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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 III

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NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Health, Liberty and Forced Vaccination
    For more than a century pharmaceutical companies have created and enjoyed a lucrative monopoly on health care in America. They�ve done this by forming alliances with doctors and politicians and scientists inside and outside of government. In this manner, slowly but surely, they�ve managed to ste ...
  • Safety Alert: Antidepressant May Cause Heart A ...
    An FDA safety alert has called attention to another drug linked to serious adverse health problems. The antidepressant Celexa can cause abnormal changes in the electrical activity of the heart, which can lead to abnormal heart rhythm, and possibly�lead to�fatal heart attacks, the FDA said. Peopl ...
  • Why Do Nearly ALL Pregnant Women Have Banned ...
    A startling study has shown that 99 percent of pregnant women in the U.S. carry multiple chemicals in their bodies, some of which are substances that have been banned since the 1970s. The study marks the first time that the number of chemicals to which pregnant women are exposed has been counted ...
  • The Epidemic of Mental Illness -- Why?
    If reading the news and watching TV advertisements for psychotropic drugs makes you wonder if Americans are in the midst of a raging epidemic of mental illness, you�re not alone. In a New York Times book review, Marcia Angell, a former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, talk ...
  • Are 36 Doses of Vaccine by Age 2 Too Much, Too ...
    In an outstanding commentary, the Baltimore Sun this summer asserted that we don�t know enough about childhood vaccines to make them mandatory for every child. As the senior research scientist at the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University, the article�s author, Margaret Dunk ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Did NATO Violate International Law in Libya? W ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The legality of NATO’s action in Libya seems to me fairly straightforward. I understand that there are some quibbles about whether NATO exceeded its mandate under the UN Security Council Resolutions.  But I don’t think there is a very strong case, as a question of ju ...
  • “Libya Will Advance on the Road to Freedom”
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford “People of Libya! In response to your own will, fulfilling your most heartfelt wishes, answering your incessant demands for change and regeneration and your longing to strive towards these ends, listening to your incitement to rebel, your armed forces have under ...
  • Judicial Review of Potentially Lethal Targetin ...
    by John Dehn by John Dehn Last week I posted about the challenges to and importance of judicial review of war measures against U.S. citizens.  This post will use the bin Laden killing to explore the issue in the context of targeting — hopefully in manner accessible to the average reader.  Af ...
  • Does the U.S. Have An Exemption from the ICC’s ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Expect to hear more of this in the next few days from the anti-Obama progressive left. NATO commanders who authorized the Libya bombing campaign should be “held accountable” to international law and hauled before the world court for civilian deaths, Rep. Dennis Kucini ...
  • Does the U.S. Have An Exemption from the ICC&# ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Expect to hear more of this in the next few days from the anti-Obama progressive left. NATO commanders who authorized the Libya bombing campaign should be “held accountable” to international law and hauled before the world court for civilian deaths, Rep. Dennis Kucini ...

Public News Service

  • Sports Safety Takes More than Practice for AZ ...
    Sports Safety Takes More than Practice for AZ Kids Phoenix, AZ – Back to school also means back to sports for many of Arizona’s children. Experts say to prevent sports injuries, it’s critical that players are physically prepared, know their limits and use the proper safety equipment, correctly ...
  • Back to School Means Back to Bed for AZ Kids
    Back to School Means Back to Bed for AZ Kids Phoenix, AZ – Children in Arizona head back to school this month, which means it's time for reading, writing, arithmetic — and rest. A good night's sleep equals success in the classroom, and it starts before the first day of school. Comments from Dr. ...
  • Group: Arizona’s Mentally Ill Suffering ...
    Group: Arizona’s Mentally Ill Suffering Due to State Budget Cuts Phoenix, AZ – Just over a year ago, the state legislature ended most benefits for 13-thousand Arizonans with serious mental illnesses. Now an advocacy group says costs are actually growing and formerly stable individuals are caught ...
  • AZ Shows Improvement in Latest Measure of Kids ...
    AZ Shows Improvement in Latest Measure of Kids’ Well-Being Phoenix, AZ – Arizona has improved from 39th to 37th in the latest KIDS COUNT state rankings released today (Wednesday) by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The state’s teen birthrate and high school dropout rate are better, but Arizona sti ...
  • Educators: Parent Involvement Vital in Kids&#8 ...
    Educators: Parent Involvement Vital in Kids’ Sexuality Education Phoenix, AZ – As Arizona kids head back to classes, schools are increasingly emphasizing the importance of parental involvement in their education. A PTA official and a sex educator says the concept becomes even more vital in the d ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and A ...
    Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide: Native American scholar/activist Andrea Smith spoke on the topic of her new book, "Conquest:Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide." Smith was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is a member of INCITE! Women ...
  • The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake A ...
    The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake Alfred: Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being : ASU Libraries: , Recorded March 23, 2009 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, University of Victoria Professor of Indigenous Governance Gerald Taiaiake Alfred talks about the "Resurgence of Tradition ...
  • Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gad ...
    Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware : Deadline Live With Jack Blood: By Stephen C. Webster Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 — 12:27 pm Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promised to help former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware as ...
  • The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Mon ...
    The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Monroe Doctrine and justice denied?: A hundred years ago [RB: actually eighty] a legal case in Scotland swept across the world establishing her legal system in the front row of jurisprudence in the world. [Donoghue v Stevenson] Scots Law was all grown u ...
  • allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Women's Latest Bargai ...
    allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Women's Latest Bargaining Tool: opinion "WOMEN think that when you're married, you don't have to worry about HIV. They think it is a safe haven,"said Beauty Nyamwanza of the National Aids Council. But marriage can actually fuel the risk of HIV among women, part ...

Pensieve

  • Massacre in Monterrey Casino
    I am without words. This is the worst attack so far in the escalating war between drug cartels and the Mexican government. According to the video above, the attackers set fire to this casino as a retaliation for not giving in to extortion. 53 people were trapped inside by the explosions, and die ...
  • My Retreat into Theism
    After a long and torturous journey, I have arrived at theism, a belief in an active, benevolent, personal and omnipotent God, but no more. In a sense, I’ve been a theist most of my life. Because, Christianity, Catholic or Protestant, is a form of theism. But perhaps I should say, I am no longer ...
  • Steve Jobs Quit While Ahead
    If the rumors are true, Steve Jobs has chosen my birthday to resign as CEO of Apple. With outstanding success across the board, Jobs is perhaps wise to resign now. The best of luck to Apple! UPDATE: As of 5:52PM CST, The Apple PR website doesn’t show the press release referred to in the article ...
  • August 24, 2011
    35 years ago, a piercing cry rent a hospital room, and a sigh of relief. I was born. And while in my darker moments I have wished that never had happened, today I am happier that it is my birthday than I have been for many years. I have found, only this week, a deeper [...] Related posts:Look ...
  • Copyright, by CGPGrey
    A simple explanation to the story behind copyright, and why it has become ridiculous. Related posts:Hasbro Demands Monopoly on Scrabble Stop The Music, Call Your Lawyer LA Times: Honduras’ non-coup Totalitarian Top Three Moebius Transformations Revealed Related posts:Hasbro Demands Monopoly on ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • California bill would ban cellphone use while ...
    California’s Legislature this week sent to Gov. Jerry Browna bill that stiffens penalities for talking or texting on a cellphone without a hands-free device while behind the wheel of a motor vehicles. For the first time, the bill would extend the state’s 3-year-old cellphone ban to bicyclists, t ...
  • Libya: NATO Humiliation Increasing per Airstrike
    You don’t bomb a “captured” city. by Tony Cartalucci Each NATO warplane that passes over Libya’s coast and releases its ordnance upon the city of Tripoli is a glaring reminder that not only have the NATO-backed rebels failed to take the city, but the fighting there is beyond their ability to fac ...
  • What is this? Arizona… Activists BANNED ...
    Just got off the phone with TAG director John Bush. He was also banned from City Hall for one year. Actions pending. THIS WILL NOT STAND! DONT MESS WITH TEXANS! I suggest everyone hit Austin City hall and get Banned!!! Recently Austin Texas Mayor Lee Leffingwell installed new rules for citizen c ...
  • Blood & Guts with Meria & Jack Blood
    � 8/24/11 Blood & Guts with Meria & Jack Blood.the anniversary of 9/11 � no first responders, guess that�s why Bush will be there;regime change across the world;Bachmann (pill head) vs. Ron Paul; people are no longer simply �obeying�-good; Libya; Fukishima cover up; earthquake in DC (mass consci ...
  • Ron Paul suggests spending (mindless) cuts cou ...
    Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com RAW STORY Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul wants to make deep cuts to spending and entitlements, but he’s worried there might be European-style riots in the U.S. if he gets his way. “I see the anger building and problems getting worse,” P ...

The Air Vent

  • Confirmation Again
    This post is due to a reader who brought my attention to the recently published critiques of Zhao and Running almost a year ago. I sort of lost my cool with an obviously bad paper some time ago.   Charlatans of Science Zhao and Running.  Looking back, I could have worded it better but they publi ...
  • FOI Granted
    At Bishop Hill blog, an FOI was denied for the release of my and others correspondence with Dr. Paul Dennis because the record was lost.  I just reviewed it again now and it was on November 19th 2009 that Paul Dennis sent me an email regarding his paper on Antarctic isotope analysis.  I hadn’t ...
  • Dreaming of a Green Christmas
    Below is a ‘scary-ish’ plot from Joe Romm’s Climate Regress blog.  It shows several things including the heavily processed data of Arctic Sea Ice Volume which is one of the more unreliable datasets available for sea ice with exponential curve fit projections laid on top.  Currently in 2011 we ...
  • Slow Feedback
    A recent Lindzen and Choi paper was highlighted at WUWT.  I’ve read it a couple of times and found it to be a comprehensible thing with not many field specific statements to grock the point.A lot of acronyms but those also are workable with time.  What they say, if I am understanding, is that ...
  • Cognitive Dissonance and a Sustainable Future
    I believe we are seeing some frightening signs from the economy again. I’m very concerned with what we will see in the coming weeks.  Our industry is a sensitive indicator of the economy and oft times we have data well before the papers report it.  If the trends of the past two weeks continue, ...

Focal Point

  • Useful Hurricane-Prep Tool For New Yorkers: Fi ...
    No hurricane evacuation order has been issued for New York City, but City officials haven't ruled out the possibility. Meanwhile, you can plug your address into this useful official City database to find out whether you live in an evacuation zone. [Photo credit: Kyle McCluer, Creative Commons. ...
  • Unlicensed Silicone "Pumpers" Prey on Transwom ...
    Black market cosmeticians are preying on transwomen in New York, injecting them with huge quantities of liquid silicone to create a more feminine silhouette, sometimes with life threatening consequences, Laura Rena Murray reports in the New York Times . A young transwoman died in a Queens h ...
  • I've Always Said PETA Should Be Called "Pornog ...
    The conceptual art project known as PETA says it's planning to launch its own porn site. PETA has gotten a lot of attention for degrading women in order to stress that you shouldn't degrade animals. So, it's a natural progression for the organization, even though porn is less reliably degrading ...
  • DUPLICATE POST, PLEASE DELETE
    [Photo credit: Sam UL, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Teen Destroys $1.8 Million Chandelier with Croc
    Just goes to show that neither $1.8 million chandeliers, nor Crocs have any business existing. [Photo credit: ellenm1, Creative Commons. For illustration.]Read More

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook’s Sponsored Stories Ads Appear in the ...
    Facebook’s new App Ticker that is displayed on the games Canvas page and lists news of friends engaging with games will also show abbreviated versions of Sponsored Stories, Facebook’s social ad unit. Sponsored Stories bought by advertisers are now eligible to inform users about the app their fri ...
  • Facebook’s 2011 f8 Developer Conference Could ...
    Facebook this morning announced that it will hold 2011′s f8 developer conference on September 22nd in San Francisco. It will feature keynotes, networking, breakout sessions, and an after party. Facebook is now distributing invitations to developers, partners, and press, and those who don’t rece ...
  • Facebook Hires and Departures: Engineering, Cr ...
    Facebook looks to have hired staff to work on Credits, engineering, client partners, data centers, policy and intellectual property, according to listings removed from the company’s Careers Page and posts from the LinkedIn feed. The company also changed the name of one of its departments from Gr ...
  • Facebook Careers Postings: Communications, Sal ...
    Facebook is searching for more engineering, recruiting, legal, marketing and user operations staff across its offices, according to posts on the company’s Careers Page and its LinkedIn feed this week. The company is also looking for a few employees to work in new communications staff all over th ...
  • Facebook’s Ad Guidelines Now Permit Offline Ga ...
    Facebook today announced changes to its Ad Guidelines that permit advertising for several verticals that were previously prohibited. Offline gambling can be promoted, as can online gambling if ads are targeted outside of the US and have Facebook’s explicit consent. Lottery commissions and legal ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • 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.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Exactly How Big Is This So-Called Al Qaeda?
    Massive Perpetual Wars against Fantastical Dwarfed Terrorists For almost 10 years we have been engaged in a massive and many-fronted war advertised as a war on terror-war on Al Qaeda. Recent reports put the total cost to America of this war on terror at around $3 trillion. This is not counting ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 4, ...
    US Secret War in 120 Countries, UK’s Secret Policy on Torture RevealedMedia Disinformation & the Causes of Somali Famine, Obama & Limousine Liberals, US-Russia To Train Capitalists in Marxian Monopoly, Destroying Democratic Presidents, How to Advance Liberty, A Revolving CIA Door in Pakistan & M ...
  • The NSA & 9/11: Failure to Exploit the US-Yeme ...
    Just one of the Legacies of 9/11 By Kevin Fenton Two of the terrorist hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, communicated while they were in the United States to other members of al Qaeda who were overseas. But we didn’t know they were here, until it wa ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    The US-Al Qaeda Buddy System, Lowering the War Ceiling, Obama Still Wall Street’s Honey, Getting Access to the Secrets of OBL Kill, Senate Intel Committee Blocks Report on âSecret Lawâ, Counter-Terrorism & China Pressure on Pakistan, Kosovo: The Gathering Storm, Sources: Israel’s Mossad Behind T ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Tripoli Port Notes
    During the early afternoon of 8/23/11, power and Internet were cut from our hotel and again the sealed windowed rooms heated up fast and had to be essentially vacated unless one stayed in the bathtub filled with tepid tap water. We currently have no local or international phone service or inform ...
  • YOUR DAILY LAMA
    This article challenges the Dalai Lama's unacceptable homophobic views.
  • TAX THE POOR!
    The right wing has a dandy new idea for bringing in some desperately needed revenue. Tax the rich? NAH! That would be too easy! Just take it from those who are barely getting by. As Jack Parr used to say, "I kid you not.
  • He's Not Serious
    It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sickening, college tuition paid out for jobs at McDonalds and the Gap are called job training while interning for pennies is called retraining.
  • New Hospital Community Benefit Requirements: W ...
    New regulations on hospitals from the health care bill and from the IRS require them to provide community benefits to local residents. This creates an occasion for all of us to engage with our local hospitals. We must ask what they will be doing to meet these new requirements and tell them how w ...

