the potential to become Ubuntu's major money spinner in the near future. Brand New Ubuntu Software Cen ...
  • 10 Good Inkscape Tutorials for Vector Graphic ...
    Inkscape is the premier open source vector graphics editor for Linux. Inkscape is cross platform and is available for Windows and Mac OS X for free download. We have dealt with a bunch of really good Inskcape tutorials before, here are even more of those. Following is a collection of 10 of ...
  • Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot Alpha 3 Quick Review
    Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot Alpha 3 was released few weeks ago. I decided to properly install Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric in my netbook along with Ping-Eee OS this time around instead of just experimenting it with a USB install. I have been using Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 as my primary OS for almost 2 wee ...
  • 5 Android Apps for Remotely Controlling Banshe ...
    Android Market is such an awesome place for exploring and finding new interesting stuff. On one such recent explorations, I discovered these great Android apps with which you will be able to remotely control major multimedia apps for Linux incuding Banshee, Amarok, VLC, XBMC and Boxee from y ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • PLANS OF GERMANY’S FINANCE MINISTER FOR ...
    *LEAKED LAW REVEALS GERMANY S FINANCE MINISTER IS PLANNING DICTATORIAL EURO BAILOUT FUND COMMISSION *COMMISSION CAN BYPASS PARLIAMENT AND PEOPLE TO SPEND LIMITLESS TAXES ON  PROPPING UP BANKS *PUBLIC FINANCES WILL BE RUINED *ESFS COMMISSION MEMBERS TO BE GIVEN IMMUNITY: TAXATION WITHOUT REPRE ...
  • German judges to face legal action over role i ...
    Fifty-five companies in Germany are bringing legal action against the judges of the country’s  highest constitutional court for the support they have given the government in running roughshod over the rule of law and in ruining the public finances of the country for the profit of the banks. http ...
  • German President Questions Legality of ECB Bon ...
    Germany’s President Christian Wulff has vigorously defended the rights of parliament, and also emphasised the need to defend freedom, democracy and human rights. His criticism today of the illegal ECB bond purchasing programme — which is ruining public finances not just in Germany but across the ...
  • Will ECB sterilisation of bond purchases aggra ...
    The European Central Bank’s decision to sterilise purchases of Italian and Spanish bonds could wreck havoc with the money supply in the eurozone and exacerbate the economic downturn. Sterilising the bond purchases means that the ECB takes the equivalent amount of money out of the eurozone centra ...
  • Is the eurozone set to collapse like the Sovie ...
    Rubble of Rouble as a Precedent for the EZ EUR? HSBC’s King and RGE’s EZ Does It Author: Arnab Das, Economonitor  · August 10th, 2011 ·  We’re no longer alone in having drawn a broad compare/contrast between the EZ existential crisis and the latest major monetary disintegration on the Eurasian l ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Alex Jones, Mike Adams and the 9/11 Litmus Test
    By Les Visible I’ve appreciated the writing of Mike Adams and even went so far as to put a link to his site on my sites. Without even knowing why, I was uneasy about this and an event occurred, that had nothing to do with Mike Adams, except for the coloration and presentation of his [...]
  • Libya: NATO Psy-Op Collapses – Qaddafi Prevail ...
    By Tony Cartalucci The Intel Hub Aug 23, 2011 Once again a defiant Qaddafi has prevailed against the full might of NATO aggression including a murderous bombing campaign followed by NATO special forces on the ground supporting mobs of US/UK/French/Qatari backed Al Qaeda thugs which swarmed Tripo ...
  • Iceland’s On-going Revolution
    By Deena Stryker An Italian radio program’s story about Icelandâs on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were menti ...
  • FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs upwards of 15,000 undercover agents today, ten times what they had on the roster back in 1975. If you think that’s a few spies too many — spies earning as much as $100,000 per assignment — one doesn’t have to go too deep into their track record to see ...
  • Why 911 still matters
    by Ryan Dawson There is a bit of a stigma about questioning the events of 911. This arises from a rather loud mouth 911 kook movement which ranges in its speculations from missiles on up to space aliens, which people do not want to be associated with. The other skepticism just comes from authori ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

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

PR News

  • WPP reports 5% increase in PR revenue in H1
    NEW YORK: WPP reported year-on-year like-for-like revenues up 5% to $709 million for its PR and public affairs businesses in the first six months of 2011, excluding the effects of currency movements and acquisitions.
  • Good Gear selects Christie Communications
    SANTA BARBARA, CA: Good Gear recently hired Christie Communications to help market and promote its bamboo active wear line in the US and abroad.
  • Pharma companies adapt to Facebook mandate
    Facebook last week announced a policy change that is having a significant impact on the ability of pharmaceutical companies to communicate via the social network.
  • California Rail reissues $4.5m account
    SACRAMENTO: California High-Speed Rail Authority has re-issued an RFP to promote the state's hotly debated $43 billion rail project, a contract that Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide ditched last month.
  • California High-Speed Rail Authority re-issues ...
    SACRAMENTO: California High-Speed Rail Authority has re-issued an RFP to promote the state's hotly debated $43 billion rail project, a contract that Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide ditched last month.

The Story Behind the Story

  • Chuck Baldwin Hits the Nail SQUARELY!!
    � �Come Out Of Her, My People� By Chuck Baldwin August 18, 2011 Archived column: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3859 It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today�s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intended to ...
  • Things That Make You Say HMMMMMMM!
    He served 10 presidents, but died alone in squalor: What happened to Theodoric C. James? White House Photo – Theodoric James Jr. worked in the White House for almost 50 years. His Northwest Washington neighbors never knew he catalogued important, sometimes sensitive, documents. By Christian Dave ...
  • A Message to Horowitz and Kane – the Ill ...
    You indeed are the masters of spin – the masters of lying hypocrisy – the masters of obfuscation and calling evil good and good evil. As Khazarian Double Agents, I highly doubt you have ever read The Bible – have you?  I doubt you have read Isaiah – so let me share his words: “WOE [...]
  • Zombie Apocalpyse – What Others Are Now ...
    I first reported on this immediately after the CDC issued its report.  Now others are also writing on this topic.  GREAT NEWS!!! A. True Ott, PhD THE MEANING OF CDC “ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE” PART 2 By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu August 17, 2011 NewsWithViews.com CDC Creating a âZombie Horrorâ Conscio ...
  • The Amazing TRUE STORY of Susan Lindauer. EXT ...
    Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq Susan Lindauer

k2p blog

  • Hydro power plants can release more CO2 emissi ...
    Electricity from hydropower can lead to several times the emissions of greenhouse gas emissions than produced from fossil fuels. At least from hydro-electric dams in the rain forest areas, according to a new study from Brasil.
  • Number of species on the planet is an unknown ...
    A new estimate concudes that there are ~8.7 million (±1.3 million SE) eukaryotic species globally, of which ~2.2 million (±0.18 million SE) are marine and that some 86% of existing species on Earth and 91% of species in the ocean still await description.
  • Mosquitos increasing in the UK but global warm ...
    Mosquitos increasing in the UK but global warming has not been blamed.
  • Discovery of Icelandic ocean current unsettles ...
    So much for settled science. A new paper overturns previous thinking that the East Greenland Current was the main source of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The newly discovered North Icelandic Jet (NIJ) is now thought to dominate the return of dense water south through g ...
  • David Cameron was “played” by News ...
    It now appears that Andy Coulson was working for two paymasters strengthening the impression that David Cameron was not just a "dupe" but that he was being "played" by News International.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Silly Reader Thinks Appliances Should Last Lon ...
    Maura has figured out what the "cares" "Sears cares" actually stands for: "customers are reliable suckers." That was the subject line of the e-mail she sent us about the experience she's had trying to get her Kenmore washing machine fixed. Her washing machine that is what we once would have cal ...
  • AT&T Employees Claim: Idle Company Truck To Ru ...
    Maybe they're just more concerned about pollution than about workers' comfort. TV station KPRC investigated claims from AT&T installation technicians that they've been told that they can't sit in their idling trucks and run the air conditioning to cool off for amounts of time that the company d ...
  • Man Pays Bank Of America Mortgage On Time, Sti ...
    Ever since the housing bubble burst, we've run a number of stories about homeowners who had been told the only way they could qualify for a loan modification was to stop paying their mortgage for a few months, only to end up in foreclosure because the lender had no record of a modification appl ...
  • Consumer Reports' Excellence Award: Tell Us Wh ...
    Five small non-profits are competing for $25,000 as part of the first Consumer Reports Excellence in Consumer Advocacy Award, and we need your help choosing the winner. The five finalists were narrowed down from 150 nominees, based on their effectiveness, reach, relevance, organizing and susta ...
  • Walmart Shopper Sacrifices Minivan To Stop Sho ...
    A customer at a Florida Walmart was one of several people who spotted two women run out the store's front door with a cart full of allegedly stolen merchandise. And when he saw this pair try to escape in a car, he decided it was time to intervene. "I got in my van real fast and drove around o ...

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

  • Forget Rick Perry – Mitt Romney is Perfect for ...
    The Iowa Straw Poll last weekend is to election season what Labor Day is to Fall; it’s official now – the season has begun! I don’t care about the “viability” of candidates. I am not a prognosticator. Well, if I were, I’d be a very bad one. I said former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty was [...] ...
  • Stock Tip: Be Worried. Workers are Consumers.
    Repeat after me: Workers are consumers. Consumers are workers. We’re slouching toward a double dip, and the stock market is imploding, because consumers – whose spending is 70 percent of the economy – have reached their limit. It’s not just the jobless who can’t spend. It’s mainly people with jo ...
  • Norway Massacre: Delving Into a Brilliant, Dis ...
    by Richard A. Hudson On July 22, 2011, extremely violent back-to-back attacks occurred first in Oslo, Norway and then on nearby Utoya Island, killing at least 77 persons. Initially, some suggested involvement of Islamic terrorists, citing a troublesome immigration policy of the Norwegian governm ...
  • Now Obama Must Lead
    President Obama should reflect on what has gone wrong with his presidency. Then his economic speech after Labor Day, which should have been given long ago, and should be given before Labor Day, must be far bolder and more aggressive than any words this president has ever spoken about jobs. Ameri ...
  • 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 ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Solar Power costs less than Coal, and the Wish ...
    Finally, a new day has dawned and solar power is cheaper than coal fired electricity! Gadzooks! It must be true, the Sydney Morning Herald says so. “Solar energy cost hits par with coal fuel“ Who knew they conquered the low energy density, high maintenance, poor performance, bad weather, and gen ...
  • Andrew Pitman cries poor and rich, says climat ...
    Well which way is it then? Last year Professor Andrew Pitman said the science was settled, he was a poor volunteer, and skeptics were rich (which was why they were winning). …climate scientists are losing the fight with climate sceptics. That the sceptics are so well funded, so well organized, h ...
  • Giant PR machine swings into gear against the ...
    It’s important for the big-government-dependent parties to deny the power of the Convoy. Less than a week ago, there was a rally at Parliament House with around 3,000-5,000 people. And today there was another one, this one with around 600 vehicles according to Matt and Janet Thompson, and this o ...
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • Ruling by decree when leadership fails
    (Peter Lemiska) - In recent years, the entire country has been focused on its plunging economy. Housing prices are at historic lows, and the jobless rate is at 9.1%. The number is significantly higher in minority communities. The stock market is collapsing, and roughly one in seven Americans are ...
  • Libyan draft Constitution: Sharia is 'principa ...
    (Heritage Foundation) - The dust has not yet settled over the Libyan capital of Tripoli since rebels took control over the weekend. But already, a draft constitutional charter for the transitional state has appeared online (embedded below). It is just a draft, mind you, and gauging its authentic ...
  • The Palin factor
    (Emily Miller) - Sarah Palin is the elephant in the room of the Republican primary. The former Alaska governor says she is still considering whether she will join the crowd seeking the GOP presidential nod. That has the chattering class watching her every move for signs that she's leaning one wa ...
  • Rep. West: Obama's rules scorn Constitution
    (Newsmax) - Conservative firebrand Rep. Allen West is castigating President Barack Obama for "shredding" the U.S. Constitution by aggressively pushing to impose his agenda through executive-branch rule-making rather than via Congress...
  • 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...

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

  • Two Earthquakes in USA Today
    Most notably there was an earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Virginia today, with a magnitude of 5.8.  At this stage damage and injuries do not appear to be widespread, but a nuclear power plant at ...Two Earthquakes in USA Today is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:California ...
  • When Fiction Becomes Reality
    After 9/11 it was freaky to see that the tragedy had been predicted in popular culture, for example the debut episode of The Lone Gunmen. The most under-appreciated disaster scenario facing the USA and the ...When Fiction Becomes Reality is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:NASA: Impac ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Earthquake scare at Virginia nuclear plant com ...
    The scare over the impact the Aug. 23 earthquake in Virginia had on Dominion's North Anna nuclear station underscores the seismic risks facing the U.S. nuclear industry -- and it raises urgent questions about federal regulators' reluctance to promptly implement the lessons of Japan's Fukushima d ...
  • Gov. Rick Perry flunks civil rights lesson in ...
    Each presidential election, Republicans declare that this could be the year they might win over African-American voters, or at least enough to tip the balance in key battleground states. But if surging White House hopeful Gov. Rick Perry of Texas ends up clinching the GOP nomination, he may hav ...
  • 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, gender, ...
  • 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 ...

One News Page

  • Leona Lewis settles 'Collide' dispute
  • Earthquakes in New York Today
    Earthquakes in New York Today: A 5.8 magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va, shook much of Washington, D.C and was felt as far north as Rhode Island and New York City. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was 3.7 miles deep. Shaking was felt at the White House and all ...
  • Google Doodle Celebrates Argentine Novelist Jo ...
    Born in Buenos Aires, Borges is widely regarded as one of the forebears of modern science fiction.
  • Report: Will Smith and Jada SEPARATE
    Filed under: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Willow Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Celebrity Divorce * Will Smith* and *Jada Pinkett Smith* have separated ... this according to In Touch Weekly. Will and Jada have been married for 13 years and have two extremely famous children together -- Jaden ...
  • Sprint iPhone 5 possibility with dual mode handset
    The iPhone 5 release is getting nearer with the date rumored to be in October, and as that time frame gets closer we are seeing more speculation of the handsets features. Now today we have news that a Sprint iPhone… · Read the full article on Product-Reviews.net

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • NATO Land Operation in Libya Carried Out at Fu ...
    A source from Libya reports that early morning August 23, 2011 a commando unit from British Special Air Service (SAS) was disclosed and eliminated in Tripoli. Their local guide was captured and will be prosecuted shortly. An anti-subversive team of the Libyan 32nd Special Force Brigade responsib ...
  • NATO’s Planned Bloodbath in Tripoli
    NATO intends to get the bloodbath it wants through intensified terror bombing and low-level strafing of civilians and nonmilitary sites. No matter that it grossly violates international and constitutional law, what Washington-led member states long ago trashed. Through August 22, air operations ...
  • Strange Days in London
    Let’s begin by noting that isn’t the first time England has had the kind of unrest we’re seeing now. The first racially motivated mass riots happened in London’s Notting Hill area in 1958. It was decided afterwards to hold an annual carnival in Notting Hill, a sign, as it were, of racial peace, ...
  • Libya on the Brink
    The fall of M. Gadhafi’s regime will come as a huge success of the globalization forces seeking to establish a new world order. The proportions of the campaign the West launched in Libya and the level of sophistication of the technologies employed were impressive regardless of the accompanying p ...
  • What Is Going On in Tripoli?
    After 6-months-long failing attempts to overthrow Gaddafi by the hands of ‘Libyan rebels’ and to weaken his regime by permanent bombings, the ‘democratic’ powers have put their last ace on table. On Saturday evening August 20, 2011 they have launched a large-scale special land operation in Tripo ...

BlogHer

  • A Police Car With Heart
    Last week my 1997 green unmarked Crown Victoria had engine trouble. This car has a history. Back in her good old days she belonged to the police chief and was the only unmarked vehicle in our department. Our Chief has since moved on to a new unmarked SUV.As the only detective I inherited Esperan ...
  • Faithful Place: Get to Know Author Tana French
    Tana French is the New York Times bestselling author of Faithful Place, In the Woods and The Likeness. She grew up in Ireland, Italy, the U.S. and Malawi and has lived in Dublin since 1990. She trained as a professional actress at Trinity College, Dublin, and has worked in theater, film and vo ...
  • 200 Pounds of Pride in a Bikini
    There are so many ways we women torture ourselves about our bodies. Especially after we have babies and get that super-chic poochy belly thing. (I have always been a little Victorian in my shape, so perhaps I felt that particular grief less than others!) Now we even have opposing camps of body-p ...
  • Owning Your Awesome: It's Not Conceited
    When I was about nine �- the age my daughter is now �- I was told I was fat. Which was untrue, actually, but which quite literally scarred me for life. My own mother tried to teach me how to not hate myself, but she didn't walk the walk as they say, and I learned, through her actions, how not to ...
  • Divorce and Missing the First Day of School
    One of the things about divorce that you really never get used to is that you will miss milestones. That�s just how it goes. You may miss trick-or-treating for the first time with them for Halloween. You may miss first steps or the first real sentence they string together. The moment they lea ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Monsanto Superweeds Choke Midwest – Won& ...
    Monsanto used its wiles for over 15 years to make sure that its seeds and products are the ones that farmers use exclusively. Monstrosity made sure that it appeared to be a bargain – farmers ...
  • BP’s Gusher May Be Gushing Again. If So, ...
    BP’s Gusher May Be Gushing Again. If So, It Cannot Be Stopped. As they say, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duckâa well-oiled one, as in Hunziker’s redesigned ...
  • High Levels of Potentially Toxic Flame Retarda ...
    California shows the highest rate of pregnant women with polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). Wait, there’s PBDE flame retardant in pregnant women? Human exposure continues from old products, house dust, food, and other sources even though the ...
  • Confessions of a Cancer Industry Insider
    A twenty-year veteran in the cancer research industry shares her personal story. Remember the state bills that would criminalize naturopathic doctors for not being state licensed? Geraldine Phillips shares just how qualified the “doctors” are who ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • MSHA announces latest impact inspection results
    Here’s the word today from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Laborâs Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 375 citations and orders during special impact inspections conducted at 10 coal mines and five metal/nonm ...
  • Should the Alpha/Massey slurry deal be secret?
    Circuit Court Judges from left: Judge Jay Hoke of Lincoln County, Judge James Mazzone of Ohio County, and Judge John Hutchison of Raleigh County listen to pretrial motions in a coal slurry pollution lawsuit against Massey Energy in Ohio County Circuit Court on Friday, July 22, 2011, in Wheeling, ...
  • Alpha/Massey seeks to end shareholder suit
    It’s been a while since we heard anything about the shareholder derivative suits pending against Massey Energy and the former top executive and board members from Massey. But today, Kanawha Circuit Judge Charlie King held a hearing, to give lawyers for Alpha Natural Resources and those former Ma ...
  • 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 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Your Problem with Vim is That You Don’t Grok Vi
    Your problem with Vim is that you don’t grok vi. You mention cutting with yy and complain that you almost never want to cut whole lines. In fact programmers, editing source code, very often want to work on whole lines, ranges of lines and blocks of code. However, yy is only one of many way [...]
  • 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 ...

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

  • Man suing doc for amputating penis signed pre- ...
    wlky.com – SHELBYVILLE, Ky. — Testimony continued Tuesday in a Shelbyville courtroom in the trial of a doctor accused of amputating a manâs penis without consent. Phillip Seaton, 64, is suing urologist Dr. John Patterson for amputating a portion of his penis in 2007. According to court testimony ...
  • Fukushima fallout said 30 times Hiroshima&#821 ...
    .japantimes.co- Video footage of Tatsuhiko Kodama’s impassioned speech before a Diet committee in July went viral online recently, showing the medical expert’s shocking revelation that the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant spewed some 30 times more radioactive materials than the fallout from the Hir ...
  • WWH News Briefs Wednesday
    Hurricane Irene gains strength; targets North Carolina’s Ocracoke Island nydailynews.com – Hurricane Irene was back to a Category 2 storm Wednesday, gaining strength as experts warn it poses a major threat to the U.S. Eastern seaboard from Florida to New England. Forecasters watching it churn th ...
  • Interior Department admits to ‘poisoning ...
    Environmental law violations at scores of tribal schools run by Interior Department. Media avoided this one for a long time. The EPA’s Press Release, tries to spin it as all better now. Truth is the DOI, just got a slap on the wrist. This penalty would have been, ten times as much if it were [...]
  • Clarence Thomas Is Not An Idiot – Is To ...
    jezebel.com – Virginia Thomas is, says Justice Clarence Thomas, “my best friend” and “my bride.” She says, “There was a tornado over our wedding when we got married. God knew that we were both troublemakers coming together.” And as a New Yorker profile this week reveals, that’s a fairly apt desc ...

reference frame

  • John Cook will receive lots of money for clima ...
    John Cook, a prolific hardcore crackpot and one of the numerous tiny Internet-based stalking appendices of your humble correspondent will share AUD $240,000 for his climate propaganda: Eureka moment for leading climate change communicatorThis guy has no clue about the climate science or a ...
  • Higgs search: neither fish nor fowl
    My "live report" from Lepton-Photon 2011 in Bombay ended up being somewhat unreadable, missing the big picture: that's what often happens with texts in which you don't know in advance what the final product will look like. So let me summarize: the LHC has still found no evidence for an ...
  • DSK via geology: don't mess up with IMF
    Some lawyers tried to start a lawsuit against the ex-boss of the International Monetary Fund. They have ignored the global influence of the IMF. The word "global" is related to "globe" and one of the things that the globe is able to do are earthquakes, such as the fresh magnitude ...
  • Once more: gravity is not an entropic force
    Archil Kobakhidze of the University of Melbourne (where my uncle has taught maths since the late 1960s) released his new paper on the arXiv, Once more: gravity is not an entropic forceHe repeats and refines his arguments from his September 2010 paper, Gravity is not an entropic forc ...
  • La Nina conditions seem to be returning
    Recall that we had an El Nino in 2009/10 - which helped to make 2010 a warm year. Then we had a La Nina in 2010/11 - which is helping to make 2011 a cooler year. But there's no law that would say that El Ninos and La Ninas have to alternate. Click to zoom in. So it actually ...

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
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • 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

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

  • Today, Nafissatou Diallo is a 'fraud' and Mike ...
    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
  • In two one-man shows at the Fringe, comic reli ...
    You’ve probably never met anyone with a story like Aaron Berg’s, but (especially if you’re a gay New Yorker) you’ve probably met lots of people with a story like Dan Horrigan’s. More
  • A new 'Conan,' even less civilized than the ol ...
    In the creatively limitless realm of comics, where men come from dying planets to save the human race from itself, having a topless, muscle-bound dude learn lessons of loyalty and fidelity while kicking ass and taking women is not a big deal. For director ...
  • A gay-sugar-daddy building-sale wife-slay plot ...
    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
  • 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 ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Oil fund expert exports his expertise
    Martin Skancke, long known as the brains behind much of the success of Norway’s so-called “oil fund,” has resigned from his top post in the Finance Ministry to start advising other countries that are building up their own funds. He’ll also help guide investing by Norwegian insurance firm Storebr ...
  • Norwegians more confident now
    A new study shows that Norwegians now have more confidence not only in each other but in other ethnic groups, in their government and in the Parliament. While acts of terrorism can instill fear and suspicion in the societies they hit, last month’s attacks in Norway seem to have had the opposite ...
  • Verndal ‘best actress’ in winning film
    Line Verndal, best known in Norway for her role in the popular TV series Himmelblå, has proven her talents in the film world as well after winning the award for best actress at the annual Amandaprisen ceremony in Haugesund, the Norwegian equivalent of the Academy Awards in Hollywood. Verndal, ag ...
  • Norwegians spend billions on gifts
    New figures compiled for Nordea Bank show that Norwegians collectively spend nearly NOK 50 billion a year on gifts, with nearly NOK 15 billion of that on gifts for children’s birthdays. The figures, based on a survey by research firm Synovate, also showed that the amount spent by Norwegians on g ...
  • Health chief updates casualty figures
    There was a great deal of confusion when police and emergency workers initially started releasing the numbers of dead and wounded following the July 22 terrorist attacks in Norway. Now Norwegian health care officials have released new details but the death toll stands at 77. Bjørn-Inge Larsen, h ...

