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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 III

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Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • IRENE: Days of Fear and Hype, Now…. &#82 ...
      Gplus The hype over Hurricane Irene is overblown, predicts the CEO of Advanced Forecasting Corporation. “North of Delaware, most hurricane force winds will very likely be gusts, not sustained winds.” o    The demise of Irene has already begun. There is no visible eye. The storm intensity is ...
  • CONFIRMED: Libya War is CIA Op 30 Years in the ...
        by Tony Cartalucci Alternative media activist David Icke, who has been warning about the false nature of the “Arab Spring” since it began over six months ago, has pointed out an astounding “flashback” regarding an August 3, 1981 Newsweek article titled, “A Plan to Overthrow Kaddafi.” âThe de ...
  • Lets all get down and kiss the feet of Sir War ...
    Buffettâs Bank of America Stake Reaps $1.3 Billion Paper Profit on Day One Warren Buffett may have earned $1.3 billion in one day on his $5 billion investment in Bank of America Corp. (BAC) read more…………   Flash us back down the memory hole: Buffett Generates $3.7 Billion From Goldman Bet Made a ...
  • Libya: Tripoli Stands in Defiance of NATO &#82 ...
    by Tony Cartalucci Despite sweeping headlines claiming the Benghazi rebel terrorists have shifted their leadership over to Tripoli after continuous claims of the city falling to rebels after over a week of continuous fighting, BBC has slipped out the fact that this claim is a verified lie. Burie ...
  • Gaddafi’s desperate bid to save regime r ...
    Secret documents detail clandestine lobbying of Nato and even Obama following fear of full-scale US invasion Guardian UK The Gaddafi regime carried out an extraordinary clandestine lobbying operation to try to stop Nato‘s bombardment of Libya, and believed the western allies were likely to launc ...

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

  • Updated: Inmates and C.O.'s at Rikers Island W ...
    Jean Casella and James Ridgeway report in Mother Jones that New York City has no plans to evacuate an estimated 12,000 inmates and their correctional officers on low-lying Rikers Island ahead of Hurricane Irene: "We are not evacuating Rikers Island," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a news . ...
  • What's At Stake In the Tar Sands Fight
    Unsure if you should care about the Keystone XL pipeline controversy? In his latest essay for Dissent, my friend Mark Engler neatly encapsulates the issues at stake. It's not just another land use battle to preserve pristine wilderness, it's the front line in the fight against climate change its ...
  • Useful Hurricane-Prep Tool For New Yorkers: Fi ...
    No hurricane evacuation order has been issued for New York City, but City officials haven't ruled out the possibility. Meanwhile, you can plug your address into this useful official City database to find out whether you live in an evacuation zone. [Photo credit: Kyle McCluer, Creative Commons. ...
  • Unlicensed Silicone "Pumpers" Prey on Transwom ...
    Black market cosmeticians are preying on transwomen in New York, injecting them with huge quantities of liquid silicone to create a more feminine silhouette, sometimes with life threatening consequences, Laura Rena Murray reports in the New York Times . A young transwoman died in a Queens h ...
  • I've Always Said PETA Should Be Called "Pornog ...
    The conceptual art project known as PETA says it's planning to launch its own porn site. PETA has gotten a lot of attention for degrading women in order to stress that you shouldn't degrade animals. So, it's a natural progression for the organization, even though porn is less reliably degrading ...

Inside Facebook

  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at TBG Digital, TinyCo, Acquinity Interactive, Liquid Entertainment, 5 ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Photo Apps, Video, Movies, A ...
    UK Wonât Ban Facebook – Facebook, Twitter and Research In Motion met with United Kingdom officials Thursday regarding the social networksâ role in summer riots there. The government ended up not moving to restrict access to the social networks in emergencies such as riots. Facebook Takes Third S ...
  • Facebook Photos Gets Polish: White Background, ...
    A brief post today by Facebook product manager Justin Shaffer describes a new version of Facebook’s photo viewer coming out now. In place of the black lightbox background window that it previously had you’ll see a much thinner white background. Meanwhile, images are getting considerably more sp ...
  • Facebook Discontinues Deals After Failing to M ...
    Facebook has told Reuters that it plans to discontinue its pre-paid coupon service. “After testing Deals for four months, we’ve decided to end our Deals product in the coming weeks,” the company said. Groupon, LivingSocial, and Google Offers may breathe a little easier this weekend. At first, ex ...
  • Slide Confirms Game Closures, Ending a Long an ...
    Some social gamers are going to miss SuperPoke Pets. But in Silicon Valley, social developer Slide will be remembered for how it saw the opportunity in social apps early on, and for how it doggedly and sometimes successfully adapted as social platforms changed. It will also be remembered for how ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • 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.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • It’s Time to Talk about Neo-Progressivism
    Don’t Call ‘Me’ A Progressive If … By now many of you know where ‘I’ stand when it comes to titles, labels, and categories that are broadly and many times ignorantly painted all over people or viewpoints. I’ve been over this before; how I’ve been labeled and attacked as Anti-Semite and Anti-Musl ...
  • William O. Douglas: A 1st Amendment Champ Who ...
    “The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.” Go East Young Man, The Early Years: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas; (Random House, 1974) The Court Years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William ...
  • “Everybody Knows” but …
    “Play it again, Leo” Those of you who listen to our podcast show know my infatuation with Leonard Cohen; specifically two of his songs: Everybody Knows and the End.  This morning I was quickly surfing the net for some hidden gems (my nightly select news & editorials for you), and came across a C ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 5, ...
    Kharotabad Killings & the Cover Up, No One Safe Under the Espionage Act of 1917,  Disposable Army in Iraq, Pentagon Purchases $23 Billion worth of Drones, Permanent US Base in Iraq, Obama Debt Crisis: A successful Con Game, the End of the Presidential Public Financing, Azerbaijan: Lobbying for U ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Manufacturing Opinion, Today's Mainstream Media
    There is a silver lining in this however; many people have become journalists out of necessity and a desire that people know the truth. For many, what started out as a way to register their discontent in the way that news has been presented to Americans, many Americans have found themselves beco ...
  • Never Forgive, Never Forget
    The rape of Libya
  • TAX THE POOR!
    The right wing has a dandy new idea for bringing in some desperately needed revenue. Tax the rich? NAH! That would be too easy! Just take it from those who are barely getting by. As Jack Parr used to say, "I kid you not.
  • He's Not Serious
    It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sickening, college tuition paid out for jobs at McDonalds and the Gap are called job training while interning for pennies is called retraining.
  • New Hospital Community Benefit Requirements: W ...
    New regulations on hospitals from the health care bill and from the IRS require them to provide community benefits to local residents. This creates an occasion for all of us to engage with our local hospitals. We must ask what they will be doing to meet these new requirements and tell them how w ...

Switchboard

  • PSR series on pesticides, regulations, and far ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. My colleagues and friends at Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) have just published a series of short commentaries titled, "How does our nation’s reliance on pesticides affect the health of ...
  • Ford/Toyota Partnership Shows Standards Drive ...
    Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco I’ve said it before: Regulation drives innovation. Innovation drives jobs. The latest example is this week’s announcement that Toyota and Ford have forged a new partnership to bring to ...
  • The Low-Hanging Fruit ... That Keeps Growing Back
    David Goldstein, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco Today the Department of Energy announced a new set of efficiency standards for refrigerators, the seventh set of state and federal standards for refrigerators over the past 35 years. DOE e ...
  • State Department Keystone XL Environmental Rev ...
    Elizabeth Shope, Advocate, Washington, D.C. This is a guest blog post by Danielle Droitsch, who is a Senior Advisor to NRDC's International Program. Today, the U.S. State Department released its Final Environmental  Impact Statement (FEIS) for th ...
  • Billboards posted and paid for by communities ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Why do private citizens feel they have to resort to paying for billboard space to get their�concerns heard by decisionmakers?� Here are some recent billboards spotted in Pennsylvania: From Lycomin ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • I Didn’t Say What I Said
    I assume the “get it right” means that Prick Erry’s strategy will simply be to deny that when he wrote that Social Security was unconstitutional he meant that Social security was unconstitutional.     I wish I thought that there was no chance he would get away with it, but…
  • Hurricane Open Thread
    You know what I didn’t grow up with in Oregon? Hurricanes. Or tornadoes. Or floods. Or droughts. Or blizzards. Or below zero temperatures. Just soft rain, fog, and summer sun. Weather in the east basically sucks. And I don’t even mind humidity. Anyway, figure we could use an open thread for the ...
  • Drive-By Truckers Greatest Hits
    So the Drive-By Truckers have released a greatest hits album, although they’ve never had a hit per se. I’m not quite sure what the market is for this. They are a band that you need to buy the album to get the point, they don’t get enough radio play for the casual listener to tentatively [...]
  • Why are so many people still applying to law s ...
    I suggest some possible explanations, and also try to break down the question of who should be going to law school, given current circumstances.
  • Does Ron Paul Believe That Abortion Policy Sho ...
    Of course not. To amplify Matt’s response to Althouse’s silly dodging and weaving about Paul merely wanting to “divert[] the matter to the state courts,” let’s consider the content of the federal abortion bill Paul has repeatedly introduced. Among other things, the bill states that: (1) the Cong ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • UN Distributes Livestock Vaccines in Darfur
    Enough vaccines to immunize 1.2 million animals - including cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys and camels - will be handed out in Darfur's three states over the next two months, thanks to the efforts of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
  • Flow of Somalis Fleeing Famine Decreases Due t ...
    Yemen hosts the second-largest population of Somali refugees in the region, with nearly 192,000, some 15,000 of whom have arrived since January.
  • Violence in South Sudan's Jonglei State Displa ...
    She stressed that the United States supports efforts by the Government of South Sudan to end the violence and urges it to take additional steps to protect civilians and mitigate conflict throughout South Sudan.
  • Half-Victory for India: Anna Hazare Ends Fast, ...
    Anna Hazare ended his fast in New Delhi today, as the Indian parliament accepted three key demands in the Jan Lokpal bill. This is only a Half-Victory for India
  • Deadly Attack Against UN Compound in Nigerian ...
    The compound in Abuja, a series of buildings that house the offices of 26 UN humanitarian and development agencies, was struck by a car bomb at around 11 a.m. local time. Hundreds of UN staff members were working in the compound at the time of the a

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Irate Irene loses bite on Big Apple
    The National Hurricane Center has downgraded Irene to the status of a tropical storm as it headed for New York. After battering the US mid-Atlantic coast with hurricane power, Irene's winds dropped to100 km per hour,...
  • Libya: on brink of humanitarian disaster
    With Tripoli almost completely under rebel control the threat of a humanitarian crisis in the Libyan capital city is growing. There are widespread shortages of fuel, water and electricity, and humanitarian aid supplies...
  • Gaddafi extends olive branch?
    Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi is ready to negotiate with the rebels to form a transitional government, head of Gaddafi’s press service said. Rebels responded they would not hold talks with the Libyan leader until he...
  • Toys and pickles: The keys to Kirov
    Popular toys handmade only by women represent the whole country on postcards, and the local pickled cucumbers are so delicious, they make people travel long distances to taste them - the Kirov Region really appeases...
  • British WWII veteran jailed for recording cour ...
    British prisons are full to bursting. Courts are working overtime sending young people to jail for their role in the recent riots in England. If they are sent to Leeds prison, they will be languishing alongside...