Switchboard

  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and gre ...
  • Waiting for Irene and Remembering Katrina
    Gina Solomon, Senior Scientist, San Francisco Like most people on the East Coast, I’m anxiously watching the approach of Hurricane Irene, a swirling knot of wind and rain taking dead aim at New York City, where I’m currently visiting my family. I ...
  • This Week in Whales
    Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica News in the world of whales this week (or close to this week) Symmetry’s all the rage in human attraction, but don’t tell that to whales.  Odontocetes (toothed whales) have asy ...
  • New Poll Finds Bristol Bay Fishermen Overwhelm ...
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California A new poll shows astonishing opposition to the Pebble Mine, with over 85% of commercial fishers in Bristol Bay opposing the mine. And the fishers are virtuall ...
  • Irene Approaches, But Climate Change Got Here ...
    Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist, New York NRDC’s “Climate Change Threatens Health” webpages map five major climate-health vulnerabilities across the US. One of these is Flooding, which much of the East Coast is now bracing for because of the approa ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Republican Daddy
    Let’s just say I remain unconvinced that Obama’s reappointment of Bernake was a good idea.
  • COIN Course
    I have a short article on last semester’s Counter-Insurgency course up at Small Wars Journal.  Take a look…
  • Actually, It’s Pretty Easy
    I appreciate what I’ll charitably assume is the dry wit, but I think the mistake is using the word “impact” at all: Former New York Gov. George Pataki has decided not to seek the Republican nomination for president, sources confirm. It’s hard to say what, if any, impact this has on the GOP prima ...
  • The Los Angeles River
    Great little piece in the Times on the Los Angeles River. The L.A. River has been forgotten about for most of Los Angeles’ history, and certainly since the city stole all the water from the Owens Valley (something most remembered from the film Chinatown) meant that the city was no longer reliant ...
  • LGM Meet and Greet
    On Saturday, September 3, several LGM contributors will gather for the first official LGM “Meet and Greet.” The occasion of our gathering is the 2011 American Political Science Association conference in Seattle, Washington.  Drs. Lemieux, Watkins, Brockington, and myself will make ourselves ava ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • THE CONNECTED LAWYER: Success in 15 minutes pe ...
    Many expect some trick from social media: some series of tweets or LinkedIn participation that will guarantee a steady flow of new clients. But real success through social media requires real work.
  • New law school opens on schedule in Nashville
    The Belmont University College of Law in Nashville has an incoming class of 130 students — 30 more than a feasibility study predicted.
  • Growers can sue government over grape patents
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Aug. 24 that the Administrative Procedure Act enables the plaintiffs "to pursue equitable relief against the USDA on its patent law claims."
  • Government drops appeal of former Hollywood co ...
    Federal prosecutors have dropped their appeal of the sentence handed down in a high-profile Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case against a Hollywood film producer.
  • HEALTH CARE LAW: A SPECIAL REPORT
    The Affordable Care Act enshrines a hope — that doctors, hospitals and other providers will team up to improve patient care and reduce costs. But there's also a fear — that doctors, hospitals and other providers will team up to stifle competition and raise prices instead.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Myanmar Needs to Deploy More Efforts to Improv ...
    Among his recommendations, Mr. Quintana encouraged the Government to take the necessary measures for investigations of human rights violations to be conducted in an independent, impartial and credible manner.
  • UN Stresses Importance of Sustainable Use of I ...
    In the 1990s, much of the settlements and livelihoods of the Marsh Arabs were destroyed in organized attacks against the Marsh communities, forcing the majority of people to leave. An estimated more than 75,000 Marsh Arabs fled to Iran, with around
  • Dr. Paul Terry Discusses School Reform At Oxf ...
    Dr. Paul Terry of the University of South Florida Polytechnic attended the Oxford Round Table on School Reform Strategies in July at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, England.
  • UN Agency Launches Campaign to Highlight Pligh ...
    The agency has decided to raise awareness on the international legal definition, while improving its own methods for gathering data on stateless populations.
  • Who Are These Old People at My Class Reunion?
    Where are the people who failed economically, professionally, socially, romantically and bodily? They don't show up! And that's not counting the people who really can't show up who are listed in the In Memoriam section of class handbook.

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Hurricane Irene aims at New England, but its e ...
    The worst-case scenario sounds scary: Hurricane Irene could sweep ashore in New England this weekend, dousing the state with torrential rains, and lashing it with damaging wind gusts, while heavy surf pounds the coasts and water rises in streams. But it’s still “highly uncertain” exactly where a ...
  • Earthquake damages Washington monument
    The Washington Monument is not tilting. However, a closer look at the world’s tallest obelisk brought National Park Service officials to discover cracks near the top of the 555-foot monument. After taking a closer look at the Washington monument Tuesday, National Park Service officials found som ...
  • Biggest Earthquake to hit Virginia in 110 Year ...
    The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck in Virginia and was felt in New York and Washington D.C. today was a rare event for the east coast. But the shaking was believed to be so widespread because the tremors of the quake were shallow at between one and four miles deep. It’s the strongest quake ...
  • Red Ice TV - Episode 5 - The Secret Space Program
    In this episode, we discuss the secret space program, what it is, who is behind it and why? Is there a human civilization living off-world with highly advanced technology and knowledge about the existence of aliens? Why are we being kept in the dark? We feature Peter Levenda, Richard Dolan, Rich ...
  • Algorithms Control the World
    Kevin Slavin argues that we’re living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are ...

Russia Today

  • Gaddafi manhunt: rebels and NATO close in
    British Tornado jets have fired cruise missiles at Colonel Gaddafi’s command and control bunker in his hometown of Sirte, despite previous claims the coalition would not assist rebels in hunting him down. The colonel’s...
  • Macro-initiative on a micro-level
    The Kirov Region, famous for its beauty and stunning countryside, is a poor region of Russia, where practical problems are extremely pressing. But it seems people have come up with an innovative way of solving the most...
  • France seethes as Sarkozy sunbathes
    The richest segment of French society are pledging another three per cent of their annual incomes to help the country battle its deepening debt crisis. The situation is explosive and France could be next to witness...
  • Chemical frustration – the race to find Libyan ...
    The US says it is monitoring sites in Libya known to contain stockpiles of chemical weapons. But while America is pledging to prevent the weapons from falling into the wrong hands, doubt arises over whether they would...
  • New head for young state – Abkhazia votes
    Abkhazian polling stations have opened their doors for voters on Friday in the fifth presidential election in Abkhazia’s history, and the second since it was recognized as an independent state in 2008.

Not My Tribe

  • So, I’m calling Shenanigans.
    There’s a Bumper sticker out that says “My ancestors immigrated LEGALLY” Horse Shit. The only way that would be true is if Might Makes Right were an actual legal concept. The German takeover of Europe in the 30s and early 40s would be totally justified under the same doctrine that every square i ...
  • Anether military victory where the Poor &#8220 ...
    Tripoli, the site of the FIRST U.S. Military engagement to prop up capitalism, is apparently fallen, not to economic “free” market forces, but to the Armed Forces. In a book titled “Liberty Reclaimed”, often described as the libertarian bible, the statement is made and reiterated “the only subst ...
  • The guard towers of Camp Amache, CO, Japanese- ...
    Visitors to what remains of the WWII-era Granada Relocation Center located on Highway 50 past Lamar, are tempted to conclude that the remote location was isolation enough to restrict the movement of the camp’s 7,000 Japanese-American internees. Gone are all 560 buildings except their concrete fo ...
  • An 83% Payroll Tax, on the Workers and paid di ...
    That’s what I paid and, everybody who works for a “Slave Market” minimum wage Labor Contractor Service such as Labor Ready, Apprentice, Manpower, Kelly… The “tax” is paid to a Non-Governmental Organization, and is paid before the Worker gets his check. I base the 83% figure on the fact that the ...
  • The shocking part about the AI PACkers… ...
    It’s not the blatant anti-Semitism involved in wanting to set Israel up as a target for near-total destruction, it’s not their arrogance in making money supplying the means, the money, weapons, propaganda, anti-social gospel of indifference, answering the question of Cain “am I my brothers keepe ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Upcoming BBC Hitpiece
    Okay so it seems 21:00 GMT, August 29, 2011 is when I'll get to watch a program that will once again renew my utter disgust toward the BBC. The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 Ten Years On http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0148yz5 According to Kevin Ryan, word on the street is this program will att ...
  • San Diego's 10news Covers SecrecyKills.com - 8 ...
    Videos uploaded by Jon Gold http://www.10news.com/news/28922418/detail.html Richard Clarke confirms what is the main point in Kevin Fenton's new book Disconnecting the Dots where he makes the point that elements in the CIA deliberately withheld information from the FBI, among others, t ...
  • AE911Truth 10th Anniversary Activities
    Posted by John-Michael P. Talboo One simple action that can be taken to help out this campaign is sigining up to make phone calls to other ae911truth petition signers. I have made around 120 myself. You don't have to get off your butt if you don't want, but get involved! Click here for ...
  • Van The BSer Romero: We Called It!
    Awhile back, Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted an entry entitled "Jesse The BSer Ventura: I Called It!" criticising Ventura for deceptive editing on the first 9/11 episode of his show Conspiracy Theory when it was revealed that he cut off the end of an experiment by explosives exp ...
  • The truth and the authority
    Watching AE911Truth's new mini movie on WTC7, I was reminded of what actress Christine Ebersole said five years ago on the fifth anniversary of 9/11: "Truth is authority; authority is not truth". All the debunkers have ever really had is the appeal to authority, but now they don't even ha ...

Fooducate

  • Should Soft Drinks Be Off Limits for Food Stam ...
    Despite New York’s well intentioned efforts, the Federal government has rejected Mayor Bloomberg’s efforts to combat obesity through limitations on soft drink purchases with “food stamps”. Almost a year ago, New York suggested that the city’s participants in the SNAP program (Supplemental Nutrit ...
  • Caveman Cookies? Paleo Hits the Snack Aisle
    Are you familiar with the Paleo diet? It’s a relatively new phenomenon that embraces the presumed diet of the Paleolithic era which lasted over 2.5 million years and ended about 10,000 years ago as humanity switched from hunter-gatherer foods to agriculture. The foods consumed by people on Paleo ...
  • Greek Yogurt is on Fire
    (image source: Serious Eats) Yogurt is a health food mega trend that’s few decades years old. But within the yogurt category, there’s a breakaway subcategory that is simply on fire: Greek yogurt sales have been doubling every single year for the past five! Hungry yogurt eaters are now voting wit ...
  • Back to School – (Slightly) Less Sugar in Choc ...
    In tune with the season, we’re writing about school related topics in the last few weeks. Today, some promising news on the chocolate milk front. AS you know, chocolate milk is a very contentious issue in this country. The lines have been drawn by the dairy industry – either kids drink “flavored ...
  • Ritz Crackers With Whole Wheat, Sorta but Not ...
    Ritz has a new cracker on the market and it’s made with Whole Wheat! The reason we want whole wheat and whole grains in our diet is: 1. the whole grain contains many more nutrients than a refined grain 2. the celebrity nutrient in whole grains is fiber, something most of us are lacking in [...]

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • UN more worried about its logo than human righ ...
    A Totobiegosode woman after she was forced out of the forest, Paraguayan Chaco. © Ruedi Suter/Survival Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay have been left amazed by the UN’s reaction to a formal complaint they issued against cattle ranching company Yaguarete Pora. In May, Ayoreo leaders issued a for ...
  • Gunmen destroy indigenous camp, Brazil
    Guarani man. Gunmen have invaded a Guarani camp in Brazil. © Joaó Ripper/Survival Gunmen have invaded an indigenous Guarani camp in Brazil. The invaders are reported to have destroyed the Guarani’s houses and threatened the Guarani of Pueblito Kuê community, who were forced to flee into th ...
  • Peru approves ‘historic’ indigenous rights law
    Ashéninka girl in south-east Peru © David Hill/Survival On Tuesday night, Peruâs Congress unanimously approved a âhistoricâ new law that guarantees indigenous peopleâs right to free, prior and informed consent to any projects affecting them and their lands. President Ollanta Humala says ...
  • Beef barons hold government to ransom
    Vast blocks of the Ayoreo's forest have been cleared by BBC S.A. and River Plate S.A. © Survival Brazilian beef barons are holding Paraguay’s government to ransom over land inhabited by uncontacted tribes. Ayoreo Indians were granted legal title to the land last year, but ranchers have ref ...
  • Worldwide protests against Amazon mega-dam
    Brazilians protest against Belo Monte dam in the Amazonian city of Belém © Sue Cunningham Thousands of people have taken to the streets in dozens of cities worldwide, to protest against the Belo Monte mega-dam being built in the Brazilian Amazon. Groups across Brazil called on Brazil�s Pre ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I repair/revamp a stained cotton rug?
    I haven’t done a “repair this” for a while but this is something I’ve been wondering about for a few weeks now: how can I repair/revamp a stained rug? It’s a circular cotton rug with off-white (even before the stains!) and pale blue strips, and even though it was pretty cheap, I love it. But [...]
  • How can I use up buffet sandwiches?
    We’ve had a “clever idea” email from Jos, telling us about their personal battle against food waste at work: This sounds so cheap but I regularly “steal” the last of the sandwiches after meetings at work because they’d go in the bin if I didn’t take them. I eat some fresh, freeze others to eat [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle boring white buttons?
    We’ve had an email from Sally: I always snip buttons from old clothes before using them for rags but after a few years of my three’s school shirts, I’ve got more plain white buttons than I know what to do with. If they were pretty I’d keep them for crafts but they’re boring! Any ideas? [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle crême brulée/desser ...
    We’ve had an email from Jeroen: We designed a lid for the Bonne Maman crême brulée cup that we usually through away. Here you can see a short movie about it: While I’ll admit the lid is very cute and well made, it didn’t occur to me that it needed one before reusing — my [...]
  • How can I use up “past it” frozen ...
    We’ve had an email from Joanna: I found some part-used bags of frozen peas, sweetcorn and broccoli at the bottom of my chest freezer – expiry date 2009! My hubs is happy to ignore expiry dates but we tried some of the peas and they were tough and tasted washed out, not good! Any other [...]