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

  • Wave of Illegal, Senseless and Violent Evictio ...
    By Bill Quigley Mathias O is 34 years old. He is one of about 600,000 people still homeless from the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. He lives with his wife and her 2 year old under a homemade shelter made out of several tarps. They sleep on the rocky ground inside. The side tarp wall ...
  • Free Agents Brass Band and Sunni Patterson Hea ...
    From our friends at Project Future for the Youth: Project Future for the Youth is a grassroots organization that utilizes the arts as a vehicle to broaden the horizon of youth to effect positive social change in our communities. To spread the word and raise much-needed funds for their work, t ...
  • Six Years Since the Storm and Six Years of War ...
    From our friends at Survivors Village: The Katrina Commemoration Committee will sponsor its annual march from the base of the Industrial Canal in the 9th ward to Hunters Field on the 29th of August 2011. Last year the prevailing thought was that the 5th year event was going to be the ...
  • Social Aid and Pleasure Club Task Force Announ ...
    From our friends at the New Orleans Social Aid and Pleasure Club Task Force: New Orleans Social Aid and Pleasure Club Task Force announces the 2011-2012 second-line parade season with a press conference and Ambassador Awards ceremony on Friday, August 26. Please join us as we release the 20 ...
  • 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 ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    By Matt Taibbi August 17, 2011 8:00 AM ET SEC whistleblower shredder paper Pete Gardner/Getty Imagine a world in which a man who is repeatedly investigated for a string of serious crimes, but never prosecuted, has his slate wiped clean every time the cops fail to make a case. No more Lifetime ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    http://www.radioislam.org/islam/english ... _moses.htm By Russell Jenkins The Times, July 10, 2009 David Cameron could be a direct descendant of Moses, a Jewish scholar has suggested. Political commentators have long known that the Conservative Party leader’s paternal great-great-grandfa ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    CCIhosting fuckin sucks We'll have to see about moving againStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:10 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    That Gartman is a knucklehead, 2 weeks ago he said Gold was going for a major major correction "Gold Goes Off Charts as Gartman Sees Prices for Metal Heading ‘Parabolic’"Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:50 am
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    For some reason Karl still can't see the smiling, GoldmanSachs-JewFed-Blankfein-Scam "J-Factor" in all of this.... a bright guy but like most Goy Americans...incredibly blind... soon the "scales" may fall... --CSR ------------------- Are You Ready? The Government Doesn't Give A Damn ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Video: Illegal Logging Is Pushing Rare Madagas ...
    For the last 10 years, researcher Erik Patel has focused on the plight of the silky sifaka lemur, an endangered primate whose forest habitat in a remote corner of Madagascar is being cleared by rampant illegal logging. Now a new video, Trouble in Lemur Land — shot in Madagasgar’s Marojejy ...
  • Growth of Urban Areas Poses Long-Term Threats, ...
    A new study says the explosive growth of urban areas worldwide over the next two decades poses significant risks to human populations and the global environment, from the loss of agricultural land and wildlife habitat to increased vulnerability to the effects of climate change. Using satellite d ...
  • Antarctic Ice Movement Is Fully Mapped for the ...
    Scientists at the University of California, Irvine, have for the first time fully mapped the movement of Antarctica’s vast ice sheets and glaciers, which comprise 90 percent of the ice on Earth. Using data gathered by NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterVIDEO: Antarctic ice movement satellites f ...
  • Water Risk Mapping Project Attracts Major Glob ...
    Several global corporations have joined a World Resources Institute project that is developing a new database and mapping tools to help companies manage their water resources and reduce risk. The Aqueduct project — which so far has enlisted companies such as Coca-Cola, General Electric, and Dow ...
  • U.S. Carbon Capture Projects Selected for Furt ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy has selected four projects for continued research into developing carbon capture technologies, with the goal of achieving 90 percent carbon dioxide removal. While existing carbon capture technologies require enormous amounts of energy — adding as much as 80 percent ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Jack Layton’s bequest to the West
    By Frank Moher As God's cruel jokes go, this one's a doozy. Jack Layton, having built the NDP into the Official Opposition and created a sense of hope for the resurgence of a genuine left in Canada, one that would keep the right from running roughshod over the poor, the middle-class, ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

  • What’s Beck Doing in Israel?
    At the first of three rallies he is holding in Israel, Glenn Beck preached to his followers like a pastor. By Michelle Goldberg.
  • The Quake We Should Fear
    The earthquakes yesterday scared people along the East Coast, but Simon Winchester warns that the truly terrifying earthquake may strike the Midwest.
  • Cash for Killing Gaddafi
    Igor Kossov on how the rebels’ $1.6 million bounty could be the final straw for the regime.
  • Washington’s Earthquake Farce
    Howard Kurtz on why an earthquake blip in the Washington area got the crisis treatment from the media.
  • Obama’s True Claim to Fame
    Events in Libya put Obama on the road to being a truly great foreign-policy president. By Michael Tomasky.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Thaksin to offer moral support
    Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Tuesday defended his controversial visit to Japan, saying he wants to offer moral support to the disaster-stricken nation, which helped his own country recover from a massive tsunami in 2004 when he was in power. "I feel like I'm attach ...
  • Mr. Maehara enters DPJ race
    Former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara decided Tuesday evening to run for the Democratic Party of Japan presidential race to choose a successor to Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Mr. Maehara, sure to become a strong candidate, should present a clear future vision of Japan and a direction it will take b ...
  • Miami investigating 15 Hurricanes
    The probe into Miami athletics is growing, with the university looking into the eligibility of 15 athletes who may have accepted improper benefits from a rogue booster. Miami president Donna Shalala did not reveal any names of the players under investigation as she released a video statement M ...
  • Japan-India agreement
    The comprehensive economic partnership agreement between Japan and India went into force Aug. 1. It is Japan's 12th free trade agreement. In the field of FTAs, Japan is lagging its neighbor South Korea. The latter has already signed FTAs with the United States and the European Union. Its FTA wit ...
  • Maehara, the favorite, declares candidacy
    Former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara declared his candidacy Tuesday for next week's Democratic Party of Japan presidential election to pick the successor to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who meanwhile spent the day bidding a premature farewell to his Cabinet. "We have to change the government to ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Recession Ahead?
    TD Economics yesterday released a rather gloomy report, putting the odds of a US recession at 40%, and arguing that that Canadian economy is more vulnerable to recession than it was in 2008.  It highlights reduced capacity for governments to respond given that interest rates are already very low ...
  • Outlook Darkens as Budget Debate Begins
    Allow me to indulge myself just this once.  Almost exactly one month ago I wrote a post on the Progressive Economics blog  arguing that the Bank of Canada was being too optimistic about our economic prospects in the July Monetary Policy Report . Last Friday, both the Governor of the Bank of Cana ...
  • 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 ...

ReDress

  • Palestinian Jenin's "Third Intifada" under attack
    As the Israeli armed forces once again raid the Freedom Theatre at Jenin, Richard Lightbown describes this oppression in the context of the resistance envisioned by the theatre’s founder, Juliano Mer Khamis.
  • Analysis: renewed hostilities between Gaza and ...
    Richard Lightbown analyses the media reports on the background to current hostilities between Gaza and Israel and sees little cause for optimism.
  • 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 ...

Physics Today

  • LEDs could multitask as data transmitters
    Guardian: Light bulbs could soon be used to broadcast wireless internet. Harald Haas of the UK’s Edinburgh University has been working on a revolutionary method of data transmission that makes use of light waves rather than wires or radio waves. Using LEDs, which are more efficient than standard ...
  • Space tourists may soon be able to travel by b ...
    Telegraph: A Spanish entrepreneur has developed a helium balloon that will take space tourists into Earth’s stratosphere. With a diameter measuring 129 meters, the huge “bloon” can climb to a height of 36 000 kilometers, where the blackness of space can be seen above and the curvature of Earth b ...
  • USGS studies long-term health risks from 9/11
    Earth magazine: Over the past decade, a team from the US Geological Survey has been studying the long-term health risks for rescue workers, civilians, and survivors directly affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The US Environmental Protection Agency and the Public Health Service Commissioned ...
  • Laser uranium enrichment provokes nuclear bomb ...
    New York Times: General Electric has been working with lasers to develop a cheaper and easier method of producing enriched uranium for use in nuclear reactors, writes William Broad for the New York Times. It has long been thought that the extraordinary purity of laser light could be used to sele ...
  • Russian satellite missing hours after launch, ...
    Guardian: The Russian Express-A4M satellite disappeared hours after it was sent into orbit from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, just as flight controllers began to celebrate the launch. It was later found to be still attached to its booster. Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, said that the ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • US-Israel Trade: Espionage, Thefts, Secrets
    by umajeff21 (Posted Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:30:04 GMT) Any latest developments? It's almost scary stuff. Amazed by the way they are doing it. Gross! ----------- blog uk
  • 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/
  • 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

  • Vietnam’s Rice Bowl Threatened By Rising ...
    “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 water in the rivers now,” s ...
  • Louisiana Paper Mill Spill Causes Massive Fish ...
    “A rotten stench hung over a 60-mile stretch of Louisiana’s Pearl River as boats trawled through thick layers of hundreds of thousands of dead fish, and sweating workers bent to scoop the carcasses from the water. The fish, including federally protected Gulf sturgeon as well as catfish and floun ...
  • Drought brings ‘toilet to tap’ to fore
    “Drought in the U.S. West is leading many cities to join a growing trend of using recycled sewage water for drinking water — a practice dubbed “toilet to tap.” Big Spring, Texas, is building a $13 million wastewater-to-drinking water treatment plant that, beginning next year, will produce 2 mill ...
  • U.S. Faces A Big Dam Problem In Pakistan
    “The United States would provide about $200 million to get the ball rolling. The Pakistani government hopes that would attract private investors and help from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Money isn’t the only problem facing the Diamer-Bhasha Dam. Its location is in the mountai ...
  • 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 ...

D. Kucinich

  • Libya and Beyond: How Did We Get There and Wha ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led the fight in the House challenging the Obama Administration�s actions in Libya, today released the following statement: �Libyan rebels have entered Tripoli. As gun battles�break out across the city, it is timely to enter into a discussion as to ...
  • 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 ...

Authentically Wired

  • BEND OVER
    � �� BEND OVER EVEN FARTHER �� � Guess How Much Wall Street Borrowed From The Fed During Crisis? 08-22-2011� ⢠ Businessinsider.com According to Bloomberg, the $1.2 trillion is about the same amount as homeowners owe on 6.5 million delinquent mortgages, three-times the size of the federal deficit ...
  • The quality of the nation’s water supply ...
    � �� From HealthNewsDigest.com �� With the prowess gifted to corporations by their owned supreme court in an era where greed rules �� is this a wise choice..? The legislation in question, the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011 (H.R. 2018), passed the House of Representatives this pas ...
  • … SAFE is NOT a myth …
    … Notably absent in the question about water is the salient issue about … SAFE … water on some quantity we may well have … what everyone chooses to avoid addressing is can we safely consume it … … Remember … SAFE … is all a matter of manipulating the residual percentage of toxic and [...]
  • bingo … the water is safe
    �� Actually it may on one sense be true as SAFE is subject to interpretation and is therefore subjective �� �� Alter the residual levels and bingo �� the water is safe �� it�s done every day �� Study: Medications in NYC water not a health risk � Tiny amounts of pharmaceuticals and personal care ...
  • will NOT answer … why …
    � �� The questions respecting septic system age and whether the systems are in compliance are ones that government regulator will NOT answer �� why �� because �we� (that�s you& me) made the homeowner an untouchable sacred-cow �� Castle Canyon Mesa property owners raise sewer, septic questions � ...

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 )

  • Taking corporate sustainability seriously mean ...
    As more and more people demand companies to become sustainable and environmentally conscious, many corporations are at a loss of how to begin making the changes necessary. If they attempt to make changes—but fall short or focus poorly—they risk their actions being labeled as 'greenwash'. In addi ...
  • The glass is half-full: conservation has made ...
    Don't despair: that's the message of a new paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, which argues that decades of conservation actions at multiple scales have had a positive impact for many of the world's endangered species. While such actions have not yet turned back the tide of the current mas ...
  • Science has been nearly silent in Brazil&#8217 ...
    A recent push to revise Brazil’s forest code has emerged as one of the more contentious political issues in the country, pitting agribuisness against environmentalists trying to preserve the Amazon rainforest. Historically, the forest code has required private landowners to maintain a substanti ...
  • Brazilian senator: Forest Code reform necessar ...
    Over the past twenty years Brazil has emerged as an agricultural superpower: today it is the largest exporter beef, sugar, coffee, and orange juice, and the second largest producer of soybeans. While much of this growth has been fueled by a sharp increase in productivity resulting from improved ...
  • Forest Code bill could undermine sustainable g ...
    In May Brazil's House of Representatives passed a bill that will reform the country's Forest Code, which requires farmers and ranchers in the Amazon to maintain a legal forest reserve amounting to 80 percent of total landholdings. Environmentalists say the bill, which is undergoing revision bef ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Adidas goes barefoot
    Adidas is going barefoot.The world's second-largest athletic company unveiled its first "barefoot" training shoe Tuesday, which is designed to mimic the experience of exercising barefoot while providing the protection, traction...
  • Wild world: Millions of unseen species fill Ea ...
    Our world is a much wilder place than it looks.A new study estimates that Earth has almost 8.8 million species, but we've only discovered about a quarter of them. And some of yet-to-be-seen ones could be in our own backyards, scientists...
  • Singapore patent for Dunedin co's cancer test
    Dunedin-based Pacific Edge says it has been awarded a patent in Singapore for its colorectal cancer prognostic technology, and anticipates the patent will be issued in other targeted countries in the next 12 to 24 months.The technology...
  • Molecule holds key to blocking breast cancer - ...
    A naturally occurring molecule in bacteria can block the development of breast cancer, scientists have discovered, paving the way for the design of more potent and selective drugs.The molecule, thiostrepton, clamps FOXM1, a cancer-causing...
  • Nuplex looks to Russia and India to speed growth
    Nuplex Industries is considering setting up manufacturing sites in India and Russia as the specialty chemicals maker pursues growth in emerging markets.The Sydney-based company, listed on the NZX and ASX, announced its full-year...

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  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
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Hit & Run | Reason

  • Reason Writers Around the Internet: P ...
    Will the economy kill Obama's reelection chances? Does Texas Gov. Rick Perry's rhetoric match up to his record? What's the best we can hope for from the super committee? Reason Associate Editor Peter Suderman and Jamelle Bouie of The American Prospect discuss these questions and mor ...
  • Reason.tv: Why is the Government Driving Folks ...
    The Antelope Valley is a vast patch of desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles County, and a segment of the few rugged individualists who live out there  increasingly are finding themselves the targets of armed raids from local code enforcement agents, who've assemble ...
  • Reason Morning Links: NYPD Out-Spooks the CIA, ...
    Friends for Fullerton's Future unloads on the District Attorney's office for its ham-fisted investigation of Kelly Thomas' death.  The NYPD has been conducting secret anti-terror operations for years in places like New Jersey.  Brooklyn's pretentious 20-somethings are finding ...
  • New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Unilateral Wars ...
    Since the United States and its allies began taking sides in Libya's civil war five months ago, it has been clear that protecting noncombatants was a pretext for overthrowing Muammar al-Qaddafi. But even if the U.N. had endorsed the latter goal, says Senior Editor Jacob Sullum, a vote ...
  • Krugman: "People on twitter might be joking, b ...
    That pearl of wistful wisdom, in case it's not obvious, is in reference to the over-covered earthquake that terrified the entire Eastern Seaboard for a few seconds this afternoon. You can find plenty others like it at the uncensored-for-now Google+ page of Nobel-winning economist Paul ...

Mercury Rising

  • Beneviolent Middle Kingdom
    Following up on the remarkable comment by the Chinese ambassador to South Africa to the effect that China is just a wonderful, peace-loving, benevolent trader bringing prosperity and culture to the benighted nations of the earth (assuming you ignore their actions in the Spratlys or Senkaku), thi ...
  • Earthquake In Eric Cantor’s District
    Right next to a nuke plant. What was that about not needing government and regulations, Mr. Cantor?
  • Phone hacking scorches Coulson
    It wasn’t income. It was tips. Andrew Sparrow and Polly Curtis, The Guardian: The Electoral Commission is being asked to investigate whether News International payments to Andy Coulson after he started working for the Conservative party may have broken the law. … MPs on the committee are also an ...
  • It ain’t over till it’s over, Liby ...
    I’ve held off commenting on Libya, because it’s very unclear to me what is actually happening. Obviously, getting rid of Qaddafi is a good thing, but (a) he’s not gone, and (b) it’s not clear what follows him. In the Egyptian uprising, getting rid of the Mubarak was a lot easier than getting rid ...
  • No title
    The New Yorker has a profile of Clarence Thomas and how his conservative “leadership” will declare unconstitutional the Obama healthcare plan– deepening the crisis into which the costs of health insurance are plunging America. Now, I am very skeptical of Thomas’ supposed brilliance. His career i ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Sex in the News
    The Christian crusade against pornography; homosexual zebra finches, China's attempt to convince women to marry for love, not money; insect sex; and reasons to stop reading into sex on a first date are all in this week's sex roundup. China tries to stop women from marrying for money. L ...
  • Beyond the Singularity: This is the End of Wha ...
    � There comes a point in the journey of the unfoldment of consciousness when every narrative appears ridiculous. This includes so-called scientific, philosophic, and psychoanalytic discourses. It includes, therefore, even this sort of discourse about the inanity of all discourse. The symbolic ...
  • Evolver at Burning Man
    This year, the Evolver network has formed its first ever pod at Burning Man. Come meet regional organizers from around the world, including Australia, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Baltimore at Red Lightning (4:15 and Esplanade). Evolver talks and workshops at R ...
  • I Am … We Are … It Is
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  • Sacred Economics: Chapter 8, "The Turning of t ...
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Desertification

  • 8.7 Million Species Run Spaceship Earth
    The life support system that generates the planet's air, water, and food is powered by 8.7 million living species according to the newest and best estimate. We know next to nothing about 99 percent of those unique species - except that lots of them are going extinct.
  • OP-ED: Expanding Deserts, Falling Water Tables ...
    People do not normally leave their homes, their families, and their communities unless they have no other option. Yet as environmental stresses mount, we can expect to see a growing number of environmental refugees. Rising seas and increasingly devastating storms grab headlines, but expa ...
  • 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.

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • Al-Wefaq boycotts Bahrain elections
    Bahrain's main opposition bloc says it will not participate in the parliamentary elections to replace the opposition lawmakers who resigned in protest to Manama's crackdown on anti-government protesters.
  • Study: 8.8 million species live on Earth
    A new study conducted by American and Canadian researchers shows that only a quarter of the estimated 8.8 million species have been discovered so far.
  • The post-Gaddafi Libya
    The progress of Libyan fighters and the imminent fall of the capital, Tripoli, point to the assumption that an end to the reign of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is only a matter of time.
  • 'Gaddafi misused Libyan resources'
    A prominent political analyst says fugitive Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi had usurped Libya's resources by misappropriating the country's investments and stuffing his family's personal coffers.
  • Gaddafi's son escapes from custody
    Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's eldest son Muhammad has escaped from the custody of opposition fighters with the help of Gaddafi loyalists.

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • PAKISTAN: Democracy Follows Drones
    Along with the devastating drone strikes the United States-led ‘war on terror' in Afghanistan is bringing changes to punitive laws imposed by British colonialism on Pakistan's Pashtun areas more than a century ago.
  • Libyans Find Historic Hope
    "I'm 60 years old and I never thought I'd see this moment with my own eyes," Najib Taghuz tells IPS from the Tunisian-Libyan border. The engineer from the recently liberated town Gehryan is headed for Tunisia - his wife needs surgery on the left hand. But he hopes to return to a new Libya.
  • Fragmented Efforts to Save Honduran Mangroves
    A mix of local and international initiatives are aimed at saving the mangrove forests and other coastal wetlands of Honduras, home to an abundance of marine life and a natural protective barrier against hurricanes, which have shrunk by over 80 percent on the Caribbean coast and almost a third ...
  • 8.7 Million Species Run Spaceship Earth
    The life support system that generates the planet's air, water, and food is powered by 8.7 million living species according to the newest and best estimate. We know next to nothing about 99 percent of those unique species - except that lots of them are going extinct.
  • LIBYA: Rebels Storm Gaddafi Compound in Tripoli
    Rebels have entered the fortified compound of Muammar Gaddafi in Bab al-Azizya in Tripoli, following intense fighting with forces loyal to the Libyan leader.

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

  • Gaddafi must accept defeat, says William Hague
    Foreign Secretary William Hague today called on Muammar Gaddafi to recognise his 42-year rule over Libya was over and stand down his forces.
  • Video: House fire kills 11
    Three generations of one family are feared dead after a devastating house fire in Brisbane.
  • House fire kills 11 in Australia
    An overnight house fire in eastern Australia has killed 11 people, including eight children, from two families, officials said today.
  • Gaddafi tells Libyans to free Tripoli
    A defiant Muammar Gaddafi vowed today to fight on "until victory or martyrdom," as rebel fighters tried to end scattered attacks by regime loyalists in the nervous capital.
  • Syrian tanks enter eastern city
    Syrian tanks have stormed the eastern city of Deir el-Zour and troops made sweeping arrests there as the regime faces calls for an arms embargo and other sanctions.

Rogue Government.com

  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
  • Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
    A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.
  • Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
    The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...
  • Australian kids are living in climate of fear
    On the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon tax package announcement, psychologists and scientists said the lessons were alarmist, created unneeded anxiety among school children and endangered their mental health.
  • Over 1,400 arrested, tear gas fired in Malays ...
    Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government.

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

  • Extreme Earthquake Reactions: Fear and Laughin ...
    Reactions ranged from fright to amusement Tuesday as a 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit the East Coast, revealing post-9/11 fears as well as excitement surrounding a rare, and fortunately not deadly, event. "Everyone calm down," Slate political correspondent John Dickerson wrote on Twitter. "If t ...
  • US: The 'West Memphis Three' and combating cog ...
    The case shows we see what we expect to see. That can mean innocent people go to jail while criminals remain free. Last week, the "West Memphis Three" were released from prison, having spent half their lives - 18 years - behind bars for crimes they almost certainly didn't commit. So what ...
  • The Natural Remedy for Superbugs? Scientists S ...
    Coriander oil could be used to cure a host of infections including food poisoning and the superbug MRSA, say researchers. The herb extract is resistant to a range of toxic bacteria which cause infections that are resistant to drugs, a study has found. Portuguese scientists tested samples of th ...
  • US: Diet Book for Girls as Young as SIX Brande ...
    A controversial children's book tells how a girl 'transforms' her life and becomes a school hero by losing weight. The work, called Maggie Goes on a Diet, is written in verse and aimed at those as young as six. Last night it was condemned by parents and experts for sending a dangerous message ...
  • UK: Study Finds That Speed Cameras CREATE Acci ...
    Many speed cameras have not cut accident rates and may even have increased them, figures reveal for the first time today. Statistics published by the Department for Transport show many cameras have done little or nothing to improve accident rates, but have proved highly effective in clocking up ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Jack Layton's legacy
    (Image: Jackman Chui) Those who have lived enough come to realise that life doesn't boil down to anything more than simply caring for each other. That's why there's something to be said about the great outpouring of sentiment about the loss of Jack Layton. My friends, love is better than ...
  • Perspective and time . . .
    James Burke's The Day The Universe Changed: "The Way We Are". A series worthy of your consideration, as is "Connections". Why? Because change is going to make today seem like a scene from a Jane Austen novel sooner than you might believe.
  • Farewell, Jack
    Very sad news this morning.
  • 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 ...

Media Matters for America

  • Psst ... Bolling ... "Class Warfare" Is "Emana ...
    Fox News host Eric Bolling claimed that "class warfare" is "emanating out of the White House." In fact, it is Fox that has repeatedly engaged in "class warfare."Fox's Bolling: "Class Warfare" Is "Emanating Out Of The White House" Bolling: "Class Warfare" Is "Emanating Out Of The White House." ...
  • Fox Mangles Facts To Attack Nevada Stimulus Grant
    A FoxNews.com article stated that a stimulus grant in Nevada of $490,000 created only 1.72 jobs, but according to the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, only $213,682.77 of the stimulus grant money has been received. Additionally, FoxNews.com's own article explains that th ...
  • Glenn Beck Brings His Anti-Gay Friends To Isra ...
    Glenn Beck's "Restoring Courage" rally in Israel features religious figures who espouse anti-gay bigotry. Mike Evans Author Mike Evans joined Beck onstage for the Restoring Courage: The Courage to Love and Restoring Courage: Courage to Remember events. Evans founded the Jerusalem Prayer Team, ...
  • Fox Won't Let Facts Stop Its S&P Conspirac ...
    Fox & Friends pushed a baseless theory that the Obama administration is "bullying" Standard & Poor's (S&P) and getting "revenge" over its downgrade of U.S. credit by "pushing" S&P president Deven Sharma "out the door" and conducting an investigation into S&P's ratings of mortgage-backed securi ...
  • CBS' Mark Knoller Whitewashes Bush From 2009 D ...
    CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller whitewashed former President Bush's role in creating $1.2 trillion in deficit for the 2009 fiscal year, instead blaming President Obama for every penny of debt increase since "the day Mr. Obama took office." But the Congressional Budget Office ...

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

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Earthquake and hurricane, the east coast is st ...
    Earlier today I got on a scheduled phone call with some of the staff in our D.C. office just after they had come back into their building after evacuating during the 5.8 magnitude Virginia earthquake that rattled buildings and nerves all the way to New York City.  They, of course, had more immed ...
  • HOT HOT HOT! Austin breaks heat record today a ...
    Today Austin’s temps will soar back into the 100′s for our 69th day this year of over 100 degrees. This  will break a record that has stood since 1925 for the most days over 100 degrees, as we begin another round of heat advisories lasting through the weekend of 100+ degree weather. Since we’re ...
  • TCEQ begins process to enact Sunset legislation
    TCEQ will soon be making some big decisions on how to implement reforms passed during the last legislative session, especially on its penalty policy–and your input is needed quickly: Comments are due on August 30th Last session, Public Citizen worked with a partnership, The Alliance for a Clean ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Early man travelled the high seas
    Homo erectus may have travelled across the world's oceans as early as 130,000 years ago. This idea is based on the discovery of stone tools on the isl...
  • Baby mammoth remains found in Arctic
    The preserved remains of an infant mammoth have been discovered by a Russian reindeer herder. Its the second time a well preserved mammoth has been fo...
  • Boy, 8, trapped in chimney
    A young boy ended up stuck down a chimney for hours after trying to wriggle down it to get a drink. The house's occupants became aware that he was stu...
  • Could intelligent aliens be a threat ?
    Astronomers have been quick to point out lately that contact with aliens could lead to our destruction. Some argue that far from being the enlightened...
  • Mars soil more suitable for life than thought
    Scientists have found that the soil on Mars may be a lot more suitable for life than previously believed. Far from being completely incapable of susta...

