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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, August 4, 2011

4 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Duke wins court case regarding renewable energy
Bizjournals.com
- Aug 04, 2011
- 6 hours ago
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled that Duke Energy can count trees toward renewable energy quotas when it burns them in its power plants. The decision affirms the North Carolina Utilities Commission's earlier ruling that Duke can count ...
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Hybrid street light shines on new alternative energy program
TEEX News
- Aug 04, 2011
- 10 hours ago
Expanding job opportunities in solar and wind technology prompted the TEEX to introduce the first training site in the Brazos Valley that is affiliated with the Texas Renewable Energy Education Consortium (TREEC). TEEX plans to offer its first 40-hour ...
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Former Disposal Site Will Provide Clean Renewable Energy for Hawaii
MarketWatch (press release)
- Aug 04, 2011
- 6 hours ago
This innovative use for the site recognized the State's need for renewable energy and is consistent with the vision of sustainability for Kapolei and with the Campbell Company's history of stewardship. "This project helps move Hawaii forward to a clean ...
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PG&E and Sempra Generation Contract for 150 MW of Renewable Power
PR Newswire (press release)
- Aug 04, 2011
- 10 hours ago
4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (NYSE: PCG) and Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), announced today that they have entered into a 25-year contract for 150 megawatts (MW) of renewable ...
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Human Habitat

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Chemicals Found In Car Seats
WSET
- Aug 04, 2011
- 8 hours ago
Entertainment News from AP Lynchburg, VA –The Ecology Center released a study Wednesday that shows more than half of child seats tested contain toxic chemicals that could be dangerous to babies and children. The report, published on Healthystuff.org, ...
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FRIM Pasoh-a Centre For Forest Ecology Research
Bernama
- Aug 04, 2011
- 31 minutes ago
By Erda Khursyiah Basir KUALA KLAWANG (JELEBU), Aug 5 (Bernama) -- Ever since its establishment in 1929, the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) has been synonymous with forest conservation and ecology in the country. However, not many people ...
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US Ecology, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2011 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
- Aug 02, 2011
- Aug 02, 2011
"US Ecology's performance in the second quarter was terrific and illustrates the underlying strength of our core assets, business model and solid execution of our strategy," commented President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Baumgardner. ...
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Canaccord Genuity Analysts Upgrade US Ecology Inc. (ECOL) Shares to "Buy"
NewsyStocks.com
- Aug 03, 2011
- Aug 03, 2011
Equities research analysts at Canaccord Genuity upgraded shares of US Ecology Inc. (NASDAQ: ECOL) from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a research note to investors on Wednesday. The analysts currently have a $21.50 price target on the stock, ...
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Water Power

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Scientists Find Signs Water Is Flowing on Mars
New York Times
- Aug 04, 2011
- 6 hours ago
By KENNETH CHANG Shifting dark streaks on the surface of Mars are signs that water is flowing there today, scientists said Thursday. Orbital imagery and 3-D modeling show flows that appear in spring and summer on a slope inside the Newton crater on ...
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Christie Approves Water Protection
Wall Street Journal
- Aug 04, 2011
- 3 hours ago
Chris Christie cleared the way Thursday for almost $650 million in low-cost and no-cost loans for water quality and protection projects. The bipartisan legislation that Mr. Christie signed at the Barnegat Bay will make $400 million available for ...
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GOP vs. Mother Nature
Los Angeles Times
- Aug 04, 2011
- 3 hours ago
Dozens of proposals by the House GOP would encourage deadly pollution of the air and water. One of the many riders attached to the appropriation bill that funds the Environmental Protection Agency would end the moratorium on uranium mining near the ...
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Tests: Most toxic Mont. spill compounds dissipated
The Associated Press
- Aug 04, 2011
- 8 hours ago
There were no surprises in the recently released results of air, water and soil samples taken after the July 1 pipeline break near Laurel, said Steve Merritt, the on-scene cleanup coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency. ...
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The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran’s oil bourse, a new pressure on U.S. dollar
    Summary: If the main oil consuming and producing nations in the world conspire to trade oil over an open exchange, similar to Iran’s Oil Bourse, and price the oil in currencies other than or as well as the U.S. dollar, then the world is likely to be economically more stable. Iran’s IOB is n ...
  • Iran not looking to make atomic bomb - Ahmadin ...
    Summary: "When we say we don't want to build an atomic bomb it means we really do not want to build an atomic bomb," Ahmadinejad, interviewed by the Euronews TV channel, said. source: Reutersread more
  • Making an Enemy of Iran
    Summary: Barack Obama has thrown in the towel regarding negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and yielded to his advisors’ policy of relentlessly demonising Iran, notes Patrick Seale. source: Middle East Onlineread more
  • Endless Accusations Against Iran
    Summary: Peter Hart, activism director at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), discusses the media’s warm reception to Treasury Department claims that Iran’s government is actively aiding al-Qaeda; the suspicious timing of these kinds of articles every time there’s a debate on withdraw ...
  • IRAN AND AL-QA’IDA: CAN THE CHARGES BE SUBSTAN ...
    Summary: This is all strongly reminiscent of the way in which the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations prepared the way for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. And much of the mainstream media seems content to reprise the dishonorable role they played in making that war possible. As her ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • News Flash: NASA --"Flowing Water on Mars"
    Observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. Dark, finger-like features appear and extend down some Martian slopes during late spring through summer, fade in winter, and return during the next...
  • Image of the Day: The Elusive Beauty of Radio ...
    As radio astronomers mapped the sky, they found several bright radio sources associated with distant galaxies. One of the brightest was the radio source Cygnus A (above). Cygnus A is a double-lobed radio source. Also notice the jets from the...
  • The Coma SuperCluster --An Evolving "Island Un ...
    The galaxy shown above, NGC 4911, lies more than 320 million light-years away in the "Coma Cluster" an evolving supercluster of 1,000 galaxies and islands of stars similar to the Milky Way 320 million light-years away. NASA said the stunning...
  • EcoAlert --Has Iron Dust in Antarctica Stopped ...
    Could adding dust to the waters around Antarctica supercharge plankton growth, causing global temperature drops? New research by Alfredo Martinez-Garcia of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, analyzing marine cores taken from the southern Atlantic Ocean reveals that going back...
  • Cosmic Mystery: Could Reflected Radiation of A ...
    Studying a large sample of Active Galactic Nuclei of Seyfert galaxies with INTEGRAL, astronomers have found that, unexpectedly, sources affected by stronger absorption at lower energies show an excess emission in the hard X-ray band when compared to their less...

Natural News

  • Trio of Los Angeles raw food advocates reporte ...
    (NaturalNews) The raid on Rawesome Foods by a combined force of agents from the FDA, LA County Dept of Agriculture, CDC and the LA County Sheriff's office wasn't the only SWAT-style armed raid that took place today. Sharon Palmer, a mom and owner of Healthy Family Farms was also arrested and tak ...
  • Massive public protest announced against gover ...
    (NaturalNews) As promised, a massive public protest is now being announced to give the members of the public an opportunity to voice their outrage against today's arrest of three raw foods advocates who are all being charged with conspiracy.The protest will be held at the LA County Courthouse lo ...
  • NaturalNews publishes Rawesome Foods raid sear ...
    (NaturalNews) The recent act of government-sponsored terrorism against Rawesome Foods in Venice, California was authorized by a woman named Michelle LeCavalier. She signed the warrant which stated that she believed there was property at Rawesome Foods that was "used as the means of committing a ...
  • Cancer is curable NOW! Thirty experts reveal m ...
    (NaturalNews) Alternative cancer treatment has grown into a powerful movement that is catching on quickly all over the world -- a movement which will finally reveal the ignorance of conventional treatments by showing how cancer is ALREADY curable right now: not with medicine or drugs, but with k ...
  • Court rules organic farmers can sue convention ...
    (NaturalNews) Purveyors of conventional and genetically-modified (GM) crops -- and the pesticides and herbicides that accompany them -- are finally getting a taste of their own legal medicine. Minnesota's Star Tribune has reported that the Minnesota Court of Appeals recently ruled that a large o ...

Threat Level

  • DIY Spy Drone Sniffs Wi-Fi, Intercepts Phone Calls
    What do you do when the target you're spying on slips behind his home security gates and beyond your reach? Launch your personal, specially-equipped drone to fly overhead and sniff his Wi-Fi network, intercept his cellphone calls, or launch denial-of-service attacks with jamming signals.
  • Hardcoded Password and Other Security Holes Fo ...
    LAS VEGAS — A security researcher has uncovered a slew of vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems, including a hard-coded password, that would let attackers reprogram the systems with malicious commands to sabotage critical infrastructures and even lock out legitimate administrator ...
  • Mug-Shot Industry Will Dig Up Your Past, Charg ...
    A handful of entrepreneurs are making real money by publicly shaming people who've run afoul of Florida law. Florida.arrests.org, the biggest player, now hosts more than 4 million mugs. On the other side of the equation are firms like RemoveSlander, RemoveArrest.com and others that sometimes cha ...
  • Alleged Miley Cyrus Hacker Pleads Guilty to Sp ...
    A hacker who boasted that he was responsible for stealing and posting provocative pictures stolen from Miley Cyrus’ Gmail account pleaded guilty on Monday to other charges involving credit card fraud and hacking. Josh Holly, 21, pleaded guilty to possessing about 200 stolen credit card numbers, ...
  • Researchers Say Vulnerabilities Could Let Hack ...
    Vulnerabilities in electronic systems that control prison doors could allow hackers or others to spring prisoners from their jail cells, according to researchers.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • A Birthday Gift for President Obama
    In 2008, I gave my money and my vote to Barack Obama. With somewhat less enthusiasm, I'll do the same in 2012. But on this his 50th birthday, it's time for a gift the President could really use. After his latest capitulation to Republicans in this week's debt ceiling debacle, the presents wo ...
  • 25 Things We Learned During the Debt Crisis
    If nothing else, the debt ceiling crisis provided what Barack Obama is so fond of calling a "teachable moment." Hopefully, that extends to the President himself. After seeing his nominees blocked, his legislation filibustered and popular upper-income tax increases delayed by Republicans who w ...
  • The Casey Anthony Party
    In the wake of the debt ceiling deal they opposed, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are predictably apoplectic that Vice President Joe Biden allegedly likened Tea Partiers to "terrorists." In that case, they must really be furious with observers like New York Times reporter Joe Nocera and Georg ...
  • The Real Losers in the Debt Deal
    The ink isn't yet dry (or even written) on the 11th hour debt deal, but the media are already doing their usual body count of the victors and vanquished. In the Washington Post, conventional wisdom regurgitation machine Chris Cillizza produced the predictable winners and losers list. While the ...
  • The Republican Debt Orgy in Pictures
    "In Washington more spending and more debt is business as usual," House Speaker John Boehner declared on Monday before warning, "I've got news for Washington - those days are over." The days, Boehner should have explained, before Barack Obama took the oath of office. As Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Opening of Mubarak Tria ...
    Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous was on site in Cairo today as former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, appeared in court for the first time to face allegations of corruption and the killing of protesters during the uprising that overthrew his rule. The trial has been adjourne ...
  • Thousands Protest Widening Inequality in Israe ...
    In Israel, tens of thousands have joined nationwide protests against high costs of living and growing income inequality. Protesters have set up more than 40 tent encampments scattered across Israel, with as many as 120,000 people turning out to demand lower taxes and increased access to educatio ...
  • Syrian Forces Attack Civilians in Hama as U.N. ...
    Syrian forces are pushing toward the center of the restive city of Hama as they continue an offensive in which an estimated 140 people have been killed. Residents say they saw explosions Wednesday morning and lines of tanks heading into the city. Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admir ...
  • Economist Dean Baker Predicts A "Really Bad De ...
    President Barack Obama welcomed the deficit deal as "an important first step" and urged both parties to work together on a larger plan to cut the deficit. The deal includes no new tax revenue from wealthy Americans and no additional stimulus for the lagging economy. It has a provision to create ...
  • Rep. Donna Edwards on Why She Voted Against De ...
    President Obama has signed legislation to increase the U.S. debt ceiling in time to avoid a national default. The $2.1 trillion deficit-reduction plan cleared its final hurdle in the Senate yesterday, passing with a 74-to-26 vote. Six Democrats and 19 Republicans opposed the measure. Members of ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: Arsenic and Old Rhino H ...
    The was encouraging news this week from South Africa, as efforts to crack down on the country's trophy hunting debacle are moving forward. Meanwhile, antique rhino horn thefts continue - but there may be very unpleasant consequences for the end user. Related posts:Rhino Crisis Round Up: Antiqu ...
  • Ethical Regulations Proposed for Human-Animal ...
    A working group of the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research in London has drawn up the first "regulatory framework" to guide the creation, use and treatment of animal-human hybrids, also known as chimeras. The framework is outlined in the group's July 22 published d ...
  • Top 15 Activism Stories of the Week
    Leading up to and since Tim DeChristopher's sentencing, there's been a lot of talk around the internet regarding the direct action that's needed, and not needed, today. Everyone who cares about the environment seems to be getting into it. DeChristopher has now spent over one week of his two year ...
  • Sunglint off the Massachusetts Coastline (Phot ...
    Captured on June 27 of this year by the crew on the International Space Station, this photo of the Massachusetts coastline was taken at an angle, allowing for the sunglint shown prominently in Cape Cod Bay. Related posts:U.S. Atlantic Seaboard at Night {Photo of the Day} GOES Satellites Watchi ...
  • Tea Party Nose Cutters! (cartoon)
    It’s certainly good for politicians to listen to their constituents–it doesn’t happen enough. But, when their constituents are backed by rich influence, and when their constituents are so woefully close minded, you end up with corrupt politicians, ignorant constituents, and increasingly powerful ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Libyan masses' resistance to U.S./NATO war int ...
    Colonial nature of the war now crystal clear As the U.S./NATO war on Libya enters its fifth month, resistance to the intervention has intensified. The thousands of bombs dropped by Western governments on Libya have proved to be no deterrent to massive street demonstrations defending the ...
  • Why I Support A Primary Challenge To Barack Ob ...
    Three years ago, when Barack Obama was merely a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, I began to encounter some troubling signs that he was not what he appeared to be. Several columnists whom I trust were warning, even then, that this man was a conservative in progressives' ...
  • A Sea Change - Poems about Nature
    A Sea Change (22) (from "White Egrets) Derek Walcott is a writer and painter from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.  He was born in 1930. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. This is his poem #22 under “A Sea Change” in his latest volume of poetry, t ...
  • Home Health Workers Are Sick of Being Shut Out ...
    As walking canes replace running shoes, and the parents who raised us start needing to be cared for themselves, the first dawn of America's aging boom approaches. But even as the "gray wave" looms on the horizon, the way we treat the workers who care for our elders lags generations...
  • Obama's whistleblower war suffers two defeats ...
    The Obama administration's unprecedented war on whistleblowers suffered two serious and well-deserved defeats.  The first occurred in the prosecution of NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, who was accused of multiple acts of espionage, only for the DOJ to drop virtually all of the charges right befo ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Debt Surrender Makes Creating Jobs Impossible
    Looks like the eleventy-dimensional chess master got beat at his own game. Robert Reich: But what pre?cisely will he fight for now that the debt deal has tied his hands? He says he wants to ex?tend tax cuts for mid?dle class fam?i?lies and make sure the job?less get un?em?ploy?ment ben?e?fits. F ...
  • Wealthy Declare Class Warfare on American Workers
    Because the current economic recession was not a normal downturn in the business cycle but rather one brought about by a financial crisis stemming from reckless Wall Street speculation, the very last thing government should do is to throw money at the problem in a vain and desperate Keynesian ef ...
  • Anti-Liberal Rachets
    The repugs always play a long game - every short-term victory is a building block in their ultimate authoritarian fortress. Thus, their "crazy" behavior over the debt limit accomplished much more than just eliminating the domestic discretionary budget. David Atkins, thereisnospoon: The longest- ...
  • The Last Bastion of Homophobia
    Nope, it's not the republican party. The Nation: A majority of Americans accept gay and lesbian relations. Antidiscrimination and marriage laws are slowly catching up to social consciousness. So why does the world of sports, such a dominant part of our culture, remain fiercely hostile to open p ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Wait...@NPR failed to put a "nice, polite republican" spin on the FAA shutdown? Color us stunned. An AP story reports that the "Senate continues to object to legislation approved by the House to fully fund the FAA. The bill includes cuts to certain subsidies for rural air service." ... But Reid ...

