31 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

IPS - Inter Press Services

• TRADE-NAMIBIA: No Progress on Access to Europe ...
  Weariness surrounds the negotiations on an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) regulating trade access between Southern Africa and the European Union (EU).
• EUROPE: Some Rich Want to Get a Little Less Rich
  In the face of the severe sovereign debt crisis in most industrialised countries, some extremely rich people are urging governments to increase taxes on wealth.
• ISRAEL: Children Facing Deportation Find Friends
  After Israel's Interior Ministry attempted to deport the first migrant workers' child educated in the Israeli school system, human rights groups are calling on the Israeli government to develop a clear immigration policy and an official protocol that will minimise the psychological impac ...
• Watchdogs Blast Ethnic Cleansing in South Kordofan
  On Jun. 19, Angelo al-Sir, a subsistence farmer from a small village east of Kadugli, capital of the oil-rich South Kordofan state in Northern Sudan, saw his pregnant wife, two of his 10 children, his nephew and another relative killed in an airstrike in broad daylight.
• ARGENTINA: Child Allowance Restores Families' ...
  Conditional cash transfers to poor families with children in Argentina "have had a very positive impact," says an enthusiastic Graciela Dulcich, the principal of a primary school in a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

Scoop - NZ

• The Secret to Making Money
  Last month we learned that the "wealth creators" of this country have done remarkably well, in spite of the global economic situation. We were told in the National Business Review's annual rich list that this is cause for celebration, given the wealth of the 151 richest individuals "has climbed ...
• Escobar: The Right To Plunder
  The white man's burden doesn't allow asking Africans what they think about the current Western/monarchical Arab onslaught on the northern shores of their continent. At least some are not beating around the bush. Over 200 African leaders and intellectuals released a letter in Johannesburg, Sou ...
• Wallaby Genome Published
  It’s not every day a nation publishes the genome sequence of an animal from its coat of arms (a much more difficult task for British scientists). But today sees the release of the first complete genome of a tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). The genome sheds light on some of its unique traits ...
• CLINTON: BUDGET CUTS THREATEN US PACIFIC PRESENCE
  Budget cuts in the United States could force an abrupt pullout of the US security presence in the Pacific at a time when China's power is rising, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned. Earlier this month, the U.S. Congress passed legislation approving US$2.1 trillion in cuts to gov ...
• Friedman's Little Shop of Horrors
  Privatization and free market guru Milton Friedman. Friedman advised governments in economic crisis to follow strict austerity measures, combining radical cuts in social services with the full-scale privatization of their more lucrative assets. Many countries in Latin America auctioned off every ...

Independent - London

• Car bomb kills 10 in Pakistan
  A suicide car bomber attacked Shiite Muslims in south-west Pakistan today at the start of an Islamic holiday, killing at least 10 people, officials said.
• Car bomb kills five in Pakistan
  A suicide car bomber attacked worshippers in southwestern Pakistan as they were heading home after morning prayers at the start of an Islamic holiday. The blast killed at least five people, officials said.
• Turkey moved out of Europe – by Post Office tr ...
  As Turkey moves closer to the EU, the Post Office in Britain has deemed that the nation lies entirely beyond Europe. Last month, at the start of the school summer holidays, the Post Office moved the boundaries used for its travel insurance policies to exclude Turkey from European cover. Even th ...
• Israeli military to equip Jewish settlers with ...
  The Israeli military is to train Jewish settlers in the West Bank and plans to equip them with tear gas and stun grenades to confront Palestinian demonstrators when their leaders press for UN recognition next month.
• Boycott scuppers Kashmiri literary festival
  Indian-administered Kashmir's first major literature festival has been cancelled after local writers and artists said it would give the false impression that basic freedoms are allowed in the troubled region.

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

• Mental illness rise linked to climate change
  Rates of mental illnesses including depression and post-traumatic stress will increase as a result of climate change, a report to be released today says. The paper, prepared for the Climate Institute, says loss of social cohesion in the wake of severe weather events related to climate change co ...
• 'I am your everyday psychopath': What UK rapis ...
  A fugitive rapist who went on the run after a frail spinster was murdered in a hammer attack at her home once told a victim: 'I am your everyday psychopath.' Graeme Jarman, 47, was jailed for seven years for the horrifying rape at gunpoint of his 17-year-old victim who later described him as an ...
• Google Creates the Perfect Boyfriend: G-Male
  Coming on the heels of Microsoft's slam on Google's privacy policies, feminine comedy blog Comediva produced a video featuring Mountain View's answer to the perfect boyfriend: G-Male. Since Google knows what you need better than you do, Comediva personified Google's consistently aware service ...
• BEST OF THE WEB: Defense Against the Psychopath
• How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw ...
  Video seen by Catrina Stewart reveals the brutal interrogation of young Palestinians The boy, small and frail, is struggling to stay awake. His head lolls to the side, at one point slumping on to his chest. "Lift up your head! Lift it up!" shouts one of his interrogators, slapping him. But the ...

The Galloping Beaver

• End-game in Libya . . .
  On the way to Mo's place.SEEMS MOAMMAR'S DAYS ARE NUMBERED and all sorts of armed people with different agendas are lurching around, some it appears, are settling old scores. With the flight of the Gadhafis to Algeria, that country's rather controlled, brittle consensus may be perturbed as well; ...
• I don't think he was complimenting you
  So I've just spent a few minutes browsing the somewhat mausoleum museum-like "Restore the Honour" website run by the nostalgia junkies credited with getting the 'Royal' stuck back in names of the Canadian Forces elemental commands.* They've posted quotes from notable figures thanking them for th ...
• Time machine . . .
  PERFECT COLOR and a century old. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was a photographer to the Tsar, who used a separation technique that had to wait for the advent of cheap scanners, to see the pictures, without resorting to extremely expensive "proofing" prints. Check them out.
• On a stick . . .
• Stephen Lewis on Jack Layton

Media Matters for America

• Krauthammer Twists Facts To Claim Obama Is Byp ...
  Charles Krauthammer distorted facts to claim that when President Obama "doesn't succeed in Congress, he goes under the radar" to enact harmful regulations. Krauthammer supported this claim with the inaccurate assertion that the administration has "essentially enact[ed] the DREAM Act" and the du ...
• News Corp. Outlets Distort Clean Air Act
  News Corporation's Wall Street Journal and Fox News claimed that President Obama could issue an executive order to delay several EPA regulations on power plants. In fact, the exemption authority applies to only one of the proposed regulations and requires that the control technology be unavaila ...
• "Socialist Day": Right-Wing Media Again Attack ...
  In the weeks before the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, right-wing media figures have renewed their attacks on President Obama for calling for a National Day of Service on September 11. However, in 2009, a majority of Republican senators voted to establish a 9-11 ...
• Right-Wing Media Distort Blog Post To Bash Oba ...
  Conservative media have attacked Alan Krueger, President Obama's nominee to head the President's Council of Economic Advisers, for purportedly advocating a "value added tax." But the 2-year-old blog post they cite stated that he did so "only as a suggestion for serious discussion," adding that ...
• Wash. Times' Miller Misleads On Calif ...
  Washington Times senior editor Emily Miller falsely claimed that a bill under consideration in California would require only that undocumented students attend state high schools for three years to be eligible to receive financial aid. In fact, undocumented students must meet several requirement ...

Global Research.ca

• AFTER 9/11: TEN YEARS OF WAR
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
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• War? “There is no war” in Libya
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Namibia: A Security threat called AFRICOM
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Al-Qaeda and NATO’s Islamic Extremists Taking ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Israel refuses early payment to Palestinian Au ...
  Israel rejected a Palestinian Authority request that it move up payment of NIS 380 million in tax revenues so that the PA could pay salaries before the holiday of Id al-Fitr, which be ...
• Turning Tables: 'Israel illegal occupier if Pa ...
  The Israeli Defence Force is reportedly preparing settlers for the mass uprising of Palestinians, expected after the UN votes on a Palestinian statehood in September. The preparations include handing out tear gas and stun grenades to civilians. Military resistance to Palestinians will only bring ...
• U.S. bill aims to cut funds to pro-Palestinian ...
  A republican congresswoman introduced a bill on Tuesday, along with 57 co-sponsors, asking Congress to block U.S. funds for any United Nations entity that supports giving Palestine an ...
• Israel mulls arming 'trained' settlers (Al Ja ...
  The Israeli army is planning to provide tear gas and stun grenades to settlers in the occupied West Bank who have been trained to repel any violent protests when the Palestinians seek ...
• Does the Palestinian UN bid threaten refugee r ...
  As the leadership in Ramallah prepares to approach the UN for membership in September, it is also fighting back charges that its initiative is shortsighted and even a threat to Palest ...

Water - AlterNet

• FIJI Water and Their Parent Company's Shady Wa ...
  The pursuit of water is the hidden pea in Roll Global's corporate shell game.
• Ignoring Climate Change, State Department Repo ...
  This is shocking considering carbon emissions from tar sands are 80% higher than the average crude and the extraction process requires strip mining and toxic waste.
• Dispersants Used in BP Gulf Oil Spill Linked t ...
  BP used over 1.8 million gallons of dispersant during the three-month long oil leak that gushed 4.9 million barrels of crude oil from the Macondo well.
• Why Rick Perry Would Put the World on a Fast T ...
  From calling the BP disaster an "act of god" to responding to his state's drought with prayer, Perry's anti-environmental resume is extensive.
• Can Communities Reclaim the Right to Say &quot ...
  Many communities trying to stop fracking, drilling, or big box stores out are finding they don't have the legal right to say no. So they are trying to change the structure of law.

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

• Siblings sue mother for $50,000
  A brother and sister have sued their own mother for $50,000 on the grounds of bad parenting. The actual crimes however are somewhat questionnable, Kim...
• Controversial "alien" photo emerges
  A somewhat dubious photograph has surfaced online showing two alleged "aliens" on Ilkley Moor. The image reportedly appeared on the web on August 25th...
• New wasp with giant jaws discovered
  Researchers have announced the recent discovery of a new species of giant warrior wasp. Found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi the male wasp has j...
• Will the space station be abandoned?
  The International Space Station may soon become unmanned following the recent Soyuz crash. Without a reliable launch vehicle to ferry astronauts to th...
• Man has Where's Wally? scene tattoo
  John Mosley has had an entire Where's Wally? scene tattooed on his back complete with 150 characters. It took 24 hours to complete and Mosley raised £...

Grassroots

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

Climate

• Rising Biomass Demand Could Drive Land Grabs
  Source:� CNET News A new report calls for more public scrutiny into global biomass expansion plans, saying some of the world's poorest countries could see their livelihoods and food security undermined.
• Deforestation Rates Higher in ‘Protected’ Fore ...
  Source:� Yale Environment 360 A new study says deforestation rates in tropical forests designated as "protected" areas are typically much higher than in community-managed forests.
• Illinois ‘Smart Grid’ Bill Awaits Decision fro ...
  Source:� AP Legislation to raise electric rates to help pay to modernize Illinois' power grid was sent Monday to Gov. Pat Quinn, who repeatedly has promised to veto it, while sponsors are confident they can override him if he ...
• The 'World’s First' Hybrid Solar, Geothermal P ...
  Source:� Earth2Tech Nevada will be home to the "world's first" hybrid solar, geothermal plant, according to the power companies involved in the project.
• Al Gore Likens Climate Change Skeptics to Racists
  Source:� The Telegraph In an interview on UStream, Mr Gore likened the debate over climate change to the Civil Rights movement in the United States in the 1960s.

GreenBiz

• Cap-and-Trade Program for Water Quality Gets a ...
  The Electric Power Research Institute receives a $1 million grant from the US Department of Agriculture for its Ohio River Basin Water Quality Trading Project, which seeks to improve watersheds at lower cost.
• Hyatt Cuts Energy, Water & Waste by 10% on Pat ...
  The hotel chain's vice president of corporate responsibility says green teams have been key to the company's success in making progress on its 2015 sustainability goals.
• Why Sinking Solar Prices are Bad for Startups, ...
  The price of the key ingredient in photovoltaic prices has dropped 89 percent since early 2008, bringing bad news for companies manufacturing solar panels -- but creating big opportunities for companies that want to get off the grid.
• Green Building Roundup: Retailers Reap $2.8M i ...
  A bonanza of energy rebates for California retailers, a meat company's efforts to make its facilities greener and a slew of LEED-Gold certifications made headlines this week.
• First Takes: Is the Deepwater Well Still Leaki ...
  The Marcellus Shale gas estimate gets a huge cut, reporters find oil on the surface of the sea in the Gulf, and H&M�publishes its ninth annual CSR�report, in this morning's first look.

Reuters Global

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

Booman Tribune

• Sweet New Machine
  So, I finally received my hurricane-delayed MacBook Air today. Thank you all very much for your contributions. You've made me very happy and CabinGirl very jealous. She even waged a Facebook campaign to have this computer turned over to her for her enjoyment. It's a really nice piece of equi ...
• Yeah, We Hate Dick Cheney
  Conor Friedersdorf does a great job of explaining why Americans loathe Dick Cheney. He touches all the obvious bases: the lies about Saddam, al-Qaeda, and WMD, Gitmo and indefinite detention, warrantless surveillance, authorizing torture, corrupt and unethical business practices, his theory of ...
• Casual Observation
  I thought Bill O'Reilly was a Catholic family man. What's the Pope going to say about a divorce? I'm not surprised his wife started sleeping with another man after that whole falafel incident. But what about the whole 'What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder' thing? ...
• Open Thread
  From Austin, Texas. What's on your mind? Discuss
• Romney's Incoherent Strategy
  It's very interesting to see Marc Thiessen map out Mitt Romney's strategy for taking down Texas Governor Rick Perry, but the result is a holistically incoherent message. If Romney attacks Perry from the left for opposing Social Security and Medicare, and from the right for being a lifelong crea ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Pakistan: Tragic Trendsetter for Religious, Po ...
  36,000 Pakistanis have died violent deaths since 2003. Russ Wellen at the Foreign Policy in Focus blog Focal Points.
• "War Follows Child Abuse as Night Day"
  "Child abuse and war should almost always be mentioned in the same sentence."
• Cut Deficit, Increase Militarization?
  The planned cuts to the bloated U.S. military budget in the debt ceiling deal are long overdue, but lawmakers will likely slash civilian U.S. foreign policy instruments before they significantly reduce military spending.
• Islamophobia's Poisoned Wellsprings
  Americans are falling prey to disinformation that presents Islam as a threat to their way of life.
• Treatment of Russian POWs in WWII Paved the Wa ...
  The Nazi zest for killing Russian POWs was almost as great as for Jews.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in t ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare p ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government ...

Al Jazeera

• Tripoli blast kills Libyan fighters
  Possible car bomb hits capital Tripoli, but fails to dampen first Eid celebrations since fall of Gaddafi's regime.
• Fatal torture 'widespread' in Syrian jails
  Rights group Amnesty International says it has documented the cases of 88 people who have died in custody since March.
• Philippines leader calls for China investment
  Beningno Aquino urges firms to boost ties with his nation during state visit, amid lingering tensions over islands row.
• Deadly explosions rip through Chechen capital
  Festivities marking the end of Ramadan cut short in Grozny, after twin suicide bombings leave eight people dead.
• Flooding leaves 98 dead in southwest Nigeria
  Effort to recover bodies in Ibidan continues, while 1,000 residents of beach area in Lagos made homeless by ocean surge.

Green Inc. - NYT

• A Ramapo River Spill is Being Addressed
  A local oil company is flooded after Hurricane Irene, causing oil to spill into the River.
• Controversial Airport Is Planned for Costa Rica
  A proposed international airport in Costa Rica is eliciting concern about ecological consequences and potential damage to an exemplary network of ecotourism lodges.
• Can Water Treaties Be Climate-Proofed?
  International agreements on how to manage rivers used by more than one country are too inflexible, making them poor tools to deal with changes in freshwater availability caused by climate change.
• Testing Water Along the Path of Irene
  Beyond flooding and destruction, Hurricane Irene is likely to have caused less visible environmental damage by dumping sewage, pesticides and other contaminants into waterways along the East Coast, federal officials said.
• Shocking Trout to Protect Them
  Fisheries biologists are stepping up the exploration and cataloging of wild trout streams in Pennsylvania to give the species maximum habitat protection against mining, development and natural gas extraction.

Dot Earth News

• The Role of Values in Driving Climate Disputes
  Why information doesn't matter much in climate disagreements.
• On Dams, Gutters, Floods and Climate Resilience
  Lessons from a straining dam and a damp basement after a tropical deluge sweeps the Northeast.
• Can Clearer Language Clear Up Climate Disputes?
  "Global warming" has so many different meanings that, on its own, it's meaningless.
• As Republican Candidates Bash Science, Another ...
  Another call for a onetime champion of science to rise to its defense again.
• Irene's Floods Rage as U.S. Cuts Stream Tracki ...
  The country is disinvesting in flood monitoring systems even as the flooding threat from extreme downpours is clarified by experience and research.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

• Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Individualism ( ...
  (This is part two of a four-part series on the ethics and political theory of Ayn Rand, written exclusively for The Daily Censored, by Dr. Robert Abele, professor of philosophy at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area.) We ended the last section by outlining Rand’s attempt to close ...
• NATO’s War on Libya is a Progaganda Fest
  By Peter Phillips Cynthia Mckinney is on a Truth Tour describing the corporate media lies regarding NATO’s intervention in Libya. The British are bragging about their special forces leading the rebels. Several thousands NATO airstrikes have taken place. And the western oil companies are lining u ...
• Texas Miracle or Kabuki Theater?
  Anytime I hear the word “miracle” I become suspicious. I know the word appeals to highly religious folks. However, as far as I can tell, behind every so called “miracle” there is a con man. Now that Texas Governor Rick Perry is the GOP frontrunner for the presidency, the media is flooding the ai ...
• Two teachers and a ‘mike’: fightin ...
  According to Raw Replay (online) a rap song created by a duo calling themselves “Two Teachers and a Microphone” slaps down U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for failing to acknowledge poverty and inequality, and accuses him of “pimping out Pearson and private charters.”  You can hear the s ...
• Michigan: template for neo-feudalism and corpo ...
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Pay Your Share: Stop Corporate Tax Dodgers
  Corporate tax dodging has gone so out of control that 25 major U.S. corporations paid their CEOs more than they paid the U.S. government in federal income taxes.
• Fracking the IRS
  CEOs are routinely rewarded for tax-dodging gymnastics.
• Release: CEOs Who Earn More Than Their Corpora ...
  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.
• Executive Excess 2011: The Massive CEO Rewards ...
  CEOs rake it in while their corporations dodge taxes.
• Remembering the Moment Our CEOs Dug In
  Forty years ago, U.S. corporate honchos saw their power ebbing away - to a ragtag mob of long-hairs and loony social reformers. So they did what corporate honchos always do. They asked for a memo.

IntelNews

• Was French mercenary a ‘spy for Gaddafi& ...
  Back in May of 2011, The New York Times reported that the co-founder of one of France’s largest private security firms had been shot dead in rebel-held Benghazi. His name was Pierre Marziali, a former paratrooper, who in 2003 co-founded Secopex, described as France’s leading private security com ...
• News you may have missed #579 (CIA edition)
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  Video footage of a lecture on recent espionage incidents against China, delivered before a vetted audience by a senior Chinese military official, has been leaked to online video sites, including YouTube.
• US misused our intel to justify Iraq War, says ...
  The former Director of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has accused the Bush administration of consciously falsifying intelligence supplied by Germany in order to justify going to war in Iraq.
• News you may have missed #578
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War is a Crime.org

• Iraq PM: US troops to leave Iraq 'as scheduled'
  Except for "trainers" and except for mercenaries hired through the US State Department?� Story here.
• Us or the War Machine
  An upcoming Charlottesville conference highlights the importance of whistleblowers when addressing the corruption present in military contracting By David Swanson, Guest Viewpoint on August 31, 2011, Cavalier Daily Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse YOU MAY have heard something about a budget crisi ...
• Israel's Operation Summer Seeds
  ��Israel's Operation Summer Seeds - by Stephen Lendman � Ahead of the General Assembly's likely granting Palestine statehood recognition and full de jure UN membership in September or early October, Israel is preparing its army and arming settlers for disruptive protests. � read more
• NATO's Genocidal Rape of Libya
  ��NATO's Genocidal Rape of Libya - by Stephen Lendman � Continuing NATO atrocities on Libyan civilians gave naked aggression a new name.� � Call it what it is: Lawless, Willful, Malevolent Genocidal Gang Rape, the new supreme international crime against peace ongoing at this time. � read more
• Uh Oh: Look at the Welcome Obama Received at t ...
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Grist - News

• Daryl Hannah gives you her [lawyer’s] number
  by Jess Zimmerman. Here's Daryl Hannah preparing to be arrested at the Keystone XL protests -- she's writing a contact number, probably for her lawyer, on her arm so she doesn't forget it. And that's a nice hand-lettered sign! Hannah was arrested today outside the White House gates, an ...
• Teaching kids to love nature and buy less stuff
  by Christopher Mims. Kids are getting the sort of education that guarantees they'll soon be fighting each other, Hunger Games-style, for Earth's dwindling resources. The solution is to cram everyone in America into Berkeley, Calif., say the authors of the new book The Failure of Environme ...
• China to build 50+ nuclear reactors based on u ...
  by Christopher Mims. "China is currently in the process of building as many as 50 to 60 new nuclear plants by 2020; the vast majority will be the CPR-1000, a copy of 60's era Westinghouse technology that can be built cheaply and quickly and with the majority of parts sourced from Chine ...
• Fox News viewers ‘confused’ by Bil ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com You'd think Fox News would already be mildly embarrassed by the fact that their outside consultant on science is the host of a children's program. ("And now, to discuss transportation infrastructure, Mr. Rogers!") But what ...
• Wind power breakthrough: Carbon nanotubes make ...
  by Christopher Mims. Bigger wind turbines can harvest more wind energy, but they're also heavier, which makes them less efficient. But a scientist at Case Western Reserve University figures he can solve this fundamental dilemma by throwing carbon nanotubes at it. � If you've heard of ...

