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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, August 26, 2011

26 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • It Is Going to Be Syria’s Turn
    The visuals beamed from Tripoli last night had an eerie familiarity. Cars blowing horns, Kalashnikovs firing into the air, youth and children aimlessly wandering on streets littered with heaps of debris, western cameramen eagerly lapping up the precious words in broken English by any local fello ...
  • NATO Land Operation in Libya Carried Out at Fu ...
    A source from Libya reports that early morning August 23, 2011 a commando unit from British Special Air Service (SAS) was disclosed and eliminated in Tripoli. Their local guide was captured and will be prosecuted shortly. An anti-subversive team of the Libyan 32nd Special Force Brigade responsib ...
  • NATO’s Planned Bloodbath in Tripoli
    NATO intends to get the bloodbath it wants through intensified terror bombing and low-level strafing of civilians and nonmilitary sites. No matter that it grossly violates international and constitutional law, what Washington-led member states long ago trashed. Through August 22, air operations ...
  • Strange Days in London
    Let’s begin by noting that isn’t the first time England has had the kind of unrest we’re seeing now. The first racially motivated mass riots happened in London’s Notting Hill area in 1958. It was decided afterwards to hold an annual carnival in Notting Hill, a sign, as it were, of racial peace, ...
  • Libya on the Brink
    The fall of M. Gadhafi’s regime will come as a huge success of the globalization forces seeking to establish a new world order. The proportions of the campaign the West launched in Libya and the level of sophistication of the technologies employed were impressive regardless of the accompanying p ...

BlogHer

  • Pap Smear Guidelines Updated
    This is a screen grab of Naomi Watts in Universal Studio's King Kong and I often wonder if this is how women feel when they think about getting their Pap smear. Do you know anyone who looks forward to their exam? �Most of my patients say that they know it's something that they have to do, and to ...
  • Nine-Year-Old Karah Sanford Victorious at U.S. ...
    What did your kid do this summer? Mine watched TV, went to the mall, started a couple of projects and complained about either how hot it was or how bored they were.�Karah Sanford's parents, however, have a different tale to tell.Their daughter, a nine-year-old golf phenom, traveled from San Dieg ...
  • That New Jersey Accent...Fuhgettaboutit!
    It's every Manhattan Girl's nightmare: Falling in love with a Jersey boy and moving to the 'wrong side' of the tunnel only to find your child has developed a familiar vocal cadence..."So I listened to Springsteen's 'Jersey Girl' a couple hundred times, girded my loins, and headed through the Lin ...
  • BlogHerMoms Giggle: Stop With the Glitter
    From time to time, we all need a laugh. BlogHerMoms has partnered with Rooftop Comedyto bring you quick, clean comedy for those little moments when you could use a break. Here, Kira Soltanovich on this strange phenomenon ...
  • Running Out of Bloggy Ideas
    [Editor's Note: All writers worry at some point that they're going to run out of things to say, and bloggers are no different. A Bit Backward explains how she overcomes her fear of the blinking cursor, and I love the point she makes about why she blogs; how it brings her life into focus. --Mel ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Honey, What A Scandal – We Eat Smuggled ...
    This will perhaps be the most compelling arguing point yet to buy local! The menacing food hazards continue to grow worse. If you buy honey from the store, there’s a good chance you are consuming smuggled ...
  • FDA Propaganda Attempts To Destroy The Dietary ...
    By contributing author, Byron J. Richards, CCN, via The National Health Federation August 23, 2011 It is not surprising that FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg would use blatant and deceptive propaganda to attack the dietary supplement industry. As ...
  • Big Pharma Music Vid – ‘Define Bet ...
    Music is the universal language and can be a great way to capture someone’s attention while sharing important concepts. Check out this radio quality music video about Big Pharma! It’s by rap artist Chill E.B. and ...
  • Monsanto Superweeds Choke Midwest – Won& ...
    Monsanto used its wiles for over 15 years to make sure that its seeds and products are the ones that farmers use exclusively. Monstrosity made sure that it appeared to be a bargain – farmers ...
  • BP’s Gusher May Be Gushing Again. If So, ...
    BP’s Gusher May Be Gushing Again. If So, It Cannot Be Stopped. As they say, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duckâa well-oiled one, as in Hunziker’s redesigned ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Rep. Conyers calls out the coal industry
    The first press release to come in was, predictably, from our good friend, Sen. Joe Manchin. The West Virginia Democrat invited Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., to discuss his comments “degrading West Virginia.” Then came a statement from United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts, saying he was “ex ...
  • MSHA announces latest impact inspection results
    Here’s the word today from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Laborâs Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 375 citations and orders during special impact inspections conducted at 10 coal mines and five metal/nonm ...
  • Should the Alpha/Massey slurry deal be secret?
    Circuit Court Judges from left: Judge Jay Hoke of Lincoln County, Judge James Mazzone of Ohio County, and Judge John Hutchison of Raleigh County listen to pretrial motions in a coal slurry pollution lawsuit against Massey Energy in Ohio County Circuit Court on Friday, July 22, 2011, in Wheeling, ...
  • Alpha/Massey seeks to end shareholder suit
    It’s been a while since we heard anything about the shareholder derivative suits pending against Massey Energy and the former top executive and board members from Massey. But today, Kanawha Circuit Judge Charlie King held a hearing, to give lawyers for Alpha Natural Resources and those former Ma ...
  • About the jobs: Is there a war on coal?
    The Daily Mail’s Jared Hunt had an interesting story this morning. Headlined, “State jobs data less than positive,” the story explained that despite a drop in unemployment, the number of West Virginians working or looking for work has dropped to its lowest level since 1993. If you read further d ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Jobs on True Living
    No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is [...]
  • Jobs on Life and Death
    When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If [...]
  • Jobs on the Internet
    “The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people––as remarkable as the telephone.” [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985] via b ...
  • Jobs on Releasing the First Mac
    I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it [...]
  • Jobs on Creativity
    Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize ...

Fitwatch

  • Avon and Somerset police repress local paper
    On the afternoon of august 17th, police raided a house in central Bristol where an editor of local newspaper The Autonomist lives. Riot police kicked down the door of the property without warning, detained the inhabitants for two hours, and seized articles relating to the production of The Auton ...
  • Don’t Panic: Don’t Talk
    The Met today released another 44 photos of people they want to 'talk to'. The pictures are often of poor quality, and many of the 'targets' are masked up. The police have little chance of identifying many of these without help. The information printed above has been distributed around London, b ...
  • The reason why the youth hate the police
    This brilliant video appeared on youtube, and has also been published on the Police State UK site. It really shows the sort of mind-set the police have. I'd guess that a lot of people will recognise that arrogant, petty and vindictive attitude. The cops appear to be Forest Gate, and as far as I ...
  • This is what ‘robust’ policing loo ...
    The video shows a unit of Manchester riot police baton, punch and kick three youths on push bikes. The police carrying on kicking and punching them even when they are on the ground. Is this the sort of 'robust' policing that David Cameron and the politicians of all parties have been clamouring for?
  • A fitwatcher’s view of the riots
    I’ve felt a lot of emotions over the past few days ranging from joy to grief to anger. It’s been amazing to see people fighting back against the police and it’s been equally horrific to see damage to people’s homes and small shops, let alone the deaths in Birmingham yesterday. However, today I a ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • WWH News Briefs Friday
    ‘Nightmare’ scenario: Hurricane menaces East Coast NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) â Farmer Wilson Daughtry shrugged off an evacuation order and raced to harvest all the corn and squash he could hours before the initial waves churned up by Hurricane Irene started bumping the outer islands of North Carolina ...
  • Human rights flounder in the United States but ...
    aljazeera.net – Since September 11th, the United States and the Arab world have traveled a treacherous road together. Where they have arrived after ten years sets them apart. In the US, the embrace of human rights as a defining value and ideal worthy of considerable sacrifice is gradually fading ...
  • Protests Make Big Oil Quake
    nationofchange.org – 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 theyâll risk arrest there during the next two weeks. They oppose the Keystone XL pipeline project, designed to carry heavy c ...
  • WikiLeaks – John McCain, Joseph Lieberma ...
    WWH – C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 TRIPOLI 000677 SUBJECT: CODEL MCCAIN MEETS MUAMMAR AND MUATASSIM AL-QADHAFI REF: A. TRIPOLI 662; B. TRIPOLI 674; C. STATE 43049; D. TRIPOLI 648 TRIPOLI 00000677 001.2 OF 002 CLASSIFIED BY: Joan Polaschik, Charge d’Affaires, U.S. Embassy Tripoli, [...]
  • Time for some random thoughts
    by Sherry Pasquarello, WWH – Pittsburgh in the 60s – Yes, itâs a random thoughts week for me (and therefore-you) here in the Burgh . Been a truly bizarre and eclectic time since my last article. Globally, nationally, locally and here at home. A perfect storm of the strange and everyday. Frankly, ...