Care 2

  • Tea Partys War on America
    You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them.Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Save Morgan From a Life of Perf ...
    Last June, a young orca, later named Morgan, was found stranded and emaciated in Dutch waters. The Dolfinarium Harderwijk nursed her back to health but has since refused to return her to her native waters. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Victory! Suspected Crush Video Ring Leaders ...
    A reason for dogs, frogs, monkeys, mice, pigs and many other animals to smile: Dorma (�Chita�) and Vicente Ridon, the Filipino couple charged with crimes related to the production of a series of �crush� videos in which scantily clad young girls engage in Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �N ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Tell the BLM: Use Your Land for ...
    Millions of acres of land have been set aside for solar energy facilities and developments in a stretch of the Southwest, yet so far not one solar enterprise has begun there.Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • POLITICS AND POLLUTION MAKE FOR TROUBLED WATER ...
    The Bay of Gibraltar has a serious pollution problem. Efforts to clean up the mess, however, have so far been hindered by historic animosities between British and Spanish authorities, which have conflicting claims over the bay. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Just the Real Economic Facts about Federal Spe ...
    Let’s be very logical and methodical about the budget and deficit spending of the Federal Government. You may find the numbers mind numbing but it is actually pretty simple if you can just add, subtract and divide. When you look at these numbers you will realize that the so-called deficit deal j ...
  • Looking at the Timeline of the New Yorker Kill ...
    Let’s continue with the New Yorker’s cub reporter, Nick Schmidle, and his tale of the killing of Bin Laden by America’s hero President, Barry Soetoro Obama, by focusing on the timeline. Worth looking at the story based on the actual local times and the time distance facts. Let’s start with some ...
  • This Says It All * Open Thread
    I received the following photos from my friend, Artemis, this morning. I think this sums up perfectly the difference between who we could have had, and who we have. Hillary Clinton in the rain: And then there is Obama in the rain: Enough said, though feel free to share your opinions! (Apologies ...
  • Obama Uses the New Yorker to Bamboozle America
    Got to give the “Chicago” “Honolulu” kid some credit. In the midst of taking an ass whipping on the Hill he managed to persuade the highly regarded New Yorker to carry his water and spin a delightful but bullshit yarn about the killing of Osama Bin Laden. The “How Obama Got Some Osama” tale that ...
  • The Obama Exit Strategy
    “Hope is the thing with feathers,” Emily Dickenson wrote in a famous poem, likening it to a bird “that perches in the soul.”  And indeed, “Hope” is in the air, soaring aloft on the winds of “change” once again blowing through Washington as we fly headlong into another stormy presidential campaig ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Does Society Make People Feel Bad About Feelin ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline According to a new study, certain cultures actually make people feel worse about feeling bad. Researchers at the University of Queensland, the University of Leuven, the University of Melbourne, and Kyoto University, collaborated to determine if society can exacerb ...
  • Yoga for Balancing Mind and Body
    Yoga is in ancient practice that originated in India but has gained considerable popularity in the US. Breathing exercises, postures, and meditation are core components of yoga. Although many people develop a yoga practice to become more physically toned or flexible, the benefits of yoga are pur ...
  • Time to Talk About Sex and Chronic Illness
    Awkward topic, isn’t it? It’s not an area we usually delve into with great confidence or pride.  For those of us with chronic illness, the topic of sex can bring up a whole host of emotions: fear, hurt, guilt, sadness, feelings of inadequacy and disappointment. Sure, there are moments of great p ...
  • Lack of Close Relationships May Increase Cardi ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Psychologists have long been concerned that the lack of social support in women with depression may lead to serious physical health consequences, including cardiovascular disease. Researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School ...
  • Does Domestic Violence during Pregnancy Shape ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Expectant women experience a shift in self-perception from being not a mother, to becoming a mother. Alytia A. Levondosky, Ph.D., and G. Anne Bogat, Ph.D., both of the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University, together with Alissa C. Huth-Bocks, Ph.D. ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Congress: Stop Attacking the EPA - Huffington ...
    Congress: Stop Attacking the EPA Huffington Post (blog) Many members of Congress continue to attack the US Environmental Protection Agency for doing its job when it comes to the regulation of mountaintop removal mining. The EPA doing its job, some insist, is putting coal miners out of their job ...
  • CNN to air Blair Mountain special Aug. 14 - Be ...
    CNN to air Blair Mountain special Aug. 14 Beckley Register-Herald By Taylor Kuykendall Register-Herald Reporter �The uncertainty is what gets you,� a West Virginia coalfields citizen says in an upcoming program that again puts the state's mountaintop removal battle in the spotlight. �Battle for ...
  • Arrested Environmentalist Speaks Out - WVNS-TV
    Arrested Environmentalist Speaks Out WVNS-TV BECKLEY -- Beck Kolins said she stayed in a tree to draw attention to the strip mines and how mountain top removal mining is impacting the environment. She and several other environmentalist claim mountaintop removal is poisoning ... and more�� ...
  • 'Battle for Blair' Mountain' to air Sun. on CN ...
    'Battle for Blair' Mountain' to air Sun. on CNN Daily Mail - Charleston "Across the nation, a schism that separates pro-coal and pro-environment movements over mountaintop removal, a destructive yet highly effective form of strip mining, is deepening," the release said. In the show, CNN documen ...
  • Weakening the EPA is threat to Southwest Va. - ...
    Red, Green, and Blue Weakening the EPA is threat to Southwest Va. TriCities.com Southwest Virginia faces economic depression and it comes in the form of a weakened Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate mountaintop removal coal mining. The US House has introduced HR 2018, the �Cl ...

Memeorandum

  • Despite Debt-Crisis Resolution, Wall Street Pl ...
    Fox News: Despite Debt-Crisis Resolution, Wall Street Plummets Amid Economic Fears  —  Just when Washington thought the U.S. economy was back on track after dodging a bullet from the now-resolved debt crisis, Wall Street sent a clear signal Thursday that all is not well.
  • F.A.A. Impasse Is Nearly Over, For a While (Ed ...
    Edward Wyatt / New York Times: F.A.A. Impasse Is Nearly Over, For a While  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has reached a patchwork agreement with Congressional leaders to end a 13-day partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, sai ...
  • The Debt-Ceiling Debate and 2012 - Neither par ...
    Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal: The Debt-Ceiling Debate and 2012  —  Neither party really won, but the GOP has a better case to take to the public.  —  After big events like Tuesday's debt-ceiling vote, Washington goes into overdrive to declare who won and who lost.  But politics is more comp ...
  • Disapproval Rate for Congress at Record 82% Af ...
    New York Times: Disapproval Rate for Congress at Record 82% After Debt Talks  —  The debate over raising the debt ceiling, which brought the nation to the brink of default, has sent disapproval of Congress to its highest level on record and left most Americans saying that creating jobs should n ...
  • Three Arrested on Charges of Illegally Produci ...
    Jane Robison / da.co.la.ca.us: Three Arrested on Charges of Illegally Producing, Selling Unpasteurized Milk  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Contacts: Sandi Gibbons, Public Information Officer

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

  • Life among landslides (2)
    In the second instalment of his article on changing landscapes, Kenneth Hewitt tells the stories of how mountain people have adapted to life on volatile terrain.As we saw in part one, thanks to human adaptability, landslides not only bring “perils” but also create landscapes with long-term benef ...
  • Life among landslides (1)
    Rock avalanches cause destruction, but also provide benefits to people living in Asia’s mountains. Opening a three-part article, Kenneth Hewitt explores the impacts in the upper Indus valley.Large rockslides and the rock avalanches they can generate will destroy any living thing or built structu ...
  • Did oligarchs cause the crash?
    The Wenzhou train disaster is the latest signal China’s economic miracle is not all it seems: local officials and powerful monopolies are leading the nation down a treacherous path, writes Tang Hao.Some argue the root cause of China’s fatal rail crash on July 23 – the latest in a series of rail ...
  • End of the high-speed myth?
    As China struggles with the aftermath of a fatal train wreck, its breakneck push to lead the world in rail is under scrutiny. Lu Zongshu, Shen Nianzu and Zhu Yang report.On the evening of July 23, at least 40 people were killed when two trains collided near Wenzhou, on the high-speed line that r ...
  • Kenya’s biofuel evictions
    In the Tana Delta’s unique wetlands, villagers fight for their plots of land as the government forces them out -- to make way for water-thirsty sugar-cane and jatropha plantations. Tracy McVeigh reports.Gamba Manyatta village is empty now, weeds already roping around the few skeletal hut frames ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • How the US Hid Shocking Hiroshima Footage For ...
    In a new book, Greg Mitchell explains how the United States' coverup of nuclear footage from Hiroshima and Nagasaki affects us to this day.
  • Pimping Alcoholics
    The gravy train of the 2000’s is over for Pharma reports yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. New drugs made the drug industry $11.8 billion in 2005 and only $4.3 billion last year– almost two-thirds less. Why?  There are several reasons, says the Journal. Doctors have a “growing fear of prescribin ...
  • Religious right attack Al Franken for exposing ...
    Over two weeks after an incident in which a Focus on the Family spokesperson was busted during a Congressional hearing for distorting a study, the National Organization for Marriage is trying to sneak in a defense of that spokesperson. On July 20 during a Congressional hearing on the Defense o ...
  • Payback Time: Wisconsin Progressives & Lab ...
    Polls are favorable as progressives head into the recall elections of eight Wisconsin State Senate Republicans who supported Scott Walker's union-busting.
  • Our Biggest Security Threat Is Global Warming- ...
    We risk losing our country to permanent droughts and extreme natural disasters.

Threat Level

  • DIY Spy Drone Sniffs Wi-Fi, Intercepts Phone Calls
    What do you do when the target you're spying on slips behind his home security gates and beyond your reach? Launch your personal, specially-equipped drone to fly overhead and sniff his Wi-Fi network, intercept his cellphone calls, or launch denial-of-service attacks with jamming signals.
  • Hardcoded Password and Other Security Holes Fo ...
    LAS VEGAS — A security researcher has uncovered a slew of vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems, including a hard-coded password, that would let attackers reprogram the systems with malicious commands to sabotage critical infrastructures and even lock out legitimate administrator ...
  • Mug-Shot Industry Will Dig Up Your Past, Charg ...
    A handful of entrepreneurs are making real money by publicly shaming people who've run afoul of Florida law. Florida.arrests.org, the biggest player, now hosts more than 4 million mugs. On the other side of the equation are firms like RemoveSlander, RemoveArrest.com and others that sometimes cha ...
  • Alleged Miley Cyrus Hacker Pleads Guilty to Sp ...
    A hacker who boasted that he was responsible for stealing and posting provocative pictures stolen from Miley Cyrus’ Gmail account pleaded guilty on Monday to other charges involving credit card fraud and hacking. Josh Holly, 21, pleaded guilty to possessing about 200 stolen credit card numbers, ...
  • Researchers Say Vulnerabilities Could Let Hack ...
    Vulnerabilities in electronic systems that control prison doors could allow hackers or others to spring prisoners from their jail cells, according to researchers.

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  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Cargill to Recall 35,709,675 Pounds of Fresh G ...
    This just in - Cargill Value Added Meats – Retail  (also referred to as CVAM-Retail) will announce a Class I Voluntary Fresh Ground Turkey Recall of approximately 35,709,675 pounds of ground turkey products August 3, 2011.  The product may be linked to an outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg.  All ...
  • Is Secretary Vilsack stepping up on non-O157 E ...
    I must admit I left before Secretary Vilsack arrived at the IAFP Conference for his speech.  Although I like the Secretary, I did not expect for him to say much of anything new about food safety.  And, after spending some $40,000 on public health scholarships, the Food Safety News booth, trave ...
  • Even the Weston A. Price Foundation is Learnin ...
    It is great that there is such a big interest in the Real Raw Milk Facts Poster at the IAFP Conference. Even a Board member of Weston A. Price stopped by to learn. Geoffrey Morell, ND, JP, (Secretary), is a practicing naturopath, specializing in the past 20 years in the field commonly called ...
  • A History of Ground Beef and Turkey Meat and S ...
    We are in the middle of yet another Salmonella outbreak linked to Salmonella-tainted ground meat, so I thought it might be helpful to put in in context thanks to http://www.outbreakdatabase.com.  I am expecting that the producer or producers of the Salmonella Heildelberg - tainted turkey may wel ...
  • So, whose Turkey Burger's tainted with Salmone ...
    JoNel Aleccia of MSNBC reported that the federal Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a public health alert (last Friday night) about the Salmonella Heidelberg infections linked to ground turkey that has sickened 76 and killed 1 California man. However, FSIS is not saying much: "FS ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Nissan's reponse to Top Gear? Here, hav ...
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, UK, Celebrities, Humor, ElectricWhen Top Gear said that, "In the real world, [the Tesla Roadster] doesn't seem to work," the electric automaker responded with a lawsuit. Nissan is taking a different tack, putting a clever twist on the one-sided, anti-EV message th ...
  • Official: 2025 CAFE target set at 54.5 mpg; ev ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal Following the official announcement this morning that the new 2025 Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard would be set at 54.5 miles per gallon, our email box overflowed with something we rarely see: near-unanimous support. Everyone from the automakers to the Un ...
  • Report: White House lowers 2025 CAFE target to ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal What's the difference between 56.2 and 54.5 miles per gallon? Way more than 1.7 mpg, that's for sure. The Detroit News is reporting that the Obama White House is dialing down the proposed 2025 fuel economy requirement to 54.5 mpg. Earlier, we had heard that 62 ...
  • Official: NYC fleet adds 70 plug-in vehicles, ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Truck, Work, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Ford, Police/Emergency, Electric NYC Chevy Volt Police Car - Click above for high-res image gallery As much as the average driver doesn't really have to worry about "range anxiety" during a normal driving day, we will gran ...
  • Official: Toyota issues recall for Highlander, ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Crossover, Lexus, Toyota Lexus RX 400h - Click above for high-res image There's a problem with some 2006 and 2007 model year Toyota Highlander Hybrid and Lexus RX 400h vehicles. Today, Toyota announced that it will voluntarily recall 45,500 Highlander Hybrid an ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • War, Debt and the President
    President Barack Obama touted his debt ceiling deal Tuesday, saying, “We can’t balance the budget on the backs of the very people who have borne the biggest brunt of this recession.” Yet that is what he and his coterie of Wall Street advisers have done. In the affairs of nations, Alexander H ...
  • Billy Bragg on Death of Fellow British Singer- ...
    While on tour in the United States, legendary British rocker and activist, Billy Bragg, joined Democracy Now! for an extended interview. One of the many topics he discussed was the tragic death of the British singer-songwriter, Amy Winehouse. "I’m very, very sorry that someone as clearly as t ...
  • "A Victory In The War Against Profiteering." B ...
    "War is a racket," wrote retired U.S. Marine Major General Smedley D. Butler, in 1935. That statement, which is also the title of his short book on war profiteering, rings true today. One courageous civil servant just won a battle to hold war profiteers accountable. Her name is Bunnatine "Bu ...
  • New York Set to Close School for Troubled Teen ...
    As Congress considers spending cuts to reduce the deficit, critics warn that reduced education, healthcare and other social services will disproportionally impact low-income communities of color. This is the case in New York City, where a high school that provides drug treatment to former gang ...
  • The British Watergate: A Backgrounder on the M ...
    The London-based journalist Richard Gizbert, host of the Al Jazeera program "The Listening Post," chronicles how the Murdoch phone hacking scandal has shaken the British government, media system and public. A must-watch interview on how the scandal has unfolded and what it means for people in t ...