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Time - Top Stories

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Digg Green

• Information As Art: 20 Stunning Examples Of Vi ...
  Seeing the art in numbers can be tough. Data visualization changes that. By changing the way we look at ratios and integers and statistical anomalies and giving us the power to actually see the relationship between sets of inputs, data visualization brings a sense of wonder and humanity back to ...
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• This is a human heart, alive and beating, in a box
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• The Earth is Not Ours, We Merely Borrow it Fro ...
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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
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• Police Confirm Oslo Drill!
• Mea Culpa, Deus Ex Vomitus
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Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• An Open Letter to CA Governor Jerry Brown on I ...
  No other state in the country endures as many annual deaths from accidental drug overdose as California.
• 5 Reasons Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul w ...
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• Three Marijuana Legalization Initiatives Launc ...
  The state's fractious marijuana community seems to be trying to overcome differences and unify so that the overarching goal can be attained.
• Why the Marijuana Industry Needs to Get a Lot ...
  There's a budding movement urging pot growers to ask themselves: How green is your grass? The carbon footprint of the marijuana industry needs to be reduced.
• Why the Pot Industry Needs to Get a Lot Greener
  There's a budding movement urging pot growers to ask themselves: How green is your grass? The carbon footprint of the marijuana industry is in need of being reduced.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Shutting Down America’s Dirtiest Coal Plants W ...
  When the EPA announced its new regulations for coal plants back in July, the right wing media had a field day saying that the new rules, which will force the nation’s dirtiest plants offline, would result in a strained electric grid, putting the lights out on millions of Americans. But, just lik ...
• The Oostvaarders: A Cliff-Like Nature Center C ...
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• Curvy Tellus Nursery School is Wrapped in a Ca ...
  Read the rest of Curvy Tellus Nursery School is Wrapped in a Canary-Colored Pine Facade Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", "natural materials", canary-colored school, Daylighting, diffused lighting, eco design, green design, mechanical load, natural lighting, p ...
• Henning Larsen’s Spiraling Novo Nordisk Comple ...
  Never exhausting their creative energy, Henning Larsen’s latest project is a spiraling green haven for Novo Nordisk employees in Denmark. Just five days after we featured their Viborg Town Hall, one of Denmark’s most celebrated architectural firms has designed a new commercial building that adhe ...
• TMG EV P001 Becomes First EV To Break the Nurb ...
  The TMG EV P001 is the first electric car to break the 8-minute barrier at the Nurbirgring racetrack in Germany, with a new time of 7 minutes and 47.794 seconds. Toyota Motorsport GmbH has just knocked an entire minute off the speed record for an EV at the ‘Ring. The car handily beat the Peugeot ...

Pogue's Posts

• Steve Jobs Reshaped Industries
  It's hard to imagine that we'll ever see another 15 years of blockbuster, culture-changing hits like the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad - from Apple or anyone else. And that's really, really sad.
• How to Build a Usable Watch
  Students at the Columbia Business School re-imagine the watch with some pretty amazing ideas.
• Five (And Then Some) Tech Tips for Travel
  More than a dozen tech tips for making flying less of a hassle.
• Zen and the Art of Scrolling
  David Pogue seeks answers to a condundrum: Why does Apple have Lion users drag the scrollbar up to move the page up?
• A Roar for Mac OS X Lion E-Mail
  Among the useful new features and abilities of Mac OS X Lion is an overhauled Mail application.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Happy Words Trump Negativity in the English La ...
  A massive language study, spanning Google Books, Twitter, popular songs lyrics and The New York Times, has found that English tends to look on the bright side of things. Positive words outnumber the negative.
• LHC Experiment Finds No Signs of Supersymmetry
  The Standard Model of physics has emerged unscathed in recent data from the LHC -- and that may mean bad things for supersymmetry. The lack of evidence for the latter theory may send theoreticians back to the drawing board to explain the universe's matter-filled existence.
• Human Brains Are Primally Wired to Notice Animals
  Glimpsing a bird at the feeder or a shark on Animal Planet, or even online kitten videos, could invoke cognitive tricks inherited from ancestors who walked on four legs in shallow water.
• Video: Hurricane Irene’s Birth, Death Seen Fro ...
  New satellite images show the 10-day genesis of hurricane Irene from the storm’s birth in the tropics to its death over the East Coast of North America.
• Air Attack: Parasitic Wasps Lay Eggs in Ants
  Parasitic wasps dive-bomb ants, injecting their eggs into ant bodies. Soon the ant dies, its body converted into an egg-producing factory.

PakAlert

• Officially Declared Nuclear Nightmare
  Nothing good about the nuclear news at the end of August as we have official recognition (finally) of what is going on in Japan and thus what is threatening the rest of the world, especially the northern hemisphere. It is now being said that the amount of radioactive cesium that has leaked from ...
• Comet Elenin Could Be Disintegrating
  Astronomers monitoring Comet Elenin have noticed the comet has decreased in brightness the past week, and the coma is now elongating and diffusing. Some astronomers predict the comet will disintegrate and not survive perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun. On August 19, a massive solar f ...
• A Primer On “Martial Law”
  It is difficult these days not to come upon some pessimistic patriotic commentator expressing the fear that something called “martial law” may soon be imposed on this country, as the General Government’s response to a new “terrorist attack”, or to the economic and social chaos arising out of a c ...
• Making Wars Is Biggest Industry In U.S.
  A pair of vitally important news reports were lost recently amid a blizzard of stories about the gyrating stock market and a rogue East Coast earthquake.The first came from US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who announced that a deal had been struck to keep US forces in Iraq beyond the oft-publi ...
• 10,000 Earthquakes In Swarm Reported On German ...
  The Geophysical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic says it has recorded almost 10,000 earthquakes during the last three days in West Bohemia, a region located close to the Czech Republic’s western border with Germany. The earthquake swarm started late on Tuesday and continue ...

Andy Worthington

• WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
  Please support my work! Freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington continues his 70-part, 700,000-word series telling, for the first time, the stories of 776 of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002. Adding information released by Wikile ...
• Tyler Cabot’s Important Profile of Guant ...
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• An End to Gaddafi’s Tyranny: The Liberat ...
  With Libya’s former dictator Muammar Gaddafi in hiding, the uprising against his 42-year rule that began on February 15, and that, almost since it began, has been contentiously supported by NATO, has finally succeeded in providing a shadowy glimpse of a new life for the Libyan people. Huge diffi ...
• WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
  Please support my work! In late April, WikiLeaks released its latest treasure trove of classified US documents, a set of 765 Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Compiled between 2002 and January 2009 by the Joint Task Force that has primary respon ...
• My New Article for the 10th Anniversary of 9/1 ...
  Back in April, just after WikiLeaks released the classified military documents relating to the Guantánamo prisoners on which I worked as a media partner, and which have consumed most of my time since, I received a welcome email out of the blue from Jacinda Woodhead, the associate editor of Overl ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• First New U.S. Bird Species in Decades—Already ...
  A new bird species has been found in the U.S. for the first time in decades—but the species may have already flown the coop for good.
• Why Irene Was More Dangerous Than It Should Ha ...
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• Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
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• Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
  Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
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• Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
  Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
• The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
  So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

• Anti-Muslim Groups Plan Events for 10th Annive ...
  This year is the 10th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in American history. Many somber commemorative events are planned, including one at Ground Zero at which the long-awaited memorial will open. Others will try to bring healing through art or encourage participation in a national day ...
• Neo-Nazi Pleads in Firebombing of Interracial ...
  A neo-Nazi skinhead who once hung a black Ken doll with a noose around its neck on his porch has pleaded guilty to federal civil rights and firearms charges associated with the late-night firebombing of an interracial couple’s home in Arkansas. Jason Walter Barnwell, described as the leader of a ...
• Yet Another Historian Refutes “Gay Nazi& ...
  Professor Jonathan Zimmerman is the latest historian to publicly refute the claim that gay men were largely responsible for the Nazi Party and the Holocaust. Zimmerman is chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Cu ...
• Oath Keepers Group Takes on ‘Pivot Point’ Ariz ...
  QUARTSZITE, Ariz. — In the heart of the Sonoran Desert, in a scruffy town populated by nomad retirees, inveterate rock hounds and a nearly 70-year-old nudist bookseller who claims to be the first male stripper in the country, the antigovernment “Patriot” group Oath Keepers has decided to take a ...
• News Roundup for August 29, 2011
  Federal jurors convicted an alleged militia member from Parma, Ohio, of illegally possessing firearms and submitting false forms to the Internal Revenue Service. Karl Herrington, 59, was found guilty in a Detroit federal court of two counts of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the administration ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

• Thousands of Public Employees Laid Off in 2010
  Local and state governments axed more than 200,000 jobs in 2010, according to U.S. Census data released on Tuesday that showed the growing threat of public employee layoffs to the economic recovery. According to the Census, local and state governments had 203,321 fewer full-time equivalent emplo ...
• Irene Could Be Among Costliest Storms
  NEW YORK -- Hurricane Irene likely will be among the costliest catastrophes in U.S. history, analysts say, adding that much of the damage may not be covered by insurance. Analysts said much of the damage was caused by flooding, which is excluded from many standard insurance policies, The New Yor ...
• Former Bush Official Promises to Testify if So ...
  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 it meant personal repercussi ...
• Palestinian UN Bid 'Greater Threat' than Hamas
  The Palestinian campaign to secure full UN membership presents a greater threat to Israel than that posed by Hamas, the Israeli finance minister said on Wednesday. "This Palestinian initiative represents a more serious threat than that posed by Hamas," Yuval Steinitz told Israel's public radio, ...
• Some US Firms Paid More to CEOs Than Taxes: Study
  WASHINGTON - Twenty-five of the 100 highest paid U.S. CEOs earned more last year than their companies paid in federal income tax, a pay study said on Wednesday. It also found many of the companies spent more on lobbying than they did on taxes. ...

Lifehacker

• Daily App Deals: Sketch and Paint on Your iPad ...
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• Most Popular Hard Drive Space Analyzer: WinDir ...
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• Use a Hard Drive Magnet as a Wall Stud Detecto ...
  When you need to find studs in a wall, you'd traditionally use a special gadget for the job. If you've got a dead hard drive, however, you can handle the task easily and for free. More��
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  Chrome has implemented a built-in print dialog that, by default, gives you a preview of your print job in a new tab and handles all of your printing needs without going through your operating system's default print dialog. It's a nice feat ...
• Path.to Helps You Create a Professional Profil ...
  Path.to is a webapp that helps you create a professional profile (think online resume) in just a few minutes by importing your information from Facebook and LinkedIn. It also aims to help you get noticed by rewarding endorsements and acti ...

Water Privatization

• Water proposals worry cost-conscious Lodi council
  LODI - Proposals from two contractors interested in staffing Lodi's new water treatment facility west of Lodi Lake could generate some cost savings for the city in the short term, but the City Council on Tuesday said they are concerned the long term...
• Community Digest
  AntiochExchange Club: The All Exchange Club, which serves Antioch, Lindenhurst and Lake Villa, is still welcoming members. The club, which was chartered in January, pursues volunteer activities in promotion of Americanism, community service, and the prevention of child abuse. Members recently so ...
• Ombion: Commodification of water
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• Ombion: Commodification of water
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• Today private rail, tomorrow private water
  "Representing a new breed apart from Wisconsin's earlier Republicans, (Governor Scott Walker) is seeking to re-open the asset-grabbing Gilded Age style.

Guardian

• Dale Farm: a community under threat - in pictures
  The Travellers who for 10 years have lived at Dale Farm, close to Basildon, will find their community broken up unless a last-ditch temporary injunction before a high court judge succeeds on Wednesday
• Libya: Gaddafi loyalists refuse to surrender - ...
  �� Loyalists refuse to surrender despite Sirte invasion threat �� NTC rejects UN plan to send military observers �� Frozen assets released to restore basic services �� Amnesty documents killing of 88 people in Syrian prisons9.45am: As promised more transcript from Luke's audio on the chaotic ...
• Man shot dead in Liverpool street
  Merseyside police appeal for witnesses after 25-year-old found with fatal gunshot wound to headA murder investigation has been launched after a man was gunned down in a Liverpool street.The 25-year-old victim, who has not been formally identified, was found by police in Brayfield Road, Anfield,a ...
• WikiLeaks cable leak 'irresponsible', says Aus ...
  Attorney general condemns publication of names of 23 Australians security services accuse of having terror linksAustralia's attorney general has described WikiLeaks as "incredibly irresponsible" for publishing the names of 23 Australians accused by security services of having links to al-Qaida i ...
• Australia's high court rejects Malaysian asylu ...
  Court rules against sending of asylum seekers to Malaysia as part of refugee swap deal in major blow to prime minister Julia GillardAustralia's highest court has ruled against government plans for a refugee swap with Malaysia in a major policy setback for the prime minister, Julia Gillard, who i ...

McClatchey

• Irene wasn't overhyped for rural areas on East ...
  WASHINGTON _ While many in major East Coast cities wondered whether officials over-prepared the public for Hurricane Irene, the answer from the mostly rural areas hardest hit by the storm was unequivocally no.
• Obama, GOP skirmish over federal rules' econom ...
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans are launching their next pitched battle over government and the economy, this one over whether the Obama administrations regulation of American business is killing jobs.
• Federal subsidy for COBRA health coverage to e ...
  WASHINGTON — One of the key consumer benefits of the federal stimulus package — subsidies to help laid-off workers continue their health-care coverage — draws to a close Wednesday, raising concerns about how the unemployed will cover those expenses.
• Libya rebels give Gadhafi loyalists 4 days to ...
  BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya's rebel government issued an ultimatum Tuesday to backers of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi: Give up the city of Sirte by Saturday or face a military assault, with the almost certain backing of NATO airpower.
• Napolitano's deportation statistic displeases ...
  WASHINGTON — Now in her third year as the secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano has experience battling simultaneous criticism that the Obama administration deports both too many and too few undocumented immigrants.

Afghanistan Sun

• Talks on new US-Afghan pact strains relations
  A pact aimed at clearing up mistrust and confusion between Washington and Kabul about the future of U.S. troops and aid in Afghanistan has instead sowed more of the ...
• Chechen bombers mimic tactics used in Iraq, Af ...
  Terrorists are using some media outlets to disseminate their ideas, the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has said, adding that the Chechen people and militants have nothing in ...
• A sign of hope in Afghanistan
  It wasn’t long ago that the Taliban I knew were gearing up for a bloody civil war. It’s what they told me they wanted during repeated meetings in Kandahar and Pakistan: When the ...
• August was 'deadliest' month for Ame ...
  August 2011 has been the deadliest month for US forces in Afghanistan since the conflict began nearly ten years ago, according to a report.
• Intercepted calls show Pak handlers, Taliban n ...
  Intercepted phone calls show the Taliban and a Pakistan-based outfit planning the June 28 suicide bomb attack on a popular hotel in Afghanistan.

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Rep. Conyers Wants To Clairfy Termination Righ ...
  With all the talk of musicians and their contested termination rights lately (as well as a few early cases about termination rights), it appears that Congress is starting to pay attention. Rep. John Conyers has stepped up to say that Congress should clarify termination rights, and it sounds as ...
• Yet Again, Evidence Of The Need For Fashion Co ...
  For nearly a decade, we've been quite critical of the claim by some in the fashion industry (and a few law professors) that we somehow need a special "fashion copyright." We've covered in great detail why this is false. The whole point of copyright is to encourage greater innovation and output ...
• Wasn't The Real Security Problem The Initial L ...
  One of the myths around Wikileaks' original release of State Department cables was that the organization simply dumped all the cables unredacted and let everyone sort it out. That's simply not true. Wikileaks released only small batches of documents at a time, mostly in conjunction with newspa ...
• DailyDirt: Contrary To Popular Belief, Diamond ...
  There are plenty of good reasons why gold is a valuable element that has been used as money instead of other substances in nature. Diamonds might have been an interesting form of carbon to use in a monetary system, but diamonds don't actually last forever. Here are just a few quick links on diam ...
• TiVo Apparently Considering Patent Trolling As ...
  It's been said that the only thing patents encourage is more patents, and you can argue that ridiculous valuations seen on patents these days, combined with the ability to monetize them without doing a damn thing, has more and more companies seeming to be considering if there's more value in jus ...

VacTruth

• Top 5 Vaccine Stories for August
  Parents of Kitsap County are exempting their children from shots in increasing numbers. It was said that roughly 7 percent of Kitsap students skipped one or more shots during the past school year. That vaccine story and more for the month of August...
• Dr Andrew Wakefield To Speak At National Autis ...
  The National Autism Association is having Dr Andrew Wakefield speak at their forthcoming conference about his new book which is to be released in the spring.
• Vaccine Ingredients: Non-Ionic Surfactants (Tw ...
  Triton X-100 and Tween 80 were mixed with DDT to spray on crops in the 1940s and 1950s - combinations of these chemicals are still in pesticides today. Polysorbate 80, also known as Tween 80, is a surfactant in these vaccines: DTaP, DTaP-HebB-IIPV, DTaP-Hib, Gardasil, Influenza, Rotavirus, and T ...
• Families Sue Their Lawyers For Negligence Over ...
  The Times reported that three families are taking legal action against their former lawyers, claiming that the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccination withdrawn in 1992, caused their children to develop encephalitis and not autism.
• Big Pharma’s Share in the Consumer Price Index
  Congress needs to stop emptying Big Pharma lobbyists’ deep pockets that makes it easy to swallow ‘pseudo-scientific’ information. Congress needs to rein in on the overwhelming push to medicalize American citizens.

