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Saturday, August 6, 2011

6 August - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Showtime success plan centers on 'renewable' shows
San Francisco Chronicle
Chris Pizzello / AP Beverly Hills -- For David Nevins and the Showtime premium cable channel, the strategy for success can be summed up in one word: "renewable." It's a word that Nevins, the channel's entertainment president, used a lot during his ...
Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC Announces Third Quarter Results
PR Newswire (press release)
5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 5, 2011, Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC ("SIRE") announced its financial results for the third fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2011. SIRE reported a net loss of $1287162 or $97.96 per unit, compared to a net loss ...
Solazyme to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences
TradersHuddle.com
Solazyme, Inc. (NASDAQ:SZYM), a renewable oil and bioproducts company, announced today that the company will be presenting at the following upcoming financial conferences: Each presentation will be webcast live and archived on Solazyme's investor ...
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Nuclear vs Renewable Energy Infographic
CleanTechnica
Referencing us and our sister site Planetsave, here's a good infographic on nuclear power and how it compares to power from renewable resources. There are a few things I would have worded a little differently or put more or less emphasis on, ...
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Ecology of Binghamton examined in study
Press & Sun-Bulletin
BINGHAMTON -- A new environmental initiative is putting the emphasis on how the city's ecology is affecting urban life and government. The newly formed Binghamton Urban Ecosystem Initiative will consider Binghamton as a habitat for nature and will ...
Chemicals Found In Car Seats
WSET
Entertainment News from AP Lynchburg, VA –The Ecology Center released a study Wednesday that shows more than half of child seats tested contain toxic chemicals that could be dangerous to babies and children. The report, published on Healthystuff.org, ...
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Environment Canada cuts worry ecology group
CBC.ca
Beginning of Story Content Job cuts at Environment Canada will weaken environmental protection in Nova Scotia, the Ecology Action Centre warns. Mark Butler, the centre's policy director, said about 80 jobs will disappear from Environment Canada's ...
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CPS students get hands-on lessons in urban ecology
ABC7Chicago.com
Some students are getting their feet wet in the area of urban ecology. They are learning about species that can invade our lakes and rivers and are testing water samples to measure pollution. "I just like science in general. ...
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Water on Mars At a Glance [Photos]
International Business Times
By IBTimes Staff Reporter | Aug 06, 2011 01:56 AM EDT NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed on Thursday that highly salty water may flow on Red Planet during the warmest months, which raise the chances that life could exist on Mars. ...
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Toxic chromium found in Chicago drinking water
Chicago Tribune
By Michael Hawthorne, Tribune reporter Chicago's first round of testing for a toxic metal called hexavalent chromium found that levels in local drinking water are more than 11 times higher than a health standard California adopted last month. ...
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Just add moving water for great fishing
Winnipeg Free Press
It does offer a stable environment for fish, though, and if you add some moving water, the fishing can be spectacular. Some of our family weekends are spent at Gimli on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. This year the water clarity has been excellent, ...
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Storms spark floods in Charlotte area; one dies
MiamiHerald.com
Members of the Charlotte Fire Department's Swift Water Rescue Team work to evacuate residents from apartments on Southwest Boulevard. BY STEVE LYTTLE AND MEGHAN COOKE CHARLOTTE -- Thunderstorms dumped torrential rainfall for several hours Friday on ...
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The allegation that Iran is developing nuclear ...
    Summary: Adib-MoghaddamThere is no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon. No IAEA report, not even national intelligence agencies hostile to the Iranian state such as the CIA and the Mossad in Israel have provided any evidence to that end. So the nuclear weapons allegation is a pol ...
  • Iran’s oil bourse, a new pressure on U.S. dollar
    Summary: If the main oil consuming and producing nations in the world conspire to trade oil over an open exchange, similar to Iran’s Oil Bourse, and price the oil in currencies other than or as well as the U.S. dollar, then the world is likely to be economically more stable. Iran’s IOB is n ...
  • Iran not looking to make atomic bomb - Ahmadin ...
    Summary: "When we say we don't want to build an atomic bomb it means we really do not want to build an atomic bomb," Ahmadinejad, interviewed by the Euronews TV channel, said. source: Reutersread more
  • Making an Enemy of Iran
    Summary: Barack Obama has thrown in the towel regarding negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and yielded to his advisors’ policy of relentlessly demonising Iran, notes Patrick Seale. source: Middle East Onlineread more
  • Endless Accusations Against Iran
    Summary: Peter Hart, activism director at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), discusses the media’s warm reception to Treasury Department claims that Iran’s government is actively aiding al-Qaeda; the suspicious timing of these kinds of articles every time there’s a debate on withdraw ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Search for Merging Black Holes --Engines o ...
    The two bright sources at the center of this composite x-ray (blue)/radio (pink) image above of Galaxy 3C 75 are thought to be co-orbiting supermassive black holes powering the giant radio source. Surrounded by multimillion degree x-ray emitting gas, and...
  • Will the Planck Satellite Find Evidence that W ...
    British scientists are searching for disk-like patterns in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation - heat radiation left over from the Big Bang – which could provide evidence of collisions between other universes, each existing in their individual bubbles. "The...
  • Moon's Mountainous Far Side Created by a Colli ...
    The mountainous region on the far side of the moon, known as the lunar farside highlands, may be the solid remains of a collision with a smaller companion moon, according to a new study by planetary scientists at the University...
  • Image of the Day: Hidden Galaxy Clusters with ...
    Using data from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, an international team of astronomers has discovered 96 new open clusters hidden by the dust in the Milky Way. Thirty of these clusters are shown in this mosaic....
  • "Quantum Weirdness Could Allow Alien Technolog ...
    Quantum mechanics underlies many of the most revolutionary discoveries and principles of human technology, from the big bang to the laser, to the transistor to superconducting magnets used at CERNs LHC. Extraterrestrial technology more advanced than ours might manifest itself...

Natural News

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

Threat Level

  • Hacking Home Automation Systems Through Your P ...
    LAS VEGAS – Hacking the grid took on new meaning at the DefCon hacker conference on Friday when two independent security researchers demonstrated two tools they designed to hack home and business automation and security systems that operate though power lines. The automation systems let users co ...
  • DIY Spy Drone Sniffs Wi-Fi, Intercepts Phone Calls
    What do you do when the target you're spying on slips behind his home security gates and beyond your reach? Launch your personal, specially-equipped drone to fly overhead and sniff his Wi-Fi network, intercept his cellphone calls, or launch denial-of-service attacks with jamming signals.
  • Hardcoded Password and Other Security Holes Fo ...
    LAS VEGAS — A security researcher has uncovered a slew of vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems, including a hard-coded password, that would let attackers reprogram the systems with malicious commands to sabotage critical infrastructures and even lock out legitimate administrator ...
  • Mug-Shot Industry Will Dig Up Your Past, Charg ...
    A handful of entrepreneurs are making real money by publicly shaming people who've run afoul of Florida law. Florida.arrests.org, the biggest player, now hosts more than 4 million mugs. On the other side of the equation are firms like RemoveSlander, RemoveArrest.com and others that sometimes cha ...
  • Alleged Miley Cyrus Hacker Pleads Guilty to Sp ...
    A hacker who boasted that he was responsible for stealing and posting provocative pictures stolen from Miley Cyrus’ Gmail account pleaded guilty on Monday to other charges involving credit card fraud and hacking. Josh Holly, 21, pleaded guilty to possessing about 200 stolen credit card numbers, ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • A Tale of Two Recessions
    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Just for different groups of Americans. That's the picture emerging from a wave of stories about the depths of the American economic downturn. On the same day The Economist revealed that the U.S. economic contraction beginning in late 2007 ...
  • A Birthday Gift for President Obama
    In 2008, I gave my money and my vote to Barack Obama. With somewhat less enthusiasm, I'll do the same in 2012. But on this his 50th birthday, it's time for a gift the President could really use. After his latest capitulation to Republicans in this week's debt ceiling debacle, the presents wo ...
  • 25 Things We Learned During the Debt Crisis
    If nothing else, the debt ceiling crisis provided what Barack Obama is so fond of calling a "teachable moment." Hopefully, that extends to the President himself. After seeing his nominees blocked, his legislation filibustered and popular upper-income tax increases delayed by Republicans who w ...
  • The Casey Anthony Party
    In the wake of the debt ceiling deal they opposed, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are predictably apoplectic that Vice President Joe Biden allegedly likened Tea Partiers to "terrorists." In that case, they must really be furious with observers like New York Times reporter Joe Nocera and Georg ...
  • The Real Losers in the Debt Deal
    The ink isn't yet dry (or even written) on the 11th hour debt deal, but the media are already doing their usual body count of the victors and vanquished. In the Washington Post, conventional wisdom regurgitation machine Chris Cillizza produced the predictable winners and losers list. While the ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Fox News Attacks Environmentalist Spongebob Sq ...
    The latest victim to fall into Fox's climate denial propaganda is no other than Spongebob Squarepants, one of the most loved cartoons by children and (some adults). Related posts:Continual Unfounded, Random and Childish Attacks Keep Coming Are You A Meat-Eating Environmentalist? Climate Denial ...
  • After a 13-Month Rehab, Andre the Sea Turtle R ...
    For the past 13 months, Andre, an endangered green sea turtle at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in West Palm Beach has been undergoing a rehabilitation program and some medical procedures not often used on animals. On June 15, Andre was found on Juno Beach with severe watercraft injuries. Re ...
  • Fukushima Radiation So High, Geiger Counter Ca ...
    TEPCO reported that radiation levels are over 10,000 millisieverts per hour on the second floor of reactor one. The problem with that report is that Geiger counters can't measure past 10,000 millisieverts per hour. So how high is the radiation level on the second floor of reactor one? Related ...
  • “A Stormtrooper Sees the Light” & “Brian the S ...
    If you haven't seen these videos yet, here are two great videos by Greenpeace, part of its campaign to address Volkswagen's anti-environmental lobbying in the EU. Great filmmaking and good campaign, in my humble opinion. Related posts:Greenpeace Activists Hanging above Arctic Waters (Under Oil ...
  • Renewable Energy vs Nuclear Energy Infographic
    We have featured a number of WellHome’s infographics on our site and, as a result, the folks there decided to ask us what matters we thought were most important at the moment and worth creating infographics about. I supplied them with my feedback and they’ve gone ahead and made an infographic on ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Opposition Strategy for the 2012 Presidential ...
    Eva Golinger's report (below) on the upcoming 2012 National Elections in Venezuela describes the strategy of the US-backed opposition for defeating President Chavez. In her last paragraph, she notes that President Chavez names Manuel Rosales, Maria Corina Machado, and Henrique Capriles Radonski ...
  • Hypocrites in the 21st Century - World
    note: While a recent essay by the author, "Theaters War, Absurd, Educational, and Otherwise," addressed the variety of archetypal theaters in the world, this piece highlights a cast of characters aka actors. As the theater saying goes, "There are no small actors, only small parts." Howe ...
  • Keith's Special Comment: The Four Great Hypocr ...
    Comment from the current.com site: "Keith, your special comment is a masterpiece. We couldnt take our eyes off the screen. THANK YOU for speaking for me, for all of us who share the same values. we feel the same anger, the same passion, the same outrage."  - SON current ...
  • US government targets open access activist - W ...
    5 August 2011 The prosecution of open access activist Aaron Swartz for downloading articles from a database of academic journals is part of a campaign by the US government to place increasing restrictions and controls on internet activity. Aaron Swartz, a researcher at Harvard, was indict ...
  • Libya: "Leonorenlibia" - the current situation ...
    Leonor describes the degree of media censorship we are under, how little we are actually being told by the corporate media regarding NATO atrocities and NATO losses. She reports that 15 NATO Seniors Being Held Captive in Libya (8:35 minutes into the video)...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • "Our urgent mission has to be getting this eco ...
    Should have thought of that before your $2 trillion in spending cuts killed any chance of economic growth. Full transcript here.
  • Those Freeloading Poors
    A couple of years ago, some Democratic members of Congress illustrated the need to increase food stamps by trying to buy enough food to feed their families using only the same amount of money in the weekly food stamp allowance. They couldn't do it. Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money: One of ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Someone want to explain the birds and bees to @SeanHannity? See, Sean, it works like this...Women can have all the "irresponsible" and "casual" sex they want -- so long as it's lesbian sex -- because then they don't get pregnant. That birth control you're whining about is only necessary if they ...
  • Short & Sweet
    From The Wall Street Urinal: "Compared with previous projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place. We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resi ...
  • In This, He Does Not Disappoint
    This reminded me of how I felt that night of Nov. 4, 2008, when the greatest thing in the world you could be was an American who voted for Barack Obama. nonnymouse at Crooks and Liars: In 1952, my father was a young sailor in the US Coast Guard, on leave in Washington. Early one morning, he'd go ...

