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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

31 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran sanctions: Much ado about nothing
    Summary: Almost five years have passed since the United Nations Security Council imposed its first round of sanctions against Iran over the allegations that Tehran might be moving toward developing nuclear weapons. Since that time, four rounds of devastative sanctions have been imposed on Ir ...
  • Libya is not an advertisement for intervention
    Summary: Nato – chiefly Britain – appears to have toppled the Gaddafi regime in Libya to "liberate" its people. The days are over where the mere triumph of arms justifies itself. The rightness of a war and the honesty of its methods are vital if the new "liberal interventionism" is to carry ...
  • Iran Sanctions: Built to Fail
    Summary: Conditions for lifting sanctions go way beyond anything having to do with Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program, making it impossible for Iran to extricate itself – this could be intentional, making the military "option" a necessity. source: Antiwar.comread more
  • Libya's imperial hijacking is a threat to the ...
    Summary: They don't give up. For the third time in a decade, British and US forces have played the decisive role in the overthrow of an Arab or Muslim regime. As rebel forces pressed home their advantage across Libya under continuing Nato air support , politicians in London and Paris preened ...
  • 'Iran sues Russia over S-300 deal'
    Summary: Iran's Ambassador to Russia Seyyed Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi says Iran has filed a lawsuit against Russia at the International Court of Justice over Moscow's refusal to ship S-300 air defense systems to Tehran. source: PressTVread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: Starburst Galaxy with Two A ...
    "The past, present and future are only illusions, even if stubborn ones." Albert Einstein NGC 6240, a butterfly-shaped galaxy that is the product of the collision of two smaller galaxies, revealed that the central region of the galaxy (inset below)...
  • From the 'X Files' Dept: The SETI Enigma --Wha ...
    No one at SETI headquarters knows for sure. The believe that there is a slight possibility that it just might originate from an extraterrestrial intelligence. The bright colors on the blue background indicate that an anomalous signal was received here...
  • Do Earth's Ocean Extremeophiles Hint at What L ...
    Wonder what life of Jupiter's moon, Europa, might look like? Checkout a new species of archaebacteria, Pyrococcus CH1,discovered thriving on a mid-Atlantic ridge within a temperature range of 80 to 105°C and able to divide itself up to a hydrostatic...
  • Dwarf Galaxies Found Cloaking Primitive Stars ...
    New observations using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have been used to solve an important astrophysical puzzle concerning the oldest stars in our galactic neighborhood hidden until recently in dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. In comparison to the Milky Way,...
  • Extreme Galaxies --Some 3000 Times Brighter Th ...
    Arp 220 is the closest galaxy to the Milly Way with an extreme luminosity, defined as being more than about 300 times that of our own galaxy. Some dramatic galaxies have values of luminosity ten times brighter still. Astronomers are...

Natural News

  • Calendar of upcoming events for September, 2011
    (NaturalNews) September promises to be an action-packed month of natural health events, expos and conferences. Here are some of the most important events happening in September (many are internet based, so you can attend from anywhere):September 10th in Philadelphia, PA 6th Annual Greenfest Phi ...
  • All charges dropped against Detroit mom Maryan ...
    (NaturalNews) All charges have been dropped against Detroit mom Maryanne Godboldo, the woman who was SWAT team raided when Child Protective Services attempted to kidnap her daughter because Maryanne refused to "treat" her with psychiatric medications. An armed standoff ensued, and Maryanne ultim ...
  • National Public Radio underwritten by Monsanto?
    (NaturalNews) There was a strong reaction recently observed over public radio stations touting Monsanto and running Monsanto's promotional ads. Technically, it wasn't NPR (National Public Radio) as most assumed, but a program called Marketplace that is underwritten by Monsanto. American Pubic Me ...
  • Scientists announce amazing findings: chocola ...
    (NaturalNews) All regular readers of NaturalNews know that researchers have discovered chocolate (especially the organic, not junked up with additives and sugar type) contains phytochemicals which appear to promote good health. But no one has had much of a clue about the specifics of some of tho ...
  • US Energy Department panel endorses shale frac ...
    (NaturalNews) Hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking," for the purpose of extracting natural gas from the earth involves flooding it with millions of gallons of chemical-laden water, a practice that by all estimates is damaging the environment to some extent.But a US Energy Department (ED ...

Threat Level

  • Couple Can Sue Laptop-Tracking Company for Spy ...
    An Ohio woman and her boyfriend can sue a laptop-tracking company that recorded their sexually explicit communications in an effort to identify thieves who stole the computer the woman was using. U.S. District Judge Walter Rice ruled last week against Absolute Software, which provides software a ...
  • This Week: Appeals Court to Weigh NSA Dragnet ...
    Whether the federal government and the nation’s telecommunication companies can be held accountable for allegedly funneling every American’s electronic communication to the National Security Agency without warrants is the subject of oral arguments scheduled for a federal appeals court Wednesday. ...
  • WikiLeaks Springs a Leak: Full Database of Dip ...
    For the second time in a year, WikiLeaks has lost control of its full, unredacted cache of a quarter-million U.S. State Department cables — and this time the leaked files are apparently online. The uncensored cables are contained in a 1.73-GB password-protected file named “cables.csv,” which is ...
  • Researchers Uncover RSA Phishing Attack, Hidin ...
    Ever since security giant RSA was hacked last March, anti-virus researchers have been trying to get a copy of the malware used for the attack to study its method of infection. But RSA wasn’t cooperating, nor were the third-party forensic experts the company hired to investigate the breach. This ...
  • Judge Calls Location-Tracking Orwellian, While ...
    A federal judge's decision requiring the government to get a court warrant before obtaining mobile-phone location data is one of a string of conflicting opinions on the topic, and comes as lawmakers and the Supreme Court weigh in on the hot-button issue of locational privacy.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Divine Intervention Becomes the Republican Pla ...
    Americans can be forgiven for assuming Michele Bachmann was deadly serious when she repeatedly joked this weekend that God was using an earthquake and hurricane to send a divine message to restrain federal spending. After all, Bachmann has not only proclaimed time and again that the Almighty ca ...
  • Bachmann Gives Away the GOP Game on Health Care
    Over the past week, Republican White House hopeful Michele Bachmann unleashed a tidal wave of campaign promises aimed at washing away the American social contract. After pledging to get gas under $2 a gallon, Bachmann announced she would make the U.S. the "king daddy dog" of energy by shutting ...
  • Introducing the Ayn Rand Social Security Prote ...
    The dual budget and jobs deficits dominating discussion in Washington has put Social Security front and center this week. While Republican heart-throb Marco Rubio claimed the retirement program is among those which "weakened us a people," his GOP colleagues opposed President Obama's call to ext ...
  • Rubio Claims Social Security, Medicare "Weaken ...
    Earlier this month, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) neatly summed up the Republican platform for 2012, declaring that Americans must "come to grips with the fact that promises have been made that frankly are not going to be kept for many." Yesterday at the Reagan Library, Tea Party dar ...
  • Rick Perry and George W. Bush, Texas' Willing ...
    Asked the biggest difference between himself and George W. Bush, Texas governor and new Republican White House front runner Rick Perry answered, "I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale." Which isn't far from the truth. After all, their pronouncements on policies and personal beliefs are eerily s ...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • God’s Response to Rick Perry
    Rick Perry -- praying for corporations, working to dirty our water and air and worsen our climate: Related posts:Rick Perry, Here’s an Image for You.. Rick Perry: Praying for Rain, Ignoring Climate Science Michelle Bachmann’s Lights are on but Nobody’s Home (cartoon)
  • 10 Bottled Water Facts Infographic
    I recently received this infographic from a Facebook friend. Good infographic encouraging us all to ditch the bottled water, though the bottled water facts are for the UK. Useful and interesting, nonetheless. Check it out: Related posts:Plastic {Infographic} Radiation Infographic The Energy of ...
  • UK Climate Activists Event this Weekend
    Long before US climate activists were getting arrested in front of the White House for a little civil disobedience, UK climate activists were chaining themselves to airplanes and climbing large coal power plants in the UK. I have thought for awhile now that UK climate activism has been seriously ...
  • Light Bulbs Infographic
    Our friends at Well Home, a good green company that conducts energy audits, sent over this cool infographic on the energy impact of light bulbs. It's a fun one. Check it out: Related posts:Wal-Mart Hits 100-Million Mark for Sales of Energy-Saving Light Bulbs City of Rotterdam to Distribute Ene ...
  • 5 Green Back-to-School Tips
    A representative of used clothing recycler USagain shot me these 5 green back-to-school tips via email. I think they're good tips, so posting them here. Green your back-to-school preparation with these 5 tips (and more)! Related posts:How Many Clothes Do You Throw Away Each Year? Going Green ...

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Axis of Logic

  • The decade's biggest scam - Critical Analysis
    The Los Angeles Times examines the staggering sums of money expended on patently absurd domestic "homeland security" projects: $75 billion per year for things such as a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar to respond to a potential attack on a lake in tiny Keith County, Nebraska, and hundreds of "9- ...
  • Euro bail-out in doubt as 'hysteria' sweeps Ge ...
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel no longer has enough coalition votes in the Bundestag to secure backing for Europe's revamped rescue machinery, threatening a consitutional crisis in Germany and a fresh eruption of the euro debt saga. Mrs Merkel has cancelled a high-profile trip to Russia on S ...
  • "Doorbell" a one minute video - Economy
    ...
  • Why It Took Eleven Months Instead of Three Wee ...
    It took nearly a year since the start of Haiti's cholera epidemic for scientists to get conclusive proof that the cholera bacteria in Haiti are identical to bacteria in Nepal. Drs. Frank Aarestrup from Denmark, Paul Keim from Arizona, and Geeta Shakya from Kathmandu led a recent study that provi ...
  • WikiLeaks cables expose Washington’s close tie ...
    US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks on Wednesday and Thursday expose the close collaboration between the US government, top American politicians and Muammar Gaddafi, who Washington now insists must be hunted down and murdered. Washington and its NATO allies are now determined to smash t ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    by @BGinKC Facts, science and reason tend to do that for @FoxNews viewers "Bill Nye "The Science Guy" went on almost self-parodying Fox Business program Freedom Watch yesterday and found himself in a rather significant debate over Hurricane Irene, climate change and, well...the value of science ...
  • Number103
    Kentucky's 103rd sacrifice to the bottomless maw of the Iraq/Afghanistan Clusterfuck is Brandon S. Mullins of Owensboro. From the Messenger-Inquirer: Brandon Mullins died Thursday doing what he loved. And his family takes comfort in that, his mother, Catherine Mullins, said Friday. A U.S. Army ...
  • Republicans & PolitiFact_Going For A Record?
    It sometimes looks as if most of the Republicans butt sniffing around the presidency... have some kind of race or contest going to see who can spew the most lies on any given day. �Luckily PolitiFact is there to turn the hose on them when they get too exercised. � The most truthful of this parti ...
  • By His Name You Shall Know Him -- Or Not!
    By @TedFrier New Republic's Jonathan Chait raises an objection I mentioned earlier, namely the attempt by conservatives to hide the theocratic roots of leading Republican presidential candidates by comparing them to the past affiliations of President Obama, like Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers, that ...
  • His sock puppet used a crayon, he used blood a ...
    By @MBersin Apparently, the dark lord has written a book and is hawking it. "No blood for oil." @democracynow Democracy Now! Ex-Bush Official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: "I Am Willing To Testify" If Dick #Cheney Is Put On Trial owl.li/6gAjV @ggreenwald 2 hours ago "....This is a book written out o ...

Care 2

  • NOT JUST SCI-FI: Attack of the Monsanto Supe ...
    Over the past decade and a half, as Monsanto built up its globe-spanning, multi-billion-dollar genetically modified seed empire, it made two major pitches to farmers.The second involved crop-eating insects.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Turkey: No confidence in Syrian government
    Syria's ferocious crackdown against demonstrators persisted , but its tough actions against civilians are shattering its once-close relations with neighboring Turkey.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Nigerias growing terrorist threat
    Nigerians in the capital city awoke on Friday to a scene of destruction not seen in this commercial hub since the civil war of the 1960�s.Yet the attack was not planned or executed by al Qaeda, but rather by an indigenous radical Islamic sect in NortheastSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Protect Canada's "Pocket Desert ...
    The desert grasslands of the South Okanagan are home to over one-third of British Columbia's endangered species and other species at risk, including the bighorn sheep.Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION - Dogs and Cats Need Our Help! U ...
    Please contact your U.S. Representative and ask him or her to spare America�s dogs and cats from a life in research laboratories by supporting the Pet Safety and Protection Act (H.R. 2256), legislation that would ban random source Class B animal dealers.Submitted by Kenny V. to Animals �|� �Not ...

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No Quarter

  • Obama’s New Economic Czar Has Terrorist Past
    How’s that for an alarmist heading? But it is true. Alan B. Krueger, nominated yesterday to replace Austan Goolsbee, has a terrorist past. But it was not what you think. In April 2004 the U.S. Department of State published its annual report, Patterns of Global Terrorism. While perusing Appendix ...
  • Pat Condell Blasphemes Bedouin Bugs
    This should rouse your soul: Personally, I think he gives the bed bugs too much credit. However, one needs a foil when doing good comedy.
  • Redeemer Doubt (Larry On Radio + Open Thread)
    Editor’s Note: Larry Johnson joins Sunday’s experts panel on John Batchelor’s Show @ 9:30 or 10:30 p.m. ET. Listen via iTunes or NYC anchor WABC (scroll to “Listen Live“). The show airs nightly, 9 p.m.-1:00 a.m. ET. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : [...]
  • Obama’s Meaningless Victory Lap
    Jesus! Who does he think he is? Moses or Jesus? I refer to Mr. Crisis himself, Barack Obama. Doing another press conference today to take credit for bold, decisive leadership. And for what? Making sure that FEMA was awake to deal with a piddling Category 1 hurricane. Oh the humanity. How did we ...
  • Victory in Libya?
    No. Not so. But some seasoned veterans and respected pundits are touting the chaos unfolding in Libya as a success. My old friend, Pat Lang, offers this take: The hysterics who pass for “experts’ on shows like “Morning joe” should be ignored. Their performance over the last day or so with regard ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • How the Therapeutic Alliance Influences Transf ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Transference, or the act of transferring past experiences to someone or something else, namely, the therapeutic relationship, is a fundamental concept in psychotherapy. But the relationship between therapeutic alliance and transference has only recently been explo ...
  • The Teachable Moment: Becoming Emotionally Res ...
    To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and the way he understands it. -Soren, Kierkegaard (1848), “The Point of View for My Work as an Author ...
  • Does Depression Reduce Stress for Anxious Indi ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Research has shown that the level of cortisol, the stress hormone, is directly related to the severity of symptoms in people with Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). Stress causes the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis to react and release cortisol. This same dy ...
  • Does Family-Therapist Alliance Affect Symptoms ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Schizophrenia is a psychological problem that can cause symptoms of decreased cognition, delusions, and paranoia. For family members of people with schizophrenia, managing the symptoms and maintaining healthy relationships can be particularly difficult. However, b ...
  • Part II: How Co-Dependents Come to Therapy &#8 ...
    Co-dependents rarely have presented themselves for therapy with me by stating that they want help with their own co-dependency. Of course, as you might expect, they are focused on helping or saving somebody else. My last article focused on how people are identified as co-dependent through certai ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Daryl Hannah arrested in White House oil prote ...
    USA Today Daryl Hannah arrested in White House oil protest 6abc.com Va., attend a mountaintop removal mining protest Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in Naoma, W.Va. They were among several hundred protesters who held a rally outside Marsh Fork Elementary school that sits about 300 feet away from a Masse ...
  • Checking North Anna - The Free Lance-Star
    Checking North Anna The Free Lance-Star Coal, also dirty, is dangerous to mine using traditional methods and devastating to the land when mountaintop removal is the methodology. Windmills kill birds, including eagles in California, and solar awaits a better battery. ... and more��
  • Coal officials say jobs and tax revenue key - ...
    Coal officials say jobs and tax revenue key Parkersburg News "I call mountaintop removal mountaintop development," Hamilton said, noting there are requirements for reclaiming, and reuse. "They have to look at what can be developed in the future, to sustain post-mine development." Jason Bostic, ...
  • Charges from Civil Disobedience Expunged for M ...
    Charges from Civil Disobedience Expunged for Mountaintop Removal Protesters The Daily Gazette The two were arrested last September when they participated in non-violent direct action in Washington DC to protest PNC Bank's funding of mountaintop removal. Lakey is also the Former Lang Visiting Pr ...
  • NASA's Hansen Explains Decision to Join Keysto ...
    SolveClimate News NASA's Hansen Explains Decision to Join Keystone Pipeline Protests SolveClimate News Twice he has been arrested for protesting mountaintop removal coal mining�in West Virginia in 2009 and at the White House in 2010. Now 70, Hansen heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Stu ...

Memeorandum

  • Nevada AG Catherine Cortez Masto Destroys BofA ...
    David Dayen / Firedoglake: Nevada AG Catherine Cortez Masto Destroys BofA in New Lawsuit  —  Masto lights a stick.  (photo: Jeff Hester)  —  Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto's amended complaint in a lawsuit against Bank of America has so many interesting nuances, I think I need a ...
  • Muslims, police scuffle at Rye Playland over a ...
    NY Daily News: Muslims, police scuffle at Rye Playland over amusement park's head scarf ban; 15 arrests made  —  Rye Playland was shut down Tuesday after cops scuffled with Muslims upset that women wearing head scarves were barred from the rides, witnesses said.  —  Fifteen people, including t ...
  • Judge stays sonogram law (Todd Ackerman/Housto ...
    Todd Ackerman / Houston Chronicle: Judge stays sonogram law  —  A federal judge in Austin on Tuesday ruled that key components of Texas' abortion-sonogram law are unconstitutional, stopping the state from enforcing it until a court rules on a legal challenge filed on behalf of several obstetric ...
  • Some companies pay their CEOs more than Uncle ...
    Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post: Some companies pay their CEOs more than Uncle Sam, study says  —  It has become a bipartisan article of faith in some quarters that the income tax on U.S. corporations must be lowered.  —  But for many large U.S. companies, the burden of U.S. taxation pales i ...
  • Obama Says He Won't Allow Cuts to Veterans Pro ...
    Helene Cooper / New York Times: Obama Says He Won't Allow Cuts to Veterans Programs  —  MINNEAPOLIS — President Obama vowed on Tuesday that he would not allow cuts in programs for veterans as Congress and the administration look for ways to balance the budget.  —  In a somber speech to the annu ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.4, northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
    Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:17:26 UTCWednesday, August 31, 2011 10:17:26 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.7, New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea
    Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:46:50 UTCWednesday, August 31, 2011 08:46:50 PM at epicenterDepth: 49.40 km (30.70 mi)
  • M 5.2, Vanuatu
    Wednesday, August 31, 2011 09:56:20 UTCWednesday, August 31, 2011 08:56:20 PM at epicenterDepth: 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.1, Simeulue, Indonesia
    Wednesday, August 31, 2011 03:08:29 UTCWednesday, August 31, 2011 10:08:29 AM at epicenterDepth: 41.50 km (25.79 mi)
  • M 5.1, West Chile Rise
    Tuesday, August 30, 2011 22:51:00 UTCTuesday, August 30, 2011 04:51:00 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.50 km (6.52 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Apple: back under the spotlight
    In an investigative report, Chinese green NGOs claim that the consumer electronics giant has not addressed problems in its supply chain and ignored an expanding environmental footprint in China – with grave consequences. Meng Si reports. As Apple’s supply chain has expanded, so its pollution h ...
  • On Yunnan’s chromium trail
    The dumping of 5,000 tonnes of toxic metal tailings next to an important drinking source has brought to light years of illegal disposal of factory waste. Meng Si reports.In mid-August, the Yunnan-based blogger Dong Rubin revealed that a nearby factory in south-west China – Luliang Chemicals – ha ...
  • Banking on the big society
    If social entrepreneurs are going to fix the world’s problems, they’ll need some cash, writes John Elkington. Does a new "bank" in Britain offer a model for providing it?Blamed for playing a disproportionate role in bringing on the Great Recession, lambasted for their short-termism and perceived ...
  • How to spot a fake eco-city
    A low-carbon craze is sweeping through China, but some say it’s just a mirage. Urban-planning expert Li Xun tells Zhang Yue and Xu Nan why only a fraction of eco-projects live up to the name.Almost a third of China’s 600 cities now have targets to become low-carbon hubs or eco-cities. That might ...
  • The search for cleaner fracking
    With federal regulation looming, US energy firms are rolling out technologies to reduce the environmental impact of shale-gas drilling. Justin Gerdes looks at one of the key challenges: wastewater.Fracking now so dominates the energy debate in the United States it’s easy to forget that, until fi ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Appalachian Coalfield Leaders Join Tar Sands P ...
    Not quite a year ago, NASA climatologist James Hansen joined hundreds of Appalachian coalfield activists, including Teri Blanton, Maria Gunnoe, Bo Webb, Larry Gibson, Mickey McCoy and Bob Kincaid at a sit-in in front of the White House, and called for the abolition of mountaintop removal mining ...
  • CEOs Rewarded for Tax-Dodging Gymnastics.
    As the Super Congress eyes trillions in budget cuts that will undermine the quality of life for most Americans, here’s a stunning fact to contemplate: Twenty-five hugely profitable U.S. companies paid their CEOs more last year than they paid Uncle Sam in taxes. In other words, the more CEOs dodg ...
  • War on Women: Anti-Choice Movement Resorting t ...
    Despite lawsuits and activism, women's health clinics are shutting their doors, thanks to "regulations" coming, in one case, from secret origins.
  • Underreported and Unchecked: Sexual Violence A ...
    Written by Yifat Susskind for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Amal* left her village in Somalia when she realized that there was nothing left there for her. There was no food and no water. So s ...
  • Meet The New American Sweatshop
    The professional carwash industry is a $23 billion enterprise, one which more and more Americans make use of every year. If you visited a carwash lately – which judging by the latest industry report you probably have or will in the near future – you may have noticed the fast and arduous labor of ...

