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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.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

28 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Aug. 26, 2011
    In this March 1, 2007 photo, stockpiled coal sits next to idled equipment at the Bull Mountain mine south of Roundup, Mont. The operator of Montana’s only underground coal mine expects to resume full operations this week after being hit with multiple safety citations and two temporary shut-downs ...
  • Court allows Massey/Alpha to continue MSHA case
    It wasn’t so long ago that a federal court ruling in a case involving Massey Energy and the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration would have gotten tons of local media attention — even national coverage, probably. But I have to say that even I had lost track of Massey’s lawsuit challengi ...
  • Activists plan moment of silence for Judy Bonds
    The folks at Coal River Mountain Watch have announced today that they will: … Observe a moment of silence at noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Saturday, August 27, 2011 to commemorate the birth and brilliant life of Julia “Judy” Bonds. They are calling on all activists to join this remembrance. Jud ...
  • Rep. Conyers calls out the coal industry
    The first press release to come in was, predictably, from our good friend, Sen. Joe Manchin. The West Virginia Democrat invited Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., to discuss his comments “degrading West Virginia.” Then came a statement from United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts, saying he was “ex ...
  • MSHA announces latest impact inspection results
    Here’s the word today from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Laborâs Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 375 citations and orders during special impact inspections conducted at 10 coal mines and five metal/nonm ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Creative Problem Solving with SCAMPER
    SCAMPER is based on the notion that everything new is a modification of something that already exists. Each letter in the acronym represents a different way you can play with the characteristics of what is challenging you to trigger new ideas:S = SubstituteC = CombineA = AdaptM = MagnifyP = Put ...
  • One Person Who “Gets” Free Will In the Exact S ...
    The problem is that no account of causality leaves room for free will — thoughts, moods, and desires of every sort simply spring into view — and move us, or fail to move us, for reasons that are, from a subjective point of view, perfectly inscrutable. Why did I use the term “inscrutable” in the ...
  • Jobs on True Living
    No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is [...]
  • Jobs on Life and Death
    When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If [...]
  • Jobs on the Internet
    “The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people––as remarkable as the telephone.” [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985] via b ...

Fitwatch

  • ‘Intelligence on the cheap’? Only if you don’ ...
    According to an Evening Standard article on Friday, those poor detectives at NPOIU are providing 'intelligence on the cheap', having to buy heaters for their freezing offices and living off Mcdonalds and Burger King. However, like the majority of Evening Standard articles, the facts and figures ...
  • Avon and Somerset police repress local paper
    On the afternoon of august 17th, police raided a house in central Bristol where an editor of local newspaper The Autonomist lives. Riot police kicked down the door of the property without warning, detained the inhabitants for two hours, and seized articles relating to the production of The Auton ...
  • Don’t Panic: Don’t Talk
    The Met today released another 44 photos of people they want to 'talk to'. The pictures are often of poor quality, and many of the 'targets' are masked up. The police have little chance of identifying many of these without help. The information printed above has been distributed around London, b ...
  • The reason why the youth hate the police
    This brilliant video appeared on youtube, and has also been published on the Police State UK site. It really shows the sort of mind-set the police have. I'd guess that a lot of people will recognise that arrogant, petty and vindictive attitude. The cops appear to be Forest Gate, and as far as I ...
  • This is what ‘robust’ policing loo ...
    The video shows a unit of Manchester riot police baton, punch and kick three youths on push bikes. The police carrying on kicking and punching them even when they are on the ground. Is this the sort of 'robust' policing that David Cameron and the politicians of all parties have been clamouring for?

Worldwide Hippies

  • Japanese Isle’s Aged Activists Resist Nuclear ...
    By HIROKO TABUCHI - IWAISHIMA, Japan — When the boats came to start work on a planned nuclear power plant just off this tiny island, an aging fisherwoman named Tamiko Takebayashi carried out a dramatic protest: she lashed herself to the dock. The move, while reminiscent of a Greenpeace action, w ...
  • EGYPT: STOP FORCED EVICTIONS AND CONSULT SLUM- ...
    amnesty.org -Egyptian authorities and political parties must put the rights of the country’s 12 million slum-dwellers at the top of their agenda if they are to meet the demands for social justice and human dignity championed during the â25 January Revolutionâ, Amnesty International said today in ...
  • New Zealand imposes punitive austerity measure ...
    wsws.org – At the annual conference of the ruling National Party on August 14, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced a raft of punitive measures targeting teenage welfare recipients. The changes, which will be introduced if National wins the election in November, are designed to cut cost ...
  • Worldwide Hippies; Home Grown This week
    As The Cookie Crumbles: Free-Trade Blues by Dr. Woody,(WWH, 8/25) One question I see a lot is why the industrial capitalists don’t just step in, do their patriotic duty, and help out good ol’ Uncle Sam, by recreating and refurbishing the American manufacturing infrastructure and putting American ...
  • Why are we so enamored of a brash decade of bi ...
    ft.com – Henley-on-Thames, that bastion of prosperous Oxfordshire respectability, has been overrun by men in leather caps, chaps and black vests. All look as though theyâve emerged not from Henleyâs august rowing clubs but from a gay S&M club. They are dressed in the style of the video to Franki ...

reference frame

  • Supersymmetry and irrationality of the BBC
    The BBC has placed supersymmetry next to the carbon dioxide and the AGW "deniers" as the ultimate enemies of Gaia. A would-be journalist, Mr Pallab Ghosh, chose this title: LHC results put supersymmetry theory 'on the spot'Oh my Ghosh. ;-) Kilotons of simpletons who have copied this stuff ...
  • Charles Monnett returned to work, stripped of ...
    The Associated Press and others inform that polar bear researcher Charles Monnett has been allowed to work but he won't be able to influence contracts anymore. The restriction was imposed because a week ago or so, the Interior Department's Office of Inspector General has demon ...
  • Al Gore: donate your online accounts to my spa ...
    Al Gore has invented the Internet - well, at least the part of the Internet that plans to spam the rest of the Internet by the information about an exploding Earth on September 14th, 2011 during his virtual reality day: Gore asks supporters to donate Twitter & Facebook accounts to climate ...
  • MINOS: neutrino-antineutrino mass difference e ...
    A week ago, I linked to a video about the CERN's ASACUSA experiment that showed that the proton and antiproton masses coincide at the precision of 1 part per billion. The MINOS detector in Minnesota, to be discussed momentarily The CPT-symmetry which is implied by quantum fi ...
  • House GOP may finally remove U.S. funding for ...
    Solve Climate News informs the readers that Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla) has introduced the motion to search and destroy the financial flows from the U.S. federal budget to the wallets of AGW parasites and fraudsters. The idea is that they will look for the "climate change" keyword and ax ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • British Bullshit Corporation BBC Lies to the S ...
    I will let the kid do the talking. He has it pegged. Tell me why you haven’t figured it out yet? Are ya a moran? Technorati Tags: BBC, Libya, Media, Lies, British Bullshit Corporation Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:The Truth About the Lies FULL DOCUMENTARY The Truth ab ...
  • Silver! Final Warning!
    Last call. Get in or kiss your ass goodbye. Heretic Productions present : Silver Shield’s Final Warning. dont-tread-on.me Video Rating: 4 / 5 BUY SILVER AT WHOLESALE This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:The Silver Shield – Chris Duan ...
  • Freedom is just another word for no one left t ...
    This video has more one-liners than a stand-up comic ‘cept in this case no one is laughing. This is putting the corrupt occupiers of the ivory towers on notice…. Assholes, your time has come. Prepare for your comeuppance. Uploaded by ledaOhio937 on Aug 17, 2011 Listen to this… Heretic Production ...
  • Rachel Corrie 5th Grade Speech I’m here becaus ...
      Uploaded by theevilofthezionists on Sep 19, 2008 Rachel Corrie, a true hero was murdered by the State of Israel. Rachel Corrie was killed by the state of Israel, and by its brutal regime that practices not only ‘mass punishment’ but also ‘ethnic cleansing’. The same regime that has displaced o ...
  • Nobel Prize Winning Economist Paul Krugman’s c ...
    A lot of people consider Paul Krugman world-renowned for his economic insight; but in reality he is just another New World Order stooge. Here he is live on CNN touting the use of a fake alien invasion to help boost the economy. Believe it or not, he is right. Think about how it would mobilize [. ...

Truth About Our World

  • NWO Plans Exposed By Insider In 1969
      ‘This is a transcript of two out of three tapes on the “New World System.” Tapes one and two were recorded in 1988 and are the recollections of Dr. Lawrence Dunegan regarding a lecture he attended on March 20, 1969 at a meeting of the Pittsburgh Paediatric Society. The lecturer at that gatheri ...
  • My Message to the World…
      â”No more war, no more war, no more war… Just a little peace. No more war, no more war. All we want is some peace in this world. Everybody wants to live together. Why can’t we be together? No matter, no matter what colour. You are still my brother. I said no matter, no matter what colour. You ...
  • The Rainbow Warriors
  • The Quickening
  • The Activities at Mena – MENA is no myth!
    From:  http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/mena.php “If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.”   – George Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter     George Bush with legendary CIA agent Felix Rodrigu ...