Care 2

  • ACTION ALERT: Câmara de Deputados Federal: St ...
    We need to pressure for a law to stop/prohibit Bull Fight Rodeos, and 'Farra do Boi festivities' and 'Baby Beef' food culture in Brazil. So many animals are being suffering of outrageous cruelty !!! This must stop, and external - Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Tell PNM to Put its Money Wher ...
    This Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency is slated to finalize a groundbreaking plan to clean up the San Juan Generating Station, a behemoth coal-fired power plant located in northwestern New Mexico. Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Activists demand justice for violent attack on ...
    A five-month old American bulldog, described by veterinarians as an "absolute doll, very sweet and [gives] kisses," apparently posed such a frightening threat to her owner that he felt the need to stab her repeatedly in the face. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Submit a Comment to the OCC ...
    Payday lending preys on our communities, stripping billions of dollars of wealth every year - from families who can afford it least. Now the big banks, like Wells Fargo, US Bank, 5th/3rd and other banks are getting into the act, offering their own predatoSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Help Save The Patagonia! P ...
    The Patagonia mountain region in the Chilean Andes is one of the most beautiful and pristine natural areas on the planet. It's home to awe-inspiring mountain ranges and precious plant and animal life. Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Breaking: S&P Downgrades United States
    From contributing writer Larry Doyle‘s blog, Sense on Cents. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Standard & Poors has just downgraded the credit rating of the United States from a AAA rating. This is a HUUUUGE story. What do I see as the implications? 1. Short term lending markets will get ...
  • More Killing Osama Bullshit Courtesy of Obama ...
    Can’t help myself, but this scab needs picking. There is one part of the now infamous Nick Schmidle account that appears to have been accepted at face value but is pure bullshit. Here’s the crazy portion: The Americans hurried toward the bedroom door. The first SEAL pushed it open. Two of bin La ...
  • Why Obama
    If you’ve been wondering why President Obamaâs âfixesâ for solving healthcare, unemployment, the housing foreclosure crisis and now the debt ceiling “crisis’ have only managed to continue the downward spiral for the American people? If, since 2009, you’ve wondered why President Obama has been su ...
  • Weekend Open Thread
    Breaking News: “No criminal charges in WaMu failure.” The Seattle P.I. reports, “No charges will be filed against the leadership team of Washington Mutual Bank, which failed in 2008 amid a cloud of suspicion that improper lending had been occurring there.” Since this is breaking news, that’s it ...
  • Where Have All The Girls Gone?
    Debra Saunders had a disturbing piece up at the San Francisco Chronicle recently. In the midst of all of the haggling, blaming, and name calling going on at the Hill, this may not seem like an exciting, gotcha kind of story, but it is an important one, and highlights a situation that will have a ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Coal River Mountain Showdown: What Would Judy ...
    Coal River Mountain Showdown: What Would Judy Bonds Do? AlterNet (blog) A time before mountain top removal, strip mining, and toxic sludge impoundments, such as the one that now sits in Marfork, a part of Coal River Mountain, a place that my ancestors once called home.� As the anti-mountaintop ...
  • Congress: Stop Attacking the EPA - Huffington ...
    Congress: Stop Attacking the EPA Huffington Post (blog) Many members of Congress continue to attack the US Environmental Protection Agency for doing its job when it comes to the regulation of mountaintop removal mining. The EPA doing its job, some insist, is putting coal miners out of their job ...
  • CNN to air Blair Mountain special Aug. 14 - Be ...
    CNN to air Blair Mountain special Aug. 14 Beckley Register-Herald By Taylor Kuykendall Register-Herald Reporter �The uncertainty is what gets you,� a West Virginia coalfields citizen says in an upcoming program that again puts the state's mountaintop removal battle in the spotlight. �Battle for ...
  • Arrested Environmentalist Speaks Out - WVNS-TV
    Arrested Environmentalist Speaks Out WVNS-TV BECKLEY -- Beck Kolins said she stayed in a tree to draw attention to the strip mines and how mountain top removal mining is impacting the environment. She and several other environmentalist claim mountaintop removal is poisoning ... and more�� ...
  • 'Battle for Blair' Mountain' to air Sun. on CN ...
    'Battle for Blair' Mountain' to air Sun. on CNN Daily Mail - Charleston "Across the nation, a schism that separates pro-coal and pro-environment movements over mountaintop removal, a destructive yet highly effective form of strip mining, is deepening," the release said. In the show, CNN documen ...

Memeorandum

  • Rick Perry: "I Pray for the President Everyday ...
    Beltway Buzz: Rick Perry: “I Pray for the President Everyday”  —  As thousands of Americans from across the country prepare to gather at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas to respond to Gov. Rick Perry's call for prayer and fasting for the nation, Perry opens up about his personal prayer life.
  • Dozens Killed as NATO Helicopter Shot Down in ...
    New York Times: Dozens Killed as NATO Helicopter Shot Down in Afghanistan  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents shot down a NATO Chinook helicopter during an overnight operation in eastern Afghanistan, killing 37 people on board, a military official said on Saturday.  It was one of the worst sing ...
  • "They Used To Cane Each Other and Have Duels" ...
    Annie Lowrey / Slate Magazine: “They Used To Cane Each Other and Have Duels”  —  Nancy Pelosi riffs on the debt deal, the nihilist GOP, and the fights Congress used to have.  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sways and chatters, as animated as the other congressional leaders are stolid.  S ...
  • Obama 2009: Economy is My Responsibility vs. O ...
    Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv: Obama 2009: Economy is My Responsibility vs. Obama 2011: Economy is Shared Responsibility  —  In over his head.
  • We'll take the jobs and economic growth, you k ...
    William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: We'll take the jobs and economic growth, you keep the credentials  —  One of the greatest mistakes we make is to confuse academic credentials with leadership.  —  Barack Obama, who guards his transcripts like they're the equivalent of the formula t ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Life among landslides (3)
    What triggers massive rockslides? And when will next big one come? Kenneth Hewitt concludes his analysis of Asia's mountain hazards.The gravest hazards arise at the time of the landslides and later if landslide dams collapse, releasing sudden floods. The greatest historical floods on the upper I ...
  • Life among landslides (2)
    In the second instalment of his article on changing landscapes, Kenneth Hewitt tells the stories of how mountain people have adapted to life on volatile terrain.As we saw in part one, thanks to human adaptability, landslides not only bring “perils” but also create landscapes with long-term benef ...
  • Life among landslides (1)
    Rock avalanches cause destruction, but also provide benefits to people living in Asia’s mountains. Opening a three-part article, Kenneth Hewitt explores the impacts in the upper Indus valley.Large rockslides and the rock avalanches they can generate will destroy any living thing or built structu ...
  • Did oligarchs cause the crash?
    The Wenzhou train disaster is the latest signal China’s economic miracle is not all it seems: local officials and powerful monopolies are leading the nation down a treacherous path, writes Tang Hao.Some argue the root cause of China’s fatal rail crash on July 23 – the latest in a series of rail ...
  • End of the high-speed myth?
    As China struggles with the aftermath of a fatal train wreck, its breakneck push to lead the world in rail is under scrutiny. Lu Zongshu, Shen Nianzu and Zhu Yang report.On the evening of July 23, at least 40 people were killed when two trains collided near Wenzhou, on the high-speed line that r ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Grandma Sarah May Want to Rethink Her Position ...
    Written by Martha Kempner for RHRealityCheck.org. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Track Palin gets far less attention than his now famous sister Bristol, his nephew Tripp, and even his little brother Trigg who w ...
  • Protest, Magic & Exorcism
    Filmed on the lawn of the Tate Modern museum in London, the newest episode of our video podcast Reverend Billy’s Freakstorm features Reverend Billy preaching to a crowd of activists and on-lookers after performing an exorcism of BP’s oil money sponsorship of the museum’s Miro exhibit. For video ...
  • Writers Cited in Breivik Manifesto Have Spoken ...
    In February 2009, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) received some very good news. A woman named Brigitte Gabriel had been disinvited from speaking at the United States Air Force Academy, due to MRFF’s year-long battle to stop the U.S. military from allowing Islamophobic fear-monge ...
  • What Rupert Murdoch Means For You Personally
    Rupert Murdoch puts George W. Bush into the White House Rupert Murdoch has had a profound influence on the state of journalism today. It’s a kind of tribute, in some sense, that the general coverage of his current troubles has reflected the detrimental effect of his influence over the years.  ...
  • Democrats Seek Permanent Repeal of Global Gag ...
    Written for RHRealityCheck.org by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Yesterday, Congresswoman Nita Lowey introduced the Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2011, a bill that would perma ...

Threat Level

  • Hacking Home Automation Systems Through Your P ...
    LAS VEGAS – Hacking the grid took on new meaning at the DefCon hacker conference on Friday when two independent security researchers demonstrated two tools they designed to hack home and business automation and security systems that operate though power lines. The automation systems let users co ...
  • DIY Spy Drone Sniffs Wi-Fi, Intercepts Phone Calls
    What do you do when the target you're spying on slips behind his home security gates and beyond your reach? Launch your personal, specially-equipped drone to fly overhead and sniff his Wi-Fi network, intercept his cellphone calls, or launch denial-of-service attacks with jamming signals.
  • Hardcoded Password and Other Security Holes Fo ...
    LAS VEGAS — A security researcher has uncovered a slew of vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems, including a hard-coded password, that would let attackers reprogram the systems with malicious commands to sabotage critical infrastructures and even lock out legitimate administrator ...
  • Mug-Shot Industry Will Dig Up Your Past, Charg ...
    A handful of entrepreneurs are making real money by publicly shaming people who've run afoul of Florida law. Florida.arrests.org, the biggest player, now hosts more than 4 million mugs. On the other side of the equation are firms like RemoveSlander, RemoveArrest.com and others that sometimes cha ...
  • Alleged Miley Cyrus Hacker Pleads Guilty to Sp ...
    A hacker who boasted that he was responsible for stealing and posting provocative pictures stolen from Miley Cyrus’ Gmail account pleaded guilty on Monday to other charges involving credit card fraud and hacking. Josh Holly, 21, pleaded guilty to possessing about 200 stolen credit card numbers, ...

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Marler Clark to Cargill: Start Testing and We ...
    Marler Clark, the nation’s only law firm dedicated solely to representing victims of foodborne illness, is making a unique offer to Minneapolis-based Cargill, Inc., the company whose ground turkey has been identified as the source of a national outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant strain of Salmo ...
  • Butz, Supreme Beef and FSIS's Salmonella Polic ...
    This week the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a recall of ground beef products due to “possible” Salmonella contamination. According to the press release, “Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, a Springdale, Ark. establishment, is recalling approximately 36 million pounds ...
  • Cargill's Salmonella Heidelberg Ground Turkey ...
    USDA/FSIS defines a Class I Recall as: This is a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death. No kidding! Here are the dirty half dozen of Class I Recalls since I started tracking them: ...
  • Salmonella Heidelberg Slams Seventy-seven, Kil ...
    CDC has updated the ongoing Salmonella Heidelberg Outbreak linked to Cargill turkey burger: A total of 78 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 26 states between March 1 and August 3, 2011. The number of ill persons identified in each state ...
  • USDA should immediately grant CSPI's Petition ...
    It is time for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) to fulfill its public health mission and get antibiotic-resistant Salmonella out of the American meat supply. In May 2011, as the number of illnesses were mounting without public knowledge in ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Book Excerpt: "Hiroshima Cover-up: How the War ...
    As the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, read a chapter of Amy and David Goodman’s book, Exception to the Rulers, to learn how how the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning science reporter, William L. Laurence, was on the payroll of the War Department while also reporting for The New York Times ...
  • The Hiroshima Cover-Up
    As the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 approaches, we feature this article by Amy Goodman and David Goodman that was originally published on August 5, 2005 in The Baltimore Sun. A story that the U.S. government hoped would never see the light of day finall ...
  • War, Debt and the President
    President Barack Obama touted his debt ceiling deal Tuesday, saying, “We can’t balance the budget on the backs of the very people who have borne the biggest brunt of this recession.” Yet that is what he and his coterie of Wall Street advisers have done. In the affairs of nations, Alexander H ...
  • Billy Bragg on Death of Fellow British Singer- ...
    While on tour in the United States, legendary British rocker and activist, Billy Bragg, joined Democracy Now! for an extended interview. One of the many topics he discussed was the tragic death of the British singer-songwriter, Amy Winehouse. "I’m very, very sorry that someone as clearly as t ...
  • "A Victory In The War Against Profiteering." B ...
    "War is a racket," wrote retired U.S. Marine Major General Smedley D. Butler, in 1935. That statement, which is also the title of his short book on war profiteering, rings true today. One courageous civil servant just won a battle to hold war profiteers accountable. Her name is Bunnatine "Bu ...

Suzie-Q

  • BREAKING: S & P Downgrades U.S. Credit For Fir ...
    � Reuters reports: �The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor�s on Friday, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for the world�s largest economy.� The new rating is AA+. In explaining their decision Standard & Poors cites both the decision by Republicans in Congress ...
  • Keith’s Special Comment: The Four Great ...
    Obama on the Backs of the Poor OpEdNews 8/3/11 By Ray McGovern What are we to make of the Obama-brokered deal on debt and spending? It was certainly what the Germans call eine schwere Geburt (a difficult birth); it was one of the few times I would have favored abortion. I am reminded of a [...]
  • Middle-class Jews protest Zionist Chutzpah
    Paul Feldman reports on giant Israeli protests Peoples Assembly Network 08.01.2011 Highlights: * On Saturday night, more than 150,000 people – out of a population of seven million – gathered in 12 cities across Israel as part of the biggest social movement the country has witnessed. * Middle-cla ...
  • At Last Hour, Debt Bill Moves to Senate
    By CARL HULSE, NYT August 1, 2010 WASHINGTON — After months of partisan impasse, the House on Monday approved a budget agreement intended to head off a potential government default, pushing Congress a big step closer to the conclusion of a bitter fight that has left both parties bruised and exha ...
  • Debt Ceiling: Fighting the Dark Side
    Huffington Post 7/30/11 Jennifer Bendery WASHINGTON — With just three days left until the country is set to begin defaulting on its debt, the House rejected a debt proposal by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Saturday — a move Republicans designed purely for theatrics to show the bi ...

