Fair Use Note

WARNING for European visitors: European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent. As a courtesy, we have added a notice on your blog to explain Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies, including use of Google Analytics and AdSense cookies. You are responsible for confirming this notice actually works for your blog, and that it displays. If you employ other cookies, for example by adding third party features, this notice may not work for you. Learn more about this notice and your responsibilities.

Thomas Paine

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

Friday, August 26, 2011

26 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Japan passes law to boost clean power generation
GigaOm
That effort reached a milestone on Friday when its lawmakers approved a program that will require its utilities to buy renewable electricity at government-set prices under long-term contracts. Japan's utilities will have to buy any electricity ...
Related Articles »
Japan Renewable Energy, Bond-Issuance Bills Pass Diet, Become Law
Wall Street Journal
By Toko Sekiguchi and Mitsuru Obe Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japan's upper house of parliament Friday passed a renewable energy bill and budget financing bill, fulfilling all conditions set by Prime Minister Naoto Kan to resign. ...
Related Articles »
DTE Energy granted $485M renewable energy contract
The Detroit News
DTE Energy's $485 million renewable energy contract to buy 120 megawatts generated from Tuscola Bay Wind LLC was granted Thursday by the Michigan Public Service Commission. The approval puts the Detroit utility more than halfway toward its goal of 1000 ...
Related Articles »
ISO makes agreement with Nevada power cooperative
Bizjournals.com
Adding the solar sources to the grid would help meet the state's renewable resources standard. ISO president and chief executive officer Steve Berberich said in a statement that the alliance would benefit “grid reliability and long-term costs by ...
Related Articles »
powered by

Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Environmentalists: Water district cuts will hurt Florida's ecology
Tbo.com
By KEITH MORELLI | The Tampa Tribune Environmentalists around Florida are livid about the budget cutbacks for the five water management districts and they predict that the cuts will result in an inevitable decline in the quality of the state's ecology. ...
Georgetown excavation prepares for cleanup in Duwamish Waterway
Access Washington
Ecology oversees the cleanup being conducted under an agreed order among Boeing, Seattle – which owns the steam plant property – and King County, which owns King County International Airport/Boeing Field (KCIA). This fall, the US Environmental ...
US Ecology Texas, Inc. officials tout safety of Robstown facility
Corpus Christi Caller Times
US Ecology Texas, Inc. is one of two hazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities operating in Texas and one of 17 nationwide. The company has asked the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to renew its Industrial Hazardous Waste operators ...
Food, ecology issues highlight 50th OISCA celebration
Sun.Star
COMMITMENT for food security under the “Food First” program and environmental protection under the “Love Green” campaign highlighted Thursday's culmination of the 50th celebration of the Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement ...
powered by

Water Power

water floods pollution
Citizens officially takes over water, sewer utilities
Indianapolis Star
Citizens, a nonprofit public trust that operates gas, chilled water and steam utilities, more than doubled its customer base. The city will reap at least $425 million for road repaving and other infrastructure work. Besides the new name and a new ...
Related Articles »
FDA Hurricane Preparedness Checklist
Sacramento Bee
26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The FDA reminds consumers to take precautions for storing water and ensuring the safety of their food and medical supplies for themselves and their pets during and after this week's expected hurricane-related rain, ...
Related Articles »
Secure drinking water access, urges UN
News24
Was R630.95 Now R586.78 Stockholm - Investing as little as 0.16% of the world's gross domestic product - or $198bn per year- could give half a billion people regular access to safe drinking water within four years, a UN official said on Friday. ...
Related Articles »
Bedford County school officials: Water main break possibly quake-related
Lynchburg News and Advance
School officials in Bedford cancelled classes at Liberty High School on Thursday because of a water line break in the city that might have been caused by an aftershock from Tuesday's earthquake. The division said early Thursday that the high school on ...
Related Articles »
powered by

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • 'Iran sues Russia over S-300 deal'
    Summary: Iran's Ambassador to Russia Seyyed Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi says Iran has filed a lawsuit against Russia at the International Court of Justice over Moscow's refusal to ship S-300 air defense systems to Tehran. source: PressTVread more
  • The end of Gaddafi is welcome. But it does not ...
    Summary: Libyan protestsThe downfall of a dictator is always welcome. Especially welcome is the downfall of Gaddafi of Libya. He was not the worst of his genre, but for 42 years was the beneficiary of the crassest western intervention, veering between ineffective sanctions and ostracism and ...
  • Libya and Beyond: How Did We Get There and Wha ...
    Summary: 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: source: Kucinich.house.govread more
  • Retured US General Praises MEK as 'Overt Milit ...
    Summary: Rajavi and SaddamIn comments that further underscore the depth of the support the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) has generated with its massive pay-for-speech campaign, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney praised the MEK and called for their delisting as part of a campaign of “prov ...
  • EU Angered as Iran Allows Access to IAEA Ins ...
    Summary: As Russian negotiators continue with the efforts to restart the P5+1 talks, Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that Iran allowed an IAEA team, including the top inspector, full access to their nuclear sites. source: Antiwar.comread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • EcoAlert: CERN Says Cosmic Rays from Supernova ...
    Scientists working on this issue at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva have presented initial results suggesting cosmic rays have an effect on cloud formation but found no proof they drive climate change. The preliminary findings of...
  • NewsAlert: Massive Supernova Exploded Wednesda ...
    "The question of what causes a Type Ia supernova is one of the great unsolved mysteries in astronomy," Rosanne Di Stefano of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). A supernova discovered yesterday in the Pinwheel Galaxy is closer to Earth—approximately...
  • A 'Diamond' Bigger than Earth Discovered Orbit ...
    A once-massive star that's been transformed into a planet five times the size of Earth made of diamond. The pulsar and its planet are part of the Milky Way's plane of stars and lie 4,000 light-years away in the constellation...
  • Image of the Day: A 1,700 Year-Old Pulsar in a ...
    A small, dense object only twelve miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. At the center of this image made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a very young and powerful pulsar,...
  • From the X-Files Dept: "Galactic Flashes May S ...
    "We'll be looking for the occasional celestial flash," said Joseph Lazio, a radio astronomer at JPL. "These flashes can be anything from explosions on surfaces of nearby stars, deaths of distant stars, exploding black holes, or even perhaps transmissions by...

Natural News

  • BMJ admits that fraud claim against Dr. Andrew ...
    (Natural News) Big Pharma, the FDA, AMA and other medical associations falsely accuse conscientious healers of crimes that they themselves routinely commit or cover up. Unfortunately, they get away with it since they are the "authority", and the mainstream media (MSM) usually favors authority's ...
  • FDA draft guidance to cripple natural products ...
    (NaturalNews) The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on a mission to seize control of the dietary supplement industry, and cripple it from being able to freely innovate and market potent, effective health products to consumers.In fact, as we reported a few weeks ago, the agency's draft gui ...
  • Hospital patients now being microchipped with ...
    (NaturalNews) Being microchipped is now being spun as a method of protecting the health of hospital patients. To help mask the practice of this bodily invasion with a trendy, high-tech appearance, microchipping sensors are being referred to as "electronic tattoos" that can attach to human skin a ...
  • Big government gone wild: Social Security on t ...
    (NaturalNews) Do you remember the recent debate in Congress and the White House to raise the government's ability to borrow even more money? The "debate" that was long on raising the debt ceiling but short on actually cutting government spending?It wasn't enough that our leaders failure to effec ...
  • Breast cancer drugs may stop cancer, but they ...
    (NaturalNews) Here's another case of a so-called "wonder drug" heavily promoted by Big Pharma having a darker side than anyone knew. It turns out aromatase inhibitors (sold under the names Femara, Aromasin, and Arimidex), widely prescribed to huge numbers of women who've been diagnosed with estr ...

Threat Level

  • Researchers Uncover RSA Phishing Attack, Hidin ...
    Ever since security giant RSA was hacked last March, anti-virus researchers have been trying to get a copy of the malware used for the attack to study its method of infection. But RSA wasn’t cooperating, nor were the third-party forensic experts the company hired to investigate the breach. This ...
  • Judge Calls Location-Tracking Orwellian, While ...
    A federal judge's decision requiring the government to get a court warrant before obtaining mobile-phone location data is one of a string of conflicting opinions on the topic, and comes as lawmakers and the Supreme Court weigh in on the hot-button issue of locational privacy.
  • Former WikiLeaks Spokesman Disputes Claims Abo ...
    A former WikiLeaks spokesman under fire for destroying thousands of unpublished documents submitted to the secret-spilling site last year says WikiLeaks is publicly exaggerating the contents of the deleted files. The increasingly ugly dispute is playing out over Twitter and in the press.
  • Nokia-Siemens Spy Tools Aid Police Torture in ...
    Spy tools sold and maintained by German communications and engineering giants Siemens and Nokia Siemens Networks are being used by authorities in Bahrain to aid in their interrogation and torture of human rights activists, according to Bloomberg.
  • Judge OKs Unlicensed Cloud Music-Storage Service
    A federal judge backed the music storage-locker business model Monday while ruling that companies may develop services that store their customers’ songs in the cloud. The closely watched case brought by EMI against MP3tunes comes as Amazon and Google recently launched similar services without t ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Rubio Claims Social Security, Medicare "Weaken ...
    Earlier this month, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) neatly summed up the Republican platform for 2012, declaring that Americans must "come to grips with the fact that promises have been made that frankly are not going to be kept for many." Yesterday at the Reagan Library, Tea Party dar ...
  • Rick Perry and George W. Bush, Texas' Willing ...
    Asked the biggest difference between himself and George W. Bush, Texas governor and new Republican White House front runner Rick Perry answered, "I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale." Which isn't far from the truth. After all, their pronouncements on policies and personal beliefs are eerily s ...
  • Right Denounces Sharia Law in Libyan, Not Iraq ...
    While much about the future of post-Qaddafi Libya remains murky, some things are already quite clear. For starters, Republican leaders and GOP White House hopefuls simply cannot bring themselves to credit President Obama in any way for the apparent success of the rebellion. Unsurprisingly, the ...
  • GOP Decries Class Warfare on the Tragically Rich
    Judging from the furious reaction of some of the gilded-class crowd and their Republican protectors, billionaire Warren Buffett struck a nerve with his plea to Congress to "stop coddling the super-rich." Former American Express CEO Harvey Golub and Tea Party sugar daddy Charles Koch were quick ...
  • "Truth Teller" Huntsman Takes on the "Not Inte ...
    This weekend, former Utah Governor and GOP White House hopeful Jon Huntsman came out swinging against his Republican rivals. Positioning himself as a "truth-teller," Huntsman blasted Rick Perry on evolution and global warming, attacked Michele Bachmann over her jaw-dropping stands on the debt c ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Untitled
    Yeah, I�ve got nothing today.� Back tomorrow!
  • Interlude
    Raffertie mix – Xfm 06/08/11 by Mary Anne Hobbs on Mixcloud
  • What next for Wisconsin?
    Dems gain 2 State Senate seats in recall elections, but fail to secure needed majority
  • Will CFTC Limit Excessive Speculation?
    Bart Chilton Pt.3: For regulations to be effective, there has to be political will and proper resources
  • As Biden Visits China, Author David Wise on "T ...
    Vice President Joe Biden arrived in China yesterday to begin a five-day trip aimed at reassuring leaders there of the stability of the U.S. economy and to begin building a relationship with that country’s most likely next president, Xi Jinping. The visit to the largest foreign creditor to the Un ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Scientists Discover New Monkey Species in Amazon
    Scientists on an expedition backed by WWF-Brazil to one of the last unexplored areas in the Brazilian Mid-west have discovered a new species of monkey. Related posts:80% of Amazon Deforestation Stems from Cattle Ranching Dual Amazon Droughts Alarm Scientists Nike Stops Use of Amazon Leather Af ...
  • Top Activism Stories
    Here are some top activism stories of the past day or so. Check 'em out Related posts:Top 15 Activism Stories of the Week Top Activism & Politics Stories (Videos) Republican Swarms Twitter with Fake Accounts to Promote Tar Sands Pipeline (+ Top Activism Stories)
  • Top Green Living Stories
    Here are 7 good green living stories of the last day or so. Check 'em out: Related posts:Top Green Living Stories {Weekly Round-Up} Solar PV to Double in US in 2011 (+ Top Green Living Stories) 13-Year-Old Creates Breakthrough Solar Technology.. Then Gets Debunked (+ Top Green Living Stories)
  • Moon (10 Friday Photos + extra)
    The Moon -- something that, wherever you are, it's beautiful. Even though it's so far away from us, we can still admire its beauty in solitude or at a date. Some of us would like to make a step on the Moon, some of us want to look at it from distance -- however, it's always something that we cal ...
  • Help Matt Damon & Others Bring Water to More P ...
    This post is sustainablogâs contribution to Important Mediaâs celebration of World Water Week. Related posts:Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Sarah Silverman, Jason Biggs, Joshua Jackson, Jennifer Garner, Jenny Wade, and Tobin Bell chip in on a funny Global Warming video Blog Action Day Reminds Us — “ ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Hurricane Irene hits Bahamas, heads for U.S. T ...
    Editor's Comment: As always with natural disasters, the poor suffer the greatest for lack of decent housing and protection from the elements. The photos and comments we've added below were taken yesterday in San Cristobal, South of Santo Domingo as Hurricane Irene lashed the island of Hispaniola ...
  • Chile's Commander Camila, the student who can ...
    Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo sits among a peace sign created from empty teargas canisters used by police against protesters. Photograph: Roberto Candia/AP Not since the days of Zapatistas' Subcomandante Marcos has Latin America been so charmed by a rebel leader. This time, there ...
  • US planning to leave Afghanistan in 2024-ish - ...
    Maybe you thought we’d get out of Afghanistan this very year, the drawdown date President Obama set as he surged U.S. troops into the country in December 2009; or maybe you thought the Obama administration’s target for withdrawal might be the last day of 2014, that date certain of recent...
  • Minneapolis? More like Bike-opolis - World News
    If you've never been to Minneapolis, you're missing out: It's populated by unrelentingly friendly folk, oodles of lakes surrounded by city parks, and a bike network on its way to becoming second-to-none. Just last month, Bicycling magazine named it the top city for bicycling, and a few months be ...
  • Suing Russia gives Moscow 'legal trump card' - ...
    Russian officials said they are surprised by Tehran's decision to file suit with an international court against Russia because of the latter's decision not to sell the Islamic Republic S-300 air defense systems. ­Iranian Ambassador to Russia Seyed Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi said at a press conferen ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The World Austerity Makes
    Filthy air, disease-filled water, uncontrolled air traffic and oh yeah, a nuclear meltdown in every neighborhood. David at Crooks and Liars: A nuclear power plant that was shut down after an earthquake struck central Virginia Tuesday had seismographs removed in 1990s due to budget cuts. U.S. nuc ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG & YD We've been saying the same thing @SenatorSanders is for years, and we have the archives to prove it. "Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was a featured speaker at the United Steel Workers 2011 conference in Las Vegas. ... Sanders focused much of his speech on the Social Security sy ...
  • In Case You Hadn't Noticed... Another Promise ...
    I'm going to step out of my usual little rant area today to address what I consider the absolute duplicity of the US Government in finding a way to break yet another promise to the American people... a promise made by an administration that displays considerably more talent for making promises t ...
  • Puritans Have a Lot to Answer For
    By @KYYellowDog There are days when it seems as if 90 percent of the crimes, despair and insanity in the world can be blamed on our failure to teach our children the facts - all the facts - about sexuality. @PZMyers has a heartbreaking and horrific example of the consequences here. But it's not ...
  • &$%$ing Cantor Is At It Again
    Why do the people in his state keep electing this slimy little POS? �It was bad enough when he acted out his hatred for everyone and everything not Eric Cantor during the Spring tornado rampage but THIS? �This bastard will not be content until Wall Street has sucked up every last dime in the god ...