reference frame

  • MINOS: neutrino-antineutrino mass difference e ...
    A week ago, I linked to a video about the CERN's ASACUSA experiment that showed that the proton and antiproton masses coincide at the precision of 1 part per billion. The MINOS detector in Minnesota, to be discussed momentarily The CPT-symmetry which is implied by quantum fi ...
  • House GOP may finally remove U.S. funding for ...
    Solve Climate News informs the readers that Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla) has introduced the motion to search and destroy the financial flows from the U.S. federal budget to the wallets of AGW parasites and fraudsters. The idea is that they will look for the "climate change" keyword and ax ...
  • Particle physicists must retake the vacuum sel ...
    Vacuum selection is a short-distance problem and cosmologists' buttocks should be kicked out of this serious business Alexander Vilenkin released a new paper, The Principle of Mediocrity,based on a lecture he gave in April. I don't want to spend too much time with this flawed mode of ...
  • McDonald's and the beauty of Swedish farms
    When my compatriots watch this McDonald's commercial about the beauties of the Swedish farming, something doesn't look quite right. In fact, it looks too familiar. McDonald's didn't experience a good enough weather so they had to move to the South a little bit. And they ended ...
  • CLOUD: 1 nm aerosol particles increased 10-fol ...
    I hope that I will find some time on Thursday to update this article. You may already discuss about the topic here. See BBC, Nature, Google News, Nigel Calder, WUWT, Nude Socialist (a super-insane title), and GWPF so far. CERN has finally released some data generated dur ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley

Enviroblog

  • Cemeteries: The Next Drilling Frontier?
    By Alex Rindler, Government Affairs Assistant When it comes to drilling in the Marcellus Shale, the natural gas industry leaves no stone unturned. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has reported that Huntley & Huntley, Inc., a self-described "God fearing"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Flame Retardants: Banned, but not gone
    By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Scientist Even though toxic flame retardant chemicals were banned in 2006, pregnant women in California carry high levels of the hazardous substances in their blood, according to a new study by scientists at the University... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • DOE fracking report states obvious, little else
    By Shannon Morgan, EWG legal assistant, and Alex Rindler, EWG Government Affairs Assistant People across the country are rightly concerned about natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing near their homes. Thanks to new technologies, the exploitation... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Cancer: Belatedly, Environmental Causes Get th ...
    By Justine Chow and Feifei Li, EWG Research Assistants In discussions of the causes of cancer, environmental exposures have long been the unloved stepchild. But that's changing. For decades, most cancer researchers focused on genetics, diet, smoking and... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • California and Hawaii Lead the Way on Chromium ...
    By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist On July 27, 2011, the state of California put in place a strong, first-in-the-nation, health-based safety goal for hexavalent chromium (or chromium-6), the "Erin Brockovich" chemical, in drinking water. This... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • A day for calling attention to the bluster of ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner?��� More
  • Cuomo's law highlights a thicket of local gove ...
    Andrew Cuomo said the bill, which became law last year, would tip the balance back in favor of taxpayers. In reality, it hasn’t worked because there’s no concrete plan for when balloting begins. Ten villages have petitioned to dissolve under the new law, a ...
  • 'Monster' Hurricane Irene is headed right for ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner?��� More
  • The Great New York Earthquake (story) of 2011, ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner?��� More
  • Today, Nafissatou Diallo is a 'fraud' and Mike ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner?��� More

Views & News from Norway

  • Immigrant vote can be decisive
    Norway’s political parties have realized that the immigrant vote can make or break them as they head into the next national municipal elections on September 11-12. Several parties including the Conservatives and Labour are actively courting support from relatively new arrivals eligible to cast a ...
  • New mud bath looms for bike racers
    Thousands of cycling enthusiasts were heading for the hills between Lillehammer and Rena this weekend, for the annual Birkebeinerrittet, a 94.6 kilometer race over the mountains from one valley to the next. Rainy weather threatened to turn it all into another mud bath. The weather forecast was n ...
  • Police question right-wing extremists
    Paul Ray, a British right-wing extremist who now lives in Malta, landed at Oslo’s main airport at Gardermoen on Wednesday where he was met by Norwegian police for questioning. They want to talk to him, and others in extreme right circles, about alleged ties to the bomber and gunman who killed 77 ...
  • Bigger boats reflect growing wealth
    PICTURE SERIES: The end of summer in Norway also heralds the end of the season for the country’s large fleet of leisure boats. Some  boat owners complain that they don’t have time to enjoy their ever-costlier floating luxury as much as they would have liked, but on pleasant evenings this summer ...
  • The crown couple’s first decade
    Their honeymoon was shockingly disrupted by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2011, leaving them stranded in New York. Their 10th wedding anniversary is being marked under the shadow of last month’s terrorist attacks in Norway. The couple set to be Norway’s next king and queen have opted fo ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

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

Pointman's

  • Ship.
    The craft hurled across the cold light years, a gutted wreck. Inside the pierced hull, the litter of habitation floated idly, free from the long gone bounds of artificially induced gravity and free from the orderliness of her crew. Indeed, their bodies formed a part of the slow motion blizzard o ...
  • So, which is it; Global Warming, Climate Disru ...
    We had nearly two decades worth of propaganda telling us we were the cause of the planet warming up and unless we stopped emitting carbon, we were all going to burn up in the looming thermogeddon. This scare was branded Global Warming and gradually entered the popular consciousness. People natur ...
  • London’s burning, an alternative viewpoint.
    You know what you do when one or two hundred kids in hoodies turn up in your high street and start looting it? Nothing. Thatâs what you do because youâre helpless. Thereâs only one of you and the police force you trusted are nowhere in sight. Yes, youâve called them but youâre just another one … ...
  • I’m not a scientist but …
    For a number of reasons, having âmade my bonesâ in permanent employment, the rest of my career would be termed freelance. I deliver measured amounts of expertise for clients of my choosing in the areas in which I know I operate well. The point is, you have to step out of your comfort zone and … ...
  • On murderous madmen.
    The tragic events of last week in Norway do give you pause for thought. How could anyone do that and especially to defenseless young people? Does it say something about us all? Are we all capable of doing something like that? The answer is no and thatâs not just my subjective opinion, itâs a fac ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Social Engineering • Re: Stalin Icon in Russia ...
    Un-flipping-believable. Stalin killed millions in the holdomor, and these whack-jobs want to put him in an icon? They have some serious double-think going on.Statistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Fri Aug 26, 2011 12:41 am
  • Zionist Influence/Power • Iraq: Bird is the Word
    Iraq: Bird is the Word iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBmhA6z6ieYStatistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican — Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:13 pm
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    Emile Zola (1840-1902) French novelist and critic, the founder of the Naturalist movement in literature. Zola redefined Naturalism as "Nature seen through a temperament." Among Zola's most important works is his famous Rougon-Macquart cycle (1871-1893), which included such novels as L'ASSOM ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    We need some brave Frenchman to "J'Accuse" Sarkozy of being a paid Mossad Zio-Rat... --CSR ---------- Jacques de Reinach Baron Jacob Adolphe Reinach[1] (17 April 1840, Frankfurt - 19 November 1892, Paris), known as Jacques de Reinach was a French banker of Jewish German origin, involved in m ...
  • Social Engineering • Stalin Icon in Russian Church
    http://www.orthodoxchristianbooks.com/downloads/314_A_HISTORY_OF_ROCOR_2000_2007.pdf Tserkovnie Novosti (Church News), June, 2005: Matushka Anastasia Shatilova noted: “In the Moscow Patriarchate there can be observed an elemental striving towards the ‘glorification’ of a series of very d ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Open Source Ecology Project Targets Blueprint ...
    A team of U.S. volunteers is developing an open-source database they say will ultimately provide a do-it-yourself guide on how to construct each of the 50 industrial machines needed “to build a small civilization with modern comforts.” Launched in 2003 by Marcin Jakubowski, who describes himself ...
  • On-Road Charging Could Allow ‘Unlimited’ EV Dr ...
    Japanese researchers are developing a new system that they say could ultimately power electric vehicles (EVs) for travel across “unlimited” distances without the hindrance of heavy batteries. While based on railway infrastructure in which individual cars are powered through overhead wires, the n ...
  • Video: Illegal Logging Is Pushing Rare Madagas ...
    For the last 10 years, researcher Erik Patel has focused on the plight of the silky sifaka lemur, an endangered primate whose forest habitat in a remote corner of Madagascar is being cleared by rampant illegal logging. Now a new video, Trouble in Lemur Land — shot in Madagasgar’s Marojejy ...
  • Growth of Urban Areas Poses Long-Term Threats, ...
    A new study says the explosive growth of urban areas worldwide over the next two decades poses significant risks to human populations and the global environment, from the loss of agricultural land and wildlife habitat to increased vulnerability to the effects of climate change. Using satellite d ...
  • Antarctic Ice Movement Is Fully Mapped for the ...
    Scientists at the University of California, Irvine, have for the first time fully mapped the movement of Antarctica’s vast ice sheets and glaciers, which comprise 90 percent of the ice on Earth. Using data gathered by NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterVIDEO: Antarctic ice movement satellites f ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Jack Layton’s bequest to the West
    By Frank Moher As God's cruel jokes go, this one's a doozy. Jack Layton, having built the NDP into the Official Opposition and created a sense of hope for the resurgence of a genuine left in Canada, one that would keep the right from running roughshod over the poor, the middle-class, ...
  • Is CSIS replaying the Arar card?
    By Alison@Creekside A leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui  in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute between Montreal and France. It has already been enthusiasticall ...
  • Designer Worms
    by Eric Pettifor Remember all those episodes of the various Star Treks where characters were genetically altered, either willingly or unwillingly, by some means or other? It would happen within the course of a single episode and be neatly fixed at the end, with a hypo from the lovely Dr. ...
  • Hinkle, Lilley, Mammoliti: So much Con Klown b ...
    By Montreal Simon Oh dear. What a dilemma eh? I just created my very own Con Klown Hypocrisy Award. But now I can't seem to decide who is this week's winner. So please help me out . Here are the candidates in no particular order: (1) PHILLIP HINKLE, the 64-year old Republican State ...
  • The Star and The Mark: open for shilling
    By Shannon Rupp The Toronto Star just announced that you can’t trust a thing you read on their website -- although that’s not quite the way they phrased it. Canada’s largest daily has joined forces with TheMarkNews.com, one of those free blogger sites, to acquire a small army of unpaid "commu ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Hokkaido fair at Keio's Tokyo hotels
    Through Sept. 30, the Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo is holding a Hokkaido food fair at its restaurants. Using fresh, seasonal products, such as chicken from Shiretoko, kinki deep-sea red snapper from Abashiri and Yubari melons, a variety of special dishes will be offered. Also, using the same recipe ...
  • Two deep and engaging tales painted in strokes ...
    'Shanghai" is one of those movies with world-weary guys in well-cut suits and fedoras, a tough-as-nails broad who drags imperiously on her cigarettes and plenty of neon reflected on the rain-swept streets. You know it's only a matter of time before someone slugs his whiskey and growls, "Just get ...
  • Drunken dance to hit Tokyo
    The Koenji district in the west of Tokyo is known for used-clothing stores and record shops — the perfect spot for any music lover to settle down in. Once a year, it becomes a hub for traditional culture when it hosts the Koenji Awaodori Festival. It is the second largest of its kind in Japan, ...
  • "DEPICTING, The Refreshing Summer"
    One of the most cherished themes of nihonga (Japanese-style painting) artists who celebrate the four seasons in their works is to incorporate seasonal Japanese beauties in their paintings. This exhibition features three well-known nihonga artists from the Uemura family — Shoen (1875-1949), Sho ...
  • Vlaikidis knows path won't be easy in Iwate
    Before sitting down for dinner on Tuesday evening, Iwate Big Bulls coach Vlasios Vlaikidis spoke in measured tones about the difficult work of building a team from scratch. In a telephone interview with The Japan Times, the Greek coach revealed his modest goals for the upcoming season. ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