Bloomberg

  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • What it means when Guillermo del Toro 'presents'
    It’s not unusual for a famous director to become a celebrity producer. Film-makers like Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth use their names to sell films that they’re either helping to get distributed or were an executive producer on. But there’s a big differen ...
  • F.A.Q.: Can the idea of a moderate G.O.P. cand ...
    There's a tendency to call Chris Christie a moderate, but why? He stood up against Muslim-baiting, was reasonable on immigration as U.S. attorney in New Jersey, and says global warming is real. Beyond that? He's pro-life, fiercely anti-tax and might as wel ...
  • Woody's second act: 'Midnight in Paris' may no ...
    Woody Allen makes, on average, a movie a year. Given such an output, not every movie is going to be a masterpiece, and Allen seems fine with that. There is certainly something to be said for Stanley Kubrick’s or Terrence Malick’s pace, the directors who de ...
  • A day for calling attention to the bluster of ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner?��� More
  • Cuomo's law highlights a thicket of local gove ...
    Andrew Cuomo said the bill, which became law last year, would tip the balance back in favor of taxpayers. In reality, it hasn’t worked because there’s no concrete plan for when balloting begins. Ten villages have petitioned to dissolve under the new law, a ...

Views & News from Norway

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

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • A Small Update on Blog Comments (and a Change ...
    Many of you will have read the recent post on a change in comment policy on this site, and the valuable comments below it. Well, after 1) the feedback, and 2) my observations since the change, I’ve decided to try another route — that of changing it so that people must register to the site [...]
  • Expanding Deserts, Falling Water Tables, and T ...
    by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Photo � Craig Mackintosh People do not normally leave their homes, their families, and their communities unless they have no other option. Yet as environmental stresses mount, we can expect to see a growing number of environmental refugees. Rising se ...
  • Live Streaming of the International Permacultu ...
    For those who cannot make it to the IPC10 in Jordan next month (September 2011), my announcement here should hopefully be gladly received! PRI Australia has put up the funds for the additional equipment I needed to enable me to live-stream the International Permaculture Conference (IPC10) to the ...
  • How to Revive the Honeybee
    I recently saw a new film, Queen Of The Sun: What are the bees telling us?, about the global honeybee crisis and colony collapse disorder. From a holistic perspective the movie tells a story of transformation of beekeeping and the relationship of humans and bees to explore what is really go ...
  • Summer Permaculture Tips and Tricks
    by Chuck Burr, Southern Oregon Permaculture Institute (SOPI) Here are the Summer permaculture tips and tricks from the Southern Oregon Permaculture Institute — enjoy and pass them on. 1. Permaculture blueberries. After two years of hand-weeding our two acres of blueberries we have let them go w ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Education Advocates to Rally for Real Reform o ...
    From the TribuneTalk website: Pointing to the fate of John McDonogh Senior High as just one example of the failed policies and broken promises of the Recovery School District, several organizations and education advocates have organized a rally and are encouraging others concerned about th ...
  • Common Ground Co-Founder Who Became FBI Inform ...
    Mother Jones Magazine published an article today focusing on Brandon Darby, who is known to many New Orleanians for his controversial leadership of the post-Katrina relief organization Common Ground. Many volunteers who came to help rebuild the city were disillusioned by their experience with Co ...
  • Wave of Illegal, Senseless and Violent Evictio ...
    By Bill Quigley Mathias O is 34 years old. He is one of about 600,000 people still homeless from the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. He lives with his wife and her 2 year old under a homemade shelter made out of several tarps. They sleep on the rocky ground inside. The side tarp wall ...
  • Free Agents Brass Band and Sunni Patterson Hea ...
    From our friends at Project Future for the Youth: Project Future for the Youth is a grassroots organization that utilizes the arts as a vehicle to broaden the horizon of youth to effect positive social change in our communities. To spread the word and raise much-needed funds for their work, t ...
  • Six Years Since the Storm and Six Years of War ...
    From our friends at Survivors Village: The Katrina Commemoration Committee will sponsor its annual march from the base of the Industrial Canal in the 9th ward to Hunters Field on the 29th of August 2011. Last year the prevailing thought was that the 5th year event was going to be the ...

Information Underground

  • False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
    The reason for writing this essay was for the simple fact of the complete lack of such essays and the obvious connection between goverment promotion of pedophile websites and "Anonymous", also Internet pedophilia makes for excellent blackmail. SIMPLE QUESTION: How can websites like 4chan/7chan/ ...
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/rahat-man-v ... e-1.271677 During recent months, children in the southern town of Rahat, near Be'er Sheva, have taken up a new and cruel pastime - burning dogs alive. A resident of the predominantly Bedouin city, Salam al-Huzeil, recently filed a complained with ...
  • Social Engineering • Re: Stalin Icon in Russia ...
    a bitterness such as you will not find in secular establishments! In the last 10 years this has reached the level of pathological fear of each other in connection with suspicions of witchcraft! Many in the churches now fear to receive a prosphora or boiled wheat or a candle from each other… Th ...
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    Probably the "last mini-rally in town" is setting up... what follows is going to just hurt... --CSR ......... Storm Pennants Are Flying In Stocks and the Dollar August 27, 2011 (Mobile version) If we look only at charts and ignore the "news," we see storm pennants are flying in both th ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    50 or 1500 wouldn't make any difference when the run on the dollar comes, Weimar Germany for exampleStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:06 am

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Interview: Finding Common Ground In the Conten ...
    Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, of Texas Tech University, is well known not only for her scientific work on the regional impacts of global warming in the TTUKatharine Hayhoe U.S., but also for her efforts to reach out to conservative communities — particularly evangelical Christians — to spe ...
  • How to Find Common Ground In the Bitter Climat ...
    Even as the impacts of climate change intensify, many Americans remain confused by the issue. In an interview Yale Environment 360, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe discusses what rising temperatures will mean for the U.S., how to talk with climate skeptics, and what she would say to Texas Gov ...
  • NASA Satellite Captures Huge Algal Bloom in Ba ...
    This NASA satellite image shows a massive phytoplankton bloom — more than 500 miles long and several hundred miles wide — in the Barents Sea, a frigid body of water located north of Norway and Russia. Click to enlarge NASAAlgal bloom in the Barents Sea The bloom occurred north of the Scandinav ...
  • The Long Strange Journey Of Earth’s Traveling ...
    Airborne microbes — such as bacteria, fungal spores, and tiny algae — can travel thousands of miles and high into the stratosphere. Now scientists are beginning to understand their possible role in creating clouds, causing rain, spreading disease, and even changing climate. BY FRED PEARCE
  • Species Moving Rapidly in Response to Climate ...
    A new study finds that animal and plant species are responding to the effects of climate change at a rate two to three times faster than previously believed. Researchers at the University of York in the UK found University of YorkComma butterfly that in more than 2,000 instances, species are ch ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Furukawa's return to Earth delayed
    The return of Satoshi Furukawa and two other astronauts at the International Space Station may be pushed back from November to mid-December after Russia's Progress spacecraft exploded, the Interfax news agency reported Friday, citing Russian space industry sources. The unmanned spacecraft was ...
  • Japan spikers place fifth in tourney
    Japan defeated Thailand 25-14, 25-23, 25-23 in its last match to finish in fifth place at the women's volleyball World Grand Prix on Saturday. Japan, which finished in third in the four-team Group B round-robin, scored 10 points on blocks alone and had 38 spikes to Thailand's 33.
  • Don't export what you won't use
    I don't understand the Japanese government's policy on nuclear power plants. On one hand, it has come out with a denuclearization policy domestically; on the other, it is planning to sell nuclear power plants to Turkey, Jordan, Vietnam, Lithuania, and Kazakhstan by 2020. This is a double standar ...
  • Nomura's Olympic bid falls short
    Three-time Olympic champion Tadahiro Nomura saw his hopes of competing at the 2012 London Games dashed after losing in a quarterfinal match in the men's 60-kg class at a national corporate tournament on Saturday. Nomura, whose movement and techniques appeared sluggish throughout the match, was ...
  • Rising yen, falling prices, cheap beer
    Beginning last Wednesday, Aug. 24, the Ito Yokado supermarket chain announced a five-day sale at 120 of its branches in the greater Tokyo area. Among the reduced-price items were U.S. beef, Australian oranges and South African pineapples. Recently, signs reading endaka kangen sēru (yen appreci ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Hurricane Trichet Hits Jackson Hole
    I just finished watching Jack Layton’s state funeral and notice that Jean-Claude Trichet’s speech from Jackson Hole is out. The European Central Bank president does not seem to get it. Far from acknowledging that last month’s interest-rate hike was premature, he touts “price stability.” His main ...
  • Recession Ahead?
    TD Economics yesterday released a rather gloomy report, putting the odds of a US recession at 40%, and arguing that that Canadian economy is more vulnerable to recession than it was in 2008.  It highlights reduced capacity for governments to respond given that interest rates are already very low ...
  • Outlook Darkens as Budget Debate Begins
    Allow me to indulge myself just this once.  Almost exactly one month ago I wrote a post on the Progressive Economics blog  arguing that the Bank of Canada was being too optimistic about our economic prospects in the July Monetary Policy Report . Last Friday, both the Governor of the Bank of Cana ...
  • The New Cost of Criminal Pardons
    The Conservative government, with the collaboration of opposition parties, hastily passed a piece of legislation (Bill C-23A) last year which makes it more difficult for offenders to obtain a pardon for their offences.  This was the government’s response to the news that notorious child-molester ...
  • Stimulus vs Public Investment
    A column by Nobel Prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz in the Financial Times makes what I think is an important point. The current debate over fiscal policy for the US, Europe and Canada is often characterized in the media as one between advocates of  higher deficits from Keynesian style stimul ...