Solari

  • S&P Downgrades USA to AA+
    By John Detrixhe Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S.âs AAA credit rating for the first time, slamming the nationâs political process and criticizing lawmakers for failing to cut spending enough to reduce record budget deficits. S&P lowered the U.S. one level to AA+ while keeping the outlook a ...
  • Fannie Mae Seeks $5.1bn More From Taxpayers
    By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae said it would ask for an additional $5.1 billion from taxpayers as a weaker housing market causes continued losses on loans made prior to 2009. The largest U.S. residential mortgage funds provider on Friday also reported a ...
  • Federal Budget 101 & Catherine’s Response
    By: David Thomas Chief Executive Officer Equitas Capital Advisors LLC The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we created a breakdown of federal spending in simple terms. Let’s put the 2011 federal budget into per ...
  • UnAnswered Questions About Rawsome Food
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Yesterday, Rawsome Foods in Venice, California was raided by a Los Angeles swat team. Several people were arrested. There are numerous unanswered questions about why. Nearby,  at Whole Foods in Venice it was business as usual. Indeed, having just agreed to “co-exist” w ...
  • The Whistleblower
    Note from Catherine: Check out “The Whistleblower” opening this weekend, a story based on the efforts of a few brave people to stop sex slave trafficking involving a US/UN contractor. The story is an eye-opener. Given the importance of slave trafficking to compromising governmental and business ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Defense Reductions Done Right
    This week has seen a good deal of commentary about looming defense budget reductions, enough that a round-up of salient points is warranted. Any defense spending reductions discussion needs to start with strategy. Joe Nye’s piece in the Times today gets at that point. He proposes a move away fr ...
  • Iran’s New Oil Minister
    One trend of the past decade or so of Iranian history has been the growing involvement in the IRGC in Iran’s economy. Now, a prominent officer/businessman has become the country’s oil minister: “Iran’s parliament has voted to approve Rostam Qasemi, a Revolutionary Guards commander, to head the ...
  • Panetta Can’t Explain Why Defense Cuts Would B ...
    Defense Secretary Leon Panetta yesterday continued his vocal push back against the general consensus that significant cuts in military spending have to be part of the solution to the debt and deficit. During a press conference at the Pentagon, Panetta said further cuts beyond the $350 billion in ...
  • The Regime Change Ratchet
    A very smart piece from Eric Martin about how a series of plausible demands on the U.S. president can lead you down a slippery slope to unwise action: Step 1: How can the President not at least condemn [Regime X] publicly for its abhorrent actions? A public condemnation is the very least the Pre ...
  • Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws Have an Ongoing Impa ...
    Our guest blogger is Colin Cookman, research associate for national security at the Center for American progress. Salman Taseer The assassinations of Punjab provincial governor Salman Taseer in January and Pakistani minister for minorities Shahbaz Bhatti in March have, in months since, been ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Student-Loan Support Cut in the Debt-Ceiling Deal
    The debt-ceiling debacle had Democrats and Republicans arguing over tax breaks and spending cuts on social programs like Medicare and Social Security. But, under the radar, both parties put higher education on the chopping block once again. As part of the budget deal, starting June 1 next year, ...
  • Are All the Presidential Campaigns Dysfunctional?
    If you wanted to start, say, a software company, you could do it with a little bit of money borrowed from your uncle, and then spend a lot of time working on your product; if things go well, you can hire a second employee, then a third, and slowly build your way up. Starting a non-profit isn't a ...
  • Not Bad Enough
    The July employment report isn’t bad, but that doesn’t mean it’s good, either. On the bright side, total private-sector payrolls increased by 154,000, a massive increase over the 18,000 jobs created in June. What’s more, the June numbers improved as well; after revision, the Bureau of Labor Stat ...
  • Tim Pawlenty, Scientician
    If you're a Republican presidential candidate, chances are that a few years ago you supported cap-and-trade as a market-based means of reducing carbon emissions to deal with climate change, but today you have to say that that approach was misconceived. But just how far do you have to go on this? ...
  • Any 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate Is ...
    Responding to�Paul's post about Rick Perry's identity politics, Kevin Drum writes: For the record, I don't think Perry can win the Republican nomination, and I know that he can't beat Obama in a general election. I'd love to see him try, though. With respect to the Republican nomination, I ...

Buzzflash

  • The White House Gives Credibiity to the Psycho ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There is a false equivalency that comes into play when President Obama insists on presenting himself as a "reasonable" mediator between two political sides. Since BuzzFlash was founded in May of 2000, we have lambasted many Democratic leaders for l ...
  • Republicans Pledge Allegiance to Grover Norqui ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT 'It's a wonderful step in the right direction. It's much better than anything we've been doing for the last 20 years," says Norquist. In recent weeks, he's been called "the most visible mouthpiece and muse of the lower-taxes, less-government troops th ...
  • Gridlock in Washington Veers to the Right
    Body   How strange and other-worldly were the cheers and applause that greeted Republican 'victories' in the House last week during the debt-ceiling intrigues - - and how dispiriting. The lesson learned we are told by conservatives is that the American people are hell bent on b ...
  • GOP Obsession With Taxes and Debt Leaves Natio ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT   Now that global finances look just as bad As they did back in 2008 Thanks, GOP, for getting this ball rolling With your ginned up debt ceiling debate.read more
  • Instead of Taxing Wall Street, the Wealthy and ...
    SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The debt crisis has been averted and people across the globe are breathing sighs of relief. But in the back rooms of Congress politicians are celebrating for a different reason. It's the kind of celebration that erupts when a group executes a complicated ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Sciencebase social media
    For those who hadn’t gathered yet, sciencebase is almost everywhere on teh internets, from trunk.ly to Tumblr from LinkedIn to YouTube. The four main places you can get updates from the site are through the site’s RSS newsfeed, on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. The Periodic Table icons I create ...
  • Chocoholism – good or bad for health?
    Chocoholism – good or bad for health? – For chocoholics there are many fair warnings regarding cholesterol, fat etc., but many have devised their own justifications and there is a growing number of research studies pointing to supposed health benefits and even endowing cocoa beans, from which ch ...
  • Can YouTube save us from climate change?
    New media has rapidly become the mechanism by which information is spread quickly in many walks of life from alerting the public to local traffic incidents, terrorist attacks, earthquakes and celebrity deaths. The likes of Twitter and Facebook have become the first responders to almost every eve ...
  • John Cleese does chemistry
    The Case of the Sulphuric Acid plant was an educational short movie from 1976 aimed at schools and has as its narrator, Monty Python cast member John Cleese, who also features in animated form thanks to the late, great Tony Hart (of Vision On, Take Hart fame). The movie clip was posted on Youtub ...
  • The heat is on for thermal imaging
    The heat is on – Designer and thermal photographer Joseph Giacomin of Brunel University contacted me about his book – Seeing the World Through 21st Century Eyes. “The book,” he told me, “provides a visual journey through the world around us through the medium of thermal photography, hopefully st ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Physicians Group: Debt Deal Threatens Health o ...
    The New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), an 18,000-member national organization, denounces the federal debt ceiling deal signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday. “Politicians who say Medicare and Social Security are spared cuts are not being honest,” s ...
  • Missouri Education Group Will No Longer Provid ...
    The Missouri Research & Education Network (“MOREnet”), a consortium that provides Internet access and filtering software to 100 school districts across the state, confirmed today it will no longer activate a feature on its filtering software that blocked non-sexual content geared toward the lesb ...
  • Court Rules Continuing Supplemental Feeding on ...
    A federal appeals court confirmed yesterday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's obligation to phase out artificial winter feeding of elk and bison at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The court's ruling responds to a lawsuit brought by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Jackson ...
  • Earthjustice Statement on Wyoming Wolf Deal
    On August 3, 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it had reached an agreement with Governor Mead of Wyoming on possible revisions to  Wyoming’s wolf management scheme.  Under the agreement, Wyoming would be able to retain its predator status for wolves in nearly 90 % of the state ( ...
  • Statement: Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on the ...
    Today's jobs report shows that the labor market continues to limp along rather than put people back to work.  The share of the population with a job remains severely depressed and unemployment remains alarmingly high — with more than 40 percent of the unemployment rate attributable to people who ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • ALEC Exposed: Protecting Factory Farms and Sew ...
    Jill Richardson As suburbs engulfed the rural landscape in the boom following World War II, many family farmers found themselves with new neighbors who were annoyed by the sound of crowing roosters, the smell of animal manure, or the rumbl ...
  • Women's Exclusion Worsens Somali Crises
    Khadija O. Ali On July 22, 2011 the newly appointed Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, a Harvard-trained professor of economics, announced his 49-member cabinet. There are only two women in it: one minister and one vice minister. ...
  • Ready to Rumble for Jobs, Not War and More Wea ...
    Judith Le Blanc Something is missing in the swirl of news reporting on the debt ceiling deal struck on August 2 by the Congress and the President for close to $1 trillion in cuts in discretionary programs over the next decade. Will the 56% ...
  • Will 2012 Be the End of the Presidential Publi ...
    Tarini Parti It happened with typewriters, eight-tracks, VCRs and even flip-phones. Now advocates for the public financing of political campaigns fear that the system once used by most presidential candidates could also become irrelevant w ...
  • Obama: It Became Necessary to Destroy the Econ ...
    Bob Burnett On February 7, 1968, US forces demolished Ben Tre, a provincial capitol in South Vietnam.  An Army Major declared, 'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”  On August 2, 2011, President Obama signed the draconian l ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • New book exposes brutal treatment of Palestini ...
    Asa WinstanleyThe Electronic Intifada The new, high-quality anthology Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel focuses on different aspects of Israel’s system of political prisons. Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel Manufacturer: Pluto Press Part Number: Price: $3 ...
  • Arab wounds exposed in "Vanishing Spaces" film ...
    Naira AntounThe Electronic Intifada A series of six short films from Palestine and Syria screened in London last month were produced over a period spanning four decades and contend with the effects of political and industrial change, the importance and fragility of memory, home and�belonging. ...
  • Poverty rife among Bedouin women denied status ...
    The Electronic IntifadaTel Aviv Unemployment and poverty rates among the Negev Bedouin in unrecognized villages are the highest in�Israel.
  • End blockade now, says UN group in rare Gaza visit
    Thalif DeenThe Electronic Intifada For the first time in 43 years, members of the UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices in Occupied Territories gained entry into Gaza in July, through Egypt which ousted its Israeli-friendly president Hosni Mubarak following massive public protest ...
  • New moves to curb criticism of Israel in US an ...
    Kristin SrzemskiThe Electronic Intifada A number of new initiatives to curtail freedom of speech by conflating opposition to Israeli crimes with anti-Semitism are underway in the United States and�Canada.

The Wonk Room

  • Town Hall Attendee Tells GOP Rep. Joe Walsh: & ...
    At a Thursday town hall meeting in Wauconda, Illinois, Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) railed against defense cuts and entitlement programs, telling attendees that Americans refuse to have a discussion about how best to rein in the nation’s deficit and debt. But when Walsh asked how Americans pl ...
  • Higher Tolls On Hudson River Crossings
    The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s plan to raise tolls seems like a reasonable idea to me. It’s not like Manhattan is suffering from some kind of shortage of automobile traffic that will cripple the city if people are now deterred from driving in. But this seems like yet another rem ...
  • Stuff White People Like: Denying Climate Change
    While I’m on vacation, I’m cross-posting some of my favorite writers.  Here is Dave Roberts from Grist. There’s a study running soon in the journal Global Environmental Change called “Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States.” It analyzes poll ...
  • August 6 News: Obama to Unveil New Truck Effic ...
    A round-up of climate and energy news. Please post other stories below. Obama to unveil truck efficiency standards next week President Obama will travel to Virginia next week to announce new fuel-economy standards for heavy-duty trucks. The White House said Thursday that Obama will make the anno ...
  • Boehner’s Folly Leads To S&P Downgrade o ...
    I’m no expert, but I don’t think S&P downgrading its rating of US debt will, as such, have any really big practical implications other than becoming the next political football. If you look at S&P’s definition of the AA rating, after all, it says: “An obligation rated ‘AA’ differs from the highe ...

thwap's schoolyard

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • New Mars Station Discovered
  • Anthony Weiner Admits Lewd Tweet
    June 7th, 2011 The Huffington Post Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) sought to do damage control on Wednesday in the wake of an inappropriate picture being sent from his Twitter account. Reuters relays background on the image in question: Weiner has said his account was hacked when a lewd photo of a ...
  • FDA Sends US Marshals To Seize Elderberry Juic ...
    June 7th, 2011 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson Wyldewood Cellars, a Kansas-based producer and distributor of elderberry juice, is the latest raid target of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which recently sent US marshals to the company’s winery in Mulvane to confiscate the “unapproved ...
  • Whole Foods Admits Its Organic Foods Contain G ...
    June 7th, 2011 Natural News By: Tara Green Genetically modified foods have become so ubiquitous in the US that even the grocery store ‘Whole Foods’ now admits it cannot keep biotech foods off its shelves. A representative for the corporation acknowledged in May of 2011 that the realities of the ...
  • Miracle Herbal Supplement Proven to Aid Victim ...
    June 7th, 2011 Natural News By: S.L. Baker Big Pharma’s drugs have failed miserably in helping female cancer survivors deal with quality of life problems that can linger for years after chemo and radiation treatments are finished. But now there’s help on the horizon — and it’s all natural and ap ...