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• LaRouche Webcast: Either Obama Goes or the U.S ...
  by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, July 29, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 29
• LaRouche: A Nationalist Bloc Is Emerging
  EIR News Service press release.
• Obama Declares Fascist Intent Against Social S ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• New Signs of Momentum for Glass-Steagall
  EIR News Service press release.
• Schiller Conference Devoted to ‘Rescuing Civil ...
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

Dandelion Salad

• The Greatest Plot Against the Ron Paul Camp To ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post August 30, 2011 Who ‘Really’ Is this Bruce Fein? “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is kno ...
• Michael Parenti: Privatization of Libya + The ...
  with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org August 27, 2011 http://rt.com/ August 21, 2011 Political scientist Michael Parenti, based in Berkeley, California, says protecting civilians was just a pretext for NATO to step into Libya, topple Gaddafi and redirect the ...
• War by Deception (repost)
  Dandelion Salad Dandelion Salad Update: Aug. 21, 2011; added the Director’s Cut version, see below.  Feb 20, 2008 How a Zionist cabal planned and faked evidence and news stories to create a war with Iraq and the ultimate false flag 9/11. The Pentagon is the largest corporation in the world and ...
• The Election March of the Trolls by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig August 29, 2011 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 ...
• We have no bargaining power with Obama by Ralp ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Aug. 29, 2011 This is the second week of protests, led by Bill McKibben, in front of the White House demanding that President Barack Obama reject a proposed 1700 mile pipeline transporting the dirtiest oil from Alberta, Canada th ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• Happy Words Trump Negativity in the English La ...
  A massive language study, spanning Google Books, Twitter, popular songs lyrics and The New York Times, has found that English tends to look on the bright side of things. Positive words outnumber the negative.
• LHC Experiment Finds No Signs of Supersymmetry
  The Standard Model of physics has emerged unscathed in recent data from the LHC -- and that may mean bad things for supersymmetry. The lack of evidence for the latter theory may send theoreticians back to the drawing board to explain the universe's matter-filled existence.
• Human Brains Are Primally Wired to Notice Animals
  Glimpsing a bird at the feeder or a shark on Animal Planet, or even online kitten videos, could invoke cognitive tricks inherited from ancestors who walked on four legs in shallow water.
• Video: Hurricane Irene’s Birth, Death Seen Fro ...
  New satellite images show the 10-day genesis of hurricane Irene from the storm’s birth in the tropics to its death over the East Coast of North America.
• Air Attack: Parasitic Wasps Lay Eggs in Ants
  Parasitic wasps dive-bomb ants, injecting their eggs into ant bodies. Soon the ant dies, its body converted into an egg-producing factory.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Noam Chomsky: ‘As long they get the backing of ...
  The 19th century ... 2001 ... today. Noam Chomsky sees hegemonic powers showing extreme contempt for democracy – and acting in ways they know will increase terrorism. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go t ...
• Zvi Bar’el: The junta alliance
  We liked military juntas in the Arab world, and in Chile, Argentina and Ethiopia. Military juntas speak a similar language. They understand one another; their interests are narrow and specific; they... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Amira Hass: Get ready for Irene
  The one government determines the separate and unequal course of development of each people. An upper-country people and a lower-country people. Those on the first course have the right to live in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Larry Derfner: The awful, necessary truth abou ...
  What’s needed very badly ... is for Israelis to realize that the occupation is hurting the Palestinians terribly, that it’s driving them to try to kill us, that we are compelling them to engage in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Thousands of SoCal Muslims praying for ‘Irvine ...
  Peaceful protesters, especially on college campuses, usually never face criminal charges. This has led some to believe that District Attorney Tony Rackaukas is singling the students out because of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• China successfully tests new aircraft carrier
  China's first aircraft carrier has successfully completed its maiden sea trials and returned to a shipyard for further refurbishing, the Chinese Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
• Russian defense minister, U.S. attache discuss ...
  Russia's defense minister met with the U.S. defense attache in Moscow to discuss the U.S.-led project to deploy a missile shield in Europe, a ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
• NATO's French, Lithuanian warplanes collide in ...
  A NATO French Air Force Mirage fighter and a Lithuanian L-39 Albatross trainer collided during an exercise in Lithuania on Tuesday, Defense Ministry spokeswoman Ruta Putnikeke said.
• Wife of suspected Russian arms dealer protests ...
  The wife of a Russian national detained in Greece on suspicion of involvement in an arms deal with Colombia's FARC guerrilla group said on Monday her husband was completely innocent.
• Japanese coast guard to reinforce border patrol
  The Japanese Coast Guard will beef up border patrols following the intrusion of two Chinese ships into Japanese waters, NHK reported.

NewsWise

• Stressed-Out Workers Less Likely to Stick With ...
  Asking people who join a gym, fitness or wellness center just one short question about their stress level can identify those who are at risk of health problems and poor health habits.
• Mild Hearing Loss Linked to Brain Atrophy in O ...
  A new study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows that declines in hearing ability may accelerate gray mater atrophy in auditory areas of the brain and increase the listening effort necessary for older adults to successfully comprehend speech.
• Mayo Clinic Finds Genetic Variation That Prote ...
  An international team of researchers led by neuroscientists at Mayo Clinic in Florida has found a genetic variation they say protects against Parkinson's disease.
• New Tests for "Legal Marijuana," "Bath Salts" ...
  Scientists today reported development of much needed new tests to help cope with a wave of deaths, emergency room visits and other problems from a new genre of designer drugs sold legally in stores and online that mimic the effects of cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana.
• Don't Tough it Out: Put An End to Allergy Bravado
  As ragweed season begins, a Saint Louis University allergist offers steps for relief.

Natural Health News

• Could Lack of this Mineral Lead to Obesity?
  Sulfur is known as a healing mineral, and a sulfur deficiency often leads to pain and inflammation associated with various muscle and skeletal disorders. But is it possible that a sulfur deficiency could also cause you to gain weight? In an intriguing presentation, Health Club Journal explains h ...
• This Spice Inhibits Brain Tumors in 81% of Mic ...
  In an exciting discovery announced in The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry in July, researchers said they have found that a common spice could be the answer to stopping a fatal brain cancer known as glioblastoma (GBMs). Previous studies had suggested that curcumin (a major component of turmer ...
• Massive Increase in Wheat Intolerance in the U.S.
  More than five times as many people have celiac disease today than did during the 1950s, according to a recent study, Yahoo Health reports. The disease is an autoimmune intestinal disorder caused by gluten, a protein found in wheat. Another report found that the rate of celiac disease had double ...
• Birthweight Link to Lifelong Health
  We know some of the causes of chronic diseases like diabetes and cancer, but what do we know about why one person dies young and another person survives to old age? Genes are one answer, but according to BBC News Health, there could be another surprising factor in longevity � what you weigh at b ...
• Why Are One in Four Americans over 45 Taking a ...
  In a study published this spring, researchers found that physicians were lacking in awareness of the teratogenic risks (ability to cause fetal malformations) of statins and other cardiovascular drugs they prescribed for their pregnant patients. The study followed a report in February that show ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Did You Hear the One About Fox News Being Less ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Volokh Conspiracy is hosting a discussion of a new book on media bias entitled Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts The American Mind.  Here is a snippet from the summary on the Amazon page: Dr. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science ...
• Will China Rethink the Law of the Sea Treaty?
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku China has tons of disputes with its neighbors regarding borders, especially maritime borders. It has recently been embroiled in disputes with Japan and all of its Southeast Asian neighbors over various claims in the East China Sea and the South China Sea.  Since all r ...
• CLR Forum: Welcome to the Blogosphere!
  by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness CLR Forum is an impressive new entry to the law professor blogosphere has been launched by my St. John’s colleagues Mark Movsesian and Marc DeGirolami.  The CLR Forum is the official blog of the St.John’s Center for Law and Religion, a center which in j ...
• The Middle Kingdom Strikes Back: New Criminal ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Apropos of Kevin’s post below criticizing China’s new criminal procedure law amendments, it is worth noting that some Chinese legal scholars are defending the consistency of such laws with international treaties.  China’s draft amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law ...
• Accountability and Legitimacy of International ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson (Shameless self-promotion alert!)  I have been meaning to mention a new essay of mine in a fine symposium issue of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law that came out a few weeks ago, ‘Accountability’ as ‘Legitimacy’: Global Governance, Global Civil ...

Public News Service

• AARP: Familiares que Cuidan de Familiares Enfe ...
  AARP: Familiares que Cuidan de Familiares Enfermos Valen casi $10 Billones para Arizona Phoenix, AZ –Un reciente estudio por parte del AARP demuestra que uno de cada cuatro norteamericanos cuida de algún miembro mayor de su familia, de la familia de su pareja o algún amigo; y este cuidado vale $ ...
• AARP: Family Caregivers Worth Nearly $10 Billi ...
  AARP: Family Caregivers Worth Nearly $10 Billion to Arizona Phoenix, AZ – A recent AARP study shows one in five Arizonans is a caregiver for an adult family member, partner or friend, and that care is worth $9.4 billion a year. The “average” caregiver is 49 years old, a woman, and is taking care ...
• Some School Supplies Made with Toxic Plastic
  Some School Supplies Made with Toxic Plastic Phoenix, AZ - The group Healthy Legacy is out with a guide to help parents steer clear of school supplies that may contain toxic chemicals - specifically polyvinyl chloride, more commonly known as PVC. Lunchboxes, backpacks and binders need extra scru ...
• Petition Drive Targets a 'Monster' of a Problem
  Petition Drive Targets a 'Monster' of a Problem Phoenix, AZ – Online job placement company, Monster.com, is the target of a petition drive aimed at getting the company to stop placing ads that prohibit unemployed workers from applying. Comments from Kelly Wiedemer (WEED-em-er), of Westminster, C ...
• Sports Safety Takes More than Practice for AZ ...
  Sports Safety Takes More than Practice for AZ Kids Phoenix, AZ – Back to school also means back to sports for many of Arizona’s children. Experts say to prevent sports injuries, it’s critical that players are physically prepared, know their limits and use the proper safety equipment, correctly ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Again ...
  Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Against Humanity in Africa: General Magnus Malan, the chief architect of the total onslaught of the apartheid military, passed away on 18 July 2011. This total onslaught strategy was the idea that South Africa was threatened by a communist conspiracy and ...
• Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and A ...
  Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide: Native American scholar/activist Andrea Smith spoke on the topic of her new book, "Conquest:Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide." Smith was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is a member of INCITE! Women ...
• The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake A ...
  The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake Alfred: Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being : ASU Libraries: , Recorded March 23, 2009 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, University of Victoria Professor of Indigenous Governance Gerald Taiaiake Alfred talks about the "Resurgence of Tradition ...
• Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gad ...
  Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware : Deadline Live With Jack Blood: By Stephen C. Webster Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 — 12:27 pm Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promised to help former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware as ...
• The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Mon ...
  The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Monroe Doctrine and justice denied?: A hundred years ago [RB: actually eighty] a legal case in Scotland swept across the world establishing her legal system in the front row of jurisprudence in the world. [Donoghue v Stevenson] Scots Law was all grown u ...

Pensieve

• Super Mario Bros + Portal = Mari0
  What do you get when you mash up the most popular video games of the 1980′s and the 2010s? Many of you probably have fond memories of playing Super Mario Bro’s (S.M.B. hereafter) in the 1980′s. The absurdly popular Super NES was a staple of the living room in the days before the internet took [. ...
• Web Designers vs. Web Developers
  Web Designers vs Web Developers is brought to you by Wix.com Use creative design to make a Free Website You are most welcome to share this infographic with your audience. Related posts:Your Web Alphabet Free Burma! Inductee to the Creative Class One Hundred Thousand People March Against Zelaya W ...
• Massacre in Monterrey Casino
  I am without words. This is the worst attack so far in the escalating war between drug cartels and the Mexican government. According to the video above, the attackers set fire to this casino as a retaliation for not giving in to extortion. 53 people were trapped inside by the explosions, and die ...
• My Retreat into Theism
  After a long and torturous journey, I have arrived at theism, a belief in an active, benevolent, personal and omnipotent God, but no more. In a sense, I’ve been a theist most of my life. Because, Christianity, Catholic or Protestant, is a form of theism. But perhaps I should say, I am no longer ...
• Steve Jobs Quit While Ahead
  If the rumors are true, Steve Jobs has chosen my birthday to resign as CEO of Apple. With outstanding success across the board, Jobs is perhaps wise to resign now. The best of luck to Apple! UPDATE: As of 5:52PM CST, The Apple PR website doesn’t show the press release referred to in the article ...

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Reviews of Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart
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• Climate study endorses central premise of Air Con
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• BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...
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• BREAKING SILENCE news release
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• News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Freedom Theatre attacked yet again
  Missed this item last week because of earthquake/hurricane, but the Freedom Theatre was attacked again on August 22nd:   Freedom Theatre targeted again After the Israeli army targeted the theatre twice during the last month, arresting three of its members, today at approximately 02:00 in the mo ...
• Israel’s Tahrir [1]: Will the Revolution ...
  Ok… a little bird told me there was this teeny, modest wavelet of demonstrations in Israel, so maybe it’s time I write something about it. (snark, snark; actually my mom, two of my siblings and a couple of nieces were among those 4-5% of Israel’s population, over 300,000 people, taking to the st ...
• Report on Summer Camps at Susya and Umm-Al-Kheir
  The summer camps at Susya and Umm-Al-Kheir have just ended. Both camps are organized locally, and funded with the help of outside donors. Villages Group activists help arrange these funds, work with organizers to help meet their needs, and – most rewardingly – visit the camps to interact with th ...
• Freedom Theatre Update: First rule about being ...
   `Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. `No, no!’ said the Queen. `Sentence first–verdict afterwards.’ Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Here’s an update about the latest arrest at the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp. The previous ...
• Antisemitism and Political Blogging: Personal ...
  My 5-year involvement with this site has been somewhat intermittent. Although I love to blog, there is still this other pesky thing called “life” that often tends to take precedence. At other times, despair about my main blogging subject (Israel-Palestine, hereafter I-P), and the apparent futili ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Daryl Hannah arrested in White House oil demo
  KILL Bill star Daryl Hannah was arrested in a protest outside the White House. The actress, 50, was handcuffed and led away following a sit-in calling on US President Barack Obama to axe plans for a controversial oil pipeline. Hannah — who also appeared in blockbuster films Splash and Wall Stree ...
• ‘Fast and Furious’ fallout: ATF bo ...
  WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. agency that oversaw a botched attempt to track arms flowing to drug cartels in Mexico is being reassigned to Justice Department headquarters, the Obama administration said Tuesday. Kenneth Melson, who has been acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, F ...
• 9/11 and the Orwellian Redefinition of “ ...
  By Paul Craig Roberts Global Research, June 20, 2011 While we were not watching, conspiracy theory has undergone Orwellian redefinition. A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means any explanation, or even a fact, that is out of step with the g ...
• Libya, War, and the Individual World Order– a ...
  � America 20xy 8/30/11 By Andrew Steele Much of the American and European media has chosen to downplay the genocide of black Africans in Libya during the Western intelligence staged uprising there, focusing on it now only because Gaddafi is in hiding, because we�re told that the TNC is in contro ...
• Liberty Dollars may be subject to seizure
  Liberty Dollars held by collectors may be subject to seizure as contraband by federal law enforcement, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Secret Service said Aug. 24. Statements by officials for those two federal law enforcement agencies seem to reverse the position taken in comments ...

The Air Vent

• Global Sea Ice Anomaly Record Approaching
  Global sea ice anomaly is nearing a record low. It is quite possible that we will break it in the coming weeks. The Antarctic seems unremarkable but the Arctic is running close to the lowest levels measured in the past 30 years.� It looks from figure 1 like we may have tied for the minimum [...]
• A penny lost is a penny not-earned
  Another global warming whitewash courtesy of the whitehouse ‘economic stimulus programs’ aka,  green for greens. At this point, only the rock dumb or those not paying any attention at all have not noticed that the alleged stimulus programs were simply payoffs to those who contributed to corrupt ...
• Lindzen Choi Presentation
  Andrew of the hypothesis testing blog left a link to a PDF by Dr. Lindzen explaining his recent paper in simple terms.  I found it worth reading. acs-2011-lindzen[1]
• Media gone wild
  What is up with the Irene coverage? People are having their homes and lives ruined yet the media is insistent on covering this category 1 storm as some kind of global warming doom event. There is no real evidence that hurricanes have any correlation to warming, they may because it makes sense, b ...
• Confirmation Again
  This post is due to a reader who brought my attention to the recently published critiques of Zhao and Running almost a year ago. I sort of lost my cool with an obviously bad paper some time ago.   Charlatans of Science Zhao and Running.  Looking back, I could have worded it better but they publi ...

Focal Point

• Guilty Pleasures
  Amanda Marcotte, Matt Yglesias, and Atrios are debating the concept of "guilty pleasures" in pop culture. Here's my theory of what guilty pleasures are. For people my age, taste is a personal aesthetic code. Good taste can be idiosyncratic, in fact, it's expected to be. You're supposed to like ...
• Obama's Pick to Head Council of Economic Advis ...
  Interesting fact about Alan Krueger, Obama's pick to head the Council of Economic Advisers, Alan B. Krueger. His research showed that raising the minimum wage doesn't destroy minimum wage jobs, it helps fill job vacancies: Mr. Krueger is best known for his studies testing widely held econom ...
• Updated: Inmates and C.O.'s at Rikers Island W ...
  Jean Casella and James Ridgeway report in Mother Jones that New York City has no plans to evacuate an estimated 12,000 inmates and their correctional officers on low-lying Rikers Island ahead of Hurricane Irene: "We are not evacuating Rikers Island," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a news . ...
• What's At Stake In the Tar Sands Fight
  Unsure if you should care about the Keystone XL pipeline controversy? In his latest essay for Dissent, my friend Mark Engler neatly encapsulates the issues at stake. It's not just another land use battle to preserve pristine wilderness, it's the front line in the fight against climate change its ...
• Useful Hurricane-Prep Tool For New Yorkers: Fi ...
  No hurricane evacuation order has been issued for New York City, but City officials haven't ruled out the possibility. Meanwhile, you can plug your address into this useful official City database to find out whether you live in an evacuation zone. [Photo credit: Kyle McCluer, Creative Commons. ...

Inside Facebook

• New “Choose What You See” Filtering Options Co ...
  Facebook recently released a big upgrade to the options for sharing information to friends through the news feed, that focused on making privacy settings more flexible. Now, it may be looking to provide additional options for what information users see from their friends. A screenshot sent in by ...
• Facebook Adds “Hide All From [Advertiser]” Fee ...
  Facebook has confirmed that it is testing a new feedback option for the ads shown on its site, that allows users to block specific advertisers from reaching them. The “Hide all from [advertiser]” option is appearing to some users when they ‘x’ out an unwanted ad, in addition to the existing opti ...
• Movies, Community Pages and Music on This Week ...
  In an apparently widespread set of Page consolidations, several on our list grew by the hundreds of thousands in the span of a few days but had a daily growth of a few hundred — and most were obscure films, TV shows or bands. There were, however, several films and Pages on the list that [...]
• New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Wildfire ...
  In a relatively quiet week of hires this week among companies active on the Facebook platform, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s sister Arielle has started work as a junior product manager at brand promotions provider Wildfire Interactive (although LinkedIn shows her starting in June). If your ...
• Announcing Inside Social Apps 2012 – Coming Fe ...
  February 8 – 9, 2012 | San Francisco Notify Me When Registration Opens Inside Social Apps is coming back to San Francisco! We are proud to announce our third conference on the future of monetization on social and mobile platforms, and we hope to see you there. Inside Social Apps 2012 will explor ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Corporate Elites Still Doing a Job o ...
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• truthout: Texas Gov. Perry Became a Millionair ...
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• truthout: Hurricane Cost Seen as Ranking Among ...
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• truthout: Tax Me More, Europe’s Wealthy ...
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• truthout: Libyan Rebels Set Deadline for Qadda ...
  truthout: Libyan Rebels Set Deadline for Qaddafi Forces to Surrender http://ow.ly/6h1gw #Libya

ReDress News

• 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.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Fethullah Gulen Foundations in US on Our Tax D ...
  Gulen US Charter Schools: Where is Your Money Going?! This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
  Senators Want Secret Warrantless Wiretap Renewal, Censorship of War Casualties in US, First Presidential Campaign Finance Report, The Harrowing Drone Damages in Pakistan, US Accuses Iran of “Secret Deal” with Al-Qaeda, DOD Full-Spectrum Cyberspace Budget Lunacy, The Coming Partition of Libya? & ...
• Jamiol Presents
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
  The Moral Bankruptcy of American Spooks, US Missile Shield May Be Precursor for Attack on Iran, Al-Qaeda Leader Hails Syrian Protestors, Ford Takes US Taxpayers Bailout & Deserts Sinking Ship, Feds to Grab Land for Homeland Security, Hidden Hegemony: Canadian Mining in Latin America, What is a D ...
• BFP Food for Thought: What’s so “Alternative” ...
  All Quasi Roads Lead to the Same Establishment I simply don’t get it! Actually, I haven’t been ‘getting it’ for a while. Maybe you can help me get it; will you? Here is the quandary: There are several major websites out there with quite a following. These websites advertise themselves as the ‘al ...