ReDress

  • From Libya to Palestine - tyranny to freedom
    Aijaz Zaka Syed argues that dethroning Muammar Gaddafi was the easy part and that the real struggle to build a new Libya begins now.
  • Murky anti-Semitism - Zionist style
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the culture behind efforts by Zionist lobbyists in the United States to censor free debate of Zionism and Israel's policies through pressure, blackmail and smearing the advocates of free speech as "anti-Semites" or "self-hating Jews".
  • Understanding the opposition to NATO's interve ...
    Uri Avnery argues that opponents of military intervention in Libya are motivated more by hatred of the USA and NATO than by any concern for the people of Libya.
  • 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.

Physics Today

  • NSF clears Michael Mann of 'Climategate'
    NSF: The National Science Foundation has cleared Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann of any misconduct in the 2009 "Climategate" controversy. Climategate refers to the thousands of emails that were stolen and made public by a hacker who broke into servers owned by the Univer ...
  • A planet made of diamond?
    New Scientist: Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, have detected a pulsar with an orbiting object that may be composed of diamond. Using the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia, Matthew Bailes and coworkers detected the pulsar in Dece ...
  • University of Virginia hands over climate scie ...
    Science: Six months after the initial request by a politician and a conservative environmental policy research group, the University of Virginia has turned over documents related to scientist Michael Mann’s climate change research. The documents had been requested in January, under Virginia’s Fr ...
  • China works to increase number of women scientists
    SciDev: The Chinese government has begun instituting a 10-year plan to develop the potential of the country’s women. The Outline for the Development of Chinese Women (2011-2020) aims to increase to 35% the proportion of women in science and technology. The plan will focus primarily on China’s na ...
  • Astronomers detect black hole swallowing a star
    Los Angeles Times: For the first time, astronomers say they've borne witness to a supermassive black hole consuming a star, writes Amina Khan for the Los Angeles Times. On 28 March a detector on the Earth-orbiting Swift observatory picked up a sudden burst of radiation from a point in the conste ...

Revolutionary Politics

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  • US-Israel Trade: Espionage, Thefts, Secrets
    by umajeff21 (Posted Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:30:04 GMT) Any latest developments? It's almost scary stuff. Amazed by the way they are doing it. Gross! ----------- blog uk
  • Congressional Junkets to Israel
    by Rev333 (Posted Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:59:53 GMT) US Congress Moves to Israel in Deficit-Reduction Effort August 12 2011; Disassociated Press In the wake of the announcement that 81 US Congressmen are leaving on an AIPAC-sponsored junket to Israel, the new SuperCongress announced today that t ...
  • Technology Transfer to Israel
    by Rev333 (Posted Sat, 20 Aug 2011 06:33:23 GMT) Israel Slap US in the Face AGAIN! and Again. http://tiny.cc/lffix

Peakwater

  • Unchecked Pollution Chokes Lebanon’s Rivers
    ”Poisoned with effluent and often strewn with garbage, Lebanon’s rivers are grotty and unwell. They should be both a source of usable water and recreation, but a report published by the United Nations Development Program and the Environment Ministry in 2010 compiled data showing that rivers, bot ...
  • Regulations spur costly water upgrades for Sav ...
    “Compliance with expected changes in pollution permits along the Savannah River will likely cost Savannah about $25 million over the next five to seven years, a city water official told City Council at a workshop Thursday. âItâs going to be mandated,â said John Sawyer, water supply and treatment ...
  • Two Oklahoma Indian Tribes Contest State for W ...
    “The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian tribes in Oklahoma have filed a federal lawsuit to protect water rights they say derived from long-ago treaties and to prevent exports of water from their traditional homelands without their permission. The dispute had been simmering for more than a year, since ...
  • Rainwater Storage At Homes To Go Binding
    “The government is going to amend the country’s ‘building code’ to make harvesting of rain water mandatory for all the buildings as the level of ground water is falling fast because of excessive use. Sheikh Abdul Mannan, a member of Rajuk (planning), has said that the government wanted to encour ...
  • S. Calif. Water Agencies Sue Over Sucker Fish Plan
    “A dozen Southern California water agencies filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday claiming the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to use the best scientific data when it expanded Santa Ana sucker fish critical habitat earlier this year. The U.S. District Court lawsuit claims the Fish and Wildlife S ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • Remain the ostrich
    �� QUESTION �� Will your voice be heard �� will your questions be answered by your government or will WATER become the property of �corporate� interest$ �� �� Remain the ostrich �� the outcome is predicable �� � � Morrison Institute � � Growth a concern Water challenges will test Arizona, report ...
  • Human Microchipping
    � �� You are indeed being foolish if you choose to believe the US Government does not fully support this endeavor �� Investigate for yourself �� Just follow ��corporate� money �� Predictive Programming and the Human Microchipping Agenda � "This film confirms the reality of the microchip agenda, ...
  • US Patriot Act does not permit such action …
    ⦠ How dare anyone choose to disclose provide transparency US Patriot Act does not permit such action �� � Wikileaks: Homeland Security invokes Patriot Act on Assange; seeks server data �http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/095430-2011-08-25-wikileaks-homeland-security-invokes-patriot-act-on-assan ...
  • Tom can you spell NON-WHITE…
    � �� Remember Tom �� �pay back$ are Hell� �� and more than 50% of all births are to minorities �� yea �� Tom can you spell NON-WHITE�� Tom Horne files a politically motivated challenge to the Voting Rights Act Posted: 26 Aug 2011 02:42 PM PDT ��Posted by AzBlueMeanie �� AzBlueMeanie �� �warned y ...
  • Your legacy is assured …
      ⦠NOTICE TO ⦠Az Gov Brewer and âKingâ Russell Pearce ⦠  ⦠I trust you have heard the adage … âpay back are hellâ ⦠The 2 of you may be either out of office or departed from this plane but your family, friends, relatives will reap the havoc your racists actions [...]

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

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

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  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Matt Welch on Politics, "The People Formerly K ...
    Reason mag's Editor In Chief Matt Welch, co-author with me of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America, gets grilled by Human Events' Lisa DePasquale about pop culture, politics, and his most cherished souvenir, non-political editio ...
  • Another Multi-City Study Finds No Link Between ...
    Two weeks ago (while I was camping in Colorado), Michael Siegel highlighted a study presented at the American Heart Association's annual meeting that further undermines widely publicized claims that smoking bans lead to immediate, dramatic reductions in heart attack rates. As I hav ...
  • Next Steps in the ObamaCare Legal Challenges
    The Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro has a handy primer/predictor for what’s coming next in the various legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including the most important question: When will the Supreme Court hear arguments? Here’s part of his answer: T ...
  • NASA Wants Your Science Fiction to Have More S ...
    This new collaboration between NASA and a science fiction publisher sounds pretty awesome, but it's also more evidence that NASA is a ($19 billion) solution in search of a problem:  NASA will allow existing and new Tor/Forge authors to team up with NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent ...
  • Looking for Consistency in Rick Perry's Federalism
    While I was on vacation, I received a bunch of messages taking me to task for my August 10 column about Rick Perry and the Christian right. Several expressed concern (or rather un-Christian glee) at the prospect of my eternal damnation. The less metaphysical ones questioned my argu ...

Mercury Rising

  • FDR would not fall into the trap economists li ...
    Eswar Prasad and Mengjie Ding, Brookings: Our analysis paints a sobering picture of worsening public debt dynamics and a sharply rising debt burden in advanced economies. These rising debt levels combined with heightened concerns about fiscal solvency now constitute a major threat to global fina ...
  • GOP’s Corporate Owners And Their Little ...
    Jane Hamsher pointed out last month that the corporate owners and operators of the Republican Party are finally starting to realize that in feeding the Tea Party and “values voters” types, they have created a monster which is actively fighting their control: Corporate America and the GOP have be ...
  • Go visit Avedon
    Avedon Carol has a number of good links. 1. Lee Fang of Think Progress on how congressional Republicans, guided by a staffer from Goldman Sachs tried to embarrass and anger Elizabeth Warren: ThinkProgress has now obtained more evidence that suggests that Haller’s employment under Issa is more ak ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • He wouldn’t hurt a fly
    What “chokehold incident?” She threw her neck into Prosser’s hands, he was just an innocent bystander. In the words of Norman Bates’ Mother: “Prosser wouldn’t hurt a fly.” –Perry Winkle, at ATAPM Eric Kleefeld, TPM: The special prosecutor appointed to investigate the alleged physical altercation ...

