4 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Investigate - Breaking News

• BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...
  FROM AN EXTRACT OF BREAKING SILENCE Published in the latest Investigate HIS/HERS magazine... What you are about to read has been described as the most controversial book ever published in New Zealand. It wasn’t supposed to be. But news sent...
• BREAKING SILENCE news release
  BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE By Ian Wishart $39.99, Howling At The Moon Publishing Ltd RELEASE DATE: Imminent Final opportunity to pre-order for delivery on Day One: www.howlingatthemoon.com The new book that shatters myths surrounding the Kahui murder case is...
• News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
  NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...
• News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...
  NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART The Facebook page on Macsyna King is dishonest. They have known all along that Macsyna has neither sought nor been offered any money or compensation for the book Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart. Still, the...
• Sea-level study released - yawn
  Mann, Ramstorf and other 'usual suspects' have released their 'it's worse than we thought' sea level "study". Newspaper paraphrases: Looking back in history, the researchers found that sea level was relatively stable from 100 BC to AD 950. Then, during...

My Care2 Picks

• CHEMTRAIL HEALTH EFFECTS ON HUMANS AND ENVIRONMENT
  More than the story of chemtrails, this video touches on vaccines, Spacewars and exotic weapons systems used to attack people without their knowledge including perversion of the food supplySubmitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• What We Are Capable of.....ANONYMOUS
  Anonymous has posted their first phase on the war against the system. "The Plan" 1 year. 3 phases. A world of change. Share this message with everyone you can. PHASE 1: Better yourself. Spread the message. Be the message. Submitted by Dandelion G. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
• Globalist Imperial Network
  The mechanics of world empire, in particular the current corporate-financier oligarchy has been examined in great detail. The US State Department, supporting NGOs funded directly by both US taxpayers' money as well as funds from the Fortune 500 corpSubmitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World �|� ...
• Pragmatism not Idealism
  This is the math and logic that underpins the arguments of "climate pragmatism" -- such as espoused in the report released yesterday by that name, The Hartwell Paper and The Climate Fix.Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Obama's Libyan Lies Exposed
  Three reasons why Qadaffi must die : why NATO and D.C. lieSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Abuse of foreign workers in Lebanon continues: ...
  As-Safir Newspaper - نبيل المقدم : الإساءة إلى العاملات الأجنبيات في لبنان مستمرة بلا قانون يجرّمها وينظّم المهنة: قصصٌ من يومياتهن مع "الكفيل" و"المخدوم" وصولاً إلى اللا - تحقيق في جرائم القتل!... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Mineworkers’ Leader, Rafael Tobón, Gunned Down ...
  Mineworkers’ Leader, Rafael Tobón, Gunned Down in Antioquía, Colombia - Democratic Underground: Mineworkers’ Leader, Rafael Tobón, Gunned Down in Antioquía, ColombiaThe ICEM condemns the cowardly... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Jewish association launches tourism project pr ...
  Jewish association launches tourism project promoting the West Bank as "part of Israel" :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "MEMO, July... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• PACBI-City artist Spurns Israel invite for Pal ...
  PACBI-City artist Spurns Israel invite for Palestine cause: "It was billed as the first major show of Indian art in Tel Aviv. But with a section of Indian artists deciding to skip the event, and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Hundreds meet to oppose EDL in Tower Hamlets|3 ...
  Hundreds meet to oppose EDL in Tower Hamlets|30Jul11|Socialist Worker: by Siân Ruddick and Ken OlendeSome 600 people crammed into the London Muslim Centre in east London last night for a rally... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Dow Jones Industrials Drop 334 Points on Econo ...
  ShareThisBreaking: Dow Jones Industrials Drop 334 Points on Economic Worries 04 Aug 2011 [Even Wall Street knows the GOP-Obusha Cat Commission II aka�Super Dictatorship is going to destroy the US.]
• Virginia Tech (home of the false flag) On Lock ...
  ShareThisHeads up! The false flags are about to come fast and furious as the US economy tanks after manufactured debt ceiling 'crisis:' Virginia Tech (home of the false flag) On Lockdown Following Report of Gunman 04 Aug 2011 Virginia Tech Locked Down After Report of Man With Gun 04 Aug 2011 Vir ...
• NSA spooks win fight to keep secret possible t ...
  ShareThisNSA spooks win fight to keep secret possible ties to Google 13 Jul 2011 The National Security Agency will get to keep secret documents that may, or may not, show a working relationship with Google. In a decision made public Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon denied a Freedom ...
• Judge allows American to sue Rumsfeld over torture
  ShareThisJudge allows American to sue Rumsfeld over torture 03 Aug 2011 A federal judge has ruled that former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld can be sued personally for damages by a former U.S. military contractor who says he was tortured during a nine-month imprisonment in Iraq. The lawsui ...
• U.S. Doubles Down on Afghan Air War; 650 Strik ...
  ShareThisU.S. Doubles Down on Afghan Air War; 650 Strikes in July 03 Aug 2011 In July of 2010, when Gen. Stanley McChrsytal handed over command of the war in Afghanistan to Gen. David Petraeus, air strikes had become a tool of absolute last resort. NATO planes were only making about 10 attack ru ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Part 2 – Demyelination, ...
  Article is intended to be read in conjunction with Part 1: VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix â A Legacy Of Shame Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation ...
• VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
  Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
• VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
  Part 2: Dissecting the Universal Flu Vaccine (continued from Part 1: Dissecting the Seasonal influenza Vaccine) To fully unravel the Biondvax Universal Flu Vaccine scandal, a top down approach is necessary. Professor Ruth Arnon, Ph.D, is the official “inventor of BiondVaxâs innovative synthetic ...
• VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
  “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...
• VRM: “One For All” Universal Flu V ...
  “The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the major change will be to mankind itself. Techniques such as genetic manipulations are not yet efficient enough t ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• Day of The Deployed
  HOEVEN CALLS FOR NATIONAL �DAY OF THE DEPLOYED� TO RECOGNIZE SOLDIERS� SACRIFICES Soldiers� Angels Thanks Hoeven for Introducing Senate Resolution Soldiers� Angels gratefully announces the support of Senator John Hoeven for a national Day of the Deployed.� SenatorHoeven recently introduced S. ...
• The Texan Who Would Be King
  02 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan With 4-4CAV, Task Force Spartan, Regional Command South You meet the most interesting people in war. War draws a �Who�s Who� of national leadership and central figures from the President on down.� �Everyone who is anyone� is some ...
• Iraq: Inside the Inferno – Brave Men & Demons
  01 August 2011 As the Iraq War slipped into chaos, few writers were willing to step out and call the barbaric behavior of our enemy what it was--barbaric. Words have power. So do pictures. Strict censoring of our own reporting and photos by the mainstream media does not make the enemy less sa ...
• More Flak from Military Public Affairs
  29 July 2011 � Over the past seven years, there has been a long string of issues flowing from military public affairs officers.� Most of the PAs have been professional, but on balance the experience has been extremely negative.� This is the opposite of what I've experienced with combat units, wh ...
• Taliban Attacking More Children
  26 July 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Over the past several days there have been news stories here in Afghanistan about the Taliban strangling an 8-year-old boy.�� The reports say that his father refused to turn over a police vehicle to the enemy, and so they murdered his ...

The Killing Train

• The politics of economic self-destruction
  Sorry for the hiatus. Partly I've been busy with work and life and been unable to spend as much time doing articles. Partly I am trying to train myself to not relate to the world through 2000 word articles but to have a little more variety, including longer things (ie., books), one of which I am ...
• Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
  This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.
• Watch out for election day fraud
  Francis Fox Piven (who has had her own experiences recently with Harper's US mentors) and Richard Cloward wrote a very interesting book called "Why Americans Don't Vote", which showed how a key electoral strategy in the US has always been demobilizing opposing voters, a strategy just as importan ...
• Today's election thoughts
  Today's election thoughts, and a couple of photos. Jon Elmer sent me this amusing Vintage Voter site. Vincent Pang sent me this photo album of protests against Harper's second proroguing back in 2010. read more
• 36% is apparently a majority, but not for a wh ...
  The daily polling is suspicious. Every day the media publishes what the electoral outcome is going to be. And every day it changes. They keep saying there's going to be a Harper majority. Saying it won't make it so, but it might contribute to it. Earlier today I saw an article on CityTV.ca throu ...

treehugger

• Weekday Vegetarian: Avocado Fries
  Photo credit: Kelly Rossiter Okay, I am now offcially disgusted with myself. I took a healthy avocado, dipped it in egg, breaded it and then fried it. Yes, I did, and it was totally delicious. And then I made a little dip of sriracha sauce and mayonnaise. I've been reading various websites ...
• Raw Milk Purveyors Arrested, Bail Set at $123,000
  A menacing herd. Image: USDA via Flickr (Creative Commons) In yet another example of wasted resources and misplaced priorities police in LA have raided Rawesome Foods, arresting three people in connection with the distribution of raw milk products without the proper permits. ...Read the full ...
• Peacock That Left Zoo for 5th Avenue Flies Home
  Photo: Trisha Shears under a Creative Commons license. Public relations-wise, this one is a mixed bag for New York City's Central Park Zoo. On Tuesday, a peacock left the zoo for an apartment on 5th Avenue (meaning the building's window ledge). And while the bird didn't seem too happy with ...
• Supporting Farmers Markets Creates Thousands o ...
  Image: Chris Schrier via flickr "What's holding farmers markets back?" That's the question behind a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, which determined the culprit to be federal policies that favor industrial agriculture over small and local farms. Change those policies, tho ...
• Allison Arieff on Prefab, Going Local, and Why ...
  One can't spend years as the editor in chief of Dwell magazine and not be something of a sage on sustainable design. What's more, Allison Arieff literally wrote the book on prefab architecture and now shares her explorations in the pages of the New York Times. In our interview she reflects on ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Russia closing deal over 20 fighter jets
  Shipment of MiG-29s expected to arrive in Burma before the end of next year as government looks to double fighter jet fleet
• NLD prepares for UN council appeal
  Opposition sees lack of legal chances in Burma as reason enough to take appeal over its dissolution to UN Human Rights Council
• Thieving spree as Naypyidaw building halts
  Labourers left unemployed by suspension of building projects in Burma's capital begin selling off equipment and tools
• Child abuse rife in Burma, despite laws
  Rights group inside Burma says it has received 10 cases of rape of underage girls in past two months, signaling weak enforcement of laws
• US appoints first Burma envoy
  Pentagon official and Asia veteran Derek Mitchell appointed after long wait as President Obama looks to push ahead with engagement

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Arctic ice cap 'near 2007 record minimum'
  The polar ice cap in the Arctic has melted to near its 2007 record minimum level and in some areas is 50 per cent smaller than average, Russia's environmental monitoring agency has claimed.
• Rajendra Pachauri is back to tell us: Trust me
  The IPCC's chairman wants us to forget all those scandals about hockey sticks and HImalayan glaciers, writes Christopher Booker.
• Can Prof Rajendra Pachauri really survive 'Gla ...
  The head of the UN panel on climate change, Prof Rajendra Pachauri, is still adamant that one famously exaggerated report should not cost him his job , says Peter Stanford.
• Steve Jones tells the BBC: don't give 'deniali ...
  In his report for the BBC Trust, Steve Jones actually attacks Auntie for having too little global-warming bias, writes Christopher Booker.
• Horn of Africa drought: African desperation
  Telegraph View: In the 1980s rich nations reacted far too slowly to mass starvation in Ethiopia. The same mistake must not be repeated.

National Geographic | Environment

• Philips Wins L Prize, but the Race Is Still on ...
  Philips captures the U.S. government's $10 million L Prize for its LED replacement for the 60-watt bulb, but efficient lighting must still win consumers' hearts.
• Philips Wins L Prize, but the Race Is Still on ...
  Philips captures the U.S. government's $10 million L Prize for its LED replacement for the 60-watt bulb, but efficient lighting must still win consumers' hearts.
• Pictures: In Search of Green Air-Conditioning
  NoneAir-conditioning has transformed summer living, but at tremendous energy cost. Ideas for greener cooling focus on making better use of the forces of nature.
• Pictures: In Search of Green Air-Conditioning
  NoneAir-conditioning has transformed summer living, but at tremendous energy cost. Ideas for greener cooling focus on making better use of the forces of nature.
• Parasite Creating Deformed Frogs in Western U.S.
  Amphibians with "sick and twisted" deformities remain widespread in the U.S. West, and pollution may be making it worse, new research says.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Obama bars war criminals, rights violators fro ...
  [JURIST] US President Barack Obama issued a directive] Thursday barring war criminals and human rights violators [press release from entering the country. Under the new proclamation, which took effect immediately, the Secretary of State determines which criminals or violators will be allowed int ...
• Federal appeals court vacates ruling on Pennsy ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [official website] has vacated a previous ruling [text] declaring Hazelton, Pennsylvania's immigration laws unconstitutional. Hazleton's Illegal Immigration Relief Act and Landlord Tenant Ordinance [texts, PDF] deny permits to businesses tha ...
• Federal appeals court says Ashcroft immune fro ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday ruled [opinion, PDF] that former US attorney general John Ashcroft [JURIST news archive] is entitled to absolute immunity from the claims of a Muslim American detained for two weeks after the terrorist attacks ...
• Montana judge allows Congress to remove wolves ...
  [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Montana [official website] ruled [order, PDF] Wednesday that Congress' removal of the Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf [Yellowstone Insider backgrounder] from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) [materials], not through amending it but thro ...
• Federal judge allows a US intelligence officer ...
  [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court of District of Columbia [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday that former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld [JURIST news archive] can be sued by a former US military contractor who claims he was tortured while imprisoned in Iraq. The man, whos ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans cl ...

Tikun Olam

• Maariv Political Correspondent Warns of ‘Milit ...
  In the past week, Israel has witnessed the largest mass social protest movement in decades. 150,000 demonstrated a few nights ago in cities and towns throughout Israel against the rising cost of living and deterioration in virtually every aspect of Israeli quality of life including massive cuts ...
• Geller Accessory After Fact to Breivik Massacre?
  Little Green Footballs reports that Pam Geller published an e-mail from an unnamed Norwegian anti- jihadi in 2007, which indicated he was planning a major terror attack to dramatize his cause. Geller was so shocked by what he wrote that she called it “devastating in its matter of factness.” She ...
• Settler MKs Welcome Russian Neo-Nazi Holocaust ...
  When an Israeli reader sent this story to me I couldn’t believe the headline summarized above.  Further, in this day and age of Norwegian neo-Nazi, anti-jihadi attacks which wrap themselves in the Israeli flag, this story is simply mind-blowing. It begins with a visit from a Russian neo-Nazi de ...
• Truthout Publishes My Latest Piece on Possible ...
  I’ve distilled my reporting on Iran in the past month and added some new material in this new piece published today at Truthout: Senior Israeli, US Intelligence Figures Warn of Israeli Attack Against Iran.  The heading above the title says it has 108,000 Facebook Likes.  Given that Truthout i ...
• Iran Assassination: Melman Hints Israel Killed ...
  In reporting on the recent assassination of Iranian electrical engineering graduate student, Darioush Rezaeinejad, I’ve noted the possibility of the Lillehammer-like mistake by which the Mossad may’ve killed the wrong man.  The reason is that at first the news media reported the victim was nucl ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

• Help to overcome
  SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]
• USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
  The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
• FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
  by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
• My Predicament
  For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...
• High Time in the Old town TONIGHT, MAYBE/
  O.K., most of you have heard of all the doomsayers that have been around the last few years and all have heard in one form, or another, about the 2012 Mayan prophecy, so you put it all in a sack and shake it up. What do you get? Well, whether, or not, any of these [...]

Unsuitable Blog

• London 2012: Crass, Commercial and Completely ...
  The Olympic Charter reads as follows: Fundamental Principles of Olympism 1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of eff ...
• Why So Few Unsuitablogs?
  I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
• Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
  We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...
• Lush’s Dirty Laundry [by Cory Morningstar]
  In an unlikely alliance, Lush Cosmetics joins the Indigenous Environmental Network against the Canadian tar sands. The Lush campaign targets the tar sands, yet the CEO of Lush fails to target his own family’s dynasty built on the continued exploration of oil, gas and mining. Today, the environme ...
• Dispatches: Conservation’s Dirty Secrets
  JUST-WATCH-THIS… http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3201652 Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that’s engulfing the plane ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• FrontlineSMS: Engaging the Audience to Transfo ...
  If some projections are correct, the world is only a year or so from a major milestone: some time in 2012, there will be one active mobile phone connection for every person on the planet. The question is no longer whether mobile phones will transform, well, everything, but how. At Frontline ...
• Reporting from Your Mobile Phone? The Mobile M ...
  Drumroll, please! MobileActive.org is pleased to introduce the Mobile Media Toolkit, the newest project that's all about Making Media Mobile. The Mobile Media Toolkit helps you make sense of the growing role of mobile tech in media. The Toolkit provides how-to guides, wireless tools, and ...
• Visualizing 10 Years of Violence Against Journ ...
  Internews and Nai, an Afghan media advocacy organization, have collected hundreds of reports of threats, intimidation, and violence faced by journalists in Afghanistan. We recently announced a new site, which features 10 years of these reports. While Nai's data previously resided in spreadsheets ...
• DocumentCloud Weathers Obama Birth Certificate ...
  When President Obama released his birth certificate and dozens of news organizations turned to DocumentCloud to present it to their readers, I snarked a bit. Though the birth certificate did prompt a few questions -- which we're still navigating -- about the best way to handle duplicate uploads, ...
• Prototypes, Visualizations Take Shape in Knigh ...
  Today marks the end of the second week of the Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab, an experiment in which 63 "mad scientists" with ideas for how to improve digital storytelling have been thrown together in a common digital space to learn and refine those digital ideas. In the first week, we heard la ...