Threat Level

  • Couple Can Sue Laptop-Tracking Company for Spy ...
    An Ohio woman and her boyfriend can sue a laptop-tracking company that recorded their sexually explicit communications in an effort to identify thieves who stole the computer the woman was using. U.S. District Judge Walter Rice ruled last week against Absolute Software, which provides software a ...
  • This Week: Appeals Court to Weigh NSA Dragnet ...
    Whether the federal government and the nation’s telecommunication companies can be held accountable for allegedly funneling every American’s electronic communication to the National Security Agency without warrants is the subject of oral arguments scheduled for a federal appeals court Wednesday. ...
  • WikiLeaks Springs a Leak: Full Database of Dip ...
    For the second time in a year, WikiLeaks has lost control of its full, unredacted cache of a quarter-million U.S. State Department cables — and this time the leaked files are apparently online. The uncensored cables are contained in a 1.73-GB password-protected file named “cables.csv,” which is ...
  • Researchers Uncover RSA Phishing Attack, Hidin ...
    Ever since security giant RSA was hacked last March, anti-virus researchers have been trying to get a copy of the malware used for the attack to study its method of infection. But RSA wasn’t cooperating, nor were the third-party forensic experts the company hired to investigate the breach. This ...
  • Judge Calls Location-Tracking Orwellian, While ...
    A federal judge's decision requiring the government to get a court warrant before obtaining mobile-phone location data is one of a string of conflicting opinions on the topic, and comes as lawmakers and the Supreme Court weigh in on the hot-button issue of locational privacy.

Equality Trust

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Elon Musk bets Dan Neil $1 million he ...
    Can a million dollars hold Elon Musks' feet to the fire? That's the value of a bet that Wall Street Journal auto journalist and all-around interesting guy Dan Neil and the Tesla Motors CEO reportedly have going over the release of the upcoming Model S. According to Green Car Reports, the ...
  • Report: Libyan rebels claim Ghaddafi's all-ele ...
    Libyan leader (ex-leader?) Muammar Qaddafi apparently had some unusual items in his personal collection. Rebel forces stormed his compound this week, and we now know he had a scrapbook dedicated to former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, lots of weapons and, oddly, a doorless, all-electri ...
  • Official: Audi spills the beans on production ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Audi Diesel-lovin' Audi is slowly, slowly coming to grips with this whole hybrid thing. Earlier this year, the "We're not against hybrids" automaker finally gave out some real information about its hybrid Q5 (after years of teases and killing the program once,) and we ...
  • Breaking: Ford, Toyota will partner on RWD hyb ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Truck, Ford, Toyota Is the Prius V not big enough for you? Then you'll probably be interested to learn that Ford and Toyota announced a partnership today to develop a new hybrid system for SUVs and light trucks. The "equal partners" deal should result in a gasoline-electr ...
  • Video: Presidential candidate Bachmann promise ...
    Filed under: Etc. How's this for bold? Congresswoman Michell Bachmann, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who won the Ames Straw Poll last weekend, has just stated that one thing we'd get with a Bachmann Administration is - ready? - cheap gasoline. According to Politico sh ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake
    The White House was rocked Tuesday, not only by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, but by the protests mounting outside its gates. More than 2,100 people say they’ll risk arrest there during the next two weeks. They oppose the Keystone XL pipeline project, designed to carry heavy crude oil from the ta ...
  • Egyptians Defend Viral Video Activist Charged ...
    Asmaa Mahfouz is one of Egyptâs most prominent activists. The 26-year-old helped co-found the influential April 6 Youth Movement in 2008 that helped pave the way for the revolution through years of grassroots organizing and street protests. A few days before January 25, she posted two videos on ...
  • San Francisco Bay Area’s BART Pulls a Mubarak
    What does the police killing of a homeless man in San Francisco have to do with the Arab Spring uprisings from Tunisia to Syria? The attempt to suppress the protests that followed. In our digitally networked world, the ability to communicate is increasingly viewed as a basic right. Open communi ...
  • Verizon Workers, Management Dig in for Decisiv ...
    On the 10th day of the most important labor fight in America, striking Verizon worker Alexandra Camacho stood on a streetcorner in downtown Brooklyn and vowed to stay out as long as necessary. "They want to strip from us everything we’ve won in the past," the slender Camacho said. "They even ...
  • From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan's Atomic Tr ...
    In recent weeks, radiation levels have spiked at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors in Japan, with recorded levels of 10,000 millisieverts per hour (mSv/hr) at one spot. This is the number reported by the reactor’s discredited owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., although that number is simply as ...

Suzie-Q

  • NASA Scientist, Religious Leaders Arrested in ...
    Environment News WASHINGTON, DC, August 29, 2011 (ENS) – NASA climatologist Dr. James Hansen was arrested today in front of the White House where he was demonstrating in opposition to the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that would bring thick crude oil from Alberta to refineries in Oklah ...
  • Defeating the Corporatocracy
    Three Things That Must Happen for Us to Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy Truthout Friday 26 August 2011 by: Bruce E. Levine, Alternet | Op-Ed Most Americans oppose rule by the corporatocracy but don’t have the tools to fight back. Here are three things we need to create a real people’s move ...
  • Kucinich: Try NATO Commanders as War Criminals
    NEWSMAX Tuesday, 23 Aug 2011 Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, has been an outspoken critic of U.S. military action in Libya since it began six months ago, even saying President Barack Obama’s policy amounted to “an impeachable offense.” Now, as Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s regime appears to be ...
  • CNN media $pin in Libya ~Business as usual
    NATO allow weapons to Rebels OPENLY Telegraph August 12th, 2011 By kingsley Arms controls continue to be flouted in the context of the Libyan armed conflict. Both France and Qatar have openly admitted to supplying arms to the rebels as a complementary strategy to the NATO-led air strikes. Such a ...
  • Morning Briefing: August 19, 2011
    During a townhall meeting earlier this week, constituents in Rep. Randy Hultgren’s (R-IL) congressional district hectored him about raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations. The Washington Post reports, “It is a scene that has been repeated at town hall meetings across the country this Augu ...

Solari

  • Introducing Southern Joy
    � � Nothing inspires me more than talented young entrepreneurs creating new businesses. AND I am always on the hunt for fresh, organic lotions, cleaners and other products to strengthen our health. � So when Jena Sanders told me about her new business, [...]
  • It’s Time to Bring Our Mortgages Home &# ...
    By Catherine Austin Fitts (in the first person) and Carolyn Betts The Administration is now proposing the transfer of significant defaulted mortgages and foreclosed properties held by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”) to large national institutional investor ...
  • It’s Time to Bring Our Mortgages Home &# ...
    By Catherine Austin Fitts (in the first person) and Carolyn Betts The Administration is now proposing the transfer of significant defaulted mortgages and foreclosed properties held by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”) to large national institutional investor ...
  • Can Sex Strikes Change the World?
    Continue reading the article . . .
  • Dr. Samuel Milham on Dirty Electricity: Are Yo ...
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday evening on the The Solari Report (6pm PT/9pm ET) I will be speaking with Dr. Samuel Milham, a physician-epidemiologist specializing in public health.  Dr Milham has published extensively for decades in scientific publications regarding the occupational ca ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lank ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Our fears are unwarranted. America is in fact ...
    Summary:  The good news is our problems are relatively minor.  Our leaders probably will take the necessary reforms during the next few years.  Of course they will govern in the best interests of our plutocratic elites, not us.  We’re along for the ride, sliding towards the Third Republic ...
  • What will our Mercs do when our wars wind down ...
    Summary:  Again we turn harsh lights on the future of America.  The US government has created a pool highly skilled mercs (on a base of people the government itself trained).  What will these people do when our wars wind down?  To create serious trouble only a few need sell their knowledge and e ...
  • The men of US Special Operations Command are h ...
    Summary:   The FM website discusses facts and insights too harsh for most to see (as seen in the 16 thousand comments during the past 4 years).  Today we look at the men in the US Special Operations Command.  Heroes, but not all the deeds we ask them to do are heroic. In many ways our Special [...]
  • Very funny. But the joke is on us.
    Summary:  More humor on the FM website, a funny circulating to American chuckles around the web.  It says something about us.  Something sad.   ______________________ The Wizard of Oz appeared on screen in 1939. Today, if Dorothy were to meet men with no brains, no hearts, and no balls, ...
  • Listen to the voice of America’s decline ...
    Summary:  Many comments sent to the FM website speak from the heart, sharing the writer’s response to the new world described on these pages.  Sometimes clear, hard, and rational.  Sometimes visionary.  Sometimes delusional.  But most often angry, expressing the anger that so often marks mo ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – 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, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...

The Progressive Realist

  • What is Left of Neo-Conservatism?
    What is left of neo-conservatism?: Here is an interesting essay that wonders about the essence of neo-conservative doctrine. I like the author’s conclusion that “…the real destructiveness of neoconservatism is to infuse in so many Americans a belief in the transformative power of U.S. action abr ...
  • Neoconservatism's Death: Please Don't Forget t ...
    "As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, something unexpected has happened: the ideology that 9/11 made famous--neoconservatism--has died." That's Peter Beinart in The Daily Beast a couple of days ago.�Similar assertions have been floating around for a couple of�years -- predictably, when yo ...
  • In Response to Palestinian Authority’s Stateho ...
    Less than a week after a car bomb devastated the United Nationsâ headquarters in Nigeria and killed more than 20 employees, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) has decided to introduce legislation that, if passed, would defund and significantly damage U.S. engagement with this important internationa ...
  • Syria’s Military Cracking?
    As the Syrian regime continues its violent crackdown on demonstrators, there are reports of dissension in the ranks: “Syrian security forces have killed at least six people and wounded dozens in raids across the country, as tanks and armoured vehicles rolled into various flashpoint areas, accord ...
  • House GOP UN Bill Drops and it’s a Recipe for ...
    House Foreign Affairs Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen introduced a particularly nonsensical piece of legislation today that would shift the way the United States pays the United Nations from “dues paying” to a system of line-item voluntary contributions. The way things work now, the USA pays ab ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Your iTable Is Coming
    Two years ago, I wrote a column talking about some of the things that still bring value to newspapers, even in the Internet age, particularly its size: It isn't that there's anything inherent in the process of ones and zeros passing through the ether that precludes an experience that duplicates ...
  • Your Tax Dollars at Work
    War has offered the opportunity for profiteering pretty much since the most sophisticated weapons technology at man's disposal was a spear. But the level of that profiteering these days is truly spectacular. This new report from the Center for Public Integrity explains just how your tax dollars ...
  • Reining in Out-of-Control Democracy
    The L.A. Times reports today that Democrats in the California Legislature are pushing a bill to have ballot initiatives appear only in general elections. Their argument is that having important laws passed via initiative in primaries -- when turnout is low, and so a tiny portion of the electorat ...
  • No Good News On Opinions of the Affordable Car ...
    The latest Kaiser Family Foundation health reform tracking poll is out, and it's pretty seriously depressing. Essentially, as time passes, people understand less and less about the Affordable Care Act. This is the opposite of what the Obama administration and congressional Democrats want, of co ...
  • Fox News Forces Candidate to Defend Reality
    When politicians hit the campaign trail and make sweeping policy statements, it's the press's role to call them out when their comments stray too far from reality. Basic questioning forces the candidates to stay honest. Fox News, though, reversed that traditional press role during an interview w ...

Buzzflash

  • Phillip Anschutz: The Most Powerful Billionair ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT He's been dubbed the "stealth media mogul," labeled"America's greediest executive,"by Fortune magazine, and was added to "The 12 Most Powerful Christians in Hollywood"list on Beliefnet. He has also been described as "secretive" and "reclusive," given t ...
  • Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Have Resulted in ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT One of the traditional America values that used to be revered as a sign of our national character was common sense. But no longer. Most of the right-wing slogans and sound bites are based on promoting economic policy that has proven not to work. Thi ...
  • The DC Earthquake Is an Alarming Case Against ...
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The August 23rd earthquake that rocked D.C. all the way up to Martha's Vineyard where the President is vacationing should be an alarming wake up call to President Obama on how easily a crude oil pipeline can rupture under the sudden magnitude of an ea ...
  • Earthquakes, Infrastructure, Antiquated Accoun ...
    ROBERT CREAMER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT What do yesterday's east coast earthquake, our infrastructure and antiquated Federal accounting systems have to do with jobs? A lot, it turns out. The earthquake yesterday was the largest east coast trembler in 67 years. But earthquakes of moderate i ...
  • Poverty as Explained by a Senior Fellow at the ...
    Body   Many people in this country struggle to find a way to deal with an inherently inequitable set of circumstances that plays havoc with their ability to prosper and provide for their children's future. Poverty defies commonly accepted definitions of what this means d ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CEOs Who Earn More Than Their Corporations Pay ...
    Of last year’s 100 highest-paid U.S. corporate chief executives, 25 took home more in CEO pay than their company paid in 2010 federal corporate income taxes, according to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies. read more
  • Food & Water Watch Applauds Governor Quinn’s P ...
    “Governor Pat Quinn’s decision to sign SB 83 into law today is a victory for Illinois citizens who want control of their water systems. The people of Illinois have a right to publicly control their drinking water and wastewater service in order to keep it safe and affordable, and SB 83 protects ...
  • Rights Group in Catch-22 of How to Prove It Wa ...
    Last night the first brief was filed in the appeal in CCR v. Obama, a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) against the Bush administration in 2006 to challenge the legality of the National Security Administration’s (NSA) warrantless wiretapping program. The suit original ...
  • Greenpeace Challenges Chicken of the Sea to Re ...
    Greenpeace has today delivered a letter to tuna giant Chicken of the Sea demanding they reform their destructive fishing practices. The letter was delivered to staff at Chicken of the Sea’s La Jolla HQ earlier today, and makes four demands on the company - a subsidiary of Thai Union Group, one o ...
  • The End of the Line for Channel One News?
    On the heels of a successful campaign that convinced Scholastic Inc.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Saving Species From Extinction Is No Mere ‘Dis ...
    Amy Harwood In Besty Hartmann’s post The Great Distraction: ‘Overpopulation’ Is Back, she boldly charges the Center for Biological Diversity of undermining reproductive rights, letting the military and Monsanto off the hook, ignoring glob ...
  • Water Justice Needed in the Horn of Africa
    Maude Barlow Recently, I had the honour of speaking at a fundraiser for the victims of the famine in the Horn of Africa, organized by local health-care providers Dr. Farook Hossenbux and his nurse and partner Geri Hossenbux. Speakers inclu ...
  • Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Dark Art of Propaganda
    Amy Goodman “When one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it,” wrote Joseph Goebbels, Germany’s Reich minister of propaganda, in 1941. Former Vice President Dick Cheney seems to have taken the famous Nazi’s advice in his new book, “In M ...
  • Why You Won’t See Veterans For Peace on the Co ...
    Leah Bolger The cover of the August 29, 2011 issue of TIME magazine features five members of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), with the caption “The New Greatest Generation.” The point of author Joe Klein’s article is that t ...
  • CEOs Rewarded for Tax Dodging Gymnastics
    Chuck Collins As the Super Congress eyes trillions in budget cuts that will undermine the quality of life for most Americans, here's a stunning fact to contemplate: Twenty-five hugely profitable U.S. companies paid their CEOs more last yea ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Lawmakers attend meeting about water
    Forsyth County was well represented at the recent meeting of the Joint Study Committee on Water Supply.District 23 state Rep. Mark Hamilton and District 27 state Sen. Jack Murphy, both Republicans from Cumming, attended the session, which focused on the tri-state water wars and on Gov.Nathan Dea ...
  • Film festival focuses on water wars and more
    Mark Twain once said, "Whiskey is for drinkin'. Water is for fightin' over."
  • Water Wars
    SPARKS – Dozens of Washoe County residents turned out at Sparks High School Thursday during the last of nine Bureau of Land Management (BLM) open house sessions to protest a proposed pipeline that would ship water from rural northeastern Nevada to Las Vegas, citing the loss of environmental, eco ...
  • Water Wars
    SPARKS – Dozens of Washoe County residents turned out at Sparks High School Thursday during the last of nine Bureau of Land Management (BLM) open house sessions to protest a proposed pipeline that would ship water from rural northeastern Nevada to Las Vegas, citing the loss of environmental, eco ...
  • Water Wars
    SPARKS – Dozens of Washoe County residents turned out at Sparks High School Thursday during the last of nine Bureau of Land Management (BLM) open house sessions to protest a proposed pipeline that would ship water from rural northeastern Nevada to Las Vegas, citing the loss of environmental, eco ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Palestinians in Jordan refugee camp long to return
    John Ridley The Electronic Intifada Behind every door in Baqaa refugee camp, one finds tragedy as well as�perseverance.
  • Israeli court rejects al-Walaja's appeal again ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Residents of the occupied West Bank village of al-Walaja are undaunted by a setback in their fight against home demolitions, the confiscation of land, the expansion of the nearby Jewish-only settlements of Gilo and Har Gilo and construction of a ...
  • Swedish chain kicks out drink machines made in ...
    Stephanie Westbrook The Electronic Intifada Popular Sodastream products directly benefit the largest Israeli settlement colony in the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile the company exploits Palestinian factory workers and attempts to “greenwash” its profit from Israel’s occupation.
  • French giant Veolia cut down to size for abusi ...
    Maren Mantovani and Michael Deas The Electronic Intifada Nicolas Sarkozy’s government must face up to its obligations not to abet Israel’s crimes.
  • Barren tables at Ramadan as PA loses $35 milli ...
    The Electronic IntifadaRamallah Palestinian families are facing increasing financial woes this Ramadan, as the Palestinian Authority juggles with its dwindling�budget.

The Wonk Room

  • Mike Huckabee To Keynote For ‘Personhood ...
    Former Arkansas Gov. and Fox News host Mike Huckabee (R) will be the keynote speaker at an anti-abortion event in Jackson, Mississippi next week. Huckabee will help raise money for Personhood Mississippi, a radical group that is trying to amend the state constitution to give every fertilized egg ...
  • Federal Reserve Likely To Implement New Stimul ...
    The minutes of the August Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting released yesterday make it clear that the FOMC was closer to recommending more forceful stimulus measures than a simple read of the August statement led me to believe. It’s also been revealed that the FOMC has agreed to hold ...
  • Republican Revolt: Virgina’s GOP Governo ...
    House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), along with some of his House GOP colleagues, have been saying that disaster aid for the areas affected by Hurricane Irene must be offset by, in Cantor’s words, “savings elsewhere.” Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) said yesterday on Bloomberg News that budget ...
  • Focus On The Family: Basic LGBT Info Is &#8216 ...
    A new video from Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink attempts to portray the distribution of basic LGBT educational materials to young people as “controversial” and a waste of taxpayer money. Watch as Candi Cushman expresses astonishment that young people might learn the fundamentals of same-sex o ...
  • Justice Department Puts Hold On South Carolina ...
    After months of protest from minority groups, voting rights advocates, and Democratic U.S. senators, the Justice Department declined to pre-clear South Carolina’s new voter identification law Monday, putting it on hold until South Carolina can provide further information on the law, the Greenvil ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Thank-you Jack Layton
    Jack, I was worried that your cancer battle would prevent you from forcing the election this past spring. Even though the outcome was horrible (a harpercon majority, which is an abomination no matter the silver lining of the NDP's becoming the official opposition) I am so glad that both you a ...
  • A Visit to Queen's Park
    Last fall, for reasons hazy and uncertain, I packed up the little fella into the bike-buggy and rode down to Queen's Park. The event that I had a vague recollection was supposed to be there wasn't there. So, on a lark, I decided to get a visitor's pass and go watch the events in the legislature. ...
  • Thoughts About Jack Layton
    While I preferred the Jack Layton who held Paul Martin directly responsible for homeless deaths, to the "serious" statesman who wouldn't let his MPs heckle the war-criminal criminal moron psychopath bush II when that piece of shit slithered across our border and was making noises about addressin ...
  • Oppressed People Complain Too Much
    Except for the REAL oppressed people that is: WHITE MALES Yeah, because EXCUSE ME, but First Nations peoples get to occupy buildings and land all the time, and they DON'T ALWAYS GET SHOT AND KILLED FOR IT!!! And Black People? Get a ticket on the "Clue Train": Racism was defeated in the Ame ...
  • Excellent Article on European Financial Crisis
    As good a source as I've yet found on the subject - Vicente Navarro: "Crisis and Class Struggle in the Eurozone" Another characteristic of this group of countries is the acceptance by the governing social democratic parties of most of the neoliberal policies pushed by the EU establishment. Th ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Canada — Rae in the right about NDP, Liberal ...
    Canada's Liberals and New Democrats share a lot: their opposition of the Harper-led Conservatives, their lack of clear leadership heading into the next election, and according to former Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, several key values.
  • Toronto TTC bus accident leaves woman dead, se ...
    A woman died Tuesday afternoon after a TTC bus smashed into a crane on Lawrence Avenue while going down a hill in Toronto. Several of the other 14 passengers were injured with nine being transported to hospital.
  • Constable Wendy Drummond explains Toronto chi ...
    He was young and out of control. Upset from teasing from the other kids, a little boy at Fairbank Memorial Daycare Centre near Dufferin Street and Eglinton Avenue West had a violent tantrum at his daycare centre last month.
  • Medium is the new small at some Tim Hortons lo ...
    Two Tim Hortons locations in Ontario are testing out a new coffee cup size that can hold 24 ounces (710 millilitres), which has been called the Extra Large. The Canadian coffee giant will be revising the names of its cup sizes.
  • The rise of Lidia Bastianich's Italian food empire
    Lidia Bastianich is not just the host of a wildly popular TV show on Italian cooking but also joins a long line of celebrity chefs who have launched their own restaurants, pasta sauce and pasta. Bastianich recently spoke about her brand in Toronto.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Granatstein: Don’t kill DND grants to academia
    Well-known Canadian military historian, commentator, and fan of the Rideau Institute (OK, we made that last bit up) Jack Granatstein is taking issue with the Harper government’s plan to cut Department of National Defence funding for the Security and Defence Forum (SDF), a program that supports a ...
  • Hundreds leave tributes to Jack Layton on Ceas ...
    I'm certain he will be remembered as second only to Tommy Douglas himself, one of Canada's greatest Canadians.
  • Jack Layton: Peace Activist
    Jack was a friend of the peace movement, and could be counted upon to find an alternative to war and to stand up for Canadian values of co-operation and diplomacy.
  • Australia’s F-35 order ‘up in the air’
    Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith has warned Parliament that repeated cost increases and delays in the F-35 programme were falling out of line with limits set by the government and military planners (Australia to decide on F-35 fighter purchase in 2012: Govt, Reuters, 17 August 2011). Sm ...
  • Peacekeeping contribution remains dismal
    Canada was once the largest single contributor to UN peacekeeping operations. Today, according to Canadians for Peacekeeping‘s third annual factsheet on Canada and UN peacekeeping, we rank 53rd among contributing countries. The ranking represents a slight drop in Canada’s position compared to la ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Olive Oil Reduces Risk of Stroke
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By:  J.D. Heyes Another new study has confirmed what we’ve known for quite some time – that olive oil contributes to better health. According to researchers who followed about 7,000 people aged 65 and older in three French cities for five years, olive oil can hel ...
  • Bill Gates, Monsanto Hijack ‘Humanitarian Aid’ ...
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Ethan A. Huff Those still in denial about the connection between the so-called “humanitarian” efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the bigger agenda to thrust genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) on the populations of the world (among other thi ...
  • J&J Recalls 40,000 Bottles of Schizophrenia Dr ...
    June 28th, 2011 NaturalNews.com By: Jonathan Benson The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Co.’s pharmaceutical division just cannot seem to get its act together. A recent recall involving 16,000 bottles of its schizophrenia drug Risperdal, and 24,000 bottles of a generic version of the same drug, mark yet ...
  • What’s Wrong With Our Food System?
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  • Dollar Seen Losing Global Reserve Status
    June 28th, 2011 Financial Times By: Jack Farchy The US dollar will lose its status as the global reserve currency over the next 25 years, according to a survey of central bank reserve managers who collectively control more than $8,000bn. More than half the managers, who were polled by UBS, predi ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Open Letter to Barack Obama - pre-election
    We - citizens of Haiti, political militants and unionists of the grassroots movement for democracy in our country - solemnly address ourselves to you on the eve of the election that will most likely make you the next president of the United States....
  • Brazil: The high price of clean, cheap ethanol
    Brazil hopes to supply drivers worldwide with the fuel of the future - cheap ethanol derived from sugarcane. It is considered an effective antidote to climate change, but hundreds of thousands of Brazilian plantation workers harvest the cane at slave...
  • Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
    Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...
  • Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
    ColorOfChange.org - http://www.colorofchange.org/farmers/?id=1842-429864 is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only ...
  • Extradition threat for Black Liberation activist
    As the US opens up political channels with Cuba, Black Liberation Army - http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html activist Assata Shakur faces extradition from the country where she has lived under political asylum since 1984, writes Paul Scott. While the mainstream media portrays Shak ...