Pambazuka News

  • US: System owes Troy Davis another day in court
    It is wrong to execute an innocent man. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will now consider whether it is constitutional. Troy Anthony Davis, convicted of murder, is asking the courts to hear evidence that key government witnesses have r...
  • Haiti: Open Letter to Barack Obama - pre-election
    We - citizens of Haiti, political militants and unionists of the grassroots movement for democracy in our country - solemnly address ourselves to you on the eve of the election that will most likely make you the next president of the United States....
  • Brazil: The high price of clean, cheap ethanol
    Brazil hopes to supply drivers worldwide with the fuel of the future - cheap ethanol derived from sugarcane. It is considered an effective antidote to climate change, but hundreds of thousands of Brazilian plantation workers harvest the cane at slave...
  • Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
    Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...
  • Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
    ColorOfChange.org - http://www.colorofchange.org/farmers/?id=1842-429864 is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only ...

War in Context

  • Bahrain: Shouting in the dark
  • Broadcasting Hama ruins, Syria says it has end ...
    The New York Times reports: Syria’s state news media broadcast stark images of the destruction in the besieged city of Hama for the first time on Friday, showing burned buildings, makeshift barricades and deserted streets strewn with rubble in footage that appeared designed to show that governm ...
  • Why won’t the international community stand up ...
  • Breivik’s guru comes out of hiding, briefly
    Peder Jensen, the 36-year-old Norwegian blogger, who until now has only been publicly known as “Fjordman”, was cited in terrorist Anders Behring Breivik’s manifesto 111 times. The blogger has just given his first and only interview with the Norwegian tabloid, VG, after having been questioned for ...
  • Israel’s “July 14” movement
    Zeev Sternhell writes: In these times of hope and anticipation, it is difficult not to wonder what form the protest might have taken, and what results it might already have achieved, if there had been a large and authentic social-democratic party here with a labor union worthy of the name, at i ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Australian government prepares for massive cli ...
    This film, being shown all throughout Australia, and now available here at WUWT shows what the Gillard government is doing to prepare for the worst unstoppable effects of climate change. It’s quite something. RealClimate has declined comment. Happy Friday Funny … Continue reading →
  • The Big Sky “drill baby drill” pr ...
    From Montana State University, news of a big drilling project, except this one produces nothing. MSU moves forward with U.S. Department of Energy backed carbon dioxide storage project in northern Montana Montana State University finalized negotiations with the U.S. Department … Continue reading →
  • Montana’s new big sky discovery – ...
    From Montana State University  and the “weather is not climate” department: Montana State researcher discovers link between Montana weather, ocean near Peru BOZEMAN, Mont. â A Montana State University researcher who analyzed 100 years of data has found a significant … Continue reading →
  • Pat Michaels on aerosols, China coal, and lack ...
    The Current Wisdom: The Lack of Recent Warming and the State of Peer Review by Patrick J. Michaels Boston University’s Robert Kaufmann and colleagues recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examining the causes … Continue reading →
  • Climate variability in East Africa & El Niño S ...
    From the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres  another reason why Mount Kialmanjaro isn’t controlled by CO2 as Al Gore and Lonnie Thompson think. La Ninas distant effects in East Africa Droughts and floods are remote-controlled climate effects 5 August … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

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

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 6 Mysteries of Jupiter NASA’s New Spacecraft M ...
    A plucky spacecraft named Juno began a long journey to Jupiter today from Florida at 12:25 p.m. EDT despite a small anomaly with the helium system of its rocket ride and a boat wandering into the launch zone.
  • Controversial Paper Company Relocates Sumatran ...
    Wildlife conservationists and a controversial paper company this week relocated a critically endangered tiger away from plantations and onto a national park in Sumatra, an Indonesian island famous for its rich biodiversity. A veterinarian performed a final checkup on the 7-year-old female S ...
  • Vibrating Glove Boosts Fingertip’s Sense of Touch
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Forget traditional comic book hero origin stories — gaining a super sense of touch can be as easy as slipping on this glove. It’s designed by a team of researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, and the glove’s tip lightly vibrates the wearer’s finger to significant ...
  • Human Cells a Chimera of Ancient Life
    Despite eons of mingling inside our cells, gene networks we've inherited from primitive, singled-celled ancestors have stayed separate. Our cells remain chimeras, a hybrid fusion of unrelated creatures.
  • Drive to Impress Females Pushes Males Toward E ...
    Again and again across the animal kingdom, males die younger than females -- a consistent, puzzling pattern of premature expiration that may be the unavoidable biological cost of impressing the ladies.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Lia Tarachansky: Voices from Israel’s July 14 ...
    On July 14th, eight Israeli students set up tents in the heart of Tel Aviv. Within days they were joined by hundreds of tents, and tent cities sprung up throughout the country. This movement, which... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • The rise of the Right: Dozens of hilltop youth ...
    The activists, who belong to the extreme right, claim solution to housing crisis is construction in the West Bank; plan to set up dozens of more tents in coming days. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go t ...
  • Dozens of MKs to Netanyhu: Solve Israel housin ...
    Forty-two cabinet ministers and MKs, all members of the [right wing pro-settlement] Eretz Yisrael Lobby, signed a petition addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, calling on him to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Israel’s Supreme Court orders state to dismant ...
    Unprecedented ruling states that Migron must be razed by April 2012; Israeli government had admitted outpost was built on lands belonging to Palestinians, but has thus far failed to dismantle it. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israeli journalist: At long last we have learn ...
    I hope that the activists in the Arab countries, especially in Egypt, will realise their vital and deep influence on the Israelis' motivation to protest. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA web ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Human Influence on the 21St Century Climate: O ...
    New computer modeling work shows that by 2100, if society wants to limit carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to less than 40 percent higher than it is today, the lowest cost option is to use every available means of reducing emissions.
  • Mindless Eating: Losing Weight without Thinking
    Dieters may not need as much willpower as they think, if they make simple changes in their surroundings that can result in eating healthier without a second thought, said a consumer psychologist at the American Psychological Association's 119th Annual Convention.
  • New Era of Accelerated Materials & Manufacturi ...
    Producing advances in materials and manufacturing development that can strengthen national competitiveness, create jobs, and improve the overall quality of life were the subject of an informational luncheon held August 3 in Washington, D.C. for a contingent of congressional, academic, federal, a ...
  • Right to Remain Silent Not Understood by Many ...
    Almost 1 million criminal cases may be compromised each year in the United States because suspects don't understand their constitutional rights, according to research presented at the 119th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
  • Darden School of Business Named CFA Institute ...
    CFA Institute announced today that the University of Virginia Darden School of Business has been officially named a CFA Program Partner with its Masters of Business Administration.

Natural Health News

  • The Hidden Danger in Your Car Seat
    A study has uncovered the presence of dangerous chemicals in a range of child car seats. The Ecology Center tested over 150 infant, convertible, and booster car seats, and found that some are saturated with dangerous chemicals. Car seats were tested for bromine, chlorine, lead, and other heavy ...
  • Drugs Found Ineffective for Veterans' Stress
    Researchers have found that antipsychotic drugs which are widely prescribed to treat severe post-traumatic stress symptoms for veterans are no more effective than placebos.� In addition, the drugs come with serious side effects. The finding is such a serious blow to current treatment standards ...
  • The Greater the Bacterial Resistance to Antibi ...
    Not only is the number of multiresistant strains of bacteria in hospitals is increasing, but new research shows that developing resistance may also increase their ability to reproduce. Usually, the acquisition of new genes, such as those for antibiotic resistance, comes at a cost to the bacteri ...
  • Should Pediatricians 'Fire' Patients Whose Par ...
    Even though the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends doctors continue to treat anti-vaccine families, some pediatricians have decided to “fire” patients who refuse vaccines -- essentially, telling them that they should seek treatment elsewhere. “Vaccine-concerned” or “vaccine-cautiou ...
  • Can Drinking Darker Coffee Improve Your Health?
    Recent research has shown that that moderate coffee consumption may be associated with a reduced risk for type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Since reactive oxygen species (ROS) are believed to be involved in both of these diseases, it was theorized that antioxidants in coffee might contrib ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Is the Montevideo Convention Still Good Law?
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku This article by Steven Rosen about the legality of a Palestinian state and a short response by Josh Keating touch on this issue. In short, Rosen argues for some independent legal standard for determining statehood (and Palestine doesn’t meet it), such as the Montevide ...
  • Dan Joyner on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I want to call readers attention to Dan Joyner’s new book, Interpreting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, just out from Oxford.  I haven’t had time to read it yet, but it looks fascinating — and the cover is beautiful.  Here is the summary: The 196 ...
  • Judgment on Trial in Cairo
    by Ruti Teitel by Ruti Teitel Ruti Teitel is Ernst Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School and Visiting Professor, London School of Economics.  She is the author of the forthcoming book, Humanity’s Law (Oxford University Press Sept. 2011). For many Egyptians, Hosni Mubarak’ ...
  • Space Cadets… (International Legal Rheto ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen A while back, I wrote an article on how states use the rhetoric of international law (specifically self-determination) as part of their broader foreign policy initiatives. Li Hong, the Secretary-General of China’s Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, has an op-e ...
  • Space Cadets… (International Legal Rhetoric Ed ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen A while back, I wrote an article on how states use the rhetoric of international law (specifically self-determination) as part of their broader foreign policy initiatives. Li Hong, the Secretary-General of China’s Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, has an op-e ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

  • U.S. Congress Turns Up The Heat On Genetically ...
    23 Members of Congress say “GE fish would not be in the public interest” NEWLY PUBLISHED STUDIES HIGHLIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF ESCAPED GE FISH Members of Congress turned up the heat on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday, sending strongly worded, bipartisan letters calling ...
  • U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Amendment ...
    Sixty-Seven Organizations and Businesses Endorse Amendment;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its decision yesterday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving genetically eng ...
  • FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
    Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
  • Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
    Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...
  • Environmental Groups Petition Federal Governme ...
    FDA poised to take action on the first-ever application to market a genetically engineered salmon without adequate consideration of environmental risks and public input Earthjustice, on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Antisemitism and Political Blogging: Personal ...
    My 5-year involvement with this site has been somewhat intermittent. Although I love to blog, there is still this other pesky thing called “life” that often tends to take precedence. At other times, despair about my main blogging subject (Israel-Palestine, hereafter I-P), and the apparent futili ...
  • Israeli Army ambushes Freedom Theater
    Soldiers have stormed the Freedom Theatre of Jenin, whose co-founder Juliano Mer-Khamis was slain earlier this year. URGENT PRESS RELEASE From The Freedom Theater Foundation, Jenin, Palestine 04.46 (gmt+2), July 27, 2011 Special Forces of the Israeli Army attacked the Freedom Theater in Jenin Re ...
  • For Israeli army, Palestinians having guests i ...
    Video of the Jully 22nd protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. Part 1 of an account of that day’s protest from our source A. is here. Her story continues… After a while, my paramedic friend and a young man from the village led me once again through back-roads and fields back to Leila’ ...
  • For Israeli army, Palestinians having guests i ...
    Here is the  video of the Nabi Saleh protest from Friday. We received this account from the same protest our anonymous  source A., an international activist living in Palestine.  She explains: This account is edited from a chat conversation describing events that took place on July 21st dur ...
  • For Lieberman, human rights = terrorism
    Well, this sums it up well. Though Israel declined to follow up the anti-Boycott bill by passing a law calling for the investigation of human rights organizations, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was not “blasted ministers for refusing to probe” From Ha’aretz, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberm ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • The debt ceiling deal — an agreement to do nothing
    I prepared this post before the S&P downgrade of the US debt. It’s more true than ever now Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) sums up our incompetent, irresponsible, mostly venal and utterly self-absorbed Congress and White House. I wish there were more like him. A much better deal was possible, but most ...
  • Nissan electric car can power a house for 2 days
    The Nissan Leaf electric vehicle in Japan can now send power back into a house. They say it’ll power a Japanese house for two days (which probably translates to 12 hours for power-hungry US homes.) But still. This is amazing technology. Just the things for blackouts, and for smoothing out power ...
  • Cleantech investments plummet 44% in Q2
    Renewable Energy World tries to be optimistic but this is a wipeout. But then there’s no leadership from DC on cleantech (or anything else) so it’s no wonder investing has slowed down drastically.
  • German police call airport full-body scanners ...
    Israel has said the same for years.
  • Police officers guilty on all charges in Katri ...
    A federal jury found five current and former New Orleans police officers guilty on Friday afternoon on all counts in the unjustified shooting of civilians just days after Hurricane Katrina, and of orchestrating a wide-ranging cover up over the ensuing years. Two of those shot by police officers ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Rumors of an Italian bank run and bail out mak ...
    THIS IS WHY ONE WORLD GOVT REALLY SUCKS. YOU LOSE ONE AND EVERYBODY IS THREATENED! ITS ALL A HOUSE OF CARDS.   Caution: This Had Better Not Be True Market Ticker   From twitter…. My understanding is that Larry later (on the air) said these were “rumors”, although there is no later tweet I can [...]
  • Your Smart Phone Will Be Your Biometric Ankle ...
      hat tip to Freedom’s Phoenix   NFC phones to get biometric security support By Sarah Clark | August 4th, 2011 NXP, AuthenTec and DeviceFidelity have announced they are developing reference designs for Android NFC phones that will ensure a mobile payment can only be made after the user has prov ...
  • Pray or Prey? Five Scriptures You Won’t ...
    “And When You Pray, Do Not Be Like the Hypocrites … “ Five Scriptures You Won’t Hear About at Rick Perry’s Prayer Fest By JIM RIGBY Via CounterPunch As a native Texan, I’m used to crazy religion and crazy politics. So, the announcement of Gov. Rick Perry’s plans for “The Response,” a prayer even ...
  • Who Sold You Down the River?‏
      August 5, 2011 Dear Patriots, I think often about the predicament our country is in, and every now and then I feel a fury rising inside of me. This week’s âDebt Ceiling Dealâ was a betrayal of the American people on many levels. Do you remember when the Grand Old Party took control of [...]
  • Montel Williams on Freedom Watch – Hypoc ...
    Marijuana = The sunglasses from They Live.