Suzie-Q

  • Keith’s Special Comment: The Four Great ...
    Obama on the Backs of the Poor OpEdNews 8/3/11 By Ray McGovern What are we to make of the Obama-brokered deal on debt and spending? It was certainly what the Germans call eine schwere Geburt (a difficult birth); it was one of the few times I would have favored abortion. I am reminded of a [...]
  • Middle-class Jews protest Zionist Chutzpah
    Paul Feldman reports on giant Israeli protests Peoples Assembly Network 08.01.2011 Highlights: * On Saturday night, more than 150,000 people – out of a population of seven million – gathered in 12 cities across Israel as part of the biggest social movement the country has witnessed. * Middle-cla ...
  • At Last Hour, Debt Bill Moves to Senate
    By CARL HULSE, NYT August 1, 2010 WASHINGTON — After months of partisan impasse, the House on Monday approved a budget agreement intended to head off a potential government default, pushing Congress a big step closer to the conclusion of a bitter fight that has left both parties bruised and exha ...
  • Debt Ceiling: Fighting the Dark Side
    Huffington Post 7/30/11 Jennifer Bendery WASHINGTON — With just three days left until the country is set to begin defaulting on its debt, the House rejected a debt proposal by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Saturday — a move Republicans designed purely for theatrics to show the bi ...
  • Tony Blair to face ‘scathing criticism&# ...
    Tony Blair will face scathing criticism from Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry over his role in the Iraq war, according to reports. The former prime minister will be held to account for major failings in the war in which 179 British soldiers, 3,500 US soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis died, it has ...

Solari

  • Federal Budget 101 & Catherine’s Response
    By: David Thomas Chief Executive Officer Equitas Capital Advisors LLC The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we created a breakdown of federal spending in simple terms. Let’s put the 2011 federal budget into per ...
  • UnAnswered Questions About Rawsome Food
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Yesterday, Rawsome Foods in Venice, California was raided by a Los Angeles swat team. Several people were arrested. There are numerous unanswered questions about why. Nearby,  at Whole Foods in Venice it was business as usual. Indeed, having just agreed to “co-exist” w ...
  • The Whistleblower
    Note from Catherine: Check out “The Whistleblower” opening this weekend, a story based on the efforts of a few brave people to stop sex slave trafficking involving a US/UN contractor. The story is an eye-opener. Given the importance of slave trafficking to compromising governmental and business ...
  • Does MERS Make the US a “BBB” Credit?
    By David Woolley “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, – go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “The imagination of the individual has no limits. It has no borders.” ~Jon Rappoport Related reading: Jon Rappoport Wikipedia Jon Rappoportâs Blog

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • A warning from the past. Might the American E ...
    Summary:  Hubris is the great destroyer of Empires.  Especially the mad American Empire, which costs much, brings no economic benefits (no treasure ships coming home, no advantage to our exports), and multiplies our enemies.  Britain’s post-imperial periods was painful, as it will be for us i ...
  • Rao Responds
    On the blog he created to discuss ideas from the book: http://www.tempobook.com/2011/07/24/chet-richards-review-of-tempo-on-fabius-maximus/ You may also be interested in following him at his personal blog: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ �
  • Book Review: Tempo
    Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making by Venkatesh Rao (Ribbonfarm, 2011; 154 pages) Reviewed by Chet Richards July 24, 2011 A good book is read more than once while accumulating copious notes in its margins and on the blank pages that the publisher has thoughtf ...
  • Book review: The Next Wave: On the Hunt for A ...
    Summary:   A review of The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda’s American Recruits by Catherine Herridge.  Reviewed by “GI” Wilson (Colonel, USMC, retired). When reading Catherine Herridge’s smashing investigative work on terrorism, The Next Wave, the lyrics from Jimmy Buffet’s “Trouble on ...
  • Attritionist Letter #2 — our military se ...
    Summary:   With US forces engaged around the world in six conflicts (and many small ones), each the day our media paint a picture of the armed services.  News, articles, books, movies — seldom have we been so well informed about our mechanized high-tech defense professionals — the very model ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • The Regime Change Ratchet
    A very smart piece from Eric Martin about how a series of plausible demands on the U.S. president can lead you down a slippery slope to unwise action: Step 1: How can the President not at least condemn [Regime X] publicly for its abhorrent actions? A public condemnation is the very least the Pre ...
  • Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws Have an Ongoing Impa ...
    Our guest blogger is Colin Cookman, research associate for national security at the Center for American progress. Salman Taseer The assassinations of Punjab provincial governor Salman Taseer in January and Pakistani minister for minorities Shahbaz Bhatti in March have, in months since, been ...
  • No Way to Run an Empire
    The defense budget is driven in part by excessive costs for this and that, but it’s primarily driven by the fact that the United States has a very ambitious national security strategy for itself. Rather than try to focus on credibly deterring a major power attack on US territory while maintaini ...
  • Cholera and Climate Change
    Global health is complicated. We knew this already, true, but a new study on cholera and river flows brings home that complexity in all its inexplicable glory. While we once assumed that warmer water meant more cholera â a grim portent of widespread cholera in a future of climate change â it see ...
  • Famine, Climate Change and the Horn of Africa ...
    This is Part II of my series on the famine in Somalia and East Africa. Since I posted Part I two days ago, FEWSNET has extended the geographic range at risk of famine (based on nutrition levels and rates of mortality) to more parts of Somalia including�the agropastoral areas of Balcad and Cadale ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Any 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate Is ...
    Responding to�Paul's post about Rick Perry's identity politics, Kevin Drum writes: For the record, I don't think Perry can win the Republican nomination, and I know that he can't beat Obama in a general election. I'd love to see him try, though. With respect to the Republican nomination, I ...
  • To the Super Committee, and Beyond!
    With Republicans beginning to focus�their efforts on passing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, and further spending cuts via the �super committee,� it�s natural to wonder what plan � if any � Democrats have for the coming months. At a meeting this morning with liberal bloggers, ...
  • The Challenge of Reporting on the Loony
    Let's say you're a reporter doing a story on a politically important group that propagates ideas that are, shall we say, troubling. How do you describe these ideas? As much as we might criticize reporters for mindless "he said/she said" coverage, finding the best alternative isn't always clear c ...
  • Live by Identity Politics, Die by Identity Pol ...
    Politico tells us that some GOP elites are non too excited about Rick Perry's potential presidential candidacy. Here are a few excerpts: "What we don’t know about Gov. Perry is how he'll perform on the national stage. We know he's got a great record in Texas," [GOP strategist Charlie] Black sai ...
  • Choosing the Appropriate Inflammatory Metaphor
    At the moment, the most popular item on The Washington Post website is this blog post from Charles Lane, taking Democrats to task for referring to Tea Partiers as "terrorists." Apparently, Lane is unfamiliar with the concept of "metaphor" and believes it is inaccurate to call Tea Partiers terror ...

Buzzflash

  • Rupert Murdoch and Bradley Manning: Why Isn't ...
    JANE STILLWATER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT What if you were to obtain government information that is important to the public and then give it to someone to disseminate it widely?  How should you be punished?  If you are Bradley Manning, you will be thrown in jail, tortured, humiliated, depriv ...
  • Wal-Mart and the Self-Cannibalization of the A ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The world power companies are winning. Let's imagine a company, say a global corporation like Wal-Mart. Let's suppose that this behemoth retailer sells - among other consumer goods manufactured outside of the US - shirts made in China to unemployed ...
  • Was Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) Looking for Ra ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In previous years, remarks like this Were career-ending abominations. Now they're helpful tools designed For fundraising solicitations.read more
  • Oppression Is the Weapon of Choice of America' ...
    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There's nothing a zealots cherish more than the notion they and their kind are being oppressed. And nothing gets better than outright martyrdom -- which they consider any form of organized opposition to whatever the hell they want. Yeah, the Tea Party ...
  • Senator Bernie Sanders: Why I Voted "No" on th ...
    BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT NEWS ALERT Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after voting against what he called "an extremely unfair" deficit-reduction package: "I believe that Vermonters and people across the country are extremely dismayed that all of the burden for d ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Can YouTube save us from climate change?
    New media has rapidly become the mechanism by which information is spread quickly in many walks of life from alerting the public to local traffic incidents, terrorist attacks, earthquakes and celebrity deaths. The likes of Twitter and Facebook have become the first responders to almost every eve ...
  • John Cleese does chemistry
    The Case of the Sulphuric Acid plant was an educational short movie from 1976 aimed at schools and has as its narrator, Monty Python cast member John Cleese, who also features in animated form thanks to the late, great Tony Hart (of Vision On, Take Hart fame). The movie clip was posted on Youtub ...
  • The heat is on for thermal imaging
    The heat is on – Designer and thermal photographer Joseph Giacomin of Brunel University contacted me about his book – Seeing the World Through 21st Century Eyes. “The book,” he told me, “provides a visual journey through the world around us through the medium of thermal photography, hopefully st ...
  • Genetics at a SNP
    Genetics at a SNP – There are genetic variants, SNPs, associated with a tendency to have almost any physical trait such as baldness, athleticisim, green eyes, red hair, obesity, alcohol dependence, type 2 diabetes and many other diseases, even the amount of earwax one produces. There are also SN ...
  • Headless zombie squid and dead frogs dancing
    It is possible to re-animate dead appendages with a little salt, either table salt or in solution form as soy sauce. Be warned, this may put you off your breakfast. In the first video (which seems to have first appeared on the web a couple of years ago but a variant of which went viral [...]Head ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Feds Ignore Risks and Green Light Shell Drilli ...
    The U.S. Department of the Interior took a dangerous and disappointing leap towards drilling in the remote and fragile waters of America’s Arctic Ocean today. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) approved a plan by Shell Oil to conduct the first drilling in ...
  • Environmental Groups Cry Foul over Suspension ...
    The Center for Biological Diversity and Greenpeace today formally requested a full inquiry into the suspension of Dr. Charles Monnett, a distinguished Arctic scientist suspended last month as the Obama administration considered pending oil drilling plans for the region.� The drilling plan for th ...
  • U.S. “Special Operations” Forces Expanding
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  • Cargill Recall Stark Reminder of Importance of ...
    “Last night’s announcement by Cargill of a recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey products is just the latest example of why we need strong regulatory and public health programs in place to protect consumers. read more
  • Groups File Suit Against Army Corps and Delawa ...
    A coalition of concerned nonprofit organizations today jointly filed a lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers and the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) for their failure to comply with federal law by proposing gas drilling regulations without first conducting a full environmental revie ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • New Pipeline to Challenge Obama's Promises
    Bill McKibben It took some serious digging in the sock drawer, but eventually I found my 'Environmentalists for Obama' button left over from the '08 campaign. I needed it because I'm headed to Washington in a couple of weeks to get arreste ...
  • Matt Damon, Arne Duncan and the Divisive Teach ...
    Dana Goldstein Last weekend, two very different speeches on the future of the teaching profession made news. �read more
  • The Wrong Medicine: Why Fiscal Austerity Is a ...
    Alejandro Reuss As protesters take to the streets in Europe to oppose government spending cuts, proponents of austerity in the United States and Europe claim that immediate moves to reduce government deficits are the way to renewed economi ...
  • The American Debate: Deal Traps Obama Into Hel ...
    Dick Polman In dysfunctional Washington, this is what passes for a major achievement: The Republicans snatch Uncle Sam and threaten to drive him over the cliff. In response, President Obama agrees to pay a historic ransom. To please the ho ...
  • The FCC Coddles and AT&T Throttles
    Amy Kroin The FCC has taken to heart the maxim “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” allowing AT&T another chance to prove that its proposed purchase of T-Mobile is a bang-up idea.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

  • Arab wounds exposed in "Vanishing Spaces" film ...
    Naira AntounThe Electronic Intifada A series of six short films from Palestine and Syria screened in London last month were produced over a period spanning four decades and contend with the effects of political and industrial change, the importance and fragility of memory, home and�belonging. ...
  • Poverty rife among Bedouin women denied status ...
    The Electronic IntifadaTel Aviv Unemployment and poverty rates among the Negev Bedouin in unrecognized villages are the highest in�Israel.
  • End blockade now, says UN group in rare Gaza visit
    Thalif DeenThe Electronic Intifada For the first time in 43 years, members of the UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices in Occupied Territories gained entry into Gaza in July, through Egypt which ousted its Israeli-friendly president Hosni Mubarak following massive public protest ...
  • New moves to curb criticism of Israel in US an ...
    Kristin SrzemskiThe Electronic Intifada A number of new initiatives to curtail freedom of speech by conflating opposition to Israeli crimes with anti-Semitism are underway in the United States and�Canada.
  • Palestinian Christians protest Anglican chief' ...
    Sarah IrvingThe Electronic Intifada Comments by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the Anglican and Episcopalian churches worldwide, have aroused anger among Palestinian�Christians.