War in Context

  • ‘Libyans don’t like people with dark skin, but ...
    Patrick Cockburn reports: Yassin Bahr, a tall thin Senegalese in torn blue jeans, volubly denies that he was ever a mercenary or fought for Muammar Gaddafi. Speaking in quick nervous sentences, Mr Bahr tries to convince a suspicious local militia leader in charge of the police station in the F ...
  • Military council fails to defuse mounting tale ...
    Ahram Online reports: Soldiers arrive one mid-afternoon to break off a peaceful gathering in Tahrir Square. Days later, several young people recount scary ordeals and horror stories they claim they endured. Amr, for example, a young Egyptian man who works in the TV and Radio Corporation, enter ...
  • Pro-Assad militia threatens to go on strike
    Asharq Al-Awsat reports: The state of unity exhibited by the Syrian regime since the outbreak of protests more than 5 months may have finally come to an end. Over this period of time, the al-Assad regime has relied on Syrian military forces and the pro-regime “Shabiha” militia to suppress the p ...
  • The failure of the Internet: Why efficiency pr ...
    “What you have now is a system in which the Internet user becomes the product that is being sold to others, and what the product is, is the ability to be manipulated.” Jaron Lanier
  • White House guidelines on 9/11 messaging — don ...
    The New York Times in its Izvestia-like role as mouthpiece for the White House, shares some of the guidelines that have been sent to government officials with directions on how they should talk about 9/11, as its tenth anniversary approaches. Goodness knows what any of them might say if they wer ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Final Arctic Sea Ice forecast poll
    STICKY POST – AT TOP for 24 hours, see poll below. Once again, Iâm going to give WUWT readers an opportunity to make a forecast for submission, based on voting. See the poll at the end. I’m late getting this … Continue reading →
  • TS Katia organizing, picking up speed, soon to ...
    It won’t be long now. BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM KATIA ADVISORY NUMBER 8 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL122011 1100 PM AST TUE AUG 30 2011 ...KATIA RACING WEST-NORTHWESTWARD OVER THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC... SUMMARY OF 1100 PM AST...0300 UTC...INFORMATION ------------------------------------- ...
  • Houston, we have a temperature problem
    Eric Berger writes (excerpt below) at the Houston Chronicle “SciGuy” blog about the wicked hot record breaking temperatures people were getting in Houston on their iPhones. Turns out the whole issue is over station siting. While he located the station, … Continue reading →
  • Bill Nye is the anti-science guy when it comes ...
    Post by Dr. Ryan Maue (cross posted at my Policlimate) “Must watch TV: Nye expounds on theory of racism” Much “debate” has erupted in the liberal mainstream media concerning the effects of global warming on Hurricane Irene. With a few … Continue reading →
  • Fuel cells get the dynamite treatment
    From the University of Southern California  a parallel for Alfred Nobel’s design of a stable substrate for dynamite (which at the time used unstable nitro-glycerin). This solves the collision problem for automobile mounted fuel cells. Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel cells … Continue reading →

treehugger

  • Study Finds No Link Between Vaccinations and A ...
    Image: USACE Europe District/CC BY 2.0 The Institute of Medicine, an independent non-profit organization that works without political or commercial agenda, just released a study that should further
  • Organic Hockey Diet Scores Big Goals
    Photo: creativecommon/flickr/dustin hall He shoots, he scores! Eat like an organic hockey player and you too may hit the major leagues. NHL hockey players are going on serious organic-only diets which include quinoa, goji berries, organic steak and wild salmon. What, no beer? The result ...
  • World's Oldest Person Found Thriving in the Amazon
    Photo courtesy of Survival International While the Amazon rainforest is certainly known to be teeming with life, it turns out that the people who live there are too. Maria Lucimar Pereira, an indigenous Amazonian belonging to the Kaxinawá tribe of western Brazil, will soon be celebrating her ...
  • Gibson Guitar Corp. Investigated Again On Lega ...
    Gibson Guitars at Opryland Image credit:Flickr, shawnzrossi A Gibson guitar operation in Nashville was recently raided by Federal agents - this being the second time in 3 years. According to a WSJ article (see Guitar Frets) , they were looking for potential Lacy Act violations (the law dea ...
  • A Smart Grid Would Have Prevented Hundreds of ...
    Irene left millions of people in the dark. But in the future, it won't have to be that way. This fascinating piece from the Daily Herald (via Grist) explains how having a smart grid in place would have prevented many of those power outages from happening....Read the full story on TreeHugger ...

Biosingularity

  • FDA Panel Urges Approval of Hepatitis C Drug
    In an18-0 vote, an FDA advisory panel recommended approval of the drug boceprevir to treat hepatitis C. Panel members called boceprevir, manufactured by Merck & Co., a weapon in the fight against chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection. Chronic HCV genotype 1 infection is the most c ...
  • Out-of-Africa migration selected novelty-seeki ...
    AS HUMANS migrated out of Africa around 50,000 years ago and moved across the planet, evolution may have latched onto a gene linked to risk-taking and adventurousness. The idea, first put forward by Chuansheng Chen at the University of California, Irvine, more than a decade ago, was originally m ...
  • New evidence that caffeine is a healthful anti ...
    Scientists are reporting an in-depth analysis of how the caffeine in coffee, tea, and other foods seems to protect against conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease on the most fundamental levels. The report, which describes the chemistry behind caffeine’s antioxidant effects, app ...
  • New Clues to Low-Calorie Diets and Longer Life
    Research has suggested that very low-calorie diets may increase life expectancy in animals, and now a new study in humans provides some important clues as to why this may occur. In the new study, individuals who had higher metabolic rates — the amount of energy the body uses for normal body func ...
  • The benefits of meditation
    Studies have shown that meditating regularly can help relieve symptoms in people who suffer from chronic pain, but the neural mechanisms underlying the relief were unclear. Now, MIT and Harvard researchers have found a possible explanation for this phenomenon. In a study published online April 2 ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Pfc. Jesse W. Dietrich, 20, of Venus, TX.Army Sgt. Andrew R. Tobin, 24, of Jacksonville, IL.Army ...
  • 'No on HB 194': Activism, fatigue, and the GOP ...
    Since the Wisconsin recalls there has been quite a bit of commentary about how folks want a break from politics, and maybe a campaign to oust Scott Walker early next year should be postponed. Some of it is just garden variety concern trolling by conservatives who understand just how devastating ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Lance Cpl. Travis M. Nelson, 19, of Pace, FL.Army Spc. Joshua M. Seals, 21, of Porter, OK.Army ...
  • 'No on Issue 2': Yes, GOP, this is really happ ...
    Last week the Ohio politics blog Plunderbund had a series of posts about the sudden and dramatic sense of desperation that had seized the right. The panic began with an editorial from the conservative Columbus Dispatch. It was so completely at odds with reality that even a casual follower of s ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Spencer C. Duncan, 21, of Olathe, KS.Army Sgt. Alexander J. Bennett, 24, of Tacoma, WA.Army ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • State Officials Ignored Scientists in Approvin ...
    California's former top pesticide regulatory official dismissed safety guidelines suggested by her own staff scientists on the grounds that they were "excessive" and too onerous for the pesticide manufacturer, recently released internal documents show.Click here to read this article
  • Rick Perry, Texas, and Mad Cow Disease--12 Yea ...
    I am sure that most of you are aware of the Texas mad cow cases that were covered up.Click here to read this article
  • Which Eco-Friendly Food Labels Are Meaningful, ...
    Certified organic ... chemical free ... dolphin-safe ... the stamps and slogans on food labels make a lot of promises, but can they back it up? Audobon magazine breaks down which labels are meaningful and which are USDA-certified bull crap.Click here to read this article
  • Organic Consumers Association Endorses Solutio ...
    The Green Polka Dot Box (GPDB) is a new national distribution service focused on the home delivery of organic and natural non-GMO products at 30-50% below the cost of retail, providing an inexpensive alternative to supporters of the Organic Consumer Association.Click here to read this article
  • We Need More Markets - and Veggie Eaters
    Earlier this week, I asked the question: How many farmers markets is too many? On a related note, this new study [PDF] looked at Americans' fruit and vegetable consumption -- one of the main variables driving farmers market sales.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Do Genetically Engineered Foods Really Need to ...
    Nina Federoff, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and professor at Penn State University penned an opinion piece in the New York Times recently, asking for less regulation of genetically engineered (GE) crops. Professor Federoff would like to see more gra ...
  • 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.

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Reviews of Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart
    REVIEWS OF BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE BY IAN WISHART Firstly, we are very glad to have read it and thankful that Wishart (and King) have written it. Wishart has done the entire body politic a great deal of good....
  • Climate study endorses central premise of Air Con
    A central premise of my book Air Con, from 2009, appears to have been validated by new peer reviewed research. My argument, which Climate Change minister Nick Smith and self-proclaimed climate expert - truffle grower Gareth Renowden, tried to challenge...
  • BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...
    FROM AN EXTRACT OF BREAKING SILENCE Published in the latest Investigate HIS/HERS magazine... What you are about to read has been described as the most controversial book ever published in New Zealand. It wasn’t supposed to be. But news sent...
  • BREAKING SILENCE news release
    BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE By Ian Wishart $39.99, Howling At The Moon Publishing Ltd RELEASE DATE: Imminent Final opportunity to pre-order for delivery on Day One: www.howlingatthemoon.com The new book that shatters myths surrounding the Kahui murder case is...
  • News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
    NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...

My Care2 Picks

  • FEAR INC ! Interlinked Media Programs
    Connecting the dots in ways that aren't usually completed : not just on incidents, but on historical trends No,,,it is not Politically CorrectSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Debt ridden country spends 1 Billion destroyin ...
    debt ridden country's "news" uses propaganda to trick its people to think otherwise, using "HUMANITARIAN REASONS" as the usual FAKE reasonSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Air Force ROTC Promoting Christianity
    Right-wing evangelical Christians have done more to transform the Air Force into their own personal military wing than with any other branch of the military. Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Answer to Alan Simpson From Man in Montana
    We paid for Social Security, so we are entitled to it. Instead of cutting Social Security back, we should remove the $106.8 cap on the tax that pays into it. That way, we could lower the age to retire and even increase the pay.Submitted by Michael Dewey to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • FEAR INC! Millions Being Spent To Spread Islam ...
    The story of financed hatemongering - Islamophobia - covered by Keith Olbermann on CountdownSubmitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Pan-African News Wire: South Africa Continues ...
    Pan-African News Wire: South Africa Continues Hostility Toward NATO Invasion of Libya: by Amiel Ungar - WikipediaIt was only with difficulty that the Western countries managed to extract permission... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • inteldaily.com: African Union Refuses Appeals ...
    African Union Refuses Appeals to Recognize Libya’s Rebels: VOA News - The African Union [AU] has rejected calls for recognition of Libya’s rebel Transitional National Council. The decision highlights... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Obama admin: Pardoning Garvey a waste of time ...
    Obama admin: Pardoning Garvey a waste of time and resources [uhurunews.com] The Obama administration has rejected a call for a posthumous presidential pardon for Marcus Garvey, calling it a waste of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Peru passes "historic" indigenous rights law | ...
    Peru passes "historic" indigenous rights law | World War 4 Report: On Aug. 23, Peru's Congress unanimously approved a new law that guarantees indigenous peoples' right to free, prior and informed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Nativist Leader Says Violence May be Needed to ...
    Nativist Leader Says Violence May be Needed to Save ‘White America’ | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center: While much of the political rhetoric on the right these days is laden with violent... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Dead Men Walking – Update on Fukushima
    As I sit here thinking about Fukushima, I wonder what the people who caused this calamity to escalate into what, in essence, could very well be the final end game, are thinking. It seems clear that there is no running, and no hiding. Only a delay in the inevitability of an end to life as we know ...
  • TS Radio: Glenn Morton on Obamacare
    Join us Tuesday evening at 8 CST! Date / Time: 08-23-11 6:00 pm PST 8:00 pm CST 9:00 pm EST “My name is Glenn Morton, and I am President of Taylor, Levi, and Associates, an insurance brokerage firm in Maryland. I have been in the health care/health insurance business for almost 20 years, working ...
  • We Have Not Seen the Last of the Genetically M ...
    Canada will be the egg producing capitol of transgenicfrankenfishsalmoneelthings, with NO preemptive oversight from the FDA.
  • Monsanto Targets Consumers
    Monsanto leaps from commercial agriculture to take on the retail market with genetically engineered sweet corn designed with the consumer in mind.
  • The “Non-GMO” Labeling Scam
    A company wants to market a product chock full of GMOs and every other thing under the sun, make it appear to be healthy, and use Non-GMO certification to sell it. So how do you do it?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 'Cheney fears trial as war criminal': Colin Po ...
    ShareThis'Cheney fears trial as war criminal': Colin Powell aide hits out at former VP 31 Aug 2011 An aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell has hit out at Dick Cheney, saying the former Vice President [sic] fears being 'tried as a war criminal'. Powell's long-time aide and chief of staf ...
  • Riots to cost Met police 34m pounds
    ShareThisRiots to cost Met police £34m 30 Aug 2011 Scotland Yard is expected to have spent more on policing the riots than it spent on policing all major public order events in the capital last year, officials said today. The disturbances will cost the force more than £34 million, with the total ...
  • Up to $60 billion in war funds said wasted
    ShareThisUp to $60 billion in war funds said wasted 31 Aug 2011 As much as $60 billion in U.S. funds has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade through lax oversight of contractors, poor planning and corruption, an independent panel investigating U.S. wartime s ...
  • Army Ranger's widow removed from Donald Rumsfe ...
    ShareThisArmy Ranger's widow removed from Donald Rumsfeld book signing 29 Aug 2011 Two people were removed from a Donald Rumsfeld book signing last Friday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, including the Yelm widow of an Army Ranger who blames the military for her husband’s suicide. Security officers ...
  • This month America's deadliest in long Afghan war
    ShareThisThis month America's deadliest in long Afghan war 30 Aug 2011 August has become the deadliest month yet for U.S. forces in the nearly 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, increasing pressure on the Obama administration to bring troops home sooner rather than later. The 66 U.S. service member ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in the body. All vaccine d ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix solutions ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – ...
    Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; hindering the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation (circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, s ...
  • VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Part 2 – Demyelination, ...
    Article is intended to be read in conjunction with Part 1: VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix â A Legacy Of Shame Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

  • We Need Better Pants
    30 August 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan Rip, rend and slash are all in a day�s work here.� Yet I have never seen so many troops with so many pairs of pants that are ready to fall off. Last week this mortar crew was firing at some people who were trying to kill us ...
  • The Art, Science, and Carpentry of Explosives
    Blocks of M112 C-4 prepared for mission beside roll of M456 detonation cord and accessories. 29 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan, 4-4Cav There is much to know about explosives.� A wealth of art, science, and carpentry has developed around uncountabl ...
  • Edvard Munch in the Marijuana Patch
    My heavily armed tent mates hours before the mission. 24 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan, 4-4Cav We live in tents.� Nice tents with air conditioning.� But not now; the electricity and air conditioning are out again and I�m sweating in a boiling ten ...
  • Tracer Burnout
    A Female Engagement Team (FET) at work in an Afghan compound. The notions that women should not, cannot, or do not go into combat, all are invalid. They should, they can, and they do. And here we need them. 22 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan, 4-4Cav ...
  • Battlefield Forensics
    The Later meeting 18 August 2011 Task Force Spartan, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan During a planning session at a sand table, numerous firefights broke out.� We were at safe distance but close enough to hear heavy volumes of machine gun, AK-47 and RPGs.� The enemy had hit three targets simult ...

The Killing Train

  • Things they don't tell you about capitalism: a ...
    Published on ZNet Ha-Joon Chang is a development economist with a special interest in economic history. His most recent book, “23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism”, as well as previous books, have critiqued neoliberalism and laissez-faire economics. I interviewed him by telephone on A ...
  • Ultraviolent conflicts
    Between economic austerity and riot stories, my reading is out of sync with the headlines. I've been reading more about African conflicts, especially very recent and ongoing ones. Specifically: -Allen and Vlassenroot's book on the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. -Jason Stearns's book on the Co ...
  • Numeracy alert. Gravy drain.
    I read Metro Today on the subway today. There was a story blaming City of Toronto staff for squandering - wait for it - up to $1 MILLION dollars in sole-sourced contracts. So, Rob Ford is right, and there is waste to be cut, eh? Except that $1 million is, for example, 1/3 of what the KPMG report ...
  • The politics of economic self-destruction
    Sorry for the hiatus. Partly I've been busy with work and life and been unable to spend as much time doing articles. Partly I am trying to train myself to not relate to the world through 2000 word articles but to have a little more variety, including longer things (ie., books), one of which I am ...
  • Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
    This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.