  • Idea alert
    While rejecting a Liberal-NDP merger, Rob Silver wonders if a new party might make...
  • Reza Badiyi
    I wanted to note one recent TV-related death: Reza Badiyi, the Iranian-American director whose...
  • King of the Hill Revisited: Season 2, Episodes ...
    Season 2, Episode 7: “The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteburg” Written by Johnny Hardwick...
  • A musical salute
    When Jack Layton’s casket leaves Parliament Hill momentarily, the Peace Tower carillon will ring...
  • Those who are passed the torch
    Shortly before Jack Layton’s passing, Karim Bardeesy profiled Rathika Sitsabaiesan: one of those MPs...

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Recession Ahead?
    TD Economics yesterday released a rather gloomy report, putting the odds of a US recession at 40%, and arguing that that Canadian economy is more vulnerable to recession than it was in 2008.  It highlights reduced capacity for governments to respond given that interest rates are already very low ...
  • Outlook Darkens as Budget Debate Begins
    Allow me to indulge myself just this once.  Almost exactly one month ago I wrote a post on the Progressive Economics blog  arguing that the Bank of Canada was being too optimistic about our economic prospects in the July Monetary Policy Report . Last Friday, both the Governor of the Bank of Cana ...
  • The New Cost of Criminal Pardons
    The Conservative government, with the collaboration of opposition parties, hastily passed a piece of legislation (Bill C-23A) last year which makes it more difficult for offenders to obtain a pardon for their offences.  This was the government’s response to the news that notorious child-molester ...
  • Stimulus vs Public Investment
    A column by Nobel Prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz in the Financial Times makes what I think is an important point. The current debate over fiscal policy for the US, Europe and Canada is often characterized in the media as one between advocates of  higher deficits from Keynesian style stimul ...
  • Tea Party North
    Last week, Travis Fast noted Terry Corcoran’s strained argument that over-regulation of banks is what ails the global economy. Terry’s next column went even further off the deep end, endorsing the hard-money libertarianism of gold bugs like Eric Sprott. Today’s column is a full-blown defence of ...

ReDress

  • Will "Nipper" Cameron obey Tel Aviv's trumpet ...
    Stuart Littlewood wonders whether British Prime Minister David Cameron will have the courage and integrity to apply to Palestine the principles which he claims to embrace in respect of Libya - supporting freedom and democracy - by backing the Palestinians' bid for UN recognition of their statehood.
  • Palestinian Jenin's "Third Intifada" under attack
    As the Israeli armed forces once again raid the Freedom Theatre at Jenin, Richard Lightbown describes this oppression in the context of the resistance envisioned by the theatre’s founder, Juliano Mer Khamis.
  • Analysis: renewed hostilities between Gaza and ...
    Richard Lightbown analyses the media reports on the background to current hostilities between Gaza and Israel and sees little cause for optimism.
  • USA's myopic extremists take the lead
    Lawrence Davidson considers the worldview and political "philosophy" of America's myopic extremists, such as Michelle Bachmann and others in the Republican and Tea parties, who seem to be capturing the imagination of a significant minority of the US electorate that is essentially parochial and h ...
  • Education and behaviour in Israel and Palestine
    Lawrence Davidson argues that while levelling charges of incitement at the Palestinian educational system, Israelis themselves have been practising on their own children a form of indoctrination that vilifies Palestinians and Arabs.

Physics Today

  • China works to increase number of women scientists
    SciDev: The Chinese government has begun instituting a 10-year plan to develop the potential of the country’s women. The Outline for the Development of Chinese Women (2011-2020) aims to increase to 35% the proportion of women in science and technology. The plan will focus primarily on China’s na ...
  • Astronomers detect black hole swallowing a star
    Los Angeles Times: For the first time, astronomers say they've borne witness to a supermassive black hole consuming a star, writes Amina Khan for the Los Angeles Times. On 28 March a detector on the Earth-orbiting Swift observatory picked up a sudden burst of radiation from a point in the conste ...
  • CERN clears the sky on CLOUD formation
    CERN: How do clouds form? The answer has implications for our understanding of climate change, because clouds can reflect the Sun’s radiation back toward space, thus reducing the amount of heat that reaches Earth. Providing unprecedented insight into cloud formation is the Cosmics Leaving OUtd ...
  • Rare-earth mineral shortage drives companies t ...
    New York Times: China's near total monopoly on the rare-earth market, is forcing foreign manufacturers of high-tech materials to move their production to China. Those that don't must contend with uncertain supplies and higher prices. The restrictions are an attempt by the Chinese government to i ...
  • Study finds increased likelihood that impacts ...
    BBC: According to vast computer simulations of debris thrown up from asteroid impacts on Earth, more life-bearing particles could have been scattered to Mars, Jupiter, or even beyond our solar system than previously thought. Mauricio Reyes-Ruiz of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • US-Israel Trade: Espionage, Thefts, Secrets
    by umajeff21 (Posted Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:30:04 GMT) Any latest developments? It's almost scary stuff. Amazed by the way they are doing it. Gross! ----------- blog uk
  • Congressional Junkets to Israel
    by Rev333 (Posted Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:59:53 GMT) US Congress Moves to Israel in Deficit-Reduction Effort August 12 2011; Disassociated Press In the wake of the announcement that 81 US Congressmen are leaving on an AIPAC-sponsored junket to Israel, the new SuperCongress announced today that t ...
  • Ron Paul names US internal Enemies
    by Rev333 (Posted Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:12:01 GMT) Michele Bachmann: Likudnik - Not suitable for President. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7cMxE1o ... r_embedded
  • Technology Transfer to Israel
    by Rev333 (Posted Sat, 20 Aug 2011 06:33:23 GMT) Israel Slap US in the Face AGAIN! and Again. http://tiny.cc/lffix
  • Media suppress Ron Paul
    by katsung47 (Posted Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:13:04 GMT) Who won the Republican Presidential Debate? Active Cities : 6,965 Total Votes : 40,882 National Vote Paul .....25248 Gingrich ...5863 Cain .......3169 Bachmann ...2438 Romney ...2376 Santorum ..1032 ...

Peakwater

  • Two Oklahoma Indian Tribes Contest State for W ...
    “The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian tribes in Oklahoma have filed a federal lawsuit to protect water rights they say derived from long-ago treaties and to prevent exports of water from their traditional homelands without their permission. The dispute had been simmering for more than a year, since ...
  • Rainwater Storage At Homes To Go Binding
    “The government is going to amend the country’s ‘building code’ to make harvesting of rain water mandatory for all the buildings as the level of ground water is falling fast because of excessive use. Sheikh Abdul Mannan, a member of Rajuk (planning), has said that the government wanted to encour ...
  • S. Calif. Water Agencies Sue Over Sucker Fish Plan
    “A dozen Southern California water agencies filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday claiming the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to use the best scientific data when it expanded Santa Ana sucker fish critical habitat earlier this year. The U.S. District Court lawsuit claims the Fish and Wildlife S ...
  • Expanding Deserts, Falling Water Tables and To ...
    “People do not normally leave their homes, their families, and their communities unless they have no other option. Yet as environmental stresses mount, we can expect to see a growing number of environmental refugees. Rising seas and increasingly devastating storms grab headlines, but expanding d ...
  • Vietnam’s Rice Bowl Threatened By Rising ...
    “Sitting amid buckets of rice in the market, Nguyen Thi Lim Lien issues a warning she desperately hopes the world will hear: climate change is turning the rivers of the Mekong Delta salty. “The government tells us that there are three grams of salt per litre of fresh water in the rivers now,” s ...