Age of Autism

  • New IOM Report on Vaccine Adverse Effects Show ...
    Safeminds.org Washington DC. The Institute of Medicine's Panel on Adverse Effects of Vaccines issued a report today on the evidence and causality of vaccine harms. Despite a glowing press release, the report does little to allay public concerns over adverse...
  • Balaam’s Donkey
    By Norm Roberts When the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing on the road with sword drawn, she turned off the road and went into the field, and Balaam had to beat her to bring her back on...
  • Former CDC Autism Researcher Thorsen Hired By ...
    By Ulla Danielsen Copenhagen, August 22, 2011 -- Only one month after the allegedly “vanished” Danish autism researcher Poul Thorsen in 2010 was criticized by Aarhus University in Denmark for financial fraud, he started working full time as a researcher...
  • Referenced Commentary: The Health Liberty Revo ...
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination By Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there...
  • Cleveland Plain Dealer: Dealing with Autistic ...
    By Anne Dachel Recently there were stories from the Cleveland Plain Dealer about the problems caused by ONE AUTISTIC ADULT. The first was the article on 8/14 , followed by an editorial on 8/19. These were sobering pieces about a...

Global BDS Movement

  • Map test
    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Polish president vetoes bill allowing GMO seeds
    WTAQ – Warsaw(Reuters) – Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski on Wednesday vetoed a new legislation that would allow some genetically modified seeds in the country, saying it ran against European Union rules. Read article
  • U.K. – Market crash ‘could hit wit ...
    Telegraph – A more severe crash than the one triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers could be on the way, according to alarm signals in the credit markets. Read Article
  • Taser deaths investigated by police watchdog
    Guardian – Police restraint tactics are under fresh scrutiny after a third member of the public died following the use of either a Taser stun gun or pepper spray by officers. Amnesty International said the number of fatalities over the past eight days had reaffirmed its concerns that Tasers were ...
  • Tobacco companies use corporate social respons ...
    Medical Xpress – “Corporations may use corporate social responsibility programmes not only to improve their public image, but also to gain access to politicians, influence agendas, and shape public health policy to best suit their own interests.” In a research article led by Gary Fooks from the ...
  • Greenpeace finds toxic chemicals in branded cl ...
    Yahoo – Traces of toxic chemicals harmful to the environment and to human health have been detected in products made by 14 top clothing manufacturers, Greenpeace said Tuesday. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • $4.4-million settlement reached for San Gabrie ...
    Four companies have agreed to pay a total of $4.4 million in cleanup costs at a contaminated groundwater site in the San Gabriel Valley. Aerojet-General Corp., Mammoet Western Inc., Time Realty Investments and Tonks Properties consented to the payments --...
  • California shark fin ban advances
    A push to outlaw shark fins, the main ingredient in a traditional Chinese soup, cleared a key obstacle Thursday when it passed a state Senate committee. The bill, which would ban the sale, trade and possession of shark fins in...
  • California's cap-and-trade program reaffirmed ...
    California's carbon-trading program got back on track Wednesday, after the Air Resources Board voted to reaffirm its original plan to create a market for carbon emissions permits. The cap-and-trade program would be the first state-run market in the nation, creating...
  • California toxic waste case settled
    “Significant shortcomings at Chemical Waste Management’s lab compromised the company’s ability to accurately analyze the toxic waste to be disposed of in their landfill,” said Jared Blumenfeld, the EPA’s regional administrator for the Pacific Southwest. “These were serious compliance issues and ...
  • Climate change: Drought, floods, tornadoes par ...
    The irony won't be lost on those who follow the political debates over climate change in Congress. One of the most vocal deniers of the scientific consensus on man-caused planetary warming is Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who has delayed the nomination of John Bryson as Commerce Secretary, sayi ...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Conversations on the Road To Compassion - VIDEO
    Canadians for Compassion-- interviews Canadians from all walks of life on three questions: How would you define compassion? Where do you see compassion working in your home/school/community? Where do you see the need for more compassion?Submitted by Care For All to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Israeli doctors save Palestinian baby
    Gazan seven-month-old's life saved thanks to open-heart surgery in Israeli hospital. 'Hopefully, this is a good sign for peace,' says child's grandfather.Submitted by Alexandra R. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Hints of an Israeli False Flag
    "...Palestine has too much to lose with such a violent attack so close to September Statehood Declaration. Anyone in their right mind knows that they would have nothing to gain and no reason to do this..." Submitted by Sandra T. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Can We Have Health Reform Without an Individua ...
    The essential vote on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel that ruled that the individual-coverage mandate in President Obama�s healthcare reform is unconstitutional did not come from a reactionary Republican.Submitted by Michael Dewey to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Middle East Peace the Real story -Petition
    AVAAZ - PETITION - Great Video to explain what is really Going on. The Israeli - Palestinian Conflict. Submitted by Zoe E. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • BLM Nixes Cogentrix Nevada Solar Plans
    Nevada Solar One Since January of 2007, Cogentrix Solar Services LLC, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, has been sitting on a series of exclusive solar applications for N ...
  • Secretary Chu Signs Off on Two New Loan Guaran ...
    To support the development of two alternative energy projects, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded loan guarantees to both Abengoa Bioenergy US Holding, Inc. and SoloPower, Inc. that, combined, amount to nearly ...
  • Solar Trust of America Changes Technology for ...
    Solar Trust of America announced that it will no longer employ concentrated solar power (CSP) for its multibillion dollar Blythe Solar installation, but instead will use photovoltaic (PV) technology for the first phase of constructi ...
  • Enel Green Power Receives Approval for North A ...
    Enel Green Power has received final regulatory approval to construct its groundbreaking hybrid solar and geothermal power plant in Nevada. read more
  • Ascent Solar Partners with China's TGF Radiant ...
    Developer of solar photovoltaic�(PV) modules Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTI) has formed a partnership with China-based TFG Radiant Group that will result in $450 million of investment. read more

News Blaze

  • Myanmar Needs to Deploy More Efforts to Improv ...
    Among his recommendations, Mr. Quintana encouraged the Government to take the necessary measures for investigations of human rights violations to be conducted in an independent, impartial and credible manner.
  • UN Stresses Importance of Sustainable Use of I ...
    In the 1990s, much of the settlements and livelihoods of the Marsh Arabs were destroyed in organized attacks against the Marsh communities, forcing the majority of people to leave. An estimated more than 75,000 Marsh Arabs fled to Iran, with around
  • Dr. Paul Terry Discusses School Reform At Oxf ...
    Dr. Paul Terry of the University of South Florida Polytechnic attended the Oxford Round Table on School Reform Strategies in July at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, England.
  • UN Agency Launches Campaign to Highlight Pligh ...
    The agency has decided to raise awareness on the international legal definition, while improving its own methods for gathering data on stateless populations.
  • Who Are These Old People at My Class Reunion?
    Where are the people who failed economically, professionally, socially, romantically and bodily? They don't show up! And that's not counting the people who really can't show up who are listed in the In Memoriam section of class handbook.

Worldnews

  • Iraqis point to mistakes in overthrowing ...
    BAGHDAD - Iraqis who lived through the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein see eery similarities in the scenes of Libyans parading through Tripoli ripping up posters of Moammar Gadhafi. But Iraqis also saw looting, bloodshed and bombings in the days and years since. "A lot of peop ...
  • Asian stocks unsteady ahead of Bernanke s ...
    BANGKOK - Asian stock markets were unsteady Friday as investors waited to see whether Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would promise new steps to help the U.S. economy ward off another recession. Oil prices lingered above $85 a barrel while the dollar was down against the yen and the e ...
  • China issues protest over US report on mi ...
    BEIJING - China has formally protested over a Pentagon report on the Chinese military that it calls a distortion of facts. The Defense Ministry says the United States' annual assessment of China's military capabilities flies in the face of calls for warmer relations between the leaders of t ...
  • Fabregas ready for La Liga debut
    Madrid – Cesc Fabregas is itching to make his La Liga debut for Barcelona now a strike over unpaid player wages has been resolved and the season can get underway. The Spain midfielder, who has returned to his boyhood club after eight years with English Premier League side Arsenal, has a cha ...
  • Palestine: arduous odyssey of statehood
    Article by WN.com Guest Writers Dr. Ismail Salami and Kourosh Ziabari The plight of the Palestinian people is no closed book to anyone in the world; a subjugated nation which has been unjustifiably subjected to discrimination and violence for the past 6 decades. Even the close allies of Isr ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • NATO's Libya War: A Nuremberg Level Crime
    by Stephen Lendman The US/UK/French-led war on Libya will be remembered as one of history's greatest crimes. It violates the letter and spirit of international law and America's Constitution. The Nuremberg Tribunal's Chief Justice Robert Jackson (a US Supreme Court Justice) called Nazi war ...
  • Palestine: arduous odyssey of statehood
    By Dr. Ismail Salami and Kourosh Ziabari The plight of the Palestinian people is no closed book to anyone in the world; a subjugated nation which has been unjustifiably subjected to discrimination and violence for the past 6 decades. Even the close allies of Israel and those who support the ...
  • Obama's Wars on Humanity
    by Stephen Lendman America's a poster child failed state, defined in a recent article as follows: (1) An inability or unwillingness to protect its citizens from violence and other forms of harm. (2) Its abrogation of rule of law standards. (3) Its lawless belligerent pursuits.Rea ...
  • Libya War: It Ain't Over Till It's Over
    by Stephen Lendman Mark Twain once called reports of his death greatly exaggerated. The same hold for Libyans, not ready to submit to NATO colonization, occupation, plunder and exploitation. Not at least without a fight. The stakes are high - stay free or die socially, economically, poli ...
  • Monsanto GM Corn in Peril: Beetle develops Bt ...
    By Rady Ananda 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 Monsanto’s Bt-corn, and entire c ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Next Up: Calling young leaders in Vancouver, E ...
    Next Up taking applications for 2011/12 programs in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon Next Up -- A leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice Next Up is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between th ...
  • CCPA statement at the passing of Jack Layton
    We are all heartbroken at the passing of Jack Layton. On behalf of the staff and Board of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, our deepest condolences, love and support to Olivia and family, and to his NDP family. An inspirational leader, he carried the hopes and dreams of all of us in ...
  • Inequality Bad for Business
    CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes how the business establishment is growing concerned about income inequality in Canada in this Canada Business article. Read the article here.
  • The Strange Case of Saskatchewan's Electoral B ...
    Simon Enoch discusses Saskatchewan's rather unique electoral boundaries and how they influenced the 2011 federal election in the CCPA's Behind the Numbers blog.
  • Job posting: Online Communications Officer
    The CCPA National office is seeking an Online Communications Officer to join our communications team in Ottawa to support and expand the CCPA’s ongoing communications and outreach efforts. The deadline for applications is August 19, 2011. Click here for the full job posting.

World Wide 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, ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Battle for Libya’s Post-Gadhaffi Soul (and ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post As hostilities in Libya wind down, one thing is clear: A number of nations will jockey for access to Libya’s oil. It happened in Iraq, where ironically the U.S. was shut out as Russia, China, and France won bids to develop Iraq’s fields. The new government ...
  • Keeping Michele Bachmann Honest on Gas Prices
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Promise: Gas Below $2 a Gallon Like many of you, I am often unhappy with our political leaders. One thing that annoys me the most is that many will say or do just about anything to get elected. By now, you have surely heard the news that Republican ...
  • How to Fix the Broken Cellulosic Ethanol Incen ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Overview: Mandates, Zero Production, Penalties, and the Failure of the Current System In the previous post, I discussed the annual ritual of rolling back the cellulosic ethanol mandates by 90% or more. For three years running, cellulosic ethanol productio ...
  • Cellulosic Ethanol Targets: Mandating the None ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Another Year, Another Chapter In what is becoming an annual ritual, the EPA is once more scaling back the cellulosic ethanol mandate for 2012. The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act mandated that we would use 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethan ...
  • Will a SmartGrid and GM’s Volt Stimulate the E ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from Victor Sequeira. Mr. Sequeira is Principal of VerisNRG LLC, a Houston based energy consultancy. He can be reached at victorseq [at] comcast [dot] net —————————— Can GMâs Volt Provide a Jolt to the Electric Car Industry? ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • K-5 iPad Apps for Applying: Part Three of Bloo ...
    Tags: iPad, apps, edutopia, bloomstaxonomy, elemchat, edchatby: Dean Mantz
  • The Kid Should See This.
    Comments:The Kid Should See This. There's just so much science, nature, music, arts, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen. It's most likely not stuff that was made for them... But we don't underestimate kids around here. - Fr ...
  • Reading Online
    Comments:Online Magazines for Children and Teens–This online article shares the research behind students and online reading as well as providing links for many online magazines for kids. - Lauri BradyTags: reading, RSS, nonfiction, currenteventsby: Lauri Brady
  • Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Pyramid
    Comments:Interactive table of digital Bloom's Taxonomy - Randy RodgersTags: web2.0, BloomsTaxonomy, resources, tools, Blooms, blooms_taxonomy, pyramid, bloomby: Randy Rodgers
  • » A Song & Lesson Plan to Teach Idioms
    Tags: idioms, lesson plan, lesson, song, plan, teachby: Carolyn Rains

Rodale News

  • The InGREENspirational 7!
    "Meet amazing people. Learn cool stuff. And have lots of fun along the way." read more
  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • Hurricane Safety Tips for Your Pets
    RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is issuing guidance for residents in states who have pets that might be affected by Hurricane Irene. read more
  • Lower Cholesterol without Pills? Study Shows I ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—A nutrient-poor diet filled with added sugars and unhealthy trans fats is known to cause high cholesterol, read more

big think

  • Can Tim Cook Make Apple Succeed?
    What's the Latest Development? When Steve Jobs�resigned�from Apple, he strongly recommended that his board of directors make the company's logistics manager, Tim Cook, the new head and C.E.O. "The first challenge for Cook's reign will be the expected unveiling of the next versions of the iPhon ...
  • To Succeed at Business, Disrupt Industry
    What's the Latest Development? Michael Raynor says successful business needn't be a game of chance. The business author says disrupting industry with new and innovative ideas is a teachable skill that can be�implemented according to a plan. "The framework I'm suggesting is Focus, Shape, and Pe ...
  • Our Perverse Memorial to Dr. Martin Luther Kin ...
    What's the Latest Development? The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is scheduled to be opened in Washington D.C. as soon as the threat of hurricane Irene passes. But will this memorial evoke perversions of the dream King had for our society, one in which an individual's character is valued more ...
  • Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Thinking ...
    What's the Big Idea? Before he became a self-made millionaire, Ryan Blair was "a kid with a criminal record, street gang experience, and a lot of emotional scarring."�In his newly-released autobiography, he writes, "My teenage years were hardly the typical starting point for a normal, producti ...
  • Gore Asks Supporters To Donate Twitter & Faceb ...
    In a potentially innovative if not also troubling strategy, Al Gore's Climate Reality Project has asked their online supporters to donate for one day their Twitter and Facebook accounts to the campaign. The apparent goal on September 14 is to flood the social media networks of supporters with .. ...