Care 2

  • Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    The Obama administration is currently considering whether to allow TransCanada to build a hulking pipeline from the tar-sands oil fields in Alberta, Canada to Port Arthur, Texas Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Dangerous Psychology of Factory Farming
    When I recently challenged Bill on the ethics of industrial agriculture, he smiled and shook his head, insisting that the cows he fattened and slaughtered were of no more moral worth than the iron grates that enclosed them. Submitted by Judy C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • PETITION ALERT: The bloody products from the ...
    The manufacturing company Unilever prefers to conceal the ingredient that many of its products (Rama/Blue Band, Becel/Flora etc.) contain: palm oil � and thus, the blood of indigenous people and peasants in Indonesia who are threatened, shot at, arrestedSubmitted by Simone D. to World �|� �Note ...
  • Tell L.A. County Fair to Cancel Proposed Eleph ...
    Tell L.A. County Fair Association to CANCEL elephant rides during the upcoming fair, September 2-October 3. Elephants will be "leased" to the Fair Association from Have Trunk Will Travel, recently exposed using brutal "training" methods. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Govt, WCS to continue tiger project
    THE government plans to continue working with the Wildlife Conservation Society on a project to protect Bengal tigers in Hukaung Valley Wildlife Sanctuary until at least 2015Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Ben Quake
    The 5.8 earthquake that surprised the East Coast from North Carolina to Ontario is a pitiful jolt compared to the prospect of Ben Bernanke (arriving in jeans) announcing a QE3 Quake at the Jackson Hole annual gathering of Easy Money Boys. Once upon a time, we called this lot of Populist beggars ...
  • Just because … and an open thread
    I’m sharing with you some more of the earthquake funnies I’ve run across in the past couple days, just because they make me giggle, and i hope they give you a chuckle too! Besides!!! YOU ALL CAME UP WITH YOUR OWN FUNNIES that were better than the ones I’d posted, so I’m looking forward to [...]
  • Libya, Barack’s Turd Sandwich
    Forget the Tea Party Satan sandwich. The real culinary delight tickling the palate of the Obama Administration is the festering turd of its policy towards Libya. Obama has the worst of all worlds. We are spending money on a military effort we do not control. We have no clear idea of who or what ...
  • Good god almighty, save us from this man becom ...
    This was EXCRUCIATING to watch. Uh, isn’t ABSTINENCE one of Perry’s pet causes? And he’s utterly ignorant about — not only the topic — but its effectiveness? As well as salient facts like what Texas spends, how it is taught in Texas versus other states, the ages of students, how much time is spe ...
  • You break Tripoli …
    Tripoli is a tragic opera that illustrates how little we have learned since the catastrophes of Kabul and Baghdad. My information is that NATO and the Transitional National Council at Benghazi have been negotiating with the Qadhafi family for some weeks about en exit with dignity and assurances. ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Ways to Play: Self Love
    I’ve learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it. -Sarah McLachlan There are no physical, emotional, intellectual, or spiritual benefits to low self-esteem. On the other hand, when you value yourself highly you are most likely positive, consider ...
  • Intervention Could Increase Permanent Placemen ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline “Approximately 95% of foster children experience at least one placement disruption while in out-of-home care, and the adverse effects of these disruptions on psychosocial functioning are well-documented,” said researchers who recently conducted a study to examine ...
  • Do Men Benefit from Media’s Ideal Male Body Image?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Research has focused on the effect that the ideal female body portrayed in the media can have on a woman’s own body image. However, little research has addressed what effect men experience when viewing ideal male body images. A new study, conducted by researchers ...
  • Is Battling Sex Addiction Really Worth It?
    Did you know there are individuals who minimize sexual addiction as a disorder? Regardless, its impact, devastation and pain to the individuals who are struggling with it, their spouses and children along with many areas of their lives cannot be ignored. When we consider that the National Counci ...
  • Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Techniques ...
    I am not formally trained in DBT. My knowledge of it coming from texts, watching trained practitioners do it and gradually incorporating it into my practice. I’m comfortable with its use due to my background and training in similar modalities and have found the skills to be valuable for those wh ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Poll: Most of Coal Country Not Fans of Mountai ...
    Poll: Most of Coal Country Not Fans of Mountaintop Removal Public News Service The federal Environmental Protection Agency embarked on a listening tour in Eastern Kentucky recently to vet resident concerns about the impacts of coal mining, especially the practice of mountaintop removal. The vis ...
  • Mountaintop removal mining is bad for Appalach ...
    Mountaintop removal mining is bad for Appalachia Daily Athenaeum Perhaps nowhere are we further from that ideal than on environmental protection, especially around mountaintop removal (MTR) mining. The House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would weaken the Clean Water Act, making ...
  • Mountaintop removal must come to an end - Bowl ...
    Mountaintop removal must come to an end Bowling Green Daily News Not only did the EPA get a firsthand look at the irreversible effects of mountaintop removal, but they listened to ordinary residents rather than purchased sound bytes. Americans and Kentuckians can celebrate a government that byp ...
  • The Last Mountain to screen at Salem Progressi ...
    WilliametteLive.com The Last Mountain to screen at Salem Progressive Film Series WilliametteLive.com The film follows the exploits of activists looking to save their water supply and communities from the years of mountaintop removal of coal. Stories abound of families living near coal plants wi ...
  • Mountaintop removal discussed locally - Daily ...
    Mountaintop removal discussed locally Daily Mail - Charleston Mountaintop removal involves deforesting, then the use of explosives and equipment to remove the coal. Proponents say the method is more efficient, cost-effective and safer than underground mining. Critics say it strips the land bare ...

Memeorandum

  • Bernanke: The Debt Ceiling Debate Nearly Broke ...
    Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online: Bernanke: The Debt Ceiling Debate Nearly Broke the Recovery  —  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the debt ceiling debate on Capitol Hill “disrupted” the economy, and he called the broken political process the greatest economic challenge we face.  ...
  • Fear, Inc. - The Roots of the Islamophobia Net ...
    Center for American Progress: Fear, Inc.  —  The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America  —  Anti-Muslim graffiti defaces a Shi'ite mosque at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan.  —  SOURCE: Getty Images/Bill Pugliano  —  Download individual chapters of the report (pdf):
  • Inhofe calls out Romney on climate (Ben Birnba ...
    Ben Birnbaum / Washington Times: Inhofe calls out Romney on climate  —  GOP skeptic wants candidate to take stand on warming issue  —  Sen. James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican, on Thursday chastised one of his party's prospective presidential nominees for what he said was trying to have it bot ...
  • Exclusive: Groupon's Mason Tells Troops in Fei ...
    Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: Exclusive: Groupon's Mason Tells Troops in Feisty Internal Memo: “It Looks Good.”  —  Facing a barrage of negative press about its upcoming IPO, Groupon CEO and co-founder Andrew Mason took up a pen to counter critics of the social buying service.  —  Especially unde ...
  • Citing Spike in Red Tape, Speaker Boehner Seek ...
    Speaker: Citing Spike in Red Tape, Speaker Boehner Seeks Info from White House on Job-Threatening Regulations  —  House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) sent the following letter to the White House today noting that the number of planned Obama Administration regulatory actions with a significant imp ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Vanuatu
    Friday, August 26, 2011 11:36:26 UTCFriday, August 26, 2011 10:36:26 PM at epicenterDepth: 87.70 km (54.49 mi)
  • M 5.2, Guam region
    Friday, August 26, 2011 07:47:12 UTCFriday, August 26, 2011 05:47:12 PM at epicenterDepth: 126.60 km (78.67 mi)
  • M 5.1, South Sandwich Islands region
    Friday, August 26, 2011 07:41:22 UTCFriday, August 26, 2011 05:41:22 AM at epicenterDepth: 124.00 km (77.05 mi)
  • M 5.3, Vanuatu
    Thursday, August 25, 2011 18:21:37 UTCFriday, August 26, 2011 05:21:37 AM at epicenterDepth: 42.80 km (26.59 mi)
  • M 5.0, Vanuatu
    Thursday, August 25, 2011 16:18:30 UTCFriday, August 26, 2011 03:18:30 AM at epicenterDepth: 25.30 km (15.72 mi)

China Dialogue

  • How to spot a fake eco-city
    A low-carbon craze is sweeping through China, but some say it’s just a mirage. Urban-planning expert Li Xun tells Zhang Yue and Xu Nan why only a fraction of eco-projects live up to the name.Almost a third of China’s 600 cities now have targets to become low-carbon hubs or eco-cities. That might ...
  • The search for cleaner fracking
    With federal regulation looming, US energy firms are rolling out technologies to reduce the environmental impact of shale-gas drilling. Justin Gerdes looks at one of the key challenges: wastewater.Fracking now so dominates the energy debate in the United States it’s easy to forget that, until fi ...
  • Protecting China’s wetlands
    Increasingly, the wonders of the country’s waterfowl -- and their green and blue habitats -- are being revealed. To help safeguard them, the UK conservation group WWT works with Chinese authorities, writes Malcolm Tait.[This article first appeared in the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust’s magazine Wate ...
  • World Bank: Nepal dams won't stop Indian floods
    Indian planners need to radically rethink flood prevention strategies in the Ganges basin, as a new World Bank study debunks old myths. Joydeep Gupta reports.For decades, Indian planners working to harness the waters of the Ganges and its tributaries have believed building dams in Nepal will sav ...
  • Licence to kill
    A group of foreign tourists looks set to get permission to hunt rare animals in western China, provoking mixed reactions among conservationists. Meng Si reports.An application by a group of American citizens to hunt China’s Bharal and Tibetan gazelle has won approval from a state expert committe ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • HPV Education, Prevention & Support: Innovativ ...
    Written by Bianca I. Laureano for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Thereâs an abundance of conversations about Human Papillomavirus (HPV), especially since the new vaccinations have been approve ...
  • The 10 Worst Kinds of Employers to Work For
    As the economy bounces back, there is good and bad news. The good news: Companies are hiring. The bad news: The same ones you didn’t want to work for before, you still don’t want to work for. And they are recruiting! Watch out for these 10 dead-end employers. 1) Employers with morale campaigns l ...
  • Epidural Please: Respecting All Choices in Chi ...
    Written by Martha Kempner for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. One day last week, my five year-old and I stumbled on an episode of TLC’s A Baby Story, a half-hour documentary-style show in which ...
  • Exposure of Surrogacy and Baby-Selling Scheme ...
    Written by Marcy Darnovsky for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Two prominent reproductive law attorneys, Theresa Erickson and Hilary Neiman, now await sentencing by a US district court after ...
  • Schools Nationwide Cutting Down to 4 Days a We ...
    The GOP's anti-tax attitude and budget cuts mean some states are closing schools on Fridays, leaving parents, workers and students in the lurch.

Threat Level

  • Researchers Uncover RSA Phishing Attack, Hidin ...
    Ever since security giant RSA was hacked last March, anti-virus researchers have been trying to get a copy of the malware used for the attack to study its method of infection. But RSA wasn’t cooperating, nor were the third-party forensic experts the company hired to investigate the breach. This ...
  • Judge Calls Location-Tracking Orwellian, While ...
    A federal judge's decision requiring the government to get a court warrant before obtaining mobile-phone location data is one of a string of conflicting opinions on the topic, and comes as lawmakers and the Supreme Court weigh in on the hot-button issue of locational privacy.
  • Former WikiLeaks Spokesman Disputes Claims Abo ...
    A former WikiLeaks spokesman under fire for destroying thousands of unpublished documents submitted to the secret-spilling site last year says WikiLeaks is publicly exaggerating the contents of the deleted files. The increasingly ugly dispute is playing out over Twitter and in the press.
  • Nokia-Siemens Spy Tools Aid Police Torture in ...
    Spy tools sold and maintained by German communications and engineering giants Siemens and Nokia Siemens Networks are being used by authorities in Bahrain to aid in their interrogation and torture of human rights activists, according to Bloomberg.
  • Judge OKs Unlicensed Cloud Music-Storage Service
    A federal judge backed the music storage-locker business model Monday while ruling that companies may develop services that store their customers’ songs in the cloud. The closely watched case brought by EMI against MP3tunes comes as Amazon and Google recently launched similar services without t ...

Equality Trust

  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
  • Among Equals: read our newsletter
    Read the latest edition of our supporter newsletter  
  • Action for Happiness
    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
  • Traduction des preuves en Français
     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      
  • Response to criticism of The Spirit Level
      Find our full response to criticism of The Spirit Level here.  