D. Kucinich

  • Regarding a Non-Violent Conclusion to the Even ...
    The Guardian newspaper recently reported that it found communications between me and an intermediary regarding a possible visit to Libya. From the beginning of the conflict, I have led the effort in challenging the Obama Administration�s war in Libya and to seeking a just, peaceful resoluti ...
  • Kucinich to GE’s Immelt: What Other U.S. Techn ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) wrote to Jeffrey Immelt, C.E.O. of General Electric, who also heads President Obama�s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, requesting more information about GE�s apparent transfer of technology to China that was originally derived from U.S. taxpayer-funded rese ...
  • Administration Waived U.S. Law 46 Times to Hel ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement after news outlets reported that the Obama Administration waived the Jones Act no less than 46 times following its decision to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in late June. � The Jones Act, a section of ...
  • Kucinich Continues to Build Opposition to Free ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich is continuing to build opposition to the three pending free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Colombia Congress is expected to vote on in the fall. He sent a letter to his colleagues today highlighting the role that multinational corporations have played in outs ...
  • Kucinich Announces $41 Million Federal Aviatio ...
    Cleveland, OH (August 24, 2011) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today announced $41,250,000 million in new federal funding from the Federal Aviation Administration for the construction of a new airport air traffic control tower, base building, link structure and guard house. This competiti ...

Authentically Wired

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    �� The tighter one increase their constrictive grip the faster people rebel �� it is man�s nature to be FREE �� � Ohio Congressman Has Cops Confiscate Cameras At Town Hall Meeting 08-23-2011� ⢠ Photography Is Not a Crime Hoping to prevent an embarrassing Youtube video from making the rounds, Rep ...
  • what do WE (that’s you & me) expect from ...
    ⦠The real unasked and unanswered question is what do WE (thatâs you & me) expect from those we elect âto serve & to protectâ usâ¦? Democrat set to file ethics complaint against Bundgaard By Dennis Welch The Arizona Guardian Democratic Sen. Steve Gallardo said he’s preparing to file an ethics c ...
  • This is your opportunity …
    …It appears that ADEQ is re-engaging its OWAC group and the public is invited to attend … This is your opportunity … To Whom It May Concern: The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is pleased to announce the On-site Wastewater Advisory Committee (OWAC) reorganizational stake holde ...
  • in Vegas I’d be inclined to bet in favor ...
    With the $upreme Court decision in âcitizens-unitedâ⦠were I in Vegas Iâd be inclined to bet in favor or PG&E and against the folks in Hinkley, California ⦠  ⦠Another Pollution Battle Looms in Erin Brockovich’s Town ⦠  READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE ⦠By JEREMY P. JACOBS of Greenwireâ¦. Publ ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Taking corporate sustainability seriously mean ...
    As more and more people demand companies to become sustainable and environmentally conscious, many corporations are at a loss of how to begin making the changes necessary. If they attempt to make changes—but fall short or focus poorly—they risk their actions being labeled as 'greenwash'. In addi ...
  • The glass is half-full: conservation has made ...
    Don't despair: that's the message of a new paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, which argues that decades of conservation actions at multiple scales have had a positive impact for many of the world's endangered species. While such actions have not yet turned back the tide of the current mas ...
  • Science has been nearly silent in Brazil&#8217 ...
    A recent push to revise Brazil’s forest code has emerged as one of the more contentious political issues in the country, pitting agribuisness against environmentalists trying to preserve the Amazon rainforest. Historically, the forest code has required private landowners to maintain a substanti ...
  • Is Indonesia losing its most valuable assets?
    Deep in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo in the late 1980s, researchers made an incredible discovery: the bark of a species of peat swamp tree yielded an extract with potent anti-HIV activity. An anti-HIV drug made from the compound is now nearing clinical trials. It could be worth hundreds o ...
  • Indonesia's moratorium disappoints environment ...
    The moratorium on permits for new concessions in primary rainforests and peatlands will have a limited impact in reducing deforestation in Indonesia, say environmentalists who have reviewed the instruction released today by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The moratorium, which too ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Enough life to sink the ark
    Noah's Ark could never have contained them: there are probably about 8.7 million species of living things, the vast majority of them undiscovered, according to what is believed to be the most authoritative estimate carried out of...
  • Adidas goes barefoot
    Adidas is going barefoot.The world's second-largest athletic company unveiled its first "barefoot" training shoe Tuesday, which is designed to mimic the experience of exercising barefoot while providing the protection, traction...
  • Wild world: Millions of unseen species fill Ea ...
    Our world is a much wilder place than it looks.A new study estimates that Earth has almost 8.8 million species, but we've only discovered about a quarter of them. And some of yet-to-be-seen ones could be in our own backyards, scientists...
  • Singapore patent for Dunedin co's cancer test
    Dunedin-based Pacific Edge says it has been awarded a patent in Singapore for its colorectal cancer prognostic technology, and anticipates the patent will be issued in other targeted countries in the next 12 to 24 months.The technology...
  • Molecule holds key to blocking breast cancer - ...
    A naturally occurring molecule in bacteria can block the development of breast cancer, scientists have discovered, paving the way for the design of more potent and selective drugs.The molecule, thiostrepton, clamps FOXM1, a cancer-causing...

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Hit & Run | Reason


Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • He wouldn’t hurt a fly
    What “chokehold incident?” She threw her neck into Prosser’s hands, he was just an innocent bystander. In the words of Norman Bates’ Mother: “Prosser wouldn’t hurt a fly.” –Perry Winkle, at ATAPM Eric Kleefeld, TPM: The special prosecutor appointed to investigate the alleged physical altercation ...
  • Dear Trucking Companies: John Mica Hates You.
    Right now, dingbat greedhead representative John Mica (R-Florida) is holding the nation’s roads, rails and transit systems hostage — apparently so he can privatize them for his buddies, just as he shut down the FAA in order to screw us all over on behalf of his buddies at Delta and how he wants ...
  • Beneviolent Middle Kingdom
    Following up on the remarkable comment by the Chinese ambassador to South Africa to the effect that China is just a wonderful, peace-loving, benevolent trader bringing prosperity and culture to the benighted nations of the earth (assuming you ignore their actions in the Spratlys or Senkaku), thi ...
  • Earthquake In Eric Cantor’s District
    Right next to a nuke plant. What was that about not needing government and regulations, Mr. Cantor?

Reality Sandwich

  • Shapeshifting the Future
    We have entered a time prophesied by many cultures for shapeshifting into higher consciousness. Polynesian shamans shapeshift through oceans, Amazon warriors transform into anacondas, Andean birdpeople and Tibetan monks bilocate across mountains. These shamans have taught John Perkins that shap ...
  • Sacred Economics: Chapter 9, "The Story of Val ...
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  • Sex in the News
    The Christian crusade against pornography; homosexual zebra finches, China's attempt to convince women to marry for love, not money; insect sex; and reasons to stop reading into sex on a first date are all in this week's sex roundup. China tries to stop women from marrying for money. L ...
  • Beyond the Singularity: This is the End of Wha ...
    � There comes a point in the journey of the unfoldment of consciousness when every narrative appears ridiculous. This includes so-called scientific, philosophic, and psychoanalytic discourses. It includes, therefore, even this sort of discourse about the inanity of all discourse. The symbolic ...
  • Evolver at Burning Man
    This year, the Evolver network has formed its first ever pod at Burning Man. Come meet regional organizers from around the world, including Australia, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Baltimore at Red Lightning (4:15 and Esplanade). Evolver talks and workshops at R ...

Desertification

  • 8.7 Million Species Run Spaceship Earth
    The life support system that generates the planet's air, water, and food is powered by 8.7 million living species according to the newest and best estimate. We know next to nothing about 99 percent of those unique species - except that lots of them are going extinct.
  • OP-ED: Expanding Deserts, Falling Water Tables ...
    People do not normally leave their homes, their families, and their communities unless they have no other option. Yet as environmental stresses mount, we can expect to see a growing number of environmental refugees. Rising seas and increasingly devastating storms grab headlines, but expa ...
  • EAST AFRICA: Massive Aid Needed to Stave off D ...
    International donors have given more than one billion dollars to ease the famine in Somalia and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa, but U.N. officials say another billion will be needed to prevent the situation from deteriorating in other areas.
  • Eleven Million at Risk in Horn of Africa
    "I have never seen anything like it. Many mothers have lost three or four children. It's a tragedy out here," Austin Kennan, regional director for the Horn of Africa for Concern Worldwide, told IPS from within the crisis zone.
  • UN: Somalia Is 'Worst Humanitarian Disaster'
    The head of the United Nations refugee agency has described the situation in drought-hit Somalia as the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world, after meeting with those affected at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • Armed groups kill eight Syrian troops
    At least eight Syrian security forces have been killed and many others have been injured in two separate attacks, SANA reports.
  • World marks International Quds Day
    People around the world have participated in the International Quds Day to show their solidarity with the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation.
  • Israel snipers use laser device to kill
    The Israeli military has developed an operational doctrine for snipers using laser designators in anticipation of violent demonstrations following the Palestinian's declaration of statehood.
  • Explosion hits UN building in Nigeria
    A massive explosion has hit a United Nations building in Nigeria's capital of Abuja, leveling at least one complete wing of the structure.
  • Anti-Israel protests held in Saudi Arabia
    As people across the world rally in support of Palestinians, thousands of anti-Israel protesters have taken to the streets in several Saudi Arabian cities and mark the International Quds Day.