Afro Spear

• Father and Son: A painful moment
• “Gadaffi, Dictators and faint memory if ...
  On 30thDecember 2006, the world witnessed humiliating hanging of Saddam Hussein, former Iraq’s tyrant, after being arrested bolted in a spider hole. Many thought other dictators would make a note of the sudden and unceremoniously demise and downfall of Saddam. Go figure. They didn’t because of a ...
• “Go Gaddafi Go!” by Nkwazi Mhango
  Go Gadaffi go ye Muamar Go without turning thy head back ever The game is up and over sir Go son of hell, a coward in your own light Go Muamar go down standing like a dolt In flames go down like that In a shame go even faster Go go Abuminyal go go and [...]
• “Is Mubarak’s trial shame or fame ...
  Among the people who were moved, pained and disturbed by the tribulations and trials of former Egyptian strong man, Hosni Mubarak recently, is former Nigerian two-time president Olusegun Obassanjo. Obassanjo aired his view in Mombasa. Kenya where he was attending former presidents’ meeting, when ...
• The Audacity of Hate
  “The poor will always be with us…” Matthew 26:11 There are one group of people that Americans hate more than foreign terrorists. The poor within their own borders. They would rather send millions of dollars, as well as their armed forces, to assist and relieve the sufferings of the poor and dis ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Ten Reasons to Move Cheney's Book to the Crime ...
  Here are ten of Cheney's many offenses to inspire you to move Cheney's book, and to insert these bookmarks explaining why the author of In My Time should be "doin' time."
• Dispatch from the front lines of the Wisconsin DMV
  I'd bet a huge number of those folks had a lot of other,better,and perhaps wage-earning things to do with their time as did the loved ones in their care.How many others-with unyielding schedules, dependents to care for,lack of knowledge,or simple frustration-didn't even make it into line that da ...
• The Hunt for Gaddafi
  Rumors and repeated rumors ricochet like shell casings off concrete walls this morning and depending on what one is inclined to believe, Libya's former leader Colonel Gaddafi is safely in Algeria, his hometown of Sirte, Libya's vast southern desert, in one of the labyrinthine tunnels very deep b ...
• Washington Threatens Palestinian Statehood Bid
  Palestinian statehood
• NATO's Ugly Face
  Libya war

Switchboard

• New study links flame retardants to low birth ...
  Sarah Janssen, Senior Scientist, San Francisco A study published today by a group of researchers at UC-Berkeley has found that exposure to a group of flame retardants, PBDEs, is linked to lower birth weight in infants.  I have written blogs befor ...
• NRDC in the News 8/30: Keystone XL pipeline co ...
  NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Susan Casey-Lefkowitz was the voice of concern in a Washington Post column written in support of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline… Susan was also quoted in the Huffington Post expressing concern ...
• Dirty, Muggy Summer Air Reminds Us Why We Need ...
  Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist, New York Today it was 111°F in Phoenix, AZ; tomorrow a high of 107°F is predicted. More than 70 days this summer have topped 100°F in central Texas. Much of the West still swelters under record-breaking summer heat. ...
• The Youth of Massachusetts need Senator Brown ...
  Radha Adhar, Program Assistant, Washington, DC I recently read a story about Rosa Isela, a 9-year-old living in Boston. It left a strong impression on me. Rosa was diagnosed with asthma at the age of 2, after being rushed to the emergency room. “ ...
• Americans Towns and Cities Facing Water-Relate ...
  David Beckman, Senior Attorney & Director, Water Program, Los Angeles Hurricane Irene capped off—we hope—four months of punishing weather across the country. From the flooding that ravaged the Mississippi River basin to the drought that scorched t ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Cheney and the Rule of Law
  Lithwick reads Cheney so you don’t have to.  
• Could There Be Another Ginsburg?
  I’m not quite as pessimistic as Ruth Bader Ginsburg is about the possibility of someone with her record being confirmed to the Supreme Court again. I do agree with Carmon and Millhiser that it’s hard to imagine Ginsburg being confirmed under the same circumstances she was — not only with a Repub ...
• To APSA!
  Off early tomorrow morning to the American Political Science Association conference in Seattle.  May post a bit, but am far more likely to tweet APSA related material.  Recollect that we have an LGM Meet and Greet on Saturday, 5:30pm at the Elysian Capitol Hill Brewpub.
• Springfield Armory National Historic Site
  As will become even clearer over time as I continue to write here, I can be pretty obsessive about things. One of those things is museums. Museums really affect me in strong ways–I often either love or hate what I see and get riled up about it. Yesterday, I visited Springfield Armory National Hi ...
• Let Us Break Bread Together
  Professors and students at Southwestern University in Texas, where I taught for 3 years, have developed an interesting study that was recently presented at the American Sociological Association and covered by the Chronicle of Higher Education. They sought factors on college campuses that help le ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Solar Power Funds Church’s Youth Ministry
  Trinity United Church in Ontario looks heavenward to raise money for the church's youth ministry program, turning to solar power.
• Offshore Energy Targeted By UMass Dartmouth
  UMass has established the New England Marine Renewable Energy Center and launched the first demonstration project of a tidal energy device in Massachusetts.
• Bringing Advanced Biofuels To The Real World
  The Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit at Berkeley National Lab is designed to help researchers commercialize advanced next-generation biofuels.
• Green Data Centers Eyed In New York State
  In New York, academics, businesses and government hope to demonstrate a new model for data center and renewable energy operations, using wind and solar power.
• New Engineering Centers Get Funding Blast
  The National Science Foundation puts in $74 million for research centers focused on energy transmission, neural engineering, solar and water infrastructure.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• In letter to senator, ABA insists it's serious ...
  The public dialogue between U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and the American Bar Association continued this week, with the ABA responding to Grassley's request for additional information about law school employment, student loan defaults and accreditation procedures.
• La Verne grads, jilted by ABA, can sit for Cal ...
  The University of La Verne College of Law lost its provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association in June, but its graduates will still be allowed to sit for the California bar examination.
• Insurers demand a piece of MGA's $141 million ...
  The insurance companies that paid the legal costs associated with MGA Entertainment Inc.'s successful court battle with Mattel Inc. are seeking to recover a portion of the $141 million in attorney fees and costs awarded to the Bratz doll manufacturer.
• 1st Circuit rules videotaping police is protec ...
  Videotaping police in the course of their duties is "unambiguously" a free speech right protected under the First Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit held in a recent decision.
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: New blood at Federal Ci ...
  Recent appointees bring fresh viewpoints, which could alter fate of patent cases.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• The Introduction of Tennis to The Sports World ...
  Tennis is an 'odd' entity when it comes to exploring the background of it all, and how tennis became a sport in the first place.
• UN Staff Salary Raise Inappropriate At Time of ...
  According to Ambassador Torsella, the U.S. government is deeply concerned by the decision of the Secretariat of the International Civil Service Commission to increase the post adjustment index in New York and strongly objects to the increase.
• President Barack Obama Says Thank You to Marin ...
  Remarks for President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery. American Legion National Convention in Minneapolis MN.
• Trinidad and Tobago Celebrates Its National Day
  Ms. Clinton stressed that the United States values the long-standing cooperation between their nations and their strong partnership toward a variety of common goals. She said the United States is grateful for Trinidad and Tobago's leading role in b
• Lucknow's Muslim Women Speak Out
  Living in Chowk, a locality nestled in the old part of the city, Kazmi faces ostracism at all levels when she leaves for work dressed in smart crisp executive trousers and shirt. But her determination to succeed is written all over her face.

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 ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

• Chechen bombers mimic tactics used in Iraq, Af ...
  Death toll from Chechen attacks climbs to 9 The death toll from the suicide attacks in the Russian republic of Chechnya on August 30 has climbed to nine, Interfax news agency quoted Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev as...
• ‘UN can go home’ – Israeli settlers
  Come September, Israel will be hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst. The military is training - and also reportedly arming - West Bank settlers as they expect violence when the UN votes on recognizing...
• Trigger terror as gun fever grips Tripoli
  Though the capital Tripoli is now under full control of the Libyan rebels, with almost every youngster in the country now carrying a gun, it is far from safe.
• Lying to voters won’t make EU crisis disappear
  EU politicians must be honest with their own electorates if they are to efficiently tackle the ongoing debt crisis in the region, says columnist Francesco Sisci.
• Gaddafi’s disappearance may be calculated move
  High expectations notwithstanding, the Libyan rebels are far from establishing peace in their country, argued FrontPage magazine editor Stephen Brown.

Not My Tribe

• From Adbusters: let #USDaysOfRage begin #Sept1 ...
• Things to De-Celebrate this National Hate Week
  Which is a smack to the back of the head to all those who told us in 1984 that the Police State setup from the BOOK of the same name couldn’t possibly happen in America because it was all about Socialist Dystopia and nobody, no not ever, could set up a CAPITALIST dictatorship. God, they’re [...]
• Vote for Me or Pogo gets it between the eyes&# ...
  In another episode of the RNC deliberately throwing the 2012 elections, Bush administrations pointing fingers at each other over the Katrina non-handling. Instead of blaming everybody but themselves. Rick GoodHair told the VFW that he would send more Working Class people into harms way with pre- ...
• Found a really cool video game, like a First P ...
  It’s called “search and rescue” and the object of the game is a cockpit-eye-view rescuing people using a helicopter simulator. Designed by and for guys who have taken that step back, taken a good look and decided that “games” that award points for Snuffing People were just not getting it. There’ ...
• Love is the Reason, with grammatical advice, f ...
  I once saw a British TV spot for Hamlet Cigars which featured an oddball posing in a photo booth, but so endearingly, that for years on when asked to smile I affected his toothy grimace, thinking my rendition transcended his comically unbecoming turn. And channeling nothing of it, each time, I c ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• A Message of Peace and a Pledge of Tolerance
  Earlier today I received this email: Hello John In memory of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, I would like to offer you and your readers of Debunking The Debunkers a message of peace in a short video and a pledge of tolerance. If you are able to post or tweet about the video and the p ...
• Debunking the George W. Bush National Geograph ...
  Early on in George W. Bush's interview about 9/11 which aired on the National Geographic channel last night, he states, "I went from a president that was primarily focused on domestic issues to a wartime president — something that I never anticipated, nor something I ever wanted to be." As Ma ...
• My Top 10 Debunker Fails
  The tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, and while people are beginning to reflect on the tragedy of the day and how, since then, the terrorists have clearly won, I thought I'd look back on ten amusing moments of patheticness from the world of duh-bunking. 10) Shyam Sunder squirms and debunk ...
• 9/11 - The Toronto Hearings Sept. 11th 2011
  Click here to see Graeme MacQueen's debunking of the debunkers. Setting the Stage for Historic Hearings in Toronto Related Info: Click here for details. Click here for details. AE911Truth 10th Anniversary Activities
• Upcoming BBC Hitpiece
  Okay so it seems 21:00 GMT, August 29, 2011 is when I'll get to watch a program that will once again renew my utter disgust toward the BBC. The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 Ten Years On http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0148yz5 According to Kevin Ryan, word on the street is this program will att ...

Fooducate

• Is Milk Good for Me or Bad for Me?
  A new documentary, Got the facts on Milk?, now available on DVD,  answers the question unequivocally: Milk is BAD for everyone. Got the facts on Milk? is the work of filmaker Shira Lane whose dairy allergy prompted her to examine the scientific research on the subject. Apparently she did not fin ...
• Bummer – Weight Loss is Not Linear
  Dieting is hard. Anyone who has tried to lose weight will tell you that. And it seems to be harder to shed the pounds the further into the diet you are. Through the basic laws of thermodynamics and energy (which is what a calorie is) we know that a decrease of 3500 calories will result [...]
• What’s Coating Your Fruits & Veggies?
  Clementines, if you are not familiar with them, are type of orange. They are slightly smaller, seedless, easy to peel, and very sweet. You can find them in supermarkets produce section, usually in netted bags such as above. Being the label readers that we are, the following information from the ...
• The Big 3 Macronutrients – Fat, Protein and Ca ...
  We often see or hear claims about a food product being “low in carbs”, “high in protein” or “fat free”. We thought it would be a good idea to get back to the basics and do a post on these 3 macronutrients. They are the source of practically all calories in food. They are called [...]
• Serve Veggies First
  A quick one today. Studies have shown that serving raw vegetables or vegetable soup as an appetizer increases children’s veggie consumption. Raw carrots, tomato soup, cherry tomatos, edamame… Read the full story on Dr. Dina Rose’s blog It’s Not About Nutrition. Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android ...

Traffikd

• Use Social Media For Increased Blog Traffic
  Finding ways to increase traffic to your blog can be a challenge for anyone in every niche. If you're releasing good content at a steady rate then check out these tips for using social media outlets to get the traffic you want. Use Social Media Sites to Your Advantage Why should you use social ...
• Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
  Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
• 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
  As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
• Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
  Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
• Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
  Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...

Survival International

• 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Fresh Fraud: Brian Deer’s Vanishing Writing
  By Jake Crosby Brian Deer is the reporter spearheading the current smear campaign against Dr. Wakefield, the lead author of the 1998 case series about children who developed autism and bowel problems after their MMR vaccinations. Deer falsely accused Wakefield...
• SmartVax Review From The Peanut Allergy Epidem ...
  By Heather Fraser, author of The Peanut Allergic Epidemic (2011) The SmartVax web site does two important and new things: it offers concerned parents a place where they can obtain balanced information on vaccine risks and benefits; and it highlights...
• IOM Hosts Live Webcast on 9/1 for Vaccine Adve ...
  The Institute of Medicine will host a live audio webcast for the report Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality on Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 11:00 am EDT. Committee chair, Ellen Wright Clayton, and two members of the committee,...
• Pediatric Bioscience Test To Predict Maternal ...
  Managing Editor's Note: I recently ran a post on TodayMoms blog about the study of sibling incidence of autism. Following that post, I received an email indicating a desire to share the information below from Pediatric Bioscience. As you will...
• Anne Dachel on HDNet's Vaccines and Autism: Mi ...
  By Anne Dachel On Tuesday, August 23, 2011, HDNet World Report broadcast the segment, “Vaccines and Autism: Mixed Signals.” (Download the episode from iTunes HERE.) The report was about a half hour in length and it covered the topic in...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• 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?

Open Your Eyes News

• Judge Wall, the secrecy rules, and another sti ...
  Telegraph – Some of my readers may have been puzzled last week to see such lurid headlines as âRacehorse trainer lied that her ex was a child molesterâ, over stories about Vicky Haigh, who has featured several times in this column. They were prompted by an unprecedented broadside launched by Lor ...
• Mysteries of Ozone Depletion Continue 25 Years ...
  ScienceDaily  — Even after many decades of studying ozone and its loss from our atmosphere miles above Earth, plenty of mysteries and surprises remain, including an unexpected loss of ozone over the Arctic this past winter, an authority on the topic said in Denver Colorado on May 29. She also di ...
• Global study finds newborns struggle to survive
  Reuters – Fewer newborn babies are dying worldwide, but progress is too slow and Africa is being left behind, said a global study led by the World Health Organization (WHO). While investment over the last decade in health care for women and children has paid off in rapid declines in maternal dea ...
• Finland wants Luxembourg agency to hold Greek ...
  Reuters – Finland has proposed that Greek state assets be transferred to a Luxembourg-based holding company and held as security for new loans to Athens, according to an internal document obtained by Reuters. Read article
• Pre-war Iraq ‘not threat to UK’, f ...
  BBC – Iraq posed no threat to the UK when then prime minister Tony Blair took Britain to war in 2003, former MI5 boss Baroness Manningham-Buller has said. In a Radio Times interview, Baroness Manningham-Buller said the service advised war was likely to increase the domestic threat and was a “dis ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• BPA ban passes California state Senate
  The legislation, sponsored by State Senator Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) and State Assembly member Betsy Butler (D-Marina Del Ray) would ban BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups made or sold after July 1, 2013. It would also require manufacturers to use the least toxic alternative to BPA in those ...
• Neighborhood pesticide exposure linked to pros ...
  California's Central Valley has by far the largest use of pesticides and the largest population potentially exposed to them in the United States.
• Grizzly blamed for Yellowstone hiker death
  Yellowstone grizzly attack: “We know of no witnesses” to the attack, park superintendent Dan Wenk said. “We think we provide visitors with pretty good knowledge and techniques to keep them safe in the backcountry. Unfortunately, in this case it didn't happen that way.”
• Which electric car is the most green?
  The Times business section is taking a look at a new crop of electric cars. The Times' Jerry Hirsch found there are significant difference in how these cars fare when it comes to carbon emissions: Is it worth the added...
• Students help damaged forest
  The Wildwood Picnic Area, located about five miles into the Angeles National Forest along Big Tujunga Canyon Road, is starting to look like its old self again. A dozen freshly painted picnic benches are neatly positioned in the shade, and...

water.org

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

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• The Enemies Within: The 20 Most Dangerous Cons ...
  America has enemies. Not just abroad, but within our shores as well. And our domestic enemies, as it turns out, are MORE dangerous and destructive than the terrorists could ever hope to be. Because while the terrorists want to destroy us,Submitted by Barbara W. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note- ...
• Refugees Tossed Between Iraq and Syria
  The International Crisis Group (ICG) estimates that two-and-a-half million Iraqis fled the country during the war, with an equal number internally displacedSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• GOOD NEWS! Peru passes landmark indigenous r ...
  A new administration in Peru is moving toward granting indigenous people long-sought legal rights, reports Survival International. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Child dies every six minutes in Somalia famine
  A child is dying from starvation every six minutes in drought-hit Somalia, shocked aid workers revealed recently. It means that around 250 malnourished youngsters under five die each day. Any petition or donation link is highly appreciated.Submitted by Elias Ayad to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• Conversations on the Road To Compassion - VIDEO
  Canadians for Compassion-- interviews Canadians from all walks of life on three questions: How would you define compassion? Where do you see compassion working in your home/school/community? Where do you see the need for more compassion?Submitted by Care For All to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• NextEra Finalizes Financing on Genesis Solar P ...
  NextEra Resources, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE) has secured financing for its Genesis solar farm in Riverside County, California. read more
• A Big Month For California's SunPower Corp.
  Solar manufacturer and developer SunPower Corp.'s (NASDAQ: SPWRA) stocks were up 5 percent in early morning trading Monday after the company announced that France's Akuo Energy had agreed to purchase 75,000 of its solar panels. rea ...
• BLM Nixes Cogentrix Nevada Solar Plans
  Nevada Solar One Since January of 2007, Cogentrix Solar Services LLC, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, has been sitting on a series of exclusive solar applications for N ...
• Secretary Chu Signs Off on Two New Loan Guaran ...
  To support the development of two alternative energy projects, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded loan guarantees to both Abengoa Bioenergy US Holding, Inc. and SoloPower, Inc. that, combined, amount to nearly ...
• Solar Trust of America Changes Technology for ...
  Solar Trust of America announced that it will no longer employ concentrated solar power (CSP) for its multibillion dollar Blythe Solar installation, but instead will use photovoltaic (PV) technology for the first phase of constructi ...

News Blaze

• The Introduction of Tennis to The Sports World ...
  Tennis is an 'odd' entity when it comes to exploring the background of it all, and how tennis became a sport in the first place.
• UN Staff Salary Raise Inappropriate At Time of ...
  According to Ambassador Torsella, the U.S. government is deeply concerned by the decision of the Secretariat of the International Civil Service Commission to increase the post adjustment index in New York and strongly objects to the increase.
• President Barack Obama Says Thank You to Marin ...
  Remarks for President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery. American Legion National Convention in Minneapolis MN.
• Trinidad and Tobago Celebrates Its National Day
  Ms. Clinton stressed that the United States values the long-standing cooperation between their nations and their strong partnership toward a variety of common goals. She said the United States is grateful for Trinidad and Tobago's leading role in b
• Lucknow's Muslim Women Speak Out
  Living in Chowk, a locality nestled in the old part of the city, Kazmi faces ostracism at all levels when she leaves for work dressed in smart crisp executive trousers and shirt. But her determination to succeed is written all over her face.

Worldnews

• Indian advertising and need of a strong l ...
  How many of you can remember the day Earth Hour is held without running a quick search on Google? Chances are that if you brought out the candles this year and spent an hour in the darkness, it was not in the warm glow of being part of a global movement to save planet Earth. You probably sp ...
• Asian stocks, dollar struggle as rocky Au ...
  HONG KONG: Asian stocks were set for a quiet end to a volatile month on Wednesday as expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve would do more to stimulate the economy underpinned equities but kept the dollar under pressure. The U.S. central bank in early August discussed a range of unusual ...
• Sikh Marriage Act: Punjab sore over Centr ...
  AMRITSAR: The Union government's decision to drop the proposal for a separate Sikh Marriage Act has come under severe criticism from various political as well as religious quarters in Punjab. If Akal Takht jathedar on Tuesday exhorted Sikhs to put pressure on UPA government to revoke the de ...
• Newborn Deaths and Global Child Deaths - ...
  Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 2:28 pm Press Release: UN World Health Organization 31 August, 2011 — Fewer newborns are dying worldwide, but progress is too slow and Africa particularly is being left further behind. These are the findings of a new study published in the medical journal PLoS Med ...
• Libya's interim leaders reject UN militar ...
  Libya's interim leadership has rejected the idea of deploying any kind of international military force, the UN envoy to the country has said. Ian Martin said the UN...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cop ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• Dot Earth Blog: On Dams, Gutters, Floods and C ...
  Lessons from a straining dam and a damp basement after a tropical deluge sweeps the Northeast.
• Blog - The Best Way To Evacuate A Skyscraper
  Evacuating one floor after another rather than the whole building simultaneously could reduce the chance of panic, suggests a new simulation What's the best way to evacuate a skyscraper?
• Coral sunscreen pill: One tablet equals weeks ...
  If you love the sun but hate the hassle of slapping on sunscreen every few hours, help may be on the way after British scientists unlocked one of the sea's secrets.
• PLEO SAN ACNE (Propionibacterium Acnes) Soluti ...
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• IMIPRAMINE PAMOATEcapsule [STAT RX USA LLC]
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Common Dreams

• Thousands of Public Employees Laid Off in 2010
  Local and state governments axed more than 200,000 jobs in 2010, according to U.S. Census data released on Tuesday that showed the growing threat of public employee layoffs to the economic recovery. According to the Census, local and state governments had 203,321 fewer full-time equivalent emplo ...
• Irene Could Be Among Costliest Storms
  NEW YORK -- Hurricane Irene likely will be among the costliest catastrophes in U.S. history, analysts say, adding that much of the damage may not be covered by insurance. Analysts said much of the damage was caused by flooding, which is excluded from many standard insurance policies, The New Yor ...
• Former Bush Official Promises to Testify if So ...
  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 it meant personal repercussi ...
• Palestinian UN Bid 'Greater Threat' than Hamas
  The Palestinian campaign to secure full UN membership presents a greater threat to Israel than that posed by Hamas, the Israeli finance minister said on Wednesday. "This Palestinian initiative represents a more serious threat than that posed by Hamas," Yuval Steinitz told Israel's public radio, ...
• Some US Firms Paid More to CEOs Than Taxes: Study
  WASHINGTON - Twenty-five of the 100 highest paid U.S. CEOs earned more last year than their companies paid in federal income tax, a pay study said on Wednesday. It also found many of the companies spent more on lobbying than they did on taxes. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: The Rev. Ejike Innocent Onyen ...
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• ExamineReligion: The devil, demons and the Bal ...
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• ExamineReligion: Pope Benedict XVI Prayer inte ...
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• ExamineReligion: Look Ahead - A Devotion http: ...
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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 ...