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Hey, Matt Damon, you should have filmed "Poiso ...
    Have you seen the trailer for Contagion? For those germaphobes and conspiracy theorist out there, this will likely keep you up at night. On the other hand, perhaps a bit more realistic film (one that actually happened) would be the movie version of "Poisoned." Watch the ...
  • FDA to warn - Do Not Eat Mexican Papaya due to ...
    I should never sleep in. Sometime today the FDA will likely announce an Import Alert on Mexican Papaya due to Salmonella Agona. Here is what the FDA is saying thus far: Mexico produces 11% of the world’s production of papayas. U.S. import data from January 1, 2011 shows that approximately 65% ...
  • Del Monte Fresh to FDA and CDC - You are wrong ...
    I must admit that I was busy today preparing another complaint in the Cargill Salmonella Heildelberg outbreak and had not had time to pick up the Del Monte vs. USA/FDA lawsuit until some time ago. Interesting read – See PDF – Del Monte vs. USA/FDA. In essence, Del Monte says the CDC and 10 Sta ...
  • Another Lawsuit to be filed in Cargill Salmone ...
    This week we will be filing yet another lawsuit against Cargill (COMPLAINT PDF). This time it is on behalf of a woman who purchased the tainted turkey on July 31, 2011, at a Food City grocery location in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Note, it was the same day that FSIS sent out an advisory (late Fr ...
  • Monday was last day to get Hepatitis A vaccine ...
    The Cumberland County North Carolina Public Health Department said in a press release that the Hepatitis A vaccination clinic for individuals who visited the Fayetteville Olive Garden on August 8 and who may have been exposed to the illness through an employee continued through Monday, August 22 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Libyan rebels claim Ghaddafi's all-ele ...
    Libyan leader (ex-leader?) Muammar Qaddafi apparently had some unusual items in his personal collection. Rebel forces stormed his compound this week, and we now know he had a scrapbook dedicated to former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, lots of weapons and, oddly, a doorless, all-electri ...
  • Official: Audi spills the beans on production ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Audi Diesel-lovin' Audi is slowly, slowly coming to grips with this whole hybrid thing. Earlier this year, the "We're not against hybrids" automaker finally gave out some real information about its hybrid Q5 (after years of teases and killing the program once,) and we ...
  • Breaking: Ford, Toyota will partner on RWD hyb ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Truck, Ford, Toyota Is the Prius V not big enough for you? Then you'll probably be interested to learn that Ford and Toyota announced a partnership today to develop a new hybrid system for SUVs and light trucks. The "equal partners" deal should result in a gasoline-electr ...
  • Video: Presidential candidate Bachmann promise ...
    Filed under: Etc. How's this for bold? Congresswoman Michell Bachmann, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who won the Ames Straw Poll last weekend, has just stated that one thing we'd get with a Bachmann Administration is - ready? - cheap gasoline. According to Politico sh ...
  • Report: 2012 Nissan Altima, NV van recalled fo ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Nissan For a two-week period this year, Nissan apparently incorrectly assembled the air bag control unit in both the 2012 Altima and the 2012 NV work van. That's the news from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which today announced a small recall of the ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake
    The White House was rocked Tuesday, not only by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, but by the protests mounting outside its gates. More than 2,100 people say they’ll risk arrest there during the next two weeks. They oppose the Keystone XL pipeline project, designed to carry heavy crude oil from the ta ...
  • Egyptians Defend Viral Video Activist Charged ...
    Asmaa Mahfouz is one of Egyptâs most prominent activists. The 26-year-old helped co-found the influential April 6 Youth Movement in 2008 that helped pave the way for the revolution through years of grassroots organizing and street protests. A few days before January 25, she posted two videos on ...
  • San Francisco Bay Area’s BART Pulls a Mubarak
    What does the police killing of a homeless man in San Francisco have to do with the Arab Spring uprisings from Tunisia to Syria? The attempt to suppress the protests that followed. In our digitally networked world, the ability to communicate is increasingly viewed as a basic right. Open communi ...
  • Verizon Workers, Management Dig in for Decisiv ...
    On the 10th day of the most important labor fight in America, striking Verizon worker Alexandra Camacho stood on a streetcorner in downtown Brooklyn and vowed to stay out as long as necessary. "They want to strip from us everything we’ve won in the past," the slender Camacho said. "They even ...
  • From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan's Atomic Tr ...
    In recent weeks, radiation levels have spiked at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors in Japan, with recorded levels of 10,000 millisieverts per hour (mSv/hr) at one spot. This is the number reported by the reactor’s discredited owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., although that number is simply as ...

Suzie-Q

  • Kucinich: Try NATO Commanders as War Criminals
    NEWSMAX Tuesday, 23 Aug 2011 Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, has been an outspoken critic of U.S. military action in Libya since it began six months ago, even saying President Barack Obama’s policy amounted to “an impeachable offense.” Now, as Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s regime appears to be ...
  • CNN media $pin in Libya ~Business as usual
    NATO allow weapons to Rebels OPENLY Telegraph August 12th, 2011 By kingsley Arms controls continue to be flouted in the context of the Libyan armed conflict. Both France and Qatar have openly admitted to supplying arms to the rebels as a complementary strategy to the NATO-led air strikes. Such a ...
  • Morning Briefing: August 19, 2011
    During a townhall meeting earlier this week, constituents in Rep. Randy Hultgren’s (R-IL) congressional district hectored him about raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations. The Washington Post reports, “It is a scene that has been repeated at town hall meetings across the country this Augu ...
  • Businesses lose confidence in Obama
    ABC Professor Peter Morici discusses where the United States can turn to improve its economy and credit rating. Roubini: Bush Responsible for Economic Woes WSJ, 8/12/2011 3:01:26 PM In a clip from his interview with WSJ’s Simon Constable, Dr. Nouriel Roubini insists that it was the policies of G ...
  • US checks S&P’s adding after downgrade
    BigPond News Sunday, August 14, 2011 » 01:29pm The US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a probe into the process by which Standard Poor’s downgraded the US credit rating, the Wall Street Journal reported. US officials lashed out at SP after it docked the country’s credit rating fr ...

Solari

  • Catherine’s Response to the Comment: &#8 ...
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Gold is a metal. If everyone takes all their money out of operating enterprises and puts it in gold and pays people to watch their gold or dig up the earth to get more gold, the economy will stop. The top guys bubbled real estate and used the money to buy [...]
  • Halliburton to Hire 11,000 In 2011
    By Yahoo! Finance Energy company Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) plans to hire 11,000 workers in North America in 2011, a top executive told Cramer Wednesday.? Jim Brown, president of Western Hemisphere, said many of the new hires will be sent to North Dakota’s oil-rich Bakken shale, which is one of th ...
  • Quote du Jour
    We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. ~ Carlos Castaneda Related reading: Carlos (César Salvador Arana) Castaneda Wikipedia
  • A Comment on Catherine’s Interview on th ...
    By a Solari Report Subscriber There’s even more fraud than you guys discussed.  I am an attorney in Ohio doing foreclosure defense work (mostly pro bono) and have handled foreclosures by all of the biggest banks: BoA, JPMC, Citigroup, GMAC, Wells Fargo.  From this experience, hereâs what Iâve ...
  • Could Blankfein Face Prison?
    By Nomi Prins The Goldman Sachs CEO didn’t get a big-time criminal-defense lawyer because he’s worried about an SEC wrist slap—there’s a real possibility of doing time, says former Goldman managing director Nomi Prins. There’s a saying that loose lips sink ships. So can dead weight. Goldman Sac ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Nukes and Dictator Survival
    Last night the guest host of The Last Word Chris Hayes did an excellent segment with Steve Clemons on how the overthrow of Qaddafi will affect other despots' survival strategies with regard to nuclear weapons. Bear in mind that Qaddafi agreed in 2003 to hand over the entire contents of his buddi ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Libya Edition
    –Joby Warrick and Scott Wilson, âU.S. Presses Libyan Rebels to Preserve Order,â Washington Post, August, 22, 2011. ââThis is precisely the way that we had been saying the strategy was suppose to work,â said Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications.â –Senators ...
  • Options for Gaddafi
    With the world sitting in anticipation for the news of Gaddafi's arrest it is worth taking a look at his options going forward. In June the International Criminal Court accused Gaddafi of inciting his troops to commit mass rape, and indicted him, his son Saif al-Islam and his intelligence chief ...
  • Today in Famine: Funding from Uncommon Sources ...
    Since the latest update, the needle has moved in somewhat of a more positive direction when it comes to funding the humanitarian response to the drought and famine crisis in the horn of Africa. So far, out of an estimated US$2.4 billion in humanitarian requirements for Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya ...
  • Chinese Military Power and America's Future in ...
    The Defense Department's annual report (pdf) on "the current and probably future course of military-technological development of the People's Liberation Army and the tenets and probable development of Chinese security strategy and military strategy," mandated by Congress since the FY 2000 NDAA, ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Economy: Still Worse Than We Thought
    It’s Friday! Which means another round of bad news for the economy. In this case, the Commerce Department has revised its assessment of economic growth for the second quarter. At the time, economists had estimated 1.3 percent growth for the quarter – sluggish, but an improvement over the first q ...
  • The Tea Party In Decline
    I've long predicted, perhaps more out of hope than foresight, that once the 2012 Republican presidential nominating contest got underway, the Tea Party would fade away. I expected that all those newly energized activists would channel their energy into their preferred primary candidate, and afte ...
  • The Smarts Primary
    Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, asked to comment on Rick Perry disbelief in evolution, went to town on Perry: Any other organization -- a big corporation, say, or a university, or a learned society - -when seeking a new leader, will go to immense trouble over the choice. The CVs of cand ...
  • Eric Cantor: Don't Ask for Help, Just Buy Eart ...
    House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a noted opponent of federal spending, has come out against deficit-funded federal aid for his district in Virginia, despite Republican Governor Bob McDonald’s request for said aid. “All of us know that the federal government is busy spending money it doesn’t ha ...
  • Rick Perry is Way Ahead
    Yesterday, both Gallup and Public Policy Polling released new national polls of Republican primary voters. In a sharp change from several months ago, both found Texas Governor Rick Perry with a large lead over his competitors, including former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. In the Gallup ...

Buzzflash

  • Poverty as Explained by a Senior Fellow at the ...
    Body   Many people in this country struggle to find a way to deal with an inherently inequitable set of circumstances that plays havoc with their ability to prosper and provide for their children's future. Poverty defies commonly accepted definitions of what this means d ...
  • Virgin Teen Pregnancies in Texas? No, Rick Per ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF TRUTHOUT AT BUZZFLASH Unless there are a lot of miraculous, virgin births in Texas, Rick Perry's taxpayer-funded emphasis on abstinence education is a bust. According to an Associated Press (AP) article, "Teen pregnancy rates declined in the US, while more teens in T ...
  • Mass Murder, Right Wing Hate Talk, And Blaming ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It was a little more than a month ago that the Norwegian Islamophobic Christian fundamentalist Anders Behring Breivik, wreaked havoc in Norway, killing 77 and injuring many more. After the initial flurry of reportage, analysis, commentary and punditry, ...
  • Paul Ryan Spares Us the Spectacle of Running f ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Running now would be an awful idea Like Gaddafi thinking it'd be neat This week for him in Tripoli to have A friendly little meet-and-greet.read more
  • Does President Obama Have Enough Time Left to ...
    ERICA PAYNE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT When Warren Buffet called on Washington to get "serious about shared sacrifice," he invoked the central premise of the American experiment, that each citizen has an obligation to look beyond one's own self-interest, to recognize the benefits that one has ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Rise in top grades boosts GCSE record
    Rise in top grades boosts GCSE record – My son just returned with his GCSE results to a very proud Mum and Dad, and sister, with a clutch of excellent passes in his exams. Very pleased he got an excellent grade in chemistry, although he claims to hate "my" subject. One thing I will say, [...]Ris ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Suspension Of Arctic Scientist Suddenly Lifted
    A top federal Arctic scientist is returning to work today after six weeks on administrative leave without any charges being leveled against him, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).�� Meanwhile, the agency which suspended the scientist is itself under investigat ...
  • Physicians for Social Responsibility Calls for ...
    Physicians for Social Responsibility called for immediate action to improve safeguards at nuclear reactors vulnerable to seismic events such as the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the East coast on August 23, 2011. The quake was felt from South Carolina to Toronto, with an epicenter in Mine ...
  • Physicians for Social Responsibility Calls for ...
    Physicians for Social Responsibility called for immediate action to improve safeguards at nuclear reactors vulnerable to seismic events such as the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the East coast on August 23, 2011. The quake was felt from South Carolina to Toronto, with an epicenter in Mine ...
  • New Food Day Curriculum Aims to Help Youth 'Ea ...
    Organizers of Food Day today published a curriculum for teachers to use on and around Food Day, a nationwide grassroots campaign on October 24 to encourage Americans to “eat real” and support healthy, affordable food grown in a sustainable, humane way. The Food Day curriculum offers five lessons ...
  • New Food Day Curriculum Aims to Help Youth 'Ea ...
    Organizers of Food Day today published a curriculum for teachers to use on and around Food Day, a nationwide grassroots campaign on October 24 to encourage Americans to “eat real” and support healthy, affordable food grown in a sustainable, humane way. The Food Day curriculum offers five lessons ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Secrecy, Leaks, and the Real Criminals
    Glenn Greenwald Ali Soufan is a long-time�FBI agent and interrogator who was at the center of the U.S. government's counter-terrorism activities from 1997 through 2005, and became an outspoken critic of the government's torture program.rea ...
  • MLK Gets Set in Stone, but the Man Is Missing
    Tony Norman Most Americans, even those who hated him when he was alive, adore the memory of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. As with all icons, we love them with all of our hearts once the reality of what they stood for has been buried unde ...
  • Dramatizing Obama's Climate Dilemma
    Mark Engler President Obama now has a clear choice on climate change. Major energy corporations are seeking to build a 1700-mile oil pipeline from Canada’s tar sands to refineries in Texas. The Keystone XL Pipeline would itself carry socia ...
  • The Politics of the London Riots
    Rehanna Jones-Boutaleb As England’s cities have burned and slowly simmered to an uncertain calm, the debate over the causes of the country’s latest outbreak of civil unrest has heated up. Sparked by the death of Mark Duggan, a Tottenham lo ...
  • To Stop Corruption, Fight the Power, Not the P ...
    Michelle Chen Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and in a world where the gap between the powerful and powerless grows wider each day, corruption in political and economic institutions spreads much faster than shame.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Film festival focuses on water wars and more
    Mark Twain once said, "Whiskey is for drinkin'. Water is for fightin' over."
  • Water Wars
    SPARKS – Dozens of Washoe County residents turned out at Sparks High School Thursday during the last of nine Bureau of Land Management (BLM) open house sessions to protest a proposed pipeline that would ship water from rural northeastern Nevada to Las Vegas, citing the loss of environmental, eco ...
  • Water Wars
    SPARKS – Dozens of Washoe County residents turned out at Sparks High School Thursday during the last of nine Bureau of Land Management (BLM) open house sessions to protest a proposed pipeline that would ship water from rural northeastern Nevada to Las Vegas, citing the loss of environmental, eco ...
  • Water Wars
    SPARKS – Dozens of Washoe County residents turned out at Sparks High School Thursday during the last of nine Bureau of Land Management (BLM) open house sessions to protest a proposed pipeline that would ship water from rural northeastern Nevada to Las Vegas, citing the loss of environmental, eco ...
  • Water Wars Continue
    Alabama and Florida are appealing a ruling that handed metro Atlanta a big victory in a tri-state fight over water.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Ron Paul: Abortion Is ‘The Most Importan ...
    I’ve gotten some pushback from folks who say that it’s wrong of me to focus attention on Ron Paul’s desire to make abortion illegal when there are so many others issues out there. I have two responses to that. One is to say that, obviously, any president needs to operate within a multi-part poli ...
  • Ignoring Climate Change, State Department Repo ...
    The State Department issued its final environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline today, finding that it would bring “no significant impacts” on the environment – even while substantially increasing greenhouse gas emissions and crossing major aquifers and wetlands across the country. The En ...
  • Bush ‘Didn’t Have A Strategy&#8217 ...
    In an interview as part of a National Geographic Channel documentary about the 9/11 attacks, former President George W. Bush said he had no “strategy” in his post 9/11 policy-making. “September the 11th [...] caused me to make many decisions. Some of which were extremely controversial. All of wh ...
  • Right-Wing Foundations Behind Today’s Is ...
    This morning, the Center for American Progress released a 130-page report revealing that more than $42 million from seven foundations over the past decade have helped fan the flames of anti-Muslim hate in America. These foundations rely on social conservative groups to echo their message and som ...
  • Byron York: Employers Dropping Coverage Will L ...
    Byron York is out with a new column touting an employer survey which found that some businesses will stop offering health insurance coverage as a result of the Affordable Care Act. He argues that this co-called employer “dumping” of employees into the new exchanges is all part of a Democratic co ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • A Visit to Queen's Park
    Last fall, for reasons hazy and uncertain, I packed up the little fella into the bike-buggy and rode down to Queen's Park. The event that I had a vague recollection was supposed to be there wasn't there. So, on a lark, I decided to get a visitor's pass and go watch the events in the legislature. ...
  • Thoughts About Jack Layton
    While I preferred the Jack Layton who held Paul Martin directly responsible for homeless deaths, to the "serious" statesman who wouldn't let his MPs heckle the war-criminal criminal moron psychopath bush II when that piece of shit slithered across our border and was making noises about addressin ...
  • Oppressed People Complain Too Much
    Except for the REAL oppressed people that is: WHITE MALES Yeah, because EXCUSE ME, but First Nations peoples get to occupy buildings and land all the time, and they DON'T ALWAYS GET SHOT AND KILLED FOR IT!!! And Black People? Get a ticket on the "Clue Train": Racism was defeated in the Ame ...
  • Excellent Article on European Financial Crisis
    As good a source as I've yet found on the subject - Vicente Navarro: "Crisis and Class Struggle in the Eurozone" Another characteristic of this group of countries is the acceptance by the governing social democratic parties of most of the neoliberal policies pushed by the EU establishment. Th ...
  • Sometimtes They Really Are Just Fucking Morons
    Reagan, bush II, harper, Mike Harris, Tim Hudak, Ernie Eves, John Baird, Jim Flaherty, William Kristol, Ezra Levant, and of course, Rob Ford. When you factor in the way that they get so handsomely rewarded for their services and the fact that they want government to fail in order to slash ser ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Canada — Next NDP leader has big shoes to fill
    When Jack Layton assumed leadership of the New Democratic Party in January 2003, the party was in shambles. With only 13 seats to its credit, little was expected of the NDP, and it's somewhat doubtful anyone could have foreseen its success.
  • Unison on a Mission to Connect Communities to ...
    Research conducted by Unison Health and Community Services revealed that the Jane- Weston- Mount Denis corridor has long been an underserviced area where residents virtually had not access to much needed programs and services.
  • Spectacular thunderstorm hits Toronto
    An exceptional thunderstorm hit Toronto last night. While there were strong winds and downpours, the really exceptional part was the spectacular lightning.
  • 12-year-old boy delivers own baby brother
    Some big brothers teach you how to ride a bike, some play ball in the backyard, but this very special big brother did something a little more extraordinary.
  • Bumps in the night: CNE Walking Ghost Tours
    Be careful when you're walking the grounds of the CNE in Toronto, you may be walking alongside a soldier who fought in the War of 1812.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Jack Layton: Peace Activist
    Jack was a friend of the peace movement, and could be counted upon to find an alternative to war and to stand up for Canadian values of co-operation and diplomacy.
  • Australia’s F-35 order ‘up in the air’
    Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith has warned Parliament that repeated cost increases and delays in the F-35 programme were falling out of line with limits set by the government and military planners (Australia to decide on F-35 fighter purchase in 2012: Govt, Reuters, 17 August 2011). Sm ...
  • Peacekeeping contribution remains dismal
    Canada was once the largest single contributor to UN peacekeeping operations. Today, according to Canadians for Peacekeeping‘s third annual factsheet on Canada and UN peacekeeping, we rank 53rd among contributing countries. The ranking represents a slight drop in Canada’s position compared to la ...
  • A Season of Non-Violence: 64 Ways for 64 Days
    Pummy Kaur, a Vancouver-based author and social justice activist, has just released a new book entitled 'A Season of Non-Violence: 64 Ways for 64 Days'.
  • National Post: U.S. troubles darken cloud over ...
    A National Post editorial from the ninth of August raises concerns about Canada’s purchase of the F-35 amid the budgetary crisis playing out in the United States (“Editorial: U.S. Troubles darken cloud over F-35,” National Post, 9 August 2011). Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), a former naval aviat ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Johnson & Johnson Recall MORE Tylenol!
    July 6th, 2011 Yahoo! Finance By: Associated Press Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday announced another Tylenol recall due to a musty moldy odor linked to a trace chemical. The company’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit is recalling one product lot of Tylenol Extra Strength Caplets made in February 200 ...
  • BPA Plastics Chemical Found to Feminize Males
    July 6th, 2011 Natural News By: S.L. Baker Don’t worry, be happy. Just ignore the fact that countless researchers have warned time and time again that the chemical bisphenol A (BPA for short) is a major hormone disruptor and is a huge threat to human health. After all, we must all be safe becaus ...
  • Big Pharma’s Latest Shady Ploy to Sell Depress ...
    July 6th, 2011 Alternet.org By: Martha Rosenberg The discovery that many people with life problems or occasional bad moods would willingly dose themselves with antidepressants sailed the drug industry through the 2000s. A good chunk of the $4.5 billion a year direct-to-consumer advertising has b ...
  • Texas Governor Has Deep Ties With Merck
    July 6th, 2011 KBTX.com By: AP Gov. Rick Perry ordered Friday that schoolgirls in Texas must be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, making Texas the first state to require the shots. The girls will have to get Merck & Co.’s new vaccine against strains o ...
  • Alien Encounters To Come Within Twenty Years?
    July 6th, 2011 Guardian.co.uk By: Reuters Russian scientists expect humanity to encounter alien civilisations within the next two decades, a top Russian astronomer said on Monday. “The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms … Life exists on other planets and we will find it w ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Open Letter to Barack Obama - pre-election
    We - citizens of Haiti, political militants and unionists of the grassroots movement for democracy in our country - solemnly address ourselves to you on the eve of the election that will most likely make you the next president of the United States....
  • Brazil: The high price of clean, cheap ethanol
    Brazil hopes to supply drivers worldwide with the fuel of the future - cheap ethanol derived from sugarcane. It is considered an effective antidote to climate change, but hundreds of thousands of Brazilian plantation workers harvest the cane at slave...
  • Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
    Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...
  • Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
    ColorOfChange.org - http://www.colorofchange.org/farmers/?id=1842-429864 is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only ...
  • Extradition threat for Black Liberation activist
    As the US opens up political channels with Cuba, Black Liberation Army - http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html activist Assata Shakur faces extradition from the country where she has lived under political asylum since 1984, writes Paul Scott. While the mainstream media portrays Shak ...