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • BRAZIL: Organised Crime Raises the Stakes
    The assassination of Brazilian Judge Patr�cia Acioli, who was investigating militias made up of off-duty police and death squads, points to a new stage of organised crime, which is expanding into the vacuum left by the impunity surrounding 90 percent of murders in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
  • Palestinians Thirsting for Justice in Water-St ...
    In the strife-stricken Middle East, oil has always been in the realm of politics. But in the Israeli-occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank, oil has been supplanted by water.
  • Q&A: NGOs Must Play Key Role in Rio+20 Summit ...
    As the United Nations readies for a major international conference on sustainable development next June in Brazil, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are preparing to play a key role in the run-up to the summit meeting and are preparing a plan of action to be adopted by world leaders.
  • CONGO: Poachers Feel the Long Arm of New Law
    Authorities in the Republic of Congo are showing an encouraging new readiness to arrest and prosecute people trading in endangered species.
  • PAKISTAN: For Shia Hazaras, it's Funeral After ...
    Rukhsana Ahmed finds comfort visiting her husband Ahmed Ali Najfi's grave. "I feel at peace there," says the 60-year-old widow, mother of four and member of the Shia Hazara community.

Scoop - NZ

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

Independent - London

  • Spain backs budgetary discipline
    Spain's two main parties have reached an agreement to amend the constitution and enshrine the principle of budgetary discipline.
  • Japanese premier Kan stepping down
    Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan said he is resigning after almost 15 months in office.
  • Scores killed by Mexico casino arsonists
    Two dozen gunmen burst into a casino in northern Mexico, doused it with petrol and started a fire that trapped gamblers inside, killing at least 45 people and injuring a dozen more, authorities said.
  • Taiwan's military 'activities' could force Chi ...
    The country's President told the outgoing head of the United States Pacific Command that "activities" by the Chinese army could force the island to enter into political talks with Beijing, according to an American diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.
  • Sri Lankan president relaxes emergency laws
    The president announced plans to lift wartime emergency laws that have curbed civil and political liberties for nearly 30 years.

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Irene's First Rains Reach Threatened US East Coast
    Hurricane Irene's rains began reaching the U.S. East Coast on Friday ahead of a weekend of punishing weather from the Carolinas to as far north as Massachusetts, with at least 65 million people in the storm's track. Rain began falling along the coasts of North and South Carolina as Irene trudge ...
  • Underground River "Rio Hamza" Discovered 4km B ...
    Scientists estimate the subterranean river may be 6,000km long and hundreds of times wider than the Amazon Brazilian scientists have found a new river in the Amazon basin - around 4km underneath the Amazon river. The Rio Hamza, named after the head of the team of researchers who found the gro ...
  • US: Irene Conjures Memories of "Great" Storm o ...
    What Evelyn Katzman remembers most about the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 are the floating store mannequins. A self-described Army brat, she had recently moved to Providence with her parents from Atlanta. She was 30, newly employed at Cherry and Webb, a specialty store downtown. It was S ...
  • Meteorite blasts across skies of Peru leaving ...
    Blazing with the fury of a mini-sun this amazing video shows the moment a suspected meteor streaked across the sky over the city of Cusco in Peru. It was captured blasting through the upper levels of the atmosphere at 2pm yesterday afternoon, leaving an iridescent trail in its wake. Astonished ...
  • Temperatures soar in eastern Europe
    Officials in the Balkans are trying to cope with a near-record heat wave as temperatures soar across much of eastern Europe, with wildfires raging and people fainting on the streets. Authorities in Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Albania issued heat warnings today for people ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Match Made in ? ? ? ?
    Your guess is as good as mine. From today's Toronto Star: TRIPOLI, LIBYA—Libyan rebels who took control of Moammar Gadhafi’s sprawling compound made a surprising discovery in one of the buildings: a photo album with pictures of Condoleezza Rice. _______________ “I support my ...
  • Light blogging ahead
    Very very busy month ahead. I should be able to breath sometime in the last week of September, but I likely won't post much in the meantime.
  • Jack Layton's legacy
    (Image: Jackman Chui) Those who have lived enough come to realise that life doesn't boil down to anything more than simply caring for each other. That's why there's something to be said about the great outpouring of sentiment about the loss of Jack Layton. My friends, love is better than ...
  • Perspective and time . . .
    James Burke's The Day The Universe Changed: "The Way We Are". A series worthy of your consideration, as is "Connections". Why? Because change is going to make today seem like a scene from a Jane Austen novel sooner than you might believe.
  • Farewell, Jack
    Very sad news this morning.

Media Matters for America

  • Fox "Gets Conspiratorial" About Warren Buffett ...
    Fox is baselessly speculating that Warren Buffett conspired to invest in Bank of America as a political favor to President Obama. But the investment follows Buffett's history of investing in banking companies; Buffett told reporters the investment was his idea; and the investment is reportedly ...
  • Note To Cal Thomas: Virginia's Budget Surplus ...
    Citing Virginia's $500 million budget surplus, Washington Examiner columnist Cal Thomas claimed that the federal government should "emulate" Virginia Governor McDonnell's fiscal policies. In fact, under McDonnell, the state of Virginia received more than $2.7 billion in funds through the federa ...
  • Fox's Megyn Kelly Wrong On Impact Of EPA's Coa ...
    Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly reported the claim that "a fifth of America's electricity generating capacity is about to be taken offline" due to Environmental Protection Agency limits on pollution from coal plants. In fact, this statement vastly overstates even the worst-case scenarios pushed by ...
  • Right-Wing Media Ignore Bush Effect On Debt To ...
    Right-wing media have seized on a 2008 video of then-candidate Barack Obama, in which he criticized President Bush for adding $4 trillion to the debt, to accuse Obama of hypocrisy because�$4 trillion in debt has also accumulated since Obama took office. However, this ignores the fact that the C ...
  • Just Plane False: NY Times Columnist ...
    New York Times op-ed columnist Joe Nocera pushed a series of falsehoods about the National Labor Relations Board case against Boeing to baselessly attack Democrats' commitment to job creation.Nocera Myth: Boeing Did Not Engage In "Direct Payback" Against Striking Workers Nocera On Allegations ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Nukes and Dictator Survival
    On Wednesday night's Last Word, Chris Hayes and Steve Clemons fretted over the effect of Qaddafi's overthrow on 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 budding yet substantial nuclear weap ...
  • Libya, The Climax
    I wrote about my time in Libya, and of the country's serious potential, back in February, just as the uprising started. I am not sure there is anything to add, except to caution against all the analysis that emphasizes the country's tribal divisions and lack of a functioning government--as if we ...
  • Lessons from Apple
    I'm lucky in that I get to work pretty closely with Apple at the USC Annenberg innovation Lab. So if I have anything to add to the reams of copy written this morning about Steve Jobs' decision to step down as CEO of Apple it is this: "Culture eats strategy for lunch, everyday." That's a saying y ...
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  • Note to Conservatives - It Isn't Always About Us
    I'm returning to my proper foreign policy subject matter after several weeks of irresistible debt ceiling / Republican presidential follies blogging. The topic today: must the United States position itself at the forefront of every important struggle in the world, or else become a shadow of our ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Earthquake and hurricane, the east coast is st ...
    Earlier today I got on a scheduled phone call with some of the staff in our D.C. office just after they had come back into their building after evacuating during the 5.8 magnitude Virginia earthquake that rattled buildings and nerves all the way to New York City.  They, of course, had more immed ...
  • HOT HOT HOT! Austin breaks heat record today a ...
    Today Austin’s temps will soar back into the 100′s for our 69th day this year of over 100 degrees. This  will break a record that has stood since 1925 for the most days over 100 degrees, as we begin another round of heat advisories lasting through the weekend of 100+ degree weather. Since we’re ...
  • TCEQ begins process to enact Sunset legislation
    TCEQ will soon be making some big decisions on how to implement reforms passed during the last legislative session, especially on its penalty policy–and your input is needed quickly: Comments are due on August 30th Last session, Public Citizen worked with a partnership, The Alliance for a Clean ...
  • SPIN BABY SPIN – Renewables continue to grow i ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the operators of the Texas electric grid, has released its Emerging technologies report that includes the state of renewables on the Texas grid. Some interesting facts show that wind generation continues to provide a significant amount of energy ...
  • Pipelines trump your property rights.
    Energy companies are increasingly suing South Texas landowners as they work to build pipelines to accommodate surging oil and gas production. The question isn’t whether a company can route a pipeline across a property owner’s land.  Pipeline companies, under Texas law, wield the power of eminen ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Planet made of diamond discovered
    A planet formed from a dead star in orbit around a pulsar is believed to have crystallized in to diamond. In a solar system 4,000 light years away tha...
  • Woman's breat implants pops during paintball
    A woman enjoying a game of paintball suffered an unfortunate injury when her breast implant popped. The bizarre accident has lead paintball organisers...
  • Real-life 120mph Tron Lightcycle created
    Parker Brothers Choppers have built a working replica of the bikes used in the movie Tron: Legacy. Powered by a fuel-injected Suzuki 996cc the custom ...
  • Scorpion-shaped UFO sighted over Spain
    An odd shaped UFO that resembles a scorpion has been photographed over Los Cristianos in Spain. The case was picked up by the Global UFO Reporting Cen...
  • Elephants capable of insight
    In a series of experiments elephants have been shown to be capable of spontaneous problem solving. To test elephant intelligence researchers hung some...