Cutting Edge News

• Inside the Brain - Advances Made in Generating ...
  University of Florida scientists have discovered a way to separate the neural wheat from the chaff during the process of generating brain cells for potential patient therapies. The technique, recently detailed in the online journal PLoS ONE, could be applied to long-awaited stem cell treatments ...
• Book Reviews - Starring New York: the Glamming ...
  Starring New York: Filming the Grime and Glamour of the Long 1970s. Stanley Corkin. Oxford University Press. 2011. One afternoon in the late seventies I stumbled on a film crew shooting on location in Washington Square Park in lower Manhattan. Extras had been set up doing the sorts of things som ...
• The Race for Smart Grids - Europe Needs Substa ...
  Intelligent electricity networks – smart grids – are a key component in the EU energy strategy, but substantial investments are needed to make them a reality. A new study from the European Commission's in-house science service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), presents a review of 219 smart grid ...
• Edge of Terrorism - Nano Detector for Deadly A ...
  An automatic and portable detector that takes just fifteen minutes to analyze a sample suspected of contamination with anthrax is being developed by US researchers. The technology amplifies any anthrax DNA present in the sample and can reveal the presence of just 40 microscopic cells of the dead ...
• The Edge of the Universe - Our Sun and Planets ...
  The sun and the solar system's rocky inner planets, including the Earth, may have formed differently than previously thought, according to UCLA scientists and colleagues analyzing samples returned by NASA's Genesis mission.The data from Genesis, which collected material from the solar wind blowi ...

High Country News

• The return of the Lords of Yesterday
  The Old West-style extractive economy is roaring back to life, powered by the insatiable energy needs of countries like China.
• Ice matters
  We're not just losing our glaciers; we're unraveling the systems that sustain all life on earth.
• Suckling responds: Cashing in? Nope, just savi ...
  Kieran Suckling responds to Ted Williams' column arguing his group files gratuitous lawsuits and profits off them.
• The Global West: how foreign investment fuels ...
  China's insatiable energy appetite is fueling a natural resource boom in the West.
• Milestone in Cobell Indian trust case
  Elouise Cobell's long-running lawsuit over Indian trust accounts appears to be finally reaching a settlement.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• The Top 10 Most Obnoxious Quotes From Bill Maher
  You may find this surprising but I used to enjoy Bill Maher, back in the days when his show was called Politically Incorrect, and it was found on Comedy Central. But as his show made its way through ABC before landing on HBO, Maher went� from funny political humor to acerbic vitriol that is neit ...
• The "Oslo Syndrome" Article For Those Who Want ...
  --Barry Rubin Note to readers: I have written this as a preface placed at the start of my article on "The Oslo Syndrome." I am also putting it here to make sure that those of you who want to see it can do so: This article is being distorted by various people and places into suppo ...
• Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Proves "You Can't Fix ...
  A standard phrase of Ron White, one of my favorite comedians is "You can't fix stupid." Sometimes I wonder if he came up with that phrase because of Democratic National Committee Chair, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.� She may not be the dumbest person in congress, although she does compete with Ba ...
• Will The Last Person To Leave NY State PLEASE ...
  Will the last person leaving New York State please turn off the lights? While Progressives across the country are tied up in their underwear looking for ways to punish success with over-taxation, New York is losing taxpayers at an alarming rate. According to the NY Post: �...a staggeri ...
• Recession Signs of The Day! Factory Orders Dow ...
  In a post yesterday we provided a list of all the economic signs that we've begun the second fall of a double dip recession. More bad news today factory orders are down. New orders received by factories fell in June, pulled down by weak demand for transportation equipment, government data show ...

The Real Agenda

• Inspecciones y Detecciones de Comportamiento e ...
  Nuestra probabilidad de ser elegidos en una nación de sospechosos Por Luis R. Miranda Boiling Frogs 4 de agosto 2011 La Agencia de Seguridad Aeroportuaria de Estados Unidos (TSA) está a punto de comenzar programas de control en âpuestos de control de comportamiento y seguridad” en los aeropuer ...
• Biometría de Facebook declarada Ilegal en Alemania
  Por Luis R. Miranda CSM 4 de agosto 2011 En junio, la Unión Europea anunció que estudiaría el uso de Facebook de un software que utiliza el reconocimiento facial para ayudar a clasificar y etiquetar las fotografías de sus usuarios. Ahora Caspar Johannes, un experto en protección de datos con la ...
• Irán Preside la OPEP
  Rostam Ghasemi se une al gabinete de Ahmadinejad como Ministro de Petróleo, de forma automática convirtiéndolo en el jefe de la organización mundial de petróleo. Por Luis R. Miranda Guardian de Londres 03 de agosto 2011 Un alto comandante de la Guardia Revolucionaria iraní objeto de sanciones in ...
• Deuda de EE.UU. sobrepasa el 100% su PIB
  Por Luis R. Miranda AFP 04 de agosto 2011 La deuda de EE.UU. subió $ 238 mil millones para alcanzar el 100 por ciento del Producto Interno Bruto después de que el techo de deuda del gobierno fuera elevado. Esto fue reportado por el Departamento del Tesoro el miércoles. Los préstamos del Tesoro s ...
• Airport Behavioral Inspections-Detections
  Our Probability of Being Chosen in a Nation of Suspects by Sibel Edmonds Boiling Frogs August 4, 2011 TSA screeners are about to implement Orwellian behavioral inspections at airport security checkpoints. Who are these TSA screeners? These are the same low-level, incompetent, scandalous, molesti ...

Wind Watch

• Wind, wilderness chief forest plan concerns
  HOT SPRINGS � Wind energy and wilderness areas on the George Washington National Forest were the main topics of conversation at a public meeting on the proposed plan revision for the forest last Wednesday at Valley Elementary School. During question-and-answer and breakout sessions, citizens ask ...
• Federal officials investigate eagle deaths at ...
  Pine Tree facility in the Tehachapi Mountains faces scrutiny over the deaths of at least six golden eagles, which are protected under federal law. Prosecution would be a major blow to the booming industry. Federal authorities are investigating the deaths of at least six golden eagles at the Los ...
• Vinalhaven residents ask court to vacate wind ...
  Augusta â Claiming three successive Maine Department of Environmental Protection commissioners acted on political motivation, a group calling itself Fox Islands Wind Neighbors petitioned Kennebec County Superior Court on July 28, challenging Fox Islands Wind LLC’s compliance with a condition of ...
• Wind farm on Mount Massaemet?
  SHELBURNE � A Shelburne Center landowner is to meet with the town Zoning Board of Appeals Thursday night to discuss the permit process for a possible wind farm on Mount Massaemet. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. According to the ZBA meeting agenda, the board is to �review w ...
• Frankfort wind project proceeds against voters ...
  FRANKFORT, Maine � Selectmen have chosen not to enforce a wind power moratorium the town�s voters enacted in May. After a wind energy firm expressed interest in installing four to six wind turbines on top of Mount Waldo, residents decided to temporarily ban all wind power activities to give the ...

Tippers News

• Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
  Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher Away C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
• Confused cat found wandering streets of of Lin ...
  This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Two week-old kitten left for dead in locked cl ...
  Thanks to a passerby and local animal shelter, a two week-old kitten left for dead in a bolted-shut clothes recycling bin was rescued and has made a full recovery. The kitten was rescued about a month ago when a passing person heard the cry Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...
  She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
  The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are fSubmitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Government Borrowing Skyrockets
  “U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday â the largest one-day bump in history â as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this weekâs debt-limit increase deal. The debt subject to the statutory limit shot way past the old cap of $14.294 trillion to hit $14.532 trillion on T ...
• Ceiling Raised, Government Borrowing Skyrockets
  “U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday â the largest one-day bump in history â as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this weekâs debt-limit increase deal. The debt subject to the statutory limit shot way past the old cap of $14.294 trillion to hit $14.532 trillion on T ...
• The Bourgeois Virtues and Consumer Ethics
  When people in the market display particularly virtuous behavior, we as consumers should feel obligated to reward it, and not just because we think it will encourage more of it.
• Public Gives Debt Deal Low Marks
  “The hard-won, last-minute agreement to raise the debt ceiling and cut the deficit gets low ratings from Americans, who by more than 2-1 predict it will make the nation’s fragile economy worse rather than better. In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken hours after the Senate passed and President Obama ...
• FAA Partial Shutdown to Get New Attention
  “With the bitter debate on raising the debt ceiling at last behind it, Washington turned its sights Wednesday to matters that had gone little-noticed in the months-long furor over the federal borrowing limit. Chief among them: a partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration that has le ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• A wingnut and a prayer
  By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer With each passing day, Rick Perry's Christian prayer-and-repentance rally, The Response, seems like more of a mistake, a classic act of hubris by a politician still learning his way around the national stage. First, the backlash has been fierce, not just from ...
• Utilities spark protests by sticking ratepayer ...
  Consumer advocates are blasting the Georgia Public Service Commission's unanimous vote this week requiring ratepayers to bear the burden of cost overruns during construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle while protecting the profit margin of the Southern Company's largest subsidiar ...
• South Carolina immigration law starts new era ...
  New America Media Editor's Note: The battle over immigration is now being waged at the state level. Since Arizona's immigration law SB 1070 went into effect one year ago, five states -- Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah -- have passed similar laws. South Carolina's new immi ...
• Battles over voter photo ID laws come to a head
  Facing South readers know the story. After campaigning on jobs and the economy, Republicans in state legislatures in the South and nationally focused on pushing laws that would require voters to show photo ID at the polls. There's scant evidence that voter impersonation is a real problem, and ...
• Virginia furniture workers win Ikea union driv ...
  By Jenny Brown, Labor Notes Union organizing won back the weekend for Tawanda Tarpley and her co-workers at an Ikea-owned furniture plant in Danville, Virginia. Mandatory overtime at the Swedish-owned plant meant that last year she worked for three months without a single day off. The union r ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Morocco: All Hail the (Democratic) King
  Morocco's recent constitutional referendum is not only being welcomed by the people, but could set an example across the Arab region in terms of the potential of reform.
• North Africa and E.U. Energy Security
  Given the energy dependence of European countries on North African and Middle Eastern states, financial consequences of further upheavals in the Arab world could be global and deep.
• Living with Disabilities in Uganda
  The plight of persons with disabilities in Uganda and other parts of Africa is exacerbated by the fact that PWD are discriminated against and not protected by the law.
• Women's Struggle in Sierra Leone
  The struggle for equal opportunities for women in all aspects of Sierra Leone's socio-economic life is as crucial for our country's future as it is for women.
• South Sudan: Safeguarding Independence
  The world's newest nation has reason to look positively as its future, but South Sudan must work hard to safeguard its hard-won independence.

Telegraph UK - oil

• Hope for motorists as oil price tumbles
  Drivers can finally expect some relief at the petrol pump, after the price of oil dropped sharply.
• Oil refinery blast: Chevron site has excellent ...
  The safety record at the Chevron oil refinery in Pembroke has been praised following the fire and explosion which killed four contractors.
• Petrol retailers told to help motorists as oil ...
  Petrol retailers are under pressure to cut the cost of motoring after oil prices plummeted on the world market.
• Chris Huhne needs a lesson in economics
  Plundering the profits from North Sea oil will only hold back Britain's recovery, argues Jeremy Warner.
• The Gulf of Mexico is not as clean as they say
  Assessing the true toll of the Deepwater Horizon blow-out is only starting, says Geoffrey Lean.

Ian Welsh

• What the Debt Limit Crisis Should Have Taught You
  This is not primarily about the Tea Party It is about what rich donors want.  The Tea Party does not even have the amount of muscle progressives do.  Progressives can bring tens of thousands of people out, the Tea Party can rarely even get above 1,000.  They are a convenient excuse to do what th ...
• Boehner’s plan has 900 billion in cuts
  Obama’s has 4 trillion. Boehner’s plan also calls for a committee to find another 1.8 billion.  Even with that, we’re talking 2.7 billion of cuts, still less than Obama’s plan That is all.
• Predicted August 2nd 2008
  20) A huge push to gut entitlements in 2009, no matter who is president. Even if the US quickly pulls out of Iraq, the deficit will be totally out of control, and hundreds of billions will be needed for bailouts. A rapid consensus will form that rather than increasing taxes significantly on the ...
• Stirling Newberry asks if Obama is the worst p ...
  Well?  Go on over, and see what you think, where does Obama rank in terms of worst presidents ever? I mean, he didn’t/hasn’t caused a civil war, so he’s probably not in first place.  But… Also a detailed explanation of how the debt limit is raised, and a good list of the worst things Obama [...]
• More Notes on the Debt Ceiling “Negotiat ...
  If Obama didn’t want it to happen, if he didn’t want to “negotiate”, he would have: 1) raised the debt limit during the lame duck Congress.  He could have raised it enough to get him through 2 years. 2) Accepted the clean debt-ceiling bill, offered by McConnell, as noted by Stewart M. 3) simply ...

Media Consortium

• Top 6 Mistakes to Avoid in Mobile Usability | ...
  Mobile applications are important for providing users with an alternate means of accessing your web page, as well as keeping connected anywhere and at any time. The programs are an integral part of staying competitive within your market, so they should be created wisely.
• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Faceboo ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvi ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• NIH taps versatile veteran to head new intramu ...
  The National Institutes of Health announced yesterday that it has finally found a director for its Intramural Center for Regenerative Medicine, a $52 million, seven-year initiative begun in 2010 “to create a world-class center of excellence in stem cell technology on the NIH campus,” as the age ...
• Horse researchers pick up the pieces after maj ...
  Posted on behalf of Charlotte Schubert Researchers at Colorado State University are still reeling from a blaze, early in the morning of 26 July, that destroyed offices and labs at the Equine Reproduction Laboratory in Fort Collins. The cause of the fire, which caused an estimated $9 million-$ ...
• If you can’t stand the heat, don’t build a nuc ...
  Posted on behalf of George Wigmore. While many harbour dreams of splitting the atom, very few follow through on their fantasies. But Richard Handl, the Swedish man arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen, is a little different. Handl had been trying for several months to set up ...
• Gender wage gap smaller in science and technology
  Women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) jobs earn less than men -- but the gender gap is not as wide as it is in other fields, according to a report released on 3 August by the US Department of Commerce. The report, titled “Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation”, compa ...
• UK closes key nuclear reprocessing plant
  Today the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced the closure of the Mixed Oxide fuel fabrication facility at Sellafield. "The reason for this is directly related to the tragic events in Japan and its ongoing impact on the power markets," Tony Fountain, the decommissioning authority's C ...

new geography

• Banana-nomics
  The price of bananas is again making headlines as it pushes up inflation and threatens rising interest rates. But what’s the price of the humble ‘nana got to do with property markets? Plenty. Banana prices have risen almost 500% since Cyclone Yasi wiped out much of north Queensland’s ...
• Things They Don't Tell You About GDP
  I was watching Book TV on C-SPAN last week and I came upon Mr. Ha-Joon Chang talking about his book “23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism.” For example, Thing #1 is “there is no such thing as a free market.” I actually use this line in my finance and economics courses. If someone t ...
• Sustaining the Suburbs
  The proposition is simple, if not overwhelming.  If we want sustainable cities � however you define �sustainable� � we had better put some effort into the quality of suburban life.  We need to get over denigrating suburbs and sprawl.  That simply ducks the issue of where and how most peo ...
• The 2012 Vote: A Newly Diverse Center
  Demographic transformations are changing how the American people vote. In 2010, only 15 per cent of Americans claimed to be completely unaffiliated independent voters, while 48 per cent identified with the Democratic Party and 37 per cent with the Republican Party. Back in the 1990s, party ident ...
• How Los Angeles Lost Its Mojo
  Los Angeles today is a city in secular decline. Its current political leadership seems determined to turn the sprawling capitalist dynamo into a faux New York. But they are more likely to leave behind a dense, government-dominated, bankrupt, dysfunctional, Athens by the Pacific. The greatness o ...

GM Watch

• Fedoroff declares war against EPA over GM
  NOTE: More about pro-GM zealot Nina Fedoroff here: http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11942 http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11954 --- --- Scientists protest EPA proposal to expand biotech regulation By Stephen Clapp Friday July 22 2011, Volume: ...
• Federoff declares war against EPA over GM
  NOTE: More about pro-GM zealot Nina Federoff here: http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11942 http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11954 --- --- Scientists protest EPA proposal to expand biotech regulation By Stephen Clapp Friday July 22 2011, Volume: ...
• Rothamsted cuts to agroecology "Swimming again ...
  NOTE: More on Rothamsted: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Rothamsted_Research --- --- Rothamsted Cuts to Agroecology "Swimming Against the Tide" GM Freeze, 15 July 2011 The decision by Rothamsted Research to close three major departments central to their agroecological research base has bee ...
• Rothamsted cuts to agroecology "Swimming again ...
  NOTE: More on Rothamsted: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Rothamsted_Research --- --- Rothamsted Cuts to Agroecology "Swimming Against the Tide" GM Freeze, 15 July 2011 The decision by Rothamsted Research to close three major departments central to their agroecological research base has bee ...
• Enquêtes de la WDR sur le World Wide Fund for ...
  Enquêtes de la WDR sur le World Wide Fund for Nature Le WWF et l'industrie / Le pacte avec le panda[1] Par Lars Langenau[2] sueddeutsche.de Média [Original allemand: http://bit.ly/SZPandaPakt] 22 juin 2011, 19h00 Quels sont les véritables liens entre le WWF et l'industrie? À l'heure du cinquant ...

spiked

• Defending the right to be anonymous online
  We should be able to use the web as we want, even if those who hide their identities sometimes act childishly.
• E-Petitions: first as tragedy, then as farce
  The resurrection of the idea that the UK's citizens should appeal for political change online confirms how cut off the elite is today.
• What’s with the fashion for bashing baby ...
  There’s something irritatingly infantile about blaming the boomers for everything from recession to eco-apocalypse. But in some ways, the boomers invited such ridicule.
• What is the point of Ed Miliband?
  If you can overlook its bizarre claim that Ed is a ‘political insurgent’, this biography of the Labour leader provides some unwitting insights into the new species of cut-off politician.
• Admit it: environmentalism was an ugly experiment
  Mark Lynas has converted from being an eco-alarmist to a pro-growth rationalist. But he still doesn’t get the problem with green thinking.