Not My Tribe

  • Chicago G8 protest planners offer city guarant ...
    Organizers meeting today to plan against next year’s G8 summit in Chicago hit the ground running –backward. On Friday a spokesperson for one of the coalition partners offered this assurance to the Chicago Tribune: âOur goal is a legal, permitted, family friendly march where people can come and h ...
  • Silly honeybee, High Fructose Corn Syrup is fo ...
    If you’d like one reason to despise corporate honey producers, how’s this? Humans come by honey because of the largess of bees. Beekeepers harvest the surplus as honeybees go about –what we’ve learned is their more critical responsibility for human interests– pollinating our crops. Unfortunately ...
  • FOX broadcasting at it again, Gullible Travail ...
    CW57, one of the local DumFox stations, aired an “infomercial” for a seminar, books and training videos on how to take advantage of the housing market crash, telling the Gullible that if they buy the properties ON CREDIT (even though they’re targeting people who are already in bankruptcy and fac ...
  • So, I’m calling Shenanigans.
    There’s a Bumper sticker out that says “My ancestors immigrated LEGALLY” Horse Shit. The only way that would be true is if Might Makes Right were an actual legal concept. The German takeover of Europe in the 30s and early 40s would be totally justified under the same doctrine that every square i ...
  • Anether military victory where the Poor &#8220 ...
    Tripoli, the site of the FIRST U.S. Military engagement to prop up capitalism, is apparently fallen, not to economic “free” market forces, but to the Armed Forces. In a book titled “Liberty Reclaimed”, often described as the libertarian bible, the statement is made and reiterated “the only subst ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • The Big 3 Macronutrients – Fat, Protein and Ca ...
    We often see or hear claims about a food product being “low in carbs”, “high in protein” or “fat free”. We thought it would be a good idea to get back to the basics and do a post on these 3 macronutrients. They are the source of practically all calories in food. They are called [...]
  • Serve Veggies First
    A quick one today. Studies have shown that serving raw vegetables or vegetable soup as an appetizer increases children’s veggie consumption. Raw carrots, tomato soup, cherry tomatos, edamame… Read the full story on Dr. Dina Rose’s blog It’s Not About Nutrition. Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android ...
  • Should Soft Drinks Be Off Limits for Food Stam ...
    Despite New York’s well intentioned efforts, the Federal government has rejected Mayor Bloomberg’s efforts to combat obesity through limitations on soft drink purchases with “food stamps”. Almost a year ago, New York suggested that the city’s participants in the SNAP program (Supplemental Nutrit ...
  • Caveman Cookies? Paleo Hits the Snack Aisle
    Are you familiar with the Paleo diet? It’s a relatively new phenomenon that embraces the presumed diet of the Paleolithic era which lasted over 2.5 million years and ended about 10,000 years ago as humanity switched from hunter-gatherer foods to agriculture. The foods consumed by people on Paleo ...
  • Greek Yogurt is on Fire
    (image source: Serious Eats) Yogurt is a health food mega trend that’s few decades years old. But within the yogurt category, there’s a breakaway subcategory that is simply on fire: Greek yogurt sales have been doubling every single year for the past five! Hungry yogurt eaters are now voting wit ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • Hamptons Hurricane: A Bankers' Katrina
    by Greg Palast Don't worry:  the bankers are safe.  The sub-prime sharks, derivatives divas, media mavens and their hairdressers, their trophy wives and their trophies' personal trainers, the movers and shakers and money-makers, are all out of danger. Despite the warning that in a couple of day ...
  • Me and Piers Morgan:Hacked and AttackedHow Mor ...
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout.org/Buzzflash I am not surprised that Piers Morgan has been outed for hacking phones (listening, in one case, to personal messages between Heather Mills and Paul McCartney). I learned about the creepy antics of this one-man TV-host crime spree the hard way ...
  • Not Another Ransom Notefrom Congressman Boehner
    by Greg Palast It was quite upsetting to find our President blindfolded and tied to a chair at the GOP Tea Party headquarters, but I'm sure the $2.2 trillion ransom we paid to the hostage-takers is worth it. Well, now that the Obama presidency is over, we can move on to more serious matters ...
  • Who killed "Stieg" Larsson?
    I asked my daughter if she would like to add her own recollections about JK Rowling and the "alternative" Harry Potter endings Jo Rowling told us when we were hanging out in the Green Room at BBC Television Centre. (I provide investigative stories for the BBC current affairs program Newsnight.) ...
  • It's Not Default of Obama:Jail GOP Deadbeats f ...
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash.com Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist gave debtors' prison a bad rap. Too bad. I'd say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea. Bush reads from My Pet BudgetLet's talk about how w ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I repair/revamp a stained cotton rug?
    I haven’t done a “repair this” for a while but this is something I’ve been wondering about for a few weeks now: how can I repair/revamp a stained rug? It’s a circular cotton rug with off-white (even before the stains!) and pale blue strips, and even though it was pretty cheap, I love it. But [...]
  • How can I use up buffet sandwiches?
    We’ve had a “clever idea” email from Jos, telling us about their personal battle against food waste at work: This sounds so cheap but I regularly “steal” the last of the sandwiches after meetings at work because they’d go in the bin if I didn’t take them. I eat some fresh, freeze others to eat [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle crême brulée/desser ...
    We’ve had an email from Jeroen: We designed a lid for the Bonne Maman crême brulée cup that we usually through away. Here you can see a short movie about it: While I’ll admit the lid is very cute and well made, it didn’t occur to me that it needed one before reusing — my [...]
  • How can I use up “past it” frozen ...
    We’ve had an email from Joanna: I found some part-used bags of frozen peas, sweetcorn and broccoli at the bottom of my chest freezer – expiry date 2009! My hubs is happy to ignore expiry dates but we tried some of the peas and they were tough and tasted washed out, not good! Any other [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle sweetcorn plants?
    Tina has asked a very timely question: what can I use sweetcorn plants for? I like to eat or use as much of my plants as possible, before composting the rest. There must be a million uses for corn plants, but can I find any? help! We’ve already covered the empty cobs, after the lovely [...]

Age of Autism

  • Silent Sunday
    By Cathy Jameson One of my best friends started a blog a few weeks ago. I’ve never followed blogs religiously, but I’m checking in daily to her spot on the blogosphere to see what’s new in her world. In the...
  • An Autism Dad's Birthday Wish
    Managing Editor's Note: Happy one day late birthday, Chuck. By Chuck Hancock Another birthday today. Catching up to my friend "dirt," slowly but surely. My present however came yesterday, sitting in, of all places, Chick Filet. Charlie, my almost 6...
  • The Ministers of Vaccination Misinformation
    By Robert Schecter Over past year the vaccine establishment has been pushing back against those questioning the advisability of vaccinating and revaccinating, into perpetuity, every man, woman and child on the planet. Dr Paul Offit, the establishment’s de facto spokesman...
  • BMJ Prepared to Climb-down and Acknowledge Mer ...
    By John Stone After months of arm-wrestling British Medical Journal seem to be preparing to give more ground in acknowledging its commercial relationship with MMR manufacturers Merck. Following pressure from Age of Autism and AHRP in February and March BMJ...
  • New IOM Report on Vaccine Adverse Effects Show ...
    Safeminds.org Washington DC. The Institute of Medicine's Panel on Adverse Effects of Vaccines issued a report today on the evidence and causality of vaccine harms. Despite a glowing press release, the report does little to allay public concerns over adverse...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Europe – Spain’s Main Political Parties ...
    Bloomberg – Spainâs two main political parties agreed to enshrine the principle of budget discipline in the constitution and gave themselves until next year to set specific deficit goals for 2020. Read Article
  • Another Great British Whitewash: Baha Mousa in ...
    Guardian – An independent report into how a hotel worker died while in British custody in Iraq will clear the army of systematic torture and mistreatment, according to the Sunday Telegraph. However, the document will criticise the conduct of individual soldiers and highlight “numerous failures” ...
  • 65 Million More Obese Adults in the US and 11 ...
    ScienceDaily — The rising prevalence of obesity around the globe places an increasing burden on the health of populations, on healthcare systems and on overall economies. A major challenge for researchers is to quantify the effect of these burdens to inform public policies. Using a simulation mo ...
  • US diplomat threatens to cut PA funds
    PressTV – A senior US diplomat has warned that the United States would cut financial aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it pursues a statehood vote at the United Nations next month. Read article
  • Bomb blast in Pakistan market
    Reuters – A bomb blast in a market in northwest Pakistan killed 10 people and left more than a dozen inured. Deborah Gembara reports.

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Which electric car is the most green?
    The Times business section is taking a look at a new crop of electric cars. The Times' Jerry Hirsch found there are significant difference in how these cars fare when it comes to carbon emissions: Is it worth the added...
  • Students help damaged forest
    The Wildwood Picnic Area, located about five miles into the Angeles National Forest along Big Tujunga Canyon Road, is starting to look like its old self again. A dozen freshly painted picnic benches are neatly positioned in the shade, and...
  • Endangered arroyo toads cling to existence in ...
    Dropping to his knees for a better view of a dime-sized arroyo toad hunting insects in the shade of a willow tree, Ramirez said, “The fight to save these creatures is far from over. But at the end of the day, the best decisions will be based on the best available science collected in places like ...
  • The cave is his classroom, the environment his ...
    When I start relating our impacts on the environment to caves via ground water pollution, people start to see the big picture. And from all the people at the end of my tour who are nodding, agreeing that it's in our best interest to protect caves, if only one of them takes it to the next level ...
  • Marine sanctuaries delayed in Southern California
    Under the California Marine Life Protection Act, fishing will be banned or restricted in 49 marine protected areas to protect sea life and replenish depleted fish populations.

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • The Enemies Within: The 20 Most Dangerous Cons ...
    America has enemies. Not just abroad, but within our shores as well. And our domestic enemies, as it turns out, are MORE dangerous and destructive than the terrorists could ever hope to be. Because while the terrorists want to destroy us,Submitted by Barbara W. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note- ...
  • Lawless Israel, Ukraine and the mysterious cas ...
    Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi vanished from a train in Ukraine earlier this year. He turned up in an Israeli prison nine days later, but is he really the brains behind Hamas� missile programme, as Israel claims?Submitted by Joseph M. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Child dies every six minutes in Somalia famine
    A child is dying from starvation every six minutes in drought-hit Somalia, shocked aid workers revealed recently. It means that around 250 malnourished youngsters under five die each day. Any petition or donation link is highly appreciated.Submitted by Elias Ayad to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Conversations on the Road To Compassion - VIDEO
    Canadians for Compassion-- interviews Canadians from all walks of life on three questions: How would you define compassion? Where do you see compassion working in your home/school/community? Where do you see the need for more compassion?Submitted by Care For All to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Israeli doctors save Palestinian baby
    Gazan seven-month-old's life saved thanks to open-heart surgery in Israeli hospital. 'Hopefully, this is a good sign for peace,' says child's grandfather.Submitted by Alexandra R. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

  • UN Distributes Livestock Vaccines in Darfur
    Enough vaccines to immunize 1.2 million animals - including cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys and camels - will be handed out in Darfur's three states over the next two months, thanks to the efforts of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
  • Flow of Somalis Fleeing Famine Decreases Due t ...
    Yemen hosts the second-largest population of Somali refugees in the region, with nearly 192,000, some 15,000 of whom have arrived since January.
  • Violence in South Sudan's Jonglei State Displa ...
    She stressed that the United States supports efforts by the Government of South Sudan to end the violence and urges it to take additional steps to protect civilians and mitigate conflict throughout South Sudan.
  • Half-Victory for India: Anna Hazare Ends Fast, ...
    Anna Hazare ended his fast in New Delhi today, as the Indian parliament accepted three key demands in the Jan Lokpal bill. This is only a Half-Victory for India
  • Deadly Attack Against UN Compound in Nigerian ...
    The compound in Abuja, a series of buildings that house the offices of 26 UN humanitarian and development agencies, was struck by a car bomb at around 11 a.m. local time. Hundreds of UN staff members were working in the compound at the time of the a

Worldnews

  • Hat-trick hero Mario Gomez calls for more ...
    Thomas Muller is delighted with his side's performance at the Fritz-Walter stadium and is feeling confident after three consecutive Bundesliga wins Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 By Jonathan Birchall Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�1. FCK, Bayern Munich Bongarts Mario Gomez has ca ...
  • Fruit flies may offer a way to eliminate ...
    The war against dengue fever has enlisted a tiny new ally: a cunning bacterium that inoculates mosquitoes against the virus that causes the debilitating disease. The dengue virus hops from person to person via mosquitoes, so if the insects can't carry the virus, disease transmission might b ...
  • How KFC & McDonald's plan plan to target ...
    Jalandhar is chicken country, as one would expect every nook and cranny in Punjab to be. It also happens to be a harbinger of India's fast-food future, thanks to a head-to-head fight between two iconic American companies in this bustling city. KFC and McDonald's, whose famous signages - the ...
  • Astronomers get rare look at black hole c ...
    For the first time, astronomers say they've been witness to a supermassive black hole consuming a star. Two papers in the journal Nature describe powerful blasts of...
  • Eat according to your genes
    Plagued by a family history of heart disease, diabetes or cancer? Scientists say you can potentially change your destiny, by changing your diet to one that's designed for your DNA. EVER wonder why some people can stay skinny all their lives, even as they swear by a steady diet of fried chic ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Emergent Gravity Disproved
    kdawson writes "A paper up on the ArXiv claims to disprove the gravity-from-entropy theory of Erik Verlinde, which we discussed soon after he introduced the idea in a symposium late in 2009. Archil Kobakhidze says that experiments measuring the effect of gravity on quantum particles (neutrons in ...
  • Dean's Lecture--Scientific Vision for the Next ...
    “Toward a Scientific Vision for the Next Ten Years†(Source: Public Health News Headlines from Johns Hopkins)
  • Nucynta ER Approved For Moderate To Severe Chr ...
    An oral painkiller called Nucynta ER (tapentadol extended-release tablets), has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced. The medication is designed to be taken twice daily for the control of moderate to severe chronic pain in adults w ...
  • Few Treatment Options for Afghans as Drug Use ...
    Drug use and the paucity of treatment options have taken a heavy toll in Afghanistan, where there were about 900,000 drug users in 2010, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
  • Well Blog: Quick and Easy Cooking With Grains
    For simple, healthful and fast meals, the solution may already be in your pantry, writes Martha Rose Shulman in this week's Recipes for Health. (Source: NYT Health)