Information Liberation

  • Obama Hits Struggling Americans With Energy Ra ...
    Following Barack Obama*s vow to *bankrupt* the coal power industry, Americans are set to be hit with a wave of utility bill hikes as draconian EPA regulations drive up the cost of energy while General Electric, one of Obama*s biggest campaign donors,...
  • Hayek's Ghost Haunts the World
    Did you ever have the feeling that we've been through this before? Think of it. Those in charge have only recently sworn * yet again! * that if we keep interest rates at zero, keep battling the symptoms of recession and unemployment with spending ...
  • Wiki war: 3500 unpublished leaks destroyed for ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's former right-hand man has irrevocably destroyed 3500 unpublished files leaked to the whistleblower site including the complete US no-fly list, five gigabytes of Bank of America documents and detailed information abo...
  • Silver Finally Staging Comeback, Back at $43.50/oz
    (Note: Chart is live)...
  • Children defy police in Washington, purchase " ...
    From Adam Kokesh: In response to a recent wave of lemonade stand shut downs and harassment of children over such petty regulations as are used to shut them down, several activist gathered at the west lawn of the capitol in Washington, DC to sell...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Rise in top grades boosts GCSE record
    Rise in top grades boosts GCSE record – My son just returned with his GCSE results to a very proud Mum and Dad, and sister, with a clutch of excellent passes in his exams. Very pleased he got an excellent grade in chemistry, although he claims to hate "my" subject. One thing I will say, [...]Ris ...
  • More chemical wonders
    More chemical wonders – Yet more chemical wonders fall under the gaze of The Alchemist this week. First up, spray on radiators coming to a home near you to help cut heating bills by a third while ethanol-imbibing bacteria offer an important clue to preventing biofuel pipeline cracks. In the anal ...
  • Dissonant teaching changes environmental minds
    There are many educational and ethical issues regarding the environment and environmentalism that are generally not addressed, especially when it comes to teaching non-science students. Independent environmental services professional and college professor Chyrisse P. Tabone, who is based in Tamp ...
  • Red, red, red wine and more
    My four latest science news stories now live on SpectroscopyNOW, kicking off with an item about adulteration and red wine – Various approaches to statistical analysis of spectroscopic data can reveal whether red wine has been adulterated with anthocyanins to artificially improve, “correct”, its ...
  • Diluting homeopathic advertising
    Diluting homeopathic advertising HT @SilvianaJ – The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered online homeopathy advertisers to stop making claims that their treatments work. [Because they don't!] The ASA’s remit was extended to regulating websites in March 2011, since when it says it has rece ...

RFF Library

  • How Risk Perceptions Influence Evacuations Fro ...
    Rice University, Baker Institute / by Robert M. Stein, Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio, Birnur Buzcu-Guven, Devika Subramanian, David Kahle http://bit.ly/oKqYn8 [Summary] This study shows that people are more sensitive to overall perceived hurricane-related hazards than they are to individual risk types. ...
  • Arctic Environmental Assessment and Outlook Re ...
    Oceanographer of the US Navy, Task Force Climate Change http://1.usa.gov/p23eeY [From Press Release] The Navy released an Arctic environmental assessment and outlook Aug. 15 that will be instrumental in developing future strategic plans and investments in a region that is becoming increasingly a ...
  • The Deadliest, Costliest, and Most Intense Uni ...
    US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/nws-nhc-6.pdf This technical memorandum lists the deadliest tropical cyclones in the United States during 1851-2010 and the costliest tropical cyclones in the United States during 1900-2010. The compilation ranks dama ...
  • Hazardous Waste: Early Goals Have Been Met in ...
    US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-514 [Summary]Years of industrial development generated hazardous waste that, when improperly disposed of, poses risks to human health and the environment. To mitigate these risks, Congress passed the Resource Conservation and ...
  • Final Supplement to AB 32 Scoping Plan FED
    California Air Resources Board http://1.usa.gov/nCqFpj (analysis) http://www.arb.ca.gov/board/books/2011/082411/11-6-1pres.pdf  (Status of AB 32 Implementation and Consideration of Updated Environmental Analysis of Scoping Plan Alternatives — ARB Staff presentation) [Green Car Congress post]  ...

Scientific American - News

  • Childhood Vaccines Cleared of Autism, Diabetes ...
    From Nature magazineVaccines are largely safe, and do not cause autism or diabetes, the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) said in a report issued today . This conclusion followed a review of more than 1,000 published research studies. [More]
  • Cloud Formation May Be Linked to Cosmic Rays
    From Nature magazineIt sounds like a conspiracy theory: 'cosmic rays' from deep space might be creating clouds in Earth's atmosphere and changing the climate. Yet an experiment at CERN, Europe's high-energy physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, is finding tentative evidence for just t ...
  • Black-White Science Funding Gap Still Constrai ...
    Compared with white American researchers, black American researchers are a third less likely to have an early-career National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funded, according to an NIH-commissioned study published August 18 in Science . It’s a thorough study, experts say, but it leaves one ...
  • Gene-Therapy Successes Spur Hope for Embattled ...
    From Nature magazine.When it was first used in the 1990s to treat an immune deficiency, gene therapy -- treating diseases by correcting a patient's faulty genes -- was touted as a breakthrough that was likely to cure scores of hereditary diseases. But when 18-year-old Jessie Gelsinger die ...
  • El Nino Found to Drive Tropical Civil Wars
    In 1957, civil war broke out in then Burma (now Myanmar) and Oman. In 1965, similar conflicts erupted in Burundi, Chad, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia and Peru. In 1997, the Comoros, Congo, Eritrea, Niger and Rwanda also saw battles over national power that each killed more than 25 people. Wh ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Well Blow Me Down!
    In which we examine the wind portion of the Nova Scotia Renewable Electricity Plan, in a slightly humourous light. The Renewable Electricity Plan, released by the Nova Scotia Department of Energy, is meant to be the guideline by which Nova ...
  • Venezuela vs. Canadian Gold
    Chavez Squares Off Against Canadian Mining Companies; Banks Toronto - The nationalization march continues on in Venezuela. � On Tuesday, the Venezuelan government issued a decree nationalizing their gold mines.� This comes off the backs o ...
  • Deep Green Resistance, Death Threats and the P ...
    An interview with Derrick Jensen In this exclusive interview with the Vancouver Media Co-op, author Derrick Jensen talks about a recent spate of death threats directed towards him. He explains his decision to take his case to the FBI. He ...
  • Tenth MMC Radio Segment/Dixième segment radiop ...
    Tuesday, August 23 on CKUT's Off the Hour The Work Group on Urban Agriculture starts a petition to request the City of Montreal hold a public consultation on the state of urban agriculture in Montreal. The Under Pressure festival puts an ...
  • CBSA Inland Enforcement and the BCCLA
    During the Olympics, the BCCLA had run ins with everyone. After the 2010 Heart Attack, it appeared that they had absolutely no one in their corner. After David Eby denounced the Heart Attack action, many people decided that Eby and the BCCLA Legal Observers were enemies, albeit a lesser threat t ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Tea Party is Dead, Long Live the Tea Party
    Is the Tea Party dead? Dave Weigel points out that, unlike 2010, Tea Party challenges to Republican incumbents have gone nowhere this year. Once vulnerable Senate candidates like Orrin Hatch, Richard Lugar, and Olympia Snowe now look pretty safe. But that's only because, for all practical pu ...
  • Our Grim Economic Destiny
    It's now crystal clear that (a) there will be no further monetary stimulus, (b) there will be no further fiscal stimulus, (c) Europe is in real trouble that it's very unlikely to address aggressively, and (d) China's growth is slowing. We should be investing enormous amounts of money into gr ...
  • Our Oil-Constrained Future
    I've talked a few times (first here, most recently here) about the possibility that world growth is now constrained by oil production. The basic story is simple: As long as there's spare oil-production capacity, increasing demand caused by economic growth produces only a steady, manageable i ...
  • Fear and Loathing at the Federal Reserve
    Why is Ben Bernanke unlikely to announce any major action to help the economy in his Jackson Hole speech on Friday? Because of inflation hawks on the Fed board? Because of concerns that further monetary policy isn't effective when interest rates are already near zero? Because of a generalize ...
  • The End of Refrigeration
    The last refrigerator we had lasted about 20 years. Sometime around year 15 it finally blew out a condenser or a coil or whatever it is that makes refrigerators produce coldness and we paid $400 to have it fixed. A few years later it broke again and we bought a new one. This one broke after ...

Insanity Report

  • Will & Jada and the Death of Black Marriages
    See what I did there?  I wrote a completely horse shit title, linking an equally bullshit rumor to a completely made up “crisis” in the black community.  And why did I do it? Adsense of course Yup, see I’m trying my best to whore out my integrity for pennies on the dollar hoping that one [...] ...
  • PETA Does Porn
    I swear, PETA just doesn’t get it.  They really don’t.  They seem to think that any publicity is good publicity.  If I sound like a broken record here, it’s because I’ve said this before about them.  I understand that in a way, activist have to be attention whores because if you can’t bring ...
  • IC 266: Rebooted
    Topics: Kriss shares his “moment of stupidity” Reboots & remakes of movies Kid kills great grandmother with sword Woman killed in Aruba had an insurance policy taken out on her Allen West says he’s the Modern Day Harriet Tubman Share with your friends:
  • We Need Common Sense Laws
    It’s no secret that I’m no fan of criminals.  I watch Lockup, Jail and Locked Up Abroad just so I can laugh and make fun of all the idiots that do dumb shit that get them thrown in jail.  When the prisoners at Pelican Bay went on a hunger strike to protest “harsh conditions” in [...]
  • Welcome to the Campaign Rick Perry
    About a month ago, I closed the comments on a post I had written 2 years ago called “Why Texas Sucks“.  I was tired of getting comments from people who clearly hadn’t even read the post.  Well, last week I reopened the comments.  Why? Easy: Rick Perry. Rick Perry was the force behind most of ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Life expectancy success story
    Life expectancy is increasing all the time due to better quality of life and better health care. Despite this, increases in life expectancy can be patchy, with some sources reporting that the gap in life expectancy between rich and poor is getting bigger as time goes on. However, a new report in ...
  • New score can tell doctors how long cancer pat ...
    A new scoring system can more reliably predict whether patients with advanced cancer are likely to survive for "days," "weeks" or "months" finds a study published online in the British Medical Journal. read more
  • Vitamin A supplements for children could save ...
    Children in low and middle income countries should be given vitamin A supplements to prevent death and illness, concludes a study published online in the British Medical Journal. read more
  • Government-led efforts targeting eating habits ...
    The global obesity epidemic has been escalating for decades, yet long-term prevention efforts have barely begun and are inadequate, according to a new paper from international public health experts published in the August 25, 2011 edition of the journal The Lancet. Noting that many countries lac ...
  • Hedge funds sold stocks quickly while mutual f ...
    A new study of stock trading during the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 found that hedge funds sold their stocks much more aggressively than mutual funds at the first signs of poor performance. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Risk perception – of fans and fission re ...
    Guest Post by Craig Schumacher. Craig has been commenting on nuclear power themed websites for about five years and has published his own blog, Channelling the Strong Force, since 2008. He formed the nuclear power advocacy organisation, Nucleus 92 Inc., in 2009. He is a regular commenter on this ...
  • Nuclear risk insurance
    Guest Post by Luke Weston. Luke is a Melbourne-based physicist and occasional freelance electronic engineer, with a strong interest in educating the community about nuclear energy and related issues. It is often said by the anti-nuclearists that the commercial nuclear energy industry “can’t get ...
  • TCASE 14: Assessment of electricity generation ...
    In the previous TCASE post, I considered how various low-carbon energy technologies meet the following criteria: commercial readiness, scalability, dispatchability, fuel constraints, load access, storage requirements, capacity factor and emissions intensity. Here I consider the next issue: cost ...
  • TCASE 13: Assessment of suitability of technol ...
    The problem of replacing our dependence on fossil fuels is complex. In Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy (TCASE) #12, a checklist was provided to allow assessment of energy transition plans. The sort of questions listed in TCASE 12 are critical for evaluating the feasibility of future ...
  • A critique of the 2011 IPCC Report on Renewabl ...
    The following is a detailed guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). In it, he provides the most detailed critique I’ve yet seen of the recent IPCC renewable energy scenarios report. Now, I don’t agree with everything Ted says — in particular the con ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and A ...
    Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide: Native American scholar/activist Andrea Smith spoke on the topic of her new book, "Conquest:Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide." Smith was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is a member of INCITE! Women ...
  • The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake A ...
    The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake Alfred: Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being : ASU Libraries: , Recorded March 23, 2009 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, University of Victoria Professor of Indigenous Governance Gerald Taiaiake Alfred talks about the "Resurgence of Tradition ...
  • Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gad ...
    Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware : Deadline Live With Jack Blood: By Stephen C. Webster Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 — 12:27 pm Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promised to help former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware as ...
  • The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Mon ...
    The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Monroe Doctrine and justice denied?: A hundred years ago [RB: actually eighty] a legal case in Scotland swept across the world establishing her legal system in the front row of jurisprudence in the world. [Donoghue v Stevenson] Scots Law was all grown u ...
  • allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Women's Latest Bargai ...
    allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Women's Latest Bargaining Tool: opinion "WOMEN think that when you're married, you don't have to worry about HIV. They think it is a safe haven,"said Beauty Nyamwanza of the National Aids Council. But marriage can actually fuel the risk of HIV among women, part ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • Federal Reserve Policy + Extreme Weather = Rev ...
    By David DeGraw Federal Reserve policy mixed with extreme weather has put the world on a fast track to revolution and war. Here's why the Fed cannot get away with another round of Quantitative Easing. [Read More]
  • Open Letter to Warren Buffett: Put Your Money ...
    By David DeGraw If you are truly sick and tried of the "mega-rich" being "coddled" by a "billionaire-friendly Congress," as you said in your recent NY Times editorial, why don't you back up your words with some real action and put your money where your mouth is? [Read More]
  • Download Free PDF, Kindle, Word Doc of Full Re ...
    You can now download the full version of our groundbreaking extensive new report, “Analysis of Financial Terrorism in America,” in several file formats here. [Read More]
  • EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of Financial Terrorism in ...
    By David DeGraw Groundbreaking extensive new report on the financial destruction of the United States: "Despite increasing personal financial hardship, most Americans remain unaware of the economic world war currently unfolding. An all-pervasive corporate and government propaganda campaign has e ...
  • The Covert Origins of World War III – US ...
    By Nick Turse Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the U.S. military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world’s countries. This new Pentagon power elite is waging a global war whose size and scope has never been revealed, until now. [Read More]