Grassroots

  • Free – but not for you and me: Winners and Los ...
    chimage.php_.jpg With the political extravaganza of the debt ceiling debate now in their rear view mirror, the U.S. Congress will soon vote on “free” trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea. Despite major concerns raised ...
  • 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

Climate

  • Firm Eyes China as Start to Cleaner Air for World
    Source:� Jerusalem Post An Israeli company is aiming to clean the world's air of dangerous emissions, starting first by deploying its technology in the largely coal-powered country of China.
  • Libyan Oil Exports May Resume Soon
    Source:� Wall Street Journal With Libyan opposition forces now in control of much of the country's oil fields, refineries and export terminals, Libyan crude could start returning to world markets far quicker than previously fo ...
  • Oil Sand Rivals Cast Off Mistrust
    Source:� Montreal Gazette Facing a backlash, Canada's oil companies are combining forces to jointly develop technology for cleaning up the wet tailings � a porridge of water, hydrocarbons, sand and clay left behind when a tar- ...
  • China's Love Affair with the Car Shuns Green V ...
    Source:� Guardian read more
  • Hertz to Offer BYD Electric Cars for Rental in ...
    Source:� Reuters Hertz Global Holdings Inc will begin renting electric cars to consumers in three Chinese cities in the foreseeable future, its China chief said on Wednesday.

GreenBiz

  • 4 Steps to Get You On the Path to Zero Waste
    If you look at it from a purely business perspective, paying someone to take away a revenue stream is just a bad idea. Here are the lessons you can learn from zero-waste projects from Walmart, General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and others.
  • Toys R Us Embeds Green Building Elements in St ...
    The biggest toy store company in the U.S. outlined an ambitious agenda to open 21 new stores and renovate 23 others by the end of the year. Behind the ballyhooed expansion plans are a series of green building elements for each site.
  • First Takes: Gap's New Emissions Targets, Germ ...
    A first look at Gap's as-yet-unpublished CSR�report, a GOP presidential candidate takes the 'crazy' stance of embracing science, and other news in our morning first look.
  • As Water Week Kicks Off, Corporate Leaders Sha ...
    In honor of World Water Week, we've turned to experts working on the front lines at their companies about their biggest successes in reducing their water footprints. Here's what they told us.
  • Protecting Today's Electical Grid -- and Tomor ...
    Eight years ago, the U.S. suffered the biggest electrical blackout in its history. What is being done now to prevent future outages and protect the grid against other threats?

Reuters Global

  • UN Syria sanctions draft targets Assad, family
    Western nations circulated a draft U.N. resolution on Tuesday that calls for sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, influential members of his family and key associates.
  • 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.

Booman Tribune

  • NYPD, a Domestic CIA
    The Associated Press has done some real shoe-leather reporting in the NYPD's Intelligence Division. It's a very long article that raises a great many questions. Some of the issues don't concern me very much. I don't think the counterterrorism cooperation with the CIA has crossed any meaningfu ...
  • Earthquake Could Have Been Man Made
    Could yesterday's earthquake have been caused by fluid injection into hydrofracking wells? The anmswer I can give you is yes, it is possible, and here is how I know why. I experienced numerous man made earthquakes in Colorado in the 1960's as a result of millions of gallons of fluids being pum ...
  • Zoo Animals React to Quake
    The National Zoo in Washington DC issued a press release on how the animals reacted to yesterday's earthquake. Great Apes The earthquake hit the Great Ape House and Think Tank Exhibit during afternoon feeding time. About five to ten seconds before the quake, many of the apes, including ...
  • Excessive Celebration Penalty
    I know the temptation is strong to talk smack about the Republicans' lack of enthusiasm for our excellent adventure in Libya. I mean, it looks like Gaddafi is the hunted rat now, doesn't it? And it really wasn't so hard to accomplish if you think about it. Most of the world is fairly pleased ...
  • A Dope, a Joke, and a Fraud
    It's simultaneously hilarious, depressing, and frightening to read this Politico piece by Jonathan Martin and Ben Stein. I found myself resisting the predicate of the whole piece, which is that there is an actual conservative intelligentsia. Let's consider the intellectuals who are quoted in t ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Global Camera Trap Study Takes 52,000 Candid A ...
    Candid shots of animals taken with camera traps around the world... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 12 Hottest Links of the Week
    Twelve über-cool links from around the web, hand-selected for your delectation! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 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 Ongoing Search for Extraterrestrial Life
    Many claim to have had encounters with extraterrestrial life but we have no proof it exists. And due to money, space and time constraints, it is unlikely we will find any read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
  • 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

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • The Saudi Counterrevolution
    The fallout from Washington's support for the Saudi counter-revolution could haunt U.S. policy for decades to come.
  • Governments Kill
    Governments kill on our behalf. This arrangement is a form of social contract, which means that governments are basically contract killers.
  • Gaddafi's Whereabouts Unknown -- But Is It Too ...
    The complications of the Libyan Summer, and the consequences of the militarization of its struggle, leave unanswered the question of whether events so far are ultimately a victory for the Libyan people, or for NATO.
  • The Upcoming Palestinian Uprising
    If Washington votes against Palestinian statehood at the UN General Assembly in September, Palestinians might again take to the streets.
  • Emira Woods: Libya Must Shape its Own Future
    Emira Woods takes questions on what can and should come next for Libya.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • So This Is the Wilderness (Forget the Stuff)
    Part 2 of the "Year in the Woods" series: A couple seeking to reconnect with the great outdoors are joined by their three sons and two cats in a cabin on a lake in Maine.
  • Where Has All the Genetic Diversity Gone?
    A study from a biodiversity and climate research group in Germany examines the almost invisible erosion of genetic diversity because of climate-induced range contractions.
  • Taking Stock of Campus Sustainability
    Already attuned to environmental concerns, more colleges and universities are addressing broader issues of sustainability.
  • What Drives Cities' Runaway Growth?
    The world's urban areas will continue to expand at a rapid rate, especially in coastal zones most exposed to the dangers of sea-level rise, a new analysis said.
  • Unpacking Rick Perry's Energy Stance
    If Governor Perry wins the White House, his national energy policy will focus on cutting federal regulations, especially at the E.P.A., his spokesman says.

Dot Earth News

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

  • Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Individualism ( ...
    (This is part one of a four-part series on the ethics and political theory of Ayn Rand, written exclusively for The Daily Censored, by Dr. Robert Abele, professor of philosophy at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area.) � Ayn Rand has become the darling of both neoliberals and, unf ...
  • Whirlwind in Sonoma and Marin
    A few months ago, I was lying in bed enjoying the morning sunrise over the mountain range. Out my winddow I can see the coastal fog had settled upon the open field next to the apple orchard. A gentle breeze was blowing in from the Pacific Ocean. From a distance, I heard an unusual sound. [...]
  • Hacking Our Elections With Big Money And Power
    by Michael Collins and Sheila Parks, Ed.D. The formula for modern elections is simple. Candidates must have significant sums of money to compete in primaries. That means anyone absent real money is left out. More importantly, those with the most money have the biggest advantage. Combining money ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Governments Kill
    Governments kill on our behalf. This arrangement is a form of social contract, which means that governments are basically contract killers.
  • As Tripoli Faces a Potential Regime Change, Ou ...
    This 'Democracy Now!' interview focuses on the roles of Transitional National Council, NATO, the United States and international interests in the Libyan Civil War as the conflict moves to Tripoli.
  • Dangerous Nuclear Spent Fuel Pool Near Epicent ...
    An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale just occurred less than a hour ago. Its epicenter was in Mineral, Virginia, approximately 10 miles from two nuclear power reactors at the North Anna site. According to statement by a representative of Dominion Power the two reactors were designed ...
  • Gaddafi's Whereabouts Unknown -- But Is It Too ...
    The complications of the Libyan Summer, and the consequences of the militarization of its struggle, leave unanswered the question of whether events so far are ultimately a victory for the Libyan people, or for NATO.
  • Emira Woods: Libya Must Shape its Own Future
    Emira Woods takes questions on what can and should come next for Libya.

IntelNews

  • Western companies help Bahrain spy on democrac ...
    While Western governments preach to the world about the benefits of democracy, Western companies supply some of the most detestable dictatorial regimes with surveillance technologies for use against pro-democracy activists. One example in point is the repressive government of Bahrain, which, acc ...
  • News you may have missed #575
    Inquest into death of MI6 spy to go ahead. Colombia's ex-president denies role in spy scandal. US spy research firm eyes stock market.
  • Western spies, security contractors, won Libya ...
    As I write these lines, celebratory gunfire is being heard all across Tripoli and the rebel National Transitional Council is appointing civilians to replace the crumbling administration of longtime Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. But a handful of news outlets discreetly remind us that the rebe ...
  • News you may have missed #574
    CIA told Kennedy Cuba invasion was 'unachievable'. NATO bombs home of Libyan intel chief. Palestinian attacks took Israeli intel by surprise.
  • 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 ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Obama's Wars on Humanity
    ��Obama's Wars on Humanity - by Stephen Lendman � America's a poster child failed state, defined in a recent article as follows: � (1) An inability or unwillingness to protect its citizens from violence and other forms of harm. � (2) Its abrogation of rule of law standards. read more
  • Libya War: It Ain't Over Till It's Over
    ��Libya War: It Ain't Over Till It's Over - by Stephen Lendman � Mark Twain once called reports of his death greatly exaggerated. The same hold for Libyans, not ready to submit to NATO colonization, occupation, plunder and exploitation. Not at least without a fight. � The stakes are high - stay ...
  • Libya and Beyond: How Did We Get There and Wha ...
    WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 23, 2011) � Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led the fight in the House challenging the Obama Administration�s actions in Libya,� today released the following statement: �Libyan rebels have entered Tripoli. As gun battles�break out across the city, it is time ...
  • JOIN THE NURSES TO MAKE WALL STREET PAY TO HEA ...
    SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 7:30 a.m. bus departure from Washington, DC 10:30 a.m. gathering in Richmond, VA Lunch provided for those who RSVP RSVP to Donna Smith, 773-617-4493 or dsmith@nationalnursesunited.org Learn more about our Main Street Contract for America. Tell us your story and view others at w ...
  • The Military Industrial Complex at 50
    It�s been 50 years since a departing President Eisenhower warned the nation to keep an eye on what he called the Military-Industrial complex.� Next month, Virginia will host a national conference to see whether his predictions were accurate.� Sandy Hausman has that story. Listen From WVTF � rea ...

Grist - News

  • Number of electrified vehicles to increase 4,5 ...
    by Christopher Mims. By 2017, there will be 5.2 million plug in hybrid and all-electric vehicles on the road worldwide, says Pike Research. Add in 8.7 million hybrid vehicles, and the total population of electrified autos in the world is set to increase 46-fold from the measly 114,000 tha ...
  • Taste of things to come: Texas drought to shut ...
    by Christopher Mims. Hey, you know what's wild about Texas turning into a gigantic desert thanks to climate change? I mean besides the fact that this makes it basically Kuwait-on-the-Rio-Grande? Many of the state's power plants, which rely on fresh water to produce electricity, could be s ...
  • Russia to build $100 billion rail tunnel conne ...
    by Christopher Mims. Ever since Tsar Nicholas II, Russians have dreamed of connecting Siberia to North America via a rail tunnel. Now, apparently, the Kremlin has green-lighted the connection, which would be the world's longest, and twice as long as the England-to-France "Chunnel." Not ...
  • The trucks of the future will have skirts, tai ...
    by Sarah Laskow. This month, the White House announced the first-ever fuel efficiency standards for heavy trucks — heavy pick-ups, work vans and trucks (think the Frito-Lay delivery guy), and tractor-trailers. The people who make these behemoths have never had to think about fuel econo ...
  • Fox News accidentally acknowledges the facts o ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Earthquake, hurricane, Fox acknowledging the existence of climate change: This is definitely the End Times. Fox & Friends -- you know, the same show where people were just freaking about SpongeBob SquarePants�indoctrinating children to be global warming zealots -- ...

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Digg Green

  • East vs. West quakes: Way different creatures
    The East Coast doesn't get earthquakes often but when they do strike, there's a whole lot more shaking going on. The ground in the East is older, colder and more intact than the West Coast or the famous Pacific Ring of Fire. So East Coast quakes rattle an area up to 10 times larger than a simila ...
  • Richard Dawkins -- Attention Governor Perry: E ...
    A politician’s attitude to evolution, however peripheral it might seem, is a surprisingly apposite litmus test of more general inadequacy.
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    This month marks the anniversary of the first killing by London's most elusive murderer, Jack The Ripper. But who was the man who terrorised the capital throughout the late summer of 1888? Asylum puts some of the accused under the microscope and explains why they almost certainly weren't 'Saucy ...
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    With the first hurricane of the season, Hurricane Irene, on track to reach Category 3, and scientists predicting more intense hurricanes this century, the possibility of a new category on the Saffir-Simpson scale is debated.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Alex Jones, Mike Adams and the 9/11 Litmus Test
    By Les Visible I’ve appreciated the writing of Mike Adams and even went so far as to put a link to his site on my sites. Without even knowing why, I was uneasy about this and an event occurred, that had nothing to do with Mike Adams, except for the coloration and presentation of his [...]
  • Libya: NATO Psy-Op Collapses – Qaddafi Prevail ...
    By Tony Cartalucci The Intel Hub Aug 23, 2011 Once again a defiant Qaddafi has prevailed against the full might of NATO aggression including a murderous bombing campaign followed by NATO special forces on the ground supporting mobs of US/UK/French/Qatari backed Al Qaeda thugs which swarmed Tripo ...
  • Iceland’s On-going Revolution
    By Deena Stryker An Italian radio program’s story about Icelandâs on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were menti ...
  • FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs upwards of 15,000 undercover agents today, ten times what they had on the roster back in 1975. If you think that’s a few spies too many — spies earning as much as $100,000 per assignment — one doesn’t have to go too deep into their track record to see ...
  • Why 911 still matters
    by Ryan Dawson There is a bit of a stigma about questioning the events of 911. This arises from a rather loud mouth 911 kook movement which ranges in its speculations from missiles on up to space aliens, which people do not want to be associated with. The other skepticism just comes from authori ...

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 ...
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    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 ...
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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]
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  • 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

  • Enchanting ‘Eco Truly Park’ is a Self-Sustaini ...
    Read the rest of Enchanting ‘Eco Truly Park’ is a Self-Sustaining Paradise on Earth Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, Art, bamboo, biodegradable materials, eco-tourism, eco-travel, green holidays, green materials, green resources, Healthy Living, lima, mud houses, Or ...
  • Russia Green Lights $65 Billion Siberia-Alaska ...
    In what could certainly be one of the boldest infrastructure developments ever announced, the Russian Government has given the go-ahead to build a transcontinental railway linking Siberia with North America. The massive undertaking would traverse the Bering Strait with the world’s longest tunnel ...
  • 5.9 Mineral, Virginia Earthquake Shakes Six Nu ...
    A magnitude 5.9 earthquake just hit Mineral, VA, sending shockwaves up and down the East Coast of the United States that evacuated the Capital Building, the White House, and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. With Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster still fre ...
  • BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY: Enter to Win a HP Pav ...
    While no one likes to bid adieu to summer, if you’re a student gearing up to go back to school, September couldn’t come sooner! New people, new classes, new possibilities – the excitement is building. If you’re a student who is looking for a fresh green approach to the start of the new school ye ...
  • 5.9 Earthquake Shakes Eastern U.S. From Virgin ...
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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • How to Detect Collisions With Other Universes
    By Chris Lee, Ars Technica From a certain perspective, the Universe looks as smooth and uninteresting as a billiard ball—the smoothest billiard ball ever made. What do I mean by this? The radiation from the Big Bang, now so deeply red-shifted that it is microwave radiation, looks pretty muc ...
  • Video: Dolphins Blast Into School of Fish
    Dolphins and gannets blast through a shimmering, pulsing vortex of sardines in this up-close glimpse of an underwater buffet.
  • Why the East Coast Earthquake Was Felt So far Away
    During Tuesday’s magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Virginia, perceptible shaking was reported as far away as South Carolina and Maine. Why? It comes down to a difference in crust.
  • Quake Risk in Eastern U.S. Comparable to West ...
    The magnitude 5.8 quake that struck central Virginia today was unusual for the area. But parts of the Eastern Seaboard still face a high risk of earthquake damage and casualties, in some cases higher than that of cities on the West Coast.
  • NASA Satellite Finds Coldest, Darkest Stars Yet
    Stars as cool as the human body found by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer offer astronomers the chance to study star formation and the atmospheres of planets like Jupiter -- away from the light of more dazzling stars.

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

  • More Evidence of the Use of Water Torture at G ...
    Three weeks ago, my colleague Jeffrey Kaye, a full-time psychologist in California who also manages to find time to pursue a second career as a blogger producing important work on America’s torture program, wrote an article for Truthout about the use of water torture at Guantánamo, which pulled ...
  • 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. ...

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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

  • Neo-Nazi Leader Was Investigated for Supportin ...
    August B. Kreis III, the self-appointed director of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, came under FBI investigation after making statements supporting Al Qaeda terrorists, a federal prosecutor revealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Columbia, S.C. The revelation emerged when Kreis pleaded guilty to ...
  • Group Wants Next President to ‘Investigate’ LG ...
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  • Nativist Leader Calls for ‘Violent’ Acts to Sa ...
    While much of the political rhetoric on the right these days is laden with violent imagery and gun-based metaphors, outright calls for political violence remain relatively rare. But in the wake of President Obama’s executive order last week that sharply limits deportations of non-criminal undocu ...
  • News Roundup for August 23, 2011
    A college student in Waterloo, Iowa, was killed in a possible hate crime. According to a friend of the victim, a group of individuals taunted the victim with anti-gay slurs, prompting a fight. The victim was knocked to the ground and kicked in the head; he later died. Police are still searching ...
  • As 9/11 Anniversary Approaches, a Call for Balance
    Even before a Norwegian madman named Anders Behring Breivik opened fire this July on fellow citizens he believed were abetting large-scale Muslim immigration, it was clear that Islamophobic propaganda, much of it from American politicians and activists, was having a poisonous effect on Western s ...

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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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

  • New York Attorney General Kicked Off Governmen ...
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  • Keystone XL: A Pipeline to Europe?
    UXBRIDGE, Canada - The promoters of Keystone XL, a huge new oil pipeline from northern Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, claim that it will reduce U.S. reliance on oil imports from unfriendly countries. But based on falling U.S. oil demand, the controversial Keystone XL pipeline may simply allow ta ...
  • America’s Rampant Inequality Impossible to Deny
    The CIA ranks the country 64th, behind Ivory Coast and Uganda—but Fox's banshees still scream 'class warfare' when Warren Buffet wants to tax the rich For years, America’s super-rich and their allies in Congress and the media have tried to deny that a tiny elite was growing astronomically wealth ...
  • Margot Kidder Among Protesters Arrested at Whi ...
    WASHINGTON — Canadian actress Margot Kidder was among the latest slate of environmentalists to be arrested outside the White House on Tuesday, handcuffed and sent to jail on the fourth day of a two-week civil disobedience campaign against TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. Kidder, born in Yello ...
  • Nuclear Power Plants Under Surveillance after ...
    After a 5.9-magnitude hit Mineral, Va. Tuesday afternoon, rocking the East Coast, concerns quickly turned to the safety of nuclear power plants. read more

Lifehacker

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    On this week's episode of Lifehacker, we're hacking your Wii for homebrew,surviving a crappy job, eating like a foodie on a budget, and more. More��
  • Easy Calendar for iPhone Shows the Whole Week ...
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  • Shift-Click the Apple Menu to Force Close the ...
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  • Make Sure You Get Fair Treatment Thanks to the ...
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  • Springpad Updates with Suggestions and Clippin ...
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Water Privatization

  • Today private rail, tomorrow private water
    "Representing a new breed apart from Wisconsin's earlier Republicans, (Governor Scott Walker) is seeking to re-open the asset-grabbing Gilded Age style.
  • BOOK REVIEW: 'The Ripple Effect'
    THE RIPPLE EFFECT: THE FATE OF FRESH WATER IN THE 21ST CENTURY By Alex Prud'homme Scribner, $27, 448 pages As a governance adviser with a provincial reconstruction team at Abu Ghraib, I par- ticipated in a water war in Iraq. Abu Ghraib is not just a prison; it is a ...
  • Agus-Pulangi privatization urged‏
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  • Ghana Government reform or privatization Part II
    As I promised in my July 8 article on “A Case for Ghana Government Reform or Privatization” here is Part II. I am hoping that readers will provide the same constructive criticism or provide meaningful inputs on this follow-up.
  • 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.

Guardian

  • Bodies of Northern Ireland women killed in Tur ...
    Waiter Recip Cetin charged with murders of Marion Graham and Kathy Dinsmore over relationship with Graham's daughterThe funerals of the two Northern Irish women who were stabbed to death in Turkey last week will be held on Friday.The bodies of Marion Graham and Kathy Dinsmore were brought back b ...
  • India charges four politicians in bribery inve ...
    Arrests made as Anna Hazare continues fasting campaign that has mobilised thousands to root out political corruptionFour Indian MPs have been charged over an alleged cash for votes scandal during a crucial confidence vote faced by the ruling Congress party in 2008, a police official has said.The ...
  • Kim Jong-il ready to revive talks on nuclear w ...
    North Korean leader tells Russia's Dmitry Medvedev he can resume aid-for-disarmament talksThe North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, is ready to discuss suspending the country's testing and production of nuclear weapons if international talks on its atomic programme resume, a Kremlin spokeswoman clai ...
  • Fall in German business confidence stokes rece ...
    The last time the Ifo index fell so sharply was in November 2008, just after the collapse of Lehman BrothersGerman business confidence made its steepest drop this month since the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse in late 2008, raising fresh doubts about the broader European economy as it ...
  • Learco Chindamo cleared over robbery
    Killer of headmaster Philip Lawrence acquitted of using infamy to frighten man into handing over money at cashpointThe killer of the headmaster Philip Lawrence has been cleared of using his notoriety to intimidate and rob a young man at a cash machine. Learco Chindamo, 31, was alleged to have ac ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • NATO Transport Airplane Shot Down in Afghanistan
    Kabul, Aug 24 (Prensa Latina) Sources of the Afghan rebels reported that a NATO transport airplane was shot down in the province of Farah without specifying the number of victims. The information, ...
  • Illegal Migrants Adapt to Hardships in Greece
    As it struggles to cope with debt woes, Greece is also is burdened by an illegal migrant dilemma. In recent years Greece has served as the entry point for tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, ...
  • Karzai denounces use of child suicide bombers
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday denounced the use of child suicide bombers, saying that militants who recruit them to wage terror are "oppressors of ...
  • Afghan parliament rejects new vote decision
    Afghanistan's parliament on Wednesday rejected a decision by the war-torn country's vote authorities to replace nine MPs as part of efforts to settle a long-running dispute over last ...
  • Two Germans missing in Afghanistan
    Berlin (CNN) -- Two Germans are missing in Afghanistan, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Tuesday, adding that it's possible "they have become victims of a ...

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

  • August 26th Premiere of Documentary "Chasing M ...
    A new documentary about the infamous Madoff scandal opens in theaters across the country on Friday August 26th. I am looking forward to seeing Chasing Madoff on Friday and learning more about Harry Markopolos’ struggle to blow the whistle on a financial fraud that rocked the US economy. I highly ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Surprise: Federal Court Says Warrant Needed Fo ...
    There have been some mixed rulings on whether or not the government needs a warrant and to show probable cause (a la what's left of the 4th Amendment) in order to get mobile phone location info. Courts have ruled in different ways, but the federal courts, for the most part, have been much more ...
  • Why Are We Letting An Obsolete Gatekeeper Driv ...
    Rick Falkvinge has a nice column pointing out how disruptive innovation works: obsolete middlemen are innovated away. He uses the example of ice men: the folks who would deliver ice to be used in "ice boxes" prior to electricity and the refrigerator becoming common. But, of course, technology ...
  • Commerce Is Bad?
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  • Author Says eBooks Will Hurt Authors Because O ...
    Opinions on the emergence of eBooks in the modern era come with all manner of widely varied opinions. We saw J.K. Rowling go from staunchly refusing to offer her works as eBooks to routing around her publisher and offering them directly to her fans. Barry Eisler turned down a huge publishing con ...
  • Stop The Scourge Of Illegal 'Downwriting'
    Jon points us to an amusing photo highlighted by Reddit showing two older women sitting in a bookstore copying down recipes. The Daily What amusingly calls this "illegal downwriting." Just wait until these women discover camera phones. Permalink | Comments | Email This Story Pr ...

VacTruth

  • Vaccine Ingredients: Non-Ionic Surfactants (Tw ...
    Triton X-100 and Tween 80 were mixed with DDT to spray on crops in the 1940s and 1950s - combinations of these chemicals are still in pesticides today. Polysorbate 80, also known as Tween 80, is a surfactant in these vaccines: DTaP, DTaP-HebB-IIPV, DTaP-Hib, Gardasil, Influenza, Rotavirus, and T ...
  • 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.