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  • Study Finds No Link Between Vaccinations and A ...
    Image: USACE Europe District/CC BY 2.0 The Institute of Medicine, an independent non-profit organization that works without political or commercial agenda, just released a study that should further
  • Organic Hockey Diet Scores Big Goals
    Photo: creativecommon/flickr/dustin hall He shoots, he scores! Eat like an organic hockey player and you too may hit the major leagues. NHL hockey players are going on serious organic-only diets which include quinoa, goji berries, organic steak and wild salmon. What, no beer? The result ...
  • World's Oldest Person Found Thriving in the Amazon
    Photo courtesy of Survival International While the Amazon rainforest is certainly known to be teeming with life, it turns out that the people who live there are too. Maria Lucimar Pereira, an indigenous Amazonian belonging to the Kaxinawá tribe of western Brazil, will soon be celebrating her ...
  • Gibson Guitar Corp. Investigated Again On Lega ...
    Gibson Guitars at Opryland Image credit:Flickr, shawnzrossi A Gibson guitar operation in Nashville was recently raided by Federal agents - this being the second time in 3 years. According to a WSJ article (see Guitar Frets) , they were looking for potential Lacy Act violations (the law dea ...
  • A Smart Grid Would Have Prevented Hundreds of ...
    Irene left millions of people in the dark. But in the future, it won't have to be that way. This fascinating piece from the Daily Herald (via Grist) explains how having a smart grid in place would have prevented many of those power outages from happening....Read the full story on TreeHugger ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Vietnam president releases 10,000 prisoners fo ...
    [JURIST] The president of Vietnam on Monday ordered the release of more than 10,000 prisoners, granting amnesty to commemorate the country's National Day. Although none of the high profile government dissidents was released, the president freed five individuals [AP report] convicted of national ...
  • ICC appeals chamber confirms admissibility of ...
    [JURIST] The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Tuesday rejected an appeal [press release] filed by the Kenyan government and confirmed a Pre-Trial Chamber ruling refusing to transfer two cases stemming from 2007 post-election violence to Kenyan court ...
  • Cambodia genocide tribunal begins fitness hearing
    [JURIST] The UN's Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday began conducting its fitness hearing [materials; press release] to prosecute individuals for mass killings and other crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge regime [BBC back ...
  • UN calls for end to enforced disappearances
    [JURIST] The UN called Tuesday for all states to end the "heinous crime" of enforced or involuntary disappearances [press release]. Enforced disappearances refers to the practice of placing people in secret detentions for weeks or months without ever being brought before a judge. Some victims of ...
  • Sudan accused of war crimes in South Kordofan ...
    [JURIST] Human rights groups Amnesty International (AI) [official website] and Human Rights Watch (HRW) [official website] on Tuesday said they have evidence that the Sudanese army has committed war crimes [press release] in the country's South Kordofan region. Researchers from the two advocacy ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Washington Wants to Avoid Default, but It Can' ...
    With time running out, lawmakers still haven't crafted any bill that can raise the debt limit. Will they manage to pass one by Aug. 2? APThe aspirations don't match the situation.To hear them talk, the White House and every key player on Capitol Hill wants to avoid the first-ever default ...
  • Boehner: Tough to Revive Bipartisan 'Humpty Du ...
    The House Speaker said Republicans would press ahead with their own proposal should Obama continue to reject a two-tier plan With Asian markets set to deliver a verdict within hours on the U.S. debt crisis, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on ...
  • Progress Toward a Debt Deal?
    With the clock ticking down to the reopening of the markets, Congressional leaders try to patch together a two-step agreement ...
  • Let Them Eat Cake Alive & Well in Beverly Hills
    I love Los Angeles (I know -- few seem to want to admit it), but I love Washington, DC more.  I love DC's intrigue and policy banter -- the passionate debates about Israel and Palestine, about nuclear vs. renewables, about Grover Norquist vs. big government Republicans (& MoveOn), about whethe ...
  • How to Be a Right-Leaning Journalist
    A libertarian guide for young reporters tells us how media, ideological or otherwise, should work in the digital age With the rise of ideological journalism over the past decade, a period when opinionated bloggers, Web journalists, and muckraking activists have changed the face of the profess ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • Wikileaks: IDF Intelligence Chief Boasts Assas ...
    Former U.S Rep. Robert Wexler may be a liberal pro-Israel sycophant, but thank God he visited IDF intelligence chief two weeks before Operation Cast Lead began along with a U.S. embassy staffer.  Otherwise, we wouldn’t have this rich portrait of Israeli thinking just prior to the Israeli assaul ...
  • J Street Withdraws Smear
    I’m happy to report that Jeremy Ben Ami, J Street’s president, has written to apologize for the tweet published in its official Twitter feed which called my criticism of the Aipac Israel junket “crazy, disgusting and racist.”  Jeremy’s heard some strong words from me on this; and it’s been some ...
  • Larry Derfner Fired by Jerusalem Post
    I just heard a piece of terrible news, which unfortunately doesn’t shock me.  Today, the Jerusalem Post fired one of its only two remaining liberal columnists, Larry Derfner.  He’d written a column about the Eilat terror attacks which expressed understanding for the Palestinian impulse to viol ...
  • Israel: Nation for All Its Citizens
    NOTE: This essay was first published at Israel Reconsidered.  It was a response to a post written by Larry Derfner defending Israel as a Jewish state.  Since a number of readers have recently sharply criticized my views concerning Zionism, I thought it might be helpful to republish this here. I ...
  • Can J Street Smear and Not Pay a Price?
    Over the past few days, I’ve been thinking about the lies that J Street published about me in an official tweet which called my criticism of Jesse Jackson Jr’s Jerusalem Post op-ed “crazy, disgusting and racist.”  I thank Max Blumenthal, Phil Weiss, Gabriel Ash, and a number of others who’ve bl ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage ...

David J. Gregory

  • " Flip Flopped"
    � Dear Editor, � The Chronicle on 8/22/11, stated that the Crystal River City Council was going to have the "first reading" on 8/22/11 of an ordinance that the council voted on at a previous meeting "to change flag displays to an unlimited number". � How can flying "an unlimited number"of U.S fl ...
  • Help to overcome
    SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]
  • USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
    The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
  • FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
    by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
  • My Predicament
    For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • English School Embraces iPads, Apple and Techn ...
    There is a rule in civilized society that goes something like this: Whenever something is compulsory then it must have something wrong with it. We see it all the time, in the school system and it’s one-size-fits-all approach to child indoctrination; in the application of statutory rules that are ...
  • The Consumer Culture Will Never Be Convicted
    November 28, 2008: As the recession really started to bite in the Western world, something was stirring in the minds of people across the USA. Black Friday, that time of year when, traditionally, retail businesses move from being in the “red” to being in the “black”, had taken on a Pavlovian sig ...
  • London 2012: Crass, Commercial and Completely ...
    The Olympic Charter reads as follows: Fundamental Principles of Olympism 1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of eff ...
  • Why So Few Unsuitablogs?
    I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
  • Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
    We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: âWhen a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.â I wasnât commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to describe the s ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • ATTN-SPAN Personalizes C-SPAN Footage of Your Reps
    Last month, I had the privilege of participating in the Mozilla-Knight Learning Lab. This four-week online lecture series pulled together 60 individuals interested in journalism and technology and got them to sit together watching an array of guest lecturers. The end product from each participan ...
  • Using Maps to Make Sense of the Unimaginable i ...
    Development Seed recently launched horn.wfp.org, a mapping tool that visualizes one of the worst famines in recent history that's unfolding in the Horn of Africa. We did this project in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations, to leverage data from ...
  • PANDA Aims to Make Data Analysis Easier for Jo ...
    What's got rows and columns and sucks at data? Excel. Though to be fair, we misuse it. Excel was built for spreadsheets, but it's become most folks' go-to kit for poking at data. It's installed on your computer. It opens CSV files. It's what you know. Of course, databases are great at data, b ...
  • Zeega Enables Communities to Create Interactiv ...
    We at Zeega want to enable anyone to create interactive documentaries and invent new forms of storytelling. For inspiration, we've looked to a figure who challenged the documentary form right when radio and film were being invented a century ago: Dziga Vertov. Best known for the remarkable f ...
  • NextDrop Tackles Water Availability Issues in ...
    In Western countries, we take it for granted that we have access to clean water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. At our fingertips is water that is plentiful enough to run our washing machines, warm enough for a hot shower, and safe enough to drink. In much of the developing world, however, this s ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The 2012 Vote - Opinion Survey shows Wide Marg ...
    In a wide-ranging opinion survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, Muslims living in the U.S. show little apprehension as the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches. Completed this year, the comprehensive public opinion survey found no indication of increased alienation or anger amo ...
  • Edge on Health - Commonly Prescribed Anti-Biot ...
    Adding a common antibiotic to the usual treatment regimen for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can reduce acute exacerbations –sudden onsets of worsened cough, wheeze, and labored breathing – and improve quality of life, reports a new clinical trial funded by the National Heart, Lung ...
  • The Battle for Libya - Libyan Rebels Take a Pr ...
    The war in Libya is over. More precisely, governments and media have decided that the war is over, despite the fact that fighting continues. The unfulfilled expectation of this war has consistently been that Moammar Gadhafi would capitulate when faced with the forces arrayed against him, and tha ...
  • The Obama Edge - Has The Obama Administration’ ...
    Prominent U.S. officials have claimed that only dwindling numbers of isolated extremists support terrorists engaged in violent attacks against Americans. Survey research on Muslim publics’ attitudes reveals a different picture, one that undermines this interpretation. Evidence from key Arab stat ...
  • The Race for Nuclear - Risk to Nuclear Plants ...
    As Hurricane Irene bore down on the East Coast, the nuclear industry assured the public that the storm wouldn�t damage the dozens of reactors in its path. The industry�s watchdogs also expressed less concern about the hurricane�s potential impact on nuclear reactors than about the vulnerability ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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  • Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market- The G ...
    By William HicksContinuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years
  • Disastrous US Jobs Report Points To Deepening ...
    By Barry GreyUS payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department
  • A State For Jews
    By William James Martin Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state - Israel- which is a state for Jews, and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians
  • Israelis Rush For Second Passports
    By Franklin Lamb Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 s ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...

Yid With Lid

  • Rest in Peace Jane Jamison My CPAC Buddy
    For those who haven't noticed, the right hand column of this blog is an RSS reader showing the latest post of my favorite blogs.� Tonight as I was going to close down for the night this headline from The Other McCain leaped out at me Jane Jamison, R.I.P., Right Wing News had one too Jane Jami ...
  • Liberal's Latest Call For a Protected Minority ...
    �It started with African-Americans (at the time we called them Blacks), the Latino community and of course women (who are actually the majority, but I won't get into that now). After that group it expanded, to Asians, Muslims, gays, lesbians and transvestites.Which was followed by atheists, unio ...
  • Newsbusted: Study Proves Last Week's Virginia ...
    It was felt as south as Georgia and as north as Maine, now in an exclusive report by Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, we learn that last week's earthquake centered in Virginia was good for America. Learn all about this new study in today's installment of Newsbusted the twice weekly program from ...
  • Trying to Manage the Post-Qadhafi Libya While ...
    NBC Executive: What�s the premise [of your proposed television show]? GEORGE: ���Nothing happens on the show��.� NBC executive: �Well, why am I watching it?� GEORGE: �Because it�s on TV.� NBC executive: (Threatening) �Not yet.� ��Seinfeld,� The Pitch episode By Barry Rubin ...
  • Deja Vu All Over Again- One Year Ago Today: Ob ...
    Its Deja Vu all over again.� One year ago today President Obama sat down with Brian Williams just before he went on his end of summer vacation to Cape Cod.� The big revelation in the interview was the President's promise that as soon as he is back from his family vacation he was going to present ...

The Real Agenda

  • $30 billion of U.S. War Money Given to Crooks ...
    RT August 31, 2011 The US wasted at least one dollar out of six on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which amounts to about US $30 billion, a bipartisan commission found. The sum may double in future, as foreign governments abandon unsustainable projects funded by the US. The Commission on Wartime C ...
  • Understand History To Understand The Current M ...
    Bob Chapman International Forecaster August 20, 2011 The Fed has been behind all the failings of the markets, Europe now a disaster waiting to happen, about leveraged speculation and counterparty risk, now we have an escalating debt crisis, the perpetual creation of money is the theft of the val ...
  • Health Policy Driving Institute of Medicine Fu ...
    The Institute of Medicine is secretly financed and supported by the military industrial complex, the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Department of Defense, Bill Gates. Mike Adams Infowars.com August 29, 2011 The Institute of Medicine is suddenly in the news following the release of its vaccine “ ...
  • Flat Earth Al calls Global Warming Skeptics &# ...
    However, it is Al Gore himself who seeks to reduce world population in underdeveloped countries by installing his carbon tax scam, which would not allow the developing world to achieve First World living standards. By Caroline May The Daily Caller August 28, 2011 One day climate change skeptics ...
  • Meteorologists Simply Can’t Predict a Hu ...
    by Seth Borenstein MyWayNews August 29, 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) – Hurricane Irene was no mystery to forecasters. They knew where it was going. But what it would do when it got there was another matter. Predicting a storm’s strength still baffles meteorologists. Every giant step in figuring out the ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm no-go zones to be established
    The State Government is set to introduce new planning rules that will restrict where wind farms can be constructed. Sweeping changes to the rules governing the construction of wind farms in Victoria will be gazetted today. The Planning Minister, Matthew Guy, has amended local government planning ...
  • Wind farms under fire for bird kills
    Six birds found dead recently in Southern California�s Tehachapi Mountains were majestic golden eagles. But some bird watchers say that in an area where dozens of wind turbines slice the air they were also sitting ducks. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating to determine what kille ...
  • Blade gets splintered during ferocious storm
    CONNEAUT � Lightning damaged one of the blades on the gigantic wind turbine on Conneaut�s lakefront early Thursday morning, knocking the big generator out of commission, officials said. Composite material that coats the wooden blades was splintered by the bolt. Pieces of the material were jarred ...
  • Huge swathes of Welsh woodland could be razed ...
    The scale of the area of Welsh woodland that could be razed to build new wind farms has emerged in a tender put out by the Forestry Commission. Some 386 hectares � each equivalent to the size of a rugby pitch � could be cleared of trees in a plan opponents fear would dramatically change the land ...
  • Hundreds object to turbines proposal
    More than 500 people have objected to fresh plans for wind turbines on the edge of Cumwhinton. Bolsterstone Innovative Energy�s original proposals for three 377ft-high turbines, at Newlands Farm near junction 42 of the M6, were thrown out last year following a public inquiry. Now the renewable e ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �N ...
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Labor Economist to Head CEA
    “In tapping Alan B. Krueger on Monday to lead the Council of Economic Advisers, President Obama has picked an economist well known for his studies of labor markets just as the president is about to announce a renewed push for job creation policies as early as next week.” (New York Times) Heâs be ...
  • White House Frantically Readies Jobs Program
    “The White House scrambled Monday to finalize a new jobs initiativeâ¦. Obama ⦠said he intended to reveal the much-anticipated new jobs agenda in a speech next weekâ¦. And yet, behind the scenes Obama and top aides had yet to reach agreement on the major tenets of that planâ¦.” (Washington Post ...
  • Zombie Feminism and Prudish SlutWalkers
    The demonstrators are using the ill-considered words of one ignorant policeman as a reason to throw a street party.
  • Slow Growth Spurs Fears of New Recession
    “The US economy grew at a rate of just 1 percent in the second quarter, a slowdown that leaves the nation at risk of tipping back into recession.” (Christian Science Monitor) Double-dip: Brought to you by big government. FEE Timely Classic “Consumer Spending Drives the Economy?” by Mark Skousen
  • Your Turn, Bernanke Tells Congress
    “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke leaned on Congress on Friday to do more to promote hiring and growth, or risk delaying the economyâs return to full health. Bernanke proposed no new steps by the Fed to boost the economy. But at a time when Congress has been focused on shrinking long-run bu ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • 5,000 followers on Twitter
    Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a litt ...
  • 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
    I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in my o ...
  • Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
    This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...
  • Journalists, take another look at Tumblr
    For a long time I had trouble appreciating Tumblr, but I think I finally understand its strengths — and I must not be the only one. Tumblr is now one of the top 25 websites in the U.S., according to data from Quancast, as reported in a new article at TechCrunch. It gets close to 5,000 pagevie ...
  • Branding: Should journalists build a personal ...
    If you’re teaching journalism today, you must be aware of the discussion that surrounds branding. If you’re a young journalist, or someone planning to enter the field of journalism, you need to understand what personal branding means. On June 23, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten wrote ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Stetson Kennedy and the pursuit of truth
    By Paul Ortiz Stetson Kennedy passed away on Saturday, Aug. 27. He was 94 years old. Stetson died peacefully in the presence of his beloved wife, Sandra Parks, at Baptist Medical Center South in St. Augustine, Florida. Stetson Kennedy spent the better part of the 20th century doing battle with ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: New Orleans six years after K ...
    Today marks six years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, leading to the catastrophic failure of the federal levee system in and around New Orleans. While the metro area has made great progress in recovering from the unprecedented disaster, serious socioeconomic problems ...
  • Hurricane Irene: Why failing to evacuate inmat ...
    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 North Carolina, which evacuated over 1,300 inmates before Ir ...
  • VOICES: Crime pays for the private prison indu ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South It all started in Mississippi. Of course. Deprived of his slaves by the Confederacy's loss in the War Between the States, wealthy, politically connected cotton grower and railroad magnate Edmund Richardson needed cheap labor for the 25,000 acres of cotton spread ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: States' weak coal ash oversig ...
    When a massive coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee failed back in December 2008, it dumped a billion gallons of coal ash -- the toxic waste left over after burning coal -- into a nearby community and waterways. The disaster spurred calls fo ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Security and Islam in the New Libya
    Libya's new government will likely face threats from Gaddafi loyalists from outside it as well as a vying for power form Islamic forces inside it.
  • Viewpoints: Rebels Face a Post-Gaddafi Libya
    Muammar Gaddafi has been overthrown by rebel forces, and Libya's National Transitional Council now must confront the challenges of rebuilding a battered, liberated country.
  • Morocco: All Hail the (Democratic) King
    Morocco's recent constitutional referendum is not only being welcomed by the people, but could set an example across the Arab region in terms of the potential of reform.
  • North Africa and E.U. Energy Security
    Given the energy dependence of European countries on North African and Middle Eastern states, financial consequences of further upheavals in the Arab world could be global and deep.
  • Living with Disabilities in Uganda
    The plight of persons with disabilities in Uganda and other parts of Africa is exacerbated by the fact that PWD are discriminated against and not protected by the law.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The basics
    To paraphrase many of the greatest religious and moral leaders, there is only one law: imagine you are in someone else’s shoes, then treat them as you would wish to be treated. Or, put another way, act towards everyone as if you loved them. The vast majority of political and economic commentary ...
  • Again, the absolute inability to consider obvi ...
    The NYTimes on solutions to the scarcity of important drugs which are generic and thus of little interest to big pharma: Beyond limited responses, like using the F.D.A.’s discretionary powers to expedite temporary imports of drugs that are sold overseas but not here, there are very few ways to e ...
  • Austerity kills
    On Friday, four people died in flash flooding in Pittsburgh.  Those deaths were preventable as the road that they were on is a known flood basin and the road most likely had blocked storm drains. Storm drains, especially drains at the bottom of a collection area will get blocked up with dirt, sa ...
  • Austerity kills
    On Friday, four people died in flash flooding in Pittsburgh.  Those deaths were preventable as the road that they were on is a known flood basin and the road most likely had blocked storm drains. Storm drains, especially drains at the bottom of a collection area will get blocked up with dirt, sa ...
  • RIP, Jack Layton, Federal New Democratic Party ...
    If you haven’t heard, Jack died of cancer.  I only saw him in person once, at a Toronto council meeting back when he was a city councilor, but he impressed me at the time as one of only three councilors who showed decent respect to the citizens giving testimony.  I didn’t know then, and don’t ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Bioethics commission condemns Guatamalan syphi ...
    Researchers knowingly violated ethical boundaries when they intentionally infected Guatamalan prisoners, mental health patients, and prostitutes with sexually transmitted diseases in a 1940s research project, a presidential commission concluded yesterday. When the harrowing experiments came ...
  • Plant killing chemicals' conservation role
    Chemicals designed to kill off plant species are developing a vital role in attempts to repair ecosystems damaged by invasive species. In agriculture, herbicides are normally selected to preserve one valuable crop species and kill off every other species. In contrast, at a session at the Amer ...
  • A Stirling solution and a plutonium problem
    A new generation of nuclear generators could power space missions with unprecedented efficiency, but a critical shortage of the element needed to fuel them is fast approaching.   Many past space missions have used electricity stemming from nuclear power. Rather than using nuclear fission, th ...
  • Dining out on Mars
    While some at NASA are working out how they might send human beings to Mars, and whether they can afford it, another team is considering a matter of equal importance to would-be Red Planet denizens. How to feed them. Maya Cooper, of the Johnson Space Centre, told the American Chemical Society ...
  • Is underground Amazonian river really just gro ...
    Posted on behalf of Lee Sweetlove Scientists have claimed that the Amazon basin has a second huge river some four kilometres beneath the more famous river on the surface, many news outlets report. The river has been named the Rio Hamza, after the head of the team that led the research from th ...

new geography

  • High-density Housing Reflects Dense Government ...
    Citizens in Australia�s major cities are becoming increasingly unhappy about what they perceive as the escalating deterioration in their quality of life - traffic congestion, overloaded public transport, unaffordable housing for young people, increases in the costs of basic services and over ...
  • How to Save Chicago
    The title raises the obvious question: Does Chicago need saving? I guess the answer is clear. Aaron Renn published a reviewofthe 2010 census, and for Chicago it was not pretty. Since 2000 the city lost over 200,000 people: nearly 7.5% of its Black residents, and almost 6% on non-Hispanic W ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Beijing
    China's capital, Beijing, has long been one of the world's largest urban areas. Some reports placed its population at over 1 million in 1800, which would have made Beijing the largest urban area  in the world at that time. Later in the nineteenth century, Beijing dropped below 1 million popu ...
  • Austin’s Not That Weird
    Don’t let the cupcake stands fool you. For years, locals pressed the need to Keep Austin Weird. Besides spawning lazy clichés (Keep Austin Wired, Keep Austin Moving, Keep Austin on Every List of Best Places to Live), the Keep Austin Weird movement overlooks the obvious: the city’s not that w ...
  • Suburbanized Core Cities
    The suburbs of major metropolitan areas captured the overwhelming majority of population growth between 2000 and 2010, actually increasing their share of growth, as has been previously reported. However, it is often not understood that much of the recent central city (Note 1) growth has actu ...