Grassroots

  • Free – but not for you and me: Winners and Los ...
    chimage.php_.jpg With the political extravaganza of the debt ceiling debate now in their rear view mirror, the U.S. Congress will soon vote on “free” trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea. Despite major concerns raised ...
  • Latest Attacks Bring Fire and Fear to Gaza
    border_boy.jpg Soon after shameful attacks killed six in southern Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that militants would pay �a very heavy price.��And then his warplanes proceeded to pound civilian areas with missiles. So far nine Pale ...
  • Seeing REDD
    no_redd.jpg Like most other market-based solutions, REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), and its more recent avatar REDD +, are fundamentally about profit – not forests, not people, and not global warming or ...
  • Program Coordinator for the Middle East and Haiti
    Grassroots International seeks an experienced individual to work as an active member of its Grantmaking & Advocacy Team.�The Program Coordinator develops and manages programs consistent with Grassroots� mission in two key overseas program areas: Palestine/Israel and Haiti. Qualifications:� ...
  • Youth carry the work forward
    Subheadline:� Leading the way for economic development, climate justice and sustainability From her humble beginnings, Sayra never imagined the profound impact she would have on the global movement for food sovereignty.read more

Climate

  • Canadians Plan Own Anti-Keystone Protest
    Source:� Montreal Gazette Canadian activists are planning to mirror their U.S. counterparts outside the White House in Washington who are protesting against the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.
  • Clinton Review of Canada Pipeline Ignores Risk ...
    Source:� Bloomberg The U.S. State Department has failed to respond to environmental concerns over Keystone XL ahead of an assessment that may come as soon as today, environmental groups said.
  • 'Polarbeargate' Scientist To Head Back To Work
    Source:� National Public Radio The polar bear scientist who has spent more than a month suspended from his government job has now been told that he should report back to work on Friday, although NPR has learned that his job is ...
  • Battle Over Montana Transmission Line Stymies ...
    Source:� Greenwire The delays to the transmission project could strand up to 50 proposed wind farm projects that are in various stages of planning and development in Montana.
  • Evolution, Climate Change Could Divide the Rep ...
    Source:� The Atlantic The collision between Jon Huntsman and Rick Perry over climate change and the evolution of human life threatens to widen the central rift in the Republican electoral coalition even as it helps each man sh ...

GreenBiz

  • IBM Tests If Smart Meters Can Prod Consumers i ...
    ��IBM is testing the ability of the smart grid to change consumer behavior with a project letting 1,000 households see real-time, detailed energy data.
  • Three Lessons on Energy-Efficient Lighting Des ...
    Facebook's goals for its lighting system are simple: make efficient use of daylight, lighting controls, and efficient fixtures to save energy and keep employees comfortable, while preserving the company's unfinished, garage-like office aesthetic.
  • Adidas to Work With Greenpeace to Remove Toxic ...
    The clothing giant is following Nike's lead in the wake of a Greenpeace campaign around the clothing industry's use of harmful chemicals.
  • 4 Steps to Get You On the Path to Zero Waste
    If you look at it from a purely business perspective, paying someone to take away a revenue stream is just a bad idea. Here are the lessons you can learn from zero-waste projects from Walmart, General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and others.
  • Toys R Us Embeds Green Building Elements in St ...
    The biggest toy store company in the U.S. outlined an ambitious agenda to open 21 new stores and renovate 23 others by the end of the year. Behind the ballyhooed expansion plans are a series of green building elements for each site.

Reuters Global

  • UN Syria sanctions draft targets Assad, family
    Western nations circulated a draft U.N. resolution on Tuesday that calls for sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, influential members of his family and key associates.
  • America in Afghanistan until 2024 ?
    Afghanistan and the United Statesd are negotiating a status of forces pact, under which according to reports, troops may stay on well beyond 2014.
  • UN tells Mbeki he got it wrong on Ivory Coast
    This week U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's chief of staff, Vijay Nambiar, defended the United Nations' record on Ivory Coast, telling Thabo Mbeki in a highly unusual public rebuttal that it was the former South African president -- not the international community -- who got it wrong in the w ...
  • UN sends mixed signals on civilian deaths in Libya
    The United Nations has been sending mixed signals lately about NATO's record with civilian casualties in the alliance's sixth month of air strikes against troops and military sites linked to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
  • Berlin Wall, 1961-1989, R.I.P
    The Berlin Wall has been gone for more than 20 years but its construction 50 years ago still fascinates Berlin and the world. There is almost nothing left of it, to the chagrin of tourists and Berliners with a sense of history.

Booman Tribune

  • I'm Concerned
    Here are a few highlights of what might be happening to all us of on the East Coast over the next 96 hours. We've all been watching the computer models, which have been steadily moving their forecast tracks for Irene more to the east--first into Florida, then Georgia, then South Carolina, t ...
  • Thanks So Much
    Tonight I purchased an 11-inch MacBook Air online from the Apple Store. With the AppleCare package, taxes, and an expedited shipment fee, it came out to almost exactly what you all donated for the cause. You guys are awesome! I've never been so indecisive about anything in my life. I research ...
  • We're About to Get It
    A couple of days ago the East Coast experienced the biggest earthquake of my lifetime. As for hurricanes, in the Mid-Atlantic region where I have lived most of my life, we don't get direct hits. We sometimes face tropical storm-strength winds from weakened hurricanes, but the last time we had ...
  • Good News for Obama
    The AFL-CIO hates him, they really, really do: Richard Trumka, president of union giant AFL-CIO, delivered a scathing review of President Barack Obama at a press breakfast Thursday morning. He accused him of abandoning Democratic ideals and aligning himself with the conservative tea party. ...
  • Odds & Ends
    It's not like the Tea Party congressmen are hypocrites or anything. Gaddafi's infatuation with Condi Rice is really gross. My childhood nemesis was found dead on his property. Seriously, no one scared me more than Mike Flanagan. Not even Jim Palmer. Obviously, the solution is to ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Mysterious Death of Nine Campers in Russia ...
    The creepy and mysterious death of nine skiers in Russia's Ural Mountains in 1959, all of whom fled their tent in sub-zero temperatures, one of whom lost her tongue. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Global Camera Trap Study Takes 52,000 Candid A ...
    Candid shots of animals taken with camera traps around the world... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 12 Hottest Links of the Week
    Twelve über-cool links from around the web, hand-selected for your delectation! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Heartwarming Tales of Orphaned Elephants Being ...
    Amazing images of baby elephants being cared for in a nursery, and the story behind the pictures... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Bizarre Portuguese Flintstones House Built ...
    A bizarre stone house built between two enormous boulders read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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

Daily Censored

  • RIOTS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND NEW AGENCIES OF CHANGE
    By Saul Landau An angry demonstration virus spreads to country after country in response to negligent and callous political leaders who have ignored the basic needs of their citizens. Instead, they have bowed or eagerly catered to demands of multinational corporations and banks, thus deepening t ...
  • World Capitalism’s Battle to Control Libya
    It appears that the 42 year rule of Moammar Khadafy is coming to an end. Yet his rule and the events leading up to the present situation in Libya contain many of the most fundamental laws of history of capitalism. Colonial Revolution Khadafy came to power on the heels of the mass colonial revolt ...
  • The Hijacking of a Dream: The Need too Reclaim ...
    � The Hijacking of a Dream: Why We Need to Reclaim Dr. King�s Legacy By: Solomon Comissiong On August 28, 2011, the dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial will take place on the National Mall in Washington DC. Having the dedication of this memorial on the 48th anniversary of ...
  • Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Individualism ( ...
    (This is part one of a four-part series on the ethics and political theory of Ayn Rand, written exclusively for The Daily Censored, by Dr. Robert Abele, professor of philosophy at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area.) � Ayn Rand has become the darling of both neoliberals and, unf ...
  • Whirlwind in Sonoma and Marin
    A few months ago, I was lying in bed enjoying the morning sunrise over the mountain range. Out my winddow I can see the coastal fog had settled upon the open field next to the apple orchard. A gentle breeze was blowing in from the Pacific Ocean. From a distance, I heard an unusual sound. [...]

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Riots, Demonstrations and New Agencies of Change
    An angry demonstration virus spreads to country after country in response to negligent and callous political leaders who have ignored the basic needs of their citizens.
  • I Was Arrested Today at the White House to Say ...
    "Today I'm risking arrest to urge president Obama to be the leader that puts healing the planet and families over the interests of the fossil fuel industry."
  • Governments Kill
    Governments kill on our behalf. This arrangement is a form of social contract, which means that governments are basically contract killers.
  • As Tripoli Faces a Potential Regime Change, Ou ...
    This 'Democracy Now!' interview focuses on the roles of Transitional National Council, NATO, the United States and international interests in the Libyan Civil War as the conflict moves to Tripoli.
  • Dangerous Nuclear Spent Fuel Pool Near Epicent ...
    An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale just occurred less than a hour ago. Its epicenter was in Mineral, Virginia, approximately 10 miles from two nuclear power reactors at the North Anna site. According to statement by a representative of Dominion Power the two reactors were designed ...

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #576 (Libya edition)
    Rebels seize Libyan intelligence service HQ. Gadhafi’s loose weapons could number a ‘thousand times’ Saddam’s. The bewildering dance between Gaddafi and MI6.
  • Why Are Armed Groups Storming Foreign Embassie ...
    It is perhaps understandable that fighters of the National Transitional Council, Libya’s rebel umbrella group, have stormed locations in Tripoli that are associated with the regime of deposed Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Strategic sites such as Bab al-Aziziya, Gaddafi’s compound, governmen ...
  • News you may have missed #576 (Europe edition)
    Inside Britain's signals intelligence agency. Czech telecoms to share data with intel services. Dutch F-16 pilot suspected of espionage.
  • Western companies help Bahrain spy on democrac ...
    While Western governments preach to the world about the benefits of democracy, Western companies supply some of the most detestable dictatorial regimes with surveillance technologies for use against pro-democracy activists. One example in point is the repressive government of Bahrain, which, acc ...
  • News you may have missed #575
    Inquest into death of MI6 spy to go ahead. Colombia's ex-president denies role in spy scandal. US spy research firm eyes stock market.

