- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- “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: 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 “ ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 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 [...]
- 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...
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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)
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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)
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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? ...
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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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 →
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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"
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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����
- 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 [...]
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- South Africa: In Durban, its all about “ ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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. ÂMeanwhile, 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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- 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 ...
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