Cryptogon

• Feds Allowed Sinaloa Cartel to Move Cocaine In ...
  Via: El Paso Times: U.S. federal agents allegedly allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel to traffic several tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for information about rival cartels, according to court documents filed in a U.S. federal court. The allegations are part of the defense of Vice ...
• U.S. Wants to Build Cybersecurity Protection P ...
  Better make sure your car’s firewall and antivirus definitions are up to date. *grin* Via: Network World: As cars and other forms of transportation increasingly rely on online systems for everything from safety to onboard entertainment, the cybersecurity threat from those who would exploit such ...
• Facebook Comes Before Tap Water as India’s Poo ...
  Via: Bloomberg: In a two-room shanty with no running water in northern Mumbai, Darshana Verma makes tea on a small stove. On a bench nearby, her 18-year-old son, Vishal, messages Facebook friends on the keypad of his Nokia smartphone. “This is the Internet age,” said the 36-year-old domestic hel ...
• Rawsome Farm Buying Club Raided Again
  Look at all of the agencies associated with this nonsense!? Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office: Agencies taking part in the ongoing investigation include the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; the California Franchise Tax Board; the California Department of Food and Agricultureâs Milk and Da ...
• Japan Launches Campaign to Weaken Yen
  Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. It’s starting (again): At a minimum, states will try unilateral capital controls in an attempt to prevent their currencies from disorderly appreciation vs. the toxic dollar. Via: Wall Street Journal: Japan stepp ...

The Economic Collapse

• GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Head Of Obama&#8217 ...
  Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China.  GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now GE has announced that it "is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray ...
• Broke! 10 Facts About The Financial Condition ...
  The crumbling U.S. economy is putting an extraordinary amount of financial stress on American families.  For many Americans, "flat broke" has become a permanent condition.  Today, over half of all American families live paycheck to paycheck.  Unemployment is rampant and those th ...
• Layoffs, Layoffs Everywhere You Look There Are ...
  The competition for jobs in the United States is absolutely brutal right now, and it is about to get worse.  A new wave of layoffs is sweeping across America.  During tough economic times, Wall Street favors companies that are able to cut costs, and the fastest way to "cut costs ...
• Madness: 39 Things That Are Driving Ordinary A ...
  Have you noticed that almost everyone seems really angry these days?  Frustration with the government and with most of the other major institutions in our society seems to grow by the day.  According to a brand new ABC News/Washington Post poll, 80 percent of Americans say that ...
• Drought Of 2011: The Southern United States Is ...
  2011 sure has been a wild year for America so far.  First we had unprecedented tornado outbreaks, then we had horrific flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, then we had record setting wildfires and now we are facing a crippling drought all over the southern United ...

Desertification

• Bottom-up view on effective, long-term solutio ...
  Reading every day a number of publications on drought, desertification, hunger, malnutrition, famine, poverty and conflicts, I noticed that more and more voices are raised about the urgent need for a drastic change in strategies : from short-term to long-term … Continue reading →
• Effective, long-term solutions to famine, drou ...
  Read at : http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/qa-preparedness-key-as-climate-shifts-threaten-more-drought-un Q&A: Preparedness key as climate shifts threaten more drought – UN Source: alertnet // Laurie Goering LONDON (AlertNet) – The race by U.N. and aid agencies to respond to worsening drought ...
• Reminder: Survey to support the assessment of ...
  We wish to thank those that have responded to our email message here below.We greatly appreciate the assistance and the time dedicated to fill-out the survey. May we cordially invite and encourage further those who have not submitted their views … Continue reading →
• Home vegetable gardens have shown evidence of ...
  The Center for Sustainable Development 2011: One Billion Hungry People | Can Home Garden Gardens be a Solution? Special August 2011 Newsletter: Nutrition and Home Garden Resource CSDi Fall Quarter 2011: Upcoming Online Development Courses: September 6, 2011 We’ve trained … Continue reading →
• An immense humanitarian crisis on the Horn of ...
  Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/07/horn_of_africa_on_the_brink_of.html Horn of Africa: on the brink of a humanitarian crisis One of the worst droughts in a century, compounded by high food prices and unremitting political strife, is … C ...

The Paper Trail

• Center staff honored with awards
  Spring is journalism awards season and we’re delighted that the Center for Public Integrity and partner NPR have received a prestigious Dart Award for the story “Seeking Justice in Campus Rapes.” The award is bestowed by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.
• A new site, a new era
  Make iWatch News your daily source for investigative and accountability news from around the corner – and across the globe.
• Accountant gets $4.5 million from IRS for whis ...
  PHILADELPHIA — An accountant who tipped off the IRS that his employer was skimping on taxes has received $4.5 million in the first IRS whistleblower award.
• Hey Congressman! How many federal workers are ...
  When Republican Mike Pence stood in front of a crowd of conservative activists at the end of March, he left no question as to his views on a possible government shutdown.
• E-mails allege strife within ATF over Grassley ...
  An employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives alleged that he was “called to the carpet” by supervisors, accused of lying and ordered to write down everything that was said in meetings that were held with Senate staffers conducting an inquiry, according to newly release ...

backofthebook.ca

• Granny Turmel and the red separatist scare
  By Montreal Simon As the Liberals continue their fevered pathetic assault on Nycole Turmel. No doubt hoping that out of her ashes, their shrunken party will rise again, like some fleshless phoenix. Or some charred scarecrow. Even as they help fuel comments like this and this and this in ...
• No Murdoch-style scandal in Canada, you say?
  By Alison@Creekside We've been getting a lot of stories from our media lately (here, here, and here), assuring us that an equivalent to the Rupert Murdoch scandal couldn't possibly happen in Canada. Really? No cozy incestuous relationships? No dirty tricks? On March 30, 2009, Stephen Ha ...
• Adobe Previews Adobe Flash Killer
  by Eric Pettifor Back in March, I criticized Apple for not including support for Adobe Flash in their iPad tablet. Their reasoning seemed to be at least in part that Flash was going away, to be replaced by HTML 5 with support from javascript and CSS, to which I responded ...
• Alykhan and Ezra’s ethical snake oil
  By Alison@Creekside Alykhan Velshi's wee blog Ethical Oil, named after Ezra's book, has relaunched with an expensive new look and some spiffy ethical oil pop-up campaign ads to greet you when you enter the site. You can choose either good or evil -- you know, conflict oil = woman being ston ...
• Booking Granny
  By Alison@Creekside There's just so much wrong with this news story about the Canada Border Services Agency arresting and jailing a 66-year old woman for 12 days, for trafficking, possessing, and importing heroin, because their swab-test of a jar of motor oil in her vehicle incorrectly iden ...

libcom

• Serbia: State offensive against the libertaria ...
  freebg6.jpg An analysis of the current wave of state repression of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative. Since the official forming of our organisation in late 2002, not a single ...
• Chilean miners strike and join wave of protest ...
  chile copper.jpg Strikes in Chilean mines strengthen workers' struggles throughout the copper industry, and reflect growing political unrest in Chile. 2,300 miners at Chile's E ...
• A contribution to the discussion around SolFed ...
  Snapshot 2011-08-04 00-43-07.jpg From the SolFed Community Strategy thread: Martin O Neill wrote: On Community Self Management: How will community organisations relate to industrial organisations? ...
• Anti-fascist festival and anarchist bookfair i ...
  The fourth ZAF (Zrenjanin Anti-fascist Festival) will be held on 30th of September and 1st of October 2011. The fourth ZAF (Zrenjanin Anti-fascist Festival) will be held on 30th of September and 1st of October 2011. in the Cultural C ...
• Palestinian quarry workers strike
  Salit strikers.jpg Palestinian workers at a quarry at an Israeli settlement in the occupied territories have gone on strike over unpaid wages. The strike began last month at Sa ...

Free Range International

• This Ain’t Route 66
  Since so many people in the western media have been freely tossing words like “Taliban” and “terrorist” around recently, I thought I’d give you all a slice of life glimpse into what it’s like to actually live here in Afghanistan with real terrorists.  We Americans have a love affair with cars, ...
• An Open Letter to Martin Frost
  Dear Mr. Frost, Yesterday, while perusing through my usual roundup of blogs and new sites, I ran across your article, The Tea Party Taliban, on Politico.com.  I’m sure you thought you were quite clever, likening the American Tea Party to the Afghan Taliban, with statements such as this: Ten year ...
• Riding A Dead Horse
  I thought you might all appreciate some Afghan humor today.  I found this on the website Who is Who in Afghanistan, which is a great site to check out if you want dirt on Afghan politicians and power brokers.  Most of the content on the site seems to be provided by Afghans themselves, and althou ...
• The Plot Thickens
  I meant to get this post up sooner, but a 48-hour bout with the flu left my brain too cooked to come up with any sort of cogent analysis regarding the assassination of Karzai ally Jan Mohammad Khan (JMK).  To tell you the truth, I don’t have one theory on whose behind the killing – [...]
• AWK Whacked
  So it seems that Ahmed Wali Karzai (aka AWK or A-wak, as it’s pronounced), was whacked by one of his own guards yesterday, sending everyone in the US and Afghan governments into a tizzy as they try to figure out how to fill the power vacuum created by his demise.  I really can’t say for [...]

The Story Behind the Story

• Who’s Who In the Zoo – By Dr. True ...
  Who’s Who in the Zoo?   By Dr. Truess (rhymes with Suess). Who’s who in the “patriot” zoo?  It’s so full of worms and primordial goo – MY – what can one do? Watch your step, cause there’s lots of bad pooh – smelly stuff that will stick on your shoe! There’s Turner, and Jones, and [...]
• QUOTE OF THE DECADE!!
  The Quote of the Decade âThe fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.  It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills.  It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to [...]
• TRUTH REVEALED – 528 is the Frequency of ...
  This is a very complex and multi-faceted topic.  It involves exposing something called “Kabalah” (the CUBE) as well as “Enochian Magic” and the darkest sorcery ever performed on Planet Earth.   It involves exposing demonology and inter-dimensional “conjuring” of entities called Nephilim or Ji ...
• AUDIT THE FED??? WHAT ABOUT STARTING WITH THE ...
    House Passes DeFazio’s Amendment to Audit the Pentagon.  GREAT JOB CONGRESSMAN!!!! This is all about accountability in government – something that to date has BEEN SORELY LACKING. No More DUAL ISRAELI CITIZENS such as Dov Zackheim controlling the Pentagon’s purse strings!!  Never forget the ...
• Edgar Steele Story PART II
  Sex, Lies & Audiotape (Part II) by Edgar J. Steele Here Come de Fix I had an inkling that the fix was in on the morning of the second day of the pretrial hearing concerning our forensic audiology eperts. The lead prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney Traci Whelan, was smiling, humming to herself and ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

• Solar Tracker Information / Guide
  Solar trackers can generate substantially more power than fixed. Selection of a tracker type is dependent on multiple factors, including installation size, electric rates, government incentives, land constraints, budget constraints, latitude and local weather. Single-axis trackers are able to ge ...
• MO Coalition for the Environment Monthly Diges ...
  Donate Now Become A Member Volunteer Follow us on: Facebook Twitter MCE Monthly Digest Once a month, MCE sends a brief update on the work of each of our program areas. If you’d like to receive a program’s more frequent updates, click the "update profile" link at the bottom of this email. Clean E ...
• sign our EMERGENCY LETTER to President Obama
  Dear Readers, The New York Times and the Washington Post are reporting that President Obama may offer cuts to Social Security and Medicare to the GOP in their Debt Ceiling deal. This is an “All hands on deck” moment for every progressive in America: the same Republicans who raised the debt ceili ...
• Lighting Design Basics- Electrical Issues
  ELECTRICAL: Lighting Design Basics AMBIENT HOUSE LIGHTING Ambient light (or fill light) is the soft, general illumination that fills a room and softens the shadows. As a rule, the fixtures (often called luminaires in the lighting industry) used to provide ambient light should not draw attention ...
• solar industry continued its impressive growth ...
  U.S. Solar Industry Grows 66% Q1/10 – Q1/11In what continues to be an era of slow growth for the U.S. economy, the domestic solar industry continued its impressive growth rate into the first quarter of 2011, according to a report released last month by the Solar Energy Industries Association and ...

The View From Abroad

• We Can’t Afford to Raise the Debt Ceiling
  Obama was correct to reject raising the debt ceiling in 2006.
• Western Imperialism Strikes Again
  The invasion of Libya is about imperialism not protection of civilians.
• What Obama Should Have Said
  As I was reading President Obama's speech last week, I dozed off into a glorious daydream.
• “Where’s the Beef”?
  After Osama bin Laden was killed, why wasn't his body displayed for verification.
• Bernanke is Still Clueless
  Ben Bernanke has been consistently wrong in the past. Why does anybody listen to him anymore?

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Review: America's Challenge
  Michael Swaine suggests concrete ways to improve U.S.-China relations.
• Nuclear Deterrence: a Bridge Not Yet Crossed
  Deterrence has long outlived its usefulness.
• Ramadan Stops Libyan Rebels Neither From Fight ...
  Rebel forces claim that they need not observe Ramadan.
• Afghanistan: U.S. and Pakistan Seek to Reinfor ...
  If there are general rules of war, certainly one of them is: "Do not fight in places that the Rand McNally three-dimensional map puts lots of bumps."
• Islamophobes Insinuate Their Way Into U.S. Int ...
  Islamophobes, passing themselves off as experts on Islam, have ingratiated themselves with the U.S. political establishment and intelligence agencies.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• يک زندانی سياسی بر اثر شکنجه های بازجويان وزار ...
  بنابه گزارشات رسيده به"فعالين حقوق بشر و دمکراسی در ايران" چشم زندانی سياسی افشين بايمانی بر اثر شکنجۀ جسمی توسط بازجويان وزارت اطلاعات در معرض خطر جدی کور شدن قرار دارد. read more
• متن نامه دکتر محمد ملکی مبنی بر عدم حضور در دا ...
  دکتر ملکی برای اینکه رسما در حضور قاضی اعلام کند دادگاه را به رسمیت نمیشناسد، در دادگاه حضور یافت و طبق یادداشتی بار دیگر اعلام کرد دادگاه را صاحب صلاحیت رسیدگی به اتهامات خود نمی داند. . .read more
• Report: Mossad behind string of assassinations ...
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• اصولگرایان دربرابر معضل "احمدی‌نژاد و جریان ان ...
  محمد غرویان، عضو جامعه مدرسین حوزه علمیه قم و از شاگردان سابق مصباح یزدی معتقد است اعضای جبهه پایداری "تفکرات و اندیشه‌های" مهدوی کنی را قبول ندارند. او در گفتگویی با روزنامه اعتماد که امروز، ۱۱ خرداد منتشر شد می‌گوید تشکیل این جبهه نشانگر "تقابل روحانیون بزرگ طیف اصولگراست."read more
• Letter to Leader about Prison Torture Brings M ...
  In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Fatemeh Adinehvand, wife of student activist and political prisoner Abdollah Momeni, expressed surprise for his new summons to court. “The last time I visited Abdollah on Monday, 25 July, he told me that he had been summon ...

Most Revolutionary Act

• Is the US Ripe for a Generation Z Revolution?
  Tthis is the fourth of a series of posts on teenagers and political rebellion) There’s no question in my mind that psychological oppression (manifested by widespread apathy and resignation in the face of major corporate and government attacks on working Americans) is at an all time high in the ...
• Teenagers in the First Intifada
  1987 Intifada - note slingshot Like the 1976 Soweto uprising, the teenagers who sparked the first Palestinian Intifada in 1987 were influenced by a similar breakdown in parental authority, though for different reasons. From 1967, when Israel first seized the Gaza strip from Egypt, until the ...
• Lessons from Soweto
  Soweto Uprising This is the second in a series of posts regarding the potential for a generation Z uprising. The 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa is widely credited as heralding the start of mass popular resistance to apartheid. While various scholars dispute its significance relative to oth ...
• Generation Z and Psychological Oppression
  Egyptian teenagers (Generation Z consists of young people born after 1990) Much has been made of the role of youth in sparking the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. The historical significance of the mass insurrections in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and ...
• Confessions of a Carnivore
  Venus fly trap - a meat eating plant As a strong sustainability activist, I feel quite embarrassed admitting that I derive nearly all my dietary protein from animal sources (eggs and fish). Explaining why I do so is even more embarrassing – an autoimmune disease that makes it virtually impossibl ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Letter from Environmental Leaders on the Perse ...
  Dear Friends, On July 26th 2011, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. On March 3rd, Tim was found guilty of two felony counts for participating in a peaceful act of civil disobedience. A bright, charismatic young man could face up to ...
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address at Forbes Field ...
  ROOSEVELT: Mr. Chairman, Governor Earle, my friends of Pennsylvania: A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. Tonight I am going to talk to you about the box score of the Government of the United States. I am going to tell you the story of our fight to beat down the depression ...
• Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film
  Revolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition to Swe ...
• On Nataline Sarkisyan's 21st Birthday
  Last night in Los Angeles, while the Prince and Princess (William and Kate) – or is it now the Duke and Duchess? – were gathering all the media attention for their glamorous evening among the stars, a very different yet equally glamorous night was unfolding just a few miles away.  On the sales f ...
• MichaelMoore.com Exclusive: Wikileaks Cable Al ...
  Wikileaks Cable Allegedly Leaked by Bradley Manning Caught Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Discussing Outsourcing to India That May Have Cost Manning's OWN FATHER His Job "The afternoon I reached Brian Manning, he was at home in Oklahoma City, in a room in his ranch house that Bradley had ...