War in Context

  • Revolt without revolution
    Slavoj Žižek writes: Repetition, according to Hegel, plays a crucial role in history: when something happens just once, it may be dismissed as an accident, something that might have been avoided if the situation had been handled differently; but when the same event repeats itself, it is a sign ...
  • The Arab Awakening
    Rami G. Khouri writes: When Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in rural Tunisia on December 17, 2010, he set in motion a dynamic that goes far beyond the overthrow of individual dictators. We are witnessing nothing less than the awakening, throughout the Arab world, of several phenomena that ...
  • The dead end of globalisation looms before our ...
    Pankaj Mishra writes: In India, tens of thousands of middle-class people respond to a quasi-Gandhian activist’s call for a second freedom struggle â this time, against the country’s venal “brown masters”, as one protester told the Wall Street Journal. Middle-class Israelis demanding “social jus ...
  • Libya conflict: Evidence emerges of executions ...
    The Guardian reports: Dozens of bodies have been found in Tripoli with signs of executions carried out by both sides in the civil war. Reuters news agency reported discovering 30 bullet-riddled bodies of fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, of which two had been bound with plastic handcuffs, and ...
  • Israel agrees to joint investigation with Egyp ...
    An Israel Army Radio report said that Israel’s domestic intelligence service, Shin Bet, recommended a preemptive attack against members of the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza, prior to the attacks by gunmen near Eilat in southern Israel last week. The report said that the request was turne ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Telegraph geography FAIL
    More “Row to the Pole” nonsense writ large: Ummmm…no, Mr. Hough, the Telegraph’s headline and story are simply wrong. You are a victim of spin and/or a failed geography lesson. First congratulations, to the RttP team for reaching their destination, … Continue reading →
  • Climate activist McKibben bizarrely blames Hur ...
    Post by Dr. Ryan N. Maue Bill McKibben authors a bizarre piece in the Daily Beast where he not only blames the strength of Hurricane Irene on global warming but connects the storm to President Obama’s expected approval of the … Continue reading →
  • NOAA Hurricane Image: Irene almost one-third t ...
    From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center NOAA satellites Hurricane Irene almost one-third the size of US east coast Hurricane Irene is a major hurricane, and NOAA/NASA satellite data shows its diameter is now about one-third the length of the U.S. Atlantic … Continue reading →
  • Zhao and Running’s plant productivity cl ...
    UPDATE: Here’s the press release from  Boston University: From Boston University NASA study refutes claims of drought-driven declines in plant productivity, global food security BU researchers find that modeling errors produced exaggerated claims A new, comprehensive study by an international … ...
  • Global warming is killing the stars
    People send me things. Today it is a curious graph of the number of supernovae (dying stars) discovered versus the HadCRUT temperature data since 1960. There’s a good correlation. So at first glance you might conclude two things, 1) GCR’s, … Continue reading →

treehugger

  • 18 Resources For Preparing and Responding to H ...
    The greenest building is the one already standing, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation has compiled a terrific list of documents for homes, businesses and governments on how to prepare for disasters and how to react to them. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • How Nature Makes Soil, And You Can Too (Video)
    Image credit: Ecofilms Australia From helping to convert arid, salty desert into a productive permaculture garden, to reminding us of the astounding fact that there are 40 tons of life in just one acre of soil, Geoff Lawton knows a thing or two about the magic of soil. Here he reveals a few ...
  • The Week in Animal News: Earthquake-Predicting ...
    Photo: shannonkringen/Creative Commons It had been over a century since an earthquake last rattled the East Coast, so it's no surprise that the millions of people who felt the shaking yesterday were caught off guard -- but it turns out, as a species, humans may have been the only ones. Acco ...
  • Property Rights Are Not Absolutes. "Everyman's ...
    Image credit: Aleksi Stenberg, used under Creative Commons license. When I wrote about what I learned from trespassing as a kid, I argued that property rights—though most likely necessary—are tools to achieve a certain end, not ideological absolutes. Anthony Albert proved my point by noting ...
  • The Week in Pictures: Massive Phytoplankton Bl ...
    Photo: TreeHugger A NASA satellite has sent down an image of a phytoplankton bloom stretching across the Barents Sea, located north of Norway and Russia. The bloom is over 500 miles long and several hundred miles wide. While it is a common occurrence for the area during August, it is rare t ...

Biosingularity

  • Team describes neurological basis for embarras ...
    Recording people belting out an old Motown tune and then asking them to listen to their own singing without the accompanying music seems like an unusually cruel form of punishment. But for a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, ...
  • New Research Suggests Dramatic Shift In Unders ...
    Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in collaboration with researchers at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, have made a critical discovery that may lead scientists to abandon the use of broad conventional ethnic labelsâAfrican-American, Hispanic, and Caucasianâto es ...
  • Anti-inflammatory drug may fight breast cancer
    German researchers have identified an unexpected molecular marker that predicts how sensitive hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancers are to chemotherapy. Triple-negative breast cancers –which do not express the genes for estrogen receptor, or progesterone receptor and do not have Her2/neu ...
  • The soul of a cell: Researchers used advanced ...
    Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have taken a machine already in use for the measurement of impurities in semiconductors and used it to analyze immune cells in far more detail than has been possible before. The new technology lets scientists take simultaneous measurement ...
  • Juice cocktail ‘good for heart’
    A blend of fruit juices, including grape, cranberry and blackcurrant, may have benefits for the heart, research suggests. French scientists tested the blend on pig arteries in the lab, and found it caused artery walls to relax. It remains to be seen whether fruit juices can improve vascular heal ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Ukrainians fighting for Gaddafi captured in Li ...
    Libyan rebels said on Friday they had captured a group of Ukrainian nationals during a battle for a Tripoli district controlled by forces loyal to Col. Muammar Gaddafi, a report questioned by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
  • Russia to test launch Soyuz rockets before del ...
    Russia will carry out two unmanned test launches of Soyuz carrier rockets in the coming fall before using them to deliver crews to the International Space Station, a source in the Russian space industry said on Friday.
  • A resort of last resorts: Sochi
    I’ve never quite figured out why Sochi is considered a “resort city” because other than gravel and rough sand beaches, there is really nothing else there except for the sea. And all this nothing will cost you a bundle…
  • Abkhazian presidential polls pass voting threshold
    Presidential elections in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia have exceeded the voting threshold of 51 percent turnout, the head of Abkhazia's Central Election Committee, Batal Tabagua, said.
  • NATO troops in Libya: No entry, no exit
    The Libyan rebels' somewhat dubious success in Tripoli threatens to draw NATO into a ground operation while Washington is wondering whether the European coalition was right to rush into battle.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • 'No on HB 194': Activism, fatigue, and the GOP ...
    Since the Wisconsin recalls there has been quite a bit of commentary about how folks want a break from politics, and maybe a campaign to oust Scott Walker early next year should be postponed. Some of it is just garden variety concern trolling by conservatives who understand just how devastating ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Lance Cpl. Travis M. Nelson, 19, of Pace, FL.Army Spc. Joshua M. Seals, 21, of Porter, OK.Army ...
  • 'No on Issue 2': Yes, GOP, this is really happ ...
    Last week the Ohio politics blog Plunderbund had a series of posts about the sudden and dramatic sense of desperation that had seized the right. The panic began with an editorial from the conservative Columbus Dispatch. It was so completely at odds with reality that even a casual follower of s ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Spencer C. Duncan, 21, of Olathe, KS.Army Sgt. Alexander J. Bennett, 24, of Tacoma, WA.Army ...
  • Wisconsin's big union win and the growing libe ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postTuesday’s recall elections in Wisconsin were a stunning rebuke to the Republican party. As Craig Gilbert wrote back in March: “History tells us that most of the 16 recall attempts under way in Wisconsin are likely to fail. It als ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Video of the Week: Olbermann, McKibben Talk Ta ...
    The Tar Sands Pipeline protests which put prominent activists in jail this weekend--220 arrests in DC and counting--is finally drawing big covering in the media. Click here to read this article
  • Nurses Union Calls for Nationwide Action Septe ...
    Nurses call their neighbors and their elected officials to come to Main Street on September 1, even as many of the elected officials continue chiding one another about returning to DC.Click here to read this article
  • Does this Wind Turbine Make McDonald's Ass Loo ...
    This wind turbine sits atop an experimental "green" McDonald's in Achim, Germany. On the one hand, it's a cynical ploy to make us feel all right about eating some of the least sustainable food on the planet. On the other hand, in a sustainable future, wind turbines and solar panels will be absol ...
  • ConAgra Sued Over GMO '100% Natural' Cooking Oils
    If you use Wesson brand cooking oils, you may be able to join a class action against food giant ConAgra for deceptively marketing the products as natural.Click here to read this article
  • Airport Beekeeping Project is a Win-Win-Win
    Create a beekeeping project that uses vacant land in the flight path and trains ex-convicts in the art and science of beekeeping, selling the resulting honey and beeswax to support the program.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