GM Watch

  • Response to Fedoroff's industry-sponsored myths
    NOTE: The New York Times has printed several letters in response to Nina Fedoroff's recent op-ed:http://nyti.ms/oD5Qba This excellent response from Bill Freese was not among them.  --- --- Letters to the Editor New York Times August 22 2011 In “Engineering Food for All” (op-ed, 8/18), Ms. Fedor ...
  • Response to Federoff's industry-sponsored myths
    NOTE: The New York Times has printed several letters in response to Nina Fedoroff's recent op-ed:http://nyti.ms/oD5Qba This excellent response from Bill Freese was not among them.  --- --- Letters to the Editor New York Times August 22 2011 In “Engineering Food for All” (op-ed, 8/18), Ms. Fedor ...
  • Monsanto shares fall on bug-resistant corn woes
    1.Monsanto shares fall on bug-resistant corn woes 2.Monsanto Corn Plant Losing Bug Resistance 3.Severe root damage to Bt corn confirmed in northwestern Illinois - 2nd case --- --- 1.Monsanto shares fall on bug-resistant corn woesThe Associated Press, August 29 2011 http://m.cnbc.com/id/44314062/ ...
  • Monsanto shares fall on bug-resistant corn woes
    1.Monsanto shares fall on bug-resistant corn woes 2.Monsanto Corn Plant Losing Bug Resistance 3.Severe root damage to Bt corn confirmed in northwestern Illinois - 2nd case --- --- 1.Monsanto shares fall on bug-resistant corn woesThe Associated Press, August 29 2011 http://m.cnbc.com/id/44314062/ ...
  • Glyphosate commonly found in rain and streams- ...
    EXTRACT: "Though glyphosate is the mostly widely used herbicide in the world, we know very little about its long term effects to the environment," says Paul Capel, USGS chemist and an author on this study. "This study is one of the first to document the consistent occurrence of this chemical in ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • UK PMs Internet Censorship Insinuation Receive ...
    Via: ZeroPaid: You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it. I’ll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I would end up writing a headline like that, I would have told them they were insane. I am simply stunned that it [...]
  • Hugo Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home Fr ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as the metal rises to record levels behind a weakening U.S. dollar. Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 ...
  • Single Seat Electric Vehicle Sets 1,000 Miles- ...
    Via: PhysOrg: An experimental electric vehicle called “Schluckspecht” (“boozer,” or “tippler” in German) has set the record for achieving the longest drive in a battery-powered vehicle on a single battery charge. Its record-breaking distance was 1,013.8 miles (1,631.5 km). The trip lasted 36 hou ...
  • Long Beach Police Department Claims Authority ...
    The U.S. horror show is plumbing new depths of fascism now. This one will definitely cause you to skip a beat. Even I had to pause and re-read this one in disbelief. Via: Long Beach Post: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no apparent ...
  • Who—and What—Are Behind the &#8220 ...
    I just included a tiny piece of this. Click through, but be ready to for a lengthy and careful meditation on total absurdity of this fabricated spectacle. Via: Who What Why: The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, an ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To ...
    Most of the worst financial panics in history have happened in the fall.  Just recall what happened in 1929, 1987 and 2008.  Well, September 2011 is about to begin and there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to hit the big red panic button.  Wave after wav ...
  • 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 ...
  • 21 Signs That The New Reality For Many Baby Bo ...
    All over America tonight, millions of elderly Americans are wondering if their money is going to run out before it is time for them to die.  Those that are now past retirement age are not going to be rioting in the streets, but that doesn't mean that large numbers of them are no ...

Desertification

  • Drought and dying trees (Google / Victoria Adv ...
    Read at : Google Alert – container gardening http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2011/aug/30/fr_joe_janak_083111_150170/?viewpoints Extension Agent: Some trees are dying because of drought By Joe Janak Oh, the rain that fell last week was a welcome sight. Most received about an inch or less and ...
  • Self-sustaining cities (Google / ABC)
    Read at : Google Alert – vertical gardening http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2011/08/30/3305575.htm Can our cities ever be self-sustaining? By Sue White ABC Environment The humble backyard vegie patch is back in vogue in the suburbs of Australia. But can growing spuds and greens … Cont ...
  • Savory grassland management and desertificatio ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://savorygrasslandmanagement.com/about-us/desertification_to_productive_land Desertification Savory Grassland Management specializes in the reversal of the desertification process. We turn severely desertified land into productive grassland using vari ...
  • World Bank Helping Kenya Withstand Drought (Go ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/east/World-Bank-to-Contribute-Millions-to-Help-Kenya-Withstand-Drought-128677203.html World Bank to Contribute Millions to Help Kenya Withstand Drought Mike Onyiego | Nairobi In response to the ongoing crisis in ...
  • De-desertification (Google / World.News.Forecast)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.newsahead.com/preview/2011/09/14/iran-14-15-sep-2011-iran-plans-de-desertification-conference-/index.php IRAN 14-15 Sep 2011 Iran plans de-desertification conference The Islamic Azad University hosts the second National Conference on Combating ...

The Paper Trail

  • Fallout from Fast and Furious probe claims two ...
    Fast and Furious Acting ATF director reassigned, U.S. attorney in Phoenix resigns Nick Ut/The Associated Press The fallout from a controversial federal probe that allowed weapons to be smuggled into Mexico dramatically intensified Tuesday with the reassignment of the actin ...
  • Many public schools on military bases get poor ...
    Military Children Left Behind Pentagon ranks nearly 40 percent of schools 'poor' or 'failing' A deteriorating roof at Clarkmoor Elementary at Fort Lewis, Washington. Emma Schwartz/iWatch News A substantial number of public schools on military bases are in either poor or ...
  • Perry assembles extraordinary bundler ranks in ...
    Profiles in Patronage Rick Perry, GOP presidential candidate Charles Dharapak/AP Rick Perry’s GOP presidential campaign has rapidly assembled an impressive roster of bundlers who have each signed up to bring in sums ranging from $50,000 to $500,000.
  • Obama: 7 proposed pollution regulations would ...
    The Politics of Energy President Obama has been court-ordered to propose 2 of the 4 new environmental regulations President Barack Obama says his administration is considering seven new government regulations that would cost the economy more than $1 billion each a year, a tall ...
  • Defense Department’s report card
    Military Children Left Behind Many public schools on military bases still faring poorly The Defense Department formally released its report card today on the condition of public schools on military bases—and, as iWatch News  reported—found that nearly 40 percent of the schools are in “p ...

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • Don't Riot Just Buy It
    Music Video inspired by the LONDON RIOTS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGZz3MdGBiY
  • Unions Call for House Committee Investigation ...
    Communications Workers of America (CWA) International President Larry Cohen and United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard issued the following statement today regarding their request to a member of the House Select Intelligence Commit ...
  • Anarcho-punk zine PunkWay #6, summer 2011 (ful ...
    punkway_zine_6_eng.jpg We do not need sympathizers. We do not need someone who like our magazine. We do not need people who carry it in a backpack. We need those people who are walking with us nip an ...
  • From Meta-Politics To Mass Murder – A New Righ ...
    It is horrible. The massacre on Utøya and attack in Oslo’s government district is the worst right-wing terrorist act directed against the Scandinavian labor movement. How could it happen? How could such an extensive and long-term terrorist plan go complete ...
  • Verizon Strike Highlights Need for New Workers ...
    verizon.jpg 45,000 American workers from the CWA have been on strike for nearly two weeks. Adam Ford, of Infantile Disorder, examines the lengths the company and the state have gone to to undermine t ...

Free Range International

  • Masters of the Obvious
    The day after E2 posted the droid post a new report by Afghan “experts” was released.  It is a complete crock of BS, which couples blindingly obvious facts to a set of recommendations that are so wrong they can easily be dismissed by reasonably intelligent eight year old children (but not our b ...
  • These Aren’t the Droids You’re Loo ...
    Over on the excellent Afghanistan blog, Ghosts of Alexander, Christian Bleuer has re-posted a piece written by an anonymous friend of his entitled, How to be an Afghan Expert. It’s a 12-point tutorial on how to portray yourself as an Afghanistan expert in order to land yourself a $1,000/day sala ...
  • Attention To Detail
    My good friend E2 has kept FRI alive, which enables me to throw up a post I’m dying to share.  I’m still going to stay mum about where I am and what we’re up to, but, we’ll complete our remaining projects in a few months allowing me to tell that story fairly soon…Inshallah from the [...]
  • Who’s the Enemy Here?
    Last week I wrote about how ordinary Afghans have much to fear from the villains when traveling on the highways and roads in this country.  This week, I’d like to address one of the biggest threats to those of us in the Kabul expat community: the Afghan government security apparatus.  I was insp ...
  • This Ain’t Route 66
    Since so many people in the western media have been freely tossing words like “Taliban” and “terrorist” around recently, I thought I’d give you all a slice of life glimpse into what it’s like to actually live here in Afghanistan with real terrorists.  We Americans have a love affair with cars, ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Chuck Baldwin Hits the Nail SQUARELY!!
    � �Come Out Of Her, My People� By Chuck Baldwin August 18, 2011 Archived column: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3859 It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today�s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intended to ...
  • Things That Make You Say HMMMMMMM!
    He served 10 presidents, but died alone in squalor: What happened to Theodoric C. James? White House Photo – Theodoric James Jr. worked in the White House for almost 50 years. His Northwest Washington neighbors never knew he catalogued important, sometimes sensitive, documents. By Christian Dave ...
  • A Message to Horowitz and Kane – the Ill ...
    You indeed are the masters of spin – the masters of lying hypocrisy – the masters of obfuscation and calling evil good and good evil. As Khazarian Double Agents, I highly doubt you have ever read The Bible – have you?  I doubt you have read Isaiah – so let me share his words: “WOE [...]
  • Zombie Apocalpyse – What Others Are Now ...
    I first reported on this immediately after the CDC issued its report.  Now others are also writing on this topic.  GREAT NEWS!!! A. True Ott, PhD THE MEANING OF CDC “ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE” PART 2 By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu August 17, 2011 NewsWithViews.com CDC Creating a âZombie Horrorâ Conscio ...
  • The Amazing TRUE STORY of Susan Lindauer. EXT ...
    Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq Susan Lindauer

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...
    CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
  • Bob McDonald - Part 1 (Mar 26, 2011)
    Time for our annual show where you ask CBC's Science Correspondent about the mysteries that have always puzzled you!
  • Dan Bjarnason (March 19, 2011)
    Former CBC Correspondent and author of Triumph at Kapyong talks about the critical battle won by Canadians in the Korean War.
  • Don Tapscott
    Best-selling author Don Tapscott on the "wiki-revolutions" in the Middle East and how mass collaboration is changing our world.
  • Roberta Jamieson
    Roberta Jamieson, head of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation talks about her commitment to the education and success of aboriginal youth.

Scotts Contracting

  • Dryer Net-Energy Saving Product-
    Two Senior citizens from Washington, MO have developed a new filter for an electric dryer. Jim and Sandy Atkinson were driving around and saw steam coming out of the side of homes. They thought, "What a waste of heat!" So, they started experimenting with different products and were not satisfied ...
  • Seeking NFL Fantasy Football Players-join leag ...
    Click here to join NFL Fantasy Football League Warriors Only When Prompted enter: League ID: 352267 League Password: football Warriors Only will use the following Scoring Options for the 2011-12 Season. Newly Added Defensive Point Scoring and Defensive Player Positions. Note: The Scoring Options ...
  • Attic Insulation
    - Proper Insulation Levels in your Attic coupled with Ventilation will save you Money on your Energy Bills. Certified Insulation Installer for: Batt Type, Spray Foam, Loose Fill- Green and Eco Friendly options are always available. US Department of Energy and the Green Building Initiative quote ...
  • Missouri Flunks! — Save EPA & Coal Ash R ...
    Subject: Missouri Flunks! — Save EPA & Coal Ash Rule — Landfill Update Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:05:26 +0000 Click to view this email in a browser Some news and information from Labadie Environmental Organization August 25, 2011
  • CAD Drafting Details-Structural Porch Frame
    Misc CADD Details for Adding a Porch to an Existing Home. Existing House Framing CADD Detail 1/306 Option 1 Porch Framing CADD Detail 1/307 Exterior Finish CADD Detail 1/308

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Rogue web certificate could have been used to ...
    Rogue web certificate could have been used to attack Iran dissidents Flaw could have let attackers steal passwords and data from apparently secure connections to Google sites such as Gmail Security researchers are warning a web certificate is being used that could let hackers steal passwords ...
  • Shrinking of Lake Urmia
    URMIA, West Azerbaijan Prov., Aug. 30 (MNA) -- Lake Urmia, which is the largest lake inside Iran and the third largest salt water lake on earth, has shrunk by 60 percent and could disappear entirely in just a few years. The lake is located between the provinces of East and West Azerbaijan.
  • بهنام ابراهيم‌زاده، فعال کارگری زنداني،15 ماه ...
    بهنام ابراهيم‌زاده، فعال حقوق کودکان، فعال کارگری و عضو کميته پيگيری برای ايجاد تشکل آزاد کارگری است که پانزده ماه بدون حق تلفن و ملاقات حضوری در بند ۳۵۰ اوين در بلاتکليفی بسر می برد.read more
  • Iran invites Libya rebel chief to Tehran
    Relations between Shiite majority Iran and Moamer Kadhafi's regime were soured by the disappearance in Libya in 1978 of the Iranian-born Imam Moussa Sadr, who is considered a spiritual leader of Lebanon's Shiites.
  • از مبارزات مردم آذربايجان برای جلوگيری از مرگ ...
    ساله تنها مرگ يک درياچه نيست که به خودی خود، نجات آن بسيار مهم است. اما مساله اصلی و مهم تر اين است که به دنبال مرگ اين درياچه، چند ميليون انسان آسيب های مستقيم و غيرمستقيم خواهند ديد. به معنای واقعی اگر همين امروز فکری جدی به بهبود وضعيت اين درياچه صورت نگيرد شايد فردا هرگونه تلاشی بيهوده و بی ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Sticking It to Ron Paul
    It’s open season on Ron Paul in the so-called “alternative” media, thanks to the Congressman’s strong showing in the Iowa straw polls. The venomous tone and absence of policy analysis is remarkably similar to the hatchet job the “alternative” media performed on Ralph Nader in 2004 and 2008. Cou ...
  • The Tyranny of Opinion Polls
    In many western democracies, government by the people has been replaced by government by public opinion polls. Opinion polls are meant to represent scientifically validated studies of the views of voters. However I believe their true purpose is to discredit (via low ratings) Democratic and prog ...
  • Gun Control and False Flags
      Virginia Tech Massacre   *** This is the last of three posts regarding the reasons some progressives oppose gun control. No discussion of gun control would be complete without mentioning the high rate of “lone nut” shooting sprees that occur in the US. I have always found it extremely ...
  • Did Fracking Cause the Virginia Earthquake?
    Fracking Injects High Pressure Fluid Deep in Rock Bed *** Earthquakes in the nation’s capitol are as rare as hen’s teeth. The epicenter of Tuesday’s quake was in Mineral, Virginia, which is located on three very quiet fault lines. The occurrence of yet another freak earthquake in an unusual loca ...
  • Gun Control: Playing the Race Card
    1967 Detroit Riots Progressive “scholarly” research into gun control generally makes two equally salient points: 1) the aim of gun control legislation is to control people (mainly disenfranchised minorities and the poor), not guns and 2) in countries with strict gun control laws, the use of dead ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • ABC's This Week, 8/21/11: David Axelrod Talks ...
    At 7:10: JAKE TAPPER: Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore had this question that he wanted me to ask you: "Are you aware of how profoundly disappointed so many of the President's supporters are? Do you realize that each time the President moves to the right, he picks up no votes and loses many ...
  • Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moor ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2011   Contact: Matt Smucker, 717.209.0445, jms@beyondthechoir.org   Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moore in Support of PFC Bradley Manning   Alan Moore, the world-renowned British author, issued the following statement today in support of accused WikiL ...
  • Letter from Environmental Leaders on the Perse ...
    Dear Friends, On July 26th 2011, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. On March 3rd, Tim was found guilty of two felony counts for participating in a peaceful act of civil disobedience. A bright, charismatic young man could face up to ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address at Forbes Field ...
    ROOSEVELT: Mr. Chairman, Governor Earle, my friends of Pennsylvania: A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. Tonight I am going to talk to you about the box score of the Government of the United States. I am going to tell you the story of our fight to beat down the depression ...
  • Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film
    Revolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition to Swe ...

Salon

  • Rick Perry goes it alone
    Although born and raised in a small town in the Finger Lakes region of New York, I'm the hybrid child of an upstate New York father and a mother from Texas -- they met at Fort Hood (then Camp Hood) during World War II. And you thought different species couldn't mate.
  • Vaccines still safe, non-celebrities with medi ...
    Oliver Willis brings word of yet another panel of scientists announcing that there is no link whatsoever between the M.M.R. vaccine and autism. “The M.M.R. vaccine doesn’t cause autism, and the evidence is overwhelming that it doesn’t,” said Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, who knows what she's talk ...
  • Will "Joe the Plumber" run for Congress?
    "Joe the Plumber," a man named Sam who is not a plumber, may run for Congress. Joe, a briefly famous desperate attempt by the John McCain campaign to paint Barack Obama as an enemy of the working man, is mulling a run against Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, who's been in the House since 1983. Joe ...
  • This Labor Day, we need protests
    Labor Day is traditionally a time for picnics and parades. But this year is no picnic for American workers, and a protest march would be more appropriate than a parade.
  • The saddest Republican candidacy of them all
    There's a reason why George Pataki seems to be moving toward a presidential campaign, but "because Republicans want him to" is not it.

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metr ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Making the border safe
    Canada and the United States are discussing border security. But Canadians are concerned any new rules will require sharing of personal information. That makes them nervous.
  • Don’t supersize our coffee
    Doing away with the "small" size for coffee at Tim Hortons is part of an unwelcome and unhealthy trend to serving more than we need.
  • Closing ranks – for a dog?
    Peel police are closing ranks to protect a dog, underlining the need for the province's Special Investigations Unit to have stronger powers.
  • Betraying Toronto’s waterfront vision
    In yet another display of shortsightedness, the Ford administration wants to hastily hand Toronto’s Port Lands to developers.
  • False start, lousy rule
    The overly strict rule barring runners guilty of one false start does a disservice to track and field.

Energy Collective

  • Was Hurricane Irene Caused By Climate Change?
    Every major weather event raises the same debate over the same unanswerable question:
  • 3 Studies Confirm Shale Gas Is Not Worse Than Coal
    For most of this year the enormous potential of shale gas has been clouded by controversy over its alleged climate impact. This began with the draft and later the leaked pre-publication version of a paper from a Cornell professor suggesting that the greenhouse gas emissions from gas were no bett ...
  • China Takes Recycled Fry-Oil Biofuels To Scale
    China’s omnivorous global appetite for energy resources is well known.While biofuel production is one of the rising energy stars of the 21st century, it is unlikely to become a significant source for China in the near future, as the country’s arable land is devoted first and foremost to feeding ...
  • Washington Opens The Door To International Sma ...
    By 2030, it’s estimated that utilities worldwide will spend $378 billion (USD) to build Smart Grids, according to Innovation Observatory, and 80 percent of that spending will be concentrated in 10 countries. Major spenders will include the U.S., Brazil, India, China and several European nations.
  • US Governors Ask Obama to Boost Wind Energy
    A coalition of 24 US governors from the major parties and each region of the country has asked the administration to take steps to provide a more favourable business climate for the expansion of wind energy according to the American Wind Energy Association. Demands are being made for a 7-year ex ...

EU Times

  • Former Hurricane Irene leaves millions without ...
    The storm that had been Hurricane Irene crossed into Canada overnight, but wasn’t yet through with the U.S. on Monday, as floodwaters threatened Vermont towns and big-city commuters had to make do with slowly reawakening transit systems. The storm left millions without power across much of the E ...
  • Ex-girlfriend of Gaddafi’s son escapes rebels ...
    The glamour model ex-girlfriend of Colonel Gaddafi’s playboy son has told of the terrifying moment she was captured by rebels who threatened to ‘burn her alive’. Talitha van Zon had been with Mutassim Gaddafi just over a week ago as he calmly drank Jack Daniels whisky and coke as he toasted a vi ...
  • Maoists leader sworn in as Nepal new Prime Min ...
    Nepal’s newly elected Maoist Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has said he expects to complete the country’s peace process within six months. Speaking to the BBC, Dr Bhattarai said that he hoped to lead a consensus government to break political deadlock. Uncertainty has plagued Nepal since the en ...
  • US has deadliest month in Afghan war
    August 2011 has become the deadliest month for US troops in the decade-long war in Afghanistan with 66 American soldiers killed in the month. The figure, released by the Associated Press on Tuesday, eclipsed the earlier figure of 65 belonging to July 2010. Most fatalities were those of an August ...
  • One in seven believe U.S. government staged th ...
    The belief is more common among younger people, with a quarter of 16 to 24-year-olds subscribing to the theory. One in seven people are convinced that the U.S. government was involved in a conspiracy to stage the September 11 attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people. A survey, which interviewed ...

Stonecipher News

  • Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
    Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
  • Natural Acne Remedies
    There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
  • Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
    Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • SC-Pres: Rick Perry with 20-point lead over GO ...
    PPP (8/25-28, South Carolina Republicans): Rick Perry: 36 Mitt Romney: 16 Michele Bachmann: 13 Herman Cain: 9 Newt Gingrich: 8 Ron Paul: 5 Rick Santorum: 4 Jon Huntsman: 2 (MoE: ±3.6%) That's a huge lead for Perry and he maintains it in head-to-head battles against both Romney and Bachmann, lea ...
  • Did Algeria flout U.N. sanctions by taking in ...
    The Algerian government's decision to provide refuge to Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi 's wife and children (and apparently a newly born grandchild) would appear at first glance to constitute a clear-cut violation of a U.N. measure banning travel by the Libyan leader and members of his inner circle. O ...
  • How al-Qaeda got to rule in Tripoli
    By Pepe Escobar His name is Abdelhakim Belhaj. Some in the Middle East might have, but few in the West and across the world would have heard of him ...Time to catch up
  • Rushing to Obama's Aid
    President Obama should be a ruptured duck in the water. The economy still stinks and maybe even sinks (which is worse is hard to say). Unemployment is high enough that no incumbent president has ever won reelection with such numbers except for FDR. He has infuriated liberals by not being tough ...
  • Billy Long issues statement on redirecting of ...
    Seventh District Congressman Billy Long issued the following statement concerning FEMA's decision to divert money originally intended for Joplin tornado recovery to areas affected by Hurricane Irene: “My thoughts and prayers go out to those on the East Coast that were affected by this hurricane ...