Reality Sandwich

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • 'Libya border opens to let refugees pass'
    Locals say that the border between Algeria and Libya has been opened after months of closure, but only refugees have been allowed to cross.
  • Iran MP: Imam Moussa Sadr is alive
    An Iranian lawmaker says new documents provided by the family of Shia cleric Imam Moussa Sadr, who went missing in Libya, show that he still alive.
  • Islamic Awakening, intel disaster in UK
    A former CIA head, Michael Scheuer, has admitted that Islamic Awaking has created major intelligence problems for the governments of the UK and the US.
  • Britain to cut school bus services
    The Derbyshire County Council has decided to cut school bus services across the county causing great concern among parents and the local MP.
  • Half of US adults will be obese by 2030
    Researchers say the number of obese people in the US will increase to 164 million by 2030 if the government does not take serious preventive measures.

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • LIBYA: When Caught in the Crossfire
    Thousands have been caught in the Libyan fighting – people neither with Col. Muammar Gaddafi's forces, or with the rebels. Ayman Agamy Abdelgawad, an Egyptian released from Tripoli's Abdu Selim prison, shares his experiences with IPS. He narrates his experience below:
  • Female Trafficking Soars in Iraq
    Rania was 16 years old when officials raped her during Saddam Hussein's 1991 crackdown in Iraq's Shia south. "My bothers were sentenced to death, and the price to stop this was to offer my body," she says.
  • MEXICO: Games that Kill
    Experts and activists are calling for the reinstatement of the ban on casinos in Mexico, saying they foment not only problem gambling but also links to organised crime. The debate was revived after at least 52 people were killed in a fire set by armed men in the Casino Royale in Monterrey.
  • COLOMBIA: Microcredit Growing Steadily at 15 P ...
    The more than 1.2 million microenterprises operating in Colombia are responsible for around 50 percent of all employment. And many of these small businesses owe their existence to the microfinance system, according to a report by Visi�n Econ�mica, a local business research group.
  • U.S.: New Report Identifies Organisational Nex ...
    A small group of inter-connected foundations, think tanks, pundits, and bloggers is behind the 10-year-old campaign to promote fear of Islam and Muslims in the U.S., according to a major investigative report released here Friday by the Center for American Progress (CAP).

Scoop - NZ

  • Wallaby Genome Published
    It’s not every day a nation publishes the genome sequence of an animal from its coat of arms (a much more difficult task for British scientists). But today sees the release of the first complete genome of a tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). The genome sheds light on some of its unique traits ...
  • CLINTON: BUDGET CUTS THREATEN US PACIFIC PRESENCE
    Budget cuts in the United States could force an abrupt pullout of the US security presence in the Pacific at a time when China's power is rising, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned. Earlier this month, the U.S. Congress passed legislation approving US$2.1 trillion in cuts to gov ...
  • Friedman's Little Shop of Horrors
    Privatization and free market guru Milton Friedman. Friedman advised governments in economic crisis to follow strict austerity measures, combining radical cuts in social services with the full-scale privatization of their more lucrative assets. Many countries in Latin America auctioned off every ...
  • Klein: Looting with the Lights Off
    I keep hearing comparisons between the London riots and riots in other European cities – window-smashing in Athens or car bonfires in Paris. And there are parallels, to be sure: a spark set by police violence, a generation that feels forgotten. But those events were marked by mass destruction ...
  • NZ-made canoes complete Pacific voyage
    Six voyaging canoes from Pacific islands, including New Zealand, have completed their journey to San Francisco. The 100 crew members, from New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Hawaii, greeted locals at an open day in San Francisco Bay. The voyage was organised by a ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Another Reason to Love Marriage: Longevity
    A new study in the American Journal Of Epidemiology shows that married people can live up to 17 years longer than those without partners. A combination of emotional health, physical nurturing and companionship play into these results, says Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil. A new study in the American J ...
  • Vitamin D - Why You are Probably Not Getting E ...
    What vitamin do we need in amounts up to 25 times higher than the government recommends for us to be healthy? What vitamin deficiency affects over half of the population, is almost never diagnosed, and has been linked to many cancers, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, depression, fi ...
  • Study: El Nino doubles risk of civil war in tr ...
    A new study makes a direct connection between the frequency of civil war in tropical countries, and extreme weather patterns. The study suggests the risk of major violence doubles during El Nino, a weather phenomenon which brings hot temperatures and reduced rainfall to tropical regions every f ...
  • US: Texas Boy, 10, Died After Parents 'Refused ...
    A 10-year-old boy collapsed and died in front of his twin brother after his parents refused to let him drink water for five day, it is claimed. Jonathan James died from dehydration in Dallas after his father and step mother allegedly denied him water as punishment after he took some guitar stri ...
  • The FDA Comes to the Rescue of Big Pharma
    It appears that Big Pharma has an unlimited number of tricks up its sleeve. From millions and millions of dollars poured into the pockets of regulators and politicians to the subsidization of medical schools and the doctors they churn out, Big Pharma is a force to be reckoned with. However, rec ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • On a stick . . .
  • Stephen Lewis on Jack Layton
  • F-35: Canada fail, Aussie win
    "I will not allow and the government will not allow a gap in the capability of our air combat capability...I'm not proposing to wait until the last minute...I'm proposing to recommend to the government that we make that decision next year."The quote is Aussie defence minister Stephen Smith doin ...
  • F-35 short-circuit
    OK, maybe the odd post. The mis-engineered pile of alloy that is the F-35 apparently now has fleet-grounding electrical problems. Come on, RCAF! If you really want this 'airplane' you might actually have to drop the "Air" from your shiny new old name.
  • Ship it by rail . . .
    CONTAINER SHIPS BEWARE. According to INHABITAT, "Russia Green Lights $65 Billion Siberia-Alaska Rail and Tunnel to Bridge the Bering Strait!" Deserves the exclamation point. Not to be a pessimist, but Russian graft and corruption should make it an extra tasty crispy experience. Might be easier t ...