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Political Will Prevents the Dawning of the Lon ...
  • Climate, Risk and Uncertainty
    It's peculiar that Judith Curry is criticizing the IPCC and climate community for understressing uncertainty. It's something one can imagine from the Wattses and McIntyres with their narrow focus on data, but it's incomprehensible from a member of the community.
  • Irene, Climate Change, Flooding and Public Health
    NRDC’s “Climate Change Threatens Health” webpages map five major climate-health vulnerabilities across the US. One of these is Flooding, which much of the East Coast is now bracing for because of the approach of Hurricane Irene.
  • Thoughts On The Green Scissors Report
    The most recent Green Scissors report is out, recommending hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies that could be cut to reduce the budget deficit and improve our environment.� Green Scissors provides a host of useful proposals to save tens of billions of dollars annually by eliminating unne ...
  • Exports A Big Opportunity for U.S. Advanced Ba ...
    The U.S. government is waking up to this possibly good news story. At the 2011 NAATBatt Annual Meeting and Conference on September 7-8, 2011 in Louisville, representatives of the U.S. Department of Commerce, The Export-Import Bank of the United States and the International Finance Corporation ( ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Follow-Up Comments on Palestinian Statehood Vote
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article discussed the upcoming September UN General Assembly vote, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/08/general-assembly-palestinian-statehood.html Explaining the legal issues, it said delaying what's long overdue is ...
  • Rebel Assassins Terrorizing Libyans
    by Stephen Lendman In his new article headlined, "9/11 After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything?" Paul Craig Roberts said: "Today Americans are unsafe, not because of terrorists and domestic extremists, but because they have lost their civil liberties and no protection from unaccountable ...
  • General Assembly Palestinian Statehood Vote
    by Stephen Lendman Earlier articles discussed it, accessed through the following links: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/04/palestinian-statehood-and-other.html http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/04/declaring-independent-palestinian-state.html They explain that in 1987, Law Pro ...
  • Libya: Keep the Freedom Flame Alive
    by Stephen Lendman Trapped for days in Tripoli's Rixos Hotel, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) arranged for the release of over 30 foreign journalists yesterday. They're now at the Corinthia Hotel, awaiting a boat for transport to Malta, then home via Europe that can' ...
  • NATO's Libya War: A Nuremberg Level Crime
    by Stephen Lendman The US/UK/French-led war on Libya will be remembered as one of history's greatest crimes. It violates the letter and spirit of international law and America's Constitution. The Nuremberg Tribunal's Chief Justice Robert Jackson (a US Supreme Court Justice) called Nazi war ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Clean energy revolution will put world on safe ...
    WWH – (NewDesignWorld Press Center) – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a clean energy revolution to help transform the global economy and put the world on a cleaner, safer, more equitable path. âCountries that move quickly down a clean energy pathway will be the economic powerhouses ...
  • An enemy of democracy?
    bangkokpost.com - He was the first journalist in Hiroshima after the bomb, describing the nuclear fallout under the headline: ”Warning to the world: The atomic plague.” He reported on the wars in Korea and Indochina from a non-Western perspective, and was sympathetic to Mao’s Cultural Revolution ...
  • South Africa: Farmworkers’ Dismal, Dangerous Lives
    WWH,HRW Release – (Cape Town) â Workers in Western Cape province who help produce South Africaâs renowned wines and fruit are denied adequate housing, proper safety equipment, and basic labor rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The government of South Africa, along with t ...
  • WWH News Briefs Sunday
    Hurricane Irene closes in on quiet, anxious NYC NEW YORK (AP) — Hurricane Irene bore down on a dark and quiet New York early Sunday, bringing winds and rapidly rising seawater that threatened parts of the city. The rumble of the subway system was silenced for the first time in years, the city al ...
  • 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 ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The InGREENspirational 7!
    "Meet amazing people. Learn cool stuff. And have lots of fun along the way." read more
  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • ConAgra Sued for Calling GMO Canola "Natural"
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Could this finally be the end of "natural" labels on genetically modified foods? read more
  • 21 Things You Should Know about Hurricanes
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As Hurricane Irene threatens the East Coast, government officials are shutting down public transit and ordering evacuations from North Carolina to low-lying areas of New York City. But before the storm strikes, tap these facts about hurricanes … they just might save your ...

big think

  • Silver Lining In King Memorial Dedication Delay
    Maybe the silver lining in the postponement of the King Memorial Dedication ceremony is the time it gives us to appreciate just how dangerous it was to be a civil rights leader in the 50’s and 60’s. Because it is easy now for us to revere Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. long after his death. Easy now ...
  • How Meditation Helps You Focus
    What's the Latest Development? Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and Massachusetts General �Hospital have found that people trained to meditate over an eight-week period were better able to control a specific type of brain waves, called alpha rhythms. The data shows they were therefore able to fo ...
  • At the Dawn of American Literature: A Hurricane
    Cuba. 1527. "All hands labored severely under a heavy fall of water that entire day and until dark on Sunday. By then the rain and the tempest had stepped up until there was as much agitation in the town as at sea. All the houses and churches went down. We had to walk seven or eight together ... ...
  • Tear-Jerker Response & Depression Risk
    What's the Latest Development? Toronto researchers using MRI have found that the way�formerly depressed�people's brains react to sad movies is a reliable predictor of their likelihood to relapse.�They found that the areas of the brain that lit up when the formerly depressed people watched a sa ...
  • Psychological Research Stuck in the Lab?
    What's the Latest Development? Psychologist Douglas L Medin admits he loves experiments but on reflecting on three of his favorites among the "Greatest Studies in Psychology”, finds all were field based research from social psychology. Yet as psychology sits today, it "appears to be way ...Rea ...

Information Liberation

  • CIA aided New York police in spying on Muslims ...
    Despite a prohibition on spying within the United States, the Central Intelligence Agency played a key role in transforming the New York Police Department's intelligence unit into a cutting edge spy shop dedicated to gathering information on Muslims,...
  • "A Wolf In Sheep"
    "The interesting thing about today is that I had intended to write this piece on Warren Buffett all week. It was just really fortuitous timing that this Bank of America news came out today. Gosh where to start. First of all, this $5 billion preferred...
  • "Fair" Taxation
    Pretend you're at church for Morning Worship, or attending a crowded lecture, or watching Hollywood's latest with a few hundred other fans. Suddenly, a SWAT team breaks down the door, submachine guns at the ready. Amid screams, their commander shouts...
  • Almost Everything We're Taught Is Wrong
    We grow up learning that some things are just bad: child labor, ticket scalping, price gouging, kidney selling, blackmail, etc. But maybe they're not. What I love about economics is that it can show that what seems harmful is actually good for soc...
  • On the Brink of Inflationary Disaster
    Ever since Ben Bernanke began his massive infusions of money into the financial system, many analysts (including me) have been worried about the severe weakening of the dollar if and when the fractional-reserve-banking system magnified the initial in...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part III – Ju ...
    I said the other day that the Thomson scandal threatened to blow up into Australia’s Watergate. Boy, I wasn’t wrong! The muck is being piled higher and higher. Now it’s reached the person of Julia Gillard herself. OK, first a … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part II: End This N ...
    Since I posted my previous thread on this subject four weeks ago, things have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. The rather tawdry scandal involving Craig Thomson, Labor MHR for the seat of Dobell in New South Wales, has … Continue reading →
  • Playing The Race Card Part II: Anarchy In The UK
    What do you make of the riots happening in many British cities? I’ve read with some interest the discussion on GE’s blog, although I personally believe the emphasis on race is misplaced. I’m just returned from a week on the … Continue reading →
  • Now Reap The Whirlwind
    The Dow Jones Industrial Average today closed down 512 pointsâthe biggest one-day fall since the 2008 financial crisisâin the wake of the stitched-up deal hammered out in the U.S. Congress on raising the debt ceiling. Carnage is expected today on … Continue reading →
  • Same Old Same Old…
    I’ve been scanning the news pages for anything that reads like common sense in this whole debt ceiling issue. With very little success. And with less than twelve hours to go before Brucker Bummer, the American Precedent, must sign off … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

  • Final Environmental Impact Statement for the K ...
    US State Dept. http://www.keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/clientsite/keystonexl.nsf?Open [From a post on The Hill's E2 Wire by Andrew Restuccia and Ben Geman]  The State Department said Friday that a proposed pipeline slated to carry Canadian oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries poses little environ ...
  • Continued Warming Could Transform Greater Yell ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (August 9, 2011 vol. 108 no. 32 13165-13170) / by Anthony L. Westerling,1, Monica G. Turner,1, Erica A. H. Smithwick, William H. Romme, and Michael G. Ryan http://www.pnas.org/content/108/32/13165.full.pdf+html [Abstract]  Climate change is likely ...
  • Public Perceptions on Transportation Character ...
    US DOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics / by Jenny Guarino and Pheny Weidman http://1.usa.gov/razFF1 [Abstract]  The Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, today released Public Perceptions on ...
  • The EPA’s New Air Quality Regulations: All Pai ...
    National Center for Policy Analysis / by H. Sterling Burnett and Kennedy Meier http://www.ncpa.org/media/new-epa-air-regs-will-cost-billions-of-dollars [From Website]  Over the past two years the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed or finalized a number of air quality regulat ...
  • Boomerang Effects in Science Communication: Ho ...
    Communication Research (published online 11 August 2011; DOI: 10.1177/0093650211416646) / by P. Sol Hart and Erik C. Nisbet http://bit.ly/nSuBmS [Abstract] The deficit-model of science communication assumes increased communication about science issues will move public consensus toward scientific ...

Scientific American - News

  • Extraterrestrial Hurricanes: Other Planets Hav ...
    By Earth standards, Hurricane Irene is a monster storm. But it's just a baby compared to the massive cyclones of Jupiter and Saturn.Our planet is not the only one in the solar system that boasts huge, hurricane-like storms . The gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, for example, churn out spinning squ ...
  • How Cold Is a Y Dwarf Star? Even You Are Warmer
    Scientists have discovered the coldest type of star-like bodies known, which at times can be cooler than the human body.Astronomers had unsuccessfully pursued these dark entities, called Y dwarfs, ever since their existence was theorized more than a decade ago. They are nearly impossible to see ...
  • Childhood Vaccines Cleared of Autism, Diabetes ...
    From Nature magazineVaccines are largely safe, and do not cause autism or diabetes, the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) said in a report issued today . This conclusion followed a review of more than 1,000 published research studies. [More]
  • Cloud Formation May Be Linked to Cosmic Rays
    From Nature magazineIt sounds like a conspiracy theory: 'cosmic rays' from deep space might be creating clouds in Earth's atmosphere and changing the climate. Yet an experiment at CERN, Europe's high-energy physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, is finding tentative evidence for just t ...
  • Black-White Science Funding Gap Still Constrai ...
    Compared with white American researchers, black American researchers are a third less likely to have an early-career National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funded, according to an NIH-commissioned study published August 18 in Science . It’s a thorough study, experts say, but it leaves one ...