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  • Anti-normalisation: Irresponsible and unhelpfu ...
    The policy of anti-normalisation amounts to pretending that Israel does not exist while Palestinians suffer daily from its discriminatory policies and wars. It does absolutely nothing to help the Palestinian struggle for liberation. It should be challenged head-on By Moustafa Youssef On 17 Augus ...
  • J14: The exclusive revolution
    How the largest social justice movement in Israel’s history managed to ignore the Palestinians The men and women who set out to build a Jewish state in historic Palestine made little secret of their settler-colonial designs. Zionism’s intellectual author, Theodor Herzl, described the country he ...
  • Tomorrow: Palestinian non-violent protesters & ...
    By Alex Kane Palestinian non-violent resistance is set to switch a gear tomorrow, with protesters “knocking” on all four doors of Jerusalem – checkpoints in the city’s south, north, east and west. They call it the Olive Revolution. Sitting outside a Tamimi family house in the West Bank villag ...
  • Michael Oren returned from Tel Aviv, but saw n ...
    By Hagai El-Ad Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, tries hard to separate the Israeli social justice protests from the Arab Spring. He ends up sounding both out of date and out of touch. Israelis and Palestinians are again gradually engulfed in escalating violence. While hoping ...
  • Still no evidence for PRC involvement in attacks
    A week passed since the Eilat attack, and the IDF has yet to prove the blame of the group Israel chose to attack in response. Earlier this week I posted about the cracks in the Barak-Netanyahu narrative regarding the terror attacks near Eilat. A quick reminder: While the attacks were still goin ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Citizenship – “Tocqueville’s ...
    You may never have heard of Alexis de Tocqueville before, but for students of democracy he’s essential reading.  A young political thinker from France, he toured America for two years in the 1830s, arrived back home and immediately published his Democracy in America. It was readily apparent that ...
  • Citizenship – “Above All Else”
    I had never met most of the individuals before, but following an evening of conversation I began to see again what a powerful force citizens could be should they come together for the common good. About 10 people had gathered at a downtown setting to discuss a number of pertinent subjects, some ...
  • Citizenship – “Power With, Not Pow ...
    We may not have realized it, but this week witnessed a powerful symbolic act that in many ways showed how public citizens have begun to effectively infiltrate the political space. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was unveiled in Washington D.C., in a place of prominence between the Jefferson ...
  • Citizenship – “An Enlightened Rega ...
    Perhaps we’re entering a new era of invention – political and public innovation, I mean. More and more citizen groups are springing up, fuelled by the desire to solve local problems by addressing them in a larger context. There have always been those who fought to keep a school open, or neighbou ...
  • Citizenship – “Government’s ...
    Citizens are undertaking so many remarkable ventures across the country, at all different levels and with some interesting results. I learned from a friend of a terrific resource just this weekend called the Citizen’s Handbook. In laying out so many different dimensions of how people can make a ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Could precisely engineered nanoparticles provi ...
    This is an extremely quick and dirty blog post, as I really need to be somewhere else.  But while traveling to the World Economic Forum meeting in China today, I came across a new paper that piques my interest. The paper is by David Keith at the University of Calgary (published in the Proceeding ...
  • Ten weeks to save the world: Nature does the S ...
    You’ve heard the rumors and read the hype – but what really goes on at the Singularity University, based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley?  Nature’s Nicola Jones recently went along to take a look, and her report has just been posted – it’s well worth reading. The Singularity Universit ...
  • Prepare and Inspire: The President’s Council o ...
    The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology – PCAST – has just released a new report on US K-12 education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (the STEM subjects).  The report provides, in the words of the Presidentâs Science Advisor John Holdren, “a strategy fo ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    This week I exchanged the maze of academia for an entirely different maze – I spent most of the week at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China. World Economic Forum meetings are usually rather grand, complex, intimidating, stimulating and serendipitous aff ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    This week my life has been dominated by writing a new review of nanotoxicology.  Not that the world needs another review – far from it, as there are a number of excellent ones out there (I’ve even contributed to some).  But in a moment of abject weakness, I agreed to help a good colleague out ...

Reader Supported News

  • FOCUS: Cheney: My Book Will Have 'Heads Explod ...
    Mak reports: "The vice president is highly critical of those who stood in the way of his vision on the Iraq War, which he still asserts was the right decision. He attacks former Secretary of State Powell for trying to undermine Bush. Cheney wrote that Powell expressed doubts about the Iraq War t ...
  • FOCUS: Cheney: My Book Will Have 'Heads Explod ...
    Mak reports: "The vice president is highly critical of those who stood in the way of his vision on the Iraq War, which he still asserts was the right decision. He attacks former Secretary of State Powell for trying to undermine Bush. Cheney wrote that Powell expressed doubts about the Iraq War t ...
  • Rick Perry, Frontrunner
    Sorensen reports: "The Texas Governor has quickly become Republicans' preferred nominee, even though a third of the party doesn't know who he is." Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to workers at Epoch Homes in Pembroke, New Hampshire, 08/18/11. (photo: Darren ...
  • Rick Perry, Frontrunner
    Sorensen reports: "The Texas Governor has quickly become Republicans' preferred nominee, even though a third of the party doesn't know who he is." Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to workers at Epoch Homes in Pembroke, New Hampshire, 08/18/11. (photo: Darren ...
  • FOCUS: Amnesty for the Indefensible
    Scheer writes: "The banks were given direct cash subsidies, virtually zero-interest loans, and the Fed took $2 trillion in bad paper off their hands while the banks exacerbated the banking crisis they had created through additional shady practices, including fraudulent mortgage foreclosures." ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2 ...
    ==== CIA Operating In Tripoli Barely Independent: U.S. AFRICOM Commander In South Sudan NATO Conducts Integrated Interceptor Missile Test In Europe Lockheed Opens New Testing Ground For Advanced Interceptor Missile Northrop Produces Viper Strike Missiles For U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Drone Crashes ...
  • William Faulkner: There is only the question: ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts William Faulkner Nobel Prize in Literature speech (1950) Audio Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2 ...
    ==== Operation Mermaid Dawn: “NATO Played Big Role In Liberating Tripoli” South African Deputy President Calls On ICC To Investigate NATO Commanders Interview: Return Of The NATO, Cruise Missile Left And Liberal Imperialism Video And Text: John McCain Says “Fire Of Uprisings” Should Move To Syri ...
  • Ernest Hemingway: Combat the murder that is war
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Ernest Hemingway Notes on the Next War (1935) ***** Every move that is made now to deprive the people of their decision on all matters through their elected representatives and to delegate those powers to the executive brings us that mu ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2 ...
    ==== NATO Partnership In War Against Libya Serves As Model: Panetta NATO Pressures Compliant Canada To Stay Involved In Libyan War Canadian Drones, Mercenaries Aid Anti-Gaddafi Attacks NATO, EU To Give Stolen Libyan Financial Assets To Clients Germany Gives Libyan Rebels Advance On Seized Govern ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Brandon Turbeville On The Bob Tuskin Radio Show
    Bob Tuskin August 26, 2011 Today on The Bob Tuskin Radio Show Bob is joined by author and independent journalist Brandon Turbeville. Topics included chemtrails, the new world order, food safety and tyranny, the Federal Reserve Banking Cartel, and much more. http://activistpost.com http://bobtusk ...
  • What is this, Arizona? Activists BANNED from A ...
    By Jack Blood Deadline Live August 25, 2011 Just got off the phone with TAG director John Bush. He was also banned from City Hall for one year. Actions pending. THIS WILL NOT STAND! DONT MESS WITH TEXANS!  I suggest everyone hit Austin City hall and get Banned!!! Recently Austin Texas Mayor Lee ...
  • Silver Shield’s Final Warning
    Dont-tread-on.me By Silver Shield August 25, 2011 One year ago marked the beginning of silver returning to it’s rightful role as money in the world.One year ago silver was at $17.76 an ounce after a very long and drawn out consolidation that went all the way back to St. Patrick’s Day 2008. One y ...
  • ‘Storm Of Century Warnings’ Continue As Irene ...
    The Intel Hub By Alexander Higgins August 25, 2011 Hurricane warnings and state of emergencies have been issued for New York and New Jersey as Hurricane Irene continues on a track to barrel through Wall Street. Live Satellite Images Of Hurricane Irene – Live Forecast Map Of Path Of Hurricane Ire ...
  • Hurricane Irene New York: Top 5 Dangers of a H ...
    IB Times By Maggie Astor August 24, 2011 If Hurricane Irene keeps to its projected path, a region unaccustomed to natural disasters may experience two in a single week. The earthquake on Tuesday — which was centered in Mineral, Va., and sent tremors up and down the Eastern Seaboard — caused no m ...

FRS

  • General Giap–Military Strategist/Command ...
    The famous independence hero was born August 25, 1911 in a central-north province. His name is linked to the wars against the French, Japanese and U.S.. He is still remembered for the battle of Dien Bien Phu in the plain, in 1954, which ended the war in Indochina…. Thursday, August 25, 2011 By A ...
  • Philippines: “New Peoples Army hits PA-A ...
    Press Statement Ricardo Fermiza, Magtanggol Roque Command, Guerilla Front 51 Operations Command,NPA-Southern Mindanao 20 August 2011 The NPA’s Magtanggol Roque Command-Guerilla Front 51 Operations Command in Southern Mindanao ambushed a platoon of enemy troops under the 57th Infantry Battalion-P ...
  • Nepal: Maoist Struggle over Direction and Goa ...
    by KIRAN PUN, http://www.myrepublica.com/ KATHMANDU, Aug 13: The recent efforts within the UCPN (Maoist) to end the continuing intra-party feud seems to have fallen apart, with a split in the party´s top cultural group – Samana Pariwar — on Friday. Members of Samana Pariwar close to party Chair ...
  • The role of the NYPD in the CIA’s domest ...
    [This Associated Press article combines an exposure of intrusive violations of civil rights by the federal government and NYPD, with a fear-mongering "justification" for ethnic, Arab and Islamophobic profiling, stalking, surveillance, harassment, and fabrications of criminal cases against entire ...
  • US: New government attacks on migrants target ...
    FIGHTING THE FIRINGS By David Bacon,  In These Times web edition, 8/23/11 After years of ‘silent raids’ and federal workplace audits, unions and community allies are going on the offensive. BERKELEY, CA — When the current wave of mass firings of immigrant workers started three years ago, they w ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • Tax the rich, says Bro. Bernie Sanders
    The Vermont senator is introducing a bill that would expand the payroll tax. You can read more here.
  • With the sad news about basketball coach Pat S ...
    Earlier this week, Summitt, the nation's most winningest coach, announced that she has early-onset Alzheimer's. She says�she intends to keep coaching as long as she can. Meanwhile, here are some early signs of Alzheimer's. Getty Images
  • Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the messiah
    � Just kidding. Glenn Beck Goes to Israel and Fancies Himself a Religious Leader. Getty Images
  • If you're following Hurricane Irene....
    ...you could do worse than this. I'm not sure, but from what I read and watch, everyone within the sound of my voice should have their batteries and weeks'-worth-of-water�ready,�and they should be really worried right about now. Getty Images
  • Homeless shelters prepare for Hurricane Irene
    In preparation for Hurricane Irene, which could hit Connecticut this weekend, homeless shelters around the state are taking extra precautions to protect their vulnerable clients. For the first time in its seven-year history, Willimantic’s no-freeze shelter will open in the summer, starting at 2 ...