The Air Vent

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: London, Pages, School, Spam, ...
    Facebook’s Page Reaches 50 Million Likes — The company has just reached 50 million Likes on its official Page, which is also unsurprisingly the most popular Page on the site. Ceglia Facebook Ownership Facebook Looking Even Worse — Despite some turgid articles not too long ago about the possibili ...
  • Quixey’s Keyword-Based Facebook App Search Eng ...
    Keyword-based app search engine startup Quixey added the ability to find Facebook apps this week. Users can now type in what they’re trying to do, such as “promote my band” and receive recommendations of apps across mobile operating systems, browsers, social networks, and the web. Quixey doe ...
  • Facebook’s “Locations” App Lets Corporate Page ...
    In mid-July, Facebook confirmed to us that it began testing a new Parent-Child Page management system for business with a corporate / local structure — those with a central brand Page as well as Pages for each individual branch or franchise. The limited private beta program’s first public facin ...
  • Profile Banners, Calendars, Dropbox, Quizzes, ...
    A profile banner app, in Spanish, topped the list of our non-game applications growing by monthly active users this week. There were also a few calendar apps, in different languages, the Dropbox app, a few quiz/matchmaking apps and then a few photo apps. The apps on our list grew from between 15 ...
  • Facebook Promotes Mobile Network Operator Part ...
    Facebook’s login screen usually accompanies the email and password entry fields with a graphic depicting the social graph or a call to use Facebook’s mobile services. Recently, though, some users in the UK have seen Facebook using this highly visible space to promote third-party mobile network o ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Pakistan Punished in Pipelinestan, Moving Toward Guerilla War in Afghanistan, Drone Strikes as Police Work!, Israel Withheld Evidence in Killing, The Assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai & More! I am going to start with a piece of news you all have already seen and read. I am listing this only bec ...
  • Brushfire with Julia: Freedom to Withhold Info ...
    Department of Homeland Security Finds FOIA to be “Politically undesirable”!  In theory, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) guarantees the legal right of the American public to obtain federal agency records. Judicially enforceable, FOIA was designed to ensure public access to Executive Branch ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials
    Time for Upping the Iran Propaganda … Again, Pakistan: Tide In-Tide Out, South Sudan Independence & What it’s Really About, Israelis Torture of Children in the Occupied Territories, Torture Whitewash & More   Here are two news articles on Pakistan-US relations (While reading the following recall ...
  • Part III. A Watch-Dog for All Seasons
    Carnegie Corporation: We Love POGO, So Does the Entire US Government! In the spring of 2010 the Carnegie Corporation issued a glowing report on their favorite government watchdog Project on Government Oversight (POGO). The report was meant to justify and showcase the large grants given to POGO b ...

Afro Spear

  • “Is feminism really un-African?” b ...
    Very interesting post and conversation. I encourage any comments to be made at original post (here).  As my feminist consciousness has developed the more I’ve become aware, both explicitly and implicitly, that there is a popular notion that feminism is un-African. Every time I write a post about ...
  • Niggazz are Wannaa-bee Gangstazz
    Football is a violent sport. No doubt it plays into the gladiator blood sport mythos of days gone by. It’s also BIG business. I’ve heard that the current labour dispute between the owners and players is at the root, really about how to divvy up $9 billion is yearly revenue… basically the owner ...
  • “Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for Pre ...
    Click on image for article
  • the Lupe Fiasco fiasco
    “My fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen. The foreign policie ...
  • A Sunday Sermon

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

  • Three creative ways people are bringing hope a ...
    By: Anne Thomas Even though the initial intensity of the March 11 disaster has subsided, many people still feel a deep tugging to help Japanese disaster victims. Since that subtle pull is strong and persistent, people are finding very creative ways to bring hop ...
  • Saying goodbye to David Servan-Schreiber
    By: Ode Ode columnist David Servan-Schreiber died on the evening of Sunday, July 24. He was 50. A professor of psychiatry in the US and France, Servan-Schreiber wrote the bestselling Anticancer: A New Way of Life and The Instinct to Heal, both read around the w ...
  • Meditating on Pema Chödrön's 'Dusk on the River'
    By: Anne Thomas Although my main job is in a university, I also teach privately. My favorite of those lessons is an advanced English class for adults. I have been teaching them for many years, so we have become good friends. Since they are well educated and tal ...
  • Women broadcasting peace in Brazil
    By: PeaceCorso So of course you know how once something enters your conscious awareness, you see it everywhere. You will not be surprised that Brazil is showing up all over my reality. Here’s a wonderful story about women in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro broad ...
  • When meat is missing
    The height of summer is approaching. It's time for a vegetarian barbecue! Photo: Pieter de Swart “Vegetarian barbecue” used to be a contradiction in terms, but no longer. The meaning of both words has changed. In the old days, a vegetarian didn’t eat meat. Today, the New Vege ...

OpEd News

  • Enormous Defense Cuts?
    ...don't expect the Pentagon to start holding bake sales, despite what you may have heard about reductions to its obscenely bloated funding.
  • The Flowers of Madness
    I wonder if this is how the average American felt in 1860 or 1931? The rest of the story is inevitable and predictable and shameful. This is no less than our own raid on Harper's Ferry and from here there is no turning back. I had begun to write a story filled with inglorious facts and figures a ...
  • Killing For Cause
    Because all religious rules and codes of conduct are made by men, they have a built-in misogynistic element that often provides the impetus to disrespect women and treat them harshly. The complicity of religion in killing for cause gives rise to many significant issues we need to tackle.
  • God is a Weapon
    God is a weapon; one which they use daily against all of us through media hypnosis and false political rhetoric. Unless We the People come to realize the very real danger of the insanity of Dominionism growing like a virus within our Government, is slowly infecting our very reason, the War in t ...
  • Tomgram: Nick Turse, Uncovering the Military's ...
    Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the U.S. military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world's countries. This new Pentagon power elite is waging a global war whose size and scope has never been revealed, until now.

Switchboard

  • ESA: a failure if species aren't delisted?
    Louisa Willcox, Senior Wildlife Advocate, Livingston, Montana On March 7, 2011, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard a case, Greater Yellowstone Coalition v. State of Wyoming, case number 09-36100, involving the 2009 decision by Judge Donald M ...
  • LATIN AMERICA CLIMATE, ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile Chile’s legal procedural authority, the Contraloría, denied that the water rights HidroAysén received from the General Water Directorate earlier this year were legally granted.  HidroAy ...
  • Implementing the National DSM Regulations in C ...
    Hyoungmi Kim, Policy Specialist on Energy Efficiency and Utilities, Beijing, China On November 4, 2010, China’s Central government enacted national demand-side management (DSM) regulations. Under the Regulations, grid companies are required to use ...
  • Musical Chairs at the New York City Department ...
    Eric Goldstein, Director of NRDC's New York City Environment, NY It seems like the City’s Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) just can’t catch a break this summer. Two weeks ago, a fire roared through the main engine room of the Depart ...
  • Photos: NRDC New York Visits Urban Farms
    Mark Izeman, Senior Attorney and Director of the New York Urban Program, New York The last thing the world needs is another blog about local food. But hold on. Today’s entry isn’t about the food itself.  It’s about warehouse roofs, abandoned bas ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • A Survivor’s Tale of Survival
    In lieu of Daddy Blogging… The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Uncensored – A Survivor’s Tale of Survival – I Survived www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook
  • Today In Race-Baiting
    Shorter Fox News: Only in Barack Obama’s debased America would we get “hippity-hop” artists like Charles Barkley and Tom Hanks invited to a presidential party.
  • The Yellow Quasi-Beer Cartel Strikes Again
    First they take Wisconsin, now they try to take Massachusetts. I must say that “excessive choice of quality microbrews” is not a problem I’ve ever encountered in a visit to Boston….
  • Don’t know much about history
    Of course in the contemporary GOP having a really bad college transcript is just a form of anti-intellectual street cred. (That C in gym would be a big problem for a Democrat “man” though).
  • On Presidential Power Yet Again
    It won’t surprise most readers to know that my reactions to some of the responses to Corey Robin’s informal roundtable are pretty similar to Matt’s.    The idea that there’s not really any difference between Obama and Bush is only true to the extent that it’s not relevant to American electora ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • IN-HOUSE COUNSEL: In-house counsel as service ...
    Legal departments have begun to unbundle tasks so as to assign the right resources to the right work.
  • OPINION: Stop the bias against the jobless
    Congress should pass the Fair Employment Opportunity Act of 2011, which bans both employers and recruiters from refusing to consider unemployed applicants.
  • THE PRACTICE: Revised merger remedies guide re ...
    Antitrust Division reinforces that vertical merger remedies are always fact specific — designed to fit the alleged violation.
  • MIDWEST REPORT
    Our survey of market conditions in Midwestern cities finds Detroit firms expanding into other regions to find business, while Chicago ranks as one of the fastest-growing legal centers in the country.
  • After 19 years, a trial
    Texas businessman William Moore Jr. has spent nearly two decades trying to reclaim his reputation after the government unsuccessfully charged him in a conspiracy to win a multimillion-dollar government contract.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • NASA's Juno Spacecraft on Mission to Reveal Ju ...
    NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to begin a detailed study to help scientists understand the origin of our solar system.
  • Sabrient Systems Acquires Selected Assets of G ...
    Established in 1996, Gradient Analytics is one of the country's leading independent research firms providing objective, academically rigorous research and qualitative stock ratings for institutional clients. It is one of a small number of Independe
  • President Obama Directs Steps to Prevent Mass ...
    She highlighted that the President Obama also expanded grounds to deny visas to serious human rights violators and war criminals and to isolate those who engage in or conspire to commit atrocities.
  • EPA Supports National Framework for Safe Use o ...
    CCS technologies allow carbon dioxide (CO2) to be captured at stationary sources - like coal-fired power plants and large industrial operations - and injected underground for long-term storage in a process called geologic sequestration.
  • Poverty Bomb Threatens Pakistan
    48.6 percent of Pakistan's 165 million people are food insecure, according to a 2010 report prepared by the Islamabad-based Sustainable Policy Development Institute (SDPI), World Food Programme (WFP) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Coopera

environment 360

  • U.S. Conditionally Approves Shell’s Oil Drilli ...
    U.S. government regulators have conditionally approved Shell Exploration’s plans to drill for oil in the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska. Drilling could begin as early as next July. The decision is a setback for various environmental groups and indigenous people, who are concerned that dril ...
  • Rising CO2 Levels Could Offset Drying Effects ...
    As the world warms, rising temperatures are expected to dry out the planet’s semi-arid rangelands. But a new study by U.S. scientists suggests that the effects of that drying are likely to be offset by the way in which plants react to elevated concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere. Higher temp ...
  • 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 ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Rally rage: Israelis back on streets demanding ...
    Discontent in Israel is showing no sign of abating, with fresh mass rallies scheduled for late Saturday. Affordable housing and healthcare are among the demands of protesters calling for change.
  • Dinosaur bonanza for Russia’s Far East
    The soil of Russian far-eastern Amur region, rich in precious metals, has yielded up treasure of another kind. Dinosaur bones found here have attracted paleontologists eager make advances in their branch of science.
  • Why is the US so stuck on borrowing? NY speaks out
    If an ordinary US citizen gets into debt, the bank will be on his back without delay - yet it is only now that America, which owes trillions, is seeing its credit score decline.
  • Fukushima refugees shunned by Japanese society
    Tens of thousands of Japanese refugees who have faced the triple horror of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis now have another worry - their fellow citizens.
  • Asian stocks tumble on news of US credit downgrade
    Credit rating agency Standard & Poor downgraded America’s credit rating on Friday, cutting the top AAA rating to AA-plus. Asian stock markets tumbled on the news, as investors dumped riskier assets fearing the US is...