First Truths

  • Saul Newman on Zerzan, Bookchin, and Postmoder ...
    From Saul Newman's The Politics of Postanarchism: Yet, these two thinkers have more in common than it may appear: they both hang on to the Enlightenment desire for social fullness. That is, the idea of a rational social harmony and the overcoming of alienation. Bookchin seeks this social fullne ...
  • The Cost Principle and the Sovereignty Principle
    Benjamin Tucker, from Liberty, Vol. V.�No. 12.:It does not follow, because I have the right, and every other man has the right to the products of his labor and to the liberty of retaining them forever in his own hands, that it is, therefore, either right or best that all men should retain all ...
  • "[A]narchism is the usher of science"
    From Albert R. Parsons, husband of Lucy Parsons: The philosophy of anarchism is included in the one word "Liberty;" yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else. No barriers whatever to human progression, to thought, or investigation, are placed by anarchism; nothing is considered s ...
  • Carson on NATO
    In a private email, Kevin Carson offers an accurate summary of NATO's role within the framework of empire: Just give it a few years -- they'll be readjusting the boundaries of this "mutual defense pact" eastward and southward until they include Japan and Angola. Maybe Venezuela as well. And righ ...
  • "Capitalism" as "Anti-Concept"

Media Co-Op

  • Following the Money in Lybia
    Western Companies In; Eastern Companies Out As War Winds Down Toronto - The victory of the rebels in Lybia's recent conflict and their taking of Tripoli have created a stampede by foreign companies trying top shore up the countries oil res ...
  • Up and at 'Em: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    First of all let me say I'm not your average film reviewer. Case in point: this review was written after f ...
  • End the Costly and Pointless Prosperity Mine R ...
    WILLIAMS LAKE, BC,�Aug. 26, 2011�/CNW/ - The Tsilhqot'in National Government today called on the Federal government to halt the continuous drain on everyone's time and resources and to reject Taseko Mines Ltd's (TML) second rebid for the Prosperity Mine project. "If the Canadian government wants ...
  • Well Blow Me Down!
    In which we examine the wind portion of the Nova Scotia Renewable Electricity Plan, in a slightly humourous light. The Renewable Electricity Plan, released by the Nova Scotia Department of Energy, is meant to be the guideline by which Nova ...
  • The summer is nearly over. Make your back-to-w ...
    September call for pitches Hello contributing members, Are your pockets feeling empty after vacation splurging? In September, as we do every month, we will pay two contributors for their news features to appear in The Dominion. We prefer ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Quote of the Day: Who You Calling Right Wing?
    The Guardian has a big scoop today: The bastards! "Recognisably rightwing"! That's going too far. Someday soon there will be a price to be paid for this kind of insolence. Comments | Post Comment����
  • Breezy Talk About Oil
    Earlier today, in my post about the economic volatility produced by world demand for oil getting close to the world's supply ceiling, I wrote: This is not something that can be tamed with gasoline taxes in the United States or anything similar. It’s a global phenomenon. This is all the more r ...
  • Al-Qaeda #3 Still a Dangerous Job
    Remember all those #3 guys in al-Qaeda that we used to kill with such frequency? Well, with Osama bin Laden's death they've moved up to #2, and apparently we're still killing them. Comments | Post Comment����
  • A Wee Bit More on Oil and the Economy
    Here's a little bit of a follow-up to my post yesterday about oil production and how it may now be a binding constraint on economic growth. The basic argument is fairly simple: Global production of oil has hit a ceiling — or, at best, will grow very slowly for the next few years on its way t ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 26 August 2011
    No theme today, just some nice pictures of the cats taken as the sun goes down and provides some lovely lighting. Enjoy. And for all of you on the East Coast, human and otherwise, stay safe from Irene this weekend. Comments | Post Comment����

Insanity Report

  • Eric Cantor is a Douche
    I know you probably read that title and said “Duh” but I’m serious here.  I’ve always known Cantor to be a little prick when it comes to politics, but this new stunt he’s trying to pull has really pissed me off. This week, Virginia experienced a magnitude 5.8 earthquake, one of the most powerfu ...
  • Will & Jada and the Death of Black Marriages
    See what I did there?  I wrote a completely horse shit title, linking an equally bullshit rumor to a completely made up “crisis” in the black community.  And why did I do it? Adsense of course Yup, see I’m trying my best to whore out my integrity for pennies on the dollar hoping that one [...] ...
  • PETA Does Porn
    I swear, PETA just doesn’t get it.  They really don’t.  They seem to think that any publicity is good publicity.  If I sound like a broken record here, it’s because I’ve said this before about them.  I understand that in a way, activist have to be attention whores because if you can’t bring ...
  • IC 266: Rebooted
    Topics: Kriss shares his “moment of stupidity” Reboots & remakes of movies Kid kills great grandmother with sword Woman killed in Aruba had an insurance policy taken out on her Allen West says he’s the Modern Day Harriet Tubman Share with your friends:
  • We Need Common Sense Laws
    It’s no secret that I’m no fan of criminals.  I watch Lockup, Jail and Locked Up Abroad just so I can laugh and make fun of all the idiots that do dumb shit that get them thrown in jail.  When the prisoners at Pelican Bay went on a hunger strike to protest “harsh conditions” in [...]

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • New genome sequence could improve important ag ...
    An international team of scientists, funded in the UK by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), has sequenced the genome of a Chinese cabbage variety of a plant called Brassica rapa, a close relative of oilseed rape. The research, published Aug. 28 in the journal Nat ...
  • Patients are living longer with ICDs, but paci ...
    The adverse effect of right ventricular pacing on implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) patient survival is sustained long-term; however, the impact appears to be mitigated by cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), based on a scientific poster being presented at the European society of ...
  • Rare immune cell is asset and liability in fig ...
    The same trait that makes a rare immune cell invaluable in fighting some infections also can be exploited by other diseases to cause harm, two new studies show. read more
  • When it comes to pursuing your goals, let you ...
    A new University of Alberta study says when it comes to goal setting, your unconscious mind can be a great motivator. read more
  • Results of medication studies in top medical j ...
    Studies about medications published in the most influential medical journals are frequently designed in a way that yields misleading or confusing results, new research suggests. read more

unEarthed

  • The Fight to Stop Keystone XL Is Not Over
    Earthjustice continues to challenge the controversial pipeline Alberta tar sands development. (Photo by EvolveLove/Flickr Creative Commons) The U.S. Departm ...
  • California Ignores Its Own Scientists on Dange ...
    Internal documents reveal toxic secrets behind approval of methyl iodide Applying a cancer-causing poison on California’s farm fields sounds like some dastardl ...
  • National Parks as Living Art
    The view from 3,000 miles above the earth Death Valley National Park. (Photo: NASA) Remember the “Star Gate” sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey when Bowman ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Shake, Rattle and Coal
    Will it take an earthquake to get someone to inspect these coal ash dams? Aftermath of coal-ash dam spill in Tennessee The earthquake that yesterday rattled ...
  • Report Sheds Light on Chemicals in Oil Dispersants
    Earthjustice advocacy, litigation reveal dispersantsâ dirty chemical secrets Pop quiz: nearly 2 million gallons of chemicals are about to be dumped into the oc ...

Brave New Climate

  • Open Thread 18
    The previous Open Thread has gone past 550 comments, so it’s time for a fresh palette. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like â there is nothing âoff topicâ here â within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of ...
  • Risk perception – of fans and fission re ...
    Guest Post by Craig Schumacher. Craig has been commenting on nuclear power themed websites for about five years and has published his own blog, Channelling the Strong Force, since 2008. He formed the nuclear power advocacy organisation, Nucleus 92 Inc., in 2009. He is a regular commenter on this ...
  • Nuclear risk insurance
    Guest Post by Luke Weston. Luke is a Melbourne-based physicist and occasional freelance electronic engineer, with a strong interest in educating the community about nuclear energy and related issues. It is often said by the anti-nuclearists that the commercial nuclear energy industry “can’t get ...
  • TCASE 14: Assessment of electricity generation ...
    In the previous TCASE post, I considered how various low-carbon energy technologies meet the following criteria: commercial readiness, scalability, dispatchability, fuel constraints, load access, storage requirements, capacity factor and emissions intensity. Here I consider the next issue: cost ...
  • TCASE 13: Assessment of suitability of technol ...
    The problem of replacing our dependence on fossil fuels is complex. In Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy (TCASE) #12, a checklist was provided to allow assessment of energy transition plans. The sort of questions listed in TCASE 12 are critical for evaluating the feasibility of future ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • PHOTOS: Low turnout for J14 weekend demonstrations
    Demonstrations across the country manage to bring together only 20,000 people. Protest in Jaffa is fiery and emotional Just one week before the âmillion man marchâ that the J14 movement plans on holding next Saturday, the nation-wide protests last night showed a sharp drop in numbers – and in s ...
  • Do Muslims and Jews have equal freedom of reli ...
    After a group of settlers attacked a mosque in one of the villages of Ramallah in the West Bank, the Israeli army put checkpoints at the entrances of the closest settlement and checked the identity of every person going in or out of the settlement. On grounds of fear of escalation [...]
  • New Wikileaks cable highlights Israeli blockad ...
    In a 2009 cable, American diplomats complain that Israel is not issuing work visas for Palestinian companies’ foreign employees While most people who follow the news from Israel and the Palestinian territories know well enough that Israel blocks travel to and from Gaza, it is always surprising ...
  • Akiva Orr on J14: “The longest journey s ...
    Over the years of writing and wrestling with Israel/Palestine, Akiva Orr has become a supportive figure. Born in 1930’s Berlin, Orr has lived the entirety of Israel’s existence. From Eric Fried to Joe Slovo, Akiva can speak for days about his personal relationships with some of the most interest ...
  • Likud and Glenn Beck: the two-headed monster
    By Mya Guarnieri There’s much bewilderment about how the ruling party in Israel came to endorse someone like Glenn Beck. But the truth is that they are a perfect match – and while Beck is talking the (crazy) talk, it’s the Likud that’s actually walking the walk. Reflecting on Glenn Beckâs visit ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Large scale environmental water release for M ...
    More than 150 gigalitres of water recovered for the environment will be delivered to hundreds of wetlands along the Murrumbidgee River, benefiting the Murray system as far downstream as South Australia's Lower Lakes and Coorong.
  • Deadline extended for West Kimberley National ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the deadline for a decision about National Heritage listing of the west Kimberley until the end of August to allow further community consultation and further consideration of whether the proposed heritage values are sufficiently comprehensive.
  • Call for nominations for Environmentalist of ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has called for nominations for the 2011 Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award and the Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award.
  • Water reuse scheme benefits Hawkesbury River
    Construction of a treated wastewater re-use scheme at South Windsor as part of an Australian Government funded project to improve the health of the Hawkesbury River has progressed significantly.
  • World Environment Day delivers $86 million fo ...
    Federal Water and Environment Minister Tony Burke and South Australia’s Water and Environment Minister Paul Caica today outlined $86.7 million for a new project to improve the river’s health and resilience of its wetlands and floodplains from the Victorian border to Wellington.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