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

  • Don DeBar: Libya: The Real Deal + Pepe Esobar: ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ dondebar on Aug 22, 2011 KPFA’s Davey D interviews Don DeBar about the real on-the-ground situation in Tripoli. Recorded at 7:15 am ET on August 22, 2011. LIBYA: The Real Deal *** RTAmerica on Aug 22, 2011 The mainstream media has failed to report on th ...
  • Financial Meltdown: The Case Against the Ratin ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Prof. Michael Hudson Global Research http://michael-hudson.com/ August 20, 2011 In today’s looming confrontation the ratings agencies are playing the political role of “enforcer” as the gatekeepers to credit, to put pressure on Iceland, Greece and even the ...
  • Lorie Van Auken: The Exploitation of 9/11, int ...
    by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post August 19, 2011 Lorie Van Auken joins us and shares with us her reflections ten years on about the events of 9/11 and her loss. She discusses the still-classified 28 pages of the JICI ...
  • The Corruption In The Cancer Industry by Guadamour
    by Guadamour Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 18, 2011 National Cancer Institute  (NCI) and American Cancer Society (ACS)—Criminal Indifference to Cancer Prevention and Conflicts of Interest  (Xlibris Corporation 2011) by  Samuel S. Epstein. MD contains startling, disturbing and important ...
  • Gerald Epstein: Is Capitalism Doomed?
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews on Aug 18, 2011 Gerry Epstein comments on Nouriel Roubini’s blog that “Marx was right” Is Capitalism Doomed? see Is Capitalism Doomed? – Nouriel Roubini – Project Syndicate. Analysis of Financial Terrorism in America: Welcome to World War III by ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    A remarkable, hard to find documentary by Orson Welles on the nature of fakery in what we perceive to be reality :
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    A long lost Leonardo DaVinci portrait of Jesus as a white man.
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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 :

Wired - Science

  • How to Detect Collisions With Other Universes
    By Chris Lee, Ars Technica From a certain perspective, the Universe looks as smooth and uninteresting as a billiard ball—the smoothest billiard ball ever made. What do I mean by this? The radiation from the Big Bang, now so deeply red-shifted that it is microwave radiation, looks pretty muc ...
  • Video: Dolphins Blast Into School of Fish
    Dolphins and gannets blast through a shimmering, pulsing vortex of sardines in this up-close glimpse of an underwater buffet.
  • Why the East Coast Earthquake Was Felt So far Away
    During Tuesday’s magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Virginia, perceptible shaking was reported as far away as South Carolina and Maine. Why? It comes down to a difference in crust.
  • Quake Risk in Eastern U.S. Comparable to West ...
    The magnitude 5.8 quake that struck central Virginia today was unusual for the area. But parts of the Eastern Seaboard still face a high risk of earthquake damage and casualties, in some cases higher than that of cities on the West Coast.
  • NASA Satellite Finds Coldest, Darkest Stars Yet
    Stars as cool as the human body found by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer offer astronomers the chance to study star formation and the atmospheres of planets like Jupiter -- away from the light of more dazzling stars.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Glen Pine: BDS – Boycott, Divestment, Sanction ...
    A critical review of Omar Barghouti's BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions and the treatment of BDS as, at once, an effective strategy, a moral obligation, and a movement -- and a discussion of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Yitzhak Laor: We are all victims of terrorist ...
    So this is how the occupation develops into war, which the commentators, in their righteousness, call a war "that neither side wants." Really? Do Military Intelligence and Shin Bet not know that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Merav Michaeli: Israel’s social protests are a ...
    Even if the word "occupation" is not uttered, even if no one speaks of a Palestinian state, the smothering trap that successive Israeli governments have put us in for the past 40 years no longer... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • RPCI Names New Medical Director for Photodynam ...
    Dr. Nestor Rigual has been appointed Medical Director of the Photodynamic Therapy Center at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. PDT was developed at RPCI, which is a worldwide leader in its use as a cancer therapy.
  • UCSD Opens Comprehensive Liver Clinic in Nevada
    Patients in Nevada seeking care for liver disease may now access the university-level expertise of UC San Diego Health System's Center for Hepatobiliary Disease and Abdominal Transplantation. Led by Robert Gish, MD, world-renowned hepatologist, patients may benefit by having access to a full spe ...
  • Bolt Your Door: Invasive Species Attacking Texas
    It sounds like a 1950s B-horror movie -- Attack of the Invasive Species -- but the battle of invading plants and animals could be coming to your front door and is costing you millions of dollars. Two Texas A&M University at Galveston researchers are on the forefront of the fight.
  • Earthquake Expert at Michigan Tech
    Earthquake expert Greg Waite is available to discuss the earthquake that shook the East Coast this week.
  • Back-to-School Tips for Mature Students
    Going to university or college can be exciting, but a little overhwhelming for students who haven't been in school for a while. To put their worries to rest and make their first year successful, Marsha Serrette, a program facilitator at Ryerson University, offers these handy tips.

Natural Health News

  • Is this Really an Acceptable Sugar Substitute?
    A widely used sweetener in foods and medications is commonly used as an alternative to high-energy supplements in diabetics, and a new study shows that this sweetener, xylitol, may be beneficial in preventing the development of obesity and metabolic abnormalities in rats with diet-induced obesit ...
  • Statin Drugs Actually Increase Rather than Dec ...
    In a stunning revelation exactly opposite of what modern treatment paradigms tell you, a new study shows that statin usage actually can contribute to heart disease, by adversely affecting bilirubin levels in the blood.� A low-circulating level of bilirubin is associated with increased cardiovasc ...
  • Higher -- NOT Lower -- Cholesterol Slows the P ...
    A new study suggests that a higher total cholesterol count may be important in slowing the progression of Parkinson ’s disease. The study involved 800 participants with an overall mean cholesterol of 216.
  • Why Diet Is Better than Exercise to Lower Body Fat
    "Body by science" by Doug McGuff, MD from Ancestry on Vimeo.In a good-news presentation, Dr. Doug McGuff, author of the book �Body by Science,� explains how going back to a �paleo� way of eating � similar to the way our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate � can help you optimize your health and live a ...
  • Insurance Companies Say Quit the Fizzy Pop
    If you’re not convinced yet to give up that soda pop you’re about to reach for, this graphic may help you understand how that fizzy stuff damages your health and contributes to overall health care costs. And it’s not just the old it-harms-tooth-enamel mantra that we’re talking about: from heart ...

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

  • Does the U.S. Have An Exemption from the ICC&# ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Expect to hear more of this in the next few days from the anti-Obama progressive left. NATO commanders who authorized the Libya bombing campaign should be “held accountable” to international law and hauled before the world court for civilian deaths, Rep. Dennis Kucini ...
  • Does the New Libya Have to Surrender Gaddafi t ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Let’s assume that the Libyan rebels do prevail and that they end up capturing Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.  Does the new Libyan government have a legal obligation to turn him over to the ICC, even if they seek to try him in Libyan courts? Libya is not a member of ...
  • Can President Romney Put the Lockerbie Bomber ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Reacting to the still-imminent fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, U.S. presidential candidate (and likely future president if you believe these polls) Mitt Romney has called for the extradition of the mastermind of Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi ...
  • Can President Romney Put the Lockerbie Bomber ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Reacting to the still-imminent fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, U.S. presidential candidate (and likely future president if you believe these polls) Mitt Romney has called for the extradition of the mastermind of Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi ...
  • Time on Saif Gaddafi
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Time has an interesting article up about Saif’s reappearance in Tripoli.  The whole thing is well worth a read, but I was struck by these paragraphs about the ICC: The rebels were not the only ones whose credibility was in doubt on Tuesday. So too was t ...

Public News Service

  • Back to School Means Back to Bed for AZ Kids
    Back to School Means Back to Bed for AZ Kids Phoenix, AZ – Children in Arizona head back to school this month, which means it's time for reading, writing, arithmetic — and rest. A good night's sleep equals success in the classroom, and it starts before the first day of school. Comments from Dr. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Educators: Parent Involvement Vital in Kids&#8 ...
    Educators: Parent Involvement Vital in Kids’ Sexuality Education Phoenix, AZ – As Arizona kids head back to classes, schools are increasingly emphasizing the importance of parental involvement in their education. A PTA official and a sex educator says the concept becomes even more vital in the d ...
  • Arizona's Long-Term Drought the New Norm, say ...
    Arizona's Long-Term Drought the New Norm, say Climate Scientists Phoenix, AZ – While the current Arizona drought is the result of naturally varying conditions, climate scientists predict much more of the same in coming decades because of long-term warming trends. Comments from Richard Seager (SE ...

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

  • Tim Giago: The Christian Bible as a weapon of ...
    Indianz.Com > Tim Giago: The Christian Bible as a weapon of mass destruction Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry appear to be leading a parade of GOP presidential candidates in front of a marching band playing, “Onward Christian Soldiers.” Perry insists that evolution and global warming are mer ...
  • Overseas Territories Review: French Polynesia ...
    Overseas Territories Review: French Polynesia Assembly adopts decolonization resolution; calls for re-listing by United Nations: Many of these 'former' dependencies were removed from the U.N. list through formal resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly as far back as the middle 1950's ...
  • Evidence undermines gov’t’s claim that terrori ...
    Evidence undermines gov’t’s claim that terrorists were Gazans: The Minister of Defense and the Prime Minister claim the terrorist attack last week came from Gaza. They are yet to provide any proof for that – and the evidence looks contradictory An unknown group carried out a combined attack ...
  • Libya: the manufacture of consent | Life on Wheels
    Libya: the manufacture of consent | Life on Wheels: Almost 1300 people have been killed in Libya in the past 24 hours; almost equal to the death toll of the brutal, three-week Israeli Operation Cast Lead massacre in Gaza. In the case of Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets i ...
  • Noam Chomsky - Responsibility of Intellectuals ...

Pensieve

  • Harold Pinter’s Duck Hunt
    Harold Pinter’s Duck Hunt from Piper McKenzie on Vimeo. Laughing Squid featured several video game theater adaptations. Hilarious! Related posts:In the Fall Plot Device, Allegro Non “Trope”-o NASA Dispels 2012 Hoax Slinky Post-it Explosion The Ted Williams Show in concert Related posts:In the ...
  • What’s up With Noises, by Vi Hart
    Vi Hart is a bit of a math nerd/artist. She speaks at a jawbreaking pace, narrating sped-up videos of herself doodling in her math notebooks while explaining trigonometry, the Pythagorean theorem, graph theory and other subjects teachers can render soporific. Her latest video is a break from her ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Virginia earthquake
    Despite West Coast mocking, 5.8 is a sizable quake (I lived in LA for years.) Further, most Californians would be terrified if a hurricane, something they have no experience with, hit them.
  • Bernanke and treason
    (from a reader) In 1972, after Nixon had imposed price controls on the entire American economy, Fed Chairman Arthur Burns inflated the money supply by a then-record 8.7%. The Republicans praised him as a genius. The obvious purpose was to create a mini-boom to get Richard Nixon re-elected in 197 ...
  • Bassnectar at Shambala 2010
  • Agriculture Secretary Vilsack on the push to b ...
    Featuring an in-depth, town hall with Agriculture Secretary Vilsack, Sapphire’s own Denise Gitsham asks about support for 3rd generation biofuels. The Navy plans to go to 50% biofuel, commercial airlines are definitely interested, and so is the Department of Energy. Homegrown is always better t ...
  • ‘I don’t know why you’re so surprised that the ...
    An excellent video explaining why everyone should love America’s two party dictatorship, via Poli-Tea, via Rise of the Center. The Daily Show – The Correspondents Explain – Political Parties – The Two-Party SystemGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Since 9/11, Koch Industries has fought against ...
    Koch Industries, a leader of industry resistance to proposed post-9/11 anti-terrorism safeguards at petrochemical plants, owns 56 facilities using hazardous chemicals that put 4.8 million Americans who live nearby at risk. Schools, homes, hospitals, office parks, churches, recreation areas, nurs ...
  • Gaddafi Speaks: He will not leave
    Gaddafi tells chess head he will not leave 7 News The Russian head of world chess says Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told him in a telephone call that he was in Tripoli and did not intend to leave the country despite an onslaught by rebels. “I am alive and healthy, I am in Tripoli and [...]
  • VIDEO: ‘Western countries fighting for L ...
    by William Engdahl Months of chaos await Libya if the NATO-led operation in the country topples Muammar Gaddafi, political analyst William Engdahl told RT, but regime change would suit Western oil interests. âThey are eventually going to topple Gaddafi,” he said. âAnd I think what Libya is going ...
  • NATO Set up – Going back through WHY Lib ...
    DEAR LIBYAN “REBELS” – BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR… YOU JUST MIGHT GET IT! (ask Tunisia and Egypt…)
  • DC Obelisk Goes Limp
    CNN: Washington Monument NOT Leaning!

The Air Vent

  • FOI Granted
    At Bishop Hill blog, an FOI was denied for the release of my and others correspondence with Dr. Paul Dennis because the record was lost.  I just reviewed it again now and it was on November 19th 2009 that Paul Dennis sent me an email regarding his paper on Antarctic isotope analysis.  I hadn’t ...
  • Dreaming of a Green Christmas
    Below is a ‘scary-ish’ plot from Joe Romm’s Climate Regress blog.  It shows several things including the heavily processed data of Arctic Sea Ice Volume which is one of the more unreliable datasets available for sea ice with exponential curve fit projections laid on top.  Currently in 2011 we ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...
  • DUPLICATE POST, PLEASE DELETE
    [Photo credit: Sam UL, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Teen Destroys $1.8 Million Chandelier with Croc
    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

  • Facebook Confirms It Will Scrap the Places Che ...
    Facebook will remove the Places check-in feed from its mobile apps and interface, a company spokesperson confirms with us. Rather than check-in, users will be able to add their city-level location or tag a specific Place in any post. The change will come as part of the rollout of the new privacy ...
  • Study: SEO Matters for Facebook Pages as 34% o ...
    Search makes up 34% of all external referral traffic to Facebook Pages, with Google 27.5% coming from Google, according to a six month study of 1,000 Pages by analytics provider PageLever. This means Facebook Page admins should be concerned with search engine optimization when naming Pages, fill ...
  • Vote to See Inside Facebook and Inside Network ...
    The Inside Network editorial team has proposed several panels for this year’s South By Southwest Interactive and Music Conferences, but we need your votes to get them on the program. The panels look at: Why brands need third-party Facebook service providers such as Page management and Ads API co ...
  • Facebook Overhauls Privacy, Brings Controls In ...
    Facebook has just announced that starting Thursday, a major overhaul of the site’s privacy controls will begin rollout to all users. The goal is to help users share exactly what they want with exactly who they want by improving privacy setting transparency, simplicity, and accessibility. Amongst ...
  • Facebook Launches Ad Targeting by Topic
    Facebook recently added the ability to target advertisements by Topic, as detailed in its new Interests Targeting guide (.PDF). Rather than targeting users that Like a specific Page, advertisers can simultaneously target all users who Like any variation of a word or phrase. For example, rather t ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Palestinian Jenin's "Third Intifada" under attack
    As the Israeli armed forces once again raid the Freedom Theatre at Jenin, Richard Lightbown describes this oppression in the context of the resistance envisioned by the theatre’s founder, Juliano Mer Khamis.
  • Analysis: renewed hostilities between Gaza and ...
    Richard Lightbown analyses the media reports on the background to current hostilities between Gaza and Israel and sees little cause for optimism.
  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    The US-Al Qaeda Buddy System, Lowering the War Ceiling, Obama Still Wall Street’s Honey, Getting Access to the Secrets of OBL Kill, Senate Intel Committee Blocks Report on âSecret Lawâ, Counter-Terrorism & China Pressure on Pakistan, Kosovo: The Gathering Storm, Sources: Israel’s Mossad Behind T ...
  • Our Probability of Being Chosen in a Nation of ...
    The New Orwellian Airport Behavioral Inspections-Detections TSA screeners are about to implement Orwellian behavioral inspections at airport security checkpoints. Who are these TSA screeners? These are the same low-level, incompetent, scandalous, molesting, abusive, and in some cases criminal pe ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Wall Street-ers Top Obama Re-election Supporters⦠more than 2008, ‘Israeli Style’ Airports in Ex America, The Development of ‘Privacy Killing Technologies’, Libya Transitional Council Rebels in Total Disarray, Mongolia Military Trains with US- Buys Fighters from Russia, US Grows a Tree of Tensi ...
  • Follow the Money with Bergman: Eyeing Green Ey ...
    The Audit of Federal Reserve Governance: Wiggle Room for the GAO?  We’ve recently endured the worst financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression, and for many people, it isn’t over yet.  We’ve had 11 recessions since World War II, and our latest included the largest decline in employ ...
  • A Forum for the Israeli Lobby, Neocons & the W ...
    A Parasitic Puppet Forums’ No-No List: From 9/11 to Israel & Obama-Cons I generally don’t like to spend time and energy going after the little parasites at the bottom of the ailing disease chain that has infested our nation. Surely they pop up here and there as examples illustrating our real dis ...

Afro Spear

  • “Go Gaddafi Go!” by Nkwazi Mhango
    Go Gadaffi go ye Muamar Go without turning thy head back ever The game is up and over sir Go son of hell, a coward in your own light Go Muamar go down standing like a dolt In flames go down like that In a shame go even faster Go go Abuminyal go go and [...]
  • “Is Mubarak’s trial shame or fame ...
    Among the people who were moved, pained and disturbed by the tribulations and trials of former Egyptian strong man, Hosni Mubarak recently, is former Nigerian two-time president Olusegun Obassanjo. Obassanjo aired his view in Mombasa. Kenya where he was attending former presidents’ meeting, when ...
  • The Audacity of Hate
    “The poor will always be with us…” Matthew 26:11 There are one group of people that Americans hate more than foreign terrorists. The poor within their own borders. They would rather send millions of dollars, as well as their armed forces, to assist and relieve the sufferings of the poor and dis ...
  • “Mayor Nutter’s City of Tough Love ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter went where few black  leaders have gone. And I think I can count those other who did on one hand. Nutter dared speak truth to action on the critical state of black youth in this country. In an address confronting increasing youth v ...
  • Is Britain cascading into third “worldne ...
    What recently transpired in the UK, unearthed a hidden malady of racism and hypocrisy. We used to believe that the UK is an ideal society that promotes and protects human rights, prosperity and equality. We goofed. UK we used to superficially know is different from the real and true one. Had thi ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Wolf-in-sheep's-clothing Santorum Respects "Ga ...
    GOPer presidential candidate Santorum claims to have gay friends with whom he disagrees "vehemently" and I claim to attend services at the Westboro Baptist Church.
  • Why I hate Apple
    Commentary on outsourcing, corporate culture and the problems it brings and the values it degrades.
  • Ukraine's Achievements After 20 Years of Indep ...
    Ukraine remains an exceptional country, within the post-Soviet context.
  • Evil Joy
    Evil joy is based on dishonesty. There is always something fishy, something weird, something grotesque about the event which triggers that feeling.
  • Feeling Friendly This Week? Beware
    New evidence emerged in Washington last week of sophisticated phishing and surveillance plots. The snitch scams were reportedly run by government-affiliated IT contractors targeting those who published WikiLeaks documents or similarly embarrassed federal officials or key members of the U.S. Cham ...

Switchboard

  • The Real Price of Inaction on Climate Change
    Radha Adhar, Program Assistant, Washington, DC Political discourse today is centered on our nation’s budget priorities. A year ago, the debt ceiling was a procedural matter, not a political battlefield. A year ago, I had never heard the phrase “en ...
  • Is this the world's greenest neighborhood?
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   As this post is published, I am on vacation in Victoria, British Columbia, a wonderful city that - among other good things - is home to Dockside Green, which some people are call ...
  • NRDC in the News 8/23: Bristol Bay, oil shale ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Frances Beinecke voiced her concern in Indian Country Today about the ecological toll oil and gas mining may cause in Alaska’s Bristol Bay… An editorial in Utah’s Salt Lake Tribune cited NRDC’s rep ...
  • Top Universities are Going "Green" in an Effor ...
    Kelly Henderson, Climate Center Program Assistant, Washington, D.C. Ever think about what your college is doing to reduce its carbon footprint or be “greener?” ­ Sure, you might see recycle bins strewn across campus and in your dorms or library. ...
  • NRDC in the News 8/22: Keystone XL pipeline, G ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The Washington Post published a letter to the editor written by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, rebutting an editorial that asserted that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline can lead us to the pathway of ener ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Is Maximalism Always the Best Negotiating Appr ...
    I think this comment from David Mizner — whose excellent novel you should check out — gets to the heart of the issue: This argument â could President Obama have gotten progressive bills through? â is ultimately unknowable because he didnât try. Thatâs the problem. On his 3 big bills â the stimul ...
  • Taking Nocera Behind the Woodshed
    Jeffery Hirsch savages Joe Nocera’s worthless column from yesterday, where Nocera says that Democrats cost the nation jobs because the NLRB is forcing Boeing to stop retaliating against its unions by moving jobs to non-union plants in South Carolina. In Nocera’s mind, this is not retailation bec ...
  • AFL-CIO Super PAC
    In an utterly unsurprising move, the AFL-CIO has started its own Super PAC. It intends to compete with the big corporate Super PACs, trying to use its considerable lobbying power to push for workers’ rights. I only mention this because of my ambivalence about AFL-CIO political strategy. I unders ...
  • Jerry Leiber
    R.I.P.
  • What Could Obama Have Done?
    I find myself in an unusual position of arguing that someone is underestimating presidential power. Armando asserts that I argue that we shouldn’t care who is president. So, working backward from my clearly stated position, he seems to be saying that we shouldn’t care about foreign policy and se ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • MIDWEST REPORT
    Our survey of market conditions in Midwestern cities finds Detroit firms expanding into other regions to find business, while Chicago ranks as one of the fastest-growing legal centers in the country.
  • UCLA dean defends donation from Milken brother
    A $10 million donation to the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law has sparked a controversy, with one faculty member telling university administrators that accepting the gift will tarnish the law school's reputation.
  • Thai defendants argue that bribery-related cha ...
    A former government official in Thailand and her daughter have moved to dismiss criminal charges tied to a Hollywood couple who were convicted as part of a bribery scheme, calling the indictment "a novel prosecutorial approach" and a "case of first impression."
  • B&B owners defend denial of service to lesbian ...
    A Vermont bed and breakfast is digging in against the American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the business for refusing to host a wedding reception for a lesbian couple.
  • After earthquake, D.C. legal world heading bac ...
    Courts, law firms, government agencies and other offices in downtown Washington were set to reopen Wednesday morning following Tuesday's 5.8-magnitude earthquake, which sent workers onto the sidewalks and, in many cases, home for the rest of the day.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Afghan Government Finalizes Parliamentary Poll ...
    'The real work must now begin. The people of Afghanistan expect the Parliament, Government and judiciary to act within their clearly defined areas of competence, and in accordance with Afghanistan's constitution and other relevant laws,
  • 'Gadhdha Colony' Girls Express Eloquent Passio ...
    One by one the girls walked up on to the stage. Their voices rang loud and clear in the open air. Farahnaaz, Mahenoor, Firdaus, Shabeena, bright-eyed confident young women, around 15 or 16 years old, who spoke with eloquent passion about their desir
  • UN Supports Mineral Smuggling Investigation in ...
    The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for DRC and head of MONUSCO, Roger Meece, stressed that the illegal exploitation and smuggling of natural resources from the DRC are serious crimes and the mission is tasked with preventing them.
  • Ban Stresses Need to Accelerate Efforts for Gl ...
    He expressed his gratitude to Yonhap New Agency for using the power of photojournalism to promote development.
  • New Free Android App Finds Endangered Species ...
    Right-click here to download pictures. To help protect your privacy, Outlook prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Species Finder is an incredible way to instantly connect with endangered species where you live or wherever

environment 360

  • Video: Illegal Logging Is Pushing Rare Madagas ...
    For the last 10 years, researcher Erik Patel has focused on the plight of the silky sifaka lemur, an endangered primate whose forest habitat in a remote corner of Madagascar is being cleared by rampant illegal logging. Now a new video, Trouble in Lemur Land — shot in Madagasgar’s Marojejy ...
  • Growth of Urban Areas Poses Long-Term Threats, ...
    A new study says the explosive growth of urban areas worldwide over the next two decades poses significant risks to human populations and the global environment, from the loss of agricultural land and wildlife habitat to increased vulnerability to the effects of climate change. Using satellite d ...
  • Antarctic Ice Movement Is Fully Mapped for the ...
    Scientists at the University of California, Irvine, have for the first time fully mapped the movement of Antarctica’s vast ice sheets and glaciers, which comprise 90 percent of the ice on Earth. Using data gathered by NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterVIDEO: Antarctic ice movement satellites f ...
  • Water Risk Mapping Project Attracts Major Glob ...
    Several global corporations have joined a World Resources Institute project that is developing a new database and mapping tools to help companies manage their water resources and reduce risk. The Aqueduct project — which so far has enlisted companies such as Coca-Cola, General Electric, and Dow ...
  • U.S. Carbon Capture Projects Selected for Furt ...
    The U.S. Department of Energy has selected four projects for continued research into developing carbon capture technologies, with the goal of achieving 90 percent carbon dioxide removal. While existing carbon capture technologies require enormous amounts of energy — adding as much as 80 percent ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Barrel per Bomb: Libya ’winners’ & oil majors ...
    The fight is not over in Tripoli but the carve-up of Libya’s vast oil riches - the biggest in Africa - is already beginning. The Italian Foreign Minister fired the starting gun, saying Italy’s ENI oil company will play the number one role in the region. And as RT’s Laura Emmett reports, the serv ...
  • Could "UFO" on the Bothnia Ocean Floor Really ...
    The release last week of a sonar scan showing an anomalous formation on the bottom of the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland set off a storm of wild speculation as to what exactly the image means. Most of this speculation centered on the idea that this object (if it is an object or objec ...
  • Libyan rebels claim control of most of Tripoli ...
    Libyan rebels claimed to be in control of most of the Libyan capital on Monday after their lightning advance on Tripoli heralded the fall of Moammar Gadhafi’s nearly 42-year regime. Scattered battles erupted, and the mercurial leader’s whereabouts remained unknown. NATO promised to maintain its ...
  • UFO researcher Budd Hopkins Passed Away - Augu ...
    I’m very sad to announce that Budd Hopkins died today, August 21, at 1:35 pm. Budd had been under hospice care for about three weeks, at his home in New York. The combination of liver cancer and pneumonia led to his death. His daughter Grace Hopkins-Lisle and I were with him almost continuously ...
  • CNN tells journalists in Libya "don’t mention ...
    "Journalist Mahdi Nazemroaya, who is in the hotel in Tripoli where the foreign press have been obliged to stay during the conflict is afraid for his safety and says he’s been threatened. " Video from: YouTube.com

Russia Today

  • Libyan rebel leader shakes hands with Sarkozy
    As clashes between Muammar Gaddafi supporters and rebels see no end, Libyan rebel leader Mahmoud Jibril is meeting French President Sarkozy in Paris to discuss the prospects of a political transition and economic...
  • Wanted dead or alive: $1.6 million for Gaddafi
    Whoever captures Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, dead or alive, will receive $1.6 million as a bounty, said a Benghazi businessman, while the rebels’ provisional council is offering an amnesty as reward.
  • Chemical arsenal - new Gaddafi shell game
    The Libyan government's weapons stockpiles, from tonnes of mustard gas to raw nuclear materials, have drawn the focus of US intelligence concerns. They are unsure that the current holder, whoever it is, will abide by...
  • Progress cargo spaceship falls in eastern Russia
    The Russian cargo spaceship Progress M-12M has crashed to Earth in eastern Russia. The spacecraft’s wreckage was found in the Altai Region in southern Siberia, RIA Novosti news agency quotes a source in the regional law...
  • Iran launches missile case against Russia
    Iran has filed a lawsuit against Russia in an international court for non-supply of defensive S-300 anti-air missile complexes, in order to give Moscow a solid juridical precedent to force it to deliver the weapons...