  • Britons face insurance crisis as U.K.s gove ...
    Direct Line and Aviva Plc (AV/) are among British insurers threatening to tear up an agreement with the government because the U.K. is cutting spending on flood defenses.( whither goes Holland ? )Submitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 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. Submitted by Andy Extance to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • U.S. Congress Paves the Way for Coal Ash To Co ...
    the EPA has been taking comments and holding public hearings on two proposed rules, one of which would create the first ever national regulation on coal ash disposal, or, as it is otherwise called, coal combustion residues.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why Is the Military Spending Millions on Chris ...
    a plethora of events, programs, and schemes that violate not only the Constitution, but, in many cases, the regulations on federal government contractors,promoting evangelical and/or fundamentalist ChristianitySubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Norway's 9/11: The Horror Is In The Message
    You will send your troops where we tell you, you will buy foreign products regardless of ethical considerations, you will stop supporting the vermin we are trying to eradicate, and under no circumstances will you threaten anyone. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Nativist Leader Says Violence May be Needed to ...
    Nativist Leader Says Violence May be Needed to Save ‘White America’ | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center: While much of the political rhetoric on the right these days is laden with violent... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • TeleSURtv.net - Residencia del embajador de Ve ...
    TeleSURtv.net - Residencia del embajador de Venezuela en Trípoli fue saqueada Venezuela’s ambassador in Libya, Tajeldine Afif, said Wednesday that his home in Tripoli was attacked by armed groups... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Haiti’s Earthquake Victims: 'Abandoned Like St ...
    Haiti’s Earthquake Victims: 'Abandoned Like Stray Dogs' - IPS ipsnews.net: By Jane Regan* PETIT-GOAVE, Haiti, Aug 24, 2011 (IPS) - Eighty thousand tiny houses dot the countryside near this coastal... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • No Right Turn: Twitter didn't cause the UK riots
    No Right Turn: Twitter didn't cause the UK riots: When the UK was wracked by rioting earlier in the month, British Prime Minister David Cameron was quick to blame social media and threatened to shut... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • BOLIVIA: Morales Clashes with Native Protester ...
    BOLIVIA: Morales Clashes with Native Protesters over Road through Tropical Park - IPS ipsnews.net: LA PAZ, Aug 24, 2011 (IPS) - The lack of regulations for consulting indigenous communities in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Ex-Blackwater contractor seeks job in Afghanistan
    ShareThisEx-Blackwater contractor seeks job in Afghanistan 26 Aug 2011 A former Blackwater contractor convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of an Afghan civilian wants to take a new job - in Afghanistan. Chris Drotleff of Virginia Beach has asked a federal judge for permission to trave ...
  • Hurricane Irene: 750,000 Told to Flee Homes
    ShareThisHurricane Irene: 750,000 Told to Flee Homes --More than 50m people potentially in path of the storm 26 Aug 2011 Officials in New Jersey have ordered a mandatory evacuation which could affect 750,000 people as Hurricane Irene looms. The Philadelphia Inquirer said officials in Cape May co ...
  • C.I.A. Demands Cuts in Book About 9/11 and Ter ...
    ShareThisC.I.A. Demands Cuts in Book About 9/11 and Terror Fight 26 Aug 2011 In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent y ...
  • Rick Perry Sought State Profits From Teacher L ...
    ShareThisRick Perry Sought State Profits From Teacher Life Insurance Scheme 25 Aug 2011 Two weeks before Thanksgiving in 2003, top officials from Texas Governor Rick Perry's office pitched an unusual offer to the state's retired teachers: Let's get into the death business. Perry's budget directo ...
  • WikiLeaks publishes tens of thousands more cables
    ShareThisWikiLeaks publishes tens of thousands more cables 25 Aug 2011 The WikiLeaks organization said Thursday it was releasing tens of thousands of previously unpublished U.S. diplomatic cables, some of which are still classified. "We will have released over 100,000 US embassy cables from arou ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Edvard Munch in the Marijuana Patch
    My heavily armed tent mates hours before the mission. 24 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan, 4-4Cav We live in tents.� Nice tents with air conditioning.� But not now; the electricity and air conditioning are out again and I�m sweating in a boiling ten ...
  • Tracer Burnout
    A Female Engagement Team (FET) at work in an Afghan compound. The notions that women should not, cannot, or do not go into combat, all are invalid. They should, they can, and they do. And here we need them. 22 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan, 4-4Cav ...
  • Battlefield Forensics
    The Later meeting 18 August 2011 Task Force Spartan, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan During a planning session at a sand table, numerous firefights broke out.� We were at safe distance but close enough to hear heavy volumes of machine gun, AK-47 and RPGs.� The enemy had hit three targets simult ...
  • JTAC: Joint Terminal Attack Controller
    17 August 2011 4-4Cav in Combat Operation Flintlock We made it off the helicopter landing zone with no fighting. The enemy was not afraid of us, but they must have been taken by surprise. Two Air Force JTACs were along for the mission, as they nearly always are in deliberate attacks that mi ...
  • Body Bags & Speedballs
    Body bag drag 16 August 2011 Zhary District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan The enemy is easily resupplied.� His arteries for food and water are shorter than snake legs.�� He can buy or steal much of what he needs to fight.��� We don�t steal food or materials from locals, so we must plan for ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • 18 Resources For Preparing and Responding to H ...
    The greenest building is the one already standing, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation has compiled a terrific list of documents for homes, businesses and governments on how to prepare for disasters and how to react to them. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • How Nature Makes Soil, And You Can Too (Video)
    Image credit: Ecofilms Australia From helping to convert arid, salty desert into a productive permaculture garden, to reminding us of the astounding fact that there are 40 tons of life in just one acre of soil, Geoff Lawton knows a thing or two about the magic of soil. Here he reveals a few ...
  • The Week in Animal News: Earthquake-Predicting ...
    Photo: shannonkringen/Creative Commons It had been over a century since an earthquake last rattled the East Coast, so it's no surprise that the millions of people who felt the shaking yesterday were caught off guard -- but it turns out, as a species, humans may have been the only ones. Acco ...
  • Property Rights Are Not Absolutes. "Everyman's ...
    Image credit: Aleksi Stenberg, used under Creative Commons license. When I wrote about what I learned from trespassing as a kid, I argued that property rights—though most likely necessary—are tools to achieve a certain end, not ideological absolutes. Anthony Albert proved my point by noting ...
  • The Week in Pictures: Massive Phytoplankton Bl ...
    Photo: TreeHugger A NASA satellite has sent down an image of a phytoplankton bloom stretching across the Barents Sea, located north of Norway and Russia. The bloom is over 500 miles long and several hundred miles wide. While it is a common occurrence for the area during August, it is rare t ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Mladic given 6 days to answer ICTY request to ...
    [JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Thursday gave former Serbian general and alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic [ICTY backgrounder, PDF; JURIST news archive] six days to respond to a motion to split his trial [JURIST report]. The ICT ...
  • El Salvador high court refuses to arrest soldi ...
    [JURIST] The Supreme Court of El Salvador [official website, in Spanish] on Wednesday blocked the arrests and extradition of nine former soldiers accused of committing the 1989 "Jesuit Massacre," defying Interpol [official website] red notices for the suspects. The court said that Spain had not ...
  • Federal court hears arguments on Alabama immig ...
    [JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website], joined by several rights groups, appeared before a federal judge in the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama [official website] on Wednesday seeking a temporary injunction of the state's new immigration law [HB 56 ...
  • Nigeria anti-corruption agency ineffective: HRW
    [JURIST] Corruption in the Nigerian government has become endemic [press release], Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] reported [materials] Thursday, criticizing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) [official website] particularly and the administration of President Goodlu ...
  • New Jersey high court creates new guidelines f ...
    [JURIST] The New Jersey Supreme Court [official website] on Wednesday ruled [text] that eyewitness-based evidence should be treated more cautiously by New Jersey courts, issuing new guidelines for judges. The court instructed that judges in future cases should hold pretrial hearings to determine ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Barak Walking Horse Back to Barn: Eilat Attack ...
    CNN has published a new video interview with Ehud Barak about the Eilat terror attacks.  In it, Barak contradicts himself and previous Israeli statements about the attack and its authors.  Barak’s first lie is the claim: “We killed most of the operators of this terrorist attack.  We killed th ...
  • MJ Rosenberg Joins J Street, Calls My Criticis ...
    At one time, I considered myself a friend and political ally of Media Matters columnist MJ Rosenberg.  But then, Norman Finkelstein was arrested by Israel after landing at Ben Gurion Airport on his way to visit a Palestinian friend who worked for B’Tselem.  Israel’s claims against Finkelstein ...
  • China to Support Palestinian Statehood Bid
    When the world’s second most powerful country lines up behind you surely the rest of the world will take notice.  The PA scored a major success in its campaign to bring the idea of Palestinian statehood before the United Nations next month.  China announced it would support the bid.  Doubtles ...
  • Turkey Considering Cut-Off of Economic Ties Wi ...
    Turkey’s main newspaper reports that that nation’s government has told the Obama administration that Israel’s refusal to apologize for the Mavi Marmara killings will have serious repercussions.  It is contemplating completely severing economic ties with Israel, which is a sizable trading partne ...
  • BBC Exposes Abusisi Kidnapping Story
    Gabriel Gatehouse, a BBC foreign correspondent, has delved deeply into the Abubisi story for a major documentary report (podcast) on his kidnapping by Israel and trial for alleged security offenses.  I’m proud to say that Gatehouse came upon the story through my own reporting on this.  Though ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Zeega Enables Communities to Create Interactiv ...
    We at Zeega want to enable anyone to create interactive documentaries and invent new forms of storytelling. For inspiration, we've looked to a figure who challenged the documentary form right when radio and film were being invented a century ago: Dziga Vertov. Best known for the remarkable f ...
  • NextDrop Tackles Water Availability Issues in ...
    In Western countries, we take it for granted that we have access to clean water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. At our fingertips is water that is plentiful enough to run our washing machines, warm enough for a hot shower, and safe enough to drink. In much of the developing world, however, this s ...
  • Mobile Tech Brings Hope to Children in Zimbabwe
    In Zimbabwe, it's common for people to receive information over their mobile phones rather than using email or the Internet. That's why Kubatana, a non-profit that aims to improve the accessibility of human rights and civic information in Zimbabwe, teamed up with Freedom Fone to broaden access t ...
  • Public Lab Helps Communities Do 'Civic Science ...
    Recently, a resident of Plaquemines Parish, La., made a striking comment to me about the importance of local involvement and knowledge in post-disaster projects: Listen to the people that have been down here, lived here, fished here, and camped here their whole entire lives and even their pa ...
  • An Inside Look at Stroome's Metamorphosis in T ...
    If you've used Stroome, our collaborative video remixing site, in the last few weeks, you will have noticed, and hopefully enjoyed, a complete redesign of the site. User flow has now been streamlined, and the embedded community and collaborative elements make the process a lot more fun: ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Battle for Libya - Dividing the Spoils in ...
    With the end of the Gadhafi regime seemingly in sight, it is an opportune time to step back and revisit one of the themes we discussed at the beginning of the crisis: What comes after the Gadhafi regime?As the experiences of recent years in Iraq and Afghanistan have vividly illustrated, it is fa ...
  • The Battle for Libya - Libyan Rebels using Unm ...
    Unmanned aerial vehicles are nothing new to the U.S. military, which has used them extensively for reconnaissance and combat in the Mideast and Central Asia. Larger UAVs, piloted remotely from the U.S., have condeucted reconnaissance overflights as well as missile attacks in Afghanistan and Paki ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Norway Needs a Single ...
    In a recent interview, Norway’s Ambassador to Israel has suggested that Hamas terrorism against Israel is more justified than the recent terrorist attack against Norway. His reasoning is that, “We Norwegians consider the occupation to be the cause of the terror against Israel.” In other words te ...
  • Nicaragua on Edge - Murder of Nicaraguan pries ...
    The Catholic Church in Nicaragua confirmed on August 23 that a body recovered that morning at the Kilometre 16 marker on the road from Managua to Leon was indeed that of Fr. Marlon Ernesto Pupiro Garcia of the province of Masaya. According to the Archdiocese of Managua, Fr. Pupiro had been missi ...
  • After the BP Spill - Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill ...
    One year after launching a program to compensate the victims of the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, administrator Kenneth Feinberg said Tuesday the process has “largely succeeded,” while acknowledging some initial missteps.President Obama tapped Feinberg last year to head up the claims process ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Almost a Decade Ago WFAN's Mike Francesa and C ...
    On 9/11/01 I was sitting in my office when I received an IM from my brother telling me of the first crash and urging me to turn on the TV (I worked for Nickelodeon at the time and had a TV in my office). Turning on the set I saw what I thought was a replay of the crash, sadly it was no replay, i ...
  • Man Made Global Warming Another Romney Flip Flop
    Once again the media has it all wrong.� They claim that the conservative wing of the GOP has trouble with Mitt Romney because of some of the positions he has taken on the issues.� That's not quite true. Conservative Republicans have an issue with Romney because his positions change so often t ...
  • Glenn Beck by the Temple Mount as The Media Cr ...
    by Barry Rubin Glenn Beck�s program in Israel went off without a hitch, ending in a rally on the southern side of the Old City of Jerusalem. About 1000 people were in attendance, mostly Americans (contrary to the media coverage, a number of the Americans were Jews not Evangelicals) who ...
  • Egyptians in Terror Attack? Warning from Egypt ...
    By Barry Rubin To begin with, President Obama’s supporters are praising him for having overthrown Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qadhafi at no cost in American lives. I predict that the situation will break down within months into factional infighting, atrocities against civilians, and become ...
  • Uh-Oh Is Global Warming Causing Mosquitoes To ...
    Once again, its time to add to the Official �Stupid Things Used To Fear Monger About Global Warming� List.� The new entry is plants and animals are migrating to the north. Cluttering the northern slope of Alaska for example. But it's not just Alaska,� Many animal species are now living� n ...

The Real Agenda

  • Hurricane Irene on its way to New York
    See current path forecast images here. by Kristina Pydynowski AccuWeather.com August 25, 2011 Hurricane Irene is now on a path that could take it dangerously close to, if not over, the mid-Atlantic coastline and New York City on Sunday, posing a serious danger to millions of people. Irene could ...
  • Brazil Protecting Colombian FARC Terrorist Sin ...
    by Alex Newman The New American August 23, 2011 American and Colombian officials suspected that a decision by the Brazilian government granting political asylum to a prominent Marxist terrorist was made under pressure from former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose Workers’ Party (PT) has ...
  • Fracking is Likely Cause of Virginia Earthquake
    Earthquakes induced by human activity have been documented in a few locations in the United States, Japan and Canada,â writes the USGS. âThe cause was injection of fluids into deep wells for waste disposal and secondary recovery of oil and the use of reservoirs for water supplies.” RT August 25, ...
  • Libya: U.S. Government Propaganda and Media Lies
    by Brian Becker Global Research August 24, 2011 Libya is a small country of just over 6 million people but it possesses the largest oil reserves in all of Africa. The oil produced there is especially coveted because of its particularly high quality. The Air Force of the United States along with ...
  • Pregnant Women Being Dosed with Chemotherapy
    by Christina Luisa NaturalNews.com August 24, 2011 In the world of medicine, the toxicity of chemotherapy drugs is widely known. They make your hair fall out, after all, and that’s on top of the muscle wasting, vomiting and overall health deterioration that chemo drugs admittedly produce. But no ...