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

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • Obama Tours FEMA, Officials Warn of Downgraded ...
    Intro: "The nation's top emergency response officials issued stark warnings Saturday that Hurricane Irene brings an array of major dangers along the East Coast despite being downgraded to a Category 1 storm." President Obama gets an update on the status of Hurricane Irene at the FEMA headquar ...
  • Obama Tours FEMA, Officials Warn of Downgraded ...
    Intro: "The nation's top emergency response officials issued stark warnings Saturday that Hurricane Irene brings an array of major dangers along the East Coast despite being downgraded to a Category 1 storm." President Obama gets an update on the status of Hurricane Irene at the FEMA headquar ...
  • Billions Meant for Struggling Homeowners May P ...
    An estimated $30 billion from the bailout that was slated to aid homeowners will not be made available to them. Congress has mandated that the money be used to pay down the debt instead. In Boulder Co., the true cost of the foreclosure crisis becomes clear as a disabled former homeowner is aw ...
  • Billions Meant for Struggling Homeowners May P ...
    An estimated $30 billion from the bailout that was slated to aid homeowners will not be made available to them. Congress has mandated that the money be used to pay down the debt instead. In Boulder Co., the true cost of the foreclosure crisis becomes clear as a disabled former homeowner is aw ...
  • U.S. Economy Even Weaker Than Thought
    Intro: "The U.S. economy grew at a meager 1 percent annual pace this spring, a slower rate than previously estimated. The downward revision will likely increase fears that the economy is at risk of another recession." Spending increased only 0.4 percent in the second quarter, the weakest grow ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2 ...
    ==== Libya: NATO Sorties Approach 21,000, Combat Sorties 8,000 Cyber Warfare, Armed Extremists, Bribery: Russian General Says NATO Makes Deals With Anyone To Promote Its Aims NATO Provided Special Forces, Air Force For Regime Change Iran Warns NATO Not To Enter Syria Afghan War: At Least 413 NAT ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2 ...
    ==== Reintegrated Into NATO, Frances Takes On Ivory Coast, Libya…Syria Lesson Of Libyan War: Completely Capitulate As Soon As Possible Or Develop Sophisticated Weapons Pentagon’s Horn Of Africa Task Force Hosts 11-Nation Gathering Britain Boosts Military Ties With Azerbaijan Versus Armenia, Iran ...
  • Marcel Proust: Every day war is declared anew
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Marcel Proust From Time Regained (1927) Translated by Stephen Hudson “The war continued indefinitely and those who had announced years ago from a reliable source that negotiations for peace had begun, specifying even the clauses of the ...
  • Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2 ...
    ==== CIA Operating In Tripoli Barely Independent: U.S. AFRICOM Commander In South Sudan NATO Conducts Integrated Interceptor Missile Test In Europe Lockheed Opens New Testing Ground For Advanced Interceptor Missile Northrop Produces Viper Strike Missiles For U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Drone Crashes ...
  • William Faulkner: There is only the question: ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts William Faulkner Nobel Prize in Literature speech (1950) Audio Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • The British Descent Into Total Tyranny Takes A ...
    The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie August 28, 2011 After the riots in London and throughout the UK I was quick to report on the full spectrum push against democracy and freedom from all sectors of the British government, including Prime Minister David Cameron. It started wi ...
  • Hurricane Irene Barrels Down On Major East Coa ...
    CNN August 28, 2011 Ocean City, Maryland — After slamming into the East Coast and knocking out power to almost 2 million people, Hurricane Irene is now taking aim at the biggest cities in the Northeast. Irene pummeled Ocean City, Maryland, early Sunday while en route to New York City, threatenin ...
  • Intel Hub News Alert – Oswald/CIA and Li ...
    The Intel Hub August 28, 2011 The Intel Solider Mailing List is a great way to stay up to date on all the latest news and information. We just sent out our latest email blast. Here is web version of the email received by our subscribers. Please join if you haven’t already! var addthis_config = [...]
  • Using Technology Against Them! Join The Intel ...
    The Intel Hub August 28, 2011 Join The Intel Hubs official twitter account for late breaking news as well as unique perspectives from The Intel Hub Crew. We will also be using this account during coverage of protests and breaking news. Follow Us Here. var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":};
  • Do U.S., Mexican Officials Favor One Cartel Ov ...
    By Tim Johnson McClatchy Newspapers August 27, 2011 MEXICO CITY â As the U.S. and Mexican governments increasingly target the brutal criminal gang known as Los Zetas, questions are being asked about why law enforcement officials don’t seem to be paying equal attention to an older and larger cart ...

FRS

  • South Africa: In Durban, its all about &#8220 ...
    Writing on the Wall Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 by Samora Chapman, images by Karen Logan It was an icy Sunday morning. A handful of graffiti writers gathered to paint what everyone thought was a legal wall on Sydney Road, downtown Durban. The event had been organised weeks earlier and was openly ...
  • Make an emergency call! Demand an Evacuation ...
    Having trouble viewing this email? Click here   Dear Friends,   No matter where you are right now, prisoners at Rikers Island need our help.   While we all hope that Hurricane Irene causes as little damage as possible, we need to act now to make sure New York City officials don’t literally l ...
  • Hurricane Irene: Why failing to evacuate inmat ...
    By Chris Kromm, Institute for Southern Studies August 27, 2011–As Hurricane Irene makes its way up the Atlantic seaboard, officials in New York are coming under growing fire for failing to authorize an evacuation of Rikers Island, the city’s main jail complex housing about 12,000 inmates. Unlike ...
  • Did Wikileaks just reveal the US blueprint for ...
    [Documents released by Wikileaks have revealed that, since 2003, the US had high hopes for Gaddafi's collaboration with US/EU economic and military power and designs.  These hopes were based on expectations that Gaddafi's control of Libya was entrenched and unshakable--but this was sharply chall ...
  • Libyan political prisoners set free
    AlJazeeraEnglish on Aug 26, 2011 With Muammar Gaddafi on the run, many political prisoners who opposed him have been set free by Libyan rebel forces and are returning home. At least 107 political prisoners held in the Abu Salim prison have returned home to the eastern city of Benghazi.  Many fam ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • A little more reading with Sunday's column...
    To read the column, go here.To read about the rabbi's concern that the East Coast earthquake was God's judgment on same-sex marriage, go here. To read Pat Robertson's take on the 2010 Haiti earthquake, go here.
  • The loneliest lifeguard. Ever.
    While Connecticut braces for Irene, (which, as the Weather Channel says, has begun its "destructive march up the coast" and which James Barron in the New York Times called "290 miles of fury dancing angrily across the Atlantic Ocean") Robert Consolatore, 18, of East Haven, sits in his lifeguard ...
  • Good luck with Irene!
    And see you on Monday.
  • An ode to consumerism!
  • Oh, those naughty Koch brothers
    Guess where their lobbying money has gone now? A report from Greenpeace says that in addition to throwing their scads of cash behind climate-change denial and anti-union initiatives, those Krazy Kochs From Kansas are also funding lobbying efforts to shoot down safety measures that would protect ...

Associated Content

  • 20 Essentials for Hurricane Firsttimers
    The National Weather Center and disaster preparedness agencies will have you buying enough supplies to build a village. This is a simplified guide to preparing for upcoming storms this hurricane season from a seasoned storm veteran.Contributor: Melissa Diaz Published: Aug 26, 2011
  • What Hasn't Changed Since 9/11/2001?
    Although numerous changes have occurred, humanity's problem remains: how to reach those burning with hate.Contributor: Lara Viril Published: Aug 26, 2011
  • Rick Perry's Anti-Democracy Stance Threatens C ...
    Republican frontrunner Rick Perry's thoughts on changing the Constitution are a threat to democracy.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Aug 26, 2011
  • Famous Green Sea Turtle Andre Found Dead 3 Wee ...
    Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation efforts notwithstanding, Andre the green sea turtle has not survived its release into the wild. The Loggerhead Marinelife Center has issued an official statement announcing the animal's death. What impact did Andre have?Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Au ...
  • Jeter Strikes Out in Love
    Derek Jeter has been one of the most successful baseball players in history. He has not done as well with women, and his list continues to grow after his latest breakup.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Aug 26, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Jurassic Mammal Fossil Hints At Earlier Split ...
    Our ancestors evolved from "Jurassic Mother" This pointy-nosed shrew, a new fossil find from China, may be the earliest grandmother of all placental mammals, scientists report in a new study. Or perhaps she is the oldest great-aunt. Either way, it’s another big find this week in paleontology. T ...
  • NASA Satellites Watch as Hurricane Irene Bears ...
    If you live in the eastern time zone, odds are you're battening down the hatches in advance of Hurricane Irene, a Category 2 monster threatening much of the eastern seaboard. Coastal communities are under mandatory evacuation orders in several states. This NASA Goddard image from Friday morning ...
  • Doctors Who Work With X-Rays May Be Adapting a ...
    Doctors whose bodies are regularly exposed to x-rays may be adapting at the cellular level to protect themselves against radiation, according to a new study. The research hints that humans could adapt to withstand radiation exposure. In a small study, interventional cardiologists, who perform ...
  • Brand-New Supernova Spotted Within Hours, Will ...
    Astronomers just spotted a brand-new supernova mere hours after it exploded, thanks to a robotic telescope and some smart computer algorithms. Now they’re scrambling to use as many telescopes as possible, on Earth and in space, to observe the star’s death throes. New supernovae are not terribl ...
  • Dashboard-Mounted Smartphones Network Together ...
    The perceived future of driving tends to revolve around a networked traffic infrastructure in which cars, traffic signals, and other roadway implements talk to each other electronically to optimize traffic flow and make driving more efficient all around. But MIT researchers think we can do many ...

Veterans Today

  • America’s Libyan Rebels
    Twenty years ago, three hundred and fifty Libyans - trained by the CIA to topple President Ghaddafi, arrived in the United States. This year, they returned to "liberate" Libya.
  • Follow-Up Comments on Palestinian Statehood Vote
    In September, the General Assembly will vote on granting full statehood recognition and de jure UN membership, what only it can grant, not the Security Council. The above linked article explained.
  • The Dream That Still Inspires US
    MLK National Monument Inspires Calls to Continue Civil Rights Leader’s Work to End Poverty and War. Forty eight years ago we marched, hoped and prayed…. Today we still have that hope.
  • Libyan Kabuki
    When hundreds of thousands of Israelis began protesting their own government, that had to be stopped. The timing was all wrong. How was it dealt with? Perfectly timed attacks hit Israel, exactly enough when backed by a barage of propaganda to clear demonstrators off the streets, out of their ...
  • Revising History
    Fairly recently a new group of historians are giving a positive meaning to revising history. Their goal is to go back and do new research to correct the historical errors.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

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

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 34 Pieces Of Evidence That Prove That The Midd ...
    Do you ever get the feeling that the middle class in America is shrinking?  Well, you are not imagining things.  A confluence of very troubling long-term economic trends has created an environment in which the middle class in America is being absolutely shredded.  Today, most Am ...
  • 3, 2, 1: Global Debt Meltdown
    We are steamrolling toward a massive global debt meltdown, and at this point world leaders seem to be all out of solutions.  Over the last 30 years or so, the greatest debt bubble in the history of the planet has produced unprecedented prosperity in the western world.  But now t ...
  • Wake Up America! 10 Very Obvious Reasons Why T ...
    Do you have friends, neighbors and relatives that can't find work?  Well, unfortunately the current U.S. jobs famine is about to get a whole lot worse.  Right now there are approximately 13.9 million unemployed Americans.  That does not count those that "are not looking for work ...
  • Bad News
    The bad news about the economy just keeps rolling in.  If this is an economic recovery, what in the world is the next "recession" going to look like?  Today there was another huge truckload of bad economic news.  The stock market had another 400 point "correction", applications ...
  • Taxed Into Oblivion
    In the United States today, we are being taxed into oblivion, yet it is being done so stealthily that most Americans don't even realize what is happening.  Most people are fixated on federal income tax rates, but the federal income tax is only one of the dozens of different taxe ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Tripoli: Media blackout, why?
    The NATO approach to freedom of expression is threatening independent journalists, closing social network accounts, blocking Twitter and hacking into websites. For some reason it must be. Despite these Fascist policies, those who have felt millions of people gathering around us, desperate for in ...
  • Brightest supernova in 40 years appears
    Berkeley scientists this week discovered a new supernova, closer to Earth than any seen in the last 40 years, and believe they’ve spotted it within hours of its explosion. Astronomers are now scrambling to observe it with as many telescopes as possible, including the Hubble Space Telescope, and ...
  • France and Italy Compete over Libyan Prize
    The race for Libya’s vast oil wealth is gathering momentum. States who worked together during the NATO airstrikes are now working against each other in the battle to secure lucrative energy contracts. ­Meanwhile, fears are rising that a new regime in Libya could easily slide into corruption. Ha ...
  • Giant rat killed by pitchfork in Marcy Houses ...
    It sounds like an urban legend: giant mutant-looking rats roaming a city housing project. Only there’s a picture. A photo making the rounds shows Housing Authority worker Jose Rivera minutes after he speared the humongous rodent with a pitchfork at the Marcy Houses. It’s covered in white fur and ...
  • Steve Jobs steps down as Apple CEO, remains Ch ...
    Less than an hour ago Apple’s Board of Directors announced that Steve Jobs resigned as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. His place will be taken by Jobs’ trusted Tim Cook, who up until now was Apple’s Chief Operating Officer. Steve Jobs’ stepping down as Apple’s CEO doesn’t mean he is quitt ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • Openleaks hints at Wikileaks vulnerability, en ...
    TweetAccording to Spiegel, a complete version of Cablegate has been available on the internet. This is their account of the story: Julian Assange uploaded an encrypted archive containing Cablegate to the Wikileaks webserver, to share it with an associate, to whom he also gave the password. When ...
  • 2011-08-28 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. - See @wlfind for some of the latest information found in the newly rel ...
  • 2011-08-28 Forbes - Bulgaria Glorifies "Bulgar ...
    TweetBulgaria's Energy Mafia: Bogomil Manchev on the cover of Forbes This week edition of Forbes - Bulgaria features Bogomil Manchev on the cover page. Manchev who's presented by Forbes as an "energy innovator" has been exposed in a secret diplomatic cable from Sofia, revealed by Wikileaks. B ...
  • 2011-08-28 WikiLeaks: US Embassy in Sofia Back ...
    TweetFrom Novinite.com GMO protest in Sofia. Photo: e-vestnik.com Bulgaria's legislation on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) has been carefully followed by the US Embassy in Sofia. The information comes from several US diplomatic cables, (one by current US Ambassador in Sofia, James Warli ...
  • 2011-08-27 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. - See @wlfind for some of the latest information found in the newly rele ...