Media Matters for America

  • Hannity Distorts Economic Data To Conceal Empl ...
    During an interview with former White House economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, Sean Hannity distorted economic data and claimed that overall employment is declining by 400,000 jobs per month. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says employment has been increasing for months, and the private ...
  • Fox Spins Cantor's Comments On Disaster Relief
    Fox News is spinning Rep. Eric Cantor's statement that disaster relief should be paired with spending cuts -- comments consistent with statements Cantor has made in the past -- as a simple "word of caution" against future government stimulus.Cantor Has "Consistently" Sought To Pair Federal Disa ...
  • Fox Ran With Completely Baseless Accusation Th ...
    In June, Fox News repeatedly promoted the accusation that undocumented immigrants had set the Monument wildfire that was raging in Arizona at the time. However, the Justice Department recently announced that it has charged two U.S. citizens in connection with the state's worst-ever wildfir ...
  • Will Wash. Times Editor Correct These ...
    The new editor of the Washington Times vowed to ensure accuracy at the paper; however, a recent column by the Times' Jeffrey Kuhner contained several significant falsehoods about climate change, which Kuhner claims is "the greatest hoax of our time."Incoming Wash. Times Editor Vowed To Ensure A ...
  • Red State Falsely Claims NLRB Lacks Authority ...
    An August 25 Red State post falsely claimed the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) "skirt[ed] Congress" by issuing a recent rule requiring employers to notify employees of their labor rights. In fact, the NLRB has legal authority to issue rules which regulate employers under the National Lab ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Nukes and Dictator Survival
    On Wednesday night's Last Word, Chris Hayes and Steve Clemons fretted over the effect of Qaddafi's overthrow on other despots' survival strategies with regard to nuclear weapons. Bear in mind that Qaddafi agreed in 2003 to hand over the entire contents of his budding yet substantial nuclear weap ...
  • Libya, The Climax
    I wrote about my time in Libya, and of the country's serious potential, back in February, just as the uprising started. I am not sure there is anything to add, except to caution against all the analysis that emphasizes the country's tribal divisions and lack of a functioning government--as if we ...
  • Lessons from Apple
    I'm lucky in that I get to work pretty closely with Apple at the USC Annenberg innovation Lab. So if I have anything to add to the reams of copy written this morning about Steve Jobs' decision to step down as CEO of Apple it is this: "Culture eats strategy for lunch, everyday." That's a saying y ...
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  • Note to Conservatives - It Isn't Always About Us
    I'm returning to my proper foreign policy subject matter after several weeks of irresistible debt ceiling / Republican presidential follies blogging. The topic today: must the United States position itself at the forefront of every important struggle in the world, or else become a shadow of our ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • The Olive Revolution: "Knocking on Jerusalem's ...
    Today, activists and supporters of the Olive Revolution (popular revolution and national humanitarian non-armed revolution against the Israeli occupation) and the Popular Committees started the campaign 'Knocking on Jerusalem's Doors' in response to the Israeli policies of Judaizing Jerusalem. I ...
  • US threatens aid cut over Palestinian bid for ...
    The United States has said it will cut aid to the Palestinians if they proceed with a unilateral bid for statehood at the UN in September, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat sai ...
  • Palestinians Thirsting for Justice in Water-St ...
    In the strife-stricken Middle East, oil has always been in the realm of politics. But in the Israeli-occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank, oil has been supplanted by water. ...
  • Fighting stops in Gaza but fears of further vi ...
    Israeli military action since the attack prompted speculation that Israel has resumed a policy of targeted assassination of militant leaders in Gaza. Defence minister Ehud Barak warne ...
  • Olive Revolution seeks free access to East Jer ...
    When Israeli police and soldiers manning Qalandia checkpoint prevented West Bank Muslims under the age of 50 from crossing into Jerusalem to reach Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform the last F ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • ERCOT calls for energy conservation this weekend
    Its predicted that the entire state will have record temperatures this weekend. Please take all measures to avoid using unnecessary energy. They might have a hurricane on the east coast but we have a heat wave in Texas and there might not be enough electricity to go around. Statement from ERCOT ...
  • Earthquake and hurricane, the east coast is st ...
    Earlier today I got on a scheduled phone call with some of the staff in our D.C. office just after they had come back into their building after evacuating during the 5.8 magnitude Virginia earthquake that rattled buildings and nerves all the way to New York City.  They, of course, had more immed ...
  • HOT HOT HOT! Austin breaks heat record today a ...
    Today Austin’s temps will soar back into the 100′s for our 69th day this year of over 100 degrees. This  will break a record that has stood since 1925 for the most days over 100 degrees, as we begin another round of heat advisories lasting through the weekend of 100+ degree weather. Since we’re ...
  • TCEQ begins process to enact Sunset legislation
    TCEQ will soon be making some big decisions on how to implement reforms passed during the last legislative session, especially on its penalty policy–and your input is needed quickly: Comments are due on August 30th Last session, Public Citizen worked with a partnership, The Alliance for a Clean ...
  • SPIN BABY SPIN – Renewables continue to grow i ...
    The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the operators of the Texas electric grid, has released its Emerging technologies report that includes the state of renewables on the Texas grid. Some interesting facts show that wind generation continues to provide a significant amount of energy ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Institute plans to build floating city
    Paypal billionaire Peter Thiel has pumped $1.25 million in to the project to help it become a reality. In a plan that sounds like something out of the...
  • World's oldest person reaches 115
    Born in 1896, Besse Cooper is officially the world's oldest living person at 115 years old. Cooper is still able to speak and remember things although...
  • Dolly scientist to clone Scottish wildcats
    Dr Bill Ritchie who helped clone Dolly the sheep is now working on cloning the rare Scottish wildcat. Wildcats are thought to have a population as few...
  • UFO landing filmed in Siberia
    Footage has surfaced showing a UFO landing in Siberia and its occupants emerging underneath it. Filmed in the remote Irkutsk region the footage shows ...
  • Has King Arthur's round table been found ?
    Archaeologists may have discovered the location of Arthur's round table in Stirling, Scotland. A circular feature has been identified underneath the m...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Global Warming Behind Somali Drought
    Source:� IPS The severe drought in the Horn of Africa, which is affecting some 12 million people, especially in Somalia, is a direct consequence of weather phenomena associated with climate change, environmental scientists say ...
  • Meteorologists Pitch in to Alleviate Drought i ...
    Source:� Voice of America Kenyan meteorologists are exploring ways to enhance rainfall in areas of the country dried out by climate change.
  • Ice Retreat Worries Climate-Change Scientists
    Source:� Postmedia News The severe ice retreat being witnessed again this year in the polar regions of the Northern Hemisphere has many scientists concerned about the long-term impact of climate change.
  • Alaska Joins Appeal of Ruling on Polar Bear 'T ...
    Source:� Anchorage Daily News On Thursday, 35 plaintiffs and intervenors filed three separate notices that they were appealing a U.S. District judge's decision in favor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's listing of polar ...
  • UN's Ban Ki-Moon Visits Denver Area, Touts Ene ...
    Source:� The Denver Post On a visit to metro Denver, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday declared delivery of electricity to more people around the globe a top UN priority and devoted much of the day to exploring sus ...

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Reuters Global

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

Booman Tribune

  • Good Night Irene
    We still have some bands of rain and some major wind gusts, but the worst of it has blown through. Miraculously, we have not yet lost power, and as far as I can tell we have only branches...no trees...down on the property. However, we were just lucky, as areas just to our east are devastated b ...
  • It's been said before but GOP hates America
    The Republicans in Congress really just don't want to do anything to help our government work to solve problems for people. They;d rather kill the country than see Obama (a fairly conservative President by any measure) re-elected. Here is just one more little bit of evidence: WASHINGTON ...
  • Hurricane Party?
    So, we're several hours into the storm now...keeping ourselves busy, though! :) We're watching: and eating: and lounging: and knitting: What's everyone else up to? Discuss. :) Discuss
  • We're Ready
    My hurricane preparations are complete. I just saw the president on CNN heading a meeting at FEMA. He got all the governors to say on tape that they've gotten everything they need, so we should not be having any 'heckuva job, Brownie' moments. What's going on where you are? It a light rain h ...
  • Perry's Base or Onward Christian Warriors
    Ho hum, another terrorist real Christian takes the fight to peaceful Muslims who helped police uncover a suspected Christmas tree bombing plot the enemy, and the local authorities Big Guvmint charge him with the crime persecute and victimize him for firebombing a mosque doing his patriotic duty ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Exploring the Eerie Underworld of Belgium's Ab ...
    Amazing images of an eerie, long-abandoned crypt, now in decay and left to spiders and the ghosts of the dead... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Offset Your Computer's Emissions With the Clic ...
    While you're tapping away at your keyboard, did you realize how much you're contributing to emissions? Find out how you can offset those emissions at the click of a butto read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
  • The Mysterious Death of Nine Campers in Russia ...
    The creepy and mysterious death of nine skiers in Russia's Ural Mountains in 1959, all of whom fled their tent in sub-zero temperatures, one of whom lost her tongue. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Global Camera Trap Study Takes 52,000 Candid A ...
    Candid shots of animals taken with camera traps around the world... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 12 Hottest Links of the Week
    Twelve über-cool links from around the web, hand-selected for your delectation! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Hurricanes and Climate Change
    Scientists disagree on whether hurricanes are already getting stronger because of global warming, but they tend to agree that storms will get more intense in the future as the planet continues to heat up.
  • Wading Into New York City's Future
    New York City has already begun planning for a wetter and warmer next century, when sea levels are expected to rise.
  • Climate Change and the Texas Drought
    Whether or not the current Texas drought is a sign of climate change, the warming trend will make droughts in the area more extreme.
  • Cleaning Up Brand Names' Supply Chains
    High-end athletic shoe manufacturers are working to clear their names after a Greenpeace report accuses them of doing business with Chinese factories that are polluting local rivers.
  • Impact of Gulf Spill's Underwater Dispersants ...
    Earthjustice and Toxipedia have published a review of all scientific literature concerning the potential health impacts of the 57 chemicals used to combat the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Review: "Contagion": Minneapolis faces instant ...
    SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List disease di ...
  • Libyans, Prepare to Hail & Welcome the New NAT ...
    Libya looks like it's finally kicking into the next step. I posted this up onto Agonist. Sorry for lack of links but you can google this stuff... As we close in on 50,000,000 good Americans on food stamps, yet another occupation & Hard Power hegemony scheme kicks off. Get ready for Monday's mark ...
  • Mercury in Retrograde; 2012 is a trick says Au ...
    I don't really get the Mercury Retrograde thing but a lot of people swear by it. Consult here: Is Mercury in Retrograde? It apparently will be retrograde for the next 5 days -- I am supposed to be careful with communications... 2011 Taurus Year Ahead... More on retrograde. I don't know, astrolog ...
  • After London riots: Internets attention turns ...
    Earlier :) Nov 20 2010: TC Indymedia Exclusive: Secret 'Trigger' & blueprint for emergency domestic military crackdown plan revealed | HongPong.com Moar Recently: Reacting to London riots - A Little Truth about America's situation Emerged! Marc Ambinder (marcambinder) on Twitter A few lat ...
  • Pawlenty promotes Mossad plane crash/bombing o ...
    UPDATE Sunday Aug14: LOLSo long and thanks for all the mullet. Theory: TPaw was not supposed to brag about Mossad ops at the debate - lol his campaign is Over Like Clover in an Iowa pasture. Why not? :-D Our former Governor Tim Pawlenty plays for the ruthless neo-Cheneyite role in a future Repu ...

Daily Censored

  • Two teachers and a ‘mike’: fightin ...
    According to Raw Replay (online) a rap song created by a duo calling themselves “Two Teachers and a Microphone” slaps down U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for failing to acknowledge poverty and inequality, and accuses him of “pimping out Pearson and private charters.”  You can hear the s ...
  • Michigan: template for neo-feudalism and corpo ...
    Picture of Governor Snyder of Michigan.  Are emergency managers to be ubiquitous as the legislature proposes a second assault on Michigan Cities and Schools?  ‘Emergency managers’ is the poll-tested name given to the political supplicants of the Vichy fascists that operate in Michigan.  Much ...
  • RIOTS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND NEW AGENCIES OF CHANGE
    By Saul Landau An angry demonstration virus spreads to country after country in response to negligent and callous political leaders who have ignored the basic needs of their citizens. Instead, they have bowed or eagerly catered to demands of multinational corporations and banks, thus deepening t ...
  • World Capitalism’s Battle to Control Libya
    It appears that the 42 year rule of Moammar Khadafy is coming to an end. Yet his rule and the events leading up to the present situation in Libya contain many of the most fundamental laws of history of capitalism. Colonial Revolution Khadafy came to power on the heels of the mass colonial revolt ...
  • The Hijacking of a Dream: The Need too Reclaim ...
    � The Hijacking of a Dream: Why We Need to Reclaim Dr. King�s Legacy By: Solomon Comissiong On August 28, 2011, the dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial will take place on the National Mall in Washington DC. Having the dedication of this memorial on the 48th anniversary of ...