Groklaw

  • 'Father of Java' joins Sunnyvale startup Liqui ...
    James Gosling -- the so-called father of Java, one of the most important computer programming languages in history -- is leaving Google to join Sunnyvale startup Liquid Robotics. - Jeremy C. Owens, Mercury News
  • Oracle countersuit against HP highlights animosity
    Oracle lobbed a host of new charges against arch-rival Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday, asking a Santa Clara County judge to revoke a legal settlement that the two companies negotiated when Oracle hired former HP chief executive Mark Hurd last fall. - Brandon Bailey, Mercury News
  • HP upstream suppliers suffered from piled up T ...
    As first-tier PC brand vendor Hewlett-Packard (HP) has recently halted all its TouchPad projects, upstream suppliers are currently suffering from the component inventory, which is prepared for the production of the upcoming TouchPad including the 7-inch model, according to sources from upstream ...
  • Rupert, James Murdoch to testify under oath ab ...
    Rupert Murdoch and his son, accused by two former employees of misleading Parliament last month, will be hauled back to testify again - this time under oath. - NY Daily News
  • HP plans one last production run for the TouchPad
    "Since we announced the price drop, the number of inquiries about the product and the speed at which it disappeared from inventory has been stunning," HP said in a blog post on Tuesday. "Despite announcing an end to manufacturing webOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchP ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • El Nino can trigger tropical civil wars
    Weather changes can ignite wars for resources, and climate change is certainly a part of this too. Research published August 24 in Nature now demonstrates a link between El Niño years and civil war in 93 tropical countries.
  • Walmart makes huge move into social media / mobile
    The tagline of @WalmartLabs is “Social + Mobile + Retail” and it’s an indicator of where Walmart wants to go with the [Kosmix semantic web] technology it acquired. Walmart wants to tap into social data – for example from Twitter – and entice mobile phone toting customers to its stores. Walmart ...
  • Gunwalker scandal: ATF director resigns
    But he wasn’t fired – and should have been – as he was the top person during the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal That he was transferred to Justice instead of being sacked is a travesty
  • Cracks in Libya National Transitional Council
    Misrata rebels (rather sensibly) are protesting a decision by the NTC to install a Gaddafi loyalist as head of security in Tripoli, saying if it happens, they will refuse to obey the NTC. My take: civil war is coming to Libya. The NTC isn’t a real coalition, and the stress fractures are already ...
  • Lefties weep at failures of the left. How wond ...
    Why won’t America embrace the left? In two centuries, the movement’s history in America is plagued by failure. An expert explains why So emotes Salon, forgetting the huge and succesful labor battles of the early 20th century that led to the 40 hour week, safety regulations, employers helping to ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Libya: The longer view
    The NATO-assisted uprising in Libya is now in the last phases of taking the whole country. These phases may well be marked by some major rights abuses-- conducted in the name of "mopping up" operations and motivated by some combination of vengeance and triumphalism. I hope that such excesses a ...
  • I've been on vacation...
    ... with the whole family. It proved ways harder to pay attention to the news than I'd expected. Something to do with having three grandchildren to pay attention to, and very limited web access. Anyway, lots to blog about. Watch this space.
  • Israel's 'J14': New potential for Jewish-Pales ...
    As I have chronicled here and elsewhere many times, over the past decade the once-vibrant movement of Israelis actively working for an end to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza had become increasingly moribund. Yes, a small number of brave Jewish-Israeli souls participated in the weekly p ...
  • Syria, authoritarianism, war, and peace
    I regret that I haven't had much time in recent months to blog and write about the many developments in the still-unfolding 'Arab Spring.' However, I think that much of what I was writing back in March and April-- especially on the extremely upsetting and complicated series of events in Libya an ...
  • Remembering Qana, five years on
    On this day five years ago, at 1:30 am Lebanon time, Israel's U.S.-supplied warplanes attacked houses in the south Lebanese village of Qana, killing more than 60 civilians, 37 of them children. Go watch this soberly reported video clip from Britain's Channel 4 to get a measure of the horror. Th ...

frogblog

  • Canterbury water management in no-mans-land
    I recently was the guest speaker at the Annual General Meeting of the Water Rights Trust (WRT) in Christchurch, where outgoing Chairman Murray Rodgers gave an impassioned speech about the poor state of water resources and water governance in Canterbury. Murray remains as a trustee of the WRT and ...
  • Right Wing Resistance salutes Skynet law
    The racist/fascist group Right Wing Resistance have thrown their support behind the copyright infringement act that fully comes into force as of tomorrow. In an email sent out to their membership list the RWR people point out that, “A new law passed by government which has been nicknamed the sky ...
  • General debate, August 28, 2011
  • Nationwide protests against Skynet
    Tomorrow there are protests planned in our big cities against the controversial Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Act, the so-called Skynet law that comes into force from 1 September.
  • Wellington flyover submission due tomorrow
    Consultation on the Basin Reserve flyover, doubling the Mt Victoria tunnel and widening Ruahine St and Wellington Rd closes tomorrow. This project has huge implications for inner-city Wellington transport and it is vital the public have their say. Wellington needs urgent investment in public tra ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Shamans among us: A World of Perpetual Con ...
    Economic models are mere policy proposals; they are not the consequences of any economic system based on "natural law or even good theory, " they are not scientific; they are merely ad hoc. Furthermore, deleterious consequences often result from these models. Economists also routinely simpli ...
  • Disintegrating Economic Recovery
    The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...
  • Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
    What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
  • (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
    President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Why is this "Unsafe" Food Banned When It's 35, ...
    By Dr. Mercola Story at-a-glance According to the US government's own data, you are about 35,000 times more likely to get sick from other foods than you are from raw milk. B ...
  • 16 Reasons Why You Can't Stick to Your Diet
    Ever wonder why those last few pounds just won’t come off – or why you might even gain weight when you’re on a diet? Believe it or not, you may be sabotaging yourself with some bad diet habits without realizing it. In a 16-point list, Bodhifitonline talks about diet habits that can wreak havoc w ...
  • The ONE Thing That Can Slash Your Risk of Dyin ...
    For years now, you’ve heard that the way to better health is to turn off the Boob Tube and get your body moving. But new evidence shows that cutting back on TV time does more than just help you slip in a little exercise. The fact is it can also add years to your life. As reported in The Daily M ...
  • Even if You Do Everything Else Right - This Fr ...
    The U.S. EPA has stated that levels of about a dozen common chemical pollutants are two to five times higher inside homes than outside of them. Scientists are beginning to suspect that indoor pollutants may be in part responsible for rising rates of asthma and other respiratory diseases. Indoor ...
  • Powerful Antioxidant Found Useful for Most Com ...
    Story at-a-glance Antioxidant properties in marine carotenoids may help prevent cancer and inflammatory disease Astaxanthin and fucoxanthin are the two major marine caroten ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Anti-extinction campaign launched to protect 3 ...
    Nukak mother and child. © David Hill/Survival The UN has launched a campaign to protect 35 indigenous tribes from extinction in Colombia. Survival works closely with one of tribes, the Nukak, nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the northwest Amazon basin. The campaign responds to a barrage ...
  • Living the longest – indigenous Brazilian cele ...
    Maria Lucimar Pereira of the Kaxinawá tribe is thought to be the oldest person in the world © INSS/Survival Survival has located a Brazilian Indian, believed to be the oldest living person in the world, as she prepares to celebrate her 121st birthday. Maria Lucimar Pereira is one of the Ka ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Montreal needs your input
    After many failed attempts over the past two decades, the Communaut� m�tropolitaine de Montr�al and the 82 municipalities it serves are now legally bound to adopt a Metropolitan Land Use and Development Plan by the end of the year.
  • Legault's immigration plan needs some scrutiny
    Fran�ois Legault, who stands a good chance of becoming Quebec's next premier if he manages to organize a functional political party before too much longer, got it right this week when he said that integration of immigrants into Quebec society would be a priority should he come to head a government.
  • Your Views: Problems with public transit; birt ...
    Public transit is not the solution for everyone.
  • The Gazette's View: François Legault’s immigra ...
    What is debatable is his suggestion that to properly effect improvements in this area, a sharp reduction in the number of immigrants that Quebec takes in is advisable.
  • A gathering likely to show sovereignty's fraye ...
    Word that Parti Qu�b�cois leader Pauline Marois has come around to the idea of a sovereignty movement "estates-general" in the near future shouldn't be worrisome for federalists. If anything, it should be viewed as welcome news for the Canadian cause.

Food World Order

  • usda signs with rockefeller's council of found ...
    from food freedom: On Friday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA has signed an agreement with the Council on Foundations “to provide new sources of capital, new job opportunities, workforce investment strategies,” and, last on the list but the heart of it: “identification of a ...
  • ban on using food stamps to buy soda rejected ...
    from nytimes: Federal officials on Friday rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp users from buying soda and other sugary drinks with them. The decision derailed one of the mayor’s big ideas to fight obesity and poor nutrition in the city. Mr. Bloomberg a ...
  • blue plastic chips found in ground beef
    from food safety news: A North Carolina-based company has issued a recall of its ground beef product after a consumer found an unexpected ingredient in the product - blue plastic chips. Vantage Foods of Lenoir, North Carolina is recalling 1,642 pounds of ground beef that may contain the foreig ...
  • 8/18 binge & purge: profit, problems & poop
    video: somalia, famine-for-profit & east-african food crisis* audio: arizona among worst states for family food hardship (PDF)* expert says gmo to blame for problems in colorado plants, animals* hepatitis a shot class action filed against n. carolina olive garden (PDF)* suit filed ag ...
  • honey laundering: tainted & counterfeit chines ...
    asian honey, banned in europe, is flooding US grocery shelves* from grist: A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals. A Food Safety News investigation has documented that mil ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has bee ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of m ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 � In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort � S Shyam Prasad �
  • Pastor arrested for murdering minor girl
    source:  MSN India, 30 June, 2011 � Guntur (AP), Jun 30 (PTI) A local pastor was arrested for allegedly murdering a teenager after she became pregnant with his child, police said today. The victim, identified as Monica (17) from Nadendla village in the district was working ...
  • Conversation with a Convert
    source: The Undercurrent, 26 March, 2011 Somewhere in Tamil Nadu The cab was waiting at the end of the road waiting to take us to our destination. The driver was a 50 something man and there was a picture of the Christian prophet Jesus on his dash board. After a few kilometeres of dr ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans for mankind? H ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators travel ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JLgar45sU

The Economic Collapse

  • 25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To ...
    Most of the worst financial panics in history have happened in the fall.  Just recall what happened in 1929, 1987 and 2008.  Well, September 2011 is about to begin and there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to hit the big red panic button.  Wave after wav ...
  • 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 ...
  • 21 Signs That The New Reality For Many Baby Bo ...
    All over America tonight, millions of elderly Americans are wondering if their money is going to run out before it is time for them to die.  Those that are now past retirement age are not going to be rioting in the streets, but that doesn't mean that large numbers of them are no ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Diana - a lesson to all who do politics, methinks
    While she will always have a few miserable sods with no heart to serve as detractors and just before we alienate the entire world by retweeting messages of love from all around the world, dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales... ...as a political blog (in the main), one question for everyone ...
  • Diana: Fourteen years on, still no justice
    So, here we are then. Another 31st August. It is fourteen years to the day since Diana, Princess of Wales was killed in Paris. An inquest jury, subjected to dodgy evidence and kept in the dark about suppressed information, were still able to discern enough from what they were told that t ...
  • When even the lefties ask questions about the ...
    One of the things we try to do when we do not understand the politics of a situation is to say nothing, hold our thoughts, and then try to present a collated picture as more information comes to light. This is what we've been doing over the last week or so as Germany is increasingly finding i ...
  • Quote of the Day: 29th August 2011
    "UAF has issued what must rank as one of the silliest political statements of the year so far. “We the undersigned welcome the banning of the racist English Defence League’s march through Tower Hamlets,” it says. “But we are appalled to discover that the Metropolitan Police are applying for a bl ...
  • Britain shamed as 'Free Norman Scarth' campaig ...
    RT, again, doing the job that the BBC should be doing, were the BBC not part of the subversive problem. British freedom... being fought for by the Russians. See also: Captain Ranty who has been covering this story in some depth.

Facing South

  • VOICES: Stetson Kennedy and the pursuit of truth
    By Paul Ortiz Stetson Kennedy passed away on Saturday, Aug. 27. He was 94 years old. Stetson died peacefully in the presence of his beloved wife, Sandra Parks, at Baptist Medical Center South in St. Augustine, Florida. Stetson Kennedy spent the better part of the 20th century doing battle with ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: New Orleans six years after K ...
    Today marks six years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, leading to the catastrophic failure of the federal levee system in and around New Orleans. While the metro area has made great progress in recovering from the unprecedented disaster, serious socioeconomic problems ...
  • Hurricane Irene: Why failing to evacuate inmat ...
    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 North Carolina, which evacuated over 1,300 inmates before Ir ...
  • VOICES: Crime pays for the private prison indu ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South It all started in Mississippi. Of course. Deprived of his slaves by the Confederacy's loss in the War Between the States, wealthy, politically connected cotton grower and railroad magnate Edmund Richardson needed cheap labor for the 25,000 acres of cotton spread ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: States' weak coal ash oversig ...
    When a massive coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee failed back in December 2008, it dumped a billion gallons of coal ash -- the toxic waste left over after burning coal -- into a nearby community and waterways. The disaster spurred calls fo ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group 93 Dead in Twin Attacks in Norway; Suspect to Appear in Court The suspect accused of killing 93 people in twin terror attacks in Norway on Friday is due in an Oslo courtroom Monday, … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 12 Things New in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric[Screensho ...
    Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot is marching ahead. Through our detailed reviews of Alpha 2 and Alpha 3 releases, we followed Ubuntu 11.10 in its each and every developmental phase so far. A lot of things have changed since the third alpha release and as we had promised, here is a preview of lates ...
  • Awesome Linux Bash Shell Cheat Sheet for Beginners
    Got a mail recently from freeworld's Raphael where he introduced me to his recent creation - a Linux bash shell cheat sheet meant for beginners. Very useful list of commands and keyboard shortcuts for Terminal with descriptions, more relevant if you are an avid Ubuntu/Debian user. ...
  • How Open Source is Android After all?
    Google, the maker and manager of the Android platform, has claimed that Android is the world�s best open source software system. How true are these claims? A report based on a recent study by market research firm VisionMobile about several popular open source projects. How Ope ...
  • Ubuntu Software Center Overhaul in Full Swing
    Ubuntu Software Center is seeing its second round of upgrades, this time changes are even more dramatic. Good to see Canonical putting so much thrust on Software Center which has the potential to become Ubuntu's major money spinner in the near future. Brand New Ubuntu Software Cent ...
  • Ubuntu Software Center Overhaul in Full Swing
    Ubuntu Software Center is seeing its second round of upgrades, this time changes are even more dramatic. Good to see Canonical putting so much thrust on Software Center which has the potential to become Ubuntu's major money spinner in the near future. Brand New Ubuntu Software Cen ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • UK police investigate large-scale tampering wi ...
    MHRA to investigate how healthcare products are repackaged By Andrew McCorkell, Independent Sunday, 28 August 2011 The regulator of medicines is investigating whether there has been a systemic failure in the way healthcare products are repackaged as the Nurofen Plus recall widened to a police in ...
  • Euro bail-out in doubt as ‘hysteria&#821 ...
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel no longer has enough coalition votes in the Bundestag to secure backing for Europe’s revamped rescue machinery, threatening a consitutional crisis in Germany and a fresh eruption of the euro debt saga. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph 8:07PM BST 28 Aug 20 ...
  • Godfather of disastrous euro currency floats p ...
    The search for a new global monetary system Cannes : France | Aug 26, 2011 Source: The Globe & Mail EDT Columbia University’s Robert Mundell , whose thinking contributed to the intellectual foundation of the euro zone, is in high demand here at the Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences for obvious ...
  • IMF chiefs demand for compulsory bank assistan ...
    Lagarde Snubbed in Push to Raise Bank Capital By Rainer Buergin and Emma Ross-Thomas – Aug 29, 2011 1:26 PM GMT+0200 Germany and Spain rebuffed International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagardeâs call for an âurgent,â potentially mandatory, recapitalization of European banks. Read ...
  • Only 160,000 Germans watch Hohenzollern weddin ...
    “On Saturday, Prince Georg Friedrich von PreuÃen wed Princess Sophie von Isenburg. Despite efforts by the tabloid press to blow the event up to Will and Kate-sized proportions, most people haven’t been able to muster much enthusiasm for the marriage of two business graduates,” says Deutsche Well ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • What And Why In Libya
    By Jim Kirwin Next we need to know WHY this happened. To do this we must go back to history, for answers. And this is just one more reason why USI has eliminated “HISTORY” from the American classrooms all across this once proud nation. Below is a transcription that I made from the 9 minute [...]
  • CONFIRMED: Libya War is CIA Op 30 Years in the ...
    Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post Alternative media activist David Icke, who has been warning about the false nature of the “Arab Spring” since it began over six months ago, has pointed out an astounding “flashback” regarding an August 3, 1981 Newsweek article titled, “A Plan to ...
  • John McCain Buddy Buddy With Muammar Gaddafi
    Revolutionary Politics::Revolutionary Politics …, posted with vodpod
  • Police Confirm Oslo Drill!
  • Mea Culpa, Deus Ex Vomitus
    By Les Visible Many times here, I have counseled you to step away from the machine. It cannot function without the oil of your blood in the gears. You are walking on the tracks of your tears. All of that is about to change and whether you step up to the plate or prefer to [...]

Veterans Today

  • Why CIA’s Ames And The Bureau’s Ha ...
    By Trowbridge H. Ford Since America’s national security apparatus silenced the Bureau’s Robert Hanssen right before the 9/11 attacks for the rest of his life for spying for 15 years for the Soviets – what it accomplished ten years ago with the Agency’s Aldrich “Rick” Ames for similar offences at ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Augu ...
    Did you know that VA’s Health Services Research & Development Service (VA HSR&D) is working to support Secretary Shinseki’s pledge to end Veteran homelessness by 2014?
  • Telephone Lifestyle Coaching
    VA Butler Healthcare's MOVE! Program now has another program option: Telephone Lifestyle Coaching, or MOVE! TLC. TLC is a weekly/bi-weekly program of learning through a guided workbook and scheduled phone calls by a Veteran’s healthy lifestyle coach.
  • American Dream Eating Itself Alive!
    There is an ant in Australia that digests itself into oblivion as some sort of weird natural “defense” mechanism. Why God created this, or how the hell could it have evolved.
  • Vietnam Vet Regains Long-lost Bronze Star
    More than 40 years ago, Army 1st Lt. Robert C. Berkshire earned a Bronze Star Medal for valor during his service in Vietnam.

electric politics

  • Where's the Strategy?
    It's disappointing, to say the least, that after ten years in Afghanistan we seem not to have a strategy, or at least a strategy people can easily discern, one that's related to known U.S. national security interests. Whatever U.S. policy is, if it can't be put into a single, simple, declarativ ...
  • Permanent Aridification Transforms the America ...
    It's happening now but we won't be able to say with absolute certainty that it's happened for probably another couple of decades. Thanks to anthropogenic climate change the American Southwest is entering a new, and permanent, condition of increased aridity. It's not a "drought," it's the new no ...
  • Debt Doldrums
    Barack Obama and John Boehner probably worked out most of it over golf. What political theater! And why is it you never hear of Nancy Pelosi on the links? To talk about the so-called "debt ceiling" crisis I turned to Charles Tiefer, a former General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, ...
  • The Art of Courage
    A little voice in your conscience tells you something. You listen. You start to think maybe you're right and everybody else is wrong. You do something about it. Next thing you know you're in a life and death struggle against evil forces bent on world domination. Well, maybe that's a slight exag ...
  • The Wild Dollar
    Because the public hasn't had what's happening properly reported, the Republicans think that, in the debt ceiling standoff, they can trample democratic norms and perhaps even go so far as to trigger another collapse of the world economy. What a bizarre strategy to pursue (supposedly) on behalf ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • Chuck Baldwin Hits the Nail SQUARELY!!
    � �Come Out Of Her, My People� By Chuck Baldwin August 18, 2011 Archived column: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3859 It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today�s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intended to ...
  • Things That Make You Say HMMMMMMM!
    He served 10 presidents, but died alone in squalor: What happened to Theodoric C. James? White House Photo – Theodoric James Jr. worked in the White House for almost 50 years. His Northwest Washington neighbors never knew he catalogued important, sometimes sensitive, documents. By Christian Dave ...
  • A Message to Horowitz and Kane – the Ill ...
    You indeed are the masters of spin – the masters of lying hypocrisy – the masters of obfuscation and calling evil good and good evil. As Khazarian Double Agents, I highly doubt you have ever read The Bible – have you?  I doubt you have read Isaiah – so let me share his words: “WOE [...]
  • Zombie Apocalpyse – What Others Are Now ...
    I first reported on this immediately after the CDC issued its report.  Now others are also writing on this topic.  GREAT NEWS!!! A. True Ott, PhD THE MEANING OF CDC “ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE” PART 2 By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu August 17, 2011 NewsWithViews.com CDC Creating a âZombie Horrorâ Conscio ...
  • The Amazing TRUE STORY of Susan Lindauer. EXT ...
    Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq Susan Lindauer

k2p blog

  • Blogging as therapy: My 1000th post
    This is my 1000th post. I find it therapeutic. I continue blogging primarily for myself. I have no agenda other than to feel better in my own mind. If in addition some people read what I write and if some few find it readable or provoking or just interesting then that is a bonus. But what reader ...
  • 7 billion people from October 31st by UN decre ...
    World population will reach 7 billion this year and it is assumed that this will happen on 31st October in India or in China. The expectation is that the rate of population growth has started reducing with UN predictions for 2050 ranging from 8.0 to 10.5 billion.
  • University of Peshawar Vice Chancellor defends ...
    The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Peshawar, Dr Azmat Hayat Khan has defended himself from charges of plagiarism saying that it was a case of two authors using the same reference material.
  • The pseudoscience of climate wars: climate doe ...
    History shows that ‘‘warm’’ periods are more peaceful than ‘‘cold’’ ones. In the modern era, the evolution of the climate is not an essential factor to explain collective violence.
  • “The Irene show” bombs – med ...
    The much-hyped Hurricane Irene fizzled to a tropical storm and failed to deliver the massive devastation that the media was hoping for.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Consumer Reports: Are New LED Lightbulbs As Go ...
    Our scientific sisters over at Consumer Reports have set out to answer the question that's on everyone's minds lately: Is an LED lightbulb really a viable replacement for the controversial-and-soon-to-be-phased-out inefficient incandescent? CR says: After 3,000 hours of testing, the best LE ...
  • North Korean Airline Tells Facebook Users To L ...
    Unless you live in North Korea, Russia or China, chances are you've never flown on North Korea's Air Koryo. But thanks to the power of Facebook, you can now choose to like the airline and comment on its wall. But be careful what you say. The airline recently had to scold a group of "South Korea ...
  • Could Adult Industry HIV Scare Lead To Shortag ...
    An internet search of almost any random phrase will eventually turn up some sort of X-rated content. One could argue that this would signify no shortage of pornography available online. And yet porn fans continue to want more. Unfortunately, a number of the folks who fornicate on camera have ha ...
  • Shake Shack, Smashburger Lead Growth Of "Bette ...
    Smaller fast-food chains that make "better" burgers are growing faster than their larger rivals, according to a new report -- though in some cases, the chains are still very small. Shake Shack grew by 133% in 2010, and now has seven stores. Smashburger had the second highest growth rate, at 116 ...
  • Woman Finds She Now Has $180 iWood Instead Of iPad
    Beware, South Carolinians looking for a good deal on an iPad in a parking lot! Don't fall for the trick one woman succumbed to and purchase a block of wood instead of an Apple tablet!. The Smoking Gun (via Gawker) reports on the incident, where a woman met two men in a McDonald's parking lot ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Development Agencies Fail to Take On Corruptio ...
    Canadian Press: Darling of Development World, Stung by Corruption Problems, Says Others in Worse Shape The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – a $21.7 billion health fund backed by prominent celebrities – is responding to allegations that the fund has lost up to $34 millio ...
  • Feds Subpoena Lawyer in CIA Leak Case: Whistle ...
    St. Louis Beacon: Feds Take Unusual Step of Subpoenaing Sterling's Lawyer The lawyer representing Jeffrey Sterling – the former CIA officer charged with leaking national security secrets to the press – was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in order to discuss Sterling’s case. Fed ...
  • Teresa Chambers Case Highlights Limitations of ...
    Last week, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ordered the National Park Service to reinstate whistleblower Teresa Chambers as Chief of the U.S. Park Police, as well as to reimburse her for back pay and legal costs. Her case garnered national attention when she was removed by the Bush ...
  • Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator ...
    By Wikimedia user Markus Schweiss Orange County Register: Which Mystery Senator Killed Whistleblower Bill? This article details how the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) – a bill that would have strengthened protections for federal employees – was killed by one senator’s d ...
  • Justice Department Leakers of Classified Info. ...
    Three months ago, journalist Michael Isikoff noted the disturbing "Double Standard" in White House Leak Inquiries.  But now it's not just the Executive Branch.  Josh Gerstein of Politico just published an article on how a judge ruled that the Justice Department can keep secret names of its own ...