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Grist - News

  • Critical List: East Coast prepares for Irene; ...
    by Sarah Laskow.   With Hurricane Irene on its way, New Yorkers head to Trader Joe's and make jokes (I think they're jokes?) about the proper amount to tip delivery guys who come out during a hurricane. Why does a super-walkable condo building in Denver include eight floors of park ...
  • Fracking sadface: U.S. has one-fifth the shale ...
    by Christopher Mims. "Oops," says the United States Geological Survey, "We used to think the shale on the East coast of the U.S., which gas companies are currently fracking into submission, had a metric buttload of natural gas. Turns out it only 0.2 metric buttloads." (I'm paraphrasing.) ...
  • PSA: Irene might mess up the East Coast someth ...
    by Christopher Mims. The U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting that hurricane Irene is going to strafe pretty much every inch of the most densely populated part of America, i.e. the East Coast. So if you live anywhere from the Carolinas to Boston, i ...
  • U.S. coal goes to China
    by Sarah Laskow. OnEarth takes a close look at why exactly Warren Buffett has been sniffing around Wyoming coal mines lately. Short answer: China wants coal. As George Black explains: Although worldwide energy-related CO2 emissions rose more last year than at any time since 1969, and ...
  • Koch Industries fights anti-terrorism regulations
    by Sarah Laskow. Here's another bit of info to include in your "man, the Koch brothers are eeeevil" file. In environmental circles, the Koch family is best known for its funding of climate deniers, but Koch Industries also owns 56 facilities that use petrochemicals. The government is a te ...

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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 ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Calling All Design Students: Launch Your Portf ...
    Hey design and art students! Are you looking for a new platform to share you best work with the global creative community? We’ve teamed up with The Behance Network, to offer Inhabitat’s enterprising students the opportunity to kick off their portfolio on Behance’s awesome ProSite. A wonderful t ...
  • Influx Studio Unveils Spiraling Garden Museum ...
    Read the rest of Influx Studio Unveils Spiraling Garden Museum With a Cork-Screw Green Roof for Taipei Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", art museum, eco design, eco museum, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green roof, influx studio, inf ...
  • Hurricane Irene Puts a Damper on Highly Antici ...
    The much-anticipated Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial dedication ceremony that was expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors to D.C. this Sunday has been cancelled due to Hurricane Irene. The very first memorial near the National Mall dedicated to a black man, the mammoth MLK s ...
  • Study Finds That Climate Change Causes Wars
    Climate change might be on track to do more than reduce the Earth’s resources and jeopardize the health of mankind — it could cause us all to start fighting with each other. The Center for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) just published research in the journal Nature showing that global climate cha ...
  • Steven Holl’s Horizontal Skyscraper Wins Covet ...
    Read the rest of Steven Holl’s Horizontal Skyscraper Wins Coveted 2011 American Architecture Award! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: American Architecture Award 2011, china, green roof, greywater recycling, horizontal skyscraper, LEED platinum, photovoltaic panels, rainwater harv ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Cosmic Bling: Astronomers Find Planet Made of ...
    An international team of astronomers has discovered a planet made of diamond crystals in our own Milky Way galaxy.
  • Clever Dolphins Use Shells to Catch Fish
    Already famed as Earth's first tool-using mammals, the bottlenose dolphins of Australia's Shark Bay have proved handy yet again: by using conch shells to trap tasty fish, then shaking them into their mouths like sardines from a tin.
  • NASA to Test Laser Communications System in Space
    Optical communications technologies don't work too well in dusty, polluted air, but the vacuum of space holds more promise, so NASA wants to test a laser communications system in orbit.
  • How to Detect Collisions With Other Universes
    By Chris Lee, Ars Technica From a certain perspective, the Universe looks as smooth and uninteresting as a billiard ball—the smoothest billiard ball ever made. What do I mean by this? The radiation from the Big Bang, now so deeply red-shifted that it is microwave radiation, looks pretty muc ...
  • Video: Dolphins Blast Into School of Fish
    Dolphins and gannets blast through a shimmering, pulsing vortex of sardines in this up-close glimpse of an underwater buffet.

PakAlert

  • Video: Russia Reports Nuclear Explosions Hit V ...
    A frightening foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that over the past nearly 36 hours the vast intercontinental military tunnel complex constructed by the United States Air force over the past nearly 45 years was hit with two powerful nuc ...
  • Pakistanis Blaze A Trail Despite Political Fai ...
    Twenty Pakistanis joining New York’s Hasidic Jews in a search for a missing boy, a Pakistani father restraining a whole community after a hate crime took his son in England, to a Pakistani policewoman helping the Timorese people; from Timor to MIT to New York City to Birmingham to Kathmandu, ord ...
  • The Great Collapse Has Officially Begun
    I've been warning of this for well over two years. My primary warnings were: 1) That 2008 was just a warm-up 2) That the REAL Crisis had yet to unfold 3) That the REAL Crisis would make 2008 look like a picnic Well, the period I've been warning of is now here. What's happening right now ...
  • 9/11/11 – 7 Reasons To Brace For Impact
    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it’s not looking good for this 10th anniversary of 9/11. All the indicators are there to tell us they need a massive distraction and excuse to take this idiotic war on terror to horrific new levels and even more Orwellian internal controls and crackdowns. ...
  • BREAKING: Prominent American Activist Shot By ...
    The Palestine Civil Rights Campaign-Lebanon confirms reports that Franklin Lamb was shot at approximately 11:45 a.m. on Sunday August 21 in Tripoli, Libya outside of the Corinthia Hotel where he has been staying. Franklin P. Lamb, LLM,PhD is the Director of Americans Concerned for Middle East ...

Andy Worthington

  • My New Article for the 10th Anniversary of 9/1 ...
    Back in April, just after WikiLeaks released the classified military documents relating to the Guantánamo prisoners on which I worked as a media partner, and which have consumed most of my time since, I received a welcome email out of the blue from Jacinda Woodhead, the associate editor of Overl ...
  • Fears for the Health of Shaker Aamer, the Last ...
    Last week, the plight of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, briefly surfaced in the media when the Independent ran a story by Paul Cahalan, who, for several years, has covered Shaker Aamer’s story extensively for the Wandsworth Guardian, in Aamer’s home borough in London, wh ...
  • More Evidence of the Use of Water Torture at G ...
    Three weeks ago, my colleague Jeffrey Kaye, a full-time psychologist in California who also manages to find time to pursue a second career as a blogger producing important work on America’s torture program, wrote an article for Truthout about the use of water torture at Guantánamo, which pulled ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Nativist Leader Clarifies Violence Statement, ...
    William Gheen, head of the nativist extremist group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), has certainly made a spectacle of himself this week. Shocked at the backlash from his proclamation Monday that “illegal and violent” “extra-political activities” might be the only way to save “white ...
  • Ex-Marine and Fugitive Tied to Oath Keepers Ar ...
    A federal fugitive with past ties to the Patriot group Oath Keepers was arrested without incident Thursday southwest of Houston, Texas, just days after fleeing a campground during a law enforcement dragnet. Charles Alan Dyer, 31, a former Marine, was arrested after leaving a Sonic drive-in where ...
  • News Roundup for August 25, 2011
    Prosecutors in Muscogee County, Ga., indicted a man for assault they allege is connected to the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Authorities say that Michael Carothers, 31, allegedly pulled up alongside an African-American man who was walking and pepper sprayed him. Carothers is known for passing out ...
  • Group Wants Next President to ‘Investigate’ LG ...
    Earlier this month, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), one of the most visible and active anti-gay marriage groups, asked all serious contenders for the GOP nomination for president to sign its so-called “Marriage Pledge.” It some ways, it was just another pledge being sought from pol ...
  • You, Too, Can Learn About America’s Surrender ...
    If you, through your own diligence and dogged research, had discovered evidence of foreign infiltration of key U.S. institutions like the Pentagon and the White House, what would you do with it? Tell the FBI? Call your senator or governor? Distribute it to major news outlets to warn an unwary po ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Report: $42 Million From Seven Foundations Hel ...
    Following a six-month long investigative research project, the Center for American Progress released a 130-page report today which reveals that more than $42 million from seven foundations over the past decade have helped fan the flames of anti-Muslim hate in America. The authors — Wajahat Ali, ...
  • Nurses Take the Message "Heal America Tax Wall ...
    Across the country on September 1, nurses will converge on local congressional offices to demand a tax on Wall Street financial speculation, a move they say is a step towards healing the nation, trimming the deficit, and preserving social programs. National Nurses United (NNU) is planning a day ...
  • Leaked Cable: John McCain Pushed to Arm Qadhafi
    A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable shows that Arizona Republican Senator John McCain promised to help Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi obtain U.S. military hardware in 2009. The cable, released by the open information group Wikileaks, reveals the pledge came at meeting that was attended by other pro ...
  • State Department's Keystone XL Environmental A ...
    WASHINGTON - The U.S. State Department is expected to release its final environmental assessment of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, with environmentalists all but certain the report will give its blessing to the controversial project. "We haven't seen the analysis, but we ...
  • Gaddafi's Desperate Bid to Save Regime Revealed
    The Gaddafi regime carried out an extraordinary clandestine lobbying operation to try to stop Nato's bombardment of Libya, and believed the western allies were likely to launch a full-scale invasion in "either late September or October". Secret documents in Tripoli seen by the Guardian reveal th ...