Not My Tribe

  • The guard towers of Camp Amache, CO, Japanese- ...
    Visitors to what remains of the WWII-era Granada Relocation Center located on Highway 50 past Lamar, are tempted to conclude that the remote location was isolation enough to restrict the movement of the camp’s 7,000 Japanese-American internees. Gone are all 560 buildings except their concrete fo ...
  • An 83% Payroll Tax, on the Workers and paid di ...
    That’s what I paid and, everybody who works for a “Slave Market” minimum wage Labor Contractor Service such as Labor Ready, Apprentice, Manpower, Kelly… The “tax” is paid to a Non-Governmental Organization, and is paid before the Worker gets his check. I base the 83% figure on the fact that the ...
  • The shocking part about the AI PACkers… ...
    It’s not the blatant anti-Semitism involved in wanting to set Israel up as a target for near-total destruction, it’s not their arrogance in making money supplying the means, the money, weapons, propaganda, anti-social gospel of indifference, answering the question of Cain “am I my brothers keepe ...
  • I know where Congressman Lamborn is. Because n ...
    Calls to Doug Lamborn’s office inquiring as to his whereabouts produces this charade: “Um, I don’t know. Let me ask. Could you hold please?” And we never get an answer. That his office won’t say, coupled with the media’s strange incuriosity, points to a self-enforced news moratorium on where a f ...
  • Before tarring himself Representative Tar Baby ...
    Do you remember that Colorado Representative Doug Lamborn had a nickname before he pinned the latest on his sorry tail? Before Tar Baby, Lamborn was known for another remark whose meaning he insists he hadn’t intended, when he left a telephone message with a local couple, threatening “consequenc ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • San Diego's 10news Covers SecrecyKills.com - 8 ...
    Videos uploaded by Jon Gold http://www.10news.com/news/28922418/detail.html Richard Clarke confirms what is the main point in Kevin Fenton's new book Disconnecting the Dots where he makes the point that elements in the CIA deliberately withheld information from the FBI, among others, t ...
  • AE911Truth 10th Anniversary Activities
    Posted by John-Michael P. Talboo One simple action that can be taken to help out this campaign is sigining up to make phone calls to other ae911truth petition signers. I have made around 120 myself. You don't have to get off your butt if you don't want, but get involved! Click here for ...
  • Van The BSer Romero: We Called It!
    Awhile back, Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted an entry entitled "Jesse The BSer Ventura: I Called It!" criticising Ventura for deceptive editing on the first 9/11 episode of his show Conspiracy Theory when it was revealed that he cut off the end of an experiment by explosives exp ...
  • The truth and the authority
    Watching AE911Truth's new mini movie on WTC7, I was reminded of what actress Christine Ebersole said five years ago on the fifth anniversary of 9/11: "Truth is authority; authority is not truth". All the debunkers have ever really had is the appeal to authority, but now they don't even ha ...
  • Lack of 9/11 Air Defence Explained?
    Posted by John-Michael P. Talboo In a post entitled "NORAD's 'Lies' Explained?" Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog recently wrote that the blog of 9/11 Commission staffer Miles Kara explains "the erroneous assertion that the military found out about Flight 93 long before they did." ...

Fooducate

  • Back to School – (Slightly) Less Sugar in Choc ...
    In tune with the season, we’re writing about school related topics in the last few weeks. Today, some promising news on the chocolate milk front. AS you know, chocolate milk is a very contentious issue in this country. The lines have been drawn by the dairy industry – either kids drink “flavored ...
  • Ritz Crackers With Whole Wheat, Sorta but Not ...
    Ritz has a new cracker on the market and it’s made with Whole Wheat! The reason we want whole wheat and whole grains in our diet is: 1. the whole grain contains many more nutrients than a refined grain 2. the celebrity nutrient in whole grains is fiber, something most of us are lacking in [...]
  • Are Short School Lunch Periods Causing Obesity?
    Everyone’s trying to fix the obesity epidemic plaguing this country. And everyone’s got a theory as to it’s causes. Nutritionally poor school lunches are the usual suspect, but here’s an unexpected twist based on a survey conducted by the School Nutrition Association: Kids don’t get enough time ...
  • Insurance Companies Say: Quit the Fizzy Pop
    Via: Term Life Insurance Check out this infographic, published not by doctors, not by dietitians, and not by the government. This “propaganda” is disseminated by a for-profit organization that has a direct financial interest in reducing your junk food intake – an insurance company. For the ful ...
  • Fall In Love With A New Whole Grain
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl The comfort zone of American cuisine is meat, potatoes, and a wee bit of vegetables. When it comes to whole grains, we are sadly lacking. Several of my blog readers were interested in something called “Wheatberry Salad”. From Denise: I wo ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Peru approves ‘historic’ indigenous rights law
    Ashéninka girl in south-east Peru © David Hill/Survival On Tuesday night, Peruâs Congress unanimously approved a âhistoricâ new law that guarantees indigenous peopleâs right to free, prior and informed consent to any projects affecting them and their lands. President Ollanta Humala says ...
  • Beef barons hold government to ransom
    Vast blocks of the Ayoreo's forest have been cleared by BBC S.A. and River Plate S.A. © Survival Brazilian beef barons are holding Paraguay’s government to ransom over land inhabited by uncontacted tribes. Ayoreo Indians were granted legal title to the land last year, but ranchers have ref ...
  • Worldwide protests against Amazon mega-dam
    Brazilians protest against Belo Monte dam in the Amazonian city of Belém © Sue Cunningham Thousands of people have taken to the streets in dozens of cities worldwide, to protest against the Belo Monte mega-dam being built in the Brazilian Amazon. Groups across Brazil called on Brazil�s Pre ...
  • International condemnation of controversial Et ...
    The Mursi are one of the tribes living along the Omo Valley. © Eric Lafforgue/Survival Kenyan MPs and the UN’s World Heritage Committee have called on Ethiopia to halt construction of the controversial Gibe III dam on the Omo River. In its annual report published last month, UNESCO’s World ...
  • Amazon pipeline gets go-ahead amid reports of ...
    Oil industry barges are a constant sight on the rivers of northern Peru © Survival A 200km oil pipeline in the Amazon has been given the go-ahead, amidst controversy over a âcover-upâ of evidence that uncontacted Indians live in the region. French oil company Perenco plans to spend $350m ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I use up buffet sandwiches?
    We’ve had a “clever idea” email from Jos, telling us about their personal battle against food waste at work: This sounds so cheap but I regularly “steal” the last of the sandwiches after meetings at work because they’d go in the bin if I didn’t take them. I eat some fresh, freeze others to eat [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle boring white buttons?
    We’ve had an email from Sally: I always snip buttons from old clothes before using them for rags but after a few years of my three’s school shirts, I’ve got more plain white buttons than I know what to do with. If they were pretty I’d keep them for crafts but they’re boring! Any ideas? [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle crême brulée/desser ...
    We’ve had an email from Jeroen: We designed a lid for the Bonne Maman crême brulée cup that we usually through away. Here you can see a short movie about it: While I’ll admit the lid is very cute and well made, it didn’t occur to me that it needed one before reusing — my [...]
  • How can I use up “past it” frozen ...
    We’ve had an email from Joanna: I found some part-used bags of frozen peas, sweetcorn and broccoli at the bottom of my chest freezer – expiry date 2009! My hubs is happy to ignore expiry dates but we tried some of the peas and they were tough and tasted washed out, not good! Any other [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle sweetcorn plants?
    Tina has asked a very timely question: what can I use sweetcorn plants for? I like to eat or use as much of my plants as possible, before composting the rest. There must be a million uses for corn plants, but can I find any? help! We’ve already covered the empty cobs, after the lovely [...]

Age of Autism

  • Cleveland Plain Dealer: Dealing with Autistic ...
    By Anne Dachel Recently there were stories from the Cleveland Plain Dealer about the problems caused by ONE AUTISTIC ADULT. The first was the article on 8/14 , followed by an editorial on 8/19. These were sobering pieces about a...
  • SmartVax: Most Vaccines not Studied for Autism
    By Scott Laster, SafeMinds SafeMinds has launched a new website, SmartVax, to change the discourse on vaccines in a manner that will create a positive environment where consumers are empowered and scientists are encouraged to pursue the necessary research on...
  • IOM To Release Adverse Events of Vaccines: Evi ...
    The Institute of Medicine will release the report Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality on Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 11:00 am EDT. Committee chair, Ellen Wright Clayton, and two members of the committee, S. Claiborne Johnston and Douglas...
  • British Medical Journal Forced to Publish Lett ...
    By John Stone After a succession of posts on Age of Autism (Age of Autism Holier Than Thou , Age of Autism Emporer Has No Clothes & Age of Autism Double-Speak ) BMJ have been forced in a humiliating climb-down...
  • HDNet World Report Investigates Government Inc ...
    “HDNET WORLD REPORT” INVESTIGATES GOVERNMENT INCONSISTENCIES REGARDING THE LINK BETWEEN VACCINES AND AUTISM The Government says there’s no link between vaccines and autism. So why has it quietly doled out big settlements to families with autistic children who say vaccinations...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

  • TS Radio: Glenn Morton on Obamacare
    Join us Tuesday evening at 8 CST! Date / Time: 08-23-11 6:00 pm PST 8:00 pm CST 9:00 pm EST “My name is Glenn Morton, and I am President of Taylor, Levi, and Associates, an insurance brokerage firm in Maryland. I have been in the health care/health insurance business for almost 20 years, working ...
  • We Have Not Seen the Last of the Genetically M ...
    Canada will be the egg producing capitol of transgenicfrankenfishsalmoneelthings, with NO preemptive oversight from the FDA.
  • Monsanto Targets Consumers
    Monsanto leaps from commercial agriculture to take on the retail market with genetically engineered sweet corn designed with the consumer in mind.
  • The “Non-GMO” Labeling Scam
    A company wants to market a product chock full of GMOs and every other thing under the sun, make it appear to be healthy, and use Non-GMO certification to sell it. So how do you do it?
  • Smart Grid – The Birth of Global Technocracy
    Smart Grid - The Birth of Global Technocracy VIDEO - Patrick Wood

Open Your Eyes News

  • Federal judge to hear arguments on Alabama imm ...
    Associated Press – A federal judge in Birmingham is poised to hear arguments from the Obama administration and others Wednesday over whether a new Alabama immigration law constitutes an unfair assault on civil liberties or is a long-overdue effort to protect American jobs and borders. U.S. Distr ...
  • Prolonged Breastfeeding Does Not Protect Again ...
    ScienceDaily â The largest worldwide study on the association between breastfeeding, time of weaning and eczema in children has concluded that there is no clear evidence that exclusive breastfeeding for four months or longer protects against childhood eczema. The study, led by scientists at King ...
  • Iran’s military might deters attacks
    PressTV – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran’s military might is aimed at preventing aggression and injustice and underscored the deterrent nature of the country’s defense policies. Read article Related article : Iran pres. unveils key defense products
  • Aust – Jobs under pressure
    The Age – UP TO 100,000 jobs will be lost in Australia by the end of the year, with another 100,000 to go next year, economists have warned. This will take the unemployment rate from 5.1 per cent to 5.5 per cent by year end, and up to 6 per cent in 2012. Read Article
  • India – Popularity threatens to turn a o ...
    Guardian – The Indian state of Goa has long been viewed as an ideal holiday spot, but mass tourism has led to overwhelming pollution. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • California toxic waste case settled
    “Significant shortcomings at Chemical Waste Management’s lab compromised the company’s ability to accurately analyze the toxic waste to be disposed of in their landfill,” said Jared Blumenfeld, the EPA’s regional administrator for the Pacific Southwest. “These were serious compliance issues and ...
  • Climate change: Drought, floods, tornadoes par ...
    The irony won't be lost on those who follow the political debates over climate change in Congress. One of the most vocal deniers of the scientific consensus on man-caused planetary warming is Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who has delayed the nomination of John Bryson as Commerce Secretary, sayi ...
  • City Council not commenting on Laguna Beach ac ...
    The Laguna Beach City Council accepted petitions that supported public beach access through private property at Rockledge in Laguna Beach, but refrained from making any comments on the emotionally charged issue. City Manager John Pietig advised the council to button...
  • Is nature doing what the climate models predict?
    An increase in extreme floods predicted by climate change models has yet to occur.
  • California asbestos deposits mapped
    Clear Creek, which registers 35,000 visits a year, has long been known as the largest U.S. deposit of asbestos, a natural mineral and known human carcinogen. It harbors an EPA-designated toxic Superfund site, the former Atlas asbestos mine. Previous studies over several decades found high levels ...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • What Congress Won't See on Its Trip to Israel ...
    In the West Bank... I observed an explicit system of racial segregation and ethnic cleansing, where Palestinians are separated from their own lands and water by walls, barbed-wire fences and machine-gun-wielding soldiers and Jewish settlers.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • OP-ED: The Shocking Pattern of Obama Repeati ...
    Obama forged a continuation of the Bush years, doubling Bush's war in the Arab world, hiring staff from the Bush Administration, and tossing civil liberties aside for "security."Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Rick Perry's Texas Hometown Feels Abandoned By ...
    "The governor of Texas sold out to Tom DeLay and the national Republican Party to the detriment of West Texas," Stenholm said at the time. "He's not the same Rick Perry that he was when he was going to Paint Creek School."Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Obama, Tea Party Supporters Get In Heated Exch ...
    "He said we were acting like terrorists," Iowa Tea Party activist Ryan Rhodes said, confronting the president after the Decorah town hall as Obama worked a rope line of audience members. "What we stand for is limited government and a balanced budget," Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • NDP: Tony Clement Created G8 Slush Fund
    "I think we've moved well beyond the fact that Tony Clement took $50 million in border infrastructure money -- money that would have helped trade, money that would have made Canadians more secure -- and he spent it on gazebos and glow sticks," the NDP's ASubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Secretary Chu Signs Off on Two New Loan Guaran ...
    To support the development of two alternative energy projects, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded loan guarantees to both Abengoa Bioenergy US Holding, Inc. and SoloPower, Inc. that, combined, amount to nearly ...
  • Solar Trust of America Changes Technology for ...
    Solar Trust of America announced that it will no longer employ concentrated solar power (CSP) for its multibillion dollar Blythe Solar installation, but instead will use photovoltaic (PV) technology for the first phase of constructi ...
  • Enel Green Power Receives Approval for North A ...
    Enel Green Power has received final regulatory approval to construct its groundbreaking hybrid solar and geothermal power plant in Nevada. read more
  • Ascent Solar Partners with China's TGF Radiant ...
    Developer of solar photovoltaic�(PV) modules Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTI) has formed a partnership with China-based TFG Radiant Group that will result in $450 million of investment. read more
  • U.S. Department of Interior Approves Largest P ...
    The United States Department of Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has approved the largest photovoltaic (PV) project to be built on public land. read more

News Blaze

  • Afghan Government Finalizes Parliamentary Poll ...
    'The real work must now begin. The people of Afghanistan expect the Parliament, Government and judiciary to act within their clearly defined areas of competence, and in accordance with Afghanistan's constitution and other relevant laws,
  • 'Gadhdha Colony' Girls Express Eloquent Passio ...
    One by one the girls walked up on to the stage. Their voices rang loud and clear in the open air. Farahnaaz, Mahenoor, Firdaus, Shabeena, bright-eyed confident young women, around 15 or 16 years old, who spoke with eloquent passion about their desir
  • UN Supports Mineral Smuggling Investigation in ...
    The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for DRC and head of MONUSCO, Roger Meece, stressed that the illegal exploitation and smuggling of natural resources from the DRC are serious crimes and the mission is tasked with preventing them.
  • Ban Stresses Need to Accelerate Efforts for Gl ...
    He expressed his gratitude to Yonhap New Agency for using the power of photojournalism to promote development.
  • New Free Android App Finds Endangered Species ...
    Right-click here to download pictures. To help protect your privacy, Outlook prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Species Finder is an incredible way to instantly connect with endangered species where you live or wherever

Worldnews

  • Venice tests the water with new tourist t ...
    Visitors to Venice will find an unexpected charge on their hotel bills from tonight as the city becomes the latest destination to launch a tourist tax. Anyone lodging overnight on the islands in the Venetian lagoon, or even in the dreary suburbs of Mestre on the mainland, will pay an impost ...
  • Cheap iPhone on the way soon
    Apple Inc will release a cheaper iPhone 4 within weeks, jeopardising profit margins to win lower-end customers from rivals such as Nokia in China and other emerging markets. Asian suppliers have begun making a lower-cost version of the hot-selling smartphone with a smaller 8-gigabyte flash ...
  • 'It's not a coincidence that everybody la ...
    Frenchman admits he did not want to lose Nasri or Fabregas, but was forced to let both leave for 'psychological' reasons, while claiming money runs the game these days Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�Arsenal, Man City, Samir Nasri Getty Images Arsena ...
  • Bayern Munich's Mario Gomez confident he ...
    The Germany international picked up a minor knock in the game against Zurich and is of the opinion that he will recover in time for the game against the Red Devils on Saturday Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 By Vasil Kotsev...
  • 'We deserved to go through' - Villarreal' ...
    The Spanish club's boss thinks his team were always superior to the Danish outfit and added he is happy to have reached such a prestigious event Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 By Luis Mira Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�OB Odense, Villarreal Villarreal coach Juan Carlos Garrido w ...

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Common Dreams

  • New York Attorney General Kicked Off Governmen ...
    WASHINGTON -- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday was kicked off the committee leading the 50-state task force charged with probing foreclosure abuses and negotiating a possible settlement agreement with the nation's five largest mortgage firms, according to an email reviewed ...
  • Keystone XL: A Pipeline to Europe?
    UXBRIDGE, Canada - The promoters of Keystone XL, a huge new oil pipeline from northern Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, claim that it will reduce U.S. reliance on oil imports from unfriendly countries. But based on falling U.S. oil demand, the controversial Keystone XL pipeline may simply allow ta ...
  • America’s Rampant Inequality Impossible to Deny
    The CIA ranks the country 64th, behind Ivory Coast and Uganda—but Fox's banshees still scream 'class warfare' when Warren Buffet wants to tax the rich For years, America’s super-rich and their allies in Congress and the media have tried to deny that a tiny elite was growing astronomically wealth ...
  • Margot Kidder Among Protesters Arrested at Whi ...
    WASHINGTON — Canadian actress Margot Kidder was among the latest slate of environmentalists to be arrested outside the White House on Tuesday, handcuffed and sent to jail on the fourth day of a two-week civil disobedience campaign against TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. Kidder, born in Yello ...
  • Nuclear Power Plants Under Surveillance after ...
    After a 5.9-magnitude hit Mineral, Va. Tuesday afternoon, rocking the East Coast, concerns quickly turned to the safety of nuclear power plants. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Energy Ambitions
    Curbing domestic oil use is a key driver Turki al_faisal, Saudia Arabia's point man on nuclear energy. Photo: Saudia Arabia Embassy, Washington, DC
  • Oil Sands Anxiety Is Overblown
    As I was catching up on a two-week backlog of news after my vacation, I ran across a New York Times editorial with the promising title of "Tar Sands and the Carbon Numbers." Thinking that perhaps the Times might have woken up to the necessity of comparing the lifecycle emissions from oil sands t ...
  • It’s The Chinese, Stupid
    It’s time to take off the kids’ gloves in the energy debate. For the last five years, clean-tech advocates have extolled the potential benefits of a clean energy economy. You know the drill: millions of new jobs; freedom from oil; better technologies and cleaner air.
  • Nico Hotz On Hydrogen Storage For Solar Systems
    Nico Hotz, a Duke University researcher, discusses solar power generation research that involves using hydrogen as a vehicle for creating electricity. �Full Transcript:
  • What If It Is All A Big Hoax?
    This cartoon has been makings its rounds since Copenhagen. Sadly, it’s as apt as ever.By Joel Pett.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Our Ruling Class of Crazy--Be Afraid, Be VERY ...
    Brennan Browne There has always existed a peculiar niche of human beings within our political system who have seemingly defied the odds and risen to positions of incredible power and influence despite their obvious lack of common sense, basic intelligence and grasp of reality. These individuals ...
  • They Better Run For Their Lives
    Gilad Atzmon I have been monitoring the Hebrew press for the last three days and it is increasingly obvious to me and others, that no one out there, including Israeli top analysts, understands where the current escalation is leading. However, a few things are becoming clear: 1. Th ...
  • NATO'S Planned Bloodbath In Tripoli
    by Stephen Lendman NATO intends to get the bloodbath it wants through intensified terror bombing and low-level strafing of civilians and nonmilitary sites. No matter that it grossly violates international and constitutional law, what Washington-led member states long ago trashed. Th ...
  • 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: "NATO landed insurgents in (Tripoli) harbor. They are attacking my hotel. I almost ...
  • 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-defense," what international law pro ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA statement at the passing of Jack Layton
    We are all heartbroken at the passing of Jack Layton. On behalf of the staff and Board of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, our deepest condolences, love and support to Olivia and family, and to his NDP family. An inspirational leader, he carried the hopes and dreams of all of us in ...
  • Inequality Bad for Business
    CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes how the business establishment is growing concerned about income inequality in Canada in this Canada Business article. Read the article here.
  • The Strange Case of Saskatchewan's Electoral B ...
    Simon Enoch discusses Saskatchewan's rather unique electoral boundaries and how they influenced the 2011 federal election in the CCPA's Behind the Numbers blog.
  • Job posting: Online Communications Officer
    The CCPA National office is seeking an Online Communications Officer to join our communications team in Ottawa to support and expand the CCPA’s ongoing communications and outreach efforts. The deadline for applications is August 19, 2011. Click here for the full job posting.
  • Hennessy's Index: Gone Fishin'
    Hennessy's Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. This August, Hennessy's Index looks at vacation time - how do Canadian vacations stack up?� For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index

World Wide Hippies

  • Fukushima fallout said 30 times Hiroshima&#821 ...
    .japantimes.co- Video footage of Tatsuhiko Kodama’s impassioned speech before a Diet committee in July went viral online recently, showing the medical expert’s shocking revelation that the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant spewed some 30 times more radioactive materials than the fallout from the Hir ...
  • WWH News Briefs Wednesday
    Hurricane Irene gains strength; targets North Carolina’s Ocracoke Island nydailynews.com – Hurricane Irene was back to a Category 2 storm Wednesday, gaining strength as experts warn it poses a major threat to the U.S. Eastern seaboard from Florida to New England. Forecasters watching it churn th ...
  • Interior Department admits to ‘poisoning ...
    Environmental law violations at scores of tribal schools run by Interior Department. Media avoided this one for a long time. The EPA’s Press Release, tries to spin it as all better now. Truth is the DOI, just got a slap on the wrist. This penalty would have been, ten times as much if it were [...]
  • Clarence Thomas Is Not An Idiot – Is To ...
    jezebel.com – Virginia Thomas is, says Justice Clarence Thomas, “my best friend” and “my bride.” She says, “There was a tornado over our wedding when we got married. God knew that we were both troublemakers coming together.” And as a New Yorker profile this week reveals, that’s a fairly apt desc ...
  • Anonymous Street Protest Gets Wild… Obam ...
    Montana women, including Margot Kidder, arrested in Keystone XL protest bigskypress.com – A group holding a sign that read, “Montana Women for an Oil Free Future,” were among those arrested outside the White House this morning in the ongoing protests against the Keystone XL pipeline. The group i ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Keeping Michele Bachmann Honest on Gas Prices
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Promise: Gas Below $2 a Gallon Like many of you, I am often unhappy with our political leaders. One thing that annoys me the most is that many will say or do just about anything to get elected. By now, you have surely heard the news that Republican ...
  • How to Fix the Broken Cellulosic Ethanol Incen ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Overview: Mandates, Zero Production, Penalties, and the Failure of the Current System In the previous post, I discussed the annual ritual of rolling back the cellulosic ethanol mandates by 90% or more. For three years running, cellulosic ethanol productio ...
  • Cellulosic Ethanol Targets: Mandating the None ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Another Year, Another Chapter In what is becoming an annual ritual, the EPA is once more scaling back the cellulosic ethanol mandate for 2012. The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act mandated that we would use 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethan ...
  • Will a SmartGrid and GM’s Volt Stimulate the E ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from Victor Sequeira. Mr. Sequeira is Principal of VerisNRG LLC, a Houston based energy consultancy. He can be reached at victorseq [at] comcast [dot] net —————————— Can GMâs Volt Provide a Jolt to the Electric Car Industry? ...
  • When Falling Oil Prices are Bad News
    Join the forum discussion on this post Economic Heartache Normally, consumers consider falling oil and gasoline prices to be good news. They have to pay less to fill up their tanks. And if the reason for that is that oil supplies are increasing at a rate faster than demand is increasing, it ca ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The InGREENspirational 7!
    "Meet amazing people. Learn cool stuff. And have lots of fun along the way." read more
  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • Toxic Toys Become a Little Less Legal
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Judging by the spate of new localized laws related to everything from electronic waste to read more
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big think

  • The Universal Appeal of the Arab Spring
                As a resident of Concord Massachusetts, where American revolutionaries first shot back at their British oppressors, its impossible to watch what’s going on in Libya and Syria and Egypt and Yemen and not feel a connection with the people who have risked their lives to stand up for a . ...
  • Your Emotions Are What You Eat: How Your Diet ...
    --Guest post by Patrick Riley,�AoE Culture Correspondent If you believe your emotions can affect your health, nutritionist-author Nora Gedgaudas would say you've got another thing coming. In her view, your emotions are largely a product of your health. At the Ancestral Health Symposium thi ...
  • What Kind of Force Is Gravity?
    What's the Latest Development? Australian physicists say they have experimentally�disproved�the hypothesis that gravity is a force resulting from other traditional forces, a view put forth in 2010 by Dutch physicist Erik Verlinde. Since the two different views disagreed about how gravity would ...
  • Uncivilization Festival Contemplates the Apoca ...
    What's the Latest Development? Convinced they are witnessing a turning point in the history of our planet, groups gathered at last weekend's Uncivilization Festival to confront crises small and existential in hopes of creating a new, deep ecological political narrative. "Originally the project ...
  • Mars' Soil Suitable for Life
    What's the Latest Development? A new analysis of data gathered by N.A.S.A.'s Mars�Phoenix�Lander suggests the Red Planet's soil may be hospitable to life after all, contrary to previous thinking that it was too full of oxidizing compounds. "Phoenix made the pH and various other discoveries usi ...