Salon

• Run, Hillary, run!
  This originally appeared at Presidential Power
• Joseph Farah wishes the president a very happy ...
  I'm not sure I needed to bother write a "joke" post about how paranoid right-wing conspiracy nuts would react to Barack Obama's birthday, because World Net Daily's Joseph Farah actually just published the real-life version. The headline: "Happy birthday?" The question mark is not because Obam ...
• The futility of playing Mr. Reasonable
  Gallup has turned around a quick poll that contains what may seem like a surprising finding: Majorities of Democrats and self-described liberals say they support the debt ceiling plan that President Obama signed earlier this week. That would be the same debt ceiling deal that a chorus of libe ...
• Gov. Rick Perry underwent stem cell therapy
  Rick Perry, the Texas governor who may soon enter the GOP presidential race, is an outspoken critic of stem cell research. Earlier this year he claimed that under the Obama administration, stem cell research was "turning the remains of unborn children into nothing more than raw material."
• This is what imposition of religious law looks ...
  We've been skeptical of right-wing claims of "creeping Shariah" in the United States, which are based entirely on a few court cases that don't bear scrutiny as isolated examples of Islamic law in American courts, and much less amount to a systematic push for Shariah.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Run silent, run cheap
  Canada’s woebegone submarine fleet only proves the old adage: You get what you pay for.
• Assad defiles a holy season
  Now that the United Nations has finally censured Syrian despot Bashar Assad, Canada should step up sanctions against his regime.
• Turmel’s shaky start
  Interim NDP Leader Nycole Turmel has had her credibility outside Quebec damaged with revelations that she was a member of the Bloc Québécois.
• U.S. debt deal has high cost
  It may have been the best deal U.S. President Barack Obama could broker, but both sides come out looking either sadly diminished, or irresponsible.
• Help smokers butt out
  Anything Ontario can do to help reduce smoking rates is worth trying.

Energy Collective

• Turmoil at Nuclear Regulatory Agencies
  Japanese and U.S. counterparts face criticism albeit for different reasons
• Military Housing: It’s Red, White and Green
  �� Solar powered homes at Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson
• Scientists to Obama: Kill the Pipeline
  Letter from Scientific Experts to President Obama Regarding Authorization of the Keystone XL Pipeline: The Honorable Barack Obama President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20050 August 3, 2011 President Obama:
• Energy Transition and America's Future: Interv ...
• Book Review: The God Species
  "We are as gods and have to get good at it." Mark Lynas quotes Stewart Brand here, using the mantra as a guiding metaphor for his new book The God Species: How the Planet Can

EU Times

• Gillard authorizes force to put asylum seekers ...
  Prime Minister Julia Gillard has indicated that authorities on Christmas Island will be authorised to use force to make sure asylum seekers get on board aircraft taking them to Malaysia. The first boatload of people to be processed under the asylum seeker swap deal with Malaysia arrived on Chris ...
• Obama: US recession worst since 30s
  US President Barack Obama says America is witnessing its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and blamed political wrangling for the worsening of the crisis. “There is no doubt that we have gone through an extraordinary period in world history. We had the worst recess ...
• Armed Agents Raid Raw Milk & Cheese Sellers
  A multi-agency SWAT-style armed raid was conducted this morning by helmet-wearing, gun-carrying enforcement agents from the LA County Sheriff’s Office, the FDA, the Dept. of Agriculture and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control). This story is now being followed and widely reported on InfoWars (w ...
• UK Police Tells Public To Report Anti-Governme ...
  The London Metropolitan Police is encouraging businesses and the general public to immediately report anyone who holds anti-government political beliefs to the authorities as terrorists, calling on people to become volunteer informants as the state prepares for widespread social unrest. “This wa ...
• Amish population continues to grow, especially ...
  While many Anabaptist groups struggle to grow, the Amish continue their steady rise in numbers, bolstered by new settlements beyond traditional population centers. From 2009 to 2011, the Amish population increased by about 10 percent, to 261,150, according to a new study. For years, Pennsylvania ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• PANIC BUTTON: Dow Jones Industrial Average Dro ...
  It may be time to push the proverbial panic button.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged today after Japanese and European policymakers took drastic measures to shore up their financial markets. The markets here in the U.S. were already teetering on widespread global concerns, including t ...
• Facebook Games On Your iPad by GameBox
  If you like playing games on Facebook, but prefer to move a little away from your computer and play the game on the iPad. You will be pleased to know that a new application just added to Apple’s iTunes Store called GameBox for Facebook, lets you do just that
• Syria killed 109 more people in Hama today. Sy ...
  From Now Lebanon: CNN said on Thursday that Avaaz, a global activist group, said that at least 109 people died in and around the Syrian city of Hama today, adding that Avaaz cited a medical source. "The brutality continues in Hama on the fourth day of Ramadan. Communication with the city and su ...
• EGYPT: Uproar over antics of victims' lawyers ...
  Legal experts and citizens alike were concerned as well as bemused by the chaotic and unorganized antics of lawyers representing families of martyrs during former President Hosni Mubarakâs trial  on charges that he ordered the shooting of protesters last winter. The 30 or so lawyers representin ...
• israelprotest
  Adam Ford writes on the wave of protest sweeping across Israel, where hundreds of thousands of people are standing up to high rents and low wages In years to come, the entry of the Israeli working class into independent action may well be seen as a pivotal moment in world history

Groklaw

• The Spoilsmen: How Congress Corrupted Patent R ...
  As the patent struggle has dragged on in Washington, patent trolling has surged in popularity. And some of the most aggressive players aren't boutique, lawsuit-only operations -- they're the very tech giants who came to Congress for patent help in the first place.... Last year, Oracle sued Googl ...
• An open farewell to Vivek Kundra
  Friends - Vivek Kundra, the Federal CIO, is leaving government for academia, and today a new Federal CIO was named. Below, you'll find a letter from Open Source for America wishing Mr. Kundra well. In about a week, we'll have the opportunity to present him this letter in person. We'd love to h ...
• Red Hat's Jim Whitehurst: "I Want to Meet Linus"
  The LinuxCon Gala is the official celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Linux and a number of notable Linux luminaries are expected. Who do you hope to see there and why? Whitehurst: I want to meet Linus. Believe it or not, we haven't had the opportunity to meet yet. He's an extraordinary indi ...
• S.F. Superior Letter Challenges Management
  A single-page letter addressed to the presiding judge has been quietly circulating among San Francisco Superior Court's beleaguered staff. "It is terribly transparent that the court has gutted the most hard working groups within the court and has kept ALL upper management," says the letter signe ...
• Ex-Microsoft executive named to top US tech post
  Steven VanRoekel, who worked at Microsoft from 1994 to 2009, replaces Vivek Kundra, who is stepping down as federal chief information officer to take up a fellowship at Harvard University. As CIO, VanRoekel will direct policy and strategic planning for government information technology and will ...

WideShut

• August 02, 2011, WideShut Webcast
  A look at the Civil Rights movement & Cointelpro, and the latest on Princess Diana's assassination.
• Tom Secker Talks 7/7 On The WideShut Webcast
  On this week's show Keelan talks to Tom Secker, maker of the "7/7 Seeds of Deconstruction" film.
• Princess Diana Death: French Authorities May A ...
  French judge could arrest British police for hiding document where Diana predicts her death via car crash. WideShut re-examines the case.
• Every Good Mother Deserves Foeticide
  Steve Power looks at the push for paid and forced sterilisation at the hands of Project Prevention.
• Tony Farrell On The WideShut Webcast: 7/7 & 9/ ...
  Tony Farrell, former Principal Intelligence Analyst for South Yorkshire Police, discusses why he believes 7/7 & 9/11 were inside jobs and how that led to his dismissal.

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 ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
  One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
• Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
  Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
• Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
  Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
• Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
  A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
• Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
  Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

• Syria, authoritarianism, war, and peace
  I regret that I haven't had much time in recent months to blog and write about the many developments in the still-unfolding 'Arab Spring.' However, I think that much of what I was writing back in March and April-- especially on the extremely upsetting and complicated series of events in Libya an ...
• Remembering Qana, five years on
  On this day five years ago, at 1:30 am Lebanon time, Israel's U.S.-supplied warplanes attacked houses in the south Lebanese village of Qana, killing more than 60 civilians, 37 of them children. Go watch this soberly reported video clip from Britain's Channel 4 to get a measure of the horror. Th ...
• Place your orders now for Zurayk's 'War Diary: ...
  You can now go to the 'Buy' button on the web-page for Rami Zurayk's 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006' and place your advance order for this unique, 60-page work. The ebook will cost you $4.00 (in many different formats), and the paperback will cost you $7.00, plus shipping. Here is the back-cover text ...
• Nurturing that better future
  All my wonderful longtime readers here at JWN may wonder why I've been so silent recently. Two reasons, mainly. I've been deep immersed in the most wonderful forms of family life; and I've also been racing against the clock on the 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006' project. In the past three months, we' ...
• New e-book soon: 'War Diary: Lebanon 2006'
  Today is the fifth anniversary of the beginning of that terrible march of folly, the Israel-Lebanon war of 2006. So I'm delighted to announce today that my publishing company, Just World Books, will shortly be publishing as a short e-book War Diary: Lebanon 2006, by the Lebanese social activist ...

frogblog

• And end to Seed Exchanges?
  I have had many queries about the Food Bill, with some suggesting it is a ghastly plot to make seed saving and seed exchange programmes illegal, and even activities such as the Willing Workers on Organic Farm systems (WWOOFing). These concerns, unfortunately, were never raised during the submiss ...
• John Key is wrong on Green plan to end child p ...
  On Wednesday Green Co-Leader Metiria Turei launched the Green Party’s plan to bring 100,000 children out of poverty within three years. John Key poured cold water on both the Working for Families and minimum wage proposals contained in the package. But he is wrong on both counts.
• Batteries and the Basel Convention
  I asked some questions in the House on Thursday of the Minister for Environment, about how well (or more to the point how badly) we are meeting our obligations under the Basel Convention in regard to lead acid batteries. The Convention came into force in the early ‘90s as a response to the then ...
• Parliament condemns killings in Syria
  Yesterday I moved a motion in Parliament on Syria, which was passed unanimously. It read: “That this House condemn the shooting of peaceful demonstrators in Hama and other Syrian cities and call upon the Syrian Government to enter into a serious national dialogue to chart a transition to democra ...
• John Key scared to debate
  Russel questions John Key on why he will go on lightweight shows like the Letterman show and the Tony Veitch show,  but refuses to go on Morning Report , Campbell Live or particpate in an all-party leaders debate where he could face tough questions. 

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• Disintegrating Economic Recovery
  The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...
• Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
  What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...
• (Land of the Fee and the Home of the Knave) Mo ...
  President Obama has said that he will not allow people-programs to be cut so that the wealthy can receive tax cuts because our nation is "better than that." But what America is cannot be distinguished from its economy which exists merely to accumulate money. It's why the maxim is let the buy ...
• The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
  The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
• Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
  Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Harnessing Your Body's Own Chemistry to Treat ...
  Researchers have discovered that a low dose of the opioid antagonist naltrexone (LDN) can have an extraordinarily potent antitumor effect on human ovarian cancer in tissue culture. The discovery provides new insights into the pathogenesis and treatment of ovarian neoplasia, which is the 4th lea ...
• This Fat Helps Reduce Anxiety and Inflammation
  New research shows that healthy young people who consumed more omega-3 fats showed a marked reduction both in inflammation and, somewhat surprisingly, also in anxiety. Omega-3's such as EPA and DHA have long been considered positive additives to the diet. Previous research suggested that the co ...
• The 9 Foods the U.S. Government is Paying You ...
  In 2009, the U.S. federal government paid $12.3 billion to America's farmers. Even as farmers profit from increased demand, the government remains a major player in the food business. The Atlantic has put together a list of the top nine products that the government most heavily subsidizes: ...
• Ever Seen a Moonbow?
  This amazing arc of color isn’t trick photography -- it's a moonbow, a rare lunar rainbow that can only be seen a few places on earth.
• Proven Unsafe But FDA-Approved: Are YOU Still ...
  Americans drink more soda than anyone else on the planet -- well over 700 eight-ounce servings each year, on average, and an increasing amount of it is diet soda. They might be more reluctant to do so if they knew about the safety questions still surrounding aspartame. A number of scientists re ...

JAMA

• POSTTRAUMATIC NEUROSES [JAMA 75 Years Ago]
• Elder Abuse [JAMA Patient Page]
• The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria [Boo ...
• The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and ...
• Child Abuse and Neglect: Diagnosis, Treatment ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: Tough decisions needed on how to pa ...
  Transport Minister Sam Hamad and the senior ranks of Transport Quebec deserve their share of blame for the infrastructure fiasco in Quebec.
• The Gazette's View: Tough decisions needed on ...
  Transport Minister Sam Hamad and the senior ranks of Transport Quebec deserve their share of blame for the infrastructure fiasco in Quebec.
• The Gazette's View: Tough decisions needed on ...
  Transport Minister Sam Hamad and the senior ranks of Transport Quebec deserve their share of blame for the infrastructure fiasco in Quebec.
• Your Views: In defence of the gun registry
  Canadians need to be able to control the use of firearms, whether they are long guns or handguns.
• NDP's Turmel owes Canadians an explanation
  Even though there seems no reason not to believe New Democratic Party interim leader Nycole Turmel when she says she was never a separatist, Turmel needs to explain to Canadians why she was a member of the separatist Bloc Qu�b�cois for more than four years, and remains a member of the sovereigni ...

Food World Order

• wafting poison makes fertile ground for suit i ...
  Court rules pesticide drifting onto organic farm constitutes trespass. Oluf Johnson's 1,500-acre farm in Stearns County is an organic island in a sea of chemically treated corn and soybeans... Improperly applied pesticides repeatedly drift over from neighboring farms, often with dire consequence ...
• eating healthy food costs more money in US
  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, which recommend eating more pot ...
• rawesome raided in attack on raw foods as mass ...
  When you realize that the federal government actually approved aspartame yet raids raw milk and raw cheese buying clubs, the open eugenics plan becomes very clear.
• russia becomes a magnet for american fast-food ...
  Earlier in his career, Christopher Wynne put his Russian expertise to work researching arms proliferation for the American government. Now he’s engaged in geopolitics of another sort: deploying American fast food for the emerging Russian middle class.
• cargill recalls more than 36 million pounds of ...
  Food giant Cargill recalls fresh and frozen ground turkey produced at its Springdale, Ark., facility because the meat may be contaminated with salmonella.

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Head Of Obama&#8217 ...
  Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China.  GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now GE has announced that it "is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray ...
• Broke! 10 Facts About The Financial Condition ...
  The crumbling U.S. economy is putting an extraordinary amount of financial stress on American families.  For many Americans, "flat broke" has become a permanent condition.  Today, over half of all American families live paycheck to paycheck.  Unemployment is rampant and those th ...
• Layoffs, Layoffs Everywhere You Look There Are ...
  The competition for jobs in the United States is absolutely brutal right now, and it is about to get worse.  A new wave of layoffs is sweeping across America.  During tough economic times, Wall Street favors companies that are able to cut costs, and the fastest way to "cut costs ...
• Madness: 39 Things That Are Driving Ordinary A ...
  Have you noticed that almost everyone seems really angry these days?  Frustration with the government and with most of the other major institutions in our society seems to grow by the day.  According to a brand new ABC News/Washington Post poll, 80 percent of Americans say that ...
• Drought Of 2011: The Southern United States Is ...
  2011 sure has been a wild year for America so far.  First we had unprecedented tornado outbreaks, then we had horrific flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, then we had record setting wildfires and now we are facing a crippling drought all over the southern United ...

CASSE

• Good News: Economic Recovery Stalls!
  Dave Gardner is looking forward to the economic metamorphosis, and maybe you can help him get it started.
• Defusing the Debt Bomb
  James Johnston asks, "Where's the bomb squad," as the U.S. debt threatens to blow the lid off the economy.
• When Life Gives You Dog Shit, Make Dog Shit So ...
  Billionaire extraordinaire, John Dungpyle, has a pile of advice for tycoons in training.
• A Steady-State Defense of Arts and Culture
  James Johnston argues that art can be an economic blessing, especially in the interesting times ahead.
• The New Austerity and the EROI Squeeze
  Eric Zencey explains why it would be wise to pay proper attention to energy return on investment.