U N News

  • UN chief condemns deadly arson attack in Mexico
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today deplored the arson attack that left 53 people dead in Monterrey, Mexico, yesterday and voiced solidarity with the country's people, the families of the victims and the country's Government.
  • Peru: UN human rights expert commends new indi ...
    Peru has taken "an important step forward" by approving a law compelling private companies to consult indigenous communities before going ahead with major projects such as mines, a United Nations human rights expert said today.
  • Hurricane Irene killed two in Haiti and floode ...
    Hurricane Irene killed two people in Haiti, flooded houses, cut roads, unleashed landslides and devastated farm fields during its passage off the coast of the Caribbean country earlier this week, the United Nations reported today.
  • Clean energy revolution will put world on safe ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a clean energy revolution to help transform the global economy and put the world on a cleaner, safer, more equitable path.
  • Haiti escapes serious damage from Hurricane Ir ...
    Hurricane Irene has left impoverished Haiti relatively unscathed, with only isolated damage from flooding and no widespread serious emergencies in a country that is still struggling to recover from last year's devastating earthquake, the United Nations reported today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • How to use a Watch as a Compass
    A surprisingly simple and easy way to use your watch as a compass only requires having enough sunlight to cast a shadow, and a twig. If you ever become lost, and do not have a compass, you can fairly easily discover your direction. One way is with your wrist watch. The accuracy of this method [...]
  • How To Tie A Square Knot
    One of the most useful knots to learn how to make, or tie, is a square knot. It is the type of knot that fastens two lengths of rope, or string, together. It is a knot that will not slip in most cases. It is not a knot to depend on with your life, but [...]
  • Today in the News:
    News Today (August 28, 2011) Somehow, mysteriously, many animals know – right before a quake will happen… as was the case just prior to the magnitude 5.8 east coast earthquake at the National Zoo. Animals Know a Quake is Coming âTheyâre so big, they should charge them rent.â 3-Foot Rat Killed in ...
  • IRENE Now Just An Apparent Tropical Storm
    (data examined Saturday, 8/27, 3PM Eastern) Have a look for yourself, but it appears that what was once Hurricane IRENE is now apparently Tropical Storm IRENE, according to live online weather stations around the immediate vicinity of North Carolina where it is sliding up the Atlantic coast. A s ...
  • Today in the News:
    News Today (August 26, 2011)   The US grain crops could be badly damaged if beetles like those recently found by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in rice at O’Hare airport, were to establish themselves. Today’s global world of economies and infrastructures are vulnerable to the laws of mother natu ...

Fast Company

  • Tim Cook, Apple CEO, Auburn University Commenc ...
    We've learned a lot about former Apple CEO Steve Jobs's personality over the years. But his sucessor, Tim Cook, is still largely an unknown. Both men did deliver commencement speeches, which we compared�in word clouds, but only Jobs's address was available in text. Here's the complete transcript ...
  • Apache Killer Is The Biggest Little Internet T ...
    This week news broke that an exploit had been published that affected the Apache Web server. You probably glanced past the item in the usual flow of tech news, perhaps swamped by Apple news, and didn't think anything of it. But if anything the exploit is bigger news than most other items because ...
  • Putting Old Tech In The Internal Combustion En ...
    Using an engine design that was largely abandoned after World War II, new engines find fuel savings where big auto companies--weighed down by the inertia of their designs--can't. Decades of refining today's automobile engine technology has come to this: We're investing more and more, but getting ...
  • Roo Rogers On What's Next In The Sharing Economy
    Businesses in the sharing economy have drawn public scrutiny, if not ire, of late. But nobody wants to see a beautiful baby business model thrown out with the bathwater. What's it going to take to get past the PR crisis?�Here were the two big beefs in collaborative consumption this season:Airbnb ...
  • Can Pay-Per-Mile Driving Programs Work?
    Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood got a spanking when he suggested one, but test programs have received positive responses from drivers. Like it or not, with gas tax revenue declining it may be the only option.As vehicle fuel efficiency increases and hybrids become more popular, governments ar ...

Jadaliyya

  • Palestinian Statehood Blocked: Equality Strugg ...
    As the start of the UN General Assembly's 66th Session quickly approaches, it seems that "statehood" has sucked the air out of every room where Palestine is discussed. Worse, in Washington, where the Obama Administration has taken a firm stance against the UN approach, the statehood bid ...
  • J14: The Exclusive Revolution
    The men and women who set out to build a Jewish state in historic Palestine made little secret of their settler-colonial designs. Zionismâs intellectual author, Theodor Herzl, described the country he envisioned as âpart of a wall of defense for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization ...
  • The Politics of Royal Pluralism in Jordan
    While the people have demanded the fall of their regimes in streets and squares across the Arab world this year, those regimes have offered a persistent, if predictable, reply: âthe people just arenât ready for us to go yet.â This accusation of unpreparedness has taken a few different fo ...
  • رحلة الموت إلى الفردوس المفقود
    �عم��� أربع عشرة� ساعة ��م�ا�. ��م�ؤ�م ا�خ�� م� أ� ت��� ا�شرطة ا��بض ع���م ��ا �تر��م ��صبح �ذا ا�خ�� أ�ثر أصد�ائ�م ��اء� ��م. ������� عبر سماعة ا��ات� �أم�ات�م إ� �� ش�ء ع�� ما �رام �إ��م �جد�ا ا�ج�ة ا�م���دة. إ��م ا�م�اجر�� ا�أجا�ب ا�ذ�� �ع�ش�� �� إ�ر�با بص�رة "غ�ر شرع�ة". ��ا تعر��م م ...
  • Sudan: Slippery Slope
    After three months of conflict in the Nuba Mountains of Southern Kordofan, the Sudanese authorities on 23 August declared a temporary ceasefire. This was despite the failure two days earlier of another round of peace talks between the Sudan People�s Liberation Movement/Army � North (SPLM ...

mediagazer

  • Does the press have an ethical duty to out pow ...
    Ken Fisher / Ars Technica: Does the press have an ethical duty to out powerful gays in tech?  —  The following editorial deals with topics that we believe are relevant to technology journalism.  While this subject matter is uncommon at Ars, it is not unprecedented.  —  Do journalists have a dut ...
  • Hurricane Irene mayhem chronicled via Instagra ...
    Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat: Hurricane Irene mayhem chronicled via Instagram  —  Instagram users hunkered down in New York, New Jersey and other cities in the path of the rather menacing-looking Hurricane Irene are chronicling the mayhem through an online Instagram photo album called Instacane.
  • Financial News for the Rest of Us (Arthur S. B ...
    Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times: Financial News for the Rest of Us  —  WILL readers of The New York Times in print get less because The Times must invest to compete for readers and advertisers in the digital medium?  —  The DealBook business news product may offer an early indication.  Deal ...
  • Sky's Alex Crawford: 'sexist' to ask if mother ...
    Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: Sky's Alex Crawford: ‘sexist’ to ask if motherhood compatible with frontline  —  Correspondent who reported live as rebel convoy entered Tripoli reveals how she copes with the risks and dangers of her job  —  Her four children ask why she can't work at their school but A ...
  • Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality We ...
    Paul Carr / TechCrunch: Now Can We All Agree That The “High Quality Web Content” Experiment Has Failed?  —  It's hard to imagine anything more perfect that Slate's decision to lay off its respected media critic Jack Shafer.  Not perfect in a good way — I count myself amongst Shafer's legions o ...

Chemtrail News

  • Breaking News with The Truth Denied - Chemt ...
    Chemtrails/Geo Engineering · Chemtrails ... Home » Posts tagged "Chemtrail Brochure" ... Tags: activism, aerosol spraying, Chemtrail Brochure, chemtrails ...www.thetruthdenied.com/news/tag/chemtrail-brochure/
  • Contrail or Chemtrail - Is It All a Con ...
    The contrail/chemtrail argument has raged for over a decade and now. Some people are claiming that they see unusual cloud formations directly after an aircraft ...ezinearticles.com/?Contrail-or-Chemtrail---Is-It-All...
  • Chemtrail Information - Why Public Offi ...
    The head of The Bureau of Air Quality for the State of Maine (Jim Brooks) flat out told me - regarding chemtrails - that I'd have to provide evidence that something ...globalskywatch.com/.../why-public-officials-neglect-chemtrail...
  • THE BASTARDS MEGA CHEMTRAIL SPRAYING UN ...
    MEGA CHEMTRAIL SPRAYING UNDERWAY AHEAD OF HURRICANE IRENE at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1613513/pg1
  • New Chemtrail Poll: Do you believe in < ...
    Discussion about New Chemtrail Poll: Do you believe in Chemtrails? at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, ...www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1481413/pg131

World News - Top Stories

  • Hat-trick hero Mario Gomez calls for more ...
    Thomas Muller is delighted with his side's performance at the Fritz-Walter stadium and is feeling confident after three consecutive Bundesliga wins Sign up with bet365 for a free bet up to �200 By Jonathan Birchall Tweet 0 Comments More On�:�1. FCK, Bayern Munich Bongarts Mario Gomez has ca ...
  • Fruit flies may offer a way to eliminate ...
    The war against dengue fever has enlisted a tiny new ally: a cunning bacterium that inoculates mosquitoes against the virus that causes the debilitating disease. The dengue virus hops from person to person via mosquitoes, so if the insects can't carry the virus, disease transmission might b ...
  • How KFC & McDonald's plan plan to target ...
    Jalandhar is chicken country, as one would expect every nook and cranny in Punjab to be. It also happens to be a harbinger of India's fast-food future, thanks to a head-to-head fight between two iconic American companies in this bustling city. KFC and McDonald's, whose famous signages - the ...
  • Astronomers get rare look at black hole c ...
    For the first time, astronomers say they've been witness to a supermassive black hole consuming a star. Two papers in the journal Nature describe powerful blasts of...
  • Eat according to your genes
    Plagued by a family history of heart disease, diabetes or cancer? Scientists say you can potentially change your destiny, by changing your diet to one that's designed for your DNA. EVER wonder why some people can stay skinny all their lives, even as they swear by a steady diet of fried chic ...

no frakking consensus

  • Comic Book Analysis from the Leader of the IPCC
    History, according to the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reads like a comic book full of stark environmental villains and bizarre motives.
  • Pachauri’s Squishy Timeline
    In 2007 the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the world was at a defining moment, that the next 2 to 3 years would determine our future. Without a new emissions treaty by 2012, he said, it would be too late.
  • The Journal of Climate & the IPCC
    We're supposed to trust the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's conclusions because it relies on peer-reviewed scientific literature. But many of the people who run scientific journals also write IPCC reports. This is a circular, incestuous process.
  • The Backstory to the ‘Fleeing Species&#8 ...
    Journalists aren't telling you that the lead researcher behind the species-are-fleeing-global-warming story has come to questionable conclusions in the past.
  • Behind the Aliens-Will-Smite-Us News Story
    The up-and-coming generation of scientific minds appears to assume that humans are a pox on the planet.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 8/26/11 - Vegetarian ProCon.org - In 2010 Pres ...
    vegetarian.procon.org - UPDATED: Vegetarian ProCon.org - In 2010 President Bill Clinton adopted a vegan diet (no meat, eggs, or dairy) after his second heart surgery. In Aug. 2011, President Clinton stated, "my blood tests are good, and my vital signs are good, and I feel good, and I also have, ...
  • 8/25/11 - Between Jan. and Aug. of 2011, 18 st ...
    teachertenure.procon.org - Between Jan. and Aug. of 2011, 18 state legislatures modified their teacher tenure laws. Many states chose to include teacher performance evaluations into their revised tenure legislation, and the Idaho legislature passed SB 1108 which phased out tenure for new teacher ...
  • 8/25/11 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts in ...
    milk.procon.org - The National School Lunch Act requires that schools serve milk. In 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that milk from cloned cows was safe for human consumption. The retail sale of raw cow's milk for human consumption is illegal in 42 states. Read about these and ...
  • 8/25/11 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts in ...
    felonvoting.procon.org - UPDATED: Did You Know? Little Known Facts in the Felon Voting Debate - The number of people incarcerated in US jails and prisons grew 355.3% between 1980 and 2009. In 2008, US jails and prisons housed 2,322,486 people - more than the entire populations of Alaska, Montan ...
  • 8/25/11 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts in ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - UPDATED: Did You Know? Little Known Facts in the Health Care Debate - US appellate courts have made conflicting decisions on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The individual mandate concept to purchase insurance origina ...