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• NATO Style Liberation
  by Stephen Lendman Wherever it goes, NATO slaughters, ravages, lays waste, incinerates, contaminates, devastates, conquers, colonizes, plunders, exploits, impoverishes and immiserates. Libya is its latest victim. It's now a hellish inferno thanks to NATO and its rebel gangs, unlea ...
• The Crime of the Patriot Act, 9/11 and a Whist ...
  By Rady Ananda Susan Lindauer’s piece of the 9/11 puzzle adds more evidence to support the charge of criminal negligence at the command level and exposes the utter depravity of the Patriot Act. Even more, as the primary Intelligence Asset for Iraq, she proves that top officials of the Bush reg ...
• Charity begins at home, Uncle Sam!
  By Dr. Ismail Salami and Kourosh Ziabari As the United States is caught up in a number of conflicts and military expeditions around the world, the economic situation of the North American nation is deteriorating on a daily basis, unfolding a devastative crisis with repercussions that go far bey ...
• Ma`a as-salaamah Mohammad….. May Allah p ...
  Franklin Lamb Tripoli My roommate left our hotel and hopefully Libya last night for his village near Arlit, Niger thanks to the assistance of one of Tripoli’s Christian Churches. I shall miss him a lot. It was a recently formed human rights group from the Coptic Orthodox (Egyptian) Church in ...
• Washington Threatens Palestinian Statehood Bid
  by Stephen Lendman Washington wages wars multiple ways, including militarily, financially, and politically by supporting wrong over right each time. For decades, it subverted peace negotiations and Palestine's bid for statehood. The Obama administration's now doing it again, besides wagi ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

• 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 ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Book and Travel Update, and Some Interesting S ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Book Update I have mentioned it on here a couple of times, but I am under contract to deliver a book on energy by the end of this year. I initially had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to write, but that has evolved a bit as [...]
• The Battle for Libya’s Post-Gadhaffi Soul (and ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post As hostilities in Libya wind down, one thing is clear: A number of nations will jockey for access to Libya’s oil. It happened in Iraq, where ironically the U.S. was shut out as Russia, China, and France won bids to develop Iraq’s fields. The new government ...
• Keeping Michele Bachmann Honest on Gas Prices
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Promise: Gas Below $2 a Gallon Like many of you, I am often unhappy with our political leaders. One thing that annoys me the most is that many will say or do just about anything to get elected. By now, you have surely heard the news that Republican ...
• How to Fix the Broken Cellulosic Ethanol Incen ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Overview: Mandates, Zero Production, Penalties, and the Failure of the Current System In the previous post, I discussed the annual ritual of rolling back the cellulosic ethanol mandates by 90% or more. For three years running, cellulosic ethanol productio ...
• Cellulosic Ethanol Targets: Mandating the None ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Another Year, Another Chapter In what is becoming an annual ritual, the EPA is once more scaling back the cellulosic ethanol mandate for 2012. The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act mandated that we would use 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethan ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Desmos Graphing Calculator
  Comments:Great web based graphing calculator shared at ISTE11 that rivals TI calculators.  - Dean MantzTags: graphing, calculator, mathematics, web2.0, desmos, ISTE11by: Dean Mantz
• Lost Ladybug Project
  Tags: kid, students, experience, exposure, learning, science, education, projectby: Fred Delventhal
• The Flipped Classroom Infographic #flippedclas ...
  Comments:Infographic explaining the concepts and components for the "Flipped Classroom". - Dean MantzTags: classroom, infographic, blendedlearning, edtech, flippedclassroom, educationby: Dean Mantz
• iPad Resources for Administrators
  Comments:Collection of iPad apps for administrators compiled on this site by Mid-Hudson Regional Information Center.  - Dean MantzTags: ipad, apps, administrators, education, resources, ipadsby: Dean Mantz
• Papers 2 and Papers for the iPad: the ultimate ...
  Tags: iPad, papers, journals, reading, education, referencesby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• The InGREENspirational 7!
  "Meet amazing people. Learn cool stuff. And have lots of fun along the way." read more
• Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
• The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
• Crazy Weather: Climate Change, Stronger Storms ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—This past weekend's hurricane undoubtedly took a toll on the read more
• Stem-to-Root Recipes Find Taste in Trimmings
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—When you busily peel, trim, and chop your way to dinner, have you ever stopped to consider how much gets thrown away? Stem-to-root chefs have, and their burgeoning movement has led to a lot more of the vegetable getting utilized, rather than tossed aside. True, you could ...

big think

• Minor explosions at Popocatépetl
  Mexico's Popocat�petl always gets people's attention - this is thanks to its proximity to Mexico City. Whenever you juxtapose an active volcano with one of the world's most populous cities, you know that the news will latch onto any activity quickly. This is why we saw a blast of article late .. ...
• The Sun's Mysterious Chain Reactions
  What's the Latest Development? Thanks to last summer's unprecedented series of solar explosions, cosmologists have begun to better understand how eruptions in one location of the Sun's surface can trigger others thousands of kilometers away: The Sun's�magnetic�field contains solar explosions l ...
• Space is the Final Luxury Frontier
  What's the Big Idea? In space these days, it's feast or famine. At a time when our infrastructure appears to be breaking down--from aging weather satellites to NASA warning the International Space Station possibly may face an unprecedented evacuation--we are also witnessing an explosion in lu ...
• It's Looking Up If You're Looking Down
  Far too many people are walking around with their heads immersed in their tiny mobile devices, or communicating affectionately with their tiny smart phones while out in public with perfectly acceptable human companions. The only problem, of course, is that humans are not evolutionarily equip ...
• Majority of Americans Agree With Perry That So ...
  The Social Security program, Rick Petty reiterated the other day, is "a Ponzi scheme for these young people." The notion that Social Security pensions will be available for today's younger workers when they retire, he said, is "a monstrous lie." Many jumped on it—pundits and Democrats and the so ...

Information Liberation

• D.C. officer allegedly solicits sex from trans ...
  An off-duty District police officer fired a handgun at several people, hitting at least one, during a confrontation early Friday, police said. Police offered few details about the incident. According to a news release and statements by Chief Cathy...
• TSA agent accused of lewdless with a child
  SPRING CREEK * A city officer arrested a Spring Creek man Wednesday morning at the Elko Area Regional Airport, where he works for the Transportation Security Administration, on a warrant charging six counts of lewdness with a child. The Elko Count...
• 19-year-old faces five years in prison for str ...
  A 19-year-old New York man faces up to five years in prison after federal authorities arrested him on Tuesday for allegedly streaming live copyrighted sporting events over the Internet. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland...
• Obama invokes Sept 11 attacks in call for serv ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged Americans on Saturday to recall the spirit that united the country after the September 11 attacks and take part in a national day of service to mark the anniversary next month. In remarks acknowl...
• The Arrogance of Authority
  A DEA officer stopped at a ranch in Texas, and talked with an old rancher. He told the rancher, *I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs.* The rancher said, *Okay , but don*t go in that field over there**, as he pointed out the locatio...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

• White Paper: Methanol Use in Hydraulic Fractur ...
  Exponent for the Methanol Institute /  by Tarek Saba,  Farrukh Mohsen,  Brun Hilbert and Michael Garry http://bit.ly/owkZri [From Press Release via Market Watch.com]  A new report prepared for the Methanol Institute concludes that methanol is not expected to be a concern if it reaches groundwate ...
• Sustainable Efforts and Environmental Concerns ...
  Nielsen http://bit.ly/o58E1u [From Green Car Congress]   Concern about climate change/global warming among online consumers around the world took a back-seat to other environmental issues such as air and water pollution, water shortages, packaging waste and use of pesticides, according to Nielse ...
• Evaluation of the Use of Hindcast Model Data f ...
  Science Applications International Corporation for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, Alaska OCS Region http://www.boemre.gov/ooc/press/2011/press0829.htm [From Green Car Congress]  The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) release ...
• Community Managed Forests and Forest Protected ...
  Forest Ecology and Management (2011 in press) via Center for International Forestry Research / by Luciana Porter-Bolland,  Edward A. Ellis, Manuel R. Guariguata, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich  and Victoria Reyes-García http://www.cifor.org/publications/pdf_files/articles/AGuar ...
• The Future of Photovoltaic Manufacturing in th ...
  National Research Council http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12724 [Description] Technological innovation and growth are critical to U.S. competitiveness in a global economy. One means of facilitating growth and improving competitiveness is to foster more robust innovation ecosystems throu ...

Scientific American - News

• Friendly Bacteria Cheer Up Anxious Mice
  From Nature magazineMost everyone knows that stress can cause a clenched, gurgling, unhappy stomach. What's less well known is that the relationship goes both ways. [More]
• Using National Parks as Climate Change Educati ...
  YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – On any given summer evening about 60 tourists gather in campground amphitheatres here for park ranger presentations. Astronomy, geology, human history, fire ecology are on the regular schedule of program topics. Wilderness safety and Yosemite's notoriously aggres ...
• Astronauts May Evacuate Space Station in Novem ...
  The International Space Station may have to start operating without a crew in November if Russian engineers don't figure out soon what caused a recent rocket failure , NASA officials announced today (Aug. 29).The unmanned Russian cargo ship Progress 44 crashed just after its Aug. 24 launch to ...
• Irene's Impact: The Hurricane/Tropical Storm i ...
  Irene traveled up the East Coast of the U.S. [More]
• Extraterrestrial Hurricanes: Other Planets Hav ...
  By Earth standards, Hurricane Irene is a monster storm. But it's just a baby compared to the massive cyclones of Jupiter and Saturn.Our planet is not the only one in the solar system that boasts huge, hurricane-like storms . The gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, for example, churn out spinning squ ...

First Truths

• The irreducible subjectivity of economic pheno ...
  A private, group email correspondence with a number of C4SS colleagues yielding the following pithy comment: > Can catastrophe force behavior that mimics�> a lowering of time preference, resulting in> long-term quantitative reduction of cost or> increase in profit/savings? Not if cost is defi ...
• Saul Newman on Zerzan, Bookchin, and Postmoder ...
  From Saul Newman's The Politics of Postanarchism: Yet, these two thinkers have more in common than it may appear: they both hang on to the Enlightenment desire for social fullness. That is, the idea of a rational social harmony and the overcoming of alienation. Bookchin seeks this social fullne ...
• The Cost Principle and the Sovereignty Principle
  Benjamin Tucker, from Liberty, Vol. V.�No. 12.:It does not follow, because I have the right, and every other man has the right to the products of his labor and to the liberty of retaining them forever in his own hands, that it is, therefore, either right or best that all men should retain all ...
• "[A]narchism is the usher of science"
  From Albert R. Parsons, husband of Lucy Parsons: The philosophy of anarchism is included in the one word "Liberty;" yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else. No barriers whatever to human progression, to thought, or investigation, are placed by anarchism; nothing is considered s ...
• Carson on NATO
  In a private email, Kevin Carson offers an accurate summary of NATO's role within the framework of empire: Just give it a few years -- they'll be readjusting the boundaries of this "mutual defense pact" eastward and southward until they include Japan and Angola. Maybe Venezuela as well. And righ ...

Media Co-Op

• Dan Kellar Arrested for Naming "Infiltrator" i ...
  On August 25th, independent journalist, blogger, and activist Dan Kellar was arrested for a blog post that he wrote in which he named and provided a photo of a man he claimed to be an undercover police officer, and encouraged readers to "spit in his footsteps and scoff at his existence".� The po ...
• The McDonald Bridge- a Cycling Headache
  A multi-million dollar upgrade involving re-painting and repaving of the McDonald Bridge is currently underway. One of the goals of the Halifax Harbour Bridges authority that operates the bridge is to become a recognized leader in sustain ...
• The Law of the Land
  Re-learning the Peace and Friendship Treaties through First Nations' eyes The Annual Peace and Friendship Gathering at the Tatamagouche Centre, held this year from August 15 to 19, gets to the root of race relations: a sometimes painful, y ...
• Following the Money in Lybia
  Western Companies In; Eastern Companies Out As War Winds Down Toronto - The victory of the rebels in Lybia's recent conflict and their taking of Tripoli have created a stampede by foreign companies trying top shore up the countries oil res ...
• Up and at 'Em: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
  First of all let me say I'm not your average film reviewer. Case in point: this review was written after f ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Egghead Predicts: Obama a Shoo-in For 2012
  Remember all those models that say presidential elections are won or lost based on the economy? The ones that increasingly make Barack Obama look like a doomed one-termer? Well, here's some good news for the Obama camp: a different model, from American University professor Allan Lichtman, "w ...
• The Hypocrisy Trope, Yet Again
  Earlier today, after noting that the federal government can borrow money at negative interest rates, I wrote that only an idiot turns down free money. The Washington Examiner's Kevin Glass tweets a response: That reminds me: the hypocrisy allegations lobbed at Republican governors who tak ...
• The Death of Watermelon
  My mother was just on the phone complaining that it's impossible to find anything other than seedless watermelons these days. Is this true? As a summertime public service to her and all the rest of my melon-loving readers, here is Jane Black's investigative reporting on this vital issue in t ...
• Public Works Are a Better Idea Than a Payroll ...
  Bruce Bartlett lists several reasons why a payroll tax holiday might not be such a great idea. Here are the first two: First, the tax cut only helps those with jobs. While many have low wages and undoubtedly are spending all their additional cash flow, those with the greatest need and most li ...
• Is Flood Insurance Stupid?
  Matt Yglesias thinks that offering flood insurance to people who build houses in floodplains is idiotic: The National Flood Insurance Program [NFIP] offers sub-market insurance rates to people who want to build houses in very flood prone areas. It’d be as if we had a special program to offer ...

Insanity Report

• IC 267: Wayne’s Jeggings
  Topics: Fuck Pepco Was Hurricane Irene “over-hyped”? Will & Jada almost break up according to Twitter & black marriages everywhere fail The VMAs Beyonce’s pregnant and people lose their minds What the fuck is wrong with Lady Gaga? Lil Wayne performs in women’s pants Share with your friends:
• FacePalm of the Week: About that Gun Play….
  The FBI said former Georgia Tech basketball star Javaris Crittenton was arrested at a Southern California airport Monday night and will face a murder charge in an Atlanta shooting. He was taken into custody at John Wayne Airport after checking in for a Delta Air Lines flight to Atlanta, the FBI ...
• Bachmann Says Hurricane is Message From God To ...
  I swear Bachmann sees a political opportunity in everything.  It’s quite annoying “I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’” Bachmann, a third-term Minneso ...
• Eric Cantor is a Douche
  I know you probably read that title and said “Duh” but I’m serious here.  I’ve always known Cantor to be a little prick when it comes to politics, but this new stunt he’s trying to pull has really pissed me off. This week, Virginia experienced a magnitude 5.8 earthquake, one of the most powerfu ...
• Will & Jada and the Death of Black Marriages
  See what I did there?  I wrote a completely horse shit title, linking an equally bullshit rumor to a completely made up “crisis” in the black community.  And why did I do it? Adsense of course Yup, see I’m trying my best to whore out my integrity for pennies on the dollar hoping that one [...] ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• Tropical coral could be used to create novel s ...
  Researchers at King's College London have discovered how coral produces natural sunscreen compounds to protect itself from damaging UV rays, leading scientists to believe these compounds could form the basis of a new type of sunscreen for humans. read more
• Ghostwriting remains a fundamental problem in ...
  A recent editorial in PLoS Medicine concludes that in the two years since extensive ghostwriting by pharmaceutical giant Wyeth to promote its hormone drug Prempro was exposed through litigation intervention by PLoS Medicine and The New York Times, medical ghostwriting remains a prevalent problem ...
• Mobile phone data help track populations durin ...
  Mobile phone positioning data can be used to monitor population movements during disasters and outbreaks, according to a study recently published in PLoS Medicine. The study, conducted by Linus Bengtsson and colleagues from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden and Columbia University, USA, finds tha ...
• Stanford/UCSF scientists invent new way to dis ...
  A novel technique to "tame" the malaria parasite, by forcing it to depend on an external supply of a vital chemical, has been developed by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California-San Francisco. The scientists have, in effect, created a domestica ...
• Faulty signaling in brain increases craving fo ...
  "Our data indicate that the brain becomes hypersensitive to rewards when this co-signaling of glutamate and dopamine does not function. Lower doses than normal are enough to increase the propensity to ingest the substance, and this is true of both sugar and cocaine," says �sa Mackenzie, associat ...

unEarthed

• Unplugged: DOE Standards Will Save Americans Money
  New standards for refrigerators and freezers will slash energy costs Thanks to action taken by the U.S. Department of Energy, American consumers are expected t ...
• Anti-Environmental Legislators Plan New Attack
  American people reject agenda by large majorities Today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor declared war on regulations that he and his Tea Party backers do not ...
• The Fight to Stop the Tar Sands Is Not Over
  Earthjustice continues to challenge tar sands development. Alberta tar sands development. (Photo by EvolveLove/Flickr Creative Commons) The U.S. Department ...
• The Fight to Stop Keystone XL Is Not Over
  Earthjustice continues to challenge the controversial pipeline Alberta tar sands development. (Photo by EvolveLove/Flickr Creative Commons) The U.S. Departm ...
• California Ignores Its Own Scientists on Dange ...
  Internal documents reveal toxic secrets behind approval of methyl iodide Applying a cancer-causing poison on California’s farm fields sounds like some dastardl ...

Brave New Climate

• What is your energy philosophy?
  People seem to like to infer motives. (Perhaps it’s an inherent evolutionary trait, allowing anticipation of your prey’s or predator’s next move?) I find that a lot of people get me wrong about my position on energy and sustainability — often deliberately so, I suspect. So here’s a post to clari ...
• Open Thread 18
  The previous Open Thread has gone past 550 comments, so it’s time for a fresh palette. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like â there is nothing âoff topicâ here â within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of ...
• Risk perception – of fans and fission re ...
  Guest Post by Craig Schumacher. Craig has been commenting on nuclear power themed websites for about five years and has published his own blog, Channelling the Strong Force, since 2008. He formed the nuclear power advocacy organisation, Nucleus 92 Inc., in 2009. He is a regular commenter on this ...
• Nuclear risk insurance
  Guest Post by Luke Weston. Luke is a Melbourne-based physicist and occasional freelance electronic engineer, with a strong interest in educating the community about nuclear energy and related issues. It is often said by the anti-nuclearists that the commercial nuclear energy industry “can’t get ...
• TCASE 14: Assessment of electricity generation ...
  In the previous TCASE post, I considered how various low-carbon energy technologies meet the following criteria: commercial readiness, scalability, dispatchability, fuel constraints, load access, storage requirements, capacity factor and emissions intensity. Here I consider the next issue: cost ...