The Talking Clock

• Death Penalty Debate: Sickened, beyond belief
  This morning, this blog author has been subjected to the most sickening and outrageous vision of bloodlust via the social networking site Twitter. It is quite clear that a large number of people who claim to be libertarians think that it is quite reasonable to ask the State to go around execu ...
• Bailouts: The biggest criminal act in the hist ...
  So, another day in The Great 'Bailout' Looting of the people comes to an end. Quite frankly, this is getting beyond a joke. Not even an ardent 'EU-sceptic' can take too much pleasure from all that we are seeing - because what we are witnessing is organised criminality on a scale that humanity ...
• Quote of the Day: 'There really are dark force ...
  Remember this? You do? Great... ...then what do you make of this, in The Guardian? "When I was first elected, I was a completely naive and gauche politician. You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers – they've all got their formal role, and then nestli ...
• Know Your Law: Common Law and Ancient Liberties..?
  In the latest part of our occasional series, another dip into the English constitution for your reference and discussion. Today, a look at the Act of Settlement 1700 - a major constitutional document. In order to be able to use this correctly, you need to understand the LAWS of England (no ...
• Norwegian PM warns against "a witch hunt on ex ...
  We have stated before that the 'left's' exploitation for political gain of the mass murder of innocent youngsters by a Norwegian nutter was beyond distasteful. So, we were very pleased to see the comments of Norwegian PM Jens Stoltenberg today. Looking forward from the events that have sho ...

Facing South

• A wingnut and a prayer
  By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer With each passing day, Rick Perry's Christian prayer-and-repentance rally, The Response, seems like more of a mistake, a classic act of hubris by a politician still learning his way around the national stage. First, the backlash has been fierce, not just from ...
• Utilities spark protests by sticking ratepayer ...
  Consumer advocates are blasting the Georgia Public Service Commission's unanimous vote this week requiring ratepayers to bear the burden of cost overruns during construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle while protecting the profit margin of the Southern Company's largest subsidiar ...
• South Carolina immigration law starts new era ...
  New America Media Editor's Note: The battle over immigration is now being waged at the state level. Since Arizona's immigration law SB 1070 went into effect one year ago, five states -- Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah -- have passed similar laws. South Carolina's new immi ...
• Battles over voter photo ID laws come to a head
  Facing South readers know the story. After campaigning on jobs and the economy, Republicans in state legislatures in the South and nationally focused on pushing laws that would require voters to show photo ID at the polls. There's scant evidence that voter impersonation is a real problem, and ...
• Virginia furniture workers win Ikea union driv ...
  By Jenny Brown, Labor Notes Union organizing won back the weekend for Tawanda Tarpley and her co-workers at an Ikea-owned furniture plant in Danville, Virginia. Mandatory overtime at the Swedish-owned plant meant that last year she worked for three months without a single day off. The union r ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• To boldly go where no Lego man has gone before
  The shuttle programme may be over, but NASA has not stopped taking passengers into space
• Today on New Scientist: 4 August 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Free contraception for US women, why knowledge can be a curse, and a robot that bakes cookies
• Speeding glacier barrels through valley
  The Medvezhiy glacier in Tajikistan has advanced some 1000 metres since June, covering more distance than in any other surge in 22 years
• UK nuclear fuel plant to close amid Japan's tu ...
  The global nuclear industry cannot avoid the fallout from the post-tsunami Japanese atomic power shutdowns
• Today on New Scientist: 3 August 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Citizen scientists eat worms to treat disorders, heat-seeking vampires, and the cop in your pocket

Tech Drive In

• Linus Switches to Xfce, Calls GNOME 3 an Unhol ...
  Linus Torvalds becomes the latest to join GNOME 3.0 haters club. In a recent discussion at Google+, Linus went on to call GNOME 3 an unholy mess and called for a�GNOME 2 fork.� Linus Torvalds on GNOME 3.0 "While you are at it, could you also fork gnome, and support a gnome2 environment?" ...
• Humble Indie Bundle 3 Adds 6 More Games Taking ...
  Humble Indie Bundle 3 offer just got a wee bit sweeter. Now, along with the 5 games that comes with Humble Indie Bundle 3(which you can buy at the price you decide), you could obtain 6 more games taking the total number of games to 11. Updated Humble Indie Bundle 3 Offer The response to H ...
• 5 Open Source 3D Modelling & Rendering Apps fo ...
  We have discussed a lot about real world applications of 3D modelling and rendering tools like Blender before, but not really about the choice of tools itself. What are the best, free and open source, 3D modelling and rendering apps available for Linux? Let's find out. Art of Illusion is a ...
• Bisigi Themes Natty PPA Updated, Install 15 Gr ...
  Bisigi themes has a special place in the hearts and minds of long term Ubuntu users. I have been using Ubuntu for about 5 years now and in my opinion, the first set of really professional looking themes were introduced by Bisigi. And unlike many other theme packs for Ubuntu, every single Bisigi ...
• Humble Indie Bundle 3 is Here, Pay What You Wa ...
  Humble Indie Bundle 3 is here folks! Grab your copy of 5 really good, cross platform, DRM free, Indie games at the price you decide! If initial statistics are any indication,�Humble Indie Bundle 3 is going to be an even bigger success.� Humble Indie Bundle 3 Video Intro Buy Humble I ...

Case About Bird Flu

• Alex Jones: ‘Anders Behring was Masons’ Patsy’
  Check out the interview with Alex Jones on Anders Behring Breivik as a Masons’ patsy on RT. http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-anders-behring-was-masons-patsy/ Breivik was a freemason belonging to the St Johannes lodge according to some media sources and  he also mentioned terror cells in Aus ...
• The Federal Reserve Made $16 Trillion In Secre ...
  The American Dream July 25, 2011 A one-time limited GAO audit of the Federal Reserve that was mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has uncovered some eye-popping corruption at the Fed and the mainstream media is barely even covering it.  It turns out that the ...
• Police Knew Gunman’s Name Before Arrest
  � British news anchor questions how authorities were aware of Breivik�s identity in advance Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Monday, July 25, 2011 Despite being portrayed by the media as inept due to the length of time it took them to reach the island of Utoeya, it has now emerged that police kne ...
• Evidence Shows Norway Terror Attack a False Flag
  Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com July 23, 2011 Prior to the events in Norway, the Department of Homeland Security released a propaganda video characterizing white middle class Americans as terrorists and members of white al-Qaeda, a term designed to conflate the image of the CIA-created Islamic terror gr ...
• Murdoch’s Vaccine World – James Murdoch ...
  By Catherine J. Frompovich | July 22nd, 2011 | Everyone by now has heard about the phone tapping scandal that rocked both the British newspaper world and Rupert Murdoch’s business empire. But what needs to be spotlighted, I think, is the possible role that Murdoch’s London Times may have played ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Microsoft lays out plans to unleash ‘altered p ...
  You could not make this up.  This is not the business that humanity wants Bill Gates in… by POPEYE Filed under Eugenics (SLASHDOT) In its just-published patent application for Adapting Parasites to Combat Disease, Microsoft lays out plans to unleash âaltered parasitic organismsâ on humans, incl ...
• One More Lone Gunman who wasn’t Alone
  By Les Visible You would think they would have the numbers straight by now. I keep seeing the number 76 and then I see where it is over a hundred or in the high 90’s. There’s so much being written about it at the moment that you can’t keep up with it and, as the [...]
• GLADIO 2.0 : WHY THE WEST CAN’T RESIST THE NOR ...
  By Stone Pinkerton Gonzo Town How do you define bizarre in today’s every increasingly wacky world of terrorism? Ever since the Cold War was won and history ended, we have been inundated with a seemingly never ending succession of spectacularly staged terror attacks and carefully crafted psy-ops. ...
• Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Po ...
  Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) ...
• Israeli Art Students Lived in World Trade Cent ...
  Four of the so-called “Art Students”- (Mossad Agents) – did an “art installation” IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER in 2001,before the attacks. In a radio interview,Jonathon Brown of “Core of Corruption” fame outlines his evidence and explains how his phone has been tapped since discovering this informa ...

Veterans Today

• Palestinian Statehood : Two-prong approach needed
  What a thought-provoking piece Prof Lawrence Davidson’s latest article is, whether you agree with every word or not.
• Israel: Rogue State Land of Inequality
  Growing millions worldwide understand Israel's decades-long project to colonize Palestine, dispossess its people, steal their land, and terrorize them into submission. They also know it hasn't worked nor will it.
• Budget Cutting Perfidy
  It's all over but the mourning. After weeks of tooing-and-frooing theater, Obama signed the deal from hell. Understand clearly what happened.
• 2011, The Year of Agent Orange Victims
  On August 10th 1961, the US Air force began spraying chemicals over Vietnam . Several events will take place this year to mark the fiftieth anniversary of that dreadful act.
• Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Augu ...
  Thomas R. Kosten, M.D. was recently selected as the Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC). In his new post, Kosten is charged with management of one of the largest research programs in the VA health care system.

electric politics

• The Art of Courage
  A little voice in your conscience tells you something. You listen. You start to think maybe you're right and everybody else is wrong. You do something about it. Next thing you know you're in a life and death struggle against evil forces bent on world domination. Well, maybe that's a slight exag ...
• The Wild Dollar
  Because the public hasn't had what's happening properly reported, the Republicans think that, in the debt ceiling standoff, they can trample democratic norms and perhaps even go so far as to trigger another collapse of the world economy. What a bizarre strategy to pursue (supposedly) on behalf ...
• Göbekli Tepe
  At what point does an original idea engender action? And to what extent does that action set a lasting course? We can examine the social history of an idea, written, as it were, in stone, at G�bekli Tepe, an archeological site approximately 11,500 years old (or perhaps even older) in southern T ...
• The Athenian Zephyr
  Neoliberal bankers wants to turn the Greek public into chattel. The Greek public objects. It's a theoretically long-predicted fork in the road for the European Union: either Greece defaults (it could have been any one of certain member states) and the European debt crisis spreads — possibly/pro ...
• Forgetting Vietnam
  America's final retreat from Vietnam could have been a whole lot worse. Ambassador Graham Martin, mistakenly thought to be on the last chopper out, didn't follow through on the fact that he left a final contingent of Marine Security Guards on the Embassy's rooftop. Higher-ups in the military ch ...

PR News

• MWW hires Rep. Weiner's former comms director
  NEW YORK: Dave Arnold, former communications director for Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), has joined MWW Group as VP.
• Prestige selects Redpoint as cruise brands AOR
  MIAMI: Following a competitive review, Prestige Cruise Holdings selected Redpoint Marketing PR as AOR for the Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises brands.
• Cargill responds to turkey recall
  MINNETONKA, MN: In response to the recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey, Cargill is working with government bodies and tapping social media channels to provide transparency.
• Hill & Knowlton reorganizes NY research department
  NEW YORK: Hill & Knowlton is in the process of reorganizing its New York research branch, making numerous staff changes and shifting resources to other regions.
• FD reports 7.5% revenue increase for Q2
  WEST PALM BEACH, FL: FD, the strategic communications unit of FTI Consulting, reported a 7.5% year-over-year increase in Q2 revenues for the period ending June 30, 2011.

The Story Behind the Story

• Who’s Who In the Zoo – By Dr. True ...
  Who’s Who in the Zoo?   By Dr. Truess (rhymes with Suess). Who’s who in the “patriot” zoo?  It’s so full of worms and primordial goo – MY – what can one do? Watch your step, cause there’s lots of bad pooh – smelly stuff that will stick on your shoe! There’s Turner, and Jones, and [...]
• QUOTE OF THE DECADE!!
  The Quote of the Decade âThe fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.  It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills.  It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to [...]
• TRUTH REVEALED – 528 is the Frequency of ...
  This is a very complex and multi-faceted topic.  It involves exposing something called “Kabalah” (the CUBE) as well as “Enochian Magic” and the darkest sorcery ever performed on Planet Earth.   It involves exposing demonology and inter-dimensional “conjuring” of entities called Nephilim or Ji ...
• AUDIT THE FED??? WHAT ABOUT STARTING WITH THE ...
    House Passes DeFazio’s Amendment to Audit the Pentagon.  GREAT JOB CONGRESSMAN!!!! This is all about accountability in government – something that to date has BEEN SORELY LACKING. No More DUAL ISRAELI CITIZENS such as Dov Zackheim controlling the Pentagon’s purse strings!!  Never forget the ...
• Edgar Steele Story PART II
  Sex, Lies & Audiotape (Part II) by Edgar J. Steele Here Come de Fix I had an inkling that the fix was in on the morning of the second day of the pretrial hearing concerning our forensic audiology eperts. The lead prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney Traci Whelan, was smiling, humming to herself and ...

k2p blog

• Hacking scandal spreads to Mirror and Piers Mo ...
  The UK News of the World hacking scandal is like a cancer across all the tabloids and the extent is gradually being revealed. It has now enmeshed the Mirror and covers the time when Piers Morgan was the Editor.
• Antarctic sea ice is increasing and rate of in ...
  Sea ice extent is increasing in the Antarctic, contrary to climate model predictions for the 21st century, and this increase is accelerating and has strong regional and seasonal signatures.
• Medical ghostwriters and scientists guilty of ...
  A guest author's claim for credit of an article written by someone else constitutes legal fraud say University of Toronto legal scholars. In a scientific context I think ghostwriting - of itself - is tantamount to fraud.
• Bengü Sezen – A “Master of Fraud&# ...
  Documents released by the Office of Research Integrity catalogue the massive fraud by Bengü Sezen while at Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Dalibor Sames
• US debt ceiling parasitism
  "The US is not living within its means, shifting the weight of responsibility on other countries and in a way acting as a parasite." - Vladimir Putin

Left Foot Forward

• How Pickles’s brutal council tax benefit ...
  Pickles' council tax benefit reform will disproportionaly affect the working-age population, incentivise local authorities to push poor people out to neighbouring boroughs, will penalise councils of poorer areas and create a patchwork of inconsistent systems.
• Nick Pearce’s nominations for most influ ...
  Nick Pearce, Director of the IPPR, nominated four American academics who are influencing UK politics for the most influential left-winger of 2010/11
• Britain is bottom of the G7′s growth table
  Britain is bottom of the G7's growth league table. Excluding earthquake-hit Japan, Britain is growing more slowly than every other major developed economy.
• Taxpayers’ Alliance attack NHS communica ...
  The Taxpayers Alliance is attacking Central London NHS trusts's decision to recruit a top level professional to lead communications - even though it may make a difference between life and death
• Failure to remutualise Northern Rock does noth ...
  At the time of the banking collapse, the Bank of England said that there was a need for more stable banking structures in the UK. So why isn't George Osborne remutualising Northern Rock?

Consumerist

• HBO Go To Expand To Video Game Consoles, Web-C ...
  While HBO Go, the premium cable network's online streaming service, has already expanded to make itself available on computers and smartphones, it hasn't made the leap to being available on gaming consoles, which would allow you to watch the HBO archive on your TV without having a computer conn ...
• Legislators Take Break From Vacation, Hammer O ...
  After nearly two weeks of a partial Federal Aviation Administration shutdown that has left 4,000 employees without pay and kept millions of dollars in taxes from being collected, Democrats and Republicans have come up with some sort of deal that could get the agency back up and working as early ...
• 300,000 Dodge & Chrysler Minivans Recalled For ...
  Chrysler has recalled 300,000 model year 2008 Dodge Caravan, Chrsyler Grand Voyager and Town & Country minivans in the U.S. over concerns that the airbags on these vehicles could inadvertently deploy, which is hilarious in slapstick comedies but potentially deadly in real life. From the Detroi ...
• Sprint CSR Waives Activation Fee, Calls Back T ...
  When one of our readers writes in to tell us about a follow-up call from a CSR, it's usually because the rep is putting forth the extra effort to make sure the customer is satisfied. In the case of Vince and his dealing with the folks at Sprint, that call back was to let him know the company wo ...
• FCC Promises 100,000 New Jobs... At Call Centers
  Need a job? Come join the glamorous world of call centers! The FCC says that call centers are poised to add 100,000 new jobs to the economy. You'll get your very own cubicle! Or, at least, your very own partitions! The call centers jobs are coming about as some companies decide to stop outsour ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

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

UK Progressive

• Sex, GMO’s, Fukushima and Linny outside NBC Dr ...
  In an effort to understand the topics our readers most enjoy, there are several winners this time around based on your viewing habits. We wanted to share them with you, our 30,000 monthly readers. Thanks for making UK Progressive magazine a part of your day. We always appreciate your support and ...
• FAQ: Why Congress Flew Home While Airport Insp ...
  by Marian Wang, ProPublica Thought Congress had averted a government shutdown by striking a 2011 budget deal back in April? That’s only partly true. While lawmakers deadlocked over long-term deficit reduction plans tied to the raising of the debt ceiling, one federal agency—the Federal Aviation ...
• NPR’s Foxification of Ex-Gay Rhetoric
  If it were Fox News I wouldnât have flinched. But it was National Public Radio. To my surprise, I didnât know — especially in 2011 — my sexual orientation was still up for debate. But on Aug. 1 on the “Morning Edition” of National Public Radio (NPR), it was. And the topic on the show [...]
• The Hostage Crisis Continues: Why Obama Can’t ...
  With the hostage crisis behind him, the President is now ready to talk about the nation’s real problem. Nine paragraphs into his remarks today announcing the nation has paid most of the ransom the radical right demanded as a condition for maintaining the full faith and credit of the United State ...
• Politics, Reality Show Style
  The difference between a documentary and a reality show is staging. A documentary tells a story about real life. The subjects are normally not paid, not actors and the story is non-fiction. It’s a quiet, illuminating and thoughtful genre (read: boring). Reality shows are like life, in that peopl ...