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

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #578
    CIA agent who helped kill Che wants payout from Cuba. Cheney wanted Bush to destroy suspected Syrian nuke site. South Korea indicts five for spying for North.
  • News you may have missed #577
    Interview with Michael Hayden. CIA denies helping police spy on NY Muslims. Spy base reservoir not a pool after all...
  • Documents reveal MI5 role in Guyana coup
    Secret intelligence documents declassified last week reveal that Britain’s Security Service, known as MI5, played a significant role in the lead-up to the 1953 coup that toppled the democratically elected government of British Guiana.
  • News you may have missed #576 (Libya edition)
    Rebels seize Libyan intelligence service HQ. Gadhafi’s loose weapons could number a ‘thousand times’ Saddam’s. The bewildering dance between Gaddafi and MI6.
  • Why Are Armed Groups Storming Foreign Embassie ...
    It is perhaps understandable that fighters of the National Transitional Council, Libya’s rebel umbrella group, have stormed locations in Tripoli that are associated with the regime of deposed Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Strategic sites such as Bab al-Aziziya, Gaddafi’s compound, governmen ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Cynthia McKinney's Anti-War Tour Comes to Phil ...
    � by Ron Ridenour � Leading black-skinned representatives of the �hegemon�, as Cynthia McKinney calls President Barack Obama and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, could hardly expect to win any votes from the standing-room-only crowd at her anti-war tour Friday night at Calvary Church in Philad ...
  • Vets: Clean Fuel Standard Good
    Vets: Clean Fuel Standard Good for National Security Standard would reduce dangerous US oil dependence, save Americans billions at the pump � read more
  • Cynthia McKinney: Libya and Lies
    Thanks to all who have come out and participated in the Truth Tour.� I have almost come to its end.� Last night in Detroit, several of the women were moved to tears as I explained the situation in Libya right now as I know it to be. Every venue has had every seat occupied or was filled to capaci ...
  • Never Forgive, Never Forget
    ��Never Forgive, Never Forget - by Stephen Lendman � After covering Libya's rape since last winter in dozens of articles, no forgiving or forgetting is possible for one of history's great crimes.� � Nor is ignoring those responsible, condemning them forthrightly, and explaining why all wars are ...
  • Ranger's widow ejected from Rumsfeld book signing
    Posted By Matt Misterek on The News Tribune Reporter Jordan Schrader, working on The News Tribune's local news desk Saturday, reports: Two people were removed from Friday’s Donald Rumsfeld book signing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, including the Yelm widow of an Army Ranger who blames the milit ...

Grist - News

  • Just shut up and love this bicycle mustache
    by Jess Zimmerman. "Oh, there's no way I'm that much of a hipster," you say. "Sure, I like to bike to my community garden to pick up some herbs to go with the eggs from my rooftop chicken coop while listening to Dave Roberts' latest music recommendation, but ironic facial hair for a bi ...
  • Our new favorite city is inside this guy&#8217 ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Okay, so this is more amazing folk art than realistic urban design, but think of it as your Friday 10 minutes of Zen. Jerry Gretzinger has been making and remaking his incredibly detailed maps since 1963, and he's basically generated an entire alternate universe. In ...
  • Whole Foods will tell you how to eat healthy, ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Unable to tell shiitake from Shinola? Don't know sea bass from a hole in the ground? Don't worry -- as long as you're willing to pay a giant wad of cash every month, you never have to be confused about what a "vegetable" is again. For a mere $49 a month -- only like ...
  • How to get paid to save the electrical grid
    by Christopher Mims. On the hottest days of the year, it's not uncommon for regional electricity systems to become so overloaded by demand that they come within a hair’s breadth of failing completely. (It happens in Texas all the time.) Fortunately, utilities have come up with a cheap a ...
  • State Department backs Keystone XL pipeline
    by Jess Zimmerman. The atmospheric pressure is dropping in D.C. as the hurricane prepares to move through. But in front of the White House, where protestors are pushing Obama to nix the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline, the pressure has probably just ratcheted up.�The State Department just ...

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

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Koen Olthuis of WaterStud ...
    In light of all the dire news related to climate change, rising sea levels and the natural disasters which have stricken numerous coastal areas around the world, we here at Inhabitat would like to highlight an interview Inhabitat Editor-in-Chief Jill Fehrenbacher conducted with architect Koen Ol ...
  • Hurricane Irene Expected to Hit NYC as Categor ...
    As the threat of Hurricane Irene looms over the East Coast, we’re worried about NYC withstanding the storm. New Yorkâs skyscrapers are built to withstand hurricane strength winds, but we’re expecting some serious flooding throughout the city that will likely cause big problems for New Yorkers i ...
  • NYC to Shut Down All Mass Transit at Noon TODA ...
    As Hurricane Irene makes her way north, New Yorkers will be unable to travel via bus, subway, and rail services due to the looming MTA shutdown of all public transit starting at noon on Saturday and likely continuing through Monday.  Although this total shut-down seems extreme, with the sheer am ...
  • Natural Disaster Couture: Halston’s Glow-in-th ...
    Worried about looking totally drab in the aftermath of Irene’s fury? Although we recommend staying in until things have settled down, in the event of a blackout, perhaps you could adorn yourself in this glow-in-the-dark sequin dress by Halston. Modern, haute and surprising practical — especia ...
  • Fantastical New Salvador Dalí Museum in Florid ...
    Read the rest of Fantastical New Salvador Dalí Museum in Florida is Also Hurricane Resistant Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Buckminster Fuller, dali, dali museum, dali-esque, eco design, florida, geodesic dome, geodesic inspired, green architecture, Green Building, green design ...

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  • Pioneering Ants Challenge Self-Organization As ...
    Some worker ants are more equal than others. As with other social insects, it was once thought that workers were essentially equivalent in ant colony hierarchies. But it appears that a few well-informed individuals shape group decisions by leading nestmates to new homes. The findings could add a ...
  • Ornithologists Find First New U.S. Bird in 37 ...
    For the first time in almost four decades, a new bird species has been discovered in the United States. But there's a catch: the Bryan's Shearwater was identified in a museum collection. Though others have been reported, the first living bird-in-hand example awaits finding.
  • Researchers: Jobs’ Departure Will Test Employe ...
    Though Steve Jobs' departure from Apple has been anticipated for years, and he will remain involved as chair of the company's board, researchers say the change in leadership will test the loyalties of both employees and consumers.
  • Cosmic Bling: Astronomers Find Planet Made of ...
    An international team of astronomers has discovered a planet made of diamond crystals in our own Milky Way galaxy.
  • Clever Dolphins Use Shells to Catch Fish
    Already famed as Earth's first tool-using mammals, the bottlenose dolphins of Australia's Shark Bay have proved handy yet again: by using conch shells to trap tasty fish, then shaking them into their mouths like sardines from a tin.

PakAlert

  • Is The Number Of Earthquakes Increasing? Why T ...
    Is the number of earthquakes increasing? Are major earthquakes becoming more frequent? In the aftermath of the magnitude-5.8 earthquake in Virginia, a whole lot of people are asking those questions. All over the mainstream media, "experts" are coming on and assuring the public that all of thi ...
  • Moon-Sun Alignment Increases Irene’s Destructi ...
    While residents along the New Jersey and New York coasts rush to the store for batteries and bottled water, scientists at Stevens Institute of Technology are heading to the laboratory to help predict the impact of Hurricane Irene. At the Stevens Center for Maritime Systems (CMS), ocean resea ...
  • Video: Predictive Programming and the Human Mi ...
    Predictive Programming and the Human Microchipping Agenda confirms the reality of the microchip agenda, and shows that the weapon of propaganda has been used against the public for decades in order to familiarize us with the idea of being chipped. This process is called predictive programming an ...
  • 14 Conspiracy Theories That The Media Now Admi ...
    How many times have you heard the mainstream media dismiss certain points of view as "conspiracy theories"? It seems as though one of the easiest ways to brush something off is to label it as something that only "conspiracy theorists" would believe. Well, you know what? A whole lot of the time t ...
  • Video: Tectonic Weaponry – How to make an Eart ...
    TECTONIC WEAPONS Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, quoted as saying at a conference in April 1997, "Others are engaging even in an eco type of terrorism, whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes or volcanos remotely, through the use of electromagnetic waves." Bill 107th CONGR ...