Information Liberation

  • Silver Finally Staging Comeback, Back at $43.50/oz
    (Note: Chart is live)...
  • Children defy police in Washington, purchase " ...
    From Adam Kokesh: 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...
  • Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in F ...
    Citigroup Inc. (C) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) were the reigning champions of finance in 2006 as home prices peaked, leading the 10 biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms to their best year ever with $104 billion of profits. By 2008, the housi...
  • Social Security disability on verge of insolvency
    WASHINGTON (AP) * Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency. Applications are up nearly 50 percent over a d...
  • U.S. Mideast policy in a single phrase
    The CIA's spokesman at The*Washington*Post, columnist David*Ignatius, recently announced that the glorifying term "Arab Spring" is no longer being used by senior intelligence officials to describe democratic revolutions in the Middle East.**It has be...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • More chemical wonders
    More chemical wonders – Yet more chemical wonders fall under the gaze of The Alchemist this week. First up, spray on radiators coming to a home near you to help cut heating bills by a third while ethanol-imbibing bacteria offer an important clue to preventing biofuel pipeline cracks. In the anal ...
  • Dissonant teaching changes environmental minds
    There are many educational and ethical issues regarding the environment and environmentalism that are generally not addressed, especially when it comes to teaching non-science students. Independent environmental services professional and college professor Chyrisse P. Tabone, who is based in Tamp ...
  • Red, red, red wine and more
    My four latest science news stories now live on SpectroscopyNOW, kicking off with an item about adulteration and red wine – Various approaches to statistical analysis of spectroscopic data can reveal whether red wine has been adulterated with anthocyanins to artificially improve, “correct”, its ...
  • Diluting homeopathic advertising
    Diluting homeopathic advertising HT @SilvianaJ – The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered online homeopathy advertisers to stop making claims that their treatments work. [Because they don't!] The ASA’s remit was extended to regulating websites in March 2011, since when it says it has rece ...
  • Billions upon billions
    Back in the day, we Brits had big billions. A billion was a million millions. Obviously, the “bi” doubling up the “illion” from million. What else would it be? Well…of course…the Americans wanted to talk bigger still and so made their billion a mere 1000 million. Back then, it was hard to be a m ...

RFF Library

  • Mismeasuring Methane: Estimating Greenhouse Ga ...
    IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates / by Mary Lashley Barcella, Samantha Gross and Surya Rjan (free download with registration) http://www.ihs.com/info/en/a/mis-measuring-methane-report.aspx [From a Greenwire article by Nathanial Gronewold, sub. req'd]  U.S. EPA has exaggerated the extent ...
  • Volcanic Versus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide
    Eos (July 14, 2011, v92, n24 p201-208) / by Terry Gerlach http://www.agu.org/pubs/pdf/2011EO240001.pdf [Real Climate post]  My article “Volcanic Versus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide” appeared in the June 14 issue of the American Geophysical Union’s publication Eos and addresses the widespread mis ...
  • The Ethanol Decade: An Expansion of U.S. Corn ...
    USDA Economic Research Service / by Steven Wallander, Roger Claassen, and Cynthia Nickerson http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB79/#2011-8-18 [Summary]  The recent 9-billion-gallon increase in corn-based ethanol production, which resulted from a combination of rising gasoline prices and a su ...
  • Impacts of Higher Energy Prices on Agriculture ...
    USDA Economic Research Service / by Ronald Sands, Paul Westcott, et al. http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR123/#2011-8-18 [Summary] Agricultural production is sensitive to changes in energy prices, either through energy consumed directly or through energy-related inputs such as fertilizer. ...
  • Canadian Regulatory Document Addressing Limita ...
    aka “Consultation Document for Discussion of the Main Elements of the Proposed Regulations under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 to Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New On-Road Heavy-Duty Vehicles and Engines” from Environment Canada http://www.ec.gc.ca/lcpe-cepa/default.asp?l ...

Scientific American - News

  • Power Walk: Shoe Inserts Using Conductive Drop ...
    From Nature magazine.Forget to charge your phone? Your MP3 player? Soon, a quick stroll in a special pair of shoes could provide enough power to keep both going for hours. [More]
  • Cold Case: Low-Temperature Tolerant Bavarian B ...
    A stowaway strain of yeast, crossing the Atlantic centuries ago, may be responsible for a cool quarter-trillion-dollar beverage industry today. [More]
  • The East Coast Earthquake in Pictures [Slide Show]
    NEW YORK CITY--A magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook parts of the mid-Atlantic U.S. and New England Tuesday afternoon sent workers and residents streaming outdoors. In Lower Manhattan , surrounding the Scientific American office, vehicle traffic quickly came to a standstill--with New York P ...
  • Federal Investigators Clear Climate Scientist, ...
    The National Science Foundation has closed its investigation into Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann after finding no evidence of scientific misconduct related to his research.It is the latest in a string of investigations to exonerate scientists involved in the so-called " ...
  • Hubble Telescope Successor Could Get a Financi ...
    From Nature magazineThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is perilously overbudget and under threat of cancellation, but Naturehas learned that it may be offered a financial lifeline. The flagship observatory is currently funded entirely through NASA's science division; now NASA is requestin ...

First Truths

  • The Cost Principle and the Sovereignty Principle
    Benjamin Tucker, from Liberty, Vol. V.�No. 12.:It does not follow, because I have the right, and every other man has the right to the products of his labor and to the liberty of retaining them forever in his own hands, that it is, therefore, either right or best that all men should retain all ...
  • "[A]narchism is the usher of science"
    From Albert R. Parsons, husband of Lucy Parsons: The philosophy of anarchism is included in the one word "Liberty;" yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else. No barriers whatever to human progression, to thought, or investigation, are placed by anarchism; nothing is considered s ...
  • Carson on NATO
    In a private email, Kevin Carson offers an accurate summary of NATO's role within the framework of empire: Just give it a few years -- they'll be readjusting the boundaries of this "mutual defense pact" eastward and southward until they include Japan and Angola. Maybe Venezuela as well. And righ ...
  • "Capitalism" as "Anti-Concept"
  • Inverted Queries re Human Nature
    From Randall Amster's Anarchy, utopia, and the state of things to come: [T]he question is often posed: How can a society achieve the production, distribution, and maintenance of public goods absent a central authority? In other words: How can free individuals be encouraged to work and provide fo ...

Media Co-Op

  • Grassroots Gathering to Resist Proposed Pipeli ...
    Report Back from Unist'hot'en Gathering, Wet'suwet'en Territory From August 12-15, 2011, members of the Unist’hot’en clan of the Wet'suwet'en nation hosted their second gathering to oppose industrial threats in their traditional territor ...
  • What difference could massage therapy make?
    April Keddy is a 31-year-old Port Willams resident who lives with the rare (she is one of 3 in Canada) and progressive disorder, Galactosialidosis, “that affects my whole body”.  It was diagnosed when she was 3.  Health problems include asthma, lung disease, migraines, thickening of the heart va ...
  • Montreal North stand up
    MC Ricardo Lamour-Blaise puts police and politicians on blast following the three-year anniversary of Fredy Villanuevaâs death Originally posted on atthreat.net: When I told Vox Sambou of the Montreal hip-hop collective Nomadic Massive I h ...
  • A Hegemonic Blowjob
    In the fall of 2008, I was among those bright eyed young people who strode full tilt into our first year as undergraduate students, confident that we would leave in four years time, a bit wiser, prepared to make a way for ourselves in a w ...
  • Re-defining Terrorism
    Author Will Potter speaks about the witch hunt of environmental activists This audio program of Will Potter, author of "Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege," was recorded on August 20th, 2011 in Arli ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
    Karl Smith points out today that, even during the depths of the Great Recession, we were wealthier than we were in the 90s; we consumed more than in the 90s; and we had more average net worth than in the 90s. So why do we all feel so crappy about things? Answer: because one thing we aren't i ...
  • Three Cheers For Percentages
    Just for the record, I want to say that I love the headline atop the stock market story on the right. Not because the market is doing well, but because it says, simply, that stocks are up "3 percent." Not that the Dow Jones was up 322 points. Or the S&P was up 38 points. Or Nasdaq was up 10 ...
  • Obama's Books
    The Obama family's book consumption is in the news. Obama's own vacation reading list is still highly classified, but: It was unclear which books Obama ultimately purchased at Bunch of Grapes, but “Brave New World” was most likely for his 13-year-old daughter, Malia. The book is required ...
  • The Ever Changing Science of Global Warming
    Speaking of science, Brad Plumer points out today that scientists do change their minds from time to time. That's science! And they've been changing their collective minds on global warming recently too: Much of the climate science that’s been published since 2007 appears to have strength ...
  • Quote of the Day: The End of Postpartisanship
    From former Clinton speechwriter Jeff Shesol, commenting on Barack Obama's continuing rhetorical dedication to postpartisanship: To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, Obama declared war on partisanship in 2008, and partisanship won.� Shesol thinks it's about time for Obama to acknowledge the re ...

Insanity Report

  • PETA Does Porn
    I swear, PETA just doesn’t get it.  They really don’t.  They seem to think that any publicity is good publicity.  If I sound like a broken record here, it’s because I’ve said this before about them.  I understand that in a way, activist have to be attention whores because if you can’t bring ...
  • IC 266: Rebooted
    Topics: Kriss shares his “moment of stupidity” Reboots & remakes of movies Kid kills great grandmother with sword Woman killed in Aruba had an insurance policy taken out on her Allen West says he’s the Modern Day Harriet Tubman Share with your friends:
  • We Need Common Sense Laws
    It’s no secret that I’m no fan of criminals.  I watch Lockup, Jail and Locked Up Abroad just so I can laugh and make fun of all the idiots that do dumb shit that get them thrown in jail.  When the prisoners at Pelican Bay went on a hunger strike to protest “harsh conditions” in [...]
  • Welcome to the Campaign Rick Perry
    About a month ago, I closed the comments on a post I had written 2 years ago called “Why Texas Sucks“.  I was tired of getting comments from people who clearly hadn’t even read the post.  Well, last week I reopened the comments.  Why? Easy: Rick Perry. Rick Perry was the force behind most of ...
  • The “Fuck The Police” Face Tattoo
    You gotta love the stupidity of the face tattoo.  Nothing says “I’m not interested in becoming a regular and productive member of society” like it.  I mean sure, if you become a rapper, athlete or become that 1 in 10,000,000 that hits the lotto, then yeah, maybe you can afford the gratificatio ...

Simple Climate

  • Climate cycles drive civil wars
    Countries affected by El Niño are twice as likely to have internal conflict during the warmer part of the cycle than the cold, say Mark Cane and colleagues at Columbia University.
  • Climate change gets nature moving
    Our warming planet is driving species away from the Equator towards cooler climes at the poles at 17.6 kilometres per decade, find Chris Thomas from the University of York, UK, and his colleagues, up to three times as fast as previously thought.
  • More turtles could become fish supper with warming
    By collecting baby green turtles and clothing them in “swimming vests”, University of Queensland's David Booth and Andrew Evans have showed that higher temperatures reduce their swimming ability, making it more likely they'll be eaten as they enter the sea.
  • Climate controls must cover gases other than CO2
    Combining controls on emissions of less well-known greenhouse gases with CO2 limits would slow warming more rapidly, say Jim Butler of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and colleagues.
  • Fire amid the ice kindles global and local worries
    After a record Arctic tundra wildfire in 2007 released as much carbon as all plants in similar landscapes absorbed in a year, University of Florida's Michelle Mack warns such fires could again become common, as they were 10,000 years ago.

e!Science News

  • Storing vertebrates in the cloud
    What Google is attempting for books, the University of California, Berkeley, plans to do for the world's vertebrate specimens: store them in "the cloud." read more
  • Corp. social responsibility programs have litt ...
    Stocks of companies that are committed to corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies perform statistically similarly to those corporations that do not have these programs, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers. read more
  • VLT looks into the eyes of the virgin
    The Eyes are about 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) and are some 100 000 light-years apart. The nickname comes from the apparent similarity between the cores of this pair of galaxies -- two white ovals that resemble a pair of eyes glowing in the dark when se ...
  • Learning information the hard way may be best ...
    Canadian researchers have found the first evidence that older brains get more benefit than younger brains from learning information the hard way -- via trial-and-error learning. read more
  • Three-quarters of those who have lost jobs and ...
    Nearly three-quarters (72%) of people who lost their health insurance when they lost their jobs over the last two years said that they skipped needed health care or did not fill prescriptions because of cost, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. The same proportion is also struggling wit ...

unEarthed

  • McKibben, Others Arrested In Tar Sands Protest
    Protesters ask Obama to stop Keystone pipeline project Bill McKibben D.C. police have arrested 160 people and counting, in response to a non-violent protest ...
  • Northwest Salmon Re-Birth Dam Close
    Fish-killing dams on Elwha River about to be removed Fish that would benefit from dams removal on Elwha Next month, contractors will start removing two mass ...
  • Shell Oil Living in a Land of Make Believe
    Earthjustice calls Shellâs oil spill response plan for the Arctic âtotally inadequateâ Oil drilling platforms at Cook Inlet, Alaska. (Photo: Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com) ...
  • Friday Finds: Herbicide Overkill
    Genetically modified dilemma, school energy savings Monsanto's herbicide harms crops genetically modified to resist it. Image courtesy worldwidehippies.com ...
  • Friday Finds: When The Cure Kills
    Herbicide overkill, school energy savings The herbicide gets into crops genetically modified to resist it. Image courtesy worldwidehippies.com Monsanto’s po ...

Brave New Climate

  • Nuclear risk insurance
    Guest Post by Luke Weston. Luke is a Melbourne-based physicist and occasional freelance electronic engineer, with a strong interest in educating the community about nuclear energy and related issues. It is often said by the anti-nuclearists that the commercial nuclear energy industry “can’t get ...
  • TCASE 14: Assessment of electricity generation ...
    In the previous TCASE post, I considered how various low-carbon energy technologies meet the following criteria: commercial readiness, scalability, dispatchability, fuel constraints, load access, storage requirements, capacity factor and emissions intensity. Here I consider the next issue: cost ...
  • TCASE 13: Assessment of suitability of technol ...
    The problem of replacing our dependence on fossil fuels is complex. In Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy (TCASE) #12, a checklist was provided to allow assessment of energy transition plans. The sort of questions listed in TCASE 12 are critical for evaluating the feasibility of future ...
  • A critique of the 2011 IPCC Report on Renewabl ...
    The following is a detailed guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). In it, he provides the most detailed critique I’ve yet seen of the recent IPCC renewable energy scenarios report. Now, I don’t agree with everything Ted says — in particular the con ...
  • Hansen warns not to drink sustainable energy K ...
    Regular readers of BNC would know that I’m hardly the only climate change researcher to recommend serious deployment of nuclear energy to displace fossil fuels. (Although I’m often portrayed as an isolated [and presumably therefore ignorant?] voice on this point). One very prominent example of a ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Tim Giago: The Christian Bible as a weapon of ...
    Indianz.Com > Tim Giago: The Christian Bible as a weapon of mass destruction Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry appear to be leading a parade of GOP presidential candidates in front of a marching band playing, “Onward Christian Soldiers.” Perry insists that evolution and global warming are mer ...
  • Overseas Territories Review: French Polynesia ...
    Overseas Territories Review: French Polynesia Assembly adopts decolonization resolution; calls for re-listing by United Nations: Many of these 'former' dependencies were removed from the U.N. list through formal resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly as far back as the middle 1950's ...
  • Evidence undermines gov’t’s claim that terrori ...
    Evidence undermines gov’t’s claim that terrorists were Gazans: The Minister of Defense and the Prime Minister claim the terrorist attack last week came from Gaza. They are yet to provide any proof for that – and the evidence looks contradictory An unknown group carried out a combined attack ...
  • Libya: the manufacture of consent | Life on Wheels
    Libya: the manufacture of consent | Life on Wheels: Almost 1300 people have been killed in Libya in the past 24 hours; almost equal to the death toll of the brutal, three-week Israeli Operation Cast Lead massacre in Gaza. In the case of Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets i ...
  • Noam Chomsky - Responsibility of Intellectuals ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Activists to use Google Streets car to protest ...
    The interior ministry here has finally allowed Google to deploy it infamous periscoped buggy, so that even people far, far away can experience driving through Tel Aviv’s streets one. inch. at. a. time – just like in real life. Bemused residents elsewhere in the world have already come up with va ...
  • Racism, settlements and Glenn Beck: One pic th ...
    Joseph Dana twitted this pic from the Glenn Beck rally, which tells most of what you need to know about the current moment here. The second man on the right is Supermarket mogul Rami Levi, who recently started separating Arab and Jewish workers at one of his stores. to his right is Nir Barkat, t ...
  • Poorly attended Glenn Beck rally, as it happened
    Glenn Beck’s long-planned “Restoring Courage” rally gets under way not with a bang, but with a whimper as few bother to show up. Follow live updates below. //
  • Supreme Court ruling turns village into open-a ...
    The Supreme Court gave the state a green light to continue walling in a village split between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, blocking the villagers on all four sides The Supreme Court turned down yesterday a petition against the construction of the separation wall between the village of W ...
  • Glenn Beck to announce: “Ani Haredi! I am an o ...
    Not to be out-maneuvered by his new partner in the evangelical business, Glenn Beck has decided to raise the stakes in the battle with Pastor John Hagee over who can pander more to the Jews and Israel. It was only weeks ago, that Hagee invited Beck to the annual Christians United for Israel conf ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Reforms better for the environment, better fo ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke today outlined the first major overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 since it was created more than a decade ago, which includes the Government's response to an independent review of the Act by Allan Hawke AC.
  • Address to National Press Club
    Speech: Australian Government response to to the Report of the independent review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
  • Call for nominations for Environmentalist of ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has called for nominations for the 2011 Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award and the Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award.
  • Water reuse scheme benefits Hawkesbury River
    Construction of a treated wastewater re-use scheme at South Windsor as part of an Australian Government funded project to improve the health of the Hawkesbury River has progressed significantly.
  • World Environment Day delivers $86 million fo ...
    Federal Water and Environment Minister Tony Burke and South Australia’s Water and Environment Minister Paul Caica today outlined $86.7 million for a new project to improve the river’s health and resilience of its wetlands and floodplains from the Victorian border to Wellington.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Citizenship – “Power With, Not Pow ...
    We may not have realized it, but this week witnessed a powerful symbolic act that in many ways showed how public citizens have begun to effectively infiltrate the political space. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was unveiled in Washington D.C., in a place of prominence between the Jefferson ...
  • Citizenship – “An Enlightened Rega ...
    Perhaps we’re entering a new era of invention – political and public innovation, I mean. More and more citizen groups are springing up, fuelled by the desire to solve local problems by addressing them in a larger context. There have always been those who fought to keep a school open, or neighbou ...
  • Citizenship – “Government’s ...
    Citizens are undertaking so many remarkable ventures across the country, at all different levels and with some interesting results. I learned from a friend of a terrific resource just this weekend called the Citizen’s Handbook. In laying out so many different dimensions of how people can make a ...
  • Citizenship – “Stuck in the Middle ...
    I don’t know if you’ve noticed it is bookstores, but there has been an increasing amount of literature clearly pessimistic on the future of democracy itself. We’ve gone from believing we could “make the world safe for democracy” to now actually questioning if it has any validity at home. That’s ...
  • Citizenship – “True Politics”
    Like it or not, so much of what we do can be called “politics.” Shawn is a friend of mine in London who tweets relentlessly on the unwillingness of various levels of government to solve common problems. He networks with others, puts forward ideas and concepts, and uses his skills in the digital ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taki ...
  • What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
  • Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
    by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
  • In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state ma ...
  • Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
    UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • US Park Police Seek to Intimidate Oil Pipeline ...
    Kevin Gosztola reports: "In jail, the activists expected to be processed and out of jail quickly. Tar Sands Action asserts in 'multiple phone calls and in person meeting' US Park Police told protest organizers protest participants would be able to pay a $100 fine and be released the same day. Bu ...
  • US Park Police Seek to Intimidate Oil Pipeline ...
    Kevin Gosztola reports: "In jail, the activists expected to be processed and out of jail quickly. Tar Sands Action asserts in 'multiple phone calls and in person meeting' US Park Police told protest organizers protest participants would be able to pay a $100 fine and be released the same day. Bu ...
  • Flyover Surveillance Reveals Large Amount of S ...
    Stuart Smith reports: "We set off a firestorm Wednesday (August 17) when we reported that oil is rising once again from BP’s Macondo Well. We were informed by multiple, credible sources over the weekend and into Monday that BP had hired a fleet of shrimp boats to contain a slick sweeping across ...
  • Flyover Surveillance Reveals Large Amount of S ...
    Stuart Smith reports: "We set off a firestorm Wednesday (August 17) when we reported that oil is rising once again from BP’s Macondo Well. We were informed by multiple, credible sources over the weekend and into Monday that BP had hired a fleet of shrimp boats to contain a slick sweeping across ...
  • Fighting Rages in Tripoli As Rebels Advance
    Al Jazeera reports: "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." In Fre ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • CPAWS Southern Alberta Chapter AGM
    Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society � Southern Alberta Chapter 13 Sep 2011 - 19:00 We are inviting the public to the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Southern Alberta Chap ...
  • CPAWS Capture the Wild Photography Contest
    Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society â Southern Alberta Chapter 23 Oct 2011 - 23:59 CPAWS Southern Alberta has launched our annual Capture the Wild Photography Contest with this y ...
  • Pembina reacts to new federal regulations for ...
    Pembina Institute 19 Aug 2011    Edmonton, AB — Tim Weis, Director of Renewable Energy and Efficiency, made the following statement in response to today's announcement by Environme ...
  • Wild West Gala: A Celebration of Wild Spaces & ...
    Alberta Wilderness Association 16 Sep 2011 - 18:00 The 23rd Annual Wild West Gala is a celebration of Alberta’s Wild spaces and Wildlife. It is a tradition of friends, colleagues, ...
  • Alberta’s Woodland Caribou in Peril
    Newly-revealed Documents Show Scientists Trying to Sound the Alarm Alberta Wilderness Association 18 Aug 2011 The plight of ...