Not My Tribe

  • White American lunch
    I had a white American lunch today. I feel a little racist saying that, but it’s true, I had the Friday special at a luncheonette. Roasted white meat of turkey, on white bread, with mashed potatoes and whitish-yellow gravy. Now who else is going to eat that? Nothing of color, or shading, except ...
  • Recreational Psycho-Pharmaceuticals R Us
    So, after hearing the Wrong Wing mocking Leftist underground movements (they don’t use “grass root” to describe it , believing their corporate- paid teabags invented it) as “ineffective” from one side of, for want of a better word, their “faces”… and bitterly complain from the other side that Hi ...
  • Flower Children Keep On Truckin’
    2007 St Patrick’s Day Parade: Behind Jonah are Tony and Elizabeth.
  • Christians versus Lyin-Heart medal
    Starting with REAL Christian values, as preached by Christ.   Sojourners, whose mailing list led me here…(aside from me taking the long way home due to road work, thus stumbling on to Camp Casey) and other Christian groups, some of the names surprised me, have entered the budget battle with T.V. ...
  • Is there an energy drink that’s safe or ...
      Short answer, not really. But we’re feeling left out of the excitement, even if it’s addled. Reed’s Natural Energy Elixir is probably the most interesting (sparkling filtered water, cane sugar, pineapple juice, honey, fresh ginger root, lemon juice, lime juice, green tea leaf, ginseng, goji, a ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Kraft 1 & Kraft 2: The Breakup
    Kraft is one of the largest food companies in the world. It has just announced that it will be splitting into 2 companies over the next 12-18 months. The company said the snacks business would focus on “fast-growing developing markets and in instant consumption channels,” while the North America ...
  • Recent Study: We’re Consuming Less Sugar. Or A ...
    A study recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has some good news: Between the years 2000 and 2008, our daily intake of added sugars has gone down from 3.5 ounces to 2.7 ounces. That’s almost a 25% decrease! “We were surprised to see that there was a substantial reducti ...
  • 11 Types of Food Additives
    “No additives or preservatives” is a wonderful claim on a food label. But you’ll be hard pressed to find products in the supermarket that don’t contain at least one food additive. Even organic products use them, and unless you bake your own bread, shun all processed snacks, and drink nothing but ...
  • Should Parents Hide the Veggies?
    Here’s an interesting study from Pennsylvania State University: Youngsters got more of their daily greens when researchers pureed veggies and added them to kids’ main dishes at breakfast, lunch, and dinner on the sly. And the kids didn’t seem to notice that anything was different — or to like th ...
  • Eating Local: 4 First Steps to Become a Locavore
    This is a guest blog post by James Kim from Food on the Table Many currently contend that eating local, or becoming a “locavore,” is “the new organic.”  As organic food firms have started to use industrial, long-distance and environmentally unfriendly shipping methods, foodies have begun to look ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • Not Another Ransom Notefrom Congressman Boehner
    by Greg Palast It was quite upsetting to find our President blindfolded and tied to a chair at the GOP Tea Party headquarters, but I'm sure the $2.2 trillion ransom we paid to the hostage-takers is worth it. Well, now that the Obama presidency is over, we can move on to more serious matters ...
  • Who killed "Stieg" Larsson?
    I asked my daughter if she would like to add her own recollections about JK Rowling and the "alternative" Harry Potter endings Jo Rowling told us when we were hanging out in the Green Room at BBC Television Centre. (I provide investigative stories for the BBC current affairs program Newsnight.) ...
  • It's Not Default of Obama:Jail GOP Deadbeats f ...
    by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash.com Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist gave debtors' prison a bad rap. Too bad. I'd say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea. Bush reads from My Pet BudgetLet's talk about how w ...
  • Harry Potter: Jo’s Other Ending
    By Jo (J.K.) Rowling as told to Greg Palast and the Palast twins [18 July 2011] Some of you may recall that, years ago, when I lived in England, writing for The Guardian, when I shared the bestseller list with Jo Rowling (she at the pinnacle, me in the valley), we became buds through my twins ...
  • Drowning Fish?
    by Greg Palast June 30th, 2011 July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the path can't imagine. My D ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle combs?
    Janet has asked us a question on the Suggest an Item page: I have several combs that I don’t use. Can they be re-used or recycled? Any unrequired combs found in our house are cleaned then used for cat/dog brushing – they seem to prefer combs to brushes, and their combs go missing with startling ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make attractive ...
    Carmen from South Africa has sent an email asking: What can I reuse/recycle to make attractive garden edging? I’ve always been quite taken with the idea of wine bottles for garden edging (and an item on my long, long to-do list is to try making a raised bed on the same principle). For a more [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle small pieces of fab ...
    Last week, I posed a question from Annetta about what to reuse or recycle to make a bird bath – thanks for all the great suggestions. Annetta asked another question – about fabric: Any other good ideas for using fabric. I have tons of it and I am getting bored making blankets and tote bags. [...]
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a bird bath?
    Annetta has emailed with two great questions. Here’s the first: Any ideas on making a bird bath out of recycled [things from] around the house? I think it depends on whether you want something pretty, quirky or just something practical for the birds to use, looks be damned. I’d love to hear idea ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle precious photo albums?
    Joan left a question on the “suggest an item” stage: A deceased good friend’s photo albums need to be disposed of. Mainly of family, friends and her cats, loathed to just chuck them in a bin, other than that, what do I do? Helpâ¦.. I’m sorry to hear about your friend, Joan. The Photos I’m [...]

Age of Autism

  • Kim Stagliano on Autism, Affection and Auntie ...
    By Kim Stagliano One of my favorite aunts (pronounced aw’nt, in proper Massachusetts style please) died this week at 93 years of age. She was my father’s older sister – one of ten in a large half Irish, half Italian...
  • An Elaborate Fraud, Part 5: In Which Brian Dee ...
    By Dan Olmsted The journalist who claims Dr. Andrew Wakefield “fixed data” to link autism and the MMR shot says his own work contains “no ethical irregularities” – and he is accusing parents of autistic children of conspiring with Wakefield....
  • Autism Tragedy as Psychiatrist Mother Allegedl ...
    This story is from MyFoxDC . Our condolences to the child's father and other family. We'll discuss this in further detail soon. For now, just pray. For Benjamin, Margaret, all of us. KS By BOB BARNARD/myfoxdc WASHINGTON - Montgomery County...
  • RIP Jawara Henry and Visit The Future For Auti ...
    By Kim Stagliano Last December, Jawara Henry, an adult with autism, was strangled to death in a "hold" used incorrectly by a psychiatric facility supervisor who has just been charged with criminally negligent homicide. I can only imagine how his...
  • Marie McCormick’s IOM Remarks Leave A Bitter Taste
    By Jake Crosby Why does Marie McCormick – former chair of the panel that produced the botched IOM report claiming vaccines do not cause autism – currently serve as co-chair of the “Vaccine Safety Working Group” of the National Vaccine...

Global BDS Movement

  • Map test
    View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
  • BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
      The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
  • Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
    Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
  • Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
    Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
  • Trade Unions
    The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has … Co ...

Farm Wars

  • Truth Squad Radio Moves to Tuesdays!
    Truth Squad Radio Moves to Tuesdays!
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Afghanistan watchdog office staff changing _ again
    AP – The office in charge of overseeing billions of dollars being spent to rebuild Afghanistan is undergoing a shake-up for the second time this year. Herbert Richardson, the acting special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, announced Thursday that he is leaving to take a job in t ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Earth’s ...
    ScienceDaily (July 29, 2011) â Data from NASA’s Terra satellite suggests that when the climate warms, Earth’s atmosphere is apparently more efficient at releasing energy to space than models used to forecast climate change may indicate.The result is climate forecasts that are warming substantial ...
  • US – 1470 US millionaires paid no tax in ...
    Press TV – New tax data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) shows that 1470 of the 235,413 wealthy US citizens who earned $1 million or more in 2009 paid no taxes. Read Article
  • U.S eats up most of debt limit on one day
    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 $14.532 trillion on Tu ...
  • US Government to Monitor Social Networks For “ ...
    LA Times – The White House announced a strategy to help police, schools and other local organizations counter the threat of domestic radicalism, a broad plan involving federal departments not usually associated with national security. The effort is modeled on anti-gang initiatives developed in t ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Arctic oil spill could prove tough to clean
    Shell Exploration's plan for exploratory oil and gas drilling in the Beaufort Sea won conditional approval from the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement. One of the big questions now is what happens if there's an oil...
  • Oregon joins fight against shark finning
    “With the global trade in shark fins pushing sharks toward extinction, it will take strong actions such as this to prevent us from making irreversible changes to our ocean ecosystems,” said Whit Sheard, Senior Advisor for Oceana, a maritime conservation organization. “The bipartisan support for ...
  • Los Angeles solar power rebates slashed 32% [c ...
    Solar power: Rebates for Los Angeles solar panel installations are 60% lower under the newly relaunched Solar Initiative Program, which will start accepting applications next month. The program was put on hold in April as the demand for incentives hovered around $112 million, far outpacing the p ...
  • Yellowstone National Park again gets 900,000 v ...
    Yellowstone National Park saw 900,000 visitors in July, marking the third year in a row that Yellowstone has seen such volume.
  • DWP's solar program to relaunch in September w ...
    The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power gave the go-ahead Tuesday to relaunch the Solar Incentive Program next month. Applications will be accepted starting Sept. 1 at 10 a.m. The revised program is doubling its budget from $30 million...

water.org

  • Gary White talks water on MSNBC
    World faces a water crisis (MSNBC) – Gary White interviewed by Martin Bashir June 30, 2011 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
  • Leadership wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company)
    Leadership Wisdom from Water.org (Fast Company) 30 second MBA video series: Part 1 – Gary White – Executive Director and Cofounder, Water.org Part 2 – Matt Damon – Cofounder, Water.org
  • Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan (Fast Co ...
    Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa? (Fast Company) – The inside story of Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe’s great crises. Once upon a time, Matt Damon went for a long walk in rural Zambia. The devoted family man and method [...]
  • Interview with Water.org’s April Rinne (GGT)
    INTERVIEW: Water.Org’s April Rinne (Green Global Travel) – While other charities may have similar goals, Water.org’s WaterCredit program is unique in that it is works in partnership with microfinance institutions to establish markets in which there is fair access to affordable loans for everyone ...
  • You’re Invited: June 1st Conference Call
      Wednesday, June 1 The 45-minute call begins at 9 p.m. ET Call in number: 978-964-0049
 Participant code: 449749# Not everyone who needs water should have to wait for charity to find them. Learn how Water.org is putting microfinance tools and partnerships to use in helping people get safe water ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • IDF soldiers launch attack on photojournalists
    But here is the difference: the attack of 29 July was intentional and sustained and the troops were fully aware of what they were doing. I had never before come under a sustained, direct and intentional attack by an Israeli military force aimed directly aSubmitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� ...
  • 'Alarming' rise in attacks on Palestinian chil ...
    Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed nine children so far in 2011, and almost 200 children have been injured by settler violence and the Israeli military, Stand with Justice.Submitted by Elias Ayad to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Debt Ceiling Deal Reached To Avert Default (LA ...
    Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the pact "will ensure significant cuts in Washington spending" and he assured the markets that a first-ever default on U.S. obligations won't occur.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Death for Profit - Privatized Prisons - TAKE A ...
    Private prisons don't care about who they lock up. At a rate of $200 per immigrant a night at their prisons, this is a money making scheme that destroys families and lives.Submitted by Just Carole to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Boehner Limp Again, McConnell Walks Away
    See 1st commentSubmitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • SunPower Moves Into Mexico
    California-based SunPower is expanding its operations into Mexico in an effort to better serve the North American market, the company has announced. read more
  • PG&E Agree To Purchase 150 MW Of Solar Power F ...
    Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for 150 MW of solar power. read more
  • MEMC to Acquire Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, Inc.
    Silicon wafer developer MEMC�Electric Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) has come to an agreement with solar power developer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) to purchase FRV's U.S. subsidiary, Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, Inc. (FRV U.S.) ...
  • LDK Solar to Supply Modules for McGraw-Hill's ...
    Chinese photovoltaic solar manufacturer, LDK�Solar, Ltd. has been selected to supply the modules for largest privately-owned solar power project in the Western Hemisphere. read more
  • United States: DOE Launches SUNPATH To Support ...
    The United States Department of Energy has committed US$50 million to fund the Scaling Up Nascent PV At Home (SUNPATH) program which represents the second phase of its Photovoltaic Manufacturing Initiative (PVMI). read more

News Blaze

  • NASA's Juno Spacecraft on Mission to Reveal Ju ...
    NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to begin a detailed study to help scientists understand the origin of our solar system.
  • Sabrient Systems Acquires Selected Assets of G ...
    Established in 1996, Gradient Analytics is one of the country's leading independent research firms providing objective, academically rigorous research and qualitative stock ratings for institutional clients. It is one of a small number of Independe
  • President Obama Directs Steps to Prevent Mass ...
    She highlighted that the President Obama also expanded grounds to deny visas to serious human rights violators and war criminals and to isolate those who engage in or conspire to commit atrocities.
  • EPA Supports National Framework for Safe Use o ...
    CCS technologies allow carbon dioxide (CO2) to be captured at stationary sources - like coal-fired power plants and large industrial operations - and injected underground for long-term storage in a process called geologic sequestration.
  • Poverty Bomb Threatens Pakistan
    48.6 percent of Pakistan's 165 million people are food insecure, according to a 2010 report prepared by the Islamabad-based Sustainable Policy Development Institute (SDPI), World Food Programme (WFP) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Coopera