NewsAlert

• Government Overregulation Threatens Economic G ...
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• U.S. eats up most of debt limit in one day: $2 ...
  The Washington Times
• Former White House Counsel to IRS: Pull Media ...
  Fox Business
• Bubble university. Student loan accounts now m ...
  Doctor Housing Bubble
• The Plastic Ceiling: Credit Cards You Can't Have
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JoNova

• Blockbuster: Planetary temperature controls CO ...
  There goes another “fingerprint”… It’s not just that man-made emissions don’t control the climate, they don’t even control global CO2 levels. Judging by the speech Murry Salby gave at the Sydney Institute, there’s a blockbuster paper coming soon. Listen to the speech: “Global Emission of Carbon ...
• Blockbuster: Plantary temperature controls CO2 ...
  There goes another “fingerprint”… Judging by the speech Murry Salby gave at the Sydney Institute, there’s a blockbuster paper coming soon. Listen to the speech: “Global Emission of Carbon Dioxide: The Contribution from Natural Sources” Professor Murry Salby is Chair of Climate Science at Macquar ...
• The petition the Convoy will carry to Canberra ...
  The Convoy to Canberra protest is generating a massive response. Organizers have been astounded at the number of cars and trucks joining in. Gobsmacked!  It is shaping up to be a historic event! Remember, even if you can’t drive the whole way, you can show you support and join the convoy just f ...
• We can lower Australian CO2 emissions by… (wai ...
  A joint writing project: Anton Lang (who writes as TonyfromOz at PAPundits), Tony Cox, and Jo Nova It’s the paradox that will torture the Greens. What if the best way to achieve their environmental aims as well as providing jobs and power was to build more coal fired power stations? Imagine if w ...
• We can lower Australian CO2 emissions by&#8230 ...
  A joint writing project: Anton Lang (who writes as TonyfromOz at PAPundits), Tony Cox, and Jo Nova It’s the paradox that will torture the Greens. What if the best way to achieve their environmental aims as well as providing jobs and power was to build more coal fired power stations? Imagine if w ...

ReNew America

• DeMint may turn on GOP backers of debt bill
  (Newsmax) - Some of the 28 Republican senators who voted for the new debt/deficit law may find themselves on the receiving end of powerhouse conservative Sen. Jim DeMint's ire. The South Carolina Republican pledged after last year's elections that he wouldn't support any challengers to his Repub ...
• Boehner, tea party, and leadership: the power ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - "I love you guys," House Speaker John Boehner is reported to have said at a meeting with the tea party freshmen. That comment despite the fact that those same men and women who came to this city to "change the way Washington works" gave the Ohioan a hellfire test of hi ...
• U.S. eats up most of debt limit in one day
  (Washington Times) - U.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday -- the largest one-day bump in history -- as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this week's debt-limit increase deal. The debt subject to the statutory limit shot way past the old cap of $14.294 trillion to hit ...
• Rasmussen poll: Only 22% approve of debt deal
  (Newsmax) - An overwhelming majority of Americans reject the debt-reduction deal reached this week and don't believe it will reduce government spending, with 53 percent saying they oppose the agreement and just 22 percent voicing approval, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday...
• Balancing the budget
  (John Stossel) - The political class predicted "disaster" if Congress didn't raise its debt limit. I think that was a scam to get more money. See, the poor politicians don't have enough, and they need to borrow more. We taxpayers are cheap. This year we'll give them only $2.2 trillion. They want ...

Truth Offering

• Diet Myths THEY Don’t Want You To Know
  MyPyramid.....of DEATH!I've been studying health and nutrition for about six years now. In fact, I credit my nutritional awakening with spurring on my awakening in all other aspects of life, from economics to politics. And I'll tell you the crux of what sparked my craving for the truth: Going ba ...
• Today's Quote
  "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell
• Poll: Are the Current E.coli Outbreaks False F ...
  This week, we wanted to get your thoughts on the current E. coli outbreaks. Are they random, unfortunate events? Or is there a depopulation agenda being carried out by the eugenicist global elite? Here's what you thought (click to enlarge):
• Today's Quote
  "When one does not see what one does not see, one does not see that one is blind" - Paul Veyne� �
• CIA Report: United States Account Balance = -$ ...
  Let me ask you something: if you're in a massive amount of debt, should you spend even more money? Sorry, stupid question, right? Of course, the answer is "no," you shouldn't. Believers in Keynesian monetary theory -- like Ben Bernanke and his predecessors, as well as past and present Presidents ...

2012 Blog

• A little poison helps, a lot harms – “hormesis”
  You may have come across hormesis previously: charcoal water is often used when people have overdosed on their medications, but too many charred steaks increases your cancer risk many ancient sites (i.e. stone circles) have people who ...A little poison helps, a lot harms – “hormesis” is a p ...
• Mini Ice Age Coming – Simple Explanation
  I love simplicity. It beats math-heavy arguments, or singular ideas that need an entire book to try and convince you. Check this out for a simple explanation for why you could/should be preparing for the ...Mini Ice Age Coming – Simple Explanation is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:M ...
• NASA: Global Warming Model Wrong
  It is a fact that the average global temperature has not risen in the last decade. This highlights the difference between computer models and actual measurement and observation. Because the computer models vary greatly, we ...NASA: Global Warming Model Wrong is a post from: 2012 Blog Rela ...
• The Ancient Bunkers of Cappadocia
  Colleagues accuse me of thinking every ancient underground structure was a bunker, and I mostly do. This is one of my favourites. You can do your own research, this is just to let you know ...The Ancient Bunkers of Cappadocia is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:5000+1 Bunkers for Mosc ...
• Google+ for 2012
  If you have a Google account, there’s a new way of sharing and spreading 2012 information at Google+. My profile is here if you want to add me to a circle: https://plus.google.com/109767201828606148490 If you want an invite ...Google+ for 2012 is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:201 ...

Facing South

• A wingnut and a prayer
  By Forrest Wilder, Texas Observer With each passing day, Rick Perry's Christian prayer-and-repentance rally, The Response, seems like more of a mistake, a classic act of hubris by a politician still learning his way around the national stage. First, the backlash has been fierce, not just from ...
• Utilities spark protests by sticking ratepayer ...
  Consumer advocates are blasting the Georgia Public Service Commission's unanimous vote this week requiring ratepayers to bear the burden of cost overruns during construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle while protecting the profit margin of the Southern Company's largest subsidiar ...
• South Carolina immigration law starts new era ...
  New America Media Editor's Note: The battle over immigration is now being waged at the state level. Since Arizona's immigration law SB 1070 went into effect one year ago, five states -- Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah -- have passed similar laws. South Carolina's new immi ...
• Battles over voter photo ID laws come to a head
  Facing South readers know the story. After campaigning on jobs and the economy, Republicans in state legislatures in the South and nationally focused on pushing laws that would require voters to show photo ID at the polls. There's scant evidence that voter impersonation is a real problem, and ...
• Virginia furniture workers win Ikea union driv ...
  By Jenny Brown, Labor Notes Union organizing won back the weekend for Tawanda Tarpley and her co-workers at an Ikea-owned furniture plant in Danville, Virginia. Mandatory overtime at the Swedish-owned plant meant that last year she worked for three months without a single day off. The union r ...

One News Page

• Actress Annette Charles Dead At 63
  Actress Annette Charles has passed away at the age of 63. Charles died of complications from lung cancer in Los Angeles on Wednesday (03Aug11). According to Tmz. com, she was diagnosed with the condition just a few months a go. A family member s...
• Gunmen Spotted At Virginia Tech
  We have learned that there is a gunmen on the Virgina Tech campus in Blacksburg, VA. There was a gunmen spotted by Dietrick Dining Hall who was ID'd by three witnesses and was wearing a blue and white striped shirt, gray shorts and brown sandals. Unfortunately, police have not found ...
• Eagles' tackle Patterson has rare brain condition
  PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Mike Patterson has a rare brain condition that most likely caused his seizure this week at training camp, the National Football League (NFL) team said on Thursday.
• Lawmakers: Piers Morgan should discuss hacking
  LONDON (AP) -- British lawmakers say CNN interviewer Piers Morgan should return to Britain to answer allegations that the newspaper group he worked for hacked the voicemail of Paul McCartney's ex-wife....
• Mobile services on Kolkata buses
  Finally, our state buses will become mobile in more than the obvious sense. Calcutta State Transport Corporation (CSTC) buses are all set to have telephone services on board.

Global Research TV

• The Fight Against Media Disinformation
• Heavy Rain Adds Misery to Drought in Somalia
• Japanese Government Coverup Over Fukushima
• Occupation of Freedom Plaza 2011: Why I Will B ...
• The Revolution Business

Daily Tech

• Study Finds Link Between Critic Reviews, Numbe ...
  The study aims to provide solid research information on the magnitude and distribution of pirated video games across a variety of titles and genres, since the availability of this information is rare
• FAA is "Examining" News Corp.'s Use of Drones ...
  Owner of the WSJ, New York Post, and Fox News has a growing squadron of fliers -- are they legal?
• Automakers Look to Make Using Tech Behind the ...
  Automakers look to improve safety as more apps and tech land in vehicles
• 8/04/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Thursday
• T-Mobile Airs Attractive, Flexible Small Busin ...
  T-Mobile and Sprint continue to offer better pricing than the bigger carriers

Oriental Review

• Covering the Somalian Famine
  The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as a result of a global oversupply of grain staples. Since the 1980s, grain markets have been deregulated under the supervision of the World Ba ...
• African Deadlock
  The war in Libya has reached a deadlock: Libyans are being killed under NATO and coalition bombs; the money of the U.S., France, Great Britain is going nowhere; the leader of the Jamahiriya does not leave power and ‘there is no light at the end of the tunnel’, no quick victory, a complete dead e ...
• Managed Demolition of the World Order: Stress-Test
  Terrorist attacks cannot be senseless. Compared to diversions or acts of revenge, they always have something more to accomplish in addition to the death of innocent people – some political goals. Terrorism always addresses somebody, who as a rule is lucky not to be affected by the attack itself. ...
• Washington’s Silk Road Pipe Dream
  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 ideal circumstances ...
• US Public Debt: No Solution
  On Monday the US Congress has finally approved the new budget agreement allowing the government to increase the borrowing limit by 2012 on $2.4 trillion. The plan also provides for saving of $1 trillion in 10 (ten!) years. Today the US public debt is around $14.5 trillion. The budget deficit in ...

BlogHer

• My top tips for staying healthy during the Blo ...
  As I sit in my hotel room on the eve before the start of the BlogHer conference, I am smacking my lips in anticipation of all the delectable treats and drinks I will be indulging in while I am here. If you don’t know, in addition to the information packed conference sessions, good food is always ...
• It's a Beautiful Day in the Drawn-In-Unreal Ne ...
  While I’m waiting for my toe nail polish to dry so I can finish my BlogHer ‘11 packing I just had to say something about the recent announcement that an animated Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood spinoff is coming to the PBS Kids lineup next fall. I am not at all sure this is a good thing. Apparentl ...
• Cocktail Play Dates: Do Wine And Kids Mix?
  A big story on Tuesday's ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA) highlighted a growing trend: moms who drink wine at play dates. These events are known as cocktail playdates. The first time I heard about this topic was a few years ago, when the book, Sippy Cups Are Not For Chardonnay made a big spl ...
• Cucumber Tea Sandwiches
  [Editor's Note: Whether you enjoy a spot of afternoon tea or not, these tea sandwiches are a great way to use summer's cucumber bounty in an elegant, small-bite manner. They're fancy enough for a party, but light enough for a quick lunch or snack, and lovely no matter when you eat them! -Genie] ...
• We Locked Our Daughter In Her Room and We All ...
  I've made decisions as a parent for my sons that some of my friends have given me grief about; everything from bedtimes to breastfeeding to cloth diapers to discipline. Someone always has an opinion. The thing these people have failed to realize is that my choices were made out of love for my bo ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• RAWSOME Foods: Swat Style Multi-Agency Raid, 3 ...
  Another raid on Rawsome Foods, Venice, California: this time it’s serious and this time it’s making huge waves across the nation as the story explodes and a protest is planned. James Stewart (owner), Sharon Palmer (Healthy ...
• Monsanto Nation: Taking Down Goliath
  What is the slingshot that will bring the mighty Goliath down? What is Monsanto’s Achilles heel; the two things it does not possess that will allow us to fight back in the war against GMOs? Our ...
• Feds Silence Scientist Over Salmon Disappearance
  A leading fishery scientist believes she has solved the mystery of a new salmon disappearance. Dr. Kristi Miller’s findings were so telling, they were published in Science journal in January and media outlets everywhere were ...
• Grapes Prevent Damage Caused By Ultraviolet Ra ...
  A Spanish study has proven that there are substances in grapes that reduce cell damage and protect skin cells from the sun’s ultraviolet radiation. This follows a previous study finding an antioxidant in red wine ...
• Fish Oil While Pregnant Prevents Babies’ ...
  Supplementing with omega 3 fatty acid DHA while pregnant can shorten the amount and duration of babies’ colds during infancy. The probability of developing a cold is also less. While the research, funded by March of ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• SCSR troubles: What’s a coal miner to do?
  A government photo shows the SCSRs that Sago miners tried to use to survive after the January 2006 explosion. We broke the story in this morning’s Gazette about what federal mine safety regulators are calling a plan to “phase out” the troubled SR-100 self-contained, self-rescuer devices manufact ...
• Alpha reports $56.4 million quarterly loss
  This just in from Alpha Natural Resources: Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: ANR), a leading U.S. coal producer, reported a second quarter loss of $56.4 million or $0.36 per diluted share, including the impact of $254.4 million of pre-tax merger-related expenses, which included a $108.3 milli ...
• One protester arrested, tree-sitting continues
  As the Associated Press reported yesterday evening: A mining protester has ended her treetop sit-in at an Alpha Natural Resources mine on Coal River Mountain and is now charged with trespassing. Becks Kolins and Catherine-Ann MacDougal climbed into platforms July 20 to protest operations at the ...
• Breaking news: Court settlement will force WVD ...
  I’ve just received word that three citizen groups have reached agreement on a court settlement that, if finalized, will force the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection to greatly improve the treatment of long-term water pollution runoff at dozens of old coal-mine sites across our ...
• Probe goes on, but Crandall Canyon fades from view
  As the 4th anniversary of the Crandall Canyon Mine Disaster approaches, my buddy Mike Gorrell at the Salt Lake Tribune has a story about the ongoing criminal investigation — and about how mine disasters easily fade from our minds. Mike reports: Little has happened in the quest to determine more ...

Daniel Miessler

• SQL Injection is 90% SQL, WebSec is 90% WebDev
  I believe too many people take the wrong approach to security, or “hacking”. Most who seek this ability clamor for answers to questions like, “How can I hack SQL?” “How can I hack Linux?” “How can I hack web applications?” There’s a really simple answer. Learn SQL. Learn Linux. Learn to build we ...
• SQL Injection is 95% SQL, and the Rest of Info ...
  I’ve been frustrated for a long time with the ‘teach me to hack’ mentality. Not because I have a problem with beginners (quite the opposite, actually), but because certain people just never get the concept of security testing in the first place. Yes, “hacking” is a loaded term. I am using it as ...
• Polygot Programmers
  Programming enthusiast Joe is browsing Hacker News on a Saturday afternoon, and sees a story about Clojure, a Lisp-like programming language which he keeps hearing about. The comments on the story are filled with positive experiences reported by his peers, so he decides to spend a few hours chec ...
• Daring Fireball: Google: Patently Absurd
  No one other than Nathan Myhrvold and his cronies sees the U.S. patent system as functioning properly, but Google’s hypocrisy here is absurd. Google isn’t arguing against a handful of never-should-have-been-issued software patents. They’re not arguing against patent trolls like Myhrvold and his ...
• Public Interpretation of Specialized News
  via xkcd.com Pretty much. It’s even worse with “cured cancer” and “solved immortality” pieces out of the medical space. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsMore Time With YouA Sex Joke Involving the Special Theory of RelativityGood Code | XKCDLove: XKCDThe Economic ...

Fitwatch

• Facebook site calling for photos of PSNI cops ...
  Facebook has pulled a page calling for members to share accounts and photographs of PSNI (police service of northern Ireland) cops who have been engaged in the harassment of people in republican areas following recent conflicts between republicans and police. The Crown Forces Watch page stated, ...
• The new crime of anarchism!
  Every few years, anarchists are deemed scary again, the media goes into hysterical overdrive and policing becomes more repressive. It is a pattern we have seen repeated several times over the years. However, the news briefing from Project Griffin, issued each week from Chief Inspector Nick Smith ...
• Political Policing during Royal Wedding in Edi ...
  Reposted from Indymedia Scotland Originally posted 30/07/11 Lothian and Borders police are today conducting a systematic programme of harassment aimed at people who have been politically active in Edinburgh. At approximately 1pm this afternoon two police vans parked up in front of a flat in the ...
• Solidarity with Charlie Gilmour
  Predictably there has been a lot of interest and comment on the sentencing of Charlie Gilmour to sixteen months for two counts of violent disorder. It has been both suggested this was lenient because he’ll only do eight months or less on a tag, and that it was a harsher sentence because of his p ...
• Report from the frontlines of the Ardoyne Oran ...
  Taken from the Workers Solidarity Movement Posted 2011-07-14 Rioting erupted in ‘nationalist areas’ across the North on Tuesday after the annual Orange Order parades. The worst of the trouble was in Ardoyne in North Belfast which left 16 police officers injured and with over 60 lethal plastic bu ...