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2 ...
    ==== NATO Partnership In War Against Libya Serves As Model: Panetta NATO Pressures Compliant Canada To Stay Involved In Libyan War Canadian Drones, Mercenaries Aid Anti-Gaddafi Attacks NATO, EU To Give Stolen Libyan Financial Assets To Clients Germany Gives Libyan Rebels Advance On Seized Govern ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2 ...
    ==== U.S. Flies 27% Of NATO’s 20,000 Air Missions Over Libya Libya: West Engaged In Information Warfare Egyptian Military Junta Recognizes Libyan Rebels CFR Chief Haass: NATO Boots On The Ground In Libya Israeli Daily Celebrates NATO “Victory” Over Libya NATO Intervention In Syria May Lead To Wi ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2 ...
    ==== 157 Days Of Bombing: 19,751 NATO Sorties, 7,459 Strike Sorties NATO Bombers Pound Tripoli, Anti-Gaddafi Bloodbath Expected Aided By Luftwaffe, Fifth Column, Franco Forces Enter Madrid U.S., NATO Coordinate Attack On Libyan Capital Venezuela: NATO Destroying Tripoli With Bombs Rebels Request ...
  • Nazim Hikmet: Sad kind of freedom, free to be ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Nazim Hikmet A Sad State Of Freedom Translated by Taner Baybars You waste the attention of your eyes, the glittering labour of your hands, and knead dough enough for dozens of loaves of which you’ll taste not a morsel; you are free to s ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2 ...
    ==== NATO Eyes Early Missile Interception Capability 30-Story, 50,000-Ton U.S. Interceptor Missile Radar Deployed After Repairs Joint Strike Fighters: Australia’s Largest Military Build-Up Since WW II Most Combat Deaths Since Second World War: Poland Loses 28th Soldier In NATO’s Asian War NATO’s ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Michael Tsarion – The Posthuman World An ...
    Bob Tuskin August 23, 2011 On Today’s transmission of The Bob Tuskin Radio Show Bob is joined by Michael Tsarion for a detailed discussion on the posthuman world and the end of evil. This was one of our better broadcasts covering a plethora of topics surrounding the global controllers grasp on h ...
  • North Anna Nuclear Plant Forced To Vent Steam ...
    The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins August 24, 2011 The North Anna nuclear power plant, hit by the Virginia Earthquake, was forced to release steam after losing electricity and a generator used to cool the plant failed. Earlier today, two of the nuclear power plants at the epicenter of today’s 5. ...
  • 8 Simple Ways to Get America On The Road To Ec ...
    By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie And Intel Hub Contributing Writer August 24, 2011 With all that is going wrong in the world today and every days’ news even more unbelievable than the last, I thought that I should take some time to avoid the negativity of the headlines and write a soluti ...
  • FNC reports Washington Monument may be tilting ...
    Washington Times August 23, 2011 A 5.9 magnitude earthquake that was centered in Richmond, Virginia and felt as far as New York City and New England. Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly reported at 2:30 pm that their bureau received information from a producer saying that a Captiol Hill Police officer s ...
  • Nuclear Power Plant Near Earthquake Trying To ...
    The Intel Hub August 23, 2011 Officials are currently downplaying the risks to 9 nuclear power plants after the Virgina earthquake but CNN has admitted that officials are attempting to keep the spent fuel rods cool. The North Anna nuclear power plant, which located closest to the epicenter of Tu ...

FRS

  • George Jackson: Black Revolutionary
    By Walter Rodney, November 1971 To most readers in this continent, starved of authentic information by the imperialist news agencies, the name of George Jackson is either unfamiliar or just a name. The powers that be in the United States put forward the official version that George Jackson was a ...
  • “George Jackson” — a song by ...
    40 years ago, George Jackson was killed by prison guards in San Quentin Prison.  Bob Dylan wrote this song, upon hearing the news. George Jackson I woke up this mornin’ There were tears in my bed They killed a man I really loved Shot him through the head Lord, Lord They cut George Jackson down [...]
  • Who can unite Libya if Gaddafi falls?
    21 Aug 2011 19:31 By Michael Georgy, Reuters NALUT, Libya, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Libyan rebel Husam Najjair seems more concerned about the possibility of rebels turning on each other when they try to take control of the capital Tripoli than the threat posed by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. “The ...
  • Cisco Torres is free of all charges in the SF8 ...
    August 19, 2011 by Claude Marks Judge Philip Moscone signed and filed an order dismissing charges against Francisco Torres late Thursday, Aug. 18. Cisco was the last former Black Panther member facing charges in this 1971 case about the killing of a San Francisco police sergeant. “It took over f ...
  • Palestinian Factions Reconsider Relations with ...
    [The Arab Spring and the European Summer and other mass challenges to the global crisis of corrupt capitalist/imperialist relations continue to disrupt traditional arrangements.  In many countries, migrant and exiled peoples, who often live in the most desperate of circumstances, are encouraged ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • About all those union workers getting rich:
    When you compare apples to apples, says a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, full-time state and local government employees in Pennsylvania, for example, make roughly the same as their private-sector colleagues. The report says: �Pennsylvania public employees earn a statisticall ...
  • So this is what pro-life looks like?
    Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is most assuredly anti-abortion (pro-life), but he's tried to gut programs that help at-risk children, like Head Start, and the state's Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, whose mission is to protect children and promote adult self-sufficiency. Consideri ...
  • Sad to see a vintage VW go like this...
    This is not meant to pick on Jehovah's Witnesses. My Own True Church had a similar theology -- the end of the world coming in a series of disasters and Really Bad Things, though we didn't put a number on the saved. We did, however, worship a Scary Jesus. Though there are ample verses that e ...
  • Some stunning photos from the 2011 East Coast ...
    Here are some more (and thanks, Tracy, for the link). I was coming out of my local pasta shop when it struck. I got into my car and felt...nothing. In fact, I drove on unaware that we'd had An Event and only learned of it later, when I settled into a classroom and the instructor asked, "Did yo ...
  • CT Stand Down scheduled for 9/9
    The state Department of Veterans Affairs expects 1,000 homeless and needy veterans to come to Stand Down 2011, a one-stop social services annual event now in its 16th year, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, at the department at 287 West Street in Rocky Hill. Last year, 1,300 veterans showe ...

Associated Content

  • Worst N.C., S.C. Hurricanes
    With Hurricane Irene threatening the Eastern seaboard, specifically the Carolinas, citizens are busy preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. Let's take a look back at five other Carolina hurricanes that made a huge impact.Contributor: Adam Justice Published: Aug 23, 2011
  • Rare Earthquake Shakes East Coast
    A 5.9 magnitude earthquake shook the east coast Tuesday afternoon, prompting precautionary evacuations of the Pentagon and other federal buildings.Contributor: Tammy Lee Morris Published: Aug 23, 2011
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Unveiled
    A look behind the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall which was unveiled to the public Monday.Contributor: Ever Odessa Published: Aug 23, 2011
  • Flash Mobs More Fun than Machine Gun Kelly's
    Rapper Machine Gun Kelly was recently arrested for creating a flash mob that echos mobs before him. Find out the recent top three flash mobs with striking similarities.Contributor: Janoa Taylor Published: Aug 23, 2011
  • Biofuel a Navy Priority
    Navy Secretary Ray Mabus briefed reported Monday on the U.S. Navy's progress with alternative energy programs, including biofuel. He laid out the four principles the biofuel program is operating under.Contributor: Charles Simmins Published: Aug 23, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Earthquake Strikes East Coast, Centered Near R ...
    A few minutes ago, an earthquake struck the East Coast of the U.S., centered near Richmond, Virginia, says the U.S. Geological Survey, which gave it a preliminary magnitude rating of 5.8 (just updated to 5.9). Tremors were felt all throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast--the PopSci headquart ...
  • Controversy Should Not Stop Us From Developing ...
    Less than three weeks from now marks the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, one of the most traumatic events in modern memory and the motivation behind the persistent wars in the Middle East. If you could take a pill that would make you forget that day, would you do it? The fie ...
  • Earth-Generated Panspermia: Scientists Describ ...
    Proponents of panspermia theory say life on Earth came from elsewhere, hitching a ride on rocks sheared from other worlds or from migratory asteroids. But what if life did originate here and then it left, hitching a ride on Earth-departed rocks? Earth could seed other worlds, instead of the oth ...
  • New Fossils Show Sulfur-Based Microbes Lived o ...
    Could sulfur-based microbes live on Mars? Clusters of islands poked through hot oceans 3.4 billion years ago, when the world still had no oxygen and the seas churned under a pallid, overcast sky. But life thrived on Earth even then, scientists say — and now they have the world’s oldest fossils ...
  • This Week in the Future, August 15-19, 2011
    This week's Baarbarian illustration shows a three-way race (...to the future!). A robot named Mabel races to prove her sporting abilities. An electric car races to prove its endurance. And an alligator races because everyone else is trying to harvest its fat. Want to win this pretty Baarbarian ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Asia Learned From Its Crisis, US Didn't Part II
    [NOTE: This is a sequel to an earlier post.] There often comes a point when the pupil surpasses the mentor in understanding; such is the nature of knowledge transfer throughout much of history. With signs indicating that the US is headed towards yet another recession for the second time in the s ...
  • Bernanke, Japan's Lost Decade & US Lost Century
    With the yields of Treasuries pointing towards the US re-entering recessionary straits, all eyes have turned towards the upcoming central banker jamboree at Jackson Hole this coming Friday. Although the Fed is supposed to be an independent central bank, the "new normal" of growth in the 1-2% ran ...
  • Two Novels to Enjoy American Decay By
    To be sure, the United States is a pretty miserable place already that's only getting worse by the minute. The process of mortally undermining this once-proud nation that began with Bush the Second is now being put the finishing touches on by Obama. Delusional USA#1 cheerleaders aside, poll afte ...
  • China Renews Its Southeast Asia Charm Offensive
    It's partly my fault as well but when you hear "China" mentioned together with "Southeast Asia," the first thing which comes to many a mind is conflict over the strategically located and (potentially) energy-rich islands in the South China Sea, AKA the Southeast Asia Sea or the West Philippine S ...
  • HaHaHa: Mathlexic Biden in China, Geithner Wannabe
    On 1 June 2009, Tim Geithner famously elicited peals of laughter from Peking University students while blabbering about China's US Treasuries being a safe investment. As an aside, PKU students are sharp; after all, we at IDEAS have an LSE-PKU double degree programme with them. But anyway, a trip ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Wake Up America! 10 Very Obvious Reasons Why T ...
    Do you have friends, neighbors and relatives that can't find work?  Well, unfortunately the current U.S. jobs famine is about to get a whole lot worse.  Right now there are approximately 13.9 million unemployed Americans.  That does not count those that "are not looking for work ...
  • Bad News
    The bad news about the economy just keeps rolling in.  If this is an economic recovery, what in the world is the next "recession" going to look like?  Today there was another huge truckload of bad economic news.  The stock market had another 400 point "correction", applications ...
  • 20 Signs That The World Could Be Headed For An ...
    If you thought that 2011 was a bad year for the world economy, just wait until you see what happens in 2012.  The U.S. and Europe are both dealing with unprecedented debt problems, the financial markets are flailing about wildly, austerity programs are being implemented all over ...
  • 16 Statistics Which Prove That The American Pe ...
    According to a whole host of polls and surveys, the American people are incredibly angry right now.  The American people are hopping mad at the government, the American people are hopping mad about the economy and the American people are hopping mad about the direction that this ...
  • 10 Signs That Economic Riots And Civil Unrest ...
    You should let the video footage of the wild violence that just took place in London burn into your memory because the same things are going to be happening all over the United States as the economy continues to crumble.  We have raised an entire generation of young people with ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Russia Reports Nuclear Explosions Hit Vast US ...
    A frightening foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that over the past nearly 36 hours the vast intercontinental military tunnel complex constructed by the United States Air force over the past nearly 45 years was hit with two powerful nuc ...
  • Gaddafi compound in Tripoli seized
    Libyan opposition forces say they took control of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in the capital city of Tripoli. Opposition sources said the fighters entered Bab al-Aziziyah compound through its western entrance on Tuesday. “Our forces are surrounding Bab al-Azizyah. There is a fierc ...
  • Iran to send Kavoshgar 5 into space
    Iran plans to launch another domestically-built satellite carrier, Kavoshgar 5, into space by the end of summer, the head of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) says. âKavoshgar (Explorer)’s cargo, with a weight of 300 kg, contains a biological capsule in which a rhesus monkey will be placed,â Hamid ...
  • Teens get arrested in Washington for Selling 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 ...
  • Bulletproof human skin underway
    Scientists working on a bio-art project to create bulletproof skin are using genetically engineered goat and silkworms to make a strong material for artificial tendons and ligaments. After their bio-art project for the creation of a bulletproof skin, Randy Lewis and his colleagues are planning t ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2011-08-24 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 03:15 AM WikiLeaks urges everyone to go through these cables and tweet t ...
  • 2011-08-23 Outraged start camping in Berlin's ...
    Tweet Berlin has its own Outraged camp: a loose network of politically critical people started occupying the city's main square, Alexanderplatz, since Saturday night, following the example of north-African and Spanish revolutions. After the nightly event "aCAMPada Berlin goes aCAMParty" it was d ...
  • 2011-08-23 N-TV: Daniel Domscheit-Berg says he ...
    TweetFive days after Daniel Domscheit-Berg claimed to have shredded data he "seized" from Wikileaks, he announced via Heise that he only destroyed the keys to the data, and was working on a report on the matter. In the meantime, Wikileaks tweeted that these documents contained amongst others 5GB ...
  • 2011-08-23 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. 09:05 PM The United States attempted to send a group of 22 Uyghur Guanta ...
  • 2011-08-23 The Digital Vandal: Daniel Domschei ...
    TweetThe transparency movement has many vocal proponents. A recent event in the Wikileaks sagas proves that those who could be in the most effective position to strengthen it are only content to give it lip service. Take Daniel Domscheit-Berg, for example. A former Wikileaks staffer, Domscheit-B ...

U N News

  • Grenada accedes to the Rome Statute of the Int ...
    The International Criminal Court (ICC) today welcomed Grenada as a new State party to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the tribunal, three months after the Caribbean nation deposited its instrument of accession to the accord, becoming the 115th signatory.
  • UN chief to visit Denver for engagements on de ...
    Secretary-General will tomorrow travel to Denver, Colorado, where he will deliver a speech at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies and meet with industry leaders to discuss the need to promote renewable sources of energy.
  • US must do more to protect women from domestic ...
    The United States must do more to protect women from domestic violence after a regional body found it wanting in defending a battered woman and her three murdered children from her ex-husband, an independent United Nations human rights expert warned today.
  • In Haiti, UN staff at the ready as hurricane b ...
    United Nations staff in Haiti have activated their emergency response systems to prepare for tonight's expected arrival of Hurricane Irene as it crosses the Caribbean region.
  • After Brazilian judge is slain, UN human right ...
    A United Nations human rights expert today called on Brazilian authorities to take immediate steps to better protect the country's judges, magistrates, prosecutors, public defenders and other lawyers in the wake of the recent assassination of a high-profile judge.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Today in the News:
    News Today (August 24, 2011) I’ve heard of hacking, but I’ve never heard of this… have an implanted electronic medical device? concerned about your survival? Stopping Hackers From Pacemaker Attacks High unemployment, larger down payment, tougher lending standards are all hurting the real estate ...
  • Hurricane IRENE Track Map and Impact
    Hurricane IRENE Track Map Tuesday, August 23, 2011   At this moment, the entire east coast of the United States is under the threat of hurricane IRENE. Forecasters aren’t sure of the track that IRENE will take given the variability of about plus or minus 100 miles. The current position and forec ...
  • Earthquake History, East Coast USA, Continenta ...
      Latest major activity (on land): UPDATE, AUGUST 23, STRONG EARTHQUAKE ROCKS EAST COAST USA, VIRGINIA   …original post An unusual magnitude 3.9 earthquake rumbled beneath the Atlantic Ocean seafloor off the East Coast of the United States on November 30, 2010. It was unusual in the fact that it ...
  • Strong Earthquake Rocks East Coast USA, Virginia
    VIRGINIA: STRONG EARTHQUAKE ROCKS EAST COAST USA Magnitude 5.9 (later downgraded to 5.8 by USGS) Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 17:51:03 UTC Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 01:51:03 PM at epicenter Location 37.975°N, 77.969°W Depth 1 km (~0.6 mile) (poorly constrained) Region VIRGINIA Distances 6 km (4 ...
  • 9/11 10-Year Anniverary Attack?
    With the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks nearly upon us, one cannot help but wonder if ‘something’ might be planned for this significant date. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Osama bin Laden was working to assemble a team of militants to attack the U.S. on the 10th anni ...

Fast Company

  • A New Study Aid, Citelighter, Hitches A Ride T ...
    Citelighter makes web research tools. CollegeHumor makes fun of everything. The strange bedfellows kicked off a cross-promotion this week to help students get work done. How did that happen?Citelighter makes Internet research tools. CollegeHumor makes light of everything. This week, the seemingl ...
  • Ticketmaster Teams With Facebook So You Can Si ...
    Live events are inherently social, says CEO Nathan Hubbard. Buying tickets should be, too. When Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard and his new executive team hit the road earlier this year touting a more innovative and fan-focused company -- the Turnaround Tour, we dubbed it in the July/August iss ...
  • WikiLeaks Leaks More Cables, Facebook Revamps ...
    This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.Dutch Court Bans Samsung Galaxy Phones Across Europe. A Dutch court has granted Apple a preliminary injunciton against Samsung's Galaxy products across all of Europe (excepting its tablet line), replacing a ban tha ...
  • GM Vs. Plug-In America Over The Best Way To Im ...
    A new law in California would make it legal for Chevy Volts to use parking spots equipped with electric chargers. But does the law actually make it harder for electric car owners? GM has a vested interest in the electric vehicle industry--the company pioneered the sector in 1996 with the EV1, ...
  • Apple, Microsoft, Plastic Logic Go Global For ...
    Plastic Logic's e-reader may yet live as an educational tool in Russia, just as Apple and Microsoft bid for millions of tablet PCs destined for Turkish schools. The e-education game is getting serious.Plastic Logic has just landed $150 million in investments from a state fund in Russia to bring ...

Jadaliyya

  • New Texts Out Now: Nadine Naber, "Arab America ...
    Nadine Naber, Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. New York: New York University Press (Nation of Newcomers Series), forthcoming in 2012. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Nadine Naber: As part of my work in Arab American Studies for the last fifteen years, th ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Mohammad R. Salama, "Islam, ...
    Mohammad R. Salama, Islam, Orientalism, and Intellectual History: Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion since Ibn Khaldun. London and New York: I. B Tauris, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Mohammad Salama: There were a few reasons that compelled me to write this book ...
  • Inhabiting the Possible: Pedagogy and Solidari ...
    �A decent education cannot be limited to tolerating youth accessing their ethnic and cultural history but must be about facilitating their right to do so.� � Cornel West Globally and nationally, young people are garnering attention as historical actors and agents of social change. At th ...
  • The Opposite of Silence
    [This is the twelfth and last installment of Amal Hanano's diary of her trip back to Aleppo. You can read previous posts here.] There is always a certain acclimation period needed when moving from east to west or west to east, a few days to re-situate yourself. It disguises itself as je ...
  • الظاهر بيبرس وإبنه بركة خان
    � �� ��ب دمش� ا��د�مة ضر�ح حجر� م��ب �ا�بعد ع� ا�جامع ا�أم�� أ�ثر م� ث�اث مئة متر. �ذا ا�ضر�ح �ح�� مد����: �احد ��س�طا� ا�مم���� ا�ظا�ر ب�برس ا�صا�ح� �ا�آخر �اب�� ا�س�طا� بر�ة خا�. ��� جزء م� مب�� محدث �إ� �ا�ت أص��� أ��ب�ة �عر�� ج�دا� ا�دمش���� ا��دام� �ا�مؤرخ�� ا�باحث��� أ�ا ��� ا�مدر ...

mediagazer

  • Specific Media to launch video creative testin ...
    Gina Lovett / New Media Age: Specific Media to launch video creative testing tool  —  Specific Media is to launch a video version of its creative campaign testing technology that uses eye-tracking.  —  The tool for display advertising analyses the impact of advertising creative by tracking use ...
  • Shutting the Drawer: What Happens When a Book ...
    Edan Lepucki / The Millions: Shutting the Drawer: What Happens When a Book Doesn't Sell?  —  1.  —  In May, after my novel manuscript had been read and rejected by a healthy number of editors, my husband rewrote my author bio.  It read as follows: … As an American woman living in an uncool nei ...
  • Report: As Tablets Market Grows, Paper Media W ...
    Leslie Horn / PC Magazine: Report: As Tablets Market Grows, Paper Media Will Have Steep Decline  —  As print goes increasingly digital, many wonder if the growth of the tablet and e-reader space mean the death of traditional paper media.  A new report from RISI, a company that monitors the pape ...
  • Washington, D.C., earthquake: The coverage, as ...
    Erik Wemple: Washington, D.C., earthquake: The coverage, assessed  —  A frenzied roundup of D.C. earthquake coverage, featuring no particular order or logic:  —  Huffington Post, as per usual, masters the great teaser: QUAKE!  Media goes nuts.  The coverage, delivered in SEO splendor (Washingt ...
  • CNN Thinks All Tripolis Look the Same (Adrian ...
    Adrian Chen / Gawker: CNN Thinks All Tripolis Look the Same  —  According to this CNN screenshot (apparently from Monday), Libyan rebels are advancing on Tripoli, Lebanon.  Wrong continent, guys!  They all do sort of look the same, if you are a 4th grader trying to pass her geography pop quiz. ...

Chemtrail News

  • Rockers to aid Ronald McDonald House
    Bands scheduled to perform are Dr. Void, based in Red Bank; Ambrose and Chemtrail, both from Asbury Park; and Marvinsunk, with members hailing from Point ...
  • chemtrail in the form of a circle. - Da ...
    chemtrail in the form of a circle. Earth Changes / Global Warming / Chemtrails / Weather Warfare.forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t...
  • planefindernet for UFOChemtrail Researc ...
    Mew! http://www.planefinder.net --------------- http://www.youtube.com/28storms for updates on Irene's path If you live in the path of Irene or any future ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asbd-V2LIgU
  • Chemtrails 101 Indybay
    According to all United States federal government organizations chemtrails do not exist andor are a conspiracy theory They say the white lines in the sky ...www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/08/22/18688329.php
  • chemtrail scottland2011 - YouTube
    chemtrail ? contrail nethier whats your opinion on all this type of thing ?www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWZ59wXwoLo

World News - Top Stories

  • Venice tests the water with new tourist t ...
    Visitors to Venice will find an unexpected charge on their hotel bills from tonight as the city becomes the latest destination to launch a tourist tax. Anyone lodging overnight on the islands in the Venetian lagoon, or even in the dreary suburbs of Mestre on the mainland, will pay an impost ...
  • Cheap iPhone on the way soon
    Apple Inc will release a cheaper iPhone 4 within weeks, jeopardising profit margins to win lower-end customers from rivals such as Nokia in China and other emerging markets. Asian suppliers have begun making a lower-cost version of the hot-selling smartphone with a smaller 8-gigabyte flash ...
  • 'It's not a coincidence that everybody la ...
    Frenchman admits he did not want to lose Nasri or Fabregas, but was forced to let both leave for 'psychological' reasons, while claiming money runs the game these days Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�Arsenal, Man City, Samir Nasri Getty Images Arsena ...
  • Bayern Munich's Mario Gomez confident he ...
    The Germany international picked up a minor knock in the game against Zurich and is of the opinion that he will recover in time for the game against the Red Devils on Saturday Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 By Vasil Kotsev...
  • 'We deserved to go through' - Villarreal' ...
    The Spanish club's boss thinks his team were always superior to the Danish outfit and added he is happy to have reached such a prestigious event Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 By Luis Mira Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�OB Odense, Villarreal Villarreal coach Juan Carlos Garrido w ...

no frakking consensus

  • The Journal of Climate & the IPCC
    We're supposed to trust the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's conclusions because it relies on peer-reviewed scientific literature. But many of the people who run scientific journals also write IPCC reports. This is a circular, incestuous process.
  • The Backstory to the ‘Fleeing Species&#8 ...
    Journalists aren't telling you that the lead researcher behind the species-are-fleeing-global-warming story has come to questionable conclusions in the past.
  • Behind the Aliens-Will-Smite-Us News Story
    The up-and-coming generation of scientific minds appears to assume that humans are a pox on the planet.
  • Why I Won’t Be Renewing my ‘Econom ...
    Rather than helping to keep climate authorities honest, The Economist magazine now serves up a steady diet of green pap. When sound journalistic judgment leaves the building, I stop renewing my subscription.
  • Comic Relief
    A 3-minute spoof video on environmental public service announcements. No matter where you stand on global warming, this should make you chuckle.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Quick and Cheap Data Storage?
    New Multiferroic Material Is Both Electrically Charged and Magnetic HZB scientists observe how a material at room temperature exhibits a unique property — a âmultiferroic" material with potential uses for cheap and quick data storage. Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in close collab ...
  • Neuroscientists Identify Brain Activity That P ...
    Our memories work better when our brains are prepared to absorb new information, according to a new study by MIT researchers. A team led by Professor John Gabrieli has shown that activity in a specific part of the brain, known as the parahippocampal cortex (PHC), predicts how well people will re ...
  • Economic Inequality Is Linked to Biased Self-P ...
    Pretty much everybody thinks they’re better than average. But in some cultures, people are more self-aggrandizing than in others. Until now, national differences in "self-enhancement" have been chalked up to an East-West individualism-versus-collectivism divide. In the West, where people value i ...
  • Filling Without Drilling
    Pain-Free Way of Tackling Dental Decay Reverses Acid Damage and Re-Builds Teeth Researchers at the University of Leeds have discovered a pain-free way of tackling dental decay that reverses the damage of acid attack and re-builds teeth as new. The pioneering treatment promises to transform the a ...
  • The Loss of Excellence: Starting Over
    Madeleine Li Just before I left for my campus visit in July of 2009, I called my mother to give her the good news: I was on the shortlist for a new tenure-track position. Suddenly there was a glimmer of hope that I would not have to go back to my old department for the … Read more

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Interview: Keelan Balderson on the U.K. civil ...
    Tonight we welcome to the show Keelan Balderson, editor of wideshut.co.uk, and creator of a great short film on the U.K. riots: Perfect Storm, The England Riots Documentary. Keelan's film examines the way in which larger geo-political forces, the banker bailouts, austerity measures and large s ...
  • A dark satire comes to life: David Cameron&#82 ...
    U.K. Prime minister David Cameron has announced sweeping new powers to be given to police to curb violence and restore law and order in the country. Many of the themes in his speech before Parliament on 11 August are reminiscent of the film "V for Vendetta", which is a satirical depiction of a ...
  • Everywhere is War
    Tonight I'm joined by Josh Jackson as we plough through the maelstrom of international turmoil, including wars, riot and financial collapse. In particular we look are the UK riots and their relationship to uprisings in the Middle East, as well as the likely fallout from the downgrading of the ...
  • 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out
    We Are Change Sydney and Truth News Australia are proud to host a screening of this exciting new documentary film by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Saturday, September 10, 2011, 7:00 PM Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney (map) The film features cutting-edge ...
  • John Bursill reports on the Qantas industrial ...
    Tonight aircraft engineer John Bursill returns to the show to bring us an update on the ongoing dispute between Qantas ground crews and the corporatocracy which wants to outsource safety checks to overseas facilities. It should be noted that John Bursill does not speak as a representative of Q ...