Andy Worthington

  • An End to Gaddafi’s Tyranny: The Liberat ...
    With Libya’s former dictator Muammar Gaddafi in hiding, the uprising against his 42-year rule that began on February 15, and that, almost since it began, has been contentiously supported by NATO, has finally succeeded in providing a shadowy glimpse of a new life for the Libyan people. Huge diffi ...
  • WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
    Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
  • My New Article for the 10th Anniversary of 9/1 ...
    Back in April, just after WikiLeaks released the classified military documents relating to the Guantánamo prisoners on which I worked as a media partner, and which have consumed most of my time since, I received a welcome email out of the blue from Jacinda Woodhead, the associate editor of Overl ...
  • Fears for the Health of Shaker Aamer, the Last ...
    Last week, the plight of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, briefly surfaced in the media when the Independent ran a story by Paul Cahalan, who, for several years, has covered Shaker Aamer’s story extensively for the Wandsworth Guardian, in Aamer’s home borough in London, wh ...
  • More Evidence of the Use of Water Torture at G ...
    Three weeks ago, my colleague Jeffrey Kaye, a full-time psychologist in California who also manages to find time to pursue a second career as a blogger producing important work on America’s torture program, wrote an article for Truthout about the use of water torture at Guantánamo, which pulled ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • News Roundup for August 26, 2011
    The neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement has announced that it will hold a rally in West Allis, Wis., in response to a series of recent attacks at the Wisconsin State Fair. Authorities have noted that many of the attackers have been black while many of the victims have been white. Police are sti ...
  • Alleged Mosque Firebomber Arrested in Oregon
    In a distant echo of the mass murder last month in Norway, a young man who once described himself to police as a “Christian warrior” and talked about a jihad against Muslims is in federal custody in Oregon on federal hate crime and arson charges. Cody Seth Crawford, 24, of Corvallis, Ore., was a ...
  • New Report Details Funding Sources Behind Anti ...
    The rising tide of Islamophobia in the United States is not a natural or spontaneous outgrowth of popular fear of Muslim fundamentalist terrorism, nor is it the product of a vast right-wing conspiracy. Rather, it is the design of “a small, tightly networked group of misinformation experts guidin ...
  • News Roundup for August 25, 2011
    Prosecutors in Muscogee County, Ga., indicted a man for assault they allege is connected to the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Authorities say that Michael Carothers, 31, allegedly pulled up alongside an African-American man who was walking and pepper sprayed him. Carothers is known for passing out ...
  • Group Wants Next President to ‘Investigate’ LG ...
    Earlier this month, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), one of the most visible and active anti-gay marriage groups, asked all serious contenders for the GOP nomination for president to sign its so-called “Marriage Pledge.” It some ways, it was just another pledge being sought from pol ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • GOP's Callous, Money-Oriented Response to Stor ...
    Hurricane Irene made landfall this morning, hitting North Carolina with sustained winds of 90 miles per hour. Irene was downgraded overnight to a Category 1 hurricane, but it remains a powerful storm capable of doing serious harm. Obviously, we can all hope the severity of the damage is limited. ...
  • Female Trafficking Soars in Iraq
    BAGHDAD - Rania was 16 years old when officials raped her during Saddam Hussein’s 1991 crackdown in Iraq’s Shia south. "My bothers were sentenced to death, and the price to stop this was to offer my body," she says. Cast out for bringing ‘shame’ to her family, Rania ran away to Baghdad and soon ...
  • How Israel Takes Its Revenge on Boys Who Throw ...
    The boy, small and frail, is struggling to stay awake. His head lolls to the side, at one point slumping on to his chest. "Lift up your head! Lift it up!" shouts one of his interrogators, slapping him. But the boy by now is past caring, for he has been awake for at least 12 hours since he was se ...
  • Japan's Cesium Leak Equal to 168 '45 A-Bombs
    The amount of radioactive cesium ejected by the Fukushima reactor meltdowns is about 168 times higher than that emitted in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the government's nuclear watchdog said Friday. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency provided the estimate at the request of a Diet panel ...
  • NATO Nations Set to Reap Spoils of Libya War
    It looks like the more telling news on Libya has migrated to the business pages. With jubilant reporting of Gaddafi's imminent downfall seizing headlines, it's the financial pages that have the clinical analysis. So, for instance, it is in this section that the Independent reports a "dash for pr ...

Lifehacker

  • WebPutty Hosts and Maintains CSS For Your Site ...
    Need to maintain CSS from anywhere? Signup for a (currently) free WebPutty beta account to host and serve your site's Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The in-browser CSS editor offers a side-by-side preview pane with instant updating and is ...
  • Five Best Hard Drive Space Analyzers [Hive Five]
    The dreaded moment has come and you can't download a movie you want to watch, or install some games you want to play because your hard drive is full. What's worse, you have no idea what to delete to make some room. Thankfully there are se ...
  • Sun Bleach Your Shirt [Clothing]
    If you're looking for an ultra-low cost way to add style to plain dark shirts, sun bleaching lets you bleach basic designs using no more than cardboard, a few binder clips, and a week or two of sunshine. More��
  • This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
    Keep Tabs on Hurricane Irene with These Tracking Maps and Smartphone Apps More��
  • Use Amazon WebPay to Meet Rewards Card Minimum ...
    Many upper level rewards credit cards have minimum monthly spending requirements, such as the AMEX Business Gold with it's $2,000 minimum. If you live a frugal lifestyle and don't have a mortgage it can be difficult to ensure you spend tha ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Polar bear attack survivor: 'I thought I was g ...
    Patrick Flinders, 17, tells of terrifying ordeal as polar bear rampaged through school group's camp in Svalbard, NorwayA teenager left with horrific facial injuries after being mauled by a polar bear on a school expedition to the Arctic has told how he believed he was going to die during the att ...
  • Manchester United 8-2 Arsenal | Premier League ...
    If Arsenal were in poor shape before this fixture, the devastation at Old Trafford has left them in a chaotic state. Injuries cannot account for this mauling that included the dismissal of Carl Jenkinson, with a second yellow card, when the score was 6-2. Manchester United were pitiless, with As ...
  • Karachi gang war prompts intervention by Pakis ...
    Interior ministry troops go into gangster-run areas to end violence which has claimed at least 1,000 lives this yearWeeks of violent mayhem that have left more than 1,000 dead in Pakistan's biggest city culminated on Sunday in troops entering a gangster-run district in an attempt to end the vio ...
  • London riots: second man held on suspicion of ...
    Scotland Yard film shows officers knocked down by high-speed car in Waltham Forest, north-east LondonA second man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two police officers were hit by a car while chasing looters during the recent riots in England.The 28-year-old was taken to a ...
  • Amado Boudou set to be Argentina's first rock' ...
    President Cristina Kirchner's running mate for October's election uses a Fender Telecaster guitar to get his message acrossHe thunders around Buenos Aires on a Harley-Davidson and likes nothing better than strapping on a Fender Telecaster guitar to jam with famous musicians. Despite appearances, ...

McClatchey

  • It's not glamorous to cover a hurricane
    NAGS HEAD, N.C.—As darkness fell Saturday a surge of water from the sound flooded Nags Head, in what served as Hurricane Irene's final curse on this spit of sand that guards against the Atlantic Ocean.
  • North Caroliina rescuers search for Irene victims
    Rescue crews are fanning out across the eastern part of the state in search of people still trapped by the rising waters brought by Hurricane Irene, which has left tens of thousands without power today and cut off highway access to Corolla and Hatteras on the Outer Banks.
  • In southeastern North Carolina, they've seen worse
    WILMINGTON—Hurricane Irene sloshed and blew her way ashore early Saturday at the southeastern coast, bringing localized flooding, downed trees, power outages and contributing to a possible drowning.
  • Irene strikes New York City, local floods reported
    WASHINGTON — Already a killer storm, Hurricane Irene sloshed into the New York metropolitan area Sunday, adhering to a course that pushed mountains of seawater - and vast volumes of rain - into the city, many of its suburbs and much of the surrounding region.
  • Irene appears to have left South Carolina rela ...
    COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolinians can breathe a collective sigh of relief today as Hurricane Irene appears to have left the Palmetto State relatively unscathed.