The Wonk Room

  • Obama, Congressional Democrats Winning Public ...
    The latest New York Times poll confirms something I’ve noted before, namely that the Democrats’ handling of the debt ceiling deal, though unpopular, was less unpopular than the alternative: In a zero-sum contest, that’s good enough. But the problem for President Obama’s re-election campaign is t ...
  • Panetta Calls Potential Defense Cuts In Debt D ...
    Despite receiving an extra $50 billion for Pentagon spending in the debt ceiling deal reached Tuesday, military officials and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta are already sounding the alarm over potential defense cuts that were part of the compromise. For the second day in a row, Panetta issued di ...
  • Texas In Worst Ever Drought, Hottest Ever Heat ...
    Texas is now in its worst-ever one-year drought, according to John Nielsen-Gammon, the Texas State Climatologist and professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University. The epic heat wave and lack of rainfall is baking Texas dry, leaving the nation’s second largest agricultural producer r ...
  • Santorum Opposes Early Childhood Education: Go ...
    Last month, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) — a long-shot contender for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination — said American students scoring low on history tests is proof of “a conscious effort on the part of the left, who has a huge influence on our curriculum, to desensitize America to what ...
  • Gingrich Says ‘Our Very Survival As A Country’ ...
    Twitter-challenged Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich went on Sean Hannity’s radio show yesterday where he attacked President Obama’s economic policies and called for “put[ting] Americans back to work” by rebuilding “American manufacturing.” “We can’t have a national security system if we don’ ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The BQ Membership of the NDP Interim Leader an ...
    I'm not a political junkie. I didn't know that Nycole Turmel was a member of the Bloc Quebecois. I also didn't know about the flirtations of the other two parties with Quebec nationalism. My head has been in the clouds thinking about foreign and economic policy and harper's serial abuses of basi ...
  • Remembering a Moment of Cinematic Triumph
    He looks like he'd kill him if he didn't get his pancakes. And from what we know of his character, he would have.
  • The Obama Betrayal and Canada's Economy
    Can't say much about Obama's sell-out. He's a PR creature, designed to serve the US-American corporate elite. This isn't a "cave-in." This is what he wanted to do. His whole administration has been a pretense of caving-in to Tea-Bagger demands. But keep in mind, government austerity during a re ...
  • The Growth of Entitlements
    I was reading the comments section to this Royson James article, wherein he points out that Ford obviously lied about how he could find a billion dollars worth of "gravy" at City Hall and eliminate it without having to cut services. As a result of his threatened service cuts and library closings ...
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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Afghan interpreters allowed into Canada “disap ...
    The government has proclaimed its intent to help Afghan interpreters who worked with the Canadian Forces to come to Canada, but many of those who have already arrived feel “abandoned” and “disappointed”. Reporting for Ipolitics.ca, Murray Brewster and Steve Rennie have found discontent among for ...
  • Pat Stogran calls $2 billion promised to veter ...
    Last September, amidst outrage by soldiers and reports in the media critical of the government’s treatment of veterans, the Harper government promised $2 billion in increased benefits. It was announced at the time that the money would go to “increased financial support for seriously injured Vet ...
  • Talks collapse in Bahrain
    Bahrain, a Persian Gulf nation that has been the site of pro-democracy protests over recent months, is entering a new, uncertain phase after the collapse of talks between the main Shiite opposition party and the ruling Sunni elite (Associated Press, “Shiite Party in Bahrain Leaves Talks With Rul ...
  • How much would you give to stop Harper’s steal ...
    Would you give $7 each month to stop Harper's stealth fighters? Go to https://www.ceasefire.ca/donate/donate.php
  • Ceasefire.ca volunteers send letters to 2500 s ...
    A photo of our team of volunteers sending letters to 2500 Ceasefire.ca supporters.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

  • Global: Conference will establish African Soci ...
    On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...
  • Global: It takes a Villager
    Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Global: New murders and fumigations in ancestr ...
    In only two weeks, four Afro-Colombian leaders have been murdered, and several subjected to death threats. Fumigations have caused the internal displacement of more than 100 Afro-Colombians. The violation of Afro-Colombian fundamental rights continue...

War in Context

  • Proposed Israeli law would formalize second-cl ...
    A new bill presented in Israel’s Knesset aims to have the âJewish natureâ of the state preferred over democracy, to end Arabic’s status as one of Israel’s official languages, and to have Jewish law âguideâ courtsâ rulings. Noam Sheizaf reports: There is one talking point repeated in every hasba ...
  • Israel’s growing protest movement presents a l ...
    Israel’s protest movement which has come to life and grown rapidly over the last three weeks has steered clear of the issue of the occupation. Yet the one group in Israel that has been largely absent in the call for social justice is the far right including settlers in the West Bank, this being ...
  • Syrian tanks thrust into Hama, 45 reported killed
    Reuters reports: At least 45 civilians were killed in a tank assault by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces to occupy the center of Hama, an activist said on Thursday, in a sharp escalation of a military campaign aimed at ending an uprising against his rule. Reacting to intensifying assa ...
  • Italy edges closer to ‘burqa ban’ law
    Al Jazeera reports: An Italian parliamentary commission has approved a draft law that would ban women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public, if passed by parliament in September. The draft approved by the constitutional affairs commission on Tuesday would prohibit women from wear ...
  • US troops in Iraq: to stay or to go?
    The New York Times reports: The narrative of American officialdom here, civilian and military alike, is that United States muscle is used merely in service of supporting Iraq’s fledgling democracy. Iraq’s leaders and soldiers are the ones responsible, and seek American support only as needed. T ...

Watts Up With That?

  • NASA may have found water on Mars
    Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing On Mars PASADENA, Calif. — Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. “NASA’s Mars Exploration Program keeps bringing us closer … Continu ...
  • Don’t try nuclear energy experiments at home
    As WUWT readers know, Iâm an advocate of do it yourself, amateur science, that what the surfacestations.org project was. This however, in our hypersensitive world, was a recipe for trouble: Swedish Man Arrested For Building a Nuclear Reactor In His … Continue reading →
  • Analysing the complete hadCRUT yields some sur ...
    HadCRUT3: 30% Of Stations Recorded A Cooling Trend In Their Whole History The warming recorded by the HadCRUT3 data is not global. Despite the fact that the average station records 77 years of the temperature history, 30% of the stations … Continue reading →
  • Mapping the guilt of fruits and vegetables out ...
    From DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, probably the biggest load of crap I’ve seen in quite some time. I realize that’s harsh,  and I don’t think I’ve ever used that sentence to describe a scientific study, but there’s really no other … Continue reading →
  • Unique new building material self regulates heat
    Scientific breakthrough: University invents heat-regulating building material In a major scientific breakthrough with important long-term environmental consequences, researchers at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) have developed a material that will cut the amount of energy a bui ...

Dandelion Salad

  • The US Dictatorship and its White House Servan ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 1 August, 2011 If there is one thing that the office of President Barack Obama demonstrates it is that democracy does not exist in the United States. This may seem a rather outlandish statement. For many people, the fact that the 44th presiden ...
  • Super Congress = Fascism by The Other Katherin ...
    by The Other Katherine Harris Featured writer Dandelion Salad Glitzqueen August 1, 2011 No “Super Congress” should be acceptable to anyone who claims to be a Democrat.  This is fascism on a plate!  It’s bad enough we’ve got five kinglets running amok on the Supreme Court. My son and I, life-l ...
  • Anger Tsunami: Mass protest wave reaches Israe ...
    Dandelion Salad RussiaToday on Jul 30, 2011 The biggest wave of protest rallies in years is due to start shortly in Israel. Demonstrators will take to the streets in seven cities across the country. And activists hope the rally in Tel Aviv alone will attract half-a-million people. Thousands have ...
  • The Debt Ceiling Set For Progressive Repealing ...
    Dandelion Salad by Prof. Michael Hudson Global Research July 29, 2011 Mr. Obama’s scare tactics to get Democrats to vote for his Republican Wall Street plan The Wall Street bailout melodrama should be viewed as a dress rehearsal for today’s debt-ceiling non-crisis. You know that the debt kerfuff ...
  • Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the Wor ...
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org July 31, 2011 Originally published and crossposted from www.commondreams.org February 16, 2007 There is a “mystery” we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor c ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    That the centre of our galaxy is a 'star nursery', and appears to our telescopes as holding the shape of an infinity symbol, is a beautiful moment in astronomy and cosmology's history. It may not, in decades to come, turn out to be true, but right now it's a still stunning, awe-worthy idea. F ...
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    Even At The Brink Of A US Economic Apocalypse, The 1 Percenters Still Want More It seems like only yesterday the United States was trying to bomb Al Jazeera out of the news business. Now the news station growing quickly towards a global audience of one billion people is fastidiously documenting ...
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    From The Wooster Collective, a London artist resets a Metropolitan Police ad on the Tube : One of the most succint summaries of the Murdoch Hacking And Spying And Bribery And Corruption And Surveillance Scandal I've seen yet : ....journalists on a British tabloid hack into and delete the voic ...
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    United States Marine Corps officer, General James N. Mattis : "You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually it's qui ...
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    How Rupert Murdoch Conned British MPs By Playing The Sad, Pathetic Old Man Card By Darryl Mason Rupert Murdoch, at first, refused to appear before British MPs to answer questions about News International's involvement in phone hacking, spying, blackmail and police corruption. But so furious wa ...

Wired - Science

  • Human Cells a Chimera of Ancient Life
    Despite eons of mingling inside our cells, gene networks we've inherited from primitive, singled-celled ancestors have stayed separate. Our cells remain chimeras, a hybrid fusion of unrelated creatures.
  • Drive to Impress Females Pushes Males Toward E ...
    Again and again across the animal kingdom, males die younger than females -- a consistent, puzzling pattern of premature expiration that may be the unavoidable biological cost of impressing the ladies.
  • Picky Hens Punt Bad Mates’ Sperm
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Feral chickens have developed an effective countermeasure to avoid being fertilized by a forceful, sub-standard mate. Zoologists from Oxford University observed hens forcibly ejecting sperm after copulation, as if to lower a male’s chances of fathering the next generatio ...
  • Scientists Build Software to Rescue Stalled Pr ...
    By Ryan Paul, Ars Technica MIT researchers have developed an experimental software framework called Jolt that allows applications to recover in some cases when they hang. When Jolt detects that a program is stuck in a certain kind of infinite loop, it can force it to exit the loop and contin ...
  • Tarantula MRI Reveals Strange Double Heartbeat
    Spider hearts may contract in a unique double beat. By placing tarantulas in a magnetic resonance imaging scanner, biologists from Edinburgh University made a video of a living spider’s beating heart. “In the videos you can see the blood flowing through the heart and tantalizingly it looks as t ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • The rise of the Right: Dozens of hilltop youth ...
    The activists, who belong to the extreme right, claim solution to housing crisis is construction in the West Bank; plan to set up dozens of more tents in coming days. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go t ...
  • Dozens of MKs to Netanyhu: Solve Israel housin ...
    Forty-two cabinet ministers and MKs, all members of the [right wing pro-settlement] Eretz Yisrael Lobby, signed a petition addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, calling on him to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Israel’s Supreme Court orders state to dismant ...
    Unprecedented ruling states that Migron must be razed by April 2012; Israeli government had admitted outpost was built on lands belonging to Palestinians, but has thus far failed to dismantle it. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israeli journalist: At long last we have learn ...
    I hope that the activists in the Arab countries, especially in Egypt, will realise their vital and deep influence on the Israelis' motivation to protest. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA web ...
  • Joel Beinin: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict ...
    The great majority of the Israelis demanding affordable housing, even if they may understand the connection, are reluctant to articulate that their economic distress is exacerbated by the cost of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Small Interventions Can Alleviate Underperform ...
    Picture black and white students at an Ivy League college learning about black students who are a year or so ahead of them in that school. They're told that the older black students were anxious about fitting in and how they would be viewed in college when they first arrived. But as the older bl ...
  • ACOEM Treatment Guidelines: Four Volume Set Re ...
    The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) releases newly published 3rd edition of the Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines. Latest edition offers thousands of evidence-based musculoskeletal recommendations.
  • The Ethics and Economics of the "Great Recession"
    New book edited by American University professor Martha Starr examines ethical, social, political, cultural, and educational factors behind 2008 financial crisis and recession.
  • Texas Tweeter wins UIowa scholarship for top a ...
    John Yates of Houston, Tex., combined the timeless with technology to receive a full financial award package from the University of Iowa Tippie MBA program for writing the best application Tweet.
  • U. of Denver Law Students File Federal Suit to ...
    University of Denver's Sturm College of Law Environmental Law Clinic filed a federal lawsuit Aug. 4 to protect the porbeagle shark because it cannot protect itself from overfishing that has pushed it to the brink of extinction.

Natural Health News

  • The Greater the Bacterial Resistance to Antibi ...
    Not only is the number of multiresistant strains of bacteria in hospitals is increasing, but new research shows that developing resistance may also increase their ability to reproduce. Usually, the acquisition of new genes, such as those for antibiotic resistance, comes at a cost to the bacteri ...
  • Should Pediatricians 'Fire' Patients Whose Par ...
    Even though the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends doctors continue to treat anti-vaccine families, some pediatricians have decided to “fire” patients who refuse vaccines -- essentially, telling them that they should seek treatment elsewhere. “Vaccine-concerned” or “vaccine-cautiou ...
  • Can Drinking Darker Coffee Improve Your Health?
    Recent research has shown that that moderate coffee consumption may be associated with a reduced risk for type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Since reactive oxygen species (ROS) are believed to be involved in both of these diseases, it was theorized that antioxidants in coffee might contrib ...
  • Is Low Dose Aspirin Causing an Epidemic of Int ...
    A recent study looked at the problem of low-dose aspirin-induced small bowel mucosal damage and blood flow.� For the research, ten healthy volunteers were given low-dose aspirin.� Capsule endoscopy and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography were performed both before and after administration of dru ...
  • This Kitchen Spice Doubles as a Memory Booster ...
    The popular spice cumin has a long history of medicinal use.� It has been used to treat various symptoms including diarrhea, flatulence, gynecological, and respiratory diseases.� But a new study looked at a different effect of cumin -- its ability to enhance memory and relieve stress. Daily adm ...

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

  • Judgment on Trial in Cairo
    by Ruti Teitel by Ruti Teitel Ruti Teitel is Ernst Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School and Visiting Professor, London School of Economics.  She is the author of the forthcoming book, Humanity’s Law (Oxford University Press Sept. 2011). For many Egyptians, Hosni Mubarak’ ...
  • Space Cadets… (International Legal Rheto ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen A while back, I wrote an article on how states use the rhetoric of international law (specifically self-determination) as part of their broader foreign policy initiatives. Li Hong, the Secretary-General of China’s Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, has an op-e ...
  • Space Cadets… (International Legal Rhetoric Ed ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen A while back, I wrote an article on how states use the rhetoric of international law (specifically self-determination) as part of their broader foreign policy initiatives. Li Hong, the Secretary-General of China’s Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, has an op-e ...
  • Bill Dodge is the New Counselor in L
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Last week, we were pleased to host a great discussion of the book International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court.  This week, I’m pleased to announce that one of its editors — Bill Dodge – is taking a leave from his faculty post at Hastings to become the newest ...
  • Bill Dodge is the New Counselor in L
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Last week, we were pleased to host a great discussion of the book International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court.  This week, I’m pleased to announce that one of its editors — Bill Dodge – is taking a leave from his faculty post at Hastings to become the newest ...