UK Progressive

  • The Case for Separation of Church and Weather
    The Moche lived in northern Peru from about 100-700 A.D. Their molded ceramics are still a highlight in the annals of human accomplishment. If you walk through a museum of pre-Columbian art, it’s easy to spot a Moche piece – the faces are so realistic you expect them to wink at you. Around 500 A ...
  • Book Review: You Can Totally Screw Up As A Mom ...
    Lynn Dorman PhD/JD new book can be summed up in one sentence: “Parents, pick your fights wisely.” This common sense filled tome is a must read for all parents new and beyond. For Dr. Lynn it’s about getting and keeping one thing, PERSPECTIVE, and her anecdotes and semi-apologetic tone mixed with ...
  • Keystone Protesters Implore Obama To Put Envir ...
    At 11:00 am on Aug. 20, 2011, 65 people walked single file across Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House gate and turned their backs to it, facing Lafayette Park, peacefully protesting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. In a defiant act of civil disobedience, protestors staged a sit-i ...
  • Obama Widening War in Somalia
    Led by the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) the U.S. is stepping up its war in Somalia, The Nation magazine reports. “The CIA presence in (the capital) Mogadishu is part of Washington’s intensifying counter-terrorism focus on Somalia, which includes targeted strikes by US Special Operations forc ...
  • Irene and Heartless GOP/Tea Party’s Politicall ...
    Excuse me, but if a government does not take care of its people in a time of true crisis, what exactly is its purpose? GOP/Tea Party House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Presidential Candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) both competed Sunday for ‘heartless bastard of the year’ honours by declar ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Government mismangement kills 2,500 people a year
    Bad governments don’t just “waste millions of dollars” — mismanagement kills. We live in one of the richest nations on Earth. But waiting times for one type of cancer treatment in Australia have blown out to the point where 2,500 people are dying every year. Why do we have money to waste on frui ...
  • Conspiracy Theories in the Australian: Not by ...
    It’s nice to know Christian Kerr of The Australian reads my site and wants to quote me, but really Christian, where’s the conspiracy? “Science broadcaster turned climate-sceptic blogger and convoy backer, Jo Nova, let loose. “The ABC coverage is so shamefully biased, a government PR agency could ...
  • That Australian sense of humour: not the Tea P ...
    G.R.O.G. = Get Rid Of Gillard ... … H/t:   Just Grounds, Jeff, Craig. Thanks Please, will the original artist comment so I can give credit and a link? UPDATE #1: Could be Alex Werchon on CAN-Do?   4-Mar-2011? (h/t Dave N if so). UPDATE #2: Andrew Bolt describes the Thomson meltdown as “out of ...
  • Solar Power costs less than Coal, and the Wish ...
    Finally, a new day has dawned and solar power is cheaper than coal fired electricity! Gadzooks! It must be true, the Sydney Morning Herald says so. “Solar energy cost hits par with coal fuel“ Who knew they conquered the low energy density, high maintenance, poor performance, bad weather, and gen ...
  • Andrew Pitman cries poor and rich, says climat ...
    Well which way is it then? Last year Professor Andrew Pitman said the science was settled, he was a poor volunteer, and skeptics were rich (which was why they were winning). …climate scientists are losing the fight with climate sceptics. That the sceptics are so well funded, so well organized, h ...

ReNew America

  • I am an Israeli
    (Larry Klayman) - I spent this week in Israel with Glenn Beck. Glenn, who left Fox News a few months ago, organized an event he called "Restoring Courage," and courageous it was. Months before his event, I had floated a similar idea that I had been promoting -- a "Hollywood Tribute to Israel" -- ...
  • Bachmann invokes biblical passion for conserva ...
    (NewsMax) - Demonstrating that she won't cede an inch of the Christian-conservative vote to rival Republican presidential contender Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann delivered an impassioned speech laced with biblical references to the Florida Family Policy Council's Policy Awards Dinner in Orlando S ...
  • Liberal media forces homosexuality agenda down ...
    (Lloyd Marcus) - Please, please, please understand, as we said in the 60s, where I'm coming from." This article is NOT about bashing homosexuals. I have homosexual family members and friends whom I love very much...
  • Free tuition for illegals
    (Washington Times) - Democrats will do anything to pander for Hispanic votes in 2012. They're even in favor of amnesty and cash handouts to illegal aliens, if that's what it takes. The latest scheme from California liberals is a move to force over-burdened taxpayers to foot the bill to put illeg ...
  • Obama is the job wrecker in chief
    (David Limbaugh) - President Barack Obama often tells us that his No. 1 focus is creating jobs, but his record makes you wonder what he might have done differently if his goal were to destroy jobs. Those who've examined Congressional Budget Office (CBO) data have calculated that each job alleged ...

Truth Offering

  • Fact: You Have Rights Because Government Says ...
    Here's a quick follow-up article to the one posted a few days ago about the Rawesome Food Club raid. Feast your eyes on the following statements released by the Food and Drug Administration regarding the raid. Note: Below, 'Plaintiffs' refers to James Stewart, Rawesome's founder, Sharon Palmer, ...
  • Another Unlawful Raid On Rawesome
    Want an undeniable truth? Our government is out of control. To deny that is to deny all sense of reason and logic; to regress to your simple-minded, consensus trance thought (un)process. To me, this is the fatal flaw in the argument of all those who support government, or in this case, BIG gover ...
  • Diet Myths THEY Don’t Want You To Know
    MyPyramid.....of DEATH!I've been studying health and nutrition for about six years now. In fact, I credit my nutritional awakening with spurring on my awakening in all other aspects of life, from economics to politics. And I'll tell you the crux of what sparked my craving for the truth: Going ba ...
  • Today's Quote
    "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell
  • Poll: Are the Current E.coli Outbreaks False F ...
    This week, we wanted to get your thoughts on the current E. coli outbreaks. Are they random, unfortunate events? Or is there a depopulation agenda being carried out by the eugenicist global elite? Here's what you thought (click to enlarge):

2012 Blog

  • Meteor Carving, Circa 3000BC
    Many independent researchers believe that something must of occurred in 3114BC to trigger the start of the Mayan Long Count calendar – and therefore any information about events from 5,000 years ago catch my eye – like ...Meteor Carving, Circa 3000BC is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...
  • Dreams About 2012
    As a child I had a few recurring dreams. One of them could’ve been a nightmare but wasn’t. I was standing in the front yard of my home in cookie-cutter suburb. My parents and siblings were ...Dreams About 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:2012 Forum – Becoming Very Internation ...
  • Tornado vs Basement
    Those who study survivalism will come across many opinions, a few anecdotes, and virtually no facts. 2012ers therefore have no certainty of what will occur, and no certainty on how to survive it. So it ...Tornado vs Basement is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:More Tornado Survivors ...
  • Easter Island DNA Shows Interesting Mix
    If you look at the DNA of the natives of Easter Island, and exclude whose ancestors interbred with Europeans (who arrived in 1722), then you’ll find most of the genes point to a colonization from Asia. But ...Easter Island DNA Shows Interesting Mix is a post from: 2012 Blog Related post ...
  • Two Earthquakes in USA Today
    Most notably there was an earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Virginia today, with a magnitude of 5.8.  At this stage damage and injuries do not appear to be widespread, but a nuclear power plant at ...Two Earthquakes in USA Today is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:California ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Stetson Kennedy and the pursuit of truth
    By Paul Ortiz Stetson Kennedy passed away on Saturday, Aug. 27. He was 94 years old. Stetson died peacefully in the presence of his beloved wife, Sandra Parks, at Baptist Medical Center South in St. Augustine, Florida. Stetson Kennedy spent the better part of the 20th century doing battle with ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: New Orleans six years after K ...
    Today marks six years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, leading to the catastrophic failure of the federal levee system in and around New Orleans. While the metro area has made great progress in recovering from the unprecedented disaster, serious socioeconomic problems ...
  • Hurricane Irene: Why failing to evacuate inmat ...
    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 North Carolina, which evacuated over 1,300 inmates before Ir ...
  • VOICES: Crime pays for the private prison indu ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South It all started in Mississippi. Of course. Deprived of his slaves by the Confederacy's loss in the War Between the States, wealthy, politically connected cotton grower and railroad magnate Edmund Richardson needed cheap labor for the 25,000 acres of cotton spread ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: States' weak coal ash oversig ...
    When a massive coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee failed back in December 2008, it dumped a billion gallons of coal ash -- the toxic waste left over after burning coal -- into a nearby community and waterways. The disaster spurred calls fo ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • (VIDEO) Own Your Beauty: What We've Learned
    A year ago, we began our journey here on Own Your Beauty; as with all good things, we have come to our end. It's been such an adventure for me: despite the back having written The Beauty of Different on exactly the topics we've discussed over the past twelve months, the truth is that I've learne ...
  • Dispatches from Vida Vegan Con 2011
    For three days last weekend, vegan bloggers from all over the world gathered in Portland, Oregon, for the Vida Vegan Bloggers' Conference. This conference -- the first of its kind -- celebrated the talent, energy, and diversity of the vegan blog community. Though most of the bloggers who attende ...
  • U.S Open 2011: Rocked by Mother Nature and Ea ...
    It was an ominous beginning for the season�s final grand slam. Aftershocks from the 5.8 earthquake that hit the east coast last week rattled some U.S. Open tennis players prepping for the big tourney.When Hurricane Irene bore down on the Northeast on Sunday, Mother Nature looked to be as much a ...
  • How I Made a Diptych
    One of the best parts about expanding my blogging horizons has been the amazing things I've learned about photography and the very cool people and websites I have discovered who challenge me. One of the first ones I found was Simplicity -- my life in mostly photographs. And the very first da ...
  • The Beautiful Skin Habit, Brought to You by Ol ...
    Beautiful skin is more than skin deep. Skin is an obvious indicator of health and when you’re not feeling well, it shows. Instead of hoping for a quick fix when skin reacts under stressful situations, it’s a much better idea to adopt habits that will give you the healthy skin you want for li ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Brand New Tick-borne Disease
    Land sake’s, another mysterious new tick-borne disease! This one is a new type of Ehrlichia bacteria, making its way through Wisconsin and Minnesota. It matters not that media outlets call it rare. Lyme and Babesiosis were considered ...
  • Roundup Discovered In Mississippi Rain & Streams
    Two new studies this month detected large amounts of glyphosate herbicide in rain and streams in Mississippi river basin. Roundup glyphosate usage has increased by at least 77,000 tons since 1992. ~Health Freedoms Technical Announcement: Widely Used Herbicide Commonly ...
  • Acid Reflux? Eat An Apple!
    Oh the things we shall discover from the old adage, An apple a day… An easy and nutritious cure for acid reflux might be found in an appetizing apple. Other apple products may help as well. ...
  • Mass Egg Farming Regulations Still Slack After ...
    Even after new federal guidelines are aggressively enforced due to the new food safety modernization act, egg farming conditions are for the most part lax. Last year, mass salmonella outbreaks caused 1900 illnesses. Along with salmonella ...
  • 5 (Nearly) Free Ways You Can Gain Health and V ...
    Think the whole world is unhealthy? Toxins lurk everywhere; wind, water, and food? Cheer up, Buttercup! Here are five free ways that you can invigorate your health. Okay, a couple of them cost some couch change. ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Massey problems put more pressure on Alpha
    CEO Kevin Crutchfield and the other folks at Alpha Natural Resources are about to get the perfect chance to show how their “Running Right” program can improve safety performance at coal mines. The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration just announced: The U.S. Department of Laborâs Mine Safe ...
  • OSMRE: WVDEP ‘acting reasonably,’ ...
    Photo of the Brushy Fork impoundment, by Vivian Stockman, with flight services provided by SouthWings. We’ve all been waiting patiently to hear from the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, which has been considering its review of the Alpha/Massey Brushy Fork slurry impound ...
  • 19 Chinese miners rescued a week after flood
    In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, rescuers carry miners out of a flooded mine in Qitaihe, northeastern China, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. Twenty-six Chinese coal miners were trapped Aug. 23 when workers broke through into an adjacent flooded pit. Twenty-two miners were rescued Tu ...
  • Tomblin names Phillips to W.Va. safety job
    This just in from the office of Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, acting as governor: Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced today that he appointed C.A. Phillips to the position of director of the Office of Miners Safety Health and Training. “Because of his extensive experience with the mining indust ...
  • MSHA backs off ‘emergency’ proximi ...
    When last we checked in on the Obama administration’s regulatory agenda for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, they had already backed off part of their plan for an “emergency temporary standard” to require proximity warning devices on underground coal-mining equipment. As we rep ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Michele Bachmann Says Quake and Hurricane Are ...
    I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians,â Bachmann said to supporters. âWe’ve had an earthquake; weâve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here? Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They ...
  • Belief in Evolution Versus National Wealth
    via calamitiesofnature.com Pure comedy. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsIn 2009, Only 4 in 10 Believe in EvolutionA Digital IO WorkflowBrowser CombatDon’t Be a Cryptic AssCare WolfVisual.ly | Infographics & VisualizationsEliminating Redundancies | Dilbert
  • C.S. Lewis on Creativity
    No [person] who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work’s sake, and what [people] call originality will come unsought. via azspot.net Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous R ...
  • Sam Harris on Wealth Distribution
    How many Republicans who have vowed not to raise taxes on billionaires would want to live in a country with a trillionaire and 30 percent unemployment? If the answer is “none”—and it really must be—then everyone is in favor of “wealth redistribution.” They just haven’t been forced to admit it. v ...
  • CHART OF THE DAY: *Government* Jobs Led To Per ...
    via tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com Hilarious. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsThe Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling – The AtlanticVisualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart | Doug McCuneXKCD Radiation Dose ChartUpdated Subnetting Po ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • The Election March of the Trolls
    By Chris Hedges, TruthDig – We have begun the election march of the trolls. They have crawled out of the sewers of public relations firms, polling organizations, the commercial media, the two corporate political parties and elected office to fill the airwaves with inanities and absurdities until ...
  • TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE; LOVE THY NEIGHBOR
    by Earland Lilly, WWH – My son, David, sent to me a very stunning assessment of how Religion, Society, Educational System and of course our Political System under minds our Self Esteem from the time we are children until we die. We are lucky if we are a Dell Jordon who at least had a [...]
  • The Tuna Industry’s Four Dirty Little Secrets
    greenpeace.org – Seafood isn’t only sold in the seafood section. Americans buy a tremendous amount of our seafood from the shelves of our local grocer rather than from the freezers, including one particular item that we put in everything from sandwiches to casseroles to salads: tuna fish. For de ...
  • Woman Missing from Rainbow Gathering
    Diana May-Waldman, WWH- Marie Hanson is not a disoriented hippie. She doesn’t take drugs or drink. Neighbors offered her the opportunity to attend what she thought was a peace rally and went with it. But, now Marie is missing and her family wants answers. Marie attended a seven day Rainbow Gathe ...
  • WWH; Letters to the Editor
    We the People. Lets have a lottery. 80 miles outside of NYC there are thousands of acres owned by us. What if we got together to develop a future city. A self sustaining, Eco friendly,hi tech,Disney like themed by nature. A place like this could house a few hundred thousand persons. Develop high ...

reference frame

  • Coldest summer in 20 years or so
    I've noticed that many Americans - members of the nation that dominates TRF visits - tend to extrapolate the events in the U.S. to the whole globe. And because the U.S. has seen a pretty warm weather, many people think that the Northern Hemisphere has experienced a warm summer. W ...
  • Egypt vs bikini and Sphinx
    It's been more than half a year since the revolts in Egypt and the direction which the country is taking doesn't look pretty. Hosni Mobarak, a guarantor of relative decency in the country, was sacrificed by the confused West and the forces that your humble correspondent and others expe ...
  • Hurricane Irene and hype
    Hurricane Irene (2011) has killed something like 47 people. Sad. Is that a lot? NASA's GISS picture of the Earth on August 27th. Can you find Irene? Click to zoom in. Via Andrew Revkin Google News coughs up 117,000 articles in English with the phrase "hurricane Irene" in the ...
  • Bátoriad: how political correctness threatened ...
    Mr Ladislav Bátora is a conservative man. In the past, he was a candidate in some elections backed by a nationalist party. In February 2011, he was supposed to become the deputy minister of education. A couple of politically correct Czechs started to scream. President Václav Klaus defe ...
  • String phenomenology 2011: Gordon Kane
    Francis Emule News (Spanish) direct our attention to a very interesting conference that took place in Madison, Wisconsin last week: String Phenomenology 2011 (talks)There are many interesting talks in heterotic string theory model building, F-theory model building (which became dominant t ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • NATO Libyan War Crimes
    This video is not for the faint of heart but you need to see what your tax dollars are financing. NATO is no different than the Nazis. This is a sick and sad testament to the evil that controls us. Refuse to partake in this system. A contrived and unprovoked war – NATO’s terrorism knows [...] ...
  • British Bullshit Corporation BBC Lies to the S ...
    I will let the kid do the talking. He has it pegged. Tell me why you haven’t figured it out yet? Are ya a moran? Technorati Tags: BBC, Libya, Media, Lies, British Bullshit Corporation Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:The Truth About the Lies FULL DOCUMENTARY The Truth ab ...
  • Silver! Final Warning!
    Last call. Get in or kiss your ass goodbye. Heretic Productions present : Silver Shield’s Final Warning. dont-tread-on.me Video Rating: 4 / 5 BUY SILVER AT WHOLESALE This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:The Silver Shield – Chris Duan ...
  • Freedom is just another word for no one left t ...
    This video has more one-liners than a stand-up comic ‘cept in this case no one is laughing. This is putting the corrupt occupiers of the ivory towers on notice…. Assholes, your time has come. Prepare for your comeuppance. Uploaded by ledaOhio937 on Aug 17, 2011 Listen to this… Heretic Production ...
  • Rachel Corrie 5th Grade Speech I’m here becaus ...
      Uploaded by theevilofthezionists on Sep 19, 2008 Rachel Corrie, a true hero was murdered by the State of Israel. Rachel Corrie was killed by the state of Israel, and by its brutal regime that practices not only ‘mass punishment’ but also ‘ethnic cleansing’. The same regime that has displaced o ...