Indigenist Opinion

• Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Again ...
  Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Against Humanity in Africa: General Magnus Malan, the chief architect of the total onslaught of the apartheid military, passed away on 18 July 2011. This total onslaught strategy was the idea that South Africa was threatened by a communist conspiracy and ...
• Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and A ...
  Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide: Native American scholar/activist Andrea Smith spoke on the topic of her new book, "Conquest:Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide." Smith was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is a member of INCITE! Women ...
• The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake A ...
  The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake Alfred: Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being : ASU Libraries: , Recorded March 23, 2009 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, University of Victoria Professor of Indigenous Governance Gerald Taiaiake Alfred talks about the "Resurgence of Tradition ...
• Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gad ...
  Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware : Deadline Live With Jack Blood: By Stephen C. Webster Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 — 12:27 pm Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promised to help former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware as ...
• The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Mon ...
  The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Monroe Doctrine and justice denied?: A hundred years ago [RB: actually eighty] a legal case in Scotland swept across the world establishing her legal system in the front row of jurisprudence in the world. [Donoghue v Stevenson] Scots Law was all grown u ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Class War Update The Rich Killed 50,000 Americ ...
  Over 50,000 Americans died last year because they couldn’t afford a doctor, or medications. They are the victims of the class war. You know, the class war where the rich are killing us for “corporate profits” or worse. I guess turning a profit on your portfolio is far more important than taking ...
• Dick Cheney On Tour!
  Prepare yourselves folks. Dick Cheney is attempting to stimulate sales of his “book” by going on a tour. What shall we call it? How about the “I lied about WMD’s and tortured people” book tour. Coming to an alternate universe embracing media pundit near you. Why is this war criminal not behind b ...
• Say it Joe. Republicans are Terrorists
  Unfortunately I have way too much credit card debt, and some credit lines too. I was terrorized by the fact that if the tea party traitors were able to force us to default on our debt, my interest rates, and payments would be going up. This could wipe me out. Yes Joe, they were terrorizing [...]
• Entitlement Reform? Sure! Corporate Entitlements
  What pisses me off most is the nonsensical discussion of how we balance our budget, or reduce our deficit. The MSM narrative is the Democrats won’t stand for “entitlement” cuts and the Republicans won’t stand for any tax increases anywhere, anytime, for any reason. Deadlock. This whole argument ...
• Jim DeMint – Fuck You
  Fuck you Jim. You want to slam the poor, the sick, and the elderly to “balance the budget” and won’t even consider cutting corporate welfare, or having the billionaires, or the companies they own stock in pay their fair share. I pray that there is justice in this world and some day you will be [...]

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• Are Palestinians walking into a trap at the UN?
  When the South African government tried to build non-sovereign states for its blacks they were soundly rejected by the world community. But now the Palestinians appear to be the ones seeking to legitimise their own Bantustan. Virginia Tilley has  a very important post up on Electronic Intifada, ...
• J14 and the rift between Israeli and internati ...
  Former allies in fight against occupation are battling over the meaning of the tent protest. Can the relationship be rescued, and should it be? The tent protest, also known as J14, already had an effect on many groups in Israeli society, forcing them to re-examine their political positions and a ...
• Arab social justice needs heard by the gov&#82 ...
  The leaders of a civil society organization working for equality for the Palestinian citizens of Israel spoke on Tuesday before the Trachtenberg committee  â the government-appointed panel charged with recommending steps to improve economic and social justice in Israel. The committee’s invitati ...
• J14 Leader slammed for not having served in army
  I’m surprised it hasn’t been said sooner and has not been further exploited and disseminated in Israeli media: Daphni Leef – the woman who pitched the first tent that sparked the J14 tent protest movement and whose face is most identified with it – did not serve in the army. (gasp!) I first lear ...
• Jerusalem Post fires Larry Derfner over blog post
  The Jerusalem Post fired its last prominent progressive columnist over a controversial blog post, without even offering him the possibility to apologise; meanwhile, its ultra-right writers enjoy complete unaccountability. This is a watershed moment for the once-respectable publication. News cam ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Gillard Government invests to boost water eff ...
  The Gillard Government will be investing $845 million in the 2011-12 Budget to deliver water infrastructure projects and manage water sustainably in communities across Australia.
• Australia continues to lead the way in Antarc ...
  Australia's position as a world leader in Antarctic research will be backed by $28.3 million in the 2011-12 Budget, Environment Minister, Tony Burke announced today.
• Official opening of the Woodcroft Community C ...
  Woodcroft Community Centre has been transformed into a groundbreaking green hub through the Australian Government's Green Precincts Fund.
• $300,000 Fellowship to sequence Antarctic Kri ...
  The genome of one of the most successful species on Earth, Antarctic Krill, will be sequenced for the first time thanks to a new Gillard Government $300,000 Antarctic Science Fellowship.
• Farmers helping to protect endangered ecologi ...
  Farmers in New South Wales and South Australia will receive support from the Gillard Government for vital work protecting five endangered ecological communities on 19,474 hectares of privately managed land.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

• fascist 'new' labour's broken society | politi ...
  "Bad behaviour and criminality has been glamorised on the streets. Teachers are scared to punish children."
• nz throwing out asylum seeker - would they do ...
  Who can be nasty to a penguin?
• british 1st and 3rd overall in the spanish lyc ...
  Extraordinary result, where a comparative unknown pips a great man to the post. To be watched.
• disaster - wussy easy coasters facing armagedd ...
  Taking a proportionate view of the current bad weather in the eastern United States.
• on the continuing strategy of fabian socialism ...
  "There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency." After Lenin, and now look at the behaviour of recent UK socialists.

The Parallel Parliament

• Citizenship – “Blessed Are The Lea ...
  Jodi and Shawn are on something of a journey. Young professionals, they have been community leaders in their own right for the last number of years, but as part of the group of 10 that met a couple of weeks ago, I’ve watched them become more animated in their desire to make citizenship meaningfu ...
• Citizenship – “Not Leaders, But Le ...
  People are programmed to avoid painful decisions, and these days it appears as though many politicians are as well, for obvious reasons. Basic choices force people to analyze their deepest motives. As long as politics is around, and political representatives say that are willing to make those ch ...
• Citizenship – “For the Believers&# ...
  So we commence the last week of posts, recognizing that the task before Canadians today is a formidable one.  Citizenship as a useful political concept is in danger of being torn into many parts. By a bitter twist of historical fate, the concept which evolved to provide a sense of identity and c ...
• Citizenship – “Tocqueville’s ...
  You may never have heard of Alexis de Tocqueville before, but for students of democracy he’s essential reading.  A young political thinker from France, he toured America for two years in the 1830s, arrived back home and immediately published his Democracy in America. It was readily apparent that ...
• Citizenship – “Above All Else”
  I had never met most of the individuals before, but following an evening of conversation I began to see again what a powerful force citizens could be should they come together for the common good. About 10 people had gathered at a downtown setting to discuss a number of pertinent subjects, some ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Ten weeks to save the world: Nature does the S ...
  You’ve heard the rumors and read the hype – but what really goes on at the Singularity University, based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley?  Nature’s Nicola Jones recently went along to take a look, and her report has just been posted – it’s well worth reading. The Singularity Universit ...
• Prepare and Inspire: The President’s Council o ...
  The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology – PCAST – has just released a new report on US K-12 education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (the STEM subjects).  The report provides, in the words of the Presidentâs Science Advisor John Holdren, “a strategy fo ...
• Lost in the Maize
  This week I exchanged the maze of academia for an entirely different maze – I spent most of the week at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China. World Economic Forum meetings are usually rather grand, complex, intimidating, stimulating and serendipitous aff ...
• Lost in the Maize
  This week my life has been dominated by writing a new review of nanotoxicology.  Not that the world needs another review – far from it, as there are a number of excellent ones out there (I’ve even contributed to some).  But in a moment of abject weakness, I agreed to help a good colleague out ...
• Realizing dreams of carbon nanotubes
  A guest blog by John Dorr, Vice President of Business Development Nanocomp Technologies Inc. Despite all the fuss over nanotechnology, it’s surprisingly difficult to get a clear sense of how the technology is contributing to new products.  So when the company Nanocomp Technologies Inc. approache ...

Reader Supported News

• Monsanto Corn Spawning Superbug
  Scott Kilman reports: "Widely grown corn plants that Monsanto Co. genetically modified to thwart a voracious bug are falling prey to that very pest in a few Iowa fields, the first time a major Midwest scourge has developed resistance to a genetically modified crop. The discovery raises concerns ...
• Monsanto Corn Spawning Superbug
  Scott Kilman reports: "Widely grown corn plants that Monsanto Co. genetically modified to thwart a voracious bug are falling prey to that very pest in a few Iowa fields, the first time a major Midwest scourge has developed resistance to a genetically modified crop. The discovery raises concerns ...
• Dr. James Hansen: "We Have a Planetary Em ...
  Elianna Mintz reports: "As President Obama's deadline to approve or disapprove licensing of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline draws closer, NASA's lead climatologist, Dr. James Hansen, addressed reporters at the National Press Club to explain the grave consequences of approving such a project. ...
• Dr. James Hansen: "We Have a Planetary Em ...
  Elianna Mintz reports: "As President Obama's deadline to approve or disapprove licensing of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline draws closer, NASA's lead climatologist, Dr. James Hansen, addressed reporters at the National Press Club to explain the grave consequences of approving such a project. ...
• Cantor: No Disaster Relief for Irene Without B ...
  Alex Seitz-Wald reports: "Despite the devastation caused by Hurricane Irene this weekend, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) today stood by his call that no more money be allocated for disaster relief unless it is offset by spending cuts elsewhere." State Route 12, the main road on Cape ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• 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.

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Revised Draft of Lower Athabasca Regional Plan ...
  Sierra Club Prairie Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation 30 Aug 2011 Edmonton — Alberta’s Government’s Department of Sustainable Resource Dev ...
• Pembina reacts to revised draft of Lower Athab ...
  Pembina Institute 29 Aug 2011 CALGARY — Jennifer Grant, director of the Pembina Institute's oilsands program, made the following statement in response to the release today of a rev ...
• Updated Northeast Alberta Plan Confirms Weak C ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 29 Aug 2011 The Alberta government's updated Draft Lower Athabasca Regional Plan confirms irresponsible tar sands development by postponing all land ...
• Federal Government Writes Off Alberta Caribou
  War on Wolves Goes National Alberta Wilderness Association 26 Aug 2011 A long overdue federal woodland caribou recovery str ...
• Pembina reacts to draft Woodland Caribou Recov ...
  Pembina Institute 26 Aug 2011 CALGARY — Simon Dyer, policy director with the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the Government of Canada's release of a ...

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 3 ...
  ==== France’s Military Reintegration Boosts NATO, Pentagon Pentagon Sending Military Aid, Boats To Libya’s Neighbors Report: CIA Recruited 1,500 In Afghanistan To Fight In Libya Former Nigerian President Condemns NATO’s Invasion Of Libya Italian Oil Giant Signs Agreement With National Transition ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 3 ...
  ==== NTC: NATO Ensured Victory, Must Stay In Libya Obama Doctrine: U.S. Libyan War Tactics Model For Syria, Others Under Fire From Atlanticist Forces, German Foreign Minister Endorses NATO Bombing Report: Algeria Closes 1,000-Kilometer Stretch Of Border With Libya Beginning Of New War: NATO Comp ...
• Photo gallery: NATO bombs bring democracy to E ...
  Conquests to date: Bosnia 1995 Kosovo (Serbia) 1999 Macedonia 2001 Afghanistan 2001 Iraq 2003 Ivory Coast 2011 Libya 2011 The conditions currently obtaining in the above states are an indication of what faces the next targets of NATO intervention. To come, either as attacks against “hostile regi ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO News: August 2 ...
  ==== Chicago: Conference Plans Mass Demonstrations Against NATO, G8 Summits Meeting With Top Commander: NATO Trains Iraqi Navy NATO Attack On Syria To Result In Quagmire: Iranian Foreign Minister Washington Post: “Syrians Demand” NATO Intervention Canadian Military: Boost U.S.-Led Surveillance A ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 2 ...
  ==== Libya: NATO Sorties Approach 21,000, Combat Sorties 8,000 Cyber Warfare, Armed Extremists, Bribery: Russian General Says NATO Makes Deals With Anyone To Promote Its Aims NATO Provided Special Forces, Air Force For Regime Change Iran Warns NATO Not To Enter Syria Afghan War: At Least 413 NAT ...

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• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Intel Hub

• Algeria Threatened With Al Qaeda Terror Attack ...
  The Intel Hub August 31, 2011 The corporate media and various Libyan rebel officials have threatened Algeria with an al Qaeda terror attack after the Algerian government provided Gaddafi and his family safe passage into their country. The irony of this threat is that the Libyan rebels are actual ...
• LA Artist Faces Police Questioning for Paintin ...
  By Carmel Lobello Death & Taxes August 30, 2011 This summer the LAPD paid two visits to Eagle Rock artist Alex Schaefer to discuss his “incendiary” paintings of Chase bank branches engulfed in flames. The oil painting above, which Schaefer, 41, painted on the sidewalk across the street from the ...
• Fukushima Is Continually Blasting All Of Us Wi ...
  End Of The American Dream August 31, 2011 Fukushima is now far and away the worst nuclear disaster in all of human history.  Chernobyl was a Sunday picnic compared to Fukushima and the amount of cesium-137 released at Fukushima this year so far is equivalent to 168 Hiroshima bombs. The crisis at ...
• The Crime of the Patriot Act, 9/11 and a Whist ...
  The Intel Hub By Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer August 31, 2011 Susan Lindauer’s piece of the 9/11 puzzle adds more evidence to support the charge of criminal negligence at the command level and exposes the utter depravity of the Patriot Act. Even more, as the primary Intelligence Asset for Ir ...
• Oklahoma ABLE Commission Proven To Be As Obnox ...
  The Intel Hub By Andrew W. Griffin -  Red Dirt Report, editor August 30, 2011 COMMENTARY OKLAHOMA CITY â With vendors and food lovers referring to the heavy-handed sweep of an outdoor food event in MidTown Oklahoma City as being like a âSWAT team” raid, The Oklahoman has followed up on their ea ...

FRS

• Federal Bureau of Instigation
  August 30, 2011 Entrapment as Government Policy–The FBI Goes Rogue by LAWRENCE DAVIDSON Here is an important question: What single organization is responsible for more terror plots in the USA than any other? Possible answers: Al Qaida. That would no doubt be the popular answer but it would be w ...
• United Nations Libya plans ‘revealed in ...
  [In the Libyan "transition" from Gaddafi to new power relations, this report on the UN's transition plan may indicate how the US/EU/NATO forces may direct--(and camoflage, if the history of the US-controlled UN-MINUSTAH force occupation of Haiti is applied to Libya)--their role in the reconstruc ...
• 6 Years since the Gulf Coast was drowned and d ...
  Prisoners of Katrina, posted with vodpod
• India Political Prisoners’ hunger strike ...
  Jailed rebels on fast OUR CORRESPONDENT, Telegraph of India Krishnagar, Aug. 28: A group of suspected Maoists lodged in a Krishnagar jail are on hunger strike since August 24 demanding repeal of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, release of political prisoners, withdrawal of central forces ...
• BBC Takes a look at “Life in an Indian M ...
  Jul 19, 2011 “The BBC’s Suvojit Bagchi, who was granted unprecedented access to a Maoist camp in the depths of the Chhattisgarh jungle, describes the rebels’ precarious life. After eight hours of walking in dense forest, in the early evening we entered a narrow, barren stretch of land hemmed in ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

• Former Bush official says he'd testify against ...
  Former chief of staff for Colin Powell Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says he would testify against both former Pres. George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney, whose memoir was officially published Tuesday, should they ever be brought to trial for war crimes. You can read more here. Getty ...
• Eid Mubarak
  All over Connecticut -- and elsewhere -- Muslims are celebrating the end of Ramadan. You can find out more here. Getty Images
• If New York is more spiritual, it isn't becaus ...
  From Adelle M. Banks at Religion News Service, linked here at Huffington Post. Flickr photo
• Dunno why. This just seems appropriate.
  Chin up, Connecticut!
• Convincing people about climate change...
  ...is similar to convincing people about racism, says former VP Al Gore.

Associated Content

• Irene, By the Numbers
  A look at some of the most important stats from Hurricane Irene. She caused devastating conditions for 13 states once she made landfall in North Carolina.Contributor: Hobson Lopes Published: Aug 29, 2011
• Attending a Wedding During Hurricane Irene
  My wife and I attended a beautiful wedding in Maryland in the teeth of Hurricane Irene. We are now stuck on the East Coast in the wake of the mammoth storm.Contributor: Richard Carriero Published: Aug 29, 2011
• Irene's Destruction, Flooding Hit Morris Count ...
  Irene has really caused a lot of damage and very intense flooding up here in northern New Jersey. We are all cleaning up and helping each other as the mess gets taken care of.Contributor: Gioia Degenaars Published: Aug 29, 2011
• Rick Perry Latest Candidate Angling to Destroy ...
  Former GOP presidential candidate Alan Keyes made a name for himself by taking aim at the 17th Amendment, which provides the people with the right to directly elect U.S. senators. Now Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry is adopting the Keyes plan.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Aug 29, 2011
• Is Gadhafi in Zimbabwe?
  The Daily Mail is reporting that Moammar Gadhafi has been reported spotted in Zimbabwe, having apparently escaped to that African country from Libya and is now ensconced as a guest Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean dictator.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Aug 27, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Fermilab Astrophysicist's Method Cuts Plane Bo ...
  Now proven by science Dr. Jason Steffen, an astrophysicist at Fermilab, came up with a method he claimed could cut airplane boarding times drastically about two years ago. More recently, he tested several different methods of boarding, complete with video: Boarding as we do it now (blocks of fl ...
• Pests Are Developing Resistance to Monsanto's ...
  Some consumers may have a problem with genetically modified food crops, but in at least one case described in an Iowa State University researcher’s paper there’s one customer that’s happy to consume Monsanto’s GM corn: rootworms, the very pest the corn is modified to thwart. According to the pa ...
• Bacteria in Gut Influence Brains of Mice, Soot ...
  Anyone who has ever had a stomach bug knows it can really subdue your spirits as well as your appetite. But other parts of the gut microbiome can have the opposite effect, and make you feel great. Irish researchers have found a type of gut bacteria that seems to have directly interacted with th ...
• Engineers of Laboratory-Grown Muscle Figure Ou ...
  ...and tasty? In 2009, we heard the wonderful news that scientists at Holland's Eindhoven University of Technology had successfully grown pork in a petri dish: a giant step toward the dream of eating a pork chop without slaughtering a pig for it. Unfortunately, the lab-grown meat was floppy, "s ...
• New Phase-Changing Gel Method Repairs Severed ...
  A new heat-sensitive gel and glue combo is a major step forward for cardiovascular surgery, enabling blood vessels to be reconnected without puncturing them with a needle and thread. It represents the biggest change to vascular suturing in 100 years, according to Stanford University Medical Cen ...

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.

War is Business

• Inside Look At Yet Another Religious Group Wit ...
  If the state of Oregon believes the board of Akal Security is led by untrustworthy people, then why do the departments of Defense and Homeland Security continue to award contracts to the company?
• China-Pakistan Port Deal Another Sign Of Wanin ...
  Buy Baluchistan Buy Baluchistan • Read more at WSJ.com: World News
• Temptations Of The Flesh: GOP Freshmen Can&#82 ...
  Sell promises Sell promises • Read more at National Security on iWatch News
• CJ Chivers Examines Libyan Rebels’ Seabo ...
  Buy scarcity Buy scarcity • Read more at NYT > Home Page
• Afghan Soldier Says ‘The Quality Of Ever ...
  Buy bad apples Buy bad apples • Read more at The Killid Group website - News on Afghanistan reports analysis pictures cartoon

Hudson's Weather & Climate

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

Internat'l Political Economy

• Travel Fad Du Jour: PRC Communist 'Red Tourism'
  Revisionism, or Right opportunism, is a bourgeois trend of thought that is even more dangerous than dogmatism. The revisionists, the Right opportunists, pay lipservice to Marxism; they too attack "dogmatism". But what they are really attacking is the quintessence of Marxism - Mao Zedong So ...
• When Corporations Ruled...Creditworthiness
  I enjoy the writings of Gillian Tett of the Financial Times for a very good reason. In contrast to the usual mindless econo-blather you get from financial journalists and the economists they cover, she is a social anthropologist. Unlike the neat and tidy world of neoclassical economics, processe ...
• Changing of the Guard: Migrate to China, Not US
  It's time to quit messing with deck chairs and abandon the fast-sinking America. Destination: Davy Jones' Locker. The story here is a straightforward application of differences in economic performance between one country that has next to no GDP growth (the US) and one racking up nearly 10% GDP g ...
• Was Jesus a {Market} Fundamentalist?
  Praize the Lawwwhd! Having been in Texas for no small amount of time, I have had some interest in the announcement that its governor, Rick Perry, would make a presidential bid. While there are certainly lingering resentments between him and another whose political career path he certainly wishes ...
• PRC Basketbrawl: Of Hoyas & Anti-US Sentiment
  As if Joe Biden's trip to China needed to become more disastrous in the wake of his "reassurances" that China's Treasuries were safe, it turns out that the b-ball team that accompanied him suffered from an even worse fate. The above clip shows the rather violent end of a basketball match in Beij ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Interview with Jay Donahue about the Californi ...
  Jay talks about the continuing struggle inside California State prisons Download At: ...
• Anarcho-punk zine PunkWay #6, 2011
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• Need Tech Help? Offering it? Put a free ad in ...
  Are you part of a cool hacking, DIY, or tech project that needs more volunteers, users, or testers? Are you part of a radical project that needs...
• A Fake Image: About the Fraud of the Void Netw ...
  The social revolt of December 2008, triggered, among other things, an increased interest abroad about the struggles in Greece. For this reason, ...
• New Fringe Fest Musical Inspired by Union Figh ...
  When a coworker at Starbucks approached barista Ted Dewberry about forming a union at their workplace, his initial reaction was fear. Working 17 ho...