Wind Watch

  • Fenland towns reject latest wind farm application
    Whittlesey and Ramsey town councils have voted against the building of more wind turbines near their towns. There are eight wind farms in the Cambridgeshire Fens, another one is being built and a further two have received planning consent. “We’re pretty fed-up,” said Martin Curtis, a town, distr ...
  • Court upholds town’s appeal of BRSA turb ...
    A New Jersey Superior Court judge has denied the Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority�s (BRSA) motion to dismiss a lawsuit by Union Beach that seeks to block the authority�s plans to locate a 380-foot-tall industrial wind turbine . Union Beach will continue to contest the turbine through the cou ...
  • No Brimfield Wind members take up cause agains ...
    BRIMFIELD — Rather than walk away from issues related to wind turbines when a proposal for a wind farm on West Mountain was dropped, members of No Brimfield Wind have been working with a state organization to stop such projects. âOur group, Wind Wise Massachusetts, has called for a moratorium un ...
  • Groups claim wind energy detrimental to West V ...
    Members of the Allegheny Highland Alliance and Allegheny Front Alliance say benefits of wind energy are few and far between. Although wind energy production is increasing in the Mountain State, two groups argue that it might ultimately be detrimental. Every energy source has its critics ranging ...
  • Turbines get pass on killing eagles; Environme ...
    Blue Mountain Alliance, a regional conservation group, recently raised objections to proposed federal guidelines that allow wind power turbines to kill a limited number of bald eagles and other raptors. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is revising its land-based wind energy guidelines, measure ...

Tippers News

  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (:Submitted by Evelyn J. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...
  • Dog Beating Charge Sends Key Largo Man To Jail
    A witness said Bubba upset Mitchell when he tried to run away. Mitchell caught the dog by the collar, the witness said, and dragged him so violently inside he damaged the dog's neck and esophagus. Then Bubba grabbed a steak from the kitchen counter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note ...
  • Targeted Dog Expected to Recover; Another Fear ...
    On Saturday morning, "Shiloh" and "Weenie" went out in the fields across from their home on Ninepin Branch Road in Berlin as they normally do. But only "Shiloh" returned to the doorstep, and her owner discovered disturbing wounds.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Social Cooperation, Part 2
    Only individuals value, choose, and act, of course, but in an important sense the resulting social whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
  • Obama Steps Up Cooperation with Mexican Drug P ...
    “The Obama administration has expanded its role in Mexicoâs fight against organized crime by allowing the Mexican police to stage cross-border drug raids from inside the United States, according to senior administration and military officials.” (New York Times) Madness. FEE Timely Classic “How t ...
  • Investors Await Fed Chief’s Speech
    “All week, investors have been counting down to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s speech. With the big even just hours away, U.S. stocks were headed for a mixed open Friday.” (CNN Money) No one should have this much power. FEE Timely Classic “Boom and Bust: Crisis and Response” by Gerald P ...
  • 2011 Deficit Expected to Come in at $1.3 Trillion
    “The government will run another $1.3 trillion deficit in fiscal 2011, Congressâ chief scorekeeper said Wednesday in a report that highlighted both an economy that will struggle over the next few years and a federal budget showing massive red ink for the foreseeable future. The deficit marks the ...
  • Government Refinancing of Mortgages Being Mulled
    “The Obama administration is considering further actions to strengthen the housing market, but the bar is high: plans must help a broad swath of homeowners, stimulate the economy and cost next to nothing. One proposal would allow millions of homeowners with government-backed mortgages to refina ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: States' weak coal ash oversig ...
    When a massive coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee failed back in December 2008, it dumped a billion gallons of coal ash -- the toxic waste left over after burning coal -- into a nearby community and waterways. The disaster spurred calls fo ...
  • VOICES: Obama skewers the immigrant justice mo ...
    By Kung Li The Obama administration announced last week it will be reviewing pending immigration deportation cases in order to prioritize people with criminal records for deportation over "low-priority" immigrants. Individuals eligible for the DREAM Act, veterans, and victims of crime who are c ...
  • Buying 2012: Nearly two-thirds of House campai ...
    As the role of big money in elections steadily grows, the 2012 Congressional elections are on track to shatter all earlier records for campaign cash. According to data released by the Federal Election Commission this week, U.S. House and Senate candidates raised more than $287 million so far fo ...
  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Again, the absolute inability to consider obvi ...
    The NYTimes on solutions to the scarcity of important drugs which are generic and thus of little interest to big pharma: Beyond limited responses, like using the F.D.A.’s discretionary powers to expedite temporary imports of drugs that are sold overseas but not here, there are very few ways to e ...
  • Austerity kills
    On Friday, four people died in flash flooding in Pittsburgh.  Those deaths were preventable as the road that they were on is a known flood basin and the road most likely had blocked storm drains. Storm drains, especially drains at the bottom of a collection area will get blocked up with dirt, sa ...
  • Austerity kills
    On Friday, four people died in flash flooding in Pittsburgh.  Those deaths were preventable as the road that they were on is a known flood basin and the road most likely had blocked storm drains. Storm drains, especially drains at the bottom of a collection area will get blocked up with dirt, sa ...
  • RIP, Jack Layton, Federal New Democratic Party ...
    If you haven’t heard, Jack died of cancer.  I only saw him in person once, at a Toronto council meeting back when he was a city councilor, but he impressed me at the time as one of only three councilors who showed decent respect to the citizens giving testimony.  I didn’t know then, and don’t ...
  • RIP, Jack Layton, Federal New Democratic Party ...
    If you haven’t heard, Jack died of cancer.  I only saw him in person once, at a Toronto council meeting back when he was a city councilor, but he impressed me at the time as one of only three councilors who showed decent respect to the citizens giving testimony.  I didn’t know then, and don’t ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Nearby supernova may illuminate dark energy puzzle
    A Type Ia supernova, the brightest and most energetic kind of stellar explosion – and the type that astronomers use to measure the accelerating expansion of the universe – has been spotted in a nearby galaxy, making it the closest such event in nearly 40 years. Astronomers working with the Pa ...
  • Ancient DNA shaped our immune system
    Posted on behalf of Lee Sweetlove. Modern humans (Homo sapiens) arose in Africa and migrated to Europe and Asia where they displaced resident archaic humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans. Sequencing of archaic human genomes shows that interbreeding occurred between these different human ...
  • US energy research agency oversight criticized ...
    With a proposed cut of 45% hanging in the balance in the US Congress, it’s a tense season for officials at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), the arm of the US Department of Energy (DOE) that specializes in funding high-risk high-payoff research on energy. Now an audit report ...
  • Report on alleged scientific misconduct to rem ...
    A US court has rebuffed a freedom of information request for an investigation report into strongly-denied allegations of research misconduct at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, which is run by non-profit UT Battelle under contract to the US Department of Energy (DOE). I’m the plai ...
  • Nature Podcast: 25 Aug 2011
    Tune in to the Nature Podcast this week for the connection between cosmic rays and climate; to hear how high temperatures make tempers run high; and a reason to reduce antibiotic use - our friendly gut bacteria might be a target.

new geography

  • Suburbanized Core Cities
    The suburbs of major metropolitan areas captured the overwhelming majority of population growth between 2000 and 2010, actually increasing their share of growth, as has been previously reported. However, it is often not understood that much of the recent central city (Note 1) growth has actu ...
  • The Decline and Fall of the French Language?
    It's been indisputable for some time that English is becoming the ‘universal language’. As the number of living languages has steadily decreased, the use of English has expanded on every continent. And though English has not — despite predictions — crushed all other languages (German, Russian, a ...
  • Inside The Sinosphere
    Avis Tang, a cool, well-dressed software company executive, lives on the glossy frontier of China’s global expansion. From his perch amid tower blocks of Tianfu Software Park on the outskirts of the Sichuan capital of Chengdu, the 48-year-old graduate of Taiwan’s National Institute of the ...
  • What Does Rick Perry Have To Do With Texas' Su ...
    You don’t have to like Rick Perry or his sometimes scary neo-confederate politics to admire what has been happening in Texas over the past decade. Rather than trashing the state in order to demean its governor, perhaps the mainstream media should be thinking about what the Lone Star’s su ...
  • Megabus – King of the Road
    In recent years there’s been a resurgence in intercity bus travel, driven by the rise of low cost, non-stop service linking tier one cities like New York, Chicago, and Washington, DC with other regional hubs in their surrounding areas. This is a lively and diverse market, particularly on the ea ...

GM Watch

  • Beetle develops Bt-resistance to GM corn
    Monsanto GM Corn in Peril: Beetle develops Bt-resistance Rady Ananda People's Voice, August 24 2011 http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/08/24/monsanto-gm-corn-in-peril-beetle-develop Nature herself may be the best opponent of genetically modified crops and pesticides. Not only p ...
  • Beetle develops Bt-resistance to GM corn
    Monsanto GM Corn in Peril: Beetle develops Bt-resistance Rady Ananda People's Voice, August 24 2011 http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/08/24/monsanto-gm-corn-in-peril-beetle-develop Nature herself may be the best opponent of genetically modified crops and pesticides. Not only p ...
  • Indian government sabotaging public debate
    1.Government sabotaging Public Debate on Genetically Modified crops 2.Critique of the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill - extract --- --- 1. Government sabotaging Public Debate on Genetically Modified crops by the introduction of BRAI bill Coalition for a GM-Free India, 24 ...
  • Indian government sabotaging public debate
    1.Government sabotaging Public Debate on Genetically Modified crops 2.Critique of the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill - extract --- --- 1. Government sabotaging Public Debate on Genetically Modified crops by the introduction of BRAI bill Coalition for a GM-Free India, 24 ...
  • Anti-viral bug could stop dengue spread
    NOTE: This is particularly interesting in relation to the work on creating transgenic mosquitoes for fighting malaria and dengue which are starting to be released into the environment. EXTRACT: "It's a natural agent that exists within insects to block viruses," says Hoffmann. "We're not genetic ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Midd ...
    Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking?  Well, you are not imagining things.  A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded.  Today, most Am ...
  • 3, 2, 1: Global Debt Meltdown
    We are steamrolling toward a massive global debt meltdown, and at this point world leaders seem to be all out of solutions.  Over the last 30 years or so, the greatest debt bubble in the history of the planet has produced unprecedented prosperity in the western world.  But now t ...
  • 21 Signs That The New Reality For Many Baby Bo ...
    All over America tonight, millions of elderly Americans are wondering if their money is going to run out before it is time for them to die.  Those that are now past retirement age are not going to be rioting in the streets, but that doesn't mean that large numbers of them are no ...
  • 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 ...
  • Taxed Into Oblivion
    In the United States today, we are being taxed into oblivion, yet it is being done so stealthily that most Americans don't even realize what is happening.  Most people are fixated on federal income tax rates, but the federal income tax is only one of the dozens of different taxe ...

Desertification

  • Drought : direct consequence of weather phenom ...
    Read at : http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=104899 Global Warming Behind Somali Drought By Julio Godoy PARIS, Aug 26, 2011 (IPS) – The severe drought in the Horn of Africa, which has caused the death of at least 30,000 children and is affecting some … Continue reading →
  • Refuting earlier alarmist claims that drought ...
    Read at : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/bu-nsr_2081211.php NASA study refutes claims of drought-driven declines in plant productivity, global food security BU researchers find that modeling errors produced exaggerated claims A new, comprehensive study by an international team of ...
  • Simple and ready-to-use packaged kits : bucket ...
    Read at : http://www.atdforum.org/spip.php?article450 Affordable Drip Irrigation Technology By Webmaster International Development Enterprise India (IDEI)âs Drip irrigation programme started in 1997 to address the irrigation problems of small and marginal farm families living in water scarce reg ...
  • China’s investments in the continent were mean ...
    Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/08/china-rejects-german-officials.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 China rejects German official’s criticism of its Africa farm investments by Chuin-Wei Yap ...
  • Illiteracy, cultural practices, poverty and in ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93578 KENYA: Culture, poverty fuelling malnutrition MWINGI, 25 August 2011 (IRIN) – A mix of illiteracy, cultural practices, poverty and institutional challenges is compounding already high drought-related child malnutrition levels in parts ...

The Paper Trail

  • 10 Koch plants that put the most Americans at risk
    Environment Plants that use chemicals must file plans with the EPA for worst-case scenarios, like this refinery fire in Texas. Matt Slocum/AP Koch Industries is lobbying to prevent tougher counter-terrorism standards for its facilities that use hazardous toxic chemicals.
  • State Dept. spends terrorism and emergency dol ...
    WorldAccountability Auditors question uses and oversight of special fund meant for crises, evacuations from Egypt and Libya, and other ‘extraordinary’ needs Evan Bush/ iWatch News State Department officials have used some of a multimillion dollar annual fund meant for urgen ...
  • FACT CHECK: Real origins of Obama's Canadian-A ...
    FactWatch Critics call the president's $2.2M tour bus, purchased in Canada, a hypocritical move President Obama boards his bus in Maquoketa, Iowa. Carolyn Kaster/AP Q: Was President Obama's tour bus made in Canada? A: The shell of the $1.1 million bus came from Canada, b ...
  • Global Muckraking
    World The BBC program, Panorama, investigates a torture camp run by Zimbabwe's security forces near the country's Marange diamond mines, which by some estimates hold a fifth of the world’s diamond deposits. 
  • Fourth fire this year strikes refinery that re ...
    Fueling Fears Company reports no chemical releases but event underscores risks to nation's aging fuel factories The Sunoco refinery in Philadelphia. Matt Rourke/Associated Press In another sign of ongoing risks facing the refining industry and people who live nearby, a f ...

backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • From Meta-Politics To Mass Murder – A New Righ ...
    It is horrible. The massacre on Utøya and attack in Oslo’s government district is the worst right-wing terrorist act directed against the Scandinavian labor movement. How could it happen? How could such an extensive and long-term terrorist plan go complete ...
  • Verizon Strike Highlights Need for New Workers ...
    verizon.jpg 45,000 American workers from the CWA have been on strike for nearly two weeks. Adam Ford, of Infantile Disorder, examines the lengths the company and the state have gone to to undermine t ...
  • Philippine airline workers under attack!
    Philippine airline workers under attack! This is the latest development in the Philippines concerning the state and capitalists' attacks against the working class. The union despite its "pro-worker" rhetoric still cling to legal mean ...
  • IWW – Major gains at Heron Tower dispute
    Heron Tower.jpg Industrial Workers of the World Cleaners and Allied Grades Branch has secured significant gains to the benefit of low-paid cleaning staff Following negotiations ...
  • An open letter to those who condemn looting (P ...
    Looted-goods-lie-on-the-p-007.jpg Second part of an open letter from Socialism and/or barbarism about responses to looting. First part can be found here on Libcom. 3. They are ...