Associated Content

  • Giffords Reelection Odds Good?
    Is it too soon to think about replacing Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Congress? A special education teacher named Anthony Prowell, a Tucson, Ariz., Democrat, doesn't think so.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Aug 24, 2011
  • D.C. Earthquake: No Injuries, No Phones, No Ho ...
    As a 5.8 magnitude earthquake spread out from its epicenter Tuesday, Twitter almost beat the earthquake itself to my neck of the woods. A serene shaking grabbed the headlines, but critics should consider the rarity of the event.Contributor: Adam Justice Published: Aug 24, 2011
  • Lady Vols Coach Has Dementia
    Pat Summitt, coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols, was diagnosed with early onset dementia, a form of Alzheimer's disease. The disease is devastating for not only the patient, but those who surround the sufferer as well.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Aug 24, 2011
  • Does the Liberation of Libya Mean Credit for P ...
    With Tripoli falling to rebel control and Col. Gadhafi's days seemingly numbered, will the GOP give the Obama administration any credit?Contributor: James Schlarmann Published: Aug 24, 2011
  • Va. Quake Gets Workers Out of the Office
    The D.C. metro area experienced a 5.9 magnitude earthquake Tuesday. Several offices in Arlington, Va., were evacuated as the situation was assessed.Contributor: Ginny Gettemeier Beauchemin Published: Aug 24, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Brand-New Supernova Spotted Within Hours, Will ...
    Astronomers just spotted a brand-new supernova mere hours after it exploded, thanks to a robotic telescope and some smart computer algorithms. Now they’re scrambling to use as many telescopes as possible, on Earth and in space, to observe the star’s death throes. New supernovae are not terribl ...
  • Dashboard-Mounted Smartphones Network Together ...
    The perceived future of driving tends to revolve around a networked traffic infrastructure in which cars, traffic signals, and other roadway implements talk to each other electronically to optimize traffic flow and make driving more efficient all around. But MIT researchers think we can do many ...
  • Infecting Mosquitoes With Contagious Gonad-Att ...
    The fight against mosquito-borne Dengue fever is ongoing in more than 100 countries all over the world, but in Australia the gloves are off and researchers are going right for the gonads. Using a bacterial parasite known as Wolbachia, researchers have found a way to block out Dengue in mosquito ...
  • A Clever New Fishing Method, 'Conching,' is th ...
    Attention hipsters and other people seeking hipness: there’s a new fad catching on in Western Australia's Shark Bay, and you won’t want to be the last to to post pictures of yourself imitating it to your Tumblr feed. “Conching” is a method by which Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins are trapping ...
  • CERN Experiment Finds Possible Link Between Co ...
    Emphasis on "possible" Not content with just stirring the pot in particle physics, CERN has embarked on an experiment aimed at addressing whether or not comic rays from deep space might be seeding clouds in Earth’s atmosphere, influencing climate change. The early findings are far from deciding ...

Veterans Today

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

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Was Jesus a {Market} Fundamentalist?
    Praize the Lawwwhd! Having been in Texas for no small amount of time, I have had some interest in the announcement that its governor, Rick Perry, would make a presidential bid. While there are certainly lingering resentments between him and another whose political career path he certainly wishes ...
  • PRC Basketbrawl: Of Hoyas & Anti-US Sentiment
    As if Joe Biden's trip to China needed to become more disastrous in the wake of his "reassurances" that China's Treasuries were safe, it turns out that the b-ball team that accompanied him suffered from an even worse fate. The above clip shows the rather violent end of a basketball match in Beij ...
  • Asia Learned From Its Crisis, US Didn't Part II
    [NOTE: This is a sequel to an earlier post.] There often comes a point when the pupil surpasses the mentor in understanding; such is the nature of knowledge transfer throughout much of history. With signs indicating that the US is headed towards yet another recession for the second time in the s ...
  • Bernanke, Japan's Lost Decade & US Lost Century
    With the yields of Treasuries pointing towards the US re-entering recessionary straits, all eyes have turned towards the upcoming central banker jamboree at Jackson Hole this coming Friday. Although the Fed is supposed to be an independent central bank, the "new normal" of growth in the 1-2% ran ...
  • Two Novels to Enjoy American Decay By
    To be sure, the United States is a pretty miserable place already that's only getting worse by the minute. The process of mortally undermining this once-proud nation that began with Bush the Second is now being put the finishing touches on by Obama. Delusional USA#1 cheerleaders aside, poll afte ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Midd ...
    Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking?  Well, you are not imagining things.  A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded.  Today, most Am ...
  • 3, 2, 1: Global Debt Meltdown
    We are steamrolling toward a massive global debt meltdown, and at this point world leaders seem to be all out of solutions.  Over the last 30 years or so, the greatest debt bubble in the history of the planet has produced unprecedented prosperity in the western world.  But now t ...
  • 21 Signs That The New Reality For Many Baby Bo ...
    All over America tonight, millions of elderly Americans are wondering if their money is going to run out before it is time for them to die.  Those that are now past retirement age are not going to be rioting in the streets, but that doesn't mean that large numbers of them are no ...
  • 20 Signs That The World Could Be Headed For An ...
    If you thought that 2011 was a bad year for the world economy, just wait until you see what happens in 2012.  The U.S. and Europe are both dealing with unprecedented debt problems, the financial markets are flailing about wildly, austerity programs are being implemented all over ...
  • Taxed Into Oblivion
    In the United States today, we are being taxed into oblivion, yet it is being done so stealthily that most Americans don't even realize what is happening.  Most people are fixated on federal income tax rates, but the federal income tax is only one of the dozens of different taxe ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

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

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • Cablegate Resources
    Tweet Contents 1. Introduction 2. Data Resources 3. Revelations 4. WL Central Coverage . 1. Introduction A momentous release by WikiLeaks of 251,287 US diplomatic cables started on November 28, 2010 in conjunction with The Guardian, Le Monde, El País, Der Spiegel and The New York Times. Since ...
  • 2011-08-26 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. - See @wlfind for some of the latest information found in the newly rel ...
  • 2011-08-25 Daniel Domscheit-Berg explains dele ...
    TweetIn the first extensive media interview with Austrian public broadcaster ORF Daniel Domscheit-Berg appears as contradictory as ever. He admits to having deleted the keys to the documents -- which according to him were deleted by an unnamed other person or persons -- out of concern for source ...
  • 2011-08-25 Twitter Archive for @wlfind
    Tweet2007 cable ties private oil field scurity to Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services http://t.co/vgKuO7h #wlfind via @wikileaks Thu Aug 25 19:02:02 +0000 2011 - tweet id 106803539698909184 - #1 tweet details Sale of Israeli Dead Sea Prodcts in US based on massive organized fra ...
  • 2011-08-25 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. - See @wlfind for some of the latest information found in the newly rel ...

U N News

  • Peru: UN human rights expert commends new indi ...
    Peru has taken "an important step forward" by approving a law compelling private companies to consult indigenous communities before going ahead with major projects such as mines, a United Nations human rights expert said today.
  • Hurricane Irene killed two in Haiti and floode ...
    Hurricane Irene killed two people in Haiti, flooded houses, cut roads, unleashed landslides and devastated farm fields during its passage off the coast of the Caribbean country earlier this week, the United Nations reported today.
  • Clean energy revolution will put world on safe ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a clean energy revolution to help transform the global economy and put the world on a cleaner, safer, more equitable path.
  • Haiti escapes serious damage from Hurricane Ir ...
    Hurricane Irene has left impoverished Haiti relatively unscathed, with only isolated damage from flooding and no widespread serious emergencies in a country that is still struggling to recover from last year's devastating earthquake, the United Nations reported today.
  • Grenada accedes to the Rome Statute of the Int ...
    The International Criminal Court (ICC) today welcomed Grenada as a new State party to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the tribunal, three months after the Caribbean nation deposited its instrument of accession to the accord, becoming the 115th signatory.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire With Uncle Dave – The Popu ...
    Adapted from Man Swarm by Dave Foreman Forty years and three billion Men ago, conservationists and most everyone else understood that we were in the middle of a population explosion.  Today, it seems that many conservationists and most other folks don’t give it much thought.  If we ask “Why?” mu ...
  • The Keystone XL Pipeline: buried by bad decisions
    Today’s guest post is from Brian L. Horejsi, one of Canada’s toughest conservationists. As early as fall 2011 President Obama and administration insiders will approve the construction of the massive Keystone XL pipeline. With the stroke of that pen the gates will open to the daily flow of about ...
  • Congratulations to The Center for Biological D ...
    What terrific news from our friends at the Center! We appreciate their efforts and hope you do, too. Please show them your support with your thanks and a donation.   Check out the Center’s Historic Victory website for more on this breaking agreement.     I’ve been waiting years to write these w ...
  • Trekking for Rewilding – Exploring Strands of ...
    Text and photos by John Davis Wildlands Network/TrekEast Dave Foreman summarized brilliantly in his latest Around the Campfire why we need an Eastern Wildway and what basic steps need to be taken to achieve it.  As a Rewilding Fellow, and co-founder of the Wildlands Project with Dave and other s ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Rewildin ...
    Part One For nigh onto fifteen years, I’ve been talking and writing about a North American Wildlands Network anchored by four Continental Wildways (at first named MegaLinkages).  The North American Wildlands Network is rooted in the conservation pathway of Rewilding, an offshoot of the scientifi ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Survive Social Chaos
    How would you escape, evade and survive when all hell breaks loose? The answer to that question is tackled in the ‘Social Chaos Survival Guide’, a book written in such a way that faces some hard realities, decisions and actions that ‘you’ may face one day, during a truly chaotic situation.   I h ...
  • Today in the News:
    News Today (August 25, 2011)   A new survey shows 1 of 10 companies would rather pay fines and taxes than health benefits… But according to a spokesman for the Massachusetts state health care agency, the number of people with employer-sponsored coverage climbed after Massachusetts enacted reform ...
  • Hurricane IRENE Eyes New England, Cape Cod, Boston
    The latest National Hurricane Center forecast prediction for Hurricane IRENE indicates that landfall, the eye, could pass over southern New England this weekend, perhaps Sunday evening, and wreak havoc across Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. (Current forecast ...
  • Today in the News:
    News Today (August 24, 2011) I’ve heard of hacking, but I’ve never heard of this… have an implanted electronic medical device? concerned about your survival? Stopping Hackers From Pacemaker Attacks High unemployment, larger down payment, tougher lending standards are all hurting the real estate ...
  • Hurricane IRENE Track Map and Impact
    Hurricane IRENE Track Map Tuesday, August 23, 2011   At this moment, the entire east coast of the United States is under the threat of hurricane IRENE. Forecasters aren’t sure of the track that IRENE will take given the variability of about plus or minus 100 miles. The current position and forec ...

Fast Company

  • Pandora's Ad Worth Beats Radio's, Apple Has Ne ...
    This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.Pandora's Ads Worth More Than Real Radio's. Pandora released its latest finances, proving its growth: Its revenues of $67 million for the second quarter are more than double 2010's figures. Analysts have highlighte ...
  • Impatient For The Smart Grid, Microgrids Estab ...
    Utilities are big and slow and doing a bad job preparing for the smart-grid-enabled future. Those who can't wait are setting up smaller grids, which are becoming test sites for smart energy management technology.The glittering vision of the smart grid is out there, somewhere. One day, most of us ...
  • Facebook Revamps Privacy, Pictures, And Purcha ...
    Facebook jumps into and out of the news like a Jack-in-the-box who's had too much caffeine, but this last week has seen an unusual amount of officially announced Facebook tweaks, as well as a bit of saber rattling regarding its future plans. Something is up in Zuckerberg's blue-hued social netwo ...
  • Simulating Droughts To Find Out How Thirsty Pl ...
    Plants need water to live, but exactly how much? Scientists have built a simulator to figure out how to far we can push crops before they die of thirst, in preparation for a hotter climate. It's a research project that seems particularly fitting for this year, when Texas has suffered (and conti ...
  • GoodGuide's Transparency Toolbar Tells You Whe ...
    To complement your online shopping, you can now download a toolbar that rates your purchases on health and environmental impact. Thinking of switching toothpastes? You might want to know what you're really buying.GoodGuide--an iPhone app and website that serves up detailed information about the ...

Jadaliyya

  • Sudan: Slippery Slope
    After three months of conflict in the Nuba Mountains of Southern Kordofan, the Sudanese authorities on 23 August declared a temporary ceasefire. This was despite the failure two days earlier of another round of peace talks between the Sudan People�s Liberation Movement/Army � North (SPLM ...
  • Democracy Now! Interview with Gilbert Achcar o ...
    This is an interview conducted with Gilbert Achcar on Wednesday, August 24, in regards to news of the Libyan rebels entering Tripoli. The interview addresses the events surrounding this development, highlighting the dynamics of the NATO intervention and discussing the identities and inte ...
  • Religious Liberty, Minorities, and Islam: An I ...
    Saba Mahmood�is an anthropologist who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and whose work raises challenging questions about the relationship between religion and secularism, ethics and politics, agency and freedom. Her book�Politics of Piety, a study of a grassroots women� ...
  • A Light Bulb
    Last summer, I posted a piece about electricity outages in Lebanon. In the year that separates that article from this one, one March 14 led Lebanese government has been brought down and another March 8 led government has been formed. Popular uprisings have swelled the Arab world with pos ...
  • Whitey on the Moon
    On numerous occasions this past month, Iâve been asked my opinion on the âsocial justiceâ protests in Israel. There is much bellowing beneath my short âshu biâa`rifniâ (hell if I know). Some believe that literature and storytelling convey truth better than facts; accordingly, I will use ...

mediagazer

  • Big hopes, smaller size: Why The Cincy Enquire ...
    Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab: Big hopes, smaller size: Why The Cincy Enquirer is going tabloid  —  For newspapers, rolling the dice doesn't always involve paywalls.  Take The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Columbus Dispatch, both of which recently announced plans to switch their printing ...
  • Tumblr Set to Close Big New Financing (Spencer ...
    Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: Tumblr Set to Close Big New Financing  —  Blogging service Tumblr has a funny name and scant revenue.  It has also convinced investors it is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.  —  The New York-based company is poised to raise $75 million to $100 millio ...
  • Staff cries Wolff (New York Post)
    New York Post: Staff cries Wolff  —  Adweek's top editor, Michael Wolff, is on the hot seat, The Post has learned.  —  Senior executives at Prometheus Global Media, which owns the title, have been telling business associates that they are unhappy with Adweek under Wolff, sources said.
  • Travel is news, so why am I the only travel ed ...
    Peter Greenberg / Poynter: Travel is news, so why am I the only travel editor at a major network?  —  People know me because of travel.  But the classic error that many people make - and it's a well-intentioned error - is when they say to me, “When did you make the transition from journalism to ...
  • Rise in defamation involving blogs and Twitter ...
    Ben Dowell / Guardian: Rise in defamation involving blogs and Twitter  —  Cases include action brought by New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns over former IPL chief's tweets  —  The growth of social networking sites has seen the number of defamation cases involving online content more than double ...

Chemtrail News

  • Chemtrail spraying is back
    Discussion about Chemtrail spraying is back at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies, UFOs and ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1606183/pg1
  • Oh My God Chemtrails on the ground on y ...
    As to the video itself havent seen anything like this locally but wont call it chemtrailish Assuming just weed treatment or the like ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread744495/pg1
  • Geoengineering/Chemtrail Complaint Pres ...
    http://wetterhampelmann.wordpress.com READ! http://theintelhub.com/2011/08/06/ lab-tests-confirm-high-levels-of-aluminum-f... Lab Tests ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUCpJPYG9IY
  • New investigation clears climate scientist
    I said that chemtrail doping of the atmosphere likely caused tree rings to start to disagree with climate measurements from other sources. ...
  • Asbury concert will benefit Ronald McDonald House
    Music genres represented include rock, alternative and rockabilly, with bands Chemtrail, Dr. Vad and the Death, Machines, The Amboys and others scheduled to ...