Lifehacker

  • Eat Calorie Dense Fruits and Nuts to Put on He ...
    Most people concerned about weight want to shed pounds, but there are also people who are underweight either due to illness, pregnancy, or malnourishment. If you're one of them, your best bet may be calorie dense snacks like nuts, peanut ...
  • Wear Black When Cleaning Mirrors to See Smudge ...
    Few things are more irritating than spending time wiping down a huge bathroom mirror only to see it from another angle later and discover it's smudged. According to Shelterpop, wearing dark clothing when cleaning mirrors and windows will ...
  • 7notes for iPad Lets You Take Notes On-Screen ...
    iPad: If you've been waiting for a utility that finally lets you take notes on a tablet screen like you would a piece of paper, either with a stylus or with your finger, 7notes for iPad may be the app you've been waiting for. More�� ...
  • The Fold-Away Treadmill Workspace [Featured Wo ...
    Treadmill-plus-computer setups (treadputers or tread-desks) are great for getting your required daily exercise, but they sure take up an awful lot of space and can cost thousands of dollars. Editor Sarah Milstein created a DIY solution—tha ...
  • Best Hard Drive Space Analyzer? [Hive Five Cal ...
    Hard drives are bigger than ever today, but the music and movies we download can be just as large and are getting larger. When your hard drive is full or getting full and you're wondering where the space went, which app do you use to anal ...

Water Privatization

  • Privatization of PHL’s water industry draws pr ...
    STOCKHOLM, Aug. 26 (PNA) – Good news about the Philippines are usually scarce, locally and more so abroad, thus, participants to the 21st World Water Week here were surprised to hear the success of the government’s water privatization program.
  • Senate budget chief JD Alexander on prison bos ...
    Senate budget chief JD Alexander sat down with Gov. Rick Scott for an hour this afternoon at the Lake Wales lawmaker’s request. Alexander was there to pitch Scott on allowing USF Polytechnic to become a stand-alone university at its campus near his hometown. Before leaving the Capitol, Alexander ...
  • Gazette.Net: Commissioners approve pilot progr ...
    Developers, not Frederick County employees, will handle the contracts, inspections and supervision of some water and sewer construction projects for the next 18 months, under a new pilot program.
  • Sudan: Local Police Clamp Down On Water Cuts P ...
    Water shortages on Wednesday sparked a new bout of protests in Sudan's capital Khartoum, where the police forcibly dispersed the demonstrators and arrested some of them, eye witnesses told Sudan Tribune.
  • Privatization of PHL’s water industry draws pr ...
    STOCKHOLM — Good news about the Philippines are usually scarce, locally and more so abroad, thus, participants to the 21st World Water Week here were surprised to hear the success of the government’s water privatization program.

Guardian

  • Salman Taseer's son Shahbaz is kidnapped in Lahore
    Punjab governor from ruling Pakistan People's party was killed by his own bodyguard in JanuaryThe son of a prominent Pakistani politician who was assassinated by his own bodyguard after criticising the country's blasphemy law has been kidnapped at gunpoint in his hometown of Lahore.Shahbaz Tasee ...
  • 9/11 10 years on: share your memories
    The Guardian is inviting readers to share their recollections of the moment they found out America had been attacked
  • British crew become first to row to magnetic n ...
    Five-man team took just under four weeks to complete 450-mile route, which was possible due to seasonal ice melt in the ArcticAn explorer on Friday said he was "exhilarated" after he and his crew became the first people to row to the magnetic north pole.Jock Wishart and his five-man team took ju ...
  • Underground river discovered beneath Amazon
    The subterranean river appears to be 3,700 miles long, about the same length as the Amazon on the surface, scientists sayA huge underground river appears to be flowing thousands of feet beneath the Amazon river, Brazilian scientists said Thursday.Valiya Hamza of Brazil's National Observatory sai ...
  • Chile to investigate death of Allende general
    Judge agrees to inquiry into death of Alberto Bachelet, who was tortured and imprisoned for supporting Allende before the 1973 coupA Chilean judge has agreed to investigate the death of a general who was tortured and imprisoned for supporting President Salvador Allende before the 1973 military c ...

McClatchey

  • Spy conference draws mix of scholars, history ...
    RALEIGH, N.C. — One of the most remarkable spies in history never bothered to use an alias, even as he recruited a group of operatives that would become known as the Cambridge Five spy ring.
  • Calif. panel OKs bill to allow lay people to a ...
    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It's not often that the Democratic-controlled Legislature takes a stand against the state's Democratic Party chairman and the labor unions that are the party's main allies.
  • Firebombing of casino leaves 'around 40' dead ...
    MEXICO CITY — Assailants on Thursday dumped gasoline and set it afire in a casino in the city of Monterrey, trapping gamblers inside as flames engulfed the building, and a top official said "around 40" people had died.
  • For D.C., first earthquake, now Irene, but exp ...
    WASHINGTON — Hurricane Irene already was threatening the East Coast when a rare 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Virginia on Tuesday, so it didn't take long for many property owners to call in an expert.
  • Warren Buffett invests $5 billion in Bank of A ...
    In a deal hatched in less than 24 hours, Warren Buffett is injecting $5 billion into Bank of America, providing a jolt of confidence in the ailing company while landing the famed investor $300 million in annual dividend payments.

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Armicus Brief argues for SOX coverage for Vill ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) and the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) filed an amicus brief this week in Villanueva v. Core Laboratories NV, a case pending at the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). The brief argues that SOX should protect whis ...
  • August 26th Premiere of Documentary "Chasing M ...
    A new documentary about the infamous Madoff scandal opens in theaters across the country on Friday August 26th. I am looking forward to seeing Chasing Madoff on Friday and learning more about Harry Markopolos’ struggle to blow the whistle on a financial fraud that rocked the US economy. I highly ...
  • Calling All Corporate Whistleblowers: SEC Rule ...
    Today is a big day for corporate fraud detection. The Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Final Rules implementing the whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act go into effect. The SEC has simultaneously launched a new Office of the Whistlebl ...
  • IRS Guidelines Discourage Whistleblowers
    Today, Tax Analysts published an article about how Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines can result in whistleblower awards being unfairly reduced. The Government Accountability Project, No FEAR Coalition and National Whistleblowers Center sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Shulman on August ...
  • Senate Whistleblower Bill called "Bride of Fra ...
    Julia Davis, a notable whistleblower who prevailed in her struggle against the Department of Homeland Security, recently released an article concerning the reintroduction of the Senate version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 743). Ms. Davis notes that one of the main supporte ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Jay-Z & Kanye Accused Of Infringement... On Al ...
    We recently wrote about the ridiculous pains to which the producing crew for Jay-Z and Kanye West's new album went through to try to prevent the album from leaking. After we wrote that, we actually got some detailed information showing that for all that effort, the album actually did leak (via ...
  • Expendables Producers Dump Entire Lawsuit; Wil ...
    One of the most high profile US Copyright Group lawsuits was for producers Nu Image, who made The Expendables movie, which ended up making over $100 million. For some reason, they thought that it would be a good strategy to then shake down a bunch of people who downloaded the movie. In fact, t ...
  • Dutch Communications Agency Cracks Down On Pir ...
    The Radio Communications Agency of the Netherlands has ramped up its efforts against pirate radio stations, which it claims are disrupting non-pirate radio stations along with airline communication. This isn't so surprising, as it has been increasing fines and enforcement over the past few month ...
  • US Copyright Group Lawsuits Based On Highly Qu ...
    US Copyright Group was the first US operation to really dive into the whole copyright trolling business of suing thousands of people based on weak evidence of infringement and then offering to "settle" for less than it would cost to go to court. It was known that US Copyright Group was a front ...
  • FCC Asks AT&T To Explain Discrepency Over Clai ...
    A few weeks ago, AT&T accidentally revealed that it had a plan to cover 97% of the population with its 4G/LTE service. That's a big deal, because a big part of the rationale for the T-Mobile merger was that it simply could not deliver that kind of coverage without the merger. AT&T has worked f ...

VacTruth

  • Vaccine Ingredients: Non-Ionic Surfactants (Tw ...
    Triton X-100 and Tween 80 were mixed with DDT to spray on crops in the 1940s and 1950s - combinations of these chemicals are still in pesticides today. Polysorbate 80, also known as Tween 80, is a surfactant in these vaccines: DTaP, DTaP-HebB-IIPV, DTaP-Hib, Gardasil, Influenza, Rotavirus, and T ...
  • Families Sue Their Lawyers For Negligence Over ...
    The Times reported that three families are taking legal action against their former lawyers, claiming that the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccination withdrawn in 1992, caused their children to develop encephalitis and not autism.
  • Big Pharma’s Share in the Consumer Price Index
    Congress needs to stop emptying Big Pharma lobbyists’ deep pockets that makes it easy to swallow ‘pseudo-scientific’ information. Congress needs to rein in on the overwhelming push to medicalize American citizens.
  • Time to Say “Enough!”
    There comes a time in everyone’s consciousness and life when one realizes that too many things are going off beam and that life is becoming more problematic day by day, especially now when it comes to our health, which probably is our most valued personal possession, and which seems to be underm ...
  • Top 5 Vaccine Stories for July
    Top 5 Articles Hand-Picked for July.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

Dandelion Salad

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

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    A long lost Leonardo DaVinci portrait of Jesus as a white man.
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    Never Give An Ape A Gun, Never, Ever This series of viral vids for the Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes movie are nicely done, straight to the point and very entertaining. I was surprised by just how affecting I found the movie, and those cinema and TV trailers don't do the movie justice. It' ...

Wired - Science

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Israeli Occupation Archive

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