Free Range International

  • These Aren’t the Droids You’re Loo ...
    Over on the excellent Afghanistan blog, Ghosts of Alexander, Christian Bleuer has re-posted a piece written by an anonymous friend of his entitled, How to be an Afghan Expert. It’s a 12-point tutorial on how to portray yourself as an Afghanistan expert in order to land yourself a $1,000/day sala ...
  • Attention To Detail
    My good friend E2 has kept FRI alive, which enables me to throw up a post I’m dying to share.  I’m still going to stay mum about where I am and what we’re up to, but, we’ll complete our remaining projects in a few months allowing me to tell that story fairly soon…Inshallah from the [...]
  • Who’s the Enemy Here?
    Last week I wrote about how ordinary Afghans have much to fear from the villains when traveling on the highways and roads in this country.  This week, I’d like to address one of the biggest threats to those of us in the Kabul expat community: the Afghan government security apparatus.  I was insp ...
  • This Ain’t Route 66
    Since so many people in the western media have been freely tossing words like “Taliban” and “terrorist” around recently, I thought I’d give you all a slice of life glimpse into what it’s like to actually live here in Afghanistan with real terrorists.  We Americans have a love affair with cars, ...
  • An Open Letter to Martin Frost
    Dear Mr. Frost, Yesterday, while perusing through my usual roundup of blogs and new sites, I ran across your article, The Tea Party Taliban, on Politico.com.  I’m sure you thought you were quite clever, likening the American Tea Party to the Afghan Taliban, with statements such as this: Ten year ...

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...
    CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
  • Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
    Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
  • Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
    Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.
  • Don Tapscott
    Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
  • Roberta Jamieson
    Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Lacking Independence, Bar Association Remains ...
    (24 August 2011) The Iranian Central Bar Association should come to the aid of embattled lawyers subjected to harassment, unfounded criminal charges, or prison sentences for defending prisoners of conscience and advocating for human rights, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran sai ...
  • American hikers' saga shows the reason Iran ge ...
    Iran’s ruling theocrats complain that their regime, which they say is the inheritor of Persian history and culture, doesn’t get the respect they believe it deserves. It’s true enough they don’t get much respect, and over the weekend this corrupt and arbitrary government gave the world another r ...
  • Pakistan to Supply Nuclear Arms & Troops to Sa ...
    MANAMA, Bahrain, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The tiny Persian Gulf kingdom of Bahrain has reported to have recruited 3,000 Pakistanis to serve in its security forces to quell protesters from the Shiite majority the government says are backed by Iran.read more
  • دیدار و گریبان گیری 3 ساعته مهدی کروبی و اژه ا ...
    پاسخ کروبی به اژه ای  و قاضی صلواتی که در دادسرای اوین مستقر است این بوده است:
  • Man pleads guilty to assassinating Iranian nuc ...
    A man accused by Iran of carrying out an assassination "sponsored and designed by Israel" has pleaded guilty to the murder of an Iranian "nuclear scientist". According to Iranian media, Majid Jamali-Fashi, 26, admitted killing Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, a particle physicist who Iran says was involved ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Gun Control and False Flags
      Virginia Tech Massacre   *** This is the last of three posts regarding the reasons some progressives oppose gun control. No discussion of gun control would be complete without mentioning the high rate of “lone nut” shooting sprees that occur in the US. I have always found it extremely ...
  • Did Fracking Cause the Virginia Earthquake?
    Fracking Injects High Pressure Fluid Deep in Rock Bed *** Earthquakes in the nation’s capitol are as rare as hen’s teeth. The epicenter of Tuesday’s quake was in Mineral, Virginia, which is located on three very quiet fault lines. The occurrence of yet another freak earthquake in an unusual loca ...
  • Gun Control: Playing the Race Card
    1967 Detroit Riots Progressive “scholarly” research into gun control generally makes two equally salient points: 1) the aim of gun control legislation is to control people (mainly disenfranchised minorities and the poor), not guns and 2) in countries with strict gun control laws, the use of dead ...
  • Progressives Who Oppose Gun Control
    Lyndon Johnson: Father of Gun Control I’ve always been curious how American progressives got on the wrong – anti-civil liberties – side of gun control. In my mind this has been a grave strategic error. I have written elsewhere about the extreme difficulty liberals and progressives face in engagi ...
  • State and Local Support for Marijuana Decrimin ...
    Sativex - marijuana by prescription This is the last of three posts on ending the War on Drugs. Unlike the federal government, states aren’t allowed to run deficits. Since the 2008 economic collapse, both Democratic and Republican dominated states have been extremely proactive in reduc ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Rick Perry goes it alone
    Although born and raised in a small town in the Finger Lakes region of New York, I'm the hybrid child of an upstate New York father and a mother from Texas -- they met at Fort Hood (then Camp Hood) during World War II. And you thought different species couldn't mate.
  • Vaccines still safe, non-celebrities with medi ...
    Oliver Willis brings word of yet another panel of scientists announcing that there is no link whatsoever between the M.M.R. vaccine and autism. “The M.M.R. vaccine doesn’t cause autism, and the evidence is overwhelming that it doesn’t,” said Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, who knows what she's talk ...
  • Will "Joe the Plumber" run for Congress?
    "Joe the Plumber," a man named Sam who is not a plumber, may run for Congress. Joe, a briefly famous desperate attempt by the John McCain campaign to paint Barack Obama as an enemy of the working man, is mulling a run against Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, who's been in the House since 1983. Joe ...
  • This Labor Day, we need protests
    Labor Day is traditionally a time for picnics and parades. But this year is no picnic for American workers, and a protest march would be more appropriate than a parade.
  • The saddest Republican candidacy of them all
    There's a reason why George Pataki seems to be moving toward a presidential campaign, but "because Republicans want him to" is not it.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Libya’s victors need restraint
    Libyans didn't depose Moammar Gadhafi's brutal regime to usher in a bloodbath of reprisals.
  • Keep the news media free
    Quebec's plans to regulate the news media would open the door to government interference with freedom of the press.
  • Let the students play
    Streets in the downtown campuses of Ryerson University and U of T were closed to traffic, creating a campus feeling. The city should leave them that way.
  • Honouring Layton in Toronto
    Star readers suggest ways to honour Jack Layton, from renaming a park to colouring the CN Tower orange.
  • Hudak’s bad deal for cities
    Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak looks set to balance the province's books by sticking cities with a $500-million bill.

Energy Collective

  • Irene, Climate Change, Flooding and Public Health
    NRDC’s “Climate Change Threatens Health” webpages map five major climate-health vulnerabilities across the US. One of these is Flooding, which much of the East Coast is now bracing for because of the approach of Hurricane Irene.
  • Thoughts On The Green Scissors Report
    The most recent Green Scissors report is out, recommending hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies that could be cut to reduce the budget deficit and improve our environment.� Green Scissors provides a host of useful proposals to save tens of billions of dollars annually by eliminating unne ...
  • Exports A Big Opportunity for U.S. Advanced Ba ...
    The U.S. government is waking up to this possibly good news story. At the 2011 NAATBatt Annual Meeting and Conference on September 7-8, 2011 in Louisville, representatives of the U.S. Department of Commerce, The Export-Import Bank of the United States and the International Finance Corporation ( ...
  • Government, Private Sector Go Long On Biofuels
    On 16 August President Obama announced that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy and Navy will invest up to $510 million by 2014 in partnership with the private sector to produce advanced “drop-in” aviation and maritime biofuels for military and commercial use. This builds on a directive ...
  • The Public's Irrational Risk Perception
    Guest Post by Craig Schumacher. Craig has been commenting on nuclear power themed websites for about five years and has published his own blog, Channelling the Strong Force, since 2008. He formed the nuclear power advocacy organisation, Nucleus 92 Inc., in 2009. He is a regular commenter on this ...

EU Times

  • Seven children die in Australia house fire
    Seven children have died in a fire at a house near the Australian city of Brisbane. At least seven children are among 11 people presumed dead in one of Australia’s worst urban fire disasters. The inferno, which destroyed a two-storey house near the city of Brisbane, began around midnight. The ho ...
  • Alan Greenspan: Euro breaking down
    The euro is breaking down and the US economy is suffering because of Europe’s debt crisis, according to former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. “The euro is breaking down and the reason we’re so sluggish is the level of uncertainty,” Greenspan said at the Innovation Nation Forum in Wa ...
  • Transition in Libya to begin soon
    A senior Libyan opposition official says the political transition in Libya will begin promptly, as Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s regime is on the verge of total collapse. Mahmoud Jibril, spokesman for Libya’s Transitional National Council (TNC), said on Wednesday that the body’s focus is on ...
  • Europeans overwhelmingly against immigration
    An international survey of 23 countries by Ipsos has found opposition to immigration in numerous countries across the world, with majorities often considering its effects to be negative and its scale excessive. European nations were typical of this trend. Majorities in countries as diverse as Ge ...
  • Two Germans go missing in Afghanistan
    Two Germans have been reported missing after setting off to mountain climbing in the northern Parwan province of the war-torn Afghanistan. Provincial police chief ,General Sher Ahmad Maladani, says the German mountain climbers have been disappeared near the city of Salang Pass located in Parwan ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Egypt to hold massive anti-Israel rally
    Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:32AM GMT Egyptian protesters shout slogans against Israel during a protest in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo, August 21, 2011. Egyptians are set to stage a million-man demonstration at Cairo’s Liberation Square to call for an end to the country’s peace accord with Isra ...
  • Why did Steve Jobs choose this week to step down?
    The simplest and most plausible explanation comes from, of all people, John Dvorak Cook and Jobs One of the mysteries surrounding Steve Jobs' decision to hand the CEO title over to Tim Cook is its timing. The assumption underlying most of the commentary these past two days is that Jobs must be ...
  • Naoto Kan resigns as Japan’s prime minister
    This article titled “Naoto Kan resigns as Japan’s prime minister” was written by Justin McCurry in Tokyo, for guardian.co.uk on Friday 26th August 2011 08.03 UTC The Japanese prime minister, Naoto Kan, announced his resignation on Friday amid widespread criticism of his handling of the aftermat ...
  • Whither gaddafi and libya?
    NOVANEWS   GILAD ATZMON   The large gold framed portrait of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi that adorned the wall behind the reception desk of my hotel since it opened many years ago has vanished.  Also gone are the 72 green flags that flew on the white poles have also been removed.    Itâs not po ...
  • The only thing we have to fear is fear at the Fed
    MARKETS in America are up about 4% since the Fed's August meeting, at which the central bank acknowledged that economic activity was weaker than it had expected and tentatively committed to leave rates low into 2013. They're down nearly 11%, however, from early July. I think it's fair to say th ...

Groklaw

  • HP Touchpad running Android for sale on eBay
    In what seems like quite a surprising case, one of the buyers of the HP Touchpad claimed that his model came bundled in with Google's Android 2.2 OS. The only possible explanation could be that a developer version mistakenly got mixed with the sales pieces. For the convenience of other buyers, h ...
  • Apples Newest Intern is also iOS Greatest Hacker
    When it comes to Jailbreaking, aka beating Apple's security barriers and editing Apple's code as one sees fit, Comex is the man. His site JailbreakMe.com famously made breaking into your iDevice as easy as visiting a website - and he's announced today that he's joining the Apple team as their ne ...
  • A Chief Executives Attention to Detail, Noted ...
    Mr. Jobs appears as the principal inventor or as one inventor among several on 313 Apple patents. Most are design patents that cover the look and feel of a product, rather than utility patents, which may cover a technical innovation like a software algorithm or computer chip. Still, the number ...
  • Bloomberg and BNA QandA's Related to Acquisition
    Bloomberg and The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA) today announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Bloomberg will acquire all 25,116,830 outstanding shares of BNA for $39.50 per share in cash for a total purchase price of approximately $990 million. The boards of direc ...
  • Law Profs Worry That Plan to Pulp Millions of ...
    Among materials slated for destruction, according to the National Archives and Records Administration, are more than 10 million bankruptcy case files and several million more U.S. District Court district court files dating from 1970 to 1995. Theodore Eisenberg, a Cornell Law School professor wh ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Polizeros podcast. Libya, Bank of America, fra ...
    Topics last night included: Triumphalist liberals proclaim mission accomplished in Libya even as battles still continue in Tripoli and the National Transitional Council draws up a constitution for a strict Islamist state under sharia law. And then there’s the problem of 1000x more loose weapons ...
  • Hank III. Long Hauls and Close Calls (Hellbill ...
  • Hurricanes are not big thunderstorms
    Reading the comments on the Facebook page for Bryan Norcross, Hurricane Specialist at The Weather Channel is bemusing. There are quite a few from people in the storm track wondering what to do or what will happen. One person said, my house is one block from the ocean, should I board up the windo ...
  • Polizeros podcast tonight. Libya, financial cr ...
    Libya: Assuming the rebels take Tripoli, what comes next? Let’s not forget Dubya’s “mission accomplished” statement on the aircraft carrier when in fact, not much had been accomplished at all. Financial crisis: BofA is in dire shape as are some countries. Bailing out the big banks has made thing ...
  • California’s 33% renewable energy goal by 2020 ...
    A law in April upped California’s renewable energy goals by 2020 to 33% from 20%, a far more ambitious goal than any other state is attempting. But, while a renewable energy economy is a laudable goal, it seems doubtful that California will actually be able to achieve it. Or if it does, it will ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Libya: The longer view
    The NATO-assisted uprising in Libya is now in the last phases of taking the whole country. These phases may well be marked by some major rights abuses-- conducted in the name of "mopping up" operations and motivated by some combination of vengeance and triumphalism. I hope that such excesses a ...
  • I've been on vacation...
    ... with the whole family. It proved ways harder to pay attention to the news than I'd expected. Something to do with having three grandchildren to pay attention to, and very limited web access. Anyway, lots to blog about. Watch this space.
  • Israel's 'J14': New potential for Jewish-Pales ...
    As I have chronicled here and elsewhere many times, over the past decade the once-vibrant movement of Israelis actively working for an end to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza had become increasingly moribund. Yes, a small number of brave Jewish-Israeli souls participated in the weekly p ...
  • Syria, authoritarianism, war, and peace
    I regret that I haven't had much time in recent months to blog and write about the many developments in the still-unfolding 'Arab Spring.' However, I think that much of what I was writing back in March and April-- especially on the extremely upsetting and complicated series of events in Libya an ...
  • Remembering Qana, five years on
    On this day five years ago, at 1:30 am Lebanon time, Israel's U.S.-supplied warplanes attacked houses in the south Lebanese village of Qana, killing more than 60 civilians, 37 of them children. Go watch this soberly reported video clip from Britain's Channel 4 to get a measure of the horror. Th ...