Worldwide 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 ...

reference frame

• Can one sharply separate forcings and feedbacks?
  Andrew Dessler is employed as a climate alarmist in Texas (at Texas A&M). He recently expressed his opinion about the new paper by Spencer and Braswell (reactions in the media via Google News). According to Dessler, the "paper is not really intended for other scientists, since th ...
• HadCRUT3: 31% of stations saw cooling since 1979
  A few days ago, I analyzed the warming trends at all stations included in the HadCRUT3 zipped data that were recently released. Click to zoom in. I chose high contrast colors to make the picture nice. Note that the very red Arctic is actually a very small area on the Earth - whic ...
• Viktoria Pilsen beats Rosenborg Trondheim
  My hometown soccer team, Viktoria Pilsen, the winner of the Top Czech Gambrinus Soccer League (Gambrinus, the sponsor, is the most widely drunk beer in Czechia, one produced in Pilsen as well, of course, and a Scandinavian God of beer), has made it to the playoff of the European (UEFA) Cham ...
• Top Czech romance novel writer stabbed
  Mrs Simona Monyová (44) was the most successful Czech author of romance novels. Nicknamed "Viewegh in the skirts", after a bestselling male author, she has been a compulsive writer since her childhood. She would write 2 novels a year - the total number was 24. Today, she ...
• Cuba enters serious string theory research
  As you may have noticed, the wealthy island of Cuba lost its glamorous adjectives in 1959 when a group of criminals and murderers around Fidel Castro and Che Guevara overtook the country and changed an oasis of prosperity to a land of friends of the communist Czechoslovakia, among others. ; ...

Tatumba 2.0

• The End of Fear – Follow in the steps of ordin ...
  Το τέλος του φÏβου… The end of fear… by magiconteam Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Stop Living In Fear! Stop living in fear! It lowers your vibrations and helps... Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Radio 13 Aug 2010 Gerald Celente on Follow the Money Weekly Ra ...
• Darwin was right: Arrival of the Post-Petroleu ...
  Peak Moment 196: “Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial civilization. The star ...
• Greek Revoultion is now Live
  I am streaming the coverage of protests from Greece. It will run as long as the video feed keeps coming to me. Just so you know…Greece is 7 hours ahead of EST. LIVE STREAMING: Γενική Απεργία ενάντια στο… by News247 Please recycle. Don't throw away your peels Related posts:Postcards from the G ...
• Burzynski Cures Cancer – The Magic of Antineop ...
  THIS VIDEO WILL BE TAKEN DOWN BY THE OWNER ON JUNE 20 2011 Curing cancer is frowned upon big government and BIG PHARMA, especially when the patent for the cure is owned by a single doctor, and they can’t have a taste of the pie. So what do they do? They sick their hound dog, [...] Related p ...
• French Whistleblowers reaveal the set up of Do ...
  I saw this over at SGTReport.com and it is worth repeating here. French insiders reveal the reason why DSK had to be taken out. It was all about the missing gold baby. Watch this one explode before summer is out. Gold, The Real Reason for the Fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn Commodities / Gold and ...

Truth About Our World

• George Carlin and Bill Hicks tell it like it is
• Time For Laughs… and a bit of reality
• How to Change Our Reality
• Taking Responsibility (Taking your power back)
• Humans and the Virtual Reality

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

Enviroblog

• GAO Flunks Some States on Tap Water Quality Mo ...
  By Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A new report from the Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, shows that a number of states have made serious errors in tap... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• GAO Knocks EPA Tap Water Monitoring
  By Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A new report from Government Accountability Office, Congress's investigative arm, shows that a number of states have made serious errors in tap water... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• Reusing Your Gray Water: State Laws Vary for H ...
  By Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst Recently, we took a look at the water-saving potential of residential "gray" water, which, naturally, leads people to wonder: Can I use this technology in my home, too? The answer? It depends. Some... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...
• GAO to EPA: Improve Implementation of Safe Dri ...
  By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst, Morgan Andersen, EWG Summer Government Affairs Assistant, and Alex Keller, EWG Summer Water Analyst A Government Accountability Office investigation released last week has found that the Environmental... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
• New & Improved: Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011
  By Jason Rano, EWG Senior Legislative Analyst The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011, introduced June 24 by Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) has a simple aim: to give the federal Food and Drug Administration... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• Taking a break from seniors, David Weprin targ ...
  This afternoon, Assemblyman David Weprin was standing in front of Queens Borough Hall with his wife, two daughters and a host of elected officials. He was the only man on the steps.Since being handed the Democratic nomination in a special election for Anth ...
• 'Arthur,' annotated: Some comedies are funnier ...
  I was leaving the Trinity Church soup kitchen last Wednesday afternoon when I heard a guy yelling across its courtyard, “…and they hand out free snacks!”He was calling out to a woman on the sidewalk near the church gate. She was tapping her head and mo ...
• Going bananas for James Franco, cashing in on ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• D.C. jerks ruin stock market, Teixeira breaks ...
  Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
• The anti-chancellor: Scott Stringer's educatio ...
  During a hearing in June, as the city’s Panel for Educational Policy prepared to move on a plan to “co-locate” 22 charter schools in public-school buildings, most of the audience knew what would happen: Parents would yell, teachers would plead and union me ...

Views & News from Norway

• Part of Sellafield nuclear plant closes
  Part of the British nuclear energy plant Sellafield is to be closed down as a consequence of the after-effects of the Fukushima incident in Japan earlier this year. Although 600 British jobs were lost, many organizations in Norway have welcomed the move given concerns about the carriage of nucle ...
• Lithuania criticizes Norwegian bank
  The Lithuanian state finance regulator has attacked Norwegian bank DnB NOR for “unprofessional behaviour” after it allegedly sold structured savings products to amateur investors who went on to lose NOK 200 million (over USD 37 million). 640 Lithuanian investors were sold the structured savings ...
• Utøya helicopter response scrutinized
  Senior Norwegian police figures have raised questions about the level of available resources after it emerged that the police’s only helicopter remained grounded for most of the time during the Oslo and Utøya attacks. It was also revealed that the street on which the Oslo bomb went off had been ...
• Economy prospers despite EU crises
  Revised forecasts suggest that the Norwegian economy will do better than originally expected this year, giving many consumers more money than they may otherwise have had. Nonetheless, Norway is not immune to the destabilizing forces in the world economy as the Oslo Stock Exchange fell for the se ...
• Breivik police question ‘Fjordman’
  The anonymous blogger “Fjordman,” who is repeatedly referenced in the manifesto of Oslo and Utøya terrorist attacks suspect Anders Behring Breivik, was being questioned by Norwegian police on Thursday afternoon after authorities found out his real identity. The international links between Breiv ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Geoff Lawton Asks for Your Help!
  To assist, please go here and make your contribution to the spread of permaculture in some of the neediest places on earth.
• Armed Raid on Raw Food Producers – the FDA Has ...
  The U.S. government obviously thinks raw food producers are extremely dangerous people. Why else would they send armed men to deal with them? A multi-agency SWAT-style armed raid was conducted this morning by helmet-wearing, gun-carrying enforcement agents from the LA County Sheriff’s Off ...
• Designers & Consultants Resource Page
  Since I starting teaching at the PRI with the new Urban Landscape Design Course there have been calls to make the information from the course available to students and interested people out there in the world that can’t jump on a plane and get to The Channon. Our fearless webmaster Craig Macki ...
• All is Not Well With the U.S. Organic Trade As ...
  Most permaculturists are aware that in regards to food today, ‘organic’ can often mean little, or nothing at all. The video below proves that the name can actually mean even worse than nothing — as we see that the U.S.’s ‘Organic Trade Association’ is unlike anything their name suggests. Indeed, ...
• A Tale of Two Tokyos – Domestic Robots and Per ...
  Written a year ago by Cecilia Macaulay Robot and charcoal-fired tea ceremony brazier Roving, roving. I’m now staying in Central Tokyo, at my usual home with the Ota family. This morning I reached for the broom, I got a surprise. Professor Ota came running out "No No!" He bent down, fiddled ...

Pointman's

• I’m not a scientist but …
  For a number of reasons, having âmade my bonesâ in permanent employment, the rest of my career would be termed freelance. I deliver measured amounts of expertise for clients of my choosing in the areas in which I know I operate well. The point is, you have to step out of your comfort zone and … ...
• On murderous madmen.
  The tragic events of last week in Norway do give you pause for thought. How could anyone do that and especially to defenseless young people? Does it say something about us all? Are we all capable of doing something like that? The answer is no and thatâs not just my subjective opinion, itâs a fac ...
• You gotta have a sense of humour …
  You look at stuff and you wonder. Maybe you donât, maybe a lot of people donât, maybe they never do. Well, I do. I suppose itâs just me being an awkward cuss but at this stage in the game, Iâm pretty reconciled to that. You are what you are, so just chaw down and get … Read more
• Words of wisdom from the Goracle of Helpme.
  Alâs fallen on hard times. Long gone are the days of the $100,000 appearance fee at speaking engagements. Most of that all went into that Chicago Carbon Exchange thingy which didnât turn out to be such a smart investment after all. Anyway, you canât keep a good man down so heâs working on a come ...
• The Al Gore Climate Reality Event : A call to ...
  Thereâs an interesting proposal being made at Anthony Wattâs site WUWT to fight the upcoming Al Gore Climate Reality Event scheduled for Sept. 14th 2011. In essence, it suggests setting up a central resource which will contain quotes by global warming high priests. Whatâs being called for is yo ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Jury Begins Deliberations in Danziger Trial
  A version of this article was originally published on the New Orleans Tribune/TribuneTalk website: With closing statements completed on Tuesday, focus in the Danziger incident now turns to the jury, which begins deliberating today on the 25 charges faced by the officers, after receiving final ...
• State of Louisiana Continues to Support Sex Of ...
  This June, criminal justice activists in Louisiana won a major victory with the passage of a bill that effectively moved prostitution convictions back to the level of misdemeanor, heralding the end of Louisiana's archaic practice of forcing sex workers to register as sex offenders. But lawyers ...
• Defense rests in Danziger Trial, insisting vic ...
  This article originally appeared on the New Orleans Tribune/Tribune Talk website: After less than one full week and having presented the testimony of only one of the five defendants, the defense in the Danziger police violence trial rested their case on Thursday. Much of the defense relied ...
• Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute C ...
  From our friends with Urban Bush Women: On Saturday, July 30th at 3:00 and 7:00, Urban Bush Women (UBW) presents the culminating performance for its third New Orleans Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) at Lusher Charter School's Goldring Auditorium, 7315 Willow Street, (Jeanette Street Entr ...
• Devastating Report Exposes Feinberg's Unequal ...
  Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) set up in the aftermath of the BP Drilling Disaster, has broken with his own past practices - as well as the evidence compiled by scientists and the experience of Gulf Coast residents - to deny all health claims filed by Gu ...

Information Underground

• False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
  Christopher Marlowe wrote: I agree that a deeper quake may result in less damage, so let's compare apples to apples: similar quakes of similar depths: Its not enough to compare quakes of different depths. Differing local geological and geostructural conditions will play a role, as will the den ...
• False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
  mchawe wrote: Sullivan said "The simplest and most plausible explanation is that the rods in the fuel pool went into uncontrolled fission and resulted in a prompt super-critical reaction. There is one problem with that.........Reactor 4had no nuclear material inside it no uranium, no plutoniu ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Sorry, the above link doesn't appear to be working. try this: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news then click on the link to the story.Statistics: Posted by Shiksa Rage — Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:00 pm
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Take a look at how Murdoch's lying rag "The Sun" spins this and you'll want to puke. Not a mention of the fact that Beirik, the EDL and the BNP are rabidly Zionist, but plenty of "evil" Nazi and Hollerco$t promotion. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... roine.htmlStatistics: Posted by Sh ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Moe Foe wrote : How's about "we" become an internet warrior for Israel...? With a bit of work we could create a fake online identity and infiltrate the online hasbara volunteer network. It would be medium - long term before you would see any results but I'm sure it'd be possible. I mean how h ...

TVNZ

• Space shuttle debris found in Texas lake
  NASA confirmed debris from ill-fated shuttle, Columbia, has been found in a drought-stricken Texas lake.  
• Maid's lawyers seek airline staffs' backing
  Lawyers for the NY hotel maid who says Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her received a letter from Air France staff.
• Italian coastguard rescues Libyan boat people
  More than 300 migrants fleeing Libya were saved after their boat ran into difficulties off a small Italian island.
• Virginia Tech locked-down after gunman fears
  Authorities shut Virginia Tech campus after a gunman was reported on the campus.
• Hunt on for Sydney collar bomb extortionist
  The hunt is on for an extortionist who chained a hoax bomb to a Sydney schoolgirl.

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 ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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backofthebook

• Granny Turmel and the red separatist scare
  By Montreal Simon As the Liberals continue their fevered pathetic assault on Nycole Turmel. No doubt hoping that out of her ashes, their shrunken party will rise again, like some fleshless phoenix. Or some charred scarecrow. Even as they help fuel comments like this and this and this in ...
• No Murdoch-style scandal in Canada, you say?
  By Alison@Creekside We've been getting a lot of stories from our media lately (here, here, and here), assuring us that an equivalent to the Rupert Murdoch scandal couldn't possibly happen in Canada. Really? No cozy incestuous relationships? No dirty tricks? On March 30, 2009, Stephen Ha ...
• Adobe Previews Adobe Flash Killer
  by Eric Pettifor Back in March, I criticized Apple for not including support for Adobe Flash in their iPad tablet. Their reasoning seemed to be at least in part that Flash was going away, to be replaced by HTML 5 with support from javascript and CSS, to which I responded ...
• Alykhan and Ezra’s ethical snake oil
  By Alison@Creekside Alykhan Velshi's wee blog Ethical Oil, named after Ezra's book, has relaunched with an expensive new look and some spiffy ethical oil pop-up campaign ads to greet you when you enter the site. You can choose either good or evil -- you know, conflict oil = woman being ston ...
• Booking Granny
  By Alison@Creekside There's just so much wrong with this news story about the Canada Border Services Agency arresting and jailing a 66-year old woman for 12 days, for trafficking, possessing, and importing heroin, because their swab-test of a jar of motor oil in her vehicle incorrectly iden ...

Daily Beast

• Russian Artists Mock Putin
  Russian street art groups are pulling puckish pranks on the government, often at the expense of their own safety.
• China a Suspect in Hacking Attack
  Isaac Stone Fish reports on suspicions that China has perpetrated a huge computer hacking attack.
• How to Try a Dictator
  As Mubarak goes to court, Babak Dehghanpisheh on what Egypt got right—and the lessons from Iraq.
• Australia’s Collar-Bomb Hoax
  Sydney police freed a teenager from a fake collar bomb after a 10-hour ordeal. By David Leser.
• ‘Jersey Shore’ Guide to Italian
  MTV’s guidos and guidettes head to the motherland Thursday for season four. How will their lingo translate?

Loonwatch

• Gallup Poll: Jews and Christians Way More Like ...
  Muslims are least likely to condone the targeting and killing of civilians.
• Debbie Schlussel: Oslo Victims Were Terrorists ...
  Read Schlussel's latest rant.
• Joe Lieberman Says U.S. Should Cut Social Secu ...
  Good ole turn-around Joe is up to his loony antics again.
• Salon.com: Fox: Why does Obama hate Easter and ...
  Fox & Friends is a joke and Alex Pareene slams their goofy and clumsy agenda.
• Rep. West to screen controversial film on ‘Gro ...
  Allen West is planning to screen a controversial film about the Islamic center near Ground Zero on Capitol Hill.

Energy News

• Gundersen on lethal radiation levels: Even hig ...
  Lethal Levels of Radiation at Fukushima: What Are the Implications?, Fairewinds ...Read More
• Fukushima children go to Vatican, promise Pope ...
  Fukushima children promise Pope they will persevere through nuclear tragedy, Catholic ...Read More
• NRC commissioner: Fukushima was not unthinkabl ...
  Fukushima disaster not “unforeseen”-NRC commissioner, Reuters, August 4, 2011: [...] This ...Read More
• Vancouver Paper: Health Canada detected massiv ...
  Japan’s Fukushima catastrophe brings big radiation spikes to B.C., Georgia Straight ...Read More
• “Gleeful Vultures”? England’ ...
  Sellafield Mox nuclear fuel plant to close, Guardian, August 3, 2011: ...Read More

Japan Times

• Utsumi brilliant in Giants' victory over Tigers
  It wasn't always pretty, but a win is a win, and the Yomiuri Giants will take it.
• "Nihonga in Kyoto: Past, Present, and Future"
  The Kyoto Japanese-Style Painters' Association was established in 1941, during World War II, by Seiho Takeuchi, Keigetsu Kikuchi, Kansetsu Hashimoto and a number of other well-known nihonga (Japanese-style painting) artists. The association has since grown to include around 500 artist members. ...
• Fukushima teens get Austria home-stays
  The Rotary Club of Austria has invited 21 high school students from Fukushima Prefecture who were caught up in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami to spend time in the country to help recover from the disaster. During their visit, which will last about three weeks, the students will stay with ...
• Dragons top Swallows
  Enyelbert Soto won his third straight start and Joel Guzman went 3-for-4 with two doubles as the Chunichi Dragons edged the Yakult Swallows 2-1 on Thursday. Soto (3-0) held the CL-leading Swallows to one unearned run over seven innings. Chunichi broke a 1-1 tie in the sixth on an RBI groundout ...
• "Ancient Civilizations of The Americas: Man, N ...
  The Americas became known as the New World, after European explorers discovered the continents in the late 15th century. Unlike in the Old World of the European Middle Ages, those in pre-Columbian America were not advanced in skills such as metallurgy, but they did excel in mathematics and ast ...

Alexander Higgins

• Amid Charges Of Abuse Of Power FBI Chief&#8217 ...
  Congress extends the FBI director's term beyond the 10 year limit set in the 70s meant to prevent the same abuses of power and violations of the law that the director is accused of committing now.
• Big Pharma’s Gestapo –The FDA’s Sc ...
  The feds are acting as the Gestapo for Big Pharma and is scheming to reclassify healthy nutrients as drugs to keep Americans stuck on an endless diet of corporate poison.
• The Debt Ceiling Deal From Hell – A Comp ...
  The "debt ceiling deal from hell" is a complete and total fraud. It will only ruin the economy and establish an unconstitutional "Super Congress" to shove austerity down our throats.
• GOA Chief: The Unconstitutional Super Congress ...
  GOA Chief Says The Unconstitutional Super Congress ‘Will Lead Us Into Dictatorship’ And The New "Committee" Is A “Coup D’état” By The Ruling Class.
• Lieberman: Super Congress Needs To Cut Social ...
  Senator Lieberman argues that the "Super Congress" needs to cut social security and medicare to fund our illegal perpetual wars.