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    Jumping right into it, the winner this week for most insightful is the awesomely named Taoareyou for his comment in response to someone claiming that it was okay to violate the rights of a guy handing out free lemonade because he was an "instigator" who was "expecting a confrontation." Tao expl ...
  • Killer_Tofu's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    This week's favorites post comes from Killer_Tofu whose name intrigues me, but I'm not sure I really want to know. This week I have been given the honor of sharing my favorite posts with my fellow Techdirt readers. The TD gang thought it nice to allow me to do this... and they didn't even c ...
  • Brazil Looks To Criminalize Ripping A CD?
    Over the past few years, it really looked like Brazil was close to becoming one of the most progressive countries on copyright issues. It was embracing fair use and the public domain in a strong way, and was even considering proposals to fully legalize file sharing. And, of course, the music i ...
  • ICE Screws Up, Seizes Tor Exit Node; Vows Not ...
    Given the various domain seizures and other efforts by ICE to act as Hollywood's personal police force, it long ago became clear that they're not particularly technically competent. As if to demonstrate how technically illiterate they are, ICE recently seized six computer hard drives from the h ...
  • AT&T Takes A Lesson From Banks: Will Now Charg ...
    Sometimes you wonder if there's some sort of competition between airlines, banks and telcos as to who can come up with the more ridiculous "fees" to add. AT&T, which last we checked, was still trying to get a merger approved that it claims will benefit customers, has now decided to add a $2/mon ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

Dandelion Salad

  • Killing the Truth: Western Mainstream Media Co ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 25 August 2011 Libya represents a new low in Western government war crimes – which is something of a disturbing record given the decades of war criminality by these governments. In Libya, not only is there the criminal military assault on a so ...
  • Michel Chossudovsky: The West Wants to take Co ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, August 27, 2011 Press TV, Aug 25, 2011 Interview with Michel Chossudovsky, Director of Centre for Research on Globalization. While Libyan revolutionaries have not yet won the war in the oil-rich country, Western p ...
  • Riotgate: Dispatch from East London by Felicit ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 25 August 2011 “Stuff happens and itâs untidy, and freedomâs untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.â Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq looting (April 11, 2003.) From afar we have heard th ...
  • Deaths as Hurricane Irene batters U.S. East Coast
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish on Aug 27, 2011 Millions of people are taking shelter along the American east coast. Hurricane Irene is not the most powerful storm on record, but still large enough to cause damage. Eight people have died so far and thousands of flights have ...
  • Chris Hedges: Obama: Brand for the Corporate State
    with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 25, 2011 TheAlyonaShow on Aug 24, 2011 Chris Hedges is on the show to discuss Libya, the imperial presidency as he calls it, and our already-bought supposedly bipartisan super committee that’s about to unleash drastic cuts on the American ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Hurricane Irene : Apocalypse Fail From the front page of the New York Times print edition, Sunday, August 28 : The aftermath, via an AP headline that sounds like the title of an unwritten RadioHead song. Little Damage Seen In Many Places : From AP : From North Caroli ...
  • No title
    Hurricane Irene Might Not Be Fake, But It's Most Popular Photo Is As Hurricane Irene comes ashore in New Jersey, with New York City in its sights, the most retweeted photo of Irene over North Carolina is a flat-out fake. But an impressive one : That this photo is a fak is irrevel ...
  • No title
    Hurricane Irene, from its birth more than a week ago to its first landfall on the US East Coat today : New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg tells New Yorkers if they are told to evacuate and they don't leave, "they will be on their own." Sunday afternoon might prove to be ...
  • No title
    Hurricane Irene Prepares To Devour US East Coast How Do You Evacuate Atlantic City? How Do You Evacuate New York City? NASA satellite image From the Weather Channel : This is the most serious hurricane threat to the east coast of the United States in more than fi ...
  • No title
    A remarkable, hard to find documentary by Orson Welles on the nature of fakery in what we perceive to be reality :

Wired - Science

  • Pioneering Ants Challenge Self-Organization As ...
    Some worker ants are more equal than others. As with other social insects, it was once thought that workers were essentially equivalent in ant colony hierarchies. But it appears that a few well-informed individuals shape group decisions by leading nestmates to new homes. The findings could add a ...
  • Ornithologists Find First New U.S. Bird in 37 ...
    For the first time in almost four decades, a new bird species has been discovered in the United States. But there's a catch: the Bryan's Shearwater was identified in a museum collection. Though others have been reported, the first living bird-in-hand example awaits finding.
  • Researchers: Jobs’ Departure Will Test Employe ...
    Though Steve Jobs' departure from Apple has been anticipated for years, and he will remain involved as chair of the company's board, researchers say the change in leadership will test the loyalties of both employees and consumers.
  • Cosmic Bling: Astronomers Find Planet Made of ...
    An international team of astronomers has discovered a planet made of diamond crystals in our own Milky Way galaxy.
  • Clever Dolphins Use Shells to Catch Fish
    Already famed as Earth's first tool-using mammals, the bottlenose dolphins of Australia's Shark Bay have proved handy yet again: by using conch shells to trap tasty fish, then shaking them into their mouths like sardines from a tin.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Nouriel Roubini: Social unrest will spread
    Roubini says that the current global economic system - capitalism - will remain in a crisis - a crisis economist Karl Marx predicted more than a century ago - until major systemic reforms are... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Israelis Chant ‘Jews and Arab ...
    Following last week’s terror attack in which eight Israelis died on the Southern border with Egypt, the Israeli air force escalated its bombardment of Gaza. On Saturday, despite predictions that the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Israel Aerospace Industries unveils unmanned a ...
    Israel Aerospace Industries unveiled over the weekend its latest development in the field of secret unmanned aerial vehicles - a miniature aircraft weighing four kilograms, known as GHOST to foreign... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Amira Hass: Israel’s left now has a chance to ...
    We are profiting from the occupation even as we groan under regressive taxation. Whether our families came from Katrielevka or Baghdad, we are profiting from the structural discrimination against... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Glen Pine: BDS – Boycott, Divestment, Sanction ...
    A critical review of Omar Barghouti's BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions and the treatment of BDS as, at once, an effective strategy, a moral obligation, and a movement -- and a discussion of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Nano-Thermometers Show First Temperature Respo ...
    Using a modern version of open-wide-and-keep-this-under-your-tongue, scientists today reported taking the temperature of individual cells in the human body, and finding for the first time that temperatures inside do not adhere to the familiar 98.6 degree Fahrenheit norm. They presented the resea ...
  • Research from Everest: Can Leucine Help Burn F ...
    Research on Mt. Everest climbers is adding to the evidence that an amino acid called leucine -- found in foods, dietary supplements, energy bars and other products -- may help people burn fat during periods of food restriction, such as climbing at high altitude, while keeping their muscle tissue.
  • Hollywood Screenwriters and Scientists: More t ...
    In this International Year of Chemistry (IYC), writers and producers for the most popular crime and science-related television shows and movies are putting out an all-points bulletin for scientists to advise them on the accuracy of their plots involving lab tests, crime scenes, etc., and to even ...
  • Going with the Flow
    Most cells rely on structural tethers to position chromosomes in preparation for cell division. Not so oocytes. Instead, a powerful intracellular stream pushes chromosomes far-off the center in preparation for the highly asymmetric cell division that completes oocyte maturation upon fertilizati ...
  • The First Nuclear Power Plants for Settlements ...
    The first nuclear power plant being considered for production of electricity for manned or unmanned bases on the Moon, Mars and other planets may really look like it came from outer space.

Natural Health News

  • 5 Signs of Alzheimer's that Sometimes Show Up ...
    As people age, memory loss tends to be one of the things they worry about most � misplace your keys and you wonder:� could it be Alzheimer�s? But the truth is there are other things you should be watching for if you fear Alzheimer�s. According to Yahoo Health, these five signs also could signal ...
  • Low Levels of this Fat Linked to Suicide in Mi ...
    Scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) analyzed a sample of suicide deaths among U.S. military personnel on active duty between 2002 and 2008, and found that suicide risk was greatest among individuals with the lowest levels of omega-3 fatty acids concentrat ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Enforced Disappearance: Not Just for Latin Ame ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller It’s not every day that a state enacts a law that blatantly authorizes crimes against humanity, so I feel obligated to give a special shout-out to China, who intend to make the crime against humanity of enforced disappearance official government policy: ...
  • The Pro-Palestinian Case Against Palestinian S ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku This legal opinion by Oxford prof Guy Goodwin-Gill has been drawing some attention in recent days.  It argues that the planned campaign to establish a Palestinian state this fall at the United Nations has a number of policy and legal pitfalls that could work against t ...
  • Petraeus and the Culture of the CIA
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman has an interesting profile today of Michael Morell, a veteran CIA insider (31 years in) who is tapped to help guide the new director, David Petraeus, as he steps out of the uniform and into the suit, through the m ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Again ...
    Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Against Humanity in Africa: General Magnus Malan, the chief architect of the total onslaught of the apartheid military, passed away on 18 July 2011. This total onslaught strategy was the idea that South Africa was threatened by a communist conspiracy and ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Resilient Community Wiki
    MiiU is a collection of all the resources and places that make personal, family, and community resilience possible. Resilience isn’t only about surviving global failures, it’s about building a better life for you and everyone around you. Join in. The more who contribute, the more everyone benef ...
  • Only 17% say U.S. government has consent of th ...
    At a shocking 17%, the number of likely voters who believe that the federal government has the consent of those it governs– a principle on which the United States was founded– has reached a new national low, reflecting a widespread and transpartisan discontent with Washington. We the public kn ...
  • Feline feeding frenzy!
    Our friends give their cats a snack at 10 pm every night. The cats know when it’s 10 pm. Much excitement ensues. Video on Posterous.
  • I, for one, hail our new computer overlords
    “We’re already creating the superior beings, I think we lost the battle to the machines long ago. We’re going to become the pets, the dogs of the house,” says Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple.
  • Chicago gangs join together to deal heroin
    Formerly rival gangs in Chicago have joined together to sell heroin in certain areas. This essentially makes the dealers independent contractors, and they keep more of the money too. The areas are also used as distribution points to the suburbs. Not surprisingly, the heroin comes from Mexican dr ...
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