Truth About Our World

  • Fear – Mind Control – The Thought ...
    The Police State is alive and well in the US. I was witness to it this past week when I visited Rhode Island. You may not recognize it if you’re living with it on a daily basis, but for someone who comes from the outside, it was very obvious… The presence of cops and State troopers everywhere wa ...
  • NWO Plans Exposed By Insider In 1969
      ‘This is a transcript of two out of three tapes on the “New World System.” Tapes one and two were recorded in 1988 and are the recollections of Dr. Lawrence Dunegan regarding a lecture he attended on March 20, 1969 at a meeting of the Pittsburgh Paediatric Society. The lecturer at that gatheri ...
  • My Message to the World…
      â”No more war, no more war, no more war… Just a little peace. No more war, no more war. All we want is some peace in this world. Everybody wants to live together. Why can’t we be together? No matter, no matter what colour. You are still my brother. I said no matter, no matter what colour. You ...
  • The Rainbow Warriors
  • The Quickening

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

  • The pretty executioner in Libya is farther awa ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • Sward into playgrounds: What all the fuss over ...
    Earlier this month, the mayor agreed to a deal with two state legislators that is supposed to resolve one of the most contentious issues surrounding the long-awaited, painstakingly planned Brooklyn Bridge Park: The development of luxury condos inside the p ...
  • A picture of Red Hook as Venice that is pretty ...
    Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
  • How NY1 won the Irene-hits-New York story, and ...
    "I will say that at about 6 a.m., I probably lightened it up one notch too much?" Kiernan said. "And then, we sorta started getting some better forecasting on the storm surge about an hour later and I think I dialed it back to the serious—it hadn't been co ...
  • What it means when Guillermo del Toro 'presents'
    It’s not unusual for a famous director to become a celebrity producer. Film-makers like Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth use their names to sell films that they’re either helping to get distributed or were an executive producer on. But there’s a big differen ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Day care ‘not harmful’ for infants
    The vast majority of Norwegian parents place their children in state-supported day care centers as soon as their maternity and paternity leave runs out, but many have worried about the effects of day care outside the home for those as young as one year. A new study suggests they have no need for ...
  • Explosion on ship rocked Sandefjord
    UPDATED: The former whaling port of Sandefjord was rocked by a loud explosion on board a ship berthed at a chemical plant Tuesday afternoon. Police were asking people to stay indoors as a strong odor settled over the area. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that police initially were unsure w ...
  • Compensation for LSD treatment
    A 67-year-old woman is believed to have become the first Norwegian to receive compensation for the ongoing ill effects she has suffered for nearly 40 years after being treated with the hallucinogenic drug LSD in the 1960s. Newspaper Aftenposten reported that Gerd Knutsen has received NOK 200,000 ...
  • Scenic valley’s fans win award
    The scenic valley of Maridalen in Oslo is known as a rural oasis on the fringe of an urban environment. Now its biggest support group has won this year’s “cultural landscape prize” for its work to promote cultural development in the protected scenic area. The group Maridalens Venner (Maridalen’ ...
  • Record numbers studying abroad
    Never before have so many Norwegians been registered for studies at colleges and universities outside Norway. The number of Norwegian students studying abroad is up 8 percent, and many are now taking their entire degree programs overseas. Newspaper Aftenposten reported Wednesday that new figures ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Introduction to Food Sovereignty: Food and Dem ...
    Editor’s Preamble: Some of you may have noticed a slowdown in our usual flurry of posts of late. I’ve had a significant personal event to attend to, so thanks for your patience at this time. Additionally, now I am behind the 8-ball in preparations for the IPC, so will be focusing on that as much ...
  • A Practical Example of How Attitudes Can Be Le ...
    Editor’s Note: It’s a trend we’re increasingly seeing with permaculture unfortunately — that of the rise of permaculture perfectionists. Many readers have noticed this in comments on this and other permaculture sites, where people are quick to judge and criticise, feeling superior in their own p ...
  • Jordan Valley Permaculture Project – August 20 ...
    Latifa inspects project development from a unique vantage point It’s been just over a year since I’ve visited the Jordan Valley Permaculture Project (aka ‘Greening the Desert – the Sequel’) site, and I’m keen to check out progress when I visit next month (September 2011). In the meantime, Ge ...
  • A Small Update on Blog Comments (and a Change ...
    Many of you will have read the recent post on a change in comment policy on this site, and the valuable comments below it. Well, after 1) the feedback, and 2) my observations since the change, I’ve decided to try another route — that of changing it so that people must register to the site [...]
  • Expanding Deserts, Falling Water Tables, and T ...
    by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Photo � Craig Mackintosh People do not normally leave their homes, their families, and their communities unless they have no other option. Yet as environmental stresses mount, we can expect to see a growing number of environmental refugees. Rising se ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Landlord of "Whites Only" Cop Bar Also Owns "W ...
    Today, the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division reached a settlement in a case brought by the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center against a Midcity landlord who was caught on tape making racially discriminatory comments. The landlord, Betty Bouchon, owns a 16-unit building a ...
  • We Have Not Forgotten: Solidarity Statement on ...
    From our friends at the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance: August 29, 2011 Solidarity Statement on Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina Today the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) honors the people who passed away during the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina on August ...
  • Louisiana Prison Bans Final Call Newspaper
    From our friends at the ACLU of Louisiana: Hearing on Tuesday Over First Amendment Rights in Louisiana Prison The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear arguments tomorrow, August 30th, in the case of an inmate's right to receive a religious publication, “The Final Call,” w ...
  • Education Advocates to Rally for Real Reform o ...
    From the TribuneTalk website: Pointing to the fate of John McDonogh Senior High as just one example of the failed policies and broken promises of the Recovery School District, several organizations and education advocates have organized a rally and are encouraging others concerned about th ...
  • Common Ground Co-Founder Who Became FBI Inform ...
    Mother Jones Magazine published an article today focusing on Brandon Darby, who is known to many New Orleanians for his controversial leadership of the post-Katrina relief organization Common Ground. Many volunteers who came to help rebuild the city were disillusioned by their experience with Co ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Fuck sake, what is so hard to figure out about this guy and his 7 jewish writers Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:09 am
  • False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
    bluejelly wrote: Is Chan 4 just that henti stuff because I don't see how anyone can prove the cartoon characters are underage or is it real pedo stuff? It's overall a pretty sick site. I saw the site a few years back one evening from a link and was disgusted. It's plain . I didn't see anythi ...
  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    -Pas- wrote: Exellent posts CSR, thanks! CSR wrote: “I am a person who has served in government myself. I worked in the White House as a young man. At that time I recognised the importance of these kind of documents and the importance of freedom.” (F'N J-Tribe Scam Artist....--CSR) It ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    His reporting over the last several months has been straight-faced "Protocols". Must be his bedside reading. The guy probably plays Basketball in a T-Shirt reading "Proud American Shabbos Goyim! Certified Kosher." I read somewhere he's a CIA plant. --CSR -------- Saturday, August 28, 201 ...
  • False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
    iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSB4sQGT_4 iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byuK9PcvTrI iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih_5fhpI2U4 Is Chan 4 just that henti stuff because I don't see how anyone can prove the cartoon characters are underage or is it real pedo stuff?Stati ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • UK Bank Launches Fund to Help Farmers Tap into ...
    The UK-based bank Barclays has launched a £100 million fund ($163 million) to help farmers finance renewable energy projects on their land after a survey found growing interest among farm owners in installing Getty Images such projects to offset energy costs and generate new income. According to ...
  • Deforestation Rates Higher in ‘Protected’ Fore ...
    A new study says deforestation rates in tropical forests designated as “protected” areas are typically much higher than in community-managed forests. In a comparison of recent studies covering 40 protected areas and 33 community forests in 16 countries — including 11 in Latin America, three in A ...
  • Climate Relicts: Seeking Clues On How Some Spe ...
    In pockets ranging from mountain peaks to bogs, scientists are discovering plants and animals that survived previous eras of climate change. Now, conservation biologists say, these climate “relicts” could shed light on how some species may hang on in the coming centuries. BY CARL ZIMMER
  • Open Source Ecology Project Targets Blueprint ...
    A team of U.S. volunteers is developing an open-source database they say will ultimately provide a do-it-yourself guide on how to construct each of the 50 industrial machines needed “to build a small civilization with modern comforts.” Launched in 2003 by Marcin Jakubowski, who describes himself ...
  • On-Road Charging Could Allow ‘Unlimited’ EV Dr ...
    Japanese researchers are developing a new system that they say could ultimately power electric vehicles (EVs) for travel across “unlimited” distances without the hindrance of heavy batteries. While based on railway infrastructure in which individual cars are powered through overhead wires, the n ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Noda takes over, starts key selections
    Yoshihiko Noda became the nation's 62nd prime minister Tuesday, tasked with leading the recovery from the March disaster. In the formal balloting in the Diet, Noda won 308 votes in the Lower House but failed to win a majority in the opposition-controlled Upper House in the first round. ...
  • Once Gadhafi is finally gone
    A relatively successful transition from the Gadhafi regime to a united, stable, more open and democratic Libya would be seen in the region, and more widely, as a credit to the NATO-led intervention. It would enable Libya to resume its oil and gas exports, demonstrate international community capa ...
  • Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi plan LCD venture for ce ...
    Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. have largely agreed to integrate their operations for small and midsize liquid crystal display panels for mobile and tablet devices such as smartphones, sources said Tuesday. The three manufacturers are expected to formally announce as early as Wednes ...
  • Panel confirms fix was in at nuclear public me ...
    An independent investigation panel has confirmed that the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency asked utilities in at least three cases to mobilize their employees for government-sponsored symposiums on nuclear power and express supportive or neutral opinions. According to an interim report by ...
  • Fukushima day care center hot spots
    Two day care centers and a high school building in Fukushima Prefecture remain contaminated with high levels of radioactive matter even after they underwent cleanup work, Greenpeace Japan said. On the ground of the yard at one day care center, the radiation was as high as 0.9 microsieverts per ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

  • America's FBI goes rogue
    Lawrence Davidson looks at the use of informants by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation which, he argues, amounts to counselling, procuring and inciting crime. "[W]ithout the intervention of the informant, without his incitement, there is no evidence that any of [the] entrapped 'cr ...
  • From Libya to Palestine - tyranny to freedom
    Aijaz Zaka Syed argues that dethroning Muammar Gaddafi was the easy part and that the real struggle to build a new Libya begins now.
  • Murky anti-Semitism - Zionist style
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the culture behind efforts by Zionist lobbyists in the United States to censor free debate of Zionism and Israel's policies through pressure, blackmail and smearing the advocates of free speech as "anti-Semites" or "self-hating Jews".
  • Understanding the opposition to NATO's interve ...
    Uri Avnery argues that opponents of military intervention in Libya are motivated more by hatred of the USA and NATO than by any concern for the people of Libya.
  • Will "Nipper" Cameron obey Tel Aviv's trumpet ...
    Stuart Littlewood wonders whether British Prime Minister David Cameron will have the courage and integrity to apply to Palestine the principles which he claims to embrace in respect of Libya - supporting freedom and democracy - by backing the Palestinians' bid for UN recognition of their statehood.

Physics Today

  • Greenest ever office building breaks ground in ...
    Los Angeles Times: Billed as the first commercial building designed to carry its own environmental weight, Seattle’s Bullitt Center, which began construction yesterday, will generate its own power, process its own waste, and use only its own rainwater—for the next 250 years. The goal of the cons ...
  • International Space Station may soon be unoccupied
    New York Times: For the first time in more than a decade, the International Space Station may become vacant, due to lack of astronaut transport. NASA ended its space shuttle program last month, and the Russian space program is experiencing problems with its Soyuz rocket, which last week launched ...
  • GPS can locate hidden nuclear explosions
    Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: When North Korea conducted its second known nuclear bomb test on 25 May 2009, the country's leaders took extreme care to conceal the details of the event. They detonated the device a kilometer or so beneath the earth, so no radiation could escape and provide clues ...
  • Companies work to harvest energy from the ocean
    New Scientist: The energy of ocean waves is beginning to be tapped as a source of sustainable energy. Wave power, distinct from the daily flux of tidal power and the steady gyre of ocean currents, is generated by wind passing over the sea surface. As more than 100 companies develop wave energy ...
  • Exotic galaxy attracts astronomers
    Space.com: A newly discovered galaxy 1.7 billion light-years away has captured astronomers’ attention because of its unique combination of characteristics. Speca is only the second spiral, as opposed to elliptical, galaxy known to generate large, powerful jets of subatomic particles that rush fr ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • basement—several seconds BEFORE the plane hit ...
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:02:36 GMT) First hand material. Go for the full article before it disappears. Quote, "basement—several seconds BEFORE the plane hit the tower!” Richard Roepke William “Willy” Rodriguez is the 9/11 hero who helped save hundreds of lives, and the last p ...
  • 99% Of Republicans In House Voted Against The ...
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:39:15 GMT) This is a covert totalitarian country. The elected politicians don't represent the voice of their voters. They rule the country by controlled intelligence and media. They select politicians through rigged election and justify the election res ...
  • Media suppress Ron Paul
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:30:04 GMT) Ron Paul wins New Hampshire straw poll, raises 1.5 million in a day! GOP Operatives Fear Lasting Ron Paul Problem Byron York 8/23/2011 "Ron Paul is going to destroy this party if they keep him in there," said Rush Limbaugh the day after t ...
  • News media won't report
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:25:34 GMT) Quote, "18 US Soldiers commit suicide every day on average May 11, 2011 Written by jafrianews The United States Department of Veterans Affairs has received orders from a federal appeals court to overhaul its mental health care system, larg ...
  • Oil price and Iran war
    by katsung47 (Posted Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:20:53 GMT) 585. A super 911 to justify Iran war (1/30/09) To justify the Iraq war, the Inside Group activated a false flag terror attack in US: that's 911. To justify the coming Iran war, another false flag terror attack is inevitable. That terror attack ...

Peakwater

  • Horn of Africa Drought
    “As Muslims around the world mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan and celebrate Eid Al-Fitr, many Somali Muslims will not be able to participate due to the ongoing famine in the Horn of Africa. Hundreds of thousands of Somalis, threatened by drought and civil war, have wound up at ...
  • Police Beat, Tie-Up, and Fire On Citizens Prot ...
    “Like a chain of dominos, citizen protests are erupting everywhere: following the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions catalyzed in part by skyrocketing food prices, political protests have swept throughout the Arab world. But it hasnât stopped there, and not all battles are political. In Jordan, ...
  • Ohio River Basin Part Of Pilot Water Quality T ...
    “American Farmland Trust has received a $1 million Conservation Innovation Grant(CIG) from the USDA to develop the first U.S. interstate water quality trading market for agriculture. In this second phase of the project, the collaborators will launch pilot water quality trades between farmers an ...
  • Lingering Droughts Plague SW China
    “A persistent drought in Southwest China’s Guizhou province has created a water shortage for 5.5 million people and 2.8 million livestock, local authorities said. Nearly 70 of the province’s counties and cities have been plagued by the drought, according to a meteorological monitoring report rel ...
  • Federal Water Tap, August 29: Tar Sands and Sh ...
    “Few Significant Impacts The State Department concluded its environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The departmentâs preferred option is to build the pipeline, with a few variations and minor route changes. Assistant Secretary of State Kerri-Ann Jones, who took questions fro ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • … Conspiracy … no just greed &#823 ...
    … Perhaps Clay Thompson was merely being “tongue-in-cheek” I strongly recommend Mr. Thompson and anyone choosing to discount “tainted-tap” water to do your own investigation … … Our local water purveyors are all engaged in pursuing “toilet to tap” … soon what comes out of your facet will be re-c ...
  • I love this kind of crazy!
    �� WILD �� CRAZY �� BUT WOW �� Swiss pilot, inventor and aviation enthusiast, Yves Rossy (born 27 August 1959 in Neuchâtel), He is the first person to achieve sustained human flight using a jet-powered fixed wing strapped to his back. � � � � Video: � http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/page/482 ...
  • … YES … in our own backyard &#8230 ...
    … YES … in our own backyard … Cop tasers and kicks compliant mentally handicap man. Compliant mentally handicapped man tasered and kicked by cop . Updates to follow. Copblock.org and Facebook.com/copblock KPHO TV5 just called me to let me know that they are running this footage tonight. Nick ...
  • Before you accept
    � �� Before you accept this declaration ask who sponsored and paid for this research ��? No Nutritional Difference between Free-Range and Cage-Produced Eggs by Staff Writers �� Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 30, 2011 ⦠ http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/No_Nutritional_Difference_between_Free_Range_and_Cag ...
  • spare me that “national security” ...
    � ��And who declared the release of these documents �dangerous� and for what compelling reason �� WikiLeaks Leak: Thousands Of Dangerous Documents Accidentally Released Online � http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/wikileaks-leak_n_941204.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=083011&utm_me ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

  • School sitting on buried treasure
    Children at an Auckland school will not have to go far to learn about geology, with the rediscovery of a lava cave running under their playing field.The cave, which is about 40m long and 2m high in places, starts in the lower corner...
  • Enough life to sink the ark
    Noah's Ark could never have contained them: there are probably about 8.7 million species of living things, the vast majority of them undiscovered, according to what is believed to be the most authoritative estimate carried out of...
  • Adidas goes barefoot
    Adidas is going barefoot.The world's second-largest athletic company unveiled its first "barefoot" training shoe Tuesday, which is designed to mimic the experience of exercising barefoot while providing the protection, traction...
  • Wild world: Millions of unseen species fill Ea ...
    Our world is a much wilder place than it looks.A new study estimates that Earth has almost 8.8 million species, but we've only discovered about a quarter of them. And some of yet-to-be-seen ones could be in our own backyards, scientists...
  • Singapore patent for Dunedin co's cancer test
    Dunedin-based Pacific Edge says it has been awarded a patent in Singapore for its colorectal cancer prognostic technology, and anticipates the patent will be issued in other targeted countries in the next 12 to 24 months.The technology...

Truth Survival + RSS

  • NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS AND VISITORS
    As of today this website will be inactive by webmaster. there will be no further reports or updated information of any kind. however all information that is currently on the website will remain as an archive for the purpose of … Continue reading →
  • AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
      http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlightenment, Forb ...
  • SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AARON MCCOLLUM ON UT ...
      This Thursday I will be the guest on Universal Truth Evolution Radio to discuss some extremely important information and make a special announcement. I ask that everyone who takes the information provided on Truth Survival tune in to this … Continue reading →
  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Watch Matt Welch Talk About Subsidized Homeown ...
    At 8 p.m. ET tonight, Reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch will go on Fox Business Network's "Freedom Watch" program to talk about asinine federal policies in place before a hurricane (or fire, or flood) hits. Related reading: Welch on "The Failure of 'Market Failure'-Driven Fire Insur ...
  • How Does a Wine Monopoly Lose Money?
    In a report issued today, Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner says the state liquor control board's wine vending machines, a wonderful illustration of what happens when a government monopoly tries to act more like a business, are operating at a loss, costing taxpayers more tha ...
  • The Public Is Conflicted Over Where to Place R ...
    The results from the latest Reason-Rupe poll show ostensibly conflicting results about where Americans place the primary responsibility for retirement savings and for health insurance costs during retirement. When the questions avoid the polarizing context of “entitlement reform” or ...
  • Fifty Seven Percent of Americans Believe Cutti ...
    As explored in our previous post, public sentiment has turned toward cutting government spending. Recent Reason-Rupe poll results help explain why Americans have focused their attention on spending cuts. First, 69 percent of Americans anticipate their future taxes increasing, and ...
  • Old Man's Pumpkin Patch Granted Zoning Repriev ...
    Every Halloween for the last 50 years, Bud Durrant has sold pumpkins—from a patch on his own property for the last 20. He's something of an institution in Orem, Utah, where hundreds of families are his annual customers.  So it came as something of a surprise when the city warned him l ...

Mercury Rising

  • Wilkerson: I’ll Testify Against Cheney I ...
    President Obama, your move: The former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell pledged Tuesday to testify against former Vice President Dick Cheney if he is ever tried for war crimes. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson told Democracy Now‘s Amy Goodman that he would participate in a trial even if ...
  • This is a public announcement (Murdoch phone h ...
    I just like the title (“This is a public announcement”), since it’s how perhaps the stupidest advertisement on TV–one that plays over and over on Countdown– starts. Presumably it is intended to imply that it is a public service announcement, which it definitely is not. But just the raw stupidity ...
  • The more things change, the more I like the past
    AI was better 30 years ago, but it didn’t have voice synthesizers (from BoingBoing via Arequipa01 at Barry Ritholtz).
  • Eric Cantor To Missouri: Drop Dead.
    I was wondering when this would happen: The Federal Emergency Management Agency is suspending payments for some projects in tornado-ravaged Joplin because of immediate disaster needs along the East Coast after Hurricane Irene. Some spending for other storm-related and flood-related damage in oth ...
  • A great nomination…but will he serve?
    The choice of Alan Krueger as head of the Council of Economic Advisers is one of the Obama Administration’s best nominations. I’d put Dawn Johnsen and Elizabeth Warren a notch higher, but Krueger is definitely top tier. Along with the Canadian economist David Card, he helped debunk the myth that ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Gone To Burning Man '11
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  • Arutum: Wisdom From the Amazon
    � � This article is excerpted from Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness, available now on Amazon. � read more
  • Eshu and Ananse: Liberation by Subversive Know ...
    Brian George, Figure with bow, lightning arrow, and descending sphere, 2003 read more
  • Conscientia: The Reality Sandwich Fall Retreat
    CONSCIENTIA: THE REALITY SANDWICH FALL RETREAT Ross Bleckner, Graham Hancock, Daniel Pinchbeck, Android Jones, Santha Faila, Michael Robinson, Jennifer Palmer Sept. 25 - Sept. 30, Boulder, UTAH read more
  • Shapeshifting the Future
    We have entered a time prophesied by many cultures for shapeshifting into higher consciousness. Polynesian shamans shapeshift through oceans, Amazon warriors transform into anacondas, Andean birdpeople and Tibetan monks bilocate across mountains. These shamans have taught John Perkins that shap ...

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • 'Washington playing politics with tax'
    US Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has called the United States a bankrupt country and described the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as a flawed bureaucratic system.
  • Libya's TNC rejects UN troop plans
    Libya's Transitional National Council (TNC) has rejected plans by the United Nations to dispatch hundreds of international troops into the North African country to help "stabilize" it.
  • 'NATO committing genocide in Sirte'
    Libyan fighters have reportedly entered fugitive ruler Muammar Gaddafi's stronghold in the western town of Ghadames.
  • 'West aims to neo-colonize N Africa'
    Genocide, racism and the forced removal of millions in Libya are part of a Western scheme to re-conquer and neo-colonize North Africa, says a political analyst.
  • 'US forces liable for atrocities in Iraq'
    The US forces stationed in Iraq should be held accountable for war crimes including one in which the American forces murdered ten people in cold blood during a raid in 2006, an analyst told Press TV.
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