Beacon

  • Video: Andy Sharpless at TEDxOilSpill
    At last year’s TEDxOilSpill conference in Washington, D.C., Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless tackled the 10 biggest myths he hears about offshore drilling. His presentation is especially poignant this week considering the government's decision on Friday to re-open the Western Gulf of Mexico for new oil ...
  • Less Than a Year After the Spill, Oil Leases S ...
    It hasn�t yet been one year since the worst accidental oil spill in history was finally stopped, but the Interior Department announced Friday that it will open more than 20 million acres of the Western Gulf of Mexico to new oil and gas exploration and development.��� Oceana�s senior campaig ...
  • Friday Infographic: The Rise and Fall of a Cor ...
    This is part of a series of ocean infographics by artist Don Foley. These infographics also appear in Oceana board member Ted Danson�s book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� � Coral reefs cover around 1 percent of the world�s continental shelves, yet they provide ...
  • Join us for the Nautica Malibu Triathlon
    On August 7, it was a great privilege to be joined by some very outgoing and incredible conservationists who raced in the Nautica New York City triathlon and raised money for Oceana. In total, the team has raised over $7,300 for Oceana and there’s still a couple weeks of fundraising left if ...
  • What if an Oil Spill Happened in the Arctic?
    Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. Less than a year after the Deepwater Horizon gusher was finally sealed, oil companies are claiming they can drill safely in the Arctic Ocean, an even more fragile and forbidding environment than the Gulf of Mexico. Unfortunately, our government seems to be s ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Oh That? That’s My Gilbert Atomic Lab. T ...
    Glinbert Atomic Lab Gilbert was a man of true inspiration, often compared to Walt Disney for his creative genius. Gilbert had high expectations of America’s youngsters, and with such he tried to help the future engineers, doctors and leaders by providing toys worthy of their imaginations. As the ...
  • The Curtiss-Groupil Duck
    Famous American aircraft designer Glenn Curtis made the power plant for this in part to show he had not stolen a patent from the Wright Brothers. The actual engine was called the Curtiss OXX. The seaplane version never flew, but a land version flew in 1917. It did not help the lawsuit. [...]
  • New Yorker’s Bin Laden Tale Disputed
    � Nicholas Schmidle It just never ends, the lying the exaggeration, the shallow journalism that marks contemporary American media. But once again, a story, and by that I mean just a story is told to America. The shame. � On and on went the �tick-tock.� Yet as Paul Farhi, a Washington Post report ...
  • In 19th Century Prisons, Jailers Were Wary Of ...
    Jailer's Key Gun Jailer's Key Gun Jailer's Key Gun Jailer's Key Gun Jailer's Key Gun Jailer's Key [...]
  • Insurrection.
    Slaves Subjugating people is more difficult than it looks. We often forget that the slave owners have to feed and clothe the slave. The slave owner has to worry about revolts. The Army that holds a POW has to transport him and feed him, or in some way kill him. We learned from both major wor ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Can New Hampshire Save America?
    Many say 2012 could be another 1964, with Republicans nominating a crazy person like Perry, but I’m not so sure. Of course, if Sarah Palin gets in, which I still doubt (she’s got her big fat contract with Fox), that’s exactly what it will turn out to be. With the issues facing our country so [...]
  • VA Earthquake Shuts Down North Anna Nuke Facility
    **UDPATED** MSNBC is reporting the 5.9 earthquake that hit northern Virginia and across the east coast was the largest since 1897 and “released the equivalent energy of 10,676 tons of TNT.” Our birds began freaking out just minutes before it hit, so I knew something was up. It was a very respect ...
  • Thanks the Gods John McCain Never Got Near 160 ...
    “The end of the Qadaffi regime in Libya is a victory for the Libyan people and for the broader cause of freedom in the Middle East and throughout the world. This achievement was made possible first and foremost by the struggle and sacrifice of countless Libyans, whose courage and perseverance we ...
  • Where GOP Wannabes Stand Against Obama
    The latest summer poll from Gallup, which reveals nothing conclusive, because it’s way too far out. But it is vaguely interesting when you think of just how badly the economy is doing and how people feel about Obama’s lack of stewardship in jobs, plus the fact that even though Pres. Obama is bea ...
  • Libya, the Unraveling
    Col. Muammar el-Qaddafiâs grip on power dissolved with astonishing speed on Monday as rebels marched into the capital and arrested two of his sons, while residents raucously celebrated the prospective end of his four-decade-old rule. – Jubilant Rebels Control Much of Tripoli Pres. Obama said whe ...

Hudson New York

  • Iran in Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay
    While the world is busy with the economic crisis and the uprising in the Middle East, Iran silently continues its penetration into Latin America. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Ali Ahani, recently visited Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay with the goal to
  • Iran Gets a Pass?
    While the world's attention is focused squarely on Libya and Syria, and with good reason -- both countries are in rapidly-changing states of crisis -- this focus is allowing other rogue Middle Eastern nations to get away with things that would normally
  • Turkish Spokesman Says Latest Operations Succe ...
    A Turkish government spokesman said on Monday that he considered the latest operations against the terrorist organization a success. After the meeting of the Council of Ministers, Government Spokesman and Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said there was
  • Who Are the "Heroes" of the Arab World?
    Ahmed al-Shahat, a 23-year-old man, has become the hero of the Egyptian and Arab masses. It is not that hard to become a hero in the Arab world. It is enough to say something bad about the Jewish state or carry out an anti-Israel attack to turn one into
  • The Coming... What?
    In Herman Kahn's book, The Coming Boom published in1982, he argued that despite the double-Digit inflation of the Carter years and the "stagflation" that plagued the period from roughly 1976 to 1981, an economic boom was just over the horizon. As it

Urban Survival

  • Quakin’ in the WuJo
    I’ve long held that if something happens East of the Mississippi that it’s Big news.  But if the exact same thing happens West of the Mississippi, then it’s somehow a pint-sized story, barely deserving of the trouble it takes to … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Wednesday at the WuJo
    Oh boy, here’s we go into high strange again…this is from our reporter who had that disappearing/bi-locating stuff on his desk reported earlier.  Turns out, he’s come up with an alternative explanation which is way off into the WuJo… Subject: … Continue reading →
  • Mass Layoff Report: Flat
    Picture tells it all: faint sign of recovery, that’s for damn sure… Kinda fun watching the market (went back to cash after a 24-hour short side play that was hardly worth the effort…)  I expect it will pop up maybe … Continue reading →
  • Oil, Tripoli, Etc…
    Reader Note:  This morning’s report will be uploaded at 7:35 AM so I can go play in the premarket.  Then, look for an update here about 9:30 AM Central when the new monthly Mass Layoffs report comes from the Labor … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Inside a “Miracle Product”
    While we continue to collect “WuJo” emails, and reports of cave closures and government land lock-downs (all of which we’ll get to tomorrow) something a little different this morning as I got an email making the local ham radio circuit … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Links for 2011-08-23 [del.icio.us]
    THE MARC FABER BLOG: If The S&P Goes To 1000 Or So, The Fed Will Pump Money Into The System Again THE MARC FABER BLOG: If The S&P Goes To 1000 Or So, The Fed Will Pump Money Into The System Again If The S&P Goes To 1000 Or So, The Fed Will Pump Money Into The System Again THE MARC FABER BL ...
  • Gerald Celente on Jeff Rense 22 August 2011
    Gerald Celente : I begun trading Gold in 1978 and... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Whistleblower Tom Drake vs. NSA
    Whistleblower Tom Drake On NSA Warrantless... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • US Economic Tsunami
    This is the clearest explanation of the most... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
  • Gerald Celente : Gold to me is the wisest asse ...
    Gerald Celente on RT America - 22 August 2011... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Harvard's science and cooking series back with ...
    Scroll down for September schedule or click here for details and complete scheudule. Tuesday, September 6, 2011 Historical Context and Demos Illustrating the Relationship of Food and Science Speakers: Dave Arnold (Food Arts magazine's Contributing Editor for Equipment & Food Science), H ...
  • Globe op-ed: Scientific self-correcting is sca ...
    Globe writer Gareth Cook thinks we're better at discovering and dealing with scientific fraud. But he argues: ... the scientific establishment's efforts to discover and correct errors are scattershot and overly time consuming. Harvard's handling of the (psychology researcher Marc) Hauser case w ...
  • Summer reports on threats to New England marin ...
    Former NYTimes health and science editor Cornelia Dean has been a steady presence on in the paper this month. Summer calls her to the coast of New England. Fishing Gear Is Altered to Ease Collateral Costs to Marine Life Modifications to fishing gear are helping to limit accidental catches of m ...
  • Maine marine geologist on the science of the s ...
    Joseph T. Kelley, a professor of Marine Geology at the University of Maine, is co-author with three other scientists of "The World's Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline," which the NY Times calls "a comprehensive, readable guide to the physical features of many kinds of beach ...
  • Get outside and play biologist for a day
    Take advantage of the last weeks of summer to get outside and play biologist for a day. Both Mass Audubon and The Trustees of the Reservation have ongoing outings all over the state. For example, at the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on Martha's Vineyard, we tried out: EARLY BIRDERS Wednesd ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • NRDC in the News 8/23: Bristol Bay, oil shale ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Frances Beinecke voiced her concern in Indian Country Today about the ecological toll oil and gas mining may cause in Alaska’s Bristol Bay… An editorial in Utah’s Salt Lake Tribune cited NRDC’s rep ...
  • Top Universities are Going "Green" in an Effor ...
    Kelly Henderson, Climate Center Program Assistant, Washington, D.C. Ever think about what your college is doing to reduce its carbon footprint or be “greener?” ­ Sure, you might see recycle bins strewn across campus and in your dorms or library. ...
  • NRDC in the News 8/22: Keystone XL pipeline, G ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide The Washington Post published a letter to the editor written by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, rebutting an editorial that asserted that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline can lead us to the pathway of ener ...
  • The popsicle test, the Halloween test, and nei ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC In a recent post on his firm’s excellent blog, PlacesShakers and NewsMakers, Scott Doyon reminds us of the “popsicle test” of a well-designed neighborhood:  if an 8-year-old kid can ...
  • Oil and gas industry doesn't really know how t ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. The New York Times recently ran an op-ed from NRDC President Frances Beinecke about the oil and gas industry's inability to handle the extreme risks associated with a spill from drilling in many pl ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 23 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, August 23, 2011: San Francisco CA police in the above video are being accused of using excessive force on female protester at end of protest against BART police [3] bit.ly/qvwjN9 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, August 22, 2011: Bay City MI settles suit for $1mil to family of 15yr-old who died after tasered. While police claim he was tasered for taking up a “fighting stance”, witnesses claim ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 08-20 ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of August 20-21, 2011: San Juan County NM deputy cost that county $250,000 in a lawsuit settlement to a Native American man that he beat in the face and neck with his department-issu ...
  • Making Posters
    So, I got a little tired of doing work all the time, decided to do some photoshopping instead and made a poster riffing off of the DHS “See Something” ad campaign. It also takes a subtle swipe at states that try to outlaw filming police in public. I was going to put some [...]
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, August 19, 2011: A drunk New York NY police officer was arrested on a sexual assault charge after a witness called 911 while seeing him rape a school teacher at gun point early in th ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • Nokia unveils Symbian Belle, launches Nokia 60 ...
    Just minutes ago, Colin Giles, EVP of Nokia, took to the stage at a Nokia event in Hong Kong to unveil the company’s new line of Symbian powered smartphones; the Nokia 600, 700 and 701. Nokia new devices all take on Nokia’s new naming strategy and will be powered by Nokia’s latest Symbian updat ...
  • Beyond the Buzzword: How Crowdsourcing Can Dis ...
    Next Monday, São Paulo will host Brazil’s first international Conference on Crowdsourcing, Communities and Co-Creation. This event is a reflection of the growing importance of co-creation in the country. It’s more than a fad; crowdsourcing may have found a perfect home in Brazil, where it deep ...
  • How Google+ will succeed and why you’ll use it ...
    Editorâs note: This is a guest post written by Tom Anderson, the founder & former President of MySpace. Follow him on Google, Twitter, and Facebook. There’s been more than a few “Google+ is doomed” articles as of late. After the initial rush of delighted surprise that G+ didn’t suck, the seco ...
  • Samsung unveils four new Galaxy smartphones, d ...
    With Berlin’s IFA 2011 mobile expo fast approaching, Samsung has unveiled four new smartphones that it intends to showcase at the event, each bearing the fruits of the Korean smartphone vendor’s new naming policy. Samsung adds the Galaxy W, Galaxy M Pro, Galaxy Y Pro and Galaxy Y to its Galaxy ...
  • Microsoft continues China push as MSN partners ...
    MSN, Microsoft’s joint venture in instant messaging, has entered into an agreement with Chinese social-networking website Renren to unify the login infrastructure for both websites and allow the cross-sharing of users and messages, according to a report by Reuters. Renren CEO Liu Jian said, “Re ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Politicians Question the Role of Gas in Austra ...
    Politicians have raised fresh questions about the role of coal seam gas in Australia's energy future. Greens Senators Bob Brown and Christine Milne, along with MP Adam Bandt have all expressed concern about the emissions intensity of coal seam gas in the first week of the autumn session of parl ...
  • Carbon Price Scheme – No Longer a Mystery Package
    Upon the release of Prime Minister Julia Gillard�s carbon price package (to take effect July 1, 2012), there has been talk aplenty of her plummeting popularity. The PM has dismissed the commentary in favour of the scheme�s necessity, saying, �Polls will come and go�� I�m absolutely convinced wh ...
  • BZE Executive Director pictured on front of 20 ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions is pleased to have been awarded the prestigous opportunity to be pictured on the front of the Sydney Whitepages by Telstra owned directory publisher Sensis. BZE Executive Director Matthew Wright is pictured on top of the Sydney Theatre Company with their new largescale ...
  • Carbon Price Response: A Small Step Forward, B ...
    Climate and energy security think tank Beyond Zero Emissions welcome the Labor government�s carbon price package negotiated with The Greens and lower house independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor. The proposed legislation will start the process of transitioning Australia from a 19th Century ...
  • Govt Must Exclude Polluting Gas from Clean Ene ...
    Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes the new Clean Energy Finance Corporation to support the rollout of renewable energy in Australia. The $1 billion guaranteed funding for renewable energy is welcome. However the $1 billion unspecified portion per year needs to explicitly exclude fossil gas. Conve ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Humanity knows less than 15 percent of the wor ...
    Scientists have named, cataloged, and described less than 2 million species in the past two and a half centuries, yet, according to an new innovative analysis, we are no-where near even a basic understanding of the diversity of life on this small blue planet. The study in PLoS Biology, which is ...
  • Innovative program saves wildlife, protects fo ...
    Luangwa Valley in Zambia is home to stunning scenes of Africa wildlife: elephants, antelopes, zebra, buffalo, leopards, hyena, and lions all thrive in Luangwa's protected areas, while the Luangwa River is known for multitude of snapping crocodiles and its superabundant herds of hippos. In fact, ...
  • Protesters demand end to controversial Amazon dam
    Protesters in dozens of cities demanded Brazil abandon a plan to build a dam on one of the Amazon's largest tributaries, reports Amazon Watch, an NGO that helped organize the events.
  • Tough sentence for ivory smuggler may spell wa ...
    The Republic of the Congo sentenced an ivory smuggler to an unprecedented four years in prison, proving the government's rising willingness to crack down on poachers. The wildlife trade has been decimating elephant populations in the Congo, while a recent report from the Wildlife Conservation So ...
  • Over 100 protestors arrested as civil action b ...
    In the first two days of a planned two week sit-in at the White House in Washington DC, over 100 activists against the Keystone XL pipeline have been arrested, reports Reuters. If approved by the Obama Administration, the 1,700 mile pipeline would bring around 700,000 barrels of oil daily from C ...

Sierra Express

  • Krio Descendants Union Global convenes Family ...
    The Krio Descendants Union (KDU) Global will hold its Family Reunion Weekend from September 2 – 5, 2011 in Maryland, USA.  Organizers say all activities except where indicated will take place at the Sheraton Washington North Hotel located at 4095 Powder Mill Road in Beltsville, Maryland, USA.  ...
  • Standard Chartered first half profit up 17% to ...
    London, August 2011. Standard Chartered PLC has announced a ninth successive record first half of profit with income growing by 11 per cent* to US$8.76 billion as profit climbed 17 per cent to US$3.64 billion. The Group produced diverse and resilient income growth across a number of products and ...
  • Invitations for Bids – Printing and Supply of ...
    NATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY AND INSURANCE TRUST (NASSIT) PROCUREMENT NUMBER: NASSIT/PACS/CD/NCB/11/039 1. The National Social Security and Insurance Trust, (NASSIT) is in the process of procuring services for the production of CALENDARS & DIARIES FOR 2012.  In this regard, the Trust has allocated f ...
  • Notice of vacant position – Pepel Medical Cent ...
    African Minerals (SL) Ltd is inviting applications from interested candidates for the position of  PEPEL MEDICAL CENTRE NURSE. Required for an immediate start This position is open to qualified Sierra Leoneans, and women in particular are encouraged to apply. The deadline for all applications is ...
  • With Airtel, smiles all the way
    The award winning telecommunications company of the year, Airtel, continues to put smiles on the faces of its valuable subscribers. The promotion SMILE WITH AIRTEL is taking another height. Numerous subscribers had gained from this giving back promotion. Winners confessed with joy their concept ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Cartoon: Rich enough for milk
  • Fonterra cuts organic milk production
    Fonterra is cutting back on organic milk as the global financial crisis and changing consumer preferences depress demand for the product.The dairy co-operative was meeting organic farmers this week to discuss a four-point plan aimed...
  • Fonterra pulls back on organic dairy
    Fonterra said today it is planning to scale back its unprofitable organic dairy operations amid waning public appetite to pay a premium for such products.The cooperative plans to concentrate most of its North Island organic suppliers...
  • Peter Lyons: Trade truths behind great milk 'r ...
    So now we are having a parliamentary select committee on the price of milk sold in New Zealand. Our politicians are keen to be seen to be responding to the public outcry at the perceived price gouging by Fonterra or the supermarkets...
  • Milk powder price drops to year low
    Whole-milk powder prices have declined to their lowest in more than a year amid escalating concerns that global economic growth may falter and reduce demand.Powder for October delivery fell to US$3359 per tonne, the lowest level...

The Bovine

  • Orono Liberty Summer Seminar experience shows ...
    From Jesse Klein in the National Post: “For 10 summers in a row, a group of freedom-loving libertarians and small-c conservatives flocked to a remote acreage outside of Orono, Ont., pitched a tent and were treated to a weekend of … Continue reading →
  • Irish raw milk ban is being proposed
    From 3WheeledCheese: “The proposal to ban unpasteurised cowâs milk is due to a lack of understanding of its myriad benefits. IN IRELAND, we produce the best milk in the world, along with the best farmhouse cheeses and, of course, the … Continue reading →
  • Ventura county farmer who was arrested in Raws ...
    From Rachel McGrath in the Ventura County Star: “A Santa Paula farmer at the center of a raw-milk prosecution in Los Angeles says she did not sell unpasteurized products to the general public without a license. Sharon Palmer, owner of … Continue reading →
  • Government’s role in protecting “t ...
    From Karen De Coster on LewRockwell.com “This dumbed-down piece on the website Real Raw Milk Facts is one of the most inept propaganda pieces I have ever seen making the case against raw milk. The author of the piece, Richard Raymond, … Continue reading →
  • Abkhanasian centenarians’ milk culture
    From Hella Delicious: The Abkhasians had a way of life that is out of reach for modern man, or so it seems! One of the arguments that is often used to promote modern medical technology (vaccinations etc) is that we … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Hello Richard Bove, Repeating Nonsense Does No ...
    Richard Bove says Bank of America Has ‘No Reason’ to Raise CapitalBank of America Corp. (BAC), the U.S. lender that lost half its market value this year, has sufficient capital to weather mounting costs tied to souring loans, said Richard Bove, an analyst at Rochdale Securities. “Bank of Am ...
  • Moody's Warns Against Collateral Proposal; In ...
    The battle over Greek collateral for additional loans to Greece has heated up on multiple fronts in five countries. Let's start with a look at a warning from Moody's. FX Street notes Moody's warns that Greek bailout might be delayedMoody's rating agency warned on Monday that EU countries wh ...
  • 2-Year Treasuries at Record Low .21% Yield; LI ...
    Nearly the entire treasury yield curve is at or near record low yields as Bloomberg notes in Treasury Auctions Two-Year Notes at a Record Low Yield on Refuge DemandThe Treasury sold $35 billion of two-year notes at a record low yield of 0.22 percent as investors continue to seek the world’s safe ...
  • Another "Lost Decade" Coming Up; Boomer Retire ...
    Inquiring minds are digging into a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco report that models equity prices and P/E ratios based on demographics. The outlook is not promising to say the least. Interestingly, the report matches articles I wrote earlier this year based on cycles, not demographi ...
  • Goldman Sachs Plunges in Late Trading on News ...
    Shares of Goldman Sachs hit the skids in late trading so much so that people were asking "what's up?" GS - Goldman Sachs 15-Minute Chart Reuters explains in Goldman CEO hires high-profile attorneyGoldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein has hired Reid Weingarten, a high-prof ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    The US-Al Qaeda Buddy System, Lowering the War Ceiling, Obama Still Wall Street’s Honey, Getting Access to the Secrets of OBL Kill, Senate Intel Committee Blocks Report on âSecret Lawâ, Counter-Terrorism & China Pressure on Pakistan, Kosovo: The Gathering Storm, Sources: Israel’s Mossad Behind T ...
  • Our Probability of Being Chosen in a Nation of ...
    The New Orwellian Airport Behavioral Inspections-Detections TSA screeners are about to implement Orwellian behavioral inspections at airport security checkpoints. Who are these TSA screeners? These are the same low-level, incompetent, scandalous, molesting, abusive, and in some cases criminal pe ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Wall Street-ers Top Obama Re-election Supporters⦠more than 2008, ‘Israeli Style’ Airports in Ex America, The Development of ‘Privacy Killing Technologies’, Libya Transitional Council Rebels in Total Disarray, Mongolia Military Trains with US- Buys Fighters from Russia, US Grows a Tree of Tensi ...
  • Follow the Money with Bergman: Eyeing Green Ey ...
    The Audit of Federal Reserve Governance: Wiggle Room for the GAO?  We’ve recently endured the worst financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression, and for many people, it isn’t over yet.  We’ve had 11 recessions since World War II, and our latest included the largest decline in employ ...
  • A Forum for the Israeli Lobby, Neocons & the W ...
    A Parasitic Puppet Forums’ No-No List: From 9/11 to Israel & Obama-Cons I generally don’t like to spend time and energy going after the little parasites at the bottom of the ailing disease chain that has infested our nation. Surely they pop up here and there as examples illustrating our real dis ...

bloody crossroads

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

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Blogging Canadians

  • The National Post ATTACKS Jack Layton For the ...
    The National Post is scum. For the second time in the day and a half since the death of Jack Layton, they are on the attack. Progressive Blogger, Jymn at Sister Sage's Musings describes it best: "the reason you find the outpouring of sympathy for Jack offensive is that he is not a Conservative ...
  • Canada's Right Wing Corporate Media CAN'T WAIT ...
    Christy Blatchford .... you are classless beyond belief!! But the prize for totally inappropriate, and classless behavior goes to the Editor of the Calgary Sun ... Dave Naylor
  • The "UK Met Police"
    Met Police can lick our hairy balls: pastebin.com/Vtzf8eGM - UK Met Police PWNED - POLICE.UK OWNED by "CSL Security" [a/k/a "CSLSec"] As originally posted on: CSL Security (cslsec) on Twitter August 22, 2011
  • Jack Layton dies
    My condolences to his family and friends. Filed under: Canadian Politics
  • Debunking the autonomy argument in favour of a ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Al-Wefaq boycotts Bahrain elections
    Bahrain's main opposition bloc says it will not participate in the parliamentary elections to replace the opposition lawmakers who resigned in protest to Manama's crackdown on anti-government protesters.
  • Eritrea releases detained Israeli pilots
    Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki Eritrea has ordered the release of two Israeli pilots detained in the country over arms smuggling in a show of friendship with Tel Aviv.
  • PKK warns Turkey of major offensive
    Terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has warned that it will wage an intense military operation against the Turkish military inside Turkey.
  • Yemeni premier back home from Riyadh
    Yemeni Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujawer has returned to Yemen from a Saudi hospital in Riyadh after a months-long struggle to survive.
  • Israeli airstrike kills one in Gaza
    A new Israeli airstrike has killed a local commander of the Islamic Jihad Movement and injured another one in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources say.
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