Public News Service

  • Senate Committee to Consider Imported Prescrip ...
    Senate Committee to Consider Imported Prescription Drug Safety Washington, D.C. – Nearly half of the manufactured medicines and 80 percent of the raw materials to make them comes from overseas. Arizona Senator John McCain is a member of a Senate committee considering giving the FDA more power t ...
  • Cardiologist: Don’t Be Afraid of Hands-O ...
    Cardiologist: Don’t Be Afraid of Hands-Only CPR Phoenix, AZ – Sudden cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., and immediate, effective CPR can more than double a victim’s chance of survival. New guidelines say hands-only CPR is just as effective as CPR with breaths in t ...
  • New Promises to Children: Campaign Kicks Off i ...
    New Promises to Children: Campaign Kicks Off in Arizona Phoenix, AZ – A promise to children: An opportunity for healthy brain development, school preparation, and nurturing environments. That’s the basis of the “National Movement for America’s Children” to encourage everyone to get involved to i ...
  • Number of Children with Food Allergies on the Rise
    Number of Children with Food Allergies on the Rise Phoenix, AZ - About eight-percent of children in the United States may have a food allergy, according to a new study (from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine). Comments from allergist Dr. Allan Stillerman with Minnesota-based ...
  • Ending Wilderness Protection for AZ Forests?
    Ending Wilderness Protection for AZ Forests? Phoenix, AZ - More than a million acres of potential wilderness in Arizona’s national forests would lose protection under a bill being heard today in a U.S. House committee. The Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act would open up so-called roadless ...

Center for Food Safety

  • 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 ...
  • Environmental Groups Petition Federal Governme ...
    FDA poised to take action on the first-ever application to market a genetically engineered salmon without adequate consideration of environmental risks and public input Earthjustice, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • ‪Ivan Van Sertima- Civilizations before Greece ...
    ‪Ivan Van Sertima- Civilizations before Greece and Rome‬‏ From Wikipedia: Van Sertima became Associate Professor of African Studies at Rutgers in the Department of Africana Studies. In his work, he addressed topics in literature, linguistics, anthropology and history. He wrote that the kings ...
  • The Sentencing of Tim DeChristopher Highlights ...
    The Sentencing of Tim DeChristopher Highlights the Conflict Between the People and Corporate-Government [globalresearch.ca] The trial and sentencing of Tim DeChristopher highlights the conflict between the people of the United States and the corporate-government that protects the privileged. In ...
  • CopWatch (2002)
    Winner: 2003 Media That Matters - Media Activism Award (Guerrilla News Network) American television audiences have long been accustomed to the celebration of rawkus police action via the Fox Network's signature exploitation, COPS. And while, for many, the show is a tell-tale sign of ...
  • 2 Spirits: Native Lesbians and Gay Men : Osa H ...
    2-Spirited people (Native lesbians and Gay men) from the Bay Area share their experience of overlapping gender, ethnic and cultural identities as they explore and define their visions of utopia. Coordinating Producer: Osa Hidalgo de la Riva for Royal Eagle-Bear Productions (Oakland, CA )
  • Colombia: Play Democracy, Hide the Corpses - A ...
    Colombia: Play Democracy, Hide the Corpses - Anarkismo Not a week goes in Colombia without reports of assassinations and persecution of labor and political activists. Ana Fabricia Cordoba, gender activist and leader of displaced peasants, was shot dead on June 7th inside a street bus, after she ...

Pensieve

  • So, … what is a Hipster?
    I’ve heard the word “hipster” tossed about lately. As a perpetual non-cool geek, I didn’t understand this very well. Until I saw this sarcastic roast of the “Evolution of the Hipster”, that is. They even feature Pomplamoose, my favorite YouTube band. Enjoy! Related posts:The Ted Williams Show: S ...
  • What is Trustocorp?
    Humorous messages are cropping up in New York City. A website for an organization called Trustocorp has links to flickr, twitter and facebook accounts. This is quite possibly a publicity stunt…but an entertaining one. Related posts:Why Google Buzz? They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha, Ha! DC Metr ...
  • Plot Device, Allegro Non “Trope”-o
    This is a showcase of post-processing more than of acting; the effects overwhelm it. After all, it is a viral commercial for Red Giant Software. Yet, this witty short film is hilarious in exposing the over-use of movie tropes by lazy (or cowardly?) script writers who are filling movie theaters, ...
  • What is Google+?
    I’ve been testing out Google+ for the past few weeks, and although I’m not leaving Facebook anytime soon, I like the selectiveness of being able to share to different circles or everyone. Let me know in the comments if you’d like a Google+ invite. Related posts:Why Google Buzz? Your Web Alphabet ...
  • Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure
    This fascinating TED conference reveals research into the psychology of pleasure and pain. Pleasure and pain are increased or decreased by what we believe about them. Sometimes I wish I could hypnotize myself and change what I believe about my life. I’m conscious that much of my misery comes fr ...

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
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The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli Army ambushes Freedom Theater
    Soldiers have stormed the Freedom Theatre of Jenin, whose co-founder Juliano Mer-Khamis was slain earlier this year. URGENT PRESS RELEASE From The Freedom Theater Foundation, Jenin, Palestine 04.46 (gmt+2), July 27, 2011 Special Forces of the Israeli Army attacked the Freedom Theater in Jenin Re ...
  • For Israeli army, Palestinians having guests i ...
    Video of the Jully 22nd protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. Part 1 of an account of that day’s protest from our source A. is here. Her story continues… After a while, my paramedic friend and a young man from the village led me once again through back-roads and fields back to Leila’ ...
  • For Israeli army, Palestinians having guests i ...
    Here is the  video of the Nabi Saleh protest from Friday. We received this account from the same protest our anonymous  source A., an international activist living in Palestine.  She explains: This account is edited from a chat conversation describing events that took place on July 21st dur ...
  • For Lieberman, human rights = terrorism
    Well, this sums it up well. Though Israel declined to follow up the anti-Boycott bill by passing a law calling for the investigation of human rights organizations, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was not “blasted ministers for refusing to probe” From Ha’aretz, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberm ...
  • More from the Salem Music Center: Q&A with the ...
    The Villages Group continues to work closely with Salem’s Music Center, leading to ever-expanding relationships between the Center and the music-education community in Israel. Below (in reverse chronological order) are descriptions of two visits from Tel Aviv to Salem that took place over the p ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Stock market responds to debt plan from Dimbul ...
    Google Finance It’s increasingly clear, isn’t it, that our supposed leaders in DC are incompetent, craven, and compromised. The debt deal, which they did with as much drama and little intelligence as possible, is just more evasion and kicking the can down the road. But no one is buying their pre ...
  • Polizeros podcast tonight. The little Debt Bil ...
    Topics: Syria is near civil war. The Libya war drags on. IED attacks in Afghanistan are at an all-time high. Jobs and the little Debt Bill that couldn’t. With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, Keith Boyea at keithboyea.wordpress.com, and myself. To listen to the show live, go to Polizeros Radio on Blo ...
  • Why Obama is not a socialist
    Colin McEnrow of the Hartford Courant sadly and finally gives up on Obama, and in doing so explains why Obama is not now and could never be a socialist. He’s not the guy I thought he was. And Bill Clinton would have had no problem going before the cameras during the recent troubles and [...]
  • Google sites and products I use regularly
    Adsense Adwords Analytics (hit monitoring for Polizeros and my website clients) Calendar (it sends me text messages for appointments, etc.) Chat Chrome browser Feedburner (RSS feed for Polizeros) Local business (For website clients) Google+ Gmail Maps News Reader (I read 300+ feeds in it) In ot ...
  • Central planning and the fall of the US empire
    John Robb is being perky again… One of the most interesting underlying reasons for the decline of the Soviet Union, and soon the US, is misallocation of resources due to a reliance on central planning. This isn’t just due to an over-reaching, ever-expanding government. An extreme concentration ...

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

The Air Vent

  • You Sure?
    Don’t let anyone tell you that the science is settled on AGW.  Judith Curry has an interesting post on just what might be causing CO2 increases other than mankind.  Hell, even I was convinced that man likely caused CO2 increases.   It appears that there is some evidence that the CO2 rise may ...
  • Extreme
    When those who would control spending are the extremists, what does it say for our future?  Of all things the Tea Party movement stands for, the central issue is spending control.  The mainstream media ensures that the Tea Party is continually painted as extremist yet this simple central point i ...
  • Ludicrous
    I’ve got a new computer today which allows blogging at twice the normal rate. It’s nothing fancy but a heck of  a lot better than a laptop with a dead keyboard.  Yup, I typed the old laptop completely to death!  Flat, shiny,non-working, keys and finally a dead screen.  All of which which for ...
  • Polarbear Science Mysteries Exposed?
    Don’t kid yourself, they want the bears to drown. Check this out at WUWT, AKA the center of the internet. Inspector generalâs transcript of drowned polar bear researcher being grilled
  • A repy to Dr. Jim Bouldin
    I’ve been gone for a while working on other things.  MikeN called my attention to a criticism by  Jim Bouldin, of my ‘probing’ of the hockey stick CPS methods. Since the Air Vent wouldn’t even be a climate blog, if it weren’t for Mann 08, it does seem important to address the criticisms by Jim ...

Focal Point

  • Hallelujah, I'm a Bum! Or, Why a Hobo-Themed W ...
    From Amanda, I learn that a couple decided--apparently of their own free will--to have a hobo-themed wedding.� Lest you think this post comes from a place of knee-jerk anti-hobo animus, let me assure you that I love Utah Phillips and Ted Conover as much as anyone you will ever meet. I unders ...
  • Video: A Mariachi Band Serenades a Beluga Whale
    In my Room 101, I am this beluga: Watch. HT: Loren Beyerstein. �Read More
  • How Many Swastikas Does a Guy Have to Tattoo o ...
    Here's a strange story: Erica Herrera plans to marry Curtis Allgier, even though he's an incarcerated alleged murderer with white supremacist tattoos all over his face and she's not white. (Full-sized image) Herrera attempts to explain her decision to the Associated Press in terms of kind of . ...
  • New York Owl Felled By Herpes
    City investigators have determined that a great horned own found dead in Inwood Hill Park last month succumbed to avian herpes. The virus is not transmissible to humans. [Photo credit: Great horned owl by Vicki's Nature, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Cat Food Central: Boehner's Budget Proposal Wo ...
    John Boehner's budget proposal would cause the greatest increase in poverty in U.S. history, according to an analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: House Speaker John Boehner’s new budget proposal would require deep cuts in the years immediately ahead in Social Security ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Promotes Mobile Network Operator Part ...
    Facebook’s login screen usually accompanies the email and password entry fields with a graphic depicting the social graph or a call to use Facebook’s mobile services. Recently, though, some users in the UK have seen Facebook using this highly visible space to promote third-party mobile network o ...
  • Platform Update: Social Plugin Performance, Ap ...
    Facebook announced several important changes this week that impact developers of apps and social plugin-integrated websites. The latest Platform update described how developers can track app feed stories using ref parameters, and listed many new metrics that have been added to the Insights table ...
  • Facebook Hires and Departures: Zuckerberg, Dea ...
    Facebook has hired some data center personnel, as well as a good number of sales and Deals-related employees according to the company’s Careers Page and LinkedIn feed. But most prominently, Randi Zuckerberg is leaving Facebook after six years at her brother’s company, where she focused on va ...
  • Facebook Careers Postings: Data Centers, Secur ...
    Facebook seems to be searching for a number of data center employees and security personnel this week, according to the posts from the company’s Careers Page this week, as well as some to its LinkedIn feed. A handful of data center positions were listed on the Careers Page, as well as severa ...
  • How to Use Facebook’s “Merge Duplicate Pages” ...
    The following is an excerpt of a complete article available in our Facebook Marketing Bible. Your official Facebook Page may not be getting all the fans it deserves because users are accidentally Liking unofficial community Pages with the same name. These missing fans cost you news feed impressi ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Statehood: Palestinians must show they mean bu ...
    Stuart Littlewood calls on the Palestinians to pursue a two-pronged strategy: on the one hand bid for UN recognition of their statehood because they must have "equal rank to Israelis within the international community and a level playing field", while developing and expanding boycott, divestment ...
  • Libya, Western intervention and the left's gre ...
    Redress Information & Analysis looks back at the Libyan uprising as it unfolded, from the eruption of the peaceful civil and political rights protests and the Gaddafi regime's hyper-violent response, to the UN Security Council's authorization of the use of force to protect Libyan civilians. We p ...
  • Palestinian bid for UN statehood recognition
    Lawrence Davidson argues that, while UN recognition of Palestinian statehood could be potentially of psychological value to the Palestinian cause, "boycott, divestment and sanctions within the context of increasing worldwide awareness of Israel's essential racist nature shows real promise of res ...
  • Israel and the American Jewish voter
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the bizarre phenomenon of a Democratic and a Republican candidate fighting a congressional election in a New York district not over national or local issues, but over which of the two is more loyal to Israel.
  • Norwegian mass murderer Breivik's ideological ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's ideological and spiritual soulmates in Britain: pro-Israel advocate Melanie Phillips and the equally pro-Israel racist far right, such as the English Defence League and the neo-conservative Zionist blog Harry’s Place.

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

  • Coming Up Soon: Boiling Frogs Video
    Boiling Frogs Post Site Update & Upcoming Subscription Program We have a few updates on Boiling Frogs Post and our soon to be launched subscription program. I am excited to announce our upcoming Boiling Frogs Video series to be produced by our new partner James Corbett, an independent journalist ...
  • Podcast Show #45
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts joins us to discuss the September 11 terrorist attacks as the defining event of our time, which has launched our nation on interminable wars of aggression, a domestic police state where the American President is a Caesar and comple ...
  • Paul Craig Roberts: “American Presidents Are D ...
    Coming Up Tomorrow at Boiling Frogs Show: Paul Craig Roberts Tomorrow morning we’ll publish our interview with Paul Craig Roberts. We had a sobering interview session on the rise of the police state, the US media’s role in ever-declining liberties, the never-investigated September 11 terrorist a ...
  • Government Contractor Galore A La UK: Serco
    The Private-Government-Private Mega Corporations Phenomena This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.
  • Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

  • Niggazz are Wannaa-bee Gangstazz
    Football is a violent sport. No doubt it plays into the gladiator blood sport mythos of days gone by. It’s also BIG business. I’ve heard that the current labour dispute between the owners and players is at the root, really about how to divvy up $9 billion is yearly revenue… basically the owner ...
  • “Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for Pre ...
    Click on image for article
  • the Lupe Fiasco fiasco
    “My fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policie ...
  • A Sunday Sermon
  • sat’day riddymz
    WOW!! It’s hard to fathom that it’s been 2 years ago today already that MJ died. I for one have come to appreciate his music more and more.