Worldnews

  • The Big Six: Indian mountain retreats
    Shakti 360° Leti, Uttarakhand A collection of simple stone houses gathers at Shakti 360° Leti - a Himalayan retreat so remote that guests have to make an hour-long hike from the nearest road in Leti to reach it. The rewards include spending days reading in one of four cottages - all with vi ...
  • Robert Fisk: The city and its workers tha ...
    The Egyptian cotton city of Mahallah hides its political lessons well. A place of 24-hour-a-day Stalinist factories, ruined 19th-century townhouses buried between concrete blocks and a shambling railway system of filthy rolling stock, only the appearance of a startlingly huge cockroach scut ...
  • Fabregas misses friendly over fitness con ...
    Arsene Wenger said last night that he "loved" Cesc Fabregas and did not want him to leave the club for Barcelona after the Arsenal captain dramatically withdrew from a flight to Lisbon for the club's friendly against Benfica today. Fabregas had been scheduled to fly to Portugal since mid-we ...
  • 'We are still playing catch-up with Unite ...
    Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini declared yesterday that Manchester United remain "five yards" ahead of his own club and nine players better off, as the two sides head into a Community Shield at Wembley tomorrow where possibly their most absorbing struggle for supremacy will get unde ...
  • Mosquito Spraying Set for Lancaster Count ...
    � , Aug. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Environmental Protection will apply treatments the evening of Monday, Aug. 8, in portions of and Rapho Townships and and Mount Joy Boroughs in to control adult mosquito populations. High populations of adult nuisance mosquitoes h ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Next Up: After Debt-Ceiling Debacle, New Trade ...
    Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) boasted that he had won 98 percent of what he sought in the new debt-ceiling deal. Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) memorably called the deal a “Satan sandwich.” Half of House Democrats voted against the bill which will dry up funding for any new economic stimulus a ...
  • US Drags Its Feet in Iraq
    After days of wrangling, leaders of the main political parties of Iraq agreed on August 2 to hand a joint mandate to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to negotiate with the United States on whether some Americans troops will stay on in Iraq to "train" Iraqi forces beyond the end of this year. ...
  • 3rd Party Challenge in 2012? Not Likely, Exper ...
    WASHINGTON — Tea party conservatives don't trust Mitt Romney, the leading Republican candidate for president. Progressives feel betrayed by President Barack Obama. And after a politically bruising debt compromise, many voters feel frustrated with both Democrats and Republicans as the 2012 electi ...
  • Gaddafi's Son Killed in Strike, Libyan Rebels ...
    BENGHAZI - Libya's rebel forces said Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son, Khamis, and more than 30 others were killed in a NATO strike on an operations centre in the western town of Zliten. Citing spies operating among Colonel Gaddafi's ranks, Mohammed Zawawi, a spokesman for revolutionary militia gr ...
  • Journalist Kicked out of ALEC Conference, Thre ...
    In late July, shortly after the launch of ALECexposed.org, Lousiana State Rep.Noble Ellington, a Republican from the state's 20th district and the national chairman of the American Legislative Exchange Council, spoke to NPR about the recent spate of criticism leveled at his organization. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • WEBINAR WED AUG 10: Growing Wind Power
    Wind has emerged as one of the most workable renewable energy technologies to finance, deploy, and see make a difference -currently, a limited difference- in the grid. The global wind industry has seen explosive growth in the last year, though tough times might lie ahead as advocates worry that ...
  • First Solar Slumps; Can it Rise Again?
  • Right In Your Backyard: Climate Change Threate ...
    Now consumers have access to a new tool called “Climate Change Threatens Health.” These pages (www.nrdc.org/climatemaps ) bring the effects of climate change down to the local level. Users can zoom in on 5 US maps, see how their health is vulnerable to climate change, and learn about what’s need ...
  • SunPower Moves Into Mexico
    California-based SunPower is expanding its operations into Mexico in an effort to better serve the North American market, the company has announced.
  • Say No to 'No Nukes' Revival
    "No Nukes" Revival is Wholly Misguided

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Spain’s ‘Indignados’ at the ...
    By Pablo Ouziel Last night Madrid’s city centre offered a glimpse of what Western democracies have become, as thousands of unarmed nonviolent civilians with their hands up in the air shouting “these are our weapons” and “this is a dictatorship” were beaten by police commandos in full riot gear. ...
  • Who would trust Standard and Poor's?
    Standard and Poor's finally did it. They downgraded the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA+. There are serious questions about the reliability of S&P. The White House pointed out that there is a $2 trillion error in the calculations used for the downgrade. Ths is of inter ...
  • Israeli Street Protests: Suppressed by US Media
    by Stephen Lendman Well, almost. Virtually nothing shows up on US television. Some gets print coverage, but not enough to explain a major story accurately and fully. More on that below. For weeks, tens of thousands of Israelis have been protesting high prices, especially unaffordable hou ...
  • Filling Prison Beds for Profit
    by Stephen Lendman At yearend 2010, America's prison population topped 2.4 million, including federal and state facilities, local jails, Indian, juvenile, and military ones, US territories, and numbers held by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In addition, over seven million mor ...
  • Fight To End The Most Base Form Of Exploitation
    by Brian McAfee One of the most significant ongoing scourges that befalls humanity worldwide is the ongoing exploitation and sexual abuse of over two million girls and boys through sex trafficking. UNICEF estimates that two and a half million children, most of them girls, are tricked or forced ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Job posting: Online Communications Officer
    The CCPA National office is seeking an Online Communications Officer to join our communications team in Ottawa to support and expand the CCPA’s ongoing communications and outreach efforts. The deadline for applications is August 19, 2011. Click here for the full job posting.
  • Hennessy's Index: Gone Fishin'
    Hennessy's Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. This August, Hennessy's Index looks at vacation time - how do Canadian vacations stack up?� For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index
  • New Report - The Public Policies Needed to Bui ...
    With the release of the final report in the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Saskatchewan series �Transforming Saskatchewan�s Electrical Future,� former Saskatchewan Cabinet Minister Peter Prebble outlines the public policies that will be required to truly transform Saskatchewan into a ...
  • North America's Income Gap: A Recipe for Revolt
    The Toronto Star's David Olive has been writing about income inequality for years, but has begun to wonder if it will be the source of an uprising in North America within his lifetime. He warns: "We need to have an adult conversation about income distribution before we’re forced into an unruly o ...
  • Understanding the "New Saskatchewan"
    In this essay, Simon Enoch, Director of the Saskatchewan Office, examines how the discourse of Brad Wall's "New Saskatchewan" draws upon Saskatchewan's unique political culture and history to advance the Saskatchewan Party's version of neoliberal economic policy. To read the essay, visit here.�

World Wide Hippies

  • Noam Chomsky: America in Decline
    by: Noam Chomsky, Truthout – âIt is a common themeâ that the United States, which âonly a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as a colossus with unparalleled power and unmatched appeal is in decline, ominously facing the prospect of its final decay,â Giacomo Chiozza writes in the curren ...
  • Author: Washington, DC is portal for negative ...
    Alfred Lambremont Webre, Seattle Exopolitics Examiner-Journalist and author Robert M. Stanley has assembled over 900 reported UFO and extraterrestrial sightings of the past 160 years in his book Covert Encounters in Washington, DC – the largest assembly of Washington, DC-based UFO/ET sightings i ...
  • Justice Clarence Thomas: Corporate owned corru ...
    WWH – The above Headline was not written by MIKE NORMAN or anyone at the star-telegram . Actually we aren’t really sure who wrote it, (Although Winston has been smiling a lot lately.) or how it relates to the main article. WWH is not responsible for unclaimed Headlines . Opinions expressed in He ...
  • Weekly Hippie Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! Answer to last weeks question 1st air cavalry vietnam Winner -nanette PLEASE SEND YOUR MAILING ADDRESS ...
  • The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor: C ...
    thenation.com – This article is part of a Nation series exposing the American Legislative Exchange Council, in collaboration with the Center For Media and Democracy. John Nichols introduces the series. The breaded chicken patty your child bites into at school may have been made by a worker earni ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat â do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...
    … and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent count ...
  • How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
    Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s the advi ...
  • Politicians of all countries, recollect yourse ...
    Dear politicians, there’s no alternative to forever turning our backs on nuclear energy and fast. Sure, the nuclear industry will protest vigorously and will see profits dwindle but they will survive without much problem – as opposed to many Japanese. It is but a question of time until another c ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
  • Want to Cut Gov't Spending? Make Breastfeeding ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The U.S. read more
  • How to Treat Chronic Pain, Naturally
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Fibromyalgia is a debilitating condition thought to affect more than 5 million people, many of them women. What's more, most people who suffer from this unpleasant disease, characterized by chronic pain, muscle stiffness, sleep trouble, anxiety, depression, and gastroint ...
  • Dangerous Salmonella Strain Prompts Massive Tu ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—An antibiotic-resistant, virulent strain of salmonella has killed one, sickened nearly 80, and prompted the recall of 36 million tons of fresh and frozen ground turkey, according to industrial food giant Cargill. The strain has been circulating for months as Centers for ...

big think

  • Do Less, Accomplish More
    What's the Big Idea? The psychological and economic damage wrought by overwork is well-documented. For a decade now, the Mayo Clinic has been warning about its deleterious effects on mental and physical health. In 2003, the Economic Policy Institute found that overtime costs industry $30 ...
  • Want to Overthrow the Rule of Wall Street? You ...
    The world's leaders, financial and political, are disappointed in us. Around the globe, they've cut spending on our schools and roads and parks, raised our retirement ages, taken aim at our health care and pensions, and what do we do? We protest, riot, go on strike. We are not willing to "eat ou ...
  • Tiger Mom: America Has Given Up
    What's the Latest�Development? Amy Chua's parenting memoirs, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, sparked a national debate over parenting methods, contrasting the baby-boom generation's emphasis on self-discovery with immigrant families' focus on ambitious academic achievement. The difference, sh ...
  • Thailand's First Female Leader Faces a Divided ...
    What's the Latest Development? A political unknown before the national election,�Yingluck Shinawatra is the new prime minister of Thailand. She is the brother of the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra ousted in a military coup in 2006. "Among her first challenges, say analysts, will be . ...
  • A Tip for Sounder Investment: When Markets Mis ...
    The markets are a mess. That doesn’t mean you or your investment reactions should be. When everything is going well, it doesn’t take all that much for good investors to keep being good investors. It’s during the dives that even the best ones can get swept away – and it’s at those moments when it ...

Information Liberation

  • Viva La Lemonista Revolucion!
    August 20 is Lemonade Freedom Day and everyone who can do so is asked to set up a stand; everyone else is urged to imbibe. The reason? Authorities across America are closing down kids* lemonade stands because, in many states and localities, they viol...
  • Security Theater Adds a New Act
    *Where are you going? What is the purpose of your trip? Where will you be staying? Who will you see there? How do you know them?* Anyone familiar with international travel will recognize such questions as a particularly unpleasant aspect of being *pr...
  • Poll: Muslims, atheists most likely to reject ...
    New data from polling firm Gallup shows that out of all the religious groups in the U.S., Muslims are most likely to reject violence, followed by the non-religious atheists and agnostics. Through interviews with 2,482 Americans, Gallup found that ...
  • Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the U.S. Terror State
    Being a U.S. war criminal means never having to say sorry. Paul Tibbets, the man who flew the Enola Gay and destroyed Hiroshima, lived to the impressive age of 92 without publicly expressing guilt for what he had done. He had even reenacted his ...
  • Woodpecker-Saving Daughter Costs Mom $500, Pos ...
    FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (WUSA) -- Eleven-year-old aspiring veterinarian, Skylar Capo, sprang into action the second she learned that a baby woodpecker in her Dad's backyard was about to be eaten by the family cat. [...] "Kids should be able to save a...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Now Reap The Whirlwind
    The Dow Jones Industrial Average today closed down 512 pointsâthe biggest one-day fall since the 2008 financial crisisâin the wake of the stitched-up deal hammered out in the U.S. Congress on raising the debt ceiling. Carnage is expected today on … Continue reading →
  • Same Old Same Old…
    I’ve been scanning the news pages for anything that reads like common sense in this whole debt ceiling issue. With very little success. And with less than twelve hours to go before Brucker Bummer, the American Precedent, must sign off … Continue reading →
  • Is There Really Such A Thing As National Chara ...
    I found myself asking this question after reading GE’s thought-provoking essay in Notting Hill Editions. In it, James contrasts what he sees as different national traits of America with those of his homeland. He finds himself concluding that the positives … Continue reading →
  • Right-Wing Nut Cases Are Every Bit As Reprehen ...
    I’ve said before many times on this blog, the left-right divide is a fiction. The real differentiation in politics is between Libertarianism and Totalitarianism. Left-wingers and right-wingers merely squabble over what freedoms they choose to repress first: economic or personal. … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge
    A few thoughts while I’m still working on my next main article. You’ve heard me mentioning in the last thread the tenuous situation currently existing on the Australian parliament’s Lower House, the House of Representatives. Of the 150 seats, Labor … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Sciencebase social media
    For those who hadn’t gathered yet, sciencebase is almost everywhere on teh internets, from trunk.ly to Tumblr from LinkedIn to YouTube. The four main places you can get updates from the site are through the site’s RSS newsfeed, on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. The Periodic Table icons I create ...
  • Chocoholism – good or bad for health?
    Chocoholism – good or bad for health? – For chocoholics there are many fair warnings regarding cholesterol, fat etc., but many have devised their own justifications and there is a growing number of research studies pointing to supposed health benefits and even endowing cocoa beans, from which ch ...
  • Can YouTube save us from climate change?
    New media has rapidly become the mechanism by which information is spread quickly in many walks of life from alerting the public to local traffic incidents, terrorist attacks, earthquakes and celebrity deaths. The likes of Twitter and Facebook have become the first responders to almost every eve ...
  • John Cleese does chemistry
    The Case of the Sulphuric Acid plant was an educational short movie from 1976 aimed at schools and has as its narrator, Monty Python cast member John Cleese, who also features in animated form thanks to the late, great Tony Hart (of Vision On, Take Hart fame). The movie clip was posted on Youtub ...
  • The heat is on for thermal imaging
    The heat is on – Designer and thermal photographer Joseph Giacomin of Brunel University contacted me about his book – Seeing the World Through 21st Century Eyes. “The book,” he told me, “provides a visual journey through the world around us through the medium of thermal photography, hopefully st ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Updated G8/G20ISU Org Charts
    While there's not a full organizational chart for the G8-G20ISU, I did ask the ATIP office for a more-readable chart. I have the Abbreviated Chart, as well as a more comprehensive Ops Chart. These charts are far more elaborate than the old V2010ISU charts that were originally found by whoever ...
  • Toronto in Review: July-August
    The Ford Gong Show, less RIM jobs and more subway surveillance, violent cops, Toronto turns out for bike lanes and against service cuts An unprecedented all-night council meeting took place last week, as Toronto residents responded to an ...
  • Dead artists paint a different picture
    DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE - Famous dead artists came out of the artwork today to denounce statements by condo developer Marc Williams. Defending his planned "artist and housing"� development at the site of the historic Pantages Theatre, Williams�has described the DTES as "a dead zone" for�the arts.�Will ...
  • The Algonquin Resurgence
    Quebec ministerâs visit to First Nations takes me down memory lane from 50 years ago Some news has come across my e-mail that the Wolf Lake Algonquin community in Quebec has been given a grant of some $200,000 by the Quebec government to r ...
  • Pantages in Play
    Where Will the Antics End? [ Text and photo originate with Rider Cooey / Editing and posting by Joseph Jones ] Start and Stop of Unsafe Pantages Demolition The Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council (DNC) is a partner in community resista ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Playing Russian Roulette With the Economy
    As I said earlier, I think S&P was wrong to downgrade U.S. debt. It was a panicky reaction to bit of ugly, but ultimately mundane political squabbling that hasn't really lasted very long in historical terms. If we're still threatening serial defaults in 2015, then fine. Pull the trigger. But ...
  • Why S&P is Wrong
    In what sounded at first like something from the Onion, Standard & Poor's postponed its planned downgrade of U.S. debt for a few hours today after the White House pointed out that it had made a $2 trillion arithmetic error in its calculation of future deficits. Seriously. These guys are supp ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 5 August 2011
    Well, this has been kind of a dismal week. So would you like some cats to cheer you up? Of course you would! On the left, Domino suddenly perks up and gives me a good stare. On the right, a few minutes later, it's Inkblot's turn. Can you guess why they're staring at me? Huh? Can you? I'll gi ...
  • The Dog That Hasn't Barked
    Andrew Sullivan weighs into the debate about whether Obama has been a successful president and concludes unsurprisingly1 that he has been: "Obama is easily the winner and currently stupidly under-rated," he says. But at the end of his post he tosses out this aside: But notice what hasn't ...
  • Chart of the Day: The Real Employment Picture
    The economy added 117,000 jobs in July. Unfortunately, we need to add about 150,000 jobs each month merely to keep up with population growth. So the real net job growth picture is actually negative. The chart below shows real net job growth since 2009, and it's obviously not a pretty picture ...