World News - Top Stories

  • Iraqis point to mistakes in overthrowing ...
    BAGHDAD - Iraqis who lived through the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein see eery similarities in the scenes of Libyans parading through Tripoli ripping up posters of Moammar Gadhafi. But Iraqis also saw looting, bloodshed and bombings in the days and years since. "A lot of peop ...
  • Asian stocks unsteady ahead of Bernanke s ...
    BANGKOK - Asian stock markets were unsteady Friday as investors waited to see whether Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would promise new steps to help the U.S. economy ward off another recession. Oil prices lingered above $85 a barrel while the dollar was down against the yen and the e ...
  • China issues protest over US report on mi ...
    BEIJING - China has formally protested over a Pentagon report on the Chinese military that it calls a distortion of facts. The Defense Ministry says the United States' annual assessment of China's military capabilities flies in the face of calls for warmer relations between the leaders of t ...
  • Fabregas ready for La Liga debut
    Madrid – Cesc Fabregas is itching to make his La Liga debut for Barcelona now a strike over unpaid player wages has been resolved and the season can get underway. The Spain midfielder, who has returned to his boyhood club after eight years with English Premier League side Arsenal, has a cha ...
  • Palestine: arduous odyssey of statehood
    Article by WN.com Guest Writers Dr. Ismail Salami and Kourosh Ziabari The plight of the Palestinian people is no closed book to anyone in the world; a subjugated nation which has been unjustifiably subjected to discrimination and violence for the past 6 decades. Even the close allies of Isr ...

no frakking consensus

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

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ......Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and..Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent ....Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals �|� � ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations......Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Welln ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 8/25/11 - Between Jan. and Aug. of 2011, 18 st ...
    teachertenure.procon.org - Between Jan. and Aug. of 2011, 18 state legislatures modified their teacher tenure laws. Many states chose to include teacher performance evaluations into their revised tenure legislation, and the Idaho legislature passed SB 1108 which phased out tenure for new teacher ...
  • 8/25/11 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts in ...
    milk.procon.org - The National School Lunch Act requires that schools serve milk. In 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that milk from cloned cows was safe for human consumption. The retail sale of raw cow's milk for human consumption is illegal in 42 states. Read about these and ...
  • 8/25/11 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts in ...
    felonvoting.procon.org - UPDATED: Did You Know? Little Known Facts in the Felon Voting Debate - The number of people incarcerated in US jails and prisons grew 355.3% between 1980 and 2009. In 2008, US jails and prisons housed 2,322,486 people - more than the entire populations of Alaska, Montan ...
  • 8/25/11 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts in ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - UPDATED: Did You Know? Little Known Facts in the Health Care Debate - US appellate courts have made conflicting decisions on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The individual mandate concept to purchase insurance origina ...
  • 8/24/11 - Timeline, 1990 - 2011
    usiraq.procon.org - UPDATED: Timeline, 1990 - 2011 - Read about the latest events related to the US-Iraq War including the Wikileaks publication of 400,000 pages of secret military logs in October 2010 and US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's first visit to Iraq in July 2011.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • A Walk to Remember to Remember
    Jesse Miller My finest life achievement is one I donât even remember. It exists memorialized only through the meticulous documentation of my ever-attentive parents. There I am, little Jesse, crouched in the grass in my OshKsosh overalls; the wind causes the audio on the videotape to crackle, obs ...
  • Literature Brings the Physical Past to Life
    Scott Herring Recently, literary theorists have been making another of their occasional efforts to restore a trace of earthly reality to criticism. This time those efforts have taken the form of Darwinian literary studies, which attempt to relate the universal impulse to tell stories to human na ...
  • How to Say Challapeño
    Macy Halford Pozole con Matzoh Balls. Schnitzel Torta. Totopos de Gribenes con Guacamole. Schmaltz Tamales. What are these mysterious concoctions? They are the offspring of the unlikely marriage of two culinary traditionsâMexican and Jewishâthat turn out to go together âlike a chuppa and a maria ...
  • Creation Myth
    Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation. Malcolm Gladwell The mouse was conceived by the computer scientist Douglas Engelbart, developed by Xerox PARC, and made marketable by Apple. In late 1979, a twenty-four-year-old entrepreneur paid a visit to a research center in Silicon Valley ca ...
  • Austrian Man Allegedly Abused Daughters for De ...
    A fresh abuse scandal shocked Austrians on Thursday when police revealed that a father in a small village had allegedly held his daughters prisoner for more than 40 years, sexually abusing them repeatedly. The case came to light only by chance, and the alleged perpetrator has been arrested.   RE ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Access to contraceptive services – a woman’s l ...
    FROM CLAIRE CHIVERS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE A joint report from the Centre for Reproductive Rights and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was presented at the UK parliament in July 2011.  Entitled ‘The right to contraceptive information and services for women and adolescents’, the b ...
  • PolicyLab on open science
    On the morning of 1 September, we are holding a PolicyLab event with Michael Nielsen: ‘An open and shut case? debating the purposes of open science’.  We sent out this invitation to those who have signed up to hear about our events. (You can sign up by emailing science.policy@royalsociety.org ...
  • Open meeting on open science – some highlights
    FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE We kicked off our Science as a public enterprise  study with a public event at the Southbank Centre last month. The full recording of the first debate is now available. Download audio file  (Apologies for the mixed quality – the audience mikes were ...
  • Engineering public engagement
    FROM EMMA WOODS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE What is so unusual about geoengineering? What sets it apart from other controversial technologies? One thing that strikes me as particularly atypical is that the social dimensions of geoengineering are being addressed well ahead of the development of ...
  • Frontiers of Science UK-Germany: is sound fast ...
    FROM RUTH COOPER, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Last week 35 early career British scientists met with their German counterparts in the UK, for the third UK-German Frontiers of Science meeting.  The   meeting was co-organised with the Junge Akademie  with logistical support from the Alexander von Humbold ...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
    "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" - these famous words of JFK are more resonant today than ever. What can we do to bring about peaceful revolution? How can we stir the masses to stand up against the bullies and the tyrants? That is the them ...
  • Sibel Edmonds: Why 9/11?
    For ‘some’ reason I have been receiving more than a few ‘eye-rolling’ responses when I mention our theme for the month leading up to September 11- the tenth year. You and I know where the conscious but mostly subconscious eye-rolling and in some cases eye-aversion reactions come from. A very few ...
  • Some CO2 lies
    From Malcolm Roberts, of the Galileo Movement: Measurements of global CO2 levels used by the UN reveal that CO2 levels are a result of temperature, not a cause. CO2 does not drive temperature. Temperature determines CO2 levels. Yet the government and Greens tells us the opposite. Saying CO2 dr ...
  • The Murdoch Meltdown
    Rupert and James Murdoch testifying at the Parliamentary Inquiry Tonight I am joined by Josh Jackson as we explore the wider implications of the News Corp phone hacking scandal. In particular, we look at the future of news and whether this crisis signals the demise of traditional mass media. ...
  • TNRA reports on the latest carbon rally
    Tonight we bring you the full audio (and video) from last week's carbon rally in Hyde Park, with some discussion and commentary. The gathering at Hyde Park was very rowdy - many people have a high level of anger about the current situation and this is evident in the tone of the crowd attending ...

Beacon

  • BP Pays Out – But What’s the Real Price of the ...
    �After the Gulf oil spill happened, people demanded numbers. They wanted to know animal mortality numbers and dollar signs to understand the worst environmental disaster in our nation�s history. The problem is that the extent of this spill was so huge and so many animals and people were af ...
  • Video: Andy Sharpless at TEDxOilSpill
    At last year’s TEDxOilSpill conference in Washington, D.C., Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless tackled the 10 biggest myths he hears about offshore drilling. His presentation is especially poignant this week considering the government's decision on Friday to re-open the Western Gulf of Mexico for new oil ...
  • Less Than a Year After the Spill, Oil Leases S ...
    It hasn�t yet been one year since the worst accidental oil spill in history was finally stopped, but the Interior Department announced Friday that it will open more than 20 million acres of the Western Gulf of Mexico to new oil and gas exploration and development.��� Oceana�s senior campaig ...
  • Friday Infographic: The Rise and Fall of a Cor ...
    This is part of a series of ocean infographics by artist Don Foley. These infographics also appear in Oceana board member Ted Danson�s book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� � Coral reefs cover around 1 percent of the world�s continental shelves, yet they provide ...
  • Join us for the Nautica Malibu Triathlon
    On August 7, it was a great privilege to be joined by some very outgoing and incredible conservationists who raced in the Nautica New York City triathlon and raised money for Oceana. In total, the team has raised over $7,300 for Oceana and there’s still a couple weeks of fundraising left if ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The V-1.
    V-1 The V-1 or Vergeltungswaffe, “revenge weapon” was a World War II cruise missile, the first of its kind, built by Germany and used primarily against the British. Also called the buzz bomb and the doodlebug, the V-1 was powered by a pulse jet engine, and launched off of a rail. Later in the wa ...
  • We Are Rabble.
    Norman Rockwell's Painting Of The Desegregation Of Little Rock Schools The first Americans to settle here came for a number of reasons. Many came here to worship as they pleased without prosecution or persecution. Their respective governments often brutally forced some other church doctrine on t ...
  • Oh That? That’s My Gilbert Atomic Lab. T ...
    Glinbert Atomic Lab Gilbert was a man of true inspiration, often compared to Walt Disney for his creative genius. Gilbert had high expectations of America’s youngsters, and with such he tried to help the future engineers, doctors and leaders by providing toys worthy of their imaginations. As the ...
  • The Curtiss-Groupil Duck
    Famous American aircraft designer Glenn Curtis made the power plant for this in part to show he had not stolen a patent from the Wright Brothers. The actual engine was called the Curtiss OXX. The seaplane version never flew, but a land version flew in 1917. It did not help the lawsuit. [...]
  • New Yorker’s Bin Laden Tale Disputed
    � Nicholas Schmidle It just never ends, the lying the exaggeration, the shallow journalism that marks contemporary American media. But once again, a story, and by that I mean just a story is told to America. The shame. � On and on went the �tick-tock.� Yet as Paul Farhi, a Washington Post report ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Trumka to Dems: You’re on Your Own
    Labor “ditching” Democrats to concentrate on building a stronger labor movement as 2012 begins to heat up plays into why the above ad from Democracy for America, that’s supposed to air across the country, looks and sounds so tone deaf to me. Blaming only Republicans for what’s going on misses th ...
  • Hurricane Irene: Four Governors Declare Disast ...
    From CNN: Four governors declared states of emergency Thursday as Hurricane Irene threatened to wreak havoc along the United States’ Eastern Seaboard. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley declared emergencies for their states, while North ...
  • Perry’s Red Hot and Laura Ingraham Got Him
    âI think Mitt is finally recognizing that the Massachusetts healthcare plan that he passed is a huge problem for him, and yeah it was not almost perfect,â Perry said on the Laura Ingraham Show Thursday. – Rick Perry Calls Mass. Healthcare Plan a “Huge Problem” for Mitt Romney Nate Silver provide ...
  • Obama, Jobs and Economic Uncertainty
    From Reuters: The president is widely expected to repeat his calls for an extension of a payroll tax cut, push for patent reform and bilateral free trade deals, and suggest an infrastructure bank to upgrade the country’s roads, airports and other facilities. Retrofitting schools with energy effi ...
  • Back to the Future
    We’re doomed. From David Limbaugh, via Politico.

Hudson New York

  • Palestinians, Not Israelis, Should Topple Hamas
    Getting rid of the repressive Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip would be good for most Palestinians as well as Israelis. But it should not be Israel's job alone to overthrow Hamas. Rather, it Is the Palestinians who need to wake up and realize that Hamas is
  • Official Palestinian Authority Daily Cartoon: ...
    The Palestinian Authority is telling its people that peace with Israel is not a goal. Instead, the PA says that all of Israel is "Palestine," and that no compromise is acceptable because this principle is "the only red line." This message was expressed
  • The Failure of Chavez's Socialist Health Care
    Barrio adentro, Spanish for "Inside the Neighborhood," is a national welfare program launched by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez back in 2003, with the promise to grant free health care to the most needy. The program comprises health care, dental care
  • Will Iran Give Up On Assad?
    Despite the dramatic meltdown of some of the Middle East's strongest regimes, Syrian president Bashar Assad seems more defiant than ever with stubbornness possibly well-justified: after all, he has a Middle Eastern superpower on his side, Iran. But will
  • Turkey to Libya: Don't Destroy New Country
    While applauding the success of the opposition in its months-long armed struggle against the Libyan regime, Turkey has told the country's new leaders that in order to maintain stability, they must allow current state institutions to endure. Turkey also