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

  • 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 ...
  • Meditating on Pema Chödrön's 'Dusk on the River'
    By: Anne Thomas Although my main job is in a university, I also teach privately. My favorite of those lessons is an advanced English class for adults. I have been teaching them for many years, so we have become good friends. Since they are well educated and tal ...
  • Women broadcasting peace in Brazil
    By: PeaceCorso So of course you know how once something enters your conscious awareness, you see it everywhere. You will not be surprised that Brazil is showing up all over my reality. Here’s a wonderful story about women in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro broad ...
  • When meat is missing
    The height of summer is approaching. It's time for a vegetarian barbecue! Photo: Pieter de Swart “Vegetarian barbecue” used to be a contradiction in terms, but no longer. The meaning of both words has changed. In the old days, a vegetarian didn’t eat meat. Today, the New Vege ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Support Builds for Curbing HFCs - India and Ch ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, NRDC Climate Center, Washington, D.C. Some quiet progress on climate protection is being made this week in the home city of Montreal Protocol, the world’s most successful example of environmental cooperation.  In ad ...
  • Climate change endangering public health; new ...
    Laurie Johnson, Chief Economist, Climate Center, Washington, DC Recently I posted three blogs (click here, here, and here)�summarizing a state-level analysis of various economic damages we can expect from climate change,�and the different dollar f ...
  • Don't let industry public relations oil the wa ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. This week Reuters reported that the oil industry couldn’t see much difference between raw tar sands oil (diluted bitumen) and conventional oil. This is hardly surprising consi ...
  • First Chinese Partner Joins the China-Us Energ ...
    Yuqi Li, Director and Chief Engineer of DSM Technical Center, Beijing Since 2004, the China-US Energy Efficiency Alliance (Alliance) has been dedicated to combating global climate change by promoting energy efficiency as the cleanest and least exp ...
  • We are Not All Going to Die from Climate Chang ...
    Steve Fleischli, Senior Attorney, Washington, DC The climate is changing. That simple fact really shouldn’t be subject to dispute. Something else that probably shouldn’t be subject to dispute: We are not all going to die from climate change.  Un ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • But…the Confidence Fairy! The Bond Vigi ...
    Apparently, people who have an actual direct financial stake in the question aren’t impressed with Hoovernomics. See also.
  • An Absolutely Crucial Point
    Even leaving aside the fact that the substantive policy consequences are almost certain to be very bad, austerity in the face of appallingly high unemployment is a terrible, terrible, terrible idea. And, while Politico reports do indeed have to be taken with a mountain of salt, I get the sinking ...
  • Nobody could have predicted
    Blast email from the RNC this morning Reach Out And Touch Medicare For The Record…It Was Obama Who Offered To Cut Hundreds Of Billions In Medicare During The Debt Debate OBAMA AND DEMOCRATS PUT MEDICARE CUTS IN DEBT CEILING DEAL USA Today: “Cuts in Medicare and other entitlement programs are on ...
  • Sad, But Probably True
    Rick Perry’s collaboration in the murder of an innocent man would probably help him in the Republican primary, and probably wouldn’t be a problem in the general election.
  • Do Not Read the Linked Story, Unless You&#8217 ...
    As a journalist, it has to be depressing to be assigned an eleventy-billion word story about the exceedingly uninteresting internal conflicts in the campaign of a candidate who has exactly the same chance to win the Republican nomination that I do.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • The easiest way to connect with others — ...
    The key to creating opportunity in your career or business development is to consider how you can do so for others. Start at the beginning — with an introduction.
  • Former Ropes & Gray associate sues firm allegi ...
    A former associate at Boston's Ropes & Gray has filed a racial discrimination and retaliation case against the firm, 13 of its partners and the firm's former chief people officer in Boston federal court.
  • Government hits pause button in extradition of ...
    The Department of Justice has agreed to stall attempts to extradict a former government official in Thailand and her daughter while they argue for dismissal of criminal charges tied to a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case against a Hollywood film producer and his wife.
  • Accused Chinese infringers face trial in the U ...
    Three Chinese companies will have to defend themselves in U.S. courts against a copyright infringement case brought by a California software company, a federal judge has ruled.
  • THE 2011 MIDSIZE HOT LIST
    Twenty firms in the 50- to 150-lawyer range have proven they can continue to thrive in this troubled economy.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • 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 ...
  • Marcellus Shale on This American Life
    If you missed this program, it is well worth listening to. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/440/game-changer

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Link Between Dust, Plankton, and Cooling Probe ...
    New research by Swiss scientists shows a strong correlation over the past 4 million years between the amount of iron-rich dust in the oceans — which fertilizes plankton growth — and periods of global cooling and glaciation. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, examining mari ...
  • Crops With Deeper Roots Could Boost CO2 Storag ...
    Breeding crops with deeper roots could significantly reduce atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and make crops more drought resistant, according to a study by a researcher at the University of Manchester. Reporting in the journal, Annals of Botany, professor Douglas Kell calculated that breedin ...
  • Facial Recognition Software Used in Research o ...
    Researchers are developing software that will help them better identify individual apes and elephants in their natural habitat, an innovation they say could improve Tobias Deschner/MPI EVA tracking of species populations in the wild and provide insights into animal behavior. Using video and pho ...
  • Arctic Blog: As Climate Warms, A Shifting Land ...
    In his fourth and final blog from the field, biologist Steve Zack, of the Wildlife Conservation Society, writes Steve Zack blogs from the Arctic for Yale e360. The fourth in a series. about the impacts of a warming Arctic landscape on the birds and other wildlife that live and breed in the ...
  • Nuclear Meltdown Would Cause Fewer Deaths than ...
    A new analysis being produced by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) estimates that a meltdown at a nuclear plant would cause far fewer human fatalities than previously believed. While earlier studies calculated that a meltdown caused by a prolonged loss of electric power could release ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik recruited ...
    Remember that the hearings was closed to the public and the media. Classic Scandinavian style - an "open society" right. The judge ordered that 32-year-old Andres Behring Breivik is to be detained without access to letters or visitors, apart from his lawyer. He’s getting four weeks in isolation. ...
  • 2,000-year-old bell found in Jerusalem rings again
    2,000-year-old bell in Jerusalem: a 2,000-year-old bell has been discovered by Israeli archaeologists and rang for the first time in as many years. 2,000-year-old bell found by Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem, Monday. The bell, dating back to the Second Jewish Temple period, was discovered i ...
  • Norway police lower youth camp death toll to 68
    Norwegian police said Monday that the double-counting of bodies in the chaotic aftermath of a shooting spree may have contributed to a dramatic overestimate of the number of people slain, but they offered few other details about the error. The sharp reduction in the death toll, from 86 to 68, ad ...
  • Norway massacre: Anders Breivik "Surprised" He ...
    Geir Lippestad Mr Lippestad said it was "too early" to say if his client was mad, but added: "The whole case has indicated that he is insane." He said his client had taken drugs before going on the rampage "to be strong, efficient and awake" and was "sorry that he had to do this but it was neces ...
  • Media Now Links Breivik to British "Extremists ...
    The Norwegian fanatic has been in close contact with hundreds of British right-wing extremists for two years, it emerged last night. He chatted about "tactics" on social networking sites with hundreds of members of the English Defence League (EDL) and the British National Party (BNP) and attende ...

Russia Today

  • "Asia more sure-footed than the US"
    Political squabbling in Washington over the US’s debt is feared to have blown investor confidence, sending money to safe havens in developing markets such as China. But China currently holds more US federal debt than...
  • Assad’s reform initiative "far too late"
    Facing growing international pressure, Syrian President Bashar Assad made a step toward reforming the country’s political system, but British political analyst Nabila Ramdani says the reform initiative is too little too...
  • Estonia’s war games: proud memory of Nazi coll ...
    Organizers of Estonia’s “Erna Rekt” annual military event take special pride in it being one of the world’s longest and most difficult military endurance competitions. But the games are also highly criticized for...
  • Britain e-votes for death penalty reversion
    The British Parliament may be the scene of debates over restoring the death penalty, banned since 1964, after reinstating capital punishment became the most popular e-petition on a new government website.
  • Italy faces either bailout or default – economist
    European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso joined the fight to lift the region out of its financial pit, calling for expanding the EU bailout fund to help deal with the crushing debt borne by the major Euro-zone...

Not My Tribe

  • Denver and Dallas: Smog Kings
    Actually Ozone. But I hear the same whiny complaint from both, complying with air standards would be too costly. Leaving aside that exempting SUV’s from emissions limits because they’re “work” vehicles, leads a lot of grossly immature “status seeker” to drive one person in a car made for eight a ...
  • Organize, but think outside the school
    I love this graphic, it’s clever, it’s inspirational, and it offers at least the illusion of parity in a big fish eats little fish world. Because you know, it’s not going to work unless one of the little fishies is packing a spear gun.
  • Reapportionment: the Texas Miracle comes to Denver
    So aside from moving polling places without advance notice, threatening college Kids with their parents being arrested if the vote, telling voters they need to re-register to be eligible to vote in a mail-in 2 days before the registration deadline and 2 day AFTER the ballots were mailed… and tha ...
  • Fairy Tales and Other Capitalism
    First story on the Post Financial section, tooth fairy leaving less money. Average payout less than 3 bucks per tooth. Get it? ” “buck” and ‘teeth”? I slay me. More kids getting $0.00, 10%, just a tragic footnote to an otherwise fucked up story. Some Kids getting $5 a piece/ And Gift Cards. WTF? ...
  • Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn is how muc ...
    My Dem friends are protesting the Debt Ceiling Heist outside of 5th District Congressman Doug Lamborn’s office, even though today the relevant vote is in the Senate, and Senator Michael Bennet has an office downtown. Except he’s a Democrat. AS IF my colleagues think only the Republicans are scre ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 9/11: The Absurdity of the No-Planes-in-New Yo ...
    YouTube.com alawson911 PLEASE SEE THE BEST COMMENT EVER, BELOW. Although it will make sense if viewed in isolation, this is not meant to be a stand-alone video; it was compiled as a companion to a text article of the same name. Links to the websites that host the article are as follows: The ...
  • Dr. Crockett Grabbe-National Swindle on the Wo ...
    Related Info: Dr. Grabbe's website: http://www.sealane.org/ Dr. Grabbe's book: http://tinyurl.com/3s4sqcw Dr. Grabbe's scholarly papers on the collapse of the WTC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Science in the Bush: When Politics Displaces Phy ...
  • '9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out' ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog writes: I love that they got Lynn Margulis, National Medal of Science winner to tell us about the problems with NIST. She must have won her medal in structural engineering, right? Well, no, she won it for microbiology. Which, if we were talking about ...
  • 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out, ...
    This is the trailer for the expert-packed feature length documentary by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth - which premiers the week prior to September 11, 2001 around the world.
  • About "They Hate Our Freedoms"
    http://truthaction.org/forum James Dorman AKA jimd3100 Fri Jul 29, 2011 4:13 am Screw loose change blog comments on my prior post on the motives of the fruitcake asshole hijackers and how they didn't attack us because they hate our freedom like Bush would have you believe ...of course he wi ...

Fooducate

  • Recent Study: We’re Consuming Less Sugar. Or A ...
    A study recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has some good news: Between the years 2000 and 2008, our daily intake of added sugars has gone down from 3.5 ounces to 2.7 ounces. That’s almost a 25% decrease! “We were surprised to see that there was a substantial reducti ...
  • 11 Types of Food Additives
    “No additives or preservatives” is a wonderful claim on a food label. But you’ll be hard pressed to find products in the supermarket that don’t contain at least one food additive. Even organic products use them, and unless you bake your own bread, shun all processed snacks, and drink nothing but ...
  • Should Parents Hide the Veggies?
    Here’s an interesting study from Pennsylvania State University: Youngsters got more of their daily greens when researchers pureed veggies and added them to kids’ main dishes at breakfast, lunch, and dinner on the sly. And the kids didn’t seem to notice that anything was different — or to like th ...
  • Eating Local: 4 First Steps to Become a Locavore
    This is a guest blog post by James Kim from Food on the Table Many currently contend that eating local, or becoming a “locavore,” is “the new organic.”  As organic food firms have started to use industrial, long-distance and environmentally unfriendly shipping methods, foodies have begun to look ...
  • Top 10 Healthy “Convenience” Foods
    This a guest blog post by Sharon Palmer, RD Drive-thru hamburgers, microwavable pizza pockets and bags of chips—these are the foods that probably come to mind when you think of convenience. For busy people on the run, convenience usually means fast food fare, pop in the microwave processed foods ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Tour companies join tourist boycott of human s ...
    Tourist films Jarawa on the Andaman Trunk Road © Survival In a major step forward, two leading tour companies in India’s Andaman Islands have come out in support of the call for tourists to boycott the Andaman Trunk Road. The road cuts through the heart of the recently contacted Jarawa tri ...
  • BBC & Travel Channel show ‘staged, false, fabr ...
    Matsigenka girls, Peru © G Shepard/ Survival A TV series about an Amazonian tribe has been slammed as ‘staged, false, fabricated and distorted’ by experts on the tribe. ‘Mark & Olly: Living with the Machigenga’ was shown on the Travel Channel in the US, and on the BBC last year. In the sho ...
  • 100 years on - the unsolved mystery of the rub ...
    Omarino and Ricudo, two Witoto slaves brought to the UK in 1911 © Cambridge University MAA An Amazon Indian woman has launched a public appeal to uncover the fate of two Indian slaves brought to Britain a century ago. Exactly 100 years after the Daily News first introduced her ancestors Om ...
  • Griff Rhys Jones models for Survival
    Griff Rhys Jones modelling Jimmy Pike T-shirt for Survival © Survival Comedian, actor, presenter and author Griff Rhys Jones models Survival’s new T-shirt by internationally acclaimed Aboriginal artist Jimmy Pike, saying, ‘I am delighted to support Survival and their urgent work for threat ...
  • Malaysia’s King at eco awards as Sarawak’s for ...
    Deforestation caused by loggers in a Penan region in Borneo, Malaysia. © Andy and Nick Rain/Survival The King of Malaysia and HRH the Prince of Wales attended a reception in London yesterday on behalf of The Earth Awards. The event was hosted in partnership with START, an initiative of the ...