Macleans - Central

• ‘The Future’ looks, well, depressing
  This quirky, insightful dramedy is a cautionary tale for aimless thirty-somethings
• ‘In Quebec it is not that big a deal’
  Francois-Pierre Gingras defends Nycole Turmel’s sovereignist associations. âIt will make a good number of...
• Iranian police crush grave threat to national ...
  It’s beyond parody.
• What to do with refugees?
  Doug Saunders considers refugee policy and calls for an international solution. What Lamey proposes...
• Why Variety?
  This is a question that was brought to my attention by a Todd VanDerWerff...

Making It Count - CCPA

• Canada’s GHG Commitment Problem
  For the past decade, Canada’s GHG emission targets were framed by the Kyoto Protocol, in which Canada committed to a 6% reduction in emissions by 2012 relative to 1990 levels (590 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, or Mt CO2e). In spite of signing this treaty and its ratification throu ...
• Clemens vs. Clemens
  Jason Clemens, who hangs his hat at several right-wing think-tanks (the Fraser, Pacific Research and Macdonald-Laurier Institutes), lauds Canadian fiscal conservatism in today’s Wall Street Journal: Canada’s government, for example, has grown smaller over the last 15 years. Total government spen ...
• Decarbonizing Homes and the Price of Gas
  Our climate justice framework for BC is to eliminate fossil fuels by 2040. In the household sector, this poses a significant challenge, not so much in terms of technology and knowledge, but because natural gas is much cheaper than electricity per unit of energy. Even though BC has among the lowe ...
• Understanding Québec’s Orange Wave Part Three: ...
  Simon Tremblay-Pepin is a researcher at IRIS, a Montreal-based progressive think tank. In my previous two posts I discussed how neither a rise in left-wing sentiment nor a surge in support for the federalist option caused the “orange wave” in Québec during the last federal election. I will now o ...
• Understanding Québec’s Orange Wave Part Two: W ...
  Simon Tremblay-Pepin is a researcher at IRIS, a Montreal-based progressive think tank. In my previous post, I addressed how Québec was not reinventing itself as a socialist haven. I will now attempt to show that the NDP’s impressive showing in Québec does not indicate a rejection of sovereignty. ...

ReDress

• 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.

Physics Today

• A long, hot summer for Tokyo universities
  Chronicle of Higher Education: Across Tokyo, universities are trying to cut their electricity use by 15%. Tokyo's power comes from Tepco, operator of the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear plants, which have been inoperable since the 11 March earthquake and tsunami. Many other reactors are also ...
• Nuclear fission as a kitchen hobby
  The Guardian: Radium, americium, and uranium are not usual household items. Richard Handl of Stockholm, Sweden, who was trying to break nuclei apart in his kitchen, had all three elements in his apartment when police came to arrest him on charges of unauthorized possession of nuclear material. H ...
• Early Earth may have had two moons
  NPR: To explain why the two sides of the Moon are so different from each other—the near side is low and flat and the far side is mountainous and deeply cratered—two researchers have made a novel proposition. They propose that Earth originally had two moons, the one familiar to us now and a small ...
• Heat-regulating building material could save e ...
  Daily Mail: A research team at the University of Nottingham campus in Ningbo, China, has developed a material that, when applied to the walls of a room, allows them to absorb and store excess heat and release it later. Jo Darkwa and Oliver Su said the phase-change material, or PCM, will work as ...
• A first look at the debt agreement and US research
  Science: To avert a potential government default, President Obama signed legislation to raise the US debt ceiling. The legislation includes a $917 billion cut to discretionary spending over the next decade. Some aspects of the agreement, however, may work in favor of science research. Whereas fe ...

Revolutionary Politics

• FF News: 'The Omar Abdulla Show-33,'
  by footprints (Posted Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:43:59 GMT) Episode 30-Season Four Filmed November 21st 2011 Duration-45 Minutes Omar Abdulla: Welcome to The 'Omar Abdulla,' SHOW filmed in Vancouver where the 'city never sleeps...' Footprints Filmworks is proud to honor an advertisement deal of $4 m ...
• Norway massacre is a false flag
  by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:00:26 GMT) It's a false flag attack. The killer said he hates Muslims but what his target were the sons and daughters of the government elites. He was born in Norway and chose as his targets not Muslims whose presence he detests, but the Labor Party ...
• Oil price and Iran war
  by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:52:53 GMT) 13. Harassment from Feds (12/28/08) I said oil price started to drop after my article of July 4th. When the planed Iran war went soured in August, the Inside group planed a financial crisis to stabilize the dollar. It started on 9/14, when Lem ...
• The Fake Osama Bin Laden Image
  by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:49:57 GMT) Two years ago I predicted the Feds would use Bin Laden, Al Qaida and Pakistan to activate false flag nuclear bomb attack. Operation Geronimo was exactly the practise of that plan. 587. A nuclear bombing to justify Iran war (2/10/09) For the ...
• CIA Spy Captured Giving Nuclear Bomb To Terrorists
  by katsung47 (Posted Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:42:36 GMT) 675. Virus attack and boat sinking (7/19/2011) In web site unforumzed.com, a man kept on suggesting me to stop post the revelation article. Cake Balls by Autumn: “Maybe if you stopped posting crap all over the internet, the FBI wouldn't be ...

Peakwater

• In Arid South African Lands, Fracking Controve ...
  “The controversy has put the government in a tough spot. Seventeen years after the end of apartheid, the African National Congress-led government is under pressure to deliver jobs, services, and greater prosperity to the countryâs largely impoverished and increasingly impatient population. The s ...
• Harvest rainwater or your taps could run dry
  “BANGALORE: The BWSSB has empowered itself to take stern action against owners of those houses where rainwater harvesting (RWH) apparatus is not installed. Having issued a deadline of December 31, 2011, for installation, and published a gazette notification on July 7, BWSSB can now cut off wate ...
• Residents try to stop a new bottled water plan ...
  “The fight is to stop another company from pumping water out of the aquifer. This time it’s a local doctor who is behind the project. He owns the land off County Road 561 where he wants to pump up to 100,000 gallons of water out of the ground every day. Sharon and Mike Torres live [...]
• Water restrictions in wake of extended heat, d ...
  “North Texas Municipal Water District on Monday declared a Stage 2 Drought emergency. The move signals that water supplies are getting low. “We are being very taxed on our water supply system,” said NTMWD spokeswoman Denise Hickey. The water district’s announcement means that its 13 member citie ...
• Will Dam Removal in the West Restore Salmon?
  “A controversial plan to remove four dams from the Klamath River to save endangered salmon could make its way to Congress in the coming weeks. Capitol Hill lawmakers will consider taking down Californiaâs Iron Gate, Copco 2, Copco 1, and John C. Boyle dams at a cost of about $1 billion, half of ...

D. Kucinich

• CBO Report Finds Dept. of Energy Undercharging ...
  A new report released today from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that the Department of Energy is dramatically undercharging energy companies for federal loan guarantees to build new nuclear reactors. The report, requested by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) last year as Chairman o ...
• Kucinich: Why I Voted Against S. 365, the Budg ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after voting against S. 365, the Budget Control Act of 2011. Kucinich voted in favor of a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling. S. 365, the Budget Control Act of 2011, is a landmark in American history, but for the wro ...
• Kucinich: Why I Voted for Senator Reid’s Revis ...
  Washington D.C. (July 30, 2011) � Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after voting in favor of Senator Reid�s revised bill to raise the debt ceiling. �I have had and continue to have serious concerns about Senator Reid�s revised bill.� The cuts to discretio ...
• “The American People Do Not Want Us to Burn Do ...
  Washington D.C. (July 29, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today delivered the following speech on the floor of the House of Representatives. See video here. “Here’s how we can take a couple steps back from the brink of default: “First, raise the debt ceiling until December 31, 2012 ...
• “We are the United States of America, the grea ...
  Washington D.C. (July 28, 2011) � Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today went to the House floor to outline the steps we can take to avoid default and lead America out of debt. See the video here. The full text of Congressman Kucinich�s remarks follow: �Here is what we should do to avoid def ...

Authentically Wired

• … More games … this one is called ...
  �� More games �� this one is called Congre$$ hides and we seek �� Pentagon lands extra $50 billion out of debt deal 08-03-2011 ��� �Rawstory� .. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/02/pentagon-lands-extra-50-billion-out-of-debt-deal/ Out of a bill that was supposed to cut government spending and ...
• Everyone is spying
  �� Everyone is spying on everyone �� get real �� get over it �� that�s life today �� OK �� Biggest-Ever Series of Cyber Attacks Uncovered; UN Hit � Published:�Wednesday, 3 Aug 2011 | 12:40 AM ⦠ By: Reuters ��http://www.cnbc.com/id/43997867 Security experts have discovered the biggest series of c ...
• … Something for your first aid bag …
  �� Something for your first aid bag �� � Egg White Burn Dressing Protocol � http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2011/08/egg-white-burn-dressing-protocol.html � � I grabbed this piece from a newsletter post and it is well worth reading.� We learn that a correct second step in dealing with b ...
• And in Arizona We have Joe’s… TENT ...
  … How do you spell CRUEL & UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT … this is what ‘corporate’ justice has become in America … and we dare call others barbaric…! 6 Creepy New Weapons the Police and Military Use To Subdue Unarmed People August 3, 2011 … Source: Alternet … http://www.blacklistednews.com/6_Creepy_New_We ...
• another “get-out-of-jail-free-card”
  � �� So you think Congre$$ will give them another �get-out-of-jail-free-card� �� I sure as hell believe they will �� Beleaguered Bank of America Seeking Yet Another Get-Out-Liabilty-Almost-Free Card in AG Negotiations WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011 �� http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/beleaguere ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Is Indonesia losing its most valuable assets?
  Deep in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo in the late 1980s, researchers made an incredible discovery: the bark of a species of peat swamp tree yielded an extract with potent anti-HIV activity. An anti-HIV drug made from the compound is now nearing clinical trials. It could be worth hundreds o ...
• Brazilian senator: Forest Code reform necessar ...
  Over the past twenty years Brazil has emerged as an agricultural superpower: today it is the largest exporter beef, sugar, coffee, and orange juice, and the second largest producer of soybeans. While much of this growth has been fueled by a sharp increase in productivity resulting from improved ...
• Forest Code bill could undermine sustainable g ...
  In May Brazil's House of Representatives passed a bill that will reform the country's Forest Code, which requires farmers and ranchers in the Amazon to maintain a legal forest reserve amounting to 80 percent of total landholdings. Environmentalists say the bill, which is undergoing revision bef ...
• Dung beetles: a sewage SWAT team
  Biology Professor Doug Emlen speaks with Laurel Neme on her 'The WildLife' radio show and podcast about the biology and armaments of dung beetles. An expert on the evolution and development of bizarre shapes in insects, Emlen notes that dung beetles are one of the 'kings' of odd morphology.
• How do we save Africa's forests?
  Africa's forests are fast diminishing to the detriment of climate, biodiversity, and millions of people of dependent on forest resources for their well-being. But is the full conservation of Africa's forests necessary to mitigate global climate change and ensure environmental stability in Africa ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Can we all move to Mars after all? New possibi ...
  NASA has announced it's discovered new evidence for possible salt water flows during the warmest months on Mars.The discovery is the closest scientists
• Stephan Lewandowsky: Why scientists won't deba ...
  Whether at conferences or in the peer-reviewed literature, scientific debates are a crucial part of the error prevention and correction process that has served science and the public well for centuries.Tellingly, so-called climate...
• NZ-led research finds quick candida test
  A diagnostic tool developed by a team led by Massey University researcher Jan Schmid could prevent about 60 New Zealand deaths a year from the fungal infection candidemia - and save thousands of lives worldwide.Dr Schmid, a senior...
• And now, a car that cooks tea
  Nissan and Mitsubishi say their electric cars can be used for more than just going to the grocery store. Soon, the battery-powered vehicles may also help owners cook dinner during a blackout.Mitsubishi is working to increase the...
• Virus kills fifth horse in New South Wales
  A fifth horse has died from the Hendra virus in New South Wales. The horse died at a property near Mullumbimby on the NSW north coast, the Department of Primary Industries confirmed. Four other horses on the quarantined property...

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Hit & Run | Reason

• 'The Department Does Not Like Laundry Being Ai ...
  KIRO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Seattle, reports that Renton, Washington, police are using a trumped-up cyberstalking investigation to uncover the identity of "Mr. Fuddlesticks," the creator of nine online cartoons that mock the police department and allude to various internal affairs i ...
• Reason.tv: Dick Morris on School Choice
  At FreedomFest in July, Reason's Matt Welch talked with political consultant and Fox News contributor Dick Morris about the school choice movement. Morris argues that past reforms - such as increased spending, changes in curriculum, and standardized testing, have failed ...
• A Consumer-Driven Health Plan Keeps the Doctor ...
  The usual knock against health plans that give patients a financial stake in health decisions is that patients are likely to make short-term financial decisions at the expense of long-term health: Given the chance, they might skimp on care in order to save a bit of cash, potentially r ...
• Health Insurance, Washington's Way
  At the beginning of last month, administration officials indicated that they could take over the health insurance rate review process in as many as 10 states. ObamaCare gives the federal government authority to muscle in to state health insurance regulation if administration health ...
• Judge Rejects Florida's Drug Exception to Due ...
  Last week a federal judge in Orlando ruled that Florida's Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention & Control Act violates the constitutional right to due process because it allows conviction without proof of mens rea, the "guilty mind" that is normally considered a crucial element of a c ...

Mercury Rising

• More things that make you go, “hmmm&#823 ...
  Jill Treanor and Nick Fletcher, The Guardian: Amid the rout, it emerged that police acting on orders from the prosecutors of Trani, a port on Italy’s Adriatic coast, had raided the Milan offices of the rating agencies, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, as part of continuing investigations into thei ...
• Can You Guess This Guy’s Boss?
  Yesterday afternoon, I was sitting in Kieran’s drinking Two Gingers (house brand) whisky while my friend the attorney was drinking pints of Guinness and regaling me with stories. One story will interest you both: Seems a while back — I didn’t find out exactly when, but it was during the health c ...
• Technical bounce, on schedule
  Most Americans wonder why they should care about the stock market. However, for reasons explained below, it’s actually an important indicator. Volume was strong, going positive around 11:30AM. I called this last night. Also, that it’s purely technical, and that news will drive the market in the ...
• The police are not your friends, if you are wa ...
  Videographers are taking incredible risks to document how police procedure has become unacceptable. When Syria beats up journalists, we call it a crime against humanity. When it’s the Las Vegas police, it “looks bad.” Film linked by Sirota, via Avedon Carol: http://www.lvrj.com/multimedia/player ...
• For The Phil Hartman Fans Among Us
  Having recently stopped a barrage of referrer spam over at another blog where I help out from time to time, I was wading through the remaining mess when I saw this: It would seem that life (or at least one spammer) imitates art — specifically, this art:

Reality Sandwich

• Lotus in a Sea of Fire: Burning Buddhist Questions
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• Washington For Sale
  Koch Industries Inc. and Exxon Mobil Corp. are looking to benefit from similar energy legislation introduced in various states from New Hampshire to New Mexico, and there's no coincidence.  Both energy companies helped write the legislation through a group they finance, the American Legislati ...
• Beyond Movie Dome
  For those headed to Uncle Uncanny's Music and Arts Festival in Utah, you can check out screenings of 2012: Time for Change, Wake Up, and Vine of the Soul at Evolver SLC's Movie Dome (August 12-14). Join us Friday and Saturday night: read more
• Ayahuasca Art
  Project Butterfly and Evolver LA invite you to experience The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo with co-author Howard G. Charing. Tues, August 16. -- read more
• On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effe ...
  "The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive." [...] "...by some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating." -- Pearl Buck, Winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. read more

Desertification

• EAST AFRICA: Massive Aid Needed to Stave off D ...
  International donors have given more than one billion dollars to ease the famine in Somalia and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa, but U.N. officials say another billion will be needed to prevent the situation from deteriorating in other areas.
• Eleven Million at Risk in Horn of Africa
  "I have never seen anything like it. Many mothers have lost three or four children. It's a tragedy out here," Austin Kennan, regional director for the Horn of Africa for Concern Worldwide, told IPS from within the crisis zone.
• UN: Somalia Is 'Worst Humanitarian Disaster'
  The head of the United Nations refugee agency has described the situation in drought-hit Somalia as the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world, after meeting with those affected at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
• Dam Project in Turkey Breeds Controversy
  The tranquillity and mystery of this town on the banks of Tigris River will not last long. The millennia-old town will be nearly totally destroyed once the nearby Ilisu dam, built for energy and irrigation, is complete.
• AFRICA: Eco-Labels "Greenwashing" Forest Explo ...
  "Eco-label fatigue" is setting in as green logging certification schemes are undermining proper government management of forest resources while "greenwashing" private ownership of these public resources, critics say.

Automatic Earth

• August 3 2011: The Next Bank Bailout Bloodbath ...
• August 1 2011: Of Ceilings and Dungeons
• July 28 2011: Real Black. Real Swan.
• July 26 2011: Austerity is coming to the U.S.A.
• July 22 2011: Contortionist Compromises