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2011-08-31 Australian High Court throws out Ma ...
  TweetEver since John Howard successfully wedged the Australian Labor Party (ALP) over the Tampa incident refusing permission for the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa, carrying 438 rescued Afghans from a distressed fishing vessel in international waters, to enter Australian waters...trigger(ing) an A ...
• 2011-08-30 Daniel Domscheit-Berg: a comparativ ...
  TweetIn the light of the recent press statements by Openleaks spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg we decided to have a look at some older coverage, in particular his Spiegel interview from the 27th of September 2010. It appeared soon after he had left Wikileaks, and it was also translated into En ...
• 2011-08-29 WikiLeaks: Washington and Brasilia ...
  TweetAuthored by Nikolas Kozloff As more and more WikiLeaks cables get released, the Brazilian-U.S. diplomatic relationship has become increasingly illuminated. Though somewhat wary of each other, Washington and Brasilia sometimes saw eye to eye on matters of geopolitical importance. Take, fo ...
• 2011-08-29 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. All the times are GMT. - See @wlfind for some of the latest information found in the newly rel ...
• 2011-08-29 Revealing or repressing the archive ...
  TweetWe take for granted that there exist, somewhere in society, macro-actors that naturally dominate the scene... The problem is that these entities could not exist at all without the construction of long networks in which numerous faithful records circulate in both directions, records which ar ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Japan's Political Dysfunction
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Could it all stem from General Douglas MacArthur?
• Did Canadian Firm Snitch over Lese-Majeste Cha ...
  • (http://twitter.com/share) US citizen alleges company gave him up to Thai authorities
• The Menace of HIV in Asia
  • (http://twitter.com/share) New UN report indicates progress but says there is also cause for alarm
• Yingluck's Misguided Rice Policy
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Thailand’s new government risks bringing chaos to global markets again
• Leadership with Chinese Characteristics
  • (http://twitter.com/share) No soft power here

We Know the Lies

• Evil Empire Bank of America Bailed Out by Warr ...
  �There has been concern in some corridors of Wall Street that Bank of America doesn�t have sufficient capital and its shares responded by plummeting. Bank of America swore that nothing was wrong but whispers of a bailout were beginning to swell. The bailout did not come (so far) from the gov ...
• Feds Give 4 States $5.8 Million to Protect... ...
• Destroying Canada’s Boreal Forests!... Up to 1 ...
• Devoted Dog Guards the Coffin of Navy SEAL Master
• Tracking Hurricane Irene... To Hit the East Co ...

Tarpley

• Stop the NATO-Libyan Rebel Genocide against Si ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 30, 2011 [download video] [download audio]
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  International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Srpski Svenska Türk Zhongwén            1 2  >  >| page: 1 of 2   total items: 16 Verunglimpfung light: die Süddeutsche Zeitung über Tarpleys Analyse von den Terror-Anschlä ...
• Al Qaeda Commander of NATO’s Bloody Reig ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 27, 2011 [download video]
• Will Turkey Accept Role of US-UK Kamikaze Pupp ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. I.N.N. World Report August 25, 2011 [download audio]
• Al Qaeda Conquest of Green Square Faked Via Ho ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV August 25, 2011 [download video]

Modern Survivalism

• Today in the News:
  News Today (August 31, 2011) It could be as long as a week before power is restored to half a million residents in Massachusetts following hurricane Irene. 20 Major Transmission Lines Damaged The hard truth that the main stream is ignoring, and according to Bob Donovan who is an alderman in Wisc ...
• Main-Stream Slams Hurricane IRENE Preppers
  I cannot believe what I just heard from our local CBS main stream news this evening, that those who prepared for hurricane Irene are having ‘buyers remorse’ because the hurricane did not wreak the devastation to require those people to use their supplies that they purchased. The report claimed t ...
• 60, The Average Age of Farmers
  Some interesting observations from Jim Rogers, co-Founder of the Quantum Fund, “We Have Huge Shortages Developing In Agriculture”. Farming has been a disaster for 30 years. The average age of farmers in America is 58 because it’s been such a horrible business. The average age of farmers in Japan ...
• How to use a Watch as a Compass
  A surprisingly simple and easy way to use your watch as a compass only requires having enough sunlight to cast a shadow, and a twig. If you ever become lost, and do not have a compass, you can fairly easily discover your direction. One way is with your wrist watch. The accuracy of this method [...]
• How To Tie A Square Knot
  One of the most useful knots to learn how to make, or tie, is a square knot. It is the type of knot that fastens two lengths of rope, or string, together. It is a knot that will not slip in most cases. It is not a knot to depend on with your life, but [...]

Fast Company

• Bad SEO Could Be Killing Your Corporate Blog T ...
  I remember when SEO first "hit." I had been at an online publishing company for about a year, and while there was always some attention paid to on-page optimization, I'd hardly call what we were doing a strategy. It soon became clear, however, that this new focus on SEO would end up changing th ...
• Amazon "Primed" To Compete With Netflix
  When asked whether Amazon might ever consider Netflix-style DVD-by-mail subscription plans to complement the company's Prime Instant Video streaming service, Steve Oliver, Amazon's director of video for both digital and physical products, pauses for a beat. "We're always looking for ways to re ...
• Xenith: Stanford's Solar Race Car Wants To Be ...
  In a month, the fastest solar cars will meet in Australia for a 14-hour race to determine the speediest sun-powered vehicle. After a disappointing finish in 2010, Stanford's team thinks they have what it takes.The rules are simple: Build a car that runs on sunlight, and drive it across the Austr ...
• This Fueling Station Fills Vehicles With Clean ...
  There aren't very many hydrogen cars on the road these days, but there might be soon. And when there are, it will be possible to take the dirty water from your toilet and turn it into fuel. Wastewater--the stuff that goes down the toilet when you flush--is often treated and used for everything ...
• Leadership Hall Of Fame: Barry Schwartz, Autho ...
  Are companies overwhelming consumers? We continue our examination of the business book The Paradox of Choice with an interview of author Barry Schwartz. Kevin Ohannessian: What was the impetus for writing The Paradox of Choice? Barry Schwartz: There were three sources of my impetus to write th ...

Jadaliyya

• For Syria, What is "Left?" (Part 1)
  It is a concrete rationale that fuels opposition to Israel�s apartheid regime and the United States� duplicitous and violent policies in the Middle East. It is a concrete rationale that imbues the condemnation of and struggle against authoritarian rule in the Arab world. It is a concrete ...
• Interview with Ali Ahmida, Gilbert Achcar, and ...
  AUDIO PLAYER BELOW The fall of Qaddafi's Tripoli to Libyan rebels has raised a host of new questions and intensified existing debates about the nature and fate of the Libyan uprising. As the peaceful uprising in Libya shifted towards an open rebellion in the face of a violent response b ...
• Palestinian Statehood Blocked: Equality Strugg ...
  As the start of the UN General Assembly's 66th Session quickly approaches, it seems that "statehood" has sucked the air out of every room where Palestine is discussed. Worse, in Washington, where the Obama Administration has taken a firm stance against the UN approach, the statehood bid ...
• J14: The Exclusive Revolution
  The men and women who set out to build a Jewish state in historic Palestine made little secret of their settler-colonial designs. Zionismâs intellectual author, Theodor Herzl, described the country he envisioned as âpart of a wall of defense for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization ...
• The Politics of Royal Pluralism in Jordan
  While the people have demanded the fall of their regimes in streets and squares across the Arab world this year, those regimes have offered a persistent, if predictable, reply: âthe people just arenât ready for us to go yet.â This accusation of unpreparedness has taken a few different fo ...

mediagazer

• Ralph Lauren Buys Solo Sponsorship of NY Times ...
  Nat Ives / AdAge: Ralph Lauren Buys Solo Sponsorship of NY Times iPad App for September  —  Ads Will Provide the Only Live Video of Designer's Fashion Week Runway Show, Suspend Pay Meter Around Five Sections  —  Polo Ralph Lauren has bought a solo sponsorship of The New York Times iPad app dur ...
• Campaign Reporters Are Younger, and Cheaper (J ...
  Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times: Campaign Reporters Are Younger, and Cheaper  —  WASHINGTON — A group of five fresh-faced reporters from National Journal and CBS News clicked away on their MacBooks one recent afternoon, dutifully taking notes as seasoned journalists from the campaign trail s ...
• Vogue.com, SportingNews.com and Self.com Lead ...
  Steve Smith / minonline.com: Vogue.com, SportingNews.com and Self.com Lead Y-o-Y Page View Growth Among Magazines  —  This week in min we feature our comprehensive run down of year-over-year growth among magazine Web sites, comparing June 2010 to June 2011 metrics.  Most consumer titles enjoye ...
• Barriers to... Failure - At this year's ONA I' ...
  DigiDave: Barriers to... Failure  —  At this year's ONA I'll be on a panel “I failed and so can you.”  —  I've always been a big fan of failure.  I think journalism should hold a “fail camp” (inspired by Ethan Zuckerman).  When I re-started the blog carnival I dedicated a month towards failure.
• After Irene: How a Hyperlocal Is Helping (Alys ...
  Alysia Santo / CJR: After Irene: How a Hyperlocal Is Helping  —  In the Catskills, the Watershed Post is coordinating relief efforts  —  In the Catskills region of upstate New York, where flooding from Hurricane Irene wiped out entire towns, a hyperlocal site called the Watershed Post is helpin ...

Chemtrail News

• Unidentified Flying Plane Chemtrail Wha ...
  I took this video on 28/08/2011 at 17:21:02 Over Greenvale, Victoria Australia.www.youtube.com/watch?v=0laumkNmPX4
• Chemtrails 303, page 1
  In this, the third and final installment of the 'Chemtrails 101' series, we will examine scientific data supporting the chemtrail hypothesis. Hundreds of independent ...www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread746188/pg1
• ChemTrail Fibers | IsumaTV
  ChemTrail Fibers. Loading player... About this video. Thank You My Friend Skizitgesture. 33 views. Comments. Post new comment. Video comment: Comment: * ...www.isuma.tv/hi/en/starancestors/chemtrail-fibers
• Chemtrails 303
  Discussion about Chemtrails 303 at the GodlikeProductions Conspiracy Forum. Our topics include Conspiracy Theory, Secret Societies, UFOs and more!www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1615249/pg1
• Aggressive Chemtrails spray operation v ...
  Aggressive Chemtrails spray operation visible over Hurricane Irene!!!!!! look she is man made!!!!!! 24.08.2011: HURRICANE IRENE and CHEMTRAILS ...www.disclose.tv/.../aggressive-chemtrails-spray-operation-visi...

World News - Top Stories

• Indian advertising and need of a strong l ...
  How many of you can remember the day Earth Hour is held without running a quick search on Google? Chances are that if you brought out the candles this year and spent an hour in the darkness, it was not in the warm glow of being part of a global movement to save planet Earth. You probably sp ...
• Asian stocks, dollar struggle as rocky Au ...
  HONG KONG: Asian stocks were set for a quiet end to a volatile month on Wednesday as expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve would do more to stimulate the economy underpinned equities but kept the dollar under pressure. The U.S. central bank in early August discussed a range of unusual ...
• Sikh Marriage Act: Punjab sore over Centr ...
  AMRITSAR: The Union government's decision to drop the proposal for a separate Sikh Marriage Act has come under severe criticism from various political as well as religious quarters in Punjab. If Akal Takht jathedar on Tuesday exhorted Sikhs to put pressure on UPA government to revoke the de ...
• Newborn Deaths and Global Child Deaths - ...
  Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 2:28 pm Press Release: UN World Health Organization 31 August, 2011 — Fewer newborns are dying worldwide, but progress is too slow and Africa particularly is being left further behind. These are the findings of a new study published in the medical journal PLoS Med ...
• Libya's interim leaders reject UN militar ...
  Libya's interim leadership has rejected the idea of deploying any kind of international military force, the UN envoy to the country has said. Ian Martin said the UN...

no frakking consensus

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

Anna's News

• South Sudan becomes an independent nation
  South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitariesSubmitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
  How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the....Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment � ...
• Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
  Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a...Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �No ...
• Green energy investment hits record global high
  Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle �|� � ...
• News of the World staff shocked at closure
  Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

• 8/30/11 - Forms of Execution in the United Sta ...
  deathpenalty.procon.org - UPDATED: Forms of Execution in the United States, 1977 - 2009. Between 1977 and 2009, 1,188 people were executed in the US. 1,016 (85%) were executed by lethal injection and 156 (13.1%) were electrocuted. 672 (56.6%) of those executed were white and 411 (34.6%) were bla ...
• 8/26/11 - Vegetarian ProCon.org - In 2010 Pres ...
  vegetarian.procon.org - UPDATED: Vegetarian ProCon.org - In 2010 President Bill Clinton adopted a vegan diet (no meat, eggs, or dairy) after his second heart surgery. In Aug. 2011, President Clinton stated, "my blood tests are good, and my vital signs are good, and I feel good, and I also have, ...
• 8/25/11 - Between Jan. and Aug. of 2011, 18 st ...
  teachertenure.procon.org - Between Jan. and Aug. of 2011, 18 state legislatures modified their teacher tenure laws. Many states chose to include teacher performance evaluations into their revised tenure legislation, and the Idaho legislature passed SB 1108 which phased out tenure for new teacher ...
• 8/25/11 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts in ...
  milk.procon.org - The National School Lunch Act requires that schools serve milk. In 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that milk from cloned cows was safe for human consumption. The retail sale of raw cow's milk for human consumption is illegal in 42 states. Read about these and ...
• 8/25/11 - Did You Know? Little Known Facts in ...
  felonvoting.procon.org - UPDATED: Did You Know? Little Known Facts in the Felon Voting Debate - The number of people incarcerated in US jails and prisons grew 355.3% between 1980 and 2009. In 2008, US jails and prisons housed 2,322,486 people - more than the entire populations of Alaska, Montan ...

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

Gyrovague's Raves

• The Sexual Lives of Missionaries
  A novel excerpt by Kyle Minor There were big ones and small ones and medium-sized ones, blonde and brunette, and even bald ones⦠Photograph via Flickr by Brian C. Carter In Koulèv-Ville, Haiti, spring of 1983, the bachelor missionary Samuel Tillotson stropped his fatherâs straight razor on the ...
• Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age
  Cathy N. Davidson Five or six years ago, I attended a lecture on the science of attention. A philosopher who conducts research over in the medical school was talking about attention blindness, the basic feature of the human brain that, when we concentrate intensely on one task, causes us to miss ...
• Adolf & Eva
  Richard J. Evans IN THE small hours of the morning of April 29, 1945, as the Red Armyâs guns and tanks could be heard bombarding the center of Berlin, a curious event took place in Hitlerâs bunker deep under the garden of the old Reich Chancellery. Witnessed by Reich propaganda minister Joseph G ...
• DSK Mentally Ill?
  Jessica Grose Photo by DAVID KARP/AFP/Getty Images Last night on French TV, former Prime Minister Michel Rocard called his fellow socialist party member Dominque Strauss-Kahn mentally ill because of his repeated alleged misconduct with women. According to The Telegraph: Mr Rocard – French prime ...
• Closed ‘back door’ linked to sex d ...
  Wendy Zukerman A SEXUAL development disorder in baby boys may be due to the absence of a hormone-production pathway identified in wallabies. The finding could help diagnose cases of ambiguous genitalia. One in 4500 babies has gene mutations that disrupt normal development of testes or ovaries in ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

• 1 Million Signatures Against Further Canadian/ ...
  By: Terry Wilson August 30, 2011 After reading a column in the Globe and Mail by: PAOLA LORIGGIO. Titled Nearly half of Canadians oppose greater integration with U.S. law enforcement. The Canadian Awareness Network has decided to start a nation wide online petition to the Canadian government to ...
• Perimeter Security Deal Full Of Lies And Decep ...
  On Monday August 15, 2011 U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (Big Sis) took some time out of her busy schedule to meet with her Canadian counterpart, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews in what just so happens to be the home province of the "NAFTA Superhighway", Winnipeg Manitoba.
• Concerned B.C. Residents Say No To HST! No To NAU!
  "Bill Vander Zalm says citizens David beat HST Goliath in mismatched battle"
• The Consolidation Of North America Continues B ...
  Top Priority "According to a newly released study by Angus Reid on behalf of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association, 60% of respondents support changing Provincial rules that currently prevent convenience and grocery stores from selling alcohol"
• U.S. Ambassador Says Perimeter Security Deal W ...
  - Joint Border Inspection Facilities | Relocation Of U.S. Food Inspectors At Canadian Plants And Vice-Versa |Greater Sharing Of Intelligence & Harmonizing Regulations | Greater Use Of Biometrics To Track Travelers In Real Time

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• Convoy of No Consequence - March and Rally
  MARRICKVILLE - 1 SEPTEMBER 2011 AT 12 NOON A march will begin at the corner of Marrickville and Livingstone Roads, Marrickville tomorrow at 12 noon to protest about Mr Albanese's derogatory comments concerning the Convoy of No Confidence in Canberra on 22nd August. The protesters will march ...
• Debunking Peak Oil with Ian Crane
  Ian Crane is a former oil industry executive with an encyclopedic knowledge of the history and geopolitics of oil. Tonight Ian leads us on a fascinating journey through the many facets of the global power structures which are built on the trade and price fixing of oil. In particular we look at ...
• New NPR Hit-Piece: Conspiracy Theories And The ...
  This radio broadcast is a text-book example of propaganda masquerading as journalism. The program purports to be an investigation, but in fact there is only one viable point of view presented. NPR has blood on its hands! http://911blogger.com/news/2011-08-24/...kay Audio Archive: Strea ...
• Interview: Keelan Balderson on the U.K. civil ...
  Tonight we welcome to the show Keelan Balderson, editor of wideshut.co.uk, and creator of a great short film on the U.K. riots: Perfect Storm, The England Riots Documentary. Keelan's film examines the way in which larger geo-political forces, the banker bailouts, austerity measures and large s ...
• A dark satire comes to life: David Cameron&#82 ...
  U.K. Prime minister David Cameron has announced sweeping new powers to be given to police to curb violence and restore law and order in the country. Many of the themes in his speech before Parliament on 11 August are reminiscent of the film "V for Vendetta", which is a satirical depiction of a ...

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• The Gay Bomb.
  Pink Tank A Freedom of Information Act request in the nineties produced a proposal written at the United States Air Force Research Lab. The idea was to drop bombs with pheromone-laden aphrodisiacs that would cause soldiers to be homosexual. The paper mentions it would be “Distasteful but non let ...
• Iraq II Political Cartoons
  Iraq II Political Cartoon Iraq II Political Cartoon Iraq II Political Cartoon Iraq II Political Cartoon Iraq II Political Cartoon Iraq II [...]
• US Army Drill Team
  Click here to view the [...]
• The Confederate General That Was A Cherokee In ...
  Stand Watie, Cherokee Indian Was Also A Confederate General, Stand Watie was a Cherokee Indian who served as a Brigadier General in the Confederate States of America. He commanded the Indian Cavalry of the Trans Mississippi Army. He was later commissioned as a Colonel in charge of the First Cher ...
• Excogitations On The Combined Allied Air War E ...
  B-17 Over Europe In World War II, airmen from around the world were doing something no one had ever done. They got up in the morning and enjoyed breakfast and then they climbed into vehicles and made war hundreds of miles away in another country. If they were lucky, they would return and sl ...

Taylor Marsh

• Gloria Steinem to Headline Obama Park Avenue F ...
  “… Without the women’s vote — because women comprise the majority of the electorate — it’s virtually impossible for a candidate to win the election.” – Jennifer Lawless, director of the Women and Politics Institute at American University This is the alternate, political version of why buy the mi ...
• Obama and His Base, Mitt and Rick
  Way down at the bottom of the latest CNN poll: Meanwhile, the survey indicates that number of Democrats and independents who lean towards the Democratic party who would like the party to nominate someone else besides President Barack Obama has topped out after months of steady growth. Seventy-tw ...
• Queer Talk: Will HRC change with Solmonese’ de ...
  Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. “The timing of Solmonese’s resignation, as related to 2012, is at least curious – why would HRC make such a change as the presidential campaign moves into high gear?” The Human Rights Campaign is probably the most widely ...
• We’ve Got Power
  Streaming live video by Ustream …and we’re back. I must say I did enjoy looking at fashion magazines with a flashlight last night, though since I’m a creature of the 21st century having power is preferred. (The flip side of my reading life, which right now is No Ordinary Time, reminding me about ...
• The Sunday Early Bird News Round Up: Hurricane ...
  Good morning and welcome to Sunday. I hope that all those in the path of the hurricane are staying safe. I’m trying to get this post out quick before we lose power here in Boston. My youngest cat, Ziggy, is going nuts- more so than usual- so I guess that means something is coming. On [...]