Greg Palast

  • 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 ...
  • Harry Potter: Jo’s Other Ending
    By Jo (J.K.) Rowling as told to Greg Palast and the Palast twins [18 July 2011] Some of you may recall that, years ago, when I lived in England, writing for The Guardian, when I shared the bestseller list with Jo Rowling (she at the pinnacle, me in the valley), we became buds through my twins ...
  • Drowning Fish?
    by Greg Palast June 30th, 2011 July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the path can't imagine. My D ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What can I reuse or recycle to make attractive ...
    Carmen from South Africa has sent an email asking: What can I reuse/recycle to make attractive garden edging? I’ve always been quite taken with the idea of wine bottles for garden edging (and an item on my long, long to-do list is to try making a raised bed on the same principle). For a more [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle small pieces of fab ...
    Last week, I posed a question from Annetta about what to reuse or recycle to make a bird bath – thanks for all the great suggestions. Annetta asked another question – about fabric: Any other good ideas for using fabric. I have tons of it and I am getting bored making blankets and tote bags. [...]
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a bird bath?
    Annetta has emailed with two great questions. Here’s the first: Any ideas on making a bird bath out of recycled [things from] around the house? I think it depends on whether you want something pretty, quirky or just something practical for the birds to use, looks be damned. I’d love to hear idea ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle precious photo albums?
    Joan left a question on the “suggest an item” stage: A deceased good friend’s photo albums need to be disposed of. Mainly of family, friends and her cats, loathed to just chuck them in a bin, other than that, what do I do? Helpâ¦.. I’m sorry to hear about your friend, Joan. The Photos I’m [...]
  • How can I reuse LOTS of florists’ ribbon?
    Nicky has emailed to ask how she can recycle: Almost 100 kilometres of 2″ wide yellow florists ribbon. Unravelled and of varying lengths â very long to short pieces. Currently in 5 large industrial bags. Wow, that’s a fair bit of ribbon! My first thought would be to offer it to a local scrap sto ...

Age of Autism

  • Marie McCormick’s IOM Remarks Leave A Bitter Taste
    By Jake Crosby Why does Marie McCormick – former chair of the panel that produced the botched IOM report claiming vaccines do not cause autism – currently serve as co-chair of the “Vaccine Safety Working Group” of the National Vaccine...
  • Sam Wessels: The Presidential Campaign Crusade ...
    By Lin Wessels It is time I introduce our son, Sam Wessels, the presidential campaign crusader, to the rest of the world. He is nine years old, about to begin the fourth grade and becoming a very fine advocate. I...
  • FDA to Investigate Vaccines for XMRV Retrovirus
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. As part of my continuing series of articles which I think should be subtitled, Official Documents which Scare the Living Daylights Out of Me! I offer this July 24, 2011 publication from the Food and Drug...
  • The Full Monty: a Review of Brian Deer and Bri ...
    Artwork by Adriana Gamondes By John Stone The following observations are in response to Media Scholar’s query about Brian Deer’s competing interests ( Age of Autism Comment by Media Scholar). Deer does not disclose the support he received from MedicoLegal...
  • From The Editor
    Another News of the World factotum is assisting the police with their inquiries. Stuart Kuttner was arrested when he showed up for an appointment with the cops. Morse, call your office. -- D.O.--

Global BDS Movement

  • Map test
    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • 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

  • Monsantopoly – A game pitting farmer against f ...
    Why is Monsanto able to walk away from all lawsuits for contamination of crops that they and the USDA say can be planted with little or no boundaries or restrictions whatsoever, while the farmers who swallow the lie bear the brunt of all lawsuits for inevitable contamination?
  • Incompetence Sets A Precedent – GE Alfalfa
    Contemporary law is no longer based on the Constitution and common law, but has been replaced by case law precedents. The GE alfalfa case (Forage Genetics and Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms) is disturbing because it appears that a dangerous precedent has been set.
  • Genetically engineered maize with synthetic to ...
    This maize was approved for usage in food and feed by the EU Commission on 17th of June. It produces a combination of three different insecticidal toxins, one of which is synthesised artificially. Further, the plants are made tolerant to the herbicide glyphosate (known as Roundup).
  • Smart Meters – You don’t have to get one!
    VIDEO explaining what Smart (Spy) Meters actually do, and how to make sure that you do not get one of these.
  • Feds to Grab Land for Homeland Security
    H.R. 1505: Another Federal land grab, with exemptions from environmental regulations, and a few more just for good measure. And just who has the authority over these lands? Why Homeland Security, of course.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Police to carry out on-the-spot fingerprinting ...
    Daily Mail – Police are now armed with a device that can scan fingerprints so they can correctly identify suspects who lie about their details. In what sounds like something out of George Orwell’s dystopia 1984, suspects can now be finger printed in the street thanks to the new hand-held police ...
  • USA: Taser under fire after teenager’s death
    New Scientist – Taser International, the maker of the electro-shock stun gun, has seen off 127 lawsuits from families who have claimed that its 50,000-volt weapon, in the hands of police, killed a relative. In all but one case the firm’s lawyers have successfully argued that mitigating circumsta ...
  • Europe – Greece in panic as it faces cha ...
    Guardian – Fear is driving a silent bank run in Greece â but some see the government’s austerity plans as a chance to transform. Read Article
  • Clues to Gluten Sensitivity
    WSJ – Lisa Rayburn felt dizzy, bloated and exhausted. Wynn Avocette suffered migraines and body aches. Stephanie Meade’s 4-year-old daughter had constipation and threw temper tantrums. lisa Rayburn felt dizzy, bloated and exhausted. Wynn Avocette suffered migraines and body aches. Stephanie Mead ...
  • Polar Bear Population Higher than in 20th Cent ...
    IBT – If polar bears had any clue of the scale of speculation about the extinction threat they are facing due to climate change, they would have probably said, “you’re kidding, right?” If you think statistics are a pointer towards the growth or decline of a species, it will be interesting to hav ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Oregon joins fight against shark finning
    “With the global trade in shark fins pushing sharks toward extinction, it will take strong actions such as this to prevent us from making irreversible changes to our ocean ecosystems,” said Whit Sheard, Senior Advisor for Oceana, a maritime conservation organization. “The bipartisan support for ...
  • Los Angeles solar power rebates slashed 32% [c ...
    Solar power: Rebates for Los Angeles solar panel installations are 60% lower under the newly relaunched Solar Initiative Program, which will start accepting applications next month. The program was put on hold in April as the demand for incentives hovered around $112 million, far outpacing the p ...
  • Yellowstone National Park again gets 900,000 v ...
    Yellowstone National Park saw 900,000 visitors in July, marking the third year in a row that Yellowstone has seen such volume.
  • DWP's solar program to relaunch in September w ...
    The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power gave the go-ahead Tuesday to relaunch the Solar Incentive Program next month. Applications will be accepted starting Sept. 1 at 10 a.m. The revised program is doubling its budget from $30 million...
  • Climate change and health: How vulnerable is y ...
    As temperatures rise, so could the threats to your health. Climate experts predict average temperatures in California could rise between 4.7 to 10.5 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century, potentially worsening illnesses related to extreme heat and air...

water.org

  • 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
  • Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan (Fast Co ...
    Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa? (Fast Company) – The inside story of Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe’s great crises. Once upon a time, Matt Damon went for a long walk in rural Zambia. The devoted family man and method [...]
  • Interview with Water.org’s April Rinne (GGT)
    INTERVIEW: Water.Org’s April Rinne (Green Global Travel) – While other charities may have similar goals, Water.org’s WaterCredit program is unique in that it is works in partnership with microfinance institutions to establish markets in which there is fair access to affordable loans for everyone ...
  • You’re Invited: June 1st Conference Call
      Wednesday, June 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049
 Participant code: 449749# Not everyone who needs water should have to wait for charity to find them. Learn how Water.org is putting microfinance tools and partnerships to use in helping people get safe water ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • IDF soldiers launch attack on photojournalists
    But here is the difference: the attack of 29 July was intentional and sustained and the troops were fully aware of what they were doing. I had never before come under a sustained, direct and intentional attack by an Israeli military force aimed directly aSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
  • 'Alarming' rise in attacks on Palestinian chil ...
    Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed nine children so far in 2011, and almost 200 children have been injured by settler violence and the Israeli military, Stand with Justice.Submitted by Elias Ayad to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Boehner Limp Again, McConnell Walks Away
    See 1st commentSubmitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Open Threadâ7/29/2011
    Personal News, a Jig Zone Puzzle, 3 short takes including three videos and a homemade cartoon (shown).Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • If Republicans Push Us Over the Cliff
    See 1st commentSubmitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • MEMC to Acquire Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, Inc.
    Silicon wafer developer MEMC�Electric Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) has come to an agreement with solar power developer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) to purchase FRV's U.S. subsidiary, Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, Inc. (FRV U.S.) ...
  • LDK Solar to Supply Modules for McGraw-Hill's ...
    Chinese photovoltaic solar manufacturer, LDK�Solar, Ltd. has been selected to supply the modules for largest privately-owned solar power project in the Western Hemisphere. read more
  • United States: DOE Launches SUNPATH To Support ...
    The United States Department of Energy has committed US$50 million to fund the Scaling Up Nascent PV At Home (SUNPATH) program which represents the second phase of its Photovoltaic Manufacturing Initiative (PVMI). read more
  • Canadian Solar Inc. Enters India Solar Market
    Canadian Solar Inc. (NasdaqNM: CSIQ) will deliver 33 MW of solar modules to India-based solar engineering, procurement and construction ("EPC") company Cirus Solar Systems Private Limited (Cirus). read more
  • Third Party Ownership Blossoming: SunPower and ...
    Installing rooftop solar panels is about to become much easier for homeowners in several states.� SunPower Corp. and Citi have announced a new $105 million fund for residential solar lease projects. read more

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Eating healthy food costs more money in U ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eating healthier food can add almost 10 percent to the average American's food bill -- and that is just to boost a single nutrient like potassium. Researchers from the University of Washington looked at the economic impact of following new U.S. dietary guidelines, whi ...
  • Tiger's Back! Well, at Least He's Playing ...
    Tiger Woods is back! Isn’t this awesome?! He’s playing actual golf. He’s staging really boring news conferences, but hey, he’s creating intrigue with his caddie search. Isn’t this just so exciting? Don’t you all want to tune into our tournaments again, lean in close when our announcers whis ...
  • Inter's Javier Zanetti: Joining AC Milan ...
    Argentina international only focused on Supercoppa Italiana match as he responds to speculation linking him with a move to historic rivals By Salvatore Landolina Tweet 6 Comments More On�:�AC Milan, Inter Milan, Javier Adelmar Zanetti Getty Images...
  • Bolton's Owen Coyle admits interest in Ma ...
    The Scottish boss says he does not need to strengthen in central midfield but confirms that he admires the England winger, who is believed to be available this summer By George Ankers Tweet 1 Comments More On�:�Bolton, Man City, Newcastle , Owen Coyle , Shaun Wright-Phillips, Joey Barton Bo ...
  • Gonzalo Higuain tired of striker speculat ...
    The Argentina international is sick of the rumour mill going into overdrive as he turns his focus to matters closer to home By Salvatore Landolina Tweet 1 Comments More On�:�Man City, Real Madrid, Santos, Gonzalo Higuaín Real Madrid forward Gonzalo Higuain admits he is becoming restless ove ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Big Food Recalls Once Again Reveal the Hidden ...
    Back in March, we tried to imagine through a short video what it would be like if the President got a wake-up call about his proposed food safety budget cuts and how they might affect one his favorite meals: a hamburger. On second thought, make that a turkey burger. ...
  • Stocks Tumble as Signs Point to Weak Global Ec ...
    The stock market fell sharply Thursday on intensifying investor fears about a slowdown in global economic growth and worries about Europe’s ongoing debt crisis, which is centered now on Italy and Spain. As Japan intervened to weaken its currency and European stock markets turned negative acr ...
  • Fukushima Clouds Hiroshima Anniversary
    TOKYO - Matashichi Oishi, 78, a radiation victim from Bikini Atoll, the site of a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in 1954, will make his annual lone visit this week to commemorate the Aug. 6 anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima 66 years ago. This year, says the former sailor, battling lung ca ...
  • Earth's Systems in Rapid Decline
    Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life support system. Even if areas dedicated to conserving plants, animals, and other species that provide Earth's life support system increased tenfold, it would not be enough without dealing with the big issues ...
  • US: 29,000 Somali Children Under 5 Dead in Famine
    NAIROBI, Kenya — The drought and famine in Somalia have killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5, according to U.S. estimates, the first time such a precise death toll has been released related to the Horn of Africa crisis. The United Nations has said previously that tens of thousands ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Washington’s Silk Road Pipe Dream
    Peter Chamberlin If arrogance and over-confidence had any real power or actual value, then Hillary Clinton could envision and create a New World Order all by herself (SEE: Washington’s Silk Road Dream). Democrat interventionists like Mrs. Clinton and her neutered husband like to daydream of i ...
  • Rawesome Raided Again! Farmers and private foo ...
    By Rady Ananda About 20 armed agents from various local, state and federal agencies coordinated by the US Food and Drug Administration staged another raid on fresh foods sold in California at a Ventura County farm and at Rawesome Foods, a private buying club  providing members with unadulterate ...
  • Hard Right Extremism in America and Europe
    by Stephen Lendman Anders Breivik's July 22 Oslo rampage highlighted a problem far greater than him, a topic three previous articles discussed, stopping short of what this article addresses. More on how Europe is affected below. In America, hardline anti-government groups like the Sovere ...
  • The allegation that Iran is developing nuclear ...
    Interview by Kourosh Ziabari The allegation that Iran is developing nuclear weapons is a mirage: Arshin Adib-Moghaddam Dr. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is a political commentator and lecturer in the comparative and international politics of western Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, ...
  • End Game for Benghazi Rebels as Libyan Tribes ...
    By FRANKLIN LAMB Dispatch From Libya, Tripoli On July 30, the day before this 97.5 per cent Muslim country began the holy month of Ramadan, NATO spokesperson Roland Lavoie has been lamely attempting to explain to the press at the Rixos Hotel and internationally, why NATO was forced to bomb t ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • The cost of poverty in BC is way too high
    Iglika Ivanova did the math: it costs less to reduce poverty than to allow it to continue and pay for the consequences: poor health, lower literacy, poor school performance for children, more crime, and greater stress. Reducing poverty and easing human suffering is the right thing to do, and it ...
  • Conference Board Weighs in on the Growing Gap
    The Conference Board of Canada has released a report tracking 33 years of worsening income inequality in Canada. In this Toronto Star story, board President Anne Golden says: "While the poor are minimally better off in an absolute sense, they are significantly worse off in a relative sense. And ...
  • Video Debate Series: Role of Manufacturing in ...
    In this four-part short video series at the Globe and Mail, CCPA's own senior economist Armine Yalnizyan faces off with Mike Moffatt, an economist, consultant and lecturer in the Business, Economics and Public Policy group at the Richard Ivey School of Business on the future of manufacturing in ...
  • CCPA-Manitoba launches POLICY FIX
    We now have a BLOG aptly named POLICY FIX.�� Check it out at www.policyfix.ca!
  • Hennessy's Index: Canada vs. the OECD
    Hennessy's Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. This July, Hennessy's Index looks at the Organisation for Economic and Co-operation and Development (OECD) and how Canada fairs compares to other members on a number o ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Will the news agenda decide the fate of 12 mil ...
    by Matt Withers, Western Mail – Amid one of the busiest years of news for a long time, the Horn of Africa is riven by a deadly famine. Matt Withers looks at how this tragedy differs from that which killed a million in Ethiopia more than 25 years ago THE killings in Norway. Phone hacking. [...]
  • BREAKING NEWS WWH – Market meltdown deja ...
    salon.com – Global economic worries fuel a huge morning stock sell-off. But don’t count on the U.S. government for help More news reaffirming the idiocy of the American political system: On Thursday, gathering worries about a slowing U.S economy and a rapidly worsening sovereign debt crisis in t ...
  • Scandal-plagued Rep. David Wu,Could Collect Ne ...
    By Billy House,nationaljournal.com – Scandal-plagued Rep. David Wu, D-Ore., who announced his immediate resignation on Wednesday, will be leaving the House eligible to draw a lucrative congressional pension totaling almost $900,000. First elected to Congress in 1998, Wuâs benefits could add up o ...
  • People Are Awesome: Mayor Uses Tank to Crush C ...
    good.is/ - Any urban bicyclist can share with you the frustration of having to avoid people and cars blocking what should be clear bicycle lanes. Sometimes it can make you want to destroy all the impediments with a tank. Today, in Vilnius, Lithuania, mayor Arturas Zuokas lived out the fantasy of ...
  • Judge allows American to sue Rumsfeld over tor ...
    WASHINGTON (AP) â A judge is allowing an Army veteran who says he was imprisoned unjustly and tortured by the U.S. military in Iraq to sue former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld personally for damages. The veteran’s identity is withheld in court filings, but he worked for an American contra ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • Politicians of all countries, recollect yourse ...
    Dear politicians, there’s no alternative to forever turning our backs on nuclear energy and fast. Sure, the nuclear industry will protest vigorously and will see profits dwindle but they will survive without much problem – as opposed to many Japanese. It is but a question of time until another c ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The Need for a Real Domestic Alternative Energ ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following is a guest post from Andrew Smolski of OilPrice.com. ———————————– Alternative energy (or renewable energy) is a new manufacturing industry paradigm that is in its infancy. However, the discussion is not new, and it looks as if the Unite ...
  • ‘Tis the Season for Oil Company Misinformation
    Join the forum discussion on this post In my travels around the globe, I have never been to another country that regards their oil companies as we do here in the U.S. I have actually been in countries where people view their domestic oil companies as a source of national pride. Here in the U.S. ...
  • The Return of the American Diesel Car
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest essay is by Paul Nash, a regular reader here at R-Squared. Paul is an Australian who now lives near Vancouver, Canada. He is an environmental engineer who specializes in doing municipal water and energy efficiency projects, and has ha ...
  • PEMEX and the Long Road to Privatization
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. ——————————– Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) is the state-owned oil company (and natural gas) of México, which since the 90’s has been discussed for privatization like many other state-owned companies in Méx ...
  • The SPR as a National Piggy Bank
    Join the forum discussion on this post I was strongly opposed to the recent decision to release oil from U.S. and international strategic petroleum reserves. I have covered the reasons for my opposition many times, but the single biggest reason I oppose these sorts of releases is that the funda ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 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 ...
  • Dangerous Salmonella Strain Prompts Massive Tu ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—An antibiotic-resistant, virulent strain of salmonella has killed one, sickened nearly 80, and prompted the recall of 36 million tons of fresh and frozen ground turkey, according to industrial food giant Cargill. The strain has been circulating for months as Centers for ...
  • Off-the-Charts Anxiety: Is a Tick Bite Making ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Finding an engorged, blood-sucking tick attached to your skin can cause anxiety in and of itself. After all, Lyme disease, an infection that causes multi-systemic, waxing-and-waning symptoms, and a disease that isn't always detected or effectively treated early on, is on ...
  • 19 Foods That Will Quench Your Thirst
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—We're officially knee-deep in the dog days of August, and yet another heat wave is making its way across the country. read more