Urban Survival

  • A Little Ben’ll Do Ya?
    Some of the most ridiculous headlines in a good long while passed on the ‘ net yesterday including some going to the idea that the markets were ‘holding their breath’ waiting on this morning’s comments of Fed Chief Ben Bernanke … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Friday in the WuJo
    As the heavy wrought iron hinges swing open, and the crisp cool scent of ancient cedar beams touches our nostrils, the cool breeze from within means we have opened the doors of the WuJo – that ancient cedar and rice … Continue reading →
  • $200 Later: The Golden Beat Down
    OK, so here’s the deal with the gold beat-down which has seen the prices quoted by Kitco (above) slammed from over $1,900 down a little more than $200 lower ($1,702) this morning.  More than a few readers are thinking “What’s … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Was it a Congressman’s Gestapo?
    I would have believed it, had I not received the following note from a well-versed reader (and lawyer, BTW) who’s been watching political shenanigans with ‘eyes wide open’.  [edited slightly by our own paranoid legal types] “”Bill of Rights? We … Continue reading →
  • Quakin’ in the WuJo
    I’ve long held that if something happens East of the Mississippi that it’s Big news.  But if the exact same thing happens West of the Mississippi, then it’s somehow a pint-sized story, barely deserving of the trouble it takes to … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • 1947 Newsreel: Boston woman 1st to scale Mt. M ...
    ...but she still had to do the laundry. The Museum of Science, Boston has posted a short film on the husband-and-wife team of Bradford and Barbara Washburn, museum patrons and co-founders. From Nat Geo: Their June 6, 1947, climb of Alaska's ice-ribbed Mount McKinley made Barbara the first ...
  • Seismogram of Virginia quake recorded at BC's ...
    From BC's Weston Observatory.More from the USGS Earthquake roundup: Globe story: Quake sets the Northeast aquiver In Boston, the quake caused downtown buildings, including the Prudential tower, to sway and sent a shiver of confusion and alarm through the city. Several buildings were evacuat ...
  • Harvard's science and cooking series back with ...
    Scroll down for September schedule or click here for details and complete scheudule. Tuesday, September 6, 2011 Historical Context and Demos Illustrating the Relationship of Food and Science Speakers: Dave Arnold (Food Arts magazine's Contributing Editor for Equipment & Food Science), H ...
  • Globe op-ed: Scientific self-correcting is sca ...
    Globe writer Gareth Cook thinks we're better at discovering and dealing with scientific fraud. But he argues: ... the scientific establishment's efforts to discover and correct errors are scattershot and overly time consuming. Harvard's handling of the (psychology researcher Marc) Hauser case w ...
  • Summer reports on threats to New England marin ...
    Former NYTimes health and science editor Cornelia Dean has been a steady presence on in the paper this month. Summer calls her to the coast of New England. Fishing Gear Is Altered to Ease Collateral Costs to Marine Life Modifications to fishing gear are helping to limit accidental catches of m ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Billboards posted and paid for by communities ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Why do private citizens feel they have to resort to paying for billboard space to get their�concerns heard by decisionmakers?� Here are some recent billboards spotted in Pennsylvania: From Lycomin ...
  • State Department Keystone XL Environmental Rev ...
    Elizabeth Shope, Advocate, Washington, D.C. This is a guest blog post by Danielle Droitsch, who is a Senior Advisor to NRDC's International Program.  Today, the U.S. State Department released its Final Environmental  Impact Statement (FEIS) for t ...
  • Failing to Renew the Gas Tax Is Just Plain Crazy
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Along with the federal transportation bill, the federal gas tax authorization is set to expire on September 30th. The tax, currently 18.4 cents a gallon, is the primary source ...
  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and gre ...
  • Waiting for Irene and Remembering Katrina
    Gina Solomon, Senior Scientist, San Francisco Like most people on the East Coast, I’m anxiously watching the approach of Hurricane Irene, a swirling knot of wind and rain taking dead aim at New York City, where I’m currently visiting my family. I ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 24 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, August 25, 2011: 6 El Monte CA cops are accused of using excessive force in an incident that left the man shown above nearly blind when almost every bone in his face was broken. Th ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, August 24, 2011: A Woodford County IL deputy and at least 1 of 4 Washburn IL cops have been suspended while under investigation for two alleged excessive force incidents in 1 day ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 23 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, August 23, 2011: San Francisco CA police in the above video are being accused of using excessive force on female protester at end of protest against BART police [3] bit.ly/qvwjN9 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, August 22, 2011: Bay City MI settles suit for $1mil to family of 15yr-old who died after tasered. While police claim he was tasered for taking up a “fighting stance”, witnesses claim ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 08-20 ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of August 20-21, 2011: San Juan County NM deputy cost that county $250,000 in a lawsuit settlement to a Native American man that he beat in the face and neck with his department-issu ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • iPad travel magazine TRVL rolls out gorgeous n ...
    Last year we reported on how travel magazine startup TRVL was forging its own path in iPad publishing by offering beautifully designed content for free, allowing you to download only the articles you want. Now a new version of the app has been launched, with a new look and additional features. ...
  • Indian e-commerce on the rise, with over 17 mi ...
    According to a survey by market research firm Juxt, India is now home to over 65 million Internet users, 61 million of whom describe themselves as “active” users of the world wide web. Amazingly, about 30% of these netizens are totally digging this whole online shopping thing. With a 28% year-o ...
  • Irony: Adobe might never have acquired Flash w ...
    If you’d like a definition for irony, then this anecdote might be a good place to start. We all know that Apple Chairman Steve Jobs has famously refused to allow Adobe’ Flash player to be installed on devices like the iPad and iPhone because of the poor performance of the software. Though Adobe ...
  • Apple developing new technology for distributi ...
    “Apple is working on new technology to deliver video to televisions, and has been discussing whether to try to launch a subscription TV service,” says the Wall Street Journal. Its sources: “people familiar with the matter”. The quoted bits come from a WSJ article on the uphill battle Apple CEO ...
  • Google+ launches an “ignore” option. Hide peop ...
    Google has just introduced a new way of customizing Google+ so you only see content from people you’re interested in with having to completely block them. The Block Option From day 1, Google has provided a means of “blocking” people entirely from your Google+ experience. This would involve clic ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • National parks do not contribute to poverty, f ...
    A new study of Uganda's Kibale National Park refutes the conventional wisdom that parks cause poverty along their borders. 'Apparently the park provides a source of insurance; [locals] can hunt, or sell firewood or thatch from the park' explains Jennifer Alix-Garcia, co-author of the study, with ...
  • Photo: new titi monkey discovered in Amazon ar ...
    A new species of titi monkey has been discovered in the Brazilian Amazon. Found during a 2010 December expedition, this is the second new titi monkey discovered in the Amazon in three years. In 2008 another new titi, dubbed the Caquet� titi, was discovered in the Colombian Amazon, although it wa ...
  • FBI questioned over ties with corrupt official
    Activists are questioning the FBI over the agency's rental of office space in a building owned by the family of a controversial Malaysian official.
  • Animal picture of the day: moth as work of art
    This hypnotic moth was photographed on a beach in Cancun.
  • Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon up moder ...
    Deforestation in the Amazon jumped sharply in some Brazilian states since last year, according to data released in recent weeks by Imazon, a Brazilian NGO that tracks deforestation. Overall deforestation rose 15 percent to 1,532 km2 in the August 2010 through June 2011 period relative to the sa ...

Sierra Express

  • Bio’s appearance frightens President Koroma?
    Hours after the announcement of Julius Maada Bio as the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Presidential flagcarrier, the political scenery of Sierra Leone instantaneously changed. The ruling All People’s Congress (APC), without any delay, dreadfully engaged the public with words that vilified the ...
  • Airtel Rising Stars tournament kicks off in Makeni
    The 2010 award winning telecommunication company, Airtel, in keeping to it corporate social tasks has commenced the ‘Airtel Rising Stars’ tournament in Makeni in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. In partnership with one of the world’s leading football clubs, Manchester United, Airtel intend ...
  • Afsatu Kabba chairs Quran quiz competition
    A politician and an Islamic scholar, Haja Afsatu Kabba (in photo) Sunday 21st chaired the Jamiatu Nurul Muminat annual Ramadan quiz competition held at the Aberdeen Community Center in the extreme west of Freetown. The programme which was funded by the African Muslim Agency attracted several par ...
  • Mr. Idiot – former MPs bootlickers, food finders?
    What’s happening to mother Sierra Leone? Why are our politicians, who understandably should have the responsibilities of developing strategies that build up society, all but in the end, promote frustration? Don’t hesitate calling them bootlickers and food finders at all. In fact, you can even ca ...
  • EID-ul-MUBARRAK
    The Management and Staff of Sierra Fishing Company wish His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, President of the Republic of  Sierra Leone the Vice President, Chief Samuel Sam-Sumana and the Government and people of the Republic of Sierra Leone, especially our esteemed customers, a happy and bless ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Cost of tomatoes, broccoli soars
    A spike in the cost of tomatoes and broccoli helped bump up the Food Price Index by 2 per cent during July, Statistics New Zealand said.Tomatoes averaged $13.25 per kg in July, up 34 per cent on the previous month, while the cost...
  • Cartoon: Rich enough for milk
  • Fonterra cuts organic milk production
    Fonterra is cutting back on organic milk as the global financial crisis and changing consumer preferences depress demand for the product.The dairy co-operative was meeting organic farmers this week to discuss a four-point plan aimed...
  • Fonterra pulls back on organic dairy
    Fonterra said today it is planning to scale back its unprofitable organic dairy operations amid waning public appetite to pay a premium for such products.The cooperative plans to concentrate most of its North Island organic suppliers...
  • Peter Lyons: Trade truths behind great milk 'r ...
    So now we are having a parliamentary select committee on the price of milk sold in New Zealand. Our politicians are keen to be seen to be responding to the public outcry at the perceived price gouging by Fonterra or the supermarkets...

The Bovine

  • Story about FDA spying on American raw milk fa ...
    Although Infowars.com (the source of this story) is a site that deals in the sort of information that in many circles is dismissed as conspiracy theory, the history of Michael Schmidt’s raw milk trials in Ontario echoes several of the … Continue reading →
  • Poll results show 7 out of 10 Ontario resident ...
    The Toronto Sun reports on a poll from April of 2010: “…Polling also shows the McGuinty government was at odds with the public in its pursuit of raw milk activist Michael Schmidt. Seven in 10 Ontarians say people should be … Continue reading →
  • Orono Liberty Summer Seminar experience shows ...
    From Jesse Klein in the National Post: “For 10 summers in a row, a group of freedom-loving libertarians and small-c conservatives flocked to a remote acreage outside of Orono, Ont., pitched a tent and were treated to a weekend of … Continue reading →
  • Irish raw milk ban is being proposed
    From 3WheeledCheese: “The proposal to ban unpasteurised cowâs milk is due to a lack of understanding of its myriad benefits. IN IRELAND, we produce the best milk in the world, along with the best farmhouse cheeses and, of course, the … Continue reading →
  • Ventura county farmer who was arrested in Raws ...
    From Rachel McGrath in the Ventura County Star: “A Santa Paula farmer at the center of a raw-milk prosecution in Los Angeles says she did not sell unpasteurized products to the general public without a license. Sharon Palmer, owner of … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Can Bank of America Buy Credibility? Global Ba ...
    I am somewhat in awe (in a negative sense) of the silliness of analysts and executives who think banks in the US and Europe are being hit with liquidity issues, not solvency issues. Here is a case in point, from a Telegraph article: Market crash 'could hit within weeks', warn bankers.Insura ...
  • Schwab Sues Bank of America, Citigroup for Man ...
    Investment News reports Schwab sues banks for manipulating Libor rates. Charles Schwab Corp., the largest independent brokerage by client assets, sued Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and other banks claiming they manipulated the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, starting in 2007 in ...
  • Fed’s Hoenig Says "Fed Can't Do It All, No Rea ...
    Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke ought to listen to common sense from Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig who says Focus Should Shift to Fixing U.S. Fiscal WoesFederal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig said there’s a limit to how much more the central bank can help the U.S. economy an ...
  • France, Spain, Italy Extend Bans on Short-Sell ...
    As rumored earlier today France, Spain, Italy Extend Bans on Short-Selling French, Italian and Spanish stock- market regulators extended temporary bans on short selling introduced this month in a bid to stem market volatility. Spain and Italy extended their bans through Sept. 30, regulato ...
  • Bank of America Surges on Fluff Buffett Deal; ...
    Deal Book says "Buffett to the Rescue Again". Mish says "Hardly". Everyone is excited Buffet is investing $5 billion in Bank of America. I suggest it may be a ploy. It's difficult to know if Buffett really likes Bank of America or not. Perhaps he merely believes BAC can honor its divid ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Exactly How Big Is This So-Called Al Qaeda?
    Massive Perpetual Wars against Fantastical Dwarfed Terrorists For almost 10 years we have been engaged in a massive and many-fronted war advertised as a war on terror-war on Al Qaeda. Recent reports put the total cost to America of this war on terror at around $3 trillion. This is not counting ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 4, ...
    US Secret War in 120 Countries, UK’s Secret Policy on Torture RevealedMedia Disinformation & the Causes of Somali Famine, Obama & Limousine Liberals, US-Russia To Train Capitalists in Marxian Monopoly, Destroying Democratic Presidents, How to Advance Liberty, A Revolving CIA Door in Pakistan & M ...
  • The NSA & 9/11: Failure to Exploit the US-Yeme ...
    Just one of the Legacies of 9/11 By Kevin Fenton Two of the terrorist hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, communicated while they were in the United States to other members of al Qaeda who were overseas. But we didn’t know they were here, until it wa ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    The US-Al Qaeda Buddy System, Lowering the War Ceiling, Obama Still Wall Street’s Honey, Getting Access to the Secrets of OBL Kill, Senate Intel Committee Blocks Report on âSecret Lawâ, Counter-Terrorism & China Pressure on Pakistan, Kosovo: The Gathering Storm, Sources: Israel’s Mossad Behind T ...

bloody crossroads

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

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Blogging Canadians

  • Sask Premier Brad Wall Uses Heavy Hand Of Gove ...
    Statistics Canada is verifying what many in Saskatchewan already know - the so called 'Boom' is only being experienced by a very few. "Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island saw the slowest wage growth, up one per cent to $854.60 and up 1.7 per cent to $723.15, respectively." Montreal Gazette ...
  • The National Post ATTACKS Jack Layton For the ...
    The National Post is scum. For the second time in the day and a half since the death of Jack Layton, they are on the attack. Progressive Blogger, Jymn at Sister Sage's Musings describes it best: "the reason you find the outpouring of sympathy for Jack offensive is that he is not a Conservative ...
  • Canada's Right Wing Corporate Media CAN'T WAIT ...
    Christy Blatchford .... you are classless beyond belief!! But the prize for totally inappropriate, and classless behavior goes to the Editor of the Calgary Sun ... Dave Naylor
  • The "UK Met Police"
    Met Police can lick our hairy balls: pastebin.com/Vtzf8eGM - UK Met Police PWNED - POLICE.UK OWNED by "CSL Security" [a/k/a "CSLSec"] As originally posted on: CSL Security (cslsec) on Twitter August 22, 2011
  • Jack Layton dies
    My condolences to his family and friends. Filed under: Canadian Politics

Press TV - Middle East

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Israel prevents Quds Day rallies
    Israel has prevented Palestinians from holding a rally in al-Quds (Jerusalem) on the International Quds Day as people across the world are rallying in support of the Palestinians and against Israel.
  • Police clash with Bahrainis on Quds Day
    Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces have attacked anti-government demonstrators, protesting both the government's criticism of a top cleric as well as the ban of the International Quds Day rallies.
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