Insanity Report

  • Rep. Steve King Thinks Birth Control Leads to ...
    Both Republicans and Democrats have major flaws.  We know this.  Look at this debt ceiling crisis we just went through.  It shouldn’t have taken going to the brink of default just to raise the debt ceiling.  And I don’t care what anyone tells you, read the bill and you’ll see it’s not as bad ...
  • IC 262: No Country For Wookies
    Topics: Man Law: Thou Shall Support Thy Friend’s Opportunity To Judge a Bikini Contest 5k Zombie run WalMart kicks woman out for wearing a string bikini The amazing power of the titty Birth control now available with no copay Bill O’Reilly displays a complete ignorance of how babies are mad Obam ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Oh Bill
    For the second week in a row, Bill O’Reilly has managed to secure the FacePalm of the Week award.  And once again he’s done it early in the week.  I’ll be shocked if anyone can top this.  So what did he say this week?  Well, after an announcement that the White House is ordering Health [...] ...
  • Woman kicked Out of Walmart for Wearing String ...
    You know…this is why I don’t go into Walmart often. I always tell people that Walmart is where “Hot Ghetto Mess Meets White Trash” and main, this video proves it. This lady is upset because Walmart employees told her she had to put a shirt on? Ma’am…you’re walking around in a bikini top. That’s ...
  • IC 261: Cooking with Bey
    Topics: Captain America and the integrated Army A butt slasher stalks women in VA malls Beyonce has a cooking book coming out Bill O’Reilly thinks the Norway killer can’t be Christian cause Christians don’t commit mass murder PETA thinks animals suffer like black did during slavery Share with yo ...

Simple Climate

  • Climate controls must cover gases other than CO2
    Combining controls on emissions of less well-known greenhouse gases with CO2 limits would slow warming more rapidly, say Jim Butler of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and colleagues.
  • Fire amid the ice kindles global and local worries
    After a record Arctic tundra wildfire in 2007 released as much carbon as all plants in similar landscapes absorbed in a year, University of Florida's Michelle Mack warns such fires could again become common, as they were 10,000 years ago.
  • Aerosols paint clearer warming slowdown picture
    Contributions to climate change from “stratospheric aerosols” vary more than realised, Ellsworth Dutton and his NOAA colleagues find, potentially providing a partial explanation for slower warming from the late 1990s.
  • Warming puts species at one in ten extinction ...
    Comparing predictions and measurements of the effects of climate change on plants and animals over the past five years shows predictions are accurate, and possibly optimistic, according to the University of Exeter's Ilya Maclean.
  • Chinese pollution postpones temperature rises
    Sulphur emissions countered greenhouse gases to cause the much-debated “pause” in warming trend from 1998-2008, but only temporarily, Boston University's Robert Kaufmann told Simple Climate.

e!Science News

  • Did past climate change encourage tree-killing ...
    The demise of the world's forests some 250 million years ago likely was accelerated by aggressive tree-killing fungi triggered by global climate change, according to a new study by a University of California, Berkeley, scientist and her Dutch and British colleagues. read more
  • Scientist urges government ruling on genetical ...
    A Purdue University scientist is urging federal officials to decide whether genetically engineered salmon would be allowed for U.S. consumption and arguing that not doing so may set back scientific efforts to increase food production. read more
  • Michigan State scholar leads effort to reform ...
    Most middle-schoolers struggle to grasp the introductory concepts of genetics, a field of study considered crucial to advancing solutions to health problems and disease such as cancer, according to a study led by a Michigan State University researcher. read more
  • Right to remain silent not understood by many ...
    Movies and TV shows often depict crime with a police officer handcuffing a suspect and warning him that he has the right to remain silent. While those warnings may appear clear-cut, almost 1 million criminal cases may be compromised each year in the United States because suspects don't understan ...
  • What shapes a bone?
    Researchers at Johns Hopkins found that use over time and not just genetics informs the structure of jaw bones in human populations. The researchers say these findings may be used to predict the diet of an ancient population, even if little evidence exists in the fossil record. It can also make ...

unEarthed

  • Lessons Unlearned
    Feds greenlight first offshore drilling plans in Arctic since Gulf spill Last summer, we were captivated by a live video feed of oil spewing from a broken well ...
  • Friday Finds: (Corporate) Welfare Queens
    Koch-sponsored legislation, toxic drinking water, News Corp. climate scandal Energy companies to taxpayers: "Money, please." Photo courtesy of epSos.de Dir ...
  • America's Gut Feeling About Climate Change
    They don't know the science or human connection -- they do know it's real When it comes to climate change, the fact is that most Americans don’t know the facts ...
  • OMG, GMOs: Food Safety Attorney George Kimbrell
    "This technology is a one-trick pony." George Kimbrell, staff attorney at Center for Food Safety, is serving as co-counsel in Earthjusticeâs genetically engineered sugar beet and alfalfa ...
  • Protecting Polluters, Not People, One Rider at ...
    H.R. 2584 compromises public, especially in environmental justice communities Millions of Americans are already suffering from asthma. (Chris Jordan / Earthjustice) ...

Brave New Climate

  • Hansen warns not to drink sustainable energy K ...
    Regular readers of BNC would know that I’m hardly the only climate change researcher to recommend serious deployment of nuclear energy to displace fossil fuels. (Although I’m often portrayed as an isolated [and presumably therefore ignorant?] voice on this point). One very prominent example of a ...
  • Carbon smoke and mirrors – the reality o ...
    When it comes to energy and carbon emissions reduction, the devil is always in the detail. So too with Australia’s plans to cut its emissions by five per cent below year 2000 levels by 2020. But first, let’s look at the big picture. Why we need to do this As a scientist who researches the impact ...
  • Germany’s grand energy experiment
    Most readers of BNC know the story — after the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the German government announced that Germany would phase out all of its nuclear generation capacity by 2022. In almost the same period, Germany also aims to cut its national greenhouse gas emissions to 40% of 1990 levels (b ...
  • Fukushima, IFRs and an MIT debate
    Back in May, I published a critique of an MIT report on the future of the nuclear fuel cycle (MIT FNFC), on behalf of Yoon Chang and the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Since that time, SCGI member Steve Kirsch (a MIT alumnus and benefactor) has been trying to get MIT to engage with thei ...
  • Radiation hormesis?
    At the height of the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, there was a lot of discussion in the comments of this blog about the impact of radiation on human health. In particular, there was a debate about whether the linear no-threshold hypothesis (LNT) or the hormetic dose response (RH) was more scientific ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Say it Joe. Republicans are Terrorists
    Unfortunately I have way too much credit card debt, and some credit lines too. I was terrorized by the fact that if the tea party traitors were able to force us to default on our debt, my interest rates, and payments would be going up. This could wipe me out. Yes Joe, they were terrorizing [...]
  • Entitlement Reform? Sure! Corporate Entitlements
    What pisses me off most is the nonsensical discussion of how we balance our budget, or reduce our deficit. The MSM narrative is the Democrats won’t stand for “entitlement” cuts and the Republicans won’t stand for any tax increases anywhere, anytime, for any reason. Deadlock. This whole argument ...
  • Jim DeMint – Fuck You
    Fuck you Jim. You want to slam the poor, the sick, and the elderly to “balance the budget” and won’t even consider cutting corporate welfare, or having the billionaires, or the companies they own stock in pay their fair share. I pray that there is justice in this world and some day you will be [...]
  • Van Jones = Reboot the American Dream
    “We’re not broke, we’ve been robbed. Someone has our money”
  • Exxon Gets 20 Billion a Year in Corporate Welfare
    The amount of taxes we don’t collect from Exxon plus their handouts equals around 20 billion dollars a year. And this is just one company. Spending isn’t the problem. Corporate welfare, and billionaire welfare is the problem.

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • The Covert Origins of World War III – US ...
    By Nick Turse Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the U.S. military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world’s countries. This new Pentagon power elite is waging a global war whose size and scope has never been revealed, until now. [Read More]
  • The American Rebellion Has Begun – Now I ...
    By Kevin Zeese The people of the United States are ready to revolt against the tyranny of corporate power. We are part of a rising tide of Americans who have had enough. [Read More]
  • The Obama Administration’s “Secret ...
    By Tom Burghardt During the run-up to the reauthorization of three expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act, Senator Wyden charged that the administration and FBI were relying on a “secret” interpretation of law to vacuum-up exabytes of data, including cell phone location records and internet ...
  • Systemic Global Financial Instability Is Sprea ...
    By Charles Hugh Smith Systemic causes of global financial instability include the "normalcy bias," super-low interest rates, central-bank induced inflation and loss of faith in institutions. [Read More]
  • Tim DeChristopher Fought Back Against The Orga ...
    By David DeGraw When Democratic Institutions No Longer Give Citizens Power, Civil Disobedience Becomes Essential to Challenge Legalized Injustice - Here's a roundup of coverage on Tim DeChristopher's prison sentence and several important speeches he has given. [Read More]

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  • Between euphoria and anarchy: Tel Aviv’s ...
    A midnight walk through the Rothschild Avenue protest camp Tel Aviv – On the corner of Allenby Street and Rothschild Avenue, a Jewish supremacists’ group is conducting fierce arguments with several bystanders. I am spotting former Kahane men, Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben Gvir, accompanied by “h ...
  • What exactly is the ‘Halacha Technologic ...
    Took this photo at an appliance shop in Bat Yam. It’s a sticker on a Sharp fridge. 10 years warranty Sharp Better than yours Sharp Mehadrin To prevent Shabbat desecration The computerized mechanism is already built inside the fridge, no other installation is needed Authorized by the Halacha Tec ...
  • Jerusalem Post apologizes for crazy editorial ...
    It took them almost two weeks, but the Jerusalem Post finally apologized for the crazy editorial in which the paper called upon its readers to use the opportunity created by Anders Brievik’s terror attack to discuss Europe’s immigration policies. Perhaps Brievikâs inexcusable act of vicious terr ...
  • Cycling the West Bank: Uphill rides and uphill ...
    An eight day cycling trip through the West Bank turned out to have a lot more surprises than Louise Rafkin ever expected By Louise Rafkin I was sharing my itinerary with the young Israeli next to me on the plane – Tel Aviv, bicycling the West Bank, Jerusalem – a month in all.  Yes, I said, it [...]
  • Chief settler: “We make Israeli economy ...
    Naftali Bennet, the Director General  of the Yesha Council, is apparently suffering from the heat wave. Otherwise, how could one explain the answers he gave to Yossi Verter of Haaretz today, who asked him about the settler movement that Bennnet heads joining the tent demo. Verter: Didn’t anyone ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Large scale environmental water release for M ...
    More than 150 gigalitres of water recovered for the environment will be delivered to hundreds of wetlands along the Murrumbidgee River, benefiting the Murray system as far downstream as South Australia's Lower Lakes and Coorong.
  • Deadline extended for West Kimberley National ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has extended the deadline for a decision about National Heritage listing of the west Kimberley until the end of August to allow further community consultation and further consideration of whether the proposed heritage values are sufficiently comprehensive.
  • Call for nominations for Environmentalist of ...
    Environment Minister Tony Burke has called for nominations for the 2011 Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award and the Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award.
  • Water reuse scheme benefits Hawkesbury River
    Construction of a treated wastewater re-use scheme at South Windsor as part of an Australian Government funded project to improve the health of the Hawkesbury River has progressed significantly.
  • World Environment Day delivers $86 million fo ...
    Federal Water and Environment Minister Tony Burke and South Australia’s Water and Environment Minister Paul Caica today outlined $86.7 million for a new project to improve the river’s health and resilience of its wetlands and floodplains from the Victorian border to Wellington.
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