big think

  • Will Education become a Monopoly Game?
    Lately, I have been talking with a couple of start-ups in education that take on the classroom experience. The common problem those developers have is that there are at least three different platforms they need to develop their application for, iOS, Android (with all the different sub-versions) ...
  • Solving Climate Change Without Battling About ...
                I’ve had an interesting conversation with a colleague the past few days about an earlier piece I wrote here, Cool Dudes, Hot Temps: The Climate Change Battle Will Get Us Nowhere,  in which I made the case that arguing over the facts about climate change is really a surrogate for an . ...
  • Debt Crisis Reveals Obama's True Shakespearean ...
    Having enjoyed this recent Big Think video, in which drama critic Ben Brantley is asked to identify the Shakespearean character Obama resembles most, I’ve been giving the question some thought myself. Brantley’s answers are illuminating but, by his own admission, not quite satisfying. He mention ...
  • Globalization: Civilization's False Discontent
    What's the Latest Development? A new set of statistics gathered by an Indian-born Harvard economist working in Barcelona, Spain, implies that visions of a globalized world are often more fancy than fact. According to�Pankaj Ghemawat, less than one percent of all mail and less than two percent ...
  • Do Independent Voters Matter?
    The term “independent voter” suggests someone who is open-minded. We imagine that the independent voter goes into each election without preconceived ideas about which party to vote for, but instead considers the merits of each candidate with every new election. The image of the free-thinking ... ...

Information Liberation

  • Why Gold Could Still Be Considered *Relatively ...
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  • Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the U.S. Terror State
    Being a U.S. war criminal means never having to say sorry. Paul Tibbets, the man who flew the Enola Gay and destroyed Hiroshima, lived to the impressive age of 92 without publicly expressing guilt for what he had done. He had even reenacted his ...
  • In Praise of "Rogue" Cops
    *His death was gang-involved, the way I see it,* lamented former Orange County Sheriff*s Detective Ron Thomas after viewing the mangled body of his 37-year-old son, Kelly. *A gang of rogue officers * brutally beat my son to death.* The descriptio...
  • Woodpecker-Saving Daughter Costs Mom $500, Pos ...
    FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (WUSA) -- Eleven-year-old aspiring veterinarian, Skylar Capo, sprang into action the second she learned that a baby woodpecker in her Dad's backyard was about to be eaten by the family cat. [...] "Kids should be able to save a...
  • Scary Story: The State vs. Anarchists
    Beware: Should you happen to spot me on the streets of Westminster, you are exhorted to summon law enforcement immediately! That London borough*s *Counter Terrorist Focus Desk* considers me a threat to the public safety (*Anarchists should be reporte...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • 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 →
  • Is There Really Such A Thing As National Chara ...
    I found myself asking this question after reading GE’s thought-provoking essay in Notting Hill Editions. In it, James contrasts what he sees as different national traits of America with those of his homeland. He finds himself concluding that the positives … Continue reading →
  • Right-Wing Nut Cases Are Every Bit As Reprehen ...
    I’ve said before many times on this blog, the left-right divide is a fiction. The real differentiation in politics is between Libertarianism and Totalitarianism. Left-wingers and right-wingers merely squabble over what freedoms they choose to repress first: economic or personal. … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge
    A few thoughts while I’m still working on my next main article. You’ve heard me mentioning in the last thread the tenuous situation currently existing on the Australian parliament’s Lower House, the House of Representatives. Of the 150 seats, Labor … Continue reading →
  • MSM – A Monoculture
    Just a quick post today, as we’re all still recuperating from the ‘flu down here. I guess we can’t ignore the goings on in the British media; James is on the case, so I thought I’d give you all a … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Can YouTube save us from climate change?
    New media has rapidly become the mechanism by which information is spread quickly in many walks of life from alerting the public to local traffic incidents, terrorist attacks, earthquakes and celebrity deaths. The likes of Twitter and Facebook have become the first responders to almost every eve ...
  • John Cleese does chemistry
    The Case of the Sulphuric Acid plant was an educational short movie from 1976 aimed at schools and has as its narrator, Monty Python cast member John Cleese, who also features in animated form thanks to the late, great Tony Hart (of Vision On, Take Hart fame). The movie clip was posted on Youtub ...
  • The heat is on for thermal imaging
    The heat is on – Designer and thermal photographer Joseph Giacomin of Brunel University contacted me about his book – Seeing the World Through 21st Century Eyes. “The book,” he told me, “provides a visual journey through the world around us through the medium of thermal photography, hopefully st ...
  • Genetics at a SNP
    Genetics at a SNP – There are genetic variants, SNPs, associated with a tendency to have almost any physical trait such as baldness, athleticisim, green eyes, red hair, obesity, alcohol dependence, type 2 diabetes and many other diseases, even the amount of earwax one produces. There are also SN ...
  • Headless zombie squid and dead frogs dancing
    It is possible to re-animate dead appendages with a little salt, either table salt or in solution form as soy sauce. Be warned, this may put you off your breakfast. In the first video (which seems to have first appeared on the web a couple of years ago but a variant of which went viral [...]Head ...

RFF Library

  • Sustainability and the U.S. EPA
    National Research Council www.nap.edu/catalog/13152.html [Description]   Sustainability is based on a simple and long-recognized factual premise: Everything that humans require for their survival and well-being depends, directly or indirectly, on the natural environment. The environment provides ...
  • Spatially Heterogeneous Wastage of Himalayan G ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  (published ahead of print August 1 2011, doi:10.1073/pnas.1106242108)  / by Koji Fujita and Takayuki Nuimura (open access article) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/07/25/1106242108.abstract [Abstract] We describe volumetric changes in three ...
  • Cracks in the Façade: 25 Years Ago, EPA Linked ...
    Environmental Working Group http://www.ewg.org/reports/cracks-in-the-facade (website) http://static.ewg.org/reports/2011/fracking/cracks_in_the_facade.pdf (PDF) [From a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article by Don Hopey]  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concluded in 1987 that hydraulic fract ...
  • Near-Term Opportunities for Integrating Biomas ...
    Rand Corp. http://bit.ly/q4IFTi [From an E&E Daily article by Tiffany Stecker, sub. req'd]  Faced with increasing pressure to reduce carbon emissions, coal-burning power plants may be better off adding biomass to the energy mix rather than waiting for expensive carbon capture and storage techno ...
  • CBO Cost Estimate: S. 699 Department of Energy ...
    Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/122xx/doc12299/s699.pdf [Summary]  S. 699 would authorize the creation of a new program at the Department of Energy (DOE) to demonstrate systems for storing carbon dioxide produced by industrial sources, including measures that would indemni ...

Scientific American - News

  • E Pluribus Lunum: Did Earth Once Have Two Moons?
    For tens of millions of years--a mere sliver of astronomical time--the night sky above Earth may have been a bit more populous than it is today. For that brief period, our planet may have had not one but two moons, which soon collided and merged into our familiar lunar companion. No one would ha ...
  • Common Medical Devices Not Adequately Tested f ...
    The pathway to approving many new medical devices is broken beyond the point of repair, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM). [More]
  • NASA Shuttle Fleet Finds New Life in Displays, ...
    NASA's space shuttle fleet will never fly again, but the agency believes it still has plenty to learn from the iconic vehicles. [More]
  • NASA Spacecraft Shows Giant Asteroid Vesta Lik ...
    A NASA spacecraft orbiting the huge asteroid Vesta is beaming home images that reveal the giant space rock like never before, showing its battered and pockmarked surface in stunning detail. [More]
  • How Saving Energy Means Conserving Water in U. ...
    California likes to think of itself as being ahead of the curve. So when the state set out to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regulators did all the right things - stringent tailpipe standards for cars, tighter codes for buildings, higher renewable energy standards for utilities. Then they took ...

First Truths

  • Inverted Queries re Human Nature
    From Randall Amster's Anarchy, utopia, and the state of things to come: [T]he question is often posed: How can a society achieve the production, distribution, and maintenance of public goods absent a central authority? In other words: How can free individuals be encouraged to work and provide fo ...
  • "What Anarchists Believe"
    The following is a favorite passage of mine from What Is Anarchism?: An Introduction, edited by Donald Rooum: Anarchists believe that the point of society is to widen the choices of individuals. This is the axiom upon which the anarchist case is founded.If you were isolated you would still have ...
  • Profit as Unequal Exchange
    A passage from�Herfried Münkler's The New Wars�that will be interesting for anarchists: The economic rationality in their action consists in the fact that they make violence a means to an income, or that through violence they are able to influence exchange relations to their advantage. Warlords ...
  • F.Y.I.
    Some among those reading this may already have heard the sad news that, at the end of this month, I'll be leaving C4SS, a decision required by strains on my schedule that no longer permit the volume of writing I've taken on for the past year or so. It's been an indescribable honor to be a part o ...
  • L. Susan Brown on Power
    I found this passage in Reinventing Anarchy, Again�(edited by Howard J. Ehrlich): To speak of power as a thing or phenomenon that can exist independent of human consciousness is to profoundly misunderstand the whole problem of power itself. Power exists as a relationship between individual human ...

Media Co-Op

  • The Algonquin Resurgence
    Quebec ministerâs visit to First Nations takes me down memory lane from 50 years ago Some news has come across my e-mail that the Wolf Lake Algonquin community in Quebec has been given a grant of some $200,000 by the Quebec government to r ...
  • Pantages in Play
    Where Will the Antics End? [ Text and photo originate with Rider Cooey / Editing and posting by Joseph Jones ] Start and Stop of Unsafe Pantages Demolition The Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council (DNC) is a partner in community resista ...
  • 1,500 At Fredericton, NB, Anti-Fracking Rally.
    Over 1,500 people from across New Brunswick, and beyond, marched through Fredericton yesterday to demand an end to hydraulic fracking, and shale gas exploration, in the province. Concern over the effects that hydraulic fracking may have on the province's water, for this generation and for those ...
  • Fatal Police Shooting Remains Unresolved
    Montreal-           It has been almost two months since police shot and killed 40 year old Mario Hamel and 36 year old Patrick Limoges, early on the morning of June 7th, near Berri-UQAM metro station. At approximately six a.m. police officers found Hamel on St. Denis near St. Catherines opening ...
  • Somewhere Between Truth and Fiction
    "Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist" comes to Montreal You may have heard the one about Rob Ford and the Flipped Bird, but have you heard about Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist? While the first ...

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

  • How Much Finance is Too Much?
    As financial sectors grow, they generally get more robust and more efficient at allocating capital. This is a boon for economic development, which is why a vigorous, well-managed banking system is a key component of all modern capitalist economies. But can a financial sector get too big? That ...
  • Raise the Gas Tax!
    No one in Congress wants to raise the gas tax even though our transportation infrastructure is crumbling and revenue from the tax has been falling. Brad Plumer rounds up some substitute ideas: One idea is a vehicle-miles traveled tax, which would track driver habits via GPS and charge per mil ...
  • Quote of the Day: Rick Perry's Texas-Sized Problem
    From Paul Waldman, after noting Rick Perry's aggressively maintained more-Texas-than-thou persona: It's true that voters in the Northeast, Midwest, and West may have an irrational, kneejerk reaction against his voice or even just his home state, without actually knowing whether that reaction ...
  • Europe Still Falling Into the Abyss
    So what's the latest in Europe? Here's the New York Times explaining their latest problems: Now, another type of contagion is causing concern: the risk of problems spreading to big banks, especially in Italy and Spain....The banks own so many bonds issued by their home countries that they ...
  • Presidential Power
    I apologize in advance for indulging in a wonky process post yet again today ("more boy talk," as Twitter follower Stella calls it), but I want to repeat a point that I haven't made for a while. It got kicked off by this tweet from Dave Roberts: My answer: No, he just has the easiest job. ...
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