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 ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • “Abraham!”
    Chinua Achebe, excerpted from Chike and the River After the incident of the leopard skin Chike lost some of his eagerness for crossing the Niger. He did not see how he could obtain one shilling without stealing or begging. His only hope now was that some kind benefactor might give him a present ...
  • Murakami off reading lists in New Jersey
    Complaints from parents led to Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood being dropped from summer reading lists in Williamstown, New Jersey Alison Flood Haruki Murakami ⦠parents objected to a ‘drug-fuelled homosexual orgy’ in Norwegian Wood. Photograph: Sutton-Hibbert/Rex Features Haruki Murakami‘s ve ...
  • Micro Stories
    As is known, every man is limited to a certain number of words in his lifetime, and itâs not like this number is such a big prize, some of these words might also be words that you whisper in a foreign language that you donât even know, in a dream⦠lex Epstein, translated from the … Read more
  • Chomsky Half Full
    Joel Whitney interviews Noam Chomsky November 2009 Noam Chomsky discusses his forthcoming book, the hypocrisy of neoliberalism, where he feels hopeful about democracy despite U.S. terrorism, and his friendshipâokay, passing acquaintanceâwith Hugo Chavez and other âpink tideâ presidents. If Noam ...
  • The detectives
    Julie Bindel International fraud, insurance scams, digital forensics ⦠itâs all in a dayâs work for Britainâs private investigators Eyes on the prize: Jorge Salgado-Reyes awaits his target They eavesdrop on your conversations, rifle through dustbins and pretend to deliver pizzas while taking co ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • A current student’s perspective on higher educ ...
     Martha Henriques is about to start the third year of her Natural Sciences degree at the University of Cambridge. She has recently spent a week as an intern in the Science Policy Centre, which included some time looking over the Government’s recent Higher Education White Paper. As a current scie ...
  • Access to contraceptive services – a woman’s l ...
    FROM CLAIRE CHIVERS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE A joint report from the Centre for Reproductive Rights and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was presented at the UK parliament in July 2011.  Entitled ‘The right to contraceptive information and services for women and adolescents’, the b ...
  • PolicyLab on open science
    On the morning of 1 September, we are holding a PolicyLab event with Michael Nielsen: ‘An open and shut case? debating the purposes of open science’.  We sent out this invitation to those who have signed up to hear about our events. (You can sign up by emailing science.policy@royalsociety.org ...
  • Open meeting on open science – some highlights
    FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE We kicked off our Science as a public enterprise  study with a public event at the Southbank Centre last month. The full recording of the first debate is now available. Download audio file  (Apologies for the mixed quality – the audience mikes were ...
  • Engineering public engagement
    FROM EMMA WOODS IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE What is so unusual about geoengineering? What sets it apart from other controversial technologies? One thing that strikes me as particularly atypical is that the social dimensions of geoengineering are being addressed well ahead of the development of ...

NAU Resistance

  • Concerned B.C. Residents Say No To HST! No To NAU!
    "Bill Vander Zalm says citizens David beat HST Goliath in mismatched battle"
  • The Consolidation Of North America Continues B ...
    Top Priority "According to a newly released study by Angus Reid on behalf of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association, 60% of respondents support changing Provincial rules that currently prevent convenience and grocery stores from selling alcohol"
  • U.S. Ambassador Says Perimeter Security Deal W ...
    - Joint Border Inspection Facilities | Relocation Of U.S. Food Inspectors At Canadian Plants And Vice-Versa |Greater Sharing Of Intelligence & Harmonizing Regulations | Greater Use Of Biometrics To Track Travelers In Real Time
  • Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
    "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...
  • Senate “Reform”, or Destruction of Democratic ...
    "If a Prime Minister tries to turn Parliamentary responsible government into unparliamentary irresponsible government, only the Crown can stop him; only the Crown can keep government responsible to Parliament and Parliament to the people; only the Crown can prevent the Prime Minister, prime serv ...

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • Guest Post: Tech Trends in Traceability
    Image via istockphoto.com Guest blogger Jon Bowermaster is a writer and filmmaker. In this post, Jon reports on the latest trends in seafood traceability. �One of the oldest tricks in the fishmonger�s book is trotting out the notion that the cod, snapper, flounder or mahi mahi that you are ...
  • Friday Infographic: Seafood Traceability
    This is part of a series of ocean infographics by artist Don Foley. These infographics also appear in Oceana board member Ted Danson�s book, �Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them.� � Have you ever asked yourself, �Where does my seafood come from?� It's not as easy to fi ...
  • BP Pays Out – But What’s the Real Price of the ...
    �After the Gulf oil spill happened, people demanded numbers. They wanted to know animal mortality numbers and dollar signs to understand the worst environmental disaster in our nation�s history. The problem is that the extent of this spill was so huge and so many animals and people were af ...
  • Video: Andy Sharpless at TEDxOilSpill
    At last year’s TEDxOilSpill conference in Washington, D.C., Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless tackled the 10 biggest myths he hears about offshore drilling. His presentation is especially poignant this week considering the government's decision on Friday to re-open the Western Gulf of Mexico for new oil ...
  • Less Than a Year After the Spill, Oil Leases S ...
    It hasn�t yet been one year since the worst accidental oil spill in history was finally stopped, but the Interior Department announced Friday that it will open more than 20 million acres of the Western Gulf of Mexico to new oil and gas exploration and development.��� Oceana�s senior campaig ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Confederate General That Was A Cherokee In ...
    Stand Watie, Cherokee Indian Was Also A Confederate General, Stand Watie was a Cherokee Indian who served as a Brigadier General in the Confederate States of America. He commanded the Indian Cavalry of the Trans Mississippi Army. He was later commissioned as a Colonel in charge of the First Cher ...
  • Excogitations On The Combined Allied Air War E ...
    B-17 Over Europe In World War II, airmen from around the world were doing something no one had ever done. They got up in the morning and enjoyed breakfast and then they climbed into vehicles and made war hundreds of miles away in another country. If they were lucky, they would return and sl ...
  • The V-1.
    V-1 The V-1 or Vergeltungswaffe, “revenge weapon” was a World War II cruise missile, the first of its kind, built by Germany and used primarily against the British. Also called the buzz bomb and the doodlebug, the V-1 was powered by a pulse jet engine, and launched off of a rail. Later in the wa ...
  • We Are Rabble.
    Norman Rockwell's Painting Of The Desegregation Of Little Rock Schools The first Americans to settle here came for a number of reasons. Many came here to worship as they pleased without prosecution or persecution. Their respective governments often brutally forced some other church doctrine on t ...
  • Oh That? That’s My Gilbert Atomic Lab. T ...
    Glinbert Atomic Lab Gilbert was a man of true inspiration, often compared to Walt Disney for his creative genius. Gilbert had high expectations of America’s youngsters, and with such he tried to help the future engineers, doctors and leaders by providing toys worthy of their imaginations. As the ...

Taylor Marsh

  • The Sunday Early Bird News Round Up: Hurricane ...
    Good morning and welcome to Sunday. I hope that all those in the path of the hurricane are staying safe. I’m trying to get this post out quick before we lose power here in Boston. My youngest cat, Ziggy, is going nuts- more so than usual- so I guess that means something is coming. On [...]
  • Progressive Notes: Trumka’s Plan, Roseanne, Bl ...
    Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. The TV series, Roseanne, is seeing a surge in popularity again because the show talked alot about blue collar America. Here is a classic clip making the YouTube hits list. When a state house candidate shows up at her door to talk abo ...
  • Hurricane IRENE… The Rain has Arrived
    **UPDATED BELOW** Ireneâs got a middle name, and itâs Global Warming. – environmental activist Bill McKibben Irene’s wide spread is already being seen as rain hits New York, as well as the Beltway, where I live. We’re not supposed to get the heaviest rains until late tonight, early Sunday. Danie ...
  • Queer Talk: “The Militant Homosexual”
    On August 23, 1971, Newsweek ran a story with this headline: “The Militant Homosexual.” Jim Burroway, at Box Turtle Bulletin, has a regular “Today in History” column. That’s LGBT related history, and it’s one of my daily “must reads.” On Tuesday, he provided an overview of that Newsweek article, ...
  • Herb Buttermilk Biscuits
    Just this past week Taylor brought to my attention this story. Over the past few years I’ve seen a real push for locally grown produce, and Alice Waters who is featured in the article above, has been a pioneer for sustainable, locally grown produce for 40 years. Today we live in a world where fr ...

Hudson New York

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

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • The science of predicting a hurricane's path
    As Bay Staters stock up on bottled water and batteries, NNB offers some links to the science of hurricanes. The Museum of Science offers a site for kids called Weatherwise. If the MOS windows hold up, you can watch the storm come in on their weather cam. An MIT class called "Solving Compl ...
  • 1947 Newsreel: Boston woman 1st to scale Mt. M ...
    ...but she still had to do the laundry. The Museum of Science, Boston has posted a short film on the husband-and-wife team of Bradford and Barbara Washburn, museum patrons and co-founders. From Nat Geo: Their June 6, 1947, climb of Alaska's ice-ribbed Mount McKinley made Barbara the first ...
  • Seismogram of Virginia quake recorded at BC's ...
    From BC's Weston Observatory.More from the USGS Earthquake roundup: Globe story: Quake sets the Northeast aquiver In Boston, the quake caused downtown buildings, including the Prudential tower, to sway and sent a shiver of confusion and alarm through the city. Several buildings were evacuat ...
  • Harvard's science and cooking series back with ...
    Scroll down for September schedule or click here for details and complete scheudule. Tuesday, September 6, 2011 Historical Context and Demos Illustrating the Relationship of Food and Science Speakers: Dave Arnold (Food Arts magazine's Contributing Editor for Equipment & Food Science), H ...
  • Globe op-ed: Scientific self-correcting is sca ...
    Globe writer Gareth Cook thinks we're better at discovering and dealing with scientific fraud. But he argues: ... the scientific establishment's efforts to discover and correct errors are scattershot and overly time consuming. Harvard's handling of the (psychology researcher Marc) Hauser case w ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • PSR series on pesticides, regulations, and far ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. My colleagues and friends at Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) have just published a series of short commentaries titled, "How does our nation’s reliance on pesticides affect the health of ...
  • Ford/Toyota Partnership Shows Standards Drive ...
    Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco I’ve said it before: Regulation drives innovation. Innovation drives jobs. The latest example is this week’s announcement that Toyota and Ford have forged a new partnership to bring to ...
  • The Low-Hanging Fruit ... That Keeps Growing Back
    David Goldstein, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco Today the Department of Energy announced a new set of efficiency standards for refrigerators, the seventh set of state and federal standards for refrigerators over the past 35 years. DOE e ...
  • Billboards posted and paid for by communities ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Why do private citizens feel they have to resort to paying for billboard space to get their�concerns heard by decisionmakers?� Here are some recent billboards spotted in Pennsylvania: From Lycomin ...
  • State Department Keystone XL Environmental Rev ...
    Elizabeth Shope, Advocate, Washington, D.C. This is a guest blog post by Danielle Droitsch, who is a Senior Advisor to NRDC's International Program.  Today, the U.S. State Department released its Final Environmental  Impact Statement (FEIS) for t ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, August 26, 2011: Nashville TN cop was found guilty of 2nd degree murder in the shooting death of his wife that he claimed was accidental [0] bit.ly/n8DcyS Las Vegas NV loses lawsuit ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 24 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, August 25, 2011: 6 El Monte CA cops are accused of using excessive force in an incident that left the man shown above nearly blind when almost every bone in his face was broken. Th ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 18 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, August 24, 2011: A Woodford County IL deputy and at least 1 of 4 Washburn IL cops have been suspended while under investigation for two alleged excessive force incidents in 1 day ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 23 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, August 23, 2011: San Francisco CA police in the above video are being accused of using excessive force on female protester at end of protest against BART police [3] bit.ly/qvwjN9 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, August 22, 2011: Bay City MI settles suit for $1mil to family of 15yr-old who died after tasered. While police claim he was tasered for taking up a “fighting stance”, witnesses claim ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

  • Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallp ...
    One of the most famous wallpaper images is undoubtedly the default Windows XP image showing a blissfully relaxing vista of green rolling hills and a bluer than blue sky. The wallpaper, probably one of the most viewed images of all time, is aptly named ‘Bliss.’ Do a Google image search for just ...
  • Egyptian activists organize an e-protest on Fa ...
    Taking their fight online, as a means of spreading awareness, Egyptians logged on to Twitter and Facebook yesterday in their first official e-protest against the inordinate number of Egyptian citizens who have been tried in the country’s military courts in the past 6 months. Organized by the Al ...
  • Nokia and Samsung’s new handset naming policie ...
    As the smartphone market continues to boom, with iOS and Android devices leading the charge, both Samsung and Nokia – the world’s second and third largest smartphone manufacturers by volume – have decided to amend the way new handsets are classified and named, introducing new naming policies to ...
  • Why Berlin is home to a new generation of beau ...
    When I visited the German capital city of Berlin this week, I took the opportunity to meet as many tech startup entrepreneurs as I possibly could. As they showed me the apps they’d developed, one theme ran through all of them – they were all good-looking, and many of them were world-class gorge ...
  • 11 websites citizen journalists should know about
    With the Libyan uprising still in full swing, earlier this week we looked at some of the trusted places people could go to get reliable coverage of events as they unfolded. Whilst some of these were the usual news outlets, such as Reuters and the BBC, there was also a plethora of citizens on th ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Photos: World Food Program works to save lives ...
    Over 12 million people across East Africa are imperiled by a hunger crisis brought on by extreme drought. The worst of the crisis is in Somalia, where famine has been declared in 5 areas of Somalia to date—the first famine to be declared by the UN in three decades. Somalia is unique, because her ...
  • Meet the just discovered 'Komodo dragon' of wasps
    A new species of warrior wasp has been discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi that is so large and, frankly, terrifying-looking that it has been dubbed the 'Komodo dragon' of the wasp family. Bizarrely, the male of the species has jaws that outstretch its limbs. "I don't know how it can ...
  • Could zooplankton save frogs from deadly epidemic?
    Scientists have discovered that a species of zooplankton will eat a fungal pathogen that is killing amphibians around the world.
  • Scientists discover massive underground river ...
    Researchers at Brazil's National Observatory have discovered evidence of a massive underground river flowing deep beneath the Amazon River, reports the AFP.
  • Model predicts deforestation hot spots in Braz ...
    High rates of deforestation are likely to continue in Par� and Mato Grosso, while federal and especially state conservation units fail to protect Brazil's rainforest.

Sierra Express

  • Football Talent Discovery Program Rocks Wusum ...
    The northern town of Makeni continues to be the centre of attraction for football fans as the Airtel Rising Stars football talent discovery program rocks the Wusum Grounds, Makeni on Friday for the second day running that will end on Sunday after the finals for the northern region. (Photo: Airte ...
  • Somalia may face generation dying
    African leaders convened a fund-raising conference Thursday for famine-wracked Somalia, where tens of thousands of people have already died and 3.2 million are on the brink of starvation, with a top United Nations official warning that the crisis stretches far beyond hunger to issues of health, ...
  • AU Pledging conference on the Horn of Africa: ...
    Addis Ababa, 25 August 2011 –African Union (AU) leaders gathered at the first ever AU Pledging Conference and made pledges of more than US$350 million dollars toward the relief effort assisting the millions of people in crisis due to the extreme drought and famine conditions in the Horn of Afric ...
  • Older Adults with HIV
    While the focus of HIV and AIDS interventions has always been on the 20-40-year-olds most likely to be infected, African democracy institute Idasa warns that health workers and social planners have neglected to take into account the elderly who have contracted the virus – and their numbers are g ...
  • Council awards 40 scholarships
    The Port Loko District Council on Monday 22nd August, 2011 awarded forty Grant-In-Aid (GIA) scholarships to students of the Teachers’ Training College and Polytechnics in the district. Port Loko District Council Finance Officer, Abdul Bangura disclosed to journalists that the Council awarded gra ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

The Bovine

  • Raw milk drinking returns to Fox News
    From Elena Ferretti on Fox Foodie: “The recent re-emergence of raw, unpasteurized milk into Americansâ diet could potentially do one of two things. It could reintroduce ânatureâs perfect foodâ to a new generation. Or it could bring back the bad … Continue reading →
  • Now a word from our sponsor… NOT!
    The dire warnings given below about raw milk remind me of a fun new blog I’ve stumbled upon lately titled “Narco Polo”, whose author, Robert R. Arthur, advocates for the legalization of drugs. The author, who is a former teacher … Continue reading →
  • Story about FDA spying on American raw milk fa ...
    Although Infowars.com (the source of this story) is a site that deals in the sort of information that in many circles is dismissed as conspiracy theory, the history of Michael Schmidt’s raw milk trials in Ontario echoes several of the … Continue reading →
  • Poll results show 7 out of 10 Ontario resident ...
    The Toronto Sun reports on a poll from April of 2010: “…Polling also shows the McGuinty government was at odds with the public in its pursuit of raw milk activist Michael Schmidt. Seven in 10 Ontarians say people should be … Continue reading →
  • Orono Liberty Summer Seminar experience shows ...
    From Jesse Klein in the National Post: “For 10 summers in a row, a group of freedom-loving libertarians and small-c conservatives flocked to a remote acreage outside of Orono, Ont., pitched a tent and were treated to a weekend of … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Five Rules to Remember When Dealing with Real ...
    A reader asked me to comment on historically low mortgage rates and their effect on housing. He asked because Realtors are telling him mortgage rates prove now is a "great time to buy". That comment prompted me to write Five Rules to Remember When Dealing with Real Estate Agents Rule N ...
  • Hurricane Irene Cuts Power to Over 1 Million; ...
    Here is a quick roundup of stories related to Hurricane Irene. AccuWeather reports Irene Cuts Power to a Million Plus; Eyeing the NortheastAug 27, 2011; 7:50 PM ET "As of Saturday evening, over a million customers were without power in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and Delaware." ...
  • Capital Flight Proves Confidence in European I ...
    Capital flight from European banks has now reached such a state that for one undisclosed bank needed emergency funding last week for a mere $5 million. Previously, the ECB stepped in to provide $500 million in emergency liquidity measures to non-disclosed banks. As money flees Europe, it la ...
  • Obama Seeks Holy Grail of Housing, Proverbial ...
    President Obama is in Fantasyland or in some alternate universe. He wants to strengthen the housing market provided The plan helps a broad swath of homeownerThe plan stimulates the economyThe plan costs next to nothing So says the New York Times in U.S. May Back Refinance Plan for Mortgag ...
  • 8 Trillion Euros in Borrow-Short Lend-Long Mad ...
    The Financial Times reports US funds show true state of eurozone banksMorgan Stanley, calculates that of the €8,000bn funding that is currently in place for the largest 91 eurozone banks, some 58 per cent needs to be rolled over in the next two years. More startling still, some 47 per cent of th ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Government on a String
    Politicians arenât as Incompetent as They Seem By Linda Lewis  Just who’s pulling the strings? I’m all tied up in you But, where’s it leading me to? –âPuppet on a Stringâ (1967) by Bill Martin & Phil Coulter. Performed by Sandie Shaw. American voters disagree on many issues but nearly all agree ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 5, ...
    Kharotabad Killings & the Cover Up, No One Safe Under the Espionage Act of 1917,  Disposable Army in Iraq, Pentagon Purchases $23 Billion worth of Drones, Permanent US Base in Iraq, Obama Debt Crisis: A successful Con Game, the End of the Presidential Public Financing, Azerbaijan: Lobbying for U ...
  • Exactly How Big Is This So-Called Al Qaeda?
    Massive Perpetual Wars against Fantastical Dwarfed Terrorists For almost 10 years we have been engaged in a massive and many-fronted war advertised as a war on terror-war on Al Qaeda. Recent reports put the total cost to America of this war on terror at around $3 trillion. This is not counting ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 4, ...
    US Secret War in 120 Countries, UK’s Secret Policy on Torture RevealedMedia Disinformation & the Causes of Somali Famine, Obama & Limousine Liberals, US-Russia To Train Capitalists in Marxian Monopoly, Destroying Democratic Presidents, How to Advance Liberty, A Revolving CIA Door in Pakistan & M ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • NOAA & NASA – Landfall Videos of Hurricane Irene
    The above is the latest time-lapse video of Hurricane Irene’s formation and landfall from NOAA’s Visualization lab via their YouTube channel. This video from NASA’s Continue Reading »
  • ALERT: All SHIPS MUST DEPART PORT OF NEW YORK
    HIGH PRIORITY ALERT FROM MORAN SHIPPING Please urgently be advised that the U.S. Coast Guard CAPTAIN OF THE PORT has set Hurricane Condition X RAY Continue Reading �
  • NAVY SEALs: Coming soon to a theater near you
    Photo courtesy SEALSWCC.com After years of war movies about conflicted fighters, a new crop of films is shifting focus: to tactics, technology and teamwork. Making Continue Reading �
  • GAO: Coast Guard, FBI must beef up security pl ...
    Photo courtesy OneEighteen via Flickr HOUSTON (Dow Jones)–The U.S. Coast Guard and the Federal Bureau of Investigation must develop a joint national plan to prevent Continue Reading »
  • Can This Man Save the Planet?
    By Adam Spangler, Dow Jones & Co, Image: © Louise Gubb/Greenpeace At 0700 hours, June 17, 100 Miles off the coast of Greenland, a black inflatable Continue Reading �

Blogging Canadians

  • 77 Year Old Jean Chretien Leaps Fence To Get T ...
    Former Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chretien, gave observers a fright after the Jack Layton State Funeral, when he easily leaped over a barricade to give a promised interview to the media. I can only hope to be as strong and agile as Jean is when I'm 77!
  • "'The Face Of BART'"
    LINTON JOHNSON - "The Face Of BART" by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: BARTLULZ-COPY [Post date not given] If you are going to be a dick to the public, then Im sure you dont mind showing your dick to the public.... Umad Bro? #Bartlulz
  • The VILEST Canadian - Ezra Levant?
    There is no person on Canadian airwaves who is more vile than Ezra Levant. The photo above is a screen capture of his show on SunNewsNetwork that attacked Jack Layton and those who are mourning him. I challenge decent respectable members of the Conservative Party of Canada to end their silence ...
  • "Corporations and Governments"
    #TheMan works for us. Corporations and governments are in no position to be as intrusive and tyrannical as they currently are. Fight back. by "Kyle" As originally posted on: Kyle (OpMonsanto) on Twitter June 19, 2011
  • Sask Premier Brad Wall Uses Heavy Hand Of Gove ...
    Statistics Canada is verifying what many in Saskatchewan already know - the so called 'Boom' is only being experienced by a very few. "Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island saw the slowest wage growth, up one per cent to $854.60 and up 1.7 per cent to $723.15, respectively." Montreal Gazette ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Bahraini court adjourns medics trial
    A special security court in Bahrain has adjourned the trial of 20 doctors and nurses accused of treating injured anti-government protesters during the country's popular uprising.
  • Syria rejects opposing AL visit
    Syria rejects media reports claiming Damascus has opposed a visit by an Arab League mission with regard to the crisis in the country, Press TV reports.
  • Iraqi Kurds hold anti-Turkish protests
    Anti-Turkish protests have been held in Iraq's Kurdistan region to condemn attacks targeting the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bases which have claimed the lives of several civilians, Press TV reports.
  • 'Israel cannot stop Palestinian state'
    Israel's Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor says Tel Aviv has no chance of stopping states that are set to vote for the recognition of a Palestinian state at the General Assembly.
  • Syria's Assad endorses new media law
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has endorsed a media law that puts an end to the government's control over media, newspapers and local and foreign publications.
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