frogblog

  • Nationwide protests against Skynet
    Tomorrow there are protests planned in our big cities against the controversial Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Act, the so-called Skynet law that comes into force from 1 September.
  • Wellington flyover submission due tomorrow
    Consultation on the Basin Reserve flyover, doubling the Mt Victoria tunnel and widening Ruahine St and Wellington Rd closes tomorrow. This project has huge implications for inner-city Wellington transport and it is vital the public have their say. Wellington needs urgent investment in public tra ...
  • Riding the first of the on-road Cycle Trails
    This weekend, I got to ride big parts of the 180km route from Taumarunui to New Plymouth. The ride was a celebration of the opening of the first on-road component of Nga Haerenga, the New Zealand Cycle Trail. The weekend had a bit of everything: gorgeous scenery, local hospitality, wide-eyed chi ...
  • General debate, August 24, 2011
  • Organic Dairy or GE nightmare?
    Soil and Health pose an interesting argument about why Fonterra is trying to cripple the organic dairy industry. Fonterra’s Gutting Of Organic Dairying Is The Next Step To GE Farms. Fonterra has taken its next step towards genetically engineered pastures, with its announced scaling back of organ ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Probably the Best Way to Enhance Your Baby's G ...
    A vast amount of research has reported that breast-feeding plays an important role for the development of a newborn. Non-breast fed premature infants have higher risk of developing infantile diarrhea and necrotizing enterocolitis. In a recent study, the content of brain cell growth factors and ...
  • This Almost Perfect Natural Oil Could Slow Dow ...
    By Dr. Mercola I was one of the first to promote krill as an exceptional source of animal based omega-3 dietary fats. Many have, and some still criticize me for recommending this over fish oil, for the lack of studies to back it up, but the bulk of the new emerging studies are confirming that ...
  • The Hidden Danger in Your Car Seat
    A study has uncovered the presence of dangerous chemicals in a range of child car seats. The Ecology Center tested over 150 infant, convertible, and booster car seats, and found that some are saturated with dangerous chemicals. Car seats were tested for bromine, chlorine, lead, and other heavy ...
  • Enormously Useful Allergy Treatment - With Vir ...
    � Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comThis allergy season could be worse than those of past years in the U.S., heavy snow and rain in many places, followed by a sudden shift to warm weather, have led to a profusion of tree pollen and mold. A new study in the Proceedings of the Natio ...
  • Are You Fat Because You are Being Poisoned?
    Recent research has implicated environmental contaminants in the pathogenesis of obesity. A new study sought to explore the relationship between persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and fat mass. The results showed that blood plasma concentrations of octachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (OCDD), PCBs, and ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • UN more worried about its logo than human righ ...
    A Totobiegosode woman after she was forced out of the forest, Paraguayan Chaco. © Ruedi Suter/Survival Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay have been left amazed by the UN’s reaction to a formal complaint they issued against cattle ranching company Yaguarete Pora. In May, Ayoreo leaders issued a for ...
  • Gunmen destroy indigenous camp, Brazil
    Guarani man. Gunmen have invaded a Guarani camp in Brazil. © Joaó Ripper/Survival Gunmen have invaded an indigenous Guarani camp in Brazil. The invaders are reported to have destroyed the Guarani’s houses and threatened the Guarani of Pueblito Kuê community, who were forced to flee into th ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

  • 34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Midd ...
    Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking?  Well, you are not imagining things.  A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded.  Today, most Am ...
  • 3, 2, 1: Global Debt Meltdown
    We are steamrolling toward a massive global debt meltdown, and at this point world leaders seem to be all out of solutions.  Over the last 30 years or so, the greatest debt bubble in the history of the planet has produced unprecedented prosperity in the western world.  But now t ...
  • 21 Signs That The New Reality For Many Baby Bo ...
    All over America tonight, millions of elderly Americans are wondering if their money is going to run out before it is time for them to die.  Those that are now past retirement age are not going to be rioting in the streets, but that doesn't mean that large numbers of them are no ...
  • 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 ...
  • Taxed Into Oblivion
    In the United States today, we are being taxed into oblivion, yet it is being done so stealthily that most Americans don't even realize what is happening.  Most people are fixated on federal income tax rates, but the federal income tax is only one of the dozens of different taxe ...

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

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: States' weak coal ash oversig ...
    When a massive coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee failed back in December 2008, it dumped a billion gallons of coal ash -- the toxic waste left over after burning coal -- into a nearby community and waterways. The disaster spurred calls fo ...
  • VOICES: Obama skewers the immigrant justice mo ...
    By Kung Li The Obama administration announced last week it will be reviewing pending immigration deportation cases in order to prioritize people with criminal records for deportation over "low-priority" immigrants. Individuals eligible for the DREAM Act, veterans, and victims of crime who are c ...
  • Buying 2012: Nearly two-thirds of House campai ...
    As the role of big money in elections steadily grows, the 2012 Congressional elections are on track to shatter all earlier records for campaign cash. According to data released by the Federal Election Commission this week, U.S. House and Senate candidates raised more than $287 million so far fo ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Awesome Linux Bash Shell Cheat Sheet for Beginners
    Got a mail recently from freeworld's Raphael where he introduced me to his recent creation - a Linux bash shell cheat sheet meant for beginners. Very useful list of commands and keyboard shortcuts for Terminal with descriptions, more relevant if you are an avid Ubuntu/Debian user. ...
  • How Open Source is Android After all?
    Google, the maker and manager of the Android platform, has claimed that Android is the world�s best open source software system. How true are these claims? A report based on a recent study by market research firm VisionMobile about several popular open source projects. How Ope ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Monsanto GM Corn in Peril: Beetle develops Bt- ...
    Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Activist Post Nature herself may be the best opponent of genetically modified crops and pesticides. Not only plants, but insects are also developing resistance. The Western rootworm beetle – one of the most serious threats to corn – has developed resistance to Mo ...
  • BMJ admits that fraud claim against Dr. Andrew ...
    by: PF Louis (Natural News) Big Pharma, the FDA, AMA and other medical associations falsely accuse conscientious healers of crimes that they themselves routinely commit or cover up. Unfortunately, they get away with it since they are the “authority”, and the mainstream media (MSM) usually favors ...
  • Hospital patients now being microchipped with ...
    by: Christina Luisa (NaturalNews) Being microchipped is now being spun as a method of protecting the health of hospital patients. To help mask the practice of this bodily invasion with a trendy, high-tech appearance, microchipping sensors are being referred to as “electronic tattoos” that can at ...
  • Skateboarding with a Bent Wheel in Visibilandia
    By Les Visible Welcome to my world; Visibilandia stretches as far as the horizon permits, according to the reach of my consciousness on any given day. I don’t know how big or small it is. I’ve never attempted to measure it and have no tools to do it with anyway, because the boundaries are always ...
  • The Tree of Stupidity and the Fall of Empire
    By Les Visible The Earth shook the reactor in Virginia, where it had been placed on a fault line. It rolled into Washington D.C. and cracked the top of the Washington Monument and then broke the spires at National Cathedral. It shook The Capital and The Pentagon. It rippled like a creature from ...

Veterans Today

  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a not-to-exceed $161,030,943 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-10-C-5427) for MK15 Mod 31 SeaRAM systems in support of LCS 6 and 8 and Japan's DDH 2405 helicopter destroyer, as well as Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) Block 1B ...
  • After Musharraf it’s Zardari’s Turn To Get Ditched
    The US and its three strategic allies Israel, Britain and India, the champions of terrorism, made terrorism as an excuse to vandalize Muslims and to defame Islam.
  • William King Harvey: The CIA’s ´Loosest ...
    By Trowbridge H. Ford Part I In the annals of the Cold War, no operative is more misunderstood, and marginalized than the CIA’s William King Harvey. According to Cambridge Professor Christopher Andrew, the leading historian of the services Harvey worked for, the Agency and the KGB, he was nothin ...
  • Signs the American Sheeple are Beginning to Wa ...
    As more Americans are now realizing that both political parties are equally criminal, the question becomes what they intend to do about it. Despite this growing awareness, most Americans still have a long way to go if they want to escape the manipulation from the media.
  • Military Bases Prepare for Hurricane Irene
    Military bases along the eastern seaboard are securing for the Category 3 winds and rain of Hurricane Irene, and the Defense Department is working closely with the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of the U.S. government response, defense officials said today.

electric politics

  • Where's the Strategy?
    It's disappointing, to say the least, that after ten years in Afghanistan we seem not to have a strategy, or at least a strategy people can easily discern, one that's related to known U.S. national security interests. Whatever U.S. policy is, if it can't be put into a single, simple, declarativ ...
  • 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 ...

PR News

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

  • My medicinal chillies
    A nasal spray containing an ingredient derived from hot chili peppers (Capsicum annum) may help people "clear up" certain types of sinus inflammation.
  • Coal consumption increases almost 50% in 10 ye ...
    Global coal consumption has risen over the last 10 years by almost 50% while global temperatures have decreased slightly.
  • University of Peshawar turns vindictive agains ...
    The University of Peshawar is, in retaliation, trying to cancel the degree of the professor whose complaints led the Vice Chancellor of the University, Dr. Azmat Hayat Khan, to be found guilty of plagiarism.
  • The Hamza – a subterranean river to riva ...
    A huge subterranean river rivalling the Amazon has been found about 4000m underground and about 6,000km long.
  • “It’s the Sun, stupid” > Sve ...
    The CLOUD experiment at CERN shows that cosmic rays (modulated by the sun’s magnetic variations which either allow more or deflect more cosmic rays) can create cloud condensation nuclei in the Earth’s atmosphere. The results vindicate the validity of Henrik Svensmark’s hypothesis that most of th ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Steve Jobs Surprises No One By Having His Name ...
    As if you didn't know, it takes a lot of hard work and ingenuity to design products the whole world has fits of joy over. Also, you better own those ideas if you're going to sell them! So it's not surprising that Steve Jobs, Apple CEO from 1887 until he stepped down this week, has his name on 3 ...
  • Scientists Identify Planet Made Of Diamond
    Somewhere out there is a planet made largely out of diamond. An international team of scientists identified the celestial body as the remains of what used to be a star in the Milky Way Galaxy. One can only assume it's large enough to be placed on a Jennifer Lopez engagement ring. According to ...
  • Defense Department Employee Accused Of Taking ...
    Bidding wars for defense contracts make particularly fertile ground for corruption, and a federal employee may have gotten caught with his hand stuck in the cookie jar. Federal authorities have accused an Afghanistan-based U.S. Department of Defense employee of taking a bribe from a company the ...
  • Morning Deals
    ClothingJustice: [Clothing & Accessories] Save 40% Off Sitewide use coupon code 764.ThinkGeek: [Apparel] Star Trek Bathrobes for $34.99 w/ Coupon 1GBB + $5.49 ShippingNew York & Company: [Apparel] $100 off $200 w/ Coupon 2491 + One More Coupon and PrintableEsprit: [Apparel] 40% Off Entire Purch ...
  • Police Remind Shopper That A Full-Sized Fridge ...
    A full-sized refrigerator is a pretty sizable appliance, usually requiring at least a van or pickup truck to haul to its destination. This is something the police in Richmond, British Columbia, had to remind a shopper who thought a few ropes and a prayer would get his fridge home in the trunk 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

  • Why Can’t Muppets Bert and Ernie Marry?
    “Sesame Streetâs” most famous duo Bert and Ernie first appeared in 1969, the same year as the Stonewall Riots, which to the nationâs surprise catapulted the LGBTQ Liberation Movement. And at that time, the idea of partnering these two lovable striped-sweater-wearing puppets as gay was as inconce ...
  • Taxpayers Should Stop Subsidizing Walmart
    Walmart is the biggest retailer in the world. It boasts of having 1.2 million Americans on their payroll. Its reported annual profits are around $13 billion. So it’s safe to say since it is so big – and so ubiquitous – and so obviously successful – the government can now stop subsidizing it. Let ...
  • Rep. Michele Bachmann and Her Record
    Though she certainly has a challenger in Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has held the title of Tea Party favorite thus far in the presidential race, touting her opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage, support of “intelligent design,” and rejection of the scienti ...
  • Writing the Wrongs of Nina V. Fedoroff’s NY Ti ...
    On August 18, 2011 the New York Times posted an article by Nina V. Fedoroff in their op-ed section. The article was titled “Engineering Food for All” and another version of this op-ed appeared in print on August 19, 2011, on page A23, of the New York edition with the same headline. In her articl ...
  • 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 [...] ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • That Australian sense of humour: not the Tea P ...
    G.R.O.G. = Get Rid Of Gillard ... … H/t:   Just Grounds, Jeff, Craig. Thanks Please, will the original artist comment so I can give credit and a link? UPDATE #1: Could be Alex Werchon on CAN-Do?   4-Mar-2011? (h/t Dave N if so). UPDATE #2: Andrew Bolt describes the Thomson meltdown as “out of ...
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • Biden's anti-life policy
    (Washington Times) - Vice President Joe Biden can't keep his foot out of his mouth. On Sunday, he said he "fully understands" and "is not second-guessing" Beijing's one-child-per-family policy. The remark came during an unscripted question-and-answer session with students at China's Sichuan Univ ...
  • NPR: the statism network
    (L. Brent Bozell III) - One of the greatest perversions of statism is the use of taxpayer money to push for ever more government spending and intervention. A casual listener to the far-left end of the FM dial, National Public Radio , will quickly conclude that NPR is one of America's leading off ...
  • Chuck Norris: Obama wants to take away our guns
    (Newsmax) - President Barack Obama is trying to use a proposed U.N. treaty on the arms trade as a backdoor method to take away Americans' freedom to own guns, actor Chuck Norris says. In an opinion piece Wednesday for Politico, the martial arts expert and star of "Walker, Texas Ranger" says the ...
  • Gallup becomes 3rd poll to find Perry beating ...
    (Newsmax) - A third poll in eight days has confirmed that Republican presidential latecomer Rick Perry now enjoys a significant lead over former front-runner Mitt Romney. Gallup's poll released on Wednesday showed the Texas governor zooming to the top of the pile and relegating Romney to second ...
  • Alabama immigration law goes before judge
    (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...

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

  • Easter Island DNA Shows Interesting Mix
    If you look at the DNA of the natives of Easter Island, and exclude whose ancestors interbred with Europeans (who arrived in 1722), then you’ll find most of the genes point to a colonization from Asia. But ...Easter Island DNA Shows Interesting Mix is a post from: 2012 Blog Related post ...
  • 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.

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: States' weak coal ash oversig ...
    When a massive coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee failed back in December 2008, it dumped a billion gallons of coal ash -- the toxic waste left over after burning coal -- into a nearby community and waterways. The disaster spurred calls fo ...
  • VOICES: Obama skewers the immigrant justice mo ...
    By Kung Li The Obama administration announced last week it will be reviewing pending immigration deportation cases in order to prioritize people with criminal records for deportation over "low-priority" immigrants. Individuals eligible for the DREAM Act, veterans, and victims of crime who are c ...
  • Buying 2012: Nearly two-thirds of House campai ...
    As the role of big money in elections steadily grows, the 2012 Congressional elections are on track to shatter all earlier records for campaign cash. According to data released by the Federal Election Commission this week, U.S. House and Senate candidates raised more than $287 million so far fo ...
  • 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 ...
Related articles
Enhanced by Zemanta
Posted by opit at 11:54 AM
Labels: , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)