Hudson New York

• How to Topple Iran; Hamas Moving to Cairo?
  The Hamas government in Gaza failed to pay the salaries to its 40,000 employees of public and security services last July. Hamas leaders then promised full payments in August, but even this month, not all employees received their wages. Reuters reports
• Lush Cosmetics: a Case Study in Hypocrisy
  The popular multinational handmade cosmetics company known as Lush loves to portray itself as an upstanding corporate citizen, allying itself with all sorts of feel-good causes and social movements. It boycotts Israel, supports extremist animal rights
• No Democracy for Palestine
  The arrest this week of a Palestinian university professor by Palestinian Authority security forces serves as a reminder that the Palestinian state that Mahmoud Abbas is seeking will not be much different from most Arab dictatorships. The 122 countries
• The UK Government Must Represent The Working Class
  Many people had hoped that the Conservative Party would be different from its predecessor, the Labour Government, which rode roughshod over the wishes of the electorate, especially the working class that once formed its base. After coming to power in
• Muslims in Britain Demand Sharia-Compliant Stu ...
  Muslim students in Britain are protesting government reforms to higher education that would raise tuition and increase interest rates on student loans. Muslims say the changes are discriminatory because Islamic Sharia law prohibits them from paying

Urban Survival

• Ship’s Hit the Fan
  There’s a report that Israel this morning has sent two war ships heading toward the Egyptian border area.  And, not only has Iran reportedly moved ships in response, but we’re reading how they also have one of their diesel submarines … Continue reading →
• Coping: Dear Government:
  While some say “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery“, in our case, it kinda feels like imitation may be the sincerest form of rip-off. I refer, of course, to a press release issued a week ago by the Office … Continue reading →
• Housing Up–Well, Sort of…
  As promised, the folks at Case Shiller-S&P have just released their latest take on the nation’s housing picture: “New York, August 30, 2011 â Data through June 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the … Continue reading →
• So, How Far is UP, Anyway?
  Reader Note:  Two things on the calendar this morning:  Case-Shiller/S&P Housing data for the month comes out in a few minutes, so check back about 8:30 Central to see how fast the sky is falling.  The other thing on the … Continue reading →
• Coping: With Another "World Ender"
  As anyone who becomes aware knows, having a bit of awareness is a most burdensome thing.  Whereas once you could turn on the TV and veg out, the world turns into a place of many threats to the continued existence … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Links for 2011-08-30 [del.icio.us]
  Chicago FED Charles Evans favors QE3 | Gold and Silver Blog Infowars Special Report : Al Qaeda Takes Libya with Alex Jones and Pepe Escobar BUY SILVER & GOLD: 2011 Australian Koala 1kg Silver Bullion Coin - Perth Mint 2011 Australian Koala 1kg Silver Bullion Coin - Perth Mint GERALD CEL ...
• Mass Media is hypnotism for the masses
  Entertainment - Enslaving the Minds of the Masses... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Shadow Government : Lifting the Veil
  A Documentary on the Political System, Democracy,... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• The Aftermath of Hurricane Irene & Comet Eleni ...
  The Aftermath of Hurricane Irene & Comet... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Links for 2011-08-29 [del.icio.us]
  Bob Chapman - The Financial Survival 29 Aug 2011 | Bob Chapman The International Forecaster Blog Bob Chapman - The Financial Survival 29 Aug 2011 Gold to $5000/oz within the next five years | Gold and Silver Blog Gold to $5000/oz within the next five years GERALD CELENTE BLOG: Infowars S ...

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• Avalanche of events arrives with fall's student
  September brings students back to Boston and along with them seminars, lecture, conferences and other scientific events. We're squeezed our updated calendar below or you can link to it here.
• NYTimes: New approach to gene sequencing is a ...
  Gina Kolata of the New York Times reports that "New methods of quickly sequencing entire microbial genomes are revolutionizing the field." The first bacterial genome was sequenced in 1995 -- a triumph at the time, requiring 13 months of work. Today researchers can sequence the DNA that constit ...
• MIT science news review on Irene and climate c ...
  Every time there is a major weather event - or not - expect to see a lot of reporting on the link between bad weather and climate change. Charlie Petit at the MIT's Knight Science Journalism Tracker calls the coverage "a lot of blather" and asks Was Irene a global warming storm? (wrong question. ...
• The science of predicting a hurricane's path
  As Bay Staters stock up on bottled water and batteries, NNB offers some links to the science of hurricanes. The Museum of Science offers a site for kids called Weatherwise. If the MOS windows hold up, you can watch the storm come in on their weather cam. An MIT class called "Solving Compl ...
• 1947 Newsreel: Boston woman 1st to scale Mt. M ...
  ...but she still had to do the laundry. The Museum of Science, Boston has posted a short film on the husband-and-wife team of Bradford and Barbara Washburn, museum patrons and co-founders. From Nat Geo: Their June 6, 1947, climb of Alaska's ice-ribbed Mount McKinley made Barbara the first ...

NRDC Switchboard

• How garage & basement apartments help people, ...
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   One of the best ways to accommodate growth (as we must) without either exacerbating sprawl or disturbing the character of existing communities is by using so-called “accessory un ...
• New study links flame retardants to low birth ...
  Sarah Janssen, Senior Scientist, San Francisco A study published today by a group of researchers at UC-Berkeley has found that exposure to a group of flame retardants, PBDEs, is linked to lower birth weight in infants.  I have written blogs befor ...
• NRDC in the News 8/30: Keystone XL pipeline co ...
  NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Susan Casey-Lefkowitz was the voice of concern in a Washington Post column written in support of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline… Susan was also quoted in the Huffington Post expressing concern ...
• Dirty, Muggy Summer Air Reminds Us Why We Need ...
  Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist, New York Today it was 111°F in Phoenix, AZ; tomorrow a high of 107°F is predicted. More than 70 days this summer have topped 100°F in central Texas. Much of the West still swelters under record-breaking summer heat. ...
• Americans Towns and Cities Facing Water-Relate ...
  David Beckman, Senior Attorney & Director, Water Program, Los Angeles Hurricane Irene capped off—we hope—four months of punishing weather across the country. From the flooding that ravaged the Mississippi River basin to the drought that scorched t ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, August 30, 2011: Long Beach CA police claims that a man shot to death by a cop was running away from an alleged stabbing incident are being questioned by residents of that neighborh ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, August 29, 2011: Yavapai-Prescott AZ cop caught on video tasering man twice while he had his hands up, no comment from police about the case so far. [3] bit.ly/pdGJLA  Orlando FL un ...
• Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 08-27 ...
  It was an exceptionally slow weekend for reports in the National Police Misconduct News Feed for August 27-28, 2011: A Culpeper County VA deputy was suspended while she’s the subject of a federal investigation into allegations she was caught on video beating a female detainee after she had been ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, August 26, 2011: Nashville TN cop was found guilty of 2nd degree murder in the shooting death of his wife that he claimed was accidental [0] bit.ly/n8DcyS Las Vegas NV loses lawsuit ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 24 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, August 25, 2011: 6 El Monte CA cops are accused of using excessive force in an incident that left the man shown above nearly blind when almost every bone in his face was broken. Th ...

Total Collapse

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

Daily Dose

• Streamzoo takes aim at Instagram and Picplz wi ...
  Streamzoo today released version 1.5 of its free photosharing tool, which is available on Android, iPhone, and as a Web app. Streamzoo has broad platform support, with easy sharing in Facebook, Twitter, and now Tumblr. Streamzoo also makes it easy for users to search for shared photos by hash t ...
• Internet in Mexico, Starting a Long Journey
  Internet penetration has been growing faster in Latin America than in the rest of the world, and this is especially true in Mexico. This is one of the facts presented today in a comScore webinar on the state of the Internet in Mexico. Here are its key findings: A young and growing market Accor ...
• Meet Pandav: a slick, powerful and disruptive ...
  Transit-planning app Pandav is closing in on 1 million completed sessions for the month of August, this is according to co-founders Tom Hauburger and David Hodge. As a mobile app, Pandav ventures where few other transportation tools dare to tread, letting users navigate public transit data on a ...
• Twitter queueing app Buffer hits milestone: On ...
  For any startup only a few months old, hitting one million anything is an enormous statistic to be proud of. Such is the case for Buffer which, as of yesterday, has just reached their biggest milestone to date: one million Tweets queued up and buffered. The masterminds behind the application: F ...
• Corrupt Chinese telecom official gets death se ...
  A former China Mobile chairman has received the death penalty after being found guilty of accepting an estimated $2.6 million (16.48 million yuan) in bribes, according to AFP. The man, Li Hua, formerly held the position of chairman and general manager of the state owned mobile operator’s Sichua ...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Ballieu Government Anti-Wind Stance Closes the ...
  Changes to the planning rules for wind energy projects introduced by the Ballieu Government will cost Victoria hundreds of jobs billions of dollard in investment. Beyond Zero Emissions� Executive Director Matthew Wright says wind energy developments will reduce the cost of electricity: �Wind pr ...
• Politicians Question the Role of Gas in Austra ...
  Politicians have raised fresh questions about the role of coal seam gas in Australia's energy future. Greens Senators Bob Brown and Christine Milne, along with MP Adam Bandt have all expressed concern about the emissions intensity of coal seam gas in the first week of the autumn session of parl ...
• Carbon Price Scheme – No Longer a Mystery Package
  Upon the release of Prime Minister Julia Gillard�s carbon price package (to take effect July 1, 2012), there has been talk aplenty of her plummeting popularity. The PM has dismissed the commentary in favour of the scheme�s necessity, saying, �Polls will come and go�� I�m absolutely convinced wh ...
• BZE Executive Director pictured on front of 20 ...
  Beyond Zero Emissions is pleased to have been awarded the prestigous opportunity to be pictured on the front of the Sydney Whitepages by Telstra owned directory publisher Sensis. BZE Executive Director Matthew Wright is pictured on top of the Sydney Theatre Company with their new largescale ...
• Carbon Price Response: A Small Step Forward, B ...
  Climate and energy security think tank Beyond Zero Emissions welcome the Labor government�s carbon price package negotiated with The Greens and lower house independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor. The proposed legislation will start the process of transitioning Australia from a 19th Century ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Big damage in Papua New Guinea: new film docum ...
  In one scene a young man, perhaps not long ago a boy, named Douglas stands shirtless and in shorts as he runs a chainsaw into a massive tropical tree. Prior to this we have already heard from an official how employees operating chainsaws must have a bevy of protective equipment as well as traini ...
• BBC plans to cancel fruitful Wildlife Conserva ...
  The announcement that the BBC plans to axe its 4-year-old Wildlife Conservation Fund, which has raised nearly $5 million (£3 million) for endangered species worldwide, has spurred an online campaign to save the program. The fund, which raises money largely from BBC viewers—especially those watch ...
• Australia passes national carbon trading schem ...
  Australia's parliament passed the world's first national carbon trading scheme for credits generated from farming and forestry, reports Reuters.
• Picture of the day: activists rally at White H ...
  A two week long civil action is taking place in front of the White House in an attempt to convince the Obama Administration to turn down the Keystone Pipeline XL, which would bring oil from Alberta's tar sands to the US market.
• Climate change may fuel increase in warfare, f ...
  Civil war is twice as likely in tropical countries during particularly hot and dry years, according to a new study in Nature. The researchers found that El Ni�o conditions, which generally cuts rainfall and raises temperatures in the tropics, may have played a factor in one-fifth of the world's ...

Sierra Express

• 2012: VP Sam Sumana hopeless
  The Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Alhaji Samuel Sam Sumana, is apparently a worried man owing to circulating disclosures that he will not benefit the pleasure of President Koroma’s running mate in the 2012 elections. Leaks forwarded to Sierra Express Media revealed President Ko ...
• The Sylvia Blyden & Bio’s peace!
  Krin, Krin, Krin my mobile phone rings.  Hello, whoâs speaking, I said.  Samura, the caller fumed, have you read the Awareness Times newspaper?  No, I dejectedly answer back. (Photo: Dr Sylvia Blyden and Maada Bio – photo credit: Awareness Times) It was then that I quickly called on my office ...
• Mr. Idiot questions Obasanjo’s visit
  There you are again. The Idiot was left to ponder over reasons surrounding Obasanjo’s ‘mumgbeh’ visits to Sierra Leone. Anyway, he was told that the former Nigerian President was in Sierra Leone to collect his award from the ruling APC government. As a senseless and dimwitted Idiot, I was smart ...
• Youths disgruntled over illogical powers of police
  The people around No. 2 River communities seem unhappy with the manner in which the police carried out a court order to demolish a house once owned by one Mr. Alpha Fofanah. Community people say for over thirty years now they’ve never witnessed such a terrible situation in rural communities deep ...
• Skye Bank in multiple frauds
  Read full details in our next edition! Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news! Related items Skye Bank�s Olatunjie: Going going��.gone CWL: Robin Mason Opens Case As Star Witnesses Suffer Temporary Loss of Memory 10 vehicles, money, appropriated at SLBC Interpol Indicts U ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

The Bovine

• Dairy Farmers of America colluded with Dean Fo ...
  An introduction from Gordon Watson: “The term “abuse of dominance” comes from the Competition Act Revised Statutes of Canada. It is defined as an offence under that act. From what I’ve seen over the last 13 years’ of my involvement … Continue reading →
• Keeping food cool without electricity
  This is being suggested for third world countries like Africa, but the way thing have been trending, we may eventually need it here too:
• Salmonella tainted Mexican papayas prompts Con ...
  That’s what we do when a health hazard doesn’t involve raw milk! From the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) website: “OTTAWA, August 26, 2011 – There was a recent outbreak of Salmonella agona in the United States linked to papayas from Mexico. … Continue reading →
• Big dairy and FDA teaming up against raw milk ...
  From Jeff Carter on the Business Insider: “Last night I went to see the documentary Farmageddon in Chicago. I also stayed for the full panel discussion. The film is shocking. Documentaries are supposed to shock you. Michael Moore has made millions presenting … Continue reading →
• B.C.’s Fraser Health Authority conducts ...
  The following is from an email sent to Fraser Health in response: August 29th 2011 Tim Shum,    Regional Director,  Fraser Health Authority Emailed to  Tim.Shum@fraserhealth.ca On Friday August 26th 2011 upon learning that he had executed a search of the … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• First Time Foreclosure Starts Near 3-Year Lows ...
  The LPS Mortgage Monitor August 2011 Mortgage Performance Report Shows First-Time Foreclosure Starts Near Three-Year Lows. That's the good news. The Bad News Average Loan in Foreclosure Is Delinquent for Record 599 DaysOf the nearly 1.9 million loans that are 90 or more days delinquent ...
• Retail Giant in Australia Warns of Massive Pri ...
  The CEO of Harvey Norman, Australia's largest electrical and furniture chain, warns of massive price cuts and a Christmas Retail Shocker."Retailers will have the hardest Christmas in their lives," said the boss of the country's biggest electrical and furniture chain . "I see unemployment go ...
• Eurozone Retail Sales Drop 4th Straight Month; ...
  The Eurozone economy is in shambles. Retail sales are down for the 4th consecutive month, consumer and economic confidence have plunged. Yet, economic denial runs deep. Government GDP estimates in Spain and Italy are preposterous, as are S&P growth forecasts. Let's take a look at the report ...
• Consumer Confidence Plunges to 44.5, Lowest Si ...
  In a healthy economy, consumer confidence would be 90. Instead it is slightly less than half that. Please consider U.S. Consumer Confidence Falls to Two-Year LowThe Conference Board’s index slumped to 44.5, the weakest since April 2009, from a revised 59.2 reading in July, figures from the ...
• Wells Fargo Says 12 States in Economic Contraction
  According to a Wells Fargo report, 12 States in Contraction, Alabama in Recession.The report from the San Francisco-based bank said Alabama was one of 12 states experiencing an economic contraction in July and "likely slipped into a recession." The report, written by senior economist Mark V ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Zacarias Moussaoui: What We Don’t Know Might H ...
  A Significant Stimulus for the Reform that Never Came By Kevin Fenton  Zacarias Moussaoui, one of the numerous “20th hijackers,” was arrested ten years ago next Tuesday, outside the Residence Inn in Eagan, Minnesota. The arrest was one of the first events in a case that gave the FBI a chance to ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 9, ...
  Pepe Escobar: ‘US Shocked & Awed by Taliban’, Top US Officials Paid to Endorse Iranian Terror Group, Military Coup in Sverdlovsk, Obama Increased Warrantless “Emergency” Spying 400%, The Cybersecurity-Industrial Complex, Hollywood to Glorify Obama in Movie (Operation Kill Bin Laden!), The Refus ...
• Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: Obama Administrati ...
  Never Before Exposed Plan ‘C’: Al Qaeda v. Debt-Ceiling, Next Bailouts & Hefty CEO Bonuses In a recently leaked report the Obama Administration’s never-came-into-play contingency plan, referred to as ‘Plan C’, points to the Al Qaeda threat and the War on Terror as major reasons for raising the d ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 8, ...
  Uproar in Egypt as US Funnels Aid, Obama Campaign to Get Big-Screen Bin Laden Boost, US Prepares for âWorse-Case Scenarioâ with Pakistan Nukes, Funding Nicholas Schmidle, Military Spending Threatens America’s Future Strength, ‘Only’ 20% of House of Repâs to Visit Israel During Summer Recess, Afg ...
• A Song for my Neorogressive-NeoConservative-Ne ...
  “Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle with you!”- Stealer Wheels A friend at FB suggested this song for the blind on the right and the sightless on the left; for all our Neoconservative-Neoliberal-Neoprogressive friends out there! This site depends excl ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Sorry BP: Exxon scores multibillion-dollar ar ...
  Exxon Mobil Corp. and OAO Rosneft, the state-controlled Russian oil giant, reached a sweeping strategic alliance Tuesday that will give the U.S. titan access to Continue Reading �
• Drewry: Fleet owners and managers feeling the ...
  London, UK, 19th August � If it wasn�t bad enough that demand in the shipping markets has not recovered, commodity price rises have put more Continue Reading �
• Ship Photos of The Week: Heavy Lift Offshore ...
  Today’s ship photos come to us via the heavy lift operator, Jumbo Shipping, who has just announced it has won a contract to transport and Continue Reading »
• Stability in Libya to help boost Mediterranean ...
  By Neena Rai, Dow Jones Newswires, Image by Andrew Winning/REUTERS LONDON (Dow Jones)–A restart of Libyan oil exports will lead to a renewed fixing of Continue Reading »
• John S. Damrell – Boston’s New 70& ...
  With hurricanes and earthquakes sweeping the East coast this week, the Boston fire department is ready for delivery of it’s newest and most capable, fireboat, Continue Reading »

Blogging Canadians

• What Is It With American Politicians And 'Corn ...
  There seems to be some unwritten rule that American politicians must be photographed eating a corndog. To a non-American, I have to wonder what this ritual is all about. Perhaps it is a combination of two separate 'American' political messages: 1) The 'hotdog' is truly an American cultura ...
• "The Media and Hollywood"
  CALL TO ARMS! JOIN ANON IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE MEDIA AND HOLLYWOOD! JOIN ANON!!!! #HWleaks #anonCELEBS by Jesse Medina As originally posted on: Jesse Medina (Holidayjess) on Twitter August 29, 2011
• A Very Sad Day For One Newfoundland Family - M ...
  This is a very sad day for one Newfoundland family and for the entire province of Saskatchewan. Local RCMP have now confirmed that human remains found in a farmers field are indeed those of a missing Nfld woman, Carol King. For the last few weeks, Sask residents in the hundreds have been combin ...
• "The Person who Hurt Me the Most"
  I know I've made a lot of stupid mistakes. But the worst one was thinking the person who hurt me the most, wouldn't hurt me again. by Thee Gomez As originally posted on: TeensInLove ♥ (TeensInLove) on Twitter June 21, 2011
• BC Referendum - Right Move, Wrong Target
  So, BC voters chose to scrap the HST and to return to the old GST/PST arrangement. Not a good choice if you ask me. I still believe that the HST is a better option - simply because it's a user-end value-added tax that doesn't have the cascading effect of a sales tax. Yes, in just 18 months, ther ...

Press TV - Middle East

• '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.
• Yemenis hold mass anti-regime demos
  Hundreds of thousands of Yemeni protesters have staged demonstrations across Yemen on Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan, calling for the implementation of their revolution's goals, Press TV reported.
• PLO status after statehood bid debated
  A British expert in international law says Palestinian refugees outside the West Bank and Gaza could lose their representation at the UN if the Palestinian Authority (PA) succeeds in its UN statehood bid, Press TV reported.
• Israel sends warships to Egypt border
  The Israeli Navy has sent two more warships to the Egypt border in the Red Sea, saying that southern Israel could be attacked from Egyptian soil, a claim denied by Cairo.
• 'PA sole representative of Palestinians'
  A senior official within the Fatah movement says the Palestinian Authority (PA) is the sole legitimate representative of Palestinians at the United Nations, Press TV reports.